The reaper organization chapter 8
LordofVermillion- thank you
Hoyt- no, he isn't really going to play a big part until later
Syaoran-San- yep, but in a while though
really-great-noodles1- he knew because his scar was hurting, and it was his old apartment. He also has an all-seeing crystal ball…
saiyan prince1- she is in the afterlife……
the-eighth-sin- wow, thanks for the constructive criticism, I will try to keep an eye out for that
00asianwriter00- in a while
Diablo200030002002- because, I want their characters to stay like that when Naruto meets them
ShenobiKageKitsune- or else Orochimaru will get him, and if they kill him, Konoha will react
Biggestboss- no, they aren't the other containers, or else the Shinigami would be free, besides, if they aren't, they get to be rivals to Akatsuki
Duran the Warrior- she'll be like her normal self, without her obsessive crush over Naruto, seriously, like every 3rd line she says some how involves 'Naruto-kun'
Chrozs Areving- yes, I need a name and any ideas for guys that Naruto 'takes care of', like the millionaire guy
Rago Dragovian- well, the only thing is he can die, but that doesn't mean that he is strong enough to defeat Jounins, he is only 12 years old, and the majority of the people he kills are civilians and low ninjas. He can take on lower level jounin, but not Kakashi or Kurenai levels, though he is about equal to Zabuza, I don't exactly want him to become too powerful or there won't really be a plot.
Onto the story…
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Waking up, Naruto stretched and rubbed his eyes. Glancing over at his alarm clock, he groaned and got up. Stretching his arms and legs and adjusting his face mask (he always wore one Kakashi style) he then took a shower. When he got out he slipped on a white sleeveless shirt and some faded jeans, then slipped over his cloak. Performing the hand seals, he performed the Genjutsu that covered his face when he put the cloak on. His greatest weapon was his identity, with it, it was possible to purchase goods at stores, that he would otherwise have trouble with. His reputation often preceded him, and thus store owners were reluctant to sell their items to a cold killer.
Strapping his sword on, he proceeded to move along the dimly lit hallway, to the main meeting room. The events of yesterday slammed him back into reality; he was guarding the Uchiha brat…damn.
Sighing he sat down at his seat and waited for several more of the members to arrive. When everyone was finally there, the Shinigami's form took shape and gazed down at the humans.
He began to belt out orders and sent various members disappearing in puffs of smoke. Some just nodded while others waved goodbye to the others. Finally, Naruto and another boy were the only other ones remaining.
Entou looked up at the Shinigami and waited for his orders. He was from Kiri, and his name means 'remote island', or punishment by being sent to a remote island, which is exactly what, happened to him.
His clan had long ago tried to take over mist, and in their attempted to kill the Mizukage, they were all killed. He was alone a few weeks old when it happened and had been left at home in his crib. When Mist ANBU found him, he was taken by them to the Kage. After several years of growing up with nothing but hate, similar to Naruto, the village had finally had enough of him. He was declared a monster and was tied to a log. Casting him out to sea, he eventually landed on a small remote island. He managed to cut the ropes he was bound to, and was able to carve out a life on his little spit of land, only several miles long, though it had enough vegetation to keep him alive.
He often entertained the thought of suicide, but his will to survive crushed that. So, for 3 years, he was forced to live this lifestyle, until a certain masked silver haired boy arrived onto his island.
Flashback
A young group of children were walking along the docks, many were shivering form the change in temperature, they were right next to the ocean and the cool current was washing over them. They had managed to sneak on board and be stowaways, and had just gotten off the ship. The 5 children stopped at a restaurant and looked at their 'leader' expectantly. Sighing, the silver headed boy pulled out a frog shaped wallet and began counting the bills and coins. Nodding, the children ran inside, leaving the boy to slowly walk inside.
The delicious scent of roasted chicken invaded his nostrils and he eagerly sat up next to his companions, ready to dig in. After a huge meal, the children had misjudged the price of the food, and had unfortunately blown their savings.
Stumbling out of the shop, they wandered around until they reached the islands main city. After robbing several people, they explored the city for awhile, their pockets filled with cash. After getting things like food and bottled water, they moved onto the things like buying new clothes to adapt to the new climate and ninja supplies, then less important things, like candy. After they were done with their purchases they headed off to try and find a hotel for them to stay in.
Searching, they finally found one, and got a room, however, for five children to share one tiny little room was a problem, so they gave the beds to the two girls, while the guys slept on the floor.
In the morning, they all took turns showering, and then left to go see if they could find any more children to recruit to their cause. After several hours it started to snow, and Satsui was miserable. He was used to the warm temperature in Suna, but here it was almost a few degrees under zero. Wiping his nose, he pulled his jacket closer and followed after his friends.
As he was staring at the ground, cursing life for snow, he looked up and sneezed. As he kept sneezing several of the kids stopped and asked if he was alright. He just nodded and put up a miserable grin, then resumed to wiping his nose with his shirt sleeve.
Looking up again to sneeze, he noticed out of the corner of his eye a small bridge with child sitting there. Running up and pulling on Naruto's sleeve he pointed over towards the kid. They were starting to go over and talk to the boy, until the saw a guy with a huge sword on his back come up and start heading straight at them. He looked dangerous, so the group decided not to even let him see them, and they kept going along the street.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
After several more days of not finding anyone to join to their cause, they set off for the dock. Approaching the vessel, they waited for the shipment of rice to come in, so they could sneak in with it.
Finally, the merchant came, along with several wagons full with rice. One by one, each child snuck onto the underside of the wagon and was carried along to the ship. As the farmers un-hooked their horses and headed off, the children began to let themselves down. Rubbing some feeling back into his arms, Naruto led the way down the dark under decks of the ship. After finding a rat underside a crate, Birei was about ready to scream when Saiu managed to slap his mouth over his hand, and made the 'shush' gesture. Stabbing the rat with a kunai, they continued on.
Locating a crate filled with food, they started to move in; setting up the candles they had bought in one of the stores. Suddenly the ship lurched as it started moving away from the port, and it unfurled its sails. Settling down, the five children got ready to sit back and enjoy the boat ride.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
After several days at sea, the children were getting restless. A huge storm was rocking the boat, and soon everyone was getting sick. Finally, it got so bad that they had to go up to the main deck and heave over the side. As Satsui was leaning over, a wave rocked the boat, and he went flying over the edge. But before he hit the water, he felt someone grab his ankle. He was pulled up by Saiu and everyone rushed over to check if he was alright.
He just grinned one of his stupid grins, until the boat really started rocking. Speaking over the rain, Naruto suggested that they go back down, to get away from the rails.
Sneaking back down to the lower decks, the children headed off into one of the many food crates in the belly of the ship, careful not to draw any attention to themselves. As they huddled close together, they were unaware that the captain had given the order to empty out the cargo, it was slowing them down in the storm, and they needed to speed up.
Thus, deckhands swarmed the cargo room, and began picking up the many crates of food and cloth. The children felt the crate they ere being in being hoisted up, and before they get out, the crew had already nailed the top onto the crate. Pounding against the walls, the noise was drowned out over the sound of the storm.
As the crew tossed the crates over the side, some swore that they could screaming.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Luckily, the children had been trapped in a food crate, so at least they had food for several days. After what felt like weeks of constant rocking and perpetual sea sickness, the children were getting quite uneasy. They had been through hell and back, in a small little crate. And it obviously didn't help having a cruel voice inn your head blaming you fro the current situation.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Waking up, Naruto rubbed his eyes. Blinking he tried to get up, but was being squished, seeing as 5 kids were stuffed into a crate about 7x7 ft. Nudging his neighbors, who woke up slowly, he suddenly felt like soothing was wrong. Trying to figure out why he was feeling that way, he came to a conclusion. Nudging everyone awake, who were rather groggy, he told them the news.
"Do you guys feel that?"
"…huh…what?"
"…I don't feel anything…maybe tired…but not really anything."
"Exactly, that it"
"Being tired?"
"No baka, we aren't moving anymore"
Snapping their eyes open in realization, the children began to attempt to create a hole in the ceiling. Using a few kunai to scrape on top of the box, the group finally managed to create a hole big enough for someone's head to fit through. Satsui volunteered and poked his head through. At first, the light blinded him, seeing as the only light they had was from cheap flashlights. As he got adjusted to the light, he heard the other kids asking questions, "What do you see?"
"Uh…well…there are trees…and…uh sand…and more water…"
"Ugh baka, what else?"
"Well…it looks like foot prints are on the beach…"
"Really? Do they look recent?"
"Yeah… Let's keep making the hole" and so he ducked back down and started to make the hole larger.
Eventually, they were all able to get out, and stretch their legs, something that felt great. Immediately, Naruto suggested that they explore the island and begin to make preparations to escape.
After several hours of walking thought he forest, Naruto used a kunai to cut away some ferns that hindered his progress, when suddenly he came face to face with a spear. Eyes widening, he back flipped to avoid another one. Scanning the surrounding foliage, he tried to locate the attacker, but he just could see through all of the damn plants.
Another spear flew at his head, but he was bale to dodge, only to be punched in the gut. After the initial shock, he glanced down and saw that his attacker was a boy his age. There was a large 'x' shaped scar on his cheek, and before he could look anymore, the force of the blow sent him slamming into a tree.
Nearby, Saiu was slashing down forest, when he heard what sounded like a fight. Narrowing his eyes he tried to drown out the various noises around him, such as the bugs and bird calls. Unable to filter out the sound, he began to run towards the sounds, something didn't feel right.
Meanwhile, the two boys were exchanging punches and kicks, and Naruto was surprised this kid was this good. Blocking punch, he tried to roundhouse the kid in the face, but he was able to bend over backward to avoid, then slammed the points of his feet into Naruto's chin, sending him up a few inches.
After wiping a small line of blood form his chin, Naruto tried to swing again only to be back handed into a tree. Gripping the back of the silver-haired boy's neck, the other boy slammed his head into a tree trunk. Dazed, Naruto stumbled and that was all the other boy needed to grab the boys chin and the top of his head. He was about to snap his neck when one of the spear from earlier was thrown straight at his head. Realizing that the silver haired boy was not alone, the scarred boy slammed Naruto's head into a tree with enough force to knock him out. He then got ready to engage his new opponent.
Saiu emerged from behind one of the trees and pulled out the kunai Naruto had given him, so if some wild animal attacked he could defend himself.
Charging at the other boy, Saiu attacked. Trying to avoid the blade, the scarred boy was facing a losing battle; he had no way of countering the kunai's blade. So faced with retreat, he raced into the surrounding foliage.
Faced with the situation of following the boy, or taking Naruto back, Saiu chose to help his friend, the other kid would have to wait. Slinging Naruto's unconscious form over his shoulder, he walked back to the food crate they had come in. The others were still out in the forest; it would probably several hours before they came back. Sending a stoic glance over at Naruto's unconscious form, Saiu shrugged and began to eat a coconut with his kunai.
When the others had gotten back, they had all decided that it was probably a good idea to try and ignore the kid. Well, everyone except Shashu.
That night, all the children fell asleep, with Shashu as guard. Her eye lids were drooping; she was barely awake when she heard the rustle of leaves. Holding up her kunai, she began to walk towards the sound slowly. Suddenly, a small pig rushed out from the ferns, startling her.
She breathed out, glad that it was just an animal, then returned back to the stump she was sitting on before. She yawned and then scanned the tree line, content with the fact that she couldn't hear anything else moving, she decided that it was safe, and went over and shook Naruto awake. As he got up, she took one of their few remaining kunai and said she was going out to take a bath in one of the small ponds in the center of the island. Naruto, already knowing what she was doing, just nodded. And with that she left, disappearing into the dark forest.
Several hours later Naruto was starting to get worried, she hadn't gotten herself killed had she? His attention turned to the thick foliage near him, and he brought his kunai up. What he saw surprised him, Shashu was walking alongside the other boy, and Shashu was waving at him. He scanned her, trying to look for any injuries, but didn't find any. So she was fine. He turned his focus onto the boy and saw he was looking down at the ground, kicking a small pebble. After waking up the rest of the kids, they all introduced themselves and found out that the poor boy didn't have a name. So they all named him Entou, though he could care less. After hearing his life story, they agreed that he should be allowed to join their group, and happily welcomed him in. After several weeks, they were able to escape by building a raft; it went by very quickly with six people working together.
/flashback
Entou and Naruto had become like brothers, though they still had their disagreements, such as when Entou bragged that the first time they met that he kicked Naruto's ass, which greatly pissed off the silver haired boy. Enotu's weapon was a massive trident, and with it, he had complete mastery over water. His codename was restraint, he held a great hate for Mist, and he loathed the Mizukage.
"Entou, you are to go and eliminate a several missing nin from Iwa, they are attempting to hide in one of the islands in Mist."
Nodding, Entou pulled his hood over his face and disappeared in a puff of smoke. Awaiting his instructions, Naruto gazed up at the death god, already knowing half of his mission.
"Naruto….the others have already told me the plan. You are to protect the Uchiha from the snake. In order to lower suspicion, you are also to eliminate Gato, seeing as he is from the land the Uchiha is heading too. You are dismissed."
Nodding, Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Kakashi yawned and looked over at his alarm clock. It was only 10 am, he could still sleep for a few more hours, it's not like his students couldn't wait a while. So he went back to his dreams about Icha Icha.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"WHERE THE HELL IS THAT DAMN PERVERT!"
"CHA, ILL KICK HIS ASS SHANNARO!"
Sakura was very angry, obliviously. Kakashi was already 4 hours late, a new record even for him. But the main reason she was so angry was because he was making her 'Sasuke-kun' wait, how dare he make her sweet prince WAIT!
Seething, Hanabi just took one look at the girl and sighed. Why must she be stick with the pathetic loser known as 'Sakura'. She had NO ninja skill, and all she did was spout large amounts of insults at other people. Sighing, Hanabi resumed to meditating on a nearby tree branch. Sasuke was staring at the ground reminiscing, and clenching his fist harder and harder. Nobody knew what was going though his head, so Hanabi just ignored it while Sakura had hearts for eyes.
Finally, Kakashi showed up, with his token book in hand. Not even looking up at them, he just muttered something about meeting him at the hokage tower before disappearing in a puff of smoke. The genin sighed and began to walk, why did they have to get stuck with the lazy pervert?
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
As Kakashi passed though the halls of the hokage tower, everyone greeted him cheerfully,
"Hello Kakashi-san!"
"Hey Kakashi, whats up?"
"Hi there Kakashi-kun!"
"Get off him you whore, he is MINE!"
Not even looking up from his book, Kakashi just ignored the massive catfight going on in front of him, and went up the stairs to the Hokage's office. Pushing aside the door, he came face to face with a blushing old man holding an identical book. A few seconds of silence went by until Kakashi spoke up,
"Good book huh…"
The Hokage just nodded, with a blush on his cheeks as he hid the book in his drawer. Several minutes went by of silence, the hokage's embarrassment made him forget why he had even called the jounin here. Finally, he remembered why he and cleared his throat,
"Kakashi, where is your…"
3 Sweating genin collapsed on the floor. In-between pants, Sakura tried to explain why they were late,
"Well (pant) we were coming here (pant) when a group of (pant) sensei's fan girls (pant) ran us over and (pant) carried us to the official (pant) 'Kakashi fan-club meeting'…"
The old man sent a pitying look to the Uchiha, whose eye was twitching, then turned his attention back to the poor pink haired girls story.
"And then (pant) 2 freaks wearing spandex (pant) challenged us to a race back to the (pant) village, and they carried us all the way outside the village, then left us there after (pant) they both ran off (pant) and then…"
Coughing the old man interrupted her story; he didn't want to hear anymore about the poor genin's lament.
"So, anyway, the reason I called you here is to give you your missions for the day…"
Rummaging though his desk he pulled out several manila folders, with 'D-RANK' stamped on them.
"You are to help baby-sit Mrs. Pansuke's 30 children, then help clean the front lawn of the Inuzuka clan house, then pull up potatoes for Mr…"
"I AM TIRED OF ALL THESE DAMN D-RANK MISSIONS, GIVE US SOMETHING MORE EXITING!"
Everyone stared at Hanabi; everyone had expected Sakura to yell first.
"I DEMAND AS A HYUUGA, TO RECIVE AT LEAST A C-RANK RIGHT NOW!"
The old man sweat dropped and looked though his desk for a C-rank mission, it was best not to piss off the daughter of Hyuuga Hiashi. Finally he pulled one out and read its contents,
"You are to guard a bridge builder to the land of waves…"
Hanabi just smirked, it was great being a Hyuuga sometimes…
The Hokage pressed a button on his intercom, and shortly after, an old man walked into the room. Taking several long gulps of sake, he took one look at the genin, and then laughed.
"Wow, that's funny, for a second there I thought that these little brats were gonna be the ones protecting me!"
The Hokage just gave him a critical eye, they, ARE the ones who will be protecting you Tazuna-san…"
Giving an incredulous look at the Hokage then back at the brats, Kakashi spoke up before he could insult his students a second time.
"I will also be accompanying you, and I am a jounin, and quite able to handle anything we come across."
Rolling his eyes, Tazuna turned around and left. Kakashi gave the order to his students to go and get ready; they were leaving first thing in the morning. After his students were gone, he turned back to the Hokage,
"So have you gotten to page 45 yet?"
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
The next day, Sasuke, Hanabi and Sakura were waiting for their sensei. Tazuna had just returned from one of the local bars carrying a few extra bottles of sake. Sakura sighed, and then continued to ask Sasuke out. Sasuke was getting to get irritated, why wouldn't the girl shut up?
Looking up, Sasuke grunted at their Sensei's arrival. He just gave of one of his pathetic excuses, then gave to order to move out. Team 7 left the main gate and continued on the road, oblivious that they were being watched. Sakura was walking next to Sasuke, who was silent. Hanabi was just as quiet, not really caring about her two other teammates.
'Ugh, why did I have to be stuck with that damn pink haired bitch, she is absolutely USELESS! At least the Uchiha is competent. Still don't understand why I couldn't take a few branch members along to carry this pack for me…'
Kakashi was too busy reading his book, and Tazuna was taking the occasional sip of Alcohol, causing his walking to be wobbly. Flipping the page on his book, Kakashi looked up to see a puddle in the middle of the road, rolling his eye at the pathetic attempt at a 'surprise attack', he marked the page he was on and kept his eye on the puddle. As he passed it, he began to make hand seals.
Sakura was glancing at all the plants and flowers on the sides of the road when she heard a splash sound and turned to look at two ninja leaping out of that small puddle. She couldn't move, she was too scared, only letting out a silent scream when she waited for the end. Then she heard a scream, and she opened her eyes. In front of her was a cloaked figure, holding a huge bloody sword. On the ground were the arms of the ninja, whose faces with laced with pain. One ninja, tried to punch the cloaked figure, only to have a kunai rammed into his skull. Falling down to the ground dead, the other could just watch as his neck was grabbed and slammed into a nearby tree trunk. Gasping for air, the ninja tried to escape, but the figures grip was just too strong. The cloaked person finally spoke up,
"Where is Gato?"
The missing nin, fearing for his life, stammered out, "I…I…don't…know…."
"Then you are useless to me" Letting go of the man's throat, the missing-nin tried to fight back, but blood loss was affecting his movement. Using the giant zanbato, Mercy sliced off his other arm, then his legs. He finally ended the nin's suffering, slicing off his head in one swing. Walking over to the other nin, he used his sword like a guillotine to cut off the other brother's head. Sealing the two heads into a scroll, Mercy pocketed it. He acted oblivious to the terrified looks the genin were giving him as he just formed a few hand seals, and then burnt the bodies to ashes using a Katon jutsu.
Kakashi chose this moment to come out, kunai ready in hand watching the cloaked persons every move, trying to figure out if he was a threat. Turning around to face Kakashi, he just muttered something, and then sheathed his sword. Kakashi was the first to speak, "Mercy…"
"Sharingan no Kakashi…." Mercy knew that Kakashi was far too powerful to fight, and the fact that he would fight even more intensity to protect his student's lives, he would have to be careful not to piss him off.
Sakura was still getting over the fact that the person in front of them just brutally slaughtered tow missing nin in seconds. Hanabi's eyes widened at the sight, traveling from the place where the bodies were, to the huge bloody sword on his back.
"Well, why are you still here?"
Ignoring Kakashi, Mercy turned to look at Tazuna, who had sobered up after watching the 'fight'. Swallowing, Tazuna was sweating bullets as Mercy strode over and looked straight at him.
"Excuse me sir, but do you know where a man named Gato lives?"
Nodding nervously, Tazuna just watched as Mercy just kept staring at him, like he was expecting more information. Running to hide behind Kakashi, Tazuna tried to escape the killer. Mercy just looked on amused; it always felt so good to get such a reaction out of people. Kakashi just gripped his kunai tighter, and narrowed his eye, "what do you want?"
Mercy looked over at the Jounin, "If I wanted to kill you, I would have done so already."
Kakashi tried to determine if he was telling the truth, but he couldn't see his face.
Hanabi made a few discrete hand seals, and then whispered, "Byakugan" As she looked over at the cloaked figure; she was shocked that she couldn't see though his cloak, or even see his face. Turing around to look at the Hyuuga, Mercy just stared at her, even though she couldn't see his eyes, she could tell he was looking straight at her, and it was scaring her. She knew that she would have no chance in a fight against him. She back up several feet and released her Kekkei Genkai.
Turning away from the girl, Mercy spoke to Kakashi, "Hmph, might as well just stay with you guys…."
Kakashi, shocked, knew something was up, "What?"
"Simply because the man behind you knows where my target is and is unfortunately not sharing his information with me, and someone obviously targeted him. There could be a possibility that more missing-nins would show up, which means more money for me. Also, it's just too funny watching your student's reactions to death."
Kakashi was gawking, and finally spoke up, "Ninjas from different villages don't just 'team up', it's not normal…"
"And so sharing eyes with your best friend is considered normal?"
Kakashi just stayed silent, shocked to the core that someone knew his secret, then eventually looked back at his team, with his eye in the up side down 'U' shape. "All right then, I guess we should head out….but," Turing serious he glared at Mercy, "I'm keeping my eye on you…and as for you Tazuna…" Said man gulped, "would you mind telling us why exactly we were attacked?"
Tazuna looked down at the ground and gave his speech on how poor Wave was, and how Gato was leeching off all the citizens and had taken over control of the entire island. Kakashi nodded, and then sighed, "Well, you do realize that with the presence of missing nin and…" sending a look at mercy, "that this mission is now at least a b-rank, I am not so sure we are ready for a b-rank mission yet…"
Hanabi just glared at the man, how dare he deem her weak! Barely containing her rage, she chose instead to watch Sakura pound the crap out of their sensei for even attempting to send them back. Though, she actually really wanted to go home, she just wanted to look brave in front of Sasuke, who in return, just grunted and retuned to looking off into nothingness.
And so team 7 decided to go on with the mission, Kakashi whipped out his little book, much to the disgust to everyone present and began to walk down the road again. Mercy walked along with Kakashi, leaving Tazuna and the genin to stand their gawking.
After getting over the fact that that Mercy guy was walking with them, they sobered up and kept their eyes on him, not trusting him at all.
Suddenly Mercy stopped and turned his head to look at the tree tops.
"Need I kill you too?"
A rustle of leaves and the figure was gone. Resuming walking, Mercy left team 7 behind shocked, who had been spying on them?
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Kabuto cursed, he had been in a prime spot to see Sasuke's skills at work, but Mercy had killed the Chunin before Sasuke fought them. Oh well, at least Sasuke hadn't been killed.
Still, that damn freak was a thorn in Orochimaru-sama's side; he was one of the nine who constantly destroyed sound outposts. Orochimaru-sama was not going to like the fact that Mercy was with Sasuke.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Walking down the road, Sakura kept trying to get Sasuke's attention, but he was too busy trying to find how powerful this guy was in front of him. He had killed those Chunin in seconds, could he help him become stronger?
'He is defiantly worth keeping an eye on'
Hanabi was trying to keep her cool, but she was failing miserably. She was walking very close to Kakashi, trying to use the man as a human shield in the event Mercy attacked. The images of the two missing nin being killed kept playing though her head, 'how could someone become so merciless, well, I guess that goes with the name…'
Kakashi was trying his best to concentrate on his book, but he just couldn't help but feel like Mercy was there for some…other reason. Sure, his reasons for staying with them seemed simple enough, but still…
Sending the said figure a glance out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Mercy just kept walking straight ahead, revealing none of his thoughts to the rest of them.
After several hours of walking they arrived at the dock where one of Tazuna's friends was waiting with a small boat. The man smiled and gestured to the boat, and that's when he saw the cloaked figure. A tingle went up his spine, they guy just made him feel nervous. He tried to remain calm as he told the guy that the boat could only hold so many people, when Mercy just stepped down onto the surface of the water.
"I do not need to ride in the boat"
The Sasuke and Sakura's and Tazuna and his friend's eyes bugged out, how was he walking on the water? Hanabi already knew the exercise, but the moron expected to be able to walk all the way to the land of waves? He was insane!
Kakashi just ignored it and sat down and continued to read his book, but he was really watching Mercy, 'hmmm, he must be extremely confident in his abilities, now just to see if he can last that long.'
Mercy just turned to look at Team 7, "Are we leaving now?"
Snapping back to reality, the boat owner picked up his hat and put it on his head. Intimidated, he swallowed his spit and pushed the boat of the dock. As soon as they began to leave, Mercy began to walk along side them, not even looking at them. Tazuna just fell asleep, nothing was going to wake him up after consuming the amount of sake he had.
After about fifteen minutes, everyone was expecting Mercy to get tired and stop, but he showed no signs of fatigue, even his breathing was regular. Kakashi was starting to understand how powerful this figure was, when the first patches of fog came into sight. Mercy stopped and looked over to the left. Suddenly he sped off to the side. Thankful that he was gone Sakura let out sigh, she was almost scared too flirt with Sasuke, almost. Kakashi was thinking what would drive the figure to leave them so suddenly, was there an enemy ahead? Shrugging, he resumed to reading his smut. Tazuna's friend was busy explaining to them that Gatos boats regularly patrol the area, so they needed to be quiet, something everyone but Sakura was able to do. So, she decided to ask her sensei who Mercy was. The answer she got annoyed her,
"I'm sorry Sakura, but I am not allowed to tell you."
Sakura just grunted and retorted, "Yeah right, you are probably just too lazy to tell us."
Kakashi just grinned, "Well, getting to know classified info is one of the perks of getting a higher rank."
Hanabi was getting upset that he wasn't serious. Looking over at Sasuke she noticed he was straing in the direction Mercy left. So, she decided to use her Byakugan to try and see where he was, if he was just waiting for them to drop their guard. As she scanned the area outside of the boat, she found no sign of him, he must really be gone. But why would he leave them, he already said he was there for the bounties on missing nin and his mission, maybe he had already found that Gato person…
Content with him gone, she relaxed a little more, until her range of sight caught something coming straight at them, it was a ship. What the man had said earlier about a Gato's men paroling these waters came back to her. She tensed and grabbed her Sensei's sleeve and pointed towards the incoming vessel. Kakashi looked up for a second then went back to reading his porn, which Hanabi angrily threw into the water. Sad that his novel was ruined, Kakashi had no choice but to look in the direction Hanabi was pointing. Staining his eye to try and see though the fog, he found that he couldn't see. So he shrugged and pulled out another book, effectively pissing Hanabi off. As the ship got closer and closer, all they could see was a black silhouette. Soon, it crossed their path and Team 7 got a good look at a blood splattered vessel, complete with bodies hanging over the side. It was at least 50 ft long, and had several decks. It was leaving behind a trail of blood, causing several sharks to be following the ship.
All of them were shocked, until they saw Mercy, then they were scared. He was holding his huge sword, and though it was the body of one of gato's thugs. As he slid his sword out, he turned his head under his hood to look at them. All the genin immediately retched over the side. Kakashi sighed and closed his book,
"I would appreciate it if you stopped scarring my students for life"
Mercy leapt off the ship and landed on the water with a small splash. Then he made a hand seal, and several explosions went off in the ship. Team 7 watched the ship sink before their very eyes. After several minutes, the boat had been completely sunk, and Tazuna's friend passed out form fear. It wasn't really his fault, as Mercy was letting out a small amount of killing intent, enjoying watching the genin squirm. Tazuna woke up and looked around at all the scared faces, then he saw the images of his death playing though his mind and he started to sweat, he couldn't even move it was so terrifying.
Kakashi put his book down on the bottom of the boat and readied a kunai, prepared to defend his students. As soon as his did this however, Mercy immediately shut off his killing intent, and waited for Kakashi to revive the sailor and Tazuna. As soon as they were up, they continued on their way, all the genin trying not to act like they were afraid.
Hanabi was getting bored, it had been several hours since they had left, and they most exiting thing was watching a school of dolphins swim by. She decided to meditate, but before she did, she wanted to ask how Mercy was able to hide form her bloodline, so sounding more like her sister, she timidly asked him,
"A-ano…Mercy-san…um…"
Mercy looked over his shoulder at the Hyuuga, the disgust on his face unseen.
Now that he was looking at her, she got even more timid,
"I…uh…I …wanted…to um…know...how you are able to…um ….block the Byakugan…"
Just giving her a cold glare, several seconds went by, that felt like ages to the poor girl. Finally he spoke, "A true ninja doesn't give away his secrets so easily."
At his response, her inherited Hyuuga pride kicked in, "Do you realize WHO you are talking to? I am the daughter of Hyuuga…"
In the blink of an eye, Mercy's sword was pointed straight at her throat.
"Does it look like I care?"
Sakura and Sasuke immediately stood up in the boat and tried to though a few kunai at him, trying to defend their teammate. That was a huge mistake, standing up in a very small boat is a bad idea, and so the boat rocked a little, knocking them backwards. Unfortunately for Sasuke, he was nearer the edge, and fell back into the water. Kakashi held ran a hand though his hair then put his book down and looked into the water, ignoring Sakura screams that her love was drowning, and for her sensei to save him. Sasuke finally came up gasping for air, and climbed back into the boat. He glared at Mercy after he heard him snickering, while Kakashi gave him some advice,
"I would suggest a Katon Jutsu to dry off"
Sasuke suddenly felt something inch up his back, and he yelled and shot upright, once again the boat rocked and everyone swung their arms around trying to find balance, well mostly the genin and Tazuna, as Kakashi was using charka to stick to his seat.
Tazuna unfortunately also fell into the water and came sputtering up after several seconds, his eyes widening as he tried to swim, but he was just too old. Kakashi made several hand seals and a giant bubble of air surrounded Tazuna underwater. After floating up above the boat, he was gently let down and Sakura began to help the poor old man get rid of the water in his lungs. Pressing down on his chest, he finally spewed the sea water all over Kakashi whose eye just twitched for several seconds.
After the boat was stabilized, Sasuke clawed his hands at his back trying to get off whatever was climbing on him. Resorting to taking off his shirt, which made Sakura pass out form a nose bleed and make Hanabi feel nauseated, crawling all over Sasuke were dozens of leeches, some were already sucking his blood, and he began to viciously rip them from his body. Kakashi just sighed, and then helped his student while Hanabi was trying to get as far away from the edge as possible. Obviously the water was filled with thousands of leeches. Mercy just watched as Tazuna's friend immediately started to pry them off Tazuna, who was quickly paling.
Mercy was smirking, 'nice one Uchiha, nice one'
Noticing Hanabi's fear of the leeches, he decided to play with her a little. Biting his thumb, he let a few small drops of blood fall from his thumb. Before they hit the water, several leeches jumped out and intercepted them. Next he made a few hand seals, and then whispered his jutsu. Everyone was looking at him now, Kakashi ready to attack if the Jutsu was aimed at them.
"Raiton: Doudou Dengeki" (Grand electric shock)
He directed his hand towards the water then released the jutsu. A small bolt of lightening struck the water, and instantly hundreds of dead leeches floated up to the surface. The shock didn't affect him because he was wearing rubber sandals.
Hanabi was practically panicking now, and was thrashing around in the boat. Kakashi just grabbed her arm and sat her back down, "Aren't you a ninja? They are just leeches" Sending a glare at Mercy for starting this whole thing, he had to resume to helping his students. At least he had killed all of the pests near them…
Still panicking, Hanabi was babbling something incoherent, and Kakashi sighed and pressed a pressure point on her neck. She instantly passed out and he resumed to prying the leeches off Sasuke, while Sakura, who had gotten up from Hanabi's panicking, was staring dreamily at Sasuke's chest, a small amount of drool hanging out of her mouth
"HELL YEAH, NOW I CAN BRAG TO INO-PIG ABOUT SEEING SASUKE'S CHEST, HELL YEAH!"
After several minutes, all the leeches were off Sasuke, who looked paler than usual, and Hanabi had woken up and calmed down. Sakura was already flirting with Sasuke, and Mercy was just watching them all, with something akin to humor. It amused him to no end seeing how pathetic the Konoha genin were, but still, it did not overrule his want to kill them. Sighing, he bit his thumb again and smelled the blood, that always made him calm down. Apparently blood lust was something he got from the fox.
You should be glad you have bloodlust, it make battles much more …exiting
Yeah, yeah, hey, if I had to kill the annoying Hyuuga, how should I kill her?
And so boy and fox conversed about different ways of slaughtering the genin, and replaying several memories of bloody battles.
Finally, after 30 more minutes, they passed underneath the massive bridge, causing everyone to look up in wonder, and having Tazuna swell up in pride. They eventually reached the shore on wave, and team 7 and Tazuna climbed out, leaving Mercy to easily walk onto the land. The group said their goodbyes to the sailor, they continued on. After several minutes of walking, Mercy judged that the boat was now out of earshot, even to Kakashi. So, he detonated the exploding tags he had placed on the boat, and smirked, it was nothing personal really, he just didn't like having anyone know where he was, and he also didn't want the others to think he had gone soft. Out of the corner of his eye, he watched the explosion out a sea.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Walking though the forest was boring for Sasuke, he was hoping that there would be some ninja to fight or something, some chance to prove that he was strong in front of his team and that Mercy guy. Something that bugged him was Mercy's height. He was probably just a few inches taller than him, and his voice sounded like he was their age. This blew his mind, how could someone as old as him be so powerful, was he doing something that restricted his training? He needed to get more powerful faster.
Sakura noticed the frown that adorned her Sasuke-kun's face, and though that maybe he would feel better if she gave him a hug, so she latched onto his arm, and with each passing second, his frown grew, which made his latch on even MORE.
Hanabi just causally turned on her bloodline, checking all around them in case of attack. After while she got bored and turned it off, she didn't really need to check for attack, she had a jounin watching after her already, though she was still steaming inside about how heavy her pack was, and mentally screaming at Kakashi for not letting her take along some branch members, who was going to cook her food for her, and watch out for her safety who was going to fan her from the excessive humidity? She just groaned, a very un-hyuuga like thing to do, and walked on.
Tazuna just kept shivering, but not because he felt cold, but because he felt like he was being watched…he knew Gato wanted him dead, but he didn't know how much, a missing nin could be in that tree or even behind that bush. He strode closer to Kakashi, who just smiled back, "Oh Tazuna, I didn't know you swung that way…" Causing Tazuna to smack him in the back of the head.
The three genin just rolled their eyes, leave it to their teacher to be a baka. Mercy suddenly pulled out his sword and sliced into a nearby bush. Kakashi had already pulled out a kunai and watched as he leaped into the bush. Suddenly, half of a rabbit splattered against a tree, followed by the other half. Mercy came out cursing and pulled out a small piece of cloth to wipe the blood of his sword, something that un-nerved almost everyone. Noticing their discomfort, Mercy just smirked and spoke up, "The blood attracts bugs…"
A few minutes afterward, Mercy ducked down, and noticing this, Kakashi pushed his students and Tazuna over just in time. A huge sword came flying out and imbedded itself into a tree trunk. Then Zabuza appeared and crossed his arms as he looked down at Team 7.
"Hmph, Sharingan-no Kakashi I've read about you in my bingo book." Pulling out a book from one of his pockets, the others just sweatdropped.
"Oh god not another one…" mumbled Sakura as she looked up at the missing nin, who had just accidentally pulled out his Icha Icha book.
Haku just smacked her face as she was hiding up in a tree, 'Zabuza-sama, why didn't you leave that at the hideout…'
Getting rid of the book, Zabuza blushed, and then turned his attention to Mercy, who was calmly string at him, and it gave him the creeps.
"Mercy…I guess we finally meet. Now, I'm sure you know why I'm here, so I am going to give you the option of doing this the easy way, or the hard way."
Mercy just unsheathed his massive sword, and Kakashi unveiled his Sharingan eye and both simply waited for Zabuza to move. Suddenly a huge blade shot its way into Zabuza's stomach, and Team 7 just stared. Zabuza's face contorted in pain, until he finally exploded into water. An exact copy of Mercy was still holding his sword where Zabuza's clone was, and Kakashi tried to think of when he had used Kage Bunshin.
'Mizu-Bunshin!' thought Mercy, before he tuned around and blocked Zabuza's slash, and as he was busy blocking his sword, another Zabuza shoved his sword into Mercy's stomach, and smirked, "Revenge is a bitch…"
Suddenly Mercy's body turned into a cloud of smoke, and Zabuza rolled foreword to avoid Mercy's aerial attack. After planting his sword in the ground, Mercy held onto the handle and slammed his feet into Zabuza's stomach, causing the man to hit the ground hard. After pulling up his sword, Mercy charged at Zabuza, who had just recovered, and had his sword ready to slice the cloaked figure. As Zabuza was swinging, Mercy jumped and landed on top of the missing nin's blade, running down the sword ready to decapitate Zabuza. Zabuza could only watch as the sword neared his head, until his head came off.
Mercy narrowed is eyes, 'that was too easy…' And on que, Zabuza's body exploded into water.
"Suiton: Suiryudan no jutsu"
A dragon made of water raced at mercy, who was trying to escape, but a pillar of ice was holding his leg. Looking up in the nearby trees, he saw a mist hunter nin, whose hands were in a hand seal. He took note of her position, and then braced himself for the water dragon.
Haku was panicking now, she knew Zabuza couldn't take on two high level ninja at once…So she had decided to reveal her presence and use her blood line to trap Mercy.
Team 7 could only watch as Mercy was engulfed in water, and when the attack was over, he was no where to be seen. Zabuza smirked as he jumped down from a tree and charged Kakashi, who got into a defensive position with his kunai. Blocking Zabuza's sword attacks, he was being pushed back, until he felt several ice kunai stab themselves into his back. Grunting in pain, he leapt up into the air to avoid Zabuza's swing, but he was wide open to Haku, who took advantage of his momentary weakness.
Several ice senbon blasted out of the trees, heading straight at him. They all stabbed into him, until 'Kakashi' turned into a log. Kakashi threw several kunai at the mysterious hunter nin who was working for Zabuza, when he noticed said swordsman charging at him again. Looking over at his team, he noticed they were all in fear, though they were trying their best to look brave, he could see the ways their eyes were moving around, constantly trying to be as alert as possible.
With his momentary distraction, Zabuza had already created a huge amount of mizu bunshins. But when Kakashi turned to look at the small army, all he saw was globs of charka and water, 'so the real one must be hiding somewhere…'
"Suiton: Suiryudan no jutsu"
Another huge water dragon shot out from the lake, and like Mercy, Kakashi found himself stuck to a pillar of ice. He crossed his arms out in front of him, and soon the dragon engulfed him.
Sakura's eyes opened as she screamed out in horror, "Kakashi-sensei!" Hanabi however smirked; she could see the real Kakashi getting behind the fake-hunter nin, ready to attack with his kunai. He had replaced himself with a Mizu Bunshin he had created earlier to avoid the water dragon, things were looking good for team 7 if Kakashi's smarts kept up.
Just as Kakashi was about to stab the hunter nin, several ice kunais flew out at him from his right. Forced to jump back, he landed on the lake, but that was exactly what Haku wanted. Making several hand seals, she shouted out her technique,
"Touketsu Nijuurasen no jutsu" (frozen double helix)
Two columns of water formed around Kakashi and began to twirl into the double helix shape, at least 50 feet skyward and to make things worse his Sharingan wasn't working,
'hmm must be a bloodline limit…'
Kakashi could only watch as the two columns created a giant glass like structure around him, and then when it was done, the water turned to ice. The masked jounin knew that whatever was happening, it looked like a finishing move, so it looked like he had to play his trump card, but before he could collect his charka to his hand, several water tendrils latched onto his arms and legs, and bound him in place. From his position at the bottom, Kakashi knew he was beat, he could only hope that Zabuza was watching him die instead of attacking the genin.
Apparently he was lucky, seeing as Zabuza appeared at the lip of the giant glass, and Kakashi knew that this was the end. Making several hand seals, Zabuza was about ready to flood the structure, when suddenly, he felt another presence to his left. Stopping his hand seals, Zabuza grabbed his sword and used it to deflect Mercy's sword. Unknown to him, a kage Bunshin pushed Zabuza down. As Zabuza was free falling, he quickly grabbed his sword and rammed it into the wall. Leaving a huge crack down the side, Zabuza finally stopped and flipped up on the handle of his massive sword, and began to make hand seals. Mercy jumped down and began making his own hand seals, and soon they shouted out their Justus,
"Katon: Karyu Endan no jutsu"
"Suiton: Suiryudan no jutsu"
The two elemental dragons charged headfirst into each other, causing a huge amount of steam to be created, temporarily blinding everyone in inside Haku's jutsu.
Outside, the Genin could only watch as Mercy and Zabuza both dove inside the structure, but that's when Sasuke noticed that the Hunter nin was vulnerable…
Haku was getting tired, the problem with this jutsu was that it drained so much chakra and what's more, se had to be in constant contact with it, leaving he with both of her hands against the ice. She kept the genin in the corner of her eye and cursed when she saw the black haired one throw a whole slew of shuriken at her. She let one hand off the structure and felt the tremendous surge of pain that rush though her other arm. The jutsu required such enormous charka that when she lifted off her hand, her other arm was forced to double the amount of charka in it, causing her chakra pathways to nearly burst.
Making several hand seals, Haku shouted out her technique,
"Sentatsu Suisho" (Thousand flying water needles of death)
Out of the lake water, Haku's ice needles shot themselves at Sasuke and intercepted his shuriken, what she didn't expect was the Hyuuga to leap in front of him,
"Kaiten"
Spinning on the water, Hanabi formed her clans absolute defense technique, but instead of just deflecting the needles, she sucked them into the jutsu, so hundreds of needles were rushing around her with her chakra, releasing the jutsu at just the right moment, all the needles were sent at Haku at incredible speeds.
Her eyes widening, she knew she would be skewered if she stayed right there, but if she moved, the Jutsu would collapse on Zabuza. Sighing, she knew that Zabuza wouldn't be able to take on Mercy and Kakashi alone, her sacrifice would be pointless and either way the jutsu would go down.
Letting go of the Jutsu, she jumped up and avoided the needles, and landed on the nearby shore, only to find herself locked in hand to hand combat with the Uchiha. Retreating she ran across the lake and began to make more hand seals, to which Sasuke pulled out a fuuma shuriken and threw it at her. Haku narrowed her eyes and shouted out her jutsu,
"Mizuumi tsurara" (lake of icicles)
The surface of the lake suddenly froze over, and then formed a massive depression, and all of the sides were covered in extremely sharp icicles. Haku managed to dodge most of the fuuma shuriken, but was unable to avoid the second shuriken in its wake. Slicing a huge gash into her shoulder, Haku brought her hand up the cut and whispered something. Her hand was covered by a green light as the Genin watched the blood stop flowing from her shoulder.
'Kuso, I can't do much about it here, I can only cut off the blood flow, if I am lucky it won't get infected…"
Sasuke, who was just barely on the shore fell down into the hole, several of the spines pierced through Sasuke, and Sakura's eyes widened,
"SASUKE!"
Hanabi managed to make it back to shore with only a few cuts on her arms and legs, and she gave a remorseful look backwards, but then smirked. 'Sasuke' disappeared in a puff of smoke, replaced by a log,
'He replaced himself! Where is he?'
Meanwhile, inside Haku's jutsu, the steam was blocking all of their sight. Mercy was using his charka to hang onto one of the sides, until he heard the 'swish' of Zabuza's sword. Back flipping, he suddenly found himself impaled on another Zabuza's blade, and then exploded into smoke. Zabuza was smirking,
'Heh the kids pretty good, but…'
Using the sound of Mercy's breathing to locate him, he made another water dragon, sending it slamming into the section of ice Mercy was standing horizontally on. Chunks of ice began to fall down, and Zabuza's eyes narrowed, 'Haku's ice shouldn't have broken like that, unless she stopped the…'
Down on the bottom, Kakashi felt his arms getting much more room, and soon the tendrils of ice holding him in place cracked and shattered to the ground. Looking up, he watched as the entire structure collapsed on itself. Huge ice boulders began to fall and Kakashi barely dodged them all, and that was when he saw Zabuza's sword underneath a small ice chunk. Rushing over to pick up the sword, in hopes of disabling Zabuza, he saw that it turned to water before his eyes,
'A trap!'
The real sword almost decapitated the masked jounin, if not for the equally large sword intercepting it. Kakashi sent a silent thank you to Mercy, and went to go help his students. However, Mercy just glared at his back,
'I'M going to be the one who kills you, teme…"
Turing his focus back onto Zabuza, he was locked in a sword lock, both of them pushing as hard as they could to push the other over, and Mercy was currently winning, until he felt the needles enter his body. He managed to dodge enough so they missed his vital organs, as he didn't want team 7 to know about his healing abilities, a true ninja didn't give away his trump cards so easily.
Breaking the lock with Zabuza, he looked out of the corner of his cloak to see the hunter nin making another batch of needles from the lake water, then dodged to the left to avoid Zabuza's sword. Kakashi was clutching his arm in pain, a huge amount of blood staining the surface of the lake.
Tazuna and Sakura were currently safe on the dry land, Tazuna watching the Zabuza/Mercy fight with interest, with Sakura praying to whatever god was listening to help Sasuke.
Haku was doing fairly well, at least until Kakashi showed up, then things started to go downhill. She had been able to defend herself from the fireballs the dark haired boy had sent her way, and trapped him a water prison with a water clone's hand supporting the structure. She had began flinging needles at Mercy when she dodged the fire dragon Kakashi had shot at her, and now she was trying counter attack against the jounin, but was failing. She dodged another 'Karyu Endan', but that's when she saw another Kakashi coming at her with a kunai in hand.
SHe tried desperately to fend of the man's attack, but she was no where near skilled enough, that left her one option. She had her most powerful trump card, and she intended to use it. Raising her hand Gaara style, she spoke her technique, Kakashi already preparing for the worst,
"Kyuusui" (water absorption)
Closing her open fist, she targeted Kakashi's arm. Kakashi suddenly felt the most painful thing he had ever felt. All the water in his arm cut out of his skin and his entire arm was destroyed. All of the genin took on horrified looks, as they watched their teacher's arm explode in blood in front of their eyes. The water coming out of Kakashi swirling around Haku's hand, with a red tint to it.
Wobbling down on the surface of the water, holding his bleeding stump, Kakashi looked up at Haku for an explanation.
Haku just calmly spoke, "My bloodline allows me to control water and ice, and did you know that the human body is 72 water? That means I created a jutsu that uses my bloodline's ability, and pinpointed it at the water in your body."
Kakashi just nodded, and then expected the hunter nin to finish him, off, but when he looked up, the girl had passed out, probably from charka exhaustion. His genin team rushed to his aid, even though none of them knew anything about how to treat a wound that severe.
Zabuza and Mercy were still at it, having a huge sword fight. After about 5 minutes, Mercy and Zabuza were starting to get tired. The amount of effort it took to swing a huge sword may not seem much at first to them, but after 500 swing and blocks, their arms started to get tired very quickly. Deciding he was going to try and end the fight, Zabuza made several hand seals, then shouted out his technique,
"Kirigakure no Jutsu" (Hidden mist technique)
Mist began to cover the entire lake and shore, bathing everyone in total blindness. Zabuza chuckled and created several Mizu Bunshins. Each of them charged and overwhelmed Mercy, until finally they sliced his head off. As the hood began to fall off, all the Zabuza saw was a log with an exploding tag struck into it for a head. Widening his eyes, he dove underwater to avoid the explosion.
Meanwhile Sasuke was beginning to panic, he might be able to deal with the Haku person, but if Zabuza won the fight, and then he was dead. He subconsciously gripped his throat, realizing that in the mist, the missing nin could be anywhere. With Kakashi passed out from blood loss he could only hope that Mercy could take care of the missing nin. That's when he heard the noise behind him, turning around, he only found his back pack slightly ajar, panicking, he edged back into his teammates, who were equally scared and screamed at the sudden contact with Sasuke.
When Zabuza surfaced, he found himself battling several Kage Bunshins. Barely able to keep up with the clones, Zabuza found himself being pushed back into a trap. Suddenly, the mist began to disperse, and with it, visibility was restored to all of the others. While Mercy's clones had been dealing with Zabuza, he had sneaked around to where Kakashi lay with the others; he had searched though Sasuke's pack, and found another fuuma shuriken. Using Kage Bunshin, he had his clones line up in a row, then gave them the order to begin to turn the fumma shuriken around. Acting as a huge fan, the shurikens began to blow out winds that pushed the mist away.
Zabuza looked up and swore, taking a look at Haku, he could tell she was still awake probably just pretending to be unconscious so she would have an excuse as to why she didn't kill Kakashi, sometimes that girl was too damn soft…
Suddenly he ducked, his ninja senses screaming that there was danger behind him. As he ducked down, he saw what looked like the biggest shuriken he had ever seen. It flew over him, and Zabuza got up, and smirked, "You are gonna…"
Before he could even finish he turned around and stared, 30 of those huge shuriken were heading straight at him. Using his sword, he was able to deflect some of them, but hew was still cut up really bad. As the last one whizzed over his head, he turned around and saw the cause of them. Mercy was up in a tree top, with about 50 other clones in the surrounding canopy. One of his clones leaped up in the air and started swinging its sword around itself, then called out,
"Ningenteki Shuriken" (human shuriken)
The clone's sword began rapidly spinning around it, so that the finished product was a huge shuriken, but the problem was about 20 of them performed it at the same time. Tazuna' eyes widened as well as the genin's, this guy was incredibly powerful!
As Zabuza dodged the first shuriken, he was forced to dodge it again when it changed direction in mid-air. Zabuza began to panic; he was against 50+ clones that could turn themselves into massive shuriken that could control themselves in midair. He turned to look at one coming near him, when suddenly it froze solid and sank underneath the waves. Another was also frozen solid as Zabuza turned to look at Haku, who was now up and actively destroying the clones. The clones stopped targeting Zabuza and instead went after Haku, who paled at the sight of all the human-shuriken. Suddenly Zabuza appeared in front of her and began to destroy the clones. A unspoken conversation went on as Haku created one of her ice mirrors, then grabbed Zabuza by the waist and both of them merged into the mirror, appearing in another mirror miles away.
Mercy's clones turned into puffs of smoke as he walked towards team 7. As he neared Kakashi's body, he pulled out something underneath his cloak. It was a small medical needle filled with what looked like red light from the genins perspective. Ready to defend their sensei, they charged at him, knowing that they would probably be killed. In seconds, they found themselves slammed against tree trunks, their arms locked behind their back by 3 clones.
Shaking his head, Mercy proceeded to inject the substance into Kakashi's neck, and then placed the empty contained back underneath his cloak. Moving his hands into a hand seal, he closed his eyes and concentrated. The clones holding the genin and Tazuna back let go, and the 3 genin went tumbling down. They could only watch in horror as a clone used his sword to slice off Kakashi's stump of an arm, while another held the jounin down. In seconds, Kakashi was up and screaming, using his legs to take out several clones and using his good arm to destroy the one holding him down.
With nothing left to hold him back, he jumped up and grabbed a kunai from his pouch, and was ready to stab it into the surprised Mercy's neck, when the pain in his arm numbed down. Confused, more clones dog plied him and held him down, while the genin rushed foreward, but where blocked off by a wall of clones. Suddenly, Kakashi's now-shortened stump began to emit a strange red light, and slowly, it began to regenerate. The genin (and Tazuna) looked on shell-shocked at their sensei's arm. The clones slowly climbed off him, and Kakashi stood up, and moved his new elbow. After 30 more seconds, his hand was brand new, and flexed his muscles, it felt as strong as it was before, he had even regrown the muscles like they were before. Grabbing his forehead protector, he covered his Sharingan eye, and then turned to look at his students,
"Well that was exiting…" with his normal upside down 'U' eye, before passing out from Chakra exhaustion, he had his Sharingan eye on all during the fight, and that was extremely taxing on his reserves. The genin just rolled their eyes, and then turned to see Tazuna conversing with Mercy.
"…yeah, it's about an hour away from here"
Mercy just nodded then began walking along on the ice/water covered road. The genin hurried to catch up, Sasuke picking up his sensei's body and followed after him. Kabuto, stood up, finishing his notes and smirking, pushing up the glassed on his nose and ran off to give his report on Sasuke. Orochimaru-sama was going to like this…
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Well, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I apologize for any spelling errors
Constructive criticism and reviews are welcome