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As Naruto and the others came to see what Wave looked like they began to realize the trouble they would have. The place would make jutsu very easy for a kiri missing nin. The rogue nin had an extremely large supply of water for his use. Gato simply lead them on a tour of the town. To say that the team was taken back by the sheer poverty of the place, would be like saying Jiriaya loved to peek at women bathing at the public hot springs.
Gato decided to end the tour with a visit to his company offices, which also doubled as his home. As Gato went inside the place looked a little too humble for such a big business man should have. He simply explained that he spent most of his money to either make sure the business stayed open. His business provided a lot of jobs to the people. The other was what he called social improvements. He opened a school, a small medical clinic, and a small food storage for in case of disasters or shortages.
"I would like to know why Tazuna is the way he is. Mind telling us, Mr. Gato?" Sakumo asked wanting to know a little more background information. "Sure, but please Gato is fine. I started this business a long time ago, me and my wife worked to make it a success. My wife Tsumiya was the love of my life, but between work and my social improvement goals. I had very little time to spend with my wife. It was during one of my many attempts to keep the romance alive in our marriage, that I made 2 discoveries. The first was that my wife was pregnant with our first child, the second was that Tazuna was trying to get my wife to have an affair with him. My wife was brutally raped by Tazuna one day, how our child survive inside my wife is a mystery but she did. But Tazuna made her believe that my life would be endangered if she remained married to me. So using dirty tricks. Tazuna stole my wife, and my daughter."
Mikoto was not happy to hear that. If she ever found this Tazuna she would want to teach him why you should not treat a young lady like that. Koji was thinking on how Naruto would react, he believed that he and Naruto would be pretty sure that Tazuna signed his own death warrant for doing that.
"My love gave birth to a healthy baby girl which Tazuna named Tsunami. And later my daughter got married to a local fisherman and they had a child named Inari. Fishing is a relative safe job, but on heavy storm season it is not. Tazuna is a builder he knows next to nothing about the dangers of a boat, or the problems of a fishing boat to be specific. He forced Tsunami's husband to work none stop, because he would provide no money towards the needs of the household. Between his heavy drinking, gambling,and money he wasted on building equipment he did not need or would use he wasted all the money he ever made. During one bad storm my son-in law Tsunami's husband died trying to save the lives of the crew of his fishing boat. This was why I tried to find ways to improve trade, and came up with the idea of a bridge. Something that the storms would not do much damage to. My commitment in this project even extended to ally myself with the one person I hated most, Tazuna. If I could put behind everything he did for the good of the people, why did he not do the same?"
Gato walked to a window and looked outside, "The bridge should have been finished 5 months ago.I did not believe in the excuses Tazuna gave. I began to investigate the financial records of the project, and found that Tazuna was embezzling heavy amount of construction materials, and money. When I saw this it became clear, Tazuna wants to have sole credit for building the bridge. I can guess that if he steals enough money and materials he could break up our partnership and finish the bridge with what he managed to steal by then. If the situation improved thanks to him alone, he could push to be made leader of Wave, and be granted opportunities to further increase his own wealth. At the expense of the people of course."
Naruto had one question nagging him, "Why not tell your daughter about this?" Gato looked sad as he heard the question. It was an obvious question, but the answer still manage to cause him pain. Gato simply smiled at the team that was keeping safe and helping him.
"Naruto, I can't tell her because all her life she was told that she was Tazuna's daughter. She would never believe that her father would be the cause for so many people suffering, and that he would eventually kill my beloved, when he was not able to conceive a child with her. I must expose him for the evil man that he is, or my child and grandchild will always be under his control."
Sakumo was thinking, and could come up with a plan. "What we need to do is earn the trust of Tazuna, trick him into letting us into his home. There we could search for some hidden evidence. If we could get that evidence then maybe, just maybe we could stop his damage to the project and complete the mission with you being able to rejoin your daughter and grandchild."
Gato did not know how. Tazuna's hired thugs would not miss the chance to inform him of them working with him. "Thanks to the burns Naruto gave Zabuza, we have a little over 3 weeks. We can pretend to be Kiri missing nin that are back up for Zabuza. During this time we train, and look for incriminating evidence. There should be plenty of time, as for the fake hunter I don't think she would act without Zabuza. She more than likely will watch us to see what she can exploit. If Tazuna was willing to betray Tsunami's husband and the people. There might be evidence of him planing to betray Zabuza and the hunter. If that is the case we can turn 2 enemies into allies."
Naruto, Mikoto and Koji knew that if the planned worked they would be able to complete the mission, improve trade for the village and maybe could offer positions to Zabuza, and the hunter nin. A chance to be able to live a life without being chased by hunter nin was something they would see to be to the liking of Zabuza. But they needed evidence, and time was against them.
The idea was simple. The original mission was just to escort him to Wave, so they had the paperwork for that. They could simply leave Gato and walk around until they met Tazuna. Sakumo could talk to him in a bar, pretend to be drinking too and pretend to be his friend. While being all friendly he could ask if there was any good paying jobs. Naruto was sure that once Tazuna saw their teacher's headband he would want to hire him to do some of his dirty work. Eliminate a rival, or spy on someone.
True enough, Tazuna was so drunk that he could barely walk straight. That is when Sakumo began his act. "Well life sure sucks. I am given an order just before my dang gone vacations to escort this cheap creep. I am going to be the laughing stock back home." Tazuna waddled his way were Sakumo was drinking all alone. "Hey, buddy. Couldn't help hearing. What you need a good paying job?" Sakumo looked at him as if he was drunk. "I need a good paying job like we need stronger liquor!" Tazuna saw his headband. He immediately was thinking these stupid ninja are so easy to fool. "Well tell you what I need someone to help me do some things. Keep my family safe from crooks, help me build that bridge out there. You saw it right? It will be the Great Tazuna Bridge when its done. I might need someone to kill a trespasser that keeps begging me for money and his little whore!" Sakumo looked at his in what appeared to be a drunken stupor. "Hey, man you know I ain't going to remember all that after we get done drinking. Could you write us what you want done?" Tazuna looked at him.
"Sure thing, no problem. I will write your team orders like I was your big shot back on your home." Sakumo laughed, "Well at least you are more relaxed than the Hokage!" Tazuna had bitten bait, hook, and all. Mikoto and Naruto had used a henge to look like a married couple, with a little boy as their son. Koji was stuck playing the son. Naruto simply was looking at the place and saw a pretty black haired woman helping a little boy with the groceries. He walked behind them and picked a bag, "Here let me help you out!" Tsunami was happy for the help, "Thanks, mister. It gets tough carrying so much stuff by ourselves." He and the team helped carry the things to her home. "If you don't mind me asking why are you in town?"
They all entered the really nice house, and sat at the living room. "Oh, my wife and I are looking for work. I am a contractor. I help fix houses or build knew ones, my little treasure. That is my lovely wife is an excellent cook, and interior designer. My son usually keeps playing with the kid of the family we work for. This keeps the kid safe, and my boy busy. His little pup there is trained guard dog, that is Akamisu."
"Oh, I could always use a hand around this big house, and dad is always in the look out for someone to help with the bridge construction. It has a long way to go after all. Sorry but I forgot to ask what are your names. I am Tsunami daughter of Tazuna the bridge builder. This little boy is my son Inari." Naruto smiled. "Well I am Naruto, and my lovely wife Mikoto. There is my son Koji and his little pup Akamisu." The little pup barked.
"I am sure glad to meet such nice people. Well the best thing to do is, to try and make a good impression on dad. Mikoto mind helping me with dinner, Naruto I have a few cracked windows that need fixing you mind doing that, and Koji why don't you go outside and play with Inari."
The team was situated to begin their work, Tazuna would be exposed within a couple of weeks. This place would be free of his evil. Mikoto really liked how Naruto talked about their pretend relationship. She wished that when she married she would have a nice, respectful, and loving husband like Naruto was pretending to be. Koji was not happy one bit, for 2 weeks he had to pretend to being a little kid. I guess the plan to train when out the window, little did he know that they would still train. He taught him the shadow clone jutsu, just like he had Mikoto and the clones would train at night far away so that everyone did not see them. Mikoto and Naruto did the water walking exercise, and Koji was learning the tree walking exercise. Haku was spying ordered by Zabuza to spy on the new people that lived at Tazuna's house. He did not trust them one bit.