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Author's note:
Hello everyone! Now I know I haven't updated in two weeks but it's very weird things happen to me whenever I want to update. A few authors send me PM's to not update for a week to show our displeasure for removing a lemon's. They even told me not to log in but I got bored quickly and I couldn't stay away from the site for long and then I got caught up in registering for new year in the university and some other shit that I'm not able say now but enjoy the new chapter.
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"Are you telling me that you ran like cowards!"
"B-But Mei-sama ordered all of us not to go against Konoha in any way!"
Zabuza snarled at the two idiots in front of him "Do you think I care what she said. I'm the captain of this mission and you will listen to me!"
"B-B-But..."
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE BEFORE I THINK YOUR WASTE OF SPACE!" The demon brothers squirmed to their feet before running for their lives.
Zabuza watched them leave before sighing.
"I must agree with them. We should at least go inform her of this new development." A voice calmly spoke from the shadows.
"I will finish off Gatou as she told us. But there is some unfinished business that I must do first." Zabuza said adjusting his sword on his back.
A glimpse of a hunter nin's mask appeared from the shadows before disappearing.
)))) Later that day ((((
"We are close to the boat. I had a close friend of mine offer to smuggle us into the country." Tazuna explained to the Konoha nin.
The team nodded but were still on guard and then a man became visible through the mist that had crept up on the shoreline.
"Is that your friend, Tazuna-san?" Naruto questioned able to make an outline of the person due to his normally enhanced eyesight.
"Yes. I think it is him." Tazuna responded as the team approached the boat.
"Ah Tazuna! It's good to see you again." the man called out while Tazuna nodded to the man in response.
"This is the team that has protected me. So can you carry us across?" he asked. The boat man nodded and the team plus Tazuna scrambled on board the boat as the man pushed off the shore and began to make his way across the expanse of misty water.
"The Bridge should be appearing soon." The boat man stated.
All of them looked up when the boatman spoke Just as he said a looming structure appeared within the mist.
Naruto lifted his head back to be able to see the top of the bridge "That's pretty big." he said a bit loudly.
The boatman immediately shushed him "Quiet! If we are heard then Gatou would tear us to pieces, why do you think that we are travelling under cover." he hissed at Naruto making him mentally scowl.
"I have to agree, the dobe is right." Sasuke said impressed at the massive structure. Sakura nodded as Kakashi looked up at the bridge with them while Tazuna seemed to beam in pride.
"We are going to take the vegetation route Tazuna, it'll make us harder to spot." The boatman told the bridge builder who nodded.
About twenty minutes later, the boat pulled up next to a dock and the team got off the boat. The boatman waved to Tazuna before taking off again, quickly disappearing in the mist.
"Diamond formation team" Kakashi ordered and the team formed back up around Tazuna.
They continued walking for several minutes before Naruto suddenly threw a kunai into the bushes.
"What the hell are you doing?" yelled Sakura hitting him on top of the head.
"There was something there Sakura-chan!" Naruto said pointing to the spot.
Sakura walked over and looked behind the bushes, where she saw a dead snow rabbit.
"Naruto! What have you done?" yelled a wide eyed Sakura.
'Geez, she makes it sound like I did something incredibly horrible. It's just a rabbit!' Naruto rolled his eyes mentally.
'It looks tasty...' Kyuubi eyes glazed over with a little drool running down her lips.
'Something is not right about this situation...' Kakashi trailed off in thought and his eyes widened when he heard a faint whistling sound.
"Everybody get down!" Kakashi yelled suddenly as he grabbed the client and pulled him to the ground.
Naruto ears twitched as he felt the disturbance in the air and instantly fell to the ground dragging Sakura with him.
A giant head-cleaver passed right over them narrowly missing everyone and embedded itself into a tree on the other side of the field. A ninja appeared standing on the sword's handle, looking over his shoulder at them.
The man had spiky black hair with a Mizu forehead protector. He had bandages wrapped around his mouth which extended to his neck. He wore no shirt leaving his torso exposed, but on his legs and arms were long warmers. He wore striped pants which disappeared under the warmers and then gave way to his shinobi sandals.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes at seeing who it was "Momochi Zabuza. A ninja of Mizugakure. Known as The Demon of the Mist for his silent killing technique. I suppose that the demon brothers would have mentioned our situation since it likely Gatou hired you as well." he stated as he faced his opponent his laziness falling off his shoulders.
"Kakashi no Sharingan, the Copy Ninja of Konoha. The man said to have copied over a thousand jutsu. No wonder the demon brothers never stood a chance." Zabuza said.
'Sharingan!' Sasuke eyes widened at the mention of the pride of his clan.
'Sharingan? What's that?' Sakura thought confused.
'Hmm. So this is one of the seven swords men of the mist I heard so much about.' Naruto thought sizing up the 'demon' in front of him.
"Attacking a shinobi from the village you are allied with could be considered treason. Mist is nowhere near as strong as Konoha and from what I heard from the demon brothers I doubt this new Mizukage would approve of your actions" Kakashi warned ignoring his student's stares.
Zabuza's scowl was visible even with his mouth covered. Gripping tightly he removed his sword from the tree with a tug.
"Mist used to be the strongest and most feared throughout the elemental nations! Even though the number of our ninja's was less we were feared because of our strength so don't threaten me you Konoha scum!" Zabuza spat with venom lacing every word before continuing.
"Besides, I doubt that a dead man can speak let alone report." Zabuza grinned hefting his sword over his shoulder.
"It seems I can't talk you out of this..." Kakashi sighed before he brought his hand up and rose his headband showing an eye with a red sclera, black pupil, and three black tomoes.
'Why does he have it? He's not an Uchiha!' Sasuke's hands clenched in anger.
"Sharingan? What's that do?" Sakura voiced her thoughts. She knew of the bloodline but she didn't know what it did.
Naruto barely caught himself from answering her.
'That was close! Sasuke would probably throw a fit if I had answered' Naruto thought in relief as his eyes left his sensei's face and travelled back to the opponent.
"Ah! The sharingan! I get to see it so early. I'm honoured." Zabuza mocked.
"It is said some eyes have the power to defeat any nin, gen, or taijutsu style. The sharingan is one of these. But that's not all." Sasuke answered but it seemed he was stating to himself in remembrance.
"That's right, the most feared ability of the sharingan is that it can copy its opponent's abilities and make it their own." Zabuza finished.
"That is all the reason I need. I will defeat you and show the world we don't need to rely on Konoha!" Zabuza jumped back performing hand seals.
"Ninja Art: Kirigakure no Jutsu"
The mist began to thicken as miniscule amounts of chakra began to mix with it until all the surroundings became invisible.
'I should let Kakashi handle this, it would look suspicious if I suddenly fought toe to toe against someone like Zabuza' Naruto decided but kept his guard up ready to move in a moment's notice.
"7 choices..." Zabuza's disembodied voice eerily floated through the mist, "Liver, Lung, Spine, Neck, Brain, Kidneys, and Heart. But the Question is which should I choose?" he questioned from his position within the mist.
"Zabuza is a master of Silent killing. Keep on guard." Kakashi explained in warning.
All of a sudden, the three Genin felt the Killer Intent of both their sensei and enemy shoot up. Sasuke and Sakura began to shake and Naruto lowered his head making his hair shadow his face. He basically grew up with the whole village hating his guts, this was nothing compared to that.
'This is a battle between two Jonin? The air is so heavy; one could go mad in here. I almost want to end it just to be away from here.' Sasuke thought to himself as he felt his hand shakily raise his kunai.
"Sasuke! Don't worry. I won't allow any of my comrades to die. I will protect you all with my life!" Kakashi exclaimed looking over his shoulder and smiled at them.
"We'll see about that!" Zabuza's voice rang everywhere as he appeared near the Genin and rose his giant sword poised to strike at Naruto.
SPLAH!
Zabuza had a shocked look on his face before he dissolved in to water revealing that to be water clone. A kunai was plunged in to his stomach courtesy of Kakashi, who moved fast enough before Zabuza could strike Naruto.
"You fell for that!" Zabuza swiped his sword at Kakashi cutting him in half.
SPLASH!
Before Zabuza could react Kakashi appeared behind Zabuza with a Kunai at his throat.
"It's over." Kakashi said bringing the kunai closer to the man's neck. Zabuza looked down before he burst into laughter.
"Hahaha! So you had your clone talk while the real you were hiding in the mist, good plan..." The Zabuza standing in front of Kakashi turned in to water before hitting the ground and another Zabuza appeared behind Kakashi.
"But I'm not that easy either!" Zabuza swung Kubikiribocho at Kakashi.
Kakashi ducked just as Zabuza brought around his blade to bisect him.
But Zabuza continued his onslaught, after the sword hit the ground using it as leverage he kicked Kakashi sending him flying towards the lake.
'This water is heavy...' Kakashi thought to himself landing on top of water before his eyes widened and he attempted to speed away from the chakra signature behind him.
'Looks like it's time for me to step in. So much for avoiding suspicion?' Naruto thought sarcastically.
"It's too late!" Zabuza said doing hand seals.
"Water release: Water prison technique"
A bubble of water began to surround Kakashi with Zabuza's hand stuck in it. Kakashi looked on horrified that he had been caught.
"Now I'll see how you will protect those precious students of yours." Zabuza said with a gleam in his eyes as he formed a single hand sigh.
"Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu."
Several columns of water rose around the Jonin before taking an identical look as Zabuza.
"You brats, wearing those headbands and parading around like you are ninja. Real Ninja are those who fight to survive every day from death." the clones now fully formed began to rush towards Genin who were stunned at seeing their sensei captured.
"Only then you can be called real ninja's. You are nothing but..."
SPLASH!
Zabuza stopped as everyone jaw dropped in surprise at blonde who had his back turned towards them. The two water clones that had sneaked from behind them were defeated before they even reached their target.
'Dobe...' Sasuke looked wide eyed at Naruto. He didn't even sense the clones!
Sakura was gaping like fish out of water while Tazuna sighed in relief.
'Water clones only contain tenth of the creators power but even then how did he defeat them that easily? Was he holding back all this time...' Kakashi trailed off staring at Naruto who had a Kunai in reverse grip in his left hand.
Zabuza was eyeing the loud kid curiously whose hands were now trembling.
Naruto suddenly jumped turning around with his left leg on a rock while pointing a finger at Kiri swords man.
"Take that you eyebrow less monkey! You may have defeated my sensei but you will fall before my greatness because I'm the future Hokage! Dattebayo!" He yelled with a ear splitting grin on his face.
The sounds of things hitting the floor were heard as everyone present face faulted and some bushes rustled at the side.
'Wow! How do even manage to keep acting idiot like that?' Kyuubi asked sounding awed.
Naruto mentally shrugged 'I just learned it from watching you.'
'Hehehe...Thanks, but what do you mean by watch...HEY I'M NOT AN IDIOT! YOU BASTARD!' Kyuubi growled.
Kakashi would have slapped himself for his earlier thoughts if it wasn't for the fact he was unable to move.
Zabuza was suffering from the intense twitching of his facial muscles. How dare that punk insult him! First Mei and now some brat had to go and insult his eyebrows!
"Why you brat? Wait until I get my hands on you!" Zabuza yelled furiously.
"Naruto you idiot! Take the client and run away! You have no hope against someone like him!" Kakashi yelled seeing murder written all over Zabuza's face. Ignoring his sensei Naruto turned to the Uchiha.
"Hey Sasuke? Are you going to stand there all day? I have a plan" Naruto voice broke Sasuke out of his stupor.
"Hn. What is it dobe?" Sasuke grunted but both of them tensed and turned to face Zabuza's clone. They were ready for action but the clone suddenly burst out laughing until Zabuza finally spoke.
"You are still trying to play little ninja? So you destroyed my other clone. Big deal, it won't happen again." the clone said with a dark tone to its voice.
"When I was your age, my hands were already dyed red with blood." he said drawing some shocked looks from Sasuke, Sakura, and Tazuna.
Naruto merely looked confused as Kakashi's eyes widened.
"No Zabuza!" he tried to warn but it was too late.
"Ah so you have heard of it. Back when Mizugakure was known as the Bloody Mist village. Our graduation exam was very well known by the other hidden villages." Zabuza started raising his voice in excitement.
"We had to fight to the death with the fellow students with only the winner becoming a Genin. It was glorious! So much blood!" Zabuza chuckled almost seeming demented.
Sasuke and Sakura looked disgusted as Kakashi continued "It was changed after what people called a demon appeared in their midst, a boy who had no ninja training came and slaughtered the whole class. Hundreds of students were massacred."
"It was so much fun!" Zabuza said as he turned his nearly demented gaze onto Sasuke and Naruto.
Naruto merely stared the man, he perfectly understood what he was doing.
'He is trying to make me let my guard down, so he could take me by surprise'
Sasuke however was not nearly as well adjusted and his eyes widened in surprise when Zabuza suddenly appeared in front of him, sending him flying with a vicious punch.
Sasuke recovered quickly, he attempted to grab the clone's shoulder in mid air but the clone noticed the action and sent Sasuke flying into the ground with a nasty back handed punch to the stomach causing Sasuke to cough blood.
"Now you see the difference between me and you. Brats like you who live in fantasy world trying to look cool and pretty don't deserve to be called ninja!"
Naruto grit his teeth at his team mate's lack of concentration and shot forward at Chunin speed hoping it would enough to surprise the clone.
It worked but at the last second the clone managed to block his kunai with its sword. The clone was further stunned on seeing the stupid kid somehow managing to hold his own against Kubikiribocho.
'How...?'
"Katon: Grand Fire Ball!"
The clone didn't get to complete its thoughts as it evaporated by the intense flames.
Sasuke landed beside Naruto and huffed slightly before rubbing of the blood at the corner of his mouth with the top of his wrist.
'What happened to clones I sent to ambush them?' Zabuza thought with his eyes darting around, his one hand still holding the water prison.
Kakashi was watching everything that was transpiring with stunned eyes 'It seems they really have grown...or at least some did' he added noticing the still trembling Sakura.
'Heh. So my shadow clones took care of the water clones. It's a shame that those water clones can't send a warning to the summoner' Naruto smirked.
"OI! Teme! Let's go teach that bastard a lesson that he messed with the wrong team!" Naruto exclaimed tossing something to Sasuke. Sasuke caught the object and smirked revealing it to be demon mill shuriken
"Sakura! Take Tazuna and get back, we need him out of the way." Sasuke said as he began to spin the shuriken making increasing its speed with every second making a light screeching sound fill the air.
"O-okay. But be careful you two!" Sakura pleaded backing away with the client.
"You ready?" Naruto said as he turned one eye on his teammate.
"This better work dobe!" Sasuke yelled bringing his hand back and throwing it with lightning speed towards Zabuza's last clone.
'OH! Trust me it will work alright' Naruto thought smirking.
The clone scoffed seeing the shuriken come towards him.
"A shuriken won't work on me." Zabuza's clone tilting his head and let it pass him but he was surprised when the shuriken veered from its path from the clone and headed for the original that was standing on the water.
"Good plan but that's still not going to work." Zabuza said as he grabbed the shuriken in mid air. His eyes widened as he noticed a second shuriken in the shadow of the first.
"Kage Shuriken no Jutsu" Sasuke said as his smirk returned full force.
"What do you take me for?" Zabuza scoffed before he threw the shuriken in his hand to the incoming one.
"Are you sure about that?" Sasuke asked smirking from his position as he finished the distracted clone with a Katon jutsu.
Suddenly, the second shuriken poofed into smoke revealing a grinning Naruto who was in a flight path towards shuriken thrown by Zabuza.
'It's the end of the road for you Zabuza.' Naruto thought seriously maneuvering his body making him position himself upside down. Just as the weapon reached him he stuck his right hand and caught it.
A loud screeching voice filled the air as Naruto began to spin the shuriken from his reverse position. Everyone winced at the sheer intensity of the sound.
"Try and catch this!" Naruto exclaimed twisting his body to an upright position adding even more momentum and threw the shuriken at Zabuza.
Zabuza's and Kakashi's eyes widened at the speed of that that damn thing as it sliced water and made its way towards their position.
'What the hell was that idiot thinking throwing it like that! Did he forgot that that I'm here!' Kakashi thought in panic.
Zabuza wasn't stupid enough to try and catch it with his bare hands again. He reached for Kubikiribocho and brought the flat side in front of him and used it to shield. The shuriken hit Zabuza head on, sparks began to fly as it began to grind the sword.
'W-what is this!' Zabuza thought with his eyes widening as the shuriken began to overpower him and push his hand back!
Gritting his teeth Zabuza tilted his sword slightly making it angle upwards. The new angle made the shuriken traject up but not before it cut Zabuza right below the eye.
"You forgot about me!" Naruto said suddenly jumping from the water surface with a kunai in hand to finish off Zabuza.
Zabuza growled. He didn't have time to swing his sword at the annoying brat with his one hand was still holding the water prison. He barely brought his sword in defence just as Naruto spun the kunai to reverse grip and curved his arm to strike.
The Kunai broke under the pressure applied between the two weapons leaving a small gash on the bigger weapon but Naruto continued to spin in mid air and went to kick Zabuza at the side of his face.
Zabuza growled and released the water prison. The brat was smarter than he looked he could give him that; he targeted his blind side that was holding Kakashi forcing him to block the kick with his arm.
Catching his leg Zabuza threw Naruto over his shoulder making him splash in to water. The entire team watched in shock as Kakashi tried to stop the throw.
"Naruto!" Kakashi yelled out just as he landed on top of the water. A head shot out from water before spraying water out of his mouth.
"I'm fine sensei!" Naruto grinned giving a thumbs up that eerily reminded Kakashi of...dare he say 'youthful' rival but he sighed in relief none the less.
'You could have finished him off back then' Kyuubi said in a voice that indicated she was pouting.
'Yeeeaaah and get all the others on my throat on how I broke his arm by a kick' Naruto replied his voice dripping with sarcasm making the demoness huff.
'You are being mean again!'
Zabuza looked, infuriated at the shore line that Naruto was swimming to. Naruto turned to Zabuza feeling his killer intent making brief eye contact gave him a smirk that somehow made Zabuza feel inferior making him fume.
Looking towards Kakashi, Zabuza suddenly scoffed "Heh, I got distracted and the brat got lucky." he said in an uncaring tone though his eyes were glaring at Naruto's form.
"Wrong!" Kakashi exclaimed.
"You were forced to release the jutsu. By the same brats you say aren't even ninja. And you should know I don't fall for the same trick twice." he said menacingly as the two Jonin jumped apart from each other and started doing hand seals.
Sakura, Sasuke and Tazuna watched entranced as the two went through the same hand signs in a matter of seconds.
Naruto could feel the build up of chakra between the two and his eyes slightly narrowed as he felt another presence nearby that his clones warned him about earlier, but he decided to wait and see before acting.
The two Jonin finished their hand signs at the exact same time and they spoke simultaneously.
"Suiton: Suiryuudan no jutsu!"
As soon as they said those words two large dragons made of water rose from behind and clashed in causing a mighty explosion of water that left the lake rippling with waves in aftershock. The people on the shore held their ground as water that rushed up to them.
When the water cleared, the Genin and Tazuna watched as Zabuza and Kakashi struggling on top of the water, stuck in a stalemate between the sword and kunai.
They both separated and began to mirror each other's movements perfectly. Zabuza's eyes were wide in surprise when Kakashi spoke.
"He's reading my movements." he said which made Zabuza unnerved. He began to increase his speed.
'This one eyed freak is...'
"... pissing me off! Right?"
Kakashi questioned mirroring Zabuza's movement as he too increased the speed.
Zabuza's eyes suddenly narrowed "Heh! All you are doing is copying me..."
"... you can't beat me you monkey bastard!" Kakashi finished.
Zabuza got frustrated even more and he started to do hand signs much faster his hands a blur to anyone but Kakashi.
"Damn you! I'll make it so..."
"...you can never open that mouth again!" Kakashi finished for him again.
'He caught him in a Genjutsu.' Naruto thought, he could see Kakashi's tomes whirling around his pupil.
Zabuza seemed a bit more unnerved and the speed of hand seals slowed down slightly and he completely stopped when he saw Kakashi being replaced by himself while Kakashi finished his own before Zabuza.
"Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu!"
Kakashi stated calmly and Zabuza's eyes widened as he was washed away in a huge torrent of water with his back hitting a tree with a loud thud. Zabuza was shaking slightly as he turned a disbelieving eye up to Kakashi, who was standing on a branch.
"C-Can you see the future?" he asked hesitantly.
Kakashi looked back at his opponent "Yes and your future is death."
He threw a kunai at his downed opponent but before it could reach him a dome made of ice shielded him.
Kakashi's eyes widened as he jumped of the branch and broke the dome with a punch. The dome crumbled showing no trace of the Kiri ninja.
"Is it over sensei?" Sakura asked with the rest of them and Tazuna behind her coming from their cover.
"Yeah, but I'm afraid he managed to escape." Kakashi signed before lowering his forehead protector.
"Now, let's get Tazuna-san home."
"Hahahaha! Sure, let's let you all relax at my house!" Tazuna laughed uproariously.
Kakashi eye smiled taking a step forward and suddenly face planted onto the ground as he felt the strain taken on his body by the use of sharingan.
"Sensei!" All the Genin yelled running to him.
"He's fine... just exhausted, let's get him to Tazuna's place." Sakura explained after checking over him.
Sasuke and Naruto nodded while grabbing their Sensei. Naruto hoisted his sensei's arm with Sasuke under the other and they began the trek to Tazuna's home.
'An ice user, eh? How interesting..." Naruto trailed off in thought.
...To be continued.
Authors note:
Now don't be angry at me for not updating. It was not my fault... okay not completely! Also can anyone tell me what happens to the reviews if I delete a chapter? Anyway please review I want to see the one who will be posting the 200th review!