Naruto Path of the Hanyou

by Goliith

What if Naruto met the kyuubi slightly sooner, and was trained? What if he damaged the seal and was changed by it? Well, here is my take on how things could have went if they happened Naruto-FemKyuubi-FemOC And two more that I've decided to work in there

5. Chapter 5

Author's Note: Welcome one and all to Chapter five of Naruto, Path of the Hanyou. Sorry about the wait for the new chapter, but as I promised I did update, heh. This here chapter has a good amount of action, so sit back and enjoy, if anyone cares, I also added a new chapter to Naruto: Harsh Existence, Great Life.

On with the story!

30 minutes later and the 5 man group left the gates heading for wave country at a slow pace, after about 2 hours walking they passed a puddle, Naruto noticed it and thought it would be wise to inform the rest.

"Ne, Kakashi, isn't it so nice! It hasn't rained in days, perfect day for a walk eh?"

Kakashi caught Naruto's statement and nodded "It is, very nice day indeed" Kakashi then dropped back to the rear of the group while Naruto walked up closer to Sasuke and Sakura. Not a minute later two figures rose from the puddle, they both seemed to be male by their size, they had dark gray cloaks drapped over them that reached to their ankles, they had respirators on their faces hiding their mouths and noses from view. They both had large clawed gauntlets on their hands that were connected to each other by a long spiked chain.

They appeared on either side of Kakashi in an instant and wrapped their chain around him "One down" they said in Unison before shredding Kakashi into a rain of blood and chunks of Shinobi.

Naruto instantly turned back to them, right as they appeared before him "Two down" they both said as they swong their chain to wrap up Naruto. But Naruto chuckled and just said, "Nope" as he channeled chakra to his hands, and sliced the chain apart like a hot knife through butter, which caught both nin's off guard as they stumbled from the loss of a counterweight. This was all the opportunity needed, Sasuke threw a Shuriken followed by a Kunai, which locked one half of the chain to a tree, trapping the nin with it.

Sasuke threw 3 more Shurikens around the nin with ninja wire attached, they wrapped around the tree and tied the ninja to the tree, trapping him.

Naruto was not as suttle in his way of stopping the other nin, he merely dodged his strikes with his bladed gauntlet and slashed his throat with the chakra in his hand. The nin choked up some blood into his mask before collapsing onto the ground, where a pool of his own blood spilled out of him onto the ground, forming a large crimson pool.

A second later Kakashi reappeared in the clearing eying Sasuke's and Naruto's handy work, "Sasuke good job capturing the nin, Naruto good job of removing the threat without hesitation"

Kakashi then walked over to the tied up nin and took him down while tieing him up with the wire, he then carried him off into the woods to 'question' him.

Kakashi reappeared a few minutes later, without the nin with a not happy look on his face, "Tazuna-san, you need to tell what exactly is going on here, the nin could only tell me that he was hired to take you out, he wouldn't say who hired him though, this is grounds enough to cut our contract and return to Konoha, so you better tell us everything we need to know, and now"

Tazuna hung his head and frowned "Okay, you win. Wave country is extremely poor, our shipping and trade industries have been taken over by a business tycoon, he took over all of our imports and exports and disolved the economy for his own gain, he kills anyone who rises against him and has an army of thugs and mercenaries to back him, he also apprently hired Shinobi to kill me, for if my bridge is completed, he will lose his hold on our country, this mans name is Gato"

Kakashi's eye widened "Gato? As in the richest man in the world Gato?"

Tazuna nodded "Yes, his business's are just a front to hide the illegal activities he partakes in, he is a horrible man and is destroying all of wave country, I beg of you to please help me save my country"

Kakashi nodded, then looked to his team "I'm going to leave the decision up to you 3, this mission is beyond the original parameters now, and could be beyond your skill, so I'm leaving it up to you weather we stay or go"

Naruto frowned "Like we're gonna leave a country to dwindle into nothingness Kakashi, you're not leaving it up to us, you're testing us to see how we answer, only a coward would not put himself at risk to help save the weak and defenseless, I say we continue on, and free Wave from Gato's tyrannical

rein!"

Sasuke nodded "He's right, we're more then ready for anything we come across, or at least I am, and the dobe isn't helpless either, we'll be fine"

Sakura, sticking to her fan-girl nature backed Sasuke "I agree, Sasuke-kun is right, we're more then ready for anything we may come across"

Kakashi eye smiled at his team "Okay then, it seems that we're gonna continue on with the mission, lets get going."

Everyone collected themselves and got ready, and they continued on their journey to wave country.

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5 Days later the group came to a large river where they met with a man with a small row boat that could get them across the river to the other side, on the way across the group got a taste of just how grand a bridge it was as they traveled beneath it, monstrous concrete columns supported the giant deck overhead, the size of the bridge dwarfed the tiny boat they were in, it truly was nothing sort of a piece of architectural genius, a true masterpiece of the working world.

They got to the other side of the river and thanked the boat owned for the subtle trip across the river and then continued on their way towards Tazuna's house, after about 3 minutes of walking Naruto's 'danger senses' started going haywire, "Hmm...that can't be good" he mused. Not a second later Kakashi screamed "GET DOWN!" out of sheer instinct Naruto swept the feet out from beneath Sakura and Tazuna, literally saving their heads as a giant blade soared overhead and embedded into a tree across the road.

A second later a man appeared standing on the hilt of the giant zanbato, his face was wrapped in bandages from the nose down, he had gray camouflage pants on with arm warmers similar to Sasukes' but a different color.

Kakashi frowned at the man "Zabuza Momochi, Demon of the Hidden Mist. What an unpleasent surprise"

The newly named Zabuza chukled in a way not to distant from Naruto, "I'm flattered that my reputation precedes me, even all the way out to Konoha, Sharigan no Kakashi. What say you hand over the bridge builder and make this easy for me?"

Kakashi's frown deepened beneath his mask "Sorry, but it's our mission to protect Tazuna, It would do to hand him over to his death" Kakashi lifted up his headband from his left eye, revealing the spinning Sharingan beneath it.

"Using the Sharingan Already Kakashi? I'm honored, to bad it wont be enough."

Kakashi and Zabuza started their face off, Zabuza pulled his Zanbatao from the tree and jumped down to ground level, he then charged at Kakashi and swung horizontally to cut him in two, Kakashi jumped back to avoid the wide slash, then charged forward to counter but Zabuza was much faster then one would think with the size of his sword, he brought it up in a blink to stop Kakashis' Kunai.

Then jumped back and swung his massive sword down again, Kakashi side stepped the swing and slashed again, this time he nicked Zabuzas' arm, getting the slightest trail of blood. Zabuza then jumped backwards onto the lake that was off in the distance, Kakashi followed him and they continued their battle.

Zabuza started some hand seals and Kakashi instantly started copying them exactly, they both yelled out the name of the jutsu at the same time. "Water Style! Water dragon no jutsu!"

Two huge Dragons rose up out of the water, one behind Kakashi, and one behind Zabuza, they were both of equal size and ferocity. Both charged forward and Collided, both Shinobi pushed as much Chakra into the jutsu as they could muster to over power the opponents jutsu, Zabuza very quickly created a Mizu bunshin and replaced himself with it, when the water dragons died out Kakashi charged in at Zabuza and impaled him in the stomach with a quick jab of his Kunai, but Zabuza smiled and then started turning to water, then engulfed Kakashi, trapping him with immense pressure keeping him from moving at all

"How do you like my water Prison Jutsu Kakashi? Now you have to watch me slaughter your students and the bridge builder!"

With that Zabuza created 4 more Mizu bunshins and set them after the genin.

From inside the bubble (somehow) Kakashi called out to his team "Run! Take the bridge builder and get out of here! His mizu bunshin can only go so far before the deteriorate!"

Naruto shook his head, "Sorry Kakashi that option disappeared the second you were caught"

Naruto reached down and rolled up his pant legs and jacket sleeves and unclipped the weights, tossed them to the side with some satisfying 'thuds' and dust clouds, Zabuza laughed, "You think a little weight is going to make you able to take me out?"

Naruto then took off his Jacket and dropped it on the ground behind him, with a very loud 'thud' a large dust cloud and a small crack in the ground. "Now that feels good! Lets get this party started!"

Naruto took off in a blur, a second later the 4 mizu bunshins burst into pools of water, but Naruto didn't stop, he charged straight through towards Zabuza, 'If I get him away from Kakashi then he can take him out'

Naruto charged at Zabuza, while doing it he channeled chakra to his hand, Naruto came down in a karate chop kind of motion straight towards Zabuza's chest. Zabuza smirked at the genins 'stupidity' and raised a Kunai to block the hit, and slice the kids hand apart, Imagine his shock when Naruto's hand met with Kunai with no harm, and then started to quickly melt right through the Kunai, Zabuza had just enough time to realize what was happening and to jump away from the attack that would surely do a lot of damage.

But it saving his own skin, Zabuza freed Kakashi, and that was all Naruto needed to do, "Ok Kakashi, finish him off, this is getting annoying"

Kakashi nodded to Naruto "Thanks for the save Naruto, and I think I might just do that"

Naruto ran back to shore and met up with the others to help guard Tazuna, in reality he just wanted to sit and didn't want his ass getting wet. He walked over and picked up his weights and put them back on, and then slipped his jacket back on.

During this time Kakashi was mimicking Zabuza's movements and Justu's down to the slightest but, he then used a genjutsu from the Sharingan to make Zabuza hesitate, making it look like Kakashi had actually read his mind and finished his justu before he himself could do it! The justu swallowed Zabuza up into a gigantic torrent of water and thrashed and smashed him around before finally smashing him onto the shore into a tree near the rest of the group.

Kakashi jumped back to shore and was just about to put the finishing blow on Zabuza when two Senbon's flew out of the woods and into Zabuza's neck, 'killing' him instantly. A second later a nin with a hunter mask with the symbol for kiri on it appeared, and bowed to Kakashi.

"Thank you for distracting and weakening him so much for me, I've been tracking him for months trying to get a good time to kill him, excuse I must destroy the body" The nin then picked up zabuza and teleported away.

Kakashi turned to the group "Great job you 3, Sasuke, Sakura great plan staying with Tazuna to protect him from a sneak attack, and thanks for saving me Naruto. Now then Tazuna-san, your house is close correct?"

Tazuna nodded "Yeah, it's about 5 miles from here"

Kakashi then nodded "Good, we need a place to stay while I rest up, I'm gonna take a nap now, see ya later" Kakashi then waved weakly and collapsed on his face in the dirt.

Naruto sighed at his sensei's antics "I'll carry his sorry ass, lets get going, we need to plan for later"

The 4 consciouses members of the group headed off to Tazuna's house with Kakashi in tow, they arrived shortly later and put Kakashi up in a bed upstairs for the night, "He'll be out for a while, chakra exhaustion..." Naruto explained.

The next day Kakashi awoke and explained to the Team how the hunter nin who collected Zabuza was likely and ally, and that Zabuza would likely be back in about a week. For the next few days the team trained, Sasuke finished up his tree climbing and started water walking, while Sakura started, and mastered water walking.

On the fifth evening something had to happen though, everyone was sitting at the table, enjoying the delicious meal Tazuna's daughter, Tsunami had prepared for them all, they were having a good time and discussing the progress the team was making in their training when Inari, Tazuna's grandson came in and had to throw everything down the shitter.

"It doesn't matter how much you train, or how strong you become, Gato has an entire army, you will die!"

Naruto chuckled "Don't worry about it kiddo, Gato isn't anything special from all the other rich pompous assholes"

Inari stood up from his seat "You're a fool! You have no idea the kind of suffering the people of this village have been through! You're a Shinobi, what kind of hardships could you possibly have had to endure in you're entire life!"

Kakashi cringed "Oh no, he didn't just say that did he?"

The second Kakashi finished his statement Naruto slammed both his fists into the table, and smashed the table in half, He also unleashed a volley of Kyuubi's killing intent, though much less potent then the time at the bridge.

"Hardships? Suffering!? Did you just say I have no clue what it's like to suffer! Let me tell you something BOY! Hardships, Suffering They are ALL THAT I KNOW! I've been hated by my entire village since the day I was born! I've been living on the streets, sleeping in alleys since I was four years old! Do you want to know when I finally got a place to live at? 3 months ago! I've been homeless my entire life! Can you describe to me the feeling of being stabbed over and over again with rusted knives and broken bottles? Can you TELL me what's like to have No friends, No family, No parents, and to be feared, or hated by everyone you ever meet?"

"Do you know what it's like to have people treat you nicely, and then once they have your trust, literally stab you in the back, again, and again? Do you want to know how bad my life really has been, I made my first friend when I was 10 years old, do you know who, or what that friend was? It was the one being that never judged me, and only felt sadness for what happened to me, the reason I'm treated the way I am is the one person to truly ever accept me. My first and only friend is a Demon. But since you've had such a worse life then I have, please, by all means, TELL ME ABOUT IT!"

(I know, this 'outburst' is a little extreme, but I just love writing Naruto hardship outbursts, forgive me, plus this is the best place to write one, and I almost always will write one here in one way or another, sorry)

Inari ran out of the room upstairs to his room, crying. Naruto got up and left the house, intent on leveling part of the forest tonight.

Sakura had tears streaming down her cheeks and dripping from her chin "K-Kakashi-sensei, Naruto was just making that up...right? His life hasn't been as bad as he said?"

Kakashi shook his head, "No, it wasn't"

Everyone in the room sighed in relief that the boys life wasn't as bad as he described.

Tazuna started speaking "That boy really has quite th-" but he was cut off by Kakashi, "Naruto's life has not been as bad as he said, it's been much worse then he said, he just doesn't remember it all, repressed memories and such"

Sakura was almost to the point of sobbing, Tsunami was in a similar state, Tazuna looked miserable and Sasuke looked...happy?

"How could his life have possibly been worse then what he said?" Sakura asked

Kakashi sighed "Well, he left out the assassination attempts made every week or so by Shinobi, he left out the way he was poisoned or beaten daily back at the orphanage when he was 4 or younger. He left out the mobs of villagers that would hunt him on his birthday, trap him then torture and mutilate him for hours until he would pass out, either from pain, or blood loss, Naruto has had the most horrible life I've ever heard of, and he's only twelve, I'm surprised that he hasn't gone insane from it all and destroyed the village by now"

Everyone in the room, save for Sasuke gasped and cringed at the description's of the things Naruto left out from description, but the last sentence threw them all off .

"Destroyed the village? How would he do that Kakashi, sure he's strong, but not that strong?" Sakura asked, switching to a questioning tone at the end

Kakashi cringed at his slip of the tongue "I'm just surprised he hasn't tried"

They seemed to buy it, and Sakura nodded "Well, I'm going to go see if I can't get him to come back, it wont do good for him to stay out all night and brood" She turned and left the house, to go look for Naruto.

It really didn't take too long to find him, the chakra and killing intent he was giving off could be felt for miles, and the path of destruction he left was easy enough for a blind, and deaf person to follow.

Naruto had removed his jacket and mesh shirt during his destructive spree, he was hot and needed to be cool.

Sakura snuck up on Naruto, which wasn't to hard since he was focused on destroying the forest. The first thing she noticed was that he was shirtless, which made her blush, but he looked like he had marks all over him. She squinted to better make out the marks, and gasped loudly when she realized what they were, that did get noticed by Naruto and he whipped around to her, "Sakura, what are you doing out here" he called.

Sakura came out of the bush she was hiding in without saying a word, she just walked up to Naruto, with her mouth hanging open slightly while staring at his upper body, but not at the muscles, at everything else, this made Naruto uneasy, as he was unused to people looking at him with anything but blood lust and hate. "Umm, Sakura what are you staring at?" he asked

Sakura walked around behind him and traced a particularly vicious looking scar that went along his back from his right shoulder blade down to his left lower back, the contact made Naruto shiver.

"Naruto, I-I'm sorry, I never knew you had it so bad in your life, my mom just told me to stay away from you, she would never say why, but look at you, you're covered in scars, there's almost no skin that isn't scarred, I'm sorry, Naruto-kun" the suffix slipped again

Naruto sighed "It's alright Sakura, the past is just that, the past. These scars are nothing more then a reminder as to what I've been through in life and what I must go through to rise above it all, and prove to everyone in the village I'm not what they think I am"

Sakura looked confused "What is it Naruto, what do they think you are that you need to prove them wrong?"

Naruto frowned "I-I can't tell you just yet Sakura, I'm afraid if I do you'll hate me like everyone else in the village does, you're now the second person who has been nice to me, and I don't want to lose that"

Sakura frowned "Naruto, I know the things you've been through in life now, and I want to help you, you can tell me whatever it is they think you are, I won't judge you for it for one second, I swear"

Naruto sighed "Sakura, tell me something, did anyone in your family get killed in the Kyuubi attack twelve years ago?"

To Naruto's surprise, Sakura shook her head "No, my family is all civilians, I'm the first Shinobi among us, why?"

Naruto sighed deeper "Sakura, do you remember the story of the Kyuubi attack from the Academy, how the fourth Hokage sacrificed his life to kill Kyuubi?"

Sakura nodded "Of course I do, why?"

Naruto cringed, and hoped he wasn't about to lose Sakura "That story is a lie Sakura, a demon of Kyuubi's power is Immortal, and cannot be killed by any kind of human means, what truly happened that day is that the fourth Hokage sacrificed his life to seal the Kyuubi into something"

Sakura nodded "But what does this have to do with anything Naruto?"

Naruto shook his head "The Kyuubi is powerful, to powerful to be contained in any kind of object, it would break free almost instantly. The Kyuubi needed to be sealed inside something that could adapt to it's chakra and contain it, it needed to be sealed into a human. But not just any human, an Adult's chakra coils would be formed already, Kyuubi's power would have killed the adult instantly and would have instantly been freed. Kyuubi had to be sealed inside a newborn baby who's coils had not yet developed Sakura"

Sakura nodded "Okay bu-"

"I was that Baby Sakura, I have the Kyuubi sealed inside me, the most powerful thing to ever walk the earth is sealed inside me, and the whole village believes I'm the Kyuubi reborn, and that I killed everyone who died in the Kyuubi attack, including the greatest Hokage Konoha has ever seen"

Sakura then did two things the was completely not expected, and not understood by Naruto, first she burst into tears, and then second she wrapped her arms around him and cried into his shoulder.

Naruto, not knowing what to do just returned the embrace and wrapped his arms around Sakura, "Umm, Sakura you okay? Any reason in particular you burst into tears? You don't hate me do you?" he asked, with a hint of hurt and acceptance in his voice, after all how could anyone like the demon?

Sakura just squeezed tighter with her arms around Naruto "Of course I don't hate you Naruto! How could anyone hate you just for being born at the wrong time! Those villagers are stupid!"

Naruto chuckled lightly and spoke softly as Sakura cried on his shoulder "Why, why can't more people be more like you Sakura?" after a few more minutes of her crying Naruto noticed her breathing evened out and slowed, and her crying ceased, she was asleep.

Naruto gently picked her up bridle(bridal?) style and brought her back to the house and set her down in her bed and tucked her in gently, "Maybe someday, more people back home will come to be more like you Sakura" he said softly as he turned off the light and left the room, closing the door behind him with a satisfying, but annoying 'click'. He then went back out to a clearing in the forest and fell asleep under the stars for one more night in his sad lonely life.

The next morning in the clearing a girl with long brown hair walked into the clearing, she had on a pink kimono and had a small basket with her, she spied Naruto and instantly recognized him from the battle at the lake.

'It's one of those Shinobi, good, I can kill him in his sleep right here and make things easier for Zabuza-sama' she thought, as she walked over towards his prone form. She got down on her knee's next to him and was about to bring her hand up to his throat to strangle him when his arm snapped up and instantly caught her hand. A moment later his eye opened lazily and he looked at her "It's not wise to sneak up on people, especially me, you're lucky you woke me up or I might have killed you in my sleep"

'Crap! I need a cover story, quick...' "Sorry about that, I was just picking some herbs and saw you here, it's not wise to sleep outside, you'll catch a cold"

Naruto leaned forward, resting back on his palms, "Nah I'll be fine, I've been sleeping outside almost every night of my life, never gotten sick before, don't plan on starting now"

The girl gave him a questioning look, "Why would you sleep outside every night?"

Naruto frowned at the reminder of his life and sighed "I sleep outside because I live outside, I was homeless my entire life, it wasn't too bad once I was able to get clothes and food when I was 10, so you're out here gathering herbs are you? For what?"

The girl shrugged "It's for a medical ointment I'm making, my friend back home got injured recently and I agreed to help"

Naruto nodded "Hmm, so how is Zabuza coming along then? I hope he won't be out for to much longer"

The girl started to sweat "What? Who is this Zabuza?"

Naruto grinned "Your chakra signature, it's very unique, it almost feels...cold. You have a Kekkei Genkai don't you?"

The girl was just about panicking no one was ever able to tell she had a bloodline by her chakra signature before! Naruto saw she was panicking and raised his hands in a calming gesture "Hey, I don't care if you have a Kekkei Genkai, and I'm also not interested in fighting you right now"

Now she was completely confused "What, why don't you want to fight, I'm unarmed now, you could kill me with no trouble and make your job easier"

Naruto shrugged and brought his hand up and counted off "One, like you said you're not armed no point in that, Two my mission is to protect Tazuna, I don't see him in any danger here, and Three, I'm not a big fan of hurting pretty girls"

The girl frowned "You're a strange one that for sure, and by the way, I'm not a girl"

"Yeah ya are, despite hiding them, you do have breasts, and you also have the body of a developing girl, you can't hide it from me. But as with Zabuza, I don't care and won't blab to anyone, by the way I don't believe I got your name, mine is Uzumaki Naruto"

"My name is Haku, you're quite impressive Uzumaki-san, no one has ever called my bluff about being a boy, I have a question about you though, your covered in scars. What happened to you?"

Naruto frowned, was he going to have to explain this is everyone that see's him without a shirt? "Those scars are all reminders of how much my village loves me. The beatings, tortures, assassination attempts and everything else over the years, it builds up"

Haku frowned, this kid had a worse life then she did! "Why didn't your family or friends protect or help you?"

Naruto chuckled darkly, which deeply unnerved Haku "I don't have any family, never had any parents or relatives"

Haku frowned "Right, well that is very sad Uzumaki-san, if you'll excuse me, I have to bring these herbs to Zabuza, have to make him better after all"

Naruto nodded "Right, guess I'll see you guys around then, huh?" Haku nodded and turned got up and left the clearing to go help Zabuza.

Naruto spent the rest of the day making hundreds upon hundreds of Shadow clones and battling them all in large groups against him. By the end of the day he had killed over 1,000 of his clones, in the end he collapsed in the field for the second night from chakra and physical exhaustion, and he slept like a rock.

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The next day Naruto woke up late in the morning and headed back to the house, he got there and went inside, only to find that no one was there, right as he was about to call out if anyone was there he heard Tsunami scream from out in the backyard, then he heard Inari yell for someone to let go of his mom. Naruto followed the voices to the source, he found Inari in the back with Tsunami being held by two guys with swords, they were average thugs, acting tough with no skills to back it up.

While Inari was yelling for them to leave his mom alone Naruto snuck up behind the two, the last things the two thugs saw was a Kunai appear in the throat of their partner, then they collapsed to the ground in a pool of their own blood.

"Good job Inari, you distracted them long enough for me to save your mom, by the way where is everyone else? No one is in the house"

Tsunami, after she collected herself answered "They all went off to the bridge"

Naruto frowned "Judging by the attack here I would say Zabuza is making his move today, I have to go help them, I'll see you guys around!" He took off towards the bridge to go and help his team.

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Naruto arrived at the bridge about 15 minutes later with his weights on, and things did not look good, Sakura was unconscious near Tazuna, Sasuke was on the ground, covered with Senbon needles, and Haku was on the ground not far from Sasuke, though she just looked like she was completely worn out, Kakashi was squaring off from Zabuza but was not looking good, his breathing was ragged and he looked like he was about to drop, and just like that Kakashi and Zabuza both charged at each other and traded blows, Kakashi nicked Zabuza's arm and Zabuza cut Kakashi deeply across his chest, Kakashi was too worn out and dropped to his knees.

Zabuza swung his sword horizontally to take off Kakashi's head in one smooth motion, but less then a foot away from his neck Naruto appeared and blocked the giant zanbato with two Kunai.

"Oh Christ, I'm going to have to fight you alone? This isn't going to be fun" Naruto said

Zabuza chuckled "You should run home child, do you know why I'm called the Demon of the hidden mist?"

Naruto shrugged, while still holding back the blade "Nope, why?"

Zabuza grinned from beneath his bandages "I'm called that because many years ago there was a slaughtering of an entire genin class in Kirigakure, they were killed by someone who wasn't even a classmate, they were killed by ME!"

Naruto chuckled darkly back at Zabuza "That's quite a tale, I have many nicknames as well, in my village I'm regarded as The Demon, Demon brat, and many other things, would you like to know why I am called that Zabuza?"

Zabuza laughed at Naruto "Sure why not kid, why are you regarded as a demon?"

Naruto laughed evilly "I'm called that because-" As Naruto spoke this, red chakra started to swirl around him, his whiskers darkened, canines became long fangs, his nails turned into long dangerous claws, his hair became more unruly and feral, and his facial features became more fox like, but most disturbingly his eyes became fox shaped, and gone was the deep piercing blue, replaced with dark blazing crimson orbs, with long vertical slit pupils.

Naruto grinned, in a much more sinister fox-like manner and spoke in a deeper, colder voice "-Because I Am one!"

Naruto and Zabuza jumped back, Zabuza was actually scared for the first time in many years, this chakra was so potent it was visible as it swirled around him! And he truly looked demonic, but he soon overcame his fears and charged at Naruto.

The two attacked, trading parries and dodges, neither getting the upperhand. But Zabuza had many years of skill and experience over Naruto, he also had a much longer reach then Naruto did with his zanbato, he soon started to get through Naruto's defence and started to land blows, slicing through Naruto's bare chest (took off his weights for the fight) The wounds didn't last long, steam rose from them as they healed, leaving long scars behind, but the healing of the blows was draining his chakra at an alarming rate, Naruto knew he wouldn't last long at this pace. A moment later Zabuza swung his giant Zanbato like a baseball bat and smashed Naruto across the bridge with the flat side of the blade, Naruto was sent smashing into the guard-rail on the other side of the bridge and lay there for a moment.

Naruto's Mind

Naruto ran up to the cage and yelled out to Kyuubi "Kyuu-chan I need more power! I can't defeat him like this! Give me more of your chakra!"

Kyuubi yelled back "I can't! The seal wont allow me to give any more, and your body is still young it cant take the stress of more of my chakra!"

Naruto cursed "Well we're gonna die otherwise, guess we're taking the scenic route!" Naruto jumped up the front of the cage and grabbed the seal on the cage, Kyuubi screamed "NO! If you rip it off we'll both die!" But it was too late, Naruto had already ripped off the seal halfway, when Kyuubi yelled he tried to put it back, but the half he ripped off disintegrated, leaving half of the seal in place.

A second later Naruto was bombarded with all the energy Kyuubi had been trying to force through the seal a moment ago, it smashed into his body and he was ripped from the mind scape with the flow of power.

Real world

Naruto exploded with a new wave of power, many times greater then the first one, his body was surrounded with a cloak of red chakra that was pouring off of him, he could feel the chakra tearing his body apart, he could feel his skin ripping away and melting fromm the intense heat of the chakra, behind him 4 tails of chakra formed, his blood mixed with the red chakra surrounding him, which condensed around him, making him look like a miniature four tailed version of Kyuubi. Naruto roared in unimaginable amounts of pain, then looked at Zabuza, the one that made him do this to himself.

He took off at an incredible speed and appeared before Zabuza before he knew what happened, Naruto brought his right paw in to rake Zabuza with his claws, but Zabuza raised his blade in time. But with Naruto's new strength the blade was sent flying from his hands and embedded into the bridge.

Naruto reared back to attack Zabuza again but he dodged, he dodged over and over again, getting slightly burned from the closeness of the chakra to him, eventually Zabuza started to tire from the burns and dodging all of the attacks, and eventually, Naruto caught him. He raked his left paw across his chest, leaving four large very deep gashes from his claws, it was definitely fatal, Zabuza would bleed out and die within a few minutes. But Naruto wouldn't give him the pleasure living that long, right as he was about to crush his skull with his foot Naruto heard a loud whiny chuckled from the opposite end of the bridge.

Gato stood at the end of the bridge with an army of about two hundred thugs and mercenaries, "Thank you for dealing with Zabuza and his bitch of an assistant, that little bitch broke my arm. You saved me the trouble of having to kill them when this was over"

Zabuza growled and coughed up some blood "You bastard, you were going to betray us the whole time?"

Gato grinned like a lunatic and laughed "Of course I was! Why would I waste so much money on you, when all these thugs cost less then half what you charged!"

Zabuza coughed up some more blood and looked up to Naruto "Kid, I have a favor to ask you, My mission is over, you and your team are safe, and I'm going to die. Take my blade, Kubikiri Houcho (God I hope I spelled that right) and kill Gato and all of those scum for me, and Take Haku, she's your tool now, keep her safe and bring her back to your village, please"

Naruto, despite being in horrible pain from the chakra, nodded his head and jumped over to Zabuza's blade and ripped it from the bridge, then leveled his burning gaze on Gato and his men, which scared every one of the them to the core of their beings. And then he growled, a low menacing growl, like when a wolf stalks it's prey. Gato turned and ran to the back of the group of men while yelling "Kill it!"

Naruto charged the group of men, Kubikiri Houcho in hand, and ripped through them like tissue paper, body parts and blood flew in every direction. Heads rolled along the bridge as blood and organs splattered along the concrete, staining it red. Naruto ripped through the entire group in under a minute, leaving only Gato standing, at the end in a puddle of liquid, but it wasn't blood, no it was Gato's own urine.

Naruto walked up to Gato, and towered over him in his mini-Kyuubi form, and growled menacingly again, before bringing the Zanbato down vertically, splitting the man in two from skull to groin.

After he killed them all he stalked back over to Zabuza, when he got their Zabuza was on his last leg, "Is he dead? Did you kill them all?" he asked

Naruto nodded "Good, then you held up your end of the deal, I declare you the new owner of Kubikiri Houcho, and Haku" Zabuza then closed his eyes and took his last breath.

The power that was running through Naruto continued to tear his body apart, but the shroud of chakra faded, leaving a very grotesque Naruto behind, all of his skin was missing, and all of the flesh below his skin was charred black, or turned to ash and flaking away, Naruto's eye's still burned crimson, and his body continued to deteriorate, with chunks of his body breaking off and landing on the bridge. When they met with the bridge they would crumble into piles of ash. Naruto raised his hand before his face and looked at it, and then his entire arm crumbled away into ash and fell to the bridge.

Kakashi woke back up from his unconsciousness and saw Naruto deteriorating, and saw Zabuza's body, he ran over and kneeled before Naruto. "Naruto, What happened to you!" he really looked horrible, his flesh was all black, and there was a growing pile of ash on the ground around him, he was missing an arm and chunk's all over him.

Naruto pointed at Zabuza slowly and rasped out some words "Zabuza...I...Won...Keep...Haku...Safe...Bring...to Konoha"

Naruto then pointed at himself "Kyuubis'...power...dying...tell...Sakura...thanks...for...believing" Naruto's other arm then crumbled into ash on the floor, Naruto looked down then looked back up to Kakashi "Good...Bye" Naruto fell over backwards and hit the ground, and the majority of him collapsed into ashes on the floor, his sandals, burned up pants, and his headband was all that was left.

Kakashi sighed 'I failed my team again. I promised I would never let anything happen to them, and now on our first C-rank Naruto died' Kakashi shook his head and made 4 shadow clones, each one picked up Sakura, Sasuke, and Haku, and Tazuna who passed out when Naruto turned into the four tails. He then carried all of them back to Tazuna's house.

Oh no, he didn't just do that, he did, he left it a cliffy. Naruto's defeat of Zabuza cost him his life, what will happen in the world of Naruto now?

Don't fret though, I won't leave you hanging long, I will probably add the next chapter later today, late tomorrow the latest