Note: Italics denote mental thinking.
The sun's rays were beginning to peak out from the horizon when Izumo finished tearing down his tent. He walked up to Naruto's tent to wake him up but upon opening the flap he found that it was empty. "Huh...I didn't see him wake up."
Behind him he could hear Kotetsu stifling a yawn. "Naruto?"
Izumo nodded and jumped up to the top of the tree he perched in last night and hopped back down with a confused look. Kotetsu turned to him after tearing down his own tent. "What?"
"The trees in the distant are down. I didn't hear them fall last night either."
"Think it's Naruto?"
"Maybe. Let's finishing packing and head over there."
Not knowing what to expect, Kotetsu and Izumo stealthily made their way into the clearing. As soon as Kotetsu saw a spot of orange in the center he laughed. Izumo shot him a glare, warning him to be quiet. "It's just Naruto, Izumo. Look." He pointed to the boy sleeping in the middle of all the fallen trees.
They made their way over to him. "He must have stayed up all night." Izumo said shaking him lightly.
"Well that won't do him good for today's work. At least he got some wood though. We can use these to build some of the village's homes." Izumo nodded. "Yea. We just have to carry them back." Kotetsu groaned in response.
Naruto slowly opened his eyes. He could feel slight tremors coming from the ground in an almost soothing rhythm. He sat up and yawned, feeling sore in his muscles at the same time. He recalled what he had done before falling asleep and that now he was somewhere besides the woods. "I guess I passed out."
A girl with bright blue eyes peeked in when she heard his voice. "Hey there. Do you know here Kotetsu and Izumo are?" The young girl pointed somewhere outside. Quickly he shuffled to his feet and ran out to see the wood he had cut down put into two huge piles near the gate. He gawked when he saw Kotetsu pounding in some wood stakes with some kind of huge hammer that was practically as big as he was. "I guess that explains the tremors."
Izumo saw him standing there and walked up to him. "Yo Naruto. You're finally awake." Naruto's attention snapped to Izumo. "Uh, yea. I guess I was kinda tired." Naruto grinned.
"Kinda? You slept half the day." "WHAT!? I'm wasting time!" Naruto prepared to take off, but Izumo grabbed him by the collar before he could. "Hold it Naruto. I wanted to ask you how you chopped those trees down without making a commotion."
Naruto stopped struggling. "Oh. I've been working on my wind element and used it to cut down multiple trees at a time, then my bunshins caught the trees so they wouldn't fall hard. I didn't want to wake the village." Izumo just stared at him baffled. "Wind element." He smiled as his thoughts drifted back to Asuma, who had been the only wind master in Konoha. "That's good."
Now it was Naruto's turn to question Izumo. "Hey! Hey! How did you move all those trees here so quickly?"
Izumo smiled, "Water element." He winked as he pointed to a small river flowing outside the gate "We floated them down to the gate. The river will also help strengthen the village's defense." Naruto blinked. "You guys... sure can do a lot more than I thought you could."
"Oh?" Izumo smirked as he thought to himself, Good thing Kotetsu didn't hear him say that.
Kotetsu finished the foundation of the group of houses and even started putting in posts for a fence around the village. Meanwhile Izumo used his water clones and Naruto used his shadow clones to get work done faster in the garden. Some of the curious children had gathered to watch them work using their skills.
As the day soon became dusk, a mist began to settle over the village. Izumo stood up and watched as it crept over the ground. This is odd. A lady with a worried voice called out to them while taking the children with her, "Quick! You must hide! If they find out shinobi are in this village they will kill you!"
Naruto's bunshins dispersed leaving him feeling exhausted. "What is she talking about?"
"I have a bad feeling about this mist. Let's get Kotetsu." Izumo's water clones splashed onto the ground as he dismissed them.
Kotetsu was crouching on one of the taller poles he set up for the gate. He heard Izumo and Naruto running towards him and jumped down to meet them. With a finger to his lips he signaled the others to be quiet. In a hushed tone he whispered to them, "A group of ninjas, may be eight in number, are headed this way."
Izumo nodded. "They must be from the Mist Village. I wonder what they're doing all the way out here."
Naruto growled. "This is too soon. We haven't even gotten the village's gate built. Are they just going to trample on in like they own this pla-- ?!" Izumo placed his hand over Naruto's mouth. "If you be quiet, we can have the element of surprise." Naruto sulked, but nodded, and Izumo removed his hand.
Kotetsu looked around for a place they could hide themselves. "Tch. Not much to hide ourselves in." Izumo thought for a moment. "We'll have to leave the village this way and maneuver ourselves around them. We can take them out one at a time from the rear." Naruto and Kotetsu nodded as they moved out.
The incoming ninjas stopped at the river near the village entrance.
"Must have rained a lot." One of the ninjas said, noting the river.
Next to him stood a larger ninja. His silver hair pulled back and a patch covered one eye. He studied the river and saw how it came from the woods, carefully determining that this was not an ordinary river made from rain. The ground they had walked on was too dry and this river's direction seemed to have a purpose to come so close to the village entrance. Using his chakra, he stepped onto the water and crossed. The rest followed suite.
As they entered the village, the eye patched ninja also noted the piles of wood. One of the village elders stepped out into the clearing to meet them. "Please, we've given you all we had last week. Our food is so scarce we don't even have enough to feed our children!"
One of the ninjas grabbed the man by his collar. "We don't care!"
"Wait." The eye patched ninja said calmly. "Let me handle him."
"Ah, yes Kabuki."
Kabuki walked closer to the elder. "Who did all this?" He asked pointing to the work the trio had started on earlier.
The elder man's eyes widened. "Please don't hurt them."
"Answer me!" He grabbed the man's collar and shook him.
"I'll give you an answer old fart!" Naruto's voice rang out. The leader turned around to see only four of his men still standing.
Kotetsu slapped his forehead in disbelief. "Ugh." Moron!
Kabuki snarled at the orange clad boy who called him an old fart. "Get them!"
Naruto and Kotetsu slipped into a balanced fighting stance.
"Suiton: Teppodama!"
The four men charged, but one was lost to a sudden blast of water from the side.
"There's another one!" Kabuki yelled. This time he decided to step in. Tossing the old man to the side he began to form seals.
"Now I'll show you true water manipulation. Suiton: Suigadan!"
Kotetsu watched as sharp ice crystals formed around Izumo.
"Izumo!"
Two of the charging nins took this as an opportunity to attack and hurtled themselves towards Kotetsu. Caught off guard, he felt the graze of a kunai knife across his cheek.
Preoccupied with the ninjas attacking him, Kotetsu couldn't do anything to help Izumo.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto's shadow clone attacked his opponent as Naruto leaped over to attack Kabuki who was commanding the ice crystals to enclose in on the target.
Kabuki smirked when he saw the orange clad boy running in his direction.
"You're too late boy."
Naruto shoved him to the ground as he heard the cracking ice and screamed loud enough that his voice echoed throughout the village's surroundings. "Nooo!"
Naruto could feel a fire burning in his chest as rage took over him. "You..." He grabbed and lifted Kabuki by the collar. The one-eyed nin looked at his opponent differently.
"What... are you?" He didn't know what kind of fiery red-eyed beast he was staring at now. Naruto pulled his fist back and prepared to punch his daylights out, but stopped suddenly when he heard Izumo's voice.
"Naruto! Stop!" His rage began to subside and he could feel himself begin to swirl in darkness as the energy left him.
Suiton: Teppodama
Water Release: Gunshot - Ball of compressed water shot from the mouth.
Suiton: Suigadon
Water Release: Water Fang Bullet - Creates circle of crushing water spikes around opponent, although the water is ice in this use.
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu
Shadow Clone Technique