(Third's Point Of View)

It was morning and Naruto slept in because he pushed his body to the limit, so everyone already left so they could guard Tazuna. Naruto finally woke up and found out that everyone has already left so he hurry and got dressed and went to find his team.

He runs through the forest until he sees a dead hog on the ground and got suspicious so he headed back. When he got there, he saw two ninja about to attack so he hurry and did the substitution Jutsu and took Inari and his mother a few feet away for safety.

He Inari's mother on the ground as Inari asked how he knew they were going to be here. He stated that he a hog that had been attacked and done trees having marks on them so he came back.

"Heh, its one of those puny ninja brats that Tazuna hired... Get him!". They started running at him so he threw two shuriken that the samurai blocked but didn't know that they were actually shadow clones that knocked then down from behind.

Naruto turned over to Inari, "Sorry, I was late, though heros usually come at the last minute! By the way, sorry about yesterday... Calling you a coward was pretty mean I guess. Anyway, it's not true, ya know. Because you were really brave."

Inari stuttered to cry again and he guy mad at himself because he did he wouldn't cry but nice just smiled. "What are you talking about... Your happy, what's wrong with that. When your happy, it's okay to cry, really!"

With that, he tied up the samurai and ran over to where the battle was. He could see that Sasuke was inside an ice mirror dome so he went inside to help him out.

Sasuke was surprised to see him then got mad at him because now he was struck in the done along with him. Naruto nervously laughed because he knew that he did something stupid, but stopped when needles shot out at them.

They both hit but not in vital points so they were only hurt in uncomfortable places. Sasuke decided to try and use a Fireball Jutsu which did not work. "That will not work... My ice is impenetrable.".

Naruto got fed up and used the shadow clone Jutsu and created about twenty clones of himself. The masked boy went from mirror to mirror, destroying the clones. Naruto did it again and again then Sasuke gasped and I turned to look at him and I gasp.

He has awaken his Sharingan, so he could now see what was going on with the boys speed. Sasuke asked Naruto to do the shadow clone Jutsu again. Even though Naruto was almost out of charka, he did the shadow clone Jutsu and the boy went fast through the mirrors that it was almost hard to see him.

Sasuke did the Fireball Jutsu and caught the boys edge of his shirt on fire which was immediately taken out by going in the ice. He was impressed that he hit him but then stopped when Naruto then passed out.

The boy threw senbon needles out of the ice and headed straight for Naruto. I gasped as I saw Sasuke run in front of him and took all the senbon needles that were supposed to hit his friend. Naruto looked up and looked up at his best friend who was hit by the senbon needles.

"W-Why!" Sasuke said that he couldn't let someone close to him get hurt. He fell backwards and Naruto caught him. "Naruto... don't give up... on your dream." With that, Sasuke fell into a deep slumber which was like a death like state.

Naruto started to shake in anger and Chakra started to swirl around him. Bell gasped and started to shake as she saw the Nine Tail's Chakra swirl around him. She looked down as Naruto destroyed the mirrors with his scary power that the Fourth Hokage gave to him and it was something he could not take back.

She looked back to see Naruto hit the mask and it breaks into small pieces which revealed the boy that Naruto met in the woods. "You..." The Nine Tail's Chakra stopped flowing which made me sigh in relief.

"Why do you not strike? Did you not just vow to avenge your comrades death by killing me... Or was that vow just empty words..." He tried to punch him again but his body would not let him until he did punch him but not enough to kill him, just enough to leave a bruise.

"No... That won't do... Your still holding back... Is that is all the strength you put into it then you will never keep your vow. Perhaps he didn't mean as much to you as you pretend. To show mercy to those who oppose you, the one you serve. To allow his enemies to live when you could strike them down. This is not compassion... It's a betrayel of your life's very purpose. For what reason do your exist then. You are as use to no one. Your life had no meaning. It is mere existence day after day of pain and struggle. Signifying nothing."

"Yes, well think of yourself...". The boy asked if Naruto was blind because he was talking about himself. "This day had shown that I am no longer a use to Zabuza.". Naruto asked why he was with Zabuza in the first place.

The boy said that there once was people who mattered to him which was his father and mother. He started to tell the story of how he had a Kekkei Genkai that scared everyone so they killed anyone who had it but the buy got away and lived on the streets until Zabuza took him and trained him to be his pawn.

"Why is it that you are so determined to be the Hokage... Because your want all eyes of your village to look on you and recognize you as a great ninja. You only see it that the eyes of others that our lives have any significance when there is no one who sees or looks at you because if you do not exist... Then Zabuza came along and looked at me and his eyes weren't full of hate it fear and did not shun me for my strangeness. Indeed my discussion powers were exactly what he wanted. He made me necessary again. I was happy...I have failed you Zabuza... I am like a weapon that had broken and has no use."

The boy started walking towards Naruto but stopped halfway. "Naruto... Kill me... Go on... Strike... Kill me... Why do you hesitate?". Bell watched him as he shook then started to speak.

"That is the most ridiculous story that I have ever heard! I mean... he treats you like a slave! Your a human being, not a weapon or a tool. How can you care about someone one like that!" Naruto shouts at him as the boy looked down.

"For that very reason... Does that seem so strange to you?" Naruto replied with a yes and the boy continued his story. "When he found me, I was without a purpose or reason for living... Zabuza gave me both... but now my usefulness is over and the only thing that gave my life meaning... Its gone. I am a broken tool, a blunted weapon that is no use of anyone. Go on, Naruto... do it... for both of our sakes... do it... quickly. I thought you wanted to be a mighty warrior?"

"That's not what it is about, just fighting and killing and only one man is left standing. There's a lot to being a shinobi then that, and there are other way's of showing your strength then beating someone in battle." Naruto said bluntly.

"I had a feeling all along... from the first moment that we met in the woods... we are a lot alike. I'm sure you know what I mean... I'm sorry that it must be your hand that is tainted with my unworthy blood." The boy said without making any emotion.

Naruto started to pull out a kunai from his pouch. "Are you sure about this... And your positive that it is the only way..." The boy answered him with a yes which made Naruto sigh. "The weird thing is if we met in a different place then maybe we could have been friends..."

Naruto started running towards the boy with a kunai in his hand as the boy encouraged him to do it. At the last second before he stabbed him, the boy grabbed his wrist and told him that it wasn't his time yet then ran into the mist towards the fight between Zabuza and Kakashi-sensei.

Once the mist cleared, you could see that the boy was in front of Zabuza with Kakashi-sensei's hand with a Chidori activated, with his hand going right through his chest where his heart is supposed to be. "So my future is all used up, seems like your wrong again, Kakashi!"

I gasped as Kakashi-sensei said that the boy, who's name was Haku, jumped in front of his attack and saved Zabuza's pathetic life for his own. Haku gripped onto Kakashi's wrist to keep him from moving so that Zabuza could go right through the boy to take down Kakashi.

Kakashi, grabbed the boy, who was now dead, and jumped away from Zabuza's attack so that they would not get hit. He put the body in front of Bell who looked down in sadness.

Kakashi told Naruto to stay out of the way because it was his battle. as he put the corpse on the ground and close Haku's now dead eyes.

Sakura called out to Naruto and asked if him and Sasuke were alright. Naruto turned, his head, not knowing what to say. Sakura asked where Sasuke was until she figured out from the look on her comrades face.

Zabuza ran over to Kakashi but he kicked him in the face, knocking down a few feet. Sakura grabbed Tazuna's hand and ran past Naruto to go see her "dead" friend, Sasuke. Naruto could hear the cries that Sakura was emitting which made Naruto feel even guiltier.

Zabuza and Kakashi kept fighting while Zabuza got more tired by the minute. Zabuza ran full force at him but Kakashi lazily punched him away then kicked him in the face. Zabuza swung at him again but Kakashi got behind him and told him that he was falling apart and that he didn't know what real strength was.

Kakashi was about to kill him with a kunai but stuck his arm while Zabuza swung at him. The sword flew a few feet away as both of Zabuzas arms were now useless.

Suddenly an old looking man with shades and a cane appeared on the bridge. "Did quite a job on you, didn't he, Zabuza? You look like yesturday's sushume. I must say, I am... disappointed" Suddenly hundreds of ninja stood behind the man who I knew the name of... Gato.

"Gato... I don't understand, what is all this... why are you here, and who are these thugs you brought with you?" Gato scoffed as he spoke.

"Well, you see, there's been a slight change of plan. According to the new plan, you die right here on this bridge, Zabuza. That's right, your too expensive so I've decided to take you off the payroll. Of course, even these thugs behind me cost me something, so if you could manage to slaughter a few of them before they take you down, I'd appreciate it. Think you can handle that, demon ninja of the mist. Look at you, you look as demonic wet kitten."

Zabuza scoffed as he talked to Kakashi-sensei. "Well Well Kakashi, it would seem our fight is at an end. Since I am no longer Gato's employ, Tazuna is safe, we have no more quarrel." Kakashi agreed as Gato pressed forward and kicked Haku's face which made me growl.

He kicked him which made Naruto and I gasp but Kakashi and Zabuza showed no emotion. Naruto ran at Gato but Kakashi grabbed him and told him to use his head. "Well, what about you Zabuza! Are you going to let him do that!"

Zabuza told him to be quiet because Haku was dead so it didn't matter but Naruto pressed on. "What! So you can just stand there and watch him get treated like a dog! You and Haku worked together for year, doesn't that mean anything!"

"You don't understand the way of Shinobi... I merely used him as Gato used me. Now its over, his usefulness is at an end. The loss of his strength and skill, yes, that means something to me, but the boy... nothing." Zabuza said not looking at him.

"If you mean that, then you are even bigger rat then I thought." Kakashi told him that, that was enough but Naruto pressed on.

"Shut up! Far as I am concerned, he enemy number one! Why you... You ungrateful... After everything he did for you... He lived for you! You were the most important thing in the world to him! And he meant nothing to you! Nothing at all! While he was sacrificing everything for you, you never felt anything for him! And if I become stronger, does that mean I will become as cold hearted as you! He threw his life away and for what! For you and your dream! You never let him a have dream of his own, but he didn't care, and you just toss him aside like he was nothing... A broken toll... man, that is so wrong... so wrong!"

Naruto had tears streaming down his face as I start to cry myself. "You talk to much..." Tears drop onto the floor in front of Zabuza. "Your words cut deep... deeper than any blade..." I looked at Zabuza to see that he looked up at the sky, crying.

"Well, he fought you... his home was breaking in two... You see Haku was always too soft and too kind... He felt pain and sorrow... and now, curse him, I feel it too... and something else... I feel contented that this is the way it ends."

He teared of the bandages around his face so you could now see what he looked liked. "What... Cat got your tounge... Are you so surprised to see that I am human... Even shinobi are human, no matter how hard we try to escape that simple fact... We always fail... Well at least, I have failed... Boy... Give me your kunai..."

Naruto looked down while grabbing his kunai and the it to him for which he caught in his mouth. Zabuza raced forward at Gato while he ran into the crowd of rouge ninja to hide himself. Zabuza ran through the crowd, slicing everyone that got in his , killing them with one feel swoop.

Zabuza got through the crowd and ran to gap who was at the end of the bridge. He stabbed him with the kunai that was in his mouth, killing Gato in one move.

The shinobi all stab Zabuza from behind knocking him away from Gato. "You crazy fool... If you are so eager to join your friend, go ahead... But your not taking me, not this time."

Zabuza stood straight up with all the spears in his back. "I won't be joining Haku... Where he's gone I cannot follow...". He stared walking towards Gato, "we wouldn't be welcomed where Haku has gone... Hells where were going Gato! I cant think of a more fitting destination for a demon ninja, can you? I'm told that there are many Demon's down there of all shapes and sizes! Oh yes, I would fit right in, but you on the other hand, oh well I fear that your in for a long and and painful eternity."

Zabuza pulled out a spear from his back and started to slash him until he fell off the bridge to his death. He turned back to look at the Ninja as they stepped away from him and made a path back to Haku. He tried to walk where he was but he fell from blood loss.

He started muttering something that I couldn't hear and a tear feel from his eye then fell onto the ground. "Naruto! Sasuke's alright!". He turned to see him standing there and waving at him which made him smile.

"Well well, will wonders never ceases.". Kakashi said with relieved look on his face. "Hey, don't be getting to comfortable, the party isn't over yet, who's going to pay now that Gatos gone. No way we're going to leave here empty handed so we'll just have to hit the village and see what they got for us!"

"Come on Kakashi-sensei, you must have a Jutsu that can take care of these losers.". Kakashi says that he used to much chakra so he could not. They started running towards the two ninja but an arrow stopped then and they turned around to see the villagers and Inari ready to fight.

This made Naruto happy to see that little squirt and Naruto says that he wasn't going to miss out on all the fun so he did the sign for the shadow clone Jutsu and five of him appeared. Kakashi did the shadow clone Jutsu as well and about one hundred of him appeared.

The rouge ninja got scared and ran towards there boat in fear. The villagers all shouted in victory which made tazuna well up in tears.

Kakashi walked over to Zabuza who was just barely alive and said that it was over. Zabuza asked for a favor which was to see Haku one last time. Kakashi, bridal style, carried Zabuza and laid him next to Haku.

It started to snow which surprised everyone because it was the middle of July. Zabuza put a hand on Haku's cheek as a tear fell out of his eye. "Is it you, Haku... Are you weeping? You were always at my side... The least I could do is to be by yours at the end. I know I cannot be, but... I wish I could go were you have gone... How I wish I could join you there."

Naruto started crying and saying that Haku said that where he was, it was always snowing, all the time. "Of course, his spirit was as pure as snow... You never know Zabuza... Maybe you will join him there. Who's to say."

They made graves and buried there bodies so they could be remembered. "Is that really it, Kakashi-sensei? Is that the Ninja way to use and to be used like tools.". Kakashi says that all shinobi are tools in the hands of destiny. There is no point in wondering whether it is right or wrong.

"Well if you ask me, if that is what a ninja is all about, something's out of whack. Is that why we go through all that training, just to end up like them.". Kakashi says that is what all Ninja have to do deal with in all of their lives.

"Okay... I have just come up with a decision! From now on, I am finding my own ninja way. A way that is straight and true and without any regrets! From now on I am following the way of Naruto!". Kakashi gave a small chuckle as everyone finished giving their respect then got ready to head out.

They said their goodbyes as Naruto and Inari cried about then leaving but got over it as they left. I started walking along with them as I heard tazuna say that they are going to name the bridge aft we r Naruto called the Great Naruto Bridge!

There journey had only just begun for which everyone wondered what is going to happen next throughout there journey of a ninja.

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The episodes I used in this chapter are Naruto Episode's thirteen through nineteen!

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