Authors Note: Back bitches, Well No long intro just read this shit and enjoy!
Today was the day. It was all going to happen, Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura were all ready but someone was missing. Sakura was the only one to notice as she looked around the room. "Where's the baka?" she asked curiously.
"Don't worry he's sleeping, he'll show up when we need him though so don't fret. Arashi you're coming with us Naruto can handle some lowly bandits." The one eyed man told Arashi as he sighed and nodded.
Ever since a few days ago Arashi has been listening to Kakashi's commands like he was in charge, and he has no idea why Naruto wants him to follow that man. He wasn't an Uzumaki but a lowly Hatake, and all they were good at was being thieves. He sighed as he nodded and grabbed his katana before heading out the door with everyone. With Tanzua behind the group everyone left towards the bridge.
As they neared the Bridge though they knew immediately what happened when they saw a thick mist, "Tanzua-sama, you did tell all your workers not to come in today, right?" Kakashi asked the man.
"Yes, but I can't be sure if they actually took the day off or not… For their sakes I hope they did," Tanzua answered fearfully.
"Arashi can you sense anything up there?" Kakashi asked, "The mist is too powerful for me to accurately sense any people in there, I am only aware of Zabuza because this is his jutsu" Kakashi stated as he waited for a reply from the enigma next to him. Kakashi was already aware of what was to happen today, and of Naruto's plan to stop Sasuke's activating of his sharingan. It was a risky plan, but he and Arashi would hold off Zabuza until Naruto woke up and got his ass to the bridge to stop Haku before the he/she did any real damage to Sasuke. It was a shame though, Sasuke had already managed to activate his sharingan, but no one had realized it besides Naruto, Sasuke and Arashi. For some reason the boy wasn't gloating about it or even asking Kakashi about it.
Kakashi looked over at Arashi as he saw him concentrate heavily on the mist in front of them before he sighed. "I apologize Kakashi-san but the mist is too thick and heavily coated with Zabuza's chakra I cannot sense anyone but him" he finally said after a few moments of heavy concentration.
Kakashi sighed, "Ok everyone follow my lead, Arashi stay hidden until I give you the signal Zabuza doesn't know about you yet and we're gonna use that to our advantage. Okay Squad 7 let's move out" Kakashi said as they jumped out onto the bridge.
Kakashi was on high alert as they treaded carefully onto the bridge trying to find Zabuza, but to his surprise Zabuza was sitting down on a corpse of a worker, he seemed bored until Kakashi and crew showed up. "Took you guys long enough, but what's this?" He quickly noticed who was missing. "My toy's missing, where's that little blond brat I wanted to fight him some more including after that fucking stunt with the clones. I hate to admit it but the number of clones actually did real damage to me but I'll make sure to let him get that pain back a hundredfold" Zabuza said, unknown to him though Arashi could hear everything and was seething in anger he wanted to jump out and kill Zabuza now for threatening his master's life. He could feel his blood boil underneath his skin as he tried to calm himself with slow breaths as he closed his eyes letting the fresh air enter his nostrils and leave his mouth. He stayed hidden as he watched the scene with full focus.
"Don't you worry about Naruto he'll be here when he's good and ready. For now your fight is with me" The man said as he raised his headband, "And I'm not holding back." He stated as he prepared to fight.
"Well you will do for now I guess, Haku come deal with these brats while I fight Kakashi" Zabuza yelled as she appeared by his side before charging Sakura.
Sakura wasn't ready as she felt a fist slam into her face, she could feel her nose break as her body bent flew backwards rolling into a pillar. As she crashed her breath was lost as she coughed out blood she could feel some of her ribs crack from the pressure of hitting the pillar. She slowly slipped into unconsciousness, the last thing she saw was Sasuke smirking.
Haku quickly turned towards the boy who charged her and quickly turned her body dodging a strike to her face before twisting her body a full 180 and slamming her foot into the side of his head. "Give up now or I'll kill you both" Haku said with no emotion following her voice while masking her gender by doing that.
Sasuke smirked again and slowly opened his eyes showing confidence, but he was overconfident. "Bring it on" He said before charging Haku who was confused as to why the boy's eyes were now red and black. He's faster was the first thought that came to mind as she dodged a punch and went to throw one in return. But was shocked as he caught it, but she quickly countered doing one handed hand seals to Sasuke's horror. "Ice release: A Thousand needles of Death" She said as her jutsu started to surround Sasuke. A ring of ice needles surrounded Sasuke, making the young boy stutter a silent curse as he was forced to let go of the ninja in front of him in order to dodge the attack. He just barely dodged the attack with a chakra enhanced jump backwards widening their gap by fifteen feet.
Sasuke smirked and quickly went through the hand seals to one of his most basic jutsu, "Fire style: Fireball Jutsu" he silently roared as he shot the ball of fire towards his enemy. While Haku was temporarily distracted by the jutsu Sasuke shot off full speed to get behind the boy, but when he got their Haku was nowhere to be found, sasuke cursed as he quickly moved so his own jutsu didn't hit him. As soon as he got out of the way though he felt exploding pain in the back of his right leg as he fell to the ground. Turning around he saw around ten senbon sticking down the back of his thigh. Gritting his teeth he quickly ripped them out but not before he got his teeth kicked in by Haku.
As Sasuke got up all he could say was, "Well fuck, maybe you'll be more of a match for me" He smirked before activating his sharingan to the other boys surprise.
At Tazuna's home…
"Inari go wake up Naruto his team must be getting worried about him he's been sleeping for a long time" Tsunami said as the boy nodded and got up to go wake the boy. But before he could get far a large crash was heard, Inari quickly hid behind the couch as he saw two grown men walk in with Katanas.
"Oh look at this pretty little bitch sitting here all nice and pretty for us, what do you think Genta" The first man asked his partner with a sadistic grin.
"Yea she looks all pretty and shit, but those clothes of hers seems to be in the way, why don't you take those off for us you little slut" Genta said as his hand gripped onto the hilt of his katana getting ready to draw it.
Tsunami quickly threw the knife in her hand at one of the men, "Fuck you" she yelled while quickly taking off into the living room to escape. The knife missed both men as they dodged it before they quickly got ahold of Tsunami due to their faster speed.
"Well that wasn't so nice of you, and here we are showing you hospitality and gracing you with ourselves and you try to hurt us. No, no, no that just won't do now will it Jenti" Genta said to his partner.
"Yea, now we're going to have to rip off those nice clothes before we have some fun for ourselves, then we'll kill you, find your kid and kill him, and then find your old man and kill him too." Jenti said with a grin as he reached out towards Tsunami's chest prepared to rip her shirt off.
Before his hand got close though, both men were knocked back, before they could even ask what happened they started freaking out as a deadly Ki was directed at them from a certain unknown blond ninja. "I swear to kami if you so much as try to touch her again I will make your death painful" Naruto said as he stared at the two men, his eyes red as he leaked out a small bit of Kurama's chakra to scare the men into submission.
"Wh-wh-what the fuck are you!?" Genta screamed in horror as he looked at the boy, no monster in front of him. The man had never felt fear like this in his life he was ready to kill himself just to stop being scared but he couldn't even move his body.
Jenti was a bit stronger though and stood up and said, "What the fuck c-can a little brat like you do" He said with a little bit of fear in his voice. "First I'm going to kill you, then rape that whore over their before killing her f-" He didn't get to finish his sentence as Naruto's fist crushed the man's throat at speeds no one in the room could follow
"I said" Naruto started as he kicked the man into the wall while he choked to breath, "That if you tried to touch her I would make your death painful, Tsunami take Inari and get out of here" the boy commanded. "He's behind the couch you guys don't want to see this" Naruto said as he calmly walked towards both men who were now crying in fear as the women nodded her head before running off to grab her child. As soon as Tsunami left Naruto got to work, he quickly killed Genta before turning his attention to Jenti. "Now you must not have noticed, but I gave you one warning and only one. Now I'm a reasonable man, I get this is kind of an emotional thing, but I'm a man of my words and I will shut this shit down" Naruto said before he grabbed the sheath of the man's sword. Jenti was confused as to why he would grab that and not the sword until Naruto swung it down onto his head with a lot of force. The first hit cracked his head open as Jenti hit the floor, the blood pouring from his head. He tried to sit back up and received another one, "Ho-ly shit." Naruto stated, "I hit you so hard your goddamn eyeball is falling out of your head" Naruto said with a grin before he kept slamming until all that was left was blood and two dead men. Naruto took a few minutes to calm himself own and stopped filtering Kurama's chakra before he made two clones to quickly clean the mess. Naruto walked outside and found Tsunami and Inari together holding each other.
"Why we're your eyes red" Tsunami asked still in shock.
"It's something I can't talk about… not now at least" Naruto said offering his hand to the woman and her child. She was hesitant at first but when she saw his cerulean blue eyes again she calmed a little and took his hand letting him help her up. Once Naruto helped the two to their feet he made two clones, "Take them somewhere safe, and don't let anyone hurt them" Naruto said. The clones nodded and picked them up and headed towards town. Now I need to hurry and get to the bridge before something happens to Zabuza and Haku, I took a little too long here, and I don't need them dying. With that final thought Naruto shot off full speed towards the bridge, but he just had that gut feeling. Something horrible was going to happen.
"Come on Kakashi is that all you got" Zabuza spoke as his voice projected through the mist towards the cyclops. Kakashi for the first time since his time in Anbu was worried, he didn't know if he'd be able to safely protect his students. He knew that for now Sakura was fine, mainly because she was unconscious, but still. Sasuke was another story, his chakra kept fluctuating and it wasn't doing any better yet. Kakashi sighed and made a secret signal with his hand before Zabuza swung his sword down at the man. "Now, now Kakashi this isn't time for jutsu, oh no just your death!" He screamed with glee as he swung his sword horizontally at Kakashi which was blocked with a kunai. Zabuza followed up his swing with a kick to Kakashi's chest knocking the man back but before he could finish the nin off Zabuza was attacked from behind with a head kick.
"Just in time Arashi-san you really saved my ass there, any later and I don't think I'd have made it." Kakashi admitted to the man as he stood by his side.
"Of course Kakashi-san I'm just doing as Naruto-sama instructed me to do which was to follow your orders" Arashi said with a monotone voice as if he were a root agent. It slightly shocked Kakashi but he didn't let it show as the two looked at Zabuza get up.
"So you brought a little friend for me huh Kakashi? I didn't know you wanted a little foreplay before the action, don't worry I'll be done with him soon, he should warm me up enough for you." Zabuza said jokingly as he got his sword ready to attack. Zabuza got into a stance as did Arashi while Kakashi prepped with a kunai, Arashi's covered in seals which caught both of the other male's attention but no one said anything. Zabuza charged the two down going after Arashi first like he stated he would he swiped his sword downwards at the man looking for a quick finish but was stopped by the man's own sword which blocked the strike. It was almost immediate Zabuza notice something was wrong but couldn't place it, until Arashi started swinging wildly at Zabuza and the man was forced to block with his sword, after a few blocks he noticed his sword was so heavy he couldn't even hold it and was forced to ditch it and watch it make a hole in the ground as he jumped back from the man's next slash.
Arashi grinned while the mist's demon stared him down, "What the hell did you do to my sword you bastard" Zabuza said through clenched teeth thoroughly pissed now.
"I've studied up on you quite a bit these last few days, and I've come to realize without your sword you aren't much of a ninja. Yes you have taijutsu, but you're adequate at best, and while you are quite strong in ninjutsu your reserves aren't that high, just above elite jounin, so you can only use so many jutsu for so long" Arashi said with a slight grin before he looked down at his sword. He showed off the fuinjutsu written all over the sword, "This here also is a special seal made by my old master, Kushina-sama back when I served under her. It's a weight se-"
"A weight seal, or better known as a Doubler seal, it doubles the weight of anything it hits, the more it hits it the more its weight gets doubled. Best used against Kenjutsu users. I know Kushina-sensei she taught me a few things years ago during the war and trained me for a few months before she went off with the yellow flash to more battles. I knew she couldn't stay forever but she did help me out for a while." Zabuza said surprising both men. He's the man that Kushina-sama taught!? Was the thought going through Kakashi's head. While Arashi was conflicted on what to do, he wanted to help bring down Zabuza for his new master's sake but at the same time Zabuza was the only other link to his old master and friend. It was nerve wracking, but before he could do anything Naruto appeared next to him.
"So Zabuza, you knew my mom huh? Well this will only make things more fun, but you really should take up my offer before I'm forced to hurt you ya know." Naruto said with a grin as he stared down Zabuza with a kunai out, also ready to fight. "Arashi check on Sasuke make sure he's not dead and if he needs help then help him out." Naruto said, he saw Arashi was about to protest and added, "I don't care about your fucking pride that man is my friend, Uchiha or not you will help him out, if he does not require your assistance then go and wait with Sakura by Tazuna-san me and Kakashi-sensei can finish things here." Naruto finished, the man just disappeared in a blur to check things out without giving an answer. Naruto made a clone to go follow Arashi and then help Sasuke after the man left him. "Now Zabuza back to my offer, what do you say?"
Zabuza didn't say anything and Naruto was staring at him intently trying to see what he was trying to do, he noticed that he was writing something down. Before he could figure out what was going on Zabuza took off much faster than he has before most likely to not having his sword with him. He quickly applied the counter seal to his sword which stopped the effects that were affecting his sword before picking it up out of the crater. Zabuza then looked over at Naruto, "It's time for that beat back now."
Naruto tsked and got ready for the fight, "Kakashi stay back for now and put up your sharingan to conserve chakra I don't need you right now. He wants me so I'll give him a fair fight, do not intervene unless I ask for your help. Make sure others don't see either they don't need to know about me yet." Naruto finished before quickly releasing his gravity seals and shooting off towards Zabuza stronger and faster. Naruto met the sword swinging maniac head on and blocked his sword with a kunai but was forced to the side when he saw Zabuza's leg come up for a kick. As Naruto got up he noticed too late the kick was a fluke and was forced to take a downwards head kick to his well.. his head. Naruto didn't have time to lie in pain as he sensed danger and quickly rolled to the side as he saw a sword land right where his head was.
"Come now Uzumaki aren't you stronger than this?! I saw the power you used at Gato's palace shower me that power prove you are better than me!" Zabuza screamed as he charged at Naruto going through one handed seals. Naruto saw what was happening and quickly flew through his own hand seals.
"Sution: Water Dragon Jutsu"
"Futon: Great Breakthrough"
The two yelled their jutsu's and waited for the result before the next attack. Zabuza had a huge dragon made of pure water from the ocean below making the attack stronger as it didn't need as much chakra, the dragon charged down the small child in front of it not seeing the invisible wind jutsu just shot off. Zabuza underestimating the attack of the wind jutsu kept the dragon going, but was greatly surprised when his dragon burst into water droplets as it was destroyed by the more powerful wind jutsu. Before he could counter attack though he was hit by the same jutsu that destroyed his dragon, it seemed to still have enough power to keep going and lifted Zabuza off the ground about a foot while throwing him backwards into the railing of the bridge severely cracking it. Naruto didn't stop there and quickly made a Rasengan in his right hand and took off towards the man hoping to get their before he could fight back. Naruto appeared in front of the man his rasengan powered down so as to not kill the man and said in his ear, "This is the power I've come to earn," before shoving the attack into Zabuza's stomach.
While all this was happening the fight with Sasuke, and the Naruto clone against Haku was coming to an end. Sasuke took the hit for 'Naruto' which put him in his death life state, 'Naruto' pretended to be heartbroken at watching his friend die. Sasuke called Naruto down and entrusted him his dream of killing Itachi telling him that his dream was now for Naruto to carry on because he was his only friend. Naruto waited until Sasuke finally lost consciousness, "You know my true power and yet chose to keep fighting when I showed up why is that?" The clone asked Haku waiting for 'his' answer.
"You know you could easily beat me and yet you haven't yet, you've been holding back a lot why is that?" Haku replied.
Naruto smirked before he dropped all emotions. Before Haku could even blink 'he' felt Naruto's fist slam through the ice mirror shattering it and at the same time knocking 'him' out. Naruto safely tied up Haku before so that the poor child wouldn't die needlessly. "Ok fuck it there's no way he's a he with those looks" Naruto said before he checked for himself. With a deep blush and grin Naruto dispelled himself after finding out the truth.
The real Naruto stopped for a second as a tinge of red hit his cheeks before he shook his head and muttering, "Baka clone." Naruto walked towards the barely conscious Zabuza, before he got to the man though he started to hear clapping.
"Good job you saved me a lot of work of having to finish him off" A voice rang through the ever thinning mist. Everyone's heads turned to make out the small form of Gato, "I have to say I didn't actually think Zabuza would actually lose to some leaf fuckers but I guess miracles happen." The tiny man yelled out as everyone waited to hear the man. Well not everyone.
"What the fuck do you want midget" Zabuza's voice rang out as he struggled to stand before Naruto rested a calm hand on his shoulder stopping him. Zabuza settled for sitting down as the reek of blood soon to be spilt filled his nostrils. A little trait he picked up from wielding the Kubikiribōchō (Decapitating Carving Knife) for so long.
"Oh so you're still alive? Well that shouldn't matter for too long I did bring my army, Hey boys whoever brings me the head of a Ninja gets an extra million ryo. Now get ou-" Gato's voice was cut short as the man started choking on his blood. Naruto wasn't in a waiting mood so he took kuni and faster than anyone could see slit the man's throat just deep enough to let the man die by choking on his own blood.
As Gato collapsed to the ground holding his neck as he was quickly covered in blood and was coughing it up a random minion yelled, "Get that blond fucker he killed our meal ticket!"
Everyone started to charge and Naruto did the only thing he could think of.. Run back to Kakashi, "Kakashi-sensei run!" Naruto yelled as the man facepalmed at the kids stupidity.
"And here I thought you were an army of a thousandfold" Kakashi yelled back hinting Naruto's favorite jutsu. Naruto stopped in his tracks and smiled rubbing the back of his head, "Oh yeah, thanks kaka-sensei!" Naruto rubbed the back of his head not realizing how stupid he was being. Naruto turned around facing the army of mercenaries, "Taju Kage Bunshin No Jutsu" Naruto yelled making an army of two hundred clones. He than strolled back to Kakashi whistling as the man sweat dropped at Naruto's antics. While this was going on Inari and the townspeople showed up on the bridge ready to fight just to see Naruto's clones beating the hell out of Gato's men and Gato on the ground choking on his blood on death's doors.
The towns people lowered their weapons while Naruto's clones did everything for them. While everything else was happening, Naruto retrieved Haku and brought her to Zabuza, the man was ready to lose it and attack thinking she was dead until Naruto stopped the man, "It's alright she's unconscious" Naruto said, calming the man down enough for him to sit down holding his side. That's when Naruto saw the blood, "Damnit Zabuza why didn't you tell me you were bleeding lie down now" Naruto said pushing him over to his back. He quickly took out some bandages and said, "Be careful I'm going to have to close this wound the only way I can and it will hurt" Naruto said before making a clone making sure it was ready. The clone covered it's hands in water and waited for the original, Naruto quickly shot out a weak fire jutsu burning the wound close before Zabuza could scream the clone applied water increasing the pain tenfold and that pushed Zabuza over the edge and he lost consciousness. As soon as the wound was closed Naruto warped up Zabuza's chest as Kakashi showed up.
"You did good today you know. I mean it your dad would be proud of you"
"My dad is proud of me, I know that much" Naruto smiled while thinking of his family, "He and mom couldn't be prouder of the man I was and am. Everything I do is to honor them. I know they're proud of me and I can't wait to meet him again but for now I'm doing my part and surviving. Come chunin exams, because I already know you will put us in their, I will be done holding back. Jiraiya will be the only person besides you who will find out the truth about me. No one else will if need be I will stop either one of you from telling people." Naruto said with seriousness in his voice.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes and thought deeply about the new responsibilities on his chest about knowing who Naruto is now. He sighed and accepted it, "Mah, whatever what I need to know is what do we do about these two?" Kakashi asked.
"We bring them to Konoha and they join our ranks, Haku will follow this man to the ends of the earth and I know he will join us now so he's going to come with us. For now let's take them to Tazuna's, Zabuza needs rest I injured him worse than I thought so he needs sleep and someone with medicine or medical ninjutsu." Naruto said as Kakashi just nodded and grabbed Zabuza.
"What are we going to do about Sasuke? His death will anger many people." Kakashi stated as Naruto began to laugh.
"He's not dead take out the senbon and he will wake up" Naruto said as Kakashi sighed in relief, but before they could turn around all they could hear was Sakura crying over her dead Sasuke-kun. "Lets let her think he's dead for a few more minutes though it'll be funny, Arashi you go look for medicine for Zabuza here and meet us at the house" Naruto said as the man disappeared.
Arashi hadn't been a round to long, but he wasn't sure how to feel about Naruto. Naruto was his master of course, and Naruto seemed legit when he said that he wanted to be friends. But something about the boy was off, he knew more then he showed, he was a lot stronger than he seemed. Everything about him was an enigma, but at the same time Arashi was so happy to be away from the island, and be with another Uzumaki that he didn't care. He would take it no matter how weird it was, so he put on an emotionless face and did as he was told, he just hoped Naruto wouldn't be the end of the Uzumaki, but instead the rebirth of them.
Naruto quickly made a clone and had it grab Haku while he walked over to Sasuke and Sakura. Before anything could happen she attacked Naruto, "If it wasn't for you he wouldn't be dead." She yelled with tears in her eyes. Naruto caught the punch and then slapped her. Hard. "Ok Sakura fucking stop. We are ninja's death happens now how about you stop acting like a child and stop putting blame on me, and you fucking do something about it. Stop being a weak useless bitch and get strong, unlike you I could actually fight and help out today what did you do? Fucking nothing just stood there like a scared child. I honestly don't know how you are a Ninja being like that." While Naruto was talking the clone took out enough of the senbon that was in Sasuke so the boy could wake up, "For fuck's sake Sakura you talk about me being useless but I do more than you, I train to get stronger, you worry about your looks like a civilian. God damn you need to get stronger," Naruto's clone popped out of existence and he got the memories back. He looked over past Sakura and saw Sasuke starting to come too. "Now be lucky that Sasuke isn't dead, hey teme get off your ass we're going back to Tanzua's" Naruto said. Sasuke just sat there wide eyed, "How am I alive? Did Naruto actually win… how strong is he? How is he stronger than me still! I have the sharingan but I'm still not strong enough. Ugh FUCK I will find out your secret dobe." Sasuke thought to himself as he let out a grunt and got up to his feet. Sakura ran over to Sasuke crying and hugging on him as he tried not to be annoyed by it. After some time had passed, everyone headed back home to relax for the day.
A few days later...
It had been a long few days Kakashi, Sakura, Sasuke, Zabuza, and Haku stayed at the house to rest and figure everything out. Meanwhile Naruto and Taznu finished up the bridge with whatever workers were still alive. Had Naruto not helped it would have taken another month, thanks to Naruto they finished it by the end of the week. Tanzua named the bridge after Naruto before wishing everyone a goodbye, like Naruto said Zabuza decided to join them. After the goodbyes the trek to Konoha started.
Author's note: Hey everyone! I do apologize for the long delay that's why i finished the fight this chapter and I promise i got some big shit coming in the next few chapters, if y'all got any ideas you want to throw my way feel free i may or may not incorporate them, anyways I hope you enjoyed until next time.
Update time 09/03/2019