Chapter 8

Loki pov

The second test was simple: each contestant was given 1 coin and had to get 4 coins to the guard at the outpost to pass and do so within 5 days. It only took me an hour to find my first victim and since it was a male from Iwa I blew his legs off with an explosive trap seal and took his coin along with his life. The second was a male from Cloud so he got the same treatment. Finally I found a chick near the end of the first day she was from Waterfall and was a very sad looking blond when she saw me she seemed to recognize me and simple tossed over her coin before sitting down with her head between her knees and crying about something that clearly had nothing to do with me so I just left without doing anything to her. It was a shame I didn't get to have fun in the second test and now I would have to wait 3 full days for the final test.

Day of finals

Oh how wondrous it is that Iwa can bring people in on time by scheduling things properly instead of waiting a month after the second test for no damn reason. I was currently watching Kurotsuchi kick some suna kids ass. The finals tournament had been disappointing as we were really the only ones remotely worthy of promotion, but at least the people who put the card together knew that and we wouldn't meet until the finals.

I only had one more fight before Kurotsuchi and it was some dude from cloud, I say dude not kid because he was clearly 20 at least."Hey no name aren't you ashamed to still be a genin at your age?" It was a fair question I thought.

"Why you arrogant shit my name is - - and I will make you eat those words!" He didn't seem to think my question was reasonable and even tried to introduce himself but information that utterly unimportant just does not register and I missed his name regardless.

His grand plan was to make the stadium floor electric so I would get shocked just from standing on it, but all I had to do was chakra hover over to him and knock him out in a single punch to the crowd's disappointment.

"The final match will be between Kuuuuuuuuuuuuurotsuchiiiiiiiiiiii" The crowd went wild at their favorites name "and Loki" It was blatant disrespect on my name but it would not matter a bit.

"Hey Kur-"

"No I will not make a bet with you proctor start the match!" She made the right choice but I still felt cheated out of a prize.

She threw everything she had at me but I had maxed agility so I played the dodging game until she got tired then moved in close and knocked her out with a simple chop to the neck. I walked away with my hands in my pockets before she even fell. I was nearly to the stadium doors when the proctor got over his denial and called me the winner.

Oddly enough there were no boos or jeers, only silence as I walked out of the stadium and out of Iwagakure itself.

"Anko do you think I made enough of an impression while I was there?" I asked thinking I knew her thoughts on the matter but wanting to hear them all the same.

"Normally I would say you made more of an impression than you should have but you actually didn't face anyone strong enough to make people think twice and instead just pissed off a country by stomping on its pride the whole time you were there." Her words did have some merit and that annoyed me a lot. Plenty of people would remember me as a menace but not a threat.

Konoha

"And that is the jist of it." I completed my report to Hiruzen on my own exams.

"Well I already knew you were ready for this before you left. I do hope you won't lord it over people too much." He said giving me an oversized flak jacket/vest.

"You grabbed a random returned vest because you knew there was no way in hell I would ever where it am I right?" I raised my eyebrow at the clearly not my size article and received an unrepentant shrug in response.

"So what do you want to do now chunin Loki?" Hiruzen asked with a smile that said I could only make good choices in his eyes right now. (Our report may have skipped out on certain details focusing only on the exam itself)

"It's time to build up a clan treasury." I declared making him smile even more. Without missing a beat he began to pull out scrolls from around his messy desk.

" Yes I thought you would say that since I believe I have your harem thing figured out now. I knew that money would be your next concern." He seemed proud of himself and he should be since he had me dead to rights on this.

"Well Anko, are you ready to go on a mission spree?" She merely grinned at me as we each grabbed a scroll and started to catalog them by type.

In the end we could pursue 3 bandit kill quests 30 missing nin quest 21 escort quests and no less than 59 deliveries. We ultimately decided the most efficient way to do things would be to take deliveries and escorts to the same areas and after delivering turn around and hunt down bounties in the area.

4 months later

We had been going hard on missions nearly one after another for the past 4 months. We had completed all the available missions in the box the Hokage gave us so now we were headed to his office to see about a few more before the chunin exams in Konoha started and Anko would get stuck doing the second portion.

Upon arriving in his office and requesting a new mission a whole boatload of opportunity came up. " Hey old man, we wiped out all those missions early and want a few more before the exam season starts."

"Loki-kun I am happy to see you too." He groused. Aww was he hurt that I acted like the asshole I am? "Well never you mind an old man's feeling I have a C rank that will tie you up and force you to relax a bit after the string you have been on."

"Oh, a forced working vacation, sign me up, this twerp doesn't know when to ease up it is ridiculous!" Anko piped in earning herself a swat on the rear.

"Ok ok fine what is this easy C rank anyway?" I grumbled

"Badger fetch Tazuna for me." The old man dropped a name I didn't expect to hear and my scheming mind started to race with possibilities.

"Here I am, where are the ninjas?" It took a minute even when carried along for the old drunk to arrive but when he did I had multiple plans in place and plan one was…

"Behind you." Standing on the wall behind him holding a sword to his neck.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh" Tazuna screamed and hid behind Anko.

"Well now that I can be certain of two things, the first being that you are not going to bitch about my age, and the second being you know where to go when trouble shows up. I have no problem taking this mission." Hiruzen had watched the whole thing play out with naught but mild curiosity and a small amount of amusement tinged with reproach.

"Tazuna-san I would like you to meet your escorts Anko and Loki. They will handle your mission." For some unknown and unknowable reason Tazuna wasn't in the mood to complain about this arrangement.

"Hey wait just one minute real quick." I butted in stopping Tazuna from leaving. " I was looking at the mission details here and I want to make a little bet with you old man."

(SIGH) "Ok Loki-kun what is this bet you wish to use to take advantage of an old man like me?" His response told me he knew full well what had really happened in Iwa.

"Just something you wouldn't give me if it were not in a bet despite the lack of value. Here are the terms. I believe that the mission details are false and this mission will involve A rank enemy nin." Tazuna was sweating bullets at my words and Hiruzen was just giving me an unbelieving stare.

"Very well since you clearly don't care to make an issue of this, and you are both capable of A ranks I will play along. What are the steaks?" He might have seen Tazuna's fear or he just wanted to have a little fun with me.

"I want you to let me sit with you in the fancy box during the exam finals." He seemed taken off guard by this request and he quickly replayed my hints no doubt realizing that he would lose nothing but still would never agree to this without the bet. "And if you win then I will teach you the trick to conquer paper work." His eyes nearly bugged out of his skull at this.

"Yes yes yes a thousand times yes I agree, and even if you do win all I have to do is gamble with you again and again until I have my prize hehehehe!"

We left the creepy old man laughing. I told Tazuna to meet us at the gates in an hour. I took Anko to a restaurant for lunch while we waited and had a nice meal with no interuptions.(Hey who knew that such a thing could happen in a story)

On the road to Wave

When I saw the puddle in the distance, I elected to just throw a USA class exploding kunai from long distance which got me weird looks until the viscera flew into the air.

"What the hell was that kid?' Tazuna actually was drunk enough to question me, it seemed."

"That was two ninjas who were hired to kill you, getting blown apart before they even saw you."

"Loki, how are you certain of this and how were you certain Tazuna lied on the job request?" Anko's sweet voice got my mind off murder for a moment.

"It's simple really if you do any business in this area you will know that Gato owns the place Tazuna is building a bridge, and from there if you give any thought to the matter you would understand that a bridge to a private, unimportant, and out of the way little kingdom is the last thing that a jumped up king would want. Finally anyone with the ruthlessness and resources to build a mini kingdom will also be willing and able to send ninja to stop that bridge from being built. Really the mission office should have caught this one as a false rank, but oh well more fun for us."

"Ok kid, you have me dead to rights on all of it so since you're here all I can say is thank you, from the bottom of my heart thank you!" Tazuna is actually a pretty sincere dude when you get past all the bs and drunkenness.

We took the boat across the water and while on it I prepared a super magnet seal and told Anko to seal away all metal on her including her mesh. I then had to threaten to cut out the eyes of the old pervert who I caught watching.

When we got to the fog I told Anko to cover Tazuna when combat started and sure enough the big ass blade flew at us not 5 minutes later. I quickly unrolled and activated the seal, pulling the blade to it along with Zabuza and Haku since they, like most every ninja, had a bunch of metal on them.

I knocked out Haku with an earth encased fist and beheaded Zabuza with a wind blade as soon as they hit the seal. From there it was just a matter of sealing away Zabuza in a seal for dead things, and Haku in a seal for living things and Kurochibochibooboo in a seal for things with long names. With Anko being used to me and Tazuna not knowing shit about who is who in the ninja world the whole thing passed without any commits.

We arrived at the house and were greeted by a question that needed an answer, 'do I pursue Tsunami or not'? It had been on my mind for a while and the problem was even though I could do it did not mean I should do it. Tsunami had a kid already and I could not even give the half hearted justification of taking them into a clan since, they likely wouldn't thrive there, and I didn't really want to take from their home.

In the end I decided not to treat her like an item on a predestined checklist. The job passed without incident for the first couple weeks but Inari somehow still decided to make an ass of himself with a big speech about his opinions. I decided to do something I wanted to do every single time I had to read that shit in fics in my last life. I scooped him up, took him to the nearby woodshed and beat his ass hard and long. When we returned to the house he made an apology tour before going to bed without eating. I explained to the people looking at me with horror in their eyes that the brat had it in his head that being sad meant you could do anything you wanted and get away with it, but now he no longer believed that.

With only a week to go I knew Gato would throw everything he had at us any day now. I trained a bit, but mostly spent my time on what I fought with most, seals. I had made dozens of new seals for various situations and opponents, and that included every member of the weeaboo club past and present.

It was three days before completion that Gato showed up with way WAY more men than in the show. He was just like any other rich useless dickhead on a construction site. He showed up during lunch! When I saw the sheer number of fools he brought with him I knew I had to either get some of them to leave or break Minato's most infamous record .

"Attention everyone in Gato's army. " I spoke through a bull horn seal. "You likely do not understand what you are dealing with here. I am a ninja and while it is true that a sword through the heart or spine will kill a ninja the same as any other human you must understand– NOT. LET. YOU GET. . I will kill you all before you reach the bridge so please for your own sake leave now." It was all the warning they would get. Only like 3 people seemed to think about their life choices and leave though.

"Are you going to run from a brat so young he has milk on his breath?! Every one kill them all!" Huh it seemed Gato was less prick and more business man this time around, but now I would do something that would go down in history as an atrocity probably.

"Fire style fodder annihilation wave!" I was exactly as the name sounded: a wave of fire that would only hurt a shinobi's hardened body but would kill any non chakra user it hit. It was by far the most far reaching jutsu in this world (human jutsu) so far and in a 40 second span of light and heat everything was gone. Not a man was left alive nor animal nor plate there were only charred corpses for a disturbing distance.

We left Wave four days later after the dead were cleared and the bridge was finished. There were celebrations a plenty, but those who saw the fire were quiet for most of them. I knew Anko was fine with it since she had offered to roast me some marshmallows while we cleared the dead away, but the workers who witnessed the attack were less than amused.

I insisted we stop and unseal Haku well outside of Konoha's barrier. The first thing I did was remove all clothing to check and yep she is in fact a she. After that I tied her up and woke her up with some smelling salts. "Wakey wakey ole heart breaky."

"Humm wha...Zabuza-sama! she tried to jump up but couldn't

"What's up girl you seem distressed?" I was going to go for a double break instead of consoling to get her under my thumb.

"Where is Zabuza-sama? Where am I? Who are you?" She was frantic.

"Your Zabuza-sama is dead and sealed in this scroll. You are with me in the forest. Lastly, I am Loki, your new master."

" You lie, you lie, Zabuza-sama wouldn't lose to you!"

"Take a look." I unsealed his body in front of her and let her cry for a good ten minutes before resealing it. "He is gone, you are mine any questions?"

"H-h-how did Zabuza-sama die?"

"I used a seal to catch you both in an instant and killed him with a wind blade." She seemed to be catching up mentally to the situation.

"I was a useless tool! You should just kill me!" She said with great self recrimination. It was the moment I was waiting for.

"Yes that is true but that is because Zabuza didn't know how to use you properly. I do, and I will use you to the utmost now stand and introduce yourself but know if you ask for death again i will punish you for it." Haku clearly intended to ask for death again but now I watched the words die on her lips before she stood.

"I am Haku, how may I serve you master?" She was already trained so all I had to do was apply a few seals and we were off to Konoha.