Chapter 60

In a misty forest outside the village hidden in the mist or Kirigakure in short, was the secret hideout and the headquarters of the Rebels.

As they were all branded as traitors for the assassination attempt of the Mizukage, they hid themselves in their secret headquarters inorder to not get hunted down by the hunter mins.

At the entrance of the hideout, Chojuro was assigned as the door guard. Currently, he was feeling very nervous and afraid.

Although he was already an adult, sixteen yeats of age, yet just being an adult doesn't mean you have no fear.

With the hunter nins hunting them like animals, the position of the door guard was a very important job. If anyone who has no knowledge of the password was to be killed on the spot.

He doesn't have the experience of killing people, because he had not even killed a single person in his life. But what he was more scared, was the possibility of the Hunter nins bursting through the door and killing everyone.

Just as he was pondering over the thought of the Hunter nins, someone knocked the door.

'' AAHHH!!! '' he screamed, as he fell to the ground on his butt.

Then the knock came again.

He immediately got up, and grabbed his katana. As he slowly went to the door with caution, the knock came again, this time it was with more force. The one knocking was losing their patience.

'' P-password! '' Coujuro managed to squeaked it out.

'' I don't have time for that crap! '' Someone said from the opposite side of the door. '' If you don't open the door right now, I will slice you in half ! ''

'' Y-yes sir !!! '' Chojuro immediately opened the door. Everyone from Kirigakure knows whom this voice belongs to, and he had no choice but to opened the door.

On opening the door, he was greeted with an angry Zabuza and his followers, which consisted of Haku and the demon brothers.

'' What took you so long idiot ?! We were chased by those fucking hunter nins and almost got caught, and now this ! '' One of the demon brothers glared at Chojuro, causing the poor boy to go to his knees and apologize with his forehead touching the ground.

'' Enough. '' Zabuza ordered. '' Where is Mei? ''

'' Lady Mei is in her office? '' Chojuro replied.

'' Alright I want you three to go get some rest, I need to have a little talk with Mei. '' Zabuza said to his three followers.

'' Yes Lord Zabuza. '' They replied.

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Mei Terumi, was worried. As she sat on her office chair and read the reports, her fears were comming to reality. Funds for the group was getting very low, and this continues further, they would not be able to feed the group, and if that happens, they had to take drastic measures to obtain money. But the monetary issues was not the problem.

The problem was the safety of her fellow ninjas under her leadership. They were toiling day in and day out, just to provide funds for the group, disregarding their own safety. But most Importantly, she was worried about the safety of Zabuza.

He was the most loyal man she had ever met in her life. He loved his village so much that he dropped his pride, and to take a job, offered by a man who was compared as a swine.

Every ninja from Kiri was a proud ninja, and they will not let anyone trample over their pride.

But Zabuza, knowing fully that he would be hired as a mercenary by a scum, he disregarded his own pride just to support the rebels in any way he can.

He was a man that would do anything to protect the ones he holds dear, and that was the reason she fell in love with him. He was not the most romantic man, but he had his charms.

Sure he had his flaws, especially that demonic looking smile he had. That was why she told him to cover his face and fix his smile, otherwise he would scare his own children one day.

She giggled at that memory, she would love to have his child one day, but if doesn't come back... what would she do?

A knock on her door brought her back to reality. She adjusted herself to look presentable, and then said said, '' Come in. ''

The opens and she looked at the person entering her room.

It was Zabuza and he did not cover his face with those bandages. He gave her his usually demonic smile with his sharp teeth exposed.

'' I'm back, and I have some important new- '' Zabuza could not finish what he was saying, as he was tackled to the ground by Mei. She embraced and held him tightly in her grasp.

'' You're back! You're back! '' She said to him as she held him even tighter.

Zabuza was in a dangerous position right now. He was a man who was not a huge fan of hugs, and he had a very good reason for that too.

It's not that he hates it, it's just that when two soft globes are pressing on his chest, especially the ones belonging to Mei, his little brother would rise up involuntarily. And as a very prideful man, there was no way in hell he would embarrass himself infront of her.

'' Get off me you crazy woman! '' Zabuza tried to pushed her off.

'' Let me embrace you a bit more. '' She said with sadness shown on her face, '' Please~ ''

How could he say no to that.

'' Fine. '' He sighed in defeat as he wrapped his arms around her, and pulled her closer to him. She snuggled closely to him and pressed her well endowed blossom to his chest.

This time he did not push her off.

'' I was worried about you. '' She whispered.

'' I know. '' Zabuza replied.

If someone were to see the current Zabuza, they would be very very surprised. This was the demon Zabuza, a merciless assassin who kills his targets without any mercy. They all fear and respect him, but the current Zabuza was just a man showing his love to his woman.

He wasn't called the Demon for no reason. Before he could even graduate from the academy, he killed all one hundred of his seniors during their graduation exam without any mercy.

Everyone knew how bloody the kiri graduation ceremony was, and Zabuza knew it all to well. But he didn't just killed all his seniors for no reason.

At a very young age, he was taught by his parents to love his village and protect it with his life. But sadly his parents did not live long enough to even witness their child growing up. Thus he became an orphan.

Life went downhill really fast after that, especially for him. So he had only one option left for him to survive. That was to become a ninja.

His patents were both genin, and could just barely support themselves including him, so when they died, he was left with only his parents house, Which was even big to begin with.

He then sold what ever his parents left for him, and used the money to join the academy.

Despite being just a young boy, he had shown to be very promising with handling swords. But despite his skills, many of his classmates fear him, at first he did not know why, but the meeting with Mei changed him to what he would be in the future.

She approched him, and pointing at his face she said, '' Stop scaring your classmates with your evil smile. ''

Although their meeting was not the most romantic way as described in those shojo manga, their relationship deepened in the next two years. Zabuza was very anti social, so Mei would often dragged him to her friends telling him to make friends with them with, but a smile from him scared the living daylights out of them. In the end, Zabuza did not managed to make a single friend.

During the first two years of the Academy, Zabuza and Mei would often train with each other. And she learnt it the hard way that, fighting Zabuza when he had a sword was sucidal. The only way she could manage to beat him was only when she used her bloodline limit against him.

And as time passed by, Zabuza fell in love with Mei, though she did know of it, he would not tell her that.

And when him and his fellow classmates were a year before their graduation, they were informed of the bloody graduation ceremony. And honestly everyone was scared, even Zabuza was. But his was due to another reason.

He was furious at the Academy for even putting this crazy graduation ceremony. He even barged to the Academy's office and confronted the principal.

Why should we kill each other to graduate ?

That was his question, but the headmaster's answer was very simple and cold.

'' We do not need weaklings in this village, we want only the best. And If you can't even spill blood from your classmates, what would you do when you faced an enemy? ''

They wanted to make monsters out of them.

Monsters with a leash on their neck.

But if they wanted a monster, what would happen when a demon were to appear.

He applied to graduate early, and when he was faced with his seniors, he massacred them all with his demonic face plastered on his face, On facing such a bloody event, the village council decided to abolish this graduation ceremony. In fear that another demon like Zabuza would appear.

And that was how he got the title of the Demon.

Despite all of his deeds, Mei still loved him, and he was very grateful for that.

Zabuza and Mei stayed in that position for a while.

When everything calmed down, he had to tell Mei something very important.

'' I know who supplies Yagura with weapons and food. ''

'' Who is it? '' She asked.

'' It was Gato and his friends. ''

'' You mean the man you were hired by? ''

'' Yes, and now excluding him there are four more of his friends, who are supplying Yagura. ''

'' What do you mean excluding him? ''

'' He was killed. ''

'' Oh... Did you kill him? ''

'' It was a blonde haired demon from Konoha, and his name was Naruto. ''

'' Ok, so what should do now? '' Mei asked.

'' Now we will cripple Yagura, by eliminating all his suppliers and taking all their supplies for ourselves, and then when that's done, we will go back to Kiri and Kill him. '' Zabuza gave his plans.

'' Your plan is good, but that would take time. '' Mei said.

'' It will take time yes, but it's much better than we are doing now. '' Zabuza said. Their previous plan was to just raise funds to arm themselves and to prepare the second assassination of Yagura.

'' But our funds are very low right now, so how can we even afford to attack Yagura's suppliers? '' Mei protested.

'' You don't have to worry about that. '' Zabuza said as he took out a scroll from his pockets and hand it over to Mei.

'' Inside are about fifty million ryo worth of item I took from Gato's hideout, this will be enough to support our group for a year. ''

'' W-what? '' Mei was awestruck at the amount of money he had brought back for the group. She held the scroll tightly into her chest, and looked at him, '' How could I ever thank you for all the things you have done for us. ''

But Zabuza shrugged it off, '' You don't have to thank me, I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do. ''

He then walked towards the door, and opened it, '' If that's done, I'm going back to take a nap. I haven't got a good sleep for days. ''

He was about to leave the office, but Mei pulled him back, and kissed him very passionately.

Zabuza could not anything much at that time, as she closed the door, and moments later, the door was locked.

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Back at Konoha, Naruto was in deep thought. As he was delivering punishment to Kiba, Shino said something that made him thinking till now.

Obviously, he said that in an attempt to distract me, but Naruto spaced out a bit.

In the end, Shino did not escape his punishment.

' I can't believe, I haven't asked Hinata for a date till now. ' Naruto mentally criticized himself, ' I'm so fucking dumb !... But wait, how should I even do that ? '

He should be preparing for that now, and he should make himself look more presentable.

But as he passed through a random shop, he looked at the windows to see his reflection.

'' Make myself presentable with this face, what a joke. ''

To be very honest, Naruto's face was by no means handsome. He had long blonde hair, that he kept in a slick back style, his pitch black eyes and the white pupils with a dot, and most importantly, the scars on his face caused by that explosion when he tried to save Hinami and Hanabi.

He looked like a psycho killer, and he was not very proud of it.

Before he ruins his mood, he went straight to the forest of death, where his home was located.

He knocks the door and waited for someone to open the door.

'' Coming ! '' A very familiar voice opened the door. But when Naruto saw the one opening the door, his eyes were wide opened.

It was a man who was taller than him, but the most important feature that man has was the pitch black horn on his fore head.

'' Kuromaru, is that you? '' he asked.

'' Yup it's me. '' Kuromaru replied.

'' What the fuck happened? ''

'' It's a long story. ''

'' Make it short then. ''