Chapter 19: The Devil's Edge
The mist hung thick around the battlefield, but all eyes were looking Naruto. His aura radiated like an expert ninja with confidence to others.
'What is this feeling…?' Zabuza thought, narrowing his eyes. 'A mere genin shouldn't have this kind of presence.'
Naruto tightened his grip on his sword, his movements smooth yet deliberate as he began to swing it. Each movement was precise, slicing the air with a sharp sound. his stance mimicked that of a sword GOD.
After a final swinging of his sword, he placed the sword in the midair aiming at zabuza.
"Mr. Zabuza," he began, his voice calm but laced with excitement. "This is my first battle against a strong opponent like you 'in this world' . NOW LET'S MAKE IT A LIKE A LIFE OR DEATH BATTLE... with swords."
Zabuza with his deep voice in the mist. "Hah! You've got guts, brat. Fine, I'll gladly grant your wish... by killing you."
Naruto grinned wider, his tone shifting to mockery. "An elite ninja like you, using all your strength to take down a genin like me? This'll be an epic tale for ages! 'Zabuza Momochi struggling while fighting against a kid.' I can already hear the stories."
Zabuza's smirk twisted into a scowl as his killing aura . "You'll regret those words, brat!" he growled, charging forward loosing his initial control over the field.
Naruto smirks and takes a deep breath, drawing upon the demonic qi within him and the demonic chakra of Kurama mixed with it, making his hands in an orange-red glow.
Using demonic steps he moved forward.
Zabuza swung his Executioner's Blade in a wide arc, aiming to chop naruto head. But Naruto, with a movement of his wrist, blocked the massive blade with his own. Sparks flew as sword clashed. Naruto slightly tilts the sword and he uses the movement of the long sword of the opponents by ducking himself, Naruto gets behind Zabuza's clone with a swift roll and slashes his head cleanly.
The clone dissolved into water replacing himself with water, and real zabuza clone from the water jumps to the ground and says looking at naruto says "you got good moves, kid."
Now Zabuza launches forward with his blade with intent to overwhelm Naruto and break his initial confidence.
In This time gap, Naruto formed a shadow clone, and sended it through underground towards Sasuke and Sakura.
Naruto grinned, already anticipating this type of attack from zabuza. Naruto resumed his duel with Zabuza. This time, Zabuza's swings were faster and more calculated, aiming for lethal precision. Zabuza swings are directlty coming to slice naruto into half, as one come close to Naruto's head, naruto forced his to qi into his palm.
"Demonic Palm!" Naruto shouted, pushing his hand forward. The force of the technique deflected Zabuza's blade, creating a gap between them.
The effectiveness of demonic palm is less but it still used as a defense and a gap formed between them.
Using the opening, Naruto jumped high into the air, gathering qi into his sword. "This ends here!" he roared, launching toward Zabuza with immense force.
Meanwhile, Naruto's clone emerged near Sasuke and Sakura. "I don't have much chakra left," it said, its voice urgent. "If you don't want to die, listen up."
The naruto clone turning to Sakura. "You'll place a Sasuke clone here ". looking toward Sasuke says "I need you to do one attack to the real zabuza....."
Sasuke frowned but nodded, his Sharingan eyes glowed.
.....Ongoing Battle
As naruto landed above zabuza .(Naruto is still floating in the mid air) He forced his sword with strong force. Again both swords clashed Zabuza struggled himself, bending his legs as cracks formed in the ground beneath him. The sheer pressure of Naruto's sword to zabuza's sword sent waves through the mist. Visible cracks appeared under zabuza clone's feet. For a moment, Zabuza's eyes widened as he caught a glimpse of Naruto's face, it's a twisted, crazed expression, blood draping from his hand, and in that pain he still has that expression.
This… this kid, Zabuza thought, a chill running down his spine. How can someone like this come from a non cruel village like Konoha?
Struggling against the pressure, Zabuza muttered, "You're no brat… YOU'RE A DEVIL!"
Naruto's laughs hearing it. "HAHAHAHAHA!"
With a final burst of force, the Zabuza clone shattered into water.
Naruto landed, panting slightly as the mist parted. The real Zabuza stood, his chest rising and falling heavily as clones used his energy and it's exhausted almost half.
Kakashi inside the prison thinks 'I don't know naruto is this good at fighting and this prison seems to be weakened, just a little push i will release myself. once i am released I will kill you! ZABUZA !'
'Naruto looks so cool while fighting him' Sakura thoughts to herself.
Sakura has red cheeks seeing naruto fight like that. she don't know what she's thinking, true or false, real or fake, but she's admiring him very much.
Tazuna Jaw dropped again seeing the fight.
Sauske who is behind zabuza hiding himself frowned as he unlike naruto frightened seeing Zabuza, but he is ready to make his attack as prescribed by naruto.
"You've got some decent moves," Zabuza admitted, his voice respectful. "But this ends now! you all gonna end up dead now"
Saying that Zabuza tried to do something, but got interrupted by a shuriken thrown by sauske.
Zabuza defended himself and let go of kakashi.
Freed from the water prison, Kakashi straightened, his expression now deadly serious. "Good work, Sasuke," he said, stepping forward. "I'll take it from here."
Zabuza, now visibly exhausted from his fight with Naruto, was on the defensive. Kakashi's relentless attacks pushed him back, the Sharingan reading zabuza's every move.
They both clashed with kunai's and a hand to hand combat. Zabuza is deeply exhuasted with the final punch to the stomach, he sent Zabuza flying towards a tree. Zabuza hitted tree hardly which make him there motionless, breathing heavily, unable to move.
"You're finished," Kakashi said, forming hand seals for a lethal jutsu.
But before he could strike, three senbon needles moved through the air, pierced themselves into Zabuza's neck. His body went limp, his eyes dulling as he collapsed to the ground.
Kakashi checked his heartbeat and said, " He is dead!"
Sakura and Tazuna feels relieved hearing it.
But Naruto feels the similarity of the scene that he has seen many times in his past life.
Above the tree there is a masked person standing, says " thankyou for weakening him, I killed with less effort".
Kakashi gaze narrowed the masked person
" You must be a tracker ninja"
The masked person says"yes I am and I have been hunting for Zabuza for a long time."
With that saying it takes the body of Zabuza and left the place.
After they both left, Naruto and Kakashi both fells to the ground.
(....to be continued)
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