Naruto - Neglected Sage

A week had passed since the Gato incident. With him out of the way the bridge was finished within a week, thanks to the Shadow clone army. Tazuna and the rest of Wave had many times thanked Naruto, but the best thing they did to honor his name was to name the bridge "The Great Naruto Bridge"

After a tearful goodbye to Tazuna and his family. Team 7 and Zabuza's gang finally departed to Kiri, much to the irritation of Kakashi and Kushina.

The group had been walking for a week, Kakashi had sent one of his dog summons named Pakkun to inform the Hokage of what they were going to do, kill Yagura, gain an alliance with Kiri.

Currently they were walking along a river, not going directly to Kiri since that was Mizukage controlled territory, instead Zabuza was leading them to the rebel base that was located behind a waterfall which was embedded in a mountain. Zabuza walked took a pathway that led behind the waterfall and the rest of the group followed him.

"Don't talk, just follow my lead and don't do anything to make them think they can't trust you." warned Zabuza.

Zabuza received a nod from the leaf ninja and then they continued walking until they reached a large cave, at the other end of the cave was an opening but was guarded by four shinobi with Kiri headbands.

"Halt!" Said one Kiri shinobi, and so they did halt.

"Who are you!?" The same man shouted out again.

"I am Zabuza Momoichi, with me are the Demon Brothers, my disciple a member of the Yuki clan, and aid from Konoha to our cause, they wish to see Mei to discuss strategy to finally get rid of Yagura."

Not expecting what he had just heard, he was kind of surprised, they had not seen or heard from Zabuza for quite a long time, they thought he was out doing jobs and collecting funds for the cause, but here he is with aid from a foreign village?

"Wait there, and do not, move!" With that the head guard ninja told one of his men to go get Mei, and tell her that help was here. Waiting for what seemed like forever, a beautiful woman walked out of the opening that the shinobi were guarding, Mei was a slender woman that looked to be in her early twenties, maybe younger, she had green eyes, and ankle-length, auburn hair, a top-knot tied with a dark blue band, with four bangs at the front, two bangs were short, with one covering her right eye, and two are long, crossing each other on her bust. She was wearing a long-sleeved, dark blue dress that fell just below the knees, closed at the front with a zip, and is kept open on the front-right side from the waist down. She also wore shorts in the same color as her dress and underneath those, mesh leggings reaching down over her knees. Around her waist, she wore a belt with a pouch attached to the back along with high-heeled sandals and shin-guards reaching up over her knees, dark blue polish on her fingers and toes, and wore dark blue lipstick.

In short she was amazing looking, and since she was leading these people you could infer that she was smart and strong. "My, my, my, what do we have here, four leaf shinobi and our old friend Zabuza, along with his posse. To what do we owe the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e?"

Naruto stepped forward "We are here from Konoha to push forward your cause and help you achieve your goals. We have brought Zabuza and his group with us to aid in this endeavor. We are here to finally get rid of Yagura."

"And why would Konoha want to help Kiri rebels, why not just help the Mizukage in stamping us out if it is an alliance you seek which is the only thing that you would pull out of this by helping a side, which would be the smarter move." said Mei.

"Let's just say that we know Yagura is a mad man, and we would rather be allied with you instead of that lunatic that is killing his people in a pointless conflict." answered Hinata.

"Very well, what are your terms?" asked Mei, as she eyed the Red Death and the Copy Ninja.

"We want a military and trade alliance with Kirigakure after we have disposed of Yagura with you as the new Mizukage, we are willing to provide humanitarian aid after you get your village back. However all of this must take place within the week, we need to return to Konoha as the Chunnin Exams begin in two weeks which we will participate in, right Kakashi." asked Naruto.

"Yea, sure." Replied Kakashi reading his p.o.r.n.

"What? Your Genin! How do you expect to help us and kill the Mizukage, if Lady Mei can't even do it! And she is just as strong or maybe even stronger than that red haired woman, tell me at least that a battalion of anbu or the Hokage himself is coming to help us!" Spoke a middle aged man with blue hair which is moused-up. His left eye was blue and his right eye was covered by an eye-patch. He wore a talisman in each ear with the kanji for "to hear". He also wore the standard striped, grey suit, with a green haori that had white trimmings that stop halfway down, over them.

"You would do well to keep your mouth shut, before I rip that Byakugan that you took from one of my fallen comrades out of your eye." said Hinata glaring at the man as she activated her own dojutsu and looked at the man with the eye patch, she elevated the killing intent in the room.

"Please forgive my bodyguard Ao but he is right, not to tarnish the abilities of the Red Death, she is indeed a renowned and feared kunoichi, but I believe I am just as strong as her, and the Mizukage is much stronger than me, the only time he has ever fought me he was holding back, he had not even used the power of his tailed beast." Replied Mei, worried for the future of her people.

"Do not worry we are much stronger than we look" earning a snort from the said shinobi, "and I can take down the Mizukage on my own, but I will not take back your village for you, you must do this on your own. I'm just here to help." Naruto said getting tired of the fact that people didn't believe in his power because of his age. He would need to do something to remedy that.

"Sorry kid but we aren't gonna take your word on this, you look like a big brat and we are not going to put all of our resources into one large scale offensive which is what you're suggesting if you want to get this done in one week." Countered Ao.

"Do you require a demonstration Mr. Bodyguard? Would you like me to beat you into the ground?" Goaded Naruto with a raised eyebrow.

"As if you could." Ao shot back getting into a battle stance.

Ao lunged at Naruto while activating his Byakugan and swept his leg in the air trying to kick him in the head but Naruto ducked and grabbed Ao's legs from behind and smashed him into the ground creating a crater. Ao was quiet injured but dragged himself out of the crater and jumped away from Naruto, Naruto used his incredible speed to appear right behind Ao and kicked at the back of his knee bringing Ao to kneel, he then proceeded to bash him in the face with a sheathed Yamato sending him across the large cavern, knocked out.

Turning to Mei he said "I haven't even shown you a fraction of my power, now this is a one-time deal, we do this within the week, or we leave." said Naruto

"You know kid, your quite handsome for your age, I like a man who's commanding and knows what he wants." She said with a s.e.xy smile and a wink, Naruto just deadpanned her attempt making her feel awkward. This was the first time a man didn't have a reaction towards her charm. Hinata just chuckled 'Ara ara' at her attempts, giving the Auburn haired beauty a tick mark as she sent a minor glare at her.

She pouted at Naruto, sighed then said "Fine, come with me to our war room and we'll tell you what our resources are and you can help us plan this offensive."