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Chapter 7
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO! If I did…*the author sighs dramatically* let's just say, it would be VERY different…Enjoy
"Friends don't let friends do stupid things alone." - Anonymous
Last Time on Scarred
Zabuza looked at the three genin in front of him, a little astonished that they hadn't even considered backing down and retreating with amount of killing intent and scare tactics he had used on the brats. That earned a little of his respect but that didn't mean he was going to ease up on them, "You seem to quite confident, but do you even have a chance for victory?"
Sasuke and Naruto replied in unison, "Let's do this."
Their confident reply was met with a dark and mocking laugh from the water clone, "You guys seem very sure of yourself. But do you really think you stand against me?"
An outcry from their teacher stopped their reply, "What're you all doing?! I told you three to run away! The outcome of this battle was decided the moment when I got caught! Run - Our mission is to protect Tazuna-san, did you forget that?!"
At this, the team turned to said client as Naruto said, "Tazuna-san..."
Tazuna's hat shaded his eyes as he spoke, "Well, I caused all of this in the first place by lying to you. I'm not going to say that I desire to live so much that I'd stop you. I'm sorry everyone, but fight with everything you have." And as he finished speaking, he shot all three genin a look full of resolve.
"pft..." humphed Sasuke, his trademark smirk surfacing on his face as he said rhetorically, "You hear that?"
"Are you ready?" Called out Naruto to their opponent, a smirk also on his face. You could see the excitement pouring off the two boys in waves.
The missing-nin's response to all of this was to, again, chuckle in dark manner, "You guys will never grow up! You three, playing ninja like it's a child's game. Did you know that by the time that I was your age I had already dyed my hands red with blood." And as this was said, Zabuza held out a fist in front of him as if literally to show them how much blood was on his hands (in a manner of speaking).
Shock painted the genin's faces at what Zabuza was saying.
"Demon of the Bloody Mist."
"Ah...so you heard about that huh?" Zabuza asked in response to Kakashi's statement.
"The Village Hidden in the Mist, also called Blood Mist Village, was called that because of the final obstacle in becoming a ninja."
"You've even heard about our old graduation exam, very good." Zabuza said, sarcasm coating the last of his words.
"The graduation exam..?" Mumbled Naruto, trying to place the familiar words, "Where have I heard that?"
"Idiot." Grunted Sasuke, "Kakashi-sensei's history lesson on the Mist Village."
"Ah! That's right, the fights to the death between the students."
"Exactly, friends who had trained and eaten at the same table were pitted against each other and made to go at it...until one of them loses his life." Zabuza said in reply to Naruto's exclamation.
Kakashi picked up where Zabuza left off, "However, 10 years ago, that graduation exam was forced to change. This change came after the previous year when a demon appeared...a young boy who was not even a ninja and without pause or hesitation, he'd killed over a hundred of the students."
"That sure was...fun." A look of what could only be described as ecstasy made its way onto the missing-nin's face.
The three genin could only look at Zabuza in shock and fear at his words. When all of a sudden the water clone elbowed Sasuke in the chest, causing him to lift into the air when Zabuza followed through with a fist to the stomach which planted Sasuke onto his back on the ground. This sudden attack caused Sasuke to cough up blood as a result.
"Sasuke!" Shouted Sakura in concern and shock.
Kakashi could only tremble in rage as he watched on from his water prison.
"Die..." Muttered the missing-nin to the downed genin.
"Dammit!" Stated Naruto as he brought his hands into the familiar cross formation, "Kage Bunshin no jutsu!*"
Roughly twenty-seven clones appeared to the shock of Zabuza, "Shadow clones...and a large amount..." was muttered as the missing-nin grabbed his butcher-knife like sword.
Eighteen of those Naruto clones palmed a kunai and lined in a straight line shouting, "Here I come!" As they basically dog-plied the ex-mist-nin but as they were doing that, two more Naruto clones helped their male team-mate up and backed away from the on-going battle.
Meanwhile, the other seven ran over to Sakura and Tazuna and as one of the clones spoke to Sakura, the girl nodded in response to whatever the clone was saying and started to make jutsu signs. Two of the clones stayed with the client and their team-mate while the other five formed a pentagon-like shape around them, took out some sealing paper from their pouches, placed the paper on the ground and made the appropriate signs causing the chakra in the paper to activate. A pentagon shaped barrier was now erect around the shadow clones, Tazuna and Sakura.
Back at the battle between the clones, the missing-nin had finally dispelled the clones that had piled onto him but the man didn't get any time to retaliate as a second wave of shadow clones converged onto him. As those clones did that, the original threw a large Fuma Shuriken that he had un-sealed from his bag to his team-mate, "Sasuke!"
'I see, so that's the plan.' Thought the last Uchiha as he caught the weapon. With one swift movement he unfolded the blades and brought the edged weapon up to his body to stare through the knife-edges. "Demon Fuma Shuriken: Windmill of Shadows!*" He called as he jumped high in the air and unleashed the large shuriken in the direction of the water-clone.
After dissipating the second wave of shadow clones, Zabuza then turned his focus to boy in the air, "A shuriken won't work on me!" Was scoffed by the clone even as the blade bypassed him and continued on towards the original, "I see that you're smart enough to aim it at the real me, but..."
The original Zabuza then plucked the spinning blades from the air with his free hand as he finished speaking, "That's not enough!" However, the missing-nin then realised that there was a second shuriken which had come out from underneath the first weapon's shadow and as the other shuriken sped towards his knee area Zabuza jumped up in order to dodge the weapon, just in time. "And that's still not enough!"
But unknown to the ex-mist-nin, for when he dodged the second Fuma Shuriken it then transformed back into a certain blonde genin moments later, who then proceeded to throw a kunai at his unprotected back. This forced the man to let go of his prison jutsu and also made a shallow cut on Zabuza's cheek. Anger surged through Zabuza as he started spinning the Fuma Shuriken still in his hand, intent on retaliating on the now seemingly defenceless genin when the spinning weapon of death stopped suddenly. The missing-nin turned his head and saw that the now released Kakashi had stopped it with the back of his hand, his Sharingan eye blazing with fury.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Said a relieved Sakura.
"Naruto, that was a brilliant plan. All of you have matured and grown quickly." Congratulated Kakashi.
"Thanks Kakashi-sensei, the whole aim of the plan wasn't to defeat Zabuza but to break that prison jutsu." Said Naruto, allowing a pleased grin at the praise show.
"Heh, I only got distracted and released the jutsu as result." Said the missing-nin, trying to brush off what really happened with a smirk.
"Wrong! You didn't release it, you were forced to stop your jutsu." Informed Kakashi as he continued, "I'll tell you that I don't fall for the same jutsu twice, so what will you do now?"
The smirk dropped from Zabuza's face at Kakashi words. The two highly trained shinobi then jumped forcibly apart while simultaneously casting a long series of hand seals. Meanwhile, Naruto pulled himself onto the surface if the lake and ran to the shore since he sensed a large amount of chakra being used and just as he got out of the water, two enormous water dragons exploded from the lake and crashed into one another. It was then revealed that the two jounin had locked weapons - Zabuza with his large sword and Kakashi with a kunai.
'Strange...' Thought Zabuza, 'What's going on?'
The two men then jumped apart once again and began circling each other before abruptly stopping across from each other with one hand in a hand sign and the other raised up-right. Zabuza began to feel uneasy as each of his moves were met with identical ones by his opponent.
'My movements...He's completely-'
"Reading them." Stated Kakashi, to the shock of Zabuza.
'What? Did he read my mind?' Zabuza focused on the Sharingan eye as he thought, 'Damn! That...'
"Freaky eye is pissing me off! Right?" Said Kakashi, continuing to unnerve his opponent.
"Heh, all you're doing is copying me," Exclaimed Zabuza in anger before the two men said in unison, "You can't beat me you monkey bastard!"
Zabuza's shock escalated when he heard what the leaf jounin had said, he then started to make hand signs rapidly. "Damn you! I'll make it so you can never open that mouth again!" But as he was speaking, Zabuza then saw it that as he completing his movements, 'That...That is...'
A mirage-like figure of himself had appeared behind Kakashi, 'Me?' Zabuza's disbelief and shock grew as he thought, 'That's not possible! Is this one of his genjutsu?'
"Water style: Giant Waterfall!*"
"Impossible!" Shouted the ex-mist-nin before he was smashed into with the wall of water, pushing him clear off the lake and slamming him into a trunk of a nearby tree. Kakashi then pinned the man in place with a kunai through each limb.
"How..?" Cough Zabuza, "Can you see the future?"
"Yes, I foresee your death." Stated Kakashi as he held a kunai to the missing-nin's neck when out of nowhere two senbon were suddenly embedded into Zabuza's throat to almost everyone's surprise.
A gender neutral voice then called out towards to once-battlefield, "Hehe, you're right. He's dead."
Turning towards to source of the voice, the Leaf ninja and their client gazed upon what seemed to be a male-like figure that wore a pinstriped outfit which stopped at the knees, over this he wore a green haori with white trimmings, and around his waist was a brown sash with a fringed tail wrapped around twice. He was also wearing light-brown platoon sandals with straps in the same colour as his kimono, his hair was gathered in a bun at the back while two locks of hair that were bound with metal cuffs at the ends fell loose, framing the man's face. And finally, he was wearing a full face mask that was white with thin, curved eye holes and a red wavy design in place of the mouth and the Kirigakure symbol etched at the top.
Kakashi jumped down from his perch in a tree and checked Zabuza's neck for a pulse whilst keeping an eye on the newcomer. 'He really is dead.' Kakashi thought as he was unable to find any signs of life.
The newcomer spoke up, "Thank you for your assistance. I have been searching for the opportunity to kill Zabuza for a long time."
"That mask, you're a Hidden Mist Hunter-nin are you not?" Kakashi asked, more for his student's benefit than any other reason.
"Impressive. You are correct, I am indeed a member of the elite tracking unit responsible for hunting down Missing-nin from the Village Hidden in the Mist." Said the now identified Hunter-nin.
"So that's what a Hunter-nin looks like." Said Sasuke, mirroring the thoughts of his female team-mate.
'Yet, from his voice and height, he's probably not much older than Naruto. He must not be a normal kid since he's in such an elite position for his age.'
"Hey Kakashi-sensei, is it really okay to leave that guy alone? He doesn't look that older than us." Asked a suspicious Sasuke.
As the boy was speaking, Kakashi had moved away from the body of the dead missing-nin and now stood by his genin. "It's an unfortunate truth of this world Sasuke that in the world, there exists kids that are younger than you yet they're stronger than me."
The Hunter-nin disappeared from his tree branch and re-appeared besides Zabuza's body and continued to speak, "Your battle is now over. And now I must dispose of this body lest it gives up secrets to our foes. Farewell." And with a hand-sign the Hunter-nin shunshin'd off with the body.
Moving his headband back so it once again covered his eye, Kakashi spoke with his usual lack of enthusiasm, "Sigh, now we have to get Tazuna-san back home, so Naruto get your clones to stop that barrier and the transformation jutsu. Once you do that also tell Sakura to dispel her genjutsu as she emerges from the trees with our client."
Naruto's jaw dropped as his teacher easily unravelled his plan, "H-how did you-?"
"Figure out your plan? Easy. It was a two-fold plan - First you distracted Zabuza with your waves of shadow clones while you got an injured Sasuke away from the fight, then you two co-ordinated the attack on Zabuza. While all of that chaos was occurring, your other clones went over to Sakura and Tazuna-san in order to provide a two-layer defence. Your fuinjutsu barrier was the first whereas the second line of defence was the clones that were disguised as Sakura and Tazuna-san. That move not only provided further protection for the two but also allowed Sakura time to retreat while casting a genjutsu in order to hide them better." The rest of the team and the client (who had reached Naruto and Kakashi's position during the teachers account) jaws had dropped at the spot-on assessment of the plan, which was all said in Kakashi's monotone voice. "Naruto, I'm impressed by your brilliant and well thought-out plan, especially because of the small time frame you had to make it in."
That praise from his teacher and older brother figure got Naruto's chest to swell from pride, "Thanks Kakashi-sensei."
The teacher then turned to his other two genin, "I'm also impressed by you two as well. Not only by the techniques you used but in addition to the support and team-work you gave Naruto. As brilliant as the plan was it wouldn't have gone as smoothly as it did without your assistance. Well done." Pleased by the praise and the pride they could hear in their Sensei's voice caused Sasuke and Sakura's chest to swell as well.
"Okay, let's go." Was uttered by Kakashi before the jounin suddenly collapsed in a heap on the hard ground.
"Kakashi-sensei!"
"Huh?! What's wrong Sensei?!"
Once their teacher told them that he'd over-taxed his body, his students (along with several of Naruto's clones) ended up carting Kakashi body the rest of the way to Tazuna's house. Once there, the Leaf ninja were greeted by Tazuna's daughter Tsunami who, having found out the condition the jounin was in, directed the genin to a guest room and got the teacher onto a futon.
"Now, are you alright Sensei?" Asked the daughter, concerned.
"Yeah, I just can't move for about a week or so."
Once having Kakashi's conformation and assurance that nothing else needed to be done as host for their guests, Tsunami and Tazuna left the room to do other things.
"Really?" Said Sakura, continuing the previous conversation as she put her medic training to use by examining her teacher, "That Sharingan is an incredible tool but since it puts so much stress on the body you have to think before using it, huh Kakashi-sensei?"
"Unfortunately, you're right Sakura."
"Also Kakashi-sensei, I have a question - about that masked ninja that took Zabuza's body - you didn't cover that in our lessons." Asked a curious Sakura.
"I didn't cover it because I didn't think you'd run into someone like that so soon but since you asked..." Said Kakashi before he went on, "The mask that the ninja wore symbolises that he's a part of the Hidden Mist special Hunter-nin team. They're also known as body erasers as its their duty is to completely dispose of the body without a trace. A ninja's body has within it secrets of their Village's ninjutsu, information on different chakra types, herbs, and other things that will reveal things about the village. Here's a example: If I died, the secrets of the Sharingan could be revealed and if you're not careful, there's the danger that the enemy will steal your jutsu as well." Everyone in the room were paying rapt attention to what Kakashi was saying as he continued, "A ninja's body can reveal important information, so by killing and disposing of the missing-nin's who have abandoned their village, the Hunter-nins protect the information from getting out. They're the specialists who guard their Village's secrets. No sound. No smell...that's such a ninja's end."
Kakashi's daunting atmosphere was shattered when Naruto spoke up, "By the way Sensei, that reminds me - about that Hunter-nin...I sensed him while you were having that first face off with Zabuza so I sent off some clones to find out who it was and he gave me the same reasons he told us when we collected Zabuza's body but I still got the feeling that something's not right..."
Kakashi zeroed in on what his student was saying, his attention suddenly caught, "Really? Try to explain to me your thoughts behind why you think something's up Naruto..."
The other two genin in the room listened to Narutos reasoning and doubts, making their own doubts surface in their minds as well. Whereas this just gave Kakashi a reason to thank the Log* for sending that message to Hokage-sama when he did.
"Hmm...you might be onto something Naruto." Said the jounin before speaking of what was running through his mind, "Since body erasing teams usually dispose of the body of the person they killed right then and there.
Sakura was the first to get what her teacher was saying, "Yet the Hunter-nin didn't, he took the body with him."
"Exactly, if he needed proof of his work he could've just taken the head. And then there's the weapon he used to kill Zabuza..." Pondered Kakashi.
Sasuke was the next one to make the connection as he made a picture of said weapon in his head, "...No way."
Naruto nodded as his team all but confirmed his suspicions, "Exactly." Naruto then turned to his teacher and stated more than asked, "That means Zabuza is alive, isn't it?"
Meanwhile - With the Mist Hunter-nin:
The masked Hunter-nin was knelt next the body with a pair scissors in hand that he had just taken out from his equipment roll. As the scissors inched closer to the missing-nin's face, the Hunter-nin started to mutter, "First I'll cut the mouth cloth, drain some blood and..." The ninja was then startled when a hand from the apparent dead body reached out and grabbed the outstretched arm, the other hand pulling aside the mouth wraps and glaring up at the ninja above him with blood-shot eyes.
"That's alright..." Was said by the now alive missing-nin, "I'll do it myself."
"Oh, you've already come back to life." murmured the masked ninja.
"Damn, you sure are rough." Grumbled the missing-nin as he pulled out the senbon from his neck, grunting in pain as small amounts of blood spurted out as he pulled the needles free.
"You shouldn't be so rough on yourself Zabuza-sama," Chided the man's accomplice, "You really will die pulling them out like that."
Zabuza only reply was, "How long are you going to wear that stupid mask?"
"It reminds me of the old days..." Mused the masked ninja, "Plus it was useful for this act." Taking off the white Hunter-nin mask revealed a delicate, fair skinned face with dark-brown eyes and full lips. "If I hadn't intervened when I did, you definitely would have been killed you know."
Ignoring his companions truthful words the missing-nin continued to grumble, "You didn't have to target my neck though. Any number of other points on my body would have worked just as well. But you're such a sadistic little brat..."
"Correct!" giggled his subordinate and when Zabuza only looked at him, the accomplice continued, "I just didn't want scar your beautiful body...and the neck doesn't have much muscle so it's easier to hit the acupuncture points there and put you near death than anywhere else." The subordinate then decided to move the conversation on, "You shouldn't be able to move much for about a week, but someone like you might be able to move much sooner."
Zabuza looked at young boy in front of him and instead said, "You're so pure and clever...That's what I like about you."
"Hehe, that's because I'm just a kid." Was the giggled reply before he make some inconsequential remark, "Look, the mist has cleared..." It was silent for a time between the two ninja before the young boy spoke once again, "Next time...will you be alright?"
"Next time I will defeat that Sharingan." Was the confident reply.
Back with the Leaf Ninja:
"B-but how is that possible Kakashi-sensei? You yourself checked and said he was dead." Stuttered Saukra in confusion.
"Yeah I did, but once you think about the weapon that the Hunter-nin and where he used them it makes it more likely that was just a momentary death." Kakashi then went into lecture mode, "A senbon needle, unless it hits a vital organ, had a low probability of killing your opponent. Such needles are even an item that are used by doctors in acupuncture therapy. Hunter-nins also know about the body's structure thoroughly and putting a person in a momentary state of death wouldn't be too hard for them to do. So considering those points we can't ignore the possibility that his motive wasn't to kill Zabuza but to save him. So we'll prepare before it's too late. That's a shinobi rule."
Seeing her teachers point but Sakura still asked, "I don't mean to play devil's advocate here Sensei but, what if you're wrong and Zabuza really is dead and the Hunter-nin just did his job?"
Kakashi didn't even pause in his reply, having thought of the possibility not a minute before, "You make an excellent point Sakura but there's also no guarantee that Gatou hasn't hired an even stronger shinobi." The teacher then noticed that both of his male students looked excited by the possibility of facing Zabuza again.
"Okay then, so Sensei what preparing are we going to do when you can barely move?"
"Hehe, why training of course!" Said Kakashi in a slightly sadistic manner.
All three genin paled at his words.
Sakura was the first brave soul to speak, "U-um Kakashi-sensei, what's a little training going to do? Our enemy is a ninja you struggled against even with the Sharingan!"
"And who saved me while I was struggling? All three of you have grown rapidly." The jounin let the genin absorb his proud words before he continued, "But obviously this is just training until I get better, you won't be able to defeat him without me."
"One question Sensei," Asked Sasuke, "If Zabuza is alive he could attack at anytime, so should we really be training?"
"Ah, about that - when a someone comes out of that near death state it takes a while before the body returns to normal."
"So we'll be training until then." Naruto summed up.
"What's the point?" Said a young, depressed voice. The genin turned around and saw that at some point in their conversation that their client, his daughter and a little boy had entered the room. The one who spoke was the little boy who had dark-coloured eyes, spiky black hair underneath a blue and white striped hat and he was wearing a green jumpsuit with a pale yellow shirt and a simple pair of sandals.
"Who are you?" Said Naruto in his usual blunt manner.
The answer to that question was made by Tazuna when he exclaimed, "Oh! Inari! Where were you?!"
"Welcome back Grandpa." Replied the little boy.
The ninja in the room quickly figured out that this was the grandson that Tazuna was talking about when they were attack by the Demon Brothers.
"Inari, say hello to these people. They're the ninja who protected Grandpa." Chided Tsunami as Inari hugged his grandfather.
Inari stared at the leaf ninja before turning to his mother and stating, "Mom, they're going to die." All three genin got tick marks on the heads at the words which only grew bigger as the boy continued, "There's no way they can win against Gatou."
Sakura smiled in a sweet manner towards the young child, "That's true if you're talking about civilians but were ninja and we've been trained for this sort of situation." But even as Sakura was talking her two team-mates were inching way from the girl, they could feel the anger she was hiding at the young boys words, she was just hiding it better than they were.
"Tch..." Muttered the boy before saying, "What are you stupid? If you don't want to die, you should leave..." The young boy then turned and walked to the door to leave the room and Naruto thought Tazuna asked the boy something but he wasn't really paying attention as he was trying to stop Sakura from becoming a murderer.
Once Sakura had calmed down, Kakashi then told them that it was time to start their training so the three genin followed their teacher outside where he brought them to medium sized clearing surrounded by trees. Kakashi then started to explain what their training would basically consist of training their reflexes and response time to a higher degree and fine-tuning their chakra control. Understanding what their teacher wanted them to do, the genin nodded their assent and immediately started their first training session under the watchful eye of Kakashi.
As the ninja trained, Inari watched them from behind a tree, 'Pft! That's a waste of time...' Was thought by the young boy when an image of his dead father flashed in mind causing the boy to clench his fists in response.
At Zabuza's Hideout:
In one of the rooms within a cone shaped hideout was Zabuza, lying in a bed, with his companion silently at his bedside. The silence didn't last however when their employer, Gatou, entered the room with his two bodyguards and it wasn't long before the vertically challenged businessman spoke, "So even you have come back defeated. It looks like the Mist Village ninjas are pretty pathetic, you can't even avenge your men? And you call yourself a devil? Don't make me laugh."
Gatou's mocking was meet with silence from both of the Mist ninja as the businessman advanced towards the weakened Zabuza. Gatou was about a few meters from the bed-ridden ninja before his bodyguards blocked him from getting any closer, grasping at the swords as they did so.
'An attack?' was thought by Zabuza's accomplice when Gatou stopped his men.
"Hold on for a second." Gatou said as he passed by his bodyguards and stood next to Zabuza's bed as he continued his mocking, "Hey, there's no need to stay silent...How about-"
Gatou had reached out his hand towards the missing-nin as he was speaking before it was suddenly grabbed in a breaking grip by the man's companion.
"Don't tough Zabuza-sama with your dirty hands." Was practically snarled out, the boys face cold and expressionless.
"GU! YOU!" The business man shouted as his bodyguards finally reacted and started to draw their swords but they were stopped when that same boy was now threatening them with their own swords at their throats.
'No way...He moved in an instant...' Was thought by the two bodyguards as the ninja went on threateningly.
"You shouldn't do that...I'm angry right now." Was said, bloodlust practically pouring off the young man in waves.
Scared and frightened at the boy, although unwilling to admit it, Gatou shouted trying to sound intimidating, "One more chance! If you fail one more time you won't be welcome here anymore! Remember that!"
He failed.
Once the three men, now frightened out of their tiny minds, left the room the young man went back to his seat at Zabuza's bedside.
"Haku, you didn't have to..." The missing-nin finally murmured as the man revealed he had a kunai in his hand under his bed sheet.
"I know...but it's too early to kill Gatou and if we cause a commotion here, they'll be after us again. We must be patient." Said Haku as he smiled gently.
"Yeah...you're right." Zabuza sighed as he admitted that his apprentice had a valid point.
The two then continued on with what they were doing before - like nothing of interest had occurred.
But unknown to both ninja groups, a third party had just entered Wave and thus the game.
A tall man with brown eyes, olive skin, short spiky hair and beard with a smoke in his mouth stood on the dock where Team 7 had stood hours before, the man's own genin around him.
"Tch, this is gonna be so troublesome..." Muttered one of the genin.
TO BE CONTINUED...
A/N: *Author coughs awkwardly* So...Here I am after not updating for roughly 7 months, Huzzah!
"..."
Okay, I really don't have an excuse other than a lack of motivation but I would like to apologize to my readers for the long wait. I would also like to say that I will continue to update in a haphazard manner that will probably result in another long wait on chapters but hopefully not as long as it took me to do this chapter.
*Author then growls at laptop screen* I also found that I despise writing fighting scenes! Worst. Thing. Ever!
Anyhow...please either review or PM me if you have any questions, concerns or if you noticed a digression in the above chapter, I'm the one who proof-reads my work so if I missed something please tell me.
I have nothing else to say other than another apology for the long wait.
Okay then...that's '95 out.
*Kage Bunshin no Jutsu: Similar to the basic clone technique, this technique creates copies of the user. However, these clones are corporeal instead of being illusions. The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after being hit by a strong enough force. The clones can also disperse on heir own or be dispelled by the user of the technique. They also can't be distinguished from the original even when using the Sharingan or Byakugan.
*Fuma Shuriken: Is a large, four bladed shuriken possessing pre-eminent sharpness and lethality.
*Water style: Giant Waterfall: This technique extends water over a large scale, surges and rises up to several dozen metres high. It then streams down to the ground in one big cascade, much like a gigantic waterfall. In doing so, it resembles a huge wave with tremendous power that can hollow out the ground. What remains after that technique's utilization is reminiscent of no less than the aftermath of a natural disaster.
*Log: Or otherwise known as the Holy Book of Log which was created by Third Fang who's an author on this site. So, if you worship the holyness that is the log go and look him up on or on Facebook by searching for the Holy Book of Log page.