Disclaimer: N.A.R.U.T.O is not mine. Unfortunately. Damnit!
Author's Note: This chapter will be the first part of the battle scene for Wave arc. There are 2 parts. Hopefully you'll like it. It is very different from the canon though. Haku's and Zabuza's fate? Why don't you curious reader read it yourself in the next chapter? Right now, I haven't decided their fates yet.
About my studies…The professor haven't given the marks publicly yet, so I don't know whether my marks are good or not, but at least my studio (my most important lesson) don't get D or because E, because if I did my schedule will tell me I'm having SPA2 instead of SPA3 (Studio Perancangan Arsitektur) or perhaps it is Architecture Designing Studio? Uh…it just seems plain wrong on my ears. And I have good news everyone, it seems that my schedule for this term won't be as crammed as my last term, hopefully there won't be as many assignments as last term too. I speculate that I'll be able to update faster than before. That's just a speculation though, don't get your hopes too high.
Bold and Italic means Kyuubi's talking (if it doesn't come out right, it isn't my fault)
/…/ Naruto communicating with Kyuubi (note that if I use any symbol before / like ? or ! the symbol in story page will disappear. Again, not my fault)
Omake:
Naruto's clone who was currently disguised itself as Kaji, a Wave citizen who betrayed his country by joining Gatou, slipped into the kitchen quietly. The clone took out a bottle of yellowish liquid and poured it into a bowl of chicken soup that would be served for Gatou later in the dinner. 'Kaji' stirred the soup for a moment before the man exited the room.
The next day, he heard that the chef was executed under Gatou's order. Apparently the crime lord was having bad digestion after consuming the soup and had to stay on the toilet for 5 hours straight. Needless to say, Gatou wasn't pleased. The man still had trouble walking and was as pale as ghost right now, a result of having to empty his stomach.
Naruto's clone removed a notebook from its clothes and opened it, before crossing 'Hakuji Jirou' name from the list. Hakuji Jirou was the name of the chef executed. The clone didn't like it when the gay man tried to hit on it and thus born its plan to frame him. Not to mention screwing with Gatou was really fun!
The clone licked the corner of its lips and stared at the next two names below Hakuji Jirou. Now, what should it do with them? They were more annoying than the chef, and the clone would like to get rid of them. Should it stole Gatou's money and put the money on those people' room? Or perhaps it would need to henge itself to their appearances and pranked Gatou?
Hmm…decision, decision…
The EndPretty short omake, but at least there is an omake, right?
Chapter FifteenWhen the morning came, Naruto headed to the harbour before the others even awakened. According to the schedule, Gatou's ship would arrive on the Wave main island to drop drugs and prostitute women and would go back 2 hours later to re-supply his base with food and other daily needs.
The blond haired genin put a henge on himself and waited for 'Kaji' to meet him. 10 minutes after the ship docked on the pier, his clone walked toward him. The two headed to a secluded area where the clone reverted back to Naruto's form. Without saying anything, the clone stepped into Naruto. Naruto closed his eyes as he received the memory of the past 2 days from his clone. Now he knew everything his clone experienced.
A smile reached his lips when he noticed from his clone's memory that Gatou had hired 5 more missing-nins: 1 A-rank Stone-nin, and 4 B-rank nins, 2 of them from the Mist while the rest were from Grass village. It seemed that the criminal lord no longer trusted Zabuza to dispose the Leaf-nins. Oh well, more preys for him to hunt. It would be fun. Naruto grinned when he recalled a memory of his clone wreaking havoc inside Gatou's rank by its pranks.
Deciding to start his plan, Naruto henge-ed into Kaji's form and checked his arsenal. Happy that he didn't forget anything Naruto walked to the ship only to be reminded that he still had 2 hours until the ship departed to Gatou's base. Sighing, he reverted back to his form and sat on one of the wooden boxes laid around on the floor in the abandoned warehouse. Rolling open a jutsu scroll he brought with him and telling Kyuubi to tell him when 2 hours was over, Naruto waited. It was true that he could wait for long, even days, but that didn't mean that he liked it. He preferred to do things quicker. Patience wasn't exactly his forte, but he could be patient if the need arose. And now was the time to wait. Naruto grumbled under his breath.
Two hours later Naruto was safely tucked inside the ship. As a newbie, he was forced to clean the deck and do other things designated for low rank sailor. Biting his lips and clenching his knuckles to avoid killing the sailors here and then Naruto finished his job quietly.
Think of it as a new experience, kid. Take a deep breath! If you kill them now your plan will be ruined. Kyuubi reminded his host.
/I know, I know. No need to tell me, furball/ the boy growled angrily.
"Hey, newbie, clean my cabin. It's dirty!" a sailor shouted. Behind his, his friends laughed.
Naruto's jaw clench. /Just a person, pretty please/ he pleaded to his tenant.
Suit yourself! The fox yawned. But don't come back later regretting it.
Naruto grinned inwardly. /I won't/
30 minutes later there was a splashing sound, like something heavy was plunged into the ocean. The sound was muffled by the engine's sound, so no one but a grinning 'Kaji' knew about the accident.
10 minutes later Naruto snapped the neck of another sailor's neck that offended him and threw the body to the ocean after he made sure no one saw him carrying the body.
With this rate, before we arrive to the human's island, you'll kill all of them already, the demon rolled his red eyes.
/And your point is/
Nevermind, Kyuubi waved his paw.
The ship sailed for another hour before Naruto could see the outline of the island which was used by Gatou. According to his clone's memory there was a harbour on the west side of the island. There were usually more than 2 cargo ships docked there. The sentry in the island itself wasn't really that great. Gatou relied heavily on his navy for the security. Not even his base which was located in the woods had many securities. His people were usually sorting through the goods instead of patrolling. It showed Naruto that Gatou believed that no one would be able to enter the island.
What a laugh! Even a genin at least with a competent skill of henge jutsu could sneak in his place. Which was exactly his rank. Naruto blinked when the ship he was in passed another's Gatou's ship. It was another ship and it headed toward Wave's direction. And the ship was a cargo ship not a smaller and more agile patrolling ship. Strange…there wasn't supposed to be another trip to Wave on this hour. Naruto shrugged and went back watching the closing island.
When it docked, all of the crews were busy bringing down the crates in the cargo ship. Not wanting to be suspected, Naruto lifted a crate on his shoulder and followed the others. They placed the crates on wagons and went back to the ship to pick up other crates. When all of the boxes were put into the wagons, the horses were led into the woods, where the base was built.
Naruto was giddy inside, wanting to fight them all. He wouldn't give the other leaf-nins the pleasure of fighting them. Their blood was his and his alone.
Are you getting territorial now? The fox demon asked amusedly.
/Shut up/
He-heh. So, do you think you can handle your first kills? The demon asked him from behind the bars.
/Of course I am! Who do you think I am? A wimp? And I have killed people before/ the genin scowled.
Yes, but not by your own hands. The worst you have ever done to people was playing with their mentality and perhaps torture them…though sometimes I think some of them prefer to be killed rather than being tortured… the fox added the last sentence, remembering a certain prisoner under Ibiki's watch that was dying because of Naruto's new…collection.
/Just wait and see. You won't be disappointed by my performance. That much I can assure you/
Very well. I'll wait and see and if I deemed your performance worthy I'll teach you another jutsu, but if you fail you have to spend your time to redecorate my cage. It's getting pretty boring lately./You're on/ Naruto took the bet, eager to learn a new jutsu. Naruto slipped out unnoticed by others when the workers moved the crates to the storeroom. He threw a glass tube to the workers and quickly closed the room with a smirk. There was a loud bang coming from the storeroom.
"WHAT THE HELL?" there were coughs and shouts from inside before it went silent after 5 minutes.
"Exploding sleeping potion, always come in handy," he locked the room. They would sleep for 2 days straight. "Never forget to bring this thing," he added, before he left to find other groups. Naruto didn't think they were worth his time to kill them, but he needed to take care of them first if he didn't want others to interfere with his battle against the missing-nins. He sure as hell wanted his first kills to be some good shinobis, not mere thugs without power whatsoever. It had something to do with his ego.
Twenty minutes later, Gatou's base was cleaned of all of its inhabitants with the exception of Gatou's personal guard and the crime lord himself. Naruto wondered where the hell the missing-nins were. He had dispatched his clones, but didn't find them inside the base. He frowned and doubled the number of his clones to expand the area of searching including the rest of the island. He still had Gatou to take care of.
Gatou and his for bodyguards were walking down the corridor. The crime lord was thinking of a new idea for the next cri—erm—business investment he could do. He heard a muffled sound from behind him and whipped his head. His 4 guards looked at him confusedly before they too turned around, but they didn't see anything. Gatou frowned and resumed his walking, his guards followed him like a puppy.
"Has my lunch been prepared?" he asked them.
"Er, no sir. You remember that you've just executed the chef, right?" one of his guards, the shortest one with black hair, told him.
"Of course I am, you fool! I won't forget the face of people dared to hurt me! What I want to know, why there is no replacement of the chef yet?" Gatou shouted angrily. His guard backed away.
"I have heard that one of the your pirates is a good cook. If you want I can ask him right away to serve you, Gatou-sama," another guard, this time a tall blond, tried to pacify his anger.
The short man nodded. "Fine. Send him to cook my lunch," the guard hurriedly searched for the replacement. He wouldn't be able to reach the harbour though, as one of Naruto's clone outside the base caught him.
Gatou walked to his 'throne' room, a spacious office full with expensive items and shelves full of his winning trophies against his enemies and rivals. There were a skull of another ringleader he had killed 20 or so years ago, and his latest addition was a pair of arms he obtained from a fisherman in the wave who dared to defy him openly. But the item he found to be the most beautiful was his chair. It was a big comfy chair decorated with various gems. The chair was his throne, where he sat watching his crime emopre expanded.
And there was someone dared to sit on it
"HOW DARE YOU SIT ON MY THRONE!" he bellowed and walked toward the chair to see that the person who sat on his 'throne' was infact a blonde boy not even 15 years old wearing a cocky smirk.
"Your throne?" Naruto chuckled amusedly and rubbed the armchair to make him angrier. It worked and the man was as red as a boiled crab.
"Guards, seize him! I want him alive for interrogation!" two of his three guard ran to capture him while the last one, a brown haired man with bandanna covering his forehead, stood by Gatou's side to make sure nothing happened to his hirer.
One second the guards were charging him with their katanas, the next they were sprawled on the floor writhing, their swords dropped to the floor and their arms were broken and twisted. Gatou took a step back before he dashed to a nearby shelf and pushed a hidden button on it. The alarm was blaring loudly.
Gatou smiled maliciously. "You might be able to win against them, child, but you won't be able to fight my armies," he shouted. Naruto only looked at him boredly, one hand resting on the armchair supported his head. There were loud footsteps indicating people were running toward the room and Gatou's grin became wider. The door was slammed open and people entered the office. "Catch him!" he ordered without looking at his army.
Silent.
Gatou frowned. "I said, catch him!" he pointed his finger at Naruto. but they still didn't make any move. The Kyuubi's container chuckled.
"G-Gatou-sama," his guard stammered.
"Why don't you take a look behind you?" Gatou turned around and took a step back when he realized that it wasn't his army at all, but rather the blonde kid's clones. There were ten of them, each wearing the same smirk plastered on the original's face. The alarm continued blaring, but none of his lackeys coming. "If you're wondering, your lapdogs are currently taking a nap."
"Attack!" he ordered his remaining guard.
"W-what?" he stammered. "But there are ten of them while I'm alone."
"I'm not ordering you to attack them, just the obnoxious kid on my chair! The rest are just clones, an illusion, you fool! They won't be able to harm you!"
Naruto chuckled. "Clones? Yeah, they are. But illusion? Of course not. Does an illusion able to open the door? They're as real as they can be and perfectly able to inflict harm on you," one of his clones destroyed a coffee table nearby just to prove his point. Gatou and his guard swallowed.
"W-what do you want?" they were trembling now. Naruto smirked and there was a glint on his eyes. He clasped his hands and put his elbows on the table. He opened his mouth.
With Kakashi, and co.
Sakura sighed as she sat down on the bridge floor, watching the workers built the bridge bit by bit. Just 5 minutes ago another group of worker consisted of 4 people said that they wanted to quit. Tazuna knew not to refuse their withdrawal, but that didn't mean he liked it. Beside her, Tenten was polishing her kunais, humming along the way. Lee was practicing on the bridge under Gai's supervision. The sight of them training calming the minds of the workers. They felt more protected when they saw the taijutsu performance. Sasuke was talking with Kakashi quietly about God-Knows-What and Neji was meditating far from others.
The peace was broken somehow by a loud sound of engine coming directly to the bridge. A big ship sailed toward them. One of the workers recognized the ship and ran away, all the way shouting about Gatou eventually attacked them. The others were panicked and followed their friend's lead.
"Cowards," Sakura muttered, before she stood up. She took her hitae-ate from her hair and tied it tightly around her forehead. Tenten was smiling, eager to fight and played with her weapons as she stood beside the other female. Sasuke and Kakashi stopped talking and focused their attention on the ship. Lee stopped his training and jumped in joy and Gai was doing one of his weird poses. Neji opened his eyes and walked toward the others.
Seven people jumped to the bridge from the ship below. The ship still sailed through the bridge's structures. Two of them they recognized as Zabuza and the masked 'hunter-nin', while the others were new faces. The crossed hitae-ate they wore around their bodies gave an indication that all of them were missing-nins. One from Stone, two from Mist and another two from Grass, if they excluded Zabuza and his subordinate.
"Hm…Yama Dotsu, A-rank missing nin from Stone. Have the body of steel and strength to destroy a boulder with one hit. I don't know about the others," Kakashi told Gai. "There are seven of them…and seven of us. Gai, take care the Stone-nin! I'll take care Zabuza. The others, pick your opponent! Sakura, don't fight, guard Tazuna incase there is sneak attack. Gai or I will take care the another one," Sakura grudgingly complied. She knew that she was the weakest of the team, but why she was left alone to watch the battle while the others were fighting?
Sasuke immediately went to fight Zabuza's subordinate. Tenten chose to fight the only female nin. Lee was charging a slim young man with a mocking smile plastered on his lips, while Neji chose to fight against a ninja with his hitae-ate covered his eyes. The only one left was a fat man from the Mist. The fat man charged at Sakura and Tazuna only to be intercepted by Gai.
"It's unhonorable to attack unarmed lady!" The green beast exclaimed, earning a death glare from the pink haired genin. Not that he noticed, of course.
"Where is your blonde student, Kakashi? I owed him a retribution," Zabuza stood proudly. His huge sword was planted on the ground. Kakashi noticed that it looked different than a week ago. For once, it was…shinier, more dangerous looking and there was a blue aura surrounded it, creating an ominous atmosphere around it.
"Unfortunately he isn't here right now, probably training somewhere in the woods," Kakashi smiled cheerfully though he was eyeing the sword warily.
"Hm…it doesn't matter. As soon as I kill you, I'll fight him again and this time I'll defeat him."
"That if you succeed to kill me, of course. Unfortunately I have no intention to let you win," Kakashi pulled up his hitae-ate covering his left eye to reveal the sharingan eye.
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"My name is Tenten. I'm a weapon specialist and I'll be your opponent," Tenten smeared her blood on a scroll and took out a pair of sickles connected by an iron chain.
"You shouldn't tell your enemy any information about you, girl. It can mean your end," her shoulder length brown haired opponent told her, as she took smaller and thinner senbons than what Haku used from her pouch.
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"I'm Lee and I will fight you with my youthful fire!" the bowl cut haired boy clenched his fist.
His opponent shuddered and rubbed his arms. That lame talking, that weird hairstyle, that ugly green suit and those…caterpillar eyebrows of his…it gave him the wiggins. "Whatever, kid."
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"It's our fate to fight and it's your destiny to be defeated by me, Hyuuga Neji of the Hyuuga clan," Neji exclaimed.
The black haired man scratched his head with his bandaged hand. 'Man…This kid has some unsolved issues.'
"Why don't we see the result ourselves, brat. I have just come from a fortune teller and she said that it was my lucky day."
"Then she is a fraud!" Neji replied before he went to attack him.
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Gai was fighting 2 ninjas at the same time, but he was having some difficulties. The hits he sent to the fat man's stomach was bounced, yes, bounced, by his fat stomach that served as if it was a jelly or better yet trampoline. On the other hand, the Stone-nin's body hardened and Gai felt like he was punching metal instead of flesh. The only thing that gave him advantage was that they were both slow and he was speedy. Unfortunately he had to dodge any punch Yama sent to him, because it could break his bones with just one hits. No matter that he had trained to endure any punch sent to him, this was still difficult to handle. He shuddered when he remembered a time when he, in his youthful days, talked excitedly to a blonde haired woman with big boobs only to have her punched him in the face and sent him straight to hospital for 2 months with broken jaw.
'No matter, for I the Green Beast of Konoha will prevail against my opponents and come out stronger than ever!' he cheered himself inwardly, as he sent chakra to his legs and arms.
In another city Tsunade sneezed loudly, causing the dices that was supposed to make her win on the game rolled and she lost her winning. Tsunade cursed her luck.
Meanwhile in Tazuna's house, 2 samurais were slamming the door open, drawing shriek from the surprised Tsunami. A clone of Naruto that was posted to oversee Inari's family's safety observed the event, wanting to know how Inari would react. It would take the matter to its hands if things went downhill.
In the bridge, Neji's fight wasn't going well. His opponent was a bug user from Grass, which meant that he was a long ranged attacker while Neji's attacks were mostly short ranged. Not to mention that his bugs could suck chakra from people and his Kaiten was slowly overwhelmed by the numbers of insects swarming.
'No, it's not my fate to loose here!' Neji performed another Kaiten.
Sakura was feeling…useless as she watched the battles unfolded before her eyes. She gripped her kunai harder and bit her bottom lip. She did the only thing she could do right now, which was protecting Tazuna…and cheering the others.
"KICK THEIR ASSES TO THE MOON! GRABBED HER FUCKING HAIR, TENTEN! PUNCHED HIM ON HIS FACE, SASUKE! NEJI-SAN, DON'T LET THE …uh…BUGMAN DEFEATS YOU! KAKASHI-SENSEI, THROW HIM TO THE OCEAN, SO SHARK WILL EAT HIS FUCKING BODY! GAI-SAN PUNCHS THE LIVING DAYLIGHT FROM THE FATTY GUY AND THE HARDENED COCKROACH! LEE-SAN KILL THAT FEMININE ASSHOLE!" inner Sakura reared its head. With the exception of Gai and Lee who went ecstatic, the fat nin whose face went purple, and the stone-nin who looked indignant of being called a cockroach, the others were sweat dropping at her behaviour.
"SAKURA-SAN, FOR YOUR SUPPORT, I WILL SEND MY FLAMMING LOVE MESSAGE BY DEFEATING HIM FOR YOU!" Lee was in heaven.
"Uh…No thanks," Sakura muttered, but he didn't hear her.
'Is this kid ever being hit on his head repeatedly when he was a child?' the former Mist-nin blinked.
Zabuza coughed. "You have…an interesting student there, Kakashi," the Leaf jounin had to thank his mask for covering his flushing cheeks.
"Er, thanks," he was thankful that Lee wasn't his student. It was…embarrassing, to say the least.
Zabuza swung his sword sending a wave of chakra toward him. Kakashi quickly dodged out of its way.
Sakura shrieked as she brought down Tazuna toward the ground forcefully making the old man kissed the ground painfully to avoid the wave of chakra passed through her spot. When she opened her eyes, she was stunned to see a flock of her hair fell into the bridge floor. Her eyes saw red. "YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE, WATCH OUT WHERE YOU AIM YOUR ATTACK, YOU BASTARD!" she yelled completely forgetting that it was one of Zabuza's job to kill Tazuna and his guards. "DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I SPENT MY TIME TO TAKE CARE OF MY HAIR, YOU DUMBASS!" she gave him the finger. "KAKASHI-SENSEI LET ME HAVE A GO AT HIS BODY WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED WITH HIM! I'LL CUT HIS DIC—"
"Owe, my mouth," Tazuna moaned painfully, having his face slammed into the hard bridge floor.
"…Can you make her shut up?" Zabuza asked. His ears were red from the obscenities and foul words coming out from her lips.
"Er, not really, sorry." Boy, she really had an interesting vocabulary there. 'This girl has the most fluctuating mood swing I've ever seen,' Kakashi thought, his mind comparing the love stricken girl, a fear struck and guilty stricken kunoichi, and now a girl with the foulest mouth he had the…pleasure to know. He pitied her future husband, imagining how moody she would be if pregnant.
"WHAT THE FUC—I mean, why did you kick me, Lee? You're opponent is there not here, you foolish teammate of mine" Neji coughed, his cheek was rosy red, embarrassed for being caught of guard and almost swearing, something which wasn't a noble Hyuuga such as he supposed to do. He glared sternly at his teammate who crouched in a stance, ready to attack him in a moment, for a moment Neji forgot about the bugman, only to be reminded by an angry buzz of swarming bugs around him. He was preparing to forget about his comrade's misdemeanor and concentrated back on fighting these abominations, when Lee struck. Shocked, Neji parried and deflected his punch and jumped away from him. "What the hell are you doing?" forget everything about swearing! Neji grumbled, ready to give a lesson to his sensei's look-alike.
Was he an enemy using henge?
Nah, there was no sane people who dared to use henge no jutsu to transform into an ugly green spandex user with caterpillars as eyebrows.
"With the support of Sakura, the beautiful goddess of my life, I will defeat you with my passionate fire! Come! I will not let you destroy the dreams of the Wave citizens for the good of the next sparkling generations. "
And Neji said, "…Huh?" before he had to dodge another bug attack. By Gods, why did the fate have to torment him so by giving him a crazy teammate and creating vile disgusting bugs of all things?
"Like to see my handywork, Hyuuga nin?" the feminine former Mist-nin who was supposed to be Lee's opponent grinned. He sat on the low bridge wall, playing with his hair.
A realization struck Neji as he glanced back and forth at Lee and the man. "Genjutsu user," he stated.
"Bingo! That kid was so easy to manipulate," he giggled. "Just a simple genjutsu and BAM, I got myself a guard," the man watched happily as Neji was busily dodging both Lee's and his opponent's attack.
'THAT'S IT! After this madness is over I'll beat the crap out of Lee and teach him how to avoid fallen into genjutsu into his thick idiot skull, no matter what methods I'll have to do to drill it into his brain! This isn't justified!' Neji sidestepped to avoid Lee throwing himself at him (AN: not that kind of 'throwing', you perverts!) caught one of his arm and kicked him on the butt sending him flying toward the swarm of bugs. Sparring with Lee countless of times had made him get the gist of his comrade's fighting style. He could hear Lee's painful scream and winced. "Oh well, serves him right," he shrugged. Beside Lee wouldn't die just from being bitten by a 'couple' of bugs…would he?
Neji's logic told him that since Lee wasn't capable of using chakra (although he still did have chakra inside his body) he would have better chance fighting the bugman than he did. A small voice of his heart told him that it was just an excuse to get away from the vile bugs though. Neji shook his head and glared at the genjutsu user. "For the atrocious crime you have committed against me I, Hyuuga Neji, will defeat you."
The former mist-nin was wondering whether all Konoha children were born mentally defect.
"Hm…aren't you such a cutie? You're much better looking than your friend over there," the man tapped his lips playfully and batted his eyelashes.
OH.MY.GOD. The man was a freaking gay! (AN: personally I have nothing against gay, but this is for the purpose of this story) Neji's mind screamed.
Neji contemplated the fighting going on. The Uchiha boy would be more suitable to fight the bug user than him or Lee because the clan was famous as one of the clans who specialized mostly on fire technique. He could burn the bugs and annihilated them more effectively with his fire jutsu. As for genjutsu user, Neji had to fight this…gay (he shuddered) himself because although he was more suitable to fight against Sasuke's opponent who somehow had a bloodline to create ice mirrors dome, he didn't really trust Tenten to fight him, because he didn't know whether she (because Lee fighting the genjutsu user equal to disastrous event) would be able to fight the genjutsu cast by this missing-nin. Although she was able to deflect simple genjutsu, this man in front of him was a genjustsu specialist and he didn't want to take a chance. Neji didn't fancy being a dartboard if she went nuts like Lee. And sharp weapons were more lethal than Lee's punches and kicks (provided that he didn't crack his ribs, of course).
Aw, man. That meant he had to fight this gay while Lee fought Sasuke's opponent. With his speed, it would be easy for Lee to avoid the weapons and hopefully planted a good punch or two to crack the mirror.
The problem was…how could he get Sasuke out of the ice mirrors dome?
"Lee!" Neji called the now conscious ninja. "Change of plan! You get Uchiha out of the dome and fight his opponent! Tell him to fight the bugman!"
Lee saluted and grinned before having to duck to avoid the bugs. He should've brought bugs repellant. Lee thought mournfully watching his body full of bites from the tiny (but veracious) creatures.
With Naruto
Naruto was currently muttering obscenities as he dragged a soaked beaten Gatou on the ocean. He had tied the man's down and running on the wavy salt water, not caring if the man was drinking too much salty water or how painful it was to have his wounds came in contact with the sea water. The blonde boy ignored his soaked clothes or his red burning eyes, from facing wave after wave of salt water.
He should've told his clones to leave some of Gatou's men conscious! Now he had no means to operate the ship! Sure, he could have waken up one of the prisoner, but he wouldn't take a chance to have the ship with him on it sunk because the man was so beaten down he barely able to think straight.
And he should've thought that the ship he had seen when he arrived at the island carried the very people he wanted to fight! Thankfully the missing-nins used the cargo ship, not a small and agile patrol ship. That meant he would have time (with a bit of luck) to fight them.
Naruto growled in annoyance as his face was splashed by the salty water. Again. /I hate ocean! Why can't it calm down and let me walk on it easily/
Don't complain, brat! It's your own fault! Kyuubi teased./Aw, but do I have to run for what? Another 10 kilometers/ he sulked.
Tough. Just get on with your life and stop complaining! Remember if you fail to meet my expectation, you'll have to redecorate my room!I Naruto winced. He hated that task. Kyuubi was quite bitchy about his demands for the decoration. With that warning on mind, he sent more chakra to his legs and started running faster causing water to splash harder behind him. Poor old Gatou was getting the brunt of it.
At least he got something from his arrival to the island. Naruto grinned.
(Flashback)
"I have a deal to make with you," the blond smirked at the quivering Gatou. A nasty glint flashed on his eyes.
"Oh? W-what is that?" Gatou tried to be brave, but his quivering voice betrayed him.
"Leave Wave alone forever. And transfer half of your money to me," Naruto grinned, he said as if talking about weather.
"WHAT?" the man choked.
Why are you collecting more money? I thought that your bank account is already enough for you? Your father's clan is quite rich and you inherited it.
/Hey, after being glared and hated for so long, I think it's my cue to get everything I want. Imagine with all of that money I'll be able to buy anything I want. Call me spoiled if you want/ Naruto inwardly stuck his tongue childishly. /What will I give in exchange to have a tropical island for me to spend my entire life on/ Naruto sighed dreamily.
Kyuubi snorted. Yeah right, brat. As if you will use the rest of your pitiful life in peace. You're a trouble magnet, a troublemaker, and you absolutely love chaos! Like me, the fox added mentally. Not wanting to get the kid's ego bigger by admitting it. It was already big enough as it was. No need to add fuel to flame.
"Hey, I'm being generous here. If I want I can make it all of it, instead of just half of it. I'm still letting you have money to recreate your empire."
The short man was silent for so long before he slowly nodded. "Alright. It's a fair deal. There are papers inside my cupboard that I can use to make the legal form," Naruto smiled victoriously.
Gatou walked toward Naruto to sign the paper Naruto had made. The man opened his jacket to get a pen only to have him withdraw a black colored gun and shot Naruto right on his forehead with it. Naruto's head dropped to the table with a loud thunk, blood dripped from the hole on his forehead. His clones poofed out of existence.
Should I end this chapter?
Naw…
The crime lord laughed evilly. "Bwa ha ha ha ha! This is what you get for playing with fire, kid! No one dare to disregard me!"
"Man…you're suck!" a voice called up behind him. Gatou was startled and turned around, only to see his guard was grinning like a maniac.
"How dare yo—" there was a loud bang and smoke covered his guard to reveal… Naruto! He whirled his head in disbelief toward the dead Naruto on his table only to have it poofed out from existence.
"That's just my clone, you idiot! I have replaced your guard ever since you walked through the corridor," Gatou took a step back toward his table, looking fearfully at Naruto. "So, you try to cheat off of me, huh?"
"I, I'm sorry! I don't mean to! T-This is just a j-joke. Y-yeah. Just a joke from my part!" Gatou wet his pants. He looked down to search why his legs felt warm and found himself pissed. When he looked up, a punch was planted on his face, destroying his sunglasses and taking two of his teeth.
"Our deal's off. This time I will rob you of all your money. But now…I think a punishment is fitting," he grinned threateningly.
Naruto spent 10 minutes to beat him up until his face was so deformed that not even if Gatou had families they would recognize him. He had made him signed off the new contract and asked him where the missing-nins he hired were. Only to find that they had departed an hour ago. Naruto cursed and tied Gatou, bringing the man with him as he crossed the wavy ocean, since he didn't have the knowledge needed to operate the ship by himself.
And thus Naruto had to run on the water carrying Gatou with him facing the freaking waves in record breaking speed.
(End Flashback)
Naruto squinted his eyes to see the outline of the Wave main island. He grinned. "Here comes Uzumaki Naruto!" he shouted and took off dragging Gatou with him, ignoring the sharks that tried to get close to them after they smelled Gatou;s blood in the water.
Kyuubi was yawning. He was laying on the floor, one ha—er paw supporting his head while he observed his other paw, watching how shiny his claws were. He yawned again, eager to see the action that would unfold soon.
Man…this is just plain boring! Kyuubi thought, wondering when Naruto would arrive at the main island.TBC…
A reason why I choose wind as Zabuza's sword's ability…his sword reminded me of Sagara Sanosuke's zanbatou from Rurouni Kenshin anime. It was a sword used to behead horses and I thought that it was fun to see Zabuza used wind to behead…someone.
Hopefully you find the battle scene good and funny too. I don't have the urge to write an entirely serious fight this time and thus I added some humors.
This time I write about the others too (usually I only concentrate on Naruto). Do you like it?
My longest chapter for this story to date! Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to maintain it. Expect the next chapter to be shorter!
This fic is unbeta-ed. You'll notice that there is notification on any of my edited chapter.
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By the way guys, did you notice that there are so many NarutoSasuke fics in appearing? I did. Usually it is one of my likeable pairings for Naruto but with all of these fics, I'm starting to be reluctant to read any NarutoSasuke anymore. There is also the rise of numbers of NarutoHinata fics too. And also NarutoSakura fics after Training for the Job story (good story, by the way) came out. I think I have to donate some fics which there will be no pairing for Naruto at all. He heh, though it is mostly because I'm too lazy to write romance fic.
There should be more fics with no fluffy romance that seem to appear endlessly in Oh well, that's just my opinion anyway.
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