I read 'The Consequence' by LadyEudave05 and 'Teacup Tempest' by Wingwyrm and got inspired. This is the result.
THIS FANFICTION WILL INCLUDE EXPLISIT SEXUAL CONTENT. THE SEX SCENES WILL BE MARKED CLEARLY, BOTH AT THE BEGING AND END OF THE SCENE.
Ch. 1
She stood looking at herself in the stream. The face that looked back at her was that of a ten year old girl, even though she could easily be taken for someone between the ages of 12 and 13, her hair was blond, and to the small of her back, and her blue eyes was a little scared, but determined.
Her face lacked the usual whisker marks she bore when she was in her male form. Oh yeah, she was born male, but had never considered herself as being of either gender, or rather being of the gender she was appearing at, at the specific time.
Her born name was Namikaze Naruto, although no one knew she was aware of that, and only thought that she knew herself by the name of Uzumaki Naruto. When she was in this form, she called herself Naruko.
She had been able to change between Naruto and Naruko since she was taught the Henge, and incorrectly at that. Of course she knew the 'right way' of doing it now, since Iruka had taught her, him being unaware of her having found a way to make a true transformation, and not just the illusion everyone else was making. She had, after discovering the truth about Kyuubi, thought that he was the reason for the whole 'true transformation' thing, but discovered that that wasn't so, after teaching it to Konohamaru.
She was trying to make herself do what she had planned, but she was scared. She had snuck into the kunichi classes, but didn't learn what she knew would be needed there, so she had a whore, from the red light district of Konoha, who owed her a favor; teach her all that she needed to know. But even then, she had never actually done it.
As she stood looking at herself, she recognized the scared look in her eyes. There was no way she could trick a trained ninja to believe that she knew what she was doing, so she had to play on what she had.
She hurriedly changed to the clothing she had bought from one of the street kids in the village that old man Tazuna had taken her to, to buy food. It wasn't worth much, but she truly needed it, if her deception was going to play off.
…o0O0o…
Twenty minutes later; she was standing in front of their hideout. She was still a little scared, and truly didn't believe it would work. But she had to try. It was the only way of keeping them out of the fight, and saving not only their lives, as she was truly convinced that Gato would get them killed in their weakened state, but also the lives of her team. Sasuke might think he was some sort of all powerful ninja, and Kakashi had at one time been an S-rank Jonin. But neither of that was now. Sasuke was far from being as strong as he believed himself, and Kakashi had let himself go, since his ANBU days. Had it been back then; he would have had no problem taking down Zabuza, when they met him before, and he wouldn't have fainted from chakra exhaustion. And that wasn't even counting Sakura or herself.
Sakura was just a weak fangirl, sure, at one point in time she had really wanted to be friends with her, and as she had discovered that when boys and girls were friends, it was called being a couple, she tried asking her out. It didn't take her long to discover that she was wrong. But at that time; she had started developing her mask, so she continued with following her around, always asking her on a date.
And her; there was no way that she was strong enough to fight at Jonin level. There was a reason that Genins were only given C-rank missions. They weren't ready to go against any more than bandits. And that wasn't even counting the sabotage she had encountered during her academy years. Sure; she had become better, and a lot of her mistakes were corrected after being put on team 7, but she was one out of 3 students, and that was even without taking into account the fact that Kakashi was always late, and didn't in fact like her all that much. She didn't know if that was because she resembled her father so much, and he resented her for surviving when her father didn't, or if he didn't know about her being her father's son/ daughter and just didn't like her mask.
She had had to develop her mask over the years, so as to not be totally sabotaged. If the village thought her stupid, she could easier take advantage, than if they were aware of her true intelligence. But even so, they had to wish to see her as stupid too, or they would have found it suspicious that she became a Genin at 10 years of age, instead of the normal 12. But as long as it benefitted her, she wasn't going to complain.
So this truly was the only way she could find, that wouldn't result in blood sheath and death all around.
As she knocked on the door, she bit her lip lightly. She would have wished to experience this differently, but she was a ninja, and as such; she belonged to Konoha, and its belief in putting the life of your teammates first.
"Yes, what do you want?" it was Haku.
"I… I was sent… sent by Gato… he paid me you see, and I really needed the money, and…"
"What do you want? Why are you here? Why did he send you?"Zabuza came into the light. He was as big as she remembered, but far from as scary. Not that she wasn't scared; but she didn't get the feeling that he could, and would, kill her if she made a miss step, like she had felt when they met earlier.
She gave a swallowed noisily, and started to speak, as consistently as she could through her fear of what was to come.
"I was sent… as a gift. I have no experience, but Gato-sama said that you would probably prefer someone untouched, instead of a regularly used… whore." When she said the last word, her eyes closed, she truly felt like a whore, even though they hadn't done anything yet, and even though she wasn't really getting payed.
Zabuza pushed Haku lightly aside, and looked her up and down, slowly. Then suddenly; he reached out, making her startle in shock, and gathered her in his arms. His free hand removed the bandages that covered the bottom of his face, and he plundered her mouth.
She heard the door close quietly behind her, but couldn't hear movement from Haku, she hoped that he hadn't left. It would be detrimental to her plans, if she didn't get to drug him, after all.
Suddenly she accidentally let out a short, surprised moan. Zabuza had grabbed her bottom, and squeezed her cheeks. It felt surprisingly nice. His attacks made her feel rather hot beneath her clothing, and finally she gave up. If Haku had left, there wasn't really anything she could do, and if she focused too much of her attention elsewhere; she might get killed, due to suspicious ninja instincts. And while she was still a little scared; she decided that she wanted to enjoy this. It was her first time after all.
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He lay her down on one of the single beds in the room. It wasn't all that small, after all it would need to be a big size, to have the room for the giant man Zabuza was.
As he slowly pulled the tattered dress up her body, caressing her body on every inch revealed; both with his eyes and his hands. His hands were rough, but the caress was careful, it could even be called soft.
As her breasts were released from the cover of her dress, and it was put over her face, he stopped removing it, and bowed down over her. She startled lightly when one of her nipples was surrounded by a wet mouth. The light caress by his sharpened teeth was rather invigorating, and she had problems with keeping her hips still. But she had made a character study of him, and she was pretty sure that he preferred her to be as submissive as possible, something which she herself preferred, as all she wished for; was someone taking care of her, finally letting her let go, instead of always having to be on the lookout for danger or unpleasantness.
She was proven right when, upon her light shift, his hand grabbed her hips, forcing her to hold still. His other hand grabbed her wrists lightly; keeping them together and still above her head.
At the same time he gave a light growl from his throat; as if to say "lie still" or maybe "mine", she wasn't sure.
His mouth carefully explored her body, making sure to lightly mark her body with his teeth as he went along, although they both knew that the marks wouldn't even stay to the end of their coupling.
As he came to her core, he stuck out his tongue, and tasted her, ignoring the light startle of her body, upon the sensation. He slowly moved back up on her body, letting his body caress hers on the way. As he came up, laying chest against chest, he removed her dress, freeing her arms; although they both were aware that she wouldn't move them from their position above her head.
As her face became free, he focused his attention upon her mouth, attacking it, getting to know every hole and arc in her wet cavern; as if she was an enemy, who only could be overcome upon full disclosure of all of her secrets.
He slowly moved his body away from her, towering over her, only connected by the now pressed together hips.
He moved a little back, and slowly, carefully, moved within her. He continued his undulation for a short while, until he reached her barrier. She stiffened a little; she had been told that this part would hurt. The rest was dependent upon her partner, but this part always hurt.
He bowed together, almost into half due to his far greater high, and kissed her brow, taking one hand to caress her chin lightly. Then he, almost brutally, speared through the hymen, making Naruto, who normally had a rather high pain tolerance; due to the beatings of the villagers and his own training as a ninja, give a startle and a soft whimper. It had hurt.
He held still, for what might have been two minutes, and then, when she finally relaxed her body again, he started to move inside of her.
In the beginning she felt a little raw, and as such didn't enjoy it, although she was willing to endure it; If for no other reason, then at least because of the ecstatic face of her partner. She was enraptured by his different expressions; all of them showing great enjoyment.
Then suddenly he hit something inside of her, while at the same time his pubes hair scratched over the knot just outside her opening. She had been told that it felt good to get the knot, the clitoris, massaged, and that, for the most part, having sex felt good. But she had been too shy, and a little freaked out, to try the massage herself, and as Zabuza was her first partner; she hadn't been able to check that part before.
She accepted the changed, and improved, feeling with a humming, and a slight toss of her head. That seemed to be what he had been waiting for, as he increased the tempo, while caressing one of her breasts, squishing and lightly twisting her nipple.
Her even greater enjoyment at his action, and increased speed, made her move. She was moving against him, making each thrust deeper and harder.
Sounds had begun to come from him, and she searchingly, not fully assured that she was allowed to, started caressing his chest and sides with her hands. At a particularly delightful thrust; she let her hands go around him, scratching him, at first lightly but upon her enjoyment increasing, so did her grip, on the back.
As she reached her first climax; she grabbed his ass cheeks and burrowed her nails, which had sharpened upon her transformation, into his flesh. From the following moan from Zabuza, she was pretty sure he enjoyed it.
They continued on for almost two hours (at the end Naruto felt rather satisfied, but also raw), before Zabuza finally reached his climax.
He was burrowed deeply within her, and as he came; be bit down on her shoulder, leaving it bloody and smarting. But even then; the feeling of being marked, as a fox would a vixen, awakened something hidden within her, and she came once again. This time with an almost roar, doing her best to match Zabuza in volume.
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She laid gasping for breath; it had been truly amazing, and she was sorry that it would never be re-done.
She looked almost lovingly at the out-blissed ninja at her side, and softly got on her feet. She went over to the bottle of sake that was standing on the table, and filled a glass. Of course sake wasn't the only thing she put in the glass; as a lonely orphan, in a village who hated her existence, she had to have some way to take out those who were stronger and better trained than her. At one point in time; that had been everyone. So she had taught herself about poison. How to make it, how to use it, and how to become resistant towards those she used, so that if she ever was in a situation as now, where she was asked to prove she hadn't poisoned something, she could do so easily.
After she had tasted the glass, Zabuza finally took the drink himself. It was slow working, so he wouldn't become alarmed at his sleepiness, and just wouldn't wake for a long time. They sat talking for a while. He easily made her laugh, and every time a giggle escaped her lips, he got a soft look in his eyes. As he slowly got more and more tired, he lay down on the bed, upon which they had been sitting, and gathered her in his arms.
"Don't worry about Gato. I'm keeping you when we leave."
She got tears in her eyes at his promise, but he only thought they were of gratitude, and slowly fell asleep.
After she was sure that he had fallen in a deep sleep, she slowly got out of the bed, and hurriedly wrote a note, before gathering her clothing, and leaving the hideout.
Even though she hadn't got to poison Haku, it might be for the best. After all; if they were both sleeping, who would defend them against Gato, should he come by? And it wasn't like Haku would leave Zabuza alone and defenseless, to attack the bridge. After all; Zabuza was his precious person. Even with what she had said, when they met earlier, she really would like to have a precious person. Even though she loved the old man, she couldn't trust him. There was to many times; where she had paid the price of politics. And while she didn't doubt that old man Hokage loved her; she did doubt that he would put her above the wishes and needs of the village. And if she wasn't given trust and the promise of them always being there for her; how was she supposed to give the same back?
The sun had risen, before she reached the clearing, in which she had left a shadow clone, looking like a passed out version of her, in her male form. She hurriedly made the hand sign to change back to male, but was interrupted by a loud shout.
"STOP" it was Kyuubi's voice.
"What is wrong with you, can't you see that I'm busy? What do you want?"
Kyuubi's answer came in a panicked tone.
"No matter what you do; DO NOT CHANGE YOUR GENDER BACK. If you want to look like a boy again, change the visible parts of your body, like hair, face and chest, or just use a regular henge. Now hurry up; if you take much longer, they will come looking for you."
She hurriedly changed her looks to that of a boy, but left the inner workings, and her lower body, as it was, and changed into her horribly ugly and expensive orange jumper.
It wasn't like he didn't have any money to buy something better with. In a matter of fact, he had a lot; his savings became bigger and bigger, as he wasn't allowed to buy all that much in the village, and he supplied himself with a lot of stuff, including meat and vegetables, which he hunted and grew in the forest surrounding Konoha. The villagers wish to have nothing to do with him, apparently didn't include his money. As the few things he were allowed to buy; costed about 3 – 5 times what others would pay for it. But it did include most of the good stuff; clothing he would like to wear, things like a new fridge, food which wasn't close to or past the expiring date. But what can you do? At least they hadn't discovered that he had a way around them, yet.
What he couldn't grow, catch of manufacture himself; he bought in the neighboring town. No one knew that he could leave the village whenever he wanted, and he was never going to let anyone know. It had only become easier with the discovery of the shadow clone, but even before that, it wasn't too difficult to make everyone believe him either sick, or busy planning a prank.
Being predictable was the easiest way to become unpredictable.
As he stumbled into old man Tazuna's house, he was sent to bed with a disappointed shake of Kakashi-sensei's head. As Naruto didn't really fear for the team and old bridge builder, due to him having taken out the biggest risk during the night, he went gladly to the room, to figure out what was going on.
…o0O0o…
"Okay Kyuubi, why didn't you want me to change back? It better be important. It have better to be important, if Kakashi-sensei wasn't so preoccupied, he would have smelled that I am female right now." Her tone was sharp and to the point, she was really irritated, at the risk Kyuubi made her run. As long as she was female, there was the danger, that Kakashi would smell what she had done, and she wasn't prepared to run the risk of him discovering it.
One thing was to do those acts while it was within the mission perimeters; another thing was to take matters into her own hand. And it wouldn't look good in the report; that she had enjoyed it. Homosexual actions were looked down on among the villagers, and only accepted among the ninja when it was due to a mission, due to the lack of offspring coming of same sex couples. It was ridiculous, but gay and lesbians had found a way around it; by marrying someone of the opposite gender, who likewise was interested in their own sex, and producing children, having a healthy homosexual relationship, or several different partners, on the side.
She was quite sure that old man Hokage was aware of who was of what inclination, as those who were sent on missions were they would have to seduce someone of the same gender as themselves, were often seen with 'close friends' of same gender.
She wasn't supposed to know so much about the delegation of missions, or the mission reports, but her break in, to get the forbidden scroll, wasn't the first time she had broken into the Hokage tower. And furthermore; she had been given the duty of clearing out and categorizing the mission library many a time, after getting caught in a prank.
"Oh I assure you it is important." Kyuubi's voice was dark and forbidding, but with a hint of dark humor.
At her worried silence he continued, in a faked upbeat voice.
"Congratulations, in nine months you are going to become a mommy…" and then in worried anticipation; "When do we start running?"
She just sat silently for a while; shocked out of her mind. How was that possible… not that she didn't know about the reproduction process, she had after all grown up in the red light district. And while she had been sent out of the class during those kind of lessens, supposedly for disturbing the class, she had been informed by the whores and geisha (those she knew in the red light district was in fact only glorified whores).
Then she started to think on Kyuubi's question. Running might be a good idea. She truly feared for her life, should the masses be informed of her ability to bear children. She had after all escaped some of the truly horrifying fates that often befell young girls living in the red light district, due to the virtue of being male. And while she was safe in the knowledge that she could, both legally and in ability, defend herself now that she was a ninja, she also feared for how her fellow ninjas would react.
But still; running away brought its own problems. She would have to find some way to get an income, she would be unprotected, should anyone find her, and they would look for her, of that she had no doubt; she was too important a weapon for Konoha to willingly loose her. No. running away brought to many problems with her. She would have to trust in her plan, and furthermore convince Zabuza that protecting his unborn child, and thereby her, was something he wished to do.
Furthermore; she could probably convince old man Hokage, that letting everyone believe that she had been hidden under a seal, making her look like a boy, would be for the best. As said before, those who slept with those of their own gender was often harassed, and she definitely didn't need to be hated even more.
Nothing for it; she would have to work things out for the best. After all, her child would be the heir of the Uzumaki and the Namikaze clan's and probably also the Momochi clan, although she wasn't fully sure, that Zabuza was the last of his clan, or even if he was from a clan.
Better head to the bridge, and see if her plan would unfold.
Just as he rose from the bed, he heard Tsunami's scream, and Inari's yell, and he hurried downstairs.
The thugs wasn't very hard to get rid of, and although he truly hated to kill, even though he was more or less used to it (unknown by the Hokage, but you were only able to defend yourself so much, by using nonlethal means, and he had had to defend himself in Konoha daily, from the age of 5, when he was thrown out of the orphanage), he couldn't let them live. It would only mean trouble later on.
After instructing Tsunami and Inari to go to the closest neighbor, to seek momentarily shelter, he sat course towards the bridge. He really hoped his plan would work, or there would be no hope for convincing Zabuza to assist him and take care of him later.
As he neared the bridge, and his eyes fell upon it, he fell into role, as the stupid dead last. He sprang onto the bridge, with the yell of "Uzumaki Naruto is here. As he looked around he got a chock; his plan had failed. Oh why had he forgotten about Haku's knowledge about herbs? He had apparently awakened Zabuza and now they were her, fighting. But as he looked closer, he noticed that even though they were fighting, and both Sakura and Sasuke were apparently tricked, Kakashi-sensei looked as confused as he himself was; they weren't doing any deliberating or killing blows.
Kakashi-sensei had apparently taken his que from the missing nins, and weren't fighting to kill, although it looked like he was quite set on catching Zabuza, most likely to question him about what was going on. When his eyes met Zabuza's, the man gave a short, subtle nod toward the ice dome where Sasuke was fighting. At least they seemed to take his warning seriously, even though they didn't seem to have been willing to follow his plan.
The fight went on, Sasuke was hit with a lot of needles, trying to save Naruto's life; Naruto was quite thankful for the action, as he truly feared for his unborn child, should he get hit in the womb by one of those ice needles.
For a moment he feared that Sasuke was truly dead, and in that moment he activated Kyuubi's chakra cloak. While he almost immediately discovered the trick, he didn't remove the cloak, as upon using Kyuubi's chakra, he became able to hear much better, and heard the almost silent whispers in the nearing boat; Gato was here.
As he caught Haku around the neck with his hand, he turned toward his sensei and his lover, if only for the previous night, to see Zabuza caught in the jaws of Kakashi-sensei's dog summons.
He caught his sensei's eyes, and motioned toward the end of the bridge, where he could now hear Gato, and what he assumed was most of his thugs, come ashore. His sensei sniffed the air lightly, and gave Naruto a nod, but then he frowned, and sniffed in the direction of Naruto. Naruto started to get a little nervous, he needed to talk to Zabuza, or at least Old man Hokage, first; before he was willing to discuss his new situation, and his rather daring actions, with Kakashi-sensei.
As Zabuza had noticed their attention shifting toward the end of the bridge, he visibly strained his hearing, and as he noticed the sounds of Gato and his men, he made the mist disappear.
As they came within view a slow, almost mocking, yet delighted clapping was heard.
"Congratulation Zabuza; in tiring out the Konoha nins. Too bad that I won't be needing you anymore, you do after all seem incapable of fulfilling your contract… don't worry, I would have had you killed anyway, after all; with you dead I don't have to pay your wagers, and I can get the bounty. But if it makes you feel better, I'm not going to kill your little bodyguard… I'm going to give her to my men, as a little extra reward you know…"
During Gato's vocal diarrhea (you never warn a Shinobi when you plan to double cross him) Kakashi had made his summons release Zabuza, after a nod from Naruto, who had likewise released Haku.
It didn't take long for Zabuza and Haku, with a little help from Naruto's shadow clones, and the normal insubstantial clones from Kakashi, to make an end to Gato and his men. As the two missing nins got ready to leave; Zabuza started talking to Naruto.
"It seems like you were right girl. Too bad that you are a ninja; I would have kept my promise hadn't you been."
At Zabuza's words; it seemed like Kakashi finally noticed what had confused him earlier.
"Girl?... Naruto what…" Naruto didn't take the time to listen to her teacher, she needed to talk with Zabuza, and do it before he disappeared and became untraceable.
"Zabuza-sama wait… I… I need to talk to you… I…" then with a deep breath he started to say whats he wanted to, what it was so important for her to say to him.
"There are a couple of S-rank secrets in Konoha which concerns me, as such I don't want to tell the reason behind why I know this, just know that I am not in doubt of the truth of it. I… I'm pregnant… I…"
Haku snorted. "And how exactly are you able to know that, only a day after? It must be some really weird secrets."
Naruto took a deep breath, both to collect her curage once again, but also to keep her temper… this wasn't a joke.
"Yes… it is some big secrets… the result of one of them is; I know my body better than anyone… I am quite capable of feeling the new life starting in me." Then he turned toward Zabuza.
"I don't tell you this to try to get something from you, or trick you in any way… I'm telling you this, so that should you ever want to get to know your child, you will know that he or she will be in Konoha. You still haven't done anything against Konoha; as a missing nin, and your actions during the third war, against Uzushiogakure… I am the only descendant of the Uzumaki clan, as such it is up to me to forgive you. I am willing to do so, to secure you safe passage in Konoha, if you promise to never attack a Konoha nin."
Then she looked imploringly at Zabuza;
"I really wish for my child and heir to know his or her father. I don't have any family; as such I know exactly how important family is. If you want nothing to do with… with your child… then don't come calling; that is all that I ask of you."
Zabuza just looked at her for a little while, and then he got a confused look on his face.
"Why would you want to keep this child? You are very young, it is a mission child, and you just told me you have no family to help you… you risk that this child will end your carrier as a ninja."
Naruto looked back for a short while, and then she smiled, like she knew a secret, and as if her greatest wish had just been fulfilled.
"You are right… I have no family… I will probably newer get a partner… let's just say that I'm all that popular in Konoha… this might be my only possibility of getting a family. And a truly doubt that I will get to drop my carrier as a ninja… I'm a little to valuable to Konoha, to be allowed to do so."
Both Haku and Zabuza looked a little confused at first then, almost as one, they seemingly figured something out.
"The red chakra…?" it came from Haku, in a quiet voice. Him voicing what they both were thinking.
Naruto just smiled secretively, and tilted her head to the side.
"S-"
"rank village secret… I know." Zabuza interrupted.
The sound of a throat being cleared sounded. Kakashi had seemingly had enough of being ignored.
"How exactly was my 10 year old, male, genin able to become pregnant while on a mission?" it was asked in a forbidding tone, and he looked ready to rip Zabuza into pieces.
"And why do you think he is a girl?"
Zabuza looked pretty flummoxed, and Haku had an angry look on his face.
"Ten…" it was said in a stumbling whisper, and he was interrupted in his rhetorical question, before he could finish it.
"How dare you make Zabuza-sama a pedophile? I actually liked you, and now you come and…"
"Enough Haku!" Zabuza's voice was hard, but with a slight roughness from his earlier surprise.
"Her age doesn't matter. She looked and felt old enough, and from her sensei's surprise; I am pretty sure it was her own wish and actions. I don't feel like a… a pedophile… she is a ninja, as such she counts as a grown up. That's how the law is… old enough to kill – old enough to drink, fuck, and apparently grow a family…" then he turned toward Kakashi.
"And are you really so retarded? You haven't even noticed the gender of your own genin? Sure; she had quite a few more curves last night, and a different hair color… by the way how did you do that? I always check for henge when meeting new people." The last question was asked of Naruto, who hurriedly answered; she didn't want an argument to erupt.
"It's my own version of the henge, instead of an illusion, it makes a physical transformation." And then, disregarding her earlier thought; that she had to talk to old man Hokage about her new story, she started to spin her little lie. Ignoring the, finally understanding, look upon her sensei's face.
"And please don't denigrate Kakashi-sensei, he didn't know. I was born female, but due to the dangers presented in the village; as most of the civilians hate me, due to no fault of my own, I had a seal placed on me; that would disguise my gender. My life haven't been good, filled with name calling and beatings… you can imagine the pain and humiliation I was spared, due to being a boy."
At her words; the sly and fake sympathetic look in Kakashi's eye disappeared, to be taken over by a truly sympathetic and surprisingly self-hating look.
She was a little surprised; why would he be feeling self-hate? As far as she knew; he had never done anything toward her, not even behind her back.
It was at this point in time they were interrupted.
"Kakashi-sensei, he's alive… Sasuke is alive!"
Naruto rolled her eyes at Sakura's stupid comment. Did she think that they would just be standing around, talking to his murderer, had Sasuke really been dead? She really didn't think much of them. But even with that thought, she turned and walked toward the two final members of their team, and Tazuna the bridge builder, whom Sakura had been standing in front of during the whole fight; 'guarding' him.
Haku had apparently followed her, because as she neared, and Sakura looked up, she growled.
"What is she doing here… she was the one who hurt Sasuke-kun… make her go away." At her words Haku looked rather affronted. He had after all made sure that where he hit wouldn't leave permanent disabilities, and was ready to offer his help in getting Sasuke back to full health faster than he would have gotten; with Sakura's subpar help.
Naruto couldn't hold in a snigger. Apparently she wasn't the only one who couldn't see that Haku was a boy and not a girl, at first look. Although she was rather surprised that Gato hadn't known the truth. He had after all had much more contact with the missing nins, than their team had.
And now that she thought about it… Sakura was rather useless. She didn't want someone she saw as an enemy, to come closer to her injured teammate, yet all she could do to change the situation; was to tell her sensei to change it for her. She had quite literally been utterly useless during the fight. And Naruto knew that should someone have made a move for the old drunk bridge builder; she would have folded, and left him defenseless. She was truly less than useless to have on the team.
Apparently she didn't even notice that something was amiss, neither during nor after the fight. And that despite the fact, that she was lauded as the smartest in their class, during the academy. Apparently; her whole 'following Sasuke around and spy on him changing clothing'-routine had rotted her brain.
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They had finally got Sasuke to wake up fully, although he was paralyzed. He seemed to wish for the unconsciousness again; something that both Naruto and Kakashi understood. After all; they would have the same wish, had they been paralyzed, and at the mercy of a fangirl.
Haku seemed unable to understand his plight, but at Kakashi's short explanation, involving the word fangirl, Zabuza took his apprentice to the side, and explained the situation. Afterward he was very apological towards Sasuke, and soon earned his forgiveness, primarily because of the fact that his actions had resulted in the awakening of Sasuke's sharingan. Something he was unable to get from Sakura, although none of them understood why she felt that she had the right to hand out, or withhold, forgiveness.
The villagers had turned up, wanting to take revenge against 'Gato's men' and was rather disappointed upon finding out that they were too late to the fight, and that Zabuza and Haku no longer were the enemy.
It didn't take much more than a week, coincidentally the same time it took until Sasuke was fully healed, before the bridge was finished.
Unknown to Kakashi and the rest of his team, and of course the villagers, Zabuza and Haku had cleared out most of Gato's secret stash. They left enough of his money, for wave to get back on its own two feet again, but they had hidden away what were equivalent to at least 20 S-rank missions, each. And of course they hadn't forgotten Naruto.
She soon, to her big surprise, became the owner of several legal shipping businesses' and the sum that she would have been paid for the S-rank mission, of releasing Wave from a tyrant.
Zabuza might not be all that hooked on the idea of being a father, but he wasn't willing to ignore what he saw as his responsibility either. He hadn't decided yet, but whether he chose to go with Naruto to Konoha, come later, or never see his child; he was going to at least take care of the both of them financially. There was no way Naruto had the economy to take care of a child yet. She was after all only a rookie genin.
Sakura had seemingly been totally unaware of the conversation on the bridge (Sasuke too, but at least he had the excuse of being unconscious), this resulted in confusion, but ultimately disinterest in the reason behind the changed relationship between the four ninja's. None of them were aware of Naruto's pregnancy or change in gender either, and wouldn't be for as long as she could keep it a secret, as she had informed her sensei.
While Kakashi was a big believer in team work, he also believed in the right of privacy; having been the recipient of many rumors, both during his childhood, but also after he had grown up. As such, he was willing to give in to her wishes, and keep the changed situation a secret.
And as such was the situation, when they readied themselves for the journey home to Konoha.