On a boat paddling to Wave.

There was an ominous mist getting denser the closer they got to the mainland. Team 7 and their charge were growing noticeably more uncomfortable by the minute.

"So, sensei. When does the enemy attack us like the sitting ducks we are? I mean, it's kinda useless for people who can walk across water to sit in a boat."

"Now now Naruto, you know we don't like exploring plotholes around here."

"Ah of course Sensei I forgot." Naruto hmmed. "We're in danger aren't we?"

"You guys are always in danger." Kakashi smiled.

All three Genin sweatdropped. It was true, Kakashi was a direct danger to their lives at all times. Why were they put on a team with this psycopath? Oh yeah, 'potential'.

The rowerman kept row row rowing his boat, he took a cursory glance at the group sat in front if him. An old drunk, a shock of silver hair and an overly emotive eye, a mop of blonde and the bluest eyes he'd ever seen, a black ducks ass, and... pink hair? How very strange.'What kind of weird ass kid dyes their hair pink, you not getting sttention at home?'.

Sakura sensing his eyes on her, more notably her hair started getting mad. "You wanna die rowerboy?"

"Uh... no?"

"Then look at the water and shut up."

"But I didn't..."

An eye

Staring

Rowerman looked to his left to see an eye curved into a smile. 'How is he doing that?'

"Ne, keep rowing and stop looking, okay?".

He just nodded his head and turned away. This was becoming far too much trouble for a simple smuggling trip.

30 Uneventful minutes later

The murky shores of Wave greeted them, in the distance they could see an absolutely gargantuan bridge, and faintly, ever so faintly, they hear what seems to be groaning.

"Oi what's that noise? Is it a ghost?" whimpered Naruto. He hated ghosts 'ttebayo!

"Oh that? That's the deformed drunk we keep under the bridge, he's commonly known as the 'troll of Wave' but his actual name is Uzu. Nobody knows why he lives there, probably the deformities."

"Ah okay."

Team 7 walked onwards, completely unfazed. If it wasn't Kakashi, it wasn't scary.

The further they walked inland the denser the mist got. At a certain stage it became difficult to see more than 10 feet in front of them.

"Yo, Sensei?"

"Yes Naruto-kun?"

"When is the comically evil bad guy gonna surprise attack us?"

"When we least expect it of course!"

Rustle*

"Fire style: Great Dragon!"

Where there was once a small forest, now all that remained was a charred rabbit corpse.

"Oi, Sasuke! Why'd Ya kill the rabbit?!"

"There was a man there, I could smell his eyebrowless face."

"Huh?!"

Even Kakashi looked at him weirdly, that was until he heard the whirling of a large cleaver.

"EVERYBODY DOWN!"

Sakura dragged Tazuna to the floor while Sasuke and Kakushi dropped to the floor. Meanwhile Naruto... Naruto jumped up and landed on the Zanbatou.

"WOOHOOO yo Kaka-sensei watch this!"

Naruto, in an amazing show of strength and flexibility grabbed the handle of the massive sword and pulled. He went from spinning in mid air to a spinning whirlwind of death. When Zabuza tried to land on his sword he was nearly bifurcated.

"Oi! What gives? Who took my sword?!"

"Eh? You mean this thing Jiji?"

"I AM NOT OLD!"

"Sure you aren't, I also can't see the grey hairs or the no eyebrows, don't worry Jiji this is a judgement free zone."

"Right, Gaki, give me my sword back or you die."

"Ne Kaka-sensei? Can he kill me?"

"Of course not Naruto, I'm here after all. Do me a favour and blow away this mist."

The air grew thick with chakra until Naruto shouted "Wind style: Great Breakthrough!"

"Ha, a little gust won't blow my mist away"

Naruto's overpowered jutsu immediately blew away all of the mist in the area, and some of the surrounding trees with it.

"????" Zabuza stood bewildered. This is not a situation he had trained for. Also is that Kakashi Hatake? His day had gone from bad to worse. Time to try the old fake it till you make it card.

"So Kakashi, hand over the bridge builder and no one gets hurt." He tried to make himself as intimidating as possible, to probably very little effect, Kakashi was a living legend.

"no." Kakashi smiled.

'hmm, today really hasn't been my day.'

"Can you at least tell your genin to give me back my sword so we can have a proper fight?"

"Hey Naruto?"

"Hai?"

"Don't give this idiot his sword back."

"Hai!"

"Oi Kakashi, are you some kind of coward? Do you want your genin to die? If they can even be considered genin. At their age I had already killed my entire class!" (insert unimpressive monologue about killing children here.)

"Oh is that all? I was only a jounin by that age, but hey I'm sure killing all those kids was difficult for someone of your calibre."

"I really will hurt your students Kakashi, stop being so foolish."

"Is that so? Naruto give this fool back his sword, Sensei is gonna teach you an impromptu lesson right now."

Naruto flung the sword at Zabuza. "Have it back browless. What's the lesson sensei?"

"I'm gonna show you how to take out the trash."

Zabuza caught his sword. "Are you sure you want to do this Kakashi? We're both listed as A-rank, even with your sharingan you're very likely to die here."

"My last known ranking was A-rank. That was 14 years ago, for trash like you I won't even need my sharingan. One piece of advice, try to keep up."

"Now kiddies, you're all gonna see how the grown ups fight. Don't blink, else you'll miss the whole show."

Zabuza moved to attack Kakashi while he was distracted. "Got you!" Kakashi brought down his cleaver across Kakashi's body and... missed?

"Have you?" He heard from behind him. Zabuza twisted his body and flung his sword around to take out Kakashi. It was too late. A kunai plunged into his chest and Zabuza fell to the ground only to disperse and splash into a puddle of water.

"Interesting, the man who calls me a coward sends a clone to fight me and hides with his tail in between his legs. Come Zabuza is your cause worth dying for? Prove your mettle or show your true colours and run, abandon your mission. Live to fight another day. You decide."

Bloodlust wafted in the air as the whole area got covered in mist again. "KAKASHI YOU'RE TESTING THE LIMITS OF MY PATIENCE. HAKU DEAL WITH THE KIDS, HATAKE IS MINE."

"Excellent, your bounty will easily cover the costs of running this team." Kakashi whispered. Zabuza should have just run while he could. His pride would lead to his death. "Team defensive formation around Tazuna. Take care of the unknown, lethal force authorised."

Zabuza came at Kakashi with all the speed and force of a freight train. He reached Kakashi in record time, his Zanbatou whirled in the air ready to cut Kakashi in half again, and again it didnt work.

Kakashi sinply moved. There was no sharingan or genjutsu tricks. This was just pure speed. 'Do I play with him for a little bit or end it immediately? Ah the author needs to try and hit 3k words better toy with him for a bit.'

Kakashi moved to Zabuzas side and slid an elbow into his ribs and followed up with a kick to the neck. Zabuza raised his sword just in time to block the kick but the elbow hurt, a lot.

Zabuza pushed Kakashi off of his sword and followed with an attack of his own. Twisting his hind leg he brought his other one into a violent roundhouse aimed at kakashi's ribs.

Kakashi watched as Zabuzas kick came towards him and at the last second pulled out a kunai to intercept Zabuzas foot. Seeing the imminent danger the ex-Kiri swordsman tried to pull his foot away, but it was already far too late. "GAH! OW goddamnit Kakashi why?!"

"I gave you your chance to run. Foolishly you came and fought, know that it was your pride that killed you and your apprentice today."

"I'm not dead yet Copycat! Show me that Sharingan of yours! I want your death to be the last thing you see!"

"Why waste such energy on a weakling like you. The only reason youre breathing right now is because your apprentice is being used as a measuring stick for my team."

Over by Team 7

"I apologise. My master is in trouble so unfortunately I'll have to kill you three, or you can surrender the bridgebuilder and this ends peacefully."

"Huh? you wanna die? punk."

"Hn."

"You know Kakashi is gonna be here soon right? Run while you can he's scary strong."

Haku was irked. She had given these genin the chance to go and they had told her she was in danger. Did her Kiri ANBU mask not worry them? They seemed more confident than she is.

"Please don't make me do this. Its easier for both parties if you just hand me th-"

"Fire Style: Great Fireball!"

"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!"

Haku looked up to see a wall of white hot flames come towards her at an extreme speed.

"Ice Style: Ice Wall!"

A huge wave of steam exploded outwards from the impact point. Haku was visibly sweating. Stopping that attack took a lot of chakra from her.

"Did we get her?"

"Doesn't look like it."

"Round 2?"

"Oi let me have some fun!" Sakura shouted

Sakura jumped into the air and spotted the ice wall Haku had put up. She channeled chakra to her legs and started twirling her body like a buzz saw towards the wall. She hit the ground with a thundering crash and a shockwave that blew Haku back.

Haku groaned as she pushed herself up. She was going to have to pull out all the stops to help Zabuza-Sama.

"You've left me no choice, I'm going to pull put all the stops. You should be impressed with yourselves, no one alive has seen this jutsu. It goes to show how-"

"Do you ever just shut up? My two teammates are gonna kill you now by the way."

"Huh?"

"Boo." She heard from behind her. She tried to turn but all of a sudden she was in a headlock. She raised her head forward into the eyes of the Uchiha. "Goodbye, Yuki-chan."

That was the last Haku saw as Sasuke drove a kunai into her heart.

"So... what now?"

"Naruto take the body over to Kakashi with one of your clones and be a distraction, the safest thing we can do is protect Tazuna for now."

"Hai Sakura-chan."

"Hn."

Back with Kakashi

"Special delivery!"

A body was thrown across the battlefield and rolled to a stop at Zabuza's feet. "...Haku? You... You killed Haku? YOU KILLED HAKU?! IT'S TIME TO DIE LITTLE GENIN."

"Excellent job Naruto, now close your eyes. This will be over very soon."

Zabuza turned to look over at Kakashi. All he saw was a bright flash and then he felt a pain in his gut. 'Huh?' Zabuza looked down to see Kakashi's hand sticking into his stomach and more than likely out of his back. 'I should have run.'

"Thanks for the extra money Zabuza-San. Naruto its okay to open your eyes now the big bad man is gone."

"Its alright sensei, I was only a clone anyway. I'll report back now."

The Naruto clone dispersed and Kakashi went over to check on the Kiri nin's corpse.

'A kunai to the heart, they grow up so fast' Kakashi thought fondly. Now, time to take heads and collect bounties.

With Team 7

"Kakashi is done with Zabuza, time to regroup he said we did a good job!"

"Alright lets make our way back to sensei, Tazuna you can reveal yourself now."

Tazuna came crawling out of a bush. "What do they feed you kids nowadays? That was crazy!"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Come on slowpoke we have to meet up with sensei again. After that point us in the direction of your house."

"Of course, of course. Time to move kiddies!"

Team 7 met back up with Kakashi.

"Yo sensei we're gonna crash at this dudes house."

"Excellent news, also I'm very proud of you all for how you dealt with the missing nin, none of you got hurt, and you managed to distract Zabuza, not that I needed it but you helped. Kinda."

"Thanks sensei!" All 3 genin shouted. This was the highest praise they'd gotten from Kakashi so they were going to enjoy it while they could.

"Now, onwards and upwards to Tazuna's house!"

"Hai!"

So that's the end of chapter 7, how do we feel about the fights? Sorry I haven't updated in a while but life has gotten hectic. I'm actually not sorry fuck you guys.

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