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Kakamei lying on the ground as he watched Naruto attempt to make another run for an exit. It wasn't successful as he only managed to damage himself more. Haku has pinned at least 6 more senbon into the kid's chest. Kakamei looked on, becoming infuriated with what helplessness that he was feeling. He tried to keep a blank face but he was starting to frown with an immense hatred for the situation at hand.
It seemed that Naruto had said something to Sasuke before hunching over, Kakamei guessed that the boy had used up most of his chakra and passed out. The look on his face only deepened.
'Come on! Where's that energy boost that I had before?! When I need it it's not here!' The Daichiki thought to himself as he waited for something important in his body to come out or react. Nothing happened. He hated himself as he watched Sasuke deflect some senbon and Naruto, who Kakamei was sure had just passed out, slowly made his way to his feet. Kakamei felt useless, like he was becoming a burden. He tried to move his arm but to only meet pain. Like the other boy had said, the ice had kicked up his pain receptors, he could feel every single thing that was happening to his body vividly. He could feel the ice that was no prickling up to his chest, the wind blowing rather softly on his leg, which seemed to feel more like stinging than soft blowing. He felt that it was only a matter of time before moving was just completely unthinkable.
'Crap! A few more seconds and I'll be done for! If only I could use Scorch Release right now!' Kakamei thought to himself as he thought for a second before a lightbulb went off in his brain. He had come up with an idea that was so stupid it might end up killing him but hey, he'd rather die trying than to live by giving up.
'Alright, it shouldn't take too long.' He thought as he started to muster up chakra into his hand. He had used the same technique, if it could be called a technique, that he used before and created a fire that was just on the tip of his finger. The flame was no larger than an inch in size. If he wanted this to work on the first try he would need more. He created it to be slightly larger before wincing in pain.
Usually when he would do things like creating a fire it wouldn't harm him at all, but now he could start to feel heat pushing itself onto his hand. It was most likely because of the ice that was now on his neck, slowing his breathing. The flame suffered from this but not too much.
Kakamei enlarged the fire as large as he could, until it was taller than his middle finger but thinner than his pinky. He cursed as he knew it was the best he could do. He then used his brain, which took more effort to do than the fire for some odd reason, and created a wind current that was swirling on the tip of his finger as well. The winds from the current made his finger feel as if it were being cut hundreds of time in rapid succession.
The frown on his face had turned into a stare that was a mix of anger, pain, and anxiety. He prepared himself as he brought his two fingers together. They were only about 10 centimeters apart but it was the most painful 10 centimeters of his life. Brought the wind and fire together until they were nearly touching.
"Here goes nothing." He said aloud this time as he closed his eye, brought the flame and wind together, and braced for impact. He waited for an instant but nothing seemed to happen. Time seemed to move in slow motion for him. It was as if his fingers were still coming together to put the blast together when he opened his eyes. He managed to get a quick glimpse of everything that was going on around him. Naruto was laid on the ground and seemed to be out of the fight this time. Sasuke was standing, albeit he was breathing very hard with senbon sticking all out of him. When Kakamei looked at him with a deeper gaze he could seem something changed with Sasuke. His eyes had turned red and there were tomoe on them now. He didn't know what was going on but before he could piece it all together time seemed to gain speed again and the elements clashed together. The blast wasn't anything compared to what happened earlier when he had tried this but it was something that was strong enough to send him flying of the ground and slamming onto on of the mirrors.
The two combatants turned around to see what had happened. Kakamei hit the ice platform with his back hard enough to crash through it. He landed on the ground outside of the mirror prison. He hand managed to knock off almost all of the needles. There was still a single senbon that managed to keep itself lodged in his shin.
Even though he was happy about his accomplishments. Not only had he successfully created the explosion but he had managed to destroy one of the infamous mirrors. But it had come with price. The senbon had been knocked out because of him slamming against the mirror. This made his pain receptors scream from both the explosion and the collision onto the mirror. Kakamei laid on the ground in front of Kakashi and Zabuza as his eyes had rolled into the back of his head and he had passed out. The assassin looked down at the boy, amazed that he was able to do something so crazy. Nobody had ever managed to do something like that before.
"Kakamei! Are you okay?!" Kakashi asked loudly as the boy just laid there quiet. Zabuza looked at Kakashi before looking back down at the kid. The gash on Kakashi's chest continued to bleed. Zabuza took this chance to kick Kakashi right in his wound and sent him flying into the bridge builder's arms. He caught him but by the time Kakashi had gained his vision and ability to stand up Zabuza was already standing over Kakamei's body. He reached to grab him but when he touched the kid's body he retracted his hand quickly. He looked at his fingertips to find them burned. Zabuza looked down at the boy who was just silently laying there.
'What's wrong with this kid?! He's burning up! I can't even touch him!' He thought as he looked down at Kakamei's body. Just then the kid's eyes rolled back into the front and he took a deep gasp for air. Zabuza backed up and held his hand. Kakamei looked down at his shin and managed to move, although slowly, and grabbed the senbon out of his shin and threw it away. He attempted to move his body but the effects of the pain increasing ice was still in his bones. He couldn't move his body fluently except for the ability to move his arms down his legs.
'Man! That was great but now I can't even see what's happening with Naruto and Sasuke. Worst of all I'm sitting under Zabuza's nose.' Kakamei thought to himself as he looked around, for something he could possibly use to get out of this situation.
'I don't have any physical strength to move. I do have my chakra. That means I have Fire Release and Wind Release. Those aren't going to do me much good since I can't make them a reasonable size for damage. Even then I'd have to move, and pretty quickly, to get a hit on one of these guys. The last option would be to use another explosion but using one of those I'm not sure I'd be able to withstand another one. I guess the best move right now would be to use my chakra to heal myself. Even then I can't because my chakra can only heal bones.' He thought to himself as he looked around. Zabuza he regained his composure and stood him with his sword ready to chop Kakamei in two. As he went to slam his sword Kakashi came out of nowhere and stopped it with a kunai. Kakashi and Zabuza struggled for a second before Zabuza jumped back and Kakashi lowered his kunai.
"You've done well. You found a way to destroy one of the mirrors. That will probably help Naruto and Sasuke a lot. For now just lay there and rest. We'll take care of everything else." Kakashi reassured his student as Kakamei sat silently, unable to speak. He understood and thought that with the opening Naruto and Sasuke would come up with some way to come out of the trap without dying. The hole he had created in the mirror room was directly in front of his body.
'The least I can do is watch.' Kakamei concludes as he tried his hardest to turn his body to the left and look at it. It took what felt like an eternity to him to finally managed to turn his body completely and look at the battle that was going on. Naruto was standing in a single spot, frozen as Sasuke bolted for him. The senbon That has aimed for Naruto impaled the Uchiha. Blood ran down his lip as he said something to Naruto who said something back before he fell to the ground. Kakamei looked at the scene as he watched Sasuke fall to the ground and landed on his side. Kakamei wanted to jump up and run to him but his body wouldn't move.
For some reason he didn't understand he felt as if he needed to get up and run to his comrade that had fallen. He closed his eyes as memories of something like this happening before… something distant yet… so close. He let a single tear come out of his eye before he blacked out.
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