Kakashi looked up as Naruto shunshined into the apartment with a unconscious Kurenai reeking of alcohol. He noticed he was shirtless and Kurenai wore his black long sleeve shirt. Naruto began to explain as Anko and his teammates walked into the door. "I found Kurenai sensei in the alley being tied up by three Kiri-missing nins. So I killed them and rescued her." They nodded and Anko took Kurenai from Naruto's shoulders and headed upstairs. Naruto walked into his room before grabbing a new shirt and readjusting his tanto before he walked back downstairs. He went outside to train .
Naruto punched a log repeatedly as his anger channeling into his chakra. After a few hours of intense log punching Naruto sensed Kakashi in the clearing. He turned to see his Aniki with his book reading. "Hey Oututo Kurenai's awake shes wondering where you are."
Naruto nodded. He started to walk back to the house with Kakashi at his side as the two walked in the door.
Kurenai sat at the table eating dinner as Chouji and Kiba argued about who would stay home tomorrow. She looked up as the door opened and Naruto and Kakashi walked in. She nodded in their direction before returning to her food. Chouji and Kiba however got up and clapped Naruto's back. "Good job man." Naruto just laughed nervously at the praise. He didn't like to be in the spot light. Kakashi taught him to do the right thing and seek no reward. And he took the teaching to heart. Everyone's gaze shifted back to the table as Kurenai scouched her chair back causing a screech of protest by the chair. She got up and walked to the group as Kiba and Chouji followed Kakashi out of the room.
Kurenai stopped in front of Naruto as his eyes immediately locked onto hers. She always notcied how his eyes would immediately find women's eyes. His eyes never strayed on the body. She pulled him into a hug.
"Thank you for saving me Naruto." She however expected his reaction. He instead of hugging her back stepped back and looked back into her eyes. His gaze never faltered before he nodded. He offered her a two finger salute before he went upstairs to change out of his stained cloths.
Kurenai watched him go and sighed. She jumped as Anko appeared besides her. "Kurenai-chan I don't think Kakashi would approve of you eying his little brother like that." Kurenai laughed before turning.
"Anko I don't think Kakashi would argue much since I have a special genjutsu of Gai. And besides I wasn't looking at him like that I was just wondering when he became so much like Kakashi."
"The kid idolizes Kakashi so its only fitting he acts like him. You should go to sleep. You are going with Kakashi and the team to guard the bridge while I stay here with one of the genin to guard the house." Kurenai nodded and went up stairs. She passed by Naruto's room and caught a glimpse of scars on his back from the attacks when he was young. 'Kami Naruto you are stronger than us all.' She closed the door to her and Anko's toom before falling asleep.
The next morning Naruto woke up early and left his room he shared with Chouji and Kiba. He walked into the living room dressed ready to leave for the bridge and found Kiba and Kakashi sitting with Kurenai. Tazuna looked up and looked over to Kakashi. He rose and lead the group out of the house to the bridge. When they arrived Kakashi began to asses the bodies on the bridge before he sensed a chakra induced mist.
"Kiba escort Tazuna home now. Naruto you locate the hunter nin from before and take him out. Kurenai your with me we have to take out Zabuza." Naruto nodded before he took off into the mist. Kakashi's hand rached up to grab his headband when he felt to massive arms grab him from behnd.
"Now Kakashi if you're a great ninja you shouldn't need a pesky eye." Kurenai was wide eyed at how Zabuza just appear but quickly over came her shock and began to mold chakra. Her hands bega nto form seals but faltered when she felt a senbon pressed to her neck. Naruto turned and saw the situation and quickly made two clones. The mist completey receded and Zabuza saw three Narutos. He smirked and launched three kunai but the three blocked the kunai before one pulled out a smoke pellet and threw it at Zabuza's feet. Before he could slit Kakashi's throat though he felt a spike of chakra before he screamed in shock as a kunai pierced his leg. Looking down he saw Naruto in front of him with Kakashi freed and his eye exposed. He turned and saw another Naruto in place of Kurenai in his partner's arms. He cursed as the two captives poofed into smoke.
Kakashi quickly took charge of the situation and charged as Kurenai placed a genjutsu on the two missing nins. However it was quickly dispelled but not before Kakashi landed a kunai in Zabuza's side. The demon of the bloody mist however just laughed as he pulled it out and launched it at Kurenai. She easily blocked it and began another series of hand seals. Haku however threw a wave of senbon at her. She eyed them and then dove to the side dodging them all before retaliating with kunai. Haku went to dodge them but was kicked back into the path by Naruto. The blond however screamed as Haku flipped him in front of himself thus forcing Naruto to be impaled with the kunai. Then Haku and the wounded Naruto landed on the ground. Haku formed a seal and all the water on the brdge and from the water below formed a dome of ice. Haku slowly stepped into a mirror before disappearing inside.
Kurenai watched in horro as Naruto was impaled with the kunai. Her kunai that she threw. She immediately filled woth guilt but not before she saw the enemy form a dome. Kurenai charged forward ad threw exploding seals at it only for the dome to be unharmed. She turned just as kakashi was thrown from his taijutsu match wit hZabuza and impacted against a slowly got up before Zabuza charged and violently kicked Kurenai in the chest sending her through a crack in the dome of mirrors.
Naruto looked over as a second person slammed into the ground beside him. He looked over as Kurenia got up from her back and cursed. He turned back and started a chain of hand seals. "Katon: kunren!" A long tongue of fire shot from his mouth and began to spin in a tight circle as it slammed into the ice mirror in front of him. There was a masssive exlosion of steam as the fire met ice. But as it cleared the mirror was undamaged as senbon shot out. Naruto dove to doge but he dove straight into another path of senbon which landed all down his chest and were driven in deeper as he slamme dinto the ground. Kurenai immediately jumped to defend her student when hundreds of kunai shot towards her. She screamed out in pain as they slammed into her body faster than she could form a protective jutsu. She fell with blood leaking from her mouth. Naruto turned his head and saw his sensei fallen and felt rage build as it assaulted his mind. As Kurenai laid motionless his resolved weakened until the rage overtook his mind.
Kakashi felt a massive aura of killer intent as a explosion of chakra destroyed the dome of mirrors and launched the fake hunter nin off the brodge into the bay below. Kakashi and Zabuza both stopped as Naruto exited the battle zone with a severly wounded Kurenai. He set her down as Zabuza wearily eyed Naruto before clapping was heard. Naruto still covered in a red cloak of chakra whipped around to see a business man with an army of thugs. Zabuza growled.
"Ah Zabuza I am here since your too expensive to pay. So these guys are going to kill you and these other ninjas as well as kill the bridge builder and his family." Zabuza turned to Kakashi. "We need to work together to take them down most of these are ninjas sworn to Gato but the majority are chunin level with a few jounins."
Kakashi nodded but Naruto still influenced by the fox charged into to the enemy cutting his way to Gato and snapping the man's neck. Zabuza's cleaver flew through the crowd and cut several down as Kakashi ran through with a kunai cutting and stabbing. Kakashi turned and began a chain of hand seals. "Katon: Kasumi Endu no jutsu!" All the remaining ninja under Gato were soaked in the flammable gas as Zabuza slashed his sword across the bridge creating a spark and instantly all the enemy were engulfed in flames.
Anko stared down two samurai as they held Tazuna's daughter and Inari hostage. Kiba and Chouji stood behind her as they to stared them down. Then Anko's snakes shot out of her sleeves and quickly bite the two enemy on the throat killing them as the venom coarsed thorugh their veins. They looked up as Naruto, a wounded Kurenai, and Zabuza returned to the house Anko stared at Zabuza until Kakashi explained. "He wants to join the leaf in exchange for protection from Kirigakure. We will bring him to the Hokage that's it. Now heal Kurenai." Anko nodded and began to heal Kurenai's wounds to find out that the needles punctured pressure points and nerves to knock her out. The worst wound was her half bitten through tongue from her head slamming into the bridge. She delivered the report to Kakashi who nodded and decied to have naruto send a wave of clones with Tazuna to finish the bridge. The next day the group finished the brige and Kurenai was back up. The group traveled back to their village and Zabuza was accepted as a member of Kohonagakure's Shinobi corp as a jounin.