4: Hiraishin no Akito vs Kiri no Akuma!
Suiren Uzumaki: The disclaimer: I do not own Naruto cause if I did then Sakura wouldn't be a useless fan girl in pre-shippuden and Naruto would have his Father's smarts while keeping his Mother's personality and knows about seals and how to use to them. I do, however, own Akito Senju. Remember to Read and Review to let me know what you think. Also if you don't like any twist that I might make then stop reading and find something else to read plus don't leave a review that's a flame or I will find a way to block you. Ja ne!
...My Line...
Squad 7 and their client was setting in while the driver rowed while the Senju looked around as he stretched out his sensory ability as the fog thicken around them while looking worried about the mission while also listening.
"This fog is so thick," Hinata whispered. "You can't see anything."
The silence passed by for a few minutes till the driver spoke up.
"The bridge isn't far now," they were told. "Your destination is just ahead: the Land of Waves."
Akito just stared out at the fog till she heard Naruto.
"WOW! It's huge!"
The silver hair Jonin turned to look at Naruto with an annoyed look on his face.
"What! Quiet! I told you no noise!" the guy whispered angrily. "Why do you think we're traveling like this huh? Cutting off the engine and rowing; moving through the dense fog, so they don't see us."
The Jonin looked over at Tazuna.
"Mister Tazuna, before we reach the peer I want to ask you something...The men who are after you, I want to know why. If you don't tell us, I'm afraid I'll have to end this mission when we drop you ashore."
"Hmm...I have no choice, but to tell-" he began. "No, I want you to know the truth. Like you said this beyond the scope of the original mission. The one who seeks my life is a very short man who cast a very long and deadly shadow."
"A deadly shadow?" the adult Ninja asked. "Hmm...Who is it?"
"You know him," Tazuna started. "At least I'm sure you heard his name before. He's of the wealthiest men in the world. The shipping magnet named Gato."
The 26-year-old eyes widen when he heard the name.
'I heard about him before thanks to Obito,' he thought. "Gato? Of Gato transport? He's a business leader, everyone knows him."
"Who, who?" Naruto asked. "What, what?"
"Gato-" Tazuna began. "Is a very powerful tycoon from a famous company, that's true, but below the surface, with the same ruthless methods he use to take over business and nations, he sells drugs and contraband using gangs and ninjas. It wasn't till a year ago when Gato set his eyes on the Land of Waves. He came to our island and used his vast wealth to take control of our transport and shipping. Anyone, who tried to stand in his way simply disappeared. In an island nation a man, who controls the sea, controls everything. Finance, government, our very lives, but there is one thing he fears; the bridge. When it's complete, it will join us to the main land and that will break his control. I'm bridge-builder."
"So that's it," Hinata stated. "Since your in charge of the bridge you're standing in this gangster's way."
"That means the guys we fought in the forest, they were working for Gato," Sasuke piped in.
'Sasuke is right about that,' Akito thought. "I don't understand. If you knew he was dangerous and knew he would send ninjas to eliminate you, then why did you hide it from us?"
"Because the Land of Waves is a small impoverish nation," Tazuna answered. "Even our nobles have little money. The common people, who are building this bridge, they can't pay for an A or B-rank mission. It's to expensive."
"You could have told the Hokage the truth and an agreement for payment could have been arranged for when the Land of Waves got back onto it's feet," the Senju pointed out. "We're not unagreeable like other villages, who would have demanded the payment right then and there."
"Akito-Sensei is right," Hinata agreed. "You would have been assigned Jonin rank shinobi if you had been truth from the word 'Go'."
The other two members of Squad 7 nodded their heads as both the Senju and Hyuuga had started to pound politics into their heads since being a team.
"I see," the old man sighed as he closed his eyes before opening them and looked at the silver hair Jonin. "Well, if you end the mission when you drop me ashore there will be no bridge. They'll assassinate me before I reach home...But, don't feel bad about that, of course my sweet little grandson will be upset. He'll cry 'Granddad! I want my Granddad!'." The Senju raised an eyebrow at him as he continued. "Oh, and my daughter will condemn the ninja of Konoha, denouncing and blaming for abandoning her father and life her life in sorrow. Ah well, it's not your fault, forget it."
Everyone by then were looking at each other with surprise written on their faces.
"Well, I guess we have no other choice," the Jonin sighed while scratching at his forehead protector. "We'll have to keep guarding you."
"Oh, I'm very grateful," Tazuna told him before turning around to the driver and gave him the peace sign. 'I win.'
"We're approaching the shore," the driver told them. "Tazuna, we've been very fortunate, not one's noticed us so far."
"Nice going," Tazuna complemented as they passed through a tunnel.
Once they reached the shore and get out Tazuna turned to the boat driver.
"That's as far as I go," the driver told him. "Good luck."
"Right," Tazuna nodded. "Thank you for taking such a risk."
"Just be careful," the driver stated before leaving.
Tazuna turned to face them once the driver was out of sight.
"Okay, take me to my home and I mean get there in one piece."
"Right," the Senju agreed. 'The next person to attack won't be Chunin, but Jonin.'
They all turned and started walking not aware of being watched or well, the Genins and the client weren't aware, but the Jonin was.
...My Line...
The Senju looked around as they walked through the forest while Naruto started throwing kunais into bush.
"Over there!" Naruto yelled while throwing a kunai. "It was just a mouse."
"Naruto, please be careful?" Hinata asked worried.
"Naruto those are kunai knives, they're dangerous," Akito told him.
"STOP TRYING TO SCARE ME YOU SCRUMPY LITTLE DWARF!" Tazuna yelled at him, but he was not listening to them.
"Hey, is someone hiding over there?" Naruto asked as he looked about and then he throw a kunai in a bush again. "No they're over there! Hey, hey, huh, huh." Akito walked over to the bush where Naruto throw the kunai after slamming his fist down on the boy's head. "What? Why'd you do that for?. Naruto rubbed his head where he hit him. "Someone really is following us, I mean it."
"Please quit lying Naruto?" Hinata asked as both her and Naruto both walked over were the Senju was looking at a rabbit that was twitching from it's near death exercise. "Naruto! How could you?! Look what you did!"
The Uzumaki ran up to the rabbit and hugged it to death while making a fool of himself.
"Ah, a rabbit! Ahh! I'm sorry little rabbit, I'm sorry."
'That's a snow rabbit and their only white in the winter...' the Jonin thought as she listened to the others.
"All this fuss over a rabbit?" Tazuna asked.
'Unless-' he start to think before his eyes widen. "Look out!" Everyone then hit the ground as a huge sword went over their heads and embedded itself into a tree and when they looked up they saw a man standing on the sword looking at them. "Zabuza Momochi, rouge ninja of the Hidden Mist Village." The Senju looked up at Zabuza as Naruto ran forward, but was stopped by his Jonin Sensei, who looked pissed. "Your in the way. Get back."
"But, why?" Naruto asked.
"He's not like those other ninjas," Akito answered. "He's in a whole other league. If he's our opponent, I'll need this." He closed his eyes while channeling Chakra to them. "This could be treacherous."
"Hiraishin no Akito, did I get that right?" Zabuza asked for the first time when he noticed the Senju.
Sasuke eyes had widen at what he heard while Naruto looked at his honorary Brother in surprise.
"It's too bad, but you'll have to hand over the old man."
"Now Quick!" Akito yelled. "Monji Formation! Protect the bridge-builder! And stay out of this fight! I taught you teamwork, now it's time to use it." The Senju snapped his eyes opened to reveal his Sharingans. "I'm ready."
"Well, well," Zabuza started. "Looks like the rumors are true. A Senju with the Sharingan eyes and I get to see then in action. This is an honor."
"Well, someone please tell me what a Sharingan is?" Naruto yelled in question
"Sharingan," Sasuke started. "Is a rare power that resides within the eyes. The user of this visual jutsu or Doujutsu can instantly see and comprehend any Taijutsu, Ninjutsu or Genjutsu and reflect the attack back the attacker. The Sharingan is a special and rare form of Doujutsu. However there is more to the Sharingan then that. A lot more."
"You got it right boy," Zabuza told him. "But, you only scratched the surface. The Sharingan can analyze an opponent's technique and then copy it to the smallest detail." Sasuke glared at Zabuza for telling him about something that was his birth right. "As for you Jonin, in the assignation unit of the Hidden Mist, we had a standing order to flee at the sight of you, Akito Senju. Your profile was in our BINGO book. It called you the man of the Flying Raijin, Hiraishin no Akito. Your own profile in the BINGO book calling you the Second coming of Konoha no Kiiroi Senko better known as Konoha no Gin Shi Senko."
"Wow, that's so cool!" Naruto had yelled out as he gaze in awe at his silver hair Sensei.
"Enough talking, I need to exterminate the old man now!" Zabuza told them making Sasuke, Hinata, and Naruto form a formation around Tazuna. "So, I'll have to eliminate you first eh Akito? So be it."
Zabuza soon jumped off the tree with his sword and stood on the water.
"He's over there!" Naruto shouted as Hinata gasped in shock. "Standing on the water!"
"Ninja art: Hidden Mist Jutsu!" Zabuza yelled before the mist rolled in and then he vanished from sight.
The Senju eyes narrowed at the spot that Zabuza was once at before he started to look around, but what got the Jonin's attention was when Naruto yelled.
"He vanished!"
"Don't drop your gourd," Akito told them. "He could be anywhere. He'll come after me first."
"But...Who is he?" the Hyuuga asked.
"He's Zabuza Momochi, the X-leader of the Hidden Mist assassination unit," the Jonin answered. "He's a master of the Silent Kill Technique."
"S-silent?" Naruto asked.
"As the name suggests, it happens in an instant, without sound or warning of any kind," the 26-year-old finished. "It's so fast you pass from this life without realizing what has happened. The Sharingan cannot fully neutralized it. So don't lower your guard...Well, if we fail, we only lose our lives."
"How can you say that Sensei?" the Heiress asked.
Akito spread out a little bit of his Chakra in ordered to sense Zabuza while using his Sharingan to watch for movement.
"The mist is getting thicker and thicker," Naruto pointed out.
"Nami no Kuni is surrounded by ocean," Tazuna started to explain to Naruto. "The swirling mists are ever present."
"Sensei!" Hinata yelled as the Senju was no longer visible through the mist as it got thicker.
"Eight point; Liver, Lungs, Spine, Lerricks, Sublunary artery, Jugular, Kidneys, Heart," Zabuza's voice sounded. "Now which will be my kill point?"
'I feel like I can't breath...One shallow breath, one tiny movement of the eye is enough to drew his attack...It's suffocating...If it goes on like this I'll go insane...The clash of 2 Jonins intend to attack...I never felt anything so chilling it's as if my own life is being chocked off...No I weather,' Sasuke thought as he grip on his kunai tight and hold it in both his hand about to put through him self.
"Sasuke," Akito started making Sasuke look at him as he became visible. "Just remain calm. I'll protect you with my life...All of you...I will not allow my comrades to die. Trust me."
"I wont it be to sure if I were you, Akito," Zabuza told him as he appeared between the Genin and in front of Tazuna.
The Senju was fast to react and had plugged a kunai into Zabuza, but instead of blood pouring out it was water and soon another Zabuza appeared behind the Konoha Jonin and the one in front of turned into water. The young adult looked in time to see Zabuza's sword come at him and cute him in half, but Zabuza found out the Konoha Ninja was water clone as well.
'The Water Clone Jutsu,' the Momochi thought. 'It can't be. Even in the Mist, he saw through my illusion and copied it in an instant.'
Then out of no where he had Akito right behind him with a kunai at his throat.
"Don't move!" the Senju growled out at Zabuza. "Now it's over. Your finished."
"Alright!" Naruto shouted with happiness.
Zabuza started to laugh.
"Finished?" he asked. "You really don't get it do you? Your technique is nothing, but a class imitation. I'll never be defeated by a mere copy cat ninjas like you, Akito. Your full of surprise though. You already copied my Water Clone Jutsu when you made your little speech." The Leaf Jonin's eyes narrowed in anger. "Every skillfully executed. You made your clone to say those to draw my attention while you hide in the mist waiting for me to make my move. Nice try." That was when the real Zabuza appeared behind the Senju. "But, I'm not that easy to fool!"
The Mist Ninja went to swing his sword to cut Akito while the other Zabuza turned into water.
"Hey, that's ones a Clone, too!"
However, the Jonin was able to dodge making Zabuza's sword get stuck in the ground and Zabuza switched hands and kick the other Jonin into the water and went running after.
"Now!" he growled before he stopped at the stars on the ground. "Matabishi spikes. Your trying to slow me down…" He turned around. "Hmm foolish."
He then jumped into the water while Akito resurface.
"Sensei!"
'This isn't normal water...It's dense...Heavy,' the Senju thought just as Zabuza appeared behind doing hand signs.
"Water Prison Jutsu!" Zabuza shouted as he preformed the jutsu.
"No!" the Konoha Jonin yelled as he got trapped. "Escaping through the water bad idea."
"This prison is made of water, but it's stronger then steel," Zabuza told him. "It's hard to fight when you can't move...so much for the great Akito. I'll finish you off later, but first your little followers will have to be eliminated...Water Clone Jutsu!" Unknown to all, but the silver hair Jonin was that their Masked Uchiha Spy fought to not get involve in his Lover's fight. "You think wearing a headband make's you a ninja? When you hover between life and death to many time that it doesn't faze you then you maybe called a ninja. When you become so deadly that your profile is entered into my BINGO book then you may have earned the title ninja, but to call up start's like you a ninja is a joke."
'He disappeared again,' Naruto thought.
The blonde stared at the spot where Zabuza once was for a bit before letting out a cry of pain and surprise.
"Your just brats," Zabuza's clone told them as he stepped on Naruto Leaf village forehead protector.
Sasuke had gasped when he saw Naruto get kicked back while Hinata called to him.
"Naruto!"
"Listen!" the Senju called making everyone look at him. "Get the bridge-builder and run. You can't win this fight. His using all of his power to keep me trapped, so he can only fight you with his water clone, but the clone can't go from his real body. If you get away from him then he can't follow. Now run!" 'That way Obito can intervene.'
'Run away?' Sasuke thought. 'Not an option. That became unthinkable the moment you got caught. No matter how fast we run or how far we go, he'll track us down...and wipe us out. If we try a Monji Formation he can get around it in an instant. In the end if we're on own we're finished. Our only chance of survival is to rescue you.' Sasuke glared at Zabuza as he became determined. "We got to do it. Now!"
The Konoha Jonin stared wide eyed as Sasuke ran at Zabuza and started to throw shuriken at him. Zabuza used his sword to block the shuriken that Sasuke threw at him as Sasuke disappeared and appeared above Zabuza with a kunai in hand was he came down.
"To easy," Zabuza stated as he reached up towards Sasuke grabbing him by his throat and then throwing him like a raged doll.
"Sasuke!" Hinata and Naruto cried out.
"He got Sasuke," the Uzumaki stated as he looked up at Zabuza with fear. 'So this is what a Jonin is a true elite ninja. I-I got to get away. If I don't seriously he'll eliminate me.' Naruto turned to get away from Zabuza, but stopped when he put his weight on his injured hand, so he looks at it as he started to remember things. 'I will not lose to Sasuke.' Naruto started to remember more thing's as he looked at his hand. 'That's right I'm a ninja, ya know. I sore on the Oath of Pain. I won't run away.'
Naruto stood up and charged at Zabuza making his teammates freak out. Akito both gasped at the same time.
"Naruto no!" he yelled out to Naruto. 'Don't tell me that I'm going to fail Minato-Sensei? By getting his Son killed on his first mission outside of the village.'
"Naruto what in the world are you doing?!" the Hyuuga Heiress asked in alarm as the blonde stilled charged at Zabuza, but to thrown back by him. Naruto landed near Tazuna, Hinata, and Sasuke on the ground. "What were you thinking charging at him like him by yourself? We're only Genin we can't defeat a Jonin! What did you think you'll accomplish by that?!" Hinata stopped as Naruto started to get to see he was hold his forehead protector. "Huh?" 'The headband? That's what he wanted?'
The Senju watched in surprise as the boy stood up although he was a bit wobbly and he was even more surprised when Naruto started to call Zabuza a freak with no eyebrows.
"Hey you freak with no eyebrows..." Naruto stated. "Put this in your BINGO book. The that will became Hokage in the Village Hidden in the Leaves. He never backs down. His name is Naruto Uzumaki."
'Is he trying to get himself killed?' the masked Uchiha thought as he looked Naruto annoyed as hell from his hiding place. 'And delay the Infinite Tsukiyomi plan for 5 to 6 years.'
'Naruto,' the silver hair Jonin thought was watched the sense in front of him.
'Ah..' Tazuna thought. 'I thought he was all talk, but this kid got guts.'
"Alright Sasuke!" Naruto started. "Listen up! Can you hear me?"
"Yeah I can hear you," Sasuke answered.
"I got a plan." Naruto told him.
'Now he's got a plan?' Sasuke thought. 'This guy.' "So your finally thinking about teamwork, huh?"
'Naruto, looks so determined.'
"Alright guys let's go wild," Naruto stated as he wiped blood from his chin. "Ok ready? Let's bring this guy down."
Akito looked at Zabuza as he started to laugh
"Big words for such a little man. You think your plan going to work to keep you in the game?"
'This isn't good,' he thought with a gasp. "What are you doing? I told you to run!" Everyone looked at him as he continued. "This fight was over the moment that I got caught! Now take off! Your mission is not to prove how brave you are! It's to save the bridge-builder! Stay on mission!"
Naruto looked at Tazuna as he asked him a short question.
"Huh? Bridge-builder?"
"Well I..." Tazuna started to say. "I guess this all happened because me. Because of my desire to live, but I won't let that stand in your way now. Forget about me and do what you have to do! Go ahead and fight to save your Sensei."
Sasuke turned to face Zabuza with a smirk while he asked Naruto a question.
"Alright you hear that?"
"Yeah, ya know," Naruto answered him. "You ready?"
The Senju's attention turned back to Zabuza as he laughed yet again.
"Your really haven't learn anything have you? Still playing your little game. Pretending to be ninja. When I was your age this hand had already crush many opponents."
"Kiri no Akuma (Demon of the Mist), Zabuza," Akito stated.
"Oh, so I was in your book too, huh?" Zabuza asked him.
"Long ago in the Village Hidden in the Mist also known as Blood Mist Village before a student could be come a ninja there was one final test," the silver hair Jonin added in.
"You know about the graduation exam?" Zabuza asked as he looked at the female Jonin.
"What gradation test?" Naruto asked making Zabuza to laugh at him. "What's the big deal any ways? We had a gradation test, too."
Zabuza laughed again as he looked at Naruto.
"Did you have to eliminate the other students to pass?" the Uzumaki gasped at this as Zabuza continued. "Image young ninja, eating together, training together and then comes the final exam only this time they rules changed. You couldn't stopped till you destroyed your opponent. Who was your friend, shared your dreams with now it's him or you."
"That's so cruel," Hinata whispered.
"Ten years ago, the Village Hidden in the Mist's gradation exam changed because one year before a dark evil filled the school with terrier," the Senju told them.
"What's he saying?" the Heiress of the Hyuugas asked. "What evil? What change? What caused the terrier?"
"Without pause or hesitation a young boy, who wasn't even a ninja, approach the class then took down over a hundred other students," the Leaf Ninja finished.
"It...It felt so...GOOD!" Zabuza stated as he got this evil look in his eyes.
The Rogue Mist Ninja's Clone nailed Sasuke in the chest with his elbow taking the other two by surprise. He then brought his elbow down on the Uchiha's stomach making him cough up blood before putting his foot onto him and started to grind in it.
"Your nothing," Zabuza laughed.
"Stop right there!" Naruto shouted. "Shadow clone jutsu!"
Zabuza looked around him to see he was surrounded by Naruto clones.
"Ah, shadow clones and there's quit a few of them," Zabuza stated.
"Here we go!" the Narutos all yelled at the same time before attacking Zabuza.
Zabuza then swung his sword at the Naruto clones went flying and disspelling.
"I'm not giving up," Naruto stated. "I still got this." Naruto pulled out a shuriken before throwing it to Sasuke. "SASUKE!"
Once Sasuke caught it he looked surprise for a moment, but then he spun around.
'So that's what your plan was?' the Uchiha thought. 'Not bad Naruto.' Sasuke then opened up the Shuriken. "Demon Wind Shuriken; Windmill of Shadows!"
"A Shuriken?" Zabuza asked as Sasuke jumped up and throw the shuriken at Zabuza. "You can't touch me with that." What surprised Zabuza was that went around his water clone and straight for his real body. "So you pass me clone and aimed for my real. Smart, but not smart enough." Zabuza caught the shuriken to only realized there was another shuriken coming at him. 'A second shuriken in the shadow of the first. The Shadow Shuriken Jutsu.'
Hinata smiled a little bit as she watched the other shuriken go straight at Zabuza.
'The second shuriken is on to get and he can't this one.' But, to her surprise he dodged it by jumping up. 'Ah, he dodge it!"
Just then the shuriken turned into Naruto and was holding a kunai in his hands take everyone by surprise even Zabuza.
"What?!" Zabuza asked/yelled.
"Eat this!" Naruto shouted at Zabuza as throw the kunai at him making release the water prison on Akito.