For the Greater Good Chapter 5
Iruka was in his classroom with the new genin that had graduated ready to call out the teams that the Hokage had assigned. Yesterday the Jonin were trying to make requests on who they got because this year's class had a lot of high potential shinobi, many tried to get their hands on the last Uchiha, the container of the Nine Tails, and the Genius Naruto who had killed 13 Jonin at 6 years old. Unfortunately for them those choices were already reserved for the last surviving student of the Fourth Hokage, Hatake Kakashi the copycat ninja.
Many of the other Jonin were happy with what teams they had received, Kurenai got Hinata, Shino, and Kiba. Asuma got the next generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, and the rest of the teams came out pretty well balanced. Minato believed that these teams would have good teamwork and now it was time for their Jonin sensei to introduce themselves and learn a little bit about their students, then they would determine whether they would pass or fail them with their own test. Currently the newly formed team 7 was waiting for Kakashi who was 3 hours late, but suddenly the sliding doors opened to reveal the silver haired Jonin, until he was smashed into the wall by the giant fist of Naruto's susanoo.
"YOU'RE LATE KAKASHI!" Said all three of his new students simultaneously. At first he was honored to be able to teach the children of his own teacher and the last Uchiha to honor his dead best friend Obito, but now he was kind of scared, this 12 year old kid had just punched him into a wall with a hand made of pure chakra, it looked like Kushina's temper had rubbed off on them, and if so he would be in a world of hurt. He still remembered the beating that she gave him when she caught him and Minato reading their porn in the Hokage office, he had never been so close to death in his entire ninja carrier.
"Oww." He said as the fist dispersed.
"We will not tolerate your tardiness Kakashi, if you are late to meet us one more time, we will destroy you." Said Naruto, he remembered how aggravating Kakashi being late was, he would never go through it again.
Ignoring them he said "Meet me on the roof." And shunshined to the roof, the rest quickly followed which surprised Kakashi but he kept his cool. "Well introduce yourselves."
"But we already know you Kakashi, you're basically an uncle to us I mean come on you come to our house almost every week and sometimes help train us." Spoke Naoko not wanting to waste time, she wanted to begin her super awesome training and missions.
"Fine then meet me at our usual training ground tomorrow."
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They arrived at their usual training ground with all of their equipment on which didn't look like a lot but it was, they had new additions to their look, each had on a pair of black fingerless gloves.
Naruto had on his regular black Shinobi pants and sandals, his long sleeved shirt, he had on his headband with black cloth, his hair went over his left eye, and it had grown to his lower back, around his ankles that went up his lower legs a bit were bandages. He also had a holster with kunai and shuriken on his left leg, on his right leg was another holster with two scrolls in it, they were storage scrolls, one held a survival back pack and the other carried several varying types of weapons that he could fight with using his chakra chains or his wood style, his gloves had a seal on each, one carried his gunbai and the other carried his trusty sword.
As a matter of fact they all had swords because they were being trained by the best swordsman in the village, Kushina Uzumaki.
Naoko had her red clothed headband wrapped around her forehead, she was also wearing the black shinobi pants and sandals with bandages around her ankles, her top though was different from her usual style, she had a fishnet shirt under her black vest that showed off her belly button, she had a pouch on her back that kept her various equipment, her right glove held her sword in a seal.
Sasuke looked the same as Naruto except his hair which was shorter, he had only one holster that was strapped to his left leg.
They all looked like professional shinobi, not fresh genin that barely got out of the academy, and Kakashi noticed this. He was going to test them to see how far they had come since his teacher and his wife had begun to train them. Perhaps they wouldn't have to go through all those pesky D ranked missions that other teams were doing, he was one of the best shinobi of the village and taking D ranked missions was a disgrace to his skills. Even the Hokage may agree that they were ready for higher ranked missions.
"Hey guys." Kakashi said which surprised the trio since he was on time, Kakashi appeared out of the tree that he was in. "It's time to test you guys to see how strong you are so lets get going."
And with that he lifted his headband that was covering his eye showing his students the Sharingan within, he had remembered what his teacher had told him, he said that they were all stronger than any genin, they were at least chunnin level now, but he said watch out for Naruto the most, he was strong, way stronger than he let on, maybe already jonin level.
Kakashi was quickly put on the defensive when all three of them launched shuriken at the same time and they began to go through hand signs, Naruto spoke out, Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique and their shuriken turned into at least two hundred, at the same time Naoko and Sasuke shouted out Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu and together their collaborative technique became a wave of explosive flames and projectiles that would kill anything in its path unless they had a very good defense. When it hit Kakashi was not there but Naruto sensed him coming from underground and shouted "Below!" They all jumped up to see Kakashi's hands erupt from the ground, and then the rest of his body.
Naruto began to channel chakra to his fingers and slashed them through the air creating blades of wind in a crossed motion aimed at Kakashi which connected only to reveal it was an earth style clone. Shuriken then flew towards Sasuke and Sasuke was quick to react drawing a kunai, he deflected them all and then threw his kunai in the direction that the shuriken came, putting his hands in the tiger hand seal the kunai that he threw exploded much larger than a normal one would do, this was one of their own personal explosive seal formulas, much higher powered than what you could get at a store. Naoko then began to feel something poking at her from the back of her mind, she dispelled the genjutsu and drew her sword, turning around she was about to slice at Kakashi but she sensed that he was emitting a different sense than he normally did so she activated her first tail biju form which emitted a red chakra cloak around her and used its power to quickly propel herself away before the Kakashi clone exploded.
Naruto activated his chakra scalpels that he learned from a Senju scroll that was authored by Tsunade and Hashirama Senju, along with it he learned a lot on chakra control and other medical ninjutsu that Tsunade or Hashirama had invented or mastered. Seeing Kakashi charging at him with a chidori in hand Naruto turned intangible. Kakashi thrust his hand forward and it passed through Naruto, then he turned around and swiped at Kakashi's legs which Kakashi jumped over, his chidori still active trying to hit Naruto when he was tangible and trying to swipe Kakashi but he wasn't getting anywhere with it. Deciding to go harder Kakashi dispersed his chidori and drew two kunai, then infused them with lightning chakra.
As Kakashi's new determination was apparent, the three friends saw it and two of them began to turn up their alertness feeling cautious, Naruto wasn't however, he remembered killing Kakashi by snapping his neck in the previous time line, he knew this wasn't Kakashi's full skill or effort, but he put up a defensive stance none the less. Kakashi went forward with his slightly higher effort and speed, going for the two weakest of the group he kicked Naoko and Sasuke away, then began to slash at Naruto with his two kunai however Naruto just stood there letting the weapons slip through his body.
Naruto blew a quick Shinra Tensei launching Kakashi backward and then touched the ground he was standing on. Kakashi who had regained his ground was wondering what Naruto was doing when a small flower sprouted at his feet, then giant wooden tentacles followed and chased after the fleeing Kakashi, after that Naruto unsealed his scroll with weapons in them and threw it into a clearing in a puff of smoke about 12 weapons were released. Smaller wooden tentacles grabbed onto the handles of the various swords, axes, shuriken, and other unique slash type weapons like a large kusarigama, the large tentacles retreated leaving Kakashi alone but the smaller ones with weapons in them took their place.
Naruto stood still with his arms crossed as Naoko and Sasuke rejoined his side, all three watching Kakashi jumping around trying to evade the dozen weapons and not trying to get entangled in the wood. Being pushed back enough Kakashi performed a jutsu he hoped would destroy the wood, it was one of his stronger techniques and it required a lot of water, the more water, the stronger so it might work just from the kinetic force it would have, and the lake that he had ended up at would provide a lot of water. Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu, the water he was close to became quite large, and it took the shape of a dragon, then it flew at the wooden tentacles and Kakashi was right, the small wooden tentacles couldn't handle being pushed back so hard and they were thrown back at the three genin with a wall of water speeding at them.
Not moving, Naruto put up the upper body of his susanoo that engulfed he, Naoko, and Sasuke. The water smashed against it and the susanoo stood strong, defending them. After the attack hit, Kakashi was standing on the other side of the field facing his three students, Kakashi unfortunately looked into the eye of Naruto that wasn't covered by his hair and was placed under a genjutsu. Kakashi found himself in a field surrounded by Kirigakure ninja, the field was smoking and there were dead bodies littering almost every part of it, in front of him was his teammate Rin, the Rin that he had killed by plunging his Lightning Blade through her heart, and this was his memory of that moment. This was the worst day of his life, he had failed to protect his teammate, he had failed to keep his promise to Obito to protect Rin, this is when Kakashi changed completely and visited the memorial stone so often, begging for forgiveness from both of his dead teammates for being such a disgrace. He promised himself that he would never again let one of his comrades die while he still took breath.
Naoko and Sasuke saw Kakashi fall to his knees, wondering what just happened they looked to Naruto and he was just staring at Kakashi.
"Naruto what did you do?" Naoko asked her brother.
"I showed him his worst nightmare."
Then Naoko punched Naruto in the arm, "Why did you do that for! Do you want to break him? Dad is going to be so mad at you, you can just use forbidden jutsu so nonchalantly Naruto, what if he doesn't want to teach us anymore, geez!" Naoko rushed over to their sensei along with Sasuke while Naruto walked. "Are you ok Kakashi sensei?"
"I'm fine Naoko, thank you."
"I apologize for using that technique on you Kakashi, I was out of line."
"It's fine Naruto, just promise me one thing, you gotta teach that to me some time." Kakashi said with his trademark eye smile, trying not to show his students how much that memory really shook him up.
"Alright I think we have had enough, I think I know where to start training you guys so lets go see if your dad can get us a good mission."
Kakashi then picked himself up from the ground and began to walk out of the training grounds toward the missions station. They walked past most of the village, many congratulating them on becoming shinobi and some of Naruto's and Sasuke's fan girls came up to them and told them how cool they were and were asking for dates. Truthfully, Naruto didn't want any of them, he wanted a strong woman, a shinobi, a warrior that could defend herself and put up a good fight, not some fan girl that didn't know how to tell the difference between a love letter and a letter bomb. So they hurried faster to their destination and were hoping for a mission outside the village, they wanted to start off their shinobi careers with a bang.
"Hey Naruto, Naoko, Sasuke, Kakashi!" Spoke Minato from his seat next to Iruka, he was bored before they came and was excited to see how the test had gone.
"Hey dad, Naruto used a forbidden genjutsu on Kakashi sensei!"
"Naruto…"
"I'm sorry father and I did apologize."
"Are you ok Kakashi."
"Yes Lord Hokage."
"So how did the test go!"
"They performed very well, I can tell Naruto is the strongest of the group, he had some very interesting techniques sensei." Naruto smiled at this while Naoko and Sasuke glared in jealousy, they wanted to be as strong as him but they still had a lot of work to do before they could hold their own against him.
"So I assume that you're here for a mission!"
"Yes actually father we were wondering if you could give us a C rank mission, I mean you trained us father, you know that we can handle ourselves."
"Yea sure, you guys are lucky a low C just landed on our mission roster. You are to escort a bridge builder to the Land of Waves, he just needs protection on the way there from bandits and such."
"Thanks dad!"
"No problem Naoko."
"Who are the shorties." Said an old guy with a towel around his neck drinking beer.
Naruto turned to the man and looked at him fiercely, the old man backed down afraid, and then Naruto remembered him. This mission was where he encountered Zabuza and resulted in Zabuza and Haku's death, he would need to change this. They were his ticket into the Kirigakure rebel faction, he would kill Yagura, take the three tails sealed in him, and make an alliance with the leader of the rebels, she who would become the future Mizukage Mei Terumi. From that point on helping the rebels would be a big bonus in getting Kirigakure on Konoha's side, they were already thankful, Konoha had allowed Kiri citizens, shinobi and non to take refuge in Konoha. Konohagakure helping Kirigakure overthrow their bloodthirsty dictator and giving refuge to their people was a big way to gain trust for Konoha and an alliance between both of them.
This was a big step in his plans to get the Hidden Villages allied and get them ready for Madara's war. If he could get the three tails, kill Yagura, get Konoha allied with Kirigakure, he would be at least a bit closer to being ready.
Naruto knew he had to take this mission, this could quite possibly lead to an alliance already and it would have time to cement enough for them to truly become friends, and they would need some friends when Sunagakure invades Konoha. "Alright we should get going." Naruto said as he began to think about how he would go about changing events, his strength level could dominate Zabuza's, however by no means was Zabuza a pushover and would be a great asset to his village, maybe he would try to get Kisame to rejoin his village as well, they could use two of the Seven Swordsman.
Team 7 along with Tazuna began to walk out of the mission station Naruto and Naoko saying good bye to their father, they then headed toward the gates of Konoha, already prepared they began to walk out and headed toward the Land of Waves.
"So since I just briefly analyzed your guys' skill level I was wondering if you guys had any specialties in battle you know, something you would like to master or techniques to learn that I don't know about?"
Naruto started, "Well I'm kind of an all-around fighter I guess, I have good defensive and offensive jutsu, I'm pretty fast, I'm comfortable with my taijutsu and genjutsu, I also know medical jutsu which could be helpful."
"So maybe we can improve your jutsu arsenal and chakra control so you use less chakra and increase your reserves, we can also begin trying to get you started on sub-elements that your eyes allow you to perform such as the wood style which is earth and water maybe you could use other elements together to create new techniques." Kakashi commented wondering what Naruto could do with the combinations, and maybe he could combine even more than two.
"Sounds good, maybe I can create new jutsu, I've also been trying to get into sealing techniques."
"Alright, how about you Naoko what do you want to do?"
"Well maybe I could be the stealth figure and support type, it would be good for me until I can control more of the Fox's chakra then I might take on a more direct role but I'll still work on being in an assault position anyway."
"Good, I'll help you with your taijutsu and ninjutsu, while developing your role more."
"How about you Sasuke?"
"I'd like to develop my Sharingan, it's not mature yet so maybe you and Naruto could help me with it? I also wanted to work on my fire and lightning chakra natures since they are both strongly associated with my clan." Said Sasuke who earned a nod from Naruto and Kakashi referring to the training of his eyes.
Team 7 had been walking for very long talking about team positions and things that they would want to train in individually, Kakashi was giving them tips and advice that only experience could truly teach. They were also told why Tazuna needed protection, he was on his way to build a bridge to help his homeland that was being sucked dry by a madman named Gato, he was destroying their home and the bridge would save it. Eventually they walked past a puddle that the Demon Brothers Gozu and Meizu were hidden in. Kakashi was immediately alert because it hadn't rained in a couple days, there shouldn't have been a puddle, and Naruto sensed a chakra manipulation coming from that spot, nodding to Kakashi signaling he knew, Naruto looked up to where Naoko and Sasuke were flanking Tazuna while waiting for the assailants in the puddle to make a move.
Thinking the group hadn't thought anything suspicious the Demon Brothers began to get out of the puddle looking at which target they would kill first, they saw a medium sized boy and a larger man in the rear, then they saw their true target in between another boy and a girl in front. Deciding that the man in the rear was the strongest and their leader they moved to attack him, running at him they began wrapping their chains around the ninja with the hair that was sticking up, and pulled in opposing directions shredding the man apart.
Turning to the boy, they saw him with his hands in his pockets looking at them impassively as if they posed no threat, and it infuriated them. They had just killed the man that was looking after them, and the kid just looked at them, at least the kids and the old man in the back looked a bit scared. "Are you stupid kid, this is the part where you run." Said Meizu.
"I need to speak with Zabuza Meizu, I need to speak with him now, or I will kill the both of you." Killing intent began to flood the air around them and they noticed it was originating from the boy.
"How do you know we are with Zabuza?" Choked out Meizu.
"Because I have seen your fate, your fate is death if you don't cooperate, if you want to live you will do all that I say."
"Not a chance kid." The Demon Brothers rushed forward to rip the kid that was talking down to them apart when they felt like the weight of the world was on their shoulder and so they dropped to their knees, pushing themselves up from the floor with their hands and tried to look up but it was difficult.
"What is this, what are you doing to us?"
"I'll give you one more chance before both of your heads roll, take us to Zabuza."
"Damn it! We won't let you kill him!"
"I'm not going to kill him, unless he makes me."
"…Fine."
"Come on out Kakashi, I talked them down, they're taking us to their leader." Behind a few trees next to the road the shinobi they had just killed jumped down.
"And who is their leader?"
"Zabuza Momoichi, Demon of the Hidden Mist, A rank missing ninja of Kirigakure, turned criminal for the attempted assassination of the Mizukage Yagura."
"And why are we going to him?"
"Because the mission has just been given a new set of parameters."
"What are you talking about? I didn't hear anything about this."
"I know but I need to do something that requires Zabuza, trust me he will listen to me, we won't have a fight on our hands, I think."
"What are the new parameters that you're talking about?"
"I'm going to kill Gato and his army of thugs then I'm going to have Zabuza take me to the rebels behind the uprisings in Kirigakure, help them overthrow the anti-bloodline regime, kill the Mizukage Yagura, and gain an alliance with Kirigakure for Konohagakure."
"Naruto that is probably a long SS rank mission, the assassination of a Kage? Let alone one of a country in a civil war to overthrow a regime? Not to mention that Yagura is a jinchuriki of a Tailed Beast. Naruto your father didn't authorize anything remotely close to those objectives, our mission is to escort and protect the bridge builder, something like that is for a large group of anbu, not fresh genin no matter how advanced you are. We are not doing that." Said Kakashi wondering why Naruto would even want to achieve those goals, let alone got the idea to do any of those things, no matter how strong he was, Kakashi knew Naruto was not even close to ready to handle something like that.
"I know we aren't Kakashi, I am, you guys will stay with the bridge builder while I travel with Zabuza to Kiri, and there I along with the rebels will begin to remove Yagura from the equation."
"I'm your sensei Naruto, I'm not going to let you do something like that, you'll get yourself killed!" Spoke Kakashi uncharacteristically very far from calm, what his student was proposing was madness.
"I can and I am Kakashi, and I'm going to need you to inform my father about it."
"Naruto I'm not letting you do this."
"Well first let's meet Zabuza and deal with Gato, then we can talk about this."
"Fine but I'm not letting you do it."
Sasuke and Naoko were listening to the conversation between Naruto and Kakashi intently, why had Naruto wanted to go to Kiri? Why did he think he could pull all of that off?
"Big brother why do you want to go off to Kiri, the freaking Village of the Bloody Mist! And why do you want to kill the Mizukage!" Screamed Naoko worried about her brother's sanity and wellbeing.
"That's exactly why Naoko, it wasn't always 'the Village of the Bloody Mist', their Mizukage is a mad man who has fixated his insanity into the eradication of all of their bloodline users and plunged their village into a civil war. I need to stop that and Zabuza is my way into the rebel group that is fighting Yagura's reign."
"Wow that sounds kind of noble actually, I'M IN!"
"Me too." Spoke Sasuke, he saw the determination in Naruto, and Naoko, they were going and nothing could stop them, he might as well be there just in case they needed help, after all they were the closest thing that he had to family and he truly cared about them. Sasuke would never forgive himself if they died and he had not gone along.
For now however they were going to have to get to Zabuza and see how things with him went, and so they grabbed onto the Demon Brothers and told them to lead the way.
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Author's Note thing-
I want Naruto to have a Harem but I don't know who so can I have suggestions, also I want him to get a summoning contract and I need suggestions for an animal or thing, thanks =)