The field was silent as the tension rose. Both sides faced the other with hatred in their eyes. The two groups sprang into action as Kakashi, Kurenai, and Team 7 took on Zabuza while Chrono and his group along with Team 8 attacked Zuuma.

*Chrono's battle*

Chrono rushed in with Jaffar as the pair of them unleashed several slashes toward Zumma.

Zuuma easily dodged the slashes and kicked Jaffar in the face before backhanding Chrono to the dirt. Emerald and Nino unleashed a volley of magic and arrows toward Zuuma while Kiba rushed up to him rasing his fist to punch him. Quick in a blink of an eye, Zuuma dodged the volley of arrows and slammed his fist into Kiba's gut, sending him skiding backward.

"It's useless. I outstrip you all in battle." Zuuma yelled.

"We'll see about that!" Chrono yelled as he and Jaffar rushed up to Zuuma.

Chrono unleashed a burst of fire above Zuuma, forcing him to fly near the ground where Jaffar and Chrono started their sword duel with Zuuma.

*Kakashi and Kurenai's fight*

Zabuza ran through some hand signs as he eyed the two jounins and the genin team. Finishing up his handseals, he spoke, "Kirigakure no jutsu."

Mist rolled into the area as his form disappeared. Kakashi pulled up his hatate while Kurenai ran though handseals and tried to put up a genjutsu, but with no success.

"His chakra is flooding the area. Genjutsu is useless." Kurenai whispered as she pulled out a kunai.

"Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke. Formation C." Kakashi declared.

The three nodded as they surrounded Tanuza and Kurenai covered the last open spot that was left.

"Be on your guard." Kurenai said before Zabuza's voice called out from the mist.

"Head, heart, kindey, liver, lungs. Which one do I want to target first?"

A surge of killing intent slammed into Kakashi's side of the battle, but he and Kurenai remained unaffected by the amount there was. Sakura was shaking badly as Naruto and Sasuke looked nervous.

"Don't worry. I never let a comrade die." Kakashi muttered as he noticed his genin team shaken.

A sudden blast of killer intent came from Chrono's side of the fight, bringing relief to team 7's genins.

"Looks like your friends aren't doing so well." Zabuza muttered as he appeared behind Kakashi with his sword out to slice his head off.

Kakashi ducked under the slash as he kicked Zabuza away from Tazuna and into the water. He followed Zabuza to that water, but that proved to be a fatal move as Zabuza ran through some handseals and slammed his hand into the water. An orb of water engulfed Kakashi and trapped him.

*Chrono's fight*

Under the wall of fire, Jaffar and Chrono were knocked backward as Zuuma kicked them both at the mid section of their chest. Nino unleashed a fire spell along with Hinata at Zuuma as Emerald pulled out her sword and rushed in for the attack. Zuuma dodged the blade strike but was struck dead center of his chest by the fire spell.

"You..." Zuuma muttered before knocking Emerald aside and rushing toward Nino for an attack.

Bugs surrounded Zuuma as Shino walked over to Nino.

"Are you ok?" Shino calmly asked.

"Yeah. Thanks." Nino replied as a massive burst of killer intent killed the bugs off of Zuuma.

"You think you can stop me with BUGS?! Big mistake." Zuuma spat as he launched 3 massive fireballs at Shino and Nino.

"Look out!" Hinata called out.

"Move!" Chrono yelled as he shoved the pair aside and pointed his sword out at the fireball.

The fireball suddenly rushed into the sword as Chrono cried out, "Doragon Kata: Tentou Mokushi" (Dragon style: Counter sight)

Chrono then slashed once as the absorbed fireball was sent at Zuuma, who deflected it easily, sending the fireball into the water. Chrono's sword was not so lucky as soon as the swing was finished, the blade shattered.

"Oh. You absorbed the fireball and sent them back at me eh?" Zuuma muttered quite amused,

"Redirecting something big as those fireballs takes up too much energy." Chrono retorted tossing aside the usless blade.

Zuuma smirked a bit before flying high into the sky.

"I guess I'll let you live. I would rather kill you when everyone needs you the most." Zuuma said before flying away.

*Kakashi's battle*

Kakashi and Zabuza was out on the water staring at each other as Naruto was afloat in the water.

'Sasuke and Naruto's attempt paid off. Using kage bushin and a fuuma shurkin just to get me out of the water prision that Zabuza inprisioned me in. They are quite something. Let's end this battle then.''

Zabuza smirked.

"You know something? That damn..." Zabuza started speaking.

"Eye of yours is pissing me off." Kakashi finished.

"What!!! How did you know..."

"What I was going to say next?" Kakashi finished again.

Zabuza then ran around Kakashi with the said man doing the same.

'It's like he can...' Zabuza mentally thought.

"Read my mind." Kakashi replied again.

"You can't mimic everything you damned monkey." Zabuza yelled as he started running through a long list of handseals.

Kakashi copied them perfectly as Zabuza's eyes widen a bit. He then made a bushin behind him and smirked.

'Bushins copy the jutsu user.' Zabuza thought before he looked over to Kakashi.

Kakashi stood there, but the bushin that came afterward was of him.

'WHAT!?' Zabuza thought as he was visably shocked to see Kakashi finish his list of seals.

"Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!"

The water around him spun as it shot up, takiing the form of a dragon and crashed into Zabuza. The current slammed Zabuza into a tree as Kurenai and the genins jumped into the trees with Tazuna in tow. Kakashi then took out four kunais and threw them, pining Zabuza to said tree as he appeared beside him with another kunai out.

"How did you know?" Zabuza asked as Chrono and his group came over to them.

"I saw into the future. Your future is death." Kakashi replied as he went in for the killing strike.

A quick thud was heard as a sebon struck Zabuza's neck, causing Zabuza to go limp. Everyone turned to see a masked ninja standing in a tree. Kakashi placed a finger on Zabuza's neck and confirmed that he was dead.

"Who are you?" Chrono asked as Jaffar stood infront of them.

'This feeling. Why does that person feel like a dragon?' Chrono thought as the masked ninja replied.

"I have been hunting Zabuza for some time. I thank you for aiding me." the masked ninja replied as ther ninja jumped down and grabbed Zabuza before Shunshined away.

"Who was that ninja?" Nino asked.

"A hunter nin from the Mist Village." Kurenai answered.

"Mist Village? You mean there's more villages like yours?" Emerald asked.

"Yeah. Each village are willing to go great length to keep the secret of their village since each body of a ninja holds wealth of information." Kakashi replied as he put the hatate over his Sharingin.

"In any case, let's get to your house Tazuna." Kurenai said before everyone saw Kakashi hit the dirt.

"Kakashi!" Everyone exclaimed rushing over to him. Chrono flew up and got Tazuna off the tree before coming over to the rest of the group.

"He just collapsed due to Charka depletion. He'll be ok with some rest." Kurenai said as she and Tanuza grabbed an arm of Kakashi.

"My house is just past those patches of trees." Tazuna said as everyone marched.

Evenutally, the group reached a small house in the clearing as Tazuna smiled.

"My home." He muttered as he walked up to the door and opened it.

"Tazuna, welcome back. What happened to that man?" the lady asked as she came out of the kitchen.

Tazuna walked over to the lady and smiled.

"Tsunami, they are ninjas from the leaf. They will liberate us from Gato." Tazuna said as the leaf nins and Chrono's group entered the house.

"Let's get Kakashi into a room. Jaffar, scout the surrounding area. Shino, Kiba, Akamaru. Go with Jaffar and meet back here in ten minutes." Chrono stated taking command.

"Why should I listen to you?" Kiba demanded.

"Kiba. Listen to him. He knows what he is doing." Kurenai said as Tsunami led her to a room.

"Jaffar, you know what to look for. I also want a report on the condition of the village. Shino, Kiba. Scout the area for enemies." Chrono said.

Jaffar nodded as he, Shino and Kiba left the house. Chrono, Emerald, and the remainer of Team 7 and 8 went to the kitchen and sat down.

"What to do now." Chrono muttered as he looked at Naruto trying to win Sakura's heart while Sakura fawning over Sasuke, who was ignoring her antics while Hinata eyed Naruto and blushed a bit more.

A few minutes of waiting and Kurenai came down to the kitchen.

"So what do we know?" Kurenai asked.

"Once Jaffar, Shino and Kiba comes back, we'll get the current condition of the village." Emerald replied as she sat beside Chrono.

Right on cue, the door opened and the said three came in,

"Jaffar, report." Chrono stated.

Jaffar nodded as he walked over to Nino.

"No enemies in the general area. The village is in worse shape then any words can describe. It's almost as bad as the villages we were in under HIS rule." Jaffar muttered putting a slight more power in the word 'his'.

"Hmm. We'll take a look into it tomorrow. Hinata, Naruto. we're gonna train. We delayed it for too long now." Chrono muttered as he got up. Sasuke left the room and secretly exited the house through the window, preparing to follow the group.

Naruto, Hinata, and the rest of his group stood up and started for the door when Kurenai placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Chrono. I will have no more of this. If you have something to teach, teach it to everyone here." Kurenai said.

"Unlike you and the rest of the village, I am under no obligation to reveal anything about our fighting style to any and everyone." Chrono replied.

"But it benefits the village as the whole. I don't understand why you won't let anyone in the village learn your style." Kurenai said.

"It's because most people here already have a fighting style that they are deeply rooted in. Hinata and Naruto are still finding their own way and we want to help them along." Nino replied.

Nino left the house with Naruto and Hinata with Chrono following. Emerald and Jaffar was about to leave then Kurenai coughed a bit. They both stopped and turned to see what she wanted to say.

"I honestly don't understand him. You guys follow Chrono like he is a God. Even with that Zuuma guy came and beat you guys up, you still believed in him. Why do you follow his words even when your knowledge could benefit others?" Kurenai asked.

"It's because he saved me and Nino from an assassination." Jaffar simply said as he exited.

"It's not that he don't want to help your village. He has a hard time opening up." Emerald answered.

"What do you mean?" Kurenai asked.

"I'm not suposed to tell you a piece of his past. But in a war, his side devised a plan that would bring the war to an end with major destruction to the opposing side. His army enticed him to help them by saying that they would use his power to make a bargin to the other side. He agreed to it and instead they took nearly all of his strength and created a weapon to start their plan. Chrono never took that deception well." Emerald replied as she left the house.

Sasuke saw Emerald leaving and started trailing her. Eventually, her trail led to Chrono, who was already training Hinata and Naruto. He saw Emerald walking over to Chrono as Chrono nodded as his eyes glowwed blue.

"Shoot!" Sasuke whispered as he fled the tree to escape the Sky eye's range.

On the ground, Chrono smiled a bit.

"Nothing around. Ok. Naruto. It looks like your training is paying off since you held your own against Zabuza. Hinata could use a bit more work. But overall, I'm inpressed. Both of you took up our fighting style and quickly improved in it." Chrono commented.

"Yatta!" Naruto exclaimed as he jumped up and down.

"Don't be celebrating just yet. Now the next part is to improve the speed of both style til the point that you can stand your own against one of us for three minutes." Jaffar muttered.

"Bring it on." Naruto muttered.

"Hmm. Ok. Jaffar, entertain him a bit. Hinata, you already have the Juuken. So we'll work with intergrating your magical attacks with Juuken so you have a style to call your own." Nino replied .

Most of the time was spent on that until Chrono called Naruto over to help him on his transformation. Chrono was very suprised to see that Naruto already had a good control over his fox form.

"Nice control at best. I work on the speed of the transformation so you can swap out of each form as quickly as you can. Either ways, it's time to head back." Chrono said.

Everyone went back to Tazuna's house and one by one went to sleep, tired from the day's event.

*Naruto's mind*

Kyuubi smiled as she saw Naruto falling asleep.

"Naruto. The fox chakra flowing through you will lead to my insurection as well as a new body for me to live in." She muttered as the mindscape quickly turned to a vague image of Naruto as a girl.

"Soon, I shall be among the living for you only deserve my love and my protection from Chrono." She muttered as she stretched a bit.

"Only a bit more longer my love."

*Next morning*

The morning was slightly tense as everyone crammed into Kakashi's room, who woke up from chakra depletion.

"You ok?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah. But we all have some training to do." Kakashi replied.

"Why? Zabuza is dead." Kiba muttered.

"I doubt someone that strong is going down easily." Jaffar stated.

Kakashi nodded.

"The weapon the hunter nin used is odd. Sebon has the lowest death chances unless you hit a vital spot. Also, a hunter nin would only take the head and burn the body. But the hunter nin we met with took the body all together." Kakashi muttered.

"So it was a setup?" Sasuke muttered.

Kurenai nodded.

"We'll have to start training eh. Zuuma might be with them." Jaffar muttered.

"Yeah. Let's get started then." Chrono replied as everyone got up.

Tsunami gave Kakashi a crutch for his use as everyone left the house. Everyone went to the training ground that Chrono used the night before. It was there that Kakashi and Kurenai decided to give them a lesson in chakra control and told them to climb a tree with chakra.

As the genins started their training, Kurenai and Kakashi walked over to Chrono and his group who were stretching a bit. Chrono placed both hands on the ground and the dirt bubbled as two short swords was formed out of the dirt.

"How did you do that?" Kakashi asked.

"Since I control the elements, I can use them to my will. I lost my sword in the last fight, so I'm creating mine." Chrono answered.

Soon enough, two short swords was created and Chrono's group seprated and faced each other.

"You guys ready? We are not aiming to kill, so hold back a bit." Emerald said.

"Ready." Chrono, Nino, and Jaffar replied.

A gust of wind passed them as a leaf fell to the ground.

"Let's go!" Chrono yelled.

And training started.