Okay, READ THIS! PLEASE! I did not steal the stories I recently posted on this account from Gonome7. I AM GONOME7! If you look at the first chapter of every story on that account, you'll notice that every one, and my profile, has a message to the readers, redirecting them to here because I PUT IT THERE. I keep getting PMs and reviews on my old account that I have not used since I was a sophomore in high school (I am in college now) about the fact that Ettore stole my fanfiction. If any of them would have read the update that was in bolded caps and titled "MOVING", they would have known this.
Please don't report me because I moved my stories here. That would suck major balls if I lost my account for something I didn't do.
Alright, I am going to preemptively answer three questions about Mangekyou abilities for when they arrive.
1. Naruto will get the normal three abilities for his Mangekyou. Left Eye, Right Eye, Both Eyes.
2. Other than Susano'o which uses both eyes, each eye's ability will be ones that I have never seen on a Naruto fanfiction. You guys will more than likely realize where I got the ideas for them though when it arrives.
3. Go ahead and yell at me now about it because Naruto's eyes are going to be more like Obito's Mangekyou in one sense. They will be more taxing on his body than a normal Mangekyou, but he will not be going blind from them.
Oh and for anyone who are wondering about when I will update Immortal as it is. Probably never. I will some time down the road rewrite it, but as it stands now that was one of the worst things I've ever written. Not that the original intent isn't doable, but I probably did it in the worst way possible.
Seriously though, it sucks right now.
Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata stood outside of the gate where their teacher and client were nowhere to be found.
Hinata sighed, "Looks like Tazuna-san found Kakashi-sensei before he got here. It feels like Sensei does this on purpose."
"Oh I'm sure he does. I know he visits the Memorial all the time, but I also know he doesn't spend as much time there as he spends not on time." Naruto responded before slumping down against the gate frame.
At that exact moment Kakashi and Tazuna walked out from the corner of a building.
"Maa, Naruto, we're about to start the mission, now is not the time to laze around."
"ME?! What about you?! You're over an hour late!" Naruto shouted indignantly without getting up.
"Ah, it does seem like we're late doesn't it? Me and Tazuna must have got lost on the road of life." Kakashi said.
Tazuna wasn't having it though, "I'm not playing along, you had me wait with you behind that building for the last half hour for some reason and I'm already in a bad mood."
Kakashi got a tic mark on his head before looking at his glaring students nervously.
"Looks like he does do it on purpose." said Sasuke.
"Yeah, makes you wonder what he normally does with his time." said Naruto as he stood up. Kakashi's shoulders slumped.
"Ano, that kind of behaviour is a little childish... and sad." Hinata went for the kill.
Kakashi sighed dramatically and walked slowly forward out of the gate. Everybody else looked at each other.
"I guess it's mission time?" asked Naruto.
"Looks that way, come on." said Sasuke.
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"I still don't know how you kiddies would be able to protect me. You're what? Nine?" said Tazuna sarcastically.
"We have been over this point too. We are twelve. Whether you believe that we can protect you or not is irrelevant. We will protect you. Your opinion doesn't matter." said Naruto irritably. He was using what Danzo taught him that many shinobi knew to be the Difficult Client Coping Mechanism. It entails passive aggressive, politically correct arguments that allow escorts to relieve their stress on the occasion that their client is a blunt asshole drunkard. Like now.
"Well that doesn't change the fact that you look like a midget who couldn't put up a fight with a garter snake." said Tazuna. Naruto didn't respond but instead was staring at a puddle right down the road.
"Stop." said Naruto firmly.
Everyone stopped and looked at Naruto curiously, with the exception of Kakashi, who merely said, "Ah, so you saw them too?"
"Oi! Dumbasses! We know you're there!" shouted Naruto. The puddles suddenly rose up into the forms of two shinobi with gas masks and metal gauntlets hooked by a chain.
"Looks like they got a sensor in their group." one of them said.
"Hahaha! You really think we needed a sensor to see through that pathetic transformation? You were pretending to be blue water puddles on a dirt road. You steal those Mist headbands? You don't even know what water looks like!" shouted Naruto with amusement.
They got angry and charged without noticing that they were some distance away, giving Sasuke time to perform the seals for the Fireball technique.
The giant orb of flame rocketed at them, forcing them to dodge in separate directions.
That didn't work out too well as they were linked by a chain.
Their arms jerked roughly and they fell to the ground. Naruto and Hinata took the opportunity to run at them while they were disoriented. The two nukenin got up as fast as they could but they couldn't defend against the duo's attacks since the chain was fully extended. The shinobi on the right was taken out by a heavy Juken strike to the solar plexus, knocking him out. Whereas the one on the left was simply knocked over and punched in the face repeatedly until he too lost consciousness.
Naruto shook his bloodied hand before he looked at Kakashi who was standing next to Tazuna reading his orange book, "Hey! You could have helped ya know!"
"Naruto, if you guys didn't even need to try, how would I have helped?" Kakashi stated, "However, I am very impressed by how you handled that skirmish. Those are Gozu and Meizu, two Chunin defectors from Kiri," he looked to Tazuna, "Who are usually in the employ of Zabuza Momochi, an A-Rank Jonin of Kiri. Which would bump this mission up to at the very least a B-Rank." He shook his head, "I am going to take them away and interrogate them, and you had better hope I like what i hear. Unless of course you have something you would like to say, eh Tazuna?"
The pontiff fidgeted nervously for a bit before he gave in, "Alright! I lied about the mission! We don't have enough money for an A-Rank, which is what it would have been if I told the truth. Gato hired those guys and their boss to kill me and stop me from completing a bridge that would connect Wave Country to the Land of Fire. He has a stranglehold on our country, and controls the waterways around it. We are dying. Most of the people there are almost starving, and Gato is making us pay tolls. If somebody fails to make a payment, then they are either killed or enslaved. I-"
"Those are your problems as I see it. I also see that you just brought children on a trip that would MORE THAN LIKELY kill them, and not only didn't even warn them first, but insulted them the whole way there." Kakashi said sternly, "The protocol in this situation is to leave you here and go back home. After which, if you made it back, you might have to deal with, at least, never being able to enter or trade in the Land of Fire, or at most, because you represent your country, you would be assassinated and Konoha would go in and forcefully make your territory a part of Fire Country."
Hinata opened her mouth to speak from where she was, but Naruto stopped her.
Tazuna glared, "At least if you took over we would be able to live, as it stands now we will never be able to get back on our feet again. We are close to losing our country entirely. If the situation you described ends up happening, then I will gladly die so that my family and friends can have their lives back."
Naruto spoke up, "I think we should continue. We're already halfway there, and these guys really need help. Plus, how bad would we look in the eyes of the public if one of our village's strongest shinobi backed out of a B-Rank mission in these circumstances. I say we keep going, but send for backup as well. If this Zabuza guy is A-Rank, then we'll probably benefit from having another Jonin on this mission with us."
Kakashi sighed, calling a messenger hawk in the process. Konoha had them everywhere, and they homed in on a sequence of chakra pulses.
After writing out the letter, Kakashi turned back to his team, "Let's go, we want to get to Wave as soon as possible."
After a couple more hours of walking, Naruto sensed something in the bushes and created a clone in front of them, which then substituted with whatever he felt. A white bunny appeared from the smoke, terrified and confused. The team relaxed, and Hinata ran over to pick it up. She had a bright smile on her face as she pet it.
Naruto still felt something was off, "Be on guard."
Kakashi heard something and shouted, "Get down!" while tackling Hinata out of the way just in time for a massive cleaver carve its way through the air where they were standing. When it buried itself in a tree, a man dropped down and stood on it's handle. He had bandages around his face, wore his slashed Kiri headband sideways, and his torso was bare save the carry strap for his sword.
"Zabuza Momochi." Kakashi said as he helped Hinata up. She was looking at the Kiri nin in fear, and was trembling slightly.
"Hinata." Naruto said, "You are an important part of this team. We need you to be focused. I can tell this guy is serious."
Hinata looked at him, "Okay, I'm alright."
She looked back at the enemy and activated her Byakugan at the same time as Sasuke activated his eyes and Kakashi pulled up his headband to reveal his own Sharingan. Naruto pulled an elongated pitch black kunai out of his jacket, and covered it with wind chakra.
Zabuza's eyes widened. Two Sharingan users and one Byakugan? And a kid who obviously has skill if he can use elements with weapons already.
"Well, color me impressed." said Zabuza, "An Uchiha and a Hyuga, not only working together but led by Kakashi of the Sharingan. And I can tell the blond kid isn't a pushover either. For a Genin."
"Tazuna, Hide!" shouted Kakashi. The builder ran off and did just that.
Zabuza grabbed the handle of his sword and jumped down, taking it with him. He glanced into the forest unintentionally, and Hinata noticed, "He has backup! Twelve meters to the left. Chunin chakra reserves." she reported.
A masked individual jumped out and landed next to Zabuza, "I am sorry Zabuza-sama. I don't know how she discovered me."
"Don't worry about it. It's virtually impossible to hide from the Byakugan. She can see everything around her, and further than us." Zabuza said, then he lowered his voice, "They have every advantage over us. Hidden Mist won't work, and that's the one edge I had over Kakashi. I can still take him on, but I won't be able to keep him with his brats helping him out."
The masked ninja nodded, "Understood."
Zabuza created three water clones and they all rushed forward, switching positions as they did.
The masked one merely stood in the same spot, watching the scene play out.
Naruto ran forward and slashed at one of the Zabuzas, and was blocked by his sword. His real sword. The giant weapon took a cut, and Zabuza moved his cleaver to the side quicker than would be expected for a sword that size, and kicked Naruto in the chest.
The clones rushed Kakashi, and although Sasuke was able to throw a kunai into one and dispel it, the other ones engaged Kakashi by swinging their swords with vicious repetition. The blades might not be durable as they were water, but they still had an edge and weight to back it up. Kakashi wound up dodging after he tried to block with a kunai and it shattered.
Naruto rolled back to his feet and took a deep breath, despite his protesting ribs. He held his other hand over his knife, and the wind chakra flowing over it condensed until the blade was glowing white and about a foot long. Zabuza swung his sword at Naruto for a decapitation, but Naruto swung his knife to intercept, resulting in six inches getting sliced off of the tip of the cleaver. Zabuza growled in annoyance and dashed forward the short distance between him and Naruto, slamming his fist into the blond's face. Naruto was laid out dazed, and was barely able to dodge as Zabuza brought down the now blunted end of his sword with enough force to shatter the earth under where his chest had been.
And where his leg now was.
Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs as his bones shattered and his flesh was torn open, while the blade grew back while impaled inside his leg.
Hinata had just landed the finishing blow on the last clone, and whipped her head around when she heard Naruto's scream, "Naruto-kun!"
Kakashi was already on his way there, however, and Zabuza barely dodged the kunai thrown. Kakashi pursued him as he jumped backwards, while Sasuke and Hinata ran to Naruto's side.
"Haku!" Zabuza shouted.
The masked ninja, Haku, landed in front of the three Genin and began performing handsigns. Kakashi noticed and made to help his students, but Zabuza wasn't having it. He cut off Kakashi at every turn, all the while a dome of ice mirrors surrounded his Genin.
The three Genin looked around at the dome.
"What is this?!" shouted Sasuke.
"This is my Kekkei Genkai, Hyoton. I can manipulate water into solid form, creating ice for me to control," Haku said, "I'm sorry."
Haku's image appeared in all of the mirrors, a split second before two needles entered into the side of Sasuke's neck. He choked and sputtered for a second before he fell on his back, his eyes open but not seeing. Naruto and Hinata looked on in shock, before Naruto looked back at Haku with tears in his eyes, "Why?"
"He was an obstacle in Zabuza-sama's path, it was nothing personal." Haku said.
Naruto gritted his teeth and wiped the tears from his eyes, "You just made a big mistake. You're DEAD!"
He stood shakily on his good leg, formed the tiger seal and screamed.
Red chakra burst from his body, and everyone in the area could feel its malevolent power. His eyes dilated fully, then pulled into a slit shape as they turned red. Fangs became visible, his whisker marks deepened, and claws formed on his hands.
He fell onto all fours, his leg resetting and healing in seconds. The roar he gave cracked the mirrors from the force.
Then Naruto shot forward, in the direction his heightened senses told him Haku was, and smashed through the mirror gripping Haku's face. They landed, and Naruto crushed the mask in his hand, digging the pieces into Haku's bloodied face before throwing him into the nearby pond. He was about to pursue him, but Zabuza's sword swung into his chest, carving into it and sending him into a tree. Zabuza quickly ran onto the pond, grabbing Haku before disappearing in a Shunshin.
Naruto removed himself from the tree, focused on healing the wound in his chest. Once it was closed, he pulled a seal tag from his pocket and put it on his forehead. The red chakra disappeared and he fell to his knees, letting the tears fall.
"Naruto!" Hinata shouted, "Over here, he isn't dead! Sasuke's alive!"
Naruto straightened and looked over at Hinata quickly, seeing her listening to Sasuke's heart. He got up and ran over to them, crouching when he got there.
"Hinata, can you take these needles out of him?" Naruto asked.
"I've never dealt with senbon before. If you take them out wrong, you can cause permanent damage." she said.
Kakashi knelt next to them, and went about pulling the needles out carefully.
After a few moments, Sasuke opened his eyes and saw Naruto and Hinata's tears, "Geez, I'm out for two seconds and my whole team falls apart." he said weakly.
Naruto laughed lightly, "You're such a dick, you know that?"
"So they say." he said, then he frowned, "I can't move at all. But I can feel everything, so at least I'm not permanently disabled."
Tazuna ran over when he figured it was safe, "Did you beat them?"
"No." Kakashi said, "They got away, and now they'll be prepared."
"Tazuna, take us to that ferryman, we need a place to rest." Naruto said.
Tazuna nodded, "You got it."
Well, this chapter was really fun to write. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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