I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I'm just a fan I enjoyed the anime but I love the fanfics, even more, they made me fall for the whole franchise. Whether I will have Oc's in the fic or not depends entirely on how the story goes.

Chapter 23

"You want me to pull out more money!?" Gatō sounded genuinely hurt, this was the man's money. '1' couldn't blame him this was daylight robbery if Naruto Uzumaki has ever seen it, and he has this was the robbery that entered your house and said they had a plan.

"All Zabuza-Sama is saying, is that Rokushō-San would help him get the job done quicker than if he did it alone." '1' listened as Haku tried to explain why Gatō wanted to spend his money, it was like they were selling him premium life insurance.

'Maybe they are?' Naruto's clone thought. In reality, Gatō's life was in danger because the leaf nin would kill him. That was the only way wave would be free of his clutches and since he didn't have an heir all of Gatō's fortune would go to the wind.

"You think I'm stupid, I was selling those lines when I was 5 to Stupid ninjas like you!" Gato made a show by throwing his right hand wide in the process moving '1' around in his position on the bridge of Gatō's nose and now laid skew on his face getting a nice breath of Gatō's wine breath. '1' didn't know why the smell had him seeing sunsets and roses.

'Interesting' The clone thought in a trace as Gatō fixed the glasses on his face.

"That's a load of horse shit." Aoi Rokushō snorted as he gave Gatō a smirk that had the shorter man cowering, but 1 had to clap hands for the man he was up and ready for that challenge.

"Who are you supposed to be anyway." Gatō moved his head down then up in a show of checking him over before he scoffed.

Rokushō had seaweed-colored hair that was spiky, and messy, and reached to his shoulders. He had a relatively narrow jaw with purple eyes. He wore a sleeveless one-piece bodysuit, light purple in color with a thick blue line running down the middle. He carried on his back an umbrella.

"Not even a bingo book prodigy, just a loser who had a kid steal for him." Gatō spit on the floor and turned around, his thugs of bodyguards giving the ninjas their backs as they felt bigger than life until that life came to an abrupt stop, they heard some weird vacuum-like sound before they dropped, one of them thought it sound like a galaxy far far away he didn't even know what a galaxy was.

"Zabuza-San why did you stop me?" Gatō watched in fear and '1' had front row seat as the two bodyguards dropped, faces stuck in a horrid cry for help, and there with a blade that stank of ozone as it glowed yellow and shot out arks of electricity everywhere was Aoi Rokushō being held back by Zabuza who held him by the shoulder with one hand, the only indication that he was straining himself was the bulging muscles and veins in that arm.

'Sword of the thunder God.' The thought immediately came to the clone like a revelation. It felt the link but couldn't reach for it before.

"Puff" Everybody watched in shock as Gatō's glasses popped in a small cloud of smoke when a random ark of electricity touched the accessory.

"That doesn't usually happen." Aoi Rokushō said with wide eyes and Zabuza growled, he only knew of one person with things that go puff.

"Why did your glasses go puff Gatō?" Zabuza growled and Gatō saw it, the demon of the mist the grinning visage of an Oni with deranged eyes.

"I………." That 'I' lasted more than just a second Gatō was standing in the middle of two ninjas with killing intent, he almost peed his pants but only a drop escaped before he held it tight glad he wore dark clothes.

"You will pay us double and you will pay Rokushō what we previously agreed upon." Zabuza's words came from every angle Gatō could perceive but the most frightening was the one whispered behind him it was so close Gatō could feel its breath.

"Ahhhh ah!" Gatō shut his mouth tight when he felt he was about to cry out, Aoi Rokushō had a smile forming there that prayed Gatō would make a sound so he could have an excuse to silence him. It was written all over his face that snake-like smile that stretched on his visage, but what scared him the most was the eyes both ninjas shared it told him he meant nothing to them, he would die.

"O-okay," Gatō said and with that defeat, he let himself go and fell on his behind pissing himself, and only then did that killer vibe disappear like it was never there. That was the silence of a ninja Gatō realized.

The ability to leave a crime scene with no one the wiser, you would only know it was a crime scene after you laid eyes on the first drop of blood which usually lead to the most gruesome scenes or the most artistic displays, if your sick enough a person. Gatō had friends like that.

"Thank you Gatō-San we promise we will be out of your way as soon as our mission is finished." Haku spoke up from his place in the corner of the room close to the door. Gatō was trapped with these killers he had no choice but to agree.

"N-no Th-Than.." Gatō moved his tongue in his mouth and licked his dry lips before coughing to open his windpipe. "T-thank y-you for your wonderful services." Gatō finally got out in a stuttering mess.

"It's our pleasure." Momochi said walking away without a limp or any indication of a man who had been so injured a week earlier. "It seems the leaf ninja had been spying on us, I'll place my pay on that blond gaki." Zabuza said as he looked at Haku from the corner of his eyes and narrowed his eyes at him.

Haku lowered his head in shame, Naruto must have tailed him back to the mansion on the day they met and set up a way to spy on them.

"You can leave Gatō." Zabuza dismissed his employer out of his own office and took a seat in the man's comfy office chair imported from snow country made using polar bear fur.

Gatō ran out of his office and never looked back he didn't even know where he would end up just that he was going away from all those killers. He and his rich friends were not killers, No. All the hits they put out on people didn't make them killers. Those guys were the true masters of death.

"We move today at 7 when darkness starts to set in, it doesn't matter what they heard they will all bleed and feed kubikiribōchō," Zabuza said flinging his legs on the office desk and leaning down on the chair with his hands behind his head. Haku stood behind him to his right rigid and ready to throw his life for his in a heartbeat. Aoi stood in front of the desk smirking, intentions unknown to the two but once a traitor always a traitor.

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Naruto ran down the stairs as fast as he could the memories he had just recovered still playing in his mind. Zabuza had a partner and that guy had the sword of the thunder god, a lost treasure of Konoha.

"Wait Itachi sensei!" Naruto called out and Itachi stopped just as he was about to open the front door he turned around and faced Naruto.

"What is it Naruto-Kun?" Itachi asked his student who stopped in front of him grinning, he hadn't seen the boy so upbeat in a while.

"I got information on Zabuza." Itachi raised an eyebrow at that and Naruto understood Itachi enough by now to know that was him showing interest and pegging you to explain.

"His in a Mansion in a field surrounded by bamboo trees," Naruto replied breathing deeply with excitement he couldn't believe his clones could be so reliable it was like having a bunch of people looking out for his best interest and all those people were him.

'I'm so badass..kukukuk.' Naruto boasted inwardly and stroked his ego in self-satisfaction.

"Where did you get this information?" Itachi asked and Naruto was all too happy to tell and he did he told them about how he met Haku on the day he was missing, who happened to be one of Zabuza's henchmen who he believes is the ice user who saved him.

"He also called a friend of his Aoi Rokushō." Itachi's eyes widened at that.

"Did the man carry any strange weapon with him?" Itachi asked the boy and Naruto nodded.

"He had a lightning blade with him The sword of the thunder God the blade of the second Hokage." At Naruto's words, Itachi looked at the boy differently an infiltration mission on an A-rank missing-nin and done so perfectly.

"Good job Naruto-Kun you did a wonderful job," Itachi said as he moved forward and ruffled the top of Naruto's head.

"Your quite the unpredictable ninja." Itachi smiled with pride at his student.

Sasuke closed his eyes and saw Itachi's disappointed stare at him but when he opened it he saw Itachi's proud gaze at Naruto and felt his anger for the blond rise, he was always trying to one up on him it was infuriating.

"Sasuke-Kun." Sasuke at Itachi's call looked up at the older Uchiha and grunted showing him he had his attention.

"We should remain vigilant while guarding Tazuna-San today." Itachi spoke to his younger brother before turning to Naruto. "Make a clone and turn it into a kunai I'll keep it with me, in emergencies I will pop it so you are let in on the situation." Itachi received a firm nod from Naruto who made a clone that quickly turned into a Kunai which Itachi stashed in his pouch.

"Tazuna-San we can leave, Naruto stay vigilant around the house." At those final words, Itachi turned and walked out the door, followed quickly by Tazuna.

Naruto and Sasuke stayed behind, with tension so high you would choke on it if you walked in unprepared. After a few more seconds of unblinking stares, Sasuke scoffed and turned walking out the door and closing it behind him.

"Quack." Naruto said to no one in particular before turning around and heading up to his shared room with the guys to meditate on all the reading his clones were doing, Gatō had a lot of dealings so much that Naruto never even considered some of them it was a goldmine for his ambitions and goals.

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Standing outside Gatō's mansion Zabuza, Hako and Aoi strapped up Zabuza wore a sleeveless black shirt and matching pants, complete with a waist guard, Kirigakure's striped wrist and leg warmers he also had bandages loosely tied around his neck like a scarf.

Haku's outfit consisted of the standard Kirigakure pinstriped outfit which stopped at his knees. Over this, he wore a green haori with white trimmings, and around his waist a brown sash with a fringed trail wrapped around his waist twice. He also wore light-brown platoon sandals with straps in the same color as his kimono and nail polish on his fingernails and toenails in matching blue-green colors.

Haku's long hair was gathered in a white bun holder, while two locks of his hair fell loose framing his face, bound with metal hair cuffs at the ends. Haku also wore a black forehead protector with the Kirigakure's symbol upon it. When in battle or moving covertly, he wore a hunter-nin mask on top of his forehead protector, which was white with thin, curved eye-holes and a red wavy design in place of the mouth, as well as the Kirigakure symbol etched in the top.

"Let's move." At Zabuza's words, they all dashed into the bamboo field the greenery surrounding them was nothing but a blur as they made their way to what can only be described as a soon-to-be bloody scene, how none of them coward in fear at that knowledge was a testament to their ninja lifestyle.

"Rokushō, you know your part in this." At Zabuza's reminder, Aoi Rokushō smirked and leaped away in a different direction. "Come, Haku my blade is hungry." The demon of the mist and his tool picked up their speed heading for the unfinished bridge.

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"How do you do that!" Inari watched with wide eyes as Naruto henged into him and mimicked his voice grinning all along asking Inari the same question he had asked him when he walked on the surface of the tree.

"Teach me please Naruto-neesan," Inari begged with awed eyes and Naruto dropped his jutsu laughing at the boy along with Tsunami.

"I don't think it's that simple Inari dear." Tsunami told her son who has had a change of heart deciding to trust his mother and grandfather's decision to fight Gatō's rein over wave.

Understanding that his troubles were not the biggest out there and that there were people who went through even worse. When Inari finally lightened up and began interacting with the only other ninja around the house who was active he found a bigger brother figure in him.

"I can teach you how to at least tree walk." Naruto shrugged and Inari's eyes sparkled. Naruto smiled at the boy but a clone in Hinata's room disappeared, it was disguised as a random ant in the room.

"Aoi Rokushō." Naruto growled and made a clone." Stay with my clone he will keep you safe." He didn't wait for their response as he dashed to the house before jumping up until he was at the same height as the room Tsunami shared with Hinata, he summoned another clone and grabbed it by the scruff of its shirt throwing it over his head like an arrow as it soared inside.

Rokushō looked at the sleeping form of a Hyuga on the bed and wondered if she had a seal on her forehead if she didn't he could just make some extra Ryo in this mission and steal another 'priceless' artifact from Konoha the Byakugan.

"Let's see what's under that foul Hitai-ate." Rokushō bent over reaching out to the form of the sleeping Hyuga only to see a puff of smoke in the corner of his eyes. "Again?" He wondered turning to look at the spot.

"What the….." Rokushō turned to face the shattered window in shock only to be body tackled by a blond missile "uhffff" the air was knocked out of Rokushō as he was tackled straight out of the door splintering the wood and finding himself in the hallway.

"Stay away from her!" Rokushō looked up and saw a blond gaki standing by the windowsill of the shattered window.

The boy had spiky blond hair that ran down to his lower back he wore a black sleeveless turtleneck vest with an orange spiral running around its front, with a burnt orange open hoodie over it. A pair of burnt orange ankle-length pants and black shinobi opened-toed sandals.

"A little gaki uh, you the one that was spying on us earlier?" Rokushō asked smiling as he got up he was trying to play it cool but the hit had probably cracked a rib he was gonna cook the boy from the inside out.

"I don't know, are you the useless man I heard about who had a kid steal for him?" Naruto smirked and Rokushō growled before smiling disarmingly at Naruto.

"I'm gonna kill you." Rokushō threatened before grabbing his umbrella from his back. Naruto made the cross seal and created a clone that dashed at Rokushō the man was ready to pierce it with the sharp edge of his umbrella only for it to go off in a puff of smoke blocking his view of the blond and the room where he stood.

Swiping his weapon of choice to the side Rokushō found the room empty no blonde no sleeping Hyuga and he sneered dashing to the window to give chase. Jumping out the broken window Rokushō noticed the two clones on both sides of it and he grimaced.

The clone on the right grabbed the hem of Rokushō's one-piece suit before he could get away and pulled him back towards him with the clone on the right bringing a kunai out of its pouch to stab him in the back. Rokushō immediately performed a technique he had learned back in Konoha and substituted with a log.

"Dammit!" The clone on the right cursed before dispelling relaying the message to the original.

"You are quite the slippery little boy aren't you." Rokushō growled out before dashing at what he believed to be the original Naruto since he did not dispel. Reaching the blond at chunin-level speed he swiped the sharp edge of his weapon at the clone.

Dodging the first swipe the clone jumped back on the wall behind him standing on its surface before doing a flip over Rokushō who then turned and thrust the umbrella at the clone who jumped up spreading his legs and doing a split as he dodged. Rokushō grabbing the umbrella in both hands made an upwards strike to attack the clone in mid-air the clone made the cross seal and another clone puffed into existence a second before Rokushō's strike made contact.

In a puff of smoke the clone got dispelled only for Rokushō to get punched in the face by the new clone sending him soaring off the rooftop from there he spotted the real Naruto dashing away with the Hyuga on his back. Rokushō grinned.

"Found you." He whispered ominously. The clone jumped after him ready to target another pound of flesh and Rokushō had enough of that, he made a thrusting motion with his weapon before a senbon shot out at the clone, it never saw it coming so got dispelled but its memory got transferred to the original.

"He can shoot senbon needles with that umbrella, I'll have to find a way around that." Naruto knew he couldn't run forever so he stopped and ran to a tree, laying Hinata down he kissed her forehead in actuality kissing her forehead protector, and threw a camouflage sheet over her slapping a Now you see me, now you can't tag on it before dashing to a clearing.

Laying some tags around the clearing he summoned clones and had them transform into random things in the clearing like a kunai, a pebble, a tree branch, and a bird perched on a tree.

In another minute Aoi Rokushō appeared snarling at Naruto. "No more running." Grabbing his umbrella Rokushō threw it in the air, making the tiger seal he called out. "Ninja Art: Senbon Shower Senbon Rain." Naruto's eyes widened as a literal rain of senbon needles dropped from above.

Grabbing a barrier tag he slapped it on the back of his arm and raised it activating the barrier above his head. All around him, he heard his clones disguised around the field dispel in puffs of smoke except the one disguised as a bird who flew away from the senbon shower.

"Don't think I'll fall for your party tricks gaki." Rokushō sneered grabbing his umbrella that dropped into his hands and swiped it to the left before pointing the tip at Naruto "come boy." He beckoned and Naruto raised a brow.

"Why don't you come." Naruto said in return and Rokushō bared his teeth before dashing at the blonde.

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"Sasuke-Kun be alert they are here." Itachi told his little brother when a heavy mist appeared on the unfinished bridge. Sasuke turned to Itachi and then to the bridge where the mist was thickest, this was his moment to shine, it was just him and Itachi against the bad guys he had to prove himself capable.

Sasuke closed his eyes and all he saw was Itachi's disappointed gaze on him and then he saw the proud gaze he gave Naruto Sasuke didn't know why but it stung more than all the losses his taken, it stung more than finding out Hinata loved Naruto.

'I'll prove myself!' Sasuke thought eagerly, determination flaring in his Sharingan eyes as they glowed.

"Itachi Uchiha, you owe me a bound of flesh and I'm here to take it." Zabuza appeared out of the mist with Haku on his side wearing his Kiri hunter nin mask over his face.

"Zabuza Momochi it seems you want to die at the hands of an Uchiha." Itachi closed his eyes and when he opened them the Sharingan blazed into existence. "A worthy death will befall you." At Itachi's words, Sasuke smirked.

'Itachi is so cool." Sasuke thought looking up at his brother in awe.

AN

We finally starting wave, when I started this fix I wanted to have wave on like chapter 15 but I'm on chapter 23 and only now starting fights... This story is writing itself and doesn't care what I want ideas come as I type and I can't even contemplate them before their are on screen... It's life...