Author's note: Hey everyone here's the new chapter, I hope everyone enjoyed the last one and are ready for this new one! So read on and enjoy.

There was a decent sized clearing in the forest. It wasn't to big but it was tiny either, just enough room to be hidden but beautiful also, this is because it is one of the few areas the sun could actually shine on anymore. In the clearing was a meadow filled with all different varieties of plants and herbs. A young girl, no older than 13 or 14 was in the field carefully observing the plant life and picking what she needed out. It was late afternoon, and the girl seemed to be in a rush getting what she needed, she was grateful that she was alone, but then she heard her name.

"Haku" a voice said, the girls head quickly popped up, she was looking around in every direction. Where had the voice come from it confused her she didn't know if she was hearing things or not. She slowly formed an ice senbon just in case, than she felt a hand tap her right shoulder. She quickly acted and dropped low with a kick aiming for the attackers legs hoping to knock her opponent down. Her leg was caught and before she knew what happened she was on the ground restrained. "Haku you don't know me, but I know you and I'm here to warn you." She narrowed her eyes but had no choice but to listen as she stared at the blond boy who was in front of her, "Take Zabuza and leave Gatō, the man will betray you. I know of your's and Zabuza's predicament, you guys are actually the good guys trying to pay for a rebellion." Haku's eyes widened, how could this boy know so much, "If you don't believe me than tail Gatō because the day you guys go to fight the Konoha nin on the bridge, Gatō will send an army of cheap mercenaries to kill you guys while you're beaten and tired and cannot defend yourself. If you truly wish for Zabuza to gain his dream of overthrowing the Mizukage, than have him leave Gatō now and in 7-9 months time come to Konoha asking for recruitment." Naruto stopped for a moment before he continued, "I cannot promise anything but it's better than running from bounty hunters. If you have any questions unseal this scroll with Zabuza by you. There is one and only one Kage Bunshin in their after you talk to it dispel him by killing it and I will regain his memories. Also don't worry about your restraints when I'm far enough away they'll disappear on their own. Until next time" He said, he turned away to jump but she spoke.

"How do I know I can actually trust you?"

"I could have killed you at any moment and we both know it, I don't want to hurt you if I don't have to. I understand why you're and Zabuza, and where you're coming from, and I wish to help you both with freeing you guys and with helping you overthrow Yagura, because what he's doing is evil and wrong. Now I need to go, and I'm surprised you're getting herbs I didn't realize I hurt him that bad with my clones" Naruto said before disappearing. The girl widened her eyes when he said that, she knew the boy looked familiar but couldn't quite place it until now.

As soon as she was free from her restraints she took off as fast as she could, "I have to go see Zabuza-sama right away. He has to know about this." She thought before quickly sprinting off towards Gatō's compound. It didn't take long for her to get there and once she did she quickly jogged to her master's room. Once she was outside the room shwe quickly regained her composure. Haku quickly walked inside the room, she quickly walked to Zabuza and shook him to wake him up. "Zabuza-sama, please wake up this is urgent."

"Huh? Oh it's you what do you want?" He said as he turned his head to look at the girl. While on the outside he was mean to her he actually secretly cared for her, but he couldn't afford to be soft, if he was soft she would die.

"I met a boy today, he was with the konoha group he-"

"Is that all? You met a boy what? Let me guess you also have a crush also. If you have nothing important to report leave me to sleep." Zabuza said before closing his eyes.

"He could have killed me if he wanted to." She said, this shook the tall man fully awake.

"Was it the blonde!" He said with a voice that was cool and angry.

"Yes, and not only was he completely stronger than me he was faster and more experienced. He took me down without even trying," Zabuza's eyes narrowed, but Haku wasn't finished yet, "He's also highly adapted with seals. But that's not all, he knew my name. I didn't say a word to him but he restrained me, knew who I was and then said that Gatō was plotting to overthrow us when we finally attack the ninja group. He gave me this scroll with a kage bunshin of him in it, he said that when we have an answer to dispel this clone with said answer." she stopped hesitating for a second.

"What else did he say" Zabuza demanded of her.

"He said he understands why you want to overthrow Yugarua and is willing to help if he can. He knows Yugarua is evil" She said to finish off.

"I see… what did he mean by answer? Answer to what." Zabuza asked, Haku quickly took out a scroll.

"Oh sorry yes, he said that if we wish instead of attacking them, we could instead kill Gatō and take his money for our rebellion. He also said to come to Konoha in 7-9 months and their will be job positions available. I don't know how but he had so much information on us. He knows you're just trying to avoid Yugura until you get money for the rebellion how you found me everything, I don't know how... but for now I believe we should look into Gatō " She said.

"I guess it wouldn't hurt to much, make an ice clone and have it follow Gatō secretly and to report back to you if the clone finds anything. For now leave the scroll with the kage bunshin with me I'll tell you what I plan on doing later, for now I need sleep and you need to get me more medicine" and with that he tucked away the scroll and went back to sleep.

"Hyō bunshin no Jutsu" Haku whispered after going through a couple hand seals and a clone out of ice started to form quickly in front of her. "Follow Gatō and see what you can find out, report back to me when you get some news, if need be go through his personal files when he's not around." She said as her clone nodded and disappeared into the shadows.

The clone knew what she had to do but in all honestly she didn't want to. She quickly and silently took off through the palace looking for the man. "Ugh, it sucks to be a clone, it must be so nice being the original, but she's the boss so I gotta make the best of this as I can while doing my job. Thank god I can actually have a personality unlike boss, she can be so uptight" The clone thought to herself as she found Gatō fooling around with two girls close to her age.

"That's right ladies come here to your daddy, yea that's right you dirty fucking sluts" He said not caring about the underage girls he had with him.

"Please just finish up Gatō-sama" One said trying to hold back her tears as the other one was on her knees pleasing the man. Gatō ignored her pleading and slapped her before grabbing the girl who was on her knees and forcing her to take all of him. The girl started choking and coughing, but Gatō wouldn't stop or let up until he finally finished. The girl fell to the floor crying and coughing up the man's release trying to get her breath back. 'Haku' had to physically hold herself back from killing the man, "They're part of his sex slave that he sells… The bastard."

Gatō had his way with the girls for another 2 hours while Haku was helpless to do anything. Well not helpless, but it wouldn't be smart for her to do anything. While Gatō was with them though that gave her time to into the bastards office and look through his documents. She did find a lot of interesting things but nothing of great importance, except one thing she found the code to his bank account. She quickly wrote it down and hid it in her pocket before leaving to see if the bastard was done yet.

"You bitch" The little fat man said as he slapped the women to the floor. "How dare you talk back to me" He said as he got red in the face.

"I wasn't talking back, I just asked if we could take a break, my knees and back hurt so much." the women said as tears rolled down her face as she just wanted the pain to end.

"Just get the fuck out of here you slut, and your sister too" He said as the two quickly grabbed what little clothes they had and left the room. "Fucking sluts, at least they served their use" The man said with a little gleam in his eye as he chuckled to himself, "And eventually I'll get that Ice bitch to. I wonder how tight she is."

At this point the clone of Haku was livid, It was funny that even though she was a clone of her original self she had so little control over her emotions unlike her original self. All that mattered right now though was not killing this fat man, "If he ever tries to land a hand on me I will make sure that he will not live long enough to see anything but his insides become his outsides." Gatō, oblivious to the clone that wanted his death, proceeded to go to bed and she stayed in her perch waiting for something more to happen.

It was a quiet night and she also went to sleep, but only for a few hours, she awoke to Gatō getting ready for the day aka, she woke up to him yelling. "Wentch, where the fuck are my clothes at" the man said, angry his clothes for the day weren't ready yet.

"I'm sorry Gatō-sama, here they are right here" A woman said as she set them down before quickly scurrying out of the room.

The little businessman quickly put his suit on and then walked into the next room to get his work done for the day. Haku was bored having to watch the man but still listened to each of his phone calls because you never knew what was important. It wasn't long before the fat bastard made a phone call that pissed her off even more, "I got about 30 girls here right now, a couple of cute teenagers and the rest are some girls in their early twenties." He said with a grin, Haku didn't know what the other man was saying but Gatō seemed to like it. "All of them you say? The price will be hefty but if you're willing to come and get them I'll give you a discount, I won't be able to get them to you I'm having a little ninja problem and as soon as I'm done using mine I'll cut them free if you know what I mean" he said with a snicker.

Gatō waited a few minutes as he listened to the other voice speak before talking more, "Exactly what I mean hehe. As soon as they're done with we can proceed business as usual" Gatō said to the person on the phone with him. "How much do you want? Really that much! Ok be here in 3 weeks and they'll all be ready. Yes, yes all thirty will be in the best use for you I'll make sure no one touches them or uses them for you. Ok until next time" As soon as Gatō hung up his phone he giggled in joy before saying to himself, "That idiot is so overpricing these cheap whores Hahaha."

The Haku clone learned what she needed and quickly threw some ice senbon into Gatō's neck rending the man unconscious. Honestly she should have stayed longer to get more info but she couldn't stand the man anymore, so she quickly picked him up and left to report to the original. As Haku was walking around the compound that they were staying in she couldn't seem to find the original so she went straight to Zabuza. It didn't take but a few minutes for her to reach the room where her master was in. She quickly opened the door and shut it loud enough to wake Zabuza, when he saw her and Gatō he narrowed his eyes but let her speak. "I'm the clone not the original, I'm not sure where she is but I would assume out gathering more medicine for you. I found out what's going on, he does plan to end us after we fight the konoha nin and also… I insist you let me kill this scum" The clone said in a fit of fury, surprising Zabuza.

"I thought you knew better than to show emotion" Zabuza was blunt. He sighed before continuing, "It's ok I'll fix that later, for now I'll wait until the real you gets back here so we can go about this the right way, honestly I still want to fight that Kakashi, I haven't had a real fight in ages." Zabuza said as he stretched his arms and sat up, feeling for himself, he was ashamed to say he hurt himself fighting that blond brat.

"Well I only have emotions because I'm a clone so my personality changes a little bit, not much but enough for you to notice a difference also take this" She said handing him a slip of paper, "Those are the numbers to all his bank accounts along the coast" Haku said with a smirk.

The man raised an eyebrow, he was surprised that she did this, maybe he should reconsider on how he raises Haku. This clone was showing him a reason to let her enjoy the world more, with a soft expression he said,"Thank you for this information" Zabuza said before he decapitated the clone. Zabuza took the numbers and stored them in his pocket while he thought over what he needed to do.

The previous day..

As soon as Naruto gave Haku the last little bit of information, he left and headed back to the house. "She's smart enough to not fight me, and she needs to get back to Zabuza anyway." Naruto thought as he approached the house, Naruto saw Sasuke outside training, and as usual Sakura fangirling like an idiot over him.

Sasuke saw Naruto and glared at him as he walked by. "Who the hell do you think you are trying to be better than me!? I'm a fucking Uchiha and he's a clanless nobody!" the boy thought as he slammed his shaking fist into a tree nearby, cracking the wood a little bit. Naruto saw this and just kept on walking, he didn't feel like one upping Sasuke on that day, or at least not yet. Naruto was about to go inside until he remembered he was supposed to be helping Kakashi. The boy quickly used a shunshin to get away before the cyclops could spot him. As soon as he got enough away, he quickly started to sprint towards the bridge so as to help the man out. "I should really learn to do my dad's hirashin correctly, that would really come to help me" the blond thought to nobody.

"I told you to learn back when but nooo, you were already fast enough in my chakra cloak and since you could levitate you figured there was no need to learn it. Sure you learned a halfass way to do it, but it would eat up all your chakra, so you didn't need it" Kumara said to him, waking up from his nap with a big stretch.

"Oh shut up you! I didn't think I would need it, plus Sasuke could use his rinnegan to travel long distances anyways and if need be I could have him use that to help me get where I'm going, and when I could fly, I was easily fast enough to get where I needed to go. I didn't have the time to really learn it while being hokage!" He said back to his furry companion. He hurried to the bridge, picking up his pace but when he got there, he was bored. Nothing happened just business as usual. Tanzua was building his bridge, and the Kakashi and Naruto clone were keeping watch.

"Where did you go." A voice appeared behind Naruto said, the boy turned around quickly with a kunai before noticing that it was just Kakashi.

"I had some personal business, and I'd rather not say, not yet at least" Naruto answered. Kakashi stared at Naruto carefully, neither moved as the man figured out what he would do next, "Damnit Minato, he's too much like you and Kushina-sempai, I don't know what to do, I really should check and see what it is he did but at the same time he's loyal to the village… or at least he seems that way. He wouldn't purposely hurt the village would he? I wish you were still here sensei, I could really use your help on this." Kakashi verbally sighed, "You know I can pull rank on you" he said sternly.

"Yes that is true but you won't" Naruto said with a smirk.

"And why's that?"

"Because you trust me, that and I saved your life with Zabuza so you owe me." Naruto said with a grin as the man looked at before sighing again.

"I don't know how you know me so well but one day I will learn all of your secrets, for now I guess I'll do my duty to you and your parents and raise you to be a fine shinobi." "Just this once I will let this slide, but for now watch the area and make sure no enemies attack the bridge." Kakashi said to him before they both split up to sweep the area.

Naruto just made twenty clones and then walked up to Tazuna, "Hey old man do you guys need any help with the heavy lifting?"

"We could always use the extra help but I don't know if you are cut out for the job Naruto-kun. This job is for fully grown men and is very physically taxing" The man replied.

"Did you forget? I'm a shinobi and I can make masses of clones of myself that can easily die and not be missed, plus I'm a lot stronger than I look, just tell me where to go and where to bring what" Naruto said with a cheerful smile.

"I'll start you off small for now then, if it's too much, just let me know" Tazuna said and Naruto nodded before the man continued, "Well first we need more cement filling, go grab the bags over their next to the piles of steel and bring it to that machine over their" Tazuna said as he pointed to the large machine that was pouring cement over the steel to give extra strength to the foundation of the bridge.

Naruto made three clones who ran back and forth for the next ten minutes bringing every bag over to the machine while never tiring. For the rest of the day it was like that for Naruto and Tazuna. The old man would give Naruto job's that would tire out any of his men and the boy just kept going putting everyone to shame, Kakashi watched from afar at this with a smile. "Minato, god he's just like you, thank god he's like Kushina when it comes to fighting though, when he grows up I don't think anyone will be able to stand up to him." Kakashi thought to himself as he started to reminisce about being with his old team and the good times. When Kakashi finished reminiscing about his past he saw the sun was going down and everyone was packing up to leave, Kakashi was surprised at how much got done though. "You did good today Naruto" Kakashi and Tazuna said at the same time looking at the young boy in front of them who was busy meditating while his clones finished up their work.

Naruto was busy trying to get a feel for the natural chakra that was constantly flowing around him, he knew this was dangerous without being at Mount Myōboku but he needed to practice at least feeling it first. If he could feel it than he could spend time getting used to the chakra so when he did train to use it again he can get it down faster than work on expanding his use of sennin chakra so he can use more clones and hold much more chakra like the first hokage. Naruto suddenly felt two hands placed upon his shoulders, one on his right the other on his left, he heard Tazuna and Kakashi tell him "You did good today Naruto" and he smiled. Naruto quickly let go of the feeling of nature and stood up, "Anything to help you finish this bridge Tazuna-jiji. I know how important this is not just you for you, but everyone here in Wave." This made Tazuna smile in appreciation.

"You're a lucky kid, your parents must be proud to have a kid like you" Tazuna said with a smile. The mood instantly changed and Tazuna caught hold of this but didn't say anything as he didn't know what to ask.

"My… I don't know my parents" Naruto lied, "I'm an orphan, who was never adopted because everyone hates me" Naruto said as he started to remember the times from his childhood. He didn't know why but for some reason this seemed to bother him, Naruto started to feel cold and sad. Remembering all the hate he had received it felt brand new to him and Naruto couldn't take it he knew he had to be alone. "I'm sorry I … I can't do this I have to go" Naruto barely managed to mumble out.

Before Kakashi or Tazuna could stop him Naruto ran, he discreetly dropped his gravity weights to give him more speed, and ran. Naruto didn't know what was going on or why he was feeling this way. So faster than Kakashi could react he took off. Naruto was lucky he was almost as fast as lee with his weights off. Naruto didn't know where he was going but he was just running, running until he knew he was safe to let out his pain. He knew it wasn't good to bottle everything in but he never knew his mentality could just crash on him. He hated this pain he was feeling he just needed to be alone, he wanted to hurt something. The sky must have felt his emotions as the thunder started to clap and lightning flashed all around.

He just had all this pain. He hated everyone and everything but he hated himself also for how he felt. It just wasn't fair, why should he get all of this hate from everyone. He was a good guy, so why did everything happen to him. It just didn't make sense and he fucking hated it. He just had this fucking pit in his chest and he didn't get why he had to be the one to go through all of this. He hated Sasuke because everyone fucking loved him, but then he hated himself for thinking that way because it isn't fair to everyone else. Naruto grabbed his head and screamed as he kept running. He just needed to get all of this pain out. He could feel his chakra getting more volatile and he just unleashed it around him. It was pure wind chakra that flew out, it cut down trees, blew them away like a tornado, and just left a mess in its wake.

Naruto ran for a couple more miles in no general direction, just full speed through the woods not paying attention to where he was going. Before he could slow down or stop, the woods were gone and he was now running on open water, the ocean. Naruto just went with it because for some gut reason this felt right, and he was so emotional he couldn't think straight, not even Kurama tried to say anything, not like he could Naruto wouldn't let him form a connection. Naruto's eyes widened as he saw what was in front of him, "No no no no no no no no no no no no no… SHIT!" Naruto screamed as he was quickly swept under water, the force of the water holding him underwater, Naruto's lungs burning for air as he fought what was trying to happen but to no avail. He was kicking and screaming like a lost child, trying to force his way through the water, but he didn't even know at this point what direction he was going to. He was trying to force himself against the crashing waves, he didn't even know how far out he was, if anyone would find him ,"I can't die here! I have too much to live for, too much to stop… Save Sasuke… Hinata-chan…" Naruto started to see black, but before he passed out someone grabbed him and then all was dark.

The two walked into the house and solemnly the first said, "Don't worry about Naruto too much Tazuna-san, you didn't know, and he just needs to be alone for now, if he's not home by tomorrow night than I will personally go find him." Kakashi told Tazuna.

"Where's Naruto-baka" Sakura said smugly as she didn't see him enter the house, "Probably outside crying because he knows he's too weak to do anything."

That was the line for Kakashi. Before Sakura could blink she was on the ground as a humongous Kai was being directed at her from none other than her sensei. "That is enough Sakura! I'm tired of your bullshit, all you do is talk badly about your own teammate who puts in more effort than you and is stronger then both you and your precious Sasuke-kun. You are the weak link on this team and maybe if you trained instead of being a weak bitch you could maybe make a decent Shinobi. Naruto tells you this all the time so how about instead of acting like a spoiled brat you train, if you can't even try to better yourself as a shinobi then either quit or die. Remember when we were attacked by ninja on our way here? Who helped out? You? No it was Naruto. You need to stop putting him down, hell even Sasuke trains, him and Naruto both are strong, you could barely fight an academy student. You really need to reevaluate your life before you do die. Or worse even, you get someone killed for being in the way" Kakashi said finishing his rant. Sakura broke out in tears realizing everything her sensei said was right. She couldn't stand it and ran into a nearby room locking the door. Kakashi sighed, he didn't want to be biased or even be that harsh but she had to learn, he then looked up to Tazuna, "I'm sorry for my outburst Tazuna-san, Tsunami-san" Kakashi said solemnly.

"No worries Kakashi-san, she has been a bit of a spoiled brat the entire time she's been here, and honestly someone needed to give her a wake up call. I think she needed to hear that." Tazuna said, speaking up before his daughter could defend the girl. "I honestly don't get why kids are training to be shinobi."

"That's an easy answer Tazuna-san. Back in the old times, before Shinobi Villages, there was a waring time, clan vs. clan and anyone in the way would just die. In order to have stronger Ninja, clans would train their children at a young age and send them into battle by the time they were six. The tradition just kind of stuck around except when villages were formed they trained the kids a little more and longer so they weren't young kids going into battle. Yes they are still young but at the same time, the average peak for a Shinobi is twenty-five, so they need to start young if they really want to be strong. That's why starting age at the academy for my village is five years old. But when kids graduate and are given a Sensei, they aren't sent into life or death situations, they usually handle chores around the village to get teamwork down, and an occasional C rank to fight and or kill thugs. It's rare that a genin team, including this fresh out of the academy are fighting real ninja who are of chunin and higher rank. It's practically unheard of, that's why I was harder on Sakura then I should have been, because she needs to learn now that if she doesn't step up her game she will die, or watch everyone around her die while she's helpless to do anything." Kakashi said answering any question they could have asked.

It was silent for a few moments as no one knew what to say. Everyone kind of just let what was said sink in and process before anyone said anything more. Witha sigh Tsunami finally got up, "I'm going to go start dinner" and without another word just left for the kitchen.

Tazuna got up with a stretch and placed a hand on Kakashi's shoulder, "You're a good sensei, I believe you did the right thing, but make sure you help all of them the best you can don't just focus on one of them. Treat them as if they were your own and raise them right. Do that and I have no doubt things will work for the best."

Kakashi nodded, "You're right, I have been favoring" Kakashi made a clone to find Sakura and deal with her, "I should go make sure Sasuke didn't kill himself" Kakashi said before he dismissed himself and headed outside into the storm to look for his student.

Tazuna walked into the kitchen grabbing a 40 and opening it, happy he could help. He started to drink away the rest of the day as he smelled what his daughter was cooking. The man sat on the couch and for once enjoyed life.

Authors note: Everything big will happen next chapter, hope you enjoyed the chapter

Update date 08/26/19