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"Thank you so much!" Tazner exclaimed, both surprised and delighted, nodding and bowing repeatedly. "Thank you so much!"
"No need to be polite." Kakashi waved his hand, then glanced at the two assassins tied up like dumplings on the ground without making a sound. "But we can't hide mission information anymore. If it weren't for Sasuke's alertness, we wouldn't have had it so easy this time. Please tell us the truth about how many enemies there are and their strength so that we can make thorough preparations."
"Okay, okay, I understand! I will answer all your questions!" Tazna nodded repeatedly, agreeing.
After a brief commotion, Team 7 regrouped and escorted Tazuna on his way to the Land of Waves.
After this battle, everyone became more cautious about the journey ahead.
In contrast, Naruto and Sasuke did not show much tension on their faces; instead, they exuded excitement and fighting spirit.
One of them mastered the Sharingan's eye techniques, and his strength increased dramatically.
One of them had learned his father's secret technique, the Rasengan, and was eager to try it out.
The two boys were full of high spirits and their self-confidence was inflated to an extreme.
Kakashi walked behind the two, and seeing that they showed no fear and even seemed to have a hint of expectation, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly.
He lowered his head and turned the pages of the book again, thinking to himself.
Sasuke wasn't the only one who learned how to control the Sharingan's power from that dream...
Kakashi touched his left eye beneath the forehead shield, a look of confidence and certainty flashing in his eyes.
Throughout the journey, Naruto continued to look around from time to time.
He was burning with determination, wanting to prove to Sasuke that he was no less capable than him.
Therefore, whenever there is the slightest disturbance around him, Naruto immediately tenses up and becomes vigilant as if facing a formidable enemy.
On several occasions, it was just the rustling of small animals in the forest or the rustling of leaves in the wind, but Naruto would suddenly throw a shuriken, startling everyone.
"Hey! Don't make such a fuss." Sakura was annoyed by Naruto's nervous reaction and complained, patting her chest.
After several such incidents, the team's progress was severely hampered, and they had to stop and check every few steps.
Sasuke finally couldn't stand it anymore, frowned, and whispered to Naruto, "That's enough, Naruto!"
However, Naruto was still unwilling to give up and stared wide-eyed around, afraid of missing any movement.
"Ouch! Be quiet!" Sakura, unable to bear it any longer, gave Naruto a hard flick on the head.
With a muffled thud, Naruto clutched his head and crouched down, wincing in pain: "Ouch! Ouch! Sakura, why do you keep hitting me?!"
Sakura, hands on her hips, glared at him angrily: "Look at yourself! How much time have you wasted? From just now until now, there hasn't been a single enemy! Are we supposed to keep moving?!"
Naruto shrank back in disapproval, not daring to argue back. He could only stand up sheepishly, rubbing his head and muttering, "Strange, how did the enemies disappear all of a sudden... I should have left one for me to deal with earlier."
Just as Naruto was feeling dejected and talking to himself, something unexpected happened!
A sharp, whistling sound came from the depths of the distant forest, buzzing as it approached.
Kakashi's pupils contracted, and he abruptly looked up, shouting, "Watch out!"
The next second, a giant blade whistled and spun as it flew towards them with terrifying force!
"That's—!" Kakashi recognized the sword at a glance, and his face immediately darkened.
However, before he could warn them, the blade was already right in front of him!
Naruto felt a strong gust of wind beside his ears, and instinctively jolted, rolling away on the spot without thinking!
call--
The massive blade flew past his scalp, narrowly severing several strands of his golden hair, before finally embedding itself deeply into the trunk of a thick tree by the roadside behind him with a loud thud!
The powerful force shook the tree trunk, causing leaves to fall in a flurry.
"so close……"
Naruto broke out in a cold sweat. But when he looked up, still shaken, he discovered that a person was standing steadily on the back of the massive blade!
The newcomer was tall and wore a gray-black sleeveless vest. His face was wrapped in bandages, revealing only a pair of sinister eyes.
The man looked down at Naruto and the others, a cold smile playing on his lips: "Hmph, brats, scared out of your wits?"
"A mere genin dares to escort an old man building a bridge?"
At this point, his gaze suddenly swept across the crowd and landed on Kakashi, who stood solemnly at the very back of the group.
Zabuza was taken aback at first, then chuckled softly: "Oh? I didn't expect Konoha to be so clever, actually sending the Copy Ninja Kakashi along for protection."
"No wonder the Demon Brothers failed, but well—you're unlucky to have run into me, Zabuza, today!"
A strong wind blew, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense!
Sakura and Tazuna looked terrified and instinctively moved closer to Kakashi.
Naruto had just gotten up from the ground when he saw the powerful enemy who had suddenly appeared in front of him. Instead of being afraid, he felt excited.
I've finally met a worthy opponent! This time, I absolutely cannot let Sasuke get there first!
Naruto's fighting spirit surged instantly.
He simply extended his right hand, and chakra began to gather wildly.
Zabuza's arrogant voice rang out: "Hand over that old man obediently, so that..."
Before Zabuza could finish speaking, he caught a glimpse of a strange red light out of the corner of his eye!
The black-haired boy standing in the center of the line below had raised his head at some point, revealing a pair of blood-red pupils.
The two tomoe in those eyes spun wildly, and the moment their gazes met, Zabuza's heart skipped a beat: Sharingan?!
He was terrified and, without thinking, tried to close his eyes and back away.
But it was too late—
Zabuza felt the scene before him suddenly change, and the world was instantly replaced by a crimson expanse!
His figure was uncontrollably pulled into a strange, blood-red space!
"This is—an illusion space?!"
Zabuza sensed something was wrong and was about to forcefully break free when he suddenly felt a tightness all over his body.
Looking down, he saw several thick black nail pillars appear out of thin air, piercing his limbs and torso, pinning him to the spot!
In reality, Zabuza's tall figure stopped moving as if in a daze.
Sasuke stared intently at the enemy, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
It turned out that he had judged Zabuza to be far superior to the previous fodder the moment he appeared.
The chilling killing intent emanating from the opponent was something that no ordinary ninja could possess.
Sasuke was not careless at all and immediately used the strongest genjutsu he learned from Itachi: the Illusionary Genjutsu: Shackles Technique!
This advanced eye technique can instantly drag the enemy's mind into an illusion, using illusionary pillars to firmly bind their actions.
However, Sasuke clearly underestimated the strength of the rogue ninja from Kirigakure before him.
Zabuza was, after all, a well-established S-rank rogue ninja with rich experience and unwavering will.
In just a few seconds, his chakra surged, and he began to break free from the shackles of the genjutsu little by little!
Sasuke gritted his teeth and exerted all his strength to activate the Sharingan's power, feeling his chakra being consumed at an alarming rate.
In less than five seconds, he had lost nearly half of his chakra!
Cold sweat poured down my forehead, and my vision blurred and I felt dizzy.
"Damn it... I was too arrogant!"
Sasuke cursed inwardly, realizing just how much chakra it would take to completely control such a powerful opponent.
I'm afraid I can't hold on for long!
Just then, Naruto shouted angrily, "Sass, you bastard! I spotted this enemy first!"
Sasuke was taken aback, and forced himself to look to the side, only to see that Naruto had somehow already circled around to the base of the big tree where Zabuza was!
Naruto, his face full of fighting spirit, leaped high into the air and charged toward Zabuza, who remained motionless. In his right palm, he held a rapidly spinning blue chakra ball, its dazzling light blinding and brilliant.
"Rasengan!!"
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"Take the kidneys and liver!!"
With a roar, Naruto slammed the chakra ball in his hand into Zabuza's abdomen!
"boom--"
The blue chakra ball suddenly erupted with terrifying energy, and the violent airflow stirred up dust and flying rocks from the ground. The leaves around were instantly thrown into the air, and even the tree trunks creaked under the weight.
At the center of the violent power, Zabuza was instantly blasted away by that enormous force!
Everyone watched helplessly as his body disappeared into the depths of the forest like a kite with a broken string, no one knowing how far he had been blown away.
Silence, deathly silence.
Kakashi silently lowered his right hand, which was half-raised above his forehead.
He had been preparing to remove his headband and join the battle, but couldn't help but chuckle softly.
It seems there's no need for him, the teacher, to intervene at all.
On the other side, Naruto landed in the same fighting stance, staring blankly at the chakra remnants gradually dissipating in his palm, his mind a complete blank.
Is this the power of the Rasengan...?
The devastating blow he just delivered even made the caster feel a little frightened.
Several seconds later, Naruto suddenly came to his senses.
He looked down at his hands, then looked up in the direction where Zabuza had disappeared, and then burst into excited laughter: "I did it! I did it!!"
An unprecedented surge of joy welled up inside Naruto, and he couldn't help but jump up.
He excitedly spun around on the ground, then suddenly darted in front of Sasuke, hands on his hips, chin raised, and laughed triumphantly: "See that? Sasuke! This is my ultimate technique! It's much more powerful than your Sharingan, hahaha!"
Sasuke, having already dispelled the genjutsu, leaned against a tree trunk, panting heavily.
He glanced at the smug Naruto, intending to make a sarcastic remark, but before he could utter a word, a wave of dizziness suddenly struck him!
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