Sakura's Twin Brother

Chapter 6

Tazuna began finishing up the reasoning behind his lie. He also succeeding in guilt tripping the squad, except Naruto, who was sound asleep. It didn't matter either way, because he already made his oath. Aki shifted to the point that Naruto was sleeping on his lap instead. Naruto smiled in his sleep, indicating his comfortableness(? Is that a word? -AN) He also began snoring.

Soon, Aki woke Naruto up and they got off the boat, that they were previously on. Naruto and Sakura had an argument on who Aki likes better until Aki looked at them unamused, they quickly saved their argument for later. Soon, Naruto was up at front, trying to find danger, to get even with Sasuke.

Aki merely chuckled lightly at his antics before Sakura seized his hand once again. He pulled his hand away and placed an arm around her instead. She was beaming at this point, meanwhile Aki was quite uncomfortable. He didn't like how the place was. It was quiet... To quiet.

Naruto suddenly threw a kunai in a random bush. Aki sensed a trail of chakra from there. He removed his arm from Sakura, much to her disappointment and started protesting, until she saw his serious expression, she quickly quieted down. He followed the trail and it led to where a winter rabbit was at.

Aki's eyes narrowed. White fur.. Summer.. Replacement! His eyes widened in realization. He heard a sharp cut in the still air. "Get down!" He yelled as he pushed Sakura and Naruto down. Kakashi did as well to Tazuna and Sasuke. A large sliced threw the air, close enough to cut someone's head if they were standing up.

The sword ended up hitting a tree stump. A tall figure stood on the blade. was shirtless, wearing only arm warmers and pants, bandages covering his lower face from the nose.

"Well, well, Zabuza Momochi." Kakashi started cockily, masking his seriousness.

"Kakashi Hatake, of the Sharingan. Just hand over the old man, and no one gets hurt... or killed." Zabuza threatened.

"Gomen, but I'm afraid not, Zabuza-san." Aki stated coldly as he glared at him, a frown on his face. Zabuza raised a non-existent brow at the red-head, grinning sadistic-ly under his bandages. Suddenly, emitted from Aki in an instant. His expression dead seious as the two Ex ANBU now jounin, the Hidden Hunter nin and his teammates, as well as client, stared at him in shock, awe, and even fear.

"Nice try kid, but chakra emitt---" Zabuza was cut off by Aki summoning and launching them at him. Zabuza narrowly dodged, eyes wide with shock and slight horror. "No way.." He muttered, "Those aren't possible for Genins, kid. How---"

"I spent most of my time studying and perfecting jutsus at a young age, unlike you, who perfects kendo and water-wind ninjutsu abilities." Aki responded monotonously.

"Oh yeah, then let's fight kid."

Kakashi can only stare as the two engaged in battle. He was frozen in shock, alongside the other three, meanwhile, the Hunter nin was surprised that the red-head was holding his ground against Zabuza, an S-ranked criminal rouge ninja. Meanwhile, Kakashi finally snapped out of it, got ready to come in for backup, and ordered the rest of the team to head to Zabuza and form manji formation.

Soon, Aki had the upper hand. His chain was wrapped around Zabuza tightly, not letting the latter move. The Hunter nin quickly shot two senbon needles at Zabuza's neck before Aki could caught any further damage to Zabuza's already beaten, bruised, cut and two dislocated arms and few fractured ribs.

"I am a hunter nin from Kirigakure. I've been tracking this particular rouge for a while now. I'll be taking him back, many secrets must be disposed off from this body. (?)" Said the nin.

Aki's eyes narrowed as he eyed the nin cautiously, making the nin sweat slightly under his mask. Aki remained like this until Kakashi reassured him that the nin was a friend. Aki didn't move or change his expression until the nin left.

"That was so cool Aki-otoutuo!" Sakura praised as Aki rewrapped his chains and placed them away. She quickly clung onto him, a huge, proud smile on her face. Aki tried to unnoticeably pry her off him, given he had a few bruises and cuts himself. Kakashi was the only one to notice and pick Aki up and place him on his back, the latter falling asleep.

Sakura didn't get the idea, meanwhile, Naruto and Sasuke did. Sakura kept trying to pull Aki back to the ground, meanwhile, Kakashi kept moving away from her and Sasuke and Naruto held her back and blocked her path to their Sensei. To say the least, Sakura was fuming and protesting for the rest of the way.

TIME SKIP TO THE TREE CLIMBING

AN

Gomen, but I got lazy, and sorry for not going into full detail during the fight.. he-he.. I'm horrid at writing those parts..

Aki woke up silently, his body slightly aching. He felt warm. Too warm.

He looked down and saw that there were multiple blankets on him, and he immediately pried them off in a hurry. He noticed that he wasn't really wearing a shirt, instead, he had bandages wrapped around his torso and right arm. He sighed and got up, thankfully wearing bottoms, and scanned the area around him.

He was in a small room in a single bed. 'We must've reached Tazuna-san's home while I was out.. I feel useless.. And.. That problem just had to be acknowledged late.. ' Aki thought miserably as he stared at the ceiling. 'Why didn't you let me finish the fight when I had the chance, Kakashi-sensei? Do you really not realize, the mistakes of that action? Zabuza is still alive! And that Hunter Nin is his accomplice, Yuki Haku.' He groaned to himself and looked at the door.

He silently peeked outside and saw no one there. He closed the door quietly and walked around, memorizing any possible routes and entrance-exits in the small family building. He reached the kitchen-dining room and was met by his whole team, and his client's family. One problem was, he wasn't wearing a top.

Sakura had a huge nosebleed while the rest either blushed or looked away. It took a second for Aki to notice what the problem was. He immediately rushed up to the room he was previously in and got out a random shirt.

When he walked back inside, he would't meet anyone's eyes, let alone look at them. He kept his eyes trained on the floorboards. The only time when he looked up was was when he..