Naruto opposite story
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Recap
"How did it went Zabuza-san?" Asked the masked guy
Zabuza looked at his partner and took a deep breath. "I was found out. This mission will be much tougher than we expected. There are two small genins which mean nothing to us, there's also our target. The other two people are a problem."
The masked guy looked at his master surprised he looked so unsure only once when they faced blond boy who was around his age.
"Don't tell me it's HIM again?" Asked nervously Kiri ninja
"Possibly to make it even worse there's a Sharingan Kakashi with them."
There was a big silence between them and neither knew what they should do now.
Chapter 12
The older ninja decided to stand up and move forward. They have a job to do in the end.
The younger boy looked at his sensei.
"Zabuza-san?" The tone that Haku used was suggesting Zabuza that he's indeed scared of what can come out of this confrontation.
"We have mission to do. We'll try to avoid combat with Uzumaki and just eliminate our target. Understood?"
Haku nodded still unsure. They're going to fight against very powerful people.
Copy ninja one of not only the most powerful Konoha nin, but he's at the same time world elite. He's famous around all five great nations, but then there's also this boy. The world still doesn't seem to know about his strength, but they know. He's dangerous and they must avoid contact with him otherwise things could get out of hands.
"Let's move on." Added Zabuza
Haku nodded again. This time with more confidence. He must believe in Zabuza-san and himself. If he'll then their chances of completing their mission successfully will rise.
(With team 7 and Tazuna)
They were still moving. Kakashi and Naruto were scanning their territory. Naruto was aware that someone could be hiding somewhere around them, and the range of his chakra sensing was not long. He could feel evil intentions on longer distance than chakra, but he didn't feel any which worried him. It worried him most because he knows that there is plenty of powerful people in this world and he knows there are people stronger than him, that's why he's still training hard. Blond-haired boy is also worried about his friends. He's not sure how powerful Kakashi is. He's expecting him to be one of the best jounins right now because he was working in ANBU. It means that he has a lot of experience and potentially strength as not many jounins could become ANBU.
Kakashi, on the other hand, was still trying to read his book, but he could feel troubles in the air. He knows they're going to send someone stronger now. Stronger than two channels called demon brothers. Konoha jounin will be probably forced to fight against another jounin. Most likely from Kiri since they're the capital of Land of Water. Grey-haired jounin know only one thing he needs to protect his team and Tazuna. He can't let his friends die. He lost too many people already and seeing more of it will break his heart even more.
It all happened so fast
"Get down!" Shouted Naruto and Kakashi
Before the rest could react they were all pushed down by grey-haired jounin and blond-haired genin.
As Sakura looked up she was the reason for it. There above them was flying a big sword. She didn't know what it was, because it didn't look like any ordinary sword. It looked special.
They all stood up as they heard the sword hitting the tree. A moment later on the word stood their enemy.
Kakashi instantly recognized him not only by his looks but also by what kind of weapon he used. It causes Konoha elite ninja to get a little nervous because Momochi Zabuza is no joke. He's one of seven mist swordsmen. One of the best swordsmen in the world.
"Well, well, well if it isn't Momochi Zabuza? A pleasure to meet you." Said cheerfully jounin.
"Hatake Kakashi or should I say Sharingan Kakashi. The person who copied over 1000 jutsus." Responded monotony Zabuza
His team looked at their sensei with disbelief. Everyone with different thought.
Is Kakashi-sensei that famous? Thought Sakura
Sharingan? But this is a kekkei genkai of Uchiha clan so how? Asked himself confused Sasuke
The Sharingan! He's just as powerful as I thought. Thought with pride Naruto.
"Well if we're going to fight I'll need this." And with it, he uncovered his left eye.
As his students looked at his face they saw a crimson red eye with three weird black dots.
"Hmmm" Zabuza was trying to stay calm and collected, but he's fighting against Sharingan the strongest of dojutsu, at least the strongest one which he's sure people can possess. There's still rinnegan, but he never heard anyone possessing this kind of power. Plus Uzumaki boy staying behind which could mean one out of three things. They either didn't want to waste his strength, they don't know about his strength, and the worst one is that they want him to protect his target. If he's going to protect the old man then his mission is going to get even tougher than he's hoping for.
"Bu..uu...t how is it possible sensei?" Asked confused Uchiha Sasuke. His clan was supposed to be the only one to have access to this type of power.
"I know you have a lot of questions, but you must wait with them. We're in a dangerous position now and I'm facing dangerous enemy."
Dangerous my ass thought Naruto
"But don't worry I won't let my comrades die." Announced Kakashi as he turned his head around to look at them. He smiled as well to give them hope and strength. "Now Team 7 settle the defensive formation." Ordered their sensei and genins did they were told.
Zabuza laughed loudly. It was cute that they're trying to work together against him, but he needed to finish his job quickly and disappear. He took his sword out of the tree and jumped back on the water. Which caused Sakura and Sasuke whisper about a human walking on the water. Naruto and Kakashi stayed focused on their enemy.
"Suiton Kirigakura no jutsu." Whispered Zabuza.
The tense fog started to surround them and their enemy disappeared from their sight.
Tracking his chakra was also impossible for Kakashi since the whole fog was filled with his chakra, so all he has left are his instincts and intuition.
Naruto was struggling as well. The amount of chakra around them was making hard tracking even his evil intentions were hard to detect, so he didn't know their opponent exact position. "We will do more training to avoid situations like this,"Told him Kurama, but he needs to know what to do now. His only idea was to remove this whole fog, but it will take a lot of chakra from Naruto, so he'll have to rely more on Kurama's powers. Both of them know that then blond-haired genin will easily take down Zabuza, but he needs to grow stronger on his own as well. He can't always rely on Kurama's power alone or this team will be too unbalanced.
"Who's he anyway?" Asked scared Sakura
"Momochi Zabuza one of seven swordsmen of the mist. He's a master of silent killing. He's able to kill his target before they'll even know about it."Explained Kakashi
"He's also one of the most demonic ninjas in our world."
After saying this he got more attention from Naruto and Sasuke.
"When he was 12 he killed all his classmates on the final day of school. In past in Kirigakure to graduate from the academy you had to kill all your classmates. This was the final exam in an academy in Bloody mist village. Now after the death of their previous Mizukage, those practices stopped."
Naruto refocused on his surroundings until he heard the voice of their enemy.
"Eight points larynx,spine,lungs,liver,jugular,subclavian artery,kidneys,heart. Now which one will be the point of my attack?"
This caused panic and doubt in Sakura and Sasuke as well as Tazuna.
Naruto only focused more desperate to find Zabuza.
Kakashi just stood calm.
And in one moment between all three genins and Tazuna stood their enemy. He was about to use his sword to push away all three genins, but he received a kick in the abdomen which sent him flying away. As he stood up and looked in the direction of his target he saw blond-haired genin with his leg in the air.
So his silence killing is too slow. Uzumaki kid is faster and can react and respond to it. He needs to find another way. He jumped back into the tree and fog came back as dense as it was before.
Sakura and Sasuke still couldn't believe what just happened now. Their adrenaline jumped so high when they saw Zabuza behind them. They weren't able to do anything besides standing and looking as their enemy was about to kill them, and yet Naruto was able to respond to their enemy move with his own kicking him away from them and protecting them at the same time. There was still a question how could dead last of their class do something like this?
Sakura again was reminded that she probably overlooked him, never paying him attention, always following crowd which refused to accept him. Now she must face it that he's the one to save them again. She pushed these thoughts away, they're in the middle of dangerous battle.
Sasuke, on the other hand, was again reminded that class dobe was actually stronger than they thought. Sasuke focused again. He needs to prove himself as well otherwise he'll never be able to surpass his brother.
Kakashi turned around and was facing his team. He was expecting Zabuza to appear in there, but he was too slow to react anyway, but Naruto showed more of his strength. He didn't expect at all that he'll be able to counter Zabuza attack. Older jounin didn't even need to remind three genins to keep their formation. They did automatically. They all want to grow stronger and prove themselves. He refocused on his surroundings trying to find Zabuza with a small smile on his face.
The most shocked was definitely was Tazuna. When he saw their opponent appear in front of him, he thought that this is the end. He was prepared for his death and yet the smallest boy defended him. He was shocked when he saw rouge ninja flying away from him. Even more when he looked down to see blue-eyed genin with his leg in the air in a position which meant that he was the one to kick Zabuza away from them. After their enemy disappeared again everyone refocused on their task of protecting him and the older man released breath he didn't he was holding.
Zabuza needs to change his tactic. He needs to somehow move blond-haired boy away from his target otherwise he will probably never be able to eliminate bridge builder. The question is how is he supposed to do it.
He looked at copy ninja. Maybe if he'll eliminate him it will cause genins to lose their morale and their defence to have more space for him to attack. It sounded better than what he came up until now, so it was decided he needs to focus and eliminate Sharingan Kakashi first.
After what seemed like an eternity at least for Tazuna and Sakura they heard some rustling of leaves. This cause Naruto and Sasuke to focus even harder. Their enemy was coming and both know this.
After a few more seconds Naruto heard something from behind them and pushed everyone down. It was Zabuza sword again. It landed near Kakashi, but copy ninja stood stoic and calm waiting for his enemy to show himself.
He didn't have to wait too long because another few seconds later next to the sword appeared rouge ninja from Kirigakure. Just as he was about to grab his sword he felt pain in his abdomen. This time is was Kakashi who was faster than Zabuza. He pushed his kunai into Zabuza abdomen and water started to flow out.
Mizu bunshin thought Naruto
A second again Mizu bunshin disappeared and behind their teacher appeared another Zabuza who had his sword already in his hands. Kakashi eyes widened at his enemy appearance. He didn't have enough time to move away react as Zabuza sword sliced him half.
Two genins and Tzuna gasped in shock as they saw their teacher being sliced in half.
Swordsman's eyes widened as he saw water falling on the ground and he realized Kakashi somehow managed to predict his move and copy his Jutsu. When he was about to jump away into trees again he felt cold metal at his throat. He already knew what it was and heard his opponent voice.
"It's over was all he heard." Kakashi voice was serious and didn't leave any space for argument.
Naruto was still aware that Zabuza could still the situation on the battlefield, so he was watchful. Every move their enemy will make could change so much. He knows that grey-haired jounin is aware of this so why is he standing still. Is he waiting for Zabuza next move? Naruto eyes widened when he felt it. In one moment the whole fog left and he could easily feel everything in the air. This Zabuza in front of them wasn't the real one. As he felt his presence it was too late already, because, he was already in front of Kakashi.
He made a move with his and was about to kill him, but Konoha jounin jumped away into the river. His mizu bunshin was killed in the process. Naruto knew that Kakashi fight was over.
As the fan of Icha-Icha paradise surfaced (not sure about the wording in here?) he felt a presence next to him, and he knew already who's a presence it's.
Zabuza did quick hand signs and shouted "SuirÅ no Jutsu"
Kakashi eyes widened in shock because he knows he's screwed.
Water started to come at Zabuza hand and creating something looking like a bubble which was connected to ex-Kirigakure ninja. The bubble drained Kakashi strength away which meant it's indeed a prison. He can't create any ninjutsu, because of lack of strength and it looks like this prison is sucking chakra away from him.
"Now it's over." Whispered Zabuza.
Everyone knew he's right.
Naruto sighed as he stepped forward. His eyes were closed and head directed down. He took a deep breath and held it for a moment before releasing it. After doing it he opened his eyes and looked into his enemies eyes while saying the next words.
"Now playtime is over."
Everyone's eyes went wide and Naruto only smirked as he was ready for battle.
"Naruto doesn't engage in battle. You must finish your mission first. He can't move away otherwise..."
"I won't let my comrades die and those who break the rules are scum but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum. Tell me now, how am I supposed to leave you here now huh? You saved me when I was younger and even helped me to get stronger now I'm going to return the favour. I'll save just as you saved me." Finished with a smile Naruto.
What's he talking about? Did they already know each other when our team was founded? These were two questions which floated through Sakura mind. She looked at Naruto again reminded that she knows nothing about him. Well, not nothing, but not enough for her liking. He still seems to have many secrets hidden. She still can learn more about him and she wants to do it.
"Now, now dobe let's leave it to me. You're way too weak only we Uchihas can face someone as strong as him and win." Announced Sasuke which earner a gasp from Sakura.
How could he say something like this? Isn't situation bad enough? Does he want to start a fight with Naruto as well? What's wrong with him lately? Since they finished academy he grew even colder than he was. He treats them even worse than in the academy. During their mission, she's always feeling worthless when she's around Sasuke. When she's making mistake he's first one to criticize her. Once even making her cry softly at the pain and sadness she felt
when he shouted on her for dropping some item made from glass. Most of the time Naruto would do something dumb and make them fail their mission. She knew it was because of her. Sasuke-kun anger always was directed at him after he did this dumb thing. Blond-haired never showed he cared about their failed missions. After missions like this, he always talked with her. He always smiled at her, so she will feel better. She always did. They never talked about why he did something like this, but it made her feel better that he's supporting her in some way. He treated her as his equal even though she didn't think about him like this in past. He never turned away from her instead tried to come closer. Never tried to make her feel worthless and not needed instead always prised and asked for help.
"This is my fight!" Shouted out Naruto
This brought Sakura back.
"What do you mean your fight?!" Shouted back great Uchiha
"He's dangerous and one mistake may cost you life and I don't want to even give a chance for something like this happening to any of you. Especially not Sakura-Chan. Teme if I'll fail you must protect her, do you understand?!"
He turned to Sasuke as he looked at him with nothing more but shock on his face, but he never responded to Naruto question and so he asked again.
"Do you understand teme?!" Blond-haired genin shouted out again
"Hn" Was the answer he received "She should be the one protecting me. Don't you understand that her life is worthless when compared to mine? I'm the Uchiha while she's no one."
Naruto eyes flashed red for a second.
"She's your teammate teme!"
"And? It doesn't mean I must sacrifice my life for her!"
"I'd, She'd and Kakashi would. We'd do it because we're a team and we must protect each other, so you should as well." This time his voice saddened a bit.
"Hn" again answered he received from Uchiha, but this time he knew it meant "ok". He just knows what his "hns" means. He laughed softly.
Sakura, on the other hand, was feeling down again. How many time does he need to remind her that in his eyes she's nothing but an obstacle, a mistake, a useless person? Naruto never thinks like this. Is this how people are feeling when fighting for someone they love? When she told her parents she's in love with Uchiha, they didn't show as they care. They never showed. She never knew that she must endure so much pain just so she can be with him one day.
She likes to read romance novels. While reading them she always imagines herself and Sasuke-kun as two main characters. There was never ever so much of pain main girl had to experience from a boy. Of course, there were somewhere a girl was hurt by a boy, but never this often and much. It made her want to give up, but how could she? It would make her look like an awful woman. It'd make her look like a slut. It'd make her look worse than Ino-pig.
She looked sadly on her teammates again. What is she supposed to do? She suddenly felt determination flowing through her. She's going to get stronger and show them that she's not a weak link in this team. She reached for a kunai.
"Sakura-Chan"
She was surprised when she heard her name, and there was only one person who added"Chan" to it and it was Naruto.
When blond-haired boy knew she was listening to him he continued
"You don't have to prove anything. I already know you're strong." This surprised her. She had to blink tears away. She dropped her kunai as well. "Just ignore the teme. I told you this before didn't I?" He chuckled at the end. She giggled a little as well and nodded. Yes, he told her this already. He again was making her feeling better, even when they're facing a dangerous opponent like Zabuza. She smiled reminded that she doesn't have to prove anything to him. He already believes in her. For now this enough for her, but she's going to train more and harder to get stronger anyway.
"Okay, so let's begin."
With these words, Naruto took out a scroll from his pocket. From it, he unsealed 5 kunais. He has thrown 3 in three directions. West, East and North. One of them went in Zabuza way but dodged it easily.
Naruto chuckled. The fourth kunai landed under him. It was just to be secure. Blue-eyed genin threw the last kunai into Zabuza right hand which was holding the jutsu in which Kakashi was prisoned. Zabuza caught the kunai easily, but as he looked at it his eyes widened.
He saw this kunai already. All these years back when Uzumaki boy invaded Mizukage mansion. He doesn't understand what they do, but he knows there's some kind of seal on it.
Naruto chuckled again as he made seal for kage bunshin. Zabuza focused back on the blond-haired boy. It's time to reveal his favourite move. Clone started forming chakra on original Naruto hand. People eyes widened as they saw that blond-haired boy was actually holding chakra in his hand. After his jutsu was ready clone disappeared and Naruto did raise his hand to his face the same way Zabuza did while performing his Kirigakure no Jutsu.
He smiled at Zabuza as he disappeared. Everyone was shocked by this. Zabuza was about to look around but didn't have time as he felt pain on the left side of his body. He was hit by something when he heard word Rasengan he knew that the Uzumaki kid hit him with his technique.
The impact of hit forced him to release his hold on Kakashi jutsu as his enemy fallen into the water. Naruto smiled as he caught his kunai which Zabuza let go after he was hit by his rasengan.
All three people on the land were shocked. Not only their teammate defeated jounin in one move, but also he's standing on water. Just what the hell happened with the dobe of their class?
To say Zabuza was furious would be not enough. He was again defeated by some kind of gaki. He should control his emotions better, but how? He was defeated by a genin. Well, genin who defeated Mizukage.
He quickly stood back up and rushed toward already awaiting boy. Zabuza moved his sword behind himself, he's going to hit this gaki with his whole power. He'll not be even able to scream in pain, because he'll die too quickly.
Naruto just lowered his head and waited for hit, but it never came. Zabuza stopped so close to Naruto head that they saw some hair which was falling on the water. Ex-Kiri jounin couldn't move his hand for killing blow. He was looking at the kid with pure hatred.
Naruto looked at Zabuza and smiled showing for him to look down.
Zabuza eyes widened when he saw a hand holding back his arm and person standing on the water. He already knows whos this hand belongs to. Rouge ninja jumped back and prepared himself on what's about to come. His eyes were telling him that he's extremely pissed and want to get his revenge. Zabuza bit his lip to avoid any stupid comment. He needs to calm down otherwise he's going to fail and completely lose.
"Is this fight really over?" Asked coldly copy ninja.
Zabuza went into rage mode again. How dare he? He lost against him and the gaki saved him. This gaki is too much of a trouble. He needs to inform people above him. Zabuza knows that blue-eyed boy is a jinchuuriki from Konoha. He was trying to find the information's about boy after he left Kirigakure and found out about this with the help of Haku. Since he was already rouge ninja he couldn't inform Konoha about it or he'd be caught and send back to Kiri.
Zabuza also knows about Akatsuki who's responsible for jinchuuriki. They don't seem to think about him as a threat yet. Here they're wrong. This boy already dangerous and powerful when he was younger, but now he's probably even stronger. He should be their highest priority to eliminate. How do they want to protect their current world and peace if they're allowing someone so dangerous walk on this earth?
Swordsman rushed at grey-haired jounin. His enemy took kunai out of his pocket and countered his attack. He was forced to use more strength to push him back.
Kakashi knew that if they'll fight like this he stands no chance. The close fight will always be in favour of Zabuza. Maybe not if he'll use his best ninjutsu together with sharinagn, but it will take a lot of strength. He can't do it when he's not sure if it will work.
As they landed on the surface of the water both locked their eyes together. This started by them moving the same way. At first, they were running in the same direction. Later they did the same seals for the same jutsu which was suited suiryuudan no jutsu. Their jutsus clashed together and their dragons destroyed one another. They clashed their sword and kunai together under their jutsus collide place.
As again they jumped back Zabuza had some suspicious. He ran in a circle again and Kakashi did exactly the same time with the same timing. As they stopped both did the same seal at the same time. Zabuza eyes widened.
"Hmmm is that all you can do? You're just a copying monkey!" Shouted out Zabuza. When he received no response he continued, but this time Kakashi shouted with him in unison.
"You can't beat me, you monkey!"
Zabuza eyes widened even further, but it got worse when he saw a copy of himself beside Kakashi. Copy ninja used this frame when his opponent was distracted for his advantage and finished seals while shouting
"Suiton Daibakufu no jutsu"
Zabuza was surprised again. How could this happen? He was the one that wanted to use this jutsu, and yet Kakashi predicted it and used it before him. He just can't understand it.
Ex-Kiri ninja was hit by big amounts of water which pushed him away from the river into the forest. As he entered the forest with water he hit in one of the trees where he stopped. His whole body was screaming in pain and he was plain tired.
He felt another presence above him and looked up to see Kakashi looking down on him. Swordsman asked a question for which he needed an answer.
"Can... Can you see the future?" Asked uncertain Zabuza
"Yes" Was Kakashi calm answer
Zabuza wanted to continue this conversation, but he felt pain in his neck and he blacked out.
Kakashi was surprised because he didn't felt anyone's presence and yet here in front of him stood one of Kiri's ANBU.
"Thank you for defeating Zabuza. We had been chasing him for some time already. Now we can finally end this saga with him. Thank you again."
Kiri ANBU looked around him and saw blond-haired boy who was collecting kunais. This boy looked at him and said something with his lips, not aloud. Kiri ANBU understood anyway.
See you later were blue-eyed genins words he mouthed to him. It meant he knows that he's working with Zabuza-san and yet he's allowing him to take save Zabuza-san. He quickly took his saviour and puffed away.
Kakashi looked at his team.
Naruto was talking with Sakura while sealing away his kunais. Looks like he's explaining to her how's doing it. The girl was listening carefully to every word his teammate is saying. Sasuke was standing with kunai in his next to Tazuna. He's still thinking that there could be someone else around.
Kakashi covered his eye back. Now that the fight is finished they need to head to Tazuna village.
"Ok, we should mo..." He didn't finish his sentence, because he blacked out from exhaustion. Naruto caught him just in time before he hit the ground.
How is he so fast? asked herself Sakura
"Okay I think we should move to Tazuna house, so Kakashi may rest in there."
Everyone nodded agreeing with him and they moved out to Tazuna village. Naruto is the only one aware that there'll be round of this fight. He's excited to face Zabuza and his comrade. He's hoping that his friend will be stronger than Zabuza, but it was hard to tell. For now, he just focused on continuing their mission.
(a few days later at Tzuna house)
Inside of bridge builder house on one of the beds slept sharingan Kakashi. He was sweating while sleeping. His breath also was unregular and heavy.
Silver-haired jounin is actually having a nightmare where he's again going to face Zabuza on some kind of bridge. They were having an equal and tough battle, but at some point, they both heard a loud roar and very powerful chakra.
Before Kakashi could feel the chakra in his dream he woke up and he got up. His breath was deep and heavy and he was feeling something on his forehead and he knew what it's. He moved his hand through his head and scratched the top of it. How is he going to tell everyone that Zabuza is alive and is going to attack them again?
He looked at the door to this room when he heard some voices outside of this door.
A second later the door opened and in front of him stood his three students, Tazuna and one woman who he doesn't know but could guess she's one of this house owner.
Sakura and Sasuke looked in his way and their eyes widened. Then they looked down to Naruto who just grinned at him. Kakashi just smiled back.
"Kakashi-san are you ok?" Asked the woman he doesn't know. He decided to reply politely.
"Yes of course." And to be more convincing he nodded and waved at them.
"Oh pardon me I didn't introduce myself. I'm Tsunami daughter of Tazuna. Thank you for protecting my father." She bowed her head at the end, and Kakashi frowned mentally. He doesn't want to people bow to him just because he is fulfilling his duty as a ninja.
"Ahh it's nothing can we not talk about it?" Asked Kakashi while waving his hand as a signal to stop the woman. She looked at him giggled a little.
"Of course as you say Kakashi-san." Responded Tsunami.
Tsunami went to him to check if he's actually all right. As she was checking on him he looked at his students again. Both Sakura and Sasuke were tackling Naruto to the ground and he decided to ask out of curiosity.
"Did Naruto do something stupid again?"
Sasuke and Sakura looked at each but didn't reply.
"Kakashi they attacked me because I said you woke up. I also said that I'm going to check on you. Then the brooder said that I shouldn't do it and that I'm wrong." Explained Naruto
"But the worst part is that Sakura-chan took his side and that I shouldn't go in here, because Sasuke-KUN must be right."
Both Sakura and Kakashi winced at this.
Kakashi did it because it must hurt Naruto that even though he's always trying to help and support his female teammate she's never on his side.
Sakura, on the other hand, was a bit guilty. When she heard Naruto sating that Kakashi is awake she wanted to go with her teammates to check on him and greet him. Then Sasuke-kun said that Naruto shouldn't go in there and well if she wants to win his affection she can't go against him otherwise how can he ever like her? Now she was feeling bad because she's hiding her real self behind the mask just so she can please the boy she loves.
"Hn" Was everything they got from Sasuke and all of them sweatdropped. How can he still behave like this?
"Well now that I'm awake why don't you sit down. I must tell you something." Kakashi face went serious. Sakura and Sasuke did as they were told, but Naruto just stayed in the place he was.
"Naruto sit down next to your teammates please?" Kakashi was getting impatient and was going to scold him, but the blond-haired boy next words shocked him.
"I already told them Kakashi."
Kakashi eyes widened and he looked Naruto in the eyes. He didn't show any signs of playfulness, he was rather serious.
"Do you mean you told them about our situation with HIM?" Asked Kakashi. He must be sure.
"Yes," Replied annoyed Naruto. Is he deaf? asked himself Naruto.
"Yhym guys what are you talking about?" Asked confused Sakura.
Sasuke looked at her. He didn't understand them as well, but he couldn't show it. He's great Uchiha he should know. The only he doesn't need to know is when they talk about something that isn't related to power or fights. Then he's not interested that much.
"Zabuza is alive!" Announced Kakashi
There was a heavy silence as no one knew what to say. It was until Sakura started to laugh. Everyone's attention was directed at her.
"Haha very funny sensei, but we saw this guy from Kirigakure taking Zabuza body."
"He took it, but we can't be sure he was dead. I didn't check his pulse. I checked only his chakra and I couldn't sense it. Then there's second thing. ANBU usually want to remove all the evidence as fast as possible, which mean this guy should burn Zabuza body since it could have many secrets of Kirigakure, but he just took it and moved away."
Finished his rant and heard a chuckle. It came from Naruto. The blue-eyed boy looked at him and said
"They're a team." Announced Naruto
This shocked everyone. How could he know this for sure?
"Jiji Hokage gave me access to some reports one which was a group of four people from Kirigakure. In this group was Zabuza, demon brothers and one person who was not identified. Which means that there was person we didn't know about."
"But how you know it was him?" Asked scared Sakura.
"As Kakashi said. This ANBU took Zazbuza body instead of destroying it together with evidence. He wanted to save Zabuza life."
Everyone beside Naruto looked down. Thinking about their first encounter with ex-Kiri ninja. This fight was tough enough already and now they'll have to be extra careful because there will be one more person with him. What made it worse that they don't have any idea about his abilities, but he could have information about theirs.
Naruto sighed and decided to add more from himself to add some morale into his team.
"After the beating, he received from Kakashi I doubt he'll be able to fight for a few days if not weeks which gives us time to prepare. We can set traps around the bridge and create formation which helps us to counter Zabuza possible attack."
Everyone realizes that what Naruto just said was true. They are sure of two things for now. One is that Zabuza will not show himself for some time and second that they know who is his target. They have advantage because as long as Tazuna lives bridge will be completed. They can play around this card, but they still have to be careful and not take it for granted. If they'll then roles will reverse.
"Okay you all improved since we formed our team, but there's still a lot of things we need to work on and today I'll show you something you'll have work for some time. Meet me in the woods in one hour."
They all nodded in understanding. Sasuke smirked because he's finally going to receive more serious training than tactics or teamwork they spent most of their time on in Konoha.
Sakura smiled as well. This is a chance for her to get stronger. She wants to improve so they can rely more on her. So they can be a real team. As she looked at Sasuke doubt went through her mind. Even if she'll get stronger will Sasuke see her as her, or will she still be a mistake and weakling in his eyes?
Naruto saw Sakura looking at Sasuke and her change in mood. She was looking happy at first, but then one look at teme and everything changed for 180 degrees. She was happy they'll train together, but it seemed that Sasuke on his own and his behaviour are still causing her pain and this is making her doubt in herself.
Naruto went to her and kneeled while looking into those beautiful green eyes. He love those eyes when she was happy and excited because then they often had some kind of sparkle which made her look almost like a goddess, but now it was not the case. Her eyes were foggy, because of sadness and doubt and Naruto took it on himself to make sure it will not be happening.
So he did the only thing he could think of. He genuinely smiled at her and
"Sakura-Chan we can later train together as well if you want. I love training and spending time with you. So what do you think?"
Kakashi smiled at this. Naruto really is working hard to keep this girl as happy as possible. He really cared about her and he knows she cares about him, but not as much yet. Then he looked at Sasuke. He had an angry look on his face. He probably didn't understand that he's the one bringing them closer. Well, he won't intervene in this.
Sasuke burned inside with anger. How dare this dobe? He's stealing his fangirl away from him. He doesn't need her now, but she'll be useful in future. When he'll be 14 then he and Danzo are planning on activating CRA(Clan Restoration Act) so he can start with one of his ambitions. He'll need many girls and Sakura will be one of them. There's only one reason behind his choice and this reason is to make Naruto broken. He'll fuck her and taker her virginity, take her body, her soul and everything else she has to offer. The best part she'll let him because she'll either has no choice or do it willingly. He knows Naruto like maybe even loves her, but he can't lose to this dobe. He decided to step in when he saw Sakura returning his smile.
"Hey, Sakura we can train together if you want." Said coldly Sasuke
His statement made both his teammates froze. Did they hear him right? Did he ask Sakura to train with him? The amazing Uchiha asked their weakest (at least in Sasuke opinion) link in their team to train and spend his time with her.
This statement cause Kakashi to froze and let his book fall out of his hand.
Sakura looked at the boy she loves and was about to respond with yes, but she stopped in her tracks. Will be actually training session or will he use her as a punching bag and call her weak again? She didn't like it one bit. She wanted to have fun and improve not be left behind feeling lower than dirt. She looked back at Naruto whose eyes showed some sadness. He was trying to hide it from her, but he couldn't hide all of it. He was always trying to erase all of her sadness so now it was her turn. Besides, she already hurt him today before they came here. She could take his side. She could support him and show her trust in him, but instead, she decided to go Sasuke-kun because she wanted him to like her. She knew it could ruin her chances with Sasuke-kun , but at this moment she didn't care. She took deep breath and made her decision.
"No thanks Sasuke-kun, I think I'll pass this time, but say Naruto. Is your offer still on the table?"
This cause Kakashi to lose his consciousness and Tsunami and Tazuna panick because they didn't understand it one bit. He was okay like 10 seconds ago. Then he froze and fainted. It's all too weird for them to understand.
Naruto and Sasuke gasped at Sakura response to Uchiha. She actually chose the dobe over the almighty Uchiha.
That disloyal bitch! Sasuke was now raging inside. She's choosing total loser over royalty, and yet tomorrow she'll come to him and beg for forgiveness and let her back. When she'll he know he'll punish her. He'll have to beat her up so she'll know that she can't go against him, because he's better than her, or he'll simply yell at her for trying to run away when she doesn't have any choice.
"Hn" And with this Sasuke exited the room.
Sakura was so happy now. She finally felt free. Now Sasuke-kun knew how she felt when he was doing something similar or worse to her. She looked at Naruto again and smiled. He was the one to push her forward and gave her strength even though she already wanted to give up. He helped her to realize that you should follow your heart. He showed her that there is much more good in this world than she thought. That not everything must involve thinking about Sasuke-kun to be interesting and fun.
"So this offer still stands or not?" Asked playfully again Sakura
Naruto finally realized what's happening and grinned so hard that she thought his face will break in two.
"Of course! You don't even have to ask. Just as I said I love training with you." Exclaimed a bit too loudly Naruto. This irritated Tsunami and Tazuna that he was so loud because he could train with his teammate, but Sakura smiled wider. For her, it meant that he accepted her. That he wants to spend his precious time wasting it on her. That he's still going to support her even though she doesn't deserve it. That he'll be there for her when she'll need him the most and even when she'll not need him at all.
"Should we go now?" Asked excited Sakura
"I think we should wait for Kakashi to show us what he has prepared for us, and after we'll finish his training then we should focus on ours."
Sakura nodded as he made sense. Now they must wait for their sensei to wake up. She smiled again anyway. It meant more time with Naruto, and since they became team alone time with Naruto was always something interesting and precious to her. She's always learning something new about him. Not always positive things, but it helped her to understand that he suffered enough in his life and she shouldn't bring even more pain into it.
1 hour later in the woods
Three genins were standing somewhere in the middle of the woods and in front of them stood their sensei. The grey-haired ninja must be walking with a cane, because of how weak he's feeling. All of it happens, because he overused his sharingan.
I need some more training as well as thought Kakashi. Enemies aren't going to wait for him and stop improving and he cannot let them catch him. Beside if Guy is getting he must too because of this absolutely unacceptable to let Guy have a power advantage over him and win their competitions. He won't be able to look into his student's eyes again after they'll learn about him and his friend.
"Okay Team 7 let's start today's training. I'll teach you how to walk on trees."
This earned confused look from Sasuke and Sakura.
"But Kakashi-sensei we know how to climb on trees."
"But can you do it without using your hand?" Asked Kakashi, while toking his book out of his pouch.
"What do you mean without using our hands?!" Asked shocked Sakura. Sasuke kept his composure, but inside he was as confused.
"Like this." He showed behind them where Naruto was walking on the tree with his feet.
His teammate's eyes widened. How can he do it already?
"So you figured out?" Asked Konoha jounin, and the blond-haired boy only nodded to confirm. "So how about you explain it to them?"
This angered Naruto. Their sensei just wants to read his book in peace, so he wanted to gave his responsibility onto the others!
"Kakashi you're our sensei, so you should do it!" Shouted blue-eyed genin.
"Okay, okay I'll do it." Kakashi went toward a tree and made a tiger seal.
"Okay so now you must focus your chakra on the bottom of your feet." After a second he went forward and started walking on the tree. "Then just walk forward. As simple as that."
Sakura looked at Naruto who's still standing on the tree. He seems to be even stronger than she thought. This means she must work even harder to reduce this gap. She focused chakra on the bottom of her feet and walked toward the tree. She slowly went step by step. She went even higher and in one moment she lost her concentration, because of how easy it felt. In this moment of distraction, she lost control of her chakra. Her feet just slid away from the tree and started to fall. She was preparing herself to feel big amounts of pain, because of this fall but she didn't feel any. Instead, she felt some warmth around her body. As she reopened her eyes she saw amazing beautiful blue eyes. She lost herself in them for a second before the owner of these eyes spoke some words to her.
"You okay Sakura-Chan"
Then she realized that he's standing on a branch and kept her in his arms carrying her bridal style as if she's a princess. Weirdly enough she liked this feeling. She smiled as she gave her answer in whispered tone.
"Yep now I'm fine thanks for saving me."
He smiled at her as well.
"No problem, but you can't let yourself be distracted otherwise this will be happening more and we don't want any accidents."
At his words, Sakura looked down. Is she a burden now, because she can't do a simple exercise correctly. As if reading her thoughts.
"No worries you'll learn it in no time look at Sasuke."
Her eyes went to the place where they stood at the beginning and her eyes widened. Sasuke-kun is marking his progress with kunai. It looks like he's struggling more than her. His highest mark is maybe a little above 2 meters. She didn't mark her height, but it for sure was higher. Sasuke-kun still can catch up to her and she can't allow it. She'll show them that she's worth something as well.
"Naruto I'm okay to stand now."
He nodded and let her go.
"Okay I'm going down and then I'm going to work hard to get higher and I'll show you that I'm not the weakest link."
The blond-haired boy could feel her determination through her words and this made him smile. This one of the reasons he loves her after all.
"I can give you some advice if you want Sakura-Chan."
She looked back at him and smiled as she nodded.
"Great now let's go and do some training." Exclaimed way too loudly Naruto. This got Kakashi and Sasuke attention.
"Naruto I don't think you need to train this. Do you want me to show you how to walk on water?" Asked Kakashi
"I can walk on the water Kakashi." Answered Naruto
"Okay then help them. I have some business to attend."
Before Naruto could protest Kakashi disappeared.
Even though their sensei said he has some business to attend, Naruto knows better. He's just going to read the book he got from ero-sennin.
"Um, Naruto can you really walk on the water." Asked shyly Sakura
This got Naruto attention. He fought against Zabuza, who was walking on the water and prisoned Kakashi in there. Were they actually watching the fight or everything around? It irritated him a little, but as he looked back at her his irritation disappeared. It's so hard for him to feel negative emotions around her. So he did the best thing he could think of. He stupidly grinned at her.
"Of course Sakura-Chan and I can teach you how to do it after you finish this training. Besides haven't you seen when I was fighting Zabuza I was standing on the water."
Bubble-haired girl went wide, but smile on her face almost cut it in two pieces. She has an advantage over Sasuke-kun in this training and Naruto offered her even more difficult training which will make the gap between them smaller, and she'll have even more advantages over Sasuke-kun.
"Yes I'd like that, but for now I must finish tree walking, so I must focus on this one for now, and yes I watched sorry that I forgot it."
Her teammate only nodded in understanding and decided it's the best time to give her some tips on how to finish it faster. He wasn't angry at her for not remebering, because everyone can forget about somethings sometimes.
Later during the night on the same day
Inside of Tazuna house in the dining room around the table sat whole team 7 and together with them Tazuna family which included Tazuna, Inari and Tsunami.
Tazuna family was eating slowly taking their time with their food. From time to time they took a look on black-haired genin who looked a little beaten with some scratches on his face and hands. He was eating as fast as possible not caring about others. Kakashi ignored everything around him and just ate his supper at the same time reading his favourite book. Sakura and Naruto ate as slow as possible while having small chit chats here and there. Both seemed relaxed. Sakura, as well as Sasuke, had some scratches from her training, but this wasn't going to stop her.
At one point Tazuna got irritated by Uchiha behaviour and lack of reaction from their sensei so cleared his throat so to get his attention.
Kakashi looked around too and as his eyes landed he saw his irritation and decided to talk with his students and calm Sasuke a little so others can eat peacefully.
"So how is your training going?" Asked jounin
Sakura smiled as decided to go first.
"We're doing great Naruto helped me a lot and I walked through over half of the tree. Every time I try to go higher it gets a lot of effort from me and leaves me tired. Naruto says that the reason is that my chakra capacity is too low for now."
Kakashi nodded at this and looked at Naruto.
"I made it up to the top of the tree."
Silver-haired jounin eyes twitched at this. He expected Naruto to get there earlier than others did because he taught him some basics with Itachi when they met him. He still was expecting something more. He decided to let it go and looked in the direction of Sasuke who now has an angry look on his face.
"I didn't even climb half of the way. I'm missing something, but I don't know what and when I asked the dobe and the fangirl for advice dobe told me to get lost."
Kakashi looked weirdly at young Uchiha. It's hard to believe Naruto told him to "get lost".
"That's not true Kakashi-sensei he came to us and started saying how we should be below him and how great he's and then said that it's our "privilege" to help him, because he's asking."
This made all boys from team 7 to open their mouth apart. No one expected Sakura to go against Sasuke again. There was long silence and jounin decided to break it.
"Is true Naruto?"
"Well yes. I don't think he wants to work with us Kakashi."
Something in Sasuke snapped. He stood up kicking the chair back in the process as he shouted.
"I'm telling you this from the start. I don't want to work with you! Why would I want to become with someone who's below me?! With someone worse than me!" Then his eyes set on Sakura."How long are you going to hide behind this dobe?! I hope you know that you'll suffer consequences for this in future! You were supposed to be my fangirl! You were supposed to by my future wife so I can restore my clan! You are involved in CRA! You're going to be my whore and baby-factory! But now I understand that you're only a slut!"
This left pink-haired girl eyes wide. She was beyond being shocked. She understood the concept of CRA, but she didn't know Sasuke-kun will be one of the people to be involved. She knew that the Uchiha clan was and is important for Konoha as well as their kekkei genkai. What broke her heart the most is that men's who are taking part in this act have many wives, so it meant even if he'll take her in there'll be more women's. Then she'll be not the only one for him, but one from many and she doesn't want to be having a life like this. She always wanted to be the one and only, but it doesn't look like it's possible. He also said that she should be proud, but she didn't feel proud. She felt lower than dirt, absolutely disgust at how can someone say something like this to another person. She didn't wanted to be like this. With teares in her eyes she rushed out of the room.
Naruto on the other hand looked furious. His eyes changed its colour to dark red. It's the first time in his life he felt so much anger. How can Sasuke do and say something like this to them, especially to Sakura-Chan. He was going to hit the bastard, but he heard a sob and chair moving. As he turned around he saw that Sakura-Chan ran out of the room. He decided to follow her. He spared the last look on Sasuke and expression he was wearing angered him even further. He looked all proud and mighty. Naruto continued his chase after his favourite pinkette.
Kakashi quickly shook off his initial shock and looked at Sasuke for a second. Now he's sure that Sasuke has contact with someone from Konoha council. Most possibly Danzo. He's not the only one who's supporting CRA, but his obsession about Sharingan makes it more obvious. Silver-haired jounin looked at Sasuke with sadness and disappointment. He was supposed to teach them how important it's to rely on each other and work together. He wanted to show them that it'll improve their strength solo and in the group. It doesn't look like it worked out. They're young so there's still hope, but now he must focus on Sasuke and Danzo.
"Sasuke I want you to know that I'm very disappointed in you. How can you say something like this to your teammates?"
Who cares?! almost snapped back Sasuke, but he's smarter than this. Kakashi is still one of the most powerful jounins in their village and has close contact with Hokage. At least that's what Danzo told him. Hu just "hm-ed" as he went outside to woods to have more training.
Kakashi sighed after Uchiha left the house. Everything is going in the wrong direction. After they'll finish this mission they'll need much more teamwork exercises. He'll force them to do it and to accept each other or he'll just disband the team, but Sasuke will be forced into another one. Beside him, there're only three jounins who'll able to go opposite Sasuke with no fear.
With Sasuke
Young Uchiha was walking toward the forest with a furious look on his face.
These people are really getting on his nerves. He'll talk with Danzo one he'll get back from the mission. He needs to ask him about making CRA faster. He wants Sakura to be his wife so he can punish her. He wants her to suffer for going against him. As well as for being with this dobe. She's really getting close to him and it's getting on his nerves. It makes him angry that Naruto can take away his number 1 fangirl and make her feel like he's doing something wrong when in reality he can't do anything wrong. How can Uchiha make something wrong? The answer is simple they can'tUchihas are just too great. Especially now when there are only two of them and one has left the village.
He looks back at the home where he and his teammates are staying.
I'll get my revenge soon thought darkly and coldly Sasuke while smirking to himself.
With Sakura
The pink-haired girl was laying down on her bed while crying hardly, because of words Sasuke-kun her love spoke to her. Did he really think this of her? Is she actually just potential baby-factory to him? She felt dirty thinking about something like this. She never thought about doing something like this with a boy, but now Sasuke-kun was saying she'll have no choice but do it with him. The worst part was that not because of his love for her, but because of his desire to restore his clan. She knows that if she's from clan like Haruno she'll have no choice, but to go with it. It's not like her parent will protest anyway.
While she was crying her heart out she didn't hear a knock on the door or the door was opened seconds later. Only when she heard footsteps she got up and turned to see Naruto smiling sadly at her. She turns away from him and tries to wipe away all her tears she doesn't want to look weak in front of him. Especially not now when she knows how much faith and trust he has in her and her strength. She was about to turn around to face him, but his word shocked her.
"Sakura-Chan you don't have to be always strong on your own. Sometimes just let others help you." After a second he added as a whisper "Let me help you."
Tears came back to her eyes. As she turned to Naruto who looked at her with sadness and desire to comfort her. There was also one emotion she couldn't understand, but she let it go as she tapped to space next to her.
Naruto nodded as he moved towards her bed and sat down next to her. The blond felt a bit awkward not really knowing what to say, so he decided to ask the simplest question he could think of.
"How are you feeling?" His tone was soft and caring so don't scare her.
"I just don't understand... How can he say something like this about his own teammates?" There was a lot of pain in her voice. She was looking down, but when she asked Naruto a question she looked into his eyes with hope of seeing an honest answer. The question was
"Naruto am I really that weak?" When Naruto didn't respond but only looked at her she decided it will be better to just look away to avoid any embarassemtns. "I must be if Sasuke-kun is saying something like this about me, seeing me like this and.." Before she could continue she felt something on her forearms and it was hands. Naruto hands she figured. He turned her so she was facing him. She raised her head slowly and the look she saw in Naruto eyes made her scared a little. There was a lot of anger and disappointment.
"Don't ever, ever, ever talk about yourself like this Sakura-Chan. You're not weak at all. You need to improve in some places but so does Sasuke and so do I." He calmed down and little and spoke softly to her. "For me, you're the strongest kunoichi from our year. Even though you're not from any family with kekkei genkai like Hinata or Ino. You're much smarter than they're, you're better at tactics, your chakra control is amazing." He made a short pause to think about his next words. "But the best part of you is your heart which always wants to carry help for others. You have the nicest and the purest heart out of all kunoichi in all five nations."
A girl with green eyes was beyond being shocked. She didn't expect such words coming out from Naruto mouths and here he's talking about her like she's is someone strong and worth attention. "But what Sasuke-kun said..." Again she couldn't finish as Naruto stepped in midsentence.
"Why do you care what this teme thinks. I've told you already many times just ignore and don't care about what he thinks. You can achieve great things if you'll believe in yourself and not what others say. I believe in you."
In the end, she was crying. He actually believes in her. He thinks she can achieve great things. Even her parents never told her that they believe in her. They didn't even want her to be a ninja.
Sasuke-kun was the strongest one in their class and she thought that if she'll prove to him that she's worth something then he'll love her and then they'll together have a happy life. Now this dream of hers seems so far away. "But how can you believe in someone like me, in someone who always treated you worse than the others, someone who thought about you as annoying." She just didn't understand his logic. How can...
"Because you're Sakura-chan and for Sakura-Chan I can endure any kind of pain just to see her happy and smiling face."
She couldn't even finish her thought and Naruto already responded with such words. How can they even go through his mouth is beyond her. How can he think so highly of her? She didn't even think like this about Sasuke-kun.
Then in one moment, she understood. She always knew that Naruto liked her, but she never cared, because Sasuke-kun was around. She never tried to talk to him or to get to know him better. Just after they became a team she finally learned about Naruto, but now she thought that Naruto might actually love her. She still isn't sure and isn't going to make fool out of herself and say this aloud.
But she felt butterflies in her stomach when she thought about it. Even the prospect of Naruto loving her has her amazing feeling she never felt. She always felt better around Naruto. He always put so much effort to make her feel this way as well.
She moved one hand to her heart because it was beating like crazy. She smiled lightly to herself. Then she turned to face Naruto again and smiled even wider. Now that she understood him more she wanted to discover her feeling more as well. She wanted to know how strong they're for him. He had been hurt a lot in his life and he doesn't need any more pain, especially not from her.
They were sitting on the bet in comfortable since for some time until Naruto broke it.
"Well, I think I should go to my room and get some sleep. We'll have a rough day tomorrow." He smiled at her and was about to stand up, but his teammate was faster and caught in an unexpected hug. Her head was resting on his chest and her ear was listening to his heartbeat, which she thought was one of the most amazing sounds she ever heard.
"Thank you Naruto" After these words she felt him return the embrace. His heartbeat rate became faster and Sakura giggled mentally at this. It's only a hug, but when she thought about it for a second. He's the first person she hugged. Sure her mother gave her hugs when she was younger, but she never returned them or gave anyone one of her own. She wanted to repeat her earlier words to her teammate, but this time while looking into his eyes.
When she looked up she couldn't believe what she saw. Here while hugging her Naruto was crying his eyes out. She didn't know what to think about, but she asked a question which was on her mind right now.
"Naruto what's wrong?" The blond wiped his tears away and cleared his throat as he responded.
"Nothing's wrong Sakura-Chan. You don't have to worry." He grinned at her, but by now she understood most of his smiles and grins. This one, in particular, was fake and it hurt her that he didn't want to let her in, to let her help him when he helped her just a few minutes ago. She took a deep breath.
"Naruto. You too don't have to face everything alone. Can you allow me to help you?" The blond-haired boy looked at the girl who was still hugging him her eyes pleading "Please?"She added."
This was his Sakura-Chan thought Naruto
"It's just that.." Naruto didn't know how to continue, but it didn't trouble Sakura at all. He can take his time if it meant he'll be honest with her. "Well many times I saw parents hugging their children while they cry or out of joy. I always wanted to know how it felt as well. Now not only I felt how it feels to be hugged, but YOU'RE the one who's hugging me."
She raised her eyebrow at last bit but didn't comment.
"I never I'll be able to get this kind of affection from anyone and yet here I'm and it just made me so happy, safe and wanted that I just couldn't help it. This kind of treatment from you is feeling especially great."
She smiled softly at him. He was always alone, so he couldn't feel these emotions. Sakura again was reminded how tough life was for him. She didn't felt like her parents actually always wanted her around, but they still were for her sometimes when she was younger.
Naruto didn't have this kind of comfort. She sighed
"Naruto do you want to stay here for the night?"
Said boy's eyes widened at the sudden proposition and his face reddened.
"Yhm.. are you sure Sakura-Chan?" He nervously gulped while saying the sentence.
Which earned a confused look from pinkette. What made him so nervous. She repeated her words in her mind again and she blushed at his interpretation of her words.
"Not like this you perv!" Shouted out Sakura while hitting him on the head. "I meant you sleeping on the floor. We could just talk some more in the night. I really like talking with you and spending time with you overall." Admitted still blushing pinkette.
Her teammate looked at her for what felt like eternity and Sakura didn't know how to understand his silence and was about to back off from the offer, but then she saw Naruto smiling at her. This was a weird smile because she was it only directed at her which confused her greatly. Decided to think about it later she smiled back.
"Just let me go back to my room and let me change. Right and get my things to sleep."
As he left the room Skura let sight out of tiredness. It was a tough day both physically and mentally. Now her main task was to improve as a kunoichi and discover her feeling for Naruto.
A few minutes later Naruto came back in his pyjama and with his sleep-bag. She invited him dressed in her pyjama. She invited him and they talked most They talked about each other, about their team, about their potential fight against Zabuza and his "friend" and finally about what happened today, but in more detail. When they finally have fallen asleep Sakura discovered later that it was the best night of her life in her young life. She felt no pressure or stress when she woke up. She was completely relaxed.
She looked at sleeping Naruto who was snoring lightly which made her giggle. After a second she turned around blushed as she remembered her dream from last night. She dreamed about a date with Naruto in a nice restaurant. There were candles all around the table they sat at. Together they made a shape of a heart. Naruto was dressed in a nice black suit with no headband which made him look handsome as for such a young boy. She was dressed into a simple red dress which length was below her knees. The dress had some cherry blossoms on it. The date was really romantic with Naruto saying how amazing she looked. He was behaving like a gentleman. They even danced and while they did everyone was looking at them, but the best part was after the song ended when Naruto unexpectedly kissed her. It was a simple romantic kiss. Sakura squealed at this thought and turned to look again at Naruto, more like at his lips. She bit her own. They looked so soft. She shook her head to get rid of these thoughts. She still didn't fully understand her feeling for him. She decided that now was the best time to take a shower and prepare herself for another day in the land of waves.
The breakfast was spent in nice atmosphere. They were a bit troubled by lack of Sasuke during the meal. Naruto reassured them that he was ok, and he's strong enough to defend himself. She trusted Naruto judgment and decided to relax and continue on her conversation with Naruto about what they'll do today.
During their conversation, Kakashi said that Naruto will be on patrol on the bridge since he knows how to walk on trees and water. Sakura, on the other hand, will be trained by Kakashi who'll help her with increasing her chakra supply. She pouted at this because her plans to spend the whole day with Naruto were ruined now. At the same time, she was happy, because it showed that Kakashi-sensei cared about them and was interested in their training.
AN
I decided that this chapter is long enough. I have written the rest of the arc as well and I should post it next week because I'll be away from Friday until Monday and I won't be able to update the story.
The last bit should be only Team 7 against Zabuza and Haku.
I hope you liked the chapter.
See you until next time.
