13 Chapter 12 (1/2)
We were running like bat out of hell through the forest. I found that there was a seriously ominous aura radiated from ahead of us. In addition to the uneasiness, it kept me being on edge. My Byakugan sprung to life as we ran. I noticed that there was a sinister murderous intent along with the presence of a chilling chakra. Vapours could be seen if we were to exhale our breath.
”Naruto, you have to help Sasuke somehow. There are two of them and I might be going to assist Kakashi-sensei depending on the situation,” I asked of him.
”You can count on me, dattebayyo!” he grinned. I continued to observe them as we ran. Sasuke was trapped in some sort of a mirror dome made of ice and Kakashi was standing in Zabuza's way.
The boy attacked Sasuke with numerous senbon from all of the direction of the ice mirrors. He was moving from one mirror to another in an instant. From my eyes, I could see that the mirrors were apart of his chakra and it was not a genjutsu. For a kid to manage to use this calibre of jutsu, it could only mean one thing, a Kekkei Genkai. Suddenly, a rain of senbon fell and a few had managed to hit Sasuke. A word I never would say in the presence of people had escaped my mouth.
”We have to hurry, Sasuke is in danger,” I gritted. Naturally, we increased our paces towards the bridge. During which, I saw Sakura stepped ahead to throw a kunai at one of the ice mirrors, the boy easily caught the kunai. Luckily, we had arrived in time for that. Naruto threw a shuriken at him which managed to knock him down and then he threw a smoke bomb at where we were going to land.
”Who?” Sakura said, puzzled. There was an awkward silence surrounding our arrival except for my sudden cough.
”Uzumaki Naruto! Has finally arrived!!” he proudly announced and my cough intensified due to my annoyance at his flamboyant way of entrance.
”Is the smoke bomb necessary?” I protested and he just grinned there, proudly. I was also noticing that it was getting harder to breathe. Perhaps the fall had broken something in my body. Well, ain't that a predicament. With me weaken, my skills will be heavily limited.
”Now that I'm here, everything will be fine! The main character of a story usually shows up late in these types of situation and instantly kicks the enemy's ass,” Naruto loudly declared. A sweat dropped along with my forehead. I straighten myself and disappeared but only to appear behind Zabuza with a crack of lightning. That creep used the moment to threw shurikens at Naruto. I couldn't react in time because of my ribs and the sore pain of my shoulder had worsened because of my Raiton Shunshin no Jutsu. We were surprised that it was deflected by senbons thrown by the hunter-nin boy.
”What's with that, aren't you guys supposed to be allies?” I asked between pants. Kakashi-sensei noticed my behaviour and he knew that something was wrong with me but he kept his mouth shut about it.
”Haku, what is this?” Zabuza demanded.
”Zabuza-san, these kids, please let me fight them my way,” the boy said.
”So his name is Haku,” I thought to myself.
”So you don't want me to interfere, Haku? You're as soft as always,” Zabuza replied. That being said, it hasn't escaped my notice that Sasuke could barely keep up with the boy's jutsu. Being inside of the attack radius was probably not a good idea. A notion that was moot because of our favourite knucklehead.
”Hey! I came to rescue you!!” Naruto whispered from beside Sasuke. Never had I slapped my head so hard in my life. Then, the matter got worse when they bickered with each other.
”Sensei, that mirrors, it's his kekkei Genkai right?” I gritted and my question was answered with a nod.
”Impressive, not bad coming from a good for nothing aristocrat. Mokuton user in Hyuuga eh, what a combo,” Zabuza suddenly said but he never turns his back to face me.
”Mokuton was the least that I can do. I'm not going to waste it on you,” I gritted.
”Talking big when you can't even breathe properly. Never take a Hyuuga for bragging before,” he chuckled. I thought ahead about each possible outcome that could happen today. Each will not be possible without some heavy damage on my bodyparts.
”What should we do, Sensei?” I asked. Kakashi-sensei's hand went to his headband.
”Sorry, but I'm going to end this instantly,” he declared and that made Zabuza laughed.
”Sharingan again? Is that the only thing you can do?” the man said. There was a moment of silence before Zabuza charged at Kakashi-sensei. I immediately withdrew Fudo Masamune and threw it onto Zabuza's back. Both of them evaded the blade in a flash and our sensei appeared not too far from me. Veins were showing around my eyes as I searched for him. I heard Zabuza laughed darkly as he appeared in front of us.
”A shinobi's supreme technique is not something that should be shown to the opponent over and over,” he said.
”You should feel honoured. You're the only person to see it twice and there won't be a third time,” Kakashi-sensei said, ”also, with Hikari being here, your chances to win are next to nothing.”
”Byakugan and Sharingan--the two ultimate dojutsu from Konoha,” Zabuza chuckled hollowly, ”even if you defeat me, you both can't win against Haku.”
I retrieved my Fudo Masamune and appeared next to Kakashi-sensei.
”This can't go on sensei! We need to beat him fast,” I said and then charged at Zabuza. Fudo Masamune clashed with his large sword. I winced yet again, the shoulder was beginning to be a huge hassle along with my ribs. Zabuza brought his hand to form the seal of confrontation and suddenly we were engulfed in a thick and dense fog.
”I've been waiting a while for the chance to use this line. 'I'll tell you this. The same jutsu won't work twice on me' wasn't it?” he asked.
”Sakura!! Protect Tazuna-san!” I heard our sensei yelled, ”Hikari, be very careful! This mist is his jutsu.”
”So the mist was his doing...” I mumbled.
To the naked eye, one could never see through the fog this thick and what was worst, the fog was laced with his chakra, naturally, I couldn't see him even with my Byakugan. I sent out a wave of chakra around me and instantly I felt shurikens flown at me.
”Hakke Sho; Kaiten!” I spun while emitting a burst of chakra. The force of it rendered the shurikens useless.
”Impressive, as I thought, long-range attacks won't work on you.” His booming voice announced. On cue, I coughed up blood and heard him chuckled. It was getting harder to breathe than before.
”Looks like somebody had punctured his lungs,” he said while he appeared behind me with his sword ready to slice me.
”This is your second mistake today. You are in the range of this jutsu,” I took my stance, ”Hakke Sho; Rokujuyon Sho.”
I attack him with the Juken but while the blow landed, I missed a couple of his chakra points due to my shoulder. Regardless, he was sent flying away as I fell on my knees.
”It hurts,” Zabuza's voice was booming again, ”though, it's too bad you missed something.”
His sword slashed my back diagonally. With that, blackness consumed my sight.
”Sorry, sensei,” I muttered and heard somebody yelled my name before I passed out completely.
”Oni-sama, open your eyes,” I heard some booming voice called. I opened my eyes and rose up. The first thing that, caught my eyes was my injuries. It wasn't there.
”Am I dead?” my voice was also booming as I said it. Then I heard a laugh from behind me. I turned around and I saw them, two young boys, one was sitting whilst floating and the other was standing proudly. Their chakra felt familiar to me but I didn't recognize them anywhere.
”Not yet, Oni-sama,” the one with the long white hair said.
”But closed enough,” the other one with a spiky red hair said and he was the floating kid. They wore my family's robe and the redhead had a third eye that looked just like me but his eyes were not Byakugan.
”That eye,” I muttered. ”Oni-sama?”
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”That's right, we are your brothers. Nice to finally meet...” The spiky red hair one couldn't finish his words because I immediately charged at him and grabbed him by his collar.
”You idiots sealed Mother, why?!” I demanded and my Rinne-Sharingan flared.
”So you really had awakened it without the fruit,” the redhead said, ”peace, Oni-sama. Calm down. We'll explain it to you.”
I let go and sat down in an instant. Surprisingly the two of them followed suit.
”This one's name is Hagoromo,” the redhead said while grinning and the other one bowed his head slightly.
”I'm Hamura, this idiot's twin,” he said, ”it is an honour to finally meet you, Oni-sama. When we were growing up, Haha-ue had always compared us to you, you know. Her most promising son, our elder brother.”
”Jealousy, Is that it?” I gritted angrily. Both of them raised their hands in defeat.
”No, we grew up with you as our inspiration. Haha-ue used to mention you a lot when we were kids,” Hagoromo said.
”Then, she slowly forgot about you. It was the Divine Tree's doing, it had changed her. You are Mother's only link to her sanity and love, the tree made her forgot you,” Hamura added.