The Sage Summoners of Konoha

by Kiebler

Kakashi is convinced early on that training his team would be the best way to honor the dead. What a difference such a small change can make...

2. Training

Welcome one and all to chapter two! I won't lie to you, I find myself thinking more about this story than Forest Dweller. I look at how I wrote Forest Dweller and noticed that in six chapters, I only wrote about 13,000 words. With this story, the first chapter alone was 6500 words. I think I may need to re write Forest Dweller. Don't really know how I would do it but I don't really like how I wrote it. Anyway, Without anymore bullshit, onto the story!

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'Thoughts'

"Speech"

'Biju thoughts'

"Biju speech"

XXXXX The Sage Summoners of Konoha XXXXX

Naruto woke with a start. He sat up straight and looked around the room. Shaking the sleepiness out of his eyes, Naruto groggily got out of bed and headed for the bathroom. As he walked down the hall, half blind, he accidentally walked right into the frame of the doorway. Falling onto his butt rather unceremoniously, he heard a small chuckle as Sakura hopped over him and closed the bathroom door.

"Sakura! Come on, I really have to pee!" Naruto didn't get a response right away as the door remained closed.

"Sorry Naruto! Don't you have any manners? Ladies first!" He heard a flush and Sakura proceeded to step right over him and head towards where the kitchen was. Naruto grumbled and took his turn in the bathroom before heading to the kitchen himself. As he walked in he saw that both Sasuke and Sakura were eating a simple breakfast. Naruto came up to the table and sat down, forming a triangle between the three.

"So, did either of you look at your scrolls?" Sasuke turned and looked at each of his teammate expectantly. They both nodded at him frowning as they did so. "So I assume that you all know what your flaws are as well?" An uncomfortable silence fell over the table. They all definitely knew now. Kakashi had not held back when he made those scrolls. For what they were all good at, they received praise. What they needed to fix however, he was quick to put them down. They heard Sasuke sigh.

"My flaws are that I'm considered a 'loner'." He stressed the word loner. "I don't play well with others and have a bit of a..." He paused again, visibly getting annoyed. "I have a superiority complex due to my clan and I think I'm better than everyone else." Crossing his arms, Sasuke leaned back and looked away, seeming almost ashamed at having to admit that.

Sakura was the next one to talk. "I uh, well to be honest I suck. I'm probably the smartest one here but my reserves are small, small even for a Genin, I lack skill in either Ninjutsu or Taijutsu, and my stamina is very bad." Frowning to herself, Sakura then looked at Naruto, waiting for him to admit his faults.

"Uh, sorry but I'm actually amazing! I'm going to be the Hokage one day remember?" He let out a laugh and a cheeky grin before looking at thew scowls he was receiving from his teammates. Naruto frowned himself and crossed his arms. "Alright, alright! Fine, you guys are no fun you know that? I suck at Genjutsu. As in I don't think I'll ever be able to do them properly. My chakra control is the worst out of the three of us, I am rash and lack finesse, and I don't always listen." Naruto looked at his two teammates, rather perturbed. "Are you happy? We all suck at different things."

Sasuke simply hummed to himself slightly. "Well it seems Kakashi wants us to work together to fix our shortcomings. Sakura is the best out of us with chakra control, I am skilled at Ninjutsu and my clans Taijutsu, and Naruto, I hate to admit it but you are maybe the best of us with pure chakra and Taijutsu." Both Naruto and Sakura were shocked to hear Sasuke give them compliments. What the hell had Kakashi said to him for such a drastic change to occur?

Sasuke stood up from the table and turned to head for his room. "If you two would like to join me, I'm going to do my morning training. You should bring your scrolls out as well if you join me. We do have a jutsu to learn." Walking away, Sasuke left a dumbfounded Naruto and Sakura behind. Not wanting to be left behind, they both hopped up and ran to get changed, grabbing some of the toast on the table as they ran off.

XXXXX Training Ground Seven, seven thirty am

Kakashi was very surprised. He had arrived at his training ground to find his Genin team already training! He had written down the instructions for the Shunshin no jutsu (Body Flicker) in each of their scrolls. The trick was however, that he had written it in three parts on each of their scrolls. If they didn't have all three, they would never be able to figure out the technique. He saw them practicing and was not disappointed. Sakura was, obviously, the first one to get the technique. Not having a lot of chakra allowed her to truly feel out a jutsu and get how it worked before executing it flawlessly. He didn't know how long they had been out there but it was truly impressive. Sasuke could move about ten to fifteen feet from the look of it. He watched Sakura and had even asked her how she did it from the look of it. Naruto... well Naruto kept hitting trees. The boy could not control where he was going. He let the speed get to him and didn't know how to stop. He saw Sakura laughing and Sasuke smirking as Naruto hit a tree for the third time. The boy truly needed every bit of chakra control he could muster just to do that.

Looking down at his squad, Kakashi felt a sense of pride. They took everything he said seriously. They trusted him already and they were all motivated. He couldn't have asked for a better group. Eye smiling, Kakashi watched speed around the training ground, all of them trying to master the Shunshin no jutsu.

XXXXX Team Seven, seven forty five am

Naruto let out a cry as he hit a tree for what seemed like the fifth time. He felt it was different this time! He almost stopped but he seemed to pull left and hit the tree every time he did the Shunshin. He let out an exasperated sigh. "Why can't I get this? Damn it!" He punched the ground, annoyed that he couldn't get it.

Sakura walked over to him, one of her hand on her hips as she leaned over to talk to him. "Naruto, you have too much chakra! You can't control the amount that you have! If you can't control your chakra enough to do a Shunshin, then you need more control! That or you need less chakra!" She laughed as she said it and Shunshined back over to to where the posts were and sat down.

Naruto thought to himself for a minute. Then he lit up like a light bulb. "Sakura that's it!" Naruto hopped up and quickly made the seal for the Kage Bunshin no jutsu. Yelling out the technique, Naruto quickly made thirty or so clones. Feeling the lack of chakra for the moment, Naruto quickly tried to do a Shunshin. He quickly disappeared in a puff of smoke and reappeared next to Sakura, who was looking at him with her mouth wide open.

"Dattebayo! I knew I had it down!" Naruto was celebrating as Sasuke came over and smirked. "Yeah, good job you only had to get rid of half your chakra." Naruto quickly stopped celebrating and his clones started to disperse. The three of them sat down against the post like they usually did and awaited Kakashi's entrance.

They didn't have to wait long because as soon as they had gotten comfortable, Kakashi Shunshined over to where they were and gave them an infamous eye smile.

"And how are my little Genin today? How was your night together?" He received silence in return. "Well that's no way to greet your sensei! I'm hurt! Offended even!" He saw all of them roll their eyes and he received a unanimous 'good morning Kakashi-sensei'. He looked them over carefully. Even though they had been training for what seemed like an hour, they all seemed rather spry. "Now, which one of you wants to tell me what you did last night into this morning?"

Sasuke looked at him and recounted the events that happened last night as well as the talk that they had that morning. He then told Kakashi that they had all mastered the Shunshin and were ready for whatever he threw at them. Kakashi simply chuckled at them. "A good lie Sasuke, but being able to perform the move doesn't mean it is mastered. I believe Naruto hit that tree five times before he realized he needed less chakra to do it. While you have all learned it, it is far from being mastered. Now, do me a favor and go run ten laps. Stamina time!" The three Genin unanimously groaned and got up to start their running. As they ran, Kakashi was actually a little shocked at their progress in one day! While having a team work together to figure out a technique was not unheard of, it was a tad bit unorthodox. They had gotten it in a few hours. With Sasuke's genius, Sakura's brain, and Naruto's ability to never quit, he could throw jutsu at them everyday and they would probably learn most of them.

A few minutes had passed and all three of his students were standing in front of him. They had ran as a team. They hadn't left Sakura behind, Sasuke hadn't tried to take first place so to speak, and Naruto kept his same steady pace. He nodded approvingly. "You are all getting it. Without your teammates you cannot succeed. Run with them, learn with them, and improve with them. Now, Naruto, Sasuke, you both never finished the tree climbing." He gave a little whistle and threw his head in the direction of the trees. "Get to it." The two boys rushed off, immediately trying to get up the tree.

"What about me Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura looked a bit winded due to the run but other than that she seemed fine. "Sakura, I'm at a bit of a loss for you. The boys, they're going to be monsters. Throwing jutsu around like shuriken. They will have differing fighting styles seeing as Naruto is strong and Sasuke is agile. Naruto will most likely learn something odd and surprising to augment his fighting just as Sasuke will learn more Genjutsu once his Sharingan is unlocked. I need to know what you actually want to do. You could do a great many things. An Iryo Ninjutsu user would greatly help this team but that would leave you as the supposed weak link. Having someone that uses just Genjutsu would also help, but again, you would be the supposed weak link. How do you want to fit in this team?"

Sakura looked down and thought long and hard. How did she want to fit in. She liked the idea of being a Iryo Ninjutsu user, especially since her teammates would always be in the front. Genjutsu also interested her as she like the idea of being able to affect people without having to get up close. Then she looked up with determination in her eyes. "Whats stopping me from doing all of it?" She looked Kakashi in his eye and saw that he was surprised. "I want to be good at Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, and Iryo Ninjutsu. Why do I have to be the weak link? I want to be able to fight with them on the front lines as well as heal and help from the back. " She was determined and he knew that.

"Well then I guess we just have to catch you up to speed, no?" He smiled at her and motioned for her to come over by the stream. Stepping out onto the water, Kakashi motioned for Sakura to follow, wanting to see if she could handle it. She stepped tentatively at first, but soon he saw that she was standing on top of the water, same as him and walking out to him. He nodded approvingly, she was truly amazing with her chakra control. He quickly made a Kage bunshin and sent it over to where Naruto and Sasuke were slowly climbing the tree higher and higher.

"Now, this is the first thing we need to do to catch you up to speed. You lack stamina, chakra reserves, and your taijutsu is sloppy at best. We are going to fix that in the coming days. You will spar with me on the water and we will not stop until you literally can't keep going. This will train your reflexes, stamina, your Taijutsu, as well as your chakra reserves. Are you ready?" He saw Sakura hesitate only for a moment before nodding and rushing Kakashi.

'A team is only as good as their weakest link... and at this rate the weakest link will be the strongest.' Kakashi thought to himself as he ducked Sakura's kick. Kakashi pushed her back, standing up straight as he did so. This was going to be entertaining!

XXXXX One month later, Mission Hall

"Come on Kakashi-sensei! We have been doing D Rank missions everyday since we became Genin! We've done like a hundred of them!" Naruto stared at Kakashi waiting for a response. Kakashi nodded and simply motioned for them to move into the mission hall. Watching as they walked in front of him, Kakashi actually did think they were ready for a C Rank. Hell to be honest they could probably handle a B Rank if they were pressed. Oh, and Naruto was wrong. They had done exactly two hundred and ten D Rank missions. Seven of them a day really set the tone for the whole month. They worked as a unit now. The parameters that he had set for them to follow were never broken once. They had eaten together, slept under the same roof, and had been training together for the past thirty days straight.

He honestly couldn't have been happier with their progress. His team as a whole could perform the tree walking exercise without thinking about it as well as water walking. In terms of control, Sasuke and Naruto had improved in leaps and bounds. Where once they had issues with the control, and in Naruto's case performing the Shunshin, they were now capable enough to perform without hesitation. In terms of chakra capacity, Sakura had improved the most. Still having the least amount of chakra, they were definitely where they should be for her age. She could last on the water sparing for upwards of three four hours and not collapse. Naruto could go for days and Sasuke could only manage about six. She was behind them but not by much. His team was treated as just that; A team. If he taught one of them something he taught all of them the same thing. They knew all of the basics. Basics always save you life in the end anyway.

He had taught them a little bit of everything so far. He hadn't stayed on one subject for more than a week. So he had dedicated a week to Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu, with the first week having been spent drilling the basics into their heads. They all knew one elemental Ninjutsu each. He was not playing games with his kids. They would be ready for anything as well as know the basics of everything. This was to give them a basis to work off of in the future. This would allow them to see what they enjoyed the most as well as what they were best at performing. They were each learning his own personal Taijutsu style. He was the copy ninja, that was kind of his thing. He copied hundreds of styles and had personally constructed one that was based around his own combat style. Now Sasuke was the quickest and easiest to teach this style. It was based on the Sharingan as well as being agile and precise. Essentially, a style that Sasuke would end up using alongside his clan's style. Sakura was slowly picking up on but was having issues with the pauses that the style used. It made sense because with the Sharingan, everything was slowed down, allowing for feints, pivots, and abrupt stops. Naruto on the other hand, was having worst time learning the style. It just was not for him. He was the kind of fighter who got up in your face and broke your bones. Kakashi had set out to creating a style that Naruto and Sakura could use but it was a slow going process. He had a lot of information to sift through.

On the subject of Ninjutsu, he was also proud. Each of them had one jutsu from each of the five elements. As well as jutsu to create shuriken out of each element. He taught them the Katon: Housenka no jutsu(mythical fire phoenix), Suiton: Mizu peretto(Water pellet), Raiton: Rakurai no jutsu(lightning bolt), Doton: Shinjuu Zanshu no jutsu(Double Suicide decapitation), and Fuuton: Daitoppa(Great Breakthrough). While the majority of the jutsu were offensive, there was a second reason he had them learning elemental jutsu so early. Having them learn all of the elemental manipulation would allow Kakashi to see what jutsu they were more suited for. A more time consuming way of finding out what kind of natures their chakra would have. He wasn't disappointed at all by what he found out. Sasuke had surprised him slightly. Sasuke had already known the Housenka no jutsu, but what had surprised him was the ease that he had learned and used the Rakurai no jutsu. It had taken him barely a day to get the hand seals down. So Kakashi felt that the boy either had two affinities, which was possible, or that he actually had a Raiton affinity. Sakura had learned the Mizu peretto as well as the Shinjuu Zanshu the easiest, making him think that she had an affinity for Doton or Suiton. Naruto however, had been the most surprising. The boy was the first to learn and only one to master the Daitoppa no jutsu. He did averagely with the Housenka no jutsu and had done a decent job with the Mizu peretto.

Kakashi sighed to himself. These kids probably had more potential than the Sannin. Speaking of potential, Kakashi thought to the week he had spent covering Genjutsu. No surprise when Sakura and Sasuke were the first to pick up on it. While Sasuke wanted to learn whatever he could, he made it very clear that he was not going to be an avid Genjutsu user. It just wasn't his style. Naruto though... Once again poor Naruto had the worst time with the Genjutsu. He had taught all of them two Genjutsu. The first was Kyouboku no Jumon(Spell of trees). The technique allowed for the user to convince an enemy within a certain area that they were simply trees. This technique needed trees to work, and the closer you were to a tree the better it would work. The second was Chousen no Hibiki(echo of defiance). This technique wore down an opponents defense to Genjutsu by attacking one of the five senses. This in combination with Kyouboku no Jumon, allowed for one to completely fool their enemy into thinking they were not there and simply a part of the tree. Naruto learned the techniques easy enough, but executing them was not easy for him. He managed to capture one of his clones in the Genjutsu for a moment but lost control and was quickly found. Naruto sadly, was just not cut out for Genjutsu. He also taught his kids how to detect and break out of Genjutsu. Something that not only every Genin should know, but have drilled into their heads so they don't get killed in the field.

Inside the mission hall, one Umino Iruka was waiting for Kakashi to speak. "Kakashi, what can I do for you today?" A tone of annoyance entered his voice as he noticed Kakashi was lost in thought.

"Iruka, would you mind giving my squad a C Rank please?" All of his kids looked at him like he had five heads. Naruto jumped into the air in joy, Sakura let out a cry of joy, and Sasuke smiled. "Before you say anything, its my call on what they are ready for, they have improved incredibly in their month of training with me, and we have done more than the required amount for them to go on a C Rank." Iruka simply shook his head and frowned. "Alright, I have a simple one for you. Its an escort mission to Nami no Kuni(Wave country). Our client needs a team to escort him so that he may finish building a bridge connecting his country to the main continent. Tazuna! You can come in now!"

From behind them, they heard the door open and a rather plain looking gentleman walked in. He looked like he was probably in his fifties or sixties. He took one look at team seven and frowned. "And this is the group that you expect to keep me safe? The short one looks like he couldn't handle his breakfast! The girl and the moper over there look like they'll be too busy making out to do anything!"

As soon as he was done spouting out his insults a few things happened. One was that Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke all formed up in front of him. The next was that they each held out their hands to their sides and formed different elemental shuriken. Naruto held a fuuton shuriken, Sakura a katon shuriken, and Sasuke a raiton shuriken. They all looked at Tazuna and smiled.

"Now Tazuna, why would you say such rude things to the ones who are going to be guarding you?" The sickly sweet sound behind Sakura's voice made the man take a step back.

Tazuna quickly rectified his statement. "Come now! Can't you kids take a joke? He he he..." He scratched the back of his head and took a few steps back.

"Kids we have a job to do, please try not to upset him. Go gear up. Two weeks rations and provisions, meet at the gate at twelve hundred." A trio of Hai was heard and his kids disappeared in poofs of smoke. Kakashi turned to Tazuna. "Do me a favor and have your things ready to go in the next hour. I would very much like to be on the road before we have no light left." Tazuna gave him a dumb nod and left the hall. Right before Kakashi left he looked back at Iruka and saw a dumbfounded expression on his face. He gave him an eye smile. "I told you they learned a lot. See you in a little while!" With a wave Kakashi was off to wait at the gate.

XXXXX Konoha's gate twelve pm

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all stood at the entrance to Konoha patiently. They had been here for about fifteen minutes and were waiting on Kakashi and Tazuna to appear so that they could get a move on. Naruto moved over to the side of the open gate and plopped down, rather loudly, to the ground.

"Dobe, please stand up. You know they will be here any minute." Naruto's response was to stick out his tongue at Sasuke. Sakura let out a little giggle and went and sat next to Naruto. "Sakura, don't encourage him please!" Sasuke let out a groan and moved over to sit next to Sakura. Naruto and Sakura giggled and Sasuke smirked. They had grown rather close in the months time that they had been a team. They spent all of their time together. They slept at the Sasuke's home almost every night. It had the space, the resources, and was the most comfortable out of the three. It ended up turning into the team hang out more or less.

They trained together, helping each other where the others failed and encouraging each other when they couldn't get it. They all got each other. Being in such a close proximity to one another gave them that insight. Naruto and Sakura found out why Sasuke always tried to be a loner. About his family and Itatchi. They had made a promise on the spot to help him when the time came. Sasuke and Sakura realized that while Naruto was loud, immature, and annoying, he also hid a level of genius that sometimes rivaled Sasukes.

They all learned the ins and outs of what made them tick. They could just as easily calm each other down, as well as rile them back up. Sakura was the best at both, being able to soothe and annoy both Naruto and Sasuke. Sakura, surprisingly, had taken the role of the leader somewhat. Both boys listened to her, and rarely argued with what she had to say. She had proved herself during the month they had been training. While she was still technically weaker than the other two, it would be a close match for any of them at this point considering they knew the same jutsu. And both Naruto and Sasuke knew just how scary she could be when she was mad. So when they went on missions, Sakura usually became the voice of the group. The major thing that had come out of the training was that none of them were alone anymore. They had each other to rely on and they knew that.

Lost in their thoughts about each other, none of them noticed Kakashi and Tazuna walk up and start to leave the village. Kakashi stared lazily at them as he pulled out a little orange book. "Kids would you mind getting up? Its time for us to go." He saw them all jump up and move into formation behind him. He looked back to his work and Lazily drawled out a command. "Diamond position kiddies. Naruto you've got point, I'll take up the rear. Even if this is just a plain C Rank, we will handle this professionally and as if there is going to be more danger." As soon as he was done speaking, they jumped into position. Slowly moving out of the village, all three couldn't help but smile. They were going on a mission. They were being treated like actual ninja. Kakashi could feel their excitement in the air, and he had to say, it was rather contagious. Smiling into his book, they continued on with the rather slow going mission.

XXXXX Halfway to Nami no Kuni, four thirty pm

The road to Nami no Kuni was rather boring. Kakashi couldn't remember the last time he had been on a mission that was this slow. Looking ahead all he saw was road. Tazuna swore three times over that they would be there in the next hour. He had said that two hours ago. Moving at a civilians pace, Kakashi had time to actually observe their surroundings. They still seemed like they were in Hi no Kuni, but he knew they had crossed the border not too long ago. Looking ahead he noticed a peculiar puddle in the middle of the road. 'Oh come on.' He hid it in his book but he was frowning. It hadn't rained in days, and it was getting into the evening, any puddle would have evaporated long before now. Sighing to himself, Kakashi put his book away and waited. He wanted to see how his kids handled an ambush. He felt like they were ready but there was only one way to know for sure.

As they walked over the puddle, Kakashi felt two chakra signatures come out behind him. Quickly being captured in two chains, 'Kakashi' was ripped apart. Yelling out in surprise, Sasuke quickly yelled out, "Alpha!". They sprung into action. Sakura jumped forward and pulled out two kunai as she waited in front of Tazuna, protecting him. Sasuke and Naruto jumped as well, Naruto flipping over one, and Sasuke, the other. Quickly making hand seals, they both called out their Jutsu at the same time.

"Raiton: Rakurai no jutsu!" Naruto and Sasuke aimed at the same person, the one closer to Naruto. A lighting bolt had jumped from two of each of their fingertips, hitting the man once in the back of the neck, and in the chest. The jutsu was not meant to maim or kill, but rather incapacitate or simply injure. The first went down rather easily, his body quickly devolved into a series of spasms. The other yelled in anger and charged Sasuke. As he was about to swing at him however, his right leg buckled and he fell to his knees quickly. Looking to his right he saw Sakura grinning, twirling her second kunai carelessly. Naruto and Sasuke walked up to the second ninja. Nodding to each other, they both swung a fist at him, crashing into each side of his head, knocking him unconscious.

As they tied each of them up, they saw Kakashi come out of the trees behind them. "Well done. I honestly couldn't have expected that to have worked out any better." They all beamed at the praise, rather proud of themselves. "Alpha was executed perfectly. I was very impressed with your accuracy Sakura." Sakura nodded, smiling at Kakashi. One of the things they went over in some of their early mornings was tactics. They had a few maneuvers that they worked in case of an ambush. The first one being 'Alpha'. Alpha meant that the leader of their squad was incapacitated or dead and that they had to take care of the mission. There were no set people for the maneuver, their teamwork was good enough that they knew what their roles essentially were.

"Sasuke, Naruto, take those bodies over by that tree. I'll need to speak with them soon. You," He pointed at Tazuna," You have a lot of explaining to do. You do understand that this mission is now a B Rank? Dealing with enemy ninja was not in the itinerary. I have every right to take my team and leave you here now. Double crossing a ninja village is not a wise move."

Tazuna had the decency to look ashamed."You can't just leave me! I need you! I didn't have the money to afford a higher ranked mission. My village is poor! We are being controlled and manipulated by a man named Gato. He has our country by the throat! That is why I am building my bridge! The money that I paid for this mission was all the money that we could muster up! A whole village, and we couldn't afford a B Rank mission." He bowed his head low in apology. "If you leave me here I understand, nut know that you would be condemning a nation to hell by allowing that man any more time dictating our lives." Tazuna turned and moved a few feet away, feeling that a decision would need to be made.

Kakashi looked over at team seven and saw nothing but determination. He smirked, he knew exactly where this was going. Naruto was the first to speak up. "We want to help him Kakashi-sensei! That's what we are supposed to do isn't it? Help those who can't defend themselves?" Sakura and Sasuke nodded at Naruto, adding credibility to his argument.

Unbelievable. These kids would go into a dangerous situation just to help a client they barely knew. Pretty dumb to be completely honest. But hey, whats the worst that could happen? Nothing could pop up that he himself couldn't handle. "Alright fine. I'll send a message to the Hokage telling him to pick up these bodies and we'll help Tazuna and Nami no Kuni. As of right now, play time is over. I am now your commander and you will listen to what I say when I say it. This is now a B Rank or higher mission and I will not have any misplaced heroics, alright?" He saw his team nod and sent them over to stand with Tazuna. Moving over to the two men who were tied up, Kakashi actually recognized them. The Demon brothers! They were Kiri missing nin 'What are they doing here?' Kakashi frowned and smacked the one that was still twitching.

"Wake up! I have questions...Meizu." He saw Meizu's body stiffen in surprise. Kakashi pulled out a kunai discreetly and held it to the mans throat. "Who do you work for? Why were you after the bridge builder?" He saw the demon brother chuckle and spit at his feet. "Why would I tell you anything?" Kakashi gave him an eye smile." Well I'm glad you asked! Because if you don't, I will slit your brothers throat and make you watch him die." He spoke with an eerily calm voice which unnerved Meizu. "You wouldn't! You need us!" It was Kakashi's turn to laugh now. "No I need one of you. Now talk." The calm was gone, and he flared a bit of his chakra to emphasize his point.

Meizu was clearly uncomfortable now. "Alright stop! Stop! Gato! We were hired by Gato to kill the builder! He knows he is coming and doesn't want him to make it there!" Kakashi frowned. He got his answers so he smacked Meizu in the temple with the blunt end of the kunai. Moving the brothers against a tree, Kakashi tied them to the tree and moved over to his team. Gato knows we are coming. Ready yourselves for combat. There are probably more ambushes waiting and we don't know if there will be more ninja. Diamond formation and lets move out." Team seven moved on once more, heading for Nami no Kuni with a single thought in their minds. What exactly had they just gotten themselves into?

XXXXX

And that's chapter two! I am thoroughly enjoying writing this story. I have to say that after trying so hard on my other one, its nice to just get my own take out on a canon story. One little thing I have to say to anyone who wants to review, please do me a favor and log in if its negative. I can take criticism, what I can't stand is just straight up hate. If you are going to go ahead and leave a review, don't hide behind being a guest. I know that as a writer I'm not amazing, but I can honestly say that this is turning into a hobby for me. I do this to try and improve myself, and if some people enjoy it along the way that's great! I am not here however, to cater to the desires and thoughts of everyone else. I know that I'm not perfect but to just straight up shit on someone just because they don't do things the way you want them is absolute bullshit. My stories, my views, my take on things. End of story. If you don't like it, then don't read it! That simple. Sorry about my little rant but that seriously bugs me. No need to hate on someone for trying to get their ideas out there. Anyway, Ill see you guys next time!

-D.K

Jutsu List:

Katon: Housenka no jutsu(Mythical Phoenix technique)-User spits out multiple fireballs that can also conceal a thrown weapon.

Katon: Shuriken no jutsu(Fire style, shuriken technique)-User forms a shuriken out of said element and can use it as a ranged weapon. Can be held and thrown, or formed and launched

Suiton: Mizu peretto(Water pellet technique)-User spits out a rapidly moving bullet of water the size of a fist that can cause damage depending on where they get hit

Suiton: Shuriken no Jutsu(Water style, shuriken technique)-User forms a shuriken out of said element and can use it as a ranged weapon. Can be held and thrown, or formed and launched

Raiton: Rakurai no jutsu(Lightning bolt Technique)-User focuses chakra to their index and pointer fingers and shoots out a bolt of lightning. Mostly meant to incapacitate or stun.

Raiton: Shuriken no jutsu(Lighting style, shuriken technique)-User forms a shuriken out of said element and can use it as a ranged weapon. Can be held and thrown, or formed and launched

Doton: Shinjuu Zanshu no jutsu(Double suicide decapitation technique)-User travels under the unsuspecting opponent and pulls them under the ground where they are then easy pickings.

Doton: Shuriken no jutsu(Earth style, shuriken technique)-User forms a shuriken out of said element and can use it as a ranged weapon. Can be held and thrown, or formed and launched

Fuuton: Shuriken no jutsu(Wind style, shuriken technique)-User forms a shuriken out of said element and can use it as a ranged weapon. Can be held and thrown, or formed and launched

Fuuton: Daitoppa no jutsu(Great breakthrough technique)-User exhales a large burst of wind in a wide area, causing mass destruction, or in some cases, blowing weapons or jutsu away.

Shunshin no jutsu(Body flicker technique)-The user coats their body in chakra and attains speed at borderline the speed of light, allowing them to move distances very quickly. Not meant to be used to travel long distances. Not a space/time ninjutsu.

Kyouboku no Jumon(Spell of trees)-The technique allowed for the user to convince an enemy within a certain area that they were simply trees. This technique needed trees to work, and the closer you were to a tree the better it would work.

Chousen no Hibiki(echo of defiance)-This technique wears down an opponents defense to Genjutsu by attacking one of the five senses.