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True Power
Chapter 9: Ninja of the Tides
It is far better to go to an early grave with no regrets, then to live forever and regret everything.
The First Namikage of the Village Hidden by the Tides
Tazuna's House
The two gennin groups sat around the table enjoying the meal Tazuna's daughter Tsunami made.
"Who's that?" Haku asked pointing to a picture of a man with an X shaped scar on his face.
"That's my father!" a small boy wearing a hat proclaimed proudly.
"He's the person who founded the Village Hidden by the Tides, and one of the true heroes of this country." Tazuna said. "He formed the village with just a group of renegade mist shinobe and a few people with advanced bloodlines. Even though he wasn't a shinobe himself he was charismatic enough to found a hidden village."
"Whoa, so what happened to him?" Naruto asked.
"Well you know that the gangster Gato controls all shipping in this country, well my bridges have removed a lot of his former power, and the Tide ninjas undermine all his attempts at sabotaging the bridges. Anyway Gato figured that if he got rid of the person that founded the village he might demoralize the Tide ninjas. It took nearly all of Gato's thugs to take him down. Yet when they were about to execute him the Village Hidden by the Tides rescued him, and he currently been hiding in the Tide Village."
"Hmm, can't the Namikage send any shinobe to protect you?" Feneris asked Tazuna.
"Like I said before the Tide village is new so they don't have very many shinobe that can protect me and the ones who can are already on missions to guard bridges or sabotage Gato's operations," Tazuna explained.
"Well, I think I will take a walk outside before I hit the hay." Feneris said getting up from the table.
Feneris then slipped out of the door. Making sure no one was watching he let his cloak take on the appearance of the painted walls of the house. Slipping into the bush he made sure his cloak had changed to camouflage into the bush. Creeping thru the brush as silently a trained dark elf shinobe, he made his way to the beach approaching a rocky section he looked around again then he made his way to a small pool created by the tides. Reaching inside he took out a small crab and talked to in a series a clicks. When the crab responded he put it back in the tide pool. We quickly cast an invisibility spell on himself and made his way to a cave entrance. He thanked the gods that the tide was out or else this cave would be hidden.
Creeping into the cave he followed its length till the cave moved upwards.
"Hands of the Gecko" he said to himself then put his hands on the stone wall. Scurrying up the wall like a gecko. He slipped past the two ninja guards, each wearing a head band with a wave on it.
"So this is the Village Hidden by the Tides," he thought as he looked at the colossal tide formed cavern. The houses and building were either carved into the cave face or raised up on a series of stilts and platforms.
"Impressive," Feneris thought, "the Tide village is doing well for its self."
Then a splashing sound was heard and the guards ran up a rope ladder. Water poured out of the tunnel as the tide came in.
"So this village really is hidden by the tides." Feneris thought as he swam out of the tunnel. When he left the caves entrance was completely covered by water. Climbing onto the land he cast a spell of heat to dry himself, and then walked back to Tazuna's house.
Next day
Naruto yawned and stretched, looking out the window he saw Feneris sitting in a tree, talking to a crow. Naruto yawned again; with his senses being enhanced by Kyuubi he could smell Tsunami cooking something.
"Well good to see that your up."
At the sound of the voice Naruto spun around and nearly slugged Kakashi in the gut.
"Clam down Naruto," Kakashi said, "at least your safer to wake up then Feneris, he nearly ripped of my arm and impaled me on his staff when I got within 5 cm of him. Any way breakfast is downstairs."
When Naruto walked down to breakfast, everyone but Feneris was present. Kiba was shovelling food down his gullet while, Gaara only took small bites every once in a while and Kakashi was reading his little orange book of porn. Just then Feneris walked in with a crow perched on his arm. He then took a piece of meat and gave it to the crow, which then flew off.
"What's with the crow?" Haku asked.
"She just gave me an update; it seems she was summoned to a corpse near where we fought Zabuza. She also said that Zabuza is lying low for now, so we better start training now that we have a slight break."
"Good idea," Kakashi said, "I'll start as soon as I finish this chapter."
Outside
"Okay, lets see what you can do" Kakashi said, "First climb these trees without your hands."
"Sensei, we can do that already Feneris-sensei taught us that in Water Country with trees that were half a kilometre tall, he also taught us water walking, water repulsion, physical chakra manipulation, air purification, fire repulsion, chakra forcing, and flying." Naruto said.
Kakashi looked at them blankly he had only heard of half of those exercises. "Okay, so which of those is the hardest to do?"
"Flying," Gaara answered.
"Okay, lets see you fly."
To Kakashi's amazement his students lifted off the ground and hovered in the air.
"Okay… how did you do that?" he asked.
"You expel chakra from all over your body and use it to push yourself off the ground," Haku answered.
"And Feneris taught you this?"
"Yeah,"
A scream echoed across the forest. Team 7 ran towards the source of the sound, when they got to the clearing they saw Kiba shaking with fear, and Feneris wearing an eye patch over his right eye. That was bad for two reasons, one, both of Feneris eyes worked fine and, two, he once took a kunai in the eye, and then used his magic to restore the eye. That could only mean he was using the eye patch to hide something very, very nasty.
"What are you doing!" Kakashi asked.
"I'm giving my students anti-fear training." The elf replied
"By nearly scaring them to death?"
"Yes, it is important they know how to deal with fear jutsus and killer intent,"
"O…Kay," Kakashi replied as he walked away.
That night Kakashi noticed that Shino's hair had turned white, Kiba was really jumpy, and Sakura was shaking with nervousness.
"Hey it's not that bad," Naruto said, "you could be fighting a ninja killer intent so powerful you would be paralyzed."
Feneris then stood up.
"Two of Gato's goons are approaching the house; I'll take care of them, Freyja and Houris need some exercise."
He then summoned his wolf Freyja and his tiger Houris and walked out the door. Two yells and a tiger's roar were heard then silence. Feneris then walked in and said, "Freyja and Houris will guard the house tomorrow." He then walked up the stairs and went into his sleep like trance.
Next Morning
The gennin groups were walking to the bridge. When they got there, bodies of workers were strewn over the bridge. Then out of the mist strode Zabuza followed by 8 former mist shinobe.
"Heh, I surprised to see me? Today you will die." Zabuza stated as he swung his sword.
Authors Note:
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