Zabuza pov

naru taicho was pissed, I could tell, so could sora and haku. I don't know what it was but sparrow was really testing his patience, looking over to naru I took a step back and out of his immediate range as I saw him irritably create another clone which came back not a minute later with a scroll.

Making links I realised that sparrow was loud enough that the enemy could hear him and were coming running, naru was killing all these ninja because sparrow wouldn't shut up.

Immediately I hissed at him "shut the fuck up sparrow before fox taicho loses it." He just brushed what I said off arrogantly and continued complaining and insulting things.

For another mile he was still talking and I was beginning to see more and more clones coming back with scrolls and I was beginning to hate sparrow more and more. If captain didn't do something soon I will.

It was like Christmas came early when naru finally erupted

His glare was ice cold making me shiver the bloodlust I knew naru was holding back was suddenly zeroed in on sparrow and I grinned evily that bastard deserved it!

I was rather impressed when sparrow was on the floor rambling apologies.

with his blood lust loose I again saw the shimmer of genjutsu surrounding naru reminding me again that I had no idea what he actually looked like.

I could feel sora's surprised when he noticed it, its high time he shows us what he looks like... he should have done that ages ago.

I sighed in relief when we reached the gates to Konoha. I watched as naru dismissed us back to home base and as he headed to the hokage office.

I hope sparrow cops it from the hokage

I led the rest of us back to our home, instantly we all relaxed in the kitchen.

"Zabuza ... Is naru under a genjutsu?" Sora asked

I sighed ...great today was the day "yes, he has been since before I met him. Even his clone was under a genjutsu"

Sora looked troubled "how do we know we can trust him then" I sighed massaging the bridge of my nose.

"The reason naru has a genjutsu on is to hide his age, that much ive figured out" I told him

"Nani... his age why would he hide that from us?" Sora asked I glared but answered him anyway.

"Naru sensei is very young younger than both you and haku, I don't think he knows if we will treat him the same if he shows us who he really is." I told them. And ignored the disbelieving looks I was getting from haku and sora.

"Wait he is younger than me?, I thought I was the youngest in the group, I'm only thirteen!" Haku said surprised.

I sighed "haku I don't think naru has reached double digits yet he's very young, very mature but still, very young."

Their disbelief was way more obvious now. And I sighed." I'll ask him to drop the genjutsu when he gets back if you both promise not to treat him any different because if you do there is no doubt that he will never take it off again." I told them seriously

They both agreed and relaxed in the kitchen with me haku in the fridge getting out food to make for all of us.

It wasn't long before naru came back inside and handed us all an envelope each of money, opening it I noticed we had earned quite a lot ($1500 Aus) and grinned putting it away.

Looking up I saw naru taking out some of the money and putting it in his wallet ($210 Aus) that wasn't a lot of money to live on and I practically dropped my jaw when he sent the rest to the orphanage.

Composing myself as he settled onto a chair stretching I decided to ask him

"Naru taicho... sora, haku and I would like to know what you really look like... we know your our leader no matter what, but one day we might not know who to look for when we need you... and on top of that you should trust us with this we are your team."

He flinched when he heard that and I felt a little guilty but still I was curious I had been for a while.

He finally nodded and before my eyes he shrunk his hair growing longer and becoming a bright blonde, his honey brown eyes became a bright blue and the three marks on each of his cheeks became far more pronounced looking more like scars than birthmarks now.

His height was at least two heads shorter than haku and he seemed around seven or eight. His clothing was swallowing him now at his new height.

He turned and left the room leaving his gobsmacked team behind lifting the huge shirt off himself I reigned in my killing intent as huge scars came into view with words such as monster, freak, demon, brat, dobe, Baka, and anything else under the sun could be found across his torso. His body was lithe and thin looking less muscular than we all knew he was.

He was almost around the corner to his room when sora called out to him "what type of mission caused that!." He asked horrified.

I just shook my head at his naivety and let taicho answer.

"Not all Jinchuuriki were ignored, like you sora. I didn't get these scars from a shinobi." He said softly and I closed my face off from showing emotion, the reason he wore the genjutsu was more complicated than hiding his age and identity in anbu, he was hiding himself from the villagers.

I sighed and put an arm around sora who was holding back tears at the revelation, "come on squirt, he has us now" I told him gently and guided him to the couch in the living room where haku was trying to distract himself by watching a movie about some princess or something.

I went to sleep ignoring the annoying crow outside, I'll just deal with this shit tomorrow I told myself.