What the hell? Naruto said as they all appeared in the mirrors again. I could barely even see what happened! Are these copies of herself that are attacking me, or is this some kind of speed technique?
Naruto pulled out the senbon that he could reach and threw them on the ground; I need to figure out what kind of technique this is so I can beat it.
The Haku's disappeared again and Naruto found a dozen more senbon sticking out of him. That is if I can survive this…
Naruto dropped to his knees, wincing as he pulled out even more needles.
"Please surrender Naruto-kun…I don't want to have to kill you," Haku begged, her voice not bothering to hide her emotions.
"I don't want you to kill me either Haku-chan," Naruto winced as he stood up. "But I can't let Tazuna-Ojisan die! I won't give up! Kai (Release)!" several seals spread across Naruto's skin, invisible to the naked eye due to the genjutsu seal on them, and all the weight in his wrist and leg bands dropped. Naruto felt about a hundred fifty pounds or so lighter, which was an almost accurate estimation of how much his weights weighed.
"This should help," Naruto mumbled. While Haku had been fast, Naruto had been fighting fast opponents for several months now, one of whom was faster than Haku. "It's time to get this fight really started."
Haku was not sure what Naruto had did, but decided not to give him a chance to try something against her.
She attacked.
Sasuke grinned as he dodged another set of attacks. Jumped over Gouzu and smashing a foot into the back of his head. This was getting much easier with his Sharingan. Now he could see all the attacks sent his way and predict them, Even though it's incomplete, it's more than enough to deal with them.
"You know I'm getting pretty bored here," Sasuke said with a smirk, feeling confident now that he had his Sharingan. "Maybe you aren't as good as I thought you were."
"This battles just getting started!" Gouzu shouted with false bravado. He and Meizu had been giving it their all for a while now and nothing seemed to work on the Genin anymore.
"Hn," Sasuke smirked, moving into his Setsujutsuken (Interceptor Fist) of the Uchiha clan before giving them the 'come on' gesture.
As the two charged Sasuke began following their patterns, using his Sharingan to track them both. So long as they did not move too far away from each other he would be capable of keeping track of the two of them.
Gouzu was the first one to reach him, coming in with thrust of his clawed hand in the hopes of impaling the Uchiha heir. However Sasuke sidestepped the attack as if he had known he was going to do this before he even started, grabbed Gouzu's arm and kicked him in the face. Hard.
Both Sasuke and Meizu heard the other Akuma brother's neck snap. Sasuke blinked as he saw the now dead body fall to the floor.
"Brother…" Meizu muttered before turning a glare on Sasuke. "I'LL KILL YOU!"
Sasuke broke out of his shock as Meizu closed in on him, already in his face and shoving his clawed hands towards Sasuke's throat.
Sasuke's eyes widened as he acted on instinct, redirecting the hand and stabbing a kunai into Meizu's neck, killing him. Unfortunately for Sasuke, Meizu's forward momentum was not halted and the Chunin rammed into Sasuke, sending the two of them flying through the air. Sasuke hit the ground hard, his head smacking against the pavement of the bridge and knocking him unconscious as Meizu's corpse landed on top of him and pinned him to the ground.
As Haku attacked Naruto strained his eyes to see her, hoping to catch just a glimpse so he would know where the attack was coming from. He soon found her; she was nothing more than a blur that was closing in on the left. As soon as he found her, the whiskered blond made liberal use of the Shunshin to get away from her senbon attack.
He reappeared several feet away, and saw the mirrors reflecting Haku before she disappeared again. Again Naruto used Shunshin to get away just in time, and continued this over and over until his eyes began to adjust to Haku's speed. Soon he could at least make out her form enough to see the limbs moving.
Realizing that long range attacks would no longer work on the blond, Haku came in and tried to attack in close. However, this was exactly what Naruto wanted. Timing his attack he waited until Haku was right next to him and launching an attack, blocking her senbon before tossing a kunai at her. Haku was forced to swerve to the side, forcing her to slow slightly and Naruto used the extra time that granted to get in front of her and hit her.
Despite the hit and her shock Haku was able to get back into one of her ice mirrors.
"I've figured out your jutsu Haku," Naruto commented as he looked at the mirror he saw her fly into. "You're not using clones, or any kind of illusion. You're bouncing from mirror to mirror, using the high speeds it affords you to move faster than most can follow. The copies in the other mirrors are simply the light reflected off the mirror you're in. so long as I can see when you and your reflections disappear there is no way you can hit me."
It's only been five minutes since he saw it, yet he's already figured out my attack, Haku thought in slight awe and worry. However she did not let that show on her face, "That is very impressive Naruto-kun. No one has ever been able to figure out my jutsu, and even Zabuza has trouble with it."
"We don't have to fight any more you know?" Naruto said, his voice growing soft. "Please surrender, I don't want to fight you anymore."
"I can't," Haku told him in a regretful voice, telling him that she did not want to fight either. "For the sake of my precious person's dreams, I have to fight."
Haku shot out of her ice mirror, changing tactics as she went into the mirror above Naruto before shooting down at him. Naruto sidestepped the attack and tossed a kunai at Haku, cutting her across the shoulder.
Gasping in both surprise and a bit of pain, Haku retreated into one of the ice mirrors. Or at least she would have, had Naruto not appeared right in front of her with a Shunshin and smashed a chakra-enhanced fist into her face.
Unable to maintain the ice mirrors any longer, they shattered and fell apart. Haku went flying several feet back, rolling a bit before skidding to a stop on her stomach.
Naruto ran over to her, gently rolling Haku over before lifting her up and holding her to him. "You ok Haku-chan?" he asked in a worried tone.
Haku blinked a few times before looking over at Naruto, "You beat me…"
"Yeah I did, kicked your ass pretty good too," Naruto said with foxy grin. It dropped a second later, "now we don't have to fight anymore, you can't fight anymore."
"That's true; I'm nearly out of chakra from maintaining my ice mirrors," Haku replied, her entire body was sore and she could not move very well. "Naruto-kun, my purpose is now gone, Zabuza-sama has no need for a broken tool. I need you to do me a favor, and kill me."
Naruto's eyes widened until they looked like they would simply roll out of his head, "What!"
Kakashi grinned underneath his mask as Zabuza disappeared back into the mist.
"Well Kakashi, looks like Haku was right," Zabuza commented. "You rely too much on that eye of yours, and now that it's useless you're nothing."
"I wouldn't be too sure about that," Kakashi replied in a smug tone as he pulled out a scroll.
Wiping some of the blood from his now cut chest with his thumb, he unrolled the scroll and spread the blood across it. "Well Zabuza this has been fun, but let's be honest, we're both busy people and I'm sure you would like to end this as much as I do. So let's end this."
"Hmph!" Zabuza grunted, "Well that sounds interesting Kakashi. Show me what you can do!"