Welcome back for another installment, in this one I'll cover quite a bit of the next arc which you guessed it, is the journey to the wave.
Before we start I'll have Naruto take it away.
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"Human Talking" / "Demon Talking"
'Human Thinking' / 'Demon Thinking'
"Jutsu/Spell"
=====Enjoy, ready break!=====
"Red fox in position"
"Ice queen in position"
"Scarlet Fairy in position"
"Pale flower in position, target is 15 meters away."
"Scorpion in position"
"Fishcake in position" 'Dammit Hikari' 'You lost the bet love'
"Flower what's the position of the target?"
"Target is closing in 10 meters queen"
In the middle of a forest clearing a small black cat with a ribbon on its ear was attracted to a fish sitting right on the ground. It started to partake in said meal enjoying the small random fish, but couldn't shake that something was...fishy. (a/n: kill me later)
"Target is on site!" "Now!" Team 8 jumped surrounding the cat, jumping in the air to avoid capture it was caught off guard when Naruto game out from the tree and tackled it. He held the cat in his arms before backing his face up to avoid getting his face sliced in two. "This is the cat alright, red ribbon on its ear and tries to rip your face off." Naruto said annoyed by its' attempt at trying to scratch him.
Kurenai sighed "Alright then let's go back to the Hokage and report a success."
=====The Hokage Tower: Hokage's office====
"Oh thank goodness you returned my beloved Tora to me! Tora never run off again mommy was worried about you." Said the Fire Daimyo's wife who was currently squeezing the cat. 'Suffer' was the thought of a certain blond ninja. The Hokage looked down at his mission scrolls while Iruka was there collecting the returns.
"Now your next available missions are supply delivery, taking care of ninja dogs with the inuzuka clan, ther-" Naruto slammed his fist down "Enough with the D-ranks grandpa hokage, give us something real!"
"Naruto these missions are things best suited for your level, as genin until you meet the requirements you can't take any c-ranks yet!" Iruku said irritated at the genin.
"Well then when will we get one, we've trained hard in the past month!" Naruto then had a glaring match with Iruka until the silence was broken "Give it to them." They stared at the Hokage with confusion "What/Ehh?" "Give them a C-rank mission, only if their senseis allow it." He said looking at Kurenai and Erza and they nodded. "Alright then, you have an escort mission to the Land of Waves. The bridge builder Tazuna wants you to bring him back to the land of waves and wants you to guard him on the bridge."
A man stumbled in who appeared to be partly drunk and looked at them. "This is my team? They look like they couldn't get out of a wet paper bag, and who's the blondie with the grin on his face, are you sure he's a ninja."
Konoha West Gate one hour later
"No for the tenth time, you can not beat up the bridge builder this is not what our mission is, we need to help him finish his bridge Naruto." Erza said as she walked besides him with Hikari to the west gate. The trio had to go back to their estate to gear up, it turns out that Jellal also had a C-rank mission to go on, so they all left on their own time. Naruto wearing his signature 'nine' trench coat with a backpack a few scrolls and his sword he got from Hikari. Hikari was dressed in a full red and black Anbu outfit with another sword on her back and carried a few scrolls with her.
Now they were headed to the west gate where they would meet up with the other members of Team 8 and their client Tazuna. Kurenai smiled and looked at her team, "Alright everyone our mission to the wave begins now, I'll take lead Naruto and Hinata you two in the front, Shino and Hikari take sides, Erza will be with me. She said as they headed out."
This was their first C-rank mission, and now all the gloves had to come off, it's their first time truly outside of the village and they needed to be careful, they needed to be alert, they needed to be…
'You should ask Hinata out Naruto'
Apparently shipping each other to pass the time as they traveled at civilian pace. Meanwhile Naruto almost tripped and fell.
'Wh-what Hikari what are you talking about!?' 'Hey you know just as well as I do that she likes you' 'Does she really, I mean yea she's cute but isn't she out of my league' 'Hey I'm just saying, if word gets out that you are related to The Fourth they'll put you under the CRA and you and I both know what will happen then.' Naruto then shivered, he knew it way to well….fangirls. 'Well when we stop for a break ask her out, alright?'
'Got it.'
Close to wave country border
"We'll be coming up soon to the border of wave, there should be a boat we can cross in." Tazuna said as the continued down their path. They eventually passed a puddle but that was something that tipped Kurenai off, 'It hasn't rained in days though, how could ther-SHIT!'
She turned around to see two mist-nin with slashes on their headbands coming full speed at tazuna they had two metal gauntlets with a chain, Immobilize and eliminate. "Protect the builder!" Naruto and Hinata stepped in front of the builder and Hikari rushed at the two unsheathing her sword going after their chain but one she thought she has it pinned she was wrong it detached.
However they had to split and into their plan B, they went to flank them on the sides of their formation. "DIE!" Hinata activated her byakugan and took the gentle fist stance. "Eight Trigrams Sixty Four Palm guard!" He was caught in her trap, with speed she drew up her protective barrier and the chunin had all his tenketsu sealed and the man was blown back and was knocked back into a tree effectively knocking him out.
Shino set out a wave of bugs to surround the other one as a screen and Naruto came from above and kicked him in the face. This single chakra powered kick knocked him out.
Kurenai opened her bingo book in shock as the two are tied up. "Tazuna those were the demon brothers, they're two B-rank chunin nukenin. Tell me now why were they after you, you're mission report said that we would only have bandits." He was taken back under the KI that was sent his way.
"L-look I can explain, My village we use to be happy and wonderful town but then a man by the name of Gato came in and drained us dry, he closed all of our ports and monopolized on our town, we have no food, no money. So I started to building a bridge, that way his shipping service won't be needed, but I knew this was directly defying him and would no doubt put a price out for my head. So I said lied to lower the cost of the mission."
She sighed, "I'm afraid we'll have to turn back this is now considered an A-rank mission."
"Sensei wait, you saw how we handled the trouble with the demon brothers right now we can take them with us to learn what we can, after that we can send them to the Hokage." Naruto said confidently hoping he could convince her.
"Naruto this mission is out of our league now, we-" "Just took on two chunin and won is it really out of our league." Erza was about to add but couldn't fight with that logic. Kurenai sighed, he did have a point there. If it was that hard they wouldn't do what they just did. Also things like this happen as a ninja so they might just have to get used to it. "Who thinks we should continue the mission." The rest of Team 8 raised their hands. "Alright, Tazuna you have a place we can stay in wave right." He nodded "At my house, it's not too far after we cross."
"Lets wake these two up see what we can get from them and continue."
2 hours later
After taking a break to eat and waking up Gozu and Meizu the demon brothers, they found out that Gato hired quite a lot of people, he also has a compound off from the wave but close enough to travel fast. Among them was Zabuza Momochi they said they left wave with him to assist in taking out the Fourth Mizukage who started the civil war on bloodlines, in their team Naruto and Hikari showed the most disgust.
Erza looked at Naruto who was showing signs of deep thought before he nodded off to Hikari. Here it came Naruto's special ability. "Alright then...here give me a minute." He opened up a scroll and wrote into it. Before closing int backup and walking towards them whispering. "Don't let go of this scroll or I can't promise anything, treat it like your life." They nodded and looked at him. "Summoning Jutsu" a fox the side of a small horse with 3 tails appeared in front of them shocking everyone save Hikari and Erza. "Naruto-sama how may I help you." "Take these two to the Hokage and give him this scroll, don't forget you can't be seen inside the village, only by the Hokage" Passing off another scroll he held it out for the summon that took it in it's mouth and picked up the two before running off to the hidden leaf.
"Alright let's go." He said as he got back in formation with the others giving them quite the shock as they continued on. "Naruto what was that summon from earlier I've never seen anything like it?" She asked as they walked on to the wave. "It's a special summoning contract I can't tell you much about sorry Kurenai-sensei"
'It couldn't be a contract for...for 'it' … could it?'
Crossing into wave
"Wow this place is huge." Naruto said wide-eyed. "Yes but we also have to keep quiet, so we're not detected" As they reached halfway they turned off the motor and continued by paddle to shore. "This is as far as I can take you, good luck Tazuna." Tazuna replied to the man with a simple nod before they started walking off.
As they continued off into the wave country they walked for about a mile before anything really happened. Which was Naruto throwing a kunai at a bush to find, a bunny.
"Naruto calm down we need to keep an eye on the builder." Erza said scolding her son as she went to grab the bunny. 'wait a minute' Hikari's eyes stared at the rabbit. "Sensei that rabbits fur is white, but it's coat should be brown?" Erza looked at in and a swish was heard in the distance. "GET DOWN!" they dropped to ground Erza pulling Naruto, while the rest of Team 8 dropped down Hinata and Hikari pulled the bridge builder down with them as a big cleaver style sword flew over them and lodged itself into a tree. On top of it was the person they knew was with Gato.
"You're Zabuza Momochi the demon of the bloody mist." Kurenai said glaring at him. He smirked, "The genjutsu mistress of the hidden leaf the apparent Ice Queen Kurenai Yuhi. Heh this just got interesting."
Getting in formation Naruto and Hikari drew their swords and stood in front of Tazuna with Hinata and Shino taking place behind him. They were ready, Zabuza looked at Erza not know who she was but decided to take caution. Water style: Hidden Mist Jutsu the area was clouded in a thick mist obscuring their vision and made them even more on guard. "Larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular, subclavian artery, kidneys, heart these are 8 spots that cause death. How about we see how that feels." Right now shino was shook and Hinata looked like she was about to pass out, the killing intent was way too much for them. They didn't know how much more they could take.
"Take this!" before they could react because of the mist, Kurenai was knocked back and fell into a lake. The missed disappeared and revealed there was two of Zabuza now. "Water style: Water Prison Jutsu" She was taken up into the Jutsu and was trapped. "Erza quick leave with the bridge builder!" She asked her, she wanted her team to be safe. "No I won't leave my comrade here to die!
Naruto took her side "Mom you don't have to do this alone, I'll be with you." Unsheathing the sword that Hikari gave him, Naruto readied in a stance to fight, it was the demon claw kenjutsu style. He looked at his mother as they stood together ready to take on Zabuza. "To free Kurenai-sensei we need to get to the original." Naruto had said looking for any openings which didn't look good.
"Naruto get ready." Erza put a foot back, Naruto then looked straight ahead at the clone and rushed. Their swords clashed, the strength of the clone was just that of Zabuza himself. Naruto unleashed an onslaught trying to distract the clone when Erza came in with an overhead slash. This fight was going to be quick, or so they thought. Charging chakra into his feet to increase his power he kicked Naruto it the chest to knock him back before Erza came down on him. "Hidden Mist Jutsu" the clone ran through hand signs and the same mist flooded through. "Not this time!" Naruto got into a defensive stance and started to glow. "Requip" into his Blood Shadow armor.
Flying up into the sky he went through hand signs "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough" It didn't clear out the fog but was good enough so he could see the Zabuclone's location. With that he dropped to the ground bullet diving to land an attack on it. The attack was successful the quake generated no only his the clone be disrupted the mist. When they could see Naruto it was amazing, he had a chest plate on with gauntlets and leg armour, on his back were two bat like wings the Kanji for 'Shadow' on the back in silver while the main color of his armor was crimson red and the lining tint was black.
"That hurt you bitch" and I'll make you pay!" The clone sped through hand signs and before the could respond he was done. Erza stood back and looked at Kurenai as she looked like she was struggling and went after the main Zabuza while Naruto dealt with the clone. "Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu" The dragon came crashing down at Naruto before he could move and crashed him into a tree. Naruto tried to get up but was hurt. Naruto saw the clone "REST IN PIECES!" The clone brought his sword up to kill Naruto but stopped when a sword pierced through his chest. "Don't fuck with my boyfriend bitch." with that the turned into water to reveal Hikari.
She picked him up to safety and watched as Erza and took the offensive on Zabuza forcing him to break the jutsu on Kurenai. "This isn't over yet!" He said jumping on to the lake. Running through hand signs he did another jutsu "Hikari take my chakra!" Naruto nodded and not before long He started to glow red "N-naruto what are you-!" "MAKE A FIREBALL!" Hikari with boosted speed ran through the signs and Zabuza finished his' "Water Style/Fire style: Giant Vortex Jutsu/Fireball Jutsu!" the two Techniques clashed creating a mist, but as elements are, fire loses to water, the blow they suffered wasn't bad. Team 8 was soaked and Erza broke the fall of Kurenai but was able to get up. Zabuza got back on land and sped after Erza and Naruto's eyes widened. "Pierce" a white light blazed from Naruto's sword and made hit with Zabuza, already feeling a drain from giving Hikari chakra and taking a Water Dragon to the face, Naruto did no more than force him back blasting him a few feet.
Erza walked over to Zabuza getting ready for a killing blow when he was struck in the neck with 3 senbon. He appeared to be down, "I'm sorry for the trouble I've been hunting him down for a while." A masked ninja with a rain headband came down. Hikari went over to Erza to see his body.
"Who are you?" Hikari asked knowing that mask seemed familiar. "A ninja from Kirigakure no sato looking for Zabuza momochi you have helped me find him. Thank you for your service." With that the hunter-nin took the body of Zabuza and disappeared. Meanwhile Naruto had seen things through a link they had shared. Getting up Hinata and Shino with the bridge builder walked to Kurenai and Erza, Hikari went to pick up Naruto.
"Naruto are you okay? That was the level two technique of the sword." She said calmly looking out for her boyfriend's well being. He sighed trying to walk with her, "Oh yeah you know me I can take on anything. I'm gonna be the next hokage ya-know."
The joke was light but didn't end on a happy note as he passed out from exhaustion.
"Naruto."
No response
"Naruto"
…..
"Fuck"
======End 6======
Hey guys Fox hear and I hope you enjoyed my latest chapter. Sorry this "re-write isn't much of something but it's a start. Hopefully things get better!
