When Naruto slumped over the two dropped him, completely mangled. "NARUTO!" Kakashi screamed.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled, tears beginning to well up in her eyes.
"Idiot!" Sasuke said loudly and angrily, but his voice held a hint of remorse.
"Poor kid!" Tazuna gasped. They all had a mix of emotions. Anger and sadness.
"NOOOOOOO! HE WAS SOOO YOUNG!" was heard from behind them. They turned to look. Sasuke's eye began to twitch. "WHY ARE WE ALL YELLING!" Naruto asked, confused. Now they all had a different mix of emotions. Anger, wanting to punch Naruto's head in for making them worry, and hugging him for being alright.
"We thought you got yourself killed!" Sakura screamed.
"Aww, you care!" Naruto said somewhat sarcastically.
They all looked back to where they thought Naruto was and heard a loud pop. The mangled Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke. Kakashi then decided to attack the demon brothers. He quickly knocked them out, tied them up, then came back over.
"How were you able to do that?" Sakura asked.
"It was just a clone with a replacement jutsu," Naruto whined. Kakashi raised an eyebrow.
"Naruto, that was a very advanced clone. That clone even bled before it disappeared," he said lazily. "I was informed you could do kage bunshin, but what was that?"
Naruto rubbed the back of his head. "I call it a chakra bunshin!" Naruto announced happily.
"Interesting," Kakashi said before turning to Tazuna. "We need to know some things from you," Kakashi said, causing Tazuna to flinch. "We need to know if that was ninja attacking ninja or if it was you they were after."
Tazuna sighed and told them his story and why he had lied. Kakashi then explained that the mission just went up to a B rank. And also said they should turn back. But after some group protesting, he caved in and allowed the mission to still be on.
They began walking again, but this time Naruto was explaining the chakra bunshin. "You said that you called it a chakra bunshin, right? So that means it's of your own invention," Kakashi started, stressing the 'you called'.
Naruto nodded. "Yeah when I learned the kage bunshin I realized they were solids which made me think, it would be so cool if they could last as long as I wanted and take more than one hit! So that's what I did! They can even somewhat think on their own, which makes it a lot easier on my part when I need to coordinate them," Naruto said while smiling proudly.
'That could be quite handy. I'll have to watch for the hand signs. Maybe he'll let me copy it?' Kakashi thought.
"I even learned how to make them with out hand seals so I can do it without the enemy seeing!" Naruto said, making Kakashi look disappointed. 'Damn.'
They only had a bit of peace before Zabuza showed up and attacked them. The genin were to protect the bridge builder while Kakashi fought. Naruto watched as everything took place just as he remembered it. Soon enough Kakashi was imprisoned inside the ball of water and Zabuza had sent a few water clones their way.
Naruto made about a hundred kage bunshins and sloppily punched at the water clones. Sasuke attacked as well, leaving Sakura to defend Tazuna by herself. About half of Naruto's clones had been defeated when he decided to get rid of the water clone.
Naruto then made a run for Kakashi, who was yelling at them to run away, and threw an onslaught of weaponry at Zabuza. Naruto made quite sure that the only way for him to come out alive would be to abandon his hold on Kakashi.
