Naruto put the blade in his left hand in a reverse grip blocking the strike. He then spun around while somehow managing to keep the blade in the same position and delivered a swift sweep kick.
Zabuza grunted as he his back hit the floor, He placed both hands on the ground over his shoulders and lifted himself up, spreading his legs and spinning with a split kick.
Naruto, as a result, received a kick square to his lower jaw sending him stumbling back.
Zabuza righted himself and charged at Naruto, picking up his sword mid run and swinging it in an attempt to cleave the blonds head off. Naruto, by reflex leaned back just as Zabuza's blade swung across, extremely close, so close in fact that Naruto could feel and hear, the very tip of Zabuza's blade scrape against his facemask.
As soon as the blade passed Naruto sprang forward leaping high and delivering a solid knee right between Zabuza's eyes sending the man reeling.
He raised both blades as he passed over and brought them down to stab the man in the chest when a mirror of Ice appeared between his blades and Zabuza, the two scimitars pierced the Ice mirror, making various cracks appear all across it. Naruto pulled out both blades and leapt back.
Haku's form appeared in the cracked mirror that was already repairing itself. "I will not let you harm Zabuza-sama." He stated.
"Ahh, the dog, comes to defend the master yet again." Naruto spoke blandly as he turned to Zabuza. "You would have this one fight all of your battles Zabuza?" He snorted. "You are no demon. Just another weak Shinobi that hides behind a shield."
Zabuza glared at Naruto as he picked himself up. "Haku, stay out of this." Zabuza said snarled as his eyes burnt with anger.
Haku looked hesitant for a moment before he nodded and both he and the mirror vanished in a swirl of water.
Naruto would have smirked, so predictable. Taking on one, was easy enough, taking on both…not so easy.
Zabuza stood and charged at Naruto again, aiming his strike to the blonds legs Naruto, jumped up, as the blade passed beneath him, he kicked it down hard, making it hit the stone floor of the bridge with a screech of metal against rock.
When he landed he immediately delivered a quick kick to Zabuza's face, he remained on one leg as he bent his leg back and delivered another to his ribs, followed by one more to his face and then a roundhouse kick with his other leg which sent Zabuza face down to the cold hard floor.
Naruto rushed forward but Zabuza regained his bearings in time to deliver a mule kick to the blonds chest, using him as a platform to roll forward and get back to his feet.
Naruto grunted as he wiped his chest free of some imaginary dust.
Zabuza's brow was marred in sweat and he suddenly felt drained. 'What is this, what the hell is going on? What's wrong with me."
"Hn." Came Naruto's hollow voice. "I see it is already taking effect."
"What is?" Zabuza growled out.
"You see Zabuza, there is a small detail of the hidden mist technique that not many really know about." The blond stated, in a flat tone, not even hinting at any emotion. "When the mist is created, there is always a minute amount of chakra that remains in each droplet in order to keep it in place after just a few moments the chakra is dissolved into nothing which means it must constantly be replaced by more chakra, however the chakra is so minute you hardly really notice it. You, have used this Jutsu so much that it is practically a subconscious exercise."
A slight pause. "Therefore, you have not noticed that my own partner has been draining the chakra from your hidden mist in preparation for her own attack. Judging from how you look I would say she has roughly 1/3 of your chakra, add to that the chakra you spent fighting Kakashi which would be about another 1/3 and finally the fact that you have been keeping this thick mist up for so long that would be another 1/3. Meaning that you have nothing left."
"Bullshit! No one can see and manipulate chakra to such an extent." Zabuza said, his voice coming out with more conviction than what he truly felt as he felt even weaker and weaker with each passing second
'Ahhhh, but this person has a bloodline, specifically designed to see chakra."
Naruto turned his head "Hinata!" He called and in seconds the mist seemed to swirl about and condense, roughly twenty to thirty feet away was the Hyuuga heiress to their right.
The mist condensed, finishing her hand seals Hinata yelled out. "Suiton: Daibakufu no jutsu!" She poured all of her chakra into that technique, adding to that what she had stolen from Zabuza already.
The girl was so close to him he didn't have enough time to dodge he raised Kubikiri to act as a shield but in doing so, left his side wide open.
Before Hinata's attack hit him an ice mirror appeared between the pillar of water and the demon of the hidden mist.
The pressure of the attack cracked the mirror but did not break through it. Naruto frowned in distaste and was about to move forward and finish Zabuza himself when movement caught the corner of his eye. He looked and found the Hunter nin approaching Hinata, ready to kill her.
Naruto shot forward, leaving Zabuza and appeared between Hinata and Haku, he charged wind chakra in his right hand and compressed it, forming it into a tight ball or grenade of chakra. "Fuuton: Shoha!" The ball of tightly compressed air exploded in Haku's face sending him flying back like a rocket, skidding across the floor, leaving a trail of dust in his wake.
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