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"Weird eyes in position." the person was on the ground as he was hiding in the bushes, which prevented anyone from seeing him.
"Pink Banshee in position." the person was hiding in a bushes too, she was waiting silently with eyes on the target.
"Sun in position as well." this person was using a henge to disguise herself as a rock, she was waiting there to capture the target.
"Scarecrow is here, move in on the target." ordered the obvious team leader as the four of them rushed into an opening. The four were close to catch the target as they were nearly about to grab hold of the target but the target's speed and size allowed it to pass through them and make run for it.
The team were pursuing the target as they rushed after it. The team leader was thinking of a plan while the team were chasing after the target. Meanwhile there was a person hiding in a tree, he stood on the bark of a tree and used the leaves as a way to camouflage himself. The mysterious person kept an eye on the target that the team was in pursuit of and observe the movements of the target.
He silently calmed with both hands and just like that a small wooden cage formed on his hands, he sighed before he created a shadow clone. He silently commanded the shadow clone to get in front of the target and the shadow clone followed the command without question.
The target saw the shadow clone in front of it and stopped as it tried to intimidate the shadow clone with a loud roar that sounded like "MEORRRa!", though the loud roar would have scared civilians and genins, it didn't scare the shadow clone.
It tensed the muscles on its legs as it planned on pouncing at shadow clone but just as it began its strike, a wooden cage jumped out at it and imprisoned the creature. The creature saw a mysterious person walking towards it, it moved back as it was forced into a corner. The mysterious person quickly grabbed the cage and picked it up to look at the target. Yeah it was the cat he was looking for with out a doubt.
The mysterious person with the caged cat in his hand walked towards his destination, on the way he was stopped by the team that had been chasing the cat, they glared at him as they were panting heavily.
"Naruto, why didn't you tell us that you were going to get the cat and why didn't you help us before? I mean we are all in team 7." asked the team leader as he started to catch his breath. Sasuke and Sakura were glaring at Naruto as they were furious with the code name he give them. Next time they would make sure Kakashi doesn't ask for Naruto's on the codenames.
Naruto looked at the team leader, "Kakashi, you don't know me, therefore you can not understand me." stated Naruto with a pokerface before he continue to make his way to the Hokage's office, the rest of team 7 followed.
Team 7 walked behind Naruto and glared at Naruto's head, Sasuke and Sakura more so than Mito. Kakashi just pulled out the orange book as he started to read it, Naruto was sighing as he wondered if he could get another team, so he didn't have to deal with these idiots as the images of Sakura and Sasuke appeared in his head.
The rest of the walk to the Hokage's office was silent as no-one, Sakura was staring at Sasuke; Sasuke would sometimes send a glance at Mito and look away; Mito was looking at Naruto trying to wonder how he become so good and distant; Kakashi continued to read his orange book, he would glance at Naruto every second in a while as he tried to understand Naruto. Naruto sneezed twice before he thought about who was thinking about him.
Hokage's Office
Right now team seven was standing in front of the Hokage. Naruto had a caged cat in his hand, he moved in front of the Hokage as he showed him the cat before handing the cat to its rightful owner, the Daimyo's wife. He saw the cat been crushed by the the woman and prayed for the cat.
Minato looked at team 7, "Looks like your team has record for catching Tora in 34 minutes, now if you want another mission, there's one for helping someone with farming, there's one for fixing some buildings..." said Minato as he started to read out the missions that team 7 could do.
Tora jumped out of its owner's hands and jumped out the window as it made its escape, "... Looks like the mission for catching Tora is available again." state Minato as he sighed before he started to get another mission scroll for catching Tora.
Mito suddenly snapped, "Enough of these lame mission, I wanna get a real mission, not a bunch of boring missions like this." demanded Mito as anger could be seen from her facial expression. Team 7 looked at her, Sasuke and Naruto silently agreed with her while Sakura didn't as she didn't like the way Sasuke was looking at her. Kakashi looked at her and sighed.
Naruto sighed as he decided to show his agreement with Mito, "I agree with Mito, we've already done all the mission twice in record time, so I think it's best if we got a C-rank mission because I feel like we're being limited by these mission." stated Naruto as he walked in front of Minato and besides Mito.
Minato smiled a bit, "I guess you're right, these mission are too easy for you; I think this mission will more suitable for you." said Minato as he grabbed a scroll from the many on top of his desk, he quickly summoned an Anbu and the Anbu shunshined, seconds later a middle-aged man walked into the office.t
The middle-aged man stumbled towards the ninjas, he drank from a bottle of what everyone instantly knew as alcohol before he lookied at team 7, "These brats are supposed to protect me, they look like they haven't held a weapon, especially the stupid-looking one with the pink hair." stated Tazuna as slurped his alcohol.
Minato looked at the middle-aged man, "Tazuna, I recommended you not underestimate our shinobis, they may look like normal children but they're strong enough to take down any bandit." Said Minato as he spoke with a dangerous tone that stroke fear in everyone but Naruto. Naruto had experienced worser from Ajax.
Kakashi quickly stood tall as he gained the attention of Tazuna and team 7, "Alright team, we've got a new mission, I want you all to go home and pack up enough to last to for two weeks. We'll meet up tomorrow at the main gates in 10am." said Kakashi as he told the team what to do, the team quickly ran out while Naruto shunshined to his bedroom.
Naruto Bedroom
Naruto looked around the room as he tried to remember the scroll he had finished yesterday, he had spent all night working on the scroll which ended up making him fall asleep. He tried to remembered where he put the scroll last night. He search through his closest and under his bed but he couldn't find the scroll.
He concentrated on trying to figure out where he put the scroll, then it hit him. He remembered as he headed to the drawer next to his bed and searched through, he saw the scroll he was looking and he took it out as he put it in his pocket.
Naruto quickly got on his bed and crossed his legs as he sat in a mediating position, he closed his eyes and focused on his mind. He could sense in the atmosphere; he opened in his eyes to see that he was in a forest, he was surrounded by trees and near him was also a waterfall. Naruto made his way to the waterfall and walked through the waterfall into a cave.
There were torches that hung on the sides of the cave, which lit the cave. Naruto looked around the cavern before he continued to walk deeper into the cave, he stopped shortly after he saw a familiar, shadowy figure that was in front of him. "Hey Ajax, I finish the blank summoning scroll." said Naruto as he took a scrol from a pocket on his jacket.
The familiar shadowy figure started to move as it moved towards Naruto, the light from the torches that hung on the sides of the cavern showed that the shadowy figure was Ajax. "I see." Ajax quickly turned around and released some of his chakra, which caused the ground to shake a bit. Naruto had almost lost balance from the sudden release of chakra but managed to stand straight as he channeled chakra to his feet which kept him stick to the ground.
*Rumble* Rumble*
Naruto could hear something, he leaned closer towards the sound. He heard the sound of an object hitting the ground very hard, the sound got louder and louder as the source of it came closer and closer to Naruto and Ajax, he prepared for the source of the sound but he noticed that Ajax wasn't preparing for it.
"Master!" before Naruto knew it he was on the floor as a giant, human-sized white wolf stood on top of him and licked his face. The wolf's tail was wiggling with excitement as it got off Naruto and howlled in joy.
Naruto stood up as he got a good look at the creature that had suddenly tackled him, the white wolf seemed so familiar to him... Then just like that, it hit him. "Tala?" said Naruto as he wasn't certain if the white wolf was Tala or not.
"It's been a long time, master." said Tala as she rushed towards Naruto, she started to lick Naruto's face. It made Naruto do something that no-one except Ajax and Tala had seen him do... He smiled and laughed as he radiated a glowing aura of joy and happiness that anyone close enough to him could feel.
"Naruto, give me the blank summoning scroll." Ajax looked Naruto, Naruto quickly took out the scroll and gave it to Ajax. Ajax quickly moved walked towards Tala as he grabbed her with one hand while he held the blank summoning scroll on the other hand.
Ajax closed his eyes as a bright green aura covered Ajax, Ajax quickly finished whatever he was doing as he opened his eyes and the bright green aura that covered him vanished; Ajax released his gentle hold on Tala and gave the scroll to Naruto before he spoke, "Naruto, I have created a link between the summoning scroll and Tala, so you can summon her anytime you wish after you sign this summoning scroll with your blood." stated Ajax as Naruto took the summoning scroll from Ajax.
Naruto was about to leave but was stopped by Ajax's paw on his shoulder, "Naruto, I need to talk to you." stated Ajax in a way which Naruto listen to Ajax as they looked at each other's eyes.
"Okay, what is it you want to talk about?" asked Naruto as he decided to sit down, he could tell that what Ajax wanted to talk was important and was going to take a while.
Ajax cleared his throat as he prepared to speak, "Naruto, I told that this place was your mindscape but that's not all of it. This place isn't your mindscape but sort of a dimension linked to your mind, when I was awaken by you I searched for a place where I could live without the threat of being attacked during my moments of weakness..." Ajax looked at Naruto and waited for Naruto to fully digest the information before he continued.
"Things didn't change until you and I got rid of the kyuubi and transfer his soul in Mito's seal; when that happened, your mindscape started to collapse without anything to keep it stable like the Kyuubi's soul, so I connected your mindscape with this place." said Ajax as he gestured to the cave they were in.
Naruto stood up as he just felt like he got slapped across the face, "So this place is real and my mindscape is connected to this place." stated Naruto as he started to take in everything that Ajax just said.
"Yes, so the world where we are right now is your mindscape. In simple terms, this like a personal space which you rule and no-one can be here without your permission. When you die, this world will continue existing as a world different to your shinobi world, basically this world is like the world where summons, like the giant toads that your sister can summon reside." explained Naruto as he told Naruto the truth about the world they currently reside in.
"How can you do that? How can you fuse a whole world with my mindscape and create this world which is in another dimension?" asked Naruto as he questioned how Ajax was able to do all these things that seemed impossible.
"That creature you spoke to, the one who granted a wish is an ancient god of miracles and happiness, he grants a wish to those who he feels deserve it; it was your wish that reincarnated me and when the ancient god brought me back to life, he gave me a some power to help you. It was during the time I was dormant that I absorbed a bit of the kyuubi's chakra in you, this is what enhance my power over time and space, this what allowed me to do all the things I was able to do."
"What do you mean by reincarnated?" asked Naruto.
"In my past life, I was a thunder bird: a rare type of phoenix that has power over thunder and fire, which was rare as most phoenixes only had power over fire. I fought in the great war of the summons, a war which destoryed my kind and nearly destoryed other summon kinds, like the minotaurs." Ajax explained and before Naruto could ask about the great war of the summons, he found himself his bedroom as he was forcefully kicked our by Ajax.
"Naruto, in the nearby future I will tell you more but right now, I wish not to talk about my past right now. If you want to, you can try to find more information by yourself." spoke Ajax in a sad tone as his words echoed in Naruto's mind until Ajax's presence left Naruto's mind.
Naruto decided to find out more about the great war of the summons later, he looked at the time to see that only a few minutes had passed. Naruto quickly left his bedroom and headed out of the house as he made his way to the place he knew would give him some time to himself.
Naruto got to his usual training ground with the collapsed temple, he wondered why people were so afraid of getting close to the temple. He sat down on the ground as he tried to figure out what to do.
Naruto quickly got up as an idea came to him, he thought about the theory what he was thinking about: he took out a scroll and wrote his idea down before he put the scroll with his idea in his pocket. Naruto decided to pass the time as he did some more advanced chakra control exercise with his clones as they practiced using chakra to augment their speed, strength and endurance.
Naruto swiped the sweat off his face as he saw the sun was starting to go down and shunshined to his bedroom, he headed out of his bedroom and into the bathroom as he locked the door and took a shower.
Once Naruto finished taking a shower, he dried himself off with a towel and wore new clothes; he unlocked the door and walked into his bedroom, he quickly made sure that his hair and his eyes were covered with a bandana and dark glasses.
Naruto headed downstairs into the kitchen as he made himself some instant ramen; he quickly ate the ramen and put the plastic bowl that used to be filled with ramen into the bin. He headed into his bedroom as he locked the door and laid on his bed as he let himself fall into asleep.
*Ring* *Ring*
Naruto woke up to the sound of his alrm as he quickly turned off the alarm and let out a yawn, he made his way to the bathroom as he washed his face and brushed his teeth. Naruto rush back into his bedroom and sealed all of the things he thought would be useful for mission into fuinjutsu scrolls: a pouch of backup kunais and shurikens, some packs of dango, some instant ramen and more.
Natuto looked at the time and saw that he had some time left before he had to meet up with his team, he walked downstairs to the kitchen as he made some ramen. He looked at the kitchen before he sighed, 'Just a bit more money and then I can get my own space.' thought Naruto happily as he was delighted at the fact that he would be able to live on his own.
Once he finished his ramen, he quickly washed it before he headed out of the house and towards the main gate where he would meet up with his team. Naruto whistled an upbeat tone as he walked through the village.
Naruto stopped whistling as he let a sigh escape his mouth, "Konohamaru how long are you going to follow me?" asked Naruto without stopping to look at Konohamaru, Naruto shook his head a little. Konohamaru really needed to learn to conceal his chakra, right now Naruto could feel the chakra pulsing from Konohamaru.
Konohamaru quickly got in front of Naruto, which made Naruto stop as he looked at Konohamaru, "Boss, when are you going to teach me some jutsus?" asked Konohamaru as he waved his around to express his frustration, which Naruto knew meant that Konohamaru wasn't going to give up until he got Naruto to teach him something.
Naruto sighed once again, "Konohamaru, I have a mission to do right now but when I come back, I'll teach you a jutsu." stated Naruto as he walked past Konohamaru and towards the main gate. But once again, Konohamaru got in front of Naruto as he looked at Naruto with awe.
"You got a mission outside of Konoha?"
Naruto looked at Konohamaru, "Yeah, it starts soon so I have to go." said Naruto as he walked to the main gates.
Konohamaru turned around, "You promise to teach me a jutsu?" asked Konohamaru with excitement as he wanted to know if Naruto was really going to teach him a jutsu, he wished it was powerful jutsu.
"Yeah, Yeah." said Naruto waving his hand to Konohamaru as he walked towards the main gate.
On the way, he wondered why he agreed to make Konohamaru his student and promised to teach him jutsus. Naruto was brought out of his train of thoughts by a voice, "Naruto, are you coming?" asked Kakashi as he got Naruto's attention, Naruto noticed that he was at the main gates and that his team and Tazuna were leaving without him. He quickly rushed after his team.
It had been hours since team 7 and Tazuna had left Konoha, despite all that time they continued to walk without signs of reaching their destination. Eventually the silence overwhelmed Sakura as she couldn't deal with it, so he asked Tazuna about his country and Tazuna started to describe his homeland, the land of waves; soon Kakashi joined in to the conversation as he explained to Sakura more about the land of waves. Meanwhile Naruto, Mito and Sasuke didn't speak but did listen in, Mito only did it because she saw Naruto do it.
Kakashi opened his mouth as he started to talk about the land of waves, "The land of waves is small island and has natural protection from the sea, therefore they don't need shinobis or a shinobi village to protect them as they have natural protection. That's why a lot of small countries often have no need for a shinobi village to protect them as they would have natural protection." stated Kakashi as he and the rest walked past a puddle, they continued to walk while they discussed more about the land of waves.
"Now Meizu!", team 7's talk quickly ended when a long chain of metal wrapped around Kakashi and cut him into two, two enemy shinobis jumped from the puddle used to be and got their gauntlet with sharps claws ready as they pounced at the remaining members of team 7. Naruto quickly made a few handsign before he inhaled lots of air and shot small compressed balls of air at the enemies and despite them lucky evading in time, the attack was able to break the chain into pieces. The enemies quickly discarded the chain as one charged at Naruto and the other at the remaining members of team 7 and Tazuna.
Naruto took out a kunai and meet the gauntlet head on as he blocked and pushed the gauntlet back with enough force that the enemy ninja was caught of guard and lost his balance as he was surprise by the force behind the push. Naruto quickly saw this and took advantage of the ninja's weakness as he effortless created a clone, the clone quickly pounced at the ninja as his fist kissed the ninja's face, leaving a mark and knocking the enemy.
"Gōzu!"The other ninja was dealing with Sasuke as the ninja tried to claw out Sasuke's chest, but Sasuke quickly reacted as he made a few handsigns and spat out a fireball towards the other ninja. The quickly moved to the right and evaded the attack but before he could see it he was punched by Naruto, the enemy ninja was sent flying as he crashed through three trees, when he crashed against the fourth tree, he didn't crash through but the impact from crashing through the first three and hitting the fourth was enough to knock the enemy ninja out.
Naruto created a clone to go pick up the ninja that he assumed was Gōzu while he went to get the one he assumed was Meizu, they quickly brought the ninjas together and tied them up with a rope he took out of his scroll. It was then that Kakashi decided to come out of the woods as he was still reading that orange book, everyone saw him and were surprised that he was alive
"Sensei, you're alive!" shouted Sakura as she expressed the surprise of everyone, Kakashi pointed to where everyone thought his corpse was and saw that in Kakashi's place were shattered pieces of a wooden log. They quickly realised and understood, all except Tazuna, that Kakashi used the kiwirami in time to escape that attack, Kakashi walked towards Naruto.
Kakashi looked at Naruto then the two knocked out ninjas, "Great job." said Kakashi as he praised Naruto for his work.
Naruto shook his head as he refused take the praise, "I just knocked them out, Sakura was the one who protected the client, Mito and Sasuke helped, so I can't take all the credit." stated Naruto as he left out little emotion. Naruto's comment, though well intended just made Mito, Sasuke and Sakura feel worthless as they felt like they didn't do as much as they should, and that Naruto doing most of the work.
Kakashi chuckled at Naruto's response as he walked over and patted Naruto's back, "Don't be so modest, you were the one that defeated them." stated Kakashi as he eye-smiled.
Kakashi quickly became serious as he turned around to look at Tazuna, "When you hired us, you never stated that we would be going up against enemy ninja nor did you pay the fee for this kind of mission, with enemy ninjas this mission could be a B-rank, if not an A-rank mission." stated Kakashi as closed in on Tazuna with a glare that said 'dangerous'.
Tazuna quickly cracked as he got on his knees, "Please, I need your help, my country has been taken over by a tyrant and everyone that lives there are struggling to survive. If I had the money to pay for it, then pay you the exact fee for this mission but I don't have a lot of money, no-one in my country does ever since Gato hass taken over." stated Tazuna as he cried at the thought of these ninjas, his last hope to help him save his country leave him behind.
Kakashi shook his head, "I'm sorry but I can't risk the lives of my genin, especially since this is their first mission, where they have to fight enemy ninjas, we're not prepared for this kind of mission, I hope you understand." said Kakashi as he and his genin team started to walk back to Konoha.
Tazuna cried for a little longer before he got up and got rid of the tears on his face, "I understand, I would die, but I wondered how my daughter and her son will handle it, I mean my daughter lost her husband and her son lost a father but I am sure they will handle." said Tazuna as he had the eyes of a man who knew he would die and accepted it.
Team 7 continued to walk to Konoha, "If only I could tell the two of them that I love them, I just hope my daughter doesn't take life after losing me and her husband, because then my grandson would live with a hatred for Konoha for letting his family die. I will be strong for the two of them." stated Tazuna as he tried to guilt-trip team 7.
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It worked as Naruto stopped and walked towards Tazuna, "I am stay with you and help you with your work." said Naruto as he sighed, thinking that it was going to be a pain in butt.
Quickly Sasuke and Mito walked over to Tazuna, "How can I call myself a Uchiha, if I run away from a mission, like a frightened chicken." stated Sasuke as he decided to help Tazuna. Sasuke had already lost all of his clan, except for his mother, father and sister. He knew what it was like losing people you care about and he didn't want Tazuna's family to feel the same.
Mito decided to speak, "I can't leave my brother behind to face a dangerous enemy by himself." stated Mito as he stood by Naruto's side to show her support.
Kakashi looked at their eyes and could tell that they were serious, he knew they were stubborn enough to back their words. Kakashi sighed as he took out some paper and wrote on it, before he made a few seals, which made the others tense to prepared for an attack when Kakashi put the hands on the ground.
Smoke appeared out of nowhere, this made everyone prepare for Kakashi'sattack but nothing happened. Everyone looked in surprise as the smoke dispelled to reveal a small dog with a Konoha headband and some clothes.
The dog looked up at Kakashi when his name was spoken, "Pakkun, I need you to take this scroll to Konoha for the Hokage's eyes only." commanded Kakashi with a serious tone, the dog nodded and took the scroll in his mouth as he jumped on a branch of a nearby tree and rushed off to Konoha.
Kakashi watched as the dog left and once the dog was out of sight, he turned towards his team, "Looks like we are going to continue this mission." said Kakashi with eye-smile, the genins quickly cheered, except Naruto who was mentally wondering if it had been a good idea to continue the mission.
The group quickly continued their journey as they made their way near a lake, they had kept walking towards the Wave country. Everything was good and there seemed to no problems for the group, they had made good progress. The group decided to stop by the lake to rest before continuing as they had to refill their canteens.
While they made their way to the lake, Mito was wondering, 'I wish I could've done more to help Onii-San and the other against those two ninjas, I should've done something to help them instead of standing there, even Sakura did something." thought Mito as she looked down in disappointment, she had been completely useless in that fight.
Everyone got to the lake and refilled their canteens while Mito stood there in thought as she felt disappointed at herself, Naruto had refilled his canteen and turned around to see that Mito seemed to be disappointed. Naruto sighed before walking over to her and pat her on the head to get her attention, "A ryo(Penny) for your thoughts." he spoke.
Mito quickly stopped her train of thoughts when she felt a hand pat her head, she heard him and looked up at him, "It's nothing." said Mito as she tried to hide her self-disappointment, but couldn't so she looked away.
Naruto looked at her actions and shook his head, "Didn't be afraid, I won't judge." said Naruto as he spoke with gentle tone that made Mito feel safe and comfortable, she looked at him and could see that Naruto cared for her despite her ignoring him during their time at the academy.
"I just feel a little disappointed at myself for helping you guys with those ninjas, I just froze up when I saw them." said Mito as she looked down the ground and refused to look at Naruto, thinking that he would be disappointed at her.
"That's it?" questioned Naruto, this caused Mito to blink twice, she thought that Naruto would be disappointed at her or something but Naruto just acted as if it wasn't a big deal.
Mito gave Naruto a funny look, "Listen Mito, it's natural to freeze up when you're fighting against an enemy who wants to kill you for the first time, it happened to me too, but you know it's alright to afraid, all you need to do is control that fear and don't it get to you." said Naruto as he ruffled Mito's hair affectionately, he thought that Mito would always be a spoilt brat but now, he saw that Mito had matured.
Kakashi saw the whole event and eye-smiled, 'It seems that Naruto and Mito are starting to connect, it seems that Minato-sensei made a good choice of putting Naruto in team 7.' thought Kakashi as he saw Naruto affectionately ruffle Mito's hair. He looked at the others, he saw Sakura was jealous of Mito for having a strong and loving brother like Naruto while Sasuke was secretly jealous wishing that his sister would do that to him.
Everyone had gotten together and checked that their canteens were full, Mito went to get their canteen filled. Once everyone was finished checking and were ready, they focused on heading to their original destination. Everyone walked in silence: Tazuna was drinking his alcohol; Naruto had gone back to his usual emotionless self; Sakura and Sasuke looked at Mito with envy; Kakashi looked at his team and sighed.
All the while, Mito looked at Naruto's back as she could still remember the warmth of his hand on her hair, she mentally wondered if that was the real Naruto or the emotionless Naruto in front of her, but it didn't matter because she wanted to have Naruto ruffle her hair again.
Inside the Hokage's office, Minato sat on his chair as he was working the thing he feared more than the Kyuubi, the bane of his existence: paperwork.
Minato quickly worked through the paperwork but despite how fast he did, the paperwork just kept piling up like a never-ending nightmare. Minato wished that he had something to help him avoid doing his paperwork, his prayers were quickly heard as a familiar dog got into his office through the window.
Minato looked at the dog and quickly recognised him, "Pakkun? What is it now? If Kakashi wants me to get him a signed Ichi Ichi book that hasn't been released by Jiraiya then tell him no." said Minato as he was a bit annoyed at Kakashi's constant begging for those books, the last time he got them, Kushina beated the crap out of him when she saw him with the book. Minato shivered at the memory of what Kushina did to him when he saw the infamous book in his hand.
Pakkun sweatdropped as he wondered how his summoner was a perverted idiot, "Actually it's very important and Kakashi wanted me to give you this." said Pakkun as he walked over the Hokage and gave the scroll in his mouth to him before proofing our of existence.
Minato opened the scroll and read it. Once he finished he quickly ordered one of his Anbu to find a genin team and bring them to his office, the Anbu quickly nodded before shunshining to the jounin lounge and looking for a available genin team.
A couple of minutes later, a genin team had shown up, the team consisted of Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuuga and Kurenai Yuhi. "Team 8, you'll be sent after team 7 as support and help team 7, should they encounter strong advertsaries. It is most-likely that you'll go up against a jounin. This will be a C-rank mission as you will only be assisting team 7, will you accept this mission?" asked Minato as he gave team 8 all the information he had so far.
Kurenai looked her team, this was a great chance to see if her team was ready for a C-rank mission. "Team 8 will accept this mission." said Kurenai as she knew this opportunity didn't come so often, plus she knew Kakashi was there, so that reduced the chance of her team dying.
Team 8 quickly seperated to prepare for the mission before they left, all of them were excited to go on their first C-rank mission, except for Kurenai.
Team 7 and their client were making good progress as they were getting a boat to get across the huge river that seperated the Wave country from the other lands nearby, and they seemed to be getting closer to their destination, at least by Tazuna's knowledge as he knew the way there.
Everyone looked at the bridge that was under construction, it was huge and it was already halfway to being completed. Everyone shared a single thought, 'This drunken old man is building that!' everyone just continued to look at the bridge in awe at the size of it, except for Tazuna who was drinking to calm his nerves and Naruto who looked down at the fishes swimming in the river.
Once they got to the other side of the huge river, they got off the boat and headed towards the direction that Tazuna told them to go as he was the only one that knew the way. Everyone walked in a formation as Naruto walked in the front of the whole group, Mito walked in front of Tazuna, Sasuke and Sakura both walked stood besides Tazuna while Kakashi walked behind the group.
After what seemed like hours, Kakashi had the group stop for a few minutes to rest and rehydrate, "Team, I want all of you to be prepared at all times. It's very likely that we'll face a powerful ninja since Gato seems very intended on stopping Tazuna from finishing the bridge, so from this moment on, be prepared." stated Kakashi seriously.
Once the group was rehydrated and ready to go, they headed out and continued their journey towards the Wave country. Mito was still following behind Naruto as she thought about the way he affectionately ruffled her hair, however she quickly stopped thinking about it when he heard a sound, she quickly threw a kunai at the source of the sound.
Naruto headed towards the bush where the kunai went through, he seperated the bush to see that it was just a little white rabbit. Once Kakashi saw the rabbit he quickly suspected it as he thought about the rabbit for a bit, 'It's not winter yet the rabbit's fur is white, this would mean that it was raised indoors...' though Kakashi.
Suddenly it hit Kakashi, "Get down!" shouted Kakashi as he quickly dragged Tazuna and Sakura down, Sasuke got down and Naruto dragged Mito down just in time to avoid a huge flying blade that would've cut them in half. The blade stopped moving and standed in place when it struck right into the bark of a nearby tree
Suddenly a voice could heard, "Kakashi, the famous 'copy-nin' that was able to have copied a thousand jutsus. I wonder why you've decided teach a bunch fresh new genins." everyone located the source of the voice as they look to see a man on top of the blade that was struck in the bark of a tree.
The man had a bandage covering his mouth, long blue pants. The man most important thing about the ninja's outfit was the Kiri headband that he wore: there a line cut across the symbol on the headband, which symbolised that the ninja was a missing-nin.
"Zabuza Momochi, formerly a member of the seven swordmens in Kiri and the famed master of silent killing." stated Kakashi as he tensed his muscles for the fight that was to come. Within a single frame of moment, the man got on the ground and grabbed the blade that was stuck in the tree with ease as he charged at Kakashi before slashing Kakashi with the huge blade.
Kakashi quickly used the kiwamira to substitute himself with log as he pulled up the headband covering his left eye. Zabuza slashed through the log and quickly found Kakashi as he prepared for a second attack, he held up the huge blade and brought it down towards Kakashi but Kakashi quickly took out a kunai and meet the blade head on as they fought for dominance.
They held tightly to their weapon as they put all of their force on their weapon, "It's time we take this to the next level, Kakashi." said Zabuza as he jumped backwards and flashed through a few seals, Kakashi couldn't do anything Zabuza as he stumbled from putting too force on his kunai.
Zabuza ended the series of seals as he called out the jutsu, "Kirigakure no jutsu." suddenly a huge cloud of mist covered the area. Then a voice was heard, "8 points: Larynx, Spine, Lung, Liver, Jugular, Subclavian Artery, Kidneys, Heart. Which will be my attack point?" wondered Zabuza as the mist become so thin that everyone was having a hard time seeing anything around them.
Suddenly a strong wave of killer intent spread through the mist, all the genins were unnerved by it with the exception of Naruto and Kakashi noticed as he let his chakra flow out of him and push the mist away, "Everyone calm down! I don't let my comrades die, trust me." said Kakashi trying to calm down everyone when he saw that Sasuke was going to stab himself.
Zabuza's laughter could heard through the froest not-so-thin mist and all the genins tensed as they prepared for attack, they were thrown out of surprise when they heard Zabuza's voice from behind them, "Now it's over!" claimed Zabuza as he was in front of Tazuna with his huge blade about to cut through Tazuna's body.
Kakashi quickly glanced at Zabuza, before he channelled chakra to his legs as he charged at Zabuza, Kakashi quickly stabbed Zabuza which stopped Zabuza in his tracks. Kakashi lowered his guard when he heard the sound of liquid hitting the floor, he looked down to see that instead of blood, it was water.
'That was a water clone.' thought Kakashi. It was at that moment that Zabuza appeared behind Kakashi and cut him in half with his blade, the force behind was so strong that it caused Kakashi's blood to glide through the air away from the corpse, suddenly the blood and corpse turned into water. Before Zabuza knew it, he was stabbed again by a kunai.
'He copied my jutsu with just a glance and created a water clone to trick me.' thought Zabuza in surprised at the visual prowess of Kakashi's Sharingan. Zabuza turned into a water, Kakashi searched the area with his Sharingan to found Zabuza but the mist stopped Kakashi's eyes from finding Zabuza.
Zabuza quickly got in front of Kakashi with his blade mid-swing, Kakashi got his kunai in front of him as he used it to intercept the blade but however the force behind the blade sent Kakashi flying towards a river.
Kakashi quickly channelled chakra on his feet to stand on top of the river as he gathered his bearings, he was able to see Zabuza standing on the opposite side of him making seals, Kakashi copied the seals that Zabuza was making at the exact time as him.
Once the two finished making all the necessary seals, they used the same jutsu, "Suiton: Suiryuudan no jutsu." called out both Kakashi and Zabuza as a column of water rised up from the river and took the form of a dragon in front of their respective caster, the two water dragons charged at the enemy but ended up colliding and the two jutsus cancelled each other out.
The two water dragons exploded upwards and soon drips of water started to fall on the two enemies. Kakashi quickly got distracted and Zabuza took advantage of that as he rushed towards Kakashi while making a few handsigns, before Kakashi could react Zabuza grabbed hold of Kakashi. Zabuza finished making the handsigns, so when he touched Kakashi the jutsu activated as water rose from the river and imprisoned Kakashi in a spherical prison.
Kakashi tried to get out of the spherical prison made of water but couldn't, he tried to break through the water with all his might but the surface of the spherical prison was denser than steel. Kakashi decided to stop struggling and relaxed his muscles as he remembered that Naruto was present and if the fight during the bell test was anything to go on, then Naruto would be able to handle Zabuza.
Naruto quickly created three clones with the use of handsigns and had two of them charge at Zabuza while he and the remaining clone made a series of different handsigns. Zabuza saw a punch coming from one of the clones and quickly moved his head to dodge the punch before he tried to chop the clone into bits with the blade on his left hand.
The clone jumped back as the second clone jumped on top of the blade and prepared to stab Zabuza with a kunai but the kunai was stopped by a hand attached to a column of water that rose from the river and took the form of Zabuza. The second clone tried to kick the water clone of Zabuza but was stopped by the clone's other hand.
The water clone pushed the clone of Naruto back as he was about to cut the clone in half with the huge blade but was stopped by the first clone with a kunai. The water clone and the two shadow clones fought off each other.
"Take Zabuza's clone down!" commanded the original Naruto as the two shadow clones charge at the water clone, one of them was cut in half by the huge blade but the second one managed to get in close enough to stab the water clone with a kunai and dispelled shortly after it killed the water clone.
Naruto and his remaining clone finished their handsigns, "Suiton: Suiryuudan no jutsu." called Naruto and his clone as they used their jutsu; suddenly two large columns of water rose from the river and took the shape of a dragon, the two water dragon rushed at Zabuza and merged half-way to create a water dragon twice as big and twice as fast.
Zabuza tried to use a jutsu but it took too long for him to finish the handsigns and was washed away by the force of the water dragon as he crashed against a nearby tree, he couldn't felt weak from the attack. Naruto got in front of Zabuza and took out a kunai to finish off Zabuza but before he could, a few senbon pierced the skin of Zabuza's neck and Zabuza died.
Naruto walked towards Zabuza and felt his pulse, Naruto looked a the source of the senbons to see a hunter-nin that wore a mask and had a Kiri headband, "Thank you helping me kill Zabuza." said the hunter-ni as he tried to get close to Zabuza but was stopped by a kunai that passed her face and hit a tree.
"We're not going to let you save Zabuza." stated Sasuke as he and rest of team 7 prepared for a fight, Naruto looked at Kakashi and saw that Kakashi was having a hard time standing on his feet.
Naruto sighed before he got in front of the group and stop them from interferring, "Calm down everyone, the person trying to to take Zabuza's body is a hunter-nin from Kiri. The hunter-nin is just taking the body away to dispose of it and stop anyone else from knowing Kiri's secrets." stated Naruto as he let the hunter-nin take Zabuza's body away, everyone calmed down and let the hunter-nin go without resistance when they heard what Naruto said.
Naruto looked at everyone, he was glad that they didn't question him. The last thing he needed was everyone panicking. Naruto walked towards Kakashi, "Are you alright?" asked Naruto as he watched Kakashi struggling to stand.
Kakashi eye-smiled as he waved his hands disarmingly, "I am fine, just a little exhaus..." before Kakashi could finsih his sentence, he passed out but luckily Naruto was there to carry him and place him on hi shoulder.
Naruto walked towards everyone, "Okay everyone, time to continue our mission." stated Naruto as he and the rest of group carried on walking towards Tazuna's home. Everyone looked at Naruto in awe, they were surprised by the level of skill he showed and the way he used the same two jutsu in collaboration to form a bigger water dragon.
They made their way to the town that Tazuna's house was nearby and after a few hours, they finally got to Tazuna's house, which was a average two-story building. They quickly walked inside and closed the door behind them, they were so happy to not have to walk anymore; they all sat in the living, whether it was on the floor or a chair did not matter.
Naruto laid Kakashi on a sofa as he stretched his legs and massaged his shoulders before he fell on the floor and went to sleep as he felt the drain of using those jutsu against Zabuza and walking for a long time.
Naruto let sleep take him over as he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
I hope you like chapter. I am sorry about the chapter being finished and posted long after it was due, but my mock exams will start on Monday, tomorrow, so that means I less time to focus fanfic and that I am very closer to my real exams. This means I will very busy with revision, so I am very sorry if any of my chapters are posted later than 2 weeks after a previous chapter was posted.
That's all yolk.