Hello all this is my first fanfiction ever so I am sorry for it will probably be horrible. I just wanted to give something back I love reading stories written by so many talented people on this cite. So please people read and review and above all ENJOY!

In this story there will be Sasuke and Sakura Bashing but not to an extreme. And on the points of pairing I am open to any pairing except Naru/Hina and Naru/Saku, so please send in your request and I will take in everyone's choice in deciding.

'Demon/summoning'

"Demon/summoning"

Justu

'Thinking'

"Talking"

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any other shows I might take parts from.

Chapter 1: Death of a hero

Team 7 is seen to be in trouble with the current mission protecting the bridge builder Tazuna from a vile, midget of a man, Gato. Shortly after team 7 plus Tazuna they come across a puddle where the chunin 'Demon Brothers' attacked and seemly killing team 7's jounin sensei, Kakashi Hatake. Naruto and Sasuke take care of the brothers till Kakashi shows back up and with a team vote, they decide to continue on with the mission. Once arriving at Wave Country a day later, they are attacked by Zabuza Momochi, 'Demon of the Mist'. After a hard fought battle resulting being taken out by a mysterious hunter-nin and Kakashi suffering from chakra exhaustion. The next day Kakashi wakes up and informs his team that Zabuza is alive and begins teaching his students the tree climbing exercise. One week later leads to the situation in which team 7 finds themselves in now.

Kakashi is having trouble fighting Zabuza in the mist. While Sakura, a pink-haired banshee, cowers by Tazuna, but where is our hero? He is inside a dome of mirrors made of ice. Inside we see a black haired boy with senbons sticking out of his body in multiple direction and smirking. He is smirking for in front of him is a blond that has a group of senbon straight in line with his left lung. These senbon were once heading for our smirking Uchiha, but our blond hero took the blow for him.

"Tch about time you have a use dobe." Sasuke states in his ever arrogant tone.

Naruto coughs up some blood as he looks over his shoulder to see the "teme", as he puts calls him, is fine but also has red eyes with one tome in each eye.

Naruto frowning and with trouble breathing. "Even with….your gifted….eyes….I had to….die to keep….your teme-….self alive." Naruto then grabs the needles in his lungs and rips them out.

Sasuke enraged and showing it on his face. "What the hell are you talking about dobe!?"

"Check your reflection (cough) teme." Now breathing easier with the senbon removed and the fox healing his damaged lungs.

Sasuke looks down at the puddle at his feet and sees something he has been waiting for almost his entire life for this moment. His sharingan have finally developed not fully matured but they are there. Sasuke starts to laugh low at first but it soon evolves into full blown maniacal laughter.

Sasuke looks at the hunter-nin with a look that would make a certain snake proud.

Somewhere in Oto Orochimaru suddenly develops a sinister smile.

"Yes now I will be able to kill him. Hunter wanabee you should give up now, for now that the truest elite of elite is here, and I will wipe the floor wi…"

Sasuke is cut off by two senbon piercing his neck and knocking him out. With a voice foretelling his annoyance.

"He was really getting annoying."

Naruto looks at Sasuke for a minute then shakes his head.

"You know I don't know if I should be pissed at you for hurting my comrade, or to say thank you for shutting him the fuck up."

Naruto takes a few beep breaths with his eyes closed and when he opens them the joy and innocence that once shown in them is gone and replaced with the eyes of an emotionless killer, one that has seen and lived a life of pure hell.

"I think it is time we finish this Haku-chan."

The hunter-nin's eyes widen underneath his mask, but is soon replaced by a look of sower.

"You knew it was me the whole time."

"Of course you cannot hide your eyes and your eyes tell the story you trusted me with." Naruto gave Haku a sad smile.

Haku answered with a tone expressing every ounce of his pain. "I never wanted to fight you here but at the same time I knew we would. You fight to protect what is precious to you and I fight for what is precious to me.

With a said smile Haku draws three senbon in each hand and is preparing to launch them, when there are very distinctive 'thuds'. At Naruto's feet are a pair of leather bracelet and a pair of leather anklet.

"I have not removed these since I got them when I was seven. I feel that I put these on for the pure purpose to take them off to face you, so we can show each other our pain so maybe the other can remove it for us."

At the end of his little speech a lone tear rolls down each of their cheeks and as they reach the ground both disappear from their respective position. Haku is still far faster than Naruto, Naruto appears in front of the mirror that Haku started in and throws a single punch. Haku's eyes widen as the mirror shatter from the punch. Due to his shock Haku doesn't strike Naruto, but that doesn't stop Naruto. With a single punch Haku's mask is shattered and sent through another of his mirrors.

Haku rolls across the bridge for several meters before he stops and then slowly returns to his feet. Naruto appears a few feet from where Haku stopped and watches with a pained expression.

"Why do you stop I am broken, I can no longer be of use to the one who means most to me." Haku looks directly in Naruto's eyes with a sorrow deeper than the ocean and Naruto returns it right back.

"You are more than tool Haku, for me and for him, that I am sure."

Haku gives a true smile. "I know but I can no longer protect what I care for there is nothing more painful than that. That is something you know, is it not?"

Naruto's head drops as memories of his past are replayed and the pain is relived. Right as Naruto prepares to finish Haku so he won't have to live with the same pain, when the mist clears and the sound of birds chirping is heard. Both boys turn their heads to see Zabuza held in place by Kakashi's nin-hounds and Kakashi himself holding his handing his hand with lighting jumping all around it. Haku looks at Naruto and gives one last smile.

"It appears can protect him one last time."

Haku then disappears and Naruto knowing what he is doing quickly vanishes with one thought 'I will not go through this again!'

Haku appears in-between Zabuza and Kakashi and closes his eyes waiting for it to end. But the pain that follows is far less than what it should be. Upon opening his eyes he sees two beautiful ice blue eyes staring right back at him.

"Wh-why?"

Haku is completely blown away from what he is seeing. In front of is Naruto taken the majority of the blow so Haku was only taken a fourth of the damaged he would have?

"I 'am be-being se-selfish. I co-couldn't live thr-through that pain again." Naruto grinds out through the pain.

Kakashi is breaking down, for just shoved a chidori through one of his student's lungs.

"N-Na-Naruto? Why?"

Kakashi is trying to understand why his student just threw his life away.

"He kn-knows hell and li-lived through it. H-he (cough) id l-like me be-before that d-day. (Cough cough) S-sorry to du-do this to you Ka-Kakashi-se-sensei."

With a smile on his face Naruto coughs up some more blood and grows quite. Kakashi sets both boys down and removes his hand from both their chests, at the same time releases Zabuza from his hounds.

Kakashi drops to his knees and bows his head in shame and mourning. While Zabuza openly cries at the fact he has to watch his surrogate son die right in front of him.

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Thanks for reading I hope you all enjoyed and yes I know I am evil with a cliff hanger, but I just feel the need to end it there. Please all Read and Review, all reviews are welcomed and appreciated.