CHAPTER 20: The Great Kyuubi Bridge
Long time no see. Sorry. I forgot to tell you this story was on temporary Hiatus due to my exams and other stories.
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Shisui's students had disappeared. Like 'vanished into thin air' disappeared.
And he had to fight Zabuza and what was the kid's name again? Haku, alone.
"When I told them to learn stealth, I doubt this was what I meant." He thought cursing them.
"Where are the little brats?" Zabuza taunted. "Too scared that they ran away?" He swung his sword while the fake hunter nin chuck senbon at him from a distance.
Shisui winced as another senbon hit him in the shoulder.
'Maybe I should chuck the three at Kakashi or Obito. At least they'll drill all that - those who disobey rules are trash but those who abandon friends are worse than trash - ideology inside their heads.' Shisui thought. 'Coz I feel plenty abandoned here.'
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"Is this all?" Naruto looked over his shoulder.
A hoard of bodies surrounded the two genins.
"Apparently." Sasuke shot back.
"Heeey Guuyyss." Came an overly nice voice across the corridor. "I ffoooouunnd hiiimm."
Sasuke and Naruto shared a look. Oh God. Apparently someone really had a death wish if they made Sakura like that.
Sure enough the sight that greeted them could actually be considered merciful.
Sakura held Gato by the collar. By the looks of it he was dead and a mysterious white foam was coming out of his mouth.
"What did ya do to him?" Naruto asked warily.
"Oh nothing really." Sakura said sweetly. "He just called me a fat cow when I interrupted his lunch so I decided to have a little...Fun. Yes. Fun." And she started laughing hysterically.
'He really did have a death wish.' Both boys thought.
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"We're back." Sasuke yelled at top of his lungs.
He was immediately hit on the head by both of his teammates.
"Stealth Sasuke. Stealth." Naruto shook his head in mock disappointment.
All three dodged the kunais that came there way saw... Their own sensei trying to kill them?
"I think he finally lost it." Sakura whispered to the other two.
"Nah." Sasuke said back. "It's just his 'Curse of Love' evolving into 'Curse of Hatred.' "
"What?" Sakura looked at him skeptical.
"Like I said -"
"Would you two shut up? We have to fight a mummy, a lying actor, fake hunter nin and a psychotic, out of control sensei." Naruto interrupted.
"Why?" Sakura whined. "Didn't we get rid of Gato?"
"You got rid of Gato?" Zabuza screeched while Shisui just stopped in his tracks, his face morphing into a smile as if saying 'Oh is that what you were doing?'
"Great. How am I going to get my pay now?" Zabuza swung his sword.
"He wasn't gonna pay you either way." Naruto informed him.
"Why would I listen to a bunch of brats who insist that I am a mummy?"
"Point taken." Naruto muttered.
Suddenly at the back of Naruto's mind, in a corner of a dark, creepy sewer, a voice rang out.
"Naruto, let me out." Kyuu-chan said.
"I think I am better at umm... negotiations then you." Naruto said rolling his eyes.
"I won't nag you for a week."
Thus Naruto let him out.
"Zabuza, Yo." Kyuu-chan's chibi version held out his paw.
"Who are you?" Zabuza glared at him.
"That's not important." Kyuu-chan waved in dismissal.
Behind the scenes one could hear Sasuke mutter. "Not important? He was just trying to kill Tazuna for not knowing him a weak ago. The world is actually coming to an end."
Naruto told him to shut up.
"...What is important is that I've got your wife's phone number and I'll tell her you're cheating on her if you don't leave immediately." Kyuu gave a maniacal grin.
Zabuza paled.
"We're leaving." He told Haku.
"But..." Haku started.
"No buts." Zabuza cut in and before he could mutter a word Haku was grabbed by the collar and sped away from the bridge.
Meanwhile the occupants of the bridge looked at Kyuu in awe.
Naruto turned to his tenant.
"I'll cut down on chakra rent but we're making plans together. Deal?"
"Deal." Kyuu shook his paw.
'We're doomed.' The rest thought.
And thus the name of the bridge was decided as 'The Great Kyuubi Bridge.'
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"...and thus Zabuza retreated." Shisui concluded his report.
The Sandaime looked at Shisui and rubbed his temples.
"If this is what I have to endure after every C-rank mission Team 7 is gonna take I'll turn into a bigger alcoholic than Tsunade."
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Somewhere in Kiri Zabuza stopped running.
"Haku?"
"Yes?"
"Do I even have a wife?"
"...No."
"..."
"I tried to tell you."
"..."
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Before anyone nags me about the lack of cell phones in canon, I assure you there are cell phones present.