Blue Sharingan

Chapter 3

****A/N It might get a bit bloody and graphic in this chapter. Just a heads up****

Continuing on the mission, Naruto acted even more strangely than what could be considered normal even by his standards. They had finally arrived in the Land of Waves and were not that far from Tazuna's home. Out of nowhere, Naruto threw a kunai into a bush nearby. Reacting to her teammates throw, Meeka and the others were put on guard waiting to see an enemy pop out of the bushes. When nothing did and the area was clear, Sakura began to yell at Naruto.

"What do you think you are doing? Throwing kunai randomly and startling us like that you idiot?!?!"

Before she could get out another word, Naruto threw another kunai in the complete opposite direction. Without warning, Sakura knocked him in the head as hard as she could.

"But I swear I sensed something! I really did Sakura!" Naruto yelled out as he crouched down, holding the back of his head. He got up quickly and ran to where he threw the kunai. Yelping, he quickly found that he had nearly scalped a snow rabbit which was scared out of its mind now. Naruto hugged and teared up as he apologized over and over again to the rabbit.

As Meeka started to laugh with the others, she noticed one detail that stopped her laughter dead. The rabbits fur was white which only happens during winter. Kakashi had noticed this as well. Knowing that little bit of information led the two upper level ninjas to believe that the rabbit had been raised indoors and belonged to someone nearby.

Going on alert again, Meeka knew that ninja would place an animal nearby to distract others from their presence. Suddenly, Kakashi yelled out to the group to duck down.

Just as everyone was dropping down, a giant sword spun past their heads. After hearing a hard 'thunk' from the sword embedding itself into a tree, Meeka quickly looked up at it.

"What the hell?!" Meeka exclaimed before she could stop herself. Right on the handle was a large ninja, looking down at them. Meeka got up to her feet and had her kunai out. The man was large and had white gauze wrapped around the lower half of his face. His ninja headband had a gouged line across it. They had come across a rouge ninja from Kirigakure. Recognition hit Meeka hard as she stared up at the man. He was none other than Zabuza Momochi, one of the Legendary 12 Swords men of the Hidden Mist.

"Kakashi Senpai..." Meeka softly started to speak. She kept her eyes on the dangerous man. The Genin stood around Tazuna loosely, waiting for orders.

"Meeka! Get the others and protect Tazuna now!" Kakashi said sternly not taking his eye off of the man in front of him. He too had recognized Zabuza from the bingo book.

"Yes Sir!" She exclaimed. "Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke! Around Tazuna in formation now!"

Without a word, the Genin surrounded Tazuna while Meeka stood back to back with him. They could watch from all sides now.

"I guess I have no choice but to use this." Kakashi said as he revealed his other eye. It was red with three black droplets on it. Meeka and Sasuke recognized it instantly. Only certain members of the Uchiha clan could wield its power. Meeka was at the point where she could wield it proficiently enough. However, it took a lot of Chakra to sustain for a long period of time. She needed to use it wisely. 

"Hmm, Kakashi the Copy Ninja. It will be a testament to my skills if I kill you and the bridge-builder." Zabuzas' gravelly voice answered Kakashi. With that said, he ended the conversation with hand signs. A thick veil of mist from the lake nearby covered the area, hiding him from Kakashis' Sharingan.

"Your little group is useless protecting this man." Zabuza's voice startled Meeka as he appeared right before her with his sword ready to strike. Before she could even move, Kakashi raced over and stabbed Zabuza in the stomach with his own kunai. Water began to pour out of Zabuza's wounded body, collapsing into a puddle of water. 'A water clone!' Meeka thought to herself. Looking around her, she noticed a dark shadow behind Kakashi. Just as Meeka was about to yell to get his attention, her team leader was sliced in half by the real Zabuza. Water splashed over her and the others as a surprised Zabuza was held at knife point by Kakashi.

'He must have copied the water clone jutsu!' Meeka thought as she smiled.

"It's over Zabuza." Kakashi said from behind the rouge ninja. However, that moment did not last long. Before any of the group could realize what was happening, another Zabuza appeared behind Kakashi. Grabbing onto him, the second Zabuza held onto Kakashi tightly as the first Zabuza turned back into a puddle of water. The Zabuza holding onto Kakashi, quickly threw him into the lake. As Kakashi came above the water, he was instantly trapped by another jutsu by Zabuza.

While all this happened, Meeka activated her own Sharingan eyes. Sasuke was a bit startled by how different her eyes were from that of Kakashi. Her eyes, instead of the normal red pupil and black markings, was a light blue with black markings. To Sasuke's knowledge, no one had ever seen such eyes in the Uchiha clan. She started to fight off the water clones as quickly as she could. The Genin could only stand by watching in surprise and shock.  

"A little help would be nice guys! Stop dawdling!" Mekatsu yelled out at her teammates. Just as she was about to stab one of the clones, Kakashi's voice called out to the group.

"Meeka, get Tazuna and the others out of here now!"

"Kakashi sensei! We can't leave you though!" Sakura yelled out.

"Your mission is to protect Tazuna or have you forgotten already!?"

Meeka looked at the Genin as they fought against themselves. She had already decided she was going to stay and save Kakashi.

"He's right." Meeka said to their surprise. The Genin looked at her with anger and pain in their eyes. "You guys get out of here and protect Tazuna. I will get Kakashi back safe and sound!" Meeka finished before they could utter a word of defiance.

"If you're staying, then so am I. I made a promise and I never go back on my word!" Naruto yelled out.

Smiling to herself, she just nodded and said to him "then do as I say. First ya'll need to protect Tazuna while I help Kakashi. Watch my back Naruto."

Before they could say another word, Meeka reactivated her Sharingan eyes and attacked the water clones closest to her. She sliced through one after another. More kept appearing before her eyes.

"damn! There are too many! I need to get to Kakashi before he drowns."

"So you have the Sharingan eyes too. Interesting. Thought I would never see those eyes again." Zabuza's clone spoke quietly behind her. As she turned around to defend herself, she felt the sting of his blade start to cut into her. Quickly she shoved her kunai between herself and the sword. Meeka tried to gather up her strength to push back. However, she didn't take into account Zabuza's natural strength. Before she knew it, she was harshly thrown into the nearby trees by the force of his swing. Hitting tree after tree, Meeka could feel hear her bones cracking until her body landed limply at the base of a rather thick tree. Blood slowly started coming out of her mouth and nose from the impacts she had sustained. Her left side was bleeding profusely from the large gash.

"Fuck!" Meeka muttered under her breath as she fought to stay awake. She tried to get up and move but her body was quickly shutting down. Her last thoughts were that she had let down the only team that she connected with. Before passing out, another fleeting thought filled the kunoichi's head. 

'What the hell was Zabuza talking about too? Have I met him before?' As her vision turned darker and darker, she saw a pair of feet land in front of her then nothing else.

Seeing Meeka thrown with such force, Naruto created a number of shadow clones that proceeded to completely surround Zabuza's water clone. Zabuza's clone swung his sword, and the shadow clones scattered and disappeared, forcing the real Naruto to reach into his backpack and pull out a fūma shuriken, which he gave to Sasuke. Sasuke looked at him, sensing Naruto's plan, hurled the fūma shuriken at Zabuza, who easily grabbed it from the air. To Zabuza's surprise, a second shuriken was hiding in the shadow of the first due to Sasuke's Shadow Shuriken Technique, and Zabuza was forced to leap over it to avoid being damaged. Once past Zabuza, the second shuriken turned into Naruto, who had transformed himself. Naruto threw a kunai at Zabuza, who, unable to dodge it while maintaining the Water Prison Technique, was forced to release Kakashi from his prison in order to avoid the attack.