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The Thirteen

Chapter four

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"They should be given their heiritage soon."

"But Will They Know What It Is?"

"they both have activated their bloodline abilities, correct?"

"Yes."

"then there's your answer."

"When Should They Be Given Their Heiritage?"

"Whenever we see fit." Blue said indicating his wife and himself as they walked in to the room.

"Why do you decide?"

"because we are the closest to them." Red replied.

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(Back in the real world)

Team seven's first mission is to capture an elusive cat, and every time they caught it and returned it, it escaped again. After three days of this two members of team seven snapped while waiting for another mission.

"AHHHHH! NO MORE STUPID D-RANKED MISSIONS!" Naruto and Mary shouted at the same time while the Hokage was listing the missions available.

"You don't want to do any more D-ranked mission? Ok, then. here's a C-ranked mission, you are to escort a bridge builder back to his hometown, if you can stop yelling at me, for now." With that said, Naruto and Mary shut up instantly. "Ok, the person that you will be guarding is named Tazuna. He should be here so-"

The door opened loudly, to reveal a drink old man.

"These brats are my guard?" Tazuna said with disgust and insult. Sasuke and Hinata had to hold back Mary and Naruto, respectively, to keep them from hurting their client.

"Yes, they are your guard, and if you don't like it then you can walk back home by yourself and who knows what might happen." Kakashi said with amusement in his voice.

"Fine. When do we leave?" Tazuna asked sullenly.

"We leave tomorrow at 7:00am." Kakashi said.

"Yes!" Naruto and Mary said while hugging each other.

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(Later that day)

Naruto and Mary are sitting at Ichiraku's Ramen consuming their 25th bowl of ramen, each. Old man Ichiraku is happily making their next order, and Ayame was talking to them about what they were going to do tomorrow.

"What do you plan to do tomorrow?" Ayame asked Naruto and Mary.

"Tomorrow we go on our first C-ranked mission." Naruto and Mary said at the same time.

"Wow, where to?"

"Somewhere in the Wave country, i think." Naruto said.

"It is in the Wave country, Oni-chan." Mary confirmed.

"Oni-chan?" Ayame said looking a bit puzzled.

"Oh yeah, i almost forgot to mention, this is my twin sister, Mary." Naruto said somewhat sheepishly, for forgetting to introduce his sister, again.

"You know that's the third time to day that you've forgotten to introduce me." Mary said with mock anger. Naruto didn't answer, because he was drinking the leftover broth.

"Time to go chibi, we have to get back to the house and train." Naruto said as soon as he finished his next bowl of ramen. Naruto put down enough money to pay a small army for a day. "Here's what we owe for today and some for the next time we come in."

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(Back at the Uzumaki house)

Sasuke and Hinata are staring at each other, sweat pouring down their faces. Their bodies glistening with sweat from the heat and the exercise. Both had their Dojutsu active, looking for flaws in the others defense. Sasuke's Sharingan has only one tomoe in each eye. As they started to fight again Sasuke started to notice that he could see Hinata's movements clearer and see where she was going to move in the next second. Hinata started to notice that she could see Sasuke's Chakra pathways faintly at first, but growing clearer as they continued to fight. Every hit and blow was blocked. They focused so intently on each other that they didn't notice that they had an audience of ten people. Hinata barely noticed someone move and turned her head to get a better view. Sasuke saw that Hinata turned her head and stopped his attack and faced toward the intruders, in a fighting stance. As soon as he realized who was standing there watching them he stood normally. Hinata looked in astonishment at two of the audience.

"Otousan! Neji-niisan!" with those words Hinata ran over and gave her father and cousin a hug.

"Team Seven it's time for your weekly spar with your instructors. However this sparring match will be different. It will be a Taijutsu only match. Hinata, Sasuke, Mary, Naruto and Neji will be fighting against Kakashi, Blue, Red, and myself. Hiashi, Black and Iruka will be the judges. For this match you don't have to subdue your opponent in order to win. The judges will decide who wins." the Hokage said. "The match begins in 10 seconds."

Team Seven and Neji immediatly got in to a five sided back to back formation. Kakashi, Blue and Red started to circle around them, and the Hokage just stood there. Kakashi lifted his Haite to reveal his Sharingan eye, Blue took off his cloak, and Red also took off her cloak. Team Seven glanced at each other really quick, and gulped in unison. Neji wondered why Team Seven gulped. In about 3 seconds he was about to find out. Blue took one step forward, it looked like a small step, but with that one step he was right next to Neji, with his left leg already kicking towards Neji's head. Naruto was right next to Neji and put up his left hand to block the kick. Neji was about to ask what the hell Naruto thought he was doing, but then he saw the fist coming towards Naruto's head. Neji put up his right hand to block that, then he saw the kick going towards Mary's torso and put up his left hand to block that. A fist was coming towards his head and Mary put up her right hand to block that. Sasuke and Hinata were occupied in the same manner as everyone else, once all four of the adults had thrown a punch and a kick, they were in a interlocking ring of bodies. They stayed like that for three minutes, each of the kids trying to find a way out of the situation. The adults twitched once each, and then the battle started. Hiashi and Iruka looked on in astonishment, the fighters were to fast for Hiashi to see, even with his Byakugan, While Black was reading a book with a black leather cover and white runic letters stating the title, not really paying attention to the fight. After two minutes of this all of the fighters were in the same ring as before, with one exception. The adults were the ones on the inside of the ring, blocking the kicks and punches.

"The match is over, Team Seven and Neji win." Iruka said.

"I never thought that i would see the day that a group of kids beat a group of adults." Hiashi said. Right after he said that Neji, Hinata, and Sasuke passed out from exhaustion. Naruto and Mary looked like they had just took a nice nap. The adults looked like they had just done some light stretches.

"That was a good sparring match. Now, Naruto and Mary, you two need to take Hinata and Sasuke back home and make sure they get a good amount of sleep, for the mission tomorrow." Sarutobi said.

"Hai." Mary said. Naruto picked up Hinata and Mary picked up Sasuke. "Shall we get flying?" Mary asked Naruto.

"Hai." Naruto said. At the same time wings started to grow out of Naruto and Mary's backs. Mary's wings started out silver and golden, like Naruto's, however instead of turning blue, they turned red, and they looked like Naruto's wings, except for the colour. With in three seconds Naruto and Mary were back at their home. They walked inside to the bedroom they all shared. Naruto set Hinata down, and started to stand up, however, Hinata had put her arms around Naruto's neck as they flew, and the only way to get her to let go would be to wake her up. Naruto thought about waking her up, but when he looked at her face he remembered how she looked when they first met. He didn't want to see her look like that again, so he just layed down next to her and she automatically snuggled up next to him. On the other side of the room, Mary set Sasuke down and started to turn away when she noticed a sad and scared look on his face, she moved next to him and brushed his hair back. Sasuke reached for her hand and pulled it towards him, like someone does when they need comfort. Mary saw that Sasuke needed to be comfortable and lied next to him, and he immediately snuggled up to her and started to softly cry. Mary noticed this and hugged him. Mary and Nartuto both lay awake for a few hours with their own thoughts about the person that they were comforting.

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The Next Day

"Everyone ready?" Kakashi asked Team seven, Mary, and Tazuna. Tazuna nodded, but the rest were preoccupied with what had happened that morning.

FLASHBACK

Sasuke and Hinata woke up at the exact same time with the same thought, "This feels nice." Sasuke looked up at the person that was comforting him. He mentally started. "What the hell happened yesterday? I remember sparing with our mentors, then waking up and crying a bit and a hand..." Sasuke looked at Mary's hand. "Her hand... her hand is the one I saw in my dream."

FLASHBACK WITH IN A FLASHBACK

Young Sasuke was running to his house, to the room where his parents would always wait for him afterschool. He reached for the door, but a light appeared to his left. "What the hell? This is different." Sasuke turned towards the light and saw a hand reaching out to him. He took the hand and...

END OF FLASHBACK WITHIN A FLASHBACK

On the other side of the room Hinata looked up to see who she was laying on. She "eep"ed and quickly, quietly and stealthily got out of the bed looking for the outfit she had on yesterday. She caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror and saw that she was fully dressed. She looked at Naruto and saw that he was also fully dressed. She thought about what happened yesterday for a second and contemplated how it ended up with her in the arms of the one she loved. Sasuke got up and made a small coughing sound. Hinata turned around and saw Sasuke start towards the door motioning her to come with him. Sasuke and Hinata went into the hall. Sasuke looked at Hinata and they both nodded at the same time, with the same thought running through their minds, "They helped us, so let's do something for them." They both headed towards the kitchen without a second thought. Within three minutes, they had made two trays with enough food to feed two people each. They split the utensils up and each took one tray. Once they got back to the room, Sasuke went over to Mary to wake her up gently, and Hinata went over to Naruto. Mary and Sasuke ate breakfast together, and talked about why Sasuke wants to kill his older brother. Naruto and Hinata started off quiet, but after a few minutes they started talking to each other and as they talked Hinata became less and less shy. After breakfast was done everyone went into the kitchen and started to clean up. Towels were tossed, seemingly randomly, to each person. Dishes were slid on the counter and right before they went off the edge they were picked up and put into the cabniet. After they finished, they looked at each other in shock. They realized that while they were cleaning they didn't have to say a word to each other to know what the other was about to do.

END OF FLASHBACK

"Hello? Kakashi to Team Seven, are you there?" Kakashi asked over the radio.

"Huh?" Naruto said.

"Sensei, where are you?" Hinata asked.

"We've started the mission already, and you all are thirty minutes behind us. You have fifteen minutes to get here before I make you all find really big rocks and carry them around on this mission." Kakashi said simply.

"Who's up for a jog?" Mary asked.

*5 minutes later*

"Kakashi-sensei we're here." Naruto and Mary said in unison.

"Good, now form up four-square around Tazuna."

Kakashi is walking apart from the group. Tazuna is walking in the middle of the Genin, with Naruto in front of him, Sasuke behind him, Hinata to his right and Mary to his left. As they are walking everyone, except Tazuna, notices a puddle. The puddle in and of itself is not special, but the fact that they were in a drought and it hadn't rained in the past few days made it suspicious. They kept walking, not but ten feet after the puddle Kakashi was caught in a maze of sharp chains and shredded into bits and pieces. The gennin turned around really quick. The duo holding the chain started rushing towards the genin. Sasuke breifly looked back towards Naruto and caught his eye. They exchanged a quick glance and took off. the Demon Brothers glanced at each other and then returned their gaze back to their targets. They were stopped about one foot from the time they looked back at the group. They were smashed into each other and knocked out cold. Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other and walked back to the group, and said, "Kakashi-sensei, you can come out now." Kakashi stepped out from behind a tree with Ichi Ichi Paradise Volume three Special Edition out in it's usual postion. "Shall we continue?"

"Hai, and while we're walking you can tell us why there are missing nin after you." Mary said to Tazuna, who was in shock from seeing two rookie genin completely demolish two high chunin/low jounin.

"Tazuna?" Mary asked, concerned because said bridge builder had not moved or twitched for the past minute. She walked over and tapped him on the shoulder. He felt the tap and slowly, with an anime style look of horror on his face, turned towards Mary.

" Tazuna, why were the missing nins after you?" Mary asked politely. After which Tazuna proceeded to tell them of Gatou and the poverty wave country was in because of him and how they couldn't afford anything higher than a C-mission.

"... Shall we head-" Kakashi started to ask when all four gennin turned toward him and gave him the 'are-you-stupid-or-something' look "-back... ok let's go."

*Somewhere else*

"Zabuza-sensei, the demon brothers have been defeated by two genin." A female named Haku said.

"Were these genin short, loud and had sun-kissed blond hair?" a void asked.

"One of the ones that fought fits the description, but there was another there that didn't fight that also fits that description."

"hmph, very good." and with that the void faded.

"What was that about, Zabuza-sensei?"

*A few days later*

" We have to cross this river to get into my homeland." Tazuna said softly. They walked up to the ferry man to ask how much to get across, but he just put a finger up to his lips to indicate silence. He gestured them onto the boat started to push it across using a long pole. Everyone on the boat except the ferry man was lost in their own thoughts.

" Haku, you will wait and watch the enemy for any weakness." Zabuza said, " and you will not interfere with my fight." Zabuza said pointing to a void.

" I won't fight any one other than the Uzumaki twins." The void replied, " even then I just want to watch them for the time being."

" Here they come." Haku observed.

Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, and Mary were walking in a diamond-ish formation around Tazuna, and Kakashi was walking off to the side. Naruto spotted a rustling bush and threw a kunai at it. A snow white rabbit hopped out of the bush scared. All of the Ninja looked at the rabbit with intrest. Tazuna was wondering what the hell they were doing looking at a rabbit, when he had to get home and finish his bridge. He was on the verge of saying something, when Mary shoved him down to the ground, not a second to soon. Everyone heard the thunk as something hit a tree, they looked up to see a weirdo in pajama bottoms and a bandaged neck and lower face, kinda like Kakashi... except he didn't have the orange book Kakashi always had.

A/N: I know, cliffhanger... sorry, but my mind just went *Wheeeeee!* out the window, but I figured that this would be better than nothing...