A large burst of chakra exploded from Naruto, knocking away incoming senbon. "Your friend is in trouble, agree to my terms and I'll call off my friend." Bogu tightened his chain.

"Alright, but can you be certain the Hokage will allow it?" The chain loosened and Maiku took his blade away.

"I'm certain." A loud crash came from behind Maiku. "Shit!" He ran towards the now destroyed dome of ice.

Naruto was charging toward Haku, who seeing Zabuza chained lost the will to fight. He was unaware of the negotiations that had just ended. He watched as a fist came closer to hitting its mark, but it stopped a inch from his face. Naruto's arm was entangled by a chain.

"Yo, no need for that." Maiku pulled up his sleeve. "I made this chain launcher when I saw Bogu use Kusari Shotto."

"So are we done here?" Naruto asked. "Did he agree?"

Flashback (Night Before)

"Wait so you talked to Zabuza?" Naruto asked

"Sh, not so loud." Maiku sighed. "Come on in Kakashi." The silver haired jounin walked into the room.

"So whats this about Zabuza?" Kakashi asked taking out his orange book.

"We had a talk, its about tomorrow. I know I can't beat him, so I'll have to use another approach." Maiku let out a yawn. "I'm going to try to convince him to join up with us."

"The problem will be the Hokage." Kakashi got up to leave. "If you can convince him, it'll be fine."

End Flashback

Maiku waited until the Kyuubi's chakra vanished before releasing Naruto, who sat down to rest. "So you had to rely on your back up plan after all." Kakashi walked over to the two genin.

"Kakashi you were in on this?" Asuma asked as pulled out another cigarette.

"Of course it was all part of the plan." Kakashi's left eye gave away his smile. The others came over to see of Maiku and Naruto were ok. Tenten gave him a bone crushing hug while scolding him to not do anything so reckless again. Ino began pulling the remaining senbon out of Naruto's back as she to began yelling at him. The others just gave them praises. While standing off to the side was an angry Sasuke.

"I knew you wouldn't be able to handle this Zabuza." Everyone turned toward the new voice. There stood a short man. "But for all you fools this is where you die."

"Ready for round two Naruto?" Maiku picked up his chain.

"Always." A hand on their shoulders stopped them.

"We'll take it from here." Zabuza picked up his sword. "Who would've guessed a kid could have offered me an opportunity for a new start. I'll begin by killing you." Zabuza launched himself towards Gato, followed by the other jounin as Maiku remembered his wound.

"Shit this didn't stop bleeding." Maiku applied pressure to his arm.

"Hang on kid I'll take care of it." Bogu vanished in his cloud of black smoke. Once back inside he sent chakra to Maiku's arm to help it heal. "Not as fast as Kyuubi, but better than nothing."

The battle with the thugs Gato hired didn't last more than six minutes. Having five jounin was kinda overkill. Though most of them ran when Inari came with the villagers, all armed and ready to fight. "Well this sure is something." Maiku said turning toward the other crowd of people. "Good job kid. But we got it under control."

"I realized Naruto was right. I had a bad life, but there are people who had it worse. But you should never just lay down and take it." Saying this earned a couple light shoves from Maiku and Naruto.

"Way to go Naruto you taught the kid something after all." Maiku smiled.

Zabuza returned carrying Gato's head. "So when do we leave?" He asked.

It was another week until the bridge was finished. During that time they learned Haku was actually a boy. Maiku quickly apologized after hearing this, though Haku didn't care, it happened to him plenty of times.

Now everyone was saying their goodbyes. "Please visit when you can."

"No problem old man." Naruto gave his fox like grin. The large crowd still shouted thanks as they walked away.

"So what are we going to name the bridge?" Someone in the crowd asked.

"The Great Naruto Bridge. After the very person ho inspired us to take a stand against Gato." Shouts of agreement roar and chanting of "Naruto' carried over to the group.

"Good job Naruto." Maiku said before continuing his talk with Zabuza.

The Hokage was slightly irritated at the sight before him. "Are you two going to do this every time I send you on a mission from now on?"

"You know strangely I don't have an answer for that. If anything it's a maybe." Maiku starred back at the Hokage.

"And you Zabuza, what is your reason for all this?" The Hokage lit his pipe.

"I just figured Konoha could use the help." Beneath his bandages he smirked.

Sarutobi sighed. "I won't turn away help. But given your record I'm putting you on probation. Now since this is Maiku's idea, you and your friend will stay with him. Now we will test his ninja capabilities in a couple days. The rest of you can pick up your pay later."

Everyone left the office. Maiku slipped back into the office. "Excuse me Hokage-sama?"

"So now you start showing respect. What is it?" Maiku smiled, knowing the Hokage he knew he wouldn't turn this down.

"Well I'm getting married soon, and I was wondering..." The Hokage smiled.

"No problem. I'd be happy to help. I can assume your father set this up?" The Hokage's mood seemed to change, Maiku noticed.

"Yeah he did. Thank you for your help." Maiku bowed the left. He entered the lobby to see his teammates confronting Naruto. 'Oh shit.' "Hey whats going on here?" Maiku noticed an infuriated Sasuke and sighed. "I should've seen this coming. What do you want asshole?"

Sakura began shouting about treating Sasuke with respect, but nobody paid any attention. "I want to know how the dobe got so powerful."

"This bastard doesn't shut up about that does he?" Kyuubi seemed annoyed at this point.

'Nope. Maybe we should show him.' Naruto channeled chakra to the seal.

"This could be fun." A red cloud appeared next to Sasuke. A large form of the fox stood next to Sasuke, jaws dangerously close to his neck. "You are very annoying, I'm thinking I should eat you."

"Oh I'd love to see that." Maiku was trying, unsuccessfully, to hold back laughter. No one could blame him for wanting to laugh, Sasuke's face had a look of horror.

"Yeah but then the Hokage would get pissed, we don't want that." The Kyuubi backed away from the Uchiha. "Lets just go."

"Hope you guys aren't to scared." Maiku gave them a smile when he remembered something. "Ino I need your help with something." Ino hesitantly followed outside. "I hope you don't hold the Kyuubi against Naruto. I can assure you that he has everything under control.

"Just a little surprised is all. Now what do you need my help with?" Ino seemed to be taking it rather well, which scared her a little bit.

"Its better if Ten-chan was here for this, she's probably at the compound." Maiku led Ino to his place. "Hey Naruto you here?"

"Hey aniki I'm in the back." Came a shout.

"Of course you are. Come on." The two made their way to the backyard to find Naruto doing a set of pushups. "Training like always I see, but get up we got work to do." They went inside to find Tenten cooking.

"Hello Ino glad you could join us." She smiled. "Did you ask the Hokage Maiku-kun?"

"Yes and he said he'd perform the ceremony this week." Everyone could see how excited she got.

"It's the wedding they're talking about." Naruto whispered to Ino.

"Ino would you like to come?" Tenten saw Ino's eyes light up. "I don't really have a maid of honor." Ino quickly volunteered. So they quickly made plans, flowers, location, reception. To say the week went by quickly was an understatement.

"This is it man, ball and chain time." Naruto said as he and Maiku stood in the Hokage's office, which had been noticeably clean up. Maiku was in a black robe, underneath a red shirt. Naruto wore something similar, but instead an orange shirt. Inside the office the desk had been removed. On the side stood Tenten's parents, Gai, Lee, Neji, as well as Anko who dragged Iruka along.

"Make anymore comments like that again I'll kill you myself." Maiku sighed, he was a little nervous and didn't need Naruto's jokes right now. And he couldn't get Gai's flames of youth speech he gave a hour ago out off his head. 'God the last thing I need is to remember that.'

"I'm proud of you kid." Bogu said.

'Don't get sentimental on me.' Maiku was about to go crazy when the door opened. Ino walked in first, wearing a purple kimono with a flower pattern. Naruto couldn't stop starring. "Pay attention." Maiku elbowed him in the gut.

Everyone was silent when Tenten entered. She was wearing a white kimono, and the back was the Yaiba clan symbol. 'Thats was mom's.'

Naruto elbowed him. "Pay attention."

The Hokage then entered and opened a large book and started reading. It was and hour before the ceremony ended. Maiku gave Tenten a passionate kiss and everybody shouted congratulations. They went back to the compound were there was to be a party. "Congratulations aniki."

"Thanks." Maiku looked up at the clouds. "Well dad, I did what you told me to. And I couldn't be happier."

"He'd be proud of you aniki." Naruto said. "Excuse me I'm going to go talk with Ino."

Maiku smiled. "Go get her dude." Naruto punched Maiku in the arm. 'Tomorrow is going to be hell. I had to beg Anko-sensei for this entire week off.'

"I can just imagine what training she'll put you through." Bogu laughed.

Maiku and Naruto were again visiting the Interrogation department. This time though they weren't the ones strapped in a chair. "This looks like it'll be fun."

"Alright brats, now that your time off is over we'll be training twice as hard. You'll be practicing interrogation until noon, then we'll do regular training." She dragged a Kiri-nin into the room. "We got the chunin exams in two months, so we need to be ready. Mr. Ball n' chain, your up first."

Maiku groaned at his nickname, Anko had heard Naruto use it earlier. She quickly went over a few basic techniques he might be able to use. "Ok, lets get this started." Maiku backhanded the unconscious shinobi. "And what might Kiri be doing around here?"

The man remained silent, so Maiku hit him again. This went on for awhile when Maiku accidentally stopped his heart. "Nervous one wasn't he?"

"Good job brat you broke him!" Anko shouted at him.

"Not necessarily." 'Bogu.' Maiku put his hand over the man's heart. A spark of electricity came from his hand. The only visible sign of this was slight burn on the man's skin. "Welcome back." Once Maiku told him he died for a few seconds he broke down and talked. He was sent to confirm Zabuza's status in Konoha.

"Anything else?" Maiku asked.

"No, thats all I know."

"Good job brat, you took longer than I thought, but I'll chalk that up to inexperience." Anko 'removed' the kiri-nin. "Now go eat an meet at training ground forty four."

alright 12 done, many more to go.

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