A/N There's going to be more fighting in this chapter. If you think I can improve my battle scenes, please leave suggestions and such.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Our heroes were, walking, still.

The four genin were so bored. "Hey! When are we going to get to kick some ass." Naruto wanted a fight for awhile now.

"Have patience Naruto." Huyu was eyeing a puddle to his left. 'What the hell? It hasn't rained recently. What is it doing there then?' Huyu couldn't pin point it, but he knew something was off. Although Naruto can be observant about people, he doesn't really show his observance skills for things like this.

Kakashi looked over at Huyu and then looked at the puddle. He nodded, 'So you've noticed to. Let's see what happens.' Just then Kakashi was rapped in chains with spikes attached to them. He looked over at his team. "Remember the mission. Protect Tazuna." Then he was ripped to shreds.

"KAKASHI-SENSEI!!" Sakura was scared now. Her sensei was killed by some unknown source and they still had to protect Tazuna.

"Sakura. Get in front of Tazuna and stay their." Huyu extended his claws and taunted the mist nin that jumped down in front of him. "Bring it on."

The mist-nin laughed. "Ha ha ha! You think you can take me on tiny. Well you've got another thing coming. Nice claws, I might have to take them from you." He leapt at Huyu with his claw and struck him down. Only to find it was a Kage Bunshin. "Up here dip shit." Huyu nose dived at the enemy and pushed his arms forward to kill him, but the nin rolled out of the way.

"Nice try runt, but you can't beat me." He charged at Huyu, just to receive a round-house kicked to the face by Sasuke.

"To slow loser." This pissed off the mist-nin. He charged right at them, the intent to kill pouring off of him.

"DIE!!" He threw his claw forward only to come in contact with one of Huyu's claws. "Nice try bub, but it's not going to work that easily." Huyu reared his other hand back and smashed his claws through the enemy. Then Sasuke jumped up and did a drop kick like maneuver to finish him off.

"Nice." Huyu commented.

"You too." Sasuke nodded.

With Naruto

Naruto was frozen still. He didn't know what to do, he was watching Huyu and Sasuke fight that other guy, when all of a sudden…

"Time to die." Was whispered behind him. He couldn't move, he was too scared to.

Just then Kakashi came out of know where and knocked out the Nin, with ease. "Fuck that." Kakashi mumbled. "No ones dieing on my watch."

"Kakashi-sensei? How the hell are you still alive?!" Sakura shouted.

"I used a replacement jutsu before they killed me. I wanted to see how you guys would do. Good job." Kakashi eye smiled at his team.

Naruto was still standing on his spot when they were ready to go. 'If it weren't for Kakashi-sensei, I would be dead. I can't believe I just stood there.'

"Hey!" Huyu called to him. He saw Naruto's reaction to almost being killed and knew how to make him determined in the next fight. Unfortunately, Sasuke spoke up.

"You okay, Scaredy-cat?" Sasuke smirked at him.

Naruto was pissed; he wanted to prove he could do better so he did something totally unexpected. He took a kunai out of his pouch and stabbed himself in the hand. "I promise on this blood that, I won't quit and I won't run, and I never go back on my word, that's my nindo." Naruto finished and took the kunai out of his hand. His wound healing automatically.

'Hm. Must be the Kyuubi power.' Thought Kakashi. Huyu had other thoughts.

'Good job Naruto.'

"Okay Tazuna, we need to talk." Kakashi was pissed that they were attacked by nuke-nin on a C-rank mission. "Your obviously lying about what rank this mission is. We were attacked by missing-nin, why?" Kakashi glared at Tazuna, waiting for his answer.

Tazuna was sweating bullets. "Okay I'm being hunted by shinobi, because this guy named Gato is trying to stop me from finishing this bridge I'm building. The bridge will help with the economy, thus, he would lose control over Wave. We're a poor country and we couldn't afford anything more than a C-ranked mission."

"We should just go back to the village for this Tazuna." Kakashi hissed.

"NO! Lets finish the mission Kakashi-sensei. They need our help." The Uzumaki brothers simultaneously shouted at Kakashi. He looked at the other two members of Team 7 and received a nod. Then he looked back at the two in front of him. 'Damn, when they synchronize what their saying, it's really annoying.'

"Alright we'll finish the mission. We need a place to rest though."

"Once we get to Wave, you guys can stay at my place until we're done." Tazuna was grateful that they were going to finish the mission. So he decided that they shouldn't have to pay for an apartment on the mission.

20 minutes later

Naruto just threw a kunai at a bush claiming he felt something, only to have a white rabbit role out of the bushes dazed from almost being killed.

"Naruto baka! You almost killed an innocent animal!" Sakura scolded and bopped Naruto on the head. He picked up the rabbit and pleaded.

"I love animals, besides I swear I felt something else." He started rubbing the rabbits head.

'Hm. That's a winter bunny, was it captured somewhere else and used for a replacement jutsu.' Kakashi was mulling this over when all of the sudden he heard a whistle of something flying through the air. "EVERYBODY GET DOWN!" Everybody dropped to the ground just in time for the gigantic sword that was hurled at them, to go over their heads and into a tree. Then out of no where a man landed on top of the hilt.

"You guys got lucky." He stated flatly, as he took his sword out of the tree and stared down the group.

"So, we get to meet each other, Momochi Zabuza, Demon of the Bloody Mist." Kakashi was on guard, never taking his visible eye off of the masked swordsmen. Then he lifted up his forehead protector to reveal the sharingan in his left eye. "You four stay back and guard Tazuna, this fight is out of your league." Kakashi ordered.

"Oooo. I get to fight Hatake Kakashi, or should I say Kakashi no Sharingan? This'll be fun." Zabuza chuckled to himself. He made some hand seals, all of the sudden mist surrounded the area. "Now you see me, now you don't."

Kakashi looked back at the group and saw that Zabuza was going to kill his students and Tazuna, luckily though, he interfered with a kunai. "Nice block, but how long can you keep it up for?" With that said they were nothing but blurs. You could hear the sounds of metal clashing with metal throughout the area.

'Shit. We can't do anything but watch.' Huyu was looking around to see if there would be anything useful for him to use. 'Damn I need water.' Just then he remembered there was a pond right behind Zabuza before he put up the mist jutsu. 'Bingo!' He was doing a victory dance in his head.

Just then, he saw Kakashi and Zabuza standing on the pond. "Okay. Lets see if you can escape this." Zabuza sped threw some hand signs. "Suiton: Mizu Keimusho no Jutsu." Zabuza stuck his hand out toward Kakashi. Suddenly, Kakashi was in a sphere of water.

"Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu." Water from the pond rose into the air, then formed a copy of Zabuza, sword and all. It started making its way toward the group, then about 10 feet out it stopped.

Huyu was mulling over something he read about Mizu bunshins, then, snapped his fingers. "Got it! Mizu bunshins need to stay close to a water supply to sustain itself. This thing can't move anymore." Huyu grinned with triumph.

"That's right." Kakashi looked to his students. "All of you take Tazuna and run, your no match for this guy! He's preoccupied with me and his bunshin can't reach you so GO NOW!" Kakashi was hollering at them, hoping they would just run for the hills.

'Ha. Sorry but I'm not going anywhere.' Thought Huyu.

'Is he crazy? Even if we do run, he'll kill Kakashi-sensei and eventually catch up to us.' Sasuke was worried, extremely.

'Crap. We're as good as dead if we don't listen to Kakashi.' Naruto was about to turn and run. He put his hand on the ground and stopped. 'Wait. I made a promise, and I don't go back on my words. Hold on Kaka-sensei, we'll get you out of their.' Naruto tightened his headband as he got up. "Hey! Huyu, Sasuke! You guys up for delivering an ass wupping?!"

"Hm?" Huyu looked at Zabuza then to his friends. "Well there's three of us and one of him so, HELL YEAH!!" Huyu and Naruto created Kage Bunshins and charged at Zabuza's clone. The clone just smirked, extended his sword and swung himself in a circle, knocking back every clone.

"We have no choice!" Naruto yelled as he threw a fuma shuriken at Sasuke. Sasuke caught it with ease, understanding the plan.

"I see."

Sasuke launched himself in the air and threw the shuriken at Zabuza. To Zabuza's surprise, it went past the bunshin and flew straight at him.

"Ha! Too easy." Zabuza caught the shuriken with his free hand. Then out of know where another shuriken came flying at him. "Still to easy." He jumped over the shuriken with ease. Only to have it turn into Naruto. At about this time Huyu finished going threw a set of hand seals and shouted. "Hyouton: Buki Danmaku no Jutsu!" 50 ice weapons floated above Huyu's head.

"FIRE!" Naruto yelled as he threw a kunai at Zabuza. At the exact same time Huyu launched his ice jutsu.

'Shit, I have to move out of the way or else I'm dead. DAMN IT I'M GOING TO KILL THEM!' The furious Zabuza jumped out of the way just in time, thus, releasing the Mizu Keimusho.

'Great plan boys. You did well.' "I'm proud of you guys, but now go back to protecting Tazuna. I'll make sure he doesn't do that again."

"YATTA! We did it Huyu, Sasuke!" Naruto was overly excited about their accomplishment.

"THAT'S IT! YOUR ALL DEAD!!" Zabuza charged at the four genin when all of the sudden Kakashi launched a punch at Zabuza. Zabuza jumped back onto the pond.

"Your opponent, is me."

"Fine." Zabuza sped through hand seals, Kakashi put his hands up and copied the same seals. "What the hell? How are you able to do that, you dirty dog?!" Near the end of his sentence Kakashi started saying the same thing as Zabuza in synchronized fashion.

'What? Can he read my mind?' "Can you read my mind with that sharingan or something?"

"Yes I can, and I predict your end." They hit the last seal and shouted. "Suiton: Mizu Ryuudan Soufuu no Jutsu!" Two, seven feet tall dragons made out of water flew into the air and launched at each other, canceling out. Zabuza decided to change the pace. All of the sudden the pond was making waves, eventually it was running through the forest taking everybody with it.

Zabuza hit a tree and was pinned there. He looked up to see Kakashi standing on a branch above him, with a kunai in his hand he said. "Your end is near." Then out of nowhere.

Two senbon needles flew through the air and nailed Zabuza in the neck. Instantly killing him. "Thank you very much for exhausting Zabuza for me." A boy said by a tree. He was wearing a red robe with a black fishnet shirt under it, and was wearing shinobi hand guards. He also was wearing a white mask with some red design running diagonally across it.

"You must be hunter-nin from Mizugakure, considering your mask." Kakashi stated.

"Yes, I am. Now if you'll excuse me, I must be going." Then he disappeared.

'Damn it. He took our kill.' Were the thoughts of the three young boys on Team 7.

"So that's it? We don't do anything?" Naruto seethed through his teethe.

Kakashi looked at Naruto. "That's right. He will dispose of Zabuza's body now to make sure no one can take the secrets inside of his body." 'But usually hunter-nin does it on the spot. Something's up.' "Alright, lets get goin-…" Kakashi halted in his tracks, then, face planted to the ground.

"Kakashi-sensei!" The students yelled.

'It must have been chakra exhaustion, along with overdoing it with the sharingan. But that's just a hunch.' "Hey Tazuna!" said man looked at the boy. "How much further until we get to your house?"

"About a half-hour."

"Alright lets go then."

At Tazuna's house 2 hours later

Kakashi finally woke up and team 7 was trying to think of a plan. They came to the conclusion that the boy who took Zabuza's body was his subordinate. Now, they had to figure out what to do, Kakashi was bed ridden for two weeks and they didn't know when Zabuza was going to show up again.

"Well. I guess I'll just teach you something to work on your chakra control." Team 7 was looking at him expectantly. "Let's go outside."

In a forest near by

"Okay. You have to climb a tree." All four sweat dropped.

"What the hell? How is that going to help us fight Zabuza?" Naruto asked confused.

"Let me finish, and I'll get to that. You can't use your hands." He then turned to the tree and proceeded to straightly walk up the tree. When he reached a branch, he hung off it upside down.

"Okay then."

"Alright." He threw kunai on the ground. "Use these to mark how far you get up." He went and sat down against a tree.

"I've got this down." Huyu walked up the tree to almost exactly where Kakashi got to before he launched himself off of the tree. "Okay maybe not."

"That was pretty good Huyu." Kakashi complimented.

The rest of team 7 tried going up the trees. Sasuke made it half way up, Naruto made it just a little bit under Sasuke and Sakura made it a little bit over the half way point before almost exhausting herself. Huyu made it to the top after about ten minutes.

"Wow." 'Huyu was right, Sakura's control is good because of how small a supply she has, but Huyu shouldn't have that great control if he has the same amount of chakra as Naruto and couldn't even make a bunshin. Some things up.' Kakashi mulled this over a little before he called to Huyu. "Huyu! Follow me."

The boy complied and they walked off a little ways away from the others, they were near a lake. "Okay, what's the deal with your control?" Kakashi asked flatly.

"Uh, um, okay here's the thing. I actually have better control then Naruto, because I read stuff up in my spare time and such. I wanted to tell him about it but then I thought it would be better for him to learn on his own. That way he would get more experience from it."

"Okay. But that doesn't explain how you couldn't make a bunshin."

"Oh. Well I didn't feel like leaving Naruto in the academy and continuing forward. It is his dream, after all, to become Hokage. So I failed the exam on purpose so I could help Naruto. He would have done the same for me and I know it." Huyu said with finality.

Kakashi 'hmed' to himself then said. "Well, well, well. Your actually telling me something about yourself."

"It's only because you saved my brother and I found out about the sharingan you have."

"Fair enough. Listen I wanted to teach you some water and ice jutsus, Sasuke and Naruto some Taijutsu stances and Sakura some genjutsu, when all of you were done. I could give you the jutsus I was going to teach you now though, if you want so you can work on them?"

"Hell yes." Huyu stated excitedly.

"Okay. Pay close attention. I call this Hyouton: Buki Koori Bunshin no Jutsu." He made hand seals and then a ice dagger formed in his hand. "This allows you to make an ice copy of any weapon you've ever seen. The catch is after you use it for awhile or if its not that strong it will break. All you have to do is think about the weapon you want to copy, or if it helps say the name of the weapon out loud while thinking about, the image, shape, etc. Also, if a weapon has a special ability, the ice copy won't get that trait." Kakashi lectured. "The other one is a suiton jutsu. It's called, Suiton: Mizu Chinbotsu no jutsu. If you are standing on top of a body of water, and you perform this jutsu, it will get the water to swallow you up and you can move around freely under water while hidden from your enemy. Also, it forms an air bubble around you for as long as you have chakra and maintain focus. If you don't, well then you better know how to swim. You can also perform other jutsu while under water, but it's harder because of the focus you need to keep the air bubble up." Kakashi finished this by showing him the hand seals. "Got it?"

"Hai." Huyu responded.

"Okay, I'm going to go check on the rest of them. Ja ne." With that said Huyu went to work on his training.

When Kakashi got back to the tree climbing area, he found out that Sakura finished the tree walking exercise. "Hey! Sakura follow me." The girl complied and walked off quite a bit a way from the area.

"Okay. I'm going to teach you a genjutsu."

"Thank you Kaka-sensei." Sakura praised with the nickname for her sensei.

"It's called, Ninpo: Osoi Ninshiki no Jutsu." He showed her the hand seals. "Depending on the person, this can disorient them from being just a little slow to not know what's going on what-so-ever. For example; say you and an ally run into an enemy that's able to block and dodge everything you throw at them. Well you pull this jutsu on him, your ally goes to punch him but he doesn't realize it until the fist makes contact with their face. Disorienting the enemy is very useful for a shinobi. Oh. It also works on more then one target at a time if you focus and have enough chakra." Kakashi seemed to be lecturing a lot lately but it was good for them to learn.

"Okay Kaka-sensei. I'll get right on the jutsu." Sakura bellowed, determined to prove her worth to everybody. 'I won't be a burden. I'll show you Huyu.' With that said sakura went to work and Kakashi left to check on the boys.

Naruto and Sasuke barely made any progress from where they were when Kakashi came to get Sakura. They were only a little bit over the half way spot. He decided, since it was getting late, if they finished soon he would just call everyone in to the house and give them the jutsu tomorrow.

10 Minutes later

Tsunami, Inari's mother, came out around a tree and looked at the group. "Hey, if you guys are hungry, come to the house, dinners ready."

"Thank you Tsunami-san." Kakashi then turned to his right. "Naruto, go get Huyu so we can eat."

"Okay." Naruto turned to his left and put his hands up next to his mouth. "HUYU!!"

"WHAT!!" Huyu responded. Sasuke started laughing at this.

"DINNERS READY!!"

"SWEET!!" Tsunami couldn't help but chuckle. "I'LL BE RIGHT THERE!!"

"Alright Kakashi-sensei, he's comin'." Kakashi just face palmed while he shook his head.

"Hai, Naruto I heard." Then Sakura showed up.

"What the hell was that?" Sakura asked.

"Kakashi-sensei asked Naruto to go get Huyu for dinner." Sasuke chuckled.

"Oh. You should have known Kaka-sensei."

Kakashi sighed. When Huyu showed up, they made their way to the house.

At the house

Naruto and Huyu were devouring their food like there was no tomorrow. "Seconds please!"

"Seconds?" Sakura questioned. "Your on like the eighth bowl or something!" She yelled. "Quit eating like pigs."

"It's quite alright, Sakura-san, I made a lot more food then needed. I figured they'd be hungry after training like that." Tsunami insured it was okay while giving them their eighth bowl of food.

Sakura was looking around the room, admiring it, the house wasn't big, but it was cozy. She came across a picture that had a tear in it where, she assumed, someone was standing. "Excuse me, Tsunami-san, who's the person that was torn out of the picture?"

Tsunami, Tazuna and Inari paled at the question. "He was my husband. He died awhile ago." Inari got up and ran upstairs. It was a glimpse but Huyu could swear he saw tears.

"What happened, if you don't mind my asking?" Huyu was interested about what happened.

"It was that bastard Gato. It started when he came to the Wave looking to take it over for his own greed. He wanted to make it a terminus, if you will, for his ships to drop off, pick up, and fill up on oil and many other goods. I was trying to build a bridge so we could get more travelers and merchants threw here. It would be good for our economy but not good for Gato's business. So he has been trying to stop my efforts to build the bridge and it's working because of those hired goons and missing-nin of his. One day Inari's dad, the Hero of the Wave, confronted Gato and refused to do anything for him. Gato decided to make an example out of him. So he executed him in broad day light for everyone to see, including Inari." Tazuna finished his tale wiping a tear from his eye. "Since then Inari gave up on believing in heroes."

"Well then I guess we'll have to show him that there is such a thing as heroes." Naruto stood up pumping his fist in the air.

"Once I'm threw with Gato," Huyu started, getting the attention of everyone. Extending his claws he finished. "he's going to beg me for his death."

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Translations:

Mizu Bunshin - Water Clone

Suiton: Mizu Keimusho – Water Style: Water Prison

Suiton: Mizu Chinbotsu – Water Style: Water Submerging

Hyouton: Buki Danmaku – Ice Style: Weapon Barrage

Hyouton: Buki Koori Bunshin – Ice Style: Weapon Ice Clone

Ninpo: Osoi Ninshiki – Ninja Art: Late Recognition

Suiton: Mizu Ryuudan Soufuu - Water Style: Water Dragon Blast