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A/NAuthor's Note

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Chapter 4: The Great Naruto Bridge-Part 3

When Naruto arrived at the bridge, he saw Kakashi was battling with Zabuza.

The tension around them was getting heavier but he was more worried about his teammates.

He saw that Shikamaru was protecting Tazuna; they both seemed fine, but Shikamaru was fidgeting, torn between helping his friend and protecting Tazuna.

He was staring intently at a dome made out of mirrors. When Naruto looked, he saw Sasuke, on the ground; unmoving...

Oh, shit! Itachi's gonna kill me for letting his otouto die, he thought, that hunter-nin is also inside with him, how can I get him out without getting hurt... I need a distraction.

Creating a clone, he made it throw a shuriken at the masked hunter-nin. The hunter-nin caught it and looked around.

Then then clone threw a smoke bomb and introduced himself loudly.

Taking the chance, the real Naruto ran into the dome from a blind spot and picked up the other boy.

Running back to the forest, he felt for a pulse and found a weak one.

Sighing in relief, he slowed down as he passed the first tree. A few yards inside, he put the boy down and forced some medicine into his mouth.

He turned and watched as the clone turned into smoke.

The hunter-nin was confused so Naruto charged from behind.

Haku flipped in the air and turned to face his attacker, what he saw was a blonde boy with blood red eyes, dark whiskers on each cheek and longs claws on each hand. An evil aura radiated around him.

Naruto was borrowing some chakra from the kyuubi, already wasting what he had after yeasterday's practice on the run to get Sasuke.

They started to battle and Naruto was surprise that he had a hard time even with the energy boost.

However, Naruto still defeated the other boy and was about to make the finishing blow when his mask cracked.

His hand stopped inches from his face, "Haku!?"

The borrowed chakra died down and he turned back to normal, "Naruto?...Kill me."

Naruto was surprised that the guy he met yesterday was his enemy. He thought that they were friends.

Nevertheless, bound to his duty to protect Tazuna, he took out a kunai and was about to slit his throat when Haku suddenly ran pass him.

Confused, he was about to run after him when he felt a massive amount of chakra was being gathered in Kakashi's direction.

Figuring it out, he mentally scolded himself for being so slow today. Haku was only a few feet away from the battle and he could do nothing to stop him.

Kakashi charged at Zabuza, hands glowing with the level of chakra he was using. Moments before it hit, Haku intercepted.

Eyes wide in shock, Kakashi caught the boy as he dies. Slowly laying him on the floor, he shook his head sadly and glared at Zabuza.

"He was my tool, he was useful but how useful is a dead tool. I can always replace......" Zabuza sneered before Naruto punched him in the face.

"Don't you ever say that to him!! You have no right. He risked his life for you and all you think of him is a weapon?!" I yelled.

Slowly, he managed to get back up, both arms useless, and I think I saw a tear in his eye before he coughed up blood and fell back down again.

In a whisper, he murmured, "Don't you think I know that. He was too young to die, too pure. But I'm a ninja and a good ninja never shows his feelings, boy. Now, pl-please let me join him in death even if we won't be going to the same place. Please bring him next to me..."

Without a word, Kakashi obliged and we watched as they both died next to each under, covered in a blanket of snow that had just fallen.

In a hoarse voice, Naruto told Kakashi that Haku's village had a lot of snow.

However, the peace was interrupted when a cruel laugh sounded behind them.

Quickly turning around, they saw that it came from a fat man leaning on a cane surrounded by an army of thugs.

"Thanks for killing those two worthless scums, I was gonna do it anyways if they accomplished killing Tazuna.

They didn't, something I expected but these men will. You have the choices of either joining my army and saving your lives and going down along with Tazuna," the man, who was obviously the infamous Gato, announced.

Shikamaru and Tazuna came up behind Naruto. Whispering softly, Shikamaru told Kakashi to replace him as bodyguard.

They moved away from the two boys and watched as they jumped and disappeared.

"Where'd they go?" Tazuna asked, watching Gato's men intently.

"Just watch," Kakashi murmured.

Naruto appeared behind the men, throwing his large shuriken and killing several of them.

Then he used Koukakyuu no Jutsu ("He has chakra?" (Kakashi)) when all of their attention was on him.

Shikamaru appeared behind all of them and gathered all of their shadows, enlarged by Naruto's light . Now that his training was more intense, he could hold them longer.

Naruto finished it by using a lightning jutsu, striking all the ninjas unconscious just as a large mob, led by Inari walked onto the bridge.

"It's finally over," Naruto said. Moments later he collapsed.

Shikamaru went to get Sasuke while Kakashi picked the blonde up.

Almost smiling affectionally at his team, they walked back into the village with Inari, Tazuna and a handful of men.

Most of them stayed to throw Gato's army over the bay, leaving only Haku and Zabuza, who they carried back to the village and buried.

The next day, both Sasuke and Naruto woke up, in time to say their prayers for the 2 shinobi.

They also left that day, too late to hear the name of the bridge, The Great Naruto Bridge.


End of Chapter 6: The Great Naruto Bridge: Part 3

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"Konohamaru!" they exclaimed, recognizing his voice.

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