Here we are again. Nothing much to say… except sorry for long wait. Trying to get rid of my writer's block. Oh and this story might pumped to M for gore later.
I want to thank my wonderful and awesome Beta TheOnlineAnarchy! He is so awesome! (Anarchy totally didn't write that) (P.S: He did but I didn't remove that…)
CH:20 BRIDGE BATTLE
It was the first time Sasuke cursed his sharingan as they burned the image of Naruto taking a fatal blow meant to him and collapsed in a what seemed like slow motion as his sharingan continued to burn that moment to his brain with great precision and detail. The long needle piercing his chest, slipping between his ribs and going through where his heart should be. His face stuck in a pained grim resolve. A cough of blood changed that for a moment. Then finally he fell to his back. The fake hunter ninja was as shocked as him for they stood still in the while. He ran to Naruto's side and knelt next to him.
"S-sorry Sasuke, looks like this is last time we walk side by side" Naruto grinned a bloody grin and, with great difficulty, poked him on his forehead like his brother used to do. Tears started to well around his eyes.
"W-why?" this was all he could squeeze out of his suddenly tight as a vice throat. Naruto gave him a sad smile.
"I couldn't let you die; my heart couldn't endure that… I am sorry, I am so selfish." He chuckled a little and coughed more blood and his lungs stopped. Sasuke couldn't stop his tears anymore.
Haku stood there. Her mask covered her face but she was staring at the two boys. She hated herself for doing this but she knew this was shinobi life, and shinobi life was cruel.
Sasuke's eyes started to bleed as tears and blood started to mix. His sharingan matured fully and started to morph to something else. A relentless storm of fury and hate started to boil from his brain to heart as he turned to the petrified fake hunter-nin. Haku stumped from the pure malicious power radiating from the boy in front of her and she felt something she hadn't felt for a long time; fear for her life.
"Damn you." He whispered venomously.
"Curse you!" He spat even more venomously.
He started to slowly walk towards her but she accepted her sealed fate.
'Forgive me, Zabuza-sama but I can't defeat this boy.' Her eyes lost their light even before she died as Sasuke sped his pace to a run. She saw the boy's eyes. They made her feel like she could see her death, when it would happen, how and to be brutally honest she didn't mind. Zabuza didn't need useless tools and she didn't have anything else to live for.
There were mere several feet left between them.
"I will destroy yo-" it was a moment that Sasuke felt an intrusion to his chakra and next he was falling and losing consciousness. He fell next to the ice user's feet.
Another Naruto emerged from his hiding spot. Two identical 'thunk's startled Haku and she turned to their direction. She saw the pinknette and the bridge builder on the ground. A sound like chirping of a thousand of birds draw their attention to the other fight. Kakashi had a ball of lightning on his hand and running towards a bound-by-dogs Zabuza.
Seeing that his master wasn't going to make it, Haku created an ice mirror to go super speed to intercept Kakashi before he finish Zabuza. Then things happened very fastly. Kakashi thrusted his palm, Haku arrived closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, excepting the pain to come…
Explosion.
Haku didn't felt pain and hesitantly opened her eyes to see Naruto holding Kakashi's wrist and guiding it to the ground. Here was a big crater where the palm hit. Kakashi's face was a perfect example of 'eyes bulging out in shock'. He glared at Naruto after he recovered.
"What is the meaning of this Naruto?"
"We are no longer enemies. Gato betrayed Zabuza." He pointed towards an army of mercenaries. Zabuza spat to the ground.
"I knew that midget was going to betray me." Kakashi pulled his hitai-ate down and fell to his butt in exhaustion.
"They may be civilians but I am exhausted and out of chakra. What now?" Kakashi panted.
The ice mirror fell and turned back to water. Haku got to her knee.
"That was last of mine." They turned to Zabuza. He glared at the 'scarecrow'.
"Thanks to your dogs my arms are jelly…" they turned to Naruto. He sighed.
"How did you got an A rank and managed to survive this far?" Zabuza felt like he was being scolded.
"What happened to Sharingan no Kakashi, the man copied over a thousand jutsu and survived the Third Great Shinobi War?" Now it was Kakashi's turn to feel like he was being scolded. It was ridiculous. He was the teacher Damnit… Naruto turned to Haku.
"What happened to the Icy Killing Machine?" Haku looked down. Naruto shook his head.
"And I am supposed to be the fresh minted genin-"
"ALRIGHT WE GOT IT!" they all shouted. Naruto snorted.
"This disguise supposed to hold for longer but I guess best laid out plans got soiled in practice…" Naruto sighed.
"Kakashi, can you forget what is going to happen and not tell anyone?" Naruto had a sheepish smile… with hand rubbing back of his head and all. Kakashi eye smiled.
"Not a chance." Naruto grinned with his eyes closed.
"Then maybe I should kill you and blame it to Zabuza?" Kakashi paled, so did Zabuza because he started to wave off the aura that slaughtered Yagura's army. Whispers that foreseeing death and doom filled their ears. Haku sweated bullets.
"F-f-fine" Kakashi squeezed out. The aura stopped. Kakashi sighed in relief. Naruto turned towards the army. A clone materialized next to him.
'no handseals..? or faster than I can see? Both is unsettling.' Kakashi thought. Naruto pulled a wind demon shuriken.
"Ready?" he asked to the clone. It hummed an agreement. Naruto threw the shuriken to sky. Clone jumped with it.
"Shuriken kage bunshin" (Ninja star shadow clone)
The clone cast the jutsu and itself transformed to one too. For a moment the shuriken swarm hanged in the air, and for the next 10 seconds a literal a rain of metal struck the army. Anguished screams and thuds of fallen bodies filled the clearing. After 10 seconds only one standing was Gato. He was quivering like a leaf and at his wits end. He turned around to run but found Naruto standing there. He squeaked and turned to the other way to see another Naruto standing there. He realized he was cornered. A whimper of terror escaped his lips.
"I-I-I can give you what you want. Money? Women? Land? J-just let me go and all will be yours."
"Very well. Give me everything you have and I promise I will let you go."
"E-E-everything?"
"Yes, or do you prefer death?" Naruto took a kunai out of his tool pouch and poised to decapitate the man.
"alright-alright-alright! Here." The man gave him a stamp and write an address to a piece of paper. Naruto looked at him in confusion.
"j-j-just use that stamp to take what you need from that address. T-t-they will give you what you want." Naruto smiled at the man.
"Thanks…" Gato fell to his knees in relief but next thing came out of the blonde's mouth shoved him into despair. "… he is yours Zabuza"
"w-w-w-wait you said you would let me go?" it sounded more like a question.
"I told you I would let you go," he stated with an eye roll, "I didn't said anything about them." He walked away and Zabuza took his place with an evil grin… until he remembered his arms were still jelly. He grunted and bit off the bandages around his mouth.
"Oi, Naruto! Give me a kunai, will you?" the blonde threw one at him. And he caught it in his mouth.
"I will savour this moment." Sadistic laughter and tormented screams arouse. The blond shook his head. He focused on Kakashi and Haku.
"Haku used a jutsu to knock them out… if they ask." He continued to where Sasuke and his clone fought Haku.
"Get up." He ordered his clone… but clone didn't respond anyway. Naruto snorted and crouched near it.
"Oi! Get-" his touch caused the clone to dissolve into smoke and the blood he used to enhance it. His eyes widened.
'That clone supposed to die if suffers a blow that may kill caster… Damn you, Shinigami! Just what else that you didn't said.' He closed his eyes and remembered what damage did his minion suffered. His eyes hardened.
'The heart… I must be careful.'
He then went back to the group.
"Genjutsu: Kai" (Illusion: release)
They woke up with a gasp.
End of Chapter
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