The sky was bloodshot red, and jet black clouds roamed the sky. The terrain had giant boulders and rocks, but no sign of any human, or civilization as far as the eye could see. "ZA BU ZA! I'M COMING FOR YOU!" said a creepy little girl voice. Zabuza quickly reached for his blade only to realize, it was missing.

"WHAT?!" He then reached for his weapon pouch to pull out a kunai, only to realize, even that was missing. He turned around and he saw a mirror reflecting an image of a young 9 year old boy which shook to his bones.

"Is... is that... me...?"

Suddenly, the boy's face morphed into a face of a girl with a kunai stuck in her head and bloodied face. Zabuza let out a shriek as he fell down to the ground in cold sweat. The mirror switched scenes and behind Zabuza, there was a large wooden pillar, and the same girl was bound to it. Zabuza felt his blood boil, and his heart ache. He ran there towards the pillar, but he seemed to only get farther away while simultaneously getting sucked into a shroud of darkness.

He tripped over something and fell. He got back up and turned around, only to see the girl laying there, half concious, on the brink of death. Zabuza frantically ran to her side but she like a holographic image simply dissappaited. He turned around and saw a younger version of himself sitting beside the half dead girl crying and weeping.

"Don't cry.... big brother...."

An image of a red moon, a pillar, and a lunar eclipse flashed through Zabuza's mind. He woke up in cold sweat. He jolted up and felt his heart go almost as fast as he could run. He felt his breathing become unstable. "Where am I?!" asked Zabuza in an almost frightened voice.

"You're finally awake Zabuza! About time! You were going to be late again!" said a young 8 year old girl facing away from Zabuza as she cleaned up the room.

Zabuza was ready to pounce and slit the little girl's throat if he had to. He was a rouge ninja of the blood mist village, and the wielder of one of the 7 swords of the mist. He is a merciless, cruel, cold killer who wouldn't give killing an 8 year old a second thought. He waited for the young child to make her move.

"Hurry up! You're gonna be late again! And then they'll pick on me because you are such a sleepy head Zabu-nii!" the girl turned around and face Zabuza.

Zabuza felt his hair stand up and go on edge. He had heard Zabu-nii before. He knew her. This was his younger sister. Why had he forgotten about her? What is going on? Why did she look like....

"Haku?! What- I- I don't understand!" Zabuza said as he looked down trying to make sense of all that is happening to him.

"Zabu-nii!" the young girl gasped. "Your bed is drenched in sweat! I got more cleaning up to do now because of you... ugh... Also, you're going to be late!"

"Yeah, I'm up....  I'm just.... gonna go now...." Zabuza said in a confused voice as he got up and put on his clothes. "Take care...."

"Do good at school Zabu-nii!" said the girl as she fixed her older brother's room. Zabuza couldn't help but let out a smile. "Stay safe.... Haku...." and he departed.

What the hell is going on? I punched this kid in the gut, and looked at his eye. Next thing knew I was- Wait a sec, his eye... It couldn't possibly have been the sharingan... could it? No the eye looked different... but I can tell that was no ordinary boy, nor eye. Is this a genjutsu?! I can't snap out of it if it is... No way a kid could have such a good ocular justsu.

He kept trying to piece together how he got to where he was, and he couldn't figure out what was going on. Last thing he remembered was the image of an eye. He couldn't recall anything leading up to the point, or anything before either. Next thing he knew, he woke up in his sweat drenched bed. His academy came into sight before long. 

Zabuza felt a kick from behind causing him to fall down. He turned around to see who made the biggest mistake of their life. Upon seeing the assailant's face, he felt his blood rise up to the boiling point. Zabuza couldn't recall who the man was, but he knew that he knew him.... and he knew he hated him.... maybe even killed him....

"Oh look! It's that passive, introverted, softy.....! Zabuza! My best friend! You got what I ordered...? We are pals remember....? Lunch money. now." said the boy as his two friends laughed behind him.

"Doesn't your name mean something like... never strike twice or something? What an ironic name! You can't even kill a butterfly, but you were given a name like that!" he looked at Zabuza who stood up and faced the sky with his eyes closed. "What's the matter sis-con...?! Wanna say somethin....?!"

Little did the young bully know, Zabuza was debating on the 101 ways he wants to kill the brat. 

Zabuza cracked his neck and stretched his arms out. "What do you think a man needs more? Legs or hands? I can't decide." he clasped his knuckles, "How about I rip one of each off first, and see what other body parts seem fun."

Suddenly an wave of intense bloodlust oozed out attracting the attention of nearby high level Chunins, Jonins, and instructors."

The boy oblivious to it, said "Oh! Big words! Lets see if you can keep them up! How long do you guys think it'll take for him to tap out?" He yelled out to the gathering crowd. "What do you think a 9 year old like you could do to a 12 year old like m-?" 

Before the bully was able to finish his sentence, Zabuza seemingly disappeared from his sight, and appeared right behind him. Within a fraction of a second, Zabuza turned the bully's neck and pointing his middle finger on the boy's neck.

"Biology 101, the artery on the neck is called the Carotid artery. All Professor Zabuza is going to demonstrate today is what happens if the carotid artery is impaled. Tell me kid.... does a self centered, egocentric fool like you ever experience fear....?" The assailant turned victim was at a loss. No words were able to escape the boy's mouth.

Suddenly a teacher appeared behind Zabuza "Momochi.... I have high hopes for you despite what others think.... That kind of blood lust and skill are far above academy students, or even genin.... You show it rarely, but I am one of the few whose eyes it caught. Show me what you got tomorrow softy of the mist.... For now, let him go...." Zabuza hesitantly complied.

"You'll pay for this you sis complex bastard! You'll rue the day you met me." sneered the bully as he walked away.

"Well the day I am supposed to rue you, you'll rue the day your dad couldn't buy a more expensive condom." Zabuza replied back leaving the kid whining something under his breath before running away.

The rest of the day went by in a flash. He couldn't stop thinking about what happened. He could not recall anything prior to that day, or anything related the eye he keeps flashing back to. He took a slight detour and walked home. As he was going to open the door, his little sister opened it for him.

"Welcome back!"

"Uh, Haku??"

"Zabu-nii...." his sister sneers at him, "My name is-"

"Yeah I know, I'm messing with you..."

"Are you okay...? You look a little weird. You have these lines in the middle of your eyebrows."

 "I-I'm just hungry.... I'm gonna go chubb."

Zabuza entered the house and saw that his sister already took food out for both herself and him. He sat on one end, and his sister sat on the other end. Zabuza stared at his sister as he slowly ate his meal.

"Are you okay?" Haru asked "You seem a little off. Usually you are so warm, cuddle-y, and fuzzy. Right now you are being all cold and not fuzzy."

"Sorry Haru, I got school on my mind...." Zabuza said as he sugarcoated the truth. He could not stop thinking about happened. How someone attempted to bully him, how his pride felt humiliated, how he felt a surge of anger come over him, and how he was called a softie. He was better. He is stronger. There is no way anyone could do anything such as that.

"Big brother, did they bully you again?! I'll teach them a lesson next ti-"

"NO HARU!" Zabuza said as he stood up slamming his hands on the table. "DO NOT INTERFERE!"

Zabuza instantly regretted his sudden outburst. Haru looked down on the ground, her hair hiding her face. She slowly walked towards Zabuza. She spread her arms open and gave him a hug. Zabuza felt a wave of warmth, love, and sadness wash over him.

"It is okay big brother.... Don't listen to what they say.... I love how you are so nice.... They are all a bunch of meanies! You are a really nice person .... I love you because how you are always so nice to me, and how you get along with animals...."

"So you're saying just because animals like me I am a good guy?"

"The people area all rude. Animals are nice and cute. I don't like it when they bully you, and say your good stuff is your bad stuff.... That's why I stay home and try to make you happy so you don't feel alone...."

Zabuza felt as though he was on the verge of tears. He hadn't felt this in a while. He had forgotten what it meant to have humanity. He pulls his sister into a hug and said "Haru.... thank you.... thank you so much.... I wont let anything happen to you.... I'll make sure I become the Mizukage! I'll make everyone love each other.... Go to sleep.... Tomorrow is a new day.... It's important too.... I will make through it, believe it...."

His sister nestles into his chest and runs back to her room gleefully. Zabuza looks out his window at the lunar eclipse. He felt his heart in pain for some reason. He walks to his bed and lays down. 

Damn. What she said didn't even make sense. I kill people. What the hell does she mean I am nice. I am a rogue shinobi. I could kill her and end this genjutsu in a second. What she said was something useless and very uncohesive. Why did I shed tears? What is preventing me from snapping her neck? Why did I get all sappy on her.

A flash of an eye, a pillar, and a red moon forms in his head. 

Zabuza jolts awake and scans his room. Through his curtains he could see the rays of the sun rising. Nothing seemed out of place. He opens his blinds and finds his window broken. "What...?" He rushes out his room. Everything seemed normal except for a kunai stuck in the wall. 

"HARU!" He runs to his little sister's room and tries to open it but it was locked. "Haru! Open the door now!" There was no response from the room. He steps back and kicked the door open.

"Nani....?!" His eyes widened as he saw the room thrashed. "Oh no.... Haru.... NOOOO!" Zabuza lets out a cry of pain. He looked at her dresser and saw a map impaled by a kunai with a notewritten in blood. "Come catch your precious sister softie of the mist."

Heyyy, wazahhhhh

So yeah, sorry for being so late on publishing. After publishing the last one a while back, I went "POOF". The first bunch of years I was kinda thinking about what I wanted to do with this and which direction to take this. Then after deciding that I was just lazy. NGL a lot of times I thought about dropping this fanfic. BUT BRUH, 90k VIEWS! UGHHHH I CAN NOT DISSAPPOINT!! 

BUT STILL, UGH I DONT FW THIS FANFIC AS MUCH AS I DID BEFORE! Like the idea I have for this is still there. Like I know how I want this to go from Point A to B to C to D all the way to Z. It's just I gotta work and type everything up. I want to move away from fanfics and go in a different direction of writing, but I don't see that happening so long as this is here in all honesty. If this is here, I feel an obligation to work on this meaning the other stories can't happen.

SOOO, this is the conclusion I have arrived at. If I can get 500 view and 100 votes before June 20th, I'll continue with this. OR if I get 150 votes by the same date, I'll continue. If I don't, I'll do the other thing that I have in my mind.

I asked before if people are willing to work on this for me and I publish this and I remember some people were like "Ayyy, hmu if you want me to do it." I don't remember what I said really last time but here are the specifics. 

I tell someone what I want the chapter to be like, and they write it in a way that follows what I want in it. I'll do some critiquing on what I want added/removed, and take care of final edits. Then the person will send it to me and I'll publish it here. I'll give the person/people credits for the chapter. I might be the brains behind the idea, but I'd be nothing if they hadn't done it.

Pros: Clout if they like the style and all that (I guess), the story continues.

Cons: WORK UGH

But that's just an idea up for now. Let me know if people wanna do it. I can make a google docs and either people can take turns writing or a few people can partake in writing the chapters.

UPDATE ON LIFE CUZ A LOTTA SHIT BEEN HAPPENING! Jan 1st at 10:54pm someone got taken. Spoilers, it's ya boi! The girl is way outta my league too IDFK how I did it tbh. I kinda just winged it XD! I am confusion as to whether I wanna go to the medical field or engineering field now so ima go to a 2 year community college and then transfer to a 4 year college. I'm getting all expenses covered for the first 2 years from scholarship so that's good. I cut off a couple of snakes who were toxic. One of my best friends IRL who has also an account here became a very annoying person, but she finally turned back to normal so that is great. I usually am pretty in shape, but I got toned up this year. Then I kinda lost it cuz I stopped working out and stuff, so I made a promise to do 100-250 push ups every other day, and some other stuff to get back in good shape. I might be going bald this summer too. This dude in the college I'll be going to might have problems with me and if he starts anything up, he going down. He supposedly got underground connections cuz he sells drugs, but if anything does happen like he has people pull up, idfc. Well, that's what I thought before. Now I found out that I have an undefeated underground boxer friend who used to be in a gang, and this other dude who isn't in a gang but knows people who are and would do what he want. So yeah. Life is going good right now. Oh yeah and ya boy might be getting a Macbook. So yeah a lotta stuff been going on in my life. This is just the portion I remember atm. It's 2:37am, I'm fasting so I gotta get up at 3:40ish. I'll prolly be sleeping again at 5am. Then I got school at 6am. RIPPP

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