(A/N Hello everyone. It's me again. I have put a poll on my profile and will take it out when I reach the chuunin exam finals. That's all for now.)
Chapter 4
It has been a month from the day when Naruto saved Kaiza. After getting a place to stay Naruto started to train harder than ever before. Naomi told him that he could take on a squad of ANBU and had a chance of winning. Naruto had also almost finished the seal which could make him a chakra construct. All he needed was to choose which animal he wanted to become and how to free Naomi from her prison after the seal has done its job. The reason why Naruto had to choose an animal which to become was that all chakra constructs had an animal form or something similar to that. The reason for it has never been found.
Right now Naruto was anxiously waiting for those who will come from Konoha today. He heard from Kaiza that Wave was poor and they didn't have enough money to pay an A-rank mission that Tazuna's protection will most likely be. He thought that the mission will most likely be put as a C-rank mission so most likely the team from Konoha will be a genin team. He only hoped that they wouldn't be people who thought that he was Kyuubi reborn.
Finally by nightfall they arrived. By the condition in which they arrived they just had a confrontation by the enemy. The team that arrived consisted from three genins and an unconscious jounin. Naruto came to see who they were and noticed that they were from the class he was before leaving. The gennin were Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno and Kiba Inuzuka.
Sasuke had black hair that looked like a duck's butt and onyx eyes. He had a scowl on his face like he had during his academy days. He wore a blue, short-sleeved shirt with a raised collar and the Uchiha crest on the back, white arm warmers and white shorts.
Sakura had pink hair, green eyes and had a bigger than normal forehead. She wore a red Chinese style dress, dark green shorts and had her hitai-ate on the top of her head.
Kiba had his grey coat's hood up so Naruto didn't see his hair but he knew Kiba had spiky brown hair. He also had red fang shaped tattoos on his cheeks as a mark that he belonged to Inuzuka clan. He was wearing dark greyish pants reaching to his calves and a grey, hooded fur-lined coat, with the hood.
The jounin was Kakashi Hatake. Naruto knew him for Kakashi didn't hurt him and from what he had heard from Hiruzen Kakashi wanted to adopt him. The civilian council stopped him from adopting Naruto so he just tried his best to protect him. Kakashi had gravity defying silver hair, a mask that hide everything from nose down and had his hitai-ate over his left eye. He had a standard Konoha shinobi outfit and metal plated gloves. He was currently unconscious.
Naruto came out of his observation when he heard Kiba yell out "Dobe! What are you doing here?" Naruto just looked at him and answered "After I failed the exam I decided to leave Konoha. Nothing could hold me there for I was a civilian and as a civilian I have free travel rights." Kiba was gob smacked when he heard that. That couldn't be the same dead-last from academy. The dobe from academy was stupid, didn't know anything laws included, didn't wear anything except orange and had no skills. This new Naruto from the little Kiba saw wasn't stupid, wore dark colors and had air of a professional ninja around him.
"What happened to you?" Naruto asked. He knew they were attacked but he didn't know by whom. "Some looser whose name is Zabuza. Kakashi-sensei called him Demon of the Mist." Sasuke answered with the usual arrogant tone in his voice. 'Demon of the Mist? Naomi-chan let's show him when he gets back that he is only a human.' Naruto said through the link not minding he was human because he wouldn't be one soon. 'Of course Naruto-kun and kick his ass.' Naomi said back to him.
While Naruto and Naomi talked Sakura asked where she could put their sensei to rest. Tsunami helped Sakura and they took Kakashi to one of the spare rooms. During this time Kiba was playing with his dog Akamaru and Sasuke went to sit somewhere and continued to frown.
Naruto said good night to everyone and left, getting to his room to continue his making of the seal. After he was finished for the day he realized that he would get it ready within a month. Soon after this realization he went to sleep.
Waking up and doing his normal routine he got back and heard that breakfast was ready. Naruto went to dining room and found out that Kakashi was awake.
When Kakashi saw Naruto walking in, he immediately had his uncovered eye wide. "Naruto, where have you been? I was worried about you." Kakashi asked Naruto. "Sorry Kakashi-san but I didn't want to stay in a village where I don't have any future." Naruto told him. "What do you mean?" "What I mean is that the villagers wouldn't allow me to become anything in my life there. Don't try to argue with me, you know it is the truth." After hearing that Kakashi just looked down and sighed knowing that he was right.
"So what are you doing here?" Kakashi asked attempting to start a conversation. "I came here because I remembered that this country should have been prosperous from the geography lessons in academy and I stay because I heard what happened here and decided to help." Kiba heard this and asked "You actually paid attention in those classes? Who would have thought?" Naruto didn't say anything to Kiba he just continued to talk with Kakashi about what had happened in Konoha. "Well Hokage-sama finally started to do something about the civilian council. He started to look their records and found out that almost all of them were involved in some kind of illegal activity." Naruto smiled when he heard that.
"How are Iruka and the Ichirakus doing?" Naruto asked. "They're doing pretty well. Teuchi and Ayame were really sad after you left but they wouldn't stay sad. They really want to see you again. Iruka well he just tries to do his job the best he can. He also misses you a lot." Kakashi told him.
Rest of the day was pretty much uneventful. Kakashi and his team trained close to Tazuna's house and Naruto trained deeper in the woods.
Sun was starting to set when Naruto came back from his training all sweaty. Inside he saw that Kiba was the sweatiest then came Sasuke and Sakura didn't have any sweat on her. 'Either she has incredible stamina which I doubt or she didn't train.' Naruto thought while getting something to eat and went to do his seal.
Rest of the week went like that, except when Naruto occasionally went to help on the bridge. During the week Naruto trained harder than usual and passed out. He was woken up by someone who called himself Haku. Naruto knew that he was a shinobi by the way he walked. When Haku told Naruto why he was in the woods Naruto put two and two together and knew that Haku was the person who saved Zabuza. Kakashi had told them this during their first dinner.
Haku told Naruto that true strength comes from one's precious people. When Haku had almost left Naruto called to him "Say hi to Zabuza for me will you?" Hearing this Haku stiffened and truned around only to find nothing.
That's how their talk went. When Naruto arrived in the house he told Kakashi about his encounter with Haku. After that it was only a few days before they would clash at the bridge.
The week was finally over. When Team 7, at least that's what Kakashi called them went to the bridge Naruto decided to stay and guard the house if Gatou decided to send someone to kidnap or kill Tazuna's family.
Patrolling in the woods Naruto found a dead boar. It had slashes all around its body. There were slash marks in the trees around the boar and the marks went to Tazuna's house realizing that they were probably from some thugs that Gatou sent. He began to run towards the house. He was silently praying to arrive before it was too late.
At the house Tsunami was washing dishes when she heard someone knock on the backdoor. She went to open the door. Opening it she was stunned by the ones who knocked. There were two people there. One was of tall stature had an eye-patch over his right eye and had brown hair in three parts. He didn't wear shirt and had a tattoo on his left arm and a sword on his hip.
The other one had bluish-white hair and had lines tattooed on under his eyes. He wore purple hat and blue jacket with many pouches. He also had a sword strapped on his waist.
"What have we here? It seems our target came to us didn't she Zori." Said the one without a shirt. "So it seems Waraji. Though Gatou didn't tell us if she needed to be untouched." Said now identified Zori with a perverted smile.
Tsunami started to back away in fear. The two thugs approached her either wearing a smile though it wasn't a gentle or loving one. It was perverted one.
Tsunami turned around and ran to the front door but couldn't make it as Waraji grabbed her. She started to scream for help. Inari a kid with black hair came down to see what the noise was coming from downstairs. His eyes widened when he saw what was happening. He ran to the kitchen and took a knife. "Let her go!" Inari yelled to Waraji. "Hey Zori didn't Gatou say that we only needed one hostage?" Waraji yelled to his accomplice. "That he did. So can I kill the boy?" Zori asked with a cruel smirk on his face. "Go ahead" Waraji answered. Hearing this Zori took out his sword and walked closer to Inari.
Just as Zori was about to strike a shuriken hit his forehead and he fell to the ground dead. "Zori! Who did this? Show yourself!" Waraji yelled taking his sword while holding Tsunami hostage. The answer he got was a kunai between his eyes.
When Waraji fell to the ground Naruto made his appearance from the front door. "That was really brave of you Inari." Naruto said to Inari. "Tsunami-san I trust that you and Inari will find a safe place to be while I go to the bridge to help protecting Tazuna." Tsunami nodded, said thanks and took Inari with her to somewhere safe.
Meanwhile at the bridge Tazuna, Kaiza, Kakashi and his team had just arrived there and saw that it was full of mist. "Be on your guard." Kakashi told the genin while at the same time took a kunai out of his pouch. Suddenly something came from the mist. It was one of the workers. He was full of cuts and was bleeding out badly. "A demon! It's a demon!" He yelled before collapsing on the ground.
Tazuna went immediately to the downed man's side. When he tried to talk to the downed man, the mist started to leave and they saw two people inside the mist.
One of them was tall and muscular and had a gigantic sword on his back. He wore a bandage-like mask that hided lower-part of his face and had slashed Kirigakure hitai-ate sideways on his forehead. He wore a sleeveless black shirt and matching pants, complete with a waist-guard. He was Zabuza Momochi.
The other one had black hair on two braids and his face couldn't be seen for he wore a Kirigakure hunter-nin mask. His clothing consisted of a moss green, striped turtle-neck sweater and a split skirt in matching color that reached down to his knees.
"Sakura stay and guard Tazuna and Kaiza. Sasuke, Kiba you take the one with the mask while I'll take Zabuza." Kakashi ordered his team. As soon as Kakashi had ordered them the bridge was flooded with killing intent from Zabuza.
"Oh are the little genins shaking? Well that can be fixed." Zabuza taunted them. "It's not from fear I'm shaking. It's from excitement." Sasuke answered and took out his kunai with the rest of the team started to get ready. Kiba got into a stance and Sakura by moving in front of Tazuna and taking her kunai out.
"Deal with the genin Haku." Zabuza ordered the masked one now identified as Haku
Kakashi ran toward Zabuza with his chakra covered kunais in hand. At the same time Kiba and Sasuke charged towards the masked one.
The fight between Zabuza and Kakashi begun, with Zabuza doing the Kirigakure no Jutsu(Hiding in the mist jutsu) and over the bridge came a thick blanket of mist, thicker than before. Inside the thickest part of the mist Zabuza and Kakashi clashed. Their fight was mostly of Zabuza appearing from the mist trying to cut Kakashi and Kakashi dodging or blocking when he couldn't dodge.
Kakashi didn't want to lift his hitai-ate and use the Aharingan because the mist was made from chakra and Sharingan couldn't see through it.
At the same time with Kiba and Sasuke who were fighting Haku. Kiba tried to hit Haku with his punches while Sasuke threw kunais and shurikens at Haku. Haku dodged each of their tries and took some of senbons from his pouch. Haku threw the senbons he took. Kiba and Sasuke dodged most of them but some of the hit.
Sasuke tried to get close and almost punched Haku in his mask but Haku blocked it. "You know that you're in disadvantage now. You can't make any jutsus but I can." Haku said and started to do some one-handed hand seals. "Suiton: Sensatsu Suishō (Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death)!" Haku said loudly and thousand senbons made of water came from the puddles of water around the bridge. They flied towards Sasuke. Sasuke thought quickly and performed Kawamiri with a log. Sasuke then appeared next to Kiba.
"It seems that I must use a stronger attack." Haku stated and started another set of hand seals. "Hijutsu: Makyō Hyōshō (Secret Jutsu: Crystal Ice Mirrors)!" Haku said and mirrors made out of ice appeared as a dome around and over Sasuke and Kiba.
"Give up and I will grant you a quick death." Haku said as he entered one of the mirrors. "Never!" Sasuke and Kiba yelled together. Haku didn't respond in any way and just moved fast between the mirrors throwing senbons made of ice at Sasuke and Kiba.
After a while of dodging Sasuke started to do hand seals and yelled "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire release: Great Fireball jutsu)!" A big fireball came out of Sasuke's mouth and impacted on one of the ice mirrors. Sasuke started to grin as smoke came from the mirror that he hit. Smirk vanished as the smoke disappeared. The mirror was still there. It hadn't even become smaller.
Seeing this Kiba yelled "Tsūga (Passing Fang)!" He began turning rapidly and soon he looked like a drill. Then he threw himself to one of the ice mirrors. After the technique he jumped next to Sasuke but he was stunned by the durability of the mirrors. After the attack to the mirror there was a slash mark on it but it was rapidly repairing.
"You see it's useless." Haku taunted them and started to throw senbons at a quick rate. Sasuke seeing that he couldn't dodge them saw the world slowing down and he could see where they were going. Realizing he had activated the Sharingan he grinned as he started to dodge them until Haku did hand seals and yelled "Suiton: Sensatsu Suishō!" Seeing no way out Sasuke performed Kawamiri with Kiba.
"Bastard!" Kiba yelled weakly as his world started to turn into black. Haku was shocked by what the Sasuke did. "I thought that you Konoha shinobi valued your teammates." Haku said in a monotone. "He was a dobe. He should fell honored to have been use to me, an Uchiha." Sasuke said with an arrogant smirk. Haku just shook his head and began another bombardment with senbons.
Suddenly some noise came from outside the dome and one of the mirrors broke. From the broken mirror walked Naruto grinning for some reason. The grin turned into a frown when he saw what was happening inside the dome. He saw Haku inside one of the mirrors, Kiba on the ground unconscious or worse and Sasuke with an arrogant smirk on his face.
"Sasuke get out. You have done what you can now let your betters do the rest." Naruto said to Sasuke. "Dobe what do you mean by better? You can't be stronger than me an elite." Sasuke said back to Naruto. Naruto just shook his head and disappeared in a burst of speed. Sasuke looked around trying to find him. "You. Better than me? Get real Sasuke. Even your precious Sharingan can't follow me properly yet." Naruto said from behind Sasuke and knocked him out. "So Haku where were we?" Naruto said and got into a fighting stance.
Haku silently prepared himself for the fight. Naruto grinned and disappeared. Haku didn't know what happened as he found himself in air. Looking back to the dome he noticed that the mirror where he was had been broken and the dome was starting to melt. Landing on his feet he looked around to find Naruto only to find nothing. "Hello!" Naruto yelled from behind Haku and knocked him unconscious with a chop to the neck.
The fight between Kakashi and Zabuza was coming to its end. "Zabuza let's finish this." Kakashi said. Zabuza grunted his agreement from somewhere inside the mist. Kakashi dodged a sudden slash but wasn't quick enough and got a cut to his shoulder.
"Kuchiyose: Doton: Tsuiga no Jutsu (Summoning: Earth Release: Tracking Fang Technique)" Kakashi said and with a puff of smoke, many dogs appeared and went toward Zabuza. They found Zabuza and bit him on different places. Kakashi did eleven hand seals and yelled "Chidori (One Thousand Birds)!" Kakashi's right hand was covered with lightning and he started to run towards pinned Zabuza. Just when he was about to thrust his hand through Zabuza's heart someone stopped it.
"Kakashi no need to kill this guy." Naruto said while gripping Kakashi's arm. "Why are you saving this man?" Kakashi asked him. "Your answer shall arrive soon." Soon after Naruto said those words someone said "It seems that the demon is only a baby. Boys kill them all." They saw that the one who said it was none else than Gatou himself with and army of thugs. "So that's why you stopped me." Kakashi said to Naruto. "Yes." Naruto answered and went towards the Gatou. "Hey fat-ass! Over here!" Naruto yelled. Gatou looked at him and said "What do you want?" "Your death." Naruto finished and took out his sword and charged towards Gatou and his army.
Just in front of the army Naruto channeled chakra to his sword and slashed horizontally. A big blue wave of chakra from the sword and hit the army head on. Over half of the army fell to the attack. "Kill him!" Gatou yelled as he tried to get as far away as possible from Naruto. "You useless bags of flesh would you please be so kind and die!" Naruto yelled as he ran into the lines of thugs.
Sakura, Tazuna and Kaiza looked green from what they saw. It wasn't a fight. It was a massacre. Naruto seemed to dance around his opponents and chop them into pieces. Arms, legs, heads and even a few torsos flew over the thugs. Finally after a few minutes only ones alive on the bridge were Naruto and Gatou.
"I c-can g-give you every-t-thing you want! M-m-money! W-w-women! M-m-men!" Gatou tried to plead for his life but to no avail. Naruto closed the distance and with one clean slash he cut Gatou's head off his shoulders. "Well that takes care of that." Naruto stated as he cleaned his sword. Everyone had their mouths open and eyes wide even Sasuke and Haku who woke up at the time when Gatou pleaded for his life in front of everyone. Kakashi, Zabuza and Haku looked a little green but everyone else, except Naruto threw up from the sight of the massacre. "What there's something on my face?" Naruto asked as everyone looked at him. Sighing Kakashi came towards Naruto and asked "When did you become so strong?" "I have been strong enough to beat an army of thugs for a year now" Naruto answered. Sighing again Kakashi took Tazuna, Kaiza and his genins towards Tazuna's house.
It had been a month since the battle on the bridge and the bridge was now finished and the ninjas from Konoha were leaving. "Hey Kiba, can you give this to Hinata for me?" Naruto asked Kiba. Kiba looked at him and nodded. "Kakashi can you tell Jiji that I might be coming to Konoha to meet him and Ichirakus. I also might join the chuunin exam." Naruto said to Kakashi. "How can you join if you aren't a shinobi of a village?" Kakashi asked. "One of the rules is that anyone who has ninja training and isn't missing-nin or part of a village can join." Naruto said. Kakashi nodded and motioned his team to go towards Konoha. Casting one last look behind before leaving himself Kakashi sped up to meet his students.
"So what's going to be the name of the bridge?" Naruto asked Tazuna. "I haven't really thought about it." He turned around and asked the crowd that had gathered there "How about Great Naruto Bridge?" The crowd cheered at this. "Great Naruto Bridge it is then." Tazuna said smiling.
After the crowd had dispersed Naruto asked "Can I stay here for a while? I have a project nearly finished and I can't make it easily in the nature." Tazuna smiled and nodded to him.
(A/N Done. Next chapter might be last for a while for I'm going on a holiday with my parents and brother for a week. Please go and check the poll and give your opinion of this chapter. That's all. Goodbye!)
