Sorry for the late update*

Enjoy the story.

The next day:-

Haku was estatic, she didn't like fighting or taking the lives of innocents. It was her loyalty toward Zabuza that kept her from leaving all this behind, Haku hadn't acquired her first kill till now. She was a kind-hearted person with a bitter past, she was more interested in herbs and medical department.

Momochi Zabuza, Zabuza was a merciless and brutal person. When he was a young boy, something inside him changed when he lost his lover in Bloodline purge in Kirigakure. She was the only person he considered as worthy enough to display his soft side, It was her death that led him to try an assassination on Yondaime Mizukage.

The assasination attempt failed and as a punishment he was going to be executed. But he chose not to submit to the tyrant leader and fled off the Village, on his way out he found a small little girl.

The girl was sitting across a lake, her hand clutching her knees and the tears in her eyea displayed suffering and loneliness. At first he tried to ignore her but after sometime he felt a sudden pull from her, it was like she was calling for him. He went on to talk to her, it came as surprise to him that this small girl was also a victim of Bloodline war. He asked her that if she had eaten something or had a place to live, the answers came in negative. He didn't knew why but he took her in, he had Mist anbus hunting him, so he developed a habit of moving around for safety.

Haku didn't knew this but Zabuza didn't completly looked upon her as a tool, he didn't understand his feelings himself but he always felt protective of her. It was like a father who was being protective of his daughter. Maybe Haku had taken up a place of daughter in his lonely life, ninjas never lived a normal life. They didn't have many things to impose their rights on, maybe he had imposed his rights on Haku. Whatever the case maybe but it was clear that Haku was not just a mere tool for him.

Today they had planned to finish this job and move on toward another nation, the appearance of Kakashi Hatake was troublesome enough to move on. They would kill the bridge builder, collect their pay and move on. He and Haku had finished their preparation for the fight that would commence on the bridge. Haku would take care of the genins and he would take care of Kakashi, and at a right moment he would strike Tazuna.

Naruto formed a T-shaped hand seals and created two Shadow clones, he left them at house to protect Tsunami and that little brat Inari. His toad had informed him everything and Kakashi had formulated a plan based on his information. Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura had already moved toward bridge, He was also about to move when he felt a presence behind him.

He turned around and was surprised to see a red eyed fellow wearing a black robes with red clouds printed on it and a straw hat, standing behind him. Those red eyes were Sharingan and this man was an Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha.

"It's nice to meet you Naruto-kun, You've grown allot from the last time I saw you. You weren't this tall and certainly didn't have this aura of confidence around you" stated Itachi looking toward Naruto with an emotionless face.

"Why does that concern you Itachi? You are a traitor to Konoha and its people and most of all you're the reason behind Sasuke's suffering throughout these recent years. You are a cold hearted killer, that doesn't deserves or understand love or loyalty" replied Naruto sternly.

What an irony it was, the man who sacrificed his everything for the sake of the village was portrayed as a traitor of the same village. Itachi was a person with a truly strong will, he was able to kill his mother, father and clansmate for sake of village. Itachi was a perfect example for a wielder of 'will of fire', he even accepted the fact that the person he loved most in the world hated him with a passion.

"You're still naive Naruto. Well, I am not here to harm you or anything like that. I just came here to warn you and wanted to ask a favour from you" Itachi expressed to Naruto.

"What favour would a man like you wants from me Itachi? and what's the warning about?" asked Naruto.

"You're life is in danger Naruto, some S-Ranked Criminals have gathered together to form a secret organization. Their main motive is to collect all of the tailed beasts in the world. You're also one of their targets because of the Biju inside of you" explained Itachi.

"And how do I trust that you're not telling lies to trick me, shouldn't you show some proofs regarding your claim? After what you've done, it would not beneficial for me to trust you blindly Itachi" expressed Naruto.

"You're not as idiot as others depict you, you're quite intelligent and preassumptive. As for the prove, I am the part of the organisation that is trying to acquire tailed beasts. We're going to meet as opponents in near future, till then be alert" warned Itachi.

"So noble of you Itachi to inform me about our future fateful meetings. By the way, may I ask what favours you want from me?" asked Naruto.

"I want you to look after my brother Naruto. Sasuke doesn't seems to bear much hatred, but deep inside him lies a lot of anger, frustration and hatred for me. I don't want you to erase his hatred for me, that's not even possible at this point of time and I don't deserve that. Instead I want you to constantly check on him and make sure he doesn't lose his humanity due to his pain and hatred" stated Itachi.

"Do you even care about Sasuke? I don't think you deserve a chance to explain yourself. You killed your own kin just to test your strength, that's too low. But I promise you that I will always support Sasuke and wouldn't let him destroy himself to avenge his mother. Not for you, but for him. Sasuke is like a brother to me and I wouldn't let my brother destroy himself" expressed Naruto.

Itachi smiled a little, hidden from Naruto. His brother had found a true friend in Naruto. He was now sure that Naruto wouldn't let Sasuke move on toward wrong path, He then remembered something.

"Naruto-kun, could you also pass a message to Sandaime? Tell him that the snake is conspiring something and he should try to return the slug back to leaf" Itachi expressed.

Before Naruto could protest or deny, Itachi had vanished into murder of crows. Postponing the issue for later times he dashed toward the bridge to support his team.

Meanwhile on the bridge :-

Kakashi, Tazuna and rest of Team 7 arrived on the bridge, they were welcomed by dense fog and the sight of unconscious workers who were tied upside-down at the gates. Kakashi quickly signalled his team to execute their plan and take their respective positions.

Suddenly the whole area echoed with sinister laughs of Zabuza, two black figures emerged from the fog. The left one had a big sword on his shoulders, while the right one was yielding some senbons in his hands. The figures revealed themselves as Zabuza and Haku.

"It's nice to see you again Hatake, Why don't you take a side and let me complete my mission? I would be glad to share my stripend with you" chuckled Zabuza.

"Thank you Zabuza, but i don't think after I tell you the things I came to know about just a week ago. Instead, You would want to kill the kill your employer" retorted Kakashi.

"And what that could be Hatake?" asked Zabuza a little skeptically.

"I came to know that Gato had planned to betray you and kill you after you kill Tazuna-san. He is doing this as he doesn't want to pay you. Isn't that shameful Momochi?" stated Kakashi amusedly.

"Why should I trust you Kakashi? You could be deceiving me to betray Gato, and even if he had planned to do something like that, he hadn't betrayed me till now. Our contract is still valid and I respect my contracts Hatake" Zabuza said with a smirk of his own.

"Such high morale of person with such a bad character, you don't leave me a choice Zabuza" said Kakashi and signalled his genins to be ready for battle.

Meanwhile Sasuke was shaking uncontrollably, the reason wasn't fear but instead the excitement of fighting such strong opponents. Naruto hadn't reached the bridge till now, whilst Sakura was standing in a defensive stance in front of Tazuna.

"Haku take care of the black-haired brat. First, I will deal with Hatake, then we will finish our mission" Zabuza barked orders to Haku.

And thus started the fights between two individuals, Kakashi and Zabuza were going all out from the beginning. Zabuza had lost the last duel between them, and he didn't wanted to die so early. While Kakashi was just making sure that Zabuza doesn't get a loopwhole to exploit.

Zabuza swinged his blade from right, Kakashi countered his strike by his Chokuto. Kakashi quickly flicked his blade to his other hand and returned a diagonal strike toward Zabuza, Zabuza stood his ground and pulled his sword in front to block the strike. Kubikiribōchō was far more stronger than Kakashi's Chokuto and he could clearly see the difference. One strike with Kubikiribōchō was equal to thre strikes from his Chokuto, he was needed to upgrade his sword.

Meanwhile aside from the battle between two titans, Sasuke was having a duel with Haku. Haku was a Hyoton user and was truly skilled in her kekkai-genkkei, She had formed two swords from her ice and using them to counter Sasuke's tantos. She wasn't as skilled as Zabuza in Kenjutsu, but you still learns one or two moves if you travel with one of the seven swordsmen of mist.

Sasuke jumped a little in air and brought down his tanto toward Haku's head, she blocked his strike with one of her ice swords and tried to inflicted a cut on Sasuke's shoulder with her another sword. Haku was hesitant to injure him lethally, it wasn't her nature. Each and every one of her strikes missed important body parts, she was only trying to halt Sasuke's movement by damaging his not-so-important body parts. And this didn't go unnoticed by Sasuke, it was like a 10 year old Naruto trying not to hit him with his true strength.

Haku was constantly trying to injure his limbs so that she could tie him up and then help her master to deal with Copy ninja, She quickly backflipped and made some distance between them. She then formed 5 distinctive Hand-seals and shouted "Hyoton: Ice spikes" and slammed her hands on ground. Several spikes made out of ice started to emerge out of the ground, Sasuke had to quickly counter her jutsu or this could prove to be fatal. He quickly made three hand seals and yelled "Katon: Fire sphere jutsu", fire started to mold around him forming a sphere around him.

This was one of the techniques that Naruto had teached him, it was defensive jutsu. It would mould fire chakra around users body and form a protective cover, a C-Ranked defensive elemental justu. This jutsu could only be used once with Sasuke's level of control over fire affinity, the power and stability depends on users affinity toward fire. That was the reason due to which Naruto didn't used this jutsu, He didn't had a natural afinity for fire and his sphere would be quite weak in comparison to Sasuke's.

The sphere halted the ice spikes in their path by melting them, the spikes weren't infused with chakra so it was easy for Sasuke to melt them. Haku quickly understood that if the fight continued like this she wouldn't be able to help Zabuza in defeating Kakashi, She had yet to show her ace. She again formed 8 distinctive Hand seals and silently said "Hyoton: Demonic Ice mirrors", water from under the bridge rose up and went on to form several ice mirrors around Sasuke and Haku. A dome made up of ice mirrors formed around Sasuke, Haku entered one of the mirrors and suddenly every mirror reflected a visage of Haku inside it.

"It's one of the most powerful moves of my clan, this is called as Demonic Ice mirrors. No one has ever left this dome without losing a part of their body, this is now my turf Uchiha" echoed the voice of Haku inside the dome. It was almost impossible for Sasuke to pinpoint her actual location, it was like every mirror had a real Haku inside of it.

"Katon: Great fireball jutsu", Sasuke shouted forming two hand-seals and fired a boulder size fireball toward one of mirrors hoping it would damage the mirror or better melt it. The fireball impacted the mirror with a small blast of fire, but that only resulted in slight melting on the corners of the ice mirror.

"Your fire will not protect you this time Uchiha, my ice mirrors are stable enough to difuse your little fireworks easily. You're now going to see why my clan was feared in Kirigakure, and why we were killed to the extent of extinction" stated Haku and went to shoot dozen of Senbons toward Sasuke, Sasuke tried to deflect them but due to his chakra exhaustion and the mist around the dome he was unable to deflect them all. Two senbons hit him in his right shoulder and three hits his right thigh, the senbons were laced with poison that would cause burning when hit.

It was at this moment that Naruto reached the bridge, Kakashi was having his Kenjutsu bout with Zabuza and Sasuke was fighting with someone inside a dome of mirror-like things. He quickly went on toward Sasuke as he had seen senbons sticking out of Sasuke's limbs.

Sasuke was having a tough time fighting the masked nin, the said shinobi got boost of speed after entering his mirror. Sasuke wasn't able to fully balance his physical speed in relation with his eyes, he can see senbons coming toward him at a slower speed than usual, but he wasn't able to move out their ways so easily.

Meanwhile Kakashi and Zabuza were both fighting toe to toe, if Zabuza was a Kenjutsu master then Kakashi was also the famous copy-nin. Kakashi was accurately predicting Zabuza's movement and countering his attacks with precision.

Kakashi sensed a movement near the entrance of the bridge and glanced toward it, he saw his third student standing there. Naruto was standing there contemplating something, this didn't go unnoticed by Zabuza and he tried to cash-in the opportunity and slashed horizontally toward Kakashi. Kakashi diverted his eyes from Naruto and parred Zabuza's strike with his Chokuto.

"Oh, I see the third brat of yours has came for rescue of his friends. You know, he has the most potential out of your three genins. Too bad, he has to fight Haku, She is quite proficient and good in what she does" expressed Zabuza, as he had seen Naruto had the most potential out of the three genins of Kakashi.

"It's proud for me to hear such a compliment about my genins from an Enemy, nonetheless one of the former seven-swordsmen of mist" chuckled Kakashi, and continued to battle him.

Sasuke glanced toward one of the mirrors and was both surprised and happy to see the person behind that mirror. Naruto was standing behind that mirror looking toward Sasuke, Sasuke waved his arms to gather Naruto's attention. He would have asked the blonde to attack the mirrors from outside, but for Naruto Sasuke's waving looked like a sign for help and he jumped inside the mirror, ran toward him and stood beside him.

"You fucking Idiot! I was going to ask you to attack the dome from outside, Why did you entered the damn dome?" asked Sasuke after bonking Naruto several times on head.

"Hey! Don't hit that hard! I thought you were asking for help by waving, So I came to rescue you teme" said Naruto rubbing his head.

"You know, you're a damn idiot for such a observant fellow. If we survive this, I will kick your ass over hunderd times" said Sasuke and went on to form 2 hand seals.

Naruto quickly followed his friend and formed the same hand seals, the both of them put their fingers to their mouth and yelled; "Katon: Great fireball technique"

Two big fireballs combined together to form a even a bigger fireball than before, that fireball rushed toward one side of the dome. it collided with a part of dome and exploded. But before it could collide haku had reinforced the mirror with allot of chakra to make them more stable. The collision caused debris and dust to fly around, but when the dust settled both of genins were shocked to see the unscathed dome of ice.

"Simple Fireballs like these can't even scratch my Ice dome, You aren't capable enough to defeat me. Surrender yourselves and I will not have to dirty my hands in killing you" said Haku, it was a lie the fireball was truly powerful. If Haku hadn't reinforced chakra into mirrors one part of the dome would have collapsed. These genins were truly skilled, she had to finish this quickly or this would escalate into something worse. Haku went to rain senbons on both of them, her aim was to tire them quickly so she could defeat them easily

After ten minutes Naruto was frustrated, the ninja was faster than him as the ninja traveled through mirrors with the help of her kekkai-genkkai. Even their combined ninjutsus weren't scathing the ice mirrors, they had to prolong this battle. By prolonging this battle they would be able to tire their opponent and it would slow his/her movement.

Haku quickly devised a plan to end this battle quickly, she was hesitant to attack Naruto at any vital spots. Haku threw some senbons toward them, Sasuke started countering them with his sword. Haku changed his position and threw some more senbons toward them, Naruto quickly brought his Bo in front and started spinning it at a fast speed.

The spinning bo deflected each of the senbons, but due to their distraction in deflecting senbons they failed to see that Haku had again changed his position. She threw senbons from her last position, Naruto sensed some projectiles coming toward him from the back. He was unable to move so quickly as he hadn't released his resistance seals, this bout wouldn't end well for him. But before the projectiles could hit him a black blur passed by him.

Sasuke deflected the senbons with his tantos, he was constantly facing the challenge of wielding small-sized sword. They didn't even had a medium range, they were short and due to this Sasuke had to move close to inflict damage.

"You know we need to take this seriously now, He is capable enough to kill us if we take him lightly" said Naruto moving toward Sasuke, they both were back to back now.

"Well, do you have a plan for this? I couldn't think of something this quickly" asked Sasuke, he was smart but he wasn't able to think quickly while on move. That department was speciality of Naruto, he was quick to derive plans when on move.

"Well I have a justu for this, but I need some time and when I signal, you have to fire the third justu I taught you" explained Naruto.

Sasuke nodded his head and went to distract Haku with Fire shurikens. Naruto quickly formed four rock clones and stuck explosive notes at their back, he also made a shadow clone for support.

Sasuke saw four clones moving toward four different sides, he was first confused that what would these simple clones would do if even their combined fireball Jutsu wasn't able to penetrate the mirrors. He then saw some papers attached to their back and understood Naruto's plan, he quickly moved near to Naruto to help him.

Haku was exhausted, it required a lot of chakra to continue using his mirrors and add that with continue dodging of small shurikens laced with fire. Her movement became slow and she decreased the amount of chakra she was infusing to mirrors.

The rock clones neared the mirrors and exploded, quickly after that Naruto signalled Sasuke who went on to make hand seals. Naruto himself formed 4 hand seals and they both shouted at once; "Katon: Fire phoenix jutsu" and "Fuuton: Bursting air pockets", small fireballs were shot out of Sasuke's mouth spread across the dome while Naruto fired compressed air balls behind fireballs. The justu combined together and collided with mirrors.

~BOOOOOM~

There was a huge explosion across the mirrors. But before the justu could combine the shadow clone that Naruto formed created a Rock dome around both the genins. Haku had also seen the fireballs and airballs combining and had tried to flee out of the mirrors as she knew this was an overkill.

The blast was huge and the mirrors shattered due to sheer force of the blast. Haku was halfway out when the blast suddenly occurred and some parts of her body got into it. She was thrown out of mirror toward one side of the bridge due to the force that the blast exerted.

Meanwhile the blast also shocked Kakashi and Zabuza, they never saw the whole incident but were able to see Naruto and Sasuke combining their jutsus. Zabuza now understood clearly that these genins of Konoha weren't weak, if they were strong enough to break Haku's Ice dome.

The clone receeded its dome and puffed out of the bridge due to its decreasing chakra, Sasuke was shocked to see the level of destruction they both had caused. The area around them was a crater, not big enough to shatter the bridge but not small enough to go unnoticed. His eyes went on to search for the hunter nin, and he wasn't kept waiting for long as he saw the nin sitting at a side of bridge supported by the railing.

The mask of the ninja had broken and he can her feminine facial features and black hairs, they had been competing with a girl till now. She was damn powerful, it took both his and Naruto effort together to subdue her.

His musing was cut short by sudden shout of "HAKU" from Naruto. Sasuke looked beside him to see that Naruto wasn't there, he was dashing toward the down ninja.

Meanwhile Zabuza saw the whole incidents unfolding and contemplated that this fight should be finished quickly, the fights were not unfolding in their favour. He moved toward Kakashi in a quick steps aiming toward his head, Kakashi was just waiting for Zabuza's guard to go down. He smirked while cuttinf his finger, made some Hand-seals and yelled"Summoning Jutsu: Dog Prison hold". Several dogs burst out of the grounds toward Zabuza. Zabuza was shocked by sudden appearance of ten or so dogs, they took the benefit of Zabuza being stiff due to shock and bit him across his body to hold him down.

Before Kakashi could form his chidori sudden sound of clapping echoed throughout the bridge. At the other end of the bridge a silhouette of a fat short man appeared, due to Zabuza being restricted the fog was fading away. The silhouette revealed itself as Gato, the said man had an evil smrik and was clapping continuously.

"The demon of the bloody mist? more like the Idiot of the mist, You're disgrace to your name Zabuza. An ordinary Konoha ninja was able to defeat you so badly, it's not even funny now" cackled Gato, soon he was surrounded by 50 or so of his thugs with different sorts of weapon.

"I was already planning to kill you and sell that minion of yours after you kill this bridge builder, but it looks like you're death is written at the hands of this fellow. That minion of yours will fetch quite a price in market, where is he Zabuza?" chuckled Gato.

Till this point Naruto was sitting beside Haku, trying to get answers for Haku's actions. Suddenly, the memories of his clones he left at tazuna house returned to him. Apparently Gato had sent two thugs to kidnaps Tsunami but they were knocked out and tied to a post by Naruto's Clones. Inari got inspired by Naruto's show of power and selfishless nature and went on to gather the people of village to fend off Gato, but they would take time to arrive.

"Free me up Hatake, it looks like your information was right. We're not enemies now Hatake, I take up your offer. The bridge builder is not of my concern now, and this short goblin would face me" said Zabuza, Kakashi signalled his dogs to let Zabuza go. Kakashi was already tired till this point, he was constantly using his Sharingan and had to summon his pack to constrict Zabuza's movement.

"Sakura go and check on Zabuza's apprentice, Sasuke and Naruto gather around me. Sakura after you check on him back us up" Kakashi barked orders and re-covered his Sharingan. Sakura went on to check Haku, while Naruto and Sasuke joined Kakashi.

"You wouldn't mind if we join your party Zabuza, would you? I want my genins to experience their first kills, it would be tiring to find such degraded people again" said Kakashi and turned toward his genins.

"I don't have any problem, Just don't touch Gato. He's mine" stated Zabuza.

"Do we really have to do that Sensei? Is it necessary to kill them? Shouldn't we try to redeem them?" Naruto shot questions one after another, thorought this whole fiasco Sasuke was being silent. Sasuke wasn't humble or kind-hearted like his teammates but still it was unnerving to kill someone.

"You've to understand Naruto, if we don't kill these people they wouldn't hesitate to kill us. These are scums Naruto, they have killed, raped and robbed many people. If we don't kill them today, they will again do such crimes. Some people couldn't be redeemed Naruto, we have to make sure that the people around us are safe and we kill to make that happen" Explained Kakashi, it wasn't suprising to see new genins getting nervous over their first kill. Hell, people even left the shinobi life after there distraught first kill but it was necessary for survival of oneself.

"If you don't kill people like this today, may be next time someone close to you will be their victim. Don't do it for yourself Naruto, do it for your friends and family" that was the last nail in the coffin, Kakashi knew Naruto wouldn't hesitate to kill some one to protect his friends and family, such was his loyalty.

"One last thing, never look into the eyes of someone you've killed" and with the last words Kakashi motioned them to attack.

Sasuke didn't need such provocation, he would kill. Sasuke knows the truth of the life, either you're a predator or a prey. Uchiha Sasuke was never going to be a prey again, he moved forward with his tantos.

Naruto understood that it was necessary to kill, he couldn't stand his sister Anko or his friends Hinata or Sakura to be harmed. He took up his Bo and channelled some chakra into it, two spikes emerged from both side of his Bo and he went on toward thugs.

Kakashi also moved behind them, if they froze after their kill then it would prove be disastrous. He backed them up, he would protect them.

After 20 or so minutes, 41 of the thugs were on the ground. There were several decapitated body parts around one end of the bridge. Sasuke primarily decapitated the heads of his opponents, while Naruto sliced their jugular veins killing them quickly and efficiently. Zabuza had cut the head of Gato and threw it with the body in the river.

The rest of the thugs ran off leaving the bodies of their comrades behind, there was no honour in these lowly maggots life. Soon all the villagers gathered at the bridge but the show was over before that, they all went to celebrate their independence from Gato's rule.

All of the shinobis had returned to Tazuna's house, Zabuza had reluctantly agreed to stay there as Haku was injured and unable travel.

Haku had a broken arm, a twisted ankle, a wound at his head and small cuts around her body. Sakura had been treating her with all her knowledge, her arms were supported by a sling and her head ankle was bandaged.

As for Sakura, she had killed one person. A medic-nin rarely ever fought battles, but still it was necessary to take precaution better than cure. She was distraught, she hadn't seen death unlike Sasuke. It was all new for her, but Haku supported her throughout that. They had formed a strong bond after spending so much time together, as they both had similiar hobbies.

Naruto kept to himself for two days straight, he hadn't seen people die infront of him nonetheless killing them. He became normal after two days of Sasuke and Sakura pestering him.

It was the fourth day at Tazuna house after the incident at bridge, Kakashi and Zabuza were sparring. Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura and Haku were sitting aside, Naruto was poking Sasuke around to rile him up. Haku was resting as her injuries had kept her from sleeping for a day after the fight. Out of all of them Sakura was the only one who was focusing on the fight in front of them, she wasn't observing Kakashi instead she was more focused on Zabuza's sword and how he used it.

The wielder of Kubikiribōchō needs alot of strength to swing it, but a hit by the sword could proved to be quite catastrophic. Sakura could wield a sword like that, she had learned to infuse chakra in her punches and kicks. It wasn't perfect like Tsunade but the damage was still high, she could weild a heavy sword by constantly infusing chakra in her body as she uses the sword. Anyways, her friends also used weapons, it would be quite beneficial for her.

"Sensei, May I ask you something?" questioned Sakura, Kakashi halted his spar and signalled Sakura to go on.

"Can you teach me to wield a weapon of my choice?" asked Sakura a little nervous.

"Of course Sakura, If I'm able to wield the weapon you want to use I will surely teach you" eye-smiled Kakashi toward Sakura.

"I want to wield a heavy sword like Zabuza-san, can you teach me?" asked Sakura in a single sentence.

Naruto and Sasuke who were bickering among each other halted their fight and looked toward Sakura. Kakashi was looking toward her with a unknown expression on his face.

"Hahahahahahah... looks like your Genin wants my sword Hatake" the sudden laugh of Zabuza cut through the silence.

"I am sorry Sakura, but I am not a user of heavy blade. I haven't learnt that art" said Kakashi looking a little down.

Before anyone of them could say anything, Haku started to say "Zabuza-sama could teach you to wield one, I mean in exchange of you treating me he can teach you. Wouldn't you teach her Zabuza-sama?" asked Haku sweetly.

"You're eating more than you can chew brat. But Yes, I can teach you to wield one" said Zabuza.

"But we have to leave this country tomorrow, the bridge is complete now" intervened Sasuke.

"Yeah, that's an issue Zabuza unless if you want to..." Kakashi left the last part for Zabuza to understand.

"You can come to Konoha Zabuza-san, I can talk to Jiji about you" said Naruto.

"Why should I come to Leaf village? And what can your Jiji do for me brat?" asked Zabuza mocking Naruto.

"You shouldn't talk about Naruto's Jiji like that, he calls sandaime Hokage as Jiji. And he would surely look into Naruto's suggestions" stated Kakashi.

"You mean to say that this brat is hokage's grandson, he doesn't even looks like Kami no shinobi" expressed Zabuza a little alert. Even if the sandaime Hokage was old he was still a force to be reckoned with.

Naruto was proud to see this, his first sensei had a quite fearsome reputation among the shinobis.

"No, he's not my real grandfather. He had taken care of me from my birth, we've a grandfather-grandson relationship. As for your reasons to join Leaf you should be tired of running from hunter nins, my village could help you and Haku" expressed Naruto.

"You've got me there brat, I will think about it" stated Zabuza smriking, the brat was sure a bundle of surprises.

The next day we can find Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura And Kakashi with Zabuza and Haku leaving toward the fire country. Naruto promised Inari that he would surely visit them and it was okay to cry sometimes.

The bridge was named as 'The great Naruto bridge', after the name of the hero who gave them a hope to fight again...

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, All rights are reserved to Kishimoto.