Here it is boys and girls, Chapter Ten. Now with ten percent more protein!

Chapter 10

"I do it for Zabuza." Haku said with fury in his eyes.

"I see. You're not going to give up then." Goten said with a withdrawn look in his eyes.

"Then I have no choice but to end this fight. I'm sorry for this. Hopefully, next time we fight it will be as friends."

With that Goten fazed out and appeared right next to Haku. He delt a powerful blow to his midsection causing him to fall down from pain. When he tried to get back up the pain was too unbearable and he collapsed, falling unconscious.

"I'm sorry." Goten bowed to his fallen opponent. He then walked over to help Sauske and Naruto to their feet.

"You guys Okay?"

"Never better." Sauske said with a smirk. It was then Goten realized something had happened to Sauske's eyes during the fight. While Goten was fighting Haku, Sauske had observed the battle. At first the two were going too fast for Sauske to see, but over the course of the battle things started to get easier for him to make out. His eyes had taken on a transformation. They were now red with swirls around the iris.

"Your eyes there the..."

"Yes, Thanks to watching you two move at such incredible speeds I have the sharingan. My eyes have activated it to focus on the fight."

Meanwhile Kakashi's fight with Zabuza wasn't gaining any ground. Kakashi started with the lead thanks to his sharingan but his advantage soon faded when Zabuza found a way to counter it. He created a thick mist that surrounded the both of them and began fighting with his eyes closed, reacting on sound alone.

Kakashi went for an uppercut to Zabuza's jaw only for it to be blocked by his sword and countered with a kick to Kakashi's side. It hit it's mark and sent the copy ninja flying and skidding on the ground. He managed to get back up clutching his side.

"Nice move, I wasn't expecting that." 'I need to end this quick.' He stopped clutching his side and composed himself.

"Watch closely Zabuza. I'm about to show you the one move in my arsenal I didn't copy."

Kakaski preformed the necessary hand signs and started drawing energy for the chidori into his hand.

"I'll give you one last chance to surrender." Kakashi warned.

Zabuza's eyes just narrowed at him.

"Very well" Once he had it fully charged he rushed at Zabuza at full speed.

"Chidori!" He aimed the move right at Zabuza's heart but the assassin was able to avoid a fatal injury at the last second as he leaned to the left the move came in contact with his upper right arm severing it from his body.

Zabuza's eyes widened as he clutched the stub in in pain with rage in his eyes.

Kakashi's eyes narrowed. "This fight is over, it's impossible for you to fight now in your condition."

"Then go ahead, finish me off."

"I admit I was going too, but it isn't necessary anymore. As Goten said earlier, you're already beaten."

Before Zabuza could say anything different they heard the clapping of hands close by.

"Very interesting show, however, it must come to an end." The man was middle aged with brown hair. He wore a business type suit with a purple tie. To top off his look he had a pair of sunglasses. Behind him was an army of people.

Zabuza gave the man a scowl, "Why are you here?"

The man gave an evil grin. "Hehe, The plan has changed. Well, actually I was planning on doing this from the beginning. Zabuza I'm going to have you killed here."

"What?!"

The man snickered, "I never planned on Paying you any money."

By this time the rest of team seven had been watching the fight and were surprised by this turn of events to say the least.

"You see, hiring a normal ninja is expensive and there's always the chance they'll betray me so I get you missing nins who are easy to take care of afterwards. I have the ninjas take care of each other then finish them off with numbers. Good plan, don't you think?" He let out another laugh, "The only problem in the plan was you Zabuza. You're the devil of the Hidden Mist? What a joke, you can't even take care of a few kids. We can easily kill you now."

'There's so many of them.' Naruto thought.

Zabuza then did something no one expected. He grabbed his sword with the hand he had left and turned to Kakashi.

"Sorry Kakashi, this fight is over. Since I have no more reason to go after Tazuna I have no reason to kill you."

"Ah, You're right." Kakashi agreed.

Zabuza's eyes narrowed at Gato, "Plus this guy is really pissing me off."

Goten shouted at him. "What are you doing?!"

"Believe it or not you kids showed me something. Besides this man betrayed me, I'm going to return the favor."

He rushed at the army of mercenaries with his blade held in his good hand.

"That's enough, Kill him!" Gato shouted at his hired help.

"Sure thing," One of them replied, "A badly injured ninja against these numbers, there's no way he can win."

Zabuza. started slashing his way through the ranks towards Gato. One tried to attack from behind, he swung his sword around and sliced him. Just then one of them got lucky and managed to stab a katana into Zabuza's back. The others took advantage of this and stuck their weapons in as well. Ignoring the pain he continued, reaching the business tycoon.

"Just die already!" Gato yelled.

"Not without you, we'll go to hell together. Then we'll see if I really am a devil." He then swung his sword taking Gato's head clean off. With a smile he let out his last words.

"This is good-by Haku. Thank you for everything. I'm sorry."

"You don't have to die!" Goten yelled. "Come on I know I have a sensu somewhere." Goten started searching his vest for the miracle bean when Kakashi placed a hand on his shoulder.

"That's enough Goten. I'm sorry but it's too late to save him. It wasn't your choice, he chose to do this. The end of a man who led a difficult life."

Just then, Haku was starting to stir from his unconscious state from fighting Goten.

"Zabuza?" Haku turned his head to see team seven and Tazuna nearby him with a mass of people surrounding his now deceased sensei. Narrowing his eyes in rage he forced himself up off the ground.

"What happend." Haku asked as he made his way over.

"He gave up his life to take out Gato."

"Then I must follow his wishes to the end."

Just then they heard a voice from the other side of the bridge.

"Wait! don't start without us!"

Everyone looked at where the voice had come from to see none other than Inari holding a crossbow backed by a mob of villagers.

Naruto smirked, "That's what I like to see." He then created a mass of shadow clones to help the villagers. Seeing they were greatly outnumbered the mercenaries who had survived Zabuza took off to run. Haku was about to go after them when he was stopped by Goten.

"They're not worth it."

Upon hearing that Haku went over to Zabuza's corpse and picked it up.

"I promise I'll avenge your death Sensei. I'll make you proud." He put the body on his shoulder and turned to Goten giving a smirk.

"I'm going to give him a proper burial fit for the shinobi he was."

Everyone was silent as he made Zabuza's grave and place him in the ground.

"I should have gone with you." Said Haku as a tear rolled down his face. "I should have been the one to die first."

"Don't say that." Naruto said to him sadly.

"He's right, blaming yourself will only make it harder." Kakashi said in agreement.

"Your right, I need to move on. I'll see you all again sometime and when I do," He paused and looked at Goten with a smirk, "I want a rematch."

"Wait, what are you going to do?" Sakura asked him.

"Sensei had some unfinished business to take care of. I think he'd want me to take care of it as his last wish." With that Haku started walking off towards the woods.

"Even dead he's using him as a tool." Goten said.

Kakashi nodded in agreement, "A shinobi isn't supposed to pursue his own goals, becoming the countries tool is most important. It's the same for the leaf village."

Naruto's eyes narrowed, "That's what it means to be a ninja, I don't like it."

"Each and every ninja has to live while dealing with that issue." Kakaski said in response.

"The same went for the people I knew back home." Goten lowered his head, "Anytime the earth was in danger they would give up what they were doing and come to it's defense, no matter what the cost. A few even lost their lives in the process more than once, even me at one point."

Naruto's eyes widened, "That's right, the dragonballs. That means we can bring..."

"No Naruto." Kakashi warned.

"What?" Naruto asked.

"From what I've heard of the dragonballs I understand how tempting it might be to use them but it wouldn't be right. Something that powerful should only be used in emergencies only."

"Okay, but I've decided if I'm going to be a ninja I'm going to find a way to do it my own way."

Kakashi smiled under his mask, they seemed to be starting to understand.

The next day Tazuna's family had went with Team seven to the newly built bridge to see them off.

"Thank to you we finished the bridge but this is really sad." Tazuna said with a sad smile.

"Thanks for everything." Kakashi said with a smile."

"Don't worry, we'll come visit." Naruto told them.

"You better." Inari said trying to hold back tears.

"You're sad right?" Goten asked him with a smile. "It's alright to cry."

"I'm not going to cry but you and Naruto can cry too." Inari said forcing himself not to cry.

Nodding Goten turned his head to leave, Naruto doing the same thing.

"Fine, Later." Naruto said waving as he turned around. Once they turned away from Tazuna's family tears started rolling down their cheeks. Seeing their backs to him Inari started crying as well.

'They're like triplets.' Thought Sakura.

Tazuna gave a smile, "There's something about those two that has the ability to change people's hearts. They gave us a bridge to hope." His eyes then widened, "Oh yeah the bridge we need to name it, but which one do we name it after."

"What about the great orange and blue bridge since they both always wore those colors." Inari asked.

"The great Orange and Blue Bridge huh. Sure, why not. The name will be in hope that the bridge will never fall and one day it will become a super famous bridge that will be known throughout the world."

Meanwhile team eight still had one more day before they made it to their mission sight. Hinata had mastered flying so Trunks was going over it with Kiba and oddly enough, Akamaru as they traveled to their destination. He wasn't quite sure how a dog could learn to fly but at least it gave him something to do while he went to the mission. Shino decided he would learn the technique on his own without Trunks' help. Kurenai, though she wouldn't admit it, was interested in learning as well and eavesdropped while Trunks was going over it.

Trying to spark some conversation with his new bodyguards Carmine went over to talk to Trunks,

"So, I hear you have a talent for building things boy."

Trunks let out a sigh. "Yeah I guess I've always been interested in tinkering with electronics. I guess being around it all my life has an impact. When I came here I nearly went crazy not having anything advanced to tinker with."

Carmine nodded in agreement, "Believe me I understand, from one grease monkey to another."

Trunks cringed slightly at the word monkey but decided to let it go considering the other person meant it as a compliment.

"What I really like building is equipment for martial arts training. I helped my mom design a portable gravity chamber along with...." Trunks was about to continue when Kurenai put hand over his mouth.

"That's enough Trunks." Then she put her mouth close to his ear and whispered, "You want everyone outside the village to know you're from another world. You need to keep some things to yourself."

When she let go of him he crossed his arms and pouted, "Hmph, killjoy." He said under his breath.

"What was that?" Kurenai asked him.

"I said oh boy. I just can't wait to help with those towers Sensei."

Apparently she bought it as she just nodded and they continued on.

Later that night Team eight along with Carmine all stayed inside a capsule house Trunks had brought along with him. When Carmine had questioned about the house Kurenai had come up with the excuse that it had come from a summoning scroll. Personally Trunks didn't really see the point in lying about it but didn't really care.

The capsule house they were in had three bedrooms,each with two beds, and one bathroom all circling around a combined living room and kitchen. Carmine and Shino took one room. Kiba, Akamaru, and Trunks took the middle bedroom, and Kurenai and hinata took the one furthest left. Shino had said he was staying with Carimine to keep an eye on him and make sure he was safe but in reality he just couldn't sleep in the same room with Trunks. He always talks in his sleep and it was starting to get on Shino's nerves so it was either send a chakra bug to the demi sayian's vocal cords or sleep in another room. Fortunately for Trunks, he chose the latter.

Kiba was currently looking out of the bedroom with Akamaru staring at the full moon.

"Trunks, you got to come see this. I don't think I've ever seen the moon this big before."

Instead of looking towards the window Trunks just looked up at the ceiling.

"No thanks, whenever I stare at the full moon I get a real bad headache. Besides, if my tail grows back while I'm looking at it I'll turn into a giant ape. Trust me, it's better for everyone if I just go to bed."

Kiba cocked a eyebrow at him, "You're kidding about the whole giant ape thing right? I mean it sounds like something straight out of some crappy horror story."

Trunks gave a serious look. "Real life is often scarier than some made up story."

"I guess you're right. Oh, there was something I wanted to ask you."

Trunks gave him an annoyed look. "Talk quick, I'm tired."

"You keep calling yourself a sayian, I realize it must be some sort of special bloodline but I want to know more about it."

"It's a long story, ask me again in the morning and I'll tell you on the way."

The next morning Trunks was up early. After looking to make sure no one was looking at him he grabbed a capsule he kept around his neck and popped it to reveal a basic looking broadsword. While it wasn't that impressive looking it did have sentimental value. It was a sword given to him by a friend two years ago, a friend who was very much like an older brother to him. Since then he had practiced with it, becoming more proficient with it. It was also an outlet for him to relieve some stress when he didn't have anyone to spar with or anything mechanical to take apart.

He moved the sword in a rhythmic pattern doing katas at speeds that no ordinary human would be capable of and even fewer could perform without injury to themselves.

The next person to wake up was Shino and Unknown to Trunks he had come outside and was watching him practice.

"Not bad." Shino said causing Trunks to look in his direction.

"I didn't realize anyone was watching. I think my form was a little off."

"I remember you saying you could use a sword pretty well but this is the first time I've actually seen you with one and I'm curious. How about a quick spar."

"No offense Shino but you know I could run circles around you."

"Yes you do have amazing abilities but there's more than one way to win a sparring match. Let's hurry up, I want to get this over with before the others wake up."

Trunks gave a smirk that resembled his fathers, "Okay, It's your mistake, not mine." And with that he got into stance.

Sorry for taking so long on this short chapter. I've been really busy the past week. Next chapter Trunks gets to see just what Shino's bugs are capable of and Goten takes it upon himself to toughen up his teammates. If I get to it I'll also try to get the start of the chunin exams but I'm not promising anything. Next chapter will definitely be better and if your really lucky you might even get to see Naruto go Kyuubi.