Naruto wakes up in a bed of flowers. He looks up to see a beautiful woman with black hair. Naruto leaned up cautious of the arrival of the strange woman.
"Who are you? Why are you watching me sleep?" Naruto asked getting up.
"I'm Haku. I was just wondering of you where ok." Haku said.
"I'm fine. Just tired. I got a little upset last night. My name is Naruto. Nice to meet you Haku." Naruto said holding out his hand. Haku took it.
"Nice to meet you to. Would you mind helping me pick out some herbs?" Haku asked pointing to a couple of herbs nearby.
"Sure." Naruto said bending down and picking out the herbs Haku told him to.
"So. Why are you all the way out here by yourself?" Haku asked.
"I just got upset and needed fresh air, so I took my anger out on some nearby trees." Naruto said pointing to some broken and slashed trees.
"I see. Why did you get mad?" Haku asked.
"Some kid made me mad. He questioned my pain and ignores anybody's that isn't his." Naruto responded.
"Hmm. Why do you have so much pain?" Haku asked. Naruto looked up.
"A lot of people precious to me have died. It hurt me a lot." Naruto responded looking to the sky.
"Well. You have people precious to you now. Don't you?" Haku asked. Naruto thought on Shijo and Gaara. Even thought about Shara, Muro, Mitobou, and the little rascals.
"Yeah I do, and I should do everything I can to protect them." Naruto said. Haku stood up.
"Thank you for helping me with these. I greatly appreciate it." Haku said pulling the basket of herbs to her chest.
"Hey Haku. Do you have anyone precious to you?" Naruto asked.
"Yes. It's someone I owe my life to. He's my purpose in living." Haku said.
"Seems nice. Well I better get going. The others might be worried about me." Naruto said walking away.
-Tazunas home-
Everyone is sitting at the table eating some breakfast. Except Inaru. That's when Naruto walks in.
"We have a problem." Naruto said. Everyone looked at him.
"Whay do you mean?" Shijo asked.
"Zabuza might have an accomplice. I ran into her earlier." Naruto said.
"How did that happen?" Kakashi asked.
"Well. After destroying a couple of tree I fell asleep in some flowers. After I was awoke to a woman standing above me and we picked some herbs." Naruto said.
"How does that lead to Zabuza?" Gaara asked.
"She didn't know I saw it, but I saw her hide a kunai she was planning to stab me with, and the herbs might be for any injuries you managed to land on Zabuza." Naruto said.
"Well. Then we must prepare for two now. Possibly more to make up the numbers we have over them." Shijo said.
"Yes. Kakashi Hatake. Do you plan on training your team. We will be happy to help." Gaara said.
"You guys are the same age as us. Wouldn't you need to train to?" Sakura asked. Shijo looked at her.
"They are very capable. I trained them myself. In fact the one that cleared all that mist was Naruto." Shijo said. Saskue looked at the blonde.
"We would be happy to take your help." Kakashi said.
-Backyard-
"All right. We will be learning the tree walking excercise." Kakashi said eye smiling.
"How do we do that?" Sakura asked.
"Simple. You put chakra into your feet, and then you walk up. It helps with chakra control and when you master it. It'll be second nature." Kakashi said. The team tried it. Sakura got it, Sai fell, and Saskue blew off the tree getting caught by Gaaras sand.
"Careful. If you force to much chakra you will be blasted off. If you do to little you will fall off." Gaara said sitting Gaara down. Saskue got an annoyed look and tried again.
"Ok team. Sakura since you got it you will go with Shijo, and you to Sai. Saskue you stay with me." Kakashi said.
"I want to train with the Blonde." Saskue said. Kakashi shook his head.
"Sorry, but it's not happening. Now continue." Kakashi ordered causing even more annoyance in Saskue.
"Gaara. Let's go to the nearby town to do some scouting on Gato." Naruto said jumping away. Gaara soon follows and they go to the city. Well what they are really going is Gatos estate
"So. What's it like?" Gaara asked now caught up to Naruto.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
"The Leaf Ninja?" Gaara asked. Naruto thought about it.
"Nothing really. I have no grudges against any of them personally. Well except Kakashi. I learned Kakashi was my fathers student and you think he would do his best to pay his respects to the The Fourth Hokage, but you'd be wrong." Naruto said jumping on another branch.
"I see." Gaara said. The two jump onto another branch. They where now in the city of The Land of Waves. There are no shinobi, but a lot of bandits and what looks like bandits. Gatos men most likely.
"It looks like Gato has really run this place down." Naruto said. Gaara nodded in agreement. The two jump to the ground. They soon find themselves in an alleyway. They quickly henge into some random people.
Naruto and Gaara walk into the street. "This is a hell hole." Naruto said. Gaara again agreed. Naruto no longer had his mask on. He started to like it, but no reason for it right now and it would bring them attention they didn't want.
"It's sad. Seeing these kid and people like this." Gaara said. Naruto though about how it use to be like that for them.
"When I get to Gato. I will definitely start putting money back into this land. Not all of it, but the bridge plus one or two docks should be plenty enough for this land." Naruto thought.
The two walk around a corner to see a gate. On it the gate said Gato. "This looks like somewhere a daimyo would live." Naruto said.
"I heard rumors Gato over through him and took all of his possessions to himself." Gaara said. Naruto looked back at the estate. The two continued walking. They both left a shadow clone to scout the area and relay any information to them.
The two soon go back to the tree line and are about to jump, but here a whistle. They both jump to the side. They look to see a very big man. He looked to 6'6. Made of nothing but muscle.
"Haha. You two brats are gonna be easy. I can't believe Zabuza sent me after you two. He should've sent me after the sword dude, but no. He's Zabuzas kill. Whatever you two will do for now." The man said walking forward.
Naruto pulled out his sword as Gaara made his sand swirl around him. They where ready to fight. "Who are you?" Gaara asked. The man smiled.
"Names Shinoto. I'm here to kill you!" The man said jumping towards Gaara. Gaara rose a wall made of sand. It barely stopped the punch from coming through it. "Impressive!" Shinoto yelled He punched again, but felt a pain in his leg. He looked back to see Naruto. Naruto cut through the man tendon.
"Get away from my friend." Naruto said. The man turned around.
"You think that hurt?" Shinoto said mockingly. The man rushed forward. He went for a right punch. Naruto was barely able to dodge. He jumped next to Gaara.
"Any ideas?" Gaara asked.
"We best not use Ninjutsu. We don't want to alert any one we're fighting." Naruto said. Gaara nodded.
"Planning won't work. You will be smashed!" Shinoto yelled running towards the two. Gaara used his sand to old him back. It only slowed him down. Naruto jumped on the the stream of sand Gaara was useing to slow down Shinoto. Naruto jumped on the mans back and stabbed him in the shoulder. Naruto went for the neck, but was swatted off and sent flying many meters.
Shinoto the punched the ground and lifting out a chunk of the ground and throwing it at Gaara. Gaaras sand was carved, but luckily his unbreakable defensive sand was able to stop it. Naruto ran behind Shinoto and cut the tendon on Shinotos other leg. Making him stumble. Gaara then sent sand on top of him.
"Sand Coffin!" Gaara shouted trying to crush the man.
"Did you get him Gaara?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know. The ground is very damp, so it takes more chakra to control it. I don't know if I put enough in." Gaara said. A hand from underground grabbed Gaaras leg. It squeezed breaking Gaaras leg. Shinoto jumped out of the ground and threw him into the ground.
"Fools. I have so much muscle on my body no simole blade will cut through it. You ar not strong enough nor fast enough to kill me. Now die!" Shinoto yelled. He tried squashing Gaara under his foot but was sent flying by a guest of wind. He landed hard.
"Are you ok Gaara?" Naruto asked. Naruto was surrounded by raging winds. The winds where moving fast enough it almost blurred Naruti out. It definitely made Narutos voice sound weird.
"What is that?" Gaara asked.
"My wind armor. I was saving it for serious situations and since we can't really use Ninjutsu. I've resorted to this." Naruto said.
"Haha. You think you'll kill me by useing that. Please!" Shinoto yelled rushing the two. Shinoto was running towards the two, but was knocked away and sent flying into a tree. Shinoto got up shaking his head. He felt a serious pain in his leg. He looked down to see his leg was gone.
"It seems that I'm not only faster, but this here wind armor gives me the benefits of cutting things I hit. I can't control the direction considering I was aiming for your head, but It's a work in progress." Naruto said.
The mountain man started to get worried. He holds his leg as he bleeds. He starts to scream as he was trying to alert nearby guards. Naruto swiped his hand at an angle with an open palm splashing across his chest. He then dropped the wind armor and dropped to his knees.
"Kyuubi...Do you mine...refilling my chakra reserves?" Naruto asked. The Kyuubi sighed.
"Fine." The Kyuubi said. Narutos chakra reserves where filled back up. He still hurt like hell, but he wouldn't die. Thank god for The Kyuubis healing factor. Naruto saw that the man had died so he quickly made his way over to Gaara.
"You alright?" Naruto asked.
"Yes. Good thing he underestimated us." Gaara said.
"Yeah, but we would've definitely beat him easier if we where in a different situation. Preferably one we're not trying to remain undetected." Naruto said chuckling as he picked Gaara up and quickly leaped into the trees.
-Tazunas house-
Naruto landed in front of the house. He walked into the house whith Gaara still in his arms.
"Tsunami! We need some help!" Naruto yelled.
"What do you- Oh my goodness! What heppened?" She asked.
"Nothing serious. We where just in a bad situation. No serious damage other than a broken leg." Naruto said.
"So what happened?" Shijo who was now standing next to them asked.
"We we're right to assume that Gato would hire extra help due to the number difference. We caught some meat head and since we where trying to remain undetected we couldn't use Ninjutsu and Gaara couldn't use any major sand attacks due to how damp the ground here is." Naruto said handing Gaara to Tsunami.
"Good job. What about Gatos estate?" Shijo asked.
"Very well guarded. He's most likely living where the old Daimyo lived. Not to mention how many street thugs there are. They shouldn't be to much trouble. The guy we fought had muscles made of steal and was at least high Chuunin low Jonnin." Naruto said.
"Good. Go to sleep. Gaara will have to stay back from the bridge. We however will go to provide backup to Team 7." Shijo said.
"Ok." Naruto said flashing away. Naruto walked into the room to see Kakashi, Saskue, and Sai looking at him.
"So what took you so long?" Kakashi asked.
"Thank god I remembered my mask at the last second." Naruto thought. " Me and Gaara got held up by some more of Gatos hired help. We fought a high Chunnin or low Jonnin skilled helper." Naruto said.
"Impressive. It seem Shijo is a very good teacher." Kakashi said.
"Yeah. He taught me Taijutsu and how to properly use a blade. I had to teach myself how to use Ninjutsu. Not that he can't use any. He just doesn't know how to teach it. Plus we had found some scrolls so." Naruto said slipping into his sleeping bag.
"How did you get to be so powerful?" Saskue asked.
"I just trained really hard." Naruto said.
"Shijo said you know many Ninjutsu and you are also a very skilled in Taijutsu. I demand you teach me everything you know." Saskue said. Naruto started to laugh.
"Haha. Yeah, and who the hell are you to demand such a thing from me huh?" Naruti said.
"I am Saskue Uchiha. I am the last Uchiha and I'm going to avenge my clan. To do that I need every jutsu you know. Now teach me them." Saskue once again demanded.
"Yadda yadda. Stop being lazy and go learn some yourself, or ask Kakashi. He is the holder over one thousand jutsus." Naruto said.
"You dare put respect on the Uchiha name. We are the most poweful clan in the world." Saskue said.
"First off. You where the most powerful clan. Two, your own clan got wiped out by one member whil my clan took three neighboring villages to take it down." Naruto said.
"Oh yeah. What clan is that?" Saskue asked.
"The Uzamaki clan. I am and one other Uzamaki with blonde hair are the last remaining ones." Naruti said. Kakashi quickly looked at him.
"You said a blonde Uzamaki? Does he have blue eyes?" Kakashi asked.
"Yes. He looked a lot like me. We both have blue eyes, but he had weird whisker Mark's. he also had some annoying oreange jumpsuit on." Naruto said.
"Where did you last see him. Please I must know." Kakashi asked.
"Somewhere near Lightnin Country." Naruto said.
"Oh." Kakashi said.
"Well...goodnight." Naruto said falling asleep.