(A/N: Here it is. Sorry that it took so long to make but I had lot of other things to do so not much time for writing. The girls in the harem have been decided, they are Hinata, Kurenai, Samui and Yugito. Now start reading and reviewing.)
Chapter 5
Naruto was running at full speed towards the bridge. He hoped that he wasn't too late to miss the battle. He arrived at the bridge and saw that it was covered in mist. There was only one thing that could be seen and that was a dome made out of ice mirrors. Naruto knew that Kakashi and Kurenai could beat Zabuza so he went inside the dome to help those inside.
Inside of the dome were Kiba and Sasuke both looked like pincushions and were tired. Naruto saw that in all of the the mirrors was a girl with a mask used by hunter-nins. Naruto recognized her as Haku with his enhanced senses which he got from being jinchuurichi of Kurama.
Naruto aimed his hand to one of the mirros and said "Amaterasu." As soon as he had said that black flames came out of his hand and hit one of the mirrors causing it to melt. He then created two shadow clones that took Kiba and Sasuke out of the dome.
Kiba was thankful of the rescue but Sasuke claimed that he could still go on and tried to struggle against the hold of the shadow clone.
"We meet again Haku-chan." Naruto said. "How did you know it was me?" Haku asked. "Enhanced senses." He answered. "Shall we continue where they left of?" Naruto asked as he took his stance. Haku didn't show any kind of response except creating few senbons.
Naruto dodged some senbons that Haku sent towards him and sent a big, blue fireball from his hand towards the mirror where the real Haku was. Haku dodged by going to the mirror next to her at speeds that would make a rookie jounin jealous but Naruto could easily see her.
The mirror that got hit was melted to half of the original size. "I have to compliment you as that was a hot fireball to melt one of my mirrors." Haku said and threw even more senbons which Naruto dodged with ease. During the dodge Naruto sent another fireball, which was even hotter than the last, to the mirror where Haku was. Haku managed to dodge it again but the mirror where she was had completely melted.
Haku was stunned for a few second because no one had ever broken her ice mirrors. She turned to look at Naruto only to find him in front of her with his cocked back. Naruto punched the mirror and it broke throwing Haku out of it.
Haku was slowly rising from the ground with Naruto closing in. "Why do you follow Zabuza?" Naruto asked. "Because he saved me from dying of hunger in the bloodline purges." After that Haku starts to tell the story of how Zabuza saved her.
"That's a sad story. I'm sorry but I must kill you." Naruto said solemnly as the mist was starting to disappear. A sound of thousand birds chirping was heard. Haku and Naruto turned their heads towards the voice and saw Kakashi running towards Zabuza who was pinned by dogs, with a hand surrounded by lightning.
"I'm sorry but I can't die yet." Haku said and vanished in a swirl of snowflakes. She appeared in front of Zabuza and took the hit in his place. "Nice work Haku." Zabuza said as Haku was dying. He then dispelled the dogs that were Kakashi's summons.
Zabuza was reaching for his sword on the ground when clapping was heard. Everyone turned towards the other end of the bridge and saw Gatou with an army of thugs and mercs. "It seems that the Demon of the Mist is no demon at all. Kill the men and spare the women so that we can have some fun after this." Gatou said and walked towards the back of his army.
"That bastard! No one crosses me and lives!" Zabuza yelled and ran towards the army with his sword. Once he reached the army he started to cleave them left and right but some of them got lucky shot and Zabuza didn't make it to Gatou.
"So he was weak. Now what are you waiting for attack them!" Gatou yelled. Right at that point every thug and merc shouted from the top of their lungs and charged towards the ninjas from Konoha.
The genin were getting scared as they knew they couldn't take an army head-on and win. The fact that their primary senseis' were tired made them even more frightened. Naruto looked at the army with a bored look. "Weak." He said and put his left hand into his pants' pocket. When he took it out there were dozens of small birds made out of clay on top of it.
Naruto threw them in air and the birds started to fly towards the army. The army had stopped to laugh at what they thought as a trick.
When the birds had reached the thugs Naruto whispered "Boom." and all of the birds blew up killing two thirds of the army and the rest started to panic. Most ran back the way they came from, some jumped from the bridge and the little that were left fainted.
Gatou himself was down on the ground trying to flee from Naruto who walked towards him. He didn't get very far before he felt Naruto's hand holding his head. "I-I'll give you anything! Money! Women! Men!" Gatou would have continued to plead for mercy but couldn't as Naruto pulled out his soul and absorbed it.
He then started to growl, punch and kick the dead bodies. "That bastard! How dare he do those things to other people!" He yelled as he crushed the head of one of the dead thugs.
"Naruto calm down. We've won. Let's go back and rest." Kakashi said as he walked towards Naruto. Naruto took a deep breath and said "You go ahead I have a one thing I must do before I come back." Kakashi nodded and went back to the other ninjas.
Once everyone had left Naruto went and collected the bodies of Zabuza and Haku. He wanted them to be alive and he knew what to do. He needed to use his arms ability Gedo Rinne Tensei. First he put his arm on Zabuza's forehead, concentrated and said the name of the jutsu.
After a couple of seconds Zabuza's eyes opened slowly. "Huh, where am I?" Zabuza asked as he was trying to rise up from the ground. He looked to his left and saw the dead body of Haku. "What happened? Why is Haku's corpse there? Is this hell? It sure doesn't look like it." Zabuza said; confused as he clearly remembered that he had died.
"You're on the bridge, you died, I resurrected you, Haku's corpse is there so I can resurrect her too and this isn't hell. Does that answer your questions?" Naruto said and put his hand on Haku's forehead. He again concentrated, said the name of the jutsu and raised the hand off of Haku's forehead when she was waking up. She rose up and was just as confused as Zabuza.
"Why did you resurrect us?" Haku asked after a half minute of silence. "I don't know. I just felt like it." Naruto answered. Haku and Zabuza were confused. Why would someone they had only met once as enemies resurrect them?
"Well I would like to invite you two to Konoha as I'm sure they will love to have another bloodline inside the village and another powerful ninja. Though the civilians might try to marry you off to Sasuke or someone else but that won't happen as I would put you two under my clan's protection." Naruto said even though the clan hadn't been fully established yet.
"You should rest for now as the jutsu I used resurrects you but your body is stiff because of the sudden start of the organs and muscles." Naruto told them. "Let's meet here the day after tomorrow for your answer to my invitation." Naruto said and left the bridge leaving confused Haku and Zabuza in it.
"What took you so long?" Hinata asked when Naruto got back to Tazuna's house. "I just had to clean the bridge and bring few people back." Naruto said causing Hinata to become confused about the last part of what Naruto said but decided not to ask about it today. Naruto went to the living room, sat on the couch with Hinata and saw that the others were in high spirits.
The others were happy about the fact that their mission would soon be over and they could get back home… well everyone except Sasuke as he was mad that he couldn't fight Haku.
"Tazuna-san, how long will it take to finish the bridge?" Shino asked suddenly with his normal emotionless voice. "The day after tomorrow, why do you ask?" Tazuna said confused about the question as it was coming from the kid who rarely talked.
"Just wanted to know how long it will take before the mission ends." Shino said and went to do something. Soon Kiba went outside to play with Akamaru and after him Sasuke went to train and Sakura followed him leaving Hinata and Naruto alone as Tazuna went fishing with Inari and Kakashi, Tsunami was out shopping Kurenai protecting her.
"So what do you want to do?" Naruto asked. "I don't know maybe just sit here with you." Hinata answered and put her head on Naruto's shoulder. Naruto turned his head and kissed her head. They stayed there until Tsunami came back and started to make food. Hinata went to help her and Naruto went to help her after sitting for a while. They talked about Wave while they cooked with Tsunami.
When they were almost done Naruto saw the others coming to dinner. Kiba's clothes were dirty, probably because of his playing with Akamaru. Sasuke looked tired most of it probably came from training the rest probably came from Sakura asking him for dates.
Shino looked the same as he was before he left. Sakura looked depressed, probably because Sasuke refused her date requests. Inari looked happier than at the beginning of the mission.
During the dinner they ate mostly in silence. After everyone had eaten Naruto, Kurenai and Kakashi took the genin to train. They trained till the sun had almost set and then went back to Tazuna's house to sleep.
On the next day nothing important happened. The genin were having a day free from training and there was a huge party organized in town in which everyone joined. Well almost everyone. The one who didn't participate was Sasuke as he was too busy training.
Once the party was over everyone went to sleep. On the next day the bridge was finished and both teams from Konoha were leaving. They were on the bridge with almost the whole town saying their goodbyes. Out of the corner of his eyes Naruto saw the figures of Haku and Zabuza.
"Could you wait for a while? I have to check one thing." Naruto said and went towards Zabuza and Haku. "So what is your answer?" Naruto asked. "It was a nice offer but we have to decline as we both have an obligation to help the rebellion in Kiri. Let us meet again." Zabuza said and disappeared into the mist with Haku.
Naruto returned back to the teams and waved goodbye to Tazuna and his family. "So Naruto what did you check before we left?"Kakashi asked while they were tree jumping towards Konoha. "Just saw a couple of my friends and said goodbye to them." Naruto said. Kakashi seemed to accept that answer. The rest of the way went by mostly in silence. They managed to get to Konoha before the sun had set but only Naruto, Kakashi and Kurenai weren't looking very tired.
"You're all dismissed. Meet us at training ground eight tomorrow at ten o'clock. Naruto, you come with me." Kurenai told her team and went towards Hokage's tower with Kakashi and Naruto.
Kurenai knocked on the door to Hokage's office and opened it when she heard "Come in." She walked in with Naruto and Kakashi. "Kurenai Yuuhi reporting a successful mission with Kakashi Hatake and Naruto Uzumaki." She said and saluted Sarutobi.
"At ease. Tell me how did the mission go?" Hiruzen said. Kakashi started to tell from the beginning to the end and then Kurenai told it from her perspective and then Naruto told it from his perspective.
"Good job all of you. As this was a joint A-rank mission, both teams get half of the missions pay. Tell your teams to come get them tomorrow, now dismissed." Hiruzen said. Kurenai, Kakashi and Naruto saluted him and vanished in their own shushins.
On the next day at ten o'clock team eight were in the training ground eight. They were training as usual. "When will the chuunin exam begin?" Naruto asked from Kurenai as they looked after their team. "In two months." She answered. "Should we enter them?" Naruto asked while looking at Hinata who was sparring with Kiba.
"Maybe but even if we don't we still should increase their training." Kurenai said and went to help Shino leaving Naruto to help Hinata and Kiba.
"Kiba think before you act!" Naruto yelled at Kiba who had blindly charged at Hinata. It resulted in him getting a chakra covered palm to his stomach. "Kiba remember to think before you act." Naruto said as he helped him recover from the hit.
"I know that already." Kiba muttered. "You may know that but you don't act like you know." Naruto said back. "Now start working on your chakra control." Naruto said to Hinata and Kiba. Hinata and Kiba went to the pond that was in the middle of the training ground and started to walk on top of it with different objects stuck to their bodies with chakra. They did that and a few other exercises for four hours and then they had a small break and after that they went and took a few D-rank missions after that they trained another four hours and then went home.
On the next day Naruto and Kurenai started to increase the training of team eight. They started with an intense physical workout that lasted for a three hours. After that was a half hour break. Then they had to do jutsus until they were on the brink of chakra exhaustion. Everyone knew that it was dangerous but effective. After their reserves were depleted enough they had a few hours break and after that was a full hour of nonstop sparring. After that they had the rest of the day off.
"Hinata-chan, who would you think should be my second wife?" Naruto asked as he and Hinata were walking around one of Konoha's parks. "Well Kurenai-sensei might be if she would fall in love with you." She said. "Yes, I agree with you on that one. Anyone else?"
"There is Anko-san who is Kurenai-sensei's best friend." Hinata suggested. "I know her but she is too bloodthirsty for my liking." Naruto said. "Other than that I don't know as I know you don't want to marry a woman who isn't a ninja." Hinata said causing Naruto sigh. "So I should just allow the councils to decide who I marry?" Naruto said with a slight depressed tone. "No, Naruto-kun. We will find you women who will love you." Hinata reassured Naruto. "Yeah you're right." Naruto said and went to eat something with Hinata.
The next day went like the previous one but after training Hinata had to train with her clan so Naruto couldn't be with her. So he went to walk around Konoha looking for something to do. He found it by bumping into Maito Gai who was wearing his normal green spandex.
"Hello Gai-san." Naruto said. "Hello Naruto-kun! How are thing with your youthful team!" Gai asked with his loud voice. "They are doing fine. We just started to train for the chuunin exam." Naruto answered.
"That's good! I'm going to put my youthful team on the exam as well!" Gai shouted "So my youthful friend would you like a friendly spar?" Gai asked. Naruto thought a while before answering "Sure. I have nothing better to do." This caused Gai to do his nice guy pose with his thumb up and a smile that blinded Naruto for a short while due to the sun shining right at Gai's unnaturally shiny teeth.
When Naruto could see again he was in a training ground with Gai. Naruto blinked few times and asked "How did I get here?"
"I was so excited to spar with you my youthful friend so I dragged you to this youthful training ground!" Gai answered. "So do you want a full out spar or a taijutsu spar?" Naruto asked. Gai's answer didn't take long to come "A youthful taijutsu spar of course!" Gai took his stance immediately after he had said his answer.
Naruto took his stance and sped towards Gai and threw a punch to his face. Gai dodged it and kicked Naruto but Naruto blocked it with his left arm. He jumped back, crouched and tried to sweep Gai's legs but Gai jumped and threw a punch towards Naruto's head. Naruto dodged it and kicked Gai to his ribs. Gai staggered for a bit and then threw a couple of quick punches at Naruto. One of them hit his chest. Naruto had to take few steps back to regain his balance.
When Naruto had regained his balance he didn't see Gai so he looked up and there Gai was coming down with his fist cocked back. Naruto jumped back and kicked Gai when he had almost hit the ground. Gai would have hit a tree but he managed to right himself and land on crouch on the tree. He then launched himself off causing the tree's bark to break. Naruto dodged flying Gai and was ready to counter attack but Gai stopped it by looking at the sky and yelling "Oh look at the time! I have a youthful meeting with the Hokage-sama soon! See you later my youthful friend!" Naruto just watched Gai as he went to the Hokage's tower. Naruto was again bored so he decided to train for the rest of the day.
Rest of the two months went past with a lot of training done. Even though the chuunin exam hadn't started yet Naruto knew that his and Kurenai's team could beat every genin who entered. It was a week before the exam when the jounin sensei's had to choose whether or not to nominate their teams. Naruto and Kurenai had decided to nominate their team. It didn't surprise Naruto that Gai was nominating his team but what came as a surprise was that Kakashi and Asuma nominated their teams. This caused quite a bit of stir as all the rookie teams were attending the exam for a first time in many years.
After the meeting Naruto went for a walk. During it he heard a scream and went towards it. He found a boy around his age but shorter than him who was wearing a black, baggy full body suit. He had a black hood with two catlike ears and a bandaged object on his back. He was holding a young kid by his scarf. Naruto recognized the kid as Konohamaru, Hiruzen's grandson.
Behind the boy was a girl who was a little older than the boy. She was wearing a single light purple-colored, off-the-shoulders garment that extended to halfway down her thighs, with a scarlet sash tied around her waist. Her blonde hair was in four ponytails.
"Kankuro, put him down we aren't here to cause trouble." The girl said. "Don't worry Temari I'm just going to teach this kid to look where he is going." Kankuro said and was about to punch Konohamaru. His fist was stopped by a hand grabbing his wrist. "You know, it isn't a good political move to assault Hokage's grandson." Naruto said while putting more pressure on Kankuro's wrist. Kankuro cried out in pain and dropped Konohamaru who immediately ran behind Naruto.
When Naruto saw that Konohamaru had been released he let go of Kankuro's wrist and said "You should be more careful who you decide to bully." This caused Kankuro to become angry and he dropped the object to ground. "Kankuro are you going to use it?" Temari said. "Don't worry I'll just show this punk what I'm made of." Kankuro said back but couldn't do anything as a swirl of sand appeared in front of him.
"Kankuro stop or I'll kill you." came a voice from the sand swirl. "G-g-gaara, I-I was just…" Kankuro was saying but was interrupted by Gaara. "Shut up." He said with a voice dripping with bloodlust. "I apologize for my brother's foolishness. What's your name?" Gaara asked from Naruto.
It was then when Naruto got a good look at Gaara but only his head as there was sand surrounding him. He saw that Gaara had a gourd on his his back and had a short spiky red hair. He also had raccoon-like black lines surrounding his eyes and on the left side of his forehead is a kanji for love.
"Naruto Uzumaki. And yours?" Naruto asked. "Subaku no Gaara." Gaara said and walked away with Kankuro and Temari following him after they had told Naruto their names. "I hope we can fight him in the exam." Kankuro muttered before they had disappeared behind a building.
"Are you okay?" Naruto asked from Konohamaru. "I-I'm okay. Thanks." Konohamaru said ran off to somewhere. Naruto shook his head and went to do something for the rest of the day.
(A/N: Done. So what do you think? Tell me your opinion and comments on how to make this better. Also if you have any questions about this story please put them in a private message but if you don't have a profile then in a review. See you in the next chapter.)
