Chapter 4
this chapter is reedited
Time skip: 4 Years.
Daytime in the Hidden Leaf Village,
Ninja academy,
In class, a vibrant atmosphere filled the room. Some students sat and spoke with each other, others decided to use the time they had to catch some more Zs.
However, a raven-haired boy sat away from the others, alone in his own thoughts. Everyone knew this raven-haired boy as Sasuke Uchiha, the most famous and strongest male kid in academy. Hestood at 4'5", age 12, with black eyes and hair, and a lean built for flexibility and speed. His skin had slightly paled over the years. Sasuke Uchiha had grown a bit reserved over the years and he would only occasionally speak to his friends for the other clans. However, he held great disdain for the current Hokage's clan, especially its only daughter.
Like Sasuke, many of the academy students considered Natsumi Uzumaki-Namikaze the most famous and strongest girl in academy. She hadn't changed that much over the period of 4 years. Though, her figure had become more defined and she had long red hair that stretched down to her waist. Like her missing older brother, he had crystal blue eyes, but stood at 4'2". At 12 years old, both Sasuke and Natsumi rivaled each other for title of Rookie of the Year.
Another girl in their class had a very cold exposition with a face of no emotion. This face belonged to Hinata Hyuga. Her appearance had also changes. She had grown into quite the beautiful young lady, with hypnotic lavender eyes, short blue hair and pearl white skin. She stood at 4'3" and had recently turned 12 years old. Her figure had a few unnoticeable curves, but she had an emotionless face. When her friend/crush left the village all those years ago, she had all but lost the compassion for others she held as a child. However, she did possess a nicety that she only gave to her friends.
Rock Leegraduated for the academy a year earlier than all his friends. Choji, Shikamaru, Shino, all of them had changed. They still hung out, but without their dandelion, a hollow noise echoed during the time they spent together. Today, however, they couldn't dwell intensely on him.
Today would decide their fates as to whether they remain in the academy, or finally begin their careers as ninja.
The students faced three different sections of tests; starting with taijutsu, moving to proficiency with ninja tools, and ending with academy ninjutsu. For the taijutsu portion, they would have to fight Mizuki with time limit of 5 min. In order to pass, they needed to hit Mizuki 3 times in those 5 minutes.
Hinata went first. She went to her traditional Hyuga Gentle Fist stance and Mizuki dropped into his basic academy stance.
Hinata dashed towards Mizuki and started to attack him with rapid palm thrusts and kicks but Mizuki blocked her every attack. She then kicked him low, making him stumble and thrust a palm forward, aiming for his heart but luckily for the academy instructor. His leg buckled a bit and he got a hit to the chin. Mizuki rubbed his chin and got a bit annoyed but give her a smile and they restarted their battle. She hit Mizuki 3 times in 1 minute and 5 seconds.
Kiba of the Inuzuka clan went next. He hit Mizuki 3 times in 1 minute and 50 seconds. The fights continued on and a majority of the prospective graduates passed.
Natsumi went next. Her fan boys started cheering for her even before she entered the ring. She used her family's stance and Mizuki once again fought in his basic academy stance.
Unlike the first two competitors, he rushed at her first and aimed a punch at her face. However, she sidestepped it and aimed a punch at his gut. Mizuki blocked it with his left hand. Natsumi then rotated to the left and connected an elbow with Mizuki's ribs. After recovering from that hit, he smiled at her and they recommenced their fight. Within 1 minute and 5 seconds, she hit the academy proctor 3 times.
Last, but definitely not least, Sasuke Uchiha went up. When he entered the ring, every fan girl of his and even a few boys started to cheer him on. Then he got into his family stance and Mizuki was as usual basic stance.
Sasuke dashed forward to Mizuki with extraordinary speed. She released a rapid volley of punches at Mizuki, but the proctor blocked every punch. Sasuke then jumped and kick at Mizuki face, only to catch his arm. Sasuke spun in midair and aimed kick at Mizuki's right side. It hurt enough to send him a few meters away from him, then Mizuki started to attack Sasuke, but with a bit more aggression than for the young Uchiha, he successfully evaded his attacks and then kicked Mizuki low, causing him to lose his balance. Sasuke used this advantage to move for another attack. He punched Mizuki in the chest, making him fall, and finished with an elbow to the gut, completing his 3 hits in 56 seconds!
Everyone stood in shock at the Uchiha making a new academy record.
Choji, Shikamaru, and Shino did very good in taijutsu. Despite Shikamaru's laziness, he successfully hit Mizuki in the span of 3 minutes of the allotted 5.
After taijutsu came ninja tool profiency. To pass, students needed to throw 10 shuriken and 10 kunai knifes at a log post. Hinata went first. She scored 18 points. Natsumi went next. She scored 19 points. Sasuke came up. He threw all weapons in the dead center of the log post, earning a perfect score of 20 points.
They all stood in shock. Natsumi, the only daughter of the Fourth Hokage, scoring less than the Uchiha? Well, if you said like that, it didn't seem so unlikely. If only they knew how much dedication and effort Sasuke put into his training.
Finally, the last section. Academy ninjutsu. The proctors would assess the students' ability to perform a transformation jutsu, a replacement jutsu, and a clone jutsu.
It resulted in a 3-way tie between Sasuke, Natsumi and Hinata in basic jutsu. Sasuke won Rookie of the Year, but because Natsumi outperformed Hinata in the ninja tool portion, she won Kunoichi of the Year.
Every fan girl cheered at the top of their lungs for Sasuke, but he paid them no mind. He had only one goal in mind: bringing his best friend, Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, back to the Hidden Leaf Village, all while beating some sense into him for going AWOL.
Unbeknownst to him, Natsumi had a similar goal. She wanted to bring her brother back as well. Even if he didn't have chakra, she needed him home with her, her parents, and her younger sister. A family can't function without all its members present.
Hinata also wanted to find Naruto herself. After the news of Naruto's departure got to the village, she grew cold. So cold, in fact, that her coldness gave shivers to anyone who crossed her, even her father. Hiashi looked on, fearful for his daughter. She had become strong, to his prideful delight, but her change in attitude greatly concerned him. She didn't deserve to have an expression that cold in her young age. He did everything he could to cheer her up, but the only would could, he realized, no longer lived in their village. When Hinata lay alone in her room, she would always cry herself to sleep as she held onto a picture of a smiling Naruto throwing his two fingers at the camera, while Hinata buried her face in the crook of his neck.
To sum it up, the Hidden Leaf Village, for better or for worse, needed Naruto back within their walls.
Hidden Leaf Village, Outside the Academy
With Natsumi,
Natsumi came outside and saw her mother and her 3-year-old little sister, Mito, and then she dashed towards them and hugged them. Kushina and Mito returned the hug.
"Big sister, you ninja now! That's so cool!" Mito squealed with stars in her eyes.
"Yep, not only did I pass, but I also became the Kunoichi of the Year. I really wanted to win Rookie of the Year, though…" Natsumi pouted at the end.
"Natsumi, these titles are just for encouragement for students so they will show their best of their ability. It wouldn't have mattered whether you won Rookie or Kunoichi of the Year or not, you and Mito will be always my little princesses."
"Thanks mom. Hey, now that I'm a ninja, I can find my big brother and bring him back home." Natsumi grinned determinedly.
When Kushina heard Natsumi's determined statement to bring Narutoback, she hung her head. Kushina couldn't help but remind herself how she failed Naruto as a mother but then she looked at Natsumi, who shared her own sad look. She didn't want to daughter to lose heart.
"Natsumi, I know you'll find him, protect him and bring him home, but to find him and protect him, you need to become strong. For now, it's time to celebrate your graduation! How about some ramen?" Natsumi and Mito jumped with joy when they heard about her favorite food and all three started to walk towards a ramen stand.
Ichiraku's Ramen
The trio of mother and daughters sat down on the stools as they placed their orders to Ayame, the chef's daughter. When they received their food, both Kushina and Natsumi started to eat very fast but Mito simply stared at her ramen. Kushina didn't fail to notice her younger daughter's seemingly lost appetite, so she stopped eating and ask with concern.
"Dear, what happened? Are you ill?"
"Mommy…I wanted to ask…about big brother…what was he like?" Kushina just stared at Mito with a sad look on her face but said nothing so Natsumi, understanding the situation, attempted to cap Mito's curiosity about their great failure.
"Mito, please don't ask mother questions right now."
"No, I want to know about big brother now! Tell me now! Tell me now! Tell me now! Tell me now! Tell me now!"
Like any child would while throwing a tantrum, Mito started waving her arms angrily. Hearing a child continuously ask for something reminded her of Naruto. This depressed an already bogged Kushina even more.
"Mito…I know you want to know about your brother, but I-it's just that…I don't have any special memories of Naruto at all. I know a minute amount about him, he was young, he somewhat looked like your father and was always full of energy. He did everything he could to get attention from everyone, especially from your father and me…I'm sorry Mito, but…I don't know anything more than that about him" Kushina etched out as hung her head low and tears started to come from her eyes. Mito immediately felt bad for acting like she did a moment ago.
"I'm sorry, mother. I just wanted to know about him. Whenever someone talks about him, you and dad become sad. Did he do something wrong? Is that why he isn't here with us?"
"Mito, I want you listen carefully, okay? Naruto hasn't done anything wrong in his life. Your father and I…we're the main reason he's not with us."
Mito reeled slightly, shocked that her mother would say such a thing. Whenever someone from the clans said anything bad about her mom or dad, she would call them names and call her parents "The best parents in the whole world."
"I don't know what got into me. Mito, your older brother was born different from us. Because of that, we neglected him. But I promise you, dear, when your sister brings him home, she, your father and I will make it up to him and then we will be a happily whole family once again."
Mito saw the determined look in her mother's eyes. Satisfied, she started eating ramen like both Natsumi and Kushina. When the Red Hot Habanero saw both of her daughters eating, a lone tear fell from her eye.
"Naruto, my sweet child, wherever you are, I truly hope you're safe."
Hokage office,
Minato stared down the piles of paperwork that lay on his desk. Four years ago, he would have cursed the Third's name for leaving this much paperwork for him to do, but given everything happened in the past four years, he viewed the paperwork as a blissfully distracting stress distracted him from the pain he'd feel everyday from not finding his son in his bed, his hospital, or at any of the clan houses. Not that they'd let him in, given his failure as a father to the past four years, he'd sent every available Shinobi for the search mission to find his son, but every time the Shinobi come empty handed. No one knew the whereabouts of his son; no one had the slightest clue.
Naruto had simply vanished.
Minato looked towards his desk saw himself, his wife, and his oldest daughter holding his youngest daughter. Minato didn't see it as a family portrait. He then turned his gaze towards another photo. A two-year-old Naruto smiled brightly, Natsumi wrapped her arms around her brother's neck, Kushina leaned contently towards him and he smiled as wide as an ocean. Naruto would never appear in another photo with his family. In fact, Naruto would never appear in another photo, period.
After looking for some time, he thought back to what he said to his son at the tender age of 4 years old…
"The moment you were born; your chakra coils were destroyed beyond repair. That's why you can't train with us. You're worthless, Naruto."
Minato ground his teeth, his self-loathing reaching a new high. How could he say something like to a member of his village, a child? His child? Minato would never forget those horrible words he said to his son, nor the shattered look that appeared on his son's face while he said. When he needed them most, they were never there for him and it always pained him.
Then the nightmares came. Oh Kami above, those nightmares.
It ranged from Naruto running after his family while they grew further away to Minato watching in horror as the villagers attacked him with everything they could grab their hands on, from mops to clubs, even swords. With every cry of "Mommy!" or "Daddy!" Minato felt his throat tighten. As the man of the house and leader of the village, he couldn't cry in front of his family and friends so they can have hope that Naruto will come back. However, when he had space to himself and no one could hear him. He broken down, crying, screaming at himself for failing his son. If Naruto walked though that room, slugged Minato in the face, and disowned him as his father. On the Third's name, he swore he wouldn't lift a finger in defense. In Naruto wanted to beat him so badly, he wouldn't be able to walk right, he'd take the hits with a smile on his face, knowing that his son had come home.
"Naruto…I miss you, my son. Wherever you are, search your heart, please. I know you'll find it in your heart to come home and the moment you walk through those doors, I'll be damned if we do anything to even resemble neglect towards you."
Unknown place,
"Achoo…man I think I have gotten a cold. Either that, or someone's thinking about me."
This statement came from a boy with spiky hair, sitting at a mountain top for meditation in a blizzard. His teacher observed him from a few miles away and smiles at his student.
"The time has come for him to show the world what he can do."
Hidden Leaf Village, the following day,
The room buzzed with the intensity of a beehive. Everyone kept speaking about how they wanted to get on a team with Sasuke (girls) or Natsumi (boys). All of Naruto's friends arrived early because they had too much excitement to simply stay at home and wait. Natsumi walked into the class and took a seat near Hinata. She really wanted to talk to Hinata but the newly crowned ice queen always ignored her and walked away from her. Of course, Hinata didn't solely ignore Natsumi. She wanted nothing to do with the entire Namikaze family, except for one, the only son of the family.
The door openedto reveal a man with brown hair, tied back in a ponytail. Iruka Umino loved helping students and almost everyone had favorable reviews as an instructor. However, he did get irritated easily. A plethora of students continued to talk despite knowing that he had entered the room. As such, he cleared his throat to alert them of his presence, to no avail. He tried it again but got the same results. As a result, a red tick mark formed on his head and he performed a special jutsu used only for crowd control, namely children.
Big Head Jutsu.
"SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!"
Just like that, the entire class went silent, save for a small cough.
"Alright everyone, listen carefully because now I will announce your squads and your team leaders, all of whom are jonin. Several teams will be in rotation and as such, they will receive no new team members or instructors. Team 1, rotation. Team 2, rotation. Team 3, rotation. Team 4, rotation. Team 5, rotation. Team 6, rotation. Team 7, you will be made up of…Sakura Haruno…"
The pink-haired kunoichi looked up at the sound of her name.
"Natsumi Uzumaki Namikaze…"
Both girls kept their eyes on Iruka with bated breath as the last name was called.
"…and Sasuke Uchiha."
Sakura shot from her seat and shouted out with joy. She turned to her classmate, rival, and former best friend, Ino Yamanaka with a victorious smirk, who responded with a scornful sneer. Natsumi turned to Sasuke and she could tell he didn't like this arrangement at all. Sasuke didn't like, or care for, Natsumi, or anyone from Naruto's family, considering they practically pushed him towards the gates to nowhere.
"Your team leader will be Kakashi Hatake. Team 8, will consist of members Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame and Hinata Hyuga. Your team leader will be Kurenai Yuhi."
Shino nodded to Hinata. She had enough of her childish kindness to give Shino a small smile.
"Team 9, rotation. Team 10, will consists of members Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi. Your team leader will be Asuma Sarutobi."
Ino, the blond with near pupil-less eyes, bemoaned the fact that her squad consisted of a "lazy bum" and "a fatty".
"After lunch, your team leaders will pick you up. I wish you all successful and happy lives as ninja of the Village Hidden in the Leaves.
3 hours after lunch
Sasuke, Natsumi and Sakura all sat in the academy room, waiting for their team leader. The nerve of their teacher to show up late had started to tick them off. Suddenly, the door of classroom opened, revealing a man with gravity-defying white hair, a face mask, and a headband that covered his left eye.
"Well…I can tell you all this right now. I'm looking a bunch of sticks in the mud. Meet me on the roof in 10 minutes."
Their team leader had just said that they all suck. They immediately had no love for him. Regardless, they all made their way to the rooftops. When everyone had gathered, their instructor asked them to tell him about all look puzzled.
"How should we go about introducing ourselves, sensei?"
"Hmm…list some things you like, some things you don't like, some hobbies of yours, and your dreams for the future."
"Maybe you could start us off?"
"Alright. My name is Kakashi Hatake. My likes and dislikes…are none of your concern. My dreams for the future…I don't really have one, to be honest. Hobbies…I have a lot of hobbies."
"So we only know his name." All three genin thought.
"Now tell me about yourselves, starting with you, pinky."
"Alright, my name is Sakura Haruno, I like…" She looks at Sasuke and blushes. "My hobbies include…" Another look at Sasuke and her blush deepens. "My dreams for the future are…" This time, she squeals into her hands. "I hate that filthy pig, Ino!"
"Excellent, a fan-girl. Why do I have to handle a fan-girl?" Kakashi sighed mentally. "Okay, now you, with the red hair."
"My name is Natsumi Uzumaki Namikaze; I like my family and ramen. I dislikes include fanboys, fangirls, and perverts." She gave Kakashi a critical eye, causing him to sweat. "My hobbies include playing with my friends, training with my family, and my dreams for the future are to find my big brother and make my family complete again."
"Ah, that's right. She's Naruto's sister." Kakashi tuned in just in time to hear Sasuke scoff. "Alright, how about you?"
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I love my family and I like my friends. I hate a few certain people. My hobbies are training with my family and learning different jutsu of the fire style. What I have is not a dream. Rather, it is destiny. There's someone I've sworn to bring back to the village and make him wish he hadn't left."
"Again, Naruto. It makes sense. From what I hear, the two are best friends, almost brothers."
"So, Kakashi-sensei, what will be our first mission?" Kakashi's eye widened slightly before he started to chuckle. "What's wrong, sensei? Why are you chuckling?"
"Of all the teams who take this test, only nine genin will be selected so the chances of your failure are at 66% and those who fail will be sent back to the academy." That shocked all three genin.
"Then why did we even go through the graduation exam in the first place?!"
"It was to see who looked worthy of becoming genin. This test is to prove you're good enough to remain genin. Meet me tomorrow at training ground 7 at 6 in the morning so we can begin our of advice: don't eat breakfast if you don't want your food bounce in your stomach." With that, he vanished in a puff of smoke, leaving the three genin into think about the test.
Time skip Bell Test,
Hokage office,
When Squad Seven formed, they received instructions for the first mission; find Tora, the pet cat of the fire lord's wife. When they concluded that mission, Natsumi appealed to her father for a harder mission so they could experience some real battles, and not just run around the village doing chores. A rather long argument ensued, but Minato agreed to give them a C rank mission. Natsumi and her team looked really excited about it so Minato told the client to come inside. The door slid open and revealed a drunken old man with gray hair, mustache and beard with a large backpack.
"Are you kidding me? You're placing my well-being in the hands of a bunch of brats? They don't look capable at all, especially…" The old drunk paused as he pointed from Sakura to Natsumi. "These two. The midget with red hair and a dumb face and that pink-haired fangirl with a big forehead."
At that comment, everyone chuckled but Sakura and Natsumi. They went to attack him but Kakashi held them back by the scruff of their uniforms.
"Calm down, you two. No killing or harming the client, remember?"Both girls reigned in their anger and settled for glaring at the old man.
"I am master bridge builder Tazuna, I want to go back to my country and make a bridge for the betterment of our lives. Therefore, you will protect me, even if it costs your life." The old man said with smirk.
Suddenly, the window of the mission distribution office opened and a man come from window and headed right to the Hokage. Never, in the past four years, had Minato seen Jiraiya as seriousbefore then. He handed Minato a scroll and when he opened it and read it, his eyes widened. Minato looked up at Jiraiya who gave him a big smile. The next thing anyone knew, the Fourth Hokage had wrapped his arms around one of the Sannin in a tight hug. At the same time, the door behind team 7 opened, revealing Minato's wife, Kushina and their youngest child, Mito.
"Thank you for this, you for finding my son."Minato etched out. As soon as Kushina heard "my son", she sprinted towards Jiraiya.
"Jiraiya, you found my son? Is he ok? Where is he?" She asked with tears in her eyes.
Everyone in the room stood in shock and happiness with the exception of Tazuna, who had no idea why the Hokage and the red haired woman seemed to glow in happiness, and Sakura, whose mother drilled it into her that the Nine Tailed Fox Demon that attacked them twelve years ago lives in Naruto, making him a demon. Sakura's mother always warned her to stay away from him, so she put a scowl on her looked at her parents in surprise when she heard that someone had finally found her big brother. She would finally get to see the brother she always wanted. The one who will play with her. The one who would tell her a bed time story, just like she saw many kids with their brothers. She just wanted to spend time with her brother. For some strange reason, she felt like her brother played a very big part of her life.
Kushina kept asking so many questions and Jiraiya couldn't even get a word in edgewise, so he turned to his student for help.
"Kushina, darling, why don't you give him the chance to speak, or say something."
"To tell you the truth, I'm not too sure if he's your son, Minato, but his feature matches with Naruto's, so there's a good chance he might be your son. Don't worry, he's not travelling alone. The identity of his companion, however, remains unknown. My spy network wasn't able to find who he is with because no one has ever seen him, not even in a bingo book. However, we have spotted them near the Land of Waves, so I think we should send some high ranking ninja for Naruto's retrieval mission."
"I will go for Naruto's retrieval mission" Kushina announced. "I need this, Minato. I haven't seen our son in 4 years; I refuse to wait any longer. I will go to the Land of Waves and comeback with him because he is our son. It's the absolute least I can do…as a mother." Kushina said leaving no space for argument so Minato accepted it.
"I understand, love, but who will take care of Mito in meantime?"
"She will be with Tsunade so we have no need to worry."
Kushina then ran to the Namikaze estate as fast as she could and headed straight to the house for her battle gear. At the same time, Minato looked at team 7. "You will follow your original to escort Mr. Tazuna to the Land of Waves, however team 8 will accompany you and one more thing, don't tell anyone about Naruto right now." At that comment, Sasuke gave scowled at Minato, who flinch at that response, but said nothing.
"Team, meet me at the gate in 1 will leave for the Land of Waves along with team 8." With that, Kakashi vanished in a puff of smoke. Mito then walks towards her father.
"Daddy, hasmy big brother really been found?"
"That's right, sweetheart. Your big brother has been found. Now it's time for your mother and sister to bring him home." Minato said as he smiled in true happiness for the first time in four years.
Namikaze compound,
Natsumi also dashed towards home to see her mother packing her things for the mission.
"Mom, did that Pervy sage really find Naruto?" She asked hopefully.
"Well, he did say there is a high chance that the kid is Naruto, that doesn't necessarily mean it's him. My heart, however, tells me that my son has been found, and I will bring him back no matter what, that's a promise." Kushina spoke determinedly and started to leave but not before kissing Natsumi forehead and wishing her good luck on her own mission.
Uchiha compound,
Right after Kakashi told team to meet at gate in 1 hour, Sasuke dashed towards home with a literal spring in his step.
"Father, mother, big brother, please come!"
They all came to the living room quickly.
"Guess what, that old pervert Jiraiya finally found Naruto. Now we can bring him back home!" The three gathered in front of Sasuke grew smiles big enough to split the ocean. The boy they saw as one of their own has returned!
Sasuke turned to Itachi. "Brother, please go to the Hokage. Ask him to be part of Naruto's retrieval mission. You're the only one who I can trust to bring him home."Itachi nodded, knowing how much Sasuke cared for his best friend. Suddenly, an ANBU Black Op soldier with a crow mask appeared in the window.
"Itachi Uchiha, the Hokage requests you in his office immediately."
Itachi nodded and left with the crow masked ANBU for the Hokage tower. When they arrived in front of the Hokage office, the ANBU knocked on the door.
"Come in." Minato called. Itachi and the crow ANBU walked into see two ninja already prepared for the retrieval ANBU with a cat mask and Kushina herself, dressed in her jonin outfit before she went on maternal leave.
"You called me, Lord Hokage?"
"Yes Itachi. You will accompany Kushina, Cat and Crow for the Land of Waves to findNaruto and bring him home to the Hidden Leaf Village. You will leave in half an hour." Itachi just bowed to Minato and left the Hokage's office.
Haruno residence,
When Sakura arrived home, her parents welcomed her with hugs and kisses.
"How was your day, Sakura?"
"It was wonderful, mother dear. Thanks in part to Natsumi; we've received our first C rank mission! That means I can spend time out of the village with my Sasuke." She sighed, with hearts in eyes.
"Excellent, my dear. Do your best and capture Sasuke's heart. Make him marry you so we can become rich." Sakura's mother spoke in approval. However, when Sakura's face turned sour, her mother tilted her head in confusion. "What's wrong, my dear?"
"I also have bad news, mother. The demon has been found, alive. The fourth Hokage's wife is going on a mission for his retrieval."
Sakura's mother scowled as well.
"Do not fear, daughter. Just focus on making Sasuke fall for you. I will make sure that the demon brat dies before he even sees the village gates." Sakura nodded and went to her room to prepare.
'As for you, Kushina, you ruined my every plan I had to make Minato mine. However, I will make sure you and your demon spawn die before you can return. I have to contact that mummy and that snake bastard so they can kill them both.'Sakura's mother thought, while her husband just shook his head.
'Even in the face of overwhelming proof, she still thinks that little child is the Nine Tailed fox demon. As much as I love her, if the Hokage finds out what she's up to, God have mercy on her…because we all know Minato won't.' thought Sakura's father.
At the gate,
Teams 7 and 8
Hinata arrived first, followed by Sasuke. The two genin had remained good friends throughout Naruto's absence, though they didn't see each other as often. The boy wanted to tell Hinata that the old pervert, Jiraiya, found Naruto but his father and mother warned him against it.
"Don't tell her now, son. Let her know during the mission."
As such, he controlled himself from telling her but his face shone with such excitement, it nearly outshone the sun. Hinata noticed his excitement, yet said nothing. After some time, all the genin for this mission had arrived and soon, both jonin and Tazuna come towards gate.
So when everything was set they started to walk, after some time Kiba started blabbing about how he is alpha male and better than Sasuke, for that he got punch to the head from Sakura. When they were walking Kakashi, Kurenai, Sasuke, and Natsumi, Hinata and Shino saw puddle of water [A/n Hinata is stronger in this fic.] And concluded it is an ambush so they got prepared for an attack.
All of sudden two ninja come from that pond and attack Kakashi and Kurenai who got caught in there chain and was ripped into pieces, when Sakura saw this she scream and froze into place and Kiba just wet his pants and yelp like a puppy. Then one of them attacks Sakura and Kiba and one went to attack Tazuna but were stopped by Sasuke, Natsumi, Hinata and Shino. And they tied them down when they were finished tying them, Kakashi and Kurenai come out from the bushes.
When Sakura and Kiba saw them they yelp in surprised and said "sensei but you were dead!" turning to where they saw their sensei was dead, but they saw only few log paces. Then Sasuke looked at Kiba and talked with mocking tone "so much for alpha male" then Kiba growl "why you." But stopped by Kurenai "stop it Kiba we are here on mission so just behave like ninja." "Yes sensei" was Kiba's answer.
When this conversation going on Kakashi was interrogating two ninjas, then Natsumi ask to Kakashi "sensei who are these ninjas?" then Kakashi reply "these two are the mist ninja and also known as demon brothers who are specialize for nonstop battle even if they have to die. But I think these two was after our client" Looking at Tazuna with visible eye who was sweating like hell, after 5 min of staring Tazuna sigh, and started to tell about gato and his plan to take over wave country for his illegal work.
Then Kakashi look at his students, their faces shows determination well except for Sakura who was as usual fan girl attitude, then he look at Kurenai for approval she nodded her head in approval then Kakashi look at Tazuna and said "alright we will continue the mission to the end." Tazuna was dancing in his mind.
Land of Waves,
After that they started to move towards wave country, in that duration they were not attacked by any ninja or by any Gatos men. When they reach port they saw one man was waiting for Tazuna and leaf ninjas to get them other side. When they reached other side he leaves them and vanish in the mist. After some time walk Kiba threw kunai in the bushes thinking it's an enemy ninja and Sakura started to yell at him.
But to others (except Tazuna who was also freaked out by sudden attack) stared at that side they saw white snow rabbit 'snow rabbit but it is spring time, could it be ambush?' there thought was interrupted by Kakashi "everyone duck, it's an ambush" when they duck a massive sword was passed above their head and stabbed in the tree.
When they saw who throw the sword they saw a man early thirties standing on the sword with ninja pants headband of mist village with pale skin and macular body and bandages wrap around his mouth to cover his face then Kakashi spoke "the demon of hidden mist Zabuza mamochi" "thanks, I think I m well known in konoha too and it's pleasure to meet you Kakashi of the sharingan eye and genjutsu mistress of konoha Kurenai."
Then Kiba started to run towards enemy but stopped by both Kurenai and Kakashi then Kakashi spoke "everyone make a manji formation and protect Tazuna when I told you about team work, this is time to put your real team work" all six genin was circling around Tazuna to protect him.
Then Kakashi put his hand on left side of eye and spoke "if you are my opponent then I need this!" reliving his left eye, then Zabuza spoke "ah! Right sharingan eye, the man copied over thousand jutsu right Kakashi?"
Kakashi just stared at him, then Zabuza spoke "well if you want to fight then I will just kill you all" with that said he shunshin and appear standing on river and make hand signs then mist started to appear, mist was getting thicker and thicker and visibility was going low and soon they feel a massive killer intent then Kakashi and Kurenai flared a bust of chakra and look at Sakura who was terrified by the killer intent and spoke "Sakura I will not let my comrades die."
Then they heard Zabuza's voice "ah! Where I can hit first lung, kidney, spinal cord, eyes, brain, neck" then suddenly Zabuza was between all six genins who was little terrified before Zabuza could swing his sword it was stopped by Kakashi who stabbed him in chest and second kunai in throat by Kurenai but it was water clone and then Zabuza appear backside of Kakashi and swing his sword and cut Kakashi in half and deep cut in Kurenai's stomach who fell backward catching her stomach but when they saw Kakashi was cut in half they heard sound of splash of water it was water clone.
Then Zabuza thought bit shocked 'he was able to see through that' Kakashi was holding kunai against Zabuza's throat and spoke "this is end Zabuza" then Kurenai come to aid Kakashi catching her stomach but then Zabuza spoke "is it really true" and Zabuza turn into a water and Zabuza emerge from backside of both of them and kicking them into the river where real Zabuza make hand signs and trapped them in "water prison jutsu."
Then Zabuza make hand sign and make water clone and started to walk towards Tazuna all the genin was freaked out but then they heard Kakashi "everyone get Tazuna and run as long as you can, water clone can't go long distant from real body so just run he is out of your league."
Then Natsumi spoke "sensei you told us about the rule when you pass us, those who break the rule are scum but those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum. so we will never abandon our comrades then she and Sasuke launch towards Zabuza clone Natsumi use shadow clone jutsu and attack Zabuza head on who blasted them off but then Sasuke threw a demon wind mill shuriken and threw at Zabuza clone but it passed him and was heading for real Zabuza who dough it barely but it transform into Natsumi and she throw few kunai at Zabuza who was forced to leave both jonin from water prison.
Zabuza was pissed and ready kill Natsumi but was stopped by Kakashi who was also very pissed then they make distance and Zabuza was running through hand sings and Kakashi was mimicking Zabuza, first Kakashi copy Zabuza's "water dragon jutsu" and manipulate Zabuza in genjutsu who got confused but before he could do something he was hit by blast of water and hit the tree finally Zabuza was defeated and pinned to the tree but before Kakashi could kill Zabuza three senbons comes and hit Zabuza on neck and killing him on the spot.
A hunter ninja come and thanks Kakashi doing his work and vanish with Zabuza then Kakashi got exhausted and collapse because excessive use of chakra and Kurenai was also unconscious because of blood loss Hinata was treating Kurenai with her bit medical knowledge she have and stopped her bleeding and Kurenai was out of danger but she need rest.
When they come to Tazuna's house they were greeted by pretty leady "father you alright? And what happen to these two?" then Tazuna spoke "They protected me from dying and got bit exhausted can you prepare room for them? tsunami" tsunami nodded and left after sometime Kakashi awake and greeted by people and after some conversation Kakashi spoke "guys Zabuza is still alive" Tazuna was freaked out "hey, didn't you see yourself that guy was dead" "yes, I did check but that was temporary death but the good news is he won't attack at least a weak. So now your training will start" spoke to all of them
Then Kiba spoke "Kakashi sensei what about Kurenai sensei? Will she be alright by that time?" "Yes, she will be fine but she needs rest" was Hinata's reply. Kiba was dancing inside his mind because Hinata spoke to him directly to him now Hinata will be his was his thought.
Then Sakura spoke "Kakashi sensei how you can teach us when you are laying yourself?" "I am just exhausted that's all, but I can still teach you." And Kakashi take them all in the woods for training.
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