WARNING: This story contains; Graphic Violence, Foul Language, and Possible Lemons

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Chapter 5

Team Seven plus two were calmly walking through a rather serine section of forest. The idyllic calmness of their surroundings couldn't distract from the strange atmosphere that had settled over the group however. Sasuke felt a small tingle up his spine but couldn't make out why. Anko and Kakashi however felt, knew that something had fundamentally changed though they didn't know what. Tazuna had the distinct felling like a much larger predator had begun stalking the forest. His ears suddenly picked up a far-off noise, his survival instincts going on high alert.

"Do you guys hear that?" He asked hesitantly but was given no response.

Looking towards the pink haired female of the group he saw that she had tightly wrapped her arms around herself and was mumbling shakily. The jonin carried on like they hadn't heard him. The sound was rapidly growing in volume as its source closed in on them.

"Hey, seriously" He called in growing panic "Shouldn't we…"

His words died in his throat as the sound now seemed to be rocketing towards them. The thought of bolting briefly made its way across his mind before the source of the disturbance burst from the tree line.

"ON THE FOURTH DAY OF COURTING DEATH MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME!" Naruto paid no mind to Tazuna as he shrieked like a little girl "FOUR SEVERED HEADS, THREE TORMENTED SOULS, TWO SHE DEVILS, AND A HANGED MAN IN A GALLOWS TREE!"

The bridge builder swore his heart stopped for a full thirty seconds as he clutched his chest, trying to reestablish control of his breathing.

"Why didn't you guys warn me the psycho was gonna give me a heart attack!" He accused the adult ninja.

"Hey its not my fault civies have shit hearing" Anko shoot back.

"So Naru-chan, did you have fun doing whatever it was you were doing?" Kakashi asked with an eye smile.

Naruto nodded with childish vehemence, a gigawatt smile in his face.

"Yeah! Me a Jashi-chan had a great time playing all kinds of games!" He exclaimed in exuberance.

His outburst was met with very different reactions from the group. Sasuke was happy the avatar of his faith had a good communion with their goddess. The jonin gave each other a look, wondering what exactly had happened in his time away. Sakura was still lost in her own little word, barely paying any attention to her surroundings. Tazuna on the other hand, Tazuna was mortified. Naruto was coated liberally in blood and left a trail of the life-giving essence far behind him and into the tree line he had emerged from. He grew increasingly weary of this genin and the team that was escorting him.

"Say Naru-chan what kinda games did you play with Jashin-sama?" Anko question.

"Oh all kinds! Hide and seek was my favorite though she did show me this cool trick with my scythes" His answers only further put Tazuna on edge and made the jonin curious "But do we gotta get going?"

Anko and Kakashi shared one more look before shrugging, their was not to question the will of their goddess and they really need to pick up the pace if they were going to make it to wave before night fall.

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The rest of the trip was carried on mostly in silence with the jonin passing back and forth ideas of what Naruto had gotten up to. They could feel it more clearly now that he was so close. Something had fundamental shifted with the young avatar and the world around them. They settled on waiting till they returned to Konoha to get answers.

They approached the large body of water separating the mainland mass from the string of islands that held the Land of Waves as well as other sovereign lands. Waiting for them was a ferryman with a small boat. One look at the tiny vessel and the jonin decided to water walk the hour-long journey, Naruto of course riding on Anko's shoulders.

With Naruto this close to her she could almost hear her goddess whispering to her on the wind and feel her touch on her skin. The experience was surreal but not unpleasant and again she wondered what this new change heralded for her and her fellow Jashinist.

Completing the trip with little fan fair the torture specialist noted that she didn't feel the expected drain on her chakra or the slight fatigue that came with such a long walk on water. Looking over to her co-team leader she saw that he felt what she expected to. Peering over her shoulder to the avatar of her faith she could almost make out a pair of amethyst eyes and a shark like smile looking back a her in her mind. Shaking of the strange feeling as Naruto hopped of her shoulder, she felt a pleasant shiver run up her spine as if someone was walking their fingers up her back.

"Kaka-nii you look tired" Naruto pouted up at the jonin from beside him "Here hold my hand so you feel better!"

Kakashi chuckled to himself at the boys caring nature before taking his hand. Anko watched his body shiver slightly as he took the genin's hand and wondered if he was experiencing what she had. As he seemed to perk up and set a much faster pace, she decided that Naruto was in fact having some otherworldly effect on them.

So caught up in his new found euphoria that the silver haired jonin almost missed the sound of air being split by a blade.

"Everyone down!" He let go of Naruto's hand as he tackled Sakura to the ground.

Everyone else ducking down, Tazuan pulled dwon by Anko, except for the younger of the silver haired ninja. He looked back as he caught a massive blade to his windpipe.

"Must be getting rusty if I can't even make it threw on genin's neck" The attack groused as he appeared hunched on a tree limb overlooking the Konoha ninja.

"Don't beat yourself up over it Naru-chan is just made of tougher stuff" Kakashi eye smiled at the imposing man.

"Wow they grow them tough in the Leaf these days, genin didn't even bat and eye at the kid's death" He mused just as much to himself as he did the ninja guarding his prey.

"He isn't dead dead ya mummy faced freak" Anko snarked folding her arms under her chest "A pissant like you could never really hurt Naru-chan"

Zabuza went to make and angry retort but the words died in his throat as Naruto did in fact rise to his feet and ripped the blade for his larynx.

"This is an impressive sword mister mummy man" The words coming out with a slight warble from the blood flowing from the hole in his wind pipe.

"Geez what are they feeding kids in your village these days" The missing-nin had subtly flexed his charka to break any genjutsu but found none.

"I like dango and ramen!" Naruto exclaimed in response while those that knew him chuckled at his antics.

"Um, not that I want you guys to fight but is this how it normally goes between ninja?" Tazuna interjected.

"Nah but nothing is normal with Naru-chan around" The purplette waved off.

"Hey!" Before Naruto started in on a rant "Usually this is where Zabuza here tells us to hand you over, we say go fuck yourself, and we fight to the death"

At Anko's quick but effective explanation Tazuna shut his mouth tight.

"No worries though I doubt it'll come to that" Kakashi tried to sooth his nerves.

"And why is that Copy-Cat Kakashi?" The former member for the seven swordsmen tried to flew his knowledge of the silver haired jonin.

"Cause I'm sure Naru-chan will be the one raring to go for a fight and you'll never win that matchup" The missing-nin felt beyond insulted.

"Oh oh! Are we gonna fight mister mummy man?" Naruto bounced up and down, waving the enormous sword around like in weighted next to nothing.

He suddenly stopped bouncing and tilted his head before rapidly nodding.

"Oh that's a great idea" He agreed before voicing what only he could hear "When I win you have to do anything I say"

Zabuza had had enough of these pricks righting him off, he was Demon of the Bloody Mist for fucks sake. Putting his pride first he spoke without really thinking.

"Fine but when I kill you, I get to kill the bridge builder too" He ground out not really expecting them to honor the agreement.

"Awesome, it's a deal then" Naruto nodded to himself before looking back at the jonin.

"We swear to Jashin-sama to uphold the bargain" Kakashi and Anko replied in stereo.

Tazuna looked at them if mortification and horror, while Zabuza was now more on edge. He had only ever met on Jashinist but she was such a psycho that he had to retreat with his tail between his legs. The memory still made him seethe in rage. Such rage slightly clouded his mind as he failed to see the trap, he was walking head long into.

"Well, I guess you'll need this to make it fair" The avatar said looking at the blade.

He pulled his arm back before hurling the blade at Zabuza with such force the missing-nin was forced to dodge as it cleaved threw the branch he was standing on. He retrieved it from the trunk in had halted its flight in only to be beset upon by Naruto. The genin was moving far faster than any genin had a right to and the few blows Zabuza was forced to block had a ridiculous force behind them for such a small assailant.

While their battled carried on Tazuna took the moment to express his betrayal to his ninja guards.

"Relax old fart" Anko chided "We would never have made the bet if we though Naru-chan would lose"

"Anko's correct, Zabuza when he killed Naru-chan and that is simply imposible" Kakashi followed up.

"You guys keep talking like the kid is immortal" Tazuna scoffed.

In what was becoming a well-rehearsed moment the two jonin gave each other a look that made Tazuna uneasy.

"You guys are joking?" He half asked half demaned.

"It is well known in our village that no amount of physical damage can actually hurt Naruto-sama" Sasuke cut into the conversation causing Tazuna to pale.

"HEY SAS-CHAN!" Screamed Naruto from deeper in the woods "You know I hate that sama shit!"

"You should pay your opponent more attention" Zabuza chided as he swung his blade into the boy's ribcage.

The blade only cut a small way into his torse before in was stopped by what felt like solid steel.

"Silly Buza-chan" Naruto smirked wickedly "You'll be mine soon enough"

Naruto slammed the palm of his bandaged covered had right into the man's face and sent him through a tree and careening away.

Getting to his feet and wiping the blood from his nose, he conceded that he might have to that this little punk more seriously. Quickly beginning hand signs for a jutsu he failed to finish as his opponents next move came far faster. Naruto flex his bandaged hand as it lit up in blue flames. The with a large plum of flames the scythes that made up part of the seal on his arm materialized, floating around him. Not giving Zabuza time to finish his jutsu he willed the blades forward.

"The fuck kinda jutsu is that" The missing-nin questioned to himself as he tried to evade the never-ending onslaught of flying scythes.

With a wicked gleam in his visible eye, Naruto mental directed the steel rain down upon his enemy. Never giving him a moment to catch his breath or to begin a jutsu of his own. Finally, the moment he was wait for present itself and with a swift jerk of his flaming hand his three weapons buried themselves into the man's flesh.

"Fuck, ya got me kid" Zabuza spat out from where he laid slumped against a tree.

The blades of his scythes were only shallowly embedded into a shoulder and his legs, not deep enough to threaten his life but more than enough to lose him the fight. Naruto said nothing as he walked up to the downed man and leaned over to whisper in his ear. Zabuza's eyes widened as he looked over to meet a glowing blue one. Before he could open his mouth a senbon made its way into his neck and he slumped over. Shortly after a hunter-nin appeared to retrieve his body but Naruto waved of any explanation.

"Take care of Buza-chan" he whispered so only he could hear.

The rest of the group walked to stand beside him and with little fan fair they continued their journey to Tazuna's house. Tazuna was keeping a good pace between himself and the silver haired genin.

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A short walk and the bridge builder's house appeared on the horizon. Tazuna hurried in front of the group to open the door and duck inside. A small scuffle was heard before he reappeared in the door was with a young woman. He bowed low at the waist and forced his companion to do the same.

"Welcome to my home might Leaf Ninja, this is my daughter Tsunami" He began in a humble tone "Please make yourselves comfortable"

"Guess Naru-chan had an effect on the old fart" Anko chuckled to Kakashi.

The woman made to demand answers from her father but a look from him said he'd explain later.

"Relax old man, you'll give yourself a heart attack" Naruto snarked at him as he walked up to the entrance to the house.

As he crossed the threshold an ominous atmosphere filled the house that could be felt by all. In the near by village a shift could be felt in the air, like a massive predator had just made the surrounding woods its home.

AN:

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