Alright folks we are back with the next chapter of mask of the fox, im your host here cdog1019. Just wanted to take the time to say that I am amazed with all the positive feedback I have been getting. I am nothing special but all of your love inspires me to do better. Thank you all for that.
Kakashi and Zabuza blurred from existence, sparks and the screech of metal flying from the center of the clearing where the two reappeared with crossed blades, Zabuza with his zanbato and Kakashi with his dual kunai held in reversed grip. Kakashi disappeared again, reappearing behind Zabuza with a kunai to his neck.
"A clone hmm?" Zabuza said with a grunt as the smoke from said clone disappeared, before Zabuza's image seemed to turn runny, like a wet painting before he dispersed into water, the image of the tall man appearing behind Kakashi with a blade across his neck.
With Naruto and the rest of team seven
Naruto was watching the two clash, as were Sasuke and Ino, Ino having fallen back to guard tazuna while Sasuke and Naruto stood by each other, leaving the team in a triangle formation in front of Tazuna. As Kakashi and Zabuza did the water clone tricks, Naruto seemed to be radiating raw malice, which left Sasuke and Ino terrified, even though they knew him the raw power of his unintentional killing intent was massive, like a monsoon sweeping over straw huts.
'Fox hes doing good out there but you need to hurry it up.'
"I'm doing the best I can kit, give me some ti-" the demon fox trailed off and the power died down around Naruto. "Go kit its done!"
Naruto's coat swirled around him in a rush of wind as he radiated raw power, not malefic nor benevolent, as the sheer power of Kyuubi himself washed over Naruto for a second, causing everyone to pause and look away, Kakashi and Zabuza included. The power died down, with Naruto radiating chuunin level chakra now, the power from before gone. However Naruto was different. His coat was gone, burnt away if the burns on his chest were anything to go by. He was left in a pair of shinobi black pants, with his kunai and shurinken holsters, along with his shoes. He looked more muscular than he already had been, through the aforementioned burns you could see rippling muscle. However the biggest change was his face. On it was a bone white mask, the same as an anbu mask, but it was different. It held an elongated snout with anatomically correct features of a fox, with a closed maw.
"This power..." said Naruto, his yellow eyes looking through the holes of the mask, the whites of his eyes now black. * Naruto looked at Zabuza and Kakashi, seeing Zabuza bathed in blue chakra while Kakashi's was white chakra. He turned, gazing at Ino, Sasuke, and Tazuna for a moment, seeing them bathed in pale blue, red and a very weak pale blue, almost nonexistent respectively. He turned back to the fight, disappearing and reappearing behind Zabuza, punching at his back. The man was caught off guard this once, getting hit in the kidney and gasping, a hand going to hold his left side.
Kakashi leapt at the man with his kunai, and Zabuza brought his blade up to parry, while Naruto came at him with a roundhouse kick which Zabuza brought his arm up to block, showing that with his wits about him the man was truly an elite, and that Naruto was still not to that status. Kakashi let one of his kunai slip off Zabuza's blade, stabbing at his gut which was blocked by the flat of his blade after a quick twist of the hilt, while Zabuza lifted his arm throwing Naruto off balance and sending him falling backward, as Zabuza forced Kakashi back before slashing at the boy, before Kakashi stabbed Zabuza dispersing him into smoke, leaving an impaled log which yanked one of the kunai from Kakashi's hand, which before he could replace it he had to use his other kunai and the metal plate on his glove to block another strike from Zabuza. He quickly dropped a hand to his side for a kunai but had to leap back to avoid a kick from Zabuza.
"Naruto use chakra to enhance your attacks!" Kakashi yelled as he parried a strike yet again, his sharingan giving him the upper hand in that regard.
Meanwhile Naruto was staring at Kakashi, feeling something off about how the man was blocking the strikes with such weak metal, his newly clarified eyes seeing that the white chakra Kakashi radiated was being channeled to his hands, specifically his kunai and gloves. Naruto felt a tugging at the back of his head, and when he looked down he saw his own chakra change from a dark green to a pale white, like Kakashi's own chakra. "This... is weird" he felt no different than normal, except... heavier. That was the only way he could describe the dense feeling in his gut, over his chakra nexus. He leapt at the fight, kicking Zabuza in the side while channeling chakra to his feet, and surprisingly it not just knocked him over, it launched him across the clearing. Naruto internally was debating if it was from his massive amount of chakra, or this new white chakra that he had. Meanwhile, Zabuza embeded into a tree, and with a groan three needles stuck through his neck. A hunter nin appeared afterward, hefting the body.
"thank you, I've been after Zabuza for a long time." said the feminine looking figure.
The figure then disappeared, and Naruto and Kakashi promptly fainted, Kakashi's headband falling back over his eye and Naruto mask disintegrating into golden specks of light.
Later, Tazuna's home
Tazuna, carrying Kakashi piggyback style and Sasuke carrying Naruto the same way, tramped into Tazuna's house with Ino holding the door open, closing it behind them. They sat Naruto in a reclining chair and Kakashi on the couch, having too because of the height differences. Tazuna and Sasuke sat panting, leaning against the wall while Ino giggled, stroking Naruto cheek even as she laughed at the two out of breath males. "Good job you two." the males glared at her, while Tsunami came out of the kitchen.
"Father!" she yelled as she ran over and hugged Tazuna.
"Ah yes, this is my daughter Tsunami, the one I told you about. Tsunami this is Ino, Sasuke, Naruto, and Kakashi, their sensei."
Tsunami looked around at the girl, the panting boy, the dreaming Naruto, and the passed out man on her couch. "These are the ones who protected you?" she bowed sharply to them. "Thank you very much. Please, come have dinner with us."
An hour or so later
Groaning was heard from the living room, Kakashi and Naruto wandering into the kitchen minutes later. "Whats up." Kakashi waved lamely as Naruto just sat down next to an empty plate at the table, Tsunami serving him some cooked beef, some peas and a bit of cinnamon fried apples.
"Its not much but its all we could afford." she explained.
"Eat well team, because Zabuza is still alive." Kakashi said forebodingly. "WHAT?" screamed everyone except tsunami and Inari, who just looked confused.
Cliffy again, im sorry I know im evil. Once again I found a good place to end it after putting in too much too fast. JA ne and thanks for those of you who review
*think hollow masks from bleach, but with a fox. No this is not a crossover this is just what his mask looks like it does completely different things