Hello everyone I'm back once again to bring you another chapter of my story; if you are enjoying my story please see my other stories and share with your friends. For those of you wondering I was considering killing off Shikamaru but I decided with Choji because let's be honest here other than like 1 arc he wasn't really that important to the story in canon so no real loss there; also I like Asuma to much to kill him off and Ino is a no go Ok without further ado let's begin.
Virtue and Venom: Chapter 6
In wave country
Naruto, Sasuke and Ino were standing back guarding Tazuna; Shikamru was still in shock as Chiji his best friend was killed. Shikamru kneeled on the ground motionless as he tuned out the rest of the world.
Kakashi and Asuma were standing ready to face off against Zabuza who was still standing on his blade that was impaled into the tree. Kakashi and Asuma both shifted slightly; the next moment they both rushed at Zabuza at full speed.
Asuma wasting no time went through hand signs 'Fire Style: Burning ash' Asuma then blew out a cloud of smoke that covered the area Zabuza was at; he then ignited the smoke with the piece of flint he keeps behind his top front teeth.
Zabuza then ran out of the inferno un-injured as he rushed at Asuma; Zabuza swung his blade at Asuma who put his trench knives up for to block the blow. Zabuza's sword connected but did not go through Asuma's defense; Asuma was pumping wind chakra through his knives which was able to counter the weight and impact of the sword.
Zabuza was about to attack again but her had to dodge a hail of shuriken from Kakashi; Kakashi then went through hand signs 'Earth Style: Earth Spikes' just then dozens of earth spikes shot up from the ground. Zabuza jumped over them and charged at Kakashi; as he did so he had to dodge slashes coming from Asuma.
With Naruto and the others
Naruto, Sasuke and Ino looked on in awe at the battle 'so this is the skill of a jonin' Sasuke thought; just then Sasuke felt the air get colder and he saw his breath. Sasuke feeling something isn't right grabbed Ino and Tazuna and with all his strength threw them a couple dozen yards away.
"Naruto" Sasuke shouted before he heard Naruto scream.
"What the hell" Naruto shouted as he pulled out 2 senbon that hit him in the neck "that hurt like a mother fucker" Naruto said as he looked around.
"You must be quite tough" came an effeminate voice "even master Zabuza couldn't take 2 senbon to the neck like that" the figure said making their presence known. A teenager wearing a Kiri hunter ninja mask walked out of the forest off to the side "I am Haku and I will be your opponent; but it doesn't have to be this was. Let us kill the bridge builder and I'll spare you" Haku said and Naruto scoffed.
"Screw you dude" Naruto shouted "you and your master over there killed our comrade; the only thing I'll do for you is rip your damn head off" Naruto shouted. Sasuke has never seen Naruto this mad before; he was cautious but he felt with Naruto he can win.
"Let's get him Naruto" Sasuke said as he pulled out a kunai; Naruto cracked his neck and got into his brawler style taijutsu stance. Sasuke and Naruto both ran at Haku at the same time; Haku immediately got on his guard and got ready for the fight.
Sasuke slashed at Haku with his kunai; Haku ducked but was met by a kick to the face by Naruto. Haku recovering from the kick grabbed Naruto' s leg and pulled him forward. Naruto was then punched and flipped by Haku; Haku was about to stab him with a senbon but was stopped by Sasuke who caught his hand. Haku broke the lock and entered a face paced blade battle with Sasuke; Sasuke and Haku were in a deadlock as they both fought for dominance.
Haku then went through one handed hand signs 'Ice style: Ice needles' Haku then stomped on the ground; the water that surrounded them began to go up in the air and froze into giant ice needles. Sasuke was a little too slow as when he attempted to dodge an ice needle impaled him in the leg; causing him to fall and clutch the wound.
Haku was about to follow up with another attack but was tackled by Naruto; Naruto then rolled around on the ground with Haku for a minute. Haku managed to fight his way on top and began to punch him in the face; Naruto was being beaten until Haku stopped abruptly.
"Naruto it's me" Haku said to Naruto's confusion "It's Ino; finish this guy off" she said. Naruto did not hesitate as he pulled out a kunai; he then sent it towards Haku in a stabbing motion. Ino timing Naruto's attack disengaged her jutsu and left Haku's body.
Haku came back to his senses but it was too late; Naruto drove the kunai into his neck severing his artery. Haku grabbed his neck as he attempted to stop the bleeding; after rolling around for a few seconds he stopped as his body became limp.
Naruto slowly got up and looked around; he saw Sasuke putting a tourniquet on his leg and Ino getting back up holding her neck. Ino then looked at her hand and let out a sigh of relief as she got up and ran over to Naruto.
"I always hate those phantom pains" Ino said as she helped Naruto up.
"Thanks for the save Ino" Naruto said; Naruto then looked over to both of the jonin sensei.
With Asuma and Kakashi
Kakashi was slashed across the chest by Zabuza and then kicked away; Asuma seeing his fellow jonin get hit began to attack Zabuza in order to buy Kakashi some time to recover. Asuma slashed at Zabuza who ducked under the blade; Zabuza then went for Asuma's legs.
Asuma jumped over Zabuza's attack and kicked the Kiri jonin in the face; Zabuza then went flying into thenlake nearby and Asuma cursed as he knew he just made the fight a little more difficult. Zabuza then stood up on the water and began to go through hand signs.
'Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu' just then a gaint water dragon emerged out of the lake and was heading straight for Asuma.
Asuma then got into a stance and did a unusual hand seal 'Raigo: Thousand Hand Strike' just then an spirit image of a thousand armed Kannon appeared; at first it looked calm in it's golden form. The it turned red almost immediately; Zabuza filched under the gaze of the Kannon. The Kannon then unleashed a 1000 spirit fist assault effectively destroying the water dragon and hitting Zabuza sending him flying to the other side of the lake.
Zabuza then hit a tree and as he looked up, he saw Kakashi running straight at him with his hand covered in lightning.
"Raikiri" Kakashi shouted as he approached; Kakashi then buried his raikiri into Zabuza's chest as the man coughed up blood behind his bandaged mouth. The last thing Zabuza saw was Kakashi's sharingan and him pulling his hand out of his chest before falling to the ground dead.
Kakashi wan now panting as he fell to one knee and covered his sharingan with his head band; Asuma was there in an instant to help him up "is it over" Kakashi asked as he huffed.
"Yeah" Asuma said looking down at Zabuza; Asuma then let Kakashi go for a second as he sealed up both Zabuza and his sword "lets go back to the kids" Asuma said as Kakashi nodded.
As they walked over to the rest of the team, they saw Ino helping Sasuke dress his injury, Naruto trying to talk to Shikamaru and Tazuna standing over another dead body. 'He must've been working for Zabuza' Kakashi thought.
Asuma then walked over to Tazuna "see what you did you old drunk bastard" Asuma shouted as he grabbed the man and dragged him over to Choji's dead body "that's your fault, that's your fucking fault; one of my genin died over you lying about the mission" he shouted. Kakashi then went over and pulled him back.
"Asuma calm down" Kakashi said; Asuma threw his arm off and walked away into the woods. Kakashi then turned to Tazuna "you are responsible for the death of a ninja due to lies and negligence" Kakashi said "I'm under orders to help you finish the mission; but once it's done you will be summarily executed for your crimes and Wave will have to pay compensation to the Akimichi clan" he said as he walked off to seal up Choji's body.
"I'm sorry" Tazuna said "I- I just- "he began.
"Sorry isn't going to bring my friend back" Ino said "I've known Choji my whole life; I have to go back home and tell his mother why her son died on his first mission outside the village" she shouted as she walked off into the woods.
"Ino wait" Naruto shouted; he then looked to Sasuke "Sasuke can you- "he began.
"I'm fine just go" Sasuke said as Naruto ran off after Ino.
Naruto looked around for Ino "Ino, Ino are you there" he asked; he the saw Ino sitting on a log. Ino was bawling her eyes out; Naruto then ran over and sat down next to her. Ino seeing Naruto there with a worried look on his face wrapped her arms around him and began to cry into his jacket; Naruto seeing this knew that there would be no words to console her. Naruto wrapped his arms around Ino and began to comfort her as her cries echoed through the forest.
The next day: Near Tazuna's house
Naruto, Ino, a injured Sasuke and a recovering Shikamaru all stood with Kakashi and Asuma in front of them; Kakashi had his chest taped and bandaged up while Asuma was smoking a cigarette.
"Ok you fi… four" Asuma said correcting himself "we are going to be here for a month to defend the client; so, me and Kakashi decided to ramp up you're training" Asuma said. Kakashi then pulled out 4 pieces of paper.
"All of you take a sheet and pump your chakra into it; it will tell us what your chakra affinity is so we can help you accordingly" he said; the 4 then took their sheets and did as they were told.
Naruto's cut in half.
Ino's got wet.
Shikamaru's crumbled.
Sasuke's burned and crinkled.
"Ok so wind, water, earth and fire/lightning ehhh" Kakashi said "ok now we know what to do; first we are going to learn the tree and water walking exercise and then- "he began until Naruto raised his hand.
"I already know it" he said to everyone's surprise "I learned it 2 weeks ago" he said.
"What" Kakashi said "when" he asked.
"Well, Mamushi- "Naruto began his tale.
*Flashback
"Hey Naruto" Mamushi shouted as she entered the house "look what I got; this old lady was giving stuff away and I got something" she said as she handed it to Naruto.
"Huh really; what is it" he asked taking it and opening it "woah cool; this is a jutsu scroll like what ji-ji gave me" he said with excitement. "Tree and Water walking basics" Naruto read; his face then lit up and he turned to Mamushi "get your bathing suit and be ready to leave in 10 minutes; we are going to learn how to walk on stuff" he said and Mamushi cheered.
*Flashback end
"Mamushi learned it right away but it took me like a week to do it" Naruto said to everyone's amazement "I swear she must be like super smart or something to get it down so easily; I wonder is she has used it at all since I left" he wondered.
Meanwhile in Konoha
"-and that's how you walk on a ceiling" Mamushi said standing on the ceiling of her classroom.
"Wow", "So cool", "can we learn how to do that sensei" the children said as they looked up at Mamushi
"Good job Mamushi" Iruka said impressed "you really are a star pupil; I'm going to talk to the headmaster and see if I can get you into a special program" he said as Mamushi danced on the ceiling.
Hanabi looking at Mamushi was seeing red 'damn air head' Hanabi thought in jealousy 'she barges into my class, steals my top spot, wins a sparring match, puts a bug on me and now is showing off because she knows some advanced chakra exercise' Hanabi thought. 'I have to ask father to increase my training; no way am I losing to her' Hanabi thought while chuckling darkly and rubbing her hands together.
"Umm Iruka sensei" Konohamaru said "Hanabi is looking evil again" he said.
"Oh, she always does that when I'm around" Mamushi said waving it off "she's weird so she can't laugh right" Mamushi said getting Hanabi's attention.
"Who you calling weird" Hanabi shouted in anger.
Back with Naruto and crew
"Ok well damn never mind" Kakashi said rubbing the back of his head "then Naruto you go with Asuma to train while the rest of you stay with me" he said. Naruto then began to follow Asuma into a separate part of the woods.
"Naruto listen" Asuma began "Shikamaru is not in the right head space, Sasuke and Kakashi are injured and Ino isn't a combat type; you and me are the only ones here who are combat effective" he said as Naruto listened. "We are going to have to work together to protect what's left of the team" Asuma said "you are going to use your shadow clones to help out you're training; I know this is a lot but- "Asuma began until Naruto spoke up.
"I get it Asuma sensei" Naruto said "what ever we got to do let's do it" Naruto said and Asuma nodded.
"Ok Naruto" Asuma said as they stopped in a clearing "make 20 clones" he said and Naruto nodded. Naruto then created 20 clones "good now take out a kunai and go to a tree; I'm going to teach you how to use wind chakra like a pro" Asuma said and Naruto nodded.
"Ok Asuma sensei" Naruto said "lets do this" Naruto said with determination.
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