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--On way to Wave Country--

Tazuna and Naruto have finished their discussion on sake, now they were drinking a little. Naruto knew not to get drunk so he only took a sip every now and again. The group reached a lake area and Naruto had an uneasy feeling. They decided to take a break for a while and Naruto just knew someone was going to attack.

Just then a ninja with no shirt on and a huge sword came out. Naruto groaned and said, "Zabuza Momochi. Why am I always right about this things." Zabuza said, "Heh, I must be pretty famous for a genin to know me. Wait, Kakashi Hatake is here too. Tell me are you still in the Iwa bingo book? Oh also, what's with the kid wearing a mask like yours?"

Kakashi just smiled and said, "Yes, I am in the Iwa bingo book, but you'll never beat me. The kid is wearing the mask because he enjoys people trying to see what's under it without letting them see. I must agree that it is fun to do." Zabuza said, "Whatever. I'll send some water clones to deal with the kids, but you and me will be fighting."

Water clones started to attack the four genin. Choji just did a partial expansion and started to attack the clones three by three. Shikamaru caught eight clones and had Choji destroy them in one attack. Naruto thought, 'I'll have to work on his combat capabilities. Well when this is over is the perfect chance.' Hinata easily defeated all the clones by herself, although her Juuken style was kind of sloppy.

Naruto just dodged until there were about ten around him. He smirked under his mask and took down all ten with his wind fists. Zabuza was impressed by all, but Naruto's attacks are what got his attention. Then Zabuza did a feign and trapped Kakashi in an orb of water. Naruto finished up the rest of the clones and noticed his sensei. Kakashi yelled, "Don't fight him any of you. He is too powerful for you to match." Zabuza laughed and said, "Yes. Run you little genin. You may have destroyed my water clones, but they only have a fraction of my power."

Naruto said, "My dad is Konoha's Yellow Flash. He got that title with his teleportation jutsu. I tried learning it once, but unfortionaltly it uses lightning chakra, a lot of it. I have wind chakra, so I wasn't able to use it. Although…I made my own version. Hishou Uindo Tenma no Jutsu (Soaring Wind Demon Jutsu)."

Naruto vanished from everbody's eyes for a second. He was instantly over by Zabuza and as soon as he was seen again a wind blast was hitting Zabuza forcing him to let Kakashi free. Naruto snickered as he said, "Oh, did I forget to mention the Ato Kaze (Scaring Wind) that comes after?" Kakashi smiled under his mask and said, "Nice going Naruto. Now move aside and let me finish this." Naruto said, "With all do respect this is my fight now. I can't let you reveal your Sharingan. Plus, don't you want to see my full power?"

It was the last part that got his attention. He smirked and went off to the sidelines. He was wondering how strong Naruto was. He thought, 'Naruto take this seriously.' The cyclops sat down ready for a good fight.

Zabuza was the first to make a move. He made a vertical slice downward with his sword. Naruto simply moved to the side and then he jumped on top of the sword and punched Zabuza in the face, hard. Zabuza was forced back a little and he decided that he would go all out on this kid. The Ex-Mist ninja did some hand seals and said, "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Blast Jutsu)." Naruto smirked as he said, "Luckily I finished my hand signs, too. Fūton: Kazeryūdan no Jutsu (Wind Release: Wind Dragon Blast Jutsu)."

As the two dragons struggled for dominance over the other the two who summoned them were pouring their chakra into the attack. In the trees a kunoichi wearing a mask was worring for her master. She might have to save him. Then she thought, 'But I don't want to hurt that cute blonde boy.'

The two dragons were still clashing. The dragons went to hit the other for one last time. As they hit they exploded into ice as the chakra mixed together. The two fighters needed to win at that point. Hinata was confused and asked her sensei, "Why did Naruto-kun and Zabuza-san want to have their dragons fight for so long?" Kakashi replied, "That would have been a phycological victory. It would have made the other more proned to make mistakes. Also, they wanted to show who was the dominate one. It's a male thing."

Then she noticed her that her other two teamates were nodding. Zabuza made a slash with his sword and Naruto countered it with his hand. Zabuza noticed how Naruto was putting up his hand and said, "You fool! I'll slice through your hand! WHAT!" Naruto's hand blocked the blade and now they were struggling to see who was better. Naruto was struggling, but then started using both hands. Naruto pushed at Zabuza's giant blade as hard as he could and forced Zabuza to have an opening. Zabuza's eyes widened in shock as his blade was pushed out of the way.

Naruto channeled as much chakra as he could to make a pocket of air so he wouldn't feel the full impact of his punch. As he hit him he sent his foe flying back. As an added attack Naruto pushed more chakra into the pocket of air causing it to burst and hit Zabuza. The nuke-nin hit a tree and fell down.

Naruto closed in on him pulling a kunai out of his pouch. He held it reversally and was ready to take down The Demon of the Mist. As he was about to kill two senbons started flying through the air. Naruto grabbed then in mid-air and said, "You can come out now hunter-nin-chan."

A girl in a white and red mask came out and walked towards Naruto. She said, "Hello, I've been sent to kill this traitor." Naruto said, "Well isn't it just great for him that these two senbons were heading towards an area in the neck that would put him in a death like state." She smiled under her mask as she thought, 'Smart, strong and cute, a dangerous combination.' Naruto then whispered in her ear, "What is a cute thing like you doing working for Zabuza?" She blushed, jumped over him and transported Zabuza away.

Naruto smirked and then realize he'd have a lot to explain to his friends. He walked on the water over towards his team who just stared at him. Choji started, "H-how…" Shikamaru continued, "…Did you…" Hinata was about to say something, but Kakashi finished, "How did you do that Naruto? Geez you guys are shinobi now. Learn how not to be surprised."

Naruto said, "Ummm, hold on I need to eat something real quick." He pulled out some food and started to eat it all. He sighed and said, "Well, all of you know who my father is. I have kinda been training with him in the Ninja Arts since I was six. Do you guys recall at the beginning how I was strong, then after a while it seemed like I was struggling?" His teammates just nodded as he continued, "Well, I was holding back in that period."

There was a silence that Hinata broke by asking, "W-why Naruto-kun?" He smiled and said, "That one is easy. I held back so I didn't get onto an accelerated program because of the fact that I wouldn't be able to spend as much, if any, time with you guys."

Kakashi gave a smile under his mask and said, "Well I guess that was why you were able to pass my test. The fact that you cared about friendship enough to hold yourself back for it. People say that in the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum. This is true. But, those who abadon their friends are worse than scum." Naruto smiled at this, although nobody, but Kakashi could notice this.

--In Wave Country--

Tsunami let her father's body gaurds stay with her until the bridge was complete. It was the least that she could do for them. Also the bridge was near completion. There was a week and a half left for construction and then the bridge would be complete. Kakashi said, "Okay guys we have to go train. Oh and you can thank Naruto for giving me the ability to make a grueling training exercise for you. If he hadn't stepped in for me I would have had to use my Sharingan and be out for the rest of the week." Naruto then felt two killing intents aimed at him.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head and said, "Oookay. I'll go train by myself now." Kakashi said, "No Naruto. You'll be training with your teammates and helping me teach them." Naruto didn't even try to object.

Everybody walked to the forest and Kakashi said, "All of you have something you need to work on. Hinata your Juuken is awkward. Choji you're a little slow and need to work on chakra control. Shikamaru you have no physical capabilites. Naruto your close range fighting is good, but you need to learn long-range better. I know you know how to use weapons well, but expand yourself. Learn more genjutsu. I have a training exercise for all of you."

Everybody shivered as they thought of the worst. "We'll work on you all one by one. Choji your first," said Kakashi. He then explained the training to Choji, he had to put on two hundred pounds of weights, run around, while three of Kakashi fastest and most vicious dogs chased him. Choji was running around yelling, "YOU'RE THE DEVIL KAKASHI-SENSEI!!" Kakashi just smirked under his mask.

After about two hours of this running Kakashi said, "Okay pups, that's all for now." Choji fell on the floor gasping for air. He was surprised that he was able to last that long and then he fainted. Shikamaru looked at his friend with a sympathetic look. He heard Kakashi say, "Hinata you'll be sparing with me. It'll make you form a parallel version of the Juuken that is more suited to you. Don't worry I know how to fight against the Byakugan."

They started to spar. Hinata rushed him with a simple attack and Kakashi just pushed it aside. He the kicked her away and got back into a defensive stance. This went on for a while, with Hinata getting better every attack. It got to the point Hinata got close to him and he attacked her upper body. She leaned backwards shifted her weight into her hands flipped herself and kicked Kakashi straight in the chin.

He rubbed his chin in pain and weakly said, "Good job Hinata. What do you call that kick?" Hinata said shyly, "The Juuashige (Gentle Kick)." He laughed and mumbled something like there was nothing gentle about that kick. Kakashi looked at his lazy student and said, "Shikamaru you need to work on taijutsu. Which is why I'm going to have you fight twenty of Naruto's clones, without any ninjutsu or genjutsu." Naruto smiled as he said, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu)." Then twenty more Narutos appeared ready for battle.

Shikamaru battled all of them. He got battered and bruised as he went up against his teammate. He could tell that each one was underpowered and he was able to beat them. Kakashi noticed this too and said, "Naruto, Shikamaru needs to be up against strong opponents. Next time make it more challenging for him." Shikamaru said, "You think this is too easy for me? I have marks all over my body, I almost broke both of my arms."

"So…you didn't?" Kakashi asked. Shikamaru said, "I wouldn't have been able to fight if I did!" Kakashi said, "But you didn't break your arms did you now?" Shikamaru was beginning to get ticked off and was about to yell at the cyclops once more, but Kakashi cut him off by saying, "Okay everybody, take a piece of paper and put some chakra into it. The result of this will help me know what kind of training to give you guys tommorow." Shikamaru grabbed one ticked off, Choji got up and grabbed one, Hinata grabbed one shyly and Naruto didn't grab one. Everyone, but Naruto, was pouring their chakra into this paper. Shikamaru's caught fire, Hinata's got wet and Choji's turned to dust.

Kakashi looked at Naruto and asked, "You're wind right?" Naruto nodded and Kakashi laughed a little and said, "Wow. If you include me with lightning we have every single chakra type on this team. You're wind, Choji is earth, Shikamaru is fire and Hinata is extreamly water affiliated. Man I'm going to have to break out a lot of jutsus to show you guys."

Naruto smiled under his mask knowing that he'd learn a new jutsu or two soon, Shikamaru sighed out of pain, Hinata was smiling with accomplishment and Choji fell asleep exhausted. They went in and had dinner. The kid named Inari remained silent until these shinobi started talking about Gato. He yelled, "Shut up! There is no way that you guys can beat him so why even try."

Naruto then had a foul look on his face. He said, "You little brat…Hope is the one thing that should never be given up." Inari got pissed and said, "You don't know what despair is. You must have a pretty good life back in your ninja village." Naruto looked at him and said, "You're right I do have a good life in my ninja village. I've also gone through things that you'd sell your soul not to hear about. You're just afraid to stand up for what you believe in like your Gramps here, you crybaby. Gochisosama (note at end)."

Naruto left the table and went out onto the roof. As Inari was dumbstruck. 'How could anyone be that brave?' thought the young boy. Kakashi said, "The kid did go through a lot. Also, he knows this as well, both of his parents almost died on the day that he was born. He has…something that makes people dislike him at first. He watched his hero turn into a villian in an instant and was unable to stop him."

Inari knew that this man didn't even go into detail. He started feeling sick of the fact that this blonde guy went through a lot and came out nice, while he went through some hard times and became bitter. Inari went off to his room slowly. He didn't cry a single step, but he did contemplating about this strange blond boy.

--The Next Mourning--

Before team 7 could even eat breakfast they were dragged of into the forest to train. Kakashi said, "I will teach all of you guys two new jutsus based off your elements. Choji you will learn the Doton: Doro Bakugeki no Jutsu (Earth Release: Mud Bomber Jutsu) and the Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu (Earth Release: Inner Decapitation Jutsu). Both of these are easy. They require little chakra, the second one needs less chakra than the Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Jutsu). The first one, at your chakra control level, you'll be able to use about seven times a day."

Choji smiled as he was going to learn cool jutsus that required little chakra. Kakashi looked at Hinata and said, "You have excellent chakra control so you'll learn a mixture of high and low-ranking jutsus. Today I'll teach you the Suiton: Mizu Bakuha no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Blaster Jutsu) and the Suiton: Suiryū Suijou Misairu no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Aquatic Missle Jutsu), which is a toned down form of the Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Blast Jutsu)."

Hinata was frightened at how powerful the last one sounded. Kakashi looked at Shikamaru and said, "In order for you to be able ot fight in close combat I'll teach you the Katon: Kaen Shindou no Jutsu (Fire Release: Flame Impact Jutsu) and the Katon: Yuge Jūten no Jutsu (Fire Release: Steam Replenishing Jutsu), when you need to restore some of you chakra through relaxation."

Shikamaru looked indiffrent, but he was actually happy with this at the moment. Kakashi looked at his sensei's hyperactive son and said, "You know a lot of jutsus probably, but I'll teach you some you don't know. Let's see how about the Futon: Nibaigai no Kaze (Wind Release: Double Scythes of Wind) and the Futon: Tatsubaki no Genkaku no Jutsu (Wind Release: Tornado Illusion Jutsu)."

Kakashi showed them all te appropriate hand signs and showed what it was suppose to look like. The team proceeded to working on their jutsu all day. Once they learned how to do one they kept on doing it until they got tired. Hinata was able to do her stronger jutsu three times before getting tired from over-exertion. Her weaker one sixteen times before having the same effect.

Choji's weaker one required little chakra so he was able to do it ten times in a row, as Kakashi predicted he was only able to do the slightly stronger one seven times. Shikamaru was able to hit with his offensive jutsu six times, but got a little burn after the seventh try. His rejuvination jutsu gave him more chakra, but made him weaker until his body rested some. Naruto was able to do the genjutsu well enough, but the new assasination jutsu was hard and he could only use it twice effectivly.

The others went back to go to bed, but Naruto stayed behind. He continuously tried the jutsu multiple times, but after two sucsessful times it would become too weak to cut through anything. After two shots Naruto was determined, "I need to focus." He went into a trance like state did the hand seals quickly.

In a low focused voice he said, "Futon: Nibaigai no Kaze (Wind Release: Double Scythes of Wind)." He then released two gusts of wind that went diagonally opposite to each other and they flew towards a tree and sliced it cleanly in half. Naruto had a smile on his face and fell asleep happy.

--In the Mourning--

Naruto was asleep when a girl came up to him and shook him awake. Naruto woke-up and took a moment to put everything together. He laughed and said, "Wow, must have dozed off after learning how to use it a third time. Thanks for waking me up. I'm Naruto Uzumaki. Who are you?" The girl blushed and said, "Hello Naruto-kun I am Haku. Do you by any chance have any special people?"

Naruto grinned and said, "Well of course, I have my parents, my friends there are some people back in Konoha. So Haku-chan…Is Zabuza-san your special person?" Haku was shocked she flipped backwards and pulled out several senbons and said, "Don't hurt him!" Naruto had a neutral face and said, "I don't want to fight and besides I think that Zabuza is a good person who just strayed off. I think that Gato will order some people to kill him after our battle. I think you should get him off of Gato's side quickly."

Haku thought, 'You are right Naruto Uzumaki. I will go tell him immediately.' She then disapeared in a hurry. Naruto did not rush after her as he knew that he'd be seeing her again. Naruto started to walk of in the direction the house was. He knew the others would be worried.

--Several Days Later--

Team 7 knew an attack would be coming all too soon as the bridge was about a day's work from completion. Naruto just hoped that Haku was able to get Zabuza to listen to her. When he saw two figures coming he knew it wasn't so. Kakashi yelled, "Hinata, Choji protect Tazuna. Shikamaru, Naruto take care of the girl I'll handle Zabuza."

Zabuza just laughed as he lunged at Kakashi, blade readied. Naruto and Shikamaru went after the girl. Shikamaru formed the symbol for rat and said, "Kagemane no Jutsu (Shadow Imitation Jutsu)." His shadow started to move towards the girl, but she managed to escape it.

Naruto had a fist flying at her, but she caught it and did a one-handed seal. Naruto was in shock as she said, "Sensatsu Suishō (Thousand Flying Water Needles)." She jumped backwards to avoid her attack. Naruto noticed that there were no needles coming from over head so he jumped as high as he could. He got a couple of knicks on his ankle, but he noticed that Shikamaru wasn't hit.

She said, "This is an inconvenience, but I must help Zabuza-sama." She made a weird hand sign and said, "Makyō Hyō Shō (Demonic Ice Mirrors)." Then all the water around started to gather around the two genin and solidified into ice mirrors. Haku appeared in every mirror and then senbons started flying all around.

Naruto was hit many times, but Shikamaru was hit worse. They tried to get out, but they couldn't. Shikamaru got hit badly and fell to the floor. Naruto got mad and he felt an evil presence wash over his body. He released a fraction of the Kyuubi's chakra and started to destroy every mirror, but the one she was in. He looked at it and forced her out of it.

Naruto looked at his friends wounds then looked at her. Naruto rushed towards her and she did not run. He came up clenched fist and flicked her destroying her mask. She was shocked at this and said, "Aren't you going to kill me for doing that to your friend?" She pointed at Shikamaru. Naruto just said, "Why? All those wounds on him aren't fatal. The only reason he is down is because of the pain. You should hurry to Zabuza-san. He'll be pretty hurt. Hopefully Gato doesn't come, yet."

Haku ran over to Zabuza who was injured and Kakashi was standing over him Sharingan blazing. While haku was away Naruto removed all the senbons in Shikamaru and forced a green pill down his throat. Shikamaru woke-up and said, "You were right Naruto, she is a good person."

It was unfortunate for Zabuza that he never went up against Kakashi's Sharingan. Zabuza said, "Heh, you win Kakashi-san. I won't kill Tazuna-san. Haku-chan, right now I need a friend more than a weapon, will you be that friend." Haku nodded and showed a beautiful smile.

"This is so sweet I could just vomit," a voice said in the distance. There was a short, rich looking man off in the distance, everyone knew that this was Gato. About one hundred bandits surrounded him. Naruto looked at this man in disgust. He did hand seals so quickly that nobody was able to see him do it. He said, in a low whisper, "Futon: Nibaigai no Kaze (Wind Release: Double Scythes of Wind)." The blades went and slashed Gato cleanly in half.

Zabuza got up and said, "I think I can manage against this trash, with some help." He looked over at team 7 who nodded. The bandits were scared and started heading towards the town. When they turned around they saw an army of towns people with Inari leading them. The kid said, "Naruto-kun, you were right. Thank you." Naruto smiled and then went into a determined state as he started attacking with the rest of his group.

--After Bridge Completion--

Zabuza asked Kakashi, "Kakashi-san this is kinda embarrassing for me to ask, but I'm tired of being a missing-nin with Haku. Could you…" Kakashi laughed a little and said, "Me and Naruto could get his dad to let you and Haku in the village." Zabuza said, "How could his dad do that?" Kakashi said, "He's the Hokage." Zabuza smirked and went to find Haku.

Haku was flirting with Naruto when she heard the good news. She asked, "Naruto could we stay with you and your parents until we get our own place." Naruto said, "It's fine by me, but I'll need to ask my parents when I get home." Haku smiled and then blushed at the thought of being in the same house as Naruto.

As they were leaving one townsperson asked, "So what are we going to call this bridge?" Tazuna said, "Let's name it after something great. Let's name it the…" Tsunami interupted, "We aren't naming it after sake!" Tazuna looked irratated and said, "I wasn't talking about sake. I was going to say The Great Naruto Bridge." Inari spoke up and said, "I agree with Gramps."

Author's Note

This chapter is okay not the best, but okay. Anyways, goshisosama is the same thing as ittadakimasu only you say it at the end of a meal instead of the beginning.

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