AN: Hey guys, I know it's a been a while, but I'm back. Sorry for the long wait. I just needed a break, but I am back and I'm brining a few new chapters with me. So I hope you enjoy the final chapter of Wave, next chapter will be a filler, and the one after that kicks off the Chunin Exams. Peace you out, see you next chapter.
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SkeenTheDream: I noticed that. I am going to correct that and that was a honest mistake for I am working on many my hero stories. Won't happen again.
naes151: Thanks, there will be few different moments from canon, but a whole lot to make it AU.
Hinate: I low key was going to have them kiss at the end of last chapter. But I was like nah, save it. Thinking about it now maybe I should've, but what done is done.
Dark Serpent Cat: 1) Yes I will talk more about the Uzumaki because they are important to this story espcially when the horsewoman get an involved. 2) Yes, they have that kind of relationship. Naruto's relationship with Anko is similar to Kakashi, I just haven't introduced her yet. 3) Akeno does have a main weapon, one that will be unveiled when the war begin between Sound and Leaf. She has chained scythes that she dual wields. 4) As for Ino getting a sword, no. Same for Haku reforming the seven ninja swordsmen. Now she will have Zabuza's sword and will use it combat when she is ready to wield it.
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Chapter 11: The Ice Princess vs The Grim Reaper
Naruto was trapped in the ice prism that Haku had created, her images surrounded the young reaper. Naruto's eyes were a blazing orange color as he looked at the girl that he saw as friend...maybe even more than that. He was not in love, but he felt a bond to Haku. A strong friendship to her. He truly didn't want to kill her, but alas this was the life of shinobi. Naruto steeled himself and his heart as the fight was about to begin. All doubts, all feelings, all regrets must be put to the side now as of right now.
"Naruto-kun," Naruto heard how Haku added the suffix to the end of his name and heard the sweet tone she was talking to him in. She was trying to throw him off his game, but he would allow that to happen.
"I'm truly sorry that it has come to this, but I promise. I will make it as painless as possible." Haku stated as the images around Naruto started to hold senbons in their hands. Naruto looked around to see that he was trapped and cornered.
There was no escape. Honestly, the odds didn't look good for Naruto. But he was never one to be counted out. Even with all the odds against, people have learned something about the Namikaze. Whether it be Naruto, Arashi, or Minato. Always bet on them to win.
"Shall we begin then." She asked and Naruto smiled, gripping his scythe. He looked at the Haku in front of him and just said one word.
"Lets." Naruto charged forward with his scythe trailing behind him, the teen with the intent of slicing that mirror to shreds.
Haku readied her senbons and launch them forward at her friend. Naruto saw the needles and stopped moving as he twirled his scythe to deflect the one's in front of him, but he still had to deal with the ones surrounding him. Naruto with his skill in using the scythe quickly spun the scythe like it was a fan, creating wind for a jutsu his father taught him.
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" Naruto shouted as a gust of wind came from twirling the scythe, once done he planted the pole into the ground and a whirlwind came upon the battlefield. The blew away the senbons back at the mirrors, some even cracked while others landed on the ground.
That didn't stop Naruto though as he continued to charge forward to the first mirror. Naruto stopped the jutsu momentarily to activate another wind jutsu. "Wind Style: Wind Cutter!" Naruto channeled his wind chakra to his scythe. When he swung the weapon at the mirror Haku widened her eyes when a curved gust of wind came at her mirror. The wind cut through the mirror like a knife through butter. Naruto and the rest of the Haku images watched as the mirror fell to pieces.
"Impressive. You are far more advanced than the previous genin that I fought." Naruto didn't say anything because she was right. He was more advanced than his class, even his team, more than his sensei knew. His father and mother have been training him since he was born, training him in all forms of combat. Naruto knew that his name carries weight in the world, and he needed to be ready if those wanted to prove his metal.
"And I know you are holding back." Naruto heard a hmph from Haku, he knew that he was right and she knew it as well. She did not want this fight to prolong, but Naruto is a strong one. He will not go down easily. It may even be time for her to use her strongest jutsu, a jutsu that she has been working on in secret. One that even Zabuza knows nothing about.
"You are right, but no longer will I be." Haku stated as she was about to get serious. Naruto got his guard up as he turned around to face the other images. The teen's eyes scanned each of the mirrors as Haku's grabbed more senbons, this time covering them ice.
'Here we go.' Naruto thought as he saw the senbons be tossed at him, he twirled his scythe to deflect them, but they were coming. Naruto was facing an onslaught of ice senbons as he continued twirling his scythe at a fast rate.
He was deflecting some, but not all. Most of Haku's senbons were making contact with the teens arms, legs, and shoulders. When the onslaught was done Naruto had stopped spinning his scythe and was now kneeling on the ground.
The blonde teen heavily breathing in air as he felt the ice senbons in his body, he felt the blood slowly drip down the side of his head. Haku watched his rigid breathing from all angles as her emotionless mask stayed on her face, but behind it she was in pain. She didn't want to see Naruto like this. She didn't want to cause him this pain. But she knew that she would have to do it, for she knows that he will not stay down. Her friend will not die easily.
"Nhnng!" Naruto moaned as he removed a senbon from his shoulder, a few drops of blood came out hitting the floor.
"Ok, let's try that again." Naruto told himself as he got up. It did not take long for Haku to re-summon her images around the prism. Naruto glared at the image in front of him and dashed forward. As he ran forward with his red scythe in hand Haku launched the ice senbons.
"Ragh!" Naruto screamed as he swung his scythe at the senbons. As their battle continued the rematch between Kakashi and Zabuza also continued.
Kakashi vs Zabuza
Kakashi's sight was blinded by the thick mist that Zabuza created, but even with the clouded vision. He knew that the demon was lurking in there, he could trust his senses. He already got cut that left a X mark on his chest, but he would not allow that to happen again. Kakashi looked around the thick mist to see where the swordsmen would appear.
"Hahahaha! Kakashi, you seem to be slipping. Don't tell me you are worried about that brat. If the stories I hear about Namikaze are true then he should be excellent competition for my student."
"I'm not worried about my little brother, but I would be worried about your kid. Naruto is far more powerful than you think. Now how about you stop worrying about something that is not your fight." Kakashi told him as another swipe from Zabuza's massive sword came. The teacher blocked it with his own kunai and their blades skidded against each other. Zabuza disappeared into his mist before Kakashi could even turn around.
"You are right, let us finish this." Zabuza deep echoed in the thick mist as Kakashi looked around, the man soon reaching into his pouch to pull out a scroll.
"And finish it we will." The sentence came out ominously from the masked ninja, he unrolled the scroll and moved a thumb over his wound to get on it.
With Naruto and Haku
Naruto was huffing and puffing, he had been destroying the mirrors nonstop and became a human pin cushion while doing so. He had senbons all in his body, forearms, legs, and thighs, he was covered in them. The teen looked across from him to the second two last mirrors, there were only two left and he was running out of chakra.
"You are running low on chakra boy." Naruto was surprised when he heard the voice of the Nine-Tails. He didn't actually expect to hear back from him again, but he knew that he heard him. He wonders why he called back.
"Yeah I know, I just have to get her out of those damn mirrors."
"Then will you kill her?" Kyuubi asked even though he knew the answer. His jailer was holding back in this fight, a nephilim should not be able to get this pushed especially by a human.
"I'll figure it out! Now just leave me to my fight." Naruto hung up on the tailed beast and rose to his feet, he could keep kneeling forever.
"You seem distracted, Naruto." Haku stated to him since she could see it, Naruto was taking longer than usual to get up.
"Not distracted, just tired is all. I don't want to kill you Haku." Haku nudged her head to the side like a child. She didn't want to kill Naruto either, but this was the life she had chosen when she decided to follow Zabuza. She never liked killing, she wanted to help people with her hands, not take their lives.
"I know, and I am the same, but we both know that only one of us is walking off this bridge." Naruto closed his eyes, this was it. He had to finish this now, he had to put and end Haku. When Naruto opened his eyes they were orange and now slitted as he glared at the final mirror in front of him. He will destroy it and the last one which will bring her out of her so he can defeat her.
"Then let's finish it." Naruto twirled his scythe and made a ram sign with one hand, when he did three clones appeared brandishing the same red scythes.
Naruto clones dashed at Haku with all their speed, the mirror above threw the senbons at the clone, but that is what Naruto wanted. He activated another sign and the three clones exploded in front of the mirror on the ground, but it did not destroy it.
Haku saw movement in the cloud of smoke and soon saw Naruto come out of it like he was a demon, his scythe over his shoulder as he was about to slash the mirror in the downward diagonal direction. Haku widened her eyes behind her white mask, but thought fast enough to appear in the next mirror.
Her image faded just as Naruto scythe made contact with the mirror, slicing it in half. When the mirror was destroyed she saw an opening from above. She knew that Naruto could take the strike of her senbons so she decided to get up close to finish this.
Haku encased the senbon as ice and dashed out of her final mirror, her last defense. The daughter of the demon struck Naruto from above raining death upon him, but she was wrong. What she thought was Naruto turned out to be a clone and she saw it when the clone exploded in the cloud of white air.
"Got you!" Naruto screamed bringing Haku's attention to him, she turned around and saw that his scythe was coming at her side. The girl wouldn't have enough time to get back to her mirror, she was trapped. Naruto brought his scythe to the side of Haku and with the momentum he was going at he should've ripped her right in half, but instead he stopped. The tip of the blade was pressed at her side and now Naruto and Haku were in a deadlock.
Haku didn't move and neither did Naruto, both knew that the final mirror stood above them. Haku was about to make a sign, but something stopped her. The thing that stopped her was that she heard something kind of swirling noise coming from their battle, more specifically in Naruto's right hand. Haku looked and saw Naruto smile, she widened her eyes when she saw that attack come at her. In Naruto's right hand was some kind of blue sphere that was in constant motion.
"Rasengan!" Naruto screamed the name of the jutsu, his father's jutsu. A technique that Minato Namikaze developed in times of war, it was his first jutsu and most prized one.
Minato taught Arashi, Kakashi, and Jiraiya making them the only three that truly know it and know how to complete it. Arashi taught Naruto as he got older, but what Naruto doesn't know is that the rasengan is an incomplete jutsu, a jutsu that he will one have to complete for himself.
Haku was hit by the blue spiraling sphere and as Naruto pushed it deeper it ripped her kimono apart, eventually the sphere blew her back, but the girl had quick thinking. She created a mirror to stop her momentum, but she underestimated the power of the rasengan and Naruto. She didn't stop, she wasn't slowing down, and she went right through the mirror. The ice mirror shattered into pieces as if someone had thrown a rock at it.
Haku bounced on the ground like a ball before coming to a stop on the bridge. Naruto himself stepped over the shattered pieces of the mirror, the cracks becoming more shattered thanks to his steps. As he got closer to Haku to see if she was alive, he heard laughter coming from her.
"Th-The rasengan, my father told me stories of the fable jutsu of the Yondaime. But to actually feel it is something else entirely. Oh, Naruto...you really are a Namikaze." Haku rose up as she spoke to the blonde teen, her mask now shattered showing her beautiful face Naruto.
Her face was slightly bruised thanks to the crash landing, her abdomen felt like it had been through a cheese grater thanks to the rasengan, and her kimono was ripped. It was her favorite one.
"But you are not the only one with tricks. Congrats, Naruto."
Haku's smile turned sinister as she weaved hand signs rapidly, when she finished she called out the name of her jutsu. "You will be the first to meet a jutsu of my own creation. Say hello, to my Ice Dragon. Ice Style: Ice Dragon Jutsu!"
Naruto was about to move, but he heard water turn more violent so he stopped. It was a good thing as well for a torrent of water shot into the sky and he watched as the liquid took the form of a dragon much like before when Zabuza fought Kakashi, but this time. This time it turned into an ice dragon with menacing red eyes. The ice dragon appeared behind Haku and roared at Naruto, the teen's clothing blowing thanks to the force of the roar.
Naruto stared at the dragon and at Haku, and he smiled. His heart was racing, he had never felt like this before, he had never seen someone so...so beautiful. So majestic. So powerful. The teen didn't know whether or not his heart was beating fast because of the fight or because of the girl in front of him. Naruto figured it had to be both and he didn't want it to stop.
Naruto took one last look at Haku, her hair down from the bun that it was in and now blowing freely thanks to the wind that her dragon created. She looked so damn beautiful, but also fearsome. Naruto smiled harder and brought his scythe back. Since Haku showed hers, it's only fair that he shows her his secret technique.
Naruto channeled the power that was inside of him, the power of his chakra and unknowingly the chakra of his tailed beast, and the red blade of the scythe began to glow red, but that is not all. The blade began to expand and grow larger, soon expanding into a much larger and bigger scythe.
Haku widened her brown eyes as she saw the blade of the scythe now resemble a crimson crescent moon, only difference between the moon and the scythe is that the scythe had a red eye in the center of it. The exact same spot that the eye on Naruto's soul eater was.
"I see your Ice Dragon and I raise you my Witch Hunter!" Naruto screamed as the technique was ready to be used, this would be the last attack. Everything was going into here to finish off that ice dragon.
Haku was the same, she could feel that this was going to be it, she barely had any chakra left after creating this dragon. The two justus were about to clash and their power could be felt from all the bridge.
'That power, that's the Kyuubi! I need to end this now and get to Naruto.' Kakashi panicked as he felt the spike in power and he knew that spike. He doesn't believe that he will ever forget it, no one will forget the power of the Kyuubi when they experience it.
'Haku...you used the ice dragon. Once I deal with Kakashi I will be over to you, so just hang on little longer girl.' Zabuza knew that Haku had created the ice dragon in secret, she thought she hid it from him, but Zabuza knew everything about his daughter. Haku has never once used that jutsu ever since she created it, it was only for emergencies only and now she has entered one.
Haku and Naruto glared at each other with intensity, brown met demonic red and neither side made a move yet. "GO!" Both yelled and both made their move. Haku pointed her finger at Naruto and her ice dragon roared as it began to stretch over to Nartuo. Its massive mouth open and ice fangs sharper than the knives.
Naruto kept moving, he didn't stop, even if he wanted to he couldn't. He just couldn't stop, maybe because of the adrenaline, maybe because of the excitement of the fight, or maybe because he wanted to end this fight. But either way he couldn't stop. He just kept moving.
"It ends, Naruto!" Haku yelled as Naruto jumped into the air and the dragon was ready to devour the blonde reaper. Naruto was unafraid though as he got ready to swing his scythe.
"Witch Hunter!" Naruto roared as the red blade made contact with the ice dragon. Naruto moved to the side at the last moment to make a miss and his scythe was able to cut through the ice. When his blade penetrates the dragon, Naruto kept screaming as he kept pushing forward to Haku. The soul eater ripping the dragon in half as Naruto kept going, he wasn't going to stop till he reached the creator.
When Haku saw her dragon get cut by Naruto she closed her eyes because she knew that it was over for her. Haku heard the roar of Naruto's scream as he approached his scythe still cutting into her dragon. She replaced that scream with the memories that she and Naruto shared leading up to this. The late night meet ups, the flower picking, the talking, and them just staring at the stars.
'Goodbye father, I have failed you. And...goodbye to you Naruto. I know we didn't know each other long, but I feel as though I shared a connection to you. I wonder if you felt it as well. It doesn't matter now though. What is done is done, but I do need to say this even if I'm about to die. I need to hear myself say it. I told you that you were my first friend and that is true, but...you may be the only boy I have ever loved. So goodbye Naruto, may reach your dreams.'
With her thoughts finished Haku awaited for the final blow to reach her, she had accepted death and was ready for end, but...death had not accepted her. As Nartuo neared her, he stopped movement and his attack. The blade had cut cleanly through the ice dragon leaving it in two pieces and Naruto had the tip of his blade at Haku's jugular, but he stopped. He did not want to kill her. The rules of shinobi be damned, he will not kill her.
"It's over." Naruto told her, the dragon was destroyed, her chakra was near empty and the same could be said for him. But Haku was stubborn.
"Not as long as I still breathe." Haku told him with a hardened tone, but Naruto did not care and ignored her. He stopped the power and his scythe returned back to normal. Once it was back down to regular size the teen stuck his scythe into the ground.
"I'm not killing you." Naruto told her again and Haku opened her eyes to glare at Naruto, his face straight as he was not going back on his decision.
"Why are you so stubborn?!" Haku yelled at him and Naruto was gobsmacked, stubborn she was calling him. She was the one wanting to die by hands, and she was basically begging for it.
"I have to die. I failed my father and now I am useless tool." Naruto widened his eyes, 'Is that how she sees herself. A tool.' Naruto thought as he looked at her to see her tears started to come down.
"You don't understand Naruto, I don't think you ever will."
"Then make me understand, tell me why you need to die." Haku did tell Naruto, she told him everything. About how she was born into a land at war with itself, about how she discovered her kekkei genkai at a young age and her mother forbade from ever using it.
She told him about her father found out and murder his wife, her mother and nearly herself as well. That was going to happen until Haku instincts acted on their own and she used that same cursed power to kill her father. Haku told Naruto how she spends days alone, by herself wondering where she would find her next meal until one day as if fate was looking out for her she met the man that would become her father.
She met Zabuza and from the day on she was fed by him, giving clothes by him, trained and raised by him. She owed him her life and she became his tool, his weapon in the shadows. She told Naruto all of that the teen just listened. When finished Naruto gave his response.
"Wow, that is messed up. But...but that doesn't mean you have to die. What if...What if there was a way for you to be safe. You would never have to fight again." Haku looked at Naruto in shock and was surprised by his gesture, she was about to take, but she could not abandon Zabuza.
"I...I can't abandon my father, Naruto." Naruto figured that and then the next statement was going to shock him because he didn't even know if this was even possible.
"What if you and Zabuza were to come back to the village and be part of the Namikaze clan." Haku eyes became saucers when she heard that. Her father and herself become members of the legendary Namikaze clan, she could still be with Zabuza and still be with Naruto.
Maybe she could even become a doctor like she always wanted. Haku was about to give Naruto his decision, but before that both she and the reaper felt a large surge in chakra on the bridge.
Kakashi has his left hand over his right hand as lightning danced around it, the masked shinobi looking directly at his target. Zabuza was trapped by the summoning dogs that Kakashi summoned. The dogs followed their master's scent and thanks to the blood on his sword Zabuza had given them a trail right to him. The mist wouldn't help him when someone can smell him.
Now that he was trapped he saw staring right at his death, Kakashi had used his strongest jutsu, the lighting blade. "This is the lighting blade and this is your end, Zabuza!" Zabuza's eyes widened as he saw Kakashi sprint towards him, the right that held the lighting was aimed directly at his heart like a spear.
Haku sensed the power was coming from the direction of Zabuza's fight and looked at Naruto who looked back at her. Haku smiled at him before weaving a quick hand sign and turning into a puddle of water.
"Haku wait!" Naruto screamed her name, but she was already gone. "Nero!" Naruto called the name of his familiar bird and heard the call thanks to their psychic connection. Naruto using Nero eyes saw what was happening and made a beeline to the area where Kakashi and Zabuza were fighting.
As Kakashi was getting closer and closer to Zabuza he pulled back his arm and got ready to thrust into Zabuza's heart effectively putting an end to the mist swordsmen. Zabuza felt time slow down for him as he literally saw his death approaching. He continued to watch as Kakashi got closer, but something unexpected happened. A mirror made of ice appeared in front of him and that's when Zabuza saw his daughter step in front of him to take the blow meant him.
Haku came out of the mirror and opened her arms, the girl doing her duty as the swordsmen tool. Kakashi widened his eyes when he saw the girl, she was in the way and there was no stopping him, he was too close now.
'She's going to take the blow!' Kakashi shockingly thought as he neared Haku, the blade was going to kill her...if not for Zabuza.
Haku felt a hand tug on her kimono and looked behind her to see her father breaking free from the jaws of the dogs that were on him. Zabuza with his hand on Haku threw her to the side and looked at her as she went by. The father had a stoic look on his face, but his eyes told a different story. His eyes were saying goodbye.
"Zabuza!" Haku screamed as she watched the man that saved her, her father be impaled by a Kakashi lighting blade. Kakashi's hand went right through the chest of the swordsmen and both men were silent. Zabuza had seen it, Kakashi had hesitated only for a moment. That moment gave him enough time to get free from his dogs and save his daughter.
Naruto soon appeared and ran next to Haku as he was watching the scene before him. Kakashi had pulled his hand out of Zabuza's chest, a sickening sound was made as the hand left the insides of the man leaving a gaping hole. The next sound to come was the sound of the ninja hounds disappearing and following that the body of Zabuza falling back on the ground.
"Father!" Haku screamed with tears coming out of her eyes as she ran to her father's side. Haku put her hands on his wound, but it wasn't going to do anything. Zabuza hole was the death blow and now he had only minutes, maybe even seconds. So with the only amount of time he had left he spoke to his daughter one final time.
"H-*cough* Haku…" Haku looked at her father's eyes as she continued to put pressure on the gaping wound, blood covering her hands as she did so.
"It…It's no use. I'm going to die."
"Don't say that! I can save you! You can't die, so just fight it!" Zabuza let out a dry laugh as more blood came out his mouth and more ters dropped from Haku's eyes. Naruto walked over to Kakashi and checked on him, he saw the blood on his hand. Kakashi nodded his head to his little brother and Naruto his own as they both looked back at the duo.
"K-Kid, it's ok. I'm fine with dying, but I couldn't live if you were the one dying for me. I mean what kind of father would I be if I let my daughter die." Haku widened her eyes as more tears came down, she would always tell people that Zabuza was her daughter, but she never, ever, heard the swordsman call her his own child.
Zabuza put a hand weak on Haku's cheek, staining it with blood and Haku brought her hands to it. "I-I-I'm so proud of you. I watched you grow into a young woman and now it is my time to leave this world. But...But I leave you knowing that you weren't a tool for me, you were my treasure. You were...are my daughter." Haku continued to sob as her father's last words were approaching ever closer.
"Haku...I...I want you to have something. It's something that I always planned on giving to you one day. Take my sword." Haku was shocked, her father's great sword. He wanted her to have it. She was trained in swordsmanship by him yes, but she never thought that she would wield the sword.
"I..I understand." Zabuza smiled at her and then turned his eyes to Naruto, he gave a look that Naruto could understand, but even with the look he told the boy what he already suspected.
"Take care of her, boy."
"I will." With those two words leaving the reaper's mouth Zabuza no longer had to worry about her daughter's safety. Haku would be safe in Naruto's hands and now he could rest. Whether he went to heaven or hell it didn't matter, all that was that his ice princess was safe.
"Kakashi, that was a helluva of battle."
"Same to you, Zabuza." Zabuza didn't like each other, but they respected each other as they were both feared shinobi from both their respective villages. Kakashi respected Zabuza, he did something that even he failed to do, he saved the one he loved. Kakashi can't speak to that since he failed his own friend and brother.
"Goodbye...Haku." With the final words Zabuza said goodbye to Haku and his strength left him, his hand was still Haku's cheek for the girl holding it there. Haku's tears poured from her eyes like rain from the sky and weep that her father was gone. Naruto slowly walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder. Doing what he believed he could do to comfort her, but he knew that she needed time, time that she got to have for a visitor had a come.
"Well, well, it looks like the great demon of the mist met his end." The shinobi and Tazuna all heard the clapping and turned their eyes to the edge of the bridge where they saw Gato and his army of thugs. Gato's arm was in a sling and he had a sick smile on his face when he saw the dead body of Zabuza.
"All that money it amounted to nothing, pathetic." Haku eyes saw fury when she heard that from Gato, she got up and grabbed the great Executioner blade, a blade that was used by many swordsmen of the hidden mist.
Now it was her turn, now it was her turn to add her name to the list of great swordsmen. It was now her time to become the demon, but not at this moment. Haku will rise to her title as the new demon, but not at this moment. No, she will not be taking lives now, but the reaper will be collecting souls.
Zabuza's soul was not the one he intended, but these men in front of him, their pack leader Gato. They are souls that he will be taking. They are souls that will be fed to the abyss. Naruto heard the voice of Gato and remembered his promise. There was no need to wait, Gato was here, he was the reaper, and it was time for him to collect.
"Pathetic, huh?" Everyone including Haku turned their eyes to Naruto to see that his eyes were closed, but that is not what worried them. The occupants that were the allies of Naruto felt something run up their spine, a dark and cold chill. It was so powerful that even the Kyuubi felt.
*Caw Caw Caw* Nero made the sound of the caw and circled around Gato in the air. The foolish gangster still does not know what his fate is going to be, but it will be worse than death.
"Zabuza died like a true warrior. You on the other hide like in the shadows the little coward you are." Naruto's voice seemed to get deeper with each word, but that is not all that happened. It started to echo as well, like there were more than one person speaking.
"Your soul is going to the abyss Gato, a shadow realm where you tortured for all eternity. Heh, fitting for a person of your character." Naruto slowly began to walk to the army of gangsters, his scythe being dragged as he continued forward. Naruto was holding it like a child, like a child holding a stick and the red blade was making marks on the bridge.
"You think I'm scared of some brat like you!" Gato roared at Naruto, looking at one of his goons. Gato nudged his head for one to kill Naruto and one did step up too. The large goon marched over to Naruto, the gangster making the reaper seem like a small child.
He lifted his axe to kill Naruto, but the reaper did open his eyes. When he did the goon stop his strike and just looked, he looked into the eyes of Death and saw...he saw something that just made him break.
"AAAHHHHH!" The giant of man screamed, his screams pierced the ears of everyone on the bridge and it made all the rest of the gangster be put on alert. The man backed up in terror, he was petrified, so petrified that he ran to the edge of the bridge and jumped off.
That scene alone made of the other servants of Gato think about what they were about to get into. Gato looked at his goons and saw their scared faces as Naruto edged much closer to them. If this was a horror movie then Naruto would be the monster, and Gato and his lap dogs would be the victims that were too stupid to run.
"Tsunami, cover Inari eyes." Naruto called the woman that had just arrived. Kakashi turned his head to see that Kurenai and the rest of her team had arrived as well. The whole village had come to witness this, but they got a bad feeling that they were about to see something terrible. Naruto continued to aimlessly walk to Gato, it was one foot after another, but when he took the next step he vanished.
Everyone widened their eyes including Kakashi and Kurenai, it was faster than they could see and Kakashi had the sharingan. "W-W-Where did he go?!" Gato screamed and he would get his answer when Naruto whispered in his ear.
"Behind you." Gato turned around to see the teen behind him like he was his shadow, his eyes still closed, but the moment the gangster turned around he opened him and revealed his orange eyes.
This time there were no pupils; they were pure orange, but that is not all what Gato saw. What he saw next was something that could only exist in a horror movie, but it wasn't just him. It was everyone on the bridge. Kakashi, Kurenai, Kiba, Shino, Hinata, Sakura, Tazuna, Tsunami, and Inari. They all saw it.
It was something that couldn't even be described. Whatever it was it was something that was behind Naruto. It was some kind of shadow, it was alive, and it was moving as Naruto moved. This thing is what one would call a shinigami. It was the true form of Death.
Gato fell on his ass at what the shrouded reaper that was behind Naruto. The red shroud acted as a hoodie and covered its face, but its glowing red eyes were still visible. It's boney claws that acted as his arms. The bone like wings the was on its back and the most terrifying feature was the weapon in its hands. The giant and scythe that held skulls along the side of the inside of the jagged blade. It looked like a blade made out of the metal that came from only hell.
Gato turned around and began to crawl, he crawled like a scared child and Naruto laughed. It was a cold and mocking laugh that made everyone shiver.
"Where are you going Gato?" Naruto grabbed his scythe with both hands and lifted it up over his head like an axe. Gato looked behind him with terrified eyes and saw the scythe come down.
Naruto plunged the scythe down into Gato back, deep into his spine. He wasn't going to kill him...yet. He would die, but slowly, painfully, just like what he did to Inari's father. Naruto wasn't done as he pulled his scythe in quick motion and that picked Gato up. He then stuck the pole into the ground so Gato would be hung up on it for everyone's eyes to see.
Everyone watched with eyes the size dinner plates Gato was hung on the scythe like a scarecrow. Naruto looked at his handy work then he looked at the remaining soldiers. He looked at them all and then he fired a KI that no man or ninja should be able to produce. It was so powerful and potent that everyone in the area felt it.
It was a wave of KI that hit the goons, making all of them drop their weapons and making all of them fall to the ground in unison. The villagers and the leaf shinobi didn't move, they were still conscious, but they were still trying to process what they just saw.
"I told you all that story was true." Tazuna spoke as he looked at the heir to the Namikaze clan, the heir to Death. Kurenai looked to Kakashi wondering what she should do, she remembered that Arashi warned her of Naruto's kekkei genkai.
She needs to tell him and they need to get these people out of here, but lucky for her. Naruto's power started to go down, the shadow of the reaper faded from existence and the teen's eyes went back to blue.
Naruto felt tired and when he took his first step he had fallen to the ground, soon his eyes closing and the teen passing out. Naruto was down and from the looks of it he seemed to be out as well.
Kurenai released a breath of air that she didn't know she was holding, it looked like everyone did. She walked up to Kakashi and he was just looking at the pile of bodies that Naruto had taken out, and he took another look at Gato who was still hung up on the scythe. The man is now dead since he was unmoving, but Kakashi has a feeling that he met a far worse death.
"You remember your first mission outside of the village?" Kurenia asked Kakashi and he nodded his head as he was now looking at Zabuza.
"Was it this...crazy." Kurenai wasn't sure if crazy was the word, but it was the only one that seemed to fit this category.
"Nope. It was never like this. We should've chosen the cat." Kurenai nodded her head at that, dealing with that monster was way better than dealing with this. The female sensei went to collect her student while Kakashi got Gato out of the scythe. The battle was won, the wave was sved, but questions still remain. For starters what they do with Haku.
A few days later
A few days had passed since the battle of the bridge, Zabuza had been buried on a hill. His sword was in his Haku's hands as she laid flowers down. Naruto was not there for her because he had recovered from his...episode on the bridge, but his sensei and Kakashi assisted in burying the fallen swordsmen.
With Gato dead the thugs quickly got out of the wave, all of them fearing the wrath of the Namikaze. While Naruto was asleep new stories of his accolades were being told through. Each story was more exaggerated than the last, but whose was going to stop. The situation was complicated, she wanted to go to the village and take refuge with the Namikaze. Naruto did offer it to her, but Kakashi nor Kurenai knew if she was telling him the truth.
Lucky for them when Naruto awakened he confirmed that Haku could stay with his clan mansion. Kurenai sighed and Kakashi shrugged his shoulder, he was certain that Arashi would be fine with it. If Haku tries to betray them then he will kill her, simple as that.
"Hey, Naruto." Naruto turned to Kiba to see him with a concerned look on his face. The teen stopped packing his look at his oldest friend.
"What's up Kiba?"
"Are you alright?" Naruto didn't know how to answer that. Physically he was fine, but mentally, that was another level. He would tell Kiba what was on his mind, but secrets prevent him from doing that. So he will have to save it for his father when he sees him.
"I'm fine bro." Naruto gave him a fake smile, but Kiba had known Naruto long enough to know when his smiles are real and which ones are fake. Naruto didn't want to talk about what happened on the bridge and just decided to change the topic.
"So, how are things with Sakura? Have you asked her out yet?" Kiba blushed and shook his head. "Dude you have to ask her out. You know what, ask her when we get back to the village and take her Ichiraku, it's the perfect place for a date." Kiba sweat dropped at that last part, only Naruto would think that a ramen stand would be the perfect place for a date.
"We'll see." Kiba told his brother as Naruto finished packing. When the reaper was ready both of them left the home of Tazuna and met their respective teams in the village. When both teens arrived Naruto went to Haku first and to check on her.
"Hey," The blonde reaper spoke and Haku smiled at him. Naruto noticed that she didn't have the large sword that Zabuza gave her.
"Where's the sword?"
"It's in a sealing scroll. I have to thank your big brother for assisting me with it and you for giving me a home." Naruto put his arms behind his head in a relaxed manner as Nero landed on top of his head.
"Pfft, it's no big deal. My family's home has tons of unused rooms, besides I think my mom will enjoy the company."
"Still thank you." Naruto gave Haku his fox smile and she blushed a little bit. Hinata who was watching the two talks got a little sad and a little jealous. Why couldn't she be like Haku she wonders, maybe then she could get Naruto to see her and her feelings. Kurenai noticed the look on Hinata and sighed, she would have to talk her about Naruto and Haku. It would seem the poor girl was not going to get the romance that she dreamed about.
"All right kiddos, we should be heading back to the village. Our mission is complete and we don't need to say here any longer." Kakashi spoke to the teams and pulled out his perverted book which made Kurenai glare at him.
"Wait!" Just as the teams were about to start their journey back, Tazuna called out to them and when they turned around they could see that they brought the whole village with him.
"Wait, before you leave we want to thank you for saving our village. Naruto Namikaze, we would like to name the great bridge after. Hence calling it the great Naruto Bridge." Naruto was shocked and honored. They didn't have to do this, plus it was a team effort, but he could take a guess on why they chose him. He did kill Gato.
"Well...I'm honored. Thank you, all of you." Naruto thanked the villagers and bowed to them, once done he turned back to his team and saw their knowing smiles. Naruto rubbed his head in embarrassment, but he did not miss the stink eye from Sasuke. Naruto didn't call him out on it, he just ignored him.
The teams soon began to walk to the village and as they were walking they all began to converse with each other. Naruto was talking with Haku, Shino with Hinata, Kurenai with Kakashi while he was reading his smut, Sakura tried to talk to Sasuke, but the boy ignored her and that's when she decided to at least speak with Kiba. They ended up talking and both were enjoying it. But that all came to a stop when an old man called Naruto.
"You!" Naruto and company stopped when they saw an old man with ripped clothing. The old man made everyone look at each other and then to Naruto who just shrugged his shoulders.
"Can I help you?" Naruto asked him and the man backed away from him, like he was the plague.
"No! I don't want you nowhere near me, creature. Those in the village might be fooled by your words and looks, but I know what you are." Naruto looked at his sensei and mouth the words: I don't know what he's talking about. Kurenai looked back at him, he didn't seem to be under a genjutsu from what she could see. Kakashi was the same because he did not sense anything.
"Ooook, this guy might be crazy." Kiba spoke aloud making some of the genin nod.
"I am not crazy! That boy is not human! He is no hero, or angel, or even a demon. He is an abomination that shouldn't exist."
'An abomination?' Sasuke thought with curiosity, his raven eyes going towards the teen who still looked confused. Naruto was acting and he was doing a helluva job of it, he was pretending to be confused about what the man was speaking about. But on the inside he had the feeling that this old man was talking about his heritage.
'How does this old man know about the nephilim. Guess that's another thing I have to talk with dad about.' Naruto sighed internally as the old man went on his last rant, a rant that made him even think about killing him.
"They are fooled, but I see you paler rider." Naruto's eyes flared orange, but only for a second. When he heard that title something inside of him acted, but as fast it came it went away just as quickly.
"Heed me, the more you stay with this boy the closer he's bring you to your death. Your soul is what he is after. He can not fight what he is." Once the warning was done the old man ran back to the direction of the village and all eyes now were on Naruto.
The teen turned around and opened his mouth, everyone expecting him to address whatever that old man said, but in true Naruto fashion that wasn't the case.
"I'm hungry, you guys hungry?" All of them dropped to the ground in shock and disbelief. They couldn't believe that the teen was more focused on food than what just happened.
The time in Wave has come to end, but not without a surprise. Haku is now coming back to the village to be part of the Namikaze clan. How will Arashi and Akeno take it to the new guest.
But that is not all Jiraiya returns to the village, but it is not for family time. He brings a warning to Hiruzen and Arashi. What could be so important that the toad sage stops his work to come back home. Find out next time and get ready for the Chunin Exams are going to start soon.
With Jiraiya
"Ohh, nice. Oh my, look at that one." Jiraiya, the infamous toad sage, and the great super pervert of the hidden was in the village taking a small rest from his spy network. His break entails doing research for his work. What that research is you may wonder...well, it's looking at naked women at the bath houses. The pervert was in hiding with a telescope in his hands as he continued to smile at the all the beautiful women in the baths.
"This is perfect. No, this is heaven." Too bad that heaven is about to come to end as Jiraiya was taken from his hiding spot and teleported right to a place that he didn't expect to be. Mount Myoboku.
"Huh-Ah!" Jiraiya jumped and dropped his telescope when he saw the beautiful women turn into an old green toad. A toad that the old sage knew very well.
"Fukasaku!? Why am I here?"
"Hello, Jiraiya." Fukasaku greeted his old apprentice with a smile. Jiraiya was his pupil that he had seen grow into an old man. He taught him and everything and the white haired man mastered it to the tty, hence earring the name toad sage.
"Come, the great toad wishes to speak with you about the prophecy." Jiraiya got serious when he heard that, he knew what his old teacher was speaking about. The prophecy about the chosen one, the one that will bring true peace to the world.
The old sage of Konoha has spent a long time looking for that said child. Two times he has come close to finding him and twice he has failed. The first time was with a boy Nagato who later became his apprentice, but his story came to a tragic end. The second was Minato Namikaze, a boy who became like a son to him, but like Nagato before him he met his end.
But even with them dead Jiraiya has never stopped searching and his never endeavor may have come to an end for he believes that he found the chosen one in his own grandson, in Naruto.
The old pervert smiled when thinking about the young boy, it has been some time since he last saw him. 'I wonder how the brat is doing after all this time. Maybe I should go pay him a visit. The exams are going to be in Konoha this year.' Jiraiya's thoughts soon came to an end when he and Fukasaku came upon an even older and giant toad.
The toad was the oracle of the toads, Gamamaru the toad sage. How old is he? No one knows, but all the toads and Jiraiya look at him for wisdom. So when Fukasaku came to him about the prophecy he knew that it must be very, very important.
"Great Toad Sage, I have brought Jiraiya just as you requested." Gamamaru looked down at Jiraiya with his eyes closed, but he could see that the man was there.
"Thank you, Fukasaku." Gamamaru thanked the green toad and stared at Jiraiya. It took a while before Gamamru spoke, Jiraiya for a moment thought that he might have forgotten what he wanted to say. There have been times at that, but this was not one of them.
"Jiraiya, for years you have served the toads well and in return we have taught you our ways. But now I fear that our ways may not be enough to stop what's to come." Jiraiya and Fukasaku both looked at each other, concern written all over their faces as they turned their eyes back to the great toad only to see that his eyes were open.
"A great evil is on the rise and it will destroy not just our world, but all of creation." Now the toad sage was starting to get concerned, it's' not like he hasn't heard this before, but this time it seems even more darker than before.
"I know, that is why I have been searching for the chosen one and I believe that I have found him."
"No!" Both the toad sage and his master were surprised by the outburst from Gamamaru, he was one to never raise his voice.
"Jiraiya, the prophecy has changed." Both Jiraiya and Fukasaku widen their eyes in shock and surprise. They couldn't believe that the prophecy had changed, it has never done that before.
"What...What has changed it?" Jiraiay was the one that asked the question, he had to ask it, but a part of him feared that he would regret hearing the answer.
"The corruption. It will grow, it will seed itself into the earth infecting all around it. The dead will rise, deadly ancient enemies will return to the land of the living and take back that which they believe is theirs. Alliances will be forged to fight a new enemy that has only known defeat once."
"How do we stop this?" Fukasaku was the one to ask the elder toad sage and he answered, but it wasn't the answer that Fukasaku wanted.
"You can't. We must fight. Fight with them. Fight for our survival." Jiriaya ears perked when he heard the word them. Who are they? That is the question that self proclaimed super pervert wanted to know.
"Who are they? Who are the ones we are supposed to fight with?" When questions were asked Gamamaru closed his eyes and leaned back. Jiraiya would get his answer, but in a riddle. A riddle that will lead him directly back home.
"The ones that defeated this enemy this first time. Four warriors that will find each other. Four individuals that were given the power of those that are older than me. Four brothers. Four comrades. Four horsemen." With that Gamamaru finished speaking leaving a shocked Jiraiya, Fukasaku was still confused, but it was because he didn't know the truth. When the green toad looked at his student's face he could tell that he had known what Gamamaru was talking about.
The face on Jiraiya was one that didn't belong to him. It was serious, stoic, something that very few people have seen. "Jiraiya boy, do you know what the great toad sage is speaking of?"
"I do pah, I do." Jiraiya looked at his master and said only five words.
" I need to get home."
To be continued