Hey there guys! And yes, I am not dead or infected by coronavirus or something(And no, I don't live in China.)
So, here is a new chapter, rather a short one but anyways, Hope you all enjoy.
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War and Peace
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Chapter: 07: Land of Waves: Part 02
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Land of Waves
Naruto and his team has been travelling for an hour.
"You said it was close by old man! We have been travelling for eveeerrr! Where is your fuckin' house?!" Whined Natsumi.
"Language, Natsumi!" Reprimanded Kakashi.
Natsumi huffed and pouted.
"There is a house…" pointed out Naruto.
"Yeah, that's my house." Said Tazuna.
They all reached the house. Tazuna opened the door and shouted, "I am home!"
A blue haired woman came into the view, "Oh, I am so glad to see you again, dad!" She exclaimed happily.
She turned to the other people and Tazuna introduced her to them, "This is my daughter, Tsunami. And Tsunami, these are the ninjas that protected me during the trip."
"I am Satsuki Uchiha."
"Hi! I am Natsumi Uzumaki, dattebayo!"
"I am Naruto Otsutsuki."
"I am Kakashi Hatake, their Jonin sensei."
"Thank you very much for protecting my father!" Thanked Tsunami while bowing.
Tsunami gave them two room, one for Kakashi and Naruto and the other for Natsumi and Satsuki.
They all placed the luggage in their rooms, except for Naruto, who had everything sealed.
The sun had set, and the sparkling moon had taken its place.
All of them were having dinner now, including Naruto, who wanted to try the food.
'It's delicious!' Thought Naruto.
They all had their dinner and went to sleep.
With Naruto
After Kakashi had slept, Naruto sneaked out of the house and sat on the roof of the house, looking at the full moon.
"Mother…" muttered Naruto.
"Remembering someone?" Asked someone from behind.
Naruto cursed himself for letting his guard down.
"And here I thought I gave you the slip, sensei." Frowned Naruto.
Kakashi chuckled, "You still have ways to go. By the way what are you doing up here?"
"Can't sleep." Answered Naruto.
"Or maybe you don't need to sleep." Pointed out Kakashi while analysing his student.
"You catch on quick sensei, I am impressed." Replied Naruto.
"Hmm, you don't seem to be denying it." Said Kakashi.
"I don't think it is going to help me in any way. Anyways, how did you come to this conclusion?" Said Naruto.
Kakashi eye-smiled, "I have my ways..."
Next Day
Kakashi and his team was standing in front of a tree.
"So, as I told you all yesterday, that there may be a chance that Zabuza survived. We will be training to gain as much of power we can get. I estimate that it will take him around a week to get back to his maximum strength." Said Kakashi.
"So, what will we be training in today?" Asked Satsuki.
"Tree-walking." Said Kakashi.
"But we already know it, dattebayo!" Exclaimed Natsumi.
Kakashi expecting the rebuttal, went towards the tree and started walking on it using chakra.
"Now... what do you say? Do you still know it?" Asked Kakashi.
"How many times do I have to say, sensei?! We all already know that exercise!" Exclaimed Natsumi.
Kakashi raised his eyebrow, not expecting them to already know the exercise. He asked all of them to demonstrate it and that they did.
"Hmm, quite interesting. You all demonstrated the exercise flawlessly. I would have asked you all to do the exercise regardless until you all exhaust your chakra but knowing you all have very high chakra reserves, I don't think the exercise will benefit you. I assume you all know water walking technique too?" Inquired Kakashi.
"Hai, sensei." Three of them chorused.
Kakashi sighed, "Then that leaves only this..." said Kakashi while taking out four rectangular papers.
"These are Chakra Induction Papers, they tell a person's affinity towards the five elements. If you have Fire: the paper will ignite and turn to ash. Wind: the paper will split in two. Lightning: the paper will wrinkle. Earth: the paper will turn to dirt and crumble away. Water: the paper will become wet/damp." Said Kakashi while holding one of the paper between two fingers. The paper wrinkled, showing Kakashi's Lightning affinity.
To get hold of chakra paper was very difficult. Only the Jonin Commander of Konoha can give the permission to take the paper from the reserves of Konoha. The tree from which it grew was very rare, hence such strict measures were taken.
Kakashi gave one chakra paper each to his students.
Kakashi urged Satsuki to go first.
Her chakra paper wrinkled and then ignited and turned to ash.
"You have Lightning and Fire affinities, impressive for a genin." Said Kakashi.
Satsuki smirked while looking at Natsumi.
Natsumi hmph'd and concetrated her chakra towards the paper.
The paper was cut in half, one half became damp and the other turned into dirt.
Kakashi's eye went wide, not expecting the outcome.
Natsumi exclaime loudly, "Ha! I have two chakra natures too!"
"Ah, you would be wrong there, Natsumi. You don't have two chakra natures." Natsumi deflated hearing this from Kakashi. "Rather you have Three; Wind, Earth and Water." Continued Kakashi.
Natsumi's face lighted with a miilion megawatt grin and she started jumping around with joy. She started teasing Satsuki who just grunted in annoyance.
"It's very impressive, I have not heard anyone having three affinities without training in at least one of them. But having three affinities means nothing if you can't use them, so you have to train accordingly and not slack off, am I clear?" Said Kakashi.
"Hai, sensei!" Responded a cheerful Natsumi.
"Now lets see what affinities you have, Naruto." Said Kakashi.
Naruto channeled his chakra into the paper.
The paper got cleaved into four pieces, one piece wrinkled, one became wet, another turned into dirt and the last ignited and turned into ash.
Kakashi couldn't believe his eyes, this was not possible, was the chakra paper damaged or malfunctioned during the test. He will have to recheck.
Kakashi handed Naruto another chakra paper, "I think the chakra paper malfunctioned or something. Try it again."
Naruto shrugged and repeated the process. The results were the same. Kakashi still couldn't believe his eyes so he gave Naruto the last paper he had. The paper can't malfunction thrice in a row, he hasn't heard a single time that a chakra paper has malfunctioned, it may be a possibility to fail once but thrice? Not a chance. He had checked the last chakra paper with his sharingan and could tell it had no defects.
Naruto did the test the third time and the same result was presented before them.
"Impossible, to think somebody can have all five chakra natures from birth with equal affinity towards every element." Muttered Kakashi.
Naruto just smiled at the result while Natsumi and Satsuki looked in awe making them remember that they have to do their best to one day surpass their horned teammate.
Kakashi instructed them in different ninjutsus for their affinities but Naruto managed to pull all of them in his first try making his teammates envious and his instructor a little annoyed.
'He really is something else.' Thought Kakashi while shaking his head and watching Naruto practice the five jutsus Kakashi taught him.
Night Time
The day had gone peacefully but all three of them have been exhausted. Then the night came not so...peacefully.
Natsumi had a debate or rather a fight with Tsunami's kid, Inari and went into the woods in fury.
Naruto had made a clone to watch Natsumi in case she encounters a ninja and himself went to stare at the moon while everyone else slept.
Naruto sat in silence staring at the moon, remembering his mother with a soft smile on his face.
3 days Later
Gato's Headquarters
Gato was sitting in his office waiting for the ninjas he had contacted after he had hired Zabuza Momochi.
After a few minutes five ninjas wearing white masks entered the room, Gato welcomed them.
"Give us all the information you have on Momochi." Said one of the ninja.
"Ah, I will give you all the information I have but I have some demands of mine as well. I would like to make a contract with Kirigakure for exports and imports for metals and many more valuable items, after all Kirirgakure is one of the strongest villages." Said Gato, trying to lure them into his trap for the information they need.
"Mizukage-sama has ordered us that your wishes must be fulfilled in exchange of information on Momochi until it risks the security of our village. Your wish shall be fulfilled." Said one of the ninja, who seemed to be the leader.
'How foolish ninjas are. So easily manipulated.' Thought Gato while giving the agreement documents to the ninja to assess them and sign on them on behalf of his Kage until further talks.
The leader skimmed over the document and signed it. The agreement was made. Gato gave all the information he had on Zabuza and showed the proof of contract with him as well.
"You have been very useful Gato-san." Said The leader after getting all the information and proof-checking it.
He made a motion with his hands and one of his shinobi disappeared, two 'thuds' were heard beside Gato.
Gato looked shocked at what had transpired, his guards have been killed in an instant, he couldn't even see the movement of the ninja who killed his guards. He was horrified. Afraid.
In his last moments, Gato learned what monsters Shinobi truly were.
The Kiri nins escaped from the building and drowned it with their jutsus. Killing all the thugs inside and destroying the building itself.
"Zabuza is going to fight the leaf nins tomorrow, according to the intel, he would not be contacting Gato until finishing his job. So we ambush both Momochi and the leaf team, headed by Hatake Kakashi after they have exhausted themselves fighting with each other." Said the leader of the Kiri nins.
Night Time
With Naruto
He was exhausted.
Yes, Otsutsuki Naruto was exhausted.
Kakashi has burned him to ground today, first Ninjutsu, in which he would have at least used more than hundred A and B rank jutsus of each nature. That alone exhausted him but what came after that gave a new meaning to exhaustion. Kakashi has literally pummeled him into ground during Taijutsu. He was not able to land any hit while Kakashi used his Sharingan. It frustrated him. It has been three days and he still couldn't land a hit.
Yes, three days the same exercise but he can't see the improvement. Even though he trained like a man possessed, he didn't see the improvement. Hell, he had been so exhausted these days that he had been sleeping everyday. That was saying something, he hasn't slept thrice in a row since his mother died.
Maybe he had improved, just he couldn't see it or it was just too early to judge. He didn't know but it frustrated him. Maybe this was how everybody else felt while training.
Well, it was a new experience for him, he has never struggled in any form of training before.
Whatever, he was too exhausted to overthink. So, he let himself sleep and fell into a deep slumber...
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A/N: Hey there guys, I know it has been a long time since I updated and I don't have any excuses. I was just not motivated to continue but today the motivation returned with burning fire. I will be continuing story...probably.
Thanks for reading the chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Please review. Even if it is negative and presents a valid point, I will try to improve it. So, please review. Structured criticism is appreciated. Please tell me if I can improve my writing style, I would love some suggestions. If there are inconsistencies in the fic please review, I would try to solve them.
In this chapter, I tried to show that Gato wanted to increase his business by contacting Kiri as he knew that Zabuza was not on good terms with Kiri and Kiri wanted Zabuza's head. But he underestimated the ninjas, a lot, which he did in canon too. I also tried to show that Naruto is not invincible and has to really give it his all. While I know Otsutsukis are very powerful even without training, but those who were shown in canon had lived for eons and had devoured wordls upon worlds, which Naruto doesn't have the time for.
Next chapter will probably last for the wave arc.
Thanks again for reading.
Ja~Ne~
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