"Naruto" Normal speech
'Naruto' Normal thought
'Shannaro' Inner Sakura's speech
"Rasengan" Jutsu/Seal

On the bridge

Sasuke was trapped in Haku's deadly jutsu, which is Haku's kekkei genkai. Haku basically is holding him in tight rope right now.

Kakashi and Sakura were worried about him, but they couldn't move because one wrong move and Zabuza may kill Tazuna. Well technically Kakashi thought that. Sakura is waiting for her chances to free Sasuke from that deadly ice dome.

"Just stand there and watch the battle of our students, Kakashi" said Zabuza in amusement and crossing his hands.

Kakashi glared daggers at Zabuza, but he need to protect both Sakura and Tazuna. He couldn't act carelessly.

'I've training hard with Naruto-kun as well. I refused to be a dead weigh for my team' Sakura thought determinedly and began to charge forward with her fist cocking forward. Chakra was infused to her fist.

Zabuza decided just ignored her, because he thought that she is useless either way. Even Haku didn't react to her action. But imagine their surprised and shocking face, when Sakura managed to shatter one of the mirrors.

The face of everyone on the bridge was utterly shock. They were just speechless.

'Oh my god! S-she shattered it with her punch! What the heckle you done to Sakura, Naruto!' Kakashi thought with his eyes widened in disbelief.

"T-that little girl hide that strength entire time? Did that mean that she pretend the first time we met?". Zabuza then narrowed his eyes and shook his head. "...No. This must be the result of her training with that crazy gaki. Just in two weeks. Two short weeks, and he transformed the girl into this female Hercules"

'Even though my mirrors are not as tough like from inside. They were still very hard. And yet this girl managed to pulverize it with one fist' Haku thought impress at Sakura's strength.

Up in the trees, Naruto seeing how Sakura pulverize the mirror and smiled lightly. "Good job, Sakura-chan. You proved them all wrong. You are not a helpless girl anymore, but a true kunoichi that can stand in one line with us". Naruto was extremely proud of Sakura. Then he put his cold gaze at Sasuke and thought. 'Sakura-chan has showed her result of the training. Now show me your evolution, Sasuke. Show me your Sharingan'

With Sasuke

Sasuke's eyes was widen and his mouth was opened in shock.

'Did Sakura just shatter the ice mirror with one punch? The same Sakura, that he always thought she was useless?'

But Sasuke quickly snapped out of to reality and was about to use this chance that Sakura created for him to escaped this deadly ice hell.

Haku also snapped out from her trance and quickly knocked Sakura out with a senbon to her neck. She has put Sakura to the temporary death state like with Zabuza. After that she quickly reforms a mirror and moved right in front of Sasuke, to assault him with senbons.

"Grahh!" shouted Sasuke holding his right shoulder, as it was pinned by senbons. He looked up painfully and glared at Haku.

"I must say that was unexpected. I never thought that pinkette will manage to destroy my mirror. She even exposed the weakness of my jutsu. I am very impressed" said Haku as she is reflecting herself on all the mirrors. "But it's over now. You don't have any hope now. Please, just surrender"

"Like hell I will!" Sasuke shot back while gritting his teeth. He then glance at the mirror and begin to deduct. 'These were made from ice. That means fire could melt ice'

With that in thought Sasuke began to fold hand signs, while Haku didn't even took action.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu"

A large fireball was sent straight at the mirror that was opposite of Sasuke. The steam was raised up and Sasuke wait for the result. But as expect, the mirror was completely unscathed. Sasuke cursed silently.

"Do you really think the jutsu of that level will manage to melt my ice mirror?" Haku asked coldly. "Surrender or you will die. This is the last warning"

Sasuke began to sweat nervously. It seems the fake hunternin's patience is at his limit. 'Kuso, what can I do? How can I escape this ice dome? Sharingan is my only hope, but how. How will I awaken it?'

And then a rain of senbons began to rain down at Sasuke.

With Kakashi and Zabuza

Kakashi looked at the knocked out figure of Sakura and cursed himself. Zabuza also glanced at the girl and comment.

"That was really shocking, Kakashi. To think that little girl has that much strength. Did you actually plan all that? To distract me from her so that she will save that brat"

Zabuza turned back to Kakashi and continued. "But base on your shocked face you didn't know that she possessed that ability as well, huh?"

He turned to the ice dome and said. "But that brat life is over now. No one has ever escaped that jutsu ever. When Haku uses this jutsu, he even stronger than me. So that brat has no hope in defeating him"

"What kind of jutsu is that?" demand Kakashi with narrowed eyes.

"That jutsu is something that even with your Sharingan you won't able to copy" Zabuza smirked widely under his bandages.

"Don't tell me that jutsu is a kekkei genkai?!" Kakashi deduced with widen eyes in surprise.

"Bingo! Must I give you a cookie for guessing right?" joked Zabuza and began to cackle

'Kuso! I can't help Sasuke while protecting Tazuna-san at the same time. Not to mention Sakura, if I made a wrong move Zabuza might take action against her as well. Where the hell is Naruto when we need him the most?!' Kakashi thought helplessly.

He didn't know that Naruto has been standing on a tree branch not far from them and observe the battle for a while now.

In ice dome

Sasuke right now resembles a pincushion. He was pinned by senbons nearly his entire body. He is dead tired right now. Not only the attacks were much more mercilessly, they were also much faster. Haku is serious now.

"Last chance. Surrender or die a painful death" Haku said coldly.

Sasuke is on his knees, slowly shakily stood up and looked up at his foe with determined eyes. "No. I... can't die here! Not... before I can fight equally with those two!"

"Then disappear!"

A rain of senbons rained down at the helpless Sasuke once again. But something unexpected happened to Sasuke. Somehow he could saw the senbons moved and they were really slowpy, like in slow motion. And his body receive a respectable amount of chakra out of nowhere. Sasuke dodged the senbons very easily, which shocked Haku greatly. Even Sasuke himself was shocked that just not long ago he couldn't see jack shit and was pinned like a pincushion. Now he could see everything very clearly and even felt refresh more than ever.

Haku snapped out of the shock and looked at Sasuke's eyes. They are different now, no longer they are a pair of abyss. They were red with 1 tomoe in left eye and 2 on the right.

"Your eyes... They've changed" Haku pointed out looking at Uchiha's eyes. She moved away so that Sasuke could see his reflection.

When Sasuke looked at his reflection he was surprised to see a pair of Sharingan in his eyes. But his Sharingan is little different from the normal Sharingan. For example, in the centre of the pupil there was a kanji of 'sei' and there was trigrams surrounding his pupil around his tomoe.

'This... is my Sharingan. But... why it looked different from what I saw before?' Sasuke thought to himself while looking at his reflection.

With Naruto

When Naruto saw Sakura was knocked out his fingers began to twitch unconsciously. But he calm down and continued to observe the battle. Then he saw Sasuke was about to be finish by Haku. All his instinct was told him to rush there and save Sasuke. But he also suppresses that feeling and watches the outcome with cold expression. He wasn't disappointed when Sasuke managed to unlock his Sharingan a second before he die. But Sasuke's Sharingan was different from other Uchiha.

"A brand new Sharingan? I've never seen something like that before. Even through the seal I implied on Itachi, I didn't have knowledge of such eyes. It's clearly not Mangekyou Sharingan like Itachi's. So what is it? How interesting. I know you will be able to surprise me, Sasuke. But this is really interesting" Naruto deduced looking down at the ice dome. Then he noticed how easily Sasuke managed to dodge Haku's rain of senbons, which are still very fast to human eyes. "And based on his movements, he clearly sees them perfectly. How interesting!". Naruto has a huge smile with excited eyes

In ice dome

Haku decided to use her special attack by jumping from mirror to mirror to assault Sasuke. But Sasuke could see every movement of her very clearly. He skillfully avoid her strikes.

'I can see it! Her movements, I can see them clearly like on a screen. I don't know what happened to me, but I can win. With my Sharingan, I can win this fight' Sasuke dodged another strike with a smirk. His new Sharingan is blazing in his sockets

'How? Just moments ago, he couldn't even predict where my attacks will be. Now he can predict and avoid my attacks like he can see them'. Haku looked at Sasuke's pair of Sharingan and thought. 'Must be the reason are those unusual eyes. They are not like Kakashi-san's'

'I don't have much chakra to maintain this jutsu anymore. I need to finish this fight quick' Haku thought in alarm. But she was not the only one.

'Kuso! I feel myself weaker which each minutes. Must be the side effects of not mastering my eyes. If so I need to finish this fight with the next move' Sasuke fell to his knees and panting heavily. The sweat is running down his forehead. He looked up at his foe with the last of his determination in his eyes. 'I don't have a choice now. Even if it will take all my chakra to use that jutsu. I must do it. it will be the first time I will execute an S-rank ninjutsu. Especially if that is a jutsu developed by those two'

With that in mind Sasuke began to fold hand signs with as speed as he could afford. He was about to unleash an S-ran jutsu developed by Itachi and Naruto together. A Katon jutsu that rival that of Madara's Gouka Mekkyaku.

Haku felt that Sasuke is concentrating a huge amount of chakra for this technique. So much that of unleashed it will melt not only her ice dome, but maybe even some trees as well. She must stopped him before he unleashed that jutsu. She threw a couple of senbons at Sasuke, but Sasuke withstood them with gritted teeth to maintain his jutsu.

"KATON: RYUOU BAKUENHA" Sasuke shouted to the heavens and clasped his palms together. His body is glowing crimson and then from that aura a huge crimson Chinese dragon erupted and screeches loudly. It then rushed with shocking speed around the ice dome and melts it easily.

Haku eyes was widened in shock, she couldn't believe Sasuke has such a destructive jutsu. She blast away by the force of the explosion created by a crimson dragon. But it last only for a minute before Sasuke lost conscious due to chakra overload. And surely the dragon disappears as well with a final screech.

With Kakashi and Zabuza

Zabuza decided that he has enough of the waiting and charged forward. Kakashi was about to reveal his Sharingan to counter him. But Zabuza was faster and thrust a kunai to where Kakashi's Sharingan was located. To protect his Sharingan, Kakashi shielded it with his left palm. The kunai has pierced his palm.

That's when they heard a screech coming from the ice dome. Suddenly the whole dome was melt and a huge crimson Chinese dragon erupts from it. Both of the shinobi's eyes were widen on surprise.

'T-this is Sasuke's jutsu? Judging by the chakra output this jutsu is S-rank. Who the heck teach a kid an S-rank level jutsu? That is ridiculous!' thought Kakashi angrily. But even Kakashi didn't know this jutsu because that was the accomplishment of both Itachi and Naruto. That jutsu was entrusted to Sasuke for an extreme situation. Which means that jutsu was his last counter measure.

Zabuza snapped out of his trance and produced a Kirigakure no jutsu that was far much thicker than he used in their first fight. It was so thick that you may think yourself in a dream. All you can see is mist and mist alone.

Suddenly Kakashi felt a pain in his chest. Only his instinct and experience of battles managed to keep him alive. He was nearly slashed in half by Zabuza's Kubikiriboucho. He jumped back and began to look around, but he can't spot Zabuza anywhere and so cursed silently.

With Naruto

When Naruto saw the huge crimson dragon, he knew that the fight will be soon. "So you was forced to use that jutsu to escape eh, Sasuke? But I don't blame you about that. On the contrary, I am proud of you, my student". The he glanced to where Zabuza is fighting Kakashi. He sighed out loud and muttered. "I think it's time I made myself
known"

With that he Shunshin to where the ice dome formerly located. He saw that Haku was on her back, she was exhausted from the fight. Naruto approached the unconscious figure of Sakura first. He picked her up bridal style and whispered softly. He withdraws the senbon from her neck as well

"Good job, Sakura-chan"

On instinct, he leaned down and kissed her forehead softly. Sakura unconsciously smile at the kiss. Naruto then went to check up on Sasuke. He checked his pulse and saw that he just suffer chakra exhaustion nothing serious. He approached Haku next and looked down at her with calm expression.

"You finally decided to appear, Naruto-sama" remarked Haku weakly looking at Uzumaki.

"Well done, Haku. Are you feeling well?" Naruto asked in concern.

"Hai. I am a little exhaust from the fight with Uchiha-san. Nothing serious"

"I see. So what is Zabuza-san's choice?"

Haku looked up at Naruto with half-lid eyes and replied silently. "That's Zabuza-sama's decision. I am only following him wherever he goes. You need to ask him directly about that, Naruto-sama"

"I see". Naruto nodded his head in understanding. He then turned back to her and was about to leave. "Rest for now, Haku-san. You deserve it. I will take care of the rest. And don't worry, I won't let Zabuza-san die"

"Arigato, Naruto-sama"

With those words, Haku closed her eyes
to take a nap.

"Now, let's see". Naruto closed his eyes and activate his sensor ability. He felt that Kakashi is at disadvantage now. Zabuza cornered him with super thick mist and silent killing. About five meters from them, he sensed a lot of presences that are approaching to this bridge. No doubt those are Gato and his goons. Naruto snapped his eyes open and muttered. "Time to close up this party "

With that he Shunshin towards the battlefield. But not before put Sakura gently to where Sasuke located.

Zabuza vs Kakashi

"Hahaha! Without your Sharingan, you are nothing, Sharingan no Kakashi! Which means all those legends about you were just exasperated rumors" Zabuza's laugh rang through the mist taunting Kakashi.

"You should be ashamed of yourself, Zabuza. You were once a respectable member of Kirigakure no Shinobigatana Nananin shu. How did you manage to lower yourself to the level of a mercenary? You even tried to kill Tazuna-san, which is a good man that was trying his best to protect his country. You've lost whatever honor you have, Zabuza! And I will never lose to someone like you" retort Kakashi confidently. Then he pulled out a small scroll from his Jounin best at the chest area.

"Hoh? And what will you do? You can't see me in this thick mist, so how could you find me?" Zabuza replied cockily with a bored look.

"Even of I can't see you. Someone else could still find you" Kakashi retort confidently. Then he began to fold hand signs while holding the scroll. After done folding hand signs, he slammed the scroll to the ground.

"Kuchiyose: Doton: Tsuiga no jutsu!"

A summon circle appeared on the ground and there were cracks on the ground.

Zabuza felt a spike of chakra from Kakashi's direction. So he put himself on guard. But he never expected that from under the ground, six ninken will assault him and bind him by biting hard to his muscles. Because being heavily injured, Zabuza couldn't maintain his jutsu any longer and so the mist slowly began to clear.

"H-how?" Zabuza gritted his teeth painfully from ninken's fangs.

As the mist slowly disappearing, Kakashi slowly approached Zabuza while explained to him. "My blood on your sword. The ninkens have tracked you by smelling my blood. You've made a huge mistake by underestimating me, Zabuza"

Zabuza cursed silently and watched wearily as Kakashi approached him. Kakashi stopped opposite of him and remarked.

"I will show you my original jutsu now. The one that I create myself"

"Your own jutsu?"

"That's right. Behold!". With that Kakashi began to fold hand signs. When he finished he gripped his right wrist with left hand and began to concentrate a huge amount of chakra in his right hand. It was so much that was visible to human eyes. But that's not all, the chakra began to slowly emanate the lighting spark around Kakashi's body.

Zabuza's eyes was widen in shock. So much chakra was concentrated on that jutsu. And if he was hit with this jutsu that his life will be forfeit. That he knows for sure.

"It's over, Zabuza!" declared Kakashi and began to rush forward with his right hand extend, that emanating with electricity. "Raikiri!"

Zabuza closed his eyes and waiting for his end. 'Gomen, gaki. It seems I won't be able to give you my answer after all. Take care of Haku for me'. Those are the current thoughts of Zabuza as he accepts his fate.

But nothing happened. He could still feel himself breathing. So he slowly opened his eyes to see a hand grasping the other hand to the wrist that was spouting electricity. Zabuza turned to the owner of the the first, to reveal that it was Naruto's. He is preventing Raikiri from piercing at his heart.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes dangerously at Naruto and demand. "What is the meaning of this, Naruto?"

Naruto calmly met his gaze with his sensei but stay silent. He has arrived in a nick of time to save Zabuza. It was really close one second later and he might as well be dead.

"We don't need to fight each other any longer, sensei. The reason will appear just about...now" replied Naruto then turned his head aside, at the other end of the bridge.

Indeed Gato and his goons have showed themselves. It's time to clean out the trash.

Next time: The bridge of rising hope