A/N: I hate my internet. I really do.
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LET'S ROLL.


Naruto and his team, plus Tazuna, had stopped walking due to this extremely thick fog shrouding the surroundings. Kakashi wasn't liking this at all, it reminded him a lot of Naruto's Pitch Black technique, giving him many flashbacks of that horrible decision he made, which had made it onto his Fears. It was so bad Kakashi kept having nightmares about for a few weeks after the test until recently. Naruto with little hesitation made the executive decision to take off his goggles, as he did so, Kakashi noticed the decision and was terrified of such an act. He immediately diverted his attention by scanning the blank and merciless fog.

Naruto's unveiled gaze pierced through the fog as if it was as bright as normal. Sasuke and Sakura, as well as Tazuna stared at his eyes, to be respectful it terrified all of them. Wait, I respect none of them, Sakura's scared stiff, Tazuna's about to piss himself. In fact if Sasuke had the prey to those eyes unlocked, Sharingan, he would've pissed himself, but he did still feel the fear of a prey cornered by it's predator on a small scale.

Naruto disregarded all of them and scanned the area, permeating the fog with ease. Seeing something, the Predator(his nickname from Kakashi and any Uchiha) raised his left forearm which was the weird black metallic color again and he caught a giant sword by the blade, that seemingly came out of nowhere midair.

"Damn kid, you're good." A voice said seemingly coming from all around.

"Demon of the bloody mist, Zabuza Momochi? High time I got a real challenge." Naruto said with semi-excited look on his face. He genuinely wanted to fight Zabuza, Naruto had read up on how the man killed his entire class and the man's sword, just the sword in general.

"Oh, a cocky ninja, eh? Getting cocky ki-" Zabuza was stating as he locked eyes with Naruto and felt pure terror spread throughout his body. Naruto grinned widely seeing the look of terror in the Demon's eyes. The Predatory boy began releasing all of his killing intent, all directed at Zabuza. Kakashi quaked in his sandals at all of it, Sakura peed herself, as did Sasuke and Tazuna. Zabuza almost did before he focused all of his killing intent on Naruto. Too bad for the swordsman Naruto didn't feel the affects of killing intent, he new it was there, he just didn't react to it. It simply wasn't in his nature.

Naruto threw the giant blade back to Zabuza and he caught it with minor difficulty and after steeling himself, charged at the genin and swung his sword in a horizontal slash only for Naruto to block it and punch Zabuza in the chest hard. The punch sent Zabuza skidding away, much to his surprise.

'What is with the color of his arm?' Zabuza thought to himself in wonder as the boy's arm reflected light from nowhere. The act within itself represented the the substance, Naruto's skin, hardening itself to check for any breaches only to find none and gain that reflective quality.

"Damn kid, you're strong... Gotta ask, how'd you guys deal with the Demon Brothers?" Zabuza asked, wanting to know the fate of his assumed to be captured allies.

"I killed 'em for their bounties." Naruto delivered to the killer ice cold, he wasn't trying to be cool or maintain any appearances, that was just how he acted in the given situation.

Zabuza was minimally shocked when he heard a leaf nin did such a deed, but then remembered just who he was dealing with. Zabuza charged the boy yet again. Naruto was all to ready to block it, when he heard a scream for help.

"Sasuke, Help!" Sakura screamed due to the clone coming at her, little did she know, other clones had neutralized both Sasuke and Kakashi. Naruto was so focused on the fight, he completely ignored what was happening to his teammates.

Zabuza continued his charge on Naruto, assuming the boy was distracted by the plea for help only for a crude and surprising awakening when the edge of his blade clashed with the blonde's forearm.

"Oh, so you assumed I was concerned about my team? First of all, Kakashi's been holding back, The Dark Knight is so hell bent on revenge it's completely distracted him from doing actual work and his pride doesn't help. Pinky is just plain useless. I would help them, but it was either me or them, so I chose me." The Predatory Blonde delivered to Zabuza with an icy tone and a subduing stare into his eyes. The boy had Zabuza paralyzed and they both knew that.

The shorter one extended his arm outwards, skin seeming to go with the motion and instantly retracting as if he was rubber and then his body took on a pink hue and steam began rolling off his body. Naruto sent his fist backwards and it extended into a water clone, seemingly by accident, which immediately dispelled it and set Kakashi free. The arm then began to retract almost in slow motion as Zabuza heard a different voice and saw a different face, one with a scar right below the left eye as Naruto said the name of the technique.

"GUM GUM JET..."

The arm suddenly blinks out of view and launches into Zabuza sending the man into a tree, hard.

"...PISTOL."

Zabuza didn't know what just happened or how it happened as Naruto left the empowered state and began walking up to Zabuza's crumpled form against a tree. The giant cleaver had been dropped and stuck into the ground, Naruto grabbed it on the way hefted it into the air and swung down, right in front of the Demon man's neck.

"This was a good fight, but you let me get in your head and hit you twice in the same spot and I felt a bone or two fracture, bad move on your part. But don't worry, once I claim your bounty I'll carry this sword on in your mem-" The To-be-Assassin was delivering to his prey as a needle stuck itself into Zabuza's neck and the man lost consciousness, seemingly dead.

"And he's dead, what the hell, who stole my kill?" Naruto asked while looking around, the boy seemed different than before, like a whole lot of tension was lifted off of him.

"That would be me." A hunter-nin said that had appeared at Zabuza's side. The nin snatched the Demon's sword and the body and vanished.

"I hate hunter-nins. Especially when they work with their 'target'." Naruto said annoyed at the situation as a whole and pulled down his goggles to cover his eyes once more.

All of the team gathered back together and shakily formed their turtle formation, Naruto now striding forward casually, hands in his pockets. The others not failing to notice Naruto's extreme 180 in personality, they couldn't figure it out, it was so strange seeing him so different, but looking exactly the same.

They continued to walk and arrived at Tazuna's house. Tazuna's daughter thanked all of them and admired Naruto more than Sasuke would like. Then she let them in and them a nice home cooked meal.

"You guys are gonna need training..." Kakashi mentioned offhandedly to his team, he was talking to Sasuke and Sakura, he hoped Naruto knew that as well.

The ones he was talking to looked up at him, but Naruto continued to eat his food, he was listening, but any training he offered those two, Naruto did not want to take part in.

"I'll start you training tomorrow, so that can actually do something against any of Zabuza's lackies." Kakashi informed his weak genin.

"I'll scout the area and get a layout of the place and hopefully an idea as to where Zabuza's hiding... He is hiding, because he is scared of me." Naruto said aloud, mostly to himself because he was gonna do it regardless of what anyone said. Just then Inari, Tazuna's grandson, walked into the room.

"You guys do-" Inari started pretty angry right when Naruto stared him dead in the face.

"What was that?" Naruto asked in an eerily calm voice of the small fearful child.

"N-nothing." Inari said a bit shaky and then walked back to his calmly, with shaking legs.

"What'd you do?" Sakura asked knowing nothing of fear tactics.

"Simple, I scared him so bad, he was afraid that if he cried, I'd kill him. That's not only phobia fear, but it's also fearful respect." Naruto explained simply to the pinky.

'Damn, I've only ever(never) heard of that...' Kakashi and Sasuke thought in unknowingly synchronized awe. Simply put, Naruto was awesome, in the biblical sense of course. So, terrifyingly skilled and full of potential, potential to kill that is. It was good thing knew what he was doing with his ability to strike fear, if he didn't, his killing intent would directed at everyone all the time, scaring the piss out of those weaker than him. Which could be useful, but wasn't very good diplomatically for the Hidden Leaf Village, so Naruto learned to control it. The boy had a monster amount of willpower and he had endured quite a lot when he was training.

After everyone finished their meal they retired to their rooms, Naruto's clones keeping watch as they all slept, not a single thing going bump in the night.


A/N: And with that, Ladies and Gentlemen, I bid you farewell. Please do review of your thoughts and keep an eye out for the next installment.