Naruto is introduced to Team 7 in this chapter, as well as the first fight scene. I haven't done any real fight scenes in my other fic, and I plan to do many, so here's just a little practice. Gimme some feedback on that please…
So now… disclaimer – same rules apply.
Chapter 3 – Enter NarutoTeam Kakashi slowly walked down the path, in order for their current charge to be able to keep up with the ninjas. Tazuna was a bridge builder, hoping for some protection to escort him to his home and then protect him while he finished building the bridge. Tazuna wore a worker's garb with a bottle of sake attached to his hip, which would explain his sake breath.
Sasuke walked with a small pack on his back, ignoring everything and everyone while Sakura followed Sasuke like a dog. With giant puppy eye dogs. Kakashi was reading his perverted orange book as usual while Konohamaru…
Konohamaru was bickering with Tazuna because Tazuna had called him a short weak brat.
"I AM NOT WEAK!"
"Sure looks like it."
"Grrrr… I'll kill you!"
"Umm…I thought I was paying you guys to protect me…not kill me…"
"Grrr…"
"Are you really the Hokage's grandson?"
"SHUT UP!" and so the bickering continued for a while, each of them constantly getting on each other's nerves. Around midday, the group came across a puddle right in the middle of the path.
A puddle in bright sunlight when it hasn't rained for days? I see… Kakashi looked over the puddle for a bit before returning to his book. The group had walked just a little bit past the puddle when it suddenly transformed into two ninjas with mist headbands, wielding spiked chains.
With easy effort, the spiked chains wrapped around Kakashi and the ninjas pulled hard. Kakashi was torn into shreds, his remains showering the shocked group.
"One down." One ninja said to the other as they charged once more.
"3 more obstacles." The other replied.
Sakura screamed in fright and Konohamaru and Sasuke pulled out kunai, at the ready. The mist ninja's initial charge stopped as they realized they couldn't catch the genins at unawares anymore.
They kept their distance, silently looking for any openings before they fired off their chains at them again. Sasuke quickly threw a shuriken at the chain, only to find it pass straight through the chain.
"An illusion! Shit!" Sasuke turned around to see the mist ninjas charging quickly at them, wielding their spiked chains. The pair charged quickly at the group, the chain between each of them. Sasuke jumped out of the way, while Sakura also dived away. Konohamaru, however was caught unawares and was just about to be cut up by the spiked chains between the two ninjas before Kakashi suddenly jumped at the ninjas from the trees, sending quick kicks during his jump, easily knocking them back.
Before the two ninjas could recover, they were pinned to the tree by Sasuke with two shurikens.
Kakashi stood and appraised Sasuke "Good job on dodging and on reacting." Sakura looked at him with wide eyes "Kakashi-sensei…then…that was a…Kawarimi?" Sakura stared at the shredded piece of logs that had taken Kakashi's place.
Kakashi nodded before turning to Konohamaru "You reacted quick enough at the start, but I'm sorry for not helping you. I didn't expect that you wouldn't be able to move, Konohamaru-kun." He walked over to the 2 mist ninjas while Konohamaru stared at the ground, full of anger at himself.
Why the hell couldn't I have dodged? Why am I so weak? I don't want Kakashi-sensei to just take care of me all the time! I don't need to be taken care of! Damnit! Konohamaru's thoughts were interrupted by Sasuke who walked up to him and smirked "Are you okay, scaredy cat?"
"SHUT UP!" Konohamaru raised a fist to strike Sasuke, but he dodged it with ease. Before a fight could start up, Kakashi returned, glaring at Tazuna.
"Those were C-class missing nins. They seemed to be after you. You got some explaining to do." Kakashi glared at Tazuna, who cowered in fear.
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"Where the hell am I?" Naruto yelled at the world. He had been strolling along the path for more than an hour, completely lost. Despite traveling most of his life, his ability to read a map sucked badly. Really bad. "Let's see here…if I'm here… then Wave Country should be…a years worth of travel? Oh I get it; the waves on the ocean don't represent wave country. So then…WHERE THE HELL AM I?" Naruto yelled in confusion, completely and utterly lost.
"Damnit! I know what I need to do!" Naruto held his arm outward and started spinning around fast. He went so fast that a miniature tornado appeared around him. When he finally stopped, he collapsed with swirls for eyes.
"Ahaha…look…it's ramen…beef ramen…. and there's Eri-neechan and Oji-chan… With ramen everywhere…" Naruto took a full 3 minutes to recover before finally deciding on where to go: where his finger was pointing.
"Oh I see! Well, then, to the goddess of fortune, lead me to Wave Country!" Naruto began walking down the path, not even noticing the sign that clearly depicted Wave country was only 3 miles the exact opposite way of his current path.
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"So that's the situation with Wave country and Gatou. Will you please still accept this mission?" Tazuna pleaded to Kakashi, who seemed to ponder this over. Tazuna had just explained how Gatou had a tight grip over Wave country, being in complete control over the small country. Gatou had quickly drained the country of any money , including the Daimyo of the country, who only had enough money to pay for a genin squad.
"This mission is over our heads. This is a B-rank mission at the least, possibly A-rank. I suggest we return to Konoha and…"
"HELL NO!" All heads turned to Konohamaru, who had snapped out of his thoughts "I'm trying to prove my strength, and I ain't gonna ruin my record by abandoning my first real mission!"
"But, Konohamaru, this missions is…"
"I don't care if it's above our heads! I won't allow any more ninja to catch me by surprise again! I'll definitely protect the old man!" Konohamaru declared. At his sudden outburst, Sasuke and Sakura seemed more reassured as well.
"So do you wish to continue this mission?" Kakashi looked at his team. They all nodded to which Kakashi returned. He turned to a grinning Tazuna and nodded "Let's go." The group continued on their way, albeit in a more careful way.
-Sometime Later-
The group had nearly reached the borders of the Wave country. Tazuna gleefully kept on talking about his home and family and what was going to happen once he built the bridge. Everyone in the team seemed relaxed, as they were almost in safety. Nothing had really happened after the Mist Ninja's attack rather than a light ambush by some thugs, but that was dealt with extremely easily.
"And then, Inari started…" Tazuna began before he was suddenly pushed down to the ground by Kakashi, who like the rest of his team dodged down to the ground as well.
Just in time too, as a massive zanbato was sent whirling around them, barely missing their heads. The zanbato continued on its path until it embedded in a tree.
Just as Team 7 prepared themselves for this new attacker, a man with half of his face wrapped in bandages dressed in a sleeveless shirt and pants appeared standing on the imbedded zanbato. He sported a mist forehead protector around his forehead. A more disturbing and strange feature was…no eyebrows…
"Ohh? So you managed to dodge my attack. You're better than I thought." The man claimed, "So that's how the demon brothers were defeated, I never would have thought I would go against the famous Copy Ninja, Sharingan no Kakashi."
Sharingan? Sasuke looked in confusion at Kakashi, who had an absolutely serious look on his face. "Copy Ninja? Sharingan no Kakashi?" Sakura and Konohamaru echoed, both in confusion. They never would have thought that their jounin sensei would be famous and have such a title, even if they had no idea what the Sharingan was.
"Momochi Zabuza, Demon of the Mist, A-Class ninja. Banished for attempting a coup d'etat on the Mizukage." Kakashi said, his single eye never wavering.
"Oh? I didn't know that I'd be that famous enough to be known by the Leaf shinobi." Kakashi chose not to reply but said to Team 7 "Stay back and guard Tazuna. This guy…he's on a whole new different level."
Zabuza laughed, "That's right brats, stay away if you know what's good for you. Sorry, my job is to kill the old man, and I intend to do the job, if you get in my way then I will kill you." Right after he finished the sentence his eyes narrows and sudden killer intent flooded the area.
The killer intent was so great that Sasuke, Sakura, Konohamaru, and Tazuna were rooted to the spot, unable to even move their hand to grab a kunai. They felt fear running through their hearts, panic freezing their body movements.
Move move move! Don't stand here and die! This…killer intent…I can hardly breathe. I feel as if I just want to kill myself right now, just to get away! MOVE! MOVE! Sasuke screamed in his mind, unable to even speak from all the deadly killer intent.
Kakashi sensed that his students were frozen in fear and he turned around, his eye forming into a U to signal that he was grinning under his mask. "Don't worry Sasuke, I won't let any of my teammates be hurt." His statement seemed to calm the genins down slightly, enough for them to form defensive positions around Tazuna and pull out kunais.
Kakashi lifted his hand to his forehead protector "I guess I must go all out on this one." He lifted his forehead protector up to reveal a red eye with 3 tomoe marks. Sasuke gasped and stared intently at Kakashi, with confusion, fear, and anger at once. A non-Uchiha with the Sharingan?
Zabuza chuckled "Oh, Am I treated to the Sharingan so early? What an honor. But, that Sharingan will not save you from me. Kirigakure no Jutsu" A sudden mist appeared from nowhere, shrouding the area in a heavy cloud of mist.
"Hmmm…Now which way should I kill you? A stab? A slash? Or should I just behead you and be done with it?" The voice of Zabuza rang out, echoing around as to not allow the young ninjas to determine his location.
Before anyone knew it, Zabuza appeared right behind the genins, his huge zanbato set right behind their necks.
"It's over." Zabuza whispered and swung his zanbato down before the Genins could even blink. Just as the huge sword was about to strike, the blade and Zabuza exploded in a burst of water, leaving a dripping wet Kakashi behind him holding a kunai.
"Water clone?" Sakura asked no one in particular. Just as Kakashi destroyed the clone, another Zabuza appeared behind him and sliced him right on the shoulder. Kakashi also exploded into water. Behind the other Zabuza, Kakashi once again appeared, slicing down with another kunai.
"It's over." Kakashi imitated but then he realized his mistake. The Zabuza before him burst to water. "2 water clones!" Kakashi managed to yell before he dodged a narrow attack by Zabuza. After gaining some distance, he formed a seal and forced the mist to disperse. Soon the two were striking at each other and jumped back just as quickly, a huge zanbato against a little kunai. They leapt around the area, too quick for the regular eye to see, blade against blade, and the occasional kick.
Is this a jounin level battle? Amazing, they're faster than the eye can see… Sasuke thought as the two jounin once again clashed before leaping away once more."Heh, you're not bad." Zabuza smirked while Kakashi stayed silent. Zabuza held his sword up and threw it at Kakashi, who leapt away to land in the water, using his chakra to hold him up.
"Heh, you fell for it." Zabuza smirked just as he burst from the water, holding a hand out towards Kakashi who cursed in surprise and tried to escape. But it was to late.
"Suiro no Jutsu." A large sphere of water appeared around Kakashi, trapping him inside a barrier of water. "Damnit!" Kakashi cursed and tried to find a way out to escape, but found it was impossible.
"Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu" Zabuza muttered and formed a one hand seal, much to the surprise of everyone there. A water clone appeared from the water and jammed his hand into the large sphere. After the clone stuck his hand in the sphere, Zabuza muttered "Suiryo, Mizu Bunshin Kyuushui" Zabuza then retracted his own hand from the sphere smirking and explaining his technique.
"I developed this little technique quite some time ago. Instead of having to keep my hand submerged in the water to use the chakra to sustain the water prison, I use a Mizu-bunshin that uses about 4 times more chakra than the normal Mizu-bunshin and have the water prison absorb chakra from the clone so I can move freely. Course it only lasts about 3 minutes or so until the clone fades away, but that's all I need to kill the old man and your team."
Kakashi cursed at this, unable to do anything to save his teammates. The smirking Zabuza once again formed the seals for the Hidden Mist technique and shouted "Kirigakure no Jutsu!" and then disappeared in the mist once again. "Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu"
Once again, Team 7 was blinded and unable to see where their enemy was. "Damnit!" Konohamaru muttered, readying a kunai though he knew he would have little chance to stop the missing-nin.
A Mizu bunshin ran at them, and Sasuke and Konohamaru leapt forward to attempt to deal with it, sending haphazard attacks. Even though the bunshin was 1/10 of the creator's original strength, the combined assaults from the genin couldn't even touch the bunshin. Finally, Sasuke quickly formed some seals and yelled
"Katon, Goukakyou no Jutsu!" and a massive fireball engulfed the bunshin, effectively destroying the clone. Sasuke smirked at this before the Demon of the Mist's laugh rang out "Feel like you accomplished something? I can easily create 20 more bunshins!" and the genins blanched. They could hardly take on one bunshin but 20?
And Kakashi was forced to watch this through his Sharingan. Just as he thought they were doomed to die, he heard a voice through the mist.
"What the hell is all this mist? And here I'm getting all lost and shit, and then a weird mist appears! What the crap is going on? I'll just get more lost! Better get rid of it." A young voice rang through the mist, surprising anyone there.
Suddenly, a blur appeared through the mist, continuously circling around and around so fast that not even Kakashi's sharingan could see the movements. The mist cleared up from the blur's speed to reveal the youth standing on the road in confusion. He had blonde hair and shockingly blue eyes with three whisker marks on his face, but his enormous conical straw hat, covering most of his face, covered most of his features.
The boy stared at the scene. He blinked. And then he blinked again. He blinked once more and shook his head muttering, "Did I get drunk again?" He blinked once more before starting to whistle "Haruka Kanata" continuing his walk back down the road. An enormous sweat drop appeared on everyone's head, even Zabuza.
"Ah wait! I should stop to ask for directions!" Naruto jumped up and turned towards Zabuza "Hey scary-looking guy with a huge sharp deadly sword, what direction is Wave country?" Zabuza chose not to reply before muttering dangerously "Get out of here kid, before you get hurt. Passer-bys shouldn't get in the way of ninja battles.
The blonde looked around before saying "Oh this is a battle? Looked kinda suspicious." Everyone nearly facefaulted. The blonde continued "Especially that weirdo with no eyebrows. What a weirdo." Zabuza's eyebrows twitched in annoyance and hefted his sword.
"Get out of here before I kill you, brat."
"Ehhhh? But I just need to get some directions…what the hell do you want to kill me for, no-eyebrow freak?" Zabuze roared, "I've warned you once, blonde, and I don't give second warnings. And now…" Zabuza appeared behind Naruto, who just stood calmly "I'll kill you." And Zabuza swung the sword downward on the blonde.
Team 7 flinched and closed their eyes, their mouths opened in silent screams. Tazuna blanched and nearly fainted, while Kakashi closed his eyes. Zabuza smirked as he saw that the blade was not even a centimeter from Naruto's skin on his neck. But something occurred, that he didn't expect; just before the huge sword made contact, the blonde disappeared with a blur, completely taking Zabuza by surprise.
"Hey hey! Swinging such a blade around is dangerous you know!" Naruto whined, his hand holding down his hat, "That's dangerous!" The genins and Tazuna stared at him in shock while Kakashi's eyes widened.
He's fast Zabuza and Kakashi both thought.
"Hmmm…Let's see here…" Naruto looked at the Genin squad protecting Tazuna, then at Kakashi, and then returned his gaze toward Zabuza. He pointed a finger straight at Zabuza, who tensed, ready for some sort of attack. But once again, the blonde surprised him.
"Eeney Meeney Miney Mo…" the blonde continuously moved his finger from Zabuza, Team 7 and Kakashi, and everyone actually face faulted in the middle of the battle, even Kakashi. Anime-logic dictated that face faulting could occur to anyone at any time in any condition. Very strange….
"…. And you are it!" Naruto's finger ended up on Team 7 and he slowly strolled towards them, much to the confusion of all the ninjas standing there.
"Excuse me, but do you know the directions towards Wave country?" Once again, everyone face faulted and Tazuna recovered enough to say "Ummm… it's that way…" He pointed down the road that Naruto had just come from.
"EH? I just came from there!" More sweat drops. "Ah, thanks for the directions. Gotta go." Naruto turned to leave just as Zabuza had appeared in front of him, his sword blocking his way. Konohamaru and the rest of his team jumped in shock as seeing Zabuza appear before them.
"Enough of the jokes!" Zabuza growled darkly pointing his enormous blade at Naruto "I would normally let you go, but there's something about you that pisses me off. I'll just kill you now brat!"
Naruto sighed as he seemingly looked for a way out, only to find that the missing nin was blocking all possible ways of escape. He slowly lifting a hand to tip the edge of his hat down lower over his face "Don't point that sword at me, Momochi Zabuza, Demon of the Mist, Former member of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist."
The Seven Swordsman of the Mist? He's a former member? I heard of them, but to actually meet a former member. They're dangerous A and S-class ninjas. But how did this guy know them let alone identify one of the former members? Sakura thought, as she stared at the blonde in curiosity; Sasuke and Konohamaru looked in confusion, as they never heard of the Seven Swordsman."Ha, you know my name boy?" Zabuza smirked and jumped back, still pointing his sword at him.
"I make it my business to know all the missing-nins in the bingo book. Especially one whose bounty is as high as yours" Naruto commented, his hat still covering whatever emotion that his face had "I recognized you from a far away, but I decided to set up an act and leave so I could observe your skills but now I can tell that you won't allow an innocent bystander to leave. I guess I'll just have to fight you now."
"Huh? Fight me? You might have dodged my first strike but that was a fluke. It won't happen again. I'll kill you a thousand times over before you can even lay a finger on me, boy. You're just a boy, how the hell do you think you can fight in a battle between ninjas?"
"Get out of here, stranger! He's dangerous!" Konohamaru yelled at the newcomer. "Don't interfere." Sasuke muttered ominously. Sakura just looked at them in fear, not sure whether or not the blonde could help.
"My my, that's rather cruel telling your helper to leave." "Ninjas of Konoha wouldn't let innocent bystanders be harmed" Konohamaru yelled at him. Naruto simply raised his hand and pulled his hat off, throwing it on the ground. Once Kakashi saw the boy's face, his eyes widened in shock.
Sensei…He looks just like Sensei! Kakashi's thoughts raced wildly around his mind. The bunshin that was the energy source of the sphere had dissolved by half by now.
"Momochi Zabuza, I hate to kill, so if you would just surrender peacefully, then I wouldn't have to kill you. Though the villages I'll bring you to might not share the same sentiment. I'd much prefer to bring you alive rather than by your head." Naruto emotionlessly said, his face now completely devoid of emotion.
"Ha! Kill me brat? You couldn't kill me even if you had an 1000 man army behind you!" Zabuza mocked. Naruto ominously replied, "Shall we try?" Naruto then turned toward the frightened team 7 "If I beat this guy, will you lead me to Wave country? I gather that you are from Wave country yes?" Tazuna nodded. "Then I require a place to sleep for a few days. If I beat this guy, would you allow me a room in your home?"
Tazuna, unsure of what else to do, could only stutter "Y-y-yes…"
Naruto nodded, his expression still serious. "Then before I begin, allow me to tell the name of the person who will defeat you. My name is Uzumaki Naruto. And I'm not just some bystander. I guess you could sort of say that I'm a ninja bounty hunter of some sort. Now that the introductions are done with, let's begin shall we?" Naruto glared at him, his killing intent rose to a point in which even Zabuza tremble.
This kid, how much killer intent does he have? Zabuza thought in shock, as Naruto's killing intent came off from him in waves. He began to focus his own killer intent, matching Naruto's. Soon the two were facing off with their killing intent, the surroundings seemingly choking from the aura surrounding the ninjas.
Sasuke froze once again and Konohamaru struggled to stand, while Sakura and Tazuna sank to their knees, their necks constricting involuntarily, bile rising in their throats.
After a short evaluation of the enemy, Naruto charged at Zabuza, who wielded his gigantic blade with ease and charged as well. Naruto dodged the initial swing and sent a punch, which was quickly dodged as well. Soon, they began to exchange quick blows, Naruto dodging sword strikes while Zabuza blocked punches and kicks with a free hand. The two's speed and power seemed to rival each other, no one gaining the upper advantage.
Naruto dodged a kick sent his way, and blocked the following sword slice by crossing his arms over his head and letting the gauntlets take the blow, which amazingly still held together. Then Zabuza smirked and swung the blade horizontally through the opening under Naruto's arms.
Just as the sword edge was about to make contact, Naruto disappeared once again, and reappeared behind Zabuza, and kicked Zabuza to send him flying several feet away.
"He's fighting on even terms…with that guy!" Sakura squeaked in fear at the two fighters "How strong is he?" Kakashi seemed to agree with Sakura, his eyes intently on Naruto. The genins were too busy to notice that they could free their teacher, their eyes intent on the fierce battle.
Zabuza cursed as he recovered from Naruto's kick quickly and formed a seal "Kirigakure no Jutsu" and Zabuza's specialty jutsu activated, flooding the area with mist. Zabuza's voice rang through the mist
"My specialty is silent kills and with the mist, you cannot see me, but I can see you just fine. I can sneak up on you without you knowing and kill you with a single strike. With this technique, you will die!" Naruto looked around the mist in search for the ninja, but before he could do anything, Zabuza appeared behind him, his sword raised for a strike.
"DIE!" The blade swung downward but hit nothing, cutting through the mist-filled air. Zabuza's eyes widen in fear as Naruto appeared behind him, a small knife to his neck.
"My specialty as well as my clan's specialty is stealth and silent kills. We excel in speed and hiding, we could be right behind you in broad daylight, and you would never know. Your so-called stealth skills are terrible; I could tell where you were from a mile away. And now you lose. Do you yield?" Zabuza smirked and his body dissipated into water. Naruto didn't seem surprised at this, and reached inside his cloak to pull out another dagger, which he threw into the mist.
A clanging sound was heard and the mist lifted to reveal Zabuza holding up his sword and the dagger Naruto had thrown at his feet.
"Like I said, your stealth skills are terrible." Naruto muttered, "Without your specialty, then what are you going to do?" Zabuza just laughed at this "You're good brat. Really good."
Naruto smiled in a eerie way "So are you."
"But unlucky for you, I also found your weakness, blonde. Your skills in taijutsu and stealth are amazing, beyond my own, but I have analyzed your main weakness. The reason why you only use taijutsu is because you don't know any ninjutsu!"
Naruto seemed to be surprised before saying, "True. I don't know many ninjutsu at all, let alone any that could be useful in battle." Everyone seemed shocked at this. Someone so strong as he not know any ninjutsu? And he would just admit it just like that?
"Ha! You shouldn't reveal your weakness like that! That was only a slight guess, based from the way you manipulated your chakra, and you've confirmed all doubts. One who doesn't know any ninjutsu like that, you shouldn't try to fight me!"
"It's not like I can't do ninjutsu, it's that I'm terrible at controlling my chakra enough to do any ninjutsu and I can't remember a seal to save my life. Besides, it's not like my clan to fight with ninjutsu. We prefer quiet stealth attacks then full-on loud elemental jutsus."
"And because of that, you will lose this battle." Zabuza began forming many quick seals. Both Kakashi's and Naruto's eyes widened in both shock and recognition as Zabuza went through seals at a lightening quick pace.
Naruto tried to attack Zabuza before he could finish the seals, but it was too late. He jumped out of the way as a massive dragon appeared from the water, completely composed of water. Zabuza yelled "Suiton, Suiryuudan no jutsu!" And the dragon tried to engulf Naruto within its body but Naruto swiftly leapt out of the way.
Zabuza formed some more seals and yelled "Suiton, Teppodama!" and he spat out several balls of water, aimed at Naruto, who dodged out of the way. Zabuza continued to fire more and more balls of water; Naruto just dodged out of the way. Zabuza finally finished with another water bullet, which forced Naruto to once again dodge.
"Heh, you figured out my weakness. It's stupid to fight ninjutsu with taijutsu, but my speed exceeds any of your ninjutsus. If your ninjutsu can't hit me, then all you are doing is wasting chakra." Naruto calmly said. Zabuza merely smirked.
"Yes true. But not all offensive ninjutsu are used to attack." Zabuza said, and Naruto's eyes widened as another Zabuza appeared behind him, swinging his sword down.
Naruto quickly jumped out of the way, but couldn't move in time to avoid the sword strike that cut his leg.
"Damnit! I was careless. Those jutsu were all diversions." Naruto muttered, as he swiftly got into a defensive position. Zabuza only smirked and formed more seals "I still got plenty of chakra left to defeat you, boy. Suiton, Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" and a gigantic dragon made of water formed from the lake and shot at Naruto, whose injured leg prevented him from moving quick enough to dodge the attack. Naruto sighed and reached behind him to grab the grip of his two swords. Before either could attack, the dragon was hit by another water dragon, which canceled out the jutsu.
"Suiton, Suiryuudan no Jutsu" Kakashi muttered, finally free from his prison as the bunshin disappeared. Zabuza's eyes widened in surprise "Sharingan no Kakashi!" Zabuza dodged backward as Kakashi jumped forward beside Naruto.
"You fought well, Uzumaki Naruto. Allow me to take him from here on out." Naruto smirked at the silver haired jounin "Took you long enough, Copy Ninja Kakashi. Recognize you from some pictures. You're quite famous?" Kakashi nodded and Naruto sighed, "So that's the famous Sharingan. Well, I'll allow you to handle it." Naruto leapt backwards on his good leg and wrapped up his injuries with bandages he had in his cloak.
"H-how are you so fast?" Sasuke asked the blonde rather jealously. Naruto just stared at him "Hard work." Was his simple reply.
Meanwhile Zabuza was laughing, "I'll beat your Sharingan, Kakashi. That boy was quite strong, now let's see if that Sharingan is really as strong as the…"
"Rumors say." Kakashi finished for him. Zabuza seemed surprised at this and said, "Hmmm…using your Sharingan to…"
"Read my lip movements." Kakashi once again finished. Zabuza began to sweat It's as if he can…
"See my thoughts." Kakashi finished off his own thought, leading Zabuza to sweat even more "Freaky eye pissing you off right?" Zabuza growled at this. Can the Sharingan read minds? No way, that's not…
"No I'm not reading your mind. I'm seeing your future. And your future is…death." Kakashi finished ominously.
"ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT!" Zabuza began forming numerous seals along with the same speed as Kakashi who formed the exact same hand seals. The two started a race do finish the handseals but in the end Zabuza lost. Before Zabuza could finish his hand seals, Kakashi finished before him and yelled "Suiton, Daibakufu no Jutsu!" and a enormous wave of water rose the size of a tsunami, rushing at Zabuza, sending him flying through the gigantic wave of water.
No way! How could he finish the Jutsu before me? Can the Sharingan really see my future? Zabuza's last thoughts ran through his mind as the gigantic wave crushed him against a tree, knocking him unconscious; more water flowed past him, nearly drowning him.
Finally the water flow died down and Kakashi walked toward Zabuza, slumped against the tree. Kakashi held out his kunai to slit his throat, but before he could, 3 senbon flew through the air imbedding in Zabuza's neck. Kakashi whirled around in surprise, his kunai held up against the new opponent, which turned out to be a masked hunter-nin.
"Thanks for weakening Zabuza for me. I have been tracking him down for several days now." The hunter-nin jumped down next to the fallen body of Zabuza and checked it for a moment before picking up the body and hefting it on his shoulder.
"I hope we meet again." The hunter-nin disappeared with a flash, leaving a panting Kakashi, wounded Naruto, and a completely dumbstruck genin squad with a panicking bridge builder.
"Damn…used too much chakra for the Sharingan." Kakashi pulled his forehead protector down over his eye and collapsed to the ground unconscious, much to the concern of the bystanders there.
Some time later…
"Hmph. What took you so long?" Zabuza asked a masked boy, who was currently treating his many wounds.
"I'm sorry, Zabuza-sama. I was unable to complete my analysis of the Sharingan quickly enough since I was busy analyzing that blonde's boys moves." The boy replied in a feminine voice, as he continued to bandage the many bruises Naruto gave him during their fight.
"I see…did you see the weaknesses in the Sharingan?"
"Yes."
"How about the blonde's movements?"
"Hai. They are the ideal moves for a silent infiltration and assassination. His punches and kicks all aim for any direct kill spots, but also strike at any openings if any kill spots are unable to be hit. His speed is much faster than my own, or even Zabuza-sama." The boy continued his analysis, slowly removing the senbon in Zabuza's neck.
"I see…what about those movements when he dodged my sword strike at the last moment?"
"The first strike is the most difficult to catch. Any high level shinobi who have witnessed that move before could easily find a counter for it, if they manage to survive the first attack. I believe if he used any weapons, you would have died, Zabuza-sama."
"I see…so he's strong?"
"Hai Zabuza-sama. Very."
"Tell me about the weaknesses in the Sharingan and the boy's movements."
"Hai."
TBC
A/N First major fight! How was it done? Any suggestions or tips? Any comments? How was Naruto's introduction? Well anyways, most of you are probably wondering about Naruto's level…
He's powerful, but not unbeatable. He's a little overpowered, but he's not too powerful. I would say his speed and taijutsu are far better than Lee's but his ninjutsu is pure crap. He can do em, he just doesn't know any useful ones. As this chapter shows, ninjutsu is his greatest weakness. His speed might be on the same as Kakashi, who is supposedly faster than Lee without the weights, but his main forte is stealth and silent kills rather than out in the open fighting. He's at a major disadvantage in an open battle. Also, once his main taijutsu and movement techniques have been analyzed, he can be beaten quite easily. As for kenjutsu...read in later chapters.
His adoptive clan and clan techniques will be explained in later chapters…
Anyways that's for now. Give me some feedback… And leave a review on the way out.