The broken seal and past
Naruto's appearance changed. Haku was armed with his weapons and Naruto charged at him on all fours. Haku threw his senbon needles at him but Naruto's chakra alone deflected it. "That's impossible!" Haku said.
"Where's this power coming from?" Sasuke thought. "It's entirely different from before!" he thought.
Naruto grabbed Haku's wrist and punched him away (Face shot!). Haku was sent rolling and as he was standing up his mask that was already cracked shattered and it's pieces fell to the ground as Naruto came running toward him again. . .
Naruto's fist was half a foot away from Haku's unmasked face. "You're the guy from before." Naruto said remembering the person he met in the forest.
"Why did you stop?" Haku asked.
? Naruto flinched.
"I killed an important nakama of yours, but you can't kill me?" Haku asked. Naruto looked back at Kenji's body. He scowled and clenched his fist. "Kuso!" he punched Haku in the face and he fell down again. Haku started to push himself up with his hands and he coughed out blood onto the bridge.
"Where did that energy of yours go? You can't defeat me like that." Haku said standing up. He wiped his chin. "I thought Kenji was your closest friend." he said. He fixed his posture and talked directly to Naruto. "There are those who have the wrong idea. They fail to defeat an enemy that needs to be defeated, show them mercy instead, and decide not to take his life. To me, that's not mercy at all." Haku said. "Do you know the pain of living without a dream? The feeling of not being needed by anyone. . ." he asked.
"What are you trying to say?" Naruto asked him.
"Zabuza-san does not need a weak shinobi. You stole my reason to exist." Haku told him.
"Why? Why do you fight for a guy like that?" Naruto asked him. "He gets money from bad guys and does evil things! Is that no-brow really the only important person you have?!" he exclaimed.
"I had people that were important to me a long time ago. My parents. . ." he remembered the faces of his family when they were happy. "I was born in a small village of the Country of the Water, where snow piled up deep. All we did was farm, and we were poor, but my mother and father were happy with it. I was happy, they were really kind parents." Then it all phased back to the present. "But when I first took notice of my surroundings, something happened." Haku stopped.
"Something? What happened?" Naruto asked. Haku lifted his hand to his face and looked at his own blood.
"This blood. . ." he said.
"Blood?" Naruto repeated. "So. . So what happened!?" he asked.
"My father killed my mother, then he tried to kill me." Haku answered.
"Eh?" Naruto uttered more shocked.
"Kekkei Genkai or bloodline traits are very powerful but in this world it seems like everything has a painful downside. Traits passed down through blood from parent to child, grandparent to grandchild. My country especially hated the Kekkei Genkai and anyone who wielded it. There were wars, soon everyone with the Kekkei Genkai were forced to hide it. Otherwise death would await them." Haku explained. "That includes Kenji who hid her eyes with Genjutsu, they're stuck on her face forever like a scar that won't fade. . ." he compared. "That boy probably had it rough too. Those with the Kekkei Genkai were feared. My mother possessed the Kekkei Genkai. She kept it a secret and married my father," he said. "and must've believed that an ordinary life would last a while. No, forever." he said.
He remembered when he first discovered his Kekkei Genkai, at first he found it magnificent until he was punished for having it. "But then my father found out about our secret." he said and remembered when his father attacked him.
"When I came to, I realized I killed my own father." he said. "And at the time I thought of myself as. . . No, I had to think of myself as being. . . I realized that that was the most painful thing one could feel." Haku said.
"The most painful thing that one could feel?" Naruto questioned.
"The feeling that you are not need by anyone in this world." Haku answered.
! ! ! "He's the same as me, dattebayo." Naruto said inwardly.
"Kenji was the same, I could tell by looking at her. I know why you two were so important to each other. You both wanted to gain admiration by skill, you had similar dreams. . . For me, that was only a little different. When someone who accepts you from the bottom of their heart appears, that person should become the most important person to you. Zabuza knew I had the Kekkei Genkai and raised me. He wanted this ability that everyone hated. . . . . . I was happy. . ." Haku's eyes changed. He was smiling at his peaceful memory.
Then his soft eyes and happy smile left his face. "I'm sorry, Zabuza, I couldn't be the tool you wished me to be. . ." Haku approached Naruto making him step back. "Naruto-kun, please. . . Kill me." Haku asked.
! ! Naruto barely moved. "Why are you hesitating? Isn't that the only way you can avenge Kenji's life?" Haku told him. Naruto moved back away from him.
"I can't believe that stupid story dattebayo! Weapon! Tool! You call a person like that important!? You're okay with that!?" Naruto shouted.
"Is that wrong?" Haku asked.
"Eh?" Naruto said.
"What's wrong with that?" Haku pointed out, Naruto couldn't find an argument for that.
"Zabuza had hopes for me. He needed me. . . . But I have lost the purpose that made me, me." a tear escaped from his eyes. "Zabuza will no longer need me." he said calmly. Naruto was very depressed at this. "That's why I am asking you. Now hurry!" he said.