(A/N) Alright, this goes for all of my stories. I will not be updating anything during the month of November. I will be doing National Writing Month, or NanoWrimo, or just Nano, and need to concentrate on what I'm writing. I'll begin updating again as soon as it's December. To be clear, this does have slight veins of crack, so, remember that. HCR is a bit more serious.
Naruto was a bit jumpy, and startled, throwing a kunai into the bushes.
Sakura just sighed and parted the bushes to find a white rabbit. "It's a pet rabbit, there was someone here. They used a replacement with this rabbit."
"Rabbits are brown this time of year," Sasuke told Naruto, who looked confused.
"Down!" Kakashi yelled, and all three genin, with the practice of Naruto yelling 'down' when he set off a tag, dropped to the floor. Kakashi grabbed Tazuna, manhandling him to the ground.
A massive sword flew over their head, embedding in a tree nearby. A man landed on its handle, and Sakura made a very slight excited squeaking noise. "That's Kubikiribocho!" She whispered excitedly. "That means that guy is Zabuza Momochi, Demon of the Hidden Mist!"
"Someone has done their reading, I see," Zabuza remarked.
"I always do my reading," Sakura agreed. "You were part of the Seven Swordsmen Of Kiri, but defected. You wield Kubikiribocho, the immortal sword. It can reform itself from the blood of its enemies."
Sakura jumped to her feet, pulling a tag out from her pocket and slamming it onto the ground. "Tazuna! Behind me!"
Naruto and Sasuke slapped down two more tags, Sakura putting down a forth so that her and Tazuna were trapped in a square formation of tags. Sakura put down one more in the center, then placed her hand on it, channeling chakra into it. A bright orange barrier sprung up around her and Tazuna, the boys on the outside.
"Bridgebuilder protected," Sakura reported, her face hard. She channeled a little bit more chakra into the tag she had her hand on, and a top formed on the barrier, making it into a box.
"Creative, but you missed a few people," Zabuza said.
Sakura shrugged, mouthing, "If I had tried manhandling the boys in here, they'd try and blow me up. As it is, you are the one getting blown up, I'm safe." Zabuza raised an eyebrow at her, and she smirked. "Box is soundproof from the inside, I can hear you, you can't hear me."
"Katon: Dragon's Fire!" Sasuke shouted, breathing out a white-hot stream of fire.
"Fuuinjutsu: Death of a Thousand Leaves!" Naruto shouted at the same time, a fast gust of wind coming from the seal he was holding in his hand. It intersected the Katon jutsu, and hurried it along, heating up as well, turning the core blue.
Kakashi watched in shock. When had his cute, well, kinda not so cute with the fire, little genin figured out combination ninjutsu and fuinjutsu? That was a much higher level then they should be, for just outside of the academy. Why were his genin so confusing? And why were they learning everything when he wasn't looking? Maybe it was because they were always there when he arrived, on time, he might add. Akiko had it easy with her genin.
"So, you're sending your genin at me, eh, Sharingan no Kakashi?"
Kakashi held his hands in the air. "They could have killed me one time. You do not want to get on the bad side of their traps."
Naruto started cackling, drawing Zabuza's attention to him. "What's so funny gaki?"
"That," he said innocently, just as a clone managed to tag Zabuza with a seal and activate it.
Zabuza squawked as he was dragged up into the air by his ankle, hanging there. He pulled his sword off of his back, and dispelled the Naruto clone. "How did it get that close?"
"Camouflage seal," Naruto said solemnly. "You were distracted, so it was simple!"
Sasuke cackled, and the duo started attacking. Kakashi wondered if it was cruel to have stuck them on Zabuza. He should probably save the other man. "My cute little genin, it's my turn."
Sasuke and Naruto slumped sadly. Naruto activated one more seal, an explosive on Zabuza's sword, blowing it to pieces, and retreated, going to stand next to the orange box with Sakura in it.
Kakashi, it finally being his time to shine, deactivated the seal on Zabuza's ankle, and pulled up his headband, revealing his Sharingan.
"Sharingan no Kakashi," Zabuza said, staggering slightly as the blood rushed out of his head.
Kakashi, being the nice guy he was, waited for Zabuza to get his bearings, then attacked.
It was a quick taijutsu fight, ending with Kakashi trapped in a water prison. Naruto grinned and activated the seal again, drawing Zabuza up by his ankle. Zabuza reached up and took the seal off, falling to the water.
"Took you long enough!" Sakura mouthed at him mockingly. He growled at her, and she smirked. "Did you want to be incinerated? That's what this barrier does. Incinerates anything that touches it."
Naruto grinned at Sakura, pulling out an explosive.
Sakura sighed, and nodded.
Sasuke hid behind the box, Naruto placed it on the ground between them and Zabuza, got behind the box, and blew it up.
Behind the box, they were unaffected. Kakashi was fine, but out of the prison. Zabuza… looked a bit worse for wear.
Out of nowhere, two senbon hit Zabuza in the neck. He fell like a tree, a Kiri hunter-nin coming down to keep him above water. The nin grabbed the remains of Kubikiribocho, and nodded to Kakashi, then disappeared with Zabuza.
"He's not dead," Sakura said, the orange box disappearing. "But Zabuza will be waylaid for at least a week if not two. We should get a move on."
(A/N) I dunno, I'm tired, sue me. See you in December.