Chapter 8- The battle on the bridge

Naruto woke up in the guest room in Tazuna's house. He propped himself up and saw his two fraccion, sleeping. Jango was sitting Indian style with his arms crossed against the wall while he slept, and Tiraran was leaning against him with her head on his shoulder. Naruto smirked at his fraccions apparent closeness. He crept by as to not to awake them since they had become exhausted from training with Naruto. He made his way down stairs and found Tsunami washing dishes. She heard Naruto coming and smiled at him.

"Well there's the sleeping warrior. I was wondering when you were gonna wake up," said Tsunami, setting down the dish and getting a new one.

"Where is my team and sensei?" asked Naruto, while Tsunami set a plate of breakfast out on the table for him.

"They left with my father to guard him while he worked on the bridge. Your sensei thought it best for you and your fraccion to rest up," said Tsunami as Naruto at his meal.

As he was finishing his meal when Inari walked in. His eyes still full of anguish and anger. He glanced at Naruto and began to walk away.

"There is much anger in you. I understand why now, but you should not be in such sorrow since your father was a good man. He died with his pride and stood by what he believed. You should be following in his foot steps instead of diminishing hope," said Naruto, causing the boy to stop in his tracks.

"My father stood up to a powerful man and died. I will not make such a stupid mistake like he did," said Inari, while Naruto just shook his head.

Naruto got up and went back up stairs. He opened the door quietly so to not startle his fraccion. However, he shut the door to quickly and it woke them from the smack. Jango woke first, then Tiraran a second later. They looked at eachother and both jumped back. Tiraran blushed while Jango stood up straight and coughed a few times.

"Good morning Naruto-sama," said Jango, trying to regain his composure.

"Good morning to you both," said Naruto, deciding to not embarrass his fraccion.

"What is the mission today Naruto-sama?" asked Tiraran, smiling promptly at her master.

"I guess we just go to the bridge and protect the bridge builder. Until then we-," said Naruto, but stopped when there was a crash from down stairs.

Naruto held up his hand to keep his fraccion still and to wait for his order. Naruto tiptoed down stairs to see what was happening. He found Tsunami being held hostage by two bandits, and Inari was standing across from them.

"Why are you here?" asked Inari, as the thug with the eye patch held his mother hostage and the other was in Inari's way.

"Our boss wants us to kidnap you and your mother so we have some pull incase that Zabuza guy fails to take out the bridge builder," said the eye patch thug, grinning, as Inari grew angrier.

"No! I wont let you take her!" said Inari, charging at the man, only to be swatted away by the other thug.

"Play the hero, expect to get killed, kid" said the white haired thug, as he brought up his sword and prepared to kill Inari.

Inari closed his eyes and waited for the blow to end him. What he heard instead was a grunt and the collapse of a body. Inari opened his eyes and saw Naruto in front of him, and the white haired thug on the floor dead.

"So, finally decided to stand up and fight huh?" asked Naruto, smiling at Inari, while said boy was wide eyed at the display.

"You little brat!" yelled the eye patch thug, tossing Tsunami to the floor and charging at Naruto.

Before he could even come close to Naruto, he stopped short, a look of pain on his face before collapsing on the ground. Jango and Tiraran stood behind him as they sheathed their zanpakutos.

"No other threat is in the vicinity of the house," said Jango in his calm and calculating manner.

"Good, stay here and keep it that way. I'm going to the bridge, where I suspect Zabuza and his associate are attacking my team and your grandfather as we speak," said Naruto, walking towards the door.

"Be careful out there," said Inari, standing next to his mother.

"Don't worry, you'll see me again," said Naruto, giving him a thumbs up.

Naruto started to flash step towards the bridge, and as he did he felt something he hadn't felt in a while.

Excitement

He had adrenaline pumping through him, and he loved it. He couldn't wait to get in on this fight. Naruto sped on to his fight.

(At the Bridge)

These were not boding well for Team 7. Kakashi was battling Zabuza head on in zero visibility mist. Sasuke was busy trying to fight Haku, but was caught in her Ice Mirror technique. All the while Sakura was stuck giving what protection she could to Tazuna while the others fought. Zabuza swung down at Kakashi, only to be blocked by a kunai in his hand.

"Where's the blonde kid Kakashi? It's him I really wanna fight anyway," said Zabuza, adding pressure to try and over power Kakashi.

"I'm certain he'll be here soon. Until then, you'll just have to settle for me," said Kakashi breaking the power struggle and going on the attack.

Sasuke was looking like a pincushion after all the needle attacks from Haku. Even now the Uchiha struggled to his feet.

"Why don't you just stay down? You will only get knocked down again," said Haku, getting bored with the fight.

"Shut up! An elite like my self will prevail in the end," said Sasuke, getting a sigh from Haku.

"As you wish," said Haku, pulling out more needles.

Haku threw a hand full of needles at the Uchha, but something hit the needles before they could hit Sasuke. Haku gasped at the sight of Naruto standing in the way of the needles, which were now on the ground in front of him.

"As much as I didn't want to save him, the council would have been all over me for letting their precious Uchiha die. But at least I finally get to see what your made of," said Naruto, a smile crossing his face.

"You hurt Zabuza-sama. I will get you for that," said Haku, unleashing a barrage of needles onto Naruto.

The needles collided with Naruto, and just dropped onto the ground. Each needle simple made a "ding" sound when it hit with Naruto's body. Haku stopped her attack and looked at him with shock, though her mask hid her face.

"How are you doing that?" asked Haku, as she had never see someone so durable in battle.

Naruto then found himself going into a flashback of his training.

(Flashback)

Naruto stood in a training room in Las Noches. Across from him stood Nnoitra, his grin sprouting on his face. Almost choreographed, each drew their weapons and got prepared.

"You ready kid?" asked Nnoitra, resting his scythe blade on his shoulders.

"Yes," said Naruto, seriousness in his voice.

"Then you have the first shot," said Nnoitra, making a hand motion for Naruto to come at him.

Naruto charged at him and took to the air. He then proceeded to bring down his blade with extreme force. It cut across Nnoitra, but only left sparks as it came down. Naruto landed on his feet and jumped back away from Nnoitra. Nnoitra checked for a scar but found nothing. He then brought up his scythe and swung down at Naruto. Naruto took the hit and sparks flew, until he got to the abdomen and cut a little bit. Naruto gasped and clutched his side. Nnoitra rested his scythe on his shoulder once again and shook his head.

"You have to get stronger if you going to have a tough hierro like mine," said Nnoitra, standing over a kneeling Naruto.

"Yes Nnoitra-sama," said Naruto, bowing his head before the Espada.

(End Flashback)

"My teachers made sure I was ready to withstand any attack thrown at my way. Now, I grow tired of your mirrors. Let us talk in the flesh," said Naruto, disappearing in an instant.

Haku looked around for him, but was too slow to stop him from destroying mirror after mirror. She just barely managed to escape the last mirror before it too was destroyed. She landed on her feet and prepared to fight, only to get caught by the throat by Naruto. He lifted her off her feet and stared her in the eyes.

"Dang it Naruto," said Sasuke getting to his feet, "you should have just left her to me."

"Not now Sasuke," said Naruto, still clutching Haku by the throat.

"I order you to let me finish her off you ba-," said Sasuke before being back handed by Naruto and was sent flying.

"Such an annoyance," said Naruto, focusing back on Haku.

"What are you going to do to me?" asked Haku terrified of what a powerful opponent like Naruto would do to her.

"Nothing," said Naruto, letting go of Haku and turning to the fight between Zabuza and Kakashi.

"Why? You had me right for the kill. Why not finish it?" asked Haku, curious as to why he would give up the opportunity.

"Because when you attacked me, I followed the spots you aimed for. You didn't aim for anything vital in the human body. You weren't trying to kill me or Sasuke," said Naruto, seeing Haku look away.

"Killing isn't really my style," said Haku, a little disappointed in her weakness.

"The way I see it, you didn't intend to kill me, so I wont kill you. Now if you don't mind, my sensei needs some help," said Naruto, disappearing again and leaving Haku to her thoughts.

Meanwhile, Zabuza and Kakashi were still locked in a intense battle. Zabuza brought up his sword to attack once more, but was blocked by Naruto's zanpakuto. Naruto smirked at the swordsman, who, surprisingly, was smirking underneath his bandages.

"You ready to finish where we left off kid," asked Zabuza, crossing swords with Naruto.

"What do you think? Lets finish this," said Naruto, letting his adrenaline take over for the showdown.

(A/N: Sup! So, I'm really sorry for the wait. I don't know if you guys know, but I wrestle at my school so that is taking up a lot of time, but that just got done. That along with school and Christmas took up quite a lot of time. Now that I'm done, I should be producing chapters much faster. Thanks for the patience. Till next time!)