Naruto's Plan
"Mizu bunshin Jutsu!" Zabuza shouted. A clone slowly rose out of the water. Zabuza chuckled. "You think wearing a hitai-ate makes you a ninja? When you've hovered between life and death so many times it doesn't faze you, then you may be called a ninja. When you've become so deadly your profile has been entered in my bingo book, then you may have earned the title ninja. But to call upstarts like you ninja is a joke" said the clone before disappearing. My head whipped round as the clone reappeared in front of Naruto, kicking him in the gut sending Naruto's treasured hitai-ate flying. I shot to she right, running diagonally backwards and managed to catch him. The clone stood on Naruto's headband and snorted in disgust. "You're just brats."
"Naruto!" Sakura cried. I looked down my eyes in shadow, my fists and jaw were clenched, my body rigid. I could feel rage pumping through my veins. No one and I mean NO ONE touches my friends. I eased Naruto's onto the ground. He was paralysed with fear and was shaking uncontrollably. I walked round him and stood in front of him defensively. I glared at the Mist assassin, my eyes burning with hatred.
"Listen! Get the bridge builder and run! You can't win his fight! He's using all his power to keep me in this prison but he can only fight you with his water clone so the clone can't go far from his real body so if you get away from him he can't follow! Now RUN!" Kakashi shouted desperately.
"We've got to do it!" Sasuke shouted charging at Zabuza. I raced after him, just knowing if he did this on his own he would be killed for sure. Sasuke threw shuriken at the clone. The clone easily blocked with its sword so Sasuke improvised, jumping up to attempt an attack from above.
"Too easy" the clone said catching Sasuke by the throat. My eyes widened in horror, I came to a stop my body numb. Sasuke coughed struggling to take in oxygen.
"Sas…Sasuke…!" I made a run for him, as Sasuke started looking light-headed. The clone noticed me coming threw Sasuke to the side, causing the Uchiha to fly into my stomach, winding me and knocking me off my feel. We slid back from the force of the throw. For a skinny guy… He's. Damn. Heavy!
"Sasuke-kun! Iie!" Sakura cried hysterically.
"He got Sasuke!" Naruto cried shocked, his eyes wide with terror. His rival, the perfect top rookie, had just been thrown away like a rag doll, his attacks useless. The terrified blonde boy looked at Zabuza like he was the devil. Naruto turned to run, but flinched in pain as he put his injured hand down. He looked at it, and then his eyes travelled over to his hitai-ate, still under Zabuza's foot. It was as though his head was transparent, all of his thoughts visible to me. He was remembering his vow to protect the bridge builder, not to lose to Sasuke and not to run anymore. He turned and charged at Zabuza.
"NARUTO!" I shouted worriedly. No way could Naruto take this guy on his own.
"Oro? NARUTO IIE!" Kakashi shouted.
"AAAAAH NARUTO! WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING!?" Sakura screeched her hands tangling into her hair in her stress.
Blood flew in the air as Naruto rolled back, unsettling the dust beneath him.
"What do you think your doing charging at him by yourself?! Even Sasuke-kun couldn't get to him with Kari's help! We're only genin we can't defeat a jonin! What could you have accomplished by that?!" Sakura scolded, as Naruto struggled to sit up clutching his hitai-ate in his right hand.
I noticed his legs were shaky, so I ran over to support him; he leaned on me slightly, panting. I was alarmed to see blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. I felt something stir in the pit of my stomach and suddenly my chest felt uncomfortably tight. My head pounded and my eyes stung, but not from tears, it was the iris and pupil. I glared enraged at Zabuza wanting to run at him and tear him limb from limb. I felt tingles running through my body, especially down my spine. Zabuza's eyes widened.
"Hey you! The freak with no eyebrows!" Zabuza's attention switched from me to Naruto, the shocked look so fleeting I believed it was my imagination. "Put this in your bingo book, the ninja who will become Hokage of the Konohagakure no Sato! And the kunoichi that will become the greatest in the whole entire world! We never back down Uzumaki Naruto and Mitsukai Hikari!!" Naruto cried pointing at Zabuza with a triumphant grin on his face.
Didn't Mitsukai mean angel? Aww Naruto's so sweet!
Wait, Kazari, Kari, Hikari... Why am I being renamed so much?
"Listen up, Sasuke, Kari-chan can you hear me?" Naruto said.
"Yeah I hear you" we replied in unison.
"I gotta plan" Naruto said with a grin.
"Hn… finally thinking about teamwork huh?" Sasuke said smirking. Must he be so obnoxious when Naruto's on a roll? Well I guess he's being nicer than usual.
"All right guys, Lets go wild!!" Naruto cried. I smirked.
"I hear ya bro" I said.
"Okay ready? Let's bring this guy down" Naruto said.
"Big words for such a little man, you think your plans gonna keep you in the game?" Zabuza said chuckling mockingly.
"What are you doing I told you to run! This fight was over the moment I got caught, now take off! Your mission is not to prove how brave you are! It's to save the bridge builder! Stay on mission!" Kakashi shouted.
"Bridge builder?" Naruto asked looking round at the client.
"Tazuna-san?" I said softly.
"Well I... I guess this all happened because of me, because of my desire to live. But I wont let that stand in your way now, forget about me and do what you have to do! Go ahead and fight to save your sensei!" Tazuna cried.
"Hn. All right you hear that?" Sasuke asked.
"Loud and clear!" I said.
"Yosh! Dattebayo! You ready?" Naruto asked. Zabuza laughed.
"You really haven't learned anything have you?" said Zabuza. "Still playing your little game pretending to be ninja, when I was your age, this hand had already crushed many opponents" I sensed my team mates shock and fear.
He'd already killed when he was just twelve?!
"Zabuza, youkai no kiri" Kakashi said. Demon of the mist…
"Oh, so I was in your book too huh?" said the real Zabuza, the one still holding Kakashi captive.
"Long ago in the Kirigakure no sato, also known as 'Bloody Mist Village' then, before a student could become a ninja there was one final test" explained Kakashi.
"Hm? Do you know about the graduation exam?" the real Zabuza asked curiously.
"What graduation exam?" Naruto asked. Zabuza's clone laughed. "What's the big deal anyway? We had graduation tests too!"
"Did you have to kill the other students to pass?" Zabuza's clone asked. My eyes widened. "Can you imagine ninja like you eating together, training together and then comes the final exam, only they change the rules, either kill or be killed, you can't stop while your opponent still breathes. He was your friend, shared your dreams... Now its him or you..."
"That's so cruel!" Sakura cried in horror. Its like asking me to kill Naruto, I've only known him a week or two, but if I'd known him for years… I wouldn't be able to do it… I just… couldn't…
"Ten years ago in Kirigakure no sato, the graduation exam... changed. One year before, a dark evil had filled the school with terror" said Kakashi darkly.
"What's he saying? What kind of evil? What change? What caused the terror?" Sakura asked apprehensively, not sure whether she wanted to know, but desperate to understand.
"Without hesitation, a young boy who was not even a ninja, approached the class and took down over a hundred other students" said Kakashi.
"It... It felt so... GOOD!" cried Zabuza's clone. I was frozen in horror... How could he?
He came forward and elbowed Sasuke sending the unsuspecting Uchiha flying. He then swung the sword at Naruto. I came to my senses and pushed him out of the way and was slashed on the side of my leg, knee to ankle.
"K-Kari-chan! You're hurt!" Naruto cried, glancing at the blood oozing from the slash in my skin. I flinched as I put weight on it falling to one knee. I hissed swear words under my breath as my fist clenched. I wasn't used to such pain... from the corner of my eye I saw Zabuza go for Sasuke again. The jonin elbowed the raven haired genin as hard as he could causing the boy to cy out in pain as he threw up blood.
"SASUKE-KUN!" Sakura screamed. I raced towards them, the pain in my leg numbed by my anxiety. Zabuza stamped on Sasuke's stomach and I heard one of his ribs crack. I flew into Zabuza, putting all my strength into my good leg as I kicked him in the gut, knocking him off Sasuke. It was only because he didn't expect my attack that it was successful. Zabuza had thought I was down, unable to fight and knew Naruto and Sakura were too scared to come at him so rashly. My injured leg screamed silently in pain as the Uchiha breathed a raspy sigh of relief, allowing oxygen to finally return to his lungs.
"Foolish..." Zabuza whispered turning and kneeing me in the stomach. I felt liquid rush up my throat and blood spilled from my mouth. "So you want to die instead huh?!" Zabuza cried kicking me to the floor and stamping on me as hard as he could. Blood ran from my mouth as I heard multiple ribs shattering underneath his bulky weight. I had never felt so much pain. But I couldn't scream or cry. I wanted to... I wanted to so badly... but I couldn't. A part of me refused, it padlocked my voice box and dried out my tear ducts. "One with a little resistance huh? I'll make you scream girl..." He stamped on me again even harder, the ground cracking beneath me from the force.
"KARI-CHAN!!" Naruto screamed, I hadn't made a sound but my facial expression showed my pain. My eyes were always clear windows to my soul. "STOP RIGHT THERE! YOU GET THE HELL AWAY FROM MY FRIEND! KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" he shouted. Multiple Naruto's appeared. They all raised their kunai's.
"Here we go!" they cried. Zabuza snorted as he got off me and faced Naruto. Sasuke struggled to get up. I couldn't even try. It was as though a hundred needles had pierced my lungs... It was almost impossible to breathe... All the Naruto's pounced on Zabuza in a dome shape. Zabuza sent them all flying. Sakura gasped, unshed tears glistening in her green eyes at the sight of her slowly falling comrades.
"His skill are too advanced, he's too powerful there's no way to defeat him!" Tazuna cried. I managed to struggle to stand but fell to on knee holding my side. The harder I tried the less my pain seemed to be. If I focus on that… All the Naruto clones were thrown away disappearing in a poof of smoke in various places. Naruto reached into his bag.
"SASUKE!" Naruto shouted throwing Sasuke a large folded shuriken. I could sense Naruto, not a shuriken. Did Naruto? AWESOME PLAN!
"Akumafuushuriken! Kazagurumano no kage!" Sasuke cried, opening the shuriken and giving it a fancy name. Demon… wind… shuriken… windmill of shadows?
"Shuriken? You could never touch me with that" Zabuza sneered. I rushed at the clone to distract him. The pain had seemed to numb thankfully. Sasuke threw the shuriken and it went straight past the clone. "Hm?" the clone cried in surprise, turning to see where the shuriken had gone. I plunged a kunai into the distracted clone. Water leaked out and it disappeared, completely soaking me.
"So you sent the girl at the clone to direct my attention to it, then passed the clone and aimed for my real body? Smart, but not smart enough" he said catching the shuriken. "Oro?!" Zabuza cried as another shuriken came towards him. "A second shuriken hidden in the shadow of the first? Shadow shuriken jutsu!" Zabuza jumped and the shuriken flew underneath him. "I told you a shuriken can't touch me!" Zabuza cried. The shuriken poofed into Naruto. "NANI?!" Zabuza cried.
"Eat this!" Naruto cried throwing a kunai at him.
Zabuza was forced to drag his arm out of the water prison to avoid the kunai. He barely dodged and blood flew from the cut on his cheek. He spun the shuriken he had caught and turned to strike Naruto.
"I'll destroy you!" Zabuza cried his eyes widened giving him a look of insanity. I tried to shout Naruto's name but a searing pain went through my chest as some blood leaked from my mouth.
Blood flew in the air.
Kakashi had blocked with his hand. Pushing Naruto into the safety of the water.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura cried in relief.
"Naruto, that was an excellent plan, you've really grown haven't you?" said Kakashi. Naruto laughed.
"I knew I couldn't beat him with my shadow clones, that was just to distract him while he fought the clones, I transformed into the demon wind shuriken, and he didn't know what to do dattebayo! I used one of the clones to transform into the shuriken and when I threw it to Sasuke it looked like a REAL shuriken! Sasuke could tell it was me in a second and somehow so could Kari. She charged at the clone drawing Zabuza's attention to the clone thinking we were going to attack it. This also gave Sasuke enough time to turn around and pull out his own shuriken. Now there were two shuriken, one was real and one was me! I hid in the shadow of the real shuriken and my target was the real Zabuza. Of course I knew I couldn't fight Zabuza myself, that wasn't in the game plan I just wanted to get in there and break up his water prison, I didn't know his clone would get destroyed by Kari too, that was a bonus! Dattebayo!" Naruto cried.
Speech much? Well it was super smart of him and I feel like a proud mother.
"Don't brag you just lucked out" said Sasuke smirking as he helped me stand. Way to go Sasuke destroy Naruto's moment why don't you.
"YOU MEAN THE WHOLE THING WAS JUST A FLUKE!" Tazuna shouted.
"Hey, what the hell does 'Dattebayo' mean?" I asked confused, wondering what Naruto had been saying in almost every sentence.
"It doesn't mean anything, Naruto made it up when he was a kid. It's just a word he thinks makes himself sound powerful and intelligent when it really makes him sound childish and dim witted."
God bless little Naruto