Foxfish

Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto

Just as a reminder this is a rated M story, so don't expect a happy, hart warming tale.

I'm reposting this chapter with changes to what happened to Tsunami. I have listened to what people have said about it and realized it was in extremely bad taste on my part to put that in. I apologize and here is the edited version.

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Ages:

Naruto and Isaribi and the Rooky Nine: 12

Anko: 22

Yamato: 24

Kakashi: 26

Third Hokage: 70

Gin- 15

Hyuuga Haran- 23

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'Thought'

"Speaking"

"Jutsus/Demon speaking"

"Fish speaking"- Sounds like shrieks/whistles and clicks, similar to whale songs

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Previously

"Well all of you go get so rest. Tomorrow is going to be a big day."

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Now

Team Seven were escorting Tazuna to the bridge. Kakashi was in front, Sasuke was on the right, Kiba was on the left, and Sakura was taking the rear.

It was early morning as they passed through the town and they meet very few people in the streets. Upon coming to the bridge a light fog could be seen above the water.

Continuing down to the work sight the fog rose and enveloped the bridge. Reaching the construction sight, Tazuna let out a gasp. All along the side of the bridge were the bodies of the bridge workers.

Some of them could be seen bleeding, but all of them were still breathing.

Instantly going on guard Team Seven put their back to Tazuna and formed a protective formation around him. Suddenly out of the mist from all directions multiple Zabuzas emerged with swords drawn.

From Tazuna's perspective all of Team Seven became a blur of motion with Sasuke and Kakashi being untraceable to his eyes.

"Hehe, so your brats have some skill, eh Kakashi-san?"

Looking at the fog in front of them Team Seven saw Zabuza emerging from the fog followed by Haku with his hinter-nin mask on.

"Zabuza-san now is your last chance. Surrender!" threatened Kakashi as he raised his hand.

As Zabuza began to laugh Kakashi brought his hand down. From behind Zabuza and Haku a splash of water was heard.

Landing on the bridge was Naruto and Isaribi, each with a handful of water clones.

"What the hell?" muttered Zabuza as he took in their green scaled appearance.

"I'll say it again Zabuza-san, surrender now!"

"You wish scarecrow! Haku, distract them (motioning to Team Seven) while I take care of the freaks" said Zabuza and received a barley noticeable nod from Haku.

In a flash they were off. Zabuza felt the air grow colder as Haku activated his bloodline, but Zabuza paid little attention to it as he reached Naruto and Isaribi.

With a massive swing of his sword he was able to decapitate three clones and disembowel two that tried to jump away.

Jumping back the avoided a flurry of shuriken from Isaribi and by sidestepping to the right was able to avoid a water blast from Naruto.

Grinning savagely he dashed strait at Naruto who only had one clone left over from the initial assault.

The clone jumped at Zabuza with two kunai in his hands and aimed to stab Zabuza in the neck and in the gut.

Not even bothering to slow down or to move his sword, Zabuza simply backhanded the clone with enough force to cause it to collapse is a pool of water.

Reaching Naruto Zabuza raised his sword and brought it down will all his might.

Desperately Naruto tried to back steep out of the way and raised a kunai to defend himself.

Zabuza came down right on the kunai, causing it to shatter and continued to cut into Naruto. Even the added protection of his scales and body armor did nothing to halt the progress of the mighty sword.

Naruto was almost cut clean in half, from his right collar down his body, just missing his heart, and finally stopping at his stomach.

As Zabuza continued with his swing he took Naruto's body with him and as the swing reached its arc Naruto was flung in a bloody heap across the bridge.

With a savage cry Isaribi flung herself at Zabuza, the tears streaming down her face.

Grinning like a mad man, Zabuza parried Isaribi's furious attacks before brutally kicking her in the stomach. Coughing up blood she flew back and landed near Naruto at the side of the bridge.

Getting up she moved to attack again but was stopped as a long bloody slash connecting both her solders appeared. Falling back on the ground she barley saw Zabuza raise his sword for another blow.

'This is it' she though as she closed her eyes, the sounds of birds chirping began to fill her ears.

And the blow never came.

Opening her eyes again she saw Zabuza standing there, still holding his sword. But through his chest was sticking a hand surrounded in electricity.

Looking past Zabuza she saw Kakashi there with his sharingan eye uncovered before she blacked out.

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(Team 7 perspective)

The fake hunter-nin charged at them.

As he charged he used the water from the destroyed water clones and from the mist in the air to form countless ice needles.

Sasuke and Kakashi jumped to the right and Sakura and Kiba grabbed onto Tazuna and they jumped to the left.

As they were separated from Kakashi multiple ice mirrors rose up and surrounded them. On each of the ice mirrors the image of Haku appeared and soon a flurry of sebon needles flew from every direction.

Kiba and Akamaru tried to doge left, receiving only a few needles in his arms and legs.

Sakura saw that the sebon needles were mostly directed at Tazuna and without thinking she threw him down onto the ground and used her body as a shield, protecting him from the weapons.

As the needles imbedded themselves into her body she let out a cry. Through the blood pooling down her face and into her eyes she could see Haku moving to attack again.

Suddenly a silver blur connected strait with Haku and a stream of blood began gushing from Haku's neck.

Standing over her Kakashi had a look of concern in his eyes. Calling Sasuke over he ordered him to begin fist aid while he rushed off to go aid Naruto and Isaribi.

Moving through the mist he heard an anguished cry and the sound on blood hitting the ground.

Entering the battlefield he saw weapons imbedded into the ground, Naruto half dead and almost cut into two but with red chakra healing his wound, and Isaribi bleeding on the ground about to be finished off by Zabuza.

Flashing through the hand seals he called upon his soul original jutsu, the chidori.

Reaching Zabuza right before the missing-nin was about to finish off the girl he plunged his electrified hand deep into his chest. It passed through the man's spine before destroying his heart and emerging on the other side.

Ripping his hand out of the now dead man's chest he rushed over to the two genin as the mist began to clear.

Isaribi's wound, while heavy, was not fatal. Her chest armor and scales had protected her from even worse damage and her natural healing abilities had already kicked in to begin healing the wound.

Quickly he removed her destroyed armor that was in the way and wrapped her chest and wound in a bandage coated with a special medicine to help increase healing and gave her a blood pill to replenish her lost blood.

Moving to Naruto, the blood drained from his face. If he hadn't been a jinchuuriki then he would have been dead long ago. Even so, his chance of survival was very slim.

The red chakra from the Kyuubi was working to heal him as best as it could, but it wasn't enough.

Carefully, Kakashi pushed the two parts of Naruto back together and began to pump healing chakra into his wounds. He was no medical-nin and only knew fist aid, but he wasn't going to sit around and watch the son of his sensei die right before his eyes.

As he began to pump more and more chakra into the wound, he could feel himself getting tired, but pushed that to the side. Already the combined effort of Kakashi and the Kyuubi had reattached the two halves of the boy together. All that was left was to heal the damage on a more intricate level than Kakashi could manage.

Cutting off the flow of chakra, Kakashi striped Naruto of his shirt and armor and applied the same type of bandage that Isaribi had to Naruto. He was still bleeding and soon the bandage was red.

Lowering his head band over his sharingan eye, Kakashi reached into his bag and took out a blood pill. This he gave to Naruto and by massaging the muscles in his neck, getting the unconscious boy to swallow.

Looking up he heard the sound of a dog barking and soon Kiba came up to Kakashi, limping slightly, as the mist completely cleared.

"Sensei! We didn't know were you were… what happened…" Kiba stopped as he saw the scene before him. The weapons, the blood, and the bodies.

"Are they going to be alright?" he asked concerned.

"They're stable now, but were going to need to call in a medical team. How's Sakura-chan doing?"

"Unconscious, Sasuke was able to remove all the needles from her, but she was still beading pretty bad from some spots. We bandaged her up as best we could, but I don't know if that's enough."

Looking over his shoulder at his two team mates and Tazuna he continued, "Tazuna is fine, it seams like she was able to block all the needles from reaching him."

Nodding his head Kakashi said, "Good, good, we'll retreat back to Tazuna's house and call for a medical team…"

Kakashi was cut off as he heard a laughter coming from the end of the bridge.

"Kukuku, so I guess the great Zabuza and his butt buddy weren't enough to finish the job!" laughed Gato from the end of the bridge.

"Oh well, all that's left is a bunch of worn out and injured ninjas."

Kiba and Akamaru both growled and were ready to pounce when one of Gato's men pulled out something from the back, or more precisely, someone.

Tsunami was standing there, bloody and bruised. Her clothes were in rages, tears were streaming down her face, and in her mouth there was a gage with a ball attached to it, to percent her from screaming and from biting her tongue.

Seeing this Tazuna broke down crying. Kakashi got up from his crouched position and drew a kunai and was soon flanked by Kiba and Sasuke.

"Kukuku, don't waste your time! Surrender the bridge builder and I'll let her go" laughed Gato.

Tazuna made a move to surrender himself but was quickly stopped by Kakashi.

"We will never surrender. Hand her over or be killed" he demanded to Gato, only to receive a round of laughter from Gato and his men.

"Get ready to attack" Kakashi whispered to the Sasuke and Kiba.

Sasuke got ready to perform a fire jutsu and Kiba and Akamaru prepared to attack using their family's taijutsu style. Revealing his sharingan again, Kakashi was just about to give the order to attack, when a pulse of vile chakra came from behind him, making his blood run cold.

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Naruto as floating face up in a pool of water with his arms out to the sides

Around him was a giant sewer with water filling up half the room. Right next to his head was a massive gate, being kept shut with only a slightly frayed piece of paper with the word seal written on it.

"Look at the mess you've gotten yourself into now kit" said the Kyuubi in a somber voice.

Around Naruto the water began to bubble and flow as red chakra began to surround him.

"Almost cut in half. Pitiful. You didn't even try to call upon my power to fight that worthless human. If you had you wouldn't be in this situation and your mate might not have been injured, or possibly killed" laughed the Kyuubi in a condescending tone of voice.

"But I guess I owe it to you."

The red chakra surrounded Naruto as he sunk into the water. Slowly sinking his mind barely registered what was going on around him. He came up to the bars of the Kyuubi's cage and passed right through them. They Kyuubi was waiting there, completely unaffected by the fact that it appeared to by completely submerged in water.

"You will live" said the Kyuubi as it clasped its hands around Naruto's body. "And we will have our revenge!"

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Naruto's eyes snapped open.

Gone were the blue slitted eyes, replacing them were blood red eyes that if you looked into them you would swear that the fires of hell burned behind them and the whisker marks that were still etched on Naruto's scaly face darkened and elongated.

Red chakra began to bubble out of all of his pores and as Naruto rolled onto his hands and knees, a tail of pure red chakra could be seen. Soon that tail was accompanied by another tail, and as a third tail began to form a solid shell of chakra began to cover Naruto.

His scaly skin gave him considerable protection from the corrosive effects of the Kyuubi's chakra, but as the chakra shell hardened, his scales seamed to take on a dark red color before his entire body was encased.

Seeing this transformation Kakashi, Sasuke, and Kiba were frozen in shock, as were most of the onlookers. One mercenary broke free of his shock induced stupor and moved to run away.

A bad idea.

The movement immediately caught Kyuubi-Naruto's attention and in a flash he was next to that man. Before he could even scream out in fear he was ripped apart from a swipe of Kyuubi-Naruto's hand, sending pieces of his body across the bridge and into the water.

This action shook the rest of the mercenaries out of their stupor and they either charged or tried to run away, completely forgetting about Gato, Tsunami, and the Konoha-nins.

Quickly Kakashi grabbed hold of Tsunami and pulled her away from the area before all hell broke loose.

Kyuubi-Naruto took on a savage grin and let out a chakra blast, destroying the section of the bridge he was on, and blasting away the mercenaries foolish enough to attack him, not always in one piece.

Leaping into action and with a swipe of his tails and extended arms, Kyuubi Naruto made quick work of the remaining mercenaries, butchering them like animals. Those that were unfortunate enough not to get killed immediately writhed in pain as the Kyuubi's chakra ate at them before Naruto finished them off.

One of these unfortunate souls was Gato. The man had most of his spine ripped out from one of Naruto's swipes and as he lay there dying he cried out in anguish. He wasn't feeling the pain from the missing chunks of flesh and bone protruding from his body, he ceased to be able to feel anything below his neck because of the spinal cord damage.

Rather, he screamed as the Kyuubi's chakra touched upon the raw nerve endings that were still connected to his brain, a much more painful experience. As the world started to go black, he suddenly found himself in the air.

He couldn't feel anything so he didn't know he was now half the man he was before. But he did see his end as he went face first into the railing, splattering his brains all over the bridge and into the water.

Tazuna cradled the crying Tsunami as he looked upon the scene with shock along with the Team Seven. Sasuke was about to get sick and Kiba was already throwing up. Even Kakashi, a man who had lived his entire life of the battlefield, was feeling sick at the sight before him.

Kyuubi-Naruto turned his attention to Team Seven. He was about to attack them when a cough from Isaribi caught his attention.

"Naruto…"

This brought Kyuubi-Naruto out of his blood and killing frenzy and as he slowly made his way to Isaribi, the chakra shell faded away, revealing his green scales underneath still intact.

Reaching Isaribi the red faded from his eyes and he collapsed with his head on her lap, completely unconscious.

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The land of waves was in an uproar.

The Inari, suffering multiple cut and stab wounds, was found by a neighbor. They heard what had happened and quickly a mob of citizens formed to rise up against Gato.

Reaching the bridge they were met with a horrific scene. The entire bridge crew was knocked out and injured, three of the Konoha ninjas were injured, and the entire end of the bridge was destroyed.

But what caused most of the members of the mob to loose their last meal were the bloody remains of Gato and his mercenaries. While they harbored no regret for what happened to them, the brutality and severity in which they were butchered was extreme.

Cleanup was a slow process, the bridge needed to be repaired and the bodies needed to be cleaned up. For the bodies, they didn't even bother given them proper burials, just a water hose to push them into the ocean.

Kakashi made sure to grab both Zabuza and Haku's heads for their bounties as wall as Zabuza's sword.

At the conclusion of the battle, the injured Sakura, Isaribi, and Naruto were taken to one of the rooms in Tazuna's house while Inari and Tsunami were placed in her room.

After taking them to the room and giving them preliminary medical attention Kakashi sent a message to Konoha asking for a medical team to come to aid them.

Sakura woke up after the first day but was still badly injured while Naruto and Isaribi remained unconscious. It took two days for the medical team to come from their aid.

Arriving at Tazuna's house the medical team and an accompanying chunin team spoke to Kakashi.

"What's the situation?" the lead medic asked.

"There are five wounded. Two civilians, one female genin with multiple sebon needle wounds, another female genin with a slash wound across her chest, and a make genin with sever chakra depletion as well as damage across his chest."

"Lead the way sir" as the medical team followed Kakashi upstairs.

Entering the room they Sakura was sitting in the chair by the window doing light hand exercisers to regain proper control over her limbs.

Giving the genin a quick checkup, two of the medics went to the room with Tsunami and Inari and healed their wounds to the best of their abilities. Returning to Naruto, Isaribi, and Sakura they prepared them for transport back to Konoha.

Gathering Sasuke and Kiba together Kakashi informed them, "We're returning to Konoha."

"Why?" questioned Sasuke.

"Sakura-chan, Naruto-san, and Isaribi-san have all sustained heave injuries. We can't safely guard them and Tazuna. As such the Chunin Team Thirty-Five will take over guarding Tazuna until the bridge is complete while we make out way back to Konoha with the medics."

Looking over the genin in front of him he asked, "Any questions?"

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A little different from the way the series went. Since Kiba is more demanding than and not as flirtatious as Naruto, Sakura was pushed to actually train more. Pulse she also was able to train with the others the entire time despite mastering the tree walking exercise so quickly, so this gave her added strength and determination.

And about Zabuza, when fighting Naruto and Isaribi he was going for the quick kill instead of playing around like he did in the series when Team Seven first encountered him.

Sorry it took so long to update, finals came up for my college so I couldn't write, but I'm back now!!

As always tell me what you think, I love to hear your suggestions to improve this story.

Ja ne!