What if Naruto had a hidden power that came to be when he fought Mizuki, a bloodline he never knew of? Then he would be known as the Kaze no Arashi, the Wind Storm!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Those rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto.
Kaze no Arashi
Chapter 4:
The Village That Used To Be
Naruto had the look of a shinobi, calm, cool and thoughtful. The determined look in his eye was fierce and untamed like a giant fire. Sakura zoomed in, hiding behind the tree near Naruto, eyes sharp like kunai knives. Sasuke held his usual look but he was more focused than usual. Kakashi was a little ways away from the trio as he held a little mouthpiece.
"What's the distance to the target," Kakashi asked seriously like his life depended upon this mission.
"Five meters, I'm ready anytime," one of the trio said.
"So am I," said another.
"Me too," said the last one.
"Okay,"Kakashi said before going completely serious. "Go!"
They moved in, Sakura came from the right, her dress moving back like her hair. Sasuke came from the left in a stance, his left hand and arm extended while his right knee was bent forward as he moved in toward the target. Naruto rushed forward, the wind making his run seem like a sprint to get away from Might Guy when he starts talking about youth. His hands were extended to the target, which was unaware of their presence for a little while. Naruto caught the target, causing the target to start moving and yelling at its captor.
Naruto yelled, "Gotcha!" when he caught the target, who kept crying and moving from his grasp. Naruto looked to see that he had captured an angry cat with a ribbon on its left ear. The cat growled and kept swiping at the air in rage at being caught. Naruto looked at the angry feline which wasn't a good idea as it growled and hissed and started swiping at Naruto's face. Naruto kept it a distance away so it wouldn't get him.
It just kept clawing angrily at Naruto, who just looked unhappily and angrily at the target. Sakura just stood there, smiling at the blonde boy as he kept saying, "No! Bad kitty, bad kitty, bad kitty, quit clawing at me, damn it!" Sakura even slightly giggled at watching her teammate being almost clawed. "I rather like my face!"
Sasuke smirked a little at Naruto position as he heard Kakashi say, "Ribbon on the left ear… Are you sure this is the target, Tora?"
Sasuke looked at the feline trying to rip Naruto's face to crimson ribbons and grunted. "Yes, we're sure."
Kakashi just stood and said, "Good, lost pet "Tora" mission complete!"
Then, they went to where the missions were distributed only for Madam Shijimi, Fire Country lord's wife, to snatch Tora from Naruto and give it a huge hug. Inside Naruto was cheering. Ha ha, take that, you demented cat from hell!
I can see why that cat would leave, Sakura sweat-dropped as she saw the crying cat inside the death grip of the lord's wife.
"Now, let's see," the Third said as he looked at the paper of missions, "for Team Seven, we have babysitting an elder's grandson, shopping in the neighboring village and help digging up potatoes."
"No way, no way, no way, ojii-san! I want a better mission, a true mission, something exciting! Find us a better mission." Naruto complained to the Hokage to which Sasuke agreed.
For once, I agree with the dope. These missions won't help me find my brother at all. The Uchiha thought as Kakashi thought this would happen and he sighed.
Iruka was seething, "Naruto, you idiot, you're just a rookie Genin! You have to work yourself up to the bigger and better missions!"
"But! But! We keep getting the crappiest ones! I mean, that cat almost tore my whole fucking face off!" Naruto kept complaining to his former teacher.
"Be quite, you!" Kakashi bopped Naruto on the head while the Hokage sighed and explained how missions were set up for ninja.
Genin got all of the D-rank missions and lower C-rank missions as well. Chunin got the higher C-rank missions and all of the B-rank missions. Jonin got all of the A-ranks while S-ranks were left for only the most elite of the jonin and ANBU. S-ranks were really, very rare to see though, so the Third didn't focus on them very much.
Naruto, being Naruto, was just discussing openly what he will have to eat later, a miso ramen, pissing the Hokage off.
"Listen!" yelled the Hokage as Naruto grew pissed himself.
"I'm not that troublemaking brat I was in the academy!" Naruto proclaimed to everyone there. "I just want a real mission!" The Third and Iruka merely smiled at what Naruto said.
"Okay," the Hokage said, shocking everyone there. "I will give you guys a C-rank mission to protect a certain individual since you want one so much."
"Yay!" the blonde Uzumaki-Namikaze cheered as he got really excited. "Who will we protect, a beautiful princess like Sakura-chan, a feudal lord?"
This caused Sakura to blush and hit Naruto upside the head, not as hard as she used to though, "Baka!"
The Third smiled from his pipe, "Calm down, here he comes. Come on in!"
The door opened and the air was full of sake as an old man came in, chugging the bottle of sake, glasses on his nose. A backpack was on his back and a piece of rope was tied to his forehead. His head had gray hair and a mustache graced his face. He looked down at Team Seven and took another swig of his alcohol.
"So these brats are going to protect me? These are just a bunch of super brats. How can they be ninja? There's a small blonde brat with a stupid look on his face." Naruto grew very angry at the client. "Then, there's that girl with the pink hair. Is that even natural?" Sakura began to crack her knuckles. "Lastily, there's a boy with the hair style of a duck's butt with a depressingly, what do they call it nowadays, emo look." This made Sasuke scowl angrily at their client.
The client looked at Kakashi, who was keeping his students from tearing the old man apart. "Do you really think they'll do the job?"
"You don't have to worry. After all, I'm an elite Jonin ninja. You'll be fine." Kakashi said as they walked to the gate, the three genin glaring at the client.
"I am the super expert bridge builder, Tazuna. I expect you to provide me with super protection until I get back to my country and complete the bridge." The genin sweat-dropped and thought the same thing at the same time.
Does this man love the word 'super' or something?
As they walked on their way with Kakashi explaining the villages and lands with the five major ninja villages taking the forefront. The Hidden Leaf with their Hokage, the Hidden Mist with their Mizukage, the Hidden Cloud with their Raikage, the Hidden Sand with their Kazekage and the Hidden Rock with the Tsuchikage. After this discussion, Kakashi noticed a puddle even though it hasn't rained for days.
A ninja with a giant claw hand with sharp chains appeared and rushed forward as another did the same. The first one flipped while the other one rushed toward Kakashi, both trapping the jonin in sharp chains by wrapping them around his body.
"One down," the two said as Kakashi's eyes widened until he turned into nothing.
"Kakashi-sensei," Sakura cried out as the two shinobi looked at the frightened, shaking Naruto and appear behind Naruto who made a handsign.
"Two down," they chuckled while Naruto smirked turned and moved back.
Wind Release: Invisible Scythes! Naruto grinned as thousands of blades of wind slashed through the ninja like scythes. One of the ninja dodged and dashed for the client as Naruto nodded to Sasuke. Sakura pulled out a kunai to guard the client, Tazuna, who was stunned by the attacking ninja. Sasuke jumped and pulled out a shuriken and a kunai. He threw them at the chains, landing them on a tree as the ninja was stuck. Sasuke rushed and punched the shinobi causing the chain to fall from the claw.
The Mist ninja rushed toward Tazuna were Sakura was guarding for Naruto to rush forward with his wind to protect Sakura and Tazuna from the ninja. The ninja's claw dug into Naruto's hand, causing the blonde to wince until Kakashi appeared out of nowhere and stopped the ninja.
Tazuna breathed out a sigh of relief as the ninja noticed Kakashi used Kawarimi. Kakashi looked at all his students and eye-smiled at what they had accomplished, that they had been able to protect Tazuna from the enemy ninja.
"All of you were great. Though I thought this mission was a C-rank not a B-rank. You never mentioned ninja would come after you Tazuna." Kakashi spoke to the gulping bridge builder. "And Naruto has got injured by those poison claws of those ninja. We should turn back and head Naruto to the hospital and forget about completing the mission."
This caused Naruto to gulp and Sakura to speak up, "Yeah, we're not ready for this type of mission. We better turn back and heal Naruto's wounds." Sakura felt guilty; if she was stronger, she wouldn't have had Naruto or Sasuke protect her from the ninja like she was a helpless princess. That's why she wanted to turn back; to make sure Naruto didn't die from protecting her.
Naruto grew angry and pulled out a kunai. He shocked everyone when he forced the kunai into the open wound that had poison inside. Sakura gasped at what Naruto was doing.
"Naruto! What are you doing? Stop that!" Sakura yelled as Naruto plunged the knife into the wound.
I don't want to be the reason behind not completing this mission! Naruto thought to himself as he looked at everyone with a fierce grin
"I, Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, swear on this kunai that I will continue this mission. Reporting fit for duty, Kakashi-sensei! I won't hold us back and we will complete this mission. Believe it!" Naruto proclaimed to them, every word coming out of his mouth, proving that he won't back down.
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Zabuza and Haku had just met with Gato and were looking on taking on this group of shinobi that beat the Demon Brothers. Zabuza wonder who these shinobi guarding the old man bridge builder. I hope they provide me with some challenge. Zabuza grinned at the idea of a challenge.
Haku just followed Zabuza, wondering how he could help his master as they went ahead on the way toward Team Seven and Tazuna.
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"Naruto," Kakashi spoke, Naruto looked at his sensei, "that was cool how you flushed out the poison, but if you keep bleeding, you'll die." Naruto started to sweat drastically. "I'm serious."
Naruto started to overreact until Kakashi called him over, looking intently at the wound. "It seems the Kyuubi allowed your wound to heal faster than people usually do." Kakashi whispered to Naruto, making sure that Tazuna didn't overhear.
"Is everything alright with Naruto?" Sakura asked as Kakashi wrapped Naruto's hand.
"He should be fine," Kakashi looked to see Tazuna approach.
"I need to talk to you," the bridge-builder said as they approached the boat they would take to Mist Country.
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Zabuza kept moving with Haku behind him. The only thing was with the rabbit that Haku had let loose near where they would see the group approach. Zabuza was getting annoyed with Gato bossing him around. He stopped on a tree, signaling Haku to stop as well.
"What is it, Zabuza-sama," Haku asked the swordman.
"We'll need a plan in case the shinobi we meet is more powerful than we thought. If it looks like I'm about to die, pretend that you're a Mist hunter-ninja with that mask you got from the hunter I killed a while back. That way we can catch them off guard and be able to face them again if we have to. It will only be used as a last resort."
"Alright, Zabuza-sama," Haku replied as the two waited for Team Seven to approach them.
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Kakashi knew this was bad from the moment he heard of Gato from Tazuna. Gato didn't want the bridge built that would link the poor and weak Land of Waves to the mainland. Kakashi even said to Naruto that this used to be the Land of Whirlpool and where his mother and her relatives lived. This made Naruto wonder what it was like now.
As they landed, the cautious rower told them that where they are now was as far into Nami no Kuni he could take them to which Tazuna thanked him and told Kakashi to take him home safely.
It will surely be a jonin-rank shinobi next, Kakashi thought as they walked toward Tazuna's house.
Naruto heard a little rustle in a bush beside them, no thinking it through; he threw a kunai right at the bush only to reveal a very frightened snow rabbit. This caused Sakura to freak out and Naruto to apologize to the rabbit while Kakashi was thinking that something wasn't right.
That rabbit's coat is white but it's springtime. That rabbit's been locked inside a cage indoors. Someone must be here. Kakashi thought to himself.
Zabuza looked from the tree he was in. I now see why the Demon Brothers were beaten so easily. That's the Hidden Leaf's Sharingan Kakashi. He pulled out his giant blade and threw it at the shinobi.
Kakashi sensed this and told everyone to get down. As this happened, the huge blade went through the tree and Zabuza landed on its hilt, looking down at Kakashi with fierce eyes and Kakashi replied, "Monochi Zabuza, the Demon of the Hidden Mist, the one who knows the Slient-Assassination Technique. I didn't think you would be next." Kakashi revealed his Sharingan. "It looks like I'm going to have to get serious."
"I as well," Zabuza said as he landed on the water and began to do his Hidden Mist Jutsu.
Kakashi reassured his team and calmed them down only for Zabuza to appear in the middle of them and chuckle. "It's over!"
Kakashi rushed as Naruto made a handsign and blew Zabuza toward Kakashi, shocking everyone.
This brat… Zabuza thought as Kakashi actually pulled out akunai and held it to the rouge ninja's neck.
"It's over, Zabuza." Kakashi said but Zabuza chuckled.
"Sorry, but it's not," Zabuza spoke as he held a kunai to Kakashi's neck, showing that the other was a water clone.
Zabuza sliced with his blade but Kakashi ducked and moved back from Zabuza, only for Zabuza to quickly kick him into the water and Kakashi to drop spikes onto the ground. Zabuza sneered at the foolish move and moved toward Kakashi.
Why is this water so heavy? Kakashi thought as Zabuza appeared behind him, chuckling evilly.
"You fool," Zabuza made handsigns and trapped Kakashi in a water prison.
Damn! Kakashi thought as he looked at the smirking Zabuza.
"Now I can finish the job a lot easier." Zabuza looked at the genin and the bridge builder and made a water clone.
Shit, Kakashi cursed in his mind, he's more powerful than I thought.
Zabuza chuckled and looked at the little ninjas. "You guys think you are ninja? You're pathetic! You're not ninja until you've killed with your bare heads. I have done that many times before." He continued to laugh, scaring the genin. "I even killed my whole class to graduate."
"What?" Naruto yelled, scared for his life.
"Though because I killed everyone, they stopped that tradition." Zabuza chuckled as he looked fierely at the genin. "I can still hear their screams and feel the blood on my hands. Those were the days!" His clone rushed in and bashed Sasuke into the ground.
Zabuza then disappeared and appeared before Naruto, kicking him with enough force to where his headband flew off. Naruto was shaken when he looked at the evilly-chuckling Zabuza.
"You're just brats! You're only ninja when you're in my bingo book!" Zabuza proclaimed as Naruto rushed forward.
"Naruto, don't! Just take the others and Tazuna and run! You can't defeat him!" Kakashi yelled at the blonde, but he ignored his teacher's words, running forward and grabbing his headband with intense speed. As he pulled out a kunai and stabbed the water clone, causing it to disappear and Naruto to put on his headband, shocking everyone there.
"Hey, browless wonder," Naruto mocked Zabuza. "Then, you better put this into your bingo book, Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, the future Fifth Hokage of Konohagakure! Believe it!"
Zabuza grew a little pissed as he made another water clone that rushed Naruto, who just backflipped back to Sasuke and a surprisingly blushing Sakura.
"Okay, Sasuke," the blonde spoke, getting the Uchiha's attention, "I've got a plan for once, so listen up."
Sasuke lightly chuckled, "Then, it better be good dope."
Sakura stood there, looking at Naruto, lightly blushing. This… is… Naruto... What is this feeling?
"Alright, then," Naruto got up and grinned. "Let's go wild!"
Zabuza's clone moved into action as Naruto looked at Tazuna, who nodded. "Get going and free your sensei!"
"Alright, old man," Naruto said as he rushed gave Sasuke his pack and made shadow clones. "Let's getting going, Sasuke!"
"Right," Sasuke answered back.
The clones each made a series of handsigns and blew wind into their mouths. Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere! Multiple blasts of air hit the clone, causing it to widen its eyes and vanish into water. Naruto rushed forward toward Zabuza and Kakashi, wind surrounding him like invisible armor.
"Now, Sasuke!" Naruto yelled as Sasuke threw the Demon Wind Shuriken: Windmill of Shadows at Zabuza.
"You think a shuriken will stop me," Zabuza quickly made a clone to stop a shuriken, but it vanished as the remainder of Naruto's clones took it out. I'm underestimating these brats!
Another shuriken appeared in front of the real Zabuza as he just hopped and it fell under him. "A shuriken can't touch me!" The shuriken all of a sudden poofed into a Naruto with a kunai as Sasuke and the approaching Naruto smirked.
The Naruto threw the kunai in mid-air as Zabuza lost his grip on the prison and the real Naruto was in front of Zabuza, unleashing his wind armor into an attack, knocking the rouge ninja into a tree and Kakashi to appear before him.
"There's no way I'll lose to a monkey who copies my moves and his damn bratty students," Zabuza started doing a series of signs that Kakashi did too. They both finished at the same time. Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!
The genin were in awe of the clashing dragons as the two shinobi then saw Kakashi and Zabuza moving back from each other after clashing together. They started doing the same movements which made Zabuza angrier at Kakashi.
"All you do is copy me," Zabuza said as he made a bunch of handsigns with Kakashi and then, they both said, "You can't beat me, you monkey bastard!"
Zabuza grew even angrier as he kept making handsigns," I'll make It so you can never talk with that monkey mouth of yours."
Zabuza thought he was seeing himself. Is this a genjutsu?
Kakashi took this moment to complete Zabuza's jutsu. Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!
Zabuza was shocked completely by this as he was sent into a tree with Kakashi looked down on him, kunai in hand. "Can you see into the future?"
"Yes, yours is death," Kakashi said as he was about to strike when two senbon needles struck Zabuza's neck and a hunter ninja appeared and caught Zabuza. "So, you're here for Zabuza." Kakashi knew of the hunter ninja who just said, "You were right about his future."
Kakashi was getting weak so he just let the hunter ninja go with Zabuza, not thinking about what might happen later on.
"Who was that, Kaka-sensei?" Naruto asked as Kakashi merely said it was a hunter ninja that will dispose of Zabuza's body.
Kakashi passed out, shocking his team. Crap, I must have used the Sharingan for too long and used too much chakra. Damn it!
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Kakashi awoke to see a woman, "You're finally awake."
That must be the daughter Tazuna spoke of, Tsunami, Kakashi thought as he looked at his students.
"So, Kaka-sensei," Naruto spoke which made Kakashi look at his student, "is Zabuza really dead and taken care of?" Something made Naruto feel that Zabuza wasn't dead.
This made Kakashi's eyes widen. "Yeah, he's alive."
This made everybody sweatdrop. "Why didn't you tell us the eyebrow-less freak was alive?"
"I was too weak to tell you. I wasted too much chakra and didn't think about that supposed hunter ninja that took Zabuza's body when he was supposed to dispose of it right there. The Hunter-nin must be an ally of Zabuza's. We'll probably have to face them again, so while protecting Tazuna we'll be training to become stronger."
"Um, Kakashi-sensei," Kakashi looked at the one who spoke to see it was Naruto again, "can I see the remains of Uzushiogakure before we train?" Naruto's eyes held desperation to see where his mother used to live.
"Alright," Kakashi eye-smiled at his student as he got up on his crutches that he had to get used to walking on for a while, "we'll go right now with you, Naruto."
Naruto cheered as the team got ready to see the fallen village.
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"Here's Uzushiogakure," Kakashi said as they saw an area of fallen pillars with the Uzumaki clan symbol on them in an area of water. "It was destroyed because of the threat they held with their superior fuinjutsu during the war." Naruto kneeled near the water, looking at the steep hills in the countryside. "Naruto…"
"Could you guys…," Naruto asked in his voice, sounding weak and on the verges of collapsing, "please give me a moment?"
"Sure," Kakashi eye-smiled as he pushed Sakura and Sasuke forward away from Naruto.
Sakura looked back toward Naruto for a moment and her heart felt heavy when she saw droplets of water land onto the ground. She knew from Naruto's voice of sadness that these drops were tears…
Just sad tears…
AN: Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Next chapter will focus on the training and getting ready for the battle on the bridge. Review and tell me what you think! Thank you for reading!