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Chapter 19- The Demon in the snow

'Normal thought… '

"Kyuubi/Bijuu speech…"

"Normal speech…"

Jutsu name…

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Zabuza looked pissed in Gato's direction. "Gato, why did you come here? And who are those henchmen?"

Gato laughed darkly. "Our strategy has changed a little…" He smirked evilly. "I'm sorry Zabuza, but you will die here."

Zabuza's eyes widened in shock. "What?!"

Gato shrugged easily. "Since hiring a regular shinobi costs a lot of money, I hired Rouge Ninjas like you. And, it would have been even more ideal to save my money and effort if Ninja-to-Ninja battles ended in each killing the other off. Well, you're certainly not worthy being called the Demon of Kirigakure. If you were to ask me, you're just a cute little demon!" The thugs behind Gato roared loudly at that in laughter.

Naruko looked at them confused and tilted her head. 'What are those guys? There are so many of them…' She then stared at Gato and narrowed her eyes. 'This is Gato...huh?' She thought coldy and then decided to deal with that matter later and concentrated back on Zabuza.

"Kakashi…I apologize." Zabuza said monotone. "Our fight ends here…As long as my reasons to take down Tazuna is gone, there's no reason to fight you either."

"Yeah…you're right." Kakashi said and looked at Gato suspiciously.

Gato walked towards Haku's body and stopped in front of him with a wide smug smirk on his face. "That reminds me…I owe him something." He kicked his head. "He squeezed my arm till it broke…" And with that Gato kicked Haku's body hardly, again.

Naruko's eyes widened in shock. Kakashi narrowed his eyes in distaste. Zabuza's eyes just laid in shadows.

Gato pecked Haku's face with his cane. "Huh, he's dead."

A dark aura surrounded Naruko and her hair left her pigtails. "YOU BASTARD!" She looked at him with fury and stormed towards him. "What do you think you are doing?!" She shouted utterly coldly and in rage.

Kakashi's eyes widened and he hugged Naruko, as she was near him. "Stop! Don't act so recklessly!"

Naruko's eyes watered and she slipped out of Kakashi's embrace begore she glared pissed at Zabuza. "You say something, too! He was your comrade, right?"

Zabuza just stared ahead of him. "Shut up, little girl. Haku's already dead."

Naruko flinched at that. "What…? Don't you feel anything watching him doing that?!" She shouted at him angrily. "Weren't you with Haku for a long time!"

Kakashi looked sadly at her. 'Naru…'

"As Gato used me…I was simply using Haku." Zabuza stated coldly.

Naruko looked at him, utterly shocked and clenched her fist.

"I thought I'd told you…We shinobi are merely tools. What I wanted were his skills not Haku himself." "I have no regrets…" Zabuza whispered.

Naruko bit on her lip, angrily. "Do you…Do you really mean that?"

Kakashi laid a hand on her head. "Stop it, Naruko." He said softly. "There's no need to fight him anymore…Besides…"

Naruko wiped his hand of her head and looked at Zabuza in fury. "Shut up! My enemy is still…this one!" She pointed at Zabuza. Kakashi sighed sadly while Zabuza looked at her with a blank expression.