Chapter 4 of NKM... Well, here it goes.

Naruto, and Kingdom Hearts are not owned by me.

"Kupo, Wake up Naruto." The annoying voice said.

"Go away..." a nearly dead voice sounded.

"Kupo! You better get up or you'll be late for your first day as a Genin."

"Shut up, Joey." The mess of flesh said underneath the blankets.

"Kupo! C'mon Naruto. You'll be late." The moogle housekeeper said.

Naruto pulled the blankets over his head.

"Kupo. Fine. I'll just throw away the ramen breakfast I made you."

Naruto jumped out of bed and ran to the kitchen. Only to be disappointed. "I hate you."

Naruto slowly got dressed and was about to teleport over when he realized he felt lighter than usual. He couldn't put his finger on it. He knew he was missing something. Then he remembered. He walked back into his room and grabbed a necklace. It was a simple, fifty ryo necklace with a small amethyst stone. It wasn't much, yet it was precious to him, for one particular reason. It was his first birthday present.

-Flashback-

Four years ago, the dreaded day came. October tenth. Normally the promise of a birthday would fill a child with glee. Not so for the robed boy who walked these streets. For hm it filled him with dread. When he walked in the door of his one room apartment, he and Joey boarded up his doors and windows. He sat through the day and the night, Joey and he taking shifts watching the door. Around noon the next day, a knock sounded and a familiarly sweet voice asked, "Na-Naruto-kun? Are you there?"

Hinata? What was she doing here? He checked through the peep hole, that was her. He might as well meet her. He teleported outside of the room, and around the corner. He then walked by her. "Hey Hinata-chan. What's up?"

She turned around and upon seeing him she blushed. "I...um...have...uh...Happy Birthday..." She held out a small box to him.

Naruto was genuinely surprised. An actual birthday gift? Not even the Hokage gave him those...probably slipped his mind with all the paperwork. "Uh, thanks Hinata-chan."

He opened the box and there sat a small necklace, with a small amethyst stone. A tear fell as Naruto smiled down on the small present. The very first show of kindness on this accursed day. His very fist a birthday gift, his very first. More tears fell.

Hinata misunderstood. "I'm s-s-sorry it's n-n-not m-m-much, I couldn't"-

Her words stopped short as Naruto smothered her with a hug. "Don't you apologize for anything. It's perfect."

"B-b-b-but," Her stuttering worsened as she blushed deeply, "i-i-i-it's n-n-nothing m-m-m-more t-t-than f-f-fifty r-r-ryo"-

"It's perfect."

-Flashback End-

Naruto grinned at the memory as he donned the necklace. It was defiantly a precious memory. Naruto grabbed a ramen cup and teleported over to the training field. After seeing no one in the field he checked the time, using the sun. A little trick Kyuubi taught him. It was the exact same time Kakashi had told them to meet. Then he heard the voice of the ever-present fox, "He was two hours late yesterday, my bet is that'll he'll be just as late today."

"And you couldn't tell me this yesterday, why?"

"Are you kidding? It's fun to do these things to you."

"Shut up."

So Naruto spent the next hour and fifty eight minutes playing around with a couple of gifts Sora had left him along with the Keyblade. He was twirling one of his favorite gifts when he saw Hinata heading over he smiled and placed the weapon in a sealing scroll. "Finally someone's here!" Naruto nearly yelled.

"What are you doing here so early Naruto?"

"Waiting for you, of course. Now get over here, I need to talk to someone."

Naruto, not having anyone to talk to but his moogle 'friend' Joey, related the whole set of events that had passed by the last couple of days. Hinata, who was present for each event humored him.

She had gotten used to this, Naruto just needed someone to talk to about his day. Especially since this mysterious Joey person was never interested, she became the one he went to talk to.

It was not long before Sasuke arrived. He was in a surprisingly good mood today. No one asked why, in case asking him would ruin his mood. If they had asked he would have replied, "Because I don't have to listen to that annoying pink-haired harpy, Sakura."

They sat in silence for another two hours, when finally Kakashi came up. "Sorry, I would have been here two hours earlier but there was an accident along the road."

Naruto was about ready to kill him. "I have been waiting four hours straight! You better make up for this Cyclopes!"

Kakashi decided that it would be a good idea to make up for it seeing as how Naruto was literally ready to explode.

"Alright then, Hinata, you and Sasuke are going to run some drills. Naruto, I will teach you the Doton: Shinju Zanshu no Jutsu."

"You mean the one you used on me yesterday?" Naruto asked.

"You wanted to learn it didn't you?"

Naruto's previous annoyance with his sensei vanished. "Alright!"

Hinata ran the drill again. Palm thrust, palm thrust, kick, palm thrust, duck. Pretty simple. A little too simple. It was starting to get annoying, but being the overly polite person she is, she didn't say anything. Sasuke wished she had. Not that he cared about the drill, but it would be yet another thing the Uchihas were better at than the Hyuugas.

Kakashi came over. "While Naruto is working on that jutsu, you guys are going to spar with me so I can monitor your level at Taijutsu, Ninjutsus, and the like. Again, come at me as if to kill me."

Sasuke jumped for him. Kakashi pinned him. "Yes, exactly like that."

Hinata could tell this would be a long day.

Naruto punched the ground in frustration. Why couldn't he get it? It was so simple. Bury yourself, then, wait for the vibrations in the ground to tell you when the target is right above you, then jump for it. It couldn't be any easier. Then why wasn't he getting it? He could get himself in the ground, but he was always too early, or too later for the jump. His shadow clone target was nearly banging his head against the ground, "Stop missing me!"

"Have you learned nothing?" Kyuubi asked. "Patience, you must have patience."

"I know, Kyuubi-sensei, but he said it was easy. Why am I not getting it?"

"Are you watching the vibrations carefully?"

"Well...Not at the moment."

Kyuubi sighed. "You know what I'm going to say don't you?"

"Yeah..."

Kakashi was having so much fun he thought maybe he must be doing something illegal. He had just pulled the Kanashibari no Jutsu on Sasuke and was watching the Uchiha trying to move his mouth so he could yell out an angry tirade at his sensei. Now, the poor Hyuuga girl had to fight him all by herself. She, admittedly put up an average fight. Her Jyuuken stance was a little poor, but that could change...eventually.

Kakashi blocked the repeating palm thrusts. "Don't worry Hinata we'll work on your Taijutsu."

Sasuke lurched, signaling to Kakashi that the jutsu had dispersed. Sasuke decided to have Kakashi taste a jutsu of his own, "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!"Kakashi was suddenly replaced by a log as he used the Kawarimi no Jutsu, also protecting Hinata in the process, since she was in the line of fire.

"Hey, Sasuke, are you awake?" Kakashi asked his student, "Think, you could have fried your teammate just there."

"Hn."

Kakashi shiged, why did he get stuck with students that were absolutely impossible? Hinata was admittedly one of the better students, but she had a very poor stance, and she seemed like she was going to cry in some of these fights. Naruto was probably borderline. You could work with him, you just need to know what strings to pull, and Kakashi had already figured out one of them, Jutsus. Sasuke, he was impossible. Period. This guy was either brooding or...brooding...unless you count that one time he smiled...Kakashi ducked under a flying shuriken "Life's like that I guess."

Naruto smiled. "I think I got it." he whispered. Now he needed a good target. He found one. A certain silver head Jounin. Naruto and Kyuubi both laughed evilly. This would be fun. Kakashi ducked under another palm thrust from Hinata, and another fireball from Sasuke. At this rate, he wasn't sure how he was going to beat them, several thoughts ran through his head, but none of them sounded fun enough. Suddenly the voice of a certain blonde haired Genin rang through the air. "Doton: Shinju Zanshu no Jutsu!" Suddenly, Kakashi saw things from a different point of view, two inches above the ground, to be exact.

Kakashi sighed, "Something tells me you're never going to let me live this down."

Off to the side, completely hidden from the four ninjas, stood three figures wearing black cloaks. There were smiles on their faces. One that was leaning on an ebony cane said "I told you he was a good pick."

The one on his right side nodded, "He was an excellent pick, Sora." A feminine voice said.

The one on Sora's left sighed, "So how much do I owe you now?"

Sora's smile got bigger, "Around four hundred munny." The one on his left sighed again. "Tell me though, what do you think of the others?"

The girl on his right seemed to think for a while then she spoke, "The girl seems to be having trouble, but I think she could make a promising master."

"I agree." The man on Sora's left said, "But I worry about the other boy. I don't think he's Riku material."

"Well then, why don't you monitor them, find out about their lives, then we'll see whether or not their hearts are strong enough." Sora said.

"Sounds good to me." The man on his left replied.

"I just want to know what Keyblades were going to give them." The girl said.

"I have an idea for mine." The man on the left said.

Suddenly, the three of them disappeared.

One week later, team seven was hidden deep in the forest. There was total silence until a voice cracked on the radio. "Black Hood, this is IchaIcha, come in Black Hood. Do you have a visual? Over."

"IchaIcha, this is Black hood. A negative on the visual, what about you, Emo?"

"My name's not Emo, dobe. It's 'Storm Cloud'. Although, I think it should be 'Red Eye'."

"I'll give you a black eye if you don't stop complaining and answer the question!"

"I don't see it. Over."

"Okay, what about you, Hime?"

"I don't see him." She said blushing at her crush using her codename. "Hang on, I think I see him." The three of them waited in anticipation. "Yes I see him. He is one-and-a-half meters away from Black Hood. Over."

"Copy that, I'll get him." Naruot jumped out of the bush, aimed his Keyblade and launched a spell. "Stop!" Naruto walked over to his target, a cat with a red bow. "We have the target, I repeat, we have the target."

"Identify, does it have the red bow with its name on it?"

"Roger that, IchaIcha, red bow, name on bow. This is our cat."

"An excellent job, team. Now let's get this cat back home."

An hour later, Team seven was watching the poor cat struggle in the grip of the feudal lord's wife. Naruto looked up to his sensei, "Would that count as animal cruelty?"

"Unfortunately for Tora, no."

"Thank you, that will be three hundred ryo." A man at one of the desks said.

"Anything for my Tora." The lord's wife said.

"In that case, it'll be five hundred ryo."

The feudal lord's wife glared at the man who said that.

"It was a joke, come on!"

She paid the three hundred and left. "Alright Team seven," the Hokage said, "Your next mission is to paint a fence"-

"Hokage-sama," Naruto interrupted, "I mean no disrespect, but the missions are BORING ME TO TEARS! I can barely stand it sure the first week was ok, but come on, painting a fence? That's not doing anyone any help."

"Naruto"-

"Shut up, Cyclopes! You don't even stick with us for the job, you leave us half-way through and then come back when we're nearly finished."

The Hokage stared at Kakashi, his eyes wide. "You leave them?"

"Uh..."

The Hokage lifted his hand to forestall any lame excuse, "We'll talk about it later."

Kakashi hung his head, "Yes, sir."

Naruto cleared his throat. "About our boring missions?"

The Hokage gave a crooked smile, "What about them?"

"Hokage-sama," Sasuke spoke up, "For once I have to agree with my idiot teammate. Our missions are a complete waste of our talents and abilities."

Sandaime sighed. "So what do you want?"

"We'd like a mission that's, well...you know, an actual mission."

"Alright, I have a C-rank that needs to be done-."

Suddenly two of the gathered ninjas, Kakashi and Iruka, jumped "You're giving them a C-rank?!" The asked in unison.

The Hokage looked at Kakashi, "Can you give me a reason why they shouldn't?"

Kakashi was about to say "They're not ready." But memories of Naruto fighting him and equaling him came at him. His silence was unnerving to Iruka.

"Well...?"

"I-I can't."

"Ok then, a C-rank mission. You have to escort a bridge builder to the land of waves." Then to one of the ninjas next to him he said. "Send him in."

The door to side opened, and a portly man holding a sake bottle half-walked, half-stumbled in. Finally, he said, very unwisely, "You expect me to believe that this little brats are ninjas?" Before he could open his mouth to say something else stupid, a large circular object imbedded itself into the wall next to his head.

Naruto held a similar object in his other hand. "I'm sorry, I'm a little hard of hearing, did you say you didn't think we were ninja? 'Cause that would have been a big mistake."

Tazuna suddenly sobered up fast. "I-I-I didn't say anything." He said wisely.

"That's what I thought," Naruto said as he retrieved his weapon, a red and black, circular weapon with large spikes coming out of it. (Yes, Axel's chakram, I'll explain later.)

The Hokage sighed. This could be bad.

It was not long before the five of them were off. Naruto leading, Sasuke and Kakashi standing next to Tazuna on both sides, and Hinata in the back. As The small party was walking along, Kyuubi was using Naruto's nose to smell the air, and his eyes to survey the country side. An unusal smell wafted under his nose. "You smell that?" Kyuubi asked.

"I would but I can't, on the account of you using my nose."

"Oh, right..."

They continued walking not even hinting that something was wrong until Naruto raised his Keyblade above his head. "Thundaga!" Suddenly two ninja jumped out of a puddle, only to be hit by a bolt of lightning.

"YAAAH!"

Naruto became a blur as he rushed the ninjas. "Blizzard," The two ninjas, first froze, "Fire," the two ninjas were thawed, but covered with water, "Thunder," The ninjas, being covered with water, glowed like light bulbs. "Gravity," The ninjas hit the ground hard. "Stop!" The ninjas, didn't get up. Naruto ran over to them, took out his kunai and ran across their heels, cutting the Achilles tendons. When the spell wore off, the ninjas tried to get up, only to burst into cries of pain. "So Tazuna, do you think I can protect you yet?"

Tazuna's, Sasuke's, Kakashi's, and Hinata's mouths hung open.

Kakashi took the two men off into the forest for a 'talk'. The entire while, Tazuna was pacing back and forth. Kakashi came back, and walked directly over to the bridge builder. "What are you trying to pull? This mission is at least a B-rank, it maybe even be an A-rank. What are you trying to do, get my kids killed?"

Tazuna nearly broke down. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But I couldn't do anything else. I'm sorry."

Tazuna went on to explain how Gato, a wealthy business tycoon, was really a drug-dealing, weapons-selling, thug-hiring, slimeball. And how he bought the monopoly on the trading companies, and has left the wave country to starve. "I'm the only thing that's standing in his way of complete controlling the wave country. Once my bridge is built, trade can start up again. But I can't work without any protection, Gato has put a price on my head. So we tried to scrounge up enough money for some protection, but we could only afford a C-rank mission. I'm so sorry I had to put you through this, but you're my only hope."

Kakashi looked down at him. "It's not my choice. Ask my students whether we continue or not."

Naruto put on a very grim face. "Let me ask you a question, Tazuna." There was a short silence, "If we left you here, would you continue? Even with the possibility on death hanging over your head like a cloud?"

Tazuna didn't answer for a full three seconds. "Y-yes..."

Naruot smiled. "Then I swear to you, on my Keyblade, and all things on this earth, You will not be alone."

"If N-Naruto's going, I will." Hinata said.

Sasuke glared. "I guess that means I going."

Kakashi looked at his three students. He couldn't possibly be prouder.

Sorry that this chapter is shorter that the others, but it's here. Next Chapter, Showdown with Zabuza.