A/N: Hi everybody! We welcome you to chapter 4! It'll be a really fun one we had fun writing it. Sorry thos took us a while we work on other stories (together and alone) and we took breaks because life and all. Anyway we hope you like the chapter!

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Jutsu

Biju Talking

'Biju Thinking'

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-Mission Office, Konoha-

In the mission office, Minato was handing out missions to the graduating Genin teams and while most were taking it well, two teams were not and of course one of the teams was his sons the other Kakashi's; "Come on Tau-san! we aren't going to get any better if all you have us doing is catching cats and picking weeds!" Naruto huffed.

"Wait a minute we deserve a higher ranking mission more than they do Hokage-sama!" Sasuke said indignantly.

"Both of you calm down, we will see what your sensi's think before I decide to give either of your teams a shot at something a little more challenging." Minato said looking to Kakashi and Itachi as they stepped up.

"I'm sure you can find a somewhat harder task for both our students, Lord Hokage," Kakashi said.

"Well there was a job that came in recently. The job involves protecting a bridge-builder from possible bandit attacks," Minato said, taking out a small scroll from his desk.

"Sounds good. We'll be taking that," Itachi said, reaching for it only for Kakashi to grab the Uchiha by the wrist.

"And what do you think you're doing?" Kakashi asked.

"I just thought this job was beneath such a great shinobi such as yourself, Kakashi," Itachi said with a smirk.

Kakashi was silent for a moment before he finally spoke, "You know the funny thing is I know you're playing me, but you're right. However, it's not beneath my students, so I'll be taking the job."

"That's great that you think that, but my students require a more hands on experience so I'll be taking the mission." Itachi said kindly but firmly as he pulled at the scroll as the two teams behind them started to argue.

"Enough! All of you be quite!" Minato said and they all fell silent staring at him as he cleared his throat; "How about this, you can both go on the mission if your willing to take a little less pay that is." Minato offered.

"Well, that could work if you'd be willing?" Itachi asdked looking to Kakaksh i who nodded; "Very well can we meet the client?"

"Of course, Mr. Tazuna, you can come in now!" Minato called and in walked an older man he was a grey-haired, bespectacled man with a large beard and dark eyes. He wore a sleeveless v-neck shirt with an obi, pants and a pair of sandals. He also carried a towel around his neck and wore a pointed hat on his head. In his hands he held a bottle of alcohol. He looked at them all a look of scrutiny and mild disbelief on his face.

"Seriously, these runts are going to protect me Hokage-sama? They seem too weak to defend even a cat, let alone me especially the small blonde one." He said and naruto's face went from normal to red in an instant, before he could speak up Sakura walked over and covered his mouth shaking her head.

"I assure you sir, these squads will be more than enough to protect you, they are the best of our most recent graduating class." Minato said and Tazuna nodded grumbling.

"Team, go gather anything you feel you will need for the journey and meet us at the front gate in two hours understood?" Itachi asked and his team nodded as they vanished with Sushins

Two hours later, both Team 7 and Team 9 met with Kakashi, Itachi, and Tazuna at the entrance to the village.

"Glad to see that you all made it on time," Kakashi said with a smile beneath his mask.

"We could say the same for you too, Kakashi-Sensei," Sasuke said with a smirk.

"I still feel like this isn't enough," Tazuna said with a tinge of foreboding in his voice.

"Are you kidding?!" Naruto asked with a big smile, "Bandits would have enough trouble fighting one team of ninja. With two teams, plus Kakashi- and Itachi-Sensei, bandits wouldn't dare attack you! Believe it!"

"Right, well I guess we'll see then won't we?" Tazuna said disbelieving as they set of with Naruto grumbling at the old mans attitude the whole way. As they walked for a few hours Kakashi and Itachi noticed something odd, a puddle in the middle of the road, this wouldn't have been so odd, but it had not rained in weeks.

They exchanged a clance and nodded deciding to wait and see what happened, they passed the puddle, and...nothing happened; 'Hm, maybe some other travelers split some water?' Kakashi though having been sure that it was going to be some sort of ambush, the group walked on in a casual silence.

When they were far enough away the puddle morphed into two men with large claw gauntlets on their hands connected by a chain, metalic masks covering their faces; "This is bad we were expecting a little resistance, but Kakashi Hataki and Itachi Uchiha, plus brats. We can't do this alone, we need back up, we should tell Zabuza and Haku immediately." One of them said.

"Agreed."He brother said as they vanished in a different direction from the two teams.

-Zabuza Hideout-

In a large Treehouse like structure, a man sat on a couch waiting. The Demon Brothers he figured would be more than enough to deal with the Bridge Builder or so he thought until they appeared in front of him bowing nervously; "Did you kill the bridge builder?" He asked in a gravely voice.

"No sir, the guard was better than we anticipated." One of them said.

"You couldn't handle a small team of shinobi!?" Zabuza asked reaching for the large sword at his side, but the other spoke quickly; "No sir, it wasn't the Genin there were two teams of them and the were lead by Kakashi Hatake and Itachi Uchiha sir!"

Zabuza forze thinking; "Is that so? Well then I guess the three of us willhave to check things out, Haku stay in the shadowsm in case." He said and Haku nodded as he stepped out.

-Meanwhile-

Kakashi and Itachi's teams made sure to keep close to Tazuna as they made their way through the forest and soon came to a wetland area. As they traveled through the area they began to notice it was starting to become misty. Soon though, the mist began to form into a thick fog.

"Everybody stay close," Itachi ordered, drawing a kunai dagger.

"What's wrong, Itachi-Sensei?" Rei asked in confusion.

"What's wrong is that there's no way this is natural fog, it's some kind of Jutsu," Kakashi answered for the other Shinobi.

"Oh ho, smart aren't you though I'd expect nothing less from Itachi, the Uchiha clan prodigy." Said a low rumbling voice as the Genin all closed in around Tazuna.

"It doesn't take a prodigy to see this." Kakashi said.

"Of course." The voice said before they heard the faintest spinning sound and Kakashi and Itachi shoved them all down as a giant sword spun through the air and impaled itself into the tree.

Out of the mist came a man he was a tall and noticeably muscular man 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. Under his mask, he had a relatively narrow jawline. He was shirtless, with his chest only covered by a belt to which he attached his sword he was wearing baggy pants with the striped pattern typical of Kirigakure and mimetic wrist-warmers extending up to his elbows, with matching leg-warmers.

Kakashi and Itachi both recognized him immediately from the Bingo Book; "Zabuza Momochi." Itachi breathed calmly.

"The Demon of the hidden Mist, Tazuna you have explaining to do when this is over." Kakashi said glancing to Tazuna before cracking his neck and turning to Zabuza a hand on his headband; "You can't be thinking of taking us on alone." Itachi said.

"Who said that I was alone?" Zabuza said as out of the mist two men appeared; They had wild dark-brown hair and dark eyes. They wore rebreathers that covered the lower half of their faces and had large, clawed, poisonous gauntlets one had it on his left the other his right which had a chain coming out of it that had the other end attached to his brother's own gauntlet. They wore a camouflage suit with bandages around their waist, dark-coloured, knee-length sandals and several pouches around his waist and horns on their forehead protectors.

They took all this in as they made a bee line for the Genin and bridgebuilder

"Dodge!" Akira exclaimed, grabbing Tazuna and jumping out of the way along with the other Genin, who jumped in the opposite direction. The two men, rather than try to split up like Akira hoped they'd do, turned in the direction that he had jumped, heading right toward him.

Just before they could reach them however, Akira heard a voice call out.

"Suiton: Suigadan (Water Release: Water Fang Bullet)," The voice called out as spikes of spiraling water erupted from the wetlands and crashed into the two men's chests, sending them crashing into the ground.

Turning around, Akira and Tazuna found Itachi with his right hand in the water about ten feet away from them.

"Come now Itachi, let the kids play." Zabuza said appearing behind Itachi who was forced to duck and dodged as Zabuza swung the large sword much faster. Itachi skidded away and stopped beside Kakashi; "Let them handle those two, they can do it we need to focus on him." Kakashi said and Itachi nodded and activated his Sharingan and Kakashi revealed his own.

"Ah, the sharingan from both of you this should be fun." Zabuza said creating several Water clones and charging forwards at them as they did the same.

-With the Genin-

"You stay back, Tazuna let us deal with this Akira said as the other Genin closed in around the bridge builder and he fell into hand signs before stopping; Fūton: Habataki hane!" He said throwing several Kunai and shuriken before releasing a wave of wind from his mouth speeding them towards his opponents.

The two brothers blocked the oncoming shuriken and kunai using their arm guards, but were unprepared to have their faces kicked in by Naruto and Sasuke, sending them flying back.

"Nice kick," Sasuke said with a smirk.

"Thanks. You too," Naruto replied as the brothers got back to their feet.

"It seems the brats have some fight in them, brother," One said.

"It seems so. Shall we show them how a real ninja fights?" The other asked.

"Gladly," The first replied.

They charged forwards their chain expanding between them as they got nearer Akira and Sasuke pulled several shuriken and threw them. Sasuke's headed towards the men who easily dodged. This however was the plan, as with them distracted they failed to notice Akira's shuriken that pinned the chain to a tree taking them off their feet and forcing them to detach the chain and separate.

Naruto and Rei were ready for one of them both falling into handsigns Rei finished first: "Koton: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique)." She said releasing a stream of fire from her mouth towards the man as Naruto finished his own handsigns: Futon: Kaze no dangan (Wind Style: Wind Bullet)." He said releasing a concentrated blast of air and increasing her fires intensity.

The man dodged, but the hem of his cloak was caught in the fire.

Acting quickly, he spun on his heel and threw his cloak of in the direction of the two Genin, distracting them long enough for him to do his own hand signs.

"Suiton: Teppodama (Water Style: Gunshot)!" He said, uncovering his mouth before firing a series of large water balls at the two Genin, who dodged out of the way, Rei by simply running and Naruto cartwheeling.

Meanwhile, with Sasuke and Akira, they had the ninja brother surrounded both in front and back. He tried to keep his focus on both of them, but couldn't keep them both in his line of sight.

As one Akira and Sasuke moved towards him sprinting at high speeds before. The man prepared himself for the assault and held out well against the two Genins punches and kicks.

"Enough of this!" He said lashing out and seizing both of them by the throat as they came in for the attack; "You both can't have really thought that would work on me!?" He demanded

"No, but we did think it would keep you busy enough to not notice the environment." Akira said smirking as he and Sasuke looked down, the man did too and that was when he noticed he was standing in a pool of; "Ink!?" He said confused.

"Exactly." Sai said calmly finishing his set of hand seals; Sumi Nagashi (Ink Flush)." He said and out the ink rose a nest of large ink drawing snakes that swarmed around the man who dropped the two boys and began to try and fight them off, but when he would kill one two more woul seemingly rise to replace it.

As this was happening, Kakashi, Itachi, and Zabuza were going toe-to-toe with each other, neither one gaining any ground on the other. While it was difficult for Zabuza to fight in a two-on-one fight, he still managed to keep up with the two Jonin.

As Itachi and Kakashi were coming in for another round, Zabuza spun around on his heel, grasping the hilt of his overly-large sword, and swung it in a wide, spinning arc, the centripetal force helping him spin faster.

Just before they hit the spinning blade of death, Itachi spun around in midair, moving his body so that he was heading for Zabuza feet first while Kakashi re-calibrated himself so that he was heading for Zabuza's feet, below his blade.

Zabuza made an impressive move ducking his head and jumping to avoid each attack. Except for what he had not expected was for Itachi using his Sharingans ability to predict the move spun in mid air and slamming his fist into the back of Zabuza's head and sending him flying away with the impact of it.

Zabuza bounced off the ground a few times before righting himself standing on his feet, only to be met with Kakashi's foot smashing into his gut he felt the breath leave his lungs and bent forwards to be met by both Kakashi's knee's to his face sending him into the water.

He burst out glaring at the pair who stood on the shore nearby; "Give up now and this won't have to be your end." Itachi said speaking calmly his red and black Sharingan shinning from over the brim of his coat.

Zabuza smirked; 'Are you kidding I live for the battle and this is just the start!" He declared pulling himself from the water and using Chakra to stand on it.

He fell into hand sighs again as the mist began to cover the area; "I must admit I'm excited you all are more than I was ever expecting from such a simple mission. Let's see what you can really do." He said.

"Fall in around the bridge builder, now!" Itachi said as his team broke away after they had all tied the now unconscious brothers and fell in around the man.

"Defeated by mere children, the demon brothers must be loosing their touch or maybe your all better than you look, I guess we'll find out." Zabuza's voice said ringing out from seemingly everywhere

"Stay sharp and stay close. Don't let his illusions get to you," Kakashi said to the six genin.

"Then tell me, Kakashi," Zabuza's voice said from nowhere and everywhere, "Does THIS feel like an illusion?!" He yelled, appearing right in front of the silver-haired jonin, his giant sword raised high above his head and ready to bring it down on Kakashi.

He brought it apparently slicing solidly through the silver haired Jonin, only for 'Kakashi' to turn into water and fall at his feet; "Did you really think we were that foolish?" Kakashi asked emerging from the ground and seizing his opponents feet. Itachi came rushing over and slamming his feet into Zabuza's face sending him flying.

"No I didn't but I did need you to get away from the bridge builder." Zabuza said as one of his clones appeared between the Genin; "Time to die!" He shouted

"No you don't!" Sai exclaimed as he got between Zabuza's clone and the bridge builder as the clone brought its sword down, it slashing Sai across the chest.

"Sai!" The five other Genin yelled as they saw their teammate get injured. However, just as he was injured, Sai stabbed the clone in the throat with a kunai dagger he had hidden in his right hand, causing it to dissipate into water before Sai fell to the muddy ground, his chest bleeding profusely.

"Brave kids you got there, too bad about that one too foolish to know better than to stand against me." Zabuza said chuckling, but he had gone too far, Because Kakashi's eyes narrowed; "You just hurt one of my students, now I'm mad." Kakashi growled vanishing into the mist himself as Skaura fell to the ground beside Sai and started to inspect his wounds.

"Hold on Sai, your going to make it." She said her hands glowing green as she started to run them over the cut.

Meanwhile Zabuza was preparing for another attack when a voice came from behind him; "What do you think your going to do?" Kakashi asked as a kunai stabbed through Zabuza's shoulder, and Kakashi's hands seized his head and slammed his face into the tree before throwing him out into the open where Itachi kicked him in the jaw sending him flying

Just before he could right himself in midair, Zabuza was spin-kicked in the stomach by Kakashi, who had appeared from the mist once again before disappearing again as Zabuza landed in the wetland. Zabuza then struggled to get to his feet. As he did, he saw Itachi and Kakashi stand about fifteen feet away from him, glaring at him.

"I don't fear you Leaf Village fools. Time to show you my best technique," Zabuza said as he put his hands together, but was surprised when he saw that Itachi and Kakashi had done the same.

As he went through the handsigns for his Jutsu so did they and it gave him pause as another him seemed to appear behind them going through the signs too; "What the hell is this!?" H e thought.

Then they stopped before he even had finished and both of them spoke: Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu (Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique)!" Two massive whirlpools came up out of the water and blasted Zabuza backwards at high speed and with great intensity. 'How could they have gotten to me before I could finish!?' He thought being through into a tree and then pinned to it by Kunai.

As he groaned in terrible pain at the kunai in his shoulder, he looked up to see Itachi and Kakashi standing before him, looking down at him.

"How? How did you know my technique before I could even do it? Can you two see the future?" He asked weakly.

"Yes, we can," Kakashi said in a low tone.

"You know what we see Zabuza?" Itachi asked, bringing out another kunai from his sleeve, "We see your demise," He said.

As he said that two needles came flying out of the air and imbeded themselves in his necak and Zabuza slumped forwards; "Well you were right, he's dead." Said a young voice as they both turned to see a young man standing in a tree not too far away.

He was dressed in the standard Kirigakure pinstriped outfit which stopped at his knees. Over this he wore a green haori with white trimmings, and around his waist a brown sash with a fringed trail wrapped around his waist twice. He also wore light-brown platoon sandals with straps in the same color as his kimono and nail polish on his fingernails and toenails in matching blue green color. His long hair was gathered in a white bun holder, while two locks of his hair fell loose framing his face, bound with metal hair cuffs at the ends. He wore a hunter-nin mask which was white with thin, curved eye-holes and a red wavy design in place of the mouth, as well as the Kirigakure symbol etched in the top.

"He can't be much older than out Genin." Itachi thought

Meanwhile, Naruto and Sasuke were staring at the kid in the tree in shock as Akira, and Sakura went over Sai making sure that he would at least be alright enough when he woke.

"He...he just killed Zabuza like it was nothing at all." Naruto muttered shocked as Kakashi spoke.

"From your mask, I'd guess your from the Kirigakure hunter nin corps right?" He asked as Itachi inspected Zabuza feeling no pulse; 'He really did just kill him, kids highly skilled.' Itachi thought carefully.

"You're correct I am a hunter nin I have been following Zabuza for a long while now waiting for the perfect chance to strike and you gave it to me I should thank you.' The boy said seriously

"Think nothing of it," Itachi said after getting back to his feet.

"If you all don't mind," The boy said, leaping down from the tree and walking over to Zabuza, "I'll be taking Zabuza and the Demon Brothers with me."

"Go right ahead. We have more important things to worry about now," Kakashi said, turning to Sai, who was no longer bleeding out thanks to Akira and Sakura.

"Thank you very much," The boy said as he put a firm hand on Zabuza before Sushining over to the Demon Brothers, grabbed the chin that bound them, and disappeared for good this time.

"What the hell!? What just happened, he he killed him! Just like that, Zabuza was so strong and he just killed him like it was nothing! How does that make any sense, he's our age and yet he's so much stronger! How...how're we supposed to deal with that?" Naruto sighed looking at the ground knowing Sai was alright as Kakashi went to check on him Itachi stopped and set a hand on Naruto's shoulders.

"That's the world of a shinobi Naruto, it doesn't always make the most sense, but sometimes there exist kids younger or the same age as you, but that are stronger than Kakashi." He said smirking.

"Hey, wait why me specifically?" Kakashi asked asked as Itachi smirked and it even got a smile out of Naruto.

"Because, you haven't been training as hard as you could have been, so now you get to be the example in this." Itachi said cassually as Kakashi pulled his headband back down and picked up Sai; "Whatever, looks like the kids going to be okay he'll need rest of course we chould keep moving." He said and they all nodded.

Itachi let the group get ahead of them before he set a hand on Tazuna's shoulder; "You have some explaining to do, one of our Genin got seriously injured in your defense and you were attacked by high ranking missing nin. When we get there you are going to explain or us and our teams are going to go home." He said in a dark voice.

Swallowing a lump that formed in his throat, Tazuna nodded in comprehension before Itachi followed his team.

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