To be simple I'm going to put a generic disclaimer here: If I owned Naruto, Bleach, or anything that earned me money, I would try to introduce too many unique ideas and have that position taken away from me, so the only thing I own is the plot and a few OC's
I wanted to do this chapter so badly, but yet I fell out of tune with it multiple times and got bored. I hope that didn't affect the overall outcome though!
Demons/Summoning/Powerful People (like me :P)
Flashback/EMPHASIS
Jutsu/Kido/Techniques
Ch4: Greetings and Waves
"But come on Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto complained, "We've been doing these stupid missions for forever! Why the heck can't we do something more interesting?"
"Because Naruto, these wonderful D-rank missions are important for your growth as a genin and it would be oh so horrible for me to take it away from you,"
After being met with stares of none-too happy expression, Kakashi gave a famous eye-smile, "That's more like it! Good team synergy!"
The Hokage laughed, "Ah Naruto, if only you knew, your days of D-rank missions have only just begun."
"Jiji!" Naruto attempted to plead with his last hope, "Can't we please take a better mission than these D-ranks?"
"Well,"
The Hokage looked at the group of teens in front of him seemingly begging for freedom (except Sasuke, but he could tell that he wanted the same as his teammates) and finally gave in,
"If it's ok with your sensei, I think you could go,"
All eyes turned to the jounin in the group
"Kakashi-sensei?"
"Yes Naruto?" Kakashi asked politely with a hidden sarcastic tone spouting superiority, "What is it?"
Naruto sighed, "I was hoping to save this for later, but I think we might be able to come to an understanding about your collection being saved from Rukia-neechan."
Kakashi's visible eye widened in shock, "You have a way to keep her from finding it?" Naruto nodded, "Really? You better not just be pulling my chain,"
"I'll show you right now," Naruto said, "If you let us take a higher mission."
"Well," Kakashi considered his options; on one hand, he had an opportunity to continue increasing his teams synergy and reading his book, but on the other, he had a prospect of hiding his prized collection- from Rukia no less, and he knew that Naruto did not disappoint when it came to fine tricks like these, "Fine. What is your amazing idea Naruto?"
"It's easy," Naruto turned to Sasuke and winked, which made him smirk, "Can I see the book so I can make a demonstration?"
Feeling uneasy, Kakashi hesitated, but gave Naruto the book,
"Ok, now here it goes," Naruto threw the book up in the air as Sasuke flew through hand-seals,
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu! (Fire Style: Great Fireball!)"
Kakashi watched in horror as the jutsu caught his book in the air, burning it to a crisp,
"You…" Kakashi turned to give them both a fair share of Sennen Goroshi (One Thousand Years of Death) when he saw Naruto hold up his hand as if telling him to wait,
Before pulling the book out of his pocket?
"Here you go," Naruto handed the book to his instructor, who immediately flipped through it to make sure it was the one he had lost, "Don't worry, it's the same one as I tossed,"
"But how?" Kakashi looked at his student, "I saw it burn!"
"That was this," Naruto pulled out another book from his pocket, one that looked exactly the same as the one he was holding, "I know what the covers of those things look like by heart now, co I managed to create a copy," to demonstrate his point Naruto pulled on the cover, sliding it upwards to reveal a different book, "Just put a different book's cover over the book while you read it,"
'Well that was degrading,' Kakashi deadpanned his students, who were all smiling while he was at a loss of words, 'Eh, well I got a way to hide my collection from Rukia, so I guess it's worth it.'
"So what's our mission?" Naruto asked impatiently, but happily as he turned to the Hokage, "I hope it's awesome!"
"It's an escort mission," the Hokage took a paper from the stack of missions labeled 'C' and handed it to Kakashi, "Come back here tomorrow when you're ready to leave, the client will meet you in the morning."
"Alright then," Kakashi took the paper and began to read, "C-rank escort mission. We are to escort Tazuna, a master bridge builder, back to the Land of Waves,"
Looking at the Hokage Naruto asked the question they all wanted to, "Jiji… this is another boring mission!"
"Oh lighten up Naruto," Kakashi gave his team another eye-smile, "I'm sure you'll enjoy seeing the sights and such, it'll be so much fun!"
Not waiting for a response Kakashi looked at his wrist and then back to his squad, "Pack for a week of traveling, and try to keep your excess stuff low, since we need supplies more than other stuff. Meet me here in the morning around 9am, later~!"
0-0-0
"-and then he disappeared with his annoying-as-frik Shunshin (Body Flicker Technique)." Naruto sighed as he laid his head on the bar of Ichiraku, having finished telling the story of the events leading up to his travel, "A week of supplies though? What should I pack Rukia-neechan?"
"Well that depends," Rukia replied from behind the counter, "You're on an escort mission right?"
"Yeah," Naruto replied, "Is there a difference?"
"Kind of," Rukia replied, "You'll need the basic stuff, but you'll have to be more careful about what you bring, since space is limited and the more stuff you bring the harder it will be on your back, and you'll be traveling for a long time."
"So… Basics in compressed bags?"
"I have a better idea," Rukia turned around to face the back, "Oi Ichigo? You think you can wait for Yuzu or Karin to get back while I go home and get something real quick?"
"Why the heck wouldn't I?" Ichigo yelled back, "I don't get how everyone here has a lack of trust in me being able to watch over the freaking stand. I can do it ok?"
"Alright then," Rukia jumped over the stand and held her hand out, "Grab on, this speeds things up a bit,"
Naruto grabbed her hand and the two disappeared in a Shunshin (Body Flicker Technique), appearing again in the Kurosaki house,
"I think its somewhere over here," Rukia wandered off to search for something amongst the clutter while Naruto looked around, it had been a while since he had last been here, and he noticed a few new things,
Specifically a red glove with a skull surrounded by blue flames on it.
Curious, Naruto picked up the glove and tried to put it on, only to find it was too small. He frowned at this, wondering who could actually wear the thing then, perhaps it was something they outgrew?
"NARUTO!" Naruto heard the cry and flinched, hiding the glove behind his back as a reflex, "Don't touch anything!"
"I'm not!" Naruto yelled back defiantly, "I'm just looking,"
"You better be!" Naruto sighed in relief as he was left to his own devices, "Hey get in here!"
Or not.
Naruto walked into the room that he presumed was Rukia's, he expected a room just like any other in the house, and he was slightly off. Instead of normal, it was just weird. On one wall Rukia had her ninja gear neatly on shelves and such, on the opposite wall he saw her bed and an infinite amount of stuffed-rabbits, and on the wall directly in front of him all he saw was clutter,
"Here," Naruto looked into the clutter, seeing Rukia pull out a small scroll and motioning to him, "Come here,"
Naruto complied and walked over to her, sitting down as she opened the scroll on the floor, rolling it open and revealing several intricate symbols drawn with excessive Kanji,
"What is that?"
"This is a storage scroll Naruto," Rukia let her hand touch the delicately printed scroll and rubbed it affectionately, "It's rather old- we actually got it from Kakashi, but I have my own now so I don't need it, you can have this one."
"What does it do though?" Naruto asked, perplexed, "What is this supposed to do?"
"It stores," Rukia took her hand and touched one of the seal, "By applying chakra on the seal you can either place or take things from it, like so,"
Rukia applied chakra through her hand and in a puff of smoke, a stuffed rabbit appeared,
"Wow," Naruto said, "That would be useful, I could bring all my supplies in that scroll alone!"
"You have to be careful though," Rukia warned him, "If the scroll is destroyed then everything is lost forever, unless you remember that same seal on the scroll which you obviously wouldn't."
"Oh yeah?" Naruto replied, "I bet I could memorize this, it doesn't look that hard,"
Rukia laughed, "Well maybe you could, but that's another field entirely, it's called Fuinjutsu (The Style of Sealing), perhaps I could show it to you sometime,"
"That would be awesome," Naruto smiled as he rolled up the scroll and bowed politely, "Thanks Rukia-neechan,"
"Just go pack up," she shooed him off, "I don't want you to be late and give Kakashi an excuse to be late based off of you."
"Love you too Rukia-neechan!"
0-0-0
"Alright then," Kakashi said as the last member of their team, Sakura, arrived in the mission acceptance room, "So… where is our client?"
"I can't believe it!" Naruto said, "The one day Kakashi-sensei is on time, the guy who should be here isn't! Why me…"
"You say that like I'm always late-" Kakashi was interrupted by three deadpan stares, "Ok, well maybe I'm late most of the time,"
"Sasuke-kun?" Said man of doom and gloom looked over to his teammate, Sakura, "Do you want to-"
"No." Sasuke cut her off, "What I want to do is for the client to get here, for the mission to begin, and for the mission to end. Then I will get my pay, I can go home, and I will train."
"Wow…" Naruto stared in awe of his teammates, "Not only did he cut you off Sakura-chan, but he didn't say 'tch' or 'hn' or anything during his reply! That must mean something, or is everyone but me out of character today?"
"Hn."
"Shut up Naruto,"
"That's more like it!" Naruto replied sarcastically to his teammates and gave them thumbs up, "Team synergy for the win!"
"Win? A midget like you? A ninja?" Everyone turned to the doorway to see an older man with grey hair that was somewhat ruffled on his head and was also around his mouth, forming a beard-moustache without connecting to his sideburns. He had slightly tanned skin and wore glasses, a sleeveless brown v-neck, and had a towel over his shoulder. He was leaning on the doorframe rather awkwardly and the most prominent thing about him was none other than,
Smell.
He stunk of being drunk, and to make it worse he wasn't any sober-er than he smelled,
"Haha, midget," Naruto looked around chuckling until he found all eyes on him, "Wait, me? I'll kill you-"
"Be nice to the client Naruto," Kakashi held the struggling Naruto back, keeping him from attacking the person he was meant to protect, "You are Tazuna correct?"
"Yes," Tazuna stood up straight and pointed out the door and wobbled slightly as he made his way out, "Well let's go then,"
Everyone sweat-dropped as the man muttered, walking out of sight and down the hallway, "Isn't the exit in the other direction?"
0-0-0
"I'm sorry I was so drunk back there," Tazuna apologized, having sobered up a good way outside of the village, "I accidently swapped my wine canteen with my water one, and ended up drinking the whole thing. I hope I wasn't too much of a bother,"
"It's fine Tazuna-san," Kakashi reassured his client, "We didn't take it personally,"
"I did…"
"Naruto, he was drunk," Kakashi scolded his student, "Lots of people have major personality changes when they're drunk."
"I am sorry for what it's worth," Tazuna hastily cut in, "I had no right to insult your height, and nothing minor like that should prevent people from their dreams,"
"It's ok I guess," Naruto replied, and seeing Kakashi walk towards the front with Sakura and Sasuke he tried to make conversation with the bridge builder, "So, the mission said you're a master bridge builder right?"
"That's correct, back home I built many a bridge and managed to connect many places that were once only reachable by boat," Tazuna's face shone with pride, "Ah, those were the days,"
"Well, what were you doing here in Konoha?" Naruto asked, "We don't have that many requests for bridges being built in Fire country, what work were you doing?"
"I was here on family business," Tazuna replied vaguely, "A close family friend died and I came to pay my respects,"
"Oh," Naruto replied, "I'm sorry,"
"Ah, its ok kid," Tazuna replied cheerfully, "After all, good folks like my old friend go up to Kami, where they reside forever."
"With Kami?" Naruto wondered about the statement briefly, "I guess those who don't go to Hell then?"
"Yes lad," Tazuna shook his head solemnly, "There are some folks in this world that just hate what is good, and it's those kinds of people that need to be shown to the path of good."
"WATCH OUT!"
Naruto heard the warning and tackled Tazuna to the side, watching in horror as two men came out of nowhere with a long chain, barely missing him and the Bridge Builder,
"Heh, one down," Naruto looked up defiantly at the two and growled, "Three to go,"
"I'll get you bastard!" Naruto yelled as he launched himself into the fray, attacking one of the men with a right hook,
"Not enough!" the man chastised him as he brought up a large claw and smashed Naruto aside with it, sending him stumbling as he moved to follow up, "Wha-"
The man's shock at the revelation of Naruto being a clone startled him as he suddenly found a foot implanted in his gut,
"'Not enough' this!" Naruto shouted, sending the attacker into a nearby tree with his drop kick with a smirk,
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu! (Fire Style: Great Fireball!)"
Naruto turned to see Sasuke unleash a ball of fire similar to what had happened in the mission room the other day… only bigger.
Way bigger.
"ARGUH!" The man was hit by Sasuke's technique head on, sending him back hard, flames still burning on his body,
"Nii-san!" the man Naruto had hit came running to his brother, looking at the two genin with death glares, "You will pay for thi-"
"Impressive, Naruto, Sasuke,"
The man was knocked out with the blunt of a kunai, revealing Kakashi standing behind him with an eye-smile, "Good fight right?"
"K-Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura pointed at him with a shaking finger, "B-but you,"
Kakashi's eye smile faded into an unemotional disappointment glare as he pointed to the direction where his supposedly dead self was supposed to be, only to find multiple splinters there instead.
"I was wondering where you were," Naruto frowned visibly as Kakashi piled the two unconscious attackers and rolled them over off the road, "Did you really think that after seeing you spar with Ichigo and get chased all over Konoha by Rukia-neechan that I'd fall for seeing you get killed by a stupid attack like that?"
"Thank you for going along with it though," Kakashi replied, pulling out a rope and tying the two to the tree, "I needed to figure out a few things, I learned all of them."
Tazuna started to sweat, only to the notice of Kakashi, "What were you trying to figure out Kakashi-sensei?"
"A couple of things," Kakashi looked over to his team, "The first thing is that you Sakura, are in over your head. You need to take this career more seriously."
Sakura held her head low in disappointment while Kakashi continued, "Secondly I noticed that these were not ordinary bandits after loot, they were specifically after you, Tazuna,"
Tazuna clenched his fists as Kakashi continued, "Finally, I noticed who those bandits were; the Demon Brothers, chunin rank missing-nin from Kirigakure (Village Hidden in the Mist)."
Kakashi continued as Tazuna's sweat became apparent to them all, "Tazuna, this is no ordinary escort mission, and I suggest that if you want to be heard before I decide to leave now and take my team back to send you with another until the rank gets upped, then you better tell us what's going on."
"I-I'm very sorry, all of you," Tazuna lowered his head, "I was sent here to get help for my country, let me explain. The Land of Waves has always been a thriving place for business and trade, and naturally, being the kind folk we are we didn't discriminate against anyone for their past affairs when they tried to open up shop here-"
"What does this have to do with anything?" Kakashi asked, "Please get to the point,"
"A few years ago a very horrible, ruthless businessman came to the Land of Waves by the name of Gato and claimed a monopoly over our entire country, forcing us into starvation and killing anyone that said otherwise,"
Tazuna kneeled in front of the four Konoha shinobi, "I spent much more than I was authorized to pay for someone to come help us, but I beg you in the name of Kami, please help us!"
Kakashi sighed as Tazuna stared at them all pleading, "Before we decide-"
"I'm in."
"Eh? Naruto!" Sakura yelled at him, "Kakashi hasn't even said anything yet, what are you saying? You'll just jump the gun to help this guy?"
"Yes, I am," Naruto said, turning to face his teammates, "I don't want to leave him to die, he may not have been for very long, but he is a friend,"
Naruto looked at each of his teammates in the face before continuing, "You don't have to come, I'll go by myself if you don't want to,"
"I would have given you all a huge long speech about the dangers of going on this mission but," Kakashi sighed, "It appears Naruto's hot-head has gotten to him again, and he's already made his mind, and now I have to go because otherwise I would be responsible and I would get my ass kicked about it," he turned to the other two members of Team 7, "Sakura, Sasuke, you can go home if you want. This is your choice now, our lives are easily at risk now."
"… Seriously?"
All eyes turned to the normally silent Uchiha, "After finally being able to test myself against a real opponent, you ask me if I want to back down? I am staying."
"If I went home right now, I would regret it too badly," Sakura said 'I can't just leave when Sasuke-kun is still here!'
"T-Thank you!" Tazuna began to cry as they began to continue their journey, "Thank you so much!"
Kakashi looked on and smiled, "Come on then, we should make some ground before it gets dark,"
0-0-0
"ICHIGO!"
"Hm?" Ichigo looked up from his sleep to see Rukia looking at him rather angrily, but he was too tired to comprehend anything important, "What is it? It's like, 5:30 am-OW!"
"You always sleep in; you're getting too relaxed around here now that Kakashi's got a team of genin to deal with,"
Ichigo grumbled and rolled onto the floor, standing up revealing his pajamas and an odd sleeping hat, "Well what do you want? I'm up now."
"The glove you idiot," Rukia scowled at him, "Where the heck did you put it? I've looked everywhere around the house and I cannot find it."
"The glove?" Ichigo rubbed his eyes and began to walk through the house, "I remember where I put it,"
"You better, I got to get ready for another border patrol and I need it."
"I hear you I hear you, in fact Yuzu, Karin, and the whole friggin village hears you too!" Ichigo hissed back, reaching a desk near the front door, "Now it was somewhere right here,"
Reaching his hand out and not finding the glove, Ichigo turned to Rukia and shrugged, "Well, I looked, and I can't find it, and we both know it rejects people that aren't Shinigami already, so it wasn't me."
"You are helping me look for it," Ichigo's attempt to escape was stopped by Rukia grabbing and pulling him back tow where she was standing,
"Fine," Ichigo stood idly as Rukia began to look through the desk, "Hey, didn't Naruto come by the other day?"
"Yes he did-FUUUUUUU!" Rukia walked up to the wall and slammed her head repeatedly against it, "Stupid, stupid stupid… I told him not to touch anything!"
"Rukia calm down!" Ichigo said to no avail, "Look, they probably aren't that far from the village- less than a few hours at max speed, I know Land of Waves isn't far from here, we're near the coast,"
"Then you go get it, while I go explain to the Hokage why I can't take my mission," Rukia stormed out of the house, leaving Ichigo to himself,
"Geez, what set her off?"
"I don't know Kon, probably lack of sleep like me," Ichigo replied as he began his trek back to his room to get changed, "I swear, the things I do for that woman…"
0-0-0
"Wow Kakashi-sensei," Sakura commented as they continued their journey, having gotten up, eaten, and started a while ago "I had figured that this would be a lot more dangerous than yesterday, maybe with more attacks and stuff like that, but so far it's been rather peaceful."
"Thanks for jinxing us Sakura-chan,"
"What? I did not!" Sakura said defiantly, "Naruto, jinxing is something that is used to explain irony."
"Uh-huh," Naruto nodded, "Exactly, so if I take this kunai, like so," Naruto twirled it around his finger, "Do you think we'll find anything dangerous?"
"Of course not-" Sakura was startled when Naruto released the kunai, flinging it into the bushes, causing a white rabit to pop out of it and leave,
Sakura stared at Naruto, "Naruto you almost killed the rabbit. What is wrong with you?"
"I swore I sensed something-"
"GET DOWN!"
Again Naruto was forced to duck as this time, a large blade swung over their heads, imbedding itself in the tree trunk infront of them,
"Nice call, Copy-nin Kakashi,"
Naruto looked up from his position on the ground to see a man with pale skin and narrow, brown eyes standing on the guillotine-like sword that had been thrown earlier. He was shirtless, but had bandages over his lower face, along with a belt from his back to his waist and had short, black spiky hair that was slightly kept back by a hitae-ate on the side of his head,
"Zabuza Momoichi?" Kakashi asked, pulling his hitae-ate up so that he could use both eyes, "Damn it, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, protect Tazuna while I fight him, he is too much for you,"
"I think that's an understatement," Zabuza said as he stepped down from his weapon and pulled it from the tree, swiging it easily over his shoulder as he brought his hands into a handseal, "I'm also too much for you,"
"Kirigakure no Jutsu! (Hiding in the Mist Technique!)"
"Go-!"
The last words they heard from Kakashi before the sound of metals clanging told them the urgency and they ran up to Tazuna, protecting him from all sides,
"Don't worry Tazuna-san," Amidst the massive Killer Intent Naruto tried to reassure him, "We'll protect you, this Zabuza doesn't stand a chance against Kakashi-sensei dattebayo!"
'He doesn't feel this?' Tazuna asked as he felt the air try to choke the life out of him, 'What is this feeing, this feeling like I will die…'
0-0-0
CLANG!
Kakashi managed to stop Zabuza in his attempt to pass him again with a Ninja's best friend, kunai,
"You were hired by Gato I assume?" Kakashi asked, "Why? What could he possibly get for you?"
"Money,"
Zabuza pushed Kakashi back, forcing him to try and block another mystery blow from Zabuza,
"You're trying to fuel the overthrow of the Mizukage again?"
"Maybe,"
Kakashi pulled back and tried to swipe at Zabuza through the mist, only to find himself alone,
"But you won't be there to find out,"
Kakashi ducked and rolled forward, avoiding the deadly swipe and taking a defensive stance , "You want to make a bet?"
"Sure," Kakashi raised an eyebrow to the statement as the deep voice continued, "I'll bet…"
"The lives of your genin squad!"
Kakashi's eyes opened wide as he cursed, turning and dashing towards where he left his squad not moments before,
0-0-0
"So, where should I strike?"
Naruto looked into the mist, searching for the source of the voice,
"There are seven places where I can strike and kill you, you know," Naruto began to look around frantically for the missing-nin, "Heart, liver, lungs, brain, kidneys… Should I go on?"
"Stay calm!" Naruto shouted through the fog, "Don't let him get to you, he just wants to scare us!"
"'Just scare you' you say? I'm not here to play kiddie games boy,"
Naruto's life flashed before his eyes as he saw the gigantic sword come out of nowhere and approach his head, "I'm here to kill you."
"NARUTO MOVE!"
Naruto was pushed aside as Kakashi managed to block Zabuza's blow, barely blocking it as the blade cut a gash in his shoulder,
"KAKASHI-SENSEI!"
"Heh, it's over now," Naruto watched in horror as Kakashi fell to one knee, still holding Zabuza at bay, but unable to move otherwise,
"N-Naruto…" Naruto snapped out of his nightmare as he heard Kakashi's low voice, "Get everyone to safety-"
Before Naruto could react Kakashi had pushed upward, unbalancing the Missing-nin before lighting his hand up with Lightning,
"Raikiri! (Lightning Cutter!)"
Kakashi's hand glowed with Electricity as he smashed his hand into the Missing-nin, hitting him on the chest weakly, causing him to fly back,
Naruto rushed over to Kakashi as he fell forward, "Screw it, Sasuke, Sakura, we got to leave now!"
Naruto hauled Kakashi over to his two teammates and the client, only to find that they were frozen in fear, "Cut it out? Do you want to get us all killed?"
Naruto grit his teeth as he ran up to Sasuke and smashed their foreheads together in an attempt to wake the teen, causing him to fall down unconscious, "Screw it again!"
Turning around into the mist Naruto put his hands in a handseal, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! (Shadow Clone Jutsu!)"
Creating a multitude of clones the Naruto squad picked up his fear-stricken comrades and began to run back as fast as possible to escape the mist,
"That thing hurt like a bitch!"
Naruto looked up to see Zabuza standing infront of his entourage cracking his neck, "Oh well, I guess I'll have time to get him back now, no matter how many of you there are, I will win."
"In your dreams!" The regime of clones shouted as they bravely charged into their own deaths, only thickening the fog as Zabuza proceeded,
"You aren't bad kid," Zabuza swung through Naruto's last clone, leaving him the only person able to fight, "But then again, you aren't good either."
"I can't die here," Naruto clenched his fists, "Not until I become Hokage! Not until I fufill my dream!"
At this Zabuza began to laugh, "Kid, you aren't even a ninja. One becomes a ninja by hovering between life and death enough times that it doesn't faze you, but one does not earn the title until you enter my bingo book,"
Naruto clenched his fists tighter as he felt the cold steel against his throat,
"You look like you could have become a real good bounty someday though, maybe you could have been in my bingo book," Zabuza shrugged, "Sorry Kid,"
CLING!
Zabuza's attempt to decapitate Naruto was stopped by an orange-haired teen with a rather large meat cleaver,
"Ichigo?" Naruto looked in shock as he blocked the blow intended to kill him, "Why are you here?"
"You took Rukia's glove and she needs it back-" Ichigo said as he managed to push Zabuza back with his raw force, bringing a separation between the two, "And I think I need that thing now. Give it to me!"
Not completely understanding Naruro followed his instructions anyway, pulling out the glove from his coat pocket and tossing it to Ichigo, who put it on and cried,
"Zanpakutoū Kuchiyose no Jutsu: Zangetsu! (Soul-Cutting Sword Summoning Art: Slaying Moon!)"
Zabuza looked with interest as his new opponent materialized a large sword similar to his own, causing him to smirk, "So you have a named blade as well, I haven't heard of yours though,"
"Maybe you'll introduce yours though?" Ichigo asked as he took his stance, "Since I was kind enough to introduce mine?"
"Kubikiribōchō (The Executioner's Sword)"
The two opponents nodded before jumping back into the heart of the mist, leaving Naruto to try and get the rest of his team to safety,
'Damn that Ichigo,' Kakashi said to himself as he fell unconscious, 'He always manages to get into trouble. Bless his heart…'
X=X=X
Cut!
Hooray for cliffhangers? Who's with me? *Silence* … Oh well, was worth a shot
Couple of important notes to this chapter;
-Idea of getting book covers to disguise Kakashi's books came to me from an idea I read in another fanfic… more than two years ago ^^' so I don't know whose it was but thank you for that!
-Kon appears! :O What does this mean? Probably that you should tell me to hurry up and write the next chapter!
-Nice little IchiRuki moment for those who enjoyed it… I needed to make one soon anyway; for having a pairing name in a fic I have little to show for it.
-Kakashi got injured badly, I know the whole scene is very off from the cannon… that's why I like it!
-I feel that I am team 7 bashing, or at least Kakashi bashing, am I? I really need to know this I HATE BASHING!
-Ichigo v.s. Zabuza? Hell yeah! Fun fun fun time!
So, be warned in advance… the next chapter will not only be out before the end of December, but it will have a Christmas Omake! Hooray!
Also I posted an Omake in ch3 to help explain the bell test, I'm sorry about that… Even I think I did a horrible job…
~Crunch! (Random Cookies) :D
