"Kyuubi talking"
'Kyuubi Thinking'
"Regular Talking"
'Regular Thinking'
Does anyone think Zabuza should live or die? Tell me what you think
I Do Not Own Naruto
Naruto the Crimson Chain Wielder
"Well team, what do you want to do?" Anko asks after receiving some more information on their mission. "Stay with the mission or return home and leave him here. But if we do stay, we will probably run into a tougher opponent now that we beat these two chunin."
"I think we can continue the mission, our teamwork is outstanding and we can't let a whole country suffer and be taken over by some corrupt businessman. The needs of many far out weigh the needs of us." Naruto says making them all smile and nod with his wise words, making them all admire him more.
"I'm with taicho, where he goes I will follow." Kiba adds in confidently as he believed in his friend and brother in all but blood.
"I will agree, I'm with you taicho." Sai adds in, while Anko smiles and nods with them. Tazuna is relieved to see the blond has agreed to help seeing as he has the utmost amount of loyalty from the others. He is amazed at his leadership like presence for one being so young. He is also surprised by his strength and speed having seen how fast he was.
"Thank you, thank you all, I can't say how happy I am to have gone to the Leaf, I know I will be safe on my journey now." Tazuna says, letting a few tears fall as he really didn't think they would stay with him for the mission.
"There is no need to thank us, we are glad to help," Naruto says to the man kindly, while calling out his chains, "well lets chain these guys up and then tie to a tree and tell the ANBU where to find them."
After tying them up they continue on their journey and about 20 minutes later they reach a lake that they need to cross. They soon see a boat and a driver though, that was waiting for them to get there. He looked very nervous but he was pulling through for the group.
"This is the Konoha team you requested then?" He asks Tazuna as they get onto his boat.
"Yea and they protected me perfectly from a couple of chuunin. With them, I'm sure that I will be safe and we can finish this bridge and gain our freedom." He said confidently which gave the boat driver some hope for the near future.
'That is a huge bridge.' Naruto thought as he lays his eyes on the massive bridge. 'I wonder how this went unnoticed until now?' He questions in his head as he and his team are sailing past it with the engine off as the driver didn't want to be spotted.
"This is a great bridge." Anko said quietly as she knew they had to be quiet.
"Thanks, I designed it myself and hired the men who broke their backs to make this bridge as fast as possible. It was allowed to be built for the most part fairly easily but now that it is almost done, we are having more resistance from Gato." Tazuna said to them.
The group of people make it over to the other end of the water and say their thanks to the brave boat driver who brought them across. They then set out into the woods for the final trek to Tazuna's home.
After a while Akamaru begins to bark and growl at a bush causing Kiba to throw a kunai into them. Walking over cautiously, Naruto parts the bushes to see a white rabbit stuck to the tree by its ear.
"Akamaru said he smelled a person in this exact place." Kiba said while looking around as Anko examines the rabbit and she knows that they should be brown in this time of year.
Just then they Kiba hears a sound of a flying blade coming towards them and yells, "Duck!"
Hearing him they all jump to ground and pull Tazuna down with them, all of them except for Naruto as he takes out his trusty katana and slams the giant blade off course.
After it lands in the trunk of a tree a man lands on the handle of the bland and smirks down at them.
"Zabuza Momochi." Anko says out with a bit of fear and a bit of excitement. Naruto's and Sai's eyes widen as they had read about Zabuza before and they knew he would be tough to beat.
Zabuza is a tall and noticeably muscular man with pale skin, short spiky black hair, brown eyes, and small eyebrows. He is wearing bandages like a mask over the bottom half of his face. He wears his headband sideways on his head, exactly like Naruto. He is seen shirtless, with his chest only covered by a belt to which he attached his over-sized broad sword called the Kubikiribocho, wearing baggy pants with the striped pattern typical of Kirigakure and wrist-warmers extending up to his elbows, with matching leg-warmers.
'Hmmm, there is no way anyone can be strong enough to knock that weapon to the side like that, this blond kid is good.' Zabuza thought from the handle of his blade, mildly impressed.
'Wow, who is that guy, he is definitely strong, handsome too.' a hidden female figure thought about Naruto with a small blush on her masked face. She had long black hair with pale skin and large, dark-brown eyes with a slender frame. She wore a standard Kirigakure pinstriped outfit which stopped at the knees. Over this was a green haori with white trimmings, and around her waist was a brown sash with a fringed trail wrapped around her waist twice. She also wore light-brown platoon sandals with straps in the same color as her kimono and nail polish on her fingernails and toenails in matching blue green color. She also wore a hunter-nin mask on top of her forehead protector, which was white with thin, curved eye-holes and a red wavy design in place of the mouth, as well as the Kirigakure symbol.
"Guys, on guard." Naruto says even if the team was already getting ready having seen him deflect the huge blade.
"That was awesome man." Kiba said in awe before becoming more serious.
"Damn kid, I didn't expect anyone to be able to deflect my blade like that. What's your name?" Zabuza asks calmly, not that worried about the little brat.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki." He states simply but smirks in pride at the man's eyes widening. "What are you doing here?" Naruto asks the Demon of the Mist.
"I'm here for the old man. If you give him up, I won't have to kill one of the last known Uzumakis." He replies menacingly.
"Team, protect the bridge builder." Anko says as she gets in a fighting stance. "I'll play with our little friend here."
"Really, I don't think I know that much about you." Zabuza replies as he looks to her. "I hope you give me a good fight though." He says as he pulls his blade from the tree and jumps about 15 feet away from the team and onto a river that is ahead of them.
Zabuza then does a strange hand sign and says "Kirigakure no Jutsu" (Hiding in Mist technique).
"Shit, guys stay together, and at all costs protect Tazuna." Naruto says as he knows this is a dangerous technique, having read about all high lever missing nin.
Then Anko and Zabuza start releasing killing intent at high levels and Kiba is having a bit of a hard time breathing, Tazuna too. 'This is ridiculous, how can sensei stand this, I think I'd rather kill myself.' He thinks as he takes out a kunai.
"Stay calm Kiba, I'm right next to you and we will not die here. I will protect you with everything I have, that goes for you too Tazuna." Naruto says with full confidence to the two of them.
Hearing this Kiba and Tazuna both feel better and have their confidence back, "thanks Naruto-taicho, I needed that."
"No problem, we are teammates after all, now lets just stay focused and we will make it out of this alive." Naruto replies back quietly.
'Yep. I made a great choice going to the leaf village.' Tazuna thinks while being only slightly worried as he watched ahead of him. After all, Anko and Zabuza were ready to attack at any minute...
Zabuza begins speaking through the mist to intimidate them and he says, "8 places... liver, lungs, spine, clavicle vein, neck vein, brain, heart, and kidneys... which one should I go after."
Hearing this through the mist in that menacing tone didn't help the team or Tazuna at all. But Naruto's words from before had kept them calm and they were confident in their secondary leader. 'Anko should be able to handle this, but just in case Naruto-taicho could back her up. We will make it out of this fine, I just need to do as I'm told.' Kiba thought while getting into their formation in front of Tazuna.
Naruto, then sprouted out two chains from each of his shoulder in front of Tazuna so he could react more quickly and deflect any incoming blows. Sai and Kiba are behind him on either side with their backs to them, trusting that Naruto will keep them safe while watching for a attack from behind or the side. Tazuna is in the middle or the triangular formation crouching as best he can behind the blond's chains.
Anko is about ten feet in front of them all and is holding two kunai and is ready for where Zabuza will attack from. 'Where is this bastard, I can't really hear anything but if I were him, I would probably just...' her thoughts stopping at the end knowing where his first strike will be.
"Naruto. Team, watch out." Anko calls out in the mist as she quickly tries to reach them, but Zabuza had already appeared in front of the team.
"Gotcha." Zabuza says into Naruto's face with a grin, or at least what looks like it from under the mask of bandages. Too bad it disappears when he swings his sword down on Naruto, only to have it stop when Naruto's katana is in front of him stopping the blade on a dime.
"I'm sorry, what was that you said before about having us? I seem to have misheard you or something." Naruto says while Tazuna, his teammates, and Anko smirk, even in their bad situation. Zabuza is not amused however and starts to push down harder, either not seeing the chains that are now shooting towards him or not caring that they are there.
"Shut up gaki." Zabuza says only to feel the chains pierce his chest and he smirks. Instead of blood coming from the wounds, its water.
'Mizu Bunshin,' Naruto thought frantically, 'where is he then?' Naruto then hears a faint sound approaching Anko, "Anko, he's going for you, watch out!"
"Shit" Anko curses and is kicked in the stomach and sent flying towards the water, "Sen'eijashu" Anko calls out sending her snakes from her sleeves and attaching them to some tress to stop and then puts up her kunai to block Zabuza's massive blade.
"Not bad girly," Zabuza taunts, "but not good enough." Just as he smirks and jumps out of the way only for Anko to get hit with a water gunshot meaning the Zabuza in front of her was a clone. Anko then went flying into the water and was swimming up to the top of the river but the water was getting more dense.
'What is with this water, its so dense I can hardly move.' She thought in alarm.
"Suiro no Jutsu" (water prison technique) Zabuza says to her making her eyes widen. He then makes the mizu bunshin take the hold of the prison, while the mist starts dissipating.
'NO, how could I get into this,' Anko screams at herself in her frustration. "Guys you should take Tazuna and run away, I'll be fine." Anko calls out trying to get them to stay safe.
"Sorry, but no can do Anko, I sure as hell am not leaving you behind with no brows over here," Naruto says making Anko's lips twitch in amusement but Zabuza gets a tick on his head.
"What was that you little bastard," Zabuza yells out angrily while everyone else laughs a bit.
"Just go Naruto, lead Tazuna to safety." Anko calls out again, happy that he wants to protect her but scared as hell that he might die doing it.
"My minds made up, I'm staying." Naruto responds defiantly, "alright guys, this is gonna be a pretty good test of our team work, but we can do this." Naruto says confidently.
"I'm with you taicho." Kiba says, along with Sai nodding his head, making Naruto smile at their loyalty.
"Good, first things first, we free Anko. I'm going to use one of my wind jutsus to shake him up a bit. Sai you make more of you drawings and engage and Kiba stay back with Tazuna and only join in when you see an opening. Got it?"
"Hai" They both say with Sai taking out his scroll.
Naruto shoots to the tree using his chains to climb faster than running and prepares his jutsu going through the hand signs he shouts, "Fūton senpuu metsubou" (Wind release: Whirlwind destruction) He calls out and sends hurricane force winds down onto the Zabuza clone and the original.
'Shit, this wind power is unreal,' the Zabuza clone thinks while trying to keep his hold on the water prison, but the winds are too strong and his power is weakening. He then spots some lions that seem to be made of ink coming towards the real him. 'damn, maybe these guys are no joke.'
'That guy is good, he leads and he inspires his team mates and these winds are outrageous,' The nearby masked girl says with awe and a rising blush on her face.
"Chōjū Giga" (super beast scroll) Sai calls out afterward and the lions jump on Zabuza to distract him from Naruto as he was making his way towards him. Zabuza is then thrown into the next clearing over, having lost his footing from the ink lion attack and the strong wind jutsu.
Kiba then sees his opening and he sends Akamaru to finish off the weakened clone and free their sensei.
"Thanks Akamaru, and good work you guys." Anko says with a proud grin to her whole team before noticing Naruto was not there. "Where's Naruto?" She questions.
"Still fighting Zabuza I think, he was thrown to the next clearing after my ink lions threw him off balance and taicho's jutsu came down on him." Sai responds.
"You two should protect Tazuna while I go search for them." Anko orders while taking off quickly as the two do what they were ordered.
"You alright Tazuna-san?" Kiba asks kindly as Akamaru and Sai come back to help him.
"Yea, I'm doing fine thanks to you guys, who knew that blond would be that smart and powerful, I'm glad to have gone to the leaf village that's for sure." Tazuna responds making them smile at his words.
"What? You doubted us? Naruto is easily the strongest genin of the village, in fact he should be higher level but chose to stay back with us in school. Your lucky to have him watching out for you." Kiba responds with a grin.
"I agree, he is a good leader and he is powerful, but don't forget about us, we are not push overs either." Sai responds with a small grin as well as in the weeks on the team he has begun to regain his emotions to a small extent.
Back with Naruto, he had moved to the ground while watching a slightly scratched up and bruised Zabuza. "Give it up no brows this fight has gone on long enough, lets just talk."
"I have nothing to say to you brat." Zabuza says going trough some more hand signs. "Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu" (water release great waterfall technique) And a spiral of water appears around him as he sends it into the sky at Naruto.
"Too bad." Naruto says as he also goes through some hand signs. "Fūton: Kami Oroshi" (Wind release: Godly wind from the mountains) Naruto says as a wind spiral shoots from at the water spiral with incredible speed. As both attacks hit, the water stops dead in its tracks and explodes in all directions. It even throws Zabuza back into a tree with a good amount of force.
'What is this kid?' He thinks as Naruto then runs at him and kicks him in the stomach and elbows him in the head before he can recover.
"You should have accepted my offer to talk instead of fight, I would rather have not killed you." Naruto says as he readies his katana to strike the man down.
As he begins his swing, he stops as two senbon needles fly out of the trees and hit Zabuza in the neck making him go limp.
"Thank you for dealing with Zabuza, I have been hunting him for a while and I don't think I could have beaten him if you didn't wear him out." A feminine voice calls out and Naruto looks to his side to see what he thinks is a girl but he couldn't tell as she had a mask. He had looked at the placement of the senbons and could tell it was only a death like state as he was trained to do the same thing.
'Hmm, I think I'll let the go for now, besides I can sense Anko coming near.' Naruto thinks to himself with a grin, "That's alright hunter-chan, I don't think he is going anywhere for now."
A blush forms on the girls face, not that Naruto new, and she was surprised that he could tell that she was a girl and also happy for the mask covering her blush. "We-well I will take the body away now." 'Why am I blushing, it won't go away either, god he is so handsome.' She thought to herself in a bit of despair knowing they were enemies, not that Zabuza treated her very good anyway
'Maybe I should mess with her a little, that sounds like fun.' Naruto thinks, "Aren't you going to destroy the body now? As in right here, right now." She is mentally freaking out but she is saved as the woman she saw came into the clearing.
"Naruto! Are you alright," Anko asks as she just missed the last part of the fight but she saw most of it. She gets a little cautious seeing a mist hunter-nin, standing by Zabuza's body. "Who is this, and what happened?"
"This is a mist hunter-nin, she threw senbon needles into his neck after I had beat him, she is going to dispose of the body now." Naruto said with a smirk at the girl who right now is slightly freaking out.
"Sorry, but I have to go now, good bye." She says and she throws senbon towards Anko out of no where as a distraction. Anko, who is not ready at all can't get away on time and she knows and Naruto knows.
"Anko!" Naruto yells as he uses his wind element to speed himself up to take the hit an save Anko. He gets hit with three needles sticking out of his back.
'What, he jumped in front of that woman, Why?' the girl with the mask asks herself as she feels scared that he did that for the woman and also worried that he might die. She is even a little jealous of the woman, she gets to spend a lot of time with the loyal, brave, and handsome blond. On the outside she just picked up Zabuza and his massive sword and turned to leave. "He is a true ninja, I hope that we will not see you again, I'm sorry for what happened as well, goodbye." She says trying to force her body not to go and help the blond and she disappears with a shunshin with Zabuza.
"Naruto! Are you alright?" Anko screams trying not to completely start bawling as her eyes are already watering. "Why did you do that?" She asks her now unconscious blond crush, seeing that he was alright and just unconscious.
"Naruto, Why did you do that, I don't think those senbon were going to be any vital hits on your sensei." Kyoshi's voice calls out worriedly as he is now in his mind scape.
"I knew that, but still I wanted her to be safe and if I can take the pain instead of her then I'm going to do it." Naruto says making Kyoshi love him even more as she knows for certain that he will do anything for his loved ones.
"You know, I love you so much Naruto-kun, but could you please be more careful. Your going to be fine in a few hours though. Those senbon pierced your back quite deeply and have hit some important nerve clusters in your back. Add the fact that you used a good amount of chakra in your jutsus, your gonna be out like a light for a while." Kyoshi says to the blond.
"I love you too and that's fine, I needed the rest anyway. Plus, now we get to spend more time together now." Naruto says making her blush like crazy with a beautiful and genuine smile on her face.
Anko, tearing up slightly, smiles in happiness. 'I can't believe he would go that far for me, I love you Naruto-kun.' She thought to herself in happiness knowing that he didn't want her to be hurt. She then starts heading back to the group after pulling out the senbon, and watching in fascination as the holes heal up almost instantly.
"What happened to taicho?" Sai asks seeing one of his friends in Anko's arms.
"He did it, he beat Zabuza, but a hunter-nin had thrown senbon into Zabuza's neck when Naruto was going to kill him. But we can talk later," She says to the worried boys, "hey, you old bastard, how far until we get to your house?" Anko questions angrily, with a glare that scares Tazuna more than even Zabuza did.
"Thirty minutes, I'm sorry for doing this to you guys. I promise I'll pay you back the right amount when the village starts to prosper again." He said with clear guilt in his tone, he started to like the blond haired kid and to see him unconscious because of him was sad.
"Fine, lets just get him to a bed and we will finish the story when we get there, Naruto needs rest." Anko says, lowering her glare but still angry at Tazuna for lying to the leaf village, but she also understands where he is coming from.
Just like Tazuna said, it took only about thirty minutes until they reached a small house. Tazuna goes up and knocks on the door, "Tsunami, its me and the ninja I hired to protect me, one is unconscious and needs a bed." He says loudly, and smiles when he hears footsteps running to the door.
As the door opens a beautiful woman with black hair that goes to the middle of her back comes out. She is wearing a pink shirt with a red collar and a blue skirt. She looks down at the boy in Anko's arms and quickly lets them in.
"Is he going to be alright, come on in and put him in the guest room upstairs. I am Tsunami by the way." She says while still staring at him with worry on her face and even a slight blush.
Anko nods to her while moving in the direction she was going, not noticing the blush." Thanks, and he'll be fine he just needs some rest, I'm Anko Mitarashi, this is Kiba Inuzuka and Sai." She says as they head up the stairs.
After putting Naruto in the guest room, everyone sits down at the table while a boy that has spiky black hair and dark-colored eyes comes in. He is wearing green overalls with a yellow shirt and a simple pair of sandals. He is also wearing a blue and white striped hat.
"This is my son, Inari." Tsunami says to the team kindly.
"Alright, well I guess I can finish the story now." Anko says while everyone becomes curious, all except for Inari who just goes up to Tazuna.
"Its good to see you again grandpa, I'm gonna go to my room now." Inari says.
"Don't you want to hear the story, that blond haired kid is incredible. I'm sure you would like to hear it." Making Tsunami even more curious about the handsome, young blond.
"No thanks, they are just gonna die anyway." He says shocking the ninja and making his mother and grandfather angry.
"Inari, how could you say something like that." Tsunami says to him with a scolding tone.
"That boy upstairs saved my life at the risk of his own, he could have just left me to die, but he chose to help me anyway." Tazuna adds in angrily.
"Whatever," the boy says while going up the stairs.
"How could he say that about us and Naruto-taicho, what's his problem?" Kiba asks clenching his fists.
"A year ago, my husband Kaiza was the hero of our village. He helped out around here and everyone looked up to him like a hero. When Gato came, Kaiza stood up to him but Gato didn't want any opposition, so he captured Kaiza. In front of the entire village he had Kaiza beaten and then executed." Tsunami explains while wiping the tears from her eyes. "Inari has never been the same after that."
Chapter End
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