9th Entry: Confirmation from the Wave Country!

OK, We finally heard back from Team 7! It turns out the bridge builder Tazuna had a hit put out on him, and has been targeted by renegade ninja. Upgrading what should have been a "C Ranked" mission to at least a "B Ranked" one. They were confronted by the "Demon Brothers" (who where dispatched by Kakashi). And then later by none other then "Momochi Zabuza!" It is reported that a battle ensued between Kakashi's Team and Zabuza and ended with assistance from an ANBU (Assassination and Tactics Special Squad or Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushi Buta in Japanese) from the hidden "Mist Village" who showed up suddenly towards the end of the battle killing Zabuza. The ANBU left with Zabuza's body and shortly thereafter Kakashi collapsed. This information was sent to us by Haruno Sakura member of team 7, (using Kakashi's laptop) who was present for the entire encounter. Attached below is the full report in her own words via E-Mail with pictures.



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From: Haruno Sakura
Date: Oct 31, 2005 3:46 PM
Subject: We have reached the Wind Country but not entirely unharmed.
To:
Attached Files Included: DCIM07623.jpg, DCIM07637.jpg, DCIM07699.jpg , DCIM07702.jpg

This is Haruno Sakura reporting for Team Seven!

Kaka-sensei has collapsed and our mission has run into some serious problems. I really do not know what to do!!! Please send help. I am starting to doubt that we are ready to take on this such a mission. Are we really qualified now to do this? We are only genin and now all this has happened. We might not be able to handle this by ourselves...*.*;;

Apologies for the freak out, I'm just really frightened. Let me start from the beginning.

We had just just left home to go on our mission. In the beginning, it was all normal. There were no real enemy encounters, Naruto was being himself (ie: stupid, dramatic, and totally uncool), and the rest of us were just on a semi-low level of alert (which is was appropriate for a C class mission). All of a sudden something crazy happened! Two ninjas attacked us! I ran to Tasuna-san's side in order to protect him. Kaka-sensei started to fight the ninjas but it seemed as if they killed him. The two then moved on to attack Naruto but he froze and <3 Sasuke-kun <3 saved him ^-^ (he is sooo cool)!! I made sure that the old man was safe (so I had no time for pictures, sorry). Mid fight it almost seemed as if it was going to be the end for Tasuna-san, Sasuke-kun, Naruto, and I but Kaka-sensei finally reappeared and captured the ninjas! It was AWESOME! Kaka-sensei is so amazing!

Naruto was poisoned a bit from a cut one of the Ninja's gave him which almost made us turn back to Konoha so that we could treat the wound. But he got all dramatic again (sigh..typical) and said that we should continue on. Luckily, no one else was injured..... but the fight with the two ninjas raised a couple of issues.

On the boat we took toward the Wave Country Kaka-sensei asked Tazuna-san the real reason he decided to have ninja's protect him. It turned out that Tazuna-san was wanted dead by a guy called Gato, who was hiring ninjas to kill him. It now became clear that this was no ordinary C class mission. This was a B-class.. or A-Class rather. Normal genin aren't supposed to be assigned these types of mission. We should have went home after hearing that, but there was no way we could leave the old man stranded. Even though deep inside I felt weird about that decision I went along with it.. at that point I figured that Kaka-sensei knew what he was doing.

We continued our trip to Wave Country by boat, it was kind cool and romantic, I got to sit next to Sasuke-kun ^-^! As we approach land we get to take a look at the unfinished bridge. We then got off the boat and started walking toward the village that Tazuna-san lives. On the way there Naruto starts being stupid throwing kunai's everywhere like the freak he is and almost killed a poor rabbit. That Naruto he's so noisy sometimes! But, sadly Naruto's obnoxious need for attention was the least of our problems. A couple minutes later, there was another attack. This time by a really scary looking guy Kaka-sensei said was Momochi Zabuza, a "missing nin" who was definitely Kaka-sensei's fighting level. We were told not to get ourselves involved with this fight. Kaka-sensei then uncovered his left eye to show what Sasuke-kun called a Sharingan. Zabuza apparently heard of Kakashi before saying that he was the ninja known to have copied over 1000 jutsus using this special eye. I never would have thought that our sensei was that cool!

I felt so helpless during the fight between Kaka-sensei and Momochi Zabuza. I tried to believe in sensei and it seemed as tho he did have complete control of the situation but then Zabuza trapped Sensei in some kind of water bubble. At that point Kaka-sensei told us to run for it, but it was clear to us that that we would just get killed if we did that anyway. I was really scared yet there was nothing I could do. Just when it seemed like all was lost Naruto and Sasuke-kun managed to free Sensei from the water bubble!! Once that was done Sensei used his "Doujutsu" to stop Zabuza. And then just as Sensei regained control of the situation and was about to finish Zabuza off a young Hunter-nin, about the same age as Naruto, Sasuke-kun, and I showed up and killed Zabuza himself. He then took Zabuza's body and disappeared. You would think that this would make us really happy (which it did for me at least) but somehow Naruto was infuriated with the Hunter-nin because he felt weak compared to him. I just don't get that.... sometimes boys can be sooo dumb when it comes to certain things! Anyway just as we started to head out Kaka-sensei froze in his tracks and collapsed right on his face!!!

As of now, Zabuza is gone but so Kaka-sensei (for the meantime). We are still here in Wave Country and there's no way of telling what's to come. There isn't much time to prepare. I don't see us completing this mission with Kaka-sensei out like this. Please send help if you can!
Hurrrrry!

Haruro Sakura, Team Seven

P.S. I was so useless during Kaka-sensei's fight with Zabuza I took some pictures and which are attached it to this e-mail.

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So there we have it, we are trying to find some back-up for Team 7 but most of the upper level ninja's are already assigned to more important missions. Hopefully Kakashi-san will return to normal soon. Here are the rest of the pictures included in Haruno's E-Mail.