DISCLAIMER!: I DON'T OWN NARUTO! Thought you'd know by now...

(A/N): And we continue...TO THE STORY!

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Chapter 37: Rage

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They then heard a startling laugh. The mist cleared just enough to reveal Zabuza and his masked help. "Well kid, ya ready for round two?" He asked as he glared sadistically at Naruto. Naruto smirked. "Ya I guess I could kick your ass again." He boasted.

Zabuza snarled and charged him sword in hand.

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Naruto motioned his arm over his right shoulder. As Zabuza neared him Naruto let out a snarl. "I'm not holding back this time!" He roared as he summoned a short sword and swung it. Kubikiribocho and the short sword met with a loud clang and sparks from metal grinding against metal. The rest of Team Kurenai jumped back. "Sakura! Cover Tazuna. Shino, your with me. Sasuke, Hinata, Kiba, take the Hunter nin!" Kurenai ordered her Genin. They all nodded and went to do there assignments.

Sasuke rushed the Hunter nin and started engaging him in taijutsu. With their speed near equal the Hunter brought out a senbon and Sasuke responded with a kunai. The two weapons clashed over and over again until the became locked in a struggle to over power on another. Sasuke smirked at his opponent. "You're not half bad." he grunted as he blocked another attack.

"You as well...but not good enough to defeat me." Haku replied. He dodged a slash to his chest and replied with a kick to Sasuke's stomach. He dodged the kick by quickly back peddling. He brought his knife back up and smirked. "Maybe, but I'm not alone." He said as Kiba jumped over him to attack.

"Getsuga!" Kiba roared as he and Akamaru preformed their clan technique. He looked like a cyclone of wind as he ripped his way through the air to his target. However, right before he hit, Haku dove to his left and jumped over Akamaru's attempt.

However now that he was in mid air he couldn't dodge the Hinata's attack. She came at Haku with a palm strike aimed for the boys heart. Haku was able to block with his left arm but instantly felt the chakra spike from the Hyuuga's attack painfully shut down his arms movement.

He landed roughly, losing his footing and rolling onto his back. He quickly rolled out of the way to dodge a hail of kunai from the Uchiha. Haku rolled to his feet and got into a defensive stance. However his left was wide open due to his arm hanging limply, not responding at all. He muttered a quiet curse and looked at his three opponents. "Looks like this won't be easy..." He muttered.

Kiba smirked. "Looks like we got him now!" He barked. But before he could get ready for another attack his eyes widened. Haku was doing a string of one handed hand signs and once he stopped what looked to be ice mirrors rose all around them. "What the hell!" Kiba growled.

"Hyouton: Makyo Hyosho! (Ice release: Demonic Crystal Ice Mirrors)" Haku said as images of the masked shinobi appeared in each of the mirrors. The three Genin stood together in defensive stances. Back to back. Hinata activated her Byakugan to try an pinpoint where Haku was. Once she caught him she through a trio of shuriken. Only for them to bounce off the mirror and for him to disappear.

Kiba tried to catch him by smell but was failing. "Dammit! Fight us like a man you coward!" He roared. He was responded with a senbon in his leg. He cursed from the sting of the needle.

"Sorry, I don't want to kill you, but if you continue to fight, I will have no choice." Haku said as each of his images raised their right hands. They were all wielding senbon.

The three Genin swallowed nervously as they readied themselves for the oncoming attack.

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As Naruto's ninjato clashed with Zabuza's sword, he couldn't help but smirk when the blade started to corrode from Kurama's chakra. Zabuza's eyes widened when he saw his blade begin to rust and chip. He jumped back to get a little time to inspect the damage. He had never seen anything be able to rust, or even CHIP, his sword. He looked at the ninjato the boy was using and nearly gasped.

The Kitsune no Kiba was glowing red from the influx of chakra. Naruto slowly swung the blade in front of him and a trail of red light followed the blade. As Naruto increased the speed of his swings the light grew brighter. Once the light nearly looked solid Naruto stopped swinging, and the light shot out towards his opponent. "Kitsune no Hikari! (Fox's Light)" Naruto roared as the light sped towards Zabuza in the form of an 'X'.

Zabuza dodged and noticed that once it hit the side of the bridge it cut right through it. Zabuza gulped and decided to dodge that attack at all costs.

"Hijutsu: Mushidama. (Secret Technique: Insect Sphere)" A monotone voice called out as a large swarm of insects appeared around Zabuza. He cursed and used his superior speed to get out of the trap as quickly as possible. However he was tagged by more than a few of them. He cursed when he felt his chakra start to sap away. He cursed louder when he was forced to dodge a fireball from a blonde clone that appeared next to him.

Naruto looked around for where Kurenai was and noticed she wasn't around, maybe waiting for an opening for a genjutsu. He shrugged and looked back to the enemy shinobi in front of him. "Alright, time to finish this! TAJUU KAGEBUNSHIN NO JUTSU! (Multi Shadow Clone)" With a large puff of smoke the area of the bridge they were in was cover in Naruto clones. Zabuza paled when he noticed that not only where they all solid shadow clones, but they all wielded the same glowing blade.

Even if the clones were slower and weaker than the original, being out numbered was never a good thing. And with the bugs taking up a lot of his chakra he couldn't afford to use too many high level jutsu. "FUCK THIS SHIT!" He roared in a fit of rage. He threw his sword, causing it plow through over a dozen clones before one of them brought down its sword and cut the slab of iron in half.

Zabuza roared in anger and flew through hand signs. "SUITON: DAIBAKUFU NO JUTSU! (Water release: Great Waterfall)" He Snarled as he launched his most powerful jutsu.

A massive vortex of water formed around him and shot out and annihilated all of the clones. Once the water died down Zabuza fell to a single knee. He was breathing hard and low on chakra. He tried to stand but was caught by a large tree that appeared behind him. Kurenai slowly slid out for the tree as she looked to her trapped prey. "It's over Zabuza." She said to the panting shinobi.

Zabuza let out an evil chuckle as he looked past the Jonin. "Yeah, it seems Haku just finished up with those Genin of yours." He said weakly.

Naruto's eyes widened as he heard Zabuza. He quickly turned and ran to were the others were. He was caught off guard by Zabuza's words, and tried to sense the others chakra. It was low. Too low. He ran till he was inside of the dome of ice.

Juts in time to block the last rain of senbon from hitting the down Kiba, Sasuke, and the shakily standing Hinata. They all looked like they had been used for target practice and when he turned to Hinata she started to fall. He caught her and started to panic.

"Hinata! Come on stay with me here!" He pleaded. She looked up at him and smiled weakly. "Oh, hey Naru-kun," she said weakly. "I...I'm s-sorry. Naru-kun..." She choked out as tears came to her eyes.

"Hinata! No! No! Please NO!" Naruto screamed in panic. Is best friend. The first friend he had ever had in his age group. Was slowly dying in his arms. "Na-Naru-kun..." She said as she brought a weak hand up to his now crying face. "I...never...got to...to say this...but...I..."

Her eyes glazed over. All the light leaving them. Her hand fell from his face and her body went limp.

Naruto's eyes widened. He slowly began to shake his head. "No...No...No...not you...anyone but you..." He choked.

Haku frowned. "I'm so sorry..." He whispered to himself. But this didn't go unnoticed. Haku looked up to see Naruto, sitting there perfectly still.

Then it happened. A wind so powerful it destroyed all of Haku's mirrors and caused him to slide across the bridge.

Kurenai's genjutsu was broken and Zabuza fell back to his knees. Awe struck by what he was seeing.

"Oh no...May kami save us all." Kurenai said. She knew exactly what was coming. She had been there. That terrible...terrible night.

A deep red chakra enveloped the boy. He slowly laid Hinata's still down and turned to Haku. When Haku saw his eyes...they were dead. No emotion, no light. They were crimson eyes that could see nothing. Skin started to peel from the boys face as he closed his eyes. A dark dome of chakra enveloped him and the only thing that could be heard over the massive force of the wind...was just one, pain filled cry.

"GGGRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

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(A/N): To be Continued...

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