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'thoughts'

'Kyuubi's thoughts'

Rising Storm

Naruto grumbled as he and his team walked through the Wave Country. His teammate Kyo was still making fun of his part of their last mission. His other teammate Iori at least kept his mouth shut about it. But Kyo wouldn't stop making jokes about it.

"I swear to God if you don't shut up right I'm gonna shove this shuriken up your ass." Naruto said pulling out a fuuma shuriken out of his backback.

Kyo smirked and said "You sure you wouldn't want that up your ass?" He then started laughing.

"That's it!" Naruto said as he attacked Kyo. The two wrestled on the ground for a few minutes while Iori watched in annoyance. His hands glowed with purple flames as he unleashed a fury of fireballs at the two twelve year-olds.

"Oh shit." They both whispered before...

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The man walking in front of them turned around and sighed "Of all the ninjas in Hidden Storm, why are mine not only the most powerful but also the most immature." He whispered as he remembered their meeting with the Kage.

Flashback

"The Chuunin exams are a few weeks away and I've decided to send your team to Konoha to participate." The Kage said as he looked over some papers.

"That's fine. I'll take them to my family's training area to prepare them for the exam." Hanzo Hana said as he looked out the window at the normally cloud filled sky.

"You're not taking your nephew as well?" The Kage asked.

"He's already a chuunin so he doesn't need the preparation."

"A chuunin that was picked to be one because of his effort during the crisis in Thunder Country."

"Nevertheless Kage-sama he is a chuunin."

"True. All right take your team and report back here one week before the exam." The Kage said.

"Thank you sir…" Hanzo started to say but was caught up in something.

"What it is Hanzo?" The Kage asked finally looking up at Hanzo.

"The clouds are breaking Kage-sama." Hanzo said as he walked toward the window.

The Kage stood next to him and said "That's a bad omen right there. Remember the last time the clouds broke?"

"It was two weeks before we found Kooriryu dying in the mountains just beyond our village. And the time before that?" Hanzo asked

"Was when Kyuubi attacked Konoha and my sister died but again we didn't know that until a week later." The Kage finished. "Keep an eye on your team especially Naruto all right. Something tells me he'll be in the middle of whatever is going to happen." The Kage said before he went back to looking at reports.

End Flashback

"Hanzo-sensei!" Iori's voice broke through his thoughts as he turned toward the normally quiet Yagami heir.

"I'm sorry Iori what is it?" Hanzo asked wondering why Iori spoke up. Usually whenever he spoke it was very important

Iori pointed to a thick mist on a nearby lake. "That mist is not natural."

Hanzo looked at the mist and agreed. "Might be a Mist nin training exercise though. I remember them doing exercises like that years ago."

"There's something else there too. Naruto and Kyo are checking it out right." Iori said concertrating on the other thing.

Hanzo concentrated too and realized what the other thing was.

Killing Intent.

"I think Naruto and Kyo might be in trouble." Hanzo before he sensed his two other students. "Oh wait here they come now.

Both genin appeared before him wearing strange looking black masks. The lower part was metal and it curved away from the mouth and nose. There tiny holes in it that allowed the user to breathe normally as well as filter out any inhalable poison. The upper part went over their heads hiding their hair. Also on the upper part was a picture of a tornado. The symbol of Hidden Storm. It was the eyepieces that made the masks truly unique. They were fused with a special genjustu created by Hidden Storm that allowed the user to see through any genjustu.

"Report." Hanzo said to Naruto quietly.

"A missing Mist nin going up against 4 Leaf nin and 1 old man. Three of the Leaf nins are just genin and are up against a water clone of the Mist nin. The fourth leaf is a jounin and is entrapped in a water prison no justu." Naruto said

"Describe the Mist nin." Hanzo said turning to Kyo

"Tall, dark hair, and has a huge sword on his back. Also his face covered in bandages. Finally he appears to have no eyebrows." Kyo said.

Hanzo smirked at both of them. Storm nin were required to observe everything they could. Cause they could never tell what they would be asked to report. His smirk fell when he recognized the description of the Mist nin.

"The Devil of Mist, Zabusa. Didn't think I'd run into him on this training trip."

"You know him?" Naruto asked.

"He's one of the former Seven Swordsmen of the Mist just like I was." Hanzo said as he searched through his black treach coat.

The three Storm genin nodded. They knew their sensei was a refugee from Mist and gained asylum to Storm by Naruto's uncle. In fact quite a few of Hidden Storm's nins were nins from other villages who didn't like how their own villages were and knew of the Storm's hospitality. Only a couple of those nins were true missing nins and they had to go through a lot to be accepted as Storm nins.

"I want you three to help the Leaf Genin with the water clone. Remember though your fireballs won't normally work on it so you'll have to think of something else. I'll run along behind Zabusa and hopefully catch him off guard." Hanzo said as he removed two pure white katanas. He strapped the katanas to his back, put on a black mask of his own and ran in one direction.

Iori put on his own mask and asked "You two ready to go?"

Kyo smirked and said "I was born ready."

Naruto turned to him and asked "How many times has your mother dropped you on you head besides the ones we've seen?"

Kyo turned to him and said "Don't ask." He then ran towards where the Leaf genin were.

Iori shook his head before following Kyo.

'Time to go kick some ass.' Kyuubi said to Naruto as he followed his teammates.

As they approached Naruto started making hand seals. When they arrived they jumped in front of the water clone and Naruto finished his seals and shouted "Freeze Blast no Justu." A blast of cold air hit the clone and froze it on the spot. After that Naruto ran up to it and with one punch shattered it.

Meanwhile as Zabusa watched his clone shatter a shockwave that parted the waters was coming toward him from his left side. He dodged the attack and realised he no longer touched the water prison holding the Leaf jounin. It dissolved and the Leaf nin quickly got out of the way of the attack whick kept going till it hit the other side of the lake.

"Nice dodge. Glad to see you're still in good shape. I would've been disappointed if I actually hit you." Hanzo's voice called through the mist as he walked on the water towards Zabusa.

"Been a long time since we last clashed swords hasn't it Zabusa?"

"Even wearing that ridicluous mask I recognize that attack and those swords, Hanzo."

Next Time: The fight between former comrades commences as well as it's aftermath.