The next day Naruto was still sleeping from exerting his body too much, and they let him be. They went off to the bridge to continue the work. When he awoke he ran around the house.

"Where is everyone!?" He shouted.

"Naruto-kun, sensei said you shouldn't exert yourself too much." Inari's mother said.

"They left me behind! I'm going! Bye!" He said as he ran out the door. However, when he was running through the forest he noticed something. He turned back to the house and ran with full speed.

"Inari? Come help your mother with the dishes." His mother shouted.

"Ok, but I am in the bathroom at the moment."

The door opened to the kitchen, but as she turned to tell Inari what to do she was slammed into the counter.

"Mom?" Inari called. He opened the door to see his mother tied up.

"No," She called. "Inari run!"

The two bandits looked at each other. "Who should we take? We only need one."

Inari's mother shouted. "Let him go! Take me! Take me instead."

"Should we just kill him?"

"No!" His mother screamed. "If you touch my child, I will bite my tongue and drown myself in my blood. You need a hostage right?"

"Thank your mom, kid. You live tonight."

"Damn, I wanted to cut something," The other bandit said.

Inari ran and hid. Mom I'm sorry, I couldn't do anything. Inari saw all the strong people flash through his head, one by one. His grandfather, his mom, his father and finally Naruto, he saw them all. "I will do something," He whispered.

He ran outside where they were leading his mother away. "Wait." He called.

"Hey, its that kid."

"Get away from my mom," He said.

"Inari, no! Run. "His mother called.

"Can I cut him?" One of them asked. "Sure," The other responded.

As they went to cut him, he turned into a log!

"Sorry, I'm late." Naruto said standing in front of the mother and Inari. "But a hero usually shows up at the last second." Naruto grinned.

"Naruto..." Inari said.

"You have some guts for taking us on kid." One bandit said, "Too bad I'm going to spill them!"

"Bring it on, ugly." Naruto called. "Good job, Inari, you distracted them so I could rescue your mom."

They ran at Naruto and he jumped up and kicked them down. "There was a cut up boar and some branches bent the wrong way. I got worried and came to check on you."

"And Inari? Sorry about yesterday, for calling you a sissy," He said. "Your strong."

Inari began to cry. "Damn it, I promised not to cry anymore. Now your going to make fun of me!"

"Awe, no I'm not. Its ok to cry, when your happy." He grinned. "Well, I think the bridge was attacked. I'm going to go help. I can count on you here right?"

Inari smiled. "Yeah!"

"Being a hero is really hard, isn't it." Naruto said, and with that he rushed off to go help his friends at the bridge.

However, when his friends had gotten to the bridge a mist had rolled in. Figures came at them but Sasuke cut them down quickly. "You saw through my water clones. Haku you may have someone worth fighting here."

Zabuza and Haku stepped out of shadows. "Shall we complete our fight, Kakashi?"

Zabuza advanced and Sasuke, Emmalynne and Akahana stepped forward to take on the mist nin with the mask.

"Sakura! Protect Tazuma-san." Kakashi called.

"Got it!" She shouted back while taking a defensive approach in front of him.

Haku and Sasuke danced around each other, their speed unmatched while Emmalynne prepared her chakra and Akahana grabbed her swords from their sheaths.

"I don't want to kill you, but you won't back down." The mist nin said.

"Don't be foolish." Sasuke said.

"You won't be able to keep up with my speed next time. Plus, I have gained two advantages already. The first is that I have one of your arms occupied, and the second we have water surrounding us on the ground."

The mist nin began using Jutsu with one hand. "How?" Emmalynne called. "I have never seen that before."

"Flying Water Needles, special jutsu!"

"Focus on your legs, Sasuke." Akahana called. When the water cleared he was gone.

He appeared behind the mist nin. "From now on, you will run from my attacks."

Sasuke bested the nin in speed. He knocked him down as he attacked him. "I have the advantage."

Kakashi called. "Sasuke is the number one rookie. I can't diminish my team by calling them brats."

"Our other teammate is the number one hyper active ninja. A wonderful sword woman and our very own master in chakra control. You can't forget about our wild, Emmalynne either."

A sudden chill crept into the air. "Well, Haku, at this rate we will be driven back." Zabuza said.

"We can't have that." Said Haku. He started to laugh.

The water began to form a circle around Sasuke. "What is this?" Akahana called.

"Special Jutsu! Demonic Ice Mirrors!"

Sasuke was boxed in. He had no where to run. "Mirrors?" He called.

"Against that Jutsu, hes finished." Zabuza said softly.

Kakashi made a break towards Sasuke. "I'm your opponent," Zabuza said stopping him.

Kakashi cursed and wished the best for his student.

Sasuke looked around. Haku appeared in everyone of the mirrors. "I will show you my true speed."

Haku moved in a blink of an eye. Sasuke couldn't defend himself and he was caught in a web of spiraling blades.

Sasuke fell to the ground. He didn't know how to defend himself, how to fight it.

"Sasuke!" Emmalynne and Akahana shouted in unison.

Sasuke looked up at the girls. He stood up. He prepared himself to fight. As he was about to Naruto came out of nowhere. "I'm here to save you!"

"Naruto!" Sakura called happily.

Zabuza threw shruikien at the loud ninja. Here they come! He thought. He was prepared to fight them off when they were shot down. "Haku? What is the meaning of this?" Zabuza called.

"Zabuza, let me fight them my own way."

Zabuza nodded, be on with it them."

Naruto rushed towards the mirrors. "Naruto don't go in..." Akahana called a moment too late. He entered the mirrors.

"You moron," Sasuke yelled. "If your a shinobi think with your head. You could have attacked from the outside."

"I came to save you!" Naruto whined. "And plus, Emmalynne and Akahana are outside. They can help from there."

"We are kind of busy, Naruto." Akahana called, and they saw that Zabuza had employed mass amounts of Water Clones to kill the kunoichi.

Naruto cursed. Sasuke watched as Haku stepped into a mirror. "So thats the real one." However, a kunai flew at him. "Over here," A different mirror called.

Sasuke cursed. "They are ice, watch this. Phoenix Fire Jutsu!" He engulfed the mirrors with flame. "It didn't do anything!" Naruto cried.

"You can't melt the mirrors with fire on that level." Haku stated simply. "And your eyes can not follow my progress through the mirrors. They can not keep up with my speed."

Naruto rushed at one of the mirrors only to be thrown back to the middle where Sasuke was. "Don't Naruto."

"I will smash them all at once! Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" He called. Shadow clones appeared and as they went to destroy the mirrors they were all destroyed.

"The mirror's reflection allows me to move from mirror to mirror in the blink of an eye. You two seem to be moving in slow motion."

"I knew it," Kakashi muttered. "For that kid to have mastered that jutsu."

"What do you mean, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked.

"I mean its a kekkai genkai. A bloodline trait. Something passed down by your ancestors. Its like the Sharingan, you can't copy it, can't defeat it."

"Damn it," Naruto shouted. "I can't die here, I must complete my... dream."

"Becoming a shinobi was difficult for me." Haku said. "If it is possible, I don't want to kill you nor you to have to kill me. But if you come at me, if it is necessary I will destroy my heart with a blade and become a true shinobi. This bridge is the place where we fight to connect my dreams. Me, for my dream, and you for yours. Please don't hate me. I want to protect the person precious to me. To fight for that person precious to me, to work for him. To make sure his dreams come true. That is my dream, for that I will become a shinobi and I will kill you."

"Sasuke! Don't lose to a guy like that!" Sakura shouted.

"No, Sakura, don't egg them on." Kakashi said.

"What? Why?"

"Because even if they could defeat that technique they couldn't defeat that boy."

"Why?"

"Because that boy is prepared to kill," Akahana said quietly. "And Sasuke and Naruto aren't."

"That boy knows the true pain of being a shinobi." Zabuza said. "A real shinobi can't be born in a peaceful village like yours. He can't gain certain experience, the experience you gain from killing. Thats why he is a shinobi."

"Even if you win against me, there is no possible way you can win against Haku."

"Ever since he was a kid I taught him fighting jutsu. Even facing the greatest adversary he would win. Without a heart, or fear of death, a fighting machine known as Shinobi. His jutsu even surpasses mine. A terrible advance in the kekkai genkai, the bloodline traits. I gained a high quality tool for myself, unlike the scrap that follow you around."

Kakashi looked at Zabuza. "Its time to end this." He pulled out his sharingan.

"I never fall for the same thing twice, I had Haku watching you last time. I wasn't just getting beat up like an idiot. Haku is also very bright, he came up with a defense. Hidden Mist no jutsu."

A fog wrapped around. "What will you do know, Kakashi?"

Naruto cursed. "Dammit Sasuke, we are just running around."

"Be quiet and get up. I can't watch you too. Just try not to get a serious wound, there must be a limit to his chakra. He is already slowing."

"Protect Tazuna, Sakura." Kakashi called. Dammit, how does he see in this? He was attacked by multiple blades. He blocked them quickly.

"Nice block, Sharingan Kakashi." A voice said in the mist, "But your sharingan can't block everything. You overate it too much. The next time you see me will be the end of you."

His eyes are closed, Kakashi thought. How?

"You acted as if you knew everything, but your prediction is wrong. The sharingan can neither predict the future or read my mind. The sharingan is simply a trick that makes your opponent think that you can. It's basically hypnosis with the ability to pick up minute details. Using those abilities together you can copy. You can progress from copying the brain to copying the body."

"Your trick works this way, but if I close my eyes, I can't be hypnotized."

"But you can't see either!"

"Remember, Kakashi, I was trained in the art of assassinations, killing an opponent by sound only."

Damn it, I'm worried about Sasuke and Naruto. I have to calm down though, I need to think. Where would he strike?

Oh no!

He quickly moved his body in front of Zabuza as he went to take out Tazuma. "Too Late!" Zabuza called.

Naruto looked up as he heard a scream. "What are they doing over there?"

Emmalynne's eyes flashed as she heard Sakura's scream. "Akahana, the water clones are endless. We have to go help, just leave them. They are guarding Sasuke and Naruto anyways." She sprinted away towards her teammate. "Sakura?" She screamed.

Sasuke looked around. He is watching me, learning my moves. I can feel it.

Haku observed, dodging my moves at the last second, very impressive.

Here he comes! Sasuke thought. At the last second he tore Naruto out of the way. "How?" Haku said. Sasuke's eyes flashed red. "Sharingan? I see, you have an advanced bloodline as well. Then I can't keep this up for much longer, there is a limit to my chakra. I can't keep up this speed forever."

"Most likely, the longer this fight goes, the more you will be able to read my moves. If your eyes are starting to catch me..."

"THIS IS THE END!"

Naruto! Sasuke thought, Damn it. Let me make it in time. At the last second Sasuke threw himself in the way of the needles.

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CLIFFHANGER

lmao, even though all of you know what happens next. ^^