Naruto: Kitsune Tales
"Speech"
'Thought'
"Tear speech"
'Tear thought'
Jutsu/Bloodline
Voice of Destiny
Chapter 4: Enter the Key Blade
"Momochi Zabuza."
"Hatake Kakashi of the Sharinganeye? It's an honor to meet you. But I have orders. Hand over the old man now and I may spare your lives."
"No."
"Very well, it seems…that I have to kill you first."
"Not on my watch!" Kakashi lifts up his headband to reveal his left eye and his implanted Sharingan eye. "Fight me."
'Tear, what's that freaky eye?'
'It's a Sharingan…a kenkei genkai…'
'Wait a minute, how can this be? The Sharingan is a special physical condition that can only appear in a select few of the Uchiha clan. Can he be…?' Thought Sasuke.
'I've heard my father telling me about the Sharingan eye of the Uchiha clan, about how it rivals our clans Byakugan, but our sensei isn't even from the Uchiha clan! So how did he get it?'
"Ah, it's an honor to meet the Sharingan eye, so early in our acquaintance, but enough games." Zabuza appears on the water. "Ninpou: Kirigakure no jutsu." (Hidden Mist Jutsu)
Zabuza disappears to the naked eye, but Naruto, as well as Hinata, could still see him, but both stayed on guard.
"8 choices…"
"What"
"Liver, lungs, spine, clavicol vein, neck, brain, kidneys, or the heart. Now which should I go after first?"
Kakashi releases some chakra, dispelling a part of the mist. Sasuke is stunned.
'This killing intent, it's like my life is on the line of two Jonin who are intent to make a kill…I hate it! You start wanting to die…just to end the suspense!' Thought Sasuke as he held a reverse gripped kunai, planning to impale himself. 'I'd rather end this now!'
"Sasuke… don't worry. Even if he gets me, I'll still protect you. I will…never let my comrades die!" Kakashi eye smiled as he looked at Sasuke.
"Are you sure?"
Zabuza appears in between Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata. "Game over. I win."
Suddenly, Kakashi appears and blocks Zabuza's sword swing with his kunai, also pushing everyone away from the fight. Kakashi and Zabuza fight for a minute, and Kakashi manages to stab Zabuza through the heart. Zabuza starts bleeding…water? Zabuza becomes a puddle of water and reappears behind Kakashi. He swings his sword before Kakashi can react and slices him in half! Kakashi starts to bleed heavily…water?
'Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu? (Water Clone Jutsu) He was able to copy me… in this mist?'
Suddenly, a kunai knife is raised behind him, almost cutting through the skin of his neck. "Game over."
"It'll take more then the Sharingan to defeat me, but I have to admit…you are good. However…"
Zabuza appears behind Kakashi The Zabuza in front of Kakashi becomes a puddle of water.
"I am not that easily fooled."
"Nani? Zabuza was a water clone too?" Exclaimed Naruto.
Zabuza swings his sword to cut Kakashi in half. Kakashi drops to avoid the blade. Zabuza uses the momentum of his swing to stick his sword into the ground, and kick Kakashi.
"And now…" Zabuza runs forth, pulling out his blade, but stops. "Caltrops!" SPLASH! "FOOLISHNESS!" Zabuza shouts as he body flickered to the lake.
"This water…why is it so heavy?" Zabuza appears next to Kakashi with the body flicker.
"Fool. Suirō no Jutsu!" (Water Prison Jutsu)
"SHIT! What?"
Kakashi is trapped in a bubble of water.
"With you moving around so much, it is hard for me to do my job. I'll kill you later, but first the brats." Zabuza makes a half seal for tiger. "Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu."
A water clone of Zabuza appears in front of team 7. He kicks Naruto hard sending him back to team 7, who catch him.
"Run! You are no match for Zabuza! If he wants to keep me here, he can't leave this place! Also, if his water clone gets too far away, he loses control of it!"
"We lost the option of running when you were captured. We aren't going to leave you behind!" Shouts Sasuke, before he spots Naruto. "Naruto, what are you doing?"
Naruto charges in. Zabuza kicks him away, right into Hinata's waiting arms. "Naruto-kun, why? You know that we are no match for him."
"You fools! You don't deserve the title of ninja until you are good enough to appear in my BINGO book of enemies!" Says Zabuza, before pulling out a little black book.
Naruto, to the chagrin of Hinata, charges in again. The banter of Zabuza and Hinata slowly decreases in volume.
Hinata's and Zabuza's voices get quieter and quieter, until Naruto enters into his mindscape while still running.
-In Naruto's mindscape-
The place seemed different, because Naruto could not see or feel the presence of his kaa-san. Glancing down, Naruto is standing on a stain glass window. A voice calls out to him. "Naruto…"
"Who's there?"
"You are one of the chosen ones…"
Three things appear in front of Naruto.
"Now choose, which will you take?"
Before Naruto laid three weapons, a shield, a staff, and a sword, all three bearing the symbol of an unknown clan. Naruto thinks about it, thinks about being Hokage, and how he is going to defend everybody.
"I don't know who you are, but since I am going to be Hokage I'm going to protect everyone!"
"So, you choose the shield?"
"Hai!"
Naruto arrives back in the real world, still running.
"Hey no brows, I have a new addition to your BINGO book right here…Uzumaki Naruto! The next Hokage of Konoha! Commit it to memory!" In Naruto's hand, to the surprise of everyone, appears a key shaped blade.
"How can this be? He's holding…the legendary weapon of the Yondaime…the…"
Kakashi and the mysterious voice from before mutter out "Keyblade…"
The Key Blade was shaped like a skeleton key. The blade and teeth of the Keyblade are silver, the rainguard is blue, and the guard is bright gold. Attached to the Keyblade was a pulsing sphere of light. (A/N For simplicities sake, Naruto's calls his Key Blade Hikari)
Naruto, while still running. readies Hikari in his hands, while team 7 wonders.
'Where the hell did that weapon come from? It looks like a key…no way! It's the legendary weapon of the Fourth!' Thought Hinata.
Zabuza is stunned as well. Naruto crosses his fingers in a cross seal and shouts, "KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" About fifty Naruto clones materialize and draw out Hikari. All the Naruto's charge in, and Zabuza raises his sword to attempt to block all of the blades. He did it successfully, and managed to dispel almost all of the clones, but his weapon cracked, before breaking completely. Naruto is pushed back.
"This might be the only thing that will work…SASUKE!"
Naruto throws a Fuma Shuriken over to Sasuke. He grabs it, and realizes immediately what the shuriken is. He flings open the Fuma Shuriken.
"Demon wind shuriken…windmill of shadows!"
"Pathetic, shuriken won't work on me, even if I don't have my blade!"
Sasuke throws the shuriken over to Zabuza…only to bypass the water clone! The shuriken is aiming for the real Zabuza.
"So, at least you have the sense to go after the real Zabuza. Amateur!" Zabuza grabs the shuriken, when another shuriken comes out of the shadow of the first shuriken. "Nani?"
"Kage Shuriken no Jutsu…" (Shadow Shuriken Jutsu)
He jumps over it. "Still an amateur."
"Hmph."
The shuriken turns into Naruto, who summons Hikari and throws the Key Blade like a shuriken aimed for Zabuza. Zabuza has no time to react, and is hit with the shuriken blade, shocking him so much that he dispels his jutsu, and releases Kakashi. Sasuke grabs the Key Blade, only for it to vanish and reappear in Naruto's hand. Zabuza retaliates by spinning the shuriken that Sasuke threw.
"That little runt!"
He throws it, but is intercepted by Kakashi's arm guard. Kakashi is breathing heavily, intimidating Zabuza.
"Naruto, your plan was brilliant. All of you have matured, but Naruto, how did you know what the keyblade could do?"
"The Key Blade guided me in what to do. It called my maneuver Strike Raid."
Kakashi then turns to Zabuza.
"Just so you know, the same technique won't work on me twice. Your move."
Zabuza and Kakashi separate. Zabuza makes a total of 42 hand seals, but Kakashi mimics them effortlessly.
"Tori! Sign of the bird! Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu!" (Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu)
The resulting flood pushed everyone back. Everyone, except Zabuza and Naruto, braces himself or herself. When all the water cleared, Zabuza was locked in a test of brute strength using his blade while Kakashi seemingly held him back with a kunai.
'Something…isn't right. All of my movements, my gestures, he sees…' Thinks Zabuza, before interrupted by Kakashi.
"Through them all!"
'What-? He's reading my mind? Damn him! He's…'
"Got that sickenly evil look in his eye…right?"
"Feh, you're a pale imitation…"
"I'm the genuine article. No mere copycat stands a chance against me!" Said both Zabuza and Kakashi at the same time.
"You mimic me like a parrot! I'll close your beak for good!" Zabuza performs some more handseals, but is distracted by something. ' Nani? It's me… is this another one of his illusions?'
Meanwhile, Kakashi was finishing the seals.
"Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu!"(Water Release: Great Waterfall Jutsu)Kakashi's Sharingan eye tomoes start spinning.
'WH-what? This is absurd! Before I could even finish my ninjutsu, he used the same technique against me! I can't keep up with him! ARGH!' Zabuza thinks as he is pushed back by the water jutsu.
Zabuza screams in pain as four kunai keep him in place.
"That's that…" Finalizes Kakashi.
"What? Can you see the future?"
"Yeah…I foresee…your death!" Finishes Kakashi in a dramatic tone of voice, before Chuck! Chuck! Two senbon needles go through the neck of Zabuza.
"Heh heh…your prediction came true."
Naruto, after managing to dry himself a bit, put away Hikari, while Kakashi reappears besides Zabuza to check his pulse.
"…Way dead." Kakashi concludes and then looks up at the mysterious hunter-nin, while Naruto glares at Zabuza, then the Nin.
"…"
Then he glares at Zabuza again, then the Nin. The hunter-nin notices
"? Well then, I must be off. I have to dispose of Zabuza's body, lest they give away secrets to our foes. Farewell!"
The hunter-nin disappears in a swirl of leaves. Kakashi lowers his headband to cover his Sharingan eye, and resumes the mission, only to fall on his face nearly unconscious. 'Damn! I used up too much chakra and overused the Sharingan!'
Sasuke grabs Kakashi, then looks at Tazuna. "Lead the way."
Tsunami was doing household chores. You can only imagine what she did when team 7 arrived right in front of her as she opened the front door sweeping off the dust on the floor. Kakashi was brought to bed, where he opened his eyes suddenly, scaring the crap out of Sasuke and Naruto, who were trying to take off his mask.
'This is strange. I know that Zabuza is dead, but somehow I can't shake the feeling that I overlooked something. Wait a minute…Zabuza is still alive!'
"Attention team 7, Zabuza is still alive, but he won't show his face for at least a week due to his near death experience. Starting tomorrow, we will train."
-The next day-
"Ano…Kakashi-sensei? What are we doing here? Is this a part of our training?" Asked Hinata, even though she realized what Kakashi was doing leading them to the forest.
"How will we train, Kakashi?" Asked Sasuke.
'I have a shrewd suspicion that we are going to do some tree-climbing exercises.'
'You're probably right. Good thing that I had you learn it already.'
-Flashback-
'Naru-chan, today, we are going to climb trees. Simply apply a set amount of chakra to your feet, and climb with your feet parallel to the ground, like this.' Tear sends a mental image to Naruto.
'I could do that, easily.'
'You won't be good enough to simply walk up the tree at first. Try getting a running start.'
'Hai.' Naruto get's a running start on his tree, only to fall flat on his ass! After many more attempts, Naruto manages to get 50 feet up the 100 foot tree. Hinata soon joins Naruto. Soon after, Hinata, and then Naruto, reaches the top of their trees, to the astonishment of both Tear and Naruto.
'I think, that it is time…'
-End flashback-
"We are going to climb trees."
"But both Naruto and I can already do it." Said Hinata.
"I'm aware of that, so I will teach you another exercise, right after I demonstrate tree climbing to Sasuke."
Kakashi, crutches and all, proceeds to channel chakra into the soles of his feet, and proceeds to walk up the tree.
"Use that kunai to mark how high you can go, then try to surpass that mark. Naruto and Hinata, come, for I will show you the next step, water walking! Don't worry, Sasuke. I will teach it to you as well, after you finish this exercise."
Sasuke finished the exercise in surprisingly little time, so Kakashi was able to demonstrate water walking. Nobody picked it up right away, and Hinata took off her coat to prevent it from getting wet. This caused Naruto to have a nosebleed, and faint. Sasuke simply shook his head.
"Naruto-kun!" Shouts out Hinata in alarm, as she tries to wake up Naruto. Naruto regains consciousness, and proceeds to kiss her.
"Wha…what!'
