8: Crystal Ice Mirrors & the Number One Unpredictable, Knuckleheaded Ninja Joins the Fight!

Suiren Uzumaki: The disclaimer: I do not own Naruto cause if I did then Sakura wouldn't be a useless fan girl in pre-shippuden and Naruto would have his Father's smarts while keeping his Mother's personality and knows about seals and how to use to them. I do, however, own Akito Senju. Remember to Read and Review to let me know what you think. Also if you don't like any twist that I might make then stop reading and find something else to read plus don't leave a review that's a flame or I will find a way to block you. Ja ne!

...My Line...

"Well, well, so I had it right," Akito stated as he looked at them. "It was all an act."

"An act?"

"With cute little masks, too."

"Big Phony," Sasuke stated.

"So I guess all that stuff about being Tracker Ninjas protecting their village was all bunch of bull?" Tazuna asked.

"They look pretty chummy to me," the Senju answered. "I'll say they have been pulling scams like that for a long time."

"They got some nerve to face us again after pulling that trick," Hinata stated.

"And hiding behind those mask," the Konoha Jonin went on. "Who do they think their fulling?"

"That's it I'm taking them out," Sasuke said. "Who do they think their fulling? Hiding behind those masks like some sort of clowns.

'Wait a second didn't I just say that?' the silver hair 26-year-old thought. 'Is that boy copying me?'

"He's impressive," Haku stated making Zabuza snort. "Even though they were just 1/10th of strength of the original Water Clone Jutsu. He did destroy them all."

"That move still gave us the first advantage," Zabuza told him. "Now use it."

"Right," Haku agreed before he moved quickly.

"What's this?" Sasuke asked.

'So he can keep with Haku's speed, huh?' Zabuza thought as he watched the two young boys fight each other.

'Hmmm,' Akito thought. "Hinata cover Tazuna and stay close to me. Let Sasuke handle this."

The Hyuuga nodded as she jumped in front of the bridge-builder while Kitsune stood ready to jump into the fight when she had to.

"I want the bridge-builder not you," Haku told Sasuke. "If you back down I won't have to kill you."

"Save it," Sasuke told him.

"Your making a mistake," Haku told them. "You won't be able to keep up with my speed. I've gain two key advantages."

"Yeah?" Sasuke asked. "What are they?"

"First you are surrounded by water, second I blocked one of your hands there for you only have one free hand to defend yourself with," Haku answered.

Haku started to do hand signs with one hand making Sasuke gasp in shock.

'What?' Sasuke thought in shock. 'Using one hand?'

"Secret Jutsu: A Thousand Needles of Death," Haku said.

'He doesn't want to kill the kid?' Zabuza thought as he watched the two fights. 'Does he mean that?'

"Sasuke," the Heiress called out in worry.

'Remember the training,' Sasuke thought. 'Focus. Summon my Chakra at once and decorate it to my feet.'

Of them jumped out of the way as the needles came raining down on them. Haku start looking for Sasuke once he landed and noticed that the young Uchiha wasn't in sight..

'He vanished,' Haku thought before looking up to see that Sasuke and jumped up.

"You're not at fast as you think," Sasuke told them before the Uchiha attacked Haku. "From this point on you'll be the ones defending from my attacks."

Sasuke tried different methods of fighting before he was able to land a kick on Haku sending back to Zabuza was.

'It's not possible,' Zabuza thought. 'No one's faster then Haku.'

"Thought you were quicker, huh?" Sasuke asked. "Well, what else were you wrong about?"

Zabuza and Haku, who was struggling to set up.

"You made a big mistake by insulting these Ninjas and calling them brats," the Senju informed Zabuza. "What's just granted to bring out Sasuke attitude. He's the best young fighter of the Hidden Leaf Village." Akito then motioned to Hinata. "Hinata here is our sharpest mind and inspiring Medical Kunoichi, who hails from the Hyuuga Clan." A smirk then came to his face. "And last, but least is our number one unpredictable, knuckleheaded Ninja; Naruto Uzumaki."

"Haku," Zabuza said with a laugh as the young boy stood up. "If we keep going like this we'll be the victims instead of them. Get on with it."

"Right," Haku agreed.

Haku's Chakra started to surround him.

"What's this?" Sasuke asked.

"I'm sorry it's came to this," Haku told him.

"The air it's so cold," Sasuke mumbled to himself.

Haku placed his hands in a hand sign. "Secret Jutsu..." Sasuke looked around himself as panel after panel appeared. "Crystal Ice Mirrors!"

The Senju let out a gasp as ice like mirrors formed started to form around Sasuke.

"What is that?" Akito asked. "How does it work?"

Sasuke gasp as he watched Haku stepped through one of the panels before replicas appeared in the others.

"Mirrors, but how?" Sasuke asked.

Outside of the mirrors the Konoha Jonin ran forward to help them, but Zabuza got in the way.

"If you enter this fight..." Zabuza started. "You fight me." The silver hair ninja glared at him. "Your boy has no chance against that Jutsu. Their finished.

"Now we'll begin," Haku told them as he held up a senbone. "And I'll show you what speed really means."

Sasuke groaned as they were cut by the senbone that Haku throw at him while the Senju and Hyuuga looked worried.

"Sasuke," Akito mumbled.

"Sasuke!" Hinata shouted just as Sasuke's Kunai landed in front of her.

Zabuza smirked at the silver hair Jonin through his bandages around his mouth.

"Just try to help them and I'll kill the other two in a heartbeat," Zabuza stated making Kakashi to growl.

"I'm sorry," the blunette apologized to Tazuna. "But, I can't stay with you. Forgive me?"

"I understand," Tazuna answered. "Go now."

Hinata picked up the kunai that has landed in front of her and started to run towards the mirrors.

"Hinata?"

'Sasuke,' the Hyuuga thought. "Take this!" Sasuke looked out of the corner of their eyes to see Hinata in the air having thrown the kunai to the Uchiha, but Haku quickly caught it surprising the two. "He caught it."

Sasuke ended up falling to the ground as the two of them looked up at just as a shuriken hit Haku in the face leaving a stretch on the white mask and knocking him out of the mirror.

"Huh?" the Hyuuga Heiress asked. "Who is it?"

'What a fool,' Sasuke thought as smoked appeared. 'Such a show off.'

Akito let out a growl as the smoke started to clear.

"Number One Unpredictable, Knucklehead Ninja," Haku said as he stood up.

"Naruto Uzumaki is here," Naruto said once the smoked cleared. "Yeah, ya know!"

"Now that I'm everything will be alright."

"Naruto!" Hinata called out with relief.

"You know who in stories the hero's usually shows up at the least minute and kicks butt?" Naruto asked. "Well, that's what I'm going to do right now! Ya know!"

"This brat again," Zabuza mumbled.

'Shut-up Naruto.'

'What an idiot,' Akito thought with an is-this-kid-for-real look on his face. 'If he stayed hidden, he could have been much more effective.'

'That boy...

"Alright!" Naruto shouted. "Your history! Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Zabuza spun around and threw shuriken at Naruto making the Hyuuga gasp and the Konoha Jonin to go wide eyed.

"NO!" the silver hair male shouted.

"NARUTO!"

"Huh?"

"Naruto! Move!"

Naruto started to freak out before Haku threw his senbones that crashed into the shuriken making them to fall on the ground.

"They didn't get him," Hinata said in shock.

"Their weapons concealed each other out," Tazuna said also in shock. "Amazing. Now that's was lucky. I think."

"What are you doing Naruto?" the Hyuuga Heiress asked.

"This is a battle not a talent show!" Akito yelled at him. "Don't let your opponent see your jutsu! The Shinobi's art is deception. Keep your opponent guessing. Even when excruciating a single jutsu one must desecration one's opponent, catch them off balance, and out maneuver them. You'll just turn yourself into a human target when you enter a battle like that."

"I'M SORRY I WAS JUST TRYING TO RECUSE EVERYBODY!" Naruto shouted.

"But there's another mystery here..."

'Him.'

"Haku!" Zabuza called over as he looked at the boy. "What are you doing?"

"Zabuza...this boy...let me fight him in my own way? Please?"

"Bring it on."

"So you want me to leave this to you? Is that it Haku? As usually, your to soft."

"Forgive me?"

'Soft,' Sasuke thought confused before looking at his wounds. 'No. He's right. Look at this wounds...he cut me up with his needles, but didn't hit a vital spot. Why? Is he just trying to humiliate me?'

"I'm warning you! One way or another I'm going to rip off that mask and take you apart!"

'It's impossible,' Akito thought. 'Naruto, can't match this kid. 'Even with the training that I gave him. I've got to...'

"Don't even think about," Zabuza told him. "We've got a score to settle Akito, but if you go after Haku, I go after the bridge-builder."

'He's got me,' the Senju thought again. 'I can't protect Tazuna and help Naruto and Sasuke at the same time.' The silver hair adult looked over at Hinata and Tazuna. 'Hinata's feisty thanks to being friends with Naruto growing up, but she can't fight Zabuza on her own.'

"Relax Akito," Zabuza told him. "Set back and enjoy the show. Let's see how they do. One on one."

Naruto glared harden as he looked Haku.

"That mask and bogus story," Naruto said. "You were with Zabuza all along. You think you can get away with a stunt like that?"

"I'm sorry, but as your Sensei said, deceiving your opponent, catching them off guard that is the art of the Shinobi. Please don't take it personally?"

'While your gibbering I'll catch you off guard,' Sasuke thought before threw a Kunai.

Haku dodged the Kunai with ease without even looking. Naruto looked over to see Sasuke inside the mirrors.

"Sasuke?"

"I haven't forgotten about you not for an instant," Haku told him.

Naruto looked over to see Sasuke stunk in some kind of Crystal Mirrors.

'So that's where Sasuke is. Their pinned down.'

"Some warrior's except defeat gracefully and know when they are beaten and others do not," Haku stated. "So be it. Let us finish our battle then? To the death."

Naruto gasped as Haku started to walk away from him.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"It's alright Naruto," Haku informed him. "We'll have our fight next."

'What is he?' Naruto thought as Haku walked into a mirror.

'Here he comes,' Sasuke thought as the real Haku appeared in front of him, but he still looked around to make sure. 'The real one is over there.' He's hand reached for his Kunai pouch. 'Now...'

"I'm behind you," Haku's voice sounded making Sasuke's eyes widen.

'He transported himself instant,' Sasuke thought in shock. 'How?'

It was then that they were bombed with senbone after senbone before Sasuke landed on their backs.

"Sasuke!"

"Sasuke!" Naruto shouted in alarm. 'What is that? Sasuke are getting ripped up and I can't even tell where the attacks coming from. How is he going that?'

Sasuke got onto his knees a bit more cut up then he was before.

'What kind of Jutsu is this?' Sasuke thought. 'Could it be? He has clone's hiding the mirrors, all throwing needles at the same time. No their to fast for it. I can't even see where their coming from. If it was just a clone jutsu then he wouldn't need the ice mirrors. Those mirrors diffidently the key to his attacks, but what's my next move?'

"Sasuke, Naruto!" the Senju's voice called out to them. "Think! You need to attack from the outside and the inside at the same time!"

'To figure out how the mirrors work,' Hinata thought.

'I've got it.'

''Yes,' Sasuke realized at the same time. 'It's all about positioning and Naruto and I are in the perfect position. If I attack from in here and Naruto got him from the outside...we can do it.'

"Hey!" Naruto's voice yelled/whispered making Sasuke jump. "I sneak in to save you!" Sasuke looked at Naruto with a glare clearly pissed off. "Pretty cool move, huh, Sasuke?"

"Naruto, you sneak up on the enemy not your allies," the Konoha Jonin's voice told him from the outside. 'God, not even Obito would do that. That's a complete Naruto move.'

"You're a complete loser!" Sasuke yelled. "You're a shinobi, think carefully before you move!"

"What the hack's your problem?" Naruto asked in anger. "You should thank me for coming in here to help you!"

"Naruto, if all three of us are inside here...grrr," Sasuke started, but stopped and growled a bit. "FORGET IT! I've had it with your mistakes!"

"And I had it with your attitude!" Naruto yelled. "Ya know!"

'Naruto is building a soled reputation of the most clueless ninja in history,' Akito thought with a sigh. 'The more he helps the worse things get. Yep, a completely Naruto move.'

"That's it," Sasuke said as he stood up making the other two to look at him. "I'm going to destroy these mirrors right now." Sasuke wove hand signs. "Fire Style:..."

"Hey!" Naruto interrupted. "What attack are you using?"

"These mirrors are made of ice," Sasuke started to explain. "And how do you meld ice? Figure it out!" placed his pointing finger over his top lip and his thumb under his bottom lip before making an O shape with his mouth. "Fire Ball Jutsu!"

The mirrors, however, where still there when the flames died down.

"That didn't do anything at all!" Naruto yelled at him.

"You'll need much more heat then that to melt this ice," Haku told all thee.

The mirrors light up and all of a sudden Naruto and Sasuke found themselves on their asses from an on slot of needles.

"Where is he?" Naruto asked. "Where the needle attacks coming at us from? Are they clones?" Naruto stood up while Sasuke remained kneeling, "We've got to find the real one. Which one is it?"

"Look into every mirror as hard as you like," Haku told Naruto. "You'll never learn the secret."

"Oh yeah?" Naruto asked as he made a hand sign. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

"No don't," Sasuke yelled at him. "Naruto!"

Naruto didn't listen to the Uchiha as he still made clones of himself.

"You've got a 100 mirrors then a 100 of me will smash them all," Naruto said to him as he clones jumped at the mirrors. "Then I'll find the real one."

Haku, however, moved quickly sending Naruto back to the ground next to his teammates.

"These mirrors only reflect my image," Haku told them. "Allowing me to transport myself at light speed. Through my eyes you appear to be moving in slow motions."

"I knew it," Akito said at the same time.

"Huh?"

"It's a bloodline treat," Akito answered. "Kekkei Genkai."

"Like the Byakugan and the Sharingan?" Hinata asked.

"Yes," the Senju agreed. "It's like my Sharingan. You can't learn it. It has to be in your blood. In your genetic code, pass down from generation to generation within a signal clone."

"But that means..."

"Yes," the Konoha Jonin agreed with the unspoken sentences. "Even I can't copy that jutsu. There's no way to destroy it. No way to stop him."

"I couldn't break through," Naruto said making Sasuke to look at him. "So what? He's not gonna to stop me. I'm not going to up and I'm not going to lose here cause I have a dream and no one's going to take it away from me." Naruto glared at Haku who let out a gasp. "Some day I'll be respected in my Village that's my dream. To be the greatest Hokage!"

'Dreams,' Haku thought as his mind went back to when he first meet Zabuza. "It was not my desire to be a shinobi, it's painful. I don't want to kill you, but if you advance, I will have no choice. Then I'll kill the kindness in my own heart and fully embrace the shinobi way and there will be no mercy, no turning back. This bridge well be the battle field where our dreams collide. Now I must fight for my dream just as you fight for your. Please do not blame me? I fight for some one who is precious to me. I live for him and I'll face death for him so that his dream can become a reality. That is my dream and for the sake of that dream, if I must, I'll act as a shinobi and take your lives."

Naruto and Sasuke all smirk as they faced Haku ready for the real show down.