A/N: I realise I have made a few mistakes in my story like when I said on the first chapter that Naruto could beat most chunin cause that is not correct. Now that he is more powerful from his full transformation he can pretty much beat most of the genin.

I would also like to say that the names I make up are just that, purely made up. I don't know Japanese and if the names I do make up mean anything or anything bad please tell me.

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Battle at the Waterfall

The thick wire bit into his skin, making his futile struggles painful.

"There's no use doing that. The ninja wire tying you up is specially hardened with chakra. And don't even try an escape jutsu, unless you want to fight without hands." One of the ninjas that captured him said smugly. Sasuke gave an annoyed sigh at his uselessness. Here were the villagers, tied up in groups of three on the ground with missing-nin watching over them, and he couldn't do a thing because of some ninja wire tying his hands and hanging him in the air.

He looked up at the sound of screaming. Sakura and the two kids had been caught and they were trapped in a net hanging a metre of the ground. Sakura was shouting curses at the ninja.

"Let us out of here! Oh, when I escape you will so pay for it.

Damn it. Now both of us have been captured. He hated to admit it, but he hoped badly that Naruto would come soon and rescue them.

A ninja appeared via shunshin and walked over to the man who seemed to be the leader sitting on a veranda. "There's no sign of him anywhere, Sao."

Sao just smirked and stood up. One of the villagers glared at him.

"How could you do this, Sao? You were our most honoured ninja. What are you doing this for, the village?"

"Please, why would I want this pathetic village? That was the main reason I left. As to why I'm here? I here for the Hero's Water."

A gasp resounded over the villagers. Another villager shouted, Shibuki would never give you the water! He would tip it onto the ground before he gives it to a scum-bag like you."

At those words, Sao gave an amused chuckle. "Ah yes, but you see, you don't know dear Shibuki like I do. He wouldn't throw away the only thing that can save the village from an attack."

Sao looked around a moment before shouting, "Shibuki! I know you can hear me! Give me the Hero's Water now or I will start killing the villagers one by one, starting with the children." He nodded to a fat ninja from Iwa (Rock) who grabbed a girl that had been tied up alone.

"No, start with me instead!" One of the villagers shouted.

"Tempting, but a child is much better leverage to someone who cares so much about children." Then he shouted. "Ok, Shibuki, you brought this on your self! On 3 he will kill the girl. 1, 2, 3!"

The fat ninja smiled at the sobbing girl and brought up his kunai. The girl screamed, "Help me!" The ninja grinned again. "Your leader isn't here to save anymore, kid." And thrust down.

The villagers looked in horror.

Suddenly, the kunai came to an abrupt stop an inch away from the girl's neck. Everyone stared at the thick rope of unnaturally red chakra wrapped around his wrist and leading off somewhere into the tree. The chakra reared up as though alive and before anyone could react, stabbed right through the ninja's own neck. The fat ninja gave a shocked and painful cry and fell flat onto his back dead.

--

Before…

Shibuki looked from the hollow opening of the tree that overlooked the scene. His eyes widened at the sight of Sao. "Sensei?"

"Who's that?"

Shibuki jumped into the air in fright and spun around, expecting an attacker. Instead he saw Naruto standing upside down on the roof of the tree cave.

"Don't do that!" he whispered harshly.

Naruto looked concerned at Shibuki closely. "You are really gonna have to work on you courage if you wanna be a good ninja, human."

He glared at him before returning to look at the scene. "That is Sao. He used to be my sensei. He taught me everything I know. But one day he got sick of our village and became left it in the night."

Naruto dropped and flipped onto the ground and joined Shibuki in watching Sao. He noticed the spiky brown hair, the large sideburns and the Waterfall village headband with a line in it. Then he realised what was hanging behind him.

"Damn, they got Sasuke." Then he spotted Sakura in the net. "And they got Sakura too." He turned to Shibuki.

"What does he want?" Naruto asked.

"He's here for the Hero's Water." He said, holding the gourd of blue liquid. "One mouthful of this can increase your chakra ten-fold. This is our secret weapon. But this is also a death sentence. Anyone who drinks this will die from extreme chakra depletion. That's how my father died, he was meant to be leader for longer so I could hone my skills and take over when I'm ready."

"Well, you've got to do something, the villagers are probably leverage to make you bring it to him. You have to fight him!"

"But, he was my sensei! He is much more powerful than me."

"Gah! You will fight him, I'll make sure of it. But I gotta free my teammates first."

Red chakra surrounded his right hand. Speedily, it wormed down the tree towards the villagers.

"Whoa, how do you do that!?" Shibuki exclaimed.

"Part of, Bloodline limit." He gritted through his teeth. It required a lot of concentration to do this. A bead of sweat rolled down his cheek, tempting him to wipe it off. But even the smallest loss of concentration could release the chakra into the air. The rope was already at the villagers, but no one noticed it. Just as he tried to move the chakra to Sasuke, Sao spoke.

"Shibuki! I know you can hear me! Give me the Hero's Water now or I will start killing the villagers one by one, starting with the children."

They watched in horror as the fat ninja picked up the little girl beside him. After a while, he spoke loudly again.

"Ok, Shibuki, you brought this on your self! On 3 he will kill the girl. 3," as he counted, Naruto expertly directed his chakra to the ninja.

"2,"

Come on, come on!

"1"

The ninja stabbed down with his kunai, but was instantly stopped by Naruto's chakra.

"Die!" Naruto hissed and flicked his chakra towards the man's neck. Naruto's eyes flashed red. He was dead within seconds.

--

Sao stared at the red rope that seemed to be made out of chakra. But chakra wasn't physical, what he saw was impossible, wasn't it? But he did see it, right before his eyes, a strange unnatural yet definitely chakra had stabbed his minion in the throat.

The red chakra disappeared into the air leaving no trace it had been there, except for the dead ninja. Suddenly the ninjas looked up as they sensed something coming from the tree. They stared as a fox as big as a dinner table leap from a hole in the tree and land onto the ground in front of them with no more than a quiet thud. Clutched in the fox's strangely prehensile tail was a frightened Shibuki.

Naruto set Shibuki down while taking the Hero's Water into his tail. He nudged him forward towards the shocked Shinobi, obviously wanting him to fight them. Shibuki shook in fear. Naruto rolled his eyes. Holy shit, this village ain't gonna last long with him as their leader. He growled. Fine, I'll kill the five Missing Nin and he can deal with Sao.

Holding the gourd protectively in his tail, Naruto leapt into action. The first ninja never stood a chance. When everyone blinked, the poor ninja's throat had been ripped out and Naruto's teeth dripped with blood. A second foolish ninja ran at him, hoping to kill him with his short sword. With frightening ease, Naruto ducked under the thrust and swiped at the man's stomach. He went flying into a tree, either knocked unconscious or dead. After all, he didn't want to terrify the kids and give them nightmares at too much blood. Two down, three to go.

One look at the remaining ninja he instantly knew they weren't going to be a problem. They were most probably only lower chunin, trying to make themselves into the Bingo Book. In a matter of moments, the three ninjas were lying on the floor unconscious.

He walked up to Shibuki, lifted him with his long tail and literally threw him at Sao, all while still holding the gourd.

Luckily, he managed, to right himself and aimed a kick at Sao's head. He blocked with his forearms and both leapt back.

"Hello, Shibuki, long time no see. Let's see if the student has surpassed the sensei in kenjutsu, ne?"

He glared at him, but the killer intent wasn't thick since he was shaking in fear. After all, a sensei won't normally teach their students all their tricks. The pair both flashed through the same hand seals, shouting, "Ice Sword!" Ice started to form on their outstretched palm, soon growing into a white sword that was specially modified and mostly unbreakable.

"I will have the Hero's Water!" Sao shouted and charged. Their battle started.

Everyone watched as the two swordsmen danced around each other, dodging when they could and parrying when they couldn't. To their dismay, Sao had years more of experience and skill refining to his advantage, and he was using it to the fullest.

Shibuki puffed in exhaustion, glaring at his opponent who seemed only breathing a little faster. Sao smirked as sweat rolled down Shibuki's forehead.

"Aww, is little Shibuki already too tired to fight? You know, if you just give me the Hero's Water, I can let you and most of the villagers live."

"I'll never give you the Water!" and charged again, but his slow reaction was his downfall. It was small, just the smallest mistake in his calculation. Shibuki stabbed towards Sao's chest, but his sword parried his own resulting in Shibuki's sword being flung out and stabbing into the ground a few metres away instead. Sao smiled.

"Die!"

Sao thrust the sword, fully intended to pierce his heart and end his life. Sword met flesh, a high pitched yelp/cry rang in the air, blood sprayed out, the limp body skidded a little ways back from the momentum. Blood oozed out of wound where the sword till lay embedded right behind the front leg, marring the red fur crimson.

--

A tall man in a black cloak jumped down from the rooftops onto the steps. He looked around, before putting his hand onto the door, as if looking inside without seeing. Satisfied, he pressed his finger to the lock, and if you looked closely you would see a small trail of red chakra.

The lock clicked and the man let himself in, closing the door silently behind him. He walked up to the kitchen bench and brought out is hands, holding them as if holding imaginary poles when skiing. Extremely concentrated dark crimson chakra swirled onto his hands, soon forming into the shape of short swords. The chakra disappeared, and in its place, the stranger held two swords.

The handles were black and gold, the gold line twisting around the handles. The scabbards were a black that seemed to suck all light and reflected none. The man set the swords down onto the bench, aswell as straps for the chest and a piece of paper with swirling elegant writing on it. The man walked out of the building, making sure to lock the door and disappeared over the rooftops again.

--

Shibuki watched in surprise and horror as Naruto jumped and pushed him out of the way, causing the sword to slide right though the side of his ribs and definitely piercing the heart. The smaller fox form lay breathing quickly on the ground. Red chakra surrounded it, and Shibuki looked in relief as he was sure he could heal himself. But what appeared when the chakra disappeared was even worse.

Naruto, now in human form, lay on the ground. His breathing coming in painful gasps. The wound was just as bad as before, the sword still sticking out of him. His eyes were open but glazed over, unseeing to the world. Soon, his breathing slowed and stopped.

Sao looked in surprise at the boy who was just a moment ago a fox. He looked at the hitai-ate on the boy's arm and chuckled in amusement.

So this is one of the great ninja team from Konoha that you paid to protect you. Where is the jonin instructor? Surely he didn't leave you behind. Or did he think that the mission would be easy enough for a bunch of genins, no?"

"Shut up, Sao! I will kill you." Shibuki shouted, anger coming from seeing Naruto protect him and lose his life. "One more time, I will beat you."

"Hmm, I wouldn't be so sure, little Shibuki." he said, flashing through the seals for Ice Sword. When he finished, he looked in surprise as Shibuki lifted a gourd from the boy and drank some of the blue liquid. Instantly, his body flared with chakra, the blue flame surrounding his figure. (Chakra is visible in this story because it doesn't look impressive without it.) "You will lose, no matter what!" he shouted and flashed through the signs, activating his sword. They charged.

Naruto looked at the new fight in mild interest from the ground. Though the entertainment was ruined by the large sword protruding out of his chest. But he would just have to bear it, after all, he was meant to be dead. The reason he was going all this way to get stabbed, which might I add is painful, and pretend to be dead was because he believed this was the only way to get Shibuki to fight better. Apparently it was working. The pair were quite well matched in their fight, but he noticed in dismay that the effect of the Water was slowly disappearing and he was getting slower. Damn him! I though that the Water alone could defeat him. I guess Sasuke can help. He shifted awkwardly and reached down towards the weapon pouch strapped to his left leg. Finally he managed to retrieve the kunai when he realised he would be too weak without his chakra healing him. Ah, screw it.

Chakra surrounded the kunai and flung it with expert precision at the wire above Sasuke. The wire snapped with a twang and leaving Sasuke to fall face first onto the ground since wire was still holding his hands together. Sasuke didn't know where the kunai came from, but he took advantage of it.

Untangling from the wire, he took the kunai that freed him and started towards the fight.

Sao smiled, "This ends now!"

Unfortunately for him, it was that precise moment Sasuke chose to stab him in the back. He fell to the ground, dead.

Naruto grunted. "Finally!" and got up from where he lay. Everyone stared at him as if he came back to life. Hehe. Shibuki and Sasuke ran to him.

"What the hell, I though you were dead!" Shibuki yelled, and then saw the sword still stuck in his chest. "Oh, my god, you should be dead!"

Naruto sighed. "You all have such little faith in me, jeez did you really think I would die that stupidly. If I wanted to, I cold of just bit Sao's head off, why the hell would I jump in front of you, moron."

He frowned. "So why did you?"

"Gah, you humans are so shallow minded. I did it to make you fight him better!" as he said that, he pulled the sword out of his body, surprising everyone when the tip had melted and disappeared. Naruto looked at their expressions.

"What? Even I couldn't survive a stab to the heart without healing, so I just melted it before it reached my heart."

"Impossible, the Ice Sword is ineffaceable."

"My friend, I know a hundred different ways to melt and break such a low-level jutsu like that, though I can't do them all of course."

--

Soon the village was back to normal. Shibuki didn't suffer any effects from the Water and no one died, well except the bad guys.

Naruto and the rest of team 7 reached home, though Naruto had to walk with Sasuke glaring daggers at his back about being too powerful for his liking, and Sakura feeling as though she didn't do anything, which she hadn't. Kakashi was at the gates, talking to Kotetsu and Izumo.

"Ah, there you are, I as getting worried when you didn't come back. Surly there wasn't that much rubbish was there?" Kakashi asked questionably, obviously wanting the story, so they told him.

"Hmm, you all lived, I suppose. Good work, team, though I'll be sure to check of no danger before I leave if I must."

"What was the meeting about, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked.

"Well, it was a meeting about and organisation, that's all, nothing you have to worry about." He said, but glanced at Naruto. He caught the look and narrowed his eyes in suspicion. Organisation?

"Ok, meet me tomorrow in the usual place and time. Tomorrow I'll be teaching you some new jutsu, so sleep well and get a good breakfast. Ja ne." he said and poofed away.

"Yay! A new jutsu! Woo hoo." Naruto shouted and ran home in joy.

A/N: Done! Haha. That was fun. You guys really need to tell me if I should rewrite the first few chapters. Comments and critism welcome.