10: Hidden Ambitions!
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…
'The blood lust in his eyes...this is no longer a child!' Haku thought as Naruto charged at the other boy with murder in his eyes before the masked boy threw senbone at him only for a roar to knock them away. 'He's Chakra goes stronger every second.' He appeared in different mirrors around the dome. 'I must strike now.' Haku then threw senbone at the blonde only for them to come out with a roar from the said boy, who then destroyed a mirror. 'Now.' Haku launched at Naruto from a piece of the mirror only for the boy to dodge. 'Impossible.' Just before the masked boy could get into a mirror, the blonde grabbed his wrist. 'Those eyes.'
...My Line...
'Could it be?' Akito thought. 'The Seal has been broken? No, it's been loosen and a glimmer of the Kyuubi no Kitsune's Chakra has slip through, but the seal still holds.' He then pulled out a scroll from one of his pockets before tossing it up into the air where it unrevealed. 'Good. Maybe we'll still have a chance.' The Senju swiped his thumb over his wound to collect blood from it before catching the scroll and swipe his bloodie thumb across it. 'Just maybe.' "Zabuza, I don't mean to spoil your fun." The 26-year-old started to move the scroll around in the air. "I know how you like to stretch these things out, but how about we put an end to this now." He then tossed it back into the air where it closed up before catching it again and held it between his thumbs and pointing fingers. "Come on? What do you say? We're both busy people."
"Hmm," he heard the enemy hummed. "Temping. I'm curious on how your going to back up such brave words. Show me, Akito?!"
...My Line...
'I can't,' Haku thought as he tried to fight off the vast Chakra. 'He's to strong.' The Uzumaki then slammed his fist into the mask that the other boy was wearing sending him flying out of the dome and bring down the mirrors. 'Zabuza.' Naruto charged at the masked boy again once said male was standing with a broken mask that was falling apart. 'I am no match for this boy.' The blonde jumped into the air and goes to punch the other boy whose mask fell to the ground in pieces. 'Master. I have failed.'
Naruto panted as he stared at the boy in front of him.
"So, that guy in the woods?" he asked. "That guy was you?"
"Why do you not strike?" Haku asked. "Do you not just vowed to avenge your comrade's death by killing me? Or were that vow just empty words?" Naruto looked back at the Uchiha before growling and slamming his fist into the other boy's face which knocked him to the ground. "No, that won't do." Haku got up and looked at Naruto. "Your still holding back. If that's all the strength that you can put into then you can never keep your vow." He then whipped his face. "Perhaps he didn't mean as much to you as you pretend." Haku stood up again. "To show mercy to the ones, who oppose the one you serve. To allow his enemies to live when you can strike them down. This is not compensation. It's a betrayal of your life's very purpose. For what reason do you exist then? You are of use to no one. Your life has no meaning. It is mere exists. Day after day of pain and struggle signifying nothing."
"Yeah, well, speak for yourself," Naruto stated.
"Are you really that blind little one?" Haku asked. "I am speaking of myself." He gave a smile. "This day has shown me that I am no longer of any use to Zabuza."
"Zabuza?" Naruto asked. "Why that guy anyway? To devote your life to a rotten scum, who doesn't know the meaning of the word honor? If he's really the one person that really matters to you then man that's the most sorriest thing that I've ever heard."
"There were others, who once mattered to me," Haku informed him. "Long ago. My Father...and my Mother. I was born in Mizu no Kuni (Land of Water) in a small village where the snow lays deep in the winter. My Parents were farmers and very poor. Our lives where hard, but we were content. My parents were good to each other and kind to me. Yes, we were happy once, but then everything changed. Because of something that happened long before I was even born. Everything changed."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked. "What was it? What happened?"
"It wasn't my doing," Haku stated as he whipped blood from his lips. "It is in the blood."
"Blood? So what was it? You said something happened that changed everything!"
"It was...my Father, who changed," the fake tracker answered. "He killed my Mother and almost killed me." This horrified the Uzumaki. "After years of suffering and civil war, the people of my land have come to fear and hate any one, who carried the Kekkei Genkai in their blood."
"Kekkei Genkai?"
"The advance bloodline trait of a Clan," Haku explained. "It's jutsu and abilities pass down from generation to generation. Because of their unique abilities, the Clans were used as mercenaries. They fought many battles and were much feared, but when the Wars where over, they were despised and shunned by the People, who feared that their presence, would only bring more war and misfortune. So, it was after the Wars that these Clans went into hiding, denying the bloodline trait that flows through their veins. Concealing their unique abilities, knowing that to be discovered meant certain death. If you had searched that boy's memories and even the memories of your Jonin Sensei, I'm sure that you would have found it there, too." Naruto looked back at Sasuke in confusion. "The cruelty of people. Their fears of things that they don't understand. For years, my Mother was successful in hiding her bloodline trait. She meet and fell in love with a simple farmer...and they were married and after that my Mother thought that she could lead a peaceful ordinary life to the end of her days." He then explained about the bloodline trait awaken in him. "My Father had seen and so he knew our secret...my Mother's and mine." Naruto listened as he was told how the boy's Father killed his Mother before trying to kill him only for his bloodline to save him. "Once I was myself again, I was no longer myself. My Father and Mother were gone, but I knew that something else had been taken from me. Something even more important and that is when I truly despaired."
"More important then your Mother and Father? What?"
"My purpose," Haku answered. "In all the world there was no one, who needed me. I was unnecessary."
'Just like...me!' the Uzumaki thought in surprise. 'Just before I meet Akito-nii and Hinata.'
"Why is it that you are so determined to be Hokage?" the other boy asked. "Because you want all eyes in your village to look on you and recognized you as a great Ninja. You see it is only through the eyes of others that our little lives have any significance. When there is no one, who sees you or even look at you, it's as if you do not exist. Then Zabuza came along and looked at me, and he's eyes were not full of hate or fear. He did no shun me for my strangeness. Indeed, my special powers were just what he wanted. He made me necessary again." Naruto stared in surprise. "I was happy. I have failed you, Zabuza. I am like a weapon that has been broken and is of no further use." Haku then walked up to the Uzumaki, who took a step back. "Naruto...kill me?"
...My Line...
The Senju ran through hand signs quickly with the scroll in his hands still.
"Ninja Art!" he called out as he glared. "Summoning: Earth Style!" The silver haired Jonin then slammed the scroll onto the ground. "Fang Pursuit Jutsu!"
The writing within the scroll started to leave it and travel along the ground before disappearing.
"I don't know why you bother," Zabuza stated from within the mist. "Of what use is your Jutsu if you can't even find me? But, I can find you. Blindly falling into my trap. You disappoint me, Akito. I think that you right. It is time to put an end to this."
Just then the ground started to rumble making the rogue Mist Ninja's eyes to snap open in shock just in time to see a pack of wolves break through the ground with growls and howls as they pounced on him.
...My Line...
"What is that dreadful noise?" Tazuna asked as Hinata had the Byakugan activate. "What can it be?"
"Akito-Sensei's summons," she answered him.
"What?"
"Akito Senju is a summoner of the Ookami Summoning Contract," the Hyuuga informed. "Their pack animals which I am not at all surprised that Sensei has the contract. The Ookamis are the summoning animals of both the Senju and Uzumaki Clans and Sensei happens to be of both Clans through his Father."
"Oh," the bridge builder breathed. "I have heard about that. Your Sensei must be a broken man…" This got Hinata to look at him in surprise. "He lost his whole pack when he was just a child starting with his parents all the way to his adoptive parents."
'Is that why?' the blunette thought as she looked back to where her Sensei was fighting. 'Is that why he keeps us at arms length? Is he afraid to open himself up and make another pack...another family only to lose it, too?' A sad look came to her eyes. 'Oh, Sensei. Please, let us help you? Let us give another family, another pack to call your own?'
...My Line...
"I realized that if I couldn't see you then I just have to smell you out," the 26-year-old stated as he stood up. "That was a Summoning Jutsu. I was calling forth my Hunting Wolves. They can track a sent anywhere." He smirked. "When you attacked me, I wanted you to get past my guard. I wanted you to cut me. You see, it's the smell of my blood on your blade that has lead them to you. Surprised? Looks like I wasn't the only, who was blind. Falling into my trap? You disappoint me, Zabuza." Akito then placed a hand next to his head as he looked right at Zabuza, who he can see through the mist. "Ah, the mist is finally clearing. And you know what I see? Your death."
"Talk, talk," the Momochi growled. "Do you mean to talk me to death?"
"In away...yes," the silver hair adult answered. "Right now my Wolves are just playing with you, but one word from me and they'll tare you apart. Poor Zabuza. See where your ambitions got you? You were always pushing things to far." He gave a sharingan glare. "It was the failed Mizukage assignation and your admit at a Coup D'etat. You were forced to flee with the few followers that you had. Your countries Tracker Ninjas hot on your heels. You became a rouge ninja whose name was quickly known even in Konohagakure. Now, your crazy enough to want to go back and try it again, but for that you need money and to get it you stooped so low as to be the hire thug of a swine like Gato. Alright, Zabuza, enough talk. Time to finish it. But, it won't be with Sharingan. Imitations of some other Ninja's tricks. No, it's time I introduce you to my own...JUTSU! A Jutsu that I created using the foundation of Minato-Sensei's own original Jutsu." He ran through hand signs quickly before he cupped his hand with Chakra forming around his feet while water came from the air, the ocean below, and the Chakra that had become visible. "Water Style: Rasensuijin (Sphere Water Spear)!"
'The Chakra is so strong it's visible!' Zabuza thought as a sphere of Chakra formed before the water shaped the sphere into a spear. 'He holds it in his hand.'
Of course, Zabuza wasn't the only one surprised either. Obito could only gap in surprise at the jutsu that his lover had created, but when he doesn't know.
"I won't let you kill Tazuna," the Senju growled. "He's a brave man with a noble dream. The bridge that he is building is the hope of this land and all it's people. Your like a disease. By attacking one you effect all and you don't care. That is not the way of the Shinobi."
"Your right, I don't care!" Zabuza yelled. "These useless little people and their patty little dreams. Why should they matter to me? I have a dream of my own."
"But, to have a dream you have to have a future," the Konoha Ninja stated. "You don't. Your future is all used up Zabuza."
...My Line...
"Go on," Haku's voice rung out. "Strike. Kill me. Why do you hesitate?"
"That's the must ridicules story that I have ever heard," Naruto growled as he took a step back looking unsure. "I mean, me treats you like a slave. Your a human being. Not a weapon or a tool. How can you care about someone like that?"
"For that very reason."
"Huh?"
"Does that seem so strange to you?"
"Well, yeah. A little."
"When he found me. I was without a purpose and a reason for living. Zabuza gave me both. But, now my usefulness it over, the only thing that gave my life meaning...it's gone. I am a broken tool. A blunt weapon of no use to anyone. Go on, Naruto. Do it. For both of our sakes. Do it. Quickly. Go on." Naruto took a step back once again. "Finish it. Kill me. Why do you hesitate? I thought that you want to be a mighty warrior."
"That's not what it's about," Naruto yelled at him. "Do you really believe that that's all there is to it; fighting and killing till there's one man standing! There's a lot more to being a shinobi then that and there are other ways to showing your strength then beating some one in battle."
"I had a feeling all along," Haku told him. "From the first moment in the woods. We are a lot alike." Naruto looked at him confused. "I'm sure you know what I mean. I'm only sorry that it must be you hand that is tainted with my unworthy blood."
"You sure about this?" Naruto asked him. "And your positive that it's the only way?"
"Yes," Haku answered him.
"The weird thing is if we've meet in other time and place I think that maybe we could have been friends," Naruto stated before he pulled out a kunai.
'Yes, that's right. Hold fast to your dreams.'
"This is for Sasuke because he also had a dream!"
'Thank you, Naruto,' Haku thought as the blonde charged at him while he closed his eyes. 'Strike true.'
...My Line...
"At least," Tazuna sighed as he looked around. "I think that this blasted fog is lifting."
"Look," Hinata pointed out to him. "It's like their standing still. Like their squaring off."
"I can't see a thing."
"Is Akito-Sensei the one on my left?" the Hyuuga asked softly before gasping. "One of them is moving!"
A shadow of a figure moved quickly towards the other one.
...My Line...
Haku's eyes snapped open with a gasp as Naruto still charged only for his strike to be stopped at the last minute.
"Huh?"
"Sorry, Naruto, but there's been a change in plan," the older boy told him as he looked off to the side with a glare before going through hand signs with one hand. "I'm not ready to die quiet yet."
To the blondes surprise, Haku vanished quickly.
...My Line...
Obito nibbled on his lower lip in worry as he watched Akito rushed towards Zabuza with his jutsu at the ready.
'Is this really the end?' the Rogue Mist Ninja thought.
The Senju let out a yell as he goes to pierce Zabuza with his technique before blood flew through the air.
...My Line...
Hinata let out a cry of shock as she covered her head when an aftershock happened.
"What the devil!?"
The Hyuuga looked up before letting out a gasp of shock.
...My Line...
Akito stared wide eyed in shock as his hand pierced the chest of Haku while the Wolves that he summoned disappeared. The teen caughed up blood as he goes to grip the Senju's wrist in a tight grip while an image of a brown hair and brown eyed girl ran through the mind of the hidden Uchiha and Konoha Jonin.
"Za-bu-za."
"My future is all used up, huh?" Zabuza asked with a laugh. "Wrong again, Akito."
...My Line...
"Huh?" Naruto asked as he looked around in shock. "What? Where'd he go? Huh? Hey. Huh? The fogs lifting." He then looked over to see images of three people. "Wait is that him?" The blonde then ran over to them to only come to a stop when he saw when he noticed his Sensei with his hand in Haku's chest. "What? I don't get it. What's the heck is going on here?"
...My Line...
"Isn't that the young man in the mask?" Tazuna asked in surprise.
...My Line...
"This boy threw himself in front of my attack," Akito growled. "He saved your worthless life at the cost of his own." 'Rin.'
"Well, done Haku," Zabuza stated making the Senju to let out a gasp as he looked at the man, who moves to attack.
"AKITO-SENSEI!" Hinata yelled. "WATCH OUT!"
'He'll hack through the boy to take me down?' the silver hair adult thought in shock.
"I knew I found a treasure when I found you, boy," Zabuza stated. "You've not only gave me, my life, but Akito's as well." The Momochi goes charging at the Senju and the boy to hack them only for the Konoha ninja to jump into the air with the teen's body in his arms. "Not bad for having a corpse in your arms."
"You'll pay for that!" Naruto yelled.
"No!" the silver hair adult called out. "Stay out of this Naruto." Akito put Haku's body down and looked at him for a bit before reaching out and closing his eyes. "This is my battle. Zabuza's mine."
"Naruto?" Hinata asked in confusion before she and Tazuna ran over to the boy. "Naruto!" She tackled him into the hug happily. "Your alright." The blunette then blinked before she looked up at him and then around. "Wait. Where's Sasuke?"
The Senju looked at them before looking away not at all happy about how this team is ending up just like his old one.
"Huh?"
"What's wrong?" the Hyuuga asked as Naruto looked back at Sasuke and Hinata followed his eyes to only have her own widen before using the Byakugan. 'He still has his Chakra flow.' She let out a gasp. 'Sasuke's in a death like state.'
She then took Tazuna's hand and ran over to work on pulling out the Senbone then healing him.
'Hinata?' Akito thought in question.
"Akito!" Zabuza yelled as he ran at him. "I'll stay focus if I were you!"
The Senju placed his hands on the ground and kicked the Momochi in the jaw.
"Sasuke."
The two Jonin level shinobis continue to clash before parting with two kunais sticking out of Zabuza's arm.
'Why?' the Rogue Mist Shinobi thought. 'Why can't I keep up with him?' Zabuza charged at him intent on killing the Senju only to back handing him in the face and then doing a spinning back hand again that sent the other Jonin skidding away. "I'll split you in half!"
He tried once more to cut the silver hair Jonin in half only for him to dodge and then appear behind Zabuza in a silver flash with his hand on his neck.
"Look at you," the 26-year-old stated. "Your falling apart. I knew that you didn't have what it takes for the long haul."
"What did you say?" the Momochi asked.
"You have no idea what real strength is," Akito stated.
...My Line...
"Well, well," someone said. "This is how it turns out, huh?"
...My Line...
The Senju spun a pair of kunais on his fingers before gripping them tightly.
"Game over," the silver hair Jonin growled. "You lose."
Zabuza moved to try and hit Akito by swinging his sword arm at him, but the 26-year-old managed to stab the two kunais into his arm just as the arm hit the Konoha Ninja. This sent flying before he turned mid air and landed on his feet while the blade landed away from them.
'What?' Naruto thought in shock. 'Amazing.'
"Now both of your arms are useless," the Senju stated. "What now? You can't even make hand signs."
The Momochi let out a growl at that before the sound of foot steps caught their attention.
"Did quiet the job on ya, didn't he, Zabuza?" a male voice asked. "You look like yesterday's sashimi." Zabuza looked out of the corner of his eyes. "I must say that I'm really...disappointed."
A short man stood at the end of the bridge in front of a group of men that were armed to the teeth.