AN : Sorry for the late update, I had to go to another city for my field-study so I couldn't update this faster. I hope you'll like this chapter, read & review please!

RI: Min'na!! Gomen that this chapter was so late, I've packing for the past few days, and it completely slipped my mind. But here it is! I would like to thank Shadow-site for letting me be his Beta! Thank you so much hon!!

"Wow, that's one big bridge," A certain redhead kunoichi from team 7 said from above a boat where said team and their client were sitting at. It had took some time for the five of them to reach this place, but luckily after the demon brothers, who were staying at Konoha's prison, thanks to a quick letter to the Sandaime, there was no other one who attacked the group, not even a mercenary.

"Incredible isn't it? And when it's finished, Nami no Kuni will finally be free from Gato's clutches." The client said with pride evident in his voice.

"Sorry for interrupting, but this is where we part our ways Tazuna. Sorry that I couldn't take you farther than this." The boatman said from behind the group while Tazuna just nodded his head slowly before team 7, plus Tazuna, moved away from the boat and started to walk toward the forest in front of them.

They walked silently together, still in their first formation, for a few minutes before Arashi detected something in the grass near them, and quickly threw a kunai toward it, surprising everyone except Kakashi. When there was no sign of someone coming out from behind the grass, Arashi slowly walked toward it, to find a rabbit frozen in shock, with a kunai buried right in front of it.

"Arashi no Baka! Look what you've done to that poor animal!" Sakura screeched, and seeing that Arashi didn't even hear her, she quickly went toward him, and was about to hit him in the head, when all of a sudden he pulled his sword out of his sheath with a piercing glare.

Mistaking that he was trying to attack her, Sakura quickly ran and hid behind Kakashi before she shouted again, "Wh-what's with that attitude? Do you have to go so far and use that sword of yours?!" Too bad for her, Arashi didn't even try to hear what she was saying and instead he looked around as if searching for something.

Confused by Arashi's act, Hikari tried to speak, but before she could say anything Arashi started to speak

"Stop hiding all the way, why don't you show up and we'll be able to finish this quicker." Arashi said which confused the other genin and Tazuna while Kakashi just looked at him calmly, as if knowing what he meant.

A few seconds later everyone could hear a sound coming from in front of them and with a yell of "Get down!" from Kakashi, everyone excluding Arashi, who was standing quite far from the group, quickly jumped down with Kakashi, bringing Tazuna down with him, just before a big sword flew above them and hit a tree behind the group.

The genin, and Kakashi, quickly stood up and turned around to see a figure standing right next to the sword. The figure, who was a man, quickly pulled out the sword before he lifted it above his head and slammed it toward the ground hard, creating a shockwave which was powerful enough to shake the ground where team 7 was standing.

"So…Sharingan no Kakashi… No wonder the Demon Brothers lost their fight." The man said, while chuckling.

"Momochi Zabuza, the Demon of the Mist. So you're the one behind that attack." Kakashi said before he pulled his headband up revealing his sharingan, which surprised everyone, especially Sasuke. "Team, pull back for now. This guy, he is out of your current level." Kakashi said quickly, pulling a kunai and took a battle position between team 7 and Zabuza.

"Heh, to use the famous sharingan so early… I'm honored." Zabuza said before he let out some killer intent which made all the genin, minus Arashi, shake in fear.

'Th-This is crazy! Just how powerful is he to be able to let out killer intent to this extent?' Hikari thought, while shaking all the way.

'N-no…! Please! Somebody, take me away from here!' was the thought of Sakura, who regretted that she had asked for a C-rank mission before.

'M-my body just won't move… No! I can't die here! Not before I could find out the truth!' Sasuke thought, hardly although no matter what, his body just wouldn't listen to him.

"Well, well, well. It seems that you at least had one good student Kakashi." Zabuza said, while glancing toward Arashi, who had stood in front of the other genin, while still holding his sword firmly. "But let's see just how good he is when you're dead! Ninpou: Kirigakure no Jutsu!"

Soon, mist started to overflow the surrounding area and hide Zabuza's body away. Seeing that they couldn't see their opponent, the genin started to become afraid even more, especially when they could heard Zabuza's voice coming from all directions saying something about eight points to strike. They were calmed down a few moments later however, when a voice from Kakashi took their attention.

"Don't worry guys; I won't let any of my teammate die." Kakashi said, while smiling and turning around so the genin could see his face.

"Is that so?" A voice came, and before Kakashi could react, a big sword managed to slice his body perfectly in two.

Zabuza was smirking at how easily he had defeated Kakashi, but to his surprise, the body he had just cut turned into a log, which had an exploding tag attached to it. He quickly jumped back just seconds before the log exploded, only to have a kunai pointed at his throat from behind.

"Too bad Zabuza, this fight is over." Kakashi said, while moving the kunai closer to Zabuza's neck before said person just laughed and turned into water.

"A mizu bunshin?" Kakashi said with surprise, before he quickly moved to the side to avoid the Zanbatou slash from Zabuza, who was standing behind him. Not wanting to let Zabuza push him even further, Kakashi quickly threw the kunai in his hand toward his enemy, who quickly blocked it with his massive sword.

"Is that all Sharingan no Kakashi? Well, it seems that I have overestimated your ability a bit too much!" Zabuza roared, before he dashed forward and slashed horizontally to cut Kakashi's body in two, something which he managed to do, although, to his surprise, the body quickly turned into a water, and was sprayed all over the ground. 'Wha- Mizu Bunshin? He was able to copy it even with all this mist?'

"It seems to me that you actually underestimated my ability instead, Zabuza." Kakashi said from behind the Kiri missing-nin, before he made some handsigns and yelled "Katon: Goukyaku no Justu!"

Kakashi let loose a fireball toward Zabuza while said target just smirked a bit before he too made some quick handsigns and pulled out his own jutsu "Suiton: Suijinheki!"

A few second later a big wall of water came out and stopped the fireball and much to Kakashi's irritation, also hide Zabuza's body from his sight. The ex-Anbu quickly took another kunai before he returned back to his fighting position, waiting for Zabuza to make his move. He didn't have to wait for long before a slash from a Zanbatou came from behind which made him jumped forward and toward the lake. He quickly turned around and threw the kunai which hit its target which once again turned into water.

"Fool! Suiton: Suiro no Jutsu!" A voice from behind him said and Kakashi quickly cursed his carelessness before water started to form a sphere around him and captured him inside.

'Damn it! I can't believe I got trapped so easily!' Kakashi thought while gritting his teeth.

"Too bad Kakashi, but his fight is my win. Now to finish my mission…" Zabuza said, before he made handsigns with his free hand, creating a mizu bunshin in front of him "Let's see how good your students are Kakashi" Zabuza smirked at Kakashi, but instead of Kakashi, another voice came to his.

"Not so fast mister, Futon: Daitoppa!" A powerful wind came and blasted Zabuza's mizu bunshin away, much to his surprise and anger, which made him quickly turn his head toward the person who did that and soon came face to face with the red haired boy.

"So… trying to be a hero now? Let's see how you dealt with this then!" Zabuza yelled before he created another five mizu bunshin, while Arashi just stood there, before taking a battle position.

"No! Run away! He can't control those bunshin if they're too far from his real body, and he can't move or this water prison will crumble, so you'll be alright! Run now!" Kakashi yelled from inside the prison. But much to his, and everyone's, surprise, Arashi just started to gather chakra around his sword.

"And you taught us that leaving a friend means we're lower than trash… Sorry sensei, but I'm not going to abandon my friend!" Soon, green chakra started to surround Arashi's sword before it took the shapes of the sword, although a bit longer.

"Ho… A futon user…Let's see how good you're with that ability." Zabuza said, before he ordered his bunshin to attack Arashi, something which they did quickly.

"Well, this is really a mess. Remember not too reveal too much Arashi." Minato said through the mental link

'No promise there dad, mizu bunshin may be weaker than the real one but he's not one of the seven swordsmen for nothing.' Arashi replied before he slashed at the first mizu bunshin that came toward him, obliterating it before the others started to gang up on him.

"He's right you know. Holding back here will mean death, well at least some very big injuries. " Himiko said from her position on Arashi's shoulder.

"*sigh* fine, but promise not to use Rasengan or Hiraishin… those two will definitely get us in trouble later."

'Ok.' Arashi replied, while using chakra to lessen the weight he was wearing before he dashed toward one of the nearest bunshin and slashed his sword vertically downward. The clone tried to defend using the zanbatou but with wind chakra covering his sword, Arashi managed to cut through it like butter, which ended up destroying the bunshin together with its sword.

Too bad for Arashi, the other bunshin just won't let him get easy by destroying them one by one as they started to attack him as one. Arashi quickly jumped above to avoid getting slashed from many directions, although it seems that was predicted, as one of the mizu bunshin had also jumped, and currently it was trying to cut Arashi in half from behind.

Sensing this, Arashi quickly turned around to block the attack. Although he succeeded in doing so, the force still threw him away and toward the ground which currently was occupied by Zabuza's other mizu bunshin. Knowing that they will definitely cut him in half if he doesn't do something, Arashi quickly threw his sword toward one of the bunshin, while he himself started to charge some chakra on his palm.

"Honoo no Tsume!" with that yell, Arashi's right hand started to take the form of a flaming claw, which he quickly used to attack one of the waiting mizu bunshin. With one swipe, the mizu bunshin was cut down in two, while the other one, who managed to avoid getting stabbed by the sword Arashi had thrown earlier, quickly dashed toward him and swung his zanbatou down. It had expected Arashi to jump away, or sidestep to avoid the massive sword, but to its surprise, Arashi used his flaming claw to actually grab the zanbatou just before it could hit.

Seeing the surprised look on the mizu bunshin, Arashi quickly tried to push the massive sword back, but unfortunately for him, the mizu bunshin who attacked him in the sky just a few moments ago suddenly appeared on his side, and he had to jump backward to avoid getting slashed by a zanbatou coming for his head.

On the sides, everyone was shocked for various reasons. Sakura was surprised that the boy who she thought as a dobe just a moment ago, was holding back an A-rank missing-nin, and seemed to be winning so far. Sasuke, Hikari, and Kakashi who, knew that Arashi was holding back all the way in the academy were also surprised that he was actually a lot stronger than what they've thought before, while Zabuza was seething in anger, true the mizu bunshins have only 1/10 of his real power, but for this boy to fight five of them and defeat three, while not getting injured at all was an insult for him. Not wanting to let this boy insult him even further, Zabuza quickly made some handsigns before another group of mizu bunshin appeared, and quickly dashed toward the battle ground.

"Oh boy, here comes another group Arashi-kun." Himiko warned the redhead boy when she saw what happened on the water which was fortunate as a few seconds later, one of the mizu bunshin quickly appeared from behind the boy, and slammed his massive zanbatou down toward Arashi.

Not wanting to take any risk, Arashi quickly avoided the attack by sidestepping away. The bunshin wasn't finished however as just after the massive sword landed on the ground, he quickly pulled it back and toward Arashi who was just a few feet away from him. Realizing that he won't be fast enough to avoid this one, Arashi quickly bent his body backward and did a somersault to kick the side of the zanbatou upward.

'Damn, this is not good! There're too many of them!' Arashi thought before he dashed toward his sword. But just before he managed to do so, a pair of mizu bunshin managed to get next to him, and attacked using their zanbatou.

Seeing this, Arashi quickly rolled on the ground, and managed to reach his sword. He quickly pulled it out, and slashed at one of the mizu bunshin, destroying it. What he didn't expect was for another mizu bunshin to appear right behind him with its zanbatou coming toward him.

'Damn it!' Arashi thought, before he tried to block the attack with his own sword but to his and the mizu bunshin's surprise, a yell was heard from nearby.

"Katon: Goukyaku no Jutsu!" The two turned to the side to see a fireball coming toward them, while obliterating some of the unprepared mizu bunshin on the way. Seeing that the mizu bunshin next to him was distracted, Arashi quickly jumped away while throwing some shuriken toward it, so it won't have any time to avoid the fireball, it proved to be successful as a second later, the fireball managed to hit the mizu bunshin who was busy deflecting the shuriken.

As he landed, Arashi quickly faced the side to see Sasuke with a smirk on his face, while his hands were still in the tora seal, proof that he was the one responsible for the fireball just now.

"Well, I appreciate for the help, but did you want to burn me with that attack as well?" Arashi asked, while pointing at the burned ground with his sword

"Huh, like you'll die from that kind of attack." Sasuke said while pulling out a kunai "Besides, it's punishment for stealing the entire spotlight for your own." He smirked, before he started to attack one of the mizu bunshin by throwing some kunai toward it.

"Why do you boys always fight over something like that...?" Hikari asked, making the two face her, who was currently making some handsigns, while running toward one of the mizu bunshin "Suiton: Teppodama!" with that yell, Hikari let loose some water balls from her mouth, which managed to hit the mizu bunshin, dispersing it . "Although I do want some spotlight for my own."

"You know. If I didn't know better, I'll say that she's Kushina's real daughter. Even the ways they act are similar…" Minato said while Arashi just shook his head at that.

Seeing that his mizu bunshin were being dispersed one by one, Zabuza couldn't help but feel angrier by the second, especially since it seemed that two of the other three genin, who were useless and scared by his killing intent earlier, seemed to be released from the effect by that red haired boy's act. He was so into anger that he failed to see that Arashi was facing him from the shore of the lake with his sword glowing greenish light until the last second.

"Take this Zabuza! Futon: Renkuzan!" With that said, Arashi quickly slashed his sword downward, and much to Zabuza's surprise, the chakra on the sword was released, and took a shape of greenish crescent-like arc that seemed to be a really sharp chakra blade if the way it cut through the ground and water was any indication. Not having any other option, Zabuza quickly released his grip on the water prison before he jumped away to avoid the chakra blade attack.

Succeeding in avoiding the attack, Zabuza quickly pulled out his sword and dashed toward Arashi but to his surprise, Kakashi, who was freed from his prison, appeared in front of him and sent him a roundhouse kick toward the face which he avoided, although just barely.

"Where are you going Zabuza? Your opponent is me." Kakashi said while pulling out a kunai.

"Heh, that student of yours is quite good. He managed to distract me enough to the point that I released the prison." Zabuza said, while holding his zanbatou in front of him.

"Wrong, you didn't release it. You were forced to do so." Kakashi said while getting into a fighting stance. "The same trick won't work on me twice Zabuza, now let's see how you're going to deal with this."

Soon, the two restarted their previous fight, Kakashi decided to make the first move by throwing the kunai in his hand before he made some handsigns and let out a yell of "Kunai Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" making the kunai multiply incredibly, attacking Zabuza from many directions.

Seeing this, Zabuza quickly made some handsigns of his own before he let loose his own jutsu.

"Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu!" with that said, a dragon of water emerged from the lake, and deflected almost all of the kunai, while some of them managed to pass through and scratched Zabuza a bit, but he ignored it and made the water dragon change its direction to attack Kakashi. Not wanting to get hit by the dragon, Kakashi started making another handsigns before he let out his own water dragon which clashed against Zabuza's, canceling each other.

Zabuza growled in anger at how easy Kakashi used his own jutsu to block his attack, before he dashed forward and swung his zanbatou toward the weaponless Kakashi, but much to his anger, he instead had to jump back to avoid a sword strike from the side, which was done by Arashi, who had gotten inside the fight.

"Arashi, you've done enough. Just leave this fight to me." Kakashi said while holding Arashi's shoulder.

"Sorry sensei, but it will be faster if we do this together. Besides there were no more threats for Tazuna, except Zabuza here, so the faster we defeat him, the faster we can continue on the mission."

Kakashi wanted to protest, but he couldn't do anything with that logic, besides what Arashi said was true as there were no mizu bunshin anymore so Tazuna will be fine for now.

"Fine. But if it gets dangerous, go back and leave the rest to me okay." Arashi nodded his head before the two quickly charged toward Zabuza with their weapon in hand, sword for Arashi, and kunai for Kakashi.

Seeing the two attacking him, Zabuza couldn't help but curse his luck. He could barely keep up with Kakashi if he used his sharingan seriously, but adding this redheaded boy, who was definitely not on a genin level, was really spelling for trouble. He didn't have time for that kind of thought though, and soon he was ganged up by both Arashi and Kakashi.

Arashi was the first one to attack; he used his chakra-lengthened sword to send a slash at Zabuza, who used his zanbatou to block it, and seeing that this was not a mizu bunshin like earlier, Arashi's attack was blocked quite easily. Zabuza had no time to be happy about it though as Arashi quickly sidestepped a bit to let Kakashi throw the kunai in his hand toward him.

Zabuza used his zanbatou to deflect the kunai before he used it to block another sword slash from Arashi. Getting enough of said boy, Zabuza used his advantages in power to pushed Arashi's sword away, something which he succeeded in doing so before he slashed down toward Arashi who was open for attack.

'Damn it! This is bad!' Arashi cursed in his mind before he quickly charged chakra in his left hand engulfing it in fire, which he used to gripped the zanbatou which was about to kill him. He managed to avoid the killing blow, but the force of the attack was stronger than what he had expected, and the zanbatou managed to hit him on the shoulder, piercing it quite deep although it wasn't deep enough to deal a fatal blow.

"Arashi!" Kakashi yelled, shocked in seeing his student getting hit by the attack.

Not wanting to let Zabuza cut him in two; Arashi put as much chakra as he could in his left hand and made a crack on the place where he gripped the zanbatou, before the massive blade broke in two.

Quickly throwing part of the zanbatou from his shoulder, Arashi grunted a bit, while gripping his bloody shoulder before he jumped away with blood still flowing from the massive gash. Fueled by anger, Zabuza quickly charged toward Arashi, but unfortunately for him, with all the commotion with Arashi he had forget about Kakashi, and it had become his downfall.

With a yell of "Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu!" the water around the lake was blasted away and toward Zabuza which hit him quite hard; and slammed him toward a tree before a bunch of kunai pierced through both his arms, and legs before Kakashi himself dashed toward him with a kunai in his hand fully intending to kill the man before him.

Just as Kakashi was about to deal the finishing blow, a few senbon flew and pierced Zabuza on his neck making him fall into the lake motionless. Surprised by this, Kakashi quickly turned to the side, to see a figure wearing a hunter nin mask crouching above the tree branch.

"I thank you for your assistance, it had been a long time since I had started chasing him, but finally I'm able to finish my mission." The hunter nin said, before he jumped down and walked toward Kakashi who was checking on Zabuza's pulse and finding none, he sighed in relief and let the hunter nin to do his job, while he quickly ran toward his team after tilting his headband back.

"Sensei, what happened and who is that person taking Zabuza away?" Sasuke asked, while Hikari was busy bandaging Arashi's wound, since none of them know any medical jutsu, while said person was sitting on the ground tired after losing so much blood and because of the red haired vixen who keep on yelling at him for getting such an injury although she couldn't hide the concern she had on her face.

Kakashi didn't answer quickly as he decided to check on Arashi first, and when he found that Arashi was alright, he finally answered Sasuke's question. "That person is a hunter nin from Kiri, it seems that he had chased Zabuza for quite a while, so I let him to take care of the body." Sasuke nodded at that, but before he could say anything more Kakashi fell to the ground surprising everyone.

"Don't worry; I'm just tired for using the sharingan too much. I'll be fine in a few days." With that said the group shrugged before they resumed their journey with Sasuke and Tazuna carrying Kakashi, and Hikari supporting Arashi much, to the latter's embarrassment, not counting Minato and surprisingly, Himiko who just won't stop teasing him.

'What the heck, Himiko? Don't you angry that Hikari is so close to me? You sure seemed to hate it when those fangirls chased me before.' Arashi asked in confusion.

"Well, you see… the truth is male demons are quite rare, so we female demon are used to the term of a harem but that doesn't mean that I'll accept you having any girl on the street as your wife. If it's a girl like Hikari I'll have no problem, but I definitely won't accept anyone like those fangirls!" Himiko yelled the last part making Arashi sigh at the headache he was having especially now since Minato now started to tease him about being lucky to have a nice wife who allowed him to date more than one girl in his life.

Soon the group managed to arrive at Tazuna's house where they were greeted by a beautiful woman named Tsunami before they put both Arashi and Kakashi in the bed before they too decided to rest for the day.

The next day…

"Morning, Arashi-kun! Did you have a good sleep?" Hikari asked cheerfully, when she entered the room where said boy was sleeping, only to find that Arashi was still fast asleep with Himiko curled on his stomach. She was about to wake him up just as a thought came to her mind

'All right, this is a chance for me to unravel his face! Let's see here…' Hikari silently walked toward the bed, before she slowly moved her hand toward the face mask. And right when she was able to pull it down, light came from the window in front of the bed, and right at Arashi's face, making his face and hair seem to glow.

'W-wow, I never imagine that he would be this handsome…' Hikari blushed a bit at the thought and she unconsciously moved her head toward Arashi's face until another thought hit her mind. 'His face… I've definitely seen it somewhere but, where…?' Unfortunately for Hikari, she didn't have any time to think anymore as Arashi opened his eyes at that exact moment, and soon blue eyes locked with a pair of green, making the two freezes because of the closeness.

As if that wasn't enough embarrassing for the two, the door was opened once again and Tsunami walked through the door only to stop at the sight she saw. Before the two genin could explain Tsunami quickly blushed and ran out of the room before slamming the door while yelling something like, "Sorry for interrupting!"

The next few hours was awkward for the two as everyone was looking at them with a strange look on their face thanks to them hearing what Tsunami saw that morning, more so for Arashi, since Minato and Himiko had started another teasing game with him being the target.

They were saved a few minutes later, as Kakashi had finally woke up, and quickly started to explain that there's a possibility that Zabuza is still alive although he will need time to recover and repaired his zanbatou. Deciding that they will need to train a bit more, Kakashi took team 7 a bit deep to the forest before he stopped and faced his team.

"All right team, for now we'll train in climbing these trees." Kakashi said while pointing at the trees behind him.

"What? Why should we learn how to do it sensei? We could do it just fine." Sakura asked.

Kakashi nodded his head a bit before answering. "Maybe, but this time you aren't allowed to use your hand to do so." The explanation made both Sasuke and Sakura confused, although it seemed to Kakashi that Arashi and Hikari already knew about it if their reactions were saying anything.

"That's right. And before you said that it is impossible, Arashi, could you give an example please?" Kakashi asked which made Arashi shrug before he started to walk on the tree until he reached the top of the tree and back down to the ground much to the awe of Sakura and Sasuke.

"Now you see, to do this you have to put a constant amount of chakra on your legs so you could stick to the tree. You must put a right amount though; too few and you'll fall, while too much will make you break the tree." Kakashi explained.

"By the way sensei, how did you know that Arashi had already able to do it?" Sakura asked again out of pure curiosity.

"Well, I'm pretty sure you remember that Arashi was able to walk on the water yesterday." Kakashi said, getting a nod from both the genin, minus Arashi "That is another level that you can do after mastering the tree climbing, so if Arashi was able to do that, he must be able to do this one too. And if I'm not wrong, you're already able to do this too right, Hikari?" Kakashi asked the other redhead in the team who just nodded her head.

"My mom said that since we kunoichi have less chakra than male shinobi, we have to train in chakra control more, so she taught me this when I was in my last year of the academy. I wasn't able to walk on water yet though." Hikari explained getting an understanding nod from Kakashi.

"Well then, since you already able to do this you could work on the water walking Hikari. Sasuke and Sakura, I want you to focus on this training. Sasuke for enhancing your chakra control and Sakura to expand your chakra capacity since yours is really small now." Kakashi said, getting nods from the three, before he turned toward Arashi.

"Arashi, since you already know both tree and water walking, you could train by yourself for a while since I couldn't teach much with this state, although I'm pretty sure that you will know what you need to learn." Kakashi said, getting a confused look from the other genin while Arashi just nodded since he knew that Kakashi was referring to his dad with those words "Oh and please create some Kage Bunshin to guard Tazuna, three or four will be enough since I doubt Zabuza will be attacking soon."

With that said, each of the genin spread to do their exercise. Kakashi decided that he would focuse on Sakura and Sasuke for now, since they are still behind the other two in this exercise, although he will still checked on Arashi and Hikari from time to time, well mostly Hikari since Arashi had Minato-sensei to count on.

'But now, let's see what Akane was doing with our little hero hehehehe.' Kakashi thought before he pulled a certain orange book and start to read.

In another part of the forest, Arashi was currently sitting on the ground while petting Himiko's head much to her delight and consulting with his dad about what to train next.

"Well, from what I saw in your fight yesterday I could say that you still had a long way to go son."

'Okay okay, so what do I need to train in?' Arashi asked.

"Hmm, simply put… you need to train in speed." Minato said, making his son confused.

'Again…? I've been doing that since we started training dad, besides I still had the Hiraishin if I really need it.'

"No, you can't rely on Hiraishin for now. Maybe later, but with the misunderstanding still ensues using that will only ask for trouble."

'So? What should I do then? I doubt I could get any faster with only a week of weight training…'

"No, in this week you'll learn a new technique. Techniques which will give you speed almost as fast as Hiraishin even without your bloodline." Minato said surprising both Arashi and Himiko.

"Are you sure about that? What kind of technique can do something like that? And why we have never heard of such technique before?" Himiko asked, with Arashi nodding his head in agreement.

"You never heard it because I just created a few months ago it since I didn't have much to do in here. And that technique name is…Shukuchi."

Later that night…

"Just why did you try so much!" A little boy wearing a fisherman hat yelled at the group, who was currently eating diner at the table.

"What do you mean? We're trying to help you guys here." Hikari said, but to her surprise it just made the boy even madder.

"What can you do to help?! This village can't be saved! Many had said that they will save it but none have work! You're just going to die like those people did!"

"Inari stop it!" Tsunami said trying to stop the boy.

"Besides you guys know nothing about suffering! You who never even felt any loss should just shut up and leave!" Inari yelled even harder, although he didn't realize that three of the genin (minus Sakura) were giving him a glare as they knew exactly what it mean to loss something or in Arashi's case, to suffer…

Inari was about to yell again but this time he was stopped, not by a yell like Tsunami was about to do but by something more…a sword which had pierced the wall right next to his head…

Everyone in the room quickly turned from the frightened Inari toward Arashi who had just threw the sword with a surprised look. They were even surprised when Arashi quickly stood up and walked toward the boy before he lifted him by his collar and slammed him to the wall. Tsunami was about to stop him but, a blast of killing intent from Arashi had stopped that attempt, as even Kakashi was having a hard time with the killing intent spread by the red haired jinchuriki.

"I don't know anything about suffering you said! Well, for your information I KNOW very well about that word! You said that you've suffered more than what we could experienced huh?! So what happened to you? Seeing people killed by those people sent by Gato? Or seeing another one stabbing someone you know with spear and sword? Well guess what! I may never see something like that, but you know why? Because I'm the one that was stabbed with those weapons! You want to know what I've experienced?! Let me tell you then! I've had more than a hundred assassination attempt when I was barely five years old! I have been burned, stabbed, poisoned, and more ever since I was a child and you know what? The only way for me to avoid that was by being sent to hospital in a coma, or by running deep inside a forest that had a lot of dangerous animals and plants which made even adults fear to go inside it! You said you have suffered but look around you! You still have your caring mom and grandfather while I have nearly nothing when I suffered!" Arashi yelled the last part before he slammed Inari once again to the wall, and letting him dropped down to the ground. He quickly pulled out his sword before sheathing it back and turned toward Kakashi.

"I'm sleeping outside today. I don't want to waste my time fighting with this crybaby." Arashi said before he left the house with a very concerned Himiko, slamming the door on his way out.

The people inside of the house were silent as they still tried to consume what Arashi had told them.

They stayed in that silence until Tsunami decided to speak.

"Ka-Kakashi-san, was it true? Did that boy really speak the truth?"

Kakashi sighed a bit, but since he knew that these people won't stop until they got the answer, he decided to speak. "I've read his file after he was registered by Sandaime-sama, and I can say that in one way, that was a lie." Kakashi lied about the reading part.

Almost everyone sighed in relief when they heard that, but one person realized that there was something strange in the way Kakashi said those words, and decided to ask. "Se-sensei, what do you mean 'in one way'?"

Everyone faced toward the speaker who turned out to be Hikari, but quickly faced back to Kakashi before said person spoke again in a sad voice "He was sugarcoating it."

Those words struck all the people inside the room, except Kakashi really hard, Inari quickly ran toward his room while the girls had tears forming on their eyes. Sasuke's respect toward Arashi had gone even higher, while Tazuna just slumped down in his chair, while thinking how a kid could survive something like that, both physically and mentally. Hikari was about to go out to look for Arashi, but was stopped by Kakashi, who said that Arashi need some time to cool his head down which made the redhead kunoichi even more depressed at her inability to help her own friend. All in all, the people inside Tazuna's house weren't able to have a good sleep that night.

End of Chapter

AN : Well, it seems that Hikari had managed to see Arashi's face but the problem is will she know about his identity? We'll see that later. And about the new technique, some of you may already realize that it is the technique used by Soujiro Seta from Samurai X. The reason I used that was because Shunpo from Bleach had already used in many story so I think why don't I try another technique that had similar effect instead? And before you said about what the use of Hiraishin then if Shukuchi had the same effect then I'll tell you beforehand that Shukuchi will had some flaw compared to Hiraishin which I'll explain later so please don't flame me for that one please. Well, let's go to the next problem: voting!

Anko : 13 + 8 = 25

Hana : 4 + 11 = 20.5

Hinata : 20 + 21 = 51.5

Ino : 3 + 1 = 4.5

Kurenai : 25 + 27 = 65.5

Tayuya : 3 + 2 = 6

Temari : 3 + 2 = 6

Yugao : 5 + 14 = 26

Yugito : 17 + 32 = 65

Wow, it seemed that Kurenai had taken the lead for now. But you still had until next chapter to vote so please do it quick or your chosen one won't be picked! By the way, some people still vote on the review… I already told you last time that I won't count that anymore but since people still like to vote on the review I guess I need to take another measure... From now on, the vote from poll (the right one) will be count as 1.5 vote so it will be better for you to vote on the poll rather than the review, remember you will only had until next chapter for that!