The Legend Continues

Chapter 4

The Dragon's Eye Opens

"Normal speech."

'Normal thought.'

"Demon/Boss summon talking."

'Demon/Boss summon thought.'

"Jutsu!"

"YELLING!"

Disclaimer:I do not own Naruto or the Legend of Dragoon.

The gathered teams look at their new client and are not impressed, the man stood in front of the door with slight sway in his step indicating he was drunk. He was an older man with gray hair that covered by a conical straw hat, he had a full beard and wore a pair of glasses. His clothes were of a gray sleeveless shirt and matching shorts that went past his knees, he had deep tan and body that showed it had once been physically fit from hard labor.

"So this the protection I get a bunch of brats, a scarecrow and a woman geez." said the man who had a bit of slur in his speech " Feh I mean look at them." as he went to describe each of them in his own unique way.

"Like the pink haired one she looks like she spends more time on her looks than anything else plus she's built like a boy." Sakura seemed ready to murder the old man.

" Then the Emo kid would probably cut himself before the enemy could." a tick appeared over the Uchiha's eye.

"The other girl should just should have a shell so she can hide."Hinata looked down at this her confidence taking a shot.

" And the other two look just weak." Shino didn't even react but Kiba let out a low growl along with Akamaru.

He had finally reached Naruto " And the blond-" before he could even finish his insult he was interrupted by a loud cracking sound.

Standing in front of the man was Naruto with a shark like smile on his face cracking his knuckles in intimidating manner "Oh and what about the blond?" asked Naruto in a dangerous tone.

Seeing this the elder man gulped and redirected his comment " Is very intimidating." said the client with a slight stutter.

Sighing as it was already off to a bad start with the client clashing with the teams the Hokage spoke " Yes well now on to more important business your job is to escort Tazuna-san here to his home village and protect him while he finishes the bridge he's building. Do you except this mission teams 7 and 8?" the Sandaime asked as he gave the gathered teams a serious look.

"Hai Hokage-sama." said 7 voices with one saying "Sure thing Jiji.".

Turning away from Naruto getting yelled at by his female teammate for not showing him respect he turned to Tazuna "Do you have any problems Tazuna-san?" he asked the other elderly man.

"No as long as they do they're job right." said the man as he took a swill of his sake.

He then drew himself up while clearing his throat " I am the super bridge builder Tazuna." Tazuna paused for effect but instead received silence he just pushed past it " You will be taking me to my village in Nami to complete a bridge that am I building there I expect the best protection.".

Kakashi had started to read his book part way through the older man's speech he turned to the teams "Right, now does any one have anything to ask?" Kakashi had taken charge because he was the senior Jonin.

" Yeah I think we should head out tomorrow." Naruto spoke up.

Raising her eyebrow Kurenai asked "And why is that Naruto?".

"It's for him to sober the hell up!" exclaimed the blond as he pointed at the clearly tipsy Tazuna who was swaying while standing.

Looking to one another the Jonin exchanged glances "Right we leave tomorrow meet at 8 am in front of the main village gate and bring enough supplies for a week dismissed." said Kakashi as he dragged Tazuna out of the room.

With that said most of the Gennin went off on their own, as Naruto was just about to do that he felt someone grab the end of his hair. Spinning around to give the jackass his thoughts on that he saw that it was Kiba that had pulled his hair.

"Kiba!What the hell was that for ass hole!" Naruto yelled at his friend who knew that he hated people pulling on his mane.

Chuckling to himself Kiba explains why "Well I needed to get your attention and that was the best way to do it, plus I was told to bring you to the compound when I saw you next so lets go." Said the feral young man while jerking his thumb over his shoulder.

Naruto's face adopted a slightly hesitant look "Your mom wants to talk?" a head shake from the other teen " Hana?" Naruto asks even knowing that Hana isn't angry anymore.

All he got was a nod nod from the shorter boy before they were off.

Later at the Inuzuka compound

Naruto walked in behind Kiba into the living room of Kiba's house to see Hana sitting on the couch with her Ninken the Haimaru triplets lay down off to the side. Hana wasn't dressed in her med-nin uniform she instead was wearing her a pair of tight black pants that showed off her legs, in place of her yellow jacket was standard Chunin flack jacket that showed off a bit of cleavage with a black sleeveless shirt under it.

"Well Naruto I'd better be going to get ready for the mission tomorrow being seeing you that is if you survive." said Kiba as he rushed off to his room.

"Oh thank you for that show of camaraderie you fucking prick." muttered Naruto under his breath as his buddy fled.

"Naruto."

His attention snapped back the older girl sitting in front of him, as the blond looked at the brunette he could tell that she was calm but that could easily change.

"Naruto please come over here and sit down." stated Hana as she patted the other side of the couch.

Seeing no alternative he did so, turning to look into Hana's brown eyes "So.. er what did want ta talk about Hana?" asked the teen slightly nervous, he was never very good at stuff like this since he never had much personal contact before he was 10.

Sighing Hana started to speak " First off Naruto I am not angry with you and I just wanted to apologize for the way that those two acted last month, their good people but tend to jump to conclusions about certain situations I hope they did apologize." at the end she sighed at how the two Jonin could be, don't get her wrong hey were her best friends but sometimes they would get carried away.

Grinning sheepishly Naruto waved off her off " Don't worry about it Hana no harm done well except what they did to that pervert but he did deserve it, and they did apologize yesterday." explained Naruto before he asked her a question "Um Hana you maybe know what happened when the four of us got drunk?".

"Err no... not really I don't remember much after I dropped out of the competition and you don't either?" she asked hopping he did but instead she received a shake of his head.

Well folks they wouldn't find out for a while what happened that night but that is story for another day.

" Well I guess I'd better get going to be ready for the mission tomorrow." Said Naruto as he turned to leave.

"Yea well I just got back from one so I am off for a shower so see ya when you get back." Hana then headed back to her room.

When she did this Naruto unintentionally focused on the retreating form of Hana's shapely rear, quickly Naruto shook his head to clear it of those type of thoughts ' Hell no I am not a pervert! Man I can not be thinking about my best friends sister like that, plus what would a girl like Hana want with a person like me.' Thought Naruto depressingly as he left the house to go to his apartment.

The Next morning.

"Raaaah." Naruto yawned as he stretched his back out, here he was at the main gate of village waiting for the mission to start. The only ones missing were the client and Kakashi, looking around Naruto noticed that the teams were fully kitted out with supplies but Sakura's pack seemed to be a bit bulkier than the others.

Naruto adjusted his own pack that hung around his belt, the pack just a pair of overly large leather pouches. This held his all his supplies for the mission inside of a number of scrolls. Today Naruto was wearing a black sleeveless shirt with red eastern dragon coiled around a golden spiral symbol, his pants were a pair of fire red ANBU style pants with black tape at the bottom. He had his normal combat boots on with his red bracers and shin guards on, his head band was tied to his right bicep and his broad sword was strapped to his back.

He looked over to his friends who were dressed for a long travel(Shippuden clothes), the teams were milling about waiting the last two of their party.

It wasn't until a few minutes later the the two showed up with Kakashi dragging a sober Tazuna with him, the Gennin lined up in front of the Jonin and bridge builder.

"Now for many of you this will be the first time out of the village so Kurenai and I will be inspecting your supplies to see if you have everything for the mission." Said Kakashi to the grumbling of the lower ranked ninja.

The Jonin started to inspect their own teams packs, so far the packs looked normal for team 8 having several changes of clothes, extra weapons, a few personal items but too many.

Kakashi's were a little different with Sasuke having a few lower class technique scrolls in their but nothing major, he was mildly surprised to find Naruto had sealed his entire pack into several scroll allowing him to carry more while not interfering with movement. When he inspected Sakura's pack he was unable to keep from sighing at the contents.

"Sakura what is this this?"Asked Kakashi in cheery tone.

"Um my supplies Kakashi-Sensei."Replied Sakura in a nervous voice as she shifted from foot to foot.

Kakashi gained a deadpan expression as he looked through the bag, she of course had the essentials but less than the others. Her clothes seemed to be slightly impractical along side beauty supplies, suppressing the sigh this time Kakashi had tried to break Sakura of her fangirl tendencies to Sasuke but it was slow going since this proved that she was bringing this stuff to look good for him.

"Sakura most of this stuff is just dead weight slowing you down, normally I'd make you go back and repack this but sadly we are already too far behind schedule for that so you'll have to tough it out." Said Kakashi as he gave the girl a dressing down making her look down.

Standing in front of the party Kakashi began explaining their route " Now that's everyone's ready when we leave the village we will start heading south towards Nami this will take close to a week since the pace will be set to a civilians speed. So any questions?" not getting any Kakashi continued " Okay then people let's move out!".

Several Hours later.

A few hours later we find the ninja escort and Tazuna walking along a dirt path with forest on either side of them with the sun almost directly over head of them, they were walking in line with Tazuna in the middle with the Jonin on either side of him.

Teams 7 and 8 were getting very antsy as they weren't used to such a slow pace when moving for long periods of time, they had taken to amusing themselves in various ways but still remained focused on their surroundings.

Naruto cracked his neck as he listened to Sakura ask about if Nami had Shinobi which led to Kakashi-Sensei going into a lecture on the five great nation, tuning him out since Naruto already knew this stuff from the academy years ago. So he instead turned his attention to the road of ahead of him.

It was there he spotted something that made him raise his eye brow, sitting in the middle of the road was puddle of water. Narrowing his eyes the teen noticed several things that were wrong about this, one it hadn't rained for a quite a while in the area two the dirt around the puddle was dry which it should have been wet as the water was absorb into to it.

As they drew closer to the odd puddle something totally unexpected happened, his vision had suddenly gotten sharper by a noticeable degree. While Naruto always had been sharp and clear especially when he began practicing with the bow, but things had been taken up a notch. What happened next was just plain weird, while looking at the puddle the water shimmered for a second before being replaced by a glowing circle of pale blue light that was the same dimensions as the puddle.

'What the hell?'

Before he could even react the circle was gone and in it's place was was hole in which he could two people with messy brown hair wearing black cloaks that covered their bodies.

Taking a glance to his comrades to see they're reactions to this, but as far as he could see no had even reacted to this like they couldn't see this.

Naruto silently prayed in his head ' Please Kami-sama don't let me be going insane... well insaner.'.

The group past the puddle with nothing happening as Naruto noticed the Jonin had sifted to walking behind Tazuna, as soon as the Jonin past the puddle it exploded in flurry of action.

In an instant the two blurs that had emerged form the puddle had taken shape of two men dressed in the same black cloaks with black clothes underneath, their faces were hidden by what seemed to be a re-breather along with a horned head band with a the symbol for Kiri with a slash through them. They had matching claws on one hand each being their left and right with a chain connecting the two.

With what seemed to be ease the two unknown Shinobi had encircled the two Jonin with the spiked chain from head to toe and with a jerk of a wrist reduced them to bloody chunks.

"That's two tree huggers down..." said one of the twins.

"And only six more to go." Finished to the other one.

The gathered Gennin far too shocked to move at the apparent bloody murder of their Sensei, but not all of them froze at the sight. Barely even hesitated before his training took over, unlike the others Naruto had faced a life or death situation before so he was more prepared.

Gripping his swords hilt Naruto was off like a shot at his top speed to intercept the nin's.

One of the ninja almost cackled at how easy this was he and his brother had offed the Jonin already and all that stood between them and their target was a few snot nosed brats that were pissing themselves, so he was thrown for a loop at what happened next.

*CLANG*

His charge was met by the blond haired brat that had drawn his sword for a block, his claw met the weapon on the flat of the blade deflecting it out ward towards his brother.

Before the missing nin could recover from his surprise Naruto crouched down only to raise and slam the pommel of his sword into the other man's chin with enough force to send him flying back, this had the effect of dragging his partner with him by the chain stopping the charge.

Naruto act seemed to have broken the others out of their stupor galvanizing them in to action, Shino, Hinata, and Sakura had formed a triangle defense around the client with Kiba and Sasuke rushing to back up the blond.

Seeing the Shinobi he had hit getting back up with garbled swear as the face mask that had once covered the mans mouth nearly was destroyed, it had probably taken most of force of the blow.

When the two missing Ninja readied themselves for another attack so did the Konoha Gennin, the next instant the combatants were in motion with Naruto and Kiba taking the Shinobi with the broken mask while Sasuke took the other one.

Knowing that their chain would hamper them the former Kiri ninja disconnected from the other and raced that the opponents before them. Naruto's sword met the iron claw once again in a resounding clash as they tried push the other back, after a second of struggle Naruto won out with his height advantage and greater strength knocking the missing nin back and off balance. This allowed Kiba to use Naruto's shoulder as a spring board allowing him to land a flying kick to the man's face sending him sprawling.

Rolling to his feet from the blow the former Kiri nin was unable to raise his defense in time to block Naruto's fallow up attack making the teen's sword slash bite deeply into the man's right shoulder, releasing a strangled yell as the sword sliced through several important tendons causing his arm to go limp.

Growling as blood flowing down his arm dripped to gauntlet he cursed these two for taking out his main weapon, at first he thought the Gennin would have been easy picking but that illusion was shattered. Looking towards his brother to see how he was doing against his opponent apparently he having the same luck as he was with the brat being able hold him off.

"Meizu!" Shouted the man over to his partner making him break off the battle with the Konoha Gennin

"Gozu what the hell is it?" growled out the now named Meizu as he looked at his brothers injured shoulder.

"We have to regroup." said as he and his brother stood side by side with Gozu bringing out a kunai to replace his now unusable arm.

Just as the two missing nins charged forward they came to an abrupt stop when Kakashi appeared out of nowhere to clothes line the two.

"Yo." was the man's nonchalant greeting.

"Kakashi-Sensei!"Screamed Sakura upon seeing the older man alive and well.

"What? did you think I'd get taken out so easily Sakura." spoke Kakashi as he hefted their unconscious attackers onto his shoulders.

"But we saw you and Kurenai-Sensei get killed." said a stuttering Hinata as pointed to where the Jonin had been 'killed' to see a pile of sliced logs.

Blinking Kiba offered his thoughts on it "Kawarimi(Replacement)."

"And Genjutsu."added Naruto as he remembered the blood that flew from it since Kawarimi would just turn into what ever it was after getting hit.

"Very good you two most wouldn't see that." came a voice from behind Naruto and Kiba almost causing them to jump out of their skins, looking over their shoulders to see the Sensei of team ten standing behind them.

"Sensei why did you and Kakashi-sensei fake your deaths if you could have stopped those two right away?"Came the monotone of voice of Shino Aburame.

Turning to her stoic student Kurenai explains their actions "Simple Shino this was a test to see if you all ready for real battle with out a safety net and you passed."Smiling at the gathered Gennin but internally she was frowning knowing that most of them had frozen up at the sight of their death, all but Naruto he had galvanized the others into action.

Raising an eyebrow at the explanation the bug user considered the logic of the act he then gave a slight nod of approval.

Interrupting the the explanation Kakashi brought up the next point " Well now that's over I think we should have a talk with Mr. Tazuna on why these two were targeting him." giving the man in question an eye smile while the Gennin glared at him.

All he could do was gulp and pray that they listened to his story aong with feeling very forgiving.

One quick explanation later.

Teams 7 and 8 listened to the bridge builders after tying the Gozu and Meizu to a near by tree with ninja wire, the gist of the story was that a man named Gato had all but taken over the island nation of wave. The man had slowly been doing it over the past two years by buying up the docks, then he had cut the island off by blocking all ships trying to enter and leave the country. The people had tried to fight but Gato had a small army of thugs at his command, Tazuna had then began to build his bridge but Gato had countered by hiring Shinobi to kill him so he was forced to go to Konoha for help. But all he could afford was them.

"Tazuna-san you realize that you lied we could call this whole mission and return to Konoha, this mission should be a B rank and have experienced Chunin handling it." Said Kakashi in stern voice as he looked Tazuna in the eye.

Sighing Kakashi lost his stern look "That would be what we would normally do but I think this is a special situation I would like to put this to a vote for if we should continue …. if Kurenai doesn't have a problem with that?"turning to give the other Jonin an eye smile.

Rolling her eyes at the man passing the puck to her " Hmm no Kakashi I don't have a problem with it but we should be careful." adding emphasis on the last word.

Waving off her concern "Ma ma Kurenai am sure we'll be fine now what are your options on this everyone?".

The first to speak up was Sasuke " I think we should keep going." was his simple answer ' This the perfect way for me to see how much closer I am to fulfilling my goal.'.

Next was Sakura " I don't think we should go it's too dangerous.".

"I agree with Sakura-san this dagerous." came Hinata's soft response.

"Yeah it's dangerous but what isn't I say we go!" Added kiba with his normal vigor.

It came down to Shino and Naruto "Both sides of the matter seem to be logical if we return to Konoha we would be safe but in turn the villages reputation would be in question so I decline my vote." Said Shino in the normal Aburame way.

Tazuna was sweating it out the votes were tied and the fate of his country was in the hands of the blond brat, so he did the only thing he could, he took a swig of Sake and prayed to Kami that he hadn't pissed the teen off too much.

Naruto had closed his eye in concentration with his arms folded across his chest "Normally I'd say fuck this lying son of bitch and go home." at this Tazuna looked down thinking his home was done for " But there are two things stopping me from doing just that one is that I gave my word when we accepted this mission to protect his drunken old ass to the completion of his bridge, and when I give my word I don't break that easily." this made Kiba think back to all the times he had Naruto give him a promise or his word along with anyone else and he had never broken it. It was something Naruto prided himself on.

" Number 2 is this Gato is pissing me the fuck off I'd really like shove my sword down his throat but I guess giving him the finger with the bridge is good enough, so what am saying is lets go to Nami!".

After making sure the prisoners were secure for their ANBU pick up the escorts and their client headed out towards Nami. As they walked Naruto's thoughts returned to what had happened just before the team had been ambushed, he had seen the chakra of the Genjutsu along with seeing through it but that was impossible for normal eyes only people with a Doujutsu could do that. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts Naruto just kept walking so he and the others never noticed the small change about him, Naruto's normally small slit pupil began to increase in size.

Several days later.

It has been five days since the first attack by the demon brothers and nothing had happened, the remaining journey had gone smoothly allowing them to make it shore of fire country early. Once there the team had met up with a friend of Tazuna's that owned a boat to get them past Gato's blockade, so here we join them sitting in the boat with Hinata at the prow of the boat with her Byakugan active to spot any other vessels on the water.

The row boat made it's way silently across the water much to the skill of the rower, many of the passengers were deep in thought but none more so then Tazuna.

His thoughts were centered on the person who had decided chosen to help him, a memory tickled in the back of his mind from long ago. The image of a blond teenager gazing in to the mists was replaced with a man in his 20's with similar features wearing blood red torso armor with black pants, in place of blond hair was red hair of slightly different style along red eyes. On his face was small scar caused by a blade on his right cheek that ran from cheek to jaw straight down.

Shaking the memory away Tazuna thought to himself 'Naw can't be maybe I've had too much Sake.'.

As the boat moved towards the shore Hinata's eyes widened slightly as the island came into along with another that was far off into the distance that was hard to see even with her enhanced vision.

Seeing her jerk slightly Kurenai asked in soft voice "What is it Hinata?".

This got the boat man jittery "Is one of Gato's boats?" a fearful edge in his voice.

Shaking her head she responded "No the island just came into view plus another one to which one is Nami?" asked the girl in quiet voice just above a whisper.

Grunting Tazuna answered her "The one in directly front is Nami the one off to the side is what was Uzu no Kuni(Land of Whirlpools) no body lives there any more not since the country fell.".

A snort came from behind them from the boat man " Yeah well if Uzu and Uzugakure(Village hidden in the whirling tides) was still around they would've flushed Gato down the drain like the piece of shit he is." said the man with disdain in his voice for Gato.

"Feh yea well Uzugakure and the Uzumaki clan are gone and dead they ain't gonna help us this time." Tazuna's voice was slightly bitter about that fact as he took another sip from his bottle.

The mentioning of the name Uzumaki caused several of the younger to raise an eyebrow while secretly glancing at Naruto who just shrugged at this.

After reaching the shores of Nami and bidding the person who had ferried them here ado the group continued along,with Kiba on point with Naruto behind him.

A short while later as they were walking near a large lake a rustling in the bushes caused Kiba to throw a kunai at whatever caused it.

"Nice going Kiba." snapped Sakura.

"Shut up Hanaro."Growled Kiba as he went to retrieve his weapon.

Instead of pulling out just pulling out his kunai he also had a fairly large white hare by scruff of it's neck holding the shaking animal up for inspection "Geez it's just a rabbit.".

"Nice going Kiba you scared it half to death!" reprimanded Sakura who tried to take the hare away from but could not before Naruto snatched it away.

Holding the white animal up at eye level "Actually it's a hare but to me it looks more like lunch." said Naruto he gave the hare predatory smile while gave him the 'Too cute to eat' look "Don't give that look I've eaten things cuter then you.".

A groan escaped the lips of a person not far away from them knew he'd better save the freakin rabbit or he'd never hear the end of it.

Kakashi looked on as his blond student was about to slit the hare's throat when he noticed something was off about the animal 'Wait it's summer and that hare has white fur.. that means it was kept inside.' as he finished that thought his ears picked up an odd sound. It was a low sound of something flying through the air, a second later Naruto, Kiba and Kurenai picked up on the sound.

"GET DOWN!" shouted Kakashi as he tackled Tazuna while Kurenai and the male members of team ten hit the dirt, Naruto dragged down Sakura and Hinata with Sasuke fallowing soon after.

It was just in time as a massive sword flew over their heads to bury it's blade in to a tree, the weapon was a massive one sided sword shaped like a butcher knife.

"Well well not bad for dodging that." said a voice from above them, standing on the swords handle was a tall man just shy of six foot. He was only wearing a pair of baggy dark stripped pants with no shirt on only a leather strap across his chest for his sword holster, he also wears white and black wrist and leg warms, the lower part of his face was hidden by bandages wrapped around it with a slanted kiri head band on his fore head with slash through it. His hair was a short and spiky black with his eyes being brown "To think I would run into someone of your caliber here Kakashi." said the missing nin looking right at the Sensei of team 7.

Having pulled himself up Kakashi responded as the Gennin formed up to protect their client "Same to you Zabuza Momochi I thought you would have better standards then to work for Gato." quipped the Konoha Jonin.

Before either of them could speak again they were interrupted by Naruto "Wait Zabuza Momochi as in THE Zabuza Momochi one of the seven swordsman of the mist the wielder of Kubikiribocho(Decapitating carving knife)or also known as Danto(Seversword), the famed Kirigakure no Kijin(Demon of the hidden mist) who attempted to over throw the Yondaime Mizukage, that Zabuza Momochi?" getting a confused nod Naruto finished with "This would be so awesome if you weren't trying to kill us!".

Most of the group looked at the blond with surprise that he knew that much about something.

"What?" asked wondering why the hell they were giving him those looks.

It was Kiba that explained the outburst "Don't bother Naruto's a sword otaku he knows pretty much everything about them and the people who wield them available, plus his dream is to fight one of the seven swordsman in a one on one match." receiving ah's of understanding from the rest.

Mumbling a few select curses at his friend "Yeah so it's one of my dreams big deal." mummered Naruto that goal was right up there with being like his hero's Dart and the Yondaime even tho the last one stuck the fox in him, he also had a dream to be the Hokage but didn't go shouting it out like when he was younger.

Shaking off Naruto's unexpected reaction Zabuza returned his attention to Kakashi " Turn the old man over to me Hakate and you and the brats can walk away from this unharmed what do ya say?".

Not even hesitating with his answer " Sorry but I don't think we can do that Zabuza." says the sliver haired man as he reaches for the left side of his head band.

They could practically feel Zabuza's grin under his mask "I was hoping you would choose this Hakate I haven't had a good fight in while." exclaimed the former mist ninja as he leapt off his sword handle grabbing it only to rebound off the tree landing to on the near by water with on his back.

Kakashi pulls his head band up reveal an eye totally unlike the other, his left eye is startling red with three black commas around the pupil.

"Breaking out your Shairngan already I feel honored." his every word dripping with excitement in anticipation of battle.

This threw several of the Gennin for a loop, but none more so then Sasuke that Kekkei Genkai was suppose to be his families alone 'Why does he have that did he steal it?'.

Zabuza brought his hands up in a half ram seal "I'd better get serious then Kirigakure no jutsu(Hidden mist technique)" as soon as he said this a thick mist started to cover the area, it was so thick Kakashi even had a hard time seeing any sort of distance even with the Sharingan.

"Form up around Tazuna double triangle defense now."Commanded Kurenai as she drew a kunai for battle, with out a single word being uttered the two teams surrounded Tazuna in a two layer defense with weapons drawn for a fight.

"Be careful Zabuza isn't a normal Shinobi be on your guard for anything in the mist he has the advantage here with Sairento Kiringu Jutsu(Silent Killing technique)"seeing the confused faces of many of the Gennin he explained it more "This technique allows a person to move silently to kill their target at close range by targeting their vitals.".

"So we stay quiet?"Asked a shaky Sakura.

Answering her was Naruto instead of one of the Sensei "Not possible Zabuza like all of the seven swordsmen are masters of this technique meaning he doesn't listen for talking and all that he listens for breathing and heart beats stuff you can't stop." explained Naruto in a low whisper.

With out even turning to her team Kurenai attempted to locate the man through more exotic means " Are any of you able to find anything?" she asked her team knowing the tracking squad's senses were the best shot at finding the zanbato wielding man.

"No Kurenai-sensei my Kikaichu are unable to do much in this mist." was the calm and collected response of Shino.

"There's too much chakra in the mist too very far at all." Hinata's stutter evident in her speech.

"The water in the air is screwing up the scents and I haven't heard a damn thing." Kiba growled out "What about you Naruto?" asked the dog nin knowing his friend had senses comparable to his own.

A small growl of frustration was heard from the spiky blond before he answered "Nothing here either I know he's here just not where.".

A second later a laugh filled the air around that seemed to come from every direction, the laughter wasn't a pleasant sound either it was filled with dark under tone "Too bad Gakis your nowhere near my level." the laughter continued taking on a slight disturbed tone to it as if mocking them.

Zabuza's voice continued to come from all directions "There are eight vital targets Throat, spinal column, lungs, liver, jugular vein, the subclavian vein, kideny and the heart oh so many wonderful choices but which SHOULD I CHOOSE!" with each word spoken it was as if an invisible force started to surround the Gennin causing them to shake uncontrollably, in their minds the long buried instincts screamed that them run.

"Ha and you call yourselves Shinobi! By the time I was your age I had already faced death countless times and my enemies blood staining my hands. Look how they shake just from a little killing intent." some of the Gennin started to move to their kunai towards them selves "The only one of you punks that even can be called a Shinobi is the blond." this caused the groups gazes to snap to Naruto, who seemed to be showing no truly visible sign of feeling the KI other then being slightly more tense then before.

Naruto's eyes widened at this "I can see it in your eye's gaki you've been in life and death situations before and there's blood on those hands of yours." the intensity of the aura of dread increased until it unbearable "Too bad I've gotta end you here kid you would have gone far." Zabuza's voice didn't sound all around them but instead it was right behind them.

Standing right behind them, in front of Tazuna, was Zabuza wound up for a strike at Naruto, Kiba and Hinata the Sensei already in motion to save their students.

In blur of motion the former member of the seven swordsmen struck at a speed that bellied the size of his sword, the strike was aimed at chest level. Luckily Kiba and Hinata were able to duck out of way, but for Naruto being taller then the other two so he was unable to duck in time. He instead used every ounce of power in his upper to throw his body over the cleaver like sword his head just passing barely half an inch over the flat of the blade.

When he hit then ground Naruto rolled far enough away that not even Zabuza's sword could reach him, the remaining team members had gotten Tazuna to safety away from Zabuza.

Before Zabuza could recover from his swing Kakashi had reached him plunging a kunai in the man's side but instead of blood pouring out of the wound water was leaking out, 'Zabuza' burst in to a shower of water turning out to be a clone while the real Zabuza appeared behind the Konoha Jonin with his sword in mid swing.

"SENSEI BEHIND YOU!" Sakura shouted the girl upon seeing the man.

Completing his swing the missing nin cleaved Kakashi in two horrifying the Gennin all but Naruto and Kiba for their sense of smell informed them of no blood being split, it seemed to surprise Zabuza that Kakashi also turned into a splash of water.

This caused his down fall by allowing Kurenai to stab him in the brachial artery of his left arm only for this Zabuza to burst into water yet again, this time the water using Shinobi did not appear behind his target as expected but from the side.

Catching the Kunochi by surprise Zabuza was able to land a disabling blow on her back right near a kidney allowing him to kick her in the stomach sending Kurenai sailing into a tree with a crack taking the red eyed woman out of the fight. With that done Zabuza held up a half seal increasing the thickness of the mist around them allowing him to disappear once again.

Team 8 was in shock after seeing their Sensei taken out so easily by the enemy leaving Tazuna open to attack.

Naruto's senses were on full alert looking for the swordsman, looking to see shapes in the thick mist surrounding them moving about in seeming battle he assumed that was Zabuza fighting Kakashi. While focusing on the battle Naruto felt a pinching sensation in his eyes that wasn't painful but more uncomfortable, when the sensation stopped Naruto experienced his second shock of the week as his vision yet again changed to something he had never experienced before.

'What the hell is happening to me?' thought Naruto as he suppressed the urge to panic since it would do him no good.

Instead of the normal full range of color that he was use to seeing Naruto now saw the surrounding area as a deep blue with the only spots of color being his comrades, the people around were no longer distinct but were a mixture of yellows reds and oranges in the general shape of people.

He quickly looked around the area seeing things differently off to the side he saw Kurenai propped up against a tree behind him a few feet away was the other Gennin with Tazuna, focusing back to his Sensei Naruto immediately noticed something was off as there was only one person shaped red and yellow light moving around with another off blue shape.

Naruto's mind went into over drive as he processed the facts, fact one the yellow/red colored things were people, two the person/thing fighting Kakashi wasn't glowing meaning it was not real, fact three Zabuza used clones made up of water which that thing probably it which meant the bastard was somewhere else!

Flicking his eyes all around hoping to catch sight of Zabuza but all he saw was a little bit of glow farther away but dismissed it as unimportant, it wasn't until he looked in Tazuna's direction that he saw the missing nin. The tall man was walking in particular way towards the bridge builder passing within a foot of Sakura who didn't even react meaning she couldn't see or hear the assassin.

Without hesitation Naruto charged towards their client knowing he wouldn't he able to pull off a Kawarimi in time, Naruto reached the older man just in time as Zabuza was readying a over head swing that would bisect him. There was no time to pull Tazuna out of the way so Naruto did the next best thing he rammed his shoulder in to the older man's own just time for-

*CLANG*

A resounding clash of steel on steel rang through out the clearing as Zabuza's Kubikiribocho met Naruto's simple steel broad sword, Naruto was driven to a knee while blocking the over head strike with the flat of his sword his muscles taut against his skin straining to hold back the larger weapon.

Deep chuckling came from Zabuza as he pushed a bit harder on his sword grinding the famous blade against the nameless blade "Not bad brat not many could have block that and lived I've got proposition for yea how about you join me and I'll teach you how be great. So what'd say?" the elder nin grinned under his mask this kid had pretty good skill with that blade along side talent for the sword that was rare and most importantly he had guts, plus his current apprentice had no desire to learn the sword so maybe he could pass his title down to this kid some day ... if he accepted.

Snarling Naruto gritted out his thoughts on his offer "Tempting but I am gonna have to say this screw you peachfuzz." with a supreme effort Naruto was able to push the sword off him allowing him to spin around into a rising strike with his sword. Taken by surprise Zabuza was just able to move out of the way but still received a small cut to his cheek barely even drawing blood.

This only increased the mans anger when he was intercepted by Kakashi before he could teach the brat a lesson "Good job Naruto I'll handle this now." said Kakashi as he motioned Naruto to fall back with the others.

When Naruto fell back to the others the two Jonin began their deadly dance, the high level ninja seemed to be matched evenly as they tried gain supremacy over the other. This was until Zabuza was able to land a kick on Kakashi by using his sword as anchor launching the Konoha Jonin into the near by lake.

When he broke the surface Kakashi immediately noticed something wrong 'What the... the water is heavy but why?' before he could move Zabuza had appeared behind him a swirl of water just finishing a string of hand seals.

"Gullible Hakate!" said the missing nin as the water around Kakashi started to swirl around until him it formed a sphere floating a foot above the water trapping the Jonin inside of it "Suiro no jutsu(Water prison technique)!"placing his hand into the water sphere holding Kakashi.

Kakashi knew that there was no way out this jutsu not without some outside help, Kurenai was too injured to fight someone of Zabuza's level and the Gennin weren't ready for it either "Everyone you have to run away from here get Kurenai and get away from here this is an order!".

Several of the weaker willed Gennin seemed ready to fallow this order until a slight crackling sound came from in front of them, it had come from Naruto whose stood in his guard position with his knuckles white from the pressure of his grip.

"Sorry Sensei but I don't think we can do that!" said Naruto as he gripped his sword harder "We can't abandon you, and not just because Zabuza would kill us after finishing you, but because I don't think I could call myself a Konoha Shinobi for abandoning a comrade like!" this seemed to dispel the fear of the other Gennin and instill courage.

Inside his water prison Kakashi sighed at Naruto's impassioned speech 'Hmm your far too much like your parents, as stubborn your mother and a natural leader like your father and I wouldn't have it be any other way.' the sliver haired man smiled as he recalled happier times.

Zabuza's reaction to this was a loud belly laugh "Hahahaha what the hell do you think you brats can do! Mizu Bunshin(Water clone)" with a half hand seal the water in front of Zabuza began to swirl upwards forming into a perfect clone of him with it's arms crossed over it's chest.

With out a single hesitation Naruto started to bark out orders "Sakura, Hinata go find Kurenai-Sensei and make sure she's okay, Sasuke, Shino you guys stay with Tazuna." Naruto said all of this in commanding tone making sure all the others knew that he meant business, Sasuke was about to fight his orders until he saw the blond's eyes instantly knowing that if he tried anything Naruto would put him down.

As the others moved into their assigned tasks Naruto spoke once more "Kiba your with me!" said Naruto as walked forward stabbing in sword into the ground beside him.

Anticipating this Kiba motioned Akamaru to remain behind while he fell into step beside his friend, Kiba looked at where Naruto had left his sword raising an eyebrow 'Why the hell did he leave his sword like that... unless he's thinking about using that! If he is this just might work' breaking into a feral grin as he thought of his oldest friends plan.

Naruto had reached into his equipment pouch drawing a scroll out and unraveling it to show a seal, channeling chakra into the seal a puff of smoke covers the teen. When the smoke clears Naruto is seen holding a wooden handled spear, the shaft of the weapon is a dark colored ash with the head of the spear being black steel the weapon measures just under 7 foot tall from butt to tip.(Link to pic of the spear is on my profile)

With out indication the two Gennin burst into movement with Kiba falling back while running through hand seals calling out "Shikyaku no jutsu!(Four legs technique)" a light blue mist of chakra flared around the brown haired teen as his appearance became more feral and his finger nails extended into claws.

In front of him Naruto skidded to a stop ten feet from the shore, planting his feet twisting his body around to the right almost all the way around with his spear parallel to the ground held just above his waist. Not wasting a moment Kiba jumped onto the spear just below the head using chakra to stick to it, when he did that Naruto mustered all the power in his body making the muscles and veins within those muscles stand out as Naruto turned back towards Zabuza.

Just as the arc of the spear centered on Zabuza Kiba stopped channeling chakra into his feet launching him from the spear at high speeds, but just before he he left the spear Kiba threw his body into a spin that was only aided by the force of the spear.

The result of this was Kiba becoming a large gray drill that effortlessly shredded the water clone of Zabuza that blocked it's path, just before the high speed drill reached Zabuza he was able draw Kubikiribocho in one hand deflecting the attack off to the side making Kiba crash into the water with a splash.

The former Kiri Shinobi's eye went wide when he looked at his blade, along the flat of the sword where he had deflected the attack was ragged mark ' What the hell!' thought the swordsman as he eyed the damage it took a lot to even harm one of the seven swords the mist.

A low 'thumping' sound above him drew his attention to see a yellow/black and red blur up in the air heading towards him.

Just after Kiba was launched.

After launching his friend Naruto started to run towards Zabuza at top speed, while he was doing that gripping his spear like a pole vaulter with the point towards the ground. As he did that Naruto began channeling chakra to his arms reenforcing them along channeling chakra to the spear head, when he reached the shore line Naruto stuck the spear tip into the ground pushing himself into the air but full height of his jump he released the chakra in the spear head blasting off higher into the air.

When he reached the top of this Naruto shifted his grip to the butt of his spear and forced his body into a sideways spin towards Zabuza with enough force to be a blur.

Back the Present.

The kid was too close to dodge the blow but the attack was too powerful to block with just one hand 'God damn brats!' swore Zabuza as he pulled his hand out of the water prison and bringing up his sword to intercept the blond's attack. When the two met there was the screech of metal on metal as the spear tip drug across the surface, in a instant the clash was over and Naruto continued over Zabuza still spinning but Zabuza swore he heard a pop from the over the noise.

Naruto landed in the water with loud splash, it was a minute later that he surfaced several feet away from where he had landed only to come face to boot with Zabuza.

"Too that didn't finish me off brat!" Naruto could feel the maliciousness in his voice and his smile too.

Smiling his own cocky smile jerked his head to the right "That's not my job fuzzless wonder it's his." said Naruto as Kakashi appeared next to Zabuzawith a kunai at his neck.

Taking this as his que to high tail it Naruto swam as fast as he could, which wasn't very fast considering he popped his shoulder from the unmastered move and he only knew the basics of swimming. Meeting up with Kiba part way to the shore the dog ninja helping his buddy make tracks faster, Naruto caught part of the fight out of the corner of his eye as two dragons of water clashed making a wave that washed them to shore.

Gritting his teeth as Shino helped him up he turned to see Zabuza being taken down by someone in a green kimono with a white mask who disappeared in a swirl of water.

"Heh heh that wasn't so bad was it?" asked the copy nin as he walked over pulling down his head band only to promptly collapse.

"Kakashi-Sensei we got our asses handed to us."Said Naruto in deadpan as Kiba slung the taller ninja's arm over his shoulder helping him up as Hinata helped Kurenai remain steady.

"Sigh yeah we did but look on the bright side were all alive." Kakashi tried to say this with as much energy as possible but it wasn't much at all considering he had chakra exhaustion. Looking around the group Kakashi blinked when he looked his blond student in the eyes "Ne Naruto what happened to your eyes?".

"Uh what the hell are you talking about?" asked the blond as the others in the group looked at the aforementioned organs, instead of the normal cerulean blue on white with a slight silt the teen's eyes were now a golden yellow with a larger slit with the eye giving off a small bit of luminance.(Link on Profile under The Legend continues)

Sighing for what might have been the thousandth time since becoming the boy's Sensei Kakashi was really hoping that the chakra exhaustion was making him hallucinate.

Chapter 4 end

An:Whats this Naruto's eyes changed! What do I have planned well if you wanna know just wait for the next chapter.

Not much to say this time but to encourage people that haven't voted in my pole for the last member of Naruto's harem that you do so since it is tied at the moment between two characters so I am extending it for the time being and for those that forgot yous in it here they are

,Samui,Hana,Tayuya,plus one.

Well then this is good by until next time.