Ch. 5
Author's Note: So InfamousAnimeAssassin here. I have a request for my readers. If you could leave a simple review to let me know what your thinking it would really be appreciated! I need some feedback guys and gals. I wanna know what you like, what you don't like. Constructive Criticism is more than welcome. Help me out please. Also shout out to E.M. Santos for an awesome PM, and the writing tips.
On with the story...
After a night of restful slumber everyone woke up feeling refreshed for the most part...
"Okay Tazuna, can you tell us why a ex Anbu from Kirigakure was after you? This should be more than a C-rank mission" Kakashi asked with curiosity.
"Well I'm a bridge builder and our town is poor, I couldn't afford to pay for an A-rank. That's why I'm building this bridge to hopefully expand to the mainland. But this thug named Gato wants to keep control of us" the old man explained.
"Well don't worry about that mister Tazuna" Ino said softly. Kakashi simply nodded knowing what Ino meant.
"Sasuke, Naruto, Ino, and Sakura we are going outside for a training exercise" their sensei suddenly announced.
"Bring it on!" Naruto exclaimed eager to train.
Outside...
"Okay you guys are gonna learn how to use your chakra to walk up trees and stand on water" Kakashi announced with his signature eye smile.
"Naruto, Sasuke since you two already know how to do this please demonstrate for us" he instructed. The two teens nodded, beginning to channel chakra into their feet and proceeded to walk up the atleast 20 ft high tree with each walking on either side of it.
"Good now explain how to do it, Naruto" their sensei once again instructed.
"Well there's not much to it. You just have to pump the right amount of chakra into your feet and maintain it." Naruto said intentionally forcing more chakra causing the bark of the tree to explode. "To much and that will happen" Naruto further explained. "To little and you'll simply fall" the young jinchuriki said sighing as he finished.
"We'll there you have it, now to practice" their sensei advised.
"Oh and once you master tree climbing, water walking will be that much easier" Sasuke added matter-of-factly...
After spending the better part of the afternoon practicing both Ino and Sakura were almost at their limit.
"This is really hard Naruto-kun" Ino whined to her boyfriend.
"Come on you're close to getting it Ino-chan. I believe in you, don't give up" he said softly trying his best to raise her self-esteem.
"I'm not giving up I'm just saying" she argued acting mock offended.
"Put a little less chakra into it and you should have it" Sasuke intervened.
"Teme! Shh! I was going to wait to tell her that" Naruto replied harshly.
"Anyway yeah put a little less chakra into your feet and you should have it" Naruto instructed hanging his head in defeat. Ino then easily began scaling the tree, earning Naruto's praise. "Good job Ino-chan, now just remember how much chakra you need to use" he said raising his thumb to her.
Sakura on the other hand still was having trouble with the tree climbing. 'Guess I'll help her' Sasuke thought to himself.
'Kit?' 'Yeah Kurama?' 'You're a pretty good teacher' the tailed beast complimented. 'Thanks' Naruto said bowing his head in respect.
"Well it's getting late, guess we should head in" Sasuke suggested.
"Yeah I'm about to starve" Ino and Sakura commented in perfect unison. This caused Naruto to chuckle lightly.
"Yeah let's get some food" he added.
Tsunami had fixed them a fairly large scale meal. This included Katsu Kare(Curry Rice with a piece of deep fried pork cutlet on top), Oyakodon's (rice bowl with Chicken and Egg), Yakitori's (Grilled Chicken on a stick), Ramen and Vegetables.
"Alright dig in" she instructed with a kind smile. "Itadakimasu" everyone said thanking her for preparing the meal.
Afterwards...
"Sasuke lets go spar for a while" Naruto suggested.
"Okay but let's wait at least twenty minutes before we spar I mean we just ate ya baka" he replied not feeling like sparring immediately after eating.
"Sparring can wait until tomorrow, after we teach Sakura and Ino to walk on water" Kakashi interrupted. "Okay Kakashi-sensei" both boys answered with a nod.
Next Day, At Breakfast...
"So considering the fact that I am almost one hundred percent recovered, I will be actually teaching you how to walk on water instead of Naruto and Sasuke doing the teaching like yesterday. So in about an hour I want you all to meet me outside." Kakashi said giving them there instructions toward the end.
"Kakashi-sensei? How much harder is it learning to walk on water compared to tree climbing?" asked a cautious Ino remembering all the trouble she had yesterday.
"Not too much harder" their sensei answered. "You're free to do as you please til time to start training" Kakashi added.
'Kit you should really spend some time with that Ino girl' Kurama advised. 'Yeah we haven't really had anytime to ourselves since the start of this mission' Naruto responded. 'Go on now' the nine tails replied with a small smile. 'Right'
Seizing the opportunity to spend time with Ino he grabbed her hand and lead her outside. "Naruto-kun what are we doing?" Ino questioned.
"I just wanted us to have some private time away from Kakashi-sensei and the others" he said honestly. Ino proceeded to peck him lovingly on the lips.
"Aw so sweet" she said with a bright smile. "So what do you wanna do or talk about?" She asked raising a brow to her boyfriend
"Well I was just thinking we don't really know that much about each other, so I was thinking we could just talk about whatever came to mind that the other might not know" he said with a small smile and a gleam of determination in his cerulean blue eyes. "But before that lets go sit under that tree over there" he suggested, grabbing her hand and tugging gently.
As they sat down Naruto let out a sigh signifying that he was A: hurting or B: just sighing for no reason. "When was the first time you and Kurama talked?" Ino asked sitting in his lap straddling him.
"Hm? Let's see...I think maybe 3 years ago, on my 10th birthday...I think" he answered to the best of his ability. "If you have any more questions feel free to ask away" he encouraged. Unable to think of any more questions she suggested they just sit and enjoy one another's company.
Slowly but surely Ino began to drift off to sleep. Naruto smiled softly as he wrapped his arms around her waist. Not long afterwards Naruto began to doze off, but willed himself to stay awake. Suddenly he noticed Ino whimpering in her sleep. 'Ino-chan is having a nightmare' he thought using the power of Kurama to sense what was going on. "Ino-chan wake up" he said softly into her ear which caused her tremble slightly. "Naru...to...kun" she said sadly in her sleep. He gently shook her "Ino-chan!"
"Hm" she moaned jolting awake. Suddenly memories of her dream flooded her mind, a single tear cascading down her face. Naruto quickly wiped it away, and pressed his lips against hers.
"Ino-chan whatever it was, it was just a dream" he said reassuringly. As the words escaped his lips the alarm on his wrist watch went off. He stood up; helped her up. "Time to get to training" Naruto shouted excitedly...
"Okay, so in order to walk on water you must apply what you learned in your training from yesterday and continuously manipulate your chakra so that itwill change with the waters current after you master this it should become second nature or something you can do without thinking" Kakashi explained.
2 hours later...
"Okay guys you can take a break now, as a matter a fact let's check in on Tazuna" he advised. "Hopefully Gramps will be done soon" Naruto said rudely, earning him an elbow to the side from his girlfriend.
"Manners" she reminded.
A short while later...
As they arrived at the almost finished bridge, they were greeted by a sweaty Tazuna. "Glad you could come. I was just about to take my lunch break" he said with a smile. Just as Kakashi was about to respond he noticed Naruto and the other had their kunai knives drawn.
Kakashi then drew one of his own much to the surprise of Tazuna. "Tazuna stay back" he instructed. He then ordered both Ino and Sakura to guard the old bridge builder. Suddenly a thick mist appeared once more much like it did days ago. Sasuke activated his Sharingan and Naruto tapped into the Kyuubi's chakra. Kakashi lifted his hitai-ate and revealed his own Sharingan.
They all began to feel a positively evil chakra approching rapidly. In a matter of seconds the 'Demon' of Kiri was standing in front of them with a young boy accompanying him. "Isn't that the guy that "killed" Zabuza" Sakura asked confusedly.
Suddenly she felt a senbon pierce her neck the needle was non lethal, but it was precise enough to shut down her chakra network permanently. Sakura collapsed to the ground. Ino began to shake in fear. "My name is Haku, I am a tool for Zabuza to use and nothing more." he said plainly almost emotionlessly.
"Enough talk, Hatake Kakashi of the Sharingan you die here" Zabuza said before charging at Kakashi.
"Naruto, Sasuke take out Haku and then join me" their sensei said quickly.
"I got this Dobe" Sasuke said with a little to much confidence. The Uchiha ran through a series of hand seals 'Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu' he said before projecting a giant fireball. Haku quickly jumped into the air to avoid the fireball, the boy formed hand seals with a single hand at high speed. 'Makyou Hyoushou' suddenly a dome like enclosure of Ice mirrors surrounded both Sasuke and Naruto.
'Kit' said the tailed beast known as Kurama. 'I know' the young blonde jinchuriki replied.
'Kage Bunshin no Jutsu' he annouced as atleast twenty Naruto's appeared. Serving as a distraction he charged in a slammed a 'Rasengan' into every mirror, shattering them. He them dispelled them. Haku not paying enough attention to where the other opponent was; barly avoided the 'Chidori' from Sasuke. "I underestimated your abilities but I must finish this" the masked boy said.
Naruto quickly used the 'Hiraishin no Jutsu' to teleport behind Haku, he held the three pronged kunai against Haku's throat. "Just give up or I will kill you" he said softly.
"Oh really" Haku replied with an amused tone. He turned to water.
Naruto quickly averted his attention back to Ino for a second and noticed she was gone, Tazuna was unprotected. "Shit" 'he muttered under his breath. He returned his attention to Haku and that's when he realized that Haku was holding Ino hostage. It was now Haku's turn to call the shots.
"You give up or I'll kill this pretty young lady over here" he barked knowing he could never kill an innocent person he was just hoping the two young teens would buy it.
"Naruto don't surrender if I have to die so be it" Ino said with confidence.
"Haku let her go now!" Naruto said his blood boiling but he needed to stay calm right now. 'I can't let her get hurt or I'd never forgive myself' he thought to himself. He looked at Sasuke who seemed to be nearly out of chakra and energy to move. He then glanced over to where Kakashi and the 'Demon' were fighting Kakashi seemed to have the upper hand in the fight. And lastly his attention fell on Sakura who was now up and moving protecting Tazuna His face faltered "Haku please let her go, or at least take me as hostage" he announced with his mind made up. His team mates looked at him as if he were crazy.
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"Zabuza, just give up you can't win. Your future is death." the masked ninja known as Kakashi said. 'Kuchiyose: Doton: Tsuiga no Jutsu' he exclaimed before biting his thumb it appeared as If nothing happened when suddenly 8 ninken(ninja dogs) emerged from the ground pinning Zabuza in place. Allowing Kakashi to use his only original technique the 'Raikiri'
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Haku then for a split second saw what was about to happen to Zabuza and quickly shunshined in front of Zabuza and took a 'Raikiri' straight to the heart. "Za...bu...za" Haku said weakly coughing up blood before ultimately dying. Kakashi pulled his hand from the boy's chest. When Zabuza witnessed the death of Haku he lost his will to fight.
"Well seems like he was useless after all" said a mysterious voice.
Everyone turned their attention to the direction in which the voice came it was a short man. To say Zabuza was pissed was an understatement. An extremely evil aura began to engulf Zabuza and with reckless abandon he charged after Gato. Yelling "Gato" with murderous intent.
Zabuza sliced off his head, after making his way through Gato's small army...Zabuza then fell to the ground, covered in blood and fatal wounds. Kakashi at the request of Zabuza laid the man next to his 'Tool'. With his final breath he wished to go to the same place as Haku. A few minutes later Team 7 then gave the two shinobi a proper, honorable burial next to one another.
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Tazuna announced the bridge would be called "The Great Naruto Bridge" as the team departed the Land of Waves...
"Good job team!" congratulated Kakashi. "Unfortunately Sakura's chakra network has been permanently shutdown"
"So what'll happen?" asked Naruto out of curiosity.
"Well, she can no longer be a kunochi" Kakashi said slightly saddened by the turn of events. "It's okay, I guess I wasn't fit to be a ninja in the first place, but I'll be fine" the pink haired girl said...
Author's Notes: So this is the end of Chapter 5. Sorry it took so long to get this published and sorry that the end of the chapter seems rushed. Mainly cause it was but I digress. I wanted to get a new chapter out so yeah...Thanks for reading and don't forget to Review. Plus I need some pointers on how to write a fight scene. I will also be introducing an OC by my friend. Anyway thanks again!
Jutsu Mentioned:
Makyou Hyoushou-Demonic Crystal Ice Mirrors
Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu-Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu
Kuchiyose: Doton: Tsuiga no Jutsu-Summoning: Earth Release: Tracking Fang Technique
Hiraishin no Jutsu-Flying Thunder God