A/N WELL CHAPTER 9 IS HERE NOW COMES THE REAL ACTION OF THIS PART. WELL ENJOY THE STORY. I do not own Naruto.
'Naruto you know you really did not need to blow up on that young boy like you did.'
"You know I really don't care. That little shit deserved it; I mean come on the nerve of him to say that he has had a hard life."
'No one knew about what you had to go through. You don't trust anyone and you never let them get close to you.'
"You know the reason behind why I don't like to trust people, all they do is stab you in the back."
'Oh and how do you explain your team, Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura are all there for you. When you are ready to open your eyes and see that not everyone is out to kill you then talk to me again.'
With their conversation over the mental link the two shared was severed. Naruto was lying on the roof of Tazuna's house looking up at the stars as his mind raced with over a thousand thoughts.
"You know Naruto what you did in there was a bit too much don't you think? You broke their table you know."
"Kakashi-sensei I don't care if I did go to fare he was way out of line. He was acting like he has had the hardest life imaginable when there are people who have had worse that he could ever imagine."
"Naruto not everyone has gone through what you have and not everyone know what you actually went through."
"Hmmhm you know the fox said something similar to that just a little bit before you showed up."
"Naruto please let people in there are some good people out there that you can trust."
With that Kakashi walked off to let Naruto think about everything. As Naruto lay on top of the house, the stars and night sky began to fade. The sun was now creeping up over the horizon showering the land in its golden light. The suns warming rays of light caressed Naruto's face and he basked in the warmth for several more hours before he fully realized just how long he was up on the roof.
'Wow its already morning time and I can even hear everyone walking and talking down stairs in the kitchen.'
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"So is Naruto going to come in and eat Kakashi?"
"I do not know honestly. He was very upset about everything and needed to calm down a bit."
"I am calm and I'm sorry about the table."
"Oh Naruto there you are. Get over here and eat and don't worry about the table."
No one said a word as Naruto sat down at the now repaired table or maybe it was a new one who knew. The meal progressed relatively quiet and Inari stayed up stairs in his room till the group left.
"Are they gone?"
"Yes Inari they are all gone. Why did you stay up stairs? You could have come down here with us."
"No the blond boy of the team scars me."
They remaining two at the house stared out the window as the team of ninja walked towards the uncompleted bridge. As they neared the bridge the fog that covered the land was steadily growing thicker. As the fog cleared up the scene at the bridge was a horrific sight in deed. Bodies lay all over the bridge possibly dead. As the team began to check on the men they soon noticed that the men were not dead but unconscious.
"Listen everyone stay alert it could be Zabuza."
"That's where you are wrong Hatake." The team jumped as they heard a voice behind them that belonged to the very man they were talking about. "I did not do this my leg is still fucked up from when your student there blasted me with that wind jutsu."
"Well you should have been faster."
"What was that you little blond bastard!"
"Zabuza if you didn't do this then who did?"
"I don't really know his name not many people do. The only name that anyone knows him by is Striker but let's just say he is a better assassin than I am."
The group quietly set up a defensive perimeter around Tazuna. They all scanned the area looking for any signs of the enemy that rivaled Zabuza in skill. A man that was a better killer than I trained assassin was not the team's idea of a good day.
"So what does this striker guy look like?" asked Naruto.
"Well he looks like the man that is standing right there." Zabuza raised a shaking hand and pointed right in front of the group.
Standing before the team of genin was a man dressed in nothing but black. Face was covered by a mask of solid black cloth there was not even a slit for his eyes. The man stood at six foot tall just under Kakashi's height. His hair was standing straight up similar to Kakashi's own gravity defying hair.
"So Zabuza is there a reason why you have yet to finish your mission and kill this pathetic excuse of human flesh."
"Well you see this team was stronger than I though and I just got a little carless is all." Zabuza was sweating bullets now who ever this man was he scared him.
"I don't need to listen to your excuses Zabuza and these things before me that you call strong are just garbage just like you."
That was enough to cause Zabuza to snap out of his funk and pissed him off.
"Hey who are you calling garbage you emo bitch!"
Everyone was somewhat surprised when Naruto yelled at the men but they were more surprised that he called him an emo. Normally he only calls Sasuke that.
"Well you certainly are a lively one aren't you? This should be fun to crush you little dreams and destroy that hope of yours."
Suddenly the man disappeared and then quickly reappeared in front of Naruto. He stretched his hand up and flicked Naruto in the forehead hard enough launch the young teen several feet back and crashing into and then through the bridge.
"NARUTO!" Sasuke quickly rushed over to the team mate he has slowly started to like and even consider a brother.
"Now where do you think you are going?"
Sasuke turned his head and received a devastating right hook to his face. A loud crack could be heard as his nose shattered and he too fell into the still waters below the bridge. As he neared the water he spotted Naruto hanging from the bridge and then he stopped falling. Turning his head he saw Naruto had used the multi shadow clone jutsu to stop him.
"Naruto what's the plan to stop this guy?"
"Well I was kind of hoping you would have a plan because I have no idea how to counter his speed. I'm not even fast enough to beat that guy."
"Well we both have the sharingan and we both are fast maybe if we both hit him from two different angles we can take him out."
"Alright well do you know any elemental dragon jutsu?"
"Yes I know the fire dragon what about you?"
"I know the water dragon and soon we both will know the water dragon and fire dragon jutsu."
The two teammates went through the hand seals for the two jutsu and copied them down.
"Let's go."
The two rushed up the side the bridge and charged straight at the man covered in bandages and started their jutsu sequence. Naruto went through the seals for the water dragon and Sasuke went through the seals for the fire dragon.
"Well is appears that you two are ready to fight good."
The two jutsu quickly launched at the man they were fighting and then he was gone again. The jutsu clashed and covered the bridge in a thick vial of mist. Both teens backed up to each other and had their sharingans spinning madly searching for the man.
"Sasuke over there I see him let's go."
The two rushed to where they thought they had seen the man. After reaching a clearing were the mist was gone they saw that he was just standing there without a care in the world.
"That attack would have worked if not for the fact that you both are garbage and cannot touch me."
As he belittled the two teens six clones appeared behind him. Without even moving from his spot where he was standing the clones all were destroyed as if they were never even there.
"What the hell just happened Naruto? He didn't even move and he took out all of the clones."
"From what I learned from my clones is he admits immense amounts of chakra and condenses it down so it's like needles."
"Well you are a smart one. But unfortunately that is only half of the pie because there is much more than just that to my jutsu."
"Well why don't you tell us then if you're so confident."
"Now where would the fun in that be? How about this for every hit you can land on me I will answer one question."
As the three squared off to face on another the rest of the team stepped in to assist the two teens.
"Oh don't think I forgot about you all. My little helper there can deal with you."
A wall of fire erupted in front of the group as if on cue. Standing behind the team was a young boy around Naruto's age maybe older with long red hair. He was similarly dressed like his master, solid black but his face was not covered up. A long jagged scare ran down the side of his face from his forehead down to his lip. His eyes were filled with sadness and despair. The young man had lost all hope of doing anything but following his master's orders.
"SO who might you be?" asked Kakashi
"My name is not important; all you need to know is that I will be the one to kill you and the rest of your team while Master Striker deals with those two teens."
A massive explosion erupted shortly after they stopped talking completely separating the team from Sasuke and Naruto.
(With Sasuke and Naruto)
The three of the men squared off against each other as the scorching flames behind them consumed part of the bridge.
"So tell me why you fight for a nation that does not care about you."
"Because even if the people hate us we will still fight for the land that was our families 'home and we will defend it with our lives just like the people before us ."
"I'm not talking to you. I swear you fucking Uchiha are all the same I was talking you your blond friend."
"What does he mean Naruto? The village doesn't hate you do they?"
"Oh so you don't know do you?"
"It's a secret from my classmates so they don't treat me different what I want to know is how you know about my secret."
"That is one of my abilities I can sense the chakra of my opponent like your Uchiha friend here I can tell his elemental affiliations. With you I can tell yours and I can even tell that you have two types of chakra."
"What the hell does he mean Naruto?"
"Well you guys were bound to find out one way or another. I am a jinchuuriki. I am the container for the nine tailed fox demon that attacked our village."
Sasuke could only stare at his blond teammate as he told him this. He never would have guessed that Naruto of all people had a demon inside of him.
"So who cares? You are still my teammate and we still need to beat this guy. I am shocked though that you have a demon. You are one of the nicest guys I know."
"Well then this should be interesting indeed. Let's see how good you too really are."
(With the rest of the team.)
"So what do we call you?"
"Like I said before my name is not important."
"Oh but it is. You see I need to know the name of the person who I am about to kill."
Before the young child in front of the team could make any type of remark Kakashi was rushing forwarded at high speeds. In the time it took for Kakashi to reach his target he was stopped by another fire jutsu.
"I see you are serious about killing me so I will tell you the name I go by. Its Valkyrie."
"So you are a girl huh well then this will be interesting."
As Kakashi took another step forward a light blue blur flew past him. Standing between him and the young female named Valkyrie was Zabuza's apprentice Haku.
"Is there a reason why you are in my way?"
"I cannot let you attack this young girl Hatake I will take her on. Zabuza-Sensei please assist them in protecting Tazuna as I am sure that Gato will not be paying us."
"Whatever."
Knowing that Haku was right Zabuza backed down and stood with Kakashi next too Tazuna.
"So Zabuza what is your apprentice's name?"
"Her name is Haku. I thought I told you before."
"Nope she just came in and saved your ass before I killed you."
"Shut your fucking mouth Hatake. If it wasn't for that little blond pipsqueak I would have won that fight."
As the two argued back and forth the rest of the ninja on the bridge squared off for a fight to the death.
A/N alright here is the end of chapter 9. I know I took my sweet time with this one but I have had a lot of shit happen the past couple of days. Well I hope all of my readers had a good holiday with family and what not. Now I'm not going to make any promises but I will try to have the next chapter up sooner than this one. Ok so for all of you readers I ask that you send me some names for the two new assassins. Next chapter the fights start.