Chapter 6- Demon of the mist? Not so much

Team seven was making its way closer and closer to Tazuna's village; all the while keeping their guards up for anything that would come at them. Kakashi was keeping cool throughout the trip. Sakura was hoping to Kami that she wasn't going to have to fight anyone considering her skills weren't up to par with the others. Sasuke didn't care who they were since he was an 'elite', he would be invincible against any opponent. Naruto was actually looking forward to some sort of fighting going on. This was why he became stronger in Las Noches. Other than protecting those precious to him, Naruto wanted to get stronger by beating the strongest. Maybe Nnoitra was rubbing off on him. All Naruto knew was that he had an itch to fight someone he could actually let loose on. Naruto got out of his train of thought when he heard something moving in the bushes. Naruto then leaped at the bush and had his zanpakuto tip pointing at the source of the disturbance. He was surprised to see that the culprit was a white rabbit. It trembled as Naruto held his zanpakuto at it. Naruto put it away and picked up the little rabbit. Everyone else was wondering why he would lunge at a bush until they saw him with the rabbit.

"False alarm. It was just this little guy here," said Naruto, giving a sheepish smile.

"Spooked by a little rabbit, loser?" asked Sasuke, seeing Naruto give him an angry scowl.

"Not as spooked you'll be if I drop you in Hueco Mundo for five minutes," said Naruto, seeing Sasuke reluctantly back down.

"Naruto, don't you think there's something weird about this rabbit?" asked Kakashi, Naruto giving him a raised eyebrow as he looked back down at the rabbit until he understood what he was talking about.

"This rabbit's coat is bright white. It's mid-summer so it should be grey. Someone's been keeping this rabbit indoors and cool," said Naruto, seeing Kakashi nod at him.

Before Kakashi said another word, a huge sword came flying in towards the group. Everyone ducked, all except Naruto, who managed to pull out his zanpakuto. He spun underneath the spinning blade and thrusted the blade into the hole of the sword. The blade spun around his zanpakuto until it settled down. Naruto pulled his zanpakuto out of the hole of the huge blade. It was quite a large sword and could almost be called a large butcher knife.

"Not bad kid. Didn't expect anyone to be able maneuver that fast," said Zabuza, appearing from the shadows.

"This is quite a big blade you have here. What? You compensating for something?" asked Naruto, seeing Zabuza's eyes narrow at Naruto.

"Better watch your mouth kid, or I'll show you how to really wield a blade," said Zabuza seeing Naruto grin at him.

"Now that is something I'd like to see," said Naruto, tossing Zabuza his Executioners blade back to him.

"Naruto be careful. This is Zabuza Momochi, one of the seven swordsmen of the Mist. He has been called The Demon of the Mist. Don't take him lightly," said Kakashi, seeing Naruto give him a smirk.

"Don't worry sensei, I plan on winning," said Naruto, unsheathing his zanpakuto and taking his stance.

"Don't push your luck with me kid. You may some skills, but I think I've been handling a blade longer than you," said Zabuza, taking his stance as well.

"How 'bout you show me instead of talking me to sleep," said Naruto, running towards Zabuza.

"Gladly," said Zabuza, swinging his blade at Naruto's head.

Naruto brought up his blade and met Zabuza's sword. Naruto then proceeded to push back the Executioners blade and swung with a vertical swing. Zabuza moved to right of the strike, spun around, and swung vertically at Naruto. Naruto ducked and landed a kick to Zabuza's chest, sending him flying. Zabuza recomposed himself, but Naruto was already back at him. Zabuza barely brought up his sword in time to block Naruto's attack.

"I have to admit, I was expecting more from one of the seven swordsmen of the Mist," said Naruto, putting Zabuza down even more with the fact that he was only fighting with one hand on the blade.

"Don't get over confident so quickly," said Zabuza, keeping both hands on his sword.

Naruto raised an eyebrow before he saw someone running past them both and heading right for Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura and Tazuna. It was Zabuza, which meant Naruto was fighting a clone. Naruto then used his free hand to grab Executioner, and at the same, sliced off 'Zabuza's' head. Meanwhile, Zabuza brought up his sword to slash through Kakashi to get to Tazuna. But as he was about to bring down his sword, Naruto grabbed Zabuza by his body strap.

"You should make sure im taken care of before focusing on anyone else, baka!" said Naruto, flinging Zabuza back to where he was fighting Zabuza's clone.

"Very well, I was getting sick of you anyway," said Zabuza, forming multiple hand signs.

'He's got something big up his sleeve. Luckily I got something for him too,' thought Naruto, putting both hands on his Zanpakuto.

"Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique!" yelled Zabuza, as a huge amount of water surged around him and launched towards Naruto.

"Move Naruto!" yelled Kakashi, getting the others out of the way, but Naruto just stood there.

"GetsugaTenshō!" yelled Naruto, swinging his sword and sent a massive wave of spiritual energy.

The attack pushed right through Zabuza's and sent him flying. He eventually smacked right into a tree back first. Zabuza looked back up and saw Naruto walking slowly towards him. Zabuza stood up, but was immediately pinned the tree by three kunai's. Kakashi then appeared on a tree branch above him.

"Nicely done Naruto," said Kakashi, giving his usual eye smile.

"Thanks. That's the same attack I used for my jutsu test at the academy," said Naruto, though when he did the attack it was much weaker.

"Impressive. Now then, I think we need to end him," said Kakashi, pulling out a kunai.

"Agreed," said Naruto, taking his zanpakuto in one hand.

"I am not gonna be put down by some punk! You can ki-," said Zabuza, before struck in the neck with three senbon needles.

"What?" asked Naruto, just as a hunter ninja appeared next to Zabuza.

"Thank you. If it had not been for your intervention and force I don't think I could have taken down Zabuza," said the hunter ninja, looking down at Zabuza.

"No prob, always happy to help someone with a problem," said Naruto, sheathing his zanpakuto.

"I will take him away now and dispose of him," said the hunter ninja, picking Zabuza up off the ground.

"Don't you think you should take care of that now? I mean that is how you guys do things professionally in your department?" asked Naruto, getting a little suspicious of the ninja.

"You're quite clever. We'll definitely meet again," said the hunter ninja, taking off with Zabuza.

"That was an accomplice of Zabuza's. This isn't over yet," said Naruto, getting a nod from Kakashi.

"You may be right, but for now lets get Tazuna to his village so he can do his job so we can do ours," said Kakahsi, walking back to Sakura and the others with Naruto next to him.

'This mission just keeps getting better and better,' thought Naruto, smiling to himself in sheer excitement.

(A/N: Sup! Well, I'm finally back on this story and I am excited. Btw, in order to help with the poll on my profile, I am going to post the 1st chapters of all four choices. So that will be pretty exciting. Anyway, review and tell me how I did and what you think. Till next time!)