Kakashi growled, "Momochi Zabuza..."

"Kukukuku (The writer would like to know why all evil guys laugh this way…)...Well if it isn't the famous Copy-Cat Nin, Hatake Kakashi." Zabuza chuckled, the eerie laughter rang through the area. He jumped down from the branch, sword in hand.

"What do you want with us?" Kakashi questioned calmly.

"I'm here for the old man. Nothing personal. Hand him over and you and your baby ninja can go". Zabuza somehow managed to project a menacing aura, despite the fact that he had no eyebrows and half his face was covered in bandages. Not to mention the gigantic sword that was obviously compensating for something…

"Sorry to disappoint, but you can't have him."

"Is that your final answer?" (Who knew Zabuza watched Who wants to be a millionaire?) Without waiting for an answer, Zabuza disappeared from sight as the mist grew thicker. "Lungs, Kidney, Heart, Jugular, so many places to aim for...." He laughed a VERY creepy laugh.

Sasuke shuddered and Sakura froze. 'OH MY GOD I'M GONNA DIE! I HAVEN'T EVEN GONE ON A DATE WITH SASUKE EITHER!' "NO WAY! WE'RE GONNA LIVE! AND ONE DAY SOON, WE'RE GOING TO TAP THAT ASS! SHANNARO!" Inner Sakura said mentally. Sakura was now paralyzed not because of fear, but because of lust and fantasies. Zabuza may as well of not existed.

'What is this feeling? Am I...scared? No, I'm an Uchiha. In order to beat Itachi, I must have no fear!' Sasuke thought. He knew he was lying to himself though. He was VERY scared. Unbeknownst to him, the fear was not of Zabuza, but of the rising lust coming off of Sakura.

And Naruto…was bored. He had always been bored in school, this was no different. He didn't graduate just to come into the field and be forced to learn! With that thought, Naruto started to get pissed off.

Kakashi readied himself. "Guard Tazuna and stay back, this is my fight." The rest of Team 7 nodded. . He couldn't ponder the thought long though.

Suddenly, Zabuza struck. His blade was right about to slash Tazuna into pieces when Kakashi blocked it with a kunai. The two opponents jumped into the air, weapons clashing. Kakashi found an opening and sliced Zabuza's torso, only to find that it was a water clone.

'Where is the real one?' Kakashi thought as he landed on the ground. 'Below? I don't think so. Left? No. Right? No? Above? Damn it, where is he?'

"KAKASHI-SENSEI! LOOK OUT!" Kakashi was warned just in time to block the huge sword with his wrist guard, spraining his wrist dnd crashing into the water

"Suiton: Suiruo no Jutsu!" Out of Zabuza's hand shot a large sphere of water, trapping Kakashi inside. With his other hand he made 3 water clones.

"Run! You can't defeat him. He's out of your league!" Kakashi shouted. Inwardly he was crying for his wrist. That was his free hand! The one he used when he was reading Icha Icha! How could he get relief now?

Rather than run, Naruto decides to fight back. Not for Kakashi, but for his poor brain. That bandaged freak forced him to learn something new. What good was knowing the vital points? If only the teme will play along for a change…

He shuffled closer to Sasuke and told him his plan. Sasuke snorted, but agreed. "If you actually think you can pull this off dobe, why not?" They always told them that changing into inanimate objects was impossible in the academy, but if the dobe wanted to try, who was he to stop him? Sasuke smirked at the thought.

Zabuza looked up from taunting Kakashi (who was not listening but silently mourning his fapping wrist) as one giant pinwheel shuriken flew by, then another. He released Kakashi in surprise, and then went through a jutsu battle, which he lost. The battle ended with Zabuza spontaneously sprouting 2 senbon from his neck and collapsing.

A hunter-nin appeared. "Thank you for taking care of him. I have been hunting him for some time. Please accept the mist's thanks for your assistance. The hunter nin quickly gathered Zabuza's prone body and ran away.

The rest of Team 7 observed the spectacle from afar. Kakashi stood up only to fall down again, unconcious.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura shouted in worry, running over. Sasuke, and Tazuna followed her. "Bring him to my house", Tazuna said. "He can heal there."

"By the way, where id the orange midget go? You did something and now he's gone."

Sasuke walked over to where the 2 shuriken feel and picked them up. " Oh, he's around. Don't worry about it for now." Tazuna and Sakura accepted Sasuke's words, each for different reasons.

The next day, Kakashi woke up. Where's Naruto?

Sasuke explained "Naruto told me to throw two shuriken at Zabuza. One would be him in henge. He would change back and distract Zabuza to set you free."

Sakura and Kakashi stared at Sasuke in horror.

"What?" He said defensively.

"You killed Naruto! Humans can't transform into inanimate objects! How would you be able to think to change back. Objects have no mind or chakra! That's why they tell you it isn't possible in the academy!" Sakura stared at the pinwheel shuriken at Sasuke's side in pity as Kakashi explained.

Sasuke looked at the Naruto-shuriken with new understanding "At least he's quieter this way."

Author's Note: Being able to change into an inanimate object and back always bothered me.