Author's Notes: Yay! Another update! This means a double update! Whoot! Anyway, this chapter will most likely be shorter then the others, since I only have a few minutes to type it (yes, most of Fox's fan fictions, assignments and other various crap are written in the space of about ten to fifteen minutes. That's one of the many reasons she sucks so much). Also, I'm trying to find a beta reader for some of my work, so if anyone is interested, just tell me in you review! –hint hint-

Kiba: That's really stupid sounding, you know that right?

Fox: Damn straight I do! –strikes Gai/Lee pose, 'pinging' teeth included!-

Kiba: … Please, never do that again.

And onto the writing!

I've never really been free, when I think about it, though I prefer not to.

There has always been some kind of chains that bind me to the ground, refusing to let me escape and spread my wings out to fly. I never really noticed when I was younger, with my parents. There was a dull ache in my heart for freedom, but I had never known anything else, and so it was ignored.

I'd never been anywhere else besides my small village, when I was a child. It was quiet and rather lonely, but I was happy with my mother and father. Or, I believed it was happiness, back then.

I first felt the true cold of emptiness when my father attempted to kill me. I felt…sad. There wasn't much else, the fear was there, but then there had always been fear. The cold was a strange one. Even as I lay out in the snow the icy touch of each flake was nothing compared to the barren wastelands of frozen nothingness within me. It was then that I changed, for now that child I knew, that boy I once was…

He is long dead.

When I first met Zabuza though, the emptiness faded away.

I had a reason, I had a purpose, I was to fight for this man who had scooped me up into his arms without a question. The emptiness was replaced by meaning.

He nearly passed me that day, or so I thought he would have, but he did not. He stopped and stared down at me, there was no pity, no hate, simply…me.

I was there, deep within his eyes.

I wanted to reach out and touch him, to touch this person who stood before me without caring whether I was a ragged child with no home or a price with all the riches in the world. It was strangely beautiful, that one moment.

It is a moment I will cherish forever.

And then he spoke, and I smiled. He seemed startled, that a person such as I would smile. But I did, and for him, I always will.

"You're eyes…they're like mine."

He held me in his arms, and I knew that I was no longer alone; I was no longer an empty abyss of pain. I was Haku, a tool for no one but one man, one man who had lifted me up to the light and held me close when no one else would

Thank you, Zabuza, for everything.

Now please, take these broken wings of mine and soar to a better place then this.

So fly away

Fly to someplace new

Because heaven

Heaven will never be enough for you

Author's Notes: As we all know, Haku is dead, (–sniffle- Fox will never get over it) but I was watching a wonderful AMV (Anime Music Video, Fox is obsessed and has a collection of them now. Yes, she is a sad, sad little cookie) about Haku and Zabuza, and so this little chapter was created. If you want to see that Video thingy, you can download it. To find it, simply go onto the Google website, type in 'Naruto+Self Righteous Suice+Musclebobbuffpants' and it should come up. You'll know it when you see it. I adored it, it's well made and very nearly made me cry! Damn sappy things! Anyway, review to tell me what you think!