meet Tazuna's family.

the group quickly made their way to Tazuna's house. upon reaching the home they are greeted by his daughter Tsunami. "Father, you made it back," she said with a relieved smile.

"I told you I would," he said with a large smile. "And I even hired a strong group of ninjas to help us."

"But they are so young," she uttered under her breath.

"Maybe but they are all super strong," he said. "well the guys are anyway," he thought in his head.

"if you say so," she said still unsure about having such young children fighting for them.

the group then made their way inside. Tsunami went to the kitchen to help make supper for everyone. their was a young boy sitting at the table and scowled at them before getting up and leaving the room.

"Who is Emo jr." asked Naruto.

"that would be my Grandson Inari," said Tazuna with a sigh.

Kakashi then had the group sit down on the table. "Okay we need to come up with a plan for the next few days. I would have to say that it would take Zabuza about a week to recover from the injuries and being put into a **** like state."

"what if the ice user knows medical ninjutsu," asked Naruto. "it takes a lot of medical knowledge to hit the right pressure points."

"good point," said Kakashi. "if they does know medical jutsu's that could accelerate the time frame by a day or two depending on how much they know. now I have only fought two ice users and they were from snow country and just used the ice and snow around them rather than make it themselves."

the group listened to Kakashi explain some of the jutsu's he knew about. "we should not assume that they would be limited by that. it is possible they have other techniques only natural ice user control could perform," said Sasuke.

"We also need to factor in chakra used. it would take more chakra to make the ice then manipulate your surroundings. of course if they wanted to destroy the bridge that whale jutsu would definitely due it," commented Naruto.

"both of you bring up good points," said Kakashi. "in the morning we will be doing some serious training to get you all ready to fight the ice user. I will have to focus on Zabuza."

"What is to stop the ice user from completing the job themselves," asked Naruto.

"simple Zabuza's pride. he wont let them finish it while he is injured. he will want a rematch," said Kakashi. he then looked in Sasuke's direction. "remember the old phrase pride before the fall."

Sasuke just let out a grunt and turned away from his sensei's look.