Chapter 57

Zabuza was a very dangerous man, but what stood Infront of him was a being whom he would give a rating of 8/10 in terms of danger level.

Any one or anything that exceeded a rating of 5 was already a threat for him, and anyone who has a rating to 10 means he was already fucked up, and his chances are survival are very slim.

For Naruto to be at a rating of 8, mean he was a serious threat for him and he needs to be eliminated quickly.

' This brat is dangerous. ' Zabuza surmised, ' But it's not impossible to kill him. '

Zabuza already knew from his previous encounter that, Naruto has no real skill with swordplay. But he counters this weakness with his brute strength and insanely fast swings. Zabuza has ways to deal with enemies who uses brute strength and speed to replace their incompetence in sword play.

The one thing that could raised Naruto's rating was the demonic arms that he had.

' Those arms are not normal.' Zabuza thought, ' they could be very dangerous. '

Currently, he was carrying a huge burden on his left hand. It was a spherical prison of water and Kakashi was inside it.

'' Water clone. '' Zabuza created another water clone, this time he sent it to attack Naruto while he watched what those demonic looking arms could do.

'' I didn't get to try this last time. '' Naruto smirked, '' This time, I'll hack to death! ''

Naruto proceeded to create ten shadow clones, and they easily destroyed Zabuza's water clone.

Naruto roared as all of them charged towards Zabuza.

'' Shit ! '' Zabuza cursed, wielding his sword with his free hand, he faced the horde of blonde haired monstrosities.

He skillfully dodged two large blades aiming at his neck like scissors. With a fast swing, he cleaved through the two shadow clones, causing them to puffed into smoke.

The smoke blocked his vision, until another clone came from the smoke and thrusted its sword trying to impale him.

Zabuza was almost impaled but he manged side stepped and dodge the assault. With a kick to the back of the knee, the clone was forced in a kneeling position. Zabuza mercilessly swung his sword downwards slicing the clones in half and it puffed into smoke.

'' Die! '' another clone appeared behind him and swung its sword at him. Blocking the vicious swing, Zabuza recoiled from the sheer impact of attack.

' His swing is even stronger from the last time we fought. It must be those demonic looking arms. '

Zabuza was then confused...Naruto and his clones had disappeared from his sight. He could still felt his presence by the absurd bloodlust that was all over the place.

Everything went quiet all of sudden, Zabuza did not like this silence.

Instinctively he felt killing intent from on top, he saw Naruto descending with his sword in position to cut his left hand which Zabuza was holding Kakashi.

He immediately released Kakashi and jumped away to a safer location. His left hand was too important to be cut off.

Naruto picked up an exhausted Kakashi, and left.

' What the hell is he planning to do? ' Zabuza was confused why is Naruto running away.

He was going to chase after Naruto, but he stopped on his tracks as he felt killing intent coming from every direction.

From the mist, all the rest of the nine clone rushed towards him with their swords already ready to hack him to death.

All the blades came to him, but he used substitution jutsu, and a log appeared in his place. The clones hacked the log, slicing it into chunks.

'' Oh fuck. '' One of the clones cursed. On the logs, an explosive tag was attached.

BOOOM!

The explosion destroyed all of Naruto's clone.

'' Stubborn bastard. '' Naruto spat in annoyance.

He then brought the exhausted Kakashi to Tazuna and Sakura, '' Yo, Tazuna! '' he said as he placed Kakashi near them. '' Take care of him. ''

'' Are you going to face Zabuza by yourself? '' Kakashi asked.

'' Yup. '' said Naruto, '' So see ya later. ''

Naruto went back to the mist, and disappeared from their sight.

Kakashi was exhausted, it's been a long time since Kakashi was put into such a dangerous position and even worse he had his Sharingan activated the whole time.

He covered his Sharingan with his forehead protector, and was trying to recover his chakra back, ' I need to help Naruto. '

Meanwhile, Zabuza was in a tight spot, due to him overusing his Ninjutsu, his chakra levels were now very low, now he could only have enough chakra to maintain the thick mist.

' That blonde brat! I understand what he's trying to do now. '

Chakra was very important for a ninja, and for Zabuza without it he could not use the Silent killing technique. The mist was his domain, without it he was just a ninja with a gaint sword.

What every the situation he was going to be placed in, he was surely not going to escape with a few cuts.

'' You're finally back. '' He said as Naruto approached him. '' And here I thought you would have run away. ''

'' Why would I ? '' Naruto said, '' I have still have a score to settle with you. '' his aura then engulfed his legs and it solidified into some demonic looking legs with sharp toe nails.

'' I will enjoy cutting your body into pieces. '' said Naruto with a grin plastered on his face.

Naruto crouched down, then he lunged towards Zabuza with a terrifying speed. Zabuza performed a horizontal slash aimed at Naruto's neck.

Naruto simply disappeared, causing Zabuza to cut only air. Naruto quickly appeared behind him, thrusting his sword with a goal to impale him.

But to Naruto's surprise, Zabuza spun his body dodging his attack. Then with the momentum of his swing, he brought his sword down to Naruto's right arm where he was holding his sword.

Seeing this, Naruto let's go of his sword and barely dodged the attack. Kicking Zabuza squarely on his? chest, he was sent flying to the railing of the bridge with a thud.

'' It looks like we'll be fighting with our fist. ''

Naruto was scary, especially when he carries his large sword with him, but the sword is not the one that makes him truly scary. Before he could easily lift his sword with one hand, Naruto had trained in hand to hand combat to an and he still continues. With the hellish conditioning he had put on his body, especially his hands and legs, they became his weapons.

Zabuza on the other hand was completely fucked. He was pretty good in hand to hand combat and even Taijutsu, but he was sure that Naruto was better than him in that field. The worse part, was that his body was in pain. His hands were feeling weak due to the shockwaves caused by Naruto's sword.

And so the fight began, Zabuza was desperately trying to fight Naruto, but it was ineffective.

Naruto's body was more muscular when compared to Zabuza's, and also adding his high pain tolerance, Zabuza's attacks did not even make him flinch.

Zabuza delivered a straight punch to Naruto's face, causing his nose to bleed and bend in the wrong direction.

But Naruto chuckled at this, '' Is that all you got? ''

Naruto grabbed Zabuza's neck digging his claws on his flesh.

[ Drain touch ]

Naruto activated his skill, and began to suck what ever chakra Zabuza had left.

Zabuza desperately tried to escape from Naruto's vicious grip, but it proved ti be fruitless. The mist became thinner and thinner, proving that Zabuza's Chakra was getting low.

' Is this the way I die. ' Zabuza thought as his body slowly became limp. ' I'm sorry Haku and Mei... I wish I could see you both... one last time. '

As Naruto was sucking Zabuza's chakra, two familiar killing intent came from above.

'' Die ! '' A ninja with Zabuza's sword descend from above with the sword swing downwards aiming at Naruto's arm.

This caused Naruto to release his grip from Zabuza's neck and dodge the attack. Jumping a few feet away from them, he look at the newcomers.

'' Lord Zabuza, are you alright? '' One of them asked, as the other wrapped Zabuza's arm around his shoulder supporting him.

'' Well look who's here? weren't you two tied up on that tree ?'' Infront of him, were the demonic brothers who attack his group before they met Zabuza. After interrogating them, Kakashi tied them up to a tree, while sending one of his ninja dogs to go back to the village, and call for a team to capture the two tied up ninjas.

'' As if those ropes could bind us forever! '' The one with Zabuza's sword said.

'' Give me my sword. '' Zabuza said in a weak voice. He was visibly weakened but his drive to fight was still burning inside him.

'' No Lord Zabuza, you must not fight anymore, otherwi- '' the one who was holding his sword tried to persuade him, but was soon interrupted.

'' Shut up and give me my sword ! '' Zabuza was basically growling. '' And you! '' He called for the other brother, '' Where's Haku? ''

'' I couldn't find her in this thick mist. ''

'' Whatever. '' Zabuza shrugged it off, '' We need to finish him now. '' he said referring to Naruto.

'' I hope I'm not late. '' Kakashi said as he appeared to Naruto's side.

'' You came at the right timing Kakashi. '' Naruto said.