Designed to Kill (ナルト/Naruto) [Various x Ghoul! OC]

Chapter 30: The Demon in the Snow

"Oh, Sasuke! Sasuke! I'm so happy you're alive!"

As much as I love watching lovey-dovey moments like this, I turned the other cheek and flustered. A deep pink dusted my light olive skin, the recent event happened too soon and because of it the slightest reminder of anything falling into the category of 'romance' will haunt and remind you of the moment until the day you die, okay, I'm over exaggerating, until the day you get the f**k over it. (don't act as if you don't do this either.) I grumbled grumpily under my breath when my heart decided to pick up its pace. Ya know, when you get your first kiss, yes it matters who it's with, but even so, you still blush, I already get embarrassed easily, why else do you think I react the way I do to teasing? Because I get embarrassed and the only way I can hide it is by shouting or violence. It's literally how I function.

"Anyways, how's Naruto? And also, what happened to that mask guy." Sasuke seems like he could still be a bit hazy to what's going on, like he can barely move and his head seemed to be spinning slightly, I mean Sakura had to hold him up in order for him not to fall back.

"Naruto's fine..." Sakura begins.

"Haku's dead," I spoke, a soft pink now dusting my cheeks as I tempted to take deep breaths to calm myself the f**k down, it didn't work, my breath came out as shaky. It's as if my voice itself was trembling.

Sasuke just kept asking questions, trying to squeeze some answers out of me but luckily, Sakura was there to answer it all. Ish.

"You disappointed me, Zabuza." I heard the raspy voice of an old man and the cheering of a mob, hell, they were holding all sorts of weapons; from swords to torches, spears and some f*****g kitchen knife. Zabuza had collapsed.

"Get 'em boys!" one of the mobs shouted before all started yelling all sorts of cheers and so on so forth, I was not having any of it, with precisely seven kunai, my hand throwing back as I rotated my hips and shoulders to find the perfect aim, and with that I threw it at my targets. Using a whipping motion and with it landing perfectly on all seven of the unsuspecting victims, I smirked, it wasn't a surprised, I could tell they weren't Ninjas, just a bunch of thugs and that was it. Some of them bothered to stop and stare with wide eyes now full of fear and hesitation, while the rest just ran carelessly like their lives are nothing more than trash to throw away.

That's when a spear landed right in front of them all, taking the attention from me to our friendly neighbourhood mobs, well the other mobs. The ones on our side.

"OH HEY KID!" I waved happily, completely ignoring the fact that he may or may not have witnessed seven humans dying. Eh, he'll be fine.

"Enemies who come any closer to this island..." they begin dramatically, "with all the might of all the Island's people, you will not be allowed to live!"

Kakashi's and Naruto's sudden shadow clone jutsu, one of Kakashi actually managing to 'accidentally' poke my butt with a kunai, to which he gave a very cheeky apology for, I growled and K.O'ed that motherfucker, the shadow disappeared immediately and I glared at all the other Kakashi's and Naruto's that were staring at me, the action of my silent threat caused them to look away so fast I was sure the clones would get a whiplash that was so bad, even the real Naruto and Kakashi would be able to feel it.

"Still wanna fight?!" Kakashi shouted in a playful threaten, to which their response was denying and making a f*****g run for it to the Norths. Well, to a boat. They were in such a panic some even fell off the bridge and into the water. Probably drowned. Who cares.

"Victory!" The towns people cheered. I kinda wanna break it to them that Kakashi and Naruto did all the work, but I'll just shush about it for now.

Hmmm... I spy with my little eye, a Kakashi placing Zabuza near Haku's corpse?

Curiosity got the better of me, so my body towered over Zabuza's own battered and now broken body, his life about to taken away because of his recklessness, I wonder what Naruto said to him to have him have a change of heart, he stared at Haku with such a loving look, and I'm guessing his final wish was to die beside Haku.

"You know...I never thought you'd be... Haku's first love." he chuckled, but groan immediately after, no doubt his stomach punishing him for having joy. I narrowed my eyes.

"First love?"

"He'd used to... tell me stories... y-.. ugh..." he groaned, coughing blood that I rushed to bend down and pull off his mask, the thick liquid was connected to his mouth and the mask before the string broke, Sakura and Naruto's gasped could be heard and even Kakashi and Sasuke commenting on the whole 'first love' situation. Nosy brats. You too, Kakashi. "When you noticed... that he was losing weight... heh... I remember that you dragged him into a human city... and threatened the chief's life if he didn't feed Haku... and I quote "until Haku was big like a balloon"...."

"...."

I do remember that. Now it's all clicking, Haku... for the life of me I always thought his name was Haruka, perhaps because I never called him by his real name, I always called him-

"A flower... that was what you used to call him... and he'd used to come back to the training room smiling.... and complaining like an idiot...." Zabuza kept rambling on, his voice growing tired and the more he talked the more he sounded so restless, his blinking became slow, as his eyes set on Haku's face when he took his last few breaths. "I can see... I can see why he... loves you so..."

"What's that supposed to mean, bastard..." I mumbled, though he only smirked and gave one single weak glance in my direction, his eyes quickly returned to his lost comrade.

"I always thought... that Haku would be with.... with someone more gentle... in fact... I never even thought he'd-he'd be with any...one." he finished off, honestly, his voice was growing so weak even I was having trouble understanding him, so I leaned in, "but if it was with you... maybe he'd still be alive..."

"What are you even saying, he loves you as well," I answered.

"And look what that cost him..."

"But you'll be together," I answered, Zabuza's breathing was weak and his lack of movement suggested that he was near his death, the loss of blood has become too much and his body refused to function, talking would use too much energy, so, he took his final moments to stare at Haku, analyzing him. A few seconds later, his eyes fluttered closed slowly, a smile tweaked at his lips. He looks... happy.

He's gone.