CHAPTER 9

Zabuza was scowling. Because the midget Gato has hiered another shinobi. He wasn't anyone special. A no name Ninja. He has no affiliation with any village. But not having enough information, was also annoying. But for Zabuza it didn't matter. According to Haku someone who specialises in traps had came as a reinforcement. But according to Haku, he couldn't identify any of those seals. That means the new enemy was also proficient in seals. But after Yondaime Hokage's death, there are only four seal masters left in the leaf. And considering three out of four won't come here in any chance, that left the last one. The new prodigy of leaf. Although none of the other nations have not taken her seriously due to not participating in any major action yet, but her being a master in the arts has been widespread. She had made her place in the recent bingo book of kumo. He hasn't seen any from Iwa or Suna, so he didn't know about them.

He will be cautious. So there is nothing to worry about the new arrival.

With a confident attitude, Zabuza along with Haku went towards the bridge. He first created hidden mist jutsu to hide his presence And then attacked.

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In last few months, along with my training, I had given plenty of time to research new things on seals. That labour had given me different small fruits. One of them being special awareness seal. It was not some kind of flashy seal. But a simple sensory seal. I lack the talent in sensing my opponents. In situations like this, only relying on my speed would be very foolish. So the special awareness seal. It has only a range of three meters. It's by no means can be compared to any other sensing method. Not mention the chakra cost is very high. But it has it's own advantages. It draws a three dimensional map of the surroundings around me in my mind at the real time. It can be compared to byakugan's 360 degree vision. But instead of 360 degree, it's 540 degree. Not to mention the limited range. So it has it's own advantages and limitations.

But one thing is sure, this seal makes fighting in the mist, pretty easy. Ducking under a kunai I threw my own at the direction of Zabuza. It seems he wanted to take me out first. But ofcourse the kunai didn't hit the target. Then began his passionate speech.

"It seems you have called for help Kakashi. What's the matter ! Couldn't fight me alone ? Scared ?" His tone was mocking.

"It doesn't matter any way. Eight points, where should I strike. ?"

I had to admit he is good at making people disoriented. It made his opponents unable to make sound decisions in anticipation of sudden attack. It's a pretty good mind game.

But Zabuza was not only playing mind games he was preparing to attack as well.

My special awareness seal flared. Two kunais ! I immediately deflected them with Surume.

"Stay closer to the client Kakashi." I told him. It was not an order, but an reminder. I too would not leave his side unless I am sure that what I was targetting is the real body and not a water clone. Suddenly I felt a large object heading towards Kakashi, I knew, he has sensed it coming. So when he blocked the attack, I immediately attacked with Surume. It was a water clone. The mist was really annoying. So I decided to end it. I took out the vaccume storage seal and pressure storage seal. I first activated the vaccume storage seal. It absorbed the air along with the mist around myself. It was not on a level where it can suck up every ounce of air from the surrounding atmosphere. So breathing would not be impossible. After a few seconds, I deactivated the seal and activated the pressure storage seal. The effect was instantaneous. With the difference in pressure, wind did the work for me and cleared all the mist from the area. Then Zabuza became fully visible. There were eight Zabuzas and the ninth person was the masked hunter nin.Zabuza tsked. And then Three of his clones attacked from different sides.

I threw a kunai to my front. Kakashi can manage one.

Weaving through handsigns I called in scilence, "Kunai shadow clone jutsu."Figuring this out was easy after you understand how exactly shadow clones works.

The kunai multiplied to tens. Zabuza moved. But it was too late. Even if those were chakra constructs, I could still switch between them. So I easily destroyed all the five water clones of Zabuza, who were in that direction. At that time Haku or the masked nin, tried to attack me but Zabuza stopped me. My technique was very dangerous not only because of it's speed but also how tricky it was. He decided to confront me first.

So it happened. The clash of metals. Sword vs Naginata. Haku moved to take care of Sasuke and Sakura. But by the time, Naruto has also arrived. After they moved to a distance, our fight intensified. Zabuza was using ninjutsu as well. Which I mostly dodged. And many were cancelled out by Kakashi.

I was minding any damages to the bridge. That stopped me from using any destructive attacks. Not to mention I had to cotrol my strength. I didn't want to cut up the bridge incase Zabuza dodged an attack.

But I had to admit that he have the real skills. Although his natural strength was far above mine, I was using chakra agumentation. And my raw speed was higher than his own.

After fighting for a while, I heard the glass cracking. Haku flew towards us. Naruto and Sasuke were standing near the broken ice mirrors. And Sasuke had awakened his Sharingans. But suddenly I felt something entering my awareness range. I immediately swang Surume towards it. A head rolled down and blood splattered. The assaisan was inches away from Zabuza. He was using some kind of chemoflouge jutsu. Looking at him Zabuza scowled. It was pretty obvious what he was trying to achieve.

"What a pathetic Ninja you are Zabuza ! You can't even win against a little girl ! " The voice of a fat midget rang out through out the bridge.

'It's over.' That was my thought.

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