Naruto: An Uprising Shinobi

by Jamesco1292002

What if things were different? What if Team 7 was a four-man team? What if Sakura wasn't on the Team. What if there were more Jutsu? What if Naruto was more serious and smarter too? What if there was someone who was always by his side, ready to defend and encourage him? What if there was a new bloodline limit? What if all these questions were answered? AU, some OCs introduced.

7. Chapter 7

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

"SCREAMING/YELLING/SHOUTING"

"Jutsu"

"Tailed Beast Talking"

'Tailed Beast Thinking'

Sound Effects

Date & Time

|Location|

[Flashback]

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Chapter 7: Team Seven Vs Ice Demons pt 2

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*Previously on Team Seven Vs Ice Demon pt 1*

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[Flashback]

'Dream?!' He remembered himself as a lonely child. His home in the Land of Water had just been destroyed after the Mizukage's persecution of people with bloodlines. Soon he saw Zabuza standing before him. "An unfortunate child" Zabuza said. "A brat like you is wanted by no one. You will die with neither freedom nor dreams."

"Hehe, you have the same eyes as me" Haku said to Zabuza, striking some sort of emotion in the Demon.

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[Flashback Ends]

"Dream. Becoming a true shinobi is difficult for me. If possible, I do not want to kill you, nor have you kill me. But if you come at me, I can harden my kind heart and come at you as a true shinobi" Haku said to Naruto and Sasuke. "This bridge is the place we fight to connect our dreams. Please don't hate me I just want to protect someone precious to me, fight for them, and make that person's dreams come true. That is my dream. For that, I can become a shinobi and kill you if I must."

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Zabuza laughed at what Haku was saying. He knew that Naruto and Sasuke had not killed anyone yet and that they did not know what it was like to truly become a shinobi. Kakashi heard this, but couldn't see anything. The mist was too thick, even for his Sharingan. But he figured that Zabuza couldn't see either. Suddenly, about a dozen shuriken flew towards the Silver haired who just barely managed to block them.

"Impressive that you were able to see them Kakashi of the Sharingan." Zabuza complimented as he appearing behind said Jonin.

Kakashi turned around to see Zabuza's eyes were closed before the muke nin retreated back into the mist. 'Dammit!'

"You have overestimated the use of your Sharingan Kakashi. Acting as if you could read my mind and see the future, but the Sharingan is merely a trick. Basically, it involves hypnotism and attention to detail. By using those two abilities, you can make it seem like you are seeing into the future when you are actually predicting. The answer to combating it is simple. First, I use the mist to make that keen eye of yours useless. Second, I keep my eyes closed to prevent you from influencing me. However, I am an expert in silent killing. I can kill you just by hearing your breath." Kakashi was worried by this realization.

Leaving the Jonin to the thicken mist Zabuza moved towards Tazuna, hoping to take out the bridge builder but to his surprise Kakashi appeared in his way. Angered he swung his blade attempting to cut the Leaf Jonin into chunks of Meat.

Kakashi had just enough time to throw himself backwards dodging most of the attack; however, the blade still sliced across his chest, creating a rather large gash. Zabuza slipped back into the mist again and waited for an opening.

Kakashi had once been in charge of the ANBU and the Sharingan wasn't his only trick. He gazed at his wound and came up with a plan, making a few hand seals he slammed his hand on the ground, "Summoning Jutsu!" In a puff of smoke eight ninja dogs appeared, "Earth Style: Fanged Pursuit Jutsu!"

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Atsushi after dispersing Zabuza clones ordered Hinata to watch over Tazuna while he planted explosive tags all over the Ice dome. Once done he jumped a good 20 feet away from the dome then made the hand seal for 'explode' prompting numerous explosions to came to life.

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|Inside the Ice dome|

Haku grabbed some senbon and prepared to launch them at Naruto but some explosions rocked the dome disorienting everything within it including the ice user as he misfired his senbon.

The needles hit Sasuke in the chest in what appeared to be the liver. Naruto saw his rival slump to the ground before he too joined as a single needle that failed to take hit the Uchiha struck the blond in the neck at roughly the same spot where Zabuza was hit when he was 'killed' a week ago.

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*Part 2 starts from here*

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Naruto awoke again, this time finding himself in a dark damp sewer, the wall had pipes running along them some blue while some were red, the water was orange and reached his ankle. He heard growling coming from one direction and his curiosity got the best of him. He turned to find the source of the noise. Soon, he found himself standing in for a large gate.

"It's about time the two of us met." A strange andan inhuman voice said from behind the bars.

"W-who's there?" asked a startled Naruto.

"I been trapped within you for thirteen years and you still don't know who I am?" The voice roared sounding demonic and its roar sent Naruto falling back onto his butt. "Why don't you take a closer look and see." It suggested.

A faint light filled the room and Naruto could now see what was behind the bars, "Y-you're t-the K-k-kyubi no K-kitsune." He stuttered in fear not believing his eyes.

"Yes, and since you're here, that must mean you're in some sort of trouble." The Kyubi said to the teen.

"What d-do you m-mean?" The blonde asked still trembling in fear, "A-are you going to e-eat me or something?"

"No. Even if I wanted to, the seal on you that keeps me imprisoned would prevent me from doing such," It paused a bit then continued, "Plus human meat contains way too much fat!" The gigantic fox chuckled as Naruto trembled even more. "If I remember correctly, you were in a battle against a masked man."

The demon fox did his best to conjure an image of what was happening. The thing that shocked Naruto was the image of Sasuke taking the hits for him, saving him, but getting injured in the process. He saw that the Uchiha fall to the ground and immediately feared that Haku had managed to kill him.

"I can sense that your friend is still alive, but he may not be for long if you just sit there and do nothing like a blundering idiot."

"But nothing I do seem to be working!"

"Then I will give you a little bit of my power for now, but there is something I want to discuss with you later now Go!"

With that last bark of the Kyubi, Naruto was forced out of his mindscape. Finding himself in the real world, facing Haku and a dying Sasuke, the Uzumaki instantly felt a surge of power course through his chakra coils making him feel that singlehandedly he take on Kakashi and win.

Haku looked on in shock as a red aura began to surround his remaining opponent forcing out the needles that were struck in him before heaing the wounds. "W-what is that?" He stammered before Naruto released an inhuman growl and charged him.

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|With the Battle|

Outside Atsushi was muttering curses as he stared at the still standing ice dome. All of a sudden he froze up at the enormous amount of killing intent radiating from within the dome, which was followed by an inhuman growl. 'What is going on in there?' The Kishida wondered.

Hinata also felt the killing intent radiating from the dome and took a look, she noticed an orange chakra with her Byakugan, and how it had basically devoured Naruto's blue chakra. 'What is that orange chakra?' She wondered with a worried look on her face.

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With a strike of his fist which was condensed with Kyubi's chakra, Naruto punched Haku out of his mirror shattering it along with the dome collapsed. Haku managed to regain himself, but his mask was cracked and his head ringing, most likely suffering from some sort of concussion.

Naruto's next attack came swiftly in form of a strong punch to the chest that sent the fake Hunter nin skidding across the ground. As the Uzumaki lashed out once again, Haku's mask crumbled off, revealing the same boy he had met in the forest only a few days ago.

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[Flashback]

Naruto was asleep in the clearing, having worked off his rage by throwing himself into his training. Currently, he was surrounded by trees that were either burned, slashed, impaled, or smashed.

Haku had entered the clearing with a basket while searching for some herbs to help head Zabuza. The fake Hunter nin found Naruto and recognizing him as one of Tazuna's bodyguards knelt down next to him and contemplated on what to do, with a sigh he decided to shake the blonde awake.

'I'm too soft,' Haku thought watching as the Genin opened his eyes.

"Ugh..." Naruto mumbled as he rubbed his eyes. He opened them to see a pretty lady standing over him. Jumped to his feet with a faint blush appearing on his cheeks the Uuzmaki began to introduce himself, "Hello there, I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" The girl gave him a warm smile made he think, 'She's almost as pretty as Hinata-chan! Wait... where did that come from?'

"Nice to meet Naruto, my name is Haku. So what were you doing out here?" Haku asked fishing for information.

"Nothing much, just training," Naruto answered.

"Training, are you a ninja?" Haku asked, setting down the basket.

The blonde grinned, "Yep, I'm aiming to be one of the best there is."

"Oh? But aren't you strong already?" Haku asked wanting to see Naruto's goals.

The Jinchuriki shook his head negatively, "I need to be stronger, so that way I'll be able to help everyone who I care about." He answered.

"So you fight to protect your precious people," The Uzumaki nodded, "Then you're already strong," Naruto gave a confused look so Haku explained, "I believe that a person can be truly strong when he/she is protecting those who are precious to them."

Naruto smiled now getting it, "So do you have any precious people?" He asked.

"Yes, my... father is the only person left in my life,"

"Must be nice to have him,"

It was Haku's turn to give him a confused look, "What do you mean by that?"

"I'm just wondering how nice it might feel to have parents," Naruto replied with a hint of sadness in his voice.

Realization set in, "You're an orphan?"

"Yes," the blonde nodded, "I grew up all alone but I try not to think about since it doesn't matter anymore."

"I'm... sorry, it must have difficult."

Naruto waved the apology off, "Like I said, it doesn't matter."

"Well… do you have any friends?" The 'girl' asked changing the subject.

A change which was welcomed, "My teammates are." The Genin answered before releasing a chuckle, "Even though one of them has a stick struck up his ass and refuses to accept it."

Haku also chuckled a bit, "Anyway, it was nice speaking with you, but I should get back to my father in case he starts to worry," 'She' said before standing up and grabbing her basket, "Oh but I forget… I'm a boy."

Naruto stood there with his mouth on the floor. 'It's impossible for a guy to be almost as pretty as Hinata-chan! Gah! There it is again!'

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[Flashback Ends]

Naruto's attack immediately stopped there as He grabbed Haku by the collar and lifted him up to eyelevel."Why!?" He demanded, "Why did you try to kill him? Why are you doing Gato's dirty work? Why?!"

"Because I am simply a tool to be used by someone else to accomplish their goal" Haku answered breathing quite deeply. Naruto was disgusted at the answer and yet he couldn't bring himself to blame the 'tool' for turning out like that.

Seeing the disgust in the blonde's eyes Haku began to tell about his life in Water country, how his father killed his mother and attempted to do the same to him only for Haku to accidently kill him with an ice jutsu, then how he wandered around until he was picked up by Zabuza and offered a better life.

After hearing this Naruto now understand why he was so loyal to his master but he didn't like that the teen thought that he was a tool instead of a normal person.

"Perhaps but it seems like my usefulness is over." He heard Haku said as the latter pointed into the mist, towards the end of the bridge. The feral looking Uzumaki gazed over in the direction and for some reason, he could sense the presence of something, something with the intent to kill.

Feeling that his captive had began to struggle Naruto reared his fist ready to deliver a knockout punch to his opponent but was beaten to it by Atsushi who fired a Rakurai straight at the Ice user's face. Haku was launched 4 feet back before collapsing onto the ground unconscious from the attack. Naruto gave the Kishida a look which clearly said 'He was mine!'

"What? You seriously think I will let you have all the fun?" Atsushi replied to the look Naruto gave him. With a sigh the blonde pointed at the destroyed ice dome which confused Atsushi for a while before he immediately realized that he had forgotten about a certain someone.

"Sasuke!" said the green haired as he ran towards where Sasuke was lying on the ground. The Kishida checked for a pulse and found one before he began carefully removing the senbon from the Uchiha. Hinata and Tazuna were immediately by his sides, the former applying some of her medicinal balm over his injuries.

Seeing that Sasuke was in good hands Naruto stormed off towards the source of killing intent.

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Some minutes back

"How?" Zabuza asked as he was immobilized by the copy ninja's summons, "How did you find me?"

Kakashi pointed to the nuke's nin blade, "I used the blood on your blade to track you-" He paused as a wave of demonic chakra flooded the atmosphere, turning around he immediately pinpointed its origin in the direction of Naruto.

Zabuza also felt it and began to have flashbacks of his fight against the 4th Mizukage, 'One of those brats is a Jinchuriki!'

Thinking that the seal had broken Kakashi decided to end things, "I have copied 1000 jutsu Zabuza, but now you will see my original jutsu" The Jonin said, making a few hand seals before a mass of lightning shrouded his hand morphing into a blade.

"Raikiri! (Lightning Blade!)" The silver haired called as he dashed towards the nuke nin, intending to kill him with his signature move.

Said Swordsman visually panicked as his opponent sped towards him, his right hand covered with what appeared to be a blade of lightning. However said opponent was intercepted by the most unexpected turn of events as some man had come flying out of nowhere and took the Raikiri to his gut dying instantly.

Zabuza looked over at his stroke of just pure dumb luck then realized that the man was one of Gato's thugs. "Kakashi, release me so I can dispel the mist and we can get a better look at what is going on." He said. Of course, the Jonin didn't buy it.

"And why should I?" Kakashi asked pulling his arm out of the thug, "The minute I do that, you're either going to resume your attack or try and kill Tazuna."

"That man is one of Gato's men. Haku and I suspected Gato would try to double cross us and we were planning on killing him after we were captured the builder. If one of his men is here, then that only means that there is more of him here. I just need my arms to get rid of the mist." The nuke nin explained.

Kakashi thought about it, "Fine, but try anything then next Raikiri will be going straight through your head." He threatened before ordering the dogs restraining the swordsman to let go.

Now free Zabuza did as he said he would and released the mist.

Once the mist cleared, Kakashi could see what was going on. There was a group of roughly 50 – 60 thugs on the far end of the bridge and Naruto beating up one who was unfortunate enough to get too close.

Zabuza looked over at the battered Haku on the ground and his cold exterior began to melt. Now realizing that the rest of Gato's men could see him, Naruto retreated back to where the rest of the team was. He could feel the demonic chakra drain from him as he did so.

"So they are not dead yet, how disappointing" Gato called out, looking at the exhausted ninjas standing in front of him.

"Why are you here?" Zabuza simply asked.

"It's simple. I actually planned to do this from the start. I'm here to kill you" The Short man claimed with a sick smug, "It's what I do. I hire missing ninja to do my work and when they are done, I kill them so that I don't have to pay them. Nice plan don't you think? The only problem is you. Pfft, Zabuza the Demon of the Bloody Mist. You can't even live up to your name."

"Kakashi, this fight is over. I have no more reason to fight you or go after Tazuna." Zabuza said to Kakashi who nodded in understanding.

Gato walked over to Haku, who was lying unconscious on the ground just in front of the rest of the ninja and began kicking his unconscious body. "Yeah, take this you little punk. This is what you get for breaking my arm!" He shouted before pulling out a blade from his side. "This is what happens to a worthless tool of mine."

Naruto tried to rush to save Haku, only to be held back by Zabuza himself. "What are you doing?!" The blonde shouted, "Can't you see that he's going to kill Haku? Don't you even care just a little bit? He's done everything for you and you've done nothing but look at him as a tool! He's more than just that, you know."

"Stop kid." Zabuza said, tears rolling down his face, "I know what I need to do. Can I borrow a kunai?" Naruto nodded and handed Zabuza one of his knives. Zabuza instantly disappeared and reappeared behind Gato, driving the kunai into the back of the business man's skull killing him.

"You're sick disgusting man. Get away from him!" The Swordsman spat at the now dead body before picking up his battered apprentice and retreating back to where Kakashi and Team 7 were.

"Hey! You killed our meal ticket!" One of thugs said before he and the rest charged the ninja. "Kill them!"

Suddenly, arrows, knives, pitchforks hell even axes rained out of the still lingering mist, killing most of the bandits.

"If you come any further, the citizens of this island will kill you!" Inari shouted with all the villagers standing behind him.

"Inari!" Naruto called out.

"A hero shows up at the last second, right?" The boy said, returning a smile to Naruto. To give the remaining thugs one last push to flee, Naruto made about three dozen clones while Kakashi did the same, although most of the Jonin's were normal clones. At the sight of some many opponents the thugs fled.

"Sasuke-san!" Hinata said out in relief as Sasuke opened his eyes.

"Uhg… Hinata… Atsushi what happened?" Sasuke got out weakly before glancing around, "What about Naruto and that masked kid?" Atsushi pointed over in a direction and Sasuke saw Zabuza supporting a weak Haku. "Why are they not fighting?"

"Gato broke his deal and they are no longer our enemies" Hinata explained just as Naruto turned around and realized that Sasuke was awake.

"Dobe! That hurts." The Uchiha winced as his blonde teammate enveloped him in a bone crushing hug.

"I thought you died teme!" Naruto said, slowly reducing his death grip.

"Looks like I missed the main event." Everyone turned in the direction of the voice and located Areku who had a bit of blood on his Jonin vest but other than that he looked fine.

After explaining what transpired on the bridge to the Kishida Jonin, everyone returned to the village to recover. Haku regained conscious, but was groggy and Sasuke was still sore from being a human pincushion. As Kakashi said, they would be there for at least another week and a week's worth of rest was much needed.

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The following day

Surprisingly enough Kakashi and Zabuza hit it off as pretty great friends. They were now joking around over how much work it was to train a brat from a small child to seasoned Shinobi and were swapping teaching tips.

After learning that Zabuza is actually a member of the Mist's Revolutionary Forces who was only pretending to have gone rogue because he was building up funds to help his organization plan another assassination attempt on the current 4th Mizukage, Yagura who declared war on all bloodlines users in Kirigakure and by extension Water Country. Team 7 and the Swordsman then raided Gato's residence in search of any valuables or ownership documents. Naruto, Atsushi and Hinata were recruited for the operation with Sasuke and Haku being dropped due to their injuries. They were by given directions to their destination by some of the Wave citizens who knew where Gato lived but were too afraid to do anything in fear of being killed.

Using her Byakugan, Hinata pointed out that the building was currently uninhibited but filled with traps to keep unauthorized guests away. She also revealed where the traps were to prevent any of them from being triggered accidentally especially by a certain blonde.

It appears that Gato was extremely careless with securing his valuables judging by how easy it was for Areku to find the ownership documents of various shipping companies and the codes for the high security vault lying bare on top of his bedroom desk.

Once the vault was unlocked and opened the entire group of ninjas gaped at gigantic sum of cash present, about 205 million ryo and it happened to be ripe for the plucking. Gato's foreign accounts weren't forgotten but those were left for Wave to decide what to do with it.

Zabuza and Haku were given 54 million ryo, Wave and it's Daimyo got 138 million which is roughly one-sixth of what Gato took from the country, 10 million was set aside for the payment of the C turned A rank mission and lastly 3 million to Team 7 for the excellent job done.

The next week was quite eventful, as Wave's economy immediately recovered from its bedridden state due to the amount of funds that pumped in. Jobs, career opportunities were created and businesses flourished as the country regained its shipping and business rights.

Hinata later questioned Naruto about the orange chakra which surrounded him during his fight against Haku, the Uzumaki replied with a white lie which the Hyuga heiress accepted.

Tazuna was appointed Mayor by the Wave Daimyo for the risks he took while building the bridge. Zabuza and Haku were invited by Kakashi to help train Team 7 which both accepted. Haku made up for the injuries he inflicted on Sasuke by offering the Uchiha some tips on how to increase his speed and reaction time through the use of weight. Zabuza taught Atsushi a couple of Water techniques, but not the Hidden in the Mist Jutsu due to large amount of chakra control required to perform such a technique. Naruto learnt some Wind and Water Jutsu from Haku who had affinity for both Water and Wind thanks to his Hyoton (Ice Style) bloodline. Hinata practiced her Gentle Fist against the Zabuza's clones, it took a lot of convincing before the Hyuga realized that she wouldn't actually be hurting the original Zabuza just his clones which Naruto and Atsushi took note of since they also used shadow clones. Areku surprised everyone by drawing out a Katanna and challenging Zabuza to an all-out Kenjutsu battle which the later readily accepted, to the spectators the two opponents were like blurs as they couldn't keep with the speed they were using, even Sasuke had some difficult trying to watch them with his new awaken Sharingan.

The week soon came to an end and both parties had to return to their various destinations, Haku and Zabuza left before dawn saying something about catching the first tide, Team 7 left immediately after witnessing the naming of 'The Great Naruto Bridge', the name coming as a shock to the Konoha Shinobi especially the blonde Uzumaki.

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|Somewhere between Wave and Konoha|

Now Team 7 was about 30 minutes away from Konoha, the trip was an unusually quiet one, so quiet that it seemed that Naruto wasn't even present. The reason why? Because the Uzumaki was busy thinking about his most recent conversation with the Kyubi.

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[Flashback]

After separating from his Team, Naruto found a quiet place out in the forest and sat down, he began meditating, hoping to get in contact with the Tailed Beast inside him.

It took a while before he finally found himself standing in front of its cage.

"Well, it seems as if you still want to talk" the Fox said as it drew closer.

"I figured I would at least hear you out. So what is it you want?" Naruto responded staring at the beast eyeball to eyeball. Before he was scared by the sudden meeting after he had blacked out but now not so much.

"I want to make a deal with you, Kit."

The Uzumaki narrowed his eye slightly, "What kind of deal?"

"One that will benefit us both."

"… I'm listening."

"I will help you and will even give you the ability to use my chakra, unopposed in certain situations." He paused a bit then continued, "But… I expect something in return."

Naruto knew this was too good to be true. "Okay… So what is it you want?" he asked.

"Actually, its two things I want. I want my freedom from being sealed again after you die, and yes that day will come in time. I also want you to help me kill a certain cockroach."

'Great he wants me to be like Sasuke-teme.' The blonde thought with an eye roll, "So who is the certain cockroach?"

The Kyubi growled a bit, letting out some of his killing intent. "Madara Uchiha!"

"Madara Uchiha? I've heard that name before… but where?"

The Kyubi then explained to Naruto that he probably heard it during class as the battle between the 1st Hokage: Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha was one of the biggest pieces of Konoha history. Naruto nodded his head and told the Fox that was probably one of the lectures that he had not slept through, "But wait… Uchiha? Does that mean Sasuke is-"

"Yes, that little Uchiha brat on your team is most likely a descendant of Madara Uchiha, however, Madara abandoned his clan in search of power… me. He was bitter at the fact that his rival, Hashirama had received the position of Hokage instead of him, so he left the village. A few years later, he returned to destroy the village using my power but got defeated and was later killed. However the bastard must have found a way to cheat death because he returned 13 years ago and freed me from my previous vessel but before I could even take a free breath, he had me under his control again with that blasted Sharingan-"

"Sharingan? You mean like Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke?" Naruto asked, interrupting the Fox's story.

The Fox growled at Naruto for interrupting him. "Yes, like the eyes your teacher and that other brat you're with have. By the time his control ended and I had a free mind again, I was already being sealed into you by that other bastard the 4th Hokage!"

"Hey! Don't insult the 4th like that!" Naruto almost yelled. However, there was something he wanted to know, "But, why me? Why did he seal you into me?"

"All I can tell you is that with the seal that he used, I needed to be sealed inside a newborn infant with undeveloped chakra coils, otherwise I would destroy my host upon sealing. I guess you just happened to be the only newborn around." The Kyubi laughed at Naruto's misfortune, but quickly resumed the remaining portion of his story. "For the past 13 years, I have been trapped inside you. We haven't talked until now because you haven't been shocked enough to draw my attention until just yesterday."

"Ok, but if you want your freedom, then what's to stop you from destroying the village?" Naruto asked, now concerned with what the Fox was asking.

"I never wanted to destroy the village in the first place, but in order to ease your mind," The Fox rolled a contract out in front of Naruto, revealing his agreement, "This is a blood contract. Even to demons, this is binding. Basically, it states that I will lend you my chakra should you find yourself in a situation when it is required. With my help, you could become as strong as or even stronger than any Hokage. What I am trying to say is that I will help you along your journey to become Hokage but when you do, you will make sure that I am granted my freedom upon your death. I even promise to leave your village alone once I'm free so long as they don't try to imprison me. Furthermore, I will do whatever is within my power to ensure that you die of old age and not battle, although that will still be a possibility if you get too far in over your head."

"Wait… what do you mean? How can you help me survive till I'm an old man?"

"Have you noticed that you heal extremely fast compared to most people?"

"Yea, Areku-san told me that you were responsible for that."

"Yes I'm, now the seal allows for a small amount of my chakra to mix with yours, giving you that increased healing factor of yours and even that massive chakra reserve that you've developed." Naruto had already been informed that he had a massive reserve of chakra after he proved that he was able to create thousands of shadow clones on the night of the Mizuki incident.

"However, this seal does pose a problem. Although it is weakening slowly, allowing me to safely flow some more chakra into your system, it was initially designed to keep the two of us separate. I can't just give you all of my power at the moment because that would break the seal, killing both of us. In fact, the most I can give you right now is just a little more than I gave you yesterday."

"What?! But I thought you had a ton of chakra to give!".

"I do. The amount of chakra that I possess is so large, that it is considered infinite by your human standards, but this seal prevents me from releasing it all at once. If I try to force more chakra through the seal than it can take at the time, then I run the risk of breaking it, effectively killing the two of us. The more chakra that flows through the seal, the more stress it puts on your body. I have noticed that the seal weakens over time, which will allow you to use even more of my chakra in the future. I also believe that there is a key that can safely open this seal, allowing us to merge our chakra completely and you will have full access to my powers and I will have the power to kill that bastard."

Naruto thought about what the Kyubi had said, looking over the contract in front of him. The terms on the contract were exactly the same as what they had discussed. However, he saw a name on the contract that he didn't quite recognize. "Whose this 'Kurama' listed on the contract?" He asked.

"That would be me. Kurama is my true name. So what do you say Kit, do we have an agreement?" Naruto took a few more moments to think about what they had discussed. Finally, he figured that everything was okay and signed his part of the contract as Kurama did the same.

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[Flashback Ends]

Tired of the unbearable and uncomfortable silence Atsushi decided to do something about it.

"Hey Naruto." He called.

"Yes Sushi?"

"How about a race to Konoha? Loser pays for the winner's lunch."

The Uzumaki immediately grinned at that, "Oh I'm in."

"And you two?" the Kishida turned to the other Genins present. He received a nod from Hinata and an 'Hn' from Sasuke. "Ok we race on the count of three but first…" Atsushi turned to the two Jonins, one was humming a merry tone while the other was reading a smut novel.

"Areku-san, Kakashi-sensei," Both paused their respective activities and focused on the Genin, "You two are also included in the race."

"Wait a second, I didn't agree-"

"Of course we are included." Areku cut Kakashi off, the one-eyed jonin was about to protest but Atsushi had already started the race.

"Three!" All competitors raced off leaving the silver haired Jonin in the dust.

'Oh shit.' was all Kakashi could say before he disappearing in a shunshin.

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|Gates of Konoha|

The two eternal chunin weren't surprised by the sight of an orange blur zooming through the gates, no they were surprised by the sight of five more differently colored blurs which zoomed after the orange one.

Now the rankings, Naruto obviously bagged the 1st position, Sasuke and Atsushi were tied in 2nd, Hinata took 3rd, Areku 4th while Kakashi came in last which means he was paying for lunch.

"Since Naruto came first he decides where we have lunch at." Atsushi informed while laughing internally at the expression of pure misery their sensei made on realizing where Naruto could possibly choose to have lunch at.

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|Ichiraku's ramen|

Kakashi was currently crying anime tears at the amount of ramen the blonde consumed or was still consuming, the rest of his team had stopped at their second or third bowl respectively but Naruto kept on going even past his twentieth bowl.

'Note to self, never treat Naruto to Ichiraku's ramen unless you want to end up bankrupted.' Atsushi noted glad that he wasn't in Kakashi's shoes. Hinata and Sasuke also had similar thoughts along that line.

Luckily, Areku came to his rescue by paying half of the amount which Kakashi was severely grateful for, the one-eyed Jonin bid his team goodbye before heading over to submit the mission report to the Third Hokage.

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A/N: Wave arc finally complete, hoped you enjoyed it.

24/12/20: Minor changes.

Total number of words: 5867 words

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