Naruto : Abandoned Child

At the Bridge

Naruto came to the edge of the bridge and saw a dome of ice mirrors and was perplexed but his blood ran cold as he heard a blood curling scream and what made him frightened was that he knew that voice all too well. He walked silently and quickly on the railing and saw Satsuki launch a huge fireball after which she was nailed with a shower of senbon needles that he didn't even see due to their speed and scream again in agony as his fists clenched and he unconsciously activated his Sharingan and saw the masked fake hunter-nin come out of the mirrors and stood in front of her as he took out senbon needles in both of his hands.

He saw him throw the needles at her and saw that she was trying to move but couldn't move fast enough due to the pain of the needles and he unconsciously took out six shurikens from his back and launched them at the needles as they cancelled each other out and threw four more shurikens at the masked hunter-nin who jumped back and away from Satsuki as he watched Naruto pick up Satsuki bridal style and jump back as he put her down and his hair shadowed his eyes as started pulling out the needles from her body and she grimaced from the pain and was looking at him through blurred vision as she saw the familiar colour of sun kissed blonde hair and smirked a bit as she grit her teeth and spoke from the pain of the needles being pulled out.

"What took you so long loser?" she whispered out and he rubbed her cheek affectionately not even sad that he gave out his tactical position by jumping in. The thought of her in pain and needing him erased all his doubts.

"Well heroes always come in at the last minute now are you able to move?" he asked and she nodded as her eyes focused and she gazed into his eyes and gasped at seeing the two tomoe Sharingan blazing in both of his eyes.

"Impossible how did you cancel out my attack? My attacks are much too powerful for human eyes to follow. Yet you cancelled not one but all of them perfectly. How did you do it?" asked Haku as he raised his head and pierced into her soul with his Sharingan blazing furiously in all its glory as Haku stepped back a little from the intensity of his stare.

"The Sharingan…" she whispered out as Satsuki was too stunned to say anything as he put her down from his lap after taking out the needles and she stood up as she gazed at his eyes amazed at the kekkei genkai of her clan.

"So he too has a kekkei genkai, a bloodline trait passed down within a clan through generation in blood. This makes everything different." She thought as she stepped into the mirrors and started jumping through mirror to mirror as Naruto tracked her every movement and she started thinking of what to do next.

"Even now his eyes are tracking me." She thought as she threw more needles at him and he picked up Satsuki in his arms and jumped through three different spots dodging the needles but got a couple in each of his thighs because of the weight of Satsuki in his arms his movements were slow even after pumping chakra in his feet. He grimaced and put her down as he created twenty clones as they all jumped at each of the mirrors and he went through 18 different hand seals and ended at Tiger. Haku started jumping through mirror to mirror destroying the clones before they reached the mirrors and was suddenly shocked when she heard a shout and saw an inferno of a narrow stream of flames coming at her and she barely dodged getting nicked in her leg as the flames shattered one of the mirrors and she recreated it by pumping more chakra and jumped into the mirrors again.

"Fire style : Dragon Flame Jutsu" Naruto finished with a smirk as he panted from the heavy chakra costing jutsus which were coupled now with his Sharingan.

"I haven't trained and fought much with these eyes but I can see through her deceptions." He thought as he gazed at Satsuki who was on her knees and barely hanging onto consciousness from chakra exhaustion. She just had to get mad and use so much chakra to pump up her speed and launch those fireballs like crazy she mused. She was broken out of her thoughts as Naruto spoke up.

"Satsuki don't you fall unconscious on me, I can't fight and protect you at the same time. We have to get out of here alive. So get up now." He said and she grunted as she tries to stand.

"Well then don't protect me I never asked for your protection." She growled out and fell backwards with a thud. Naruto turned to her and was now worried as he kept tracking the jumping hunter-nin and saw another hail of senbons as he picked up her unconscious body and jumped through five different spots each time getting hit by some senbon needles and was pumping chakra through his legs to increase his speed. As soon as he touched ground he saw senbon coming at him from the front and knew they would hit him and Satsuki and that he couldn't make the jump in time and turned around taking the shower of senbons in his back and grunted in pain as a trail of blood leaked from the side of his mouth and he put her down and stood up panting heavily from the exertion and the hits he was taking. He stepped a bit away from her to keep the fight away from the unconscious girl and kept jumping from spot to spot avoiding all the needles as Haku didn't give him time to counter attack. Haku launched another hail of senbon needles from the front and he took out a kunai parrying all of them as he panted heavily. He immediately made a cross hand seal and summoned another batch of thirty clones and started throwing shurikens nicking Haku several times as he tracked her with his Sharingan.

"His mastery over the Sharingan is amazing and to think he can still stand after fighting so hard and taking all those hits for his teammate and still have the energy and focus to look for a moment to counter attack is admirable indeed. His will to protect his friend is astounding. I have been targeting his fatal points for a while now but he blocks all frontal attacks. My chakra is running low and he too is on his last legs with all the clones, his swift movements and the constant use of his Sharingan. But I still have one advantage. I didn't want to do this but I have no choice. I have to do this for Zabuza-sama. Let's see how strong his will to protect her really is." She thought as she took out another round of senbon needles in her hands.

"You fight well and your will to protect your friend is admirable and you have great moves. But your chakra levels are running low and you are on your last legs now with all those injuries." She said and Naruto smirked.

"You too are on your last legs from the chakra cost of this jutsu that I can see clearly with my Sharingan and the nit-picks I am giving you are wearing you out too so we are both in the same boat." He said with a smirk as she spoke up.

"Indeed you are correct but I still do have one distinct advantage." She said and he narrowed his eyes going through many scenarios in his head as his eyes widened as he realized his mistake a bit too late.

"This." She said as she launched senbon needles at the unconscious Satsuki as Naruto pumped up every last bit of chakra into his legs and eyes he had left and launched a kunai which lodged itself where her heart laid as she didn't have time to react as she had not expected him to throw the weapon at her instead of blocking the needles as he jumped in front of Satsuki and took all the senbon needles head on and smashed his fist in the hilt of the kunai as it was embedded into the heart of Haku killing her instantly and launching her back as she skid backwards and lied down.

"Your will to protect your precious person was stronger than I could have ever imagined Naruto-san. You indeed are a true shinobi. I am honoured that you were my last opponent." She said as the life left her eyes and her mask fell from the lack of chakra that was holding it and Naruto saw the peaceful smile on the face of the girl he met in the forest.

Satsuki opened her eyes and saw the dead lifeless eyes of Haku and the kunai embedded in her chest as she smiled and looked at Naruto was standing with his arms by his side not facing her as she gazed at his back and spoke happily.

"You did it loser. You beat her !" she exclaimed but the colour drained of her face as Naruto turned her face so that his left cerulean blue eye was visible and saw the blood dripping from the side of his mouth heavily dripping on the ground passing through the chin. She saw the skid marks of the blood that Haku made from being skid back by his hit and immediately knew that he had taken the death blow for her.

"Why? Why did you do it you idiot?" she asked as tears streamed down her eyes and he smirked and turned his face upwards towards the sky and smiled contentedly and closed his eyes feeling the breeze flowing through his hair.

"I don't know my body, it just moved on its own. You always were annoying you know that right?" he choked out and coughed out blood as he started falling backwards and she caught him in her arms crying heavily.

"Then why, why did you do it? I didn't ask you to give your life for me? Why would you do something like this for someone like me?" she asked and he raised a hand and rubbed her cheek affectionately as his vision started blurring in and out.

"I promised you that I would protect you and help you get your goal right?" he said as her mind flashed back to the moment he promised her that with a foxy grin on his face.

"Remember complete your goals and dreams but don't give into the darkness. Live happily and achieve your goals, don't let your dreams die. I don't think I'll be there with you to see you through them." He spoke as his hand fell and his eyes closed with a smile on his face as her eyes widened as she tapped his cheek.

"Loser don't leave me alone I need you." She said as visions of her waking him up in the morning and him chasing her as she escaped him.

"Loser wake up please." She said pleadingly as moments of him making her meals and taking care of her when she was ill came to her mind.

"Hey Naruto come on it's not funny anymore wake up." She said desperately as she thought back to the arguments they had and the kiss he gave her on the nose as she bashed his head in came to her mind.

"Please don't leave me alone again you're the only one I have left. Don't go not you too." She whispered crying as the last moment he cried in her arms as held him close to her and he slept snuggling into her came to her mind as she screamed a blood curdling scream to the heavens as her eyes bled red with a tomoe in each eye. Her Sharingan awakening from the anguish she felt.

"Narutooo!" she screamed as the mirrors of ice shattered around her as the chakra dissipated from them making a sparkling vision as she held him close to her.

With Kakashi and Zabuza

"Then show me what you can do Copy Ninja" he yelled and started going through a long chain of hand seals when suddenly the ground all around him erupted and several ninja dogs came out and latched onto him pinning him down as he howled in pain. Kakashi walked in front of him and Zabuza growled as he asked through gritted teeth.

"How? How did you track me even through this thick mist and no sound?" he asked and Kakashi eye smiled at the bound swordsman.

"When you slashed me with your sword I let you slash me so that you got the scent of my blood on you for my ninken to track you and pin you down. Now it's time to end this." He said as Zabuza was shocked at being trumped and fooled like that.

"Let me show you the only jutsu in my arsenal that I personally created. Feel honoured to see it in your last moments." He said and went through three hand seals as he held his left hand out and held his wrist with his right hand as blue lightning circled around him and concentrated in his left hand as he held it in his left hand and glared at Zabuza who trembled.

"He is holding the chakra in his hand and it is so dense that it is visible. Is this it? Is this the end for me?" He thought as Zabuza saw Kakashi charge at him tearing the ground through the chakra as he charged at him.

"Lightning Blade" he yelled as he charged at the trembling Kiri nin and stopped suddenly as a blood curdling scream was heard through the bridge.

"Narutooo!" he heard and his eyes widened in horror as they heard clapping through the bridge and both turned around to see Gatou there with an army of thugs grinning.

"Well well look at the demon of the mist." He said sarcastically as the thugs laughed and Zabuza glared at him as the lightning in Kakashi's hand disappeared as he gazed at the image of Satsuki crying and holding onto a lifeless Naruto and a dead Haku as tears rolled down his eyes.

"Naruto looks like I have failed you again. Sensei please forgive me." He thought solemnly as Sakura and Tazuna rushed over to Naruto as Sakura tried to check over Naruto but Satsuki won't let him go.

"Gatou what is the meaning of this?" he asked as he laughed.

"Well Zabuza you are too expensive to pay. I'll take your bounty and those of the leaf ninja that you have weakened for me and then swarm the village with my army and kill the bridge builder myself." He said as the army cheered as Zabuza growled.

"Kakashi it seems we are no longer enemies." He said and Kakashi nodded as the ninken vanished and he picked up his sword and tossed it to Zabuza who nodded gratefully and charged at Gatou at blinding speeds through the crowd of thugs who stabbed him as he cleaved the short man in half and took out as many thugs as he could until only fifty remained as he fell down dead.

"Hey he killed our meal ticket. Let's swarm the village after killing these shinobi, I've heard even dead shinobis are worth a good amount and we already have two dead mist ninjas and a dead leaf shinobi. Then we'll swarm the village." Their leader said and they all cheered as Satsuki stood up furious that they wanted to sell the body of Naruto for money and stood next to Kakashi when an arrow lodged itself in between the two groups as they gazed back to see Inari and the villagers with weapons and ready to fight as Kakashi eye smiled and created fifty simple clones and Satsuki created five as the thugs stepped back in fright.

"Alright who wants to fight?" asked Kakashi and they all ran back to the edge of the bridge and jumped into the boat and ran off. The villagers cheered and were celebrating when a huge burst of demonic chakra released from Naruto as it swirled around him and a feeling of bloodlust washed over the bridge as silence permeate through the bridge.

"You should be grateful to your father you damned brat who tied your soul with mine with that accursed jutsu. If I wouldn't have been taken to the Shinigami too I would have enjoyed watching you die. Be grateful to your father who put me inside you." The fox said in his mind and pumped his chakra, forcing as much as he could through the tightly bound seal.

The wounds on Naruto started healing as the senbon needles popped out of his skin and colour started returning to his skin as the red chakra made a cloak around his body and then receded. A few moments later Naruto woke up groggily and stood up rubbing his aching temples as gazed at the stupefied looks of his teammates and Tazuna and grinned foxily rubbing the back of his head.

"So what did I miss?" he asked innocently as the whole crowd face faulted except Satsuki who ran up to him crying as he thought she was going to hug him and smiled.

SLAP

The sound rang through the bridge as Naruto turned stunned at the trembling girl who had tears running down her eyes.

"Hey what did you do that fo…" he trailed off as Satsuki crashed her lips on his and wrapped her arms around his neck as he was wide eyed, then after a moment he held her closer wrapping his arms around her slender waist as they kept their lips locked and after a few moments the two broke off and Satsuki buried her face in his chest with a trembling body as his shirt was getting soaked from her tears as he had on hand rubbing her back affectionately while the other was running through her silky raven locks as he put his chin over her head and pulled her close to him.

"I thought I had lost you, that I would be all alone again. Please don't do it again I would have killed myself after burying you. I can't go on living in loneliness and fall into the darkness I need you. Dont do anything like that again." She said in between hiccups and he cooed her and kept holding her.

"Shh I'm alive right now, right? I am not that easy to kill you know. Those little needles won't kill me. At the very least a blast enough to level Iwa would be needed to take me down and away from you." He said playfully and she giggled and punched him in the chest playfully.

"Bastard." She whispered and he smiled.

"Bitch." He replied and both chuckled as they broke off to see the whole crowd staring at them as they came out of their own world and both blushed heavily as Satsuki gained an annoyed look on her face.

"Hey we just freed your country right now, go on and celebrate or something and if you keep staring there might be some villagers short at the inauguration of the bridge. Now buzz off." She said in an annoyed tone as the villagers scrambled seeing her glare with the Sharingan that she activated for a moment before all members of team 7, Tazuna, Tsunami and Inari laughed as they started walking back to the village. Kakashi asked about the battle in the ice dome and after they explained everything he told them the result of his battle and that he was proud of all of them and they all showered and changed into their night clothes. Naruto went to his room and got into his bed and closed his eyes. Kakashi was going to enter the room he shared with Naruto when Satsuki caught his wrist and stared at him.

"Let us share the room for tonight. I want something answered to me alone and want the answers now. You can share the room with Sakura for tonight." She said and he nodded and stepped back. He knew when they explained their battles and Naruto told him he had used one of his "special abilities" that he had used his Sharingan as a last resort and that she wanted answers. But he wasn't going to miss his chance of teasing his cute little genin.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't do." He said and she twitched.

"No one would do half the things you would do with all that smut you keep reading. That's why you don't get a girl and have to read the book you lazy ass pervert." She said and he eye smiled.

"True but you don't have to be that hostile to your sensei. A little respect sometimes would be nice you know." He said and she smirked.

"It would wouldn't it?" she asked and stepped in and he sweat dropped. He wasn't going to respected anytime soon he mused as he entered the room he had to share with Sakura who instantly screamed and threw him out of the window before he could explain.

"Don't get back in here if you value the thing that makes you a man now you pervert." She shouted and closed the window and he brought his hands near his crotch and cried anime tears. No one respected him he thought and now he had to sleep outside.

Satsuki stepped inside and saw Naruto laying down on the Futon and got in with him as she wrapped her arms around his waist and put her head on his chest as she snuggled closer to him. She had slept with him before to sometimes avoid the nightmares she had of the massacre. Naruto was startled and stiffened when someone got in his bed but when he saw the familiar mop of silky black raven hair on his chest he smiled and wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer as she snuggled into him.

"Did you have a nightmare again Satsuki-Chan?" he whispered and she shook her head.

"No I wanted to ask you something alone and couldn't wait till morning. That's why I sent the lazy pervert away for the night." She said and he chuckled at the respect she had for his sensei. He knew she hated perverts with a passion and Kakashi with his books all the time wasn't her favourite person in the village he thought.

"So what did you want to ask?" he whispered and she asked.

"Why didn't you tell me of your Sharingan?" she asked and he sighed. He knew this was coming.

"You remember that night that I don't like to talk about?" he asked and she nodded slowly.

"Well I found out that I had it on that night. So I didn't get to tell you about it and was going to tell you after we got back to the village but this happened." He said and she nodded.

"So are you an Uchiha?" she asked hopefully and he shook his head smiling sadly.

"No I asked the old man and he told me I didn't belong to the Uchiha clan but didn't say much of my heritage. When we get back I'll ask him to reveal the truths and then we can find out the truth about these eyes and my connection to your clan." He said and she nodded and both stayed silent for a few moments before Naruto spoke up.

"So you awakened your Sharingan congratulations." He said and she stayed silent and he was confused as to why she wasn't happy.

"I don't like the way I awakened it." She whispered and he was confused didn't she awaken it in the heat of battle? He thought to himself.

"Why? How did you awaken it?" he asked and he felt his shirt get wet and saw that she was crying silently.

"The pain and anguish of seeing your death due to my weakness forced them to awaken." She whispered and he rubbed her back affectionately and she calmed down. He hated her seeing so weak and vulnerable and was himself guilty for making her like that.

"I'm sorry because of my weakness you almost die…" she was cut off as he spoke up.

"Don't apologize, I would do it again in a heartbeat if we were in the same situation again. I don't regret it and neither should you." He said calmly and she looked up at him. He saw an emotion in her eyes that he had never seen before. Warmth. She leaned up and captured his lips as they kissed each other for a few minutes and then broke off as she looked flushed and her face had a rosy pink tint on it her skin shining in the moonlight and she laid her head on his chest again.

"Thank you." She whispered and he smiled and kissed her head and she lulled to sleep listening to his heartbeat and he too fell asleep letting the exhaustion for the day take over him.

The Next Morning

Kakashi came into the house his back sore from sleeping on the roof and Sakura came out from her room feeling well rested as they walked up to Naruto and Satsuki's room and went in and were stunned. There were Naruto and Satsuki in a single Futon cuddling as she had her face buried in his neck while he had he wrapped close to him his arms wrapped around her waist and the blanket covering them to their necks as Sakura thought they looked so cute together and yelled KAWAIII! And Kakashi giggled perversely as Satsuki's eyes fluttered open while Naruto groaned and pulled her closer as she looked through the sides of her eyes and sent an annoyed glare at Kakashi who eye smiled and had to jump as a kunai suddenly went through where his crotch was and he turned as white as a sheet. Satsuki had thrown it so fluidly as to not move as Naruto slept oblivious to everything happening around him.

"Get Out or the next time I won't miss." She whispered in a threatening voice as he gulped and after a moment sweat dropped. Why were his female genin threatening his precious jewels so frequently? The both of them scrambled and ran out closing the door as she buried her face in his neck and fell into a deep slumber with a smile.

Naruto woke up at noon feeling refreshed and no signs of exhaustion in his body as he gazed at Satsuki who was wrapped up around him and smiled. He gazed at the clock and saw that it was noon and thought he should wake her up. She looked so peaceful that he didn't want to wake her up but knew that he had to then had an idea. He leaned down and pecked her soft and supple pink lips as her eyes fluttered open and she smiled.

"Ohayo Satsuki-chan." He whispered.

"Ohayo." She spoke softly and yawned cutely as she kissed him on the cheek and both got up and went down to the dining table both hungry and saw some breakfast resting on the table as both sat down on the dining table and started eating in silence. Kakashi and Sakura got up from the couch and joined them. Kakashi was about to ask them if they were alright from their injuries when Sakura spoke up.

"So are you to a couple now?" she asked suddenly and Naruto choked on his food and Satsuki looked at her annoyed.

"None of your damn business banshee." She said and Sakura glared at her then stared at Naruto who glanced at Satsuki who was also staring at him and shrunk under their gazes not knowing what to do he glanced at Kakashi for help who eye smiled and decided to help his blonde genin out of the situation.

"So Naruto how are your injuries do you need any treatment or medical attention?" he asked knowing that he healed fast due to his tenant and didn't need any medical attention and Naruto nodded gratefully at him for the change of topics.

"No sensei I heal fast I am fine, just had a little exhaustion but a great night's sleep and I'm ready again" he said and he eye smiled and nodded. Sakura forgot about the question and her jealousy for the moment but Satsuki still remembered it. Naruto walked into his room to get ready for the day when he was pinned to the wall courtesy of Satsuki who was glaring at him.

"Are you ashamed of me?" she asked and he looked at her confused.

"No why would I ever be ashamed of you Satsuki-Chan?" he asked cluelessly and her glare intensified as her Sharingan blazed to life and he gulped harder.

"Then why did you dodge the question of the banshee? Don't you like me?" she asked and he looked away not meeting her eyes.

"I didn't think you would want rumours to be spread around the village of you concerning yourself with a clan less orphan like me. I mean I know how the people of the village treat me and you shouldn't associate yourself with me." He said not meeting her eyes as her Sharingan disappeared and she turned his face to her gazing lovingly into his eyes.

"I don't care what anyone thinks. Do you want to be with me?" she spoke softly as his eyes watered and he nodded and she smiled and pecked him.

"Good then don't be ashamed to admit anything about us to anyone alright." She spoke softly and rubbed his whisker marks and he nodded as she let him go and both got ready as they went to meet Haruka.

Two weeks later

At the completed bridge

The bridge was completed faster than expected with the whole village helping out and Naruto there with his clones as Kakashi too crated some clones for help and today was the day that Team 7 had to leave back for the leaf village. Haruka came running through the crowd and threw herself at Naruto and he caught her as she cried in his chest.

"Angel-kun don't go." She hiccupped and he smiled. He had gotten her admitted to a really reputed orphanage nearby the leaf village and they were going to take her there tomorrow and until then Tazuna would take care of her. He had put the expensive fees for the orphanage to the account he used for his weapons that the old man gave him access to and knew he had to talk to the old man about it and would pay for it through his missions pay to repay the old man. He rocked and cooed the little bundle as she calmed down.

"We talked about this didn't we Ruka-chan. You have to stay there and it's a great place they'll take good care of you and you can write to me regularly. I have left my address with them and don't worry about anything. Ask for anything you need there and I'll take care of the money alright. I'll come visit when I can. Now I have to go." He said and she nodded and went back as Tsunami picked her up and he nodded to her with a grateful smile. He had to calm down Inari too when they finally said their goodbyes and left.

"So what should we name the bridge?" Tsunami asked and Tazuna replied.

"I have a name in mind. We'll name it after the boy who changed the hearts of everyone in the village. The Great Naruto Bridge, maybe someday the bridge will be famous when the name of the person it is named after gains fame to be known throughout the world." He said and Tsunami giggled as she watched Naruto going who had his hands in his pockets as Kakashi tried to make him read his book to learn some things he could do in the future and Satsuki and Sakura bashed his head to the ground.

"The Great Naruto Bridge huh? It's a good name." she said and everyone nodded.

"The Great Naruto Bridge it is !" he shouted and everyone cheered as Team 7 walked back to the leaf unaware of the adventure awaiting for them there.

Author's notes : This concludes the wave arc and the point where the story turns around for what the audience has been waiting for. Next chapter will be a flashback to the things Kushina, Jiraiya and the twins did in their twelve years in the Fire capital and give the readers an idea of the characters' history, progression and personalities of the characters and how Kushina changed her views on her son over the years. The chapter readers have been waiting for is nearing. So keep reading and reviewing. Until next time. Ja Ne ;)