The traveling group looked up into the tree as they saw their next opponent staring them down. The man was laughing maniacally.

The opponent was a tall and noticeably muscular man with pale skin, short spiky black hair, brown eyes, and small eyebrows. He could be seen wearing bandages like a mask over the bottom half of his face. The man wore his forehead protector sideways on his head. He was shirtless, with his chest only covered by a belt to which he attached his sword would most likely be stuck, wearing baggy pants with the striped pattern typical of Kirigakure and mimetic wrist-warmers extending up to his elbows, with matching leg-warmers.

'Here it is!' Naruto yelled to himself in his head.

'Now's my time to shine. I'm not going to lose to Kakamei or Sasuke.' Naruto those

ught.

"Well, well. If it isn't Zabuza Momochi, rogue ninja from the Village Hidden in the Mist." Kakashi said as he looked up at the newly identified ninja.

Naruto ignored the fact of what Zabuza was and started to attack. Before Naruto could go anywhere Kakashi put his hands up and halted him.

"You're in the way. Get back." Kakashi said. Naruto was taken back by this new side of Kakashi.

"But why?" Naruto asked, still confused about why Kakashi had stopped him.

"This one is not like the others. No, this one is in a whole different leagues." Kakashi said as he prepared himself for a battle.

"I suppose you're Kakashi Hatake of the Sharingan." Zabuza said as he looked at Kakashi. He looked at the black haired Daichiki and smiled.

"So, Kakashi the rumors are true. You have the Daichiki brat with you too. I'll be taking his head as well." Zabuza said as he looked at Kakamei.

"If I'm going to be fighting an opponent of this level I'm going to need this." Kakashi said lifting his headband from his eye. It was of a total difference of what the normal eye looked like. His pupil was red with three tomoe circling inside. Kakamei looked at the eye.

'I didn't know Kakashi had things like this up his sleeve." Kakamei thought to himself amused. Naruto took a step back as he was hit with the fact that Kakashi's eye looked unusual to say the least.

"I feel quite lucky. I get to see the Sharingan in action." Zabuza said confidently.

Kakamei looked over to Sasuke. The Uchiha heir looked taken aback by the news of Kakashi having the SHaringan. Sasuke stood there in awe, seemingly motionless.

"Sasuke, are you alright?" Kakamei asked. Sasuke nodded his head.

"Quick! Four Man Manji Formation. Protect the bridge builder and stay out of this. I taught you teamwork and now it's time to use it." Kakashi ordered his team. Instantly the Genin surround Tazuna.

"Very well, Kakashi of the Sharingan, let's see how much fun you can make things." Zabuza said as he chuckled. Naruto became irritated because he couldn't follow the conversation.

"Everyone's talking about Sharingan this, Sharingan that, but someone tell me what the Sharingan is! And what is this talk about Kakamei needing to be killed." Naruto yelled in annoyance. Surprisingly Sasuke was the one to speak up on the Sharingan part of Naruto's question.

"The Sharingan is a rare power that resides in the eyes. The user of this doujutsu will be able to instantly see and comprehend any type of Taijutsu, Genjutsu, or Ninjutsu as well as reflect the attack back on the attacker. However, there is more to the Sharingan than that… a lot more. But I have no idea about Kakamei." Sasuke said. The Team 7 looked at Kakamei.

"Kakamei, what is all this talk about you needing to be killed?" Sakura asked. Kakamei treated it like it was no big deal.

"I'll tell you about it later. But, now we have to worry about the enemy at hand." Kakamei said. Now that Kakamei finished Zabuza intervened.

"You got it right boy. But that's only the beginning. The Sharingan can copy the user's opponent's movements to the smallest detail. As for the brat there won't be a later. You will die along with the bridge builder." Tazuna said as he put up a sign and conjured the mist to surround the fighters.

"As for you, Jonin, I've had my eyes on you for quite a while. I recently picked up a Bingo Book to see if you were still out there and I was right. Just so you know the man you call sensei is called the man who had 'copied a thousand jutsu', Kakashi the Copy Ninja." Zabuza said as the genin looked surprised that their beloved sensei being such an amazing ninja.

"Wow! That's so cool." Naruto yelled. Sasuke was deep in thought about how the kekkei genkai of the Uchiha had found its way to Kakashi.

"What's really interesting is that boy, Kakamei. He's listed in my bingo book as well. He's from the Sand Village. He has a hefty bounty on his head. I don't know why you're in the book but it says to kill you on sight." Zabuza said. The team of Genin looked at Kakamei with astonishment. He was standing on the right of Tazuna looking down to the ground. His teammates wanted to freak out.

"Kakamei! Is that true?!" Naruto asked loudly as he looked at the Daichiki. Kakamei took a while to answer.

"Yes, but it's not what you think the bounty is because—" Kakamei tried to say before he was cut off by Zabuza.

"Enough talking. I need that old man dead." Zabuza said coldly. He jumped in the air and stood on the water, which was completely bizarre to the genin and started weaving hand signs.

"Water Style: Hidden Mist Jutsu." Zabuza said. As he finished talking there was thick mist that started to spread across the battlefield. Kakamei tried to look around but failed because the mist was so thick. He held his hands out in front of his face and was barely able to see them.

Kakamei started to grip his kunai hard as if he was readying himself to strike.

"Sensei!" Sakura called.

"He will come after me first." Kakashi answered.

"But who is he?" The kunoichi asked.

"He's Zabuza Momochi, the ex-leader of the Hidden Mist Assassination Unit. He is a master of the silent killing technique." Kakashi answered.

"S-silent?" Naruto stumbled.

"Just as the name suggests, it happens in an instant. Without sound or warning. It's so fast you pass to the next life without even noticing. Not even the Sharingan can fully neutralize it, so don't lower your guard." Kakashi said, giving his team an order. There was a silence for a moment as everyone had their guards up, waiting for the killer to strike.

"Well, if we fail we only lose our lives." Kakashi said jokingly.

"How can you say that?!" Sakura said with anger and worry in her voice. As they were talking it became harder and harder to see.

"The mist is getting thicker and thicker!" Naruto yelled.

"The Land of Waves is surrounded by water. Here the mist is as normal as the clouds in the sky." Tazuna reminded the group. The mist had become so thick that the students couldn't even see their sensei. The Genin scooted closer to the bridge builder in fear of being taken off guard. Kakamei was standing at his part as he could've sworn he could smell the tension in the air.

'This reminds me of a long time ago. Oh, how long it's been since I have felt bloodlust like this. So these are jonin.' Kakamei thought to himself.

"Eight points…" Zabuza said from the shadows, "Larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular, vein, collarbone, kidneys, and the heart. Now, which one will be my attacking point." Kakashi started to muster chakra, getting prepared for the battle that was bound to happen soon. He released his chakra and pushing away all of the mist.

As the group waited in silence there was a moment when everyone feared for their life. Zabuza hid himself as he waited for something to trigger him. Kakamei looked over to see Sasuke pulling the kunai closer and closer to himself. He reached out and grabbed Sasuke's hand.

"What are you doing?" Kakamei asked as they then heard their teacher.

"Sasuke, calm down. I will protect you with my life, all of you." Kakashi said confidently. He then turned and let off a smile to his students.

"I will not allow my comrades to die. That is absolute." Kakashi said. This triggered something in Kakamei that made him think back to a time when he was just a child.

'I will not allow any of you to die.' rung through Kakamei's minds as he started to get uncomfortable now. His breathing started to get deeper and deeper. His palms started to sweat and his heartbeat started to race.

"What's wrong Daichiki boy? What happened to your calm composure? Have you started to fear death?" Zabuza asked. Kakamei nearly fell over. Just then Zabuza appeared in between the Manji Formation. He had his sword positioned on his back. In mere milliseconds Kakashi spun around and stabbed Zabuza in the stomach with a kunai.

Team 7's genins took a step back. Kakamei even fell down on his back. They started to feel the relief that Zabuza had been defeated, only to take a deeper look and see Zabuza leaking water, not blood.

"Sensei, behind you!" Naruto yelled as Kakashi quickly turned around to see Zabuza already mid swing, no, already slicing him in half.

Before Zabuza could celebrate his victory he noticed that Kakashi turned into water.

'Water clones!?' Zabuza thought as he felt the sharpness of a kunai knife touching his neck.

"Don't move. Now it's over, you're finished." Kakashi said to Zabuza. Here was a silence as the others took in what had just happened.

"Wow! Kakashi-sensei! That was cool!" Naruto yelled. The other genin didn't show it verbally but they also felt the relief of their sensei having won the fight. Kakamei, who had been having a slight panic attack had calmed down as well. He had regained his composure and now had his usual look on his face. Zabuza started to chuckle lightly.

"Finished? You really don't get it. Your techniques are nothing but a crass imitation. I'll never be defeated by a copy-cat ninja like you. But, you are full of surprises. You were able to copy my jutsu in the middle of your speech. Very skillfully executed. You made your clone say those words to draw my attention while you were in the mist, waiting for me to make my move. Nice try, but I'm not that easy to fool." Zabuza said. The moment he finished the last word he appeared behind Kakashi.

Zabuza swung his sword to slice Kakashi in half but the latter ducked fast enough to dodge the attack. Zabuza turned and kicked Kakashi in the chest and sent him flying in the air. Kakashi landed in the lake. He had barely made his head and shoulders out of the water before he was encased encased in a water jutsu by the rogue ninja who was now standing behind him.

"What a fool! Water Style: Water Prison Jutsu!" Zabuza said. Kakashi, suspended in a water jutsu sat and watched as his students watched.

"This prison is made of water stronger than steel It's hard to fight when you can' move, wouldn't you agree." Zabuza taunted.

"So much for the famous Kakashi. I'll finish you off once those brats are out of the way. Water Clone Jutsu!" Zabuza said as he created a water clone that was made of a puddle that was in front of the students.

"You think you can call yourself ninja just by wearing those headbands? Pathetic. The only ones who can call themselves shinobi are the ones that have seen the face of death so many times it doesn't even face them. When you become so deadly that your profiles are entered into my Bingo Book, then I might consider you ninja. The fact that you call yourselves shinobi is nothing but an unfunny joke to me." Zabuza said the new ninja.

When he finished his speech the clone disappeared into the mist. He couldn't be sensed by anyone. He appeared in front of Kakamei.

"I'm going to kill you first. The money on your head is way too much to let slip up so easily." Zabuza said before he punched the kid in the face sending him flying. Kakamei hit a flip and landed on his feet even though he continued to skid across the ground. Before he could regain his balance Zabuza appeared behind him and swung his arm and, with his wrist, slamming Kakamei sending him landing onto the ground. Zabuza walked to Kakamei and put his foot on the genin's chest.

"To make sure you can't go too far I'll just give you a slight handicap." The rogue ninja said as pushed his foot down and Kakamei started to shriek in pain . Zabuza had just broken a few of his ribs.

"There we go." Zabuza said as he turned to the others.

"If you're feeling like saviors, come and help your friend." Zabuza said as he laughed. His laughed was thrown into the background as Kakashi started speaking.

"Everyone! Get out of here! Now!" Kakashi yelled at his students. The clone fell back into the mist and it became silent once more. In less than a second Zabuza appeared in front of Naruto and kicked him in the stomach. The boy flew backwards and landed not too far from Kakamei. Naruto slowly tried to stand as he noticed a slight change. He looked up as he saw his headband missing. He looked forward and saw the clone standing on it with an arrogant face.

"You're nothing but kids." Zabuza said, looking over Naruto.

"Listen! Get the bridge builder and run! You can't win this fight! He's using all of his power to keep me in this water prison. He's only able to fight with his clone! His clone can't go much farther from his real body! If you get away now, his clone won't be able to follow you! Now RUN!" Kakashi ordered loudly.

'Run away? Not an option. The idea of running away became impossible the moment you were trapped in that

ninjutsu. No matter how fast or how far we run he will track us down and wipe us out. If we try the Manji Formation, he'll get past it just like that. In the end, if we do what he says we're finished. Our only chance to survive is to rescue Kakashi.' Sasuke thought as he looked at the situation.

'What doesn't make it better is that Kakamei is on the ground. It sounds like Zabuza broke a few of his ribs. He won't be moving any time soon. So now it's just me, Naruto, and Sakura.' Sakura thought as she looked at him on the ground. She looked thoroughly because she started to see a slight color change coming from that direction. She shook her head to get those thoughts out of her mind. Maybe the mist was getting to her vision. Before she could take another look Sasuke bolted towards the water clone.

The Uchiha jumped into the air and threw shuriken at the Mist ninja. Zabuza simply pushed away the shuriken with his sword. His sharp senses detected something and looked up to see the genin falling towards him.

"Too easy." Zabuza said as he grabbed Sasuke by the throat and threw him away.

"Sasuke! No!" Sakura yelled helplessly. Naruto turned his gaze to Sasuke before reverting it back to Zabuza.

'So this is what a jonin is like? I - I gotta get away! If I don't he's going to annihilate me!' Naruto thought to himself as he was shaking with fear. He went to crawl away when his left hand touched the ground and he was taken back to his promise.

'Upon this wound I make this pledge! Believe it!' Naruto thought to himself. Naruto slowly stood as he prepared himself for another charge.

'That's right! I swore an oath of pain! I won't run away!" As he dashed at Zabuza.

On the ground Kakamei's head was turned in the opposite direction of the fight as he sat there in pain.

"That hurt! He broke my ribs and I can barely breath. I need to gather chakra." Kakamei said lightly as he started to muster tiny bits of chakra slowly.

After a few seconds he was able to turn his head in the other direction to see how the fight was going. He watched as he was Naruto bolting towards Zabuza and getting kicked away ever so slightly.

"Ah. They are having trouble. They need my help. I don't enough chakra yet to fix myself so I'll just have to wait. Ugh, it hurts so much." Kakamei said to himself as he was lying on the ground, waiting for his body to heal so he could help his friends. He watched as he saw Naruto making yet another dash to the Hidden Mist shinobi.

When Naruto made it to the water clone, the "fake" Zabuza swatted him away as if he was a fly. Naruto rolled on the ground as he lied on his stomach.

Idiot!" Sakura yelled at the knucklehead.

"What do you think you're doing?! Even Sasuke couldn't get him! Were only genin! We can't defeat a Jonin! You could've gotten yourself killed!" Sakura said as she saw Naruto slowly, but steadily, got back on his feet. The thing that surprised Sakura was Naruto carrying his headband.

'His headband?' Sakura asked herself as she watched Naruto out the headband back on.

"Hey! Freak with no eyebrows!" Naruto yelled. This made Zabuza's vein on his forehead poke out in irritation.

"Put this in your bingo book! The ninja that will become the Hokage of the Leaf Village is standing right in front you! He never backs down and his name is… NARUTO UZUMAKI!" Naruto yelled. Kakamei smiled in amusement.

'He's never at a loss for words is he? Ha' Kakamei thought as he felt warmth on his stomach's skin.

'Finally! It should be awhile before I'm completely healed.' Kakamei said as he just sat and watched his teammates.

Everyone stood in silence as they listened to the blonde haired knucklehead. The group was surprised by Naruto's outburst. So much that even Tazuna was stuck in a mix of admiration and surprise.

'I thought he was all talk but he actually has some guts.' Tazuna thought as Naruto stood up.

"Hey Sasuke, Sakura. I have a plan." Naruto said confidently. Everyone stood in awe before Sasuke broke out of it and cracked a smile.

"About time." Sasuke said jokingly.

"Alright, guys! Let's go wild!" Naruto said enthusiastically, which caught Sakura off guard. Kakashi was watching this in horror as he thought he was watching his students march into their deaths.

"What do you think you're doing?! I told you to run! This fight was over the moment I was caught in this jutsu! Take off! This mission isn't to show how brave you are! It's to save the bridge builder! Stay on mission!" Kakashi yelled at the Genin. He was saw his students standing still.

"Bridge builder?" Naruto said lowly asking Tazuna what his verdict would be.

"Well, I guess this all happened because of me. My desire to live. But I won't let that stand in your way. Forget about me and do what you have to do! Go ahead and save your sensei!" Tazuna said. This made the genin smiled as they readied themselves to fight their next opponent.

They heard laughing in the background as they readied themselves for the battle. It was Zabuza chuckling at the spunk of the new ninja.

"You really don't get it? Still playing your little game, pretending to be ninja. When I was your age I had already crushed many with these hands!" Zabuza said maniacally.

"Zabuza… the Demon of the Mist… long ago in the Village Hidden in the Mist, also known as Blood Mist Village, there was a final task one had to do in order to become a ninja." Kakashi said as looked up at the demon holding the Water Prison Jutsu.

Zabuza looked down at Kakashi as he was excited that someone knew about it.

"So, you know about the Graduation Exam?" Zabuza asked as Kakashi looked at Zabuza disgusted. Naruto was confused as to what was happening.

"What graduation exam? And what's so special about it? We had to go through one too." Naruto said.

"Really? Did you You have to kill another student to pass?" Zabuza asked as he had a sense of bloodlust oozing front every pore of his body.

"Just imagine it, ninja like you eating together,training together, and then comes the exam, only for the rules to change. You can't stop until your opponent is finished. It's you or him." Zabuza explained. The Leaf Village genin were shocked by the fact of friends killing each other. Kakamei was too far out of earshot to hear.

'I can't hear what their saying. I won't make it in time. Whether I live or die is up to you guys.' Kakamei said. He then took in a deep breath and started to gather chakra. Since he was lying on the ground the ground that had previously been covered in green grass was burned to a crisp. The ground was now completely black with no signs of life being able to grow in that space.

'I have to concentrate or I'll really destroy the insides of my body.' Kakamei thought to himself as he concentrated on his body.

"A couple of years ago in the Village Hidden in the Mist The Graduation Exam had to change. One year before, a dark evil came to the Academy. Without any pause or hesitation, a child who wasn't even enrolled in the academy approached the class and took out over one hundred other students." Kakashi said as the ominous story made everyone silent.

As the genin were thinking about what Kakashi had said they could hear Zabuza now breathing heavily. The Mist Village Jonin was staring at his hands as if he was completely insane. He then changed his gaze to the sky and let out a sigh.

"It felt so… good." Zabuza said as he looked back down at the genin. They were shaken by the fact that Zabuza had said such a thing.

Before they could say anything the water clone jumped into action and elbowed Sasuke in the stomach and sent him flying. Naruto was shocked by what had just happened.

Sasuke went sliding on the ground as Zabuza simply elbowed him in the stomach. With a strong gasp Sasuke coughed blood. The genin adjusted their sights to Sasuke and the water clone.

"SASUKE!" Sakura shouted for her teammate. Zabuza stood to his feet and stepped on Sasuke's chest. He gripped the handle of his sword, which was on his back. He pushed his foot down harder and harder onto Sasuke chest, making him squirm on the ground in pain.

Kakashi watched in fear of his student's demise. Naruto who was nearby brought his hands together with an infuriated facial expression.

"Stop right there! Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto yelled and summoned an absurd amount of shadow clones. Zabuza watched as they appeared everywhere.

"Oh, shadow clones," Zabuza said suavely, "And there's quite a few of them." The clones all readied their kunai knives, ready to jump into the fight. Sasuke struggled to stand off the ground as he watched Naruto.

Without speaking, Naruto jumped into the air and landed on top of Zabuza. In less than a second the Narutos were pushed back and sent flying across the battlefield.

"His skills are too advanced. There's no way to beat him." Tazuna said as the Naruto's that were flying across the ground started proofing away in smoke. The real Naruto reached into his bag and grabbed a huge shuriken out of his bag.

"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled, getting the boy's attention. He threw the weapon, which Sasuke caught, was surprised about something of the weapon, spun in a 360 degree circle, and looked at Zabuza.

"Not bad, Naruto." Sasuke said as he spread the weapon's 'arms' outwards.

"Demon Wind Shuriken: Windmill of Shadows!" Sasuke yelled. Sakura and Tazuna watched in awe as they saw Sasuke looking so cool.

"Shuriken? You'll never touch me with that." Zabuza said as he chuckled at the thought of someone trying to throw that at him. The genin jumped in the air and threw the huge shuriken in the air sent it swirling at Zabuza.

Just as he looked up the water clone was surprised as the shuriken went flying past him. The real Zabuza looked in amused.

"You skipped the clone and went straight for the real body. Smart. But… not smart enough." Zabuza said as he simply caught the shuriken in his free hand. He seemed secure for a second as he suddenly saw another come out of the shadows of nowhere.

"What?!" Zabuza said as he watched it dash towards him.

"You hid a second shuriken in the shadow of the first. The Shadow Shuriken Jutsu! Zabuza said as he looked at what seemed to be their final attempt to stop him. As he attack closed in he simply jumped into the air while the Demon Wind Shuriken simply flew under him. With a sadistic look he stared down the genin.

"I told you, that could never touch me!" Zabuza said. Sakura looked scared as she thought this was the last thing before they were going to be killed. Sasuke just smiled as he watched his plans unfold.

The shuriken The went up in smoke and out came… Naruto! Everyone on the battlefield looked shocked at the blonde haired boy coming out. He was holding a shuriken.

"What?!" Zabuza yelled as he saw the boy floating in the air.

"Eat this!" Naruto yelled as he threw the kunai at Zabuza.

This time Zabuza has no choice but to retract his hand from the water prison and move out of the way. Zabuza looked at Naruto with anger as blood came spewing out of the cut that Naruto had just given him. Naruto was falling into the water as Zabuza readied himself in anger.

Zabuza started to quickly turn the shuriken that was in his hand fiercely, ready to strike down Naruto. Before he could let throw the shuriken his arm was stopped by another. Blood flew into the air as out of the water Kakashi was standing in front of the Demon looked at his once again opponent Kakashi.

Naruto fell in the water as Kakashi gave Zabuza a death threatening stare. Zabuza saw the Sharingan in Kakashi's left eye and started to slightly tremble.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura yell, relieved to see her teacher. Kakashi stared at Zabuza with a strong look of dominance as he started to compliment his students.

"Naruto, Sasuke! That was excellent execution. You two have really grown." Kakashi said. With a nervous laugh, Naruto scratched the back of his head because of the hype Kakashi was giving him.

"I know I couldn't beat the clone with my clones so I had to come up with something. I transformed myself into Demon Shuriken and made my clone throw it to Sasuke. He knew it was me immediately and spun around to pull out his own. Now there were two shuriken. One was the real one and the other was me. I hid in the shadow of the real one and since the clone was out of the way, he couldn't stop or even notice that there was a second weapon all along. But I didn't know the water clone would disappear too. That was a bonus! Believe it!" Naruto yelled in victory.

"Don't brag about it, loser. You were plain lucky." Sasuke said as he clearly had a slight smirk creeping on his face.

"The whole thing was just a fluke." Tazuna said as Sakura observed.

"You can call it what you want, their teamwork was perfect. Sasuke knew what Naruto was thinking instantly. They act like they hate each other but they have perfect teamwork.' Sakura said as she looked at her teammates.

Zabuza interrupted the conversation as he started to push onto the shuriken. Kakashi held his ground. After a short amount of time of trying to overpower each other Kakashi pushed away the shuriken into the distance. The two jonin jumped across the water, gaining the distance.

Zabuza started to weave hand signs which Kakashi easily started to copy. Kakashi started to copy the signs faster and faster.

After a span of ten to twenty seconds of weaving hand signs they both stopped weaving and yelled their moves.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!" They said in unison as two dragons formed out of the water. They both circled around the users before slamming into each other. The water went flying everywhere. The watchers of the fight were touched by the water but not too much.

Kakameui, who was still lying on the ground. The water didn't get a chance to come closer to him as it turned to steam before touching him. Everyone was too busy to notice but it was getting fairly warm out.

The two jonin were still standing on the water, watching each other.

'Something isn't right. The sharingan is able to comprehend and replicate the enemy's technique, but the jutsu were shot at the same time! How did he know what jutsu I was going to do? Could it be that…?' Zabuza thought as he was ready to try his theory. He started to run in a circle with one hand in the air. Zabuza then did a random hand sign. When he finished his movements his eyes slightly looked frightened as he noticed his hypothesis was right.

'He's not only coyin me but he's doing it at the same time.' Zabuza thought to himself.

"He's not just following him, he's moving in the same way and the same time. You shinobi sure have some really interesting abilities." Tazuna admitted as he watched the ninja fight.

'He's copying my movements perfectly, like a damn mirror. It feels like he's—" Zabuza was trying to think before he was cut off in his thinking.

"He knows what I'm about to do next?" Kakashi said seemingly finishing the sentence he was THINKING!

'He's reading my mind?!" Zabuza thought. Kakashi capitalized on Zabuza's doubting himself.

"It makes you furious, doesn't it?" Kakashi said as he looked at Zabuza. The rogue looked angry at Kakashi with a mix of hatred and slight fear.

"All you do is copy! You can't—" Zabuza tried to say before Kakashi chimed in.

"Beat me with just your cheap tricks! I'll crush you!" They both said together.

Zabuza couldn't handle the mockery that Kakashi was making out of him.

"When I'm done with you you'll never open that monkey mouth of yours again!" he yelled with anger so intense as he saw the lame shinobi from the Leaf was making him look bad. He started to furiously to weave hand signs before he saw something that caught his eye.

Behind Kakashi he saw a silhouette of someone. As he concentrated on the figure he saw that it was himself.

'A genjutsu?' Zabuza thought.

"Water Style: Water Vortex Jutsu!" Kakashi yelled. Zabuza wasn't ready for this as he watched Kakashi launch the jutsu that he was about to launch. The water caught him off guard as a huge wave of water slammed into his body and sent him flying away. He was quickly floating through the water.

'That was the jutsu I was going to use! How did he know what I was going to use?!' Zabuza thought to himself as he washed up onto a tree. He took strong, deep breaths. Just as the water had slightly calmed down Zabuza felt sharp pains in his arms and legs, crucifying him onto the tree that was supporting him. He then looked up as he saw Kakashi standing above him.

"Now, it's over." Kakashi said while unleashing two kunai, ready to kill Zabuza.

"H- How? Can you see the future?!" Zabuza asked with fear in his eyes. Kakashi looked down in anger.

"Yes, and this is you last battle. Ever!" Kakashi said. He readied himself to land the final blow before two quick objects came flying from an unknown source. Zabuza was hit in the neck and his head fell. Two senbon needles had pierced him.

"Indeed, it was his last battle." A cold, emotionless voice said from the shadows. It seemed like a young boy from a distance. Everyone looked around as they saw a rather small figure standing above them.

As Kakamei was lying on the ground he sniffed hard and smelled something… awkward yet strong in its presence. He looked over in the direction of the small ninja. He saw the surprise on all of his teammates faces and Zabuza's lying body.

'That person must be the one that killed Zabuza. Kakashi was having trouble with Zabuza and he swooped in and finished the job. Oh I would fight him but I'm still not recovered. I thought I was decent at this but I'll be doing this for a couple of hours. I really want to fight him.' Kakamei thought as he watched on to the events of the impending confrontation with a masked shinobi and Team 7.

"The real problem is that the others need to get out of here. If I could turn up the heat it wouldn't be as long but I'll just have to wait it out now." Kakamei said as he continued to watch, out of earshot of what the other fighters were saying.

Kakashi jumped from his position in the tree and landed next to Zabuza. He placed to fingers on the rogue ninja's neck and came to a conclusion. He was searching for a while. He eventually sighed and lowered his hand.

"He's dead." Kakashi said. The masked villain bowed his head as he started to speak.

"Thank you. I've been following Zabuza for a while now. I was waiting for an opportunity to strike him down and you have me that chance." The kid said. Kakashi looked up and stared at the kid. Now that he was looking the kid was not only oddly dressed but surprisingly small.

The ninja had long black hair, pale skin and large, dark-brown eyes, and a slender frame. He wore a traditional Kirigakure pinstriped outfit which stopped at his knees. Over this he wore a green haori with white trimmings, and around his waist a brown sash with a fringed trail wrapped around his waist twice. He also wore light-brown platoon sandals with straps in the same colour as his kimono and nail polish on his fingernails and toenails in matching blue green colour.

Kakashi regained his composure and started to speak with the mysterious ninja.

"By your mask I take it you're tracked ninja from the Village Hidden in the Mist." Kakashi said as he looked at the ninja. The boy seemed slightly amused that Kakashi had guessed correctly.

"Impressive. You're well informed." The tracker ninja said.

Naruto came bursting between his other two genin teammates, confused about what the two ninja were talking about.

"A tracker ninja?" Naruto said as Sakura shook her head in disapproval.

"Naruto! You don't even know what that is. You missed the day we learned about it at the Academy as usual. Tracker ninja are very important and their tasks are as well. When a rogue ninja breaks away from his village, he carries all types of secrets of his people. Tracker ninja are trained to hunt these ninja down and secure the secrets." Sakura said triumphantly as she was glad that she knew something that her idiot teammate didn't.

The tracker ninja nodded.

"That's correct. I'm a member of the elite tracking unit from The Village Hidden in the Mist. It was my duty to secure Zabuza." The ninja, explaining what the reason for the events that had just transpired.

'Judging from is height and voice e must be around the same age as Naruto. Yet, he's a member of the Hidden Mist's elite tracking unit. He's no ordinary kid, but what is he?' Kakashi said as he inspected the young boy who had landed the deadly blow on Zabuza. Out of the blue Naruto started yelling, loud enough for Kakamei to hear.

"What is this?! Who the hell do you think you are?!" The young boy yelled. Everyone quickly turned to Naruto. He was visibly angry with a finger pointing to the tacker ninja.

As Kakamei was lying on the ground he heard the loud voice booming. It threw off his concentration enough that the heat that was protruding from his body ceased. He looked closely at what exactly was happening.

"What is going on? Naruto is yelling his brains out and I can't hear anyone else talking. Man that guy has some lungs." Kakamei said as he listened in for more information on what was happening.

"Did you hear me?1 I asked, who the hell do you think you are?!" Naruto yelled once again. This time Kakashi had gained his bearings and prepared to calm his student.

"Easy, Naruto. He's not our enemy." Kakashi said. Naruto was still angry at the events that had just taken place.

"That's not the point! Did you see what he just did? Zabuza was huge and powerful, like some kind of monster! And this… KID, who's no older than I am, took him down with a single move like it was nothing! I mean, what does that make us? We're just bumbling around, we don't know anything! How am I supposed to accept that!" Naruto yelled in frustration. Kakashi understood what Naruto was coming from.

The boy had been essentially training his entire life and he was outclassed easily. It wasn't hard to understand his unrest about the situation.

"Well, even if you don't want to accept it, it happened. In this world there are kids who are younger than you but stronger than me." Kakashi said trying to calm his student down. He pulled down his headband over his Sharingan eye.

All of the genin watched as they could relate to what Naruto was saying.

The tracker ninja poofed over to Zabuza's position and raised it off the ground.

"Your struggle is over for ow. I must deal with the remains. There are many secrets within this body. We cannot allow these to fall into the wrong hands. Please excuse. Farewell." The tracker ninja said as he then turned into a swirling gust of wind.

Kakamei was lying on the ground as he watched his teammate trying to comprehend the feeling of being overcome felt like.

Kakamei just listened with a slight smirk on his face.

"Oh, Naruto wants to be the strongest. I thought he only wanted to be Hokage. If he keeps this up we might end up fighting one of these days. Ha." Kakamei said with a smirk on his face as he managed enough strength to nearly pick his body off the ground, well his stomach at least.

"They need to hurry and get out of here. If I can go full power I could be done in about twenty minutes." Kakamei said as he started to lose his thoughts of listening to the conversation that the other group was having.

'They should be fine.' He thought as he stopped talking aloud and started to let off a slightly stronger heat.

The tracker ninja poofed over to Zabuza's position and raised it off the ground.

"Your struggle is over for ow. I must deal with the remains. There are many secrets within this body. We cannot allow these to fall into the wrong hands. Please excuse. Farewell." The tracker ninja said as he then turned into a swirling gust of wind.

"We still have a mission to complete. The bridge builder has yet to finish building his bridge." Kakashi said, trying to get Naruto's mind off of Zabuza's defeat. Tazuna let out a relieved laugh.

"Sorry about all the trouble I've caused you. But, you can rest in my home once we get to my village." Tazuna said as the team felt relief for Tazuna's words of hospitality.

"Alright, let's grab Kakamei and get a move on." Kakashi said as he walked to pick up his student. Before he could get too close he felt a strong gust of heat hit him. He could feel the temperature increasing earlier but nothing too drastic. This was incredibly hot.

"Kakamei! Are you doing this!?" Kakashi yelled as he looked at his student.

The young genin reluctantly looked up to see his sensei looking down at him from a distance. He turned down his concentration, which almost made the heat completely vanish.

"Yes, Kakashi. I'm doing this. I'm trying to finish healing the ribs that Zabuza broke." Kakamei said as Kakashi looked surprised that he had a power like this.

"I didn't know you had something like this! How can you do something like this!?" Kakashi said as Kakamei just shrugged it off as if everyone could do it.

"With my chakra nature I can mend broken bones. It doesn't work on this like cuts wounds. Other than that it works on everything." Kakamei said as Tazuna and Team 7, with the exception of Sasuke who had a slight look of interest in what Kakamei was doing, looked amazed at what Kakamei was doing.

"I never knew you could do something that! What's your chakra nature!?" Naruto said loudly as he was fairly interested. Kakamei was confused.

"It's Scorch Release. It's the Kekkei Genkai of the Daichiki Clan. We can use Fire and Wind Release in conjunction with each other and make even stronger blast. I use the heat from the Scorch to mend the bones." Kakamei said as he started to mediate the heat so it wasn't too hot to harm everyone around, but hot enough to continue the process with minimal concentration.

"That's amazing! You're so lucky! I wish I could have a power like that!" Naruto said as he looked to his left and saw Sakura thinking to herself.

"Is there something wrong Sakura?' Naruto asked as she stopped what she was doing.

"No, it's Kakamei's power. If you continue to mend your bones like that won't you run out of bones eventually? You're melting you're bones together so you're losing bone every time you do that." Sakura said as Kakamei shook his head.

"We have special bones. They gradually grow back. The bigger the wound, the faster the bone grows back." Kakamei said. Everyone was intrigued by what was happening inside the kid's body.

After a minute of admiration for the kid's body Kakashi regained his calm composure.

"So how long do you think it will take you to finish?" Kakashi asked as Kakamei thought for a second.

"If I keep going at this rate it'll be hours. If you leave now then I could be done in about twenty or so minutes." Kakamei said as Kakashi thought about the moves he should make next.

"Alright, we will leave Kakamei to heal and make it back to Tazuna's home. In half an hour one of you will come show him the way to the village." Kakashi said. His students nodded. The Team 7 leader understood and turned to walk away as he felt a sudden pulse in his body and he immediately blacked out.

"Kakashi-sensei!" All of the genin said as Naruto and Sakura rushed over to him. Tazuna followed as everyone took a knee beside him. Sakura checked his body and let out a sigh.

"He's alive!" Sakura said relieved. Everyone let out sighs as well.

"He probably used to much chakra during the fight with Zabuza. Take him to Tazuna's house, quickly. I'll finish healing and meet up." Kakamei said s Naruto and Sakura nodded as the blonde haired genin put up his signature hand sign and out popped three shadow clones. With two Narutos supporting each side they picked him up and allowed Tazuna to step in front.

"My home is not to far from here. Follow me." Tazuna said as he started to walk as the rest of the team followed him, except Sasuke. The Uchiha stared down at the Daichiki with a slight smirk.

"I didn't know you had power like this. I want a fight. One on one." Sasuke said. Normally when someone challenged him Kakamei just ignored the request and kept walking. But, this was a one time occasion. The only living Uchiha was standing in front of him, wanting to test him. He had no choice. He cracked a smile and looked at his teammate.

"I don't know… I wouldn't want to hurt you too bad." Kakamei teased as Sasuke simply scoffed and jumped away, to catch up with the group headed to the nearby village. Kakamei let his smile slowly drift away as he started to concentrate again.

"Before I can fight anyone I need to be healed first. Now, I can let this go." Kakamei said as he stopped preserving the heat and started to let it all flow out of him.

The forest he was in started to become charred by the heat. He amped up the heat gradually until he let out all of his energy and burned the woods to a crisp.

"I feel so much better now. I'll be done in no time." Kakamei said as he healed himself.


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