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Cerulean eyes glazed over, staring intently upon the hunter-nin, watching as the other boy’s body slowly lost the heat that it once held. Naruto flinched, closing his eyes, his shattered mind trying to pick up the pieces of the sight before him. Swallowing his fear, he forced himself to register his surroundings. He gasped in shock when he saw a small shape at the edge of the bridge. There against the gate of the bridge, sat the shivered arm of the hunter-nin, Naruto groaned. He fell to his knees, violently letting out the contents of his stomach.

‘I-I did that. I killed him…’ Naruto’s heart skipped a beat as another voice spoke in his mind.

‘No brat. We killed him. Wasn’t it gorgeous? Feeling the life bleed out of the one who killed what was ours?!’ Naruto clenched his teeth.

‘No! Shu-Shu-’

‘Don’t deny what we are brat! We are monsters!’

‘Shut up! I am not a m-monster! I am nothing like you!’

‘Oh? And who killed that other boy?’

Naruto bit his lip. ‘T-That wasn’t me, that couldn’t have been me! It was you! You made me kill him!’

‘Ha, ha, ha! And who do you think let me out to kill? You did! You wanted me to kill him!’ Naruto let go of his lip, tasting copper on his tongue. ‘While you might not be the murderer brat, but you are definitely tainted. Sooner or later, you won’t even need my help killing others.’ The demon fox slipped out of his mind after that, causing Naruto to let out a relieved sigh.

“N-Naruto?” A weak voice peeped from behind him. Naruto turned instantly, tensing, as he saw Hinata pushing herself from the ground. Naruto’s blood started to boil and he heard constant ringing in his ears, with a jolt, he caught Hinata before she tumbled back down. “Thank you.” She breathed out, still groggy from being put in a death like state. He acknowledged her thanks with a nod, placing one of her arms around his shoulders.

“You’re okay.”

“Yea. The imposter must’ve used the same technique on us that he used on Zabuza before.” Naruto looked around to see, that it wasn’t just Hinata who had wakened, but also several of the bridge workers were now waking up. He sent a quick glance over to Sasuke, to see that the other boy still wasn’t awake. Naruto noticed some blood leaking out of his forehead protector; clearly Sasuke was going to be out for a while.

Naruto took an unsettled breath, ‘We killed him yet he killed no one here.’ He made his hands into fists. ‘Never again will I let the fox take over like that. I won’t be a murderer! I am not a monster!’

“Well, well, what do we have here?” A voice spoke causing Naruto to revert to the current reality. Standing before them, was a short middle aged man, with wild wavy brown hair and a small pair of black glasses covering his eyes. The man wore a black suit, with a green undershirt and purple tie. Behind the man were several thugs, armed with various weapons. Naruto fleetingly thought that the man had peculiar fashion sense, before quickly placing who the short man was.

“Gatō, what are you doing here?” Zabuza grunted, further down from the other side of Naruto and Hinata. The man was bleeding profoundly from his side, yet seemed to at the same time be in a standstill with Kakashi. Naruto blinked in amazement at the feat, Zabuza clearly had a high tolerance for pain.

“I came here to see if you were getting the job done. Instead I see that, you and that useless brat can’t even take care of a couple of weak ninjas from Konoha! Therefore, I do not believe I will be paying you.”

“Don’t say that! He wasn’t useless; he died protecting someone he loved! He might have been my enemy, but he still deserves respect!”

Gatō barked out a laugh at Naruto, his thugs following suit. “Respect? He didn’t even kill any of you! What respect should I have for such a useless piece of trash?” Naruto attempted to take a step forward, to give Gatō a rightly deserved punch in the face. He didn’t make it far though; he was stop from the weight on his shoulders. Naruto blinked, remembering that Hinata was still injured.

            Gatō moved from his position in front of the thugs, walking towards the corpse of the hunter-nin. The man promptly started to kick the boy several times. “Useless piece of shit, breaking my arm!” He said in-between kicks. Naruto shifted Hinata to Tazuna, rushing at the man, tackling him to the ground. Gatō grunted as his head made impact with the ground. Naruto smashed his fist into the older man’s face several times, breaking his nose and cracking his bottom lip.

            Gatō’s face was soon unrecognizable, tripping blood all over the all place. The man had stopped struggling finally, fading away into unconsciousness. Naruto let out several ragged breaths, his vision finally clearing of rage. Finally, he noticed that more people had come to the bridge. He reached for his pouch on his hip, preparing for a fight.

            He paused when he recognized Sakura, and the rest of Team Eight standing among the newcomers. These newcomers were the villagers, and with them were Inari and his mother. They had all come to fight alongside them. Naruto stood up from Gatō, taking in the scene. The villagers were armed, and ready to fight against Gatō and his men. ‘Good, they need to learn to stand up for themselves.’ He closed his pouch, taking in the situation.

            Gatō’s men seemed to have realized that they didn’t stand a chance against several ninjas and the villagers, and had surrendered to them. Naruto looked around to see if Zabuza had also surrendered; the man had been injured pretty badly after all. Instead, Zabuza was gone from the bridge, and not only that, but the hunter-nin’s body was gone as well. Naruto blinked, confused. ‘Wasn’t Kakashi holding Zabuza off? Why didn’t I see him take off with the body? Even the arm is gone!’ Naruto looked to see that Kakashi wasn’t concerned, and frowned. He was extremely baffled.

            Kurenai came up from behind him, bending down to pick up Gatō, clearly planning to take the man into custody. Kiba was with her, and he let out a whistle. “Wow, you really did a number on the guy.” Naruto didn’t make a comment back; the man earned every hit and more. Several others also came over to them. Hinata was directly behind Tazuna, finally walking by herself. Sakura was following Sasuke, who was finally wake.

            Kakashi reached him first though, with a serious expression. “We are going to have to talk later.” Naruto nodded, and the man turned from him, to pick up a conversation with Kurenai. “Shall we get him and his crew ready for transport to Konoha?”

            “Actually, I have a better idea.”

            “Oh?”

            “Hey brat.” Naruto tuned out his sensei and Kurenai to face Tazuna, directly behind him was the rest of Team Seven and Eight. Naruto could see that the villagers all around them were tying up Gatō’s crew. “I have to thank you, kid and of course your team. You guys really saved my life back there. So thank you.” Naruto didn’t respond he didn’t feel like a hero. ‘Does killing another human really make one a hero? Even so, I didn’t kill anyone, the stupid fox did…’

            “There’s something else though kid. I have to thank you, for whatever you said to Inari.” Naruto frowned, not understanding. Tazuna smiled seeming to know what Naruto was confused about. “Do you know why the villagers are here right now? They are here because Inari convinced them to be and the only reason he did this was because he was done being sorry for himself. I am not sure what you said, but it really stuck with Inari.”

            Tazuna’s explanation didn’t clear up the confusion for Naruto; instead it only made him more confounded. Naruto walked over to Inari, who was helping his mother give first aid to the injured. “H-Hey brat, I wasn’t done talking to you!”

            “Excuse me.” Naruto spoke quietly to Inari’s back. Inari was young and therefore had great hearing, for he was able to hear Naruto easily. Inari turned his attention from the injured bridge worker, preparing a questioning eyebrow for whoever had interrupted him.

            “Naruto?” The younger boy looked confused as to why the older boy was talking to him. Naruto paused blushing, wondering himself what he even wanted to ask the kid, Inari seemed to know before him though. “You’re wondering why I gathered the villagers aren’t you, even though I kept telling everyone it’s pointless to fight…” To Naruto’s surprise, Inari’s cheeks turned rosy red like his own. “After what you said, I try to erase the memory, thinking you were just fool like my father you know? But afterwards it kept popping up every time I saw you, reminding how even though you were up against impossible odds, you still trained to fight those odds. I also remember that you ran all the way here, all by yourself just to protect what was important to you. It reminded me of my father. He was a hero, who Gatō had killed…” Inari choked up bit at the mention of his father death.

            “My father always said that he would protect me and my mom and this village with his own two arms, because we were precious to him. At first this made me anger and I resented you. But… then as I kept watching you guys, I realized I wanted to be like you, and protect what was important to me with my own strength just like my father and you. So after we were attacked at home, I knew that grandpa was in trouble, and this village’s hope was going to die. So I had to do something, you know?” Inari paused, taking a breath. “So thank you, for returning courage to my village, Naruto.”

            Naruto could feel the heat on his cheeks spread all over his face. He didn’t deserve these people’s thanks, he didn’t do anything. “And because of that, Naruto, I have landed on a name for this bridge.” Tazuna spoke, joining them, clasping a hand on his grandson’s shoulder. “I have to decide to name the bridge, The Great Naruto Bridge. The name will serve to remind everyone to stand up and protect what’s important to them.” The old man smiled at the name, thinking the name was fitting.

            Naruto couldn’t help but disagree with the idea. He steadied a breath and spoke as clearly as he could. “No, don’t name it that.”

            “What?” Tazuna spoke, clearly insulted that Naruto refuted his idea. Naruto couldn’t help but pause at the anger in the old man’s voice, but he only paused for a second. Naruto didn’t want his name on a bridge where he murdered someone else because he was a coward. Thinking quickly, he spoke again, this time with a small quiver, that was barely noticeable.

            “I think it be better to name it after someone who everyone in this village valued as a hero. While I might have encouraged Inari-san to not feel sorry for himself, I did not give him his courage. He had that way before I meet him, I only reminded Inari-san of this trait. He brought back courage to this village, not me.”
            “Grandpa can’t name it after me!” Inari shouted in anger getting in Naruto’s face, “I don’t deserve it! You do!” The shout gained the attention of several people around them; none of the three took notice though. Naruto forced himself not to flinch at the sudden raise in volume from Inari.

            Naruto pushed down the anger that was rising from being yelled at and instead spoke as calmly as he could back to the younger boy. “You misunderstood me. Someone else filled this village with hope and courage, while I might have reminded you of these traits and you reminded the village. We did not give this to anyone, your father did. He was a hero yes? One can only get this title by bring these traits to people around them. Therefore, I think that you should name this bridge after your father, Inari-san. Honor the man who died protecting his village and family with his own two arms.”

            Inari blinked in surprise, not expecting that reply. “A-After my father?” Inari hiccupped tears spilling from his dark eyes. Naruto frowned, unsure how to react to the tears, ‘did I screw up?’

            “The Great Kaiza Bridge, what a remarkable idea!” Inari nodded, agreeing with his grandpa, as he wiped his eyes. “Still, I feel as if we should do more to say thanks for everything you and your village have done for us.”

            “There’s no need, we were only doing our job. Now that the immediate threat has been taken care of, how much longer do you think it will take for you to complete this bridge, Tazuna-san?”

            Tazuna did a quick scan of the bridge, responding to Kakashi. “Seeing how there is more damage done to the bridge, it will likely be a few more days until it’s fully finished.” Kakashi nodded.

            “With Gatō out of the way, do you believe you are still in grave danger?”

            “No. I do not believe so.”

            “Then, we will lower the guard detail. Kurenai and her team will be heading back to Konoha, since she still injured. Not to worry though, my team will stay here to continue to stay guard, until you are finished with the bridge.”

            “Will Gatō and his crew go with Team Eight?”

            “Just Gatō, we will let you and your village decide what you want to do with the others. If that will be alright with you?”

            Tazuna smiled at the opportunity, “That will be just fine.”

            Naruto didn’t get to hear the rest of the conversation, he was pulled away instead. Hinata pulled him to the end of the bridge, turning to face him. Naruto looked around to see that they were now fairly far from the others.

            “Listen, I was out for the entire battle between you and that Haku guy. So can you fill me in? What happened?” Naruto blinked back at Hinata, in confusion.

            “Wh-Who?”

            “The hunter-nin, who you killed! Are you alright? What happened? How did you kill him? I saw he lost an arm too!”

            “I-I really should be asking you if-f you are alright…” Naruto hesitantly brushed one of his hand against Hinata’s hand. “And how do you know his name? I didn’t know his name…”

            “All I really did was got knocked out, nothing to major. The hunter-nin really tried to avoid hurting us really bad. And Kakashi-sensei said the name earlier, the missing-nin likely said it to him. But enough of that, let’s stay on topic it.” Hinata grabbed his hand and yanked forcing him to face her, preventing people from seeing his face. “What happened?”

            “W-What do you think!? I-I killed him!” Naruto’s bottom lip trembled as he spoke, his eyes becoming glassy. His voice went quieter, “I am a monster…”

            “No you are not. You did what you should have, and I know that sounds horrifying. But listen okay?” Hinata slipped her hand into his, squeezing it gently. “What you did was a necessary evil. You had to killed Haku, if you hadn’t he would have killed Tazuna-san. While he might have left the rest of us alive, he would’ve had to kill Tazuna-san. Not only that, but you thought he killed me and Sasuke. Anyone in your position would have been filled with rage.”

            “He was just protecting someone precious to him! Zabuza was the most important person to Haku-kun! He only wanted to protect him…”

            “And to do that, he would’ve had to kill Tazuna-san. What if their job wasn’t to kill Tazuna-san, but it was to kill Sakura?” Naruto bit his lip, understanding Hinata’s point. “We are soldiers, tools who are made to protect our village and everyone in it. If Haku had lived, at some point, we would’ve crossed his path again and who knows what his task would’ve been then? We can’t take our feelings into the battlefield, Naruto-kun. Sometimes we will have to kill; this doesn’t make us monsters or murderers. It makes us protectors of the future of our village.” Hinata dropped his hand, raising it instead to his face. “I am sorry that you had to go through this, Naruto-kun.”

            “I-I understand… it just I don’t want to kill anyone. I don’t want to be emotionless. I liked Haku, he understood a part of me, and he was intelligent. He could have been someone, and I ended that. I-I spoke with him before this, and I really do think we could’ve been friends.”

            Hinata stepped forward grasping him in her arms, as tears flowed down from his cerulean eyes. “I am sorry, Naruto-kun.” Naruto knew then, that Hinata wouldn’t understand his suffering until she experienced it herself. ‘And she will… one day. I don’t want that either, why do we have to kill? Why can’t it be peaceful? I want it to change, so that we aren’t always in constant battles.’ Naruto fingered a forgotten paper in his black jean pocket, ‘maybe one day…’ He stood back from Hinata’s embrace, quickly rubbing his eyes.

            “Thank you, Hinata.” She nodded, and glanced behind him when her sensei called to her to hurry up.

            “I got to get going, my team is heading back to Konoha today. We want to get Gatō in a jail cell as soon as possible. I’ll see you in a week okay?” She gave him a soft smile filled with sadness, grabbing his hand and giving it another squeeze, before pulling away. He watched her follow Team Eight back to the house. The villagers had also started to leave, with Gatō’s crew with them. A few of the villagers had stayed behind though, helping the uninjured workers finish the bridge. Naruto sighed, and walked back to Kakashi, so that he could learn about the new format to guard Tazuna.

~One Week and Half Later~

            Naruto leaned against the railing of the main bridge in Konoha, in his hand; he held a piece of paper. Upon this piece of paper was written several books. Some dealt with how to identify herbs, others talk about which herbs were useful for medical, eating, and whatever else. Haku really went all out in books he thought Naruto should read. Before the death of Haku, Naruto wasn’t completely certain that he wanted to learn about herbs. After his death though, Naruto wanted to honor Haku, therefore he would learn everything he could about herbs.

            Problem was that Naruto struggled a bit in reading. He wasn’t horrible at it; he had to read for the academy, and needed to be able to read scrolls. The books that Haku had recommended though weren’t as easy reading as what he was required to read. A lot of the words were bigger than he was used to, and some of the theories in the books were hard to comprehend. He wasn’t about to give up, he bought a directory; he also planned to buy more books to help explain theories that he didn’t understand. Feeling resolved he stuffed the piece of paper back in his pocket, to continue waiting for his constantly tardy sensei.

            Today was the day that the rest of his team got the bad news, Naruto grimaced. He had prepared for this moment; Sakura and Sasuke were not going to be happy. After coming back from the Land of Waves, Naruto had been rushed to the Hokage’s office. There he was retold of his punishment and then explained why they had landed on his punishment as a whole, which his sensei had left out before. The Third Hokage had also given him another dressing down about the duties of ninja.

            Naruto let out a quiet puff of air, looking at his team. Before the punishment had been explained, Naruto thought it was unfair to them, but afterwards Naruto felt it was necessary punishment for all of them. Even if it was his fault that it was force upon them. Today, Kakashi was informing the other two of the punishment. Naruto hadn’t been able to tell them beforehand though, having been forbidden to. The Hokage and Kakashi likely thought it was better they were told by a mentor first.

            Sasuke turned his head towards him, likely feeling Naruto’s gaze upon them. There wasn’t the normal distain in the other boy’s eyes. It hadn’t been there since the demon fox had killed Haku. Naruto wasn’t sure what he had done to gain some of Sasuke’s respect, but he wasn’t sure he was happy about it. Normally he would be happy about gaining someone’s respect, but he hadn’t gained the small respect on his own merit, instead it was on the fox’s. ‘If I have to kill, it really should be my own choice...’ He had slowly come to terms to what Hinata had said before. She was right that there would be times that they would have to kill, and that, that was just their world. From now on he wouldn’t let the fox choose those moments for him, and he would make sure those moments were as rare as possible. He knew that they were taught to leave their emotions behind as ninjas, but he didn’t want to.

He didn’t want to be like Zabuza who hadn’t shown emotion until the end. Naruto felt a small flashback to when they had found the man. The man had slipped away from the battle on the bridge, and with his final strength buried Haku, and then afterwards Zabuza had died upon the grave. Naruto believed that letting some emotions through, made one stronger, and that Haku had been truly strong because of this. Naruto was glad that Haku had been buried by his most precious person in the end. He liked to think that it would give Haku peace, wherever he was after death.

Naruto was startled from his daydreams of the past, when Kakashi suddenly spoke up. ‘When the hell did he get here? I need to be more alert.’ He stood up straight as his sensei jumped right into explaining the punishment.

“As I am sure that everyone is aware that Naruto was punished for his misdeed, but some of us are still unaware of what the punishment details. Today is the day where I will explain this punishment to everyone, for it affects all of us.” Naruto could see from the corner of his eye that both his Genin teammates were now looking at him. Kakashi wasn’t though; instead he was keeping a constant gaze upon Sasuke and Sakura. Preventing a flinch, Naruto kept his eyes on his sensei. He could tell that the younger half of his team was not happy.

“If you were not aware, in a few days, Konoha will be hosting the Chunin exams. These are hosted twice a year, every six months. For Genins to take part in these exams, they must be first recommended by their sensei to the Hokage. This now brings us to the punishment. While the other six rookies will be taking part in the exams, our team has been booted from the exams this time around.”

“How is that fair!? It wasn’t mine and Sasuke fault that Naruto ran off!” Sakura cried at the same that Sasuke tsk in anger. Naruto kept his head forward, not daring to look at his teammates; he could feel a blush on his cheeks. He was ashamed he cost them the exam this time.

“It’s not just because of Naruto that Team Seven isn’t allowed to take the exams. The Hokage would never punish the team as a whole for one person’s deeds unless he had good reason. After giving my review of our team, the Hokage and I came to the idea that it would be better for the team to sit out, to further strengthen our teamwork. While you guys seem to understand the need for good teamwork, it was felt that you were all still failing in putting the idea into practice. Therefore to get you guys more use to one another, we will continue doing missions.” Kakashi took a pause, letting the disappointment sink further into Sasuke and Sakura. After a moment he continued.

“We already have our first mission after the Land of Waves one. This mission is travel to several villages, hand out flyers to people and inform them of the third exam^*. We will set out tomorrow, late in the morning. I will meet you guys back here.” With a way to happy of a wave, Kakashi vanished.

Sasuke tsk again in anger, storming off the bridge, as he past he shoved his shoulder into Naruto. Naruto grimaced, promptly grabbing onto the railing, before he fell over it. He looked up from his near fall, intending to say sorry to Sakura, instead he notice that the girl had followed after Sasuke. ‘Clearly she wants to comfort him…’ He had a feeling he wasn’t going to enjoy this trip.

^*The general idea of this mission came from another story, called Harbinger by tigerowl, and it is part of a series called Three Mandalas. You guys should read it, if you haven’t already.
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