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-1An Eye For An Eye

Chapter 6

I'm SO sorry guys! The first week that this chapter didn't come out I just didn't feel like writing for some reason, so I have no excuse for it, but this past week my brother got pinkeye and then he gave it to me, and then my damn laptop got a virus, and I had to spend a good amount of my time just so that it would run normal speed again. I'm only going to ask for reviews like always, which I'm actually starting to wonder if asking is screwing me over, but whatever lol. Well enjoy the chapter!

"Character talking"

'Character thinking'

"Kyuubi Talking"

Commentary

Jutsu

-With Someone/ Someplace-

Naruto slowly walked up to the boy standing in front of him, while Kakashi backed him up, a kunai ready in hand, just in case the boy made a run for it. To Naruto's surprise, however, the boy just stood there, with Zabuza's temporarily dead body on his back, whose arms were dangling in front of the boy. Naruto was about to make a run at the boy when he heard something hit the ground behind him. Naruto instantly jumped up into the air, with two shuriken ready, one in each hand.

Naruto's eyes widened in shock at what he saw, Kakashi was lying face down on the ground, with no sign of movement coming from him. Naruto turned back to the boy, and glared at him,

"What the hell did you do?" Naruto screamed, and the boy, once again, just stood there. Sasuke and Sakura just stood back in shock. They hadn't even seen the boy move from his spot, but Kakashi was taken down, and so quickly, on top of it all. Sasuke decided that he would take the risk of being attacked, and go check on his sensei. Sasuke cautiously made his way over to Kakashi, and checked his pulse.

Naruto was currently staring down the boy in front of him. The boy had not moved at all since Naruto had advanced on him, and Naruto was inching closer to the boy with each passing second, until he heard movement behind him. On instinct he turned around to see what was advancing on Kakashi, and himself. He sighed in relief as it was only Sasuke, checking Kakashi's pulse. Naruto then turned back to watch the boy once again, but there was no one there.

Naruto's eyes shot open as he ran over to the spot where the boy had been, not even ten seconds ago. Naruto searched for anything that might give away where the kid may have gone, but there was nothing at all. The only thing Naruto heard was the wind blowing, and the slight rustling of leaves on the tree branches surrounding them.

Naruto sighed to himself, and turned back to his team,

"So how is he?" Sasuke looked up,

"He's fine. He's only suffering from severe chakra exhaustion." Naruto nodded, and walked up to his team,

"Well as much as I hate to say it we should get Tazuna back to his house." Naruto said, sort of pissed that all the fighting was over.

"Yeah, I think that would be the best course of action, but what are we going to do about Zabuza? He's still alive, so that means he would still be after Tazuna-san." Sasuke stated looking from Naruto, to Tazuna, then back to Naruto.

Naruto smirked, he hadn't thought about that at all! Sasuke was right though, since Tazuna was still alive that meant that Zabuza would be back, and attempt to finish the job. Naruto got excited just thinking about the battle that was sure to come in the near future. He knew, however, that as of right now Tazuna was his top priority. Well, not his top priority, but the missions, and if Naruto wanted to complete the mission he had to take care of Tazuna.

"Ok guys! We need to head over to Tazuna's place until Kakashi wakes up, so lets go. Also don't worry Sasuke, I'll carry Kakashi." Naruto smirked when he saw Sasuke let out a sigh of relief.

Team 7 and Tazuna, for about the next hour, walked through some forests, and along various different dirt roads, but eventually came up to a house. When Tazuna saw the house he sighed,

"Home sweet home."

Naruto had to say, it was a pretty nice place, small, but nice. Then again Naruto didn't have much room to talk, when it came to the size of people's houses, or in his case, apartment.

Tazuna walked up to the front door, and was about to knock when it flew open. A women in her late twenty's lunged at the old man, and hugged him tightly, before he even knew what was happening.

"I'm so glad you're safe father!" The woman said, and then turned to Team 7, but forgot what she was about to say, when she caught sight of Kakashi.

"Oh dear! Quickly bring him inside so I can take care of him!" It took a couple of seconds for Team 7 to realize what was going on, but Naruto had a slight idea, and after he pointed to Kakashi, and the woman nodded his thoughts were confirmed. Naruto started walking towards the house, with Sasuke and Sakura beside him.

When Naruto first walked into the house he thought he saw a little boy run up the set of stairs, which were right beside what looked like the kitchen, but he wasn't entirely sure. Naruto just shrugged it off, if there was a kid here then he would see him later so it didn't matter.

The women led them all into a room with only a couple of chairs, and a table. Sasuke quickly moved the table out of the way as the woman walked off down a hallway, and returned a second later with a, bed/mat, a pillow, and several blankets. After a couple of minutes the woman had set up a bed, and Naruto laid Kakashi down onto it as Sakura covered his body with some blankets.

Once everything was situated the woman led everyone into the room next to the stairs, which did turn out to be a kitchen as Naruto had thought, and everyone took a seat around the kitchen table.

The woman went over to the fridge, and pulled out a pitcher full of what looked like lemonade, and then walked over to a cupboard and got three glasses. She started pouring them as she looked up,

"My name is Tsunami, and I'm Tazuna's daughter as you may have guessed. Thank you so much for returning him safely home. Without him I don't know what I would do." Sakura smiled,

"Yeah, don't worry it was no problem at all. I mean after all this is our mission." To this Sasuke nodded, while Naruto did nothing.

-Unknown-

A young boy was sitting next to the body of Zabuza. He was currently taking out a medical kit type thing, and pulled out a weird pair of scissors, and went over towards Zabuza's bandaged face.

'I need to cut the bandages so Zabuza can cough up the blood.' He thought to himself, reaching towards the bandages. Instantly a hand shot up, and grabbed the young boy's arm, making him freeze.

"I can do it on my own Haku!" Zabuza said, with some anger in his voice, not much, but just enough so you could tell it was present.

Zabuza slowly sat up, and removed the bandages covering his mouth. He then hit his chest as he coughed up some blood. He then looked over at Haku,

"It's good to see you're up so soon, however, you wont be able to move for about a week or so." Haku said, behind his mask.

Zabuza nodded slowly as he pulled out the senbon, causing Haku's eyes to widen behind his Hunter-nin mask.

"Man you're rough Haku! You could have hit me in a different spot you know!" Haku sighed,

"I know, but the neck was the best spot, because there is almost no muscle to interfere, and also you shouldn't pull those senbon out so roughly, unless you really do want to die." Zabuza grunted before leaning against his sword, and glancing over at Haku,

"How long are you going to keep wearing that mask?" Haku just chuckled lightly, and slowly took off the mask, revealing a very feminine looking face.

"Sorry, I sort of forgot I had it on, since I haven't taken it off in a pretty long time."

Zabuza once again grunted, and tried to get up, only to fail.

"I told you Zabuza-san, you wont be able to move for about a week… but then again this is you we're talking about. So I can't really give a time span of how long until you can move again." Zabuza once again just grunted,

"You're so full of good, I can't see you harming anything. That's what I like about you Haku, you've got a pure heart."

Haku smiled softly, and stood up,

"The fog's lifted…will you be ready next time?" Zabuza didn't even look in Haku's general direction,

"Yes…next time I'll take care of the Sharingan, and once that's gone its over."

"What about the blond haired boy?" Haku asked, thinking back to the first encounter, he really did like the kid, even if they were on opposite sides. He knew that the blond boy had a good heart.

"Don't worry about it Haku, I have something special planned for him." Zabuza said with an evil smirk.

-Tazuna's House-

Team 7, minus Kakashi, Tazuna, and Tsunami had been talking about random things for a good two hours now, and they had come upon the topic of backgrounds, like how your life was before you became a ninja, and so on so forth.

Sakura didn't have any trouble telling about her past since nothing tragic had really happened in her past, well unless you would call the constant taunting about her forehead tragic, that is. The trouble started when the question went to Sasuke. Sakura froze when this came up, since she knew about the Uchiha Massacre. Sasuke didn't go into any detail at all about his past all he did was grunt slightly, which in turn let everyone know he didn't want to talk about it.

Quickly dropping the subject for Sasuke it went over to Naruto, who actually, was the most mysterious on the team, since neither Sasuke nor Sakura knew anything about his past.

"So Naruto…can you tell us some things about your past?" Sakura asked hopeful.

"No." The answer came almost instantly, and it actually sort of shocked Sasuke, and Sakura. Naruto actually seemed to be getting angry.

"Why not Naruto? I mean your past cant be all that bad." Sakura said, once again hoping the blond would speak up so she could learn something about him. All she got in response however, was a cold, sad, pain filled, laugh.

"You have no idea." Was his response. Now Naruto was visibly clenching his teeth, you could tell by the slight shaking of his jaw, and his fists were clinched, which also helped the idea.

"Please Naruto can you tell us-" Sakura's pleading was cut off by an angry Naruto,

"No! Dammit! I said no! Why cant you just leave it at that? I don't want to talk about my past! So just stop already!" Naruto knew he was about to explode, so he decided to take a walk. He got up, and walked outside into the brisk night air.

Everyone that was currently in the house was in shock, Sakura couldn't believe that Naruto got so angry over a little thing like his past. There was no way that it was as bad as Sasuke's, but then again Sasuke didn't talk about his past either. Sasuke couldn't believe it, he had felt something from Naruto he had never felt in his presence before. He had felt many things radiate from Naruto such as, anger, sadness, and hurt, but none of those really shocked Sasuke. What shocked him was that he felt fear in his voice, and it wasn't your normal fear. No this was full blown terror. Sasuke didn't know what was so bad about Naruto's past, but he sure as hell was going to find out.

Tazuna stood there shocked, he couldn't believe that Naruto had got so worked up over that one little question. Yes, he knew about the Uchiha massacre, because if you didn't then you lived under a rock, so he understood why the Uchiha didn't want to talk, but he had no idea why the blond haired boy wouldn't say. He figured it must have been something bad for him to get so worked up over, since not even the Uchiha got this worked up. Tsunami had pretty much the exact same thoughts as her father, except for she didn't know how Naruto normally acted, unlike Tazuna, who had a slight idea. She thought he was a kind boy who would do anything for anyone. And at one time, yes…that had been what Naruto was like, but now he would only help a couple of people, and those people were the ones closest to him. The list of people he would protect included, Sandaime, Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura. Yes it was small, and yes Naruto had lightened up to his team, but that was only because he didn't want to make his team any weaker, then it already was, which would be the result of losing a teammate in a battle. It's true that if they lost Sakura, then the team would be a lot quieter, and somewhat better, but Sakura was the only person that looked promising as far as Chakra control, Naruto was figuring this based on Sakura's skill in all the other essentials for being a ninja, Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu, and since she seemed to be lacking skill in all three of those departments, he guessed she would be great in Chakra control. Yes Naruto was good, but he knew that Sakura was on a totally different level than him. That was mostly, because her chakra reserves were so low, but it didn't matter seeing as she was the only one, right now, that would be able to learn medical jutsu, and things of that nature, and Naruto knew that having a medical ninja on your team was something you badly needed. Naruto then thought back to some other things, and instantly smirked. Naruto hadn't thought about how badass of a team he actually had. He had missed something vital. His team…would be unbeatable when it came to Genjutsu, because three out of the four would be able to do the most advanced Genjutsu in the world. Well if Sasuke achieved the Sharingan that is, but Naruto had a feeling that Sasuke was one of the few gifted Uchiha that received it.

Naruto had no clue where he was going, but he needed to calm down, and he knew it. For some reason, though, he couldn't get the past out of his mind. He kept thinking back to that one night, where his whole life changed. For the better, and for the worst.

'I swear to god I'm going to kill that bastard!' Naruto thought to himself as he continued to walk through the foliage. Naruto was so lost in thought that he didn't hear the slight rustling of some leaves, just slightly up ahead. Naruto snapped back to reality when he felt a chakra signature. A smirk instantly came to his lips as he turned to face the person who was standing behind him now.

"Nice to see you again Zabuza." Naruto said, with no emotion in his voice, but he was still smirking.

"Gaki." He addressed back as he walked towards Naruto.

"Ok, well if you're going to fight me then fine, but I'm not going to use my full strength, which in turn means that you're most likely going to kill me, but that's fine with me. I'm tired of this hellhole I call my life, anyway." Zabuza's eyes widened at Naruto's comment, his plan was working itself out.

"Well if you don't care about your life then why don't you meet me here tomorrow night at the same time?" Zabuza questioned, hopeful.

Naruto thought for a bit, and then nodded, before turning around and walking off. Something then popped into his head as he turned back around.

"Wait shouldn't you be unable to move? I mean you got hit in your neck which would paralyze your body for a short period of time, making it hard for you to move." Zabuza grinned, at the boys knowledge.

"You know a lot about the body don't you gaki? Well, then this shouldn't be a surprise to you either." With those final words Zabuza exploded into a burst of water, and fell to the ground.

'Yeah, that was the only way I could think of, that would allow Zabuza to move. I guess I was right, but then again, I'm not wrong all that much to begin with.' Naruto thought to himself as he started making his way back to Tazuna's house to meet up with his team again. He was hoping that Kakashi would be awake, but he wasn't expecting it.

-Tazuna's House-

Right after Naruto had left, Tazuna had asked all about Naruto, and not many of his questions had been answered, but it was enough for him to know that the boy didn't like talking about his life much. Currently, however, Sakura, Sasuke, Tsunami, and Tazuna were talking about just any random thing, that popped into their head. They were talking about how Team 7 worked as a team, and how they did on past missions, and so on. Sasuke got angry when the conversation went to the missing cat mission, because he absolutely hated that cat. Tazuna and Tsunami chuckled when Sakura told of how the cat had clawed Sasuke's fact until it bled. They did talk about good times they had as a team though. They talked about how they had beat Kakashi's test simply, because Naruto had figured it all out, and told them the true purpose of the test.

"Wow, Naruto sounds like a very smart kid." Tsunami commented, which received a nod from Sasuke and Sakura.

"Yeah, he doesn't show it all that much, but I would have to say he's at least as smart as Sasuke, if not smarter." An unknown voice added.

Everyone turned to see Kakashi sitting up, looking at the group.

"Kakashi-Sensei!" Sakura yelled as a smile made its way to her face. Sasuke just smirked slightly as he looked over in Kakashi's direction. While Tazuna just smiled at him. Tsunami however had something different in store for Kakashi.

"What do you think you're doing!" Kakashi's eyes widened, but soon went back to normal, as a very confused look came to his features.

"What are you talking about?…Who are you anyway?" Kakashi's questions never got answered as Tsunami scolded him once again,

"You shouldn't be talking! Let alone be sitting up, and trying to move!" Tsunami had noticed Kakashi's, few, failed attempts at getting up, and wasn't to fond of the idea, that an injured man was hurting himself worse in her presence.

"You don't have a choice in this matter! Lay back down, and get some rest!" Kakashi sighed as he laid his head back down onto the pillow it had until recently been resting on.

"Sorry to tell you this ma'm, but I don't have time to be sitting around, and resting. I have to get my team ready to fight Zab-" Kakashi couldn't finish as Tsunami started talking over him,

"That doesn't matter at the moment! What's the most important thing as of now is your health, and nothing more." Kakashi just sighed, and nodded slightly. Sasuke decided he would take this chance to try and relax his Sensei, because he knew that he was freaking out.

"Don't worry Kakashi, we can train until you're well enough to teach." Kakashi once again just nodded, and closed his eyes. Everyone turned when they heard the front door open, and then a second later close. Naruto then walked into the room, and as usual, he was showing no emotion whatsoever.

"Yo." He said as he walked up to everyone, and his eye visibly widened when he saw Kakashi's eye open.

"Kakashi! You're up! That's great!" Naruto said actually happy to see his sensei in good health. To this Kakashi just eye smiled, because he didn't want to upset Tsunami once again.

Everyone then turned, and looked at Naruto, and it took a bit, but Naruto caught on after a bit, and chuckled slightly,

"Don't worry guys. I'm fine now. I just had a bit of a mental breakdown before."

'Yeah sure! You're a mental breakdown yourself!' Sasuke shouted in his head.

"Don't worry about it Naruto. I just hope that at some time you can let us in on your past." Sakura said, hoping for a positive response.

Naruto's eyes went downcast, "Yeah maybe sometime."

Kakashi felt the need to change the subject, "So when I can move again I'm going to teach you guys tree climbing." Everyone was caught off guard by the sudden change in subjects, but Sasuke, and Sakura were completely confused.

"Tree climbing? Sorry Sensei, but I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say we already know how to do that." Sakura stated. Kakashi just chuckled however.

"You do huh? So…if I asked you to climb a tree without hands you would be able to do it?" Sasuke and Sakura looked at each other before looking back at their Sensei.

"Umm Kakashi…I don't think that's even possible." Kakashi smiled behind his mask,

"Oh no. It's possible alright, it just takes some time to learn, and I plan on teaching you guys once I'm able to walk again." Naruto then felt the need to speak up.

"Sorry Kakashi, but I thought I should point out that…I already know how to climb trees without using my hands.

Kakashi's eyes widened, but then he smiled as a thought came to him, "So…that would mean that you would be able to teach Sasuke, and Sakura the basics then." Kakashi stated, more then asked, and Naruto thought for a second before simply shrugging,

"Yeah, what the hell, I have nothing better to do at the moment." Kakashi nodded his head slowly,

"Ok well then could you take Sasuke and Sakura out to train, and until I'm able to move again, train them?" Naruto once again thought for a second, sighed, and then just nodded.

"Great! Well then-" Kakashi turned his head to look at Sasuke and Sakura, "Until I can move again, Naruto will be training you guys in the art of tree climbing."

Naruto just started walking towards the door, and after a couple of seconds Sasuke, and Sakura caught on and caught up with him.

-Unknown Area-

"So he's going to meet you tomorrow night?"

"Yeah. He seems to care, little to none, about his life, so if I could get him to join us, then that would be a great addition to our group."

"Sounds like a great plan Zabuza-san. I hope this works out in our favor, because the boy really would be a great help to your goal."

"Yeah he sure would Haku" Zabuza grunted, as he sat up in the bed he was currently laying in.

Just then a short, fat, man walked into the room, with two swordsmen. One of the swordsmen was wearing what looked like a grayish blue hoodie with various pockets on it. He was also wearing a black bandana over the upper half of his head, and had two red lines running down from his eyes, which was accompanied by grayish hair. The second man was taller are more muscular than the first man. His shirt was pulled down so it was going down his legs instead of up his torso, while he had a bandaged stomach, and just a pair of pants that had a zigzag design, which alternated between black and grayish white. He also had a very large tattoo running all the way from his left shoulder down his back, and spread out onto both legs. He was also wearing an eye patch, and had a scar just above his left eye. He had a goatee, and his hair was brown, and in some weird design.

"You got beat , and came back here huh? Wow, and to think I thought that you were some great ninja or something like that." The man said walking over to Zabuza's bed. Haku responded by standing up, which in turn cause the swordsmen to unsheathe their swords a tiny bit.

"What you cant talk or something? Or are you just afraid of what I can do to you?" The man asked reaching a hand towards Zabuza. It instantly stopped when Haku's hand grabbed its wrist, and applied enough pressure to break it.

"Don't touch Zabuza-san with you disgusting hand!" Haku said, now very pissed off.

"Ah! Dammit! Its going to break!" The man screamed out, and the two swordsmen reacted. They unsheathed their swords, but instantly Haku was there, and now had the swords to their throats. The swordsmen were brought out of their shock by a scream. They looked over to see the man holding some of his own intestines in his blood covered hands. They, however, didn't have time to react to what had just happened. Haku instantly slit their throats, and walked over to the dying man, with a kunai out.

"Sorry to tell you this Gatoh, but our contract is done, and don't worry about the money. Me and Haku will just get it from your bank account or something. Don't worry we'll figure it all out." Zabuza grunted through his mask, still holding the, now, bloody kunai that he had slit Gatoh's stomach open with.

"D-Damn y-you!" Gatoh got out before he fell to the ground, dead. Haku walked over to Zabuza,

"Are you alright Zabuza-san?" Zabuza just shifted his eyes so they were looking at Haku,

"Yeah don't worry about it, and thanks for distracting Gatoh long enough for me stab him." Haku just smiled softly,

"No problem Zabuza-san. I'm your tool remember?" Zabuza just grunted, and closed his eyes.

"We might have a problem though." This caused Zabuza to open his eyes again, and look at Haku,

"What's the problem?" Haku frowned,

"This means that they're going to be after us again…so we cant stay all that much longer here. Safely that is." Zabuza just sighed,

"I hadn't even though about that…well we should get the Gaki, kill Kakashi, and leave as soon as possible." Haku just nodded slightly in response,

"Oh! One more thing Haku. You're going to be the one to meet him tomorrow, ok?" Haku just nodded, and smiled softly as Zabuza closed his eyes again.

-Forest Near Tazuna's House-

It hadn't taken long for Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke to get to a good spot to practice, but it did however take Naruto awhile to figure out how to teach. He had known this for so long that it was second nature to him, and he just couldn't place how he did it. Then suddenly it hit him.

"Oh yeah! Ok, well I remember now." This caused Sasuke and Sakura to look over at the blond.

"Ok you guys watch what I do, and I'll explain it." Naruto walked over to a tree, and stopped in front of it.

"Ok guys, first thing you want to do is to focus your chakra into your feet, and then balance it out, and then you should be able to climb the tree." Naruto put his hands into a seal, and a small wave of air came from his feet, and he walked over to the tree.

"Ok, well since you guys haven't done this before you will want to run, because it makes it easier." Naruto then started to run up the tree, only to fall back, and land sloppily on his feet. Naruto then charged again, but this time the tree pretty much exploded, and he was sent flying backwards. Sasuke was getting annoyed, while Sakura was just confused. She couldn't understand how making a tree explode would help you at all. Sasuke finally spoke up.

"Ok umm Naruto…why are you showing us how to do this when you cant even do it?" Naruto turned around, and glared daggers at Sasuke,

"I can do it. I just never think about it, when I do, and now that I am its screwing me over. So this time I'll show you without thinking about it." Naruto then backed up, and simply walked towards the tree. Sasuke was expecting Naruto to fall flat on his back, and so did Sakura actually. But to their surprise Naruto just walked right up the tree, and actually walked upside down on a branch.

"Told you I could to it. I just cant think about it or I wont be able to do it." Sasuke just shrugged it off, and ran towards the tree. He got up about ten feet before he slipped off, and landed on his feet. He then charged the tree again, but this time, just like with Naruto, the tree exploded, and he was sent flying. He instantly understood the purpose of the exercise,

'I see, so if you pump to much charka into your feet you get blown away from the tree, but if you put to little then you slip off the tree. So this is training for Chakra control then? Well it seems effective, no matter what way I think about it.'

Naruto saw Sasuke struggle, and chuckled some, but then he smirked when he saw Sasuke stop to think, and then he knew that he had figured it out. Naruto then looked over at Sakura, and smiled when he saw she was sitting on a high up branch,

'Just as I thought.' He thought to himself as Sakura called to him.

"Naruto! Did I do it right?" Naruto just nodded, and Sakura smiled, very pleased with herself. Naruto looked over, and saw that Sasuke wasn't thinking along the same lines as him when it came to Sakura. He could tell that Sasuke was pissed that Sakura had picked it up so fast, and he hadn't. Naruto sighed as he walked over to Sasuke,

"Yo Sasuke!" Sasuke turned to look at Naruto with a questioning look.

"I just thought I should tell you the reason Sakura got the hang of this so fast." Sasuke's eyes widened,

"There's a secret to this exercise?" Naruto just shook his head,

"No the reason she got up so fast is, because she has next to no chakra, which in turn makes it easier for her to control it." When Naruto saw Sasuke's smirk he sighed,

"Don't tell her that though. That's the last thing we need. Sakura feeling inferior to us, and being down on herself all the time. That would only make our group worse." Sasuke nodded in agreement.

"What should I do now Naruto?" Sakura shouted down from the tree.

"Just keep going until you reach the top, and when you reach it come talk to me, ok?" Sakura nodded, and jumped down from the branch.

Naruto smirked as he saw Sasuke's progress. He was coming along nicely, Naruto figured he would be done by tonight, but wasn't absolutely sure. Naruto decided he would just spar with some clones until Sasuke and Sakura were done. He made his most popular hand seal, and about fifty Naruto's popped into existence. He stretched, and got into a stance as the clones rushed at him.

-Two Hours Later-

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were all laying on the ground exhausted. Naruto was currently running dangerously low on chakra. He had beat the first twenty clones in a matter of minutes, so he had made about a hundred more. In about ten minutes however those were gone, and it went on like this until Naruto was in his current state. Sasuke, and Sakura had both made great progress. Sakura had reached the top, and Sasuke was about three fourths of the way there. Naruto stood up slowly on shaky legs, and walked over to his team.

"Ok guys, I think that's good enough for today. We can head back, and come back out tomorrow, and work on this some more." All Naruto got was a slight movement out of Sakura, and a grunt from Sasuke.

It took a lot longer to get back to Tazuna's house then it had, to get to the forest, but that was understandable, seeing as everyone was exhausted from training all day. Team 7 walked in to find Kakashi sitting up, and talking with Tazuna, and Tsunami. Naruto lifted his hand slightly, much like Kakashi does, and walked towards the group,

"Yo." Kakashi looked up with an eye smile, when he saw how beat up his team was,

"Have fun guys?" All he got was a grunt from Sasuke, and Sakura. Naruto however had more to say,

"Yeah they did great Kakashi! Sakura reach the top of the tree, while Sasuke is almost there." Kakashi nodded his head, very pleased.

"Well that's good to hear. It will come in handy when we have to fight Zabuza, and that boy, again." Everyone just nodded. Tsunami walked out of the room for a second, and walked back in,

"Dinners ready everyone." Everyone licked their lips, and quickly made their way to the kitchen. When they walked in there was a little boy with a stripped hat and green overalls sitting at the table.

'So I did see someone earlier." Naruto thought to himself, while eyeing the kid.

"Everyone this is my son Inari." Tsunami said with a smile. Inari however just looked at Naruto,

"You cant beat Gatoh, he's just going to kill you all! There's no point in even staying here! Just go home, and hide from him like the rest of us have!" Naruto just looked over at the boy,

"So? Why should I care if I die or not? When you become a ninja you accept the fact that you have to risk your life to protect your village, and personally I would rather die fighting then die, like someone like you. People like you die of old age. Yeah! As if I would die of old age. I plan on dying while I'm protecting Konaha." Inari was getting pissed off now,

"You haven't even faced anyone that would kill you without hesitation! How would you know what its like to be in a real battle!" Naruto just smirked,

"Actually to tell you the truth…I've been in more fights than I can count, that the person would kill me without hesitation. Also, hate to tell you this but, most of those people end up dead. I've already killed someone on this mission. So if you're saying that I haven't fought people, who would kill me in the blink of an eye, then boy you're more wrong then anyone I've ever met. You need to stop being a scared little gaki, and go out, and fight someone." Inari was fuming now,

"You have no idea what I've been through! I've been through more, then you will ever go through!" Now it was Naruto's turn to get mad, and he did just that.

'He's been through a lot? Don't make me laugh! He has no idea what I've been through! There is no way in hell he would even be sane if he lived my life!' Naruto screamed in his head, and then Naruto pulled out a kunai, and threw it at Inari. It was so fast that no one could react to it. Kakashi could have, but he was to weak to stop it right now, and Inari could only stare wide eyed as he saw the metal coming at him. Inari closed his eyes for impact, but it never came. He slowly opened his eyes, and saw a hand holding the kunai in front of his face. Inari looked up, and, to much his surprise, saw Naruto holding it. Naruto then thrust his hand back, and cut Inari's cheek open as it started bleeding heavily from the deep wound.

"Don't ever tell me how bad your life is compared to mine! Cause you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about! I've been through more stuff then you could even think possible, and if you had to go through what I have, you would have killed yourself by now. So don't tell me how bad your life is, because compared to mine…your life is a paradise." With that Naruto vanished. Everyone sat there shocked. They didn't know what to do, and could barely comprehend what had just happened. Inari then broke from the trance, started to cry, and ran upstairs. It took a bit, but then everyone snapped out of their trances, and started to think to themselves.

'I need to find out about Naruto's past!' Sasuke thought to himself. He wanted to know what had happened to Naruto, and why he was like this.

'Maybe Naruto's past is worse then Sasuke's, and I just don't know it.' Sakura thought to herself worried.

'I had a feeling something like this would happen.' Kakashi sighed to himself.

Naruto was currently walking through the forest lost in thought,

'Well I needed a way to get out, and I planned on acting mad, but I didn't actually expect to get angry. Well either way I'm out.' Then all of a sudden Naruto wasn't walking through the forest anymore. No, he was walking through the all to familiar sewer, that was called his mind.

"You should have killed him Kit." Came the roaring voice of the Kyuubi.

"Huh?" Came the very intelligent response from Naruto, which as a result the Kyuubi just sighed.

"I thought you were smart, well I guess I can be wrong about some things." Naruto glared at the Kyuubi,

"So what the hell do you want Kyuubi?" Kyuubi just looked over at Naruto,

"Oh yes! I almost forgot…I brought you here for an emergency meeting." Naruto was confused now,

"What do you mean emergency meeting?" Kyuubi just sighed, this was becoming way to much like their first encounter.

"Kit…an emergency meeting, is a meeting caused, because of an emergency." Naruto sighed,

"I knew that! Damn…what I meant was…what's the emergency?" Kyuubi just chuckled,

"I'm shocked that you haven't noticed yet Kit. You're becoming soft. As I said before, you should have killed that kid not just gave him a wound." Naruto thought about it, and Kyuubi was right, but he didn't mind it. It made him feel normal.

"Well Kyuubi, I'm sorry to say that, I'm trying to seem normal, and not like some killing machine." Kyuubi just sighed,

"I was afraid that this would happen once you got a team, but I guess there's nothing I can do about it, but just…I don't know…try to not be so nice to everyone. It's annoying the hell out of me." Naruto just nodded, and he was instantly back in the forest.

Naruto just kept walking until he reached the spot he was last night when he had met with the Zabuza clone. Naruto got bored waiting so he decided he would have some fun. He reached into one of his pockets, and pulled out a little case. He opened it up, and there were about twenty little brownish red balls. He took one out of the case, and popped it into his mouth.

Instantly he felt all of his chakra coming back, and he felt like he had never practiced at all. He smiled as he made about a hundred clones with his favorite seal. Naruto was happy with the results. He was getting more stamina as time went on, because he was barely breathing hard after making one hundred clones, and about a month before, he would have been lying on the ground, completely exhausted.

Naruto quickly fell back into a defensive stance, and waited for the clones to charge. Then in an instant about ten of them were right in front of him. Naruto quickly jumped up, and kicked two in the face, making them vanish in a cloud of smoke. While in the air he pulled out eleven kunai. Five in each hand, and one in his mouth. Naruto threw the ten kunai with deadly accuracy, as each one hit a clone in the neck, and ten more of the hundred were gone. Naruto landed, and instantly took off towards the clones, with the kunai in his mouth, as he took out two more, and ran right into the middle of the group, and after a couple of seconds about 30 more clones were gone. Naruto was doing the math in his head, and he figured that he had around fifty-eight clones left. He ran up a nearby tree, and jumped over the crowd of Naruto's and started going through seals.

"Katon, Karyuu Endan! (Fire Element, Fire Dragon Flame Blast)" A huge stream of fire came out of Naruto's mouth, and then smoke filled the air. Naruto landed, and was breathing pretty heavily now,

'Damn, I didn't mean to put that much chakra into that technique.' Naruto looked around after the smoke cleared, and saw there was only six or seven clones left. Naruto just smirked as he ran through them, and instantly they were all gone in a poof of smoke. Naruto walked over to a tree, and sat down, with his back leaning against its base.

'Damn that was some workout.' Naruto thought to himself. He closed his eyes, but they shot open when he heard a stick break nearby. He took out a kunai, and was on full alert.

"I'm impressed." A voice said, that was eerily familiar to Naruto. He turned around, and saw the same boy from before walk out from behind some bushes.

"What the hell do you want?" the boy got a confused look on his face.

"What do you mean?" Naruto sighed,

"I meant exactly what I said…now what the hell do you want?" The boy smiled,

"Oh I see you don't know then. Sorry for being rude, my name is Haku, and I work with Zabuza-san. Actually, I should say I'm his tool.

"Oh I see, so you came instead of Zabuza." Haku just nodded,

"Yes, and I would like to know if you would be interested in joining me and Zabuza-san. We are a lot stronger then your current team, and it would give you a purpose in life." Naruto's eyes widened,

"A purpose in life?" Haku just nodded, "Then…fine I'll join you guys." Haku smiled softly,

"Then come with me. Zabuza-san will be most pleased that you have accepted our invitation." With that they took off into the darkness.

-Tazuna's House-

After Naruto's most recent outburst Tazuna had told everyone about what had happened to Inari, and why he acted the way he does. Everyone felt bad for him, but they were more worried about Naruto. They hadn't seen him since he had marched off.

"Don't worry you guys. If there is one person on this team we don't have to worry about its Naruto. He's probably just training through the night." Kakashi reasoned, trying to calm everyone down.

"Yeah I guess you're right…Naruto-kun wouldn't lose to anyone." Sakura added, and it cause everyone to stare at her in shock,

"What?" Kakashi just blinked a couple times,

"You just said Naruto-kun." Sakura shrugged,

"So? I don't see what's so shocking about it. I call Sasuke, Sasuke-kun all the time, why cant I do the same for Naruto?" Kakashi scratched the side of his head,

"Well…cause you had this obsession with Sasuke, and you hated Naruto." Sakura sighed,

"Yeah I had an obsession, and I hated Naruto, but now I'm seeing things in a new light. Yes I still like Sasuke, but I also see Naruto for what he truly is." Kakashi smiled behind his mask,

'Sakura is finally becoming a true ninja.' Sasuke was thinking along the same lines, except his were like,

'Thank you god! Sakura is finally losing her obsession with me!'

Well for about the next two hours everyone just talked about random things, until everyone turned in, but Naruto still wasn't there.

'I hope you're ok Naruto.' Sakura thought as she drifted into the darkness.

The morning came fast for Team 7. For Sakura it seemed as if she hadn't even gone to sleep, but nonetheless she was ready for the day. She sat up, and looked around, looking for a certain someone, but she didn't see what she was hoping to. She quickly made her way to the bathroom, and took a quick shower, apparently Sasuke had taken one right before her. She could tell by the smell, and Sakura actually started to wonder how obsessed she had, actually, been with Sasuke. I mean, it was pretty bad when you knew a person's smell. Well for some it wasn't hard to tell, like Naruto for example. Just being within five feet of him you could smell the aroma of ramen coming from him. For Sasuke, however, there was nothing like that. So that sort of just showed how much she had been around Sasuke, and how close she had been to him.

Well when Sakura finished her shower, she got out, and dried herself off. She planned on asking if anyone had caught site of Naruto since he had left, but decided that it was bound to come up at some time so she would just wait. After she put on some fresh clothes she made her way down to the kitchen for a small breakfast before she had to go back to work. She came down to see only Tsunami there.

"Oh good morning Sakura." Tsunami smiled at Sakura, which received a smile in return,

"Where is everyone?" Tsunami thought for a bit,

"Well Sasuke-san, Kakashi-san, and father all went down to the bridge." Sakura was about to ask about Naruto, when Tsunami looked over at her, and shook her head.

"I shouldn't worry about Naruto-kun…I mean Kakashi-Sensei's right, out of everyone on our team, he's the one we don't need to worry about." Tsunami smiled, and nodded in response for reassurance. Sakura quickly ate the meal Tsunami had prepared for her, and left for the bridge.

"Be careful Sakura-san!" Tsunami called behind her, and Sakura just waved, as she ran off down the path, leading to the bridge.

It didn't take very long for Sakura to reach the bridge, and to much her relief nothing dramatic was happening. Sasuke, and Kakashi were helping Tazuna out with the bridge, and that was all that was happening. Sakura quickly ran over, and helped Tazuna, Kakashi, and Sasuke with the bridge.

"Where the hell is Naruto? He needs to be helping us right now!" Sasuke yelled, visibly aggravated at the blonds absence.

"Fine Sasuke if you want you can go out, and try to find Naruto. Just be back before to long." Sasuke nodded, and started walking towards the forest, but stopped when some thick mist rolled in.

'Shit.' Kakashi thought, 'This isn't the time! Naruto isn't even here!' Sasuke was instantly by Kakashi's side.

'Yes! I get another chance at fighting this freak!' Sasuke thought, eager to fight Zabuza again.

Then three figures appeared in the mist, but you could only see their outlines. Then the mist around then started to clear, and everyone froze.

'That one kid..' Sasuke thought.

"Zabuza…" Kakashi said aloud.

"….Naruto…" Sakura said barely above a whisper, tears forming in her eyes.

Well that was it! Once again sorry for updating so late guys, and I'm also sorry that this was sort of a filler, but I thought I should include the things I did, but anyway. Next chapter is the Kakashi vs. Zabuza fight, and what will happen with Naruto? Well find out next chapter!

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