Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Kale's POV
"Man this fog is dense." I squinted "You can't see a thing."
"We should be there shortly." The man rowing the boat explained "The Wave Country is just passed the base of the bridge."
The wind blew softly and some of the fog began to clear giving us a view of the large bridge that was being constructed.
"Whoa it's huge!" Naruto yelled.
"Keep it down." The sailor snapped "Are you trying to give away our position."
Our job had changed from a simple escort task to something much more sinister. Tazuna was trying to build a bridge to connect the economies of his island and a few others, unfortunately trade was currently regulated by a wealthy merchant named Gato. The man was sending ninjas to target the builders and make sure the bridge project never succeeds. Tazuna had lied about the true nature of our work because the real cost for the job would have been too high for his poor village to afford. Kakashi-Sensei got suckered into helping when Tazuna played the family card.
"This is it." The sailor said as we approached the dock "This is as far as I can take you, good luck."
"Yeah." Tazuna said getting out of the boat "Thanks a bunch."
The Wave Country was rural and quiet, lots of trees and mangroves that grew on the water, some of the houses were built over the water and had attached docks.
This place is nice, I like it here.
As we started to walk Tazuna home Naruto was super jumpy, looking all over all the time. He was trying to be useful but was only getting in the way, he nearly killed a poor rabbit that just happened to be passing by.
"Stop throwing sharp things." Kakashi-Sensei said looking at the rabbit.
"Hmm…?"
"Naruto ninjas are supposed to be sneaky remember, you can't be so loud you'll give us away." I explained.
"Get down!" Kakashi yelled.
Sasuke grabbed the old man and Sakura and I pulled Naruto to the dirt, I felt the wind ripple as something passed over our heads. A massive sword flew over our heads and embedded itself in the nearby tree where a man jumped down and stood on the hilt. The man was tall, short shaggy hair, like Kakashi his face was covered and he was a little lanky in body shape.
"The Hidden Mist's missing ninja Zabuza Momochi." Sensei said looking at him while pushing Naruto back "All of you stay back, this guy's at a whole different level."
Kakashi-Sensei grabbed his headband and moved it up "It'll be tough unless I use this."
"So you're the famous ninja, Sharingan Kakashi." Zabuza said looking over his own shoulder "Sorry but I'm killing that old man."
Sharingan?
"You four, surround and protect Tazuna do not enter this fight." He said "That's you part of the teamwork this time got it."
He's serious…this Zabuza guy must be super strong.
"Zabuza you fight me first." Kakashi glared.
His eye…his iris and pupil look so strange.
"Wow I get to see the world famous Sharingan right off the bat." Zabuza said "Lucky me."
"What the heck is a Sharingan?" Naruto asked.
"It's an ability that some people have in their eyes to read all types of Jutsu." Sasuke explained "But that's not the only ability the eye has…"
He's holding back…what isn't he telling us.
"He's right." Zabuza said "The scary thing is that it lets you copy other people's Jutsu. When I was with the Hidden Mist I kept a handbook, there was information on you in it. It called you the Copy Ninja, a man who copied over a thousand different Jutsu."
I knew Sensei was strong…but I didn't know he was world famous too.
"Enough talking I'm killing the old man." Zabuza said crouching down "But it seems I'll have to beat you first Kakashi."
Zabuza pulled his cleaver like sword out of the tree and dashed over to the nearby lake and made a hand sign.
"Hiding in the Mist…"
Zabuza suddenly vanished into thin air.
"He'll come at me first." Kakashi told us "Zabuza is an expert in silent killing, you'll be dead before you notice he was even there, I can't use the Sharingan perfectly, so be careful you guys."
We all got ready, the mist around us was growing thicker and thicker, making the gradually more humid and difficult to see through.
"Eight different points…which to attack first?" Zabuza said from his hidden position.
I can't…move…one step and this guy will kill me for sure…
"Relax." Sensei said "I'll protect you guy, I won't let you die."
"We'll see about that."
"Ha…" I looker my shoulder and saw Zabuza was between us and Tazuna.
How…we didn't notice him at all.
"HYA!"
Kakashi-Sensei dashed over and stabbed Zabuza. I noticed that Zabuza's blood was clear.
"Behind you!" Naruto yelled.
Another Zabuza appeared and the first one melted away.
"A water clone!" I said.
Zabuza slashed right through sensei, but Kakashi melted away this time.
He made a water clone?
"Now don't move" Kakashi said pointing a Kunai at Zabuza's neck "It's over."
"Really?" Zabuza snickered "You really think you can beat me with that ham-handed imitation of my move? It's not bad, you were able to make a clone in near record time, you even made it talk."
"Do you think I'm a fool?" Zabuza said appearing behind Sensei.
Another clone?!
Zabuza swung his sword and when Kakashi dodged that he swept his leg and kicked him in the stomach, lunching him into the lake. As Kakashi tried to get out of the water Zabuza dashed over and made a hand sign. A large bubble rose up and trapped Sensei.
"Escaping to the water was a big mistake. I've got you in an inescapable prison." Zabuza laughed "You and I can finish later, first I'm taking care of them."
He moved his hands and another water clone pulled itself out of the water.
"Wearing those headbands like that, acting like real ninjas, a real ninja is someone who survives multiple brushes with death." Zabuza said "only those good enough to get into my book are real ninjas."
The clone vanished and suddenly popped up in front of Naruto and sent him flying with a kick. The attack was so forceful that it even knocked his headband off.
"Take Tazuna and run!" Kakashi-Sensei yelled "You can't beat him! The water clone can't get very far from the real body, so just get out of here!"
"RAHH!" Naruto got off the ground and went charging at the clone.
"Stop!" Kakashi said.
"What is he doing?" Sakura yelled.
"Isn't it obvious?" I said "He's getting back what belongs to him."
Zabuza easily kicked Naruto away again, but the task had been accomplished, he had retrieved his headband.
"Hey No-brows." Naruto said standing up "Why don't you right this in your handbook, the name of the future Hokage, is me, Naruto Uzumaki."
"Hey listen I've got a plan." Naruto yelled.
"You're actually thinking." I smiled.
"Teamwork from the idiot." Sasuke scoffed.
"So…you in?"
I stretched my arm "Let's get started."
"You really think you stand a chance?" Zabuza rolled his head.
"I told you to run away!" Kakashi yelled "Don't you remember the job, you have to protect Tazuna!"
"Well old man?" Naruto asked.
"Well it's my fault you're in this mess." The old man sighed "I'm not saying I desire to live so much that I'd stop you…sorry, fight to your heart's content."
"I say we got the go ahead." I smiled.
"Let's do it then." Sasuke blinked.
"Fine!" Zabuza laughed "If you wanna keep playing games I'll finish you, you know when I was your age my hands were already covered in blood."
"So it is true." Kakashi said "That the old Hidden Mist graduation exam…"
"What exam?" Naruto asked.
"That exam…was a fight to the death between the students, teammates and friend slaughtering each other."
"Ten years ago the Hidden Mist's exam was forced to change after a devil appeared there, without and pause a boy who wasn't even a ninja killed a hundred other students." Sensei explained.
"That sure was fun." Zabuza snickered.
This guy killed a hundred people at our age…
"HRAA!" Zabuza dashed forward and sent Sasuke flying with a punch before slamming him down with an elbow.
I tried to stab him with a kunai but he flipped me over and stepped on my chest.
Can't…breath.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Naruto made dozens of his clones appear and surround Zabuza.
"That's a lot of clones." Zabuza said taking his foot off me.
"Here I come!" Naruto said having all the clones jump and dog pile on Zabuza.
Zabuza's clone was quick to shake off all the clones. Naruto rolled back and reached into his bag before throwing a Windmill Shuriken to Sasuke.
I see that's what we're doing…not a bad plan Naruto.
"That's not gonna work." Zabuza said as Sasuke hurled the blade at him.
The shuriken caught the wind and started to blow towards the real Zabuza.
"Nice try but no!" Zabuza said grabbing the blade from midair "HYUP!"
He managed to see the other shuriken in the shadow and jump over it in time.
"Quas, Quas, Quas!" I moved my hands "Invoke: Cold Snap!"
I was surrounded by three blue flames that I channeled into an attack, locking up Zabuza's joints.
"NOW!"
"HYA!" the second shuriken transformed into Naruto and threw a kunai at the swordsman.
"Shit!" he was forced to move his body away and stumble back into the water to avoid Naruto's attack.
He froze up mid fall and the kunai scratched his cheek open, he quickly turned around and prepared to throw the shuriken at Naruto.
"My elbow…won't move." He hissed.
"Hey~" I smiled.
"Nice job forcing him to release that Jutsu." Kakashi-Sensei said jumping across from Zabuza.
"My Spell will time out at the next instance!" I warned.
Zabuza quickly started moving his hands as he got movement back. Sensei was matching Zabuza's hand movements pose for pose and they both activated the same attack.
"Water Dragon Blast!"
The lake water churned up and transformed into a giant sea serpent that quickly crashed down. The water rained down on top of us and in the middle of the deluge Kakashi was able to block Zabuza's huge sword with a simple dagger.
Zabuza started to use another Jutsu but again Kakashi copied him movement for movement and even started moving faster.
"Impossible!" Zabuza said "That fricken eye!"
"Water Explosion!"
The lake exploded into a torrent of water the lifted Zabuza up, spun him around and slammed him into the shore with bone breaking force.
"It's over." Kakashi said as Zabuza slammed into a tree.
"You…can see te future?"
"Yeah, and you're gonna die." Sensei said.
"GAH!"
Before anyone could move Zabuza's neck was suddenly penetrated by two giant needles.
"HA!"
"I suppose you were right, he is dead." A voice said.
A masked man jumped down from the trees and explained that he was a hunter from the Hidden Mist sent to retrieve Zabuza the missing ninja.
That killer…is probably around our age.
The Hunter took Zabuza away and the rest of us got ready to take Tazuna home.
We were able to hold up with a ninja as strong as Zabuza…even if it was just for a few moments we managed to not get killed…
AN
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