The Fox and the Ice Princess by ChaoFan01
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, it is owned by Masashi Kishimoto.
A/N: Okay first and foremost I think an apology is in order so...I am sorry for taking so long on this chapter. I have literally no excuses (okay no good excuses) as to why this took so long other than I was lazy. I will try to make it so this never happens again. So I believe we left off with Kakashi, Haku, and Naruto running towards the direction of the village. Sasuke and Tazuna were home free, Zabuza got "Bored" and left and Sakura is...oh yeah. Anyway let continue.
Naruto and Haku
"Hey Naruto, I hate to ask but could you please explain the entire plan to me again, its still kinda confusing?" asked Haku as she and Naruto were currently using shushin to get to their destination faster.
"Sure Haku, the plan is that we will use your shushin to get to Zabuza's base." Once there we will gather all your belongings and store them in sealing scrolls." After that we will head to the village while Zabuza is fighting with everyone." "Once we get there we will meet up with Kakashi and the others." said Naruto before he was interupted by Haku.
"Wait how do you no Kakashi is still alive?" questioned Haku. "Wasn't that scream we heard earlier his?"
"Yes it was, but that was a scream of anger not a scream of pain." said Naruto
"What would the difference be? I mean honestly if someone was about to kill me I might be pretty mad to." said Haku as Zabuza's base came into sight.
"Simple, while Kakashi is a completely incompetant sensei and an absolute jerk he does no what he is doing in the field of battle, and one thing he wouldn't do is get angry over something like that." "He would instead try to keep his cool and find a way out of it." said Naruto as he and Haku came to a halt at the bottom of Zabuza's hideout.
"Oh I see." said Haku as she looked up at the base and her face began to fill with sadness.
Naruto noticed this and immediately wondered what made her sad.
"Hey Haku are you okay?" asked Naruto his voice full of concern.
"Yeah I'm fine, it's just I was hoping I would never have to come back here again." said Haku as she straighted herself out and began to walk towards the base's entrance.
"Haku" thought Naruto as he also began to walk forwards behind her towards where he guessed she had all of her posessions.
After a while of traversing the hallways and staircases they arrived at the end of a hallway with three doors. Two on the right side and one on the left side.
"Which one is yours Haku?" asked Naruto as Haku took a step forward and pointed towards the one on the left.
"The one across from mine is Zabuza's and the one next to that is a small weapons storage facility where Zabuza puts all of the weapons he finds interesting that he stole from everyone he has killed." said Haku as she opened the door to her room.
Naruto followed Haku to the door and watched as she walked in. Naruto viewed the room from the outside for a moment before continuing forward.
The room was far from extravagant. In it consisted a very miniscule collection of well anything. There was only three pieces of furniture. A bed, a dresser, and a desk with no chair.
"Haku why do you have a desk but no chair?" questioned Naruto as they both began to pull out every spare storage scroll they had.
"Well, you see Zabuza never gave me any money other than what was required to buy food and clothes when my current ones got ruined." said Haku as she looked at the furniture. "Therefore I had to make all of the furniture by myself." said Haku as she walked over to the dresser and began to lay out her clothes on the seals.
It only took one scroll as Haku only had six pairs of clothes, one of which she was wearing as battle clothes and four more that were excatly the same as it.
Naruto looked over and noticed the sixth set of clothes that were vastly different from the others.
It was a pink kimono that looked like it was brand new. "Hey Haku, what is that? asked Naruto as he picked up the pink kimono and spread it out so he could look at it completely.
Haku stopped for a moment to look at what Naruto was holding and let out a quick loud "EEP" as she snatched it out of Naruto's hands.
"Th...that is...I mean..well..." stuttered Haku as she couldn't seem to form a coherent sentence.
"What's wrong Haku, do you not think it looks good?" "I bet it would look really cute on you, in fact I bet you would look cute in any thing you were." said Naruto without even thinking about what he said. It was right after he said it that he and Haku both turned around and quickly went back to what they were doing, both sporting a blush that would put a tomato to shame.
Haku had finished sealing her clothes and her bed when she turned around to see that Naruto had sealed the dresser and was just about to seal the desk.
"Naruto there is no need to seal the desk since it doesn't even have a chair to match" said Haku as she looked at it and remembered how she was planning on starting on the chair when her and Zabuza finished this mission, but in her mind she was much happier to have Naruto at her side than a chair.
"But why not if you went to the trouble to make it then we might as well take it with us." said Naruto. "Besides we can always buy a chair for it later, Oh wait better yet we can make the chair for it together." said Naruto as he flashed a foxy grin at Haku.
"Okay but lets hurry before Zabuza gets back." said Haku
"Okay!" yelled Naruto Happily as he was still wearing his foxy grin.
Haku simply sat and waited for Naruto to seal the desk while she thought about everything that has happened recently.
Her mind wondered back to one moment in particular. The moment where Naruto held her and said he would always protect her. She smiled softly as she remembered it.
"Hey Haku the sealing is done are you ready to go?" asked Naruto as Haku was rowsed from her daydream and was face to face with the foxy grin of Naruto.
Haku blushed and stood up quickly and walked towards the door with Naruto in tow.
As they were leaving Naruto stopped and looked at the room full of weopons that Zabuza had stolen.
"Whats wrong Naruto?" asked Haku as she turned around to face Naruto who was looking at the door with a grin on his face.
"I just thought of a way to piss off Zabuza." said Naruto as he opened the door that revealed a room the size of Haku's full of weapons.
Naruto went to quick work and sealed every single weapon in the storage room.
"Why do you need all of those weapons Naruto?" questioned Haku as she and Naruto began to run towards the exit of the base.
"Two reasons, one..piss off Zabuza, and two..we can sell them for money when we get away from everyone." said Naruto as he and Haku saw the exit to the base.
They both ran out and Naruto grabbed haku's hand and she used her shushin to get them away from the area faster, which was a good move since not five minutes after they left did Zabuza arrive at the base and head to his weapons room to put away his sword when he opened the door to find nothing.
Quickly he ran to Haku's room and broke down the door only to find it completely empty.
"HAKU!" screamed Zabuza in rage over the loss of not only his weapons but of a slave who could possibly help him find the kyubbi brat.
"Wait a second, there is no way Haku would just leave and take my weapons with her." said Zabuza as he began to calm down and think of what could have happened.
"Wait she must have talked to the kyubbi brat, and he convinced her to leave me for him." said Zabuza as he thought of what must have happened.
"Damn you brat!, Haku is my slave and mine alone, and when I find you I'm going to kill you!" yelled Zabuza as he began to leave when he fell to his knees.
"Damn, guess I used to much chakra for that shushin to my sword." said Zabuza as he stood and hobbled to his room.
Just as Zabuza was closing the door he muttered out a curse thinking of how far those two could have gotton in the amount of time he had been gone.
With Kakashi
Kakashi was only a short ways away from wave when he saw something to the side of the road that caught his attention. It was bright pink, unmoving, very human esque, and gave him a sense of absolute nausea.
Kakashi slowly neared the object now obviously a human and upon reaching it, fell to his knees and sobbed like the day he was born.
"SAKURA!" cried Kakashi as loudly as he could as he looked at the smiling face of his fallen student.
Kakashi could do nothing but weep at the loss of his student. He cried until his visible eye was red and he could cry no more.
Only one thing crossed the mind of the man at that moment. It was who he believed this "tragedy" should be blamed on.
"Naruto" said Kakashi with his voice holding only one emotion. Absolute Lividity!
A/N: Yay done, and the next chapter will be up very soon. I promise on the steadily building relationship of Naruto and Haku. Anyway not much action this chapter, please leave a review and all that good jazz. Flames gladly accepted yada yada yada, so farewell until next time.
