Mage Trained Kitsune

AN: Here is the next chapter of Mage Trained Kitsune. Even though there were no questions about it, the reason that I made Kage level only up to the equivalent of level sixty instead of seventy is because before the Burning Crusade expansion the level cap was sixty. With the Burning Crusade expansion it became possible to travel to Outland where there were creatures and demons stronger than nearly anything else on Azeroth. Since nothing on Azeroth could match against the stronger creatures in outland, there was no need to be stronger than level 60. Lin has been to Outland and chose to return to Azeroth. He only later became an ambassador for the Horde. So since the Kages never encountered anything above other shinobi of their relative skill level they never reached level seventy. The closest I would say would be either Itachi or Pien.

“Billy” speech

‘Joe’ thoughts

“Bob” pissed off emphasis

Top of Form

Last Time:

There was a cloud of smoke that cleared to reveal a pissed off Kakashi while holding several of the kunai and shuriken that Sasuke had been throwing. While taking some deep breaths he said, “Normally I would have given you a test with two bells and told you that whoever got a bell passed. The point of that test wouldn’t be getting a bell, but teamwork. The three of you already showed teamwork. So, despite what you did to me while I was under whatever jutsu that was, you all pass. Meet me at the same training grounds tomorrow for your first mission.”

Now:

“I AM GOING TO KILL THAT CAT!!”

Said cat started to run as blasts of fire and ice started blasting where it was a moment before. It yelped as a shard of ice pierced its thigh, causing it to crash into a tree trunk and knock itself out.

“Then again, that works too,” the voice that was just before screaming death threats towards the feline creature said as he walked out of the underbrush. Said voice belonged to a tall, twelve year old boy with blonde hair and icy blue eyes in dark blue flowing robes with arcane symbols on them with a staff in his left hand. The staff was made of a wood not native to the Konoha area that twisted about a foot from the top up to form three claws (for lack of a better term) that held a dark onyx stone in place.

“Are you sure, we could still kill it and say that we found it too late to save it, but did kill the beast that did,” the blonde’s teammate asked as she walked up in chainmail and had a shield on her back and an ax on her hip. Unlike her teammate, she had dark hair and the lavender pupil-less eyes of the Hyuuga clan.

“I agree,” the last teammate said as he walked out. This one had black eyes and hair that looked like a duck was sitting on his head as well as kaki shorts and a blue tee shirt that had the fan symbol of the near extinct Uchiha clan.

“Ah team, good job on finding the target!” the final member of Team Seven declared, causing all other members to abandon their murderous thoughts for the time being.

A few minutes later, the cat was returned to the Daimyo’s wife who was currently in the process of suffocating said cat.

‘Serves it right!’ all three genin of Team Seven thought. Obviously they were not overly fond of the feline.

With Team Seven at Mission reception a few minutes later, the Hokage took out a set of folders all labeled “D-Rank” only for the folders to be turned to ashes. Sarutobi glanced up to see a pissed off Naruto breathing hard, flames surrounding him, and a massive tick in his forehead.

“No. More. F#ing. D. Rank. MISSIONS!” Naruto shouted, as his mana reacted to his anger and the windows behind the Hokage blew out while Sarutobi was hiding under the proverbial bed on the inside of his mind.

“Give us at the very least a C-Rank. I can do to you what we did to Kakashi during the bell test,” Naruto threatened with a sadistic gleam in his eye.

WHAM! CRUNCH!

Everyone turned to see a female orc in leather and hide armor with a large battle ax strapped to her back walk over the splinters of the former door. Sarutobi barely restrained a whimper. That orcess was even crazier that Anko! However he wasn’t terrified enough not to notice that Naruto smiled upon seeing her.

“OI! NAR THOS! GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO!” the female orc shouted while Naruto was visibly restraining his laughter.

“What’s so funny Naruto?” Kakashi asked completely ignoring the orcess beside him.

Naruto couldn’t help it anymore. As he fell to the floor laughing, he gasped out, “Nar thos…means…NO SACK!”

All the other humans in the room blinked before the phrase translated itself in their heads. Hinata started to giggle, Sasuke smirked, the orcess looked rather amused, and Kakashi…turned the next page of his book.

“Now Sergra, I,” Sarutobi started.

“Just shut up and give me a mission, Nether (1), I’ll even take a C-Rank if it’s with the blonde zanbaur (2) here,” the orcess identified as Sergra said while Naruto let out an indigent shout.

“Well, there is one C-Rank available. Alright, it is an escort mission.”

“Good, now hurry up and tell us who we’ll be escorting.”

“Tazuna-san is to be protected until the bridge he is building is completed. You may come in now.”

A door other than the one Sergra smashed opened as an old man that reeked of alcohol and with a half-empty sake bottle in his hand stumbled in while saying, “These are the runts supposed to be protecting me? They look like they’d wet themselves at the first sign of a bird. Especially the one in a bath robe.”

Everyone in the room winced as the temperature dropped while Sergra smacked her forehead as she pulled her ax off her back, just in case. Naruto’s head slowly turned towards their client as one of his hands started to glow a light blue. In a spin like pitching a baseball, Naruto hurled a bolt of ice at the man’s sake bottle, completely freezing it. Tazuna dropped the bottle in surprise, and when the bottle hit the ground it completely shattered.

“Never insult him if you want to live a long life human,” Sergra said as she and a calming down Naruto left to pack.

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“So how long have you been in Konoha?” Naruto asked as he and Sergra left the mission reception office.

“Oh, about a month before you got back I was reassigned from the Crossroads. It took a little bit to readjust from seeing nothing but desert to nothing but forest, but I adjusted. I’ve been told that Draenor once looked a lot like this. I wish I could have seen it,” Sergra responded.

“I know, I have not been to Outland myself, but Master Lintheion has told me that it looks nothing like it is said to have once looked like. Have you heard anything form Orgrimmar lately?”

“A few weeks ago there were reports of some humans in black cloaks with red clouds being spotted by a few of Lord Thrall’s agents. But that’s the most interesting things lately.”

“I’m going to have to go to Orgrimmar sometime in the near future; I haven’t been there since the second month of my training.”

“What? You left the Barrens six months into your trip.”

“We were in a hurry to get to Tirisfal Glades so we didn’t stop on the way to the goblin zeppelin. I will never trust those little buggers.”

“Good, it shows that you’re smart. Don’t trust them to be anything other than their greedy little selves; that and nearly anything they make will eventually blow up.”

“You’re right there. Well, I’ll catch you at the gate,” Naruto said before running off to his apartment.

Five minutes later Naruto whistled while packing (Translation: sealing everything he owned into crystals and putting them into various sacks) before swinging his backpack onto his…well, back and heading towards the North Gate where he saw Sergra with a whetstone sharpening her ax.

Sergra smiled as she saw Naruto approaching the gate. The little brat had grown on her as she interacted with him in the Barrens. When they first met, she thought that he would be a stuck up snob like most humans. Then he opened his mouth. After that she still had a dislike for him because he was a human and always spouting off about being Hokage. After a few months though, he matured and grew into a person she could admire. They had become friends, and though she had never told anyone, she had begun to like the little brat. She didn’t realize it until after he had left though, which is one of the reasons she volunteered to be transferred to Konoha.

Sergra shook herself out of her thoughts as the rest of the group arrived and they set out towards Wave Country. She would need to always have her guard up when there were so few allies around. There had been rumors about the Alliance allying with enemies of Konoha. Even though this was only a C-Rank, it was entirely possible for members of the Alliance to attempt to disrupt relations between Konoha and the Horde by wiping out the only shinobi team that had any sort of abilities that the Horde taught.

But she couldn’t think about that now. For now, she needed to keep her eyes and mind on her mission. With perfect timing as she noticed a pair of water puddles and crinkled her nose up when she smelled a human who hadn’t bathed in weeks inside the puddle. She glanced up, not a cloud in the sky and it had been dry for more than a week.

A quick glance at Naruto showed that he had noticed and was making the seals for his polymorph spell. With his eyes he quickly glanced towards one of the puddles, indicating that he wanted that one. With a slight nod, she took her ax off her back and slammed it into the other puddle, which by now was right in front of her.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” Tazuna shouted since he was just in front of the puddle and thought that she was trying to kill him. Before the illusion failed and Sergra had to get her ax out of a Mist nin’s skull, having cut nearly clean through.

There was a cloud of smoke as a second puddle turned into a sheep who let out a baa of surprise before a sack was thrown over it and Team Seven wondered off into the forest.

Sergra blinked when she saw Kakashi shiver, “Why’d you shiver Dofna-ar (3)?” she asked.

“Let’s just say that I know how that mist nin is going to feel,” was all Kakashi said before the maniacal laughter of three teenagers torturing a poor defenseless animal started. Lucky Team Seven bums.

The three returned about half an hour later and Hinata glared at Tazuna before shooting bolts of lightning at his feet, making him do a funny dance.

“Those two were after you pa-gog hom (4). You are building a bridge that will strip control of Wave country from Gatoh, so he hired missing nin to kill you. Unfortunately,” Naruto paused for a moment before continuing, “There are members of the Scourge working with them as well.”

Sergra’s eyes widened before they narrowed and she growled. So the rumors were true. The Scourge was here? Her face grew into a large grin as she thought, ‘This mission is getting more interesting by the minute.’

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A few days later, Team Seven plus two others were on a boat going into Wave itself. Sergra let out a low whistle upon seeing the size of the bridge as it came into view. Say what you will about Tazuna, he was definitely a damned good builder. Naruto had an impressed look on his face while staring at the humongous bridge.

Once they landed, Sergra unhooked her ax and started smelling the air. Her eyes glanced around; there were too many hiding places. The Alliance members could be anywhere, especially if they were rouges. Her ears perked up when she heard a whistling through the air before her eyes widened and she hit the deck at the same time as the rest of Team Seven and Tazuna. After she felt a large sword pass over her, she glanced up in time to see a freakishly large sword land into a tree and a man (shinobi by the looks of his headband and sandals) landed on it before lazily turning around to face the group.

“So these are the shinobi that allied with the Horde,” a voice said as a male human in black robes walked out of the foliage.

“Sharingan Kakashi, no wonder the Demon Brothers failed,” the first man said.

“And the orcess Sergra, I must say that I am honored to face such a famous warrior. I am Mandrild Hathborne,” the obvious necromancer said before drawing symbols on the ground and a skeleton pulled itself from the ground.

Sergra growled before saying, “Leave the Scourge-scum to me, I’ll handle him.”

The necromancer smirked as Sergra charged at him and swung with her two-handed ax. His skeleton ran between them and blocked with a sword as Zabuza and Kakashi started to play a lethal version of tag with water clones.

Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke took formation around Tazuna while the other members of the group from Konoha fought. Hinata called up several totems and enchanted her ax with the Flametounge Weapon spell; Sasuke took out a kunai and slipped into a stance where he could easily block and throw, while Naruto layer himself in magical defenses. As he cast the spell Arcane Intellect upon himself, Naruto’s eyes widened.

“Sergra, take the necromancer alive!” Naruto shouted as a realization came to him.

“Got it brat!” Sergra shouted back.

“Looks like Kakashi-sensei could use some help,” Sasuke said as the other two members of Team Seven turned to look.

Naruto smacked his forehead as he saw Kakashi trapped in a sphere of water by Zabuza. Quickly analyzing the technique, Naruto concluded that Zabuza could not move since he hadn’t already. He glanced at his teammates before realizing something. Hinata was a shaman-in-training. Shamans worked with the elements so maybe…

“Hey Hinata, can you communicate with the water that Zabuza is using and ask it to free Master Kakashi?” Naruto asked his female teammate as said teammates eyes lit up.

“I’ll try; this may take a few minutes. Keep any water clones off me while I’m doing this,” Hinata instructed before sitting down cross-legged.

Naruto glanced at Sasuke before whispering, “Do you think you can keep the clones away from me? I’m not good at close combat.”

“I think so, just be ready to have a back up plan incase some get through,” Sasuke replied.

Naruto nodded before pitching a Frostbolt at one water clone. The reaction surprised everyone watching. Naruto didn’t know very many spells as a whole, and most of those were frost spells, but apparently water clones and frost spells do not mix well. When Naruto’s Frostbolt spell hit the clone made of water, the clone completely froze before shattering. As all watching paused (even Sergra and the necromancer) Naruto got a sadistic, evil grin on his face while Zabuza started to sweat.

Naruto quickly started to fling frost spells at Zabuza’s clones and the original. Upon noticing that Zabuza was able to block all of his spells with his sword that was bigger than any weapon has a right to be, Naruto growled and started to charge up his most powerful spell while mentally deciding that Hinata could heal Kakashi later.

“Oi Kakashi, don’t take this the wrong way. I hope you don’t mind being used to help train Hinata in healing, because I can’t fully control this spell yet! BLIZZARD!” Naruto shouted as he released the built up magical power.

As nothing happened, Zabuza smirked before saying, “Looks like that jutsu of yours didn’t work gaki.”

Naruto just simply pointed up. Confused, Zabuza looked above him to see numerous shards of ice plummeting towards him before looking back at Naruto and saying with a glare, “I hate you.”

Zabuza then leapt away from the frozen rain of death in effect releasing Kakashi who dove underwater to hide from Naruto’s barely controlled spell.

Naruto meanwhile, was sweating as he struggled to keep the magical power under control. Upon realizing that if the spell didn’t end soon he would loose control, Naruto started to tear the spell apart from the inside. To everyone else it simply appeared that the spell wore off while Naruto collapsed onto one knee while panting. Naruto reached into a pocket and pulled out two vials filled with blue liquid and quickly chugged both down.

By the time that the potions did their work Kakashi had Zabuza pinned to a tree while Sergra was toting the Necromancer over one shoulder. Just as Kakashi was about to finish Zabuza, two thin needles pierced Zabuza’s neck. After checking for a pulse, Kakashi confirmed that the “Demon of the Mist” was dead.

While the older members of the Konoha group were discussing things with Zabuza’s killer, the younger members grouped together around Tazuna and began discussing various things.

“Hey Sasuke, when after I left did you lose the foot long kunai up your ass?” Naruto asked.

“Shortly after the Horde started coming to Konoha, I encountered one of the Forsaken. At first I treated him like a piece of dirt but he beat humility into me. I decided to keep my brooding mask up in public to gain an edge against my fangirls,” Sasuke replied as all members of Team 7 plus Tazuna shivered.

“Well, let’s find out what the scoop is with Kakashi-sensei and Sergra-san,” Hinata muttered as said people walked towards the genin and client.

“Well zanbaur, why did you want me to take the necromancer alive?” Sergra asked as she walked up.

“Think about it, when was the last time that the Scourge had necromancers in a place totally unprepared?” Naruto calmly asked her.

Sergra thought for only a moment before she completely paled.

“What? What happened the last time?” Sasuke asked, clearly confused.

“The last time the Scourge came to a place where they had no foothold was when they released the Plague,” Naruto responded.

“The plague?” Tazuna asked. If it had to do with necromancers it probably wasn’t anything good.

“Yes the Plague. The Plague is what infected grain and turned all who ate it into mindless undead servants of the Lich King. After the prince of Lordaeron went to Northrend, the roof of the world to get vengeance on the dreadlord in charge of the Scourge at the time, his soul was stolen by the runeblade Frostmourne. He eventually fused with the Lich King Ner’zhul and the combined being became the new Lich King. All because of a plague of undeath the land of Lordaeron is nothing more than wasteland covered by undead.”

All that were not familiar with the recent history of Lordaeron paled dramatically before turning towards the necromancer. If the plague was spread by grain…

“We need to get to town now!” Tazuna shouted before running off in that direction.

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AN: That’s it for this chapter. I know it’s a little short but I felt that this was a good stopping point. I’m currently leaning towards Naruto/Sergra for the Naruto pairing and am kind of thinking about Lintheion/Tsunade, though both pairings won’t fully occur until after the training trip.

1 – in reference to the Twisting Nether, the home of the Burning Legion and nearly all demons

2 – an orcish insult, basically the same as bastard but can be used playfully as well

3 – basically translates to the same thing as “nar thos”

4 – a rough translation of dumbass