Yes he blocked the fucking Hiraishin… It's a god damn ninja technique not a fucking INSTANT KILL. This isn't a god damn atomic bomb we're talking about.

Anyway's now that I'm done with that…

Nothing's changed in any way.

Not the blood that still mars his blade. Not the chips and cracks that adorn his weapons. Not the images that haunt him at night.

Who was he? What the fuck did he live for?

Nothing ever changes.

He remembered the very first assassination mission he partook in. It was something that haunted him beyond what anything else ever had. There was no blood. There was nothing to say that the person was assassinated. Not a single weapon injury, no sign of poison, nothing. He remembered it not because it was his first kill, but because it was truly terrifying.

He had indeed poisoned the man. With a poison so incredibly invisible that it terrified him to even carry it. A liquid so potent that it ended ones' life instantly; there was no chance to react. His eyes had not widened the slightest bit. He simply sat there, staring into his cup… Completely… Gone?

No sign of terror in his posture, no panic, nothing. He was sitting right across from him drinking a glass of water as if nothing was happening. It was how he was trained. It was who he was. Inside he bled out as the man simply sat there taking in no air, giving no indication of life whatsoever. Then, as if nothing had ever occurred, he left the scene.

It would occur to him days later that the man didn't need to die. There was no point in his killing. It was mindless killing. A man hired Konoha to kill this man because he had the woman's hand that he wanted desperately to have. Naruto had stalked him for days, finding out his usual patterns, and what he had seen was nothing to die over. The woman was beautiful, amazingly so, but the man truly loved her and she him.

With his death came hers. She committed suicide a day later.

Mindless slaughter.

It was the only thing that really registered in his mind as he sunk his blade into Zabuza.

Then he burst into water.

"Your pretty damn quick kid." The missing-nin appeared at his side, blade already creeping in pretty damn close. Naruto disappeared in a flash, behind the man instantly, going in for the kidney blow that would surely end the man. His blade struck true, but once again water was the only thing in his wake. He blocked the huge blade that came down at his head, the blade in his hand groaning in protest as it's want to break showed. Naruto reinforced his blade with wind, exchanging blows with the man.

He extended his blade an inch, striking flesh as the wind tore into Zabuza's arm. There was blood this time. He continued his attack, feeding an enormous amount of wind chakra into his blades, the length of them doubling to ridiculous standards. Zabuza whistled at the display.

"First blood?" Naruto chuckled as he charged the calm mist-nin. He sent his left arm wide, his right arm following in a vertical slash. Zabuza raised his blade to block both strikes. The blonde was honestly surprised when his wind blades didn't slice completely through the steel blade. Seven legendary swords indeed. It didn't stop him from continuing in his pursuit to chop the bastard into bits. A flash later and he was on the man like water on ice, constantly sending attack after attack, when he finally caught Zabuza in a standstill cross position. He fed even more chakra into the blades, extending the wind blades into the man's shoulder.

"Gah!" The blade ran the man through, the tip six inches out of his shoulder blade. "You fucking brat!" Naruto never saw the handseals that ended up forming a water prison around his visage. Zabuza smirked as the wind blades receded into the water. "Now your gonna fucking…"

A kunai was buried in his gut, courtesy of the lone jinchuuriki. "I hate it when they get all cocky." He slammed a fist into the traitors face, sending him into a tree a few feet away. "Now get up so I can kill you like a man."

Zabuza stood, "This is so unlike you?" He chuckled, "I hear that you kill silently. That you never give the enemy a chance to see your face?" It was then that the mist began to rise, it came in thick waves completely dissolving all visibility. The wasn't a handicap to Naruto. No this was a favor. He controlled his heart beat, slowly decreasing the rate at which it beat against his chest.

Boom… Boom…. Boom….. Boom… Boom

He could smell Zabuza's blood, it was all over the damn place… That was a problem, he couldn't pinpoint him if the blood was everywhere. Hand's sliding into his weapons pouch, he withdrew ninja wire. He would need to create a zone of comfort for himself before he could attack. Tying the wire around a few kunai, he made a perimeter around himself. Attaching exploding tags to the kunai allowed him to set a basic trap that would be effective in this setting. He heard Zabuza's voice project through the mist.

"You Leaf ninja think that you can roam wherever the hell you please…" There was a chuckle to his left, then his right, "So full of yourselves." He heard his wire snap as something charged through it, Naruto ducked the attack and stuck a kunai into the attacker's leg. Water spilled around him. 'Fuck… Perimeter destroyed.' He moved from the area, setting off the tags as he roamed the mist. The smell of blood intensified and Naruto knew just where it was coming from.

Charging the man with a wind blade in his palm, he attempted to cleave the man in two, but his enemies blade stopped him short. Naruto was really getting annoyed by the damn thing. Pressing against the blade, Naruto gritted his teeth as his blade began to bite into the thick metal. The screeching of metal on metal was grating at his sensitive hearing.

He pulled off and disappeared in a yellow flash. Blade at the ready, he struck at Zabuza's back. The hit was about to connect, but was parried by a strike from some outside source. Using the momentary distraction, the mist-nin went in to cleave off the blondes head. He missed.

The blonde was once again going in for the kill strike into the man's chest, but a wall of ice stopped his blade. 'What the fuck?' A quick shunshin put him a good distance away from the man. He surveyed the scene before him. There in the middle of his battle field stood a wall of ice a good thirteen inches thick. There was absolutely no indication as to where it had come from.

A sharp pain penetrated his side, he groaned as he stared at the ice pick ingrained in his rib. He didn't bother pulling it out, he was too preoccupied with dodging the next three that came from his right. He spotted the perpetrator and charged in with a shunshin. Blade already going for the masked person's throat, he twisted around the kick that came to his chest and planted the blade in the hunter-nin's chest.

A crack formed along the center of the person, it spread to the rest of the body within a matter of moments. In a burst of ice, the nin was gone. A small prickling in his neck made him use the infamous Harashian. Dissapearing several times, he ended up behind a tree a few yards away from Zabuza.

He withdrew a kunai. Feeding a miniscule amount of chakra to it, he launched it at the nin. He expected the initial dodge, and went in with his blades at the ready. He chopped through a block of ice, cleaving it in two with ease as his overloaded blade cut through like it was butter.

He sent a strike to the nins left leg, he expected the blade to connect with the cleaver, and used his right hand blade to sink into the man's exposed back.

"GAH!" The legendary swordsman was severely pissed. The kid was simply too fast to handle. He chuckled when he sensed Haku charging in.

Naruto ducked a senbon, flickering out of existence and into a nearby tree. He surveyed his new enemy, watching as the masked-nin began to heal Zabuza, 'Unacceptable.' Naruto once again went in to finish the fight. He was stopped short by a dome of ice that began to encompass the duo. "Ice again?"

Going through a series of handseals, he stopped on a modified Tora seal. Inhaling, he filled his lungs to the brim and released a fire dragon. It roared as it soared into the air, coming down in an arch that blazed an ethereal red, it's tail following soon after. It was a huge being of destruction, a modification of Naruto's creation. It slammed into the dome, completely crushing it under it's power. "Block that…"

An uncomfortable weight settled in his stomach as he used a substitution jutsu to escape becoming a senbon pin cushion.

The mask hunter-nin pursued Naruto, a ninjato in their hand, ready to mangle flesh from bone. A flash of yellow was all that they saw before a blade penetrated their spine.

"Oh my unyouthful enemy! I am sorry that you are destined to be defeated in such a brutal matter!" Gai's fist broke bones on contact as he continued to scream out his ridiculous apologies to the crowd that was slowly diminishing. Blood poured freely from a man's exposed skull, a crack apparent as Gai sped away to his next opponent. He heard the sound of chirping once again as he witnessed Sasuke run three men through.

"Ah Sasuke-KUN! DO NOT WASTE YOUR YOUTHFUL CHAKRA ON THESE MEN!" The boy appeared to be paying no attention to him as he used a High level Katon jutsu to incinerate a group of nearby men. "Still needs training then?" Gai ignored the current predicament and charged at a man that had a katana posed to strike. He appeared behind him in a blur, kicking the man in the collar bone with a descending strike, and doing a roundoff to snap the spine of the man at his back.

Pulling out several kunai, Gai threw them into a rushing group of thugs, the leader being rendered useless as his eye was filleted by a kunai, the man behind him had no luck as it also ran his brain stem through. Gai watched a few men fall with disinterest, grouping together like this made his job much easier. Gathering chakra in his legs, he jumped into the air, going through the necessary seals, he released a giant tortoise onto the charging men, watching them attempt to dodge the grand summoning.

"GOOD JOB SAMUSHI-KUN!" The tortoise snorted as it disappeared in a smoke cloud. Years of experience made Gai substitute with a nearby tree branch, he watched in dissatisfaction as it blew into splinters. His new enemy walked onto the field holding what seemed to be an oddly shaped katana.

Blurring into action, Gai went to crush the man's left cage, only to be blocked by an electric field that sent shutters down his spine. 'Raijin…' The legendary sword of the Nidaime was in the hands of this man. Gai assessed the situation as he attempted to come up with a plan to separate the sword from this common thief.

"Ah, Maito Gai…" The blonde man smirked as he fiddled with the sword in his hands, "Thought we would never meet again."

"Aoi?" Gai took in the man's appearance, it seemed that subtlety was not in this man's finer interest. "Why do you hold the Raijin in your hands? What are you even doing here at this horrible establishment?" Aoi had been declared KIA four years previously in his mission to subdue a B-Rank missing-nin, after finding his body at the border of Fire and Grass, he had been buried at Konoha's Ninja Sanctuary.

"Shit happens ne?" A bolt of lightning meant to impale the still recovering Jounin was caught by a seemingly pissed off Uchiha. Sasuke used the glowing mass of energy and redirected it at the man holding the super charged sword. Aoi simply cut the bolt in two and laughed at the attempt. "Sasuke Uchiha? My how you have grown."

"Remind me to thank that blonde idiot when this is all done… It seems nature manipulation is pretty useful after all." Sasuke brushed a strand of hair from his face, "Gai the opponent over there seems to be more of a match for you than me, he keeps breaking through my guard…" Gai made to say something, but was stopped by the Uchiha, "No worries… I got this guy."

The body blew up in a display of fire and debris. Naruto hid in the tree's as he watched the battlefield. These guys knew how to hide pretty damn well, but this was his element…

The blonde Anbu felt his traps being sent off at an alarming pace, all around him things were going on. His meticulously laid plans were being laid to use as thugs fell to his widespread traps and whatnot. Kage Bunshin were a hell of a lot better than he first gave them credit for.

There was a sudden shift in tension in the air as the temperature began to drop at an alarming pace. His hands were chilled over as ice particles began to fall from the mist. 'He's creating a fucking perimeter!' Using his earth manipulation skills, Naruto sunk into a tree and into the ground, spreading out his senses for any indication of the enemy. 'THERE' They were talking damn near silently, "… He's not in the perimeter Zabuza-Sama…"

"That fucking brat!" Whatever he was about to say was cut off as a giant spike rose from the ground to impale him. He substitutied with a log and watched it fly a few meters into the sky as the ground still rose. "What is this kid…" Flames of fire began to cascade in his vision as he dodged a fireball. Wave upon wave of cascading red seas came at the missing nin. A searing flame skimmed his leg and he screamed out in agony.

Naruto willed the fire to grow, as the trees and foliage around him began to turn to ash, he fought with nature itself to grasp at the fire that grew in the air. Manipulation at this level was tasking, it required a sense of pure concentration that often distracted the wielder, but Naruto knew the boundary in which he had just created.

A thug was caught in a passing arc of flames and was destroyed in an instant, the fire attacking his very being as to extinguish who he once was. His comrades looked in fear as blades came in greater and greater frequencies, many men being caught in the radius and becoming nothing more than dust.

Haku looked at the spectacle in fear, this fire was unnatural. He knew of no jutsu to counter this massive show of power. He looked around himself and nearly gasped, the entire area was engulfed in flames, the trees were burning down faster than what should be considered normal, the grass was barren, and the very air itself was left oxygen free. It was hard to breathe, his lungs hurt from the effort, and he focused his eyes on the epicenter. There stood the blonde nin… He needed to be stopped.

Naruto spun a final time and cut off the chakra flow into the flames, watching them spread on their own will. He felt a cold tingling sensation run down his spine as his body screamed to move. His body arched unnaturally as he escaped the senbon's path, he came face to face with the hunter-nin named Haku. He watched the boy, or whatever he was, begin the seals for the great waterfall technique. 'That's unacceptable.' He blurred as he pulled a vial from his pouch, the contents of said vial glowed a sickening yellow. Running beyond the nin, he dropped the vial cautiously and smirked, continuing his charge to find Zabuza. He found said nin waiting for him outside of the decimated area.

Zabuza stood with his sword held on his shoulders, his body marred with the recent battle wounds, yet he stood unperturbed. "Impressive indeed…" He moved his sword off his shoulders and held it in a single hand, "This is going to be interesting."

Naruto spared no words as he threw his prized shuriken in the area, being sure to spread them in a decent area. He disappeared in a flash, already transitioning into a high level shunshin to attack, he came face to face with the massive man, throwing a punch to his face, it connected and the man fell back with a grunt, blocking the next strike aimed at his chest, then the one to his face. Naruto pulled out a kunai as he dropped the blade in his left hand, he attacked with the sword in his right hand, pulling his kunai to the side, he put a gash into Zabuza's ribs. Blood flowed freely from the wound and Zabuza groaned. He disappeared in a substitution jutsu into a nearby tree, he formed a single handseal and Naruto felt all hell break loose.

A wave, too big to compare it anything else appeared from the sea not too far away from him. It came at unreal speeds, already threatening to crush him as he attempted to get a steady head. This was something new. Take a stance, he took a deep breathe and spread his arms out, pulling the water to him, the wave began to become more of a large stream. Naruto shook under the strain, controlling the stream as it crashed around him, he yanked to water up and created a dome of massive proportions. In the epicenter he span at high speeds, releasing chrakra from every Tenketsu as he released a massive burst, creating water bullets that ran in every direction.

Zabuza watched his greatest technique fall to the blonde ANBU, his hand still focused on the single seal, it had failed. He watched the wave become a giant dome, and in awe watched it disperse into an attack that he had never seen before. The remaining group of thugs died soundlessly as their bodies were crushed under the pressure of the enormous water bullets. He fell to a knee as the kid became visible.

There was a presence behind him and no sooner than he sensed it there was a kunai on his bare flesh. He knew he was done for. This kid had stopped his greatest technique… There was nothing left.

Naruto held the kunai tightly, ready to slit the man's throat, but a chakra pressure caused him to stumble on the tree branch. The air around him dropped at an exponential rate. His arms flared with goosebumps and he felt ice begin to form on his sweat covered body, he couldn't move.

His eyes were trained on the source of the energy. Watching as he tumbled from the ashes of what once was, he was struggling to breathe, even from yards away it could be heard that his lungs were failing him. He grasped a tree, ripped his mask off, and stared Naruto in the eyes. They glowed a deep blue, the color of frozen waters, and in that instant his body burst in unimaginable pain. He felt his very blood beginning to freeze, his veins burned blue against his skin as he gripped his head in agony. He could feel his leg's stiffening, beginning to lose all feeling in his appendages, he attempted to scream. As his mouth burst open to released the pained outburst of sheer hurt, the moisture in his very throat began to froze.

Nothing escaped the blondes vocal chords as the veins in his eye's bulged to an unrecognizable level. He clawed at his throat, the want to end the pain seen clearly in his eyes. He fell off the tree, like a frozen carcass he hit the ground in a heap, his skin turning purple as the blood vessels froze over.

Haku approached his killer, nothing but the intent to kill the blonde in his mind, he wanted to crack the boy into pieces and laugh over his dead body. He inched his way to the ninja, slowing down as his body began to fail at an even faster pace, he fell to his knees and clawed at the grass in an attempt to nudge his way to the blonde. He grinned as he neared him, he could feel the very ice in the air.

All hell escaped as blood red chakra flooded the area, chakra latent oxygen being destroyed as Naruto stood up. He eyed the crawling hunter nin. Cold eyes trained on the person that nearly ended him. He calmly walked over the dying boy, as he approached he stared him in the eyes. There was fear. Unrestrained, unhidden terror was seen in those deep blue irises. He knelt by him, the chakra eating away at the boy's skin. "Hurt's doesn't it…"

He placed his hand on the boy's face, watching as skin peeled away, muscles deteriorated. His once blue eyes melted from their sockets in a sick display of puss and clear liquids. The very particles of the boys body burned away as Naruto's palm reached the skull. He released the boy, watching his limp form fall away, the body slowly turning to ashes as the trees before him had. Kyuubi's chakra did that to a person, it ate at every particle that was not strong enough to resist it's pure energy. More often than not, nothing was able to resist.

He turned away from the charred land and faced his true enemy. Zabuza stood still, frozen in fear. The very ozone was saturated with malevolent energies that shut his muscles down. He fought his hardest to bring forth the energy to flee. He watched this… This monster destroy Haku. He saw the Shinigami walking besides this boy…

His fingers curled over his sword as attempted to raised the massive cleaver. His arm shook from the strain, as Naruto got closer it began to shake in agony. His blade fell from his grasp as his knees touched the ground. His arms gave away and his face planted on the dirt. He attempted to look at the approaching enemy, but his muscles just wouldn't respond. 'What is this energy?'

His body told him to scream in anguish, but the burning of his throat let nothing escape but soon consumed air as his flesh and bones were seared to dust.

Zabuza was nohing.

Not a single soul moved as the village of Wave was hit by a dark energy. A blanket of terror clouded everyone's mind as it spread like mist through every nook and cranny the village provided.

Sasuke Uchiha found himself on the ground as he attempted to stand, his enemy in the same state as they fought off the infecting chakra latent air. His legs shook from the strain of fighting off the deteriorating effects of the vile killer intent that surrounded him. He sucked in a painful breath as he finally found the right footing.

He raised his eyes to the still kneeling form of Aoi, he attempted to make his way to the downed enemy when suddenly the oppressive energy strengthened. He found the source a moment later when Naruto appeared at the clearings edge. Every thug in the area was choking on the very air they were breathing as he passed them by one by one. He found Aoi's form and formed a single handseal. A fireball escaped his lips as they approached the missing nin, Sasuke felt more than saw that Aoi no longer existed. Naruto got closer to Sasuke, causing the boy to fall once again to the floor. Suddenly he was fine, there was nothing pressing him to his knees anymore. He opened his eyes in shock as Naruto shook off what looked like a sudden chill.

"You alright?"

The cold demeanor on Naruto's face scared him more than he let show. Sasuke stood up, gazing at the ANBU in front of him, he said nothing as he pointed to Gai and his enemy, who were now fighting again. From the looks of it, the man was attempting to flee the scene.

The silent oppression was finally gone, Gai knew the feeling well enough, but even now, fifteen years later it was as terrifying as ever. He eyed the area in search of Naruto, knowing full well that he was the source of this powerful aura. What could have happened to the boy for him to unleash the powers of Kyuubi? The boy was strong, incredibly so, but he lacked the years of experience one gained through years in the field.

His eyes never found his younger comrade, but found the still dumbfounded form of Raiko Umushi raising himself from the ground. Gai didn't miss a step as he charged at the enemy. His fist cracked through a log, splintering it from the brutal strength put into it. He found the man attempting to flee, using pure speed Gai appeared before the man, fist already connecting to his face. Raiko kicked out at the form of Gai, missing as the man leaned out of the appendages trajectory. Raiko let himself fall of the tree branch, landing on the floor below. He weaved out of the way of the next fist, throwing a counter that was blocked. A few blows were exchanged before Raiko finally got enough space to substitute out of the immediate area.

He attempted to run away from the fight only to find a wind blade protruding from his chest. He looked down, the sharp edges of the blade constantly dancing like razors. Pain flooded him as it was released, he could only watch in horror as his chest exploded in a display of gore. He fell onto his back, eyes boring a hole through the teenage boy that had ended his reign of terror. His eyes were like steel, cold and sharp, Raiko never missed the intense message sent through those eyes… 'Disgrace.'

Naruto didn't waste time with this one, silent killing… He shouldn't have wasted all that effort on Zabuza. It was a mistake. Petty of him to stray from the teachings of Hayate. He was a fucking assassin for Kami's sake. Going into a battle of brute strength… It dishonored who he was, what he was…

He faced Gai, "Let's just find Gato."

A/N: Look, i understand that for some people it's quite hard to take in that someone blocked the Hiraishin, (Not hard to believe) The way i look at it, it's just another jutsu in his arsenal. Anyways, this ones a bit short and on a more serious note. If there are any mistakes then it's my bad, i don't like to reread what i write every time i spur things out, it's just too much :p

Hope you enjoy.