Author's Note: Hey, guys. This is a new chapter for you. Someone pointed a grave mistake I made on last chapter! In a paragraph I said that Naruto hasn't killed by his own hands before, and yet in one of the scenes it was mentioned that he snapped one of the sailors' neck. My mistake! I'll redo it soon, and change it into throwing him to the ocean unconscious or something. I'm sorry! I'm surprised that there is only one person who noticed this mistake, or perhaps there are others too, but too lazy to give any kind of review.
I'm sorry for the long wait, but I'm confused as to how I would write the fighting scene, and thus I needed time. Not to mention I have to think whether Haku and Zabuza would die or stay alive. Lots of fighting scene here! Hopefully you'll like it! Not much humor in this chapter.
Chapter Sixteen
Lee easily passed through the mirrors and entered the mirror dome. Haku let him in because if the weird boy wanted to give him advantage by being another victim of his, he wouldn't complain. Afterall the dome was meant to trap people inside, not outside, and attacked them from all direction usinf the mirrors.
Lee moved with incredible speed dodging the senbons sent to his way. He fought beside Sasuke.
"You fool, why did you enter this dome instead of attacking it from outside?" the survivor of Uchiha clam snapped.
"Neji want me to tell you to fight the bugman, while I dealt with your current opponent. Your fire jutsu will be an advantage against a bug user."
"And how do you think I can get the hell out of this damn place?" Sasuke asked, annoyed.
"By this," the taijustu specialist unstrapped one of his leg weights and threw it toward a mirror. Haku tried to deflect it, but apparently he didn't use much power to defend against the attack (and a senbon isn't exactly a good weapon against big inanimate things), and the heavy weight knocked the weapon away from his palm and slammed into the ice mirror, shattering it into thousands of shards. "NOW! I'll cover you!" Lee took out an iron brass knuckle on his hands to deflect the weapons away from his already running comrade. If he didn't need to deflect the senbons, he wouldn't use it and instead preferred to dodge and attacked unarmed.
Using this opportunity while Lee protected him, Sasuke escaped from the dome, mind still wondering how in the hell a mere weight like that could destroy something that he wasn't able to even melt using his katon jutsu. Those things were fucking ice for goddamn sake! Ice was supposed to melt under fire!
Perhaps because the weight wasn't made of chakra, his ego supplied his mind. Sasuke nodded at the assessment, feeling satisfied.
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"I can see the outline of the island from here," Naruto shouted outwardly to Kyuubi.
About damn time! And speak inside your mind! The fox told him.
"Whatever," the blond mumbled dragging the unconscious man with him.
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"Kirigakure no jutsu!" Zabuza shouted.
"WHAT THE FUCK!" many ninjas shouted when thick mist covered the bridge.
"Zabuza, you fuck up loser, I CAN'T SEE A DAMN THING HERE!" and not all of them were from Leaf.
"Your problem," was the only answer from the ex Mist-nin. The stone-nin gritted his teeth.
Situation caused by the mist for these ninjas:
Neji wasn't affected by the mist because of his byakugan, but it didn't really give him an advantage, since his opponent was a former Mist ninja.
Sasuke, Sakura, and Tenten couldn't see a damn thing inside the mist. The situation hindered both Tenten and Sasuke.
Lee wasn't really affected by the mist (AN: hey, he could fight when he's unconscious, which meant he closed his eyes, so I assume he could fight even if he couldn't see a damn thing). The same happened to his sensei.
Kakashi was considering summoning his dogs to be his 'eyes'…or perhaps his 'nose' and ordered them to attack everyone, but that idea was shot off when he remembered that there were other Leaf ninjas with him. Wouldn't want them to be bitten by his dogs. They would report it to Hokage and he would get a wage cut. Problem was he needed money to buy the latest edition of Icha Icha Paradise Special Gold Edition.
The Mist missing-nins weren't affected by the mist, since they were trained to fight under this condition.
The poison mistress was having difficulties.
The bug user used his bug in the way Kakashi wanted to do with his dogs.
The former stone-nin was cursing through his mouth, as he couldn't see a damn thing.
"Wow, it's cloudy over here," there was a loud crash when something was thrown to the bridge floor.
"Uzumaki? Is that you?" Sakura asked when she recognized the voice.
"Ping-pong. Uzumaki Naruto has arrived. By the way, Zabuza, nice sword. It is shinier too. What did you bribe its creator with to finish it?" the blond asked the man before he observed his surrounding. He rubbed his hands excitedly when he noticed the missing-nins.
Neji snapped his head toward the blonde Leaf genin when he said it. Did that mean he could see too in the mist? He noticed a lump below Naruto. "Uzumaki," he said, not calling him Naruto because his own teammates called him that. "What is that below your feet?"
"Oh this? Just their boss. I make a rendezvous stop at his base. You'd be surprised how easy it was to subdue those people," then he spoke to the missing-nins. "Hello guys, I have your boss over here. Honestly, I don't get it why you people just beat him yourself and take his wealth, because that is what I did," Naruto kicked Gatou's body who later moaned.
'What did he mean by that was what he did?' Kakashi asked himself with dread.
"Then there is no reason I stay here anymore," the genjutsu user turned before he was pounced by a fox whose weight was half a ton. The fox bit his neck and tore it with his sharp teeth. The feminine man's scream rang throughout the bridge.
"What the fuck is that?" the other Mist-nin shouted. He couldn't see the actual form of the fox, only the silhouette of the two tailed fox.
"Oh it seems that Kibi wants to play with you too," he chuckled. "I guess it's my turn then. PARTY TIME!" Naruto didn't activate his eye ability to see through the mist to make the battle a bit more challenging, only relying on his other senses.
Neji was stunned when he saw what was currently…eating the genjutsu user's corpse. He felt sick. A two tailed…fox? How did the blond get a fox summon? He went toward his sensei to help him as his opponent was killed already. The rock-nin would be the perfect prey for him. Even if he could harden his outer body, he couldn't do the same with his inner organs. And that was an advantage he wanted to exploit.
Sasuke was furious. He was fighting and would win too, if not for the damn fucking mist. He was roasting the bugs with his katon jutsus when the next second he couldn't see anything. Problem was the bugs could find him in the mist, while he couldn't. He cursed for the tenth time today. The very first thing when he came back to Konoha was to go to the library and found a jutsu to counter this damned kirigakure no jutsu.
He looked at the spot where he could sfeel the chakra flowed from the…creature, whatever it was. There was a pang on his heart to know that Naruto was involved with such strong creature and not him. The dark haired kid shook his head and concentrated on his opponent.
Tenten was having difficulties. Even if both her and her opponent unable to see, the poison mistress had an advantage from her. She was afraid to hit her friends if she shot her weapons blindly, but her opponent wasn't.
"Hm…you should increase the potency of your poison by 7 times if you want to affect me even a bit, woman," she could hear Uzumaki said, as if he was hit by the poison.
"That is enough to kill a cow!" Was it her or did she hear the frustration out of her mouth?
"Well to bad for you I'm not a cow," Tenten who was used handling weapons recognized the sound of shuriken being thrown. There was a gasp coming out of the Grass-nin. "It's no use struggling. The liquid that coated my weapons that cut your arm will deteriorate the nerves around your wound. You'll loose the use of your arm pretty soon. When you don't feel anything on your arm, it means that the poison starts to work. Unfortunate really, that this poison won't give any pain to the victim as the pain nerves are severed too," she screamed.
"You," she panted. "Lie about (pant) the pain, boy," she growled before she threw a handful of poisoned senbons blindly. It hit him, but there was the poofing sound, making her assume that the boy was using kawarimi. The truth was that Naruto use shadow clone technique, but the woman couldn't see it under the mist.
"I didn't. There were 2 poisons that I used on you. Actually the other is more like a chemical substance. You see it reacts when it meets with blood or more specifically the iron on your blood. Do you feel like your other arm burned?" Naruto chuckled. "If you're truly a poison mistress then why don't you try to beat my personal poisons? You have 10 minutes before your arms become completely unusable. Have fun!" The blond left her and sniffed the air.
He heard the angry buzz of insects 10 meters from his place. Taking out a scroll, he summoned a spray bottle. Activating his eyes to read the writing on the bottle to make sure that it was indeed the bottle he looked for, Naruto grumbled when he got the wrong bottle. And it was fortunate for him to make sure because the bottle he was currently holding would have the counter effect from the bottle he was looking for. He didn't want to face a swarm of ferocious bugs, even though he had his foxfire. He opened his summon scroll once again and this time he got the right one.
He shook the bottle for a moment and almost spraying its content to the spot where the bugs were when he got a better idea. He leapt to where the bug user was, throwing a kind of smoke bomb on him and sprayed the content of the first bottle to the bugs swarm.
"Have fun with your bugs," Naruto shouted to the coughing bug user, jumping away from the now hungry insects. The bugs' minds were screwed by the gas, disabling them from recognizing friends from foes. The smoke bomb was actually something that would attract the bugs' hungry minds. There was a horrible scream when the bug user was practically eaten alive by his own pets. Not only they sucked their master's chakra, they also sucked his blood and devoured his flesh. Not a pretty sight. Thankfully there was mist covered the bridge, so the less enthusiastic ninjas wouldn't faint. They were still shivering when they heard the unearthly scream coming out from the Grass-nin. When he felt that the man was dead, Naruto used the second bottle, and the bugs dropped to the ground like flies.
Naruto finished off the now disabled kunoichi by tearing through her throat. He licked his bloody hands, enjoying his first kills. It wasn't hard as many ninjas described it. He didn't feel any remorse at all, though it could be contributed to the demon inside him. Using a fuuton jutsu he just learned from the fox, he created a gust wind to blow out the fog. He counted there were only 2 more missing-nins aside from Zabuza and Haku. The ex Rock-nin was almost beaten down by the Hyuuga boy who appeared to get some blows on his own, judging from his bruised arms and face. Gai was fighting the other nin helped by Tenten while his favorite pupil was fighting against Haku. Sasuke looked pissed off from having his opponent was taken down by Naruto quite easily, but looked unnerved at the pile of flesh in front of him.
"Need something?" Naruto asked him.
Sasuke scowled. "Nothing."
"Suit yourself," Naruto turned his attention to Zabuza who was swinging his completed sword and licked his lips in anticipation. Kibi was on his side, purring lazily. The two tailed fox looked at the former Rock and Mist missing-nin longingly and glanced at its master. Naruto smiled, "You can have them," it dashed toward them before he even finished talking. He heard the shouts and gasps of surprise from both sides who were currently attacking each other.
There was a clang sound when Naruto's chakra enhanced kunai met Zabuza's Kubikiri Houcho (sp?). Both ninjas were smiling.
"Naruto, go back! He's my opponent," Kakashi told him.
"No. I AM his opponent. Isn't it, Zabuza?" the boy asked him.
The man smiled. "Yes, it is. We have unfinished business, Kakashi. This time I will defeat you, boy."
"Dream on, sucker!" Naruto deflected his sword and threw the kunai to his head. Zabuza moved his sword to intercept the weapon.
"Not using your wires again, boy?"
"Nah, I want to fight sword against sword."
"You have no sword with you," he pointed bluntly.
"Who said I have no sword?" he took a small red scroll hanging on his belt and showed it to the ex Mist-nin. Biting his thumb, because the blood on his hand wasn't his, Naruto smeared the blood on the opened scroll and summoned his sword.
It was a katana. The blade length was 70 centimeters and the handle was around 20. In the hilt, a roaring fox was carved. Nine tails encircled the handle. The blade itself was shining, glimmering under the sun. The metal was bluish.
"It seems that you have your own special sword. Are you a kenjutsu master?"
"Hardly. Even if I have a sword with me, doesn't mean I'm a swordsman. I prefer to be… prepared for anything."
"Can you recommend its creator then? It was a fine blade."
"You're currently seeing him," Zabuza raise his non-existent eyebrow in surprise.
"You created your own sword?" he couldn't stop the question from blurting out of his mouth.
"Half of it. I provide the fire."
"Quite admirable. Does it have any special power like mine?"
"Unfortunately no," Naruto grinned. Scorching blue fire surrounded the sword. "But it is able to handle my fire without problem."
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Kakashi ran his chidori through the B-rank missing-nin's chest, earning a growl from the two tailed fox. He watched it warily, muscles tensed, thinking that it would attack him, but it didn't. The fat man dropped to the bridge floor, dead before his body landed on it. Sasuke watched wide-eyed on the bluish crackling lightning on his hand. He had to know that technique! Too bad he didn't activate his sharingan eyes. He noticed the fox went to Naruto and jealousy once again reared its head.
Neji has disabled the other ninja with his 64 hands technique. He breathed a sigh of relief when his opponent actually collapsed this time. It was the second time he used the same technique on the man, but the man still could retaliate albeit slower and weaker after the first time, much to his surprise. He paid his shock with his now broken ribs. Tenten moved to his side and tried to help him with his limited knowledge of healing jutsu.
Neji was surprised, however, that his jounin sensei didn't 'cheer' him up like usual. He noticed that the man with the bowl haircut was looking at something. Following his gaze, Neji couldn't help but gasp when he noticed the burning sword on Naruto's grip. The chakra channeled on the blade was enormous. It danced around it as if it was alive. It was mostly blue, but there was a trace of red chakra…Impossible! Neji rubbed his eyes. There was no red colored chakra! He passed it off as being tired.
Looking at his female teammate, he found that she was gazing the burning katana in awe. He wasn't surprised. A weapon specialist like her would be interested to know a sword like the one in Naruto's hand.
"Tenten, go help Lee!" he said to her.
The weapon specialist opened her mouth but closed it again, before she nodded and left him.
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Inside him Kyuubi warned Naruto that the man in front of him was a real swordsman unlike him and that he would have a disadvantage by fighting him with sword.
"Don't you trust me? I won't lose. I know my limit and it will be a good experience for me," the fox demon relented and let him did it.
"Whom're you talking to, boy?" Zabuza wondered if he was mentally ill, talking to himself like that.
"Only a certain furball inside me," the blonde boy replied, confusing him. "It doesn't matter. The only thing important is our match!"
"Agreed," with that Zabuza sent him a wind blade which he dodged by jumping. He twisted his body on the air and swung his katana upon Zabuza who was already in front of him. Zabuza parried it with his own sword. Naruto could see he was sweating from the heat emitted by the blue fire. To be on close distance with his fire wasn't something people like to do especially for a ninja who was used to low temperature in Water Country like him. If his red fire was hot, then his blue one was scorching.
The missing-nin's eyes widened when he saw Naruto inhaled the air around him and blew out long blue fire from his mouth. He barely dodged the fire from burning his face. Zabuza jumped backwards and ran when the still fire-breathing Naruto directed his flame toward his form. When the fire was gone, Zabuza was 15 meters from Naruto.
"Nice reflex," the Kyuubi's vessel grinned, enjoying the battle already. He noticed Kibi was watching his duel from the corner of his eyes.
The masked ninja attacked Naruto without saying anything. Naruto parried it and kicked him on the shin. Zabuza flipped backwards only to see a wave of blue flames heading toward him. He quickly slashed his sword vertically and created a wave of wind to counter attack it. There was a loud explosion on the bridge, part of the half finished bridge was damaged. A couple of rocks plunged to the water below.
The two went back to fight each other, not caring of others as they enjoyed their duel. The blonde blocked another incoming slash, but was surprised when Zabuza went down and swoop down his leg. Naruto fell to the ground, but managed to maintain his balance. When he looked up, he saw Zabuza's sword came down. Reinforcing his fingers, he caught the tip of the blade between his left middle and forefinger. Naruto sliced the air as Zabuza jumped to avoid it, hands still clutching his sword. His weight was supported by his sword which was currently in Naruto's hold. Knowing this, Naruto threw the sword along with him to the air, before sending arrows of red fire toward the man in the air. Zabuza clutched the sword on his teeth and made handseals.
"Suiton: Suiryuudan no jutsu!" a water dragon rose from the calm sea below the bridge and doused off the rays of arrows. Water rained down to the bridge as the Zabuza's jutsu clashed with Naruto's. Both were wearing smirk on their faces.
"Not bad," Naruto commented.
"You too, brat," Zabuza replied. Both took a stance and ready to battle once again.
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Haku was having difficulties fighting 2 genins both inside and outside. He had to make sure that Lee didn't come close to his mirrors less he would destroyed them, while he had to fend off the rays of weapons from the kunoichi outside in the same time. Before this he had never known this particular weakness of his mirrors. As much as he knew chakra didn't affect his technique, though it was perhaps because he had never seen a powerful ninjutsu that could destroy the ice mirrors, and none of the people he had killed had come close to use any thing that has nothing to do with chakra attack. He could contribute this to the fact that he seldom used this particular technique. Usually they were already dead before he used it. To know this weakness when he was at disadvantage was ill-timed.
Haku created mizu bunshins to help him deal with them. At this rate he would have to drop off the technique. He couldn't use this technique for long as it drained quite fraction of chakra.
Haku looked at his savior's battle. Zabuza appeared as if he enjoyed the fight, much like his opponent. Both not stopping nor giving the other time to breath.
It was amazing to see someone so young like him able to fight the A-rank missing-nin equally. And that was after the older man finished his sword. The feminine boy was worried of the missing-nin's condition. When he met the blonde kid, both first and second times, the boy was full of bloodlust, daring anyone to challenge him.
His heart clenched when Zabuza's shoulder was pierced.
With a determination, Haku took out his poisoned senbon. He needed to help him, and if he had to do it by killing these ninjas then so be it.
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Naruto was caught off guard when Zabuza loosened his hold on his sword, causing him to stumble off balance. The older ninja threw him off the bridge in his moment of surprise.
Half drowned on the sea, the blond quickly focused his chakra to his free arm, which he later used as a support for his body, touching the water surface as if it was a solid thing. Flipping backward, he landed and slid on the calm surface before he stopped. His clothes was drenched by the salty water.
His opponent jumped from the bridge and landed on the water deftly.
"This will be your grave, boy. I have the advantage here," hearing it, Naruto chuckled.
"Trying to prevent me from using fire?" He raised an eyebrow. "It's true that you have better chance defeating me here in an area you're familiar with, but…" Naruto's blue chakra exploded around him and surged to the water beneath him, taking hold of the water below, as it connected each molecule and bound them into one, just like what he did days ago, only in faster time, albeit there was a decrease in control. "Who says that I'm only using fire?" tendrils of water surrounded him, coiled around his body like snakes dancing on the air.
"…Fire and water. You have strange bloodlines, boy," Zabuza remarked.
"Bloodlines? Hardly, although most people who see this will be mistaken them with bloodlines. The water is merely a chakra technique while the fire is a privilege I got from having a great burden placed upon me. It is no longer a burden for me though. Infact," Naruto closed his eyes and opened them to reveal a pair of red blood slitted orbs, "It has become my strength," the tendrils started to attack Zabuza, raining him down.
Zabuza was jumping around, trying his best not to be caught by any of the fast moving water vines. He decided to blast it off with his wind attack when one of them managed to slice his thigh. Grunting, he stumbled on the water, but managed to balance himself.
An ice mirror appeared out of thin air in front of the blonde genin. His subordinate came out of the mirror and furiously attacked the blond. He managed to throw the younger boy's body into the sea before trying his hardest to freeze the sea below to trap the genin inside the block of ice. The boy panted when he finished doing it.
Zabuza frowned, but before he could reprimand him from interrupting their battle, and angry roar startled him. The white furred two tailed fox leapt toward Haku and attacked him. Green flame bolts were heading toward the lithe boy. Two managed to hit him, and Haku coughed blood. He threw poisoned senbons toward the animal, but it simply roared and blasted them off with chakra wave.
There was a rumble stopping the fox from further attacking Haku. There were cracking sounds coming from the ice block as fractures started to appear on it. There was a loud explosion and lots of smoke covering the entire area. Thick fog surrounded the spot where the explosion occurred. The air around it was distorted. The water in the area started to boil and both ninjas felt hot all of sudden. Wind started to pick up because of the difference of temperature and the mist started to disperse. Blue scorching flame surrounded a small body in the center, creating smoke as it touched the water. The former drenched clothes was now dry because of the heat.
"You should wait for your turn," the blonde figure told Haku, tightening his grip on his burning sword, before he dashed like a rocket toward the older boy. Kibi went to attack Zabuza. Haku threw his weapons toward him, but just like his pet, Naruto dismissed it as if it was nothing. There was a surge of ice spikes coming out of the ocean, but Naruto's flame simply melt them off. In a second, the legacy of yondaime already appeared in front of Haku. Haku dodged the slice, but Naruto used his free hand to punch him in the face, cracking his huter-nin mask. Before he could retaliate, Naruto's sword drove through his chest, impaling his heart.
The older boy touched the wound with his trembling hand, feeling the thick red liquid oozing from the fatal wound, before looking at the impassive face of his killer. Dark blue orbs were watching him as he withdrew his blade from his body. Bloods splattered on his whiskered face and dropped to the sea, mixing the transparent liquid with red color.
Haku coughed blood. He let a small smile adorned his face, as he watched his killer, silently complimenting him, before he dropped backward to the sea. The image he could see was blurry. From the younger boy's blue orbs, to the blue sky above, before everything went dark.
"Zabu…za…san," Haku's body plunged into the cold water below.
Naruto didn't know why, but killing the older ninja made his heart clenched. He didn't like this feeling. He shouldn't feel any kind of remorse at all. Why did he feel something like this toward him? Heck, he was having fun killing the other ninjas! He didn't feel anything when Iruka was almost killed and this man was practically a stranger!
Completely confused with the new emotion, he looked at Zabuza who was currently being engaged by his fox. The fox managed to end the stalemate when Zabuza was too caught up by his subordinate's death. Naruto gripped his bloodied sword tighter.
The only thing he could do for the boy he had mercilessly killed…
Seconds later he found himself watching Zabuza's lifeless body dropped like his subordinate, only this time he caught it before it plunged into the water.
Was to send the man he most cherished to die with him…
Naruto was silent for a moment before he spoke at his fox, "Kibi, retrieve his body from the sea. Don't do anything to damage it further," the white fox looked confused, but complied with his command. Naruto leapt to the bridge and landed on it with a soft thud. He dropped Zabuza's body to the ground. The hand that gripped the sword loosened.
No one bothered him when they saw his frowning bloodied face, as if he was thinking deeply. Seconds later, Kibi arrived on the bridge with Haku's body and dropped it beside Zabuza's before following its master who walked away from the bridge, hands clutching both swords, his and Zabuza's. He passed through the crowds who were running to the bridge with daily utensils as their weapons. Some were concerned with the young boy whose face and clothes were covered with blood and even stopped to ask what happened, while others continued their journey, but Naruto continued to walk, as if he didn't hear it. His giant fox walked alongside him, scaring the townspeople who immediately continued their walks to the bridge.
Inari's eyes widened when he met him half way to the bridge. "Naruto-nii—" Tazuna's grandson stopped talking when he noticed his condition. There was a hollow look on his eyes. The young kid then stared at the blood on one of the sword he was gripping and on his face and clothes. He was panicked when he thought he was wounded, but was surprised when he found no injury. Seeing his blank face, Inari swallowed and followed the others. Naruto would talk to him if he wanted to later. For now he had much more important thing to do, which was to help the ninjas battled Gatou's lackeys.
He didn't know that the battle was already ended. The missing-nins were all either died or captured, Gatou's lackeys were unconscious on his base, and Gatou himself was beaten down. He marched with the others, going to the opposite direction from his blonde hero.
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Naruto stared at the grave he made on his own. Hours after the battle ended he went back to the bridge to retrieve Zabuza's and Haku's bodies, but found nothing. He asked Inari and found that their bodies would be dumped in a spot along with the other dead ninjas. When he asked for their bodies, the man who kept the dead bodies raised an eyebrow, but complied with it, as he was the one who killed them.
Naruto then dug a grave on a hill and buried them there together. He stared at it for hours, not saying anything. He was still frowning. When the sun set in the West, he stood up and snatched Zabuza's sword. Originally he intended to leave the sword there, but changed his mind afterwards. His confused mind tried to reason that it was only as a token to remind him of his first kills. To the victor goes the spoil. But Kyuubi snorted and laughed, saying that he was in denial. Not wanting to argue with the demon, Naruto stayed silent.
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Inari alongside the kids Naruto hanging around with in Wave watched him left with the other Leaf ninjas sadly. The children were crying and sobbing as their hero went back to Konoha. Inari sniffed, trying to stop the tears from falling down when he heard the question.
"So, what should we name the bridge?" a brown haired man asked the others. The bridge had been just completed today.
"Great Tazu—" the bridge builder started.
"THE GREAT NARUTO BRIDGE!" Inari shouted loudly to the crowds.
"Eh? Why should we name our bridge after food?" one of the townspeople asked.
"NOT AFTER FOOD!" a small kid protested. "It's after Naruto-niisan!"
"Who?"
"He's the one who inspired bravery on me, reminding me that a coward will not be able to do anything. Because of that I can gather all of you to go against Gatou," even if he was already handled by Naruto-niisan when we arrived Tazuna's grandson added inwardly. "And he was the one who bring down Gatou's reign on our country!"
"Ah, you mean that blonde kid. He is indeed an admirable kid," a woman remembered the rumor about him succeeded in beating down Gatou and his men on his own and killed several of the missing-nins the crime lord hired.
"Naruto…Naruto Bridge. The Great Naruto Bridge…it sounds great to me," someone said in the crowds. The others nodded at each other, tasting the name with their tongues.
The crowds murmured in agreement and cheered loudly.
"Allright!" the kids who almost to the point of worshipping Naruto shouted happily. "The bridge name will be The Great Naruto Bridge then!" the townspeople applaud merrily.
"Wha?" Tazuna was staring in shock at his grandson for suggesting that name. How could someone who almost killed him many times got the pleasure of getting his name taken for the very bridge he was building! It was impossible! Unfair! It should be his name, not that blasted kid! "Noooooooooooo!" his dejected scream was drowned by the loud cheer of others.
TBC…
For Haku's and Zabuza's fans, I'm sorry, but I decided to kill them off. They won't have anything to do with my plotline anymore and I can't keep them alive just to please you all.
He he he…poor Tazuna. At last the Wave arc is finished. Chuunin Exam arc will come soon.
This chapter is a lot more serious than the other chapters on this fic, I think. Oh well, it isn't like I put it under humor category. The end of the battle was a bit wobbly. At first I thought to describe the emotion better and put some other scenes to prolong the chapter, but I was too sleepy to care. I think this chapter is still adequate enough.
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