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The only way I can think to get over this is to post my stories here, editing out the lemons and posting either the full chapter or just the lemons elsewhere so that you can all enjoy them. I haven't found a place just yet, but the lemons of sage along with my Stuck in an Eroge story (which also gained a fairly large following on UFF) Shall be posted when I can find a place to do so...if worst comes to worst I shall create an AFF account and post them there.
Disclaimer: don't own Naruto, I do however own all the original jutsu used, that and my wonderful wonderful folder of useful tropes that I use to make my jokes
"speech"
'Thoughts'
"Kyubi speech"
'Kyubi thoughts'
Jutsu
Chapter 10: Dance of the BFS.
Zabuza jumped back and landed on a small pond and began weaving handseals. "Water Release: Kirigakure no Jutsu!" A mist rose up from the water and smothered the area choking out all sight.
"Be careful you three, Zabuza is a master of silent killing, he doesn't need to see you to kill you in this mist, be prepared for anything and keep your senses focused."
"Oho, so you do have some experience fighting blind eh Kakashi?" Zabuza's voice echoed around them. "Eight points. Larynx, Spine, lungs, liver, jugular, subclavian artery, kidney's, heart. Hmhmhmhm which one shall I attack?" A chill went up two of the three genin's and Tazuna's spine.
Naruto however had a look of amusement on his face. "So is that a question directed at us? Can we choose which one you strike?" You could almost hear the man in the mist facevault.
Zabuza's voice sounded as if he couldn't believe what the genin had said "Kakashi, is that student of your's retarded? Or did he just get dropped too many times as a baby?"
Before Kakashi could answer Naruto quipped "Nah, I was just wondering how you'd react. And from the looks of things you don't get many people as crazy as I am." Naruto let out a little psychotic giggle that had his teammates pale, they heard that laugh before when he was training them in their change in nature ...so...much...pain...
Chuckling was heard from the mist "Heh I like this kid Kakashi, sounds like a boy after my own heart, what's your name kid?"
Naruto's grin turned feral "Naruto Uzumaki, Prank king of Konoha and all around badass at your service."
Zabuza broke out in laughter "Hahahaha cocky as hell. Yeah this kids a winner in my book, I might actually let you live after I kill all your friends, no promises though."
"Yeah yeah, heard that line before let's just do this shit!" Naruto grunted since Kyubi made that threat before, with the same result, the results being 'fuck' and 'all.'
"Impatient as well I see, heh very well."
The three genin and one Jonin tensed as the mist thickened. Naruto looked around quickly 'This is isn't good, I can't see a foot in front of my face.' The mist was getting even thicker as he thought this 'Dammit we need an out and quick'
"Naruto!" Kakashi whispered harshly. "Flare your chakra, make it wind natured."
Naruto nodded and got into a horse stance, crouched with his legs spread slightly, he brought his hands into a handseal, slowly a circle of bright blue energy surrounded him, "HAAAH!" He forced as much chakra as he could into the pulse as the force of the chakra pushed the mist aside, almost like a wave the mist parted revealing Zabuza a dozen feet away with a shocked expression on his face.
"How the hell-?" he gasped
"What part of 'all around badass' didn't you get?" Naruto gasped, the strain of forcing that much chakra out draining him more than he had liked.
"Hmph, well I guess I do this the old fashioned way" He pulled his sword over his shoulder and rushed Tazuna only to be stopped by Kakashi, who blocked his overhead slash with a kunai.
"No chance Zabuza" he grunted, pushing against the heavy blade. "I won't let you hurt my students or my client."
"Well it's not like you have a choice" he replied, hopping back for another slice. The two clashed, trading deadly blows. A slice here, a chop there, coming closer and closer in a dance of death that mesmerized the three genin and Tazuna. Kakashi ducked a horizontal chop and rushed ahead his sharingan spinning wildly watching every move Zabuza made, predicting every flinch of his muscles. The only thing keeping the Swordsman of the mist from being impaled was his skill in the blade he held and the countless years of experience under his belt. He brought the Zanbatou in close and blocked the kunai with the flat of his blade diverting it to the side, with Kakashi's guard wide he leaned back, his blade acting as a balance and kicked Kakashi out onto the lake.
Kakashi cursed but it was too late as Zabuza was already on him flashing through handseals at incredible speeds. "Water Prison Jutsu" he yelled, a ball of water formed around Kakashi trapping him above the water with no possible way of breaking free.
"Kakashi-sensei!"
"Stay back you three!" Kakashi yelled, waving them back as best he could in the sluggishly moving water.
"Hehehe, it's over Kakashi, those brats don't stand a chance against me, and with you out of the way, this'll be almost too easy." He held up a hand in a single handsign as his other hand was holding the water prison. "Water Clone Jutsu!" A puddle of water on land slowly started to rise taking on Zabuza's form.
'Dammit I knew he was good, but this...?' Kakashi was horrified "Run you three! You can't beat him with all this water around you, and that clone of his can't stray too far from the main body. Take Tazuna and run!"
Looks of shock crossed their faces, they couldn't just leave their sensei behind. Naruto made their opinions vocal.
"Hell no!" He yelled, "This mission was fubar the moment you got trapped, we either help you now and die trying or get hunted down and killed anyway, at least this way there's a chance, now shut up and hang on, we'll have you out of there in a moment."
Zabuza snickered "Quite the cocky set of brats you got there Kakashi, I do like the blondie though."
Kakashi's Sharingan was keyed on the standoff. Silently, he was praying for his students safety 'Hopefully Naruto has a plan for this, knowing his bloodline abilities he could pull it off, but Zabuza has over a decade of training over them all.' his eye flashed over the three of them 'Please be careful.'
"Sasuke." Naruto whispered.
"Yeah Naruto?" he replied back in a whisper the two moving closer so as not to draw attention.
"I got a plan and I need your help." Sasuke nodded and leaned in closer, Naruto started whispering in his ear, for a moment shock crossed his face, then a grin began to form, slowly growing.
"You are one crazy son of a bitch you know that?"
"Tell me something I don't know?" Naruto joked.
"My mom was bisexual." Sasuke not so joked.
"DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW THAT!"
"You asked..." he deadpanned. Naruto facepalmed, and the collective IQ of the world dropped with that statement.
"Whatever let's just get this over with" He pulled his Ninjato off his back and glared daggers at the Zabuza clone, "Remember the plan Sasuke."
"Don't worry, we got this" He replied bring out a kunai.
The two shot forward weaving between each other trying to throw the Zabuza clone off. Naruto slashed at Zabuza's legs, who brought his Zanbatou down to block the debilitating strike, Naruto smirked and held up a hand in a single handseal, a dozen Naruto's appeared around Zabuza and tried to strike with their shadow Ninjato's but Zabuza jumped back and swung his sword in a wide arc, cutting through the clones like smoke.
"Now Sasuke!" Naruto yelled, bracing himself on the ground.
"Right!" He growled back placing a foot on Naruto's back as he leapt high into the air, tossing several shuriken to keep Zabuza on his toes the Last Uchiha fell at the missing Nin with both hands charged with a tazer.
The water clone brought it's sword up to block with the flat of the blade, Sasuke could only smirk as both his hands touched the blade. A violent arc of electricity coursed down the blade to the clones arm. The twin tazers shocked the water clone from head to foot causing it to burst into a puddle of water.
Zabuza chuckled from his position next to Kakashi "Those kids aren't half bad, that one already has a decent grasp at elemental jutsu."
"You have no idea..." Kakashi mumbled which earned him an odd look from Zabuza.
"Alright Sasuke, phase two GO!" Naruto rushed to the waters edge, flashing through handsign's as he Gathered a massive amount of chakra, he slammed his palms onto the edge of the water and shouted "Ice Release: Frozen Wave!"
Zabuza's eye's flew wide "I-Ice Release?" He gasped, too shocked to even notice that Naruto had flash frozen the lakes surface, and Zabuza's feet to the ice.
Meanwhile in a nearby tree hidden from view and watching the battle a young voice gasped as well "But that's my..." The voice couldn't say anymore, it only watched the fight with much more interest, keeping a closer eye on the blonde boy.
Back with the battle Zabuza was cursing. Looking down he saw his feet were firmly frozen to the ice, he turned his eyes back to the genin only to see Sasuke throwing several Kunai at him, most of them wouldn't have been much danger to him but one in particular was heading right for his face. With another curse he yanked away from the kunai dodging all of them, but in doing so released the water prison jutsu. With a quick swing of his sword he had broken away from the ice and jumped back from the two children and the newly freed Kakashi who was hacking up a mouthful of water.
"So blondie has Hyōton as well eh? That kid just got ALOT more interesting." Zabuza flicked a few more chunks of ice off his foot and got into a ready battle position with his blade down and to his side.
Kakashi spat up the water and got to his feet. "You (huff) won't lay a hand (huff) on Naruto, Zabuza." he wiped water from his mask and pulled another kunai out "You three have done enough, stay back and protect Tazuna"
"But Kakashi sensei-" Sakura began
"No but's" Kakashi growled, he turned a glare on the demon of the mist. "That same trick won't work on me twice Zabuza" The man in question only raised an eyebrow, which looked kind of funny with his lack of eyebrows and all...
"Big talk for a waterlogged scarecrow, come get some then." He egged Kakashi on. In a flash the two were crossing blades again, this time Kakashi seemed to be on even footing as most of the water Zabuza used for his water jutsu was frozen underfoot. Zabuza noticed this "Hehehe so an even battle eh? Fine by me!" He pushed forward on the back of the blade and forced Kakashi back.
"Kakashi-sensei" Naruto yelled. The Jonin glanced to the side for a a split second to catch Naruto's Ninjato, he nodded his quick thanks and brought the sword to bear just in time to catch a downward cut from Zabuza's zanbatou. With a crunch the ice below Kakashi buckled but held under the pressure of the clashing blades.
"Give it up Kakashi, in a battle of swordsmanship you can't beat a Swordsman of the mist!" Zabuza growled, kicking the jonin away and holding his Zanbatou up to point at Kakashi.
"That may be Zabuza but I'm not just using a sword..." Kakashi flipped through several handseals with the sword still in hand and gripped his right wrist. The air around Kakashi slowly started to glow as a harsh crackling sound filled the air.
"What the hell is that?" Zabuza asked eyes wide at the sight.
"Raikiri! My own original jutsu." Kakashi growled, the lightning element chakra forming a circle of energy around him. "And your death."
Zabuza went into a deep kenjutsu stance both hands on his blade, it was a purely defensive stance. 'The hell is with his hand? You can almost see the chakra there...what an insanely powerful technique.' He tensed when Kakashi rushed him 'Need to stay on my toes, one hit from that and I'm gone...'
Zabuza blocked the ninjato and spun out of the way of the Raikiri, the trailing edge of the technique, nicking him from the sheer concentrated power.
'Holy shit! Definitely stay away from that.' and like a dance their duel resumed Kakashi leading with the ninjato while he used his Raikiri to keep Zabuza on his toes, both opponents knowing he only needed one strike to finish things.
Meanwhile Naruto and the others were watching the fight with awe, Naruto and Sasuke were getting a tingling in their hands, they knew that the Raikiri was just a step in magnitude above the tazer in power and concentration. The two Genin looked at each other and flashed a devilish grin between them, a silent agreement to try and copy the technique together. Turning back to the fight, they were shocked to see Zabuza actually putting up a decent defense, that is until Kakashi stopped leading with the ninjato, he switched leading hands at the last moment shocking Zabuza who had brought the flat of the blade up to block. The mist nin watched in horror as his blade was snapped off right above the in-curve of the blade, Kakashi used his shock to land a slash across his shoulder, severing the muscle there and causing the not so heavy Zanbatou to the ground. Before Zabuza could get back and lose ground a heel to his sternum sent him into a nearby tree, not a moment later four kunai lodged into each one of his limbs temporarily crippling him, and if he didn't get medical attention, permanently.
"It's over Zabuza" Kakashi laid the edge of the ninjato against Zabuza's jugular, his Sharingan lazily spinning, only for that eye to widen in horror as a pair of senbon pierced the missing nin's neck, apparently killing him instantly.
Zabuza's eyes bulged sickly as he slumped to the ground, Kakashi turned quickly bringing the ninjato up in a reverse grip defense, but he lowered it a moment later when a short nin in a hunter mask dropped down from the trees.
"Thank you for your help" The youth's voice called out, the pitch of the voice and the size of the body meaning the nin couldn't be much older than Naruto and the others. "I hope you didn't mind me taking the initiative and killing Zabuza myself, he had become quite the elusive target and I wanted the satisfaction of putting him out of his misery myself.
Kakashi knelt down and placed a pair of fingers against his jugular to feel for a pulse. There wasn't one. 'Really dead' Kakashi mused. Standing up he turned again to the hunter-nin "It is no problem hunter-nin-san."
"Oh so you know of the Kiri hunter nin's?" You could almost see the hunters eyebrow raised behind the mask. The figure stood a bit taller "Yes I am a Kiri hunter nin, Zabuza has been my target for quite some time, it's taken me a good 6 months to track the man down to Wave but I can finally call this mission completed. You have my thanks" The Nin bowed and shunshined to the body, Kakashi backed away, he still kept his Sharingan out in case this was some kind of trick but when the nin vanished with the body he relaxed and covered the eye with his headband. He turned to his team and eyesmiled...then fell flat on his face.
'Must have overused the Sharingan' He remarked dryly as his team called out his name in worry. "Don't worry you three I just have chakra exhaustion"
"Then we better get to my home so you can rest" Tazuna offered.
Everyone nodded...except Kakashi, who was finding it hard to even breath at the moment...and what a time to have an itch that he couldn't scratch...
-ooo-
"Are you alright?" A young woman looked down at the bed-ridden Jonin.
"I am fine Tsunami-san."Kakashi said weakly. The young woman above him was a fair sight to behold to the exhausted man, and she was quite the looker too. He mentally let out a little pervy giggle as he waved the woman off. "Just give me a weeks rest and I'll be back to my old self."
"Yeah we can't have you getting even more lazy than you already are" Naruto teased the cyclops, who gave him a blank glare.
"Kakashi-sensei, just who was that ninja earlier?" Sakura asked.
"That, Sakura, was a hunter-nin." he turned his eye to stare at the girl. "Each village has a division of hunter-nin, however that particular nin was apart of Kiri's hunter forces. Kiri's hunter's are infamous for their brutal and meticulous methods."
"Just why would they need a hunter-nin anyway?"
"That is an interesting question Sakura, the main reason for hunters are to go out and capture or dispose of, missing ninja, you see, just because you kill someone doesn't mean their secrets die with them." He held up a single shaky finger. "Take my Sharingan for instance. If I were to be killed and my body taken, someone with enough time and patience could theoretically learn the secrets of the Sharingan and replicate them, it wouldn't be an exact copy but just think for a moment." His eye hardened "A village that can give its entire shinobi population the ability to copy jutsu on the fly with no repercussion to its use?" The thought sent shivers down their spines. "Exactly. That is what hunter nin are for. They go out find nuke nin and if they can capture the nin, they'll take the secrets back with them. If not, they destroy the body on the spot." he let his hand fall, the explanation over.
Meanwhile in a secluded wooded area the masked hunter nin was working over the body of Zabuza.
"Let's see, first the wrappings" The nin grabbed a pair of clippers from the tool roll laid out next to Zabuza. The hunter was about to cut the bandages off Zabuza's face when a hand reached out and gripped the offending limb tightly.
"That's enough Haku, I can handle this part!" he gasped out.
"Oh awake are you? I'm surprised, normally you'd still be out for another hour." The newly named Haku joked.
"Very funny" The Missing nin grouched slowly dragging himself to a sitting position, still felling the senbon in his neck he grasped the weapons and with a viscous yank that sent blood spraying everywhere the two barbs were pulled free.
Haku placed a gentle hand on Zabuza's shoulder, "Please Zabuza-sama, please don't yank those out like that or you really will end up dead."
Zabuza looked up at his apprentices face, which was covered by the emotionless hunter mask, that mask had always irked the ex-ANBU Kiri-nin not because of what it symbolized but that it was something that dredged up ghosts far gone and better left forgotten. He didn't waste time voicing his displeasure. "Haku, take off that damn mask already will you." The young hunter-nin nodded and pulled the mask off revealing a surprisingly beautiful face underneath.
"So what now Zabuza-sama?" The teen was curious, just what were they going to do, Kakashi was a problem, but so were the two boys that were with him, and judging by the skill levels of the boys the girl was most likely skilled as well.
"For now? Nothing. I need to get back to full strength." He growled, struggling to his feet. "After that, we go and kill the bridge builder. Simple as that."
"What about the boy with Hyōton?" Haku asked curious, If he had Hyōton then, maybe...
"I'll think of something" Haku could only nod and follow along with his plans.
The two nin made their way back to their hideout, to heal...and plan.
-ooo-
Kakashi's eyes flew wide and shot up from his futon startling everyone in the room. 'What was that feeling' Kakashi's hand shook as he placed it over his face in shock 'I'm getting seriously bad vibes from this, just why the hell does it feel like I'm missing something, I know Zabuza is dead, I felt his pulse...wait...'
"Kakashi-sensei, what's wrong? Naruto asked.
"Dammit"Kakashi sighed, "Hunter-nin are trained to destroy the bodies of the ones they kill on the spot..."
"You got that feeling too" Naruto asked. Kakashi nodded making Naruto 'tsk' in annoyance.
"Yeah, and?" Sakura asked confused where her sensei was going with this.
"What happened to Zabuza's body?" Kakashi asked out of the blue.
Sakura tilted her head questioningly "Uh I don't know the hunter nin took it away."
"Now why would a hunter-nin who was taught to destroy a body on the spot move a body much larger than them? And on top of that, what did the hunter use to kill Zabuza?"
Sasuke thought a moment 'senbon, used for acupuncture...' his eyes widened "No way."
"Way, Sasuke" Naruto Grimaced, "I had a feeling about it after Kakashi explained what a hunter was earlier, but I didn't think much of it until just now when Kakashi felt it too.
"Yeah, we fucked up." Kakashi sighed "It's highly likely...that Zabuza is still alive..."He trailed off as both Tazuna and Sakura gasped.
"But how? You checked yourself." Sakura said fearfully.
"Senbon Sakura, senbon." Naruto sighed. "Senbon, when used correctly can do any number of things. For someone of hunter-nin skill it's childs play putting someone in a death like state." Kakashi nodded.
"What Naruto said is true. If Zabuza truly is alive we need to be on our toes until we can prove otherwise. Regardless, we still need to keep an eye out for any other people Under Gatō's employ."
"It's not like it matter's anyway..." a voice said. Everyone in the room turned to a young boy who was just walking in the door.
"Inari!" Tsunami smiled "Where have you been all this time?"
"Hey mom, I was out for a walk." he turned to Tazuna "Hey gramps, welcome home." He walked over and gave the old man a hug, all in all it was a sickeningly cute display of affection...well it would be if the little brat wasn't looking at the ninja in the room with an apathetic glare.
"Inari, these are these ninja protected your grandpa, please greet them properly" Tsunami chided.
"But mom, they're just gonna die, they cant beat Gatō."
Naruto snorted at that. Inari turned to him with a glare.
"What's so funny?" he demanded.
Naruto chuckled for a few seconds before breaking out into full on laughter.
"What's so funny?" He demanded again, this time with a harsh edge to his voice.
"You are kid." Naruto laughed, wiping a single tear from his eye. Before Inari could bitch Naruto cut him off. "Kid, telling us that we're gonna die is like telling your gramps over there that he's gonna get a hangover from drinking too much. The only difference is we don't know when we'll die while your gramps knows damn well when he'll get a hangover" He laughed again. "Kid, we're ninja, dying is apart of the job description. We are born and raised to fight, kill and die. For our friends, family and country." his grin turned into a bit of a glare "However, thinking we'll die to some little troll like Gatō is insulting. That bastard doesn't have anything going for him but his money, from what your gramps has told us the dude is as short as you are, he has NOTHING to fight us with himself, he hires his power."
"Then..." Inari began, suddenly feeling a bit out of his league in the argument.
"Nope, wrong again" Naruto cut him off. "We just came out of a battle with an A-class missing-nin and arguably one of the best swordsmen in the elemental nations. If that big of a bastard cant kill this team who do you think will? We're not gonna die that easily kid, if you think that then we can take this outside and I'll show you a thing or two about ninja."
Inari had a look of shock on his face at how blatantly his beliefs had been thrown in his face. He grit his teeth in anger at Naruto, mentally cursing the blonde bastard. "Who do you think you are? You have no right to come in here and talk that way to us, do you have any idea how badly we've suffered under that bastards rule? A ninja like you who probably has had it good all his life what do you know o-" The rest of his words were cut off along with most of his air as a hand gripped his throat, it wasn't a tight grip, just enough to shut him up and hold him off the ground.
"Inari! Naruto!" The people in the room yelled.
"Shut up and back off!" Naruto growled at everyone in the room, his voice sounding slightly deeper as a bit of Kyuubi's chakra ran through his veins in anger. This kid needs a reality check." He tossed Inari on his ass "You want to know how 'Good'" he spat the word "My life was?" The anger in his voice made Inari shake in fear. "You have a family, a home, three square meals." He threw his hands around the room to point this fact out. "Me? I'm an orphan, I didn't have any parents or family, I lived in an orphanage filled with spiteful people who would have seen me starve. I had to dig through trash and steal to even live. As for the villagers, nearly EVERYONE in my village despises me." He spat a curse at a few choice people. "For the first seven years of my life I got glared at and ostracized by the very people I now protect, you want to call your life unfair? How about this? At seven years old I was nearly MURDERED by the villagers I'm protecting, and it took me KILLING a dozen of them and nearly DYING in the process to find someone who shared my lot in life, that woman took me in and I've been what you MIGHT call happy if you'd get your head out of you ass. Life SUCKS kid, get used to it and grow up." He flipped off the room and walked to the door. "If any of you value your life you'll stay the hell away, you too Kakashi I don't want to have to explain your death to Jiji." He slammed the door behind him, a few minutes of silence passed before what sounded like dozens of explosions and the loud snapping of trees broke the silence.
"Ka-Kakashi-sensei... Is everything Naruto said true" Sakura whimpered a little bit as an angry yell ripped through the night while bits of what sounded like splinters hit the roof of the house.
Kakashi sighed. "Yes Sakura, it was all true." His eye turned sad for a moment. "Naruto's younger years were quite bad honestly, there was never really anything physical...aside from that the villagers have done everything they can to destroy him, his life hasn't been-"
Everyone in the room jumped when a piece of tree impaled itself in the front door.
"-Good" Kakashi finished. Sighing once again before laying back in his bed. The third had said that Naruto was a tad touchy when it came to his early years...but this? Best to give the boy time to work of his frustration else he'd find a hole somewhere he didn't want it from the collateral damage. Another explosion rocked the night ... 'Yeah, give him a day or two...' Kakashi sweatdropped...
-ooo-
Not much to say for now, till next time.