Edited 6/4/13 for grammatical errors (That frankly pissed me off)
"Oh really?" Zabuza asked his face bandages shifting to indicate he was smirking, "You think you can kill m-" he was cut off by Naruto's fist be slammed into his gut, causing everyone's eyes to widen. "I didn't even see him move" Kiba mumbled falling to his knees in shock at the class dope moving so fast, causing Akamaru to whine due to his master's fear
'How is the dope so powerful!?' Sasuke thought clenching his fists in rage. He looked over Naruto's team 'It couldn't have been the fangirl or the Hyuga' His eyes fell onto Batoru who was being looked over by Hinata's Byakugan 'It has to be either the snake woman or this demon! I need this power to kill Him!' He then began to plot on how to convince Batoru to give him power, unaware that Batoru was watching his expression
'When'd this brat get so fast?!' Zabuza thought in shock as he dodged Naruto's fists 'He's almost as fast as the hunter nin!' "Not bad kid" he said grabbing the blonde's wrist and swinging him over his head towards a nearby lake "But NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"
"I don't need to be!" Naruto roared crossing his middle and index fingers in a familiar handsign "You'll tire eventually Kage Bushin no jutsu!" as hundreds of the blonde appeared out of nowhere
"What!" Zabuza asked shocked unconsciously taking a step back 'How does he have this much chakra! The Mizukage can barely make this many clones!' he then steeled his resolve "You think numbers will allow you to take me down! You're stupider than I thought?" he then flew through handsigns before stopping on the Tori (bird) sign "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water release: Water Dragon Bullet)!" A dragon made of water rose from the lake and roared, charging the clones and wiping them out
Naruto landed on the water after using a clone as a stepping stone to avoid the dragon causing Batoru's eyes to bug out "How does he know that?" he mumbled struggling to his feet "Batoru! You're hurt, if you move you'll only hurt yourself more!" Hinata cried grabbing Batoru's good arm and trying to drag him back down in a rare moment of confidence. "Sorry Hinata" Batoru said voice void of emotion as he turned his head in her direction "But I need you and everyone else to back up" seeing her hesitation he roared "NOW!"
This snapped her out of whatever daze she was in and caused her to back up nodding "We need to move" She said to Ino as she passed before grabbing Sakura and Sasuke by the arms and dragging them along to the tree line. Ino did the same with Kiba, who was still frozen in shock. "Get your hands off me bit-" Sasuke was cut off by a slap from Ino "If Batoru says we back up, we back up" She said with finality before rejoining Hinata leaving Sakura to stare at Sasuke's cheek with shock and Sasuke to stare blankly at Ino's retreating form, hand tracing where Ino hand slapped him 'Maybe she's not as useless as I thought' Sasuke thought in realization
Batoru watched the entire thing from where he stood smiling all the while 'She's getting better' he chuckled before turning to the battle between Naruto and Zabuza "I don't know how you know that" Batoru said "But if its what I think it is... this is bad" he brought his broken hand up to his tattoo wiping the blood on it "Kenpei Gentei Fuin: Kai (Power Restriction Seal: Release)!" he yelled his voice cutting through the battle "One Thousandth percent(0.1%)"
"Kenpei Gentei Fuin: Kai!" Batoru's voice came cutting through the battle between Naruto and Zabuza causing both to stop and look in that direction only for Zabuza's nonexistant eyebrows to shoot up in shock as he saw an aura of red engulf Batoru's injured form. Unbeknownst to everyone a seal in the shape of the Kanji for block appeared on the back of Batoru's neck before dissipating in the aura of red
"What's going on?!" Zabuza demanded turning to Naruto only to have a fist shoved into his face and a kunai into his chest, just missing his heart and other vital organs. "Why would I tell that to a dead man?" Naruto's slightly distorted and demonic voice asked as Zabuza's wide eyes stared into Naruto's red ones 'What happened to his eyes?! Is he a... he is! He's a Jin-' His mental revelation was broken when Batoru slammed into Naruto sending him flying face first into the lake, before he rounded and his fist met Zabuza's neck, sending him into a tree. "Batoru!" Naruto yelled demonically as he stood on the water
"Sorry kid" Batoru said from behind Naruto causing his eyes to widen "This is for your own good" With that he sent a quick and efficient chop to the back of Naruto's neck, rendering him unconscious. "Batoru... why did you attack Naruto?" Hinata asked hesitantly "For reasons that are his to tell, not mine" Batoru answered placing him on the ground not noticing, or not really caring, that by now most of the Genin had fallen to their knees, or in Kiba's case his face, due to his unrestrained youkai. "Hinata, Ino watch Naruto" He said cracking his knuckles "I've got a score to settle with Zabuza"
On the other side of the lake Anko and Kakashi were hard pressed to fight against Kisame and Samehada. "We've hurt him, I know we've hurt him! So why isn't he HURT?!" Anko asked in frustration dodging a swing from Samehada aimed at her head. "I'm not allowed to say, that would be telling" Kisame said grinning manically blocking a Suiton: Suikōdan no Jutsu (Water release: Water Shark Bullet) Kakashi had sent his way with Samehada, causing the water to disappear
"Maybe I should've been more careful with you stealing my jutsu huh?" Kisame asked himself before laughing "But then it wouldn't have been so much fun!" He yelled rushing Kakashi who Kawarimied with a log to dodge the blade. "This is bad" Kakashi panted from beside Anko, "We can't dodge forever, and everytime we hurt him he somehow gets healed" "You got that right" Kisame said from behind them causing their eyes to widen "The only reason I'm even here is because the Mizukage decided to delay my advance with almost half of his total ninja and faced the rest of Zabuza's rebellion on his own. Smart, but in convenient" He said swinging Samehada, causing Kakashi and Anko to jump and duck respectively.
"Sen'eijashu (Hidden Shadow Snake Hands)!" Anko yelled ejecting snakes at Kisame's face from point blank. "ARGH!" Kisame yelled in pain as the snakes injected their venom into his face, reflexively dropping Samehada and bringing his hands to his face to remove the snakes. Anko grabbed Samehada and threw it to Kakashi who pulled out a scroll and was about to seal it, when it moved on its own back towards Kisame forcing Anko to dodge or she'd be run through by the sentiant blade. "How do you make a sword that's alive?!" Kakashi asked his Sharingan (Copy Wheel Eye) revealing that there was no chakra strings. "I don't know, but I want one!" Anko said as the blade entered Kisame's hand and his wounds heal over.
"Much better" Kisame said stomping on the dead snakes on the ground "So its your sword that heals you?" Kakashi ventured wobbling slightly from exhaustion, both chakra wise and phisically. "Yep! Now I'm only telling you this because your going to di-" He was cut off by a wave of youkai coming from the direction of Zabuza's battle "Batoru" Anko said not realizing she was speaking out loud. "That demon guy? He's the one with this power?" Kisame turned towards the other lake shore "Sorry but this battle just got shoved down on my priority list" He said dashing across the water
"Thank Kami he's gone" Kakashi said leaning against a tree "I don't know how much longer we would've lasted" "Scarecrow! He's headed to where we left Batoru and Zabuza" Anko yelled angrily "Yeah, away from us" "And towards our teams!" Anko yelled back causing Kakashi's eyes to widen "We need to get there now" Kakashi said getting up shakily and running across the water "Right" Anko said right behind him
"Ow" Zabuza said pathetically his landing having created an indent in the shape of his back in the tree "You don't look so good Zabuza" a voice said from above him "Shut it Kisame" Zabuza snapped standing up leaning on Kubikiribōchō which he had barely kept a hold of. "Oh... your back" Batoru said from above Kisame himself causing him to raise his head. "You cause this?" Kisame asked tapping Samehada on his shoulder "Yeah what of it?" "Perfect" Kisame grin revealing his shark like teeth and jumping up slashing Samehada "Just so you know" He said reaching the branch Batoru was on "Samehada doesn't cut" he slashed ripping a tear out of Batoru's chest "It shreds!"
"Good to know" Batoru retorted his chest already healed due to his youkai, before he shunshined to where he had dropped his Karasu no ken and sealed it. "What you gonna fight with that sword you had on originally?" Kisame asked grinning "No" Batoru responded shunshining back to Kisame and unsealing Karasu no ken "I just like a bit of... flare to my battles" He then moved his sword to a position as if it were sheathed at his side "Battoujutsu?" Kisame asked "I can't use that with Samehada; to big" Batoru smirked "Sucks for you then" He the blurred from sight
Kisame blocked his back with Samehada, just in time to block Batoru's attack. Batoru jumped back and repeated the stance blurring from sight again and Kisame blocked from the side this time. This was repeated several times before Batoru stopped "Not bad, time to take it up a notch" He then went into the standard Battoujutsu stance, this time staying still. Kisame swung to the right causing Batoru to jump to the left, removing all his momentum and the Batoru that didn't move disappeared. "You're pretty fast, I'll give you that" Kisame said leaning Samehada's bandaged blade on his shoulder "You're pretty fast yourself" Batoru said unsealing a scabbard from his other arm, clipping it to his left hip, and sheathing his sword
"Wouldn't that slow down the swing?" Kisame asked as Anko appeared on the shore carrying Kakashi "Yeah, but it improves the power that comes from a correct stance and location of the blade" Batoru said eyes flicking to Anko and Kakashi for a brief second, which was not lost on Kisame "Time to die!" he yelled chargin Anko and Kakashi, causing Batoru's eyes to widen as he disappeared and reappeared in front of Samehada, sword mid swing.
Kisame dodged and was about to retaliate when two senbon needles flew into his neck, stopping when a third of each where protruding out the other side. Kisame's eyes widened and all he said was "My gills" Before he collapsed and the same happened to Zabuza "I thank you for your assistance" A distorted voice said as a person, seemingly a male, dropped onto Kisame's body "I have been tracking these two for some time" they said gathering both bodies and swords and making a half ram seal "I wish you all good day" they then shunshined away.
"Well that was something" Batoru said walking over to Kakashi and Anko "That power boost has almost run out... I'll take Naruto, can you keep holding Kakashi?" He asked henging back into Naruto, sealing his sword and scabbard, and replacing Tsudzurao oni on his back. After receiving a nod he then walked over to Hinata who had hovered over Naruto protectively, and picked up his unconcious summoner. "Kakashi I know your awake" Batoru whispered in Kakashi's ear as they followed Tazuna, who had been hiding in the woods, home, "But when we get to Tazuna's house, you have a LOT of explaining to do"
All Kakashi did was begin sweating profusely
