With Zabuza
Countless kunai and shuriken made of water were flying toward Zabuza.
"SWISH, SWISH, SWISH, SWISH."
Zabuza cursed in his mind when he saw this and started dodging and blocking the kunais and shurikens with his two katanas.
"CLANK, CLANK, CLANK, CLANK."
Zabuza sustained numerous minor cuts due to the onslaught of the water kunais and shurikens.
Zabuza cursed again in his head when he saw his foes performing the same hand seal sequence.
After his foes completed the hand seal sequence, Zabuza saw another barrage of water kunai and shuriken flying towards him.
"SWISH, SWISH, SWISH, SWISH."
Zabuza swiftly released the chakra from his feet and plunged underwater to evade the flurry of water kunai and shurikens.
Zabuza dove under the water and started analyzing his situation. "This situation is getting me nowhere; they are maintaining their distance and continuously firing these annoying water kunai and shurikens at me. Because of that jutsu, I can't get close to them to use my katanas."
"If I use ninjutsu on them, they will easily dodge it because they are keeping their distance from me. Furthermore, the only ninjutsu that I know right now are water bullet jutsu and hidden mist jutsu."
Zabuza's eyes widened when he thought of the hidden mist jutsu. Then he started thinking rapidly, "Should I use the silent killing technique? Although I am not as skilled with the technique as that bitch Yukina, it appears that using this technique is my best option at the moment."
"Because using this technique will allow me to hide in the mist and if they can't see me, they will not be able to aim these annoying water shurikens and kunais at me."
"Next I will be able to sneak at them with the silent killing technique."
After making up his mind, Zabuza sheathed back his katanas while hiding underwater and performed the ram hand seal.
"Hidden Mist Jutsu."
A thick mist suddenly appears in the area where Zabuza was battling and surrounds the battlefield.
The two shinobi who were battling Zabuza were very shocked when they saw the mist rise out of nowhere. They couldn't see anything, only mist. The mist was obscuring their vision.
One of the Shinobi was a middle-aged man with a mustache, fair skin, short black hair, black eyes, an ordinary face, and a lean, muscular physique.
The other shinobi who was standing next to him was a handsome man who was in his twenties, with long blue hair, blue eyes, and a lean, muscular physique.
Zabuza silently resurfaced from the seawater, unsheathed one of his katanas, and started making his way silently towards his foes.
When Zabuza was behind one of his foes, he swung his katana and he beheaded the shinobi silently.
"SQUASH."
"SPLASH."
The other shinobi began to panic when he heard the splash, so he turned around and called out to his comrade.
"Hey Jin, what's with that sound?" The shinobi asked in a panicky tone.
Hearing his foe's frightful tone, Zabuza smirked in amusement and decided to finish him off.
He silently sneaked behind the shinobi and swung his katana again.
"SQUASH."
"SPLASH."
After Zabuza killed the two shinobi, the mist surrounding his battlefield started to subside slowly.
After the mist dispersed completely, he took out the corpse storage seal, and he started sealing the corpses of his foes.
"CLAP, CLAP."
Suddenly Zabuza heard someone clapping. He turned his head and saw Yukina standing not far away.
Zabuza noticed that Yukina was wet; he snorted and said to her, "It seems those fools caused you trouble; you disappointed me, Yukina."
Yukina snorted back at him and asked, "What makes you come up with this conclusion?"
Zabuza pointed his finger at her and said, "Look at yourself; you are wet."
Yukina blushed and yelled back at Zabuza, "Shut up, you moron! That woman can create golden chains using only her chakra. They were extremely fast. The only method I had to dodge her chains was to use my hyderfication kekkei genkei and dive into the seawater."
Zabuza snorted when he heard this, but he didn't comment on Yukina any further because he had already dove into the seawater to dodge the earlier barrage of water kunai and shuriken.
Zabuza continued sealing the corpses of the Shinobi he had just killed in the corpse storage scroll, and when Yukina saw this, she slapped her forehead and said, "Damn, I forgot to seal the corpse of that guy I just killed. I will go and seal his corpse."
Yukina then turned around to go and seal Sora's corpse in the corpse storage scroll.
After she finished sealing the corpse, Zabuza asked her. "So what now? Do we wait here for the others or should we go and back them up?"
Yukina snorted when she heard this and replied to Zabuza, "I am having a lot of fun on this mission. I just fought against a woman who can create golden chains using only her chakra. I might find more interesting shinobi to fight against if I go and back up our comrade. I will not waste this opportunity."
Zabuza chuckled when he heard this and Yukina continued, "I will go and backup Mangetsu I formed an alliance with the Hozuki clan recently; it is my obligation to back him up now. If you want to wait here or back up our comrade, it is your own decision, Zabuza."
Yukina then closed her eyes and started using her sensing capabilities. After a second, she opened her eyes and started dashing towards the left, where Mangetsu was.
Zabuza narrowed his eyes and kept gazing at Yukina's retreating figure.
"One day I will surpass you Yukina I will keep working hard, no matter how long it's going to take. I will surpass you." Zabuza thought to himself, then he turned around and started looking for his other teammates that needed backing.
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With Mangetsu
The shinobi who were battling against Mangetsu fired kunai, shuriken, and water-style ninjutsu at him.
However, no matter how many times they hit him, it had no effect on him because each time they hit him, his body would turn into water and reform again.
It is all thanks to his hydrofication kekkei genkai.
The two shinobi looked at Mangetsu in horror after seeing how his body kept reforming effortlessly every time they struck him.
One of them looked like in his thirties; he had tanned skin, an average face, and a muscular physique.
The shinobi had short brown hair and brown eyes.
The other shinobi was a skinny man with pale skin, one gray eye, short white hair, and a sickly-looking face.
Suddenly the three combatants heard Yukina's voice saying, "Mangetsu, do you need help to finish these two off?"
Mangetsu turned his head and saw Yukina walking calmly towards him.
He smirked when he saw her and said, "No, I can handle them myself."
When the muscular shinobi noticed Yukina, he looked at her in shock. He had a terrible premonition when he saw her. He narrowed his eyes and yelled, "You! What happened to Sora and Akina-chan?"
Yukina looked at the shinobi with eyes full of amusement and replied to him while smiling sweetly, "You should have guessed what happened to them. Are you sure you want me to tell you?"
The shinobi got enraged when he heard this and yelled at Yukina, "Answer me, you slut."
Mangetsu watched the exchange between Yukina and his foe, with an amused smirk on his face, without interfering.
Yukina then decided to humor the shinobi and said, "I guess that young man's name was Sora. He is dead. I used my katana to stab his throat, while Juzo sensei and Fuguki sensei captured that woman."
"Juzo sensei took that woman back to the Mist Village. According to Fuguki Sensei, that woman is more valuable to our village alive than dead. This is because she's a survivor of the Uzumaki clan."
When the shinobi heard this, he exploded in rage and was about to charge at Yukina, but his comrade grabbed his shoulder. He then said to him, "Kaiyen, calm down."
Kaiyen glared at his comrade and yelled at him, "How can I calm down, Gin? You heard what this slut just said: "Those mist lunatics have captured Akina; her future in the mist village will be worse than death."
Gin sighed and answered him seriously, "I know you have feelings for Akina. But if you want to save her, we need to kill those two brats first. That kid could turn his body into water. That means physical attacks and water ninjutsu will not work against him."
Kaiyen calmed down and nodded his head. Gin then continued, "We should try genjutsu."
When Kaiyen heard this, he was surprised and asked, "Will this work?"
Gin looked seriously at Kaiyen and answered him, "To be honest, I'm not sure, but I have a theory behind that elementalization that the white-haired kid is using: he needs to be aware of the attack before he turns his body into water."
Kaiyen widened his eyes in realization, and Gin continued, "I am not sure this strategy will work; I can only bet 50% that it will, so we should give it a shot."
Kaiyen nodded and then he and Gin started executing a hand seal sequence.
After they finished executing the hand seals sequence, they murmured at the same time.
"Spirit Illusory Art: Octopus Tentacles Binding Jutsu."
"Spirit Illusory Art: Binding Jutsu of Sea Demon Claws."
Yukina watched carefully the hand seal sequence that Kaiyen executed. She felt a foreign chakra invading her, which surprised her.
She then saw Kaiyen's and Gin's bodies turned into tiny bubbles and dispersed in the wind.
Suddenly countless orange tentacles rose up from the sea and wrapped around her body.
Yukina giggled after the tentacles wrapped around her and said to herself, "This genjutsu is very intriguing. I memorized the hand seals and how he molded his chakra. I only need to practice it later to master it.
Yukina then started to disrupt her chakra flow easily, thanks to Yukina's mastery over her chakra.
The illusion began to fracture as if it were made of glass, and in the next instant, it broke completely.
After Yukina broke out of the genjutsu, she saw Kaiyen charging at her with a kunai in hand.
She also noticed Gin was charging at Mangetsu with a kunai in hand.
Yukina was about to charge towards Gin to protect Mangetsu, but she decided against it when she sensed a strong chakra signature was moving at incredible speed towards Mangetsu.
The chakra signature feels quite similar to Mangetsu.
"It must be one from the Hozuki clan." Yukina thought to herself.
Yukina smiled when she came up with this conclusion and then she said to herself, "Well, I don't need to worry about Mangetsu. I will pretend to be under the influence of genjutsu, which will cause him to lower his guard against me. It will be entertaining to see his reaction when he realizes that everything was just an act."
When Kaiyen was in front of Yukina, he thrust his kunai at Yukina's heart and yelled, "Now die, you bitch."
"SPLASH."
However, in the next moment, his eyes widened in shock when he saw that the area where he had stabbed his kunai turned into water.
Yukina then grabbed a kunai from her pouch and thrust it at Kaiyin's heart.
Kaiyen coughed out blood from his mouth and looked at Yukina in disbelief. He then asked her, "You can also turn into water just like the other kid?"
Yukina giggled when she heard his question and answered him, "Yes, I inherited the Hozuki clan's kekkei genkai just like Mangetsu."
Kaiyen coughed out more blood from his mouth after hearing this: "Damn you, slut."
Yukina didn't react after hearing Kaiyen's insult; instead, she pulled her kunai from his body, causing Kaiyen to fall into the seawater.
Kaiyen's eyes started getting heavy. He then thought to himself, "Akina, I am sorry I should have told you how I felt about you. Maybe in the next life we could be together."
Yukina then returned the kunai back to her pouch after cleaning it of Kaiyen's blood; she looked to her side and saw Nangetsu smiling at her while holding Gin in the air by the neck.
Yukina noticed that Gin was dead too.
Nangetsu smiled and said to Yukina, "That was an impressive strategy, girl. By feigning that you were under genjutsu, you lowered your foe's guard; however, you need to be careful in the future because this strategy will not work against an experienced shinobi."
Yukina smiled and nodded her head. She then thanked him, "Thank you, sir; I will keep that in mind."
Nangetsu nodded and then he walked towards Mangetsu after dropping Gin's corpse.
He released Mangetsu from the genjutsu cast upon him, causing Mangetsu to breathe heavily.
Nangetsu then said to his son, "You were under genjutsu, son. You will need more training on how to break from genjutsu. Prepare yourself for intense training after this mission."
Mangetsu nodded his head obediently after hearing his father's words.
Yukina then started walking away from the battlefield, but she stopped when Nangetsu called, "Little girl, you should seal the corpse of the shinobi you killed."
Yukina was surprised when she heard this and asked, "Weren't those shinobi the opponents of Mangetsu? He was fighting them before I came to back him up."
Nangetsu laughed when he heard this and told Yukina, "True, but you were the one who killed that guy, not him; you have the right to seal the corpse."
Mangetsu lowered his head in disappointment, but he didn't retort to what his father was saying; he knows what his father is saying is true.
Yukina nodded her head in appreciation and said to Nangetsu, "Thank you, sir. I appreciate your kindness."
Nangetsu waved his hands in dismissal and said, "You may not be a member of our clan right now, but the Hozuki clan blood runs through your veins; you will always be family to us."
Yukina gave a small, warm smile after hearing this and she bowed respectfully to Nangetsu.
She then sealed Kaiyen's corpse in the corpse storage scroll.
After Yukina sealed the corpse, she started walking toward the location of another battle that was taking place.