Chapter 6: The Attack

The Next Day:

A few hours had passed when Kakashi woke the group. Early light flooded through the cracks of their tents. Naruto grumbled at the lack of sleep, half sleep walked out of his tent letting out a long yawn in the process.

Sakura and Tazuna looked mostly awake you could see the bags under their eyes that they were indeed still tired. Sasuke walked out with a smug look on his face. Kira glaring daggers at the raven haired boy. She was still pissed about last night.

How could he kiss her last night! She never once did anything to show that she was interested in the guy. He pissed her off acting all high and mighty then acting like he can get away with anything. Smug bastard. Acting like royalty.

Kira really wanted her first kiss to be with Naruto, he's pretty amazing. They did everything together it's not right that Sasuke can just steal something important from her and not get away with it.

Naruto walked over to his best friend linking his arm through hers giving her his sleepy smile.

"How'd you sleep?" He yawned resting his head on her shoulder.

"Sasuke kept kicking me in his sleep. What about you?"

"Kakashi snored the entire time."

The two shared a good laugh as they walked onward. Kakashi kept an eye on his group, he didn't miss the murderous look Sasuke was giving Naruto or the dejected look from Sakura. This wasn't good at all.

"Today I'm going to prove that I'm just as good as teme!" Naruto growled. Of course Naruto was jealous of Sasuke. He always had to be a show off, act all high and mighty, everyone thought he was great but not today.

'This is it! I'm not going to let him make me look bad again!' Naruto thought determined watching his surroundings diligently when something catches his attention.

"OVER THERE!" Naruto hollered, flinging his shuriken at a patch of bushes. Only nothing happened. "I, uh, guess it was only a mouse…" he said trying to play it off cool.

"WHAT MOUSE?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? THERE WAS NOTHING THERE YOU MORON!" Sakura screamed contorting her face into some ugly monster lookalike.

"Please, please don't play around with your shuriken. They can be just a teensy bit dangerous!" Kakashi warned trying to sound calm but inside he was freaking out.

Kira frowned staring at Naruto confused. She didn't hear anything but then again we weren't overly checking to see what was behind every bush like Naruto was.

"Hey midget! Don't go scaring us! Stop messing with our heads!" Tazuna screamed looking almost as ugly as Sakura was.

"I think I might have seen someone." Naruto called not even bothered by the vocal abuse from his team. Maybe Naruto was onto something. Maybe something was out there. Watching us and we weren't paying close enough attention.

This time I actually heard the leaves rustle before Naruto attacked.

"This time! Over there!" He chucked his Shuriken into the bushes right before Sakura slamed her meaty hand across Naruto's head, the loud smack echoed through the forest before her shrieks started up again.

"I TOLD YOU TO QUIT IT!"

"Owww!" Naruto cried out clutching his head in pain. Fire engulfed Kira's eyes as she glared at the stupid pink haired girl.

"Will you knock it off!" Kira finally snapped arms crossed over her chest while Kakashi decided to take a closer look.

"I swear there was someone in there! After us!"

"You are such a liar!"

Kakashi pulled the bush apart to reveille a snow white bunny paralyzed on the ground with fear. "NARUTO LOOK WHAT YOU DID!"

"Oh, it's just a rabbit."

"It was an accident, snap out of it, bunny! Please!" Naruto cried hugging the bunny to his chest terrified.

Sasuke and Kira stare at the rabbit confused.

"Isn't it spring time?" Kira finally asked after a few moments.

"Yes…" Sakura and Naruto stare at the two confused. "Why would that matter?" Sakura asked as if it was a dumb question.

"Everyone take cover!" Kakashi yelled pushing Tazuna and Sakura out of the way, Kira and Sasuke jumped backwards, while Naruto (still clutching the bunny) jumped just in time, a tornado like vortex appeared sending branches, rocks, and anything that could be ripped from the ground, at the small group.

The tornado disappeared to show a man standing on top of his halberds handle. He must have used his large sword trying to decapitate us from above and the sword was now embedded into the tree. From the looks of it he looked scary. White wrappings covered his mouth like a mask. Short spikey black hair. From the looks of his hitai-ate he was Ninja.

Naruto smiled deviously forming a master plan in that thick skull of his. "Yes! It's here! My big chance! This time Sasuke's not going to outdo me!'

"Well, well…if it isn't Momochi Zabuza, the kid who ran off and left the land of the mists!" Kakashi stated acting like he wasn't that impressed. He even smirked a bit.

Naruto was practically bouncing where he stood, his energy building to a max. 'Ready…set…go!" Naruto tried to rush forward only to be stopped and pushed behind Kakashi.

"Don't interfere. This one is on a different plane from our previous opponents." The small group gulped with nerves staring at Kakashi getting ready for a battle. "And if I have to face him, it had better be like this." He slowly lifted up his black hitai-ate, revealing his Sharingan. "This may be a little rough."

"Kakashi of the Sharingan eye, I presume?" Kakashi never backed down from his glare. "If it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you surrender the old man?" Kira stared up at the man confused. 'Why is he being polite about it? Isn't he supposed to swoop down try to take Tazuna by force or die trying? Why is he acting as if he really doesn't want to do it?'

Naruto stared at the two ninja's confused. 'Sharingan? What the heck does that mean?' Sakura and Tazuna also seemed confused with that, of course Sasuke knew. His body went stiff with shock. His wide charcoal eyes staring at Kakashi.

'The Sharingan? The mirror wheel eye?!'

"Assume the Manji battle formation! Protect Mr. Tazuna. All of you, stay out of the fight. That's the kind of teamwork this situation demands."

Nodding the group of four surrounded Tazuna picking up a defensive stand. Sasuke on the right, Kira, Sakura, and then Naruto on the left. Though it didn't stop them from being worried for their sensei.

"And now Zabuza, shall we?" Team seven got a good look at Kakashi's famous Sharingan. The red pupil with three black marks that look like commas formed a triangle around the pupil. A long thin scar crossed over his eye shocking almost everyone in the group.

'Whats up with his eye? Naruto wondered staring at Kakashi nervously.

"Ah to face the legendary mirror wheel eye so early in our acquaintance, this is an honor."

Kira frowned staring at her older brother worried. "Be careful Kakashi."

"Just stay where you are and everything will be okay."

"Hai."

Naruto had to voice his confusion. He hated being left out.

"You keep valling it a mirror eye, a Sharingan eye, what the heck is it?"

Kakashi actually wasn't the one who answered. The person who answered was Sasuke, the one who has been taught everything there needs to know about Sharingan.

"Shinobi who have the Sharingan eye have mastered a form of ocular ninjutsu, it enables them to penetrate and see the reality behind any illusion or spell. And to reflect the power of the magics they penetrate back on those who cast them. A mirror wheel, or sharingan, eye is one of several types used by the masters. And theres more."

"heh heh exacly. There is indeed more. Most formidable of all is the acuity with which the Sharingan can discern and then duplicate it's opponents greatest skill. When I was an assassin for the Kirigakure I possessed the usual bingo book, a kind of who's who of our enemies. It had quite the extensive white up on you, including a mention of your impressive record. The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand different techniques, Kakashi the mirror ninja."

Kira smiled to herself. Her big brother really was pretty bad ass.

"But he's…Master Kakashi is just…he and old man Hokage are only…" Naruto sputtered shocked.

Sakura's thoughts were practically screaming through everyone's heads. 'Are they that amazing?'

"…but does it mean…" The sharingan eye is supposed to be unique to only a small number of the Uchiha clan, could he be? Could that mean Kira is related to him? Sasuke looked at Kira, she didn't look like an Uchiha but there could still be a possibility. That his future wife was related to him?

"Enough. As pleasant as this conversation has been the time for talk is over. I'm on a very tight schedule to polish off the old man. But Kakashi it looks like I'm going to have to kill you first."

In a matter of seconds Zabuza was gone his halberd missing from the tree leaving a dent in the trunk where it was stuck. When the dust was starting to disappear you could see that Zabuza appeared to be standing on top of the lake.

"Over there!"

"Is he, is he walking on water?!" Sakura shrieked.

Kakashi never took his eyes off of Zabuza looking to be ready for anything.

"The finest of the Ninja arts, the Kirigakure Jutsu.

A puff of smoke revealed that he was gone! Where had he gone? How could he disappear so quickly?! It didn't seem possible.

"HE'S GONE!"

"He will come after me first. Momochi Zabuza of the Kirigakure assassin corps is a famous master of the art of silent killing. Letting your guard down around him buys you a direct trip to heaven. I haven't necessarily mastered every aspect of the of sharingan eye, so all of you stay on your toes." Kakashi ordered his team.

As soon as Kakashi finished a thick fog encased the group making it hard to see what was around you. The team nervously held their ground glancing every which way for their enemy.

"There are eight targets."

"Wha-what was that?" Sakura shrieked clutching her Kunai in front of her.

"Throat, Spinal column, lungs, liver, the jugular vein, the subclavian artery, kidney, heart. So many choices what vital, vulnerable place shall I choose? Hehe."

Kakashi quickly threw up his hands to perform his copycat ninjutsu.

Sasuke started to visibly sweat. A panicked look crossed his features as if he was thinking the worst. Reaching over our hands conncected. There was nothing romantic about this. His grasp clutched mine in a bone crushing grip.

As pissed as I was with him last night I wasn't going to let him have this panic attack during a middle of a battle!

"Sasuke. Calm down. Even if he gets me, I'll still protect you. I will never let my comrades die."

"I wouldn't count on that." I gasp feeling heat radiating off another source. The low grumble of his voice vibrated through my body. He was here.

We were too slow!

"Game over."

Kakashi practically threw us all aside and out of harm's way. Kakashi had sank his Kunai deep inside Zabuza's chest till it was just the hilt sticking out. But it was just a trap. The real Zabuza had snuck up behind him in an effort to kill. The large Halberd sliced through his mid-section as if it was butter. Sakura let out a scream. Kira stared at the body pale and scared. Only to feel relieved when it turned to water.

"Don't move." The real Kakashi had his Kunai against Zabuza's throat copying what Zabuza had just done. "Game over."

"Awesome!"

"Hehe"

"Heh, you think it's over? You just don't get it. It was take more to defeat me than mimicking me like an ape, a lot more." Zabuza started to laugh. "But you are good! In that short time you duplicated my water doppelganger technique, and by making your doppelganger say something you'd have said yourself. You ensured all my attention would be focused on it, while you yourself used the Kirigakure technique of hiding in the mist, watching my every move. Too bad for you."

The Zabuza Kakashi was holding a kunai to was actually another doppelganger! "I'm not that easy to fool!"

"Zabuza was a water doppelganger too!"

The large halberd swung to kill, Kakashi fell just in time to avoid the slice, though Zabuza saw this coming and sent a kick toward Kakashi's ribs sending him flying across the clearing into the lake.

Fear appeared on Kakashi's face when another Zabuza appeared out of the water. "Ha! Gullible fool! Art of the water prison!" Kakashi gave a panicked look at Zabuza for being caught off guard as a bubble of water encased in a bubble prison.

"I thought I could go underwater and regroup, but it was a tactical error! Heh heh heh that prison is inescapable you're trapped." Glancing over at the small group of child ninja's he let out a snort shaking his head. "You running around free makings it too hard for me to do my job. I'll finish you later after I've dealt will all the others."

The kid's eyes grow wide with shock and fear as water formed to be a Zabuza doppelganger. "We're in deep shit." Kira muttered staring at the water version. They had to think fast in order to survive.

"Heh, little ninja wannabe, trying so hard to fit in, you even wear your hitai-ate headband. But a true ninja is one who has crossed and recrossed the barrier between the lands of living and dead. Clothes don't make a shinobi. You need skills good enough to rate a listing in my bingo book of enemies before you deserve to be called a ninja. We don't call your kind 'ninja' we call them…"

The Water doppelganger kicked out sending Naruto across the clearing.

"Naru!"

"Naruto!"

"…brats." Zabuza finally finished his speech.

"Everyone listen! Take Tazuna and go! It's a fight you can't win! If he wants to hold me in this water prison he can't leave this place! If his water doppelganger gets more than a certain distance away from his real body he loses control of it. So get out of here.

Kira stood frozen in her place staring at her older brother trapped. God this had better be a trap or she'd kill him herself. She didn't want to leave, she couldn't but she needed to protect Tazuna. It was her job. But Naruto was down and hurt.

Naruto slowly got back up and gave Zabuza his best glare ready for anything. Oh no. He must be thinking about when he froze up with the demon brothers. "Naruto no!"

"Stop you fool!"

"He's…"

"Naruto! What are you thinking?!"

"hah! Imbecile!"

A loud pow echoed and Naruto was back on the ground but no doppelganger in sight.

"What were you thinking, tackling him by yourself! You think you're so cool, but junior ninja like us can't… Eh!"

Naruto had taken off his head plate…"Hey you…" he huffed "whats life like without eyebrows, freak?" A squeak escaped Kira's mouth. She quickly covered her mouth to suppress anymore.

"Got a new listing for your bingo book right here. A guy who is going to be the next lord Hokage of Konohagakure village." Naruto took a moment to retie his Hiai-ate back in place. A determinded look in his wild blue eyes. Kira's heart thumped fast in her chest as her red eyes practically turned to hearts.

"Uzumaki Naruto! Kohoha-school Ninja!"

Practically everyone was stunned. Sakura even had a small red blush watching Naruto work.

"Sasuke! Listen up. Theres something I want to tell you!"

"What is it?" Sasuke grumbled noticing how Kira was acting toward Naruto.

"I have a plan."

'Now he has a plan?' Sasuke thought bitterly. "Hmpf so it's time for some team work?"

"Okay, lets get busy! It's time for us to rock n' roll."

"Heh. You're very sure of yourself. But do you really think you stand a chance against me?" Zabuza taunted.

"What's the matter with you all? I told you to run. Its over. It was over the second he caught me! You have to do your duty. Keep that in mind. We're here t protect Mr. Tasuna!" Kakashi yelled.

"Gramps…?"

"What? Lets face facts. The truth is I got us into this mess by lying. I've had a long life, and it would be wrong to let you five kids get yourselves killed trying to save me. So you go ahead. Give this fight everything you've got." The kids nodded in agreement smiling.

"So that's it."

"Are you ready for this?"

"Apparently you don't care whether you live to get any older! Playing at being a ninja like it's a child's game. I however, by the time I was your age I had already dyed these hands with my enemies blood." We all took a gulp. Yikes.

"The demon Zabuza!"

"It would seem my reputation had preceded me." Zabuza giggled to himself sounding even creepier than before.

"Long ago, the village hidden in the mist also known as 'the village of the bloody mist.' The final step toward becoming a full-fledged ninja was the most inhumanly difficult test imaginable." Kaksahi gave a slight shiver showing how he truly felt about it.

"So, you've heard about our little graduation exercise."

"Graduation exercise?" Zabuza only laughed. "What graduation exercise?" Zabuza continued to laugh instead of answering building even more tension among us all. "It's a kind of 'killing spree' among classmates."

Kira stared at the ground feeling bile start to rise at the idea. "Students who'd been friends, eating from the same dish. As undergrads were devided into pairs who were forced to fight against each other to the death. Think of it. Comrades who had trained together, lived together, shared each other's every hope and dream."

"That's horrible…"

"No wonder you turned out this way. Growing up being told not to be friends with anyone in your class. You'll have to kill them one day.

"Ten years ago, the elders of the village hidden in the mist were forced to enact a sweeting reform of their barbaric graduation ritual. Because of the appearance during the previous year of a human fiend who made reform essential." Kakashi explained. The four's stomachs twisted in knots at the new information.

"What kind of reform?" Sakura demanded. "what are you talking about? What did the fiend you're talking about do?"

"Without a moments hesitation…without any hint of a qualm. A boy who hadn't even qualified yet as a ninja, butchered over a hundred members of that years graduating class."

"Ah yes, good times, I used to have such fun."

Sasuke and Naruto stepped back shocked. That started the fight. Zabuza lurched forward slamming into Sasuke sending him to the ground, blood coughed up onto his face. Zabuza held him down with just his foot. Naruto quickly jumping into action made a few dozen of himself.

"So Doppelgangers, eh? And quite a lot of them."

"Ready or not!" Naruto's clones all said at once.

Quickly making a few hand signals I was ready.

"Mizu Shuriken no Jutsu." Small water like shurikens appeared from the ground floating just ready to be thrown at the target. Quickly my shuriken's shot forward followed by Naruto's clones giving Sasuke the chance to escape.

Zabuza quickly disposed of the Naruto and clones sending them back behind Sasuke. He seemed to have no damage, Zabuza looks like he hadn't even broken a sweat.

Quickly Naruto tossed Sasuke a weapon that at first glance was just four swords but when flipped open it's revealed that it's the demon wind shuriken.

"Demon wind Shuriken. Windmill of shadows!" Sasuke jumped in the air throwing the shuriken, Zabuza laughed "Shuriken is useless against me!" but it avoided the doppelganger completely heading toward the actual Zabuza!

"At least this time you've had the sense to zero in on my true form," Zabuza easily caught the large shuriken. "Amateur!" but to his surprise a second Shuriken appeared out of the shadow of the first.

"A second shuriken in the shadow of the first shuriken!" Even Kakashi seemed impressed at Naruto's quick thinking.

Zabuza was still able to avoid the second. "Still an amateur."

In all actuality Zabuza got cocky. He never took into account that the attack was meant that way. That it could have been a trap. Because that is exactly what it was. Naruto had disguised himself as the second Shuriken and finally showed his true form. Sending his kunai flying in Zabuza's direction.

Zabuza broke the hold on Kakashi just in time to avoid being struck with the kunai. Slicing close to his eye and shedding a small trickle of blood.

He underestimated these kids. Quick to anger, Zabuza started to charge after the already falling Naruto for the kill. Kakashi stepped in to save at the day. Blocking the blow with his wrist protector. Some blood was shed but thankfully it wasn't too bad.

The look Kakashi gave Zabuza was terrifying. One that should send shivers down anyone spines or many anyone tuck their tails between their legs and run away.

"Naruto you scheme was brilliant, you've matured all of you."

"Hehe, the doppelganger spell wasn't meant to take down Zabuza at all. It diverted his attention away from me while I transformed myself into the second wind shuriken. Of course I didn't think that form alone would be enough to permit me to defeat him, but I was at least able to free you from his water prison."

"Heh, so you made me fly into such a rage that I unraveled the spell holding the water prison together."

"No, You didn't drop your own spell. It was broken from without."

Zabuza and Kakashi had a short stare down. "Just so you know, that same spell won't work on me twice. Your move."

"Hmmf!"

The two jump apart form each other quickly doing hand signals, Kakashi never once missing a beat.

"Tori! Sign of the Bird!"

"Water style! Water dragon missile!"

Both forms of the water dragons crashed into one another sending waves of water everywhere. Poor Naruto who was still stuck in the water quickly tried to get back onto dry land as a large tsunami formed. Kakashi and Zabuza were neck to neck. It was a battle against who was stronger. Zabuza's halberd grinded against one of Kakashi's Kunai's.

Soon enough Kakashi was saying things that Zabuza would. Mocking him even, Kakashi was copying everything to hand movements, steps, even words.

"Feh, you're a pale imitation."

"I'm the genuine article. No mere copycat stands a chance against me." Zabuzas eyes widen, looking even more frustrated than before.

"You mimic me like a parrot! Ill close your beak for good!" Zabuza screamed but something happened he hesitated. He's staring off behind Kakashi as if seeing something he wasn't sure of. Questioning everything that was going on.

In the end Kakashi preformed a ninjutsu while Zabuza was distracted, knocking him over back into the forest.

"That's that,"

"HUH?!" Zabuza stared at Kakashi this time scared for his own life.

"Can you see the future?"

" I foresee your death."

Zabuza dropped the ground unmoving by someone who was not there before. It looked like a kid with a mask.

"What?"

"Hehe your prediction came true." The figure exclaimed happily.

Kakashi disappeared from his spot on the tree to stand on the ground by Zabuza. Kira and Sakura clutched their Kunai's tighter than before. Ready for this person's attack.

"Thank you for your help. I hope you don't mind my interfering, but I wanted the satisfaction, of putting Zabuza out of his misery myself."

"The mask is familiar…correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you a shinobi hunter from the village hidden in the mist?"

"Well aren't you the smart one?"

"A shinobi hunter?" Sakura, Sasuke, Naruto, and Kira asked confused. Naruto seemed to be the most displeased with this.

"I am indeed, a member of the elite tracking unit from the village hidden in the mist. It is our responsibility and our art to hunt down and deal with the rogues and the outlaws."

How could this kid be a shinobi hunter. He can't be any older than Naruto or the others. How is he a full-fledged Shinobi hunter?

Naruto looked back and forth between the now dead Zabuza and the new character standing on a tree a few times before exploding.

"WHATS GOING ON HERE? WHO ARE YOU?!"

"Relax, Naruto, he's not an enemy."

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I ASKED. I MEAN WHAT I MEAN IS, HE KILLED ZABUZA WHO WASN'T EXACTLY A PUSHOVER! BUT STILL GOT TAKEN OUT BY A GUY WHOS' ONLY ABOUT MY AGE! LIKE IT WAS NOTHING! WHAT, DO WE SUCK OR SOMETHING? WHATS UP WITH THAT?!"

"Oh, well you have my sympathy. I can see where a thing like that would be hard to accept. But it's a fact you'll have to live with. This probably won't be the last time we run into a kid who's both younger than you and stronger than me."

Our small group grew silent staring at the mysterious stranger, Kakashi tasseled Naruto's hair in a way to say it'll all be okay but Naruto wasn't too thrilled.

"Your battle is over for now, and the remains must be disposed of least they give up secrets to our foes." The child like stranger hefted Zabuza over his shoulder with little resistance. "Well then, I must be off." And the shinobi hunter was gone.

Kakashi shifted his Hitai-ate back over his Sharingan letting out a sigh. "Now! We still have to escort Mr. Tazuna the rest of the way to this home. Lets put our best feet forward!" Kakashi announced.

"Hahahaha, you poor kids. You must be so humiliated. But never mind. You can lick your wounds at my house." Tazuna laughed smiling brightly knowing the danger was done with so far.

Kakashi toppled over, face first to the ground.

"What? Huh? Whats happening? Master Kakashi!"

Kira frowned walking forward shaking her head. "Kakashi you over did it didn't you."

"Yeah…" Letting out a small groan the young gray haired girl tried to pull her eldest brother to his feet so that she could at least drag him the rest of the way.

"As soon as we get to Tazuna's house you can rest, think you can walk if I help?" He made a small grunt.

"That's what I thought. Tazuna can you help me get him to his feet?" Tazuna who hadn't done much but watch everything happen helped Kira pull her brother to his feet.

Throwing most of his weight on Kira's shoulders she let out a small grunt. "Holy crap your fat."

"Be nice, Oni doesn't feet too good." He whined like a child earning at least a few chuckles form the group. Though it was true everyone was worried about their teacher.

Walking for the next half hour to an hour the group finally made it to Tazuna's house. His daughter looked excited to finally see her father again but was displeased to see the grown man hanging on two thirteen year olds.

Quickly they all rushed inside for Kakashi to rest properly while Tazuna told his daughter everything that happened.

"Are you alright Teacher?" Tsunami the group learned, asked with a somewhat stern look on her flawless features.

"No, but I will be in about a week." Kakashi even looked sick, pale skin, sweating profusely, he needed to sleep.

"The Sharingan eye is an incredible power." Sakura gushed.

"The strain it puts on your body makes you wonder if it's worth it." Tsunami sighed shaking her head.

"This time, you took down your strongest foe yet, so we can probably relax for a while." Tazuna laughed completely chill with what had just happened. His life had been put on the line twice so far and he's completely okay that one of his guards was almost killed and is unable to move.

"I can't get my mind off that masked kid…" Sakura wondered aloud.

"That mask is worn by the most elite and secret ninja from the village hidden in the mist. The Shinobi hunters all wear them. Their unit is codenamed the undertaker squad because they dispose of corpses so thoroughly, its as though they never existed. Even after death, a shinobi's corpse may yield up it's secrets, exposing the secrets of the skills it had mastered, as well as retaining the aura of the chakras it was steeped in the ninja's native lands. Even the ingredients of any drugs or potions that body consumed become an open book. In the same way, when I die…"

Kira smacked Kakashi's head hard for saying that. Kira didn't like thinking of him dying too. "Kira…anyway. If an enemy were to take possession of my remains, the corpse would reveal all of the anatomical idiosyncrasies unique to possessors of the sharingan eye. In the worst care, the enemy might gain enough information to be able to duplicate and master that power."

"So your saying Ninja's corpses tell too many secrets?" Kira asked staring at her brother.

"Exactly. Basically, shinobi hunters specialize in tracking down and eliminating rogue ninja and obliterating their remains in order to protect the secrets of their home village from the rest of the world. Silerntly and without a trace. That's how ninja leave the world."

"So Zabuza's corpse will be dismembered and destroyed? That's so creepy!" Sakura cringed looking horrified at the idea.

"Think of it this way, at least you aren't the one doing it. Cutting open the bodies and playing around with their organs." Sakura cringed looking away making sounds to show her discomfort.

"But seriously say you have this deep dark secret that would change the way people look at you then you die. Do you want someone finding out your secret and it be told all around?"

Her face went beat red as she glanced at Sasuke nervously. "N-No I guess not."

"Though I do wonder how someone like that kid got into that sort of a situation." The five sat in silence pondering over different things.

Sasuke kept glancing at Kira and Kakashi. Could they be related? Was there a chance Kira was a cousin of his?

'Would it matter if we were related? I mean Kira probably doesn't even know, I'd be happy to marry Kira still…No Sasuke. No. I love her but if I don't find out any more information on this its going to kill me...for Kami's sake I hope we aren't related.'