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Enjoy chapter 4Naruto was irritated. His whole team was irritated. Why? Because they've been doing D-rank missions for a month now. They've had to catch Tora the cat five times already. The fifth time Naruto was on the edge of going ghost rider on the poor thing. Now they were in the missions office.
The old Hokage started looking through some scrolls. "Okay. Next we have... Walking the Inuzuka dogs, babysitting an elders grandson and-" he said before he was interupted by a angered growl from two of the genin infront of him.
"Hey old man! You better give us a better mission than that! These aren't missions! They are more suited for civilians, not shinobi. Our skills will more than likely dull doing "missions" like these." Naruto said while glaring at the Hokage, earning him a bop on the head from Kurenai, a nod from Kiba and a "Troublesome" from Shikamaru.
The old man chuckled. "Well then. I have a C-ranked escort mission here for you. Do you think your team is ready Kurenai?" he asked and Kurenai nodded. "Well then, your mission is to escort a bridge builder to Wave country where you will stay and protect him from bandits until it's done." he said and turned his head to the door. "You can come in now!" he shouted and the door opened to reveal a drunken old man with a sake bottle in hand.
"This is what i get?" he asked pointing at team 8. "They don't even look like they can defend themselves, let alone me." he said making Kiba and Naruto shake with righteous fury. "Anyway, i'm Tazuna. You will escort me to my country and keep me sade until i finish my bridge." the old man said and turned around. "We leave in twenty minutes."
"No way old man!" Naruto said and the old drunk and his team looked at him surprised.
"What's wrong Naruto? I thought you wanted a mission like this." Kurenai said with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh there's nothing wrong with the mission. There's just the simple fact that our client is drunk." Naruto said and pointed at the old man. "He can't be as coordinated as he could be if he was sober, thus endangering himself by not being able to follow our commands quick enough. I suggest we leave tomorrow after he sobered up." he said stunning everyone there. Kurenai was the first to recover.
"You have a point there Naruto. Fine then, we'll leave tomorrow at 10 am." she said and turned to Tazuna. "Make sure you're not drunk." and at his nod they left the office.
Five minutes later Naruto was walking into a weapons shop.
'Tou-san. What weapon should i buy?' he asked his adoptive father who mentally shrugged.
'I don't know. I think you should buy a katana, seeing as you're more proficient with that.' Mephisto said and Naruto nodded and went over to the counter.
"What can i get you young man?" the owner asked with a smile.
"I want a katana made with the kanjis for bounty hunter engraved on the blade. It should be about 68 inches long, black blade and red hilt. (Ichigos Bankai from Bleach)" Naruto said and pulled out a small pouch filled with rubies and took out ten of the penny sized gems. "Will this be enough?" he asked and the wide eyed owner nodded.
"More than enough." he said and accepted the gems.
"Do you think you will have it done by tomorrow?" Naruto asked and the owner nodded.
"I'll get right on it. It'll probably be done around 10 am." the store owner said and walked into a room in the back and got to work.
The next day Naruto woke up and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and turned to look at the clock. It showed 9:45. Naruto went wide eyed.
"SHIT!" he shouted and rolled out of bed to get dressed.
'WHERE THE HELL IS MY DUSTER?!' he yelled in his mind, only to find it hanging on the lamp. 'How the hell did it end up there?' he thought and shrugged.
He showed up at the weapon shop at 9:50. Now he just had to get to the other side of the village in ten minutes. He never thought about using Shunshin (Body Flicker).
He showed up at the gates at 9:59. As our friendly Genjutsu using, gasmask wearing Ame-nins would say: Lucky.
"Now that Naruto is here, let's go." Kurenai said and they started making their way towards Wave country.
As they were walking, Naruto noticed that there were two puddles, one on either side of the road. The strange part was that it hadn't rained for a week. That, and that the puddles smelled human. Kiba and Shikamaru noticed too.
"Sensei." Naruto whispered to Kurenai who nodded.
"Wait, we need to see who they're after." she whispered to the genins who nodded. When they had passed the puddles, two men rose up from them (I don't think i have to explain how they look) and rushed the group wrapping the chain connecting their hands around Kurenai.
"One down." they said in unison and pulled the chain shredding Kurenai to nothingness. They ten proceeded to charge at Tazuna but was intercepted by Naruto and Kiba/Akamaru.
Kiba and Akamaru ripped one of them to shreds with the Gatsuuga (Piercing Fang) while Naruto took a swing with his new blade and cut the other ones arm off.
"ARRGH! You bastard! I'll kill you!" the man shouted and tried to charge at Naruto but found that he could not move.
"Kage Mane no Jutsu, Success." Shikamaru said from behind him with his hands in the rat seal. He then nodded to Naruto who quickly decapitated the nin.
"Kurenai-sensei! You can come out now!" Naruto shouted and Kurenai jumped down from a tree.
"Wow. You guys managed to take them out by yourselves." she said with a small pout. "I was hoping i would get to fight." she then turned to Tazuna. "We need to talk." she said and the old man started sweating.
-Please insert the tape labeled "Tazunas sob story" here-
"Well." Kurenai said as the old man finished his little guilt trip speech. "This mission is probably an A-rank, so it's up to my genin wether we are to continue or not." she said and turned to the genin. "So? What's it gonna be?" she asked and the genins shrugged. Naruto was the one who spoke up.
"We might as well finish the mission. Abandoning the mission and leaving the drunk to die would be the way of the coward." he said and his teammates nodded and Kurenai smiled.
"Well then, off we go." she said and started walking with the others following.
They walked for another fifteen minutes, took a boat ride to get into Wave country and then walked for another five minutes.
"Damn!" Kiba exclaimed. "This mist is thick. I can hardly see anything." he said and the others nodded in agreement. Then it happened. Kurenai senced an object flying at them in high speeds while Kiba and Naruto could here something approaching.
"Get down!" Kurenai yelled and grabbed Tazuna and hit the deck with the genins following suit just in time for a HUGE sword to fly in a course that would have taken their heads off if they would've stayed and imbedded itself in a tree. Moments later a shirtless guy with the lower half of his face wrapped in bandages, brown hair and nearly none existent eyebrows appeared and landed on the handle of the sword, back turned.
"Momochi Zabuza, former member of the Seven shinobi swordsmen of the Mist." Kurenai said making the masked nin glance at her.
"Hoh? If it isn't the Genjutsu mistress of Konoha? I'm just here for the old man, so hand him over and i'll let you all go without harm." Zabuza said and Kurenai shook her head.
"No can do. It's our mission to protect him and that we will." she said and Naruto stepped forward.
"Kurenai-sensei? Can i fight him?" he asked and Kurenai and Zabuza looked at him, Kurenai looked at him with a pout while Zabuza looked at him with amusement.
"Naruto. You're really gonna make me look weak if you're gonna take on every enemy we meet." she said and the smiled a little. "But, he's the worst opponent i could ever face. He specializes in Nin- and Taijutsu while i specialize in Genjutsu so sure. He's all yours." and at this Zabuza laughed.
"Do you think you can take me on gaki?" he asked and then dislodged the sword and landed on the ground. "Well then." he said and got into a fighting stance. "Let's see what you got." and at that, he charged.
He started off with a diagonal swing where Naruto dodged to the left and countered with a stab aimed for the liver which was dodged. Naruto then went on the offencive swinging and swinging, trying to land a hit on Zabuza who continued to dodge or block.
'Damn! This gaki is actually pretty good!' he thought to himself. 'He rivales me in strength and speed. But can he match me in jutsus?' he thought and jumped onto the water where he proceeded to make quick handseals which Naruto recognized. He smirked and began to make a long series of handseals of his own.
"Let's see if you can match this!" Zabuza yelled as he finished the last seal while Naruto was still working on his jutsu. "Suiton: Suiryuudan no jutsu! (Water Element: Water Dragon Missile)" Zabuza called and a huge water dragon rose from the water and charged at Naruto who finished his handseals and smirked again.
"Let's bring out some shade, shall we?" he asked and put hand to his mouth. "Katon: Dai Kuroi Kitsune Endan! (I think it translates to Fire Element: Huge Black Fox Missile.)" he called and a burning black fox, the size of the water dragon flew from his mouth and collided with the dragon causing te water to evaporate and put a thick layer of steam over the area.
"Damnit! I can't see shit!" Kiba exclaimed trying to see through all the steam.
"Everybody gather around Tazuna-san." Kureani ordered and the genins moved into a defensive position.
Zabuza was playing his silent killing games with Naruto. Too bad it didn't work. The moment Zabuza appeared behind Naruto, he got kicked in his stomach kicking out all the air that was in his lungs.
"Zabuza! This is where the fun starts." Naruto called out into the steam. Zabuza and the others could feel the temperature rising as the skin started to melt off of Narutos body revealing a burning skeleton standing there with a vicious look on his face. "Let's play!" the skeleton whispered to the now scared shitless Zabuza.
'What the hell is this? A Genjutsu?' thought Zabuza and put his hands in the Ram seal. "Kai!" he shouted and heard silent laughter coming from the skeleon who blurred out of view and appeared infront of him.
"This is no Genjutsu Zabuza. This is aaaall me." he whispered and punched Zabuza in the gut causing severe burns on his skin. Zabuza grunted in pain as he was sent flying back. The skeleton blurred out of view and once again appeared infront of Zabuza but this time it kicked him in the face sending him flying into a tree. By this time the steam had already started to dissipate and by the time the skeleton appeared infront of Zabuza to perform his patented Penance Stare, the steam disappeared causing the skeleton to return to his normal features again.
"Damn. I was hoping that i would be able to get your soul. Oh well. You're going to die anyway." Naruto said and raised his sword to give out the killing blow when suddenly two senbon needles came flying out of nowhere and hit Zabuza in the neck. Naruto looked to his left and saw a girl, around his age sitting up in a tree with a Kiri hunter-nin mask on.
"Well will you look at that. He did die." the girl said with a cheery voice and looked at Naruto. "I thank for weakening him for me. I've been hunting him for the last two months." she said and shunshined down to Zabuzas "corpse" and picked him up. "I must dispose of this body now. It holds many secrets that musn't fall into the wrong hands. Farewell." and with that, the girl shunshined away. When she was gone, Naruto turned to his team with a smile on his face.
"Well that was fun wasn't it?" he asked and the others sweatdropped.
"How are we supposed to know?" Kiba said while glaring at Naruto. "We couldn't see shit." he said and Naruto smiled.
"Well then! How about we continue with our journey?" he asked and the others nodded and they proceeded to head to Tazunas house.
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