A Mirror into the Future
Chapter 9: Land of Waves Part 4
Kakashi grunted as he woke up in a unfamiliar place. "I think I over did it with my Sharigan." Kakashi thought as he stared up at the Ceiling.
"No shit." Obito cursed.
"Obito!" Rin yelled looking at her teammate surprised.
"Waking up, Huh? Are you alright?" A woman asked as she had long blue hair as she stared down at Kakashi.
"I've been better, it will be a week before I can move Normally." Kakashi said as he struggled to sit up.
"See it better if you don't move, so just lie down." The woman said placing her hands on his hips. "Right." Kakashi agreed as he laid back down onto the Futon.
"Look, Sensei is coming around." Naruto said as he and his teammates and Mr. Tazuma came into the room.
"Look Sensei, your sharigan it is amazing and everything but if it puts that much strain on you, maybe it not worth it." Sakura told him as she sat beside him.
"Why is Kakashi so tired after using the sharigan, Uncle Fugaku?" Obito asked looking over at the older uchiha.
" I don't know Obito." Fugaku answered honestly.
"I think it probably due to the in plant of your eye into Kakashi, due his body's adaption to the hides because his body was weakened from being inside of Zabuza Justu it drained his chakra while he still had his sharigan activated. Due to the extensive exsert of his chakra he passed out due too overwhelming exhaustion." Tsunade informed them of her medical evaluation.
Everyone stared at her in shock.
"Sorry." Kakashi told his student.
"Heh, well he did take down the most powerful ninja assassins, so we will be safe for a while." Tazuma told them as he fanned himself.
"Your right but you know that boy with the mask, what about him?" Sakura asked.
"He from the elite tracking unit from the hidden village in the mist, those mask are only wore by the most elite Shinobi." Kakashi said
"So basically there like the Anbu black Orps. from our village right." Rin said looking over at her sense I to confirm her suspicion. Who gave her a swift nod of his head.
"What do they exactly do?" Sakura asked.
"They Anbu black orps, also know as the inferno squad, destroy all traces of a rouge ninja corpse, a shinobi's body contains many secrets, ninjutsu, Chakra and special medicine used on his body, these are the secrets of his village and if his enemy's find him, his people would be in grave danger." Kakashi's started.
"For instance, If I were to die at the hands of an enemy he would try to analyze my sharingan, in the worst case my entire jutsu could be stolen and used against our home village, It is the sacred duty of the elite tracking unit to prevent this and to keep the village safe, if a ninja betrays hid village and the trackers hunt him down and obliterate any traces of his existence, that is there specialty." Kakshi concluded.
Mikoto looked at herself through the water she was never able to activate her sharigan. Fugaku noticed his wife distress and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"None should ever want the cruse of the Uchiha eyes." Obito murmured as he stared up at the sky.
"First I will cut the bandages and drain some of the blood." The masked boy said as he lifted his hand to cut the bandages off from Zabuza mouth. When he gasped as he felt some one grab his hand. Zabuza woke and Glared at the masked boy.
"That is enough, I'll do it." Zabuza said as he pulled the Bandages away from his mouth.
"So he is still a big phony after all!" Rin yelled as she glared at the masked boy.
"Soo, you have already come back to life." The masked boy said as he watched Zabuza Struggle to sit up.
"Haku, your Brutal!" Zabuza said as He glared even harder at the masked boy. Zabuza said as he began to yank out the needles in his neck.
"Your the one who is brutal Zabuza, If you keep pulling them out like that you really will be finished."Haku said.
Jiraya and Tsunade had to agree with this kid the way Zabuza was yanking out the needles from his neck he would surely die.
Zabuza grunted in response before he looked over at Haku, "How long are you going to wear that phony mask, take it off!" Zabuza demanded.
"I have good memories with this mask, and it was quite usefully when tricking that ninja." Haku said as he removed the mask from his face to show a innocent smiling boy. "If I had not interned you have been dead by now, that much is certain."
Zabuza looked over at Haku from the corner of his eye. "But putting me in a temporary state is fine but not through the pressure points in my neck, cruel as usual, I would think you enjoy it." Zabuza said lifting the bandages back up to cover his mouth.
"Its kinda creepy to see his actual mouth when he talking." Kushina told them as Kakashi nodded his head in agreement.
"It was the only sure way, and that I would not want to make up your flawless body then you would complain about that even more, the neck is more valuable there is no layer of muscle so I could go straight into the pressure points." Haku explained as he Watched Zabuza struggle to stand up.
'He must have actually been one of the elite tracking unit he knows so much about the human body he must have ahead an exceptional teachers.' Tsunade thoughput as she analyzed the boy.
"There is no point in trying to move, you will be numb for a week although if you are stubborn like usual, you will probably on take half the time." Haku said smiling.
Zabuza stared at Haku for a moment. "Your so innocent, and yet clever at the same time. A rare Combination, that is why I keep you around." Zabuza told him.
Minato wondered what could have happened to this child to make him go with a man like Zabuza.
Haku gave a small smile as he blushed at the compliment. "I'm still a kid, what else would you expect, the mist has cleared." Haku informed Zabuza as he stood up.
"Next time, will you be alright?" Haku asked.
"Next Time I will see right Through his Sharingan." Zabuza said.
"He actually only psyched you out." Rin said as Obito nodded his head in agreement.
"What is this, if Zabuza is finished why do I feel this way? Something is wrong, its like I missed something." Kakashi thought as he lifted his hand to hover over his right eye.
'His sense are highly in tune with others peoples chakra due to his Sharigan.' Fugaku thought.
"Hey Sensei, are you alright." Naruto asked.
"Hmmm." Kakashi said as he looked up at his students, "Oh yeah to finish what I was saying, Tracker ninja deal with the body immediately on the spot so there is no room for error."
"Is that really important?" Sakura asked.
"Yes it is." All the adults and Kakashi said in unison. Rin and Obito looked over at them Confused
"Think about it, do you remember what that tracker ninja did with Zabuza's Body?" Kakashi asked his students
"We don't know what he did with the body, I guess that he took it away somewhere." Sakura answered.
"Exactly but why? He should had worked on Zabuza right there, think of the weapons he use for the take down do you remember what they were?" Kakashi questioned his students.
"Throwing needles, no way." Sasuke said as he finally realized what had happened.
"He figured that out fast for only being a genin." Tsunade said
"Exactly, none of it adds up." Kakashi says.
"What are you all yammering about you demolished that assassin." Mr Tazuna said as he looked at them confused.
Kakashi sighed as he looked from his students to Mr. Tazuna. "Here is the truth Zabuza is still alive." Kakashi said.
"Huh!" Sakura, Naruto , and Mr. Tazuma all gasped as there eyes all widen with surprise.
Mr. Tazuma daughter even let a surprise gasp.
"We saw his body, Believe it." Naruto said as he sat up slightly edging toward his Sensei.
"But Kakashi-sensei you checked him yourself, you said his heart stopped." Sakura said.
"His heart did stop, but that was just a temporary state to stimulate death. The weapons that tracker used, are called Senbun, they can pierce deeply but they rarely kill, unless they hit a vital organ not in the neck. There modified to use for medical treatment like acupuncture, trackers are trained to know every detail of the human body, causing the heart temporarily whole keeping the body alive is an easy matter for them. First he carried Zabuza's body away even though it is much heavier than he is, second he used Senbun which have a precise effect but rarely fatal. From these two factors we can conclude that the tracker ninja was not trying to stop Zabuza but trying save him." Kakashi said as he finished his analyze of the situation.
"Are you sure your not a medical Ninja?" Tsunade joked looking over at Kakashi that rubbed his neck sheepishly.
"Encountering suspicion, a ninja must prepare quickly, hesitation leads to disaster. Every shinobi knows this saying. " Kakashi said
Naruto was shaking with delight as he would get another chance at Zabuza.
"Only idiots like to fight." Rin said as she looked over at her two teammates while Kushina looked at Minato and Tsunade at Jiraya.
"What did we do?" The men asked looking over at the women of the group.
Kurama stifled a laugh as he held Itachi in his arms.
"He is actually pleased to hear Zabuza alive, cause now Naruto has another shot at him." Kakashi thought.
"Sensei you said prepare quickly, but how can we do that if you can hardly move?" Sakura asked. Kakashi began to laugh at that statement.
"Kakashi." Obito called gaining the ninja attention.
"What is it?" Kakashi asked turning to look at his teammate.
"Don't ever laugh." Rin finished as Kakashi looked at them confused.
"Huh?" Sakura said as she tilted her head in confusion.
"I can still train you." Kakashi said.
"Hold on, a little last minute training won't make us strong enough to beat Zabuza, you could barely defeat him even with your sharingan, we have to be reasonable about this." Sakura said
"Yes, this is true what are you thinking Kakashi what could you have teached them that could have helped?" Minato asked.
"What are you trying to get us killed, CHAAAAA!" Inner Sakura yelled.
"Sakura, why was I able to stop Zabuza?" Kakashi asked. "Because you all helped me you grown. Naruto!, you have grown the most." Kakashi said as he smiled at him.
Naruto let out an uneasy smile and laugh as he looked towards his sensei.
"He does seem stronger, an more confident but." Sakura thought as she looked over at her teammate.
"That is true he is defiantly getting stronger and stronger." Kushina said as she smiled at her son.
"So you have noticed Kakashi Sensei, things are going to get better, Believe it." Naruto said
"I don't believe it!" A young boy said as he stood in the entry way of the room.
"Who are you?" Naruto said pointing his finger at the boy.
"Gahhh, Inari where have you been." Mr. Tazuna said as he spotted his grandson. Inari stepped forward to give his grandpa a hug.
"Welcome Back Grandpa." Inari said giving Tazuna a hug.
"Inari, that was very rude, these ninja had helped your grandfather and brought him back safely." Inari's mother said scolding her son.
"Its ok, Its ok, I'm rude to them too." Tazuna said as he patted his grandson head.
Inari stared hard at team seven as he sat next to his grandfather.
"Mom but these guys are going to die, Gato's men will come back and wipe them out." Inari told his mom
"What did he say!" Obito and Kushina yelling in rage as the glared at Inari
"What did you say Brat!" Naruto yelled at Inari. "Listen up do you know what a super ninja is, well that me but a lot better, I'm going to be Hokage someday, this Gato or this Bato or whatever he called won't stand a chance against a real hero like me."
"Pahhh, There no such thing as no such thing as a hero, your just full of stupid ideas." Inari yelled.
"Man what could have happened to this kid?" Jiriya asked.
"It must have effected him drastically." Mikoto said as the others nodded heads in agreement.
"What you say!" Naruto yelled as he tried to get over to Inari.
"Naruto!, Calm down" Sakura yelled holding him back.
"If you want to stay alive, you would go back where you came from." Inari told them.
"Inari wait, where are you going?" Tazuna asked.
"To look out at the ocean." Inari said, "I wanna be alone." Inari walked out of the room.
"Sorry about that."Mr. Tazuna said to them as he gave them as sad smile.
Later that day Naruto climbed up the stairs to Inari's room.
"Who does that little brat think he is I'm going to go put him in his place right now." Naruto said as he climb to the top of the stair case and began to walk toward Inari's room.
As he approached the door he heard the sound of someone crying from inside.
"He is crying." Naruto thought, as he peeked through the crack of the door to see Inari on the window sill crying.
"No daddy, No!" Inari cried as he held a photo in his hands.
Tsunade looked at Inari empathetically, she knew how it felt to loose people precious to you.
Naruto pulled away from the door and frowned slightly.
Zabuza laid in his bed as Haku sat by his side. As the door opened and Gato stepped inside. "So much for the unbeatable Jounin, he just got beat and he limped back home like some pathetic has been." Gato taunted as he and his two lakeys stood in the door way.
"Demon of the hidden mist," Gato said as he let out a mockingly laugh. "More like coward of the Hidden mist."
"He good as dead." Kakashi said as he saw Haku's stance change from calm to angry in an instant.
"He should not provoke people stronger than him." Tsunade said.
Haku stood up from his chair but did not turn around. As the other ninja stood ready to attack. The taller of the two ninja just about drawn his sword from its sheath as he gripped it holding point.
"Drawing Swords." Haku thought as he looked out from the corner of his eye.
"His analysis of an situation is way high for someone of his age group." Jiraya said as he stared at Haku.
"Hold on a minute." Gato said as he made his way over to Zabuza."Alright lets hear about what you have to say about this Fiasco and don't play possum I know you can talk." Gato said as he reached forward to touch Zabuza but gasped as he Felt Haku holding His wrist in a vice grip preventing him from moving any closer to Zabuza.
"Keep your filthy hands off of him." Haku growled as he glared at Gato.
'Wow he so strong.' Obito thought.
"Stop or else you will break it." Gato cried as Haku held his arm. The other two ninja quickly moved into action to protect there employer.
'Weakling, this insignificant man is causing so much pain.' Kushina thought in disgust.
But Haku quickly reacted and made the two ninja point there swords at there own necks threating them to move.
"But that is impossible." The taller of the two ninja thought.
No body could move that fast." The shorter one thought.
"Don't push me, I am in a really foul mood." Haku said.
"Zabuza trained that boy exceptionally well." Minato said as the others agreed.
Gato groaned in frustration as he watched Haku hold two of his best assassins at his mercy.
Haku threw the the swords on the ground as the two ninja and Gato backed away from Gato heading towards the door.
"You get one chance and that is it, if you fail this time, I will cut you off and then there will be none to cover for you, lets go." Gato said as he and his men turned and walked away.
Haku sat down in his seat. "Haku, that was not necessary." Zabuza said as he hid a kunai under the blankets.
"Wait a second, do they plan on killing Gato?" Rin asked.
"Prehaps, but it is to early to take out Gato just yet he is our best cover, think about it." Haku said as he looked at Zabuza with a knowingly smile as Zabuza merely stared from the corner of his eye at Haku.
Rin sighed as he question was answered.
"The murders would draw there attention, and then they would be after us again," Haku explained. "We need restraint."
"Ummm, Right." Zabuza said as he closed his eyes to go to sleep.
At The bridge the workers worked hard to make it be finished on time while they had so few workers.
Sakura yawned as she watched Mr. Tazuna work. "Are you always this lazy?," Tazuna asked as he passed her by. "Where is that weird blonde kid, and the one with the attitude?" Tazuna asked.
"My son is not weird!" Kushina yelled glaring at Tazuna.
"Neither does Sasuke got an attitude." Fugaku retorted as the others just sighed at there antics.
"There training Climbing trees." Sakura told him.
"To tough for you?" Tazuna asked as Sakura Smirked.
"No I'm the best that why the Sensei sent me here to guard you." Sakura bragged.
"Bragging is not a good trait of a women to have." Jiriya said as Tsunade and Kushina glared at him causing him to stiffen.
"Your joking?" Tazuna said as Sakura said as she got angry at Tazuna.
Tazuna set down the Steel as one of his workers came walking over to him. "Hey, uh Tazuna, I need to talk to you." The workers said.
"What about?" Tazuna asked.
"You see the thing is, I have been think a lot about the bridge and decide I pushed my luck far enough, I want out." The worker finished.
"Now your just going to quit on me just like that! Your Kidding!" Tazuna yelled at the worker.
"I stayed on because of our friendship, but I'm putting my life on the line every day I stay here, Gato and his thugs will show up eventually, they will kill you and the bridge will never be finished anyway." The worker said, "It is a lost cause why don't we stop now, while we can get out of this alive."
"No chance, this is our bridge, our island is poor and it will stay that way until this bridge is connects us to the mainland, comers, trade, hope! That is what we are building here!" Tazuna said.
"There is not much hope if we all are dead." The workers says.
"Quitter." Rin and Obito chimmed in unison.
"Rin, Obito try to see it from his situation, he must have a family and people that need him." Minato told them.
"Still if they don't stand up for themselves who will?" Kakashi stated more than asked.
"Its already noon, its break for lunch."Tazuna said walking away from the worker.
"Tazuna, lets not end it like this." The worker tried to explain himself.
"Save your breath, Gichi don't bother coming back after lunch."Tazuna said as he continued to walk away. As Sakura stared helplessly.
Sakura and Tazuna walked through the shopping district. "Where are we going?" Sakura asked as she glanced around the place.
"You want to eat tonight don't yah, I have to pick up some things for dinner." Tazuna said.
As a guy came walking by with a sign that read, "Will do any kind of work.".
"Thief, Thief." A voice yelled as a little kid started to run away with a loaf of bread in his hand.
"What wrong with these people?" Rin said to herself
Sakura watched in shock about how these people lived, seeing children on the side walk begging having the look of lost hope.
"What is wrong with these people?" Sakura thought as they entered a vegetable shop, but Sakura barely saw any food.
"This is a store?" Sakura thought as she looked around worriedly. "There is nothing here."
"Poverty has always been part of the Land of Waves but this is to much." Kushina said
As a man walked in and saw Sakura purse and made a move towards it but brushed passed Sakura but causing her to stiffen and spin around kicking the man in his jaw.
"You Pervert!" Sakura yelled.
"No I was..." The man said as he fell to the floor.
"Catching a feel." Jiriya added.
"Being a pick pocket." Obito added.
"Wow you really surprised me back there, girls around here don't fight like that." Tazuna said looking down at Sakura.
"Not all girls are like that." Rin retorted as the women nodded there heads in agreement.
"Well they should, something seriously wrong here." Sakura said as she felt a had grabbed her from behind. "Again!" Sakura thought in outrage as she spun around, "Hey Buster..."
She turned to see a little kid behind her. "Please." The kid said holding out his hand giving her a smile.
It ached the Adults heart to see this little kid begging on the streets for food.
Sakura looked the kid up and down, but eventually gave in with a sad smile and took out several pieces of candy for the kid. "Uhh, Here." Sakura said giving the boy the candy.
Kid brightly at her, "Wow thank you." The kid said as Sakura forced a smile as tears started to rise from the corner of her eyes. The kid gave her one last smile before running through the crowd of people.
'It was only a couple pieces of Candy how would that make anyone happy?' Obito thought as he looked at the citizen sadly.
"This is how it been since Gato came her, the children suffer and the Adults are to afraid to stand up to him." Tazuna said. Sakura wiped the tears from her eyes.
"They lost all hope, that is why, we have to finish the bridge." Tazuna said, "It will bring comer, trade, but much more importantly that bridge is a symbol of Courage and we must return the spirit of our people, when the bridge is finished, people will start to believe again, the will believe with dignity, we can not let Gato stop us."
"Sasuke, Naruto we have to help them." Sakura thought as she watched the sun set.
"We have to help them as well when this is all over." Mikoto said as they all nodded there heads in agreement.
Naruto and Sasuke were scarfing down there dinner. "Its been ages sense we had any guest around our table." Tazuna said as he watched both boys from Team 7 scarf down his daughters cooking.
"Can I have so more." The both yelled at the same time as the finished that serving of food, they glared at each other from across the table as Sakura looked at her teammates worriedly.
"Don't eat to much or you will throw up." Tsunade said
Before Both Sasuke and Naruto threw up.
"I told you so." Tsunade said as she let out a heavy sigh.
"Don't eat so much if your just going to puke it up!" Sakura yelled at them.
"I have to eat." Sasuke said
"And I have to eat more than him that is the only way I can beat him." Naruto said.
"But puking won't help you." Kakashi said.
"That true but puking won't help you." Kakashi told his students.
"Don't repeat yourself Kakashi." Obito told him.
Once they were all done eating. they all sat in silence.
"Excuse me, this picture is torn is there some reason for that?" Sakura asked, "Inari you kept glancing at it all through dinner, it look like there was someone else in the picture but it got torn out, it kinda strange isn't it."
The three islanders frozen but did not say a word.
"Ohh, bad topic has been struck." Obito said.
"Its my husband." Tazuna's daughter told them.
"They used to call him a hero in this land." Tazuna said, as Inari got up from his chair and started to leave the room.
"Inari where are you going?!" His mother shouted as she watched her son leave and ran after him but stopped out in front of the door. "Father! you know you can't talk about him like that in front of Inari." she screamed before leaving the room completely.
Everyone wondered what could have happened to the man.
They all looked at the door surprised.
"Inari... so... I mean what happened to him?" Sakura asked.
"Is there a story behind this?" Kakashi asked
"He was not his real father he came into a lives later, he brought so much happiness, he and Inari were very close, in those days Inari used to laugh all the time. But then." Tazuna said as he clenched his hands.
"Hmmm?" Kakashi said cocking his head to the side.
"All that ended, he never laughs or smiles anymore, ever since they day that everything changed." Tazuna started as tears began to stream from his eyes.
"So we will finally know the reason for Inari's behavior." Fugaku said.
"The word courage was stolen from this island leaving everyone hopeless and Inari suffering the most ever since that day, that it happened." Tazuna said as everyone stared at to elaborate what happened that day.
"Tell us, what happened to Inari." Kakashi asked
"First you will need to learn about the man his father, the man that taught us the word courage, he was a hero in this land," Tazuna said as he covered his face with his hand.
"A Hero!" Obito said animatedly.
"A Hero really!" Naruto said as he lifted his head of the table.
Tazuna wiped the tears from his eyes and lifted his head back up. "You can decide that for yourselves, he came here about three years ago..." Tazuna started.
"Poochie! Poochie No!" Inari yelled as two other boys held him back while another held a black and white dog in his arms. As the dog barked for help.
"That not his name," The boy said who was holding the dog. "Starting today his name is Shooting Star and he is my dog now."
"Both names are stupid." Obito said. As Minato hit his student aside his head.
"No he is not he is my Dog, and his name is not Shooting Star, I had him since he was a puppy and he my dog and he is my friend and he belongs to me." Inari yelled as he struggled in the arms of the two bigger boys that were holding him back.
"Just shut up!" The bully yelled as he looked own at the dog and smirked evilly as the dog whimpered in his hands. Then the bully proceed to throw the dog into the ocean.
"Nooo!" Kakashi yelled as he saw the dog get tossed into the air. Obito and Rin looked at there teammate shocked at the emotion this dog had a brought to him.
"Poochie!" Inari yelled as he gasped as he watched helplessly. Poochie was struggling to stay above the water.
"See what happens when you don't listen to me, now I'm not going to lift a finger to help him. Okay you can let him go." The bully said as his sidekicks let Inari go.
"Why did you do that now my dog is going to drown!" Inari yelled as he stumbled forward glaring at the bully.
"If he your dog then jump in and be a hero and save your friend." The bully retorted, as Inari just continued to glared at the bully.
Everyone looked at Inari sadly as they watch the dog drown.
"After all that big talk your not just going to let him go under are you?" The bully asked.
Inari whimpered as he walked over to the edge of the bridge to see Poochie struggling.
"I gotta jump in there and save him, I got to but..." Inari thought to himself as he stared helplessly.
"Hahaha, he is not even going to jump in and save his precious little Poochie." The bully taunted.
"Its your fault that the dog in there to begin with!" Rin yelled.
"I can't swim, and I'm scared, I'm sorry Poochie." Inari thought as he clenched his eyes shut.
"Hey since you made a big deal about it why don't you go get him." The bully said kicking Inari into the ocean.
"These little monsters." Kushina growled glaring at the bullies.
Inari began to stuggle against to waves trying to prevent himself from going under.
"I think you went to far this time, Akane, he could really drown or something." One of the sidekicks said as the watch Inari stuggle.
"Help, Please!" Inari yelled.
"Forget about it." Akane said as he turned to the Sidekick that spoke up.
"I don't know-" The sidekicks started before Akane grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him close.
"Say one more word and you are going in with him."Akane says threating him.
"Help, I don't want to die!" Inari yelled as he struggled some more.
"There not going to allow him to die are they?" Minato whispered to himself as he watch Inari drown.
"Pooch-" Inari said as he saw Poochie swimming towards the shore.
"Pooch!" Inari yelled.
"Interesting enough, at that exact moment Pooch, learned how to dog paddle." Tazuna said.
Everyone could have laughed at the ironic moment that just occurred but they stayed silent.
"Pooch!" Inari yelled as he tried to jump up out of the water.
Poochie made it the shore and shook himself off before running away.
"Hey, Shooting Star is getting away go get him." Akane yelled as the ran after the dog and left Inari drowning in the Ocean.
"They left!" Rin gasped shocked as she saw the boys walk away.
Inari sunk down into the ocean. "Oh no, Please I..." Inari thought as he passed out.
Inari groaned as he woke up onto the shore near the bridge.
"Waken up, huh? Finally." A voice said Causing Inari to sit up and turn to the voice.
"I had a little talk with those kids they won't be bothering you again, here eat." The man said offering Inari a cooked Fish.
"Am I alive is this for real?" Inari thought as he just stared at the man.
"Did you pull me out of the water mister?" Inari asked.
The man let out a small laugh. "Have a bite to eat first,then we can talk all about it." He said to Inari.
"I see so your dog abandoned you to?" The man asked as he watch Inari scarf down the fish.
"In my country, the dogs are very loyal and stand by there Master," The man said "But then again you abandon the dog first."
"All dogs are loyal, he just abandoned his out of fear." Kakashi said blandly.
"How do you know all this Kakashi?" Rin asked looking over at him.
"I own a few dogs," Kakashi admitted.
"What do you mean a few you own ten." Minato said as his students looked over at Kakashi surprised.
"I really wanted to save him, but I just froze I was just so scared, I guess I just don't have any courage." Inari said as he began to cry when the man reached over and placed a hand on his head.
"Hey come on, don't be so hard on yourself, your a kid when I was your age I was scared too, Its no big deal, always remember this live your life so you have nothing to regret, if you care about something you will protect it no matter how sad you got to keep trying, even if you have to put your life on the line protect it with both arms and never give in." The man told him as Inari looked at him surprised.
Kushina liked this man, the country this man comes from has a lot of heart.
"His name was Kaiza, a simple fisherman that came here from another land, to follow his dreams, after that Kaiza and Inari were inseparable, the boy never knew his real father so you could image what it meant to have Kaiza in his life. He looked up to him and followed him in his footsteps like a real father and son. Kaiza spent more and more time with us, he natural became a member of our family. Then when this town needed him, some thing more..." Tazuna said.
The door banged open and there stood a man drenched wet. "We got trouble Kaiza! Water over the lower bridge is rising! If we don't stop it the lower district will be flooded." The man said as his voice was full of panic.
"Man this place is full of problems." Jiriya said as he let out a heavy sigh.
"What!" Kaiza yelled.
"Father!" Inari yelled causing Kaiza to look down at him.
"Inari, get me so rope hurry."Kaiza said.
"Right." Inari said running to go get some rope.
"We need to get a line out there and pull it close." One man said.
"A line?, You have to swim out there to do that, it is impossible none can get pass that current." Another man said.
"If we don't do it the whole district will be wiped out! Its the only way." The first man said.
"I will do it." Kaiza said.
"Kaiza?" They all said as the watched him with awe.
"Don't be foolish you will never make it." A man said
"Father?" Inari said.
"Don't worry, Nothing can stop your dad. This is our island so we got to do everything in our power to help.'" Kaiza told Inari.
Kaiza secured the rope around his waist tightly as he stood on the edge about to jump in.
"If you really love something protect it,"
Kaiza jumped into the water and began to swim to the bridge door.
"Even if you have to put your life on the line, protect it with both arms and Never Give in!"
"Father! I know you can do it!" Inari yelled.
Kaiza gasped as he made it over to the other side.
"He made it!" Tsunade said shocked.
"Alright he made it." A man said.
"He tied line on, Everyone Pull." The man said.
"From that time on, Kaiza was considered a Hero in this land he taught all of use the meaning of courage and Inari was so proud to be his son, but it was not long after that Gato showed up, and took over." Tazuna told them. "He terrorized the entire Village only Kaiza stood up to him, Gato could not have a local hero standing in his way it took Gato entire gang to take down one man."
"Gato!" Obito growled in frustration.
"You over played your hand, Kaiza, all that talk about going to protect this village with your two arms, those arms aren't much use now, you still have that defiant look in your eyes though." Gato said as Kaiza merely stared at the man.
"No!" Rin said turning away from the scene.
"Well we will have to get rid of that." Gato said as he motioned his lacky forward.
"Get down there." One lacky said pushing Kaiza to the ground. As two of the bigger lacky came with two hammers and swung down hard at Kaiza arms causing him to scream out in pain as his arms broke.
Team Minato cringed as the scream erupted, Itachi who was in Kurama arm burst into tears until Mikoto came over to comfort her infant son.
The next day all the villagers were gathered up to see a hang Kaiza on a post.
"Listen up, this man has Defied the Gato Corp. he has disrupted the order of this land, we have brought you here to witness his punishment." Gato said
As the villager began to gasp and the chattered erupted in hush whispers.
"Let this be an example, so none can stand in my way again." Gato said.
"That monster." Tsunade growled.
"FATHER!" Inari yelled as he watched from behind the fence that was blocking them from getting inside a he cried.
"Inari be quiet." One villager told him.
Kaiza looked up and smiled.
"Alright do it." Gato said as he began to walk away.
The two rogue assassins looked at each other before drawling there swords and bring the down onto Kaiza.
"DADDY!" Inari yelled.
Rin and Obito flinched as they watched Kaiza die.
"You told me, you'd protect me and this land with both of your arms, you made me believe you could do it, but it all was just a lie." Inari said to himself as he began to frown.
"One man can not bear that burden all on his own he will need help." Mikoto said as the other adults nodded there heads in agreement.
"Since then Inari changed, and Sunami, and everyone we have lost our will to live." Tazuna concluded.
Naruto thought hard about Inari and remembered his words
"Only stupid kids believe in heroes." Inari said.
"He wants to believe in Heroes, but he lost the only one he had." Jiriya said.
Then he remember the time he seen him crying in his room. Then he looked and there family portrait. Before trying to get up but failed and fell to the floor.
"What are you doing down there Naruto?" Sakura asked.
"You better take the day off, no more training, you used up to much chakra." Kakashi told Naruto.
Naruto struggled to stand up. "If you push any harder you will kill yourself." Kakashi told him.
"I will prove it," Naruto said.
"Prove what?" Rin asked
"Prove what?" Sakura asked.
Obito and Kakashi tried to contain there laughter but failed.
"He wants to there are real heroes." Minato answered.
"I prove that it true, In this world there are real Heroes." Naruto said.
"There so alike, If he does not figure out that this is his son soon I swear I will eat my hair." Jiriya said as he watched his clueless student.
Haku gabbed ahold of his bun that binded his hair and released it from it hold making it fall down as he stared out the window.
Meanwhile in the Forest a Haku was picking Herbs as a sparrow landed on his shoulder. He looked over and smiled at the bird before I flew away.
The Haku looked over to see a fallen orange clade boy in his forest asleep.
The Haku's eye widen as he remembered him.
"What is this?! Who do you think you are?" Naruto yelled.
Haku stood up and walked over towards Naruto and stood above him for a second before bending down too...
"He would not dare." Obito said.
"Good Morning Everyone." Sakura said as she let out a heavy yawn. Everyone was seated at the table beside Naruto.
"Here." Sunami said placing Sakura plate infront of her.
"Naruto, not here again, that means he has not been here all night." Tazuna said.
"Naruto's gone complete crazy, he out climbing trees in the dark, he could be dead by now from using to much of his chakra." Sakura said nonchalantly.
"You should not wish death upon your teammates." Tsunade said.
"Well I hope that he ok, a child spending the night out in the woods alone." Sunami said as she brought out the rest of the food.
"No need to worry yourself, Naruto's a goofy kid but he is also a full fledge ninja can handle himself." Kakashi said.
'He right Naruto has been through much worse than this.' Kurama thought as he looked at the Younger Kakashi.
"Sakura is right, Naruto such a loser he probably lying out there dead somewhere." Sasuke said before standing up and started to leave the house.
"Sasuke?" Sakura called out to him.
"I'm going for a walk." Sasuke told them.
"He is actually worried for his teammates." Fugaku said as he felt a surge of pride go through him.
"But we just started eating." Sakura said before she turned to look down at his plate to find it empty. "Huh! That was fast." Sakura said.
Haku sat next to Naruto. He leaned forward to strangle him but stop meer inches away from his neck before moving to his shoulders and giving it a shake.
"Hey you will catch a cold if you sleep here, wake up" Haku said as he continued to shake Naruto shoulder.
Kushina let out a sigh in relief that this boy did not kill her son.
Naruto grunted as he woke up. Haku gave him a blank stare before Naruto sat up. Naruto rubbed his eyes before looking over at Haku.
"Who the heck are you?" Naruto asked. Haku gave him a soft smile causing Naruto to blush slightly.
"Uh I-i mean, Where did you come from, I mean what are you doing out here and all that." Naruto asked.
"Does he honestly can not tell that he a boy?" Kakashi asked surprised.
"Do not worry, some blondes like your sensei over here are just super dense." Jiriya said causing everyone to laugh except for Minato who gave him a sharp glare.
"I'm gathering Herbs." Haku says.
"Herbs?" Naruto Repeated.
"Yes that right, there used to treat illness in human beings." Haku said.
"You start work early, huh sis." Naruto said as he began to help pick some herbs.
"Your right blondes are dense." Obito said.
"I like doing it early, but I didn't think I would find anyone sleeping out here." Haku told him causing Naruto to laugh.
"I'm training." Naruto told him.
"Hmm so you mean your training, I notice that headband on your forehead our are you simply making a fashion statement?" Haku asked.
"Oh you noticed that alright, Only super cool Ninja like me can wear it." Naruto told her.
"The headband just makes us look cooler." Obito and Jiriya said striking a pose.
"Oh Really," Haku asked "Does that me your training for something Dangerous?"
"No I'm just developing my skills, so I can get stronger." Naruto said.
"But you seem pretty strong now isn't that enough." Haku said.
"Not even close." Naruto said.
"But why?" Haku questioned.
"Because so I can become the best Ninja in my Village, then everyone will know who I'm and all them will respect me." Naruto told her as he gave Haku a big grin.
Kushina felt a swell of regret of dying and leaving her son alone in that world
"There is also a person that I have something to prove to." Naruto said with Determination.
"Just like the two of them." Rin thought as she glanced between her two teammates.
"Are you doing it for the same person or all for yourself?" Haku said.
"Huh?" Naruto asked as he tilted his head in confusion, causing Haku to laugh. "What so funny, what are you laughing about?"
"Is there someone precious to you?" Haku asked.
"Someone who?... What are you saying? What do you mean sis, someone percious?" Naruto asked
"To have someone precious is also a reason to fight and keep moving forward when everything else seems wrong." Jiriya said.
"Exactly before we go any further I want to show you a bit about Haku." Kurama said as he brushed his hand over the river.
A/N: Hey guys did you like the chapter 9? I'm sorry it took me so long to type. Super slow at typing and I can't sit still for Sh*t for to long with out dying of boredom or being distracted or writing a different fanfic. I was Super Surprise at how many Reviews I had gotten, you guys make want to type faster but I'm terrible slow. *cries* I will try to upload soon. I will try not to go missing for extend periods of time. I hope this Long Chapter makes up for this.
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