A/N: Alright I got bored so here's Stage 2 hope you like it! ^^ Again plz review i'd really like to hear from you guys thankies!

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Stage 2: Bringing Me to Life

"Hey Haku I have a question," I began. Haku glanced down at me. "Back there. Who were those things? Why did they hurt us like that?"

Haku sighed. "Those were other ninjas only they were rogue." Before I could say anything Haku began explaining. "Rogue ninjas are ninjas that have broke away from their villages. People fear when this happens because these ninjas carry secrets of their village and these rogue ninjas could betray their village and tell their secrets to their enemies. That's where trackers come in. Our purpose is to bring down these rogue ninjas and protect the secrets of our village."

"But why would they try to hurt us?" I asked still unsure.

"They must have saw that I was a tracker ninja and decided to take me out before I had a chance to take them out."

I nodded. "So were they rogue ninjas from the mist village?"

"In a way yes but not exactly. You see once you become a rogue ninja you are no longer a part of that village any longer. They disown you."

"How do trackers stop these ninjas?" I asked.

Haku chuckled. "We have gone through special training to prepare us for stuff like this."

I looked away for a moment taking all this in. "Oh hey Haku I have another question." Haku looked at me once more. "Why couldn't I see back there when those rogue ninjas attacked?"

"Probably because they were using the hidden mist jutsu."

"What's that?"

"It's a jutsu that allows the user to create a heavy fog, giving the enemy a hard time if you don't know how to fight in fog."

"Could I learn that?" I asked hopeful.

"It's not that hard to do. I'm sure Zabuza could teach it to you."

A smile lit up my face. I was excited to meet this Zabuza now. I wondered if he was like Haku or if he was different. I eagerly waited for us to arrive at our destination.

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My memories are still foggy. There's still much that I need to remember. I'm scared to learn any more than I know. Haku has helped me out so much. And now he's brought me here to meet this Zabuza person. He looks scary, menacing, blood thirsty. Why would someone as gentle and kind as Haku hang around a guy like this? That sword on his back. It was as big as him. It made him looks so much more menacing.

"This girl has a unique blood line trait Zabuza, she is able to heal her wounds by just touching water and she can heal people using some kind of jutsu."

Zabuza looked at me with a look that I couldn't find words for. "Hmmm. That sounds quite interesting could be very useful to me," Zabuza said as he leaned down to get a closer look at me. I flinched back, involuntary. Zabuza straightened out. Haku began to apologize for my actions and was telling him about how I had no memory of who I was and how I had just remembered my name not too long ago. I could see the smirk through the bandages on his face. The bandages did make me quite curious.

"Um excuse me Mr. Zabuza." I began. Zabuza and even Haku looked at me. "Why do you have those bandages covering your face. Are you hurt or do you have a wound?" I asked curiously.

Haku was about to say something but Zabuza put a hand up, signaling him to stop. He came closer and unraveled his bandages, revealing his face. I looked at it curiously and didn't see a wound or any cut for that matter. This confused me. Zabuza got more bandages and began to cover his face once more. Haku sat down with me to talk a little bit.

"Zabuza wears those bandages to hide his face like I hide mine with this mask." Haku explained.

"But bandages make it look like he's hurt. Why use them instead of a mask like you have?" I asked.

"Zabuza and I are different on that." Haku began.

"I don't need to impersonate some stupid tracker ninja," Zabuza said, cutting in on the conversation. "They say I have the face of a demon so I'm doing them a favor by covering it up," Zabuza said.

I looked at Haku. Haku sighed. "A demon is a thing that isn't human. People believe demons are evil creatures who do no good around anyone. They bring harm and bad luck."

I looked at Zabuza curiously. "But he doesn't look like a demon. He looks like you and me, a human."

This took Haku by surprise and made Zabuza laugh. Zabuza walked over to me and put his hand on my head. "There's a reason why I'm known as the demon of the hidden mist."

Suddenly, Zabuza grabbed my arm and took one of his kunai weapons and cut a huge wound into it. I cried out in pain. Haku shot up from his seat. "Zabuza what are-" But before Haku could finish his sentence, Zabuza was dragging me out of the room. Haku followed Zabuza loyally behind. Zabuza dragged me into a different room. He went over to a thing that I was unsure of what exactly it was. He did something to cause water to come rushing out of some metal thing. He stuck my arm that he cut under the water and then took it out. Just like what happened before, the water washed the blood away and closed the cut. Zabuza watched in amazement at this. I could see the grin through his bandages.

"Kid, you're going to be with me and Haku here from now on." Zabuza commanded. Haku was just as shocked as I was.

"But why sir?" I asked him.

"Because I said so. Besides you're lucky," Zabuza began. "If someone else would have found you lying around like you were and then accidentally saw your blood line trait they would have killed you on the spot." I froze in place and Haku stiffened. Zabuza let my arm go.

"Haku spend every second with this girl. Learn what she can do and teach her to kill like I taught you."

"Yes but why aren't you going to teach her?" Haku asked.

"I've got business to take care of." Zabuza said.

So from then on, for the next month I spent all my time training with Haku. He taught me about some much more stuff. I was able to use jutsu and heal myself. I could now fight because of Haku.

"Haku, why would people want to kill me if they found me and found out about my blood line trait?" I asked Haku.

Haku stiffened. He sighed and told me about the story of his childhood. I was horrified.

"And I owe my whole life to Zabuza. If it weren't for him I would be dead. He brought me to life and made into who I am today. Nothing I could do could ever repay him accept for staying with him and helping him reach his life long goals."

"So people wanted to kill you just because of your special abilities? Just because you could do something that they couldn't?" I asked. Haku nodded.

"That's just not right. Wait. ." I began to think.

"What is it?"

"Since you found me and saved me like Zabuza found you, then that means I owe my life to you!" I exclaimed. Haku was shocked but then smiled.

"You don't owe anything to me. I just didn't want what happened to me happen to you. Just stay here with me and Zabuza, and help us and that's all you'll have to do." Haku assured.

I nodded my head. "Ok! I will stay here forever!"

Haku laughed. I joined in on his laugh. Now it doesn't sound so funny when I laugh. However, I hadn't been able to heal anyone like I healed Haku that one day. That feeling hasn't been here since that day either.

"Hey Haku," I began. Haku looked at me. "Do you think my emotions have an effect on my jutsu? I mean remember that one day I thought it wasn't fair that you had wounds and I healed mine?"

Haku shook his head. "Yes why?"

"I haven't been able to do that since. I think it had to do with what I felt." I concluded.

Haku sighed. "Well I think it's time for us to try to tap into that power to see what you can do with it."

Haku took out his senbon. I took out my kunai, thinking we were gonna spar again. Every time we fought, Haku would always win because of his amazing speed but day by day I was getting better at everything. It was only a matter of time till I surpassed him. I anxiously awaited that day. Haku even showed me his blood line trait. It looked absolutely beautiful. When he's not training me, he's training on his own. I sit off and watch him train. I don't understand how his body can endure so much. I was determined to be just like Haku. Zabuza was even nice enough to get me a hidden mist head band. I wore it around my arm proudly and was grateful he went through the trouble just for me. Zabuza even taught me the hidden mist jutsu. Maybe I misjudged him. Zabuza may look scary but he's a nice guy deep down. He just didn't like to show it. I saw Haku get into a crouching stance. I readied myself knowing that he was going to attack. But this time Haku did something unexpected. Haku stabbed his hand with a senbon.

"Haku what are you doing?!" I demanded to know. Haku drew the senbon out of his hand and stabbed his upper arm with it. "Haku stop!" I exclaimed charging at him, desperate to get him to stop.

Haku jumped out of the way. He drew the senbon out of his arm and switched it to his other hand. He stabbed his other hand with it. Haku threw his mask off and I saw his face. It was twisted with pain. Haku kept stabbing himself in various areas. Everytime I tried to get closer he'd use his speed to get away. Soon he led us to a stream.

'Damnit why won't he stop?!'

"Better do something before I start hitting critical areas," Haku warned. I was panting and out of breath. Tears began to form in my eyes. Haku threw a handful of senbon at me. All of them hit me. I stuttered backwards. "Shinobis do not cry and you will learn not to show your emotions fast or else." Haku took out another senbon and stabbed himself in the throat. Everything in my body went nub as I watched him fall to the ground. My legs took off as I raced to his side. I took the senbon out of his neck. His body looked lifeless.

"Haku!!" I yelled. The feeling was coming back and I let it consume me. I could feel my hands wanting to move to do the jutsu. "Dog, snake, boar, rabbit, sheep!" I clapped my hands together. "Prayer jutsu!" I called out. Just like what happened over a month ago, water shot out of the stream, healing Haku. I focused and made sure every inch of him was ok. I relaxed and the water fell off of Haku. Haku looked up at me. I was panting. He smiled.

"I knew you could do it if you were pushed." He said as he stood up. Haku picked me up and threw me into the stream. I waited under water for a little bit until I was sure that my wounds were gone. I surfaced and took a breath of air. I swam to shore.

"You could have warned me before you threw me in there ya know," I said sourly. Haku laughed which made me laugh.

"Now that you know the hand signs to your jutsu you can use it whenever you want to without having to go through all that." Haku explained.

I looked at him. "It's called prayer jutsu."

Haku laughed. "That's an unusual name. Why prayer?"

"Because I want you to be healed and I prayed you were. It answers my prayer so I call it prayer jutsu."

Haku placed his hand on my head and ruffled my hair. "You should practice with that to see how well it works."

"There's something I don't get. Why do my wounds heal faster than my broken bones?" I asked Haku. Back when Haku and I were training at one point he accidentally broke my whole arm bone. I had to hold my arm under water for about an hour till it was healed completely.

"Your bones are much more complex and tougher than your skin." Haku explained.

"So if I worked do you think I could use my prayer jutsu on myself?" I questioned.

"Well yes most likely." Haku answered.

"Oh wow! I wonder just how well this will work! Like how fast can it heal broken bones if it can! Haku what if I can heal more than one person at once!" I began to yell idea after idea. Haku laughed and listened to all of my ideas. So now a couple hours a day Haku and I would spar, while we worked on our jutsu separately. I learned that I could heal broken bones and almost anything with my prayer jutsu. But I still couldn't get rid of the pain in my heart. I experimented a little bit and found out I could heal two people at once and while I used water clones I could heal much more but I did have my limit. I learned of all kinds of different jutsu I could do.

Finally I decided to go through the pack that I had. For some reason or another I had a pack with me when I first woke up. I looked through it and only found some weird devices with tiny little things. I tried biting the tiny things but they tasted bad and hurt when I bit too hard. I dug around in it and I found a small piece of paper. It had some writing on it.

'The weird looking things are called guns and the tiny things that go with it are called
bullets. Use this weapon well to kill your enemies.'

I wondered for the longest time who or what would have gave me this pack with the mysterious guns and bullets

I took it to Haku and he examined it. He concluded that the bullets went into the two guns I had. And when you squeezed the little handle thing at the bottom of it the bullets would fly out of the guns, almost as fast as Haku. With this new device, I trained with this instead of kunai. Before I actually got to work with them, Haku examined them for an entire day. He learned of every mechanism on the guns and told me what which thing did what. He even examined the bullets. He learned what they were made of and taught me how I could make the bullets in case I ever ran out, I could just make some more on my own. I learned how to aim with it and even began using it in the spar matches me and Haku had. I had gotten so well I could actually hit Haku with my guns. Of course I'd heal
him afterwards. Finally, after all those hard days of practice, I was at Haku's level and he knew this as well.

"I'm proud of you, Refi."

"You said my name," I said in disbelief.

"Well yea so?" Haku asked.

I started giggling, then laughing. Haku smiled too. "Even though you're younger than me you still are much stronger and better." I complemented.

Haku just smiled. "Haku," Zabuza called. Haku put his mask on and stood up. I looked back to see Zabuza as well. It was nearly night time Zabuza made his way over to us. "Tomorrow the bridge builder is going to arrive here and we have to put an end to him."

"You mean kill him?" I asked shocked.

Zabuza looked at me as if I just said something insulting. "Yes kid, we have to!"

I flinched. 'Haku never told me that we had to kill. . .'I looked at Haku. He was looking at Zabuza. Zabuza and Haku talked for a bit but soon came to a decision.

"Haku, you stay in the shadows tomorrow while me and her take care of them."

This shocked me and Haku. "But Zabuza why can't I be in the shadows, Haku is much better fighter than I am!"

"I know this, but I need Haku to watch the punks who are guarding the bridge builder. "Tomorrow we are purposely going to lose, but we will put up a fight," Zabuza assured.

"And you want me to observe their skills to see what they can do?" Haku asked.

Zabuza nodded. "It is your specialty isn't it Haku?"

Haku nodded. Zabuza talked to us for a couple more hours about what was going to happen tomorrow. I listen and was willing to do what Zabuza asked for Haku. "So he has Kakashi Hate as a body guard?" Haku asked. Zabuza nodded. "Kakashi Hate is a jonin level ninja, he is not to be taken lightly," Haku warned. I nodded my head in understandment. Zabuza snorted.

"But then again Haku if I finish them all off, you won't be needed for interrupting."

"I understand."

Soon the talking stopped and I was actually excited about tomorrow. It would be my first real test of being a shinobi. For the first time since I could remember being here, I felt like I was becoming more alive. All this was bringing me to life and it was all thanks to Haku.

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Ok so that's the end of this stage for now! Hope you like plz review thanks! ^^