Naruto winced, "Touché." He jumped back and went through several hand signs, "Well since we're using jutsu now, allow me to show you one of mine. Fuuton: Kaze Senbon!" Several dozen senbon needles made of wind formed in front of him before shooting off at Haku who began to dodge and wave in between them.
Naruto charged forward hoping that the senbon attack would distract her long enough that he could knock her out. His hope was dashed as she spun around while dodging the last wind senbon, blocking his hand and redirecting it to the left before kicking him in the chest.
Naruto winced a bit but was able to lash out with his own kick that caught Haku in the legs, sending her to the ground and forcing her to roll back.
She flipped back up onto her feet at the same time Naruto regained his balance. The two paused for a moment, watching each other wearily for a moment, before they shot towards one another again.
Kakashi cursed as he blocked and dodged several more strikes, channeling chakra into his kunai so that it could compete with the power of the nuke-nin's sword. This was getting ridiculous. He had been unable to really catch more than a glimpse of Zabuza since the battle started, making his Sharingan almost useless. On top that he was starting to tire, he had a several dozen cuts along his clothing, though none of the attacks had gotten any more than a passing lance. On top of that his Sharingan was draining a lot of his chakra.
Kakashi knew that if he did not end this soon he would be in trouble.
"Getting tired are we Kakashi," Zabuza said with a smug tone.
"Not at all," Kakashi shot back; in truth he was getting really tired.
"Heh, we both know this battle is over," Zabuza said, "Even if you could hold out, your brats won't last much longer."
Kakashi was forced to dodge several more slashes from Zabuza's zanbatou before the man disappeared into the mist again. The Konoha Jonin waited for several moments before he felt it, a small fluctuation in the air current that told him the former Kiri jJonin was coming in from behind him.
Spinning around Kakashi dodged that large zanbatou, letting it smash into the concrete where he had previously been, cracking it from the force of the blow. The copy ninja then stepped on the blade and closed distance with Zabuza, his kunai in a reverse grip. Kakashi plunged the kunai into Zabuza's neck, noticing that said ninja was leaking out water rather than blood.
A second later the Zabuza he had stabbed burst into water and Kakashi was forced to jump back as another zanbatou slashed into where he had just been. A moment later the large sword along with the person holding it wavered in the mist before disappearing.
"You can keep thinking that if you want," Kakashi said, eyeing the mist despite knowing it would not do any good.
"And even if there not, you forgot one important fact," Zabuza's voice seemed to echo from everywhere.
"Oh? And what's that?" asked Kakashi.
"My mission," was Zabuza's laughing answer.
Mission? I don't get it, his mission is to… Kakashi's eyes widened, "The bridge builder!"
Sakura stood in front of Tazuna with a kunai drawn. Her entire body was shaking as the three battles went on around her unseen. But just because she could not see them, did not me she could not hear them. The pinkette heard everything, from the clang of metal, the sounds of flesh hitting flesh, grunts, screams. All of it was nearly enough to overwhelm the poor girl with fright.
This is all too much, Sakura said to herself, her eyes darting back and forth as she tried her best not to let her fear get to her, and continue her job to protect Tazuna. I feel so out of my league…like I'm completely useless and at any second I could just die. On top of that, Sasuke-kun and even Naruto are fighting out there, while I'm just sitting here doing nothing.
She was so worried about what could happen to her that she never noticed Zabuza appear behind her and Tazuna until it was too late.
Zabuza hefted his blade off his back just as Sakura and Tazuna turned around to see him. As the giant zanbatou was about to cleave into the pair Kakashi appeared in front of them, using his body to shield the pair from attack.
"TOO LATE!" Roared Zabuza as his blade came down.
Kakashi's eyes widened as the blade came down.
There was a splash of blood and Sakura screamed.
Sasuke stumbled back as he received another fist to the face from Gouzu. His breathing was getting ragged and his clothes were torn and ripped from the many close calls he had with the pair's poisoned gauntlets. It seemed they had been toying with him, after that second punch Sasuke managed to land the two had seemingly turned up the heat.
Now they were nearly twice as fast, twice as vicious and had used it to their advantage, turning Sasuke into what amounted to a glorified rag doll.
Sasuke rolled out of the way of another attack, moving into a series of flips, knowing from experience that Meizu would be there to attack him from behind. As soon as he landed on his feet he was forced to dodge to the left, but ended up running right into Gouzu who hit him in the face.
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