A/N:Hey peeps, you should all know that the only reason this got out is because of a very large amout of help from my sister CRO. I'm only saying coz I like my head attached. . .

Disclaimer: Guess what guys! I just won lotto, became a multi-billionair and bought Naruto. . . Of course it was then that I woke up. . . so I do not own Naruto. Never did, never will.

So by now your all mentally screaming at me 'HURRY UP AND GET ON WITH IT!' so go. . .read the story.

The first time I saw the boy, he was protecting the bridge builder from Zabuza-san. I could tell, just by looking at him, that he was different, that he had something the rest of us didn't. He had vision: a vision so powerful, it could see peace through the blindness I didn't realise plagued him. -Haku

Zabuza had at first glance noticed that the konoichi of the team was practically useless, hiding behind the rest of the them. The guy with hair that looks like a ducks-butt the most competent and sharpest of the genin. The blond seemed to be a goof who didn't understand the concept of a ninja. First glances can be deceiving.

"He he, wearing forehead protectors and acting like real ninja," Zabuza sneered, causing the confusion of the genin he was talking to.

"A real ninja is someone who has survived numerous brushes with death. Basically, once you are good enough to be listed in my bingo book then you can start calling yourself a ninja, you guys should not be referred to as ninjas." With that he launched his attack, not giving them time to react.

As Zabuzu rushed the 3 genin, aiming to kill them and move on to his target, he was struck by the oddity of the blond kid. He was focused, intent on protecting the bridge builder. His stance was deceivingly clumsy but perfect, just so that Zabuza would have to attack twice to create an opening, or hack straight through his too thin arms.

But that was not the most surprising part, what surprised him was the eyes, Zabuza could tell that they could see, not the petty sight that everyone else had. He was blind, that seemed certain, but with his clear blue eyes he saw straight through him. Past the outward appearance and to the hidden soul underneath. The one he had discarded years ago as a petty thing he had no need for.

This kid was powerful.

Though it was well hidden he was subtly alert, his clumsy stance hiding the way he held himself, poised and ready. He vaguely reminded Zabuza of a fox, sneaky, subtle and hiding the truth. Like a shinobi was meant to be.

As Zabuza ran, he quickly decided to spare the kid, fate had something in store for him that was not meant to be stopped. These thoughts came and went in less than a second, leaving him with five meters to go to reach his opponent. Closing the distance, he swung his sword, looking for all purposes like he was going to cleave them all in two.

"Guys, run and hope he doesn't catch you! There is no way you can fight him, just leave me!" The-idiot-who-got-himself-caught yelled from inside the water prison.

His students had a few seconds they needed to look at him as if he were stupid before needing to save their skin.

They dropped to the ground, avoiding the lethal blow and Zabuza nearly over swung, only training making it so his sword didn't throw him off-balance for a moment but still exposing his side. It was in that moment that the blond got up and delivered a severe kick to his ribs. From the outside it looked clumsy like the rest of his movements, but it had such force that the missing-nin almost lost his balance.

Then, in a move that should have been impossible for anyone, even his old buddy Kisame, the boy made near about 50 shadow clones, the motion so practiced he may as well have been asleep.

"No way are we going to leave you!" The original blonde yelled, looking really threatening, not quite managing to glare at the idiot who got himself caught.

"Naruto's right, sensei. He who breaks the rules are scum, but he who abandons his friends are worst than scum." The kid with the duck butt hair continued.

'So the blonde's name is Naruto, huh? That's interesting.' Zabuza thought to himself as the shadow clones charged.

They acted as a mass, knowing what to do with no words or signals passing. 10 went to free their sensei -the copy nin Kakashi- from the water prison jutsu his clone had him trapped in. 10 reinforced the guard around Tazuna while 20 attacked him dead on with tai-jutsu. The remaining 10 stood back and watched, gathering information about his style of fighting as he dispelled all the other clones.

Once engaging the clones, Zabuza had quickly lost track of the original Naruto. Although the exchange lasted mere seconds - one swipe of his sword dispelling almost half the clones - he soon found himself in a little strife as a fireball was launched at him, it had come from the direction of the duck butt boy.

'Uchiha? Looks like it.' Zabuza debated to himself as he dodged the impressive ball of flame.

Regaining his feet, Zabuza quickly performed his trademark jutsu: The hidden mist jutsu. Buying time by hiding in the mist Zabuza quickly reviewed the info he had gathered.

'I'm fighting Hatake Kakashi, the copy nin, a useless pink haired konoichi, a possible Uchiha with a not-yet-revealed bloodline and a few fire techniques, not to mention a blind blond by the name of Naruto who is so good at acting the idiot it was like he'd done so all his life and can spam shadow clones without breaking a sweat.'

The problem, with Hatake still trapped in the water prison, was the blonde. The same blond that was blind, had masses of chakra and probably a tai-jutsu that made him look weak but was also very strong. An effective way to make an enemy shinobi underestimate you, such mistakes often left the enemy dead in a pool of their own blood. It was also likely that the ones truly fooled, though, were his friends.

"You're pretty impressive for a brat, we might be able to make a ninja out of you yet."

Before he could go into a more detailed analysis of his opponents, he felt a chakra to his left surge along with the yell of "Kuchiyose no jutsu." He belatedly realised that while he was observing the genin, he had let said genin free the true problem. Though the copy nin may not be so much of an uncertainty as the blond, it was safe to assume he's deadlier. An inhuman shape in the mist confirmed that the new chakras he felt were that of summoned beings.

A quick look told him that the blond had gone back to playing the idiot, now that there was no immediate threat to the mission he had moved from his assigned task. That left Hatake the only one with enough chakra to summon, and if the bingo book was accurate he had summoned ninja hounds.

The dogs quickly found him by sniffing the air, latching onto his limbs with their strong jaws. Using hand to hand combat he managed to dispel the summons with minimal effort, barely evading Kakashi's fist as it came towards his face.

As the fight continued he felt himself tiring quickly, a result of expending so much chakra with his water prison jutsu. The blond was also turning out to be quite a pain as he kept sending in waves of clones, despite having fallen back, forcing him to take his attention from Kakashi. This proved an effective battle plan for them as he was hit with a number of different jutsu.

Kakashi, noticing Zabuza slowing, and tiring himself, prepared a finishing move to take him out. That was until he saw multiple senbon shooting out of a tree and hitting the missing-nin on the neck, hitting a pressure point and killing him.

From that same tree came a hunter nin with the village symbol of Kiri on his mask.

"Thank you for occupying Zabuza, I have been trailing him for months," the hunter nin said.

"What the hell? Who are you?" the blond demanded, screaming and pointing at the hunter nin.

"Don't worry, Naruto. He's not an enemy." Kakashi told him.

"I'm not asking that! That Zabuza… that Zabuza was killed! A guy that strong… A guy that strong was killed by a kid! By a kid not much different from me! We look stupid! How can I accept that?" Naruto ranted.

"Well, I know how you feel, but this is the truth. In this world there exists kids younger than you, yet stronger than me." Kakashi told him.

The hunter nin decided he had heard enough and grabbed Zabuza's body, quickly leaving in a shunshin.

The hunter nin sat back as Zabuza reached up and pulled the senbon out of his neck.

"You're brutal, Haku, that one really hurt." Zabuza told the nin, Haku.

"My deepest apologies Zabuza-sama, however the copy-nin Kakashi would have seen through the façade if I wasn't." Haku explained hastily, trying to appease the man he would follow to the ends of earth.

"He's not who I'm worried about, that guy was on the verge of passing out as we left. I'm worried about the blond brat." Zabuza explained, rubbing his neck both in worry and to get rid of the last of the aches.

"Can I ask, Zabuza-sama, just what about the boy gets you nervous? Beside the clones, I mean." Haku asked tentatively.

"Sure, he could be super powerful one day, even I can see that. But that day isn't today, he's just a blundering idiot. No, Zabuza-sama, don't get up yet. You need to take it easy."

"A shinobi's best weapon is deceit, never forget that Haku." Zabuza said, walking away despite Haku trying to stop him.

"Hai, Zabuza-sama"

"Go to Gato, do not kill him. I want you to secure half the payment to this job. That last fight should have gotten me at least a million ryo." Zabuza ordered Haku.

Long silky black hair casceded down the boy's back as he let it out of the bun net he had it confined in. Slowly, he brushed it. He wanted to be gone early so that he could be back before his precious person awoke, but not so early that the dew hadn't dried yet. He chose an outfit from the cupboard and shrugged it on. Grabbing his basket, he walked out.

As Haku was picking herbs, he saw the strange boy that made Zabuza edgy, recalling his words from earlier Haku approached him. The boy was asleep, though the reason why he was so far into the forest escaped the cross-dressing nin. Gently he shook the boy awake. "You'll catch a cold sleeping out here," He said.

OMAKE

Sasuke had, for the first time since that had happened, escaped his fan girls. He had heard tales of these hoards of women scaring full grown men. For him, a young boy of age 7 whose family had just been murdered, the large group of females constantly chasing him was terrifying.

He decided that since he had finally escaped his fans, he'd go sit on his jetty down by his lake. Too bad there was already someone there. He was about to go yell at the perpetrator about sitting in his spot. He had always had people do what he said before and they were even more eager to do what he said now.

As he got to the jetty he realised that the person sitting on the jetty was the dobe of his class in the academy, nobody could ever remember the boys name, just that he was to be avoided.

"Oi, d-" he almost yelled. Before realising 'oh, yeah. I'm like him now. Children alone in a world full of adults.'

Slowly he walked over, wondering if he should talk to the kid or leave him alone like his father always told him. The choice was taken away from him though.

"Hey, Sasuke!" The boy, whose name he now remembered to be Uzumaki Naruto, yelled over to him.

"Come here, I wanna talk to you!" he was standing now and Sasuke cautiously walked over, half scared his br- that man was gonna jump out and remind him that his father forbade him from talking to the boy.

'But father's dead.' Something inside reminded him and he made up his mind. He walked down the jetty purposely, no longer concerned about anything else. Naruto sat down when he got there and he sat down beside him. Sasuke sat still, clan training still deep within him, watching his companion. Neither of them spoke even though it was clear their was something on the dobe's mind. He dangled his feet in the water and fiddled with something in his fingers.

"Sasuke, I don't know how to say this." he said after a long time. The silence hadn't been awkward but it had gotten the Uchiha curious what could make such a normally bright and happy boy suddenly shy.

"As long as you don't ask anything really difficult, I'll listen." He told the blond boy, not sure what he was getting at.

"I've never had a friend, is this what friends do?" Naruto asked, ducking his head quickly and looking away from Sasuke's eyes.

Sasuke smiled, albeit small. "Yes, this is what friends do." He said. Naruto smiled brightly.

"Well," he said, "did you want to do this again? Just sitting here where noone will look for us. Where we can be with someone who knows what it's like?"

"Sure. That'll be nice." He said, watching as Naruto stood up.

"I've gotta run, and so do you." Naruto said, jumping into the lake. And right then Sasuke was attacked by both his fangirls and the crazy snake lady he sometimes saw in the village.

A/N: So now that I have nothing to say. . . . Please review. I would appreciate it and be encourage to write this alot more. Thanks. Cya.

-Rei