Ninja's hero

"Momochi Zabuza," Izuku growled lowly. Naruto had heard the name before but right now that wasn't his focus. His brother had given him the run down of the guy and now it was measuring time. The man had light gray skin. On the bottom half of his face he wore bandages like a mask. A single belt strap looped around his neck, joining in a diamond clasp over his bare chest running down to his left hip. He wore only baggy, grey stripped pants and similar style wrist and leg warmers. A blank ninja forehead protector was on the side of his head.

"I'm already that famed? All I did was kill a Konoha Jounin," Naruto saw Izuku's hands behind his back. His Chidori came to life with Sasuke's, only one screech filled the air.

'Make a Rasengan on my signal' Naruto lifted one of his hands up a small whirlwind rung out as their Rasengans activated at the same time. Izuku had a Rasendori hidden perfectly behind his back. 

"Do not pride yourself fool," Izuku growled, "I research my opponents to fight," Sasuke darted ahead first, his Chidori electrifying the water slightly, Naruto followed close behind. Zabuza simply lifted a hand and created a water clone, which proceeded to charge forwards and try tank the hits. He could here his brother quietly behind him running in his shadow. Sasuke broke through the water clone and dropped below the surface. As Naruto and Izuku raced over his head, the blond changed targets, striking Kakashi's liquid prison. The sound of a kunai being flung took Naruto's attention, It soared forwards and flew harmlessly past Izuku's head. The greenette smirked and readied his Rasendori. "And I fight to kill!" The electrified Rasengan struck Zabuza's chest, the man groaned in pain. His connection to the water prison was broken and Kakshi felt onto the water surface. Sazuka quickly resurfaced and joined them on Izuku's other side. They watched the green haired shinobi threw his jutsu, and Zabuza with it, towards the centre of the lake. "Rasendori!" All four of them were suddenly on dry land as the whole lake was electrified. Naruto looked at his feet to see one of Izuku's Flying Raijin kunai in the dirt. He must've dropped it when Zabuza first attacked!

"Nice thinking Izuku," Kakashi nodded, "Forcing him to break his connection, but I doubt you killed him,"

"I didn't," Izuku waited until the crackling from the electricity stopped, "There's something bigger at play, recent stories tell of Zabuza being accompanied by a younger shinobi, no doubt they're using it as a ploy, test our strength here and then go ll out at the actual site, or at least, if Zabuza starts losing, the shinobi will interfere and allow him to escape,"

"Then we should," Sakura began,

"Fighting them both right now is pointless," Naruto murmured, "Even if we did manage to get them both, why wouldn't others come after us too?"

"Nice thinking," Sasuke nodded "We can take them out at the bridge and then we've got a point to actually defend,"

"Even though we'll face a bigger force we won't have to worry about attracting more attention either," Kakashi mused, "Good thinking, but we can't just let them go," Izuku had run over to Zabuza's body and teleported back with it. Naruto saw his palm resting on the back of the man's neck.

"I'll take him from here," A new voice broke the clearing. All fix ninja turned with kunai ready. A plainly dressed shinobi stepped forwards with raised hands. "I am a shinobi from Kirigakure, we've been trying to bring in Zabuza for some time now," Naruto walked over.

"Alright, thanks for taking the dead weight," He feigned innocence, offering his hand out. The shinobi shook it unhesitatingly. He suppressed a smile.

'Gotcha' 

"I should be thanking you, it has been impossible to catch him until now, he would always just slip through our fingers,"

"Something tells me this will be the last time," Izuku put his hands on his waist. "We'll be on our way then," The group began walking away. A slight nod and Naruto turned to Sakura.

"What's he doing?" He asked the pinkette.

"He's, carrying the body away," Momentary confusion.

"Why? He could just bury the body and report Zabuza was finally killed," Sasuke offered. The blond watched her slowly figure things out.

"Because Zabuza isn't actually dead, he's being taken to recover and try again, that shinobi wasn't from Kirigakure at all,"

"His partners origins are unknown, most likely because of the fact he's unnamed and normally a precursor to the targets being killed, he may well be from Kirigakure, just to make sure no-one can call him out on it," Izuku shook his head. "But you have the right idea Sakura,"

"Yeah, nice job Sakura!" The blond held a thumb up, "We need to be on guard from now on, Tazuna, don't leave any of our sights, anything grabs you throw this tag," The old man took the tag and nodded, tucking it away in his pocket.

Worryingly there wasn't any attacks the rest of the way. They reached the destination as the sun began to set. "This is my home," Tazuna held out a hand, "Our building site is close by," Naruto nodded and walked over to part of the door, marking it immediately. "What are you?"

"Safety precaution," Izuku followed suit. "Basically we're making sure we can get back here if we're lured into a trap," Naruto nodded.

"Plus if we know where you live, the bad guys are going to know too, so being able to flit between areas is going to be a major help," He tacked onto his brother. "Who's the kid watching us from behind the corner?"

"That is Inari, my grandson," Tazuna murmured "Do not take offence but he doesn't think this is going to work,"

"Well, we're definitely going to succeed now," Sasuke smirked "We don't take well to being told we can't do things," The brothers nodded in agreement.

"You misunderstand, he believes Gato is untouchable due to his incomprehensible wealth and reputation as a guarded sleaze ball," Naruto saw his brother twitch lightly at the mention of reputation,"

"It doesn't matter what reputation a person has, there's always a chink in their armor," The sentence had personal experience behind it, but the blonde decided not to explore it right now. "Anyway, Sakura, you've got good chakra control right?"

"Yeah,"

"Good, Naruto, go train her in some chakra control, you've got the best since Kurama and you need to work on syncing chakra more,"

'The kit is right, we need to practice that'

"You got it bro, what will you and Sasuke do?"

"I'm going to be exhausting my chakra reserves to increase my capacity, hopefully I'll be able to mark a kunai or two for my Flying Raijin in time, it seems really good to use with the Chidori, Izuku's going to be watching me to make sure I don't overdo it,"

"As much as I want a Shadow Clone with you as well Naruto, I can't help you unless the chakra overwhelms you and if I'm not there then it's extra reason to keep control," Naruto couldn't be upset with his brother's decision, getting the entirety of Kurama's chakra under control required serious focus. He'd barely made it up to two tails worth of chakra.

'I believe in you kit, it will take a while but you will master the control'

Naruto shook his head mentally. "How do you do it Kurama? I get you're gigantic and all that but such fine chakra control?" They stood in the mental space as Naruto called it. This was for more lengthy conversations, in the real world barely a second passed. But he and Kurama could have several lengthy conversations since his mind was focused on the space.

"My chakra is mine, I control it like anyone else would, you have difficulty because of the amount, it gives in to your animal like rage,"

"Oh, wait, can you funnel some chakra into me while I meditate with Sakura?"

"Alright kit, I'll be careful, I don't want you to go wild," Naruto nodded and slid back into reality,

"It works for me, c'mon Sakura, let's go!" He darted away into the woods, the pinkette on his heels. 

"Naruto, hey, wait, NARUTO!" She called after his cackling figure. Luckily he found a small clearing to act exactly as he needed. His feet gripped onto the tree as he ran straight up it. "Naru-to? How did you?"

"Chakra control Sakura, push chakra into your feet and walked up the tree, it'll be easy since you've got really good chakra control," Sitting down on a wide branch Naruto crossed his legs and rested his hands in his lap. "Alright, once you climb the tree tap my shoulder, then I'll move trees and you'll have to climb that one," Chakra slowly started to flow through his body. To the outside it simply looked like meditation but for Naruto, it was focusing on controlling Kurama's chakra. Feeling anger raise in the pit of his stomach he kept focusing on keeping calm. Something tapped his shoulder. Opening one eye he saw Sakura smiling at him upside down.

"I did it," Her joy seemed infectious as the anger died down.

"Alright, I'll move to another branch and we'll keep going," Leaping away he started controlling the chakra again and grinned. He'd reached a full tail without getting angry. Hopefully the evening would be very productive.

"Alright guys, we're going to be heading to the bridge," Kakashi spoke as they walked out the door. Sasuke nodded but looked at Naruto and Izuku. They discreetly shook their heads. Disguising his shock as a sneeze he spoke up.

"Let's get moving then, the quicker the fight begins the quicker we can get it done with," He grunted as the group set off. Naruto sat with Izuku at the window of their bedroom. Sasuke began talking with their Shadow Clones as if nothing was wrong. Naruto watched until they were out of sight.

"Ready?" His brother murmured.

"Ready," The blond nodded, the two walked downstairs to see the small family sat around the table again. Inari looked over in silent shock and his mother, Tsunami followed suit. "Hey, we sent Shadow Clones with them, we think people are going to come after you, having us here is better for you," As if on cue there began a thudding at the door. The two immediately hid in the room, two grunts barged into the room and smiled evilly.

"Two for one huh? Guess that bridge building bastard will have to...give....up....now? Why are you two smiling?" One demanded. Naruto simply coughed. Both looked up to see Izuku and Naruto stood on the cieling.

"Hi," The greenette waved, "Fuck off," They dropped and punched a man each. Quickly they grabbed an ankle of their target and threw them outside before following slowly.  as he put his formula on one, Izuku put his on the other, and then they swapped targets.

"What did you just do brat?!"

"Well I've just marked you with my jutsu," Naruto growled "That means that no matter what happens, I can find you in seconds," He loomed over the two, "And if I ever hear you do something like this again, I'll kill you," The two grunts laughed.

"And what can- AHH!" One cried out as Naruto twisted the kunai recently lodged in his arm. "YOU, YOU BRAT!" They tried to punch him. Standing up, the blond avoided the punch with ease. Another kunai into his foot.

"Again, either start running now," A third kunai was held ready in his hand, "Or die," Both men paled. Naruto pulled his kunai away and snarled. The two turned and fled, the uninjured supporting his wounded ally. Wiping the blood from the kunai onto the grass he stowed them back in the holster. "Izuku,"

"Yeah?"

"You ready to go?"

"One second," The blond watched his brother walk over to Inari. The young boy reacted with shock before nodding. Izuku patted his head and returned to his brother. "If I'm right, you get to Sasuke, I'll support Kakashi," 

"Alright," The two looked at the bridge and disappeared without even a flicker.

"You alright bro?" His hand landed on Sasuke's shoulder. "A kekki genkai?" He looked around a the dome of ice mirrors around them.

"I don't know, I haven't needed the Sharingan yet," One of Izuku's kunai flew into the dome and bounced off an ice mirror. "Definitely a kekki genkai,"

"Not for long!" His voice came out, suddenly the second Uzumaki was between the boys and began observing the mirrors around him. "Got it! What did they call it?"

"Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals," He disappeared as quickly as he arrived, "Is he seriously going to?"

"Primal style, Ice release, Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!"

"WHAT? IMPOSSIBLE!" Zabuza's voice rang out in pure anger as Sasuke pulled at Naruto, the two barely avoided the senbon needles aimed to kill them.

"I'm barely making it with the Sharingan, you need to get out of here!"

"Alright, I'll come at it from the outside!" He was next to the pinkette. "Sakura are you okay?"

"Y..yeah, Naruto how?" She seemed scared, "I watched you get stabbed and kicked down to the water! Izuku was sent across the chasm to the trap!" A small smirk.

"Shadow clones, we were back at the house, some grunts decided to try and kidnap Tsunami and Inari to get Tazuna to surrender, they won't be doing that anytime soon," Sakura was almost collapsed in shock and fear. "We're both alive, in fact Izuku-bro is proving his Primal is absolutely off the charts powerful, that used to be a kekki genkai,"

"Your brother sure is strong," She whispered,

"And I'm going to be just as strong," He flared up and fell into his mindspace. "Kurama I need a tail of chakra,"

"You sure you need it kit?"

"What do you mean?"

"I am sure you can take this without using my chakra, you are an Uzumaki after all, you can do this without my help just yet Naruto,"

"Alright Kurama, I'll do it," He nodded and smiled. "Sakura did Sasuke say anything about the mirrors?"

"No, but both he and Izuku tried breaking it from the inside," The blond took off immediately.

"NO YOU DON'T BRA-!" Zabuza leapt for him, Izuku and Kakashi quickly cut him off with Izuku leaping up to kick him further while Kakashi ran behind the blond to intercept Zaubza as he landed.

"Your opponents are us Zabuza!" Izuku cried out as he soared over Naruto's body. Quickly the Jinchuriki leapt and punched a mirror, it didn't break. Naruto growled and kept moving with his momentum, inside the dome he could see Sasuke trying to avoid the needles as best he could. 

"Hold on bro!" He told the black haired boy. "Kakashi, I need a sword!" The large blade embedded itself into the ground as he landed. Holding it in his right hand Naruto put some of his chakra into the weapon. He threw a kunai towards the dome. "Flying Raijin strike!"The kunai moved just past the mirror as Naruto teleported to it. His blade touched the mirror and it shattered into ice shards. "Yes!" Quickly catching the kunai he threw it up at another mirror. "Improvised jutsu, Flying Raijin Lighting Storm!" The mirrors shattered as he threw the kunais just past before slashing as he warped to them. Shards kept falling to the floor as he kept slashing through the icy mirrors.  Without even turning as he landed he would throw another kunai behind him and smash another ice sheet. Until there was a single one left. "Now care to tell me your name before we fight?"

"I am Haku, that is all you need to know, since you are about to die!" The enemy shinobi charged forwards. Naruto readied his blade, he wasn't the best with a sword That title went to Sasuke. But he knew his way enough to hurt somebody. Haku dropped into another ice mirror before appearing behind Sasuke. Naruto growled and lowered himself, ready to teleport. "I'm afraid I can't die just yet," He watched the shinobi step into yet another mirror and called out.

"KAKASHI, IZUKU!" His grey haired leader was charging Zabuza with a Chidori, Haku's ice mirror was slowly forming in front of the rogue ninja. His greenette brother seemed to see things in slow motion. The blond could only see Izuku step backwards before using his Flying Raijin to get behind Kakashi. A Rasengan was in his off hand as he grabbed Kakashi's shoulder and vaulted over him, the Rasengan spun down the older shinobi's arm, stealing the lightning away before Izuku threw it up into the air. The orb of lightning disappeared into the sky. Kakashi's fingers crumpled against Haku's chest. Izuku was already leaping away as Naruto watched Kakashi grab Haku and begin leaping backwards. Zabuza moved with a large sweep but it was too late. The blond stared at the rogue ninja and paused. Zabuza had plenty of time for that slice, he could've easily cleaved the three of them but he hadn't. Haku was knocked out by Kakashi with a swift blow to the back of the neck. Seizing his chance Naruto ran over. Zabuza sliced downwards and caught his blade in the concrete. The first Uzumaki stood on it with one foot. "You hesitated," It wasn't a question, it was a statement. The killer bounty hunter had hesitated but that didn't matter, what mattered was "Why?"

"What?!"

"You hesitated, when Haku had hold of Kakashi, you could've shaven them and my brother in half, but you didn't, you hesitated, why?" He watched the facts process behind the killer's eyes. "Is it because you care for Haku?"

"No Haku is," A swift kick from Naruto silenced Zabuza.

"If he was simply a tool you wouldn't hesitate to kill him," It was true, Naruto knew it, a tool is something you can dispense of, something you can replace. "You even attempted to prevent me from fighting him, his kekki genkai may have been useful but you were attached to him were you not?" Before the two can converse further a pair of figures interrupt them.

"MOVE!"/ "Zabuza!" Izuku and Haku spoke respectively. Naruto and his brother crash down to the floor along with Zabuza. Haku isn't as lucky. The Uzumaki's find blood splattering on their faces as they see Haku impaled by a hook and chain. A weak smile on his face. His body is suddenly ripped backwards towards a large group.

"That is one less I have to pay," A voice sneered. Naruto didn't know why but that voice immediately angered him. "I was planning on having you killed since you don't have to pay a dead man," Naruto, Zabuza and Izuku all stood up as they watched a portly man, dressed in a black suit, yellow shirt and purple tie. His beady eyes were covered by small circular glasses and shaggy, brown, receding hair framed his head. In total Naruto felt it gave the man a very punchable face. The three watched the man kick Haku's corpse. "That is for your impudence injuring me earlier," The man began laughing.

"Zabuza," Naruto's voice was as stable as he could make it. "You cared for Haku didn't you? He died believing he was a tool and never achieved his dreams," The older ninja began pulling away at the bandages around his face. The blond took a kunai from his pocket as Izuku tapped his hand to Zabuza's forearm. "You killed hundreds before, now you have a chance to save thousands," Zabuza took the kunai.

"Thank you Naruto, I thought I had forsaken my humanity years ago, Haku had given that back to me, but I had never known to accept it," He watched tears drip from Zabuza's eyes. "Haku had the purest heart and a devotion with magnitude I was too blind to see, it is time I repaid his kindness," The kunai was clamped between his teeth as he hefted the sword up over his shoulder. People began stepping backwards. A series of kunai landed behind the group, intimidating the group into not stepping over it. Zabuza quickly tore through their ranks as the business man shrunk towards the back of the group. Naruto felt his brother disappear from his side. the greenette reappeared next to Zabuza.

"Zabuza," He only got the large man's attention as he pushed the business man. The business man cried out in fear as Zabuza decapitated him, taking his head clean from the top of his neck. Izuku was back next to Naruto. they watched the mercenary fall to his knees, only then did Naruto see his wounds from battling the massive forces. "He isn't dead just yet," Kakashi stepped forwards to meet the man.

"Kakashi," Zabuza's voice was rougher than before, "I am dying now, could you grant me one wish?" His arms were bleeding from several places and is was a miracle that the man's legs still worked after being so heavily sliced and stabbed.

"What is that?"

"I wish to die alongside Haku, please, leave me next to his body," Izuku grabbed Haku's body and carried it over, the two rogue ninja were laid side by side. "You were always by my side in line, it is only fitting I be by yours in death, if I could I would go to the same place as you Haku,"

"You will," Izuku reassured as he crouched beside Zabuza's head. "Trust me, what you did just now, you may have killed an entire class but today, today you saved an entire land, you saved the Land of Waves Zabuza, and you shall go to the afterlife together, we will bury you side by side, as you always have been,"

"Thank you Uzumaki Izuku, Uzumaki Naruto, Kakashi of the Sharingan, you will all become greater ninja than you realize," Naruto could almost see Zabuza's last breath. "I hope history remembers you for the people you save, unlike me,"

"We will make sure the people know you tried to redeem your past with your actions today," Naruto reassured, "It is okay Zabuza,"

"Uzumaki brothers, Uchiha child, you better become the greatest ninja in the world,"

"We will Zabuza, we will," Sasuke added as he stood with the others, 

"Good, the world...needs...kindness....." His words became hisses and his breathing stilled. 

Momochi Zabuza was dead.

Days later the team find themselves ready to go home. As they depart the house Izuku leads them on a short diversion. They stand at the beginning of the Great Seven Bridge. Named after team seven, saviors of the Land of Waves. Naruto shook his head with a small smile and looks to the side of the bridge. By the cliffs rests two patches of dirt with a large rock at the end of each. A small sign sits between the two.

Here lay Haku and Momochi Zabuza, the true saviors of the Land of Waves. Together they committed many atrocities, killing hundreds. But on their final day  in their final hours they stood against the oppressive force of Gato. Retaliating against him and his men. Zabuza was the one that ultimately killed Gato, freeing the Land of Waves from his choking grasp. The two rest now, overlooking the Land of thousands that they saved this day and the millions they saved in the future generations. 

As Naruto read the sign once again he knelt at the graves. Izuku had already used ninjutsu to grow flowers that laid on the dirt. Naruto simply put his hand on the dirt between the two and left his Flying Raijin Formula. A hand was rested on his shoulder and he turned to see Sakura smiling softly down at him.

"It's time to go home," The blond stood up and walked back over to his team. 

"Kakashi," His brother's gaze lingered on the graves for another moment as Naruto spoke to the team leader, "I know what type of Shinobi I want to be,"

"And what is that Naruto?"

"I'll be a ninja that never leaves anyone behind, I'll make sure to protect my comrades and never go back on my word, that'll be my ninja way," He looked towards the blue sky.

"That works," Kakashi smiled audibly.

"You know what Narubro?" Izuku smirked, "I may just join you on that ninja way,"

"It sounds like a path I can do down," Sasuke tacked on. "We still have a week's worth of walking back home though,"

"Actually since we're not escorting anyone we can go a lot faster," The greenette quipped back. "Come on, let's go," The team of five leapt into the trees.

'Zabuza, Haku, I am going to be the best ninja ever, just watch me!' His resolve was silent but unbreaking.

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'You are broadcasting your thoughts again,'

'DAMN IT IZUKU!'