Insanity's Slip

Chapter Eleven

By Boejangles

Sakura nearly froze at seeing Sasuke get trapped inside the mirrors. She clenched her fists angry she could do little more then stand there. She reached her hand into the pouch on her leg and pulled out a kunai before throwing towards the mirrors.

Haku who had up until that point been turning Sasuke into a pincushion reached out and grabbed the kunai and looked back at Sakura. What he wasn't expecting was for a kunai to hit him directly in the mask knocking him completely out of the mirror.

There was a lot of smoke and crackling noises. Everyone turned to look at the new presences. "And now I am here and going to beat you all up!"

Kakashi wanted to hit his forehead with his students display, but something wasn't sitting right. This wasn't like his students behavior at all. But there was no doubt that the blonde was standing in the middle of the dissipating smoke.

Haku looked at Naruto and tilted his head watching the boy. This boy seemed different then the one he met in the woods, even if he was the only one that new it was him that the boy met.

Zabuza threw some shuriken which Haku deflected before they could hit the blonde, "Let me handle this Zabuza."

Naruto was being slow and careful. He could feel the drain of keeping the fire clone solid for as long as he was. He covered Sasuke's mouth before he could make a sound. He turned him so that he could see it was he and then motioned with his head that they needed to get out.

Sasuke was slightly shocked at his brother's amazingly cunning plan. He followed out of the mirrors while the clone distracted the others. Once they were out and near the other side of the bridge Naruto was shaking slightly at the concentration needed for the clone before he finally let it explode.

Haku flew back and slid across the ground.

"Haku!" Zabuza shouted after taking a glance at the ice dome and noticing it empty. He turned to Kakashi and attacked knowing they had lost their advantage.

Naruto took a few breaths to steady him before looking at his brother who was pulling out the needles. "Are you okay?"

Sasuke grit his teeth this was the second time his younger brother was outright stronger then him. It just wasn't fair. He was older he should be stronger. His rage hit its mark before he lashed out and punched the blonde in the face.

Naruto was completely unprepared for the attacked that sent him backwards. He let out a scream as he fell over the side of the bridge.

"Naruto!" Sasuke screamed his emotions immediately back in check. He gripped the railing of the bridge as the blonde hit the water.

Kakashi who was blocking Zabuza's blade looked over and didn't see his youngest student anywhere.

"Pay attention to your opponent!" Zabuza spat before blowing another attack that Kakashi barely blocked.

"Sasuke! Where's Naruto!" The gray haired Nin yelled keeping his eyes on the missing Nin.

"He fell into the water!" Sasuke snapped back before a punch to the side of his head sending him to the ground.

Haku was now positive he was the only one that had seen what had actually happened. "You forgot about me!" He said in a deadly voice to the dark haired boy. He had seen himself in the blond boy and had no idea how he would feel if Zabuza killed him. He would die for the man any day, but to have his precious person kill him. That would break his soul.

Sasuke growled as he stood back up ready for a fight.

Haku looked down in the water. There was a chance that the boy was alive, he might have survived the fall. He shot a glance at Zabuza, what should he do.

Zabuza brought his blade down catching Kakashi's side. The Konoha Nin retaliated by stabbing the man in the shoulder his Sharingan long since revealed.

Haku brought up a needle and blocked the dark haired boy's attack. He glanced at the water again before making hand seals with his one hand and disappearing.

Sasuke looked around for any sign of the hunter Nin but found none. His head whirled around to the sound of clapping.

"My, my Zabuza a Konoha Nin and some kid's too much trouble for you?" a short man in a suit who was in front of a larger group of men said.

"Gato, what are you doing here?" Zabuza asked slowly lowering his blade to his side seeing as Kakashi had stopped to listen to the short man.

"Consider this you contract termination. I see your little boy toy isn't here. What a shame I would have liked to kill him." Gato said as if talking about which flavor coffee he wanted.

Zabuza clenched his fists and took a quick look around for Haku, but didn't see him anywhere. "Kakashi, my fight with you is over."

"Understood." The gray haired man said turning to face the new enemy.

Sasuke looked about different emotions running crazy, but most of all he felt confused. He decided to follow instinct and ran over to stand next to Sakura to protect the bridge builder, but the back of his mind was screaming that he shouldn't be rational that his brother had just died!

Zabuza ran at the group intent on cutting off Gato's head. He chopped through anyone that got in his way with Kakashi playing back up with jutsu.

Gato let out a scream as he made a run for it, "A bonus for whoever brings me his head!"

Zabuza got stabbed a few times, but was looking much better then those that he struck. He growled and with a final sweep cut the greedy pig Gato into two pieces.

"Your paycheck is gone, so leave or be killed!" Kakashi threatened creating twenty shadow clones.

The group of men, whose size had been incredibly reduced, started backing away before running for the boats.

Kakashi let out a relieved sigh before it hit him that Naruto had fallen off of the bridge. "Naruto!" He ran over to the railing of the bridge and looked over hoping, praying to see something.

Kakashi whirled a round as an ice mirror appeared behind him. "Zabuza look." He said motioning to the ice knowing it was the hunter Nin's technique.

Haku stepped through the mirror with a soaking wet blonde he was just as wet. He hurriedly set Naruto on the ground and threw off his mask to get a better look at the boy. He lowered his head to the boy's chest. "He's not breathing!"

Sasuke ran over to the blonde's side with horror written over his face.

The brown haired boy pressed his fingers against the boy's neck. "N…no pulse, there's no pulse!" He shot an angry look at Sasuke, "You killed him!"

Kakashi ran over and checked on Naruto's stat's himself. His lips still had some color and the skin still had some warmth, there was still a chance. "Both of you back up now!" He waited for the two boys to back off before going into a set of hand seals. Both of his hands started to flicker slightly with electricity and he hit them down on the younger boy's chest causing the body spasm. He checked for a pulse, still none. He closed his eyes saying a small prayer as he went threw the hand seals again. Slamming his hands down the small boy shook and then stilled.

He closed his eyes almost fearful knowing he couldn't do it again if it didn't work. He lowered his fingers to feel for a pulse. "Thank God." It was faint, but it was there. He concentrated on the boy's breathing, mainly because he still wasn't. He pushed on the boy's chest ten times before breathing into the boy willing his lungs to start pumping. He repeated ten more compressions before the blonde coughed up water before turning unto his side and emptying he stomach. That was all he managed to do before he fell back into unconsciousness.

Sakura was crying and clinging onto Sasuke both were on their knees. Surprisingly Sasuke didn't push her away being too much in shock from his brother technically having died.

Kakashi sat back in relief completely exhausted, emotionally and physically. He covered up his Sharingan before picking up the blond boy.

Haku closed his eyes somehow happy that the boy that was so much like him was alive. He opened his eyes and stared at Sasuke, "How could you push your brother off the bridge?"

Sasuke was on his feet in an instant, "What the hell are you implying!"

"I saw you punch him and him fall off the ledge!"

Kakashi turned around suddenly and stared at his student, "Sasuke!"

"I didn't do it, he's full of bullshit!" The Uchiha protested.

Sakura looked completely lost still having trouble stopping her tears. Tazuna stood off and watched with the other workers that had woken up.

Zabuza evaluated Sasuke, "Haku doesn't lie."

"How's he different then anyone else, I'm not lying! Just ask Otouto when he wakes up, he'll tell you!" Sasuke desperately tried to prove his point.

Kakashi was already weary of Sasuke seeing as this wasn't the first cause of his blond student being seriously injured. "And what did happen Sasuke?"

"He crawled into the ice dome and got me. We got out and made our way to the side of the bridge. He was exhausted and leaning against the rail. When his clone exploded, I'm guessing he used too much chakra, because he just fell over the other side before I could do anything."

The gray haired Nin had been watching Sasuke to see if the boy was lying, but he held himself as if he was telling the truth. "Alright we will wait for Naruto to wake up and ask him. If you are lying Sasuke I will have you personally banned from ever moving up in the ninja ranks."

"Fine, I'm not lying." Sasuke said before glaring at the ground. He had talked more in the last few minutes then he liked to in and entire day. He didn't like the fact he wasn't trusted.

Haku knew exactly what he had seen and glared at the Uchiha. Was this what the blonde had been covering up when they met in the woods; that the dark haired boy was hurting him.

Zabuza turned to look at Kakashi, "Well me and Haku better head off. It was nice fighting with you."

"Yeah, it was better then fighting against you."

Haku looked at a mix of what he wanted to do before looking up, "Look after him." He said motioning to the blonde. He still couldn't get over the look in the blue eyes that he saw in his own.

"I will." Kakashi promised.

With that the two ninja from mist disappeared.

Kakashi gave a look back over every one. From Sasuke who still looked angry, to Sakura who was on the ground and trying to stop crying, the Tazuna who looked like he felt out of place.

Tazuna finally walked up, "Let's head home and get him in bed."

"That would probably be best." The gray haired man said as he cradled the blonde to his chest. He looked back to make sure the other two were following.

A/N: Hello! I got a fast update, hehe.

All right, I think I asked the vote wrong. Don't worry I am still keeping all answers, but I will try and make it more clear for this round of voters (if you didn't vote on the last one and want to then you can)

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