Amara Kagome, Replacement Mom!

By Sevieiscute

Disclaimer: Still don't own them; I'm just borrowing for a little bit.

Last time:

"A man, a demon in the mist…cough… attacked us… cough." The man said, trying very hard to finish his sentence.

"That's enough mister, please, rest." Sora said.

Suddenly, horrendous laughter started up.

Kakashi's eyes narrowed and he uttered one word. "Zabuza."

Now:

A voice rose out of the mist. "It's been awhile Kakashi, I see you're still well."

Suddenly, four Zabuza's surrounded the group. With a nod from Kakashi, Sasuke ran around and made short work of them. Disintegrating them into water.

The mists started to clear.

"I see that one might be a match for you Haku." The person beside Zabuza nodded.

"So he was working on Zabuza's side all along." said Sasuke. "I hate imposters… this fight is mine." He said decidedly.

In a whirl, both boys were hurtling themselves at each other, and Nhin could only watch in horror as she slowly recognized the masked boy's outfit.

The two boys were evenly matched in speed. Even Tazuna could tell.

Then, the two boy's weapons clashed, stopping them at a standstill.

"I don't want to kill you, but you won't leave will you?"

"Don't be stupid" spat Sasuke.

"I thought so" said Haku, before pushing off, and making seals.

Suddenly, walls of ice surrounded Sasuke, and the boy stepped in and merged with one of the blocks.

Worried, Kakashi, pushed off and ran to get to Sasuke, but was stopped by Zabuza. They exchanged words, and Kakashi started to fight with Zabuza.

Nhin knew she was free, so she left Tazuna to Sora, and started to run over to Sasuke, when Zabuza's voice stopped her.

"Stay, or else I will kill those two."

Nhin had no choice but to watch in horror as Sasuke was attacked from all sides, helplessly becoming weaker and weaker.

Suddenly, a kunai came out of nowhere, and struck Haku across the mask, making a diagonal line across his mask.

"Sasuke, what can you do without me?" questioned the newly arrived Naruto, grinning at his brother.

"You idiot" was all Sasuke could say as Naruto appeared next to him.

Nhin nearly fainted… why had Naruto gotten himself stuck within the trap also? With a glance at Kakashi, Nhin knew that he wouldn't want any help.

"Hey! Kakashi's whore, remember me?" said a voice from the side.

Nhin turned around to spot Mai. Angry, she taunted "hey bitch, ready to lose round two too?"

With that, the two women started their fight.

Rushing at each other, kunai's clashing; Nhin could tell that as she had been, Mai had been training in the time since they had met.

Breathing hard, both women glared at each other.

Suddenly, Mai looked over Nhin's shoulder. "Your students are going to die today." With that, a cry rang out.

Distracting Nhin, Mai took this chance to stab a kunai into the right side of Nhin's stomach.

Nhin, only flinching slightly, grabbed her hand, and proceeded to stab her own kunai into Mai's shoulder, disabling her arm. Mai let out a cry, and both women let go and backed up.

"My time is up, kill you later whore." Said Mai bleeding heavily as she ran away. Nhin could only smile in triumph, she technically won this one.

All at once, Nhin was able to sense a huge amount of chakra behind her. She whirled around and saw Kakashi about to dig that frightening amount of chakra into Zabuza. In horror as she recognized the scene, Nhin could only scream one word.

"STOP!"

Nhin rushed over there, and time seemed to slow as she could see Kakashi start to move his hand in, and Haku jump in front of Zabuza.

Some how, Nhin was able to reach them in time, and at a critical moment, pushed Kakashi's hand away.

Not expecting this, Kakashi and his charka literally blew up, causing Kakashi, Nhin, Haku, and Zabuza to be flung onto the ground.

Kakashi sat up in confusion. What had just happened? How did Nhin move so fast? He checked his own injuries, concluding that he was just chakra exhausted.

Then, he remembered Nhin. A wet hacking cough filled his ears. He rushed over to her side, to see a stream of blood coming out of her mouth. Frightened for the first time in a long time, He asked, "why?"

Coughing, she could only reply "Because… there is enough sadness… in the world." He could only stare in shock as she slowly pushed herself up, then he came to his senses and helped her up. They went over to Zabuza and Haku.

Haku was lying on the ground, his face still and pale. Zabuza lay not far away, laughing. Haku had protected him from most of the blast, but he was still injured.

In a flash, Naruto came up running. He took one look at Haku, and then glared at Zabuza.

"How could you laugh?" he said, his voice shaking.

"How could you laugh when your most precious person is likely dead!" He shouted.

"He did his job, he protected me."

Another voice suddenly drifted over to them.

"I see you have failed me again Zabuza." Said a man dressed in a business suit, which one could only guess as Gato.

"Oh, this one, I owe him one for hurting my arm" said Gato, as he kicked Haku's still body in the face. In the distance, Nhin saw that at the kick, Haku spit up some blood. He wasn't dead yet!

Naruto whirled around at Zabuza. "How could you watch, as some asshole hurts him? You know, he loves you. You are his savior, his reason to live. HOW CAN YOU FEEL NOTHING!"

"Naruto, that's enough." Said Kakashi, looking into the remorseful eyes of Zabuza.

"Kid, lemme borrow a kunai." Said a slightly paralyzed Zabuza. Naruto threw one to him, and he deftly caught it between his teeth.

Gato, getting scared, went and hid behind all the missing-nin he had hired. There were at least 30 of them, including Mai.

"Don't worry honey, I'll protect you," cooed Mai.

"There's nothing he can do, we outnumber him!" shouted the group, looking with laughter at Zabuza.

"There is a reason I am called the Demon of the Mist." replied Zabuza, before rushing in, and slaughtering left and right.

Within seconds, he had broken through their ranks. "Umm… I'll catch you later Gato." yelled Mai as she ran away, leaving him alone at the mercy of Zabuza.

Zabuza quickly slit his throat, and rushed back over to Haku, collapsing.

The missing-nin were angry. "You killed out employer you bastard!"

Naruto stood proud. "Kage- Bunshin no Jutsu" he exclaimed, creating another 15 Narutos. He was copied by Kakashi, and soon there were 15 more Kakashis. The missing-nin still had fighting spirit, until a voice called out.

"Leave, or we will kill you!" yelled Inari from behind the shinobi. He had managed to unite the divided town members.

The missing-nin, obviously outnumbered, clamored over each other to get out of there.

With a shout, the villagers celebrated, they were free of Gato.

A cough from the injured Zabuza quickly killed their laughter. Apprehensively, they looked at the man, who was sitting near the still form of Haku.

Kakashi, walked over to him, supported Nhin the whole way.

Surprisingly, Zabuza had tears in his eyes as he glanced at the ever growing pale face of Haku.

"He's not dead yet, you can still get him to a hospital if you hurry." Said Nhin, worried for the boy.

"Funny that you mention leaving here alive." replied Zabuza, looking at Kakashi.

Kakashi shrugged. "You're not working for Gato anymore, so there's no reason to fight. Unless you still want to."

"Not now, there are more important matters to do" said Zabuza very uncharacteristically.

As Zabuza stood up with the injured Haku in his weakening arms, Nhin said "Be good to him"

"I know. I'll also pay you back someday." Zabuza said, gesturing to Nhin, meaning the way she had saved his and Haku's life.

With that, Zabuza rushed away.

Nhin smiled a pained smile, before she realized. "Naruto, where's Sasuke"

Naruto looked up at her, his eyes full of tears. "What will I tell mom now?"

"Oh no…" was all that Nhin could gasp out before she was frantically running to the now apparent still body of Sasuke.

It seemed Sora had beat Nhin there, and was staring at Sasuke with wide eyes. Wordlessly, she moved out of the way for Nhin, who cradled Sasuke in her arms.

"Sasuke… no… it can't be…" she said, tears pouring out of her eyes, falling upon the pale face of her son.

"Yen-san, you should care for your wounds, I'll take care of Sasuke" said Tazuna, placing a hand upon her shoulder.

Nhin jerked away from his hand, yelling, "NO, he's not dead yet… he can't be dead… HE'S NOT DEAD!"

Suddenly, Sasuke started coughing up, amazing the villagers, and Nhin smiled down at the slowly opening eyes.

"It's good that you're alright." She said, as he sat up.

The image of Sasuke started looking distorted, and Nhin felt so tired already. She looked at Sasuke, why was he covered in so much blood? Then she looked down and realized that was her blood. The last thing she heard before she passed out was, "NHIN-SENSEI!"

Some time later, Nhin opened her eyes to an awkward sight. Kakashi was hovering over her, his eyes semi-red. When he saw her open eyes, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hi to you too" rasped out Nhin.

Kakashi looked like he was about to say something, not that you could see his mouth open, when Naruto burst in the room.

"Nhin-sensei! You're awake!"

"Thanks for stating the obvious idiot" stated a more quiet Sasuke

If Nhin could, she would classic anime style faint.

"Don't you two know you're disturbing her?" said Sora.

"Oh" come from Naruto, while Sasuke just grunted.

"How long have I been out?" Nhin questioned to the group.

"About a week" said Naruto, "I've never seen anyone sleep that long."

His reply was met with stupefied silence.

"Anyways, you three go out and pack up, I think it's time we headed back to Konoha" Kakashi commanded.

The three left semi-silently, with a bit of complaining on Naruto's side.

"Do you think I can travel now?"

"I put you in a healing coma, so you should be good to go in about an hour."

"Oh"

An awkward silence filled the room.

"So why did you do it?" asked Kakashi suddenly.

"Do what?"

"Saved them, stop me from killing them?"

"Oh, well, they deserve happiness. I couldn't, I couldn't bear to see their pure love destroyed." She said uncomfortably. "and I couldn't bear to see you killing him" she said, looking up into Kakashi's eyes.

Those deep eyes curved mischievously. "Good enough for me. So how did you move that fast?"

"Huh?"

"Never mind" said Kakashi, smiling at her.

A couple of hours later, the team was waving goodbye to the village, after Tazuna had told them the "great" name of the bridge.

Slowly, they trekked their way back to Konoha.

Mostly, the team traveled in companionable silence, excluding the random outbursts from Naruto. Without other people constantly attacking them, they traveled much faster. Yet, they would still have to camp one night in the forest.

That night, after the three students and Kakashi were asleep, Nhin sat, keeping watch. Rather, she wasn't really keeping watch for attackers, but watching the dying fire. She couldn't keep the images of the fights and deaths she'd witnessed out of her mind. She couldn't keep the visions of randomness from passing through her head. Distracted, she didn't even notice when Kakashi came up, and sat behind her, until she felt his arms wrap around her.

"Just stop thinking about it, it was kill or be killed" said Kakashi, knowingly.

"It's not about that, I'm just wondering what Zabuza and Haku are doing right now" she said, smiling a deceptive smile.

"Come up" said Kakashi, getting up, then pulling her up. "Come with me"

"But the kids…"

"They'll be in sight, don't worry" he said, winking at her.

Kakashi made Nhin close her eyes, and pulled her a little ways off into the forest.

"Ok, now open your eyes"

The sight that met Nhin's eyes was breathtaking. It was a clear lake, illuminated by the smooth white light of the moon, making the lake shine up.

"It's beautiful" breathed Nhin.

"Just for tonight, if not every night, forget about your worries, and just sit here, with me, watching the moon," said Kakashi, holding out his hand.

Nhin nodded, smiling, and accepted Kakashi's hand.