Chapter 10: Battle at the bridge
Disclamier: I don't own Naruto
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As the teams walked down the path toward the bridge, they were all in silent contemplation. Each one of them was mentally preparing themselves for the fight ahead. They had no idea what was going to come at them, but they were determined to meet it head on and to protect the bridge builder.
Shino suddenly stopped and tilted his head to the side as if he was listening to something.
"Sensei we may have a problem." He said, causing the entire group to pause and give their attention to the Aburame.
"What is it Shino?" Kurenai asked curiously.
"I believe that Inari and Tsunami are in trouble." He replied.
"What?!" Tazuna yelled in fear.
"What are you basing this off of Shino." Kurenai asked.
"The insects that I left on them are releasing pheromones, and I commanded them to do so only if there was a problem." Shino said calmly.
"Why did you put insects on them?" Kiba asked.
"I have insects on all of the people that I want to keep track of." Shino said calmly.
"You have insects on all of us?!" Sakura yelled as she checked herself.
"No only on Naruto, Hinata, Kiba, Kurenai-sensei, Tazuna, Inari, And Tsunami." Shino replied.
"This is a moot point at the moment. The real issue is what we are going to do about this." Kakashi said.
"This could be a trap to spilt us up." Kurenai said.
"Possibly but at the same time we can't ignore this." Kakashi said.
"Agreed, Hinata and Shino go and see what the problem is." Kurenai ordered.
"Naruto, you go as well." Kakashi said to the surprise of many.
"Hey what about me? Why does Naruto get to go?" Kiba asked angrily.
"Shino has to go because he is the only one who knows where they are. Hinata needs to go so that she can keep a look out in case that this is a trap. Naruto is going because they may need a heavy hitter to get them out of there quickly. You are staying Kiba because we may need your nose to alert us of any enemies up ahead." Kurenai explained.
As the three genin prepared to leave Naruto looked at Kakashi in confusion. His sudden change of heart was suspicious to the young ninja.
Kakashi met Naruto's gauze with a calm one of his own. He was man enough to admit when he had made a mistake and he wasn't about to let this mistake continue to affect the life of his sensei's son. Naruto belong with Shino and Hinata and he was done standing in their way.
"Go Naruto, go with your team." He said calmly.
Naruto gave him a huge smile of thanks and ran to catch up with Hinata and Shino.
After watching them leave, Kurenai came up behind Kakashi and gave him a small smile of her own.
"Are you finally letting the past go?" She asked.
"I'm working on it." Kakashi replied as they continued on their way.
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"Shino how far away are we?" Naruto asked as he and his friends raced down the path at full speed.
"From what I can tell, we should be at their location in a few minutes." He replied.
Naruto gave Hinata a look that didn't need deciphering. They had known each other long enough so that she could tell what he wanted her to do.
"Byakugan." She said as she activated her bloodline and scanned ahead.
"Naruto-kun, I can see a few chakra signatures up ahead. They all look a bit low so I don't think that they are enemy shinobi." She said.
"They must be bandits sent to capture or kill Inari and Tsunami." Shino added.
"We have to rescue them." Naruto said as the three increased their speed.
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Inari was close to tears as he and his mother were lead down the road by the bandits. There were fifteen of them and they had come when both Inari and Tsunami were returning from the market. Inari had frozen in front of the men and was too scared to move. Tsunami had threatened to kill herself if they harmed her son so they took both of them.
Inari was ashamed at himself. He had hoped to be able to protect his mother but in the end he was simply too afraid to even put up a fight. He felt as if he was a complete failure.
"Hey let them go."
All parties present looked back down the road and saw Naruto, Shino, and Hinata standing there.
"Well if it isn't the punk from a week ago. I still remember what you did to me and now you're going to pay." yelled one of the bandits.
The group split up into five men cells and attempted to separate the three genin.
Naruto, Hinata, and Shino all split up and attacked the men.
Naruto didn't even draw his sword as the five men coming at him were swiftly dispensed with using a few well placed blows.
Hinata had an even easier time with her five as she knocked them all out with a series of kicks.
Shino stood calmly as the five men facing him circled around him.
"You think you can beat us brat?" One yelled at him.
"No, I think that I already have." He said calmly as he adjusted his shades.
"Ha, get him." The bandit said as three of his partners fell unconscious.
"What?" he yelled as he too began to feel weak and fell to his knees. It was then that he noticed the insects that were crawling on his skin.
"Like I said, I have already defeated you." Shino said calmly as the bandit lost consciousness.
After tying them up, Naruto released Tsunami and Inari. Inari kept his head down and began to cry.
"What's wrong?" Naruto asked.
"I couldn't do anything. I was so scared of them that when they first showed up I just froze. You must think that I am really pathetic." Inari said.
"No I don't. It's natural to feel fear, but just make sure that you don't let it control you. Besides you're still young, you will get stronger in time, and I'm sure that you will make your mom and dad proud." Naruto said as he placed a comforting hand on Inari's shoulder.
Inari looked up at Naruto but could find no deception in either his voice or eyes.
"Thanks Naruto." Inari said.
"Don't mention it, come on let's get you guys back to your house." Naruto said as they began the journey back to their house.
"I hope that the others are okay." Hinata said with concern.
"Don't worry Hinata-chan, they can take care of themselves." Naruto said giving her a reassuring look.
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As Kurenai, Kakashi, Tazuna and the genin came upon the bridge; Kakashi could feel an ominous sensation creeping down his spine.
'I have a bad feeling about this.' He thought.
His fears were realized when they arrived at the bridge only to see that all of the workers were either knocked out or dead.
"What happened here?!" Tazuna yelled as he knelt beside a worker who was still clinging onto consciousness.
"Tazuna t-they came out of nowhere." He said as he coughed up blood.
"Take it easy, who was it?" Tazuna asked softly.
"A-a demon, he was a d-demon." The man said before passing out.
The ninja immediately went on the defensive and prepared themselves for whatever could have caused this. They didn't have to wait long as an unnatural mist settled over the bridge.
"A demon huh, he got that right." Zabuza said as he walked out of the mist with Haku and the demon brothers beside him.
"Zabuza Momochi." Kakashi said.
"Who's that?" Sakura asked, slightly afraid of the strange man who appeared with the enemy ninja from before as well as the shorter ninja with a hunter ninja mask on.
Kakashi then told them about Zabuza Momochi. He had come from the Hidden Mist village and was one of the seven swordsmen of the Mist village. As a child he had slaughtered an entire class of graduating ninja. He was said to be a master of the silent killing technique and could kill a person so swiftly and silently that they wouldn't become aware that they had died until they were in the afterlife. He was known as the "Demon of the Mist Village".
The genin were shaken when they had heard this and were reacting differently.
Sakura was visibly shaking with fear at the prospect of fighting this man.
Kiba had lost his initial confidence and was now trying to compose himself.
Sasuke showed no outward sign that he was affected by this news, but internally he was as shaken as Sakura.
All three of the genin were facing their first jonin level enemy and the fact that he was a particularly deadly one didn't help them at all.
"I am flattered that you know so much about me, Kakashi Hatake also known as the Copy-Cat ninja." Zabuza said.
"You, however, I don't know. Just who are you?" Zabuza asked looking at Kurenai.
"My name is Kurenai Yuhi." Kurenai said as she slipped further into her combat stance.
"Thank you, I make it a habit to know the names of the ninja that I have killed." Zabuza said as he released a large amount of killing intent toward them.
Kakashi and Kurenai, as veteran shinobi, were not affected. The genin, however, were nearly brought to their knees by the amount of killing intent sent their way.
"Stand firm. Kurenai and I will not let anything happen to you." Kakashi said to them commandingly.
"Very big words Kakashi." Zabuza said as he pulled out his sword and slipped into his kenjutsu stance.
"Kurenai, I will take Zabuza, you take the demon brothers, and Sasuke and Kiba take the fake hunter ninja, Sakura you protect Tazuna." Kakashi said.
"Roger" they all yelled.
"Let's go somewhere private." Zabuza said as he fled into the mist with Kakashi close behind.
Kurenai walked up to the demon brothers and prepared to fight.
Sasuke and Kiba nodded to each other and prepared to face off against Haku.
Sakura pulled Tazuna back to that they wouldn't get in the way.
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Kurenai prepared a genjutsu when the demon brothers fell back into the mist. Kurenai was startled for a moment and prepared herself for their attack. She couldn't pull off a genjutsu unless she could see her opponents, thus she had to wait until they made their move.
Zabuza had not only trained himself, but he had also trained the demon brothers in the past week to be able to fight in the dense mist. Once finding out that Kurenai was a genjutsu expert he trained them so that they wouldn't fall prey to her techniques. The best way was to simply stay in the mist so that she couldn't see them, and then attack when her guard was down.
Kurenai looked all around her for some clue as to the brothers' location, but all she could see was more dense mist.
Suddenly, the demon brothers attacked from behind her. Using her quick reflexes, she was able to dodge their claws and placed them both in a genjutsu. Unfortunately, the brothers dissolved into water once she landed a killing blow to them. Shocked at this, Kurenai placed herself on the defensive as the severity of the situation took hold.
'This isn't good. I can't tell where they are, nor can I tell the difference between a clone and the real thing. I can't afford to waste chakra on clones, but at the same time I need to take them out quickly before they can scratch me with those poison claws of theirs.' She thought grimly.
Suddenly she had to dodge shuriken thrown at her and then she barely avoided an attack by the brothers again. Once again, however, when she attacked them they turned into water and dispersed.
If things continued as they were then she would eventually run out of chakra, or fatigue would set in and she would be caught by their poison claws. Things were not looking good for Kurenai.
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Sauske and Kiba were looking at the strange ninja in front of them warily.
"Just who are you anyway?" Sasuke asked.
Haku for her part simply remained silent.
This infuriated Sasuke as he hated to be ignored.
"Fine then I'll take rip that mask off and make you talk." He said as he ran to punch Haku.
Haku grabbed his wrist and flipped him over her shoulder, causing Sasuke to land on his back.
"Hey, we're supposed to be working together. You can't beat this guy alone." Kiba said as Akamaru barked his consent.
Sasuke simply grumbled and went to stand beside Kiba once again.
"Fine, let's get this over with." Sasuke said.
"Let's go Akamaru." Kiba said as he threw a food pill to his dog.
Akamaru ate the pill and his fur suddenly turned a deep red.
"Man-Beast clone" Kiba said as Akamaru turned into a perfect copy of Kiba.
"Sasuke we'll hit low, you hit high." Kiba said as he and Akamaru ran toward Haku.
"Fang over Fang" Kiba said as he and Akamaru began to spin and formed two tornados that made their way toward Haku.
Haku jumped over the attacks as Sasuke saw his opportunity.
"Fire style: Fireball Jutsu" Sasuke said as he unleashed a large fireball at Haku.
'He's in the air so there's no way that he can dodge. (an. They don't know that Haku is a girl yet.)
"Water style: Water geyser jutsu" Haku said as a large swell of water rose in front of her to intercept the fireball.
"Not bad at all, maybe you will be able to actually hurt me in a few years." She taunted.
This riled up both Kiba and Sasuke, just like she wanted. Haku knew that, working together, they could pose a problem, however, both had weaknesses that she could and would exploit.
"You seem powerful, but your attacks are far too slow to ever hit me." She said to Kiba.
"I'll show you!" He yelled as he and Akamaru once again began to spin and attacked her.
Haku once again jumped over the cyclones and this time threw a few senbon needles into the one containing Akamaru.
Kiba came out of his spin to see that his companion had reverted back to his original state and was covered with needles.
"Akamaru!" Kiba yelled as he ran to his dog.
"One down." Haku stated calmly.
"I'll make you pay for that!" Kiba yelled as he ran to attack Haku.
Haku dodged Kiba's enraged assault with little effort. She knew that taking out the dog first would cause Kiba to lose his composure and thus make him easier to predict. She grabbed Kiba's arm and pinned it behind his back as she prepared one handed seals.
"Ice spears jutsu" she yelled as the water on the bridge instantly turned into ice spears and prepared to impale the Inuzuka.
"Fireball jutsu"
Haku released Kiba and dodged the attack sent her way by Sasuke, thus negating her technique and leaving Kiba in the fight.
"Stay back! I'll make her pay for what she's done!" Kiba yelled to Sasuke.
"If I hadn't stepped in then you wouldn't be alive right now." Sasuke said calmly.
Kiba bit his hand to calm himself down. Being a part of the Inuzuka clan had taught him basic pack instincts and the most important one was to never try to take down an opponent by yourself when they were obviously superior to you.
Haku saw that Kiba was regaining his composure.
'Time to try something new.' She thought.
"I must say that I am disappointed. I had hoped that you two would give me a challenge, but it seems that I am just wasting my time." She said calmly as she began to walk away.
"And where do you think that you're going?" Sasuke called after her.
"I'm going to find that blonde ninja that I have heard about, he seems to be better than both of you combined." She said.
Sasuke's yell instantly alerted her that her plan had worked. From what she observed, Sasuke and Naruto seemed to have bad blood between them and Sasuke wanted to appear stronger than his teammate. Couple this with his superiority complex and getting Sasuke to fly off the handle was pathetically simple.
"I'm much stronger that him!" Sasuke yelled as he ran toward Haku's turned back.
'This probably won't end well.' Kiba thought as he ran to back Sasuke up.
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Kakashi was not doing any better than his teammates. While he had uncovered his sharingan, it was doing him no good in this thick mist.
Zabuza had read Kakashi's file and knew that he possessed the sharingan. While he wasn't exactly sure as to how it worked he did know what it could do. It could copy any ninjutsu, genjtsu, or taijutsu that it saw. So in Zabuza's mind, the easiest way to combat this was to simply not be seen. His tactic was the same as the demon brothers; wait in the mist until the perfect time to strike.
Kakashi was constantly on guard. He had no idea when and where Zabuza would strike, but he was going to be prepared.
Suddenly he heard the sound of projectiles coming toward him. Acting quickly he turned and deflected all of them with ease. However, these were just a distraction as he found himself attacked from all sides by water clones. He quickly dispersed them and once again he was left alone in the mist.
'This isn't getting me anywhere. I need to draw him out somehow.' Kakashi thought.
"Water style: Water Dragon jutsu"
Kakashi was ripped out of his thoughts when he saw a huge dragon of water coming directly for him. He dodged it, barely, but was unable to avoid the kick to the back that Zabuza had landed when he came up behind him. Kakashi turned in mid air and threw a kunai at Zabuza. However this was another clone and it simply turned into water once hit.
Once again Kakashi found himself surrounded by Zabuza clones. There was at least twenty and they all attacked at once. Kakashi defeated the first few quickly but he did develop a few wounds before he was able to defeat the rest. He was now standing in a puddle of water from all of the clones he had dispersed and he tried to walk away until he realized that he couldn't move his feet.
"What?" he said as Zabuza came up behind him.
"You fell for it. Water Prison Jutsu." He said as all of the water on the bridge surrounded Kakashi in a dome of water.
"How?" he asked.
"Simple, I knew that you would be able to defeat all of my clones and that you would dodge my water dragon technique. They were just tools so that I could get more water onto the bridge. I really must thank you for being so predictable." Zabuza said.
'This is not good!' Kakashi thought.
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Kurenai was beginning to breathe hard. The brothers' constant attacks were starting to wear her down.
'I need to do something and I need to do it now.' She thought.
Suddenly another set of brothers came at her. She dodged their strikes and defeated them only for them to turn into water. Kurenai turned and once again put herself on the defensive, except this time she made a key error. The puddle that was left after the last set of clones were defeated reformed itself into a single brother and he attacked.
Kurenia was able to avoid getting impaled in the back, but she instantly put her hand on her upper arm as blood began to seep out. She destroyed the single clone but then she fell to her knees.
The demon brothers were hoping that their double clone tactic would work and with Kurenai seemingly on her knees with a wound on her arm, it seemed that it had.
The brothers waited a few minutes to let the poison that was coursing through her work before they walked toward her limp form. They were low on chakra from the constant assault and were glad that she had let her guard down.
"It seems that we win." One of the brothers stated.
"Yes, it is too bad that we must kill one so beautiful, but orders are orders." The other replied as they made ready to impale Kurenai through her back and end her life.
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Haku looked at the two genin in front of her with little to no emotion. She was actually happy that they were the ones she had to fight. If she had gone up against Naruto, Hinata, or Shino then she knew that she would have not only had a much harder time fighting them physically, but emotionally as well.
'I am very glad that they aren't here, maybe we can eliminate the bridge builder and be off before they come.' Haku thought hopefully. She didn't think that she would be able to raise a hand against her first real friends.
She had no problem, however, raising a hand against Sasuke and Kiba. Kiba wasn't too bad, but he had been too pushy with her last night trying to impress her. She was actually enjoying attacking Sasuke as she didn't like the way he treated her friends.
Both were currently on the ground panting with exhaustion inside her crystal mirrors. They had attacked her, but had only ended up being caught in her ultimate jutsu. Her crystal mirrors were impossible to escape from and even their repeated attempts to break her mirrors with fireballs and the fang over fang had been for naught. She had easily subdued them with a few well placed senbon needles and was currently debating wither she should kill them or not.
If she were to kill Sauske then she would be doing a service to her friends, in her opinion. Kiba wasn't bad, but he too stood her the way of her friend's happiness. Maybe once she killed them then her friends could be on the same team which would make them all happy. As she debated this she noticed that both Kiba and Sasuke had risen to their feet.
"Why do you persist in fighting? You have no chance of victory." She said calmly.
"I'm not giving up." Kiba said, panting.
"There's no way that I will lose to you, I am an Uchiha and I can't be defeated by the likes of you." Sasuke said angrily.
This caused a rush of anger to spread through Haku and she swiftly threw a few senbon into them both.
Kiba fell to the ground in pain. Haku's last needles had been aimed at his legs. She knew that his attacks relied predominantly upon using his legs so she incapacitated them, effectively taking him out of the fight. She had decided to let him live; Sasuke, however, was in for a world of pain and in her opinion, death.
Sasuke saw Kiba fall with mixed emotions. Kiba may have been loud and annoying, but he was interesting to compete against. Maybe if they had been on teams initially then they could have formed a rivalry, but Naruto was the one that Sasuke needed to surpass and defeat.
Sasuke came out of his thoughts when he was hit from all sides by senbon needles.
"I am getting bored. If you are so great Uchiha then please show me your sharingan. Show me what makes you superior to everyone else." Haku said condescendingly.
Sasuke growled in anger. He refused to be looked down upon by this ninja. He made his way to his feet and tried to pinpoint her position. He was distressed to find that he could not find out exactly where she was, but he noticed that she wasn't as fast as she first seemed.
'I can almost see her.' He thought.
Haku noticed that her chakra was running slightly low. It seemed that she had taken too much time with them and so she decided to end it. She threw a few senbon, but this time they were aimed at Sasuke's vitals spots.
Saskue saw them coming toward him and somehow instinctively knew that these were meant to end his life. The prospect that he was about to die left Sasuke with a strange feeling; he could remember the last time that he had this feeling. It was the night that his entire clan was slaughtered with him being the only survivor. He remembered looking at his brother and feeling the cold sensation of fear grab his heart and squeeze. He had run then; he had run away screaming that he didn't want to die. His brother had caught him, however, and nearly given him a mental breakdown by putting him in the Tsukuyomi. Sasuke was forced to watch for seventy two hours as his entire clan was killed over and over again. After that Sasuke had hardened his heart and swore to kill his brother for what he had done.
'I can't die here. I can't die before I kill him. I am an avenger!' Sasuke thought.
Suddenly the senbon seemed to slow down. He pulled out a kunai and blocked them all.
'How did he do that?' Haku thought as she observed him closely. Nothing seemed different until he raised his head and she saw his eyes.
'So he has awakened the Sharingan.' She thought as she gazed into the bloodline of the Uchiha.
'What just happened? How was I able to see them so clearly?' Sasuke thought.
"I see that you have awakened your sharingan." Haku said calmly.
'Sharingan! At last, I finally did it!' Sasuke thought with elation.
"With this I will finally defeat you and surpass that idiot Naruto." Sauke said confidently.
"Oh? Well then, let's just see how impressive that sharingan can be." Haku said.
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Zabuza looked at the trapped Kakashi with disappointment.
"I was hoping for a better fight Kakashi." He said as he pulled his sword out and struck through the cage and Kakashi as well.
Suddenly Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"What!" Zabuza yelled.
"Summoning jutsu!"
Dogs of every size suddenly erupted from the ground and bite into Zabuza's legs, arms, and back, effectively immobilizing him.
Kakashi appeared in front of Zabuza with a casual look on his face.
"How?" Zaubza asked.
"As you said, it was simple. This mist is so thick that you must have been as blind as me, thus you relied on your silent killing style to track my movements. Keeping this in mind, I waited until the last moment to replace myself with a shadow clone, thus luring you out." Kakashi said as he went through a few hand signs.
"And now Zabuza, it's time to meet your future, death." Kakashi said as the right hand was encased in lighting. "Meet my original jutsu the Lighting Blade"
Kakashi took position and rushed toward Zabuza, aiming for his heart.
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The demon brothers plunged their claws into Kurenai's still form. However, instead of blood, her body dispersed into a shower of leaves.
"What!" The brothers yelled simultaneously.
Suddenly roots began to grow and wrap around them until they were both stuck in the trunk of a tree.
"Ninja art: Tree binding Jutsu." Kurenai said as she appeared in the trunk above them with a kunai in her hands.
"But we saw you get cut by the claw." One of the brothers said.
"You saw what I wanted you to see. When I turned my back I cut my hand and wait until you attacked from my blind spot, then I simply wait until the last moment to dodge and placed my hand on my shoulder, making you both think that you had landed a blow and that the poison was in my system." Kurenai said.
"Now it's over." She said.
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Haku walked away from the still forms of Kiba and Sasuke. While it had been more difficult with the sharingan present, she was still able to take out the Uchiha.
She looked to see how the others were doing and was distressed to see that Zabuza and the demon brothers were captured and about to die. She prepared to rush to their aid when she heard the voice of someone she didn't want to face.
"Hold it right there." Naruto said.
Haku turned around to be faced with Naruto, Shino, and Hinata.
'Not now, please not now.' She thought desperately.
"Hinata-chan take a look at Kiba and Sasuke and take them over to Sakura." Naruto said.
Hinata nodded her consent and ran to the downed shinobi.
Naruto and Shino prepared themselves to fight, but both noticed that their opponent was making no move to defend herself.
'How can I fight them?' Haku thought with distress. These were her friends she couldn't fight them, but at the same time she couldn't leave Zabuza and the brothers to die. Haku shook herself out of her thoughts when Naruto rushed her. She backed away from him and began to run.
'What the heck?' Naruto thought in confusion. He looked at Shino but noticed that his friend seemed upset about something.
"What is it Shino?" Naruto asked.
Shino didn't reply but Naruto could tell that his friend knew something, and that he was distressed over whatever it was that he knew.
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Haku ran toward Zabuza, but she could see that she would be too late to save her master. She couldn't bring herself to face her friends so she thought that she could save Zabuza and the brothers and maybe Zabuza would call off the mission.
Suddenly she was stopped in her tracks as she felt her arms and legs become restricted. She looked and saw that snakes were wrapped tightly around her limbs. She looked back to see that the snakes were coming from the sleeves of Naruto's trench coat.
"Where do you think you're going?" Naruto asked.
Haku didn't answer. She lowered her head in sadness when she realized that not only would she be unable to save Zabuza, but her secret was about to be found out and then she would lose her friends as well.
Shino walked around her and prepared to take off her mask, though she could see a hesitation in his hands. It seemed that Shino was afraid of seeing who was behind the mask as he didn't want his fears to be realized.
"Is that you Haku?" Shino said softly enough that only they could hear.
Haku said nothing, but she felt the tears beginning to fall from her eyes, to her his voice sounded very sad.
As Shino prepared himself to pull off the mask, Kakashi rushed to kill Zabuza, and Kurenai prepared to end the brothers' lives.
Suddenly a kunai with an explosive tag landed between each of them. All present parties could only widen their eyes as the explosive tags went off.
Naruto was thrown back but he rose quickly to see what had happened. Zabuza, Kakashi, Kurenai, the brothers, Shino, and Haku were all caught in the separate explosions and were unmoving.
"Well that's one way to go out with a bang."
Naruto looked toward the owner of the voice and saw Gato with a large force of bandits in front of him.
"Gato!" Naruto yelled.
"That's me kid, now step out of the way so the bridge builder and I can have a personal talk." Gato said with an evil smile on his face.
"Gato allow me to finish this genin." Said a man win a cloak as he walked in front of the group.
"Fine kill the brat and any survivors." Gato said.
"With pleasure." The figure said as he removed his cloak.
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And here's chapter 10. Sorry that it took so long, but I hope that this chapter made up for it. Yes I am evil for putting a cliffhanger here, but it was too tempting to pass up. Don't worry the next chapter will be the conclusion of the wave arc. Who is still alive? Who is the mysterious figure? How will Naruto face this large force alone? That is a secret! Till next time Kyuubi123 out.