A/N I miss one day and I get this review
From: Anonymous
you know what its a good work but it would have been much pleasant only if uposted more often
All I have to say to that is lol.
Present Day: Road to Konoha:
"Little Hinata is team medic and T&I specialist?" Tsunade was snickering, "I like her more and more, if they're not together by the time I get to Konoha I might just have to set them up."
"She's certainly grown up, in more ways then one I might add. Give her two years and she'll have to fight men of with a stick." He gave Tsunade a lewd wink.
"Jiraiya! She's twelve!"
"Thirteen actually. And she has a rack bigger then girls twice her age."
"That doesn't make it any better!"
"As I was saying," Jiraiya had apparently decided to ignore his teammate's annoyance with his observation, "While she's a lot stronger and less timid in her every day life, Naruto still can reduce her to a blubbering mess."
"So was the rest of the mission as easy as that? Or where there stronger ninja present as well?" Shizune had heard many interesting things about Taki, and wanted to know if any of them came up in Jiraiya's story.
"Oh it got a lot harder."
Takigakure: Four Months, Thirteen Days Ago:
"This is the fastest way in follow me." He jumped into the water and swam off.
Sasuke and Naruto shared a look before shrugging and jumping in to the water after him.
When Naruto and Sasuke came up behind Shibuki, he motioned them to be quite, "I'm going to check on something, one of you come with me." Shibuki said before ducking back under the water.
Naruto nodded to Sasuke and ducked back under the water. As soon as Sasuke jumped out of the water, six Ame-ninjas, Sasuke recognized the hitai-ate, surrounded him. "We've got you…OH KAMI MY FACE!" Sasuke didn't wait for the ninja to finish gloating; he flew through the air foot first knocking the ninja across the field. One of the other ninja tried to backstab Sasuke with a kunai; Sasuke twisted out of the way, and wrapped his opponent's arm with ninja-wire. When the next ninja tried to attack him, he forced his victim to stab his other attacker. Ducking and weaving Sasuke used his ninja-wire to force his opponents to fight amongst themselves.
"Wow you guys suck…" Sasuke was standing in a tree, twitching and shifting his complex web of ninja-wire each movement causing someone down below immense pain, and Sasuke immense satisfaction. "I guess play time is over," he said, dropping his wires and beginning the seal for his favorite fire jutsu, "KATON: GOKAKYU!" The fire ball incinerated all six of his opponents in one go.
Jumping out of the tree Sasuke set off to find Naruto and Shibuki; unfortunately two ninja got the drop on him, the one with the teal stripe and a tall Kunoichi with shoulder length brown hair managed to bind him with water whips. "You really didn't think it would be that easy this time did you?" Teal stripe asked.
"Should we cut him now or later?"
"If you two think this is enough to hold me," Sasuke said channeling is lightning elemental chakra into the whips, "You're sadly mistaken." While his lightning nature transformation was far from complete, at this point he had enough skill at it to shock the two through their water whips. Flicking his fingers, five small weights dropped out of each sleeve. "Ready for the fight of your lives?"
Back with Naruto, and Shibuki, "Why are we hiding here? What's so important about a bottle of water anyways?"
"This isn't just any water, this is Hero Water. Taki doesn't have ninja's as strong as your Hokage. When there's a crisis, like when we where attacked during the Third Great Shinobi War, ninja from our village drink the water, and their chakra is increased tenfold, or more."
"Wow! Why don't you use it and save your village then?"
"Because drinking the Hero Water shortens the user's life by the same amount it strengthens your chakra. When the village was last attacked my father drank the Hero Water…He was not a young man. I'm afraid to die…"
"Well that was a touching story and all but Suien paid us a lot of money to get that water for him and Leader-sama hates failure." A fourth Ame ninja had apparently found them, his hitai-ate holding his spiking brown hair out of his dark purple eyes, he had an umbrella strapped to his back by a bandolier that hung from right shoulder to left hip. On his left hip there was a weird handle of some sort. "Hand the water over and I won't have to kill you."
"You'll have to get past me if you want that water." Naruto took up a Taijutsu stance, "Bring it umbrella boy."
Sighing, the Ame-nin removed the handle from his bandolier. "You have no idea what you're up against boy." The ninja placed his thumb on a seal on the handle and a yellow faintly humming blade, seemingly made of lightning, grew out of the handle. "This is the Raijin no Ken, with it I am invincible." But Naruto wasn't interested in hearing the man monologue, he charged straight in intending to end the fight as fast as possible. "Ah-ah-ah," The Ame-nin shook his finger at Naruto, swinging his sword at Naruto's neck. Naruto managed to dodge but the glowing sword still nicked his arm.
"AAARGH!" Naruto staggered backwards the electricity causing his muscles to spasm. Panting Naruto said, "If… that's how… you want it…I'LL SHOW YOU A REAL WEAPON!" Naruto's right eye began to glow, and with a thrust of his palm he blew the Ame-nin right out of the tunnel, "Shibuki if you're not going to help you stay here." Naruto leapt out of the tunnel after the sword wielding nin.
"Aoi-sensei!" the last three Ame Genin rushed to their sensei's side. But they stopped when they saw the blond leap out after him.
"Now that I have room to maneuver, let me show you a real lightning attack." Left eye glowing he clapped his hands together, Summoning his weapon to him. Instead of grabbing it out of the air, he did a rapid series of hand-seals the air around him was crackling with Raiton energy, "RAITON: UZU NO TSUBASA: Hakutenshi" (Lightning Release: Wings of the Whirlpool: White Angel) Thrusting both palms outwards he grabbed his staff sword, and the energy from his jutsu was pulled in great wide lightning blots into the blade.
For a second nothing seemed to happen, "What was that brat? A real lightning weapon did you say? Next time use a jutsu you know actually how to use!" Aoi shouted as he charged the motionless Naruto. But before he got there, twelve thin white wisps of lightning erupted from Naruto's back six on each side and the Uzu no Tsubasa's blades were enveloped by pure white lightning chakra, almost doubling the blades length.
Naruto moved blindingly fast, each attack pushing Aoi back. Every one of Aoi's attacks him left open for Naruto's inevitable counter attack. "This is how you use lightning in close combat Aoi-teme." Aoi, who really had no training with a sword, was slowly being overwhelmed by Naruto's speed and reach. Aoi was fast enough to prevent Naruto from landing a killer blow, making each attack Naruto landed little more than a scratch. However, Naruto landed a lot of blows, each consecutive blow caused Aoi to spasm worse than the one before it. "A weapon doesn't make you strong, Aoi." Aoi had finally been slowed down enough for Naruto to land a decisive blow. "Having something to protect makes you strong." Stabbing Aoi in his right shoulder, Naruto cranked up the output of his chakra, causing the glowing chakra blades to triple in size.
"AAAAARRRGGH!" Aoi fell down clutching the smoldering stump that used to be his shoulder. "I'll kill you for this brat!"
"Good luck with that Aoi" Naruto said cheerfully waving over his shoulder as he walked off after he picked up Aoi's Raijin no Ken. Naruto headed back to the edge of the village to find out what was taking Sasuke so long.
Shibuki, meanwhile, had changed hiding places, this time his hiding place was overlooking the town square. "That, that can't be!" in the town square there was a man Shibuki recognized. He was afraid it was him, after all the man the Ame-nin said hired him was named Suien. Suien was his old teacher and once the most respected Jonin in the entire village. But here he was now with three Ame-nin and a large group of villagers tied up.
"Shibuki! If you can hear me good! Bring me the Hero Water or I'll kill every villager in Taki, one at a time!"
"What do I do? Where's Fu when you need her? Shouldn't she be protecting the village?" In His heart Shibuki knew hat he should do, he should drink the water and beat the crap out of Suien. But he was afraid of dying, and the Hero Water in particular, he still had nightmares about his father ageing rapidly before he died. "Oh Kami, what do I do?" HE took one long look at the bottle in his hands and sighed while reaching for the cork.
Back with Sasuke, and the two ninjas he was against. "Hold still damnit!" Sasuke dodged another volley of shuriken and a water whip.
"Is that all you two can do?" Sasuke asked. He was rather bored and honestly these two weren't very strong, at first it had been fun to humiliate them by dancing around there attacks and making the hurt themselves. But now Sasuke just wanted to end the fight. The next time teal face attacked Sasuke wired the girl straight into his kunai.
"Murasame, why?" She croaked before falling over.
Teal face, Murasame apparently, went berserk; his attacks came in rapidly and disjointedly, tears streaming down his face. His rage was beyond words.
"Hey Duck-butt, catch!" Sasuke heard Naruto's voice. A random seeming brown handle of some sort came flying out of the tree's and almost hit Sasuke between the eyes. Looking around for a moment Sasuke saw him standing on a tree branch a good distance away. "Press the seal on the handle and channel a little chakra into it!"
Doing as he was told, Sasuke almost dropped the weapon when a glowing yellow blade sprang from one end of the handle. Sasuke was so fascinated with his new toy that he nearly missed Murasame charging at him with a kunai in each hand. Dodging the screaming man's first strike he blocked the second with the Raijin no Ken. Or at least he tried to block, the kunai was cut in half by the glowing weapon, claiming two of Murasame's fingers in the process. It seemed the loss of the last two fingers on his left hand was too much for him. He collapsed to his knees and just stared at his hand. Sasuke put him out of his misery with one simple stroke. "Cool weapon Fishcake. Let's find the ringleader so we can put this mission behind us and go home."
Things weren't going good for Shibuki, sure he had a lot more chakra thanks to the Hero Water but Suien had more experience, and he wouldn't last much longer before Suien beat him completely. 'Damn it where the hell is Fu?' He thought, as Suien tossed him into a tree like a rag doll. Suien charged him once more, this time he managed to get a hold of the arm holding the water, wrenching it at an impossible angle Suien Broke Shibuki's arm with a terrible crack.
"Mine at last!"
"Give that back!"
"Never!" Suien kicked Shibuki in the chest sending him flying across the town square.
Shibuki refused t stay down. He was scared out of his mind and sure he was going to die when the water wore off, but he was the leader of Taki, and he had a job to do. "That's enough Shibuki. I was wrong about you anyone who can keep fighting in that condition against an opponent who clearly outclasses them is not a coward." Naruto walked past Shibuki, The Uzu no Tsubasa slung over his shoulder, his mismatched eyes staring holes into Suien head. Sasuke was a step behind him, the Raijin no Ken held nonchalantly in his right hand, wearing a slightly psychotic smirk on his face.
"Your turn, my turn, or teamwork Fishcake?"
"Think you can keep up, Duck-butt?"
"Teamwork it is."
Suien had already figured out that these too were stronger then they looked. After all none of his hirelings had shown up after they went out to deal with Shibuki's allies. Deciding it was worth the risk he uncapped the Hero Water and downed almost half of it in one go. "So it comes to this already. I shall obliterate you!" He went through a series of hand-seals and formed a blade made of water, "Takigakure-Ryū: Mizukiri no Yaiba" (Hidden Waterfall Style: Watercutting Sword.) Sasuke blocked Suien's attack but the man's increased chakra managed to push him backwards.
"Damn it Naruto where are you?" Sasuke cursed, for Naruto had disappeared when Suien charged. Sasuke tried to go on the offensive, a sword felt natural in his hands like more than his wires ever did, for a while he was successful, but Suien's superior skill and experience began to push Sasuke's genius back.
"LOOK OUT BELOW!" Naruto shouted from above from above. Shibuki seeing his opening dashed forwards and snatched the Hero water from Suien's belt. Sasuke and Shibuki barely got out of the way when Naruto, arms and blades covered in a pulsating green Chakra shroud in the shape of a dragon slammed into Suien's head blade first. The glowing green dragon's head seemed to shred Suien into a fine paste. "Fuuton: Uzu no Tsubasa: Ryokuryū." (Wind Release: Wings of the Whirlpool: Green Dragon) Naruto said before dispersing his wind cloak. "Is the water so important that you'd risk your life to safe it from destruction?"
Shibuki nodded, "It's one of our only defenses, we need it to survive."
"What's the other defense? Why didn't you use it?"
"Our strongest ninja is my cousin, Fu. She lives outside the village and is tasked with protecting it. But I'm worried that our villagers finally managed to push her away for good."
"They don't like her much?"
"They hate her. Um… would you come with me to check on her? If something's wrong I won't be much use…"
"Yeah I guess we will. We'll just add it to the bill for saving your sorry ass."
"Sasuke! Be nice, he's not as big a wuss as we thought he was. Now Shibuki, Show us where see lives."
"It's outside the village proper we can get your teammate on the way."
Sasuke and Naruto helped Shibuki get through the secret enterance and back outside the village. When they found Hinata
The were mildly surprised to see her drinking tea with the formerly injured woman and her two kids, while the ame-nin that she caught was bound securely to a tree.
"Ah, N-Naruto-kun Sasuke-san, Shibuki-san. I c-caught an enemy, b-but unfortunately he was j-just a g-g-grunt. He d-didn't know anything. I-Is it t-time to g-g-go?""
"No we have one more thing to check before we can leave, one of Shibuki's strongest ninja went missing during the attack, we're going to make sure she's alright." It was half an hour's journey on foot part way there they could hear the sounds of battle from the direction they were heading. Naruto had his clones pick up Shibuki and they sprinted for it as fast as they could.
"N-Naruto-kun, Th-there's three people up ahead! One of them is tying another up we have to hurry."
Arriving in the clearing where Fu made her house, Team seven saw two men wearing identical black cloaks with red clouds on them and large conical straw hats, one much larger then the other with a strange bundle wrapped in bandages on his back, the shorter one had a young girl with tan skin and green hair slung over his shoulder.
Seeing the new arrivals the shorter one spoke, "Isn't it our lucky day? Not only is the Nine-Tails here but so is my foolish little brother."