Well Shigure is now dead... all people lets all cry ... boo ... oh well I'm over it... aren't you...
Oh I went with Trisha to one of those college events and I planted bamboo. So now I have bamboo in my room. I named them Sasori, Gaara, and Sai. They are so cute and they have little leaves.
And all the usually junk... I don't own Naruto... or any one else... warnings... language... and you know crazy and demented ideas. ...
Anyway onward to crazyland...
...meow...
Sasuke was at his wits end. He had timed his attack almost perfectly last time. Hitting the end of Haku's cloak and burning the fabric. However he was running out of charaka and energy. Haku hadn't let up in his attacks. Needles of ice had been attacking him over and over again. It was going to be a gamble. Did he collapse and make a mistake first or did he figure out the timing that was all he had left. Damn it if only he had someone helping him from the outside. If he attacked the inside of the mirror and someone else attacked the outside. Maybe these mirrors of ice would break and if one broke than maybe they all would.
However he probably wasn't going to get any help, unless he actually begged. Trisha had stated she was tired and not in the mood for a fight as soon as they had arrived to the bridge. Chances where Trisha wasn't going to step in unless she or Lexi was attacked directly. Lexi of course might have helped him if it was of interest to her. If she thought killing Haku was fun then maybe she would have helped. However if she thought it was interesting she would have already attacked the teen. However she wasn't inside the ice mirrors and he hadn't heard any outside attacks. So likely she had found something else to attract her time and attention.
Sakura of course was weak. Too weak to be any help against Haku. She would have just bragged about his strength and yelled at the enemy into defeat. Even if she did try to help, she would be unconscious, injured, or dead within minutes. Even if she had great charaka control and wonderful potential. She wouldn't know any useful jutsus for this battle and she wasn't good enough at fighting to kick or punch their opponent into defeat. So Sakura wasn't any help and anyway someone had to stay with the client.
Shigure had been assigned to watch the client for sneak attacks with Sakura. Sasuke wasn't so sure about that teen. He hadn't really seen him fight or even try anything even close to a jutsu. Plus he had the two scariest team mates in the world. So far it seemed that he and Sakura were the weakest leak in their team. So placing both of them to the side with the client had saved Sasuke the trouble of having to save them from danger.
"Don't fear. Naruto is here." And of course there was Naruto. Who was late to their own battle. Who arrived late to a battle when they were already on a mission. It was just illogical. Naruto wasn't the strongest person in the world, however if he attacked the mirrors outside for Sasuke then they might have a chance here.
"Don't worry, Sasuke. I will save you this time."Or the moron could jump into the middle of the mirrors and become trapped inside with him so that they had no hope of winning. Damn it. Why did he have to be teamed with such a moronic and idiotic teammate. Why was he on the team with the worse ninja in existence.
"Damn it Naruto if you hadn't jumped in here we could have attacked from both sides and broken this prison. But no you jump right into it instead. God, you moron just try not to die." Sasuke started his counting again. Timing each jump and needle as it zoomed through the air. He would have to go back to his old plan.
They had been going at it for what felt like hours. Sasuke could feel the blood drip from his wounded body. The pain was streaming through his head making it hard to focus and react in time to avoid the next needle. He hadn't been able to get close enough to cause real damage and with Naruto inside the prison too he had had to be careful where he threw his attacks.
They had been dodging ice needles for so long his body felt like it was going to come apart at the seams. Sasuke could hear the enemy talking about duty and real ninjas. He could hear Naruto's comebacks in the back of his mind. Even with death staring them in the face Naruto was still back mouthing the enemy. Leave it to Naruto to be the only idiot in exist not able to accept Death.
It happened so fast at the time that Sasuke wouldn't really remember the details to well later. He saw the needles coming at Naruto's back. Naruto having just dodged a bunch hadn't had the time to notice his danger. It seemed that the world had slowed down. That he had slowed down. He didn't believe he would make it in time. He though he would have to watch Naruto die. However he felt the sting of the needles enter his body.
...meow...
"Why" Naruto stared in shock at his teammate. Sasuke was sprung on top of him block Naruto sight of the world around them. Ice needles were piercing Sasuke's body and drops of Sasuke's blood had splashed onto Naruto's jumpsuit. Why had he done it?
"Hn. My body moved on its own. Like I would save you if I had been thinking." Naruto watched in shock as Sasuke smirked at him before collapsing half on top of Naruto's body.
"Wake up bastard. You can't die. You can't die on me." He couldn't be dead. Damn how could this happen.
"Is this the first time you have had a comrade die on the field. Don't worry though you will be joining him soon." How could this happen? How could Sasuke be dead? This was all the enemy nin's fault. It was all his fault. He was going to kill him. Kill him. Kill him.
"What are you not going to fight anymore. Are you that shocked at the death of one comrade." Naruto could feel the rage. So much rage. No grief or sadness was in his mind. Only the rage at the enemy. He would kill him for what he did.
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"Are you going to cry over your comrade like a baby now." Haku blinked at the sudden increase in killing aura around the blonde in the middle of his mirrors. He could almost see the violent aura around him. It looked like red covering on his shoulders and back. Haku was convinced he was seeing things until he was thrown back into his own mirror shattering the mirror and slashing into his own flesh in the process. Naruto's red aura had sent a blast of wind towards him, he knew that. However that was cast from his mind along with his small wounds when he caught his first look of the blonde that he had been about to attack once again.
"I WILL KILL YOU. I WILL KILL YOU" Naruto screamed at him his intent as a red tail swapped the air behind the boy, shattering another three mirrors in the process. That red aura hadn't been in his imagination. That boy had a tail and ears. His body was covered in red bubbly energy that made Haku freeze in terror. He wasn't going to survive this. He was going to fail Zabuza.
"DIE" Haku forced his body into movement, just saving his life by inches as Naruto's red covered fist slammed into his face. Haku's mask broke on impact. His mouth filled with blood. He had saved his life however he hadn't been able to move entirely out of the way of the attack. The boy had gotten a lot faster and much deadlier.
"Die.."Haku braced for the next attack at least he wouldn't have to be alive in his failure. He would die before Zabuza. At least that was a small mercy.
Naruto was just a foot away when Haku heard Kakashi's attack through the wind. He knew that if the ninja was using that attack then Zabuza had to be immobile. It was too slow and powerful of a move to use against a person that would be able to fight back or dodge. That meant that if Kakashi was able to finish that attack his master, his reason to be alive would be dead. He had to stop that attack.
Naruto's growl of frustration was the last thing haku heard as he used a mirror to dodge his attack and moved himself a couple yards towards Zabuza and started to run. He had to stop that attack. He wouldn't allow Zabuza to die.
...meow...
Lexi was bored. The battle had continued of course and Kakashi did look good injured and serious. But she had seen this before on the anime and even though her seat was much better she wanted to do something else. Watch someone else.
Lexi sighed as Kakashi's nin dogs pinned Zabuza in place and started to form his Chidori. This was the end then. How dull. Kakashi would probably kill Zabuza and since Naruto's demon charaka was still strong and violent in the air she had to guess that he hadn't meet Haku in the meadow this time. No this time Naruto had no reason to stop his attack. So she didn't believe that Haku would be able to arrive to save the man. Oh well the fight was over. What else could she do?
Lexi hadn't even walked a foot before she saw Haku appear in a dead run coming right at her. He was in too much of a rush to notice that she was a child. He would either kill her and move onto Zabuza or he would go around her. However he was moving too fast for Lexi to form a plan. She hadn't ever been any good at last moment fast thinking. The last thing that entered her mind was that if only Haku was smaller than her. Why was everyone so much bigger than her? It wasn't fair.
...meow...
Kakashi had finished forming his Chidori and was about to attack when he heard the explosion to his left. His first thoughts was that the enemy nin had come to save his partner. However his next thought was more worrying. That was the direction that Lexi was watching them from.
Kakashi's Chidori disappeared with sparks as he saw what the smoke from the explosion had covered. He could see Lexi standing there on the bridge before him. He could see through the lingering smoke that she was burnt. She had burn marks on her arms. Her clothes were smoking and burnt around the edges too. He could see the tears where small flames had eaten away the fabric. What had happened?
However it wasn't just the look of the little demon that had shocked him. It was the small crying bundle on the bridge before her. A naked child, no older than one was crying its eyes out. He could hear it all the way over on this side of the bridge. The small bit of fabric that still existed around the baby was enough to figure out what might have happened. The clothes was that of the other enemy nin. No one else on the bridge had a hunter nin outfit. So that meant the baby was Haku.
His guess was that Haku had reacted to the threat to Zabuza and had raced to their side of the bridge. Of course if Lexi hadn't been in between them and him, he would have been able to make in time more than likely. However Lexi had been in between and had reacted to the threat Haku was and formed a jutsu of her own to protect herself. She had turned him into a infant. He could still remember the demon brother she had used this technique on to turn into the Mareep thing that Trisha keep as a pet. She had said then that the jutsu wasn't suppose to work with clothes on the person. He was guessing that the explosion was caused by the jutsu reacting to the clothes on haku she couldn't remove. He doubted that a man with an ice attack would set off an explosion.
"Lexi. What have you done now." Kakashi sighed and dragged his hand through his hair to relieve some of the tension and worry that had filled him at the sound of the explosion. That girl was going to put him in an early grave.
Lexi turned and stared at him in shock. She threw her small burned hands up into the air in the common sign of surrender and finally spoke.
"Kakashi. It was an accident. A complete accident I say."