(Imp A/N- currently there will only be one genderbent character-Haku-in this story cuz he should have been a girl and you know it.)
A young woman wearing a pink kimono and carrying a basket was walking through the forests of Nami no Kuni while humming to herself.
She had long black hair that went to her waist, skin as white as snow and chocolate brown eyes that could warm the coldest heart. Ironic, given what her clan is-was-famous for.
For this woman was none other than Yuki Haku, last surviving member of the famed Yuki clan of Kirigakure no Sato and accomplice of the infamous and fearsome Kirigakure no Kijin, Momochi Zabuza.
"Though Zabuza-sama is about as fearsome as a wet noodle right now," Haku frowned at the thought. Zabuza had been injured during his battle with the Konoha shinobi.
"Hatake Kakashi." Haku unconsciously tightened her grip on her basket. Oh Haku knew who he was. Zabuza-sama had drilled into her head the who's who of Shinobi from the Big Five, as well as a couple of nukenin that they were to avoid at all costs.
Haku mentally ran over Kakashi's Bingo Book information; "Hatake Kakashi aka Sharingan no Kakashi and the Kopi Ninja. Member of Konoha's shinobi forces: Jonin rank.
Rumored to have copied over a thousand jutsu. Son of Konoha's Shiroi Kiba, Hatake Sakumo, and student of the Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato. Skilled in all three disciplines but with a specialization in ninjutsu. A-Rank threat, proceed with caution."
"If it had just been Kakashi," Haku bit her lip, "Then Zabuza-sama and I could have taken him. But the Bingo book made no mention of him having a squad of Genin."
Hatake Kakashi's squad of Genin consisted of a girl with long bubblegum pink hair wearing a red cheongsam dress; a boy with raven hair styled like the backend of a duck, wearing a high collared blue shirt with white shorts; and a boy with spiky bright blonde hair wearing an obnoxiously orange jumpsuit.
Kakashi himself sported spiky gray hair and was wearing a green flak jacket with a long-sleeve black shirt and black pants.
From Haku's vantage point up in the trees, those three seemed like your typical wet-behind-the-ears Genin who would have folded the second their Sensei was captured. And when Zabuza-sama had trapped Kakashi with his Suirō no Jutsu(Water Prison Technique), that's what she thought was going to happen. But those Genin, specifically the two boys, and especially the blonde one, surprised her.
The blonde had charged at Zabuza-sama's Mizu Bunshin (Water-clone) and had received a foot to his guts for his efforts. He was kicked so hard that his hiate was unraveled from his head and separated from its owner, landing on the ground where the water-clone stepped on it.
Haku thought that surely the blonde would have seen how outmatched he was and run, and for a moment it looked like he would. But then he charged the clone again and the same result occurred-what was that saying about insanity? Yet he got up again, somehow recovering his hiate from underneath the clone's foot.
"He's determined, I'll give him that much," Haku thought as she watched the blonde struggle to his feet and tie his hiate back around his forehead. "But Zabuza-sama only has so much patience. If the blonde charges again, Zabuza-sama will kill him." The blonde charged a third time, but this time it was different. He had summoned clones, but not just any type of clones; solid clones.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow-clone technique)? How does a Genin have the chakra to use Kage Bunshin? And so many too?" Haku watched with wide eyes as the blonde and a dozen shadow-clones charged Zabuza-sama's water-clone with kunai drawn.
They all pounced upon the water-clone, seeking to skewer it. Yet even with only a tenth of the original's strength, the water-clone dispelled the shadow-clones with a single swing of its Kubikiribōchō and sent the original flying backwards.
"Even with more of him the result was still the same." Haku relaxed slightly on her perch. The blonde had surprised her with his knowledge of Kage Bunshin, but even then his efforts were for naught. She didn't imagine that the blonde had any more tricks up his sleeve.
A thought that she and, unknown to her at the time, many others in the future would have about the blonde; only for all of them to be proven wrong.
Haku watched the real blonde rummage through his backpack as he was being launched backwards. He found what he was looking for and tossed it to his raven haired teammate; it was a collapsed windmill shuriken. The raven haired boy unfolded the shuriken, leapt into the air and threw it towards the water-clone.
"A windmill shuriken? How do they expect to use that to defeat the clone?" Haku was confused, until she watched the shuriken curve around the clone and towards the boy's true target; the real Zabuza that was standing on the lake and maintaining his water-prison around Kakashi.
"Clever," she complimented the Genin. "Go for the caster and you disrupt the technique. However," Haku grinned behind her Oinin mask as she watched Zabuza catch the shuriken in his free hand, "Zabuza-sama wasn't one of the Kiri no Shinobigatana Shichinin Shu for nothing. It will take more than that to defeat him."
And even when a second windmill shuriken appeared from the shadow of the first one-the second shuriken going for Zabuza's legs-Haku was not worried. She was confident that her Zabuza-sama would prevail. Her confidence was confirmed as she watched Zabuza-sama hop over the second shuriken, all the while maintaining his control over his water-prison technique.
"A good plan and a valiant effort, but there's a reason Zabuza-sama is in the Bingo book and these Genin are not." Haku felt a surge of pride in her master at that moment, as she watched the, surprisingly, skilled Genin's last, desperate attempt shoot underneath and behind Zabuza.
A surge of pride which was quickly replaced by shock when that second shuriken exploded in a puff of white smoke to reveal the blonde Genin with a kunai in his hand. A kunai he proceeded to throw at Zabuza's head.
I will be using some Japanese suffixes, terms of address and titles. Also, I will be using the original technique names with their English translation in parentheses. In addition, I will be using the original place names like 'Konohagakure' and 'Konohagakure no Sato' because I think they sound nicer than saying 'The Leaf Village' or 'The Village Hidden in the Leaves.'