I stared at Kakashi trapped in the water. He looked shocked, nervous, and scared for our safety. "You think that wearing a headband makes you a ninja. When you've hovered between life and death so many times that it doesn't faze you, than, you may be called a ninja. When you've become so deadly that your profile is entered into my bingo book, then you may have earned the title ninja."

He made a hand sign, putting us all on guard. "But to call upstarts like you ninja... is a joke!" He vanished into the mist, and I got to work tracking him down.

He disappeared again! Naruto thought.

I figure out where Zabuza is heading and appear in front of Naruto just in time. I shove Naruto back, his headband falling down. My back is facing Zabuza, so I spin around, meeting his kick with one of my own. My foot connects to the inside of his calf, redirecting his energy and causing him to spin around.

He slams his foot back on the ground behind him, raising his opposite foot into a sidekick. I gently push his ankle, and slide past his attack to deliver a front kick to his chin. It connects, but doesn't seem to faze him. He punches me in the stomach, but it is weak, hasty. I jump back to my teammates, ignoring their shocked eyes.

I look at Zabuza, totally calm. I feel no hate towards him. I feel the fear, but don't allow it to control me. I allow it to give me an edge. Having control of my emtotions leaves me with a clear head. He steps on Naruto's headband.

"You're just brats!" He declares.

"Naruto!" Sakura cries. Nice to show you have such concern for me, Sakura! I was fighting Zabuza too!

Kakshi makes a noise of frustration. "Listen! Get the bridge builder and run! You can't win this fight! He is using all his power to keep me in this water prison, so he can only fight with his water clone. But the clone can't go far from his real body. You go away from him, you can't follow. Now run!"

This is nothing new to me, I had already made all these calculations in my head.

Run away? Not an option. Sasuke grits his teeth, That became unthinkable the moment you got caught. No matter how fast we run or how far we go, he'll track us down. And wipe us out. If we try the old defense formation, he can get around it in an instant!

"Kakashi-sensei." I call calmly. "The moment that we're gone, Zabuza can concentrate his whole power in disposing you." Disposing? How can she talk so calmly about Kakashi-sensei's death!?! Naruto and Sakura think. "The moment that you are dead, he comes after us. It's his job to kill the bridge builder. We four stand no chance against Zabuza. In reality, it's either take a chance dying now, and perhaps saving you, or definitely dying later."

Kakashi frowns, unconvinced. "Sensei, I've been going over every possibility and chance in my head. This is the path that has the highest probability of the bridge builder surviving." The bridge builder. She said nothing of me, herself, or my other students. She based all chances on our missions purpose; the bridge builders survival.

"That girl of yours has a quick mind, Kakashi." Zabuza almost complimented.

"That's what we must do!" Sasuke agreed, then sprinted towards Zabuza. Uh, teamwork, perhaps? He threw several kunai, all which were easily blocked. He jumped into the air, hands braced as he prepared to knock Zabuza out.

Too easy. Zabuza grinned, raising his hand and grabbing Sasuke by the throat. Zabuza threw Sasuke to the ground, and sakura shrieked, "Sasuke-kun, no!"

Zabuza was in front of Naruto, who thought, So this is what a jonin is... A true elite ninja! I-I I've gotta get away! He turns to run, but catches sight of his hand, still wrapped in gauze. He's reminded of his promise.

Naruto attacks him, retrieving his headband at the cost of a kick to the stomach. I knew better than to help him. This was something he felt he needed to do himself.

"Listen up Sasuke, do you hear me?" he asked.

"Yeah, I hear you."

"I've got a plan." Way to forget about Sakura and I. Well, Sakura is pushing it... way to forget about me. Hn. Now he's got a plan. This guy... I smirked slightly. Sasuke and Naruto's bond is growing. They're becoming more like teammates. I'll sit this little plan out, just supervise.

"Tch." Sasuke muttered, "So you're finally thinking about teamwork, huh?" You're one to talk.

"Alright guys. Let's go wild!" I facepalm. So... So childish, immature. Let's go wild, really?

"Okay, ready? Let's bring this guy down." Naruto says determinedly. I shake my head slightly. It won't be that easy. But then again, I shouldn't doubt my teammates.

ZAbuza chuckles. "Big words, for such a little man. Do you really think that your plan is going to work?" He rasps.

Kakashi yells at us to run, but we all ignore him. Tazuna agrees to risk his life to save our sensei's. Zabuza and sensei both try to scare us away by telling his back story. I decide to scare Zabuza with my own back story.

"Hmhmhm, haha. hahahahah... When you were our age, your hands were already stained with blood?" I mocked. "What's to say none of us already have blood on our hands? Hahaha... compared to me, you were ancient when you first killed! Nine years old... I beat you by half a decade, Zabuza!"

My teammates gasped in horror. Murderer!?! Keira!?! "Imagine a toddler, four years old. Cute enough, with lost, lonely eyes begging for friendship, eyes that glowed a bright yellow in the night, eyes that simply wanted companionship... eyes that had seen death!"

Zabuza tried to hide it, but I know he felt an inkling of fear. "And these eyes will see more death... starting with yours!"

"You may be strong... he disappeared, slamming into Sasuke. But are you're teammates equally strong? I think not." He slammed into Sasuke's stomach, who spit out blood.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura cried out. Zabuza placed his foot on top of Sasuke, gripping his sword.

"You're nothing." Zabuza mocked. I narrowed my eyes as everybody froze, unsure of what to do. I close my eyes. No other choice. I think.

"This is no time to rest, Keira-me!" Sakura cried out. I wince. Such a rude suffix. Was it really necessary to add the "me"? Even if I did tell you a little bit about my childhood.

"Shut. Up." I say coldly, concentrating. I find Zabuza's mind, and slowly press against it. My mental probe shatters his defense, and I ooze into his mind, taking control. He's still aware of his body and I'm still aware of mine. I'm simply controlling his bodily movements.

I open my eyes, in control of Zabuza now. About five minutes have passed, and Naruto has made about twenty clones. "Hold off, Naruto," I force out. He's about to argue, then sees the look on my face. Complete and utter concentration, mixed with, if you interrupt me I will kill you.

Naruto turns his attention back to ZAbuza, just as I begin to lift his foot off of Sasuke. "Wh-What?!?" Zabuza exclaims, then I close his mouth with my mind, so he can't say, "I'm not making this happen!"

Sasuke got on his hand and knees, gasping for breath. If I hadn't been concentrating so hard, I would've done a victory dance right then and there. I just controlled somebodies mind during battle! I was so pumped.

Naruto readied his shadow clones, wanting to save Sasuke. I lost control of Zabuza's mind and fell to my knees, mentally exhausted. It's hard controlling you're body and another's! Plus, I had always been sitting calmly when I practiced this, not in the midst of battle.

Naruto uses his clones to attack Zabuza. For a moment we all believed it's worked, but then Zabuza clone throws him off. I look at Naruto and Sasuke, then decide they can handle this on their own. I was going to go after the real Zabuza "Sakura-san, cover me!" I order, sitting down behind her.

"What? Keira-me, this isn't anytime to be sleeping! I'm not going to cover you if you aren't doing anything!" I ignore her, throwing myself at the real Zabuza's mind. I'm much more exhausted from saving Sasuke, so it takes longer.

I feel a sharp pain in my left arm. Baka Sakura wasn't kidding when she said she wouldn't protect me! I ignore it, blocking everything out as I take control of Zabuza's mind. I finally gain control, and pull his arm away from the water prison, releasing Kakashi. I immidiately release my hold on his mind, to exhausted to continue.

If I had kept control of both our bodies any longer, I would have gone insane! I open my eyes, seeing that Naruto was in the water, having just thrown a kunai at Zabuza, and Sasuke was smirking, thinking their plan had worked. Nope, all me, guys.

I heard Kakashi thinking, What? Zabuza should have been able to dodge that kunai without releasing me! So why did he let go!?!

I watch the fight through bleary eyes. Why do I feel as though I'm about to pass out? I glance down at my left arm. Sh*t. An kunai was in my upper arm, blood pouring out of it. I look up, only to see that Zabuza is dead.

Huh? When did that happen? Sensei passes out, then Naruto and Sasuke both realize that I'm injured. "Sakura!" Sasuke urges, "Take care of her!"

"Why should I take care of Keira-me?" She hisses, but all the same reaches for my arm. I try to bat her hands away.

"I-I c-can take c-care of it m-myself!" I insist, standing up. But I'm swaying. Naruto forces me to the ground. No! No one can see my left arm! I give one last desperate attempt to keep them away, sitting halfway up and batting her hands away.

But the movement is to much for me. I fall to the ground, eyes bleary, on the brink of passing out. Sakura removes my jacket, leaving me in only a short sleeved, soft white shirt. I hear her sound of confusion as to why my arm is already covered in bandages. She slowly begins to unwind them.

The last thing I hear is Sakura's shriek of horror and the other's gasps before I pass out.

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Chapter Eighteen, almost to twenty!

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