A/N: Alrighty, back to the present! Warning of an OC here, hope it's an ok dude, he is special cause he doesn't use water style jutsu. Chapter updated!
Introducing Swordsmen No 2!
On a certain bridge, many workers continued to build while Team 7 watched out for danger… well mostly. Naruto was bored. May it be a statement or fact? Who knows, but watching a bunch of guys hammering, hauling, eating or talking was not very fun.
"I'll be back." He said to Kakashi and started walking of into the forest.
"Hey, oi, where are you going?" Kakashi shouted after him.
Naruto just waved a hand without turning, "I'll be back soon."
Once the bushes shrouded him from sight, red chakra, not too big to be felt but big enough covered him and he morphed into a small red fox. Ohhh, time to hunt! he thought merrily and bounded off.
A few moments later brought the sight of a small greyish hare running for its life, weaving expertly between the shrubs and plants. Hot on its trail was Naruto, not bothering to weave, instead charging right through everything.
He leapt, going in for the kill but was disrupted when a far off explosion echoed thorough his ears. He skidded to a halt, allowing the hare a second chance at life. What now? he thought and ran towards the explosion aka bridge.
Hmm, this mist. Crap. thought Kakashi. "Ok, everyone! Have a break, go home!" he shouted towards the workers who were quite confused but happy at the break.
"Kakashi-sensei, why did you do that?" Sakura asked. She was very confused, the builders just hade a break 30 minutes ago and she didn't sense any danger.
Sasuke was also confused, but quickly realised how strange the mist was.
The mist suddenly got thicker, they couldn't see beyond 5 metres. A chilling laugh was heard. "Hello Kakashi, we didn't get to finish our fight." The familiar voice of Zabuza said. "And I've brought a friend, Ichugo Toya, another member of the seven swordsmen"
The mist parted and two beings could be seen. The first was Zabuza Momochi, still wearing bandages on his face and torso, and carrying the hell of a sword on his back. Beside him was a man with a white t-shirt and black pants. On the left side of his hip was a sword with a black handle. His face was set in a sneer.
"Zabuza," Ichugo said, "are you telling me that you couldn't beat a jonin and two little brats? You're joking, right?"
Zabuza growled. "The jonin is Kakashi Hatake, the copy-nin, had a rough time with him. But the real threat was the fox boy, no idea where he went. Did you see what happened to Haku, well that was the demon."
"Wish I could 'o fought him. Someone needs to put that thing in its place." He said. He cracked his neck, the popping sounds clear to the ear, and unsheathed his sword.
"This should be fun." He snickered and swiped his sword. Kakashi grabbed his team and Tazuna and leapt away just before something white and incredibly fast hit the ground that caused an explosion.
"You can just sit here and relax while I kill them, ok?" Ichugo said to Zabuza.
"Fine." he muttered. "Just hurry up, would you?"
"Not a problem." and promptly swiped at Kakashi who was running up to them, forcing him to jump out of the way.
Great, where is Naruto? Kakashi thought as he tried to get an opening.
Meanwhile Naruto was also looking for an opening, but the man's wild swings were big and unpredictable. Luckily, the man was too dependent on his special sword, using the same swinging motion again and again, reminding him of the Sandaime's words about fighting… "It is stupid to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result…" Ha, seems like the old man is right.
After a particular swing taking his arm too far leaving his back exposed, Naruto leapt with chakra enhanced speed onto the man.
"What the…!"
Unfortunately, he only managed to rake his claws on his back before he jumped clear… right into Kakashi's reach. He swung with his kunai at Ichugo but he parried it with his sword. Naruto ran towards them, morphing back into his human form and together with Kakashi fought with Ichugo.
"Kuso…" he cursed seeing as he was clearly out-matched. He hastily moved back for space and stabbed his sword into the ground. He flashed through hand signs and picked it up again, which was glowing white.
"Two against one doesn't seem very fair, does it? Zabuza, looks like I'm gonna need you after all." He said.
"Thought you might. Do you want the demon?"
"Hell yeah!"
Naruto glared at the man. "It's those stupid cocky ones that die first in the ninja world."
A chuckle escaped his lips. "Fighting you will be a stroll in the park for me. You're just a little worm."
"Don't underestimate my power!" he yelled and started a battle of taijutsu.
Zabuza appeared in front of Kakashi. "You're my opponent!" and swung his sword. Kakashi leapt back.
"Ok, Zabuza, let's fight." He lifted his hitai-ate, Sharingan spinning rapidly. "I can see the future," Zabuza swings again and Kakashi blocks with a pair of kunai. "and your future, is death."
"Not today, Kakashi. Hidden mist jutsu." The thick mist enveloped the surrounding area, causing Naruto's battle to pause.
"You're not that great." Ichugo remarked.
"Could say the same thing to you." Red chakra swirled restlessly around him pushing back most of the fog that had accumulated around them. His eyes turned blood red, his claws sharpened, his teeth elongated and his whisker marks grew more pronounced.
"Getting serious now eh, demon. Well good, because I'm gonna get serious too." The sword once again glowed white and he jabbed towards Naruto, yelling, "White drill jutsu!" The white chakra spun around the sword and sped towards Naruto.
Naruto's chakra formed a barrier in front of him, stopping the attack, though the jutsu was powerful enough to push him back before dispersing. The chakra surrounded Naruto, forming a cloak with three tails.
"My turn." The three tails rose above his head, the tips pointing at a space above him. A dark red speak appeared and grew, twisting and spinning in an unmatched ferocity. (A/N: Like when he was fighting Orochimaru and went four tails.) When it was the size of a basketball, he reached up with his right hand, holding the ball with his chakra hand for the power in the ball was too great for human skin.
"Fox Soul!" he yelled and charged towards Ichugo.
A/N: I'm going to end it now, so what do ya think?? Comments and critism much appreciated, though the critism has to be reasonable. I would say Ja Ne but so many other people use it so I shouldn't. Bye, until next time. This chapter has been modified slightly, but not too much since this is where the writing gets a little better.