This was my favorite chapter to write. So if you hate it thats fine, I still love it! So there! But chapter 8 is a tad bit more awesome... I think. I have written all the way up to the chuunin exams! But it's in my notebook not on my laptop. So you don't get to see it! This is the last chapter in my dump.


"Yajuu! Get up! They left without us!" Naruto screamed at the brunette girl. Yajuu sat up quickly and looked at Naruto with wide eyes, looking around herself to make sure no one was attacking. Naruto threw her shinobi clothes at her and kicked her legs. "Let's go! Let's go! I'm gonna leave you behind if you don't hurry!" He warned, even though he himself was still in his pj's.

Yajuu jumped up and pushed Naruto out of the room so she could get ready. "I can't believe they would leave us behind?" Yajuu complained.

The two ran downstairs, ready for the day, and yelled out to Tsunami, "We'll be back!" in unison.

-X—

"They could've woke us up!" Yajuu yelled over at Naruto as they ran through the trees. Naruto nodded.

"Dattebayo!" He whined. The two continued to jump through the trees till Naruto stopped and spotted a boar, cut to ribbons. They stopped and jumped down to the ground.

"Someone stopped to have some fun." Yajuu grumbled. She looked around. "And hurt the poor trees as well." Naruto looked at the ground.

"Someone is heading for the village." He said looking back in the direction they just came from. "I'm gonna go check it out! You go to the bridge!" He said and jumped back into the trees, waving good-bye to Yajuu before running off. Yajuu looked in the direction of the bridge and bit her lip. She had a bad feeling about this.

-X—

'Sasuke! Sakura! They're coming!" Kakashi said, defending Tazuna. The two Genin stood in defense of the old bridge builder as the fog started to build.

"Sensei? This is the Kirigakure no Jutsu, right?" Sakura asked as she looked around.

Sasuke stood still. His heart was pounding in his chest.

"It's nice to see you again Kakashi. I see you've got those brats with you as always. He's still trembling. Poor thing." A deep, hoarse voice said through the mist. Zabuza.

Sasuke was indeed trembling. But when the water clones showed themselves Sasuke smirked. "I'm trembling with excitement."

"Go ahead, Sasuke." Kakashi said with a smile. Sasuke quickly ran through the water clones surrounding them and cut into each of them. Then he stood in the same spot he was originally in, a serious smile on his face. Sakura watched in awe as her crush worked.

"So.. he could see the water clones, eh. The brat's grown. This means a rival has emerged, Haku." Zabuza said showing himself to the group, the mask boy that had killed him before walking next to him.

"So it seems." Haku said softly.

-X—

Yajuu continued to run through the trees until she started to notice the fog growing around her. She stopped as she came to the edge of the forest and hid on a tree branch, looking out at her team. Zabuza was there. Along with Haku. "Crap.." She muttered and rubbed the bridge of her nose.

-X—

"It seems like my prediction was right on the spot." Kakashi bragged.

"Prediction?" Zabuza hissed softly.

"The mask." Kakashi said. Sakura's eye twitched as they widened, remembering the conversation.

"I knew it looked familiar." Sasuke bragged, a smirk on his face.

"You mean that two faced liar, is him?" Tazuna asked. "Gees, I'm getting old. I can't even remember what the enemy looks like!"

"How dare her show up like this after what he did!" Sakura yelled and pointed at Haku.

"I hate brats who think they're so cool." Sasuke huffed, crossing his arms. Yajuu appeared next to Sasuke with a smile.

"That's how I feel about you Sasuke-kun!" She teased and pinched the Uchiha's cheek. Sasuke pushed Yajuu away and glared at her.

"Shut up!"

"Nooooo!"

"Seriously! You're acting like Naruto!"

"Well I hate brats who think they're soooo cooool." Yajuu copied Sasuke's line. Sasuke glared at her harder before looking back at Haku. She kind of ruined the serious tone they had going for them at the moment. Haku and Zabuza didn't seem fazed, but Kakashi seemed embarrassed to know the two and Sakura seemed pissed.

"Don't make fun of Sasuke-kun like that! He is cool!" Sakura defended the raven haired boy. Yajuu just smiled and looked at Zabuza, ignoring Haku's presence completely.

Yajuu and Sasuke got on guard as Haku started towards them, leaves surrounding his body as he appeared in front of Sasuke. Haku ignored Yajuu completely and trembled as he and Sasuke slammed their weapons together.

"Sakura, surround Tazuna and don't move away from me." Kakashi warned. Sakura nodded and quickly took her place. Kakashi watched as Yajuu and Haku ignored each other like they didn't exist.

Sasuke and Haku spun around, blocking each other's attacks easily. Yajuu watched Zabuza with a burning intent to fight, but desperately tried to ignore the two friends that were going at it.

"I don't want to have to kill you." Haku warned Sasuke. "I'd like for you to back down."

"That's nonsense." Sasuke growled.

"You won't be able to keep up with my speed. Not a chance." Haku smirked. "And, I've already made two preemptive moves."

Yajuu looked at Sasuke and Haku.

"The first is the scattered water. The second is blocking one of your hands. Therefore, you'll just be able to defend my attack."

Yajuu's eyes widened as Haku started making hand signs with one hand. She quickly ran for Sasuke and Haku, gathering her chakra in the pool of her stomach.

"A Thousand Needles of Death." Haku said softly, as he slammed his foot onto the ground, the water flying up into the air as it formed sharp, icy senbon. Yajuu quickly wrapped her arms around Sasuke as she shot her chakra out around her, the needles moving off course. Sasuke looked at the brunette with wide angry eyes.

"Get out of the way, Yajuu!" He grumbled.

Yajuu shook her head and quickly rammed her shoulder into Haku's gut, pushing him away from Sasuke. Sasuke took the opportunity to jump into the air and throw shuriken at Haku. The feminine boy easily dodged them.

"You're surprisingly stupid." Sasuke said as he appeared behind Haku. "From here on out you'll be the one defending!" The two ran at each other and Sasuke quickly spun around and threw a kuni at Haku. Haku ducked down, dodging the kuni but not dodging Yajuu's sudden kick to the head, throwing his head backwards as well as his body. Haku landed at Zabuza's feet.

"It seems that I have the advantage in speed, even if it's with team work." Sasuke smirked. Yajuu squatted down on the ground and sighed.

"I can't have you mocking my team, calling them brats. Sasuke is the number one rookie of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Sakura is our sharpest and brightest mind. Yajuu is our peace maker. And Naruto. Naruto is our number one hyperactive, knucklehead ninja."

Yajuu smiled and stuck out her tongue and pulled down the skin bellow her eye. "That's right!"

Zabuza laughed. "Haku. At this rate, you'll be defeated by your intended victims."

Haku stood up. "Yes."

Yajuu clenched her fist. "His chakra." She muttered.

"It's unfortunate. I didn't want to have to use this on you my friend. But it seems I must be rid of you so I can continue with my mission." Haku said as he gathered his chakra.

"The air is chilling." Sasuke said and looked at Yajuu.

Yajuu glared at Haku with her discolored eyes. She wouldn't be able to kill her secret friend. Not now, probably not ever. Yajuu stood up as she heard cracklings behind her. She turned and watched as all around her what looked like mirrors surrounded her and Sasuke.

"Hidden Jutsu." Haku said softly.

Yajuu grabbed the Kuni from Sasuke's hand and ran at the mirror, slamming the blade into the crystal. It didn't even scratch it. "Crap." Yajuu looked back at Sasuke as she felt his fear build up inside her, making her scared as well. Yajuu then looked back as Haku's image formed in the mirror in front of her.

"Are these…mirrors?" Sasuke asked as the boy's image was reflected all around the two of them. Yajuu closed her eyes as Sasuke's fear started to grow stronger.

Yajuu looked at the boy in the ice with pained eyes. Haku's mask hid his face but Yajuu remembered this boy's features.

"Haku."

"Yajuu."

"I'm sorry we have to fight like this."

"I'm sorry I'll have to kill you before we can fight."

Yajuu held up a kuni and looked at Haku with sad eyes. Yajuu was ready to run for Haku when she felt her body fall into the ground below her. Her body felt like it was being surrounded by ice cold water. Yajuu looked around herself before she started gasping for air. Her lungs quickly felt like they were being filled with water. Yajuu felt herself lose consciousness.

Yajuu was only out for a moment before she opened her eyes to darkness. All around her she heard Sasuke's screams of agony. She couldn't move. She couldn't save Sasuke from his pain. As soon as Yajuu tried to move her body felt like it was being rammed into with thousands of little needles. She screamed out in agonizing pain.

Sasuke watched Yajuu go from running towards Haku for an attack to standing still, hunched over body, and arms hanging limply down. She dropped her kuni slowly. "Yajuu…. Yajuu?" Sasuke called out for the girl. Yajuu's eyes were cloudy, as if her mind was in another world.

Sasuke reached forward to touch Yajuu's shoulder and flinched as she grabbed her hair in her fists and screamed in horror. She fell limply into Sasuke's arms. The Uchiha looked at the girl worriedly and then laid her down on the ground at the edge of the mirrors.

"I've gotten rid of the strength of the team. Now, to get rid of the cocky 'cool' one."

Yajuu felt blood seep from every hole, every pore in her body as she tried to move and screamed. Yajuu's voice stopped as a cold hand touched her shoulder.

"Don't worry. I'll help you sleep." The voice said. Haku.

Yajuu cried tears of blood. "I don't want to die yet." She whimpered. Haku removed his hand from her shoulder.

"Shhh. Don't worry." Haku said as Yajuu felt herself choke on her tongue as something was shoved through her throat, making her black out once again.

-X—

Yajuu trembled as she opened her eyes. She looked at Sasuke, standing above Naruto. She flinched in fear as she tried to move. She moved easily and without any problems. Yajuu touched the side of her neck and found nothing there. She looked at her hands and body. Nothing was wrong with her. Not a scratch or speck of dust.

She looked up as Naruto jumped up and yelled at Sasuke. "Why? Why did you help me? I didn't ask for you to save me!"

"Baka. I don't know why I did it. My body just moved." Sasuke 's body trembled. Yajuu stood up quickly and ran for her comrades as Sasuke fell backwards into Naruto's arms. Yajuu looked at the senbon that buried themselves into Sasuke's body. She started to yank them out, Sasuke wincing in pain each time was pulled out.

"I… I have to kill him." Sasuke's groaned, his hand clutching Yajuu's trembling one tightly. "My older brother… I absolutely refuse to die. I thought my oath… w-would keep m-me ali-ive." Yajuu bit her lip, tears spilling from her eyes. "You, don't die." Sasuke said softly, closing his eyes. "Yaj….Kill him.. my brother…for me." He said, his voice becoming softer with each word. Sasuke's hand went limp in Yajuu's.

Naruto laid Sasuke's body on the cold ground gently. Yajuu kissed the knuckles on Sasuke's cold hand, her eyes shut. "I will. For you." She whispered. Naruto buried his face into Sasuke's shirt to hide his tears as he hugged the lifeless body.

Haku looked at the two on the ground. Slowly the boy stepped out of the mirror.

"He struck at me without any sign of shirking. He sacrificed himself for you! He was a shinobi worthy of the utmost respect. In order to save those precious to him he threw himself into a trap, knowing full well it was such." Haku stood up and looked down on the two. "This is your first comrade that has died? Such is the path of a shinobi. You will be faced with much more death." Yajuu growled.

She had seen friends die. She had killed them with her own hands. Yajuu trembled, feeling Naruto's anger rise. Her own hurt was turning into hatred. "Shut up." She snarled at Haku, still facing Sasuke's dead body.

Naruto and Yajuu turned towards Haku in unison. Naruto's eyes were fiery red and slitted like a demons. Yajuu's were piercing silver, and also slitted. "I;m going to kill you!" They snarled in unison, their voices like demons.

Haku looked at them in fear.

Yajuu smirked. "Kyuuuuubiiii. The toy is scared. Let's kill him." Yajuu growled out. Yajuu stood up and hunched over, her arms hanging down. A silvery chakra formed around her boy like fire. Yajuu's nails grew into claws and teeth turned to fangs. Naruto's wounds were healed in a matter of seconds as his chakra flared around the crystal mirrors in red waves.

Haku watched as Naruto's chakra formed into a demon fox while Yajuu's took the shape of a wolf like beast. The two growled and hissed at Haku like animals.

"What is this chakra?" Kakashi asked. He could tell which was Naruto and the foxes. But, the second chakra was fowl, fiercer than the demon foxes. Whose was it?

Naruto snarled as he hunched over and stood on the ground on all fours. Yajuu did the same and looked at Haku with wide, hate filled eyes.

Yajuu watched Haku ready senbon and throw them at Naruto and her. The two roared and the senbon were pushed away by the chakra they emitted from their roars.

Haku quickly switched mirrors, causing the two to look around for him. Naruto wasn't able to fully tell the difference, but Yajuu was looking directly above them, her head tilted backwards with ease.

"Sasuke." She yelled before jumping up into the air and spinning her body quickly. The speed she gained from the spin and the chakra she had focused into her foot allowed her kick to the mirror to shatter it. Haku got out just in time, but Yajuu grabbed the front of his shirt and roughly threw him into the ground.

Naruto grabbed Haku's wrist and pulled him up off the ground. The blonde threw him into a mirror. Haku quickly took the impact to enter the mirror and jump to a higher mirror. Haku jumped into his new mirror just as Yajuu had slammed her forehead into it, smashing that mirror as well. Haku fell from the mirror and held a senbon tightly as he launched himself towards Naruto. Naruto jumped to the side, wildly spinning and then stopping himself with his claws on the ground as Haku smashed into the ground. Haku picked himself up off the ground, trying to make it to the nearest mirror. Yajuu jumped and slammed her feet into Haku's back and growl with a smirk. She grabbed hold of Haku's hair; the thick, long locks free from the bun, took a step to the side, and threw his limp body over to Naruto. Naruto grabbed Haku's wrist and clenched his fist, focusing his chakra into this one punch. Naruto roared once again and then locked his fist with Haku's face.

The body broke through the mirrors and skid across the ground. Yajuu and Naruto stood in the center of the shattering mirrors, crystals falling around them. The two quickly ran for Haku, Yajuu;s left fist and Naruto's right readying for contact as Haku;s mask broke and fell to the ground. Naruto stopped himself, gaining control of the fox as soon as he saw who Haku was.

Yajuu on the other hand landed her punch before Naruto wrapped his arms around her waist and held her tightly, instantly calming the enraged girl.

Yajuu looked at the bloody body of Haku's in shock and fear. She could feel Haku's belief in his self worth falter as he stood.

"Why do you spare me? I killed your dear friend didn't I?" Haku asked, followed by a punch in the face once again by Naruto. Haku coughed up blood onto the ground as he picked himself up once again. Yajuu readied for another but Naruto grabbed her wrist and smiled at the brunette girl. Yajuu could sense Naruto's pain and sadness.

"What happened to all that power? Didn't you say you were going to kill me?" Yajuu looked at the ground. "You may think that sparing your enemy is kindness, but you are just making them useless. Giving them defeat then allowing them to live in their failure is not kindness. Don't you see, it's an empty existence. To go on living alone and unloved because defeat's already cost you your dream!"

Naruto growled clenching his fists. "Say what?"

Haku stood on trembling legs. "Zabuza has no need for a weak shinobi. You have taken away my reason for living."

"Do you have someone precious in your life?"

"When a person has something precious they want to protect that's when they can truly become strong."

"Why waist all that devotion on a creep like him? He doesn't care about who gets hurt or who he hurts! Just so long as someone pays him!: Naruto yelled, pointing angrily at Haku. "Is that browless freak really that precious to you? Your beloved friend?" Haku looked at the ground and smiled.

"Once… I was precious. I belonged to a mother and father. My parents." Yajuu bit her tongue. She'd heard this story once already in the forest on the way to Tazuna's.

"I was born in a little snowy village in the Land of Mist. I was happy. My parents were good and kind people. Good to me. But, just as I was getting old enough to understand the world around me…something happened."

Naruto looked worried. "What… What happened?" Naruto looked over at the almost crying Yajuu for an answer. "Well?"

Haku rubbed the blood from his lips and looked at it closely. "Blood….My blood."

"Your blood? Yajuu what is he talking about?" Naruto said pointing to Haku and looking worriedly at Yajuu.

Haku was silent. Yajuu trembled as she remembered the details of Haku's tragic story. This was a reason why she had so quickly become friends with the enemy. "His father slaughtered his mother and then continued to try and kill him." Yajuu said, Looking at Haku with pain in her eyes.

CH 8

"After a long and seemingly endless civil war, people with kekkei genkai were hated and feared in the land of water." Haku said softly, Yajuu could feel the pain he felt from the memory.

"Kekkei genkai?"Naruto asked, very confused.

"It is a certain jutsu passed down through a clan. Parent to child, grandparent to grandchild. Because of these special powers people of the clans were used in battle and wars as merely a weapon. As a result those with the kekkei genkai were feared and thought to harbor disaster and death." Haku explained. "After the war those with this ability hid it. Anyone found to have the power was to expect death." Haku looked over at Sasuke with a sad look. "I'm sure that boy went through much suffering because of his kekkei genkai."

"The greater your power, the more you were feared." Yajuu said.

"My mother had the kekkei genkai and she thought she could hide it from my father. She must've believed they would have a simple life together. However, father discovered our secret." Yajuu bit her lip and tightly held onto Naruto's. She hated hearing this. Naruto looked at Yajuu worried. Why was she acting like this?

"My father beat my mother to death in front of me and then tried to kill me. I killed him first." Haku snarled at himself. "And, that's when I knew. I knew the most painful thing in the world."

"The most… painful… thing?" Naruto asked softly.

"To know that my existence in the world didn't matter to anyone."

Yajuu winced at her own painful memories of the same thing. Being happy, and then finding herself alone in the world. But she had come to Konaha. She had made 2 great friends, and Haku could've been one of them. Haku had done the same but with Zabuza.

"You said you would become the greatest shinobi of your village and have everyone respect you. If someone comes along and accepts you for who you are…no one could be more important to you than that one person. Even though he knew I had a kekkei genkai Zabuza took me in. My power that everyone feared and hated, he wanted it, needed it. " Haku shivered as tears built up in his eyes. "I was happy."

Yajuu was silently crying. Her grip on Naruto's hand tightened even more. Haku mumbled something to himself and then walked closer to Yajuu and Naruto.

"Yajuu-chan, Naruto-kun! I want you to kill me." Haku said looking at them with pain filled, serious eyes. The two of them took a step back. Yajuu and Naruto were both taken aback by the request made by this boy.

"Kill you?" Yajuu said surprised.

"Kill me!" Haku snapped. "Why do you hesitate?"

"Are you stupid!" Yajuu yelled at Haku.

"You're a weapon for him? How is he special to you?" Naruto asked, trying to figure out how the killing option became an option for Haku.

"Because he cared!" Haku yelled. "Is that so wrong? To die while someone cares for you?"

"N-no." Naruto said softly