Chapter 14

Team Zabuza

The three young preteens all dropped in a ready stance. Haku held 3 senbon needles in each hand while Fu made her water swords and Naruto simply placed his hand on his. Each looked at the other in the corner of their eyes before Haku and Fu's eyes stopped on Naruto. Giving a slight nod, Naruto dug his back foot slightly in the ground before taking off at mid-chunin speed and unsheathing his blade.

"One-slash!" he shouted mid-swing.

Only to be forced to stop in the face of Zabuza's Executioner Blade.

"OW!" he cried as he hit his head on the large blade. "Not cool Zabuza! That hurt"

"Good. Maybe that will knock you out of your childish tenancies. You are to be fighting as if you're facing an opponent that can kill you. Acting like a child will get you killed. Time to be serious and act the ninja you are trying to be." Zabuza reprimanded seriously.

Haku and Fu were shocked. This wasn't the same kind person who took them. No. this was the Jonin and one of the seven legendary swordsman of the hidden Mist. Haku recovered first, his face hardening slightly as he unclipped his mask and placed it on his face.

Naruto looked up. His face turning from that of a child to that of a man who has faced many battles. It was this that reminded the other two preteens that he had also fought many battles. It was this that reminded them that he had been an experiment under the snake sannin.

"No child should have that face" Zabuza internally frowned.

"I understand" was all Naruto said before he dispersed into smoke, temporarily removing Zabuza's vision.

"Now!" Naruto shouted from the trees.

Haku snapped out of his surprise at the clone and started throwing senbon after senbon into the smoke.

"You would do well to remember that I am the master of the silent killing. Removing my sight will not hinder me in the slightest" Zabuza said as many clanks were heard as the senbon impacted against his massive blade.

The smoke cleared to reveal senbon lying all around Zabuza who was standing there without a single mark on him.

"If seeing dark does nothing to you, how about flashing colors? Hidden jutsu: scale powder!" Fu shouted while releasing some powder that caught the light from the sun and reflected it in Zabuza's eyes, again blinding him.

"Ice style: coming of winter" Haku muttered as frost started creeping towards Zabuza.

Zabuza prepared to jump away from the blinding powder but was unable to as he slipped from the frost that had solidified into a thin layer of ice.

The Jonin couldn't contain his surprise and opened his eyes wide. The powder reflected a large amount of light into his eyes and stunning him again. His brain focused on the damage to his eyes and he barely registered his other senses.

Seeing Zabuza stunned, Haku continued pressing. "Ice style: ice spikes" he said as he caused the existing ice below Zabuza to shoot up and impaling him.

"Did we get him?" Fu asked, letting her guard down slightly.

"No, it won't be that easy" Naruto said as he tensed even more.

True to Naruto's words, the Zabuza Haku impaled turned into water.

"Hidden mist jutsu" Zabuza's voice called from around them.

Haku and Naruto tensed before relaxing and focusing their senses while Fu looked around, not sure what to do.

Realizing that Fu hadn't been trained in the silent killing, Naruto created a clone with double the usual chakra. "Protect her" he commanded.

The clone nodded and ran off to follow his orders.

The training ground was silent for another moment before a leaf rustled.

"There!" both Naruto and Haku thought at the same time.

"Water style: Glimmering water chains" Naruto shouted as he created chains from Haku's melted jutsus and sending them towards where he heard the sound.

"Water style: a thousand needles of death!" Haku followed by sending a hail of water needles.

Both were then hit from behind by clones of Zabuza. "Don't announce your position to your enemy if you don't have to" they said at the same time.

Haku groaned, "We may be decent with the silent killing, but Zabuza's on a whole different level."

"Yeah, this mist has got to go" Naruto agreed.

"Time to step it up, now it's a ninjutsu battle." Zabuza called. "Water style, water dragon jutsu" his voice echoing and stopping them from pinpointing where the dragon would be coming from.

"Water style: water wall!" Naruto called as he put more chakra than usual to withstand the A-rank ninjutsu.

Though he severely underestimated how much he put in. the water wall grew to double its usual size and its rotation spun twice as fast. Instead of impacting against the water wall, the water dragon was actually absorbed! Due to its rotation, it also started creating a vacuum that pulled all the mist into it and dispelling the jutsu.

"Totally called it. A water wall strong enough to create a suction that sucks in my mist. And at his age no less" Zabuza thought to himself.

Naruto dropped his water wall and was dropped to his knees panting while Haku and Fu looked at him in amazement.

"That was so cool Naruto!" Fu shouted.

"I admit, that was a good idea, but now you are left with much less chakra than before. Even a chakra house like you won't be able to use that much chakra without severely draining yourself" Zabuza analyzed.

"Dammit, he's right." Naruto thought as he snaked a hand to his pouch. Grabbing a chakra pill, he swallowed it before standing up again. "This won't last very long. We must finish this fight quickly." He said. "Fu, distract him, I have an idea." Naruto called.

"Right" she shouted back as she launched herself towards Zabuza ready to engage in a kenjutsu battle. Usually fighting a larger and more experienced opponent in a kenjutsu battle would be a bad idea, but her small body allowed for more speed and she managed to dodge Zabuza's large swings and dance around him.

"Haku, can you carry people with you in your mirrors?" Naruto whispered.

Haku thought for a second before nodding, "I can, though it will be much more chakra taxing to move them, and there is a chance they will get hypothermia."

"What if you created the mirrors and I move between them with my chains and clones?" Naruto suggested.

Haku's eyes widened as he caught on what Naruto was planning. "That could work, but you must do it quickly. I will be able to keep the mirrors up at 30 seconds at most"

Naruto nodded, "alright, you prepare that. I'll back up Fu for now." he said as he ran off to support his fellow Jinchuriki.

He arrived just in time to stop Fu from getting a kick. Using Zabuza's distracted state, she weaved a few hand signs to try and bind him. "Hidden jutsu: net shaped prison" she said as she spat out multiple green webs.

Though she failed to fully trap him, she managed to get his sword stuck to the ground and covered one of his hands- preventing him from creating anymore hand signs.

The jonin was forced to leave his sword when he saw Naruto and many of his clones charging at him with their swords drawn. He jumped back and landed in the middle of the clearing- straight into Haku's trap.

"Ice style: demonic mirroring ice crystals" Haku called from the trees. At once, the water left from Naruto's water wall rose up and created a dome made of mirrors. Naruto stepped in the one closest to him while his clones followed suit in the other mirrors, leaving the one on top for Haku to run distraction.

"Haku wasn't kidding when he said the there is a chance I would get hypothermia. This is cold! How does he stay here for so long?" Naruto wondered as he shivered slightly.

"Water style: glimmering water chains" Naruto muttered as a chain made of water came out of his sleeves and wrapping around his arm. Naruto and his clones then proceeded to dash out of the mirrors with their chains trailing behind them at random intervals. Each would dash out, cross Zabuza and disappear back into the closest empty mirror before he could react. Occasionally giving him a punch just to be sure he didn't escape and whenever he tried to move, Haku threw some senbons to force him back.

Soon enough, chains were all around Zabuza leaving him no space to move. The clones and original all pulled on their respective chains and tightening the chains that wrapped around Zabuza before stepping out of the mirrors to allow Haku to dispel it.

Fu came up to Zabuza and held her water swords crossed at Zabuza's throat, signifying the match to be over.

"Good work. You three showed decent teamwork for kids who only met around a week ago. Naruto, you created a clone to protect Fu, knowing that she is at much more of a disadvantage in my mist and even created a strong enough water wall to suck up my mist. Very few ninja can accomplish such a feat. Fu, you kept my attention on you and brought enough time for Naruto and Haku to create a decent strategy to immobilize me and your accuracy with that net shaped prison was spot on. Though you didn't fully immobilize me, you still managed to take my kenjutsu, ninjutsu and partially taijutsu out of play. Haku, your ice jutsus are improving. Sneaking your ice below me without me noticing until it was too late, and even allowing Naruto and his clones to use your ice mirrors to trap me. All three of you are worthy shinobi in my books" Zabuza praised. Causing them to blush.

"and as of today, I am your sensei, and you are team Zabuza." Zabuza announced proudly.

Naruto dropped his chains in shock and Haku sighed happily before dropping from chakra exhaustion. A nearby clone caught him before he could hit the ground.

"You guys did well. Rest for now. I will talk to you again when Haku wakes up." Zabuza told them before leaving.

Naruto and Fu sighed before sitting down themselves.

Naruto noticed Fu looking a little down and asked what was wrong. "Why do you look so down? We are now team Zabuza! This is a happy occasion!"

"It's just that you and Haku both did so much. I barely did anything at all." She sighed.

"Of course you did! You brought me and Haku time to plan and even took away his sword and the ability to wield hand signs! If you didn't, the fight would have been much harder to win!" he encouraged.

"Yeah, but that's all I did! You took away the mist, had to protect me, and trapped Zabuza with Haku alone! I didn't do anything!" she argued.

"That's because most of your jutsu are supports. We have more offensive jutsu that work against him." Naruto consoled her. "And if you think that isn't enough, then all the more reason to train harder!"

Fu's eyes lightened a little. "Yeah! I will train harder until I surpass both of you!" she said with determination.

"That's the spirit!" Naruto cheered. "Though I think that will have to wait a while. I seem to be having trouble getting up" he sweat dropped.

Fu laughed a little before creating 4 clones. "2 for each of you" she said.

"Oi! I'm not fat!" Naruto protested.

The clone closest to him poked him in the chest "hmm I don't know" she said before turning around again to hide her blush from when she felt his muscles.

Fu and her clones carried the downed boys through town and to the hotel. A peculiar sight for all who saw them.

AN: aaand done. Phew this was a long chapter (for me anyways). If you don't know from my facebook account yet, the prologue and chapters 1-6 and 13 are now edited thanks to Jman22056

Reviews:

Zeus501: I suppose you do have a point, more stories read = more stories given up on. As for the public reviews, yeah this is my pride and joy (lol) at the moment. So I'm pulling all the stops. The bigger authors probably don't respond because they have reviews in the 10 000s and answering it would be such a drag xD. As for the elements, I suppose I might give him a second affinity later on, but water will remain the only primary (from what I have planned), so no ice jutsus for him (unless he does what those shinobi in the snow/spring country did with manipulating the water inside)

EmeraldFox57: thanks, I would like to think that my idea is completely (well 95%) original. Anyways, here's that update

AmbertheCat: glad to see you enjoying it. and yes, team 7 will show up in a few chapters (like 2 or 3)