Author's note: Hey guys back with a new chapter I hope you guys like it because things are gonna start changing soon, and we're gonna see how Naruto deals with it in this chapter and the next couple of chapters, anyways enjoy!
"Is he always this late?" Tazuna asked as he stood by the gate talking to Sakura.
"Yea" The girl replied as they stood there waiting while Sasuke brooded off by himself and Naruto was.. well to Sakura's shock he was meditating on top of the gate. She couldn't understand why but she was getting a very calm aura from looking at him and didn't want to bother him, he was so peaceful there were two birds sitting on him.
"I can finally feel the chakra in nature around me but as much as I would like to try, I know that I can't safely absorb it yet. My body isn't ready to handle it yet and I don't want to risk anything yet. But at least I can sense chakra signatures around me this is a start, and soon I will be able to absorb it once more. I just need to wait until I can see Fukasaku-sensei again, then I can start my real training" Naruto thought to himself as he opened his eyes and stood up. The birds fluttered off of Naruto and he turned his head, "Hey Kakashi-sensei good to see you're here, only about an hour late this time not to bad." Naruto said getting everyone's attention as the man hopped into view.
"Oh hey you noticed me" Kakashi said somewhat surprised.
"Yea, I've grown accustomed to your chakra signature, wasn't hard to realize you were close by" Naruto responded.
Kakashi stared Naruto down for a second, he wondered when Naruto started to sense chakra, though his father was good at it. The man shook his head sighing before eye smiling and saying, "Ok everyone let's go." He said as everyone fell into line and left the village, Tazuna leading the way.
"So how long have you been in the business for?" Tazuna said trying to start conversation with Kakashi.
"Well I started the academy when I was 4, graduated when I was 5 and became Chunin rank when I was 6, and I've been jounin since I was about 12. I've been a ninja for 20 years now I'm only 25." Kakashi said shocking the man.
"Why did you start so young? The life of a ninja is so dangerous I'm surprised these kids are ninja there only about 12 or 13." Tazuna said while everyone just stayed quiet listening attentively.
"Well when I joined we were still in the Third Great Ninja War. And I was a natural, a prodigy even. No one could stand up to me not even the infamous Uchiha clan genin and chunin could do much against me (Sasuke obviously got annoyed at this but bit his tongue saying nothing for the time being). My father was also a ninja and so I had a bit of a reputation to live up to which I more than fulfilled. I was put on Minato Namikaze's team or as you all may know him as the 4th hokage." Kakashi said catching everyone's attention now. "After he died I had lost everyone from my team.. My teammate Obito Uchiha died during a mission after that mission I had go bad. My other teammate, the women I didn't realize I had been in love with because I was blinded, she was also my second teammate Rin Nohra, I accidentally killed her during a mission about two months later. After that I had joined the Anbu Black Ops where after a couple years I became the Commander of my group." Kakashi said before he noticed he was rambling off, "Oh sorry I guess I went a little further than I meant to" he said scratching the back of his head.
After that everyone walked in silence doing there own thing for the next couple hours. Naruto decided to read his book, Sakura as usual just stared at Sasuke daydreaming about him, and Sasuke brooded while watching out for enemies. Kakashi also paid attention to what was going on around them and Tazuna just led the way and drank more saki. Naruto and Kakashi though were the only ones to notice the very unusual puddle that was in front of them. Kakashi kept quiet and decided that it was best for his students to handle the situation and he'll jump in if need be. Naruto this time would act quickly and end the two mist shinobi quickly.
"Now brother" A voice was heard and before anyone could act the three genin and Tazuna watched as Kakashi was 'Ripped to Pieces.' Sakura nearly fainted but then quickly took out a kunai and stood in front of Tazuna. Sasuke smirked ready to act, but before he could even move into position to attack Naruto was already moving forward with a clone at his side and not only engaged the two ninja, but killed one, his clone with a right place kick to the throat knocked the other one back. The clone dispersed and Naruto took to the offence on the one who was still alive. Sasuke was shocked to see Naruto engage so fast, and before he could run into help Naruto, the boy had already taken out one and was making quick work of the second one. "How is the dobe this strong.." Sasuke thought to himself as he stood there wide eyed just staring at Naruto.
Sasuke quickly made the hand signs for a fireball and shot the jutsu off. Naruto noticed what the boy was doing so with a quick movement he took out the mist ninja's knee and jumped back next to Sasuke as he was firing his jutsu, in less then a second Naruto was shooting off his jutsu also, "Futon: Great Breakthrough jutsu" Naruto said as he blew out a powerful gust of wind that enlarged the fireball so much all parties couldn't bear to look at the attack. By the time the fireball hit and exploded it was clear both mist ninja were burned to a crisp.
Sasuke took a hard look at Naruto as the boy stood there with a grin, he didn't know how to react to his first kill and Naruto was just chilling, "Whatcha looking at scaredy cat" Naruto said with a smirk as Kakashi jump down from the branches. "Thanks for hiding sensei, it was nice to finally get a fight even if it wasn't that good of one" Naruto stated to Kakashi as the man stood there looking at the boy whose face was half covered in blood from removing his own kunai out of the first nin's throat.
"Are you ok Naruto and Sasuke?" Kakashi asked the two boy's in front of him who were both reacting differently to the death of the shinobi.
"Yea why wouldn't I be fine?" Naruto asked slightly confused.
"Well… You did just kill two people.. You don't feel… Well anything?" He asked slightly worried for the boy.
"Kakashi you know about my erm… Condition." He said as the man nodded, "Well let's just say this isn't the first time I've had to kill not, in the long run but every time I have was from self defense." Naruto said as Kakashi just put a hand on Naruto's shoulder as so to comfort him slightly.
"What are you guys talking about, what condition does Naruto have that we don't know about?" Sakura asked confused.
Kakashi ignored her, "And you Sasuke? Are you okay?" Kakashi asked as the boy just nodded, Kakashi took it knowing the boy wasn't very open yet before he responded to Sakura's question, "Don't worry about it, it doesn't evolve you Sakura. The only person it affects is Naruto and it is his choice to tell anyone he chooses to." Kakashi said ending any talk about it there which got Sasuke slightly interested. "What is this mystery condition of the dobes that's so secretive even I can't know about it.." Sasuke thought to himself.
"Now Tazuna you will come with me for a little chat." Kakashi said as the man sighed and walked into the forest with him. The two were gone for awhile and Naruto knew what they were talking about so he laid down against a tree and waited for Kakashi to return. He was gone for about 5 minutes and then returned. "Ok guys let's go, we're going back to the village," he said and Sasuke was outraged immediately.
"What?! Why? We can't return now the mission has only just started" Sasuke said in anger.
"This mission is easily B ranked if not A. I talked it over with Tazuna and it seems like he left out some pretty important details" Kakashi stated as he stares down the man who just stood there scared.
Tazuna than said, "Please… You don't understand Gatō is an evil man, he's taken control of our country for our shipping routes and is an evil tyrant. His goonies rape our women and steal what small amount of money we have and then kills our people when he feels like it. Hell it took us almost a year to get the money required for a C rank mission we couldn't wait any longer we had to go with what we had. I'm sorry we lied but we have to finish this bridge. If we do our economy can flourish again and we can finally be rid of Gatō!" He said on his knees practically crying.
"We have to help him. I won't go back unless we do." Naruto stated not facing Kakashi.
"I'm with the dobe we need to help this man, if not for the money than at least for the experience. Hell than I can prove how much better I really am." Sasuke said smirking.
"If Sasuke-kun wants to continue then so do I!" Sakura exclaimed.
"You know we can't just leave him sensei, now come on let's go." Naruto said without even looking turned around and headed down the path.
"Are you guys really trying to go against my orders? I'm not going to sit back and watch you all die because of this man" Kakashi said, Naruto turned around and faced Kakashi.
"Kakashi I'm not going to just quit, and for once all of us are agreeing if you want to turn tail and go home you can, but the three of us aren't, now let's go Tazuna" Naruto said as he started to march out with Sakura and Sasuke nodding in agreement and following the boy.
Kakashi just sighed, "I guess you got your answer Tazuna, let's move out." Kakashi said as he started walking towards wave once more with Tazuna, catching up to Naruto.
The group walked for about another hour and a half before they reached a giant fog covered lake with a boat. "Ok I'll be right back I just need to let that man know we need a ride to the other shore after we get there it will only be about a half hour walk to my home." Tazuna said before walking over to the man. They talked for a few minutes and then Tazuna called them over, "Ok everyone climb in this gracious man has decided to give us a ride." Tazuna said as everyone got in and the man started to row the boat.
"No one can know we are on this river so everyone please remain quiet or get off my boat" The man said cooly. Everyone decided to sit in silence since they weren't aloud to talk and waited patiently to cross the lake. It didn't take long to get to the other side and they left giving the man a silent goodbye as he hurriedly left the shore heading back to the other side.
The group of people started walking to Tazuna's with the elder man sticking closely to Kakashi.
"Is that a white rabbit? That doesn't seem right" Kakashi thought to himself after Naruto had thrown a kunai into a bush scarring the woodland creature and making it run away. "Wait a second… white rabbit." "EVERYONE GET DOWN!" Kakashi screamed as he grabbed Tazuna and fell to the ground while Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura quickly sprawled onto the ground while the giant sword of Zabuza Momochi flew above them into and they watched as it embeds itself in the tree in front of them.
"Well, well looks like you little pests just barely got lucky" The man said as he stared them down.
"Momochi, Zabuza, A ranked criminal of the hidden mist charged with attempted murder of the Mizukage. Now what are you doing here?" Kakashi asked as he got a kunai out and ready to fight.
"Ah Kakashi no Sharingan how lucky I am to meet you. But get out of my way you're not the target the old man is." Zabuza said as he stared them down.
"Kakashi no Sharingan?! What does he mean by that Sensei isn't an uchiha. Does he have it!?" Sasuke thought to himself as he stared down Kakashi. "Well you see it's kinda my mission to protect this old drunk so I'm going to kindly ask you to go away" Kakashi said with a fake eye smile.
"I've wanted to fight you for a long time so this will be fun," Zabuza said with a smile before his hands moved faster than most could see, "Kirigakure no Jutsu (Hidden mist jutsu)." Zabuza said as the area become encased in a thick fog. Kakashi pulled up his headband to reveal the (not so secret) sharingan. "Ah so you're famous eye is coming out so soon? You must really like me to wish for your death to come sooner." Zabuza said before going quiet and hiding in the mist.
"Everyone be careful, Zabuza is a master of the silent killing technique, normally I would tell you to run but that would make it easier for him to kill you all. So for now stay close to me until we all see him."
"Eight points. The larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular vein, brain, kidney, and heart. All means of ending someone's life before they even know they're dead. I'll ask you first pinky" before anyone could turn around he whispered in Sakura's ear, "Which way do you choose to die."
Sakura screamed and in less than a second Naruto and Kakashi were on top of Zabuza fiercely attacking the man. Kakashi didn't have time to tell Naruto to leave as the boy was defending himself fairly well. Sasuke though quickly grabbed Sakura and Tazuna and left to safety. Naruto took out two Kunai to use against Zabuza's sword.
Zabuza quickly charged at Naruto smirking as he saw a quick kill, "Your time's up boy!" He screamed as he brought his sword down. Naruto effortlessly moved to one side and quickly jumped forward attacking with his kunai before Kakashi finally jumped back in to help.
"Naruto you need to get out of here this man is known as the demon of the mist and only I should be handling him right now." The man said as the two of them stared down Zabuza who was standing in front of them.
"But Sensei I can do this" Naruto said getting both men's attention, "Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" Naruto said quickly calling upon a lot of chakra and making roughly 400 clones which completely surrounded the area. Naruto then whispered to Kakashi, "Come on, let's get out of here before he kills them all, Grab Tazuna and we can regroup somewhere." Naruto said as Kakashi looked at him for a second before nodding and the both of them quickly disappeared.
"What?! Oh hell no you're not getting away from me Sharingan no Kakashi!" Zabuza said while charging through the clones who were doing well holding off against the man. Not that well though, they were clones.
Kakashi and Naruto got away though, fairly easily with the amount of clones there. Including that the clones would make clones if they were running low, they had more than enough chakra. Kakashi and Naruto easily found Sasuke, Sakura and Tazuna. "Tazuna I'm going to have to carry you on my back, we're going to get out of here fast and I will need you to tell me how to get to your house from here." Kakashi ended as Tazuna got ready to go.
"I'll tell you now. I live about a kilometer north and about half a kilometer to the right of that. We aren't that far from my place." Tazuna said as Kakashi nodded and picked the man up piggy back style.
"These goddamn clones won't end and are getting on mY LAST FUCKING NERVE!" Zabuza yelled as he kept cutting through the endless hordes of naruto who were now in the thousands. "Water style: Water Fang Bullet" Zabuza yelled as he quickly flew through a series of 15 hand seals before slamming his hands down and the lake of water behind him shot forward into deadly sharp spikes destroying the clones in the hundreds. "I swear to god I will murder all of you" He said as he started swinging his sword again killing more and more.
"We know we're just a distraction that will take you a while to get past!" The clones all said before making the hand seal again.
"God dammit not again." Zabuza muttered as he put his sword out and took out two kunai so as to move faster.
"Taju Kage Bunshin No Jutsu" They all yelled again making a couple hundred clones.
"Kakashi sensei."
"Yes Naruto?"
"If we meet Zabuza again I'm fucked." He said.
Kakashi chuckled, "Why Is that?"
"He held my last clone down and personally said that he will "Slowly torture me" before stabbing my clone in the eye with a kunai" Naruto said as everyone just looked at the boy.
"Naruto he will have to get through me and I will not let that happen, Don't worry we will train, but at the house and let's leave that for tomorrow." Kakashi said.
"Hai sensei" the three gennin said simultaneously.
When the group arrived at the house they all walked in with Tazuna in lead, "Father your home" A beautiful woman in her late twenties said as Tazuna walked in.
"Yes and I'm fine thanks to these leaf ninjas who have decided to help us beat Gatō. I hope this isn't too much but would you mind making a small meal Tsunami." He asked his daughter letting everyone in the area aware of her name.
"Hai father, it will be no trouble for the ninja who saved your life." She said before leaving and getting started on some soup.
"So what's the plan Kakashi-sensei." Sasuke said, practically demanding an answer.
"Well since Naruto seems to have an ungodly amount of chakra he will have twenty clones at all times watching the perimeter while I teach you all a new trick, I know I said we would train tomorrow but after some thought to it I have decided to teach you this now so you three can get a head start on training. Now you three follow me outside. Tazuna if you need anything we will be right out back." Kakashi said before he and his three students walked outside and around the house to go learn some hell.
"Should I make the clones now Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked as soon as they walked out the front door.
"Yes and if any of them are dispelled for any reason tell me immediately." He said sternly as naruto quickly made the clones who ran out to go watch the perimeter in groups of two. "Ok this technique I'm going to teach you is a training step to help you control your chakra better and will in time help you learn more jutsu since your control will be higher. It's called tree climbing, and before any of you ask, no I do not mean like a monkey now watch me." He said and then headed towards a tree and started to walk up the tree. "All you need to know is that you have to concentrate chakra to the soles of your feet, to little and you will fall to much and you will blast away like a rocket." And with that he left for them to train.
Naruto though ran straight for Kakashi and caught him before he left the clearing. "Sensei, I can already do this" and to demonstrate Naruto sprinted at a tree and ran to the top without a second thought. He then jumped down and landed by Kakashi. "I was wondering if since I can do this if you can teach me some wind jutsu since I seem to have a strong affinity for it and can already use the Great Breakthrough jutsu." Naruto said to the man.
"Yea I saw you using that Justu earlier with Sasuke" Kakashi took a moment to think, "Ok I want to see how far you've come with it. Sakura, Sasuke you two stay here and train, Sakura this will come easy to you due to your low reserves of chakra so once you master it keep walking up and down on the tree to raise your reserves. Sasuke once you finish, do the same until you're fairly confident with the tree walking exercise. Naruto and myself will be quite a ways up so as to not disturb you two" Kakashi said to his students. Sasuke was upset and vowed to quickly learn this move. Kakashi and Naruto left and quickly found a clearing of their own.
Once they found a good area to train in piece Naruto smirked and quickly flew through the hand seals at an amazing rate and yelled out, "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough" And then exhaled an amazing amount of wind towards the woods.
Kakashi to say the least was utterly amazed at what happened. He was expecting a poorer excuse version of the advanced jutsu but the result shocked him. The clearing in front of him was completely destroyed. "You can already use this at a jounin level, how far have you gone Naruto and what more do you need. It's clear you will be one of the strongest ninjas in the village at the rate you're going." Kakashi thought to himself utterly amazed at the boy.
Sasuke who could clearly see what was happening was seething with rage. "Who does that dobe think he is learning strong and advanced jutsu that I should be learning." The boy thought pissed that Naruto was showing himself to be more advanced then he had let on. Sasuke looked at the tree in front of him and decided that before the night was over he will have scaled to the top of the tree and mastered this technique. He looked over at Sakura and saw that she had already reached halfway up before she stopped at a branch to rest. He backed up a few steps and then sprinted towards the tree and got about fifteen feet up before his concentration fell which made him fall to the ground. He couldn't even get a quarter of the way up yet, he punched the tree, "Dammit! I swear I will not leave this clearing until I have climbed this tree" Sasuke promised himself as he got back to work.
"Yea I think I have a Jutsu for you" Kakashi said to Naruto as they walked away.
"What is it sensei!" Naruto asked excitedly.
"Fuuton: Seijitsu Kaze-ken (Wind Style: Faithful Wind Blade)" Kakashi said.
"But sensei I don't use swords how would this work for me?" Naruto asked him slightly confused since he's more of a straightforward attacker not a sword user like Sasuke eventually will be.
"Ah But that's the catch. You don't need a sword take this Kunai for example." He takes out one of his few Kunai and his sharingan, "Now this is harder for me since wind isn't an affinity of mine so watch closely." Kakashi said and concentrated for a minute.
"I don't see or feel a difference sensei." Naruto said confused as to what is supposed to be happening.
Kakashi didn't say anything but instead swung his Kunai like a sword at a tree that was about 3 feet away. What happened surprised Naruto, the tree completely cut in half and fell to the ground. "What you need to do is focus your wind chakra through the blade, any blade of your choice and your blade will increase 10 feet but gain no weight since wind is so light. Imagine your wind chakra going through the blade, sharp and powerful, and trust me this will be useful for you when you get good enough you will be able to activate the jutsu like tree walking, it will be second nature." Kakashi said with an eye smile, "But be careful you can't use this jutsu for to long on normal kunai because normal kunai aren't made out of chakra conducting metal. So a regular kunai will eventual just snap in half from the wind chakra going through it. But I believe in you, so you go have fun with that, Ja ne" he said disappearing in a poof of smoke.
Naruto grinned, "Taju Kage Bunshin No Jutsu" he yelled making 200 clones. "Ok everyone time to start training, I want one Fifty of you practicing the Tatsumaki Rendan (Tornado barrage) and the rest of you practicing Fuuton: Seijitsu Kaze-ken (Wind Style: Faithful Wind Blade)." Naruto yelled out as his clones yelled out 'Yosh' and ran off into the woods to get to work. The cones working on the Tornado made sure to run deep into the woods where they wouldn't be disturbed at all, the real Naruto meanwhile went off to go work out physically since his clones can't. He started with a small two hundred laps around the lake that was by the house.
"Minato and Kushina would be proud of you Naruto-san" Kakashi thought to himself as he watched the boy start working harder even after sending his clones to go and work also. "Even if the council is restricting me on how I train you in the village they can't stop me from making you one hell of a ninja outside the village. And if Jiraiya doesn't get here soon I'm teaching you the rasengan. Heh… it's only fair to learn your father's jutsu." Kakashi thought to himself as he watched over the boy while a clone watched Sasuke and Sakura in silence also.
"I promise that I will be better and stronger this time. Don't worry Hinata-chan I will protect you, nothing and no one will stop me from making sure I keep you alive." Naruto thought to himself as he picked up his pace running around the lake. Naruto was done being weak, it was about time he took things into his own hands, and that started by getting stronger, a lot stronger. So with rejuvenated determination Naruto quickly got set at his goal.
Author's note: And that's the chapter guys. Not a lot happened but the next chapter will be more action packed. I promise to give you guys only the best even if that's not good enough right now it can only get better. Well anyways hope y'all enjoyed and don't forget to review!
Fix date 6/16/2019