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Naruto woke up and looked out the window, it was still dark out. He sighed and tried to go back to sleep but he wasn't feeling tired anymore. It had been a week since the survival test and he and his team had been doing D rank missions, which were nothing more than menial labor, ever since the team had passed the test. Naruto got out of bed and took a long shower. When he was finished he walked back into his room and saw the calender on the wall, he immediately tensed up and studied the calender. He looked away from it and walked to his closet he pulled out a black suit and quickly got dressed. He mournfully looked at the sword that was sitting in its case on the wall.
Naruto moved to the case and pulled the wooden sword from it. He looked at the intricate pattern that was carved into the wood that made up the blade. The pattern looked like a large uncontrollable fire weaving a path of destruction up the blade. Naruto thought about how long it would take a normal human to make details as good as these were. He shook the thought form his head, sheathed the sword and tied it to his belt.
Naruto walked over to his longsword and picked it up. He looked at the blade and noticed that some sort of pattern was starting to show up on the blade, he made a mental note to ask kyuubi about it later. He buckled the sword to his back and left home headed for the village.
When he got to the village the streets were still empty and the lanterns were still shining brightly down upon them. There was almost no activity in the city as the only people moving were early morning workers or people just finishing up a night shift. While he was walking through town he saw Kakashi.
"Kakashi-san what are you doing?"
Kakashi looked up from his book and gave Naruto an odd look"Oh, Naruto what are you all dressed up for?"
Naruto's face darkened a little bit and he let out a sigh, "Because of what today is."
Kakashi thought about what today was and how it would relate to Naruto. After he thought about it a little he remembered. All the jounins were informed about the day Akuma betrayed Naruto, and were told to scour the village to find him. After almost 4 hours searching the village for the child they had found nothing. After reporting back to sarutobi he notified all the jounin to keep a look out for Akuma who had seemed to vanish that day.
Lately though there had been rumors about a strange kid that was working as a mercenary that fit the description but... Kakashi shook his head of the thought process when Naruto had asked him another question.
"Oh sorry, what did you ask?" Kakashi asked rubbing the back of his head.
Naruto sighed and shook his head, "Are we going to be doing a lot of missions today or are we going to be training?"
"Mission." that was all Kakashi said before he walked off to wherever he was going. Naruto watched him go then turned and headed of towards the village gates.
He walked out of the village and wandered into a secluded area where a small pond was surrounded by some trees. There were a few birds singing and there was a squirrel sitting by a tree with a nut in it's mouth. He pulled the wooden sword from its sheathe and stabbed it into the ground in front of a rock. He sat on the rock and turned himself so that he was facing the sword and watched the fish swim around in the pond. His eyes slowly closed and he soon fell into a deep meditative like state.
Sasuke and Hinata were sitting at team 7's usual meeting place waiting for almost an hour for Naruto and Kakashi to show up. Hinata was a getting a little worried about where Naruto was since he at least tried to not be late. If he was ever late it was never by as much time as had passed.
She got up and looked over to sasuke, "I'm going to find Naruto you can either wait here or come along, I don't care which." She turned and walked out off the bridge. Sasuke thought about which would be more productive to his goal and decided that if he followed he might see how Naruto trained himself. After finishing his thoughts he got up and followed Hinata off the bridge.
They were walking out of the city gate when kakashi landed next to them startling them both. Kakashi turned and looked at them, "Where are you guys going?"
"To look for Naruto since he hadn't arrived at the bridge by his normal time." Hinata said looking up at kakashi.
Kakashi nodded, "Well if he hasn't arrived yet than let's go find him." He lead them out of the village and headed towards the area that Naruto was meditating in.
Elsewhere
In an inn somewhere on the edge of kiri, a man was just waking up. He got out of bed and did a few quick stretches. He picked up his clothes and quickly got dressed in his black ninja garb. He picked up his favorite weapon, a saber with a pattern of lightning strike working its way down the blade to tip. He belted the weapon to his side, the blade being there at his side always gave him a feeling of completeness that he hadn't been able to find with any other weapon yet. He pulled a hunter nin mask down over his face, and turned to look into a mirror. He gave a small laugh and jumped out the window on to the roof of the building next door. "This look definitely does not fit me."He took a look at the small peaceful village and ran out of town, into the forest that surrounded it.
He had spent the last couple days observing the village and the area surrounding it looking for anything that could clue him in on the location of the bandits. After all his work he had found the camp about 5 miles from the village. He was quickly moving to the location to prepare for his attack plan.
He reached the camp and moved quickly, making sure that the bandits followed the same routes as they did before to enter and leave the camp. After confirming the routes he began to set up traps. As he was laying down a trap, that was designed to fling kunai from two directions towards a single point, he was ambushed and was forced to quickly abandon his trap and went on the defensive.
He looked around and saw four guys standing in the path, he noticed a tree branch moving in a way the differed from the rest and guessed another was there, he also noticed an area of grass that looked unnaturally flat so he guessed another was laying there. 'So its me versus six guys of unknown ability, this is gonna be fun.' He quickly threw some shuriken at the flattened grass and jumped towards the tree pulling out two kunai.
He blocked three shuriken that flew at him from the tree and watched as the target landed down by the other bandits that had been in the path. There were now five men standing in the path each one holding a katana, and by the way they were holding themselves they were not new to these weapons by any means. He pulled his own sword out and stood with his blade out towards his opponents and with his body parallel with the blade.
"Well gents, are you ready to dance?" His voice sounded playful and behind his mask he had look of enjoyment at what fun this battle might be able to give him.
One of the bandits grew offended by his tone and his face had a look of anger on it, "Don't be looking down on us boy, we were trained by one of the seven swordsman of the mist."
'Damn, he didn't say I'd be fighting one of the seven swordsman. I had better get paid more for this, that is if I get out of this with my life.' The man tightened his body a little and became a little cautious, "Which one?"
"You'll find out soon enough when we beat you and drag your broken body before him." The bandits spread themselves out in a half circle around the figure.
The masked man laughed, "Well I guess it is only right that you should know the name of the man who killed you. I am Naku assassin of the mizukage and I have not lost a battle yet." The bandits all charged at him, one bandit didn't see one of the trap that had been already set up and was brought down as a cloud of poison shot from the ground. The bandits stopped their charge before they hit more traps. One bandit grabbed the paralyzed one and dragged him back.
"You may as well leave him there's noting you can do. The poison is designed to quickly paralyze the body then slowly dissolve all of its internal organs. He'll be dead in a couple minutes, that is unless you have the antidote. That is unlikely however as I created that poison."
The bandits realized that this man was not a normal adversary and decided that they needed to be more cautious or else they would die very quickly. Naku knew that they weren't going to do any more unplanned frontal attacks so he changed his stance. He pulled out a kunai with his free hand and brought it so that it was pointing towards the sky but was paralleled and behind the blade of the saber. The saber was now pointing towards the ground in front of himself. He was a little more relaxed in his stance like he could be easily moved with just the slightest touch.
The bandits split off into two man teams one team to the left of him and one to the right. As they got into there own stance Naku charged the group on his right. The bandits could barely keep up with how fast he was running. One bandit quickly slashed down towards Naku's body trying to cleave it in two. The bandit's sword passed through thin air as the Naku's torso seemed to bend out of the way and made it look like he didn't have a spine to hold his body straight.
A fog started to roll out and blanket the area they were fighting in. Naku didn't mind he was used to fighting without the ability to see his opponent. The bandit didn't appear surprised but he did have to adjust himself to the way they would ave to fight now.
Naku took advantage of this shifting time and launched his fist towards the bandit. The bandit didn't have long enough to get himself adjusted and he took a heavy punch to the face. The blow sent his head back, Naku quickly followed up his punch by slicing his saber across his throat leaving a large cut. He fell to the ground clutching his throat and making weird gurgling noises as he started drowning on his own blood that had gushed into his throat.
The other bandit took a swipe at him with his own sword and nicked Naku in the shoulder. The bandit followed up by plunging a kunai towards Naku's back. Nku turned his body in that unnatural way and instead of getting stabbed in the back he got stabbed in the leg. Naku retaliated by plunging his own kunai deep into the bandit's heart and followed through by cutting the bandits had off.
Naku started to turn to fight the last two but was pierced in the back by two swords. Naku looked down at the blades protruding from his chest he shook his head, "I'd recognise that technique anywhere. The silent killing technique of kirigakure right, you were trained by Momochi Zabuza, weren't you?"
One of the bandits had a grin on his face as they both pulled their blades from Naku. "So you figured it out huh."
"You should have taken my head off when you had the chance. First seal activate." A seal on Naku's blade started to glow as he wiped his blood over it. As the two bandits were about to stab him again,he vanished and their blades stabbed into the ground. He appeared behind them and quickly put a kunai through the heart of the one on the left. The one on the right recognized the danger that could easily claim him, and dodged to the right abandoning his sword in the ground.
He stood up in the mist and looked around for Naku. The bandit turned around when he heard a laugh come from behind him.
"So many ways to kill to choose from I wonder which one to use. Heart." the bandit felt a stick touch his back right over his heart. The bandit turned again looking for him and for the first time in this fight feeling true fear of his opponent.
"Throat." The bandit felt the stick touch him in the Neck he turned his head towards where he felt it. He still couldn't see Naku because he was moving to fast.
"Lungs." He felt two sticks touch him in the back right over his lungs. The bandit was getting really close to pissing his pants because of how scarred he was.
"Eyes through to the Brain." This time he saw the sticks land on his eyes but just as quickly as he saw them they disappeared.
"Groin" He saw the stick land between his legs then saw as it faded back into the mist as if it was part of it. By this time the bandit had pissed him self, and was about to fall unconscious from the fear and anxiety he was experiencing.
"Brain" The Bandit was a little confused this time as felt nothing touch his head, but it made the anxiety even worse and he began to feel like his heart would explode. Then he heard a clash of metal the sound of something like compressed air then a some guttural choking noises. The mist began to clear and he could see Naku standing with a dagger shoved into the neck of another bandit.
"So there was another one of you hiding in the grass. Oh well your turn." He turned to the defenseless bandit and disappeared behind him. "Bye it was fun." the bandit turned and watched as the blade pierced through his heart. He slowly fell to the ground as the life disappeared from his eyes.
Naku pulled a cloth from his pouch and cleaned off the blade. When the blood was removed from his blade the seal slowly faded away leaving the lightning pattern the only thing on the blade. Naku was breathing heavily, using the seals on his blade always had a downside. This one was a constant drain of chakra as long as the seal was active and it used up his energy faster than normal. The increase in speed that the first seal gave him however was worth it.
He pulled out some bandages and wrapped up the wounds he had received. They weren't well placed as they missed anything that could have really caused him any permanent damage it would just take a little time for the wounds to close up. He moved back to the camp and looked around there were more bandits and they all had their weapons out, alerted to the presence of an enemy by the sounds of the battle that had just taken place. 'I'm going to need some help for this one.'
"The powers of these combined are strong but alone are weak, he who chases the sun in its circle, and she who does the same for the moon, chasers Skoll and Hati" As the words left his mouth there was a twisting of red on one side of Naku and a twisiting of white on the other. When the light vanished two wolves stood next to Naku.
One wolf was about three and a half feet high at shoulder height and was about six feet in length. Its fur was deep red with black streaks mixed in it, its eyes were orange in color with black slit pupils. The other wolf stood at three feet shoulder height, and was about five feet in length. Its fur was silver and it seemed to glisten as the light hit it, there also black streaks in it just like the first wolf. Its eyes were silver with black slit pupils.
The red wolf let out a growl and spoke in a very gruff voice that sounded as if it were angry, "Who are you to have summoned us?"
"I am Naku an apprentice summoner of the old ways about to battle an encampment of bandits trained in the art of Silent Killing." Naku was used to the fact that he had to earn the summons respect if he wanted to survive his encounter with it.
The red wolf let out a growl that seemed to be laughter, "So we were summoned by a pup who's not even in his prime yet. How far we have fallen my friend to be brought out by one this weak."
The silver wolf who had been quiet up to this point looked over towards the red wolf and spoke in a much calmer and controlled tone, "Skoll, you must be getting blinded chasing that sun around all day. Can you not see that this boy has quite a bit of power behind him."She turned her head towards Naku, "It's no surprise that whomever is teaching you the summoning arts picked you."
Skoll looked over at the silver wolf, "Hati your sense of power must be failing you chasing after one as calm, peaceful, and powerless as the moon. You are foolish for summoning us boy these men are weak and worthless."
Naku shook his head, "If it were only these guys I would've done it myself. The problem is that one of the seven swordsman of the mist are also among them, and if he's there than who knows who else is here."
Skoll gave another growl of amusement, "Pup, it sounds like you really got burned on this deal."
Hati shook her head and sat down, "As much as I hate agreeing with skoll he's right, why are you doing this mission if the odds are so large against you?"
Naku looked out at the camp, "Because if I let these people survive than they could just as easily move towards my own home and terrorize the people there. I wouldn't want that to happen to anybody who is precious to me. So I'm going to stop them here."
Skoll looked up at Naku, "Well pup your hearts in the right place even if your head isn't. I guess I can give you my aid."
Hati nodded her head as well, "Don't worry about what skoll says he doesn't like to give anyone direct praise, and you have my help as well. I hope my trust in your power is not misguided."
Naku nodded and smiled, "Thank you, Skoll and Hati. Now are you ready to bash some heads."Skoll and Hati both let out a long and loud howl. Naku charged with Skoll and Hati following behind him.
The men in the camp all looked over at where the howls were coming from, all of them were quite scarred at what was about to attack. The captains quickly took all the fear from the bandits mind as they walked out of the main building. There were three captains one was a person wearing a white hunter nin mask that resembled the masks of the kiri hunter nin. The other two captains Looked very much alike they both wore cloaks that covered their body and they both had a mask that covered there mouth and nose. They both had a large claw like glove on opposite arms.
Naku didn't recognize the hunter inn but he did recognize the other two. They were the demon brothers Gozu and Meizu, two chunnin ranked ninja of kirigakure. The bandits quickly formed into squads under their designated captain. "Skoll take the brother on the left, Hati take the brother on the right, I'll take the hunter nin." Skoll and Hati nodded and moved off towards their respective groups.
Skoll ran and jumped on the first bandit that came in range and ripped is throat out with his mouth. Three of the bandits stabbed towards skoll's back. Skoll's paws burst into flames and he quickly swiped his paws towards the three bandits setting them all on fire. He Jumped on to the another bandit and tore his throat out as well.
As he made run for another kill he was hit in the side by three kunai he turned and saw the brother he was fighting throw more and he dodged them. His paws burst into flames again he threw the fire at the brother. The brother dodged the fire and threw more kunai at skoll while charging towards him. Skoll dodged the kunai and jumped back as the brother stabbed his claw towards him.
Skoll growled in annoyance, "Human what do they call you, I'd like to know the name of someone who didn't die so quickly."
The brother was a little surprised at the fact the wolf could talk, "My name is Gozu one of the demon brothers."
Gozu charged towards the wolf and tried to stab it in the side. The wolf jumped out of the way and through more fire towards gozu. Gozu jumped out of the way but part of his cloak got touched by the fire and was immediately caught on fire. The brother tried to stomp it out but the fire just got on his shoe and continued to burn through his cloak. He pulled out a kunai and cut the cloak from his neck. It fell to the ground and continued to burn, he also took his shoe off before it could get anywhere it could touch his skin.
Skoll had taken the opportunity of gozu being distracted to take out six more of the bandits through a combination of tearing out lungs and setting them on fire. He had sustained a large cut on his back left leg it caused him pain every time that he applied pressure to it but he could manage. Gozu finished with getting his burning clothing off turned back to skoll. He noticed the cut he had received and would use it to his advantage.
Gozu threw a few kunai towards skoll's right and made him propel himself mostly off his left leg. Skoll landed a little funny trying not to apply pressure and gozu used that moment to quickly charge and strike towards skoll's right side making him jump to the left again. This time as skoll landed he was unable to dodge the kunai that was flung towards him well enough. He was it in his back right leg, making it hard for skoll to maneuver. Skoll knew that at this rate he was going to be turned into a pincushion if he didn't fight this guy seriously.
Gozu charged again swinging his claw towards skoll's left side, instead of jumping away from the claw he jumped towards gozu's throat hoping to end it with a quick bite to the throat. Gozu saw the danger and tried to move away, he wasn't fast enough and his right shoulder was caught in skoll's mouth. Skoll started trying to rip gozu's arm off but a few of the bandits hadn't yet died from skolls attacks and they plunged their blades through his side. Skoll let out a howl of pain and fury as he released his hold on gozu. Gozu used his good arm to throw skoll from him. Skoll hit the ground and knew that he didn't have much time left being summoned. As a final attempt for the kill he quickly threw some fire at gozu. As the fire got near gozu, skoll vanished back to where he had come and had taken the fire with it.
Gozu let out a breathe of air he didn't realize he had been holding. The bandits that had stabbed skoll died knowing they had been able to stop skoll from killing their captain. Gozu looked around at the battlefield and saw that all of his company had died but himself in the battle. Gozu gingerly touched his arm and watched as his brother walked over to him and bandaged his arm.
Hati watched skoll run off towards his group, she turned way and headed for her's. She ran and stopped in front of the bandits a few of the bandits threw kunai at her and others charged her with their swords out. The kunai hit then passed right through her and embedded themselves into the ground behind her. The bandits all watched as the body seemed to morph and sway then vanished. All the bandits turned around as three of the bandits let out a yell as they were ripped apart by her claws.
The brother was observing the battle trying to figure out how Hati had gotten behind his men. He watched as she once again stood still as he was watching he saw the shadow morph and run towards the backs of his men. He watched as the shadow attached to one of his guy's shadow, at the same time some kunai ripped through the body of hati that was standing still. The body morphed and vanished again, and he turned back and looked as hati seemed to grow out of the body of the man whose shadow she had attached to. Hati quickly ripped his throat out and jumped and slashed another one across his chest and ripped one of his arms off.
The brother jumped down into the battle to help his men, "EVERYBODY, watch the shadows the wolf detaches her self from her physical form and into a shadow. When the shadow latches onto another shadow the wolfs physical form will grow from it.
Hati looked at the brother and let out a growl of approval, "I see your not as dumb as you look, my name is hati what is yours?"
The brother looked surprised at how intelligent the wolf sounded and how it could talk, "My name is Meizu one of the demon brothers." Meizu watched hati's shadow begin to morph and watched it dart off into the woods "Careful the shadow moved into the woods she could attack from anywhere, stay away from the forest edge." Meizu watched his men move away from the edge of the tree line.
Then hati's body began to morph and vanish, meizu turned and looked out towards the trees then saw out of the corner of his as hati morphed back into physical form on one of the bandits. The bandit let out a yell that was silenced as his throat was ripped from his body. Meizu threw a large number of shuriken at hati who tried to jump off the man and attack another. She was able to kill another of the bandits, but at the same time was hit in one of her legs by the kunai. Meizu took count of his men, he had three left, as he watched the shadow move slower than it was before back into the trees.
Meizu took a few steps then felt what could only be explained as more weight falling on his body. His eyes widened and he looked at his shadow, it had fallen on top of one of the trees shadows and she had used it as a path to his own, "You three stab me quickly before the wolf leaves me." All the men gave meizu a weird look than looked at his shadow and saw what looked like the shadow of a wolf. The men finally understood what was happening and quickly stabbed their captain which also ended up hitting hati as she came back into physical being.
She let out a howl of pain as the blades ripped through her body. She pulled her self free from the blades and sliced the head off one of the bandits. She quickly jumped on another and ripped his throat out. The last bandit pulled out a kunai and tried to stab the wolf but the wolf dodged and ripped his arms off then ripped her claws through his chest killing him.
Meizu fell to the ground as he watched the last three men fall to the ground dead. Hati walked over to him slowly and opened her and started to close it around Meizu's neck. As her teeth touched his skin she collapsed and vanished, meizu sat up and pulled the blades from his body they hadn't hit him anywhere that could have killed him but if he didn't bandage himself up then he would die of blood loss. He quickly bandaged himself and walked over to his brother. His brother was sitting up and looking at him and winced as he moved his arm a little. Meizu quickly bandaged his brothers arm and they both sat and watched the fight between Haku and the masked man finish up.
Naku watched both the wolves jump off towards their respective fights. Naku faced forward and watched the four bandits that were with the masked ninja get into position. Naku pulled out some kunai with exploding tags on them and threw them at the bandits that he was heading for. One of the bandits was caught in the blast while the other three jumped away in time. The masked ninja pulled out some senbon and threw them at naku.
Naku blocked two of the needles the third hit him in the left shoulder, as the needle sank into his skin he could feel his arm go numb and useless. He knew that this masked nin was going to be a very large problem. "I admire your skill at hitting pressure points with those needles it shows that you know the human body well. I am Naku assassin of the mizukage and I am here for the head of Momochi Zabuza. What is your name?"
The masked nin shifted a little he seemed sort of nervous, and he did have reason for it. In the underground his name had spread quickly as one to be feared. He had killed many high level missing nin who had been moving against Kirigakure in some way. He hadn't taken on anyone of Zabuzas stature by far but the ones he had taken care of were definitely not to be looked down upon. "My name is Haku and you will not have the chance to take Zabuza-samas life."
Haku's voice was that of girl which took him by surprise, "By the sound of voice you are woman am I right, are you sure you should be fighting I know how emotional women can be."
Haku spoke in a voice that sounded a angry at his comment, "Well this woman is going to beat you into the ground."
Naku nodded to himself, "I see well I guess I'll fight you seriously then. Seal one activate, seal two activate, seal three activate." He bit his thumb and quickly wiped his thumb across three areas of his blade. The three areas lit up and three seals appeared. After the activation his body started to change, his muscles became much bigger, his blade grew longer and thicker than normal and the lightning design on the blade began to glow.
He charged at the stunned form of haku and kicked her in the chest sending her back and into the ground. The three bandits charged him one swung his blade towards naku's neck, one swung his blade towards naku's midsection, and the last swung his blade towards naku's legs. Naku quickly kicked the blade out of the hands of the one going for his feet. A seal started to shine on his boot and it shot out a dagger with what sounded like a rush of compressed air. His free hand grabbed the dagger and blocked the blade coming towards his midsection with it. He then cut the arm, of the guy who swung at his neck, off.
He swung his blade and quickly cut the man who was weapon less in half. He took his dagger and dug it deep into the heart of the last guy. He pulled the dagger out and shoved it back into his boot infusing the seal with air again. He turned back towards haku and felt two more senbon hit him one in his leg just to the left of a pressure point that would have incapacitated his leg and the other hit him in his left arm again.
He charged towards haku and swiftly brought the blade from the down and to the left in an arc towards haku's head. Haku managed to slow the blade with a few senbon which pushed her back a enough to put her out of the way of most of the damage. She was still cut in her right arm, which Naku exploited with a swift quick to her right side. She slid back and felt two of her ribs break at least.
Naku was starting to pant with the use of his seals, the first increased his speed with the drawbacks of using a lot more energy and chakra. The second seal increased his muscle strength making his hits hurt more at the cost of muscle usage for a few days. The third seal used a lot of chakra to maintain as well as it caused his sword to grow in size and weight causing more damage but using more energy to swing it.
Haku saw that he was using up his energy fast and decided that if she wanted to win it would be easiest if she just tried to out last him. She watched as the blade started to glow brighter for a few seconds then the blade stopped glowing except for the seals. She also saw that Naku didn't appear as out of energy as he did before.
Naku charged her again and swung his sword in an attempt to cleave her in two. She managed to jump out of the way but as she started to move he kicked her in the chest and sent her down into the ground again. She was sure she felt another rib break, she stood up panting and decided she had enough she did her seals and called out Makyou Hyoushou (Crystal Ice Mirrors) She pulled water from a nearby lake and began to surround naku in ice mirrors. After the mirrors were finished she quickly jumped into one and her reflection appeared on all the mirrors.
The Demon Brothers watched as the mirrors formed around the masked assailant. Gozu shook his head, "It's over that boys finished lets head back to the building." Gozu got up and headed back towards the building with Meizu following him.
Haku began to throw her needles into naku, naku released seal 2 and 3 so as to lessen his drain but kept seal 1 so that he continued the battle with increased speed. With the speed he was able to move his body so the needles wouldn't pierce any of his pressure but he knew that he would be unable to keep this up. As he moved he made an error and he was hit in the leg he fell down. That was when he knew he was done he felt more needles pierce his body and he slowly fell unconscious.
Haku released her technique and stood panting heavily. She walked over to the body of naku and picked him up and brought him inside the main building. She placed him on a bed and began to remove the needles that were keeping him unconscious and made sure to leave all the paralyzing needles in.
She removed his mask and got a good look at his face. He had blue hair and a face that looked to be young she would estimate from his looks that he was about 12. He slowly opened his eyes and she looked into them they were gray blue in color and were very empty looking inside. They reminded her of her own eyes before she had been found by zabuza. Then all of a sudden there was a rush of emotion to his face and the biggest one was without a doubt anger.
"What do you want from me, I have no information that I'm able to give about the mizukage." when he said the word mizukage she saw a flash of emotions that she was unable to decipher. She thought about it for a bit the quickly flipped naku over.
"Hey now what ar- ow." he was able to say as he landed face first. She inspected the back of his head for something to confirm what she thought. After a minute of searching she found a small seal hidden behind his left ear.
"Mind control, just as I thought." haku scratched her head well if it was mind control then they might be able to get a powerful ally out of this.
"Hello, is this how you treat prisoners, you just start throwing them around and not answer any questions."
"Oh, I'm sorry, what did you want."
"Why am I not dead?"
"Because I thought you might have some uses."
"What would those be?"
"You'll see."
"What do you mean by mind control."
"I'll answer that question when zabuza-sama gets here."
"Why are you wearing that mask still the battle is over and you already took mine off, I should be able to see your face as well. You know I bet your very cute underneath that mask."
She pulled her mask off and set it aside. He looked up into her eyes and saw that she was indeed cute. "Well you are cute but I still want to know what you meant by mind control?" She let out a sigh and left to get zabuza.
She walked back in after a while and saw Naku laying there same as he was before. Naku looked over towards her, "So do I get my answer now?"
"Yes, Zabuza-sama this is Naku he has the mind control seal of the mizukage."
Zabuza had an interested look, "Wait you mean, Naku assassin of the mizukage."
Naku looked up, "Yeah, that's me. I'm honored that one such as yourself knows about me."
Zabuza looked to haku, "I sent the demon brothers to konoha to get rid of tazuna. Gato has been quite the annoyance, and I can't wait for this job to be finished I don't like it."
Haku nodded, "Alright, Zabuza-sama should we release the mind control seal?"
"If memory serves right there are two things that might happen. One is he gains an amnesia of his memories up to sometime after the seal was placed. The other is he goes insane."
Naku looked at the two, "Yeah still here can you let me go, I need to finish a job and I can't quite remember what it is."
Zabuza looked at him for a bit, "Go ahead release the seal it looks like hes the amnesia type."
Haku moved over to the bed and began to write a seal on his head in blood, after making a few minutes she finished writing out her seal. "Alright I will release the seal now." She started to force chakra into the seal and the kanji seemed to come alive they started moving in intricate patterns and slowly began to twist the mizukages seal.
When Haku had started forcing chakra into the seal Naku had begun to start yelling in pain. The kanji started to left the mizukages seal off of Naku's head. Haku grabbed a piece of paper and stuck it to the seal. The seal finished ripping itself from Naku's head and formed on the paper instead.
She moved off leaving naku behind sweating and coughing he quickly lapsed into unconsciousness. Haku walked over to a one of the remaining campfires and threw the paper into the fire. She walked over to zabuza, "Zabuza-sama we will see in a little while whether or not he survived the mental stress or not."
Zabuza nodded, "Now we wait on the demon brothers to kill tazuna and then we can rid ourselves of gato and his terrible ideals."
Back with Konoha
Naruto was taken out of his thought process as Kakashi entered the clearing followed by Hinata and Sasuke. "Whats up?" Naruto said grabbing the sword and placing it back in the sheathe.
"Mission" Kakashi replied simply.
"Alright lets go." Naruto headed back into town to go get briefed on the mission with Kakashi, Hinata, and Sasuke.
They all stood before Sarutobi and waited patiently to receive their missions.
Sarutobi looked up from the scrolls, "Alright you are to help at the local pet shelter with walking the dogs, after you finish there you are to go find a missing cat its gray and has a ribbon on its ear. After that you are to-"
"No." Naruto calmly said interrupting sarutobi and surprising every body in the room.
"Excuse me" Sarutobi said calmly.
"I said No, we are the strongest team of genin and we have been doing menial labor our entire career as shinobi. I demand a C rank mission so that we can test ourselves against the real world."
"I'm sorry hokage-sama naruto ha-" Kakashi started to say apologetically.
"Alright" Sarutobi said surprising everyone in the room again.
"Really?" Naruto said hopefully.
"Yes a bridge builder named Tazuna has been having a bit of trouble with bandits interrupting the building process. Your mission is to protect Tazuna and the bridge until it is completed. Tazuna you can come in."
Team 7 looked towards a door that had opened. A man stepped out holding a bottle of sake. He had a pointy straw hat and wore glasses. He looked at the ninja assembled before him. "I'm going to be protected by children?"
Kakashi looked over to him, "I'm a Jounin so you wont have to worry too much. Alright everyone meet up at the gates in 1 hour."
Tazuna gave a snort and headed for the door. Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata followed him out. Kakashi lagged back to talk to the hokage, "Hokage-sama are you sure about this he seemed very reluctant to accept the protection of genin."
Sarutobi let out a sigh, "I thought so too but I don't there is too much to worry about."
Kakashi nodded and left the building.
Naruto was back home packing he had place the wooden sword back into its case. He shouldered his pack took one more look at the blade and walked to the village gates.
When he arrived Tazuna was waiting there with Kakashi and Hinata. Naruto walked up to Hinata and began to converse with her. Sasuke showed up a minute later. Kakashi turned to everyone and said "Alright lets begin." and with those words they leave the village towards the wave.
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