I woke up in a cold sweat, panting.

I had awoken from a nightmare, in which Haku died by the hands of one of Konoha's shinobi and then Zabuza taken down by many people who were heavily equipped with swords.

I couldn't get my mind off of it. I was scared to death.

When I finally realized that I had awaken from my slumber, I noticed that Zabuza was not laying next to me as he was before.

I thought to myself, 'Was that a dream as well?'

I knew that it wasn't when I stood up because my rear hurt really bad. I sat back down not wanting to try standing again because it was too painful. I had to get up though.

I got up and walked over to my closet very slowly trying not to feel pain but it seemed impossible. I grabbed a towel and a washcloth from a shelf in the left most corner from my current position, in the six foot by six foot closet. I retreated from my closet and left my seemingly quiet room.

As I walked down the narrow hallway, I heard voices coming from the front room. I continued to walk, as I tried to discern the voices. I reached the bathroom, when I heard a loud smashing type noise. I threw my towels into the bathroom, they conveniently landed on the towel rack. I ran into the front room, that's when I saw the cause of all the yelling, and smashing of objects, Gatou and some shinobi we do business with.

"Stop your damn grumbling...!" Zabuza said to Gatou as he began to clutch his sword from the handle that was lying on his shoulder.

Zabuza then swung the blade stopping it just in front of Gatou's neck. Gatou was now trembling with fear. I remained in the hallway out of site. Haku seemed to be gone as well.

"Next time, I'll kill them with this... head chopper!" explained Zabuza.

"I-It's really okay, right?!" Gatou asked still terrified. "It seems that the enemy has hired good Ninjas... On top of that, a tightened guard on the account of the Demon Brothers' failure means that it won't be easy...," explained the impatient Gatou.

"Just who do you think I am?! Zabuza asked in a very underestimated tone to Gatou. "This is Zabuza Momochi, who is called the demon of th hidden mist." he explained to Gatou.

"Then this should be no problem for you to handle alone, right?!" asked Gatou still disrespecting Zabuza.

I turned and walked back to the bathroom because I didn't care to hear the rest of the conversation. I arrived to the bathroom once again. I began to undress and step into the glass, stand-up shower; which was see through on the top half and blurry on the bottom half so that no one can see your privates. I turned on the water as it began to shoot into drop which hit floor rapidly. I stood under the warm, falling water. I felt so relaxed.

About 2 minutes into my relaxing shower I heard the door to the bathroom open. Zabuza had opened the door and swiftly walked inside. He stood out of the actual shower.

"Hey, Shin," Zabuza asked me seeming sad.

"What's wrong?" I asked the saddened, rogue shinobi.

"It's just that...," he paused for a minute as I continued to wash my body.

He began to take off his clothes and opened the door to the shower, where I had just finished washing off the soap suds from my relaxed body.

He pulled me close to him and said, "I truly love you and want to be with you forever," then he kissed me.

"Zabuza...," I said as my heart skipped a beat.

"Are you okay, from last night?" he asked me. "Because I forgot to tell you that it would hurt in the morning," he explained, chuckling.

"Yeah I'm better," I said giggling

He then grabbed the shampoo and began to wash my hair for me.

"Good," he said cheerfully.

The whole time I was surprised that he didn't try anything like he did last night.

As we finished, he grabbed my towel and dried me off from head to toe. He then wrapped it around my body and then sent me to his room to fetch him a towel.

I quickly ran to his room, went into his closet which was larger than mine by a couple more feet in length (depth). I ran back to the bathroom when I had the towel in my hands. Before I got back to the bathroom I was stopped by the other resident in our hideout, Haku.

"Shinji-kun, where are you going?" Haku asked me as I sat there holding Zabuza's towel, in a towel myself.