The Fox and the Ice Princess


Note! The story is not being dropped, do not read half the authors note and click away. Read the whole thing.

A/N: Hey what is going on readers? Yes massive hate for me for not posting a chapter in...a long ass time. So yeah I have kind of lost interest in this story and just don't want to type everything I have planned out. Originally this story was going to be around 50 chapters long and end in shippuden. I have changed my mind though and have decided to drop that happy ending simply because I got bored writing this. I am going to finish this but it will be incredibly shorter, meaning that this story will most likely end within the next few chapters. So with my piece said and all of you probably wanting me to die for making you wait so long just to tell you that I am cutting the story short, let the chapter begin.


Naruto and Haku

As they were running through the forest away from Zabuza's base the only thought on their mind was getting to wave and talking to Naruto's team.

"Hey Naruto, what are you going to tell them that will convince them to let me stay with you guys?" asked Haku

"I'm not completely sure, I mean they are going to be pissed I wasn't there to help fight. Although they don't know who you are so we can use that to our advantage." said Naruto

"But Naruto its not like they won't be able to recognize me, I mean I'm wearing the same clothes they saw me in when I was with Zabuza."

"In that case we will just have to change your clothes then"

"Naruto these are the only close I have remember."

"Huh. What about that kimino that you had?"

"I..I've never actually worn that before so I'm not sure."

"Well there is a first time for everything isn't there?"

"Yeah I guess you're right" said Haku as she smiled

They traveled for close to an hour. While on the way to wave Haku told Naruto about her home village and how her father tried to kill her because she has a bloodline. When Naruto asked her what her bloodline was she made a crystal out of Ice and explained that her Ice powers were the only thing that saved her and that she had to kill her own father in order to escape.

Naruto then told her of his childhood in the leaf village, of the ridicule and mistreatment by the villagers and shinobi although he left out a few of the more gruesome times such as the annual near death beatings on his birthday. He also told her how about the Mizuki incident leaving out the part about the Nine Tailed Fox as he couldn't bring himself to tell her that.

As they neared the town of Wave they stopped so that Haku could get changed into her Kimono. This of course was the part were they remembered that Haku had never worn a Kimono before and therefore did not know how to put one on. In the end the scene in the forest outside of wave was a blushing Haku and an equally flush Naruto who had his eyes closed while trying to help her put on the kimono. The incident ended without any trouble other than leaving the two of them blushing and averting their eyes from each other.

As they entered the town they noticed the condition of the people who were starving and the buildings that are falling in on themselves. They stopped in a shop to get directions to Tazuna's house and when they did the shopkeeper was so nervous when telling them that it took him five minutes just to tell them.

"I wonder why he was so nervous when we were talking to him." said Naruto as they walked to Tazuna's house.

"It's probably because everyone knows that Tazuna is trying to build the bridge that will free them from the tyrant who is sucking this place dry." said Haku

"Who is this tyrant?"

"His name is Gatou and he is the one who took over this island and forced the people under his rule and sucked all the money out of the economy. He is also the man that hired Zabuza and the demon brothers to eliminate Tazuna.

"I see, in that case we are going to have to take him out+ along with Zabuza and my team. There is no way I am going to leave a guy like him alive to torment other people anymore." said Naruto with conviction in his voice

"Yeah you're right." said Haku as she smiled

They arrived at Tazuna's house soon after that and after Naruto knocked on the door he was greeted by a women with long black hair.

"Hello, um who are you?" asked the woman nervously as she eyed the two of them suspiciously.

"Yes we are with the Shinobi that are staying in your house. I am the last member of their team and this is my friend Haku"

"Oh, ok my name is Tsunami and I am Tazuna's daughter. The other two mentioned something about two other teammates. Although they didn't say anything good about one of them."

"Let me guess his name was Naruto."

"Yeah so I'm guessing that's you" said Tsunami as she eyed him suspiciously.

"Yeah that's me and please don't listen to what they said about me. They are still angry with me about something that happened a long time ago that I had no control over." said Naruto telling her half the truth.

"Oh ok but that doesn't mean I am just going to start out with a good opinion of you. You will have to earn that." said Tsunami as she reached the staircase that led upstairs where Naruto's team was.

"I wouldn't expect anything else but thank you for giving me a chance Tsunami-san" said Naruto as he bowed slightly

"Oh there is no need for that although I was surprised when I saw you here with a girl. For a second I thought it was the last member of your team. I believe they said her name was Sakura."

"Did Sakura not arrive with everyone else?" asked Naruto although he really didn't care but needed to keep up appearances for the plan that he and Haku came up with to work.

"Y..You mean you don't know?" asked Tsunami worriedly as she knocked on the door to the room Kakashi and Sasuke were staying in.

"No, what happened?" Naruto asked while he faked worry.

"She was killed by a man named Zabuza." said Tsunami sadly.

"SAKURA IS DEAD?!" yelled Naruto completely stunned at finding out the pink haired girl got killed, although it didn't honestly shock him as he knew she would die anyway as she had neglected all of her physical ninja training except what was needed to get out of the academy in order to faun over Sasuke.

Just as Naruto's trail of thought ended the door opened revealing Kakashi Hatake standing there calmly but the second he saw Naruto that all changed.

"You!" yelled Kakashi as he began hand seals.

Naruto was barely able to register that Kakashi was making hand seals before he was finished.

"Die Demon!" screamed Kakashi as he stepped forward and started to bring his attack forward.

Naruto jumped back but hit the wall behind him which stopped him from dodging.

The sound of chirping birds was heard as Kakashi yelled the name of his technique.

"Chidori!"

When the blade of lighting in Kakashi's hand was almost a foot from Naruto it suddenly impacted with a solid wall.

"What is this? Its reflecting, is this ice?" thought Kakashi as his attack was losing steam and beginning to stop although there was only a few inches that his attack hadn't penetrated.

In that moment he noticed the fourth person in the hallway. A girl wearing a pink kimono was standing there glaring at him with her hand held up and sweating from exertion.

Just as he was about to pull his hand out the Ice reformed around his hand and held him in place stopping him from moving.

"Who are you?" asked Kakashi as he tried to pull his hand out of the Ice.

"I am Haku and you will not hurt Naruto-Kun." said Haku with conviction in her voice

"I will kill that demon and there is nothing you can do to stop me! I don't care who you are!" yelled Kakashi as he began another intricate set of hand seals these ones longer but similar to the first ones.

Haku realized what he was doing and grabbed Naruto and began to run towards the end of the hallway.

Just as they reached the end of the hallway they heard the sound of chirping birds followed by another yell of "Chidori!"

Haku jumped out the window breaking it in the process and was immediately followed by Naruto who jumped out after her.

Haku turned in midair and focused on the broken window. Just before she hit the ground another wall of ice appeared in front of the window.

As she hit the ground she let out a yelp of pain and not a second later Naruto had landed beside her.

"Haku what's wrong?" asked Naruto as he looked her over. It was then that he noticed the spot of red on the side of her kimono.

It was then that Naruto remembered that Haku was wearing her kimono not her battle clothes that were made for such things as combat and jumping through windows at high speeds.

"Don't worry Haku, I'll get us out of here!" yelled Naruto as he gently picked her up bridal style.

"Naruto, you have to hurry my mirror is not that strong and the further we get from it the weaker it will be." she said but winced in pain as she tried to move to stand on her own.

"Don't move Haku and don't worry I'll get us to safety." said Naruto as he began to run.

He didn't make it ten steps however before he heard the unmistakable sound of chirping birds and the yell of "Chidori!"

Naruto looked back while he was running to see Kakashi landing on the ground. Just as he stood and began to run he fell to his knees and began to pant heavily.

Naruto did not waste this opportunity and ran full speed while being as careful as he could with Haku in his arms. He ran towards the forest that was beside Tazuna's house and ran into it.

"Damn (cough cough)" I guess that using that much chakra to break through the mirrors with the chidori was to much." said Kakashi as he fell to the ground from chakra exhaustion.


In the forest

"Don't worry Haku, I think we got away from him." Naruto wheezed out as he continued panting from his run that led him to the other side of the forest.

He looked down and noticed Haku was passed out, more than likely from blood loss.

He gently laid Haku on the ground and thought to himself, I have to stop the blood flow."

He then looked down at Haku and a blush appeared on his face. He then clapped his hands together above his head and bowed as low as he could.

"Haku, please don't hit me when you wake up." he said quickly as he then went to work removing her kimono and cleaning and dressing her wound.

Zabuza

Zabuza was lying in bed resting when there was a knock at the door.

"Enter." said the demon of the mist as he rose to sit on the side of his bed.

The door was opened to reveal a short man who was walking with a walking stick with a hobble followed by two guards with katanas. The one on his left had a purple bandanna and gray hair. The one on his left had brown spiky hair.

"Hello Zabuza, it is good to see you are well, however it would appear that the bridge builder is still alive. Mind telling me why?"

"Shut up Gatou, as long as he dies and you keep your little fishing village, I get paid. As long as I get paid then I will make sure he dies. Simple as that. In other words don't try to back out of paying me."

The man now identified as Gatou took on a look of anger and motioned for his bodyguards to step forward.

"Now Zabuza, I thought you were more capable than that, but if you are going to continue to fail me than maybe it would be easier to eliminate you so that you don't become a liability." said Gatou as the man on Gatou's left took a step forward and drew his Katana.

"Do it." said Gatou as he looked at Zabuza who had a bored look on his face.

Just as the man was about to raise his sword Zabuza was behind him and standing in front of Gatou with a glare.

"Did you truly think that your little thugs could stop an A rank missing nin? Well not like it matters the bridge builder will die, you will pay me, and if you don't then that will be you. Zabuza said as he walked to the door.

"Where are you..."

Gatou was interrupted by the sound of the man who had raised his sword against Zabuza crumpling to a heap on the floor with blood flowing from his throat.

The short man and his remaining bodyguard paled at that and looked at Zabuza.

Zabuza raised his foot to about chest level and kicked the door of its hinges hard enough to stick the door in the wall on the other side of the hallway.

"Now get out of my room, I was trying to sleep." Zabuza said boredly as he looked at Gatou and his remaining bodyguard.

"Fine but the bridge builder better be dead within the next week or there will be trouble." grumbled Gatou loud enough for Zabuza to hear him

Zabuza simply looked at the dead body on the ground and laughed.

"Fine, lets go." Gatou said as he motioned for his guard.

As they stepped outside Zabuza reached into his weapons room -void of all weapons except his sword- and pulled out his giant sword. Just as Gatou and his guard were about to pass him he reached out and grabbed ahold of Gatou's guard and pulled him back and slammed him against the wall. A second after that there was a resounding thud as Zabuza's sword impacted with the wall.

Gatou was about to turn around but was stopped as Zabuza put the blood covered point of his sword right next to Gatou's face stopping him from turning. There was a small thud followed by a larger one that seemed to echo in the hallway.

Zabuza waited a moment before withdrawing his blade and turning around. "Don't threaten me again you midget, I don't care if your blood is made of gold and you are rich because you sell it straight from your vain, threaten me again I will see who has more blood. Your dead guards or you. said Zabuza darkly as he walked into his room.

Gatou began to walk down the hallway after he took a moment to try to compose himself but turned around when he heard two thumps. He turned around to see his first henchman had been thrown out of Zabuza's room and smashed against the wall and fell to the floor in an even more broken heap.

Gatou then began to hobble out of Zabuza's base as fast as he could.

Kakashi and Sasuke

"Kakashi why are you so tired? asked Sasuke as he walked into the room after guarding Tazuna on the bridge for the day.

"Tch...Naruto showed up earlier with some girl who apparently a ninja as she had some very powerful defensive technique.

"Figures that the loser couldn't just die and do the village a favor but that doesn't explain why you are so tired."

"I tried to use my assassination jutsu "Chidori" to kill him but when I used it the first time I was blocked by the girl he brought with him. She used some kind of technique to create a wall of ice to block my technique, which is a feat in itself even if I wasn't using the sharingan to wield it to it's full potential.

I can normally perform the "Chidori" 5 times a day without the use of the sharingan and three times with the sharingan. Unfortunately I had to use more chakra to try to break through that ice.

The second time I used even more chakra by having to make the chidori with one handed seals which cost me twice the amount of chakra. I also had to break through the same mirror again because she reformed it around my hand. The mirror was weaker this time as stopping my "Chidori" the first time had obviously taken a lot out of her.

When I broke the mirror they were at the end of the hallway. They jumped out of the window but I was stopped because she managed to form another mirror outside of the window to try to block me. I used another "Chidori" to destroy this one with very little effort as it was obvious blocking my technique multiple times was taking a major toll.

I broke through it with minimal effort but it was then that the multiple usage of my technique got to me. I landed to see Naruto helping the girl but she was struggling to stand. I tried to go for the kill but I stumbled because I had used to much chakra. In that moment that little demon grabbed the girl and dashed into the forest. The only thing that brat can do is run away, and unfortunately I did not have the energy to follow him. Tsunami then ran downstairs and helped me up and brought me inside. She then said that we need to pay for her window." Finished Kakashi

Just as Sasuke was about to speak Kakashi spoke up again interrupting him. "That's coming out of your pay by the way." Kakashi said matter of factly as he pulled out his Icha Icha Paradise book.

"What, why am I paying for the window that idiot broke?! yelled Sasuke as he glared angrily at his sensei

"Well for one, you are the sole remaining member of the Uchiha clan so you get weekly amounts of cash so I know you have money, and two...because I said so." Kakashi said as he went back to reading his book leaving no room for argument.


A/N: Okay there you go I will try to finish this story soon and I already have an idea how I want to end it. Before any of you decide to rage at me for my Jutsu logic on the Chidori please realize that I don't give a crap about the canon rules. Simply put..."I do what I want!" lol. Anyway as always please give me your opininions including flames. Farewell and I apologize again for the epic lateness and the fact I'm cutting it short but ya. So long and Stay Shiny!