The Son of Two Heroes

Chapter 5

Kakashi and his team were currently making their way down a road. Client in tow, they were in route to the Land of Waves. Tazuna the bridge builder had requested a C-rank escort mission to his home country. Located south of the Land of Fire, the Land of Waves needed Tazuna to complete his bridge to increase trade opportunities.

Naruto was walking alongside Sasuke at the front of the group, when he noticed a puddle. It hadn't rained in weeks. "Oh come on that's just fuckin sloppy. Who does that." Naruto thought. Clearing his throat he said to Sasuke, "you're a fuckin scrub you know that right? You couldn't even use my water jutsu properly when you tried."

Sasuke got the message loud and clear, having noticed the puddle himself. "Fuck you Uzumaki."

The puddle came to life, as two nin burst from it wrapping Kakashi in their chain, and then splitting him in half. "One down!" The nin said in unison. A lightning bolt courtesy of Sasuke's lightning pistol jutsu hit home on their chain, shocking both of the nin and forcing the to detach from each other.

Sakura sped through hand seals and called out, "Earth Style: Hidden Mole Jutsu!" Dragging herself and Tazuna underground and out of the way. The two nin engaged in combat with Naruto and Sasuke.

Locking kunai with Naruto, one of the nin growled. Naruto responded in kind with the addition of "what kind of idiot scrub are you! That was the worst plan I've ever seen!" The nin growled again and launched back away from the golden haired boy. The Jinchūriki threw a hail of kunai at the nin, who batted some out of the way with his gauntlet, and dodged the last four. Only for the kunai that was closest to him directly behind his back to suddenly become Naruto, who kicked the nin into the air.

Sasuke on the other hand got caught up in hand to hand with the second nin. The nin who's experience was giving him the upper hand, got over confident and left a opening that the Uchiha gladly exploited, kicking him hard enough to crack his ribs. Sasuke shot away from the nin and flew through hand seals, "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower jutsu!" spitting a volley of small fireballs at his opponent it was enough to light the man's cloak on fire.

Throwing his cloak from his body he prepared to re-engage with the Uchiha when he saw his brother fall from the sky.

"Uzumaki Hammer!" Naruto yelled after punching the man hard enough in the face to break his nose, the man landed face up on the ground only to meet a kunai through the heart as the blond substituted with one of his kunai still on the ground. Naruto looked at the dead nin and immediately shifted his attention to Sasuke.

"Meizu! You fuck! I'm gonna kill you!" The nin was enraged.

A voice came from behind as the ring of a kunai handle impacted the back of his skull, knocking him out. "You let your guard down," came Sasuke's disappointed tone.

"Wow! Well done kiddies! You can come up now Sakura!" Kakashi called out to his genin.

Sakura bust from the ground, Tazuna in tow. The old bridge builder looked at the jounin and said, "wait a minute! Didn't you just die!?"

"I used a substitution, I am a jounin after all, but most importantly I had to see if they were after me for my bounty. Or after you. Start talking Tazuna. Right now." Kakashi's tone hardened into a firm command.

"Right yes I'm sorry!" He dropped to his hands and knees. "Our village is too poor to pay for anything above a C-rank mission. It took everything we had to scrounge up that much money."

"In that case you should have explained your situation to our Hokage. He would have gladly made a deal with your country. Now why are there missing nin after you?" Kakashi said to the old drunk.

The man sobbed and said, "the truth is there's a super dangerous man after me, you may have heard of him, his name is Gato."

"Gato?" Kakashi asked slightly surprised, "as in the shipping magnate? What could he possibly want with you?"