BADASS Authors Notes: Hey guys welcome to another installment of NIOT hope you like it, I cant say that you liked the last one since SOME of you didn't review, sorry actually since, MOST of you didn't review, actually, since ALL BUT 2 people only reviewed. You know how that makes me feel? One word: Un-ap-pre-ci-a-ted. Where's the love? But those 2! People deserve to mentioned for showing the love so thank you very much:
Darkryus
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Mellra
(yeah! I did just give them the highest honours of all: UNDERLINED AND BOLDED)
Disclaimer: I's nots owns Naruto's buts I's rights abouts its. We cool Masashi?
-Tazuna's house-
The group sat at the table munching down their dinners and which were made by Tsunami.
"You guys did well…MUNCH…if it hadn't been for you not only would this mission have failed but some of us would probably have died. And I'd probably end up over using my sharingan and be stuck in bed to heal for a week. Glad that never happened…MUNCH…Anyway, as I was saying, you've all grown immensely since you started… Sakura you had to face some difficult tasks and be able to protect Tazuna… and you were." Kakashi said with an eye smile. "Sasuke, you had to learn the true meaning of teamwork. You fought with Naruto and put your differences away. Not only did you show incredible strength but courage too," again another eye-smile. "And Naruto, you have improved the most…MUNCH…You are no longer the scrawny little prankster you were, yes you froze up in the first fight but you were able to strategize and use your skills effectively, you saved me from an S-ranked missing-nin and I thank you. Together as a team you are improving and learning what being a ninja is about, and although you lack experience I can say that I'd trust you with my life…MUNCH" He gave his last eye smile.
Tazuna and Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter, were with them listening to what they said about Zabuza still being alive. Kakashi had just proposed some training and at the moment was trying to convince them that training whilst they were at Wave was a good idea.
"Fine Kakashi sensei…MUNCH…What kind of training…MUNCH…did you have in mind?" Naruto asked.
"I was thinking of some chakra control exercises that'll really help you." Naruto sighed that sounded boring. Kakashi ended by saying, "We'll start first thing…MUNCH…tomorrow and when were done we'll go back to protecting Tazuna, in the meanwhile I'll protect him alone." With that he finished his food and walked towards the guest room they were staying in.
Slyly a little child in a striped hat and willies hoping not to be noticed, he didn't like strangers and he could tell these ones thought they were brave. Well he'd tell 'em strait up. So he said, "Mom, who are these people?"
Naruto jumped up from his chair and vibrantly said, "We're ninja! We're super heroes and we're here to protect your grandpa and hopefully stop Gatou in the process."
"Of course you are. But you're just going to die. It's useless going against Gatou he'll just hire someone to kill you. There's no such things as heroes." The small child said matter-of-factly.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN? I'll let you know that he's already sent three guys after us! One of which was an S-classed missing-nin! And guess what, WE'RE ALIVE!" Naruto screamed, losing the cool he never had.
"Pfft, if Gatou wants you dead then you're dead. There's no stopping him, he'll keep hiring bigger and better, so eventually you'll be killed!" He said angrily.
"Have some faith you little BRAT! I'll let you know that my parents both died saving my village the night I was born, you think they're not heroes? Because of their sacrifice my village is still standing."
"They still DIED!"
"WHY YOU LITTLE…" Naruto screamed outraged rearing his arm back to strike the small kid. However before his punch landed his arm was grabbed by Sakura.
"Stop Naruto." She said calmly, "He's just a little kid."
"FINE. I'm going to bed." Naruto said still aggravated. When he was gone Sakura sighed and said,
"Hey kid, you really shouldn't get him angry he's short tempered and was about to blast a whole through your face."
"He'd have to be strong to do that." Inari mocked.
Meanwhile, Naruto entered the guest room and lay down on his temporary bed, trying to control his heavy breathing. Who did that kid think he was? His parents had saved the whole village and everyone in it, yet that kid didn't even care about their sacrifice. First he was going to find out why the kid was so depressed, and then he'd sort him out.
-Six days later-
The morning sun began to rise, birds were happily chirping and an orange figure lay on the ground sleeping from exhaustion. In his hand was a kunai and bright blonde hair was messy to say the least. He wore a leaf village head band, he was battered and bruised and looked completely worn out. As Naruto lay there a young 'woman' strolled towards him. She bent down and began shaking him lightly saying,
"You'll catch a cold sleeping in a place like this," whilst smiling at him. Naruto sat up.
"Huh… Who are you?" He said drowsily.
"I'm just a pharmacist. I'm here to search for a medical."
"Oh. I'll help out, with me you'll collect enough in no time!"
"No, thank you but it's okay, you look worn out anyway."
"Nah, this is nothing. I was just training I'll help you out." Naruto said giving 'her' a gleaming smile and thumbs up, this made 'her' chuckle so she said,
"Alright then you can help out."
-Ten minutes later-
"Hey lady, is this the plant you want?" Naruto asked holding up a small herb.
"Yes, thank you. Well that should be enough. Thank you for helping me Naruto." The 'pharmacist said gratefully.
"No problem. Hey, why are you working this early?" The blonde said scratching the back of his head.
"Oh, it's because my patient is very hurt and this herb is crucial to his recovery, I mean how else will I make tea? Anyway what are you doing here this early, little children shouldn't be wandering around in a forest all alone."
"I'm NOT a little kid! I am a NINJA! And one day I'll be the best ninja in my village and be acknowledged. I was training to get stronger."
"But you already look pretty strong."
"Thanks, but I need to be even stronger so I can prove something to someone (Sasuke) and protect the people in my village!
"Then I hope you accomplish your goal. You know when someone has something special to protect they can truly become strong."
"Yeah, that makes sense."
"Well I'd better be going now, bye."
"Bye."
"Oh and one last thing I'm a boy."
FACEPALM! The womanly man walked away as Naruto watched in disbelief. That was humiliating, the whole time he'd thought he was a woman yet he was a man? That didn't make sense, he'd thought a MAN was attractive. AAAAHHHH! !MIND = BLOWN!
(Quick AN: Don't worry this is not going to turn into some homo story so keep reading.)
-Then next day at night-
Sasuke walked in stopping Naruto from falling to the ground. The Uchiha had finally made it to the top of the tree and waited with Naruto until the blonde could too. Finally the orange clad ninja had made it to the top but had exhausted himself too much to get back to the house alone.
"So you guys finally made it back, huh? Kakashi said doing one fingered push-ups with Tazuna and Sakura on his back.
"Yup! We made it to the top of the tree!" Naruto said getting off of Sasuke jumping high into the air and punching the air above him. "We did! DATTEBAYO!"
"Great work. From tomorrow you'll start guarding Tazuna with Sakura and me."
"GRRR… NARUTO! WHY DID YOU MAKE ME CARRY YOU ALL THE WAY HERE?" Sasuke screamed losing his temper.
"Uhhh… I was tired?" Naruto said lamely trying to act innocent.
"YOU LAZY-"
"Now, now, Sasuke, no need to get hasty." Naruto said sheepishly, noticing the Uchiha about to strike him. He quickly turned and ran away leaving Sasuke angry but not bothered to chase him. He swore to get his revenge.
As Naruto stopped running through the house, he heard some whimpering coming from one of the rooms. He hesitated but began to slowly push the door open silently, to find Inari sitting by the window looking out towards the night sky and holding a picture frame. Naruto walked up to him and he too looked up at the twinkling stars.
"It's nights like these that you remember those that you've lost." He said quietly trying to get the child's attention.
"What do you know?" Inari said not wanting to interact with the Genin. Naruto pulled up a chair and sat next to Inari. He looked down and in Inari's hands was a picture frame. The picture depicted a bright sunny day with Inari and another person Naruto didn't recognize. He assumed it was Inari's father, the one who Gatou had killed in front of Inari's whole village.
"Look, you should be proud of your father."
"Why? He left us and for what? Nothing changed except for the fact that I lost my dad." Inari said tearing up again.
"You know I grew up without a dad, even without a mother. I never knew my parents and never even had any friends. But I never let that stop me, I carried and one day I'll be acknowledged.
"But he's still dead!"
"So? His spirit should live on, you should respect the fact that he gave his life for you and your village. He was a true HERO!"
Inari sniffed.
"I promise I'll fix the wrong Gatou has done to this village, you have my word!"
-The next morning-
Naruto lay in bed soundly; he was worn out from all his training and didn't want to get up. He stayed in bed let the others leave without him. What's the worst that could happen? When he finally got up he yawned wildly and got changed. He quickly got his things ready and walked out the front door. He stopped as he heard a rustle in the bushes nearby, that was strange, there was no wind as far as he could tell, so that meant… Suddenly two guys jumped out of the bush and ran towards the house they kicked the door open and faced Tsunami with their hands in the hilt of there swords. One wore a distinctive hat whilst the other was shirtless and wore an eye patch. They proceeded, not noticing Naruto.
They closed the gap between them and Tsunami when the door burst open and Inari stepped through in shock.
"MUM!" Inari screamed.
"NO INARI! RUN AWAY!"
"There's a kid. Should we take him too?" The man with no shirt asked.
"Nah, too much trouble, we only need one hostage anyway." The hat-man replied with a grin, they were going to see some blood!
"Well guess we can kill him then." The eye-patch wearing guy said menacingly.
"NO!" Tsunami screamed again, "RUN! RUN INARI! PLEASE! LEAVE ME AND RUN!"
Inari was stuck in fear his mother was there and they were talking about taking her hostage. Should he go save her? But they were going to kill him! After a few seconds of confused seconds he made up his mind. He couldn't lose another person so dare to him! He would be a hero.
"Get away from my MUM!" Inari roared.
"Pfft, get lost kid, you don't want to tempt my blade do you?"
"LEAVE MY MUM ALONE!" Inari shouted before charging at the two capturers.
"Huh, stupid kid." The eye-patched guy said before unsheathing his sword. When Inari got in range both sung their sword a cleanly cut him into three pieces. THUD. THUD. THUD. A log in three pieces landed on the floor. WHAT?
"Great work Inari, I'll take it from here." Naruto said from behind them. They turned to see a bright orange kid looking at them angrily. Naruto spoke up again, "Trying to kill an innocent kid is wrong, don't you know?"
"Well, well, if it isn't one of those puny ninja Tazuna hired. Hmmph, We'll deal with him in a flash."
"In a flash you say." Naruto said mysteriously.
He then pulled out two of his special kunai and flund them at his enemies. They would have hit if it wasn't for them both being good swordsmen and sending the kunai on to the floor. One landed in front of the guy in the hat and the other landed next to the tied up Tsunami. Perfect. Naruto smirked, pulled out another special kunai and dropped it next to Inari.
"Inari, when I give you the signal take your mum and run okay, get outa' here." The blonde said. Inari nodded.
Suddenly Naruto disappeared and instantly reappeared next to Tsunami. He grabbed her arm and they both teleported back to Inari. Naruto quickly cut the ropes tying her and nodded to them. Inari grabbed his mum's arm and ran off without hesitation. Naruto turned back to his enemies and stared defiantly at them.
"How? H-how did you do that?"
Naruto said, "Right now you shouldn't be worrying about me you should be worrying about yourselves."
Naruto winked and appeared right in his face. SHIT! Naruto pulled out a kunai and stabbed at his opponent; he pierced through his shirt and stabbed the man's stomach. The man fell lifeless to the floor as Naruto turned towards his other target. He formed a hand seal and sent six shadow clones at him. They all charged at their prey simultaneously. He didn't stand a chance. Out cold, the man fell to the ground heavily cut and bruised.
Naruto thought for a moment, that was his first kill. He had just ended that man's life, he felt sort of sorry for the guy. However, he didn't wait any longer as he ran off to join his team mates. No doubt would this be a two staged attack.
-The unfinished bridge-
Naruto looked on as Kakashi was squaring off with Zabuza and Sasuke was in stuck an ice jutsu. He watched as Sakura ran from Tazuna's side and threw a kunai at the anbu impersonator called Haku. When the kunai got in range Haku just caught it out of the air. Damn! This guy was fast. Naruto saw his moment and threw his own kunai at Haku too. Haku was caught unawares just about dodged the kunai, but in doing so landed on the ground.
"Don't worry guys! Naruto Uzumaki has arrived!" Naruto said loudly. Zabuza turned to look at the blonde and welled up with anger, this kid had knocked him out.
"Haku, don't underestimate that brat! When I'm done here… I'm going to kill him!" Zabuza said deadly serious. Haku got on his knees and threw eight senbon needles at Naruto at once as fast as he could. What he didn't count on was Naruto standing in his place until the last possible moment and teleporting to next to him. SHIT! Naruto reared his leg and kicked the 'anbu' square in the chest, sending him sprawling onto the wet ground. Naruto smirked, that kunai he'd thrown earlier was one of his special kunai he had placed a seal on.
Haku began to get up when his mask fell off. It revealed a very feminine face; the same one Naruto had helped collect medical herbs. Now he understood, the herbs were for the beating he had given Zabuza. He smirked; he had given an S-classed missing-nin the need to get medical attention, ACCOMPLISHMENT UNLOCKED!
"Zabuza-san please don't interfere, let me fight these kids alone." Haku said solemnly to Zabuza.
"Fine Haku, you're as soft as always, but I have one condition. Leave the orange one to me, his death will be slow and painful." Zabuza responded with a deathly chill.
"Thank you Zabuza-san" Haku said getting up, this time instead of going after Naruto again he went back into his ice mirrors.
Sasuke sweared, now he'd have to deal with this guy's/girls (he wasn't quite sure) mirror jutsu again. Although he did agree with Zabuza, this guy/girl certainly was soft, he was only giving his light hits when he could easily hit vital organs in an instant. He turned his attention back to the mirrors; he needed either some way of escaping or breaking this jutsu. He tested the mirrors by throwing a shuriken at one of them, no, he couldn't break out from the inside. Someone on the outside would have to save him! Great, he was on the inside but Naruto was on the… SHIT!
"NARUTO YOU IDIOT! YOU CALL YOURSELF A NINJA! WHY'D YOU COME IN HERE? NOW WERE BOTH DEAD!"
"Geez, I come in here to save you and this is the thanks I get, man… you're that's harsh." Naruto said sadly. "Don't worry I'll get us outa' here in a flash!" He said grabbing Sasuke's arm and Hirashined out of the ice mirrors with the Uchiha. SHIT! Haku thought, they had escaped his best jutsu these guys were damn good!
Haku quickly grabbed as many senbon needles as possible and flung them at the Uzumaki and Uchiha, Naruto, being used to his Flying Thunder God Technique jumped out of the way. However, as it was the first time teleporting for Sasuke he was caught unawares. He watched the medical weapons speeding towards him and he thought one thing, concentrate and see through it.
"SASUKE!" Sakura screamed in terror. At this rate Sasuke would be hit and definitely die!
What she didn't notice was the change in Sasuke's eyes, a ring formed around his pupil and his eyes were beginning to tint a blood red shade. Right at the last moment he managed to completely dodge all the needles, without a single one being able to even scratch him. SASUKE HAS AWAKENED THE SHARINGAN!
He knew he had done it, with new found courage he began to fearlessly charge at Haku, kunai in hand. Haku quickly got ready for the fight, pulling out his needles he began to fling them at the Uchiha. None of them landed a hit. Sasuke finally made it to Haku after dodging dozens of senbons. He stabbed at Haku yet the ice wielder was able to duck, when he was down he only had a second before he was kicked and sent skidding on the wet ground. At this rate he wouldn't land a single hit on the Uchiha.
He realized it would be best to end the fight here, finish the mission and get out alive. He flew threw some hand seals, none of which Sasuke didn't perceive, and the pudles on the ground rose into the air. The water formed into sharp ice senbons and sped towards Tazuna. Sakura being directly in front of the bridge builder had no time to dodge, she tried to parry the missile but to no effect. The ice hit her square on and she landed on the ground with a dull thump.
Naruto watched as the pink haired girl fell onto the ground and at that moment he felt his heart clenched. Rage flooded into him and one word was on his mind: REVENGE! (LOL making him sound like Sasuke)
A demonic blood red chakra engulfed him, bubbling wildly. His eyes turned from his usual vibrant blue to an evil red, his pupils forming slits as he looked at Haku. Haku stood there completely frozen by the killing intent radiating off the blonde jinchuriki.
-15 minutes later-
Naruto looked down at the two lifeless figures, silent and noble looking they were, he wished that boy Haku could have been acknowledged earlier in his life rather that his last moments. Zabuza truly was his 'special person'; lying there alone they looked peaceful and just… just, right. They looked now like an inseparable bond connected them.
There on the cold wet ground Naruto acknowledged that they had had died ninja deaths, proper ninja deaths. Death: by the hand of another, death: in battle, death: in sacrifice.
He couldn't look down on them anymore he turned and walked away, along with his team and the villagers of Wave. They were headed back to Tazuna's house, they were going to rest there until they were better and the bridge was finished. Also they were here to make sure, that that bastard Gatou was going to trouble this village again. Although after they ran away in fear, the group as a whole highly doubted it, now this village could finally earn for itself and make a living. They wouldn't be oppressed and it was thanks to them. Several times the group had already been met and given thanks and even gifts, to everyone in this village they were heroes.
-Grand Opening of The Bridge-
Finally the bridge was ready, Tazuna had worked tirelessly with several builders to complete it and it was finally done. It was huge, magnificent and would be the icon of the Wave.
"Today we will officially open this new bridge, and in honour of those who made this possible," Tazuna announced, stealing a glance towards Team 7. "This bridge will be named The Great 7 Bridge." He finished with applauds and whistles from the crowd. Team 7 stood startled, they had named the bridge after them, and they thanked Tazuna for naming it after them but Kakashi couldn't help but feel there was another meaning behind it, so he asked Tazuna and the expert bridge builder chucled and replied, "So you guessed it, eh. The hidden message was that we were honoring not your team, but everyone involved in the final battle. You, Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto, Haku, Zabuza and me."
This surprised Kakashi immensely, not the meaning, the fact that Tazuna had remembered all their names! He guessed that when the guy was sober he probably was sharper than he appeared, it was a good thing he was practically never sober or this could give him a run for his money.
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