Summoner Naruto

by Mage-Alia

After failing the Gennin exam Naruto ends up walking a different path, presented with a Summoning contract for the mysterious “Aeons”. Now he can't use Charka and has to deal with elementals that tell bad jokes and a moody guardian, Sasuke.

6. Mission to Wave

Naruto/ Final Fantasy Fusion

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Disclaimer: I don't claim to own either Naruto or any of the Final Fantasy Games referred to in this story. (Although I wish I could.)

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Summoner Naruto

By Mage-Alia

Chapter 6: Mission to the Wave

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Summary: After failing the Genin exam Naruto ends up walking a different path after being presented with a Summoning contract for the rare creatures called "Aeons". Now, unable to use Charka outside his body, Naruto needs to find his own purpose in life while he deals with elementals that tell bad jokes and his extremely reluctant guardian, Sasuke.

Pairing: SasuNaru

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A/N: You know I'm beginning to wonder whether or not I should continue with the SasuNaru theme for this…. Maybe it will just be a long time in coming… bah! I think I have to stop thinking or my thinking will fill my head with the wrong ideas. (Actually, I think it's to late for that.) I'll just let my fingers do the story telling for now and see where it goes.

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It had been a month. A month of tedious and mind numbing D rank missions that took team seven all over the village, weeding, cooking, shopping and worst of all, hunting down pets. Naruto was irritable as he sat hunched behind the trunk of a tree, his communicator in one ear filled with the babble of Kakashi-sensei as he gave them instructions from a tree somewhere where he was most likely reading that damnable little orange book.

"Team Seven, report." Kakashi's voice came over their radios.

"Ready at point B." Sasuke muttered in a low voice.

"Ready at point C." Sakura said the same from her hiding place in the forest. There was a long interval of silence as they waited for the last member of the team to check in and finally with a swish and a crackle Naruto answered.

"Ready at point A." He whispered, being closer than anyone to their target.

"That was slow Naruto." Kakashi reprimanded him before he remembered who he was talking about. It was difficult to keep in mind what Naruto was on these D rank missions. The blonde's existing ability to heal at a rapid rate had increased to the point where it could eliminate strain and exhaustion if necessary, but only while he wasn't summoning that is. He managed to keep up with the group to the best of his abilities and the Jounin had begun to just treat him like any other Genin, seeing that he could still move with his team.

"The target is moving." Sasuke broke the silence and the three Genin repositioned themselves among the trees.

"Do you still have the target?" Kakashi asked and Naruto confirmed before he ordered the start. "Go!" The genin leapt out of the trees and the little brown cat that had been standing in the clearing yowled in horror before Naruto snatched it up, avoiding its claws before he passed it off to Sakura who wasn't quite so lucky.

"We have the target." Sasuke reported, watching as the cat tried to struggle its way, hissing and scratching, out of Sakura's grasp.

"Are you sure it is the target?" Kakashi questioned. "Does it have a red ribbon around its right ear?" Sasuke noted the ribbon and sweat dropped when the cat was thrown back to Naruto as Sakura started crying about the little beast that had ruined her face.

"Yeah, it's the target." He said in deadpan and that was that.

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Madame Shijimi was hugging her cat as tightly as she could when the team returned to the mission room.

"OH! MY CUTE TORA-CHAN! I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU!" The woman was the wife of fire country's feudal lord and no one wanted to say anything about the demonic cat.

"Heh, that cat is finally getting what it had coming." Naruto snickered behind his hands. He had long since abandoned his goggles and now his forehead protector took pride of place, the Konoha leaf shining faintly in the light that came from the windows.

"No wonder the cat ran away." Sakura added her two cents as the older woman walked over to a cashier and handed over the money for the mission the cat now limp in her grasp, almost as if it had given up on living now that it was back. Naruto just continued to snicker in agreement as team seven walked up to where the Hokage was sitting behind a desk next to Iruka who was helping the administration, given that the academy was closed for the holiday that usually came after the year's graduation of Genin. The Hokage greeted them with a smile and looked down at a scroll full of D rank missions, some having been crossed off.

"Now then, Kakashi's team seven, the missions available are, babysitting the councilman's boy, grocery shopping for a woman in the neighboring town, helping dig up potatoes…" As he got further and further down the red in Naruto's face was getting darker and darker, until the boy nearly had steam coming from his ears.

"ARGHHHH! NO! None of those! All of them! I want to do something where I can actually move, something more exciting! I'm a Summoner! Can't we do something else?" As Naruto threw his small tantrum Sasuke was silently agreeing with him.

'He has a point.' The Uchiha had been feeling the same for a long time. He wasn't going to get any better unless he was challenged by the missions and the D rank missions where a joke.

'Ohhh, I am going to kill him!' Inner Sakura was ranting wildly. She didn't want to leave the nice safe village with all the nice safe D rank missions that she could have been doing…

'I knew he was going to do this soon.' Was the only thought Kakashi had running through his mind as his charge ranted.

"Naruto!" Iruka burst out of his seat beside the Hokage. "You're still a genin! You have to stick to the simple duties when you start out and work your way up to the harder missions." After the initial loud outburst his voice had softened somewhat but there was still a hard edge as he explained it. However, the message wasn't getting across. Off to one side the Hokage sighed and shook his head.

"Alow me Iruka." He said straightening in his seat and setting Naruto with a look as he was reprimanded loudly by Kakashi, accompanied by a whap to the back of the head. He went on to explain the rankings among the shinobi and the system by which the missions where divided but Naruto had long since stopped listening. Mumbling to himself Naruto was planning how to get more Ramen under Shiva's nose when Iruka-sensei yelled at him to pay attention for once. Keeping his grumbling about Naruto's behavior to himself as Iruka chewed him out Sarutobi looked down at the mission sheets in front of him, sorting through them until one caught his eye.

"Appologise to the Hokage!" Iruka's rant came to an end and Naruto huffed.

"Fine…" He grumbled. "Sorry for being disrespectful old man, but I'm not the troublemaker you seem to think I am!" With that he turned around and sat on the floor with a disgruntled pout.

'… I just know I'm going to get yelled at later for this…' Kakashi sighed mentally to himself. Iruka wore a slightly stunned look as he stared down at the young blonde who still managed to surprise him., then he smiled. Mostly unnoticed behind him the Hokage smiled as well.

"Okay… If you want it that much…" the rest of team Seven looked at him sharply as he spoke and the smile that was spreading across Naruto's face clearly indicated that he knew he had won. "I'll give you a C-Rank mission." Still seated on the wooden floor of the mission center Naruto bounced and cheered loudly while behind him Kakashi was nearly in a state of shock wondering why the hell the Sandaime Hokage had given into Naruto so easily. Sarutobi smiled around his pipe.

"It's a protection mission of a certain individual." He explained and Naruto burst into loud speculation. "…calm down, I'm about to introduce him." Naruto did just that, leaping to his feet and watching the doorway as Sarutobi called out.

"Hey, will you come in here?" A hand creped around the door and a man walked into the room.

"What's this? They're all a bunch of super brats." The man took a swig of alcohol from the Sake bottle that hung loosely from one hand and leaned against the doorframe. "Especially the stupid looking short one in the dress! Are you really a Ninja?" Naruto looked from side to side.

"Did he mean Sakura?" He asked loudly and half the occupants of the room sweat dropped as Sakura and Sasuke looked down at him, their eyes lingering on the white robe that flared out around him. Naruto looked back at Tazuna with a twitching deadpan expression before he exploded!

"I'LL KILL YOU OLD MAN!" He balled his fists and leapt at the drunk old man in a rage but Kakashi caught the back off his robe and easily picked him up so that he was kicking at thin air.

"Hey! You shouldn't be trying to kill the person you're supposed to protect! Baka!" But Naruto wasn't really listening. Kakashi sighed and turned to the other two members of team seven.

"We'll meet at the east gate in half an hour. You have until then to prepare." Sakura and Sasuke nodded and left before Tazuna wondered off, leaving Kakashi with the hardest task of all.

Calming down Naruto.

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Walking through the gigantic gates of Konoha Naruto was nearly bouncing with enthusiasm.

"ALRIGHT! LET'S GO!" The blonde gave a loud cheer, zipping from one side of the path to the other in an effort to see everything at once. Standing toward the back of the group, the rest of Team Seven sweat dropped.

"What are you so excited about?" Sakura asked, irritated by the Summoner's yelling. Naruto all but ignored her as he kept looking around at light speed.

"It's because I've never left the village before!" He replied after dragging his gaze from the tree's to look back at his team.

"Am I really going to be safe with this brat?" Tazuna asked, eyeing the blonde nervously. Kakashi gave them both a rather blank look.

"Don't worry." He said after a minute. "I'm a Jounin, so you'll be fine." Tazuna looked at him like he didn't believe him before grunting and walking away, down the road, leaving a fuming Summoner standing by the roadside, his good cheer well and truly gone. The other's didn't know whether to be worried or relieved about that. They proceeded down the road in silence, Naruto eventually taking the lead again, a skip returning to his step. Sakura eventually broke the silence that had seemed to stretch on forever.

"Umm… Tazuna-san?" She asked him timidly. The bridge builder didn't give her a glance, his eyes darting around the road.

"What?" He said in what they assumed to be his normal gruff tone.

"You're from the Wave country, right?"

"What about it?" Tazuna replied finally looking across at her. Sakura redirected her gaze to Kakashi.

"…Kakashi-sensei? Do they have ninjas in that country too?" Kakashi gave her a lazy glance.

"No, not in the Wave country." He began to explain. "But… in most other countries the culture and customs may be different, but the hidden villages exist, and so do the ninjas." He went on to explain the politics involved and how Wave just wasn't big enough to warrant a hidden village of its own. They continued on in silence again and as they rounded a large puddle in the road Naruto began to run around again. But before they could even so much as blink a large chain appeared out of nowhere and Tazuna and Team seven could only watch in horror as it was wound around Kakashi and pulled tight. Sakura screamed as bloody chunks of flesh splattered across the road and the pair of nin's attached to each end of the chain spoke aloud.

"One down."

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto felt a thrill of horror as someone came up behind him and he didn't have to guess to know what it was.

"Two down." Naruto nearly froze before he reached for the bracelet on his left arm knowing full well he wouldn't make it in time he closed his eyes and thought hard. Then he heard the shiik of a kunai and shuriken being drawn before there was a cling and a thud. He opened his eyes to see Sasuke leaping into the air above him, having nailed the Mist Nin's razor chain to a tree with a shuriken and securing it with a Kunai. The foreign ninja stopped dead only inches from swiping Naruto. As Sasuke landed heavily, one foot on each of the nin's shoulders Naruto broke out of his brief shock and continued to unravel the bandages to the second level hurriedly. The nin's snapped the chains away from their clawed gauntlets to escape Sasuke's close range attacks, he dropped to the ground as they darted in different directions before coming at Naruto again but Sasuke had given the blonde all the time he needed and as his fingers swiped one of the nodes a shield of pure crackling lightning sprang up around him, deflecting the twin attacks and shocking the mist nin's.

The pair where thrown back, skidding along the path as a large seal appeared in the air above Naruto and lighting from the shield lashed at it, ripping it open as a lythe form appeared from within. Leaping out onto the road the gray and white horse circled to bring itself between the nuke nin. It stamped a steal gray hoof and tossed its head, the gold rings that weighted its mane jingling. The large dual pronged horn on its head glinted menacingly in the light of the sun and Ixion, the great beast of lightning reared on its hind legs and slashed the air. It created a small vacuum of air that split before it hurtled at both the nin. The nuke nin's avoided the Vacuum blades and darted toward Tazuna instead.

Sakura was shaking slightly as she pushed herself in front of the old man and pulled a Kunai out to defend but before the mist pair could even reach her Ixion appeared between them in a blur of flickering blue light.

"Haste technique: Flash step." Naruto said aloud, instinctively understanding how the lighting elemental Aeon had moved so quickly. The Aeon gave another toss of its head and Lightning lanced down from nowhere sending one of the nin into convulsions as he was fried from the inside out. The other briefly lost his footing as his partner fell and Sasuke, not wanting to be upstaged by a horse of all things, put himself in front of Sakura, Tazuna and Ixion. But before the mist nin could even take another step he was coat hangered on an outstretched arm.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura exclaimed softly and Sasuke just deflated as he was pulled closer to Naruto again by the Summoner's subconscious command.

'Bah… show off.' The last living Uchiha reluctantly put his Kunai away and shoved his hands into his pockets as Ixion walked back to Naruto's side, stomping heavily on the twitching Mist Nin it had brought down just seconds before. The nin gurgled weakly in pain but didn't do anything else. It carefully nudged Naruto as it approached and the Summoner leaned against it, the shock catching up with him again. Standing away from where the conflict had taken place Tazuna breathed a sigh of relief. As good as the dark haired Genin and the creature the blonde had summoned seemed, it was always more welcome to have the adult doing the fighting instead.

Kakashi appologised for not stepping in sooner when he saw Naruto's distant expression and proceeded to tie the Nuke nin to the tree.

"I know of these two." He commented to the team as the pair glared up at them. "The Demon Brother's of the Mist, only Chuunin rank but the best when it comes to fighting as a team. They, like most of the Nins from the Village of the Hidden Mist have a reputation for never relenting on their mission." The mostly unharmed brother continued to glare as the other slipped in and out of consciousness.

"How did you read our movements." He ground out, referring to the beginning of the battle when Kakashi had used Kawarimi to avoid their razor chain.

"On a sunny day like this, when it hasn't rained in days, there's not going to be a puddle." Kakashi explained drolly, like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Though, come to think of it, it was.

"If you knew that, why did you let the brats fight?" Tazuna butted in and Kakashi didn't so much as give him a glance as he answered.

"If I had wanted I could have killed these two instantly but, there was something I needed to find out. Who where these two after?" He shot Tazuna a dirty look and the bridge builder was taken aback.

"W…what do you mean?" He said rather nervously, giving off the impression that he knew more than he was telling without meaning to.

"Meaning…" Kakashi continued, "Were they after you, or one of us. Two of my Genin are high profile people of the village for different reasons. We haven't heard that there are Shinobi after you. Our mission was to simply to protect you from thieves or gangs. This has now become at least a B – rank mission. This was supposed to be a simple protection mission until you completed the bridge." Kakashi's tone was hard as steel now, his visible eye setting the old man with a dark look.

"If it was known that other Shinobi were after you, this mission would have been set as the more expensive B-rank. I;m sure you had a reason, but it causes problems when you lie about the mission. We are now operating outside of our duties." Sakura took a step toward them and spoke honestly.

"I don't think where ready for this yet." She was sweating slightly out of fear. "Let's quit! Naruto doesn't look so good either, we should head back to the village now…" She trailed off and Kakashi looked at Naruto. If there was one thing he'd learned in the last few weeks it was that if Sasuke was forced to stay by Naruto like he was now, then the Summoner didn't feel all that secure. He looked a little shaky as well but the silver haired man didn't know whether that was from the attack or the quick new summoning.

"Hmmm…this might be to much." He mused more to himself than anything but Naruto shot upright, leaning off Ixion's side and glaring at his sensei.

"No!" He said loudly and the lighting elemental stamped angrily in response to his Summoner's flaring emotions. "I'll protect the old man! We're continuing the mission!" He held up a clenched fist and the nodes visible on the back of his arm flashed as well. Kakashi looked around and noticed that aside from Sakura, he was outnumbered by Naruto, Sasuke and god knows how many other entities in the decision to return to Konoha.

"Ah well, it looks like we're going on anyway." He sighed as he saw Sasuke relax a little more. He was as determined as Naruto to continue but had let the blonde do all the talking to convince him. Kakashi made a few hand seals and a moment later a small dog summons stood before him. He gave it a message and it ran back in the direction of Konoha to inform them of the Missing Nin before they got ready to set off once more for the Wave. As the Jounin watched Naruto say goodbye to his Aeon Tazuna approached him looking more than a little sheepish.

"Ah… Kakashi-sensei." He used the honorific without thinking. "I think we need to talk." Kakashi just nodded as they continued to walk down the road.

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"YOU FAILED!" The roar had come from a short diminutive man who was less than half the size of the hired muscle that stood behind him. His face was nearly crimson out of anger as he took it out on a bunch of kneeling men.

"I paid you guys a lot of money because I heard you were very strong former ninjas!" One of the Shinobi, a man wearing long striped pants with no shirt, gray and blue wraps around his shins and wrists, bandages around his face and mouth and a forehead protector from Hidden Mist perched crookedly on his head, shifted a long handle from his shoulder and swung it with frightening strength to point directly at the little man, not showing the slightest strain in keeping it suspended there.

"Stop your bitching." He drawled. "This time I'll go with this neck chopping cleaver… and I'll kill them." There wasn't even a hint to suggest that he thought that the enemy would be a chalange. Flustered, the little man waved a finger violently through the air.

"Are you sure? It seems the enemy has hired some skilled ninjas, and with the failure of the Demon Brothers, they'll be better prepared!" The Shinobi on the couch tilted his head to one side, eyeing the blade of his sword and giving the non combatant a droll look.

"Who do you think I am…?" He asked in a flat tone. "There's a reason I'm called the Devil of the Hidden Mist… Momochi Zabuza."

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Ah well! That's all your getting for this chapter! I'm tired and I got stuff to finish. (DAMN MY PARENTS FOR CONVINCING ME TO GO BACK TO TAFE!)

Anywhoooo…

Ixion (from ffx) made an appearance here. I don't remember if I have a picture of it up on that site yet. (I'm still to lazy to do anything about that…) I'll post it in the next couple of days or so if it ain't.

Look out for the next chapter and don't forget to review!

Cya