Disclaimer; I still don't own this and I'm still not making any money from writing this, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden will NOT be in this story.

A different fox tale

Chapter 7

Hiding blood and demons entrance

The demon brothers stared at Naruto for a few seconds, then glanced at the other Naruto and stared for a few seconds, they where staring more at the boys eyes then at the boy himself, the bloody red eyes with those two mocking black teardrop-like dots lazily spinning, the boy blinked, when his eyes had reopened they where dark blue with no spinning dots. Both Naruto's suddenly rushed forward, jumped, and kicked a demon brother in the face making their heads slam painfully into each other, they where both out cold.

As soon as the two unconscious bodies hit the ground a puff of smoke appeared, Kakashi had finally decided he had all the information he needed, he knew who the demon brothers where after. Kakashi began speaking to Tazuna about the real details of their mission, Naruto didn't really care, he looked at Sasuke who was still shaking slightly, he just glared, then glanced at Sakura who was still unconscious, he glared again, muttered something about "Pathetic losers" then glanced at his clone that was still there, the clone sighed sadly "Such crappy luck" it stated aloud, the real Naruto agreed.

"Why did we have to be teamed with Sasuke-bastard?" Naruto complained, his clone looked thoughtful for a moment "We woulda been better off with Shikamaru-kun or Shino-kun" the real Naruto nodded in agreement "And Sakura… don't even get me started there" his clone nodded in agreement "I know what you mean" Naruto gave it a funny look "Of course you know what I mean"

They heard somebody clear their throat, obviously trying to get everybody's attention, both Naruto and his clone glanced at Kakashi, he had apparently finished his discussion with Tazuna and had decided on their next course of action "Well, now that Iv got everybody's attention" he stated, Naruto idly noted that Sakura was awake again "Were going back to the village and having a team of ANBU take over" Naruto glared at Kakashi "Is something wrong Naruto?" he asked, not sounding like he really cared "Somebody once told me it's very unprofessional to abandon a mission you've accepted, because it's a little more difficult then expected" Naruto replied coldly, Kakashi raised an eyebrow "I don't care what you and those two morons" Naruto pointed at Sasuke and Sakura "Decide to do, but I will not abandon the mission just because of a lack of information"

"Well…" Kakashi started "If you feel so strongly about it, we'll take a vote" he, Naruto and Naruto's clone all looked at Sasuke and Sakura as if expecting an answer to a question that the two ninja's plus clone didn't think needed to be asked out loud.

Sasuke glared at Naruto (or it might have been the clone, he wasn't sure) "I say we keep going" he stated in almost perfect monotone, Sakura glanced at Sasuke, she blushed while thinking 'How cool…' then she looked at Kakashi and also agreed to continuing the mission

And so they continued with the mission, the rest of the day was mostly uneventful; Sasuke glared a lot, mostly at Naruto and his clone, which was still there, Sakura gazed at Sasuke dreamily and blushed a lot, Kakashi read his perverted book, and giggled a lot, and the Naruto's quietly talked about what kind of training they could do and what kind of ramen they would eat when they got home. Several hours and a slow boat ride later they arrived near the client's house, all they had to do was walk down a path and through a small section of the village, what could possibly go wrong?

Naruto looked around in a bored fashion (Sasuke had "accidentally" knocked the Naruto-clone out of the boat in a shallow area making the poor ex-clone smash its head against a rock and disappear in a puff of ninja smoke) he knew something was odd, but he wasn't sure what, there where bushes, a white snow rabbit that should have been brown, trees, a large river…

He glanced at his teammates and Sensei, Sasuke and Sakura where clueless, Kakashi looked clueless, but Naruto knew better, he knew that Kakashi's eye wasn't scanning line after line of perversion, it was discreetly searching the trees and bushes for any kind of threat. He barely heard a low whistling just before Kakashi yelled "Get down!" they all dropped to there hands and knees just barely avoiding the massive sword that passed within a foot of them, had they not ducked they would have been cleaved in half. They all stood (except Tazuna, who covered his head with his arms and whimpered) and glared at the tall shirtless man who stood on the handle of the slab of a sword which was stuck in the trunk of a fairly large tree.

"Well…" Kakashi began "Momochi Zabuza, Missing-Nin of the hidden mist, interesting meeting somebody like you here" Zabuza folded his arms over his chest and glared at Kakashi "Copy-Nin Kakashi, I am truly honored" he stated sarcastically. Kakashi just raised his visible eyebrow "well if you don't mind…" Zabuza continued "I'm going to kill that old man now" Kakashi glanced at Tazuna "Sorry but I do mind, my team are under orders to protect him so I can't allow that"

A/N

1

Sorry about the late and short (and kinda poorly written) chapter, I have been kinda preoccupied with other things (CoughHarryPotterCough) I will try to make the next chapter better.

2

An Author Note in the last chapter may have sounded kinda confusing; I had stated that I didn't make Sasuke freeze because I don't like him; a reviewer took it as a double negative. What I was trying to point out was there was a reason he froze, I'm not making him look weak because I don't like him. Even though I think he is… well, if I wrote what I thought of him I would probably need to raise the rating (Grins) but just because I hate him doesn't mean everybody does (I'm sure a couple people like him) And to answer another review sine I'm on the subject of Sasuke, I really doubt I'm going to kill him (Sorry)

3

A reviewer asked what Pocky is, and I answer, "The snack food of the gods…"LOL

4

To point out one more thing, Naruto's Sharingan was not implanted or anything like that, how he has the Sharingan will be explained later in the story…