I'm back! With 2 chapters in under a year its a miracle! lil Anyways hope you like this story I am getting more into it as time goes on and I can't wait to write some upcoming chapters.

Notice: I am going to rewrite this story but that won't be for a while I wanna finish it first then re write it because my writing has evolved.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!

For how long we walked I would say it was not over two hours before we came across something suspicious. Before then though the walk was suprisingly peaceful. Sasuke was broading as usual with his little fangirl faithfully walking beside him not saying a word to my surprise. What the emo had said to get her to be quiet I would love to know but figured I should count my blessings.

I was watching the birds play in the trees when something in the road caught my eye. It was a simple looking puddle which to an average mind wouldn't mean much considering they where common. Yet the area around here has been in a drought for the past month so a puddle in the middle of a dirt road was now rather suspicous. I tensed slightly and kept my hand near my pocket so that if anything happened I would be ready. It wouldn't be good to freak out now when it could just be someone dropped water on the spot and it had yet to dry.

A slight vibration of the puddle had me grabbing for my kunai just seconds before Kakashi was ripped to shreds before my eyes. I let out a sigh when I realized he was not dead but simply had replaced himself with a log seconds before they got him. It would be horrible to have to explain to the Hokage how two chunin killed Kohonas strongest jounin. Yes I knew the two before me to be two chunin from the mist who where known as the demon brothers.

They where well known for their snake like blades and a minor efficiency in poison. Luckily I would be ready if they did try anything as I carried any antidote to any poison they could cook up. Sure they may be semi efficient but I had been training with poison and creating antidotes for them for years. Those two where a hundred years to early if they believed they could kill me with some half-assed poison.

Well maybe I shouldn't have been thinking about their skills so much as they managed to get my hand with the blade. To my fortune Sasuke was paying attention and pushed me out of the way so that they only got my hand. How I lost my train of thought so easily made me want to kick myself.

With my mind back in the game me and Sasuke where able to bring the two down no problem. Maybe he wasn't completely inept but his attitude would have to be changed in order to be truly great.

After we brought down the two pest Kakashi walked out of the trees reading his orange book. Sakura screamed in delight at seeing her sensei alive and well when she had believed him to be dead. Sasuke simply relaxed obviously having been tense when he thought our sensei had been killed. I didn't care as I already knew of his life but I pulled a Naruto and bounced up and down in joy screaming about how he was alive.

Kakashi quickly zeroed in on my hand seeing it injured and suddenly a slight wave of nausa washed over me. They had put a light poison on the blade that struck me one that I knew was good for killing civilians but as for ninja it simply made them sick. The reason for this is because a ninja's chakra was able to burn away the poison after a few days where a civilian with little to no chakra would simply die.

I decided to play the smart card and said "Sensei I'm fine but those men where after our client weren't they?" I asked already knowing the answer. Tazuna paled when I said that and my belief in it only increased as he began to stammer about not having enough money. I wasn't paying attention as I looked in my bag for the antidote to the poison.

After he was done talking I had already taken it and was out of danger. It wouldn't even make me sick but Kakashi didn't know about it.

"Naruto we are going back to have you looked at the poison could kill you." Kakashi said not knowing what kind of poison the brothers had on their blades.

"But that would mean abandoning the mission Sensei we can't do that!" I answered back in a high tone obviously upset.

"It doesn't matter you life is in danger and I can't have that!" He said back not reading his orange book for once a serious look in his one eye.

"But.. but" I was unable to answer able to think of an answer. Then it was right before my eyes and I grabbed a kunai and jammed it in my injured hand. "There I'm draining it so can we go? Sure he didn't pay for a higher rank mission but we have you Sensei!"

He looked stunned but when both my teammate agreed with me he didn't have a reason not to and simple nodded his head yes. He then turned around and began to walk down the road with his orange book out. When he got the book I don't know but I didn't mind as we all followed him more alert then before. If this person had sent two chunin and failed there was no saying that he could bring an even stronger opponent.

I just hope next time we where just as lucky and no one has to go home in a body bag.

For another four hours we walked once again in complete silence. Only this time the silence wasn't out of companionship but terror of the unknown. We had no clue who this person would send next or how powerful they would be. Surly if the demon brothers didn't work they would send a jounin since the brothers where both high ranking chunin.

As we walked I noticed a large lake in the distance and breathed a sigh of relief. That lake told us all that our journey to the wave was nearing its end and this would be over for now. In the wave we would have more protection then here which was out in the open. Maybe the person who hired the brothers didn't know of their failure since nobody else had attacked us.

The tension in our group lessened significantly the closer we got to the lake. Everyone was just ready for a long nights sleep after such a long day and that lake told us it was almost over. Sadly for us that was not the case.

In the bushes I heard a movement to large to be wildlife and quickly attacked with a kunai throw. A loud squeak could be heard in the small clearing we where in and a white rabbit fell out of the bushes dead. Sakura screamed at me for over reacting for killing such an innocent creature but I was already getting out another blade.

The rabbit had been white but it was early summer and it should of had a brown coat. That rabbit had been used in a replacement jutsu since it was obviously raised in captivity. I noticed in the corner of my eye Kakashi also put away his book ready for a fight. To my surprise Sasuke also seemed ready for anything as he looked at the dead animal before him.

A sound then ripped through the air a sound that haunted my dreams for years. Without a second of hesitation I screamed "GET DOWN" and grabbed my two teammates threw them to the ground and dropped myself as the blade flew over our head. In my side vision I saw that Kakashi had grabbed Tazuna meaning all of us where safe.

Though that wasn't in my thoughts as I saw a mist desend upon us as the blade hit a tree not far off. I was already on my feet at this point ready to fight. Ready to kill as I waited for the man I hated with all my heart to appear before me.

He didn't disappoint as he walked from the mist behind us to grab his sword. The man who had destroyed my world so completely all those years ago.

Zabuza Momochi.

Before he even spoke a word I attacked unable to hold back the rage I had building up in me for so many years. I never even noticed the tears of gut wrenching sorrow falling down my face.

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