Chapter 18

After around of discussions, Naruto finally pointed his main objectives.

"I'm going to kill Gato and his army of thugs then I'm going to have Zabuza take me to the rebels behind the uprisings in Kirigakure, help them overthrow the anti-bloodline regime, kill the Mizukage Yagura, and maybe just maybe even gain an alliance with Kirigakure for Konohagakure." said Naruto.

"Naruto that is probably a long SS rank mission, the assassination of a Kage? Let alone one of a country in a civil war to overthrow a regime?" said Kakashi.

"Naruto-sama can do it" said Haku like it was only natural.

"I hate to agree, but she's right. Naru-kun can handle this without a doubt" said Hinata "And I'll be supporting him all the way"

This made Naruto smile, knowing he had the support of his beloved. While both Kakashi and Kushina were confused at their confidence. For all they knew it was baseless, Naruto is indeed strong and with the support of Hinata they might be able to put a fight against Kage level ninja. But the it was different when they are facing a whole village.

"You don't know how strong he is, do you?" asked Zabuza, amused to see the usually calm Kakashi at his wits end.

"What do you mean?" Kakashi asked sternly while glaring at the man.

"Oh nothing just speaking to myself" said Zabuza as he returned Kakashi's glare.

"Yagura is a full fledge jinchuriki that has complete control of his Tailed Beast, plus he has an army of Shinobi at his disposal" said Kushina worriedly.

"Even if he was Rikudo Sennin himself I would still go to Kiri" said Naruto nonchalantly "Look we made a promise to help them and we're not gonna go back on our word just because it's a little dangerous"

"A little dangerous!? This is flat out insane!" said Kakashi.

"Naruto-kun your father didn't authorize anything remotely close to those objectives, our mission is to escort and protect the bridge builder, something like that is for a large group of anbu, not fresh genin no matter how advanced you are. We are not doing that." said Kushina wondering why Naruto would even want to achieve those goals, let alone got the idea to do any of those things, no matter how strong he was, Kushina knew Naruto was not even close to ready to handle something like that. At least that's what she knew.

"I know we aren't Kushina, we are, you guys will stay with the bridge builder while me and Hina-hime travel with Zabuza to Kiri, and there Me and Hina-hime along with the rebels will begin to remove Yagura from the equation."

"I'm your sensei Naruto, I'm not going to let you two do something like that, you'll get yourselves killed!" spoke Kakashi uncharacteristically very far from calm, what his student was proposing was madness.

"We can and we are Kakashi, and I'm going to need you to inform the Hokage about it." said Naruto while Hinata just nodded.

"Naruto, please don't do this" pleaded Kushina worriedly.

Naruto just shrugged off Kushina. He then turned to Zabuza and Haku, then moved his gaze to Kakashi "Let's not talk about this anymore, we are wasting time. First we'll deal with Gato. I'll show you a glimpse of what we can do, maybe that'll convince you. But even if it doesn't. We would still go, the people of Kiri had suffered enough and they deserve salvation" said Naruto, not waiting for any reply as he walked towards the door.

"Fine, but I'm still not letting you do this" said Kakashi stubbornly.

"Naruto" said Kushina as she watched her son's back leaving.

Sasuke, Naoko and even Mito were listening in the conversation intently, why had Naruto wanted to go to Kiri? Why did he think he could pull all of that off?

Naruto opened the door, which startled the three. He was about to walk past them when Mito blocked him.

"Nii-chan your not gonna disappear again are you?" asked Mito anxiously. Naruto stopped for a moment and looked at her, he sighed at her worried look and just pat her on the head.

"Naruto-nii why do you want to go off to Kiri, the freaking Village of the Bloody Mist! And why do you want to kill the Mizukage!" screamed Naoko worried about her brother's sanity and wellbeing. Naruto was about to answer her, when Hinata cut him off.

"That's exactly why Naoko-chan, it wasn't always 'the Village of the Bloody Mist', their Mizukage is a mad man who has fixated his insanity into the eradication of all of their bloodline users and plunged their village into a civil war. We(Hinata and Naruto) need to stop that and Zabuza and his gang is our way into the rebel group that is fighting Yagura's reign" answered Hinata.

"Wow that sounds kind of noble actually, I'M IN!" said Naoko.

"Me too." Spoke Sasuke, he saw the determination in Naruto, and Hinata, they were going and nothing could stop them, he might as well be there just in case they needed help, after all Sasuke might not admit it, but they were the closest thing that he had to family and he was beginning truly care about them.

Naruto smiled wryly at their childishness and proceeded to their room. He knew Kushina wouldn't allow them to come but our blonde hero just kept quiet so as not to break their enthusiasm.

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The next day

Zabuza walked out of the house with his group in tow followed by Team 7 and Tazuna. They began to head towards Gato's compound discussing how they would commence their assault, it was decided that Team 7 would go in the front while the Kiri group went in silently from behind, and that they would confront Gato together.

Gato's base resided on a plateau below a large cliff, it looked like a two story mansion, with tents of bandits and rogue ninjas in the space in front of it. This would be easier than they thought so both teams got into their positions and prepared for the assault.

Naruto however just stared on at the group below, and told his team to stay put, he went to the edge of the cliff that overlooked their base and flew up surprising his team. Not giving a care in the world he kept floating up and suddenly placed his hands outward.

"SHINRA TENSEI."

All the chakra that Naruto gathered up in his hands blew outward and began to crush everything in its path, at first the bandits and the ninja had no idea what was happening, their comrades were screaming and they were all trying to run one direction, away from the crater that was being created as if something was pushing down the ground decimating all that preceded it. The bandits and ninja were literally dying by the dozens, the entire front area of Gato's house was turning into a crater, about 20 seconds later the enemy camp was gone, the rumbling was gone, and all that was left of a disturbance was a massive dust cloud in the air.

Kakashi's one visible eye was wide open, Kushina was speechless, Mito and Naoko's mouth was agape, and Sasuke was brooding. They were all wondering how much Naruto still hid from them, I mean he was flying in the air and had just pancaked about 300 bad guys into the ground in less than a minute.

Kushina and Kakashi finally where his confidence was coming from, but still they couldn't help but question. 'Was it enough for a Jinchuriki?'

Not caring about what they thought, Naruto just landed on the ground and spoke, "Let's move."

The leaf ninja began to walk down the cliff with chakra holding them to it. When they had reached the crater that Naruto's technique made and began walking to the house, they opened the door to Gato's mansion and saw pools of blood beneath figures that had body parts missing and were all dead. They looked as if they were trying to run away from whatever killed them, impaled in the back by a large sword or ripped apart messily by chains, some had precision holes in them no doubt targeting vital organs of their body.

Naruto, Hinata, Mito Naoko, Kushina, Kakashi, and Sasuke all followed the trail of bodies toward a hall with double doors with a man impaled onto it by his hands, a kunai sticking though them and his throat slit. They opened the door to reveal a group of Kiri ninja and a scared short man in a suit that was pissing himself in a corner, the Kiri ninja except for Haku were toying with him, throwing kunai at him but not trying to strike him, some cut his clothes or embedded themselves a few inches from the man's appendages.

"So this is Gato huh, he doesn't look like such a threat, but looks are quiet deceiving, I should know this better than most I suppose." Said Naruto eyeing the tiny man.

"Please help me! I'll pay you anything just please help me please!" Screamed out Gato.

"Sure, just give me everything that you own, all your deeds, the paperwork to the ownership of your companies, everything that you hold valuable, and then I'll save you." spoke Naruto, while silently casting a simple Genjutsu that helped convince Gato.

"Ok just don't let them kill me!" said Gato as he gathered all of his items and deeds without question.

After sealing everything, the various items, and the stacks of cash, into a sealing scroll he grabbed onto the paperwork that would return the Land of Waves fortune to its people.

"Thank you Gato, you can kill him now Zabuza." said Naruto.

"But you said you wouldn't kill me!!" shouted Gato.

"I did, but that doesn't apply to him" said Naruto as he pointed at Zabuza.

"How would you like to die?" asked Zabuza with a sadistic smile as Naruto walked out of the room. Picking up his sword, Zabuza pointed it at the cowering Gato in the corner, he slashed once and Gato's head went flying in the air and hit the ground two seconds later.

Some of the money was given back to wave through Tazuna, while a percentage went to Zabuza for the rebels budget. The rest went into Naruto and Hinata's personal inventory.