Hey there. Sorry for being a week late, I had way to much trouble for my own good... well anyways... my beta is more or less unreachable so there may be more then a my fair share of typos or anything of the sorts. Sorry for this, too. Currently I have some problems to get the story going as all the ideas for the wave arc are either shot or reserved for a later part... it's quite annoying... well anyways. Hope you enjoy it at least a little bit.

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto/Bleach.

Clashing Blades

They were walking peacefully down the dusty road. Kakashi was reading his novel, as usual. Sasuke was in the lead brooding, as usual. Sakura was fawning over him, as usual and Tazuna was secretly sweeting and trying to hide it... as usual. Oh and there was the puddle... everything was as usual. Well then, who's up for a change!?

"Ne Kakashi-sensei, did you know, that when you freeze over a puddle and rip it out of the ground, that their can be treasures inside?" Natsuki asked oh so innocently. Two certain mist-nins began sweeting. The puddle seemed unfazed thought. Kakashi looked up from his favorite story and glanced at the puddle ahead of them.

"Is that so? Then go ahead let's see what we may find." He said rather bored and resumed reading. Sasuke stopped his brooding, considered what was said before and deemed it wise to voice his opinion.

"Who told you that stuff? There's nothing like that in a stupid puddle. Hn... baka..." And he began brooding again. 'Yeah sure, treasures in a puddle, how's that supposed to work anyways...' Sakura was agreeing voicelessly. Thought she was curious, if only a bit. A teeny weeny little bit... but curious nontheless. Unfazed by the dating duo Natsuki walked over to the puddle, kneeled down and touched it with her finger. It froze instantly.

"Now..." She covered her fingers in a thin but hard layer of ice and rammed them into the frozen body of water, ancoring them. "... and up we go!" Yuki around her neck yelled for her while she ripped out a rather big block of water. Inside it were two shocked and effectively frozen mist-ninja.

"Not really a treasure... just some random guys hiding... how boring." A certain blond complained. "Just drop them nee-chan. You don't know where they have been before!" She giggled at that and the fact that her sister actually looked disgusted for a moment. "You're probably right... oi Uchiha! Catch!" She threw the block of frozen water and nin over to the mildly shocked Sasuke, who in turn recovered fast and crushed the block of ice with a solid kick. Sakura stared in amazemend. And started fawning over Sasuke a second later. The two mist-nin were out of it. Tazuna began sweating visibly.

"Now, Tazuna-san would you be so kind as to explain, why you of all people were target of two mist-nin?" Kakashi inquired lightly. Well as lightly as one can inquire something while pinning the other one down with one eye. The bridgebuilder shuddered, shuffled a bit, looked everywhere but at the five nins staring at him... and finally cracked.

"You know Gatou? Head of the Gatou shipment company?" He recived three nods and two negativ responses. Sighing he went for the fullblown explanation anyway...

Some time, and lot's of guilttrips, later...

"Hmm, well... this is quite a situation. It's my teams decision. Should we continue or back off?" Kakashi turned to his students. The two kitsune gave him a look, the you-know-our-answer-already kind of look, Sasuke grunted which loosely translated into an approval and Sakura examind Sasuke, then decided to answer positive aswell.

"It seems you'll have to bear with us a little while longer." Tazuna brightened up visibly after that statement, and happly led the way to his hometown again. After a short boat trip and a good kilometer further inland a strange mist started to gather alaround them. Natsuki sighed. "There we go, enter Zabuza, Demon of the Mist... at least I hope it's him..." And she would be right as a scream of "Duck!" accompanied by a giant cleaver soaring over their heads disturbed the silence around them. Kakashi and Zabuza had their little staredown followed by a rather funny looking game of cat and mouse involving a giant cleaver, some kunai and way more Mizu Bunshin the should be considered sane. Naru was just about to warn their sensei about the lake when he was already encased in the water prison. The mist-jounin chuckled darkly.

"Now let's have some fun. I can see two of your students carry swords? My, my. I should honor them and fight personally." With that he created at least twenty Mizu Bunshin to hold the prison while Zabuza himself in all his eyebrowless glory stepped onto the land once more. Hefting his giant cleaver, Kubikiri Houcho, he faced them.

"Naru, you know what to do..." Her sister nodded, and both drew their swords. "Freeze them over, Yukihen!" "Whip out, Ryuutan!" Zabuza was mildly impressed, but that was it. Sakura and Sasuke stared dumbfounded at the pure white sais and the burning chain blade. Naru let it separate and formed a protective circle around them. Letting the flames grow bigger, while the tip seemingly formed a dragons head.

"So you two have zanpakutohs... impressive. Who made them?" Natsuki stepped forward her sais held ready. The mist around her and her weapons slowly transformed into snow.

"I did." Her face was a mask of seriousness, she knew she had to go all out to be at least near his level. Her eyes began to change, the lightly glowing amber turning red and the telltale extensions of the pupil becoming visible. The sharingan was awake. The heat of Narus shikai had finally erased all the mist around them and the Demon of the Bloody Mist stared in amazment at the red eyes of his opponent.

"You're an Uchiha? I thought they were killed by one of their own... who are you?" Sasuke looked confused, what was this man rambling about. Why would he think that bluehaired annoyance would be one of his clansmen. What was going on behind that wall of fire! And why the hell did those two have such powerful weapons! They belonged to one such as him! He needed those, he was an avenger damnit! Why did no one make him such a weapon! He would have to demand one later.

Natsuki contemplated the question for a moment, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly but she refused to smirk. Damn this slight superior complex. Must be the eyes...

"My name? I am Yuki no Natsuki. And this is my partner, Yukihen." She indicated to her two sais. "Let's get this started... shall we?" With this she charged, and was gone in a blink. Zabuza blinked a bit then blocked the incoming strikes, thought mostly effortlessly.

"You're good kit, but not good enough! You really think you stand a chance against one of the seven swordsmen of the mist?!" He lashed out at her, trying to take her head, but she blocked being flung against a tree in the process. The strength this man possessed was insane! She charged again using the tree as a springboard and doing a good impression of the Inuzukas Tsuga she was shooting at him. It began to snow slightly. With the flat surface of his blade he batted her away. At least he tried. They clashed and a small powerstruggle began. Sparks were flying everywhere, while the blades grinded against eachother. But Natsuki was soon sent flying again. The snowing increased. Zabuza began to notice how the ground was slowly covered in a white blanket. This probably wasn't good. Natsuki was panting already, this was bad. The force behind his blocks alone was enough to crack her ice coverings. Too maintain them and letting it snow was draining her impressive chakra reserves rather fast. Damn that forth tail to open up just before this stupid mission, her control was serverly screwed, she could be happy that the ice on her body was hard enough to prevent her bones from breaking. And she knew that, at the moment, he was just toying with her. She charged again this time they were locked. Zabuza, if anything, seemed amused.

"You're really good kit, I give you that. How about we take it up a notch?" He started to move. Probably only due to her extra tomoe was she able to see were the Demon of the Mist was going, she chewed on her lip while dodging his blows. She was still to weak... way to weak. She had to start now or else be finished. Zabuza was just about to slash her across the back when a moment later the only thing left were the snowflakes around him. She was gone... or so he thought as his instincts screamed at him to move forward. He did just that. The two sais missed him by a millimeter! How had she done that?! She shouldn't be fast enough to do that! He glared at her, but saw her vanish again. The tables had turned. She would vanish only for him to dodge a blow from behind. Then she'd vanish again. What the HELL was going on here? This blasted snow was going on his nerves, even the heat of the blonds sword didn't seem to faze the snow in the slightest. It was like she was switch-... that's it!

"Nice trick little one. To be able to replace yourself with such small objects... of course these are dripping with your chakra... so it's easier. Still an impressive trick! This is going to be fun! Soar! Kubikiri Houcho!!!" 'SHIT!!!' was all Natsuki had to think before a surge of chakra blew her back several feet. The blade itself didn't change much. The handle got a bit longer... oh and of course their seemed to be two blades attached to each side of the handle now. Making the giant weapon even more impressive. Then he threw it at her with frightening accuracy. Thought one didn't need to be accurate with a blade this big. It was easily twice it's former sice now and was roaring through the air like an angry dragon. She switched places again only to recive a vicious kick to the back.

"Not so fast sweety, where do you think you're going?!" Zabuza roared while she was already flying in the waiting arms of a returning Kubikiri. Her sais, smashing against the sharp blade she was forced to somersault to maintain her balance. Rosing higher still spinning she was just about to switch again to get near Zabuza when he kicked her down. The blade was still soaring through the air, already on a new path and ready to give the kitsune girl a warm welcoming should she decide to smash into the ground. She managed to switch again, but the pure white snow was tainted with red. She had a big slash on her left tight. 'Shit... now my speed is down the drain... Here goes nothing, I can't even get a hold of this battle anymore much less win...'

"Tell me Zabuza, why's such a skilled fighter working for scum like Gatou?! Why waste your talent for him?!"

The demon of the mist hesitated slightly before slamming his fist in the gut of the foxgirl. Again bringing her on a collision path with his weapon. Twisting in midair she was able to block the roaring hunk of metal and instead of cleaving her in half only nicked her right calve. Nicked while dealing with a sword of this proportions was still quite a nice, deep and profusely bleeding cut. She crashed into the ground leaving a small crater.

Natsuki scrambled to her feet again thought swaying slightly. Freezing her wounds shut to heal them later she was at least able to prevent to much bloodloss, but it was draining. The vixen faced her enemy again, he was holding his blade now, having caught it while she was standing up. Zabuza was now rotating it with one hand while maintaining his balance with the other. Pointedly ignoring that his blade was easily carving a deep cut into the ground with no effort whatsoever.

"He... he's got..." he broke of as something dark pulsed. Black whisps of chakra were emanting from his neck while his eyes grew dark. The Demon of the Mist was just about to charge as senbons pierced his neck. 'Haku?! What's he doing?! I thought he would help when Zabuza would lose... but this hasn't happened before...'

Natsuki was expecting him to drop down and be brought away by Haku when the second unexpected event occured. He simply vanished in a dark surge of chakra while Haku was blown away and smashed against a tree.

"Naru! GRAB HIM!" bellowed Kasei on top of his charge. She nodded and let the Ryuutans head crash into the tree pinning the fake hunter against it. The waterprison had dissolved already and Kakashi was back on his feet by the time Natsukis snow was gone. Haku was dazed still pinned by Ryuutan and Natsuki was sheathing her sealed sword.

"Well... that could have gone better." The bluehaired mused aloud while she watched her legs being healed by ice blue whisps of chakra. Kakashi just stared at her for a moment. Then at the hunter-nin. "Naru, let him go. We won't risk a war with Kiri because you see it fit to kill one of their hunters for interferring with your sisters fight..." He sighed. This was going to be a pain in the ass once the paperwor- "Sorry sensei, can't do that. He's got the scent of Zabuza all over him. That's a fake."

Well... good news for him. Someone to torture a bit and on top of that, no paperwork!... well not as much at least.

Haku was meanwhile coming to it, and rather annoyed at the fact of being pinned against a tree by a awfully hot dragon. Best of all, he couldn't manipulate any water. Not one bit would move. Something was defenitly wrong.

"What's up Haku-chan." He was greeted by an overly happy bluehaired vixen. For someone who lost as badly as she did, she seemed rather happy. Well to late to whine now. He sighed, and turned his head to his right were she was standing, grinning from ear to ear.

"I think we'll spend some quality time together." She continued grinning, he stared, she grinned more... he wasn't going to like it. That's when his mask was removed.

"Mou, he looks like a girl... You sure that's the right one? Should we check to be sure?" The blonde to his left spoke up, still holding the handle of her sword that seemed to be the dragon holding him. The fox on her head seemed to be smirking. "You just want to see him naked, don't you Naru-chan?" He said teasingly, while Naru now rivaled her dragon in color. "I do NOT! Why would I want to see some girly man naked! Ugh... that's probably like seeing nee-chan just without breasts or something..." Natsukis eye twitched.

"Are you implying that I look a bit boyish or something?" She asked with as much innocence as possible, which wasn't much at the moment. Naru had an impish grin. "Never crossed my mind..." It was Natsukis turn to smirk now. "You DO realize that we're twins don't you? So this goes for you, too!"

Now before those two could start a full blown bickering, Haku was developing a rather impressive eye twitch himself. "Would you two stop already!? At least kill me! But if this insanity continues count me out!"

Both vixens nailed him with a glare. "You be silent prettyboy. You're not getting out of this that easily. Start explaining what happened to Zabuza back there. This wasn't normal at all." Natsuki demanded. The darkhaired boy just sighed again. This was even worse then Zabuza on a sugar high... these two might be his sanitys end...

"Could you, at least, let me down? This prison is rather hot." They both blinked, appearingly totally ignoring the fact that he was STILL pinned to a tree by a giant burning dragon.

"Hm yeah, that's agreeable. Just a moment." Natsuki formed a short sequence of handseals and began gathering chakra in her palm. The kanji for 'Chakra' began to appear glowing in a bright skyblue color. Carefully aiming on were she knew Hakus heart should be she place her palm on his chest. Drawing back her arm small strings of chakra were attached to the area she had touched moments before. Now slamming her still glowing palm on the same place again a sealing pattern spread across Hakus body, only for a moment, before it retreaded back, forming the kanji again. This time in a dark black and pretty much permanent color.

"Okay, let him go Naru-chan." While the dragon slowly backed off Natsuki grabbed Haku who was about to collapse while he glared at her weakly. "Sorry sweety, we don't want you to run away now, do we?" With that he blacked out. Kakashi was again staring in disbelieve. His so called student just performed a formidable version of a chakra containment seal. Without as much as a thought as it seemed. This was plainly insane! Then she blacked out, too. Not so insane anymore. Her hand was smoking and some parts of it were burned heavily. So she had taken any extra chakra that might be freed in the process as damage to her body... that was pretty risky. But it worked or so he hoped. Throwing Haku over his shoulder and watching Naru carry her sister bridalstyle, they finally resumed their way. Sasuke and Sakura were still staring in amazment, thought Sasukes thoughts soon turned darker as he contemplated how he would get his teammate to make him a weapon like that. But she had to comply anyway, for he was an Uchiha and deserved this kind of weaponry.

Once Haku woke up, he found himself in a world of darkness. Only his ears seemed to work properly and what they heard disturbed him a bit.

"C'mon, I know you like him! You were way to eager getting the guardshifts. You're staring at him the whole time... stripping him with your eyes... my what a little pervert you are. See! You're blushing! It has to be true!" The next thing he heard was a rather loud crash and laughter followed by crys of dispair.

"Stop it already nee-chan! I don't like him one bit! Who would like a prettyboy with no body whatsoever! He's just as thin and lithe as girl... he got way to soft skin and looks more like a beautiful woman then anything else anyways!"

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say. Well, I'll grab us something to eat, after that it's workout time. We can't let or clones do all the work alone now can we?" He listened to the footsteps of a person leaving what he assumed to be his room. Then there was silence again. He thought he was spared further embarrasment coming from either of those two but his ears soon caught mumbling.

"Stupid nee-chan... must be Kaseis influence... this lousy no good is bugging me the whole day already..." She sighed and looked at Haku. A pale feminine face. Darkbrown hair. The perfect pretty boy. She crawled over to him staring into his face, being mere centimetres away.

"Hmm... I wonder... what was your life like to end up with someone like Zabuza or Gatou... you're not much older than I am... who are you... Haku-kun..."

She had closed her eyes now, resting her forehead on his, checking if the seal was affecting his health and giving him a fever. That tended to happen, once the chakra was mostly sealed off the bodys defences went highwire. Of course that had nothing to do with the fact that she kinda liked the feel of his skin on her own... damn that pretty boy... making her feel all fuzzy when she was near him. He was, in a way she couldn't explain, a lot like her sister. At least from the feeling she got from him. That was strange... what was going on?

She opened her eyes to gaze at him again, only to fall into the depths of chocolate brown eyes. Eyes that shone with embarrasment at the moment, but where hiding something else entirely. Something dark... something that shouldn't be seen in eyes like those. Finally it registered in her brain that Haku was very much awake and looking at her while she was resting her forehead on his. Jumping back and banging her head on the ceiling in the process she scurried in front of the door blushing like mad.

Making a very good impression of one Hyuuga Hinata she began to form something that might have been a coherent sentence at one point of it's creation: "Nee-chan wants to speak with you, so does Kakashi-sensei. But I guess nee-chan comes first. Anyways she wants to question you about somethings and stuff... and well... she'll be back in a bit and start asking... so well uh..." The rest was mumbled away while she just stood there not really sure if she should break into a run or keep her ground.

The blond kitsune was thankfully rescued by her sister, who choose this moment to re-enter the room. She smirked once she saw both teens blushing and Naru looking as uneasy as ever. "What's up? Did I walk in on something? Didn't now you were that fast with your lips nee-chan." Narus face just grew redder with every second. "I am NOT!!!" Ignoring her for now, Natsuki looked at Haku, all mirth vanishing, she began with her leadquestion: "Tell me Haku, what is going on in wave?"

I'm not exactly sure when I will post next, seeing as spring break is closing in and the teachers want to collect some marks... bleh... we'll see what happens.

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