Second Chances Exist •Naruto Fanfic•

Dying Again

"The danger doesn't register, the fear feels like an act. Don't pull the plug, I swear this isn't how I want to go."

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Kakashi lifted his headband off of his eye, revealing a scar going vertically down his left eye. When he opened it, his eye was red with three commas encircling the pupil. I blinked hard once. That eye. That was the same type of eye I saw the night Itachi tried to kill me. Why does Kakashi have it?

"So I get to see the Sharingan in action, this is an honor." Zabuza mused, making me look at him. That eye is the Sharingan?

Zabuza beady gray eyes scanned us all and then landed on me. "Ah, you have the Takeshi brat with you. Rumor traveled fast to the Mist about there being a survivor of the clan. I had no idea it was just a little girl." I narrowed my eyes at him, annoyed he called me a little girl but also suspicious. Rumor? Were the Takeshi well known..? Zabuza chuckled from his high perch on the sword. "Yes, you are a Takeshi alright. Just one look at that hair and those eyes."

I made a face at him. "Those eyes? You mean the ones with pupils? Yes, I have those."

I could tell he didn't find my sarcasm entertaining by the way he glared at me. Then again, everyone glares at my sarcasm. "You Takeshi and you're smart aleck mouths, that's what got you all in trouble to begin with."

"What's he talking about?! And what is the Sharingan?!" Naruto bursted out, frustrated with not knowing what was going on.

Sasuke started to explain about the Sharingan but I was only half paying attention, more concerned with what Zabuza had said. What got us in trouble to begin with? What did that mean? What went down with the Takeshi...?

I was brought out of my thoughts when fog surrounded us all, hindering our vision. "As for you Jonin, we had a standing order in the Assassination Unit of the Hidden Mist to destroy you on sight. Your profile was in our Bingo book." I made another face. Bingo book? Ninjas play bingo? "It called you the man who had copied over a thousand jutsu. Kakashi, the copy ninja." I eyed Kakashi who was beside me. Kakashi seems to have had his name thrown around a bit, what does he really know? "Enough, I need to exterminate the old man. Now." Zabuza crouched down on his sword before pulling it out of the tree and landing on the water, easily standing on it as if it were solid ground. Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke quickly ram to Tazuna, guarding him. "Ninja Art: Hidden Mist jutsu."

The fog around us thickened, making it even harder to see. Notably, we couldn't see Zabuza anymore either. I briefly wondered where Mamoru had gone in the middle of all this. Sakura asked who was Zabuza anyway and Kakashi explained he was a leader of the Assassination Unit of the Mist and specializes in the silent killing technique.

"Well if we fail, we only lose our lives." Kakashi humored darkly to which only I found funny.

"Yeah, no big deal." I mused.

Sakura glared at me and Kakashi. "How can you two say that?"

The fog thickened even more, blocking my view of Kakashi. Zabuza started naming off body parts, and I realized these were crucial parts that would be fatal if attacked. Naomi had taught me that. Not sure what to do in this fog, I backed up. Eventually bumping into Naruto, with Sasuke beside me. Kakashi cleared some of the fog in our area so we were able to see each other. After a moment, I heard something rattling. I glanced down to see Sasuke's hand shaking while holding a kunai. My brows pulled together in confusion. What's that idiot doing? Then he gripped the kunai with both hands, the blade facing downwards. Realization then hit me. This pressure is too much for him to handle, he's freaking out!