Chapter 10

Enter Zabuza

"God Dammit, Naruto, you are obviously a little agitated enough to have attacked a helpless rabbit!" yelled Sakura.

"You don't use your eyes, This is a snow hare, it's white coat only comes out in winter, and it's mid summer for crying out loud, plus, my clone that was inspecting that area was taken out by something el—" Naruto never finished for out of nowhere a giant sword came flying and lodged itself into a tree. Almost instantly, a thick mist came through the area and a man could be seen standing on the hilt of the giant sword. He was tall and shirtless revealing a very muscular torso, with bandages covering his face from the nose down and the headband.

"Well, I didn't expect the Oni brothers to have been defeated by a trio of KIDS." He said with a laugh. "This makes things much easier."

"You want to kill my students? You'll have to get past me!" said Kakashi and he lifted his headband to reveal a strange eye that nearly made Sauske keel over in shock.

"What is it Sauske-kun?" asked Sakura

"He has the Sharingan!" he said startled

"That explains why they call him the copy nin." Said Naruto

"Yes, in my bingo book he's called Sharingan Kakashi." Replied the berserker-like ninja.

"I didn't know my name had reached as far as the hidden mist village, but I'm sure you know yours has reached Konoha." Said Kakashi glaring at Zabuza.

"Yeah," said Naruto "I… coaxed the Hokage into giving me a copy of the leaf's Bingo book and I memorized every page of it, this guy we're dealing with is Zabuza Momichi, a rouge ninja from the hidden mist village, formerly known as the bloody mist village, one of the seven swordsmen of the mist, and master of the silent kill technique." He explained to the rest of the group.

"Bloody mist?" asked Sakura

"I see the boy knows of our… graduation ritual." Said Zabuza with a small chuckle.

"When you travel the world with someone like my dad, you tend to pick up a thing or two."

"At the end of the year at the Mist village's ninja academy, they would pair students one on one and fight to the death, those who remained would become ninja." Said Kakashi. Sakura looked like she was going to hurl. "The last time that happened before the village was forced to do a sweeping reform was when one student who hadn't yet proved himself a ninja picked up a kunai and massacred ALL of that years graduating class."

"Ah, the good old days." Said Zabuza.

Naruto quickly drew his Sword and went into a ready stance. "I guessed they didn't call you the demon of the mist for nothing but that is disgusting." He snapped

Zabuza noticed the sword in Naruto's hands "So that's the famous Dragon Sword, and I thought Ryu Hayabusa bore that blade." He said

"It has been passed down to the next generation." Replied Naruto.

"I smell a challenge." Said Zabuza with interest.

"Well get your sense of smell checked because you're fighting me!" said Kakashi "Naruto, you and the other's get Tazuna out of here, I'll hold him off."

"I'm sorry but you'll need to wait your turn." said Zabuza and he wrenched the blade out of the tree and lunged at Naruto who instantly blocked his attack. And the fight began with Naruto blocking every single one of his attacks. "Hm, You're good." Said Zabuza

"Comes from being trained by my dad; Ryu Hayabusa." Replied Naruto

"Heh, but try to keep up with this." said Zabuza and wove the hand signs for Water Clone Jutsu and multiple copies of Zabuza came into being, charging at Naruto.

"You're not the only one with a clone jutsu, SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" called Naruto and Naruto summoned a mass of clones and charged.

Sakura stared in awe as the battle of the clones emerged, while the clones were raising hell, the real Zabuza was trying to make a run for it. Dammit, that kid is strong he thought "Trying to run so soon?" asked a voice, Zabuza looked up in fear to see Kakashi hanging over him. "according to the Sharingan you wasted chakra creating THAT many clones, Naruto and my other subordinates are making a run for it, while I deal with you!"

Dammit, he's right, don't know if I'll be able to face the Sharingan but I'll have to try. And try Zabuza did but whatever jutsu he threw at Kakashi was met by the same one cast by Kakashi. In one moment, Zabuza tried to catch his breath, that was when Kakashi struck with WATER STYLE GIANT VORTEX JUTSU sending Zabuza for a loop in a giant flood and slammed into a tree, Dazed he looked around and to his horror he saw Kakashi sitting up in the tree above him with a kunai in hand. "It ends here, Zabuza."

But before the kunai could make impact, three Senbon needles flew out of nowhere and hit Zabuza in the neck and he fell over dead. "My fellow Hunter Nin Owe you our gratitude." Said a voice. Kakashi looked around to see a hunter ninja obviously from the Mist Village. The Ninja Jumped down, gathered Zabuza's body and teleported away.

Strange thought Kakashi but As soon as he thought this, he keeled over, exhausted, the last thing he remembered was seeing three figures coming towards him, but he was rendered unconscious.