A/N: WELL CHAPTER 8 IS HERE THE GROUP WILL BE ARRIVING AT WAVE COUNTRY REAL SOON. WELL ENOUGH CHIT CHAT ON WITH THE SHOW.
Chapter 8
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Naruto was the first to wake due to his half demon status. Since the day he became a half demon he no longer needed to sleep for extended periods of time. He was currently sitting in a tree overlooking the landscape. Off in the distance he can see a half completed bridge and a dead looking town.
"Come here. Come and find me. You know you want my power."
'Kyuubi what the hell was that?'
"Come boy if you can hear me then you desire power. You cannot ignore me forever boy."
"That would be either a demonic weapon or something else entirely."
'What should I do? I mean I need to find out what it wants and I need to know how I am able to hear it.'
"You know what they say right Naruto?" asked Kakashi. "They say that a man who stares at the sky has a lot on his mind."
"Well Kakashi-sensei I know that this will sound crazy but I keep hearing a voice inside my head that is not normally there."
"How do you know it isn't your little friend who is just messing with you?" After the look he received from Naruto he knew he was wrong. "Alright when we get to Tazuna's house you can go looking for your friend."
As Kakashi left to wake the rest of the group the voice came back and sounded even more excited.
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The group finally neared the bridge and had to take a boat across the river. The boat was not large enough for everyone to sit comfortably, so they had to sit in someone's lap.
The boat driver motioned for Tazuna to come over to the side out of ear shot. "Tazuna are you sure they can help us? They are just kids for Christ sake."
"Listen Akadou they may be kids but they are still ninja and the blond one over there is too damn stubborn to die. Now just get us across the river so I can finish the bridge."
With that said the two walked back to the boat and began across the river in complete silence.
As they reached the other side Naruto and Kakashi had a really bad feeling that something was wrong, as if they were being watched since they had crossed the river.
"Everyone be on alert, there is someone here an…."
"DUCK NOW!" shouted Naruto just in the nick of time as a very large blade flew past everyone's head and imbedded it's self in a tree.
Standing on top of the sword was a man who was 6 foot even with short black hair, no shirt with snow cameo pants and solid white wrist wraps on his arms and face.
"Well if it isn't Kakashi Hatake the copy cat ninja. These little brats are yours huh oh how the mighty have fallen."
"This coming from a man who failed to kill someone and was forced to flee from his own village Zabuza Momochi." The comment did not come from Kakashi or even Naruto but from Sakura.
"Well it looks like these brats know who I am. I'm impressed."
"No Sakura knows of you because she has read and memorized the bingo book. I know of you because my brother is in the book and Naruto well I don't know if he does nor do I really care."
"Oh and who would your brother be you emo twerp?"
"My brother is Itachi Uchiha you eyebrow less moron. Anyone with a brain should have been able to see that I am an Uchiha."
"Oh this one has some spunk in him but what about your other two students?"
"You three guard Tazuna; I will deal with Zabuza I should be able to deal with him."
"No Kakashi-sensei you will need some back up." Shouted Sasuke as he stood watched as Kakashi squared off against Zabuza.
"Listen you three I want you to run away from here and take Tazuna home. Guard him till I get there and I will deal with Zabuza here."
"No Kakashi-sensei I will help you that way if you overdo it I can help you get out alive. I won't be much help in the fight itself he is still way out of my league."
"I understand Naruto. Now let's make…."
He was interrupted by a very thick mist creeping through the forest and obscuring everyone's vision. Even with all three sharingan users with their eyes scanning through the fog without the slightest detection of movement.
"Eight prime choices to choose from. Liver, lungs, spine, clevical vein, neck vein, brain, kidneys, heart, which one should I choose. Should I make it fast or slow and painful?"
As Zabuza's disembodied voice sounded through the forest all of the genin and Tazuna felt a very menacing cold chill race up there spins.
Kakashi was rapidly searching for the source of the voice. He was not going to lose any of his students. As his eyes scanned the surrounding area he spotted a figure appear in between his students and Tazuna.
"It's over!" shouted Zabuza as he swung his sword in a wide arc towards Tazuna's body.
As Tazuna watched in horror as the blade neared his body it seemed that certain doom was inevitable. But just as the blade was inches from his head Zabuza turned into water: and there where the man once stood was Sasuke with his sharingan eyes spinning wildly.
"I may be a genin but I am still an Uchiha. DON'T UNDER ESTIMATE ME!" with his sharingan spinning even faster he set his sights on finding the real Zabuza.
'So I have to deal with two sharingan users. Well Kakashi is my only real threat. His little students can play with a few of my water clones.'
As Zabuza reappeared he quickly rushed in attacking Kakashi directly. Just as he neared Kakashi three more appeared and rushed at the genin.
Naruto and Sasuke quickly rushed in and met their opponents head on. Sakura froze seeing that there was still one more and that one was heading for her. The water clone sneered as he swung a devastating right hook and grinned even more as he heard as satisfying crack. Sakura knew her jaw was broken and she was no match against Zabuza even if it was only a clone. Sasuke and Naruto both knew that Sakura would not last long against the clone and could possibly die. Naruto evading a wide swipe from his opponent he rushed in to help Sakura.
"Sakura get down now!" shouted Naruto as he ran through hand seals.
"Grand fire ball jutsu!"
As the fire ball raced towards the water clone Sakura attempted to knee the clone and push him in front of the fire ball.
"Nice try little girl but you're not strong enough to hit me you can't even hold your own against a clone."
A grin graced her lips as she was slipping into unconsciousness took her "I wasn't trying to hit you."
As he looked up he saw the fireball a little too late as it slammed into his chest. The clone that Naruto was fighting walked over and smiled at Naruto."
"I'm impressed you took down one clone but there are still two of us left not counting the original."
Naruto was greeted with two fists hitting him in the face curtsey of the remaining two clones. After the jaw breaking hit Naruto was immensely surprised that he was still conscious. He quickly activated his sharingan eyes and noticed that he was the only one who was still up out of the three of them. He soon saw the last of the clones rushing into finish the job and kill Tazuna.
'Need to use that jutsu I just hope I can make it in time before they kill Tazuna.'
At some point during all of the fighting Kakashi had been captured by Zabuza inside of a water prison. Thinking fast Naruto stood up and went through four hand seals. Tiger, dragon, horse, and rabbit, using those four hand seals he completed his jutsu.
"Fire style fire wipe jutsu."
As he took out the last remaining water clones with a surprise attack he chose to help Kakashi. Gathering wind chakra inside of his throat he let loose a mighty roar.
"Wind style Atsugai." A cone of condensed wind shot out of his mouth and headed straight for the real Zabuza.
As Zabuza saw the jutsu heading towards him he knew he was in trouble. With how much chakra was pumped into the cone of wind it would kill him on contact. So he had two choices die by a genin or fight Kakashi again and hope he was as lucky as the first time. As he moved to avoid the jutsu he was distracted by the blond genin's eyes; they held the sharingan and where analyzing his every move he made. With this split second distraction he was too slow to fully avoid the jutsu.
"Guuyyyyaaaa my leg, you fucking little brat you destroyed my leg."
As Naruto fell forwarded from chakra exhaustion Kakashi caught him dripping wet from the water prison.
"You should know Zabuza to never under estimate any opponent even if they are just a genin."
Kakashi moved to finish the job and end Zabuza's life, but just as he neared the downed man with his kunai drawn a hunternin appeared beside the body and took him away.
Kakashi covered up his sharingan eye so he can preserve the remaining amount of his chakra and turned to Tazuna. "Let's get them to your house so we all can rest."
Tazuna only nodded his head and helped Kakashi carry the genin with the help of a few shadow clones.
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The next day Naruto awoke to a new surrounding and a very comfy bed. The smell of food wafted up through the floor from the kitchen somewhere down stairs. As he began to move there came a knock at the door followed by a female's voice and figure steeping through the door.
"Oh! You're awake! Good breakfast is ready come down when you are ready to eat."
With that the young women left the room and headed down stairs.
"I wonder where I am and where is the rest of my team. I hope we were not separated during the fighting with Zabuza."
With many thoughts racing through his head he walked down stairs.
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As Naruto walked through the kitchen door way he saw his whole team and Tazuna. His answers where answered as to where he was and his team now all that was left to do was eat the copious amounts of food on the table.
"Alright everyone listen up. Zabuza is still alive and will probably be coming after everyone here once he is fully healed."
The confusion around the table could be seen on everyone's face, especially Naruto's.
"But Kakashi-sensei there is no way he should have survived. The man couldn't even walk let alone fight off your attacks."
"You're right about that but he had an accomplice that was hiding out and waiting to jump in and help if need be. So while we are here helping Tazuna finish the bridge everyone, and that includes you Naruto, will be training"
With that everyone went back to eating their meal. As they were finishing up a young boy around eight years old walked in and looked around the table. Mumbling something under his breath he turned and walked back up stairs.
"Who was that?" asked Sakura.
"Oh that was my son Inari."
"What the hell is his problem?" Asked Naruto through a mouth full of food.
"Naruto don't talk with your mouth full and don't be so rude."
"Well it's kind of rude for him to come down here and then leave without saying anything."
"He lost his father recently and has been very depressed as of late."
"The man who rules these lands is called Gato. He killed Inari's father and any others who were trying to over throw him. All he does is bleed this country dry and forces the people into misery and poverty."
"That's so sad."
After the explanation of Inari's past Naruto stood up from the table and left without saying a word to anyone.
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Later that night with the team lying around resting and talking with Tazuna about the bridge and his country of wave. As they were all talking Naruto walked in the house sweating, covered in burn marks and slightly bleeding.
"Naruto what the hell happened to you?" asked Sasuke.
"I was training. I had to blow off some steam so I went out and rearranged the landscape a little."
"What do you mean about rearranged the landscape a little?"
"Well Sakura I was working on a new jutsu and it just so happened to go wrong, repeatedly wrong. But once I finally got it close it blew up and leveled several trees."
"Dinner" the team quickly forgot their conversation and headed to the kitchen to eat dinner.
Sitting at the table was Inari looking as down and gloomy as always. Everyone sat down at the table without a word and began to eat their dinner.
So Tazuna how is the bridge coming along." Asked Sakura.
"Well I hope that I can complete it with the village's help and the help of your team."
"Don't worry Tazuna me and my team will help you and protect you." The smile that was radiating off of Naruto's face gave everyone at the table hope, all but one.
"Why? Why do you guys try so hard? All that will happen is you die." Inari surprising everyone broke the silence.
"Why do you think that everyone will die? Is it because of Gato? "
"Gato killed my dad. He killed my dad and every man that was helping him. Don't you all see that no one can stop him?"
"Oh shut the fuck up! Listen up you little shit at least you had a father. I never knew anyone from my family and my team mate here had his entire family killed by his own brother. You on the other hand you still have your mother, your grandfather and many villagers that love and look out for you. I on the other hand I have no one, all I have is my team. The village I come from and live in, the very village I would give my life for hates me."
As his temper continued to rise red, blue and black chakra began to seep out and saturate the atmosphere in the room.
"My own village has attempted to kill me. By the time I was five years old I had over 26 assassination attempts on my life. I have been burned, stabbed, tortured and one person even attempted to hang me."
After his last statement he pulled off his shirt and showed everyone the jagged and ruff scars that littered his body. Chest, rib cage and back where covered with nothing but scars and hardly any unscathed skin. Along the outline of the scars where signs of sever burn marks.
"This is what it means to be hated by the ones you love. To this day I have had over 300 assassination attempts on my life and the only reason why I am still alive to this day is the leader of my village looks out for me." With his temper fully peaked he slammed his hands on the table splintering it. "So if you want to wine and cry about how fucking difficult your life is just because you lost someone, well you winning to the wrong person."
As Naruto stormed out of the room everyone settled into a deep quietness. The thickness in the air was gone, but no one could remove those horrible scars and burns that had littered the body of the most cheerful young boy they knew.
"Kakashi-sensei how much of that was true."
Kakashi looked directly at Sasuke and Sakura, and then he turned to the rest of the people before saying a word. "Every word he said was true. Those scars are a constant reminder to him and a few others the horrors he has endured and at such a young age."
"How? How did he retain his humanity? Every single person I know of would have killed themselves or gone insane."
"That's just it though Naruto did try to kill himself once, and the only reason why he is still alive is because of me. I was still on ANBU at the time but I saw him walking home and he was covered in burn marks. Once he entered his house he attempted suicide. He strung a rope up and tried to hang himself; I rushed in and cut the rope. After I rushed him to the hospital he was institutionalized for a while and the ones who did it were killed."
"That young man is stronger than any I have met in my life."
"Dad I am surprised that you are complementing something."
After they were all told a little about Naruto's past everyone had a little more respect for the young man. Inari was the one hit the hardest with it and quickly rushed to his room.
"Everyone let's get some sleep."
The group of ninja walked up stairs to their respected rooms and quickly fell asleep.
A/N WELL I AM TERRIBLY SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET THIS CHAPTER UP. I HAVE HAD SOME COMPUTER ISUES AND HAVING SOME TROUBLE WITH SCHOOL RIGHT NOW. WELL READ IT REVIEW IT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU ALL THINK OF THIS CHAPTER, AND I PROMISE THE NEXT ONE WILL BE UP SOONER THAN THIS CHAPTER WAS.