17: White Past: Hidden Ambition!
Suiren Uzumaki: The disclaimer: I do not own Naruto cause if I did then Sakura wouldn't be a useless fangirl in pre-shippuden, and Naruto would have his father's smarts while keeping his mother's personality and knows about seals and how to use to them. I do, however, own Ryurama Senju, Yuki Senju nee Miran, Raika Miran (Senju), & the White Tiger Summoning Contract (A/N: If there is already a White Tiger Summoning Contract…then please ignore the last part). Remember to Read and Review to let me know what you think. Also, if you don't like any twist that I might make then stop reading and find something else to read plus don't leave a review that's a flame or I will find a way to block you. Ja ne!
...My Line...
"Is this the first time you've seen a friend die in battle?" Haku asked as he looked back at them. "This is part of what it means to be a ninja."
Raika found it impossible to glare at Haku, who had melted back into his mirror, as Naruto had laid Sasuke down, but that didn't mean that she wasn't unaware to Naruto, who was right across from her.
"Shut up," Naruto told him, "I...I hated you, too, Sasuke and yet." Raika caught a faint sent of evil in the air as steam surrounded all three of them not knowing what to do or where it was coming from. "You'll pay for this." The greenette's head shot up at hearing the demonic tone in Naruto's voice just as the steam turned into red chakra that was spiraling around them. "I'm going to kill you."
'The Kyuubi,' Raika thought as she moved to protect Sasuke. 'Damn it all to hell!' She looked up at her friend. 'My Fuinjutsu knowledge isn't where it needs to be to handle a Jinchuuriki.' A bead of sweat ran down her cheek. 'Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck...FUCK!'
'The blood lust in his eyes...this is no longer a child!' Haku thought as Naruto charged at the other boy with murder in his eyes before the masked boy threw senbone at him only for a roar to knock them away. 'He's Chakra goes stronger every second.' He appeared in different mirrors around the dome. 'I must strike now.' Haku then threw senbone at the blonde only for them to come out with a roar from the said boy, who then destroyed a mirror. 'Now.' Haku launched at Naruto from a piece of the mirror only for the boy to dodge. 'Impossible.' Just before the masked boy could get into a mirror, the blonde grabbed his wrist. 'Those eyes.'
...My Line...
'Could it be?' Kakashi thought. 'The Seal has been broken? No, it's been loosened, and a glimmer of the Kyuubi no Kitsune's Chakra has slip through, but the seal still holds.' He then pulled out a scroll from one of his pockets before tossing it up into the air where it unrevealed. 'Good. Maybe we'll still have a chance.' The Hatake swiped his thumb over his wound to collect blood from it before catching the scroll and swipe his bloody thumb across it. 'Just maybe.' "Zabuza, I don't mean to spoil your fun." The 27-year-old started to move the scroll around in the air. "I know how you like to stretch these things out, but how about we put an end to this now." He then tossed it back into the air where it closed up before catching it again and held it between his thumbs and pointing fingers. "Come on? What do you say? We're both busy people."
"Hmm," he heard the enemy hummed. "Temping. I'm curious on how you're going to back up such brave words. Show me, Kakashi?!"
...My Line...
'I can't,' Haku thought as he tried to fight off the vast Chakra. 'He's too strong.' The Uzumaki then slammed his fist into the mask that the other boy was wearing sending him flying out of the dome and bring down the mirrors. 'Zabuza.' Naruto charged at the masked boy again once said male was standing with a broken mask that was falling apart. 'I am no match for this boy.' The blonde jumped into the air and goes to punch the other boy whose mask fell to the ground in pieces. 'Master. I have failed.'
Naruto panted as he stared at the boy in front of him.
"So, that guy in the woods?" he asked. "That guy, was you?"
"Why do you not strike?" Haku asked. "Do you not just vowed to avenge your comrade's death by killing me? Or were that vow just empty words?" Naruto looked back at the Uchiha before growling and slamming his fist into the other boy's face which knocked him to the ground. "No, that won't do." Haku got up and looked at Naruto. "You're still holding back. If that's all the strength that you can put into then you can never keep your vow." He then whipped his face. "Perhaps he didn't mean as much to you as you pretend." Haku stood up again. "To show mercy to the ones, who oppose the one you serve. To allow his enemies to live when you can strike them down. This is not compensation. It's a betrayal of your life's very purpose. For what reason do you exist then? You are of use to no one. Your life has no meaning. It is mere exists. Day after day of pain and struggle signifying nothing."
"Yeah, well, speak for yourself," Naruto stated.
"Are you really that blind little one?" Haku asked. "I am speaking of myself." He gave a smile. "This day has shown me that I am no longer of any use to Zabuza."
"Zabuza?" Naruto asked. "Why that guy anyway? To devote your life to a rotten scum, who doesn't know the meaning of the word honor? If he's really the one person that really matters to you then man that's the sorriest thing that I've ever heard."
"There were others, who once mattered to me," Haku informed him. "Long ago. My Father...and my Mother. I was born in Mizu no Kuni (Land of Water) in a small village where the snow lays deep in the winter. My Parents were farmers and very poor. Our lives where hard, but we were content. My parents were good to each other and kind to me. Yes, we were happy once, but then everything changed. Because of something that happened long before I was even born. Everything changed."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked. "What was it? What happened?"
"It wasn't my doing," Haku stated as he whipped blood from his lips. "It is in the blood."
"Blood? So, what was it? You said something happened that changed everything!"
"It was...my Father, who changed," the fake tracker answered. "He killed my Mother and almost killed me." This horrified the blonde Uzumaki. "After years of suffering and civil war, the people of my land have come to fear and hate anyone, who carried the Kekkei Genkai in their blood."
"Kekkei Genkai?" Naruto asked as he flinched.
The Uzumaki couldn't believe that there were people at that there that having a Kekkei Genkai made another human, a demon.
"The advance bloodline trait of a Clan," Haku explained. "It's jutsu and abilities pass down from generation to generation. Because of their unique abilities, the Clans were used as mercenaries. They fought many battles and were much feared, but when the Wars where over, they were despised and shunned by the People, who feared that their presence, would only bring more war and misfortune. So, it was after the Wars that these Clans went into hiding, denying the bloodline trait that flows through their veins. Concealing their unique abilities, knowing that to be discovered meant certain death. If you had searched that boy's memories, I'm sure that you would have found it there, too." Naruto looked back at Sasuke in confusion. "The cruelty of people. Their fears of things that they don't understand. For years, my Mother was successful in hiding her bloodline trait. She met and fell in love with a simple farmer...and they were married and after that my Mother thought that she could lead a peaceful ordinary life to the end of her days."
...My Line...
"Mama, look what I can do?" Haku asked making his mother gasp as he played with the water like ice. "See what I made?" He then moved towards her. "See? Isn't it beautiful?"
"NO!" his Mother yelled as she grabbed him and started to shake him. "You mustn't never! Do you hear? Never! You wicked, wicked child!"
"Mama, what is it?" Haku asked. "Stop! Mama!"
Just then his Mother slapped him only for her to fall to her knees and hug him to her.
"Oh, I'm sorry," she apologizes. "I'm so sorry my darling. I'm sorry."
However, standing not that far away was a man, who had seen it all.
...My Line...
"My Father had seen and so he knew our secret...my mother's and mine," Haku went on as Naruto listened as he was told how the boy's Father killed his Mother before trying to kill him only for his bloodline to save him. "Once I was myself again, I was no longer myself. My Father and Mother were gone, but I knew that something else had been taken from me. Something even more important and that is when I truly despaired."
"More important than your Mother and Father? What?"
"My purpose," Haku answered. "In all the world there was no one, who needed me. I was unnecessary."
'Just like...me!' the blonde Uzumaki thought in surprise.
"Why is it that you are so determined to be Hokage?" the other boy asked. "Because you want all eyes in your village to look on you and recognized you as a great Ninja. You see it is only through the eyes of others that our little lives have any significance. When there is no one, who sees you or even look at you, it's as if you do not exist. Then Zabuza came along and looked at me, and he's eyes were not full of hate or fear. He did not shun me for my strangeness. Indeed, my special powers were just what he wanted. He made me necessary again."
Naruto stared in surprise.
...My Line...
"Little kid like you with no one to look after you, you'll die a beggar's death," Zabuza stated.
"Hey, you know what?" Haku asked. "Your eyes remind me of mine."
"Well, little one," the Momochi said. "Will you stay here and die, or will you come with me and be of some use? Will you serve me and submit to my will in all things?" The two stared at each other for a bit longer before Haku finally nodded his head. "Then your special abilities belong to me from this day forward." Haku stood up and walked over to him where he put his hand on the boy's head before he then moved it the shoulder and turned. "Let us go then."
...My Line...
"I was happy."
...My Line...
"My time here is done Haku," Zabuza stated as they looked over Kirigakure no Sato. "Tonight, I cast aside the Land of Water. One day, I will return to seize this land and hold it in my hands. Many things must be done before that day comes and you will help me do them. But, I warn you...friendship, comfort, and encouragement...I do not need these things, nor should you expect them from me."
"I understand," Haku said as he looked at him with a smile. "I am yours, Zabuza. I am only an instrument of your will. Think of me as a weapon to be kept at your side and use as you see fit."
"Well, said child," the Momochi told him.
...My Line...
"I have failed you, Zabuza," Haku whispered softly. "I am like a weapon that has been broken and is of no further use." Haku then walked up to the male Uzumaki, who took a step back. "Naruto...kill me?"
...My Line...
The Hatake ran through hand signs quickly with the scroll in his hands still.
"Ninja Art!" he called out as he glared. "Summoning: Earth Style!" The silver hair Jonin then slammed the scroll onto the ground. "Fang Pursuit Jutsu!"
The writing within the scroll started to leave it and travel along the ground before disappearing.
"I don't know why you bother," Zabuza stated from within the mist. "Of what use is your Jutsu if you can't even find me? But, I can find you. Blindly falling into my trap. You disappoint me, Kakashi. I think that you right. It is time to put an end to this."
Just then the ground started to rumble making the rogue Mist Ninja's eyes to snap open in shock just in time to see a pack of Dogs break through the ground with growls and howls as they pounced on him.
...My Line...
"What is that dreadful noise?" Tazuna asked. "What can it be?"
"I don't know," Sakura answered. "And I'm not sure that I want to find out."
...My Line...
"I realized that if I couldn't see you then I just have to smell you out," the 27-year-old stated as he stood up. "That was a Summoning Jutsu. I was calling forth my Ninja Hounds. They can track a sent anywhere." He smirked. "When you attacked me, I wanted you to get past my guard. I wanted you to cut me. You see, it's the smell of my blood on your blade that has led them to you. Surprised? Looks like I wasn't the only, who was blind. Falling into my trap? You disappoint me, Zabuza." Kakashi then placed a hand next to his head as he looked right at Zabuza, who he can see through the mist. "Ah, the mist is finally clearing. And you know what I see? Your death."
"Talk, talk," the Momochi growled. "Do you mean to telk me too death?"
"In away...yes," the silver hair adult answered. "Right now my Hounds are just playing with you, but one word from me and they'll take you apart. Poor Zabuza. See where your ambitions got you? You were always pushing things too far." He gave a glare. "It was the failed Mizukage assignation, and you admit at a Coup D'etat. You were forced to flee with the few followers that you had. Your countries Tracker Ninjas hot on your heels. You became a rouge ninja whose name was quickly known even in Konohagakure. Now, you're crazy enough to want to go back and try it again, but for that you need money and to get it you stooped so low as to be the hire thug of a swine like Gato. Alright, Zabuza, enough talk. Time to finish it. But, it won't be with Sharingan. Imitations of some other Ninja's tricks. No, it's time I introduce you to my own...JUTSU!" He ran through hand signs quickly before he cupped his hand with Chakra forming around his feet before it started to move to his hand. "Lighting Blade!"
'The Chakra is so strong it's visible!' Zabuza thought as a chirping like sound filled the air from the Chakra in the silver hair Jonin's hand. 'He holds it in his hand.'
"I won't let you kill Tazuna," the Hatake growled. "He's a brave man with a noble dream. The bridge that he is building is the hope of this land and all its people. You're like a disease. By attacking one you affect all and you don't care. That is not the way of the Shinobi."
"Your right, I don't care!" Zabuza yelled. "These useless little people and their patty little dreams. Why should they matter to me? I have a dream of my own."
"But, to have a dream you have to have a future," the Konoha Ninja stated. "You don't. Your future is all used up, Zabuza."
...My Line...
"Go on," Haku's voice rung out. "Strike. Kill me. Why do you hesitate?"
"That's the must ridicules story that I have ever heard," Naruto growled as he took a step back looking unsure. "I mean, me treats you like a slave. You're a human being. Not a weapon or a tool. How can you care about someone like that?"
"For that very reason."
"Huh?"
"Does that seem so strange to you?"
"Well, yeah. A little."
"When he found me. I was without a purpose and a reason for living. Zabuza gave me both. But, now my usefulness it over, the only thing that gave my life meaning...it's gone. I am a broken tool. A blunt weapon of no use to anyone. Go on, Naruto. Do it. For both of our sakes. Do it. Quickly."
…My Line…
Inari was shown running through town with a determine look on his face.
"Naruto, Raika, and the others are all fighting risking their lives while the rest of us do nothing," the young boy stated. "We've got to fight, too."
...My Line...
"Uncle Giichi!" Inari yelled as he pointed on the door of a house. "Uncle Giichi! Hurry! Come to the bridge with me! We don't have to hide any longer! If we all fight together then we can finally take Gato down! I know we can!"
The boy went to reach for the door handle only for it to lock.
"No, Inari," a male voice said on the other side of the door. "I've given up fighting. Fighting is for Heroes...like your Father. See what good it did him. Isn't one died Hero enough? What will fighting get us? More fallen Heroes? More regrets? No, Inari, my heart is already full of enough regrets to last a lifetime."
"Well, I don't want to live a life of regrets either," Inari stated. "And that's why we've got to fight!"
...My Line...
"Live your life so that you'll have nothing to regret," Kaiza told him.
...My Line...
"I know that you care about everyone in the village and so do I," Inari went on. "You, Mother, Grandfather, and everyone. That's why we have to fight! All my life, I've been a coward. But, I know that hiding and crying won't make them go away."
He closed his eyes before turning around and taking off.
...My Line...
Inside the house, an older male could be seen with his back to the door as he listened to Inari.
"Hurry! Come to the bridge!"
"Our little Inari has become a man," a woman stated. "And you dear? Are you sure you want to send him off all on his own?"
...My Line...
The sound of pounding could be heard.
"Is anyone there!" Inari yelled. "Hello! Come to the bridge with me and fight!" The young boy panted before he turned from the last house looking upset. "What do I do now? Not even one of them will open their door and listen."
He then looked down as he thought of Naruto.
...My Line...
"Because you really are brave."
...My Line...
'Well, then if no one else will help,' Inari thought before he took off back to his house.
...My Line...
"Poor Zabuza," Kakashi stated. "See where your ambitions got you? You were always pushing things too far." He gave a glare. "It was the failed Mizukage assignation, and you're admit at a Coup D'etat. You were forced to flee with the few followers that you had. Your countries Tracker Ninjas hot on your heels. You became a rouge ninja whose name was quickly known even in Konohagakure. Now, you're crazy enough to want to go back and try it again, but for that you need money and to get it you stooped so low as to be the hire thug of a swine like Gato. Alright, Zabuza, enough talk. Time to finish it. But, it won't be with Sharingan. Imitations of some other Ninja's tricks. No, it's time I introduce you to my own...JUTSU!" He ran through hand signs quickly before he cupped his hand with Chakra forming around his feet before it started to move to his hand. "Lighting Blade!"
'The Chakra is so strong it's visible!' Zabuza thought as a chirping like sound filled the air from the Chakra in the silver hair Jonin's hand. 'He holds it in his hand.'
"I won't let you kill Tazuna," the Hatake growled. "He's a brave man with a noble dream. The bridge that he is building is the hope of this land and all its people. You're like a disease. By attacking one you affect all and you don't care. That is not the way of the Shinobi."
"Your right, I don't care!" Zabuza yelled. "These useless little people and their patty little dreams. Why should they matter to me? I have a dream of my own."
"But, to have a dream you have to have a future," the Konoha Ninja stated. "You don't. Your future is all used up, Zabuza."
...My Line...
"Go on," Haku said as Naruto took a step back once again. "Finish it. Kill me. Why do you hesitate? I thought that you want to be a mighty warrior."
"That's not what it's about," Naruto yelled at him. "Do you really believe that that's all there is to it, fighting and killing till there's one man standing! There's a lot more to being a shinobi then that and there are other ways to showing your strength then beating someone in battle."
"I had a feeling all along," Haku told him. "From the first moment in the woods. We are a lot alike." Naruto looked at him confused. "I'm sure you know what I mean. I'm only sorry that it must be you hand that is tainted with my unworthy blood."
"You sure about this?" Naruto asked him. "And your positive that it's the only way?"
"Yes," Haku answered him.
"The weird thing is if we've meet in other time and place, I think that maybe we could have been friends," Naruto stated before he pulled out a kunai.
'Yes, that's right. Hold fast to your dreams.'
"This is for Sasuke because he also had a dream!"
'Thank you, Naruto,' Haku thought as the blonde charged at him while he closed his eyes. 'Strike true.'
...My Line...
"At least," Tazuna sighed as he looked around. "I think that this blasted fog is lifting."
"Look," Sakura pointed out to him. "It's like their standing still. Like their squaring off."
"I can't see a thing."
"One of them is moving!" the Haruno gasped in shock.
A shadow of a figure moved quickly towards the other one.
...My Line...
Haku's eyes snapped open with a gasp as Naruto still charged only for his strike to be stopped at the last minute.
"Huh?"
"Sorry, Naruto, but there's been a change in plan," the older boy told him as he looked off to the side with a glare before going through hand signs with one hand. "I'm not ready to die quiet yet."
To the blonde's surprise, Haku vanished quickly.
...My Line...
Kakashi rushed towards Zabuza with his jutsu at the ready.
'Is this really the end?' the Rogue Mist Ninja thought.
The Hatake let out a yell as he goes to pierce Zabuza with his technique before blood flew through the air.
...My Line...
Sakura let out a cry of shock as she covered her head when an aftershock happened.
"What the devil!?"
The pinkette looked up before letting out a gasp of shock.
...My Line...
Kakashi stared wide eyed in shock as his hand pierced the chest of Haku while the Hounds that he summoned disappeared. The teen coughed up blood as he goes to grip the Hatake's wrist in a tight grip.
"Za-bu-za."
"My future is all used up, huh?" Zabuza asked with a laugh. "Wrong again, Kakashi."