I do not own Naruto and I don't plan to in the future. I do, though, own this fanfiction and original characters in it.
"Speech"
'Thought'
Flashback
"Umu speech"
"Kyūbi speech"
Tenth Unmei: Through the Mist
"We know full well who you're after." Kiiori stated bluntly as he traded blows with the woman. Meanwhile Kakashi and Zabuza were killing each other's clones like there was no tomorrow. Each time one got behind the other they would slice the other's throat, just to have them puff in to smoke or fall into a puddle of water. Kiiori and Tsuki, on the other hand, were limiting their battle to Taijutsu. Naruto and his fellow genin along with Tazuna were amazed at the fast pace of the battle.
"Sasuke, Sakura, keep Tazuna safe." Kakashi ordered as he dodged an attack from Zabuza. Sasuke and Sakura immediately jumped to his side.
"Naruto and Hinata, help them." Kiiori yelled from a distance away. Naruto jumped in front of Tazuna while Hinata jumped to the back.
For a while their senseis were able to fend off the assailants, but that change when Kakashi got dealt a blow. He was kicked into the lake they were fighting next to and Zabuza appeared next to him and performed Suirō no Jutsu. This Jutsu trapped Kakashi in a ball of water while Zabuza held it together on the outside.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura yelled as she started to run toward him. Suddenly one of Zabuza's water clones appeared behind her and slashed at her but she was saved by Sasuke.
"Watch what you're doing, you almost got yourself killed." Sasuke said coldly.
"Sorry." Sakura said dejected.
Meanwhile Kiiori was distracted by this turn of events and Tsuki took the chance to get past him. She charged toward Tazuna but Naruto jumped in her way.
"Die brat!" Tsuki said as she punched him and shot him flying through a tree. Naruto hit a second tree and land like a rag doll. Unfortunately he didn't get back to his feet. This little delay was long enough for Kiiori to catch up to Tsuki and regain her attention. Mean while Sasuke, Hinata, and Sakura retreated from Zabuza water clone range so they were safe for now.
"Sasuke, Hinata, and Sakura, find Naruto and then take Tazuna somewhere safe. I'll try to hold them off." Kiiori said ordered sternly.
"Okay, you two take Tazuna away while I go get the dobe." Sasuke said without emotion. Sakura and Hinata did as they were told and started pulling Tazuna with them. Sasuke speed off to where Naruto crashed through the tree. A few moments later he came out with an unconscious Naruto on his back.
"Okay, let's get going." Sasuke order coldly. Hinata, Sakura, and even Tazuna felt bad about leaving the sensei behind but it was what they wanted so they had to listen. Sasuke, too, wanted to stay and fight but he knew that it would be wisest to leave while they still could.
Suddenly everyone heard a familiarly loud yell and saw the Naruto puff away. Twenty Narutos ambushed the Zabuza clone and managed to defeat it. Nevertheless another clone materialized and destroyed the brigade of Naruto leaving only one. It then hit Naruto with the blunt side of the sword and sent him flying toward the rest of the group. At that moment everyone thought one word 'idiot.' However, if they were to look closely they would notice that he held his forehead protector in his hand, meaning that it had somehow fallen off during the fight.
"Leaving already, Sasuke-chan. The fun's just about to begin." Naruto taunted as he put his head band back around his arm were he had it earlier. Sasuke was going to retaliate but then he realized that Naruto had a plan. He gave an uncharacteristically mischievous smirk to let Naruto know he understood.
"Not yet, dobe." Sasuke said as he head back to where Naruto was.
"You idiots, go before it's too late." Kakashi yelled from in his prison. Naruto and Sasuke ignored him as Naruto created more clones and they all charged at the water clones. They managed to remove to of the water clones before they were pushed back.
"Naruto, I order you to retreat." Kiiori yelled as simultaneously blocked an attack from Tsuki.
"I'm not leaving my team behind, and if you forgotten you are part of it." Naruto yelled back as he went to talk with Sasuke. Luckily where they were standing was out of Zabuza's water clones' range.
"Looks to me like your student wants to die." Tsuki said as Kiiori and her each landed a blow on each other.
"Neither of you would be able to actually kill Naruto." Kiiori responded, which further enraged Tsuki.
Meanwhile Sasuke and Naruto were devising a plan. "Okay, so that's what we do, but don't expect me to be able to do this exactly as planned because this is the first time I thought of doing this." Naruto said nervously as he scratched the back of his head.
"Just don't screw up enough to make the plan go to waste." Sasuke said with a superior attitude. He didn't want to admit that Naruto had formulated a surprisingly well thought out plan. "Now let's get a move on it."
Sasuke did the seals for Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Grand Fireball Technique) and sent three extremely large fireballs head at Zabuza. Naruto stood right in front of the fireballs and they ran right into him. By the time the third one passed by him was on fire running around like an idiot. Everyone, including Hinata, was amazed at how stupid Naruto was at that moment. Despite one genin's ability to be stupid enough to get in the way of his teammate's attack, Zabuza's water clones tried to disperse of the fireballs. The first one easily enough was destroy by a Water Jutsu, but the second didn't go down with out taking out two water clones. The third on the other hand, didn't go down at all. It roared right past the water clones and headed right toward Zabuza. Tsuki tried to stop it but was stopped by Kiiori.
"Not so fast, or have you forgotten about me." He said coldly when he got in her way.
"Looks like you little brat put so extra effort into this one. But that won't make a difference." Zabuza said as he began to make a one handed seal. "Suiton: Suijinheki!" He yelled as a wall of water formed before him. Just as he expected the flame clashed with it and they canceled each other out. What he didn't expect was a giant fox to leap out of the ball. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for Kakashi, Zabuza had to let go of the water prison, thus freeing Kakashi. He grabbed his sword and hit the giant fox across the lake. In mid-air the fox transformed revealed Naruto in his animalistic human form and then land near the shore.
Kakashi used this distraction as a chance to make some space between Zabuza and him.
"It is time to end this Zabuza!" Kakashi yelled to the bigger man.
"Ahahaha, so you going to use 'that'!" Zabuza laughed with insanely. "I've heard rumors about it; they say no one survives after they see it."
"Zabuza, prepare to die." Kakashi said murderously as he removed the cloth covering his left eye.
"What the hell is that?!" Naruto yelled from the shore. Sakura was thinking along the same lines as Naruto. Hinata knew what it was due to her family's education. Sasuke knew because it belonged to his family.
'Why does he have that? That belongs to my family.' Sasuke thought to himself. He could not think of an explanation to why his sensei had his family's eye. He decided he would interrogate Kakashi later.
"Why don't you just die?!" Screamed Zabuza as he rushed Kakashi. Kakashi just sat there until the last possible second and then blocked the attack with ease. For a couple minutes that was all that went on; Zabuza would attack and Kakashi would either dodge or block but never attack.
'He knows my attacks before I even perform them. This is beginning to piss me off.' Zabuza raged in his mind.
Meanwhile Kiiori and Tsuki were still fighting. Sakura had kept an eye on there fight most of the time and had not yet witnessed either one of them perform a Ninjutsu. She was particularly amazed at how much stamina the two had to be able to fight like that.
"It looks like our friends over there are getting ready to end it. How' bout we do the same?" Kiiori said coolly.
"I was thinking along the same lines myself." Tsuki said with a smirk. "So, what were you thinking we use, I suggest our strongest techniques."
"Perfect." Kiiori said as he went into a new stance. He began to perform a series of hand seals and Tsuki began to perform he best technique.
Over the lake Kakashi and Zabuza were doing the same. Zabuza started along chain of rapidly produced hand seals and Kakashi did the same. Kakashi was able to perform all the seals that Zabuza did nearly in synch with him.
"Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Blast Technique)" Both Kakashi and Zabuza yelled at the same time. Simultaneously two dragons formed out of the water and raged against each other. After the water dragons collided, a huge swell of water shot from the lake and as it cleared you could see Kakashi and Zabuza fighting in the middle. IT looked as is they were performing some kind of strange dance as they both moved in the same way, doing the same attacks, and same movements.
'That bastard, acting so cocky. He can't possible be…' Zabuza was thinking to himself before he was interrupted.
"…reading my movements." Kakashi finished Zabuza's thought.
"Damn you, don't act like you can read my mind." Zabuza yelled as he jumped a few feet away from Kakashi and started to perform hand seals. 'It's got to be that…'
"...damn freaky eye." Kakashi finished his thought for him again.
"That's it, this time for sure," Zabuza yelled in his rage "I kill you, you damn monkey bastard." Kakashi yelled with him. Zabuza was now on the verge of insanity; this man in front of him was completely making a fool of him. With his rage fueling him he began to perform the seals faster. Kakashi just copied everything that Zabuza did. Suddenly Zabuza saw himself standing behind Kakashi. At that instant Kakashi finished the technique that Zabuza himself was about to do.
"Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu (Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique)" Kakashi roared as he finished his seals. Suddenly a huge blast of water shot at Zabuza and sent him flying to forest.
Meanwhile Kiiori and Tsuki were about to perform their own powerful techniques. Just by looking at them you could tell they were going to be something big. Kiiori was in deep concentration with his eye closed. Tsuki was glaring at him while she performed hand seals. Suddenly both of them stopped performing seals and cried out their attacks.
"Fūton: Demon Cutting Wind." Kiiori cried as blades of winds began to rotate violently around an invisible center. The wind whipped around so fast that it could probably cut through steel. (Note: This is not a sphere like the Rasengan but rather a disk." He then launched the disk with as much force as he possible could at Tsuki.
At the same time Tsuki launched her own attack. "Suiton: Twin Dragon Geyser." She yelled as she put her hands out in front of her and two small dragons made of water shot out toward Kiiori. The two attacks collided into each other right when the swell from Kakashi's attack reached them. When the three attacks meet there was a spectacular transformation. The whole lake had transformed into ice. If not for the battle that was taking place the scene would be perfect.
Kiiori and Tsuki were left looking at the underside of the wave that was about to crash into them. Hinata, Sasuke, Sakura, and Tazuna were in a similar situation with the water about three meters from taking over them. Naruto was in some trees making his way back to his team, a safe distance away from the swell. Kakashi was fortunate enough to be on top of the water when it froze over. Zabuza, however, wasn't as lucky as he was lying beat up against a tree in it. Kakashi headed over to him to give the finishing blow.
"How? Can you predict the future?" Zabuza gasped out as he tried to look at Kakashi.
"Yes, I saw your death here and now." Kakashi said stoically. Just as he was about to deliver the finishing blow, three sebon needles embedded into Zabuza's neck. Suddenly a masked boy landed next to him and checked his pulse.
"He's dead for sure." The boy said as he even offered for Kakashi to examine him. Somehow, Naruto popped up and entered an attack stance.
"Who the hell are you?" He growled letting his eyes flicker red.
"Don't worry I'm a friend. You see, I been looking for a chance to kill Zabuza-san for quite a while. Thanks to you people I have completed my mission."
"He's right, he's dead. I suppose you are a hunter-nin from the Hidden Village of the Mist." Kakashi said as he eyed the boy suspiciously.
"Your assumption is correct, now if you don't mind I will be leaving." The boy said as he got up and ran off with Zabuza on his back. At the same moment Kakashi fainted for exhaustion. Naruto sighed as he picked him up and took him to the rest of the group.
"Where's Tsuki?" Naruto asked as he set Kakashi onto the ground.
"She escaped soon after the lake turned into ice." Kiiori said between breaths.
"So what do we do now?' Sasuke asked nonchalantly.
"We should probably go to Tazuna's house and rest." Kiiori said as he tried to stand up straight but began to feel dizzy so he bent over again. "She doesn't have enough strength to fight right now."
"Then shouldn't we attack her then, before she gets to far away, right?' Hinata asked not making sense of his reasoning.
"We need to rest too, plus we can't drag an unconscious man into a fight." Kiiori said as he stood up with support from Tazuna.
"Finally making yourself useful, eh?" Naruto teased right before he got punch by Sakura.
"Be serious Naruto." She said with disgusted expression.
"Yes, ma'am." Naruto said as he rubbed the new bruise on his head.
"Well, let get going. We should be just a little behind schedule." Tazuna said as he walked in front of the group with Kiiori.
So, they walked for about thirty minutes before the arrived at a lone house on the path.
"Here it is. Nothing special. I think my daughter should be serving dinner right about now." Tazuna said a he opened the front door. Everybody followed as Tazuna set Kiiori down in a chair. A few moments later a young woman after the front room and greeted them.
"Otou-san," She cried as she ran up and hugged him "how was your trip?" She asked.
"I'll tell you over dinner." He replied. "But first introductions, the unconscious man is Kakashi-san, this is Kiiori-san, the pink haired girl is Sakura-chan, the blue haired one is Hinata-chan, the black haired one is Sasuke-kun, and last is the blond haired midget brat." He said as he pointed to each one.
"I have a name you know." Naruto said angrily.
"Opps, my mistake, his name is Naruto." He said with a fake innocent tone. "This is my daughter Tsunami-chan."
"Pleased to meet you." Tsunami said with a smile and a bow. "I go show you a room for Kakashi-san." She said sweetly as she stood and lead Naruto to a room.
"You can set him down here." Tsunami said as she opened a door to a room on the second floor. Naruto did as she said and then sat down with serious look. "We're going to have dinner now." Tsunami said questioning what he was doing.
"I'll be down later." Naruto said lost in thought. 'Something was off with that boy. I wonder what it was?' Naruto thought to himself as he tried to make a grasp on this felling. (Note: I don't want people to think that Naruto has become a genius. Naruto is still an idiot about Haku working with Zabuza and Tsuki. What he is wondering about is an emotion he felt coming off of him. Kinda like how dogs can tells what people are feeling. Naruto is still classified as an idiot.) Unknown to him he spent the whole time thinking about the feeling. After dinner Hinata came up to see what was wrong with him.
"Naru-kun, you missed dinner, what going on?" Hinata said sweetly as she opened the door. She was greeted with the most outrageous sight. Naruto was laying in the corner with his upper back against the floor and the rest of his body vertically leaning against the wall. Naruto wore a frustrated look across his face.
"What?" Naruto said blankly as he tilted his head so he could see better. Then it clicked. "Ah, man this stupid feeling made me miss dinner." Naruto said a he sunk closer to the floor.
"What feeling?" Hinata asked intrigued.
"It's nothing important, so don't worry." Naruto said as he scratched the back of his head. "So, is there any food left?" He asked as his stomach growled.
"Yeah, Tsunami-san saved some for you. Let's go down and eat." Hinata said sweetly with a smile as she helped Naruto of the ground. Naruto couldn't help but blush and smile as he got up. Together they went downstairs to eat.
"Yes! Ramen." Naruto shout with joy. "Tsunami-chan is the best."