Chapter Five: The Fates in Wave

A/N: Yeah I know I said I wouldn't post anything unless it was Friday or Monday but guess what? I lied! I probably won't be able to update tomorrow so here's the next chapter a day earlier than expected. I hope you all love me for this gift. Don't get used to it!

Disclaimer: A/N-Y: GM NASAI does no own Naruto!

GM NASAI: I've stopped convincing her to stop. It's just a waste of breath and it's too tiring.

We appeared in Wave hidden in the trees as Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi were battling. Things looked like they were in the anime and manga. Although, Sakura we could see was protecting Tazuna and Yuuki.

In fact, Yuuki had some bruises and cuts on her.

"What the hell-" Kana hissed. I grabbed her arm to keep her from launching herself from the tree.

"Wait. I want to know which part of this we're supposed to alter." I murmured shoving the snarling over-protective feelings to the back of my head. I needed to concentrate; Yuuki would be fine for now.

I knew this part of the battle and what happens but I was more concerned with what would happen if we interfered before Zabuza or Haku had to die. (I actually liked them, despite their quirks they had led Naruto down the road to becoming who he was in the future).

'They are not supposed to die.' Lady Izayoi's voice echoed in my head. I looked at Kana to see she'd heard to.

"Any ideas?" Kana asked.

"I'm thinking." Naruto accidentally unleashed a bit of Kurama's chakra after Sasuke fell unconscious. If my memories hold true than Haku would probably die in the next few minutes. Well, try to die.

Inspiration hit.

"Kana, relay this to Yuuki. 'Stay where you are'." I waited a few seconds. "This is what we are going to do." I started whispering my plan to Kana.

"Will it work?" Kana asked dubiously as Naruto and Haku talked. (Why did people always want to monologue when they were so close to winning? As ninja you'd think they would want things over with quickly instead of getting lectured).

"We just need to wait until Gato shows up." I said not answering. Kana nodded.

Kakashi charged his Chidori and aimed at Zabuza. I tensed as Haku sensed his master's life in jeopardy.

When he shunshin-ed in front of Zabuza, I sent a thin shield to cover his body and Zabuza. Kana pushed Kakashi's arm down so he only scraped Haku's side. (At least they were all still alive).

I could see Kakashi's confusion as he lurched back. Haku grabbed his side and fell down.

"HAKU!" Yuuki and Naruto cried out.

"Well, at least he's not dead." I commented lightly. Kana rolled her eyes.

A loud thud sounded. Gato had docked. Through the clearing mist, with Yuuki's help, we all saw the midget known as Gato approach.

'Him, I think we can kill.' Kana thought angrily.

'Good. I have a feeling I know who hurt Yuuki.' I growled.

"You didn't kill them yet?" Gato asked angrily staring at Team 7.

"I was getting to it." Zabuza said. Gato scoffed.

"Don't bother! I'll just have my own guys kill them and you."

"What?" Zabuza glared at Gato. "We had a deal."

"I was never going to pay you. You're expensive! Whereas these guys are cheaper. And they get the job done right." Gato's eyes landed on Yuuki. He grinned in hunger. "Oh, there you are. Are you ready to come home, Unmei?"

"You're not taking her." Naruto shouted suddenly. Gato didn't even spare him a glance.

"Oh please. As if you'd be any match for me. Haven't you seen my precious Unmei? The marks she has mean she's mine."

"You mean the bruises?" Sakura asked horrified. Gato only grinned bigger.

"Exactly." I'm pretty sure Haku and Zabuza tensing wasn't my imagination. Thought Haku could've been tensing because he was in pain. Hmm... My evil mind was working a solution here.

"Like hell I'd let you take her." Naruto yelled again.

"And what are you going to do about it? Cry me to death?" Gato laughed.

"Kakashi, I don't believe we are enemies any longer." Zabuza mimed everything Kana said perfectly. He even pulled his sword back. Naruto and Sakura looked surprised.

"In that case, I believe we should work together." Kakashi murmured getting into a stance. Gato smirked.

"Boys, take their heads." He ordered.

"I think not." Kana's voice rang out loud and clear. Everyone looked around for Kana's voice. We jumped out of the trees to land in between Gato and Naruto since he was closer.

"Kana! Shina!" Yuuki breathed in relief.

"Oh, more Unmei? Perfect!" Gato laughed. The ninja on both sides, however, were shifting nervously.

"Yuuki, is what he said true? He hurt you?" I asked in a steely voice.

"Yes. But these ninja helped. Even Zabuza and Haku-kun." Yuuki chirped knowing what was going to happen.

"I see." I murmured looking over the ninja. "Then they can live."

"Except the midget." Kana said glaring at Gato.

"Excuse me?" Gato asked, surprised. "Do you know who I am?"

"Do you know who I am?" Kana growled. "I'm gonna enjoy killing you."

"If he's going to die then will you hurry up and get it over with?" I glanced at her out of the corner of my eyes.

"Gladly." Kana snapped her fingers and the ninja all went limp. They fell to the floor like string less puppets. Gato was alone now. Kana did a shunshin to appear behind Gato.

"What? Wait! I can-"

"Die." Kana said stabbing him with her sword. We watched as Gato coughed and hacked. Kana grinned before pulling out the sword ripping his soul from his lifeless husk. Gato fell down, dead. (I wondered what the Shinigami would do with his soul. Would he eat it or would he just throw him down to the dark pit? Or make him do paperwork forever? I shuddered.)

"You know, we could've made him suffer a while longer." I said blankly.

"That useless piece of s*** is suffering. He's Daisuke's problem now." Kana said happily.

"You scare me sometimes and not in the good way." I turned around to help Yuuki. I bypassed the ninja to grab Yuuki's outstretched hand. "Are you alright Yuuki?"

"Yes, I'm healing." She ran her hand down her body, speeding up the healing.

"Good." Kana said. She grabbed Yuuki and yanked her into a hug. "What the hell? Do you have any idea how worried we were? What if you'd died? Then what would we do? I'll be stuck with Shina forever."

"If I recall, you said to have faith in her where ever she was. That she'd be fine." I said.

Now that I wasn't feeling so angry I could clearly see a bright white string that went from Kana's chest, where her heart was, to Kakashi's heart.

White lines meant soulmates. Great. Why the hell did we need this BS? Guys only made things so much more complicated.

"Who believes that crap?" Kana snapped. I rolled my eyes focusing back on the conversation.

"Apparently you did." I said. Kana opened her mouth but Yuuki beat her.

"So you didn't have faith in me?" Yuuki asked tearfully. Kana looked shocked.

"I did have faith in you. Lady Izayoi would've told us if you were hurt or worse."

"Then why are you over reacting?" Yuuki asked getting huffy. I swear Yuuki was a drama queen. (A/N-Y: You're so mean!)

"Because you're our baby sister and we care about you!" I said. "Kana had to slap me before I went on a rampage through the Five Nations."

"So it's okay to slap you?" Yuuki asked looking evil. I glared.

"Do it and I won't hesitate to send you to Snow Country."

"Uh... Didn't we save two certain ninjas from being impaled?" Kana asked.

"Oh... yeah" We turned around to see the ninjas looking at us like we were crazy. "Hello, I'm Shina Unmei."

"Kana Unmei." They just stared at us. Yuuki thankfully took the initiative.

"Shina, Kana, this is Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, Zabuza, Haku and the emo is Sasuke. They helped me." Yuuki said.

"Really?" I asked eyeing the ninja. "The loudmouth I can understand, since he did yell at Gato. But the others seem... Weird."

"You are the Seers known as the Fates?" Zabuza asked, clearly thinking we were the weird ones.

"We are." Kana said. I helped Yuuki orient herself before she waved me off.

"You said you saved us, why?" Haku asked.

"It is not your time to die" I said simply.

"And why would you get in the way of our mission?" Kakashi asked.

"Don't you need to pass out from chakra exhaustion?" Kana asked. I snickered at Kakashi's dull look.

"We helped because Yuuki was here. End of story." I said. Then something dawned on me. "Why are you here?" I asked Yuuki. "Weren't you supposed to be in Kiri or something?"

"Kumo. And I was coming back when I was taken by two large ninjas who severely outweighed me. It was either go with them or die. I chose life." Yuuki shrugged.

"Good choice." Kana approved.

"... I guess we really aren't enemies anymore." Kakashi said to Zabuza.

"Thank Kami." Zabuza said sarcastically. And rightly so.

"Looks like everyone's okay." I said. "Well except Haku-"

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled.

"And him." We looked over to see Sasuke looking like death warmed over. Sakura started crying. Kakashi got that horrified look in his eyes and Naruto looked downcast.

"He's fine." Yuuki said walking over to them. "His will to live is strong."

"Are you sure?" Sakura asked.

"She's a medic kid. She knows these things." I said. We watched Yuuki heal Sasuke while also talking to his teammates and sensei about him taking it easy. She then went to Haku and healed his side. I relaxed beside Zabuza.

"And why did you save us? I know you answered the kids question but you three are wild cards." Zabuza murmured.

"Simple, you two are family. You're innocent, at least in this situation." I said.

"Plus there's a woman in Kiri who seems to miss you. Someone named Mei Terumi." Kana said that as nonchalantly as possible but Zabuza still tensed.

"Let me guess, you want me to go back to Kiri?" Zabuza asked.

"Mei will be the Godaime Mizukage. And to do that she will need the support of one who truly loves his village enough to plan a coup."

"Yep. Your village needs you. So does Haku. He isn't a tool, he's a boy. He loves you enough to die for you. If it hadn't been for us, he would've died and Naruto would be telling you this." Kana spoke warmly but with enough authority that Zabuza didn't say anything for a long while.

"You've seen this?" he finally asked. Yuuki finished healing Haku and was handing him a bag of candy. Where she got that I didn't want to know.

Pretty much." I answered. He nodded. "Go home Zabuza. It's time." He stood up.

"Haku." Haku was instantly paying attention. "Let's go. They can handle it."

"Yes master Zabuza." Haku bowed before he and Zabuza started walking along the bridge back to the mainland.

"How did you do that?" Kakashi asked coming to stand by us.

"We're Fate. We're seers. We're girls. We're smarter than the average ninja. Take your pick."

"How long will you be here?" Kakashi asked most likely ignoring half of what was said.

"We'll stay as long as Yuuki does." Kana said. Kakashi nodded. I wondered vaguely if I should tell them they were destined to be together. I opened my mouth. Sakura's shout as Sasuke opened his eyes interrupted.

"I guess that answers that question." I muttered.

"What question?" Kakashi asked. I faked a smile.

"If he really was dead or not." Kakashi didn't look too good at that statement.

Turns out, we only stayed until the bridge was all done and Team 7 was good and healthy again. Yuuki wanted to help the villagers but Tazuna's bridge would help them enough. Besides, we had some business to settle with the Hokage.

So here we stood opposite Team 7, saying goodbye.

"Thanks for helping me." Yuuki said again.

"It was no trouble." Naruto and Sakura said.

"Considering we're her sisters, yeah that is some trouble." Kana said sardonically. I suddenly had the urge to tell them their future.

"If you don't mind, I'd like to tell your future." I said.

"Seriously?" Sakura squealed. I nodded.

"And how much is this fortune-telling going to cost?" Kakashi asked.

"We resent that implication. This is a gift. And we don't charge people to tell them their own future." I said hotly.

"People just hand you things of their own free will?" Kakashi asked.

"Yep. It's weird but they insist." Yuuki shrugged. "Plus, Shina doesn't really have the urge to tell people their futures a lot."

"So if you don't mind." I held my hand out to Sakura. She hesitated before placing her hand in mine.

My vision faded. I saw her past, present and future. And while I saw Kana in her future, as a good friend and Kakashi's... 'friend', nothing much changed, yet. I opened my eyes.

"You have a strong heart and good mind." Sakura's face brightened. "But if you keep obsessing over the silly crush you have, you will never become the second Tsunade." She was frozen in shock. I stepped away from her to Sasuke.

"Hmph, I don't believe in this stuff." He muttered folding his arms.

"Just indulge me." I commanded. He glared at me for five minutes but I didn't back off. With a huff he placed his hand in mine and the vision started.

"The thing you want the most in life... Is the one thing you will regret for eternity. If you continue down the road of revenge, you will drown in despair and anguish. Never finding the light or the way out. You will never become part of the Sannin." He frowned. I let him go to face Naruto.

"Naruto?" I held out my hand. He hesitated before giving me his hand. Like before the vision started. Only by the end of my vision I was feeling so hopeful, my chest hurt.

"Do not forget what you've learned here, what Haku has told you. That is where true power lies." Then I did something I'd never done. I bowed. "Naruto Uzumaki-Sama. You will surpass every Hokage who came before you. You are the only one I will bow to." I stood, moving back to stare at all three Genin. "Together you three could become the next Sannin, the true Sannin. But only if you stick together."

Kana took the creepy tone here. But it was for Kakashi. "You are their sensei Kakashi. If you do not straighten up and teach them properly, you will lose them. One by one, until there is only you and regret again."

I took my sisters hands.

"Remember what was said here. Do not forget this." We said in unison.

"Well, have a nice day." Yuuki chirped as we turned and started running. When we reached the trees I did a teleport to the outskirts of Konoha.

A/N: Like I said I probably won't update tomorrow but in case I do then at least you all get another chapter! I'm actually very happy about all the people adding this story to their favorites/alerts. Makes me think that I'm doing this right! If anyone has any thoughts or ideas about what I should do differently about the Chuunin Exams then please review because I'm having trouble with that. Ha'go'a'ne! (That's Navajo).