Six Eyes of the Snake Chapter 7
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Chapter 7: We want a C rank!
We find our heroes hiding out in various trees scattered around a clearing. They have their chakra signatures suppressed so that their target couldn't detect them. When suddenly their wireless communicators blazed to life.
"This is Ring Eye I'm in position there is no sign of the target over." said our favorite blonde haired shinobi.
"T-this is Tenshi I also c-can't see t-the t-target." the Hyuga heiress blushed since her nickname was angel.
"This is raven I have a visual on the target requesting permission to engage." requested Sasuke.
"Raven this is Snake begin your assault Ring Eye and Tenshi are moving to support you."
Sasuke nodded in his tree and dropped down in front of the target. When it saw the raven haired avenger the target immediately shot off in the other direction. But before it got far Hinata dropped down in front of them.
The target was quivering but as Sasuke got close suddenly lashed out scratching him deeply across his face and quickly ran around him.
The target thought they were in the clear when he felt a force pull him back and saw their blonde haired team mate with his arm out stretched towards him.
Naruto caught the beast by the scruff on its neck so that the little demon couldn't turn him into deli meat like it did to his raven haired team mates face.
Their sensei suddenly dropped down and turned to the blonde, "Is it the target?"
Naruto took a close look at the feline in his hand before turning to his sensei, "Red bow in the left ear, this is definitely Tora.
A little while later they were standing in the Hokages office with the demon cat firmly in Naruto clutches. They than handed it too the Daimyos wife who proceeded to pull the cat into a bone crushing hug.
Everyone felt kind of sorry for the abused feline, well, everyone except for Sasuke who was chuckling after seeing the cat's insides turned to paste since it had mutilated his face.
After the large woman had left with the little devil er I mean cat in her arms team 7 turned back to the Hokage. Sarutobi than looked back at the team who was still standing there expecting another mission. He picked up a stack of papers on his desk and started shifting through them before he pulled out a folder that said D- rank on them.
He then looked into the folder before turning back to the young genin and sannin standing in front of him. "Lets see we we have a few gardening missions, an old lady needs you to pick up some groceries for her, and lets see," Suddenly there was a loud crash and a shout of, "TORA NO COME BACK!" Everyone in the room sweat dropped as they heard this as the aged Hokage continued to speak. "Or you can catch Tora again."
Naruto who's eye had been twitching the whole time suddenly yelled out "NO! No more chores! Those aren't missions that shinobi are needed for civilians could do those jobs old man give us something better.
Hiruzen looked at the young Uzumaki's team mates who he saw nod in agreement. Orochimaru sighed as his apprentice could still be quite expressive despite all the emotional conditioning that Orochimaru had put him through.
Sarutobi sighed before shouting, "You can come in know."
As he said this an aged man came through the door, The Hokage continued, team 7 this is your mission you must escort Tazuna here back to his home and protect him as he finishes building his bridge.
The old man now revealed to be Tazuna looked over at the new squad and frowned before turning back to the Hokage. I ask for protection and this is what you give me three wet behind the ears kids and a man who looks, well, creepy.
Hiruzen was about to protest but his face suddenly lit up as if remembering something. "Orochimaru I almost forgot Jiraiya sent me a message a couple of hours ago saying he needs your help infiltrating a base undetected. I advise you leave as soon as possible I've already arranged for some one to take over your team in your absence."
The snake sannin nodded and vanished in shunshin.
Naruto who was now wide eyed looked at the aged man in front of him in shock. "What sensei isn't even going to go on our first C-rank mission with us, and what do you mean by having someone take over as our sensei?" (1)
Suddenly a spiky silver haired man poked his head through the window. "You requested me Hokage-sama?
"Ah Kakashi I'm glad you arrived and right on time too." The aged Sarutobi said the last mart with a grin seeing the puzzled look in his eye.
"I don't understand," Kakashi asked puzzled, "I thought I was late?
Hiruzen chuckled at the elite jonin's puzzled look, "Yes but I knew you'd be late so I told you to be here two hours ago."
The silver haired man glared at his aged leader before turning to the young genin team that would be taking on a mission and nearly had a stroke when he saw our favorite blonde genin, "He looks just like Minato-sensei," Kakashi thought too himself.
He then gave the young team his trademark eye smile before bringing his favorite orange book to his face once again. Everyone who knew him previously including all the hidden ANBU sweat dropped at the sight while the genin just looked at him confused.
The hokage sighed while he shook his head before turning to address the young doujutsu wielding shinobi, "This is Kakashi Hatake, he will be your substitute sensei for when ever Orochimaru is called away on other missions," Kakashi gave them a small wave and an eye smile before letting Hiruzen continue, "He will be the jonin leader on this mission."
Tazuna chose this moment to open his slightly drunk mouth, "Wait I ask for protection and you give me a scarecrow and three milk drinking kids?" He would have kept going if it weren't for the fact that he suddenly found himself pinned to the wall by senbon needles stabbing into his clothing curtesy of Naruto's senbon launchers.
Tazuna sweated a bit at the glare the three young shinobi were giving him.
The aged leader sighed taking deep inhale of his pipe before speaking to the young teens, "Would you please free the client it is not good for mission success if you try to kill the person your being paid to protect."
The three team mates looked down in slight shame before they went and removed their charge from the wall where he was pinned. They then lined up in front of the hokage facing their substitute sensei who had moved in front of the Hokages desk.
"Alright team meet at the gate in one hour bring enough supplies to last you the week. But don't weigh yourself down with to much gear." spoke the masked nin.
Team seven released a chorus of "Hai!" before vanishing to get their equipment from their respective houses. They met up at the gate with Tazuna and then left for wave country though no one noticed how nervous Tazuna looked as they left.
Few Hours Later
Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata were all discussing their relative doujutsu and Kakashi and Tazuna were walking in silence. As they were watching they saw a puddle in the distance they all looked at each other then began speaking in in whispers.
"Do you see the puddle too?" asked Sasuke.
"Yah but it hasn't rained in weeks, Hinata can you check it with your Byakugan?"
The pale eyed heiress nodded her head before silently activating her kekai genkai. She gasped as she saw two figures in the puddle that appeared to be around chunin level. After revealing the information to her male counter parts they looked at their substitute sensei silently asking him if he saw them.
Kakashi nodded slightly letting them know he saw them too. They all nodded while preparing themselves for an attack.
Sure enough right as they passed the puddle two figures emerged from the puddle and proceeded to wrap a spiked chain around Kakashi as they pulled it ripping him apart.
Sasuke and Naruto proceeded to throw kunai at the duo which caught their chain pinning it too a tree. Before one of them could release his chain Hinata appeared in front of him unleashing a fury of juken strikes making him unable to move and slump over. (2)
Hinata immediately jumped away seeing with her Byakugan that his partner had lunged at her with one of his clawed gauntlets. Naruto jumped between them blocking the claw with his katana.
The remaining assailant attempted to lash out at our blonde hero with his other claw but suddenly was forced back when Naruto's foot found itself in his gut. Getting his wind back he saw the last of the genin trio finishing up some hand signs and immediately thought, "shit!", when he saw that he had finished on the tora hand sign.
Sasuke inhaled deeply before yelling out, "Katon: Great fireball jutsu!"He exhaled and a medium sized fireball came out, though still impressive for someone so young, and slammed into the missing nin who was sent flying backward, slamming into a tree with multiple burn marks all over his body.
Kakashi then decided too reappeared and pull out a spool of ninja wire and proceed to tie the kiri nuke nin to a tree. He than turned around to see a slightly irritated genin team.
It was Naruto who spoke, "Sensei, why did you not help us with the two dangerous nuke nin?"
The masked jonin rubbed the back of his head sheepishly before replying, "I wanted to see how skilled you were and how you would react in a life or death situation especially since your not my team, but I must say I'm quite impressed I didn't learn as much as I wanted too since you dispatched them so quickly."
The three genin seemingly accepted his answer and fell back into position.
Kakashi than turned towards Tazuna who suddenly found his shoes quite fascinating. Kakashi spoke with a strong tone that reflected his ex-ANBU captain status, "Why is it we encountered enemy nin on a mission that was supposed to be C-rank? Normally this type of mission is at least a B-rank and if we encounter a jonin, which I suspect we will, than than it could even turn into an A-rank. Tell me one good reason why we shouldn't abandon this mission and return home right now?"
Tazuna's eyes widened at the last part not wanting the ninja to leave immediately broke into a sob story how his country didn't have enough money to afford a higher ranked mission, and how if they left than his wife and grandchild would forever blame the leaf ninja and how his grandson would cry over his death.
Needless to say the four shinobi ignored him for the most part not really caring but that did not mean they wanted to back down. The recent events only inspired them to want to take this mission even more, for Naruto and Sasuke to see how well they could do against a serious opponent while for Hinata she was thinking about how doing a high class mission as a genin might get her father and her clan to see her as more than a failure.
Kakashi then turned to his temporary students and asked, "Lets vote on it then, we will continue this mission if you think you are ready for it."
They looked at him with only confidence and determination, well Hinata was a little nervous, Orochimaru was helping her with that and she had made good progress but it was still there.
But it was Naruto who spoke, "We need to do this sensei if not for the old man here than to see how far we've come in our training." His ringed eyes oozing confidence.
Kakashi nodded looking at his other two charges too see if they shared this view only to see them nod in agreement. He sighed as he suspected the mission would probably escalate but knew that he couldn't change their minds so he proceeded to turn and gesture for Tazuna to continue leading them on their way to his home.
The aged bridge builders eyes watered and proceeded to tell them of his thanks over and over before finally continuing on their way to wave country.
Several Hours Later
They made it to a shore where they saw an old man waiting for them with a small boat that looked like it was probably used for fishing. They all climbed in and the aged man proceeded to row them across the river.
When they got to the other side Tazuna gave the man a quick thanks before the fisherman pushed off and disappeared into the fog. They had been walking for awhile and it had been thus far uneventful.
Tazuna saw this and the quiet as a good sign that they would be able to make it without another incident. But the shinobi knew better, they hadn't heard any sounds of wild life in a while which was a sign that they were probably being watched and the fact that the fog was getting even thicker was not helping them at all.
Hinata activated her Byakugan and taking a look around. She saw a rather large signature vanish right out of her range before she could get a good look at it. She relayed this information to her sensei who nodded and whispered for her to activate her Byakugan every minute or so incase they returned.
A few minutes later when she was doing one her sweeps of the area she saw something coming towards them. Quickly identifying the object as a ridiculously large blade immediately yelled, "EVERYONE GET DOWN!"
Everyone lunged for the ground, Kakashi pulling Tazuna down with him to make sure he didn't lose his head since he didn't have near the same speed as the rest of them.
The large cleaver like blade continued flying till it got stuck in a tree where a masked man proceeded to jump on top of the the large blade.
He was wearing camo styled pants was shirtless and had a white bandana shaped cloth draped over his mouth and nose. He spoke in a deep and threatening voice, "Well, well, what do we have here a few wet behind the ears genin and the Copy Cat nin Kakashi, well this is a pleasant surprise to say the least. How about you give me the bridge builder and I won't have to kill all of you?
Kakashi responded while pulling out a kunai, "Zabuza the demon of the hidden mist why am I not surprised by you showing up, but we won't surrender Tazuna-san so I shall have to defeat you in combat myself murdering demon!" Once he finished his statement him and his temporary students took their personal stances.
Sasuke with his Uchiha intercept style and with his Fire ball technique's hand signs going through his mind in preparation.
Hinata fell into her improvised jyuken which Orochimaru had helped her alter to fit her bodies natural flexibility.
And Naruto into the snake style which Orochimaru had taught him.
Zabuza chuckled at the display of bravado from the young genin and their jonin sensei. He went through some hand signs before announcing kirigakure so jutsu. As he finished calling out the name of the technique a thick mist rolled in preventing them from seeing more than a foot in any direction.
Hinata immediately activated her Byakugan which helped but was shocked to find that the technique limited her range more than not being there. She quickly surmised that it was due to the chakra that filled the mist causing it to hinder her vision but was still better than not having it at all.
Naruto flipped through hand seals before shouting out, "Futon: Great Break through!"
Wind gushed out and blew the mist away from them but it was short lived as Zabuza just pumped more chakra into the technique and the mist just came back as strong as ever ever.
Naruto grimaced as he knew that it took him more chakra to get rid of the mist than it took Zabuza to bring it back and due to the already small amount of chakra necessary to cast the technique especially given their surroundings he knew it was not worth wasting the energy. Trying to rid the area of the technique at least not until Zabuza used up more of his chakra.
Kakashi took up a defensive stance while holding his kunai ready. He reached out with all of his senses hoping to hear or smell Zabuza.
Meanwhile the genin with stood the battery that was the the swordsman's killing intent. While they were not as affected as they would have been due to Orochimaru drilling them with his own Sasuke and Hinata still were a bit scared due to them not having as much training as Naruto. But they hid it well and sucked it up and maintained their defensive stances.
Zabuza was mildly impressed at the young shinobi. Some chunin couldn't even stand his killing intent he felt he should try taking it up a notch to see if they could still keep their cool.
"Eight places: lungs, heart, kidneys, clavicle artery, brain, throat, liver, and throat. So many choices but I can only choose one for each hmmmm such a difficult decision.
The genin shivered a bit a the killing intent laced words but still managed to stay strong and remain in their stances.
All was quiet for several moments before Hinata's eyes widened since she saw Zabuza right in front of Naruto swinging his blade horizontally at him.
Naruto's eyes widened and immediately brought his own blade to guard. The blades clashed in a shower of sparks. The two swordsmen were clashing but Naruto was barely able to with stand Zabuza's strength.
Luckily it didn't last long since Kakashi appeared behind Zabuza and stabbed him in the back with a kunai. But in stead of blood water came out and the Zabuza dissolved into water revealing it to be a water clone. A shadow appeared behind Kakashi and sliced him in half only for a puddle of water to form revealing Kakashi to be a water clone as well.
The real Kakashi than appeared behind Zabuza and put a kunai to his throat. "This is over Zabuza you have lost."
Zabuza chuckled before saying, "Most impressive Kakashi even in this mist you were able to counter my technique but it still is not enough for you to win." As he said that he dissolved into water revealing itself as another water clone.
Kakashi spun around quickly only to be kicked in the stomach and sent flying into the water. The second he landed he sensed something off about the water, "This water is too heavy." His eyes widened in realization but it was already too late as he heard Zabuza call out, "Suiton: Water entrapment jutsu."
He was pulled into a ball of highly condensed water where he could barely move his fingers.
The young students of Orochimaru eyes widened when they saw their jonin commander trapped in a bubble of water. Zabuza smirked and formed a hand sign and a water clone rose up in front of him and stepped out onto shore. The young teens took up positions, Sasuke and Naruto started going through hand signs before shouting Katon: Fire ball jutsu/Futon: Great Breakthrough!
The two techniques combined and formed a massive firestorm which evaporated the clone and would have singed Zabuza's eyebrows if he had any.
Knowing it was only a matter of time before Zabuza ran out of breath Naruto stretched his hand out before calling out one of his favorite techniques, "Shinra Tensei!"
Zabuza suddenly felt as if gravity began to pull him backwards and away from his jutsu effectively ending it.
Kakashi fell onto the water keeping himself up with chakra, which had become second nature for a man of his calibre, he coughed a few times before he got his breath back and proceeded to stand back up and face Zabuza who was picking himself up after being tossed through the air like a rag doll.
Growling angrily not knowing what force threw him he redrew his massive cleaver blade and turned to face Kakashi.
What happened next made the genin almost think that there was a mirror or something between the two since they were going through the exact same seals right in time with each other before they simultaneously called out the name of the technique, "Suiton: Water Dragon jutsu!" As they finished two massive water dragons rose from the water and slammed into each other before destabilizing and falling back into the rest of the water.
They than proceeded to do almost the same thing but this time called out, Suiton: Great Waterfall jutsu!" as two large spouts of water shot out and again canceled each other out. Zabuza's imaginary eye brows furrowed in frustration as he thought, "What is he doing is he reading," "My mind?" Kakashi finished for him as Zabuza's eyes widened before furrowing again before calling out, "I WON'T BE BEATEN," as Kakashi also joined in, "BY A COPY CAT MONKEY!"
They began going through hand seals again but Kakshi finished his first before yelling out, "Suiton: Great Waterfall jutsu." The resulting water spout slammed Zabuza into a tree where Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke took advantage of his prone figure and pinned him to the tree with kunai.
As Kakashi approached the downed mist ninja he heard him call out weakly, "Can, can you see the future?"
Kakashi looked down with a careless glance while pulling out a kunai and saying, "Yes, and I predict your future is death."
But before anyone could do anything a couple senbon flew through the air before hitting Zabuza in his neck as he slumped over.
A voice drew their attention, "Thank you I have been tracking him for quite awhile but couldn't bring him down, thank you for your assistance as he knelt down next the body and put his hands on it before vanishing in a mist shunshin.
Kakashi turned towards the team before he collapsed face first into the earth.
Chapter End
1) I couldn't have Orochimaru lead them because theres no one that could have put up a fight unless I have Gato call in Akatsuki which I didn't want him to do since that seemed stupid especially since I've been wanting to work Kakashi in there for awhile now.
2) They have been training with Orochimaru so Sasuke and Hinata are a good amount stronger than they would be and Naruto is obviously very skilled since Orochimaru has been training him for years now.
AN: and here you have it folks another chapter. I originally planned for this chapter to stretch all the way to the bridge battle but that would have taken me longer to release the chapter and I had to leave for a five day field trip. I originally planned to post this five days ago but my internet was down when I wanted to post it so I had to wait till I got back. Now for what you have all been waiting for the winner for who shall be paired with Sasuke is drum roll please (drums rolling) A TIE! Between Tenten and Kin who both have 6 1/2 votes so I shall be extending the voting period until the next chapter is released, and remember if you have already voted you CANNOT vote again unless you wish to change your vote. In which case your previous vote will be removed from your old choice and placed on your new one. The list along with the numbers of votes is listed below.
Behold the current runnings:
1. Tenten 6 1/2
1. Kin 6 1/2,
2. Shion 4 1/2
3. Tayuya 3 1/2
4. Ino 3
Special Notice
I'm planning on starting another story which shall be a cross over with Naruto and X-men evolution. I haven't started it yet but I plan too and I encourage all of you to give it a try I shall be using my Six Eyes of the Snake Naruto so be prepared cause he is about to take the X-men evolution world by storm. I will put another notice up once I release the first chapter. Thank you for reading and I hope you read my new story once I post it.