After Naruto finished his business up with Tsunami, he had to run off to the bridge.

Normally, Naruto would have arrived a few minutes earlier...those few late minutes changed the Battle of the Bridge immeasurably.

When Naruto entered Haku's Ice Prison, Sasuke was all but beaten. He had managed to activate his Sharingan, but he had just been knocked unconscious, and not put into a near death state. Sasuke had, however, managed to break off her mask in the fight.

When Naruto saw this, he didn't enter into a berserk state. He didn't access the Kyuubi.

No, he saw this as the first practical opportunity to test his new style in actual combat.

And it didn't hurt the way Haku had reacted to his initial flirting.

Oh, sure, she TRIED to claim to be a boy, but Naruto didn't believe her. He had immediately called BS, and then worked some of his...magic...before she had fled. But that's a story for a later day.

No, Naruto decided that maybe Ice Prisons would have good acoustics.

Haku, thinking back to how Naruto sang to her last time, immediately told him to just leave, that she didn't want to kill him. She said, "I don't want to have to kill my heart and become a real shinobi, but I will if I have to."

Naruto just smirked.

When he Kage Bunshin-ed, and the henged his clones into sound equipment, Haku began to blush, remembering his earlier music.

And then the music picked up.

"Haaaaaku! You don't have to put on that Mask tonight
Those days are over, you don't have to sell your body to the night!
Haaaaaaku! You don't have to work for criminals tonight
Killin folks for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if its right!"

'Shit, shit, shit...what the hell do I do?? Nothing Zabuza has ever taught me had to do with guys coming on to me??'

Indeed, Haku had never really dealt with 'interested men' before...she mainly hid her gender because most of the men she had grown up around had no problems with rape. At least Zabuza was smart enough to keep her away from the ones that had no problems with little boys.

But still, this was flattering...a handsome young man singing a song just for her...Haku's inner fangirl, which had never really been given a chance to live before, was beginning its power play to at least have some say in how Haku thought and lived.

"Haaaku, you don't have to put on the white mask
Haaaaaku, you don't have to put on the white mask
Put on the white mask, put on the white mask
Put on the white mask, put on the white mask
Put on the white mask, oh"

'Heh, she's definitely falling for it...Sensei was right, women love a man who can sing.'

Naruto's plans were working. Apparently in the old days everyone sang...there was the King, the Queen, and the Police just offhand who he could remember that sang. 'Seriously,' Naruto wondered, 'Why does it seem like everyone stopped singing?'

But for now, he had a hottie to catch.

So he stepped forward. The space was too limited in the ice prison for Haku to go anywhere, and she wasn't really thinking clearly enough to actually go INTO the ice. It was like a predator stalking his prey, except the prey was rather quickly losing her desire to flee.

"I loved you since I knew ya
I wouldn't talk down to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your senbon
Told you once I won't tell you again it's a bad way"

Naruto reached out. Haku stepped forward. Naruto brushed his hand over Haku's cheek, pushing a loose strand of hair behind her ear. 'Heh...If Sakura could see me now...she would regret having tossed away her chance with me. But no matter...Haku here seems to be once, twice, hell three times the lady that Sakura will ever be.'

So Naruto finished up. The music was hitting its climax. Haku had forgotten about the fight outside. In point of fact, Gatoh had just shown up, and since Kakashi and Zabuza had never felt the Kyuubi's chakra, they never had the urge to end the fight immediately. So both of them were in pretty good working order, and were tearing apart the mercenaries. Gatoh wouldn't be long himself.

But the more important story was happening inside the dome of ice.

""Haaaku, you don't have to put on the white mask
Haaaaaku, you don't have to put on the white mask
Put on the white mask, put on the white mask
Put on the white mask, put on the white mask
Put on the white mask"

As the Kage bunshin chorus picked up on the fading chorus, keeping the music playing softly in the background, Naruto leaned in to kiss her. It was brief, and passionate, and scared the crap out of Haku. She immediately jumped back, and this time, she went into the Ice.

'Damn it! So close!" Oddly enough, both of them thought that, and Haku was cursing her own shyness here. This was too new to her, and she just couldn't deal with it.

Of course, before she did, Zabuza called out to her.

"Hey, Haku! We're done here...Gatoh was a waste. We're heading out."

And with that, the dome retracted itself, seemingly into the ground. Haku appeared next to Zabuza.

"Must we leave right away?"

"Yeah...gotta get some money somewhere."

"Oi, Haku! I'll find ya again, someday! You got my word on it!"

Haku smiled. Zabuza looked confused. Kakashi thought Naruto was talking about kicking 'his' ass.

And with that, the mist missing nin left.

'So goddamn close! Ah, well...next time, next time.'

Author's Notes: This song-"Roxanne", by The Police.

This was Naruto's first field attempt at song fighting. He only really tried it due to an earlier…encounter with Haku in the woods, or otherwise he would have fought normally. The reason being that he hadn't quite worked out all the kinks in how he would go about fighting, and his sensei hadn't given him the go-ahead yet (which occurs right before the chuunin exam finals, where his fight with Neji is where he reveals his skills to the world).