A tool known as Shinobi

"Now hurry!" Haku said wanting his end.

"I don't understand! Is remaining strong the only reason you have for staying on this world!? . . . You could have made people recognize you other than fighting." Naruto said.

"The day I met you in the forest, I felt that you were like me. You should understand. I'm sorry that I have to soil to your hands." Haku apologized.

"Is that, is that the only way?" Naruto asked him.

"Hai." he answered. Naruto gritted his teeth.

"If I had met you somewhere else, we might have been friends." he said and pulled out a kunai from his holster. He screamed a battle cry and ran towards Haku with his knife.

! ! Haku sensed that Zabuza was in danger and caught Naruto's wrist. "Gomennasai, Naruto-kun." Haku apologized again and made one handed seals. "I can't die yet!" he said and disappeared into cold air.

Haku got in the way of Kakashi's Chidori and blood spilled onto the floor. His body was bloody and he died. Naruto found him and figured out what happened for himself.

Zabuza took his Kubikiribōchō sword and started to swing it. "He plans to slice me along with this child?" Kakashi said and dodged his sword while getting Haku's body away from him too.

"Grr, that's a dirty move!" Naruto growled.

"Naruto! Stand back and watch!" Kakashi told him and he closed Haku's eyes. "This is my battle!" Kakashi said scowling.

Sasuke was on his knees next to Kenji. He had taken all the needles out. "Looks like he died. . ." Sasuke said talking about Haku. Then blood was spit out from Kenji's mouth.

! Sasuke looked at her, she was coughing. "She's alive!?" he thought. Naruto noticed too when he heard coughing.

"Kenji!" he ran over to them.

"Jeez you had us scared, you tomboy." Sasuke said.

"But how? I thought you got hit in the neck." Naruto asked.

"I did." Kenji answered and sat up. "That guy really didn't mean to kill me. . . He said my name too." she said.

"Yeah, I told him that one. Come on, you look just as beat up as Sasuke." Naruto said and picked up her headband. He bent on one knee and held it out to her. Kenji smiled and took it. She wrapped it underneath the right part of her bangs and tied a knot at the back of her head.

She stood up followed by Sasuke. "There, you look way cooler like this dattebayo!" Naruto said. Kenji saw past him and saw Haku's body.

"Kakashi you don't have time to look away!" Zabuza said and attack him. But Kakashi just kicked him back. Naruto, Kenji, and Sasuke saw it and started walking towards the scene.

They stopped a little far from Kakashi and Zabuza. Kenji looked at Haku's body. "Y'know, even though he beat me up with a bunch of needles and knocked me out cold. I really don't think he was a bad guy." Kenji said.

"Yeah. . ." Naruto agreed.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shouted. "You're okay!" she cheered. Naruto, Kenji, and Sasuke all reacted the same way.

"Sakura-chan. . ." Naruto said feeling rejected.

"That prissy little nerd!" Kenji growled.

"Hn, how annoying." Sasuke complained. Kakashi stabbed two kunais into Zabuza's now useless arm.

"Ne ne, Sasuke-kun! Tell me how you got Naruto and Kenji out!" Sakura asked.

Kenji got a vein on her head and clenched her fist in front of her. "Kora teme! I'm the one who got them out!" she shouted.

"Why, why can't I keep up with him!?" Zabuza thought frustratedly. "Kuso!" he said and charged at Kakashi again. Kakashi just punched him upside the jaw like it was nothing and Zabuza stumbled back.

Kakashi stepped up to him and punched him spinning. Zabuza was panting and Kakashi held the back of his neck. "In the state you are in now, you can't win." he said.

"What did you say. . ." Zabuza snarled.

"You don't understand the true meaning of being strong." Kakashi told him cooly. Zabuza sweated in anxiety.

"Now then, let's see what happened." a new voice said.

Kakashi spun two kunai knives on his fingers and grasped them in his fist. "Sayonara, demon." he said and brought the knives around when Zabuza swung his sword. Kakashi stabbed the knives into Zabuza's good arm.

Kakashi jumped back and Zabuza's sword slid on the ground. Naruto uttered sounds as he watched with Sasuke and Kenji. Sakura and Tazuna were also speechless. "Now you can't use your arms. You can't form any seals anymore." Kakashi told him.

Then everyone sensed a presence and looked ahead. "Looks like you got beaten pretty badly." a businessman with a cane said. "I'm disappointed, Zabuza." he said standing in front of what looked like an army of goons. Naruto, Kenji, and Sasuke stood in line shocked.

"That's. . ." Naruto said.

"That can't be right?" Kenji added.

"That's the guy behind everything, Gato." Sasuke answered.

"Hmph, apparently the 'Demon' couldn't finish the job. The only reason I hired an exiled ninja like you is because it would cost a lot of money. If you ninja had just killed each other, it would have saved me trouble and money." Gato said.

"Kakashi, sorry but the battle ends here." Zabuza told him. "Since I don't have a reason to kill Tazuna, I have lost the reason to fight you." he said.

"Yeah, you're right." Kakashi agreed.

"Now, that old man Tazuna and the ones aiding him will die!" Gato announced. Sakura gasped and her pupils shrunk.

! Naruto, Kenji, and Sasuke started glaring daggers and 3 kunai knives where pulled out at the same time. The three of them appeared in front of Sakura and Tazuna armed with kunai knives. Sakura gasped again while looking at their backs.

"If you bastards come any closer!" Naruto threatened.

"We'll attack with no mercy!" Kenji finished.