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"Hello" - Summons/Bijū thinking

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" – Jutsu

Chapter 11

As they continued down the worn road, Anko began to feel as though someone was following them, but she couldn't point it out. On guard but figuring it was because she was in unknown territory, she ignored it. But soon the lull of the moment was broken when Naruto threw a spear at a bush, a small white rabbit scurrying out of it.

"What are you doing you idiot? You almost gave me a heart attack!" Satsuki shouted at her teammate, patting herself over the chest. Her adrenaline returning for another encounter like earlier before.

"Naruto, please be more careful! You really scared me there, I thought it was another enemy!" Even the polite Yakumo scolded him, imitating the action of her female teammate by patting her chest in relief.

But the moment was immediately tense as Anko shout at them to get down. "GET DOWN!" Forcing Tazuna onto the ground as her genin quickly followed her order, a large blade soared overhead and embedded itself in the trunk of a tree behind them. Then about 20 shadow clones rushed towards the unknown enemy, then the other 20 formed a phalanx formation. While the others hid themselves around their client before something goes wrong.

As they heard metal clashing to metal and the unknown voiced said " Suiton: Senpū" then the 20 shadow clones got throw by the jutsu then land themselves on the ground then poof, then the 20 shadow clones throw their spears towards the mist and the enemy dodge the spears and land in front of them.

"Well, well, well. So, you were able to dodge my Kubikiribōchō eh? Then who is the master of those shadow clones eh? Guess you aren't as bad as you look." A mocking voice said as they turned around to see a figure standing on the handle of the blade before jumping down and taking it out of its resting place and putting it on his shoulder.

Anko immediately narrowed her eyes, her body tense, ready to take action. "Zabuza Momochi, the 'Demon of the Hidden Mist'. What are you doing here?" Anko questioned, hoping that her wasn't here for Tazuna. But her fears were immediately answered as he let out a mocking laugh.

"Well, I didn't expect to find the 'Snake Mistress of Konoha' here. What do you think I'm here for? I'm here for the old man behind you, so why don't you do you and your little brats a favor and just hand him over. I won't kill you if you do." The man now known as Zabuza said.

"Sorry, but I can't do that. Mission is to protect him after all." Anko said, whipping out a kunai in preparation of the impending conflict. As Zabuza chuckled again.

"Mission? You expect me to believe a couple of brats like that are capable of taking on a mission like this already? I doubt they're even ready for D-Ranked mission let alone this!" He taunted, which worked as Satsuki growled, Yakumo glared, and Naruto actually narrowed his eyes at him. Anko didn't take too kindly to someone other then herself taunting her genin.

"But fine, we'll do this the hard and fun way." Zabuza said, raising his arms in seal before calling out a jutsu that made Anko drop a bead of sweat down the side of her face. "Suiton: Kirigakure no Jutsu," as a thick mist began to roll in to the shock of the genin. As the mist rolled in, the three began to feel a thickness in the air, as if it was getting much harder to breathe.

Satsuki was trembling, the kunai she had taken out was shaking in her hand. Her whole being screamed at her to run away, to get somewhere safe, but she couldn't move. All she could do was stand there shaking like a leaf in the wind. "Wha-what is this? The air is so thick, I can't even breathe. It's like I'm in a pool of water right now. I'm scared. I'm really scared. Am I going to die?" Satsuki thought as she frantically looked within her field of view, unable to even turn her head due to the overwhelming killing intent.

Yakumo was on her knees, her already frail body unable to take the killing intent directed at her. The kunai that she originally held in one hand was now held in both, shaking just like her body. She wasn't prepared for this; she expected another quick fight but not this. She didn't want to be here, she wanted to take everyone and run but she couldn't even move a finger in this situation. "We need to get out of here! We're not going to make it if we fight this man, I don't even think Anko-sensei can beat him in this mist! I want to get everyone and run but I can't. I'm scared. I'm really scared. I'm going to die, aren't I?" Yakumo thought as she stared into the mist before her, unable to vocalize any of her thoughts or actions from the killing intent Zabuza was emitting.

While his two teammates were having a hard time due to the killing intent directed at them, Naruto was faring much better, having been exposed to far worse from three brothers. Though that didn't shake all his apprehension off as the slight shaking of his hand was an indicator that he was nervous. "So this is what Eron-niichan, Vincent-nii and John-niichan meant when he said that it was a technique used by practically every ninja out there. I need to be careful, one wrong move and I'm dead." Naruto was broken out of his thoughts when Anko stood firm before them.

"Satsuki, Yakumo, Naruto! Don't panic, I don't let my comrades die, espeically when they're people I care about!" Anko shouted, trying to lift the effects of the killing intent from her genin, and it worked as they all visibly stopped shaking violently. Satsuki tightening her grip on her kunai. Yakumo shakily standing up before getting into a stance with her kunai. Naruto relaxed and slip into a stance, his eyes now hard and sharp. After her speech, Zabuza laughed again before appearing in the middle of Naruto, Satsuki, Yakumo, and Tazuna. To their shock and horror.

"Nice speech, too bad you're all dead." He said as he brought Kubikiribōchō around to slash through the four, but as he did Anko appeared next to him and stabbed him through in the midsection to his shock.

"Don't you EVER try to lay your dirty hands on my genin." Anko glared at him with unbridled fury in her eyes. But to their surprise, he turned into a puddle of water.

"ANKO-SENSEI! BEHIND YOU!" Yakumo screamed, seeing another Zabuza appear behind her. To their horror, Anko was cut down by Zabuza. But to his shock, the Anko he cut turned to mud as it hit the ground. As he felt cold steel against his neck.

"You're finished." Anko said in a cold voice, her eyes narrowed in anger. But to her surprise and the surprise of everyone else, she started to chuckle lightly.

"You prepared a Doro Bunshin when I made the mist didn't you? That's pretty clever I'll give you that. But I'm finished? You don't understand who you're facing do you?" After saying that, Zabuza dispersed into another puddle of water and reappeared behind her, Kubikiribōchō in swing to cleave her in half.

Ducking, Anko managed to evade being cut in half but using his momentum Zabuza spun around and kicked her in the side sending her to the large lake that laid next to them.

"You just sealed the death of you, the old man, and your little wannabe ninjas." Zabuza said, rushing to the area where Anko had landed.

"ANKO-SENSEI!" Satsuki shouted, her eyes wide in shock at what just happened. Her sensei had just been kicked into a lake, from what she had seen he used suiton which meant he had the advantage in the water.

"SENSEI!" Yakumo screamed, seeing her sensei get kicked into a lake. If she was in the lake then that meant that Zabuza had the advantage if he knew more suiton jutsu, which from her sensei's battle, he probably did.

Naruto's eyes widened before they narrowed again. "This isn't good at all. Sensei has zero chance now that he's got her in that lake." Expression similar thoughts as his teammates at the situation now at hand.

"Pwah, what hell? Why the fuck is this water so damn heavy?" Anko said, breaking the surface of the lake only to see Zabuza's shadow next to her, turning around her eyes widened as she saw him finish a series of hand seals.

"You were stupid to let me get you into the lake, but you made a dumber mistake by trying to get out of it. Suiton: Suirō no Jutsu!" Zabuza shouted as he encased Anko in a sphere of water. "Can't move, can you? That waters denser due to my charka flowing through it, you're not getting out of there."

"Shit! He's a lot stronger then I thought, I should've known better then to have fucking underestimated him!" Anko angrily thought, her overconfidence was going to cost her own life, the life of Tazuna, but worst of all it was going to cost her the lives of her genin.

Turning towards stunned genin, Zabuza could only stare mockingly at them before he created another water clone using the Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu from earlier. "Look at you all shaking and scared now that you lost your sensei. Where's that bravado from earlier, especially you Blondie, I didn't notice you shaking before, absolutely pathetic. A real ninja is one who can survive even in the face of death, and let me tell you a little secret, I. Have." Putting emphasis on the last two words, Zabuza proceeded to tell him of his exam to become a shinobi.

"In the Bloody Mist, the genin selection exam involved you killing the classmates and friends that you grew up, ate, and played with. It was a test that truly showed who was the strongest. Now imagine a kid who wasn't even part of that exam showing up and killing over one hundred of those weaklings. Those were good times." At his story, Satsuki and Yakumo turned a sickly green at the thought of that massacre. As he finished, the clone he created vanished and reappeared in front of Naruto to everyone's shock and sent him flying with a kick to the head, knocking his headband off in the process.

"RUN! YOU GUYS CAN'T WIN, JUST TAKE TAZUNA-SAN RUN AND SAVE YOURSELVES! HE CAN'T MOVE WHILE HE'S HOLDING ME HERE AND HIS CLONES CAN'T MOVE TOO FAR FROM THE ORIGINAL!" Anko screamed hysterically as she was about to witness the deaths of her genin right before her eyes.

As the clone approached slowly, Satsuki, Yakumo, and Tazuna had their lives flash before their eyes as they closed them. Tazuna remembered his family and the wave, their smiles and hopes all placed on him to complete the bridge.

Satsuki remembered her family, her mother and father's smiles, her other brother's forehead pokes, and her twin's smirk. Then she saw all the times she had with her team, the missions, the training, but she also saw a head of blonde hair and a handsome smile directed towards her instead of his usual blank face.

Yakumo remembered her mother and father smiling at her, the sealing of the Idol by Kushina and Minato. The times she spent with Kurenai and training with her. Then she saw her team, with all the missions and training sessions that they had together, but then she saw a familiar head of blonde hair but instead of a blank face, this blonde gave her a charming smile.

As they began to accept the fact that they were going to die, a thud and splash could be heard which made them snap their eyes open. Standing in front of them wasn't a blank-faced Naruto, but a Naruto with his eyes narrowed in anger with a scowl on his face.

"That hurt, but I guess I don't have to hold back huh?" He said as his scowl slowly turned into a smirk. Biting the thumb on his left hand and quickly swiping the blood into the palm of his hand, a cloud of smoke covers him from the views of everyone present. As it cleared everyone present had their jaws drop at what they saw. Naruto was standing in the same position with his eyes closed, but with a huge sword at least 6ft long and a 1ft wide, resting on his shoulder. Turning his head slightly so that he faced Zabuza, he slowly opened his eyes. His ocean blue eyes were now electric blue, his round pupil was now reptilian in shape. His blank face slowly turned into a predatory smile as he uttered a few words that made Zabuza sweat slightly.

"In my whole life, I've never see more interested and such a child's play. In my 'training trip', I've encountered three people who are strongest and know true war, comparing your story about the Mist? Ha! Such a foolishness for a child! Civil War? Not so close to my one of my greatest idol's story in my whole life, you see Zabuza, a real civil war that can fight againts all odds and annihilated the occupiers for good, but, your land was fighting for a land, and who is a reign supreme, you think that you called bloody? Gha! A real bloody that there is no chakra, only men with swords, spears, knife and different kinds of weapon, not just cool Jutsu, kunai, shuriken or tanto that you have, more men around 100,00, 500,000, 1 million or even an individual that can easily turn the tide but yours? Ha! Such a boring fight. When the time comes I will show you on what kind of 'real battle' is!" Naruto said in excitement tone and suddenly turn serious then added "And also I'm a little different from most immature brats."