3 years later
4 mist ANBU were running along the treetops, trying to track down an A-rank missing-nin, Zabuza Momochi. The ANBU squad along with another squad had been hot on his heels, when suddenly, they disappeared without trace. So they had been blindly trying to pick up trail when suddenly, one of them went down with a kunai protruding from the back of his neck.
Immediately, the remaining ANBU jumped towards each other, back to back. All of them were wondering: How the hell did they sneak up on us, all of us were high level sensors!
They were broken out of their musings, when a katana came slashing down at the first ANBU, the latter, just raised a kunai and blocked it, but failed to see another katana that decapitated him. The assailant backed away and hid, with alarming speed, but the other ANBU members saw enough to make out their assailants appearance. It was a kid with violet, pupil-less eyes. With black hair that had a blue tint to it. (That's pretty much how Matari looks)
But they didn't have time to react as they heard a voice shout: "Storm release: Laser Circus!" as beams of electricity shot out towards the remaining two ANBU and annihilated them. Matari Shotai stepped out of the shadow as he spoke in to his radio: "This is Matari, I have eliminated threat 1. Will proceed to completely destroy bodies and pick up necessary equipment." As he picked up the porcelain masks, multiple kunai and shuriken, and one katana that the ANBU had left behind, before gathering the bodies, or in the two ANBU that got caught in his jutsu's case, remains before throwing a modified paper bomb which Haku had invented in the middle of all the bodies and remains before detonating it.
The resulting explosion was exactly ten times the damage left behind by an original paper bomb. In simpler terms. The explosion was big. Very big.
Matari Shotai smiled at his improvement over the years, Zabuza-sensei had trained him and Haku to the ground every day, far worse than the training he did while travelling towards Kirigakure. Haku had taken an interest on fuinjutsu while Matari had an obsession with stealth, over the span of 3 years, he had become a stealth king. When Haku and Matari sparred with Zabuza-sensei, they usually led him to the woods, since it was a 50-50 % chance that Zabuza-sensei actually caught Matari, and he was improving day by day. And after Matari learnt the hidden mist jutsu… Yes, could say that he was unstoppable.
Then, he had taken an interest on kenjutsu, which Zabuza taught him. But Matari preferred the dual Katana style, so they purposefully went in range of another ANBU tracking squad and ambushed them, while taking another sword that the ANBU held. He was currently very adequate at wielding the two weapons.
Haku, preferred senbons instead of swords, and had she used them with deadly accuracy, never missing a pressure point or vital point when throwing.
Both of them had improved vastly on ninjutsu as well. Both of them knew at least 3 jutsu of their kekei genkai. As well as around 8 jutsu for each element. Both of them learnt at the same rate. At first, Matari was at a disadvantage since his reserves were massive and required more precise chakra control. This was due to the Rokubi AKA Saiken. After Matari met the slug, he demanded that Matari call him Saiken. Anyways, after Matari learnt that he could create shadow clones en masse. He started to learn way quicker, enabling him to learn 200 times faster. Without going unconscious, because last time when Matari tried leaving 1000 clones to train for the WHOLE DAY. And guess what? He was unconscious for another day.
Speaking of Saiken, he and the slug had apparently become quite close after their meeting 1 year ago, and Matari could use its version 1 chakra cloak up to 6-tails. Matari could also perform acid scattering. Saiken also told him that Matari could use leech gap only in version 2 transformation.
There was a crackle in the radio: "This is Haku, and I have eliminated threat 2, proceeding to rendezvous point."
30 minutes later
Matari, Haku, and Zabuza were gathered at their hotel room, and were counting their money, "Good, we have almost enough money. But we may need a bit more, I'll figure it out later, but first, come with me for training."
"Yes, Zabuza-sensei." Matari and Haku chorused as they got up followed their sensei.
Once they were in the forest, Zabuza told them that they would first increase the levels of their resistance seals. Matari would increase them up to level 6, while Haku did to level 7 as her taijutsu style required more speed.
Flashback…
An 8 year old Matari and Haku were facing their sensei, Zabuza. He was introducing them to resistance seals.
"Resistance seals, Sensei?" Asked Haku in a confused tone
"Yes, Haku. Don't mistake them for weights or gravity seals. Resistance seals, as their name suggest, increases the resistance faced by the body, so the first level will be something like wading through water, the second level will be equal to you wading through oil. Then it gets harder and harder as the levels increase. The reason why I don't really like using weights or gravity seals is because they stunt growth, whilst a resistance seal does not. I will be placing them on you."
"Yes, Zabuza-sensei." The two kids chorused.
Flashback End
Zabuza trained the two ten-year olds until their feet gave away under them, and they fell to the floor, unconscious. Which meant they must have worked really hard since Matari was a jinchuriki, and they were supposed to have good stamina.
The next day, when both of them woke up, Zabuza was already eating breakfast. Motioning for both of them to eat, they both sat up and started eating a hearty breakfast consisting of rice and dried sardines.
The three ate in silence until Zabuza broke it: "Alright, we have to lie low for a while since the ANBU tracking squads have been getting really close at pinpointing our location."
"So what's the plan Zabuza-sensei?" Asked Matari as he wolfed down his food.
"I'd say we go to Kumo and not attract attention for about a years, then, a few more money gathering, and that will be enough." Planned Zabuza as he stroked his chin thoughtfully. (More like his stroking his bandages). So it was settled, they were going to Kumo. Besides, the Raikage and his brother owed him for saving their lives. He was sure that they would let them in.
How did you like the new chapter? Don't worry about the pairings, I add Yugito in the next chapter. And then MatariXHaku after that chapter. And at some point, it becomes MatariXYugito blah blah blah. Don't worry, I got it all planned out.
