A/N: I'm back every one with chapter Seven. I would like to inform you that this chapter and the next one is the last chance to vote on the pairing for Naru so please make sure to vote for who you want Naru to be paired with. If the one you voted for doesn't win I'm sorry, but there is little I can do about that as I gave the Pairing rights to you the readers. So that is between all of the people who read this fic and voted on the pairing, not me. I just write it. Well that's all I have for now so on with the show.

Shikamaru: 8

Haku: 11

Gaara: 5

Neji: 9

Sasuke: 5

Summary: What if Naruto was a girl and she was blinded by the villager's when she was six and thrown out into the woods and left to die. Only to find the one person who will help her on her path to becoming the greatest ninja the world has ever seen. My first story so please tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto no matter how much I want to.

"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Kyuubi talking"
'Kyuubi thinking'
"Blaze talking"
'Blaze thinking'
Jutsu

Chapter Seven: Off to wave.

It has been two months since team seven was formed and they have quickly become one of the best Genin teams Konoha has ever seen. With their teamwork tuned to perfection they have quickly and effectively completed over 80 D-ranked missions. Also in their training sessions Kakashi found out were they all stood on the team and as individuals. With Naru's chakra radar along with her mastery of Kenjutsu she became the teams look out and support fighter. While Sasuke with his knowledge of Ninjutsu and his skill in Taijutsu became the teams front line fighter and long range support for when Naru was up close and personal. Sakura having the least amount of chakra, but the best control along with her book smarts was the teams tactician and was also working one being the teams medic. Although that was slow going as Kakashi didn't know a lot about being a medic-nin. So she had to find some one else to teach her medical skills. Right now we find team seven in the Hokages office after completing their latest chor... I mean mission.

"Team seven reporting on another successful mission. Mission to capture the fire lords wife's cat complete" Kakashi said lazily as he stood behind his team with his book in hand. 'Though how that damn cat is still alive is beyond me. I remember chasing that hell spawned cat when I was a genin!'

'Hmmm note to self find a way to save that poor cat from the fire lord's wife before it runs away again. You have any thoughts Kyuu-kun?' Naru thought as she watched the fire lord's wife squeeze the poor cat as she hugged it.

"You could always try asking her if you could buy it, saying how the two of you became close over the time of always catching him. I mean come on, out of all the Genin that have had to do this Mission, you're the only one he'll come to with out a fight kit" Kyuubi said from his spot under a tree in the mindscape. During their training trip Naru had fixed up her mindscape from a sewer to a lust green forest with a crystal clear lake and wildflowers in the clearing.

'...I guess I could do that, but the only reason Tora-kun comes to me is because I'm the only one who tries to help him lesson the pain of going back to his owner. That and I promised him I would get him away from her altogether' Naru informed Kyuubi with a sweatdrop.

"Well done team seven that makes 85 D-ranks you've completed and in such a short amount of time too is very impressive. Now for you next mission you can choose between pulling the weeds in Ms. Yumie's garden, you could clean out the Inuzuka kennels or you could paint the Hyuu..." Sarutobi stated but was interrupted by Naru.

"Ojii-san with all do respect and not to be rude or anything, but could you give us a C-rank mission now? We've already completed the required amount of D-rank missions and then some and have done what is asked of us with out question and completed our mission fast and effectively and we have been waiting patiently for a while now. Even our patience has their limits and I'm afraid ours is just about to be reached." Naru said taking a step forwarded and getting on one knee with her fist to the ground and her head bowed in respect to her adoptive grandfather.

Looking at Naru Sarutobi leaned back in his chair and took a puff from his pipe before he exhaled it and smiled at her "Well I guess you do have a point there Naru-chan. Your guys teamwork is the best I've seen in a long time and you have yet to let me down and have even helped me numerous times by taking more then one mission a day when we were short handed for the D-ranks because the other Genin's don't want to do more then they have to. Alright, I will give you guys a C-rank mission, but only if Kakashi thinks you guys are ready for it. What do you think Kakashi?" He said. His smile never leaving his face. Naru had gotten up also smiling at Sarutobi knowing what Kakashi was going to say.

"They have been ready for a while now. I was just waiting for them to ask for one." Kakashi said looking up from his book for a few seconds before he turned the page and started reading again and catching the kunai that Sasuke throw at him and tossing it back.

"Well then your mission is to escort a bridge builder to his home in Wave and guard him while he finishes his latest bridge. Send him in please" Sarutobi said tossing a scroll to Kakashi with the mission specs in it, and team seven turning to the door.

The door to the office opened to reveal a man in his early to mid 60ʼs with a bottle of sake in his hand. When the man saw team seven he looked appalled. "What is the meaning of this? I pay you good money and you give me a bunch of snot nose brats. They don't even look like they're out of their diapers! They look weak and why is a blind girl a ninja in the first place. She alone will need protection!" the man said. Then going to take a drink of sake, he dropped the bottle as he was pinned to the wall with several kunais and watched as a fire like bird caught the bottle and flew over to the blind girl who was lowering her arm after she pined him to the wall and gave it to her before landing on her shoulder.

Naru looked at the sake bottle before sniffed it to see what kind of sake the man drank and found it to be the crappy kind. She had learned from Sarutobi how to tell the difference between good sake and bad sake by the smell when she was young after a villager tried to get her drunk so he could rape her and she wouldn't remember and he wouldn't get caught. Need less to say that plan failed miserably. "I should inform you that it is not wise to underestimate us sir. Also it is not wise nor is it safe to judge me weak on the fact I can't see. I'll have you know I can go toe to toe with any Genin and most Chuunin of this village and still come out on top and on a side note you have poor taste in sake sir. This shit sucks" Naru said handing the bottle to Sarutobi who also sniffed it and nodding his head in agreement.

Placing a cork in the bottle, he tossed it to Kakashi who, with a sigh, caught it while closing his book and walking over to help the man off the wall. "Tazuna-san I assure you that this is my best Genin team in all of Konoha and is more then skilled enough to handle the mission you requested. Also for you safety I would refrain from making comments about Naru-chan being blind. As you saw she doesn't take lightly to it and you got off lucky this time, but next time you might not." Sarutobi said as he looked at Naru who was refraining her self from attacking him again. Sasuke and Sakura had moved off to the side when they heard their client degrade Naru for being blind having seen what she did to people who did that and wanted to get out of the line of fire hoping for the man's sake that she didn't literally use fire as a way to prove him wrong or teach him not to degrade her. 'You would think that a civilian would know never to underestimate a ninja whether they're a kid, adult or even if they have a physical disadvantage. It's just common sense that we shinobi can do things that civilian can't do...' was the collective thought of most the shinobi in the room.

"I will take your word for it then Hokage-sama. My name is Tazuna and you will be guarding me while I return home and complete my latest bridge. I expect you to do every thing to make sure I'm safe even lay down your lives if it comes to that. Oh and what did you mean by 'that shit sucks'? How would you know good sake from bad when you can't even drink it." Tazuna told them before turning to Naru with a confused look on his face.

"Well that is for me to know and for you to die trying to find out. Also sir as shinobi's we are allowed to drink at the age of 16. I mean seriously old enough to kill, old enough to drink" Naru told him in a bored tone before turning to her sensei to hear when and where they were to meet at.

"Okay team go home and pack for a three week mission and meet at the North gate in two hours. Dismissed." Kakashi said and team seven left to go get ready.

XXX

Team seven and their client were now three hours out of Konoha and heading to Wave. They were in a diamond formation with Naru in front of Tazuna, Sasuke to his left and Sakura on his right with Kakashi bring up the rear. They had been talking to each other about different things during their walk to wave. When Naru found two ninja on the side of the road trying to hide, in her opinion, in a poorly planned Genjutsu. '...can they really be that stupid? I mean it hasn't rained in weeks and they're trying to use that to hide themselves.' Naru thought with a sigh and signaled her team about the possible threat up ahead.

Seeing Naru signal them that two shinobi's were up ahead Sasuke and Sakura waited to see what their orders were and getting a nod from Kakashi before he slowed his pace to fall a bit behind. They continued walking as if they didn't notice any thing was amiss.

When the group passed the 'puddles' two figures emerged form them and preceded to rap Kakashi in two razor like chains that were attached to their clawed gauntlets and tore him to pieces. "One down three to go brother" one of the two said as he brought his chain back and got ready to attack again "right you are brother" said the other also bringing the his chain back.

Naru and Sasuke immediately went into an offensive stance and charged their opponents while Sakura got into a defensive stance in front of Tazuna after pushing him to the ground to better protect him. The fight didn't last long between Sasuke using his Taijutsu and Naru with her bloodline and Blaze at her side the two attacking shinobi never new what hit them. After Naru and Sasuke finished tying them to a tree they heard the sound of clapping and turned to see Kakashi stepping out from behind a tree with his one visible eye in an upside down U shape applauding them.

"Nicely done team, nicely done. Good teamwork Naru, Sasuke. Sakura nice job getting the client out of danger." at this point Kakashi looked at Tazuna with a gaze that made the man almost piss his pants "Tazuna you have some explaining to do. When we took this mission we were told that we would be protecting you from bandits and such not trained ninja. If we had know this, this mission would have been labeled a B-rank borderline A-rank mission not a C-rank one. So I'll will give you one chance to tell me why I should not just abandon this mission right here and take my team back to Konoha as you have already violated our contract by lying to us" Kakashi told Tazuna while giving him a look that could kill.

Tazuna looked at the man then looked at the to Chuunin tied to the tree and finally at the three genin before he turned back to Kakashi with a sigh. "okay look I'm sorry I lied to you guys, but I had to do it. You see Wave is very poor right now thanks to a man named Gato and even our daimyo can't afford anything higher then a C-rank mission" Tazuna said before looking to the sky.

"Gato? As in Gato of Gato shipping industries. He's suppose to be one of the worlds richest men, why would he attack you?" Kakashi asked, but to his along with every one else's surprise it wasn't Tazuna who answered, but Naru.

"Gato may appear to be an honest business man on the out side, but he is well know in the under world for being the worst crime lord ever. Selling drugs, slaves, and that's if your male if your female then it get worse as your sold as a sex slave if your lucky. He is also know to hire ninja and then after they do their job he has mercs kill them while they're still weak from battle so he doesn't have to pay them. Let me guess Tazuna-san he has set his sights on Wave. Also with Wave being the small fishing village it is with no ninja village of it's own, he probably took it over quickly thanks to his shipping industry am I right?" Naru informed them sounding as though she was talking about the weather.

"ye.. yes that's right, but how in the seven lairs of hell do you know all that?" Tazuna asked shocked that this girl know all about Gato.

"That's a good question, Naru-chan just how do you know all that?" Kakashi asked looking like he was trying to decide whether he should be proud that she knew or mad that she didn't bother to tell him.

Moving her head back and forth as if checking to see if any one else was listing she had them move closer before whispering "Can you keep a secret?" with their nods she smirked knowing this was going to piss Kakashi off to no ends. "So can I" and with that she walked over to a tree and leaned against it until they figured out what they were going to do.

"So what are we going to do team? If we continue this mission knowing that it will be at lest B-rank borderline A-rank and the next ninja Gato sends will probably be of Jounin level" Kakashi said looking piss off and glaring daggers at Naru who just smirked back at him 'Naru-chan 2 Kakashi-sensei 0' thought both Sasuke and Sakura also smirking at Kakashi's displeasure.

"Well I say we continue. I mean we already accepted it even if it was under false pretenses. Besides by the sounds of it, this Gato guy needs a good ass kicking." Sasuke said from his spot against the tree opposite Naru's.

"I second that" Naru said tossing Sakura a scroll "by the way Sakura you win. Kiba did try to ask me out last weekend."

"I'm not backing down, and I told you Naru-chan that guy is a total playboy. He's such a pervert." Sakura said opining the scroll and looking at it.

"ya, ya shut up." Naru said pushing off the tree and walking over to Tazuna "ready to go when you are Tazuna-san"

XXX

Team seven and Tazuna were sitting down in the living room waiting for Kakashi to wake up. They had encountered a missing-nin named Zabuza and had to fight their way out with Kakashi getting tricked into the water and getting imprisoned. Naru and Sasuke were forced to help before backing off again. Though not before Naru could get a safe distance away she was hit by one of Zabuza water clones and was currently relying on her teammates to help her around. After she was hit the clone didn't stand a chance against Blaze as he got pissed and grew to the size of a horse and promptly wiped them out while Kakashi handled the real one. When he was about to deliver the final blow two senbon needles hit Zabuza in the side of the neck "killing" him and a hunter-nin dropped down and thanked them before taking the body and leaving in a puff of smoke. Kakashi covered his Sharingan eye and promptly preceded to faint. Leaving only Sasuke and Sakura to get him and an injured Naru to Tazuna's house.

"So now what do we do? Naru-chan's got a deep wound on her back; while Kakashi-sensei will be out for at least a week with chakra exhaustion" Sakura asked Sasuke while looking up at the room Naru was in before she looked at Sasuke again.

"We wait until one of them wakes up and is strong enough to take charge. Until then we are to do are job and protect Tazuna. Man this just fucking sucks, first our team captain and then our sensei what next our medic?" Sasuke said with a sigh noting Sakura stiffen for a brief moment.

"Well I guess we wait until tomorrow then. Naru-chan should be up by then and Kakashi-sensei should be up some time around nine tomorrow also." Sakura informed

"Okay, then you go get some sleep I'll stay up a bit more and keep an eye on the place, but you need to rest after using so much chakra." Sasuke told her standing up and walking out of the room.

"What a mess this mission is turning out to be. I just hope it doesn't get worse for Naru-chan's sake. I don't think her body can handle the stress right now with every thing that's happened so far. The training she puts her body through, using her chakra radar so she can keep look out the whole way here. Sure it's grate that she can use it to see and keep look out, but using it constantly like this with the chakra it take to use... even if she's a chakra freak, her body can't handle the stress the chakra requirement puts on it for long periods of time and on top of that having to deal with the lingering memory's that she can't get rid of after she told Sasuke and me about her life. We can only hope and pray that every thing will be okay" said Sakura sighing while standing up and heading to the room she shared with Naru.

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A/N: Well there is chapter seven please leave a review and let me know what you think. I'd like to say thanks to all those who have reviewed and those who have voted. Till next time cya :)