Chapter 8 is now in the books and I must say, mixed feelings for this one, I hope you guys like it, there will be a note at the bottom as usual.
Now, did anybody read Naruto 591, WTF was that man? I have to say I expected the ending, but I wonder what will put Madara Uchiha down, or if anything will? I just had a great time travel fic idea upon reading that. Now for the disclaimer.
NARUTO IS NOT MINE, I WISH IT WAS.
"You wanna cut a deal?" Haku asked Naruto, incredulous that the blonde ninja would even suggest something like that to her, she and her master Zabuza had no reason whatsoever to accept whatever Naruto had to say to them. Naruto merely nodded, ignoring the disbelief in Haku's voice, it seemed like he was pretty desperate.
"I know about your defection, I know about your bloodline purges in Kiri and I know about your clan, the Yuki clan, well known for their Ice release techniques" Naruto said, "I think we can help each other here, plus I know about people like Gato, and I know that he is just wating to screw you over when there is nothing you can do about it, so how about it, will you shake my hand" Naruto said before extending his right hand towards Haku, who looked at it like it was an animal in the zoo.
"No, I cannot trust you" she said simply. Naruto smiled, shaking his head.
"I knew it wouldn't be so easy, but I can be very persuasive" Naruto said smiling, and was puzzled when he saw Haku blushing.
'What the hell? Why is she blushing' Naruto thought to himself, his puzzlement increasing with every passing second. Haku recovered quickly though.
"What do you mean by that?" Haku asked Naruto, who looked at her like she was not from this planet.
"Well, maybe I should tell you what I can do, but you already know, the way I thrashed your master around like he was a nobody" Naruto said, sounding more smug than he had hoped to come off while saying that. "Plus, you know I can kill you right now and then who will go and wake up Master Zabuza eh? I am sure Gato will pay no attention before finishing you off and get his job done for free, do you know how much you guys charge him?" Naruto asked her, her eyes widened, both of them knew that she was in no condition to take him on right now, she did not have her senbon and she did not want to show off her bloodline, but maybe she would have to bring it out right about now.
"Now, Konoha is the place both of you wanna go to, they respect bloodlines, unlike your Mizukage and you will be welcomed with open arms you know, Zabuza can finally have a place to call home and you can be with him." He said.
"Can you prove that Gato will kill us?" Haku asked Naruto, "I mean you could be lying for all I know and I don't wanna be the one to lead my master to his death thanks to you and your treacherous ways" she said, upon hearing this, Naruto began laughing loudly, like a crazy person and Haku began staring at him, almost scared.
"Fine" Naruto said, pausing, see for yourself, Gato is not too far away and maybe, just maybe he can be scheming against you guys, you know, I know where he is right now" Naruto said casually, Haku looked at him, curious as to how he found out where the shipping magnate was, Naruto just shrugged when she asked him. Haku decided that following him was worth a shot.
Naruto was smirking, he had gotten extremely lucky.
Flashback
It was three hours before Naruto had met with Haku, and Kakashi an d Naruto were having a conversation about her, although they did not know who it was till then.
"I have my shadow clones you know, they are combing the whole goddamn place, they will find the accomplice and then tail him, and I will try talking to him, because I know that they have good intentions, I know Gato is going to double cross them, I will prove it to them and all the fighting will be avoided" Naruto said to Kakashi, who was doubtful whether Zabuza and his apprentice would switch allegiance and come without a fight.
Kakashi had asked Naruto if establishing a friendship was what they should do in a situation like this, and Naruto agreed, he said that peace was all that mattered and Naruto needed friends so that he could hope to someday establish that peace. Kakashi sighed and reluctantly agreed, meanwhile some of Naruto's clones had discovered Gato and one of them had dispelled, thus alerting Naruto to his whereabouts. A local gambling place that Gato and his cronies had established from the money they had taken from the Wave.
However they had not found Haku, she was hidden, Naruto had found her by pure luck.
End Flashback.
It was a really murky place and the whole air smelled of alcohol, Haku frowned as her nose crinkled in disgust, Naruto on the other hand found the smell of Sake really appealing, maybe he would try it someday, of course there was no time for this. Both of them were disguised as two of the bandits (who Naruto had knocked out at the entrance and disposed of). The plan was for Naruto to approach as a ninja who was after Zabuza and Haku who would be hidden would be listening in.
However they found out that Gato had just left, Naruto groaned, pissed off that his plans were going awry, however he was lucky (as usual) when he found out that they were not that far off, Naruto and Haku both took off, hopping trees until they found Gato and his men in a clearing close by. They had taken a shortcut through the forest and Naruto looked at what the men were doing, his face paled as he saw all of them surrounding a woman, who was half naked. It was obvious what was happening.
Naruto decided that the man who was humiliating her at the moment should not be spared, he decided that it was time to make his entrance, he looked at Haku and instructed her to remain silent, his belief in Haku's goodness was reinforced when he saw that she looked mortified at what was happening.
Naruto transformed into a normal looking person with black hair and had an intimidating air about him, Haku was awed at the fact that Naruto had transformed the aura around him and she presumed that it was one of his abilities. Naruto looked at Haku and raised his eyebrows, Haku nodded. Assuaged, Naruto decided to began moving, and using his superior speed vanished.
He reappeared behind the man who was trying to rape the woman and slashed his throat, before anything could happen, the man was dead and Naruto had his knife around Gato's throat. The man was really a midget and was already whimpering, thus showing everyone just how powerful the person was.
"Wh-Who are you" Gato asked him, he was ready to piss his pants, Naruto smirked, leaking some more killing intent, Gato and his five men were all stiffening, unable to move due to the intent in the air.
"Does not matter" Naruto said to Gato, almost a whisper, he then looked at the woman, who was crying her tears hitting the ground. "Go" he said to her, the woman obeyed and got away, none of the bandits could say anything. Naruto paused and waited for her to be out of their sights.
"I hate rapists" he said when he saw Gato looking at the dead body of the henchman. Gato paled, he was worried that it would happen to him as well and he did not like that at all.
"What do you want?" Gato asked him, fear in his voice. Naruto smiled, he hoped that this would work.
"I heard that you employed Zabuza Momochi, now I do not like Zabuza Momochi very much, and I do not like the people who hire him too, so tell me, give me a reason as to why I do not kill you and your stupid little cronies where you stand" he said, leaking some more killing intent.
Gato was not stammering. "I-Its not like that, whoever you are, I plan to dispose of him once my job is done, as a matter of fact, if you want, I can tell you where he is, right now, I hired him and his lodgings are in my place, I will tell you, kill him, I will give you lots of money as well, I was going to kill him, honest" he said to Naruto, begging for his life.
"Okay" Naruto said, "I believe you, you seem to be telling the truth, Zabuza should be dead in a fortnight, because if he isn't" Naruto said before vanishing and reappearing behind another henchman who hit the floor, dead.
"That's going to be you, now get lost" he said to Gato, who looked happy to be out of there, Naruto waited till the magnate and his three henchmen were out of their sights, that's when Haku descended from the tree she was hiding in it.
"Happy?" he asked Haku, who looked nothing but. She was looking at the dead bodies, obviously not very happy with what was going on.
"Did they have to die, did you have to kill them?" Haku asked Naruto, it was clear that she did not enjoy killing at all. Naruto shrugged his shoulders.
"I have killed before, plus are you telling me they did not deserve it?" he asked Haku. "These scumbags will always disrupt peace, plus that woman was precious to someone, I couldn't let her be insulted like that, they deserved to die" he said, before spitting at the body of one of the bandits.
"Now listen to me Haku, I am strong, you can see that, I can kill you effortlessly, however convince your master, tell him that he can join us in Konoha, where he will be happy, and you will not be hunted down, can you do that?" he asked her. Haku nodded.
"Good." Naruto said to her, "Now you should be on your way, go heal Zabuza, and meet me in the same place tomorrow, alright?" he asked Haku, who nodded.
"Why help us?" Haku asked Naruto before he could Shunshin away, Naruto looked at her and shrigged, "I know you, I could sense the goodness about you, even Zabuza was not very fond of killing us, you were on a job, and I know the person who hired you was despicable, I knew you would be double crossed, no wonder I had my clones track you, although they could not locate you, I guess its a good thing that we ran into each other eh?" he said to her, and watched her eyes widen.
"Plus, there are some other selfish reasons" he said before bringing both his hands together and focusing Chakra, Haku'e wide eyes went wider when she saw what Naruto was actually doing, he had formed a block of ice. Haku stumbled as she took a step back, was Naruto a relative?
"Bye" Naruto said to her before Shunshining away.
-x-
"It worked" Naruto said to Kakashi, it had been two days since Naruto had convinced Haku, and she had taken Naruto to their hideout where he had met with Zabuza, his conversation with Zabuza had gone the same way as it had with Haku, Zabuza was angered that Gato would dishonor their pact in such a manner, and agreed, they decided to finish Gato for once and for all, and Zabuza decided that at least for a while, he would come to Konoha, despite what it looked like, Haku was like his daughter and he had wanted her to be safe, and he agreed that Konoha would be the safest of the villages, and she would be accepted because she wasn't a missing nin like him.
Kakashi smiled, Naruto's charisma had come from his father, both of them had an air about them that made you think that they knew what they were doing, even though they probably didn't.
"To convince Gato we will fight, Zabuza wanted to try defeating me again, it will be a harmless spar, he will take on you first, while Haku wants to see if my ice 'bloodline' is as good as hers, and she wants to see what I can do with it. Keep Sasuke and Sakura in the dark, we might be able to hide our abilites, however Sakura and Sasuke might give it away, and while I hate lying to them, it has to be done to them" he said to Kakashi, who nodded.
"Fine, I will train them, you wanna help out?" he asked Naruto who nodded.
"Yeah, Sakura can use some basic Genjutsu I guess, maybe you should have Kurenai teach her when we do get back from this mission, you can train Sasuke in some fire jutsu before he unlocks the Sharingan." he said to Kakashi, who nodded.
An hour later they found themselves in the clearing, Naruto had been instructing Sakura in doing some basic Genjutsu, today he was teach her Flower Petal Escape Technique which could help hide Tazuna and herself if she was threatened, much to Naruto's delight, Sakura's perfect chakra control had caused her to get a hang of that technique relatively easily.
Sasuke was being taught the Exploding Flame Shots by Kakashi, Sasuke had an affinity for fire and lightening (every Uchiha had fire release while Sasuke also had lightening), however Kakashi was not teaching Sasuke the Chidori yet, he wanted to wait for a while, so they had to settle for this technique.
Naruto smiled, their training was coming along nicely, they would be able to put up a nice fight and impress Zabuza, he couldn't however, wait to see the look on Gato's face when he would realize that he was played.
-x-
Itachi Uchiha sighed as he stared at the plate of Dango that he was eating, he did not want to eat much these days, his job as a spy had led him away from the one person that he loved more than anybody else in the world, his own brother.
He was in the Land Of Fruits, far far away from Konoha, and he could not help but think of the orange masked person who claimed he was Madara Uchiha, Itachi could not believe that the man, who was literally a God among men was still alive, at least that was what it seemed to be. Madara (or whoever the man was) seemed to suspect that Itachi would work as a spy for the Hokage, and Itachi was worried, he had planned to start a new organization and Itachi could possibly be recruited.
However he stopped when he began sensing a really sinister Chakra nature in the air. He knew who it belonged to.
"Orochimaru" he said, and the snake nin came out from the clearing. Itachi rose.
"What do you want?" he asked Orochimaru, who laughed.
"Your eyes"
-x-
Naruto sighed, today was the day they would battle at the bridge, it was the day of their battle (at least mock battle) against Zabuza and Haku, they were supposed to do it till Gato would show up and try killing them, that's when they would strike, according to Zabuza, Gato had been pushing Zabuza to get rid of 'the ninja brats'. Naruto had to keep up his appearance and had once again threatened Gato in his transformed (and intimidating) form for the sake of keeping up appearances.
They had to make it to the bridge soon and Naruto was feeling uneasy, he had left two clones back home to guard Tsunami and Inari, while he had made his way to the bridge. He was worried about the encounter he had had with Inari just the other day.
Flashback
Naruto and Sasuke had just returned from training with each other and were absolutely famished, literally gulping down everything that Tsunami had put in front of them for dinner, not caring about getting suffocated or otherwise, Inari watched all this with a look of disdain that went unnoticed by everyone. In short the mood in the house was upbeat.
"Don't worry Tazuna-san" Sakura said to the bridge builder (who was drunk again), Naruto and Sasuke and I have been training really hard and we will surely defeat Zabuza this time." she said confidently, while Naruto and Sasuke nodded, their mouths still full with the food they had just swallowed in a gulp. Kakashi and Sakura sighed at the display, Naruto and Sasuke had established a somewhat uncomfortable friendship over the past few days and both of them were similar to each other in more ways than one.
The happiness was shattered when Inari banged his hands on the table and looked at them, puzzling everyone as to why he had done that. Inari just glared at both Naruto and Sasuke.
"It's hopeless, you cannot defeat Gato" he said to both of them, "Why even try, he is stronger than all of us and your enthusiasm is going to be your downfall" he said. Sasuke and Naruto gulped down all the food they had in their mouths, Sasuke looked pissed that an eight year old kid was calling him weak while Naruto made his feelings well known.
"Wow, you seem really confident, its too bad that with an attitude like that you will never achieve anything in life" Naruto said to him. Sakura gasped, to her it seemed like Naruto had been too harsh with that statement while Sasuke merely smirked, he knew what Naruto was talking about.
"With hard work, one can achieve anything, of course I would not expect you to understand that, you only seem to run away, you are always sad, I mean what the hell would you know?" Naruto asked Inari who began shaking, with either tears or anger, but as it turned out, it was both.
"My father was a fool, died trying to play the hero, and you are a fool too, even you try being a hero, and guess what, there are no heroes, there will never be any heroes or any heroic acts, its all a shade of grey" Inari screamed, "I have had a tough life" he finished.
Naruto was about to open his mouth when he heard Sasuke (of all people in the world) speak up, and speak up he did.
"A TOUGH LIFE?" Sasuke screamed at him."My brother, the person I loved the most murdered my entire family and made me relive it several times, over and over again and told me he did it to test his powers, he ruined my life, completely shattered all hopes I had of having a normal life, and Naruto here has been attacked and hated by the village he lives in for reasons that no one knows, yet he smiles and goes on with his life, so don't give me that bullshit about having lead a tough life" Sasuke said to him before resuming his silence.
"Disgraceful, you are nothing like your father Inari, matter of fact, if I was your dad, I would be ashamed of you right now" he said to Inari, who teared up and left in a hurry.
End Flashback
Naruto shrugged off the encounter he had had with Inari and concentrated on what was happening in front of him right now, they were at the bridge and Zabuza and Haku had made their presence known from the mist that was enveloping the whole bridge, completely surrounding the whole area making it impossible for them to see anything whatsoever.
"Stronger than ever eh?" Naruto asked Zabuza who snorted.
"Haku was looking forward to fighting you brat, you have no chance, although I would like to know how you came to possess the Ice bloodline" he said to Naruto.
'Surprise" Naruto said to him, which caused Zabuza to snort.
"You seem to cocky kid, now go and fight her" he said to Naruto, who nodded and vanished.
Haku was meanwhile talking to Sasuke.
"You might be extremely cute, but that does not mean that I will go easy on you, because I like being on top of everything, and I shall come out on top in our encounter too" she said to Sasuke, who was blushing.
Naruto who had just appeared from nowhere saw Sasuke looking positively red faced, he had to focus a lot of chakra into his eyes to see that clearly and he was now feeling glad that he had taken that pain, because this was extremely rare. Sasuke, the emo king was blushing.
'Who the hell is this girl, and why is she so pretty' Sasuke thought to himself before stopping, and his face turning pale.
"Wait, I am not supposed to feel that way" he said loud enough for Naruto and Haku to hear him, Naruto just looked at Sasuke as though he was from another planet.
'What the hell Sasuke?" he asked Naruto. 'Haku is flirting with Sasuke, actually I think their pairing will be awesome' he thought to himself.
"Enough talk, now we fight" Haku said as she launched a senbon, Naruto moved away and so did Sasuke, who's eyes were now red colored with two tomoe in them.
"So you activated the Sharingan?" Naruto asked Sasuke. "When?"
"Yesterday night, after my outburst" Sasuke said, grinning, "I feel great, lets see how good these eyes are shall we?" he asked Naruto who nodded.
Haku suddenly appeared behind Sasuke and kicked him, however Sasuke barely got a hand to it in time. His Sharingan saving him from near disaster, while Naruto grinned appreciatively.
"You are fast" he said to Haku, who smiled, although Naruto could not see it. She then charged Naruto, who sidestepped her and made it look like he was sleeping, at least it looked that way with the ease that he was moving with. He struck out a palm at Haku, who dodged it effortlessly too.
"Not bad" he said to Haku, "Lets see what you do about this" he said as he stepped back and formed some handseals, before wordlessly sending out balls of ice at Haku, who barely dodged them.
"Nice" she said, "You have decent control over the ice, but lets see you dodge this" she said as she formed some hand seals.
"Ice Style: Ice Disk Technique" she called out, as there was a whizzing sound in the air, however Naruto could not see anything, and he activated his eyes, focusing some more Chakra towards his eyes when he saw almost transparent, sharp ice disks coming towards him, Sasuke, whose Sharingan had seen it all managed to pull Naruto out of the way.
"Dobe, what the hell are you doing man? Do I have to pull you out of everything like that?" he asked Naruto, who sighed in relief, he had taken this too lightly, the mist had forced him to activate his Rinnegan.
"Listen Haku, I don't care how beautiful you are, I will get you, fear my wrath" Sasuke said as Naruto looked at him, wondering if he was showboating right now.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu" he said shooting out balls of fire towards Haku, who dodged all of them, Haku substituted herself with a block of ice, which made Sasuke groan.
Meanwhile Kakashi and Zabuza were involved in a fierce battle (or spar), Zabuza had to admit that Kakashi was a really, really talented shinobi, who was holding his own against Zabuza.
"You are good, maybe your students are as good as you are?" he asked Kakashi.
"Don't underestimate them, that might just be the last thing you do" he said to Zabuza, who laughed.
"The blondie is fearsome, I will admit, but I don't think he is too experienced, he is a little too naive for my tastes" Zabuza said as his Cleaver clashed with Kakashi, who turned out to be a shadow clone.
"Are you taking advantage of his naivety?" Kakashi asked Zabuza, he had just materialized behind him and had a Kunai to Zabuza's throat, he wasn't slashing, he was not supposed to.
"Nah" Zabuza said before dissolving into water, it was a water lone, and Kakashi sighed, berating himself for thinking that he had won already, however he dodged in time, avoiding a giant sword slashing, he began sweating, Zabuza was really good.
"So why join us?" Kakashi asked Zabuza, who sort of shrugged, both of them were standing at a distance.
"Look, I love Haku okay, like a daughter, I took her in and raised her to be a tool, but I realized that she'd won me over, she changed my heart, and I am tired of putting her in danger like this, I know that she will be safe there, I am doing this for her, I want her to have a great life" Zabuza said as Kakashi looked on, shocked at what Zabuza had just said.
"Plus she thinks that the black haired kid is cute" he said to Kakashi, who sweatdropped.
'She should join the club' Kakashi thought.
"Enough of this sappy bullshit, let's fight now" Zabuza said as he charged Kakashi again.
-x-
Half an Hour later.
"Alright, Haku, its time" Naruto said, they were trapped in Haku's Demonic Ice Mirrors and Naruto was sorely tempted to use the Preta Path and absorb the Ice needles, but he didn't want to. Sasuke too was looking a little worse for wear.
"Sasuke, Inari seems to have got our message, he is gathering the villagers, Gato is on his way now" he said to Sasuke who looked puzzled. He suddenly noticed that the mirrors around him had melted away and Naruto had a hand on Sasuke's shoulder.
"Relax, I'll tell you about it, focus, she's on our side" he said to her. Zabuza and Kakashi had both made their way towards where they all were.
"Alright, Zabuza, you lost the spar, so you can act like you are injured" he said to Zabuza, who snorted, obviously not happy with the whole arangement.
"Sasuke, act like you are seriously hurt" Naruto said to Sasuke, who looked at him puzzled.
"Why?" he asked Naruto, who shrugged. Sasuke shook his head.
"No way, I am not acting injured, you act injured, or tell Haku" he said to Naruto.
Meanwhile Sakura, who was hidden all the time by a genjutsu along with Tazuna had just shown up, puzzled beyond belief.
"Hey, what's going on here, why are we all standing" She asked them, Tazuna looked curious too, "Has the battle stopped, sensei, why are we with the enemies right now?" she asked him, Kakashi shrugged.
"Tell Sakura to act hurt, its the most believable outcome" Sasuke said to Naruto, who glared at him, but Haku solved the problem, by kicking him in the groin. Really hard.
Sasuke cried out in pain as he doubled over clutching his stomach. "Why?" he wheezed out.
"That was for being a jerk" Haku said to Sasuke, Sakura was seething at what Haku had just done, meanwhile Zabuza had also lied down on the ground, waiting for Gato to show up, and sure enough, he did.
"Demon of the hidden mist eh? You don't seem too special Zabuza, I mean you were defeated by kids" Gatp said, he had shown up with fifty mercenaries. Gato then set his sights on Haku.
"Ah, the hot bitch that you carry with you eh? You know, I want her" he said looking at Haku who was kneeling down on the ground beside Zabuza, acting like she was healing his wounds and looking really injuted.
"You were right" Zabuza said to Naruto., who nodded, Gato on the other hand ignored the whole exchange, he went on with his tirade.
"Maybe she will make a great whore, oh wait, I will rape her and kill her, and Tazuna, your daughter will be a whore for sure" Gato said before giggling. Naruto began shaking with anticipation, Gato was gonna be screwed. Sasuke on the other hand was looking really pissed off right about now.
"SHUT THE HELL UP YOU FUZZBAG" he shouted, albeit too dramatically, Naruto groaned, Sasuke wouldn't make a great actor.
"As if a kid can tell me what to do" he said to Sasuke, "You like the whore, well, maybe I'll do it in front of you" he said laughing as his mercenaries laughed along with him.
"I would like to see you try" Zabuza said as he got up, giving up the act, looking as fresh as ever, Haku got up too, and Naruto fromed fifty shadow clones.
Gato paled, the look in his eyes was similar to what many people look like when they see their deaths approaching.
"It was all an act" Zabuza said as he charged towards Gato, who was paralyzed with fear.
Five bloody minutes later, it was all over.
-x-
Inari and the villagers had shown up later, Inari had managed to gather the support of all the villagers and this had gained looks of appreciation from Naruto and of all people Sasuke.
Naruto also found out that Zabuza had no intention of joining Konoha.
"Why stay a missing nin? Come on, you said Haku was your daughter, don't you wanna be with her?" Naruto asked him. Zabuza sighed.
"I would love too Naruto, but I have a job to do, I have to gather support for the rebellion, please, take Haku with you and take care of her" he said to Kakashi, who nodded.
"Zabuza-sama, please, I shall come with you" Haku said to Zabuza, who refused.
"Haku, I order you to go to Konoha and lead a good life, just tell the Hokage that I might visit and that I won't kill any Konoha ninja if I find them" he said to her, she nodded.
"I'll miss you" she said to him, tearing up. Naruto was pretty sure that Zabuza was also about to cry.
"I don't deserve you Haku" Zabuza said to her, as he smiled. "Well, I'll be on my way, take care, and once the rebellion is successful, I will visit you" he said to her, Haku nodded.
Zabuza then Shunshined away as Haku broke down in tears.
The next week was spent completing the bridge, the villagers, bolstered by Inari and Tazuna had began working hard at completing the bridge. Haku and Sasuke spent that time together, much to Sakura's chagrin, she couldn't believe that Sasuke liked Haku, while Naruto could not believe that Sasuke liked girls.
"Can you believe them?" Sakura asked Naruto. "I worked so hard to impress him and he starts liking Haku of all people" she said to Naruto who nodded.
"Yeah, I know right, I thought he had a thing for Kiba" he said as Sakura realized what that meant, and she was not happy.
"Don't insult Sasuke-kun" she said to Naruto as she tried beating him up.
-x-
Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed, it was another day at the village, another one filled with paperwork, and he hated to say it, but he missed Naruto, the boisterous blonde had made things entertaining, but now there was none of that. However things were getting more interesting. He sensed someone was in the room, and it was not ANBU.
"Itachi-kun" Sarutobi said. "How nice of you to show up" he said as Itachi emerged from the shadows.
"I knocked out Kotetsu and Izumo, I hope you don't mind" he said to Sarutobi, "Your ANBU are knocked out too" he said as he took a seat.
"That scares me" Sarutobi replied, "So, I thought you wouldn't show up in the village for a long long time, so what happened?"
"Orochimaru is coming after my brother, his sights are on the Sharingan, and he wants to invade Konoha" Itachi said as Sarutobi paled, this was not good news at all.
"He came after my eyes, but I managed to escape, don't ask me how, I am sure he will go after Sasuke next" he said to Sarutobi.
-x-
"This is bad Tobi" Zetsu said to the orange masked person.
"Orochimaru moved after Itachi and gave away his plan, and now Itachi could be in Konoha, this is not good" Tobi said to himself.
"Look for someone else then, Itachi is a lost cause"
Zetsu nodded as he dissolved in the ground.
-x-
Now obviously things are different, they will be explained in due time, but for now, I will pull the drapes off one by one, so that is all you need to know.
Sasuke is a good guy in this fic, and he is smitten, when do you think he and Haku will get together, and what will Sakura do, I am curious.
I had also wanted Zabuza to come to Konoha but then decided that its better if Haku alone made it there, Zabuza will not appear in the story for quite some time now, but he will come back again.
I have finished building up the first part of the story, Tobi will not make appearances for some time now, like I said, Akatsuki will be formed three years later and will move for Naruto much later, so I don't have to worry about that now.
Next is the Chunin exams, I will also set the stage for Shika Tema in that chapter, at least I hope I will.
So expect the next chapter in the second week of July.
Later.
