Welcome back for the refined Ch.8. Enjoy.
I'm poor, therefore I don't own anything. Naruto included.
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"The bridge is being attacked, Itachi requests you two come immediately." Said Itachi's clone as it dropped into the clearing beside Tazuna's house with Kakashi and Naruto.
"Alright, we'll be there in a minute." Kakashi said as the clone dispelled.
"Leave my mom alone you big jerk!" a young child's voice hollered out from near the house.
"Shit! Naruto go on to the bridge with Itachi, I'll meet you there in a bit." Kakashi commanded before shunshinning back to the house to find 2 thugs, 1 holding Tsunami, and the other moving towards Inari.
"I swear to God I'll bite my tongue off and drown on my blood if you touch my son!" Screamed Tsunami, as the thug moved closer to Inari.
"I advise you to let her go." Kakashi said flatly, while producing a ton of killing intent.
The thug that held onto Tsunami promply pissed himself and passed out from the feel of the killing intent. The second thug froze in place but managed to remain conscious, though he figured out quickly that that wasn't necessarily a good thing as Kakashi appeared in front of him and buried a kunai up to the hilt in his forehead, before ripping it back out and throwing it into the one who passed out.
"Thank you for saving us Kakashi-san!" Tsunami yelled as she ran up and kissed Kakashi on the cheek. Well more like the mask where his cheek should be, but it got the point across.
"It's no problem Tsunami-san, but I must be going now." Kakashi said as he shunshinned away.
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Naruto instantly disappeared from the clearing in a flash of red light, before reappearing next to Sasuke, in what appeared to be dome of ice-mirrors. Sasuke looked kind of beat up, but had no real injuries; Haku was nowhere to be seen.
"What's going on?" Naruto asked, looking around for his opponent.
"She teleports between these mirrors at insane speeds, I can't even track her with my Sharingan. She's so fast I haven't been able to land a single hit, and I couldn't get out."
"I see." Naruto said as he pulled a 3 prong kunai out and threw it outside of the mirrors. Just then, Haku appeared in all of the mirrors at once.
"Yes it's true, in here, I am nigh invincible; now you are trapped in here with him." She said as she threw a flurry of senbon needles at the duo.
"I don't think so." Naruto said as he put his hand on Sasuke's shoulder and disappeared in a flash of red.
"How did you escape?"
"I don't have to explain myself to a puppet. Prepare to die." Naruto replied.
"I cannot die here. I will kill you if I must but I will protect Zabuza-sama."
"I doubt it. We have a mission to complete and you stand in our way." Naruto said a Rasenraikurai formed in his right hand, before it was thrown at Haku's Ice Mirror.
"Fool; nothing can break my ice mirrors!" Haku said just before the attack hit. She was right, it didn't break the mirror; it dissolved it. She barely escaped in time.
"How?!"
Her reply was a Naruto clone dropping out of nowhere and dropping an axe kick on her neck, before twisting his body and kicking her once more, sending her flying towards Naruto and Sasuke.
Sasuke quickly went through some hand seals and called out "Fire Release: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" before exhaling a large ball of fire that washed over Haku for several seconds before dispelling, leaving a burnt and bloodied girl on the ground in front of the pair.
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Zabuza quickly charged in a Itachi, sword drawn back ready to attack. "You'll pay for what you did to me before!" He yelled as he slashed towards Itachi. Itachi simply parried with a kunai before leaping back to put distance between them. As soon as Itachi moved, Zabuza started doing hand seals, which Itachi was copying with his Sharingan. They finished at the same time and both called out "Water release: Water Dragon Missile Justu!" as 2 massive dragons rose from the water below the bridge and began to battle it out above them.
"How did you-" "Copy your Jutsu?" Zabuza began but was cut off by Itachi.
"My eyes can see everything." Itachi answered.
Zabuza answered in the form of charging back in and swinging down at Itachi. The two had a kenjutsu battle for a moment before Zabuza broke away and began hand seals once again, with Itachi copying them.
"How can you copy my jutsu before I do it?!" Zabuza yelled, getting distracted and stopping the hand seals while Itachi continued.
"Can you see-" "The future? Yes I can." Itachi said as he finished the seals "Water Release: Water Bullets."
Itachi then spat out a medium sized ball of water that hit the distracted Zabuza, knocking him backwards.
"And your future is death!" Kakashi's voice rang out amongst the sound of a thousand birds chirping as he drove a Chidori through Zabuza's chest, but Zabuza turned slightly as the last moment making the attack miss his heart.
"Sorry I'm late, I got lost on the-"
"Shut the fuck up." Itachi cut him off with a chuckle as Kakashi dropped Zabuza's body to the ground.
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Haku soon woke up, and turned to leave as she said "Zabuza-sama no!"
She only made it a few feet before Naruto appeared in front of her, Wind Release Rasengan in hand, and thrust it through her chest.
"Z-Zabuza-sama… I'm sorry… I failed you…" Haku said as the life left her body.
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Kakashi and Itachi began to walk over to check on Naruto and Sasuke, when they felt a spike of chakra behind them. They turned quickly to see Zabuza standing up, with a hole through the right side of his chest.
"Where's Haku?" He growled out.
"The hunter-nin? I assume she's dead by now." Kakashi said nonchalantly.
"Bastards! I'll kill you both!" Zabuza roared as he made to run at Kakashi and Itachi.
"Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!" came Naruto's voice from behind them, barely heard over the bell like screech in the air as a large chakra shuriken flew by them and crashed into Zabuza. After the attack hit, it curved upwards and carried Zabuza 15 feet into the air before expanding in a blinding flash of light as it destroyed Zabuza's chakra network. When the light faded away, Zabuza fell back to the ground not moving but still alive.
"What the fuck did you to me you little shit?!" Screamed Zabuza.
"Simple, I destroyed your entire chakra network. You're as good as dead."
"Bullshit! No attack can do that!"
"Mine just did."
"Damn. He's right, it's completely shredded there's nothing left of his chakra coils and tenketsu." Said Itachi who looked at it with his sharingan.
"Fuck you! Just kill me and get it over with already!"
"Alright then, as you wish." Said Naruto as he hefted Zabuza's sword off the ground and cleaved his head off.
After Zabuza was dead Naruto took out a scroll and sealed Zabuza's sword into it. "Spoils of war." He said with a big grin.
"Damn Naruto you've been holding back on us haven't you?" Said Kakashi.
"Yea, I can't use most of my better attacks in spars because they are too dangerous."
"So I've seen. Well… all that's left now is to assassinate Gato. Let's go back to Tazuna's and rest and we will worry about Gato in the morning." Said Kakashi.
Tazuna walked up and said "Yea I can agree with that I am tired just from watching that."
"Right. Let's go on back then." Said Itachi.
So they all left out for Tazuna's house to rest up for the night. Everyone went to bed since they agreed that the main threat was neutralized. The next morning they got up and discussed the plan for Gato's assassination over breakfast.
"Did you say you're going to kill Gato? You're all crazy! No one can beat him he killed my father!" Said a young Inari who just had walked down the stairs.
"Now now Inari calm down these guys are here to help us." Replied Tsunami
"No mom they are all fools and they're going to die just like Daddy!" Said Inari as he ran back up the stairs.
"I'm sorry about Inari everyone, he's still hurt because Gato had my husband publicly executed for standing up against him." Said Tsunami with a frown on her face.
"It's fine, I can understand his pain, I lost my father when I was his age, and I turned bitter to the world for a long time. It'll pass eventually." Said Kakashi. "How about I go talk to him and see if I can help?"
"If you want, I'd really appreciate it." Said Tsunami, her frown lessening a bit.
Kakashi walked up the stairs to Inari's room and knocked on the door.
"Go away!" Yelled Inari.
"Hey can we talk for a minute Inari?"
"No I don't want to talk. Go away."
"Come on Inari, it will make you feel better. I know what you are going through. I lost my father when I was just a bit younger than you are." Kakashi heard Inari get up and walk towards the door. He opened the door and said
"Come on in."
Kakashi walked in and sat down on the edge of Inari's bed and said "Look, I understand your pain Inari. My father died when I was 8 years old. I was like you, mad at the world and I tried to blame everyone around me for what happened. It took me losing my best friend in combat to realize I was wrong. I was angry and one day I got in an argument over something that my dad once said, and later that very day my team was ambushed and my friend was killed. With his dying breaths we made up, and it made me realize that I was wrong for acting the way I was towards everyone. Inari I don't want you to be like me. You don't need to lose a close friend to realize you're wrong about this. Believe me when I tell you that my team is made up of the 4 strongest people in our village besides our Hokage. We will kill Gato and avenge your father's death."
Inari had started to cry by this point and Kakashi patted him on the shoulder. "You're right, I have been acting like a big baby over all of this and it was stupid. I'm sorry for yelling at all of you earlier."
"Don't worry about it Inari, like I said earlier you were just confused. I'm glad we had a chance to talk to help you get over it instead of a tragedy happening."
"Thanks Mister. It really did help me."
"You're welcome, now if you'll excuse me; I've got an appointment with Gato."
Kakashi walked back downstairs where everyone was sitting and waiting on him. "Are you all ready?"
Everyone nodded and Kakashi said "Alright then let's move out." As they all got up and left the house.
Once outside the house they started heading west until they could see Gato's mansion in the distance and they stopped. "So how are we gonna do this?" Asked Sasuke.
"Leave no survivors, and don't die. I'll come in from the west side, Itachi from the north, Naruto from the south, and you from the east. Kill all of his men you cross, just watch out for friendlies once you get closer to the center. Everyone get into position, and I'll signal via radio when it's time to attack."
"Yes sir." Said everyone at once as they ran off to get into position.
Soon Kakashi came over and said "Everyone ready?"
"Naruto"
"Itachi"
"Sasuke"
"Okay then, give em hell." Kakashi said as an explosion ripped over the western end of the compound. Naruto quickly ran through some hand seals as he said "Wind style: Wind Dragon Missile Jutsu!" as a large tornado formed and took the shape of a dragon that started raging through the compound.
At the north side Itachi did his own hand seals and said "Fire style: Fire Dragon jutsu." As he spat out a large column of fire that shaped into a dragon and started crashing into the building, causing it to catch fire.
On the east end Sasuke made his own fire dragon that started ripping through the building.
Back on the west side Kakashi had blown the wall down and was now cutting men down left and right with his Chidori.
On the south with Naruto, he bit his thumb and ran through some hand seals then slammed his palm on the ground as he rose 4 stories in the air in a cloud of smoke. "Hello Bunta. Mind helping to destroy this sick bastard?" "Ahh the new summoner, this is our first meeting. I will help you but know this: I don't enjoy being summoned for trivial bullshit, unless it is to have drinks. This instance is okay, I shall have fun." Naruto tapped his radio and said "Everyone clear the building, it's about to come down."
"Kakashi clear"
"Sasuke out"
"Itachi is clear"
"Bunta, give em hell!" Naruto shouted as Gamabunta started hopping around smashing man and building alike and slashing into the buildings with his tanto. Naruto ran through a set of hand seals as a Rasenraikurai formed in each hand and he said "Rasenraikurai barrage!" as he fired off one after another, vaporizing all in their path.
In 5 minutes flat, Team Prodigy completely leveled Gato's mansion. They all met in the middle of the rubbish and fanned out to search for Gato's body and finish any stragglers. After a few minutes of searching passed Kakashi came over the radio and said "I've got confirmation here." As he flared his chakra so the others could find him.
They all converged on Gato's body, lying under his desk dead from apparent smoke inhalation. They cut his head off and sealed it into the scroll with all of the other kills, and gathered all of the other bodies and brought them to the middle of the field behind the mansion and burned them. Itachi managed to find Gato's bank book and used his sharingan to copy the handwriting and transferred all of his funds to Konoha.
They went back to Tazuna's house and spent the next 2 days simply watching him build the bridge with no interruptions. Once he was done everyone said their goodbyes and Team Prodigy left bound for the leaf village.
2 days later they arrived home in Konoha and headed to the Hokage's office for their debriefing.
Kakashi knocked on the door and Minato said "Enter" as the team walked in and bowed to him.
"Report." Said Minato.
"Sir, on the way to Wave, we encountered the demon brothers, and Naruto quickly dispatched one while Sasuke took out the other, whom we interrogated to find out about the man behind all of this, Gato. We discovered that he had hired Zabuza Momoichi as well as another missing nin named Haku, who was an ice style user. Myself and Itachi battled Zabuza while Naruto and Sasuke killed Haku, though Naruto actually landed the killing blow on both Zabuza and Haku. Afterwards we took the next day off and then the following day we attacked Gato's compound and killed him and all of his men. Itachi took Gato's bank book and transferred all of Gato's funds to Konoha's account."
"Good. Do any of you have anything to add?" Said Minato as everyone nodded their head no.
"Okay then, congratulations on a job well done. From what I've heard, Kakashi, Itachi, would you recommend your students for promotion to chunin?"
"Yes sir, they both exhibited the qualities expected of a chunin." Said Kakashi as Itachi just nodded.
"Well then Naruto, Sasuke; congratulations on your promotion." Said Minato as he handed each of them a green vest.
"Thank you Hokage-sama." Said both boys as they bowed.
"By the way, here is your mission pay everyone." Said Minato as he handed them each an envelope.
"Actually Dad, we also have 3, possibly 4 or 5 bounties to collect." Said Naruto as he pulled out his scroll and unsealed the remains of the demon brothers, Haku, Zabuza, and Gato. "We know that there was a bounty on the demon brothers and Zabuza but are unsure of Haku and Gato."
Minato picked up a bingo book and flipped through it and said "Yes there is a bounty on Gato, but no listing for Haku. I will send off for the bounties and have them deposited to your account as soon as the return."
"No Dad, don't give it all to me, this is a team effort, so we should split the money between us."
"Okay that's very noble of you Son. I will take care of dividing the money and hand it out when it arrives. Thank you all, you are dismissed."
They all left out of the office and Naruto teleported home to take a bath before teleporting to Ino's house where he knocked on the door. Ino answered the door and when she seen it was his she tackled him into the street and hugged him tightly. "I was so worried Naru-kun!"
"I'm sorry Ino-chan it was an urgent assignment that had to be moved up in order to ensure success. I'm sorry that I had to miss our date though." he said as he leaned up and kissed her.
"Don't worry Naru-kun. We can make it up some other time. I love you."
"I love you too Ino-chan."
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Funny, after revising this story, I turned a single 3000 word chapter into two chapters, 2300 and 3000 words respectively. I added quite a bit of detail, but I still don't think it's good. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed it.