( THE LAND OF WAVES PART-5 )

masked man: thank you very much, I have been searching for the opportunity to kill Zabuza for a long time.

the man was wearing an engraved mask on his face a hidden mist anbu uniform, seeing his attire kakashi could guess the person's identity.

kakashi: that mask.... you are a hidden mist hunter-nin.

masked man: impressive you are correct, my duty is to hunt down missing-nins. I have been searching for Zabuza for a long time.

after hearing his tone and examining his body structure kakashi could guess that the hunter was of the same age as naruto.

seeing the kid, naruto knew that he is haku. even though he wants to help him but he knew that this is not the right time because, if he stops him now, sasuke will loose his chance to activate his sharingan and naruto will not be able to capture the main culprit behind the downfall of the land of waves, gatou. so he held himself back.

after explaining himself haku disappeared from his original place appear beside Zabuza, he picked him up and bowed toward kakashi before disappearing.

after haku left with Zabuza, kakashi and trio finally took a breath of relief, and just as kakashi was about to give further instructions he felt his head spinning, he was eventually not able to hold himself and collapsed on the ground.

sakura: kakashi sensei what happened to you.

the trio and tazuna came to kakashi with worried expression on their faces.

Kakashi: seems like I overuse my sharingan, and now my chakra is almost empty and my body is at its limit.

kakashi blurted out these words with great difficulty and after saying them he fainted, seeing that kakashi has fainted naruto come by his side in order to check his condition, after reading his pulse he said.

naruto: sensei is fine, he just needs some rest, tazuna-san can we move to your place for some time.

tazuna: sure, you guys just saved my life, I am more than happy to help you.

hearing this the trio sighed in relief, after that naruto make two clones, so that they can carry kakashi without hurting him, after picking kakashi up they left the battlefield and just before leaving naruto glance in his right direction realizing the situation an evil smile appeared on his face and he silently made a shadow clone.

around 1000 meters away from the battlefield, two men were watching the battle with cold expression on their faces, they are gatou's man, one was wearing a thick overcoat, a long cap and was carrying a sword on his waist, his name is 'zouri', the other man was really muscular, his upper body was bare, there were tattoos on his face and his right chest he too was carrying a sword on his waist, his name was 'waraji', both of them are wanted samurai. who have committed many horrible crimes like murder, organ trafficking, rapes and much more.

zouri: damn it, that bastard zabuza has failed in his mission, seems like that good for nothing tazuna has got some really good helpers.

waraji: hmph, i knew it from the beginning that he is a waste, let us go back and inform boss about it.

hearing waraji, zouri nodded and they left that place, just as they left a figure silently followed them without making any noise, who else could it be other than naruto's clone. after running for around 1 hour they finally reached the top of a mountain. on top of the mountain one could see a huge and luxurious traditional Japanese style villa, after reaching there, a serious expression appear on zouri's and waraji's faces and they cautiously entered, Naruto's clone followed suit in shadows.

inside the villa in a luxurious room, gatou was looking at some documents, gatou is a short and plump man, as he was doing his work there was a sudden knock on the door.

KNOCK! KNOCK!

hearing this a frown appear on gatou's face and he said.

gatou: come in

hearing gatou zouri and waraji entered the room and bowed in front of gatou.

gatou: what is it, is that old bastard dead.

zouri: no master Zabuza was defeated by a jounin from the village hidden in the leaves and right now they are together with tazuna in his house.

hearing this an angry angry expression appear on gatou face and shout.

gatou: damn those leaf bastards, i will surely kill them and that tazuna, he still thinks that he can stop me.

gatou was really angry, after thinking for a while he said.

gatou: go and stop all the food shipments to the village..... tazuna let us see for how long you and your peoples can go without food jie jie jie Jie ( evil laughter ).

as they were planning their next move, a figure outside the window was quietly listening to them, after hearing their dialogues an angry expression appear on his face but he knew that this is not the right time to take action, the figure made a hand seal and turned into white smoke.

...........

kakashi was resting while lying on a bed, sasuke and sakura were also resting and naruto was sitting in a corner with his eyes closed seemingly in deep meditation. as he was meditating a string of information came to his mind, seeing the information naruto's look suddenly change and a deep killing intent broke out from his body, no one was able to sense the sudden change in naruto's momentum except sasuke, feeling the killing intent he suddenly look toward him with a shocked expression on his face. he knew what this momentum was he has felt it before when Itachi massacred entire uchiha clan, this momentum was the thirst of killing someone.

sasuke: just what are you hiding naruto. ( sasuke mumbled )

thinking this far sasuke stood up and move toward naruto and said.

sasuke: naruto, i think the time has come to clear some things.

hearing sasuke naruto regained his calmness and retracted his killing intent, he slowly open his eyes and look at sasuke straight in his eyes, seeing the emotions in Sasuke's eyes naruto sighed and stood up.

naruto: sasuke, sakura follow me.

to be continued.