Grim Reaper of Iwa
Chapter 9
And annoying as it is, I took too long to get this chapter out because I was sulking about not getting a job at a freaking grocery store. Seriously, what the hell is with that? How can I not be qualified enough to work at a meijer's! My luck sucks so fucking much, I swear!
Oh and apparently Disney bought out Star Wars….epic vader: NOOOOOOO!
So what are your thoughts? Anyway, I am going to try my best with this chapter, because I am not great with sad emotional chapters. You have been warned.
As soon as they exited the cave, the group knew something was very wrong. Why? Because the air was saturated with so much chakra it was scary. However, they knew this chakra to be the chakra of their sensei, Zabuza.
It was a lot more massive than usual and it was fading fast. They did not know why but they had an idea.
Haku was the first to rush off, fearing for his sensei's life. If Kiri had indeed come, he needed to make sure he survived. He was quickly followed by Naruto then Guren and Fu.
They were not alone in this endeavor, it seemed that Tsunade and Shizune had felt the power radiating in the air and joined the kids about halfway to the man.
What they found was not a pretty site. Half a mile out, they saw signs of a massive battle. Apparently whoever Zabuza had fought had been strong because the scars were deep, so deep that most of the land was destroyed and it did not liven up the mood at all for the group.
And they were right be afraid for the man because it just got worse the further they got to the epicenter of the fight, where Zabuza was lying on his back and looking like a bloody mess. There were deep gashes on his torso and his arm looked mangled, but the people he fought looked way worse. There were pieces of ninja all over the place. No one was left standing.
"Sensei!" Haku, Guren, and Naruto all shouted. Shizune numbly walked up to her lover as silent tears ran down her face. She immediately started her work one trying to heal him. What she found was horrible.
"Tsunade!" she cried, hoping to get her help.
Said woman was looking around in horror. All the blood and gore was over whelming! She might have fought in a war or two and lost her own lover and her brother to one of them, but this was horrifying. However, it was thanks to Naruto that she got over her fear of blood, but this brought some of it back. She quickly made her way to the Swordsman and sighed at the deep wounds, wounds that would be hard even for her to heal.
Making her hand glow green, she began her own checkup and it horrified her. She was so angry with this man that she wanted to hit him, but she refrained from doing that. "YOU FOOL!"
"This….was….something I had…to do on my own." Zabuza rasped out.
"You could not beat them alone with your normal power fool! So why resort to this?" Tsunade screamed.
Zabuza was quiet form a moment as he weakly looked at them all. "Because….of you all. If I have not faced them…..you all would be forever….. tormented by them because of my past mistake." He paused for a moment to catch what little breath he had left. "My students….and children….did not deserve any of that. My love and…unborn child….and my medic friend…I could not let them go after you."
"Sensei….no, FATHER! Please hang on!" Haku cried.
Zabuza smiled weakly at the ice user. "Haku, you were my first student. I only treated you as my tool due to….my want for revenge. But that changed as I trained you and the kicker was the blond boy you brought with you one day. I will always see you as my son. Take my blade, it is rightfully yours."
Haku nodded with tears running down his face like a waterfall as he took the giant blade. However as big as the damn thing wa,s it was not at all heavy for him, something that Zabuza knew as well.
Zabuza then turned to Guren and smiled. "Even though I still….don't think I am cut out to be a father, I am….glad we took you along. I am…glad to have a daughter like you. Protect you family no matter the cost….like I did…if you have to."
"Yes…father." Guren choked out. In all reality, she did see the man as a father. He took her away from that damnable village and took care of her. He might have been a little rough around the edges, but she liked that. Hell her own father probably wouldn't have been as good as this man.
"Naruto….." Zabuza rasped out. "You….were a pain in the ass, but you were my best student believe it or not. Konoha was stupid to have thrown you away as they did. You were also like a son to me, however, I could never replace the man that was your real father. I could….see it your eyes. I can always settle for the Uncle position with you." He chuckled painfully at that along with said blond. "You are also the strongest student I have. So I want you to protect them with all you have. You have them to protect you as well, so always be with them in that endeavor.
"I will." Naruto said determinedly.
Zabuza then turned to a crying Shizune as she kneeled next to him. "I…am…sorry."
"I know."
"I love you." Zabuza replied.
"I love you too." Shizune replied again as she leaned in to kiss him. She wished she could be mad at him, but he had made her happy. But now he was going to be gone.
Slowly, Zabuza smiled with in the kiss, content. With that, there was stillness and the Former Demon of the Mist was dead
XXX
In the next few days after Zabuza died, things were depressing. Sure they managed to bury Zabuza's body, but it was still very depressing.
Guren decided to spend a lot of time with Shizune and Haku. They spent time training, crying, and comforting each other. However, for the girl, she remembered a special time back in the desert with her father figure.
Flashback…
Training for Guren was like normal for her and the big bad Demon of the Mist. However, right now, all they were really doing was throwing rocks. Zabuza had just beaten her again in a spar.
"You did well Guren." Zabuza said as he saw on a rock near the water of the Oasis and decided that it was good enough to throw.
"You still beat me, even in your weakened, delirious state." Guren sighed. "I guess you really are strong."
"Well, I have been training on my own as well…I am nowhere near S-class and I have to protect my students somehow."
Guren smiled. Her teacher was a big softie despite his reputation. She smiled as she leaned on the man's shoulder. "I am glad you guys found me instead of that freak who killed off my entire village."
Zabuza, still uncomfortable with his feelings with these kids, just wrapped his arm around the girl. "Thank you…dad." He heard her say, which put a big smile on his face.
She was about to fall asleep when she felt the earth move. "The earth is shaking."
Flashback End…
That time was special to her. It was when she finally said the man was a real father that she never really had before. It was a time that she would always remember. She looked up at the woman holding her and smiled with a determined glint in her eye. For Zabuza, she would protect the woman she would call mom and her unborn child.
Shizune looked down at the girl in her arm and smiled. Guren was a nice girl and she thought the girl would make a great sister. Yeah….sister. The woman inwardly chuckled at the thought of being a mother and despite the fact that her child would not have a father, it would have a great family, a family that was set up by her lover and kept together thanks to a certain blond.
If she ever met Kushina in the afterlife, she would have to thank her for the red head's son.
Going on that line of thought, she smiled. This situation she was thinking of seemed familiar. Looking over to a sleeping Tsunade in their hotel room, Shizune smiled at the memory of how Tsunade took her being pregnant…it was sort like when the woman found out Kushina was pregnant.
Flashback!
Shizune came out of her hotel bathroom with a big smile on her face. She honestly thought this day would never come because she always was traveling with Tsunade and keeping her healthy, along with keeping her company. "YES!"
"Ugh….keep it down Shizune." Tsunade groaned as she sat up in bed, nursing her mind splitting hangover. "What are you excited about this early in the morning?"
"Tsunade-sama, it is noon." Shizune deadpanned.
"My point." Tsunade replied with a straight face.
The young medic just sighed before smiling brightly again. "Tsunade…I'm pregnant!"
And just like that, the hangover was gone and the room went deathly quiet. "And who's the father?"
"Zabuza of course!"
"ZABUZA!" Tsunade screamed.
XXX
Down in the lobby, said man spit out his cereal when her heard Tsuande's voice. "Oh shit….now what did I do?"
That day, the ensuing beat down, brought down the hotel and created many jokes courtesy of Naruto.
Flashback End!
Haku knelt next to Zabuza. His tears had all but dried up and he just stared at the grave with a blank face. He felt lost without his father's guidance, but he knew he had to move on. "Father, I wish you didn't have to die, but this is our life, we are ninja and death is a natural part of our life. Still, if I ever get the chance, I'll take out the 4th Mizukage for you."
Flashback!
"Haku, there is something I have to tell you." Zabuza voiced as he finished training the ice user, He had to go to Naruto next to see if he was ok.
"What is that master?" Haku asked.
At the 'master' word , it made Zabuza wince a bit. "Haku, I am sorry for the way I treated you before. YOU are not just a weapon, a tool. I realized now, thanks to Naruto being here, that you are a person and I sorry for the way I treated before."
Haku just looked at the man with a deer in the head lights look.
"So, from now on, I want you stop calling me your master like I own you. You can call me sensei, but know this; I have come to see you as a son."
Haku's eyes watered a bit before he flung himself at the man, giving him a hug, something the man was awkward with as he just patted the boy on the head. "No problem…father." Yes, this man was way better than his old father, who basically tried to kill him for having a bloodline.
"Oh and Haku, I know I am not strong enough to take out the 4th Mizukage, and if I die, you might have a chance, but don't throw your life away trying to kill him." Haku just nodded in understanding.
Flashback End!
Haku nodded to himself. "You may have charged Naruto with protecting us, but his like a brother to me and I know how reckless he still is. If anyone needs protecting it is him, and will do so. He is my brother and the rest of them are now my family. No one will hurt them. If the Mizukage wants them, I will kill him if he gets close; that is my promise!" He said that with such determination that the world seemed to quiet down around him just to listen to the usually kind boy's words.
The sword on his back also seemed to heed his words as it began to shine with an ice glow before it shifted into its true form that belong with him. When the glow died down, it looked see through thanks to the ice it was now made of. However, this was not normal ice, it was some of the coldest ice known to man due to the face that it seemed to freeze the air around it, giving it a misty look. It was still a huge blade, but now it seemed to curve like a crescent moon.
This was no longer the Executioner's Blade, it was now the Glacier Slicer
So he put on his new mask and quietly made his way back to the hotel.
XXX
Naruto lay on his back in a field on short grass. Surprisingly there was grass in Earth Country, you just needed to find it. As he lay on the grass, he stared at the passing clouds, a pastime he picked up from Shikamaru when he was still in Konoha.
Laying next to him was Fu. After the death of Zabuza, she should see that Naruto was in a lot of pain and decided to stick around for a little longer.
"This doesn't change a thing." Naruto suddenly said.
"What do you mean?" Fu asked, not understanding what he meant.
"That fact that my goal is and will always be the same. I will protect my family. Zabuza-sensei….i wish I could have been there, but I know there was nothing I could do. I am not strong enough yet, but I am getting there. I think if he waited so we could work together, we might have won, but I know that is a lie."
"Why is that?"
"Because, that field was like a war had been wagged. If we had been there, he would have been holding back to protect us and that would have gotten us all killed. No…there are just some battles you have to fight on your own. Zabuza-sensei will always have my respect and for that, I will keep my word to protect my family. Even you, since you are one of my friends."
Fu smiled brightly at that remark. "Good, because I have never had many friends, even though i protect my vilage." She said as she rolled on to him so that she was straddling him. "But, maybe in the future we can be more than friends."
"Fu, what are you doing?"
"Showing you what I want and taking your mind of the depressing atmosphere." She replied as she leaned in and kissed him.
(Lime Warning…because I want to. If I don't get contacted to take it down and shit, I will probably bring back the others for my other stories)
As soon as he got permission for his tongue to enter her mouth, he heard her moan. No don't the reason for that was because of his erection that she was now rubbing herself against.
Fu inwardly smirked as she moaned again, it seemed that one of her new bracelets were working perfectly. She was influencing his sex drive….or it was the fact that she was on top of him…either one worked. She wanted him, but not yet, she did not want to get pregnant. Well, not yet.
As she reached into his panted to stroke him a bit, she gasped at how he was for his age and he would only get bigger as he grew. "We are jinchuriki, who should stick together. I want you, but we can do it later. Instead, let me show you something we can do a lot of in the future."
Fu smirked as the blond blushed hard when she pull down his pants. Taking out his member, she marveled at the size and then put it in her mouth, bobbing her head up and down on it.
"Argh! Wow, that is amazing!" Naruto growled out as he put a hand on her head, making the girl smirk.
After about five minutes, Naruto had enough and gave out a cry and he came in her mouth.
"Wow, it was not expecting that." Naruto said with a blush as he watched her swallow his load.
"Well, I want you and maybe later we can be together." Fu replied before she leaned in again to kiss him.
XXX Lime End
A few days later, we see the group on their way out of town. Fu had already left, saying that she was needed back in Waterfall. She was their protector after all.
"So…where are we even going now?" Haku asked.
"That is the question, now isn't it?" Guren replied.
Naruto looked thoughtful for a moment before he glanced at Tsunade and then to Shizune. "Iwa."
"What?" Haku asked.
"I say we head to Iwa, it is the nearest Hidden Village and I don't think Shizune needs to be walking around for very long…and the road is no place to raise a baby."
"That is a good idea." Shizune replied.
"True and like I said, Iwa is safe for you now since they the only people to really hold a grudge against you, Naruto, are either dead or missing ninja." Tsunade replied with a smirk, liking how he thought.
"I like this idea." Haku replied. "I would either go there or Kumo. I will not run back to Kiri just to fight in a civil war. While the Mizukage should die, I will not fight him when not needed."
"And I would rather not go to Suna…to freaking hot." Guren offered.
"And Konoha is out the question." Naruto replied, making the group nod.
"Iwa it is then. Boy, won't the Tsuchikage be surprised to see me again….and with company." Tsunade chuckled as they started walking in a comfortable silence. As they did, she remembered seeing various items the group got in their venture into the caves, however, she never saw Naruto's souvenir.
"Naruto, what did you get in the caves?" Tsunade asked.
Naruto fished the eye like gem out of his pocket and said, "I got something called the Demon's Eye." He then handed it to her.
Tsunade eyed the gem before her eyes widened. "Naruto, this is a control gem!" At Naruto's blank look, she elaborated. "This was used long ago to help people with large chakra reserves to gain control over it. If you use this, I bet you will be able to use genjutsu and maybe if you wanted to, medical jutsu as well."
"Wow." Haku said, "You should stick with Genjutsu, Naruto, I heard that some people, mainly the Kurama Clan back in Konoha, can making illusions real."
"You know, that could help with my style in the future." Naruto said. "Oh this is sweet."
XXX a few days later.
The group was a few miles from Iwa when they came upon a bad sight. A dead Iwa team, but tu was a not a full team. One of them was missing. Tsunade narrowed her eyes for a moment, thinking whoever did this was the missing person.
Thankfully, that was not the case because they heard signs of a battle going on in the distance. Quickly making their way there, they found a giant of a man, with only a pair of black shorts on, grinning darkly at girl in a kneeling position, with blood covering one side of her face.
She had short black hair, pupil-less pink eyes which are accentuated by her eyelashes running upwards at the corners, a red shirt with the right sleeve missing, a lapel over her right leg, fishnet tights and a skirt over that, with black shinobi sandals, and a pair of black gloves.
However, she looked pretty beat down by the look her tired, but defiant eyes as she glared weakly at the man above her. "Asshole!" She growled out.
"You realize you can't do a thing girl. I have killed your teammates with ease. And I am going to kill you, that should make that old fool grandfather of yours to actually come out and get killed by me in no time." The man said with a cruel grin.
"What do you have against my grandfather!?" the girl growled.
"That old fool should have made ME the next Tsuchikage! Then I could have taken out Konoha with ease. The old fool should have struck when world about the Kyuubi became known, but what does he do? He just sits in his office, saying it is not his problem and that I should let what happened in the war go! I WON'T DO THAT! I LOST EVERYONE IN THAT WAR! NOW I WILL MAKE HIM PAY BY TAKING EVERYTHING FROM HIM!"
"No….leave her alone." A voice called out calmly.
The man snapped his head in the voice's direction and he saw red. "I don't fucking believe me luck."
"Let her go." Naruto said again.
"Sure, I would rather kill you instead!" The man roared, not noticing the gem on the boy's hand glow and the girl pass out from exhaustion. He just charged the boy recklessly and brought both of his mammoth fists down on Naruto's head.
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There, a little cliff hanger. I wanted to get there out sooner, but nothing would come to me. Please tell what you thought and please don't flame me for the lime. Also, if any of you can think of a better name than Glacier Slicer, please tell me.
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