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Zabuza's test of strength

As Hinata left the Sarutobi's office her only thought was that she wouldn't ever see Naruto's smiling face again. What she didn't know was that about 587 miles away from her current position was Naruto and Zabuza at a lake not far from the recently completed bridge.

The lake they were at was undiscovered and officially named: Leaf Village: Team 7 memorial lake, as so dubbed by Naruto who at the moment was being taught how to use a sword by none other than Zabuza: the demon of the mist.

"Now Naruto what do you do if an enemy swordsman attacks you with a sky-ground slash like this…" and so he rushed Naruto with a speed that is almost unrivaled and slashed at him with a very big stick.

"You do this." Naruto answered and demonstrated. Unfortunately for him he didn't expect Zabuza to then in the middle of the slash go from a sky to ground slash to a stab and hit Naruto in the chest with a sickening CRACK.

And with that Naruto was deemed unfit to practice sword until they reached Zabuza and Haku's old camp where they kept all of the medical supplies.

"Uh Zabuza?" Naruto started right after they had bandaged up his chest.

"Yes Naruto?" Zabuza replied after a few minutes.

"When are we going to practice jutsu? I really want to learn that Hidden Mist jutsu that you're famous for." Naruto answered eagerly.

"Well now would be as good as any because of those broken ribs you can't practice the way of the sword… so now." Zabuza replied after about 10 minutes of thinking.

Several hours later Naruto had learned the Hidden Mist jutsu... more or less. Anyway he could now make the mist as long as there was a small pond of water nearby. Unfortunately he couldn't yet do it with a large amount of water or the water in the air so Zabuza kept him there to try.

"Zabuza–sensei this task is impossible." Naruto complained as he tried to turn a lake into mist.

"No it isn't just keep focusing your chakra and you'll get it right eventually, but until you do we aren't going to the hidden leaf got it?" the mist nin responded.

"WHAT! Why didn't you tell me that before?" Naruto asked while yelling and began focusing his chakra more until something strange happened. Naruto was suddenly outside of his body.

Back in the Hidden Leaf Hinata was crying on a bench outside the Hokage's office when Kiba walked out of the room.

"Hey Hinata?" he asked the crying Hyuga.

"What is Kiba?" she demanded harshly in her sadness.

"Wow there Hinata don't get snippy I know that you're sad and all but I have good news and bad news the good news is Naruto has been confirmed alive. The bad news is…" Kiba started but was interrupted when Hinata screamed out

"Naruto's alive! My Naruto's alive oh thank god I don't know what I would have done without him …"

"uh Hinata don't get your hopes up that was the good news," Kiba said "the bad news is that he has been registered as a missing nin because following the death of team 7 he joined their killer and ran after killing the crime lord Gato and his thugs."

"W-w-what," Hinata stammered, "My Naruto is a missing nin." 'no this can't be how can I spend the rest of my life with Naruto if he's a missing nin. Wait I got it the next time I see him I'll join him as a missing nin. Then we can be together.'

End Chapter

Ooooo twisty well that was longer than I expected. Hope you enjoyed it. Please R&R (R&R means read and review just so that you know) here's a preview of the next chapter:

'What is this place?' Naruto asked himself 'and why can't I talk?' "Because we're in the world of the seal you little brat." An ominous voice said through the gloom. ' WHO'S THERE' Naruto thought yelled with all his might.