A/N:OK first of, I'm going to stick with English words right now because 1 person said jap and one said English. But I'm still willing to change if enough people ask me too. Also, this is the last part of the flashback sequence so the action and....well all the interesting stuff happens in the next chapter. BUT I NEED TO HAVE SIX REVIEWS TO PUPLISH IT. Oh and also do you think Sai should feature prominently in this fic? (Tell me in a review, personally I think it would make the story slightly more interesting.) Also the last chapter was rushed so expect a much higher standard with this chapter.

THIS CHAPTER HAS BEEN REDONE (AS HAS CHAP 4) SO PLEASE EXCUDE THE BAD QUALITY ON CHAPTER 1 AND 3

"Speaking"

Thoughts


Around a week and a half later Kakashi and Sato arrived in the land of waves, crossing the bridge that Kakashi and his kids were responsible for no less. Sato looked around and frowned disapprovingly. "Damn, look at this;" He shook his head, annoyed " fog's so thick I can barely see my hands in front of my face."

He turned to Kakashi and saw that he still had the bingo book in his hand. "How in gods name can you read that thing in this?" He gestured with his hands to the fog that surrounded them. "I mean come on, you could walk into somebody, oooorrrr something." Kakashi merely shrugged, "It's a riveting read" He chuckled as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Besides he knew that the chances of walking into somebody on the remarkably long bridge in this weather was highly unlikely. People refrained from traversing this bridge in the thick Wave country fog, this was due to the bandits who used the bridge as a source of income. There were three of them if he remembered correctly. (And he usually did.) According to the rumours they were just a bunch of nobodies that looted the passing lords and merchants. Not to mention everybody else who travelled the bridge in the mist. Kakashi didn't think that Sato would have heard of them, due to the fact that they simply weren't important enough for him to put in his book. And even if he had heard of them, he probably would have forgotten.

Kakashi wasn't worried about them. Even if they tried anything to him and Sato he shouldn't have any trouble with them. Not if they were so spineless that they only attacked people in the cover of the mist. Sato suddenly thought of something. "Hey Kakashi this is where you killed Zabuza ain't it?" Kakashi never tarred his eyes from his book. Though he was curious enough to answer. "Well; yes, why do you ask?"

Sato looked at he ground a second before answering. "No reason really, I was just remembering some of the stories about that fight." He smiled a crooked smile. "Yes indeed; you certainly caused quite a commotion when you killed that traitorous bastard." Spat the foul mouthed man. Kakashi knew that particular piece of news pleased the old man. Kakashi wasn't sure why, but the author hated traitors with a passion.

He turned to Kakashi and said; with the same satisfaction in his voice. "So I take it you haven't lost any of your touch?" Kakashi without looking away from his book answered in a bored tone. "You'll be able to judge that for yourself in a few seconds."

Sato turned to him confused what do ya mean boy?" Kakashi turned a page in his book calmly and unhurriedly before answering. "Three looting bandits are about to-" Before Kakashi could even finish his sentence however, two ninja appeared from both sides of the bridge and blocked the duo's path. "I only count two nins, boy" "Turn around."

Sato obeyed and was met with another one of the goons. "And that makes three; guess you were right boy." Sato tried to make out what the ninja looked like but due to the mist all he could see were three shady outlines. Once they stepped closer he was disappointed to find that all three were wearing masks and hoods. The man standing on his own behind the two (who appeared to be the leader) spoke. "Very impressive, very impressive in deed that you could detect us in this mist."

He let out a low laugh, to which the other two goons joined in. " But great detection skills or not, you're going to have to pay the toll like every one else." Kakashi did not humour the man with a response, instead opted to continue reading his new piece of literature. Sato followed Kakashi's example and said nothing, just stood there with a calm expression.

Obviously this did not please the man. "Wait. Yeah, that's right you're Kakashi Hatake..." Even though the man wore a mask AND a hood, Sato could clearly make out a sadistically cruel grin. "Yeah, I ran into that little freak Uchiha you trained.."

Kakashi's book snapped shut before the man could finish. Though it was a rather small sound it frightened every single person who heard it, including Sato. The no name ninja pretended that he was undisturbed as he continued a few seconds later. "Yeah that Uchiha brat, I don't even want to know what you did to screw him up so badly"

He let out a low laugh that could only be described as cruel. His two goons joined in obviously finding Kakashi's pain genuinely amusing. " But anyway we're getting of topic, hand over any valuables that you have and nobody dies."

He made a gesture with his hands towards his two allies, and they began to walk towards the duo. Sato glanced at Kakashi and knew that what the sadistic ninja had just said was incorrect, People were going to die here; and it wasn't going to be pretty. The two men were on their third step when they suddenly let out pained groans and began falling towards the ground, Kakashi standing between them. They were dead before they hit the ground.

The leader didn't even have time to look up before Kakashi was standing right in front of him. His head shot up fearfully. Kakashi lifted him up by the chest and looked him squarely in the eye and spoke in a low murderous voice, that had even Sato frightened. "Where and when did you see the Uchiha?" The man made a pitiful squeaking noise before answering in a pathetically scared voice "O-on t-t-t-this bridge a-a-about three weeks ago"

Kakashi smiled a sickeningly sweet smile and thanked the man for the information, before sticking a kunai straight into his heart. Kakashi then turned around and; as if nothing had happened began walking towards the town. Sato followed quietly. He knew that he had just seen the side of himself that Kakashi never allowed his students to see. The side of him tat was created in ANBU, the side of him that was a true shinobi. The side of him that was a killer.


Sakura looked at the stack of paper on her desk with extreme distaste. She had no idea how her mentor; or rather Shizune managed to get through any of the paperwork at all. It was just so boring.

She looked around her office desperate for some kind of distraction. As she looked through her office she spotted her jonin vest next to her doctor coat. She let out a melodious laugh. She was the hokage's apprentice, almost as skilled as her teacher in the art of healing. However she thought that the title healer was not something she deserved to wear. No...Healers saved lives; she was more acustomed to taking them. Yes indeed the title killer better suited her.

After all she used to take on the most assassination missions out of the entire leaf 12 before Kakashi forbade her. Although Kakashi wasn't her sensei any more she still listened to him just as much, if not more as she did the hokage.

So if he asked her to stop going on assassination missions then she wouldn't; regardless of how pissed of it made her. He had been the first person to try and stop her from doing them, and what he said to her that day. She could still remembered his exact words, "You suit the path of the healer much better than the path of the fighter," He had said it so honestly and so serenely that Sakura actually believed him. He had then smiled in that lazy way he was so well known for and added "Leave the fighting; and killing to me."

Tsunade was more than happy to avoid giving Sakura assassination missions as she too did not like what they were doing to her student. Of course she still went on missions and that meant that she would sometimes have to kill, but it was nowhere near as bad as what it used to be.

She remembered how much grief she had put everyone through when she decided that she was too weak and had put her body through hell and then some, until she was as strong as Naruto or anyone else in the leaf 12. She also went through emotion training, with Kakashi. She knew how much he hated turning her into an unfeeling machine. But she had asked him too and she knew he really couldn't refuse her or Naruto anything, so he did it for her.

Of course then Naruto and everybody else had worked to get her back to normal. So now she was not nearly as emotional as she was when she was younger but she wasn't quite as bad as Sai any more. Though everybody still said she should open up more.

Sakura began thinking about how much she and the other leaf 12 had change. All of the leaf 12 were jonin save for Hinata whose father wouldn't allow her to take the last jonin exam for family reasons. Tsunade wouldn't allow her to join ANBU due to their low life expectancy and nobody else had bothered applying yet due to the lack of S-rank missions to their name. They were all rather reluctant to take any after what happened to Shino, Kiba and Chouji...

Sakura stood up, annoyed with all the reminiscing. She decided to go do some training. Her shift in the hospital was over anyway.


After Kakashi and Sato had gotten settled into an inn and had gotten comfortable Sato explained the rest of the mission to Kakashi. He was going to have to assassinate three targets. Two of the targets were just a couple of lowlifes who could be dealt with in minutes. The third however, was a local nobleman's son named Kazu who was using his fathers power to extort local businesses. He was making quite a large sum in doing so as well. He also had a grudge against Sato and was using his new influence to hire hit men.

In the end it was decided that Kakashi would go to a bar that the first two targets were known to hang out in later tonight. And then tomorrow he would gather intelligence on Kazu, before another plan was made.

The bar was, all things considered a relatively well of place, but it was also rather obvious that when night fell it was not the safest place to be. It was barely 6 o'clock and Kakashi had already seen some pretty nasty faces.

At around sevenish his targets walked into the bar. He decided that the easiest way to eliminate them was to first cause a ruckus and get the two outside from there it would be child's play. (A/N:Hey guys I'm not going to bother writing this part cause I want to hurry up up and get to the good part)

After the job was done Kakashi returned to the inn to rest before going to do some reconnaissance. Kakashi was still slightly disgusted with himself for never even batting an eyelid when killing. But he supposed after being in a war AND being an ANBU captain, for so long you grow accustomed to killing.

Kakashi was greeted by Sato once he returned to the inn. Sato didn't waste any time in explaining the next phase of the mission. He handed Kakashi a scroll that had a layout of Kazu's home, along with information regarding the house servants and their habits. It was decided that Kakashi would begin his work tomorrow night.

Kakashi walked along the roof of the building silently, effortlessly. Kakashi realised that this was a perfect opportunity to test a new genjutsu he and Sakura had developed. It was not a real risk to his mission because unlike Sakura he had sharingan and could cast it merely by establishing eye contact.

The jutsu rendered the user invisible, to the victim, well maybe that was an exaggeration it just messed around with the victim's brain waves and sense controls. Basically it made the victim completely ignore the user.

They would still be able to see him; they would just pay him no heed. Of course the jutsu was untested, but what was life without a little risk. Besides the risk was very small due tot the fact that all the guards were cheap low level chunin. He jumped through the skylight and landed onto the floor below, not a single sound was made. Thanks to his hyper sensitive hearing, he heard someone walking down the hallway coming towards him.

THUMP

THUMP

Kakashi slowly pulled up his head band.

THUMP

Kakashi leapt out right in front of the man, but before the man could shout out to his friends, he made the mistake of looking into the sharingan. The man blinked once, twice and then, with a blank expression walked around Kakashi like he wasn't even there. Kakashi grinned. He couldn't wait to tell Sakura that their jutsu worked perfectly.

A few minutes later Kakashi was on the side of the building looking through the window into Kazu's room. At first glance there was nothing suspicious about the room or it's sole occupant. But Kakashi always had a knack for seeing through deception; it was what kept him alive. And he had a feeling that something was off, though he wasn't sure what. However his instincts had never lied to him before so not willing to take any chances, he took out his sharingan and surveyed the room with his enhanced vision. Hid eyes widened. "Kazu" was actually someone in a transformation technique. However even with sharingan Kakashi could not see "Kazu's" true form.

Kakashi debated with himself as to what he should do next. The way he saw it, he had three options. 1:Stay and see what this imposter does. 2:check around town, see if he could find out what happened to the real Kazu. 3:Return to the inn and consult Sato. He opted for the former. He wasn't sure how long he stood there on the side of a building, in the freezing cold simply watching a man eat his diner and lie down to sleep (although he found it strange that "Kazu" didn't undress).

Around a few hours later (at least it felt that way to Kakashi) "Kazu" arose from his bed and slipped on his sandals and walked over to the window. He leapt out onto the ground, Kakashi followed suit. "Kazu" then ran towards the forest and leapt up into the trees.

A few minutes after "Kazu" had began traversing the tree tops he dropped his transformation technique (or henge as most people called it) and in his place was a white haired relatively tall man. Kakashi did not really get a good look at his face, however he was sure he had seen the man somewhere.

Unfortunately Kakashi didn't have time to dwell on it as the white haired man slowed down, this indicated that he was about to stop. And sure enough; a few seconds later he came to a stop. There were two people waiting for him. One was a girl of short stature with fiery red hair in a strange style. One side of it was long and brushed, and the other was short and unkempt. The other person was a giant man with spiky hair. (A/N:I'm not really sure what Jugo looks like.)

The girl looked nothing short of furious at the white haired man. Though Kakashi couldn't tell why. She screamed something that Kakashi couldn't make out and pointed right at him. Kakashi's eyes widened, there was no way she could have spotted him. She proved him wrong however when she threw a kunai that was clearly intended for him. Kakashi was forced to leap out from his hiding position. The three ninja wasted no time and quickly turned and fled at incredibly high speeds.

Kakashi following right swiftly behind. Kakashi wasn't sure how long they ran from him, it's true that he was much faster than them, however every time he got close to them they let out a few clones to stall him for a few seconds. Eventually the trio led Kakashi to a waterfall and a lake. The three of them quickly jumped of the cliff edge. Kakashi didn't hesitate as he followed suit. Once he hit the bottom and ended up in the lake waters he saw where the three were attempting to escape too. There was a gigantic hole in the rock edge that Kakashi knew led into the Wave country sewers. By far the largest sewers in the world. As he swam through the hole he knew he would have a hard time keeping up with them in here.

He had followed them through many passages until they had arrived here; in the pipelines.

The sewers were completely silent. The only sounds that could be heard was the occasional drip,drip,drip of the water and the squeaks of rats as they scurried along the pipes. Kakashi stood in the middle of this labyrinth. using his sharingan, he studied his surroundings.

He was in the higher part of the sewers. Up one of the pipelines, every direction he looked there were miles of pipes,but these were some of the biggest pipes in the world, easily the width of three people, an interesting place for a fight. And to top it all of, below the miles of pipes was a giant pool of sewer water. Kakashi decided to make a move so he swiftly began running up and along pipes trying to get to a lock on his opponents, however even with sharingan he was having a hard time. As he jumped from pipe to pipe he narrowly managed to dodge an oversized sword, aimed straight for his neck.

He used a shadow clone to try and fool his opponents but he doubted it would work, as one of his three enemies could somehow sense chakra and instantly locate him. As he began formulating a plan in his head he sensed that the sword wielder was preparing for an attack, and quickly formulated a plan. Before he had even landed, the swordsman launched another attack. The sounds of metal clashing against metal echoed throughout the entire area. Along with a single scream.


A/N: Okay bit of a cliffy right. Want to see more then review.