Chapter 11 : Chaos

Dawn had broke less than an hour ago in a little town near the border of the land of waves. Everyone of its inhabitants was stil lost in the land of dreams, far away from their daily misery and gato's tyrrany... However, the slumber of a certain bridge builder, his familly and his escort would soon been disturbed by a cataclysmic event...

"ATCHOOOO !!!!!" Naruto's upper body shot upward leaving the confused blond sitting on his bed and rubbing his sleepy eyes and itching nose "Someone must be thinking about me..." he tought sleepily. As he attained a sufficient level of consciousness he quickly checked on his surrounding, his sensei was still sleeping face down and coughing occasionally on his own bed so he turned to his cousin's empty one "Where the hell is Roxas ?" he shrugged "Must have wake up early and gone for a walk..." He climbed down his bed and took a hold of his clothes, as he did so he took notice of Roxas's clothes lying beside his bed "Okay now it's strange..." Once sufficiently dressed he left the bedroom in order to investigate further on this disepearance. Listenning to logic, he first went down the coridor to the bathroom door, wich he proceed to knock onto whispering "Roxas, are you in there ?" no anwser came so he insisted by hitting the door harder and speaking louder, nearly yelling "Hey ! Do you hear me ? Get out of there !" That earned him a reaction.

"Sh..t up, I... tr... to sle...p" came the barely audible voice of his teammate, the problem was it wasn't coming from the bathroom but from the direction of the two guest bedrooms and Naruto knew he wasn't in the male's one...

As he reached Naminé's room's door he couldn't help but feel a little affraid... okay, he was nearly wetting his pants but who could blame him ? Time passed with Jiraiya taught him that all female held within herself the power of righteous furry, a power so great that a civilian woman could beat even the kage level shinobi to an inch of his life. This display of strengh seemed to be triggered by a feeling of justified anger caused by an inapropriate action from the always male future victim. Naruto knew Naminé was a girl (Yeah, I love stating the obvious...) and he was almost certain that walking in a girl's room while she slept or... he really didn't want to think of that, would be considered as inapropriate... "That will hurt... a lot." he though as he gathered his courage and oppened the door, his eyes widenned : Naminé was laying under her thin sheets (it was summer) and holding on an arm tithly, to the point it was beginning to turn blue, wich belonged to no other than Roxas laying face down next to her, uncovered and only dressed in a pair of boxer; the sight was too much to handle for the poor Naruto who did the only thing he could thought of, he screamed "WAAAAAAHHHH !!!! HAYATE-SENSEI, ROXAS AND NAMINE SLEPT TOGETHER !!!!!!"

This had the effect of waking said youths who once they realized the situation they were in screamed themselves and ducked under the sheets before screaming again as it put them into an even more compromising situation. They got their head of the bed just as Tsunami walked in.

"What's with all the screaming..." she yawned "... it's to early for that. What hapened ?" She asked Naruto who simply pointed a shaking finger toward his teammates "What's the problem, It's perfectly normal for twins to sleep in the same bed..."

"We're not twins !" shouted the two blushing teens "Nor brother and sister, it's the first thing they searched on the DNA test they did at the hospital when we were found..." prescised Naminé.

"WHAT ?!"

"Could do please quiet down ? What's with all the noise anyway ?" asked Tazuna as he and Hayate made their appearance. Naruto and Tsunami pointed to the bed once again, giving its occupants a strong feeling of both embarassement and déja-vu.

The Jonin shrugged when he understood "Well *cough*, since they are ninja they are *cough* considered adult by the village, "old enough *cough* to risk their life old enough to everything in life"... plus *cough* we all have our way to relieve stress on high ranked missions....*cough*" this earned him a dangerous glare from Tsunami.

"If I may, I must say I'm a super light-sleeper but I didn't woke up, you don't seem so good boy..." teased the bridge builder with a perverted smile, before his daughter began twisting his earlob making him whine loudly.

"Now that Tazuna-san *cough* mention it, I don't see any sound barrier *cough* seals here. If what *cough* he said is true I think you should *cough*practise in order to increase your *cough*stamina Roxas, otherwise it won't be fair for the *cough* young lady..." the three blondes redened dramatically at their sensei words "... if you need *cough* any tips..." that was the last straw for the dark haired woman who unleashed a double punch of righteous furry and minor's protection upon the two other adults sending them flying through the window, screaming in pain. In his room Inari muttered about "yelling idiots who're going to die anyway..." and went back to sleep. Tsunami cracked her knuckles and turned to the older blond a flamme in her eyes.

"I-it's n-no-t wh-what you thi-think it is..." pleaded Roxas.

"Oh ? And how do you explain you being here ?"

"W-wel-ll..."

Flasback

Roxas awoke around midnight, a strong feeling cursing through his balder, recognizing his predicament he realized the necessity to take measures soon so he stumbled out of bed, still suffering from the side effects of his chakra depletion. He made his way toward the bathroom leaning against the wall for support. He finally reached his destination, did what he had to do and made his way back, in his semi-conscious state he didn't realized he took the first door to his left and not the second. He walked penibly to the bed, eyes half-closed and fell on it. Only five seconds after crashing down he felt a pair of slim arms wraping themselves aroud his left one, before falling asleep he managed to think "Crap ! I'm too tired to move...I'm so dead tomorow morning..."

End flaschback

"Roxas, I'm still waiting for your explaination..."

"Wow my first flashback..." "Sorry, I spaced out ? Well it all began when..." this time he told them his story taking putting extra focus on the accidental aspect of the whole ordeal.

While Tsunami's attention was turned to Roxas, Naruto suddently remenbered Neji and particulary something he said when he discovered his and Hinata relashionship. He forced himself to take his sternest expresion and locked eyes with Naminé before speaking in a neutrl tone « What are your intentions concerning my cousin ? » The poor girl blushed once again and began fidgetting madly, then he understood the sick pleasure of teasing, the satisfaction of an overprotective cousin, the more she battled against her own word the more he enjoyed himself, the feeling was intoxicating, like a drug, however it was more that he could take and soon enough he bursted in hysterical laugher, showing to the world the gap between him and the Hyuga prodigy, Neji could remin stoic for hours always finding the perfect comment to further embarass him and Hinata, he truly was a master... his musing was abruptly stoped by the impact of an alarm clock on his skull, courtesy of Naminé of course. "Ouch ! I'm hurt Naminé-chan : is this a way to treat your future in-law ?" "Strike !"

The young kunoichi froze, this was just too much for a single morning, first waking up next to her barely naked best-friend, then as it wasn't enough everyone came in and embarassed her to no end, and finally this... she considered herself a rather nice person, not the kind to punch someone for little to no reason, unlike a certain pink haired fangirl, but Naruto was asking for it so she seized her side lamp and held it menacingly over her head . "Get off my room, NOW !" That was more than enough to scare him into feeing. Her anger somewhat appeased she turned to Roxas who just finished his tale "YOU TOO !!!" another fleeing Namikaze... her fury fully subdued she finally spoke to the remaining individual. « Tsunami-san, nothing hapened... can't we just act as if nothing of this ever hapened ?"

It was around noon, Tazuna and Hayate recovered from their earlier fight three hours before and everyone was enjoying lunch discusing various topics : the coughing jonin was trying to avoid Tsunami getting on a rampage against the "immoral and indecent" ninja world by the use of the official "calming enraged mother mother procedure number three : cute chibi-marriage pictures" wich left her torn between the desire to squeal "KAWAIIIII" and the one to totally oblitarate the jonin; Tazuna told the genins of the time the whole town went into panic some twenty years ago after a boy shouted his daughter name (He 's an old man, he doesn't realize he's the only one laughing.) and Inari just kept to himself making Naruto wonder if the boy had indeed some Uchiha blood running through his veins... Halfthrough the chibi photo-album, not noticing a dangerous recuring eye twitch from his interlocutor , Hayate coughing raised to a new level, his pupils widenned in understanding "He's *cough* coming ! Quick ! *cough* Close all the doors and *cough* windows, we can't *cough* let him in !!!!"

"What ?! Zabuza already !"

"*cough* Do as I told ! Whatever *cough* the cost, all *cough* entrance must remain sealed.*cough*"

Everyone complied, thinking they were under attack, soon the entire house was hermetically cut from the exterior world. Five minutes passed before someone began banging loudly at the front door and called at them in a lazy voice "Oy ! We know you're here. Tazuna-san, Hayate-san ? Please open the door...."

"*cough* Never !*cough*"

éWhy do I have to do this? Tch, this is such a drag. Be reasonable, Asuma-sensei will stop smoking for the duration of this mission until we're back and safe in Konoha."

"Shika ? Is that you ?"

"Naruto ? Yeah it's me. Could you open this door before that troublesome chunin burn it down ?"

"Hm... Sure !"

His sensei grabed his arm « If *cough* you do that *cough*I'll put you back *cough*to the academy... »

"If I don't they'll put the house in fire, and if they do that they're will be a lot more smoke..." at this he felt the pressure on his forearm disappear and went to unlock the now famous door wich openned letting enter team 5 and a certain fire-addict chunin.

"AXEL !!" the tall redhead's former and actual room-mate crushed him into a bear hug.

"Hey ! I know you missed me, it 's been three days and all but I need my ribs for the next battle..."

On his part, Naruto was busy introducing the newcomers to his hosts "Tsunami-san, Tazuna-san, this is team 5 : this lazy ass is Shikamaru, of the Nara clan..."

"Tch... I'm not lazy." Naruto raised an eyebrow "I am super lazy..." then facevaulted. At an unknow location (at some random hotsprings) a certain toad hermit sneezed revealing his position to the hostille subject of his ressearch, sending him in a world of pain.

Back to his feet, the young Namikaze-Uzumaki passed to the next member "This superficial fangirl's name is Ino, she' a Yamanaka and loves dark emo's..."

"Hey ! Who do you think you are ?! You better watch your words or..."

"To prove my point." Naruto pointed to Inari, who was naturally brooding and raised his head when he felt everyone's stare on him.

"Just leave me alone."

"Kyaaaa !!! He's so cool !" "And still so youg, he'll be nearly as cool as Sasuke-kun in a few years." At this point, Ino's eyes were full of stars.

"And last but not least Akimichi Coji, the nicest guy you can find" said big-boned boy bowed politely "this suffocating redhead is Axel, don't worry blue isn't his natural skin color, wait isn"t that a reason to worry ? Bah, he'll ask if he needs help... finally the breaded man who's having a staring contest with Hayate-sensei is Sarutobi Asuma, the jonin insrtuctor of the first three." Indeed, the two jonin were eye locked western style (You know like at the end of the movie just before the duel on the main street. Cliché POWAAAA !!!) Asuma's hand was near his right pocket while Hayate's was wandering around the hilt of his sword. Then all hapened in less than a second, Asuma took a cig and before anyone could register what was hapening it was cut in two mere millimeters from the breaded jonin's fingers while Hayate was still standing at the same place putting his sword back into its scabbard.

"I'm the *cough* fatest swordman of this part of the *cough* elemental nations." Everyone sweatdropped.

Some minutes later Team 7 was explaining the situation to their reinforcement "So we managed *cough* to defeat Zabuza but his accomplice intervened and *cough* he managed to escape... However he *cough* sustained serious injuries and should be unable to battle for *cough* about a week and even then it should take *cough* him about another week to be back at 100 %"

"I see." responded the other jonin "And you said his objective was yo kill Tazuna-san before he completes his bridge, well it should be simple enough for you Shikamaru."

"What a drag, why am I the one who has to come up with a plan ?"

"Because you're a freaking genius, baka !" his female teammate bashed him on the top of his head.

"Troublesome woman... Well, we obviouusly don't want to fight him when he'll be back at full power so we must provock a confrontation before then, the best way to do so is to rush the bridge's construction so it will force Zabuza to act early, certainly the morning of the day of its completion. There is no doubt that either him or Gato will send someone here to take Tazuna-san's familly in hostage so we should split up Team 7 and Asuma-sensei should go to the bridge as we can't take any risk with someone like Zabuza and Axel an us should stay here since we have the best abilities to imobilize any opposing force while he finishes them off." "That and it would be too much of a drag to walk there..."

"Yeah, that sound like the best thing to do, but I wanted to ask you : why did it take you so long to arrive here ? Considering our pace and our head start you should have join us around the time of our battle with Zabuza..." Asked Naminé.

"You said you encountered him after you crossed the sea, well those genins don't know water walking yet so we had to wait for a boat at an local harbour,wich only arrived this morning and then the crew wasn't really cooperative, probably Gato's men, so we had to use a little persuation, that's it." Explained Axel.

"Now that all is clear we have a week to train, Zabuza's partner must be tough and we don't know wich group he'll strike so everyone up at 6 a.m. tomorow." concluded Asuma.

AN : Wow, finally done. Since my bro' began his summer vacation and is the kind of guy to stay on the comp 'till his eyes are so red Hinata's blushes seems pales next to it, I don't have a lot of time to write my chapters... Well, I'll try to update at least once a month anyway. The poll to choice the name of this story is on and will last two weeks, please vote on my profile. And please review !!!!!!! or I'll cry ! You don't want me to cry, right? Next chapter : training, meeting with Haku, Haku's efforts to heal Zabuza and the bridge events. Then it will be the begin of the chunin exam arc wich will be slightly different from the cannon version ( A little hint for you : it begins with I, finish with A and ther's a W in between. I won't say more...)