For the Greater Good Chapter 6
The Demon Brothers were trudging along taking the four Konoha shinobi and the old man to their leader, the Demon of the Mist. Meizu was wondering who they thought they were, thinking that they would be able to take down the Mizukage, a jinchuriki for the Three Tails, after all they were just three kids and a man. But from what they were hearing they knew these people were beyond normal, one was the last student of the Yellow Flash, one boy and the girl were the children of the Yellow Flash, and the other boy was the last Uchiha.
"So why do you want to help Kirigakure kid, I mean an alliance with them would probably hinder your village more than help it, we have been at civil war for quite a long time, you would have to put up aid to get Kiri back on its feet, it could be a while before we become beneficial in an alliance."
"I have a dream, to bring this world peace, helping your village will save innocent lives and be a step close to bringing that peace that I desire."
"World peace, you are a naïve one aren't you, you seem powerful but you still don't understand the real world, after all how old are you, your kind of tall for you age but your face still looks like it's twelve."
"I am twelve, but that doesn't mean that I don't understand the world, I understand it better than you, I have seen more death than you ever will."
"Sure kid, whatever you say."
Naruto then heard a sound like something was flying through the air at very high speeds, sensing that they were all about to be cut in half unless they ducked, he screamed out, "Everybody down!" And just in time, everybody dropped to the floor to see a giant executioner sword fly above their heads, on its way had sliced a few strips off Kakashi's gravity defying hair to embed itself in a tree. They were in the forest so much of the vegetation was covering their view of where the attacker that threw the sword was. Trying to improve his ability on a technique that he had read in a Senju scroll he placed his forefinger on the ground and let out a burst of chakra that gave him any information on things that were touching the surface of the earth or anything connected to it. Getting feedback he realized that there were two figures in the trees, one was in front of them and one was behind them.
"Come out Zabuza, I don't want to kill you and your apprentice." Spoke Naruto, not wanting to prolong this exchange more than he had to, not that he didn't like Zabuza, he believed the man was strong and noble but he was itching for a fight, his blood thirst that was boiling beneath the surface and that he was holding at bay would certainly be quenched by his fight against Yagura, so he wanted it to come sooner rather than later.
"Who are you kid, to talk to me so boldly." Came a response from out of a tree.
"Somebody who wants to help you with what you had failed to do so long ago."
"And what would that be?"
"The assassination of the Mizukage Yagura."
Zabuza began to laugh at the kid, he was wondering how the kid knew that there was another person in the forest with him, he saw Kakashi of the Sharingan Eye standing next to the kid and their target, he was wondering why Kakashi wasn't taking the lead in this conversation instead.
"And what makes you think that you can kill somebody like Yagura when I had failed."
"Becomes I'm much stronger than you."
"Oh really." Zabuza said feeling insulted he began to go through one of his favorite techniques, Kirigakure no Jutsu, and then the forest that they were in began to get covered by dense clouds of mist that only allowed a person to see a foot in front of them. The Demon Brothers that were in front of them a moment ago were gone.
"Do you know what I am known for kid, the art of Silent Killing, there are eight targets, throat, spinal column, lungs, liver, the jugular vein, subclavian artery, kidney, and the heart, which one should I choose?"
"Stay out of this guys but stay on your toes, there's another person in this forest and if they are in league with Zabuza you can bet that they are not someone to take lightly." Said Naruto getting ready for Zabuza's attack.
"Do you really think that you can take me alone, arrogant fool." And with that Zabuza appeared right behind Naruto ready to bring down his giant sword that he had retrieved. Naruto unsealed his gunbai from his glove and brought it up to meet Zabuza's sword, there weapons clashed and held their position, the people behind them trying to use their strength to gain the upper hand, their eyes looking into the others. Naruto then puffed into smoke as a kunai passed through him, but the Zabuza with the executioner blade dissipated into water as the real Naruto was behind him also, having plunged his hand through Zabuza with his super strength. Not giving each other any time for breaks they rushed each other again, bringing their weapons up to clash Naruto was channeling his chakra into his gunabi with wind a nature transformation, Zabuza unaware that he could do this with his weapon went through with his attack only to be blasted by a massive barrage of wind that launched him into the air and smashed him into a tree.
Seeing their leader was in trouble the Demon Brothers in tandem with Haku launched their attacks, Haku launched senbon from a position hidden to Naruto, the Demon Brothers launched exploding kunai and rushed forward, their chains between them. Naruto immediately smacked them all away with his gunbai and was also releasing similar bursts of air to the one that smashed Zabuza into the tree. Naruto hit two of his targets in Meizu and Gozu knocking them out too and with left to handle Haku's new barrage of attack. Haku chose to sacrifice the cover of Zabuza's technique and used the water that formed it to use it for her own move. Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death whispered out Haku, and needles of water began to form out of thin air, the mist dissipating, the needles began to target Naruto but his defense was impressive, as soon as they began to flight at him he let out a Shinra Tensei destroying all of the needles and brought in Haku with a Bansho Tenin.
Surprised at what was happening Haku was not prepared to let himself die and fail to protect the only person that ever found him useful, who viewed him as his tool. Haku broke out of the pulling technique by using a kawarmi with a piece of wood that was on the floor and began to put together his ultimate move that should end the boy, Ice Release: Ice Dome. A dome of ice began to form around Naruto and Haku disappeared into an ice mirror that put him into another mirror inside the dome. Haku decided that she was going to kill the kid now, and expressed her sympathies. "I'm sorry young shinobi, you would have made a great tool for your village but my purpose is to fight for Zabuza, and now you must die."
With speeds that matched Naruto's, Haku threw out several senbon needles that Naruto deflected with a swat of his gunbai, knowing that distant attacks wouldn't do the job, he began to contemplate how he would get in close. Haku decided this was going to be his last move or he would fail anyway, Haku placed an explosive tag on the one kunai that he ever carried and threw it at Naruto which Naruto blew up with his Shinra Tensei but what he didn't realize was that it was a distraction, Haku used it to travel to a different mirror and flew out to get the boy from behind, ready to pierce his liver from behind Haku aimed her Senbon laced with poison ready to take the plunge and thrusted. What happened next he did not expect, Haku passed right through Naruto and stabbed the senbon into the ground with Naruto now behind him.
Naruto deciding that it was best to keep Haku alive so that he could revive the Yuki clan and give Kirigakure ice bloodline users, he grabbed Haku by the neck sucking out his chakra so he wouldn't try anything and looked him deep in the eyes.
"I know who you are Haku, I know what happened between your father and your mother, how he killed her and tried to kill you, I know that Kirigakure is slaughtering their bloodline users in droves, I want to help save them, to protect those innocents that have done nothing wrong."
"Who are you?" whispered Haku, he had never told anybody beside Zabuza about his past.
"The one who will slay Yagura, the one who will save Kirigakure from itself, do you trust me?"
"Yes."
"Good." Naruto said with a soft smile. "Now let's get Zabuza up and those two brothers, we should get started on this journey as soon as possible, with every second lost, so are the lives of people who didn't deserve it."
With that Haku dropped the ice dome to reveal Kakashi, Naoko, and Sasuke in battle stances with Tazuna behind them, in front of them were the Demon Brothers and Zabuza. They were ready to clash but Haku stopped them from going any further before any side did something that would be unforgiveable. "Wait Master Zabuza, listen to this child, he has an offer that you will want to hear."
Zabuza looked toward Haku with a raised imaginary eyebrow, wondering what happened in the dome to make Haku stand by that kids side and give him a chance. He put down his sword and walked over toward the kid giving him a critical look up and down. "Let's go to my place and talk."
Team 7 regrouped and followed the already leaving Kiri ninja.
"What happened in there Naruto?" Asked Kakashi wondering why they were following Kiri ninja that just tried to kill them.
"I got us a chance to talk, we are gonna see if Zabuza really is loyal to his village or not, either way the original mission is still on the table, we won't let him kill Tazuna, but we'll see if he will get us in with the Kiri rebellion."
"I told you I'm not letting you go Naruto."
"And I told you you can't stop me."
"Naruto we should listen to Kakashi sensei, just imagine what mom will do to us if she finds out we went into a war zone to kill a Kage, I mean come on she'll destroy us!" Warned Naoko sternly.
"But imagine how cool it would look on our records, to have the assassination of an insane Mizukage, the container of a tailed beast on there." Said Sasuke with a smirk.
"Hurry up your lagging it runts!" Shouted out Zabuza to the leaf ninja that were falling behind. Team 7 picked up the pace dragging along Tazuna. They got into a clearing and reached a house that was covered in all kinds of camouflage, trees, brush, branches, and stones. When they entered it looked completely different and home like, Zabuza sat on the couch along with Haku while the Demon Brothers went somewhere deeper into the house.
"So, tell me what you want brat, and why are you so submissive to the kid huh Kakashi." Said Zabuza.
Kakashi who was reading his porn kept reading for five seconds and then popped his head up and said, "Did you say something?" This earned a tick mark on Zabuza's head.
"Enough let's discuss what we are here for, first off," Naruto looked toward Tazuna who was drinking in a corner looking around the house, "We are here to protect Tazuna until he finishes the bridge that will connect the Land of Waves to the mainland. You are on orders from a rich lunatic to kill him named Gato, I'm telling you right now that he is going to betray you and ambush you when we have roughed each other up, after you would have failed to kill us. So our team is going to make the first move and kill him and his thugs and return the wealth that he sucked from this place to the people. Next, Konohagakure wants an alliance with Kirigakure, a stable Kirigakure, so we are headed on an unsanctioned mission, for now, to get to Kiri, meet up with the rebels, and kill Yagura, from there Konoha will aid in the recuperation to get it back to its full strength.
"And why would Konoha want an alliance with Kiri, what is their agenda."
"As I said, global peace."
"So why do you need us, we are rogue ninja."
"Well what is an alliance if we've never done anything for each other, we want you Zabuza, and your Demon Brothers, and Haku to return to Kiri and aid in the recuperation Basically you're our way in to getting in Kiri's good graces before we get into bed with each other. Less chance for betrayal that way if we know each other before hand, and how will they not be grateful to us if we return a member of the Seven Swordsman, and the last member of the Yuki clan that can supply them in the future with the ice bloodline."
"Fine, we'll take you and make the introductions, we are patriots no matter what anybody thinks, we love our village and if Konoha will give it back to us we will take all the help we can get."
"Really? I didn't expect you to accept so easily." Said Naruto wondering suspiciously.
"I'm a smart shinobi, that's how I've survived so long as a missing ninja, and I can tell this is the smart move, after all if we are not with you we are against you am I right."
"Indeed you are. Well lets finish of Gato and his men before we get going."
"Very well."
"Wait Naruto, if you are as strong as your father believes, I might not be able to stop you, and with Naoko and Sasuke at your side the chances are probably less, and since I'm your sensei and you guys are practically my family, I'm coming with you." Said Kakashi sincerely.
"Thank you Kakashi." Replied Naruto, glad to have a man that he has become fond of over six years as a friend by his side.
"Now let's get to Gato's base, if you are as strong as I think you are the security shouldn't be a problem."
Zabuza walked out of the house with his group in tow followed by Team 7 and Tazuna. They began to head towards Gato's compound discussing how they would commence their assault, it was decided that Team 7 would go in the front while the Kiri group went in silently from behind, and that they would confront Gato together.
Gato's base resided on a plateau below a large cliff, it looked like a two story mansion, with tents of bandits and rogue ninjas in the space in front of it. This would be easier than they thought so both teams got into their positions and prepared for the assault.
Naruto however just stared on at the group below, and told his team to stay put, he went to the edge of the cliff that overlooked their base and flew up surprising his team. Not giving a care in the world he kept floating up and suddenly placed his hands outward.
"SHINRA TENSEI."
All the chakra that Naruto gathered up in his hands blew outward and began to crush everything in its path, at first the bandits and the ninja had no idea what was happening, their comrades were screaming and they were all trying to run one direction, away from the crater that was being created as if something was pushing down the ground decimating all that preceded it. The bandits and ninja were literally dying by the dozens, the entire front area of Gato's house was turning into a crater, about 20 seconds later the enemy camp was gone, the rumbling was gone, and all that was left of a disturbance was a massive dust cloud in the air.
Kakashi's one visible eye was wide open, Naoko's mouth was agape, and Sasuke was brooding. They were all wondering how Naruto had such cool abilities, I mean he was flying in the air and had just pancaked about 300 bad guys into the ground in less than a minute.
Not caring about what they thought, Naruto just landed on the ground and spoke, "Let's move."
The leaf ninja began to walk down the cliff with chakra holding them to it. When they had reached the crater that Naruto's technique made and began walking to the house, they opened the door to Gato's mansion and saw pools of blood beneath figures that had body parts missing and were all dead. They looked as if they were trying to run away from whatever killed them, impaled in the back by a large sword or ripped apart messily by chains, some had precision holes in them no doubt targeting vital organs of their body.
Naruto, Naoko, Kakashi, and Sasuke all followed the trail of bodies toward a hall with double doors with a man impaled onto it by his hands, a kunai sticking though them and his throat slit. They opened the door to reveal a group of Kiri ninja and a scared short man in a suit that was pissing himself in a corner, the Kiri ninja except for Haku were toying with him, throwing kunai at him but not trying to strike him, some cut his clothes or embedded themselves a few inches from the man's appendages.
"So this is Gato huh, he doesn't look like such a threat, but looks are quiet deceiving, I should know this better than most I suppose." Said Naruto eyeing the tiny man.
"Please help me! I'll pay you anything just please help me please!" Screamed out Gato.
"Sure, just give me everything that you own, all your deeds, the paperwork to the ownership of your companies, everything that you hold valuable, and then I'll save you." Spoke Naruto.
"Ok just don't let them kill me!"
Gato walked to the book case that he had in his office and pulled on a book which raised the eyebrows of a few people in the room. The book cases retracted and revealed a large vault, Gato put in the combination on the dial and opened it to reveal quite a few things, paperwork, stacks of money, and other valuable things that Naruto would indeed look into, but most surprising to Naruto and Naoko was the red Uzumaki swirl on a black flag at the back of the vault, they turned to Gato.
"Where did you get that flag." Naruto pointed to it.
"What? Oh that, I bought it from a store." Gato tried to deflect knowing that with the look in their eyes that the flag meant something to them.
"You would never buy anything like that, now tell me WHERE DID YOU GET THAT FLAG!"
"Please don't kill me please, I got it from a wasteland about 50 miles west of here, it was once a village called Uzushiogakure. Said to be an extremely powerful place and that's why it was destroyed."
"How much have you taken?"
"Nothing, not yet, searching and excavations are supposed to begin in a few months."
"Good." Said Naruto with a smile.
Naruto then looked around and saw what he was looking for, the paperwork to Gato's fortune. Sealing everything else, the various items, and the stacks of cash, into a sealing scroll he grabbed onto the paperwork that would return the Land of Waves fortune to its people.
"Thank you Gato, you can kill him now Zabuza." Naruto said turning to Zabuza, Naruto was thoroughly pissed off that somebody was going to violate his ancestors village, even if they were only partly his ancestors, it still meant a lot to him, especially if the place contained power. Placing the sealing scroll that held most of the vaults contents in his holster and turned to leave.
"With pleasure." Zabuza said as Naruto walked out of the room and picking up his sword, Zabuza pointed it at the cowering Gato in the corner, he slashed and Gato's head went flying in the air and hit the ground two seconds later.
With Naruto, the two children of the Hokage were having a discussion on what to do about their mother's home village. "We are going to see what is left of it and what we can find after this business in Kirigakure."
"Cool we're gonna see mom's village!" Said Naoko enthusiastically pumping her fist in the air.
Zabuza walked out of the office and turned toward Naruto, "Let's begin our journey to Kiri."
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The group had been walking for a week, Kakashi had sent one of his dog summons named Pakkun to inform the Hokage of what they were going to do, kill Yagura, gain an alliance with Kiri, and then see what secrets the old destroyed village of Uzu held. Currently they were walking along a river, not going directly to Kiri since that was Mizukage controlled territory, instead Zabuza was leading them to the rebel base that was located behind a waterfall which was embedded in a mountain. Zabuza walked took a pathway that led behind the waterfall and the rest of the group followed him.
"Don't talk, just follow my lead and don't do anything to make them think they can't trust you."
Zabuza received a nod from the leaf ninja and then they continued walking until they reached a large cave, at the other end of the cave was an opening but was guarded by four shinobi with Kiri headbands.
"Halt!" Said one Kiri shinobi, and so they did halt.
"Who are you!?" The same man shouted out again.
"I am Zabuza Momoichi, with me are the Demon Brothers, my disciple a member of the Yuki clan, and aid from Konoha to our cause, they wish to see Mei to discuss strategy to finally get rid of Yagura."
Not expecting what he had just heard, he was kind of surprised, they had not seen or heard from Zabuza for quite a long time, they thought he was out doing jobs and collecting funds for the cause, but here he is with aid from a foreign village?
"Wait there, and do not, move!" With that the head guard ninja told one of his men to go get Mei, and tell her that help was here. Waiting for what seemed like forever, a beautiful women walked out of the opening that the shinobi were guarding, Mei was a slender woman that looked to be in her early twenties, maybe younger, she had green eyes, and ankle-length, auburn hair, a top-knot tied with a dark blue band, with four bangs at the front, two bangs were short, with one covering her right eye, and two are long, crossing each other on her bust. She was wearing a long-sleeved, dark blue dress that fell just below the knees, closed at the front with a zip, and is kept open on the front-right side from the waist down. She also wore shorts in the same color as her dress and underneath those, mesh leggings reaching down over her knees. Around her waist, she wore a belt with a pouch attached to the back along with high-heeled sandals and shin-guards reaching up over her knees, dark blue polish on her fingers and toes, and wore dark blue lipstick.
In short she was amazing looking, and since she was leading these people you could infer that she was smart and strong. "My, my, my, what do we have here, four leaf shinobi and our old friend Zabuza, along with his posse. To what do we owe the pleasure?"
Naruto stepped forward appreciating the cleavage of the beautiful shinobi but refocused, "We are here from Konoha to push forward your cause and help you achieve your goals. We have brought Zabuza and his group with us to aid in this endeavor. We are here to finally get rid of Yagura."
"And why would Konoha want to help Kiri rebels, why not just help the Mizukage in stamping us out if it is an alliance you seek which is the only thing that you would pull out of this by helping a side, which would be the smarter move."
"Let's just say that we know Yagura is a mad man, and we would rather be allied with you instead of that lunatic that is killing his people in a pointless conflict."
"Very well, what are your terms?"
"We want a military and trade alliance with Kirigakure after we have disposed of Yagura with you as the new Mizukage, we are willing to provide humanitarian aid after you get your village back. However all of this must take place within the week, we need to return to Konoha as the Chunnin Exams begin in two weeks which we will participate in, right Kakashi."
"Yea, sure." Replied Kakashi reading his porn.
"What? Your Genin! How do you expect to help us and kill the Mizukage, if Lady Mei can't even do it! And she is stronger than your best man Kakashi, tell me at least that a battalion of anbu or the Hokage himself is coming to help us!" Spoke a middle aged man with blue hair which is moused-up. His left eye was blue and his right eye was covered by an eye-patch. He wore a talisman in each ear with the kanji for "to hear". He also wore the standard striped, grey suit, with a green haori that had white trimmings that stop halfway down, over them.
"You would do well to keep your mouth shut, before I rip that Byakugan that you took from one of my fallen comrades out of your eye." Naruto activated his own dojutsu and looked at the man with the eye patch, he elevated the killing intent in the room.
"Please forgive my bodyguard Ao but he is right, not to tarnish the abilities of Kakashi, he is indeed a renowned and feared shinobi, but I believe I am stronger than him, and the Mizukage is much stronger than me, the only time he has ever fought me he was holding back, he had not even used the power of his tailed beast." Replied Mei, worried for the future of her people.
"Do not worry I am much stronger than Kakashi," earning a snort from the said shinobi, "and I can take down the Mizukage on my own, but I will not take back your village for you, you must do this on your own. I'm just here to help." Naruto said getting tired of the fact that people didn't believe in his power because of his age. He would need to do something to remedy that.
"Sorry kid but we aren't gonna take your word on this, you look like a big brat and we are not going to put all of our resources into one large scale offensive which is what you're suggesting if you want to get this done in one week." Countered Ao.
"Do you require a demonstration Mr. Bodyguard? Would you like me to beat you into the ground?" Goaded Naruto with a raised eyebrow.
"As if you could." Ao shot back getting into a battle stance.
Ao lunged at Naruto while activating his Byakugan and swept his leg in the air trying to kick him in the head but Naruto ducked and grabbed Ao's legs from behind and smashed him into the ground creating a crater. Ao was quiet injured but dragged himself out of the crater and jumped away from Naruto, Naruto used his incredible speed to appear right behind Ao and kicked at the back of his knee bringing Ao to kneel punched him in the back with his super strength sending him across the large cavern, Ao was knocked out.
Turning to Mei he said "I haven't even shown you a fraction of my power, now this is a one-time deal, we do this within the week, or we leave."
"You know kid, your quite handsome for your age, I like a man who's commanding and knows what he wants." She said with a sexy smile and a wink. "Fine, come with me to our war room and we'll tell you what our resources are and you can help us plan this offensive."
Author Note Thingy-
Hi guys, thank you for the suggestions and I definitely want some of those people in the harem like Mei, but I'm thinking about how to get her with Naruto, I'm also thinking about him having multiple contracts because some of the summons are so cool, tell me what you think, feedback is appreciated.