Yosha! Hade ni ikuze! we're about to go on a special mission, so what will occur? shall there be a twist perhaps? a surprise face? what secrets shall we unearth? perhaps that's the clue? Anyway, let's go!
super hero time!
Ex-aid: level up into C-rank, kaizoku Gokaiger!
Naruto: move forward with a great bang! into the snow we go!
Ex-aid: try not to drown in your confidence!
Naruto: We'll be fine, believe it!
E-a + N: Game start! Showtime!
"Okay, what the hell was that? I can't be the only one that thought those brats were normal genin at least!"
Anko had been irritably chomping away at her dango, bitter after their loss when the genin decided to go and summon those weird costumed guys to fight with them.
"And those weapons… I think there've been rumours of quick firing launchers but they aren't anywhere close to completion yet and they fired kunais." Kakashi added, nursing the many wounds he had received. They had all been informed not to go too extreme on them, for it was only to be a test rather than a full on battle, yet they were the ones who sustained great damage even when against people who hadn't even been on a single C rank yet!#
"So let me get this right, you all were defeated by a team of four genin, each of whom could summon additional allies to their sides with highly experienced ninja capabilities and they wielded weaponry too advanced for us?" Yugao, an old friend of Kurenai's in the ANBU corps, repeated as she polished the steel of her blade.
"Yep, that's about it!" Anko cheerfully replied, a stark contrast to how she was mere moments ago. "And we've unleashed that chaos onto the world! I wish whoever has to face those little devils good luck, because if they've got anything else like that up their sleeve,"
"They're going to need all the luck they can get."
"So we've got to take you over to your home in the land of waves? Seems simple enough." Naruto commented as he looked down the provided instruction scroll. The mission was a fairly recent one with the client, a man named Tazuna who was apparently a builder, coming only days before.
"I trust that you can deal with an escort mission like this easily, right?" Hiruzen asked the group, all of which responded positively. "That's good. Now, bandits should be minimal, but a possibility, otherwise we wouldn't be needed."
"Well I'd like to think we were pretty well armed against bandits Jiji." The captain cockily replied, though the stern look he received from the hokage caused his posturing to ease a little.
"It's thoughts and attitudes like that that could get you and your friends killed on this mission Naruto. You should be aware that death lies around every corner, only needing a simple slip of a knife to end it all. You shouldn't waste time bosting o inflating your ego." He warned, Naruto falling back into a more serious form.
"Naturally. I suppose I just got too lost in how Captain Marvellous did things." The boy admitted, scratching the whiskers that marred his face.
"Well he has much experience to draw off from what you've told me, so he is able to be more lenient towards acting serious, but you who have not even been out of the village yet, you cannot afford any mistakes." Hiruzen had that firm look to his face, only for it to soften slightly as he beckoned his assistant. "Please bring in Tazuna and say that his mission has been accepted."
Needless to say, when the drunken old man stumbled into the Hokage's office and his eyes fell upon the crew stood before him, Hiruzen was less than impressed.
"Tazuna, you are the one who wished to hire us, are you not?" Naruto asked far too sweetly, his eyes moving slowly up and down the builder's body. "So why the hell do you come in here looking like a slob and smelling of the bar's entire selection!?"
"Eh? I don't have to answer to you brat!" he snapped back, pushing the blonde away so that he could stand in front of the desk. turning to the hokage with a more suitable expression. "Now where's the people who'll be taking this amazing bridge builder back home?"
"You mean the one's who'll be protecting you from an easy death , making sure your guts don't end up falling onto the floor in front of your eyes as you burn slowly, yet unable to see the end?" Hiruzen replied happily, his sudden cheerfulness not boding well for Tazuna. "Why, they are standing right behind you. They're most excellent fighters, on par with some of our jonin with their surprising capabilities and you just called their leader a brat."
Tazuna turned slowly, gazing upon the four he had barged past. Tenten was happily spinning a kunai on a chain, jauntily whistling a tune. Hinata was 'practicing' her Jyuuken techniques, chakra pulsing dangerously on the tips of her fingers while Lee practiced his punches in the air. Naruto of course, was casually lazing about, spinning the gun on his finger while his other hand rested upon the hilt of his saber.
"Ah, I see…" with a terrified gulp, Tazuna slowly bowed to Naruto, who had a large smirk upon his face. "I guess I was… a bit out of hand calling you a brat. As long as we can get back to wave in one piece, then I'll be happy."
"Sure, we'll go tomorrow then and don't forget old man; these brats have your life in our hands." Naruto cheerfully yelled behind him as he left with the rest of the genin in the room. Tazuna let out a breath he hadn't known he was holding.
"My lord… when did children become so casually dangerous Hokage-san?"
"When they were trained to be killers Tazuna."
"So your first C rank is to transport one Tazuna to the land of Waves so that he may be protected from Bandits?" Hiashi asked of his daughter, bowed in front of him. While he truly didn't wish to have her be so formal and act like a proper father and daughter, the Hyuuga elders wished to sit in and that meant old traditions.
"Yes father. It was deemed to be a relatively safe route, so the Hokage deemed it suitable for us." Hinata informed monotonously, despising the situation. According to all of the old men sat around the borders of the central room, she was meant to address her 'betters' as if she as a mere ant, quiet and emotionless.
"And did you ask what the man would be doing or have on him?" Hiashi continued, drawing a confused look from Hinata.
"Pardon father?"
"Well if he believes that bandits will attack him if he's left alone and there was no obvious value to him, then he must have some sort of importance or is carrying something of value to bandits. A normal person isn't worth killing for such a low reward, so he would be safe if he just wished to travel back home." Hiashi clarified, knowing full well how Hinata was being judged by the elders with every passing second.
"Ah, then I shall ask at the soonest possibility. Thank you, father."
"Well nevertheless, I grant you my permission to go on this mission. I expect only the best results and a glowing recommendation." With his final words, Hinata scurried out, leaving him alone with those condescending eyes that surrounded him.
"You're far too lenient with that girl. How else is she meant to learn of her mistakes in a way that sticks if there is no consequence?" one asked irritably, hobbling over to the Hyuuga clan leader.
"The same way that all others have learnt. Take a look at Konoha and you find that those who perform best have not been brutally discouraged." He countered, much to the elders' anger.
"You forget your place as a Hyuuga! We are not like those others because we are better! You would do well to remember that Hiashi."
"Just as you would do well to remember that she is to be my successor and will have the power to remove your positions as I have so gracefully refrained from doing. Watch yourself, lest you trip."
"So everything's good then?" Naruto greeted as he waved, Hinata coming through the open door of the GokaiGalleon.
"Yes. I merely have a single question to ask our client as we leave, but otherwise I am good. I did nearly slip from the rope we use; is there not a more viable option for us to use?" she replied, taking the seat at the table.
"Well from what I've found, there's the upper pedestrian entrance, the hatch for the machines and a lower entrance way on the bottom of the ship." Tenten listed off lazily. "Seeing as we can't exactly use the bottom one without digging out a huge hole, then that only leaves the top ones. We could put steps on the rope, but that's about it I'm afraid."
"With enough practice, then I'm sure we'll be fine. That's not an issue." Naruto dismissed before leaning forward in the captain's chair. "What is though is the fact that as we have no jonin accompanying us on the mission, will we be using the keys?"
"Are there any reasons not to my captain?" Lee immediately replied. "This shall be the start of our new legacy as fierce pirates! We'll be on our way to fame and glory!"
"Yeah, but do we really want to have people coming after us to try and take our power?" Tenten inputted. "That could cause some problems if people expect more of us later. I know the chunin exams are coming up this year, so maybe we could pull it off then?"
"And that also brings up the issue of defence. Are we going to be adequately prepared without the keys, seeing as they have formed a fair part of our strategies so far?" Hinata spoke up, her point reasonable. They had naturally taken advantage of the vast experience of the keys in order to clear anything they put themselves to.
"Well, I don't think we'll end up meeting that many people on this that we won't have to end up beating, so I guess we're fine to do it this time then." Naruto concluded. "Wonderful. We'll have to pack for an average C-rank, probably more just to keep safe. I want to see each and every one of you at the gate a quarter of an hour early, right?"
"Right!"
Left alone to his musings while his crew packed up for whatever they needed, Naruto let a huge grin break out across his face.
"This is the start of an amazing show! Marvellous, I'll show you just what we're capable of!" With his declaration yelled to the world, he dived into the wardrobes, supply cupboards and individual rooms in order to find all that he would need for the mission.
They had to have had at least one special item hidden somewhere, right?
The next day dawned bright, Tazuna tiredly trudging towards the entrance gate while Naruto and his crew checked all of their preparations. Between them, they had managed to amass a solution to almost any issue they might come across on the journey, meaning they were in high moods.
"Hey there, we all ready to go then?" Naruto greeted the builder, his response being a disgruntled mumble. "Wonderful! Then let us set off with all haste!"
"Naruto… are you perhaps teasing him a little too hard?" Hinata whispered, glancing back to the near dead Tazuna as he stumbled along.
"Not at all. If he wanted to do this with a hangover, then he's going to reap the results of his actions." Naruto replied, releasing a content sigh as they entered the forest that surrounded the village. Sure, he had gone out to access the GokaiGalleon, but actually being openly allowed to leave was a completely different feeling.
"What a wonderful day it is!" lee cheered as Konoha grew smaller and smaller as they continued on, the martial artist watching it shrink by walking backwards. It wasn't an especially fast process, considering that they were locked at a civilian speed, but it was still nice to watch.
"So Tazuna-san, what did you need a protection group for?" Hinata politely inquired, drawing a confused look from the builder's haggard face.
"Can't a man be scared of running into bandits now?" He gruffly asked back, Hinata's eyes becoming a slight bit harder.
"No, but they typically don't unless they're in a vulnerable position or have some reason to be fearful. That would imply that you are of importance or have a particularly valuable possession." Unlike what she had expected, Tazuna instead gave a barking laugh.
"Trust me, I don't have any valuable possessions on me other than my hammer and hands." He told the group, but an annoying voice in the back of his mind whispered the unspoken ending.
'None of us in Wave do.'
"Actually, you might not think it, but I'm a master builder! I'm going to construct such an amazing bridge that all of the people in wave shall wonder at its beauty!" the man continued on about his amazing skills for a far while longer, mostly due to how Hinata kept prompting him onward, but when they made it a certain distance, they managed to run into something odd.
"Is that a rain puddle?" Naruto asked aloud, his teammates quickly putting two and two together. Tazuna however, was left a little lost.
"So what? You telling me that you're scared of a little bit of water?" he scoffed. "I thought you were all meant to be tough. Don't tell me you can barely swim now."
Wordlessly, Naruto's pistol appeared in hand, bullets flying into the puddle. Two men jumped out of it, now sporting some new bleeding wounds as the captain pointed down the barrel.
"Good thing I packed some of the more nasty stuff to use." He commented, four sabres being drawn out at once. "Oi! Which one of you were stupid enough to decide on a rain puddle for a dry day!?"
"I told you it was a stupid idea Meizu." One of them told the other, receiving a cold shoulder in return.
"Let's just get this over and done with Gozu." In a blink of an eye, a thick chain appeared, attached to gauntlets worn by each of the men on opposite hands. With a brief charge, Naruto was forced towards a tree, the force managing to sever his head in a viscous fountain of blood.
"One down. Looks like four to go." Gozu boasted before he jumped away from a rain of shots towards where he was, dragging Meizu along with him.
"Tenten, Lee, go distract them!" Hinata ordered, the two leaping into action rapidly, Lee brandishing his sword while Tenten had a special trident to use. Tazuna, his view of the fight blocked by Hinata's protective presence, could only wonder about how fast everything had happened.
"Um, you're taking the death of your leader very well." He nervously stated, the Hyuuga not even turning around as she fired her pistol towards the two assaulters and fired.
"You have such little faith considering that the Hokage chose us specifically." Hinata said with a small chuckle as she pointed her gun towards where the red coated boy should've been laying without his head, but with a tense turn of his head, Tazuna was shocked to find only a headless straw dummy, a note with 'Surprised?' written on it stuck to the front.
KAAAKURANGER!
"Kakure no jutsu – kawarimi no jutsu!" in a cloud of smoke, a blade slashed through both Meizu and Gozu, curtesy of Naruto as ninja-red. A small book sat in his other hand, both of the men's faces printed within the pages.
"So you are the demon brothers of Kirigakure then?" Naruto asked genially, not waiting for an answer. "Then you'll bring in a hefty sum. I feel as if at this moment, Luka is looking down on me and smiling."
"Where the hell did you come from!?" Gozu roared, pulling up his gauntlet to block the sword coming down from above. "What the hell are you wearing?"
"Me? Oh, it's just something I prepared specially for the situation." With a quick slash, the chain was broke in half, detaching the two brothers from one another. Pulling out his Gokai sabre, he chucked it towards Lee who, throwing his gun in Hinata's general area, grabbed it mid-flight and brought it down on Meizu.
"Thanks a lot Naruto!" he yelled towards the blonde, Meizu straining against the weight of Lee placed onto the blades. The act left him open to Tenten however, sliding under and slashing at the exposed stomach. A twin barrage from Hinata managed to get the man down, leaving only his brother still standing.
"Hey! You little brats!" Gozu growled, only to receive a pair of blades to the back.
"Kakure no jutsu – bunshin no jutsu!" The two ninja-reds intoned in sync as they made another attach towards Gozu. The Kiri ninja was fortunate enough to stop the swords, but the sudden amount of steel entering his back reminded him of the other three he was left to deal with.
"Don't go forgetting about us now." Tenten cheekily said as she placed her key within the trident she held, followed by Lee and Hinata with their blades.
FIIINAL WAVE!
"I guess I'll be seeing you – or not!" Seeing the red garbed ninja in front of him disappear, Gozu could only curse as the waves of energy approached him faster than he could find something to swap out with, meaning that kawarimi wouldn't get him out of this one. An almighty crash sounded in the forest, Meizu being dragged unceremoniously and checked onto his brother's limp body.
"Right, just give me a second and I'll be back with some extra cash!" Naruto said, a cloud of smoke leaving where he was empty once again. Tazuna was shaking as the adrenaline of being ambushed left his body, only to leap in surprise as Naruto returned, back in his normal garb once more.
"Did you just get changed super-fast? What the hell?" The builder asked, though when the barrel of a pistol was shoved into his face, the man was quick to be quiet.
"I just had a nice 10 second talk with Jiji and he told me to ask you this. Why were there high level ninja waiting I ambush for you when you said there would only be bandits?"
Tazuna had never been more frightened in his life.
Anchor aweigh! So we got to the start of wave, let's see if the dice fall in our favour. New teams shall rear their head, be it one's I haven't used yet or those that have never existed before! I'll see you for that, right?