Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but the Gushikan family and a select few is mine.

Chapter 19~ Decisions

"You're finished." Kakashi said confidently as he held the kunai tightly against Zabuza's throat.

I breathed in deeply and smiled to myself, that wasn't too hard. Naruto was having a mini celebration and Sasuke was still staring tensely.

Just as I was about to call Sasuke out for being over dramatic, Zabuza began to laugh.

"Finished? You really don't get it. Your style is only a weak imitation, I'll never be beat by a copycat ninja like you."

Kakashi grunted annoyed but stayed still.

"I am impressed you already copied the water clone justu though. Very skillfully executed. You had your clone say all those things to draw me out while you hid in the mist, waiting for me. Nice try..."

Silence. My body grew tense and I say a flicker of movement in the corner of my eye.

"Behind you!" I yelled to Kakashi as another clone? The real thing? Appeared behind him.

"But I'm not that easy to fool."

Kakashi took no time in slitting the throat of the first Zabuza to reveal it's a clone and then dodged the second ones attack. However, only a moment later he was hit by Zabuza's attack so hard he flew.

My mouth dropped as I watched him fly across the sky and I tightened my grip on Balence, confused on what to do.

Kakashi landed into the water like a sack of potatoes and despite throwing spikes on the ground to slow Zabuza it really did nothing. Zabuza also dove into the water.

"Sensei! Move!" I yelled as ran towards the edge of the water.

"He specializes in water justu!"

My calls weren't worth squat as Zabuza ran behind Kakashi and wasted no time in sealing him in the Water Prison Jutsu.

I stepped back, angry and worried.

Without Kakashi, can we really do anything?

"You think a headband makes you a ninja. When you hover between life and death so many times it doesn't phase you, then you could may be called a ninja. When you become so deadly your profile is entered in my bingo book, then you may have earned the title ninja. But to call upstarts like you ninja is a joke."

His new clone made a mist that begin to billow into shore and I soon lost track of his figure. It was only seconds later I hear Naruto slam into the ground.

I moved and got in between him and Zabuza, prepared to protect him.

"You're just brats." Zabuza spat with a smirk.

"Listen just grab the bridge builder and run! You can't win this fight! He's using his power to keep me in this prison. So he can only fight you with his water clones. But the clones can't go far from his real body. If you get away from him, he can't follow. Now run!"

I laughed internally, what a joke, he won't stop trying to get us, even if we stall the inevitable. On the other hand Kakashi is our superior so we should trust his judgement.

Before I had another moment to think Sasuke ran forward and began to throw his weapons at Zabuza.

"What an idiot." I thought.

As he began to run past me, I could see him starting to bend his legs to jump and I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt just in time to make him fall on his butt and not launch off.

"What are you doing?!" He shouted.

But I'm not playing games.

I balled up my fist and smashed it on the top of his head so hard he was a loss of words.

"What a stupid move, just stay still and think for a moment. If you jump straight off into the air like that he can attack you while you're defenseless in the air." I pushed him behind me and turned back to the Zabuza clone.

He was chuckling quietly.

"Takara! Take everyone and leave! You know you three can't win, so do as your told and help everyone get away!" Kakashi yelled to me.

I narrowed my gaze and rolled my shoulders.

"And what happens to you then Sensei!" I yelled back.

"You'll die. Then he'll come after us. Even if we order back up, it might not come in time. Don't worry Sensei, I'll protect everyone and we'll get you out of there! I also don't intended to forever be known as "worse than scum"" I yelled as I blinked my Akumugan active.

The clone stared at me and his constant chuckled turned into a full laugh.

"I haven't seen eyes like those in a long time, unfortunately for you it doesn't seem like you know how to use them." He took a step forward and I held my ground, intensifying my eyes strength.

"For example, that power doesn't work on clones."

My eyes widen as he lunged forward and grabs a fistful of my curls and yanks me upward so my feet are barely brushing the ground.

"Haha, those eyes and from the Hidden Leaf? You must be Ume's brat." I flinched and reached up and grabbed his arm with my hands to pull myself up a little so the tension on my hair is not so bad.

"This curly hair too, that means you're the Bear Of The Leaves daughter too. What a lucky day. I have the bitch and the bastards daughter."

I said nothing as I festered in my rage internally.

"I thought the suicide clan and the nightmare juice clan were finished but it looks like I have the heiress right here."

I bit my lip, 'suicide clan' an old name for us but still a mean one. But, something peaked my interest.

"Well since you're obviously a reasonable man..." I grunted as I tried to ignore the intense pain on my head, "what's that about me being the heiress to the nightmare juice clan?" I gave him a smirk.

He laughed, "Obviously it means your moms disgusting clan is dead, or at least in hiding. Maybe you're even the last one, I did hear your crazy bitch of a mom finally bit the dust."

I tried to not let his words get to me. And, they didn't. But, they did get to the others.

"Gushikan-San was an amazing kunoichi!" Naruto yelled from behind me.

"She was a thousand times the ninja you are." Sasuke hissed.

Naruto ran forward at Zabuza only for him to get kicked in the face and pushed back. Then Zabuza threw me at him and we both tumbled off to the side.

Naruto stood back up before me and smiled proudly as he shows that he grabbed his headband.

I hadn't even noticed it fell off, I was so preoccupied.

He tied it around his forehead and then helped me up.

"Hey, don't disrespect Ume-San, because her daughter will be head of the T&I division. Not to mention that daughters best friend will become Hokage, his name is... Naruto Uzumaki!"

I gave him a smile before looking back to a seriously pissed Zabuza.

"Hey I have a plan." Naruto said to Sasuke.

"Am I in it?" I asked quietly.

"No not this time."

I smirked and looked at him.

"No problem, I'll try to buy you time to do it."

I bent my knees and grasped Balence firmly before looking at the clone, "Hey, wanna see the real power of the 'suicide clan'? I don't care if your a demon or not, I'll slice you down."

He chuckled and stepped forward.

"W-wait demon?" Naruto sputtered.

I launched forward and my sword clashed with clone Zabuza's loudly as Kakashi explains why he is called that in the bingo book.

"So what," I grunted as I held my sword strongly as clone Zabuza pushed his sword downward on mine. "You just killed some ninja trainees, it's not like that's very hard, their practically babies. I'm not impressed."

"But, they were just kids. You killed them all?!" Naruto shouted.

He just made a face and smiled, "It just felt so good."

The clone slide past me almost in an instant and I fell over from the lack of pressure on my katana.

He was now knocking Sasuke over and slamming his so hard he coughed blood.

I was paralyzed in... Surprise.

He was so fast, on par with Kakashi.

But Sasuke...

He was groaning in pain as Zabuza set a foot on his chest and grabbed his sword, he was going to end him.

"You're nothing." He laughs

I body flickered next to him and slid my katana into his side.

The clone freezes and makes a pained noise.

I just stare up at him. Water from the wound trickling down my arm and making a puddle around my feet.

"When you're so wrapped up in you're ecstasy of hurting people, you're an easy target." I spoke in my monotone voice.

I twisted my katana and pushed to the side so it tore all the way though his body. I mean, it was only water.

The clone dispersed and I turned and looked to the real Zabuza.

That was my mistake, at that point I really should have just kept Kakashi's fight in mind.

"Takara behind you!"

A hand wrapped around my throat and I was lifted off the ground.

"You're too cocky for your own good."

He lifted me up higher and then threw me towards the ground, before I even hit the ground though he kicked me in the stomach with the toe of his boot. I lost my breath as I hit the ground and laid there for a minute as I tried to find the sweetness that is oxygen.

As soon as I did I looked up and saw his sword coming down to decapitate me.

I rolled onto my back so it slipped past me and sunk into the ground.

Before he had another chance to kill me, Naruto summoned a lot of shadow clones that surrounded us.

They all dog piled on Zabuza but got blown away.

It was all very confusing and at that point in time I was still lying on the ground staring at the sky trying not to throw up from the kick to my diaphragm. However, in the end Naruto was behind Zabuza and threw a kunai at his hand so that he was forced to let go.

I'm not sure how he got there or how Zabuza got hold of the giant shurikan in his other hand but I do know that Narutos plan worked for once and Zabuza was forced to let go of the water prison, releasing Kakashi.

I sat up and then woozily got on my feet before gulping down the pain and straightening up.

I watched as Kakashi praised Naruto before walking over to Tazuna and standing in front of him with Sasuke.

Kakashi was fighting fire with fire in a sort of terms and was doing the exact same water Jutsu as Zabuza. There was an explosion of water dragons and chakra and when the water settled or so to say, they were still evenly matched.

Clearly part of Kakashi's style was psyching out his opponent mentally though.

I watched him finish Zabuza's sentences and anticipate his moves.

He is driving the man insane.

Kakashi finally hits Zabuza with a water ninjustu with so much power he gets slammed against a tree. Kakashi uses the moment while he still can't move to slice with with kunais.

I bite my lip, 'I guess he will kill him.'

My conscience giggles.

"You're finished." Kakashi smartly remarks.

His water from his Jutsu recedes back into the body of water it came from.

"How... How are you doing this, can you see the future."

Kakashi looks pleased as he answers.

"Yes, this is your last fight, ever."

Senbon needles.

Two of them to be precise, sliced through Zabuza's neck and he collapsed.

I glanced upward to see a tracking ninja from the mist.

"Psh of course." I muttered.

Kakashi quickly checked Zabuzas pulse and confirmed him dead.

Naruto freaked out, kinda.

It was like he was having an existential crisis.

The tracker thanked us for 'helping' him end Zabuza and then took the body. Weird but ok I'll roll with it.

I sighed, I was pretty happy to be rid of that guy, he was mean.

My conscience giggled again and I just ignored it.

"Why are we here? what are we doing?!" Naruto yelled. I took a step over, I wanted to help. Kakashi beat me to it though and reassured Naruto.

He turned and looked at all of us and smiled.

"Our mission is not over yet, we need to take the bridge builder to his bridge." We all nodded and began to start walking to Tazuna's house to rest when Kakashi paused before crumbling to the ground.

I ran to him and checked his vitals.

"He's alive." There was a sigh of relief from all around.

"What's wrong with him?" Tazuna asked.

"Chakra exhaustion, we need to get somewhere safe immediately, there could still be enemies out there." I stood up before grabbing Kakashi by the arms.

"Uh, Sasuke, a little help please."

He grabbed his feet and we began an extremely long and tiring quest to Tazuna's house.

Authors Note:

Sorry sorry! Last week got crazy. I just couldn't find the time, ya'know?

I just twisted my ankle and blah blah blah, excuses excuses right? (P.s no worries I'm fine.)

Anyway, I'm really going to try to upload when I can but its really hard to do it.

I hope you can find it in your heart to understand.

Also I'm sorry it's so short, this was about two hours worth of work and I really just wanted to get SOMETHING out this weekend.

Thank you and have a nice day.

~ToL