Momoch Zabuza was one of the most feared rogue nins in the land of mist, was now a mecenary for hire. And after finding work killing for a man named Gauto, he had thought his life was finally coming together nicely, so when he had been ordered to hunt down and kill an old bridge builder before he could finish his work on his bridge, he had been more than happy to do so. And now he found himself stalking his prey through the god forsaken country side observing him and his bodyguards.

He had been mildly suprised by the appearance of Sharigan Kakashi. He had even thought of how much fun it would be to fight and maybe add his name to the list of corpses he had made over the years. Captureing Kakashi had been easy enough since the man had fallen into his trap when his little blond student had been under attack by his shadow clones and now that the teacher was out of the way all he needed to do was kill the bridge builder and the two kids.

He nearly snorted when he saw that both of Kakashi's students were girls. It was never any fun to kill them, all they did was cry and beg for their lives.

Kakashi watched in horror as he beat at his water prison until his hands bled. He had been so stupid to fall into the trap that had been set for him. Zabuza had attcked Naru thinking that she was the weakest one in the group, Kakashi had acted on the adrenaline and instinct that he had'nt been able to use before, and had rushed in to help her. He had even sworn to protect her and Sakura with his life, he blinked back tears as Naru took the front and called out to him.

"Sensei, don't worry. I will not let my comrads die, I will protect them with my life!" I will portect you with my life. Looking back at Sakura, Naru nodded her head to signal her, so that she and Tazuna could find a nice tree somewhere to hide. Sakura grabbed Tazuna and ran into the trees off to the side several feet away from Naru, not too far away just in case Sakura needed to help her friend, but enough to shield her and the client.

Zabuza stared at the small girl, if he stepped on her would he crush her bones under his feet? She was such a tiny and fragile looking thing. How could she think that she could take him? And yet there was no fear in her eyes, or showing on her face. She was totally confident that she could beat him. What was going through her mind? He wondered as he glanced at Kakashi, the man had stopped fighting and was simply staring at the blond with a helpless look on his face.

He could'nt be, could he? Did Kakashi have a thing for the young girl? Was she maybe someone close to him? If so then he would'nt fight him, when he was being killed. It was a bad way to carry out a job, it was low, dirty and underhanded. But Zabuza was a shinobi who had been given a task, and he would carry it through reguardless of his personal feelings. It really was a pity though, the girl was such a cute and innocent little thing.

Naru unzipped her jacket and shrugged it off as Zabuza dispersed his water clones so that there was only the two of them. She didn't have to worry about Kakashi until the water prison broke. And even then she could use her shadow clones to take care of him and keep him safe. "Alright Zabuza." she said as she walked right up to him and looked up at his bandaged face. Wow but he was huge up close.

She almost had the urge to go 'eek, Godzilla man!' and run away, but she had made a promise and she would'nt break it no matter what. So she glued a smile firmly on her face, obviously dumbfounding the man since he didn't know what to think of her, and said cheerfully.

"Kill me." Kakashi started thrashing around in his prison and screaming while Zabuza raised his blade and started to bring it down. Naru took a second to take a deep breath and clear her mind as the massive blade moved closer, and closer, and closer to her body, the blow aimed to kill in one strike.

It seemed like Zabuza didn't want her to suffer. Still she smiled and at the last minute raised her foot a bit and then let it come back down and smiled as the earth split, and shook under her feet, throwing the man off as she brought her arm up and used it to shatter his blade in half and in a lightning quick move planted the palm of her hand against hhis chest right over his heart and pushed.

Sending him flying head over heels, one hundred feet away where he slammed into a tree and then dropped into the water like a ton of bricks. the water prison shattered as soon as Zabuza went flying, freeing Kakashi, and dunking him in the lake all at once.

Kakashi rose up out of the water like the good lord rose from the dead but with only one thing in mind, beat the shit out of Zabuza, then give the unshakable little pychopathic blond next to him a piece of his mind. He was so pissed right now he was almost sure that he may end up throttling her, but he beat down the urge to wrap his fingers around her throat right that minute.

Naru looked a little amused by the way that Kakashi rose up out of the water. In fact she had to bite the inside of her cheek just to keep from laughing. He had this weird drown rat look to him, and the way he rose out of the water reminded her of the scary movie she had watched over at Hinata's the other night. He rose out fo the water like Dracula rose out of the grave! It was all spooky, and dramatic, who would'nt laugh?

"Go, I'll take care of this." Kakashi hissed at her from between clenched teeth.

"Don't bother, I give." Zabuza said. Both Kakashi and Naru looked at the man like he had grown a second head. What did he just say?