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Naruto suddenly woke up, he looked to see that he was on the floor. He thought back to before he fell asleep and remembered that he was in Tazuna's house, he was in the living room.
Naruto turned to the couch to see that Kakashi was gone, he turned around wondering where everyone was. It at that moment he heard a sound, "What!?" Naruto easily recognised the sound, it was the sound of a pink banshee that he knew.
With that Naruto headed to the source of the sound as he walked up the stairs and took a right, Naruto sniffed the air and caught everyone's scent, he followed the scent to a door and opened. When he did, he saw that everyone's head was turned towards him.
Naruto just eye-smiled, "Hi guys." said Naruto as he waved his hands at them, they all looked before turning back to the bedridden Kakashi covered in bandages.
It was then that Sasuke spoke, "Kakashi-sensei, what did you mean that Zabuza is still alive, we saw him dead with senbons peircing his neck." said Sasuke as he couldn't believe that Zabuza was still alive, hearing Zabuza was still alive sent shivers down Sasuke's back as well as the everyone else's.
Kakashi turned to Naruto and Naruto quickly nodded, "Zabuza is without a doubt still alive; Senbons aren't what hunter-nins or your regular ninja uses, in order to kill someone with a senbon you'd have to be very accurate and not to mention the hunter-nin threw the senbons to the neck, where there's not a lot of vital points." stated Naruto with understanding of the senbons and that the hunter-nin was a fake.
Sasuke looked at Naruto suspicious before trying to tackle him, Naruto quickly moved to the right as he grabbed Sasuke's hands and pulled them to his back, then Naruto pushed his leg to push Sasuke to the ground.
Everyone saw what happened and were slightly confused why Sasuke tried to tackle Naruto, "Sasuke-Kun!" yelled Sakura with worried tone.
Naruto looked at Sasuke in the eyes, "Now why would you attack me like that? If I wanted to, I could have you kicked out of the ninja program for what you just did." stated Naruto in a harsh tone to let Sasuke know how foolish what he did was.
Sasuke flinched at Naruto harsh tone but that didn't stop him from senting a glare at Naruto, "Y-you bastard, you knew that the hunter-nin was a fake from the very beginning and yet you let that ninja get away with Zabuza, you could've killed that ninja and Zabuza there!" shouted Sasuke as he stuttered at the beginning before his fear of Naruto was replaced by anger.
Naruto didn't flinch at all when Sasuke sent him a glare, "You idiot!" shouted Naruto as he slapped Sasuke across the face which surprised and shocked everyone, including Sasuke himself as no-one had ever slapped him before.
Kakashi saw everything that happened and decided to intervene, "Naruto, I'm sure you have a valid reason for your decision to let the fake hunter-nin take Zabuza away, so why don't you explain?" asked Kakashi as he tried to defuse the bomb that was Naruto and Sasuke.
Naruto looked at Kakashi and took a deep breath, he calmed down and released Sasuke from his hold, "That hunter-nin was able to hide from me and Kakashi; if that ninja was able to do that then there could've been more hiding, so I decided to let the ninja take Zabuza and leave, it was never our mission to kill Zabuza..." stated Naruto as he explained his reasoning.
Naruto took a deep breath before continuing, "... If there were more ninja hiding, then they could have attacked us, I knew that I couldn't protect you and fight them, even Kakashi had a problem dealing with Zabuza and protecting you." Naruto finished his explanation.
Once everyone heard Naruto's reasoning, they were surprised because they could've been killed by ninjas that were hiding from them. "And what if they tried to attack us after they got Zabuza? Then what?" asked Sasuke as he was curious about Naruto's answer.
Naruto sighed before he looked up to the sky, "If a situation like that were to happen, I would have shadow clones to take you guys somewhere else and deal with them myself!" spoke Naruto in a serious tone as his hair shadowed his eyes. He quickly looked down at his hands as he remembered the lives he took.
Everyone was a bit scared about how Naruto spoke when he would deal with those ninjas that were potentially hiding from them. Sasuke heard Naruto's explanation and didn't say anything as he understood Naruto's reasoning, he was a bit confused about how Naruto would've dealt with them.
"We shouldn't waste our time like this, all of us should be training for our next encounter with Zabuza and allies." said Naruto with a determined look as he clenched his hand into a fist. Kakashi smiled a little when he saw Naruto's determination, it seems Naruto inherited his mother's determination.
Everyone talked to Kakashi and they decided to start training tomorrow when he was strong enough to train them, they quickly started to talk about what they would do when they face against Zabuza and his allies.
After their discussion with Kakashi, each them did their own thing; Sasuke and Mito would guard Tazuna while Sakura would help Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter, in the kitchen with chores.
Naruto sat in the living room with his legs crossed as he mediated, 'Ajax.' Naruto called out mentally as he needed to have a talk with Ajax.
After a moment, 'What is it? Why don't communicate with Tala?'asked Ajax as he spoke in irritation, Ajax was going to kill Naruto if he kept disturbing him when he was sleeping.
'I can't ask Tala because she's not the creature that was granted powers by an ancient god.' stated Naruto as he mentally spoke to Ajax.
Ajax did what Naruto would normally as he sighed, 'What about my powers do you want to know?' asked Ajax, he was starting to miss the warmth and joy of sleeping.
'Can you create real life creatures, like two humans?' asked Naruto, he had a idea and in order for his idea to work, he needed two more people.
Ajax silently wondered about that, he had never tried to create a human before and he didn't know if he could. 'I don't know, if I was to create a two humans then I would need to first get an understanding of the human body and I would need to have a person to be the medium for the creation.' said Ajax.
'Why do you need a medium and is that all you need?'
'The medium is the person who I will create the two human to resemble, for example you, they would share most of your knowledge and skills and gain some of your physical features. For this, I will need two bodies; they will have some shinobi skills to help with them relying on their own power.' stated Ajax, Naruto was about to ask Ajax more but before he could, Ajax cancelled the mental links between him and Naruto.
Naruto stopped mediating and got up as he thought about the two human bodies for the plan, he stopped thinking it about as he took out a pen and a notebook from his scroll and started to write about the idea he came up with during the fight with Zabuza since Naruto had nothing else to do.
Naruto had spent a few hours completing his idea and the core concepts, now all he needed was to experiment with it when he got back home. He was thinking of how he could improve his idea but his thoughts were stopped by a knock on the front door of Tazuna's house.
Everyone had heard the knock and made their way to the front door, which Naruto opened. The door was opened to reveal Kiba, Hinata, Shino and Kurenai who were panting heavily.
Kurenai slowly got up as she spoke, "Team 8... Ready to... Assist... Team 7... With their mission." said Kurenai as he paused a lot in her sentence to pant. Her team just nodded as they panting too hard to speak.
Everyone welcomed the team and helped them to the living room, Naruto was the last to go to the living room as he had to close the door. Everyone sat down in the living room, some sat on the floor and others sat on the chairs and the sofa.
"Why are you here?" asked Sakura as she eyed Kurenai suspicious, mostly because she was jealous of Kurenai's mature body and didn't want her Sasuke to be swayed by Kurenai.
Kurenai slightly sweatdropped at Sakura stupid question but didn't say anything about, "This mission has been bumped up to a B-rank mission with the arrival of missing nins, like the demon brothers. The Hokage decided to have a team sent to assist team 7 with their mission." stated Kurenai as she explained why she and team 8 were doing in the land of waves.
Kurenai looked around the room and she asked a question, "Where's Kakashi?" Kurenai didn't spot Kakashi, so she was curious as to where he could be.
"Kakashi-sensei is in his assigned bedroom resting, he is just a little wore out from using too much chakra in his fight against Zabuza." said Sasuke in his usual calm tone. Sakura had starry eyes as she looked at Sasuke and shouted about how cool he was until she was knocked out by Mito, who was annoyed by Sakura's shouting.
Everyone got back to what they were doing; Sasuke and Mito continued to follow Tazuna and guard him; Tsunami went to the kitchen to do the cooking and she got help from Hinata and Kurenai; Shino carried Sakura to her bedroom and laid her there; Naruto and Kiba just went fishing.
At a nearby river
Kiba and Naruto looked at the river as they saw the fishes jumping out of the river, they looked at each other with a grin before he spoke at the same time, "First one to get the most fishes in an hour is the winner." the two quickly made their way to the river and started to grabbed the fishes and throw the fished into their seperate piles.
Naruto and Kiba were both stacking a small pile of fishes but Naruto managed to collect more fishes as he he was faster than Kiba, Kiba was losing and decided to cheat, "Hey Akamaru, could you help me over her?" asked Kiba, Akamaru quickly made its way off of Kiba's head and started to slap every fish that flew up with its paw at Kiba's pile.
"Hey, that's cheating!"
"No, I am just using what I have to win." stated Kiba with a grin as he had started to get more fish than Naruto.
Naruto seal-lessly created three shadow clones and they quickly started to collect more fish thanKiba and Akamaru. "Hey, that's cheating!" called out Kiba as he saw that he was losing.
"No, I am just using what I have to win."
Kiba quickly used the Man-Beast transformation as he and Akamaru rotated their bodies, "Gatsuuga!" called out Kiba as he and Akamaru attacked the ground like spiralling bullets; fishes jumped out of the river and fell upon the ground like debris.
Kiba stopped his attack and collected all the fishes, he placed them on his pile which had risen higher than Naruto's pile of fish. Kiba looked at Naruto's pile before he gave Naruto a smug smile, "Looks like mine is bigger!" stated Kiba.
Naruto smiled as he created one hundred shadow clones to catch all the fishes in the river, the shadow clones worked in unison as they kept stacking up Naruto's pile of fishes until it was bigger than Kiba's pile.
Naruto moved close to his pile of fishes as he sent Kiba a cocky smirk, "What that, Kiba? I couldn't hear over the sound of winning." said Naruto smugly as he climbed on his pile and stood on top of the pile of fishes, he looked down at Kiba with a condescending look.
"Shut it!" yelled Kiba as he threw his kunai at Naruto, the kunai trimmed past Naruto leaving a little cut on Naruto's left cheek as Kiba purposely intended.
Naruto blocked the cut with his arm as he tried to stop the blooding, "You idiot, what was that for?" asked Naruto as he motioned his other in air to show his anger at Kiba for what he did.
Kiba just smirked as he waved his hands in front of him innocently, "Oops, my hand slipped." said Kiba as he acted innocent with an innocent, inwardly he smirking at his reply to Naruto thinking he had one-upped Naruto.
Naruto fumed at Kiba, 'If only I could find a way to get back at Kiba... His mom!' thought Naruto as he knew of a way to get back at Kiba for his actions.
Naruto faked a pained expression as he kept his hand on his wound, "Ow! This cut hurts so badly, if only Tsume-chan was here to kiss it and make me feel better." said Narutoas he acted like he was in pain.
Kiba's jaws hit the floor, "IT WAS ONCE, YOU ONLY KISSED HER ONCE AND IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" exclaimed Kiba at the top of his lungs as he defiant to ever letting Naruto touch his mother in anyway, he would never ever let Naruto get close to his mom as anything more than a friend.
~ Flashback Start ~
Naruto and Kiba were hanging out in Kiba's bedroom as they played with their action figures and pretended to be official Konoha shinobis fighting against enemy nins. Kiba's bedroom was a bit messy as there were dirty clothes lying on the floor and toys that Kiba couldn't be bothered to put away.
Kiba and Naruto played around with the toys for a long time before Naruto looked up at the clock to see it was 5:25pm, he got up and said his goodbye to Kiba and walked towards the door.
Naruto stopped and turned around, "I'll see ya tomorrow Kiba!" stated Naruto, Kiba told Naruto that they would meet up in the morning. Naruto nodded in affirmation as he turned back to walk towards the door.
Naruto was walking towards the door when he tripped on the flirty clothes and toys on the floor and was falling forwards against the door. It was then that the door was opened to reveal Tsume, "Kiba, for the hundredth time, clean up your ro-" spoke Tsume as he tried to tell off Kiba.
Tsume didn't finish her sentence as Naruto fell against Tsume and touched her lips with his, she tried to respond but it was useless as she was falling backwards. Naruto's lips and Tsume's stuck together until they hit he floor when Naruto quickly stood up and proceeded to walk as fast as he could home.
Kiba just watched as the whole event took place, he paled in horror as he watched his best friend accident kiss his mom. Kiba for a lost of words just passed out as he was truamtized by whole experience.
~ Flashback End ~
Kiba paled at the thought of his mom kissing Naruto, "Don't touch my mom!" cried out Kiba as he punched Naruto's pile of fishes and ran away crying at the traumatizing event when his mom and Naruto kissed.
Naruto, who was on top of the pile of fishes was laughing at Kiba's expense before his pile of fishes shook, suddenly the whole pile collapsed to the ground causing Naruto to fall to the ground hard with fishes to soften the floor.
Naruto didn't move his body as he was a bit hurt from the fall, he just laid there and looked up at the sky to stare at clouds floating by. He enjoyed the feeling of the sun's warm rays on his skin and without a second thought he took a nap.
...
Naruto shivered as he felt cold, he moved his body to better warm himself as he tried to pull the blanket and cover himself, but he couldn't get a hold of the blanket. Naruto slowly opened his eyes to see that the sun hadn't risen yet and that he was on the ground, there wasn't any blanket near him.
Naruto got up and stretched his legs as he warmed himself up, he was about to leave but stopped when he sensed a chakra signature. Naruto stood as he felt the chakra signature heading toward him, Naruto was sure if the person knew that he was here or just randomly walking around.
Naruto moved his hand closer to kunai holster, he was prepared to attack the person if the person was hostile but when he saw the person enter his sight, he moved his hand away from the holster.
The person was a female, she wore a pink kimono with Sakura blossoms. She had long black hair, she also had pale skin and a slender frame. She had large brown eyes. In all honest, Naruto thought she was pretty.
She was walking with a basket of variety of plants and flowers used for herbal remedies, her eyes moved up from the basket to Naruto's face. "Hello, I didn't see you there." said the girl as she slowly moved her hand towards her basket trying to take the senbons she hid in the basket out. She had known he was but pretended.
Naruto scratched the back of his head, "I figured you would know I was there, my name is Naruto." said Naruto as he introduced himself and moved his hand in front of the girl.
The girl moved her hand from the basket and shook Naruto's hand, "I am Haku." stated the girl and she smiled at Naruto. She walked past Naruto trying to continue her job of collecting the plants and flowers she was looking for.
Naruto got in front of her as he tried to understand the girl in front of him, "Let me help you collect herbs." requested Naruto as he gave a disarming smile to Haku, Naruto didn't want to kill Haku but rather try to understand her and see if he could prevent the deaths that was to come.
Haku wondered if Naruto was suspicious of her, "Thank you for your request to help, but I can collect herbs on my own." stated Haku as she tried to walk away from Naruto, she didn't want to be outed by the boy.
Naruto once again got in front of her, "I can help you find whatever you're looking for a hundred times faster than you would on your own." stated Naruto, he created a hundred shadow clones behind to prove his point.
Haku thought about it, 'If I get all the herbs I need today, it'll only take two weeks to fully heal Zabuza-sama without having to waste anymore time searching for the herbs I need.' Haku quickly decided to accept Naruto's help as she gave Naruto a complete description of the herbs she s looking for.
Naruto quickly listed all the herbs in complete detail and had his army of shadow clones rush through the forest looking for the herbs and bringing back to him and Haku. Naruto and Haku decided to share a conversation.
Haku looked at Naruto, "Why do you get stronger? What do you think makes a person strong?" asked Haku as she wondered what Naruto's reason for getting stronger and continuing to grow stronger.
Naruto thought about the question for a couple of minutes before he looked at Haku, "I get stronger to protect the people I love and to prove a point. For your second question, I think a person becomes strong when they are fighting for the people they love." said Naruto as he gave a smile to Haku.
Haku returned the smile, "I feel the same way too." said Haku, she felt something in her chest and she wondered if that feeling was the feeling of having a friend was like. Haku had never had a friend before...
It was then that Haku and Naruto saw Naruto's shadow clone army rushing towards them with two large baskets of different herbs, they quickly came to stop in front of Naruto and placed the baskets in front of him.
The shadows clones formed 9 rows of 11 shadow clones with one shadow clone in front, "Sir, we've got all the herbs required and more as you've requested." stated the shadow clone standing in front of the platoon of shadow clones.
Naruto waved his hand to right, "You're dismissed." said Naruto, the platoon of shadow clones saluted before they dispelled in order by one row at a time until they all dispelled leaving small clouds of smoke behind. Naruto got down and picked up the two large baskets of herbs and handed it to the appreciative Haku, who thanked Naruto for helping her.
"Hey Haku, tell Zabuza to surrender or I will be forced to kill him and you too... Haku." stated Naruto as he hesitated to say Haku's name. Naruto had taken a liking to her, he had come to see her as a friend and didn't want to kill her unless he had no choice.
Haku quickly dropped the baskets as she moved her hand to try and get some senbons from her secret holster inside of her kimono but her hand was stopped by Naruto, "Listen Haku, I don't want to kill you but tell Zabuza that if he doesn't surrender then I'll be forced to kill him and... you." said Naruto as he let go of Haku's hand and just smiled a friendly smile.
Haku moved her hand to try and stop the pain that she had experienced again when Naruto said he would kill her, "How do I know you won't kill Zabuza and me once we surrender?" asked Haku as she ignored the pain in her chest and narrowed her eyes suspicious at Naruto.
Naruto chuckled a little at Haku's question which made Haku more suspicious of Naruto's intentions, "Because I have killed and I know the pain of killing someone, I don't want to kill anyone unless I have. Just so you can trust me..." Naruto took out a kunai which caused Haku to tense and prepare for a fight, Naruto stabbed the kunai into his palm as red liquid dripped to the ground.
Haku was stood there in shook and surprise at what Naruto did as she watched the red continue to come out of his palm, "I promise on my word and honor that I will not kill Zabuza or you if he and you surrender." promised Naruto as he let his body heal his hand; he loved the perks of being a Uzumaki and a former Kyuubi container.
Haku knew she could trust Naruto after seeing the extend he would go to make his point, "I will try to get Zabuza-sama to surrender." stated Haku as she sighed inwardly, knowing that once her master put his mind to something he wouldn't give up so easily, especially if that was kill Naruto and Kakashi for the position they put him in.
Naruto picked the baskets of various herbs that Haku had dropped on the ground and handed them to Haku again, 'Hopefully I won't have to kill them.' thought Naruto as he sighed in relief, he wouldn't have to kill them both, especially since Haku was his third friend, behind Kiba and Akamaru.
Haku took hold of the baskets from Naruto and started to leave the scenery, it was then that Haku remembered something and turned around to face Naruto, "Oh and by the way, I'm a boy." stated Haku as he left the scenery, leaving Naruto with his jaws on the ground. Before Haku left the scenery, she saw Naruto had seen Naruto's reaction and laughed inwardly at his reaction.
Naruto's world was crumbling as he started to wonder about his sexuality, 'I think Haku is pretty, does that mean that I'm gay or that Haku is a very feminine boy.' thought Naruto holding on to his head with his hands as he tried to stop his head from exploding at the information of Haku being a boy. Naruto couldn't handle the information and dropped to the floor as he tried to comprehend the fact that Haku, Haku, was a boy. Before Haku, Naruto knew without a doubt that he was straight but now he wasn't so sure.
Naruto picked himself up and pretended like he had never heard that Haku was a guy, Naruto just headed towards Tazuna's house.
Naruto was heading home but the event that he went through was too much; he made a few handsigns and slammed his hand on the ground and with a 'poof' of smoke, the smoke lifted to reveal an eager Tala who was prepared for fight. "Master, I am ready to fight, where is this enemy that I am to face?" asked Tala as she displayed her fangs to intimidate the enemy.
Naruto sweat-dropped as he wondered if he had made a good choice to summon Tala, "I just wanted you to carry me to Tazuna's house: it's that way." said Naruto as he pointed towards the direction of Tazuna's house, Tala was a bit depressed but quickly got over the depression as she let Naruto ride on top of her.
Tala charged towards the direction Naruto pointed, "I was wondering, Tala what jutsus can you do?" asked Naruto, this caught the attention of Tala.
Tala stopped sticking her tongue out to the wind, "I use fire jutsus and some wind, I know the fireball jutsu and the wind bullet jutsu. I have at least 12 jutsus in my arsenal, three of which are supplementary." said Tala as she explained to Naruto what she was capable of.
Naruto was a bit stumped at the fact that summons could use more than one element, however Ajax was the only summon Naruto knew, "Could you tell me all the jutsus?" asked Naruto politely as he was curious to see what jutsus Ajax taught Tala.
Tala thought about the jutsus she had learnt, "I can use the Henge jutsu, bunshin jutsu and Kage bunshin no jutsu; all of which are supplementary jutsus. I can use a sound-based jutsu, the thunder roar..." Naruto quickly interrupted Tala.
"Wait, the thunder roar: could you show me that jutsu?" requested Naruto, to which Tala happily complied.
Tala stopped moving towards Tazuna's house and faced a tree, she opened her and let out a roar which tore the tree from the ground and made it fall over, when the tree hit the ground the earth shook. Tala saw that her master was impressed and decided to do another jutsu to make her master even more impressed.
"This is the seismic growth." said Tala as she grew twice her size and easily matched the height of the trees in the forest. "This is the wind claw." stated Tala as her claws became lengthened and sharpened by wind, which she used to attack the trees as she sliced the trees into pieces.
"There are other jutsus but must of them are destructive, so I can't use them in a densely packed forest like this." stated Tala.
Naruto looked at Tala's attack and was very impressed with how strong she seemed, "It seems that Ajax didn't lazy out on training you." said Naruto as he ruffled the top of Tala's head affectionately, she barked in delight to be praised by her master.
Naruto got back on Tala's back and Tala started to head towards Tazuna's house, they continued to make their way to their destination in a steady pace as they talked to each other about their abilities and the possibility of doing a collaboration jutsu together.
While chatting with Tala, Naruto wondered if he had ever tried to get close to people instead of just treating them with pests, 'Maybe I have gotten a bit too serious and closed myself from everyone else, I have been spending too much time with Ajax.' thought Naruto as he remembered all the times he sighed at the actions of his team and other times.
Tala noticed that her master had stopped talking and looked up, "Master, are you okay?" asked Tala as she looked concerned about Naruto.
Naruto smiled at Tala's concerns he affectionately patted Tala's head, he told Tala that he was just thinking and let her focus back on her destination, 'Yeah, I guess I could loosen up a bit, last thing I want is find up like Ajax: a loner, who just sighed at everything he needs a pain in the butt.' thought Naruto as he rode on top top of Tala.
Meanwhile, Ajax stood there in fury as he heard all of Naruto's comments about him, "I am going to tell him a lesson that brat!" cried out Ajax in anger as his eyes twitched. He was going to find a way to make Naruto regret insulting him.
Ajax then stopped his plans of revenge as a thought crossed his mind, 'Then again, Naruto is learning to loosen up and thinking about things more than just training, he is learning to have fun and has made a third friend.' thought Ajax as he remembered all the time Naruto would isolate himself from others and just ignore everyone else.
Shortly afterwards a silence ensued as Ajax thought and tried to decide whether or not, he would get revenge on Naruto, "Nah, Naruto gets it for insulting me; this will teach him to not insult a being with god-like abilities." stated Ajax as he laughed maniacally at the thought of Naruto when he was done with him.
A man wearing all black anbu clothes and a demon mask stood behind Ajax, the man sweatdropped at Ajax's antics, "Why did I become friends with this idiot again?" whispered the man as he asked himself the question.
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