6 hours had passed since the Hokage arrived at Naruto's apartment and now he was sitting on a chair beside Naruto's bed asleep.
The old heard grunting and he himself woke to see Naruto slowly waking as well.
"Naruto, are you ok" the old man questioned concerned
"Yeah, I've just got this weird feeling, I don't know how to describe it, I somehow feel stronger and more energetic" Naruto said jumping out of the bed having a sudden rush of energy.
"I'm glad to see you are well now tell me..." The Hokage started drawing Naruto's attention
"What the hell were you thinking making contact with the nine tails, you know if you lost control it could have taken control of you and destroyed the village once again?" The Hokage scolded
"Do have no regard for your life and the lives of the villagers, to make things worse we don't currently even have a seal master in the village" He continued
"But Jiji of course I would try see what the thing that practically a weapon on mass destruction that exist in my being would look like, and isn't this your fault for not telling me in the first place" Naruto argued back
"Naruto, I didn't tell you about the nine tails for your own protection"
"And you were fine telling the whole village that?"
"Naruto, I've made some mistakes in past, mistakes that I regret every day but you have to understand, it was for you own protection, for now at least, please reframe from any contact with the nine tails"
*Sigh* "Ok Jiji"
"Thank you, now get some rest you still have that mission tomorrow" The Hokage said before he walked out of Naruto's apartment.
8 hours later
"Team 7 reporting for duty Hokage-sama" Kakashi said with his team behind him in the Hokage tower
"Bring him in"
A grey-haired, bespectacled man with a large beard and dark eyes wearing a sleeveless V-neck shirt with an obi, pants, and a pair of sandals along with a towel around his neck.
"This is it, this is what I get for all the money" The man said in a drunken slur waving a bottle of sake in the air aggressively
" Blind eyes looks like she'll sit in the corner and do nothing, emo looks like he'll die trying and blonde looks like he's the weakest one"
Naruto gained a tick mark before shouting "HEY YOU DAMN OLD FOSSIL, LISTEN HERE IM NARUTO UZUMAKI AND I GONNA LEAD THIS VILLAGE ONE DAY. WERE STRONG ENOUGH TO PROTECT YOUR ASS AND IF YOU TALK THAT WAY ABOUT ME AND MY FRIENDS AGAIN ILL KILL YOU YOU HEAR"
"He's already threatening to kill out client" Sasuke said as sweat dropping along with everyone else in the room
"Tazuna I assure, team 7 is a well trained and versitile team and if that isn't enough Kakashi is one of Konaha's elite Jounin
"Humph..." Tazuna said before walking out of the room.
"Your mission will be to escort Tazuna back to the land of waves and protect him on your way there" The Hokage said showing them the mission report
"Alright team, pack everything you're gonna need for the next 2-7 days and meet me at the north gate 10 am sharp
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"Ok, you're all here" Kakashi said looking at his team
"Hinata you'll be at the back, you'll be our surveillance, Naruto, and Sasuke you stand on either side of Tazuna and I'll be at the front"
"Hai-sensei" the team said in unison"
XXX
"I expected a little more fun than this, we've just been walking for the 5 hours" Naruto said
"Slow your jets Naruto it's better if there isn't any danger to our client" Kakashi answered
"Yeah but like a bandit or two wouldn't hurt"
"Enough Naruto, you're stressing our client" Sasuke said
'Huh!?' Naruto said in his head noticing two puddles of water along with Kakashi as the team walked past
Two figures emerged from the puddles of water jumping towards Kakashi.
"Do it!" One of them said as they both lunged a shuriken like chain towards Kakashi. The chain wrapped around it and pulling it it tore Kakashi in shreds tho no one other then Tazuna seemed to be fazed.
Naruto and Sasuke both nodded at each other jumping kick both figures sending them crashing towards the ground
"I thought the brats were supposed to be weak" One of the figures said towards the other
"Yeah, they may be strong but we are the demon brothers of the mist, we just have to take care of them and kill that bridge builder.
"Right"
They both lunged towards Naruto and Sasuke swinging at them. Naruto ducked under the punch and viciously kicked the demon brother on the chin causing his teeth to break under the pressure while Naruto continued with the assault punching him four times in the abdomen sending him flying crashing towards a tree.
The other one of the demon brothers wasn't having an easy time himself as Sasuke caught his swing, kickflipped him sending him flying in the air and threw multiple shuriken at him impaling his body.
As he was still in the air he saw Naruto send his brother crashing into a tree.
'Damnit, Meizu, this is my only chance!' He thought pulling out his shuriken like chain again and lunging it towards Tazuna intent on killing him.
Hinata stood in front of Tazuna in the Jūken stance preparing to defend him
'This will give me a chance to try out my new jutsu'
"Hakkeshō Kōgeki Kaiten" She said spinning around releasing chakra from her tenketsu points creating a spinning dome once the chain had gotten close enough.
The dome of chakra dragged the chain, spinning it around with the dome dragging the demon brother in.
This was a Kaiten, the hyuga clan's pride and joy, it is mainly known by head of the clan and the clan's heir however Hinata managed to improve on it. The Kaiten is mostly a defensive jutsu meant to protect its user from most attacks but Hinata made an offensive counterpart to it.
She first draws in the opponent and starts the normal Kaiten however once she has the opponent snared and spinning she attacks their tenketsu points to assure that they are not able to do anything after while simultaneously spinning and Gōzu was no exception to that being paralyzed from the neck down.
"You can come out now Kakashi-sensei" Naruto said as Kakashi walked out from behind a bush reading his Icha Icha book
"Im assuming you did that to test us?" Hinata asked with Kakashi on giving her a nod
"Now you, you need to explain" Kakashi said putting away his book and looking at Tazuna
"This was supposed to be an escort mission with few if not none dangerous shinobi after us"
*Sigh* " Look I didn't have the money to hire an escort team to protect me against them" The bridge builder started
"My village, it's enslaved by a tycoon, Gato, he's after my head because I'm my village's only hope"He continued
"My village is very poor because we don't have much contact with the outside world, that's why I need to build a bridge there so we can establish trade and come out of our poverty but I can't because, Gato wants to keep it the way it is and he's after my head because of that"
"We're still supposed to follow the shinobi rules of our village, we have to go bac-"
"Not happening" Naruto said giving the bridge builder some hope
"Naruto, it's not up to you"
"Yeah but we out number you three to one, Kakashi sensei, you said that we're strong enough to take on higher ranked mission yourself didn't you"
*Sigh* "And to all want to continue this mission?" Kakashi questioned to see his whole team nodding
"Well then consider yourself lucky Tazuna" Kakashi said turning to the bridge builder
'Guess it's a good thing I told them to pack for a week'
"Just one question, what do we do with them?" Sasuke questioned pointing at the demon brothers
"Leave them here, they are wanted shinobi or Kirigakure, Kiri nine will probably come and capture them sooner or later" Kakashi said
XXX
"Well, well, well it seemed you failed the mission assigned to you" a figure said walking towards the demon brothers who had tried to crawl away"
"Wait, no, we can explain" Gōzu said
"I promised Gato that I would kill if you failed the mission, and the client wants what the client wants" the figure siad finally being visible"
"Zabuza, please n-!" Gōzu was about to beg but he was decapitated in the next second along with his brother
Blood splatters on the screen and Zabuza said..
"If you want something done right you do it yourself"
XXX
We cut to the team after another hour or walking.
Naruto then suddenly threw a kunai at a bush. A rabbit with white fur hopped out of the bush showing that the kunai had missed.
"KWAI!" Hinata squealed suddenly seeing that rabbit
'Their fur, it isn't supposed to be like this this time of the year' Kakashi thought
And unsettling mist then set in confusing the team.
"I guess we know why Kiri is located he-"
"DUCK!" Kakashi shouted suddenly as his team followed suit as a large butcher like broadsword with two cut outs, a circle close to the top and a semi-circular one closer the the handle impaled itself into a tree next to them
A figure landed on top of the sword and glared at the team with glowing red eyes and said "Well, if it isn't Kakashi Hatake, the copy ninja...
End