The boat just stopped and Tazuna thanked the driver and we got off. We walked to the land of waves on a passageway with trees on our left and right. I was in the back of Tazuna, so was Kakashi. The other three were in front. I just felt bored with my hands in my pockets and looked around, but I was still aware of my surroundings. All of a sudden, Naruto threw a Kunai into a bush, surprising us, and scaring Tazuna. Also he yelled while doing it, damn that boy will get himself killed. Kakashi said, laughing nervously, "Please don't mess with your Kunai, they are sharp." I rolled my eyes, duh. 5 minutes later he threw another. Doesn't he know that he will need them, and that they are dangerous. Tazuna yelled at him, but before we move on, we heard a whimper. We looked behind some bushes, and saw a white rabbit scared to death. Saskue was brooding, Sakura was yelling at Naruto, Kakashi had a thoughtful face on, and Naruto was hugging the rabbit? Okay then. Then Kakashi yelled duck, and when we did a huge gigantic sword was lodged in the bark. A man was wearing no shirt, bandage mask like Kakashi's, and some pants, and a kiri headband sideways. My eyes widened when I saw who it was. Zabuza Momochi, the missing ninja, and an ex swords men of the mist. Naruto went to attack, and thankfully Kakashi stopped him with his arm. We all stood tense guarding Tazuna. Sakura was in the middle, Naruto was on the right, Saskue on the left, and me in the back. I pulled out a kunai firmly in my hand and stood there in a slight bend position tense and alert. I heard Zabuza's feet touch the ground, and them Kakashi said, "If it isn't Zabuza Momochi missing-ninja." Zabuza chuckled, he said.

"If it isn't Kakashi Hatake or as I heard Sharingon no Kakashi," I heard an intake of breathe and knew it was Saskue. Kakashi then said, "It looks like I'm going to need to use this," My eyes widened in shock for a second, would he really use it. I heard all three of them gasp. I smirked, Saskue's pissed. Then Naruto get frustrated yelled, "What is the sharingan?"

Saskue calmly explained, "It is a thing only an Uchiha can receive, and it can see every move to the last detail." I heard Zabuza chuckle again, and then appeared in front of me. I put on my emotionless face, which I only use outside of the village. Right before I could do anything, Kakashi came, and got him away from me, and I heard him laugh out loud and it made me nervous for some reason. He said, "Kakashi Hatake, never knew you had a wife." That sure did make me stiffen, and Kakashi said in an almost bored voice. "What makes you say that?" he chuckles again, and said, "She has a wedding ring to prove it." I frowned, 'How does he know that? I made it into a necklace so I wouldn't lose it. Kakashi leaves his at home. But how did he see it? Oh no... it's showing.' I thought. But did not comment. He then said that there were 8 vital points, and named them and released killer intent. I heard Kakashi say. "Saskue, don't worry, I'll protect you." I grinned, and focused more on sounds. I turned sideways so I could watch the fight, and protect the back at the same time. I put my hand on Saskue's shoulder, and nodded my head, and he did the same. I did in a friend way and he nodded back to me like he understood what I meant. I watched the fight. Kakashi sliced at Zabuza, and he turned into water. Zabuza did the same thing, and Kakashi copied it. He got behind Zabuza, and said it's over, and Zabuza got away, and gave an annoying speech. Jeez, what is up with the high class ninja, and their speeches, just fight already. Then he kicked Kakashi into a lake. My eyes widened and I thought 'Kakashi.' I kept calm on the outside, trying not to show emotion during a fight. He created a water clone while he was holding Kakashi in a water prison type circle. He looked at me and said mockingly, "What now, I captured you husband, you gonna cry?" I gritted my teeth, and glared daggers at him. He just chuckled and Kakashi said/yelled, "Leave with the client now, and forget me." I stared at him, and said/called back. "Hey Kakashi, what about those who leave their comrade are worse than scum, but those who break the law are just scum." He looked shocked, and I glared at 'Zabuza.' I put my kunai in my mouth and straightened my headband.

Then I dropped the kunai back in my hand. He then told us about a graduation, that they had in the mist, and that when he was young he killed everyone, and became a ninja early. I sighed, again with the speeches. Then he started calling them brats, and soon enough Naruto made like 30 clones, and they all jumped on Zabuza doggy style and he killed them all by throwing them off. Saskue, Naruto, and I locked eyes, and we knew what we had to do. I would create a distraction, while they did whatever their plan was. I ran at Zabuza, and when he swung his sword, I ducked, and did a handstand, and went to kick him in the stomach. But he used his sword to block, and I used it as a springboard to flip over I sent another kick to his head. He ducked just in time and sliced my right leg with his sword, but only nicked it, but since the sword was big, it made a huge gash. I gasped and fell on the ground. I could feel wide eyed stares on me. Then I heard moving around and knew Naruto and Saskue were doing what they planned. I then heard Naruto explaining what they did and I rolled my eyes, show off. I then felt dizzy, and my brain felt like it gone fuzzy. I was losing a lot of blood. Did I hit a vain? I heard clanks of metal and sounds of a lot of water swishing around. I forced myself to stay awake and I picked my head up slowly, and saw 2 senbon needles hit Zabuza in the neck I frowned, Kakashi does not use those, and he fell. Naruto then started yelling about it being not fair, and Kakashi saying something I could not hear. Sakura went up to Kakashi, and yelled something, pointing at me. I waved painfully, and then Kakashi looked at me, and when he saw me surrounded by blood, he ran over to me. But before he could say anything he fainted. I screamed in my mind, Kakashi! Forgetting my injury for a second, I crawled over to him. I sat up and shook him awake or tried to. I laid my head on his chest, and heard his heartbeat, and I sighed in relief. Tazuna helped carry dad with Naruto, and I fainted.

Kakashi's POV

I looked around after I woke up and saw Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto, but no Malu. Where did she go? She was hurt I remember, but where is she, and what exactly happened. I shot up ignoring the pain, and asked my team, "Where is Malu?" They all looked surprised and Saskue said, "She is getting stitched up by Tazuna's daughter 'cause of a leg injury." I laid back down, and we started talking about how Zabuza is still alive. I heard someone say. "I knew it." We all turned, and saw Malu leaning against the wall, and her left leg, with her arms crossed over her chest. Sakura yelled out shocked, "You're supposed to be laying down!" She said she was fine, and when Sakura went to argue Malu sent her a glare, and she shut up. I sighed, can't she stop pushing herself. She said, "So are you okay Kakashi?" I eye-smiled at her, and said, "Yeah, but what happened to you?" She frowned and looked away. And Naruto yelled out loud, "Damn sensei, you should have seen it. She did taijutsu, and she was really flexible and she flipped over his sword, and almost hit him, but he used that sword to slice her leg. It didn't look that bad, but she needed 7 stitches." I saw her wince and look away again. "How come you never told us you were married?" Sakura asked. "Because... You should have already known remember. When we first met, I said my last name is Hatake, and I love pulling pranks on my husband." She said. "Oh... Okay." Naruto said. I rolled my eye, and said to them. "I'm going to train you all." Sakura gasped, Naruto looked excited, Saskue looked like he normally does, and Malu looked deep in thought. Her eyes were unfocused and her eyebrows were pulled downward. To get her attention I said, "We will leave in one hour." Sakura looked at me worried, and said, "But sensei, you can barely walk." I gave a chuckle, and said, "I'm okay; now leave so I could get ready if you will." They all left except Malu. I raised an eyebrow at her and she stared at me a bit more before she left. I got dressed slowly, and when I left the room Tazuna's daughter gave me some crutches to walk with. I saw my team and also saw that Malu had a cane to walk with also. Damn, I thought she would rest for a day. What was I thinking, she is way to stubborn. Finally we arrived at the place I wanted to be at.

Malu's POV

I was so stupid, why did I have to get hurt, and now I had to use a cane. I was weak in the fight with Zabuza, but at least Kakashi is okay, and breathing. All he has is the use of too much chakra, and soreness. 10 minutes later we ended up at a clearing filled with a lot of trees. He stood in front of us and said, "your training is to climb trees." Sakura and Naruto looked confused, Saskue a little annoyed. He continued on. "By using you will understand chakra better." Naruto then said it wrong, and had Sakura give a textbook answer on it, which made me want to go to sleep. After that he climbed the trees by only using his feet and got to the top, and hung upside down. When he got down he threw kunai at their feet, and told us to mark our place and then told them to start.

I sat down to watch the three children. I looked around and saw Naruto on the ground and Saskue, in a crouched position, and Sakura on top of her tree. I saw Kakashi on his tree reading his book and said, "It looks like only Sakura can do this exercise." he continued, "It looks like the last Uchiha is not the best, you're not so close to becoming Hokage." Naruto and Saskue suddenly all made eye contact, and they all glared and ran at the tree. Sakura just sat there, and they kept trying over and over. I saw that Sakura was sitting on the grass Naruto walked up to her, and asked her something I didn't hear. I saw Sasuke fall again. Kakashi walked up to me helped me up, and said almost lazily while reading his book, "No more training for today."

A little while later she called us to have dinner, and we ate some kind of stew. Everyone was eating normal, except Naruto and Sasuke, who were eating real fast. I rolled my eyes at the boys.

I was almost done when I saw and heard, Naruto and Saskue puke. I put on a disgusted face on and Sakura started yelling about how nasty it is. I just kept on eating. Ha, it takes more than that to really gross me out. When I finished, I excused myself and went in the room me and Kakashi share and laid down and stared at the ceiling.

30 minutes later Kakashi told me about a discussion that happened while I was in here. The reason that brat Inari was so rude and upset was because Gato killed his step-dad, and he don't believe in heroes. I fell asleep.

When I woke up I saw that Kakashi was still sleeping. I secretly smiled. I got a big bucket of water, and I put all my chakra into my feet climbed to the ceiling, and I poured the water on him. Before he could open his eyes, I was out of the room. I went to the dinning room, and I noticed that the entire team was there. Kakashi came into the room soaking wet. "Who poured water on me?" he asked. They laughed. I did to. He looked at me, and I said, "It's not my fault that you're not a morning person." Naruto ate quickly and left to train more. Since Sasuke did not complete the exercise he left with Naruto. We waited a little while, and soon it was almost dusk, so we all went to the clearing and 2 kunai flew in front of us. We all looked up and saw that Naruto and Saskue were up on the top of the tree. I grinned up at them. Sounding happy, Kakashi said. "Well it looks like you both did it. Good, tomorrow you can guard Tazuna with all of us." Then Naruto thought it would be funny to fake fall, and he ended up under the tree branch by his feet with chakra. I laughed quietly to myself and then since he was most likely drained from training, he really fell and Saskue caught him by the ankle.

I breathed a sigh of relief that I didn't know I was holding, but no one heard cause no one was paying attention to me. They both came down and we all walked down to Tazuna house with Sakura screeching, and I walked faster. I looked back, and saw Saskue help Naruto walk to the house.

We all sat at the table and just relaxed. I spaced out thinking about what I would do when the mission was over, if I made it back. I would go see my Brother's grave. I was broken out of my daze by Naruto laughing out loud at something, and I also heard Sakura giggle, and Sasuke smirk, while my husband chuckled. I shrugged my shoulders, it probably not important or I would have been informed about it. All of a sudden that brat Inari comes in and starts crying real bad. I raised an eyebrow at him. Huh, I seem to do that a lot. He still was crying, he said, "How can you people have fun when you are going to die?" I sighed and leaned back in my chair and crossed my arms over my chest. 'What's up with him? My daughter doesn't act like that' Naruto yelled at him, "Hey you shut up!" He yelled back, "No, how can you act happy like nothing goes wrong. You don't know the real feeling of pain and suffering." It was now deadly quiet. I saw that Naruto was looking pissed off. He glared at Inari and said, "You know what? Shut up! Stop crying all the time you big crybaby." Naruto left to his room. Sakura yelled that he went too far. I was about to leave, but Kakashi asked if he could talk to me for a minute. We walked out and he said he could heal my leg since it was almost better. I sat on the ground, and pulled up my pants leg and he put his hand over my leg, and closed it up. The stitches fell out, and I was healed with only a scar. I told him I was going to bed and I went in the bedroom, got ready for bed and went to sleep.

I was woken up, and we left after I put on my ninja gear. All of us went to the bridge and saw the workers all hurt laying down on the ground. We looked confused and then a thick mist grew around the area. Zabuza and that masked person showed up with 6 clones, most likely water clones. Kakashi made the signal, and we took out 3 each and went back to our spot fast. Me and Sasuke smirked at each other and looked forward. The masked boy came forward, and Kakashi told me to stay out of it, and he and Sasuke squared off. I backed up to where Sakura and Tazuna were. Sasuke got his Kunai blocked by the boy's senbon and I stared when he used only one hand to do hand signs. My eyes widened a fraction. He said one thousand needles of death and a lot of them made of ice aimed at Sasuke, but he dodged them by going near the end of the bridge using chakra at the ends of his souls of his feet.

Suddenly the air got colder and they fought farther away from us and Saskue was in a dome of mirrors. I widened my eyes. Kakashi tried going to them, but Zabuza blocked him, and I growled. But no one paid attention to me. He was attacked by needles by all directions and I winced.

I heard a loud sound, and looked to see Naruto yelling about being or something. I rolled my eyes. But I also smiled, maybe he can help Saskue. From the outside and I looked at Saskue, and it looked like he was thinking the same thing. Then the worst thing happened, Naruto showed up, and Sasuke glared at him, Saskue said. "Idiot, what are you doing here?" Naruto was complaining. I know that was terrible, but he needs to use his head. He huffed.

Sasuke did the fire ball jutsu, but it didn't do anything. Then Naruto did his clone Jutsu thing five times. But it did nothing, he kept on getting pelted with needles and he went unconscious on the ground. I widened my eyes. He was wounded already and it would kill him.

Saskue's POV

The masked man thought we were not looking and tried to get Naruto, and I jumped in the middle and got hit.

Kakashi's POV

I heard Zabuza chuckle, "It looks like Haku got one." I then felt a huge killer intent like 12 years ago when the fox attacked. I saw Zabuza freeze up for a moment and I wondered if the seal broke. He shook off, and we continued fighting. I then wiped some of my blood on my ninja-hounds scroll, and my ninja-dogs latched on to him.

I was getting my Chidori ready and right before I hit him, Haku jumped in the way and got hit right in the chest. When he went to strike me I jumped with Haku 3 feet away. I set him down on the ground and faced Zabuza again. I lodged 2 kunai in Zabuza's arms and they broke. I was about to finish him off when I heard a squeaky voice say smugly. "It looks like it's the end for you, baby demon. I was not going to pay you, to tell the truth." Zabuza glared at the small man and said to me, "You are not my enemy to fight anymore, he is my new one." I nodded in understand and Naruto lectured him, but I asked, "Where is Saskue?" He looked at me and he said, "Sasuke died, I'm really sorry sensei." I stood their shocked, but said to my student, "It's okay Naruto, it's not your fault." He nodded and looked away. I heard Naruto yell "you're alive!" I quickly turned and grinned at what I saw.

Malu's POV

I looked at Sakura, she was crying over Sasuke. 'He's not dead. He's alive. It's just senbon needles. He's alive.' I thought to myself. Sakura said, "Saskue's dead..." A few seconds later, I then heard a pain filled voice say, "Sakura get off, your heavy." I chuckled. Saskue and I both went near Kakashi to battle Gato. We got out of that area, and Naruto looked surprised when he saw Saskue. He poked Kakashi, and pointed in Saskue's direction. Kakashi turned to look at us, and made the biggest eye-smile I ever seen from him. I walked over slowly with Sasuke. We finally made it, and stood with everyone. Right when the thugs (which I just noticed) were about to attack, the villages from the land of the waves said they would, they ran like hell.

I grinned, and Kakashi put a hand on my shoulder. I looked up at him and decided to humor him by giving one of his eye-smiles, and he gave me one back. I just looked forward and shook my head. He lead all of us to Tazuna's house. We left a little while later.