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Chapter 8- Danger on the Bridge

Sasuke, Sakura, Sam and Naruto started their chakra control training. Kakashi was there watching them. He watched Sasuke run up the tree so far and scratch the tree with his kunai, just before he lost his balance and jumped off the trunk. Then the jounin watched Naruto run up the tree get so far and then fall to the ground.

Sam was doing a little better than the two boys, however everyone was surprised when they saw Sakura sitting on a high branch in the tree, having gotten up there on the first try. After seeing that Sakura had the hang of it, Kakashi left Sakura to help the boys and Sam try and get a hold of it, while he went off somewhere else.

Meanwhile, Yuki had found a small opening further away from the house and was practising her light style jutsus. The brown haired girl sat on the ground and focused on honing her chakra. She closed her eyes and listened to the wind sweep through her hair and rustle the leaves of the trees and bushes. She started to form a sequence of hand signs.

As she did the wind started to speed up slightly and swirl around her. She felt her chakra inside her do the same thing. Then she finished her hand signs and opened her eyes again. Yuki held a hand out in front of her and focussed her chakra.

Suddenly a ball of white light formed in her hand. She held her other hand over the ball of light and started to mould it into a different shape. The light started to form what looked like a kunai, but then dispersed. Yuki growled frustrated by this. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't get her chakra to form differently.

"Having trouble are we?" said a male voice. Yuki snapped her head round to the source of the voice and sighed when she saw it was just Kakashi.

"Yeah," she said with a disappointed tone. "No matter how hard I try I just can't hold the shape." She stood up and walked past Kakashi. "I guess I'll never get the hang of it," she sighed.

Kakashi looked at her. "I never thought you would give up that easily," he told her. Yuki stopped and looked at him behind her shoulder. "You probably can't form it because there's something blocking your control over your chakra. You need to calm down, ever since Team Seven was formed you've been acting strange and more tense than you usually are. Not to mention the fights between you and Sasuke. What is it with you two?" he mentioned.

Yuki clenched her fists and then relaxed a bit. "He's just one of those people, who I'll never grow to like," she said quietly. Then she walked off back towards Tazuna's house.

For the next week Sasuke and Naruto worked on climbing the tree. Sam had gotten to the top on the third day of trying. Kakashi was pleased with Sakura and Sam. However he had a feeling that Zabuza wasn't dead, so he told Sam, Sakura and Yuki to guard Tazuna whilst he built the bridge.

Once the week was up Kakashi was strong enough to guard him with the girls and Naruto and Sasuke after a lot of hard work and some assistance, mastered the tree climbing and were allowed to guard Tazuna as well.

During the week the team had also found out about Tazuna's grandchild and why he was so sad and cried a lot of the time. The day the team were supposed to guard Tazuna again, Naruto was left in bed since he had exhausted himself doing the tree climbing exercise the night before. Also there was no sign of Yuki. She hadn't been seen since last night.

Having no choice, Kakashi along with Sakura, Sam and Sasuke went with Tazuna to the bridge to guard him, so he could get on with the construction.

About two hours later Naruto woke up, angry to hear that his team had left without waking him up. He got dressed and headed out towards the bridge. Little did he know that waiting in the bushes near the house were two thugs with samurai swords.

When they saw Naruto leave they made their move and entered the house, planning to kidnap Tazuna's daughter. They found her and captured her easily, however they then found Tazuna's grandchild and since they only needed one hostage the big guy raised his sword, about to slice the child in half, when Naruto burst in and beat the two guys to a bloody pulp. Then he lectured the young boy about his attitude.

Upon doing this Tazuna's grandchild had a change of heart and decided that he wasn't going to cry anymore and instead he would fight, just like his 'father' had done. Naruto grinned at this and then took off towards the bridge.

Meanwhile Sam, Sakura, Sasuke, Kakashi and Tazuna had been caught off guard by Zabuza and the boy wearing the anbu mask from last time. The rogue ninja's water clones had surrounded the the group and Sasuke was shaking again.

However this time he wasn't shaking because he was scared, he was shaking because he was eager for a rematch. "Go ahead... Sasuke," Kakashi said.

Sasuke smirked and disappeared. Ten seconds afterwards the water clones dispersed and Sasuke stood there with two kunais in his hands.

"It seems the brat has grown stronger. Maybe into a worthy rival, don't you think Haku?" Zabuza asked the boy with the mask.

"Indeed," Haku replied. Then he disappeared and reappeared right in front of Sasuke and swung a punch at the Uchiha. Sasuke dodged and jumped back, separating himself from the group who were guarding Tazuna. The two boys then fought it out. Haku threw a few attacks at Sasuke, but the Uchiha dodged them easily using the chakra control he had learnt with the tree climbing exercise.

Unfortunately though, Haku had an ace up his sleeve. The masked boy jumped back and formed a sequence of hand signs. "Secret art of water... ice crystal magic mirror jutsu," he said. Suddenly the water surrounding the two boys began to move and gather together, until they formed a dome of ice mirrors around them both. Haku walked up to one of the mirrors and stepped into it, making him appear on all of the mirrors surrounding Sasuke.

The masked boy held up some needles in both his hands. "Now... let me show you some real speed," he said. Suddenly needles sliced through Sasuke from all angles at phenomenal speeds.

"Sasuke!" Sakura screamed.

"Brother!" Sam shouted. Both girls were shocked to see Sasuke being hurt and beaten so badly. Without thinking it over Sakura moved away from Tazuna for a second and threw a kunai at Haku.

Unfortunately though Haku reached out of the mirror nearest to her and caught the kunai in mid air! However he didn't see the shuriken flying straight at him until the last minute and only just dodged it.

All of a sudden there was a huge puff of smoke and every looked in that direction to see the one and only knuckle head ninja of the Hidden Leaf... Naruto Uzumaki! "I am here to save the day," the blonde idiot boasted.

Kakashi face palmed and sighed.

"Naruto you idiot!" Sakura yelled.

"Naruto you don't just barge in and more or less paint a target on yourself," Sam shouted.

"That idiot," Sasuke growled to himself.

Naruto looked around, a little confused about what was going on.

Suddenly Haku threw a bunch of needles in the blonde genin's direction. Naruto dodged them and some how managed to end up inside the dome of ice mirrors with Sasuke. "Psst Sasuke... I'm here to save you," he whispered.

The Uchiha looked at him and his mouthed dropped open. "N... Naruto you idiot!" he yelled. "Now you're stuck in here with me!"

"Well... sorry," Naruto said in a sarcastic tone.

Haku had gotten fed up of waiting and without warning he attacked with his needles again, this time injuring both Naruto and Sasuke.

All of a sudden Sasuke got an idea of how to destroy the ice mirrors. He formed a small sequence of hand signs and breathed in. "Fire style... Fire Ball Jutsu!" he yelled as fire sprayed from his his mouth and formed a huge fire ball engulfing all the ice mirrors.

Unfortunately though the fire had no effect on the ice mirrors and Haku started to attack them with his needles again. Now it was Naruto's turn to try something. He created a bunch of shadow clones and went to attack the mirrors, but Haku easily defeated them all. However Naruto being Naruto, tried the exact same method three times more and ended getting badly beaten up.

Meanwhile Kakashi had started fighting Zabuza again, trying to keep the rogue ninja away from Tazuna and the girls. He unleashed his sharingan once more.

Zabuza however had figured out the mystery behind Kakashi's sharingan and had executed his hidden mist jutsu and closed his eyes to give himself the advantage.

Kakashi stood silently and waited in the mist trying to figure out where Zabuza would attack from. Then he figured it out.

Zabuza appeared behind Tazuna and the girls and grabbed his neck cleaving sword off his back, just about to make the kill, when Kakashi jumped in between them. So instead of killing Tazuna he badly injured Kakashi with the sword. Sakura screamed seeing her sensei get sliced with the sword.

Sasuke and Naruto heard her screams and started to worry. They wanted to know what had happened over there. This distraction left the two boys open to another of Haku's needle attacks.

However this time Sasuke noticed something. He couldn't quite understand it, but he had seen something. Haku attacked again and again and every time he attacked Sasuke's vision became clearer and clearer until finally... He focused so hard that it forced his eyes to reveal the sharingan!

"So I see you're a holder of a kekkei genkai... and not just any kekkei genkai, but the sharingan!" Haku said. 'He's improving... if I let this fight drag on for too long he will most certainly be able to perceive my moves and defeat me,' Haku thought to himself. Then his gaze went over to Naruto who was more or less sprawled out on the floor unconscious. 'But... if I use the other boy as bait then I can end it quickly.'

Haku shot out of the mirror and bolted towards Naruto. Sasuke saw that his target was Naruto and jumped in front of him just in time to block Haku's attack from reaching Naruto. However the attack instead hit Sasuke full force, but Haku was smashed to the floor too.

Meanwhile Kakashi was badly hurt. Blood dripped from his wound and splashed on the floor. Zabuza chuckled and then disappeared back into the mist.

The silver haired jounin was left grasping his wound. He stroked a hand across his wound and blood painted his fingers. Then he formed a series of hand signs. "I too was once a member of a ninja assassin corps. I'll show what kind of shinobi I was back then... this isn't something I learned with the sharingan.

Naruto woke up and was surprised to find Haku on the ground. He looked up and saw Sasuke and grinned. "Sasuke you beat him," he said happily. However that grin vanished when he saw how badly Sasuke had been injured.

There was a pool of the Uchiha's blood spread out on the floor and Sasuke himself had a tonne of needles impaling him all over his body. "Naruto... you idiot... I told you not to get in my way," the Uchiha spoke slowly.

"W-why?" Naruto asked. "W-why did you cover me?"

"Hmph... I used to hate you Naruto..." Sasuke responded.

"You should have just minded your own buisness!" the blonde idiot yelled at Sasuke.

"My body just... moved... on it's own," Sasuke told him. Then the Uchiha collasped backwards and Naruto caught him in his arms. Sasuke's breathing was heavy and ragged. Naruto looked at him, worry plastered all over his face.

Sasuke smirked. "Hmph... you're such a loser," he said then he closed his eyes and lost conciousness. Tears started to well up in Naruto's eyes.

"He defended you, even though he knew it was a trap," Haku said getting up. Naruto didn't respond.

"He was a worthy opponent, but now it's just me and you," the masked boy said stepping into the mirror. "Prepare yourself." Haku crossed his hands over his torso, needles between his fingers, ready to finish off Naruto.

Suddenly the mirror above Naruto cracked. Both Haku and the blonde genin looked up, as the mirror shattered revealing Yuki! She had broke through the mirror from the outside.

"Yuki!" Naruto shouted.

Yuki dropped to the floor in front of Naruto, facing Haku. "Hey Naruto, sorry I'm late what did I miss?" she asked, her eyes focused on the masked boy inside the mirror staring at her.

Naruto sighed. "Yuki, Sasuke he's... he's..." Naruto was so upset he couldn't even say it.

Yuki turned her head round to see Naruto's eyes full of tears. He had Sasuke resting on his knee. Her eyes widened and then she snapped her head round to the masked boy again.

"You," she pointed to the guy in the mirror. "You did this, I may not have liked Sasuke, but he is a team mate after all and I would never want him to die," she growled.

"It was his own fault. He walked straight into my trap just to protect the blonde boy behind you," Haku replied.

"Shut up," Naruto growled.

"Is this the first time a comrade of yours has died? It won't be the last time. It is all part of being a shinobi, we sacrifice ourselves to save others. Such is a ninja's path," Haku went on.

"Shut up..." Naruto growled louder. "I'm never gonna forgive you for this," he said in a much darker tone. "I'm gonna kill you!" he yelled angrily.

Yuki turned around and was shocked to see Naruto with such evil eyes full of hate. He had dark red eyes with slit pupils and sharp fangs.

The blonde genin growled furociously. He looked around and his eyes settled on Yuki and then snapped to Haku. He roared at the masked boy and a huge amount of red chakra swirled around him and exploded outwards destroying all the ice mirrors and throwing Haku out of the mirror he was in.

Kakashi heard the noise and saw the red chakra. He could feel the large amount of blood lust in the air. 'No it couldn't have... has the seal been broken?' he asked himself. 'No just weakened. I need to finish this now and get over there before things start to get out of control,' he concluded.

He then formed a sequence of hand signs again and pushed his hand to the ground. "Summoning jutsu," he said. Suddenly a large puff of smoke appeared and when it faded, it revealed eight ninja hounds all gripping Zabuza with their teeth.

"I-Impossible, how did you find me in this mist?" the rogue ninja asked.

"Simple I used my ninja hounds, they could find you with their noses because of the bit of my blood on your sword," Kakashi responded.

Meanwhile things were getting very dangerous with the battle between Haku, Naruto, Sasuke and now Yuki.

Naruto readied himself to lunge at Haku. He bolted towards the masked boy, but Yuki got in the way and knocked him back. She didn't care if Haku was their enemy, all she knew was that she needed to calm Naruto down.

The blood lust in the air was increasing at a rapid speed and she knew it wasn't a good sign. She jumped Naruto and pinned him to the floor. His red eyes glared at her and she glared back.

Naruto started to lash out, trying to fry himself, but Yuki used all her strength to pin him down. She slapped him round the face and the red chakra swirled furociously around the two of them. She kept her glare focused on the out of control blonde. The brown haired girl couldn't understand it, but she knew deep down that she was getting angrier and angrier.

She slapped Naruto around the face again and Naruto lashed out and clawed the right side of her cheek. This time it was her who growled. "Snap out of it Naruto," she growled at him, the rage inside her starting to get the better of her.

He tried to claw her again, but this time she dodged him and responded with a punch that knocked him out cold. She sighed and got up. Blood dripped from the claw mark on her face. She growled and wiped the blood away.

Naruto wasn't going to harm anyone any time soon, but Yuki however still had the rage inside her and it was growing. The red chakra that had been swirling around them seemed to be absorbed by her. As more of the red chakra entered her body, Yuki felt a huge sensation of rage and blood lust engulf her.

Haku got up and looked to see only Yuki standng now. "I don't really want to hurt a girl, I don't feel right fighting weaklings," he said.

Yuki snapped her head at him, anger filling her eyes. "Did you just call me weak?" she growled. "Don't underestimate me just because I'm a girl."

The brown haired girl lunged at the boy, but he dodged it easily. "Fine then... I guess I'll make an exception for you," he said then he disappeared and reappeared behind her.

Yuki wasn't fast enough to dodge the needles that were forced straight into her back. Yuki growled in pain, as blood dripped from her back. She got out a kunai and threw it at the masked boy attempting to catch him off guard, unfortunately though this failed.

"Weakling," he said as he dodged it and appeared in front of her a few metres away.

Yuki focused her sight on him and starting forming a series of hand signs. "Don't you dare call me weak," she yelled as she completed the hand signs and a large ball of light formed in her hands.

Haku looked at her in shock. "What? What is that?" he said surprised.

"This is my own type of jutsu, which I call light style. Prepare yourself," she said smirking, her eyes were dead serious and had a tint of blood lust within them. The purple eyed girl aimed the ball in at Haku and said darkly with a smirk, "Light style, light ray jutsu." The ball turned into a beam of light that shot straight at Haku, who only just dodged it by jumping out of the way an inch less and he would've been caught in it.

He looked back at where he had been standing and was shocked at what he saw. The place where he had just been standing was completely obliterated. There was only a huge dent of the light's path and scorch marks on the ground.

The masked boy looked back at Yuki to see her eyes had grown dark and that her smirk was still there. Suddenly her purple eyes flashed red. Yuki growled and formed another sequence of hand signs. The ball of light appeared in her hands again and she aimed it at Haku like last time. "Tch, you shouldn't have dodged that attack. You may have been able to live," she said darkly. "Oh well I guess I'll just have to turn up the heat," she chuckled a little and her eyes flashed red again.

Four sharp fangs started to grow and her nails became claws. The red chakra from Naruto started to swirl around her and then changed into white light, that swirled faster and faster around her causing the wind to pick up. She looked at the floor her aim still focused on Haku. Her eyes flashed red again and she chuckled a little more. The air surrounding her had grown dark and blood lust emitted from her as Yuki's dark aura grew.

She looked up again, this time her eyes were blood red, with black slits for pupils. She grinned evily. "This time... you are mine," she said with a sinister tone.

Meanwhile Kakashi had pinned Zabuza with his ninja hounds and had taken away his weapon. The mist had almost fully cleared, so Kakashi looked in the direction of the boys.

He was shocked to see both Naruto and Sasuke lying unconcious on the floor whilst Yuki was facing Haku. She was emitting a very evil aura. That's when he saw her unleash a devastating beam of light which obliterated everything in it's path. Haku was just able to dodge it.

Unfortunately though Yuki's dark aura was growing bigger and darker. The blood lust in the air was no longer coming from the nine tails inside Naruto. It was coming from Yuki! Then he saw her form another ball of light, this time bigger, a lot bigger! It was big enough that if she unleashed it, the light would destroy the entire bridge!

Kakashi had to put a stop to this now. "Sam I need your help," he said.

Sam who was also staring at Yuki horrified by the sight, snapped her head in Kakashi's direction. "What do you need me to do Kakashi-sensei?" she asked, her voice trembling a little.

"I need you to separate Haku from Yuki, if this carries on she'll destroy the entire bridge along with the boy," he told her.

Sam nodded understanding what she had to do. She bolted in the direction of Yuki and Haku. When she reached a near enough distance, so that she could do what she had to do, without being put in any immediate danger. The brown haired Uchiha with blonde streaks, formed a small sequence of hand signs and then held one of her hands to her mouth, breathed in and then breathed out. "Fire style... fire ball jutsu," she said as a large stream of fire came out of her mouth, through her hand and created a line of fire between Yuki and Haku.

Yuki looked in Sam's direction and the Uchiha girl saw her blood red eyes full of rage. The brown haired girl glared at the Uchiha and was about to attack when Kakashi jumped her and slapped a kind of seal on her forehead.

Yuki suddenly went limp in Kakashi's arms and she fell unconscious. The silver haired jounin sighed and carefully lay his student down on the ground.

Sam sighed relieved that, that disaster was over. She had no idea what had happened exactly, but she was glad it was over. She looked at the masked boy, who was looking warily at Yuki. Her gaze then rested on her brother. When she saw the state of him she screamed and ran over to her brother. "Sasuke! Brother!" she shouted. "You can't die, we still have to avenge our clan!"

Sakura noticed Sasuke on the ground too and accompanied by Tazuna, she ran up to him.

Sam got up and brushed the tears away from her eyes. She then stormed over to Haku and punched him with such force that it cracked his mask in half and broke it off his face.

He fell to the floor and Sam was about to punch him again, when he got to his knees and looked up at her. "Finish me off, I have nothing to live for. I live to be a weapon for Master Zabuza, but now that I have been defeated and by a girl... then I have failed in my meaning for life," he told her.

Sam paused and looked at him confused. "What are you talking about?" she asked. "You have no meaning for life anymore, just because you got defeated this once?"

"I have no reason to live anymore and living without a reason is painful, just kill me now," he said.

"No I won't kill you, just because you ask," she answered.

"You can't kill me can you? You should though, being a shinobi means that one day you'll have to get your hands dirtied by your opponent's blood. You will need to kill in order to become a full fledged shinobi," he told her. "So kill me now."

Sakura was crying over Sasuke, when Naruto groaned and started to move. He groaned in pain and struggled to his feet. Then he looked around and was surprised by what he saw. Sam was standing over Haku, Sakura was crying over Sasuke and Yuki was lying unconscious on the floor. "W-what happened" he asked.

Sakura looked at him. "Naruto..." she spoke through tearfilled eyes and trembling lips. "Something happened with you and I think Yuki stopped it, but then something got over Yuki and Kakashi had to stop her," she explained.

Meanwhile Kakashi had gone back to take care of Zabuza. He walked up to the rogue ninja and Zabuza chuckled. "What's wrong Kakashi of the Sharingan? Have your weak little genin all fallen at the hands of Haku?" he teased.

Kakashi clenched his fists and sighed. "No they haven't... and you know that Zabuza," he answered. Then the silver haired jounin executed a series of hand signs again. "Now Zabuza it's time to take care of you," he said as lightening appeared from his hand. "This technique is one I created myself. It is called chidori and it will be the end of you!" Kakashi yelled as he lunged towards the rogue ninja.

Suddenly Haku leapt in between them and before Kakashi could react the chidori went straight through him, killing him instantly. Zabuza smirked under his bandages. "Heh, well done Haku, you were useful one last time," he said.

Kakashi's hounds disappeared and Zabuza was free again, he grabbed his sword and swung for Kakashi, aiming to go straight through Haku. The silver haired jounin however dodged the attack and lay Haku down a few metres away from Zabuza.

Naruto came running up in time to see Zabuza try and cut through Haku to kill Kakashi. He gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. "Unforgivable," he growled under his breath.

"Naruto stay out of this," Kakashi told him, knowing that Naruto wanted to join in the battle. Then the silver haired jounin jumped back an engaged once again in a battle with the rogue hidden mist ninja.

However this time Kakashi had the upper hand because his ninja hounds had inflicted a great deal of injuries on Zabuza, making him slower than usual. Kakashi was faster, so he easily avoided Zabuza's sword and managed to stick a kunai in one of the rogue ninja's arms. Then he got behind Zabuza and grabbed another kunai. "Time to die Zabuza," he said.

Suddenly Zabuza swung his sword round one more time. Kakashi dodged it, but missed his target and ended up impaling the rogue ninja's other arm, rendering it useless as well.

Just then they were interrupted by the thudding of a cane on the ground. Kakashi, Zabuza and Naruto turned in the direction of the noise. They saw Gato standing there with a large group of bandits and thieves behind him. "Oh you're getting your ass kicked... how disappointing... Zabuza," he said.

"Gato... why are you here?" the rogue ninja growled. "And what's with all these men?"

Gato chuckled a little. "The plan has changed... well I was planning to do this from the start. Zabuza I'm going to have you killed here, I never planned on paying you," the small man exclaimed. "Hiring ninja's from the villages in way too expensive and they may betray me. That's why I hire you missing/ rogue ninjas to do my bidding. I have the ninjas battle each other and then kill them off with numbers. It doesn't cost my anything that way. Good plan don't you think?"

Zabuza glared at Gato. "Demon of the hidden mist... what a joke. You're more like a baby demon if that," the small man with the cane remarked.

The bandits and thieves behind him joined in on the taunting. "Little baby devil... we can easily kill you now!" the large group shouted.

Zabuza got up and looked back at Kakashi. "Kakashi..." he said. "I'm sorry... this fight is over. Now that I have no reason to go after Tazuna, I have no reason to fight you."

Kakashi nodded his head to say that he understood. "You're right," he responded.

Gato noticed Haku lying on the floor and walked closer to him. The small guy looked at Haku. "Oh yeah... I owe this one," he said. "You squeezed my arm until it broke, now it's time to return the favour." Gato kicked Haku straight in the face making blood spray out of the boy's mouth. "Heh... he's dead," he boasted.

This angered Naruto who had met the boy in the woods whilst he was out training one day. Haku had told him that he had a special person who he wanted to protect with his life and who he loved. When Naruto saw Haku's face again and knew it was the masked boy, it didn't take the blonde genin long to figure out that the person Haku had been talking about on that day was Zabuza. He clenched his fists again and snapped, "What are you doing? You bastard!" the blonde haired boy yelled at Gato. He ran straight towards the small guy, but was stopped by Kakashi.

"Hey! What are you doing? Look at their numbers, don't just jump in!" he scolded.

"Say something too. Weren't you two friends?" Naruto shouted at Zabuza.

"Shut up kid... Haku is already dead," Zabuza answered without looking at him.

"Don't you feel anything at all? Weren't you two always together?" Naruto yelled back.

"Haku was a tool for me to use nothing more, just like I was to Gato. We shinobi are simply tools. What I wanted was his bloodline abilities, not him... I have no regrets," Zabuza said coldly.

"Do you really mean that?" Naruto asked unable to believe what he had heard.

He went to attack Zabuza, when Kakashi pulled him back again. "Naruto stop. We are not fighting him anymore.

Naruto threw Kakashi's hand off his shoulder and shouted loudly. "Shut up. My enemy is still him!"

Zabuza glanced at Naruto, but stayed silent.

The noisy blonde carried on ranting. He pointed to Haku and yelled. "He- he really loved you! He loved you that much that he threw his life away to protect you! Do you really feel nothing?"

Zabuza looked back at Gato and the large group of bandits. He still made no effort to respond to Naruto. So the blonde genin carried on, "Without his own dream, to die as a tool so you could live on, t-that's just too sad!" he said tears pouring down is face.

"Kid..." Zabuza finally said. "... you don't need to say anymore." That's when Naruto and Kakashi noticed the tears running down the rogue ninja's face. "Kid it pained him to have to fight you. He didn't just fight for me, he fought for you too... he was too kind... I'm glad I got to face you guys in the end. You maybe right too... us shinobi are still human, we might not be able to become emotionless tools. I've lost this fight, but maybe I can do one good deed," he explained. "Kid let me borrow your kunai."

Naruto was a little baffled, but he threw the kunai to Zabuza, who caught it in his jaw.

The demon of the hidden mist then charged straight at Gato, who ran to the back of the group of bandits. Zabuza wasn't intimidated one bit by the bandits and just ploughed straight through them. Even though the bandits attack and Zabuza ended up with a dozen knives, swords and spears in his back, he still plunged the kunai into Gato.

Gato spat out some blood and said, "If you want to go to the place your friend has gone then go there, but your not taking me with you."

"Unfortunately I don't plan on going to the same place Haku is..." Zabuza replied.

"What! You won't survive," Gato said.

Zabuza chuckled a little. "You and I are going to HELL," he yelled and then ripped the kunai out of the small man and slice his head off with another blow. Zabuza glared at the bandits. His eyes were so terrifying that it scared the group of thieves, so much that they backed away from him in a bit of a panic.

Then the demon of the hidden mist collapsed, breathing his last few minutes of air.

Naruto went to turn his head, he didn't want to see it, but Kakashi said, "Don't look away... this is the end of a man who lived a difficult life." Naruto nodded and watched Zabuza lying there.

"Kakashi..." Zabuza spoke out quietly. Fortunately Kakashi heard him.

"What is it Zabuza?" the silver haired jounin asked.

The rogue ninja turned his head slowly to face Kakashi. "Could you bring me over to Haku, I want to be with him when I die," he said. Kakashi nodded and brought Zabuza over to Haku and lay him next to the young boy.

Zabuza looked at the boy and tears started to swell up in his eyes. "Haku... I'm sorry," he spoke. "I'm so sorry. I only wish I could go to the place you have gone.

Just then it started to snow and a snowflake fell on Haku's face. It melted in the corner of the boy's and dripped down his face, just like a tear.

"He was born in a snowy village," Naruto said, tears pouring out of his eyes.

"I see," Kakashi spoke to himself. "He was a boy as pure as snow." The jounin looked at Zabuza lying next to Haku. 'It seems you have been forgiven Zabuza. You will be able to go... together,' Kakashi thought.

Meanwhile, Sakura was crying over Sasuke, she was clinging to his shirt and Sam was there too, kneeling down, her eyes closed as she tried to bite back the tears. She didn't want to lose her twin brother, what would she do without him?

Suddenly Sasuke gasped for air and slowly opened his eyes. His sight was blurry, but he knew he could hear Sakura sobbing. He could see her pink hair and small figure resting on his torso crying.

"S-Sakura," he spoke, his voice was quiet and it hurt him to speak. Sakura lifted her head and looked at Sasuke, her face lit up when she saw him looking at her. "Sakura... you're heavy," he said.

Sakura hugged Sasuke tight. "Sasuke! Sasuke! You're alive!" she yelled with glee.

Sam opened her eyes and saw her brother. The expression on her face changed and she too hugged Sasuke tight, whilst shouting, "Brother!"

"Ow ow ow... Sakura, Sam that hurts," Sasuke told them.

The two girls let him out of the hug. "Sorry Sasuke," Sam said.

The Uchiha boy sat up. "Is Naruto alright? And what about the masked kid?" he questioned the two girls.

"Naruto is fine... and Haku is dead," Sam told him.

An expression of shock crossed Sasuke's face when he heard this. "Did Naruto kill him?" he asked.

"What? No... he died protecting Zabuza," Sakura explained. She then went on to praise the Uchiha. "I had faith in you. It's really amazing how you prevented those needles from hitting any vital points."

Sasuke looked at the floor. "No," is all he said. Sakura didn't hear this, but Sam knew what Sasuke meant. Haku had never planned on killing him from the beginning, that was the only reason Sasuke was still alive.

"Naruto!" Sakura yelled. Naruto turned around hearing Sakura's shout. "He's alright!" she told him. "Sasuke is alive!"

Naruto saw Sasuke get up with the help of his sister. The Uchiha boy held his hand up to Naruto, to tell him he was alright. Naruto smiled and then he turned back to Zabuza. 'I see, so that's what you meant when you said Haku fought for us too,' he thought to himself.

Sasuke looked around taking in the scene of destruction, death and danger. He saw Zabuza lying next to Haku blood was pooling underneath him. Then he noticed the brown haired girl unconscious on the floor just in front of a huge crater on the bridge.

She still had the seal paper Kakashi had slapped on to her forehead. Sasuke stared at her. 'She looks quite peaceful lying there,' he thought.

Sam noticed Sasuke gazing at something. "Hey Sasuke... what's wrong?" she asked. Sasuke pointed to the girl lying on the ground. Sam looked in that direction and immediately she remembered that Yuki had been left lying on the ground unconscious. "Oh no Yuki!" she said. "We forgot all about her!"

"When did she even get here?" the dark haired Uchiha asked his sister.

Sam shrugged. "Dunno, but she sure knocked that masked kid back and did a great deal of damage with that crater," she told him.

Sasuke's eyes widened. 'What? She created that crater? How?' he questioned to himself. Whilst Sasuke was questioning himself, he didn't notice that Sam was taking him over to where the brown haired girl lay. When he got back to reality, he and Sam were already standing over her.

Sasuke looked at the girl he despised so much and knew she did in return. This was really the first time he had be able to look at her properly. He stared at her straight, long, brown hair that was still tied up in high pigtails. The brown locks were spread out all over the floor around Yuki, whilst she slept.

Her body was quite thin and small. She looked so delicate that if anyone were to move her she would break. The dark haired Uchiha moved his gaze to her face. The usually angry or fierce expression was replaced by a calm and peaceful one. At that moment to him Yuki looked like a beautiful delicate doll, but he knew that in reality that wasn't the case. He also noticed the claw-like mark on her right cheek. This confused Sasuke. 'What's with the claw mark, was she attacked by a wild animal or something?' he questioned to himself.

Sasuke thought about what Yuki was really like, underneath the fragile figure. Yuki's personality was completely different to what people would think of her when they first saw her. That's why the first time he met her, he immediately took her for another fangirl, because she seemed as though she would be the quiet yet pretty girl, who would fall in love with the most popular genin in Konoha.

However he was completely wrong about that. Even so... deep down he was sort of happy and sort of sad, that she wasn't one of his fangirls. He was happy since she wouldn't fawn over him all the time, unlike Sakura and the other girls he knew, but he was sad since she completely disliked him.

Sam noticed Sasuke staring at Yuki again and a little smirk appeared on her face. She knew he brother well, she could read him like a book most of the time. 'It looks like Sasuke doesn't hate Yuki as much as he makes it out to be,' she thought to herself.

Meanwhile Kakashi sighed relieved to hear that Sasuke was fine. Naruto was still smiling, when a group of angry voices gained his and the silver haired jounin's attention. "Hey, hey, hey! You guys are too at ease!" the group of bandits shouted. "You took away our meal ticket. You guys are so dead, now we'll just have to pillage the village and take anything of value!"

Kakashi and Naruto readied themselves for a fight again. "Kakashi-sensei do you have any jutsu that can get rid of these?" Naruto asked.

"I used up too much chakra during the fight with Zabuza," the silver haired jounin explained. "I don't have much left."

The bandits charged forward, but were stopped suddenly by the entire village led by Tazuna's grandchild, Inari. "If you thieves want to raid this village then you'll have to go through us first and we'll fight you with all our strength!" one of the villagers yelled.

The bandits stopped in their tracks and Naruto prepared for battle. He formed a hand sign and a dozen Naruto's appeared in a puff of smoke. Kakashi decided to join in and did the same thing. This terrified the bandits and they ran off into the distance.

All the villagers cheered and Inari ran up and hugged Tazuna. Kakashi undid his jutsu and suddenly remembered that he'd left the seal jutsu on Yuki's forehead.

He looked around and saw Sam and Sasuke standing by the brown haired girl's side. He smiled, thinking that maybe Sasuke and Yuki were starting to get along, since he noticed Sasuke staring at Yuki, with such an interest.

The silver haired jounin, followed by Naruto, walked up to the sleeping girl and took the seal off her forehead. Then he, picked up the girl and the rest of the team said goodbye to the villagers and made their way back to Konoha.

However just before they left, the group made graves for Haku and Zabuza and buried them. Then Naruto and Inari had a bit of a cry, because they didn't want to say goodbye. "Now you can protect the village Inari, I'm so proud of you," Naruto said through tears.

"Naruto, I don't want you to go," Inari said also through tears.

"I know Inari, but we have to be strong," Naruto replied.

Then Sasuke who had gotten fed up of waiting said, "Hey loser hurry it up, we want to get home."

Naruto growled at Sasuke for calling him loser. "Don't call me loser, you bastard," he shouted. Sasuke turned his back on Naruto and this made the blonde even more angry.

Kakashi then stepped in. "Naruto... we need to get back, Yuki needs a doctor," he said.

Naruto calmed down. "Fine..." he said. Then he turned to Inari, smiled and waved. "See ya inari, you be strong for your family now."

With that said Team Seven finally left the Land of Waves and started on their long journey back home, with Naruto and Sasuke back to normal. Again they were constantly arguing with each other whilst, Sakura and Sam tried to brake them up and Kakashi carried Yuki on his back...

Well that's it for now, but I will have the next chapter up soon, where my favourite part of Naruto, the chuunin exams will be introduced xD

I will update soon until then, read and review. Oh and if you do review I don't mind constructive criticism, but don't be harsh or anything. I look forward to reading what you have to say xD