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What's up, chapter nine of the rising is out and if you don't like it too bad! you're gonna see a whole lot more of this stuff and I don't care what you think. But I will care of what you think if your thoughts are in review format. lol

Anyway, back to the chapter preview. Team seven is officially split up, Zabuza has officially joined with Marlucia and perhaps the entire Saiki organization. This chapter is going to deal a little bit more to do with Haku, you know I'll show where Haku is after the Kakashi-Zabuza fight. But judging on how I'm feeling I might even let you find out where Haku was during the Kakashi-Zabuza fight. But trust me if I do I won't go that much into it, just a little five minute explanation or maybe I'll do it in a flashback. Who knows......I know that's who and so will you if you read this chapter right now. Oh and a little notice, in the chapter I will NOT introduce the new character Xion, she will be nowhere to be found,so scroll down and get to destroying your precious and youthful eyesight on your computer screen.

Disclaim--... whoa was I just about to write a disclaimer? Wow, haven't done that in a minute or two. No but seriously I don't own Naruto. (obvious)

On with the story

Enjoy Mutha Fuckas

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Sacred Mark of the Rising Kekkei Genkai

They invade, she worries, another is brought in

Haku could not believe what it was that she looking at, she stood at the edge of a damage lakeside. What was once her home was....gone, obliterated without her even knowing it. The site before her was too nerve-racking.

The chilling howl of ghastly wind sounded over the surface of what was once the lake. Rocks and boulders alike were strewn about, tossed by the impact of the blast. The air was now devoid of any mist, replaced by black smoke that floated anywhere and everywhere. And what was once water from a lake had turned to dirt from a lake, not a single trace of water left in the huge smoldering crater. All of it had either evaporated or had been carried off by the gale.

"Wha-What is this?" Said Haku from behind the guise of a hunter nin mask. Her home was gone, at that moment all she could do was stand and stare.

Fire danced about within the leaves of any nearby forest that surrounded her former home, all trees that dared step into the fire burned down. The sound of falling branches, all of them hitting the ground with loud echoing snaps and the fury of the blaze painted the sky overhead a pale orange.

"My home gone." The huge tree that once stood several stories high was now nothing more the burnt remains of a severed stump. The remains of the tree had piled up all around its blackened trunk. Bit and pieces of furniture laid about, and only a person with a sharp eye could tell that the site was once a home.

She tooka step forward, her leg making a fuzzy sound through the huge accumulations of ash the covered the ground. As if on cue a pale hand burst out of the ground, making Haku jump back with a girlie squeak. It latched on to her foot, and as much a she jostled and kicked it wouldn't let go. Finally after many seconds of being shock Zabuza's head popped out of an ash pile.

Much to her discomfort Zabuza had not turned to his original form; this one was too feral for her and if she were to be honest it actually scared her a bit. Nonetheless Zabuza was her only family and no matter how he looked she still considered him to be family. But his face was still disturbing.

She finally snapped out of her shock long enough to ask, "Zabuza-sama is that you." He stared at her with icy-cold eyes, a wolf's stare, and released his grip on her leg. Grunting while standing he replied to her in a gruff tone.

"Yeah it's me...I see you still haven't gotten used to my new form yet." He chuckled, a sound that Haku could never get used to. "And where have you been?" He asked suddenly parent like. Her harsh reaction of stumbling backward made him raise a suspicious eyebrow.

"Well? He said folding his now bulging arms. His piercing stare bore deep into her, going as far as the back of her head.

"I-...was..was...out"

"Hm, out and what is 'out' supposed to mean-" He flung his head back, cracking his neck in the process and making Haku cringe at the sound. "It doesn't really matter right now anyway, all I'm worried about is getting that bastard."

"What, who was that did this?"

"It's a little surprising but Hatake did this, he used a unique jutsu and turned it into a bomb...end result, no more tree house." He outstretched his hand, and like a snake did his huge halberd come striking out of the ash and into his hand, where he then attached it to the clip that served as his holster.

It took Haku a few moments to realize it but she noticed that Zabuza's body was covered in a multitude of bruises, sore, and cuts. When she addressed him on it he told her not to worry about it, that in time they would heal.

A series of loud ruffling noises sounded off in the distance of the burning forest, it sounded like the steps of many approaching men....they were coming fast. The footsteps grew louder, growing into a loud roar and then in a few seconds coming to a sudden halt.

"Well, what happened here. Looks like you had a little bit of trouble here, it's a shame though, this place is filthy!" Zabuza's ear literally twitched to the sound of that voice. He turned his head to see Gato standing on top of a steep hill, behind him standing a crowd of men. All of them looked like neither Haku nor Zabuza were expecting was Gato's appearance.

His was in only a single arm sling, nothing more. 'Hm, that's all that the fall did to him, not way he should have been seriously injured from a drop like that. Or maybe he just had some catch him before he fell.... who knows?' He thought to himself.

"Hey....why aren't you dead?" Zabuza asked plain and simple. Instantly a vein popped on his head and from where he was standing Zabuza could have sworn he saw Gato's head increase in size before he yelled.

"I had one of my guy waiting outside catch me before I fell (looks like Zabuza was right)....wait no, that's not important. What is important though is my revenge! Now-" He extended a finger down the hill to Zabuza and Haku.. "-all of these ninja you see here are chuunin to jounin, and there's thirty of them so that's more than enough to kill you!"

Zabuza chuckled, "Oh really?"

"Yeah...really and I don't care about how much you've..... changed, you are still going to die today! Kill them!" On command every nin behind Gato spilled down the hill like running water and Gato was the rock that they were all afraid to touch so they went around.

"Haku, I don't want you to see this okay?" Haku nodded, knowing full well what was about to happen. She stepped back.

"Is there anything that you need, now that our home is destroyed where can I go?"

"I want you to meet me in the forest."

"Which part?"

"D-sector, got it." Haku nodded, she knelt down. He turned around placing his back against the wave of enemies that all ran at him, completely ignoring their cries of battle. Then he said: "Haku...take off your mask."

With wide eyes Haku slipped off the one thing that kept her identity a secret. Why he wanted her to take it off was a mystery. "Don't die, I'm sure that some of them will follow you." His face held an impassive expression.

Shakily she said:"H-Hai!", and disappeared in a swirl of mist. As Zabuza turned back to the enemy he smiled, eyes blazing, golden and smiled.

"Yeah, they're going die today."

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(In the forest)

Naruto spit as he wiped the the blood off of his kunai. For some reason on there way back to the town they came across an unusually large amount of resistance. What was weird was that this part of the forest was supposed to be the one with the least resistance, they had come across at least a dozen or so enemies. If this was what little resistance meant with Gato then Naruto didn't think that he wanted what a full resistance was.

"Damn, that's-..." he counted the number off on his fingers, silently mouthing off the amount in his head. "- that's seven kills for me." He looked over at Larxene who had just finished dispatching an enemy of her own by snapping his neck, causing him to drop with a loud thud. "How about you?" he asked.

"Uh.... that's about my sixth kill....why?" Naruto shook his head.

"Nothing I just wanted to make sure that I was ahead of you in a kill count." This instantly enraged her, how Naruto could be so competitive was simply astounding, when in reality she was just as competitive as Naruto.

They were standing in a large clearing and all around them were the bodies of the thirteen men that they had just taken down. Some had their necks slit, others had their necks broken. Nonetheless they were all dead.

"Hey why do you think that we're getting so much resistance?" Naruto shrugged then slipped his kunai back into his pouch for later use that he knew would come soon.

"Beats me", he said, "The only reason that I can think of is that Gato was alerted and he's sending these guys to find us." He looked at the sun. It now gently rested above the horizon, by now it was noon. Judging by Naruto's internal clock and the suns' position. "Let's keep moving, we don't have any time to waste, I want to be there before my...teammates." He had purposely chosen the forest as his route to the center of town, it raise suspicion if they were to go bouncing straight through the center of the town at the speed of sound!

Both Larxene and Naruto were about to jump back into the trees when they heard a loud crash to their left. It sounded like...like an explosive note going off. 'That's suspicious', Naruto thought, 'If they were after us then why would an explosive note explode over there? Maybe these guys aren't even after us, maybe they're after someone else and we just helped that person out!' Another explosion sounded in the trees. Naruto grabbed Larxene's arm, causing her to gasp from the complete randomness of his action.

"Larxene, come with me, whoever is fighting is completely serious and it sounds like they're getting closer as we speak." She nodded, her face a bright red and jumped into the trees with Naruto. "Let's see who shows up, we'll take this chance to sneak up on them." Again Larxene nodded.

There they sat in silence, perched in the high branches of a tree awaiting for their chance to strike. Seconds passed, then minutes and only then did they get a sight of anyone else other than themselves. An explosion occurred and when both Larxene and Naruto looked down from their high point in the treetops they saw someone. A girl, garbed in a blue and brown kimono-nin battle; hair that streamed past her back like soft silk. She flew past their field of vision for only a second, dazing both of them.

"Wow..she's fast." Larxene said, blinking rapidly as if to shake the shock out of her. Her eyes widened when she saw two other nin go past, not as fast the girl before but fast even still.

She hadn't moved an inch until Naruto literally shook her out of her daze uttering, "Follow them!" Both of them jumped of of the branches in pursuit of the three nin.

"I've seen that girl before, she attacked us a while back."

"What...then tell me who are we going after, the girl or the two nin?"

"The girl." Naruto said plan and simple. He then explained to Larxene about the battle against Zabuza and how it was that girl who had taken him away, claiming to be a tracker nin. He then told that the only reason that he wanted to go after the girl was because he wanted answers, he could tell that she was an accomplice of Zabuza from the start. Only because of the fact that he had seen her watching Zabuza and Kakashi fight and only when Zabuza was about to die did she step in. A weird action for a tracker nin, to just watch the fight and not do anything while their target was getting beat to a pulp.

The only conclusion that Naruto could think of was that she was one of Zabuza's accomplices.

Naruto finally finished explained the entire situation to Larxene when the girl stopped, in another clearing much like the one they were just in. The two nin stopped as well, taking out two kunai and preparing for battle. Judging by what Naruto and Larxene could see, the two nin were from Kirigakure no sato.

Naruto narrowed his eyes, 'I'll get you this time.' He said to himself.

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Haku now stood in the middle of a large clearing, facing two enemy ninja from Kirigakure no Sato. It was funny, that was were she was from...she never thought that she would be hunted by her own people...again. She stood calm and unperturbed, silently facing the two men that now stood on front of her.

"Now, we don't want to make this any harder than it already is, so come with us okay?" Said one of the men with slicked back black hair. He motioned for her to come to him like she was a little two year old girl.

"Like I'd ever come to you." She slid out two slender senbon that gleamed in the light with the natural brilliance of a diamond. "It's a shame that these will have to be stained with so much blood." She looked down at her two needles like a mother would a child, then bringing her gaze to the black-haired nin she disappeared without a trace.

"What the....?" Said the black-haired nin's partner but when he looked to his left all he saw was his teammate of the floor with two senbon lodged through his throat. He then felt a hand grab his shoulder before he was thrown several feet into a tree.

"You still think that this doesn't need to be harder than it already is, I think your friend over there had the wrong idea." She slid out another set of senbon and quickly dispatched him in the same manner as she had done to the first Kiri-nin.

Looking at the sky she noticed that it was already past noon, she was in the "d-sector" of the forest as Zabuza had instructed and now she didn't know what to do. And for some reason she kept getting chased by all these ninja under Gato's control. "Whew, this is starting to get troublesome." She said as she sat down of the ground, resting her tired legs, stretching.

The distant sound of flapping past her ear and she turned to see a falcon just about to land on a tree branch. Smiling contently at the site she let of a lonely sigh. Grand and noble was the falcon, a predator of the skies free to live its life as it wished. It continuously moved its head from side to side in quick inhuman motions, it's sharp eyes soon locked onto her.

"At least the birds have nothing to fear, they at least have the right to be free." Then an idea lanced through her mind, extending her arm toward the falcon she called to it with a high pitched whistle that reverberated throughout the clearing until it faded away. Instantly the falcon clicked its head toward the sound, and with three mighty flaps it was airborne and perched onto Haku's arm.

Haku took to scratching it on its head. It was a hunter, it had long pointed wings that were bluish gray with black wingtips and a back of matching color. It had a white underbelly with thin clean bands of dark brown going vertically down to its underparts. The tail , long, narrow, and rounded at the rear was the same color as its back except for the two horizontal bands of brown streaking across. Its head was blue-gray that faded down to light white upon its neck. A notched beak and razor-sharp talons that were so close to slicing Haku's flesh if not for the sturdy material of her battle Kimono.

It was a peregrine, a fast, aerodynamic predator. Although in Haku's opinion this particular bird was pretty large, it must have been a female. The females were usually larger than the males, still it was big even for a female. For some reason Haku felt a foreign familiarity with this falcon, as if she could hear her thoughts and read the silent words inscribed inside of those large and intelligent eyes of hers.

"Wow, you really are a beauty aren't you?" The falcon just looked at her, not understanding a single word that she said. The constant movement of her head displayed how curious the bird was toward Haku. With an exasperated sigh Haku turned her head the other way.

"Aw, is this bitch that sad that she's talking to birds now?" Said a voice. Her eyes widened when she sensed the presence of three men twenty feet behind her. Quickly she stood up, facing the three nin.

"You bastards you followed me, I'll kill you all!"

"Ha! Are you sure about that, can you really take two chuunin and a jounin by yourself?" Haku's breath wavered a bit, the two chuunin were easy pickings, but the jounin, she knew she would have some trouble with. She glanced at the falcon and the falcon glanced back; Haku thrust the bird into the air, urging it to fly away. The bird flew but for some strange reason the bird decided not to leave, just to fly high above and circle the clearing. It seemed as if it was waiting for her.

' Fine if you want to stay then stay, but don't squeal if you get caught in the crossfire.' Haku thought to herself, then she assumed her battle position.

These three men were from Kiri, like the last two. Instead of normal ninja attire they all wore black body suits bandannas. They stood in a straight line until the one in the middle yelled out, "Get her!"

The two nin on his sides, who were obviously the chuunin, instantly sprang into action. Running at her like mad men. Haku was in the middle of performing hand seals when two people appeared in front of her with amazing speed. Both of them dressed in black and both of them with blond hair, a boy and girl, Naruto and Larxene.

Shocked by their speed Haku stumbled back. "W-Who the hell are you?" The blond boy looked back, blue eyes sparkling like sun-kissed ocean. He smiled, leaving Haku unable to stop her heart from skipping a beat.

"No..time to explain. Just fight, I'll take the jounin, you and her will take the two chuunin, alright?" Haku just slowly nodded not contemplating on whether or not she would trust the two or not. The blond girl then turned he head to Haku.

"Don't worry-", she said with a smile. "-He's a strong fighter. Oh and by the way, I'm Larxene...he's Naruto." She then lunged forward at her target, the Naruto did the same thing, dashing past the two chuunin and heading straight for the lone jounin.

"N-Naruto...."

Instantly her opponent was upon her. He drew his sword that he apparently kept well hidden and came at her with a vertical slash that she skillfully dodged with a swift sidestep followed by a spinning roundhouse kick to his face. He stumbled back and unleashed a barrage of lighting quick slashes, in order to dodge the attack Haku jumped back a couple of feet.

The Kiri nin charged in at her again. He spun and slashed at her head. A breath of wind tickled her neck as she narrowly dodged the attack by ducking backward (matrix style). She followed up by sliding onto her back and tripping the kiri-nin and whilst he was in mid-air kicked him, propelling him into the air a nice ten feet. Quickly she rolled back backward, regaining her balance and on her feet once again.

With amazing dexterity she slipped out three senbon and jammed them into the ground. There was nothing that the kiri nin could do at that moment, all Haku had to do was let gravity do its work and allow the ill-fated ninja to fall to his fate. And as expected the man fell straight onto the three senbon, landing directly onto his neck with a sickening crunch. The three needle-like weapons protruded out of the man's neck, slick with blood.

"Done." She wiped the sweat off of her forehead. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the blond girl, Larxene knock her opponent to the ground, followed by a kunai to his head, promptly silencing him. That was two chuunin down, now all that was left was the one jounin who Naruto had pinned against a tree.

"Have mercy...please!" He pleaded as Naruto continued to walk slowly, that was all Haku could hear from afar. Her eyes widened when she saw Naruto's fingertips glow a bright blue, he grabbed hold of the jounin's head. She didn't know he was performing, all she knew was that she didn't anything like that happening to her. While Naruto had his hands on the man's head she could see that Naruto was talking to the man and surprisingly, he was responding with no resistance. It was like Naruto had control over him or something.

After a few minutes of watching him perform his weird technique from afar she contemplated on whether or not she should try to run. She decided against it however, Haku knew that it would be a bad idea to run from these two. The sound of a man's head getting crushed broke her out of her thoughts, she looked back at where Naruto was and she saw no other face. All she saw was the decapitated body of a ninja.

'Did he just do that?' Haku found it hard to believe that Naruto had just crushed some guy's head so easily. it was weird, it was brutal...to her it was...kind of hot.

"Now... you." Larxene and Naruto started to move toward her.

"Thanks for the help...but who are you two?" Haku asked as they both came to a stop right in front of her.

"That's not really the point here; the real question is... who exactly are you and who are you working with?" Naruto paused.

A moment of silence, the loud squeal of a falcon caused of three of them to look at the sky. The same falcon that was once perched on Haku's arms was flying down from it's mid-air stationary and landed right on Haku's left shoulder. It locked its gaze on to Naruto, and even under the peircing and watchful eye of a falcon he seemed unfazed.

"Seems like your little friend wants to join us, no matter. Like I was saying, who are you and who are you working with?" Haku raised an eyebrow.

"Shouldn't I be the one asking you guys that?"

"You just did, I simply chose not to give you an answer."

"Then why should I give you an answer?" Naruto let out a deep sigh, placing his hands on his hips and looking into the sky.

Without out placing his head down he said: "Because.......", Larxene, the blond girl standing next to him suddenly disappeared. Flowing past her with outrageous speed and coming to a stop behind her. Haku could feel the tickle of kunai oh so close to her neck, so close that if she even so much as moved she would die. The falcon on he shoulder didn't seem to notice. Naruto then lowered his head. "-...Because I asked you, and I don't think you're in any position to say no right now." His expression was solemn and grim.

Feeling a bit under pressure Haku responded: "O-Okay fine, I'll tell you. My name is Haku, I'm a former ninja of Kiri, the hidden village closest to this town. Well...technically I'm not a ninja, since I was never enlisted into the Kiri archives as an actual shinobi of Kirigakure no sato."

Naruto crossed his arms. "And why is that you aren't an official shinobi, just asking?" He tapped his fingers against the fabric of his jacket.

"The bloodline massacre...."

"Bloodline massacre?" Larxene said.

Haku nodded, careful not to cut her neck on the sharp edge of the kunai. "Yes...it happened some years back, when I was a child. Kiri once was thriving with an abundance of clans that possessed Kekkei genkai. My family was one of them, however it last for long. The Mizukage, had ordered that every person with a kekkei genkai should be slaughtered. Having a bloodline limit was a sin, he sent teams of special shinobi in order to kill us all. It resulted in great turmoil within Kiri, chaos. Some of us who had this power chose to fight and defend themselves, others went into hiding. The Mizukage had started a widespread genocide in our village.

"I suppose that you were one of the people who went into hiding?" Naruto said, blushing, Haku nodded with another short movement of her head.

"Y-Yes... and no." Haku said.

Naruto raised an eyebrow.... both eyebrows actually. Then he relaxed them turning his face into an expression of great interest. He motioned for Larxene to lower her kunai from Haku's throat to which the blond girl responded with a confused 'huh'. After a few seconds Larxene stepped away, taking back her position next to Naruto.

"Wait a second.." Naruto closed his eyes and reopened them. When he did, to Haku's great surprise, there was an orange ring around both pupils. The orange contrasted with the sapphire blue which were Naruto's original eye color. Haku leaned in, unable to gaze away from Naruto's perplexing stare. She found herself in utter delight while staring at him, it gave him an unknown appearance. They were exotic, they unique, they were alien.

Haku muttered out a barely audible sentence which sounded a bit to Larxene like "what is that?" It took her a few moments to notice what was going on and what she was doing and after what seemed like days staring into the eyes of this boy whom she had just met, she snapped out of her daze. Only snapping out of it when she heard the sound of Larxene snapping her fingers repeatedly in her face.

"Geez, you ok?" Larxene asked to which Haku nodded, too embarrassed from what had just happened to say anything. Larxene just shrugged, saying nothing.

"Um...what is that?" She asked.

"My kekkei genkai." Haku's eyes widened, what are the odds of her meeting someone else with a bloodline limit. Naruto stuck his hands out placing his palms out and his arms began to shake. The ground underneath them began to tremble. And with one rigid upward motion Naruto raised his hands, raising up from the ground three chairs made from yellow stone. They were plain but so intricately cut that it looked as if someone had sat down and carved them by hand. He motioned for them to sit and the did.

'He can control earth and bend it to his will...interesting.' Haku thought.

"Continue with your story." Naruto said. Haku gave a momentary glance at the sun... then her eyes widened. She knew that it was getting late and that Zabuza would be getting to her pretty soon, luckily for her Zabuza was the type to drag out a fight in order to gain some enjoyment from it.

"UH... anyway...like I was saying, some went into hiding and others didn't but, we did hide but not right away. When the actual genocide occured, I was not aware of my powers at the time, they had yet to mature. My mother did not use her kekkei genkai at all so I didn't even know that we had had a family bloodline limit; naturally our family was overlooked by the bloodline hunters...that is until my power had actually surfaced. My father had caught using my kekkei genkai in our garden, and even though I was his child he was in full agreement with the bloodline genocide and tried to kill me."

"What exactly is your bloodline?" Naruto interrupted.

""I can control ice to my will... unlike your kekkei genkai, my body doesn't go through any changes. So it was easier to hide. Anyway, my father confronted my mother about it and in doing that he found out that she had one as well and killed her. He tried to kill me, but..." her gaze lowered,"-but I didn't have control over my power and ended up killing him."

Haku sniffled as memories with of her father and mother's death assaulted her mind, stabbing through her being like a lance of sorrow.

"Alone and cold, I had nowhere to go."

"And that's how you found Zabuza...right?" Haku shook her head, no.

"It's quite the opposite, Zabuza found me. When he did I was basically on the verge of death, he told me to follow him if I didn't want to die. So I did and he taught how to be what I am today, He taught me to be a killer." Haku rested her head on her hands, waiting for a response.

A moment of silence. "You know you don't like that much of a killer...but I guess you can't judge a book by it's cover." Larxene said, while looking over to Naruto. "What do you think?"

"Well...I know that that story was true...something like that can't be made up. I'll believe what you just told me, furthermore I want to extend to you an offer."

"What type of offer?"

"Help us and you can come back to konoha back with us. I-"

"Whoa...us! I never said that I would come back with you, I haven't even made up my mind yet!" Larxene stated.

"Yes you did...because if you haven't made up your mind why are you still with me at this point?"

"Because I already told that you have to prove yourself....SO....Ha!" Larxene crossed her arms, turning her head away from Naruto. He just chuckled and turned back to Haku.

"Anyway like I was saying, seeing as how you are a rogue nin by affiliation with Momochi I guess I can go ahead and say that you're always on the run." She nodded. "Well you can end it." He waited for a response, eyebrows up but they lowered when she shook her head.

"Sorry...I'm afraid I can't, even though I'm always on the run it doesn't matter to me as long as I'm with Zabuza-sama. As long as I'm alive I won't leave his side, he's precious to me and I won't give that up."

Naruto sighed, honestly he didn't even know why he asked Haku to join him and Larxene. For some reason he felt like he had heard that story before, hunted because of something inside of you. Something you can help, hunted just because you're you. He had heard that story before, it was the story of his life, someone had gone through at least a fraction of his life, at least he wasn't alone.

Standing up he said: "Fine, I won't force you to come but just in case you change your mind I'm going to be here for at least another day or two. Tell me you final answer by then."

"Sure." Haku was now standing along with Larxene

"But I hope you know that you denied me and are still working with Zabuza, this still qualifies us as enemies."

"Well as an enemy...I guess I should tell you that Zabuza-sama's on his way here so you better leave or he'll kill you both." Naruto chuckled at that.

"You're okay...." He said; he pressed his hands onto the ground, making all three chairs sink into the ground. Sunset to his back shining on her face, the moment was surreal and as fast as they had come Naruto and Larxene were gone, in the blink of an eye leaving Haku in the thinning twilight, alone to await Zabuza's arrival.

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"Tag five is set, over"

"Good, hold on.......there, tag six..set, over."

"Now what?"

"Meet me in front of the infiltration point, over."

"Are you sure that this is okay? Over."

"Yeah, but for now this is just a back up plan in case we come against too much opposition. It'll be a good diversion in order for us to escape. Now hurry up and get over there, over and out." Sasuke cut the connection between him and Sakura, creating a short burst of static in his ear. He tapped his wireless headset twice before slipping it off. He was currently on top of a building in the center of town and had just finished setting the final explosive tag out of six.

He had seen a couple of suspicious men waltz into a large black brick building about twenty minutes ago, what was even more suspicious was that this building was the tallest one in town. It towered over the rest of the town by at least thirty feet, and why would a bunch of bandit-like men just walk into an important looking building like that? To Sasuke it meant that they obviously had some sort of connection with Gato; he knew that he couldn't follow them in without Naruto or Kakashi so he decided that the best course of action was set up a couple of traps and diversions.

He now had six explosive tags stationed in secluded areas, all of them nearby the building where Gato was sure to be. Not including those, he had Sakura slip around a dozen tags all around the outer walls of the building. Just in case that they were desperate they could blow the whole thing up sky high. Apparently sakura was better at chakra control then he was and could already walk up walls so getting on to the side of the building unnoticed was no great task.

The fact that she was better at something than him was no great task greatly annoyed him, even so he knew the difference between them.

"Time to get going." He said before he jumped off the side of the building and into the shadowed ally next to it. He couldn't afford to be seen by civilians as he was now, so he knew that he had to disguise himself. There was a poof in the shadows and in a couple of seconds Sasuke did not step, instead out stepped a boy with silver hair, he looked to be about seven years old and wore the clothes of a commoner.

Sasuke in the form of the small boy then ran off into the crowd heading toward the black building, none of the civilians thought this as strange, for they saw small children running in the streets everyday.

As Sasuke ran, keeping up the guise of his child form he thought to himself. 'Where is she, where is she? I know where she is but let's just hope that Sakura is recognizable.'

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Sakura stood amidst a large number of people walking by. The object of her suspicion, right in front of her. There in her vision stood the largest building in town, big and black. (not what you think) She was now in the guise of a beautiful woman around her late twenties who had silver hair. She too was dressed like a commoner.

'For town that's so poor there are sure a lot of people walking around... what are they even in a rush to get to?' She thought to herself. She stood wondering when Sasuke would get to her, it actually quite annoying standing there in her current disguise. Because of her outward appearance she had to suffer the torment of being bothered by the many men stopped and tried to ask her name. (If only they knew what she really looked like!)

Even so it was still a pretty nice change to get so much male attention, this is what Sasuke must have felt like....maybe she should stop trying so hard and give him a little break.

Sakura had taken to resting her chin on her hand in wait for Sasuke when suddenly she felt something tug her clothing, a little bit to close to her backside.

With a quick whip around she turned around ready to deliver the vice grip on whoever it was that dared touch her butt.

"Uhh, oh... hello little guy how are you?" She tried to put on a smile for the small silver-haired boy whom she almost sent flying.

"Sakura don't beat around the bush, it's me."

"Huh....Sasuke?"

"Duh." He responded in a small high pitched voice that was that of a child's. "Now ... all we gotta do is wait for Naruto and Kakashi to get here." Sakura knelt down so that she was eye-level with him.

"What about that other girl?" Instantly Sasuke looked away, knowing that she was talking about Larxene.

"No...we don't have to wait for her." There at that moment Sasuke sounded exactly like a child who had just gotten spanked, he obviously hadn't gotten over his recent manhandling at the hands of Larxene. "No at all..."He said in a low voice.

The Sakura smiled. "Aww, you're still mad aren't you?"

"No."

"Yes you are." She suppressed a giggle and stared at Sasuke in his child form.

"What....." His eyes widened when Sakura suddenly lunged forward at him, screaming "Kawaii, oh you're so cute right now!" She continued to glomp Sasuke all over, pretty much annoying the shit out of him.

"AHH....GET OFF!"

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Kakashi ran through the forest at full speed, his frantic breathing matched the maniac movement of his legs. It was an understatement to say that Kakashi was running fast. Making a ram seal while he moved he closed his eyes and activated a jutsu that allowed him to pinpoint any chakra signatures that were within a ten mile radius.

'Naruto, Naruto where are you?' He thought to himself. After a few seconds of searching something ping inside his head and he found two chakra signatures that he recognized, Naruto's and Larxene's. His eyes snapped open when he released the jutsu and he felt the fatigue that came with using that certain jutsu. "Found you!" He said before coming to a violent stop on a tree branch, nearly breaking it off of the trunk. With a quick motion he spun around and sprang the other way.

It seems that he was actually very close to Naruto and Larxene, either they had been standing in one place for a really long time or he was just that fast. In his mind he went with the second scenario. After around ten minutes of tree hopping he could see the fuzzy outline of two bodies in front of him.

"Naruto!" He yelled out, his suspicions were confirmed when he saw a spiky bush of bond hair turn around, Naruto. Both him and Larxene had stopped on their own respective branches, waiting for Kakashi to get to them. When he caught up to them Naruto began with an interrogation.

"And where were you?"

"Hunting Momochi." Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"Why the hell did you do that?" Kakashi then began to scratch the back of his head and gave a sheepish one eyed smile. The motion reminded Naruto of how he used to at before Kyuubi lifted his seal on him.

"I was kind of trying to get him....back, you know for injuring me like he did in our first fight." He nervously chuckled.

"And you're are leader....fuck we're all screwed. And aren't you supposed to be like fucking former anbu or something?" Larxene's head instantly snapped toward Kakashi.

"What HE was an anbu?"

"An freaking anbu captain."

"No way.." Her jaw dropped when Naruto sternly nodded in order to further strengthen the truth behind his words. Suddenly Kakashi cut in, changing his expression from a sheepish one to one of seriousness.

"That's not the point." He said. "What is the point is that I've got some bad news."

"Which is..."

"Zabuza...he's changed.'

"What exactly do you mean." Kakashi let out a sigh of frustration.

"Come on...I'll explain it while we head back."

"Back to where?" Larxene asked.

"Back to town, that's where." With that all three of them jumped off into the greenery, heading straight toward the town.

Ten seconds after the gained stability in their tree-hopping Naruto asked. "So what the hell is this about Momochi changing?"

"Right... now like I was saying. He has changed, he's bigger now. Bulging muscles, sturdy skin, and dammit he's gotten a hell of a lot stronger!" Kakashi rubbed the arm were he had been hit by Zabuza's kick. "And that's not all, he has also changed on the inside."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means that his chakra has changed along with his body, it's not normal. I's fucking evil, evil indeed. That is the type of chakra and killing intent that you would expect to come from an oni." Naruto scratched his chin, as if he was thinking of an explanation to Zabuza's drastic change. Nothing.

"Any ideas as to how he got this power?" Larxene asked, to which Kakashi shook his head."

"Hell if I know? For all I know he could have gotten that type of power from something that's not even in this world." Naruto then snapped.

"Or he could have gotten it from someoneaffiliated with the beings that aren't of this world." He glanced at Larxene and she glanced back.

Larxene then continued on from where Naruto left off. "In other words....Saiki."

"Saiki?" Kakashi said.

"Yeah.. Saiki, a group of collectors who hunt for anything and everything of great power. I was once a member but.... I failed to complete a mission and now I can't return. Currently they think that I'm dead so they won't come after me in order to finish me off."

"What mission did you fail."

"I failed to capture this fucker over here."

She thrust a thumb at Naruto and he just replied with a wide grin. Naruto then cut her off and continued on for her. "Yeah they were after my kekkei genkai and sent her but I defeated her. And now they have sent someone else to capture me, and for some reason he needs Zabuza in order to capture me. I already now who it is though."

"Who is it then?" Larxene and Kakashi asked in unison. Naruto put his hands up in defense, urging them to back the fuck up! He then raised one finger.

"Marlucia...Marlucia Zerbast; I had a run in with him during your first fight with Zabuza. Do you remember that abnormal mist when you first fought with Zabuza?" Kakashi nodded. "It was him who was helping Zabuza, it was him who created that mist, in fact it wasn't mist at all. It was ice, tiny little particles of ice; that's why you couldn't dispel it because it wasn't a jutsu. It was a signature technique, that only he could use. All-..."

Larxene cut in again. "-All members of the Saiki have what you you would call a weapon, we choose them and they choose us, it's two way thing. That Marlucia guy's weapon is water, no actually it's just a variation of water, he can only control ice to his will. You couldn't dispel the mist because the mist was fully in his control, you couldn't do anything."

'What's your weapon?" Kakashi asked. Larxene was quiet for a moment then responded. "I use my shadow as a weapon." Kakashi's eyebrow went up. 'Interesting, her ability is similar to that of the Nara clan.' At that moment Naruto thought that it would be best to not mention what Larxene's real weapon was, which was the shadow realm; not just her shadow but all shadows.

"Anyway, you do know what our next objective is right?" Kakashi asked.

"By next objective you do mean, finding Gato and infiltrating his base?" Kakashi nodded.

"Unfortunately I didn't find out where Gato is hiding." Naruto smiled.

"But I did." Kakashi's eye dropped. The looked on that one eye of his just screamed out 'how?'. "I have my ways." Naruto said.

"Guy's look ahead, I can see the town up ahead." Both Kakashi and Naruto did what Larxene had instructed and they saw the entrance to the northeast gate. In front of it stood five men, probably all below jounin. "Looks like we're going to have a little bit of resistance huh?" Both of them nodded in unison.

"That makes it all the better!" Naruto said.

"That makes two of us.....oh an by the way." Kakashi looked at both Naruto and Larxene. "You two are really in sync, I mean you guys are finishing each others sentences and right now your movements are pretty much the same." Naruto and Larxene looked down at each of their legs, perfect synchronization. "You two remind me of a really close couple, it's actually kind of cute in my opinion."

Larxene growled at that comment, as did Naruto but he did it with less of a blush on his face than Larxene. "We're not a couple!" Larxene blurted out.

"I never said that you were. Why so defensive?" Kakashi asked in a teasing way, he then sped up leaving Naruto and Larxene in the dust. When Naruto glanced at Larxene she quickly turned away, afraid to show him her face.

"That asshole." Said Naruto before he too sped up followed by Larxene; all three of them heading for the five men that blocked their path. In less than five seconds they were at the front of the gate facing five nin, all carrying spears

"Stop...who goes state your business." One of them demanded. He aimed his words at Kakashi who obviously looked the part of their leader.

"I've got no time for this..." Kakashi wiped out three kunai and in the blink of an eye impaled three men in their necks. Before they could hit the ground, however, all three men poofed out of existence, shadow clones.

Now two remained. Kakashi crossed hims arms. "Well if your shadow clones, then you should let us pass. You're obviously not strong enough to defeat any of us here. So let us pass." The two other men grunted, and their knees buckled. It looked as if they were contemplating on whether or not they should go ahead and open the door for these three nin from Konoha. This annoyed Naruto quite a bit.... so in order to speed up their thinking process he directed at them a concentrated amount of killing intent. His satisfied grin attested to their chokes and gasps for air, until they to exited the world much like their counterparts, with a sound poof.

"That's how you get things done Kakashi...what they fuck were YOU doing...talking to shadow clones, hah!" Naruto walked past him to the rather large gate.

"Yeah yeah, just shove it up your ass. Alright from here on in we're incognito.... so I suggest that we take on our disguises now." All three of them nodded, then made a single hand seal. There were three poof and in place of three nin of Konoha stood three nin of Kiri.

One was a young brown-haired man: Kakashi

The other a short redhead: Naruto.

And last but not least, a black-haired woman in her late teens: Larxene. All three of them wore the standard garbs of Kiri nin, which consisted of the standard ninja vest and training pants. The vest looked pretty similar to Konoha's version save for a couple modifications here and there.

"Let's go." Kakashi said. All three nin opened the large door into the town and walked back inside is borders. But before they walked into the town, Kakashi felt something. More like a wave of something; a wave of chakra to be exact. He knew whose it was as well, for this chakra felt like downright negative energy.

He looked up at the sky, dark clouds began to roll in, blocking out the golden rays provided by the sun. Back in Konoha it was considered a bad omen when dark clouds would come in from the north. But this wasn't Konoha, but still he just knew something bad was going to occur. His grim thoughts were confirmed when he felt another wave of foul chakra brush past his face like a soft breeze.

"Stop..." Both Naruto and Larxene stopped in their tracks. Naruto turned around first.

"So you felt it too?" Kakashi nodded as did Larxene. "Is that what you were talking about?" Kakashi nodded again. "Good, that's what I want."

"Zabuza's coming, he's heading straight for this town, and judging by what we just felt he's probably far away. Damn he followed me!" Larxene slapped her forehead.

"You do now that there now is no hope of avoiding confrontation? I know of the transformation that Zabuza went through, now that he's in that state his overall brain function has decreased. Kakashi raised his hand, and Larxene caught on immediately. "No.. he's not dumb." Kakashi put his hand down."

"...oh" They once again began moving walking through the streets like they were normal nin who just so happened to have the day off or something, keeping up their charade.

"His mindset has just become immensely feral" She continued on, "In other words, he has become battle crazed."

Kakashi nodded again. "I'm fully aware of that, I realized it the moment I peered into those golden eyes of his."

"Whoa golden eyes...how come you didn't mention any of this before." Naruto cut in.

"Oh sorry I guess I forgot." Naruto just scoffed, as if anyone could forget something as unique as golden eyes." "But Like I said, I already knew this the instant I looked at him, he's an animal now. Even so, I wish that there was another we could get rid of him without a huge brawl. Judging by Zabuza's power level this town can't take a fight like that." Another wave came this time a bit stronger, signaling that Zabuza was geting closer, the negative energy sent shivers down all three of their spines.

"No we can lure him away... If we're going to fight, then at least get the town out of the way." Naruto said pointing to a large black building that was quite far from them. "That's Gato's base but for now that's going to have to wait." He made two shadow clones

Sparks flew in Kakashi's mind as the light bulb turned on and he jammed his fist against his open palm. "I got it." I know exactly where we can send Zabuza to."

"And that is."

"Remember that bridge we past on out way hear?"

Naruto smirked, which was followed by a snap of his fingers. "Nice, that's our battle ground, now all we got to do is find Sakura and Sasuke and tell them what we intend to do. Leave that to me." He turned to the his clones and mentally relayed to them their instructions: find Sakura and Sasuke, codename banshee and emo king.

"You know?" Kakashi said..it be better for them to stay away from the battle. With their current power levels they would be more of a hindrance than a help to us."

Naruto tapped his chin while nodding. "Yeah you're right", he pointed his finger at his clone without looking at him. "Your new instructions: I want you to enter Gato's HQ" he then said "Transform." His second clone then transformed itself into Kakashi.

"Good thinking, it wouldn't seem right If I wasn't there."

"Exactly. Now you two... you have your orders.... go." With that both clones disappeared, leaving behind a wisps of dust in their wake.

Now it was time for them to go. If they stayed there any longer Zabuza would definetly catch them. Kakashi glanced at the sky once more..releasing from his mouth a sigh. The clouds were rolling in, fluffy like big dark balls of cotton.'Yeah there's definitely no way that we can avoid this fight. I hoped that we wouldn't have to fight like this...maybe we should have left after Tazuna was delivered.'He glanced at Naruto,who was also staring at the dark clouds." The blond nin then brought his gaze toward him.

"A bad omen...looks like something big's about to happen." He said lazily leaning of to the side while flexing his arm in a windmill motion. Then he smiled. "But that's just the way I like it!" Another wave of foul chakra flew past them, this time with a little bit more force. Naruto began to snicker...like an insane little junkie who was drugged up on something. "That's right Momochi, come." Both Larxene and Kakashi looked at the blond in disguise....both with worried stares.

"You okay?" Kakashi said, which Naruto replied to with a nod and continued to shake and shiver, stung by the cold wind of Zabuza's chakra

There was something wrong with Naruto..he was being affected by something, it could've been this evil chakra. But if it was then why wasn't it affecting Larxene or himself. What was it that was affecting him, what did the little blond nin have they didn't?

"It's happening" Naruto said.

"What is"

"This chakra's affecting me...I can feel it. It's like I'm being engulfed in madness. I know that its only started but for some reason I feel extremely off edge. I feel like fighting for some reason. Maybe there is something up with this chakra, I don't know but for some reason I..... all of a sudden feel the need to fight." Another wave of foul chakra came, making Naruto cringe.

Then it hit him. Evil chakra, plus evil chakra can only be made out to be more evil chakra.

...Or in Naruto's case...demon youkai. That was it....it was the demon youkai, more commonly known as Kyuubi's chakra that was causing him to act in this way. Zabuza's fould chakra wasn't affecting Kakashi or Larxene in the way that it was only because they didn't have Kyuubi inside of them.

"Naruto...."

'What...I know it's your chakra that's doing this. It can't be helped though. So don't worry.'

"My deepest apologies...Naruto-kun."

Naruto clutched the side of his head. "Kakashi...we need to go, I stay here any longer, I'm sure Zabuza's chakra will surely cause me to go insane."

"Are you sure..maybe it better for-..."

Naruto then swiped his hand in the air.... swinging it around like a weapon. "No!" He brought his hand back to his head. "We have to go..and dammit I'm coming with you!" Another huge wave, blew past them. This chakra was sickening, it was making Naruto mad. It seemed like every time Zabuza got closer the feel of his chakra would get stronger. It brought Naruto to his knees, it was like a terrible pain in the back of his head. With a sound poof Naruto reverted back to his original appearance unable to retain his diguised form.

He laughed and laughed...cackled even.

"I can feel it....hahaha....the madness!" Naruto yelled into the air.

"Naruto get a hold of yourself!" Larxene moved in front of him and began jostling him back and forth. He still continued to laugh. "Calm down!" Honestly she didn't know what fuck was even going on, if Zabuza's chakra was that bad then why wasn't she like this as well?

"I can't... Lar-chan...I just can't, I can't even stay still right now!" Blue chakra began to flow from his body. She slapped him and the flow stopped. "Lar-..." he just stared, blank, right into the sky, which was now filled in abundance with a sea of never-ending dark clouds.

"Heh, almost lost control there didn't you?" She turned to Kakashi, he knew what she wanted to ask. So he answered her without a question.

"It's Kyuubi's chakra inside of him that's doing this. Zabuza's chakra has a feral quality to it and the closer he comes to Naruto more Naruto will continue to act like this. Its not just affecting him but us as well. Even now we're being affected by Zabuza's chakra, and If I'm correct given some time we too shall start to act like Naruto. The only reason Naruto has been affected by the madness before us is because of the demonic chakra inside of him, it is being affected by Zabuza's madness and is in turn aiding in speeding up the process of Naruto's growing insanity. In other words Kyuubi's chakra is acting like a catalyst for Zabuza's madness, and if this continues on Naruto will surely go insane.

"Wow, to think that I fought twice with Konoha's fabled Jinchuuriki and didn't even realize it."

At that moment Larxene looked in at Naruto's upward gaze and realized that there was a ring of solid orange around his pupil. Without realizing it Naruto had activated his geostigma. In truth this was actually a defense mechanism in his body. Whenever the body was affected by an opposing outside force the geostigma would automatically activate itself unless Naruto will it not to do so. It served only one purpose, to provide the user with an extra amount of chakra for defense. Just in case that person was immobilized, like Naruto, they would at least have enough energy to create a chakra feild around themselves. Maybe the geostigma really did have a mind of its own. Larxene lowered her gaze, feeling a little sorry for Naruto. Having to carry a burden like that, she didn't think that she could ever relate to him when it came to having a bad life.

Also at that moment Larxene noticed, that even with Naruto making such a ruckus none of the other towns people seemed to notice a thing. Larxene turned her gaze to Kakashi.

"Hey Kakashi-san.... Naruto here is making such a scene and yet why is it that none of the people here seem to noti-.... oh that's why. Never mind I see it now." It turns out that Kakashi had placed a very complicated genjutsu around them that rendered them both invisible and inaudible. They couldn't make a scene even if they wanted to. Kakashi had actually placed it on them when they first stepped past the gate. Larxene mentally slapped herself for not realizing it sooner, and more importantly it caused her to actually consider how strong the cyclops jounin really was. To use a genjutsu of this level without her noticing; he must have been the real deal.

Another wave of chakra erupted in the sky, this time it came stronger than ever. Actually it wasn't even a wave it was more like a explosion of chakra across the sky. Both Kakashi and Larxene had realized what was happening. They had wasted too much time...... and it was already too late, Zabuza was already here.

Another huge wave exploded over the town. Every person that could sense chakra, ninja both active and inactive, could feel it. The chakra went past the villagers unadressed. Because they couldn't sense chakra they couldn't feel it.

And at that very moment Kakashi, Larxene and every other ninja in the town was very aware of an obviously evil presence in the center of town, Zabuza.

Larxene stood up, looking to where the presence was...then they saw it. Standing on top of Gato's HQ, a good distance away from them was Momochi Zabuza, and surprisingly hanging off of his arm was...... Gato! Standing on the large, black building was Zabuza with Gato hanging to his arm for dear life.

"What the FUCK?!" Kakashi said, not caring how loud he was, only because he knew that his genjutsu still concealed his presence.

"Is that.....?" Larxene began to ask.

"Yessss.... Lar-chan....hahaha.. that heheh.... is Momochi Zabuza!" Naruto cut in, with a crazed expression on his face. Halfway through his speech Naruto had switch from talking to laughing, in his current state something like a simple sentence being controlled by rational thought was damn near impossible!

Larxene on the other hand couldn't believe what she was seeing. She had never imagined that 'calling' a Saiki member would cause someone to change this drastically. He didn't look like a regular human, whatever Zabuza was she knew that he was about as far as possible from normal as one could get.

Zabuza began to laugh. His laughter was loud and grim; it was everywhere...or so it seemed. Zabuza's laughter seemed to be coming from almost every direction. Even them who were on the edge of town could here Zabuza's voice loud and clear. It was as if his voice was being amplified through a thousand megaphones all at once!

Naruto the began to laugh again, like a madman. "Hahaha....I the madness... the madness! I want to fight, but my body...hehehe... can't even move right now!"

Larxene's eyes widened. "Kakashi-san, we need to get Naruto-kun out of here, and now! Her expression was one of desperation...... she was genuinely worried about Naruto's well-being. Kakashi didn't respond. "Please... now, we have to go!" Right then she caught herself....her face glowing a deep red. She knew she was supposed to be worried about Naruto, but why was she this worried?

Kakashi shook his head again. "We can't go. The genjutsu I set up has a set area and if we even step one foot outside of its perimeter then my genjutsu will be broken, Zabuza might sense the chakra flux that occurs when my genjutsu is dispelled and spot us. It's too much of a risk for us to take."

Larxene just sighed at Kakashi's answer, she would have to face the grim fact that right now all she could was stand there and listen to what Zabuza had to say. She sat down next to Naruto, even mad and on his knees he was fighting.

"Hel-..p.... me....hehehe." She rested a hand on his shoulder, which seemed to calm him down a bit.

"We will Naruto-kun... we will."

(With Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi/ Naruto and Naruto 2.0)

This was bad, this was really bad. What was even worse was that it was so random. For some reason Naruto and Kakashi had shown up...without Larxene and they were about to begin with the infiltration of Gato's base when out of the blue some huge demonic, bodybuilder freak showed up carrying a really fat guy on his arm. What was even more annoying was that as soon as he came he kick-started almost immediate chaos and now he was laughing about it, with a voice that seemed to come from everywhere at once.

Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto's two clones of Kakashi and himself stood amidst a scene of complete and utter discord. People we running around for cover, the instant they set their eyes on that....demon man, everyone ran for their lives. Kids ran home, even adults were screaming and running like chickens with their heads cut off.

Some of the ninja who had been stationed in the town were having trouble keeping all the villagers in check.

But there was something about this man....that was....not right. The way his chakra felt, it felt evil... insane and inhumane. It felt like his chakra was the very essence of insanity itself.

Sakura nudged Sasuke with her elbow. "Who i-is.... th-that?" asked Sakura, asking both Kakashi and Sasuke at the same time.

"Hell... if know!" was all she got from Sasuke.

"It's Momochi Zabuza." That was the response she got from Kakashi. Sakura and and Sasuke both gasped at the news.

"What..?" Sasuke said, "That can't be him." The he noticed something, the man had no eyebrows....yep that was Zabuza for sure.

With a snap shut of his mouth Zabuza stopped laughing. "All of you... shut the fuck up!" His voice boomed across the town stopping any and everybody dead in there tracks. He held the fat man over the edge of Gato's HQ. "For all of you who don't know this.... this is Gato!" That earned him a helping of gasp, curses, and shouts from the townspeople below. "He is the reason why you all live life the way you do, he is the reason you live in poverty!" More shouts and curses were yelled out, all of them directed at Gato. You would think that they would have remembered that there was a huge, demon-like freak standing in front of them.

"Hey...." Sakura whispered to Sasuke said.

"I already know, when we've got the chance I'll explode those tags." Sakura just nodded.

"Do you want...revenge?!"

"YESSSS" The crowd answered him back, already stirred up and ready. They were pumped up that every now and then someone would yell, 'drop the mother fucker!', and everyone in the crowd would agree.

"Just what the fuck is he doing?" Said Naruto to Kakashi. All he got was a shoulder shrug. The clone just looked at Zabuza, preparing to mentally relay what exactly was he was seeing to the his creator. 'Hey boss...are you seeing this?' He thought, while opening a mental link with the real Naruto. 'Hey boss..are you-...! What the fuck?'

Suddenly the clone feel to his knees, his head felt like it was about to explode. He let out a little gasp and erupted in a cloud of smoke. Fortunately Zabuza didn't notice this, the noise of the crowd concealed the sound of Naruto's dissipated clone.

Seeing this Sakura and Sasuke jumped away, in surprise. "Why did he just poof away? asked Sakura, thoroughly creeped out. The Kakashi clone just scratched his head. Guess the cat was out of the bag.....

"Heh, we're clones." He said and he too erupted in smoke, leaving Sakura and Sasuke both slack-jawed. It seems to to say that as soon as both of the clones tried to open a mental link with the real Naruto they got a beautiful helping of their creator's current state of insanity.

"Great... they weren't even real." Said Sakura turning back to Zabuza.

"I can give you revenge.... that I can. I'll give him to you today." He dropped the Gato into the crowd, by which he was caught and almost immediately slapped around. Zabuza took in a deep breath at the sounds of the cheering towns folk and the screams of Gato. As the crowd began to carry Gato off into the town square, Zabuza yelled out. "Wait, I only did this... so that you can all enjoy your last days of life!" That's when all became silent and his words hung in the air, not unheard but unbelieved.

"What, what are you talkin' about!" Yelled a random citizen.

"Rest assure, you can take your revenge on Gato, but by tomorrow I'll come back and you all. You see I want revenge, or at least a really good fight. And unless there is someone in this town that give me a worth while fight, I'm going to destroy this place." This was followed by numerous murmurs and quite a few screams occurring in the crowd.

You have the rest of today, and until noon tomorrow to find somone to fight me.......now have fun." Zabuza began to laugh maniacally, his voice booming over every other sound. After five seconds of laughing he slowly faded away from sight, leaving the rest of the town to decide how they were going to exact their revenge on Gato in their last hours of life. How he did it nobody knew, he was just gone with the wind.

And for some reason Sasuke couldn't help but think that that remark was somehow meant to be for Kakashi, perhaps it was Zabuza's way of challenging him to a rematch.

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Man i'm done! You know for some reason while I was writing crap just kept popping into my head like bam! Idea after Idea, like the whole Naruto about to go completely insane thing, yea...pulled tat one straight out the ass. Anyway, either you like or you don't like so just confirm it in a review. Concerning the Xion thing for the harem, seeing as how she won't be around for at least a chapter or two, I guess that I'll tell you something about her. Well for one she's a redhead, you know I got a review asking whether or not Fem Kyuubi would be in the story. Seeing as how that's not a possibility right now I said hey, if people want fem Kyuubi then I'll make a character similar to fem Kyuubi. Anyway, she's has red hair, around five seven. Pretty short I guess. Has an amazing body, like holy shit I would totally bone this chick the instant I saw her. That type of body. Has a bad temper, which is a coincidence in conjunction with her fiery hair. That's all I'll say, don't make me tell you what she can do....don't do it. You are not worthy. Just let it be known that she can fight, maybe even on par with Naruto and Larxene.

That's all I got to say for now.

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Alert!: I'm am at 180+ reviews right now so I need YOU to help me make it to 200 reviews. Please oh please help me in my race to get to 200+ reviews. Review dammit! Thanks.

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