Huhu! Here's the next chapter! Big thanks to Azura Soul Reaver and Jestie Uchiha for your review! I'm sorry that I don't reply very often, I just never know what to write back. If it annoys you feel free to tell me so.
Finally! After two whole fucking weeks I'm FINALLY able to update! I tried every day for two whole weeks and every time there came this error message. I'm really sorry for the delay but for once it totally wasn't my fault. The worst thing about this is that I was actually early with my update... Well, c'est la vie!
Not much to say today… I'm hungry…
Sins and Sunshine
Chapter 10: Here comes Zabuza
We decided to carry on our mission.
Anyway we proceeded on our way and when we reached the sea we entered a little boat that should bring us to the land of waves. Now we were drifting through the thickest fog, where we couldn't even see what was ahead of us. I miss the sun!
After some time we could make out a bridge in construction that slowly emerged from the mist.
"Huge!" Naruto shouted amazed from the size of the bridge, but was immediately silenced by the ferryman that he should be quiet so we won't get noticed.
This sounded pretty suspicious so Kakashi-sensei decided again that it would be best to question the bridge builder about it. He wanted to know why ninjas were after him otherwise the mission would end as soon as we reached the shore. Great! And here I am hoping that after getting him home safely we could finally go back to Konoha!
Full suspension we waited for Tazuna's explanation with which he really took his time. Than after some time of silence he finally coughed it up.
"The one who seeks my life is a very short man who casts a very long and deadly shadow." Wow, that's a really helpful explanation. Not. Really, how would anyone know who the bad guy was with just that? I mean, small and mighty, that could be just any businessman or drug lord!
"Who is it?" Kakashi-sensei rephrased his question to get a more precise answer. Then finally he told us the name. It was some rich shipping magnate called Gatou. Then Kakashi did what he could do best: telling us more or less important facts. That he's – guess what – a business leader and everyone knows him.
"Who? Who? What? What?" Naruto asked eagerly.
The last things I overheard were that he was very dangerous and ruthless and that it is his fault that this land was so poor. Then I got distracted by a fish. Yes, a fish. He jumped out of the water and caught a fly. Why does it jump out of the water for that? Can't it just wait till the fly comes near the water?
"We'll be there soon." the ferryman announced.
We were passing a dimly lit tunnel. As we reached the end of the tunnel the mist had cleared and ahead of us was an idyllic fishing village. It was built on poles and mangroves grew in the shallow water.
"Beautiful." I whispered in awe and leaned over the edge of the boat to get a better view. If that really helped, I'm not quite sure…
Unfortunately in this moment little wave hit the boat and I lost my balance.
SPLASH!
"The next time we travel by boat you should pay more attention." Kakashi-sensei lectured me the nth time since they pulled me out of the water. It was colder than I thought…
"." I muttered annoyed. It just figures that something like this would happen and do I learn from my mistakes? No. So why bother.
We were on the way to Tazuna's house – I wonder why he didn't live at the shore like everyone else – and Naruto ran ahead. Sasuke decided not to let the blonde have the lead and sped up until I was walking next to him. Naturo was annoyed of this so he observed the environment and threw a kunai in a random direction.
We all startled up and got ready for whatever enemy Naruto might have attacked, but Naruto just laughed shyly and announced that it was just a rat. He repeated that because he saw a shadow or something.
But this time he almost killed a bunny that now leaned against a tree and was completely traumatized. Shocked Naruto took it and cuddled it as an apology which made it, in my opinion, only worse.
Suddenly that feeling returned that the were watched and also Kakashi tensely observed our surroundings.
"Are we getting watched?" I asked him whispering.
"Seems like it." he answered still keeping his eye on the surrounds.
All of a sudden a huge butcher knife-sword-thingy came flying out of nowhere. We all ducked and it got stuck in the trunk of a tree. Poor, innocent tree, didn't do anything wrong.
Then on the king-size knife appeared a man with bandages covering the lower half of his face and arm- and legwarmers. Judging by his forehead protector he was a ninja from Kirigakure (Yes, guys, I actually paid attention sometimes back at the academy!). But shirt was left at home, or what? Well, at least he has abs.
"Well, well, if it isn't the hidden mist's missing-nin Momochi Zabuza." Kakashi growled. He seems to know him…
Naruto wanted to attack him but Kakashi stopped him and explained that he wasn't just an ordinary ninja.
Giant butcher knife-man said something about Kakashi having the Sharingan. But that couldn't be possible because only members of the Uchiha-clan possess the Sharingan. Right? At least Sasuke seemed to be thinking the same like me, because me starred in a shocked manner (Mind: Sasuke and shocked!) at our sensei.
"Surround and protect Tazuna-san." Kakashi commanded in a dead serious tone, like we never heard from him before. Then he told us not to interrupt in this fight and pulled his forehead protector up to reveal a red eye with three black commas in it. So this was the Sharingan… First time seeing one…
Of course little naïve Naruto first needed an explanation of what the Sharingan actually was. This time Sasuke undertook this task and Zabuza put in his two cents. Why he wanted to show us his knowledge so badly was beyond my understanding.
After some more talking the fighting finally started and we got to our position to protect the bridge builder. I stood at his back so I didn't get to see much fighting.
Then again I got the feeling of being watched. Gosh, that's already the third time today. Is it really that interesting to watch us? Well, at least now I know that he isn't alone…
The others were too occupied with fighting/watching the fight to sense it, thought. Due to Zabuza's mist-jutsu our vision again got limited to a few meters, so I couldn't locate the second enemy. Then I got a little idea. With my special unbeaten ultimate stalking justu of doom I should be able to detect him.
Ultimate stalking jutsu of stealing away without anyone noticing you! (I know it's no real jutsu, but it always worked since now!)
Outside-POV…
After the battle between Kakashi and Zabuza (A/N: I skipped this part, 'cause it'd be plain boring summarizing… oh and I'm lazy.)…
Just as Kakashi wanted to finish Zabuza off he got hit in the throat by two senbon-needles. Everyone blankly starred at the masked boy who was standing on a tree branch and watched the nuke-nin falling lifeless on the ground.
Kakashi and the masked ninja, who actually was a hunter-nin of the hidden mist, chatted a bit, then Naruto complained about how stupid they looked now after a kid defeated Zabuza this easily. Kakashi then began lecturing the frustrated genin that there are ninjas younger than Naruto yet stronger than him. Meanwhile the masked boy took Zabuza's dead body and disappeared in the wind – not noticing a small shadow following him.
"He's gone!" Naruto shouted amazed and shocked at the same time and searched around the tree for the ninja. Sure, as if he would hide behind the tree. Then he let out his frustration on the poor ground, that didn't do anything wrong.
"Uhh, you know who's also missing?" Sakura asked hesitating and looking around her. Kakashi and Sasuke immediately understood, Naruto needed some time until he noticed it as well.
"Where's Minari-chan?"
After some time of searching and not finding the missing genin, Kakashi decided that it was pointless to keep looking for her, instead they should carry on with their mission.
"And what will become of Minari?" Sasuke asked with a dark voice, which Sakura didn't like one bit because it was quite obvious that he was worried about her.
"Don't worry. She's clever enough to avoid trouble and will surely come after us, wherever she may be right now." Kakashi assured him and passed out right after finishing his sentence.
"We should bring him to my home." Tazuna said and the group set off to the house of the bridge builder.
At the same time… Still Outside-POV…
"First I cut the mouth cloth." The young ninja muttered as he wanted to cut the bandages of the numb body in front of him with some sort of scissors.
But Zabuza grabbed his arm with one hand and with the other he loosened the cloth.
"That's alright. I do it myself." he said and pointy teeth flashed in his mouth.
"Oh, you're already come back to life." the boy pointed out.
Then the evil nuke-nin complained that the boy who saved his life was too rough. Ohhh, poor, poor dangerous criminal.
"Haku, how long are you going to wear that stupid mask?" Zabuza asked the boy.
"You really think that's a good idea, while we are-"
"Take it off." Zabuza commanded tiredly.
"And you, show yourself!" he shouted in the direction of the forest.
In a slow pace a girl approached the two kiri-nins.
"You're one of Hatake Kakashi's brats." the nuke-nin stated.
Minari put on a warm smile.
"Hi."
Ohhh, Minari's with the evil ninjas! What was it again about clever enough to avoid trouble Kakashi? Okay, it wasn't this suprising… But what'll happen next you won't see coming! Mwahahahahahahaha*cough*hahaha… uh yeah…
And again after watching the anime for the sake of this chapter I realised why I prefer the manga. The anime could be so great (expect for the fillers… Stupid fillers!) if the German version wouldn't have gotten castrated so much that in some parts it didn't even make sense anymore! An anime full of blood, death and what do I know what else isn't suit for little kids, that normally watch pokemon and spongebob, so they shouldn't try to make this anime suitable! The worst scene is where in the original Zabuza kills Gatou (sooooooo cool!), but in the edited version they completely left it out and just said "Oh my, he has gotten away." Grr… stupid film editor people…
Okay change of subject before I go and kill off those film castrators…
This chapter got a little short, but if I hadn't left out the fighting parts it's just be boring so better short than boring, ne? But the next chapter will be longer, I promise.^^
Should I give you some preview again? Hmmmmh…
Preview: Old friend, old memories
You finally get to know something about Minari's past and Minari gets to shoot another nice picture for her collection, so look forward to it!