Alright now, votes kept coming at me even after the deadline for when I'd quit counting votes and I decided not to go through the effort of figuring out which ones arrived in time. Due to my lazy behavior, I have been told by some friends that I can be a lot like Shikamaru from the manga sometimes, I have just tallied up all of the votes instead and it ended with Option B being the victor by five votes. So now I'll quit rambling (aka: stalling for time) and get onto the story.

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Za Kaze Shokkou: A Naruto AU Fanfiction.

Written by: Cloud1239999

Disclaimer: Naruto does not belong to me. It is as simple as that. I'm only writing this story for both my personal and the enjoyment of others. I do not intend to make any form of money off of this story. If however you do see reason to sue you will find no money within my pockets. That's right; I'm a 21 year old with no money and still living with my parents. :P

Okay, a reviewer; pardon me for forgetting his name, said in a review that even though this story is under the Naru/Temari category he thinks that the chances of that are ruined now that I put Hinata on Naruto's team. I will state this now: That is not true. This story is going to be Naru/Temari, that just isn't going to be right away. Any major relationship parts will not show up until later on in the story. Like after a couple years when Naruto comes back from his three year training trip. Hinata still has feelings for Naruto, but she'll grow to love someone else. I haven't made up my mind on whom yet, but it'll be one of two people that I'm not going to state now.

Rated: M (For Swearing, Gore, and any other mature thing that may show up including a possible future lemon ((Don't know this one for sure)). Reader Discretion is advised.)

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Two months and exactly one hundred D-rank missions had gone past since Team Nine was officially formed under the Jounin, Sarutobi Asuma. Team Nine was currently standing in front of the Hokage's office waiting for their new assignment. The team as a whole had of been patient so far with all of the stupid D-rank missions that they had gotten so far. From doing gardening to finding the Daimyos wife's lost cat, the team had of done pretty well all of the different varieties of D-rank missions that they could of received, several of them multiple times (especially finding that irritating cat).

"Well it seems that your team is finally ready for a tougher mission." The Hokage said starting the conversation.

With that declaration, Team Nine let out a collective sigh of relief to which the Hokage looked on amused.

"Alright then, for your first C-rank mission you will be escorting the captain of a team of bridge builders to the land of the waves. There you will continue to protect the client until such a time as the bridge he is working on is complete. At that time, you will return to Konoha for a one week rest before you will be put back on the 'Active Ninja' list, and you will continue missions. Are there any questions?" When there was no reply, the Hokage called out to a side door. "You can let the client in now."

The team did a quick one-over of their client, and they all came to the same conclusion. 'Old and Drunk'. The tall, white-haired old man looked over the team and pointing at them loudly declared. "I am Tazuna, the super bridge builder. Are these brats really going to be able to protect me?"

Sarutobi chuckled when he noticed the glare that Naruto sent at the man with just enough killing intent to freeze him in his tracks. "Yes, I'm sure that this team of Genin will be enough to serve your purposes Tazuna-san. This is one of the best teams we have available at this time. They should be more then enough to protect you from any bandits that may decide that they want your head or wallet."

Asuma clapped his hands to get his teams attention. This also had the effect of releasing Tazuna from Naruto's little bit of killing intent since Naruto turned to his sensei. "We will meet in a half hour at the west gate. Pack supplies for about one month's worth of time away from Konoha. You are dismissed." When he finished the statement Naruto simply disappeared out of the window while his teammates shook their heads at his antics, and walked out the door.

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It was only ten minutes before Asuma and Tazuna arrived at the gate to see Naruto leaning against the wall next to the gate with his eyes closed. Asuma looked over at the client before quietly chuckling to himself when he saw that Tazuna was puzzled by the lack of visible supplies on Naruto.

"Hey brat, didn't you hear what your sensei said about packing for this trip?" Tazuna called out as he and Asuma walked the last short stretch to the gate.

"Yeah, I did. I didn't need to pack anything so I came straight to the gate, old-timer." Naruto replied as he opened his eyes to look at Tazuna. Tazuna fumed for a few seconds at Naruto's disrespectful response.

"Didn't anyone teach you to respect your elders, brat?" Was the all-but yelled response from Tazuna.

"Respect is earned, not given old timer." Naruto nonchalantly replied while closing his eyes again and waving his right hand in Tazuna's direction.

"The nerve of that…" Tazuna never finished his statement since he was interrupted by Asuma.

"I'm sorry sir, but I happen to agree with Naruto on his view of this matter. He is just showing you the same respect as you have shown him so far. Who knows," Asuma punctuated this sentence by shrugging his shoulders. "If you start to show some respect to him and his teammates then he might start returning the same courtesy."

Tazuna huffed for a few seconds while switching his gaze back and forth between Asuma and Naruto. Then he stopped and a small smirk that Asuma found spookily similar to the one that Naruto was currently wearing.

"So let's get this straight brat. Right now I don't respect you, and you don't respect me." At this point the smirks on Naruto and Tazuna's faces grew a little larger.

"So that puts us on neutral ground." They both finished at the same time.

"So then brat, what's your name?"

"Uzumaki Naruto and you better remember it, because one day I will be famous throughout the five shinobi nations. Got that old-timer?"

"We'll see about that brat."

'Why do I get the feeling that these two are a little too similar?' Was all Asuma could think as he looked back and forth between his two smirking companions while sweatdropping.

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It has been half a day since the trip started, and the majority of team nine was bored. Shikamaru walked along staring up at the clouds, Hinata was thinking to herself as she stared at her feet, Asuma and Tazuna were talking quietly amongst themselves about the bridge Tazuna was building, and Naruto had his face buried in a three foot scroll he held in front of himself with one hand. Naruto suddenly released one hand from the scroll and grabbed a pen from one of his utility pouches and started writing on the scroll. That grabbed Tazuna's attention. He decided to act on his curiosity.

"Hey, brat?"

"What now old timer?" The rest of the group sighed at what was quickly becoming a tiring game between the two.

"Shouldn't you be using a hard surface to write on?"

Naruto blinked for a second before shrugging.

"I haven't had to for quite a few years now."

"What are you doing anyways?" That question returned the others attention back to the two.

"You think that I'm not willing to help my teammates become stronger or something?"

"I wouldn't know, but I guess that makes sense. What does writing in a scroll have to do with that anyways?" As Tazuna said this the shinobi team noticed a puddle that shouldn't be there.

"A little bit of this, and a little bit of that." 'Like hell, I'm going to explain things with enemy shinobi around.' As Naruto said that he gave his pen a quick spin as he put it back in his utility belt, then he gave his hand holding the scroll a flick which quickly closed it. He then proceeded to switch that scroll with another one in his utility belt. It was three handseals around the scroll later that there was a poof of smoke that suddenly had a Naruto wielding a giant fan charging out of it.

It was just as Naruto was reaching the puddle that it suddenly disappeared as two ninjas wearing spiked gauntlets on opposing hands appeared and blocked Naruto's strike with a cross guard (that's crossing the gauntlets between them) before finding that they were forced to a knee each by the force of the strike.

As Naruto's blow struck the gauntlets, a shadow launched from Shikamaru's feet capturing the opponents in the shadow bind technique while Hinata charged underneath the two enemy-nins' arms to quickly disable the tenketsu in each of their shoulders just before Shikamaru's shadow captured the two.

As Asuma walked over to drag the two mist shinobi into the bushes Naruto turned back to Asuma with a smirk on his face. "I noticed the genjutsu that those two had since it hasn't rained around here in weeks. When I noticed it I started writing out a quick plan on the scroll since I knew that Hinata and Shikamaru were in a position that they'd be able to see what I wrote down. I'm just going to erase it from the scroll anyways.

It was at this time that Asuma walked out of the bushes. "Alright team, we now have a choice to make." As he said this he gave Tazuna a quick glare that made Tazuna start to sweat. The young shinobi quickly turned to their sensei to listen to what he had to say. "I just found out from our little friends who are now tied up to a tree that they were hired along with two other missing-nin to assassinate our client here. They were tight lipped about their other two friends and their client, but I was able to find out that one of them is a jounin ranked ninja and that the other one never had a real ninja rank but is just as dangerous as the jounin. This increases the rank of our mission up to the range of high-B to low-A rank. Our options are as follows: first option is to continue this mission, knowing the dangers while making sure that we get a message to the Hokage that we will need backup, this will also result in us receiving a truthful reason as to why our client lied to us and that as penalty we will be collecting a double-fee from what our Hokage decides the rank of the mission is as a penalty. Since the office has come across a situation like this one before where the client lied because they couldn't afford a mission, they decided to make a penalty system for any future cases that will be payed up by the clientele as soon as they are able to. The second option is to turn around and go home.

"It may be troublesome, but I'd rather continue then have to face up to my mother's nagging again so soon." Shikamaru's statement lightened up the tense atmosphere around the shinobi a little bit.

"I agree with Shikamaru. I would like to continue the mission. I'll give you one of my blank scrolls Asuma-sensei, then you can write out a letter to the Hokage that I'll quickly dash back to town. Then I can return with the reinforcements if he sends them right away. Either way, I will be back as quickly as possible with the news of what the old man says." Naruto loudly declared as he started fishing on his person for one of the few black scrolls he had.

"How about you Hinata? If you say no, then we'll head back right away." Asuma turned and asked Hinata.

Hinata looked over at Tazuna who was at the time a very pitiful sight. He looked to be at the brink of losing hope as he looked at her.

"Ano, I agree that we should send Naruto back with the message first." Upon hearing this Tazuna let out a sigh of relief. Asuma smiled. He was proud of his students for realizing how important this must've been to their client.

"Alright then, get me that blank scroll you were talking about Naruto, and then we'll send you back to Konoha. How long do you think it'll take you to get there?"

"About fifteen minutes. I'm can't say how long it'll be before I get back though." Naruto answered as he finally found the blank scroll and handed it along with his pen to Asuma. This left Tazuna gaping.

After Asuma finished writing his letter he handed it over to Naruto who took a brief second to concentrate before Tazuna saw Naruto visibly rise off of the ground an inch then proceeded in racing back along the way they came faster then Tazuna had seen anybody move in his life.

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Hatake Kakashi was bored. It was four hours ago that he started a shift assisting the two standard chuunin who always guarded the western gate of Konoha. It was years ago that the Hokage decided that there would always be a jounin assisting in gate guard duties at all times. Kakashi sighed to himself wondering for the third time that hour as to why he ever quit ANBU. His three students were quite a pack of trouble. Uchiha Sasuke was as much of a stuck-up, revenge consumed boy as Kakashi expected him to be. He didn't like though that he wound up being stuck with an annoying fan girl, and an overweight child with little confidence in himself as the other members of his team. He did have to admit that those two did have some descent skills, especially the teamwork between the two even though they (at least Chouji) argued that they would've been better in teamwork with the lazy genius Shikamaru. Speaking of his team, he couldn't help but wonder but wonder what the lucky buggers were doing with their day off.

It was then that he sensed a small spike of chakra approaching quickly from what he estimated to be one kilometer outside of the gates out of his sight. He stood up from his corner, putting away his book and stepped out of the guard house that was just outside of the gate to watch whoever was approaching so quickly. When he realized that the chakra signature was just out of his sight and not showing any signs of slowing down he decided to pull out a kunai in case it was a hostile threat. It was only a couple more seconds before he saw what appeared to be an orange and blonde projectile flying in his direction. Kakashi couldn't help but be impressed by the large trail of dust that was rising behind the figure up to ten feet in the air. It was only a few seconds later that the figure stopped directly in front of him where the dust trail kept blowing past to run into the closed gate where the dust cloud raised higher into the air before falling around Kakashi and the stationary boy he now recognized as Uzumaki Naruto.

"Is there something I could help you with Uzumaki-san?" Kakashi asked while leaning toward the boy wearing one of his upside-down U eye smiles.

That temporarily disturbed Naruto so it took him a moment to remember what he was doing. When he did he quickly shook his head to clear his thoughts before saluting the jounin. "Uzumaki Naruto here to deliver a request to the Hokage for an additional team for a C turned B or higher ranked mission."

Kakashi raised an eyebrow hearing Naruto's respectful tone. 'It must be the situation by the sounds of things.' "Alright Uzumaki, I will personally accompany you to the Hokage's office where I will request for my team to join your own so that we may get back to your team ASAP. Please follow me." 'Now let's see if the rumors about his speed are true.' With that thought Kakashi took off at what for him was a stridden combat pace. To his surprise Naruto was keeping up, even if just barely.

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The Hokage was bored. Unfortunately for him, this was a far more frequent turn of events for him then it was for those that wound up at guard duty since they did it in shifts while the Hokage was signing paperwork and doing other miscellaneous things in his office from sunrise to sun fall. Because of these circumstances he was pleasantly surprised to have an interruption in the form of Hatake Kakashi walking into his office. That was until he saw Naruto walk in behind the jounin.

"Report," was the Hokage's starting comment.

Naruto gave the Hokage a quick salute before stepping forward and handing a scroll to the old man. "Uzumaki Naruto here with a report from Sarutobi Asuma, captain of Team Nine sir."

Sarutobi quickly read over the scroll before closing it and leaning on his desk clearly thinking through what he just read.

"Excuse me Hokage-sama. Today is normally my team's day off from doing missions, but if you want to get a team out quickly then I can assemble my team and have them ready to go within the hour." Normally Kakashi wouldn't worry about being in a rush over things, but even he knew it was serious when a shinobi was sent back to request reinforcements for a mission.

Sarutobi looked at Kakashi for a second before nodding his assent. "Have your team at the west gate in forty-five minutes. Tell them to pack for a one month mission. Uzumaki-san will be waiting for you there. And here Naruto," Here the Hokage tossed Naruto a new blank scroll surprising Kakashi. "To replace the blank scroll your sensei used to write his letter."

"Thank you, sir."

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Sasuke was walking on his way towards the western gate with a small backpack full of camping supplies on his back. He didn't know whether to be upset or excited by what his sensei told him fifteen minutes ago. His team had their first higher ranked mission. He thought it was only a C-ranked mission considering that his lazy sensei didn't bother to tell them the rank. He'd of just decided to settle on being quietly excited when he noticed who was leaning against the wall next to the gate. It'd of been quite a while since he had seen Naruto. The only reason why he bothered to remember his name was because Naruto always got on his nerves with how he was, what was obvious to Sasuke, more intelligent than nearly everybody in their graduating class, yet decided not to flaunt it off in order to get second in class (next to himself of course).

Sasuke walked over to lean against the opposite side of the gate from where Naruto was. Naruto glanced out of the corner of his eye at Sasuke and noticed the traveling bag on Sasuke's back. Naruto turned and walked towards Sasuke.

"Are you a member of Hatake Kakashi's team?" The question from the blonde prankster caught Sasuke off guard.

"Yes." He answered with what the casual observer would take to be indifference, but Naruto knew a mask when he saw one.

"I will be escorting your team to the point where my teammates and sensei are waiting for my return. From there we will be continuing a C turned B or higher ranked mission." Everything that Naruto had said to Sasuke so far was said in a professional way. Naruto had of decided that with the seriousness of the situation he would do his best not to annoy his temporary teammate.

"Why did they send you back?"

"We were attacked by two hired missing-nin. My teammates and I were able to take them out, but when Asuma-sensei interrogated them we learned that they were just two of four missing-nin hired to assassinate our client. My sensei sent me back for reinforcements since he learned that the other two missing-nins were more dangerous then the ones we already defeated." Sasuke let the information roll around for a second before he smirked at Naruto.

"So your sensei thinks that your team is too weak to handle it then, huh?" The smirk didn't stay on his face though as he found himself lifted and pressed into the wall by Naruto.

"Let's settle this right now bastard. You shouldn't jump to conclusions like that. What you have obviously failed to grasp is that my sensei may not think that we could handle the mission ourselves, but that doesn't mean that he thinks we are weak. He just knows that we are inexperienced and that it would be better to have back up in order to help handle the situation. It was actually my idea to send for reinforcements so don't go around saying that our sensei doesn't trust us, you got that?" When he finished Naruto put the other boy back on his feet, then took a step back to give Sasuke some room. "Now that I've spoken my mind about your inappropriate comment, I will ignore the fact that you spoke ill of my team. I would advise that until the situation has settled down to a point where things aren't as serious, for you to refrain from any such comments." Here Naruto narrowed his eyes at Sasuke surprising the Uchiha. "I will not tolerate them."

Before Sasuke could reply back with a heated comment, Kakashi showed up just as his other two gennin showed up jogging. "Naruto is correct Sasuke. This is a serious situation and distractions like rivalries will not be tolerated until such a time as the situation has calmed down sufficiently." Here he caught Chouji and Ino's eyes. "This will not be tolerated from anyone. Got that?" Upon seeing his students grasping the seriousness of the situation Kakashi went back to being all smiles again. "Good, now that everyone is here we will proceed to the rendezvous point where we will meet Uzumaki-san's team. On our way Naruto will repeat for Chouji and Ino what he explained to Sasuke and maybe give a few more specifics of his team's situation. Let's go."

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It was two hours of tree hopping later that Naruto followed by Team seven showed up where Naruto had of left his team. At first they couldn't see anybody, but that was fixed a few seconds later when Naruto pulled a small fan out of his Kunai pouch and opened it before fanning his face for a few seconds, then loudly snapping it shut.

"Ah, Naruto. You certainly didn't waste any time." Asuma announced his presence as he jumped down from a tree only five feet to the right of the dirt road.

"Where's the client?" Kakashi asked.

"He's up in the tree with Hinata and Shikamaru, who are making sure that he doesn't fall."

Immediately Naruto gave a smirk before turning to the tree his sensei jumped out of. "Having fun up there old timer?" Asuma and two unseen voices groaned aloud at Naruto's loud greeting for Tazuna. This was followed by a quick bark of laughter.

"You don't have a clue what this is like for someone with no Shinobi skills like me, brat." As Tazuna said this, Asuma walked back over to the tree to help their client out of it.

When the whole of both teams and their client were back on the ground they started walking again.

"So Asuma, did you get an I.D. on who the two missing-nin that your cell beat?" Kakashi started off by asking Asuma.

"It took me a few seconds of scanning my BINGO book, but I was able to identify them as the Demon Brothers. They are two ex-chuunins who are C-rank criminals from the Hidden Mist village." Here Asuma snickered. "They were going to try a surprise attack, but my students saw through the genjutsu that they were using and beat them to the punch."

Kakashi raised an eyebrow to his fellow jounin's boasting. "And what, prey tell, was the genjutsu they used?"

"They were hiding in a puddle on the side of the road."

"It hasn't rained here in weeks." Kakashi stated as he looked up at the sky.

"Exactly," was Asuma's one word reply.

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Twenty meters off of the left side of the road a masked ninja listened and watched the proceedings. 'I'll have to report this to Zabuza-san.' As he was starting to get up to leave three of the people noticed his presence, though only one of them reacted. The blonde haired boy, looked directly into the ninja's eyes for a second before turning back to his conversation with Tazuna. 'Well that's interesting. I'll have to keep an eye on that boy later. He shouldn't have been able to sense me, never mind pinpoint my exact location that easily.'

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A few seconds after the masked ninja jumped away Naruto slowly dropped back to walk between the two jounin. Knowing that the two probably sensed the other ninja as well, Naruto just said what he felt was needed in a quick whisper.

"Hunter-nin, masked looked like a Hidden Mist one, probably here for the Demon Brothers." When he finished he walked back ahead a little bit to start talking to Chouji about how ramen compared to sushi. Little did they know that their assumption of the masked ninja was quite wrong.

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A/N: Finally. I apologize to all of you out there who were in eager anticipation of this chapter. (I highly doubt there were that many who were that bad.) Parents can be a horrible thing sometimes. In this case, they were trying to ban me from anything to do with fanfiction (this just led to me going behind their backs when I can, which is why it took me so long. I didn't get all that many chances). I'll probably get a chance to start the next chapter when I wake up, and hopefully I'll be finished before Christmas. Though knowing my luck, that might not happen either. It'll be another two to three chapters before the end of the wave arc, then I was originally planning on going straight to the chuunin exam, but I've decided to stall that for something I think will be more pleasant. I'll be going now before I accidentally say more, so I'll just thank you all for the awesome reviews again. Thank you.