Stream of past

Bloody Needles

Morning came and Sakura found herself eating breakfast with Sasuke and Kakashi. Sasuke was drinking his tea, when Naruto barged in. He looked extremely disheveled and he was also panting.

"Guys you're not gonna believe me, but...I think I just meet the hottest guy ever..." said Naruto. Sasuke spit his tea.

"WHAT?" asked Sakura.

Naruto started explaining his encounter with the boy and how he thought it was a pretty girl. He went as far as to compare him with other females they knew. Sakura realized that Naruto must have meet Haku without his mask. The boy had really feminine features, using that to his advantage in his missions for the rogue nin.

After hearing Naruto's weird encounter, they all finished breakfast and went to act as bodyguards for Tazuna while he worked. That's how team 7 spent the following days, protecting Tazuna and training. As much as she enjoyed this, Sakura knew she needed to prepare for Zabuza, so she started gathering her weapons and counted her poisoned ones.

Next morning Team 7 came across a horrific sight. All of Tazuna's workers were laying in pools of blood. Sakura rushed to check their pulse. She shook her head when she realized they were dead.

"W-what happened here?" asked Tazuna, his expression, a combination of disbelief, grief and fear. She walked back to her teammates when a thick fog started spreading in the aria.

"This is..." said Naruto.

"Zabuza's fog..." said Sasuke.

"Protect Tazuna!" ordered Kakashi.

A deep chuckle echoed through the fog. "Kakashi...I see your brats are still here...Look at that one, he's so scared he's trembling." said Zabuza.

Sasuke smirked, an attempt at hiding his fear "I'm trembling because I'm exided." then he and Naruto recklessly attacked Zabuza's clone.

"Brats, I'll leave this to you, Haku." said Zabuza while appearing with Haku next to him.

"Looks like you were right about him, Sakura. His story was a scam." said Kakashi. Sakura gripped her kunai in response. Both the boys started attacking Haku. Sasuke and Haku's kunais clashed while Naruto attacked him with his shadow clones. Haku dodged the attack almost effortlessly. If Naruto and Sasuke worked together, they could defeat Haku. If they worked together, sadly that wasn't the case. Both of them were attacking recklessly, mostly nullifying each other's attacks in an attempt to strike the masked boy.

"Stop getting in my way, dobe." said Sasuke.

"Me? You're the one who keeps dispelling my shadow clones with your stupid shuriken, Teme." said Naruto. Both boys glared at each other.

Haku saw them arguing and used this opening to perform the hand signs for Makyō Hyōshō. Sakura's feet moved before her brain could register. She quickly pushed the boys away from the mirrors, effectively trapping herself. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit was all Sakura could think as she saw the mirrors surround her.

"Sakura!" "Sakura-chan!" cried the boys.

"Don't come near, or you'll get trapped too." she yelled at them. They were about to protest when another Zabuza water clone came at them. They both started fighting it.

Sakura saw Haku in one of the mirrors and glared. "You shouldn't have done that, now you'll die." said the boy as he trew senbons. Sakura blocked the sebons coming at her with her kunai. Then she dodged more coming from behind her again and again. This was getting her nowhere, she needed to finish this and quickly. At first she tried running out of the dome, but she was stopped by an invisible barrier that threw her back. Ok, so that wasn't working... Maybe she can shatter them. She did a backflip while dodging some senbons and pulled a kunai. Once she landed she threw it at the mirror but she was surprised to see Haku catching it.