~!~ Here's the second part xD Sorry! the last one was getting a bit long so I decided to make this one into two parts lol. ok here it is! ~!~
~Sasuke~
This guy, Nema. He was willing to kill his own team-mate, just to protect the mission.
'But he said 'we', and Haku said three guardians. Is it possible-'
I looked over to Kakashi-Sensei, 'Is he the girls guardian aswell?' but that scream...
"That scream, that was Sakura, what's happened to her, where's Kakashi?" I said, looking toward the edges of the mirrors. The fog from Zabuza's mist jutsu was too thick for me to see them.
'This is bad.'
"Sakura she's in trouble" Naruto said as he stood up once again.
"We've got to break through." I replied. I looked over to Nema who was staring at Haku, who was standing in the mirror with the girl again. He was fighting to not show any emotions.
"I'll bust us out of here." Naruto's words brought me out of my thoughts.
"Naruto..."
"I'll fake him out.."
"You've exhausted my patience" Haku announced as he pulled out more senbons.
I watched as Naruto focused the chakra to his feet, to make him run faster. As he reached the edges of the mirrors, Haku was right behind him.
"Naruto behind you!"
I tried to warn him, but he was thrown back too fast, the chakra didn't help at all.
"Naruto!"
"Your chance of escaping my house of mirrors, is zero. That is absolute."
I walked to Naruto's side to try and get his attention.
"Naruto are you able to get up, try not to use any more chakra that's only going to help him now."
"I know Sasuke I know."
"My eyes have adjusted to his movements"
Nema ran back to join us in the center as Haku raised his hand to throw more senbons. I looked over to him momentarily.
"I'll help you, but only if we get her out. I don't want to have to keep my promise to her."
"You mean that..."
Haku threw his senbons at us at that moment, but I could see them all. I grabbed onto one and used it to block the others. When they stopped suddenly I looked to the mirror to see that cause of it. The girl was using her knife to cut at the mirror. She was determined and persistent.
"What!?" Haku said as he turned to the girl trapped in the mirror.
"Don't let that look in her eye fool you. She's scared right now. If I know my best friend at all, she's thinking that her attempt will be enough of a distraction that you guys can escape." Nema said.
"You guys?" I repeated.
"I have a job to do, when he takes off with her, I've got to-" He trailed off.
"Kill her?" I finished, when he stiffened at the words, I knew I'd been right. He chuckled lightly.
"She's a weird one...She wouldn't eat until Kalen and I promised that to her. She went two weeks before I got Kalen to believe she was serious."
"Why would she be so stupid?"
"She doesn't want anyone hurt. She's...special, if the wrong people get ahold of her, it could mean trouble."
'Special?' I glanced over to her to see Haku found a way to keep her from interfering again, he used his ice to keep her hands bound. I looked down to Naruto, who was still on the ground.
"Get up loser we've got to team up."
"I know what we have to do believe it Sasuke"
~Alai~
The distraction was basically useless. The boys stayed in the mirrors, instead of escaping like I hoped they would do. I knew Nema would stay but Sasuke and Naruto should have gotten out.
'His eyes though...'
Sasuke didn't have the Sharingan, yet he could follow Haku's movements, it was amazing. What was even better was that it surprised Haku!
"He's fighting to protect Naruto, that's why he's so determined. You've lost Haku" I boasted
"That's impossible."
Haku vanished from his place beside me, Sasuke's eyes widened in the realization as Nema tried to get Naruto back up, who collapsed back to the ground.
"He disappeared, where'd he go? He couldn't have just vanished, Naruto you'd better not pass out again, come on lets go we can't keep protecting you like this!"
"Well then don't I never asked for your help"
"You can't revive him, he's reached his limits." Haku said, trying to convince Nema to stop supporting Naruto's weight.
Sasuke blocked more senbon as they approached, he was determined to keep Naruto safe. It made me happy to see that he was making friends with his team-mate.
"Impressive, you have excellent moves your attacks are very skillful, but you've reached your limits as well. Motor functions, reflexes, judgement, your abilities are weakening slowly but surely. Now your finished."
~Sasuke~
Haku threw more senbons, hoping that I would stop blocking them. Now that I've adjusted to his speed, I could block them with ease. That Nema guy needed to get Naruto to stay on his feet before I run out of energy.
"Stay calm, focus"
He disappeared again, but this time when he appeared, I knew what he was doing. I became confident as I gazed upon Haku and his jutsu with my newly obtained Sharingan.
~Alai~
"The Sharingan." I heard Haku gasp as he appeared back in my mirror.
'Guess he didn't know Sasuke's last name.' I smirked.
"Your..."
"That's right Haku. He is the only one to survive the massacre on that night. I'd like you meet Sasuke Uchiha. You can let me go now."
"I don't think so."
"Can you at least get rid of this ice around my hands? I won't beat on your precious mirrors again."
"You broke through those binds a few moments after I did that, waiting for the right moment to surprise me."
"Boo! Are ya surprised?."
"No."
"Couldn't even play along could you? Meanie."
"I apologize, now do me a favor and remain quiet please."
"Do me a favor and leave my friends alone, then maybe I'll be quiet." I smiled at my own remark. but he countered.
"Tell your friends to stop trying to save you and I'll leave them alone."
"...Fair enough. But I kinda like that their trying to save me."
Haku ignored our conversation to aim at Sasuke again, except this time, he changed his target, to Naruto and Nema. I called out, "NEMA, MOVE NARUTO NOW!"
Sasuke acted as soon as he heard what I had to say. He ran in front of Nema and Naruto and when Haku was just about to reach them, Sasuke grabbed Haku's arms and threw him back into the mirror. But Haku stuck Sasuke in a vital spot with a senbon. Haku's move was exactly what I'd feared.
It was a trap.
Nema had managed to drag Naruto over a few feet, but Naruto began to pull himself up to see what Sasuke had done. Although I knew the blonde and my best friend hadn't realized exactly what just happened. All they saw was that Sasuke managed to toss Haku.
"You always, get in the way Naruto, it never fails."
"You beat him Sasuke!"
It was just then that I knew Naruto realized what he did. As he realized it, his eyes grew in size. Nema looked up as well, seeing the needles that were placed all over his body.
~Sasuke~
"You should see the look on your face, you look like a total loser."
"Why, why did you? save me, why did you do it?"
"I don't know why, I just did.."
I laughed at this situation, I was actually dying. I couldn't believe it.
"You, I hated...you"
"Then why? it doesn't make any sense, why did you protect me!?"
I looked over to the girl in the mirror, she had tears in her eyes. 'So she knows it too.' I looked to Nema to see he had gone over to Haku's body, which was still on the ground.
"I didn't ask for this, I didn't ask for you to save me."
Naruto's voice brought me back to look at him. 'At least he's not that stupid.'
"I don't know, my body just moved, there was no time to think."
My body finally gave out at that moment, the abuse from the battle finally becoming too much to handle.
"Loser..."
Naruto caught me before I hit the ground, this was someone who I can consider my friend. Something I thought I never would have had. Something I never thought I would want, or need.
"Sasuke!" Naruto shouted.
I looked over to Nema, someone who we had just met, I knew I couldn't keep my promise to him now. "I can't help you save her. I'm sorry." I muttered as I shifted my gaze to the girl, she only just met me, yet she was crying at my dying body.
'I'm sorry...'
I looked back over to Naruto. He was fighting back tears as well. I lifted my hand and said one last thing. My regrets.
"He's still out there, my brother. I promised myself I'd stay alive, until I killed him. Naruto don't let, your dream die"
I felt the cold taking over my body, my eyelids preventing me from living anymore. And with that I accepted my death.
~Alai~
Naruto hugged Sasuke's body as he went limp. He died, he actually died. I couldn't stop him from dying, and if I ever got out of here, the first thing I would have to do is perform a guiding for him.
'That's if I don't die here too.'
I knew that if Nema Kalen or Kashi couldn't get me out of here, I'd be dying with him. They wouldn't be able to do it, but I had my own means. I lightly touched my boots, feeling where I had hidden the poison, incase of an emergency like this came up. My final escape act, I liked to call it.
It scared me to think that I might have to die, but it needs to be done. Especially now that I failed, what good am I alive if I can't protect those around me.
I looked to Naruto, who was mourning his team-mate and friend as Haku stood once more.
"He found...he found a strength he didn't realize he had, why? because of a certain person who was precious to him, to save that person he rushed in knowing it was a trap, he was a true ninja, worthy of honor, is this the first time you have seen a friend die in battle, this is part of what it means to be a ninja"
"Shut up!" I shouted from my prison, I knew we were still in the middle of a battle, but if he has enough respect to lector and teach Naruto during a fight, then he should have enough to give a worthy opponent his deserved moment of silence. Nema took out his sword and held it to Haku's neck.
"Your finished Haku, release the jutsu and maybe I'll spare you."
"If I did that then I would betray Zabuza, and that is not something I'm willing to do."
Naruto carefully placed Sasuke's body on the ground as he realized that Haku was here.
"I hated you too Sasuke, and yet..."
Naruto's body started to glow as a familiar presence surrounded the area. You could actually see the whiskers on his face grow.
"You'll pay for this!"
A red aura surrounded Naruto in waves as his teeth and nails grew in length. His eyes even began to transform.
"I'm gonna kill you!" The new Naruto stated as he ran for Haku, who had tried to shield himself within a nearby mirror.
"What is this chakra?" Haku said as we both looked at Naruto, the wounds he had previously gotten from Haku's senbons was healing at a rapid speed.
'This puts everyone in danger, we have to stop it...'
"Nema!" I shouted to my friend who was running to Sasuke's body.
"Already on it!" He stood above Sasuke's body to protect it from further damage as he started performing hand signs.
Naruto in the mean time, wasn't even phased by the fact that Haku was trying to throw senbon needles at him. Even in vital points, it had no effect. At the last moment, Haku had to abandon the mirror he was in, but after Naruto shattered it, he grabbed Haku's arm and threw him outside of the mirror's area.
Nema saw this opportunity and gathered chakra in his index fingers. "Water Gun Technique!" bullet's filled with water began to hit the mirrors around him.
One by one they broke, lighting up as they fell in pieces to the ground. With my mirror being the last one, he turned to me. Debating if he should shoot at it.
"What if breaking this won't get you out of there."
"I won't be in the enemies hands either way then."
"With the kid like that though. I know I can get you out of there Ali!" He smiled as he let his hands drop down to his sides. He was right, with Naruto and Sasuke's help, I had hope.
We both looked to Haku and Naruto.
"Those eyes!" The moment Haku saw his eyes, Naruto took the chance to punch him in the face. Sending him plummeting to the ground. When he stood, his mask was starting to fall to the ground. His features showed that he was realizing something.
"Zabuza, I am no match for this boy...Master, I have failed."
As the rest of his mask fell, Naruto's fist stopped, the menacing aura leaving his body. Naruto was back in control again.
'But what are they talking about?' I thought. They were too far away, so I couldn't hear what they were saying. At least until Naruto punched him in the face again.
"Apparently he's not happy with the conversation." Nema said as we watched Haku stand up, moving closer to Naruto.
"Naruto...kill me, why do you hesitate?"
'What!? He's asking to die?'
"That's the most ridiculous story I've ever heard! I mean he treats you like a slave, you're a human being not a weapon or a tool why do you care about someone like that!?"
"They're...talking about Zabuza?"
Nema and I exchanged a look before a voice echoed behind me. Causing me to jump.
"Looks like I won't get to help Zabuza capture you after all."
I heard the noise from Kashi's chidori. Now that the mirrors were gone, we could see that the mist from Zabuza's technique was weakened. I could make out Kashi running for Zabuza, trying to make this his final blow.
'Zabuza can't dodge that'
My eyes went wide as I watched Haku appear in front of Kakashi's chidori. Causing it to pierce Haku through his chest.
"HAKU!" I couldn't help but scream, he just wanted to protect Zabuza.
"Maybe I can help you instead. I'll release you from the mirror."
It made me smile, knowing Haku was making some sort of peace.
"Thank you. Haku..." The mirror began to shine brightly as it slowly disappeared. Nema was looking at Haku so he didn't notice the mirror I was trapped in disappear.
"Nema!" I cheered, excited for being free. "Ali!" His face lit up as he turned to catch me. He was relieved I was out and safe. "Hey Kalen, I got her!" Nema shouted.
We looked to Kalen, he didn't look at us, but we saw the smile.
"Looks like Haku failed to capture my sister." Kalen taunted.
Zabuza said nothing as he tried to cut through Haku to get to Kalen and Kashi.
~!~ Ok so Obviously I had to re-watch the episode on that one, Not very original but hey the changes won't be happening til later. Plus this is a very important event! Anyway, don't own Naruto or anything like that. ~DawnxAingeal ~!~
