Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Fox and The Phoenix ❯ Wave ( Chapter 9 )

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The Fox and The Phoenix
(Sono Kitsune Oyobi Sono Fenikusu)

Key

S.S = Sick Shit (is more than likely NC-17 and etc.)

*thinking*

"talking"

*thoughts progressing into speech"

'substitute for italics' (Kyuubi or Soriyu at times)

//telepathy//

::scene change:: (more for my reference than anything else)

~POV~
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Summary: Naruto's 6 years old, his caretaker, Iruka, was killed by bandits, and he was left orphaned. Well, until a mysterious wanderer appeared...


A/n: Please don't ask me about pairings, I'm not planning to make any lemons or love and whatnot, and even if I did it'd be Naru/Sasu, Naru/Gaa, or Naruto and any other guys. I do not like many het pairings, only Naru/Hina and this won't be one. No lemon, no lime, just perverted one-sided thoughts from a few male characters. :)


Chapter Nine: Wave


::Road to Wave Country::


~Naruto~


Well so far this was going smoothly, no one has really been talking except for kaa-san and it was only to tell us to be on guard just in case something attacked.


"Sasuke-kun, I made snacks for you and I to share, it's Onigiri!" she squeals irritatingly, holding out a bundle.


I snicker as I listen to that, how she had actually managed to unknowingly make the Uchiha's favorite food was beyond me. I knew Sasuke wouldn't want to turn down perfectly good riceballs.


'I bet 1000 yen he will.'


*Prepare to lose Kyuu-san.*


I watch as Sasuke frowns, opening the bundle and taking a riceball.


"Thanks."


*Haha! I was fucking right! Kyuu-san, you owe me 1000 yen!*


'Aw, you suck.'


I laugh to myself, the puddles we just walked past not going unnoticed.


"Sanziya-sensei?" I ask warily.


Kaa-san doesn't turn around, her posture indicates her guard is up however.


"I know."


Even though we were expecting it, the others were completely shocked when two nin came up out of the puddles. A chain whips out from ones hand, wrapping around kaa-san and splitting her to pieces.


~Author~

It was a high level genjutsu, for it to look that real, and Naruto believed it. He was ready to scream out to Sanziya when a tap on his shoulder interrupted his frantic thinking.


He turns around, Sanziya blocking an attack from one of the Demon Brothers so it wouldn't hit him.


"Shisui Rendan!" is heard somewhere on the battlefield, issuing from Sasuke.


Sanziya starts to drone out a lecture, grinning slightly.


*Yay! I get to lecture Naru-chan, this is gonna be lorded over you for life, ha!*


"Ne, you have to be on 'guard' Naruto. You could've been killed in those spare seconds looking around for me. First and foremost: Take out the enemy..." with this she grabs the nin's arm, flipping him over and kneeing him in the face so that he flies back into a tree. He manages to get back up, but she blurs, reappearing behind him and placing him in a choke hold.


"And then worry about your teammates. Go help Sakura."


Naruto looks away from his mother to see Sasuke unconscious under a tree and a frightened Sakura desperately trying to defend the equally frightened (now sober) bridge builder.


Naruto goes through quick handseals, catching Sakura's eye and motioning for her to move. She gets the hint, forcing herself and Tazuna to the ground as the fox boy fires off a Raiton (Lightning) jutsu.


*Lightning Element: Four Corners Jutsu.*


The nin is electrocuted as lightning crashes into his from all sides, originating from Naruto's outstretched palms. Sasuke awakes in time to see this attack.


*How? Raiton jutsus, especially that one, are at least high jounin lvl!*


The man falls to the ground, charred and smoking lightly...and dead.


Sanziya sighs.


"Well, we can still interrogate you my friend." she says to the guy she has in the choke hold as she ties him to a tree. After getting all the wanted information from the man, she slits his throat, and rounds on Tazuna. "You have alot of explaining to do Tazuna-san."


Tazuna gulps at the glare in her eyes, nodding.


::Boat::


Tazuna has just gone through his story, leaving Sakura sobbing and the other two official members of Team Seven mulling it over and thinking 'Girls...what a pain.'


Our resident Phoenix holder, however, was none to sympathetic, but didn't bother to withdraw them from the mission.


Tazuna looks over his shoulder, grinning and giving the peace sign.


"I win!" he murmurs softly.


The guy who was steering told them this was their stop as they docked.


::Road to Tazuna's::


"We'll be at my house in a bit, so you all can rest up." he tells them as they walk through the thick mist.


~Sasuke~


What a pain, it turns out this is a B-rank mission, not that I mind, but still...


I wonder what Kakashi-sensei could be doing to not be able to take us on this mission, not that Sanziya-sensei was a bad person to have around, I had broken two ribs in that fight and she patched them up like new.


Although, that raised more questions. Just who was this woman? Where had she come from? Naruto told me she said that she had left the village twelve years ago when the Kyuubi attacked. So was she a coward, and what was the point of her coming back six years after the Kyuubi attacking? Why did she abandon the village, and why did no hunter-nin go after her?


Too many questions, ones I would find the answer to, but all that happens in these next battles just raise one single question: What. The. Fuck?


~Author~


Out of all the likely people, no one expected a shout of 'Get Down!' to issue from Sakura. They had a split second to throw themselves to the dirt road as a huge sword ripped through the mist where their heads were before.


"Hand over the bridge builder, and I may let you live." a voice says, a man clad only in cargo pants tells them from his perch atop the sword, now embedded in a tree.


Sanziya shakes her head.


"Not happening Zabu, you know I don't make deals with other people's lives."


Zabuza looks at Sanziya, doing a double take...sort of.


"Why in the seven hells are you here Sanzi?" he asks, grabbing the sword hilt and jumping down, yanking it from the tree in the process.


The genin and Tazuna's jaws drop.


"You two know each other?!" Sakura screeches, asking the hanging question.


Sanziya looks back to them, smirking.


"Yep, we met when I was headed out to Waterfall twelve years ago, he's a decent fighter and has a kid. Come to think of it, where's that whelp of yours anyway?"


Zabuza growls.


"Listen Sanzi, I'm here for the bridge builder, if you won't hand him over willingly, then I have to fight you to get him. Friends or not."


Sanziya sighs, dropping herself into a taijutsu stance.


"Alright, maybe when I kick your ass 'again' you'll listen to reason."


Zabuza performs a few quick handseals, and the water around them raises up, taking on his shape. About 5 clones surround them.


*Mizu (Water) Bunshin (Clone).* Sanziya thinks, dodging as Sasuke and Naruto do as well. She throws a few kunai at Sakura's feet. "Protect Tazuna girl, don't let him get killed under any circumstances!"


Sakura picks up the kunai, spreading them between her fingers and nodding. This was no time to defy orders just because you hated your sensei. "Right!"


Sasuke dodges a swipe from one clone, only to get hit in the chest by another as Naruto kicks it squarely in the head, said clone vanishing in a splash of water.


//You okay Sasuke?// he asks, parrying another clone's attack, and managing to stab it in the stomach.


"Yeah." Sasuke replies, taking down yet another clone as the one fighting Sanziya manages to throw her into the lake. The duo go for the last clones on their side, taking it out in a flurry of kunai and shuriken, before turning to the final one as the red haired jinchurikki comes up from the water. She's about to attack the clone, when Zabuza appears beside the lake, going through handseals and finishing with...


"Water Prison Jutsu!" he says, holding out his hand as the attempting-to-move Sanziya is imprisoned in a large, hollow orb of water. "You won't get out, you'll suffocate in a while, so just give up the bridge builder, Sanzi. I really don't wanna kill you, 'cause I see you have a gaki (brat/kid) as well. It's that badly dressed boy over there isn't it? He shares your taste, or is it the girl? Or maybe both?"


Naruto rolls his eyes and Sakura balks at the prospect of being Sanziya's daughter, Sanziya herself chuckling.


*This is serious, if I don't get kaa-san out of there she'll die!*


Another bunshin blocks any hopes the genin have of rescuing Sanziya.


"This bunshin has 30 percent of my power, unlike the others with only five percent. This should be more than enough to fight you, while your sensei slowly suffocates...unless you give up the bridge builder."


Naruto growls, shaking his head 'no' as he tosses Sasuke a fuuma shuriken. Sasuke catches it and gasps slightly.


*This is...* he thinks, unfolding it. *Right.*


"Demon Wind Shuriken: Windmill of Shadows!"


He throws the shuriken, missing the clone completely as the shuriken goes to hit Zabuza who catches it, quickly noticing the hidden one and jumping over it.


"Think you can fool me with that?" he tells them, utterly surprised when Naruto 'poofs' into exisistance from the shuriken behind him, throwing a kunai knife at him.


"Good job Naruto!" Sanziya cheers from inside her prison.


Sasuke smirks, but that soon turns to shock when Zabuza throws down the shuriken, catching the kunai just before it makes contact. Naruto growls deep in his throat. "Weak, there's no point in keeping any of you alive anymore, I've had my fun."


He tightens his fist that holds Sanziya captive, the Water Prison shrinking fast, so that it forms a sheen over her head. The woman tries to move, scratching at her throat furiously, but to no avail. Zabuza releases the jutsu, and she falls into the water, unmoving.


Naruto looks about ready to drop to the ground in sorrow, but he pulls himself together, going over to the body of the woman.


//Kaa-san?// he asks gently, shaking her shoulder. //Kaa-san this isn't funny, I know he can't beat you.// He turns her body over, slapping her face lightly. Sakura and Tazuna turn away sadly. //Kaa-san...wake up...Kaa-san, please wake up.// He lifts her arm, dropping it, and it falls back to the water with a splash, the woman not moving a bit other than that.


'Kit...she's dead...'


"KAA-SAN!" Naruto screams, using his voice for the first time in six years as he sinks into a crouch, Kyuubi's red chakra surrounding his body as his face turns more feral, nails turning into claws and the whisker marks become more pronounced. He turns to Zabuza, red chakra bubbling around him in the form of Kyuubi with one tail. "You killed kaa-san, you killed her, your own friend...You fucking killed her! I'll rip you apart!"


Naruto growls, using Kyuubi's speed to get behind Zabuza.


*I didn't even sense his movements.* are the thoughts of three stunned ninja on the battlefield, Zabuza is kicked into a tree as he raises his sword to block the boy's attack. Naruto follows, grabbing him by the throat and slamming him into the tree hard enough so that it shatters into nothing. Then they are on the ground, Naruto stepping on Zabuza's chest. The other genin and Tazuna rush to follow them.


"Bastard..." Zabuza groans, coughing up blood.


"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Naruto yells, stomping into the Mist-nins chest with each word. Sakura winces at the killing intent he's giving off, but suddenly senbon needles come from nowhere, piercing Zabuza's throat, and his eyes shut, he's dead.


A hunter-nin can be shown in the tree above, holding more of the needles.


Naruto rounds on the nin.


"You bastard! That was my kill, how dare you interfere!"


Just as he is about to attack the nin, a gasp as well as a tap on the shoulder interrupt him, and he whirls around angrily.


"Nani?! (What?!) Kaa-san...-" he is cut off as Sanziya punches him in the stomach, catching him as he falls.


*Sleep...*


Sanziya looks at the nin as they jump to the ground, bowing to her.


"Thank you, we have been after this man for a very long time, it is only with your assistance that we were able to finaly apprehend him." the nin says, taking up Zabuza's body.


Sanziya nods as the nin 'poofs' out, smiling to herself.


*Good to know you're still alive...Haku.*
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