biofan09: Not to the level of some fanfics. Just a darker look on life. You just saw some of the reason why in this chapter actually. Also, Naruto and Kurama will end up as friends.

Dark Serpent Cat: Thanks for the tip, I know where I'm headed for my next birthday. Also, I will not be giving him the chakra chains or mokuton, although that's a good idea. I might do that for a different Naruto fanfic. Also in the manga it's just talking about will, at least that's how I interpreted it, not gene's, and Naruto isn't directly related to Hashirama, he's not actually really related to him by blood at all, unless you go really far back and that's just to much work.

Foxfan: I'm not revealing what happened to Haku. Also, I'm gonna reveal it cause I have no point to hide it, there will be two Chunin Exam arcs. The first in Konoha, the second in, you didn't guess it, Iwa. Yeah, I can't wait...eheheheh. The second one is when I'll introduce new people. The first is almost all the same people with one added in team. And some battle changes.

Chewie Cookies: Am I just realizing how awesome cookies that are soft are? Like I ate one very recently and was like, "I MUST HAVE MORE!" I'm so dumb, hahaha, I have no life. Anyways...I don't care about the wire-tapped house, JUST LET ME SEE DA MONKEYS PLEEEEASE!

Courage! Goodbyes!

Naruto's eyes widened as he saw the short man walking towards them with a large mass of people behind his back. "No way," Naruto whispered, seeing all of them. "So many people." Naruto said. Kakashi's eye's widened and began to prepare himself for combat, as did Naruto, and Sasuke.

"Careful," Tazuna said. "That's Gato," he said, pointing to the short man. Naruto growled. "Good. I'll rip him apart." Naruto prepared to start the assault, however Gato stepped forward, a smile on his face. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," Gato said, smiling. Kakashi frowned, looking at Gato as if he were an idiot. Even with this amount of thugs all of them combined could defeat them. Hell, he could probably beat them by himself. So could Naruto, but that was more to the jutsu he knew.

Gato smiled and waved his hand. The thugs threw forward a person and a sack. Tazuna's eyes widened before they narrowed with unfathomable anger. "Tsunami!" he roared, looking at his daughter who was tied and bound in rope. Her throat was constricted, as were her mouth, wrists, and ankles. Lastly, there were vast amounts of tears flowing down her face, as if she had seen something horrible. As if she had lost something, or someone, precious to her.

"Let her go!' Tazuna roared, his eyes filled with hatred.

Gato smiled. "Oh, I will, if you do what I ask."

Tazuna growled taking a step forward, but Kakashi put his hand back, stopping him from insinuating a death charge, for him at least. Gato frowned. "Well, I in case you did act like an idiot I did have some extra motivation for you to listen to me

Gato smiled, and waved his hands again. One of the thugs came over to the sack and smiled, unsheathing his blade. Everyone tensed, their eyes, and bodies completely focused on what could be inside the sack. It wasn't moving, but it was definitely decently sized from the swell in it. There were two of them too, although one was significantly smaller than the other. The thug swung his sword downwards, cutting open the sack and letting the contents spill out onto the bridge ground. What was in it made all the genin retch, and Tazuna's eyes to give mad with anger, no, pure, deserved, hate.

It was Inari's decapitated body, with his head not so far behind it.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes, actually having to hold Tazuna back as the man screamed bloody murder and tried to bully Kakashi away, yelling at the man for stopping him. When the genin finished retching they glared at the laughing Gato. This man, no, he wasn't a man, he was more of a demon in human form. Naruto immediately jumped into action, charging Gato and his thugs. They all smiled.

"Naruto no!" Kakashi yelled, but in his moment of distraction Tazuna brushed past him, charging them with Naruto.

They halted immediately.

The same thug that had revealed Inari to them had his blade to Tsunami and was slowly, but surely, defiling her body, in front of them. Sakura stood wide-eyed, unable to take her eyes away from the sight. Sasuke cursed and stood in front of her, hiding it from her sight. It was then that she snapped out of it and began to cry. Sasuke turned around and put a hand on her shoulder, although he was looking at Gato, Sharingan spinning wildly. Naruto was having a mental debate. He was debating charging and killing Gato and the thug, but he knew he wouldn't make it in time to stop them from killing Tsunami, and he didn't know the Shunshin (Body Flicker).

Kakashi cursed under his breath. He couldn't believe he had been so blind. He now realized he shouldn't have brought everyone to the bridge. He should have left someone at Tazuna's house, to guard them. He just never thought Gato would steep so low, despite the rumors he had heard and some of which he had seen to be true. He stopped thinking so heavily however; as Gato began to make demands, mostly along the lines of destroy the bridge.

'I'll have to be quick. And hopefully they'll react in time,' Kakashi thought as he began to build up chakra. He disappeared in a puff of smoke. Gato's eyes widened as the thug wielding Tsunami was knocked to the ground with a palm strike, before Kakashi grabbed her, and the body of Inari, before jumping away from the thugs who had begun to attack.

"Now Naruto!" he called.

"Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Multiple Shadow Clone Technique)!"

Hundreds of clones sprang from anywhere in sight, on the water, on the bridge, hell even behind the thugs. Naruto growled and raised his fist. "You guys know what to do!" he roared, and charged. Sasuke joined in, as did Kakashi and Tazuna. Sakura stood back, helping Tsunami from her bonds. She then looked at the battle, whispered a quick goodbye to Tsunami, and joined in.

Needless to say what ensued was a bloodbath. Kakashi, Naruto, even Tazuna, Sasuke, and Sakura slaughtered their enemies. They all killed, either with fists, weapons, or jutsu. When the bloodbath ended, only Gato was left alive, and they were all covered in blood, none of which was their own. Tazuna was dangling Gato over the edge of the bridge, with one hand.

"You're filthy fucking trash! You killed my boy! You killed my boy and nearly killed and raped my daughter!" Tazuna kept repeating as he slammed blow after blow in Gato's face. Gato tried to defend himself, Tazuna punched that arm.

"Please, have mercy," Gato mumbled out. Tazuna's eyes widened with rage. "Mercy! Mercy! You killed my grandson! You nearly raped and killed my daughter! You defiled my village! And you have the nerve to ask mercy! Did you ever show US any mercy?" Tazuna said, slamming another blow in Gato's neck.

"P-P-Please, f-forgive me," Gato said, trying his hardest to get out of his current predicament.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, the latter two of the three were still being comforted by Kakashi as they had just killed for the first time; all changed their opinions of Gato then and there. He wasn't a demon. He was a coward, scum, worse than trash, the lowest of the lowest of the low. They would have no quarrels if Tazuna killed him.

Tazuna slammed blow after blow into Gato, the man sputtering up blood. Tazuna was delivering his own form of vengeance, and he was going to make the man suffer ten times the price he had suffered ever since Gato had come to Nami.

"F-Father," Tsunami stumbled out, seeing her father commit horrendous acts. Tazuna froze, however as he froze he accidentally dropped Gato into the water. The man did not resurface.

Tazuna ignored that though, looking at Tsunami with wide eyes. "I'm…I'm sorry Tsunami…you shouldn't have had to see that," he said.

Tsunami shook her head and ran to her father, crying a mumbling about Inari. Tazuna too cried, and held his daughter tightly. Team 7 watched them with sadness, with nothing but disgrace on their faces. They had failed them. They're family had died because they were incompetent.

"Don't look so down," Tazuna said, tears still on his face. The squad looked up, and he smiled to them, although they could tell it was forced. "I don't blame you. Neither does Tsunami. You did the best you could."

The squad looked at the ground in shame. Even if he did mean it didn't deny the truth. Inari had died because they have been overconfident; they hadn't calculated all the angles. They just thought they would win in the end.

'If only I was stronger…then this wouldn't have happened,' Naruto thought.

'I failed them…' Kakashi thought.

'I had them experience what I had too. I don't want anyone to ever feel like that again!' Sasuke thought.

'I was a burden. If I wasn't such a burden I could have protected them.' Sakura thought.

Their thoughts were positively negative, and they couldn't shake them. How could they? Because of them their clients' grandson had died. No matter what he said there was no forgiving that, there was no apologies, only grief, shame, and sadness. Kakashi sighed and walked over to Zabuza, hiding his head from view before he took out a scroll. He cut off Zabuza's head with a kunai before burning it with a Katon jutsu. He sealed the head in a scroll, frowning.

'On the plus side money can be made…I sound like an ass,' Kakashi thought. He then looked at Zabuza's blade, the Kubikiribocho. The proper thing to do, if he wasn't a ninja, would be to give it to Kiri, or Haku if he ever found him, if the boy even survived. The first option offered better relations with Kiri, and the other allowed the boy to either make his peace or hate them forever. There was a third option though.

"Do any of you want Zabuza's blade," Kakashi said to his genin as Tazuna walked off the bridge with Tsunami to give Inari a proper burial. They didn't think they deserved to be there. Sakura shook her head. "I doubt I could even lift it." Naruto shook his head too. "I'm not a sword type of guy."

Kakashi looked at Sasuke. He knew the answer immediately. Sasuke was looking at the blade calculating the possibilities, as if it was something he wanted but didn't know if he could use. Sasuke put his hand out and Kakashi handed the blade to him. Sasuke gave it a few practice swings, however he realized something. All of his swings were low to the ground.

"It's so heavy," he said, his muscles bulging with effort.

"We can give you strength exercises when we get back," Kakashi said. Sasuke nodded. "I'll keep it then."

Kakashi nodded and sealed the blade. Sasuke looked at him as if he was about to protest, but Kakashi cut him off with a look.

"It would only be a liability with it on your back. Besides, I doubt Tsunami or Tazuna want to see this blade ever again."

Sasuke nodded, accepting the fact. Kakashi sighed and walked off to Tazuna's home.

"Let's go."

XxX

It was not much longer that Tazuna completed the bridge, albeit at a much slower pace than before. He was still grieving over the loss of his son after all.

"Thank you," Tazuna said to Team 7. Tsunami nodded. They shook their heads.

"Do not thank us. We failed you."

Tazuna shook his head. "We already told you don't worry about it. No one ever thought Gato would stoop so low, we would never blame you for doing what you did. You did your best."

The squad looked down, as if they felt ashamed even hearing such words. Tazuna stepped back. Tsunami had nothing to say. She wasn't angry at them, but she didn't really know them enough to say anything. With that they nodded and walked off, into the trees.

"What should we name the bridge," Tsunami asked as she saw people beginning to walk on it.

Tazuna looked off into the distance, frowning. "The Bridge of Dreams."

XxX

Team 7 arrived at Konoha not long after, all with the grim expression still on their faces. Kakashi looked at them, a serious look on his face. "You guys rest. You deserve it. I'll report to Hokage-sama and give you your money after I return. Get some good rest. You'll have a week break. If you want me I'll be at our training grounds"

The team nodded.

"Hai sensei."

'I'm going to the shinobi library after saying hello to my parents. I refuse to be a burden!' Sakura thought.

'Time to go train,' Naruto thought.

'I must get stronger. To protect others,' Sasuke thought.

Yes I already know I will be hated because of this chapter. Hey guys it's Kuma Akuma, and I killed Inari. For those of you who will whine and complain about this I point to my authors note in chapter number 15. I said I didn't forget about what happened between the thugs, and Inari, and Tsunami. If you remember, Naruto saved Inari's life back then, and Gato was going to use Tsunami as blackmail. Hence, as Naruto wasn't there to stop it from happening, Inari get's killed and Tsunami is used as blackmail. Admittedly she doesn't die, but trust me, I was debating killing her off too. Call me an asshole all you want, but as far as I've seen it's never been done before. Also, yes Sasuke get's Zabuza's sword. I didn't like how in the manga in anime Zabuza got an honorable death. I'm sorry, Zabuza was an awesome character, one of my favorites, but they're ninja and they explained what hunter-nin and regular shinobi do when they find a missing-nin or nin with a bounty. Hence, Zabuza doesn't get buried respectfully, but he gets defiled. This idea actually wasn't mine, and if I did not read Kurai Kitsune Zabuza would have lived, but I wanted Sasuke to have a blade, and when I read it I was all like, that's a good idea. Don't blame me blame ShadowStar96. Just kidding, don't blame him, he writes amazing fics. Also, as I said before, I will not reveal what happened to Haku. Gato on the other hand, he's dead. Also, next chapter there will finally be a reveal of an OC, freaking finally. Anyways, that's it, see you guys later and avoid the Earl.