There were some things that Ryuko needed to store for his mission. Thanks to his talent in fuinjutsu, the boy could go heavy with his luggage, and he did. Kunais, ropes, rations, camp supplies, senbons, paralyzing poison, medical supplies, oil, explosive seals, smoke bombs, and even some flash tag bombs. The ninja got some empty scrolls just for storage if he found something fancy that he wanted to keep, like some treasure or a cool sword that bandits could have.
He even managed to get three military ration pills normally used during war, thanks to his family connections. This strong drug, made from powerful stimulants and nutrients, was instantly absorbed by the body once consumed. With this, you could fight for three days and three nights without rest. However, when the effect had run out, you would just collapse from utter exhaustion. Ideal for avoiding sleep for a few days if necessary.
Another thing that Ryuko got was a briefcase full of money in case he needed to indulge in some old and traditional bribery. There was nothing like oiling the gears of a mission with cash to make things go smoother.
For his eyes, Ryuko had a great idea. The boy bought a white reinforced fox mask that perfectly covered not only his eyes with black lenses but also all his face, so the marks of his byakugan could not be seen if he activated it. In the long run, as Ryuko's fame would become bigger and bigger, this would not be useful, but for now, when people didn't know him, it was the best solution. After all, a great part of being a ninja was using deceit and hiding information. Also, this hid his valuable eyes from people from another village who would want to get his dojutsu by force.
Then it came to solving Ryuko's main problem. It was hard for him to land an attack on his enemies. Even if his endurance and physical strength were impressive with the seal on his forehead and his perception was amazing for a normal ninja, the boy's raw speed and hand-to-eye coordination weren't the best. This was the time when his lack of training in Bukijutsu, Taijutsu, and Shurikenjutsu was biting him in his well-toned ass. Landing a killing blow was just hard. However, there were a few solutions he found for this problem.
The solution was just using a ton of smoke bombs. Normal ninjas, unless they were a sensory type or had a special dojutsu, couldn't see through them, but Ryuko could. This basically created a barrier that allowed him to attack a target from any direction with the advantage that they would not see it coming. However, the smoke bombs didn't last for too long, a minute maximum in a perfect weather, and he couldn't use the ones made to hide chakra, but still, they were his best tool.
So, in order to have the bombs at hand, Ryuko made two small paper bracelets on each wrist that contained a couple of them for rapid access mid-combat. The boy could only seal three on each for quick access, but he had more stored in other scrolls.
Another invention he made to solve this problem was a big fuma shuriken with a special surprise in it. The colossal ninja star as big as him, which could just fold to be carried around his waist, had four smoke bombs sealed on each of its four blades. Meaning that when Ryuko threw it, the weapon would work as a decoy for a simple attack, but in reality, it was the perfect tool to set up his smoke field. It didn't matter if the person dodged it or not; the ninja would have the field advantage for a brief moment.
Finally, there was a risky option that he put on the sole of his sandals. He placed two non-flammable explosive tags so that, in the case of absurd energy, Ryuko could technically move in the middle of the air. That would probably damage his legs, if not break them, but with his Uzumaki bloodline and his medical knowledge, he could worry about the secondary effects afterward.
So, with this gear ready and a nervous smile on his lips, Ryuko went to the Hokage's building to get his mission.
"What do you mean that the mission is already taken?!" He asked, raising his tone and breaking his normal calm facade.
The secretary assigning the missions let out a deep sigh behind her desk; she knew this would cause problems. "Team 10 came early from a mission and asked if there were any C-rank missions available. Since they are a team supervised by a Jonin they had priority over you," she muttered and got back to her papers, not really paying too much attention to the redhead.
Ryuko counted to ten and took a deep breath. "It . . .is fine," he muttered with a forced smile, using all his willpower to contain the boiling rage inside him.
The boy's day took another quick turn when he was attacked the second he opened the door of his house when he got back.
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Back in his house, Ryuko got ambushed and dragged to the bed. It was a surprise attack with a mixture of pure speed and power that quickly lowered his pants and exposed his massive manhood. "I am sure it was that bitch Ino! She must have figured out that I wanted to get that mission and decided to do extra work just to screw me over," he yelled, finally discharging all his tension.
While feeling the soft lips of both Lee and Naruko licking his cock from each side.
"Can you just stop thinking about Ino while I am sucking your cock?!" The blonde exclaimed as her long tongue painted with saliva all over his fully erect manhood. She was more focused on the base, as Lee was worshiping the tip.
"Come on, Naruko, put in more effort! If he can talk while getting his cock sucked, it is your skill issue rather than his problem," Lee barked back, making sure to keep eye contact with Ryuko while her hands massaged his balls.
Naruko decided to do a dirty trick and began to rub her cow tits against the cock, putting in some effort like Lee suggested. "Oh, shut up, bushy eyebrows! I was the one with the idea!" The girl said as the Ryuko couldn't stop to let out a chuckle. However, the image of Ino in his head was mixing the pleasure of this double blowjob with something really dangerous. Lust and anger were not a good mix for the redhead.
"Then act like it! Come on! All the way to the base!" Lee exclaimed and then pushed Naruko's head all the way the way towards the boy's cock, forcing the woman to take it all the way to base with such force that even created a bulge in her throat. The blonde was gasping for air until she remembered to breathe from her nose.
A few minutes of loud, slurping sounds and loud moans later, and Ryuko had already forgotten why he was so mad. The only thing in his head now was his bloated balls, about to blow up.
"Girls, I am about to . . ." he muttered, and then both stopped sucking him; they just touched his cock with their faces as they gave it a final stroke.
"Fuck!" The boy yelled as his balls tensed and his cock erupted with white ropes of spunk covering both girls. Shot after shot of his seed rained over the two kunoichis, filling the house with the musky stench of sex.
The two girls moaned as the thick sap coated both of her faces; it was like a fountain oozing its liquids all over them as that massive cock was twitching and throbbing. "There you go. . . Let all your stress out," Naruko purred with a wide smile, helping her man to relieve some stress.
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After a day of just trying to keep his boiling rage at bay, Naruko went to her mission the next morning. A few hours later, Ryuko was in his home, trying to do some training, when suddenly a clone of her appeared in front of him. It seemed they were having troubles, and they were attacked by a pair of chunin-level ninjas near the village, so like any good boyfriend, he rushed to become extra support. Running as fast as he could, with his fox mask on his face as the whole set of gear he got ready, the ninja managed to catch the group a few hours later, as the sun was starting to set.
On the road, guided by the clone, he found three ninjas and their client. "Oh, hi Ryuko," the copy ninja muttered with a calm but disinterested tone as he saw the boy landing in front of them. The mask didn't trick him.
Kakashi, the famous ninja who had copied 1000 jutsu, was there, standing with the typical Jonin green vest, his ninja band covering one eye, and his facemask that covered almost all of his face. The man with silver-spiky hair seemed to be extremely calm about the situation, as he immediately recognized the young boy. There was no animosity in his voice, mostly because even training and carrying his genin team were chores for him. Kakashi didn't have any passion for his job rather than actual hate for the boy. The man just didn't grab him because he only needed three students, and those were picked by the Hokage instead of him.
"So you brought him?" The prodigy that had taken Ryuko's place as the best of the class muttered.
Satsuki was the last living member of the Uchiha that wasn't a missing-nin. The girl dressed in a predominantly black gi with just some small lines of red in it had and she had tense and serious expression on her face. Kinda rich coming from a girl with a massive boob window in her clothes that showed a pair of tits that were on par with Naruko's. If you sum up those muscular hips and ass that seemed to be made to repopulate her clan, one was sure that if the girl wasn't so fixated on revenge, she could rebuild her family easily. As a final detail, her long, dark hair was tied in a ponytail as she used her ninja band on her head as Ryuko did.
"Wait? Ryuko?! Why did you bring that scum to our mission?" Sakura exclaimed, being the only one on the team who didn't manage to figure out Ryuko's disguise.
Sakura was a bitchy and annoying girl, and the only saving grace she had was her amazing ass. Not big in the tits department, but that posterior was truly one of the biggest and most perfectly shaped of Konoha. The kunoichi had short pink hair, big green eyes, and pale skin. The girl was dressed in a red shirt without sleeves and a pink skirt that couldn't contain her massive ass, so she used a pair of black shorts under it. One would wonder why she was wearing such a slightly revealing outfit if the answer was not obvious. She heard that Satsuki was an ass woman, so Sakura dressed properly to attract that prodigy.
"Are you done? We need to keep going," the client said. It was an old man with a huge kasa hat, short hair, and a beard that was already white from his age.
Tazuna was the architect who had put the whole team at risk by lying. The clone told Ryuko a summary of the situation, but basically Gato, one of the richest people that the boy knew of, wanted him dead. Ryuko was livid that this scum put his woman in danger for not having enough money to pay for a proper bodyguard team. However, the dice were already rolled, and he would need to protect the man from really well-paid mercenaries together with the rest of the team.
Satsuki took a second to talk as she evaluated the situation while the clone disappeared in a puff of smoke. "So you are bringing him because his byakugan can help us detect incoming enemies, and since he is a teamless genin, you had almost guaranteed chances that he will be available. Also, since our enemies specialize in sneak attacks, he is the perfect counter. It is a smart move," she muttered with a strange and rare small smile while looking toward Naruko.
The blonde blinked a few times, confused. "What? No! Ryuko was a little down because his C-rank mission got canceled, and so I brought him to cheer him up," Naruko exclaimed with a happy and cheerful tone.
"I take back what I said," Satsuki said with a tired tone, as she let out a deep sigh while rolling her eyes.
The group continued their travel; it would take some time, but a few days in, they were already getting near their location. The dense forest that surrounded the hidden village slowly began to be replaced by this swampy land of small lakes and rivers. Under the morning sky, the ninjas were just walking around a lake when the usual banter between Sakura and Ryuko got a lot more heat than usual.
The boy didn't care about her being an asshole to him. But Ryuko would not tolerate his girl getting disrespected.
"Shit, I can't believe this blonde bimbo got you on our team," Sakura snarled with an aggressive tone, looking at Naruko. The girl still hated Ryuko for reasons that were not his fault; at most, it was his family's fault, not his.
Ryuko immediately barked back. "Hey, don't talk bad about Naruko," he said with a non-gentle tone under his mask. He had his byakugan already active, and thanks to this big chakra reserve, Ryuko could use it for days without any problems.
"Don't think that because you are our medic, I will be nice to you!" Sakura spewed words with pure vitriol.
The boy chuckled, trying to hide his anger under his mask. If they were going to fight, she would need to be the first one to strike, so he would have the excuse of self-defense. "Or what are you gonna do? Use your ninjutsu? Maybe taijutsu? Your impressive genjutsu? Are you a secret master of fuinjutsu? Come on, help me a little. I am running out of jutsus and I still can't find something you are half decent on," he muttered with a teasing tone and a shit-eating grin under his mask.
Sakura turned around and clenched her fist. "Oh, you son of a bitch!" Sakura snarled, ready to get serious, when Kakashi stopped them.
"Come, kids, don't fight," he said with a tired tone, already breaking up the tenth fight of the day. They didn't pay him enough for this, especially since Sakura was the one starting them.
The boy would keep being a smug bastard, especially suggesting she worked for him since the girl was short on cash, but that would have to wait. He saw something coming 100 meters from the direction of the lake beside them. "Sword! 69° East!" He yelled, alerting the team with the type of projectile and the angle it came towards them.
With swift movement, the whole team managed to dodge what seemed like a massive buzzsaw heading in their direction. Satsuki was even so fast that she managed to grab and pull the architect out of the way.
The colossal sword that looked more like a big butcher knife got lodged in a big tree behind the group, almost cutting it in half. Before they could react, there was a ninja standing on it.
It was a tall and muscular man with a ninja mask covering his face. With short, spiky black hair, a forehead protector worn sideways in his head, a naked chest, and a pair of baggy gray pants, it was clear that he was another ninja. The way he stood over the sword oozed pure dread as the four genins began to feel intimidated by the enemy's presence alone.
"Hmmmm, it seems that you managed to get a sensory type... . . not a really good one since he only managed to detect me when I was 100 meters away," the man muttered, stabbing Ryuko with his eyes.
What was this feeling that attacked the boy's heart? Why was he feeling . . . happy? Why did being in a situation of true danger with an enemy he knew he couldn't defeat feel so nice? Easy. On that second, his whole world was only this small parcel of land and the ninjas on it. It was small and cozy; he didn't need to worry about the future or the past, just the now. In the same way that being with his girls felt, being in immense danger also made this big and scary world smaller.
"Zabuza Momochi . . . formation, now," Kakashi ordered as he pulled up the band from his eyes and revealed his sharingan. The famous doujutsu of the massacred Uchiha clan somehow found its way into that man's face. The key that gave the ninja the power to copy jutsus.
For a second, Ryuko could see a clear expression of discomfort on Satsuki's face when the man revealed his eye. They were the eyes of her clan that were on that man, something that he should not have had. However, without wasting time, the three genins surrounded Tazuna in a triangle formation while Ryuko stood on the side. It was clear that he wasn't trained in their strategies.
Zabuza scoffed at those words. "Kakashi Hatake, the famous copy ninja. Now I will also get a sharingan apart from my payment," the man snarled, exuding confidence.
...
"Naruko! Flood the field with clones then henge into everyone else!" Ryuko ordered his girl, making sure that she would exploit those massive amounts of chakra to the maximum.
The blonde girl nodded, and without even thinking about it, she weaved hand seals, and dozens upon dozens of shadow clones of her flooded the field. It only took them a second to henge into Sakura, Kakashi, Satsuki, Ryuko, and Tazuna.
"Cursed fox!" Zabuza yelled while his massive sword clashed with Kakashi's kunai as they were firmly entangled in a kenjutsu exchange.
In that second, Ryuko sensed something strange. There were water clones coming from the lake behind them; his byakugan was only tricked by the shadow clone technique, but those elemental jutsus were easy to sense thanks to their lack of tenketsu points. They were imperfect copies that were a lot cheaper than the others but also a lot weaker than Zabuza.
The right one and the left one charged against the mass of clones in the middle of the road, while the third began to quickly weave hand seals from behind. This was bad.
Ryuko knew that the clone was preparing a dangerous jutsu. There were two options about what could happen: a massive-scale water attack to destroy all the clones and kill the target, or a strong, precise attack to kill Kakashi. He may be keeping track of the ninja across all those clones, so Zabuza may be able to land that attack.
The boy came to a conclusion: it was the latter one. Zabuza was too close to the shore to avoid getting damaged by a massive-scale jutsu, and he said that he wanted the eye of the ninja, so a precise attack to not destroy it made more sense. So with that information, Ryuko made a bet.
Without wasting time, Ryuko took his fuma shuriken from his back and threw it toward the middle of the lake. The huge flying blade didn't have striking the clones as an objective but to explode in a massive cloud of smoke, with multiple bombs getting launched out of it the second that the ninja made a hand seal. With a loud sound, that part of the lake was covered by a thick purple smoke that blocked vision and swallowed Zabuza's water clones.
Satsuki quickly managed to catch what Ryuko was doing. The girl turned around as she threw the old man to Sakura for her to protect him. At that moment, the kunoichi managed to catch a glimpse of the water clones before they got swallowed by the smoke. Her mind raced with calculations as she began to take into consideration her own speed and the clone. As fast as only the best girl in her class could be, she rushed toward the shore.
The second that the first clone came out of the smoke, the black-haired woman's chest was already inflated as she took a deep breath and weaved a few hand seals. An explosion of pure flames came out of her lips, and she unloaded an infernal ball of fire from her lungs toward the clone. It didn't have a chance to dodge, as the blazing heat of the attack was enough to completely destroy it.
Naruko managed to catch a glimpse of the other clone coming out of the smoke, wielding the massive sword, and cleaving a bunch of her clones away with a swift movement. So, she threw more at him, abusing that jutsu just to kill that water construct, but the girl only managed to fight it to a stand still.
Sakura gritted her teeth, annoyed that she was basically useless in this situation, as she grabbed the client and tried to move him away from the battle zone. She didn't have long-range attacks or even a half-decent jutsu; she was useless.
Zabuza was getting annoyed; the constant clash with the copy ninja was something that he could handle, but those clones pestering him were a danger. Even if there were a lot and they weren't genjutsu, something that didn't make a lot of sense coming from a simple genin, he decided to play safe.
That second, a clone of Ryuko rushed toward him to punch him, clearly bait. Zabuza created some distance and weaved one seal with one hand. (Water style: Heavenly Weeping!) He concentrated the water in his body to spit out a single needle made out of the liquid that killed the clone, making it puff in a cloud of smoke. It was a basic jutsu that any swordsman should know to not get caught by the normal trap of the kamikaze elemental jutsu. Now the ninja knew that those clones were not living bombs, so he could handle them in melee.
As the massive blade swung towards Kakashi as he dodged, another batch of clones surged toward Zabuza. Another attack with his blade quickly cut in half those copies, as he was getting annoyed.
The sensory ninja made Zabuza not want to waste chakra with the hiding in the mist jutsu. That mist could fill the battlefield and give an advantage, but Kakashi's famous smelling sense, mixed with the fact that a sensory ninja didn't need to use his eyes to perceive him, made it useless. It would block the sharingan, but still, it took too much time that he didn't have to weave that jutsu that wasn't that effective.
Using a big scale attack while fighting Kakashi and a bunch of clones? No, they were too slow, and he would probably get hit by his enemy. Those clones couldn't do a lot of damage, but Zabuza refused to give Kakashi a second to prepare a jutsu.
As his hand firmly grabbed his blade and he launched a hit on Kakashi that he managed to dodge, he came to a conclusion. The sharingan used a lot of chakra, so he would just have to keep it at a standstill until he ran out of it. There was the clone in the background that could help him, and that, in the worst case, would buy him more time, so it was still a win for him.
Another of those annoying fox clones rushed toward Zabuza, he only needed one kick to destroy the copy, but then, as the smoke was dissipating . . . he noticed an explosive tag. Ryuko put one behind one of his shadow clones, while Zabuza was busy dealing with Kakashi and the other clones.
An explosion erupted as the mercenary flew across the air. He managed to brace himself for the impact, and there was no way that a simple explosion would kill him. It hurt, but it was a mere scratch on his body. However, Zabuza knew this wasn't the goal of the attack; the true reason was creating an opening.
The second that Kakashi saw Zabuza flying in the air, the ninja knew what he had to do. He was too rusty to do a proper final attack, but this would have to be enough. Kakashi arched his back, lightning chakra concentrated in his hand as the sound of a thousand birds flooded the lake while sparkles flew across the air. On the ninja's hand, a massive amount of electricity had collapsed into this ball of pure energy, so potent that he needed to use his other hand to hold his palm straight.
"Chidori!" He yelled and rushed toward Zabuza with a speed that not even Ryuko could follow with his eyes.
In the few fragments of a second that the mercenary had to react, he gave up the idea of blocking or even dodging this attack. Zabuza put all his trust in his blade, placing it as a shield between him and Kakashi as he rushed toward it, but in the last instant, he moved Kubikiribocho, trying to parry the attack and change its trajectory.
The sound of metal getting shattered rumbled across the battlefield as Ryuko saw the result of the clash. Zabuza was alive, but his blade was completely shattered, and a chunk of his lower left arm was completely gone as the Chidori had bitten off part of his chest, giving a glimpse at his ribcage. The only reason Zabuza wasn't bleeding out was because the lightning on that attack instantly cauterized the wound as the stench of burned flesh made it clear. All his medical knowledge told him that the wound was enough to kill a normal person, but that ninja seemed to be far from done, even if he was just barely standing with Kakashi a few meters behind him.
On that second, the third clone came out of the smoke, ready to unleash his jutsu, but Satsuki already had a fuma shuriken of her own ready to use. The girl just threw it to the copy and quickly killed it without giving it a chance to cast that jutsu.
Zabuza coughed blood inside his mask as his plan of striking Kakashi with a surprise water dragon used by his clone was gone. However, the ninja refused to give up, even if one of his arms was useless and he had lost his blade.
Ryuko saw that situation and could feel one thing in his gut. This was exciting and amazing, but still, the boy longed for more. Letting that ninja die right now would be a waste since he was a mercenary, so his family could buy him. If the mission kept throwing ninjas in their direction, getting him on their side now that he was wounded would be the best option. After all, Zabuza had two options: accepting this offer or getting killed.
Ryuko rushed toward Zabuza, now surrounded by him and Kakashi, as the man was at the end of the line. "You should surrender yourself now. My family can double whatever they are paying you," the boy with a fox mask said with a serious tone, making Kakashi raise an eyebrow the same time that he felt a sharp pain in his sharingan. It was better to just let it rest for now; the man knew that he didn't need to deal with Zabuza in that state.
"You damn brat! Do you think that I am done?!" Zabuza snarled, clearly being done while Kakashi still had his kunai pointing toward him, but his eye was now covered again by his headband, just in case.
Ryuko managed to see a figure moving towards them with blinding speed, so fast that he couldn't react in time.
"Yes, you are," a voice muttered with a cold tone as it threw a senbon toward Zabuza's neck, piercing it and making the man fall to the ground.
It was a small man dressed in a cyan kimono with long, flowing black hair tied into a pair of twin tails. The ninja's face was covered with a white mask with just a small slit for his eyes. The mask also had a symbol of four weaving lines on its forehead and a red spiral in the middle of what would be his face.
"What?" Ryuko exclaimed, confused and a little intimidated by the speed of that ninja.
Kakashi immediately recognized the ninja that slowly approached Zabuza's corpse. "An Anbu from the Mist? Are you here to kill the rogue ninja?" He asked, still with the kunai in his hand.
The figure nodded as, in the background, the last water clone melted, making it clear that Zabuza was no longer alive. "Indeed, I will pretend that your genin was just buying time for you to kill him. I appreciated you creating the opening to catch my target," the ninja said with a calm and cold tone.
Ryuko didn't understand what was happening, but he understood one thing. That man was lying. He could see perfectly well with his byakugan that Zabuza's chakra was almost gone, but that was the catch. He wasn't dead but in a near-dead state. "Wait, he is still alive!" He yelled, warning Kakashi not to let his guard down.
Before the impostor could act, Kakashi had already acted. (Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique!) The ninja cast a normal but effective genjutsu toward the mysterious figure to buy some time.
What did the impostor see? Something really simple. That genjutsu created an illusion where he would see his worst fear. In this case, he simply missed his shot and actually killed his target.
The ninja just collapsed to the ground, his knees touching the wet floor of the forest as all life left his body, leaving him completely vulnerable for a few seconds.
Without wasting a second, Ryuko threw an explosive tag toward the ninja, pointing to the ground, in order to knock him unconscious. He wanted to save him and Zabuza from Kakashi for a simple reason. They were the perfect target for his most powerful ninja tool, the briefcase full of money he had. The duo were mercenaries, so getting them as an asset for the future was a must. Especially if they needed to deal with more of Gato's goons.
The kunai with the explosive tag tied to the end impacted the wet ground and created a massive explosion that threw the imposter across the air, impacting against a tree with a loud cracking sound. This sneaky attack was enough to fully knock out the enemy as he lay limp on the floor as Kakashi approached to end the job.
It was a victory for Team 7 and Ryuko.
Ryuko gains 300 exp + 75 exp (thanks Fighting junkie) exp from the fight.
Ryuko completed one achievement (+500 exp):
Defeat a missing-nin.
"Wait! We cannot kill them!" Ryuko said, rushing to stop Kakashi with his byakugan still on just in case while Naruko dissipated her clones.
Sakura, who was a few meters away from the fight, rushed back with the old man in her arms and left him on the floor. "Why?! They are our enemies!" The pink-haired woman screamed clearly angry with Ryuko, even if he had done a lot more in this battle than her.
Naruko rushed toward them. "How can you kill an enemy that cannot defend themselves?! That is only what cowards do," the blonde girl barked back with an angry tone toward Sakura, clearly having more noble intentions than Ryuko.
Satsuki just stood silent, watching and listening to what was happening before giving her opinion. The girl just approached the group and crossed her arms.
Kakashi let out a tired sigh and nodded. "Well, Ryuko, explain yourself," he said with a calm tone. The man would give the boy the benefit of the doubt as a reward for assisting him to set up the Chidori.
"Are you seriously listening to him? He is not even part of our team!" Sakura bitched back, unable to tolerate that someone like Ryuko could just come barge in and do mostly anything. At that moment, her hostility was born more out of jealousy and frustration than any logical conclusion.
"Why not? It is not like they will wake up any time soon," the teacher answered, as he didn't need his sharingan or a byakugan to know those two were out of commission for at least a couple of hours. Honestly, if they didn't get first aid, Zabuza would probably die.
"They know where Gato is located and his forces. I have a briefcase full of money that can get us that information. We can go in, find Gato, and kill him before he sends more dangerous ninjas to kill Tazuna while he builds his bridge," Ryuko said with a calm tone, trying to explain his situation and the best way to solve this problem. Also, in order to protect Naruko, he knew what that kind of person would do to someone when they held a grudge. So it was better to kill them before that.
"And he would not stop there; are you really sure that Gato would just not blow up the bridge once we are done?" The boy finally added, raising a good point.
Kakashi closed his eyes and nodded. "And what will you do after you are done with them?" He asked back, his tone as calm and neutral as ever.
"Well, since I am looking for teachers and I have a water affinity . . . Zabuza would be the best option I could buy as we stay in the land of waves. I could even share his teaching time with Naruko, so you will not be so busy with her," Ryuko answered, as this was an appeal to the teacher's laziness. After all that Naruko had told him about the copy ninja, working was not one of his priorities. The more that he thought about it, the more he realized that Zabuza could be an extremely useful teacher for him.
The man nodded. "That sounds like a solid plan . . ." Kakashi began to speak before getting interrupted by Satsuki.
The Uchiha had a problem; it was too early for her to bear her fangs against the Kuroi clan, and she was too weak for now. However, she already caught on to the full ramifications of this plan, even if Ryuko didn't know it or he was hiding it. This plan would create a massive void in power in the land of waves, a void that someone would need to fill. The Kuroi family was primed to do it. This plan would give more resources to her enemies.
"However, I have an objection. You are risking our team by doing more than the initial contract asked for," the black-haired girl muttered with a cold and calculative tone, using that excuse as the only weapon she had for now.
Ryuko was taken aback by how much Satsuki worried about her companions. Even if they didn't like each other, he could respect someone who worried about Naruko that much. "Our mission is only to be the bodyguards of Tazuna; killing Gato is way more risky than just defending him," Satsuki finally added, giving a reasonable argument.
The boy nodded, trying to find a counterargument. "Well, this mission is already a mess of missing information and dangerous fights. We are already out of our league," Ryuko said back, trying to sound calm and collected.
"Also, Ryuko is right! Gato can hire someone to blow the bridge later! We need to stop him," Naruko exclaimed, completely on the side of her man before he raised a hand to stop her. If Satsuki worried so much about Naruko and Sakura's security, he would give her that.
"However, I understand your approach. That is why I alone, with the help of these two mercenaries, will be in charge of the assassination mission. Team 7 would not need to be involved in it since my presence in this mission is already an extra," Ryuko suggested, placing his own life on the line not only for Naruko but also for the whole land of waves. Why? Well, Shizune ordered him to be a good boy, and he would follow his teacher's lessons. It was only this shitty man who tricked them into this dangerous mission; the rest of the people on that land did not have the fault.
Kakashi gave a final nod. "Well, that fixes everything, I think. Does anyone have other objections? "The Jonin asked, looking at the group. Satsuki shook her head, admitting her defeat for now, while Sakura was just kicking the ground in anger.
"Well then, let's apply some first aid," Kakashi finally said, helping Ryuko stabilize those two after he weaved some hand seals to create massive stone handcuffs for the duo.
Also, since nobody seemed interested in it after they were done, Ryuko took on the role of sealing what was left of that massive sword that Zabuza was wielding into a scroll. He even made sure to save the chunks of metal just in case.