I Own Nothing.
I'm glad you guys liked my little plot twist last chapter, it was pretty good wasn't it.
I am the Kyuubi?! Zabuza Momochi!?
"Th-The-the Kyuubi no Kitsune," Naruto mimicked.
Kyuubi looked at Naruto as if he was an idiot. "No I'm your fairy-fucking-godmother."
"No need to get all huffy," Naruto said.
The Kyuubi growled and slammed one of its paws on the cage, although the bars didn't even shake, however the water inside and outside the cage was sent flying.
"Do not mock me, BOY!" The almighty Bijuu roared, its eyes snarling.
Naruto looked at the creature skeptically. "You can't hurt me can you? There's a seal preventing you from doing so."
Kyuubi growled.
Naruto smiled. "So I was right. Unless I go in that cage or get to close you can't exactly harm me. You're...wait…that would mean that you're sealed inside me, meaning this is my mindscape."
Kyuubi snorted. "My aren't you the perceptive one. Yes, this is your mindscape, and yes I am unfortunately sealed inside a weak runt like you."
"I wouldn't call myself weak."
"Sure, to a low level genin you and your Uchiha friend are pretty damn powerful. Yet compared to something like me, you're just trash not even worth scratching."
"What's that supposed to mean you damn fox?" Naruto roared.
"You know boy. Now, unless you have something important to say, GET OUT!"
Naruto growled and walked up to the cage, not close enough to be hit with Kyuubi's claws however.
"Look, since you're living in MY mind, don't you owe me or something," Naruto brazenly asked.
The Kyuubi looked at Naruto as if he was absurd, however there was something in his eyes, something akin to respect, although it was the least synonymous link to the word.
"It's not like I'm in here because I WANT to be. If I had a choice you wouldn't even have met me, hell, you wouldn't even know my name. That damned Fourth Hokage did this, not me, so blame your problems on him."
Naruto tilted his head. "What does the Fourth Hokage have to do with this?"
Kyuubi looked at him strangely, before it snorted. "I don't have to tell you jack kid. Go pester someone else."
Naruto growled. "What did you say to me you overgrown fuzz ball?!"
The Kyuubi turned its body away from Naruto, showing the boy his nine tails that slammed into the cages bars.
"I don't care about what you think brat. You're not even a speck of dirt on my claw, and until you reach that level, we have nothing to talk about, unless of course you're going to release the seal. Then you can do that, I'll devour you, and both of our problems will be solved."
"How would my problems be solved?" Naruto asked.
His response was silence.
"Hey I'm talking to you!"
More silence.
"Damn fuzz ball," Naruto said, kicking the cages gates. However, the second he did so he came face-to-face with a claw and a snarling face, along with a burning crimson orb.
"Don't ever call me that. I'm not familiar with you, nor have I accepted you as someone worthy to talk to me, I could kill you if I so desired. Take one more step forward and I'll slice off your head."
Naruto backed away afraid of the fox in his gut that looked at him as if it wanted to devour him whole after spilling his insides. He fell on his bottom, looking at the Kyuubi with eyes full of fear.
"What are you," Naruto mumbled as his body began to fade.
"A Bijuu." Was his response before he disappeared.
XxX
Naruto awoke with a start, still thinking he was in his mindscape before a hand laid itself on his shoulder. Naruto looked up to see Kakashi eye-smiling down on him.
"Kakashi-sensei," Naruto asked.
"Welcome back Naruto," Kakashi said, before he sat down next to the boy. "Are you feeling alright?"
"I'm feeling fine, slightly light-headed, but fine."
Kakashi nodded before he went back to his own thoughts before patting Naruto's head. "That's good Naruto."
Naruto looked at Kakashi, wondering what was going on and why he was acting strange. He looked towards Sakura and Sasuke to ask, however he was meant with the familiar glares. The glares that haunted his dreams at night time, the glares the villagers gave him.
Naruto's eyes widened as he saw those eyes. He didn't know why, but now Sakura and Sasuke gave him that look. He didn't like it. They looked at him like the rest of them, like the rest of the villagers. At least, that was what he would think if he hadn't met the Kyuubi. He now knew why, it was because the Kyuubi was sealed inside him. They, the villagers and now quite possibly Sakura and Sasuke, thought he was the Kyuubi. That only left him one question. What had he done when the Kyuubi had supposedly took control of his body? At least that was what he assumed. After seeing Kakashi be torn to shreds he couldn't remember anything other than meeting the Kyuubi. Speaking of which…
"How are you alive," Naruto asked, looking at Kakashi.
"Kawarimi (Body Replacement Technique)."
Naruto nodded, before looking back at Sakura and Sasuke, who still glared at him. However, their glares were soon joined by Tazuna's, whose was even crueler as he had never known Naruto on a personal level, so he knew nothing of how Naruto normally was; therefore he had nothing to base his opinions on and thus could, and undoubtedly would, be crueler towards Naruto because of it.
"S-Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked, reaching out slowly.
She shrieked and slapped his hand away. "Stay away from me!"
Naruto snatched his hand backwards and looked at Sakura with a hurt expression on his face. Naruto turned his gaze to Sasuke, who admittedly didn't flinch as Sakura had, but once Naruto extended his hand Sasuke reached towards his kunai pouch. Naruto frowned and looked at the nearby water under the boat, looking hurt. That expression was what made Kakashi feel pity, and it even slightly shook Sasuke's resolve, after all, he had seen a similar look himself.
"Quiet down girl," said the driver of the boat. "We don't want Gato to hear us."
Sakura nodded, although she crept further away from Naruto.
XxX
As the group walked through the marsh Kakashi walked over to Tazuna.
"Tazuna, where exactly is your house? We will need to know as undoubtedly higher level ninja will be after you."
Tazuna nodded. "It's in a village near here, a couple more miles."
However, before Kakashi could respond Naruto threw a kunai at a nearby bush. This action caused everyone to jump, and even made Sakura glare at him with hatred.
Naruto tried to ignore her, although anyway could see the poorly hidden sadness in his eyes, and walked over to the bush. He pulled away the leaves to see a shaking white rabbit.
"Baka!" Sakura screeched. "It was just a rabbit, you probably acted like you were in the mood to kill something again," Sakura hissed.
Naruto stood their frozen. He had killed. He had killed, under the Kyuubi's influence, but he had still killed. Naruto stood their frozen and looking at his hands, a horrified look on his face. While they may have looked clean to anyone who looked at them, to him they were covered in blood. They were crawling in it. His nails were red and blood flowed freely on his clothes. Naruto screamed, falling on his hands and a horrified look on his face.
Kakashi sighed and glared at Sakura, who stood their not understanding what she had done. Kakashi walked up to Naruto and put his hand on his shoulder. With that one simply gesture Naruto sat their on the ground, tears flowing from his eyes. He was bawling, and no one knew exactly what to say, that was until Sasuke looked closer at the rabbit that had actually come up to Naruto's leg and began nuzzling him in a sign of comfort.
"Wait, those types of rabbits don't live here normally. The colors off, and it's not winter yet, which means…" Sasuke let the sentence drag out.
"Substitution!" Kakashi hissed, grabbing Naruto and Tazuna before pulling them to the ground.
"Get down!"
Sakura and Sasuke shot to the ground as a massive cleaver flew over their heads before embedding itself in a tree. A figure jumped onto the cleaver. The figure was tall and noticeably muscular with pale skin, short spiky black hair, brown eyes, and small eyebrows. The figure was undoubtedly male. He wore a mask made of bandages over the bottom half of his face. He wore a forehead protector that had a slash through it the sign of a rogue ninja, which was sideways on his head. The man was shirtless, with his chest only covered by a belt to which he attached the cleaver when he wasn't suing it, wearing baggy pants with the striped pattern that was typical of a Kirigakure ninja and mimetic wrist-warmers that extended up to his elbows, with matching leg-warmers.
The blade he held was an intimidating sight without him. It had two cut outs, a circle close to the top and a semi-circular one nearer to the handle, that made the sword look like it was for decapitation. It had a notch that allowed a strap to be wrapped around the weapon, making it easier to carry, as if looked exceedingly heavy. It had an extremely long handle which was also detachable to further aid transportation and could reattach for combat.
"Who are you," Sasuke asked, however his nerves were unprepared for Kakashi to start leaking massive amounts of killer intent.
"Sakura, Sasuke, Naruto, get into formation."
Sasuke and Sakura immediately jumped into the formation around the bridge builder, although they were nervous when Naruto appeared on their side, not only for the fact he could be taken over by the Kyuubi, but also because he was still shaking.
"Zabuza Momochi, or would you prefer to be called the 'Kirigakure no Kijin' (Demon of the Hidden Mist?)" Kakashi asked.
"I don't really care, Kakashi Hatake, otherwise known as, 'Sharingan no Kakashi (Kakashi of the Sharingan,)' or, 'Kopi Ninja no Kakashi (Copy Ninja Kakashi.)'"
"Why are you here?" Kakashi asked.
"I think you know. I'm here for the bridge builder."
"A man like you is working under scum like Gato?"
Zabuza shrugged.
Kakashi got it then. "He protects you from the hunter-nin that are after you, doesn't he?"
Zabuza just hopped of the sword, yanking it from the tree on his way towards the ground before landing easily. "Kirigakure no Jutsu (Ninja Art: Hidden Mist Jutsu)."
Kakashi growled and grabbed his forehead protector as mist began to roll in, cloaking the area.
"Oh, so I get to see it, the famous Sharingan, used by the man who wields 1,000 jutsu."
Sasuke paused at that. Kakashi had the Sharingan? Impossible. The Sharingan was only able to be manifested in Uchiha; someone who wasn't in the clan shouldn't be able to use it. The only logical explanation if that man was telling the truth was that Kakashi…was a long lost Uchiha clan member. Meaning, that Sasuke had family still, he wasn't the last Uchiha.
"The Sharingan," Sasuke whispered before his body froze all thoughts of his dojutsu forgotten. He felt it now. The killing intent of the two jonin level ninja. It was intense, two intense for him to handle. They were clashing ferociously, and he just couldn't bear it. The killing intent was too high, pressuring him to much. Sasuke drew a kunai and began to slowly bring it towards his neck. Death would be so much simpler.
A laugh echoed through the air. "Look at the boy Kakashi. He's basically pissing his pants. If anyone I thought it would be the blonde brat, but the raven haired one is pathetic."
Kakashi narrowed his eyes.
"Eight points. Lungs, liver, larynx, jugular vein, spine, collar bone, kidney, heart, which will be my kill point?"
Sasuke reared the kunai back preparing to jab it into his neck.
"Sasuke calm down," Kakashi ordered. "I won't allow my comrades to die. I'll protect you with my life. Trust me."
"Are you so sure, Kakashi," Zabuza said, appearing between the genin of Team 7 with his sword drawn.
Naruto reacted instantly, swinging a kunai directly at Zabuza's head. However, Sasuke jumped backwards, pulling away Tazuna and Sakura. Zabuza blocked the strike with his sword before kicking Naruto in the chest, sending him flying towards a tree. Naruto coughed before he impacted with the tree. That kick was strong, and it had hurt a lot.
Kakashi pulled up his headband immediately and channeled chakra through his body, blowing away part of the mist. That was when everyone saw it, the Sharingan in Kakashi's left eye, with three tomoi spinning in it.
"The famous Sharingan," Zabuza said.
"What is this Sharingan?" Naruto asked. "Everyone keeps saying it but I have no idea what the hell it is."
"The Sharingan," Sasuke said. "A rare power, that resides in the eyes. The user of the visual jutsu can instantly see and comprehend any genjutsu, ninjutsu, or taijutsu and reflect the attack back on the attacker. The Sharingan is a special, rare form of dojutsu. However, there is more to the Sharingan than that, a hell of a lot more."
"You got it right boy, but you only scratched the surface." Zabuza said. "Sharingan can analyze an opponent's technique, and then copy it to the smallest detail."
"Team 7 stay out of this fight," Kakashi called before launching three kunai at Zabuza. The rogue ninja blocked the kunai before charging Kakashi. He tried to slash him; however Kakashi jumped over the attack and lashed out with a kunai that pierced Zabuza's neck. A liquid splattered all over the ground.
It was water.
'Mizu Bunshin (Water Clone).' Naruto thought as the water splattered over the battlefield.
Naruto decided to take this chance to sprint back over to his squad, although he saw their visible flinch and glare when he stopped next to them.
A shadow appeared behind Kakashi as the Zabuza in front of him exploded into water, surprising Kakashi. The shadow cleared to show Zabuza, swinging his sword to bisect Kakashi.
"Die!"
The attack swung true, cutting Kakashi in half and splattering more liquid onto the ground. However, it was clear as day that this Kakashi was also a Mizu Bunshin (Water Clone) as the body of Kakashi exploded into water.
Kakashi had instantaneously copied Zabuza's jutsu and used it against him.
'He saw through my illusion and copied it in an instant. He must be quite skilled with the Sharingan to do that, as usually the jutsu hinders the Sharingan's abilities.' Zabuza thought as he turned around, however it was too late.
"You're finished," Kakashi said as he put a kunai to Zabuza's neck.
Zabuza chuckled ominously. "Finished. You don't get it do you. I'll never be defeated by a mere copy-cat ninja like you. Nice try."
The Zabuza in front of Kakashi exploded into water before another appeared from behind him, sword at the ready.
"I'm not that easy to fool!"
Zabuza swung his sword quickly, however Kakashi managed to duck under the strike without losing a hair. Zabuza slammed his sword in the ground before launching a powerful side kick directly at the still recovering Kakashi, who because of the fact he didn't have time to recover from his dodge, was sent flying from the kick. Zabuza smirked, not that you could see it, before he grabbed his sword and chased after Kakashi, preparing to kill him. He stopped quickly however as he noticed something shiny on the ground.
"Makabishi spikes, nice try. Slowing me down won't work though."
Kakashi impacted with the field of water in front of them, and Zabuza growled before flipping into the water himself. Kakashi surfaced slowly, taking quick examination of his surroundings.
'This water, it's so dense, so heavy.' Kakashi thought, however his thinking time was interrupted as Zabuza appeared behind him his hands going through a jutsu.
"Suirō no Jutsu (Water Prison Technique)!"
Zabuza put one arm near Kakashi's head as a sphere of water shot upwards an encased Kakashi.
"An inescapable prison of water Kakashi, how will you survive? This prison is made of water, but harder than steel. It's hard to fight when you can't move. Now, onto your little friends. Mizu Bunsen (Water Clone Jutsu)!"
Water rose up next to Zabuza forming a water-made clone of him. The clone walked towards Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, before stepping onto dry land and stopping.
"You think wearing a headband makes you a ninja? When you've hovered between life and death so many times that it doesn't faze you, you may be called a ninja. When you've become so deadly that your profile has been entered into my bingo book, then you may have earned the title ninja. But to call upstarts like you ninja is a joke. You're just brats."
Zabuza disappeared, reappearing in front of the trio before swing his sword, the blunt side of it, towards them and sending the three flying, however Sasuke grabbed onto Tazuna at the last moment, saving the bridge builders life.
"I think I'll play with you for a while," Zabuza said as he walked towards them again.
"Run!" Kakashi said. "This battle ended the moment I got caught. He's using power to keep me locked in this prison, so he can only fight with that clone. But, the clone can't go far from the real body, so run!"
'Running will lead to our deaths. You're right this battle ended when you go caught. So let's start another,' Sasuke thought before charging Zabuza and launching shuriken at him.
Zabuza just growled in annoyance before batting the shuriken away with his sword. However, before Zabuza could see again Sasuke jumped in the air, coming down on top of him but Zabuza had expected this.
"Easy," Zabuza thought, grabbing Sasuke's throat the second the boy yelled out one name.
"Naruto!"
Zabuza threw Sasuke just as another boy, Naruto, appeared right next to him, hand aiming for his gut.
"Fuinjutsu: Mahi Shiru (Sealing Technique: Paralysis Seal)!"
Zabuza easily dodged the strike before kicking Naruto into Sasuke's body, sending both of them flying into a tree.
"Sasuke! Naruto!" Sakura yelled, although she herself couldn't believe what she had said. Naruto was a monster; at least, that's what he had looked like when he killed those two others with a grin on his face. Yet, she knew Naruto, at least slightly, and got to know him better over the time she spent in Team 7. Sakura mentally slapped herself. Naruto, Naruto wasn't who did that to those two, he couldn't have been. From the look in his eyes each time he was called a demon by her, or when he cried when she said he had killed him…you couldn't fake those looks. They were too pure, to filled with emotion that nobody could fake. Whatever…demon…had possessed Naruto to do those acts earlier…it wasn't him. She couldn't…no…she wouldn't accept that. Naruto was her ally, her teammate; no…he was quickly becoming her friend.
Naruto and Sasuke stood up, however Naruto took a couple steps forward and drew a kunai before pointing it at Zabuza. This action surprised not only Sasuke, who was preparing to launch another attack at Zabuza, but also Tazuna and Sakura.
"Hey you, the freak with no eyebrows. Put this in your bingo book, 'The ninja that will become Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves….he never backs down! His name's Naruto Uzumaki!'"
Zabuza just chuckled, but anyone could see Naruto was dead serious.
'Maybe I misjudged this kid,' Tazuna thought.
'There's the old Naruto. Whatever possessed him is gone, the real Naruto is back. Let's show Zabuza that. Besides, once Naruto himself figures out what possessed him, I'm sure he'll tell us.' Sasuke thought as he too drew a kunai.
"Sakura, stay back, Naruto and I will handle this."
"Alright guys, let's get wild!" Naruto roared.
"Big words for a little man, you think you can play my game?" Zabuza asked.
Naruto smirked. "Your game? Sorry, but you're playing ours."
Zabuza burst into laughter. "You really haven't learned anything have you? Still playing your little game, pretending to be ninja. When I was your age, this hand had already crushed many opponents."
"Zabuza, The Demon of the Mist," Kakashi said.
Zabuza chuckled. "I'm honored. I was in your bingo book after all; truly it warms my nonexistent heart."
"Long ago," Kakashi began. "In Kirigakure, also known as Blood Mist Village, before a student could become a ninja there was one final test."
"You know about the graduation exam?" Zabuza said.
Naruto looked confused. "So, we had graduation exams too."
Zabuza chuckled again. "Did you have to kill the other students to pass?"
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all paled.
"Imagine it. Young ninja like you, eating together, training together, and then comes the final exam, when you change the rules. Kill or be killed. You can't stop while you opponent still breathes. He was your friend, he shared your dreams! But now, he was a threat."
"Ten years ago," Kakashi said. "The graduation exam…changed. One year before a dark evil filled the school with terror."
"What terror?" Sakura asked. "What evil?"
"Without pause or hesitation, a young boy who wasn't even a ninja, approached the class and took down over 100 other students."
"It," Zabuza said. "It felt so…GOOD!"
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all paled, realizing what Kakashi meant. Zabuza was that boy; he was a true-blood killer.
"You're nothing."
Naruto growled and charged. "Whatever. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique)!"
Multiple Naruto's appeared from thin air, surrounding Zabuza, and causing him to raise one of his ridiculously small eyebrows.
'Shadow clones in these numbers? Impressive.'
The clones drew a massive amount of shuriken before launching them at Zabuza, followed by an armada of smoke pellets. While Zabuza either blocked or avoided the shuriken that bombarded him from both sides, the pellets soon obscured his vision, not that it mattered.
"I'm used to fighting without sight boy!" Zabuza roared.
Naruto smirked as he came down from the sky and Sasuke came at Zabuza from the front.
"Fuuton: Kuki no Uzu (Wind Release: Air Vortex)!"
Naruto flew through the handseals before slamming his hand on his stomach, basically vomiting up the ever-growing ball of air.
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)!" Sasuke roared, sending the spiraling ball of flames towards the ball of smoke.
Naruto however wasn't done, and threw something into the air vortex that it shredded before continuing on its merry way. The vortex and ball of flame impacted with the smoke cloud at the same time, causing a massive explosion of fire. However, the attack didn't stop there and it pushed through the cloud, headed directly towards Zabuza.
'Shit,' the man thought as he felt his clone collapse. 'I can't stop that without using two hands!'
Zabuza pulled his hand from the watery prison before flowing through handseals. However, that didn't happen as Kakashi kicked Zabuza before diving underwater as the firestorm reached the lake. A massive explosion of steam occurred, hiding the battle from view.
As the steam cleared it showed the lake that used to exist gone, revealing Zabuza who was lying against a tree and Kakashi who was sitting before the man, kunai to his neck.
"Game over."
"Damn," Zabuza thought thinking back on what happened.
As soon as he had landed from Kakashi's kick two kunai slammed into his back before he was kicked into a tree and chained to it with kunai. Kakashi then slammed his head back on the tree, stunning him before putting a kunai at his neck.
Two senbon flew through the air, impacting with Zabuza's neck.
Kakashi looked up at the perpetrator, glaring at him suspiciously before realizing the uniform the person wore. The person had long black hair, pale skin and large, dark-brown eyes, a slender frame, and looked to be short for his age, which looked to be around Sasuke's. The person wore a standard Kirigakure pinstriped outfit which stopped at their knees. Over that they wore a green haori with white trimmings, and around their waist there was a brown sash with a fringed trail wrapped around his waist twice. They wore light-brown platoon sandals with straps in the same color as their kimono and nail polish on their fingernails and toenails in matching blue-green color. There was a black forehead protector with the Kirigakure symbol on it, and there was a hunter-nin mask on their face.
"Ah, a hunter-nin. I assume you are here for Zabuza," Kakashi asked.
The hunter-nin nodded. "I must thank you. I have been hunting him for awhile now, and you defeating him made my job much easier."
Kakashi nodded. "Glad to help."
The hunter-nin jumped down from the tree they were perched on before lifting up Zabuza's body onto their back.
"I will be leaving now."
With that the hunter-nin disappeared. Kakashi smiled at that before putting his headband back over his now-closed left eye that contained his Sharingan.
"Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Taz-" his sentence ended as he fell to the ground unconscious.
Tazuna, Sasuke, and Sakura looked at each other strangely. They then looked at Sasuke, as he had the most knowledge out of the group on the Sharingan.
"The Sharingan is meant for those who are part of the Uchiha clan, my clan. From the fact it wasn't in both eyes its obvious Kakashi is not part of my clan. Therefore, the strain he must go through when using it must be great and thus he must rest after using it, as his body isn't used to the strain."
The trio nodded accepting it before Naruto made shadow clones to carry Kakashi.
"Let's get going Tazuna. We don't want to stay out here for long."
Tazuna nodded and began to lead the way, followed by Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, who were still quite perplexed by the enigma their sensei truly was.
Hey guys it's Kuma Akuma. I hope you guys liked this chapter, as it took freaking forever to type. Anyways, a little insight on Zabuza's past, along with development with Sasuke, Sakura, and Tazuna with them starting to think more positively of Naruto. Their development on that is still not over though however, they have a lot more to do in that department. Also, I hope how you liked how I changed the last part of the battle, as the first part was basically the anime and manga all over again. I didn't really feel the need to change that part. However, things are getting interesting, and you can be expecting a lot more Kyuubi in the upcoming times.
Also, on that note I would like to say I've changed Kyuubi. He won't be manipulative, he'll just be untrusting, defiant, rude, cruel, an uptight asshole...an uptight asshole...did I mention an uptight asshole. Oh yeah, I did. But, he will be worse than the anime and manga Kyuubi in some aspects, in other aspects he won't. He also does not know Naruto's parents, kinda. He knows Kushina is Naruto's mom. He doesn't know Minato is Naruto's father. He just knows that Minato is involved with Naruto.
That's really all, except continue sending in OCs and go vote on my poll. See you guys later, and avoid the Earl.