"Kyuubi talking"

'Kyuubi Thinking'

"Regular Talking"

'Regular Thinking'

I Do Not Own Naruto

Naruto the Crimson Chain Wielder

Naruto never really thought that he could just fall for an enemy like Haku. Walking back to the house he couldn't stop wondering is the girl was genuinely thinking about leaving her cold master to pursue her own life the way she wanted to.

'I think it would be nice to have her in the village. You could get a good sparing partner and that girl really seemed to like you.' She finishes with a teasing tone towards him.

'You think so? I mean she seems really nice, too nice to work for Zabuza, and she is definitely pretty. Also she is very loyal to have not left that fool to rot yet, so I know I could count on her.' He thinks to her making her smile.

'Yea, she would make a perfect wife for you someday, that's for sure.' Kyoshi thinks with a teasing tone and smile.

'Wh-what are you talking about? I'm just hoping she can earn her freedom from that maniac. She doesn't deserve to be used as a weapon for that monster.' He thought in anger to her.

'I know you like her Naru-kun, why not have her as a future mate?' Kyoshi teases him some more, knowing that his anger is just at the fact that the girl isn't treated right.

'Ero-Kitsune' is all Naruto says back while chuckling at her giggles.

Entering the house slowly, Naruto looks to see all the people at the table eating their breakfast in silence. 'I hope I didn't worry them too much at my little stunt the other day.' He thought worriedly as they all glanced at him sadly, the guys in the room just nodded their heads at Naruto.

Anko came over and hugged him, kissed his cheek, and whispered in his ear, "hey, are you alright?"

"I'm fine Anko-chan, there's nothing to worry about." Naruto says to her calmly with a smile on his face as he kissed her cheek in return which seemed to cheer her up.

"Naruto, why don't you sit down for some breakfast and by the way, I'm Inari's mother, not his older sister." Tsunami says with a little blush on her face remembering how the blond boy thinks shes pretty and young.

"What? There's no way could you be his mom, you look so young and beautiful." Naruto replies with honest confusion, but just puts on his sheepish smile and rubs the back of his head.

Tsunami just blushes more and misses the heated gaze from Anko, "We- Well thank you Naruto-kun, I-I appreciate your complements, other men just look at my body." 'Plus the fact that they don't want the responsibility of my son, Inari doesn't help either.' She adds on with a frown, but is truly grateful to be called beautiful and not just hot or sexy.

"Well, men can get pretty perverted, I really hate it when guys just look at women with that hungry look in their eyes, its disgusting. Even married men or men with girlfriends look at other women like that." Naruto ends with an annoyed tone, making her smile that he is not a pervert or anything.

Then, from upstairs Inari comes down slowly staring at the floor the entire time, not wanting to look up at the other people in the room. He really felt bad about what he had said and at the disappointed stares he got didn't make him feel any better.

"Hey, Inari. How are you today?" Comes a voice that sounds really familiar to him. It is calm and warming to him, he slowly looks up and meets the gaze of Naruto. He instantly begins to move toward him with a bit of water coming to his young, dark eyes.

"I'm really sorry about what I said to you yesterday Naruto, I had no idea what I was talking about. I guess when tou-san was killed in front of me, I just gave up all hope, thinking that heroes didn't exist anymore." He said choking back sobs, but he was startled when a hand patted him on the head.

"Hey, don't cry now Inari. Kaiza was a good man and he died to protect the village and people he loved. People can be very cruel just for money, artifacts, or even women. They just do whatever it takes to have these things. But people like your dad come around and decide that those people are wrong and they fight to defeat people who are like that. Without people like him, then the world would be a darker and harsher place." Naruto says to the boy while still holding his head, and making everyone smile at his explanation.

"We are here to help you, no matter what. Not everyone here has had as bad a life as you have, but me and Anko-sensei have had worse lives than you could ever imagine. Just remember this. There is always someone who has a worse life than you, so instead of pouting and brooding all the time, you have to move on. Your mom and grandpa like to see your smile and don't like to see you sad. Also, Kaiza's death was just as hard for them as it was for you, so you have to show them that you care for them." Naruto finishes calmly while the others just stared at him with the same smiles on their faces happy to have Naruto back.

'He is turning out to be a perfect role model for Inari.' Tsunami thought while holding back some tears and her small blush at the thoughts of Naruto and what he was doing for her son.

Anko was also touched at the interaction between the two. 'Wow, he's great with kids. I wonder if in our future, we'll have kids.'

Inari just looks up into Naruto's kind and caring eyes and doesn't feel so bad anymore. He can see for himself how kind and forgiving the blond can be, "thank you Naruto-nii-chan!" He shouts with a big smile on his face and he hugs the older boy making all the others in the room smile at his change of heart.

"Of course Inari, now lets get to eating and then we can get to work on finishing up our training. You guys are gonna have to catch up to me though, I got the kunai to balance for about 30 minutes when I was out yesterday." Naruto says with a smirk at his two friends making them gape.

"What? 30 minutes, that's not fair. We weren't training when you were out yesterday!" Kiba yells with a mock angry tone.

"Not my problem," Naruto laughs at them. "Maybe you should start to hurry up then because you two are gonna be buying me all I can eat." He finishes making the other boys pale slightly.

"That's a little low taicho, making everyone worry and not want to do anything while your out training." Sai says to Naruto but gets up anyway. "Come on Kiba, let's just get to work."

"I'm just kidding, you guys won't have to pay for me. Its a little unfair so I'll pay for lunch." He says as they all leave together making the two guys sigh in relief.

The days passed by quickly since Naruto and the team had defeated Zabuza while on their way to Wave. Since then all the boys have completed their training with kunai balancing and also the sparing on a tree for an hour. On top of that, Inari has been telling all the people of Wave how strong and cool his 'Nii-san' was. The word has been spreading rapidly of how the young blond ninja had defeated an elite jonin level ninja while protecting the bridge builder.

His two teammates are also being talked about as they were the ones to defeat one of the demon brothers in battle. They were not as popular with the people of Wave when compared to Naruto but the people of Wave were definitely feeling more safe in the village due to the whole team's presence.

He had not heard from Haku at all in the past days either and was worried that she turned down his offer or was found out by Zabuza. He just really hoped that she would be alright.

Right now the team is heading towards the bridge for their last day of work on it. Naruto is up front with Kiba to his right and Sai to his left. Tazuna is behind Naruto with Anko following behind him. The people of Wave are all staring and whispering about the team while some of the younger girls are giggling and Waving shyly at Naruto while others are yelling about how awesome and cute he is.

"Look, that's the guy who beat the Demon of the Mist in battle, the cute blond one."

"Yea, I heard of the too. He must be so strong and graceful in battle. I can't believes that he's so hot too."

"I wonder if he has a girlfriend or something."

These were some of the more common whispers among the crowds of young teenage girls, and even some of the slightly older women too, making Naruto blush and scratch the back of his head making the women giggle even more.

These whispers were also irritating Anko a little bit as she doesn't like fan girls at all. 'Stupid useless fan girls staring at my man. Not that he would date fan girls anyway but still.' She grumbles to herself.

The team soon makes it to the bridge only to gasp as they see all the workers that were there all unconscious on the ground, except for one. "Tazuna, run. Demon... Monster." He manages to get out before he passes out as well.

"Uh, oh. Looks like Zabuza is back guys. Get into defensive formation in front of Tazuna. I'll make some shadow clones to take all the workers to the clinic." Naruto says while doing just that and also the real one getting the team into formation with the others just following his orders.

Anko pulls out two kunai in reverse grip and jumps in front of all of them as a heavy mist starts to appear in front of them.

"Well, well, well. Look at who we have here. Little blondie playing captain for the little brats while the sensei lets him believe he will actually make it somewhere in the world." Came a rough and cruel sounding voice from the mist as the team then sees the silhouettes of two people in the mist. One they all know for sure by the voice and the height is Zabuza Momochi.

Next to him is a much smaller figure wearing a mask that they all recognize as the fake hunter-nin, Haku. 'I wonder what she has chosen to do.' Naruto thinks to himself. He had told his teammates and his sensei what he had planned for the innocent girl and Naruto assured them she would be a great friend to them. They all also agreed that she would make a better friend than an enemy.

"You should have just left this place after I trashed you the last time, Zabuza." Naruto taunts him after a short silence.

"I'm going to enjoy killing you for what you did, you little bastard." He says making the team of Konoha ninja frown and get their weapons out. "You and your little friends won't be making off this bridge alive." He yelled with a crazy, blood thirsty look in his eyes while Haku seems to hesitate a bit.

"Alright then, let's just see how this all goes down." He said calmly while looking over at his teammates, "just be ready you two."

"I'm ready." Sai says with Kiba nodding his head with the same answer.

"Let's just beat the no eyebrowed freak and get this over with." Anko said, hoping to get the same reaction as before and she smirks when it happens.

"Come and get some then!" Zabuza yells at the team then breathing a bit and looking to Haku. "Go Haku." He orders a bit more calmly and watches as she moves forward while Naruto does for his group.

The two opposing ninjas really don't want to hurt each other but they have to do what they are told so they clash together in the center of the two groups. Naruto with his wakizashi and Haku with a few senbons in her hands.

"You don't have to do this. With you all of us could beat him together." Naruto says quietly to the girl he has come to like a bit.

"I have to make this all look good for him before I switch sides, Naruto-kun." She said quietly while getting an understanding look from him.

"Well then let's put on a good show." He says as he brings his wakizashi back and slashes at her stomach while she blocks the attack and each attack after that. Finally, Naruto is able to break her guard and he kicks her back to Zabuza's side making him a bit angry.

"Well I never thought I would find someone who could hit you." Zabuza says with an uncaring tone making Naruto grip the handle of his short sword in anger. "I guess I should step in then."

As he finishes his thought he pulls his massive sword off his back and he charges in to kill the little blond but Anko's snakes sprout from the bridge and hold him for enough time for Naruto's chains to sprout from his forearms and move to skewer him.

Using the massive Zanpaktou, the Kubikiribocho, he blocked the chains and switched with a hastily made water clone before he was poisoned by the snake bites.

As he saw Zabuza run forward towards Naruto and Anko, Kiba got Akamaru and Sai to head off to fight Haku while leaving some ink creatures to take Tazuna to safety along with some of Naruto's left over kage bunshins.

Kiba and Akamaru started with their signature, gatsuga (fang passing fang), while Sai also made a signature move and drew some lions out of his scroll to attack Haku while she is distracted with Kiba.

Zabuza saw this and created some water clones to intercept the two genin and the dog but only to help with Haku's special ability. 'All according to plan.' He thought with a cold smirk but it was dropped as Naruto practically appeared in front of him with a quick slash with his wakizashi which Zabuza avoided by jumping back.

"You should keep your eyes on your opponent Zabuza, I wouldn't have thought an elite jonin from Kiri would be so careless." Naruto said to him with a smirk enraging Zabuza even more but he is controlling his anger better than Naruto would have thought.

"You need more than that to beat me punk, now let's get to the good stuff." Zabuza said as he swung his sword at him as fast as he could. Naruto just made some chains come from his shins and hold the blade back but it was actually quiet tough as it had a lot of momentum.

Anko, seeing this, throws a couple of kunai at the mist nin forcing him to jump away from Naruto. "You didn't forget about little old me did you?"

'This is getting very annoying, very quickly.' Zabuza thought as he then began to actually focus on the battle at hand.

On the other side of their battle was the fight with Haku and the rest of the team. The gatsuga attack followed by Sai's lions had easily beaten the intercepting water clones from Zabuza but the clones had also stopped Kiba's attack and beat some of Sai's lions causing a big puddle of water and another of ink to land of the bridge. "You can't win this, I have the upper hand." Haku says to them calmly at seeing the water in front of her.

"O, and how do you think that?" Sai asks just as calmly while trying to piece together what her strategy was.

"Well, that's easy, were surrounded by the puddles that you just created." Haku said back confidently while going through some hand signs, Haku calls out. "Sensatsu Suisho" (A thousand flying water needles of death) and thousands of needles formed from the rising water above the two boys, making them gape before sending the needles flying towards the two genin.

Moving quickly Sai draws a couple of bird pictures in his scroll and uses their long reaching wingspan to completely cover himself and Kiba along with Akamaru. "It will take more than that to beat us in this fight." Sai says calmly after the ink birds are destroyed after being turned into pin cushions.

"Thanks for the save there Sai, I don't know what I could have done to avoid all those needles." Kiba says with a relieved expression on his face as that was the first time he had ever truly felt that he would die and he couldn't move in time.

"So, its going to take more than that then huh, well then, I guess you leave me no choice." Haku says to them while going through more hand signs and then calling out, "Makyo Hyosho" (Demonic Mirroring ice crystals). As the water rises again but it starts to freeze and form mirrors of ice around both Sai and Kiba.

After they all formed Kiba and Sai were getting a little worried about this new jutsu that they have never seen before. Haku then enters into one of the mirrors and appears on all of the other mirrors.

"Well, whatever these ice mirrors are I'm sure me and Akamaru can break them, lets go Akamaru." Kiba says as his dog agrees with him, "Gatsuga"(fang passing fang) Kiba calls out with Akamaru following him as they hit one of the mirrors and just bounce off while leaving a few small scratches in the mirrors. "Damn, these mirrors are as hard as steel." He says while holding his head and checking on Akamaru.

"This is gonna be harder than it looks." Sai says grimly.

Back with Naruto, Zabuza is still swinging his massive sword at him angrily while becoming more and more frustrated at the lack of any real success. He goes for another swing and Naruto sees that he won't be able to get away and channels chakra to his feet and arms to brace himself.

The massive sword hits his katana, that he switched out for his wakizashi for the added reach, and he could swear he heard the bones in his arm creaking in protest to the massive amount of force they just sustained. 'Holy shit, this guys is strong.' He thinks to himself in a bit of fear and awe. 'But all I have to do is stay calm and add more chakra next time I decide to block. Not to mention I need to be more in sinc with Anko.' He thinks to himself as he skids on the bridge a little bit but ultimately stops the blade and watches as Anko switches in for him.

"My turn." She says to him with a grin as she goes through hand signs calling out, "Dokujin no Jutsu." (poison cloud technique) sending a purple cloud at the mist nin who curses and jumps away from the cloud.

He quickly sends a simple, Suiton: Teppōdama (Water release: Gunshot) at the mist and watches at it dissipates into the water. "Not bad. Your both better than I thought." He says with some anger.

"Thanks, your not so bad yourself." Naruto says back with a grin with some real respect. Zabuza may have been an evil asshole, but he was damn strong and that was worth some amount of respect.

Naruto then sends his chains that he had hidden in the ground from the poison smoke cloud distraction and manages to pierce Zabuza's left arm, getting a pained grunt from the man who quickly tries to move away.

But the chain had pierced through the arm and had wrapped around it and he really didn't like what was almost inevitable. He looked to see Anko flying towards him with some snakes already coming out of her sleeves to block his sword and that would leave him open for the kill. Gritting his teeth he did what he had to do...

He severed his left hand so the chains would not be connected, he then moved out of the way from Anko and sent a quick kick that sent her back to the kid.

Unaware of the massive conflict taking place at the bridge, Tsunami is in the kitchen doing the dishes while Inari is sitting at the table thinking to himself. He then looks to his mother and decides to start a conversation. "Hey mom, what do you think of Naruto?" He questions innocently.

Tsunami blushes very lightly and replies, "I think he is a great person, he is very respectful and nice. He is also very strong and brave both in body and mind from what we heard of his life. I think he is a very good person, why do you ask Inari-kun?"

"I was just wondering, he just gives me a good feeling. Its kind of like when dad was here, I just feel safe with him and I feel that he can do anything. I hope I can be that strong when I grow up too." Inari says loudly with a cheerful smile on his face.

"That's very good Inari, I feel similar to that too. I also like it when he's around and helping me with some chores and things." She says with an increasing blush on her beautiful face. But that all stopped when the front door slammed open and two thugs posing as samurai were there staring at her with scary smirks on their faces.

Waraji is of tall stature, wears an eye-patch over his right eye and has brown hair which he parts in three, finishing in an elaborate topknot. He has an intricate tattoo that seemingly stretches across his entire left side as well as a stitched scar on the left side of his forehead, and the left side of his mouth. He wears what seems to be a loose-fitting kimono, albeit not in the traditional manner as the top half of the outfit falls around his waist leaving his upper body exposed. He also wears bandages wrapped around his waist, simple sandals and carries a fairly long sword.

Zori is a light-skinned man with bluish-white hair and black eyes. Lined markings are tattooed under his eyes. He commonly wears a dark purple hat on this head. He also wears a blue jacket with multiple pockets and tied to his waist is his blue handled katana

"Were going to need you to come with us woman, now no fighting and come on." Zori said to her.

"Wh-what?" Tsunami asks fearfully.

"If you don't come with us I'm gonna cut your little son in half."

"No, don't touch my son. I'll come with you just don't touch him." Tsunami says to them while tearing up a bit.

"Mom, don't go with them please." Inari pleads to her.

"Just go to your room Inari. I'll be alright."

What the two wana be samurai don't know is that one of the clones that helped men to the clinic was already on his way to the house to inform the family what had happened. As the clone cleared the forest, he spotted Tsunami being held hostage and Inari was running at them yelling to let her go.

Naruto was slightly surprised by this, he had not expected Inari to change this much from the time they first met to now. Naruto knew that he only had one chance to get this right as the two men began to attack Inari, he rushed in.

"Inari!" Tsunami screamed out as she tried to stop her son. Inari was feeling great fear, but held on as he charged at the men, taking from Naruto's example. The samurai were eager to end the brat's life…but to their shock, they found that they only succeeded in cutting a log into three pieces.

"What the hell?!" Waraji said in confusion.

"A replacement jutsu?!" Zori said with just as much confusion.

The two then turned as they spotted Naruto who had been able to rescue Tsunami and Inari in them as the blond ninja spoke in his usual tone. "I made it…sorry about the delay…but heroes always seem to show up late."

Inari looked up and saw to his surprise Naruto or a clone of him, who had been able to use a replacement jutsu to take for Inari while he was able to sneak into the area and free Tsunami at the last minute.

"Naruto-kun! It's you." Tsunami said to him quietly while crying relieved tears the she was saved by the blond she admires.

"Who the hell are you?!" Waraji yelled at the young blond if front of them.

"The name's Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha to you one eye. And I'm going to deal with you right now for trying to kidnap a beautiful lady like Tsunami and trying to kill her son."

Naruto spared a glance at Inari and smiled to him as Inari and Tsunami looked on in awe at what he had been able to do at the last minute. "You did great Inari, when you charged those two, they forgot about you're mother and that allowed me to get her out of the way and use a replacement jutsu to save both her and you, I owe you big for that." He said as he cut Tsunami free and smiled as she hugged her son tightly while wiping her tears away.

Naruto then faced the two mercenary samurai who were getting even more annoyed as they reached for their swords once more

"It's one of those ninja brats Tazuna hired." Zori said to his partner Waraji.

"Let's deal with him then."

Inari and Tsunami gasped as the two charged at them as they were all still looking at them. "Naruto-kun, they're coming!" Tsunami blushing at the kun suffix that she just figured out that she had added to his name and the fact that it felt natural for her to call him that.

Naruto calmly focused and took out a pair of shuriken from his pouch and fired them at the two samurai, both men then took out their swords and blocked the attacks.

"You'll have to do something else than that brat!" Zori said to him to taunt him.

Naruto merely grinned, making them even angrier as he replied. "I already have."

Before the samurai could do anything, two chains had shot out of the water and grabbed them by the necks using their momentum to snap them.

Inari and Tsunami were both stunned at the whole thing and looked at Naruto with wide eyes filled with admiration and complete awe.

Chapter End

Alright, in the last couple chapters I have decided that Zabuza will be evil and will probably die. In the last story, I just never really got around to including him in the story until way later, so I think this will work better.

PepticCaesar out