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SHIT JUST GOT SERIOUS

"You appear to be Sharingan Kakashi…" Zabuza started to speak in a rough, scratchy voice. I closed my eyes half-way, listening carefully as his voice sounded like someone who had been fighting for years. There was raw instinct and brutality, but a kind of resigned tone to it at the same time. "Sorry, but…the old man's mine."

I could feel Tazuna's fear peak behind me. Standing next to Kakashi, I was able to sense the tension running through him and his hand tightened slightly over the headband, though I don't think anyone else noticed.

Naruto had a confused look, probably wondering what the Sharingan was. Sakura looked the same, while Sasuke's eyes were wide as he heard his clan's bloodline limit in his sensei's title. My eyes flickered to him as he spoke "Surround and protect Tazuna-san. Do not enter the fight. That's the team work here."

Can I do something here? But as soon as I looked into Zabuza's eyes, I realized where I stood. Unadulterated fear coursed through my veins as I gazed into the cold eyes of the killer. 'No, I can't be scared now. I can do this.' With those thoughts, I exhaled slowly and let my chakra billow out.

I could see Zabuza frown slightly as I stared back with a determined gaze. No way are you going to scare me again, buddy. "Zabuza first…" Kakashi spoke as he lifted the headband. "Fight me." 'Finally! It takes almost a whole manga chapter to just lift that?!' I yelled in my mind, almost sweat dropping comically.

But unfortunately, when I looked at Naruto, I accidently let slip a small snort, which I hurriedly turned into a cough. His confused, goofy expression almost set me off. Kakashi's Sharingan eye swiveled to me exasperatedly and I gave him a sheepish look.

"Ah…I already get to see the famous Sharingan. I'm honored." Zabuza drawled. His powerful chakra was flickering all over the place, already giving me an idea of his strength.

Finally Naruto burst out "Sharingan! Sharingan! What the hell is that?!"

"Sharingan…" Sasuke began and everyone turned to him, besides me. I could sense something else and it nagged me at the back of my mind, trying to remember. He soon finished the explanation with "But that's not the only ability that the Sharingan has."

"He he, exactly…That's not all." Zabuza began, his voice taking on a creepier edge. "What's even scarier is…that you can copy your opponent's techniques once you see them."

Everyone was surprised, besides me, Kakashi and Sasuke. Meanwhile, I was having an inner battle. 'What can I do to participate? Should I prevent Kakashi from being captured in the water sphere? But how will I do that?! I'm a Genin level ninja against an S-class missing nin! Ugh! Think, think!'

Another chakra signature hit me like a slap to the face. Wildly looking about, I tried to pinpoint the location of the other signature while Zabuza explained his bingo book information on Kakashi.

The two veteran ninjas noticed my preoccupation and glanced at me. I had a frantic expression as I realized 'What the heck! Haku's here already?! So he was watching all along?! What do I do?'

Kakashi raised an eyebrow, silently asking me what's wrong. Sasuke was looking at me as well. Hesitantly, I went on my tiptoes and whispered in Kakashi's ear "There's someone else here as well. But he won't attack immediately. I don't know if he's hostile." I lied about the last part as I had separate plans for Haku. Alone.

Kakashi nodded and focused on Zabuza, who cast me a perplexed look. Between his mulling over Kakashi's Sharingan, Sasuke's hand touched my back slightly, asking what I relayed to Kakashi. I shook my head and looked to the front.

"Now, let's end all the talking. I have to kill that old man." Zabuza perched on the tree branch. "But it seems I must beat you first, Kakashi." Suddenly, he disappeared from the branch and appeared on the water. He began releasing a high amount of chakra as he muttered his jutsu "Ninpou…Hidden mist no jutsu."

Everyone started to panic as he disappeared. "He's gone!" Sakura exclaimed. "Thank you, Miss Obvious!" I snapped and tried to locate him.

I felt Sakura chakra turn hostile against me, but I paid no attention as Kakashi said "He'll come after me first. Momochi Zabuza…as a member of the hidden mist…he was known as an expert in silent killing." Team 7 gulped anxiously as Kakashi continued "You don't even noticed until you're already dead. It's not like I can use the Sharingan perfectly. You guys, be careful."

As the mist got thicker, Zabuza's eerie voice travelled through "8 choices…Liver, lungs, spine, clevical vein, neck vein, brain, kidneys, heart. Which one should I go after?"

I opened my eyes and smirked confidently "Dude, that's gross. You should have been a surgeon." Everyone turned to me in shock as I lazily fingered a kunai. Quick as lightening, I flicked it into the mist, which was accompanied by a hiss.

"You girl…you can sense me…" his voice floated out.

"You're not much of an S-class missing nin if a Genin like me can find you." I grinned at Kakashi, who seemed to have something akin to pride in his eyes.

"Akemi, I need you to be my eyes here. The Sharingan, it seems, isn't as good as your chakra sensing skills" Kakashi spoke, gesturing me to stand beside him.

"Ah…so the girl is a chakra sensor. You have a skilled one with you, Kakashi." Zabuza laughed. I slapped my forehead. Nice one, Kakashi. Now he knows what I can do!

My attention was diverted as Kakashi made a hand sign. Immediately realizing the jutsu, I turned to Sasuke, who was on the verge of passing out. As he raised the kunai, I gave him a sound smack "Baka! What happened to the Ice cube-chan I know?!"

Startled, he looked up at me with wide eyes and Kakashi spoke "Don't worry Sasuke. I'll protect you guys even if it kills me. Thanks for bringing him to his senses, albeit using an odd method, Akemi."

"You got it, sensei." I smirked and turned when a hand tugged on my sleeve.

"Thank you…but why?" Sasuke asked. I merely grinned and whispered "Whatcha think?" He smiled back slightly and nodded. My eyes flicked to the deeper part of the mist, where the real Kakashi was hiding and blinked slowly, letting him know that I knew what was happening.

"I don't let…my comrades die." Kakashi's clone in front of us smiled and spoke. Then, Zabuza's voice rang out "WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!"

But as soon as Kakashi had stopped speaking, I turned around and threw a kunai straight in the middle of team 7's formation. Zabuza's clone, who had just formed there, burst into water as my kunai sunk into its head.

As I had thrown the kunai, I had yelled out to the Kakashi clone "Another one!" and saw the water clone flit over to Zabuza, who tried to attack and slashed at Kakashi, only for him to fall into a puddle of water. Zabuza's eyes widened as he realized that Kakashi had copied his Water clone jutsu, that too in the mist. "Don't move. It's over." The real Kakashi appeared behind Zabuza, holding a kunai to his neck.

Zabuza smirked and said "Hehe…very good. But you won't defeat me with your monkey-like imitations. At that time, you had already copied my jutsu and made your clones say those words." He referred to earlier. "…to attract my attention, while the real you stayed in the mist and watched. Nice plan. Looking at the moves the girl did, she seemed to be aware of your plan. When did you tell her about it?"

Zabuza's gaze turned to me and I stared back impassively, a hint of a smirk forming on my lips. "I didn't. She figured it out." Kakashi spoke, bragging a little.

"Her skills must be good if she sensed my clone arriving before time…" Zabuza pondered, muttering to himself. But before he could say anything, I flung another kunai at Zabuza's head.

Kakashi stepped back in surprise as he burst into water and using my teleportation jutsu, I appeared behind Kakashi and blocked the real Zabuza's blow as he tried to catch Kakashi unawares.

"That one was a clone too!" Naruto exclaimed and pointed.

However, my puny kunai had no chance against Zabuza's sword bearing down upon me, so Kakashi pulled me out of harm's way and dodged the gigantic sword.

"Good one." Kakashi muttered low and pulled me up. I exhaled tiredly and gave a thumbs-up. But before I could turn back my attention to Zabuza, his leg came up and kicked Kakashi soundly. Unfortunately, I was standing behind Kakashi and he knocked into me, therefore sending us both into the river.

"SENSEI!" Naruto yelled while at the same time, Sasuke yelled "AKEMI!"

Kakashi pulled me up along with him, and I spat out a fountain of water, cursing in between "Darn that stupid peach…" I coughed and caught Kakashi staring at me with an odd expression.

"Remind me why I took you in my team…" he sighed.

My eyes widened as I remembered something and quickly threw out Kakashi from the water as it began to feel heavy. "Heh fool…Water prison no jutsu!" Zabuza appeared behind us as I felt myself get surrounded by a dome of water.

Everyone gasped as they saw the jutsu trap me. Oh don't worry guys, I'm surprised as well. HOW THE HECK COULD I LET SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN?!

"Well, I planned to catch Kakashi, but you'll do as well, little girl." Zabuza sneered, holding one hand inside the water prison.

'LITTLE GIRL?!' I tried to shout, but it only came out as angry bubbles. He seemed amused at my anger.

"Oh no…Akemi!" Naruto ran towards us, but was stopped by Kakashi as Zabuza's water clone popped out.

"Now that this brat is useless, I'll deal with you Kakashi." Zabuza must have smiled creepily because his bandages stretched over his mouth.

"Sensei! Handle the clone! You three! Take Tazuna and run!" I shouted through the water dome, a few bubbles escaping as well.

"But-but Akemi! We can't leave you here!" Naruto yelled. He flew back as Zabuza's clone kicked him hard.

"Hehe…wearing those headbands and acting like ninja. A real ninja is someone who has survived various brushes with death." Zabuza's clone snickered and faced off with Kakashi, who was trying to get close enough to dispel the water prison.

Sasuke flipped out his kunai and said "Sakura, stay with Tazuna-san." And started running towards me, when another, god darn, clone popped up and blocked Sasuke's path.

I let out an audible growl with a few bubbles as accompaniment. I didn't feel so badass anymore. Grunting slightly, I found that I could move my arms slightly. As luck would have it, my hand weren't as far from each other as I expected.

Sasuke was thrown back by Zabuza's clone and Kakashi rushed to his aid. "Sasuke! Kakashi sensei!" I called out and once I had their attention, I quickly mouthed the words 'Keep him busy'.

At first they were confused, but as I managed to bring my hands together, understanding dawned upon them and they nodded slightly. I was ready; all I had to do was to wait for Naruto bright idea. Everyone was distracted as Naruto charged at Zabuza's clone and Kakashi yelled "No! Don't!"

Everybody winced as he went flying back on Zabuza's attack. I became briefly irritated as Sakura began shouting "What were you thinking?! We genin have no chance against him! What are you doing, attacking him all by yourself?!"

She stopped talking as she saw the head band clutched in Naruto's hands as he got up. The next lines, however, make me choke with laughter.

"Hey you eyebrow-less freak…" Naruto grit out, not noticing the vein popping out on Zabuza's temple. Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura merely gave him blank looks, wondering what he was doing. "Put this in your handbook. The man who will one day become Hokage…" Naruto tied the headband firmly and yelled triumphantly "Leaf village ninja…UZUMAKI NARUTO!"

I smiled indulgingly at that declaration as everyone had surprised expressions. Fired up, Naruto spoke up "Sasuke listen!"

"What is it?"

"I have a plan."

"Pft…Team work from you?" Sasuke tried to keep the surprise out of his tone.

"Now…Let's get wild!" Naruto gave a cool pose and a grin that belonged to the protagonist of a series…which he was.

"A lot of arrogance but…do you stand a chance?" Zabuza asked rhetorically. Suddenly, Zabuza's clone was engaged in a furious fight with Kakashi. Sasuke jumped back next to Naruto and nodded to him. Kakashi shouted quickly "What are you doing?! Run away! Our duty is to protect Tazuna-san! Did you forget that?!" due to his momentary distraction, Zabuza swung his sword and caught Kakashi badly with it.

A mute scream left my mouth as I saw Kakashi flop to the ground with a huge gash at his side. "KAKASHI SENSEI!" all of us shouted together. Naruto looked downright pissed while Sasuke glared fiercely. A whimper left Sakura as she ran to his side. "Sensei!" tears ran down her scared face as she saw Kakashi in that state. I couldn't blame her; After seeing his powerful skills, seeing him fall was like seeing a last hope vanish.

I really hope this hasn't affected Naruto's confidence in any manner. If only I could be out of here soon…I clutched my fist tightly and looked at Kakashi sensei. 'Don't worry, you pervert. We'll handle things here and you can go back to reading your books.'

Looking back to the battle, I saw Naruto and Sasuke getting ready for their move while Sakura dragged Kakashi back to Tazuna's side.

However, they weren't the only ones about to go wild. Being stuck in a water ball does things to you, ya know? It makes you do reckless things…what? You think I haven't been doing anything before this mission? Oh, how wrong you are…I smiled secretly to myself and readied myself. Chakra sensing isn't going to be my only specialty. I'll make sure of that.

And that's a wrap! Wait for my next one! And review for heaven's sakes...my aim is to reach 100, if not 1000. Plus, I always appreciate your views and ideas!

Blu