Please Don't Leave Me

The Oath of Pain... Literally

(Kazumi's P.O.V.)


"You're finished" said Kakashi finally breaking the silence as the team watched him in awe.
"Alright!" yelled Naruto excited and the others had a small smile on their face. But what made us stop was when Zabuza started chuckling darkly to himself.
"Finished?...You really don't get it do you?" he asked and we looked at him confused
"You're technique is nothing but a cheap imitation. I'll never be defeated by a mere Copy Cat ninja like you" he said chuckling to himself again and we all tensed up as we tried to anticipate his next move
"You are full of surprises though. You had already copied my water clone jutsu when you made your little speech... Very skillfully executed. You made your clone say those words to draw my attention. While you hid in the mist, waiting for me to make my move" he said glaring at Kakashi through the corner of his eye.
"Nice try. But I'm not that easy to fool" he said as he reappeared behind Kakashi and we could just sit back and wonder how he got back there. How the hell did he do that? Kakashi slashed the Zabuza in front of him and it turned to water.
"Hey! That was a clone too!" yelled Naruto as Zabuza swung his sword at Kakashi and I was ready to jump in but Sasuke held me back. Kakashi ducked under his attack and his sword went to the ground but he spun around and grabbed it again and kicked Kakashi at least a good 15 feet away.
"Now" he said grabbing the handle of his sword and aimed to swing right at him but when Kakashi sensei was sent flying, he put spikes on the ground and stopped to a halt.
"Trying to slow me down? Hmph...foolish" he said leaping into the air and Kakashi was sent into the water,
"Sensei!" called Naruto
"He has great physical skill too" said Sasuke as Kakashi surfaced from the water and obviously he was soaking wet.
"Fool. Water prison jutsu" said Zabuza appearing behind him making rapid hand signs trapping Kakashi in a dome of water. This means that now we have to rescue Kakashi and still protect Tazuna at the same time.
"This prison is made of water"
'That's kind of a given' I thought to myself sweat dropping
"But it's stronger than steel. It's hard to fight when you can't move" he said to Kakashi
"So much for the great Kakashi. I'll finish you off later. But first, your friends will have to be eliminated" mocked Zabuza turning to us
"Ah! Kazumi! Can't you do something?! You have water element right?! Free Kakashi sensei and we can stop this guy!" yelled Naruto in my ear as my team looked at him with sweat drops. Even Zabuza was probably thinking Naruto was louder than any other kid he's ever met, which probably wasn't far from the truth
"I can't" I stated simply
"What?! Why not?!" he screamed again
"Unless I can get closer to him and fight off Zabuza I can't get a good idea of the water prison he's trapped in so I can pin point the weak spot and drain the water from there. But without a strategy, there's nothing I can do here" I stated looking at the water prison.
'Even if I used my lightning nature, the blast would go to Kakashi, he would be dead and the water prison wouldn't go away unless I hit Zabuza' I thought to myself disappointed about the little skills I could use for the situation. The only thing I could probably do is fight Zabuza and hope I can do some damage so the others can get close to Kakashi and use their own jutsu.
"So the little brat has sword skills and also has the same element as me. But do you even know how to use them?" he asked me
"Water clone jutsu" he said as a clone came up from the water and jumped in the air standing about 20 feet away from us
"Water clone jutsu" I repeated and a copy of me with my sword reflecting the anger written on my face, much like the situation with Ino.
"Are you the new copy cat ninja now?" he mocked me chuckling darkly at the end
"You think your water clone can stop mine? This is why you are still genin. You are children, you can't defeat me like that. You think wearing a head band makes you a ninja? When you've hovered between life and death so many times it doesn't faze you, then you may be called a ninja. When you become so deadly your profile is entered in my bingo book, then you may have earned the title ninja. But to call upstarts like you ninja is a joke" he said fading into the mist again and appeared in front of Naruto and kicked him in the face sending him flying
"Naruto!" I yelled
"You're just brats" he said as my clone ran at him and like the first time, they clashed swords and glared at each other.
"You are no exception, you may be better than the others but that does not mean you are better than me" he said as he charged at my clone and swiped at her head missing by a millimeter. While he was swinging, she swung her katana and it looked like he was going to disappear and was about to cut him but I felt a sudden pain in my back and I was sent flying to the trees landing on the ground. But because I couldn't focus, my clone disappeared.
"Kazumi!" my squad yelled as I got up and saw right in the spot where I was was another clone disappearing again.
'Damn, I wasn't anticipating him to make another clone and send it at me, I need to keep my guard up better if I want to end this battle' I thought jogging to my squad and his clone smirked at us under his mask.


"Listen! Get the bridge builder and run! You can't win this fight. He's using all his power keeping me in this prison, so he can only fight you with his water clone. But the clone can't go far from his real body. If you get away from him, he can't follow. Now run!" he yelled but we probably looked scared except for me and Sasuke. None of us moved a muscle until Sasuke spoke up.
"We've got to do it" he said running to the water clone and Zabuza grabbed his sword and waited as Sasuke threw shuriken at him. He sliced them all away and Sasuke came at him from above and he was not going to get anywhere if he didn't have someone to distract him while he did this. I grabbed my katana from the ground and sprinted at him while Sasuke was still in the air.
He grabbed Sasuke by the throat and I felt my blood go cold for a millisecond. I couldn't control my anger anymore and sprinted at him with my eyes wide and I couldn't think, he threw him to the ground and ran after him planting his foot on his chest making sure he didn't get up. I ran at him rapidly swinging my sword and he looked at me with somewhat wide eyes and when he realized he smirked under his mask.
"Sasuke! No!" yelled Sakura
"Woah! He got Sasuke" said Naruto
"What's wrong with Kazumi though? I've never seen her attack anyone like this. She isn't even thinking about her attacks, she's clouded with rage" asked Naruto
"So, you must care for him a lot huh? You are his sister? Or are you something even more special to him?" mocked Zabuza
"Just like you said. That's my brother. Remove your foot from him...Right.Now." I demanded causing my team mates to look at me in surprise.
"But I prefer him on the ground, he's at least good at being a comfy foot pillow for me, when I finish with him I'll have no reason to use him. Then you can have him" he said as my blood boiled and I shot him a death glare I don't think he liked.



"Let go of my brother..NOW!!" I yelled at the top of my lungs and Naruto, Tazuna, and Sakura covered their ears while Zabuza smirked under his mask.
"Didn't think you were one to raise your voice over a family member" he smirked pushing his foot down on Sasuke harder making him wince. I froze in place and my heart beat was the only thing I could hear, it got louder and louder. If I was paying attention, it would feel like I was having a heart attack.
I took a deep breath and screamed as loud as my throat could manage as Naruto, Sakura, and Tazuna winced in pain holding their ears and Kakashi sensei looked at me like I was a monster. But in all honesty the others were probably thinking the same thing, my scream sounded almost like a beast waiting to go on a rampage.


I couldn't watch anymore. I launched myself at the clone and he didn't move and I swung my sword at him trying to make him disappear and Zabuza would make more. I was ready to take on twenty of them by myself. Zabuza smirked under his mask and made more water clones to try and get me to stay where I was.
The first clone came at me swinging his sword at my head but I ducked slicing his stomach in a second and ran past him to the other clones. The second came at me and swung his sword low, while the other went high.
I pushed through and went right between them as they were trying to attack again I summoned another sword out of water and sliced them both in half getting past them.
The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth clones came at me and swung at me one at a time, I grabbed the sixth's hand and threw him into the fifth and they crashed against each other and I used my water sword and stuck it through both of their chests and they turned back into water and now, the eighth and seventh came at me and I took my sword and put it in my mouth and made another sword in my hand and they both swung at me and I countered it by catching their swords in place and swung my head in a complete circle and sliced them in half. Then the fourth ran at me and swung his sword and dodged my strikes coming at his stomach and he tossed me back a few feet but I got right back up and ran at him with my full speed. While he had my hands full letting me block my attacks I used the sword in my mouth and jabbed at his stomach and he disappeared.

But what I didn't sense was the first clone who pinned down Sasuke grabbed my neck from behind and already I was having a hard time trying to breathe properly. The surprise made my other two katana disappear and my real katana to drop to the ground, he still had Sasuke under his foot and he had one hand to strangle my neck and the other holding his sword, I was losing oxygen fast.
"Kazumi!" they yelled at once
"Why waste your breath trying to fight against me? Nothing is going to help you, you were impressive to take down those clones but now you have no weapon and there's nothing you have that can save you" he said
"I do...have one..ack!....more..!" I said trying to breathe again only to have him bring his other hand over and strangle my neck making it even worse.
"What would that be?" he asked as I grabbed a kunai knife from my weapon's pouch on my right leg. I grabbed one and tried to stab his face, but he dropped me before I could touch him. I took the opportunity to take a breather and took a deep breath only to realize it hurts to breathe. I lifted my head and Zabuza's clone was standing over me smirking and he kicked me in the face and I was sent flying into the trees breaking them and when I hit the 2nd tree I was lying on the ground and it hurt to get up. I ignored the pain and attempted to get up but I was already coughing out blood.
Zabuza's clone threw shuriken at me and since I just saw and didn't have my weapon to protect me it hit my stomach and some on my arms making deep cut or just sticking to me like glue that refused to come out.
"Kazumi!" they yelled again and Zabuza had another clone come and he punched me in the face, over and over again. Kicking my stomach making the kunai go deeper into my stomach. Every punch, kick, and slice he made on my body made me scream in pain. About the 9th punch and the 13th kick and slice he kept going with many protests from my team trying to reach me, but only to be stopped by his other clones. Kakashi could only watch in horror as his student was being beaten to a pulp and he would have had tears in his eyes but the water surrounding him wouldn't let it show.
"Zabuza! You've had plenty of fun, now release her!" yelled Kakashi
"But why? I'm not satisfied yet. There is no reason for me to stop" he replied dryly
"No!"


He grabbed my hair and pulled me into his face and when he let go he kicked me in the stomach one more time and sent me into another tree behind me and I cried out in pain again, he grabbed a kunai from his pouch and threw them at me pinning my clothes to the tree. When I took more deep breaths it hurt even more. He grabbed me by my shirt and put me close to his face. I closed my eyes and waited. Then it came.
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'SLICE'

My eye was bleeding already and I was screaming in pain. I was barely lucky enough to keep him out of my eye, but he managed to cut me from my my eyelid and cut down my face. It went so fast. I couldn't do anything.
"No!" yelled Sasuke as he tried to get up only to be pushed down by his Zabuza clone
"No! Kazumi! Hold on!" yelled Naruto trying to get by, I was not going to finish my life like this. Not yet. Zabuza raised his sword one more time and he had a crazy smile under his mask.
"Say goodbye, kid" said the clone as he swung his sword at me again, my eyes widened as it came down at me.
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'SHINK'
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It stabbed my chest through my heart, my team looked at me in horror and I fell limp. But right when I feel like I'm going to die, he slices at my head....
I watched from my spot in the trees as my stomach wounds and almost broken arms hung at my sides with my eye still bleeding. I was in so much pain right now it was NOT even funny.
I probably scared the living day light out of my team mates, but I had to trick them to get away, I used the clone jutsu and substitution jutsu before he could touch me again. I look at Zabusa through the leaves of the tree I was sitting in, he had a huge smirk on his face and he looked really happy. I had to stay hidden for another minute. A few moments of silence passed
"KAZUMI!!!!!!" yelled my team as they saw my limp body hit the ground and I knew I had to come out at some point to show them I was alive. Healthy would be questionable. But I'm alive. Zabuza's clone walked back into the clearing and poofed away, the clone that had a beyond pissed off but not able to move Sasuke. The original clone that strangled me picked up my katana that was still at his feet.
"So, does this give you kids some kind of a hint of what it means to be a real ninja? Seeing your friends die in battle when you can't do anything. Was this a useful lesson for what could happen? But this is not a sword I would use for myself and it holds no value to me. Woops" he said tossing my katana into the mud puddle standing next to him.

(Quick Sasuke P.O.V.)

'She can't be.....she's not dead. No....No one was supposed to take her from me...not now and not ever! She was all I had left from the Uchiha clan besides the monster who did this. She will not die with me here...Kazumi..Noo!! He threw her katana on the ground and I had to do a double take. He tossed it into the mud... How dare he do that to her sword! No one should ever touch that and show such disrespect for my sister.. she tried to help me.... that's how she got so hurt...Kazumi, I promise you I will now let someone show you such disrespect like that...NEVER AGAIN!! NOOOO!!'



(Kazumi's P.O.V.)


They all look at him in shock and disgust. They couldn't even say anything at first. Then Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, and Sasuke yelled at the same time.
"....NOOOO!!"
Sakura was doing nothing but bawling her eyes out. Sasuke jumped out of his grasp and he gave Zabuza a death glare not even I had ever seen before. Naruto was no better. He was worse then Sakura, but no one looked as mad as Sasuke did that moment.
Zabusa was too busy looking at his clone and his victory I took this as my chance, I still had about 1/2 of my chakra left, I used my swords but I didn't use my chakra.
"Water style...*gasp*..Water slicer.." I said making slow hand signs due to the pain, it went right at Zabuza and he didn't even notice until the last second and got sliced by my slicer a little in his shoulder, he looked astonished. And so did the others. I jumped down from the tree I sat at and stood right in the middle of the field where mt team mates looked at me in shock and in happiness. Zabuza looked at me through wide eyes and was probably wondering how I got out of that. When about what felt like another 5 minutes pass by, Zabuza is the first to snap out of it.



"So you survived that huh? You are a very interesting girl. I've never met someone who could survive more than half a dozen clones being thrown at you, strangled, beaten up, slashed, and cut across the eye and still live with more than half of your chakra drained. I figured you genin could only go a little more than half way and then give up. You are much more different than the other genin I've encountered. Very interesting" he said with a smirk on his face.
"I don't care what you do to me, but if you ever...ever.....touch a member of my team or a friend like that in front of me you will not live to see tomorrow. I will not let you hurt my friends....not again" I said saying as much as I could with my throat in so much pain
"Oh will I?" he said coming up behind me and grabbing my throat again
"What about you? What if I kill you first and then your friends? Huh?" he asked shaking me around with a really tight grip
"Weather I'm first....or last.....I will not stop.. until.. you are gone... and all my...friends will be safe... I'm not going to....let anyone hurt them.. " I manage to choke out with his tight grip. The team looks at me with tears in their eyes and they look ready to break down any minute. His grip only gets tighter
"Fine then, you die first" he said as Naruto got up
"Nar..uto.." I squeak out
"Put her down right now" he said in a demanding voice
"I said put her down" he said again
"Why should I? Do you really care for her?" he asked
"She can't do much for you right now can she?"
"Are you deaf? Put her down or I'll kill you"
"But you already want to kill me" said Zabuza in a matter of fact way.
"I warned you" he said
"Hmm, fine. I don't need her" he said. I thought that meant he was going to let me drop to the ground but he punched me in the stomach and flung me to the other side of the clearing. I was sent flying into about twice as many trees as last time and by the 5th tree I crushed I felt my head ram into a rock as I was sent to the ground.
"Kazumi!" they called. Sasuke came over and tried to pick me up but when he did my injuries got in the way and I hissed in pain
"Huh? Naruto! No!" yelled Kakashi
"AHHHH! Naruto! What in the world are you doing?!" yelled Sakura
"Sakura!" called Sasuke
"Uhh....yes..Sasuke?" she asked
"Watch out for Kazumi, I'll be back" he said in a very menacing voice
"Uhh...o-ok.." she said as he got up and ran to Zabuza and Sakura came to me
"You got injured pretty bad...wait...what's this?" she asked lifting my bangs from my face only to see it covered in blood and a large cut starting from my eye brow and going down to my jaw.
"Kazumi....wh-why?" she asked in shock. And here I was hoping it wouldn't be all that bad. And she looked up and down my body looking at how many injuries I had and every bruise, bump, cut, and blood stream I had dried up or fresh her eyes widened and she slowed her breathing down a little bit.
"Tazuna ..I...I need you to be here with me so I can protect you" said Sakura as he nodded coming over
"Oh my god" he trailed off eyes widening every step he took over to me.
"Are...are t-they..ok?" I asked barely able to find my voice
"I don't know, but the mist is fading, that's a good sign" she said still trying to hold back her tears
"I-I'll be ok...Sakura" I said croaking a little
"I'm sorry...Kazumi...I..I should have been there to help you..but I was scared" she said crying really hard
"Sakura...don't c-cry. I'm alright..I will take any beating and fight..he has.....to put up if that...meant you guys were alright..." I said in a small voice.
"Just look at you...you are in terrible shape because we weren't able to help you" she sobbed
"Sakura.." I trailed off
"There's no reason..to be...sad...I will gladly give...my..life...so you...Naruto a-and... Sasuke will be ok" I said as she looked at me nodding but still had regret in her eyes.
"Kazumi!" voices called behind us. I tried to lean over and look over Sakura's shoulder but she pushed me down again. When they got closer, Kakashi sensei, Naruto and Sasuke all looked at me with horror in their eyes.
"Don't worry....if I get treated I can...make it" I croaked and they all looked guilty
"*sigh* I told this to... Sakura and... I'll say it again.. as long as *cough* I know... you guys... will be ok ...I will give my life..Remember...Kakashi?..I told you I would...always protect my *cough*....team" I said and they all looked at me with wide eyes and smiled at me with tears starting to appear. I was starting to feel dizzy and I can't stand up. Red and black dots danced in my eyes and voices were getting smaller and smaller.
"Ka....we....need.....stay....awake" said a voice
"Sasu.....she nee....medical.....tion....carry......her" said another
"Kaka... sensei"
"Get out..... ed to go......before....kid.....comes back"
"Right...." said a voice as my body went numb and I closed my eyes hoping I will open them to a smiling Sakura, Naruto, Kakashi, and Sasuke.