A short battle

"Chakra Lava Release Mode"

Before Zabuza's water release could reach Hajime a layer of Lava begins to form quickly in his body, this Jutsu was one of those used by Roshi the ancient jinchuriki of Son, for Hajime it was easy to master this technique as it had various similarities with its strengthening magic that he had practiced for years, along with Son's guidance and his newly acquired affinity with the lava element he was able to quickly master that technique, with the few days he was with Son being able to master only this lava-style technique.

With a heavy blow facing the Jutsu of water in front, a strong burst came out of this altercation surprising people near the area including Zabuza, although he had been warned that one of the members of this group was the new Jinchuriki of the four-tailed beast, was recently sealed, not expecting that in this short time he will be able to master the jutsus.

Of course, it was like this from the beginning the beasts with tails never wanted to support their jailers from the beginning, It took a long time before they trusted their respective Jinchurikis so that they could occupy all their power, and otherwise, they would have to train for years to be able to control the wild chakra that came from them, for Hajime was different, the beasts with tails saw Hajime as his grandfather, someone they respected.

"Tch, don't think that with a little heat you can impress me"

Despite the huge explosion of steam in the area, Zabuza took advantage of it to hide, now they were in their area of specialty, could not waste this opportunity, but to their misfortune, this did not change the situation much.

With the high heat emanating from Hajime, it was difficult for Zabuza to approach for a long time.

While Zabuza was lost in his thoughts Hajime managed to approach him with a heavy blow, trying to block the attack with his sword, he was commanded to fly to a tree splitting it with its strong impact, although he had not taken the blow directly the damage caused was severe even his sword was red-hot at the place of impact.

While Zabuza was lying Hajime advanced quickly to be stopped by a small boy, apparently little Haku, throwing his needles quickly at the vital points of the human body.

Although Haku knew that his attacks were not very useful with the lava form they were in gave enough time for Zabuza to retreat.

Seeing the situation Zabuza was in only the option of withdrawal, although he had attacked Konoha's group was not his main objective, he did so with the intention of removing them from the place, he was not afraid of the battle but in his current situation he had no choice, at this time he was one of the leaders of the rebellion , if I fought to the death with this group of Konoha would have many casualties in the already low number of people who supported their causes, the casualties here would cause great damage in the fight against the fourth Mizukage and would also win Konoha as enemies, in the event that they won the battle against the fourth Mizukage would be very hurt and Konoha would take advantage of the matter to take revenge on the matter , that's why Mei Terumi had sent Zabuza to konoha's forces to give up on help, if Konoha saw that he would have several casualties in this fight they would quickly withdraw from the place as they would not have anything to gain from this battle, but if they joined the Mizukage and came to an agreement this could change.

At this time he was not a bounty hunter who could go for everything without caring, at this time he was the leader of this group and had to take into account his situation.

"Retired!"

With a loud cry from Zabuza, Kirigakure's ninjas retreat quickly, although some young men wanted to follow them were quickly stopped by their seniors, they did not know if this was their plan to lure them into their trap so they could not go around running like idiots.

The fight only lasted a few minutes so there were no casualties for both groups only had a few minor injuries.

"All the wounded must be taken care of immediately and put in the center of the group, the others will stay to watch the area we do not know if they will attack us again"

With a simple order form Hajime, the group begins to mobilize as he and the other vice-leaders discussed the situation.

"I didn't expect to be attacked so quickly and from what I saw, the group was known perfectly, when the members barely decided yesterday"

It was not curious that they knew the majority who were part of the group, but as they knew that Hajime was the one who ran the operation, this was decided by the council of elders and as soon as Hajime knew of this election in the morning, no one would think that he as a mercenary was willing as the leader of an important mission and leading such a large group of Konoha without any problems , if this were to be carried out in other villages, the different clans would be against them, their pride would not allow it, but this situation was special, Hajime knew Shinku by Kurenai, knew Inochi for having saved Ino, had a good relationship with the ninjas for having helped enormously in the previous war with Iwa, with Mitsugiri had no problem , since he arrived along with Kushina and began to spread the rumours against Danzo the reputation had greatly improved for the Uchiha, although for some not much thought by several elders knew that it was thanks to their appearance of the two that they could now leave their homes proud without people criticizing them and there were even people who apologised with them.

"I don't want to think about it, but we may have a high-grade traitor in the village"

"You'd better stop thinking about that, it wouldn't do us any good right now."

While they were arguing Hajime had his thoughts.

"We do not know who to trust today if the Mizukage or the rebels, we must think that all Kirigakure is our enemy today, all ninjas who specialize in taijutsu or kenjutsu will be on the perimeter of the group, those of the middle part will have to be prepared to launch jutsus of great magnitude to claim the enemy we will not know if when we are surrounded by the ninjas of the Mizukage we will be attacked since you won't have to worry about friendly fire you will be able to get strong jutsus the most important thing is to keep a distance from the enemy, the perceptive ninjas will be in the center to monitor the situation, we will stay together all the time, do not think to send ninjas to look for information of the place, at this moment Kirigakure is in a war between themselves, they distrust any suspicious person, I don't want us to lose people from the little one we have"

"All right, we'll follow your orders."

As the vice-leaders retreated Hajime slowly approaches Kurenai to speak.

"Kurenai I need you to do me a favor"