Chapter 6- I am not a ninja, I am a Protector, I will protect you
The council stared at Zabuza who was standing at attention in front of them, he had recently come in with Kakashi's group and had pledged himself to the leaf village and was now being interrogated, although Naruto was present as one of the Konoha representatives that are for Zabuza joining the village. The head of the Hyuga clan Harashi glared at the mist Nin and then rest his chin on his folded hands.
"Zabuza Momichi, why do you want to join the leaf village, you are a rouge ninja are you not" the Hyuga head said in a cold and analgising voice. Zabuza looked over at Naruto who merely nodded and then looked at the council heads and steeled himself.
"I wished to join your village because I'm tired of being a rouge ninja, I miss the honour I had as being a respected Jonin in the mist, but I know that I can never go back to the mist village, I wanted to start afresh and when I watched the young genin from Kakashi Hatake's squad take on my own disciple who is now deceased I was in awe at their skill, and as I fought against Kakashi himself I couldn't help but think about what a village this is, before my disciple was killed he and I had discussed approaching this village for asylum if we survived, I am merely fulfilling the promise I made to my dead comrade" Zabuza said in an unwavering voice.
Shikaku, the head of the Nara clan stared at Zabuza before nodding once "I trust him, plus we've already heard that Kakashi trusts him and if the Copy Cat ninja trust him so do I" the lazy ninja said shrugging.
Inochi the head of the Yakamara clan nodded and leant back "I find no faults in his mind nor in his body posture which would tell us he is lying, I agree with Shikaku, plus we need more Jonin in the active field, our village should be honoured a former mist swordsmen has approached us for help" The Akamichi clan head merely nodded.
Tsume and Kodamaru from the Inuzuka clan looked at Zabuza with fierce eyes before the large wolf sat back and made a huffing sound and Tsume laughed out loud "I like you, you and I must drink together we shall swap stories" Zabuza smirked and nodded before turning to the Hyuga head again.
Harashi looked at Zabuza before turning his sharp eyes on Naruto who looked back unblinkingly "I would like to hear from Naruto Uzumaki" Zabuza gulped as he stood at attention while Naruto came to stand next to him.
"Yes Lord Hyuga" Naruto asked with a tone that almost sent Tsume, Shikaku, Inochi and Chouza into fits of laughter. Harashi glared at Naruto and then cleared his throat.
"What do you think of Zabuza?"
Naruto sighed and looked at the mist Nin "He is my comrade" everyone in the council including the Hokage all gasped "I have fought side by side with this man, I have taken a fatal attack for him, he bled by my side, and after I killed his disciple he pledge himself to follow me to the leaf village." The council elders looked at each and gave a tiny nod "If it is someone to take responsibility for this man, then let it be me, if he betrays the leaf village and harms the villagers, let it be my fault, for it is my influence that brought him here, but if you believe that he is a bad man, then you are mistaken, I would gladly give my life for him"
The Hokage smiled and then looked at the other members of the council who all nodded "Shall we put it to a vote"
Tsume banged the table with her fist and pointed at Naruto "If I wasn't sold before the little brat sold it for me I say hell yeah" Naruto laughed at Tsume and smiled largely at the Inuzuka leader.
Shinon Aburame fixed his sunglasses and then nodded once "I agree" Zabuza looked at Naruto in confusion who just shrugged as if to say that it was normal behaviour for an Aburame.
Harashi shook his head "I say no, it's too much of a risk even if we put all our faith in...This boy" Zabuza became tense and Naruto shook his head.
"I say yes" Shikaku said smiling lazily at the blonde "not only do I trust Zabuza but my son tells me Naruto here has pretty good judgement himself so that makes me even more sold" he said before yawning.
Chouza merely nodded and Inochi grinned and smile "Like I said we need more talented Jonin, we need you to set the bar Zabuza" The Hokage smiled and nodded.
"Very well Zabuza Momichi I hereby grant you full Jonin status of the leaf village, and citizenship here, may you serve our village well" Zabuza nodded and then took of his mist headband and replaced it with the leaf headband. "Now Naruto if you could please wait outside, now that Zabuza is a Jonin he is entitled to secrets of this village that you are not" Naruto bowed and walked out and waited out the door for Zabuza patiently.
Tsume walked out the door with Kodamaru and the smiled at Naruto before thumping him on the back "Good show kid, if you ever want a warm bed just come to the Inuzuka compound they'll be a spot open" Naruto just stared at the Inuzuka leader and nodded once. Tsume smiled and then bounded off with her ever faithful wolf by her side.
A few moments later Zabuza walked out and put his hand on Naruto's shoulder "Come on brat lets go" Naruto nodded and then began to walk towards the temple when Zabuza stopped him. "Where are we going?"
Naruto scratched his head and laughed a little "well I'm going to the temple of the fourth; I'm overdue for a sending" Zabuza laughed and then slung an arm around the younger boy's shoulders.
"Okay kid, lead the way" Naruto burst out laughing and the nodded.
Kiba groaned as he lay on his bed after his training with his Jonin sensei, there was one thing Inuzuka's like and that was a strong leader, and Kiba would vouch for Kurenai sensei any day, it was well known that the Inuzuka's had really good stamina but even Kurenai's workouts tired the young dog handler out. Kiba was tired, worn out and ready just to lie in bed for the rest of the day...but it seemed life had other plans.
"KIBA GET DOWN HERE" The young Inuzuka groaned but then rolled off his bed and padded downstairs while grumbling that Akamaru was lucky that all he had to do was sleep happily in his little doggy bed.
Kiba got down to the kitchen and saw his mother standing in front of him with a big smile on her face, the one smile that he was deadly afraid of. "Mom...What is it?"
The Inuzuka matriarch smiled even bigger and grabbed her son's arm and began walking to the door, "It's about time you started praying at the temple" she said as Kodamaru pushed Kiba from behind.
Kiba looked at his mother like she was crazy "What do you mean?" he asked in a slightly annoyed voice "You don't pray so why should I"
Tsume stopped pulling her son and sighed quietly before turning to him and giving him a sad look "Your wrong Kiba, I pray every month, the Inuzuka's are in a great debt to the fourth Hokage, he has done a great deal for this clan, so many of the Inuzuka's are avid prayers" Kiba looked down ashamed that he didn't know about the small detail of his clan "Now come on, your an Inuzuka and it's time you started acting like one" Kiba didn't even argue as his mother began pulling him to the edge of the village.
Kiba began looking around him in fascination as he got further and further away from the places he knew and went further into places he had never explored. The forest here was lush and beautiful, and there were no houses or settlements anywhere, it was beautiful.
"The fourth loved this part of the forest, that's why the temple was placed out here" Tsume said in a sad voice as she too looked around. Kiba nodded and then froze when he caught sight of the large temple it was beautiful, and took Kiba's breath away.
"Come on" Kiba followed his mother up the steps to the entrance when he saw someone he would have never thought would be at the temple.
"Naruto?"
"Naruto!" The orange clad ninja whipped around and saw Kiba and his mother standing in the entrance of the temple. Zabuza watched as Naruto waved to the young Inuzuka before turning around and looking for something.
"Ah young Naruto I was wondering when you would return" Naruto's face split out into a grin as an old man walked forward and hugged him lightly, and from the way he looked Zabuza could already tell that the man wasn't going to live much longer.
"Old man Shun, wait where's Grandma Hoshi?" the young blonde asked as he looked around for the elder woman. Shun shook his head and laid a hand on Naruto's shoulders.
"She passed on Naruto, one week ago, in her sleep, she told me that she just wished to see you send once more" Naruto looked down and bowed his head in sadness.
"Shun what's going on" Naruto looked up as Tsume reached them and gave the old man a fond glance before smiling wickedly at Zabuza and Naruto.
"My Hoshi has passed on, and I fear it will be my time soon as well" Tsume whined a little before putting a hand on Kiba's shoulder.
"Well at least you lived long enough to see my son come to pray for the first time" The Inuzuka leader said proudly as Kiba blushed a little and smiled at the old temple keeper.
"Hi" Shun smiled and looked at Naruto who was still looking downcast.
"Don't worry Naruto I have already found the next temple keeper" the old man said moving off to the side, as a scarred man with greying hair began forward. When Naruto saw him he gasped, he knew that man: It was falcon or Anton Yashamiru, his second ANBU unit commander.
"Hello Naruto, it's been a long time" Naruto nodded and grabbed the older man's hand pulled him off to the side.
"What are you doing here, you used to be Falcon, you should be leading troops on missions and secret battle plans not taking care of a temple" Naruto hissed and then was shocked when Anton just shook his head.
"No Naruto, I'm old I'm forty five this year, I'm slowing, getting more injured and soon I'll die if I keep going. There comes a time in every ninja's life when they know that their best days are behind them that time for me is now, so when Shun asked me to take over the temple I couldn't refuse" Naruto sighed and nodded before the two of them walked back to the group who were waiting patiently for them to come back.
"Naruto are you just praying today?" shun asked clearing his throat a little. Kiba gave the temple keeper a weird look and then turned to his mother.
"What else can you do in a temple but pray" he asked making Tsume laugh a little.
"You can perform a sending" Kiba gave Zabuza a confuse glance making the former mist Nin chuckle a little. "A sending is a ritual dance, it's were the sender presents his chakra to the spirit and gods of the temple, it's very interesting to watch" Kiba looked at Naruto who was walking up to the sending platform.
"And Naruto does this?" Tsume placed a hand on Kiba's shoulder and shook her head as Naruto began to dance to the music of the Hymn playing in the temple.
Kiba got the message and stayed silent as Naruto continued to dance, Kiba watched in awe as the blonde's chakra became visible and began to float around him like different animals and began to race towards the alter. Suddenly Naruto's chakra began to spike and each of the statues in the temple began to glow, Naruto seemed to fall into a trance as his dancing became more complicated and harder to follow. Suddenly Naruto twirled to a stop and the orb at each of the god statue's feet glowed brightly. Shun nodded at Anton who then walked forward and helped Naruto walked down the steps.
"That was amazing" Kiba whispered as Naruto leant against the ex-ninja "But why are you so tired" Naruto chuckled and then walked towards Kiba on shaking legs before poking him on the forehead.
"Because you try performing for gods" He said before he collapsed onto the dog handler laughing a little. "You'd think that I'd be used to this by now wouldn't you" he said looking up into Kiba's eyes.
Kiba looked into Naruto's eyes and had to stop the blush that was threatening to rise, he didn't know why but being this close to Naruto was making him feel all hot and uncomfortable, and when he looked into his eyes he couldn't help but be entranced. Zabuza took Naruto from Kiba's grip and then shook his head as he placed the boy on his two feet "Seriously kid, you can't go two seconds without getting hurt can you?" Naruto laughed and nodded before he and Zabuza started towards the entrance of the temple.
"He is quiet the little boy" Tsume said making Kiba look up in confusion. "He's been performing sending's for the last six years" Kiba looked back at Naruto who was now yelling at Zabuza who was yelling right back.
Sasuke sucked in a breath and looked at the rouge ninja hideout, ever since the wave mission one month ago which was then bounce up to a A-ranked mission the council seemed to want to put their team on every available C-ranked mission they could. So far their team had completed just as many C-ranked as D-ranked mission, but today was the most dangerous situation they had gone on ever since the wave mission. Their mission was to kill a bunch of rouge ninja near the leaf village. Everything had been going according to plan until one of the younger ninja had captured Sakura saying that she was a pretty little thing. Sasuke looked up into the tree where Naruto was waiting for Kakashi's signal, it was no secret that Naruto was the killer of the group out of all three genin he held the most body counts, but also the most injuries. Kakashi had explained Naruto's new eye to them earlier that month when they'd seen Naruto use unheard of water jut-su's while making a six pointed pentagram field appear around him and the enemy: truthfully Sasuke was a little excited that his comrade has such an interesting bloodline although he still covered the ugly scarring up with his headband. Kakashi sighed and gave the signal, and Sasuke rushed into the cave silently. When he looked around the large rock he was hiding behind he was disgusted by what he saw. The leader of the group had Sakura on his lap and a possessive hand on the inside of her thigh laughing at what one of the other ninja said. Sakura had changed into a beautiful robe that flaunted all her newly acquired curves although also made he look very uncomfortable. Sasuke gripped his kunai tighter and then saw Naruto walk right in the door and sighed, it was going to begin.
"Yo freaks, it's your unlucky day" Naruto called out as he pulled out his curved kunai and charged forward.
Kakashi watched as Sakura wearing something much to revealing for a girl her age, Sasuke and a bloody Naruto all walked out of the cave together, he had been back up but it had all worked out-well apart from Sakura being captured. When the group were in front of him Kakashi looked Sakura over and found she was shivering.
"Sakura what happened to your clothes" he asked sadly.
Sakura shivered again and shook her head, Naruto frowned and his eye flickered from blue to red "Can we go, our mission is complete" Kakashi sighed and jumped into the trees he didn't know what the council was trying to do to it was slowly killing his team.
As they reached the village Kotsue and Izsum-the gate watches, waved in their team but then froze when they saw Sakura. The two gate guards had become very familiar with this team and had soft spots with all three genin, but they were still grown men and when they saw Sakura they turned bright red.
"Hello Sakura, ah what happened to you clothes" Izsum asked adverting his eyes respectfully as Kotsue did the same.
The pink haired Kunochi smiled at the two chunnin before shivering again "Let's just say this mission didn't go as smoothly as the others" the two chunnin nodded and Kakashi continued the group on their way when Kakashi stopped them and looked at Naruto sternly.
"What happened in there" he ordered the blonde.
Naruto adverted his eyes and then looked at Sasuke who looked down as well, "When we went into the cave Sasuke and went with your plan, but one of the ninja was able to get past Sasuke's defences I was able to stop him, when the leader of the rouge ninja attacked, I killed him brutally" he said holding up his red encrusted hand.
Kakashi sighed and then mentally added another kill to Naruto's list, so far he had let Sakura and Sasuke get there first kills out of the way but at the same time he took most of them. "Fine let's go report" the team nodded and Sakura linked hands with Naruto and squeezed his hand and mouthed a thank you to him before disentangling their hands and continued to walk next to Sasuke who was glaring at every boy who was giving Sakura any lingering looks.
The Hokage sighed as he looked over team seven, they were by far the most impressive genin team to date, with twelve C-ranked, one A-ranked and twelve D-ranked they looked more like a Chunnin team then they did a genin team, and it was beginning to show. The council was trying to get Naruto to let them keep their innocence and let him crawl back into ANBU but unfortunately Naruto's kill list was just going up and the others had been practically untouched in all their missions.
"Thank you team 7, you have the next five days off, that will be all" The Hokage said dismissing them.
Naruto sighed and walked out the door and then took out his bloody kunai, it was getting rusted with the amount of blood gracing its blade, and he would have to see Rat soon, so with another sigh he dug out one of the books Kakashi had lent him from his pocket and then began to read it as he walked, unknowingly getting strange looks from everyone, who were saying he was becoming a mini-Kakashi. Sakura shivered again and Sasuke took her by the arm and dragged her towards his house where he threw her into the shower fully clothed.
"You shower I'll get you a change of clothes" he snapped turning on his heel and stalking out of the bathroom.
When he was in the laundry room he breathed deeply trying to kill the blush that had risen to his cheeks. Two weeks ago puberty hit and Sasuke had started finding Sakura attractive and very distracting, when he asked Kakashi and Naruto for advice Naruto had just shrugged and said that he didn't see Sakura that way and why he was going through puberty as well he had decided if he like girls or boys yet. Kakashi had been even less help and had forced him to read the books that Naruto was which made him almost faint from blood loss, and after confronting Naruto about how he didn't get a nose bleed Naruto merely said he was more interested in the storyline than anything else.
"Come on Sasuke its Sakura what are you doing, she's your teammate" he said to himself as he got out Sakura spare change of clothes. Each member of their team had a change of clothes at each of their houses just in case something like this happened.
"Sasuke, do you have my clothes?" Sakura called out dropping her wet clothes on the ground. Sasuke blushed a deep red and he figured it out, Sakura was naked in his bathroom with nothing but a towel on.
"Y-yeah give me a sec" he called back clearing his throat as he gave Sakura the clothes who just smiled brightly and walked back into the bathroom and closed the door. Sasuke groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose "Why me" he whispered.
Naruto walked into the ANBU base unnoticed by many of the officers, and the ones who did knew who he was so they didn't care, when he got to rat's quarters he opened the doors and saw the ANBU officer seated on his bed reading a book his mask lying by his side.
"What's this Rat actually knows how to have down time" the elder ninja looked up and smiled when he saw Naruto and then picked him up in a big hug, it had been months since he had seen the young ex-ANBU and he would be lying if he said he didn't miss the young blonde.
"Naruto how are you, I heard you were the one who got Zabuza to join the village" Naruto nodded and scratched his head sheepishly, ever since he had been sworn in Zabuza had become head of the assassination department and helped teach many chunnin how to fight blindly or silently.
"Yeah don't say anything" he said pouting before he drew out his favourite kunai "I need a bit of help" Rat stared at the blade and almost fainted, how Naruto had managed to stain the metal a slight crimson colour he would never understand but somehow he had.
"You lucky I'm good" he said doing a jut-su on the blade and it glowed green before it was as good as new again "now please take care of this, it's one of my most prized possessions and I gave it to you, but I don't want you bringing it in to me in tiny little pieces"
Naruto nodded and hugged rat once again before jumping out of the window and landed on the ground outside the ANBU quarters.
Sasuke and Sakura walked down the street together when they saw Naruto sitting on the fence playing a cheery tune on his pipe entertaining Konoharmu and his friends. Sakura laughed and raced up to them and just watched as Naruto winked at her and began playing a fast tempo song making Konoharmu laughed and jumped and do a flip only to stack it and crash into a wall of flesh. Sasuke looked up and saw a man in a black suit with cat ears on his shawl with purple battle paint on his face, with a giant bandaged thing on his back. Behind him was a Kunochi dress in a light purple dress with her hair in four ponytails and a large fan on her back.
"You little snot watch where you're going" the guy said lifting the small boy up by his scarf. Naruto stopped playing his pipe and jumped down to stand in front of the other two children and stared at the guy with a bored expression "I suggest you put him down" the guy sneered and chuckled.
"Oh yeah or what?" Naruto sighed and looked at Sakura who shrugged and shook her head a little.
"Well number one, that" he said pointing to Konoharmu "is the Hokage's grandson" the guy in black dropped the boy like he was on fire and then backed away "and number two your foreigners and if you don't act respectful in our village I'll have to teach you" he said glaring at the two sand shinobi making them step back a little in fear.
"Kankuro do you feel that he feels like..." the girl said staring at Naruto in fear as she looked into his one visible eye and gulped.
"Yeah I know, I don't think I want to get into something with him" he whispered back before clearing his throat. But before he was going to apologize Naruto's attention had been turned to the tree just opposite them.
"Don't you think you should be a little more kind" he snapped, Sakura whipped around and gasped when she saw a red head hanging upside down from one of the branches she hadn't even felt him appear and yet Naruto had pin pointed where he was almost immediately.
"Kankuro, what are you doing" the red head said in a raspy voice, making everyone but Naruto flinch.
"KIT BE CAREFUL HE IS LIKE YOU, HE HOLDS MY YOUNGEST BROTHER FROM WHAT I CAN TELL" Naruto stared at the red head who shot him a shocked look as if he could have felt him talking to Kyuubi.
"G-gaara I was just going to" Kankuro stuttered and squeaked when the red head disappear in a swirl of sand and appeared two feet in front of Naruto and tried to stare him down.
"Shut up or I'll kill you" Gaara said not taking his eyes off Naruto who in turn didn't blink as he stared at him. Gaara blinked once and then turned away before turning to stare at the group his eyes flickering on Sakura-which didn't escape Naruto's notice-and then on Sasuke before landing on Naruto. "Who are you all?"
"Sasuke sneered and crossed his arms "Sasuke Uchiha"
Sakura looked down and then back up before gulping "Sakura Hurno" she said unwavering.
Naruto just stared at Gaara for a second and then nodded his head once "and I am Naruto Uzumaki"
Gaara nodded and then faced them fully "I am Gaara of the Desert" he said before glaring at his teammates. Who both turned to face them.
"I am Temari Sabuku" the girl with the fan on her back said bowing a little to Naruto who just nodded before fixing his gaze on the boy he had threatened earlier.
"I am Kankuro Sabuku" he said before all three of them turned away and walked off leaving the three leaf ninja standing where they were.
"it seems as if the Chunnin exams have started" Sakura said sighing looking at each of the boys who nodded before Naruto just began to play his pipe again all three of them ignoring the hawk that flew overhead.
The Jonin sensei's gathered in the Hokage meeting room and just stood around looking at the Hokage and the two council members. The Hokage sighed from around his pipe and called for order. "As you have noticed the Chunnin exams have arrived, many of you would have noticed foreign ninja around out village" Kakashi looked over at Asuma and Kurenai who both nodded and then sighed before nodding back.
"If anyone can survive this it's my team" he thought sadly "hell there practically chunnin already"
The Hokage looked at Iruka who smiled and nodded before facing the gathered sensei's once again "Okay will the rookie sensei's please come to the front, we will now submit recommendations for the chunnin exams" he said sitting back wondering how it fan out.
Kurenai flicked her hair back before putting her fingers in the Tora sign "I Kurenai Yuaka, recommend Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame and Hinata Hyuga for the chunnin exams" the whole crowd started whispering about how they were just rookies.
The Hokage nodded and then looked at Asuma who also put his hand in the Tora sign "I recommend Shikamaru Nara, Chouji Akamichi, and Ino Yakamara for the chunnin exams" he said smirking in his father's direction.
Iruka gripped his clip board in an almost vice like grip and they looked at Kakashi praying that he had more sense than the others. "I Kakashi Hatake recommend, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Hurno and Naruto Uzumaki for this year's Chunin exams"
Iruka slammed his hands on the table and glared at all three Jonin instructors. "Are kidding me, all three of those teams are freshly graduated they aren't ready to go through such an intense exam" the academy teacher shouted.
Kakashi glared at Iruka and cocked his head to the side "Really, and pray tell what do you know about these ninja anymore" Iruka was taken aback and then looked down "You don't know these genin any more, they have change so much since they graduated the academy, if you don't believe me check their records, and any way" Iruka looked up and started into Kakashi's cold eyes "they aren't your students any more...there mine and I say they're ready for this exam"
Iruka sat down and the Hokage nodded "very well I accept all the recommendations, the chunnin exams will start one week from today, please get your teams ready" he said and then looked at Kakashi and sighed, he would have pushed Kakashi to make Naruto go for the exam any way with the council breathing down his neck for their favourite weapon to advance he was hard pressed not to just promote the genin right away.
Kakashi disappeared and ended up in the forest where Sasuke was training, why Naruto played his pipe with what sounded like a bar song why Sakura was sharpening all their weapons. Not wanting to intrude on the team's moment Kakashi hung back and couldn't help but feel proud at how far his team had come. Naruto was being more open with everyone, but it was obvious that he still had some secrets, Sakura had dropped her fan girl image and had become the mama bear of the team making sure none of them were hurt or getting into too much trouble, hell she even fussed over him sometimes, although all three boys had met her wrath when they annoyed her too much and Sasuke had become friendlier and nicer to the point where he actually asked to hang out with his teammates although when he came to him and Naruto for advice about puberty it took all the restraint he had not to laugh at the confused and frustrated Uchiha heir. Sasuke walked over to the team and Sakura laughed at something he said why Naruto merely continued to play his cheery little tune.
"Hey guys" he called out stepping out in their range of sight. Naruto's eyes sparkled and he began playing a strange bouncy tune making Sakura laugh again and Sasuke smirk. "What is that?" the silver haired ninja asked in fascination.
"Your theme" Sakura said in-between perils of laughter. Kakashi looked at his team for a second before laughing right along with them and then shook his head and gestured for Naruto to stop playing. When the music stopped Naruto looked at Kakashi expectantly and he pulled out three sheets of paper. "I have recommended all three of you for the chunnin exams coming up in the next week"
Naruto looked at his three teammates and then nodded at each of them before smiling brightly at Kakashi before leaping on him and sitting on his shoulders why hugging him around the neck. "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, thank you, we love you Kakashi sensei" he shouted out making Sakura laugh again because of his antics.
Kakashi laughed as well before grabbing Naruto and pulling him from his shoulders "Get off, now remember go to the academy one week from now and go to room 301 got it" all three genin nodded and then went back to their previous activities. Kakashi sat down next and leant against the wooden training log Naruto was perched atop and began to read happily.
Naruto" Sakura said suddenly making the boy pause in his music playing "Why do you always act the way you do on missions, it's like you don't want me or Sasuke to see what you do" she said sadly.
Naruto looked down at Sakura and then up at the sky, "I protect you because that's what I do" Sakura looked up in shock and Kakashi raised an eyebrow as Zabuza walked into the clearing and leant against a nearby tree, "I'm not a ninja because I think it's cool or anything like that, I'm a ninja because I'm a protector and if it's the last thing I do...I will protect you"
Zabuza nodded and then sighed "OI BRAT DID YOU REALLY THINK YOU"D GET AWAY WITH IT!" Kakashi sighed as Zabuza once again started shouting at the fox jailor.
"How those two are friends I'll never understand" he muttered why Sasuke just looked at them confused while Sakura giggled a little.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN!" Naruto shouted right back getting to his feet and stared down at his friend-whom he shouted at more than mucked around with.
"YOU TOOK ALL THE LABELS OFF MY SCROLLS AND REPLACED THEM WITH THE OTHERS IT TOOK ME FOUR HOURS TO PUT THEM ALL BACK IN THE RIGHT PLACE" Zabuza roared making Sakura gasp for air as she laughed so hard while passer bys just stared confused as they watched them.
"OH YEAH WHAT PROOF DO YOU HAVE THAT IT WAS ME!" Naruto shouted right back.
Zabuza's eye twitched and he glared at the blonde evilly "because on the wall opposite my scroll locker written in spray paint was the words: NARTO RULES!" Naruto laughed and then wiped his eyes before shrugging.
"Eh it was payback for when you dyed my hair black" Zabuza's body lost all tension and he shrugged as well.
"Oh why didn't you just say so" Naruto shrugged again and Zabuza stretched out his body and then turned around to leave "See ya later brat"
"DON"T CALL ME THAT YOU BASTARD"
MAKE ME YOU DAMN BRAT"
Sakura stood up and glared at the two ninja making both of them freeze "Boy's that's enough if you yell any louder the rock village will be able to hear you" she said in a dangerously sweet voice.
Naruto and Zabuza both nodded before gulping. Sakura smiled and sat back down, Zabuza jumped into a nearby tree and started jesting Sasuke on making the young Uchiha frustrated while Naruto went back to playing his pipe.
"Well aren't we a strange bunch" Kakashi said before going back to his reading.