The next morning, Me, Sakura & Kakashi left along with Tazuna towards the bridge. Naruto was still asleep and we didn't wake him up. I left a clone at the house just in case to help Inari and his mother if Naruto failed to notice the slash marks on trees and doesn't come back to defeat Gato's men.
In a tall building, at the highest floor a man sat on the Sofa as he communicated through a radio. "What're you doing? I didn't hire you guys for charity work. Hey Zabuza!, are you listening?"
Zabuza and Haku were standing on a boat underneath the bridge. "Hey" Gato shouts on the radio as Zabuza destroys it with his foot."Shall we go Haku?" asked Zabuza. "Yes!" Haku responded as he looked towards the bridge.
I looked at sakura and said "They're here". Sakura noded and got ready. a sound was heard followed by a series of punches and kicks.
"w-What the heck is this?!" Tazuna asked as he ran towards the scene. "What is going on? What happened" Tazuna wondered as he stared at his coworkers beaten to the floor.
Back at Inari's house, Two men with swords showed up at the door as they heard. "Inari Give me a hand" Tsunami called out, unaware of the approaching crisis. "I'll be right there" Inari shouted as he ran towards her. The two men outside grinned as they gripped their swords.
Back on the bridge, a mist started appearing at a very high-rate. "Sasuke! Sakura! They are coming" Kakashi warned, as we got into a defensive formation to protect Tazuna. Though, as soon as Kakashi spoke, four Zabuza's appeared. I disappeared from the spot, following which the clones of Zabuza retired upon getting slashed. I reappeared a few metres away, upon which Zabuza commented "Oh, you can see the water clones, eh"
"Well, well It seems my prediction was right on the money. That little mask." Kakashi said as he stared at Haku. "So the Elite Shinobi of the hidden mist thing was a bald faced lie" Tazuna confirmed upon seeing Haku with Zabuza. "Haku, take this brat on a one-one" Zabuza said. Haku followed by turning into a whirlwind whizzing past as he went towards me.
Back at Tazuna's house, Two swords moved about, destroying the doors as the men entered the house. Tsunami turned back immediately shocked at their sudden appearance. "Are you Tazuna's daughter?" The man with a beanie asked. "Sorry. But you're coming with us". "Aaahhhhhh!!!" Tsunami shouted.
Meanwhile Inari was in the bathroom washing his hands as he heard the two sounds, he immediately rushed over."Mom!" "Don't come out! Get out of here, quick!" Tsunami screamed, fearing for Inari's safety. "What's with you brat?!" The man with a beanie asked. "Shall we take him, too?" Another man with an eye patch grinned. "One hostage is fine" He said causing Inari to become worried.
"Then...Shall we kill him?" The man with eye patch grinned as he pulled his sword apart.
"Wait!" Tsunami commanded causing the man to frown and turned back to face her as he held his sword still. "If you lay a hand on that child. I'll bite off my tongue and kill myself!" She threatened the men intent on not having any harm befall Inari. The man in the beanie frowned, but she continued "You want a hostage, right?" she asked changing both men's action to her favour as man with eye patch lowered his sword regretting not going ahead.
"Thank your mom, kid" the man with a beanie said as he looked towards Inari.
Inari had tears coming out of his eyes as he stood and watched with fear as the men tied up his mom while he was unable to protect her since he was a young and inexperienced. "Mom, I'm sorry I'm so sorry!" Inari said as the men escorted his mother in ropes out. "I'm weak, so I cant protect you" Inari continued as he curled onto the floor. He cried bitterly as he said "I don't want to die… I'm scared!" Soon after he said those words, his recent memories of Naruto and the conversation with Kakashi flashed by, also remembering the attitude his dad demonstrated which had won him in the first place.
Inari wiped off his tears and stood up "Can I also become strong? Dad!" Inari stared at the open door finally with clear eyes that had started to brim with fighting spirit. Outside the house the two men walked along with Tsunami. The man with eye patch suddenly cut in as he said "Looking at that beautiful skin of yours makes me want to cut you " While the man in the beanie got sick of the action, he then tugged at Tsunami's rope. "Hey walk faster." "Wait!" Inari screamed from behind. "Inari!" Tsunami shouted.
"What? It's just that kid from before…. " the man with eye patch commented finding the turn of events interesting. "Get..get away from my mom!" Inari shouted again as he started running towards the trio. "Man this brat's hopeless." The man with eye patch sighed." "Lets do this!" The one with the beanie commanded, no longer bothering about Inari's life or death. "Aaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!" Inari shouted as he continued running without hesitation. "If you do that, I'll bite of my tongue and- " "Shut up and go to sleep" the man with the beanie said and made Tsunami faint since he found her even more irritating at the moment.