6 He or she which one

*Three days later

We arrive at wave strait that split the wave country and the mainland. Tazuna find his friend to get a boat so we can make our way across the strait. We all get aboard the boat. As me move the mist is getting thicker.

"The mist is so thick. I can't see what ahead" Naruto who sat on the front said. "That mean we are near" The boat owner said. "Look, The bridge. It so huge!" Naruto yell excited. "Quite or Gato people will hear us." The boatman said. "Tazuna I will take a little detour so those thug doesn't found us." The boatman move the boat away from the bridge and through some high vegetation.

We arrive at the shore. "This is as far as I will be going. Hope you success on the bridge." the boatman said. and Turn his boat around and back to where we came from. "From here we take a few more hour of walk to reach my house." Tazuna said.

As we walk I feel high chunin level chakra on the bush at the far front. I want to tell Kakashi about the ninja, but a spike of high level jounin came from the back. "Duck!" Kakashi yell. I duck and dodge a gigantic sword that flew from behind. The sword flew like shuriken and stuck itself on a tree.

A tall lanky man with mouth cover soon stood on the sword. "No wonder the demon brother can't kill the target. You are the protector Kakashi the sharingan." Zabuza Said looking at us. "Kakashi-sensei there still someone hiding on a few meter behind him, that guy has chunin chakra level." I say to Kakashi. Kakashi-sensei become more vigilant at the information. "Haku, it's seem that brat is a sensor. You have been discovered, go take care of the brats. I will kill this One eye freak first." Zabuza said to the guy, and a mist style anbu masked guy emerged from behind him.

"You three protect Tazuna, I will take care of Zabuza, the guy with big sword." Kakashi said brandishing his sword.

Zabuza make his move

-Kirigakure no Jutsu-'

A thick mist come Blocking our vision. "Kakashi-sensei there are five of him now hidden around us. One in front, two on left at 11 and 8, on the right at 3 and the last one behind us. " I tell Kakashi. "tch this is why I hate fighting sensor ninja." Zabuza voice come through everywhere in the mist.

A senbon flying to me, I tilted my head to dodge it. "Naruto you can go to the other guy if you want, but left a few bunshin here to protect Tazuna." I say to the almost bursting Naruto. He really want to get to some action. Naruto then make clone and he himself dash to the enemy "Kakashi-sensei left the protection to us, you can focus fight with Zabuza. Naruto already onto the other guy." I assure Kakashi. Kakashi nodded.

Then Zabuza clone come closing from the back with high speed. I intercept him by throwing kunai. The two in front and left is fighting Kakashi. The one on the right is coming for Tazuna too. I take out my tanto ready to fight. Naruto clone seeing where I throw the kunai get in position, to fight whatever came through that side of the mist.

The one on the right Slashing his gigantic sword at me . I use chakra flow on my tanto prepare to counter his force. I block his slash and force it to go upward by tilting and motioning my tanto upward. His sword recover smoothly from the change of trejactory to downward motion to strike me. I parry his sword again with a slash and use the force to make me jump to the right. We keep exchanging sword move, he keep attacking and I keep parrying and dodging.

*A few moments of intense battle later.

"aahh" a scream from the other guy can be heard. Zabuza clone was distracted hearing the scream. I use the chance to use shoot my chakra blade at him.

*splash

I land a solid hit him and he become water.

Naruto clone who carefully fighting and Sakura who giving him support by throwing weapon use the distracting scream to land a solid stab and kill the clone.

I look at Kakashi who is going well again the three without his sharingan. with his sword that glow silverish light. He too use the split second of distraction to destroy the clone and slash zabuza on the chest. Zabuza who got big wound in the chest fall to his knee. "You are strong and skillful kenjutsu user. You haven't use your sharingan." Zabuza said to Kakashi. "If we fought a month ago I will obviously lost, I have been out of shape that time. Even I got ambushed by my student." Kakashi explain his improvement of the last months.

Naruto who look like a pincushion with his whole body full of needle come dragging tied up Haku. Haku has a chakra suppression on the stomach. Sakura run and help Naruto pulling out the needles from his body. Kakashi got close to Zabuza and tie him up then put the same kind chakra suppression on him.

Haku who just woke up and look at Zabuza who has a big wound, now thrashing around asking to be released to heal Zabuza. "You can kill me Kakashi, I already lost. But please release Haku. Haku just a Innocent kid from the aftermath of Kiri bloodline purge." Zabuza said to Kakashi. "No!! please kill me and let zabuza-sama go!! I'm just a tool for zabuza-sama. I'm worthless after failing my task." Haku bawling tear and desperately beg for Kakashi to let zabuza go.

Kakashi who know story of Zabuza gory past, having conflicted feeling at these two people asking for sparring each other life. Naruto who have been cleaned and Sakura beside him, got touched by their feeling of sacrifice.

I, on the other hand contemplating the real question here. Haku who have the mask off is beautiful. 'Is Haku a he or a she?'