On the Wings of Revenge
By: Zeida and Maria (Maria)
Warnings: Insanity, crack, violence, blood gore, plotholes, randomness, lack of plot to begin with, language ect... ect...
Disclaimer: I don't own it.
Summary: Poor Naruto, I keep letting him be kidnapped. Zabuza finds Naruto after Haku, and takes him away. This is half crack nuttyness. Vengeful!Naruto. It's starting to look like a foursome to me but it's not. Just brother love? Gaara, Haku, Naruto and Sasuke...nuttiness. Shikamaru shows a lot too! Have I proved myself nuts yet? Inspired by my own nutty-ness.
ChApTeR tHrEe: Plans for the Future
Sakura twitched as Tazuna let out another loud complaint. "Jus' what can a buncha kids do anyway?! Even with two men, they'll get in the way!" Kakashi ignored the man, favoring his... 'literature' instead. Asuma sighed and began to explain how they were officially adults when they got their hitai-ate. Shikamaru just sighed. Ino chattered endlessly to Sasuke, who's eye seemed to have developed a steady twitch. Sadly Ino was on the wrong side to notice this. Chouji ignored all but his chip bag, his favorite brand too.
"Hmmm..." The silver-haired nin's one visible eye trailed a passing puddle for a moment. Funny, he didn't remember any rain.
Suddenly, all hell broke loose as two heavily clothed masked men appeared out of nowhere. They lunged at the jounin, a chain stretching between the missing-nin as it wrapped around the two. Shikamaru wasted no time, pulling his best friends, Chouji and Sasuke, over to him and told them what to do. In another moment they were gone and their sensei were nothing but a pile of bloody... logs? Ino stopped shrieking for a second as the situation hit her. The pink haired kunoichi behind her leapt into action as well, landing in front of Tazuna. Ino flipped behind him to have their job cover at both sides. They both pulled out kunai, and prepared themselves for a fight.
A barrage of kunai flew out of eight different places. Some were illusionary, but the demon brothers had to dodge or block them all, as they didn't know which. A shadow crept out of nowhere, absorbing and stretching towards the pair with the help of the near-by shadows. The nuke-nin didn't notice until too late when they suddenly couldn't dodge the kunai. Several hit them making superficial cuts.
Then, all movement stopped as a frightening rumbling erupted from the closest batch of trees. A huge, fast rolling form erupted, startling nearly everyone in the clearing.
Chouji's meat tank.
"Oh, dear Kami-sama..." the smaller of the two grimaced, squeezing his eyes shut. Neither noticed Sasuke snuck up behind them to touch them at that delicate little pressure point on their necks. Rather, whacked the spot brutally.
Not that they could have stopped him.
They fainted, still standing from the kage no jutsu. Chouji slowed and shrunk rapidly, stopping right in front of the pair. He and the last-Uchiha-that-mattered made quick work of their weapons, making them painfully vulnerable to the two jounin that chose right then to reappear.
"Amazing work, all of you." Kakashi complimented. Asuma glared at him and muttered something about 'the damn peppy perv' owing him a lot of cash.
Ino and Sakura looked down at the compliment. "We didn't do anything!" The Yamanaka muttered.
"Yeah, it was all them..." Sakura agreed.
"Not that Sasuke-kun wasn't totally awesome!"
Said broody teen rolled his eyes, sharing a look with Shikamaru. Chouji happily recharged on chips. Hey, it was hard to control a meat tank!
"Yeah! He was amazing..." they sighed dreamily.
"You think it registers with them that they only saw me when I poked the two?" Sasuke leaned and whispered conspiratorially to the lazy genius. The Nara snorted and shook his head.
"Hold on girls, don't go into a tirade just yet." Kakashi held his hands up as though warding the rant away. The girls glared at him. "You have to understand that, although Sasuke, and Shikamaru and Chouji, incapacitated the ninja," Both jounin gave a pointed look at Tazuna, who looked down guiltily. "That was only half the job. You two took care of the last part flawlessly. Asuma and I didn't have to lift a finger!"
Asuma rolled his eyes, then addressing the bridge builder. "Speaking of which, why did we face ninja, missing nin, no less!"
The old man sighed, leading them down the path. The missing nin were bound heavily to a tree and still KOed, waiting for any nearby hunters. They were ten minutes or so down the path before the bridge builder began to speak.
"It turns out that a super dangerous man is after my life..."
"'Super dangerous man'? Who?" Asuma asked, sticking a new cancer stick in his mouth and chewing on it, as well as pondered the man's choice of words.
"You've probably at least heard of his name. The wealthy shipping magnate... A man named Gatou."
Kakashi looked up from his book, "Hmm? Gatou? From the Gatou's Shipping and Transport Company? (3) He's said to be one of the worlds few really wealthy people."
"Yes officially..." they continued walking again, at a faster pace in the unsafe lands. "But he secretly sells drugs and other illegal items and uses ninja and gang members to take over businesses and countries. He is a very nasty man.
"It was about a year ago when he set his eyes on Wave Country. Through money and violence he quickly took control of the country's shipping industry. Gatou now has a monopoly on all businesses in Wave. The only thing he has left to fear now is the completion of the bridge."
Sakura frowned, mulling it over. "I see... And since you're building the bridge, you're in the way." Tazuna nodded.
"So... those ninja..." Sasuke began,
"...were hired by Gatou?" Shikamaru finished. Again the older man nodded, sighing forlornly.
Kakashi frown from under his mask, "What I don't understand is if you knew there were ninja after you, why did you hide that fact when you hired us?"
"...The Wave Country is very poor, even the feudal lord has no money.
Of course we didn't have much either, Defiantly not enough for the expensive B-rank mission." The old man looked down, shooting a quick, calculating glance at the shinobi around him. "Well, if you quit the mission now, I will surely die some horrible, painful death by ninja...but- Don't worried about it!" He crowed, spinning around in a slightly drunk fashion. "My cute ten year old grandson will just cry about it a few days!
Oh! And my beautiful daughter will live a sad life, hating Leaf ninja for the rest of her days!" He grinned at them.
Shikamaru, Chouji and Sasuke blinked owlishly at him. Ino was glaring at him while Sakura sweatdroped. Asuma nursed a face plant (Damn! His cigarette went out!) and his silver haired companion scratched the back of his head sheepishly.
"Well..." the copycat nin said, "I guess we have no choice. We'll protect you at least until you get back to your country."
'Heh heh heh... I win...' the bridge builder snickered to himself. (1)
Silent since agreeing to take the mission, the group soon neared a huge lake. On the shore was a nervous looking man, with a large hat covering most of his face, in a boat. Tazuna had a quick conversation with the man, slipping money out of his pocket and thanking him. He soon motioned for the large group to come over.
"Okay," the bridge builder whispered, "Here's the plan. One group of you will go with me on this boat, and five minutes later, the second group will leave, using that one." he gestured, pointing to a hidden spot not far away. The shinobi nodded, breaking into two groups. They didn't go by the genin selection, but rather who they worked best with. This was too dangerous a job to not know your allies. Sasuke, Chouji and Shikamaru left first, with Kakashi, much to Ino and Sakura's disappointment. "But we could work very well with Sasuke-kun!"
Said broody boy winced.
Soon both teams were at the other side of the lake with no incident. "Tazuna... This is as far as we go. Good bye, and
Good luck."
Tazuna nodded, thoroughly thanking the man as he left.
"Alright! Get me home safe!"
Kakashi and Asuma nodded tiredly, "Hai, hai."
They walked in silence for a bit longer, coming upon another body of water. The jounin looked around warily as mist seemed to seep in from nowhere. The genin kept walking, quite comfortably and, to their later embarrassment, obliviously at ease.
"Duck!" Kakashi suddenly yelled, grabbing the nearest of the students and dragging them down with him. Further back, Asuma did the same with Tazuna. A blur passed over, splitting the wind and embedding deeply in the tree behind them. The group looked up, locating the tall, frightening man standing on the handle of his own huge sword, the Head Cleaver.
Quickly snapping into action, most of the genin surrounded Tazuna, followed quickly by the slower ones. The jounin stood between them and the missing nin making it clear that they were his opponents.
The fight was on.
-:- -:- -:-
Gaara twitched from a tree, watching as Kakashi and Asuma faced down Zabuza. They were told to stay out of the way, but it was awful hard. There where seven people down there against one- er wait now ten- Zabuza-sama...s?
The red-head shook himself out of his runaway thoughts. He shouldn't have spent the night playing war with Naruto and Haku. But it was hardly their fault that they had that freaky septuple war... thing...
Haku ran out of cards.
Anyway, Zabuza-sama was out numbered and it was unfair. Not that he cared what was fair except when his sensei was concerned. But his sensei was concerned, and therefore, it was unfair.
A small, light form landed beside him, leaning against the trunk. Naruto looked up at the contemplating male. "You think we should help out?" he asked. Another boy appeared out of nowhere, standing comfortably on the other side of Gaara.
"No, we will rescue him if he is in danger. For now we should watch how one wins against odds." Haku yawned and pouted at his brothers, as though it was solely their fault that the card game had gone awry.
Which is wasn't.
"We should also split up before someone noticed the concentration of chakra."
Naruto nodded and all three vanish to find a new position, just as a pair of curious blue eyes look at the branch they had just left. Miles away, a drunk ninja just remembered that shinobi leave a trail of clouds when they teleport to a new location.
Back on the battle field, things were starting to heat up. Kakashi realized that he had underestimated the missing nin, even with a partner to fight with him. Signaling Asuma, he started to lift the mask away from his eye. The smoking nin carefully kept Zabuza occupied while the silver haired jounin could assess the situation with the Sharingan and come up with a nice plan. Preferably one that included them winning, and Zabuza losing.
Zabuza made repeated attempts to get at Kakashi, knowing he was going to start having trouble if the Sharingan came out. Suddenly changing tactics, he lunged away from the copy nin, deciding to try and end the job quickly instead. The pink haired kunoichi shrieked when his course became apparent. The two teachers immediately leapt in the way, effectively distracting him. Kakashi winced and grabbed his arm where his latest slash started the spurt blood, Asuma quickly grabbed the bandages holding his now empty kunai pouch to his leg, and wrapped his hand tightly. The genin made a tighter knit circle around Tazuna, defending against the multiple water clones now appearing around them.
Zabuza suddenly found himself with a face full of empty cloth. Frowning and growling, the man lunged back into the fight. Despite his traitorous thoughts, this battle was splendid.
The ex-Mist nin was finding, much to his distaste, that it was indeed much harder to fight two jounin and a Sharingan eye. He was getting pushed back away from his job much to fast and it was getting steadily harder to control the clones. The stupid things were getting themselves killed too easily!
The kids must be a bit better than they look. But only slightly.
Zabuza dodged a hook to his right, but fell into a sudden trap by the silver haired nin. He flew bodily across the ground, stopping just before a slight cliff drop into the water. The bandaged man was finding it difficult to get up again.
Three flashes appeared out of know where, darting to the trees nearby the fallen nin. Projectiles shot away from them, landing warningly near the two jounin who had made to finish the job.
Shikamaru frowned as the three figures stood in front of Zabuza. That blond one looked... familiar. He had never forgotten a face. Not that he would know if he had, because he would have forgotten. But that was a an annoying thought to ponder some other day. (Perhaps he could create a memory recovery jutsu?) He looked up at his exhausted sensei. Both of them were staring at the blond boy too. How troublesome. And strange.
Sasuke walked up behind Shikamaru and whispered in his ear, out of hearing range of their teachers. "Do we know that kid? The blond one? I recognize him but I'm not sure where from."
The lazy genius looked at his friend through peripheral vision, not turning away from the new adversaries. "I do, too, and our sensei have yet to pick up their jaws."
Just then Kakashi drew everyone's attention. "Na-Naruto!" he squawked.
The blond started and stared at the silver haired jounin. The other two boys bounced in front of him, obviously confused that someone knew him. Kakashi straightened, despite his injuries, tugging on Asuma's arm and forcing them both back. "I propose a temporary truce. Take you teammate and leave, we will not stop you."
Gaara frowned at them, they could take out that team. But their sensei came first. He and Naruto stood guard as Haku picked up their wounded teacher. Haku and Zabuza disappeared in a twister of smoke and misty water leaving no trace behind. Glaring at the Konoha group one last time, Gaara summoned a storm of sand and whisked himself and Naruto away, to join the rest of their team.
Kakashi promptly fell over into Asuma. The black haired jounin groaned at his misfortune but lifted him onto his back. "C'mon, Tazuna lead us to your house." he ordered. (2)
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As they arrived at a small, run-down looking house a tall lady rushed out to greet them, ushering them inside and setting up a futon (4) for Kakashi. Sakura then turned to the remaining sensei, questioning him on their strange behavior around the newcomers.
Asuma sighed. "Sit down." he ordered. The students settled around him in a rough circle. The smoking nin started rubbing his head in an irritated fashion. "Did you see that blond boy?" They nodded, confused. "Did any of you feel that he was familiar?- Shikamaru, Sasuke, and Ino?- Good. That boy was you classmate once.-"
"WHAT?!'' Sakura exclaimed, "But- when?" Asuma looked at her oddly as he thought he saw another Sakura in the girls eyes, rampaging. Shaking his head, the man continued.
"I'm surprised any of you remember him, you had all just started in the academy when he ran away. The ANBU went looking for him for a couple weeks before giving up." He's now on the list for the Hunter-nin, the older man thought. But it would be better not to tell them it had happened so soon.
Sasuke frowned. Why send ANBU after a little kid, and why couldn't they catch him? "Why did he run away? If we had just started school, then he was six or so. Why would he run away?" the moody boy looked at the older nin suspiciously. Something was not right about this.
Asuma sighed again. "I'm afraid it's against the law to talk about that. Let's just say that the villagers treated him very badly and more likely than not, he got fed up. Although now that Zabuza has shown up with him, things change a little." For the worse.
Chouji spoke up, looking up from his abnormally quiet chip bag. "Why? Zabuza's strong, but you make it sound really bad."
"Do any of you know about Zabuza of the Hidden Mist Village, or rather that Village Hidden in the Bloody Mist?"
Anticipating a story, the (nearly departed) child-like part of the genin pushed them unconsciously closer to the teacher. Asuma told them of the Demon of the Mist. All about the bloody and terrible genin exam. How he had slaughtered all the other students. How he had felt no regrets.
How he was only a child during all of that.
By the end of the story, Ino and Sakura were subconsciously clutching at each other and even Sasuke was a little freaked out, letting himself slip a bit closer to Shikamaru and Chouji. Chouji's bag lay forgotten at his side. For once, he didn't feel like eating. Shikamaru was frowning, his brow creased in thought.
"Why are they so loyal to a demon?"
Asuma looked up at the genius. Maybe because they are demons themselves... he thought. "I really can't say..." he muttered.
To most, it almost sounded as if he didn't know himself.
-:- Owari -:-
(1) I realize that conversation was awkward. I took it straight from the manga... sorry... yeah...
(2) Take us to your Mastah!
(3) Thank you, ScathingSarcasm! Your corrections are well appreciated! Tell me (ANYONE) if there are anymore blaring errors.
(4) For reasons unknown I almost typed coffin... Really, Kakashi's coffin? He's not that bad off. D
A/N: I was gonna make this longer, but it was getting longer already. I didn't want . But what do you think? I didn't mean to make Asuma-chan so nasty, he gets nicer later. He has to. I wuvvles him too much.
I also made Sasuke and Shika and Chouji good friends. It is not a plothole! It's... just not gonna be delved into...
Heehee...
Actually, i could make a side story of their early years, if mine reviewers say Yesh!
Next Chapter: Training, Accidental Info gathering, that leads to a self-inflicted mission in which they don't get there in time! Also, a bit of reminiscing from Zabuza-sama and maybe a few others.
TenWings: Here ya go! Btw, I like comments with my commands XD
hanyou-samurai How so? The only bits that could be OOc are thoughts and you don't see his thoughts in the manga. Nice question tho! And just wait till you see what happens to Gaara because he was found! Gives you An Actually-a-mini-preview to-the-next-chapter-Haku-chaseing-Gaara-and-Naruto-because-they-stole-his-clothes-plushie
BattleStations Aww! Thank you! I didn't see it either! That's why I did it! Just like that neji become half demon idea I had... But lets not get into that! Heeheehee... Gives you a Sleepy-Haku-leaning-on Naruto's-shoulder-while-Gaara-curls-up-in-his-lap-plushie.
belletiger: 0o. That. Is. An. Awsome. Idea... glomp! Here! "Gives you a Naruto's-prototype-super-smile-no-jutsu-on-Gaara-plushie" XD
The Lye Oh hell yeah... Just Wait till the chuunin exam! Chaos is Fun! Next chapter is gonna be... interesting... It's when Sasu-chan leaves... rather forcfully... you'll see. Shika is Awsome! Give you a Haku-puppy-dog-eye-plushie to accompany your Zabuza
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