Here it is! Finally! I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. I found it quite difficult to write considering I had two Konoha genin teams and I didn't want team seven to take all of the spotlight. But, having a month without access to a computer with all of these amazing ideas... Well, I guess you can find out for yourself.

To Pissed Mankey: My parents are proud of me. It's just that they don't want me to have bad grades.

To Skullkid First Child of Order: Sasuke is younger by half an hour. Naruto was brought to this world by the Shinigami as shown in the first chapter.

To UzumakiKirofu: If I added Haku, then the entire match would've been out of balance and Zabuza would've kicked Kakashi's ass. Plus, Kurenai was practically worthless in this fight. Besides, no one would pull Haku and Zabuza out of trouble if I made Kakashi and Kurenai win... Yet.

Chapter 8: Training and the Battle of the Bridge

Naruto grunted. "Why does he weigh so much?!" Carrying Kakashi on his back was tough. The man had to at least weigh a ton easily. When asked, the bridge builder refused to carry Kakashi because he was their 'cargo' or some other bullshit excuse.

If there was one at least one calming thought, it was that both Kiba and Shino had to distribute their sensei's weight between them. Speaking of Kiba, the feral teenager grunted as they walked along to Tazuna's house.

"How much longer is it gonna take to get there you old drunk?!" Kiba growled. He was getting tired.

Tazuna looked around nervously as the group entered the town. "We're almost there. Just a block or two to go." He said just as they reached a small two story house and the sound of food being prepared.

When entering the house, Tazuna lost some of the weight that seemed to be pushing him down. "I'm home Tsunami." The young woman dropped the pan she was using to prepare the food, and spun around.

She had long blue hair and wore a short pink sleeved shirt and a dark blue skirt that went below her knees. Said woman ran towards he father and hugged him as if he were to disappear if she let go.

Tazuna smiled but frowned a second later. "Tsunami," he said getting her attention. "These young children are the Shinobi I've hired and their sensei are in bad shape. Could you get the first-aid kit?"

Tsunami nodded. "I'll get it right away." She turned towards the genin. "You can place your sensei in the living room. I'll be back shortly with the first-aid kit." She said before disappearing further into the house.

Naruto grunted before he nearly sprinted to the living room and put Kakashi on the ground before collapsing next to him. He glared at his teammates. "You guys could've helped me carry Kakashi you know?"

Sasuke looked at his direction before rolling his eyes and walking towards his sister, while Natsuki smirked at him. "Well, if you gave us the chance to, I guess we could have helped you." She said, earning a harsher glare from Naruto. "But you seemed to be doing a good enough job. Besides, it's also my mission to protect the bridge builder. What kind of Shinobi would I be if I couldn't even do that?" She said, one hand on her cheek.

Naruto growled. "A helpful one..." He muttered before moving out of the way so Kiba and Shino could set their sensei down. Just then, an idea wormed its way into his brain.

"Yo Natsuki, Sasuke." He called out to his teammates catching their attention. He waved his hand over a grin on his face. Their curiosity getting the better of them, the two remaining members of Team Seven walked over to their orange-clothed member. "What?" Sasuke said. Couldn't Naruto see that he was seeing if his sister was ok or not?

Ignoring the annoyance of the Uchiha, Naruto's grin seemed to grow even larger. "This is the perfect time. He can't find out at all and only we'd know."

Natsuki placed both hands on his shoulder, shaking him slightly. "Naruto, calm down." He shrugged off her hands and pointed at Kakashi.

"His mask." He stated. Sasuke looked at Kakashi briefly thinking of gigantic red lips before banishing the thought. Natsuki had a similar thought.

"What about his mask?" Natsuki asked.

Naruto stopped smiling. He looked over at Natsuki. He pointed again at Kakashi. "Don't you want to see what his face looks like?"

'Yes.' Was the collective thought. Sasuke, however, scoffed before turning back to the direction of his sister; who was helping the woman Tsunami patch up Team Eight's sensei.

Natsuki stopped Sasuke and turned him around before placing her body being his. "Nope! Sorry Sasuke, but you gotta stay with us until we find out what's under his mask." She said in a sing-song voice.

Sasuke frowned but relented. Just as Naruto was going to bend down to remove Kakashi's mask, the jounin woke up and immediately sat up. Seeing his genin, their faces mortified, he eye-smiled. "Yo."

Naruto's eye twitched. "Yo? That's all you have to say to us?! Yo?!"

Kakashi nodded as he yawned. "Yup. Now where are we, my cute little genin?"

Just then Tsunami came up with the medical kit and began inspecting Kakashi's wounds. "You're in my house shinobi-san. My father has been waiting for you and the other shinobi to awaken."

Kakashi blinked as he processed the information. "Ah I see. So that means you are the daughter of our client."

"Yes, yes she is." Said a tired voice. The Shinobi turned to look at Tazuna leaning against the doorway. The bridge builder looked over at Kakashi with an unreadable expression, then he smiled. "Are you ok, Kakashi?"

Kakashi lied back down and sighed. "I've been better. It'll be a week before I can move normally."

Naruto jumped and pointed to his left eye. "Yeah and what was up with the red left eye?"

Sasuke nodded. "That's supposed to be a bloodline reserved for the people in my clan."

Kakashi sighed again before he gave the genin an eye-smile. "I'll tell you later. Right now, our mission comes first."

"That's right Kakashi." A woman's voice said from the doorway. She was being held up by both of the boys of her genin team. Team Eight's sensei, Kurenai Yuhi, is a fair-skinned woman of slender build. She has long black hair reaching her upper back, and red eyes that could be mistaken for the Sharingan. She had red lipstick and purple eye shadow. Her outfit was a red mesh armor blouse with only the right sleeve visible. Her hands and upper thighs are also wrapped in bandages and she wore the Konoha forehead protector on its rightful place.

"This is Kurenai Yuhi. She is the sensei for team eight and will be your second commanding officer on this mission. Just like me, she is a jounin."

The members of team seven nodded as Kakashi sat back up. "Ok!" He said, clapping his hands together, "After I finish my nap, we can go over our protection details for our client and this mission." With that, he fell down unconscious once again.

Silence.

Naruto's eye twitched again. "Did he just pass out again?"

After waking up, Kakashi came to the fact that Zabuza wasn't dead yet. He called for all of the teams to meet him in the living room of their client's house.

After all of the shinobi of the mission arrived, Kakashi began to give the genin a lesson before scaring them.

"Alright! Remember the fight Kurenai and I had against the shinobi from the mist?" Kakashi started. All of the genin nodded.

"Yes. He was a part of the Kirigakure Hunter corps. How, his mask identified him as such." Shino stated. Kakashi nodded. "Very good Shino. Your knowledge is very spot-on." He turned back to his genin and the others who didn't have a clue on what was going on.

"That boy, the one in the mask; he is a part of the Tracker Unit from Kirigakure. They're a specialist group that go after rogue ninja.

Natsuki tilted her head to the side, processing all of the information. "Why do they have to go after them? Are they really that important?"

Kakashi nodded. "Like our Anbu, they're tasked with destroying the bodies rogue shinobi. That way, none of their village secrets are exposed to other shinobi villages."

Sasuke caught in quickly to the explanation. "So if these Hunter shinobi weren't around, then they would be able to steal the secrets of our village from our bodies?"

Kurenai nodded. "A shinobi's body is the most important thing to a village. The body contains all of the village's secrets: ninjutsu, chakra, special medicines used on the body..."

Kakashi continued. "These are the secrets of a shinobi's body. If their enemies find them, their people being grave danger. For instance, if I were to die at the hands of an enemy, they would try to analyze my Sharingan..."

Satsumi's eyes widened. "And then they might gain enough information to copy it!"

Hearing this, Sasuke's eyes widened before he reached up to his eyes. 'This isn't just because of revenge anymore... I have to kill Itachi before someone else kills him and takes his Sharingan!'

"-the sacred duty of the shinobi trackers to prevent this... To keep the village secrets safe..." Kakashi let that fact sink in.

"If a ninja betrays his village, the trackers hunt them down, eliminate him, and obliterate every trace of his existence. That's their specialty." Kakashi said.

Kiba spoke up. "So that swordsman's body is being disposed of right this minute?"

Kakashi nodded. "That would be the case." He said earning a couple of sighs of relief, before he reminded them, "if he were dead in the first place."

Silence engulfed the room again.

"W-what do you mean, 'If he were dead'? Did you just give a lesson on how Tracker ninja eliminate all traces of a corpse and protect the secrets?" Tazuna said, scared out of his mind.

Kakashi eye-smiled. "Yes. That would be the case, if our fellow tracker ninja was actually a tracker ninja."

Kurenai caught on to what he was saying. "So the tracker ninja was actually Zabuza's accomplice."

Kakashi nodded. "They deal with the body immediately, on the spot, so there's no room for error."

"Is it really that important to complete it on the spot?" Natsuki asked.

Kakashi looked at his only female subordinate. "What was the weapon the tracker ninja used on Zabuza."

"It was a senbon." Shino said.

Kakashi nodded. "Unless you have near perfect aim, senbon aren't the most widely used weapon to kill an enemy."

Naruto held his hand up. "So what you're saying, is that Zabuza; you know, the big guy with a giant sword, who almost killed us, is still alive?"

Kakashi laughed silently at the description. "Yes."

Naruto's face fell before hardening. "Then we need to train! And fast!"

"All the training it the world can't help you! Nothing is going to be good!"

The shinobi looked to the speaker, only to see a young boy with spiky black hair covered by a blue and white striped hat. He wore a green jumpsuit and a yellow shirt.

Kiba, taking offense to the boy's attitude rudely asked, "Who are you?!"

Ignoring the Inuzuka, the boy ran up to his mother and gave her a hug before running up to the bridge builder and giving him a hug. "Welcome back grandpa."

Tsunami, upset in her son's behavior, said, "Inari, these are the shinobi who protected your grandfather."

Tazuna smiled at seeing his grandson. "It's fine. Right Inari?"

Inari said nothing. He just looked at the direction of his mother and said, "Mom, these people are going to die. Gato and his men will come back and find them and wipe them out."

Naruto snickered while Kiba fumed. "What?! You cheeky little brat!" The feral teenager said.

Inari turned his back on the shinobi in the room. "You can't win against Gato.

Kiba, incensed at the brats attitude shouted, "What did you say, brat?!" As he moved to punch the kid, Naruto subdued Kiba in a full-nelson; predicting what he was going to do to the pessimistic kid. "Let me go, Naruto! I'm going to teach the kid a lesson!"

Naruto laughed. "Yeah, but not in the right way."

Satsumi just sighed. "Calm down Kiba. You're embarrassing yourself."

Not calmed in the slightest, Kiba continued struggling as he told off Inari. "This Gato isn't a match for us! We're shinobi! We're better than some half-asses mercenaries!"

Inari just looked on with the same depressed look. "If you want to stay alive, you should go back to where you came from." He said before running off to his room.

Tazuna sighed as he watched his grandson leave the room. "Sorry about that."

Kiba just huffed as he left the house, his partner Akamaru following him having woken up from his nap. Kurenai turned to look at Kakashi. "I suppose it's time to train our genin more. Especially with the information of Zabuza being still alive."

Kakashi nodded and sighed. 'My chakra hasn't replenished enough for me to do anything but walk for now.'

"Alright. Teams Seven and Eight! It's time to train!"

Ok guys. Not much of a chapter, but as promised, I uploaded something after being away for so long. The next chapter, which deals with the training and the super special awesome fight between Teams Seven and Eight vs Zabuza and Haku will be out soon. I promise. Because I already have the fight down. Just need to complete the training. Spoiler: it won't be tree walking or water walking. It'll be something so overused it's not even funny. And because of school and SAT's which are busting my ass full force, I need to set aside some time to give you guys your drugs- I mean your next installment of this story. Aside from that, thanks for reading, reviewing, following and favoriting this story. It means a lot.

-Exiled