(A/N) TBNKurama: TTDS is the designated shortened version. For me, anyway.
A week later, they were all on the bridge, waiting for Zabuza to pop up. Kakashi had recovered and Naruto was watching the house, so everything was ready.
"Kakashi Hatake," Zabuza called, appearing with his apprentice by his side.
"Zabuza Momochi."
"Hello!" Sakura chirped. Tags she'd already placed down activated, and Tazuna was encased in a fuinjutsu barrier. "Try getting through that!"
The apprentice narrowed his eyes, dashing over. Sasuke met him, kunai against senbon. "You have to get through me to get to her," he growled. "Besides, taking her out will not release the barrier."
The apprentice looked rather displeased, although Sasuke couldn't be sure through the mask.
"So," Sasuke said, jumping back to form a couple hand seals. "You know we have a library, right?"
"I would assume you do," he replied in a flat voice. "Most people do."
Sasuke nodded sagely. "Right, of course. But see, our library's really big, and apparently, there are scrolls that haven't been opened since, like, the founder's era."
"You don't say," he replied, the sarcasm practically dripping from his tone.
"Whatever. So, there's this really cool thingy I wanted to try, but Sakura said no, cause apparently she thinks it'll blow up in my face if there's nothing to aim it at. So, would'cha look at that, something to aim it at!" He grinned pyromaniaclly, and the hunter did a few hand signs himself, a ring of ice mirrors rising from the water to surround Sasuke. Sasuke grinned wider, teeth bared as he took in a breath. "Katon: Solarflare!" A white-hot tongue of flame leapt out from his lips, managing to melt a hole through one of the ice mirrors.
The fake hunter-nin looked appropriately shocked, even through the mask, as the hole slowly closed.
Sasuke sighed. "Shame, looks like I'll have to pull out the explosives…"
He didn't. But Naruto did.
An explosion rocked the bridge slightly as the ice exploded inwards, sending both Sasuke and the apprentice flying across the bridge. Sasuke, who'd been expecting it, caught himself before he hit the other side of the bridge. The apprentice, who had not been expecting it, didn't quite manage to stabilize themselves before they hit the side of the bridge with a nasty crack-crunch noise.
He hissed in pain, clutching his side.
"NARUTO! BE CAREFUL!" Sakura admonished loudly from her position making sure Tazuna was safe.
"SORRY!" Naruto squawked.
Sasuke just smirked as he stood up.
Naruto quickly scurried over, placing tags on the apprentice's chest and limbs quickly and as gently as possible. "Sorry about that! Didn't think it'd be that powerful! Fluffy got excited!"
Sasuke chuckled. Only Naruto would refer to the Kyuubi as 'fluffy'. "Naruto, do that wind seal and blow away this mist, would you?"
Naruto nodded excitedly, slapping his hand down on the ground, aiming for the end of the bridge. "Fuuinjutsu: Death of a Thousand Leaves!"
The mist quickly blew away under the onslaught, revealing where Kakashi and Zabuza were trading blows, and the very end of the bridge, where a really short dude was standing at the head of a bunch of thugs.
"Hey, Kakashi!?" Naruto called, not taking his eyes off the bandits. "If, say, a really short dude had a bunch of goons behind him and was standing menacingly at the end of the bridge, and I said I wanted to fight them, what would you say?"
Zabuza and Kakashi paused in their fight to stare at him.
"I'd say that the short guy is probably Gato, so you're welcome to him, why?"
"Cause there's a short guy standing at the end of the bridge with a bunch of bandit people behind him."
Zabuza's head snapped around to glare at Gato.
Gato scoffed. "Looks like this ends here, Demon of the Mist."
Zabuza snarled. "Darn right it does! Naruto, I get the short guy. You can have the rest."
Naruto grinned savagely. "Might wanna get him quickly."
Zabuza nodded quickly, disappearing for a second before reappearing with a kunai to Gato's throat. "Here's for backstabbing me." He slit the man's throat, before removing his head in two clean cuts, and throwing the body off the side of the bridge. He brandished the head for a moment, before disappearing and reappearing next to Kakashi, where he sealed the head away.
Naruto exchanged a glance with Sasuke, who just smirked and made a few hand signs.
"What on earth do you feed them?" Zabuza hissed to Kakashi as the two genin decimated the thugs with combination wind and fire jutsu.
"Nothing," Kakashi hissed back. "Sakura does all the feeding, ask her."
"You mean you didn't do that?"
"Did you think I did? I'm not a freaking pyro!"
"Well no, but you're Hatake Kakashi, copy-nin! They had to get the jutsu from somewhere!"
"One word," Kakashi said, "Library."
"Seriously?"
"Uchiha clan library," Kakashi said, clarifying with a shrug.
"Oh, that makes sense," Zabuza admitted, staring at the two genin.
"Yeah…"
"What'cha talking about?" Sakura asked, popping up.
"Your teammates," Kakashi said, not even bothering to look startled.
"Cool," Sakura said, watching her teammates tear apart the remaining bandit. "Well, now that that's taken care of, I'm gonna go toss them in the ocean. Maybe pick up that guy on the way out though, he's currently quite paralyzed. See you at Tazuna's house!" With that, she sauntered off to where her very bloody teammates were cackling madly in the remains of their enemy.
"You're genin are insane," Zabuza decided.
"You don't say," Kakashi muttered. "I hadn't noticed."
(A/N) Oh poor Kakashi, he really got the short end of the stick this time, didn't he. Not that it wasn't evident before.