Dealing with things- jinchruiki style
This has been beta’d by Ankaa Sage! Thank-you so much!
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"What do you mean they got away?!" yelled a small, fat, hairy, corporate boss that went by the name Gato. "I'm paying you to make sure that bridge doesn't get built! All you have to do is kill Tazuna! How hard can it be?!"
Gato and his lackeys, as well as Zabuza and Haku, were all in a dark well-furnished room in one of his homes he kept out of people's eye. "Tch. It's harder than it looks when the man's got Kakashi Hatake, the copy ninja on his side and a team whose powers we don't know yet."
"Don't argue with me! You two are just tools, so do as you're supposed to do! I don't care how you do it, just get it done!" The two of them left the room, however unknown to them, someone had snuck into the room they were previously occupying.
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Kakashi woke up feeling very warm. A lot warmer than he remembered being when he had gone to sleep. He was also holding onto something. Another thing he noticed, he had two pillows. Deciding to open his eyes and see what he was sleeping on made him regret it instantaneously. In his sleep, he seemed to have rolled over, several times and latched onto the closest heat near him.
Naruto.
He head was rested between her breasts. Slowly he tried to release his grip on her and move before she woke up, however, he had not noticed that Naruto also had a tight grip on him, so he tried to wiggle out from her hold only for her to groan and roll them onto their sides, Kakashi still firmly in place. His blood ran cold, however, when he heard an ice cold voice, "Kakashi how long do you intend to molest her? You know I can kill you for this right?" moving his head slightly he saw Sasuke glaring kunai at him.
"I am not molesting her I woke up like this and can't get out of her hold."
Sasuke's eye twitched before he replied, "Then kawarimi out of her hold than." His voice laced so much venom Kakashi was surprised he wasn't stung by it.
He blinked feeling the need to smack himself for not thinking of that himself and replaced himself with his pillow. He breathed out a large breath he hadn't known he was holding, till Naruto squirmed and mumbled, "It's rude to leave a ladies bed before she's gotten up dattebayo." She sat up rubbing her eyes before she gave both boys small glares.
"Why you glaring at me for?" asked Sasuke. He must have been out of it since his sentence was said wrong.
She groaned again, this time clutching her stomach, "My stomach hurts." She then flopped onto her stomach with her arms crossed against them.
Sighing Sasuke shook his head, "I don't know how Shisui did it for so long."
There was a sudden spike of KI radiating from the blonde who gave a sideways glance at the Uchiha so Kakashi could not see her expression, but if Sasuke's face was anything to go by, he wasn't missing anything fun. "Kakashi-sensei, I need to go somewhere after breakfast and then I'll be right back. Is that okay?" she asked, finally not glaring at Sasuke who took the opportunity to make a tactical retreat.
"Of course do I get to know where you're going?" he asked as he went to change his shirt, back towards his student.
Said student gave a wolf whistle at the sight, "Well if you just take off a few more clothes I'd be more than willing to stay and deal with my stuff later."
He turned his face round to give her a blank look, so she huffed and said, "I'm not leaving Nami and will only be a few miles away from here if that." She got up to her feet, one hand clutching her stomach.
"Naruto are you alright? Your stomach seems to be bothering you." He turned around, thinking she had already changed her shirt but had instead chosen to bind her chest. He thanked the shodaime that she had covered part of said area.
"Yeah just stomach cramps I think I might get my period even quicker than the furball said I would," she replied, not fazed by Kakashi's unintentional gawking.
"Um, why are you binding your chest you don't usually do that?" he asked as he tried to focus on something other than the under-aged girl in front of him.
"I can start my period anytime now, last time when I got it and I was in my male form things got messy. I was out with ero-sennin looked for grandma Tsunade and started bleeding in places you don't wanna know."
Kakashi blanched and tried his very hardest to not conjure that image in his mind. Naruto, as if reading his mind, which she could have, threw his Icha Icha book at him to a certain page and decided to torment him a little, "I can actually do that. It's not really hard to do when you have ninja flexibility." She said, which in turn made Kakashi red.
Finally having finished with binding her chest, Naruto put on her jumper and placed a henge on her to make her hair shorter and left the room, headband in her hand. Kakashi, once he was fully dressed, also made his way downstairs and sat across her and next to Tazuna.
Breakfast was simple, rice, curry, onigiri, omelet, salad, some of that being leftovers from the previous night's dinner. They discussed simple tips on how to walk on water, much to Inari and Tsunami's confusion, not understanding how they could do that, Inari commenting on how cool it was and other praising comments. Naruto left shortly after breakfast, leaving Kakashi to answer questions he didn't have answers to.
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Naruto reached her destination with little trouble. All she had to do was feel for two particular chakra signatures and viola, she was there. She waited for those two particular people to leave the room before she hiraishined into the room, quickly placing a silencing seal and barrier around the room. She made quick work of the samurai guarding the fat man in the room and threw them out the window. They were only on the second floor, after all. She stared at Gato before taking a seat on one of the sofas in the room. "Well, Gato. I have a request to make."
He showed no outward fear however she could smell his sweat and fear, it came from him in rolls. Slowly he sat across her, "And what would that be, kid?"
"Simple, sign these little scrolls here, here, and here," she said pointing to where on the three scrolls she took out of her back pocket, "And I may just let you live." She added with a smirk.
He scoffed and rolled his eyes, "And what could a mere child such as yourself do?" he sneered.
"Oh, many, many things. The first thing that comes to mind is knocking you unconscious, dress you in girl clothes and show a picture to all your benefactors. Another idea would be to hang you by your toes as I hit you with rusty senbon needles all over your body. Another option would be to simply-." She released an intense amount of KI at the man.
She made her eyes change red, fangs grow longer, nails turned into claws, whisker marks thicker and Kurama's evil charka swirl around her. He was on his knees faster than you could say Hokage, begging for her to not kill him or do any of the things she had listed.
She dropped the KI and thrust the scrolls to him and he signed them and stamped them. She nodded and decided she had had enough of seeing him alive and breathing. She threw him out the window, killing him on impact.
Once that was done she made her way to Gato Company and showed them the documents he had signed. They agreed, not caring as long as everything ran smoothly, however, were reluctant about her age till she showed them her ninja registration, which made her old enough. Once all was dealt with, she made her merry way back to Team 7, on her way she remembered she had not left a note for Zabuza and Haku so quickly doing so she left them on a few doors and left.
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Sasuke and Sakura had been trying and failing to walk on water, much to Kakashi and Tazuna's amusement. They were interrupted when Naruto Uzumaki shunshined into the water. Without falling. She looked around, confused before her eyes landed on her two drenched teammates and she burst out laughing. It had been some weeks since he heard her laugh quite like that and was about to smile but stopped himself when he remembered where they were and what their situation was. "Dobe. How did you- when did you master water walking?"
"Oh, uh a few days ago?" her answer sounded more like a question than a reply causing Kakashi's sweatdrop and Sasuke's eye twitch.
"And you didn't feel the need to tell us because?"
"I uh forgot?" she said with a nervous chuckle, hand scratching the back of her head.
Instead of losing his temper in a foreign country, Sasuke took deep breaths, many of the first ones coming out shaky as he held back his annoyance and fury at his blonde teammate. "Uh, Naruto? Do you have any tips on how to do this? I and Sasuke keep falling in after a few steps." Asked a shy Sakura, causing Kakashi's and Sasuke's eyebrows to rise.
"Well, you need to make the flow of water constant and make it stay. When you take a few steps, you walk into the part that moves, see? So instead of letting your chakra go with the river, make it stay at your feet and keep the supply constant." She made gestures pointing to the river, her feet and made her chakra visible for them. They both gave it another try, getting further than they had before till they fell over into the water, Naruto giving them prompts about what they were doing wrong and how to fix that.
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Kakashi was watching Naruto teach his team how to water walk and was interrupted by Tazuna, "You know he's not what I'd expected when I saw him on your back the other day." Kakashi merely nodded so he continued, "I notice how you don't-." he was interrupted by the appearance of the two ninjas that had attacked them the previous day.
Kakashi called up his team and got into a protective stance but was interrupted by Naruto, "How's it goin' guys? I see you got my note?"
Zabuza scoffed, "How could we not? You left one on every door in that place."
"True, true. Anyway as promised in the notes." She threw a scroll at them which Zabuza opened, closed and tucked away in his back bag. "Well, now that that's sorted. Why don't you help with the bridge whilst I explain to everyone what's going on?" they nodded and started to help build the bridge, rather awkwardly.
All eyes that had traveled with her were on her in a second, "Okay so I went and followed those twos chakra signatures to their secret hideout, waited for them to leave, threatened Gato and he signed these scrolls. One to pay off all money he owed them, the second to give money to help build the bridge as well as releasing his hold on Nami, the third leaving the company in my very capable hands. That's about it. Oh right, Gato and his lackeys are all dead."
Everyone, including Sasuke and Kakashi's, jaws fell and their eyes wide as they stared at the blonde. Kakashi was the first one to regain his composure and said, "Naruto, Well done? In any event, from today feel free to call yourself Konoha's number one unpredictable hyperactive ninja." She gave a large radiant smile to the silver-haired jounin and nodded her head vigorously.
"I may die simply because I can't predict you, Naruto."
"Oh, stop being a drama queen, koi. I'm not that bad."
"Yes, you are. In fact, you are worse." Said Kurama.
"Shut it fur-ball! Go back to sleep."
"No thank-you. I think I'll annoy you a bit longer."
Kakashi tuned out the rest of the conversation, knowing they could argue for hours with little to no care on what's going on around them. Sighing he turned and asked for everyone to carry on as they were, Sasuke and Sakura glancing questioning looks towards their blonde teammate but did as they were told.
After a minute Naruto came out of her mind scape and went to Kakashi for help in the Chidori. She could do it perfectly fine but they had to keep up appearances, but she was stuck on keeping an eye on her surroundings and use the Chidori. It was something Kakashi himself had struggled with till he received his Sharingan eye from Obito.
It took a week to finish the building of the bridge with all the extra help from Naruto's shadow clones as well as Zabuza and Haku. The day it was finished Kakashi asked what they would do and they asked if it was possible for them to join Konoha, to which he said was not up to him to decide but would most likely be a yes when they asked the Hokage.
As they left Tazuna said he would name the bridge The Great Naruto Bridge, much to everyone's amusement and Naruto's joy. The journey back to Konoha was a lot quicker, as they decided to run back on the water and tree jump after. Sasuke and Sakura had mastered water walking and were in the middle of having their speed worked on by having weights placed on them.
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Sasuke was annoyed and pissed. He wasn't sure how a person could be both, but he managed. The source of these emotions was easy to pinpoint. Naruto and Kakashi.
The both of them had been acting weird ever since their first meeting, however, it seemed as if they both knew each other from before. Even now, they acted as if they were close. It was something he didn't like to see. The look Naruto would give their sensei was a look he had once believed was reserved for Shisui and the main Uchiha family.
Yet he would often see Naruto look at their sensei in this way and it hurt him to see her move on from the people that had loved her so much. Team 7 were currently in training ground 26 which was at the back of the Hokage monument, Sasuke and Sakura working on their speed and Naruto working on what he believed was the Chidori, a move made by Kakashi when he was their age. An A-rank move with the possibilities of becoming S-rank.
However due to his frustrations, his speed increased without him noticing and he fell over, the foot having gotten caught in a root, leading to a twisted ankle. He cried out, much to his embarrassment, and clutched his ankle as Naruto appeared in a flash of yellow, eyes concerned as her eyes turned yellow with a thick line going through each eye.
She went on her knees and raised her right hand which was glowing orange as she wrapped her hand around his ankle making him wince as she closed her eyes and when she opened them she released his ankle and fell backwards, slightly out of breath as a layer of sweat appeared. "Better?" she asked as she tried to get up only to lose her balance and fall backwards.
Well, she would have if Kakashi hadn't chosen that moment to appear and catch her, one arm around her midsection the other by his side. "Um, yeah," Sasuke replied as he moved his ankle round. He was even more confused now since he didn't know she could do medical ninjutsu.
"Are you two okay? Well, I see Sasuke's ankle is better, but why are you so faint Naruto?" she gave him a look in return and as if he had read her mind, which he had thought several times for the past few weeks, his ear tip turned red and cleared his throat, "Right um Naruto why don't you uh go and check-up of Biscuit and the others, I'll take care of things here." she nodded reluctantly and gave a long stretch before going off to whatever biscuit was.
"Um, Kakashi-senesi where did Naruto go?" asked Sakura as sat next to Sasuke, who didn't mind, over the past few weeks she was being an actual member of team 7 making her more tolerable, especially since she stopped fangirling whenever she saw him.
"Oh, he isn't well so I told him to go check up on something. In fact, why don't we call it a day? We can meet up again tomorrow, same time, at the bridge." When he received two nods he smiled and poofed to where Sasuke assumed was his home.
"Sakura, have you noticed anything strange with Kakashi and Naruto?" he asked as they made their way to Sakuras house. It was late and it was only chivalrous to do so.
"Uh well to me sensei is always strange but with Naruto, he seems so different of late, especially these last few days why do you ask?"
"Naruto, since I'm the last Uchiha in Konoha has always come to me to say things which I usually tend to ignore but he knows I'm listening but since becoming genin he hasn't-"
Sakura gave a contemplative nod, "Perhaps he doesn't want to overload you now since we have missions and training it does make us all tired. Maybe if we had some days off he may just come over and talk your ears off. Just give him a little more time if it doesn't change then confront him at home."He gave a nod and waved her goodbye as she entered her house, making his way back to his apartment, Sakuras words fresh in his mind.
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