A/N ok time for the wave arc baby's B-J
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"speech"
'Thoughts'
"Kyubi speech"
'Kyubi thoughts'
Jutsu
Chapter 9: Mission to Wave.
-Timeskip 4 weeks and a metric fuck ton of D-Ranks later...-
"So you think you're ready for a C-Rank mission do you?" the third mused as he stared at the irritated faces of team 7. Surprisingly Naruto was fairly calm about the whole situation. Apparently he didn't mind D-Ranks that much since his clones take care of most of the work. The third had notced this while checking on Naruto through his crystal ball, to the stunned surprise of the aged kage. That, and Sarutobi knew the kid must be loaded right now, he'd already done well over 150 D-Ranks that month (5-6 per day), and at roughly 5000 Ryo per mission the kid was more than well off. (A/N roughly 50 USD per mision, 250-300 USD Per day, or between 7.5k and 9k USD in all.)
"Yes sir, I believe my team has earned a chance at taking on a C-Rank." You could tell Kakashi was sucking up to Sarutobi, hell even Sakura could tell and that's saying something.
"The third sighed "Well seeing that your team has enough missions between the three of them to constitue a C-Rank, I don't see why they couldn't take one." He lit his pipe and took a nice long drag.
"I thank you Hokage-sama." Kakashi let out a little bow.
"Very well, I have just the mission for your team today." He turned to a chunin by the door. "Send in the client please." The Chunin nodded and walked out, a few minutes later an old man wobbled in, you could tell he was drunk by the smell that followed him, not to mention the open bottle of sake in his hand.
"Wha? These bunch a brats are gonna be guarding me?" the old man slurred.
"Yes, Team 7 will be escorting Tazuna the bridge builder here to the land of waves where his next bridge is to be built and will stay for the duration to protect him and his bridge from any bandits or highwaymen that may interfere with that."
Kakashi turned to the Tazuna "Don't worry sir, these three may be Genin but I am a Jonin ranked ninja and their teacher so you don't need to fear any bandits while we're with you." Kakashi eye smiled at him
"Yeah whatever." he turned back to leave the room.
"Meet us at the gate in one hour." Kakashi called out, the only response was a wave of a hand. He turned to the Genin present. "Alright you heard, go pack your things and be at the gate in one hour."
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'Alright, finally a decent mission, no more of the crap work for awhile!' Naruto was nearly jumping for joy at the prospect of leaving the village on his first real mission, even if it was to protect some old goat of a bridge builder. It was a start and that's all that mattered.
"You know Hinata's going to jump you when you get back right?" the fox chuckled "I swear that girl has become so attached to you, I'm surprised she hasn't fused with your tail with how much she grabs onto the damn thing."
'Ugghh, don't remind me...I know I only really showed the thing off once in class when I first started, but seriously did she HAVE TO pull an Anko on my tail?'
"Actually I'd be more afraid of what her father is going to do to your tail..." Naruto let out an unconscious shiver.
'Don't remind me'
-Generic flashback of doom, 3 weeks ago-
"Hinata-chan?" Naruto started, the two were sitting comfortably in the tower of death, After Anko's little 'seesion' with Hinata, the young Hyuuga had taken a liking to the place, if only to be around the snake mistress more... That and become a symbiotic life form with her ever present center of the universe, Naruto. Or more accurately the tail he just so happened to show her not a few minutes ago.
Said girl proceeded to wrap her body around said appendage and then started to snuggle the furry thing...Hinata didn't really give a shit at that point but it was starting to freak Naruto out.
"Yes Naruto-Kun" Hinata replied sweetly, his tail wrapped firmly around the girl.
"So are you still going to marry me and everything, I know it's been a week and we've gone on a few dates and all but does everything 'feel' right to you?"
The Hyuuga girl nodded "Yes Naruto-Kun, I haven't felt happier in my life."
"I see you're not stuttering anymore, what happened?" the blonde looked curiously at the girl, for her to stop stuttering meant she overcame the confidence issues she had told him about on their first date, but how the hell did she do it so fast...
"Anko's aggressive 'therapy' helped" She smiled again but there was a tint of red this time...
'Ah that's why...' a large sweatdrop was starting to form on Naruto's head..."Wait, I forgot to ask, how has your dad taken to us dating and our planned marriage?" The girls face fell 'Oh thats not good'
"I haven't told him yet" she replied sadly "He knows I'm dating you but the marriage is still hidden from him."
"Don't worry Hinata-chan." he wrapped the girl into a big hug which got the desired 'eep' he was looking for, no matter what 'therapy' Anko used, Hinata was still Hinata. "We'll burn that bridge when we cross it, if it helps any I'll try and get him alone and have a nice father-son chat"
"Really?" she sounded hopeful.
"For you Hinata-chan, anything" He gave her a warm smile which made the girl snuggle her fuzzy boa, (aka Naruto's tail) even harder, causing some discomfort for our hero...
-End Flashback-
Naruto shivered again as a phantom pain rain up his tail. 'Yeah I'll talk to her dad when I get back from this mission
"Oh you poor, poor bastard..."
'Thanks for the vote of confidence.'
She giggled like a schoolgirl. "You're welcome."
"..."
-At the gate-
"He's late..." Sakura growled.
"And you're surprised by that how?" Naruto asked staring down at a pair of cards, "Hit me" he barked at Sasuke who dealt him another card.
"That's 21. Damn dobe, remind me to take you to a casino to clear the place out, how many wins is that now.
"42." he replied blankly
Sasukes face scrunched up in thought. "... I suddenly got a feeling... that the universe is fucking with us..."
"Welcome to my world! You'll like it here, we have cookies!" Naruto replied maniacally.
"Make it tomatoes and you got a deal!" Sasuke barked with conviction, pumping his fist in the air.
*SMACK, SMACK*
"You two are hopeless." Sakura huffed, as the two rubbed the lumps on their heads
"Ahh you're just jealous that Sasuke's hanging out with me alot more than you" Naruto got a sly look to his face, "Or is it you think something's going on between us, YaoiSaku-chan?"
*SMACK*
"In your dreams, baka" The lump on Naruto's head now had a smaller one on top of it.
Naruto could only chuckle though, seeing as Sakura barely put any power behind that one or the one before for that matter. Over the past month team 7 had bonded surprisingly well. Sasuke seemed mellower and friendlier, though that was probably from Naruto showing Sasuke how use his lightning element, nothing like a sense of accomplishment to bring people together after all. However when Naruto had shown him how to use the tazer a gleam that looked eerily similar to his when he pulled pranks was visible in the Uchiha's eye and that sent chills down the blonde maverick's spine. Whether they were good or bad chills had yet to be established.
As for Sakura, the girl took to her water element like...well...a fish to water. It only took an abnormally large amount of partial drownings to get the girl into tip top shape with her element, she couldn't do anything big with her reserves as small as they were, but what she lacked in power she more then made up in control. Naruto chuckled evily 'it's funny, she took the Teppōdama knock-off I showed her, and refined it down to insane degrees, now it's almost as effective as a regular Teppōdama! She doesn't even need seals either, just gather chakra and bam!'
"It is impressive, they took to their elements better than you did." Kyuubi piped in.
'Well duh. They had me teaching them while I had to find out everything they now know on my own, so it took me a bit longer.'
"It's a good thing we were able to get her to learn some medical jutsu as well."
'Yeah' he snorted silently 'Even if she's coming along nicely with water we definitely need a medic, I know I'm a badass motherfucker and all but even I get hurt.. It's definitely a good idea, wonder why no one's thought of it before?'
Meanwhile is some bass ackwards city in fire country a blonde haired woman sitting at a slot machine sneezed violently causing the machine to hit trip 7's. "Someone must be talking bad about me" The woman mused as she scooped her winnings into a bucket.
Back with our hero we find him winning another hand, this time at poker.
"Dammit!" The Uchiha grumbled, "Seriously dude, we need to market you as a good luck charm, what does that make it now?"
"69 wins"
"...I'm getting that feeling that the universe is fucking with us again..."
"Don't worry you get used to it" Naruto waved off his concern "Now deal the cards." after another 10 minutes of Naruto winning hands Kakashi finally decided to grace them with his presence.
"Yo, glad to see you're all here."
Naruto turned an interested look at the cycloptic jonin "What's the excuse this time, huh?"
Kakashi shrugged "Eh, I got jumped by some woman on the way here, she had her way with me in an academy broom closet and when she was finished she wanted to snuggle. Who was I to deny her?"
Both Naruto and Sasuke dropped their cards, Sakura dropped her jaw, Tazuna...(who just so happened to be just as late as Kakashi due to him having a hangover) dropped his sake bottle, which he promptly caught before it hit the ground...no sense in wasting good booze.
Naruto's laughter filled the air. "Ok if that's a lie I'll give you a 10 for originality." Kakashi eye-smiled "If it's the truth then hot damn hahahaha."
"Well, I'll be happy to admit that you three will never know" the Jonin purred out, creeping out all of those present.
"Not that I'd want to know what your sex life is like." Naruto remarked blandly.
"Oh and what would you know about a sex life, Mr. virgin?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow, hoping to get a rise out of the youth.
Sadly Naruto just gave him a blank look, he also raised an eyebrow which made Kakashi sweat a little when he remembered that Sarutobi said the boy was married to Anko. All he'd have to do was ask the kinky woman to do anything and she'd most likely try it.
"Ok then, moving on." Kakashi wisely dodged that bullet. "Are all of you packed?" he glanced between his three students, his gaze finally landing on Naruto, who didn't have a pack on. "Naruto where is your pack?" in response, Naruto pulled a scroll out of his back pocket.
"Sealed up tight in this scroll sensei." he flipped the scroll once before pocketing it.
"You know how to make storage scrolls?" Kakashi sounded surprised and genuinely interested.
"Yeah I've dabbled in the sealing arts here and there. I like making my own things, and making my own exploding tags and storage scrolls makes my life alot easier." He grinned, hoping Kakashi would drop the subject.
"Alright Naruto, just don't try to learn anything that is out of your range, I don't want you accidentally ripping a part of you soul out or blowing up half of Konoha, just be extremely careful in what you do, one wrong line can destroy alot more than it can create."
"Yeah sensei, I take every precaution when I'm practicing seals, I even use shadow clones to do the seal so I don't get caught up in anything if something goes wrong."
"Good" he eye-smiled. "Now let's get going." he turned away from Naruto, not catching the slight sigh of relief Naruto let out, he didn't need to know how much he knew about seals, or the real reason why he was studying them...
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"Hey Kakashi-sensei, how long till we get to wave country anyway?" Naruto asked as they walked down the road leading away from the village, the trees around them blowing in the wind.
"Well" Kakashi looked at the position of the sun, "Going at this pace we should get there by this time tomorrow." Naruto nodded and they continued walking in a comfortable silence.
Kakashi stared at the pages of his Icha Icha book when he noticed a small puddle of water along the roadside...in the middle of a sunny day when it hadn't rained for weeks.
'That's not suspicious or anything, by the feel of it, two mid-chunin...hmm...eh let's see how much they've improved.' He chuckled mentally and turned back to his book, silently readying a Kawarimi since he was at the back of the group, thus the first target.
Sure enough two men rose from the puddle, In complete silence the two brothers Gozu and Meizu charged, in mere moments they had Kakashi wrapped up in the shuriken chain connected to their gauntlets.
"One down!" Gōzu growled, Yanking the chain and in a fountain of blood and gore bits of what was left of kakahsi hit the ground in a wet puddle.
"Four more" Meizu growled back.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura cried.
Naruto mentally scoffed 'Come on Sakura he isn't dead, even an idiot could tell those two were there, and if I noticed him, Kakashi sure as hell did.' He didn't have time to tell the girl that as Gōzu was getting too close for comfort, flipping through a couple handseals he slapped a hand on the ground. "Earth Release: Earth Flow Spears" he yelled, as several spikes rushed up from the ground pinning the chain that connected the brothers with lances of stone. The two were jerked off their feet as the chain snapped taut, slamming them to the ground in a heap.
"Cut it!" Meizu grunted, as the two released the chain from their gauntlets. "I got the bridge builder." he got to his feet and rushed forward clawed gauntlet leading.
Naruto jumped in front of the Nin and pulled his ninja-to out, blocking the slash that would have taken Tazuna's face off. Tazuna backed up and Sakura got in front of him with a kunai ready while the blade of Naruto's sword got caught between the metal fingers of Meizu's gauntlet causing several sparks to fly.
"Not bad brat." Meizu chuckled as he grabbed hold of Naruto's blade and yanked the weapon out of his hands "But not good enough." He threw the blade away and took another slash at the blonde who ducked aside and lept away from him, flashing a single handseal as the demon brother chased after him, "Earth Release: Earth Flow River" He tucked into a roll as he struck the ground, a pool of slick mud formed right behind him which the charging man couldn't avoid. As Meizu slid through the brown goo he fell back, not having any traction in the soft mud. Naruto quickly got back to his feet going through a few more seals as he clapped his hands together "Wood release: Root Binding" Out of the ground hundreds of thin roots latched onto Meizu's body, pinning him, particularly his gauntlet arm, keeping it away from the rest of his body so he wouldn't have a chace to cut himself free. Walking over to his captive he gave a swift kick to meizu's head, knocking a few brain cells loose and keeping him from retaliating.
Meanwhile in a tree overlooking the battle we find a shocked Kakashi. 'He can use Mokuton as well? Interesting...maybe I should get him and Tenzō together, that would be an interesting meeting' Kakashi knew that Meizu was out of the fight so he turned his attention to Sasuke.
"Stop dodging you brat!" Gōzu yelled angrily, as each of his swipes with the clawed gauntlet flew harmlessly wide, a smirking Uchiha dodging each attack.
"Not a chance bonehead." He got within Gōzu's guard and a loud buzzing noise was heard.
Gōzu looked down and noticed a small bit of chakra on the boy's pinky and thumb "What the hell is th-?" His question was cut off as the digits made contact and a harsh jolt of electricity surged through his body, causing a total loss of muscle control. He slumped bonelessly to the ground gurgling out obscenities at the Uchiha brat.
'I have got to thank Naruto for that, that was awesome!' A rare grin crossed Sasuke's features, marveling at what his new 'toy' could do. He tied up Gōzu and walked over to Naruto, who was looking though Meizu's equipment...to the ire of the man in question, who was throwing ever curse he knew at the 'Wood manipulating bastard.' as he put it. "Everybody alright?" he asked as he glanced over at Sakura who was still guarding Tazuna.
Sakura nodded "Ye-yeah, but what about Kakashi-sensei? He-"
"Yo." Kakashi hailed, appearing behind them in a puff of smoke.
"-Is an asshole." Naruto' finished for her
Kakashi sweatdropped, coughing to cover it. "Good job team...now that those two are taken care of..." he turned a pointed look at Tazuna who looked nervous "Just what haven't you told us Tazuna-san? And don't try to lie, I heard those two." He pierced the man with a heavy glare. "They were after you and you alone."
Tazuna looked between the four leaf ninja for a moment before sighing, "The country I come from, Wave country is under the tyrannical hold of a businessman named Gato-" Kakashi cut in at this point
"Wait...Gato? Of Gato shipping and transport, THAT Gato!?" Kakashi was a bit bug-eyed at the prospect, Gato was one of THE richest people in the world and from the rumors a pretty vicious person to deal with.
Tazuna scoffed "Yeah that's him, the little troll. The bastard may look like a legitimate businessman but on the inside he's a cruel criminal and dictator that controls what he has through force and money. He has a choke hold on my entire country, bleeding us dry of all of our hard earned money, leaving us with little but poverty." He sighed "This bridge I'm building is going to connect us to the mainland and break Gato's hold over our country, he knows this and will stop at nothing to kill me." He turned a pleading eye at kakashi. "Please I know I lied but you can't leave me or my country to this fate, I know I can't pay for it now but as soon as our country is liberated we can easily make the money to pay for this, we'll even pay double or triple the amount. Just...please, all we want is to be free from this accursed bastard."
Kakashi stared at the pleading look on Tazuna's face, thinking about what to do, finally he nodded to himself and turned to his genin. "Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura. This descion is up to you. Do we stay with the mission or go back to the village?"
Naruto chuckled. "If all Gato's got is the likes of these two bit thugs." He accented that little quip with a kick to Meizu's ribs, getting a grunt and a curse from him. "Then we ain't got nothing to worry about." Sasuke nodded his agreement and Sakura reluctantly agreed as well.
"Speaking of" Sasuke interrupted, "What do we do with these two idiots?"
Kakashi sighed "Well seeing as you three have agreed to continue we'll just leave them tied up here, I'll send a message back to the village to come pick them up.
"Won't they just get loose if we tie them up?" Sakura asked.
Naruto pumped his fist "Leave that to me heh heh heh" Naruto chuckled evily, pulling out a brush and ink bottle from his pouch. The two Mist Nin struggled against their bindings but to no avail. Naruto approached Gōzu and opened his ink pot, with a slight dip and flourish he began inscribing the ink into his forehead. It was dance to those watching, a quick flick here, a thick curve there, ending in a somewhat elaborate pattern in the center of the mans forehead. Once done Naruto channeled chakra into the seal to set it. With a jolt Gōzu hit the ground unconscious, the seal setting into a small swirl pattern inside a circle. He repeated the process with Meizu who was screaming out for his brother, that is until Naruto had his roots bind his mouth and head. He finished and completed the seal on Meizu's head before storing the rest of his supplies away, the other man like his brother before him sent into sweet unconsciousness.
"What the hell was that?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the blonde.
"That sasuke was a containment seal" Kakashi explained, "it's a seal used by our T&I department to handle dangerous prisoners, the seal drains a captives chakra and puts them in a stasis, kind of like a coma that can only be broken by those who know how to undo the seal, it's mostly used for transports nowadays." He turned to Naruto "Let me guess, Anko?" Naruto nodded. "Very well, tie them to that tree over there and let's keep going."
The three genin nodded and did as told. A few minutes later they were back on the road, but this time they were in a diamond formation with Tazuna at its center. A few hours later they reached the shores of fire country. A small boat was docked with a single man at the oars.
"Tazuna." the man greeted them.
"Thank's again for this" Tazuna bowed to the oarsman.
"No problem, just hurry up, I wan't to get there as quickly and quietly as possible."
"Right." Tazuna nodded. Him and team 7 boarded the boat and the oarsman started the engine, setting off at a decent pace. A hour into the trip Sasuke turned to Naruto.
"Hey Naruto?"
"Yeah Sasuke?"
"I was wondering, how the hell do you know so many bloodline jutsu, as far as I know, you're an orphan, and I haven't heard of any Uzumaki clans that have a bloodline."
"That's where you're wrong Sasuke" Kakashi broke in "The Uzumaki clan was renowned for it's mastery of fuinjutsu, the seals they made were on par in not surpassing the skills of the fourth hokage himself." He took a moment to let that sink in. "But that in itself is not a bloodline, it's simply bred in skills. As for Naruto his families bloodline is Hyōton, Ice Release. Although it was rare even for the Uzumaki as they were a distant relative to the now extinct Yuki clan who were masters of Hyōton that ran strong in that tiny clan, however...due to a civil war being raged in the Land of Water where the Uzumaki were originally from the Yuki clan were entirely wiped out. That civil war has been raging for close to two decades now between the Mizukage's forces and a rebel faction of bloodline users. You see the Mizukage has been systematically destroying any and all bloodline user clans."
Shock registered between everyone on the boat...except the rower, he didn't give a shit.
"But sensei why would the Mizukage do that?" Sakura asked.
"I don't honestly know, but from the few reports we get from Water country, bloodline users are hunted down and slaughtered on sight there, it's not a pleasant place to be."
Sasuke looked disgusted, in Konoha he was loved for his bloodline, practically worshiped. He couldn't wrap his head around being hated for that very same bloodline, being hunted down like a dog and killed for something he had no control over, the very thought sickened him. "Well that answers my question about his ice bloodline, but how in the hell is he able to use Lava and Wood Release? And for that matter, how is he able to use jutsu for those bloodlines when we don't have any Yōton or Mokuton users in the village?"
Kakashi was about to say something when Naruto interrupted him. "It's alright Sensei I got this. Sasuke the reason I can use multiple bloodlines is because of an accident I had when I was younger. You remember that explosion that woke everyone up a few nights before the Uchiha clan massacre?"
A slight bit of disgust crossed his face at the mention of the massacre but he nodded anyway, remembering the event despite the tragedy that happened less than a week later.
"That explosion was me." Que the shocked looks. "My ice bloodline activated that night and mixed in all the wrong ways with my Fox bloodline, as a result the explosion destroyed my chakra network, but due to my fox bloodline again I was able to make it back just barely from that, however something happened to my body." Naruto looked down at his hand, clenching and unclenching it as a few phantom pains went through it. "I found out later that what happened to me is called 'elemental convergence' the short explanation is when my chakra network was destroyed it became neutral. When my elementally neutral chakra network was repaired it sucked in any nearby elements and abilities, I just so happened to land in the forest of death from that explosion. When the convergence started it pretty much turned me into a human vacuum cleaner for anything nearby.
Narutorubbed the bridge of his nose absently, glancing around his hand his two other teammates. "It just so happened that the Forest of Death is an elementally unstable area and I drew in all five major elements to such a degree that I'm a damn Rikkudo Sennin knock off now, and due to that I can use all five major elements to an almost stupid degree of skill." He drew a deep breath before continuing.
"As for using bloodline elements. Well, due to my affinities I can mimic quite a few of them, however Ice and for some reason Wood are actual bloodlines. The ice was mine originally and I'm guessing that since I WAS in a forest at the time, I drew in enough of the Wood element for it to become a part of me. However I am told that the ability to use bloodline elements the way I do is, in and of itself a bloodline that can be passed down." He smiled seeing the two other genin on his team paying close attention while Kakashi was looking at him with a calculating gaze, Naruto ignored that and continued. "Sure my children may not have the affinities to all the major elements like I do, but any two elements that they may have can be used to power a bloodline. For example, say I have a child that has a fire and earth affinity. Even if he doesn't have the lava bloodline, my elemental mimicry bloodline would allow him to use it.
Again with the shocked looks, you'd think their mouths would hurt after awhile with them sitting on the floor like that...
"True, the bloodline that goes with most of those elements aren't my own but a copy can be just as deadly as an original, you'd know that, right Sasuke?" He grinned a little at the Uchiha who knew damn well what he meant. "And who's to say? Several of the doctors that looked me over said that even though I don't have those elements as a bloodline now I could theoretically develop them into one, that or my children could, due to the mimicry bloodline affecting their DNA, so the possibilities for a family of elemental masters is highly possible." he let out a chuckle "Hell, I get more shit from the councils to marry people than you do Sasuke."
The last Uchiha deadpanned, the council pushed for him to marry someone at least once every couple weeks, he could only imagine the annoyance the council provided when they pushed for that even more.
"You still haven't told us how you know specific jutsu from those elements." Sakura pointed out, trying to ignore the fact that Naruto was becoming nigh unto a god among husband material, hell the only thing he didn't have was wealth and land and that could be fixed simply by the way the blonde worked. She had watched him create a veritable army of clones and take out over a dozen D-Ranks in one day and that equaled out to be a rather high paying C-Rank mission that would normally take a month to complete. Lord only knows if he ever started taking low C-Ranks that were taken around the village. He'd be filthy rich by the end of the year. She glanced over at Sasuke who was beginning to look a little...lacking...
Naruto grinned at Sakura. "Pretty sharp there sakura, it's true I haven't explained that but I do kinda owe Sasuke's family for that one, so it's not something I brag about."
"What do you mean Naruto?" Sasuke asked curiously, if he was indebted to his family, that could help his training in the long run. Yes. Sweet, sweet blackmail...
"Well for one thing your family has been around for a long time and their jutsu library is massive, they even include the jutsu of other bloodline users. Even though they couldn't use them themselves they still catalogued everything so they know what they're fighting." He pointed a finger at Sasuke. "When the Sandaime cleared out your library after the massacre so no one would mess with it he kinda let me into the bloodline section to take a look at some of the D and C-Rank jutsu in there. On top of that a few of the jutsu I've used I came up with on my own just figuring out how to manipulate that element in various ways. Honestly, it's not hard coming up with new jutsu."
The others on the boat looked at him like he was retarded, here he was talking about creating new techniques like he was talking about the weather, like it was nothing...
"What...?" Only silence answered him.
20 minutes later
"We're here" the boatman grunted out, having switched out the outboard motor to a oar earlier so they could sneak into wave country under cover of mist. The boat made dock next to an abadoned building dropping its passengers off.
"I can't thank you enough." Tazuna bowed to the rower who nodded in return.
"Just finish that bridge Tazuna-san that's all the thanks I need." The man paddled the boat back out into the mist, the four on land losing track of him as he disappeared from view.
"We better get going" Tazuna grunted. "My house isn't far from here." he made his way onto a path nearby that lead further inland.
Kakashi meanwhile was tense 'Those last guys were chunin rank ninja, if we're up against Gato then he's going to send someone much stronger, probably a jonin level nin, need to keep my senses open.' Naruto interrupted his thoughts when he slowed down a bit to bring himself closer to Kakashi.
"Don't worry Kakashi sensei, I got my ears and nose tuned to the area around us, if someones coming I'll let you know." It wasn't more than a whisper but it set Kakashi at ease, at least a little bit.
They walked in silence for an hour, until Naruto twitched slightly flicking a shuriken into the bushes to his left.
"What is it Naruto" Kakashi spoke quickly, anything that would get the boy to act like that with his heightened senses was something dangerous.
Naruto was silent as he walked into the bushes and pulled out a snow hare who had nearly pissed itself in terror, a shuriken lodged in a tree only an inch above its head. Sakura and Tazuna relaxed but Naruto was on edge, on closer inspection of the rabbit Kakashi was too.
"They're coming" was all Kakashi said which sent everyone on edge.
"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked?
Naruto kept his senses honed on his surroundings "It's summer Sasuke, this rabbit still has it's winter fur, that means it was kept inside out of sunlight, this is a pet and whoever it's owner is..."
"They're nearby" Sasuke finished, he ground his teeth and pulled out a kunai readying himself for anything.
Well almost anything.
"GET DOWN!" Naruto yelled as he grabbed Tazuna and Sakura and pulled them to the ground, Kakashi grabbed Sasuke and yanked him down as a large blade whistled overhead, slamming blade first into a tree. Nearly downing the poor plant as a man landed on the swords handle.
"Well, well, well. A bunch of genin out on mission" The man chuckled darkly.
Naruto looked the guy up and down, the guy wasn't wearing a shirt so you could see he was built like a brick shithouse. The ninja wore a dark pair of pants with snow camo, arm and leg warmers, had his face covered in bandages and a Kiri headband tied up on top of his head with the symbol scratched through signifying him as a missing-nin. All in all he looked like a badass, especially standing on his sword like that, A zanbatou if memory served.
Kakashi glared at the man. "Your reputation precedes you, Zabuza Momochi, Demon of the mist."
"And you yours, Copy-cat Kakashi." Zabuza chuckled again.
"What do you want Zabuza?" Kakashi demanded.
"Why the bridge builder of course" He pointed to the man in question who was buzy making himself as small as possible under the Missing nin's cold glare. "Hand him over and we won't have a problem."
Kakashi walked into his line of sight taking the brunt of the killing intent being directed at the old man "Sorry Zabuza, but our mission is to protect Tazuna, you want him you go through me."
He laughed "I was hoping you'd say that." As he yanked his sword out of the tree and landed on the pond nearby.
"You three stay behind me and protect Tazuna in a manji formation, this man is way beyond any of you. Looks like I'll have to go all out on this one." Kakashi reached up to his headband.
"Oh, using the Sharingan already? Im flattered."
'Sharingan?' Sasuke thought, shocked by this revalation.
"Be careful, He's coming!" breaking Sasuke out of his thoughts.
The three Genin tensed, preparing for a fight... to the death if necessary.
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A/N OK, I just couldn't for the life of me find a place to stop writing so I soldiered on and wrote THIS!
Yeah, yeah, slight cliffhanger but I can't really help it, this chapter got a bit big and I didn't wan't to put too much into it. Zabuza round one NEXT CHAPTER!
Wood release: Root Binding
D-Rank
Description: User raises roots of nearby trees to grasp and hold a target down, ineffective if there are no trees nearby.
Sealing Arts: Containment Seal.
B-rank Fuinjutsu
Description: A fairly easy seal to preform but absolutely crucial in the use of transporting prisoners by Konoha's T&I department . The seal drains it's victims chakra and uses that chakra to force the prisoner into a comotose state, can only be removed by somone who knows the correct unsealing method.