After the mystery guy left, me and sasuke continued on the tree walking exercise and at the end of the day we managed to climb all the way to the top. We made our way back to Tazuna's house although sasuke had to help me walk.
When we got back I was exhausted so I went to bed. In the morning kakashi-sensei, sakura, and sasuke continued on with the mission but they left me behind so I can get some rest.
When I woke up and I learned that my team went on without me I immediately left to find them. I found sasuke fighting the same masked person who "killed" zabuza. I rushed in to help him but we both found ourselves trapped in the person's demonic mirroring ice crystals jutsu.
Sasuke couldn't melt the ice with his fire and I even used my shadow clone jutsu to help break the mirrors but I just couldn't break them. The person started throwing senbon at us.
They were able to dodge almost all of them due to naruko being fast and sasuke awakening his sharingan. Seeing this the person tried to finish naruko off to focus on sasuke but sasuke jumped in front of naruko to shield her from the person's attack.
Sasuke, barely standing, looked at naruko who was sitting behind him looking shocked and horrified. She was also shaking. "You should see the look on your face… you-you look like a total loser" sasuke said weakly. Naruko, shaking, didn't say anything at first. "W-w-why d-did you s-save me?" Naruko said with terror in her voice. Naruko repeated the exact same question she asked Ikki all those years ago when she gave up her life save her from getting killed.
Flashback
Naruko was keeling down next to Ikki and said "why? why did you save me?" "L-like I s-said b-be-fore yo-ur my little s-sis-ter and I d-don't w-wan-na see y-you hu-rt" Ikki said coughing blood.
Naruko started sobbing. Ikki weakly grabbed something from her pocket and put it in naruko's hand. Naruko looked at what Ikki gave her. Naruko's eyes widened in shock and said "this is-". "M-mom's ri-ng, she wa-nted to give y-you it o-on yo-ur t-tenth birth-day" Ikki said. "N-no I can't take this, it's for family only" naruko said crying her heart out.
Ikki put her hand on Naruko's cheek and said "y-you are f-ami-ly li-tt-le sis-ter. I'm s-sorry, p-please st-ay sa-fe. I l-ov-e you nar-uko ha-shi-bit-a" Ikki's hand fell as she took her last breath. "Ikki, no, please don't leave me" naruko shouted.
Flashback End
"I don't know why I just did… my body just moved on it's own" sasuke said, thinking back to all the memories of him and naruko. Naruko still sitting there shaking looking like she was about to be murdered didn't say or do anything as sasuke fell down seemingly dead even thought he was only in a near death state.
Sasuke actually did know why he protected naruko, it's because after all the time they spent together naruko started to became important to him. Especially after the night naruko let him stay at her apartment because it was to dangerous for him to walk home. Sasuke couldn't bear to see someone else taken from him but what sasuke didn't know was that it was the same for naruko.
Naruko was having a panic attack. She was breathing fast, her heart was beating fast, and she couldn't move as memories of the village massacre came flooding back. She tried to suppress the day that she had lost everything but it came flashing through her mind all the dead bodies, blood everywhere you looked, the dead body of Kagome, when Ikki saved her life, and a bloody Niles saying that she's too pathetic to kill and him calling her a blood sucking parasite. "Not again" naruko whispered.
I was so mad that sasuke died it caused me to access the nine-tails chakra for the first time. Thanks to the help of the nine-tails chakra I managed to brake the mirrors and the person's mask. To my surprise the person was the guy I encountered in the forest.
Realizing this, I calmed myself down. Haku then asked me to kill him since he felt of no use to zabuza. Before I could haku stopped me. He then rushed over to where kakashi-sensei and zabuza were fighting, sacrificing himself to save zabuza from getting killed by kakashi-sensei.
The bastard zabuza didn't appreciate haku's sacrifice. This pissed me off because haku gave up his life protecting someone precious to him like how Ikki did the same thing for me. She gave up her life saving me because I was precious to her. That was like saying 'well you died goodbye'.
I got so mad I scolded the guy saying that haku gave up his life to save him because he was precious to haku. Zabuza was apparently touched by what I said so he ended up killing this asshole named gato and many of his henchmen before he died.
Then sakura asked me where sasuke was but I didn't say anything, so her and Tazuna went to look for him. They found him seemingly dead. She was so over come with emotion that she violated the shinobi rules and cried for him.
Then sasuke woke up from his near death state as sakura embraced him. She told me that he was ok which brought me a great amount of relief. A long time ago I swore to never let someone else get killed because of me. We stayed in the land of waves for a couple days for our wounds to heal.
When our wounds were all healed we left. The cool thing is the whole time we were there they were working on a bridge and it was done the day we left. The best part is they named it the great naruko bridge.
When we got back to the village, hidden in the leaves, we got the rest of the day off. I went to a part of the village that no one goes to to train on my speed, strength, and all the jutsus I know because if I couldn't beat one person with sasuke's help there is no way I'm ever gonna get to kill that monster (she's referring to Niles) so I have to get stronger if I want my revenge with or without help.
