(That Night... Some Unknown Location...)

"You failed again...!?" came the mocking voice of the midget man in the black suit and dark sun glasses as he came through the door of the room where Zabuza and his apprentice were residing in followed by two of his tall subordinates who were dressed up in the same black suit and dark sun glasses. "Some Jounin...? The unbeatable ninja just got beat... Limping back home like some pathetic thug... Demon of The Hidden Mist..? More like Coward of The Hidden...." the midget couldn't finish his sentence because he was interrupted by a spray of blood on his face caused by Zabuza who slashed both of his subordinates in two with the still remaining sword part of his weapon.

"Don't push your luck Gato..." Zabuza said in an eerie voice sending chills down the spine of the now identified Gato.

Gato then watched with shaking legs as the once broken sword of The Demon of The Hidden Mist got restored back to its original state as it absorbed the blood of its current victims.

Zabuza attached his perfectly restored sword on his back and approached Gato slowly making the midget to get terrified even more. Then the swordsman punched the midget hardly in the gut causing him to vomit his lunch.

Zabuza threw a wiping cloth at him and said, "Clean that up..."

"Shall I go...?" asked Zabuza's apprentice who was more or less the same age as Naruto.

"STAY HAKU..." Zabuza shouted at his apprentice as Gato started cleaning up the mess cause he had no other choice.

"You fucked up Gato..." Zabuza said to Gato who was still wiping the floor.

"Why...? (cough) What did I do...? (cough) I just wanted you to get rid of an old bridge builder..." Gato wheezed out in between coughs as he was still feeling the effects of the punch that he received.

Zabuza lifted Gato by holding his neck and said, "I'm not talking about some old bridge builder..."

"What then...? You mean you couldn't handle those Leaf Nin..." Gato's speech was cut short when he received another hard punch to the gut that sent him to the ground again causing him to cough up some blood this time.

"I think I should go..." Haku tried to reason but Haku was interrupted by Zabuza who shouted, "YOU STAY..." leaving no other choice for Haku other than to stay.

Zabuza adjusted his sword on the back a little and poured some sake for himself before addressing the downed Gato, "It's not about the one who you wanted us to kill Gato, that angers me so... It's about the boy who is guarding the one that you wanted dead..."

"Who...? The fucking nobody...?" Gato questioned as he didn't possess any knowledge about the team that was with Tazuna.

"That fucking nobody... is Naruto Senju..." Zabuza replied in an eerie voice remembering the name Kakashi used to address the nightmare that he faced earlier. As he was talking, flashbacks of the contents of the book he read earlier started flashing before his eyes in great detail. The look of the boy who hurled his own sword at him made him feel an emotion that he had long since forgotten, fear.

Zabuza then took a gulp of sake and continued, "He once was a citizen of The Land of Waves... They call him, Baba Yaga..." a flashback of the pictures in the book that showcased all of the victims bodies flashed before Zabuza's eyes.

"The Boogeyman...?" Gato questioned standing up with shaking legs.

"Well... Naruto wasn't exactly the Boogeyman... He was the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman..." as Zabuza said this, a flashback of the description that he read in the book that showcased what Naruto actually was, flashed before Zabuza's eyes.

"Oh..." was all Gato could say after realizing who they were dealing with.

In between all the flashes of information about the boy that were playing in his mind, Zabuza approached Gato in close proximity and continued to say, "Naruto, is a boy of focus..." all the warnings about the boy in the book flashed in his mind, "commitment..." the number of victims of the boy that was mentioned in the book flashed in his mind, "sheer will..." the advice listed in the book about the boy if one were to face him flashed in his mind, "Something you know very little about..." as he said the last lines to Gato even Haku seemed shaken by what Zabuza was describing and Gato was in an even worse condition.

"I once heard that he took out 5,000 animal trafficking gang members located all across The Land of Waves just because one of them had hurt his pet fox..." he had to take a pause midsentence as the reason that was mentioned in the book for Naruto's rage that earned him the nick name 'Baba Yaga' flashed in his mind and then he completed his sentence, "...for a fucking fox...!"

Zabuza then went back to the sake bottle to pour more sake for himself and then said, "For his pet fox, he decided to eradicate the entire system of animal trafficking from The Land of Waves, alone... A job no one could have pulled off..." He took a pause to drink the sake before continuing, "The bodies he maimed that day..., laid a foundation of the bright future for the land he grew up in..." he took a pause again as a flash of the information from the book that explained how all of the boy's victims were only maimed but not killed played in his mind and then continued again, "The terrifying thing is that he did all of this when he was only 5 years old and he never killed anyone... He only maimed them and then left them to spread the fear of him to stop any future illegal animal trafficking in Wave... A very terrifying but brilliant psychological warfare tactic..." Gato started sweating as the facts were unravelling.

"Suddenly one day, he had to leave The Land of Waves... It's to become the shinobi of The Hidden Leaf Village of course..." Zabuza said and took a pause to approach Gato in close proximity again and continued, "And then Gato... A few years after he left... You stole the land he grew up in and started killing his fucking people..."

With that Zabuza turned around to leave but Gato grabbed his feet by falling on the floor and shouted in panic, "ZABUZA, WE CAN MAKE THIS RIGHT."

Zabuza turned back to look at Gato and questioned sarcastically, "Oh...!? How do you plan that...?"

"BY FINISHING WHAT WE STARTED." was the intelligent reply of Gato.

Zabuza couldn't believe how dumb Gato was and turned to look at a visibly shaken Haku and almost shouted at Haku as he was pointing at Gato "Didn't he hear a fucking word I say?"

"ZABUZA, WE CAN DO THIS! PLEASE." Gato cried in desperation.

Zabuza grabbed the midget's hair at the back of his head and lifted him up so that he was at his eye level, "Gato... Gato... Listen... Naruto will come for you... And you will do nothing because you can do nothing... Now get the fuck out of my sight..." with that Zabuza threw the midget to the ground.

Ignoring the cries of Gato, Haku approached Zabuza and asked in a worried tone, "How are we supposed to get away from this..., this..., Baba Yaga...?"

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Author's Notes:

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