Tazuna's home, land of waves...

As the team 7 and Jack reached Tazuna's home, Kakashi knocked loudly on the door and waited his visible eye was concentrating on his orange book, so much so he was oblivious that the door was open till he was hit in the head by a skillet, wielding the pervert felling weapon was the rather attractive daughter of the bridge builder. Jack sighed as he walked past Tsunami before looking back and asking "Is there a free room where I may work on my puppet's, the attic perhaps?" She nodded as he walked up the outside wall and in through the attic skylight.

Jack looked around his would be workshop and sighed "Do people really need to put this much useless rubbish in their attic when I could be thrown out or be used for the good of the village?" He cleared a space in the middle of the room over the trapdoor in and out of the room and unrolled a scroll from his pack and unsealed two tables along with his equipment along with the preservative fluids. He grabbed the scroll from Zabuza and went through the names before picking the first of his new Toys He placed the scroll on the empty table and pushed a bit of chakra into the seal, a cloud of smoke erupted from the scroll to reveal the bent necked corpse of Kushimaru Kuriarare the ex-ANBU of the ninja swordsmen. "Well Sensei, let's get reaquainted, hrm?" Jack asked as he set to work.

After several hours of working while the rest of his team slept, Jack slumped against his work table he'd finished five of the six swordsmen in the scroll, he stopped since he couldn't find the sixth body. The body of Mangetsu Hōzuki, in place of the body in the scroll was a large container of water. Jack merely thought that this Zabuza had added so he didn't dehydrate while he was working so he drank the liquid, unaware of what he'd done, the two gallon barrel was almost empty so he drank what was left in the barrel before drying the inside with a small gust of wind chakra. After sealing the puppets of his former sensei's into the new scroll he prepared it was dark blue with the kanji Go (Five). Which he placed in his scroll holster, the holster contained three more scrolls. One held the kanji Ichi Sasori (One Scorpion) In red on a black background, the second read Futaba (Two leaves), the final read Tsu No Fuxan (Four Fans). He grabbed his brush and began to write the seals on the barrel, working till he heard the birds singing, to greet the morning sunlight. As Jack fell asleep leaning on the completed barrel.

With the rest of team seven, diningroom

Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi were sitting round the table Kakashi had his face hidden behind his book, giggling occasionally as the rice vanished as it reached under the book. Sasuke was glaring at his sensei 'How can he have that calm look on his face?' The Last Uchiha wondered as he tried to ignore his fangirl who was currently staring at him giggling to herself like her sensei. 'Sasuke-kun looks so cool right now.'
Kakashi's book closes as he finishes his breakfast and starts to head outside, he looks back at the pair before asking "Well are you coming to train or not?" He smirks behind his mask as he hears the chairs scrape across the floor as he 'cute little gennins' followed duck-like behind him. He lead them to a clearing near the house and began his lesson.

"Today, you will be climbing these trees" He points his thumb over his shoulder and continues his lecture "You shall do this without using your hands, use th-""What?" Interrupted Sakura "How are we suppose to be able to do that sensei?" She asked. Kakashi sighed before continuing "If you had left me finish Sakura I would have got to that part. To climb these trees without using your hands, by using chakra to cling to the surface of the tree and walk up it, using these kunai to mark our place." Sasuke looked doubtful and voiced his opinion "and how is this suppose to help us? How will it make us stronger?" Kakashi sighed behind his book 'It's going to be a long day'

With Jack...

Jack sighed wearily as he walked out of the bathroom, wrapped in a towelled robe with added hood, he headed back to his room to get dressed. When he'd done that he headed downstairs with the barrel in hand and headed to the walk way that conned the house to the shore and submerged part of the barrel as he pushed his chakra into the seals, watching as the water was drawn into the seals, rotating the barrel as the water flowed in, making sure all seals were full. He sealed the seemingly empty barrel into a seal on his gauntlet and headed back in for a quick meal before going to guard Tazuna at the bridge.

At the bridge it all seemed quiet, the building was continuing at a steady rate Jack sighed and created a few Mizu Bunshins to help out as he leant against a pillar and began sharpening his blade, he was in a content mood, nothing could spoil it or so he thought, his gaze snapped us as he leant his head to the left to avoid a kunai made of ice with a note inside the blade 'Clever Haku-chan' he chuckled to himself as he smashed the blade on the concrete and began to read the note.

'Dear Jack-kun,
Gato has decided to get Zabuza and myself to attack the bridge in two days, then after we have exhausted ourselves he will attack with his ronin and hired thugs.

Ps. Stop calling me chan'

Jack sighed as he slid the note up his sleeve to pass onto Kakashi later, as he felt his Mizu clones shatter at the end of the days work, he stopped leaning against the bridge and began to escort Tazuna back home, as they reached the house, his senses could pick up hints of the meal they were about to partake in, his shook his head free of the loose thoughts in his head and opened the door, sealing his boots into the bandages on his feet with a small flare of chakra and did the same to his gauntlets and blade 'Seals are awesome' he thought to himself as he sat at the table, ignoring the glare from the Uchiha opposite him and the confused look from the pink haired Haruno, but he nodded politely in return from the eye-smile from Kakashi.

Jack pushed a small amount of chakra into his mask and ignored the looks of wonderment from the occupants of the table watched as the stitches in the mask loosened themselves allowing a portion of the mask to slide down, saving him from the trouble of removing his mask to eat.
As they were nearing the end of the meal, Jack glanced at Tazuna's grandson 'What was his name again? Gilligan? No that is not it, ah Inari' Jack nodded as he remembered, as slam of metal on wood brought him from his thinking when he heard the question from the boy.

"Why even bother, you're all going to die" Inari asked, his voice not even bothered by his own question, Sasuke stared at the boy before speaking,

"Gato will die, he has caused unneeded harm to Wave and we will right that wrong..." He trailed off noticing that Jack and Kakashi were looking at him as if he'd grown a second head that looked like Itachi, he checked, it wasn't that and he noticed Sakura was looking at him with hearts in her eyes 'Oh great' he thought to himself as he began to brood again.

"What do you know?" Inari demanded "What do you know of suffering? You all look like the kind of people who have everything going right, what do you know of pain?" There was silence as two pairs of chopsticks snapped, one pair being held by Sasuke, who was shaking in silent anger, but being held back by Kakashi, who was clenching his hand under the table. The other pair of snapped chopsticks belonged to Jack as he stood up his mask resealed itself and he began to release some steady K.I, causing Inari to freeze and look like a deer in the headlights of a speeding truck.

"What do we know of suffering?" Jack asked rhetorically as he stepped closer, the bandages around his right forarm and hand began to unravel itself as chakra was pushed into the bandages causing them to move like puppet-strings and grabbed Inari by the Torso, pinning him to the wall as everyone looked on scared.

"I know for instance that almost everyone on our team has either lost those dear to them or been harmed in such a way it would scar you for life. Kakashi-sempai for example is the only man remaining of his old squad, Which included the Yondaime Hokage, his teacher and his team-mate Inuzuka Rin and Uchiha Obito" This caused Sasuke to look up with confusion.

"Sasuke-san entire clan was murdered by his elder brother and he was forced to watch it happen repeatedly for Seventy-two hours under an unbreakable genjutsu." Sakura looked towards Sasuke with sympathy as he looked down, almost defeated.
"Sakura lost her birth father on the day the Kyubbi attacked Konoha" Jack continued
"And myself I hear you wonder, what ever happened to dear old Jack to make him seem so secretive about his own appearance? Well let me show you" He revealed the arm that the bandages once bound to reveal an arm coated in burn scars, that seemed to criss-cross over each other.

"At the age of six I was pinned to a post with kunai knives going through my hands, elbows, shoulders, feet, calves and thighs then set on fire by four men using the Katon: Ryūka no Jutsu" This revelation caused Sasuke's eyes to widen with horror 'That is an Uchiha family technique'

Jack continued not noticing the look on Sasuke's face "Thankfully I was saved by the Hokage and then managed to seal my injuries shut, but remember boy" He looked at Inari "There are plenty of people in this world who have it worse than you" The bandages released the now pale child on the floor as Jack stormed out the front door, his Gauntlets and Boots appearing as he closed the door.

Inari's mother Tsunami looked towards Kakashi, tears glistening in her eyes "Is it true? All those terrible things he said?" She asked not wanting to believe these people had gone through so much heartache, Kakashi nodded before sighed and spoke softly.

"Hai it's true, but what Jack didn't mention, it was the day he turned six and the the many atrocities that happened before then, that was probably the worse thing that happened to him." Kakashi explained to the family and the rest of his team.

To be continued...