Okay, I really need to stop delaying this story from finishing, so let's get down to it. A few notes: I'm making most of this up off the top of my head, so no cracks about how that didn't happen in the manga; I am totally ignoring the Inari sub-plot; and I am referring to Naruto as her and she.
If you still need a warning and disclaimer, then you haven't been reading anything.
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The ninjas and their charge continued on, trying to focus on what lay ahead of them instead of what just happened. Naruto was still fuming over the fact that she couldn't move during the attack, and Sasuke and Sakura were still disturbed over their recent Naruto-based thoughts. Almost no one noticed that a thin mist was forming out of nowhere. Kakashi was still paying attention, so he was the first one to sense that something was wrong.
"GET DOWN!!" he screamed. Everyone dropped just as a huge sword, like a meat cleaver, whirled overhead and sunk itself deep into a nearby tree. A sillouette landed on the sword and stood there, staring at the group. Sizing them up.
"This is it? This is the old man's guard?" The figure had a gruff, nasty voice. "Don't make me laugh."
"Zabuza." Kakashi suprised everyone with that. They couldn't have known that their teacher had met this strange man before. Their suprise turned to wonder as the jounin reached for the part of his headband that covered his left eye.
"Ah, copy ninja Kakashi. Been a long time. How'd you get way out here?" Zabuza noticed the movement. "The Sharingan eye. The source of your reputation. You would bring out such a weapon so soon into battle?"
Sasuke flinched at the mention of the Sharingan. Naruto and the others just stared. Kakashi turned to them and whispered "You three stay out of this. He is beyond your level. Your priority is the old man." With that, he pulled his forehead protector up to it's proper position, revealing his hidden eye. It was red, with 3 black swirls rotating around the pupil.
Sasuke was now very suspicous. /How does he have the Sharingan eye? That's something that only members of the Uchiha clan posess. How did he...?/
Naruto was stunned for a different reason. Seeing that eye... she suddenly had flashes of that dream... of the eyes that stared through her. "Kakashi..."
In the next instant, the silver-haired ninja was already moving, leaping nimbly onto a nearby branch and letting fly 3 kunais. Just as quickly, Zabuza grabbed his sword and blocked all 3 of them, suddenly disappearing from view. Kakashi did likewise. Both warriors were unseen for some time, only various clangs and impacts suggesting where they were. Finally, they both appeared on the lake. Somehow they had made it to a lake without realizing it. Both stood, unmoving.
"You've gotten slow over these years, Kakashi." Zabuza taunted. "From what I've heard of you, you should've beaten me long ago."
Kakashi only smirked (I think?) and replied "Don't bother with flattery."
The rest of the conversation went unheard, but what was seen made that seem moot. Like a mirror image, the two warriors began a juutsu that required several hand seals, all done identically. Slowly, gracefully, two dragons made entirely out of water rose from the lake and began a midair battle, while the two ninja continued theirs below. The dragons bit and clawed, the ninja slashed and punched, until finally the serpents cancelled each other out and rained down on the two. Both were kneeling, tired. Zabuza was getting visibly shaken, not used to fighting himself like this. Kakashi was able to match him move for move, getting better as the fight dragged on. This had to end now. He stood and began the seals for his strongest juutsu, still distracted...
...Just as Kakashi began and finished the exact same juutsu, using the same technique on his opponent that his opponent was going to use on him, but quicker. A large wall of water erupted around the silver-haired jounin, rushing strait towards the bewildered Zabuza, and slamming him against a distant tree, finished.
Slowly, he looked up and saw Kakashi land on a higher branch, holding a single kunai. "Can you see the future?" He asked groggily.
"Yes. You're going to die now." With that, he leapt down and plunged the razor-sharp blade all the way through Zabuza's neck and into the tree trunk behind it. The blood ran down his hand and made quite a mess on the grass below. The monster was now dead, hanging from a tree. Kakashi slowly made his way back to the rest of the group, replacing the forehead protector back over his Sharingan. "Are you al...?" He noticed that they were all looking back at the body, worried.
When he turned, he saw a young boy, no older than Naruto, standing and staring at Zabuza's lifeless body. His long black hair was gathered into a bun on his head, except for two sets of bangs over his face. He wore a green jacket and brown pants, and looked completely out of place. Then the boy turned and looked at them, revealing a strange mask: one Kakashi reconginzed as that of a hunter-nin. However, he felt a palpable rage coming off the boy like a burst of heat. The boy then took the kunai out of Zabuza's neck and put the body over his shoulder. The next instant, he was gone.
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So, howzat? I finally got around to bringing in Haku, which was the whole reason I started this story at the point it started at. So sue me, I like Haku. Anywho, I think i've come up with a pairing, but i'm not saying who! You can R&R if you want, but the next chapter is going up at the same time as this one.
If you still need a warning and disclaimer, then you haven't been reading anything.
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The ninjas and their charge continued on, trying to focus on what lay ahead of them instead of what just happened. Naruto was still fuming over the fact that she couldn't move during the attack, and Sasuke and Sakura were still disturbed over their recent Naruto-based thoughts. Almost no one noticed that a thin mist was forming out of nowhere. Kakashi was still paying attention, so he was the first one to sense that something was wrong.
"GET DOWN!!" he screamed. Everyone dropped just as a huge sword, like a meat cleaver, whirled overhead and sunk itself deep into a nearby tree. A sillouette landed on the sword and stood there, staring at the group. Sizing them up.
"This is it? This is the old man's guard?" The figure had a gruff, nasty voice. "Don't make me laugh."
"Zabuza." Kakashi suprised everyone with that. They couldn't have known that their teacher had met this strange man before. Their suprise turned to wonder as the jounin reached for the part of his headband that covered his left eye.
"Ah, copy ninja Kakashi. Been a long time. How'd you get way out here?" Zabuza noticed the movement. "The Sharingan eye. The source of your reputation. You would bring out such a weapon so soon into battle?"
Sasuke flinched at the mention of the Sharingan. Naruto and the others just stared. Kakashi turned to them and whispered "You three stay out of this. He is beyond your level. Your priority is the old man." With that, he pulled his forehead protector up to it's proper position, revealing his hidden eye. It was red, with 3 black swirls rotating around the pupil.
Sasuke was now very suspicous. /How does he have the Sharingan eye? That's something that only members of the Uchiha clan posess. How did he...?/
Naruto was stunned for a different reason. Seeing that eye... she suddenly had flashes of that dream... of the eyes that stared through her. "Kakashi..."
In the next instant, the silver-haired ninja was already moving, leaping nimbly onto a nearby branch and letting fly 3 kunais. Just as quickly, Zabuza grabbed his sword and blocked all 3 of them, suddenly disappearing from view. Kakashi did likewise. Both warriors were unseen for some time, only various clangs and impacts suggesting where they were. Finally, they both appeared on the lake. Somehow they had made it to a lake without realizing it. Both stood, unmoving.
"You've gotten slow over these years, Kakashi." Zabuza taunted. "From what I've heard of you, you should've beaten me long ago."
Kakashi only smirked (I think?) and replied "Don't bother with flattery."
The rest of the conversation went unheard, but what was seen made that seem moot. Like a mirror image, the two warriors began a juutsu that required several hand seals, all done identically. Slowly, gracefully, two dragons made entirely out of water rose from the lake and began a midair battle, while the two ninja continued theirs below. The dragons bit and clawed, the ninja slashed and punched, until finally the serpents cancelled each other out and rained down on the two. Both were kneeling, tired. Zabuza was getting visibly shaken, not used to fighting himself like this. Kakashi was able to match him move for move, getting better as the fight dragged on. This had to end now. He stood and began the seals for his strongest juutsu, still distracted...
...Just as Kakashi began and finished the exact same juutsu, using the same technique on his opponent that his opponent was going to use on him, but quicker. A large wall of water erupted around the silver-haired jounin, rushing strait towards the bewildered Zabuza, and slamming him against a distant tree, finished.
Slowly, he looked up and saw Kakashi land on a higher branch, holding a single kunai. "Can you see the future?" He asked groggily.
"Yes. You're going to die now." With that, he leapt down and plunged the razor-sharp blade all the way through Zabuza's neck and into the tree trunk behind it. The blood ran down his hand and made quite a mess on the grass below. The monster was now dead, hanging from a tree. Kakashi slowly made his way back to the rest of the group, replacing the forehead protector back over his Sharingan. "Are you al...?" He noticed that they were all looking back at the body, worried.
When he turned, he saw a young boy, no older than Naruto, standing and staring at Zabuza's lifeless body. His long black hair was gathered into a bun on his head, except for two sets of bangs over his face. He wore a green jacket and brown pants, and looked completely out of place. Then the boy turned and looked at them, revealing a strange mask: one Kakashi reconginzed as that of a hunter-nin. However, he felt a palpable rage coming off the boy like a burst of heat. The boy then took the kunai out of Zabuza's neck and put the body over his shoulder. The next instant, he was gone.
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So, howzat? I finally got around to bringing in Haku, which was the whole reason I started this story at the point it started at. So sue me, I like Haku. Anywho, I think i've come up with a pairing, but i'm not saying who! You can R&R if you want, but the next chapter is going up at the same time as this one.