( THE LAND OF WAVES PART-24) MEETING ZABUZA

// sea coast //

on the other side of the island, there is a big desolate beach, this place usually remains calm and no villagers come here for fishing, because of sharks present in the coastal sea.

but today was different, a large fleet of ships was approaching this place. there were around 20 ships, on each ship, there were around 50 mercenaries, they were here to answer gatou's call.

a few days ago they received a message from gatou regarding attacking a village. he also offered a hefty reward for those who will kill ninjas from the village hidden in the leaves who were protecting the village.

soon the ships reach the shore and all 1000 mercenaries came out from the ships.

this group of mercenaries is known as 'heavenly demon group', they consist of around 1000 men and their leader was a mid-jounin level missing-nin from the village hidden in the mist, his name is Masaru, he runs this group with younger brother Ryuu who himself is a low-jounin level shinobi.

after the group landed on the floor Ryuu ask Masaru.

Ryuu: big brother do you think it was necessary to bring these many men, just to attack a small and weak village.

Masaru: Ryuu, you know Gatou, he would never ask us for help if he could kill those ninjas by himself.

hearing Masaru Ryuu nodded and they start moving toward Gatou's mansion.

not far away from them, there was a bird on the branch of a tree who was hearing their conversation, as the group left the coast, the bird transformed into Naruto's shadow, the clone made a hand-sign and

'POOF'

it disappeared into a mass of white smoke.

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// in Gatou's mansion //

Gatou was looking at some documents when one of his men came in and report.

guard: master the 'heavenly demon group' has arrived and are waiting for asking for you.

Gatou: so they are finally here huh.

after saying this gatou stood up and went down the stairs and soon reach Daichi's room and knocked.

'KNOCK! KNOCK!'

a moment later he heard Daichi's voice and went inside and said.

Gatou: lord the 'heavenly demon group' is here.

hearing Gatou Daichi nodded and said.

Daichi: good, bring Masaru and Ryuu here I want to discuss something with them in private.

hearing Daichi Gatou nodded and left the room, after around 5 minutes, he returned with Masaru and Ryuu.

seeing Daichi Masaru and Ryuu ware a little shocked because they did expect to see one of earth daimyo ( ruler of the land of earth ) man here.

Daichi: Masaru I will directly come to the business, there is something in this village in which earth daimyo is interested, but a group of ninjas from the village hidden in the leaves is becoming a hindrance.

hearing Daichi a smile appear on Masaru's face and said in a slightly disgusted tone.

Masaru: say Daichi, if I am not wrong you are yourself a jounin, can't you take care of this yourself.

hearing him Daichi frown and said.

Daichi: I sure can take care of it, but earth daimyo asked me to keep my identity a secret because he did not want his name to come in this matter. so in order to force the village to handover that thing, I command Gatou to take over their village in a more economical, everything was going well until that Bastard Tazuna secretly went to the village hidden in leaves and bring back a team of ninjas.

hearing him Masaru thought for a while and ask.

Masaru: if we help you what will we get.

Daichi: you can have all the women and children in the village and apart from that you will also be rewarded with 10000 gold coins.

hearing the reward Masaru lost his reasoning and thinking about all the women he could rape a vicious look appear on his face.

Masaru: fine we will help, it is been a while since my men last tasted any women.

hearing the statement Daichi smiled

Masaru: when are we going to attack.

Daichi: seven days from now.

Masaru nodded.

after all, this was Masaru and his brother left and Gatou followed them in order to show them their room after they left a vicious look appear on Daichi's face and he mumbled to himself.

Daichi: soon very soon brother, I will have your revenge.

unknown to him just outside the door there was rat leaning on the door, quietly hearing their discussion after the discussion was complete the rat disappeared into a puff of smoke.

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// Naruto //

it is been 7 days since their battle with Takafumi and in the past week team 7 has trained very hard. on the 5th day of their training, Konoha sent a team of 3 chunin-rank ninjas.

currently, Naruto was doing his usual meditation and was waiting for the news from his clone.

suddenly he felt an influx of memory, after analyzing the memory a frown appear on his face, after 10 minutes, another memory came in his mind and his face paled a little and he mumbled to himself.

Naruto: Damn! to think that it was all because of that earth daimyo.

thinking about the incoming attack Naruto stood up and move toward Tazuna's house where Kakashi and other were staying.

after going inside he looks at Kakashi who as usual reading his book with a smug look on his face.

Naruto: sensei we got a problem.

hearing Naruto Kakashi put down the book and ask.

Kakashi: what is it Naruto?

Naruto: my suspicion was right, Gatou is just a tool, the man behind all this is a someone from earth daimyo's side an... .......

Naruto explained to Kakashi about the 'heavenly demon group', then about Daichi. and finally about the timing of the attack on the village.

hearing all this Kakashi's expression became pale.

Kakashi: seems like I need to ask for more reinforcement, from the village.

Naruto: we can not, my clones have found that the heavenly demon group has isolated the island and no one can leave without them noticing.

kakashi: then what should we do?

Naruto: seems like it is time to talk to him, Kakashi sensei I will bring the reinforcement, you tell Akito about all this and make a plan to protect the village and peoples inside.

Kakashi: are you sure that he will agree.

naruto: I am positive.

saying this Naruto disappeared from his place, thinking about the upcoming battle Kakashi sighed and he too moves toward Akito's house.

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// Zabuza's hideout //

in the last week Zabuza has almost completely healed, currently, he is preparing for his battle with Kakashi, Haku, on the other hand, was doing his meditation.

suddenly there was a knock on the door.

'KNOCK! KNOCK!'

haku suddenly opened his eyes and look toward Zabuza who was frowing, as far as he can remember there should be no visitor today.

just as he was about to ask Haku to open the door, the sword in his hand starts to vibrate and a strange black colour energy starts to leak out from it, seeing this a frown appear on his face because he knew what it means.

he slowly opens the door and a shocked look appear on his face.