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Tommy Oliver, the most powerful ranger known throughout ranger history, the one most worthy of more than one power…has died, but his legacy would never be forgotten especially by the Power Rangers, but there was someone that had unfinished business with the man of legend.
"Greetings, Mr. Oliver." a man in white robes and black magatama decorated it.
Tommy regained his bearings and analyzed his surroundings "you're a ghost." he said seeing he was transparent.
"So are you." the man said as Tommy looked himself over and saw he was right.
"So is this some kinda afterlife thing?" Tommy asked him not knowing what this was.
"No, I'm afraid, I need your help, or rather, he needs your help." the man said as Tommy was curious till he saw a circular mirror project images of a boy 'seems like ranger material.' he thought in amusement seeing the brightness of his spirit, then became angry seeing much abuse and isolate the child seeing the child's pain and seeming loss of spirit at times in his eyes, but also saw how he valued and treasured those closest to him."this kid is definitely ranger material." he said to himself.
"Which is why I summoned you here." the man said showing Tommy his master morpher "Jason Scott, Casey Jones, Nick Russel, Jaden Shiba, Trent Mercer, and Conner Mcknight all seem to agree." the man said with a smirk "they have all offered their powers for this young man, and I was wondering if you'd do the same?" he asked him.
"Can he handle the power?" Tommy asked as that was the question all rangers faced.
"That is entirely up to him." the man said to him.
Tommy wouldn't have accepted any other answer as there was no true answer, he happily offered his green ranger power "wait how will the Dino Thunder powers react to being combined?" he asked as he knew it was possible remembering when he had given Jason his shield years ago.
The man smiled picking up a staff with different ends as a projection of the four ranger armors appeared.
Tommy saw the Mighty Morphin red and green ranger suits combine seeing it take on the appearance of his green ranger suit, but took on the color red, he then saw Dino Thunder red and white and went under a similar process as the red dino thunder suit seemed to be the base, but instead of the white marks it had, it gained the white rangers black markings, the shield of the white ranger was the same but it was now red instead of white, and finally the helmet and while it was the that of the white ranger it had teeth markings within the visor which was now a crimson shade of red.
"5 suits seem appropriate." the man said to him.
"Can I ask something?" Tommy asked as the man nodded "you seem awfully invested in this kid and you seem to think these powers suit him, why?" he asked as he saw this man saw more to Naruto than he knew.
"Naruto Uzumaki, his family the Uzumaki clan has the talent of fuinjutsu similar to the power of symbol power which is why I chose the red samurai ranger." the man said to him as that was why Jaden Shiba agreed as he has shown him the Uzumaki's skill to it "Jason agreed for the same reasons as you, he saw Naruto's spirit and will worthy of being a ranger." he said as Tommy smiled and laughed at that "Nick was easiest as he himself was an orphan and saw a kindred spirit in Naruto." he said as Nick hoped Naruto's life would improve "Conner and Trent knew that Naruto would face many challenges in his life and had obstacles he'd overcome." he said having to give those two credit for their insight "and Casey Jones…he saw the what was in Naruto and what he'd need." he said as Casey truly saw what was in Naruto and how much of a challenge that'd be.
Tommy was curious about this man as he seemed like Zordon housing more than a few secrets here and there, he watched as the master morpher was turned into a metal band with a red gem with green and white highlights 'dino thunder?' he thought as a wristband was the most common ranger form for their morphers and in his opinion the best as it was easy and harder to remove and lose.
"I will send this to Naruto and I will let you rest in peace, farewell Tommy Oliver, Green Ranger." the man said to him "I am Hagoromo Otsutsuki and I shall see you in the distant future it was an honor to meet you, rest in peace." he said as Tommy Oliver was enveloped in a bright multicolored light.
There was more to the reason why he chose Tommy Oliver to come here, he wanted someone that could be a positive influence on Naruto as he remembered all the pain Naruto endured and when he heard of the passing of Tommy Oliver, he saw an opportunity as he pulled up an image of Tommy saving a little boy in a car saving him letting the child grip Saba pulling him out, but what truly got to him was how he told the boy he'd be a superhero someday a boundless certainness in his tone that made even him feel awe.
(with Naruto)
Naruto was about to stop for the day as Kakashi had shown them how to walk up trees and he wanted to master it, just as he was about to turn in and head back to Tazuna's home, he felt something slip out of his pouch 'a book?' he thought seeing a green book with a gold claw on it 'the history of the Power Rangers?' he thought to himself as that was an odd name and inside he saw a folded up map 'Uzushiogakure…home of the Uzumaki!' he thought dropping the map.
(with Zabuza)
"That kid's to stupid to run, you said he had a map?" Zabuza asked as Haku was keeping an eye on Naruto for what he had no clue since he didn't consider Naruto a threat 'a map huh.' he thought as it was possible Naruto was meeting reinforcements or perhaps was undermining Gato 'best to see which.' he thought as if he was weighing the scales things were in their favor, but if Kakashi was getting another team or even a chunin then they'd lose their advantage.
"Yes I saw the man quickly enough." Haku said to him as Naruto was very oblivious and didn't take in his surroundings in much as she was very close in the trees.
"Follow him, if it's reinforcements kill them." Zabuza said to her.
(3 hours later)
Naruto had wasted no time commandeering a boat for himself in order to make it to the land of Whirlpools, he made it past the whirlpools easily enough which he didn't seem to notice, but when he sailed to shore, he felt ill as he saw many skeletons.
Naruto felt much pain as on the way here he was able to find some history toward these lands and found out this happened 2 generations ago meaning any one of these could've been his ancestors, he made an army of clones to start burying the dead.
Haku watched following him easily enough having a bit of trouble with the whirpools, but an ice mirror to propel her high enough was all she needed to make it to land, she felt some bad memories as she saw him bury the dead 'is he like me.' she thought wondering if he was the last of his clan as well.
(2 hours later)
Naruto finished burying the dead and was looking at what remained of the village here 'are there…more like me out there?' he asked himself wondering if he had more family out there or if there were any Uzumaki left, he was brought out of his thoughts seeing an alluring crimson light emanate from a building
Haku saw the light as well and followed behind Naruto from a distance as she knew that a clan's soil reacted badly to those not of their blood it was why she was closer to Naruto than she'd like as he was safer to be around.
Naruto walked into what seemed like a main hall and saw a table with scroll and a metal band with a glowing red crystal on it, when he was close enough the band jumped right at him onto his left wrist, he panicked for a moment before seeing nothing was happening, he thought it looked cool and he then opened the scroll.
Haku was curious as she thought it was a summoning scroll from what she saw, she had heard of summons all varying as some were made for pure combat, some battle of colossuses, and some had a certain ability meant for travel or something else.
Naruto saw a message inside the scroll 'the scroll of the morphing grid, this power is not for the faint of heart, be prepared as this power is not just a gift it is a burden, one that can be heavy on one person alone, if you are reading this you are worthy of the master morpher, I wish you the best of luck and you are part of a legacy that has existed longer than your world knows, but don't lose heart because once you become a Power Ranger, you will not be alone as when you morph you will feel not just power, but all those who came before, now for a final piece of advice to activate this scroll and this morpher you need to only say this 'It's Morphin Time'.' it read signed by Tommy Oliver.
"It's Morphin Time?" Naruto said unknowingly activating the wristband he was wearing and soon transformed.
Haku watched in awe as Naruto gained what appeared to be chakra armor as she read up on it as she heard in the land of snow there existed ice users, but they used their chakra to manipulate the existing element.
(Side note this suit is based on the one from Super Power Beat Down Green Ranger vs Ryu only red)
Naruto examined himself and began checking himself out.
Haku sweatdropped as she saw he began making poses 'that armor has no faults.' she thought as it seemed very flexible despite it seem like it was made of metal.
"This is beyond cool!" Naruto said as he felt two things on his sides, he saw a dagger with a unique design and a sword
Haku was on edge now as chakra weapons or weapons like the sword Zabuza wielded had a certain aura about them that she had learned to pick up and those two weapons screamed power.
Naruto was still checking himself out and soon the armor disappeared "I should get back." he said to himself as it was late in the night and by the time he got back it should've been morning
(few hours later)
"He found chakra armor and weapons?" Zabuza asked as that was not what he was expecting as Haku informed him that Naruto went to his homeland 'the Uzumaki can't believe that brat is the real damn deal.' he thought as the Uzumaki while an ally of the leaf, they were on positive relations with the land of water and the mist 'that kid just became a bigger threat.' he thought as he had seen chakra armor as while not a major game changer it was a pain to deal with "and you said he had two blades?" he asked as the Uzumaki were fine at crafting their armor and materials as they made all their swords, their quality in smithing was as legendary as his former village.
"Yes, a green and gold dagger and a red and gold sword." Haku said to him "and I stole the scroll, but it became blank after he left." she said handing it to him.
'Blood seal.' Zabuza thought as all clans used them to hide their treasures "wait you said he said something to summon his armor?" he asked as he felt everything was important.
Haku seemed uncomfortable for a moment "he said 'It's Moprhin Time'." she said to him getting a blank look.
"Maybe that kid's idiocy is genetic." Zabuza said to her plainly.
"I came into contact with him when I was gathering herbs, should I try and make contact?" Haku asked him.
"And why do you think that would benefit us?" Zabuza asked her as while information was important and Haku was well developed for her age to trick that idiot he wondered what the gain would be.
"Perhaps an ally." Haku said making Zabuza even more confused "on my way here, I spotted one of Gato's bandit forces outside of town, Gato is apparently preparing in the event we fail or if your current state would occur once again after the battle and on the day of your recovery, he plans to lay siege to the town." she said to him.
Zabuza's brow lowered as those were things Gato didn't tell him 'little gremlin is probably trying to use us and take us out all in one fell swoop.' he thought as he now saw Haku's point "how often does this kid train?" he asked as Haku left just as the sun rose to collect herbs she doubted a kid that annoying was a morning person.
"He slept outside." Haku said to him.
Zabuza had a better opinion of Naruto now as one to train from dusk till dawn and to wake up in the place he trained was true dedication to being a ninja "bring him here, wait till sundown." he said to her.
(12 hours later)
Zabuza felt disappointed as he looked at a tied-up Naruto and even in his bedridden state, he was positive he could kill him "kid you are making it really hard not to kill you and it's kinda embarrassing you haven't escaped." he said to him as he was positive that knot was simple.
"What do you want you psychopath!" Naruto growled.
"To make a deal first off is I want information." Zabuza said to him "do you know anyone of a political standing in your village?" he asked as he found it odd two last descendants of two ancient clans were on the same team as a ninja as famous as Kakashi, he had Haku look into the girl and Haruno was of no ninja name he knew or in the bingo book so he felt she was filling a spot.
"Political standing?" Naruto asked him.
"Oh dear sweet god kill me now." Zabuza said to himself "like an advisor, someone on a council, a clan head, like that!" he said in annoyance.
"Oh well gramps runs the village." Naruto said to him.
Zabuza took a minute to process what this idiot said "are you talking about the third Hokage?" he asked needing to be sure and when he got a head nod "ok you just became infinitely more valuable." he said as that was the truth.
Zabuza explained to Naruto the situation with Gato and asked him if there was any chance for asylum in the leaf.
"Sure." Naruto said to him as if it was the most simple thing in the world.
"It's more than just making a request kid, can I ask for asylum under the Uzumaki clan?" Zabuza asked as clans could take people into their clan offering protection as if the person was part of the clan themself.
"Oh sure, but I want something!" Naruto said to him loudly.
'So glad Haku drugged those idiots.' Zabuza thought as his 'guards' were sedated courtesy of Haku, but even they may wake up from his voice "my sword is not on the table." he said as that sword was his life and soul.
"Screw your damn sword!" Naruto said to him uncaringly
Zabuza was a little surprised by that but interested all the same.
"Gato has been stealing from these people, I want to take everything he has and more." Naruto said to him.
"Ahhh finally." Zabuza said as this was something he could respect and be a part of "Haku will accompany you to Gato's current residence." he said informing him of where the money he kept as he didn't bank it which was dumb in his opinion as he was planning on robbing him in the end, but he saw something more important.
"You want documents?" Naruto asked him curiously.
Zabuza nodded as Gato had many illegal documentation and contacts and he felt that'd be a boon to the Hokage as some of them were in his land 'I'll have Haku convince the kid to be a little greedy.' he thought thinking the kid was in poor states given his attire 'Haku is smart.' he thought as Haku would know what was valuable and what wasn't "can I ask why you haven't transformed, that thing doesn't use blood just your voice right?".he asked Naruto simply "hey Haku!" he called out.
"Oh duh!" Naruto said to himself as Haku entered "It's Morphin Time!" he called out and in a flash of light he glowed red, but not before Haku made contact with him thinking he was trying to attack her master and got shocked.
Zabuza knew that was not powerful or intentional on Naruto's part 'that was weird.' he thought to himself knowing there were certain powers outside of chakra people wanted and tried to use them 'but that…was something else.' he thought thinking it was very vast and almost natural 'nature energy?' he thought hearing about sages in certain circles as there were less than a handful each generation 'no that light.' he thought deciding to keep this to himself, but before he could say anything else he saw Haku stand, but to his surprise he saw her wearing armor now as well, it was white with slight golden highlights on the sides.
Haku looked at her body seeing the armor she was wearing and before she knew it, she had a staff in her hand.
"What the hell." Naruto said in surprise.
Zabuza looked at Naruto and saw a green book that dropped when Haku made contact "kid, let me see that." he said to him.
(3 hours later)
Zabuza was a fast reader and while detailed each chapter or rather saga if the rangers and while a skeptic to most things, this book seemed to be rather detailed, too detailed to be fake, and the fact Naruto could do what most in this book could he was more than likely to believe, he kept Naruto and Haku informed as he read.
Haku was amazed to learn that she was wearing armor that belonged to the white Mystic ranger and that she controlled snow 'will it increase my powers?' she thought to herself.
"Hey kid apparently you have a message from the man himself." Zabuza said finishing the book seeing a hand written message, which Naruto took.
'Dear Naruto Uzumaki, it's a pleasure to write to the future ranger that'll take my dragon power, you've lead a hard life, but still managed to keep your soul, I was in awe of that and so was the dragon which is now a part of you, but it is not the only power you will posses as other rangers have deemed you worthy, I can't tell you why, but I know you'll do us proud, here are the remaining phrases to activat your four other armors, I want you to learn each of them as best you can and don't slack with those powers, I did that and it wasn't pleasant when someone copied my powers and used them against me.' it said to him.
"I have more armor!" Naruto said in excitement.
"He also said Jungle Fury, Dino Thunder, Mystic Force, and Samurai right." Zabuza said seeing the practical applications as he checked the books and examined them closely "I have some samurai style scrolls that should help you learn the sword." he said a little interested in this 'Fire Smasher' the red samurai ranger form possessed.
"What of the Jungle Fury one?" Haku asked her master as she and Naruto were going to have to play it by ear with Mystic Force.
"The styles varry but I may have or can get animal style taijutsu scrolls." Zabuza said as it'd sweeten Naruto's side of the deal for his protection "anyway you two have a jackass to rob and kid." he said getting Naruto's attention "stick to Mighty Morphin, you just learned you have other forms, but it'd be best to stick with something you know." he said to him as he actually thought Naruto would be safer as the shield that form provided was an extra layer of protection and it had weapons he couldn't possibly fail to use.
(30 minutes later)
Naruto had to admit he felt exhausted as Haku certainly was a quick one.
They surveyed the area looking for weak spots.
'He may be ignorant, but his stealth and analytical skills are high chunin level.' Haku thought as when Naruto scanned the area for points of entry, she saw he noticed a few more places than she did.
They both entered each having storage scrolls on their person each after certain targets.
As they entered Haku's armor disappeared and instead of a bracelet like Naruto's she saw she had a snow white colored choker with the same blue snowflake that was on her snow staff 'interesting.' she thought as after hearing of the power rangers and what they stood for she felt honored and somewhat humbled that she was considered worthy of this power.
(1 hour later)
"You left fakes?" Zabuza asked wondering where they could get that.
"Yeah he had a bunch of fakes for things he'd steal." Naruto said to him as it be kinda funny if he never realised his own collections were his own fakes.
Zabuza was rather skilled with numbers and even with the returns that'd go to the wave, they made a profit 'shit I should've robbed his ass sooner.' he thought as Haku stole a lot such as Gato's cigars which he had in bundles even more so than he would've thought 'that idiot smokes a bunch a day and is smaller than the kid, how is he not dead now?' he thought as Haku also stole much of the fabrics he had which were rather pricy.
Haku thought to herself seeing Naruto in his jumpsuit and her own gi outfit.
(1 hour later)
Zabuza still trapped in his bed was at least comfortable and had some entertainment as Haku made Naruto try on different clothing 'girl has an eye.' he thought as Haku was unlike most girls and was the definition of kunoichi as she picked clothes that were fashionable, functional, and useful.
Naruto was wearing a green short sleeve shirt, a red combat vest with a combination of black and white stripes, blue combat pants with with white and black stripes similar to the vest. Was
Haku kept her style, but now she had a new gi which was mostly white, Zabuza felt that was controversal as white seemed liked the worst color to wear in an area without snow, but the cloud pulled it off somehow and Haku's speed was it didn't make that much difference in the end
Zabuza watched as Haku offered to help Naruto train who his abysmal chakra control in the tree exercise and went farther in saying he should learn the water one as well
(next day)
Kakashi was walking on his crutches careful not to agitate his wounds as Naruto had been apparently gone for two days and had yet to return 'a day would be understandable, but Naruto loves to eat.' he thought as Naruto was a bottomless pit and always worked up an appetite when he trained, the jonin soon made it to a clearing and saw his student…with a girl around his age if not a year older 'are those new clothes?' he thought to himself as Naruto was a stubborn one and seemed unlikely to change…anything about himself 'well he is 13.' he thought as Naruto's birthday was a little over 6 months away 'maybe I should give him one of my spares.' he thought thinking about his copies of his books, he had incase the unspeakable happened to the originals.
"Sensei?" Naruto asked waking up seeing his sensei in crutches, Haku also decided to wake up at that moment hearing Naruto's voice.
"Oh umm hi Naruto, who's your friend?" Kakashi asked him unknown to them, he had a smile behind his mask "get a girlfriend while you were gone?" he asked wondering some things as he noticed the girl was wearing a mist ninja headband.
"They were training, did you seriously just start their chakra control tree walking exercise?" Zabuza said surprising Kakashi as he dropped a crutch and grabbed his kunai from his hollster as he saw Zabuza sitting on a tree branch "put that away, you and I are to injured and my student can kill you." he said as Haku would kill him before he got the chance to throw his kunai.
Kakashi saw what he said was true, but he also saw Naruto was not on alert and that he was still alive and not dead, so he was curious to why that was.
(1 hour later)
'He derailed Gato's plan…albeit accidentally.' Kakashi thought somewhat impressed 'but he still abandoned the area.' he thought as while there was no danger 'it's something I'll need to discuss with him in the future.' he thought as while he would not mention this in the report as it would paint Naruto in a poor light 'but I should've expected something like this.' he thought as the Uzumaki homeland was in the land of water and Uzumaki may have caught someone who knew the name's attention 'esspecially since he shouts it…all the time.' he thought to himself "wait you found a scroll?" he asked as Haku tossed it to him as Zabuza had her try and study it earlier.
"Weirdest scroll I've ever seen." Zabuza said as when he touched it blank, when Naruto touched it there was a message and a blank slot, which was curious as Naruto said he didn't sign it, but in the slot where summoners sign their name was Naruto's name 'why would someone give so much power to one kid?' he couldn't help but think to himself.
Kakashi had to agree as it seemed this scroll was meant for one person and one person alone and that person was Naruto.
"Anyway, I'm gonna watch this idiot train, get some entertainment out of it." Zabuza said to Kakashi.
Kakashi was unsure, but he then saw Naruto and Haku morph into their armor and began to spar 'this may be good for him.' he thought to himself as Zabuza was someone who Naruto could learn much from especially if he was taking up kenjutsu and training from a legendary swordsman was invaluable.
(few days later)
"So you went ahead and stopped the bandits?" Kakashi asked Naruto who nodded "did you put him up to this?" he asked Zabuza.
"Yep." Zabuza said as he watched Naruto take out one of the many bandit camps around the wave so he had Naruto and Haku take out one each…and steal any valuables along with weapons to sell.
"How many forces does Gato have now and how was he?" Kakashi asked him curiously and was wondering how Naruto did.
"Kid performed…decently and if I had to guess 30 bandits." Zabuza said as he watched from the distance when Naruto raided the bandit camp, putting some restrictions on him, not allowing him the use of clones and made him only use taijutsu and his armor and weapons 'kid was able to kill them at least.' he thought as there was a reason he chose these bandits for Naruto as Haku noted they were scum, which consisted of rapists, murderers, and if what Haku said was accurate some of them were cannibals.
Kakashi was a little annoyed when Zabuza informed him of sending Naruto to purposely kill bandits, but he knew killing was part of being a ninja.
(1 hour later)
Tazuna was in shock seeing Gato bloody and bruised on the floor of his home.
"We thought the wave might want to do their own justice." Naruto said as he was sure the people had a right to do whatever they wanted with Gato.
"Well I don't really care even after all this I still got paid." Zabuza said seeing no profit killing Gato since he stole a lot of his stuff.
(few hours later)
Zabuza watched in the distance seeing Haku with Naruto as they ate as the whole town was celebrating for their new freedom from Gato 'The Great Naruto Bridge.' he thought as he was seeing some of the positive appeal Naruto had as while he didn't see him as a ninja, he did see him as someone people could respect 'maybe this is why he was chosen.' he thought to himself.
(next day)
Sasuke was in a foul mood as while he completed the tree walking exercise, he hadn't gotten the chance to battle Zabuza or Haku and Naruto was training with them, he had to admit Naruto was catching up to him at a fast pace since they were competing and he saw the weapons he had at his side making him think having a weapon would be a good idea for himself.
(with Kakashi)
Kakashi knew it be impossible to hide Naruto's armor especially with his personality and showoff nature, so he and Zabuza decided to lie and play it as close to the truth as possible and say it was chakra armor and that it was made by the Uzumaki given Naruto went to his homeland "so how did Haku get her armor again?" he asked Zabuza.
"No entirely sure, Haku touched the kid as he was putting on his armor and she transformed as well." Zabuza said as he doubted the morphing grid was as random as that or easy since the armor Haku got was perfect for her "I have an idea." he said looking at Sakura "Naruto transform!" he said surprising Naruto who acted on instinct who transformed and in the blink of an eye Zabuza threw Sakura at him mid just like with Haku she got zapped.
Kakashi would've reprimanded him, but they went over and saw Sakura was just a little charred and burned.
"Well that answers that question, she's not worthy and Naruto has zero control on who gets what power." Zabuza said as his original theory was that the morphing grid gave people power to those it thought was worthy and whatever power they were worthy of, he understood why Haku was chosen as she was a kind soul.
Sasuke saw this as it was hard not to and wondered why Zabuza did that, but right now he was looking at Naruto's armor as it was impressive.
"You gonna give it a try?" Kakashi asked Zabuza curiously.
"Kakashi let's be perfectly honest…there is no way in hell I am worthy." Zabuza said as there was no way he was ranger material.
Kakashi had similar feelings as he read the book and so far it seemed that rangers were the epitome of goodness and sacrifice, with some of his more questionable actions he also doubted his worthiness.
(next day)
"Hey Kakashi whatever happened to those two idiot demon brothers?" Zabuza asked as they were minor help at best.
"At T&I." Kakashi said Zabuza nodding in understanding "hey Izumo and Kotetsu." he said to the guards.
Both men looked at the extra additions to team 7 and chose not to question Kakashi.
(20 minutes later)
Hiruzen Sarutobi was not in a pleasant mood…as someone had discovered Naruto's origins 'that student of mine.' he thought as this was due to a certain toad sanin and his perversity and a deal he made with their leader, who wanted to collect and he was in no way able to deny them as it would endanger Naruto more than he already was.
"Lord Hokage." Kakashi said knocking on the door.
Sarutobi was both glad and annoyed by the very timing of this "enter." he said seeing team 7 and their additional tag alongs.
Hiruzen listened to the verbal report and would later need to read the written one from all the members "Sakura and Sasuke dismissed." he said to them.
"Why does he get to stay?" Sasuke asked looking toward Naruto.
"Sasuke, it's bad manners to question the Hokage." Kakashi said as politely as possible.
'You're one to talk about bad manners.' the genin of team 7 thought in unison.
When they were gone Hiruzen listened to the rest of the report.
"So you are aware of you Uzumaki lineage." Hiruzen said seeing the look on Naruto's face.
"Can I ask you something?" Naruto said unsurely as this got everyone's attention as it seemed Naruto dodged his question.
"Go ahead." Hiruzen said wondering what it was that was at the front of Naruto's mind.
"My parents, was it because of the fox that I don't know who my parents are?" Naruto asked him ot knowing how else to ask him.
"Wait is he!?" Zabuza said as when he heard fox, his mind went to what that could mean and one thing made sense.
Kakashi didn't have his attention on Zabuza, but nodded all the same, he looked to Naruto feeling a pit in his stomach.
"Your mother was an Uzumaki, she was a kunoichi that could've rivaled my student as strongest woman in the nation." Hiruzen said with a fond smile remembering the very violent firey redhead "I can't tell you much besides that, but if you were to become a chunin, that'd change." he said to him.
"And the chunin exams are around the corner." Kakashi said as he saw the smile Naruto had.
"Then I will win it and get some answers." Naruto said as he knew the old man was in his corner, so he gave him benefit to the doubt for why he didn't tell him.
"Although Naruto…you have another problem." Hiruzen said tossing a scroll to Kakashi who opened it and a few moments later was frozen in shock dropping the scroll, Haku being closest picked it up and began reading "he's engaged!" she yelled in shock.
"I'm engaged to who!" Naruto said in surprise wondering how the hell he was engaged to someone.
"Got a picture?" Zabuza asked guessing this was some formal thing which included a picture of his betrothed "not bad brat." he said as for 13 year old standards she had a nice face and her emerald eyes were intimidating which was a plus in his eyes, and she had a nice developing chest…unlike his teammate.
"I was able to negotiate terms with them as they have a tradition taking men to their village to increase their strength." Hiruzen said as he was able to establish trade agreements and there was one clause in it that he was confident Naruto wouldn't fail as the clause was a battle and if Naruto won, he stayed and if he didn't he'd leave.
"A village full of women." Haku said her eyes twitching slightly "you will train till I am satisfied." she said dragging Naruto by his collar.
"Satisfied in what way?" Hiruzen couldn't help but ask.
"Hey as long as I don't have miny ice users to deal with I don't care." Zabuza said as he would give Naruto a certain talk about being in contact with Haku "any way we should talk about this." he said showing the green book he read with ranger history "also this one filled me in on the shitty apartment the brat lives at, he knows he's an Uzumaki, isn't there a clan compound?" he asked as he knew the Uchiha one was a bit vast and the Uzumaki one was made for the Uzumaki for the first Hokage's wife as the Uzumaki were to migrate here, but they all died 20 plus years ago.
"That should be easy." Hiruzen said as Kakashi informed him Zabuza wanted to join the village and how Naruto offered Zabuza and Haku protection.
"Here, to sweeten the deal." Zabuza said passing him the files he stole from Gato.
Hiruzen nodded as he skimmed through them "I'll have you reinstated into the leaf and put out a notice on your bounty here." he said to him as the leaf did have a small bounty, but it was mainly due to his identity as a mist swordsman.
"Can I get directions?" Zabuza asked wondering where the Uzumaki compound was as he had some business to attend to 'the art work and jewels will take time, the cigars I can sell to a bunch of stores for 80% and the silks I can sell for like 70%.' he thought as that was easy to sell.
(with Haku)
"Can I ask why I'm being punished?" Naruto asked as Haku was training him in and she was brutal, the bruises were proof of that.
"...I don't want you to leave." Haku said as that was the truth as while their time was short as less than a week was small by any standards, but their conversations and time spent together has meant a great deal to her.
"I won't leave, I'll win, I swear on my life." Naruto said pointing at his heart
Haku smiled as his smile was as bright as his spirit matched it "we really should learn more about our ranger powers." she said to him as in their time training she saw she was able to actually manipulate snow as well as ice and since they were the same element "you should train with fire nature chakra…after this is done, right now weapon control." she said as she felt the warmth in Naruto's blades when she told him to channel his chakra into them.
(next day)
"You're actually engaged?" Sasuke asked as he and Sakura were filled in on the upcoming battle.
Sakura was angry as she saw the picture of the bride Naruto was gonna have and felt very lacking…in every category.
"So when is this fight suppose to happen?" Sasuke asked them curiously.
"Today." Kakashi said as they were able to push it back from yesterday since they just came back.
"Can you win?" Sasuke asked Naruto curiously.
Naruto nodded.
Sasuke normally would've made a remark about how he wasn't being serious, but he saw the look in his eyes and nodded back.
(few hours later)
"We should've invited more people, we could've taken bets." Zabuza said as it was him and Haku, team 7, the Hokage, and the escort of Naruto's bride Tokiwa.
"Sensei can I ask what village this is?" Sakura asked Kakashi.
"An all woman Nadeshiko, the women there take husbands through combat when a man is able to beat them in battle, the only men in their village are the husbands, but even if they are ninja the men are basically used for impregnating whomever their wife is." Kakashi said to her hearing much about the village.
Sasuke and Haku shivered at that as being the last users of kekkei genkai made them extremely aware of what happened to people like them if they were the last members of their clan.
'Thank god my clan helped found the leaf.' Sasuke thought as that was his saving grace till he was of literal age.
'Thank god, Naruto accepted me into his clan.' Haku thought as her clan was basically absorbed into the Uzumaki creating a branch of sorts for any children she may have in the future.
They all saw Naruto and his bride Shizuka step onto the field.
"Dino Thunder Power up!" Naruto said loudly as he transformed into his new armor.
Haku smiled as she saw all of Naruto's armors and this one was the most useful as it gave him special powers of invisibility and super speed that was even faster than her, but there was a slight downside as it used a bit more physical energy as Naruto's body was malnourished and couldn't yet handle all the power, he could only use it wearing the armor 'it's best to get his body into proper shape.' she thought as she saw his malnutrition despite his physical fitness, Zabuza filled her in on what Naruto was and she did not care, but she did find it amusing when Zabuza sent his own glares at people when Naruto showed them around last night.
"C'mon kid win so we can go train!" Zabuza said to him.
Naruto nodded.
"How many of those does he had?" Sasuke asked no one in particular as he looked at the new armor Naruto dawned.
"Five if I'm not mistaken." Kakashi said as Zabuza nodded.
Haku saw Naruto take out a thundermax saber 'not a bad idea.' she thought as personally she'd have gone with the drago sword as it literally made projectile weapons of energy which made it even more deadly with his superspeed, but she supposed Naruto was hiding his best something she could respect.
Naruto and Shizuka charged at each other their blades clashing.
"Sorry, but I can allow you to win." Shizuka said to him.
"I don't have to win, I just need to make sure you lose!" Naruto yelled as he jumped back and had the thundermax saber into its blaster mode and shot Shizuka's hand making her lose her blade.
'At least his aim is better.' Haku thought as throwing projectiles was not Naruto's strong suit, but his aim was better than one would think 'he hit very close center.' she thought as his aim was around 8 out of 10.
'Well, at least I got the sword out her hand.' Naruto thought as he was aiming for the hilt trying to break it "how about a little hand to hand." he offered putting his blaster to his side.
"He learned the basics already." Zabuza said as before they left the wave, he got his hands on scrolls for tiger style kung fu, black tiger fist, and some old shaolin arts toward the tiger, so as they traveled back he made Naruto practice the kata 'I should look into some fox styles or maybe canine like.' he thought as he had read some things on jinchuriki as his former kage was 'all jinchuriki are effected by their tailed beast.' he thought as the whisker marks Naruto had were evidence to that.
Haku was smiling as she was a slave driver when it came to training and she made sure Naruto forgot all he learned at the academy as he fought like a drunken brawler and this style was suited to him as it focused on overwhelming the enemy with strength and agility and while unable to tap into the tiger spirit he did learn how to summon forth some of it's power.
Shizuka had no other choice, but to engage as his blaster changed things of their battle.
(2 hours later)
"See these are shinobi, genin, but still." Zabuza said as the fight had become bloody as Naruto demorphed to save energy, but still had his weapons by his side, something he noted could be useful "you could learn from this." he said to Sakura as he detailed her skills from the others, while her chakra control was nearly perfect, it was due to fact she had so little and came from a civilian family, she had high intelligence but her immaturity canceled some of that out, she had the discipline to know and detect genjutsu but failed to learn any herself having an aptitude for it.
Sakura gripped her hands as she didn't like Zabuza as he made her get shocked and constantly mocked her, yet no one aided her when he spoke.
"He truly lives up to his name." Tokiwa said as she had been impressed by Naruto's skill and adaptability as Shizuka was their top ninja of her generation.
Hiruzen nodded as he was astounded by the growth in his surrogate grandson 'learning a new taijutsu, picking up weapons, and his armor gives him a slight edge.' he thought as he was surprised Naruto had grown this much in the little time he had 'although, he did learn a B-rank in the span of a few hours.' he thought as the multi shadow clone took many a lot of time to master, it took Kakashi himself a week as it was one of the jutsu he learned instead of copied.
Kakashi was having similar thoughts 'maybe I should increase their training.' he thought as outside of their D-rank missions and tactics training he hadn't shown them much as Zabuza was right in his assessments and insults toward his genin 'I could have given Sasuke some fire jutsu to learn outside of his training, I could've had Sakura go to Kurenai for genjutsu training.' he thought as Sasuke's ability to use an element at this age was impressive so he should've expanded on it and Sakura he was sure he could've had Kurenai train her or at the very least point her in the right direction as none of her students seemed interested in the art and she was the genjutsu mistress of the leaf 'and I definitely could've helped Naruto more.' he thought as after Mizuki was found out thanks to said blonde they investigated his time at the academy and it turned out he was sabotaging Naruto as he was the taijutsu instructor and knew genjutsu as their were traces of his chakra on Naruto's tests 'what are you really capable of?' he thought to himself looking at Naruto as he delivered a haymaker to Shizuka.
Sasuke was impressed Naruto was lasting this long in a straight up fight as after all their spars in the academy, he was sure Naruto had no talent, but seeing him fight this girl made him think otherwise.
"Let me ask you something." Shizuka said blood coming down her lips "why are you fighting so hard, aren't you just like all the other men just wanting sex?" she asked as many of the husbands she had seen in her village were content on not doing anything than sleeping with their wife's, but with Naruto she saw more than that, she saw someone who had intentions that mirrored her own, he wanted to win, he wanted to succeed and improve, he didn't just settle for anything else but what he earned.
"Please, I don't give a rats ass if I don't have sex." Naruto said as many of the men there felt he'd change his opinion once he hit a certain age, while Hiruzen was thinking of what would happen if he met Jiraiya "I don't want something handed to me or to do something with someone that I don't care about, it's meaningless then!" he said as he got some respectful looks from the women who were watching.
Shizuka laughed as this was something new, as before Naruto there had been a few who had challenged her and lost spectacularly, yet he didn't want her, that was a blow to her feminine pride, but that made her interested in him.
"Now, I win!" Naruto said sucker punching her and followed through with an uppercut sending her flying.
Another Nadeshiko ninja went to check on Shizuka after a minute and saw she had been knocked out.
Tokiwa sighed as she knew the terms, but she was happy as she saw a small smile on Shizuka's face 'I'm a little jealous Shizuka.' she thought to herself seeing Naruto still standing panting in physical exhaustion 'you found a true man any Nadeshiko woman would go crazy over.' she thought to herself as she talked to Hiruzen and confirmed some things.
(next day)
"A scroll?" Naruto asked Kakashi seeing the scroll was a bit old.
"Yeah, your dagger seems like it could fit this style so I wanted you to learn from it." Kakashi said as he handed Naruto a scroll he wrote himself from his younger days when he still had his father's tanto.
"How's your new roommate?" Kakashi asked as Naruto was now in the Uzumaki compound and while larger than the Hyuga's it was smaller than the Uchiha's, but since Naruto was so kind and hated living alone, he offered residency to Zabuza and Haku, and it was assumed since Shizuka was his fiance, she'd live here to.
"She's nice, she got ranger armor." Naruto said to his sensei.
"You let her have armor?" Kakashi asked before seeing Naruto blush "so what happened?" he asked him simply.
Naruto blushed recalling this morning's events.
(flashback)
"Really gotta fix that private bathroom." Naruto said to himself as the compound had some slight issues here and there from lack of use, he walked into the closest bathroom, but was unaware it was already in use…by Shizuka.
Shizuka had luckily put on a towel as she exited the shower and blushed as she saw Naruto, both stumbled to get out of the other's way, but by whatever luck between them they both slipped on the wet floor Naruto landing on his back while Shizuka landed on top of him.
Naruto in his nervous and embarrassed state accidently morphed and shocked Shizuka off him.
(flashback end)
Kakashi chuckled a little "that's one brazzen fiance you have Naruto." Kakashi said as he laughed a bit "so what ranger power did she acquire?" he asked having some idea of what each ranger team could do.
"She got Ninja Storm red ranger." Naruto said to him.
"Oh already matching." Kakashi couldn't help but tease his student 'makes sense though.' he thought as Shizuka had wind chakra and the red Ninja Storm Ranger had power over air.
Naruto wanted to oh so ever flip off his sensei as Shizuka was changing her attire now to match her ranger color, keeping black as primary and adding red and gold to her Nadeshiko uniform.
"All jokes aside Naruto the Hokage actually wants to see us." Kakashi said as even he was curious as to why the man wanted to see them.
Naruto nodded following behind him.
(10 minutes later)
"Danzo, are you serious?" Kakashi had to ask as Danzo became aware of the new additions they had to the village.
"Yes, and apparently he wants to add his root to Zabuza's team." Hiruzen said as Zabuza was automatically given jonin with probationary level of security access to ascertain his loyalty along with Haku who was given genin, and with Shizuka's appearance he added her to that team to fill the slot leaving one spot open.
"Who is this guy?" Naruto asked never hearing of the name.
Both men gave Naruto a brief yet accurate skimming of this guy and what he did to ninja and how he played from the shadows to make things go in his favor.
"What about the girls, what if he finds out about the morphing grid?" Naruto asked as both men shuddered at that.
"Luckily for us, it's alive to an extent and I highly doubt anyone, he has in his organization is worthy, but that won't stop him from trying." Kakashi said as this was a problem "Naruto, you need to control your morphs and try to stop making people rangers by accident." he said as so far Naruto made two rangers completely by accident.
"Put me on their team!" Naruto said to them getting looks of surprise "we all know we're rangers, my loyalty to the village has never been in question, and if I'm on that team it'll only be us who know we're rangers outside this group." he said to him.
Kakashi was slightly proud as Naruto did make a strong argument.
"Do you have anyone that can fill in my spot for team 7?" Naruto asked the Hokage.
Kakashi wanted to cry now as Naruto really did take his lesson to heart, he saw the ghost of his former teammate for a moment.
"I'm afraid not, but your argument is sound and I do approve it." Hiruzen said taking a huff from his pipe "but what about you Kakashi, you know what will happen?" he asked the jonin.
"What's he mean?" Naruto asked him curiously.
"Danzo will likely fill your spot with his root operative, but I have had my runins with his group and am aware of his tactics, I won't be fooled." Kakashi said to him surely.
Naruto nodded having the upmost faith in his sensei.
(1 hour later)
"So I have 3 weeks?" Zabuza asked Hiruzen as the man was breaking many policies telling him when the chunin exam were to be announced to the other senseis "sure I have an idea how to train the kids." he said as it was mainly teamwork they needed to learn as Haku was at the top of her game, but still could only use her snowstaff limitedly, Shizuka was trying to learn as much as she could about the Ninja Storm rangers fighting tactics which he couldn't help with either which left Naruto "I have an idea to speed up the process, although it's a little extreme." he said to him.
Hiruzen raised a brow at that wondering what he had in mind.
(3 days later)
"Haku!" Zabuza called out as he was making Naruto use the Fire Smasher to learn proper control of fire, while he made him make clones that were learning wind chakra from Shizuka, all in all it was working to a degree as Naruto was often setting fire to his vicinity and burning his hands which was why he had Haku use her snow staff to put them out and cool him down.
"Is he making any progress?" Shizuka asked him wondering if all this punishment was worth it in the end.
Zabuza seemed to think so, as he had Naruto place his hands on a block of ice the other day and he left them there for an hour channeling fire chakra and while no one could tell if the speed of the melting increased or not, Zabuza noticed Naruto's hands were always warm and that he never complained about his hands being numb.
(next day)
'Well, time to move to the next step.' Zabuza thought as Naruto was now able to maintain the fire coursing through the fire smasher, so he wanted to see if he could use it in an active fight while concentrating on the fire.
(few days later)
"So how is Naruto progressing?" Kakashi asked Zabuza as they were at a tea shop.
"Fine, he still needs to work on fire exercises so I'm fairly confident he'll get them before the test." Zabuza said to him as he was confident Naruto could get it as it had been a week so far and his progress was amazing, he did have Shizuka to thank for fine tuning it as the girl majorly impressed him with her vindictive training methods as she watched each Naruto clone like a hawk and the one that made the most progress she popped allowing that knowledge to get to Naruto and his other clones and the other day, they had to bribe someone in order to throw Naruto in a meat locker in nothing but his underwear telling him he'd be there 12 hours.
Kakashi listened and shivered himself feeling pity for Naruto "that fiance of his sure is a task master." he said to him getting a chuckle.
"Kakashi?" a familiar voice said to the jonin as they saw Asuma Sarutobi, someone Zabuza knew and could respect as he was a guard to futal lord along with eleven others, their group as famous as the seven swordsman of the mist.
"Did you say fiance, talking about Yugao?" Kurenai asked till she spotted Zabuza.
"Guess you found someone who appreciated your style." Asuma said reffering to his mask.
"Hi guys and no Kurenai we were talking about Naruto." Kakashi said sitting next to Zabuza as Kurenai and Asuma sat next to each other.
"That was true, I thought my old man was having me on." Asuma said in surprise.
"Naruto Uzumaki, that goofball is engaged?" Kurenai asked in surprise.
"And he's unknowingly seducing my apprentice, in a couple years there will be an army of blonde brats." Zabuza said to them as he took out a flask and poured it in his tea till there was more booze than tea.
"Are you saying Naruto is becoming popular with the ladies Kakashi?" Asuma asked him curiously as he saw the slight disapproval from Kurenai not entirely sure she even knew who it should be directed at.
"More like stupidly falling ass backwards." Zabuza said to him "the marriage was predetermined and my apprentice is…a romantic." he said not sure how else to describe Haku.
Kurenai felt a headache as this would crush Hinata "how goes Sakura's training?" she asked as she was always curious on developing genjutsu users.
"Steady." Kakashi said as Sakura was able to make genjutsu, she was still learning how to manage and maintain it as it was a subtle art for a reason.
"Hey, can I ask a favor." Zabuza said to Asuma who looked curious "all my students have wind chakra and I have zero clue how to train them in it." he said as Haku had to learn that by herself.
"All of them have wind?" Asuma said as it was rare for ninja to get that particular element.
"Right now they are cutting leaves." Zabuza said as he got all his students doing that aside from their ranger training.
"I suggest maybe getting them some chakra metal weapons helps speed the training." Asuma said to him.
"Well I'm ahead of you on that." Zabuza said as their ranger weapons were all adaptive to their elemental chakra as well as his sword and regular chakra metals.
"I have some scrolls, but they are all C-rank in wind jutsu." Asuma said tossing him two scrolls.
"Great Breakthrough and Gale Palm." Zabuza said familiar with these as Gale Palm was the true treasure as Haku could use this to further increase her super human speed and use it to increase the piercing of her senbon and great break through could be used for offense or to increase the speed of weapons mid air, or send it back at the person as he had seen someone do that once with wind so strong it sent the opponents shuriken right back at them "you got anything for fire?" he asked as he caught another two scroll "Dragon Fire and Great Fireball." he said having faced these himself.
"So which of your students has both wind and fire?" Asuma asked curiously as so far he only knew his nephew had both elements and it was because he tested him early on so he'd know what to study in during his free time.
"Naruto." Zabuza said getting confused looks "he had to be transferred over to my squad." he said to him.
"Why have him transfered and who replaced him, no one is on rotation at the moment?" Kurenai asked as whenever someone was promoted and the team had a blank spot to fill.
"Lady you are not paying me enough to tell and I am seriously, not drunk enough to play this round of Q and A." Zabuza said to her not really caring for her glare.
'Oh this will not end well.' Kakashi and Asuma thought to themselves.
(next day)
"What are you doing?" Haku asked as Naruto had her and Shizuka morph and ask them to hand over their helmets.
"Well I've been reading over the book and have been trying to see if I could mimic the rangers tech and so far…I think I got something." Naruto said as he studied the book in and out "a few rangers had comms inside their helmets and morphers I wanted to see, if I could mimic that so we're always in contact." he said to them.
"Not a bad idea." Shizuka said in admittance "anything else you learned?" she asked him as she was still trying to get used to her hawk blaster.
"Put on your helmets." Naruto said tossing them their helmets.
Both put them on and soon could see themselves from Naruto's perspective.
"I added a visionary link for our visors, it can help us see through genjutsu or see from another's perspective." Naruto said to them "I also put silencers in our helmets so if we're talking amongst each other through comms no one can hear us." he said to them.
"So we maximize stealth and our opponents are ignorant to what we discuss." Haku said as that was smart as they would be aware to their surroundings and their enemies ignorant to anything they plan if they were being watched.
Naruto smiled as while he trained everyday he sent a clone off to read more and more about the rangers, but he focused on his and the girls as they were still learning.
'So he even works on his day off.' Zabuza thought to himself as he was around the corner listening in as best he could as he had given them this day off in order to heal, especially Naruto as the boy was still burning his hands 'that fire smasher thing is impressive.' he thought to himself as it truly did pick up Naruto's fire training 'a week and that kid has improved greatly.' he thought intending on having the kids learn the jutsu he got from Asuma tomorrow.
(next week)
"Alright, you are all half dead." Zabuza said as they had 6 days remaining till the chunin exams were announced "alright Shizuka and Haku, not bad." he said as their skills were pretty fantastic "Naruto you've trained, suffered, and brutalized your body and I can satisfactorily say not bad, but you still have one area you need to learn in." he said as Naruto looked happy at the first part, but was confused for the last part.
"What?" Naruto asked him wondering what he still needed to do.
"Chakra control, I won't lie to you, it's terrible which is why we're gonna put you through hell to get better, water walking with a twist, Haku is gonna freeze blocks of ice to your wrists and ankles and your gonna melt them off while standing on a lake while she and Shizuka fire at you." Zabuza said with a sadistic smile under his mask as Naruto paled.
(3 days later)
"And he lives." Zabuza said looking down at a exhausted Naruto floating in the water as Haku and Shizuka certainly didn't pull punches.
(next day)
Zabuza decided to test Naruto's chakra control range with the leaf exercise he got from Iruka, whom he had been introduced when Naruto was eatting ramen at Ichiraku 'one leaf would to much for his concentration.' he thought as while Naruto had gotten better his abundance of chakra was still hard to control so he got a bunch of leaves and while his concentration would be extended to multiple points it would help with his chakra not be focused in one point making it harder for him.
The test actually worked, well as well as it could as Iruka said the time limit was 10 minutes, but Naruto lost a few leaves and was struggling toward the end so he had to assume his chakra control was slighlty above average for him at least.
'He might actually be able to pull this off.' Zabuza thought as Naruto in his opinion was a well of untapped potential and if he had been trained properly for his abundance of chakra, he would've been chunin material out of the academy 'with his rate of growth he'll match Haku soon enough.' he thought as that was both terrifying and irksome as he had trained Haku since she was at the age of an academy student just starting and it had barely been a month and Naruto was catching up.
(next day)
"Finally a day off." Naruto said as they had been training furiously.
"Our competition has arrived." Shizuka said as they had passed a few hotels for Naruto's fix for Ichiraku ramen and they saw many ninja from other nations.
"Zabuza refused to tell me anything about the tests, so I went in search of genin of an older age and apparently the leaf has 3 tests, the written, the survival, and finally the tournament." Haku said to them.
Naruto felt a little self conscious about that as Zabuza had told him what Mizuki had done to his tests and it made him not feel as dumb as he felt, but he was still worried.
"Naruto, you provided a big help with our helmets, we now have an advantage no one will know we can see each other's work or talk to each other." Shizuka said with a smile as she knew Naruto was feeling insecure, but she wanted him to know his hard work provided them an edge.
"And you're learning ranger technology, it's ins and outs, I'm positive that makes you smarter than many people in the field of chakra technology." Haku said to him as it was true, she barely understood it.
"Speaking of the test, what can we do for the survival?" Shizuka asked as they had options.
"Well if we hurry, I can make some of the ranger vehicles." Naruto said to them "or…there's the more risky gamble." he said getting their attention.
"What do you have in mind?" Haku asked wondering what this risk was as gathering all the metals and items Naruto needed seemed like it would take longer than they had.
"Tiger spirit." Naruto said getting looks of shock.
"You've learned how to summon the tiger spirit?" Shizuka asked in shock.
"...No." Naruto said as they gave him blank looks "I need to be pushed to the edge, I'm going through the motions I just need to reach that one moment." he said as girls both looked at each other.
"We can push you over the edge Naruto." Shizuka said to him as she morphed.
"But, you will not like how." Haku said to him.
(6 hours later)
"What the fuck is going on!?" Zabuza asked as he was looking for his three stray genin and found Naruto inside Haku's ice mirrors looking like a pin cushion, while Shizuka was blasting him from outside.
"Let him out!" Kakashi said demandingly.
"No!" Naruto said standing up "I can still keep going!" he said angrily.
"Naruto the ground beneath you is red!" Kakashi said as this was insane.
"Naruto, can you keep going?" Shizuka asked him from outside and all she got was a defiant smile "Haku hit him." she said as she fired her blaster.
Naruto felt time slow down as he saw the countless needles be launched at him from all sides along with the fiery blast from Shizuka's blaster, he felt his eyes get heavy, before feeling something inside him build.
Kakashi readied his lightning blade ready to break through a mirror, but he was pushed back as he and all the others felt the intense pressure of wind blowing them back, but that was nothing in comparison to the loud booming roar coming from Naruto 'this sound is it the nine tails!?' he thought to himself.
Everyone looked at Naruto as he roared and they were in shock as they saw a transparent like structure over his face and it resembled a tiger and a fox.
(next day)
"That was pretty suicidal you know." Zabuza said to Naruto as he saw Naruto walk into the kitchen.
"So is training under you." Naruto said as he made himself some tea before Zabuza dropped some pills in it.
"Plasma pills, I gave you three you'll feel a little tired, but that's it." Zabuza said thinking Naruto would need all his blood he could get for the test 'he tapped into the nine tails.' he thought as he was still amazed about that, but a scary thought occured to him, Kakashi, and Hiruzen when they discussed it after he blacked out 'could he summon it as an animal spirit.' he thought as with the Jungle Fury power it was entirely possible.
Author's note-Reason for ranger picking Tommy Oliver and Jason Scott are self explanatory as it's mostly in remembrance of Jason David Frank, the Jungle Fury one was for taijutsu for Naruto to learn, Mystic Force is for chakra control and his dormant fire nature, Dino Thunder I chose Red and White for duality as Naruto is like Conner and Trent as he is a leader in his core and he does have an inner darkness, and Samurai ranger was for a new way of his sealing arts.