Ryuusei no Naruto

Disclaimer 1: Masashi Kishimoto is the author and creator of the popular manga and anime Naruto, and has ownership of all official characters, ideas, countries, backgrounds, etcetera from the series. Any and all official characters, worlds, informational backgrounds, etcetera of the very popular Rockman/Megaman franchise are owned by the company of Capcom, and Keiji Inafune (the man who has worked on almost all the Rockman games known to date).

Disclaimer 2: Any and all known official characters from the manga series BLEACH is owned by Tite Kubo. Anything else that pops up that's not original or is simply cameo I do not own. All I own in this are the story's originality and plot, the ideas to create this unique crossover, any and all of my Original Characters both with background and of filler purposes, original jutsu, techniques, Battlecards, and original countries and locations to expand the horizon within the Naruto world.

Author's Note: Yes, you may have noticed the altered disclaimer notes, and I am also sure you have taken note I mentioned the BLEACH manga series. But anyone from BLEACH won't be appearing yet until the Chūnin Exams Arc. I have plans for certain characters who I really like, and I know some of you may like who I have plucked to have a role in the Narutoverse. :D

With a note added here... Chapter 599 revealed Kishimoto trolling us over by finally admitting Tobi's real identity which was Obito, thus making all Tobi is Obito conspiracy theorists rejoice in victory. Now naturally this affects my story by a (bleep)-load of a lot. Therefore in this story I want to now announce without a doubt that Tobi in my story is NOT Obito, and that said Uchiha WILL REMAIN DEAD! Besides having been writing this since 2011, I got other plans revolving Tobi and our elusive Uchiha Madara.

For now, just read.

Follow the Bloody Mist Road

One week of various D-Ranked Missions and two misadventures later...

"This is it? Some chick with a flat chest, a boy with cockatoo hair, and some wannabe brat thinking he's in some street gang? They're my protection?"

The old drunk lost grip of his bottle of cheap sake as it shatters on the floor. Then, he swiftly follows, grasping his balls. After all, when a stone the size of the average adult's hand (that was also the Hokage's leaf-decorated paperweight) collides with a man's weakness between the legs, it would be very painful.

"Naruto!" Sakura shouted, although her Inner was snickering with a devilish tune.

Naruto, the culprit of the sudden assault, scoffed.

"We're also your only protection, and right now, after that insult, I doubt I'd want to protect some hapless drunk," Naruto said with a scathing glare upon the poor whimpering man.

"Naruto!? That was inexcusable!" Iruka shouted, appalled by the action.

"Whatever... I still want to take the mission anyway... as long as the drunk doesn't piss me off again."

Sasuke didn't want to admit it, but he was silently agreeing with the dobe; his hair doesn't resemble a cockatoo.

Kakashi resisted the urge to face palm.

"Well, Mr. Tazuna, you are paying for a C-Rank Mission, and this is it: a Genin Team and a Jōnin. While they are new, I do have plenty of experience."

He looks back at the Hokage, who was wiping off his paperweight with a hand cloth.

"Hokage-sama, when our client recovers... well, eventually, let him know my team shall wait for him tomorrow at seven in the morning at the East Gate. Therefore," he turns to his team, "pack up with the mind that the mission will most likely take a month."

Sarutobi sighed, as Iruka was helping Tazuna onto a nearby couch.

"Very well, but Naruto, next time reign your anger in..."

"Sure old man," he said with his usual grin back in place, which in turn made him smile back.

"You heard your sensei. So get plenty of rest. You're dismissed."

Kakashi walks out the door, and Naruto eventually followed. Sakura followed Sasuke who left as well.

Naruto split as soon as he left the building, and headed straight home.

So, he's from Nami no Kuni, isn't he? Last month when we traveled there, the lands were being taken over by some crime lord, wasn't it?

Yeah. Gatō of Gatō Shipping Industries Inc., so it would explain that old drunk being here. He's probably sick of Gatō controlling his home lands. If I remember, Tazuna is a carpenter, and also enjoys creating bridges.

And if the rumors are true, then this C-Rank Mission your team is taking will be upped to A, or possibly even S-Rank, if that midget tyrant decides to send Nuke-nin after his head. If someone like Tazuna builds a bridge that would ultimately connect Nami to the main lands of Hi, then he's a threat to that midget's tyrannical ruling.

Man... Shikamaru can be right on some things; it's troublesome.

Let's not worry about it now. Although, now would be the time to put your skills to the real test. You remember those weapons I pilfered from those Nuke-nins we saw when you were eight years old?

Yeah.

Take them with you.

Pyrus goes silent, leaving Naruto with his own wandering thoughts as he continues on his walk home, making sure not to run into any idiots that still try to "teach him a lesson". Upon returning to the apartment, and closing all doors, locking all windows, and shutting all curtains, he went to a wall near his bed, and spread a small bit of his blood over a seal which glowed upon its presence. A line draws itself down the wall, and like the medicine cabinet, opens. Several Fuuma Shuriken lay retracted on slanted shelves, while hung on nails were sickles and chains, large shuriken, and on the doors, each held a sword kunai and the right door having under the blade kunai a cleaver sword. But what Naruto took was a scroll with the kanji for "explosive metal". He then after a moment picks up three Fuuma Shuriken before the doors are shut.

=0=0=

Gatō sneers at Zabuza and the three ninjas with him.

"You better do your jobs right. That is why I hired you. If that bridge builder ever manages to fulfill his foolish dream of freeing Nami no Kuni, then I'm ruined."

"Don't worry, some worthless builder won't be hard to kill," Zabuza says, but then his Killing Intent spikes, freezing Gatō and his mercenaries behind the midget, "but if you double cross us, I'll be sure you are dragged into hell myself. Let's get going."

Zabuza, the two men who were known in the Bingo Books as the Oni Kyōdai (Demon Brothers), and a younger person wearing a mask vanished in Mizu Shunshin, leaving bits of water on the carpet, which left Gatō scowling at his beautiful Persian carpet tainted by water.

"Bastard... once he's killed Tazuna, make sure they die with him," he orders his men. They salute the midget, and on his bark of get out, they do so.

Zabuza and his accomplices appear in their own room off from the main building Gatō built to solidify his "reign" on Nami and the nearby Town of Sui.

"Zabuza-sama, just why are we doing this again? He's a greedy pig who'll betray us when we no longer have use for him," Meizu says.

"I know that," Zabuza snapped, "but even though the Yondaime Mizukage apparently vanished, those still under his power have the village under their control. Until we gain enough funds to supply Mei and the Rebellion, there's nothing we can do. Working for that greedy pig is something we'll have to toughen up and accept. But that doesn't mean we can rob his ass blind when he does betray us."

"This sucks," Gōzu comments, as Meizu nods to his brother's words.

"You know Mei-chan will not like what we're doing, Zabuza-sama," Haku told the swordsman, taking off her mask and revealing her face.

"It's not like I left her stranded at a church or something," he grunted, "She'll understand when I explain it to her with one of my crocodile summons."

If she doesn't melt my balls off first, he adds in thought.

An angry Terumī Mei was like telling the devil to suck it, complete with a D-Generation X crotch chop.

Back in the office:

"You do know killing some worthless civilian won't be easy, right, Gatō?"

Gatō jumped at the voice, as he dug into his desk, and pulled off an old handheld gun he acquired from his businesses in Ameroppa, and aimed everywhere.

"Who's there? Guards! Come quick!"

"Oh, don't worry about your worthless Ronin; they can't hear a damn word. I sealed all sound from being heard outside."

It was night time, and the only light in the room came from his expensive-looking desk lamp that only illuminated him, some paperwork on the desk, and the glint of the surface of the dirty silver gun.

"However... I come here with an offering... one that will solve all of your problems of killing the man you put a hit on, and those sneaky Nuke-nin you eventually plan to double cross. And it all comes with this..."

In a flare in the darkness of the room, a yellow-colored spirit or ghostly demon in the eyes of Gatō, materialized. The bodiless voice chuckles in amusement at the emotion that radiated from Gatō.

"And all you have to do to gain this power to crush anybody who dares oppose your views of domination is say these two words: Denpa Henkan. What do you say, Gatō? Will you accept, and kill anybody who stands in your way or decline, and be forced to waste your valuable and precious resources to get rid of loose-ends such as Zabuza and his group, Tazuna, and his protection he'll eventually hire from the village of Konoha?"

Gatō sweated, but the shadow just laughs at him.

"You want power the easy way, or the hard way, Gatō? Choose."

"Fine! I want it! But I know you have an ulterior motive! What is it you want?"

From the shadows, a figure emerges into the dim light of the lamp, and flashes an evil smile. The smile was all Gatō could make out, for the shadows seemed to willingly hide the rest of his identity.

"The death of Uzumaki Naruto, one of the ninjas that I know will be one of the guards for your target, Tazuna. Regardless of his death or not, Brachio's power is yours to command."

And then he vanishes before his eyes, leaving Gatō with the yellow sea creature-looking demon thing. Then, it transforms into a ball of light and enters the man's chest, surprising him as well as horrifying him. But instead of feeling pain like he had expected, he felt power pulsing deep inside of him, almost washing off his body in waves. The power pulsed and died, knocking his expensive lamp to the ground and shattering, blanketing the room in complete black. Gatō gains an evil smile of his own and his laughter is all that is heard in that darkened room.

=0=0=

It's been two days, and they had crossed quiet a distance from Konoha. It was a bit quiet, as no one was saying anything or holding conversation, unless you count Sakura lovingly following Sasuke, who was brooding as usual, and Kakashi with Tazuna reading his book (while the drunkard would drink).

I'm bored, Naruto said.

Deal with it, skipper. Besides, I detect small traces of chakra in the air... and it hasn't rained in over a week so the puddle looks like a dead giveaway.

Up ahead, was the aforementioned puddle.

Hope I can test out those Kunai Swords I brought with me, Naruto replied with an evident of glee.

I still say you should ask for training tips from that girl who has a fetish for all things sharp and pointy, Pyrus told Naruto.

Fetish?

Yes, Naruto, a fetish. I'm sure she sleeps with that scroll of hers, spooning it like lovers would to one another.

Yeesh, Pyrus, I don't need these kinds of thoughts!

Pyrus just snickered.

In Konoha, Tenten sneezed, and Neji shouted when one of her thrown kunai implanted into his rear end. Thankfully the blade was dull enough not to cause any serious injury, but Neji now requires a trip to the proctologist. Neji had unwillingly joined the few men in the entire world who has had... erm, kunai in the ass.

Back to that untitled path, Kakashi had slowly leaned back from the group as they passed by the puddle. Suddenly chains rips through the water, ensnares Kakashi, and with a pull, he was torn to shreds. Sakura's high-pitched scream of horror soon sends her into the realm of dreams. In other words, she passed out seeing her sensei get killed. Naruto reacted first as the Oni Kyōdai jumped from the water puddle and charged them. He pulled a scroll and in a blast of smoke, the claw weapons were held in a block by two Kunai Swords, held by Naruto, who bit down on the now empty scroll in his mouth.

Must be Gatō's henchmen I reckon.

But this is the Oni Kyōdai! They're like on the scale of Level 4 viruses in terms of strength!

Move it Naruto!

The Oni Kyōdai wised up and backed off, faking the boy out before throwing their chains. But a kunai shot out and was pinned to the nearby tree. Sasuke held another kunai ready. With growls, they pressed buttons on their gauntlets to disengage the spiked chains. Naruto shifted his hold on his weapons so that he was now grasping onto the ringed ends, effectively holding the weapons at length in similarity to the Blaze Cutter.

"Sasuke! Smack Sakura awake and protect the old geezer!"

He blocks their attacks with the Kunai Swords, however Sasuke didn't listen. His ego to outshine Naruto won over the safety of Sakura or the bridge builder, and charged in from a flanking position. Naruto cursed within his mind, while Pyrus merely clicks her tongue in disappointment. With two slashes Meizu and Gōzu fell as Naruto carved a gash across their chests and ruining their camouflage cloaks.

"Stupid gaki!" Gōzu yells.

Of course, Sasuke thought he had a good shot with one of his kunai, but Meizu was quick on the recovery and struck Sasuke in the stomach, his claws tearing a rip through his shirt and breaking skin.

"Time to die, piggy," Meizu taunts.

Naruto swore, verbally this time, and charged in at Meizu swinging his blades in various directions, emulating to an extent the Berserk Sword cards. Meizu dodged most of the swipes but the sound of metal scratching metal echoes from the blocks the taller man performed. Kakashi saw enough, dashed from his hiding place and incapacitated Gōzu and Meizu with successful haymakers. Seeing the threat was neutralized, Naruto gripped the handles of the weapons before stabbing them into the ground. He pulled out a second scroll he brought with him, and unsealed it to release the larger scroll, which was unsealed to reveal spiked chains, locks, and Chakra-Suppressant Tags.

"Naruto, where did you get all of this stuff?" Kakashi questioned his student.

"Tanzaku," was his response, "before I had bankrupted this dirty and shady casino, I found this scroll in a dumpster so I took it."

Kakashi nodded. Now he remembered... it was one of the funny things mentioned by the Hokage.

Mind at ease, he tended to Sasuke, scolding him for not following Naruto's command. Sasuke all but scowled, but remained quiet while Kakashi used what medical ninjutsu he knew to draw the poison from the cuts made into the boy's chest. The Oni Kyōdai always fought with poisoned weapons, but drawing the poison out quickly helped, that and force-feeding Sasuke an anti-poison medical pill and dry-swallowing it.

Naruto meanwhile had slapped the tags onto their foreheads after he removed their head gear, and went to work chaining them up together.

"So, Tazuna... why is it that Gatō sent assassins after you?" Naruto questioned once he made sure the chains were snug and tight.

"What!? How'd you know about Gatō?" Tazuna shouted, horrified.

Bingo!

Turning around and revealing a wide smile, Naruto replies with, "I didn't know. I lied and you confirmed something that we don't know."

Even Kakashi was looking at Tazuna now whilst wrapping medical-soaked gauze and bandages around Sasuke's torso.

Liar, Pyrus cuts in, then again, we've both known for quite awhile.

I suppose. True ninjas ARE supposed to be secretive and mysterious. Still, can't help but to check out, and get rid of a tyrannical leader.

"But you said you knew who Gatō was," Tazuna said, realizing that his little white lie was now caught and exposed.

"All I know of him was he runs some shipping industry and rumors are he is obsessive-compulsive with daddy abandonment issues."

Obsessive-compulsive...?

The best I can think up. Besides, aren't most bad guys obsessive-compulsive in the end of all things?

True.

"Tazuna-san, maybe you should stop lying and tell the truth?" Kakashi spoke up, as he checked on Sakura.

"Okay! Okay! I lied! Gatō IS after me! He wants to kill me because I'm practically the only one in Nami that wants to go against his iron-clad hold on our trade routes! He's taken control of Nami no Kuni, but sees me as a threat! I wasn't lying when I said I was a bridge builder! I'm also a master carpenter, and if I create a bridge that links our country to yours, then he'll have trouble keeping a rooted hold on our community and our livelihood! If I die, he'll be able to keep control of Nami, and even make an attempt at forcing control against other countries and their economy!"

He was close to a breakdown at this point, and Naruto couldn't help but feel guilty and sorry for the old drunkard. Sakura shrieked once when the smelling salts hit her nose, and she looked around. She had expected to be dead...

"Welcome back to the realm of the living," Kakashi said with a masked cheesy grin, pocketing the smelling salts into one of his many pockets.

"What happened?" the girl said groggily. The smelling salts did their magic as intended.

"Naruto basically saved you and Tazuna here while Sasuke got himself injured. Luckily I extracted the poison with medical ninjutsu," Thank you Rin for the lessons and rest in peace, "and downed his throat some anti-poison pills I carry with me. He'll be fine but we've been compromised because of it."

"Sasuke got injured!?"

He stands up.

"Sasuke will be fine, but due to disobeying Naruto's command of waking you up and protecting our client, he got injured and even with any lingering poison being flushed from his body, he won't be doing anything overly strenuous. Also, our client lied in the first place with Nukenin being sent to assassinate him. At this moment this is over our heads."

He looks at Tazuna, who flinched upon seeing the seriousness within Kakashi's lone eye.

"The mission was paid for a C-Rank, but with the Oni Kyōdai involved, it has been bumped up to B-Rank, possibly A-Rank due to the unknown variables. At any case I'm legally allowed to just abandon you to your fate and take my team back to Konoha."

"What? No! I beg you! You can't allow Gatō to rule our country! He'll kill me, and then kill everyone else! I got a daughter and grandson! I can't fail them!"

"Kakashi-sensei, let's keep going. You can simply send a message back home requesting back-up while we keep protecting Tazuna-san. I suggest another Jōnin-rank ninja would be helpful."

Well, that proves Naruto's nothing like it's written in the files. He must have hid his intelligence... putting up his mask. Huh...

Kakashi simply sighed.

"I'd say no, however this Gatō character sounds like real bad news."

He shifted through some seals before drawing blood. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)."

I'm a plume of smoke, a vest-wearing pug appeared, which then gives off a lazy salute with his paw.

"Yo, Kakashi."

"Pakkun, I need you to race back to Konoha as fast as you can and deliver this message to the Hokage. We need back-up on our mission to Nami."

"What's wrong?" Pakkun looked around, and spotted the tied-up Nukenin, "whoa. I guess you do need help if you managed to survive against the Oni Kyōdai."

Kakashi finished writing the message in a small scroll before attaching it to Pakkun's vest.

"I'll be back as fast as I can," he says and runs off in the direction of Konoha. With that settled Kakashi gets back up and faces Tazuna.

"We'll continue, however you WILL work to pay for the increase pay for the mission."

"I'll do anything I can, anything! I promise you that!"

Kakashi eye-smiled.

"Alright then. Naruto, bind those Nukenin to the tree then seal your weapons. Team, formation delta. I'll remain the back."

Naruto did what Kakashi ordered, tying the men to the nearby tree before sealing his weapons and pocketing them. He was getting looks from Sasuke and Sakura (confusing from our pinkette, and looks of slight anger from the dark one) but Naruto easily ignored them, fiddling with only one of his Kunai Swords that he deliberately left unsealed. When they were out of the area, a masked ninja emerged behind one of the trees.

=0=0=

Sarutobi was busy in his office with the paper. One half was paperwork regarding the chaos that has been occurring, authorizing missions, checking and assigning the appropriate ranks, as well as finalizing money spending for hospital and restaurant repairs. The chaos that's happened, most of this stuff had started right after the traitor, Mizuki, mysteriously vanished from the ANBU Prison Facility. And the other half of the paperwork consisted of denying the majority of the Civilian Council bullshit reasons that either regard Naruto, or regard power of the village, or Danzo again attempting to coerce him into allowing control of Naruto as a weapon. The day he allows Danzo to even remotely touch Naruto was when Orochimaru repented his ways and became the Holy Saint of Kami... and there was not a snowball's chance in hell that would EVER happen.

So, he got a rather repetitive exercise with using the DENIED stamp repeatedly for half the paperwork he dubbed in mind BULLSHIT. "Damn this paperwork," he bemoans, "why didn't you teach me your secret of defeating it, Minato...?"

Suddenly the door slams open, and Pakkun, shoulder-tackling it open, rushes in and leaps onto the desk.

"Hokage-sama," the tired dog would pant, "Kakashi sent me..."

"Pakkun, what's going on?" he questioned, paperwork for now put aside.

Pakkun gathered his wits and his dignity once his exhaustion waned. "Client lied. The guy's got assassins after his head from a man named Gatō. Kakashi still went to continue the mission to protect the client, but under Naruto's suggestion to send for backup."

"I give Naruto credit for thinking ahead of the situation," Sarutobi says, rubbing his chin, "Taka!"

In a blur, a hawk-masked ANBU operative appeared and bows. "Hai, Hokage-sama?"

"Find Mitarashi Anko and tell her to come to my office immediately."

With a swirl of leaves, the ANBU op vanished to follow his leader's command. Sarutobi sighed as he stamps DENIED on a paper that not-so-subtly demanded Naruto be executed for simply breathing their "precious oxygen", then sets the stamp down.

"I hate this paperwork..."

"What are you going to do about it? They won't understand even if it came and bit them in the ass with flashing neon lights," Pakkun said, seeing the top papers Sarutobi recently DENIED.

The Hokage agreed with the Ninken. Minato would have been disappointed with the village for spitting in his memory and disrespecting his final wish.

"What else has happened since Kakashi summoned you?"

"Naruto from what I saw of him is holding a lot of secrets. For one thing he has Kunai Swords."

Sarutobi was interested. Kunai Swords weren't a noted tool, but they were rare in shinobi use. Only one Chūnin in Konoha thus far used Kunai Swords.

"It must be that scroll he said he found in Tanzaku," he reasoned.

"Tanzaku? What was he doing there?"

"I still do not know, but he did make himself a bit rich bankrupting a shady casino of all its money."

Pakkun gave a quirky little smile.

Eventually, the door opens and Anko walks in finishing a box of dango.

"Hey old man, what's up?"

"You are needed for a mission," the Hokage begins the explanation.

=0=0=

It has been two days, but the travel was nearing the end. They had made good time when Kakashi somehow commandeered an abandoned pulling wagon, and used Naruto's clones ("Naruto can make solid clones?" Sakura asked) like the Tsumetai Wolves. It was a bit funny when Kakashi would say mush ("Would you stop that sensei; it got not funny five miles ago," Naruto said) and force the Naruto clones to move faster, but it got tiring pretty quickly.

Currently they were on a boat, drifting towards Nami and using the fog cover to avoid being detected by patrol ships. But through the fog they go and soon a bridge, an incomplete one, slowly came into view.

The last time we were here, that bridge didn't exist.

True... it's very impressive for being only half-completed.

And some midget wants to prevent this from happening, Pyrus told Naruto.

What makes you believe he's a midget?

What else would he be, a hybrid human conceived by a shark?

Somewhere in the world, Kisame sneezed, somehow blowing out the fire pit and preventing Itachi from making yummy delicious Pocky-flavored smores using chocolate cherry Pocky-flavored graham crackers.

The boat soon reached a sand bar, where Tazuna and company got off with the boat owner leaving after bidding Tazuna a wish of luck.

"Let's go. We're not far from home now," he told the Konoha-nin, as they climbed the hillside and soon returned onto the road, unaware they were being watched. It was only five minutes before they reached the town limits of a place called Sui that Naruto's danger senses went off. Pulling out one of his kunai he threw it in the direction of some bushes and a large tree.

Thunk!

Kakashi tensed up, noting Naruto's body tensing, as if anticipating something. Naruto immediately rushed over, and moved the bushes aside, but all he saw was a pure-bred white bunny. It was shaking like a leaf, frightened out of its wits from brushing with death.

Kawarimi! Naruto realized.

Sakura rushed up beside him, and then saw the bunny. Immediately she rounded on Naruto.

"Naruto! What the heck? It's a bunny you almost killed!"

His response was to shove her away, and she knocked into Sasuke, both falling to the ground as Naruto grabs the Kunai Sword that he had somehow clipped to his back. He held the blade vertically, blade tip downward, and grits his teeth as a large broadsword flying through the air, was repelled. Naruto held his ground, but almost lost his footing due to the immense strength of the flying projectile. Kakashi's eye widens, seeing the blade that crashes to the ground. His hunch proven right, Momochi Zabuza appears, and he held an impressed look in his eyes, sword already within his grasp again.

He was tall and noticeably muscular with pale skin, short spiky black hair, brown eyes, and small eyebrows. He was wearing bandages like a mask over the bottom half of his face and his forehead protector sideways on his head. He was shirtless, with his chest only covered by a belt to which he attached his sword to, wearing baggy pants with stripped pattern typical of the Hidden Mist Village. He also wore mimetic wrist-warmers extending up to his elbows, as well as matching leg-warmers.

"Wow, kid... I'm very surprising you managed to hold yourself against my sword."

Naruto jumps back before Sasuke and Sakura, while Kakashi uses the Shunshin to warp before Naruto.

"Momochi Zabuza, Kirigakure no Kijin (Demon of the Hidden Mist)..."

"Ah, Hatake Kakashi, the famed Copy Ninja with the Sharingan... you got one impressive brat there," Zabuza says with a smile. Of course, with bandages wrapped around his lower face, it wasn't seen well enough.

Sasuke was held up on the word Sharingan, apparently, staring at Kakashi with disbelief.

"Hm... I guess you want Tazuna, right? Well, I apologize but we cannot allow him to die."

He brings his hand up to his hitai-ate and lifts it up, revealing Obito's last gift.

"Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, stay by Tazuna and protect him," he orders. Naruto already rushed back to Tazuna, and Sasuke and Sakura joined him a moment after. They withdrew kunai, while Naruto still held onto his weapon.

"So, I'm graced by the Sharingan. I'm honored, Kakashi, but I need the bridge builder dead or I don't get my payment."

"Sorry, but you'll have to get through me first."

Zabuza chuckled, before unleashing a wide emotion of Killing Intent. Tazuna choked on the suffocating emotion eluding from Zabuza, and Sasuke and Sakura felt as if death was coming for them. Naruto... he's had worse; that and Pyrus was eluding her own aura to protect Naruto from the cold death-like effects of the KI in the air. Kakashi grimaced a bit. His students wouldn't know how to face up against such emotional force like this. He craned his head enough to get a glimpse. Naruto was standing steadfast, keeping his sword in a blocking position, an odd blocking position if he's ever seen one, however Sasuke was close to taking his own life with his kunai.

He filters his own KI out, attempting to take the edge from Zabuza. "Sasuke... I'll protect you, so don't worry," he calls to him, as the boy registers the man's voice. He stopped short of the blade reaching his neck. Then Naruto broke them from the KI by giving them both smacks upside the head before holding his weapon back into position.

"Mind not being total wusses? We got an old drunk to protect," he told them, just as Zabuza had rushed him in an instant. Naruto was ready, blocking the man's zanbato-sized weapon. Naruto feints a move, and slices across the man's neck. He promptly dissolved into water.

Alright, Naruto definitely knows some skills of Kenjutsu, Kakashi thinks, as another Zabuza appeared behind his team. He Shunshins and stabs Zabuza... who turns into water only to get a kunai run across his throat. Now he turned into water as well, as the real Kakashi lashed out with a kick from the side making the man skid across the ground.

"It'll take more than a few simple tricks to stop me, Kakashi," Zabuza taunts.

"I'd say the same to you."

Zabuza chuckles coldly, as the mist around them begins to thicken and shroud out further.

"Let's see you even try and stop me from completing my mission, Kakashi," Zabuza's voice taunted as he vanished into the mist itself.

"Kirigakure no jutsu... a specialty of mine," the Nukenin of Kiri says, his voice echoing from all around them, "I should inform you about the eight points of the human body: larynx, spinal column, lungs, liver, jugular vein, subclavian artery, kidneys, and heart. Tell me, which should I strike?" Zabuza asked.

"None of the above," Kakashi retorts as he narrowly avoids getting beheaded by Zabuza's sword.

Zabuza attacks, but Kakashi wasn't a slouch either, countering the blows and dodging the attacks from the sword sweeps. In one instance, Kakashi releases Makibishi as a distraction, but a clone of Zabuza rushed in, getting a lucky shot and sends Kakashi right into the nearby water.

"Fool! I got you!" the real Zabuza said as he Shunshins over the water as Kakashi emerged. Already, Zabuza had formed the necessary hand seals as the water around Kakashi suddenly grew heavy.

"What the?"

"Suirō no Jutsu (Water Prison Technique)!"

And just like that, a globular sphere of water swiftly encapsulates Kakashi and rises from the body of water, before Zabuza jams his hand through the sphere, having a "hold" on it. Kakashi was growling, having gotten caught in the trap.

"I got you now Kakashi within my inescapable prison... moving around and struggling will make things worse. I suggest being still... and watch as I finish off those brats of yours and the man I was hired to kill."

Zabuza brings up a single seal, and wordlessly summons two Mizu Bunshin that takes shape and moves onto land. Both clones grab their swords, and charge. Naruto was the closest so they attacked him, however used his Frequency Change to evade the double blade decapitation, and emerged surprising the Mizu Bunshin with his Kunai Swords. Naruto went wild, emulating the Berserk Sword attack. They blocked his wild assault, and one sliced in with a downward cleave, but Naruto brought his leg up. A loud painful scraping sound of metal versus metal is heard, but Naruto survived getting his leg cut off, although the metal on his pant leg was horribly ruined.

Taking the sudden surprise Naruto kicks up, spinning as the clone gets hit in the face, before Naruto swings his upper body weight to position his blades... the clone's neck is opened with a ravaged cut. The clone soon bursts into water. The second clone runs in, but Naruto repositions his Kunai Swords and uses the Frequency Change to evade. He was definitely surprising Zabuza.

That is no ordinary Shunshin no Jutsu... that's something else, Zabuza thought, analyzing the blond-haired brat. But what... it can't be Jinton (Swift Release)...

Don't forget Naruto... always keep your senses ready, Pyrus tells her partner.

"Well, THAT was a surprise... I would have pegged him to be a little boy pretending to play ninja," Zabuza said aloud, the real one holding Kakashi prisoner still.

The Mizu Bunshin swings the blade, but Naruto again evades, grabbing the Kunai Swords and bringing them up to block an overhead chop. "Gotcha!" the clone yells, and sends a mighty kick to Naruto, sending him flying back and almost hitting Tazuna, Sasuke, and Sakura.

"Get back!" Kakashi manages to shout despite being submerged, "get Tazuna and run! As long as Zabuza has me trapped, his water clone cannot move far from the original creator without losing connection!"

Sasuke and Sakura were staring, disbelief at their foe. A real Jōnin like Kakashi, but on the side that wanted Tazuna killed. They witnessed Naruto get lucky. Hell, they knew their teammate was very unpredictable at times. But Naruto still got bested, if only luckily able to survive. Naruto was kneeling, as the clone stands there with such a mean look as the original was giving. Tazuna backed up, sweating at the look he was getting. He almost can see himself really dying here...

"Damn... so glad this metal was tough enough to withstand it. I was just that damn lucky it didn't go all the way and cut my leg off. Now, that would have sucked."

Okay, so Zabuza's a Jōnin-level ninja, just like Kakashi-sensei... in layman terms, he's as powerful as a level 4 virus...

He can also be ranked as a standard level 2 or level 3 battle EM Life Form, Pyrus added.

Well... this really, really, sucks right now.

Before the water clone could attack, a huge shadow towered and it found itself devoured by a giant snake. Anko was riding the top of it as a smaller-sized snake a foot taller than the real Zabuza slithers forward, its three heads spewing fireballs. The man was forced to flee to evade getting fried; this freed Kakashi from his watery prison.

"Amigo, we just arrived, yesss," the center head spoke (with a slight Spanish accent).

This specific three-headed teal-colored snake was known as Triclyde.

"Thank goodness," Naruto mutters.

He still kept his weapons ready as the giant snake coils in a protective way shielding Tazuna. With a soft grunt, Anko lands beside Naruto.

"Hello, gaki."

"Hello crazy snake lady."

A snake rose from the waters and lunched at Zabuza, but the man moved to evade getting poisoned. But in his fault, that also freed Kakashi from his prison who moved in a sprint back on land. Zabuza killed he snake and lunges at Kakashi with his blade but our favorite silver-haired wolf blocks the large zanbato with a mere kunai. With a highly-trained eye, you'd make out a sliver of white chakra like a film over the weapon.

"I didn't expect you to get help, Kakashi," Zabuza stated, forcing all his weight on his weapon to overpower the man.

Kakashi was proving to be just as strong.

"I plan ahead," was his reply.

Zabuza growls as he manages to shove Kakashi away and jumps back an impressive range. But as he started going through hand seals, to his increasing ire Kakashi was copying him move for move.

"Damn that monkey eye," he growls, ending with the final seal as chakra rushed off him channeling the water. A giant dragon made of water rose from the ocean and so did Kakashi's as both attacks slam into one another sending a large spray of water everywhere.

But in the blinding spray, Naruto did a suicidal-like maneuver by moving in close with his Frequency Change, and Zabuza winced as the brat got one hell of a lucky hit on his torso. The cut wasn't deep but it still stung.

That smug little shit, was his running thought, using the jutsu to cover him and getting a clean hit. I'm impressed.

He retaliated with his swinging of Kubikiribōchō, but it missed as Naruto drops flat onto his back to evade the horizontal slice. That left the long white-glowing tail of Triclyde to smack Zabuza painfully towards the trees. The man never let go of his weapon no matter what happened to him. Grabbing the stretched tail Naruto is brought back towards the three-headed serpent's side.

"That wasss a very gutsssy move, amigo," the left head said in a hissing manner.

Naruto smirked. "I know."

Sasuke stared at the dobe in disbelief the boy got a LUCKY HIT on the rogue ninja.

Zabuza was injured from Triclyde's Iron Tail attack, as he spat up some blood.

"Bastards..."

His eyes widen suddenly. Zabuza drops, two senbon lodged in his neck. He was lifeless as a figure appeared in a blur, wearing the tradition mask of the Hunting Ninja Squads of Kirigakure no Sato.

"I thank you for weakening him enough for me," said the masked ninja.

"Who are you?"

"Naruto, stand down," Kakashi speaks up, sighing in relief as he pulls his headband back down to cover his Sharingan eye. "It's a ninja from Kiri's Hunter Division."

The masked ninja kept staring at them before it grabs Zabuza, the weapon, and vanishes in a Shunshin.

"Sheesh, Kakashi, you got your ass handed to you," Anko said with that grin of hers, as her snake summons vanish with a poof.

"Just shut up and carry me," he told her, before slumping into unconsciousness.

"Wuss," she mutters and lifted Kakashi into a fireman's carry. "Hey drunky, take me to your house so I can get a glimpse of this situation," she yelled at Tazuna.

Tazuna just prayed to the gods he'd live to see the bridge completed before telling the woman to follow him. Anko followed, once she shifted the silver-haired man's hitai-ate to cover his Sharingan eye. Bringing up the rear was Team Seven.

"That's the Anko-chan you talked about before?" Sakura whispered, remembering that the woman said her name was Anko, and Naruto mentioned that she was friends with an Anko.

"Yeah, that's her," he whispered back, "we met through an argument on my ninth birthday of ramen versus dango, until Teuchi created his Dango Ramen... we became friends after we came to a mutual agreement both are good together. That and she's also friends with Sasuke's mom..."

Sasuke said nothing but keep his arms crossed.

"So, Naruto-kun," Anko called to the teen, "once we get to this old man's house and I get Snow White here into a bed, tell me everything that's happened so I can get a better understanding of your shitty situation. I need to know whether or not we will require anymore backup."

Well I updated finally. I hope some of you are happy. I'm not however... Capcom left Trigger stranded on the moon! After years of no activity, they finally come up with a third game to the Megaman Legends/Rockman DASH series only to kill the project, the third game, and leave our new characters Barrett and Aero to officially not exist. CAPCOM YOU FUCKING SUCK! I was so looking forward to the damn thing! You bastards! But, that doesn't matter... if officially NOW thanks to Capcom, Barrett and Aero don't exist, then they WILL in my stories and ANY of my future Megaman stories I have, crossover or not!

For now, I hope some of you have enjoyed this chapter, even though it seems to be a damn bore having to go through Nami no Kuni all over again. But I'm going to shake a lot of things up as this is a crossover... but I hated how I had trouble working a nice scene without it sounding so cliché and overused like in most other Naruto fics. D:

I think you'd be pleasantly surprised at what I got planned in the future, that is if I EVER get that far into this confirmed seven-part series. Yes, this story's plot will have SEVEN parts/seasons. Let's hope I last long to make the goal of completing all six interconnected parts plus a movie-styled story.

On an added note: All NaruHina shippers run full force! We saw a glimpse of what we believed in the latest manga chapters that Naruto and Hinata ARE destined to be together as lovers! Ahahahahahahahaa!