Chapter 5: Buffalo Wild Charge!

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AvatarUzumaki: Very interesting to see how those in Arthur's Kingdom fight. But I wonder if the ninja will be able to learn from them? Super excited to see what team 7 does in the fight! I'm looking forward to the next chapter! Also why didn't Naruto contact his father after finding out tazuna lied?

ThermalsniperN7: The ninja could learn a thing or two about how to adapt in a… I guess flexible manner. As for Naruto not contacting Minato, that accidentally slipped his mind.

Dragon Emperor0: That happens when you're trying not to die.

Spellbat: You forgot to mention Gowther from the Seven Deadly Sins…

ThermalsniperN7: … Oops.

Dragon Emperor0: I thought something seemed off. Can't believe I forgot my second favorite of the Sins.

MoonKnight030: Are you kidding me? Please tell me you're kidding. Mizuki was able to outmaneuver a Hokage? A fucking HOKAGE!? This fic is so bad that I don't even have words to describe it.

ThermalsniperN7: Apparently you've never heard of the strongest beings getting so pissed that people weaker than them can get the drop on them. Plus, the way you say it makes it seem like Minato is a deity to you, which he isn't. He's still human and prone to mistakes like everybody else. Don't like it? Too bad.

Dragon Emperor0: Plus we explained this at infinitum last chapter. So fuck off, prick.


-Land of Waves-

Hinata, Kakashi, Naruto and Sasuke all gasped in shock as they stared at the hulking bronze behemoth that Leone had now become in his so-called "Bison King" armor. As he now towered over the children in terms of height, now in equal stature to Zabuza.

"Okay, what the hell is that supposed to be? A way of drowning faster?" Said criminal taunted. Given the water around them, it was a pretty obvious taunt.

"You'd like that, wouldn't you?" Leone retorted before he charged forward. Zabuza smirked under his face wraps as he leapt over the charging boy and dodged. This caused Leone to slam into a tree and reduce it to splinters.

'Holy shit!' Naturo thought in shock as he looked at the remains of the tree.

"Huh. Impressive for a human. That would reduce weaker opponents to a red mist." Kurama commented.

'That's… I don't even know how to understand the density of that armor.' Sasuke thought with wide eyes.

Lumbering around to face Zabuza again, Leone then grabbed the two hammers at his waist and slammed them across the ground, sending Earth flying at the Demon of the Mist like a landslide.

Widening his eyes, Zabuza leapt out of the way of the attack and went through some hand signs before the area was covered in mist again. This made the travelers tense as they all looked around, trying to find their assailant.

"Aw great, not this again!" Naruto groaned.

"This guy is way too slippery. We need to figure out some sort of plan." Sasuke growled, kunai in hand.

Meanwhile, Leone's earth clones were still forming their shield wall around Tazuna. A few seconds later though, one of them picked up an odd change in the air's scent. That clone widened its eyes a moment later.

"MOVE!" It yelled, prompting one of the other clones to grab Tazuna and leap away just in time for Zabuza to destroy the rest of the earth constructs.

He'd done this by slipping between the cracks of the shield wall via water transformation jutsu. And now there was only one clone left.

The clone quickly changed his spear back into its sword form and got into a stance, slamming it against the shield as an intimidating display and to signal to the others where Zabuza was.

"Get him!" Naruto exclaimed, understanding the signal. Sasuke and Hinata understood the signal, too, as the former charged in.

"Got it!" The Avenger exclaimed as he tried to land a hit on the swordsman, only to grunt as he was kicked back, skidding along the ground for a bit before stopping.

"Sasuke, are you alright?!" Hinata called out in concern.

"I'll be fine!" He called back before crying out as Zabuza appeared and stomped on his midsection.

"You kids are starting to really bug–Me!" The man growled before gasping as Leone charged into him–horns first–like a wild Buffalo, destroying several trees in the process before slamming against a cave side next to the stream beside them.

"Bison King: Titan Knuckle!" The boy yelled as he leapt back and held onto his right arm before its gauntlet shot off with a blast of Earth-based Chakra and slammed hard into Zabuza, creating a crater in the cave wall… before the warrior evaporated into water. "Damn, another water clone!" He growled as his gauntlet returned to him via Chakra chain.

Kakashi's instincts acted up before the real Zabuza emerged from the mist and attacked him, forcing the copycat ninja on the defensive, which ended with him dodging a sword swing. This, however, left him open to a kick from the rogue ninja and he was sent flying while his students watched on in shock and dismay.

"That armor of yours is pretty impressive, boy. But tell me, can it survive this?" The rogue ninja said as he hurled his sword at Leone, causing it to hit him and sent him stumbling back and the sword spinning in the air–which Zabuza met mid air before bringing it down on the bronze behemoth and actually managing to take off an entire arm section of the armor–causing it to disappear in Chakra fragments.

"Shit!" Leone cursed as he was forced to dispel his armor and leap away onto the water right as Kakashi resurfaced. Both of them immediately noticed something off about the liquid.

"This water is too dense." The silver haired man noted.

"Yeah. What's up with that?" The beast boy wondered as Zabuza appeared behind them and went through hand signs.

"Fools! Water Style: Water Prison Jutsu!" He exclaimed, trapping the two in a single sphere of water.

"What the?!" Leone gasped as he tried to slash apart the prison with his claws, but found that they had no effect.

"Escaping in the water, bad idea." Kakashi mused as they were thoroughly trapped.

"Kakashi-sensei! Leone!" Hinata cried in alarm.

"Damn it!" Sasuke cursed, seething at the sight.

"Oh man, this is bad." Naruto gulped as Zabuza made a one handed hand sign.

"Water Clone Jutsu." He intoned as a water clone appeared. This, accompanied by the fact that this guy had been outclassing them at every point, made the kids really scared.

Naruto even reflexively reached for the kunai his dad gave him, but stopped when he felt an excruciating pain in his still wounded hand. That's when he remembered his promise and steeled himself.

"Sasuke, you up for tearing this asshole apart?" The blonde asked.

"Need you ask?" The Uchiha replied rhetorically with a smirk. Kakashi looked at his students and felt his concern grow.

"No! Don't fight Zabuza! Take the bridge builder and run! Stay on mission!" He called out to them. "His water clone can't go far from his original body! If you run, it won't be able to follow!" he told them.

"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Sensei." Hinata said as she got into her gentle fist stance. "But running ceased to be an option when you got captured." She added, before activating her Byakugan.

Meanwhile…

"Naruto." Kurama said, getting his host's attention.

'What's up, Kuyuubi?" The blonde responded.

"You remember that Taijutsu chakra technique you had me help you make? The one you called the "Dead Last Jutsu"?" The fox responded, causing the boy to nearly faceplant. He completely forgot about that!

The Dead Last Jutsu was a companion Jutsu to his Kitsune Style Ultimate Taijutsu. A sort of riff off of the Lighting body or other body augmenting Jutsus of other clans using nine tails Chakra.

'Damn! This whole situation nearly made me forget about it!' He yelled internally before calming himself. 'Okay… What idea did you come up with involving it?' He asked his tenant.

"Simple, we summon a slew of Shadow clones, and have them swarm this clone with the Jutsu and your Kitsune all fours style. Leaving his real body wide open to plan B." The nine tailed fox stated.

'Heh. Perfect.' The blonde smirked before he made a hand sign. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He yelled, causing twenty clones to form. The clone looked around and smirked.

"Huh. Shadow Clones, eh? And there's quite a few of them." It mused before the clones got on all fours and started glowing red. "What the-? What are they doing?" It wondered with a frown. Sasuke and Hinata, meanwhile, realized what Naruto was doing.

'That might actually work.' The two thought. Both of them had seen Naruto's personal Taijutsu and Jutsu before in the Academy, and silently admitted that both were effective, though the Jutsu was rather taxing if their observations were to be believed.

The clones then charged at the water clone before leaping into the air, kunais in their hands as they descended on the water construct. Upon landing, they concealed him in a clone dome of sorts, but even that wasn't enough as the rogue ninja's water clone smacked them all away with his sword.

The shadow clones all flew through the air and skid along the ground, but they didn't dispel thanks to the Dead Last Jutsu.

"Alright guys, Leaping Fox Hidden Wolf formation!" Naruto prime barked as half leapt into the air again and started attacking Zabuza with punches and kicks mid air while the others attacked from below–except for one and the original.

The two were gathering up more body enhancing Chakra for the coup de grace, their ultimate Taijutsu attack…

Zabuza's water clone growled as he swung his blade and destroyed the clones, but his heavy attack left him wide open for the original and the clone

"Beast-Man Uzumaki Secret Ultimate Taijutsu Technique!" Naruto prime and the clone said before they started charging at the rogue ninja on all fours before turning into two red Chakra Tornadoes that looked like the fox's nine tails. "Tail Over Tail!" The two yelled as they headed straight for the water clone.

"Oh fuck!" The clone yelled as it tried to use its sword to block, but the attack powered through it, reducing it to nothing more than a puddle on the ground.

"Wow! Okay, that's impressive!" Leone commented with wide eyes.

"Yes! It worked!" Hinata cheered with a smile. Sasuke, on the other hand, just smirked at his rival's plan succeeding after a bit of struggling. The blonde then reached into his backpack for something as the dust cleared from the attack.

"Sasuke, it's your turn!" He called, tossing an object into the air that the Uchiha recognized and leaped at immediately. When he grabbed it and landed on the ground, he held the item in front of him.

'I get it. So that's his game.' He thought as he unfurled the device. "Demon Wind Shuriken! Windmill of Shadows!" He yelled as he held the weapon ready.

"A shuriken? You won't even be able to touch me with that." The real Zabuza scoffed before Sasuke threw it at him.

"We'll see about that!" Sasuke yelled, before turning to Hinata. "Hinata, Naruto! When his guard is down, use that moment to strike! I'll guard Tazuna!" He added, jumping back to the man.

"Right!" His teammates chorused in reply. But right as the shuriken was about to hit Zabuza, he fucking caught the damn thing!

"Did you really–" He started to taunt before his eyes widened upon spotting another shuriken flying at him. 'Another shirken hidden in the shadow of the first?!' He thought in surprise.

'There's no way he can catch this one!' Hinata thought, waiting for her chance to strike. But right before it could make contact, Zabuza leapt over the weapon and avoided it. "What?!" She gasped.

"I told you, that won't work on me!" The warrior jeered before Naruto attacked him with an attempted bicycle kick, but was struck down by the shuriken—causing him to disappear in a puff of smoke. "What?! That was a clone?!" The man gasped, right as Hinata appeared in front of him in his confusion, byakugan active.

"You're mine!" She yelled as she delivered a palm strike to the arm holding the water prison together, causing the ninja to grunt as he was forced to drop the jutsu, allowing Kakashi and Leone to recover.

"Excellent work, you three!" The Spartan complimented.

The group then jumped back right as the second shuriken turned into Naruto and the blonde hurled a kunai at Zabuza, which nailed him in the chest as the boy then followed it up by kicking the knife in deeper and then delivering a bicycle kick to the man's face and leaping back to his team.

"Hey, Zabuza." The kitsune grinned as he faced the man, who fell to one knee—pulling out the knife. "Put this in your bingo book. The ninja who's going to become the next Hokage of the village hidden in the leaves—his name, is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze. Son of Minato and Kushina Namikaze. And also known…" He added as he pointed a thumb on his headband. "As the Dead Last Demon." He finished with a smirk.

'Wait, this kid is the son of the Yellow Flash and the Red-Hot Habanero?! Fuck! No wonder he surprised me like he did!' Zabuza cursed mentally as he struggled to his feet. But this momentary shock was soon taken over by a feeling of great amusement as he started laughing.

"Alright, Dead Last Demon." The man chuckled darkly as he pointed his sword at the boy. "Let's see if you can back up that talk of yours." He added as the group started getting ready for round two.

This was it: Team 7 vs the Demon of the Hidden Mist. And only one was coming out of this fight alive!


ThermalsniperN7: Sorry for the delay. We have other stories on our plates to worry about. We do hope you enjoyed the differences here as opposed to canon.

Dragon Emperor0: That last jutsu Naruto used was one developed by Plus Ultra Man in his What if Hinata was on Team 7 series. Which is the inspiration for this story. We decided to incorporate it here to pay further homage to this tale's inspiration.

ThermalsniperN7: Speaking of which, there will be a few other such things from it that will be present. I won't say which to avoid spoiling anything, so keep guessing, people. *Amused chuckling*

Dragon Emperor0: But if you watch said videos, you'll probably be able to at least guess what that is. Also, due to various factors at play here, Naruhina fans should expect Naruto and Hinata to be more open to a potential relationship much earlier than in canon. Just thought I'd bring that up.

ThermalsniperN7: Yeah. You lot are gonna enjoy that for a longer period in this story. Anyway, see you next time!