Minato and the three members of team seven panted, as they had been working hard, lifting large amounts of heavy boards, and pillars for a few hours. He sighed and stared at the sky. It was a bright, pale blue, and almost cloudless. He sighed, taking in a deep refreshing breath.

He closed his eyes, and the cool wind blew his hair, waving it in his face. A bird cawed, and he opened his eyes slowly. A messenger hawk. Putting his hand to his mouth, he whistled.

The bird swooped down, and Minato extended his arm, and for the bird to clutch onto his arm. Pulling his arm in front of him, Minato pulled the slip of paper out of the small carrier. Minato read it and sighed.

"Minato-sensei?"

Minato looked up and smiled, but his eyes showed slight worry. "The lead is pulling me from this mission, to go to another... Can you handle Zabuza on your own?"

Kakashi nodded. "He's an A-tank ninja, like me. If anything happens, we still have Naruto, who has the rinnegan, and Sasuke has his sharingan.

Minato frowned, and then chuckled. "I guess that's what I'm worried about..."

Kakashi smirked under his mask, and turned around, walking back to the two members of his genin team. "We will be fine, go ahead, sensei."

Minato flashed off in a yellow blue; heading back to Konoha.

"Kakashi-sensei, when is Naruto getting here?" Sakura asked, frowning.

Kakashi tilted his head and followed Sakura's example of frowning. "I have a feeling he'll show soon," he said, putting a hand on Sakura's shoulder.

The mist slowly clouded the area, over the rippling waters, and the bridge.

Sasuke and Kakashi immediately jumped into a defensive stance, to defend Tazuna. Sakura looked at them and immediately followed their actions, understanding something was wrong.

Two figures approached slowly through the mist. One held a beheading sword, while the other seemed to hold sebon.

"We meet again, Copy Cat Kakashi," Zabuza said, swinging the sword over his shoulder.

Kakashi's eyes narrowed at the second figured, who wore a blue and white kimono, and a blue must Hunter ninja mask. Kakashi instantly recognized him, and his eyes widened. "Sasuke, Sakura, be careful," he said to them, voice stern.

"Hn."

"Hai, sensei," Sakura said, pulling out a kunai.

After minutes of intense waiting, perched in defense, the mist became almost unbearable. One couldn't see a thing, meaning Zabuza was about to make his move.

Sasuke

Movements in the mist had begun to draw closer and closer. Although he couldn't see much, it occurs to Sasuke that using his Sharingan would be better than not, and attacking blindly.

A hand reached towards him and threw sebon towards him. He dodged with a quick way to the side. The figure approached long black hair and a hunter ninja mask.

"I see... You're also, a weirder of the great doujustu, sharingan."

The boy paused, and Sasuke dashed towards him. "Maybe I do, what is it to you?"

The boy seemed to blur away from Sasuke, but the sound was still vividly audible in the gloomy mist of doom.

The boy, still silent, seemed to be thinking of his response. Either that or calculating possible outcomes of the battle, if he went up against Sasuke, whose sharingan was activated.

"I wonder..." the boy started. "Are you able to keep up... With my true speed?"

Sasuke discreetly snickered and drew three shurikens from his pouch. The boy started forming seals, but these seals... The boy was making seals Sasuke had never seen before. They were one-handed. Not only one-handed, but they weren't even half handed seals of the normal justu seals. He furrowed his brows, and the mist in a steady, but rapid pace, thickened even farther.

Sasuke waved his hand in front of his face. It was like a blur. He couldn't see a thing.

The temperature slowly dropped, and the mist lightened enough to see again. Mirrors. Ice mirrors. Not only that, the big was inside of the mirrors, and holding sebon.

"What is this?"

The boy chuckled slightly, responded, but ignored to answer the question. "This is where you will see my true speed..."

His body was reflecting off all the ice mirrors, however, Sasuke still couldn't see the boy on the ground before him, or behind him. Unless... No, the boy was inside the mirrors. "W-what..." Sasuke paled slightly but kept his composure. "Ice you must surely know is easily melted by fire," he said, a smirk reappearing on his face.

The boy readied his arm to throw the sebon needles. "You will see that for yourself," the black haired boy responded, voice with no emotion.

He threw the needles, and then everything was a blur. The sebon was raining down on Sasuke from every direction, no escape. No escape but the cracks between the mirrors. The sebon ripped Sasuke's clothes, and tore Sasuke's flesh, making the lacerations ooze warm, sticky blood slowly. The reflection of tiny amounts of light blinded Sasuke for a few seconds, and he dashed towards the cracks. The boy immediately noticed what he was going to do, and so he aimed all his sebons between the ice mirrors, blocking them off. Sasuke stopped and looked towards the others. All still blocked off.

Jumping backward, Sasuke formed hand seals snake, ram, monkey, boar, horse, tiger. Taking a deep breath of air, Sasuke blew out, placing a hand near his mouth, two fingers forming a hole around his mouth. Exhaling, a fireball began to form due to Sasuke's chakra.

The fireball smashed into the ice mirror, and Sasuke rushed forward. Watching the boy frowned, and spoke. "I told you, fire justu of that level doesn't work..."

Sasuke almost rushed into the mirror but extended his hands, so he wouldn't smash his face. "I admit, you're quite strong," Sasuke spoke, looking in the mirror. Backing up, the raid of sebons began again, creating more flesh wounds, all oozing blood.

"I don't wish to kill you..." he said, pausing the raid for a split few seconds, and then continued. Sebon were now embedded in Sasuke's arms and legs, but only a few. He rushed forward, trying to catch the long-haired teen, but he was too fast for him. Sasuke panted.

"Sasuke!"