To Be Loved

Here's chapter 11!

Didn't think I'd get this out today, but here it is. Thanks to ArdentheVampire, hollyshortfowl, and HypnoticFlames.

Hypnotic and holly, to answer both your questions in one go the answer is no.

Sasuke considers Tsuki his only friend, as she can keep up with him during sparing, and she has fairly strong jutsus. Their relationship was built on respect and blossomed into friendship. That's as far as it will go.

And holly, absolutely not. They are close because in a village that hates him, Tsuki is the one that loves him unconditionally.

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto.

Chapter Eleven.

"WHAT IS THAT!" My brother yells, pointing at our joined hands. I look at him, trying not to roll my eyes and make him even angrier.

I try to take my hand back, but Sasuke just smirks at Naruto and clutches it tighter.

"You let go of Sasuke right now!" Sakura screeches, pointing at me. I glare. Stupid girl thinks I'm trying to steal Sasuke from her. As if. First of all Sasuke is only mine in the sense that he is my friend and not hers. Second of all, she didn't have him to begin with.

"You let go of my sister teme!" Naruto shouts.

This time I do roll my eyes and forcefully rip my hand out if the Uchiha's.

Naruto grabs the hand and drags me behind him, marching angrily along the path. We pass Kakashi and he flashes me a grin behind his mask. A glare is sent his way.

"Damn kids," Tazuna grumbles.

We continue on the road and Naruto throws another kunai into the underbrush.

"I saw a shadow!" he shouts.

Sakura begins yelling at him, and I watch our sensei approach the bushes and pull them to the side. A snow bunny is there, and as Naruto lets me go to apologize to the bunny, I approach Kakashi.

"They are here aren't they?" I whisper, acting nonchalant so as not to alert anyone, friend or foe, to our conversation.

"Yes the- EVERYONE GET DOWN!" He shouts, pushing me to the ground. A giant blade whooshes over us. Kakashi springs up, and I move behind him, covering his all look up at the ninja, standing on his sword stuck in the tree.

"Well if it isn't the Hidden Mist's Missings-nin Momochi Zabuza," Kakashi greets. I frown. This ninja is way out of our league. The only way we could beat him would be with trickery.

"Everyone stay back," sensei tells us, lifting a hand to his headband, "It will be a little tough unless I do this. He pulls the headband up, revealing his eye.

I do a double-take.

Kakashi has a sharingan!

Where the hell did he get that? I know for a fact that he isn't an Uchiha.

"You appear to be sharingan Kakashi, sorry but, the old man is mine, Zabuza grounds out, his voice sounds like a rockslide, all gravely and rough.

"Suround Tazuna and protect him. That's teamwork." our jonin tells us. I shake my head. even with the Sharingan, it will take more than what Kakashi has to beat this ninja. "First Zabuza, fight me."

"I already get to see the famous sharingan, I'm honored," the enemy mocks.

The genin all move to protect Tazuna and I crouch low, pulling out a kunai to defend with.

"It seems I have to defeat you first Kakashi, and your little shadow too."

I sneer at the ninja, but don't move from my spot.

"Ninpo, Hidden Mist Jutsu..."

All of a sudden, a mist rolls in from a nearby river, coating us in it, cutting off our view of each other.

"8 choices..." Zabuza whispers from the fog. I try to keep a lock on his chakra, but the mist surrounding us is coated with it, making sensory almost impossible. "Liver, lungs, clavical vein, neck vein, brain, spine, kidneys, heart... Which one should I go after?"

Kakashi makes a handsign, and his Ki triples, bearing down on us.

Sasuke, calm down. I'll protect you guys, even if it kills me," Kakashi murmers.

I look at him.

His sharingan is going to drain him, it has already started.

"I will not let my comrades die," he smiles back at them.

Suddenly, Zabuza appears in the middle of their formation, cutting them off from Tazuna.

I launch at him and stab him with my kunai, but instead of blood coming out, it is water.

"A water clone?" Sakura gasps. "Tsuki behind you!" As soon as I hear Naruto's cry, I perform the substitution jutsu and replace my body with a log.

I jump onto a tree branch nearby and glare at the Zabuza that had just tried to kill me. Kakashi is holding a kunai to his throat.

"The brat is pretty fast," Zabuza taunts, standing up. "But I'm not that easy."

The real Zabuza appears behind Kakashi, and I jump down to help.

He swings his sword with a practitioners skill and uses the momentum when Kakashi ducks, to kick him.

The kick sends him flying into the river.

"Damnit, reform the formation," I growl. The situation is out of hand. If he gets Kakashi, then I am next, then the kids. My teammates stand back in front of Tazuna.

Zabuza runs behind Kakashi and performs a bunch of fast handsigns, and the water around Kakashi moves up to place him in a shere of water.

"You are in my inescapable special prison," Zabuza laughs, "Now Kakashi, I can finish them off."

I tense as a water clone emerges from the river.

It disappears, and suddenly, I go flying back into a tree, the clone having just kicked me in the face.

"Tsuki!" My teammates, and even Tazuna yell fearfully.

I stagger drunkenly to my feet and tense. I sense the clone coming in again, but as it's foot comes at my face again, I grab it.

I grin a bloody smile at the clone and make a handsign with my right hand. Learning to do this jutsu had been hard, I had almost burned my brother before mastering it.

The hand holding the clone's leg began to heat up, making the clone's body begin to boil and bubble.

"What are you doing?" It yells at me.

I just increase the chakra flow to my hand, making the clone begin to expand. Finally, it burst, drenching me with water.

"What was that jutsu?" Zabuza questions warily.

"Just a heating jutsu. One to make water boil," I reply.

I run at the real Zabuza and pull six shuriken from my thigh-case. I throw them at him in the hopes that it will make him release the prison, but it doesn't.

Another water clone emerges from the river and kicks me in the stomach. I skid back in front of the genin and Tazuna.

"Damn, he's good."

End chapter eleven

Woo! that's a long 'un. I'm tired and it's 1:13, so I'm going to bed.

haha, so I should be able to squirt another chapter out tomorrow morning, cuz I have to work at 5, and I get off at 1.

Tsuki's got some dialogue in this, so I'm glad. Thanks for reading everyone!

Sorry for any mistakes!

Tanner Out!