The Greek Kunoichi

Chapter 4: The Wave mission part 1.

Author's note: Well, the reception of this one is a bit frostier than my Harry Potter/Hellsing crossover with 8 reviews, 73 Followers, 64 views and 68 favourites. Well, no matter, everybody has his own tastes. We already have many differences than in canon, Kakashi is less lazy but still always late. He told them point blank what would happen and Sakura is becoming a good Kunoichi way earlier. It's a bit hard to not just jump to New York or the rest of the United States to kick monsters' asses left, right and center, but we will get there. I have got to build the characters first. Still trying to see what will happens in Sasuke's attempt of desertion. I have a few ideas, but yours would be welcome too. Well, on with the show.

After a good three months of nothing but training and D Ranks missions, Team 7 was growing very restless. Even Sasuke, the most patient of the three, was swearing in private that the next time he had to chase Tora, the cat of the Daimyo's wife, (a Daimyo is a feudal lord, sort like a prince or a governor.) he will more likely fry the annoying beast than bring it back to the mission office alive. Patience had never been Naruto's forte, so to be able to deal with the demeaning chores for so long without complaining was a miracle or her mother was bribing her with Ramen every week. Even the even tempered girl Sakura became after having the fan girl trained out of her was fed up. Now to pass that message to the Hokage without looking like a brat was their common goal. By the twinkling into the old man's eyes, he was well aware of how fed up they were and it was amusing him greatly. Though something was missing, more likely someone, due to the blatant absence of the jonin sensei. Hiruzen then asked

"Have any of you seen Kakashi? Usually he's here with you for the mission taking."

He scrutinized the children with his experienced eyes and saw that Naruto wasn't even trying to look innocent. With a great sigh he then said

"Okay, I'll bite. What did you do to him?"

Naruto grinned like a fox and answered her leader

"Well, first of all, I switched all his porn collection with yaoi. His cry of anguish and indignation was hilarious! Then I hid all his originals ecchi ones all around the village. Of course, I didn't make it easy for him. It's like a treasure hunt, but for his books, without a map. Oh, and also I told Gai sensei that it would be most youthful of him to help his "eternal rival" find them. So Kakashi sensei is now trying to recover his books with Bushier Brows sensei challenging him to odd competitions all around the clock. So, he won't be here any time soon I would hazard to guess. I also considered for a while stealing all of Kurenai sensei's underwear and hang them around his house then wait for the sure to be explosives results, but I thought it would be funnier switching and hiding his porn."

She finished with glee and another large fox like grin that showed the fangs she inherited from Yang Kurama inside of her. Hiruzen shook his head with an amused smile, while reminiscing about younger days. Sasuke was trying his best to not laugh out loud; it was a straining battle, as seeing the corners of his mouth twitching. He loved to see the results of the pranks of his foster sister. Sakura, in her case, didn't know what to feel. It was shameful in her eyes for an adult to read porn in front of children but to prank sensei was an opening from him to retaliate in kind. And it was disrespectful to their superior officer. The joke was funny though. Iruka Umino, one of the chuunins who often teaches at the Academy, who was on mission desk duty today, was a bit outraged and awed of this slip of a girl's prank. He was a prankster too in his academy days, but to do that to a jonin and not getting caught in the act? Either she was really good or Kakashi let himself go or maybe it was a combination of the two. Just to make it sink even more, outside of the door they could hear Gai's overbearing loud voice encouraging his team. So Kakashi had ditched him or maybe his team came to remember their schedule? Well, no matter. Without a supervisor, they couldn't have a mission, thus a day off. Sarutobi shooed them out of the room and once outside, they all decided to do something different.

Sakura was going to the hot baths to relax, Naruto told her to watch out for peeping toms, the other kunoichi nodded at that before leaving with a brisk pace. Sasuke was going to take care of his chokutō and maybe meditate a bit to try and master his War Boost and Naruto decided to go for Ramen. You could never be wrong with the food of the Gods. Even her grandparents liked it! If that wasn't an endorsement, she wasn't the prankster queen from hell! With Yondaime Hokage like speed, she became a blond blur of light that was jumping across the rooftops at top speed, passing by a completely flabbergasted A.N.B.U patrol that stopped to look her go. Yep, she was her father's daughter for sure! Even without his space-time techniques, Minato Namikaze was a literal speed demon when he was alive. The blur of light became a young kunoichi on the cusp of teenager hood again a few rooftops before her haven and destination, The Ichiraku Ramen stand! She did a few acrobatic cartwheels finished by an impressive somersault to the ground. Seeing her natural agility, speed and flexibility during team training, Kakashi sensei had focus her training mostly in evasion tactics and hit and run techniques. She had a more slender build than Sakura, who had another body type. She didn't know which, since she stopped listening after that. Kakashi Sensei had said something about geisha's and brothel girls and then giggled about it for the rest of the training session, weirding everybody. When she repeated it to her mother that evening, she had grabbed her trusty saucepan and went out, just saying that she would be back soon. She had to be mad; her hair was waving into nine tails when she went out. She did came back an hour and a half later, the saucepan had a few new bumps on it and her Sensei was full of haematomas the next day and his porn book nowhere in sight. Adults were weird.

After another cartwheel, Naruto jumped onto the middle bench of the stand and said out loud

"Oi, Teuchi-Jiji! Three bowls of miso ramen please!"

The cook and owner of the stand let out a hearty laugh. Like mother, like daughter! He then answered

"Incoming then! I do hope you haven't forgotten your money home like the other day!"

He finished with a teasing tone. Naruto, in her case, put a pout in her face and ballooned her cheeks before answering, offended

"Aw, give it a rest Jiji! It only happened one time! I ran back home in a flash and I was back five minutes later! I even gave you a tip to say I was sorry! Geez! "

She finished with her arms crossed. Ayame, the daughter of Teuchi who was working in the family business as a waitress, had to hide her mouth as she giggled. The little ball of sunshine was just too cute. She got worked for about anything or she was just the kind of people who wear her emotions on her sleeve. Then something even weirder than the regular weird of Konoha did passes near the stand. It was a quite ruffled Kakashi. His clothes were torn into some places, his face mask was so damaged you could see the left side of his jaw and he was missing a sandal. He hobbled towards the stand and when in front of Naruto, he stopped, then felled to his knees. He took a begging position and then pleaded with a sobbing voice

"Please! Please Naruto! Give me back my Icha Icha books! It's been twelve hours and I can't find them anywhere! I HAVE to read one of them! I can't live without my porn! I beg of you! You are not cruel by nature; you can't keep my precious from me much longer, please!"

What Naruto hadn't told anybody else, it was the fact that she hadn't hidden the books at different places in the village. While she still couldn't use the Hiraishin with the tri pronged kunai formula, she had gained enough Fūinjutsu (Sealing Techniques) knowledge to use the permanent seals markers. She had stolen the books, replaced them with yaoi filled ones and then used the Hiraishin to go back to Uzu No Kuni to hide them in her room, in her family home there, then come back to Konoha quickly. As an accredited shinobi, she couldn't leave the village without approval from her superiors less she be marked a Nukenin if she was gone more than a week and severely punished if she was gone without a good reason for a lesser time. She had skirted the rules for that prank by getting permission from her mother to go back to leave a sacrifice for her grandparents, just to tell them that she was thinking about them and missing them. She had made her food sacrifices into the Greek fire once in Uzu, but she had also dropped the books on her bed. Getting them back would be a bit tricky though. Her mother would not give her permission to leave the village again for that reason; she hated Jiraiya's porn books with a passion and didn't care if Kakashi had his literature or not. If he wasn't an adult, she would have seized them and burned them in front of him as a lesson. As it is, those books weren't welcome in her house. But, if her sensei gave her permission, she could go retrieve them. But what seal she could use? Her mom would know if she used the one in the house and it would lead to awkward questions. The only other permanent Hiraishin seal she knew of on this side of Delos was in the Hokage Tower. Normally the seal would be in a restricted section, but as only the elite guards of her late father or those of his blood or those he keyed into the seal formula could use them, it was left in a public place. Nobody but Kushina had the seal expertise necessary to decipher them, not even Jiraiya could make head or tails of the Hiraishin. It was set in a room adjacent of the mission desk on the ground floor. The room had an almost museum aspect, like look at the seal, put there by the late Yondaime Hokage, stuff. Gaining her scheming look, she then said to her sensei in a sweet voice and with twinkling eyes

"Kakashi sensei, I hid the books elsewhere, the treasure hunt in the village was only a wild goose chase I mounted just for you. But if you really want them, I will need your express permission as my superior officer for a little sanctioned trip outside the village. It's literally a few seconds away if I use the permanent Hiraishin seal back and forth...Buuuuut, without that permission, you won't have your books back! And without officialpermission, I can't leave the village without serious consequences! I really don't want to be labelled a Nukenin for being A.W.O.L. Mom would track me down and beat me like a pervert who tried to grope her if I tried. I am not into self inflicted pain. That's Pervy Sage's shtick."

She finished with a knowing foxy smirk. She had him. He wants his books back? He must take responsibility and permit a Genin under his tutelage that doesn't have a C-rank under her belt yet out of the village, however long it took. It was against the village regulations and he could catch a lot of flak for that from the Hokage. But what was worse? A black mark in his record and a scolding by Sarutobi or not been able to read his oh so precious porn? He couldn't just buy a new collection; his books were all limited special editions! A few of them even autographed by Jiraiya-Sama! While Kakashi was debating internally, Naruto decided to inhale at great speed her ramen that was being made during the discussion once the bowls were on the counter of the stand. Her sensei would have to deal with his dilemma by himself. Once done and her delicious meal paid for, she didn't gave Kakashi another look and became a blur of light again with how fast she was running. The oddest thing though was she could only access that kind of speed when it was daylight, it was like she was absorbing sunlight to power up her running.

Kakashi snapped back to reality and cursed under his breath when he saw the blur of golden light bounce between buildings. When she was like that, nobody could catch her. If she had the lightning affinity chakra nature, that ability of her would have made her an ideal candidate to learn the Chidori (literally one thousand birds), because in that state, she was hyperaware of her surroundings. All her senses stretched to compensate the speed at which she was moving. But, young Naruto was like her parents; wind and water natured. She could still learn techniques of other elements, but it would be very difficult. He got up and let out a big sigh. It looks like he would have to do without his porn for at least a few more hours. (*Sobs*) Naruto really was a devious little vixen. Kakashi would not underestimate her ever again though.

Days later, and with his beloved porn books back (Hiruzen got fed up to see him moping all over the place and bursting into tears at random intervals, so he gave official permission to Naruto to go retrieve the books and congratulate her into using the rules masterfully within her pranks.) Team 7 were on their first C-rank mission. They were to escort the bridge builder Tazuna back to Nami No Kuni and protect him from roving bandits. Sasuke, trained into reading the body language to be able to use better his Sharingan (Kushina beat him senseless in a brutal training session to the point it had come out straight at two tomoes) was able to see the signs of lying and he made it known to Kakashi and his teammates with discrete hand sings. They were ready for anything, but were acting casual to fool whoever came after the bridge builder. It was Naruto who remarked that whoever was after Tazuna were either rookie(s) or reject(s). Seriously? A genjutsu with a puddle of water wasn't very believable when it hadn't rained in a few weeks in this region. She discreetly hand signed that she was acting, before she took a more childish action. She broke formation and ran towards the puddle in which she proceeded to jump in it repeatedly while laughing. The illusion now broken, she was doing her jumping jacks upon the heads of two Kiri Nukenin by seeing the scratch across their headbands. Seeing they were quite disoriented from the hits, it was child play to apprehend them. Naruto went even a step further and put their chakra circulatory system out of whack by channelling some of her massive reserves through their coils which weren't used to the strain of so much of the stuff. Chakra overload was as serious as Chakra depletion and literally a bitch to recover from.

Anyway, those two were lucky enough that she didn't channel Yang Kurama's chakra trough them. Without a safe way to filter it, bijuu chakra was extremely toxic and mortal if not treated very quickly. How does she know that? Well, she had always bit and bobs of medicine stuff passing through her head. She wasn't a qualified Medic Nin, but she learned the basics and how to do first aid from her lessons. Kakashi sensei was all business. With an ominous air upon what could be seen of his face, he ordered his team to stand guard and to not come into the woods under any pretexts and to wait for his return. The Genin obeyed and put themselves into a triangular formation all around the client. Sakura was on the right with a Kunai in hand, Sasuke was on the left with a hand on his chokutō's guard and Naruto was on front with Nejibana in weapon form. All of them were on guard. Kakashi's warning was made clear when they heard really loud pained screams coming from the woods. Evidently, the Jonin was torturing the enemy for information. Information was the lifeblood of a shinobi. Good intelligence could save a lot of lives as bad Intel could cost many. But the torture bit, all four of them were not prepared for it. It was not something that their teachers prepared them for. Sasuke was the less disturbed because of the fact that he saw what his elder brother did to their clan. It wasn't pretty one way or another and even if the years with Kushina and Naruto had somewhat healed him, the scars would always be there. Naruto was a little disturbed, but she was made of stern stuff. She wasn't some weak and pampered noble's daughter. Kushina loved her daughter more than anything in the world; she even loved her enough to teach her how real life was. Nothing is more eyes opening than seeing a real shinobi take down a bandit camp that ran a kidnapping ring of young girls. She may not have received The Talk yet, but her mother did told her what could happen to a girl if she was taken prisoner by the enemy. Rape was a way to break even the most hardened kunoichi. Well, war is more eyes opening, but Delos was in a status of cold peace, so no war zones ready for a field trip. Sakura was the one who was the most affected. While she had made great progress, it was the first time she was confronted to this side of the ninja world. Curiously, it was Tazuna who was able to reassure her. He was a civilian, true, but he was old enough to have seen what war could do. The third war wasn't that far into the past.

After a long while, the forest was finally silent. Kakashi walked out of the forest and you could tell that his aloof persona was long gone. Now was the shinobi who made his name in the third ninja world war and beyond. Needless to say, it didn't take long for Tazuna to spill the beans about the truth of Wave's situation. Kakashi wanted to face palm badly. Now he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Go back to Konoha because of a breach of agreement from the contractor's side was the possible, responsible, easy thing to do. Going forward with the mission would be the right thing to do. But his team, while skilled, was not even remotely ready for that. It was the devious vixen mind of Naruto who found the solution.

"Gato is bad news, I get that. Nami is short on money and you only had enough for a C-rank, I understand completely. We aren't enough trained to fight A rank nukenins like Zabuza Momochi or have clearance to do diplomatic work. Well, sensei can fight the Nukenin and do diplomatic stuff in a pinch, but he's a jonin. But hasn't Gato been over reaching? The guy is actually trying to get most of the seaports on Hi No Kuni's side of the inlet separating this country and Nami under his thumb. From what mom's report said, he's even working on a few of them beyond that, near the border with Cha No Kuni. (Land Of Tea) We could do what we are paid to do, buuuut, we could confirm to the Hokage that the guy is playing in our sandbox first without following our rules. The Daimyo may look like a sissy at first glance, but he can't stand drugs dealers, so we could cover our asses on this side too. I was in the mission room, tied up after getting caught trying to steal Sarutobi-Jiji's porn when mom came back from her mission of reconnaissance and information gathering about those ports and since it wasn't classified, I was authorized to stay for the debriefing. With confirmation that it is Gato's mode of operations, Konoha can act without a mission request and get paid by the Daimyo for doing our jobs and get rid of the drugs and the thugs who broke our laws. A special assassination team will be sent after the guy and with Tazuna's Intel, we can tell them which way to go to get rid of Gato and his enterprise, then we, the village, can clean house. And when the bridge is completed, we will have succeeded our first C-rank."

She finished with a smile. Kakashi was surprised; he didn't know that Naruto could reason like that. She never showed that type of critical thinking before. Well, in her defense, it was probably never needed. Well, if indeed Gato was playing in their sandbox and wasn't respecting the rules, they could act. Summoning one of his ninken (ninja dogs) and sent him with a message to the Hokage, the jonin then ordered them to continue for a while. When at half way point, they decided to stop for the night. The jonin gave his instructions.

"Naruto, your senses are sharper than even mine, go find something for a meal. Something big likes a deer or a couple of rabbits will do. Sasuke, you are on wood gathering duty. Sakura, dig a fire pit, then mount the tents. I will be right back; I just need to do some recon around this clearing."

With that, everybody went to his appointed task after a "Yes, sensei."

Naruto who was coming to terms with her half of Kurama, shape shifted into a blue eyed lion sized golden three tailed vixen with white tips upon her tails and dove into the woods with an excited bark. She was long gone a few seconds later. Sasuke withdrew his chokutō from its sheath and went towards the same side of the woods that Naruto dove into, cutting branches quickly and making small piles to take back to camp when he was done. Sakura then started to hum a little song and went to work while Kakashi took to the trees. Tazuna was dumbfounded. He had seen shinobis before, but a girl transforming into a giant fox? That was a new one. Naruto was the last one to come back to camp. What announced her was the crashing of the underbrush when the three tailed fox got out of the woods with a big buck with about twelve points on his panache that she was trailing in her jaws by the neck. With a movement of the head, she let down her prey at the feet of her sensei, the Alpha of the pack, who praised her by scratching her behind the ears.

"Good girl! Now, change back before you get lost into the instincts. You did well, now it's my turn to prepare the meat. "

Naruto whined a bit. She was having so much fun in this form but the Alpha of the pack gave an order and she had to obey. With a flash of golden fox fire, the beast became a girl once more. She had to be careful with that type of transformation or she could lose her humanity and not being able to change back. She went to sit with her teammates and let her sensei do the rest. The thrill of the hunt had been great and she could feel Kurama inside his seal was satisfied. That type of transformation allowed him to see what she sees and access to her others senses. But it also put the animal instincts in conflict with her human mind. That's why she had to be careful with that power. Once the deer was prepared and the meat was cooked, everyone started to eat in comfortable silence, lost into the twilight of the setting sun. Naruto perked when she heard the ninken messenger approaching. He must have run all the way back for he was panting. While sensei recovered the scroll containing their new orders, she took her water canteen and one of the bowls she had in her pack, and then put water in it to offer it to the messenger. The ninken did show is appreciation by licking her hand and letting her pet him.

Once the ninken was finished and returned to the summons realm, Kakashi brought their attention by clearing his throat.

"We have our orders. We are to wait for the assassination squad to rendezvous with us tomorrow. They will go ahead and take out the trash so to speak. One will go to Nami with us and will take care of Gato while the others will head towards the other ports on our side. We head on with Tazuna and help him finish his bridge as specified in the request. If we encounter any others Nukenins, well...that part will be my business. Let's start with guard shifts. Naruto you take first watch, you have too much energy to sleep right now. Sasuke will take second; his Sharingan can help him see in the darkness. I will take the third watch and Sakura will be on the breakfast chore. Tazuna, you can sleep in the middle tent. Well, let's get to it."

The night passed without problems, nobody saw anything problematic on their guard shifts. After breakfast, Kakashi had his subtends spar lightly against each others to stay in shape, then he proved his mettle by meeting Nejibana in combat with a kunai of all thing! What he didn't tell the girl was that he had to subtly reinforce his kunai by channelling earth nature chakra into the ninja tool or the trident would have chopped it off. Though he had to put a stop to the spar, he could see that Naruto was about to use her solar speed by the bright golden light that was rapidly coming out from all over her body and as good as he was, he couldn't react that fast without resorting to his implanted Sharingan and he couldn't let his cute little students think they could kick his ass no? They were soon met by a squad of ten A.N.B.U operatives; the leader was a woman with long purple hair and with a cat mask. They discussed a bit away from the Genin and the civilian. After a while, the squad dispersed, leaving only the cat masked operative to follow them. From there, the mission to Wave was on the road. After getting to the other side of the inlet by an unusual way; Naruto had sensed a pack of killer whales nearby and asked if they would be willing to give them a lift. So with two by whale, they were soon on Nami No Kuni. Once near the bridge, Kakashi took Tazuna with him via the tree walking exercise up the pillar of the bridge and Operative Cat took Sakura with her the same way. Naruto and Sasuke having learnt the exercise in the beginning of their training with Kushina were able to scale the pillars by themselves. Everybody but Sasuke was questioning how Naruto was able to detect the pack of Orcas and how she managed to convince them to ferry the humans, but her lips where sealed. As it was nothing that could be a danger to the mission, Cat and Kakashi let it go. They would touché a word to the Hokage about it when they return to the village though. From there they took the closest path towards Tazuna's house, but Kakashi and Naruto's sharp senses alerted of something big coming toward them. Naruto yelled

"Down!"

Everyone took a dive on the ground; Sasuke took the client with him. When they regain a footing, they could see a man perched upon a giant sword which was embedded in a tree nearby. The jonin and A.N.B.U recognized his picture from the bingo book. Zabuza Momochi, who was accurately, nicknamed Kirigakure no Kijin. (Demon of the Hidden Mist) Zabuza was a tall and noticeably muscular man with pale skin, short spiky black hair, brown eyes, and small eyebrows. He was normally seen wearing bandages like a mask over the bottom half of his face. Under his mask, he had a relatively narrow jaw line and jagged-teeth, a trait he shared with his fellow Swordsmen. He wore his forehead protector sideways on his head he was seen shirtless, with his chest only covered by a belt to which he attached his Kubikiribōchō (Decapitating Carving Knife), wearing baggy pants with the striped pattern typical of Kirigakure and mimetic wrist-warmers extending up to his elbows, with matching leg-warmers.

From there, the three powerful shinobis engaged into banter before going for a one on one battle that was Kakashi and Zabuza. Sasuke didn't lose time, taking control of the squad, he ordered Naruto to shape shift and to take Tazuna to safety seeing he was the target. Sakura and he would run along her flanks to cover her. The jinchūriki accepted the command and took her lion sized three tailed kitsune form. The old bridge builder was sat on her back and they quickly left the scene. When Kakashi found himself into mortal peril once conned into the water prison, Operative Cat decided to bail him out. Showing great prowess with her tanto, she managed to force the nukenin to free her comrade lest he lose what made him a man. Needless to say, Zabuza learned the hard way that not taking in his surroundings was bad for his health. Once Kakashi returned to the field to finish his fight and the fight ended her with Zabuza immobilized and taken by a false Kiri Hunter Nin and Kakashi collapse from chakra exhaustion, Cat shook her head, wondering why her sempai had let himself go lax so much and then ordered, knowing that the Genins only took the client out of range, a good idea

"Genin Uzumaki, come here and take jonin Hatake on your back. Tazuna-san, show us which way to your home. Genin Uchiha, Genin Haruno, in formation around the client. That's an order."

Knowing when it was wiser to obey than to shoot their mouths, they obeyed and didn't balk by being called by their last names and ranks. Once everyone was where they were needed, the A.N.B.U operative decided to closes the march.