Naruto charged at Kakashi, with killer instinct. He slashed at the Jounin with his claws, and Kakashi blocked it with his kunai and broke off the attack- retreating to the end of the bridge where Zabuza and Haku were. "What...did...you...DO!" Kakashi demanded as he stared at Haku with anger which only masked his fear.

"I...I...don't know! He only acted like this when I took down the guy with the red hair" Haku stuttered with fear, who had about five senbon drawn and ready to be thrown. "Kid's gone savage...I'll give him that" Zabuza muttered as he had his sword at the ready, "That's not just savagery Zabuza...that's the power of the Kyuubi!" Kakashi warned

"K...Kyuubi! You mean that demon fox is in that brat!" Zabuza stammered as he took a step back. Then he smirked as let out a dry chuckle "Well then...I'm a demon too! And this, is as interesting as it gets. LET'S SEE WHAT THIS DEMON'S CAPABLE OFF!" Zabuza roared in glee as he sprung forward and swung his giant sword at the possessed Naruto. Who countered it with his claws, the two demons broke off their attack and Zabuza laughed "I haven't had this much fun...IN AGES!".

Haku and Kakashi bore witness as the two demons clashed again and again, with Zabuza bearing a huge grin on his face. And when ever Naruto would land a hit...Zabuza only laughed. He charged again and drove Naruto back towards where Kurama and Sasuke lay, Naruto then pushed Zabuza back with full force making him stumble across the bridge.

'That's unusual' Zabuza thought as he got up and rubbed his head, he saw Naruto pacing back and fourth on all fours, 'why doesn't he attack?' Zabuza thought. Then he got a glimpse of what or rather in this case who he was guarding. "Ah I see..." Zabuza said as he slung his sword on his shoulder

"What? What is it?" Kakashi asked. "He's guarding them...those other kids" Zabuza responded. 'Naruto...' Kakashi thought to himself.

"In that case, the only way to stop him is to wake those kids up" Haku deduced. "Yes but how're we gonna get past him" Zabuza asked as he pointed his sword at Naruto, who was still pacing up and down.

"Leave that to me..." Kakashi said as he opened his sharingan eye. All three charged with blinding speed, Kakashi reached into his pockets and took out three smoke bombs and threw them at Naruto, who held his arms across his face as defense.

The smoke engulfed the possessed per-teen who was frantically looking around for any signs of Kakashi and the other two shinobi. He spotted Haku up ahead he lunged at him, clawing at the mans back.

But he disappeared into smoke leaving wood in his place. Naruto then felt a hand wrap itself around his neck, and he tried to get free but failed, "KAKASHI! NOW!" Zabuza shouted as he slammed Naruto down on the floor.

Naruto roared out loud and he struggled to get free, "Gah! HAKU! I need HELP!" Zabuza exclaimed as he was struggling to keep the boy down, Naruto saw senbon needled and Kakashi soaring through the air towards him.

The Senbon pinned Naruto down and Kakashi landed on top of the boy, who stared dead into Kakashi's eye. A big mistake. Kakashi's sharingan flashed and Naruto went limp.

"We have to get those boys up and at em...even I know that genjutsu wont hold him for long" Zabuza said as he went for the Uchiha and Kakashi went for Kurama.

They pulled the senbon out of the kids and used healing stuff. "C'mon kid...wake up!" Zabuza urged as he shook his shoulders wildly. 'Damn...Haku got this one good, he's going to be out for a LONG while'.

Kakashi adopted a similar approach to Kurama and even threw water on him. When the water came into contact with his face Kurama got up and gasped and coughed. "Easy there..." Kakashi said as he patted him on the back

"N...Naruto" Kurama muttered, then his eyes popped open in realization "NARUTO! LITTLE ONE WHERE ARE YOU!" . "Easy there Kurama he's over there. Now listen here" Kakashi said

When Kakashi was done explaining, Kurama's eyes widened in disbelief. "No...NO! That's not true! The nine tails couldn't have!" Kurama whimpered.

"It did...it was triggered by seeing you and Sasuke fall. So by making him see you're fine, i'm sure that he'll snap out of it" Kakashi deduced. Kurama nodded and Haku shouted "SIR HE'S AWAKE!".

Kurama heard Naruto roar and saw Haku flying across the bridge and into the water below. Zabuza went down after him leaving only Kakashi and Kurama to deal with Naruto, "Naruto..." Kakashi said as he extended his left arm to hide Kurama. He and Naruto circled around each other for quite sometime "Kurama is safe" Kakashi said

Naruto growled as if to say' LIAR!', Or 'PROVE IT!'. Kakashi slowly took Kurama's hand and slowly dragged him towards Naruto's line of sight, "Hi little one" Kurama greeted, a hint of fear was present.

"Hey listen...Sasuke's safe too ok, he's just out cold that's all." Kurama smiled. Naruto stood up on his two legs and...smiled. 'As i deduced' Kakashi thought to himself.

The orange energy around Naruto disappeared, his eyes became the friendly blue that we all know and love, and those whisker marks turned to normal. "R...really?" Naruto asked. His voice had returned and he no longer growled or roared.

"Yes really" Kurama smiled as he approached his sibling and gave him a much needed hug. "I thought you were gone Nii-San"

"It's gonna take more than needles to kill me little one" Kurama laughed. "Hey...where'd Zabuza go?" Naruto asked and Kakashi tensed abit "Well...I'm not sure" Kakashi lied.

"Well where-ever they are...they'd better not mess with us!" Naruto laughed and Kurama joined in with the laughter. Kakashi quickly scanned the bridge and found Zabuza and Haku on the other side nodding. And then, they disappeared into thin air...or rather into the thick mist. Kakashi nodded as well and closed his sharingan eye and covered it up with his headband. He saw Sasuke sit up and look around in confusion, he smiled and sighed as he closed both his eyes.

The mission on the land of the waves...was over.