章節 70: Chapter 068
She screamed loudly again upon feeling the weight of the tree as it landed down on her legs, adding more to her injuries and immobilizing her. Needless to say, Ryota was in serious pain not just physically, but also from a severely wounded pride.
'You used Kakashi's absurd jutsu to help bring about her defeat,' Minato noted, 'It was effective I must admit.'
I use what I can, Naruto retorted while he started the process of healing himself.
(Several Minutes Earlier; Elsewhere In The Meantime)
Sasuke tried to see when Haku threw the needles, but the mist nin moved too fast. All Sasuke could see was a blur in front of the mirrors and he felt a new cut. Sasuke started to get desperate as he tried to evade and block the needles with his kunai.
"Sumi Bushin (Ink Clone)," Sai said, creating another clone made out of ink. The ink clone stood in front of the boys before charging at Haku, or what they believe to be her. Amidst the chaos and mist surrounding the dome and the bridge, a kunai came flying into the dome from an opening that was made from Sai's animal painting's earlier attacks and landed down into the ground. Everyone was to busy fighting to notice the kunai that was thrown into the dome.
"That should do it," said the Naruto clone hidden inside the mist outside the dome. After seeing how Sai and Sasuke were fairing which was not in their favor, the clone puffed out of existence.
(Back In The Forest)
Naruto had finished healing all of his injuries though parts of his clothes were torn and still stained with his blood and dirt. In spite of this, he was feeling much better, which was more than what could be said of the Iwa Jounin. Going over to her, Naruto stood in front of her and speedily performed a complex series of hand seals.
Irou Jutsu (Medical Technique), Naruto thought as his hands started glowing with waves of blue chakra. Ryota looked up at the blonde who was now standing in front of her with his glowing hands. Before he could do anything to the girl, Naruto was infused with the memory and experience of his now dispelled clone. After a couple of moments, Naruto dispersed the chakra from his hands.
"I'll deal with you later," Naruto said to Ryota before he shunshin'd away from her. The Iwa Jounin was beyond mad, she was pissed off. She, Ryota, the Shining Stone of Iwagakure No Sato, suffered a disgraceful and humiliating defeat at the hands of the boy who she proclaimed to be nothing more than a fresh out of the academy Genin, who left her where she was with the broken down tree lodged down on her legs as though she was yesterday's trash. Turning to the direction to see the 'Naruto' she thought she struck down earlier some distance from her turned out to be a wooden log he used in substitution for himself. The Iwa Jounin then remembered the words of her kage…
"The boy may be a Genin…But I trust that you won't underestimate him. There have been several rumors about this particular Genin; though I do question their authenticity."
Though she saw truth in her Tsuchikage's words however, Ryota was in complete denial. She refused to admit to herself that her underestimation of Naruto led her to her own downfall. Her pride wouldn't let her admit the truth to herself.
"Naruto," Ryota said angrily while futilely trying to fight back the tears falling down her face with her hands balled tightly into fists, "I'll make you pay dearly for my humiliation!"
(Inside The Ice Dome)
More senbon needles came flying at the clones before taking them down like the others. Sai sustained a series of cuts and needle stabs on his body and was worn down from running low on chakra after producing too many animal paintings to battle against Haku. Sasuke however wasn't fairing to well any better, in fact in he was in worse shape. He was lying motionless on the ground and covered all over from head to toe in senbon needles and heavily bleeding from his injuries.
"Sorry, but I can't allow you two to escape this," Haku said and prepared to launch more needles. But before she could, shurikens came flying towards her. The shurikens pierced the mask of all the mirror images, including the real Haku. Sai and Sasuke blinked as Naruto appeared beside them from seemingly out of nowhere. From what they were seeing, Naruto evidently ran into some trouble of his own since some parts of his clothes were stained with his blood and dirt and torn in some places. Seeing no injuries on him though, they figured that he must have healed himself before arriving.
The masked girl landed on her feet on the ground in front of one of the mirrors, and all the images were gone. The only injury the shuriken had given her was a small cut in the forehead, her mask saving her life. Naruto knelt down picked up his seal marked kunai his clone threw into the dome earlier and placed it back into it's compartment in his pants before he pulled Sasuke's body into his lap.
"Sasuke," Naruto said, "Hold on, you're not dying today!"
"N—Naruto," Sasuke said weakly opened his eyes, blinking away the pain and weariness he felt. Naruto was shocked to see that instead of the usual black, Sasuke's eyes were red with one comma in his eyes.
So he's already awoken his Sharingan, Naruto thought.
"Naruto…she's strong…," Sasuke gasped, coughing up blood.
"Save your strength…just rest for now. I'll handle this from here," Naruto said while maintain his calmness in spite of the situation. He pulled out the needles from both Sasuke and Sai, and tossed them away. Going through some hand seals, he gathered his chakra and held his hands over Sasuke. Before Naruto could do anything else for Sasuke, the Uchiha's entire body went limp.
"Sasuke," Naruto asked, concerned, "Sasuke! Wake up!"
"He's dead," said the masked ninja, who had been watching them quietly the entire time.
"He's not dead," Naruto countered after checking and finding Sasuke's pulse much to his relief, "He only lost consciousness."
"You question my abilities," she sneered.
"I question your motives," Naruto replied as he turn looked up to glare at her.
"What are you implying," Haku shot back.
"I'm implying that you had every opportunity to kill my two friends but you didn't," Naruto elaborated, "Clearly Sasuke and Sai were outmatched by you and you could have easily finished them off long before I arrived here but you didn't. None of your senbon needles struck a vital organ or blood vessel. That's because it's not in you to kill anyone. Am I right…Haku?"
The girl had panicked expression under her partly broken mask.
"There's no point in trying to lie to me. You're both the girl from the forest and that fake hunter nin," Naruto said calmly as Haku looked up with part of her mask falling to pieces, "You're Haku."
She quietly nodded admitting the truth as she removed her broken mask from off her face and dropped it on the floor....
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