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Chapter 15
Walking through the forest heading towards the land of waves, they were still in the land of fire and the trees were older and wider here, the leaves were just beginning to fall. The genin on team 7 were amazingly quiet.
"Hey Mr. Tazuna your from the land of waves right" Sakura asked
"Yeah, what of it?" Tazuna replied
"Kakashi sensei do they have ninja in the land of waves?" Sakura turned her questioning to Kakashi.
"No not in waves but most other countries, don't forget there are five main hidden villages with ninja and then small countries around them also have ninja but not all of them." He stated
"We were taught this in school" Sasuke stated
'Oh yeah' Sakura thought
"But there won't be any ninja combat in a c class mission" Kakashi explained
"So we won't meet any enemy ninja?" Sakura sounded hopeful
"Hahahahah of course not" Tazuna laughed
'He's hiding something' Naruto thought.
They walked past a puddle which caught Kakashi and Naruto's attention. 'He noticed too' Kakashi thought.
Suddenly two ninjas appeared out the puddle that team seven had just passed. The first ninja to spring from the puddle had a fore head protector with a horn situated in the middle an air-mask covering lower half of his face. The second ninja had two horns on his forehead protector and an air mask also covering the lower half of his face. They both wore camouflage pants and had dark tops on. The one with two horns had a gauntlet on his left arm while the other had a gauntlet on his right. The gauntlets were connected by shuriken chain.
"One down"
- Kakashi sensei – the genin called out. As Kakashi was wrapped in chains and then ripped apart by the two mist ninja.
"Two down" the second enemy ninja appeared behind Naruto. Turning slightly Naruto found both ninja behind him flipping away he watched as Sasuke flew up into the air and mid flight pulled out a kunai and threw it pinning the chaining connecting the two ninja together into the tree behind them. Naruto glanced back to Tazuna then pulled out two kunai as Sasuke landed on the clawed arms of the enemy ninjas.
Realising that they were stuck the two ninja separated their clawed gauntlets from the chain and split, one heading for Naruto the other going for Sakura. Sasuke who had been stood on the gauntlets landed and spun round. Sakura got into position in front of Tazuna.
Blocking the claw coming at him Naruto quickly stabbed his kunai through the centre of the claw causing blood to spray out, bringing the other kunai down into the ninja's foot pinning him in the ground.
Sasuke moved in front of Sakura protecting both her and Tazuna as the other ninja advanced upon them and was stopped when Kakashi grabbed the man in a head lock rendering him useless.
Sakura couldn't believe her eyes 'Kakashi sensei is alive?'
'Show off!' Sasuke huffed.
Naruto shook his head 'He used kawarimi, hmm typical'.
'We're saved' Tazuna sighed.
"Naruto, Sasuke well done. Naruto their claws were soaked with poison we best remove it quickly" Kakashi concluded looking at the blood covering Naruto's hand.
They all looked at Naruto's hand, curious as to when and how this happened.
"Tazuna. We need to talk" Kakashi glared, after he tied the two missing ninja to a tree.
"Aren't these mist ninja? Aren't they well known to continue fighting no matter what" Naruto stated examining his hand. Kakashi looked at Naruto
"How did you read our movements?" the ninja with the horn asked from his position against the tree.
"It hasn't rained in days and with sunny weather like this there shouldn't have been a puddle." Kakashi supplied
"But if you knew that why did you let the brats fight?" Tazuna questioned.
"To find out who the target was." Naruto guessed
"Exactly" Kakashi agreed "besides if I wanted to I could have killed them instantly." He shrugged
"What do you mean their target?" Tazuna started to sweat.
"Are they after us or you" Naruto supplied watching the two ninja carefully; he flicked his eyes to the tree line briefly.
"We weren't informed of any ninjas who would be after you. Our mission was to protect you from thieves and bandits, thus making this now at least a B-rank mission. This was supposed to be simple, protect you till the bridge is completed." Kakashi continued.
"I'm sure you had your reasons for not telling us the full details but we are now technically out of our depth." Naruto stated examining his hand once again.
"We're not ready for this mission, and we'll need medicine for Naruto's wound! Let's go back he might even need a doctor". Sakura worried.
"That may be the best bet. We should head back to the village to treat Naruto's wound." Kakashi stated.
(Line)
A short pudgy little man dressed in a suit with a cane and sunglasses pointed and glared angrily.
"YOU FAILED!" he screamed at the man sat in a chair with three ninja kneeling beside him. "I paid you guys a lot of money because I heard that you were strong powerful ninja"
The man had bandages wrapped around the lower part of his face, short spiky black hair and thin eyebrows almost unseen. He wore a ninja forehead protector positioned sideways. He had a belt across his chest. He wore baggy trousers with a striped pattern running down them and matching arm and leg guards with a cow spot pattern on them. The bandaged ninja used the handle of his sword to scratch at his chin before swinging it round to rest under the little pudgy man's chin.
"Quit ya bitching! This time I'll use this head cleaver and kill them." The eyebrow less ninja stated
"Are you sure?" the little man's bodyguard asked.
"I heard the enemy has hired some skilled ninja and the demon brothers' failure will have made them more prepared." The short man said.
"Who do you think I am? There's a reason I'm the demon of the mist, Zabuza Momochi" he revealed.
(Line)
"Naruto I really need to look at your hand." Kakashi called
"Its fine sensei it's not even my blood. It's probably from when I stabbed his hand or even his foot" Naruto concluded.
Kakashi looked at the hand in question and wiped the blood away to reveal a perfectly unmarked hand underneath. 'Hmm not even a scratch' Kakashi thought.
"Are you sure?" Kakashi questioned, Naruto nodded.
"Sensei I... I need to talk to you" Tazuna called during Kakashi's attention away from Naruto.
(Line)
The mist was thick and heavy surrounding the single boat. The water rippled as the oar pushed its way through the water. The boat heavy set with four ninja, their client and the boatman glided silently through the mist.
"We should see the bridge soon. The wave country is at the base of the bridge" the boatman whispered
The ninja looked up peering through the mist as the looming figure of the bridge came into the clear.
"Wow! It's huge!" Naruto whispered as the mist dissolved and revealed the incomplete bridge.
(Line)
"Sensei I... I need to talk to you. It's about this mission. You're right this job is probably out of your depth. It turns out this dangerous man is after my life." Tazuna spoke
"Who?" Kakashi questioned
"You've probably heard his name before. The wealthy shipping magnate, a man called Gatou." Tazuna spoke
"Gatou from the Gatou Company? He's one of few extremely rich people." Kakashi questioned
"Yes him. Officially he runs a shipping company but secretly he sells drugs and other illegal items using ninjas and gang members to take over businesses and countries. He's a very nasty man. It was about a year ago that he targeted the wave country. Through money and violence, he quickly took control of the country's shipping industry. Gatou now has a monopoly on all business traffic in the country. The only thing he has to fear now is the completion of the bridge." Tazuna explained
"I see. Since you're building the bridge he sees you as the biggest threat". Sakura stated
"So those ninja were hired by Gatou?" Naruto suggested, flicking his eyes to the tree again.
"If you knew ninja could be after you. Why did you hide the fact when you hired us?" Kakashi asked
"The country has no money even our feudal lord has no money and there was no way we'd be able to pay for a b-rank mission, it would be far too expensive. So if you quit the mission now, I'll definitely be killed. But don't worry about it. My cute little ten year old grandson will cry for a couple of days. My daughter will live a sad life hating leaf ninja. But it won't be your fault" Tazuna turned away as if he was becoming upset.
"He's trying to guilt trip us. Seriously?" Naruto muttered.
"I suppose we could protect you till we get back to your country at least" Kakashi stated rubbing the back of his head.
Naruto slapped his hand to his face in frustration. He flicked his eyes back to the tree line surrounding them.
"Okay that's enough! Come out now." He signed.
Two anbu ninja appeared next to Naruto and kneeled. He recognised the one in the fox mask as the recruit he had humiliated in front of the other recruits. 'Hmmp so Ibiki is as evil as ever' he thought when he spotted him.
"Sensei who are they?" Sakura asked
"They're Konoha Anbu. But what are they doing out here?" Kakashi said
"Fox, Sparrow what are you doing here?" Naruto growled out.
"Turtle sent us to keep an eye on you" Sparrow spoke
"He was worried that because of his recent accident he wouldn't be able to" Fox started to explain
"He should know better than to waste valuable resources on me, especially without the Hokage's consent." Naruto cut across fox as his anger built.
"The Hokage gave his consent" Sparrow stated.
Naruto glared at the two anbu stood in front of him. "how the hell do they expect me to grow if they keep me confined and under constant watch."
"We can see you're perfectly capable of looking after yourself" Fox tried to say.
"Tell Turtle and the Hokage I'll be having a word with them when I get back." He growled out. "And since, you're here arrest the demon brothers."
Nodding the two ANBU grabbed the demon brothers and performed a hand seal before disappearing
"I knew he had someone following me. Damn it!" Naruto continued to growl.
'That kid's scary when he gets mad' Tazuna thought.
"Umm Naruto why were those anbu here?" Sakura asked
"A miscommunication" he stated "we should get a move on" he started walking away.
"We could have let the anbu handle this mission and gone home" Sakura stated
"Do you really want to act like helpless little genin or show that we can handle these situations?" Naruto snapped
"The dobe's right. We should continue and show that we don't need help with our missions." Sasuke agreed. 'How did he get the ANBU to follow his orders?'
"O...okay" Sakura stuttered 'I've never seen Naruto this angry before'
"Okay then but no heroic moments" Kakashi called. 'How did he gain the respect of the ANBU?' Kakashi thought.
(Line)
"We'll be there soon. It looks like we avoided detection Tazuna, but just in case will take the route with vegetation. It'll make us harder to spot." The boatman supplied, as they moved below the bridge.
"Thanks!" Tazuna gratefully replied turning towards the boatman.
The boat was manoeuvred so that they were now travelling through a tunnel lit by two bulbs hanging from the ceiling as they made their way through the tunnel the village begun to come into view. First the trees which grew out of the water then followed by the actual village it's self. The first buildings they could see were built upon a pier in the water. Even though they were a little shabby it was still amazing to see. They were let off at a jetty on the outskirts of the village.
"This is it for me. Goodbye and good luck." The boatman waved.
"Thanks" Tazuna waved as the boat man retreated into his boat.
The boatman sat back in his boat and got the motor set up before whizzing away. Tazuna turned to the ninja.
"Okay, get me home safely." He turned to Kakashi.
"Yeah yeah. If we get attacked again it won't be a chunin level this time but a jonin." Kakashi sighed.
They walked through the mangrove having left the shabby huts behind a while ago. It was pleasant and peaceful with leaves falling around them. Naruto stopped suddenly he looked both ways into the forest his eyes narrowed.
"Naruto, why'd you stop?" Kakashi questioned as the hair on the back of his neck started to stand on end.
"I just have this strange feeling that we're being watched." Naruto supplied as he focused his attention on the tree line.
"What would you know about it?" Sakura chastised
"He did know that the ANBU were there." Kakashi supplied.
Sakura looked down when she realised that Kakashi was right. They walked a bit further with everyone on high alert now. Suddenly Sasuke threw shuriken into the bushes on their left. 'I won't fall behind to a dead last like Naruto' Sasuke thought.
Moving over to the bushes they found a white rabbit frozen in fright with a shuriken embedded in the tree above its head.
"It's just a little rabbit" Sakura stated.
'It's a snow rabbit and were not in winter yet' Naruto thought as the feeling of being watched returned.
'What's with its colour' Kakashi thought 'this is a rabbit that's been kept in a cage for the use of a body switching technique. They must already be here.' He started to scan the tree line.
Up in the tree opposite sat Zabuza he watched as they found the rabbit then his eyes fell on Kakashi.
'No wonder the demon brothers failed. The hidden leaf's copy ninja. Sharigan Kakashi is here.' He jumped throwing his broad sword shaped like a butcher's knife.
"Get down!" Kakashi called dropping to the floor.
They all dropped to the floor as the sword flew over their heads. It embedded itself into a tree where its owner landed on the hilt. They all jumped to their feet as the two adult ninja eyed each other.
"Well if it isn't the mist's missing ninja Zabuza Momochi. Everyone get back this guy's on a whole other level." Kakashi called as he held his arm out signalling his team to stay behind him
"Who's Zabuza?" Sakura whispered
"He's a former ninja of the hidden mist village and a member of their elite seven swordsmen. He failed to assassinate the country's Mizukage and fled the village, therefore becoming a missing ninja." Naruto reiterated.
"How do you know this dobe?" Sasuke snapped.
"Kakashi's bingo book" Naruto held up a brown book.
"This will be a little tough, unless I use this" Kakashi pulled up his forehead protector so that it sat level on his head.
"You appear to be sharigan Kakashi, I'm sorry but the old man is mine." Zabuza called out pointing at the old man. 'That boy looks familiar' he thought when looking at Naruto.
'Sharigan?' Sasuke thought in shock.
"Stay surrounding Tazuna. Do not enter this fight. That's your teamwork here." Kakashi opened his left eye to reveal a red sharigan and a scar running through the middle of it. "Fight me Zabuza."
"I get to see the famous sharigan already, I am honoured" Zabuza bowed ending in a sneer.
"What's sharigan?" Sakura asked
"It's the Uchiha blood line" Naruto stated
"It's an ability in the eyes that allows the user to read and defeat tai, nin and gen jutsu. But that's not all it can do."
"Exactly. The scariest part about it is you can copy your opponent's techniques once you see them. When I was a member of the hidden mists assassin squad I kept a similar handbook to the one in that brats hand. It had information on you. This is what it said, the man who has copied over a 1,000 jutsu copy ninja Kakashi." Zabuza recited.
'What! First the old man hokage and now this new sensei? I didn't know they were this great.' Sakura thought
'What's going on? The sharigan is a trait of the Uchiha which only appears in a select few. How could he have our eye?' Sasuke's inner mind processed.
"Now enough talk I'm going to kill that old man." Zabuza sat crouched on his sword. "But it would seem Kakashi that I will have to beat you first" he pushed off the tree and landed on the water.
"Over there? On top of the water?" Sakura shouted confused.
Zabuza stood on the water an arm held high above him and the other in front of him with his index and middle fingers held up on both hands.
'He's releasing a high amount of chakra' Kakashi thought
"Ninpou hidden mist jutsu" Zabuza called out as he disappeared behind a veil of dense mist.
"He's gone!" Sakura exclaimed
"He'll come after me first. As a member of the hidden mist he was known as an expert in silent killing. You don't even notice till you're dead. I can't use the sharigan perfectly, you guys be careful". Naruto's face hardened in resolve as did Sasuke and Sakura's.
"The mist is getting thicker" Naruto said. 'Great way to boost our confidence sensei' Naruto thought
-8 choices- Zabuza's voice rang out.
"What?" Sakura called
- Liver, lungs, spine, clavicle vein, neck vein, brain. Kidneys, heart. - He continued
- Which one should I go after?-
'He's trying to frighten us' Naruto thought
Kakashi got his hands ready, flashing through seals.
Sasuke began to shake. Even though he was the top ninja of his class an elite Uchiha he never experienced something like this. His heart pounded violently in his chest, with sweat pouring down his face, at the intensity of the killing intent that both jounin excluded. This feeling was dark as though someone was pushing down on his chest so tightly it felt like, if he moved he would be killed. He never thought that he would feel this way why would he he's an Uchiha the elite but this feeling was too much it was enough to make any person lose their mind. It made him feel he'd rather die than endure these feelings.
"Sasuke don't worry I'll protect you even if I die." Kakashi turned to smile back at them. "I don't let my comrades die."
-We'll see about that-
Zabuza appeared in between the three genin and Tazuna his blade drawn.
"It's over" he smirked
Kakashi appeared and stabbed Zabuza in the gut which slowly begun to leak water. The genin had scattered around Kakashi as he was stood I the middle of them. Naruto edged towards Tazuna but his head swivelled round to the tree line, something was out there.
It burst as Zabuza appeared behind Kakashi; Kakashi taken by surprise was cleaved in two as his body too burst into water.
'No way, he copied it in this mist' Zabuza was shocked.
"Don't move" Kakashi said with his kunai pressing into the back of Zabuza's neck. He moved it so that it sat on his jugular. "It's over"
Zabuza started laughing. "It's over, you can't defeat me with your monkey like imitations. But that was impressive. You had already copied my water clone and made yours say those words to draw my attention, while you hid in the mist and watched me. Nice plan."
"But I'm also not that easy" he said from behind Kakashi as the Zabuza in front burst into water.
'Great a battle of water clones' Naruto sighed.
Kakashi not expecting this turned as Zabuza cleaved his sword aiming to cut him in half, Kakashi ducked onto the floor, Zabuza who had spun with his sword, embedded the end into the ground and placing his hand on the end of the hilt used it to continue his momentum around the sword turning it into a kick aimed straight for Kakashi. Kakashi was sent flying as his team watched on.
Zabuza grabbing his sword in the correct way moved to follow after him sliding to a halt before he hit the scattered caltrop.
"Foolish"
Kakashi splashed into the water as Naruto shook his head.
'Sensei got knocked down?' Sakura thought
'This guys also good at taijutsu' Sasuke thought
"This water is heavy" Kakashi said as he pulled himself out of the water.
"Fool. Water prison jutsu" Zabuza said from behind Kakashi.
Kakashi was quickly engulfed in a sphere of water which was held in place by Zabuza's arm which connected him to the sphere.
"The water is my domain. It's a big mistake trying to escape out here. Now you're trapped in my special inescapable prison. We'll finish things later right now; I'll take care of your brats. Water clone jutsu"
'He's stronger than I thought' Kakashi moaned
'Shit' Naruto thought.
"Look at you pretending to be ninja's, wearing those forehead protectors. A real ninja is someone who has survived numerous brushes with death. Basically once you're good enough to be listed in my hand book, then you can start calling yourself ninja." Zabuza's clone spoke as he disappeared.
Naruto braced himself as he expected a hit to come flying at him, which it did moments later of course he hadn't quite taken into account the strength of the kick and was still sent flying back. He managed to manoeuvre his body so that he landed correctly. There was the sound of metal hitting the floor. He looked up to see his headband on the floor a few feet away from him, only to have Zabuza stomp on it holding it in place.
"Naruto" Sakura shrieked
"He's just a brat" the real Zabuza spoke to Kakashi in his prison
"Take Tazuna and run. You can't beat him. As long as he keeps me trapped in this prison he can't move. The water clone can't move too far away from the original. Now run!" Kakashi screamed at them.
Naruto ran at Zabuza he threw kunai at him hoping to knock him back, he watched as he just batted them aside, still running he threw himself into Zabuza's leg, which lifted to kick him away, he reached down and grabbed his forehead protector, while stabbing upwards with another kunai. He skidded across the floor stopping in between his team mates.
"Naruto what the hell do you think you are doing? We are only genin we can't take him on by ourselves." Sakura screamed at him.
She stopped when she saw in his hand his forehead protector. Standing Naruto grasped his forehead protector tightly. He looked up through his bangs at the real Zabuza. His stance and the coldness of his eyes sent a chill down Zabuza's spine.
'He looks like the fourth hokage' Zabuza shivered.
"Listen you eyebrow less freak. I am Naruto Uzumaki of the hidden leaf village" Naruto started
"And one day he'll be hokage" Sakura muttered under her breath
"You've got something of mine and I want it back" he shouted indicating Kakashi. "Sasuke I've got a plan"
"What sort of plan could you come up with?" Sasuke sneered
"You two will have to get over your contempt for me soon or we'll never make it as team" Naruto spoke curtly.
'What's this? Is this Naruto?' Sakura thought
'This kid is surprising' Tazuna thought
'He destroyed my clone, he's a surprising ninja. I'll just have to make another one' Zabuza thought creating another clone.
'This is bad' Kakashi thought when he realised there was another clone making its way over to his team.
"I told you to run. This fight was over the moment I got caught. Your mission is to protect Tazuna not me." Kakashi shouted at his team.
"Well this is kind of my fault, I'm not going to stop you fighting, go wild." He smirked "besides the little one did destroy that weird water thingy" Tazuna replied.
"You guys won't grow up and stop playing ninja. When I was your age my hands where already stained with blood." Zabuza began
"Devil Zabuza" Kakashi said from his bubble
"Oh so you've heard of it?" he turned to Kakashi.
"Long ago in the land of mist there was a final obstacle to becoming a ninja" Kakashi continued
"Oh you even know about that graduation exam" Zabuza said cockily.
"What graduation exam?" Sasuke questioned
"The reason the hidden mist was once called the blood mist village." Naruto stated
"Even the brat knows how interesting" he laughed before turning eerily scary again. "Fights to the death between students. Friends who had trained together and eaten together were pitted against one another until there is only one left alive. Friends that had helped each other shared dreams with one another." Zabuza conveyed
"That's terrible" Sakura gasped in horror.
"10 years ago the hidden mist graduation exam was forced to change. This change came after the previous year when a devil appeared" Kakashi continued
"Change?" Sasuke mumbled
"What change? What did the devil do?" Sakura asked eagerly yet tensely.
"Without pause or hesitation a young boy who wasn't even a ninja yet had killed over a hundred students"
Zabuza's clone had by now made his way to the genin and in one quick movement moved from his position to standing on top of Sasuke he pushed down on his chest making Sasuke cough up blood.
"Sasuke!" Sakura cried. Naruto performed a jutsu using only the index and middle fingers of his hand crossing over one another.
"Shadow clone Jutsu" Naruto called out. He created three exact replicas rather than a field full.
"Get off my team mate freak." Naruto growled out
"Impressive that you can perform shadow clones" Zabuza stated "but not enough to take me on" he laughed
"It's not quantity that matters but quality" Naruto said from behind Zabuza, he pushed the kunai held at the back of his neck forwards causing the clone to burst. Helping to pull Sasuke to his feet he whispered in his ear. Nodding slight Sasuke wiped the blood from his mouth he pulled out a large windmill shuriken just as Naruto and his clones did the same thing.
"Evil wind shuriken, shadow windmill" Sasuke spoke then he jumped up into the air, flipped midway and released the weapon.
The two Naruto's also released their shuriken as the third Naruto ran behind them. The shuriken that the Naruto's had thrown circled around the real Zabuza as Sasuke's carried on towards his target.
"A shuriken won't work on me" Zabuza crowed as he grabbing the shuriken mid flight and watched as the remaining two circled past him he narrowed an eyebrow in suspicion. Naruto still running behind the shuriken hit the water and flipped catching the two remaining shuriken he aimed one at Zabuza and the other in the tree line.
'What's he up to' Kakashi thought.
Zabuza watched the other shuriken heading into the tree line
'He aimed that there. He can't have sensed him' Zabuza thought. The second shuriken headed towards Zabuza. Zabuza decided to dodge the shuriken heading for him causing his arm to separate from the sphere holding Kakashi prison. He watched as the shuriken that headed towards the tree line disappeared into smoke and then his eyes turned to the one he had dodged he watched as it too turned into smoke. Enraged he turned round to see Naruto stood on the water smirking definitely as a kunai flew from his hand. The kunai sailed past Zabuza cutting his cheek in the process.
"Damn brat!" Zabuza shouted spinning the shuriken in his hand getting ready to throwing it at Naruto. Only for it to stop suddenly turning his head he found a very wet Kakashi his hand had blocked the shuriken causing blood to spill out slightly. Kakashi glared hard at Zabuza.
"Great plan Naruto" Kakashi said as he pushed the giant shuriken away.
"Hmmp. I got distracted and released the jutsu"
"Correction you were forced to release the jutsu. Now I'll tell you I don't fall for the same thing twice, what will you do?"
"Bah!"
They jumped away from each other landed still on the water Kakashi's Sharigan spun as both he and Zabuza ran through hand seals finishing at exactly the same time.
- Water release water dragon bullet –
Two turrets of water burst forth twisting and turning in shape till two dragons held ground facing one another.
'Forty-four hand seals' Naruto counted 'not good'
Sasuke Sakura and Tazuna were buffeted by the water as the jutsus took form.
'Too many hand seals. But in seconds and he copied them perfectly' Sasuke noted as he jumped back and steadied himself. Sakura had placed herself in front of Tazuna steadying the man as the water frothed.
The two dragons collapsed against each other as the two jonin met together kunai against sword.
'Strange what's going on' Zabuza panicked
They pushed way together, and began circling in the same direction. They stopped and both raised the same hand into the air. They then began performing the same jutsu.
'My movements. He's completely'
"Reading them" Kakashi finished
"What did he read my mind, damn that freaky eye"
"Is really pissing me off. Right?"
"All you're doing is coping me!" Zabuza screamed
"You can't beat me you monkey bastard"
"Damn you I'll make it so you can never open that mouth of yours again" he began rushing through seals again. He watched as behind Kakashi a shadow of himself appeared.
"Is that me?"
- Water explosion - Kakashi finished the seals, Zabuza in shock watched as Kakashi's eye spun and the jutsu was released.
A huge torrent of water spun horizontally towards him. He was hit by the huge amount of water and flung into a tree. The people still on land braced themselves as the water splashed around them. Zabuza whacked into a tree he was pinned by a kunai in the leg, another in the opposite hip and another in his right arm. Kakashi landed in the tree Zabuza.
"It's over"
"How? Can you see the future" Zabuza was extremely panicked now
"Yes. You're going to die" Kakashi replied
Two senbon needles came flying out of the trees. They hit Zabuza straight in the neck poking out both sides. The five of them stared in shock as Zabuza fell down.
"Hehe. You're right he's dead." Said a young person stood on a branch above them. He had long black hair, was wearing a mask with very thin eye holes and a red wavy design in place of the mouth and the symbol for hidden mist on the forehead of the mask. He wore a moss green coloured striped turtle neck sweater and a split skirt that matched in colour fell to his knees. On the outside of that he wore a green blue short kimono with white edges and around his waist a green brown obi, in the same fabric as his sweater with a fringed tail. He had nail polish on his fingers and toenails in the same colour as his kimono. He stood in light brown platoon sandals with straps that matched his kimono. His hair was gathered in a white bun holder, with two locks framing his face bound with metal hair cuffs at the ends.
Naruto had been tossed and turned when the jonin water battle started he was not best pleased when he was dunked under the water. Dripping with water he hauled himself up onto the bank and slowly made his way over to where his team were gathered around Zabuza's body and a hunter nin stood in a tree above them.
Kakashi stood on the branch above Zabuza's body appeared next to the body he bent down to check Zabuza's pulse as his team looked on.
'He really is dead' Kakashi thought.
The hunter nin bowed. "thank you, very much. I've been searching for the opportunity to end Zabuza's life for a long time."
"By your mask I'd say you're a mist village hunter nin." Kakashi guessed.
"Impressive. You are correct" the hunter nin nodded.
"A hunter nin" Sakura sounded confused
"A hunter nin is a ninja who is tasked with the job of tracking down missing nins who have abandoned their village and thus become traitors." Naruto stated 'I don't trust this guy, what's he up to?'
"Yes it is my duty to hunt down missing ninja. I am a member of the hidden mist's hunter nin team." The hunter nin explained.
'From his voice and height he's probably not much older than Naruto... yet he's a hunter ninja. This is no ordinary kid' Kakashi deduced.
"How could a child do what you could not" Sasuke sneered
"In this world there are kids younger than you, yet are stronger than me." Kakashi chastised
The hunter nin teleported in a swirl of leaves from where he stood on the branch to standing next to Zabuza's prone body.
"Your battle is now over. And I must now dispose of the body, since it seems to hold many secrets. Farewell." The hunter nin finished.
The hunter nin grabbed the body and disappeared in a swirl of leaves again. Naruto turned to Kakashi who was pulling his forehead protector back over his sharigan eye.
"Now we have to get Tazuna to his house. Let's go." Kakashi called
"Thanks you guys. Come over to my house and relax a while." Tazuna crowed in glee
Kakashi stumbled before hitting the floor.
"Sensei!" Sakura shrieked.
'My body won't move. I used the sharigan too much' Kakashi thought before he collapsed
"What's wrong with sensei?" Sakura moaned
"He over did it but we should probably get him to Tazuna's soon" Naruto stated
Sasuke, Sakura and Tazuna moved forward leaving Naruto to carry Kakashi the rest of the way. Sighing Naruto picked up Kakashi and as carefully as he could slung him on his back and set off after his team. "Trust them to make me do all the work" he sighed.
He readjusted Kakashi's prone form carefully before continuing after his team. "Something wasn't right about that encounter" Naruto whispered, shaking his head.
Again sorry if it's not what you expected, hopefully I'll be back to normalish self soon and my beta and I don't take forever damn life lol.
I would still like for you to pick out your favourite parts if you wouldn't mind. It's quite interesting reading how many of you have the same parts or if it's the same as mine.
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