"8 choices. Liver, lungs, spine, clevical vein, brain, neck vein, kidney, heart. Which one should I go after?" asked Zabuza menacingly. Slowly more and more killing intent leaked out of the hidden ninja.
"The intensity of a Jounins facing each other… it feels like my life is being squeezed. I can't take it… I would almost rather die now and get it over with." Sasuke thought. He gripped his kunai in his hands. "I... I can't take it..."
What happened next scarred Team 7 for life. It ended the innocence of two young genin, and it permanently transformed a laid back man into something new.
Sasuke Uchiha, heir to the Uchiha clan, stabbed himself in the throat. Thereby taking his own life. Naruto, Sakura, Tazuna, and Kakashi all looked on in shock as the Rookie of the Year killed himself because of the intensity of the fight.
"Wha... What happened?" Sakura stammered. "No, No, SASUKE!" yelled Sakura. As the images rushed to her mind and she fully grasped what she saw, Sakura fainted.
"This can't be happening" thought Naruto. "He can't be dead." Naruto took off running to check and see if by some chance Sasuke survived. All he saw as he neared the body was blood slowly leaving the neck and a puddle of blood near where the kunai connected with flesh. "This isn't real" Naruto thought despairingly.
Naruto fell to his knees by the body keening softly to himself. Tazuna looked on pityingly as he knew that such a loudmouth brat probably had never witnessed true death before.
Kakashi was in shock. The only thought going through his mind was that he had failed Obito. He had promised himself that he would train his team into something great. He would teach them teamwork, and the team would be another family for each of them. He saw his dreams crashing down around him.
Zabuza just started laughing, "Ha Ha Ha, I can't believe the kid couldn't even take the killing intent we were giving off. What are you Leaf bastards teaching kids these days. Drawing? That kid had to be the most pathetic excuse for a shinobi that I have ever seen." Zabuza couldn't stop laughing.
Kakashi snapped out of his fugue. He glared fiercely at Zabuza and then went in for the attack. Naruto finally got up from Sasuke's body and immediately went after Zabuza as well. "I am going to kill you!" he shouted.
Red chakra started swirling up Naruto's body as he raced to attack Zabuza. Zabuza looked on in confusion as that brat he had written off as a huge weakling was displaying modest speed as he charged after him. When Naruto got closes, Zabuza just back-handed him away. He would have immediately rushed straight back in, but he had the unfortunate luck to land straight on a tree trunk and pass out. Kakashi was thankful because he had worried that the 9-tails would break out.
Kakashi and Zabuza then started dueling, but because of Kakashi's state of mind he ended up taking hit after hit. By the time he got control over his emotions, his leg was already cut badly by Zabuza's sword. Zabuza tried to close in and take advantage of this fact, but Kakashi kept him away through precise jutsu use. Kakashi finally got lucky and his great waterfall jutsu succeeded in knocking Zabuza out. Before the finishing blow could be struck, a hunter-nim retrieved Zabuza and went on his way.
Kakashi surveyed the fight and saw that his team had been effectively taken out. Sakura was still out from seeing Sasuke die, Sasuke was dead by his own hand, and Naruto had been knocked out after drawing on the 9-tails chakra. This mission couldn't get worse. Then Kakashi passed out from chakra exhaustion, and it started raining. Tazuna just looked on in pity as he knew it was his fault the young boy died because he lied about the mission parameters. Tears mixed with the rain as they fell down his face. He dragged all the people out of the rain to underneath a tree nearby. He leaned back against and tree and closed his eyes.