CHAPTER 3 BATTLE BETWEEN DEMONS
"talking"
'thinking'
"demon/inner sakura talking"
'demon thinking/ inner sakura'
Naruto landed in front of a small shop in the middle of the woods. Inside the shop was an old man was standing behind the counter. As naruto walked in the clerk recognized him immediately and beckoned him over.
"So you have the demon brothers then?" the clerk asked
"Bagged and tagged." Naruto said as he flipped up his hood revealing bright blond spiky hair and a pair of demonic orange eyes
"Ok put those away, you don't need to be a hard ass around me I know you're a badass, and they kinda freak me out." The clerk said in a somewhat bored tone
"Sorry old habits." Naruto said as he shut his eyes exhaled and opened them again to reveal sky blue eyes.
"That's better hell could probably get a girlfriend with a pair of those." The old man teased
"Oh shove it old man." Naruto said as he swung the brothers on to the table
"haha ah right stay here and I'll bring you your payment." The clerk said as he walked into the back room.
After few minutes the old clerk walked back out with a pouch and a two pieces of paper. The old man tossed the pouch too naruto who caught it and opened it to be sure it was all there, after he took out a few gold coins he put the pouch on his belt.
"Gonna need some of those immobilization seal tags." Naruto said as he placed the coins he took out of the bag onto the counter.
"Right." The clerk said as he pulled out a box of immobilization tags and laid them on the counter then picked up the coins next to the box "and here it's a new job." He said as he handed Naruto the pieces of paper.
"What is it?" naruto asked as he picked up the paper and looked at it and gave an evil smirk
Team seven had a quite journey after parting ways with the mysterious fox everyone left to their own thoughts as they walked away from the ferry that smuggled them to the land of wave's secretly.
'No way that guy was the same age as me. He took those guys down as if it was nothing.' Sasuke thought as it irritated him the more he thought about it.
The pink haired kunoiche kept think about who their latest encounter was.
As for their third genin he had been jumping at the littlest things since their encounter with the demon brothers. Just then he saw a bush move "shit there!" he yelled as he threw a kunai at the bush. When they went to investigate they found a whit rabbit paralyzed in fear.
"Oh I'm so sorry mister bunny." Kenma said as hugged the little rabbit who procceded to bite him and run away "that little shit I should of kill…" Kenma began but was cut off as a gigantic blade whizzed past his head and imbedded itself in a tree. "the hell was that?" he yelled
They all looked up at the sword and saw a man with no shirt, grey pants, urban camouflage arm warmers, wraps around his face, and a hidden mist head banned wrapped sideways on his head standing on the horizontal blade.
"Ah Zabuza Momoche Demon of the Mist." Kakashi said
"Kakashi of the sharingan eye." Zabuza replied at his words sasuke was shocked at the words the missing ninja said
"Stay back guard Tazuna." Kakshi said to the team
"But…" Sasuke tried to argue
"This guy is in a whole other league then the last ninjas we faced." Kakashi replied
"Look at the little gennin fresh out of the academy and already outside their sheltered walls of the village." Zabuza taunted
"Now move." Kakashi barked as the three gennin jumped and formed a defensive ring around Tazuna "well looks like I will have to use this." Kakashi said as he raised his head band off of his left eye revealing his red eye of the sharingan.
"Well the hidden mist has a standing order in our bingo book to kill you on site. It says you have copied over a thousand jutsu. Kakashi Hatake copy ninja." Zabuza replied as a thick mist began to envelope the area.
In the blink of an eye Zabuza and the sword he was standing on was gone and he was between the gennin and Tazuna ready to cut the old man in half but was stopped by Kakashi launched himself at zabuza even faster then he moved before and slammed a kunai into his gut.
"Not bad Kakashi." Zabuza replied as he burst into water and another one appeared behind Kakashi and sliced him in half.
"I was going to say the same thing." Kakashi said as stood behind him and put kunai blade to Zabuza's throat.
"So copying my water clones to draw me out huh." Zabuza asked "well just to tell you I will never be defeated by a half assed copy!" he yelled as the real one appeared behind Kakashi again and swung his massive sword missing the ninja as he ducked under but was meet with Zabuza's foot launching him in to the nearby pond.
Just then Zabuza bolted and jumped in the water after him. Just then Kakashi surfaced and Zabuza was standing on the water right behind him in an instant
"Bad move jumping into the water to get away." Zabuza said as he whipped through some hand signs "water prison jutsu!" he called out as a sphere of water formed around Kakashi.
"Oh no he has Kakashi sensei." Kenma yelled with fear
"Calm down and concentrate I'm gonna need your help if we are gona free Kakashi sensei." Sasuke said
"What do you mean free him?" Kenma asked in shock at his teammate "he just took down sensei like it was nothing, we couldn't even get two bells away from him."
"That is the only way we are gonna survive this is if we free him." Sasuke yelled at Kenma who only started to walk backwards in fear.
"And you call yourself a ninja." A new voice came from behind them up in a tree they all looked up and found that a hooded cloaked figure was sitting up in a tree branch leaning against the trunk.
"Fox?" Sasuke said in surprise. 'what is he doing here?' he thought
"Wow just to tell you Kakashi that was pretty sad." Fox said looking over at the jonin "seriously with the back ground you have you shouldn't of been beaten so easily."
"Ah fox surprised to see you here haven't seen you since the demon islands." Zabuza replied
"Yeah I remember, I remember you leaving me for dead." Fox replied
"Yeah real sorry about that but I didn't want them after me now did I?" Zabuza said sarcastically with a chuckle "so what you doing here anyway?"
"Oh you know taking in the sights thought I might get something to eat just had a craving for some eel and heard the best place to get it was here." Fox replied jokingly. "and taking on a job from a client."
"Oh you and your jokes always gotta be a joker huh?" Zabuza replied "beside I got this job all wrapped up so no need for you to be here. and tell Gato it is disrespectful to send a second hit man especially a child."
"Oh that cuts deep old man." Fox replied as he jumped off the branch and grabbed his heart. Once he landed Sasuke and Sakura held their kunai toward him "but I ain't here for the old geezer. I'm here for you."
"What?" Zabuza replied in shock
"Yeah I was just hired to bring you in." Fox replied
"Oh so you're just gonna kill me and the old man then?" Zabuza said
"What no just you wasn't told anything about the old man… or was I? I really gotta start paying attention when getting new jobs." Fox replied as he held his chin in thought
"Well I'll take you down along with the rest of them." Zabuza said as he made another water clone.
"Hey duck ass wanta get your sensei out of that?" Fox asked
"Yeah." Sasuke replied not liking he had to rely on this guy
"Alright good" fox says as he walks over to Sasuke and then kicks him in the back launching him straight at Zabuza who just readied his sword to slice the gennin in half just then naruto came from below the water with a straight bladed wakazashi about two feet long coming straight at Zabazu's arm that was holding together the water prison holding Kakashi. At seeing this Zabuza quickly jumped away as Sasuke went skipping across the water by Fox who was now standing on the water between Kakashi who was kneeling on it and zabuza
"Hey thanks for the diversion kid." Fox yelled over to Sasuke who was treading water
"Fuck you." Hey yelled as he swam to shore.
"Alright Cyclops this guy is mine I don't like other people messing with my hunts." Fox said
"Fine." Kakashi said out of breath as he jumped out of the water and on to the shore
"So you ready for this?" zabuza said as he took his sword off his back and leveled it into a fighting stance.
"Oh yeah." Fox said as he drew out his second wakazashi then turned them in his hands so they were reverse grip.
At this Fox sprinted toward the swordsmen and swung both his swords at him which were easily blocked. Then Zabuza swung his blade down on the smaller opponent but fox put his swords up over his head in an X shape and stopped the blade in its tracks.
"I'll give you credit not many people can block that attack." Zabuza said
"Oh so guessing even less can do this." Fox said as he slipped out from under the blade and kicked Zabuza in the gut making him stumble back. As he stumbled fox swung his sword at Zabuza's face but the mist ninja blocked it with his sword. They began to go back and forth attacking a blocking each other's blows for a while.
Kakashi walked over toward Tazuna and his team who were watching the fight between the two swordsmen.
"Wow look at them go." Kenma said in awe
"Whoever he is he is very skilled with a sword, to be able to hold his own against Zabuza." Kakahsi replied
"What do you mean sensei?" Sakura asked
"Zabuza is one of the legendary seven swordsmen of the mist. They are an elite group of swordsmen that are some of the best in the world." Kakashi said
"And he is beating one?" Sasuke asked
"No he is barely holding out." Kakashi replied
"Oh no so he might die?" sakura asked franticly
"Perhaps but he seems smart and he knew who he was starting a fight with so my guess is he has a trick up his sleeve he hasn't played yet." Kakashi said
The battle raged for hours with Zabuza mostly dominating the battle while fox blocked and dodged while threw in a few good attacks. As the battle continued both fighters began to fatigue and grow slow
"What slowing down on me already old man." Fox said out of breath
"Look who's talking your just as worn out as I am." Zabuza replied
"What you talking about? I'm just getting warmed up." Fox said as he stood up straight with some effort
"Play it off as much as you like but this fight is mine." Zabuza said as he charged and swung but was blocked then he kicked fox in the chest and brought his blade around across fox's chest and they all saw blood fly and Zabuza brought the giant sword around again and fox tried to block it but his sword was launched from his hand and stuck into a tree at the shore. Fox fell to a knee as Zabuza walked over to him.
"I'll give you credit not many people have lasted this long with me." Zabuza praised "but this fight is mine." He said as he brought his Executioners blade over his head to finish the job.
"Sorry but this fight is mine." Fox said as he swung his second blade up and lunged it into Zabuza's gut
"But how?" zabuza said as he spat out blood
"Simple you became over confident thinking the fight was over just cause you landed a few hits." Fox replied as he withdrew his blade from Zabuza's gut then brought it into a stance to finish the job when all of a sudden two senbon needles stuck into the side of Zabuza's neck.
Then a ninja wearing a porcelain mask with hidden mist markings on the forehead jumped over and grabbed the ninja before he sunk beneath the ponds surface.
"Thanks for assisting in the capture of our missing nin." The mist ninja said
"Damnt why did you go and steal my kill like that if I didn't kill him I can't claim the bounty" fox whined
The hunter ninja just gave him no response and left with the body.
"Damn't can you believe that shit?" fox asked the leaf ninja as he walked over and grabbed his sword.
"I'm impressed not many could take down one of the seven ninja swordsmen" Kakashi said
"Well any one gets cocky when they think they are about to win the fight and they let their guard down so I just created that opening and took it. Also good thing he fought me as a fellow swordsmen and didn't use his jutsu or I would have been done in before it even began" Fox replied with a smirk
"But you do know you'll have to fight him again and it won't work a second time." Kakashi said
"Wait what?" Kenma said "I thought that was one of his villages ANBU?"
"It's a good fake, if it was really an ANBU he would have destroyed the body right here not taken it away." Kakashi replied
"Sounds like you speak from experience." Fox said but got no reply from Kakashi just a stern look "well yeah I know he wasn't a hunter nin, that was Haku, Zabuza's protégée, or student."
"If you knew why did you let him take him?" Sasuke asked
"Cause my human canon ball I am injured and worn out you honestly think I could take on Zabuza's student right after taking on Zabuza. I'm good but everyone has their limits." Fox replied "well this is where we part was for next time we will most likely be enemies cause I did my and that old man still has a nice bounty on his head." He said point at the old man
"Then why don't I just kill you now?" Kakashi said as he raised an eye brow "you did say you were worn out and injured."
"Haha, yeah but I saved your ass, from that water prison you owe me one." Fox chuckled then gripped his chest in pain where he got cut "ah hurts to laugh"
"Very well next time we meet it will be as enemies." Kakashi sighed
"Till next time." fox said as he jumped away and started to run through the trees with a bit of a limp
"Let's go we still have a few hours before we get to Tazuna's and it is already dark out." Kakashi said as he turned and began to walk away.
"Right" they all said as they turned and followed.
They had been walking for about an hour down the path when they spotted something laying in the middle of the path. As they approached they noticed it was wearing orange pants, an orange torn up jacket and blond hair.
"Hey are you ok." Sakura said as she jogged over toward the unknown person on the ground
"Sakura wait up it might be a trap." Kakashi yelled out but she was already kneeling next to whoever it was on the ground
"Kakashi sensei I think he is still alive." She called over after looking him over and the rest of the group catching up
"Alright let's see what we are dealing with" Kakashi sighed as he rolled the person over to reveal the face of a young boy of about twelve with whisker like marks on his cheeks. At the look of the boy both Kakashi and Sakura went wide eyed.
'It's him' Sakura thought 'the one who saved me all those years ago.'
'Impossible' Kakashi thought as he looked closer 'naruto where have you been?'
END CHAPTER 3