The Silent Orphan

I do NOT own Naruto

Chapter 4:

"Team Seven is disbanned until I return." Kakashi just walked past Sasuke.

"WHA! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" There was no response and Kakashi vanished. His mission;

Kill Zabuza without playing around and make sure they would never be revived. Then get his daughter back.

With Zabuza, Haku and Riley

Riley sighed heavily as she looked up to the sky as they walked. Zabuza glanced back at her some.

"Something wrong, Riley?"

"Huh?" Ice blue eyes shot over to the taller and older one of the group. She smield a bit. "Nothing."

"You look so much like your mother."

"M-my mother? You knew her?"

"My sister. Kataki. A sweet woman. I despised your father the day he left you two. I swore that day that I would protect you. Though I failed, I managed to find you. Your mother, she was slaughtered by a man I detest more than your father. Orochimaru(note, I'm making this up as I go). I wanted so bad to rip his throat out, but I was still a bit young. Too weak to face him." Riley smiled a bit with a hint of sadness to those cheery blue eyes.

"Don't worry about it, uncle Zabuza." Haku looked at her from behind the mask he wore. Zabuza noted this and smirked.

"Riley, head on up. Follow the path straight. We'll catch up." With that said, she knealed a bit and then jolted ahead with the speed of a jounin. Haku was a bit puzzled.

"Zabuza?"

"Haku, do you have feeling's for my niece?" Haku blushed a bit, glad he was wearing the mask to hide it.

"I uh..."

"Quit being like that. She's free, and most likely willing to become someone's she can trust."

"But I...She's still young."

"Only by four years. Ask her before the final battle. That's when she'll choose between Kakashi or I, letting the other die. And if she wants to live with her father, she won't ever see you again." Haku blinked behind the mask and nodded. Both followed Riley's previous movements and spead ahead to catch up.

Hours later, Kakashi had found traces of them, following them.

Still, Zabuza, Haku and Riley remained hours ahead. Kakashi was getting wrather annoyed and slammed his fist into a tree, knocking it over.

"DAMNIT! If I would never have left, this would have never happened. Damnit all. Damn them to hell. I will get her back for your sake, Kataki. I won't let them poison her mind."

Kakashi.

Kakashi snapped around, thinking he heard a soft, young woman's voice.

Hatake Kakashi.

He looked back ahead of him, diziness settling in. He leaned against another tree that still stood, hand on his head.

"Why do I feel so dizzy all of a sudden?" He let himself slide down. Soon enough, faint came and he passed out. He cursed himself as he slipped into unconciousness.

With Zabuza, Riley and Haku.

Haku and Riley trained while Zabuza watched, amused. No matter how much harder Haku tried to take her down, without hurting her, she came back with something of her own. There was no defeting this girl. But that was because Haku was going wrather easy on her. Soon, the two of them wore themselves out.

"I'm gonna...Go to the...hotsprings near by...Kay?" Riley managed in between breaths. abuza nodded as the young girl walked away and to the hotsprings.

"You know she's just as strong. There's no need to take it easy on her."

"Huh? But, Zabuza..."

"Don't underestimate this one. She's a cery strong girl and got most of her abilities from her mother."

"What was her mother like?"

"In all honesty, she wasn't really my sister. She lived in the neighboring village and was like a sister to me. But Kataki was a the most perfect girl. An angel. She would go the the water falls around midnight durring a full moon and dance. She looked like an angel from the heavens. I wanted to ask her, but Kakashi got to her first. It was killing me to know I had lost to someone like him. Kataki said yes, but remained to be like a sister to me. I hated her no less. Riley is a pitting image of her mother. The thing that disguted me about Kataki was that...she was a... She did things a woman shouldn't do to herself. Kakashi saved her from that as well."

"I see. I'm sorry, Zabuza."

"So, you should ask her before Sasuke or Naruto get to her." There was an awkward silence and then a scream.

"PERVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!" Mere seconds later, Riley ran back to the two, completely dressed. Itachi walked from the bushes mere seconds later.

"That. Little. Wench." He was soaked and had a knot forming on his head. She hid childishly behind Zabuza, sticking her tongue out.

"You deserved it for spying on me while I was bathing!" she snapped at him.

"I WAS NOT!" He was stooping to a childish level now. Riley laughed and ducked behind Zabuza completely. Zabuza laughed.

"Huh? Well, I'm here now. What did you wnat, Zabuza?"

"Itachi the weasel. Do me a favor."

"Depends."

"Take Riley off my hands for a while. I need to throw Kakashi off a bit."

"WHAT!" Both Riley and Itachi snapped.

"What do you mean you're sending me with this perv!"

"Riley, please. Do you want your father off your trail?"

"Yeah but,..."

"Okay then. Itachi?"

"Alright, I will. As long as she can put up a good fight. I need a good sparing partner."

"Better believe I am!" Riley exclaimed. That was that. They agreed and Riley went with Itachi.

A/N: Here's another chapter. Since it's Christmas, I'll try and update on a few more stories for you all. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

P.S. Happy New Year!