Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruko The Hanyou Kunoichi ❯ Chapter 5 ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter 5:

"YOU'RE LATE!" Scream Sakura.

"Yea so, I don't see the problem sensei isn't even here yet," Naruko deadpanned.

"Hmm Sakura you changed your look. You should keep it that way, makes you look prettier," Naruko said noticing Sakura's new attire.

Sakura is now wearing a tight pink sleeveless jacket that stops just above her belly button. Black finger-less gloves that reach the middle for her forearm. Black tight pants where the left ends below her knee and the right above the knee and her normal blue shinobi sandals.

Her pink hair is still the same which reaches just below her shoulder blades, using her ninja head band as a ribbon to keep her hair up exposing her forehead with a single braid on each side of her face that reach just past her green eyes.

"O-o-oh thank you," Sakura thanked with a blush on her face.

"I see you've changed your hairstyle. Are you not hiding your features anymore?" Sakura asked noticing that she can see Naruko's ears and her tails waving about behind her.

Naruko is still dressed in her normal attire, long sleeved tight black shirt and long black tight pants with black slim tight boots so it looks like the pants and boots are one piece. An orange sleeveless jacket (same design as Yoruichi from bleach) over her shit and a pair of cloth looking wrist weights that go halfway up her forearm and ankle weights that reach just past the middle of her carves.

Her hair is now in a ponytail which reaches just above where her tails start. Sasuke still wears a blue short sleeved shirt with white short pants and blue shinobi sandals but is now also wearing an orange small school bag on his back.

"Yip I have no need to hide them and I'm not ashamed of them anymore," Naruko replied back.

"Yo," Kakashi greeted while still reading the same orange book.

Sakura and Naruko didn't say anything this time but their eyes were twitching dangerously. Naruko deciding to see what book Kakashi is reading walks up to him and reads the front cover.

(Note the front of the book is the back of the book for us).

"Icha Icha Paradise?" Naruko read aloud both Sasuke and Sakura got close to see as well.

Moving so Naruko could read the contents, she read the first line out loud.

"And so with a final thrust between the valley of her glorious sweat covered beasts, he releases his essence covering her face and chest…"

Both Naruko and Sakura's face went completely red and looked towards the ground while Sasuke had a deep blush on his face. Steam could be seen coming from the girls ears they were blushing so hard.

"HENTAI!" Both Naruko and Sakura shouted disturbed by what Kakashi was reading.

"DON'T READ THAT IN PUBLIC!" they continued shouting, their faces still red enough that a tomato looked pale in comparison.

"What? Its good literature and besides I don't go snooping in the things you read," Kakashi replied back still reading the book while one hand rubbed his ear from all the shouting.

Faces still red both girls looked away from Kakashi while fiddling with their shirts, too embarrassed to say anything else. Kurama was thinking along the lines of, 'This guy has good tastes I'm starting to like this guy,' and of course Naruko heard this and her face got an even deeper shade of red.

"Right now we need to report to the Hokage for our first mission," Kakashi ordered getting the trio to follow him though the girls still had a blush on their face when they arrived to get their first mission.

Over the course of the next month Team Seven were subjected to the lovely time of doing D-ranked missions. These missions remain in the village and consisted of a wide variety of tasks to do. Team Seven did missions from walking dogs to babysitting at the orphanage to weeding farm fields to the mission that they are now doing for the 'they’ve lost count' number of times which is to catch the infamous cat known as Tora the runaway cat.

Deciding that she has now had enough Naruko shape-shifted into a fox and charged for the cat at full speed. The cat had no clue as to what happened one minute she was running trying to escape the kids chasing her then the next she was in the clutches of a very pissed of fox.

Hanging upside down the cat had all four legs bound together by one of Naruko's tails. Naruko shifting back into her human from still holding the cat Naruko growled deeply and aggressively at the cat scaring the piss out of it literally as there was a trail of wet marks that followed the cat.

Walking up to her team with one final growl Naruko turned to Kakashi, "Mission complete," she said in an irritated voice. The last time they did this mission Naruko's face looked like a bunch of kids played tic-tac-toe on her face.

"Well done but don't you think that was a bit much?" Kakashi asked hoping the cat isn't traumatised for life.

"No she will get over it, beside it what she deserves especially after the last time we did this mission," Naruko said.

-Hokage's office-

When Team Seven walked into the office Naruko let the cat go which bolted back to its owner which surprised all the people in the office except for Team seven as the cat normally runs away from the owner.

"Mission completed. I don't think anyone will have to bother with this mission for quite some time," Kakashi reported while the client paid for the mission and walked out the room.

"Right, now your next set of missions: Babysitting at the orphanage, helping a woodcutter deliver his load…" Iruka said but was cut off by Naruko.

"No not a chance in hell! Not doing it! Jiji please give us something more, I don't know, more ninja orientated," Naruko said shaking her head and arms.

*Wack*

"Naruko pay some respect this is the Hokage you're talking to. The Hokage!" Sakura scolded Naruko by hitting her on the head.

"Itai! Sakura what was that for? Besides aren't you tired of doing these missions?" Naruko asked while rubbing her head and looking up to Sakura.

"I did that because you need to respect the Hokage. I may be tired of these missions but it isn't for us to decide," Sakura lectured.

"She is right, you are still rookie genin who need experience. There is a system to follow here and it's there for a reason," Iruka said confirming what Sakura had said.

"There are four ranks A, B, C and D-rank missions. Jōnins are legible to do A and B-ranked missions. Chūnins are legible for B and C-ranked missions. Genin are legible for C and D-ranked missions. Rookie genins are not yet ready for C-rank missions," Iruka explain the system they use.

"But how are we supposed to get experience while we stuck doing these crappy missions," Naruko asked.

"I am for one with Naruko on this," Sasuke said agreeing with Naruko.

"You are?" Naruko replied surprised by Sasuke's support.

"These missions are only holding us back, you don't know what we are cable of we can handle a C-rank mission," Sasuke continued.

The Hokage looked towards Kakashi, "So do you think they are ready Kakashi?" the Hokage asked.

"Hai, I think they are more than ready. I agree in that these missions are only holding them back," Kakashi responded.

Naruko looked to Kakashi with a big smile, Sasuke had a smirk on his face while Sakura didn't look to happy about things starting to level up a bit.

"Well then we will give you a simple C-rank mission. Send him in please," the Hokage ordered.

"Yatta, so what do we have to do escort someone like a prince or princess or do we get to save them?" Naruko asked excitedly.

The door opened and an old man walked through, he had a straw hat tied around his neck. A grey sleeveless shirt, light brown pants and sandals. In his hand was a bottle of sake. The old man's face was flushed and Naruko had to hold her nose to stop the strong stench of alcohol on him, it came close to making her nauseous.

"Oi these are just kids, they can't protect me especially the cosplay chick over there," he said not impressed with what he is getting.

*twitch*

*twitch* *twitch*

"I'LL KILL YOU! AND IT'S NOT COSPLAY THEY'RE REAL!" Naruko shouted slowly moving to kill the man.

It took Kakashi, Sasuke and Iruka to stop her though she was still edging closer to the client despite having three people trying to hold her down.

'How much strength does she have? It's taking all three of us and we're only slowing her down,' all three people that were trying to hold her down thought.

"Baka! You not supposed to kill the client, it's counterproductive. Besides you asked for a C-ranked mission," Kakashi warned while Naruko pouted and crossed her arms.

"Though Sir it's advised you don't piss off the people you're trying to hire," Kakashi said sternly not liking the idea of clients talking his team down.

"I assure you these three are no doubt the best of their age, Sakura got the highest mark along with Naruko among the females, Sasuke got the Number One Rookie Title and Naruko I'm sure is very close to holding the strongest physical ninja title in our village, soon to rival Tsunade-hime no doubt," Kakashi reassured the client.

"If anything does get out of hand I will be stepping in," he continued.

"Assemble by the North gate in two hours, pack for a month trip. Dismissed," Kakashi ordered.

-Two hours late at the North entrance-

While they were waiting for the client to arrive Kakashi explained the mission.

"Our mission is to escort the client east to Nami no Kuni and guard him from bandits until he has completed building a bridge," Kakashi debrief the team.

"Naruko you will take point as you know the land well and have the best senses out of all of us, Sasuke and Sakura will take the flanks, Sasuke on the left, Sakura right side. I will take the rear," (Not that rear you damn pervs, though it’s Kakashi so I don't blame you.) said Kakashi giving out the formation plan.

As Kakashi finished the client arrived still stone drunk and a bottle of sake in his hand.

"Um Kakashi this is going to be a problem I can't smell anything with him here," Naruko said unable to smell anything but the sake, it was strong enough that Naruko was starting to get nauseas again.

"Sir could you please hold off on the drinking until we reach you village?" Kakashi asked seeing Naruko going green.

"Hmmm, what's wrong with her, she is greener than my grass back home and I live by a river so that's saying something?" the client asked seeing Naruko turning rather green.

"That would be you. She has an extremely sensitive nose that puts a pack of tracking hounds to shame, so please refrain from drinking," Kakashi explained while the rest were quite shocked to hear how sensitive Naruko's sense of smell is.

"Now that we are all here please introduce yourselves," Kakashi ordered.

"Uchiha Sasuke," Sasuke said with a wave.

"Haruno Sakura," she said happily.

"U-u-uzumaki Naru-u-uko," Naruko said still feeling queasy.

"Hatake Kakashi, and we are Team Seven at your service," Kakashi finished.

"Tazuna the Master Bridge Builder," Tazuna greeted with a bow.

"Right lets head out," Kakashi ordered.

And so the group headed out with Naruko at point, Sasuke and Sakura on the flanks, Kakashi at the back with Tazuna in the middle.

-Three hours later-

For the most part of the trip the group hadn't said a word, the normal chatter-box was busy concentrating on leading the group. Sakura having enough of the silence ask Tazuna a question.

"Tazuna-san, if you are hiring Konoha shinobi does that mean your country doesn't have a hidden village?" Sakura asked with curiousness.

"That's right we don't have any shinobi in our country, though there are other closer countries like Kiri no Kuni that have a hidden village but their having a civil war so they're not taking anyone in," Tazuna explained.

"Kiri no Kuni?" Naruko asked never having heard of the place.

"Baka didn't you pay attention in class?" Sakura asked wondering why Naruko doesn't know about other countries.

"Well Sakura you obviously didn't notice that I was never in class besides Iruka-sensei's class," Naruko answered Sakura.

"Why you do that, that's just wasting money and pretty stupid seeing how it's coming back to bite you know," Sakura responded.

"Well… because, of a certain you know what, the only teacher that allowed me in class was Iruka-sensei the rest kicked me out and forbid me to enter."

"When they discovered I could still hear them from outside they started closing the door and doing something so I couldn't hear anything from inside the class. So sorry for not knowing what the world consists of," Naruko said softly and sadly.

Sakura not realising, her eye's widened.

"Naruko… I sorry I didn't know. I'm really sorry," Sakura apologised sadly regretting what she said.

"Thanks Sakura but its fine I got over it ages ago," Naruko thanked softly.

Kakashi on the other hand was pissed. When they got back he was going to have a word with a Hokage and a few teachers.

"Well allow me to explain," Sakura offered trying to cheer Naruko up.

Before she could continue she was interrupted by a bang. Looking to the location of the noise all she saw was dust and Naruko's hand in the ground in front of the smoke. This got everyone on alert.

"Naruko? What was that for?" Sakura asked not sure what was going on while pulling out her kunai.

"We had company," Naruko said quickly.

When the dust cleared everyone saw a two metre wide fissure that stretch for thirty metres where Naruko had punch. Hearing a scream of pain to the left all eyes turned to it. When Sakura saw what made the noise she buckled over and lost her lunch and breakfast while Sasuke almost lost his.

'Hard way to go,' Kakashi thought.

To the left of everyone at the base of a tree was a ninja with no right arm and blood pouring out his shoulder. He's screams continued for a few seconds before they stopped along with his twitching. Naruko heard his erratic heartbeat come to a stop.

To the right a groan could be heard. The second ninja that looked like the first was also at the base of a tree but had all of his limbs intact but at the end of his right hand was the other ninja's arm still attached to the chain that linked them together. Looking up to the sky and holding his right shoulder he groaned again in pain.

"Gah! What the fuck just happened?" he asked, one minute they were waiting for the group to pass to ambush them then the next he was at the bottom of a tree with is right shoulder in agony.

"I happened," Naruko said coldly pinning the guy to the tree with her tails. One pressing on his right shoulder increasing the pain and pressure, another around his neck loose enough so he could half breathe the rest waving about behind her.

"Ahhh! You bitch! Get off me!" the injured ninja shouted in pain.

"How did you know it was us?" he asked.

"This isn't how this works, but this time I will be happy to indulge your final request," Naruko said coldly.

"First it hasn't rained in a week so there is no way there could be a puddle out in this heat. Second you two reek of sex, alcohol, blood and a few other things I don't recognise," Naruko answered of how she knew the two ninjas were there.

"Now who are you, who sent you and who is your target?" Naruko asked with a sweet smile that put shivers into everyone's spines.

"We are the demon brothers Gōzu and my brother there is Meizu. We were sent by Zabuza-aniki. That old guy is the target," Gōzu said.

"Thank you for your kind co-operation," Naruko said sweetly before using one of her tails to hit him across the face knocking him out.

"Kakashi must I deal with this or will you?" Naruko asked.

"Well done Naruko. You successful located and dealt with the enemy that on its own is a good job but extracting information that's very well done," Kakashi praised Naruko who blush and rubbed the back of her head.

"You deserve a bit of a rest I will deal with the rest," Kakashi said walking to the ninja by Naruko with the one armed ninja on his shoulder.

"When we get back we are going to have a chat," Kakashi said looking towards Tazuna while walking into the woods with the two ninja in tow.

Few minutes later…

When Kakashi returned he through two scrolls at Naruko. Naruko looking confused Kakashi explained.

"If you turn those in I'm sure you will get a nifty amount from their bounties," Kakashi told Naruko.

"Now Tazuna your mission stated to protect you from bandits not ninjas. If ninjas have been hired to kill you then this would be an A-rank mission at least. So my question is why did you withhold this information and why would someone like Zabuza be after you?" Kakashi asked sternly.

Tazuna sighed, "Our country is poor and we can't afford anything higher than a C-rank mission. As to why this Zabuza guy is after me is no doubt because Gatō hired him."

"Gatō? The founder of Gatō Company? Why would he be after you?" Kakashi asked.

"That company of his is just a front. He is a criminal lord that took over our Country a few years back. Ever since he took over, he has been driving our country into the ground. To counter this we started to build a bridge to connect our island to the main land as he controls all the sea trading ports and industries."

"As I am the lead builder and planner for the bridge he is out to get me for fear of losing his control over us. If you want to cancel the mission that's fine but I will be killed, my country will lose everything, my daughter will weep for ages while my grandson will hate Konoha," Tazuna said trying to guilt trip them group of ninjas.

Of cause Sakura bought this while Naruko being Naruko can't not stand not helping people out.

"Kakashi we will continue the mission we can't abandon this mission now, we can handle it and if anything happens you are here," Naruko said earning a nod from Sakura and a smirk from Sasuke who was up for the challenge.

"It's four against one. Looks like we are continuing the mission. No unnecessary talking and keep your eyes peel got that?" Kakashi said sternly being out numbered here.

-Two hours later-

The group had been walking for half an hour since they got off the boat they used to reach the island. Naruko being on extra high alert heard, smelled some blood and a noise to her left. Reacting quickly she through a kunai.

Everyone turning to where the kunai travelled, they all saw a bunny that was shaking in fear, too scared to run away with the kunai a few hair whiskers above its head lodged into the base of a tree.

"Naruko don't do that, and what did I say about hunting when I near you?" Sakura said angrily to Naruko.

"I smelled blood and heard something so I acted," Naruko shot back.

Both Sasuke and Kakashi noticed the colour of the fur and the rabbit.

'Itssummer, its fur should be brown. They only get white fur when they are caged or its cold,' Kakashi thought before he could continue his train of thought he shouted while pulling Tazuna down.

"Get down!"

Sasuke did as told hearing the tone used while Naruko had to pull Sakura down who didn't react.

*Thud*

Everyone looking up saw a giant sword lodged into the tree with a man standing on the handle with his back facing them. The man had black hair and eyes. He had a bandage that wrapped around his head covering his mouth and nose.

He was wearing a black tank top and black long pant with black shinobi sandals. He also had grey stripped finger-less gloves that also covered his entire forearm. Everyone could see him smirk through that make-shift bandage mask.

"No wonder the demon brother's didn't come back. They didn't stand a chance against the great Copy ninja Kakashi no Sharingan," the man laughed.

"Momochi Zabuza a nukenin from Kirigakure no Sato also known as Kirigakure no Kijin," Kakashi said recognising the nukenin.

"Hō so I am even known in Konoha," Zabuza smirked.

"It may be true that demon brothers didn't stand a chance against me but I'm not the one who dealt with them. Blondie here did that by herself and let's just say that it was some explosive performance," Kakashi stated making Naruko blush for a few seconds.

"You guys stay out of this. This is way above your league. Protect Tazuna!" Kakashi ordered while pulling up his headband revealing his left eye and the trio ninja made a triangle in front of Tazuna. Sasuke looked into Kakashi's eye and was shock to see what he saw.

'Sharingan? But Kakashi isn't part of the Uchiha clan so how does he have that eye?' Sasuke wondered.

Kakashi's left eye was red with a black circular line going around completely, in the middle of his iris with three black dots spaced evenly on the line. Kurama growled deeply at this eye making Naruko curious. Kurama shook his head showing that he won't say why.

"Hō revealing the Sharingan already? I'm honoured I shall try not to disappoint you Kakashi," Zabuza said while landing on the ground.

"Sharingan?" Naruko and Sakura said at the same time.

"A dōjutsu unique to the Uchiha clan that allows the wielder of it to copy any tai, nin and genjutsu," Sasuke explain his clan's unique trait.

Zabuza pulled out his sword from the tree and jumped back standing near the river's edge that was close by. Zabuza's sword was a single edged sword a bit smaller than Zabuza in length and is about a foot wide (about 12-14 inches in width). Near the handle on the edge side of the sword was a half circle hole cut out, just a bit wider than the average width of a person's head.

The tip of the sword was curved sharply and just a bit further down was a full circle cut out in the centre of the sword. The handle of the sword was about sixteen to seventeen inches long with no guard or pommel on it.

Putting the sword on his back, Zabuza with his right hand made a half Tora hand seal while is left fully extended above his head making another half Tora hand seal. "Ninpō: Kirigakure no jutsu" Zabuza called out which brought in a heavy thick mist in which made Zabuza disappeared.

Speaking so that it sounded like he was all around them Zabuza released his bloodlust to intimidate his opponents.

"Spine, Kidney, Liver, Stomach, Heart, Lungs and Throat," Zabuza called out.

"Huh?" Sakura asked confused about the naming of body parts.

"Seven virtual points on the body which lead to near instantaneous death if hit, which do you chose first?" Zabuza laughed.

Sakura nearly suffocated from the amount of bloodlust coming from Zabuza while Sasuke was shaking with fear. His kunai rattling he thought of how to get out of this while Naruko was unnerved and Kakashi brushed it off.

'What’s with this bloodlust it's like I want to kill myself to escape' Sasuke thought.

"Sasuke calm down. I'm here and I won't let anyone on my team die even if it kills me. That's a promise" Kakashi reassured Sasuke.

"Hahahaha! And I thought I was evil and here you're giving a kid false hope. You will have to break that promise Kakashi," Zabuza laughed.

Suddenly realising where Zabuza was going to appear Kakashi turn just in time to see Zabuza appear in the middle of Naruko, Sasuke, Sakura and Tazuna. Kakashi with great speed appeared behind Tazuna. Zabuza dissipated into water.

"Mizu bunshin?" asked Kakashi turning to where Zabuza was supposed to be.

Another Zabuza appeared behind Kakashi and took a swipe with his sword and connected with Kakashi. Kakashi split in half and turned to water.

"What, you copied it in this?" Zabuza asked surprised that Kakashi managed to copy his Ninjutsu in this mist.

Kakashi appeared behind Zabuza with a kunai in his right hand at Zabuza's neck.

"It's over Zabuza," Kakashi declared.

"I see, you already copied the Mizu bunshin no jutsu when you reassured you team," Zabuza said realising that Kakashi had already copied it then.

Once Zabuza finished speaking he melted surprising Kakashi. Kakashi sensed Zabuza behind him and saw him swing his sword in a downward arc towards him. Zabuza cursed when Kakashi jumped back to avoid the attack. With the sword now lodge into the ground Zabuza continue his momentum and swung around the sword, like a pole dancer.

Using both his feet Zabuza kicked Kakashi in his chest sending him flying skipping across the water's surface before sinking into the river. Swimming back to shore Kakashi had a hard time surfacing but did eventual have most of his body on land.

"This water is heavier than normal," Kakashi commented.

Appearing next to Kakashi while doing some hand seals Zabuza smirked.

"Baka! Suiton: Suirō no jutsu," Zabuza called out.

Kakashi was now trapped in a sphere of water a few inches above the ground with Zabuza's right hand inside the sphere to keep it active. Now that Kakashi was caught Zabuza let up the mist he summoned earlier.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruko called out while the three ninjas got ready to charge.

"So the brats want to play? Let's play," Zabuza said with a grin as a copy of him appeared between the original and the ninja trio.

"Don't engage! A mizu bunshin can't go far from its creator. Take Tazuna and run, this was over the moment I got caught," Kakashi shouted from in his water prison.

'Kakashi's right it was over the moment he got caught, but what makes him think we can run away?' Sasuke thought greeting his teeth.

"Sasuke put your hand I my shoulder I've got a plan," Naruko said quietly.

As Sasuke put his left hand on her shoulder, Naruko made a dozen clones and immediately dispelling ten of them covering the area around them in smoke. The original shape-shifted into a fūma shuriken, while one clone shape-shifted into an eagle and shot to the sky to hover above Zabuza while the last clone took the originals position in front of Sasuke.

When the smoke cleared the Naruko clone with a shout charged the Zabuza clone shortly followed by Sasuke jumping up and preparing to throw the fūma shuriken. The Zabuza clone smirked and got into a stance.

"It doesn't matter how many of you attack it won't change a thing," the Zabuza clone mocked.

"We'll see about! Now Sasuke!" Naruko called out while throwing a punch.

The Zabuza clone easily dodged the punch while watching Sasuke throw the over-sized shuriken. Sasuke through the shuriken in a wide arc letting it sail past the Zabuza clone.

"Smart, attack the original but that thing won't do anything," the original Zabuza said while catching the shuriken with his left hand.

"What another one was in its shadow" Zabuza asked seeing a second one flying towards him.

As Zabuza was talking the Naruko clone dispelled the Zabuza clone be for dispelling herself surprising Zabuza yet again.

'Kage bunshin? Where is the brat now?' Zabuza wondered seeing Naruko dissipate into smoke.

Zabuza jumped over the second fūma shuriken with a smirk on his face.

"Not bad but still too easy," Zabuza mocked.

*poof*

Turing to the sudden sound behind him Zabuza saw Naruko throwing a kunai aimed at his face.

'What she turned herself into the shuriken?' thought a surprised Zabuza.

Removing his right hand from the water prison breaking the jutsu Zabuza moved to his left to dodge the kunai. Sensing something above Zabuza looked up to see another Naruko doing summersaults. The Naruko summersaulting down to Zabuza stopped so she could extend for right foot preparing to axe kick Zabuza.

'What? Where the hell this one come from?' Zabuza thought confused not sensing her earlier while reaching for his sword with is right hand on his back after dropping the fūma shuriken in his left hand.

Bringing the sword above him to block the kick with both hands on either side of the sword, Zabuza got a bit worried as he was still in the air in a crouched position. Suddenly seeing the kunai pass him Zabuza saw it twist and contort changing into another Naruko.

The Naruko above Zabuza connected with the flat side of the sword, her momentum and strength pushed Zabuza down creating a small crater when he hit the ground. Zabuza grunted from the force of the kick making him wonder just how strong the brat actually is.

A few seconds after landing, Zabuza felt his feet get swiped from under him making him fall backwards. Looking to see the cause Zabuza saw another Naruko, where an fūma shuriken should have been, in a crouched position moving in an anti-clockwise spin with her left foot extended.

Zabuza felt a strong kick to his stomach courtesy of the Naruko that sailed passed him earlier as a kunai. Zabuza was sent flying to the Naruko that sent the kunai. When Zabuza arrived next to her, Naruko did a front flip in the air and brought an axe kick down on Zabuza's chest sending him to the bottom of the river.

All the Naruko dispelled leaving smoke expect for the Naruko next to Kakashi that swept Zabuza's feet. Naruko reached her hand out to Kakashi. Taking hold of her hand Kakashi was pulled up on to his feet.

Sasuke was wide eyed, he was expecting the second fūma shuriken to be Naruko not the first one as well let alone the kunai Naruko through. Sakura was extremely confused she was lost after the second fūma shuriken appeared. Tazuna just stood there with his jaw on the ground.

"Naruko, that was something else," Kakashi praised Naruko amazed at the stunt she just pulled.

"See Kakashi I told you we could handle it," Naruko said with a grin and holding out a peace sign to Kakashi.

Everyone turned to the bubbles appearing from the river. Shortly afterwards Zabuza pulled himself up and on to the water while coughing up water and blood. Slowing Standing up his left hand holding his stomach and his sword in his right Zabuza glared at Naruko.

'Just what the hell is that kid. She packs some serious strength, not to mention that weird changing abilities of hers,' Zabuza thought analysing her.

"Gah!" Zabuza grunted in pain.

'She as definitely broken a few ribs,' he thought in pain.

"Not bad brat, but you are going to have to do better than that," Zabuza said while walking on the surface of the water.

Arriving on land Zabuza prepared to charge only to receive two senbons in his neck making him collapse forward. Everyone surprised at what just happened, Kakashi walked to Zabuza to check his pulse. Kneeling down Kakashi brought his hand to Zabuza's neck and failed to feel any pulse.

"He's dead but who…"

Kakashi was cut off by the arrival of a ninja with an ANBU mask on kneeling next to Zabuza and lifting him up with an arm around their shoulder.

"Thank you Shinobi-san. I have been hunting this nukenin for some time. I wouldn't have been able to do this without you," said the masked shinobi.

"No problem, you're a Kirigakure Oinin Butai?" Kakashi asked standing up.

"Hai, I will take my leave then. Once again I thank you," the ninja said before disappearing with Zabuza in a swirl of leaves.

'That kid looks like he isn't that much older than thirteen. So young and forced to do that,' Kakashi thought with a sigh.

"Oi Kakashi! What the hell was that?" Naruko asked confused at what's going on.

"That was an Oinin Butai from Kirigakure no Sato. Their mission is to hunt and kill nukenin from their village," Kakashi answered.

"Hmmm I don't get it," Naruko said still confused.

"Don't worry about it for now I'll explain everything when we get to Tazuna's house," Kakashi said wanting to get moving. Naruko just nodded back.

"Tazuna-san how far is your house from here?" Kakashi asked.

"It's not far, about an hour's walking from here," Tazuna replied earning a nod from Kakashi.

"Right let's move out its getting dark so we will have to double time it," Kakashi ordered getting everyone to move out.

*Thud*

"Naruko!" Sakura shouted seeing Naruko fall face first.

Kakashi turning to see what the noise is about and saw Naruko lying on the floor with Sakura kneeling next to her.

"Kakashi-sensei, Naruko just passed out," Sakura said in a slightly panicking voice.

"I'll carry her, we will investigate when we get to Tazuna's house," Kakashi said picking up Naruko.

And so the group rushed to Tazuna's house, hoping that nothing bad has happened with Naruko.