Rika-chan24- Here is the 9th chapter. I hope you guys like it, I feel that it's kind of rushed a little.
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Team 7 sat on the porch of Tazuna's home early the next morning, watching Kakashi pace back and forth. Naruto could tell that Kakashi was very frustrated with them. "He must hate not being in the loop." Naruto thought.
"Kakashi, just ask what you want to ask already." Sasuke finally said.
Kakashi stopped pacing and faced them. All three genin of Team 7 noticed the many questions Kakashi wanted to ask, just by the look he gave them.
"How? And why did you let Zabuza just go like that?" Kakashi asked.
Naruto sighed; he really didn't want to deal with this right now. He should have figured Kakashi would become very curious about their abilities and knowledge.
"Kakashi, we have been training since we were young, the three of us. We easily hid it from the villagers. After all the hiding behind a mask, fools everyone. It's one of the first things we learned about being a ninja. I found out from Hokage-Jii, about how team assignments went. From then on we worked to be on the same team." Naruto began.
"The Hokage found out about our training, start showing our true strength." Naruto added.
"So once we became genin, we wanted the other genin to be strong too. We wanted to be the strongest generation there has ever been." Sakura added.
"Well you see Kakashi-sensei we already knew Zabuza was going to ask going to attack us, it's been our plan from the beginning." Sasuke answered.
"What do you mean you already knew?" Kakashi asked, his voice rising in anger.
"The Hokage didn't want to tell you, but he already knew it wasn't a normal C-ranked mission. Were under the hokage's protection about any other questions." Naruto replied. "We can't answer anything else that revolves around this mission. You will have to talk to Hokage-Jii when we get back."
Kakashi sighed, his team was getting more and more suspicious "I guess that ends my questions for now, seeing how I have to talk to the third." "For now we can will train until the battle." Kakashi replied.
The three genin nodded, they would be ready for the fight. This time Zabuza wouldn't be underestimating them. He was an A-rank missing-nin after all. Naruto knew that after this mission, Kakashi would be everywhere.
(Seven days later)
Team Seven were gathered together in the room the boys stayed in. Kakashi was at the bridge with Tazuna and a few shadow clones of Naruto.
"So we are attacking Gato's hideout tonight right?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, from what I remember Gato only had tons of bandits as guards. That should be easy to take out. We can get all of his records, and give money back to wave. We can even pay Zabuza, either way it's a win for us." Naruto explained.
"What about Kakashi? He is going to be pissed when he finds out." Sasuke replied.
"Well then he can be mad, we can tell him after we take out Gato. You know he won't let us go if we tell him before hand. Since I sent out clones earlier to look for his hideout, we already know the location and how tight security is." Naruto explained.
"That's true; we can explain it to Kakashi enough. He shouldn't be to mad at us." Sakura said.
"So we can go just after midnight. Gato won't know what hit him." Sasuke confirmed.
(Just after midnight)
Naruto sat high up in a tree, looking over a large building not far away.
"This is Fox over, no movement on my side. My clones discovered that Gato's main office/room is on the third floor. Zabuza and Haku are not here. They are in a cabin closer to wave."
"Wolf here, I don't spot anything suspicious either. I will take out the target, Fox you got the bandits. With your clones it shouldn't take long." Sasuke explained into the headset. He was clear on the other side of the building.
"This is Cat, I just seen a few bandits walk inside. I can get the records, while you guys are the distractions. Your clones said the record room was in the basement correct?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, both of you be careful. You will probably have to take out a few bandits yourself along the way." Naruto's voice replied through the headset.
"We will be fine, let's go and do this before dawn." Sasuke called.
Naruto started their plan, "Kage Bunshin no jutsu" There were Naruto clones everywhere they all headed into the building. Some already taking out bandits.
"Go" Naruto called through the headset.
With that Sasuke and Sakura headed into Gato's mansion like hideout. Sasuke headed for the third floor, easily taking out a few bandits that tried to attack him along the way.
It wasn't long until Sasuke reached Gato's office/room. Sasuke opened the door and made his way in. He could hear the loud snoring coming from the room attached to the office. Sasuke quietly searched around the office, and began to seal any documents, or record into a few scrolls.
Once done Sasuke headed for Gato. Gato was pretty greedy about his money, if he didn't have stronger security. With that Sasuke sliced Gato's head off and sealed it away in a scroll. Now that his job was done, he just had to meet the other two at the rendezvous point.
(With Sakura)
Sakura headed for the basement; almost everywhere she looked she found a Naruto clone. Though one of them could be the real Naruto.
Sakura finally made it to the basement a few minutes later, after taking out a few bandits. The basement was stocked full of file cabinets. "This is going to take a while." Sakura mumbled to herself before she began to seal away all the records and documents in the room.
(An hour later, with Sasuke and Naruto at the rendezvous point.)
"What's taking so long? There couldn't be that many files." Sasuke asked.
"Actually there is, the basement was full." Naruto replied.
"Well she better hurry it's almost 4" Sasuke explained.
Just as Sasuke said this, Sakura come walking out of a group of trees carrying a few scrolls.
"Next time, Naruto should get the files. I can't make a million copies of myself to help me." Sakura grumbled.
"Sakura I can only make like 2 thousand or something like that." Naruto replied. "That's only at my full strength too."
"Never mind, let's just go. We still have to deal with Kakashi." Sakura explained.
The two nodded in agreement before the three of them headed back to Tazuna's house.
It was just past four, when the three genin entered Tazuna's home. All seemed quiet as they headed for their rooms. Just as they were up the stairs, did the boy's shared room door open. The light from the room shined into the hallway. The Shadow of Kakashi could be seen in the doorway. Yep the three of them were caught earlier then they wanted to be.
"Ugh, hey Kakashi-sensei. Did you sleep well?" Naruto asked as he rubbed the back of his head nervously.
"All of you inside this room, now. It seems we have more to discuss." Kakashi replied gesturing them to move into the room. He didn't want to wake anyone.
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura walked into the room and stood against the wall near the window.
"Where have the three of you been? All of you have been gone since midnight." Kakashi asked once he shut the door.
"We took out Gato." Sakura replied.
Kakashi's eyes widened in surprise. "You what! You could have been killed. You didn't even ask me for permission to do so."
"You wouldn't have let us go." Sasuke answered.
Kakashi grumbled, "Why must I have such a complicated team?" Kakashi thought as he looked the three of them over.
"It wasn't that hard, the man was so greedy that he only had bandits as body guards. He didn't want to pay for anyone more expensive, and with my shadow clones it didn't take long at all." Naruto explained.
"I don't care if it wasn't that hard. None of you thought that I may have let you, or that I could have helped you?" Kakashi asked.
"We are sorry Kakashi-sensei, we just wanted to help wave." Sakura replied.
Kakashi sighed. "I know, I just think that you should have talked to me about it. I am you jounin sensei."
"Well, at least it won't be to take out Zabuza now. We can pay him, and still fight him. I think they would be a good asset to the village." Naruto explained. "We need to hurry back home, we don't have a lot of time until the chunnin exams. That's when everything really starts. I am worried that everything won't go as planned." Naruto thought. They had two days until their meeting with Zabuza and Haku.
"Alright, tell me how it went and then I will let the three of you rest for a few hours." Kakashi said.
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura then proceeded to tell Kakashi how their mission to take out Gato went.
(The next day)
Everyone was sitting at the table in the kitchen at Tazuna's house. They had one day left before their meeting with Zabuza. With Kakashi's help they would hopefully beat Zabuza and Haku.
Naruto had just finished telling a fun story about one of the Konoha 12 get together's when Inari shot up from his chair.
"Knock it off! I don't know why you can just sit there and laugh and have a good time, when Gato is going to kill you. Gato's is to strong, you don't know what it's like to have pain in your life. None of you know!
Even though Naruto knew this was coming, it still hurt to be told that he didn't know what pain felt like. He knew exactly what it was like.
Naruto shot up from the table, ready to answer the brat.
"I don't know what pain feels like?" Naruto began. "I think you are wrong! There are tons of people who are having a harder time in life. You are most definitely not the only one. There is always someone who has a sadder story. You still have your mother and your grandpa. While others may not."
"Try losing everyone you care about, because of one person that only wants power. Someone who wants to control everyone. Even trying your hardest to save them all, but couldn't. You have to be strong and always protect your precious people, no matter what. Even if it cost your life, to protect them. So stop cry about it! Oh you may think Gato's strong, but you are also wrong about that. We already killed him, I can even show you his head if you would like." Naruto shouted back at him. Inari was really making shout out too much information.
The room was silent, everyone was staring at him. Even Sasuke and Sakura. Inari finally ran out of the kitchen and towards his room.
"I am going out for some air, I will be back." Naruto said as he left the house.
"I am sorry about him, he gets worked up about things." Sakura explained a few minutes later. The silence was just too much.
"Um…it's alright, I think Inari needed to hear that." Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter replied as she left the room to finish doing the dishes.
Kakashi sighed, thanks to Naruto he now had more to think about. Naruto had sounded so truthful in his words. Like that even had actually happened.
Sasuke and Sakura stood up from the table wordlessly, leaving the room a few seconds later.
Sasuke and Sakura found Inari sitting by his window seal in his room. Inari turned to them when he heard the door open.
"What do you want?" Inari asked them as they approached him.
"We wanted to tell you about Naruto." Sakura answered.
"Naruto, wasn't lying to you. We did kill Gato, and Naruto has suffered a lot in his life. Naruto is hated by many people in our home village, for something he cannot control. The villagers are rather stupid in that regard. Naruto doesn't let that get him down though. He takes the world one every day. He is probably the least selfish person I know. He likes to help anyone he can. It doesn't matter what it is, or who it is." Sasuke explained.
"I don't know how he does it some days. If it were me, I think I would have gone crazy with everything." Sakura added.
"So don't be mad at him, he was only speaking the truth." Sasuke said.
Inari nodded, "I think I understand what you are saying."
"Good, we will be going then. We have training to do." Sakura replied as Sasuke lead the way out the window.
Kakashi sighed from the doorway, his genin were definitely something.
Sakura and Sasuke appeared on the roof of Tazuna's house, where Naruto was sitting.
"You didn't have to explain anything you know." Naruto finally said after a few seconds.
"We know, you are just a hard person to explain to someone." Sakura replied as she sat down on his left.
"I was a little mean." Naruto mumbled.
"You were only speaking the truth. Why didn't you tell us that you felt like that?" Sasuke asked.
"Felt like what?" Naruto replied.
"Felt like, it was your fault that everyone died." Sakura answered.
Naruto looked up towards the moon, and sighed. "Because, it partially was my fault. I couldn't stop him, I let others suffer because of me." Naruto explained.
"It wasn't your fault! Don't blame yourself. Everyone wanted to protect you because for once, you have always protected us, or helped us. Why can't you just be selfish like everyone else?" Sasuke replied.
Naruto didn't even know how to reply to that. Sakura began to laugh, drawing the two boy's attention.
"Are we really fighting about this? Were back in the past aren't we? We are here to change the future. Something better than what it was the first time."
"Your right Sakura! We aren't going to let anyone win this time around. We have friends to help us. Were way stronger than we were before. We can do this." Naruto replied standing up.
"Good, now since that's over. Let's get to bed we have stuff to do tomorrow." Sasuke said.
(The day of battle)
Naruto made shadow clones to guard Tazuna's family. Leaving Tazuna at home would make it easier on the group to fight. They didn't want Zabuza or Haku to use anyone for leverage.
With that Team 7 made their way to the bridge, ready for their fight with Zabuza and Haku. As soon as they were close enough to the bridge, fog seemed to slowly appear. It looks like Zabuza and Haku were waiting for them, just like last time.
"About time you brats got here, I have a bone to pick with you." Zabuza's voice called to them within the mist.
The mist cleared a little, revealing the figures of Zabuza and Haku. Team 7 stopped a few feet away from them.
"I think I am going to enjoy this." Zabuza commented as he took out his sword to rest it on his shoulder. Zabuza remembered when the blond gaki stopped by a couple days ago. The blond told him a very interesting story.
"I have been looking forward to this fight as well, last time I wasn't even in the battle." Kakashi replied as he lifted his headband to show his Sharingan.
"Haku, you take the girl and the Uchiha. I got the Copy-nin and the blond." Zabuza told his apprentice.
"If that's how you want it to go." Naruto shrugged. "Oh just one more thing, Gato's dead by the way. We took down his base, and killed him. I can still give you your payment though."
"What are you serious?" Zabuza asked.
"Yep, do you want to see his head?" Naruto replied.
"Prove it."
Naruto took out the scroll with Gato's head, and unsealed it in seconds. Out popped Gato's head, it hadn't even started to decompose yet.
"You weren't kidding, who the hell are you three?" Zabuza asked. The three of them were the weirdest genin he had ever met. They were kind of exciting to be around.
"Were genin from Konoha, that's all." Sakura replied.
"You don't act like genin. At least not the ones I have ever seen" Haku replied.
"Really? Well then I guess Konoha genin are pretty special then." Sasuke replied.
Naruto sealed Gato's head back up, and took out another scroll that contained a few bags of money. Naruto unsealed a bag and then tossed it to Zabuza.
"Now that you are paid, you still want to fight?" Kakashi asked.
"A deal's a deal, your genin are quite interesting." Zabuza replied.
"Alright let's start already" Sakura said as she ran towards Haku.
"You won't beat me this time." Haku replied as he jumped away from Sakura.
"Yeah, but this time I am not alone."
Sasuke appeared behind Haku a second later, before kicking Haku across the bridge.
Zabuza faced Kakashi and Naruto, after watching Haku get kicked away. He had better pay attention to these two. They seem like the strongest of the four of them.
Just as he said this, Naruto made twenty clones. Once they appeared, they raced towards Zabuza.
Zabuza easily cut through the clones of Naruto with his sword. Just as the last group popped away. Did Zabuza have to dodge a punch from Kakashi, and fight back by blocking Kakashi's attacks with his sword.
Since Zabuza was too busy trying to block Kakashi, he failed to block Naruto's attack from behind. Thus making him lose concentrations with Kakashi for a second. In that second did Kakashi kick him in his side. Sending him a few feet away.
"If I didn't have to deal with both of you, this would be a lot easier. Since you Kakashi are on the same level as me. The Gaki throws the balance off." Zabuza commented as he swung his sword at Kakashi. Kakashi jumped away from the sword just in time.
"Wind style: Cutting whirlwind" Naruto's voice shouted a few seconds later.
A slash of wind sped towards Zabuza at a fast speed. Zabuza shifted his sword in to block him from the attack. The wind was strong enough to push him back a few feet.
Once the jutsu dissipated Zabuza checked his sword for marks. There was a pretty large gash across his sword.
"My sword! Do you know how long it takes to fix these kinds of things?" Zabuza asked.
"A while, I have a friend that is a weapon specialist. If you come to Konoha I can have her take a look at it." Naruto replied.
"We are still fighting here, Gaki." Zabuza replied.
"Oh I know." Kakashi replied from behind as he charged towards Zabuza. Zabuza jumped away as he started doing hand signs.
"Ninja Art: Hidden Mist Jutsu."
The mist around the bridge began to grow heavier, Naruto could barely see two feet in front of him.
"Be careful Naruto, this is one of his signature techniques." Kakashi called out to him.
"Ok, Sensei." Naruto replied as he kept his guard up. He knew how Zabuza worked. Naruto jumped away just in time, as he caught sight of Zabuza at the last second. Zabuza's sword missed him by a hair.
Kakashi chose that moment to attack him, with a Kunai. Zabuza used his sword to block the Kunai Kakashi was holding. Naruto took that moment to attack too. Zabuza grumbled, this fight was going nowhere. Not that he minded much. He never really got the change to fight someone who was stronger than a genin lately.
Zabuza swung his sword again, and this time was able to hit Naruto in the side. Zabuza cursed to himself when the Naruto he attacked burst into smoke.
All of a sudden there was a screeching sound like chirping birds. Zabuza turned towards the noise to find Kakashi running towards him with Chidori.
"Oh shit," Zabuza cursed. Just as Zabuza was about to move out-of-the-way, Naruto appeared in front of him. Kakashi immediately stopped charging, and let his Chidori dissipate.
"What are you doing?" Zabuza and Kakashi asked in unison.
"This isn't a fight where we are killing our opponent." Naruto replied.
"I see now, well Gaki a deal's a deal. If Kakashi had actually hit me with that, then we would have lost anyways." Zabuza replied. "So it looks like we are going to Konoha with ya."
Just as Zabuza said this, Sasuke and Sakura appeared from the mist. Haku was in between them, they were holding him up.
"We are just in time than, we beat Haku as you can see." Sasuke explained.
"I am sorry Zabuza-sama" Haku replied. He wasn't wearing a mask and all three of them look a little beat up.
"Don't worry about it Haku, there will be more spars to come. We are going to Konoha; I would like to see how strong the other genin are." Zabuza explained, before turning to Naruto. "I am going to gut like a fish Gaki. I won't have to deal with Hatake and you. Spars are going to be way more fun now"
"Alright! I think it would be fun. You can come to the gatherings! There is more genin to fight with!" Naruto replied.
Zabuza grinned behind the bandages around his mouth. "You really want less genin in Konoha?" Zabuza asked.
Naruto laughed, "Oh you will be quite surprised on what us genin can do. Though maybe you shouldn't go all out on a few of them."
Zabuza shrugged, "Fine, I will find out when we get there. This bridge needs to be finished first though doesn't it?"
"Yeah, were here till then." Kakashi replied. Everyone soon headed for Tazuna's home. If they wanted the bridge to be finished than they needed the bridge builder.
Team 7, and Zabuza and Haku were finally saying goodbye to Wave. With Naruto's help the bridge was finished way faster than Tazuna originally planned.
"Thank you for all you have done" Tazuna said.
"It's no problem were ninja's after all. It's our duty." Kakashi replied.
"Come visit us when you can" Inari told them.
"We will, do you think you can protect Wave now? We won't be able to now." Naruto explained to Inari.
"Yes! I will Naruto-nii-san." Inari replied with a grin.
Naruto grinned back at him and nodded. Naruto noticed that everyone else was ready to go. They were staying here too long.
"Let's go already,I am sure there is tons of security I have to go through." Zabuza told Kakashi.
"Alright, we are off then." Kakashi replied. Team 7 plus Zabuza and Haku headed across the newly built bridge. Naruto and Sakura still waving goodbye to the group of villagers.
"We have a lot to do, when we get to Konoha." Kakashi said once they finished crossing the bridge.
"No kidding." Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura said in unison. The chunnin exams were coming up fast. Things were going to get pretty busy for a while.
Thanks for reading, I don't know when I will be able to update again. Then next few weeks are going to be pretty busy for me. I will try my best to update soon though.
I hope everyone has a fun Thanksgiving! Well if you celebrate it.
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