Author's Note: I am sooooooooooooooooo sorry! And thank you everyone for the reviews! Anyway in (semi) defense I have to say that to cause of the (major) delay was because of my first semester of high school, work, exams, babysitting, friends, boyfriend, writer's block, among other things. Still it is quite unforgivable! But thanks to my English class my writing should have gotten alot better! Anyway I won't bother you any more. Here's the chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto if I did I would have this huge twist where... oh wait that's gonna be in the fic. Well maybe...

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"/'Kyuubi Talking'/"

'Kyuubi Thinking'

Flashback

Revelance of the Future

Chapter 8

Ripples of Water

Author: Ginriku

'Naruto?'

'What Kyuubi.'

'When do you plan on telling them? Uchiha is getting quite suspicious. I'm sure you have noticed by now.'

'Of course I have. And I've decide of taking the telling it in stages. First I'll tell them about you. Most likely while we are on the wave mission, then the part about coming for the future later. When our trust is greater.'

'I see...'

It has been about two and a half months since they claimed their weapons and they were all coming along quite nicely, even Sakura had gotten serious (at least where medical jutsu were involved).

Hinata had also got into increasing the strength of her team and driven expectations to wards the roof. The only anomaly still present was team 10. Neither of the duo really knew what to do when it came to them. They just hoped they wouldn't be to far behind if worse came to worse.

The mission to wave would come within the next week or so and a predicament came to head. What would he do about Haku and Zabuza? And should he also keep Kakashi out of it? If they did tell Kakashi he would probably have to tell Sarutobi as well and that could be a good thing or it could screw things up so badly that their future knowledge would be rendered useless. The entire predicament was enough to make anyones head hurt.

In the end, after a long discussion many headaches and cries of frustration, the time traveling duo decided to keep the others, as in Kakashi and other sensei/comrades, in the dark until at least after the wave mission.

After all of that it all came down to this moment...

"Raven here. The subject is within range do you copy? Over."

"Fox here. Raven, Cherry, force subject into corner while I jump. Cherry, a bit more north. Over."

"Cherry here. I am in position. The subject is about ten feet due south. Over."

"Scarecrow in. Copying all messages. Proceed with plan. Over."

Scuffling sounds could be heard followed by the sound of a screeching cat.

"Raven here. Identity of the subject confirmed by red bow on left ear. It's Tora. Over."

"Well done team. Everyone meet at the rendezvous point. Over."

Naruto let an evil chuckle loose as he and his teammates watched Tora be smothered by his over exuberant owner. The evil little cat manages to run away at least three times a week and every single time his team gets nailed with the duty. If it was up to him there wouldn't be any cat to find.

After the little bout of evilness exuded from team seven they all calmly walked up to the missions table for a new assignment.

Seeing them Iruka began to read out what there was left. "Babysitting two year old Sextuplet's for the wealthy cloak merchant, weeding for the elderly fortuneteller, or cleaning the civilian park while the caretaker is on sick leave. What do you pick?"

'This is it. It's today that we get the wave assignment! I have to make sure we get it!'

With this thought Naruto quickly repeated the events from long ago.

"What! That's it? Come on Old Man, we're alot stronger then those petty D-rank! Give us something harder! I'm sick of all of this baby crap!"

Sakura agreed with a hearty cry of, "Ya we're not babies!" and a firm, "Hn." and nod from Sasuke.

'Oh dear I'm gonna hear about this later...' Was all that came from Kakashi.

However the opposite was true for Iruka. "Naruto you are genin. The lowest of the low. You get D-rank and that's it until you get stronger and more experienced! No buts about it! Got it!"

Iruka finished his rant to see the three genin talking among themselves about the weather. Just as he was about to start yelling again an aged hand on his shoulder stopped him.

"Well you three you might be right. You have completed over a hundred D-rank in the past few months. Very well I shall give you a C-rank. A simple escorting mission."

He turned to the chunnin by the door. "Bring him in"

An old drunken man of about fifty or so entered. He sneered at the team before voicing out. "Are you sure these brats will be able to protect me? The short one looks stupid."

'Same old Tazuna.' Naruto in the most dark voice and glare he could manage replied, "That's what you think. You old geezer."

That voice sent chills down everyones spine.

Breaking out of the tension that had enveloped the room Sarutobi continued with the briefing. "Well our client's name here is Tazuna he is a bridge builder from the land of the waves. He has kindly asked for us to give him an escort back to his home. The most you should encounter is random bandits. Dismissed."

It was now that Kakashi spoke up. "Alright team you heard the details. We are leaving in two hours, meet at the east gate and bring enough supplies for a week. Go."

Nothing more needed to be said. They were gone.

Before Naruto did anything he had to fins Hinata. He couldn't leave without saying good-bye.

All in all it only took him about ten minutes to find her, she was meditating on top of the Hokage mountain.

"Hina-chan!"

She looked up just as he sat beside her. "Yes Naruto-kun? What happened?"

"It's the wave mission. Our team just got assigned to it. We are leaving it about and hour and forty minutes. Also I have decided to tell Sakura and Sasuke about the Kyuubi."

Hinata's eyes widened as she heard what he said. "Are you sure about telling them? And are you going to be okay on that mission? Zabuza is and A-rank missing nin after all and Haku is nearly as strong."

There was worry and concern in her voice that was clearly heard by Naruto. He hated to make her worry. "Don't worry Hina-hime everything will be fine. I'm positive. We are way stronger then last time and that turned out okay didn't it? As for the telling them.. Well I need to have them trust me. Sasuke is getting quite suspicious and I need to tell him something. Divulging a secret that important that will at least sedate them for awhile. Even Sakura has noticed something."

Hinata nodded. She had noticed too. "Make sure you come back. I don't know what I would do if I lost you."

She didn't like it one bit that she was being this worried and clingy. The heiress knew that she was being childish but she all of a sudden had a strange felling that something was going to horribly wrong.

The blond knew that something was wrong by the look in her eyes. She always got that look when she felt that something bad would happen. "Don't worry I'll return in one piece. I promise."

Naruto hugged her then and placed a chaste kiss upon her lips. Leaving a lingering "...See you later..." hanging in the warm jasmine scented breeze.

Aaaannnd That is chapter seven. I would have went on but I decided to break it up to make it dramatic I mean just read the last sentence!!!

Also chapter 8 will be out this weekend! I promise!! I will even date it! This is Tuesday Feb. 4 and the next chapter will be out this weekend!

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