Kakashi woke up groggily. He was currently bedridden— perhaps due to him using so much chakra and activating his sharingan eye.

Approaching the tired Jonin was a woman. She had fair skin, long, faint blue colored hair, and relaxed, abyss colored eyes. The woman's name was Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter.

"Waking up, huh? Are you alright?" Tsunami asked, leaning over Kakashi slightly.

"I've been better." Kakashi answered before sitting up. "It'll take a week for me to recover."

"See? It's better if you don't move, so just lie down." Tsunami scolded.

Sighing, Kakashi obliged and lied back down.

Just then, the rest of the others came to check up on Kakashi.

"Hey guys, looks like sensei is coming back to his senses." Naruto spoke.

Sakura sat next to Kakashi. Worried for him, she spoke. "Listening, Sensei, your Sharingan is amazing and everything, but if it puts that much strain on you, maybe it's not worth it."

"Sorry." The Jonin apologized.

"Well you did take down one of the most powerful ninja assassins, so we'll be safe for a while.

'Well technically it was me who did a number on that Zabuza guy but whatever..'Teamwork' I guess...'  Y/n pouted to herself, standing behind everyone so they didn't notice.

When Kakashi started to recall the mysterious masked boy. He was an elite tracking ninja whose sole purpose was to hunt down rouge ninjas and annihilate them so that hidden secrets wouldn't get exposed.

Considering Zabuza was dead, why didn't the masked boy get rid of the assassin on the spot?

"Have you figure it now?" The voice of Y/n broke Kakashi from his thoughts. The others stepped aside making way for her to approach Hatake. Her voice wasn't as cheery as usual. It was serious and stern.

"Since that mysterious tracker ninja used throwing needles to kill Zabuza, then why didn't he get rid of his body right then and there? He had the perfect opportunity to- but instead, he just took the body and disappeared. Doesn't that seem a little suspicious?"

"You're right. It just doesn't add up." Kakashi responded.

"What are you guys talking about? Yall domolished that assassin!" Tazuna intervened.

"Well here's the truth. Zabuza's still alive." Everyone, with the exception of Y/n and Sasuke, screamed in shock.

"But we saw his body! Believe it!"

"But Sensei! You checked him yourself. You said his heart stopped!"

"His heart did stop..but it was just a temporary state to simulate death. Y/n was right."

"His chakra flow did stop but there was a tiny amount remaining that it wouldn't be noticed if I hadn't looked closely?"

"You can see chakra? Are you a Hyūga?"

"No. Just a distant relative to them."

"What is a Hyūga? Do they also grow creepy veins next to their eyes?" Naruto tried mimicking them by pulling the sides of his eyes in a weird way, only to get hit in the back of the head by Sakura.

"Ouch!" "That's rude, Naruto!"

Y/n laughed slightly, not taking any offense to Naruto's behavior. "Well..that's part of it. But it's not scary. It's just how the byakugan works."

"I'll explain more about the byakugan later, okay? We have to talk about Zabuza's right now." Y/n then turned her attention from Naruto and to Kakashi. "So now what? It's clear that the masked boy was not an actual tracker ninja but an accomplice to Zabuza. What's the next step."

'I could however just teleport them through my portals...the place I would sent them...they wouldn't last. Can't survive if the ground is only lava.'

"Wait aren't you guys overthinking this?" Tazuna said, a little nervous.

"Encountering suspicion, the ninja prepares quickly. Hesitation leads to disaster. Every shinobi knows this saying." Kakashi responded straightaway. He then noticed Naruto shaking slightly whilst grinning and laughing forcefully.

At first sight it looked like he was scared. But he's just shaking with anticipation.

'He's actually pleased to hear Zabuza's alive. Now Naruto's got a shot at him.'

"Ready for round two against that assassin Zabuza, Naruto? We'll whoop his and his accomplice's asses once and for all!" Y/n cheered.

"Yeah! Believe it!"

Sasuke shook his head slightly. Seems like he was only sane one in the family unfortunately.

"..but Sensei, you said you'll heel quickly but how can you do that when you can barely move?" Sakura worriedly asks, only to be feeling like talking to a crazy person once Kakashi just starts laughing.

"I can still train you."

"Hold on! A little last minute training won't be enough for us to fight Zabuza. You could barely deafeat him, even with your sharingan. Even Y/n-sensei was having a hard time with her byakugan..You have to be reasonable about this." Sakura protest. 'CHA! Are you trying to get us killed?!' Her inner thoughts screamed.

'...Actually I was holding back a lot but I understand her point.' Y/n stared.

"Sakura, why were we able to stop Zabuza? Because you all helped. You've grown. And Naruto, you've grown the most." Naruto smiled proudly and even more once he heard his mom cheering for him. This was a great moment for Naruto. Not only was he getting stronger, but his mom is here to witness his growth and cheer him on.

He hopes that one day, when he becomes Hokage, he and his mom would become the strongest mother-son duo in all of Konohagakure! Hell, the world even!

Ugh, He's such a mama's boy.

But he can't help it. He's just a child.

A child spoiled rotten by his lovely mother.

"So you've noticed, Kakashi-Sensei. Now things are going to get better. Believe it!"

"I don't believe it! And nothing's gonna be good!" A childish voice interrupts the wholesome moment. Standing behind them was a little boy who looked about seven or eight years old. He had spiky mid-length black hair and same colored eyes, wore a cream-colored, wide-necked turtleneck underneath green overalls and a white sun hat with blue stripes going across.

Everyone turned their attention to the little boy. "Who are you!" Naruto said a bit too loudly.

'Whose runt is this..?' Y/n thought, annoyed.

"Inari, where have you been?" Tazuna happily yelled out to the young boy with open arms. The boy, known as Inari, didn't hesitate and ran into the hug.

"Welcome back, grandpa!" Inari said.

'Oh.'

"Inari, that was very rude. These ninja helped your grandpa and brought him here safely." Tsunami scolded. Inari payed no attention as Tazuna patted his head. "It's okay. I'm rude to them too." He laughed.

Inari blankly stared at the Leaf ninjas before turning towards Tsunami. "Mom, don't you see, these people are gonna die. Gato and his friends will come back and find them and wipe them out."

"What did you say, brat?" Naruto stood up. "Listen here. You know what a super ninja is? Well that's me but a lot better. I'm gonna be Hokage. This Gato or Blato or whatever he's called, is no match for a real hero like me." Naruto cockily responded.

Inari just scoffed. "Ha. There's no such thing as a hero. You're just full of stupid ideas."

"What did you say?" Angered, Naruto was about to put his hands on him until Sakura held him back. "Naruto, calm down."

"If you want to stay alive, you should go back to where you came from." Saying nothing more, he turned his back in them and left.

"Sorry about that." Tazuna said to the ninjas.

Later, Naruto marched up the stairs, ready to give Inari a piece of his mind. His anger subsided temporarily once he heard the sound of crying coming from one of the rooms. Peaking inside, he saw that it was Inari crying sitting on a large desk full of scattered books and paper while staring outside a big window with a full view of the ocean calling for his dad.

At this point, Naruto wasn't angry anymore but instead sympathetic. He quietly walked away after that.

A couple days later, Team 7 went into a secluded area surrounded by trees to work on chakra control.

Y/n, not wanting to do any of the said activities, left the work to Kakashi and decided to nap a couple distances away.