Hey guys, pretty good start to the series so far so I'll be focusing on this series for now as well as mahouka.
Anyway thank you redwolf23466, Blackplant, xsanoxx, Syndranar, GundamWing-00-Seed for your input, appreciate it. As for GundamWing I've read Reaching For a Dream before and it was good, not sure about inspiration but I think it might have influenced my decisions during the visit to Kuromi, rereading it I found out that I kind of imitated the cabin part but nothing else I think. But all in all that was a good femkyuubi fanfic, in my top two after Fishcakes Affair.
Naruto right now is just above Kakashi's level but his lack of experience and tendency to spam jutsu, to not be able to pace himself will be fatal in this arc since he's still inexperienced in a real life and death battle. Oh and if you saw any mathematic errors in the last chapter it's because I changed his flashback age from 6 to 9.
Oh for the Waves Arc I'm changing the problem from building the bridge, to Tazuna hiring a group of chunins in order to overthrow Gato's rule, this is bit earlier in the timeline compared to canon so the people in the Land of Waves aren't that poor but they are somewhat in a sate of poverty, this is just a bit after Kaiza dies but instead of them being scaredy-cats Tazuna gets pissed and takes early action. But his group of chunins will be ambushed by Zabuza and the Demon Brothers and that's where Naruto gets involved. Oh yeah and I'm thinking of wiping Idate out as a character and just gonna say Rokusho Aoi just stole the Raijin no Ken by himself.
I changed Gozu and Meizu's to lower Jonin level, while Haku is upper Chunin level seeing as they won't be encountering team 7 later on. Oh yeah fem Haku by the way because I just cannot view Haku as a male.
About the harem: adding Tsunami and Ayame to it, but I'm trying to refrain him from having any Konoha kunoichi because it'll be counter-productive to my story after the Sasuke Retrieval Arc which will be a major plot twist, if you want spoilers PM me.
Anyway welcome to the Land of Waves Arc. Enjoy. This arc will introduce characters like Zabuza, Kisame, Aoi, Haku, Gato and many more.
Chapter 1: Naruto vs Zabuza
"Man...that was a big-ass tiger probably like...twice the size of a normal one." Naruto said to himself, completely lost after his fight with a pack of tigers that were unlucky enough to come face-to-face with an even more hungry Uzumaki Naruto, who easily took them part one by one and had lunch. He arrived at a pathway and decided to take the route, hoping that it would take him back to Konoha and let it not be said that Naruto was terrible at directions in his youth.
Inside his mind, an amused Kuromi was shaking her head as she desperately refrained from laughing her head off.
"Ha...haha...I knew you would got lost the moment you took a step out of the village haha." The amusement in her tone did not help the situation one bit as Naruto could only pout in the face of the certain truth.
"Well if you knew, why didn't you say anything."
"To see your cute pout that's why." And so that reply started what came to be known as Naruto and Kuromi's first ever lover's spat for the next few minutes as Naruto completely forgot about where fate was taking him next.
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Fifteen minutes later and Naruto came to one decisive conclusion.
He needed a map and something to eat. Because for a still-growing boy of 13, 12 cooked tigers size large where just not enough to sate his hunger.
Seriously, he needed ramen. If only he didn't ignore the tingling of his ramen senses earlier, he would still be at home eating Ayame's delicious bowls of ramen and able to cook something up for dinner. Yes, contrary to Ayame's belief, Naruto learned how to cook, something that easily became his favorite past-time. She was skeptical at first, but one does not live alone without learning a few neat house tricks, this was proven when she came to his house one day and accepted his invitation to eat his home-made bento. She was left moaning with each bite as he took the time to read and clean the apartment alongside his shadow clones, her extremely loud moans however were heard by a lot of people who were passing through, which started a lot of...inaccurate adult-themed rumors which eventually reached the ears of his adult 'fan-girls' who became extremely eager to invite him over to their house the next following days.
After following the dirt road a bit, he started to notice the obvious change in atmosphere.
Is it just me or are things getting a whole lot foggier?
Hearing the sound of metals colliding, his honed instincts kicked in causing him to jump into a nearby bush to hide.
There's a fight somewhere, but where? Letting his curiosity get the better of him, he decided to hide in the shadows as he approached the nearby battle.
As he came closer several figures fighting and leaping around the sight were starting to become more visible. Not wanting to risk the chance of nearby ambushers spotting him he decided to use Earth Style: Hiding Like a Mole to sniff out the battlefield in order to make sure no-one would get the drop on him.
Eventually he spotted one person wearing a mask on a nearby tree, using a low-level glen jutsu to hide himself.
Please what a noob. Jiji could produce a better genjutsu in his sleep.
Using his affinity to wood, he grew a sleeping powder plant which quickly grew as it subtlety reached up the tree, onto the branch and slowly approached the unsuspecting assassin.
Gotcha, release the sleeping powder.
The bud on top of the tall vine opened up as 12 pink leaves separated in order allow the contained spore to roam around the air as it reached the assassin who was still unaware of the plant behind her.
Eventually realizing something was wrong with her immune systems and that she was quickly becoming drowsy, he turned around to see the humongous plant behind her only to fall of the branch at that exact moment, before she could make collision with the ground Naruto popped out of the ground to catch her and gently placed her on the floor.
How? I didn't even realize...what was...that ju...tsu?...forgi...ve me Zabuza...sama, I failed before the plan could...commence.
"All right that should do it, now time to see what the commotion is all about."
Hiding both himself and what he figured to be a female nin, he tried his best to look through the really thick mist, channeling some chakra to his eyes he was able to gain a better view of the battle. On top of the water, was a tall male adult with a bigass sword on his back, who had just killed an adult female nin inside a water bubble due to lack of oxygen, while a duplicate of himself, presumably a clone, was off fighting a group of ninja that were surrounding an old man wearing a bamboo pointed hat, a towel around his neck and a pair of old glasses.
It looks like the guy carrying that bigass sword has the edge over this battle considering the panic on the group of ninja's faces and seriously what's with that sword, conspicuous much. But that killer intent, wooh that's not something to joke about, he's dangerous...extremely dangerous.
The question is, should I help the bigger group, they look like they need it or should I help the outnumbered dude. Too early to tell whose purposes are more favorable to me or should I just be lazy and help the side that's winning, the sword-wielder of course. Hmmmm, decisions, decisions.
...Naruto, be careful around the one with the big sword, judging by the make of that sword I would say that he's one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
Wait Kuromi-chan, you mean that that guy over there is one of Kirigakure's 7 greatest swordsman? Holy crap, I know I was bored today, but seriously I just had to wish for something to happen today and God sends me someone with a reputation like that...Thank you God, I now officially believe in you, damn why didn't I pray to you sooner.
You know, Naruto, I think that you're the only child in Konoha who would become eager at the prospect of facing someone like that. Most children would shit their pants.
Hehe thanks for the compliment Kuromi-chan...that was a compliment right?
Mmmm I don't know you tell me...I think it was a mix between me complimenting your bravery and me worrying for your sanity.
Hey I'm as sane as any other 13-year old can be, who contains a second entity within his mind who whispers to him during bed-time about sexual role-playing fantasies every night.
Teehee I don't know what you're talking about Naruto-kun.
Shhh getting off topic here, have to focus, well guess I know now who I want to help...I mean it's not everyday that one gets to face one of Mist's Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
Leaping out of the bush, he made way to the group of Chunin who were being chopped down one by one like pigs to a slaughter.
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In the face of that monster, the only thing the hired group of nin could do were scream as they waited for that inevitable tear of muscles, the drop of blood and that agonizing last cry of death.
One by one, as if he was cutting through butter, each nin fell down completely chopped in half as they were torn down limb by limb.
Eventually as the swordsman finally tore down the last of the shinobi, as his sword finally hovered above the terrified old man he heard one whisper from the assassin.
"Sorry old man, but I have to do this...no hard feelings." He whispered as he swung his sword down.
A/N: Zabuza isn't as cold-hearted in this one and he's not as afraid to admit that he cares for Haku, views him as a son but refrains from putting it out there...because you know shinobi business, secrets and all.
As the sword closed in on his body, the man could only shut his eyes in the face of death, knowing it was too late to dodge the killing blow..."I'm sorry everyone, forgive your foolish grandfather, Inari" he could only whisper in time as the blade came only inches away from his head.
But nothing...nothing happened, not the year of muscle, not the drop of blood, not the cry of immense agony, pain and finally death...no none of that happened except for the sound of...
*BOOOM*
Blown away by some kind of powerful attack that was so not a sword slash, he opened his eyes as he fell down a couple of meters away from his previous spot.
Instead of a tall terrifying demon under the guise of a human, he saw a blonde-hair child and with a figure like that he was probably 16 to 17 years old but what was most noticeable was his left fist which was currently impaled on the back of the assassin's head, smashed against the ground causing a crater full of spider cracks with slabs of earth popping out everywhere within a 10 meter radius.
What...what massive strength...who is this kid?
"Damn I gotta remember how to control my chakra output."
Now changing into water after being smashed into the ground, Naruto lifted his fist as he turned around to the stunned old man.
"Hey you alright old man?" Grinning widely at his funny expression.
Shocked, the old man could only nod at the boy's question. Unable to form a coherent, intelligent reply.
Now that he knew that the old man was safe he turned around, amazed that the assassin didn't take that opportunity to strike while his back was turned to him. That was stupid of both of them, rule one in the battlefield states that you don't turn your back on the enemy...if jiji saw this he would be lecturing the boy non-stop.
Lucky break for me I guess...
"Hey, big man with that bigass sword why don't you pick on someone your own size." He grinned at the missing-nin as he was snapped out of his temporary shock, happy at his awesome appearance he praised himself mentally which wasn't unheard by Kuromi who could only giggle at his childish antics.
"Who the hell are you kid?"
"Uh manners dude, you don't ask for someone's name without introducing your own. But I can take a good guess now that I've seen you without all the mist...mister Zabuza Momochi, you're a pretty famous missing-nin, man am I glad that I read through the whole bingo book."
When...when the hell did the mist clear...this chakra in the atmosphere...don't tell me that the kid dispelled my mist by releasing the same amount of chakra throughout the air...who is this kid?
"If you're wondering who I am...well I'm still a genin-in-training so I guess I can break a few guidelines...ok, listen well because this is the last name you'll ever hear" stepping forward as if he needed room to do something magnanimous.
"I am Konoha's greatest future Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki!"
He's an Uzumaki, but I thought she said that she and her friend were the last remaining survivors but he doesn't have their signature red hair...and what the fuck, how the hell can my clone be beaten by a kid who's still in his training pants?
Smirking even wider at the man's stunned look, he beamed with overconfidence.
Heh he's so awestruck by my awesomeness that he's speechless...
Don't grow a big head, I don't know why but his chakra flow became chaotic when he heard your surname, I don't know why but you should take this chance and attack him now while he's still in shock...
Seriously all I had to do was say my name and I've already got a good chance at beating an upper Jonin-level shinobi hell yeah screw secrecy, I should pronounce my name before every battle lols...
Getting a running start on the Jonin, he took in a deep breath sucked in a whole lot of air and then shot out a highly compressed ball of air while shouting "Wind Style: Drilling Air Bullet".
Snapped out of his daze, he quickly countered with "Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu" large amounts of water from the lake formed into a giant water dragon as it shot towards the air bullet.
As both jutsus collided, the water dragon exploded and splashed right onto the dry ground soaking Naruto as he was temporarily distracted by the splash of water.
Using that moment of distraction, Zabuza jumped out of the water towards Naruto and swung his sword from the left.
Just in the nick of time, Naruto ducked underneath the slash and somersaulted forward to use his upward feet to kick the man's left elbow effectively stopping the man from swinging his sword once again, as they competed in strength to see who would back away first, with his free arm to do one-handed seals.
Shit he can do one-handed seals as well, he's probably as talented as Haku.
Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu.
Leaping back to avoid the massive fireball aimed towards him, he swung his blade overhead and cut the fireball into two.
Forced back into the water, the man once again had the territorial advantage he once again started to form the seals for the Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu.
Noticing that he too was on the water, and had learned that you do not mess with a water specialist who's had 20 something years to practice on his own turf, he decided to test out his theory about that hiding nin and hopefully gain some psychological advantage.
"Hey Zabuza, next time you assign a nin to ambush someone, tell them to hide in a less conspicuous spot than on top of a branch."
No, he's already gotten to Haku...
Noticing the slight pause in hand seals, Naruto decided to also form the seals for the same jutsu in which he correctly assumed was the water dragon bullet jutsu. Shock now turned into pure rage at what he incorrectly assumed to be the death of his adopted child he resumed the hand seals for his jutsu with even greater speed but not enough to surpass that of Naruto's, who went through hand seals at the same speed in which he went through ramen...which meant only one thing...Zabuza was fucked...
Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu.
...Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu.
After Naruto had formed a water dragon of his own, only a few seconds afterwards did Zabuza create his. As both dragons clashed in a test of power near Zabuza's side of the battle, he was sent flying back through the water shaken off by the huge explosion of the water which caused huge ripples throughout the lake.
Recovering his stance, he started to make the seals for his greatest water style technique...too angry to think about the fact that Naruto had just copied his jutsu at a faster rate...far too angry to calm himself down...
But Naruto saw this and started to mimic his seals only at a much faster pace, smirking at the great success of his previous taunt, not expecting it to work on the experienced killer.
Heh didn't think my taunt would work...the rate in which he's making those seals are a lot slower than before...
...Water Style: Great Wa...
Water Style: Great Waterfall Jutsu.
As huge surges of water surrounded both of them in circles, it surged upwards into the air as it screamed down towards the opponent as if two huge waves were sweeping across the battlefield. But once again, the techniques clashed once more near Zabuza's side.
Having not expected for one of his greatest water type techniques to be countered so easily by a mere boy, a revelation had finally dawned upon him.
"Don't tell me that he's...he's copying my moves."
"That's right."
"But how...only Uchihas and Kakashi the Copycat Ninja are capable of that feat." Not believing for a second that the boy had the Sharingan, the boy said so himself that he wasn't an Uchiha.
"Meh when you have an arsenal full of jutsu of all five affinities and a godspeed reaction time of 0.1 seconds then anything is possible."
"Now eat this Wind Style: Great Breakthrough."
Sucking in a whole lot of air, he shot out a huge gust of wind which acted more like an extremely powerful cannon blast of wind blowing away all the lake water towards the direction of Zabuza who was busy trying to overpower Naruto's waterfall technique with his own.
By the time he realized, it was too late the blast of wind was already empowering the enemy's water jutsu which was starting to quickly overpower his own.
Damn this kid is too good...underestimated him far too much...
He mentally thought as he experienced the full brunt of the combined water jutsus as it swept him under the lake water and off to the other side of the lake.
...wait...did I seriously just beat...a legendary Jonin of his caliber...just like that?
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Naruto-kun, are you there? What's happened to you, Naruto-kun?
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I think he's brain dead...
Kuromi-chan...are you sure he's the real Zabuza?
Yep, positive, why?
Oh no reason, it's just that the books made him out to be a FREAKIN BADASS...oh I've read manga, and let me tell you, people don't face guys like that until halfway throughout the series at least, and even then they barely win.
Mentally face palming at that childish reply she could only giggle once again in sheer amusement, she seemed to be doing that a lot ever since they shared a mental connection. He really was amusing to be around.
Oh Naruto-kun, please be serious...the only reason you were able to beat him was because he underestimated you, but all's fair in war so it doesn't really matter...just don't let this victory get to your head...now go check on his state, he'll likely gain consciousness in the next few minutes.
Alright Kuromi-chan, what would I do without you...
Oh I don't know, maybe challenge a Bijuu one day and die due to an overdose of overconfidence.
Prepared to shunshin towards the unconscious Zabuza, he sensed three small objects rapidly making way towards him, sensing the attack just in the nick of time he moved his head to the right just barely dodging one of three senbons.
Turning around he saw a familiar nin run towards him carrying three senbon on each hand.
"I will not allow you to kill Zabuza-sama!" She said in a matter-of-fact tone throwing all 6 senbon towards him only to miss once again as he too started running towards her.
"Hey miss, I think you got the wrong idea here, I wasn't going to kill him, just making sure if he's alright."
"...that does not change the fact that you are the apparent enemy."
"...hmmm well what do you know, guess you're right about that."
As they were only meters away from each other, they immediately engaged in a taijutsu fight. Jumping up he tried to axe kick her only for Haku to back away at the last second, countering with...
Water Style: Rising Water Slicer!
Instinctively jumping to the right of the uprising jet of water, he only noticed at the last second that the moment his foot made contact with the surface water, it was immediately encased in ice.
Shit a Hyoton user.
Stuck temporarily, this allowed Haku to prepare her next move.
Certain-Kill Ice Spears!
Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Jutsu!
As huge shards of ice came towards Naruto, massive dragon head-shaped fireballs shot out of his mouth, three in total, the first quickly melting the ice shards as the second and third made way towards Haku, who leaped out of the way successfully and did so again for the third only this time she was forced to transform the water into ice in order to shield her.
The ice however melted almost instantaneously the moment the fireball made contact with it, but allowed enough time for Haku to jump out of they way.
Such intensity...this is the first time that my ice has ever been melted by a fire jutsu...this boy is dangerous. But wait his jutsus, he's used fire, water, wind and that plant earlier, I've never seen anything like that, it must be some sort of Earth jutsu. That's four affinities...unless...he has lightning as well.
Confirming her suspicions, Naruto placed his palm on the water surface as he charged lightning chakra throughout the entire lake.
Quickly counter by freezing the water...
As surges of lightning made its way through the water towards Haku, likewise a platform of ice formed under Haku's feet as it spread out towards the lightning streams. Making contact, the ice nullified the lightning a pathway effectively stopping both affinities from affecting the lake any further.
"I see you've figured it out, that's right I have all five affinities as you can see here."
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"No reply? Yeesh, the silent type huh? Oh well, no matter you'll answer my questions later after I've beaten the crap out of you."
His fire jutsus can easily melt my ice, which means that using Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals won't be of much help...no choice then I must carry Zabuza-sama and make a tactical retreat, hopefully she will know what to do.
Leaping backwards in order to retrieve the unconscious Zabuza, she built up several high-density walls of ice in hopes that it would slow him down for at least a few seconds, that would give her enough time to retreat along with Zabuza.
Shit she's running away, I have to stop her.
Don't worry about it Naruto-kun, by the time you get past the ice, she would've already gotten away...she's pretty fast and I didn't sense any killing intent during your battle so you should be safe. You're time, however, would be better spent by making sure that the old man is safe.
...you're right...I'll deal with them later if they show up again...which they probably will.
Giving up on the idea of pursuing the assassins, Kuromi was the reasonable voice in his head and persuaded him to check up on the old man.
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"Hey old man, you alright there?"
Walking up to the now-recovered old man, he checked for any other survivors but found none other than the old man.
"Yes, thanks to you young lad, the names Tazuna, I'm a construction worker from the Land of Waves."
"Uzumaki Naruto, Konona's future Hokage."
"Anyway, thanks for your help kid, if it wasn't for you I would already be chopped in half. You're really strong for a kid your age, a lot stronger than, well you know...my hired help."
"Well, I don't know about that but sure I guess."
"Modest eh, well, I'm not sure whether you would be interested or not but do you think I could...hire your services, I'm in current need of some assistance for back home but as you can see here, my help has kind of been...massacred."
"..."
"I'm taking the silence means no?"
"No, no not at all, it's just that back home, jiji would never let me go on ninja missions...heck I'm not even an official ninja yet, so this is kind of my...first mission."
"Seriously...heck you're freakin strong for a 16 year old kid."
Oh no, here's another one.
"What's wrong?"
"...I'm 12."
"What? Can you run that by me again, I think I misheard."
"I'm 12!"
"Holy shit...well, sorry lad you're figure and height kind of makes you look older."
"Yeah I get that a lot back home...so does that change anything."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"You know 12 years old, a lot of people back home usually stop children who aren't ninja from facing danger, you know."
"Meh, I'm just looking for strong people, in the real world, age doesn't really matter."
"Now that's more like it, if only more people were like you, I'd be doing missions everyday by now."
Trust me Naruto-kun, you're not going to be doing the tough missions until you're Jonin at the level you are.
Seriously?
Yep genins and chunins have the really easy missions, and there are only two exams for each promotion every year. So even after you become genin, you're going to have to wait at least two years before you can do A-rank missions on a daily basis...there is however a chance to skip the Chunin promotion, if you really impress the examiners or do something really impressive in your career like save the world or a country from a Bijuu, but that's not going to happen in peacetime.
Well that just sucks...hardcore.
"Why don't we go to my house, it's not far from here, just have to cross the lake go past a swamp and we'll be there. I'll tell you my problem on the way."
"Sure, lead the way Tazuna-jiji."
Hope you enjoyed the chapter, I'm trying to update on short intervals, but if you want longer chapters between longer intervals then just tell me on the reviews.
This is my first Naruto fight, so I would appreciate any opinions on it, it was pretty short and not much action I know but don't worry I'll make up for it for the finale of the Waves Arc, it'll be epic, already planned the fight, just need to put in word. Forgive me for any spelling mistakes, writing this stuff on Pages App is a freaking pain in the ass.
For the short chapter, I'll make up for it for 8-10k words next chapter, so expect it by next week or something. Just wanted to test my writing skills on doing fight scenes.
Anyway, I'd appreciate the reviews...constructive criticism only.