Flash blade chapter 3
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…But I can still dance in my mind.'
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 three: Crossing bridges
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This past week had been tedious for a certain ice wielder. Between taking care of Zabuza and avoiding Naruto, she had little time to herself. Thinking of the blonde, the ice user let out a sigh and shook her head, irritated at herself. She was behaving like some weak little village girl instead of the shinobi she was. He said one touching thing and suddenly she was blushing and wondering about her feelings for him?
Sure, she knew she had a crush on the blonde, but she figured it would pass. Instead he did things like that and Haku's crush grew bigger, now she was even questioning if her feelings were starting to rival her gratitude to her mast, but she knew she owed Zabuza a deal more, Naruto wasn't as big as that, but with the strides he was taking…
Shaking her head one more time she mentally berated herself. This was why she had to avoid the blonde; he always brought up these distracting thoughts now. Still, she would do everything physically to help the blonde that would never change. The boy was one of her precious people as well after all.
Suddenly a voice from the room next to her called for her and blinking, Haku walked through the door way wondering what her master wanted. Blinking in surprise when he wasn't in bed, she saw him picking up his blade. "Zabuza-sama, your not fully recovered yet!" She said sternly, moving toward him. He always ignored her medical advice.
The man simply shrugged and looked at her over his shoulder. "I'm fine and I'm sick of sitting here. Stop avoiding Blondie and grab him, we're heading to the bridge to end this."
Haku simply sighed in resignation, if there was one thing she knew it was that when her master decided he was better, there was no amount of talking or action less than physically disabling him that would convince him other wise. So with a nod she turned and walked from the room, knocking on the door that led to Naruto's sleeping quarters.
She blinked when she heard a scuffle behind the door and some yelling and glared at the door, moving with shinobi instinct and kicking the door in, senbon in each hand, posed to launch them at any assailant in the area. Instead she was met with the sight of Naruto, clad only in boxers, tangled up in sheets and blankets, upside down with said boxers dangerously close to being revealing.
Both teen's eyes met for an instant before Naruto tried to escape his sheets with more passion and Haku turning away, her face as red as a tomato. This was not helping her confusing thoughts any! Frantically she tried to find something, anything, to distract herself from the sight she had seen.
Finally Naruto had righted himself, untangled from the blanket, and blushingly looked away. This was one of the worst ways he could think of to start the day. He decided to res a bit more today, and now Haku had caught him like that. Moving nervously from foot to foot, the blonde tried to laugh his way out of the situation. "Hey, Haku-chan. Do you need something?" Naruto asked embarrassment obvious in his voice.
Haku forced herself to look the boy in the eyes and nod briefly. "Zabuza-sama is awake and well, we're heading out very soon so you should get ready to leave."
Naruto blinked a few times before grinning and jumping into the air, pumping his fist. "Yes! Finally we can get the hell out of this boring place and do something interesting! I can wait to fight some more." Naruto exclaimed, running to his pack and throwing dirty clothes haphazardly around the room before finding a relatively clean one.
Without thinking he was about to start changing before he heard a scream of his name and a door being slammed. Looking back and blinking, he saw the spot where Haku had been empty. Shrugging the blonde started changing once more, oblivious to the black haired girl outside his room, cursing the Uzumaki swords man for making things so damn awkward before heading to her own room, she had a battle to prepare for.
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When Naruto was finally out of his room, he found both Haku and Zabuza gone. His eyes widened and he cursed, damn them for leaving him here! They were gonna take all the good opponents for themselves now! Opening the window next to him the blonde blasted out of the room, heading on a reckless course to the bridge.
When he was getting close, he noticed that a mist had formed and was getting thicker as he got closer to the bridge. Damn, he needed to speed up now, or he wouldn't have anyone to fight when he got there. With that in mind he went even faster, sending small pumps of chakra to his legs.
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On the bridge, team seven had just arrived, spotting the unconscious bodies of the workers under Tazuna's command. Immediately team seven went into a defensive formation, Kakashi standing in front of them all.
Suddenly two figures appeared before them; Zabuza was back and so was the hunter Nin who took him from death. All the members of team seven immediately noticed there was a missing member of the team from the missing shinobi.
Kakashi smiled at the two, trying to pull in friendly, hoping that before they fought he could mention this deal of his. "Konichiwa, Zabuza, Hunter nin-san. I was wondering if you'd be willing to talk for a moment. First, where is Uzumaki-san, and is there anyway you could possibly, you know, just join Konoha with him?"
"The only way your getting the Gaki is over my dead body copy nin. Now stop talking and fight." Zabuza said with a smirk before sending a water clone at the genin guarding the bridge builder, knowing the brats wouldn't be able to handle it. To his immense surprise though, one of the genin sped up and took his clone unawares, landing a fatal blow.
"Hm, seems like the black haired runt has speed." Zabuza muttered with a smirk.
Haku nodded, fully in her shinobi persona. "So it seems, allow me to deal with him Zabuza-sama." Haku said, taking on senbon. The Uchiha simply smirked before pulling out a kunai and meeting the ice user in the middle of a large puddle.
"We're matched." The raven haired avenger said smugly, smirking as they spun once more and he once again met the hunter-nin's needle with his blade.
"Not quite genin." Haku said coolly, using some one handed hand seals and sending a barrage of ice needles at the boy. He simply hopped out of the way and Haku followed, their battle flowing farther down bridge before Haku decided to make this quick and pull her blood limit out.
Kakashi and Zabuza watched them take off, Kakashi nodding seriously. "It'll be a close fight." He commented, turning to keep his eyes on the mist swords man. Zabuza simply smirked. "Haku has it in the bag, once she uses her blood limit; your Gaki is in trouble."
Kakashi's eye widened and he was about to run to help when Zabuza vanished into the mist. "You run to help him and I kill the other two and the bridge builder, your choice." Zabuza said, his laugh echoing all around.
Glaring Kakashi moved his head band up and looked to his two remaining students, one who looked scared witless while the other simply seemed a bit angry. "Cover Tazuna, don't let anything happen to him." With that he took off into the mist, leaving the two genin alone.
Kiba growled and sighed as he felt the gentle muzzling of his partner on his head. He turned to Sakura and smirked. "Relax, we'll be fine. The other kids not here and Kakashi-sensei had that Zabuza." His words did little to reassure Sakura, but at least he could say he tried. She was scared stiff, while he was just irritated.
Sasuke, the Uchiha prick, actually managed to get someone to fight, while he was sitting on the side lines. Honestly he wanted the other guy to come back; he wanted to repay him for what he did to him and his partner. The blonde prick would pay, before he did what Kakashi instructed them to do and captured the blonde, taking him with them to Konoha.
As if his prayers were answered, a form dropped from nothing revealing the blonde swordsmen looking at them unimpressed. Kiba was slightly pissed at that look, and was about to attack when the other boy's head dropped. Blinking in confusion his enhanced hearing could make out the whisper of he was always getting stuck with the horrible opponents. Kiba's confusion vanished and was replaced with fury.
With familiar seals his partner was in his clone form and both Kibas growled. "Treat us like nothing will you? We're gonna kick your ass from here to Konoha!" With that the two charged, following the laughing blonde as he dodged claw sweeps, leaving a poor Sakura all alone with the bridge builder.
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Sasuke was starting to get pissed. Actually, he was already there, but now he was getting desperate. After they moved out of eye sight of the jounin, the shinobi he was facing did this odd jutsu and then vanished into one of the many mirrors in this new dome he was trapped in. Not only that, but this ice seemed to be impervious to his Katon Jutsu.
Now he had a few needles sticking out of everywhere and was desperately trying to find a way out of this, barely getting by with the skin of his teeth. Suddenly another wave of senbon rained down and he blocked as many as he could, skidding back and panting as he stopped moving.
Charging forward he start hand seals for another grand fireball when something happened. Things seemed to slow down for him. He blinked, seeing senbon heading for him and knowing exactly where they were going. With quick maneuvering, he blocked every one of them.
Behind her mask, Haku's eyes widened as one of he fastest senbon strikes was blocked with a sudden ease. She tried to find what changed with her opponent and immediately saw his eyes and curse. It seemed the raven haired boy had some kind of doujutsu, and while it was still undeveloped, it might give him a new edge to this fight. She had to try and end this fast.
Sasuke knew the other sensed something off, because immediately barrage after barrage of senbon at him, faster and even more deadly than before. Still, whatever had happened before was still going on because he actually was managing to dance in and out of the raining senbon needles, blocking where he needed and getting far fewer cuts then he had before. Unfortunately he was purely on defense right now, so until the other shinobi slipped up or ran out of chakra, he wouldn't be able to attack.
He didn't have to wait long. While this attack had finished off many shinobi in the past, it also zapped a lot of Haku's chakra, so now with that in mind, Haku started to get desperate and was a little slower in moving from mirror to mirror, and the Uchiha capitalized on that fact, hitting her leg with a fire ball and tripping her up. In the process of her falling, her mirrors began to fall as well.
Before she could even hit the ground the Uchiha clothes lined her falling form, sending her crashing into the ground and skidding to a stop against a wall. She pushed herself up when a Kunai was placed against her neck. She froze and looked through her mask at the Uchiha's cold red eyes and then closed hers, knowing she was in trouble, and Zabuza and Naruto were to far away to help with this one. With a final thought she resigned herself to this fate, regretting she hadn't been able to help Naruto or her master, and for not sorting out all those feelings. 'Good-bye, Naruto-kun'
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At first this fight had seemed funny to Naruto. He knew the boy's skills, having fought him before, but now he was starting to get a little annoyed. Apparently the two had been working on teamwork, because Naruto simply couldn't get a moment to catch his bearings. Every time he touched down on the ground, he was moving again and when he jumped left, there was another drill there, and when he ran right, there was the other.
At the moment he knew that the others had their fights going on, he could sense Haku's domes and the two jounin were easy to pin point, but he didn't know how they were fairing and that worried him. He knew they could handle themselves, but Haku had her blood limit up for a while now, and that was bad. He knew first hand how destructive that justu could be, having it been used on him to practice his speed evasion training, but he also knew she couldn't keep it up for long. Whoever she was facing had to be good.
Landing from another Jump, Naruto leaned back at an almost ninety degree angle before turning his motion into a back hand spring as he dodged another dog bullet. Tensing his arms lower than normal he shot high and quickly drew his blade, deciding he needed to go on the offense. Landing the boy sprinted forward, throwing himself forward and placing a hand on the ground and pushing off, giving himself more speed and an opposite rotation of the K-9 torpedoes. Adding Chakra to his push he made a crude bladed version and met head on, his blades crossed before him, with one of the drilling shinobi. The collision made a large exploding sound from the colliding chakra forces before the two flung apart in opposite directions, one of the Kibas landing in a daze while Naruto rolled to his feet, slightly dizzy but still combat ready.
It was good that he was too, because the blonde was moving quickly after standing, dodging the drill that was desperate to pick up the slack. It was times like these he hated Zabuza for not teaching him more cool kickass jutsu. He could use one of those cool water dragons to take them both down, but all in the ways of jutsu that he knew was simply the water clone, henge, kawamari, and some elemental manipulation. He for his chakra in different ways around his blade, and knew decently how to mess with water, but he knew nothing beside that. Zabuza said the best shinobi and swordsmen made their own forms, which included jutsu. The Uzumaki knew for a fact that lazy bastard didn't make up his own justu. After this he promised himself he'd kick Zabuza's ass until he taught him some cool jutsu. Taking his mind off that, the blonde decided to do what he did best and improvise.
So vanishing into the mist temporarily, Naruto made twenty water clones and they all fanned out. The drill seemed to slow before starting to attack the running Narutos while the original made his way to the stunned Kiba regaining his senses. Grabbing him by the coat, the blonde held one of his two blades to his neck and yelled for the other drill.
"Oi! Unless you want him gutted I'd suggest you stop." The other drill stopped, landing on another clone and making it vanish by landing on it mid jump. The Kiba gave a slight whine before the one being held by the blade shouted. "Drill right through me and hit this bastard Akamaru! We can't let this village down!"
Naruto blinked in shock, his shinobi persona falling slightly. "What is in this village that would make you lay down your life for it?" Naruto asked the same question Zabuza had asked him when Naruto said one day he would go back to Konoha.
"It doesn't matter what is in this village! These people are suffering and your helping the bastard whose doing it! I'll lay my life down to make all these peoples lives better, and this bridge will do it." Kiba said fiercely, glaring over his shoulder.
For a moment Naruto let his true self shine through as he grinned brightly. "Good answer. It's kind of like why I'm going to go back and protect my home, whether those damn villagers want me to or not." With that he was about to move one of his clones to tie the boy up when he suddenly got a very bad feeling about something that was going to happen.
Turning his head in the direction of the bad feeling and his eyes widened. Just barely visible he could see the form of a kneeling Haku, about to have a kunai slice across her throat. Naruto dropped his blade and started sprinting, knowing he was too far away but knowing he had to get there, to save her. He had promised he would protect her, his precious person.
His eyes focused on the falling blade and Naruto closed his eyes, tears falling slightly as he moved his fastest and suddenly he felt himself falling, falling down a dark deep hole before softly landing in a large puddle.
Opening his eyes, he looked around in confusion, wondering where exactly he was. What had happened to the bridge? Frowning he felt a pull down a certain hall way and simply followed the pull, taking many twists and turns before arriving before a large cage. On the cage an oversized piece of paper sat before him with the word seal written on it. This was odd. Before he could ponder this any longer, two large red eyes opened before him and a feral grin, with sharp teeth each the size of him, flashed out at him.
"So, you have finally come" A dark rumbling voice rang out from behind the bars.
"Finally come? Who the hell are you and where am I?" Naruto asked loudly, glaring at the large form behind the bars.
"Your in yourself, and as to who am I, I am the great Kyuubi no Kitsune! Show some respect!" The demon, now identified as the Kyuubi grumbled.
"Kyuubi? Yeah, and I'm the tooth fairy. If we're in me, why the hell are you in me?" Naruto asked, still glaring, wanting to return back to the bridge, he needed to save Haku.
"I was sealed in you by the leader of your village; I believe he called himself the fourth Hokage? Don't you wonder why the villagers hated you? Me, for that I do apologize, but I do no more than that. Just because your life was shit, I owe you nothing." Kyuubi said with a growl.
"You….You bastard! Naruto yelled in rage. You're the reason I was hated, why everyone gave me those cold stares… but I should thank you… because of you, I would never have grown up and found Zabuza-sensei and Haku. So bastard fox, I thank you, now send me back before I kick your ass!" Naruto said, giving the demon a level stare. "Why am I here anyway?"
"You need my help. You need my power, I-"Before he could finish, the Uzumaki swords men interrupted.
"Screw that! I'll get by on my own power, not riding the coat tails of someone else." Naruto growled.
The demon glared before freezing the boy with killer intent. "Show me respect, hairless ape. I may be sealed, but you should know your place. Still, your… out look on this intrigues me. So, I will do something else instead, but in doing this you owe me a favor. I will unlock your hidden blood line, it should help in this. Do you accept?"
Naruto glared at the demon, struggling to move under all the Killer intent directed at him before letting out a breath and thinking it over. "What's the favor, and I want to know more about this sealing and everything else… I would scream at you now, but Haku-chan needs me."
"I'll call upon the favor when the time is right, until then you must grow stronger. As for the seal, if the copy ninja still lives, ask him. It was his sensei who did this after all." Kyuubi replied, waiting for the answer still.
Naruto thought for a few more moments before looking up at the Kitsune and simply nodding. "Do it, allow me to protect my precious person."
The demon smirked and sent a flash of yoki through the boy's system. "It's done. The Hirashin is now yours to wield, you'll have to figure out how it works on your own, but it should work in this situation. Now go boy, time is short."
With that final word from the demon, the boy felt himself thrown from his mind and back into the world of the present.
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Naruto's eyes opened and his eyes focused on the blade once more, it still falling but this time something was different. He felt a part of his chakra leaving his body and wrap around the hilt of the kunai and suddenly a large tug pulled Naruto through the air. To everyone else the boy simply vanished and reappeared in a flash of orange light before he was in front of Haku, his arms out spread, taking the dagger to the back.
He blinked for a moment in surprise and then looked down at Haku, whose eyes opened slightly at the sound of metal hitting flesh and then they widened. He smiled weakly, feeling drained as the pain of the hit set in. "Told you…I'd save you..." He mumbled before falling to the side, his eyes rolling into the back of his head.
Tears fell from Haku's eyes as she looked down at the boy who had just saved her life. She had resigned herself to dyeing for them, and here he was saving her, dyeing for her… Looking to the Uchiha, who was standing in shock, she flicked two senbon into his neck, knocking him out before ripping off the blondes coat and shirt, easing the kunai out. The wound was deep, but luckily not fatal. Oddly though, he had cuts all over his arms and chest, looking like high pressure paper cuts. Shaking her head she did her best to wrap the wound before she felt Zabuza-sama was in trouble. She tried to force an ice mirror, but her chakra wouldn't comply, her mind was frantic in worry over Naruto and now Zabuza. Luckily Miracles seemed to be piling up today as what she saw next shocked and elated her."
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Zabuza glared at the infamous copy ninja Kakashi, wondering how exactly he had gotten into this predicament. He had dogs binding his arms and legs, and his sword was off to his left in the mist. Not only that, but through the whole fight Kakashi had been proposing some kind of offer for him, Haku, and Naruto to actually come to Konoha with him.
"Your going to have to kill me Kakashi, that's the only way they'll set foot there until I say they're ready." Zabuza growled, trying to break away from the dogs.
Kakashi sighed and steeled his gaze before starting his hand signs. "Very well, good bye Zabuza." With that the charge of the Raikiri built up and Kakashi's hand as he rush forward, intent on shoving his hand through the mist demon's chest. It seemed as if the demon's death was assured when out of no where a blade crackling with the same white blue electricity surrounding Kakashi's hand got in the way. The blade cracked and hissed before both fields of lightning canceled out each other and the dogs started growling at the new comer.
Holding a blade loosely in one hand, Kakashi blinked when he saw who had interrupted his attack. Before him, wearing a slashed through head band just like Zabuza's on his neck, was a man around 5'8 in height and seemed a bit wiry, but what shocked Kakashi was the mans grin like he had just do something really fun, something belonging on that of a child. He had Dark black hair cutting around his hair in loose manner, not falling longer than his eyes, with a large whit streak going off to the right. He wore a dark black tank top and baggy black pants, two blades on either hip along with a belt filled with different color stones and a seemingly empty slot. Kakashi looked to the blade and saw a glowing yellow topaz placed in the hilt of the drawn sword and wondered slightly who he was dealing with.
The new comer grinned at both of them before turning to Zabuza, who was staring at the man, or teen; Kakashi couldn't tell, with shock in his eyes. Then the mysterious swordsman exclaimed in a happy voice something that made Kakashi almost fall over in laughter. "Hey Zabu! I came just in time to save you from being zapped! Do I have amazing timing or what?" Grinning his literally pat himself on the back before seemingly just noticing the large dogs. "Oh, maybe not..." the newcomer shrugged and turned to Kakashi. "So, what did he do to make you mad? Let me guess, he said you had a freaky eye. No worries, we all have one weird thing or another. Like Zabu! He use to sleep with his sword like it was a teddy bear!"
At this Kakashi did fall over, he knew this was a battle field, but he couldn't help it. Imagining the infamous demon of the mist cuddling his blade was far too much of a powerful mental image. Zabuza looked murderous. "Jace! What the hell are you doing here?!" He growled, his eyes promising death as soon as he was free of this mess.
The now identified Jace blinked and turned back and smiled. "I wanted to see midget and Little Haku! Where are they, I brought them presents." Jace said, nodding and patting a side pocket.
Zabuza growled some more. "Have you noticed that we're in the middle of a battle here?"
Jace blinked and looked around, as if noticing everything for the first time. The mist was rapidly thinning without constant flow of chakra to it, so Jace could see everyone and what was going on. Naruto, looking very pale with an almost crying Haku over him, not a good sign, so Jace turned to Kakashi and asked politely. "Can you make your doggies go bye bye, I'm sure we can talk this out."
Kakashi blinked and sat up, since hearing the swordsman's name he had stopped laughing, trying to remember where he had heard it from. "I've been trying to do that since the beginning." Kakashi muttered, dispelling his ninken.
Zabuza stood shakily and glared, about to open his mouth when suddenly a clapping was heard. Everyone turned to see a very large sized army of mercenaries standing before a small mouse like man who was laughing. "Demon of the mist, huh? Couldn't defeat one group from Konoha, what a waste. At least one of them looks like they took out that damn blonde. I've wanted to do that since the beginning. Oh well, just means I don't have to pay you now, and my men can do whatever with this hostage. "
Two men brought out a tied up and gagged Tsunami, lecherous grins on their faces. Haku, who already looked ready to kill the man from his comment on Naruto, but seeing what he meant about the women she was close to standing. Jace slowly popped one of the stones from his blade and slipped in a dark blue sapphire. In his other blade he slipped in a white diamond in the hilt before drawing it as well. Slashing the air and sending chakra to both blades. Two waves of chakra turned into a blast of water and wind, the water blasting a good portion of the mini army, hitting the two men holding the woman first but missing her completely, following the wind blast, which instantly froze anything hit by the water wave. Jace knelt, panting slightly and glaring while Kakashi had moved and grabbed the woman and was back in a flash.
Picking himself up Jace looked to Kakashi and then to Zabuza, he smirked and said in a light voice. "Damn, I meant to get all of them. Luckily I made a mouse sculpture!" Grinning he pointed to a frozen statue of Gato, frozen in a scream.
Suddenly the mercenaries, realizing their pay stub was gone started getting angry. They all started advancing as one before an arrow slammed into the ground before them. Behind the shinobi a group of people from the village. In front was a child, the grandson of the bridge builder. "Leave our homes alone!" He shouted, and they mercenaries, now outnumbered, fled.
Jace wrapped an arm around both Kakashi and Zabuza and yawned. "Lets get somewhere we can talk, I've been traveling forever! Call off the genin so we can look after the wounded."
Zabuza sighed, seeing his pay check turning false simply nodded, not sure where to go from here, they had actually needed that money."Fine, Kakashi, lead the way. You'll explain your deal to the Gaki and we'll see what he wants."
Kakashi nodded, smiling happy as he called out to his genin. Sakura, who had dragged Tazuna with her as she checked on her Sasuke-kun, looked up to him when he called as did Kiba, looking up from where he was looking at Naruto with a confused expression on his face. "Let's meet at Tazuna's house! We're all done here, mission complete!"
The genin smiled while Haku lifted Naruto up, Sakura shouldering her precious Sasuke-kun.
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It was three days before everyone was up and fully recovered, now was the time for a group meeting. Kakashi stood before everyone, leaned against a wall with his nose in his little orange book. Oddly enough Zabuza had one just like it, sitting on the couch with a bored expression.
Kakashi looked up when everyone was there and smiled slightly. "All right, now that we're all here," to that statement he got glares all around, since he had been the last one there, everyone else had been there for over an hour. "Let m introduce everybody. I'm Hatake Kakashi," He then pointed to Zabuza on the couch, "That's Momochi Zabuza," He pointed to the two on the opposite couch. "That would be Uzumaki Naruto and Momochi Haku," He pointed to his three genin sitting on the floor, "And my genin Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, and Inuzuka Kiba." He heard an indignant bark and chuckled. "Sorry, and his partner Akamaru." He then pointed to Jace. "You're the seven swordsman elemental swordsman Jace Harota, aren't you?" Jace smiled and nodded, jumping up.
"That's right! Now I'll never remember all those names so I'll give you all nicknames!" He then proceeded to point to everyone. He first pointed to Kakashi and Zabuza," You're now Scarecrow and No brow," He pointed to Haku and Naruto. "Ice princess and Midget, "then shifted to the three genin and said, "Emo, Dog boy, and pinky!" With that done he nodded and sat back down. Everyone besides Kakashi was giving him a death glare to which he obliviously hummed through.
Zabuza sighed and turned to Kakashi, "Just get on with your deal."
"Right, Naruto, I want to give you and the rest of you the chance to come to Konoha."Naruto blinked at the copy ninja and then said. "What's the catch?"
"No catch, simply come and become a shinobi of Konoha. We can offer you asylum from hunter Nin and claim you as our own. Not all of Konoha will welcome you, but it's the best chance to achieve Hokage status, eh?"
Naruto blinked and looked down before turning to Haku. "What do you think?"
She blinked and then smiled. "I would love to see your home village Naruto-kun"
Naruto blinked and then nodded. "All right, I'll take the deal." Naruto said in a low mummer, nervous about going home.
Kakashi smiled and patted the boy on the back. "Good, I'll send word ahead of us to let Hokage-sama know what to expect."
Jace blinked and raised his hand, waving it like a five year old with a question. Kakashi smiled and nodded. "Do I get to come?"
"I don't see why not." Kakashi said with a slight smile. Jace jumped up happily and yelled something about victory training before running out.
Zabuza sighed. "So much potential…wasted on a mask and a girl, poor kid."
Kakashi blinked and looked at him curiously and Zabuza shook his head. "That's for him to explain, anyway, since I'm going now I'm gonna rest; wake me up when you're leaving." Zabuza muttered, walking off with his nose still in the book he borrowed from Kakashi.
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