Chapter 9

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Inside Hokage's office

Minato was going through the mission requests. He was on his own quest to find a simple C-rank mission for his kids. He went through all the C-rank missions yet was not able to find an Ideal threat less mission. He moaned and was about to take a sip of water much to his dismay as his stash of Sake was confiscated by none other than his adoring spouse. Unexpectedly entryways of his office went totally open as team seven strolled in with their Jounin sensei Kakashi Hatake.

"We want a C-ranked mission, Father!" Nimato shouted, his eyes were loaded with passion and he was motivated. He was ready for this, he wanted to display his strength and wisdom to the Shinobi world.

"Mah slow down Nimato," Kakashi sweat dropped.

Minato sighed and hauled out a C-ranked mission scroll. He was glad that he managed to secure a C-ranked mission scroll for team seven.

"All right, team seven listen up!" Minato got out and was successful to gain their attention.

"Your mission is to retrieve the inheritance of Ugarashi family…." The fourth was then all of a sudden cut off by his own child.

"AWESOME!, Let's go everybody!" he was about to jump out of the office, but then suddenly he felt a hand snatching his collar, keeping him glued to the same position. He twirled his eyes and noticed that his sensei was holding onto him while having his own face shoved inside his favorite orange colored book.

"Stop it, Nimato let sensei finish the briefing" he finished and pocketed his book.

Minato coughed "from Fire daimyo and I just want to say be careful! And Nimato listen to Kakashi, and no more running into trouble and behave before Fire Daimyo. Understood?" Minato cautioned and hurled the scroll towards Kakashi.

"Ok team let's go!" Kakashi showed some enthusiasm and left, following behind his team.

In the wake of strolling for quite a while team, seven reached to the village gates, where the eternal gate guards Izumo and Kotetsu were present.

"Hey, Kakashi first C-ranked mission ah?" Izumo addressed. He was extremely envious of these jounins, these jounins could travel with their genin teams to the different villages while he was stuck guarding the village gate alongside his accomplice Kotetsu.

"Better believe it, C-ranked mission folks, See you later." Kakashi eye smiled and shoved his face into his book again.

Outskirts of Leaf village

Nimato was leading the team, while his twin sisters covered the flanks and their sensei Kakashi got their back. Nimato was getting exhausted, he was tingling for some fight. But to his dismay, this mission was like a stroll in a recreation center. They were traveling for about twenty minutes and still not a single interesting thing happened.

"So, I have been itching to ask. What does this inheritance contain?" Nimato questioned. He was clueless about it as usual.

Natsuki murmured "How could we know about that dummy!"

"Yeah, you are right Natsuki, as always ha!" Nimato replied and went back to his position while others just tailed him.

"So, Kakashi sensei tell us something about your genin days," Sayuri was excited. She wanted to know about her sensei's team. On other hand, Kakashi sweat-dropped as his eyes were under Sayuri's Puppy-eye jutsu.

He sighed and stashed his orange colored book inside his pouch. "Well, you see Sayuri I was a genin for about a month…" He was then unexpectedly hindered by a noisy shout.

"WHAT!"

Kakashi grinned anxiously when he caught the expressions on their faces. Nimato and Natsuki were livid and unhappy while Sayuri was flabbergasted.

"How come you get to be a Chunin in a month while we are stuck as a genin for around three months?" Nimato inquired. That was inadmissible for him to stick as a genin for extensive stretch. He really wanted to become a Chunin and lead some high-level missions.

Kakashi eye-smiled "Well I trained hard and was made chunin during the exams, it as straightforward as that Ya Know!"

"Hey, don't you mock me Kakashi sensei!" Nimato replied and whirled his head far from his sensei and concentrated on the path in front of him looking out for any danger.

"Exactly Nimato, Don't mock me" Kakashi eye-smiled.

"Hey Sensei, did all of your teammates become Chunin in the first try?" Natsuki decided to ask. Meanwhile, there was a shadow following them, without making any noise.

Kakashi sighed, this conversation was heading nowhere "Well, I managed to crack the exam on the first attempt while Rin and Obito managed to crack it on their second attempt".

"Ha, I knew it Kakashi sensei is stronger than both of his teammates!" Nimato chirped in while walking down the road.

Kakashi sighed, "Well, actually Obito is stronger than me. Obito is an S-rank Ninja while I am a low S-rank Ninja" Kakashi finished and he knew too well what was coming so he covered his ears immediately.

"WHAT!"

Natsuki had enough of her brother as she bonked him on the head "Will you stop screaming you blockhead!, your screams really hurt my ears". Nimato fell flat on his face due to the impact.

"Beyond any doubt" he mumbled and stood back up scratching back of his head. Meanwhile, Sayuri was lost in her thoughts "So, if Obito Sensei is an S-ranked Ninja then Naruto will surely be training hard and learning some cool moves right now. I have got to catch up to him." little did she know that it was exactly opposite of her assumption.

With Naruto

As usual, the blonde was training at his secret location. He was feeling drained and parched so he had sent his clone to gather some food and water supplies for him. "Hmm, its half past twelve and it's been around an hour since I sent the clone to fetch the supplies. I do wonder what's he had gotten himself into this time." Naruto dropped his katana on the ground and positioned himself for some meditation.

Meanwhile with Clone

"Next time I am not going to perform these kind of errands, I am going to tell the boss…." His self-mumbling was then interrupted by some Anbu. But then he observed them and found out that these are not the same Anbu that protect the Hokage or perform high-level missions in the shadows.

"Naruto, our commander is expecting you right now, so please co-operate with us otherwise we have to use the force." one of the Anbu like Shinobi stated in his emotionless cold façade.

"Fine by me, let's go ladies." Naruto chuckled and went ahead with his Sun-shin.

"Did he just…"

"Yes he did, Come on let's Go!" leader of Squad interrupted his subordinate and they all followed behind him.

After a couple of Minutes

The phony Anbu squad reached their destination "Sir, I don't see him!"

"Yeah, he must have been lost. It's obvious that our base is in the secret location it is impossible for a genin to discover its location" leader boasted and started walking towards the base.

"So leader, what are we going to tell the commander?. He is going to beat the crap out of us" one of the squad members scrutinized the leader.

"Don't worry I will handle it!" The leader replied and signaled them to follow him.

After walking for a couple of minutes and going through some checkpoints they at long last made it to the Commander's cabin. "Ok, squad whatever happens just follow my lead understood?" Anbu squad nodded and entered the cabin.

They all bowed to the commander. "So, where is he?" Commander questioned. He was utterly disappointed by this team. Team thirteen was one of the worst team in the Root division hence they were assigned to do these kinds of errands.

"Sir, it is because of these useless pricks our team thirteen failed to bring the target…."

"WHAT!, YOU MORON THAT'S WHAT YOU MEANT BY HANDLING THE SITUATION YOU JERK!" his squad members exploded onto him verbally.

"All right, enough squad thirteen!" Commander got up from his chair and gestured within a minute an agent appeared.

"Agent ensure these boneheads tidy up the toilets for about a month and keep a close eye on them" Agent nodded and left with shivering squad thirteen.

"You know that's not a way to treat your comrades!" a voice echoed and within a minute dozens of agents surrounded the commander.

"Who are you!. If you want to live surrender yourselves!" commander threatened he was curious though it was the first time that someone has managed to infiltrate the Root facility.

"Is this how you welcome your guests?, I am not very pleased Commander" same voice resonated but this time it was concentrated at a single spot and then a blonde haired kid came out of the shadows.

"Oh, it's you. Agents leave us." Commander ordered all the agents left them alone. "You know it's not an easy task to infiltrate this facility." Commander praised the blonde and started walking towards him.

"Yeah, but you know it's impossible to ignore a monstrous tree with a large building carved right into its trunk too!" Naruto chuckled as he got down from his position and was standing in front of the Commander now.

"Indeed my Child!" a rogue voice got the attention of both Naruto and commander, Later soon recognized the voice and kneeled in a spur of a moment.

"Lord Danzo my apologies…." But the commander was abruptly interrupted by this man known as Danzo.

"No need to apologize, Commander, Now will you excuse us?" Danzo stated and gestured Naruto to follow him. The blonde followed him and soon they were inside a large fancy room having fancy furniture.

"Damn, you surely got some fashion sense, old man." Naruto grinned and comforted himself on a chair and as usual, he positioned it in such a way that his legs were resting right on the Danzo's table.

"So, Danzo tell me why did you call me?" Naruto questioned as his eyes were peeled onto the said old man.

"Well, you see Naruto there is something that concerns me," Danzo said while gazing right back onto the blonde.

"And may I know what is it?"

"It's about those Stone-Shinobi that you massacred on the borders of fire country." Danzo opened up his mouth and could see a glimmer of outrage in blonde's eyes.

"I don't have any idea what you are talking about Old-man." Naruto half-grinned.

With Team Seven

"Hey, Kakashi sensei how much longer?" a certain red-haired genin whined. (Guess Who).

"Mah, where's all of your energy now, Show some enthusiasm Nimato." Kakashi grinned while perusing his favorite orange colored book.

Namikaze twin sisters were also tired of all this walking. "Finally, Look there's the Daimyo's place!" Nimato grinned and began strolling towards the destination followed closely by his sisters and team sensei.

After a couple of hours, they left Daimyo's palace, but one thing was different, Nimato was infuriated because of the incident that happened inside the palace. Son of Daimyo tried to flirt with Sayuri and Natsuki and he got on Nimato's nerve. So without sparing a moment to think about the circumstances, Nimato beat the crap out of him, leaving a large bonk on his head and ever-apologizing Kakashi Hatake.

"Seriously Nimato, what's wrong with you? I think that I had already told you to follow my orders and behave, hadn't I?" Kakashi gazed towards the redhead. Kakashi knew too well that redhead was a hothead but he never ever speculated that Nimato would pick up a fight with someone like Daimyo's kid.

"Well, too bad Kakashi sensei cause my family comes first and I will do anything to protect them" Nimato barked out and started strolling towards their home leaf village.

The sky's hue darkened as the sun slowly settled in a magnificent flourish of ribbon-like fire; the brilliant sun rays gleam outlined the cotton-ball clouds in a blazing glow that signified the end of the day. The late evening was beautiful with its borderless flow of clarity: the vast, seemingly empty sky stretched out for infinity; it had a smattering of low-level flat clouds that were spread out to the horizon; the cotton ball clouds obstructed portions of the endless sky that showed off its infinite beauty.

"Ok team we will camp here for tonight, we can't travel during nighttime. So prepare camping arrangements" Kakashi ordered his team and went on to help them to set up the camps.

Team seven spent their night at the camp, Kakashi used Shadow clones for the guard duty while Sayuri and Natsuki prepared delicious meals for the team. Nimato helped by collecting the firewood and essential materials. Soon night faded away and rays of sun emerged from the horizon. Team seven packed up their camping stuff and were on the road to the leaf village.

"Hey, Kakashi-sensei what's in the scroll? Do you know about it?" Nimato bombarded his sensei with the questions he really wanted to know what's inside the scroll. His instincts were telling him that the scroll contains some kind of cool weapon and he wanted to check if his instincts were true.

Kakashi sighed his students were handful, "Well Nimato, you see this is a sealing scroll and it can only be opened by its owner." Kakashi clarified while keeping his eyes glued to the book.

"Haa, How come?" Nimato pouted. He was really weak at the art of sealing why you ask because it required deep study and whenever there's deep study you could expect Nimato to doze off in an instant. His mother and father were genius in the art of sealing, his sisters were prodigy too in that art but he was really pathetic in it. That's why he solely focused on his Ninjutsu and taijutsu.

"Don't you pay any attention to Mom's lectures? She had already explained about the sealing scrolls and their abilities," Natsuki jeered. Sometimes she wonders why her brother is such an idiot and she was hundred percent sure that he had some sort of ADHD.

"She did?" he mumbled and just gazed towards his sister, "Yes she did, now I remember!" he false grinned. 'Phew, that was close one she was about to pulverize me!' he sighed inwardly.

Team seven and their sensei were busy in their conversation while a shadow was chasing them.

"Come on let's do this!"

Suddenly Kakashi leapt and dragged his team of genins to the ground.

"Ouch! what was that for Kakashi-sensei?" Nimato whined.

"Shhhhh, look up there Nimato!" Sayuri shouted while pointing her finger towards a large tree, where an extensive blade lie sword was stuck in the tree trunk. But what caught his attention was the Ninja who was standing on top of the sword. He was wearing a blue dim hued loose pants while his exposed torso demonstrating his solid form. His ninja headband was tied firmly to his head, however, a standout amongst the most recognizing highlight was that his was secured by white tapes, concealing some sort of Injury.

"Hahaha, So the 'Son of white fang' is stuck playing Ninja with some petty genins. It's really pathetic you know!"

"Zabuza Momochi 'Demon of the Mist', what are you doing here in the land of fire?" Kakashi got out. His mind was running a thousand miles an hour. 'This is bad. I can't fight and protect my team at the same time.'

"Don't worry Hatake I am not here for the bounty on your head, just give me the Scroll and I will leave you and your petty genins alive." The now known Zabuza grinned maniacally as he retrieved his sword.

"What's he talking about Sensei, What bounty?" Nimato questioned. He was scared, he could feel the killer intent of this Ninja. A single gaze into Zabuza's eyes and he could clearly tell that he was willing to do anything to accomplish his mission even if it means to kill someone.

"We will talk about it later, Now team seven get into the manji formation and watch each other's back" Kakashi ordered, his eyes were glued onto the mist Shinobi, waiting for his opponent's any slight movement.

"So I get the honor to fight you Hatake. Very well let's do this." mist Shinobi blurred towards Kakashi who met him in a halfway, protecting himself with a Kunai while his opponent Zabuza was trying to overpower him with his Sword.

"Ha, pathetic! you can't defend yourself against my sword with that kunai." And then suddenly his kunai turned into the dust. Kakashi was dumbstruck, Zabuza used this moment and slashed him vertically.

"Kakashi-Sensei!"

"Don't worry I am fine," Kakashi uttered out. There was a large slash on his torso. Blood was dripping like a rainfall from his body.

Zabuza licked his opponent's blood which was present on his blade "O negative, hmmm, I love the taste of your blood. Such a rare blood group!" Zabuza grinned as he watched his adversary, all battered up and blood gushing out of him.

'His sword, it just decomposed my Kunai. That must be his sword's special ability, Hand to Hand combat is out of option I must rely on the Ninjutsu and Genjutsu' Kakashi speculated. He went through some hand-signs and was about to unleash a fireball on his opponent when suddenly he winced and halted his jutsu. "What's happening!" he mumbled.

"Surprised? I think I should educate you about my swords abilities. First is that it can disintegrate any weapon it touches and the second one is the most deadly," Zabuza laughed but was then interrupted by Nimato.

"What did you do to our sensei? You bastard!" red-haired genin exclaimed. He unsheathed his Kunai from the pouch and was about to rush into the battle when a hand suddenly grabbed his shoulder.

"Don't Nimato! let me handle him, just take care of your sisters. Promise me!" Kakashi got out as he managed to get back on his feet and went into his battle stance.

"I promise…." But Nimato was unable to finish as he was interrupted by Zabuza's laugh.

"How amusing, and how are you going to defeat me Hatake? as I was explaining earlier before that squirt interrupted me. My sword's second ability is that it can cut the Chakra pathways too, and from my guess, you have about fifteen minutes before you will lose your consciousness. So do tell me how are you supposed to defeat me in fifteen minutes?" Zabuza grinned and slowly started to stroll towards his prey.

"It's easy, I will improvise!" Kakashi got out and moved towards him at a blinding speed. 'I just have to avoid the physical contact with his sword and I will be good.' Kakashi pondered as he dodged Zabuza's swing.

"S-t-o-p, m-o-v-i-n-g, you scum and I will cut you into the pieces" Zabuza was swinging his blade like a Maniac, he was famous for his silent killing technique which he performs with his Hidden Mist Jutsu. But this was land of fire to his dismay as this country lacked favorable conditions for a Water-user.

'He can't use his Ninjutsu due to the weather of this country, this is my only chance.' Kakashi wondered and went for a right hook which his opponent blocked. Zabuza then went for a horizontal slash with his sword but Kakashi leapt upwards and lands right on top of his sword and connects with a devastating sidekick to his opponent's face. Zabuza was struck so hard that he was thrown away like a rag-doll.

He grinned and got up, "Yes, come on give me more Hatake!" He rushed towards Kakashi, Kakashi being Kakashi had observed enough of his opponents' style waited for his move. Zabuza went for another vertical slash and then suddenly Kakashi took hold of his hand threw him over his shoulder right into the canvas. Zabuza quickly moved from the ground and avoided a lethal double axe hand slam from the Son of white fang.

'Damn, he almost got me! I have to be careful.' Zabuza got up and threw some shuriken towards his opponent which were deflected easily by Kakashi, who rushed towards his opponent with a blinding speed Zabuza smirked and allowed Kakashi to stab him in the Gut.

"It's Over Zabuza!" Kakashi got out while twisting the Kunai deep inside the gut.

Zabuza winced "Think again Hatake!" Zabuza grinned and stabbed Kakashi with his sword right through his heart, but abruptly Kakashi burst into the plume of smoke.

"A clone!" Zabuza cursed as he pulled out a kunai which was embedded in his gut, he gazed around for his opponent's presence then suddenly two hands took hold of his legs.

"Earth style: Head Hunter Jutsu" Kakashi shouted and was about to pull Zabuza right into the ground but Zabuza did the unthinkable as he cut down his own legs. The blood gushing out from his legs made it difficult for Kakashi to initiate his jutsu and then suddenly Zabuza Shun-shinned away from him.

Kakashi himself was astonished by Zabuza's action decided to resurface again. "It's over Zabuza, you can't move now. Surrender yourself!" Kakashi ordered, he was panting too. He was barely able to that earth style jutsu.

"Speak for yourself Hatake!" Zabuza got out and did some hand signs and within a spur of a moment, another ninja resurfaced beside him. That Ninja's attire comprised of dark greenish-blue colored yakuta, underneath of it was a brown tinted shirt, the face was hidden behind the Kiri hunter mask which was accompanied by two large strands of black hair.

"Let's go, Haku and you Hatake be ready for our rematch!" Zabuza stated and left with the help of now identified Haku.

"That was awesome, Sensei!" Nimato chirped as he along with his sister hurried towards Kakashi.

Kakashi gave them a one last eye-smile before he lost his consciousness and met the canvas.

"Come on Nimato, let's get sensei to the village!" Sayuri ordered and carried their sensei towards leaf village with her siblings.

With Naruto

Now he was pissed, his clone was gone for about four hours now. 'Where's that moron!' he mumbled and left his secret hideout. He was in the marketplace right now and was about to visit the Ichiraku for some Ramen when his eyesight suddenly caught something interesting. He saw Team Seven's sensei Kakashi Hatake being carried away by his team, but when he concentrated on it he observed blood gushing out of Kakashi. He sun-shinned towards team seven right away.

"All right, you guys can leave now. I got him." Naruto whispered and took hold of Kakashi's body and sun-shinned towards the hospital.

Nimato was about to say something but the blonde was long gone, so he decided to do the next best thing. "Sayuri, Natsuki let's go visit Father," Nimato got out. His twin sisters nodded and hence team seven started their march towards Hokage's tower.

Inside Hokage's Tower

As usual, Minato was fighting his arch nemesis, the paperwork. He was really tired of all this paperwork. His timetable comprised of 'wake up, eat, do the damn paperwork and sleep' that's it. He sighed 'After Kushina's raid there is a little that I could do besides this paper-work, Damn you Naruto!' He cursed. Suddenly team seven minus Kakashi barged into his office.

"Hey, please knock before entering the office. Don't barge in even if I am your father…" his lecture was short lived as team seven quickly interrupted him.

"Dad stop your lecture and summon forth the Ugarashi-sama quickly," Natsuki interjected and pulled out the scroll of inheritance of Ugarashi family.

"Ok, could anyone tell me what's going on?" Minato raised his eyebrow when he gazed at the scroll. The scroll looked old and battered up it was held together by a dark green colored thread but what caught his attention was the brand mark of Uzumakis. He quickly summoned an Anbu and sent him to fetch while also called out for his wife.

After a couple of minutes, the room was filled up with the people. Right in front of Minato was Ugarashi Saito, while his wife Kushina was standing beside him. Team seven was also present, suddenly a black void materialized inside the office and Obito and Rin resurfaced.

"All right sensei, what's going on? I heard from Kakashi that team seven was attacked on their first C-ranked mission by 'Demon of the mist' Zabuza Momochi!" Obito got out and was now standing right in front of his sensei along with Rin and Saito Ugarashi.

"Yeah, I was going to ask the same question to team seven, what the hell happened?" Minato questioned, his eyes were glued to them. He was inwardly glad that his kids were safe but still wanted to get some Intel onto the situation.

Team seven informed them about the mission and Minato and others were curious, "So Zabuza Momochi attacked you guys, just because he wanted the Inheritance of Ugarashi family?" Minato was curious, he gestured Saito Ugarashi to shed some light on this matter.

"So, what's in the scroll Ugarashi-same?" Kushina decided to take a lead, she was livid at Minato for choosing such a dangerous mission for her kids. She gazed towards him with an irate look on her face. Minato was unaware of her actions but still felt some shivers.

"I don't know what's inside the scroll Lady Kushina," Saito answered. He was clueless about scroll's contents. Hell, he didn't even know about the scroll until he found his grandfather's letter explaining about the scroll.

"Well, why don't you open it up, and show us all what's inside?" Obito ordered him and passed the scroll to Saito.

"As your wish Lord Hokage." He muttered. Saito bit his thumb and splattered his blood on the scroll.

And soon every individual in the room stood up, eyes were about to bulge of their sockets. A rogue voice resonated inside the office "Well, would you look at that a Hallowed Kunai!"

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