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Team 7 spent the next few months completing D-rank missions. Finding Tora, gardening, delivering cleaning. Everyone was bored completing them. Kakashi could have sworn that during some missions naruto switched himself with a clone. He knew that this team would be a challenge to teach. He remembered a meeting with the Hokage the morning before he picked up his team
Flashback
"Team 7 will be made from Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto." The Hokage said. "This team will be an all purpose assault team. This team will be very tricky and will be the hardest to teach. Sasuke has shown that he cares about himself, no one else. He believes that he is much more skilled than anyone else and whilst that might be true, if he continues like this he will get cocky and die. Sakura seems to hate Naruto for some reason but worships Sasuke. Naruto is Naruto. He knew about the Fox at a young age, and I know he's hiding stuff from me. He saved Iruka's life with a Rasengan. His pranks have also become smarter lately. I think he might know about his father. I want you to find out two things about him for me, first what he knows, justus and knowledge. Second his mental state, I can't ask a Yamanaka to enter his mind; you remember what happened last time someone tried that. The council might try to force you to ignore him and focus on Sasuke..."
"They already have Lord Hokage, I ignored them." Kakashi interrupted"
"Due to the nature of the team, the last Uchiha and a possible unstable jinchuriki I will have ANUB check in from time to time, and I will be demanding weekly updates."
"Unstable jinchuriki, from what I heard Naruto is very loyal..."
"That may be how long before he gets called demon once too much, what happens if he beaten again and loses it, I know he's loyal, but then again any shinobi can just snap, take Itachi as an example, one day he's very loyal then he kills his clan. Add the face he has the nine-tail fox inside him, it could get bad quickly. I love him like a grand-son but I can't play favourites and ignore the possible threat."
End flashback
As of now his team was heading to the office to get a new mission.
"Jiji I want a better mission, none of these missions are giving me any sort of experience on how to be a ninja." Naruto started to demand
"NARUTO," Sarutobi screamed, "It seems you don't understand how these missions are ranked..."
Kakashi stopped listening at this point. He had been on enough missions to know this, he stated to read his book.
"PAY ATTENTION WHEN I'M EXPLAING THINGS." The god of shinobi screamed at Naruto who was explaining ramen flavours .
"Lord Hokage, I think it will be a good thing if we took a C-rank mission. We have done the required missions needed, and I think it would be good to try it" Kakashi asked. Truth be told he was getting bored watching his team do D-rank missions, at least with a C-rank he could get some practice in.
"Very well I have just the thing, a C-rank mission to escort a bridge builder to wave, bring in the client"
An old man walked in, he had a bottle in his hand and appeared a bit tipsy.
"Your letting these runts protect me, what are they gonna do if I get attack?"
"Don't worry about it, I'm a jonin, I will be able to take care of anything that bothers us." Kakashi read the mission details. "Meet at the south gate tomorrow at ten, be prepared for a long mission."
The next day to his team shock Kakashi turned up on time. Naruto jokingly tried to deactivate a genjustu, Sakura ask a question that only Kakashi should know just in case, Sasuke looked shocked, then went back into I don't really care mode.
"Naruto, were is your bag?" Kakashi asked.
"Carrying a bag and weights is too much trouble, so I sealed my stuff into a few scrolls then I placed those scrolls into another scroll to make it easier to carry." He replied.
"Good thinking, though sealing scrolls into other sealing scrolls is tricky, most people have trouble as the seals counter each other and normally you lose your stuff." He pause remembering the time his old sensei tried that so he could have any flavour ramen in a scroll. That somehow transformed into a large ramen blob. Still it tasted nice. "How much weight do you have on?"
"Lets see, I made some chakra weights, I got roughly 5kgs per weight and I got 3 on each arm and 3 on each leg. So you do the maths"
Kakashi looked impressed. He had around 60kgs on him and he could make chakra weights. Those were hard to make, only one in the town sold them, but they were order made.
"Yea right you bought them from that weapon shop, um..." Sasuke started
"You mean Heavenly weapons; I'm the guy that make it for them. Its good extra cash. I could tell you how to make them, but I doubt you understand."
This shocked the team, though Kakashi made a menial reminder to add this to the Naruto mystery book. This level of sealing was too high for someone of his level. He knew that Naruto was hiding a lot.
Kakashi decided to test his team and went though the items each member brought. Sakura had a textbook example of what to bring. So did Sasuke though he had some justu scroll and family history as well. Naruto had everything right and lots of ramen.
At half ten the client arrived. Naruto was happy to leave the village. He told everyone it was his first time leaving, but Kakashi remember the time Naruto ran off and was found in a nearby town.
During the trip, everyone found ways to entertain themselves, Sasuke read his family history, Sakura enjoyed the view, Tazuna drank some sake, Kakashi read his porn, whilst Naruto had a balloon in his hand and was trying not to burst it. When asked what he was doing he replied
"Chakra Training"
This was true to a point.
Once they reached the edge of the fire border everyone except Kakashi and Tazuna stopped what they were doing and paid attention to the area around them.
Wave was an island nation, however they owned a bit of land in the main continent. This area had only one city of important and that was to serve as a major port to and from the islands. Once they reached the borders of this area, Kakashi was surprised that Tazuna didn't want to head to the port but had organised a boat to sneak them in.
As they were heading to the meeting point, Kakashi, Sasuke and Naruto all noticed a puddle. This was weird due to fact it was a hot day, it had been for a week and it hasn't rained in a month. Sakura noticed a genjustu presence nearby but she couldn't find it. Five minutes late the demon brothers struck.
Naruto was puzzled about that puddle, without warning two people jumped at Kakashi and cut him in half using a weird chain which was connected to each other at the gauntlet. Team 7 froze for a second, and then countered. Sasuke leapt into action striking at one aiming a kick high. Together the brothers grabbed Sasuke and throw him towards a tree, regaining his position he twisted in mid air, feet on the tree and pushed off. At the same time he threw a kunai which broke the chain containing them.
It was at this point Naruto struck, he charge one of the brothers, forming a rasengan, in his right hand. This time he didn't need help, but it wasn't as powerful yet. He blocked the foes right hand, which had a claw on it, with his left and pushing his right arm under his left, he struck the person square in the ribs. Whilst this didn't kill him there was a nasty crack noise which indicated one of the demon brothers had a broken rib. The second brother whilst fighting Sasuke noticed Naruto taking his friend down, and made a dash for the target. Sakura got in the way with a kunai drawn, but before he reached her, Kakashi lunged in and took him down.
To say team seven was shocked was an understatement. They thought their sensei was dead, only when they noticed a cut up log were Kakashi died, did they understand. Replacement.
"Good work team. Tazuna we need to talk, lets drug these two and leave them for a team to pick up. We can make camp in a bit." Kakashi ordered.
"Kakashi-sensei why don't we seal them into a scroll that way someone else won't take them and we would waste the drugs?" Naruto suggested.
"You can do that? That pretty hard." Kakashi was again shocked at Naruto skill with sealing.
"Sealing isn't that hard, it just everyone over looks it as an inferior skill, and the academy doesn't help much" Naruto started to explain as he started his work. Whilst he was skilled he couldn't seal both of them into one scroll. Kakashi summoned two dogs to carry them back. As Naruto got up he started to walk funny.
"You alright naruto?" sakura asked. During the time they had been on team seven, she started to insult Naruto less, finding he had some skill. She also treated him more like a friend.
"Yea, just doing that and the rasengan took a lot out of me, it's mentally hard to do that, one mistake and they end up like that rabbit I practised one"
Knowing what Naruto meant Kakashi ended the conversation quickly. If you make a mistake with sealing living creature you could turn it into slush, and Sakura rather liked rabbits.
"Let's make camp here, everyone set your tents up, Sasuke find some food, Naruto grab some water for everyone and Sakura start up a safe fire."
It took them awhile to sort this all out. They quickly cooked the deer Sasuke found and killed due to Naruto's idea of using a fire justu. Kakashi commented on the events of day.
"Good work with those two ninjas today. Sasuke you quickly jump into acting, good attacks, need to improve your speed. Though splitting that chain I'm not sure if that was a good idea, on one hand, it was their main weapon so good, but then it doesn't give them much room to move, but worked out fine."
Sasuke looked the same, though Kakashi thought he looked slightly happy from the praise.
"Sakura you were the only person to stay back and defend. That really good, most genin would have charged down the enemy and forget about the mission."
Sakura looked really pleased with the praise.
"Naruto on the other hand really surprised me. You stayed back, analysed their fighting skills, and then attacked when they were weak. The most surprising thing was you using the rasengan, and had the skill and ability to seal people into scrolls."
For Naruto his face looked like Christmas had come early. Not main people had completed his skills before
"As a whole you guys are a good team. Naruto is a heavy hitter and can take a lot of damage; Sasuke is fast and does a lot of damage. Sakura, whilst you're not as strong or fast as the other two, but you have the makings of a medical ninja or a genjustu expert."
Kakashi face became serous as he looked at Tazuna.
"You lied about the mission. Tell me the truth about everything."
Knowing he had been caught Tazuna told the truth.
"Everything I told you is true except who is after me. Gato is. He has almost bought wave and rules it with an iron fist. Everything is over price because he owns the shipping trade. Taxes have gone up and there is only one thing that can end his rule. The bridge. This will destroy his grip on us and so he is trying to kill me."
After a talk with his team they decided to carry on, but if it got to tough then backup would be called or they would run.
"Sensei I have a question?" Sakura asked. "What is the rasengan and why have I heard it before? Didn't someone use it during the last war or something?"
"You shouldn't ask me its Naruto's justus." Was the reply
All three team members looked at Naruto with a silent question. He knew he had to answer or they would dig into this information, and he didn't want this getting around.
"The rasengan is an A-rank justu that the Yondaime invented." He stopped hoping that they wouldn't ask anyone more questions. He was wrong.
"So how do you know it then?" Sasuke asked.
"Damn it what did I tell the Hokage um oh I remember." Naruto though
"I tried to invent my own justu and I noticed that when ramen soup is pushed towards itself in a rotation it has quite a force. Shattered one of my cheap bowls. One thing led to another and I invented it, only to find out someone else had."
"That is completely like you naruto, learning justus from ramen." Kakashi jokily said. Inside he was thinking some else
"Lord Hokage told me that he tried to copy sensei's rasengan. He's lying completely about that"
Sakura was shocked that Naruto knew that justu, whilst Sasuke was jealous, not only was it powerful but as it didn't use any hand symbols he couldn't copy it.
Rather than comment on it they decided to leave it were it was.
The next day they reached the boat and got across fine. There was no problems.
"It's about 3 miles to my village from here" Tazuna commented
Naruto dived forward and threw a kunai into the bushes to the right. A white rabbit stumped out in shock due to a near death experience. Sakura started to yell at him until Naruto and Kakashi screamed
"GET DOWN"
They barely got down before a large sword cut over them. It impeded itself into a tree. A man appeared on the handle, crossed him arms.
"Hatake Kakashi, the copy ninja, don't suppose you want to stand down and let me kill the bridge builder." He spoke.
Kakashi drew a kunai and replied
"Momochi Zabuzza, demon of the hidden mist. This should be interesting"
Took me longer to update than expected sorry about this. Had trouble writing an even story were naruto was useless or too powerful. Sword will be named and described in the next chapter so any ideas will be good. Please review