Back again for another chapter. Go me!
This is an AU Alternate Universe. So not everything is exactly the same. Haku is alive, Zabuza rules over the Water country now. Fun stuff.
Warnings and Copyrights: I don't own Naruto. I only wish. I'm going with my gut and totally improvising everything.
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The sound of birds chirping nearby told him that he was still alive. Haku felt warm, and slightly trapped. He could feel that there was light wherever he was at, the warmth splashing across his face.
"You're looking much better now, Haku." A woman's voice said in relieved sort of way. Haku cracked his eyes open and looked to his right. A woman dressed in white sat in a chair. Haku took a moment to register what was going on before snapping up to a sitting position.
He gave the woman an odd look. Haku was in a bed, tucked in so tightly that if there was a fire, he was sure there would be no escape. The room he was in was bare except for the bed, a small table at the opposite wall and some chairs. Though there were three or four rooms, Haku enjoyed the light.
"You can come in, now! He's fine!" The woman called back to the door behind her. As if on cue, a blonde boy slammed the door open hard enough to impale the doorknob to the wall and rushed in. Within a second's notice he was spewing all sorts of questions at Haku.
"Haku! Are you okay! What happened to you! Did you walk all the way here? Are you hungry? I brought ramen, are you gonna have it?" Sakura and Sasuke followed the ball of energy into the room casually. Sakura wore a worried expression on her face as she entered the room but it quickly turned to aggrivation. Sasuke just stood there, calm as can be.
"Naruto!" Smack! A punch to his skull. "Leave him alone! He just woke up!"
"But Sakura-chan!" Sprawled on the floor between the bed and the nurse. The nurse stood up from where she sat, muttered something about coming back later and left the room with a chuckle.
Haku smiled softly at the three of them and veered his eyes over to Sasuke, the safest of the three to ask.
"What happened?" Sasuke responded calmly, his hands in his shorts' pockets. He moved aside, away from Sakura and Naruto for the time being.
"You were passed out at the front gates earlier." Naruto stood up and searched about the room for a bowl to eat his ramen in. Sakura quickly focused on Haku and Sasuke, calm and with a slight look of worry in her face once again.
"I see... You found me then, Sasuke?" Sasuke shook his head. Before Naruto could see that Sasuke would take the credit of finding their friend, which he wasn't going to in the first place, Naruto suddenly dashed to the side of Haku's bed again with ramen in his mouth.
"Nuh! I fown you." Slirpslirp.
"You did?" Haku looked surprised for a moment then smiles warmly at Naruto. Haku didn't mean to play favorites, but he liked Naruto out of the three the most. "I see. Thank you, Naruto-kun." Haku half bowed as he sat there in the bed.
"Nu prolem!" Naruto grinned and rubbed the back of his head in shied triumph and pride. Sakura nodded.
"Naruto freaked out when he found you. He was lucky we were around to call over the medic-nins." Naruto half glared and half choked on his ramen. He swallowed what was choking him. Haku laughed softly though he was very appreciative of their guestures.
"Thank you so much. Really. I'm relieved that the three of you haven't forgotten about me..." Haku looked down at his hands.
"Hey, Haku, don't worry about it! We're glad to have you around! If you're gonna stay for a while, we can train together! Yeah!" You could see that Naruto had that energetic flare back in his eyes.
"We wouldn't forget about you, Haku." Sakura added sincerely.
"What happened to you, Haku?" Sasuke inquired curiously at the Mist shinobi.
"Well-" Before Haku could respond, three ninja poofed into the room in their stealthy fashion of theirs. Gai, Kakashi and Anko, respectively. The four young ninja looked surprised as the adults stood by the opposite side of the bed and looked down at Haku.
"Oi, oi. We got things to talk to this kid about." Anko answered everyone's silent question. Kakashi nodded.
"Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke. Lee's outside, go see him." Kakashi said in his lazy but serious voice of his.
"Hmhm!" Gai laughed proudly. "That's right! Go meet with Lee! Perhaps even challenge my great pupil!" You could see that the fires of youth were making Gai-sensei proud again. Team seven left before Gai could have a chance to work himself up, Naruto taking some of Haku's uneaten foods with him. Kakashi made sure the students were well away from the room before he began.
"Now, Haku. Concerning the Water country..." Haku's face darkened. He once again became the dark tool Zabuza wished him to be.
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Thank you for the reviews! They've made me so happy! Here you are, the second chapter! I wanted to post it up earlier but I felt I was horribly out of character.. (sighs and worries) Please tell me what you think?