Naruto gagged and choked as he found himself pinned up against a tree by a sword easily taller than him, he thanked his lucky stars that the sword had a small half circle carved into the blade, other wise he'd find himself one head short. It had all happened so quickly the sound of a tree branch snapping, a small grunt of exertion, and then a distinct whooping sound as the blade spun its way towards him. Then a voice came, it was like a low growl the kind bears make before they attack. "That tree is denser than I expected." The sword vibrated and Naruto now found a man standing on it, though he could only catch a glimpse of his thigh muscles bulging beneath his slacks. "Doesn't' matter." Naruto could hear a knife unsheathing. "You're dead one way or another." The sleepy forest was awakened by two explosions ripping through the trunk of the tree. "Ragh!" The assailant disappeared along with his massive sword into the mist of the forest.

"Everyone check the perimeters." Saskue Shouted reloading his gun. From the depths of the forest a large mangled ball of wires, firing mechanisms, knifes, flares, bells, and whistles was flung into the camp.

"What's that?" Sakura asked unzipping a duffle bag.

The assailant chuckled from the mist. "The Perimeter."

"I see." Sakura announced pulling out an Mp5 submachine gun out of her duffle bag. She slung the strap over her shoulder, slammed in a magazine, and scanned the forest.

"What the fuck Sakura!" Naruto shouted secretly comparing his dinky pistol to Sakura's new weapon.

"What? My mom bought it for me as a graduation present. Didn't your parents get you guys anything?"

"We don't have parents." Naruto and Saskue mumbled together. (Orphan club.)

"Now we all feel awkward." The assailant said with amusement.

Sakura jerked seventy-two degrees to her left and opened fire. The sound of metal on metal greeted their ears.

"Got ya!" Naruto shouted, tossing one of the grenades he'd made hours before into the forest. The camp was sprayed with splinters as the surrounding trees where blown to shreds. Naruto plucked a Splinter from his cheek. "Did I get him?"

Sakura shook her head. "No he moved just before the explosion. I've lost track of him now." He stomach churned as he felt five strong fingers grip the top of her head and lift her into the air.

For the first time all of them (except for Sakura) got a good luck at the assassin. He was tall and muscular his face was covered in surgical wrappings. Naruto noticed with a bit of amusement that just above his cold eyes where a pair of smoldering eyebrows burnt off my Naruto's earlier explosion.

Sakura flopped like a fish in the man's vice grip. "I can see that as long as you live you're going to be a problem for me." Naruto began to charge. The man pressed harder against Sakura's skull causing her to scream. "One more step, and I'll break her open like an egg." Naruto screeched to a stop. "Hey kid." He pointed towards Saskue. "Kill Tazuna, and I'll let her go." Saskue looked nervously from Tazuna to Sakura. "Now!"

"So long as I'm alive I won't let you harm my students." From the brush Kakashi speed towards the man, burying his glowing white knife deep into the man's back.

"I was wondering where you'd gone." Saskue said visibly relieved.

The man laughed. "Kidney." He said slowly. "One of my favorites." Slowly he started to melt losing form and shape and spilling out over the camp darkening the dirt and putting out the camp fire. "Kidneys, heart, lungs, liver, jugular, subclavian artery, larynx, spine all ways I can kill you, cut you, stab you, crush you, tare you!" You could hear how he relished the thought in his voice.

"Zabuza Monochi." Kakashi announced scanning the tree line. "Rouge ninja from the hidden mist, former leader of the infamous assassination corps. It looks like I'm going to have to use this." He slid his headband that usually covered his left eye up to his forehead. His left eye had a long vertical scar over it. When he opened his eye Naruto was taken aback, it was completely red other than the strange black pattern that covered it.

"So it's true. Kakashi with the Sharingan eye."

"That's impossible; The Sharingan only appears in members of the Uchiha clan, my clan."

"What does that mean? What's the Sharingan?" Naruto asked feeling frustrated with being out of the loop.

Zabuza answered his question. "The owner of the Sharigan can see a weapon or fighting style and instantly understand how it works, and how to disarm it."

"That's amazing." Sakura whispered.

"They call Kakashi, the man who copied a thousand jutsu, the copy cat ninja."

Naruto look at his teacher amazed. "I had no idea you were such a big deal."

You could see the edge of his eyes crinkle into a smile. "I'm not one for bragging." He turned his attention to Zabuza now, or at least the idea of him, since he was hidden at the moment in the surrounding tree line beneath a thick blanket of mist. "It's time to get serious." He opened one of the scroll pockets on his flak jacket and pulled out a square piece of paper, he mumbled a few words to it and threw it to the ground. Instantly the mist lifted and the morning sun could finally be seen through the trees.

"Not bad." His large sword came swirling from the bushes, Kakashi easily ducked under it, just as Zabuza had expected. With Kakashi out of the way the sword continued it's journey towards the bridge builders. Sakura managed to tackle Tanzino to the ground just in time. Zabuza burst from the other side of the camp. He grabbed his whirling blade in mid air and spun his body fiercely. Were it not for Saskue's serrated bayonet, it would have been mission failed.

Tonzino back up slowly, never taking his eyes off of Zabuza.

Tears of pain filled Saskue's eye. Though his knife was larger than standard issue it was still a minnow compared to Zabuza's blade. He was sure he'd broken his wrist just blocking the attack, there was no way he would be able to engage in a knife fight with this monster.

Naruto knew it too. He took the vile of poison that he had his knife soaking in. He uncorked it and poured it out onto his had. He leapt at Zabuza his dripping knife aimed right at the jugular.

Still engaged with Saskue Zabuza dropped his blade surprising Saskue. With his opponent off guard Zabuza back handed Saskue sending him flying into a tree. Naruto unable to course correct in the middle of the air ended up flying right into Zabuza's Hand. Zabuza laughed as he began to crush Naruto's neck

Naruto gasped and wheezed felling the dark tentacles of unconsciousness approach him, and Zabuza slowly strangled him to death. "Kakashi you must stop your students from getting captured." Zabuza laughed. "This one has quite the pension for it."

Naruto had all he could take; with all the might he could muster he brought his knees up slamming them with all his might into Zabuza's jaw. With his neck released, Naruto leapt at Zabuza's arm. He'd realized he dropped his knife at some point in his strangulation. But that didn't matter. Naruto grabbed onto Zabuza with everything he hand and bit down into this bicep as hard as he could. He felt the iron taste of blood fill his mouth. He felt Zabuza grab him by the waist beginning to rip him off of his arm. With all of his might Naruto slammed his poison covered fingers into the open wound.

Zabuza Roared furiously. He slammed Naruto into the ground and field punted him into Kakashi.

They tumbled on the ground together for a moment. Uncontrollably Naruto Coughed a little blood onto Kakashi's face. "I'm sorry Kakashi." Naruto wheezed.

"You did fine Naruto, leave to rest to me." Kakashi staggered to his feet. "That Arm of yours makes you a ticking time bomb now."

Zabuza chuckled to himself. "Do you really think the men working for me would have a poison that I don't have the antidote for? Come now Kakashi."

"I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything less from you."

"That does however mean that I'm going to have to get to the antidote in time." Zabuza set his sword into the tree next to him, and pulled out for the first time pulled out the Shotgun strapped to his back. He loaded three water style shells into the barrel and cocked the gun. "Shotgun style: Water dragon blast." He pulled the trigger and from the barrel of the gun shot a massive stream of water in the shape of a dragon. The dragon roared and flew towards Kakashi, while Zabuza stood there and watched unmoved by the kickback that would have crippled lesser men.

Kakashi was unfazed; he smiled finally in his element. He charged Zabuza taking into the account the turning capabilities of the dragon; he was able to narrowly sidestep it. He could hear it in his ear make sounds like a rushing river.

"Damb your eyes!" Zabuza shouted staring into Kakashi one red eye. He cocked his gun again firing off a second Dragon.

Smoother than silk Kakashi tweaked his head just so. The dragon rushed on by a hair length away from his skin. It was over Kakashi was with in range now. He started with Zabuza's gun, He taped it twice, poked it in just the right place once, and punched it in the stock, before Zabuza slammed his foot into his chest and pinned him on the ground.

Zabuza cringed as a wave of pain pulsed through his poisoned arm. He looked down at Kakashi who still looked at him with that smug look in his eyes, his eye, that cursed Sharingan burrowing into his brain, even with he had a shotgun pointed at his face he was still so smug and sure. Well you can't be smug with out a head. He cocked his Shotgun one last time, slowly and deliberately letting all of his helpless little pupils witness the death of their sensei.

Zabuza pulled the trigger. The entire weapon fell apart in his hands like nothing was holding it together at all, it all just crumbled. In this moment of surprise Zabuza let up his hold on Kakashi, who monopolized on the situation. He dug his White blade into Zabuza's shoulder.

Zabuza stumbled backwards he looked for his Sword still impaling a tree but it was no where to be seen. He grunted in frustration, feeling fully the part of the helpless giant being killed by bug bites. He curled his fist up in rage. He didn't need weapons, he was a weapon! His training had made sure of that, he could still fight he could still kill. One punch that's all it would take, to kill Kakashi. He knew, he'd done it before, dozens of times in his youth, when cutting the throat got stale, when he felt the kill needed a more personal touch. Two Seconds is all it would take. One second to look at Kakashi, and to drive his fist into his still pulsing brain.

One second is all it look. Zabuza looked straight into Kakashi's eyes. Hypnotized by the Twirling iris of the Sharingan he wasn't able to lift a finger against Kakashi. "As soon as you set down your sword this battle was lost." Kakashi said sternly. Zabuza opened his mouth to speak, but only a quick gasp escaped.

Kakashi jumped back. One large medical syringe stuck out of Zabuza's neck, he dropped to the ground dead. "Sorry to take that away from you." Called a sweet voice. Up in the tree tops stood a woman whose face was hidden behind a mask. "But I've been chasing that man from some time."

Kakashi put his white blade into its holder. "It's no problem at all." He eyed the woman who he just realized was actually a boy curiously. "What was in that Syringe?"

"Air." The boy said appearing right next to him. A drop of nervous sweat trickled down kakashi's brow; he was fast, and quite. The boy followed the bead of sweat from behind his mask until it was absorbed by the cloth covering Kakashi's mouth. "An air bubble in the jugular goes to the brain and kills the person almost instantly. He chuckled. "Almost Ironic with out air your brain eyes, but too much is lethal."

"Hey!" Shouted Naruto getting to his feet with all of the energy he had left. "Where do you think you get off just swooping in here and killing him like that? What gives you the right?"

Kakashi sighed. "Well to be honest that was a bit of a kill steal."

"I've following this man for most of my life, if anyone has a right to his life it's me."

Naruto growled angrily. "But he's not much older than me, how can he take down Zabuza with so little effort. Zabuza had us all on the ropes and you take him down like he's nothing."

The boy made a mist. "He's not nothing." He said it with a suprising amount of emotion.

"Naruto stop it." Kakashi ordered. "There are people that are younger than you, but much stronger than me, it's just the way the world is." He turned to face the boy. "Listen I…" But he was gone, Zabuza, sword, and all."

Tazuna laughed happily. "Great work! I think we're out of the woods now! You guys did it"

Kakashi examined where Zabuza had been laying. "I'm not sure we have."

"What do you mean!" Everyone chorused panicked.

Xxx Author time! xxX

Hey ery body! So sorry for my M.I.A! I always meant to continue this but you know how it goes. I want to thank all the wonderful people who favorited this story! When I saw the people where still liking it even after I stopped posting I knew that I had a responsibility to all the people that where supporting me, so thank you all!

To anyone thinking there's been too much fighting in the last few chapters don't worry next chapter will have plenty to nonviolent character interaction!

As for when it will come out. _ hopefully not too long. But I'm writing a few different stories at the moment, so who knows.

Thanks for reading and I'll see you all next time!