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Sorry the chapter was so late everyone = S, ma bad anyway enjoy the show!...or narrative which ever you prefer.

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Naruto awoke to the sound of screaming, he shot up out of his tent kunai ready in his hand, looking around wildly he spotted Kakashi and Sasuke in the same defensive position he was in, while behind them was a terrified looking Tazuna. All tensed as a rustle came from the nearby foliage, Naruto's eyes narrowed as he raised his kunai ready to strike when needed, that is until he saw Sakura's tear-stained face, looking around wildly for any rogue shinobi that might have held her captive. He stood their confused until he realized why she had been crying, taking another look at her he fell to the floor bursting with laughter. Tazuna's boisterous laugh soon joined his, Kakashi gave a little chuckle why Sasuke gave an amused smirk, Sakura glared at them all.

Standing in front of them was a fuming white haired Sakura, her hair seemed to be dyed poorly with paint and was sticking up in all places. The paint seemed to have dried and crusted over night making it look as if she had a terrible dandruff problem. Sakura turned and fixated her glare on Naruto who looked up at her meeting her gaze, tears in his eyes from laughing so hard "You know, I don't think people were trying to be literal when they said 'Christmas in July' Sakura" He chocked out between all the laughter "Naruto"

She growled out, sadness forgotten, she strode forward towards the laughing blond who took no notice of her "You did this didn't you" She stated menacingly, Naruto's laughter stopped almost immediately, he gave her angry frown,

"Sakura I know you're mad but you shouldn't go wrongly accusing people like that." The pi-er-white haired female's glare turned into an icy storm as her anger reached whole new levels. Her whole body shook as she tried to control her anger and refrain herself from killing the young shinobi in front of her, but unfortunately was doing a poor job at it, thankfully Kakashi happened to intervene at this moment to stop the situation from developing into something uncontrollable.

"Ma, Sakura calm down I'm sure theirs a perfectly reasonable explanation for how and why this happened" Kakashi said nervously, his visible eye in an upturned 'U' shape, while his hands were in front of him stopping the pi-er-white haired girl from stepping any further towards Naruto. Sakura gave her sensei a disbelieving look, clenching her fists she rose one arm so the her fist was next to her face, narrowing her eyes, eyebrows twitching she shook in anger

"Kaka-sensei… HOW CAN THEIR BE A LOGICAL EXPLINATION FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS!" she shouted pointing at her head, more specifically her hair. That was it for Tazuna who burst out laughing clutching his stomach, Naruto soon joined him dropping back on the floor in fits of laughter, Sasuke who was watching from the side-lines with Tazuna gave a little chuckle. Kakashi gave Sakura a sympathetic one-eyed smile, his hands still in front of him stopping a fuming Sakura from murdering anybody (namely Naruto).

Having calmed everyone down Sakura continued to accuse Naruto for ruining her hair, Naruto in turn argued that he was innocent of the 'crime' committed. Kakashi finally made Sakura agree to wait 'till they get to Tazuna's house to fix it, brushing her now unruly hair, well trying to, she just gave up and tied it into a high messy bun, letting a few strands fall onto her features before begrudgingly agreeing to her sensei's proposition and all were again on the road and on their way to Tazuna's house.

Looking back Naruto slowed his pace evening it with Sasuke's, "You couldn't wait until we pranked Kakashi?" Naruto mumbled under his breath folding his arms behind his head. Sasuke smirked, shrugging he said "You were taking your time I had to do something to pass the time, besides she was getting on my nerves" He murmured back to his blond comrade.

"Hmm" Looking back at Sasuke he smirked "You're really catching on to this prank thing, almost like a natural" Sasuke smirked "I'm a natural at everything dobe, I'm still surprised at how slow you can be" Naruto let out a little growl, turning away from the raven he let out a little "hmph" 'Well not like I didn't see that one coming…Damn that arrogant bastard'.

Soon all five of them found themselves on a boat, crossing over to the land of the waves, a mist seemed to have settled in the surrounding area. Naruto peered over the edge of the boat at an unfinished bridge, but although unfinished it was still impressive, the blond smiled at the bridge all the while thinking how much good the old man was doing for his country.

Tazuna caught the smile and smiled himself, he tilted his hat to hide it, suddenly the boat started to rock as Naruto jumped up and down in excitement pointing at the bridge "old man, old man, that's your bridge right! right!" Tazuna didn't have time to answer as he grabbed onto the boat, hoping not to fall over the edge from all the rocking, everyone else following his lead "O-oi! Dobe! Stop jumping you're rocking the boat baka!"

Naruto stopped and turned to Sasuke a smirk on his face, "Why scared Uchiha?" he taunted Sasuke glared at him "I'm not scared of anything dobe"

"Oh really" his smirk got wider, suddenly planting a horrfied look on his face he pointed behind the raven and shouted "The Fan-girls are coming!" Sasuke's eyes widened as both he and Kakashi hid behind Naruto screaming. Naruto looked oddly at Kakashi as did everyone else, the silver haired jounin rubbed the back of his head "Ma, we all got our problems"

Sakura giggled, Naruto, Tazuna and Sasuke sweatdropped 'What kind of taste do girls have these days?' the blond thought as he looked down at a smiling Kakashi, shaking his head he sighed.

"We'll be their soon" the owner of the boat said suddenly, Naruto sat back down resting his back on the side of the boat, his arms resting on the edge, as Tazuna and the boats owner discussed the best possible way to cross without being detected. The blond looked back down into the deep abyss that was the sea, his heart skipped a beat as he saw a large shadow move under the surface of the water. Turning around he leaned back over the edge trying to make out what the object might be, 'Probably just a fish' he reasoned with himself, he clearly remembered the fight with Zabuza to be on land….although Kakashi did get trapped in a sphere made of water… he reached in his pouch digging out a kunai.

"What are you doing Dobe?" Sasuke mumbled, Naruto turned to look at his team-mate his finger on his lip, Kakashi looked at them from over his book, suddenly tense sneaking his own hand into his pouch he pulled out his own kunai hiding it discreetly. Taking it upon himself to look over his side of the boat he found himself shooting back as a large (A/N: and I'm talking 7meters long) 'fish', jaws wide open, hundreds of razor teeth protruding out of red gums, deep black beady eyes, soaked in water leaped out of the water diving over them and the boat. Everyone stopped and stared awed until Naruto said

"It's a shark"

That's when it hit them, they were alone in the middle of the mist, on a boat surrounded by water with no way of getting help. The shark rocked the boat as it entered the waters surface again, creating a large wave to wash over them, a-now-soaking-wet-Naruto looked over his side of the boat excitedly

"Ne,ne Kakashi-sensei, can we keep him?" everyone turned to Naruto to see if he was joking looking over they were sorely disappointed to see that his eyes were shining like a kid whose Christmas came early. He was giddy with excitement as the shark surfaced again it's black beady eye studying them, before going under again "Sugoi! So cool, please Kakashi-sensei, I promise I'll take care of it and feed it…" (he glanced side ways at Sakura, who shrunk away eyes wide with terror) "…Ne do you think I can teach it how to roll over?" Naruto shook with glee a happy grin on his face suddenly he stopped and put his finger to his jaw in a thinking manner he said to himself

"I wonder how long it take's for a shark to maul a human?" he glanced sideways again catching Sasuke's eye along the way, amusement danced in the ravens eyes. 'great way to pass the time, isn't it dobe'

"Should we test it out?" he suddenly found himself saying as he also glanced at Sakura who didn't know weather to be mad with rage or wetting her pants terrified she decided for the first option, she shook with anger and shouted with al her might "NO!" both boys looked at her then turned away saying "Party pooper"

Kakashi sweatdropped along with Tazuna, the boats owner looked at them like they were all nut cases (A/N: well they are). Kakashi saw the shark coming a full speed , Naruto also noticed only his face was shining with delight in a matter of seconds he said as fast as he could "No, Naruto you can't have it, no matter how much you try it won't work, you can't transport a shark, and no you can't test feed Sakura to it and finally are you freaking crazy!?"

Taking a much needed breath he tossed Naruto out of the way just as the shark surfaced once again diving towards them at unimaginable speed, but fortunately Kakashi was faster and whipped out his katana slicing the beast in half. Naruto gasped "No Kisame" Sasuke turned around "you named it?" Naruto nodded depressed "And after a strong warrior too" Sasuke gave Naruto a confused look, "…Warroir?" Naruto nodded again pulling a book out from his pocket flipping the pages he stopped and showed Sasuke, who read out the name "Kisame Hoshigaki" Kakashi whipped around after putting away his Katana.

"Where did you get that?!" he said pointing at the book, both males looked up from the book "Hm, this? I got it out of your back pocket, it's a good read at night when I'm bored" Kakashi sweatdropped, suddenly the boats owner butted in "We're here" finally, thank God he added to himself, Naruto looked around I didn't know we were moving Sakura gave him a –you're-an-idiot-look before getting off the boat. "Well he does look like him" Sasuke said looking back towards the shark, "I think they're cousins" Naruto said also looking curiously at the photo and the shark, Sasuke just nodded in agreement, creeping up behind them Sakura let out a gasp of surprise,"they do look the same!" both males turned towards her and nodded, Kakashi just sweatdropped again, hauling the creatures head off the boat.

After all were off Tazuna and the boats owner exchanged a few words before all were on their way again; Coming closer to a clearing and looking around, Naruto found the place familiar as his eyes landed on the lake up ahead his senses suddenly became sharper, on pure instinct he whipped a kunai out of pouch embedding it deep into a trunk of a tree. Suddenly on full alert Kakashi put away his book, searching the bushes where the kunai was thrown he came out holding a scared to death white rabbit, looking at it curiously Sakura rounded onto Naruto shouting at him for playing around and almost injuring a innocent rabbit.

Ignoring her, Naruto studied his surroundings, suddenly realization hit both Naruto and Kakashi, the young shinobi's ears pricked as he heard a large object whirr through the air heading straight for them, tackling Tazuna to the ground he yelled "GET DOWN" Sasuke who was now closest to Sakura tackled her down to the floor while Kakashi dodged the oncoming sword. Picking themselves up they looked up just in time to see the sword curve up and imbed itself into a nearby tree, suddenly a large figure landed on the hilt of the sword gazing down at them. His gaze landed on Kakashi, who tensed ready for battle, smirking a little his eyes bored into Kakashi's visible one.

"No wonder the demon brothers were defeated, Sharingan Kakashi, sorry but….the old man is mine." Sasuke's eye's widened 'Sharingan!?' Tazuna and Sakura lifted themselves off the floor, alarmed and confused, Kakashi never backed down, he narrowed his eye trying to identify the shinobi in front of him, finally identifying him he reached up for his forehead-protector. "Well, well if it isn't Momochi Zabuza, Demon of the Bloody Mist, A-ranked missing-nin…"

"Oh, so you've heard of me.."

"…Also nothing I can't handle"

Kakashi said giving the missing-nin a one eyed smile as he lifted up his protector revealing his Sharingan eye, Zabuza's eyes narrowed in annoyance at the comment "Surround and protect Tazuna, do not enter the battle" The silver haired shinobi called to his students from over his shoulder. Immediately Sakura did as she was told Sasuke was a little slower as he did this, his mind on Kakashi's Sharingan eye, not quite sure what to make of it. Soon both genin were in front of a shaking Tazuna.

"Ah, I already get to see the famous Sharingan. I'm honored"

"So you should be, come"

Faster then the 'normal' eye could see Zabuza shot out of his original position and disappeared reappearing on the lake up ahead, the water unsettled and swirled around his legs, he kept his head down, his right hand in front of his chest only his index finger pointed up touching the tip of his jaw, while his left hand was in the air his all but his index and middle finger were down.

'He's releasing a high amount of chakra' Kakashi assessed

"Ninpou..Hidden Mist no Jutsu"

All too sudden Zabuza seemed to disappear, and the area was suddenly enveloped in a thick mist "H-He, disappeared" Sakura gasped out, she clenched the kunai in her hand tighter, eye's wide with alert, Sasuke kept his cool, examining his surroundings. All was quiet until Kakashi spoke his thoughts out loud, not only warning his students but also reminding himself and them that he was not invincible.

"He'll come after me first. Momochi Zabuza as a member of the Hidden Mist…he was known as an expert in silent killing. You don't even notice that you're dead. It's not like I can use my Sharingan perfectly. You guys be careful."

All the while no one noticed their small bundle of sunshine joy was….missing.

Naruto hopped from tree to tree a wide smile on his face, the soft wind blowing in his face as he rushed through the foliage concealing himself within the forests shelter he snuck up behind a nearby figure, their hair tied into a tight bun having part of the front of their hair frame their petit face, although it was covered by a strange looking red and white mask, with the mist symbol on top of it.

Grabbing a kunai he silently made his way towards the shinobi before quicker then the normal eye could see he had pulled out a kunai and pressed it against Haku's throat. Although not seen Haku's eyes widened and froze completely, "Ne, missing-nin kun want to make a deal?" the whisker marked child asked enthusiastically. Haku shook out of his stupor and calmed his nerves "Shinobi-san I am not a missing-nin, I am a hunter-nin from the mist" he began keeping his voice from shaking from fear of being caught.

"Ah, is that right?" Naruto asked a mocking edge to his voice, his features were upturned into an amused smile, "Then why is it that you have not come down to help us, a group of genins being attacked ruthlessly by a dangerous A-ranked missing-nin while their sensei is caught trapped in a water prison. You would think that help would come in such a hopeless situation."

"Shinobi-san, I would help but unfortunately you are the one who is keeping me from doing so" Haku replied coolly, Naruto blinked then grinned bashfully, he chuckled a bit "I guess I am" Letting go of the male, Haku spun around throwing a senbon aimed straight for Naruto's neck, said blond stood their watching passively as the senbon drew closer to hitting it's target, before swatting it away effortlessly. Haku's eye's widen but before he could do anything else, the genin disappeared and reappeared behind Haku, kunai once again back in its original position

"See, I told you, you were a Missing-nin" he said cheerfully, all the while smiling at Haku, who gritted his teeth. "So…how about you listen to my proposition?"

Meanwhile, the rest of team seven and Tazuna were in a dire situation as Sasuke and Sakura found themselves up against an A-ranked missing-nin's clone and even though it was just a clone it was still much more powerful then them. What was worse was, their sensei had made a rookie mistake and underestimated their enemy as well as gotten himself captured leaving their client wide open for the taking and his students for dead. And Sasuke still had no idea where the dobe went! He quickly calculate the situation, unknown to him as did Sakura, her eye's darted to Zabuza and the clone Zabuza in front of herself and Sasuke.

Grasping her kunai tighter in her hand she ignored Kakashi's shouts to flee, what kind of idiot was he? Even if they did flee they would not be able to escape, they were up against a man who was a master at concealing himself, not to mention he had far surpassed them in speed. They would barley make it to the next tree before getting captured! 'Besides, those who break the rules and codes of the ninja world are trash but those who abandon their comrades are worse then trash' A small glint passed through Sakura's eye, both Kakashi and Zabuza saw it, but had no idea what it meant. Sakura channeled her chakra discretely through her arm, ignoring Sasuke's shouts back to Kakashi and his short response to Tazuna. She blocked all sound out just remembering what Naruto had taught her,

Flashback No Jutsu:

"No, no, no, you're doing it all wrong Sakura, you need to concentrate, and control how much chakra is needed, because you have such small reserves you need to be careful of how much chakra you put into you attack, you can't afford to use excess chakra"

Sakura sighed in frustration, she had been at this for an hour, Naruto and Sasuke had came back from where ever the hell they went and the blond immediately pulled her to he side and she found herself trying to completely crumble a boulder of all things, to half it's size.

"Hai" she panted, Naruto watched over her from a nearby tree, he watched as her face scrunched up in frustration, he saw the chakra being channeled through her arm 'that's it,' he thought smiling, Sakura's eye's shot open charging to the boulder she threw her arm out in front of her on contact the boulder exploded, making shards of stone fly everywhere. Sakura was on the ground on all fours in front of the now half destroyed boulder panting, Naruto gave a light smile, before it disappeared.

"Alright, since you destroyed that half of the boulder, I want you to destoy the other half as well, when you do that, go on to the next boulder an try to turn the whole thing to dust." Sakura gawked,

"Isn't this enough?!" She shouted pointing at the 'boulder' in front of her, Naruto shook his head "Do you think Sasuke is going to be impressed by boulder that was only half destroyed?" Sakura turn quiet, before a look of determination passed through her eyes, Naruto smiled again before disappearing. "Ah right, Naruto how do you kno…" Sakura turned around to see nothing, glancing around in all directions she found she was alone.

She sighed and turned back to the boulder once again.

End Flashback no Jutsu!

Sakura looked directly into Zabuza's eyes and smirked, catching the male off guard she punched the ground, causing chunks of the earths floor to be thrown into the air everywhere, the ground beneath them cracked, the crack continued through the sea floor, towards the other side, the earth shook and vibrated while it moved clashing with the other side causing a enormous tsunami. Zabuza not wanting to get in the way of the monstrous wave fled away from the waters surface, effectively freeing Kakashi who gathered Tazuna in his arms and jumped into the trees, behind him Sakura and a gawking Sasuke did the same.

Peeking at Sasuke from the corner of her eye she giggled "CHA! Girl power rules!" forgetting for a moment that she had gotten this power from Naruto, Kakashi landed on a nearby branch and smiled at Sakura "Good job, although you did disobey my orders, but your punishment will come later" Sakura fumed "Sorry for not abandoning my comrades" She shouted turning away, Kakashi gave her a one-eyed smile, before doing a head count.

"….Where's Naruto?....."

Meanwhile down underneath the foliage, concealed perfectly into his surroundings, crimson eyes continued to watch a young blond male.

Okay, another crappy chapter but you can take that up with me when you review =)

Next time it's enemies and friends clashing together, a whole lot of confusion, and feathers??

Well you'll figure it out soon enough, if not you're just going to have to wait until the next chapter.

And sorry it came so late, school started again and I'm being bombarded with homework. Anyway review!


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