[Chapter 10: Battle on the Bridge: Zabuza Returns!]
{Me: I'm going to make Akiza have a some what of short-temper through out the day at random that triggers a blood lust deep inside of her do to the enormous amount of Chakra she has when Zabuza returns the next day; thus, leading to something big happening.}
Morning!
Akiza sat at the table with Sasuke, Inari, and Tazuna eating when Sakura came walking in yawning as she did so.
"Good morning everyone," she greeted them before sitting down.
Tsunami walked up and sat a place down in front of her.
"Here."
"Oh, thank you."
Akiza put her chop sticks down, got up, walked over to where Tsunami was, and placed the plate in the sink before sitting back down again.
"Naruto's not here?" Tazuna asked, "looks like he was out all night again."
"He's gone completely crazy," Sakura told him, "he's out climbing trees in the dark. He can be dead by now. You know, from using to much of his Chakra."
"Oh, shut-up pinky," Akiza growled, "at least Naruto is trying to improve while you set on your ass all day and do nothing. Why don't you make yourself useful and actually train or just go die some where? Cause your driving me insane."
"Now, now Akiza," Kakashi warned.
Sasuke as looking at Akiza with a raised eyebrow while Sakura looked like she was going to cry as Tazuna cackled, Tsunami looked a bit worried, and Inari just looked like he didn't care, but he thought it was amusing.
"Well, I currently hope he's ok," Tsunami said to break the silence, "a child spending the night in the woods alone."
"There's nothing to worry about," Kakashi reinsured Tsunami, "Naruto's a goofy kid, but he's also a full-fledged Ninja. He can handle himself."
"Sakura's right," Sasuke spoke up, "Naruto's such a loser that he's properly lying out there dead somewhere."
"Your the loser, Cockatoo," Akiza retorted back at him, "so shut-up if you know what's good for ya."
As Sasuke glared at her back as Akiza walked out of the house without another word leaving them to wonder what was going with her.
'This can't be good,' Kakashi thought.
Soon after Akiza left Sasuke stood up making the others look at him as he walked towards the door.
"Sasuke?" Sakura asked.
"I'm going for a walk," he told them.
"But we started eating," Sakura stated as she looked down at his already empty plate. "Huh? That was fast."
Forest!
Akiza walked through the woods thinking back at the table and to what she had said to Sakura and Sasuke not knowing what came over her in the least and to say that it was scaring her was an understatement.
'What the hell is going on?' she thought as she walked on, 'ever since I had that Dream/Flashback I've been losing my temper more often then normal.' Akiza stopped walking when she saw two people up ahead one had white hair and the other brown hair with Naruto talking to him. 'What are they up to?'
Akiza jumped up into a tree to hide as she watched the scene below waiting for them to try something, so she could vent out some of her anger and to rip them limp from limp. Akiza shook her head hard to clear that thought out of her mind and she was starting to get scared all over again. It was then that the two strangers got and started to walk away, but stopped not that far off to let Akiza hear what the boy had to say.
"Oh, by the way," he started, "I'm a boy."
Akiza covered her mouth as a giggle escaped knowing that Naruto thought that this brown haired boy was a girl, but the voice is what threw her off a bit because she could have sworn that she heard it once before though she couldn't place it now. As Akiza thought this over she watched as the two walked off, but not before catching the eyes of the white haired girl whose bright blue colored eyes board into her silvery onyx colored ones before the white hair girl smiled at her to which cought Akiza off guard.
'Can she sense me up here or did she guess?' Akiza thought as she looked wide eyed at the girl who looked away and ran to catch up to the boy. 'There's just no way she saw me or sensed my Chakra because out of all the Genin I'm the best and more advanced at sealing off my Chakra so the enemy can't find me. There's just no way. It was just guess, right?'
Akiza jumped out of the tree just as Sasuke walked passed the two making him stop and look back at them before he drew his attention to Naruto.
"I've seen some pretty weird things in my life, but this one take the cake," Naruto stated before Sasuke hit him on the head. "OW!" Naruto looked at Sasuke with glare. "What did you do that for?"
"Hey, twerp did you forget about breakfast?" Sasuke asked, "your such a loser."
Akiza let out a sigh as Naruto gave Sasuke a huge ass grin making Sasuke to scowl at it and with one last sigh Akiza turned around and jumped back up into a tree to relax.
Afternoon!
Akiza sat in a branch watching as Sakura and Kakashi came into view when all of a sudden a kunai was thrown in front of them making all three to look at the tree where it came from to see Naruto lying on a branch with a big ass smile.
"Naruto can climb that high now using his Chakra," Sakura said astounded, "wow. That's great."
"What do you think?" Naruto called down to them, "high enough for you two? It's a long ways down."
Naruto shot up on the tree branch and what happened next had Sakura freaking out and Kakashi staring wide eyed while Akiza looked at Naruto with annoyances.
"Naruto!"
"Uh-oh."
Naruto used the Chakra in his feet to hang upside from the tree branch making Akiza to growl under her breath as Naruto laughed at Sakura and Kakashi.
"Just kidding," Naruto called to them, "you guys really fall for it."
"We were really worried about you, Naruto," Sakura told him.
Akiza jumped down to stand next to Kakashi who gave her a nod to which she returned.
"Why do I think that this is going to end badly?" Kakashi asked.
"Maybe because it is," Akiza answered just as Naruto lost control of his Chakra.
Both Kakashi and Sakura's eyes widen in fear, shock, and worry.
"You just had to push it, didn't you, you show off?" Sakura asked.
Akiza let out a sigh as she ran up the tree just as Sasuke got Naruto around his ankle, so Akiza stood off to the side waiting for something to happen.
"You really are a total loser, Naruto," Sasuke told him.
"Sasuke?" Naruto asked.
"Ah!" Sakura yelled, "yeah, Sasuke, your the best!"
Akiza moved fast and just as Sasuke lost control of his Chakra because of Naruto which resulted in Sakura and Kakashi to freak again. Akiza placed a good amount of Chakra in her feet, grabbed Sasuke by his ankle, and hanged upside down on the tree branch with an annoyed look on her face while Sakura and Kakashi let out a sigh of relief.
"Now whose the loser, Sasuke?"Akiza asked.
"If I'm still sane by the time I finish their training it'll be a miracle," Kakashi stated.
Akiza looked at him with a glare making him to sweat drop before she pulled wire from her pouch and used it to lower them all down to the ground safely. When Akiza walked by Kakashi she looked at him with an indifferent look on her face.
"If we're both sane by the time training is no longer needed then that would be a miracle.," she stated.
Kakashi cackled as Akiza walked away leaving Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to look after her.
Dinner Time!
Akiza sat the table in Tazuna's home next to Kakashi waiting for Sasuke and Naruto to come back from where ever they were as Tsunami laid the table with food.
"Now their both late," Sakura pointed out, "I wouldn't have expected that from Sasuke..."
They looked towards the door when they heard it open to see Sasuke walking in supporting a tried looking Naruto.
"What are you up to?" Tazuna asked, "you look like something the cat dragged in."
Akiza sweat dropped, but she knew that it was true.
"We both made it," Naruto told Kakashi, "we climbed all the way to the top."
"Good," Kakashi said with a nod of his head, "now we move on. Starting to tomorrow your both bodyguards for Tazuna."
Naruto smiled hugely before he thrust his fist into the air while yelling, "Alright!"
This resulted in him knocked both him and Sasuke to the ground.
"Ah, your such a loser," Sasuke told him as the others laughed.
Akiza looked at the scene before he with boredom.
Tea time!
"In a few more day's the bridge will be finished and I have you to thank for that," Tazuna was telling them.
Akiza let out a sigh as she laid her head on her arms thinking about being home in her own bed way from the pain in the asses AKA Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto. The only one who she could stand was Kakashi and that was a bit of shocker for she always losing her temper with the other Jonins back in the Leaf Village.
"You all done great, but you really should be careful," Tsunami told them.
"I've been meaning to ask you this, but I didn't have a chance till now," Tazuna told them, "why did you stay and protect me even though I lied to bring you here?"
"Those who stray from the path of justice have no courage, but only with a strong leader cowardice can not survive," Kakashi answered.
"Huh?"
Akiza looked at Kakashi with a raised eyebrow.
"That was a quote from the First Hokage, right?" she asked.
"Yes," Kakashi answered her as he smiled his one closed eye smile.
Akiza let out a sigh as she closed her eyes before opening them again.
"By why?" a small voice asked.
Both Akiza and Naruto looked up at Inari to see tears in his eyes.
"What you say?" Naruto asked.
"All this stupid training is a waste of time!" Inari yelled at them, "Gato's got a whole army and they'll beat you down and destroy you! All these's cool things you say...they don't mean anything! Now matter what you do the strong always wins and the weak always lose!"
"Idiot," Akiza snorted.
"Speak for yourself," Naruto told him, "it won't be like that for me. You got that?"
"Why don't you just be quiet?!" Inari shouted at him, "just looking at you makes me sick! You don't anything about this country! You're just butting in! Always laughing and playing around! You don't know what it's like to suffer and be treated like dirt!"
"Listen to yourself always whining and complaining like some sorry little victim!" Naruto shouted next, "you can whimper all day for all I care!" Naruto then lifted his head up that he had laid down. "Your nothing, but a coward!" Akiza felt her eyes twitched before she shot Naruto a glare that made Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi flinched.
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT SAYING THAT TO A KID!" Akiza yelled. "THAT WAS GOING TO FAR UZUMAKI!" Inari by now was crying his eyes out as Akiza glared Naruto down who had almost fall out of his chair, but she soon let out a sigh before she said a bit more calmer. "I know where your coming from Naruto I do, but saying something like that to a kid is uncall for. Ever saying something like that to a kid again and I'll make you wish you were never born. Do I make myself clear Naruto?"
"Yes," Naruto answered scared out of his mind.
Akiza threw him one last dark look before walking out of the house and into the woods leaving the others to look after. Naruto was the next to get up out of his set to walk out.
"She's right Naruto, you went to far," Sakura told him, but he just walked away from them, "Naruto?"
Forest!
Akiza walked through the forest heading for the clearing that had come to the other night, but it wasn't long till she felt a Chakra presence that she knew to well making her to run into the clearing where she pulled out a kunai. Akiza looked around at the surrounding forest looking for the spy hoping that she was wrong about who she thinks is spying on her.
"Come on out!" Akiza ordered, "I know your there Itachi Uchiha." There was a ruffle in the bushes behind her which made her spin around with her Sharingan active to see a pair of Sharingan eyes looking at her from the shadows. Akiza growled under her breath as a long black haired boy wearing a cloak with red clouds sown on them walking towards her. "I never thought you'll show your face to me again after what happened last time Weasel-Kun."
Akiza smirk when the boy's eye twitched.
"It's been a long time hasn't it Akiza?" the boy asked her.
"I suppose it has Itachi, but I really don't care because I didn't dwell in the past like Sasuke does," Akiza answered him as Itachi glared at her as she just glared back not even phased by his glare in the least. "Let's get down to business shall we? Now what are you here for Itachi?"
"The Leader of the Akatsuki would like you to join us Akiza," Itachi answered.
"And what would happen if I said no?"
"I'm afraid I'll have to force you, too."
Akiza looked at him for a bit before she burst into laughter at the thought of Itachi trying to force her into his group of S-Classed Criminals. Akiza was now holding her sides from laughing so hard while Itachi looked half amused and half annoyed at the same time.
"You force me?" Akiza asked after she calmed down.
"If I have to."
"I can't believe you have the guts to say that Itachi," Akiza stated with an amused look, "I mean I am quicker and smarter then you. So how can you force me if I'm the one kicking you ass?" Itachi growled as he saw the truth in what Akiza had just said to him. "I'm afraid I have to say no."
Akiza waved at him before disappearing in a puff of smoke leaving Itachi standing there looking pissed off as hell. Watch World because Hell hath no wrath like a pissed off Itachi Uchiha.
Morning!
Kakashi, Tazuna, and three of the four Genins stood outside of the house and in front of Tsunami with their gear.
"Alright I leave Naruto in your capable hands," Kakashi told her, "he pushed his body to the limit over doing as usually. So he might not be able to move today at all."
"What about you?" Tsunami asked, "your still recovering yourself."
"why?" Kakashi asked, "do I look wobble. I'll be ok."
They all turned to walk off though Akiza was already ahead of them just keeping her head down.
"Come on let's go," Tazuna told them.
Kakashi looked ahead of them at Akiza with a worried look on his face knowing that things just might get out of hand.
The bridge!
Akiza was the first to get to the bridge and noticed that workers where on the ground out cold and injuried, so she slowly pulled out her sword just as the others arrived.
"Hold on!" Tazuna shouted, "what the hack is this?" Akiza rolled her eyes well keeping a close eye on her surroundings. "Some one was here. Some one got to them."
'Could it be?' Kakashi thought before a mist started in, "this mist...Sasuke, Sakura, Akiza get ready." Sasuke and Sakura moved to protect Tazuna while Akiza stood in front of them in a defensive stance. "I knew he was alive. He just couldn't wait for round 2."
"Kakashi-Sensei, it's Zabuza isn't?" Sakura asked, "this is his Hidden Mist Jutsu."
{Me: No, really? Of course it's Zabuza's Hidden Mist Jutsu, you pink haired freak.}
"Sorry to keep you waiting Kakashi," Zabuza's voice sounded around them, "I see you still have those brats with you." Akiza could hear Sasuke trembling from behind her. "That one's still trembling. Pitiful."
At that moment they were all surrounded by Zabuza's Water Clones, but Sasuke smirked.
"I'm trembling with...excitement," Sasuke told him.
"Go on Sasuke," Kakashi approved.
Sasuke moved with quick reflexes and was able to destroy all of the clones before he landed back in place.
'I can see it,' he thought.
"Oh, so you could see they were Water Clones, uh?" Zabuza asked as he and his two goons came into view. "The brat's improving. Looks like you go a rival Haku. And the dark haired female genin seems to be more of a challenge for you, Luna."
"So it seems," both Luna and Haku agreed.
Akiza and Sasuke glared at the two of Zabuza's goons as they ready their weapons.