Okay disclaimer time: I don't own Naruto. Cause if I did the story would not have gone the way it did not that it wasn't good. In fact if you read the manga I was always impressed that Kishimoto did use screen tones even later in the manga he used a lot of hatching which it cool cause I personally hate drawing with hatching I like smooth shadows but I still love his work.
Naruto never went back on his word.
Naruto ran at Zabuza and he could hear Kakashi yelling in the background,
"NARUTO! STOP!"
But he didn't, he pushed himself faster ducking low and when he got close enough flipped using his foot to smack the guy in the face.
"GAH!"
Zabuza brought his knee up hard and slammed into the boy sending him again skidding across the field,
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING ATTACKING ALONE!? WE'RE JUST GENIN! WE DON'T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST…"
Sakura and Sasuke watched the blonde hair boy begin to stand and saw the headband that had previously been under Zabuza's foot in his hand.
"Hey freak with no eyebrows…"
Naruto stood as he began to tie back the headband that meant so much for him,
"Mark this down in your bingo book… the guy who shall become the protector of the leaf village, who will find a way to make those around him smile…"
Naruto looked up blood dripping from his mouth but a confident smile,
"Leaf village ninja!"
"NARUTO UZUMAKI!"
Naruto…
It was hard to tell sometimes but Naruto had an uncanny ability to give people hope.
"Alright listen up Sasuke i have a plan,"
Sasuke scoffed,
"Teamwork from you… isn't Sakura suppose to come up with the plans?"
Naruto grit his teeth,
"SHUTUP DUCKBUTT I CAN COME UP WITH GOOD IDEAS TOO!"
"What did i say about you calling me that…"
"NARUTO I WILL SERIOUSLY COME OVER THERE! DON'T CALL SASUKE NAMES!"
Zabuza looked on in confusion, where these kids just idiots?
Kakashi couldn't stop the smile.
All of a sudden the yelling stopped and Naruto smiled,
"Let's get wild"
"You little brats really think you can take me… are you really that stupid?"
Naruto missed when he disappeared and only saw Sasuke go flying backwards from impact. Then Zabuza followed it with an elbow slamming the young genin to the ground and stepping on him for good measure,
"SASUKE!"
Sakura yelled but Naruto was already ready
"Muti-shadow clone jutsu!"
Sasuke just managed to slip away as Naruto charged with his barrage of clones. But physical strength compared to Zabuza was no joke. The man only had to swing his sword once to dispel over half on the clones sending Naruto back.
But Naruto just smiled as he rummaged through his backpack,
"SASUKE!"
Sasuke was momentarily caught off guard but reflexes made him catch the blade anyway, and he understood instantly. Flipping upright he got into a stand and held the weapon at the ready,
"Demon wind shuriken…"
Sasuke jumped up with a twist,
"Windmill of shadows!"
And threw it with all his might,
"Stupid brats you think that will…!"
The shuriken flew right past the clone,
He's going after the real me?
"BUT THAT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH!"
Zabuza grabbed the shuriken but just then noticed a second one headed right for him,
A shadow of the first?!
"You…"
Zabuza jumped leaping right over it,
"Fools"
He dodged it?!
Sakura mentally screamed
We're going to die
Tazuna fretted. But Sasuke just smiled. A large pop sounded and everyone turned to the sound that resounded behind Zabuza to see Naruto with a Kunai in his hand,
"TAKE THIS!"
The kunai flew and had it been just anyone, the plan may have worked…
But Zabuza was an assassin. He had been killing since he was seven. How could he have killed the whole school population not having been a ninja if he couldn't guard against a simple plan like this?…
So as the Kunai got closer Zabuza ducked almost elegantly never taking his eyes off the unpredictable blonde that fell into the water…
"You… did you think such a simple plan would work?"
Naruto breached the water looking at the silent killer,
"You take me too lightly…"
Still Zabuza didn't see the fear in those blue eyes that continued to rub him wrong instead he saw them soften into a gentle and caring smile, like a mother would her child,
"Yea…"
The boy said softly,
"You really are strong"
Then the boy disappeared in a poof and Zabuza only just looked up to see the real him transform from another kunai from right above him.
Zabuza didn't have time to think as he jumped back unable to completely dodge the blade and receiving a decent sized cut on his forearm.
Red hot fluid anger caused the shuriken in his hand to spin as he raced toward the young wide eyed genin
THIS DAMN BRAT!
And as he brought the weapon down to kill the child it was stopped instantaneously,
"Oi"
A dangerous red eye barely hidden by dripping silver hair stared at him. His hand stopping the shuriken,
"Where do you think you're aiming at?"
Zabuza glared, this just wasn't his day,
"I'll kill you for that"