Love and war

Chapter six

Song(s) of the moment- The Pretender by Foo Fighters/ What Lies Beneath by Breaking Benjamin

Things were not going Kakashi's way at all. He was now currently stuck in Zabuza's clever water jutsu.

"It makes things tougher if you can move, you know?

Zabuza said to Kakashi as he moved away from him.

"Now Kakashi we can finish things up later. First I'll take care of them."

Zabuza preformed a water clone Jutsu. Team seven watched as the clone rose from the water.

'Shit he's coming this way'

Sakura knew what was going to happen. Zabuza had neutralized their commanding officer, thus taking out his biggest threat. To him they were just playthings.

Sakura stood her ground. Her calm face betrayed her inner emotions.

'This power isn't the power of a Shinobi, it's the power of a high ranking Toushi… he has to be at least an A- Rank.'

To a normal ninja it seemed that Zabuza was using regular Charka there was something different about the way it was flowing it was all wrong….

"That not Charka……"

She whispered how could she not have felt it before, it was the same feeling that Hinata gave off when she first met her.

Sasuke whipped his head around to face her.

"Come again, how isn't that charka?"

"Hehe, Wearing forehead protectors and acting like real ninjas…., But you know what? A real ninja is someone who has survived numerous brushes with death."

Zabuza's voice shook Sakura to her core. The aurora that he emitted was dark and cold, like the deepest depths of the ocean. It made her shiver just by looking at him. It was true that she felt a similar feeling when dealing with Hinata, but this was darker… as if there was no light in his heart.

"Basically…. Once you're good enough to be listed in my handbook… then you can start calling yourself a ninja… you guys should not be referred to as ninjas."

The clone of Zabuza's disappeared once again.

"Dammit he disappeared again!"

Naruto yelled in frustration. As soon as the word left his mouth a side kick was delivered to his face, knocking off his head band in the process;

The kick sent Naruto flying, Zabuza walked towards him stepping on his headband as if it was nothing..

'Now show me…. Show me who you are nameless toushi….'

He looked at the now enraged Sakura who was clenching her fist.

"Heh just a brat."

The real Zabuza had commented, he wasn't interested in any else but that girl… she wasn't an E-rank nor a D-rank so she had to be higher and on top of that she is from Kyoshu. He wanted to see her power. He knew that Kyoshu's general Sousou Mokuto was infatuated with having strong warriors…

"You guys!!!! Take Tazuna and run away!!! You have no chance of beating him!! As long as he's keeping me trapped in this prison he can't move."

Kakashi's words cut deeply into Sakura's mind. She couldn't understand

'Why does he want us to run away... Are we really that weak…?'

"The water clone cannot go very far from his real body."

Rage filled Sakura as Kakashi continued to talk.

'If I can't protect them… I can't protect Sousou…. No I can protect them…. I can protect my Master… I'll prove it… I'll prove it to you!"

Zabuza stopped advancing upon Naruto and turned his attention to the girl.

'This is what I've waited for….'

Sakura hair hid her expression, but Sasuke felt the murderous aurora that surrounded the small girl.

She started laugh, her voice sounded like someone possessed her.

A soft pink light delimited her in the form of a dragon.

"Ah so you're a dragon, so which general are you."

Now he was curious, this girl didn't seem to be the type to be harboring a dragon; this could turn out to be dangerous.

Sakura's laughs got louder. She had started to open her mouth wide.

'What is she..?'

Sasuke looked at his teammate with renewed interest he didn't know why, but as he watched Sakura his chest tighten.

She let out a blood curling scream that seemed to destroy the surrounding forest along with Zabuza's clone.

Kakashi looked on in shock at this moment he thought about something that the Hokage had told him.

Flash back…..

"Kakashi, I have put Sakura Haruno on you team, you will have to be careful."

Kakashi had been called into the Hokage's office the day before the teams were going to be announced.

"If I remember correctly, this Sakura Haruno comes from a normal family and has no special abilities to speak of, that and her Ninja skills aren't where they should be. What is there to be carefully of? She's just an average shinobi."

The Hokage laughed as he smoked his pipe. It seemed like he dazed off for a minute before he gave Kakashi a piece of advice.

"Kakashi, don't judge this book by its cover, if you do it may just bite you……

End of Flashback

'This is what he meant….. Just…. Just…. What are you Sakura???'

Sakura's eyes weren't normal they were a light pink color but the most unnatural thing was that the pupils were the shape of a dragon.

The unnatural pink flames roared to life around Zabuza. Right when she was going to attack him her hands were bound and needles went thru Zabuza's neck, killing him.(yea right!!!!!)

The jutsu that Kakashi was in had dropped he had looked to the person who was now restraining Sakura.

She couldn't have been that much older that Sakura maybe about sixteen seventeen years old. Long black locks and a face that was void of all emotion. Her white dress looked to be from a foreign country .

"Xun Yu….. Stop before you destroy yourself……."

Her tone of voice held no sentiment neither, no emotion cross her azure eyes. She tightened her grip on Sakura's arms.

Sakura let out a growl that should have belonged to an animal. She broke the wire that bound her.

She took a swing at the strange girl. The girl simply jumped out of the way.

"I have no other choice,"

She moved as fast as lighting she was behind Sakura within a matter of seconds.

She hit several points on Sakura's back. It seemed to stop Sakura as she hit the ground with a thud.

The girl picked her up and brought her to Kakashi.

"She is strong but is still young."

"Couldn't the same be said about you?"

He asked lazily as he picked up his student.

"Keep watch over her ………………"

Naruto and Sasuke walked over to them.

"Kakouen Myousai….."

Naruto whispered as he looked on to the older girl.

She looked in his direction and nodded.

"She will return to normal soon, she might not have any memories of these last few moments."

With that the young assassin disappeared.

"Now that you all are finished, I'll be talking this body."

Another stranger appeared, she was crouched down by Zabuza corpse.

She had picked up his body and had disappeared.

Tazuna had offered them to stay the night at his house. Half way thru the journey is when Sakura woke up.

"Ugh my head, scratch that my whole body, man what did I get into?"

She noticed that she was on Kakashi's back.

"I'm glad you could join us Sakura-chan."

"Um… Kakashi-Sensei what happened to you???"

Kakashi stopped for a moment before he remember the girls words

"We got into a little fight nothing the four of us couldn't handle."

Sakura didn't know what happen she was really confused but she would take Kakashi explanation for now.

"This is it."

Tazuna said as he led them in the door of his house.

Um….Kakashi-Sensei….you can put me down now.

She had told him as they made their way inside.

"Father."

His daughter, Tsunami had greeted him at the door.

"Father, Ryomou is here she seemed worried about something."

They had looked to him for an answer.

"Ryomou is my other daughter."

They had made their way into the kitchen; they saw a pretty blue short haired girl with an eye patch over her left eye.

"Papa, why didn't you tell me you were having problems I would have come home earlier?"

The girl's voice was strong and full of pride but it was also underlined with worry and relief. She wore the yellow and red uniform of a Nanyou warrior.

'So this is Nanyou's Ryomou Shimei.'

Sakura thought as she examined the older girl.

"I didn't want to interrupt your honeymoon with Genpou."

Ryomou blushed slightly at the mention of the word honeymoon.

"That's not the point!"

She said to him, she had gotten up and took his hands in hers

"You could have called me I would have taken care of this Gato pig..."
She put one of her hands on her left eye patch.

She turned in Sakura's and Naruto's direction she stared at them.

"I'm Ryomou Shimei; it is nice to meet you."

She told them she continued to look them over. When she felt like she had seen enough she had gotten up.

"I'm going out for a walk I won't be long."

With that she had left them.

"On that note you guys, are you all up for some training?"

Kakashi asked them smiling a smile that told them that he was going to work them to death.

Meanwhile…..

"You need to be more careful, if Kakouen Myousai hadn't been there you could have died."

The mysterious stranger had taken Zabuza to an empty field. It seemed that the young stranger was an ally of Zabuza's instead of an enemy.

Zabuza wasn't dead; the needles hadn't hit any of his vital points. Zabuza sat up and took the needles out of his neck.

"Damn, you sure are rough…."

"You have seen the power of Xun-Yu; I suggest that you reframe from unleashing that power."

Both of the Missing nin's looked up to see Kakouen standing on the highest tree branch.

"Sousou will not take it lightly if her powers grow out of control."

Kakouen had landed in front of them.

"Xun-Yu isn't that the name of Kyosho key advisor, if so why it is that she has a dragon."

It was strange to see a Toushi outside the main general that had a dragon, well beside Shimei of Nanyou…

"Why is it that she has a dragon?"

Kakouen turn and walked away but not before answering his question

"That is information that is only privileged to Master Sousou, Han Sui"

"So are you saying that we aren't privileged enough?"

The masked shinobi had taken off her mask to reveal her beautiful face.

Kakouen had stopped in her tracks and looked back at the young girl.

"Do not be foolish Pang De if you unleashed that power now not only will she kill you but she will also destroy herself."

"What about the other two."

She asked the older girl

"Ma Chao of Seito is the blonde boy, he is also the jinchūriki of the nine tailed fox, the other boy is the last remaining Uchiha… his brother is the lover of Toushi and is currently in Nanyou."

"I see so we should give up this mission then, is what you are saying?"

Haku asked her she had noticed that Zabuza was silent the whole conversation.

"No not all but you have been warned.."

With that statement said, the young assassin disappeared

"Well I don't care much for warnings, you miss out on all the fun that way.."

"So what are you going to do…."

"That's simple Haku… we're going after Xun-Yu, forget Gato and forget the bridge builder."

"Do you want me to kill Gato and his men?"

Haku asked as she wrapped Zabuza's arm around her shoulder to support him.

"Yes that would be perfect, he is such a pain, with him out of the way he can go about this our own way."

Xun-Yu… you are an interesting person….

Dear readers

That does it for this chapter. I'm sooooooo sorry that it took so long. But the next one should be out soon. But concerning the newest ikki tousen anime that's coming out in April, I might have to change Naruto's toushi character since there will be a character in the anime based on Ma Chao. Well that aside please read and review.

P.s.

Please go on to my deviant art account which is under the name ReiaJade and vote for the lady you think should capture Itachi's heart. I would love to hear from you…

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P.s.s

This are the toushi that Haku and Zabuza are

Zabuza- Han Sui- General that served under Ma Chao then Sousou

Haku- Pang De –Served under Ma Chao then under Sousou