5seedapple, true-blue-sheila, musicmoilife247, jamandel3177, daydreamer1008, bluebelle94, BlueJae3, jinlai, LockHerDoor and Kikrin94

Thank you for following me and this story!

So this is the re-write of the first chapter, definitely going a different direction from the first time I published this! I had to start over because I didn't like where it was going but I'm liking this direction much better. Let me know what you think. Is it better or worse?

This was originally suppose to be a IbikixOC but it changed to a ZabuzaxOC. Even I'm not too sure how that happened either. Chapters, as always, will probably be short but I'll try to make them long. This will also be a slow update, I'm just trying to get back into writing like I use to do.

I should warn you, I plan to make this a bit darker than what I normally write, so if you are not comfortable with that I would not read it. I'll try to put a warning at the beginning of the chapter like my other stories. Topics it may touch: drug use, sex, mental and physical abuse, gore and torture. Not 100% sure yet, my mind usually has a concept but when I start writing it ends up taking weird turns.

"Speaking in Japanese"

"Speaking in English"

"Speaking in Spanish"

'Thoughts'

I don't proofread my chapters! I just dish them out as I write them because I'm lazy so keep in mind it'll probably have a lot of grammar errors.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN NARUTO. JUST MY OCs

She hadn't known why she done it. That was a lie. She did it because he reminded her of her little brother, no, that wasn't quite right. She had cared for him like he was one of her own. She had taken care of him when he was sick and when Zabuza was on a mission too dangerous for them to tag along. She had fed him, brushed his hair and comforted him when he was sad. She taught him things just as he had taught her to speak Japanese. She had too many happy memories with him. Not Haku, anyone but him, he was too kind hearted and pure, he didn't deserve to die young not for that bastard. Besides she never really belonged here so was this world losing anything?

"Azu...why?" Kakashi asked staring at her in disbelief as his arm went through her shoulder. Her cloths turn red from the blood seeping through the wound and down her arm. She was shorter than Haku by only an inch or two and Kakashi had missed her heart by just barely but he still had managed to rupture her subclavicular vein.

"I'm...sorry...he's too young...to die" she coughed out blood and slowly pulled out Kakashi's hand from where it impaled her. More blood gushed out and Azu fell to her knees becoming lightheaded from the blood loss. Haku acted quickly and caught her setting her down gently on the ground his hands glowing with green healing chakra as he tried to close her wound.

"Why? I...I thought you were angry with me" Haku asked as tears streamed down his face.

"Yeah…angry…but I don't…want you dead, and Kakashi…I'm sorry" she coughed out more blood. It didn't hurt as much anymore, she didn't know if that was a good or bad thing.

"You're off the mark again, Kakashi" Zabuza chuckled darkly.

"She saved your worthless lives even after all you did to her" Kakashi glared at them, he let Haku continue healing Azu in the hopes that the boy could save her but seeing her body growing paler by the minute he knew it was pointless. Kakashi could see it in Azu's eyes that she knew it was pointless too.

"I'm...I don't want Naruto...to..." see me die Azu croaked out the life in her eyes dimming.

"Okay" Kakashi nodded understanding her unspoken words.

"Pity, I had plans for her" Zabuza tsked bringing his sword down towards Kakashi. Haku quickly jumped through his ice mirror with Azu to avoid getting hit.

"Kakashi-sensei watched out!" Sakura shouted to warn her sensei, Kakashi jumped out of the way and glared at Zabuza.

"What did you do to my sister!" Naruto shouted running to Zabuza having missed on what really happened as the mist started to lift.

"No! You just stay there and watch! This is my battle!" Kakashi glared at his unpredictable student.

"Naruto is that you? Hey Naruto over here! Where's Sasuke?" Sakura asked as she saw her teammate, Naruto however stayed silent at her questions giving her an answer she was dreading to hear.

"Kakashi, you have no time to take your eyes off me!" Zabuza snapped sprinting forward with his sword. Kakashi spun and kicked Zabuza back as he was about to swing knocking him off balance. Zabuza quickly righted his footing and dashed towards Kakashi again, both shinobi trading blow after blow yet Zabuza was unable to keep up with the copycat ninja.

"Damn you!" he snarled wielding his sword with one hand as his other was useless from the kunai Kakashi had previously stuck in his arm.

"Zabuza-sama!"

"Stay out of this Haku! Hatake is mine!" Zabuza swung his sword again and missed once more, his sword created a small crater at the spot Kakashi should have been. He felt a hand wrap around the back of his neck and Zabuza gritted his teeth in anger at being caught.

"Look at you, you can't possibly defeat me the way you are now. I knew you didn't have what it takes for the long haul"

"What did you say?" Zabuza hissed.

"You still don't know what true strength means! And because of that, you lose" Kakashi continued to lectured him as he brought down two kunai to Zabuza's jugular. The clank of metal paused the action halfway and Haku stood there holding Kakashi back with his own kunai. Azu laid by the edge of the bridge forgotten making him fear that it was too late for her for the boy to stop healing her.

"Well, let's see how things are going, he did quite a job on you didn't he Zabuza?" Gato's voice called out to them. Kakashi and Zabuza paused in their fighting and turned to look at the short man, behind him was a mob of thieves and thugs waiting to strike at Gato's command "You disappoint me, Zabuza"

"Gato, why did you come here? And who are all those men?" Zabuza stood up straight as he took in possible enemies.

"Our strategy has changed a little...I'm sorry about this Zabuza, but you die here" Gato smirked.

"What?!" Zabuza's eyes widen at being doubled crossed.

"Since hiring a regular shinobi cost a lot of money, I hired rogues like you. And, it would have been even more ideal to save my money and effort if ninja-to-ninja battles ended in each killing the other off. Well, you are certainly not worthy of being called the Demon of the Hidden Mist Village. If you were to ask me, you're just a cute little demon!" Gato and his men laughed.

"Kakashi...I apologize. Our fight ends here...as long as my reason to take down Tazuna is gone, there is no reason to fight you either" Zabuza glared over at Gato. and his grip tighten on his sword.

"Yeah...you're right" Kakashi nodded and was slightly relieved at the small truce. Both shinobi now stood next to each other, eying Gato's group of men, wait for them to make a move.

"That reminds me, where is that bitch you had with you? I have plans to put her in one of my brothels, her exotic look will definitely bring in revenue"

"She's dead" Haku glared at him for talking about Azu in that way.

"Azu! Get up! Tell them it was a joke and you're not really- " Naruto sobbed and continued to struggle in his teachers grip he had desperately wanted to check on the woman he considered a sister. She couldn't be dead. Azu was the toughest person he knew. She had protected him countless times even if it meant getting hurt because of him.

"Hmm...guess whores do get what they deserve" he laughed.

"You bastard! Don't you talk about her like that! She has a name! She was Azu —" Naruto snarled running to him but was pulled back by Kakashi, the older shinobi's eyes flickered to the side just in time to see Azu's body disappeared.

"Damn it" Zabuza gasped as the seal he placed on her broke and the only way for that to happen was for her to died. Stupid woman he clenched his jaw.

"Naruto! Stop! Don't act so recklessly!" Kakashi said sternly holding his student back from running at Gato. He knew Naruto and Azu had been close, after all she was living with him per the Hokage's orders.

The emotion in Naruto voice was raw as he continued to yell at the swordsman "Say something Zabuza! She was your comrade, wasn't she? Are you just going to let him talk about her like that?"

"Shut up, fool. Azucena is already dead. What does it matter?" He hissed down at the blonde boy.

"What...? Don't you feel anything watching him say that? You three were traveling together for years! Doesn't that mean anything to you? You're telling me not once did you grow close to her?"

"As Gato used me...I was simple using her. I thought I told you, we shinobi are merely tools. I'm upset at losing her abilities, yes, but the woman? I have no regrets"

"If that's true then you're worst than them!" Naruto snarled at Zabuza. Kakashi placed a hand on his student and tugged him back once more.

"Naruto enough! He's not the enemy...for now" Kakashi added as an after thought and glanced over at Zabuza cautiously. Naruto shrugged off his sensei's hand and continued to glare at Zabuza.

"As far as I'm concerned he's still the number one enemy here! Why you...ungrateful bastard! After everything she did! Sure she didn't like you either but she was happy that you made her stronger. She was happy to be traveling with you and Haku because she got to see the world! Will I become cold hearted like you if I continue to get stronger? She threw her life away for the both of you, she cared for you and this is how you repay her? You don't even defend her name! Throwing her away like she's trash!"

"Shut up kid!" Zabuza snarled at Naruto as tears fell freely from his eyes he hated that the boys words stirred something in him "Your words cut deep boy...deeper than any blade ever could. Azu was too emotional and unpredictable and damn her for making me feel like this!" he roared sprinting into the large group with Haku by his side. Both shinobi cut throw the mass of Gato's men.

The men never stood a chance at the Demon of the Mist sliced through more than half of them in less than a minute. Haku speed through his ice mirrors, no hesitation, throwing well aimed kunais killing them instantly.

Zabuza's and Haku's teamwork was flawless and if Azu had been part of their team and still alive he could only image them as unstoppable. Kakashi watch the two in slight fascination, this wasn't even a fight. It was a massacre and he let it happen.

He let them do it...for Azu, she deserved to be avenged if it wasn't for Gato's greed Wave County would be blooming by now and they wouldn't have needed to do this mission.

Azu would still be alive...

She stared up at the sky as she continued to bleed out, everyone's voices were growing farther away even as Haku continued to heal her.

"I..."

"Save your strength" Haku hushed her. The slight warmth she was feeling from Haku's healing was gone and she could only guess he left her to protect Zabuza since she was a lost cause now. Azu closed her eyes she could faintly hear Naruto's crying. She thought she teleported away to where she first arrived here but she was wrong. She didn't even have the strength to do that. She didn't want Naruto to see her like this!

This wasn't supposed to happen, she wasn't suppose to die this young. Azucena had a goal. She was supposed to finish getting her business degree and open up her own hair salon business. She was supposed to be getting ready to go with to visit her family or even a party, work or something! Yet here she was on the cold ground bleed out to her death. She wanted to see her family one last time and tell them she loved them and that she was sorry for not being able make them proud. That she was sorry she didn't get to say goodbye.

The shouting and crying stopped and it was replaced by a piercing scream that didn't sound like anyone on her team. It sounded higher in pitch, more feminine but older. She tried opening her eyes but could only make out black blobs clouding her vision, growing larger until all she saw and remembered was darkness.

Bit different than my normal writing but I think it came out okay...?