Flash blade chapter 2
T for teen, for violence, language, and for things teen like, may be rated M later.
Summary: At a young age, our favorite underappreciated Jinchuuriki was driven from his Konoha home by a mob set up for revenge. The young boy didn't know where he was running, but he had one goal in mind, safety. That goal led him straight into the camp of the demon of the mist and his young tool. What will happen now with a young Naruto growing up with Zabuza? Swordsman Naruto, NaruxHaku
Legend:
Talking: I'm going to be the best swordsman in the world, Databayo!
Thoughts: "This killer intent, I can't even move my arms…'
Jutsu: "Hidden mist Jutsu"
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, I happen to own any Oc's that appear in my fan fiction, but that's about it. Wish my Original Characters brought me some income, I'd be rich then!
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Chapter two: Introduction to a new life
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A dark shadow hovered over a sleeping figure, and all was silent through out the area. Or it was until the shadow figure made a fluent motion and the sleeping figure was shocked awake, freezing and soaked where he had fallen asleep against a tree. The sputtering figure blinked and stared up at the figure that had thrown the water and glared.
"What the hell was that for?!" Naruto yelled indignantly as Zabuza smirked behind his mask, moving off to the side.
"That brat was for sleeping in late. " Zabuza replied as he sat down next to what used to be the camp fire.
"Sleeping in late?! It's my day off you ass!" Naruto replied while giving the bandaged man a death glare that to many it would send dark chills through their spine.
"Your point? I told you the same thing last month, you get one day off a month, but that doesn't mean you get to slack off when it counts. I could have been an enemy and now where would you be?" Zabuza asked, absently polishing his blade as he looked at Naruto with an uncaring glaze in his eyes
Naruto's mouth opened and closed a few times like a dyeing fish before he simply huffed and turned away, muttering about stupid eyebrow-less senseis and their inability to be human for a day. As he was muttering another figure entered the clearing and stifled a giggle at the sight of the soaked blonde pouting off to the side.
Turning to her master she asked. "You used the bucket again didn't you Zabuza-sama?" When she got a grunt in reply and Naruto sending a scathing glare at the man she actually let out the giggle she had held in before. This was routine pretty much on Naruto's days off, and had been for the past five years. It actually still surprised the fake hunter Nin that Naruto had been with them for so long. It still like yesterday they found the little blonde boy wandering into their camp. Since that day life had been insanely hectic, but in a good way. The blonde brightened up Haku's life since he had joined their small family.
Actually they had brightened up each others life, as far as Haku was concerned. She knew of Naruto's life before he joined them and still felt the same small pangs of anger and sadness when she remembered Naruto explaining where he came from.
Flashback:
Three figures sat around a small burning camp fire, two simply staring at the flames while the other cleaned a rabbit with ease as he looked to one of the figures staring at the fire. "Oi, brat, it's about time you explain some more about yourself."
That figure started with a blink of surprise and then turned to his new sensei. "Um, like what?"
"Like where you came from and why you fled from home boy, and where you plan on going from here." Zabuza grunted, giving the seven year old an annoyed glare for having to explain him self.
Naruto immediately smiled and proclaimed. "Life wasn't so bad, I mean it was an-"He was cut off as he gulped at the blade at his neck.
"Stop bull shitting me and drop that stupid act kid. Being happy is one thing, forcing that idiotic smile will just piss me off and do you really want me pissed off?" Zabuza asked with a deadly glint in his eye.
The blonde immediately shook his head the over-sized cleaver was taken away from his throat. Gulping and patting his neck to make sure it was all still there Naruto let out a breath and slowly closed his eyes before beginning. "I came from Konoha…and my life was hell there. I was beaten frequently by villagers whenever they felt like it…and they always glared at me with those cruel eyes...like I was something they scraped off their shoe. I could never get any food unless I went to Old man Ichiraku's for ramen… but I stopped after a while when I saw some villagers try and spray paint on the stand. I didn't want to cause them any trouble."
The blonde sniffed and shook his head, refusing to let the tears that had threatened to start falling come out. He had learned long ago that crying wouldn't help him. Suddenly an arm wrapped around his neck from behind and Naruto's eyes went wide as he turned to see who held him. To his surprise it was Haku, smiling down comfortingly. "It's okay Naruto-kun... Let it out, you're not alone anymore. You can finally let it all out." Haku whispered and in second's the boy's resolve to not cry was broken as he latched himself to Haku as if she were his only life preserver in a raging ocean.
While the boy cried Haku simply comforted him as best she could, all the while realizing she had found a kindred spirit like hers. As he cried Haku softly whispered. "We're a lot alike Naruto-kun. I know what you're going through exactly. Let me tell you about what happened before Zabuza-sama found me." And as the boy cried, Haku softly told her tale. About her blood line, about the purge, about being homeless and without use until her master found her. When she had finished the blonde was no longer crying but staring at the fire with a glossy look in his eyes.
Zabuza watched his two charges with hidden emotion, turning away after a while until they were both done crying, seeing as half way through her own story Haku had started crying with the blonde and after she had finished they had both cried just because they had finally found someone like themselves. Turning back when it was quiet he voiced the question to the glossy eyed seven years old.
"You still haven't told us what you're planning on doing from here." Zabuza said, with an uncharacteristically soft voice.
The glassy gaze shattered in an instant, replaced with a burning fire of conviction that slightly startled Haku as the boy voiced himself with full determination. "I'm going to train as hard as I can, and become strong enough to show those villagers what I'm worth. I'll earn all their respect and then I'll protect every single one of them by becoming the Hokage! I swear on my life!"
Zabuza smiled behind his bandaged face and said. "I don't know why you would want to go back to that hell hole, but I'll make damn sure your strong brat. Just remember to send some cash my way Hokage-sama." The title was for once not said sarcastically, probably being the one time in a long while Zabuza would treat anyone as equal.
"No problem Sensei! I'll send loads of money your way!" Naruto replied with a genuine grin across his face. As Haku smiled behind him, silently vowing to help the blonde on his way to becoming Hokage.
End Flash back
Haku was shaken from her thoughts as a hand waved in front of her face and she blinked a few times to look into the slightly concerned eyes of one Uzumaki Naruto.
"Yo, you okay Haku? You kind of spaced there for a while." Naruto asked and to her surprised her lack of concentration had been longer than she thought, seeing as the blonde was dressed with his blade already on his hip.
That was one of the things Zabuza changed first, Naruto's horrible clothing. At once the set out and bought him some new clothing. That proved disastrous when the two almost broke out into a fight about Naruto wearing Orange. Eventually the two came to a compromise due to not being able to move their legs thanks to some well placed senbon which allowed Naruto to have on orange thing on him. To which Naruto chose a dark orange pair of wristbands that concealed his training weights. The rest of his outfit came with A dark black shirt with a red spiral on the back, hidden under a blue, border line black, Trench coat that had only the top two buttons buttoned, opening up to reveal baggy black and blue camo pants with tons of pockets, a Zabuza's insistence that his disciple looked something like him and Naruto refusing to shave off his eyebrows. The looked was completed by Naruto getting a sword that suited him, which actually turned to be a modified Katana that when Chakra was added to it, it separated into two separate blades, but shorter than the original Katana. Over the years Naruto grew his hair out slightly in a pony tail that ended at his shoulder, but his blonde hair being usually covered in a black bandanna.
Haku smiled down at the blonde boy with a shake of her head. "Sorry Naruto-kun. I'm just fine. Just a bit out of it today."
Naruto shrugged and nodded. "Gotcha, so did you hear no brow? We have a new mission to take out some old drunken bridge builder. Apparently it's gonna bring in a whole lot of money! So maybe I can convince the bastard to get us a hotel next time we're in a town."
Haku giggled and shook her head. "Then we better get ready and get going, you know how master gets when we don't start moving when he wants us to."
"Hey you two! Stop flirting with each other and pack up!"
The two blushed and Naruto quickly sent a glare at his sensei. "We weren't flirting you jerk!"
"Whatever, before you two start making out get your things in a bag and start moving your asses or I'm leaving you here." Zabuza said, inwardly enjoying tormenting the two.
With a grumble from Naruto and a silent blush from Haku, the two set about getting their things together before leaving with their sensei/master to start their mission.
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Meanwhile, in Konoha an aged Hokage rubbed his temples as he looked at the team before him. It had been a few months since the new generation had graduated the Shinobi academy and already this team was requesting a more difficult mission.
Before the aging Hokage, stood team seven consisting of Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, and Inuzuka Kiba, so far the best of the teams in consistency of getting their missions done, but even so they were fresh out of the academy. Doubt crossed the Hokage's mind as he shifted through his mission stacks to buy time on his decision.
As he was shifting through them though, a single one caught his eye and the Hokage blinked and smiled. This was perfect for the group before him. Looking up the Hokage nodded and stated, "All right then, a C rank mission it is. Team Seven you now have an escort mission to wave, escorting a bridge builder."
The reactions before him were amusing to say the least as Kakashi was surprised enough to actually look up from his perverted book Sasuke and Sakura looked at Kiba with emotions ranging from annoyance.... well mainly annoyance, as the primal shinobi did a victory dance.
"But Hokage-sama-"the Chuunin Iruka said beside him before Sarutobi gently waved his hand to cut him off.
"They'll be fine Iruka." Was all the Hokage offered as he motioned for the escort to be shown in.
The bridge builder, who went by the name of Tazuna, walked in and was obviously drunk as he measured team seven and yelled, "Hey! I wanted a team; you gave me some Cyclops, an emo, a girl who obviously dies her hair to fit in, and some kid who smells like he hasn't bathed in days!"
Each of team seven turned to glare at the client, Kiba going as far as trying to stab the man with a Kunai, before Kakashi escorted the team and client out.
Sarutobi watched it all, smiling and wishing the team luck. They certainly were going to need it. If only Sarutobi knew how much.
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It was Half a day later and Naruto was grumbling, sitting in a bush as he was sent to wait and ambush the bridge builder they were hired to kill. According to Zabuza he was apparently supposed to do this by himself, unless there was someone he couldn't handle. Naruto simply pegged it as the man being too damn lazy and wanting some good money without having to do much.
Suddenly the feeling of four chakra signatures came to the blonde. Shinobi? According to Gato the bridge builder shouldn't have been able to hire Shinobi, just bandits. Damn lying greedy bastard. They better get a damn bonus for this.
Watching from his bush he watched the team come around the corner and sized them up, wondering if he was going to be able to pull out a sneak attack or not. His eyes landed on their jounin sensei and immediately his planning went to hell. Freaking Sharingan Kakashi?! This sucked big time, cursing under his breath Naruto blinked in shock before instinctively replacing himself with their raised rabbit as a kunai hit the spot his head was, thanks to the kid with a dog on his head.
Arriving next to the cage and looking at his sensei and Haku, Naruto performed the wordless hand signals he was taught, informing them on the situation. All Zabuza did was nod before smirking and hefting his blade, throwing it. As he vanished after it and Naruto hearing the screams of get down as the scene beside him and Haku unfolded, he turned to her and rolled his eyes, mouthing the words 'show off', causing the girl to giggle behind her hunter mask.
Turning to watch the fight between jounin, Naruto blinked and watched Kakashi get lured into a simple trap. Maybe he over-estimated the Konoha Jounin. He didn't wait to wonder if he had or not as Zabuza signaled for him to get their target while he had Kakashi.
Naruto Blinked slightly and smirked, nodding even though he couldn't be seen. Without making a single noise, the blonde swordsman vanished and reappeared in between the protective formation of the three genin, his hand on the hilt of his katana. His smirk widened as the genin with the dog on his head yelped in surprise while the pink haired girl gasped openly. The black haired kid only tensed though, good to see one was slightly serious. He turned to the horrified old man and shrugged, saying in a bored monotone voice. "Sorry old man, nothing against you or your village but we need the cash." With that his blade slid forward faster than most could comprehend, seemingly turning into a blur to the genin. When instead of the easily tear through resistance of flesh and the sound of skin being split by a blade was replaced with the force of another blade and the sound a metal clashing, Naruto's eyes widened. Instead of his blade severing the head of the bridge builder, it was being blocked by two kunai straining to hold his one blade from their awkward positioning.
Following the arm holding the Kunai, Naruto raised an eyebrow at the face of the black haired boy screwed up in concentration. Suddenly the raven haired avenger shifted his weight, sliding on of the kunai towards the hilt of Naruto's blade while he threw the second kunai with a flick of his wrist. Naruto brought his blade down, towards the ground as he simply bent his neck to dodge the kunai. After dodging the blonde stepped back and disengaged blades while sending a kick forward towards the Konoha shinobi's head.
Sasuke grit his teeth as he blocked the jarring kick by raising his left arm, rolling with the impact and coming to a standing position a few feet away. He spun quickly, glaring heatedly at the blonde before him who simply looked bored. "Was that supposed to impress me?" The blonde drawled, his sunny persona shifting further behind his shinobi personality. It was something Zabuza had taught him to do during his first year of training, stating that his loud and over confident personality would get him killed. He said a good shinobi kept his emotions behind him, only out of battle or a mission was he allowed to be himself, on the field he was simply a shinobi. Nothing more, nothing less, until he had the power to achieve his dreams, after that Zabuza had said he could honestly care less what the blonde did.
Sasuke growled more in anger, unknowingly playing right into the blonde's hands by taking the bait and getting more emotional. Just as he was about to charge again he was stopped by a voice, the voice of their captured teacher.
"What are you doing?! He's obviously been trained by Zabuza, he's too strong for you! Get yourselves and Tazuna out of here!" Kakashi yelled.
Suddenly the frozen Kiba broke out of his stupor and shook his head defiantly, growling along side his partner Akamaru. "No way Kakashi-sensei! You taught us that those who abandon their mission are trash, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash. Theirs no way we're leaving you behind. There is only one of him and three of us, we'll take him down and get you out of there in no time! An Inuzuka never abandons their pack."
Zabuza simply laughed. "Let the kids play Kakashi, I want to test my student." Kakashi simply glared, about to protest again when Kiba took action.
"Beast human clone no jutsu!"(I wrote this chapter without internet, as will most of my chapters be typed, so bare with me please, I know some jutsu off the top of my head, but not many.) Everyone turned towards the feral shinobi to find not one, but two of him. Both were on all fours and as one shot forward, attacking the blonde in perfect synchronization and finesse. One Kiba jumped off the other's back, slicing at the blonde as he sailed over him while the other jumped forward and started spinning using chakra, the other Kiba doing the same once he hit the ground on the other side of him. There was a chorused shout of "Gatsuuga!" as the two spinning forms took on a look of bouncing gray drills.
Naruto's eyebrows shot up as he started back pedaling, flipping backwards to avoid one drill as it smashed into the ground he was on not a second before, making a small crater as the other drill flew up, on a course to shred into the blonde. Turning in the air, Naruto brought his blade up, reinforcing it with chakra and tensing his muscles, knowing this was going to be slightly difficult. The drill slammed into his blade, pushing it toward him centimeter by centimeter before with a grunt Naruto forced his blade down with all his strength, sending the drill down, on course with a rather large rock. The drill slammed into it, tearing apart half of it before stopping in a puff of smoke revealing an unconscious and slightly beaten white dog.
Naruto landed and spun just in time to hear an enraged howl before the other drill increased its speed, tripling its force. Eyes widening Naruto jumped back, dodging the drill just barely, the front of his shirt ripping while three shallow cuts formed on his chest. Just as he landed from his slight jump the swordsman ducked, dodging the enraged Konoha-nin once more by centimeters. Gritting his teeth the blonde finally had enough of this as with two hand seals, a vortex of water sprung up, forming another Naruto. Together with his clone, Naruto waited for the drill to turn and when it was as close as it could get and they could still dodge, they both stepped wide to either side of it, bringing the blades, sharpened slightly by chakra, to slash the drills side. There was a pained groan as the drill deformed in mid air, twin twirling arcs of blood spinning along with the falling Inuzuka. The dog shinobi hit the ground hard, rolling to a stop with shallow cuts going down both of his arms. They could still be moved, but it would cause a load of pain until they healed.
Sighing in relief at that problem being taken care of, Naruto's eyes widened slightly as he felt the build up of chakra behind him before he heard a yell. "Grand fire ball Jutsu!" Without thinking the blonde ran forward with his top speed, blurring to everyone except the jounin and Haku, who was watching from the bushes. Out running the distance the fire ball could travel and running around the pink haired girl, grabbing her and throwing her at the Uchiha, grinning as she slammed into him and caused him to choke on his fire, coughing up smoke. Naruto looked to his sensei and smirked but blinked in surprise at what he was seeing. The two jounin were talking as if nothing was going on.
"So you took him in after he left, eh?" Kakashi asked, looking at the man while sitting cross legged in his prison, knowing he was trapped and accepting it would take a miracle to save him.
"Yeah. He is now my apprentice." Zabuza replied, knowing Naruto would handle the rest.
"You want to make a deal?" Kakashi asked.
"You're not really in a position to make deals right now copy ninja." The demon of the mist growled.
Before Kakashi could say more a blade flashed down, between the two men. The prison was released and a raging Naruto stood between them. He glared at his sensei. "I kicked their asses and you don't even watch?! You bastard sensei!"
Zabuza smirked and threw Naruto onto shore once more. "You took too long. I have to now recapture Kakashi thanks to you." His tone was irritated, but it was easy to see he was excited to fight more.
Kakashi glared at the man, knowing his deal would have to be put off until he defeated Zabuza. Naruto grumbled and sat down, watching the jounin in boredom. At least until Kakashi started doing some weird things. He seemed to be able to read Zabuza's mind. Suddenly Zabuza was in a position to be killed and Naruto's eyes were wide. At least until Haku intervened. Naruto chose that moment when all attention was on her to make his escape into the mist, knowing they would all meet at Gato's head quarters.
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Naruto arrived at the meeting place close to twenty minutes later than Haku. When he came into the room, spotting Zabuza being fussed over by Haku, he walked over, grumbling about really needing to be taught the shushin jutsu. Both Zabuza and Haku knew it, but he didn't. It just wasn't fair. Looking down at his sensei, Naruto raised an eyebrow at the state he was in.
"He's going to be trouble, isn't he?" Naruto asked out loud, not really addressing a specific person.
"If you're speaking about the copy ninja, he's mine. I figured out his little parlor trick."
"Too bad you couldn't have figured that out before you got your ass handed to you." The blonde said, snickering slightly.
Before Zabuza could retort, Haku had a senbon in a pressure point on both their jaws, making them hang open. She smiled sweetly before saying. "You two weren't going to fight, were you?"
They both quickly shook their heads no so fast they could have had whip lash. Haku just nodded before taking the senbon. "Both of you rest, I'm going to look at what I can and grab some herbs later. You should be up in a week Zabuza-sama."
"Good, then we attack the bridge as soon as I'm at full power." Zabuza said from his position on the bed, closing his eyes.
"Need some help then Haku-chan?" Naruto asked with a slight smile, knowing he had nothing better to do.
"Your help would be nice Naruto-kun, thank you." With that, they went off to rest, deciding the next day to grab their sensei's medicine.
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Naruto leaned against a tree, watching from above as Haku gathered herbs. He would be down there with her, but she convinced him not to. The team from Konoha had seen him and would definitely recognize him if they were around, she had much less chance of being found. So instead he was watching over her in case of trouble.
Blinking he watched her happen upon the dog boy of team seven, who just woke up. On guard he watched the scene between the two unfold, waiting for something to happen. Instead the boy simply asked to help her with her gathering after they had a brief conversation. Raising an eyebrow, Naruto smirked, if Konoha shinobi were truly this easily fooled, any mission against them in the future was sure to be a breeze.
After Haku had her herbs and they parted company, Naruto dropped down next to her and smiled. "Precious people, huh? I like that. How come I've never heard of it before?"
"I thought it was silly." Haku mumbled with a slight blush.
Naruto smiled. "Silly? No way! I think that will become my new nindo, to protect my precious people, my way of the shinobi."
Haku blinked and surprised and then smiled slightly, looking down. Silently thanking the blonde for accepting what she had said.
"Hey, Haku?"
"Yes Naruto-kun?"
"Your one of my few Precious people and no matter what I'll protect you." He said, fully serious as she looked at her.
Haku, touched and embarrassed, nodded quickly and quietly as they went on their way.
Oddly enough, until Zabuza was better Naruto didn't see Haku at all for the rest of the week. He thought nothing of it, truly oblivious to everything.
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I hope you all like this so far; I also am warning you that next chapter will have an OC in it. If you don't like OC's, I apologize. I will try to not super power him though, so rest assured he won't appear and be able to one hit kill everything in a twenty mile radius.
Read and review, Digital Flame, out