Rika-chan24- Here is the next chapter! It's not as long as my last one though. I hope you guys like it. :) The wave arc is finally starting!
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Naruto walked into the training grounds the next morning. Everyone was already there waiting for him. "They must really want to know why Hokage-Jii wanted to test us." Naruto thought as he stopped in front of the group who were all gathered together under a tree.
"What took you so long?" Ino asked.
"Ya, we have been here for hours." Kiba added, followed by a bark from Akumaru.
"Kiba, we have only been here for ten minutes." Shikamaru replied with a yawn.
"Well it felt like forever!" Kiba replied.
"So Dobe, are you going to tell us what the Third told you about our test or what?" Sasuke asked.
Everyone tuned to Naruto; they all wanted to know why.
"Yes Teme, I am going to tell all of you, it was quite surprising. It hasn't ever happened before." Naruto began.
"Ok, tell us!" Lee exclaimed.
"The third hokage wanted to test our teamwork, because there is a war coming. He explained it all to me, once I exchange some info I had. Hokage-Jii, heard from sources that Orochimaru, one of the Sannin, was planning to attack during the Chunnin exams that are being held in four months." Naruto explained.
"So he wants to strengthen all the genin?" Tenten questioned.
"Yes, Jii thinks that Orochimaru will have spies in the exam. So this year the twelve of us are for sure being entered into the chunnin exams. Our test of teamwork was designed so that we all can work together during the chunnin exams. For some reason we really caught the Hokage's eye." Naruto replied.
"This should be interesting." Neji commented.
"Alright! We will be chunnin before we know it." Ino shouted.
"It sounds troublesome." Shikamaru mumbled.
"I wasn't expecting the hokage to rely on us that much." Sakura said.
Everyone began to add in their own thoughts; the volume level began to grow louder.
"What information did you exchange with him?" Shino asked suddenly. Everyone to stop talking in an instant, and turned to Naruto once again.
"Oh uh, I may have told him how strong I really was. I told him that I stole more than just one jutsu out of the forbidden scroll. I even told him it was my idea to start this group training." Naruto explained.
Everyone nodded and accepted his answer. "The five of them will probably want to meet later to talk more." Naruto thought.
"So the next four months we should all train as hard as we can. If this war with Orochimaru is as bad as the hokage says, then we all need to be strong. So that we can protect the village" Sakura said.
"We will be the strongest group of ninja the world has ever seen!" Kiba replied.
"YOSH, OUR FLAMES OF YOUTH COUNTINUES TO GROWS EVEN STRONGER!" Lee shouted.
"So since this meeting of sorts is over, I am going to go enjoy the rest of my day off." Tenten said a few minutes later.
"That sounds like a good idea; I am going to leave too." Ino replied, as she headed towards the exit of the training grounds.
It didn't take very long for everyone else to start leaving the training grounds as well. Everyone wanted to enjoy the rest of their day off, most of them knew that life would start to get busier around the Chunnin exams start.
"We are going to have to meet up later to talk about the plan for the chunnin exams." Shikamaru said as he was getting up to leave.
"We will plan a day just for that, we want to be prepared. There is a lot to do, and there is only so much we can do until then." Sasuke replied.
"Sounds like a good idea." Neji said.
"Your mission to Wave is coming soon, is it not?" Shino asked.
"Yes, we should be going on it soon. We were gone for about a month last time. So the three of you will have to make sure the others train hard." Sakura replied.
"We can take care of it just fine." Neji answered.
"Troublesome, we are going have to really push the rest of them. Luckily everyone is stronger than we were during our first Chunnin exams." Shikamaru explained.
"Great, were counting on that. I don't want to be worried about everyone being in danger. It really helps that the three of you are from the future too." Naruto replied.
"Of course, we are always here to help." Shino stated, as everyone else nodded in agreement.
"See all of you later than." Naruto said before disappearing in a swirl of leaves. The others soon followed suit, so that they could enjoy the rest of their day off.
(A few days later)
"Fox in position A" Naruto called through a headset.
"Wolf in position B" Sasuke's voice said calmly.
"Rabbit in position C" Sakura's voice called out a few seconds later.
"Get ready to capture subject." A fourth voice called to them. "Go"
The three of them rushed from their hiding spots, before capturing their target.
"Red bow on the ear?" Kakashi asked a few seconds later.
"Yes, it's Tora." Sakura replied, as she watched Tora try to struggle out of Naruto's arms.
"Good, let's go to the Hokage tower." Kakashi said.
Team 7 stood in front of the Hokage and Iruka as they watched Tora get squished in its owner's arms. The lady paid them for their mission, before leaving the room.
"This is it. This is when we go to wave." Naruto thought as the Hokage read off a list of missions they could do next.
"No way, I don't think so Jii, we want a better mission. Team 7 can handle it were strong." Naruto said as soon as the third hokage finished reading off the missions.
"Naruto! Iruka shouted. "I know the three of you are strong, but you are Genin. Genin don't do any higher ranked missions.
"Lie, we went on tons of higher ranked missions as genin" Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto thought.
Iruka continued to explain about mission ranking and who does what missions. When he was done explaining, he found that none of them were listening.
"Do you think your team can really handle it Naruto-kun?" Hiruzen asked.
"Of course we can, besides don't you know, this year's genin are going to surpass all the generations from before!" Naruto replied determinedly.
The third Hokage sighed, "Kakashi do you think they are ready?"
Kakashi looked up from his book. "I think they are. They have surprised me with their strength so far. I think a C-ranked mission will be a good challenge for them."
"Alright, then I have just the mission for you." Hiruzen replied.
"Yeah!" Naruto cheered, they were finally getting their mission to wave.
"Send Tazuna in." The third hokage said.
An old man, who was holding a big bottle of Sake walked in.
"These brats are supposed to protect me while I build my bridge. They don't look like much. Especially that short blond one." Tazuna said pointing to Naruto.
"I have you know, I won't always be this short. I am a lot stronger than I look. You can believe what you want." Naruto replied.
The other adults in the room were very shocked by the blonds answer. They thought Naruto would try to attack him.
"Tazuna you shouldn't worry, my genin are really strong, and I am a jounin." Kakashi explained to the bridge builder before turning to his students.
"Be at the bridge in one hour." Kakashi said before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
(One hour later)
The genin of team 7 stood in front of the gate with Tazuna, waiting for Kakashi.
"The others know we are leaving right?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, I ran into Shikamaru on my way here. He will tell the others." Sasuke replied.
"So what is the plan?" Sakura asked turning to Naruto who looked like he was deep in thought.
Naruto blinked a few times before answering them. "The demon brothers won't take long to beat. Zabuza on the other hand is a different story. I say we take him out fast. We can capture him and Haku. I can distract Kakashi with shadow clones. I will send shadow clones with Sakura to take out Haku while Sasuke and I take out Zabuza." Naruto explained.
They both nodded, "Sounds like a good plan, we can work with that for now." Sasuke replied.
Kakashi appeared in front of them a few minutes later, ready to go.
The three genin didn't say a word this time; they were too busy thinking over the plan.
"Let's head out" Kakashi said, as he began to walk out of the gates with the genin following not far behind.
Kakashi was surprised; all three of his genin were quietly talking to each other. Naruto was taking point, but he would walk backwards when he would answer Sasuke or Sakura. Sakura and Sasuke were walking on the right and left of Tazuna.
"Had they done this before? They made it seem like this was an everyday thing." Kakashi thought as he observed his students.
Tazuna didn't know what to do with this team. They were a lot quieter than he thought they were at first. They didn't even ask him any questions, at least not yet.
They were walking down the same road a few hours later, when Naruto finally spotted the puddle up ahead. He could sense the two chunnin easily. Naruto signaled Sasuke and Sakura a few seconds later. Naruto already knew Kakashi was aware of the puddle.
As soon as they passed the puddle, the demon brothers attacked.
"One down" they said in unison as they pulled the chain around Kakashi and split him into pieces.
The three genin, were already a step ahead. Sakura took a stance in front of Tazuna, in case one of the demon brothers got past Naruto or Sasuke.
Naruto and Sasuke races towards the demon brothers at a fast speed, a speed that the two demon brothers could barely see. Sasuke threw a Kunai at the chain to pin it against the tree, before the Demon brothers couldn't even begin to attack them.
It wasn't long for Sasuke and Naruto to knock them both out, and tying them up against a tree.
"You can come out know, Kakashi-sensei" Sakura called out once the Demon brothers were tied up.
Kakashi appeared a second later.
"Good work team. So Tazuna I believe you owe us so answers."
Tazuna then began to explain everything. About Gato, about the bridge and about how poor Wave was.
"Well this was raised to a B-ranked mission. If there is anyone any stronger it will be an A-ranked. We are going to…." Kakashi was cut off by Naruto.
"I don't think so Kakashi. We are going on this mission. We are strong enough, I want to help Wave. What kind of ninja are we if we go back now? What will people start saying about our village?"
"I am not going back either." Sasuke replied crossing his arms.
"I am in too, were not backing down." Sakura agreed.
Kakashi sighed, "Alright, we will go. We will have to talk about payment later."
With that Team 7 was back on the road towards Wave once more.
The team and Tazuna had just gotten off the boat that took them across the river. They would be meeting up with Zabuza very soon. Naruto signaled to Sasuke and Sakura a few minutes later when Naruto could sense Zabuza and Haku watching them.
"Kage Bunshin no jutsu." Naruto suddenly cried out. Many clones appeared everywhere. Kakashi was very confused, what was going on. Kakashi noticed that both Sasuke and Sakura had disappeared, and he wasn't sure if the real Naruto was around.
Tazuna drew back towards Kakashi. "What's going on? Are we being attacked?" Tazuna asked Kakashi. There were too many Naruto clones blocking his view.
"Not anymore," Sasuke's voice called out. All of the Naruto clones all burst into smoke, disappearing. The smoke cleared out of the air, revealing his genin team.
What surprised Kakashi most was that Zabuza Momochi and a masked hunter-nin were tired together next to them. Sakura was caring Zabuza's sword, holding it against her shoulder.
"What the heck is going on?" Kakashi asked. "How could a team of genin take out Zabuza of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, and a hunter-nin?" Kakashi thought.
Naruto rubbed the back of his head, nervously. "Well you see Kakashi-Sensei, we are stronger than you think, though we did take them by surprise." Naruto explained.
"They underestimated us too!" Sasuke grumbled.
"You weren't kidding Kakashi, you genin are really strong." Tazuna commented.
Kakashi was really having a hard time believing this. Yes, he did know they were stronger than the average Genin, but to take out an A-ranked missing-nin.
"What about the hunter-nin?" Kakashi asked.
"They were working together; when the three of us were fighting Zabuza the hunter-nin attacked us." Sakura explained.
Zabuza began to groan. "What happened? All I remember is being attacked by some short Konoha brats." Zabuza opened his eyes, when he realized that he was tied up.
"What the hell! Who the heck are you brats?" Zabuza asked the genin.
"Were Genin of Konoha, that's who." Naruto replied with a foxy grin.
"You're Genin? You sure don't fight like one." Zabuza mumbled.
Haku began to stir, a second later. "Zabuza-sama, what happened?"
"We were attacked and captured by genin." Zabuza growled. He was so pissed right now.
"Well, I am guessing you were here to kill Tazuna?" Kakashi asked the missing-nin.
"We were, and I still will. Right after I kill your genin." Zabuza replied.
"Gato isn't going to pay you." Naruto suddenly interrupted.
"What do you know brat?" Zabuza spat.
"That's the kind of man Gato is. From Tazuna's story, the guy's a bastard." Sasuke answered.
"I heard that missing-nin jobs require a lot of payment. With a guy that is so greedy like that. Why would he want to pay you? He probably hopes that you will end up dying while fighting us." Naruto replied.
"Why should I believe you?" Zabuza asked. These genin were quite interesting.
"That's true, why should you? How about we make a deal of sorts?" Naruto suggested.
"What kind of deal?" Zabuza asked slightly interested. Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Where is Naruto going with this?"
"In ten days, we will all meet on the bridge. If we can beat you guys again then you have to come back to Konoha with us. If you win, then you can take the money Gato owes you and leave." Naruto explain.
"Are you serious?" Kakashi and Zabuza asked in unison.
"Of course, we will let you go. If you try to attack us now, then you won't live. Do we have a deal?" Naruto asked.
Zabuza sat in thought for a few minutes. "Alright brat, I will agree with your terms. You cannot attack us either."
"But Zabuza-sama…" Haku was cut off by Zabuza.
"Shut is Haku, I make the decisions." Zabuza replied.
Sakura handed Zabuza's sword to Naruto, before cutting them lose. Kakashi was about to protest, but Sasuke stopped him.
"We know what we are doing Kakashi, we will explain it to you when we get to Tazuna's." Sasuke explained.
Naruto held Zabuza's sword out to him, once they were untied. "Oh, Sakura used a small poison to lower you chakra and slow you down. You probably won't be moving much for a few hours." Naruto explained.
Zabuza grumbled as he took his sword from Naruto. "A deal's a deal, we meet in ten days." With that Zabuza and Haku left the small clearing.
"Alright, I want an explanation right now!" Kakashi growled out as soon as Zabuza was gone.
"Calm down Kakashi-sensei, we will explain to you later. Right now we need to get to Tazuna's." Naruto replied.
"Oh, it will be explained." Kakashi replied as they made their way to Tazuna's house.
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