*Raven's P.O.V*

As we walked Naruto and Sasuke fought to see who could walk the fastest. Naruto had been trying to prove himself to us since we left the pier. He didn't want to think that he was weaker than Sasuke after what had happened with the Chunin earlier.

Naruto stopped and suddenly started looking around. "Over there!" He pointed to a bush and threw a kunai into it.

We all and stared in shock, wondering what he could have seen and then we grew angry. Kakashi began to scold him. "Naruto, those are kunai knives. Those are dangerous."

Tazuna was angry at this point. He began to shout. "Stop trying to scare us you stumpy little dwarf!"

Naruto ignored us and continued to scan the bushes. "There's something over there!" He turned one way and then back the other. "No, they're over there." He took another kunai out of his pants and threw it into another bush.

Kakashi and I looked over at him and then to the bush. Naruto always found a way to cause trouble or freak someone else. Sakura ran up to Naruto and punched him in the back of the head. "Quit it Naruto."

"Why'd you so that? Someone really is following us, I mean it."

"Yea right. Quit lying and acting like a dumb kid."

As the two of them fought, Kakashi and I walked away from them and into the bushes. There was a rabbit lying in front of the tree that the kunai had hit and he looked stunned.

Sakura ran over to us and looked at the rabbit. "Naruto, look what you did!"

Naruto looked freaked out as he stared at the rabbit. "A rabbit!" He ran over to it and picked it up, cuddling it and apologizing to it.

Kakashi and I walked back the other way and looked around. Something was wrong. Kakashi leaned over and whispered to me. "That's a snow rabbit. They only have white fur during the winter."

I looked up at him. "That rabbit was raised indoors then, away from the sunlight. Do you think someone is using it as bait?"

"The Jonin is already here, they have to be." Kakashi scanned the tree line, being careful not to give the Mist ninja the idea that we knew they were here. Suddenly Kakashi perked up a little. "He's attacking."

I stopped in my tracks and turned to Tazuna and the kids. "Look out!" A giant sword came flying from the tree line and we all hit the deck, it just barely missing us. It stuck into a tree a little ways away and the Jonin from the Mist Village jumped down on it. As I noticed who the person standing in front of me was, I froze.

5 years ago

I walked through the tree line of a village. I wasn't sure where I was, all I knew was that I needed to find him. Itachi needed to be help accountable for what he had just done. I kept seeing it in my head. Mother and father lying on the ground, covered in their own blood. Sasuke, as scared as I had ever seen him, crying and pleading with Itachi not to hurt him.

Before I knew it, I had wandered through the gates. I knew that I still had blood on my clothes. I was a sight for sore eyes. A rugged man carrying a giant sword on his back walked over to me. He was wearing a headband, he was a ninja of some kind. I could barely focus in on what was going on around me so when he reached out and stopped me I jumped into action.

I whipped my arms up and slammed them into his, breaking his hold. "Back up." I put my hand together, ready to us my fire jutsu if necessary. When I finally focused I saw what was on his headband. I had somehow wandered into the village hidden in the mist.

The man held his hand up in front of him, showing me that he wasn't going to hurt me. "I won't hurt you, I want to help you. What's your name?"

I hesitated. Should I really tell him who I was? Would that make Itachi find me? I did need to find him after all. "Raven."

He put his hands down a little. "Just Raven?"

I started to put my hand down to stop my justu. I was feeling calmer that I had before. "Tell me your name first, then I tell you my last name."

He smiled a little. "Zabuza Momochi."

I had heard that name before. My father had told me a story about a boy with that name. Was this the same one? Either way, I was always true to my word. "Uchiha, I'm Raven Uchiha."

Present Day

Kakashi stared at him, anger all over his face. He looked over at me and he could see the shock. "Raven." He put some edge in his voice to try and snap me out of it. "We need to protect the kids, snap out of it. I know who this is."

We all stood still. Kakashi began to talk to him. "Well, well, if it isn't Zabuza Momochi, rogue ninja from the Village Hidden in the Mist."

When he said which village Sasuke looked over at me. I tried to look like I didn't know him, but I think he read it all over my face. When had Zabuza become a rogue ninja?

Suddenly Naruto started to run forward. Kakashi and I both threw a hand out to stop him. Kakashi tried to sound serious, his voice had a little growl to it. "You're in the way, get back."

"But why?"

"He's not like those other ninja. He's in a whole other league. If he's our opponent, I'll need this." Kakashi started to move his headband off his eye that held his Sharingan. He looked over at me. "You might want your too, Raven. This could be treacherous."

I was still frozen where I stood. I couldn't take my eyes off him. He wasn't in his uniform like I had seen him in every day when we were in the village together. Now he was just in a pair of light blue pants, a couple of sleeves around the bottom part of his arms, and his headband. It was odd.

Zabuza looked behind him. "Kakashi of the Sharingan eye. Did I get that right?" He looked from Kakashi to me. "Long time no see baby girl." I saw Sasuke tense when he realized he was referring to me. "How have you been Raven?"

Sasuke started to move forward and I threw my arms out and grabbed him. "Sasuke, no, stay back." I turned him around and tossed him backwards.

Kakashi took control. "Quick, manji formation, protect the bridge builder. Stay out of this fight. We taught you teamwork,now it's time to use it." Finally Kakashi pulled his headband completely off his eye, exposing his Sharingan. I closed my eyes and balanced my chakra, ready to bring mine out.

I could feel the power building in my body so I began to focus it on my Sharingan. When I opened my eyes I could feel the power radiating through my body and from the shock on the kids faces I could tell that my eyes had changed and so did Kakashi's one.

Zabuza taunted. "Looks like I get to see the Sharingan in action."

Naruto butted in. "Everyone keeps saying Sharingan. Can someone please tell me what the Sharingan is?"

Sasuke began to explain. "Sharingan is a rare power, it resides in the eyes. The use of this visual jutsu or dojutsu can instantly see and comprehend any genjutsu, taijutsu, and ninjutsu, and reflect the attack back on the attacker. The Sharingan is a special, rare form of dojutsu. However, there's more to the Sharingan that that. A lot more."

Zabuza spoke to him. "You got it right boy, but you only scratched the surface. The Sharingan can analyze the opponents technique and then copy it to the smallest detail."

Suddenly mist began to cover all around us, making it hard to see. Kakashi was staring at me, clearly wondering what Zabuza had meant when he had spoken to me. I had never told anyone outside the Village Hidden in the Mist about us. The only reason that the village knew was because we had lived together.

3 Years Ago

Zabuza came up behind me as I stood at the kitchen sink, jumped me. I had known who it was by the muscles in the arms so I relaxed. He grabbed my waist and turned me around. "Good morning." He had a small smile spread across his face, even under the mask that he made himself. Zabuza put his hand under my chin and lifted my face to his, kissing me through the mask.

"Good morning." I smiled back at him.

He was already dressed for the day. He wore his ANBU uniform just like he did every morning, this morning he was up and ready earlier than usual. "I'll be gone for the day."

"They have you leading a mission?" I despised when he went out without me.

"I'll be fine. I promise." He kissed my forehead and went over to the dining room table, sitting down in one of the chairs. "I always come back to you, don't I?"

I sighed. "I know, I just hate it."

He gave me an apologetic smile and stood back up. "I promise I'll be back before it gets dark." He held the back of my head and pulled me to his shoulder, kissing the top of my head.

"You better me." I looked up at him. "I'm going to hold you to that."

He turned and headed for the door. Zabuza opened the door, but before heading out the door he turned back around, standing in the doorway. "Raven?"

"Yea?" I turned away from the sink and put the plate I had picked up to wash back down.

He smiled. "I love you."

"I love you too, Zab." What that he closed the door and the house was mine. He hadn't even been gone for a minute yet and the house already felt lonely. It left me alone with my thoughts, always wondering about the same person.

Present Day

Zabuza began to taunt Kakashi. "As for you Jonin, in the assassination unit of the Hidden Mist, we had a standing order to destroy you on sight. Raven on the other hands we've been told to go east on. Don't want our secrets getting out."

I cringed as he said the words and a shiver went through my whole body.

"We had a page for you in our bingo book Jonin. It called you the man that copied over a thousand jutsu. Kakashi the copy ninja. And we have something personal to settle." Zabuza looked over at me and smiled.

Kakashi looked taken aback by that last statement. He had never knew that Zabuza was the man I had been seeing in the Hidden Mist. I had never told him.

Naruto broke the silence. "Wow, that's so cool."

Zabuza bent down on his sword. "Enough talking. I need to exterminate the old man now." The kids all ran in front of him, kunai out and ready. "So I'll have to exterminate you first, eh Kakashi? So be it." He looked over at me again. "She wont do you any good. She's still in shock. Never thought you'd see me again?"

I swallowed hard. Zabuza grabbed his sword out of the tree and jumped away. He landed on the water and I looked over at Kakashi. "He's on the water." He was building up his chakra. I had see it a thousand times. The mist got thicker and he vanished.

The kids all seemed concerned. "Sensei's, who is he?" Sakura was the most worried.

"He'll come after us first." Kakashi looked over at me, clearly wanting me to tell them who he was. "You clearly know him better than you let on." I could tell that Kakashi's anger and annoyance with me was rising.

I sighed again. "Zabuza Momochi, the ex-leader of the Hidden Mist's assassination unit. He's a master of the silent killing technique. As the name suggests it happens in an instant, without sound or warning or any kind. It's so fast that you pass from this life without realizing what happened. The Sharingan cannot fully neutralize it, so don't lower your guard. Not even for a second." The all looked scared.

"If we fail we all lose our lives."

Sakura was angry now. "How can you say that Kakashi-Sensei?"

The mist got thicker. We couldn't see the kids anymore. "I don't like that we can't see the kids anymore Kakashi."

Suddenly we heard him talking. "Eight points," Kakashi and I searched. "Larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular, subclavian artery, kidneys, heart. Now which will be my kill point." He had to be by the kids. Kakashi took his chakra and made it flow though his body, taking away the mist with a breeze. We had a line of sight with them which made me relax a little bit.

Sasuke looked terrified. I wanted to run over to him, instead, Kakashi and I spoke to him. "Sasuke!" Kakashi's voice broke him out of his trance.

I tried to relax him. "Calm down!"

Kakashi tried to reassure him. "I'll protect you with my life, all of you. I will not allow my comrades to die."

Deja-vu ran through me, hearing Kakashi say that made my skin crawl. If it was a precursor to the last time he said it, then this wouldn't end well. I turned to Sasuke. "If it's the last thing that I do, he will not lay a finger on your little brother. You have my word. Trust us."

They all relaxed a little until Zabuza spoke. "I wouldn't be so sure." Zabuza popped up in the middle of all of them. "It's over."

Kakashi and I zeroed in on him, our Sharingan taking over. "I've got him, you get Tazuna and the kids." I nodded to him and we both jumped into action. Kakashi jumped into Zabuza, throwing him backwards. I jumped and rounded all the kids in my arm, then jumped back and grabbed Tazuna."

When Kakashi jumped backwards into Zabuza he had taken out a kunai. It was now jabbed through his stomach. We all sat silently. Instead of blood dripping from the kunai, it was water. A clone. The real Zabuza popped up behind him, ready to cut him down with his sword. I panicked. "Kashi, behind you!"

Zabuza swung his sword. "Die!" As the sword hit him he turned into a puddle of water. Zabuza looked even angrier. Kakashi came up from behind him, putting a kunai to his throat. My heart almost leapt out of my chest. He had done it. Kakashi spoke. "Don't move." I could hear the anger radiating off Zabuza. "Now it's over."

As I watched my first serious love with a kunai to his throat I began to panic. I wanted to close my eyes. I couldn't watch this. We all stood in a circle around Kakashi and Zabuza. I couldn't bare seeing the two of them at each other's throats. All the feelings that I had thought were gone toward Zabuza came back at the sight of him near his end.

Kakashi was proud of himself. "You're finished."

All three of the kids were excited, cheering him on, but then I heard something. a chuckle came from Zabuza, something that was never a good thing when he was in a battle. I had heard that same chuckle a thousand times when I was on missions with him. "Finished..." He chuckled some more. "You really don't get it do you. Your technique is nothing but a crass imitation. I'll never be defeated by a mere copycat ninja like you." I could feel my blood boiling as he taunted Kakashi. Kakashi growled at him, which made him laugh even more. "You are full of surprises tho. You'd already copied my water clone jutsu when you made your little speech. Very skillfully executed. You made your clone say those words to draw my attention while you hid in the mist, waiting for me to make my move. Nice try, nut I'm not that easy to fool."

I could see Kakashi's anger rising in him and then we saw Zabuza fade to water once again. "Kakashi, it's a clone, behind you!" Zabuza swung his sword and Kakashi ducked just in time. As his sword embedded itself into the ground Zabuza sent a kick Kakashi's way, nailing him in the side. As Kakashi went flying though the air I couldn't help myself anymore. "KASHI!" Zabuza picked his sword up from the ground and went running after Kakashi. I looked at the kids. "Stay with Tazuna, no matter what happens."

I jumped into action. I threw spikes in front of Zabuza, causing him to stop in his tracks. I jumped down on the other side of the spikes with my hands ready to start a jutsu. A flashback hit me as I stood in front of him. This was the same as the night I first met him. "Zabuza, don't do this. Let us go. If not for the sake of these kids, then for me."

Zabuza stared at me. "Do you really think I'm going to let your little boyfriend go just because you asked me to Raven? How stupid do you think I am?" I could see all the kids in the corner of my eyes stare when Zabuza said the word 'boyfriend'.

"I don't want to fight you Zab." I began to slowly make the hand signs for the fireball jutsu. He ignored everything I had to say and readied himself. Serpent. Ram. Monkey. Boar. Horse... Did I really want to do this to Zabuza right now? I didn't have a choice. Kakashi was down and out at the moment and I had to hold him off. Tiger. I held me hands to my mouth in a cup and blew. I heard Zabuza panic a little. "Fireball jutsu." I heard him jump back as my flames hit the ground, causing a small crater. I couldn't see anything through my flames, one of the only down sides to the jutsu.

Suddenly Zabuza came at me from the side. "Forgive me Raven." I looked over as I saw his foot come flying toward me. I put my hands down and threw my arms out, blocking his foot just in time. His fist came at me next. I had forgotten how fast Zabuza was. I grabbed his fist with my hand, a major mistake on my part. Everyone knew that I had made a mistake as soon as I did it.

I heard Kakashi from behind me come out of the water. "Raven, look out, his foot!' Before I had even realized it his foot had met my rib cage and I was sailing into the tree.

I heard Kakashi trying to come out of the water, but Zabuza was quick. "Water prison jutsu."

Kakashi yelled. "No!" He was trapped in a ball of water, floating just above the water.

I picked myself up off the ground and grabbed my ribs again. They were in even more pain than they were before. A medical ninja would do some good right now. I tried to stand up, but dropped to my knees as soon as I did. They were definitely broken this time. I could see Kakashi's eyes on mine and I could feel the kids stares. I fought through the pain and stood up.

Zabuza looked down at Kakashi. "This prison is made of water, but it's as hard as steel. It's hard to fight when you can't move. So much for the great Kakashi."

I walked over near the water. "Zabuza, let him go. You can't hurt him without hurting me."

Zabuza chuckled. "I'll finish you off later, but first, your little friend needs to be eliminated." Another Zabuza popped up in front of the kids and I. The terror on their faces was like a book cover. One of their sensei was trapped and the other could barely move without falling over. I had to save the kids. "You think that wearing that headband makes you a ninja? When you've hovered between life and death so many times it doesn't phase you then you may call yourself a ninja. When you became so deadly that your profile is in entered in my bingo book you then may be called a ninja. To call upstarts like you ninja, is a joke." Zabuza disappeared as the mist got thicker.

A foot came out of nowhere, kicking Naruto in the neck and sending him flying. I was beginning to feel useless. "Naruto!" His headband came flying off and he landed on the side of me.

Zabuza stepped on his headband. "You're just brats."

Kakashi started to yell to us. "Listen to me! Get the bridge builder and run! You can't win this fight! He's using all of his power to keep me in this prison so he can only fight you with this water clone, but the clone can't go far from his real body. If you get away from him then he can't follow. Now run!"

I could feel my panic turning to anger as I listened to him. Not anger at Kakashi, but anger that I couldn't do anything, anger that I couldn't convince Zabuza to stop. "Kashi, I'm not leaving you."

"Go! Forget about me! Get your brother and the others and get out of here! Think about him!"

Suddenly I hard Sasuke yell. "We've got to do this."

Zabuza chuckled. "So this is the little brother you always talked about. How cute."

Sasuke took off at a run for him. I winced through the pain and ran after him. "Sasuke, no!" Sasuke threw his ninja stars at Zabuza, who dodged them with ease. Sasuke jumped into the air and sailed toward him with a kunai.

Zabuza reached up and grabbed Sasuke, holding him by the throat. "Too easy."

Sasuke squirmed under his grip. "If you hurt him Zabuza, the last thing i do with my life with be to end yours!" I jumped toward him with my kunai. When he saw me coming he launched Sasuke to the side and braced himself for my impact. He dodged me and ran in front of Naruto. Naruto tried to get away, but landed on his bad hand, causing him to stop completely. He looked down at his headband that Zabuza was standing on again. Naruto stood up and was clearly angry. He took off running for Zabuza.

Kakashi screamed from inside the water prison. "Naruto, no!"

Zabuza chuckled. "Fool." He hit him and sent him flying backwards with ease. When he came back he had his headband.

Naruto stood back up and put his headband on. "Hey you, the freak with no eyebrows. Put this in your bingo book. The ninja that will become Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves, he never backs down." I could see that Zabuza was shaking his head with anger, he was getting annoyed. "His names Naruto Uzumaki." Sasuke and Naruto were scheming, I could tell. "Sasuke, listen up, can you hear me?"

Sasuke looked up. "Yea, I hear you."

"I've got a plan."

"So you're finally thinking about teamwork, huh?"

"Alright now, you guys, let's go wild."