Ren: "You know the drill, Chapter 10 is up."

Naruto: "Ren does not own me or anything related to me if she did she would be a multibillionaire."

-Chapter 10: "Water Walking And The Return Of The Demon Hidden In The Mist."-

Naruto was happily snoozing away in one of the rooms Tsunami lent them to use when all of sudden he jerked awake as something cold and wet made contact with his face.

"Blarghhh!" Naruto cried out sitting up spluttering and coughing.

The blonde looked up to see the culprit turned out to be Serena with one hand on her hip while the other held a metal bucket.

"Now that you've gotten your beauty rest you can get up, it's time for training," Serena drawled.

Ignoring the curses being thrown at her from the blonde, Serena turned on her heel and walked right out of the room so the Uzumaki could get dressed from his green boxers and mole night cap. A few minutes later the genin and their sensei were gathered at the edge of the lake down the shore from Tazuna's cottage.

"Ok, since you've all mastered the tree walking exercise the next lesson in chakra control is to accomplish the task of water walking," Serena instructed.

Naruto and Sakura stared wide eyed at the kunoichi.

"Are you crazy?! You expect us to be able to walk on water?" Naruto deadpanned to the raven kunoichi.

"I did it yesterday, Kakashi-sensei did it yesterday, Haku did it yesterday, Zabuza did it yesterday; what makes you think you can't do it?" Serena pointed out.

Naruto fell silent at this proclamation and Serena was free to move on by quickly summoning chakra to her feet and walked onto the surface of the lake being careful to distribute her chakra evenly.

Turning around to face the genin she started to explain the concept to the three, "Think of the tree walking exercise if that helps but with a few variations. A tree you don't have to predict where it's going and redistribute your chakra because it's a stationary object, it can't move. Where as with water it is constantly moving from some way or another, by the wind or winged insects or aquatic animals so you have distribute your chakra all around the bottom of your feet instead of just one spot and keep checking the chakra as the waves of the water move. You still have to be wary of the amount of chakra you send to your feet because if you send too little you'll fall right in, where as if you send too much you'll get blasted off from the water exploding."

The three genin nodded to tell the kunoichi they understood and started to summon chakra of their own. When they were ready they each summoned up the courage to slowly step up next to the lake and step out onto the water. Or tried to at least, each genin had a different result.

Naruto fell in right away with a big splash.

Sasuke wasn't completely standing on the water his feet sinking below the surface up to mid-calf before he couldn't control it and fell in.

Sakura actually did manage to stand on the surface but she hadn't acquired the skill of multitasking yet as Serena proved later by flinging a kunai at the squealing pinkette in annoyance. The pinkette shrieked, lost control of her chakra and fell in. When she surfaced later spluttering and coughing Sakura glared hard at her fellow kunoichi.

"Gomen, slipped; you also need to work on that multitasking skill as well," was Serena's excuse.

Kakashi snorted in his book.

Then just to spite the pinkette, Serena used her water affinity to make some of the water squirt in the pinkette's face.

"-Why you-!" Sakura growled leaping at the smirking kunoichi.

Quickly summoning more on her affinity, Serena stepped up as if she were going up a staircase and the water rose up to meet her foot, stepping up again Serena was now higher than Sakura's attack range allowing Sakura flow under her and fall back into the lake.

Sakura stared up at Serena in anger and awe when she surfaced.

"Before you attack me, remember this pinky, water is my strongest affinity. So I'd watch it if I were you because the next time you attack me I'll do more than just squirt water in your face and put on a fancy water show. Got that, forehead?" Serena growled icily giving the pinkette a death glare that sent Sasuke's cowering under the blankets.

Sakura was about to snap back a comment but Kakashi being the good person he was, decided to intervene once again.

"Enough you two! Keep this up and you'll both be worse than when Sasuke and Naruto fight," Kakashi cut in not looking up from his book.

"Hmph," came from Sakura.

"Hn, whatever," came from Serena who turned walking away from the team disappearing beyond the trees at the edge of the lake.

"Don't cause too much trouble," Kakashi said to the three genin before darting after the disappearing kunoichi.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Naruto hollered after the jounin.

"Yo, Serena-san, wait up!" Kakashi called to the raven as he hurried to catch up to the girl.

Sighing, Serena lent against a tree with her eyes closed and arms crossed.

"What do you want, Kakashi?" Serena droned to the grey haired cyclop.

"Actually, I was wanting to know what you plan on teaching the genin after this?" Kakashi asked meekly rubbing the back of his head.

"Well their chakra control will be where it needs to be for what an average genin needs it to be once they've accomplished the water walking exercise. I have an idea! How about we work on their ability to sense chakra signatures? I know a really good method and it would be a very useful aide," Serena suggested.

Kakashi nodded content with that answer.

"Perfect," he commented.

"Now, I have a question for you Kakashi-sensei; when are you going to teach me this Chidori jab? I'm helping you train the genin so what about your end of the deal?" Serena inquired if only a little perplexed then slightly annoyed.

"Actually, I was thinking about that as you mentioned it so I thought right now would be a good time while Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto are busy with their water walking technique," Kakashi answered the kunoichi.

Serena was content with this answer.

"Ok, I'm ready when you are," Serena said to the silver shinobi.

"First off, take off those weights and I mean all of it! You're going to need all of the speed you possess to perform the Chidori," Kakashi instructed.

"Erm, um…okay," Serena said slowly with a blank face shrugging.

Once all 600 lbs were removed from Serena's limbs the raven felt like she could moon walk all over the earth.

"Okay to perform the Chidori you must form the required hand signs which I will give you in just a moment, then poor all of your chakra into your left or right hand depending on which hand you prefer, after that you release it on an object or enemy by punching the target with the Chidori and all of this must be performed at a very fast pace," Kakashi explained the attributes of his jutsu.

Once Serena was taught the necessary hand signs, she chose a target in the form of a boulder near by she back flipped to get a good running distance only to crouch low to the ground afterwards with her feet spread apart to allow her left arm be steadied between them with Serena's right hand, the left hand spread out in a claw like fashion just barely brushing against the topsoil all of this being done after the necessary hand signs were performed, of course.

Gradually sparks of blue lightning danced and played between the kuniochi's fingers and palm. Eventually it got to the point where the lightning became more frequently pronounced to where it bounced and rebounded off of each other so much that a sound emitted from the blue ball of electricity very much akin to that of a multitude of birds giving anyone the impression if they were watching that the Drystilia was holding a blue, chirping ball of lightning.

Serena took this as her cue to start sprinting toward her target but in Kakashi's eyes you would think she would have been a ghost as one minute he saw the girl just crouching low to the ground then she wasn't and the next thing Kakashi knew Serena had appeared before the granite mineral her arm reared back to be thrusted forward to punch the boulder as if it were an actual enemy shinobi, shouting at the top of her lungs at the same time,

"CHIDORI!"

BOOM!

A huge cloud of smoke and debris filled the clearing making Kakashi cover his exposed eye until the gray mushroom-like cloud dissipated and the laid back shinobi was able to lower his arm to observe the damage.

"Hm, not bad, not bad at all," Kakashi commented his opinion.

"Well, I can see that you no longer any of my assistance from the looks of things, so I will head on back to watch over the kiddos. Keep performing the Chidori and keep track of how many you can do; once you've run out of enough chakra to perform anymore chidoris that's the limit to how many chidoris you can do. Any beyond that limit could lead to your death from zero chakra," Kakashi instructed once more before disappearing from the clearing.

Serena shook her head in annoyance.

"I guess that's all you can expect from Hatake Kakashi the Copy-cat nin. Well, better get to work then, and I should probably find more boulders," She thought.

After finding good enough targets, the raven kunoichi set to work.

"Yo, how's everything going?" Kakashi announced his presence to the three genin once he returned to the lake making Naruto lose concentration the result to that was to fall in the lake once again with a big screech (Waah!) and splash.

Sakura burst out laughing at the sight as she stood on top of the water observing the two male shinobi's progress and efforts. Sasuke himself was starting to get the hang of water walking as he stood on the surface of the lake with one foot, and yet not for the other foot was still ankle deep below the surface of the lake.

"Hey, where'd Serena-san go? Wasn't she with you?" Naruto asked curiously when he surfaced.

At that precise moment a loud BOOM! sounded throughout the forest and lake making birds take to the sky screeching in alarm and surprise. The three genin looked for the source and stared wide eyed at the dome of dust and smoke just barely peeking over the tree tops behind Kakashi.

"Training," was all Kakashi answered not even bothering to look behind his shoulder to know what happened.

The three genin stared at their jounin-sensei with quizzical looks.

"Training?" Sakura echoed in question form with a frown etched on her face.

"Hai, did you forget that she's also a genin just like the three of you and therefore must be taught just as well?" Kakashi pointed out.

An "Oh" formed on the lips of the three genins' mouths. Another BOOM! made its presence known almost teasingly to the genin. Next thing Kakashi knew Naruto was out of the water racing for the edge of the forest.

"H-hey! Where do you think you're going?" Kakashi cried out to the boy as he passed him.

"To see what Serena-san's training on, of course," Naruto shouted back as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

Sakura and Sasuke looked at each other before following after the blonde.

"You're supposed to be training!" Kakashi hollered after the two in annoyance before giving up and following his students.

Serena was barely even sweating when Naruto rushed out of the bushes followed shortly by Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi. Naruto took one glance at the crater sized holes in the boulders before he started 'ooing' and 'awwing' over them.

Serena, who was annoyed at the interruption, scowled and glared at the blonde as he bobbed around her asking questions like, "How did you do that?" "Are you really training? Kakashi said you were!" and most of all "Can I watch?"

Finally, she got so annoyed she bonked the Uzumaki on the head to make him shut up and stop moving around.

"Shut up, dork!" She growled at him then the Drystilia turned her glare on Kakashi knowing full well that he was the one responsible for this intrusion.

"Nani? Don't look at me like that! They asked me where you were so I told them you were training and now they want to see what you're training on! Is that a crime?" Kakashi defended himself before hiding behind his porn book.

Serena sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"So what's the count?" Kakashi had the nerve to ask.

"Five, right now but I still have half of my chakra left," Serena answered gruffly.

"Five!? I can barely do four!" Kakashi choked on his words.

"The great copy-cat nin Hatake Kakashi can't even do five Chidoris! How disappointing," Serena drawled rolling her eyes.

Kakashi face faulted in a deadpan. Sakura got out a stick and started poking Kakashi in the back of the head to see if he was still in the world of the living.

"Eh, Kakashi-sensei? You alive still?" Sakura questioned.

Kakashi yanked the stick out of Sakura's hands and whacked Serena over the head with it.

"Oi, what the hell was that for?" Serena roared at the cyclop rubbing her head glaring daggers at the jounin teacher.

"For being a smartass!" Kakashi shot back with a glare of his own.

"Well, I'd rather be a smartass than a lazy hentai like you!" Serena growled.

"Uh, guys?" Naruto tried to intervene the bickering couple.

"-I'll have you know I'm a respectable and honorable sensei-" Kakashi tried to defend himself hotly.

"-Respectable and honorable my ass! All you do is sit on a log somewhere and read that porn book of yours!" Serena cut in.

"Guys?" Naruto tried again meekly before a bag of popcorn was held in front of his face making him blink in surprise.

He looked to see the hand belonged to Sasuke, of all people, who was munching on some while watching the argument.

"Eh, where the heck did you get a bag of popcorn all the way out here in the middle of an effing forest?" Naruto asked dubiously.

Sasuke merely pointed to a stand at the edge of the clearing where a brunette with crystal blue eyes was selling bags of popcorn like crazy to a line of people while shouting, "BUY A BAG OF POPCORN AND WATCH SERENA AND KAKASHI ARGUE LIKE AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE!"

Serena and Kakashi got pissed at this comment and chased the line of people away destroying the popcorn stand in the process.

The brunette was collapsed on the ground, with streams of tears running down her cheeks, deadpanning, "Everybody is a critic! It was just an idea, no need to get mean!"

The next day, since Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura were still perfecting their water walking exercise Kakashi and Serena had to head to the bridge alone to guard Tazuna. Of course, Kakashi left a clone with the three genin in case of kami-knows-what. When the threesome arrived at the bridge however it appeared to be a different story as they found out when they discovered the dead corpses of Tazuna's fellow co-workers.

"What the-! What is this?" Tazuna stuttered in outrage and shock once he saw this.

"It appears that Zabuza and Haku have struck again. We should warn Sasuke-san and the others our enemies may try to strike by targeting Inari-san and Tsunami-san while we're fighting," Serena said thoughtfully.

"Agreed," Kakashi confirmed.

Serena formed a mizu bunshin and sent it to the others. No sooner had she done that white fog thicker than a pillow rolled in and gave off an ominous vibe that immediately mad Kakashi and Serena rush to Tazuna. Serena guarding the back and Kakashi guarding the front.

"What is it? Douka shimashita ka?" Tazuna inquired a little hesitantly as he looked at the two.

"They're here," was all Serena said staring out at the white fog that descended upon them like the shadow in a collapsed cavern at night.

Kakashi nodded to confirm Serena-san's words before deciding to speak up and let Zabuza and his apprentice know that they were fooling no one.

"Reveal yourself, Zabuza or are you going to hide yourself like the coward you are?" his voice rang out.

A pause of tense silence lasted minutes before a sudden sound of sadistic laughter rang out all around them. Serena couldn't help but roll her eyes at the drama Zabuza was trying to press on them.

"What a hakuchi! Can he hurry up so we can get this over with? This is so boring I'd rather count all of the stones at the bottom of the sea than listen to this hyena!" Serena thought in a bored like manner and yawned.

"Alright, you clown on crack! Hurry up and get your ass out here I got better things to do than listen to you laugh like some hobo on laughing gas," She snapped to the air.

As if to retaliate to Serena's insults a reign of senbon appeared out of the fog and tried to ensue chaos upon the threesome.

"Our goal is to protect the bridge builder at all costs! I guess it's time to bring out the big guns," Serena thought biting her thumb to draw some blood.

Then she quickly began to make hand signs unrecognizable to Kakashi and the two nuke-nin's eyes.

Boar, Rabbit, Tiger, Rabbit, Tiger, Dragon.

"Kami's Amatsu Purotekushon no jutsu!"(Ninja Art: God's Heavenly Protection jutsu) (My jutsu no copying!!) Serena called out before slamming her hands down on the ground.

A whitish-transparentish sphere with three layers surrounded the three before Serena stood back up and the senbon bounced harmlessly off of the middle layer of the sphere to lay at the ground.

"Uh, Serena-san? What is this jutsu? I've never seen it before and what does it do?" Kakashi asked slowly as he eyed the sphere around him.

"You wouldn't have heard of this jutsu before Kakashi. Why, is because I created this jutsu and have only used it about two times in my life time and those who have seen me use it have perished at my hands. The name of this jutsu is called Kami's Amatsu Purotekushon no jutsu. Basically it's a shield in the shape of one giant ball with three layers to it and it's impenetrable. The reason why that is because of the three layers, the first layer is to stop any human being or animal from entering the shield, the second layer is to stop any weapons or projectiles from attack us while the third and last layer is to stop offensive jutsus such as the Katon jutsus, Kawarimi no jutsu, and the Shunshin no jutsu. You have to be careful though, because once you leave the shield you can not return. There is also only two ways to get rid of the jutsu, one is if the caster dispels the jutsu via chakra and the other way is……" Serena trailed off.

"What? The other way is to what?" Tazuna was the one to ask these questions perplexed.

"Is to kill me!"Serena answered in a deadly voice.

Ren: "Oh, I am evil! Another cliffy, wohoo! I rock!!"

Naruto cast and crew: "Noooo, not another evil cliffy!"

Ren: "If you want to find out what happens next, read and review!"

Glossary:

Douka shimashita ka?­-Is something wrong?

Kami's Amatsu Purotekushon no Jutsu-Ninja Art: God's Heavenly Protection jutsu for explanation read the chapter.