6: A Dangerous Mission: Journey to the Land of Waves!

Suiren Uzumaki: The disclaimer: I do not own Naruto cause if I did then Sakura wouldn't be a useless fangirl in pre-shippuden, and Naruto would have his father's smarts while keeping his mother's personality and knows about seals and how to use to them. I do, however, own Ryurama Senju, Yuki Senju nee Miran, Raika Miran (Senju), & the White Tiger Summoning Contract (A/N: If there is already a White Tiger Summoning Contract…then please ignore the last part). Remember to Read and Review to let me know what you think. Also, if you don't like any twist that I might make then stop reading and find something else to read plus don't leave a review that's a flame or I will find a way to block you. Ja ne!

...My Line...

A field and forest could be seen from the view of the sky.

"Sasuke, I'm at point B."

"Sakura, I'm at point C."

"Raika, I'm at point D."

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Squad 7 was one of their many missions that are D-ranked. Sakura, Sasuke, Raika, and Naruto where starting to get annoyed with them. The Miran let out a sigh that soon turned to a yawn as they waited for Naruto.

"Naruto, I'm at point A, ya know."

"Your slow Naruto," Kakashi told him. "Okay, Squad 7...Uh." The red hair Uzumaki rolled her eyes. "The target has moved. After it!"

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All four Genin followed their target.

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However, Raika was starting to get bored pretty fast.

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"Over there," Naruto told the other three as they moved through the forest quickly.

"What's your distance from the target?" Kakashi asked.

"5 meters," Naruto answered. "I'm ready. Give the single."

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"I'm ready too," Sasuke said.

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"Me too," Sakura chimed in.

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"Can we just get this over with, please?" Raika asked.

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Kakashi let out a sigh.

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The other three, however, rolled their eyes.

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"NOW!" Kakashi yelled.

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Everyone jumped out of their hiding place, but Naruto was the who caught the cat though he got his face stretched by the thing.

"Confirm ribbon on left ear," Kakashi said.

"Affirmative," Sasuke told him. "We've got a positive ID."

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"Right," Kakashi said. "Lost pet Tora captured. Mission accomplished."

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Raika took her earphone out of her ear just as Naruto opened his mouth.

"CAN'T WE GET A BETTER MISSION THEN THIS!" Naruto yelled. "I HATE CATS!"

The greenette looked at Sasuke and Sakura to them throwing their own earphone out of their ears making her laugh at their misfortune. She then pulled out a cat treat before kneeling down and holding it out.

"Here Kitty," the green hair Genin said.

The hellcat looked over at her for a moment before walking over to her and allowing the 12-year-old female Genin to pick it up while it eat the treat. With a smug grin towards her teammates, the hidden Senju turned and walked away with Tora happily snuggled in her arms.

...My Line...

Raika was leaning against the wall after Squad 7 had returned to the mission room reading a book on Fuinjutsu. While Kakashi stood near the other three and watched with a sick twisted smirk as a woman named Shijimi suffocated the cat. The silver hair Jonin really, truly, absolutely, hates that cat, enough said.

"Oh, my poor little Tora," she told the cat. "Mommy was so worried about her little naughty fuzzy cakes. Yeees."

Naruto and Sasuke watched in sick glee as the cat suffered.

"Stupid cat," Naruto laughed. "That kitty deserves to get squash."

"No wonder he ran away," Sakura said.

Hokage looked at the D-ranked mission scroll.

"Now then," he said. "For squad 7's next mission. We have several tasks." He then looked surprised. "Huh? Among them babysitting the Chief counselor's three-year-old, helping his wife do their shopping, digging up potatoes, and…"

"NO!" Naruto yelled as he crossed his arms in an X shape. "I want to go on a real mission! Something challenging and exciting! Not this kid's stuff! Come on old man!?"

The youngest of the team felt her eye twitched in annoyances, but know that it was a matter of time before Naruto said something.

'He's got a point,' Sasuke thought.

'But, he's such a pain,' thought Sakura.

'I saw this coming,' Raika thought.

"How dare you?!" Iruka yelled. "Your just a brand new Genin with no experience! Like everyone else, you start with simple missions to develop your skills and improve yourself!"

"Are you serious!?" Naruto asked. "Babysitting is not a mission it's just a stupid…"

Kakashi had punched Naruto on the head.

"Well, you put a lid on it?"

"Naruto," Hokage said getting everyone's attention though Raika was paying more attention to her book. "It seems you don't understand the tasks that you have been given. Listen, many request come into our village every day from babysitting to assassinations. These requests are carefully recorded, analyzed, and then ranked: A, B, C, and D depending on their difficulty. We ninjas are also racked by ability: Hokage at the top, Jonin, Chunin, and Genin at the bottom. At the highest level, we select the missions and assigned them to ninjas who have the appropriate skills and experience, and if the mission is successful, we receive a fee that supports our village and our work. Since you're untried Genin, just starting down the shinobi path, your given D-level assignments of course."

"So, I had this Tanguetatsu ramen yesterday and I was thinking Miso ramen today and…" Naruto was telling everyone.

"SILENCE!" the Hokage yelled.

"Oh sorry," Kakashi apologized.

"You always lecture me like you're my grandfather or something, but I'm not the little brat, who used to pull pranks anymore," Naruto told him. "I'm a ninja now and I want a ninja mission." He sat on the ground, turned around, crossed his arms, and puffed out his cheeks. "Hmph."

"I'm going to hear about this later," Kakashi mumbled.

"Naruto wants us to know that he's not a brat, but he's a former brat and so he wants a mission," the Hokage laughed. "So be it." Everyone looked at him surprised. "Since you're so determined I'm going to give you a C-ranked mission. You'll be bodyguards on a journey."

"Really?" Naruto asked as he turned around with a grin. "Yes! Who? Who? Are we guarding a princess or some big, wigged counselor?"

"Don't be so impatient," the Hokage told him. "I'll bring him in now." He looked towards the door. "Send in our visitor!"

The greenette looked towards the door when it opened to show a dunk old man making her scowl.

"What the?" he asked as he lend on the door frame. "A bunch of snot nosed kids?" He pointed at them. "And you the little on with the idiotic look on his face, you really expect me to believe that you're a ninja?"

"Who's the little one with the idiotic look on his face?" Naruto asked with a laugh as he looked around making his Sister, Sasuke, and Sakura walk up to him to show the height: Sasuke being the tallest then it was Raika, who was only ½" taller than Sakura, and finally Naruto. "I'll demolish you!" Kakashi grabbed Naruto by his collar. "Let me go!"

"You can't demolish the Client Naruto," Kakashi told him. "That's not how it works."

"And the green hair girl," the guy went on, "I have a hard time believing you're a ninja." Rin glared at him. "It seems to me you're just trying to get a guy to look at you."

Kakashi, the Hokage, Iruka, and Sakura freaked when the Miran moved so fast that Kakashi was unable to grab her to hold her and without warning the old man was pinned to the wall with a pair of dark wine-red eyes glaring at him.

"I hate being compared to useless, good for nothing, Kunoichi disgraces," the green hair Genin growled. "So, I'll watch what I say if I were you old man or you just might disappear in the middle of the night. Got it?"

The old man nodded a bit afraid of her and when the greenette let him go, he moved away from her. He then took a drink out of his bottle before introducing himself.

"I'm Tazuna, a master bridge-builder and I must return to my country for I am building a bridge there that would change our world and I expect you to get me there safely even if it means giving up your lives," he told them.

Raika walked out of the room after that heading home to pack her things.

...My Line...

The young hidden Senju let out a sigh as she walked into her apartment only see that the only female student of Tobirama Senju was waiting for her.

"Koharu-sensei," she greeted with a bow of the head.

"Raika," the elderly woman returned. "Done with missions and team training for the day?"

"Naruto managed to nag Hiruzen-sensei into giving us a C-rank mission," the greenette answered as she walked into her room. "I need to pack for it."

She pulled out a scroll that she opened before going to her closet.

"Let me help you then?" Koharu asked as she walked over to her sensei's granddaughter.

"Thank you, Sensei," the Miran said with relief.

"It was an oversight of ours not to make sure that you knew when to much is to overkill," she informed her. "At least, in terms of clothing. Weapons on the other hand…" Koharu looked at the greenette, who was listening. "There is no such thing as overkill when it comes to weapons."

"I see," the green hair Genin said as she blinked a few times. "That makes sense."

The older female laughed softly before they turned their attention to packing.

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A figure was seen speeding through the forest at a fast pace before going to the Village's gates to show Squad 7 leaving.

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"Yeeeah!" Naruto shouted as he threw his arm up into the air. "Alright!"

"What are you so excited about, Naruto?" Sakura asked.

"This is the first time I've left the village," Naruto told her. "I'm a traveler now, ya know!"

"Hey!" Tazuna yelled. "Am I supposed to trust my life to this runt? He's a joke!"

"*Laughs* He's with me and I'm a Jonin, so you don't need to worry," Kakashi told the old man.

'Why did we have to get this old geezer to guard?' Naruto thought. 'I'm going to cut him down to size right now.' Naruto turned around to point a finger at the old man. "Hey never insult a ninja it's a big mistake and I'm one of the greatest ninja ever! Someday I'm going to be Hokage, and you'll look up to me! My name is Naruto Uzumaki! Remember it!"

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The figure was seen once again running at high speed.

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"Hokage's are powerful and wise," Tazuna told him. "You are pony and brainless. The day you become Hokage, I'll sprout wings and fly."

"AH!" Naruto yelled in frustration. "Shut up! I'm willing to do anything to become Hokage; no matter what it takes and when I do everyone well admit that I'm the top ninja including you!"

"You can become Hokage 10 times over and to me, you're still a nobody," Tazuna stated. "A loser."

"I'm going to make you pay for that right now!" Naruto shouted as he tried to get to Tazuna, but Kakashi had stopped yet again. "Hey! Let go!"

"You suppose to protect the client Naruto," Kakashi told him. "Not attack him."

Raika turned her head towards some trees not that far from the gates with narrow eyes as Naruto continued to yell at the old man, who walked away.

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The three Genin moved to walk away as well before their Sensei went to follow them.

"Kakashi!" a female voice called out.

The Hatake turned around to see two of three members of Team Tobirama.

"Lady Koharu, Lord Homura," he greeted. "What can I do for you?"

"While we be happy if the whole team returns from this mission," Homura started. "Does not mean that we don't have a two that we want to return the village ALIVE."

"Naruto and Sasuke, right?" the Jonin asked.

"No," Koharu answered taking him by surprise. "Naruto and Raika are the ones. The Uchiha and Haruno are not important…at least not to us."

Kakashi blinked in surprise at that. After all, he understood Naruto, who was not only his Sensei's Son, but was also the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. However, he didn't understand why two of the village's elders wanted Raika Miran to return alive and not Sasuke Uchiha.

"Do you understand, Kakashi Hatake?" Homura asked strainly.

"I understand," he answered. "But, why Raika and not Sasuke?"

The two shared a look with each other before looking back at him.

"That will be made known when she becomes Chunin," Koharu stated. "Just know that between her and Sasuke, Raika Miran is the more important one."

The silver hair Jonin nodded his head before left to catch up to his team.

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It wasn't long before they were on the road tough the greenette looked around keeping an eye out for enemies because she was the only one out of all them that had good hearing like a tiger's hearing along with a since of smell. The Miran listened to her team talking while she listened for movements that wasn't theirs.

"Say Mr. Tazuna," Sakura said.

"What is it?" Tazuna asked her.

"You country is the Land of Waves, right?" she asked.

"Yeah," Tazuna answered. "What of it?"

"Kakashi-sensei, there are ninjas in that country, too, aren't there?" she asked.

"No," Kakashi answered. "There are no ninja in the Land of Waves, but in other countries there are Hidden Villages each with their own different customs and continents were ninja resign. To the people of this continent the existences of shinobi villages means strength, military strength...in other words, that's how they protect themselves and maintain the balance of power with neighboring countries. The ninja villages are not controlled by any government. Their independent and have equal statue. Now a small island like the Land of Waves, have natural protection from the sea, so there's no need for a Ninja Village. The 5 ancient lands exist that presses' shinobi villages are the Land of Fire, Water, Lighting, Wind, and Earth. They each precise vast amount territories. Together they are known as the 5 great shinobi nations. The Land of Fire has the Village Hidden in the Leaves, the Land of Water-the Village Hidden in the Mist, the Land of Lighting-the Village Hidden in the Clouds, the Land of Wind-the Village Hidden in the Sand, and the Land of Earth-the Village Hidden in the Stones. Only the leaders of these Hidden Villages are permitted the name Kage which means shadow; Hokage, Mizukage, Raikage, Kazekage, and Tsuchikage. These are the leaders, the 5 shadows that rain over thousands of ninja."

"*Gasp* then Lord Hokage is really important," Sakura said with a smile.

"Is that old man really such a big deal?" Inner Sakura asked. "I'm not buying it."

'I got him with my Sexy Jutsu, so he can't be that great,' Naruto thought. 'Ya know!'

"HEY!" Kakashi yelled.

'Idiots.'

"You all just doubted Lord Hokage, didn't you?" Kakashi asked. "That's what you were thinking." Sakura and Naruto shook their heads while Sasuke and Raika just remained calm. "Well, anyways." He walked up and placed a hand on Sakura's head. "There are no Ninja battles on a C-ranked mission, so you can relax."

"Then we're not going to run into any foreign enemy ninja or anything like that?" Sakura asked.

"*Laugh* Not likely," Kakashi told her.

Sakura let out a sigh of relief, but the redhead caught the way Tazuna looked down at the ground.

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After a bit more walking, they crossed a bridge and then to Raika's surprise they walked past a puddle that's not supposed to be there, so she moved to walk next to the Hatake.

"Did you see that puddle, Hatake?" she asked.

"Yeah, I did," he answered while sweatdropping. "Go back up front and pretend you don't know anything."

"Right," Raika agreed and then did as she was told to do.

Kakashi watched her for a moment, but he didn't know why Koharu and Homura care more for a kunoichi from a civilian background then the Uchiha Heir. Though there was something about her and the way that she cares herself that remembers hearing that only one other had, but he just couldn't figure out who.

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After a bit longer two Ninja came out of the puddle and attacked Kakashi by wrapping him up in chain.

"WHAT?"

"Huh?"

"What?" Naruto asked.

"Now!"

"Do it!"

At that both of them cut Kakashi into piece making Sakura and Naruto look shocked at where the Jonin once stood.

"K-K-Kakashi-Sensei."

Sasuke was fast to act when the two ninja went to attack Naruto with the chains. He jumped up into the air while pulling out a shuriken to penned the chain to a tree then added a kunai to help hold the chain in place.

"I can't get lose."

Raika then jumps onto their arms before grabbing them and kicking them in the face making them unleash the chain, but they went in different directions. One went after Naruto and the other went after Tazuna. The youngest of the team then jumped in front of Naruto while Sasuke got in front Sakura, but the one that was going after Naruto stopped short as the greenette and took his hand with her blade. The Miran then knocked him out to stop the screaming as Kakashi, who had reappeared, and took care of the other man walked over to the other three.

'Kakashi-Sensei...he's alive!'

'Show off.'

Naruto blinked a bit before looking over to see logs.

'He used the Substitution Jutsu.'

"Naruto, sorry I didn't help you right away," he apologized. "I didn't mean for you to hurt." He walked up to Rin and Naruto. "I just didn't think you would just freeze up like that."

'*Sigh* They saved me after all,' Tazuna thought.

"Good Job, Sasuke, Raika, very smooth you two, you, too, Sakura," Kakashi told the others.

'I was useless and Sasuke along with imouto were so cool like they've done this a thousand times,' Naruto thought. 'Didn't they feel scared at all?' He looked over at them as they looked at Kakashi who was tying up the two Ninja. 'They look so calm and not a scratch on them, and I was so lame. They had to come up and save me. Why can't I keep up with Sasuke or Raika for that matter?'

"Hey?" Sasuke called over.

"Y-yeah?" Naruto asked.

"You're not hurt are you?" Sasuke asked before smirking. "Scared cat."

"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled as he started to go towards.

"NARUTO!" Kakashi yelled over to him. "Stand still. The enemy ninja has poison on their clews, we need to take it out of you quickly or the poison will spread. We have to open the wound and drain it out for it's in your blood, so don't move around that spreads the poison faster."

He then looked at Tazuna.

"By the way Mr. Tazuna."

"Yeah," Tazuna said. "What?"

"We need to talk," Kakashi told him before the group turned their attention back to the ninja that were now tied to the tree. "Their Chunin from the Village Hidden in the Mist; their specialty is endless attack, the keep fighting no matter what the sacrifice."

"How did you know about our ambush?"

"A puddle on a clear day when it hasn't rained in weeks," Raika answered with a no duh look.

"In that case why did you leave it to the Genin to do the fighting?" Tazuna asked.

"I could have taken them out quickly, but then I would have learned nothing," Kakashi answered. "I had to know who their targets are and what they were after."

"Mmm…" Tazuna hummed. "What are you getting at?"

"This," Kakashi answered once again. "I wanted to know if they were after us, ninja attacking ninja or if they were after you, the master bridge builder." Kakashi looked at him. "When you put in your request; you asked for standard protection from rubbers and highway men. You didn't say there were ninja looking for you, hunting you down. If we knew this it would have been a B-rank or higher. Our task was to simply get you to your bridge and protect you while you finished building your bridge. If we had known we would be fielding attacks from enemy ninja we would have stuffed differently and charged for the cost of a B-Rank Mission. Apparently, you have you reasons, but lying to us is not acceptable. We are now beyond the scope of this mission."

Kakashi then looked at the greenette, who was looking up at the sky, with a fare away look in her eyes.

"We're Genin this is to advance for our level of training," Sakura said. "We should go back, and I really think we should treat Naruto's wound to get the poison out. Back in our village we can take him to a doctor."

The Miran sighed before she walked over to her best friend.

"Let me see your hand?" she asked.

"Mmm…Naruto's wound may become a problem," Kakashi sighed as he looked thoughtful. "I guess we should go back to the village."

"Don't worry about it," the blonde told her. "I heal quickly and the po…"

"Show me your hand!" Raika demanded making the civilian and her team to look at her surprised.

The Uzumaki did as told and allowed her to look it over.

"This is wound is no problem for me to deal with," she informed him. "It is the poison that I am worried about though."

Just then Naruto took a kunai and stabbed his wound. Everyone looked at him in surprise, well, everyone, but Sasuke that is, who wore an indifference look.

"Why am I, so different?" Naruto asked. "Why am I always…? Grrr."

"Naruto!" Sakura called out. "Stop that! What are you doing?"

"I worked, so hard to get here," Naruto went on. "Pushing myself till it hurt. Training alone for hours. Anything to get stronger, to reach my dream. I'll never back down again and let someone else rescue me. I will never run away; I will not lose to Sasuke. Upon this wound I make this pledge, ya know." Naruto then turned to the bridge builder. "Bridge builder I'll complete this mission and protect you with this kunai."

"You God damn idiot!" Raika yelled as she smacked him upside the head. "Why did you go and do that! Huh?"

"Naruto, that was cool how you got the poison out and all, but if you lose any more blood then you're going to die," Kakashi told him which earned him a smack on the back of his head. "Good idea to stop the bleed now seriously."

Naruto gave him a deadpan look at that as even he knew that he healed fast.

"Give me your hand," Raika ordered him.

"Raika, it's just a little scratch, ya know," he told her as he hides it. "So, don't worry about it."

"Give me your damn hand, Naruto," the greenette growled.

Naruto let out a sigh as he did as the green hair Genin told him to do.

"Naruto," Sakura said as she walked up to him. "You've got a since of abusive personality. It's called masochism."

The greenette narrowed her eyes as she stared at his hand that was already healing making her frown already knowing what's sealed inside of Naruto.

'The Kyuubi,' she thought with a sigh as the Hatake moved over to see. 'The wound is already starting to heal.'

Raika started to wrap the wound.

"A small wound like this is nothing for me," he told stated with a smile. "I always healed faster than any other.

The silver hair Jonin watched as his green hair Student started to wrap up Naruto's hand.

'This healing power…is it from the Kyuubi no Kitsune?'

He then blinked when the sound of a groan was heard making him to look and see that the Miran had tighten the bandage a little too tight.

"Don't act tough and hide your wounds," she told him. "I am always going to be next to you, you know?" The Hatake eye widen, but he wasn't the only one as the mask Uchiha was watching as well. "You told me that one day that you'll be Hokage and I, your ANBU Commander, didn't you?" The blonde nodded his head. "That means that you can't hide anything from me anymore."

'Do they have feelings for each other?' Sakura thought in surprise.

Sasuke just looked annoyed while Tazuna thought along with the same line as the pinkette.

"So, go for it, Naruto," Raika said as placed one hand on her hip, held the other in a fist, a large smile on her face while winking at him, and her head tilted. "Let's become ANBU Commander and her Hokage. And that's a promise for you to keep."

"Right," Naruto agreed with a nod and a smile of his own.

Kakashi felt like he was taken back to Team Minato as he looked at the two in front of him.

'Rin, Obito,' he thought.

"Oi, Hatake!" Raika called out to him.

Kakashi shook his head before the team and their client were all on their way once again knowing that they had to stay on their guard now for enemy ninja, but the biggest threat was yet to come.

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A hideout of sorts could be seen for a moment from an outside point of view before that view was moved to inside of the hideout.

"You failed?" a voice asked. "YOU FAILED!" The scene then showed a short man with a cane and wearing a business suit along with sunglasses. "What is this? Amateur Night!? I put out big money for you! I thought that your supposed to be hotshot assassins!"

Part of a male was seen with bandages on his lower face.

"Stop whining," the man said as he pointed a huge ass sword at the shorter man's throat. "This time I'll go personally. And this sword shill be the last thing that he ever sees."

"You sure about that?" the shorter man asked. "Apparently, Tazuna has some high-level ninja guarding him. And since the first attempt failed, they'll be expecting you back. They'll waiting, watching. It'll take someone with every advance skill."

"Who do you think you're dealing with? I am Zabuza Momochi, Demon of the Hidden Mist."