First Wave 6

"Shit. It seems you are lucky, Old Man," said Zabuza and threw a smoke bomb and vanished into the winds, not even leaving a blood trail behind from his wound.

His water clone dispelled after that and Kakashi sighed in relief, but his exhaustion caught up and he fell face-first into the water, drowning. One of Naruto's clones jumped in and brought him up.

"Thanks, Naruto. Tazuna, where is your house again?" Kakashi asked weakly. A now awake Tazuna replied.

"It's just a few miles away. Follow me," and they followed him to his home.

Tazuna's House

After a long walk, the group finally arrived at Tazuna's house which is a small 2 storey building to the side of the road. Naruto's clones were holding onto Kakashi while Sakura and Sasuke were walking with the bridge builder.

As they arrived, Tazuna knocked on the door a young lady opened the door to greet them. She was apprehensive to open it, but as soon as Tazuna called out, she opened it in a rush.

"Father?" Tsunami asked in joy and when Tazuna nodded, she hugged him. "I was worried, father," she said and Tazuna consoled her.

"These are the Shinobi that helped me get here and they are going to stay with us till I complete my bridge," Tazuna explained and Tsunami welcomed them with a happy smile.

Tsunami was a young woman with fair skin and long blue hair. She wore a short-sleeved pink shirt with the end of the sleeves and the collar is red and a long blue skirt.

"Ma'am, can you make a room for our injured Sensei?" Sakura asked as Naruto and Sasuke nudged her and Tsunami happily obliged and made a room for Kakashi to relax and for them to chat with him.

An hour passed while they waited for Kakashi to wake up and Sasuke finally lost his patience.

"So Naruto, wanna tell us how you know wind style Jutsu and you know Kenjutsu?" Sasuke asked with an annoyed and angry look.

The only people in the room were Team 7 while Kakashi is resting and Tazuna and Tsunami preparing meals for them. Sasuke was looking at Naruto intensely look as the dobe managed to outdo him in their confrontation with Zabuza.

Sasuke didn't know how Naruto knew all these techniques and why he wasn't aware of them till now. He didn't know they could learn how to wield a sword that easily and why he wasn't taught.

Overall, he is very unhappy and wanted to know anything and everything that can make him strong. If he had known, he would have learnt them and gotten a step closer to defeating Him.

"Ya. Naruto, you didn't tell us about these," Sakura said supporting Sasuke with a huff. She was really stunned by Naruto's performance on the bridge and couldn't help but keep the awe she felt from her tone.

The Jutsu Naruto used were perfectly executed and impressive. She doesn't know what else he is hiding from them and is doubting if they know anything about the blonde boy.

"A Ninja must keep his secrets and always look underneath the underneath is the rule I follow. I didn't tell you about my techniques and Kenjutsu because I want to show my progress when I have mastered them." Naruto said with a shrug. Both his teammate's eyes widened at the statement.

"Then it's a good thing you're gonna have another chance," Kakashi smirked as he woke from his slumber just in time to hear Naruto's words.

"Sensei!" Sakura said surprised that their teacher had recovered so quickly. At least that's what she thought.

"Damn, so you also saw it." Naruto chuckled, not as surprised as others.

"What's going on?" Sakura asked in nervous confusion. She had a bad feeling about this. Maybe coming to Nami is a mistake is her first thought.

"Zabuza is still alive and will definitely come for Tazuna to finish his job. What I and Sensei are talking about is that there is another person with Zabuza the whole time. When he threw the smoke bomb, that person swooped in and took him from the area." Naruto explained and Kakashi nodded in agreement.

"You did well against Zabuza today, Naruto, you too Sasuke. You both did well by protecting the client, Sasuke, Sakura. Well done," Kakashi said with a thumps up.

Though Naruto didn't show it, he felt happy while Sasuke and Sakura puffed up their chests in pride.

"But be very careful next time. Zabuza is very experienced and powerful ninja. He might not have taken you seriously this time, but he will next time. What worked once won't work again." Kakashi said and his students nodded.

"Sure and luckily for us, we have a little while to train and get ready," Naruto said with a smirk.

"Yes but right now we should get some food. All of us could use that," Kakashi said with an eye smile.

A few minutes later Tsunami came to call them for dinner. They happily dug in and had a nice meal after a well-fought battle with an A-ranked Missing ninja.

The topic of Naruto's sudden increase in skill, Wind Jutsu and Kenjutsu has been forgotten for the moment as all 4 ninjas ate happily. Everything Tsunami cooked for them was happily devoured.

And Cut.

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