Chapter 6:
Kakashi looked at Naruto seriously, then sighed. "So, this 'Haku' was the hunter-nin, and she is going to try and convince Zabuza not to fight?" he said. Naruto nodded.
Kakashi smiled. "Then we shall meet him, and kill him."
Naruto looked alarmed. "Why!" he cried out. Kakashi looked at him.
"He is a missing-nin. Everyone wants him destroyed." he said.
"Not me! Not Haku!" Naruto said. Kakashi looked at him darkly.
"Naruto..." he said slowly. Naruto growled.
"You aren't going to touch him or Haku-chan!" he snarled, standing up. They then heard a door slam, and a small sob, and Naruto turned to hear footsteps that sounded like they were going away from him. Naruto sighed, then stalked off outside.
"Hey Naruto-ani!" Inari said happily. Naruto smiled sadly.
"Hey, Inari-otouto." he said, continuing to walk into the woods. He walked for what he guessed to be about twenty minutes, then sat down, looking up into the sky.
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Hinata was crying sadly, clutching one of Naruto's jumpsuits that she took from him, when her door opened, and Kurenai sat next to her. She put a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, Hinata."
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"Hey, Naruto-kun."
Naruto turned, smiling a little once he saw who it was. "Hey, Haku-chan."
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"Hello, Kurenai-sensei." Hinata said stiffly. Kurenai sighed, hugging her.
"Whats wrong, Hinata." she said.
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"Whats wrong, Naruto?"
Naruto sighed, staring up into the sky, which was now dark, but not black. It was almost sunrise. "Well, Haku-chan, its about Hinata." he said. Haku nodded.
"She also loves you, I assume?" she asked. Naruto nodded sadly.
"I want to stay as her friend, and I want her to be happy, but, well, she seems to be happiest around me, and..."
Haku put a finger to his lips, silencing him. "Well, I know a solution."
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""W-Well, Kurenai-s-s-sensei, its about Naruto." Hinata said sadly. Kurenai nodded slowly.
"You wanted to be his, but he is with Haku." she said understandingly. Hinata nodded, tears still going down her eyes.
Kurenai smiled uneasily. "Well, there technically is still a way." she said.
Simultaniously, both Hinata and Naruto perked up. "What?" they both said.
Kurenai and Haku smiled. "The Clan Restoration Act." they simultaniously said.
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Naruto looked confused. "Huh?"
Haku smiled. "Its where you take multiple wives to revive a clan." she said. Naruto flushed red.
"B-b-but...would you really accept something like that?" he sputtered. Haku nodded.
"Well Naruto, I'm flattered you'd ask for my opinion, and yes, I would accept that. That Hinata girl seems to be rather nice, and besides..." she said, crouching next to Naruto and kissing him on the cheek. " A threesome sounds really kinky." she purred. Naruto blushed even darker red.
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Hinata flushed red instantly. "P-P-Polygamy!" she said in amazement. Kurenai smiled.
"Well, that's the only thing I can currently think of." she said. Hinata looked down, pressing her fingertips together.
"I'm not sure father would approve..." she said nervously.
"Oh, lighten up. I'm sure your father wouldn't mind too much!" Kurenai said, sounding more confident then she was. Hinata was silent for a few moments, then blushed and smiled.
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Naruto smiled, then looked at the sky. "Well, I should probably head back." he said. Haku nodded.
"Well, I'll see you soon, Naruto-kun." she said, shunshining away. Naruto nodded, then started walking back.
'Well, son, I think I'm going to now teach you Verdant Mountains Violent Wind.' Minato said. Naruto grinned.
"Great!" he said happily. Minato chuckled.
'This is going to be somewhat difficult, I'm afraid.' Minato said. 'First, this is probably going to be the first jutsu you have ever used with seals.'
Naruto sheepishly nodded. 'Well, it actually only has one seal, but it is a B-ranked jutsu.' Minato continued. 'First, throw some weapons around.' Naruto shrugged, then took out some shuriken and threw them at a tree. 'Good. Now, make the snake seal, and use that seal to focus your chakra.'
Naruto nodded, then made the seal, concentrating and building up chakra. 'Now, try to move the shuriken around.'
Naruto nodded again, and the shuriken wiggled slightly, then slowly came out from the tree. Naruto grinned. 'You can expiriment now, son.'
Naruto grinned, watching as he made the six shuriken fly around, spinning and accelerating at his will. They then started encircling him also. Naruto looked in awe as he controlled the shuriken and made them encircle him. 'This is both an offensive and defensive jutsu, as you can use some weapons to block attacks, and use others to attack enemies, then retract the weapon and use it again. With enough chakra control, you can actually add wind chakra to the weapons while they are being controlled, to make them especially deadly. Unfortunately, you don't have that kind of control.'
Naruto chuckled, then heard a yell.
"Naruto-kun!" Kurenai called out.
"Over here, Kurenai-sensei!" Naruto yelled back. Kurenai ran over to him in relief.
"There you are! We've been looking for you for a while." she said. Naruto nodded. "Anyways, we are going over to the bridge, because we suspect Zabuza will be there." she said. Naruto grinned.
"Ok!" he said cheerfully. "Good thing I've trained then, huh? So, what have the others been learning?"
Kurenai smiled. "Well, Shino learned about lightning chakra and created a jutsu called Suicidal Lightning Bug, along with being able to shoot pure lightning chakra. Kiba now knows Inner Decapitation and Earth Style Wall, while Hinata knows a weak genjutsu called Hell Viewing Technique, and a Water ninjutsu called Violent Water Wave."
Naruto grinned. "Awesome!" he crowed. Kurenai looked at him.
"What about you, Naruto-kun?"
Naruto grinned. "Chakra control, channeling wind chakra into blades, and a really cool B-ranked jutsu!" he said happily.
"And how did you learn those?" Kurenai asked. Naruto swallowed.
"Um...Haku taught me?" he improvised. Kurenai sighed.
"Well, come on, Naruto-kun." Kurenai said. Naruto chuckled, then started following. Kurenai turned her head towards him. "Is something wrong?" she asked. Naruto smiled up at her.
"Oh, I'm just finding it odd how you have been calling me Naruto-kun." he said, breaking into a run towards the house. Kurenai's eyes widened, and she tried to stammer something, but just shook her head and followed him.
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"Alright, once we are at the bridge, everyone get ready for a possible fight." Kakashi said seriously. "Does everyone have their supplies?"
"Yes, along with some special drugs for my insects." Shino said quietly.
"Yes, and I brought some medicinal cream." Hinata said.
"Yep, and some soldier pills for Akamaru and me!" Kiba exclaimed.
"Yeah, lets go!" Naruto exclaimed.
---Later---
Naruto and his team arrived at the bridge, which was covered in dense fog. Naruto spotted a shadow far away from them. "Zabuza! So, do you want to have a truce then?"
Then, the whole team was struck with a terrifying killing intent, and a whistling sound was heard. Kakashi swore, then leapt forward, revealing his Sharingan. The mist cleared a bit to reveal Kakashi and Zabuza pushing on both sides of the Giant Decapitating Knife, and Kakashi was losing, seeing as the blade was slowly advancing towards him.
"I'll take that as a no." Naruto mumbled, taking out a shuriken and adding wind chakra to it, until it appeared to be a large, white shuriken, which he threw at Zabuza and Kakashi. Kakashi ducked out of the way quickly, while Zabuza stumbled, then was cut a little and fell back. Naruto grinned, until 'Zabuza' collapsed into a puddle of water. Kakashi leapt back towards Naruto.
"That was awesome! Sorry I almost hit you, but, how did you dodge that?" Naruto asked.
"Saw a bit of it reflected in the corner of Zabuza's eye." Kakashi mumbled. "Look out!" he yelled, shoving Naruto back and being hit by a large dragon of water, which Zabuza walked up to and stuck his hand in, turning it into a large sphere, with Kakashi trapped inside.
"Water Prison Technique." Zabuza said coldly. Then, his eyes widened, and he was pulled waist deep into the ground by Kiba, but the sphere didn't release its hold. Then, little streaks of yellow shot at Zabuza, and he screamed as parts of his torso were fried, courtesy of Shino. He snarled, then used his free hand to throw some shuriken at Hinata.
"Violent Water Wave!" she cried out, shooting the shuriken away. Zabuza's eyes widened.
"What have you been teaching these kids, Copy-ninja?" he muttered, throwing his sword at Shino. Then, he stumbled back, having been hit in the stomach by Naruto. Naruto looked up into his eyes, then multiplied into a dozen Narutos, who all leapt back and threw shuriken at Zabuza. Zabuza snarled, then pulled his hand out of the Water Prison and disappeared. The Narutos got into a ring formation, armed to the teeth with kunai.
"Nice try."
Naruto's eyes widened as Zabuza appeared in the center of the ring and swung his sword, turning all of the clones to smoke, leaving only the original. Zabuza roared, swinging at Naruto, who quickly raised two kunai with wind chakra to block the blade. Zabuza chuckled, using only one hand to slowly overpower Naruto. "Nice try kid, but you're no jonin." he said curtly. Naruto grinned.
"Yeah, but he is."
Zabuza turned and quickly dodged a Chidori from Kakashi, then froze. Or rather, he was forced to freeze. He looked up, to see that he was bound to a tree, and the woman jonin was stepping out of it with a kunai. 'Genjutsu!' he thought worriedly. He then bit his lip hard enough to break the illusion, and started making seals, while Kakashi did the same.
"Grand Waterfall Technique!" Both yelled, sending a huge blast of water at each other. The attacks cancelled out each other, and Zabuza made some Water Clones, while Kakashi did the same.
"Damn Sharingan..." both muttered.
"Hey! Stop copying me!" Zabuza and Kakashi yelled.
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"Yeah! Go sensei!" Naruto yelled happily. He turned, smiling. "Awesome fight, huh Kiba?"
He blinked. Kiba wasn't there. And neither was Shino and Hinata. "Guys?"
He turned again to see two people fighting each other, and a weird structure that appeared to be made out of ice. 'Ice?' "Haku!" he yelled, running towards the large dome of ice.
"Naruto, I need some assistance!" Shino called out. Naruto turned quickly to see Shino fighting a man who was throwing kunai around.
"Coming!" Naruto yelled, running towards him. The man grinned.
"Oh, fun. ANOTHER victim!" he said insanely. He then revealed some wires in his left hand that were attached to the kunai. The man made a seal with his right hand that resembled half of a tiger seal, and the wires started glowing. He swung the wires around. "Razor Wire Technique!" he screamed, aiming the wires at Naruto. Naruto leapt above one, only for his right pant leg to be slit open, and he got a shallow, three inch laceration on his leg. Naruto rolled over to Shino.
"How is he doing that?" he panted. Shino shrugged.
"I'm guessing he is a wind user, and is infusing those wires with wind chakra. He can whip those wires around to block any and all attacks we attempt, so we cannot defeat him." Shino said. Naruto groaned.
"Great..." he muttered.
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"Piercing Fang!" Kiba yelled, smashing into a mirror, only to be deflected back. He moaned, looking up as Haku threw some senbon, hitting him.
"Kiba!" Hinata said worriedly. She turned to a mirror. "Eight Trigrams 64 palms!" she yelled, hitting the mirror. It cracked slightly, then repaired itself.
"Ah, don't worry, I'm fine!" Kiba said, grinning. His face then grew serious, and he threw Akamaru a soldier pill. "Alright! Dual Piercing Fang!" he yelled, shattering a mirror. He turned to Hinata as the mirror started regenerating. "Stay here! I'm going to get some help!" he yelled, running towards Kakashi, Kurenai, and Zabuza. Hinata whimpered.
"Don't worry." a voice said. Hinata looked up to see Haku talking. "I'm not going to hurt you." she said softly. Hinata still looked rather tense. "I wish I could just dispell these mirrors, but Zabuza put a cursed seal on me that will paralyze me for forever if I disobey him." she said quietly. Hinata swallowed. Haku smiled sadly. "So, has Naruto told you?" Haku said.
Hinata shivered;the ice was cold. "Told me what?" she breathed.
Haku smiled. "The clan protection laws, silly." she said. Hinata smiled a little.
"No, but my sensei did." she said. Haku nodded thoughtfully. Hinata fidgeted a little, to Haku's amusement.
"Is something wrong?" she asked. Hinata shook her head.
"Well, um...could you tell me about Naruto?" she asked. Haku raised an eyebrow.
"You've known him longer then I have." she said. Hinata flushed red.
"I meant...can you tell me about Naruto." she said, putting emphasis on the words. Haku looked puzzled for a moment, then realization dawned on her face.
"Oh..." she said, smiling. Hinata turned an even deeper red.
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Kakashi and Kurenai were defeating Zabuza, and were almost about to kill him, when Kiba ran up to them, yelling, "Hinata's in trouble!"
Kurenai's eyes widened, and she ran towards Haku and Hinata hurriedly. Kakashi groaned as Zabuza took the upper hand again. "Thanks." he muttered. Kiba swallowed.
"Sorry, sensei!" he said. Kakashi swore.
"Just get Naruto or something!" He yelled. Kiba nodded, then ran towards Shino and Naruto, who were frantically dodging all of their opponent's attacks.
"Hey, Naruto, Kakashi needs you!" he yelled. Naruto nodded.
"Fight this guy then!" he yelled, shunshining towards Zabuza. Kiba nodded, then yelped as three kunai were thrown at him and they stuck in his clothes, pinning him to the ground. Shino muttered something under his breath, then started to try and release Kiba.
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Zabuza swung his sword, clipping Kakashi on the shoulder. Kakashi yelled in pain, and Zabuza grinned, swinging again, only for his sword to be stopped by Naruto, who had grabbed his wrist and was holding a kunai to his throat. Zabuza then turned to a puddle, and Naruto stepped back. "Alright Naruto, could you change into Minato-sensei again?" Kakashi asked quietly. Naruto turned to him.
"Sorry, but I can't." he said, grinning. Kakashi swore. Then, they heard a deafening yell, and they turned and leapt in opposite directions, dodging another water dragon. Zabuza panted heavily, his chakra almost spent.
'But I still have enough chakra to kill all of them.' he grimly thought. Then, he yelled in outrage.
Dozens of Narutos were rendering him unable to move. He tried to shake them off, but when he shook them off, they kept on being attracted to him again-they just kept on flying back onto him! Naruto grinned. "Verdant Mountain's Violent Wind-It allows me to fly straight back at you once you throw me off. Then, he heard a chirping sound, and he turned in horror. Kakashi was running towards him angrily, and lightning was gathered around his hands.
"Twin Chidori!"
---With Kurenai---
Kurenai was at the jutsu Hinata was 'trapped' in, when she heard them talking.
"Yeah, Naruto was really nice, and a real gentleman." someone said, who Kurenai assumed to be Haku. "And he really does like you, Hinata."
"R-really?" Hinata's voice said.
"Definitely. He's really considerate and nice. No wonder you chose to have a crush on him." Haku said. "Oh, and whoever you are behind my mirror, you can come out already."
Kurenai gasped; she thought she had been hidden perfectly. Haku smiled at her. "Oh, I get it. You must be the Kurenai I've heard so much about!" she said happily. "Do you have a crush on Naruto also?"
Kurenai flushed red, and tried to stammer out something, but Haku interrupted her. "I'm not sure he likes older women, but I'm sure he'll take you into consideration." she said, ignoring Kurenai's crimson blushing.
"Twin Chidori!"
Haku turned, and screamed. "Zabuza!"
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Naruto was panting, restraining Kakashi's arms. Kakashi had tried to stab Zabuza in the heart and liver, but Naruto redirected the attacks to Zabuza's shoulders, making his arms hang useless. "Kakashi..." Naruto whispered, struggling to keep Kakashi from killing Zabuza.
Then, they heard an odd laugh, and Naruto turned angrily to see a man standing at the other end of the bridge, with hundreds of samurai behind him. "Well well, Zabuza. It seems you have failed again, and we must cut your pay." he said. Zabuza snarled.
"Gatou..." he muttered.
The man fighting Shino and Kiba suddenly stopped. "I'm not getting paid? That does it, I'm out of here." he muttered, shunshining away, to Shino and Kiba's relief.
"Oh, and in fact, we're also going to kill you!" Gatou said. Zabuza snorted. "And then, we'll take Haku and those other two girls and sell them to brothels." Gatou said.
Zabuza's and Naruto's eyes widened, and they turned towards Gatou in fury.
"Actually, I might take the three of them to be my personal slaves-"
"DIE!!!!!" Naruto and Zabuza screamed, running at Gatou. "Kid, throw me a kunai!" Zabuza yelled as the samurai ran at the two of them. Naruto's eyes were red with Arashi's chakra, but Naruto was still in control, and he threw a kunai, which Zabuza caught in his teeth. The two shinobi charged at the samurai, and started brutally killing them, Zabuza by kunai, and Naruto by simply smashing them out of the way with a Kyubi-chakra fist. Gatou gazed at them in horror as the samurai only managed to make small cuts on the two, and they continued to advance. He started backing away slowly, but then Naruto leapt up at him.
"You'll never touch Haku-chan, Hinata-chan, or Kurenai-chan!" Naruto yelled, as white chakra started building up in his hand. Naruto swung his hand. "Hurricane Claw!"
The air seemed to explode, as an enormous shockwave of wind blasted from Naruto's hand, slicing Gatou into bloody ribbons. The wind continued to flow from Naruto's hand, cracking the bridge, until Naruto's eyes turned blue again, and he fell from midair, panting. Then, he turned to see Zabuza, coughing up blood, a short sword through his chest. "Zabuza!"
Naruto and the others ran up to Zabuza, who was quite obviously dying. Haku ran to him, and a tear rolled down her cheek. "Zabuza-sama..." she whispered.
"Hey, Naruto-ani!" Inari yelled, running to him happily. "These thugs attacked me and my mom, and I beat them away, isn't that awesom-" he fell silent seeing them gathered around Zabuza. Zabuza coughed up more blood, then turned to Haku, and struggled to lift an arm, and he tapped her on the neck, where a seal was. The seal faded away, and Zabuza smiled.
"Haku...I want you to go with these people to Konoha, alright?" he whispered. Haku nodded, crying, and Zabuza smiled. "Good..." he whispered. His eyes then went dull, and Haku broke into tears, and Naruto hugged her sadly. He looked up into the sky, then turned to Kakashi.
He tried to say something, but fell silent. Kakashi nodded. "Lets go back to Konoha."
Another chapter complete! In the next chapter, there will be a two week time skip. Also, I might not write for a while because of vacation. Anyways, read and review!