Chapter Twenty-Three: Who Are You?!

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Natsumi finally managed to lift herself up to the ground and saw a masked woman with a Kirigakure symbol on her mask with Zabuza on the floor seemingly dead

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Natsumi finally managed to lift herself up to the ground and saw a masked woman with a Kirigakure symbol on her mask with Zabuza on the floor seemingly dead.

Kakashi without a moment's hesitation jumped down from his tree branch and checked on Zabuza, he put two fingers to Zabuza's neck and felt nothing, not a single pulse.

"He's really dead...I feel absolutely nothing" Kakashi thought while releasing his grip from Zabuza's neck.

"Thank you very much. I have been searching for the opportunity to kill Zabuza for a long time" said the masked nin while bowing to Kakashi and turning around and bowing to Naruto.

"That mask...you're a Kirigakure hunter-nin?" Kakashi asked, while he couldn't see it. Kakashi felt the masked man smirk under his mask.

"Impressive insight. But you are correct, Kakashi Hatake" said the masked nin while Kakashi nodded his head.

"Hunter nin?" Natsumi asked with a raised eyebrow, this just proved that she paid no attention in the academy.

"Yes, my duty is to hunt down missing bins like Zabuza Momoichi. I'm a number of Kirigakure's hunter-nin team" said the masked shinobi.

"Judging from his voice, height, and stature. He's probably not that older than Team Seven, yet he's a part of the most difficult division of the anbu black ops" Kakashi analyzed one of many hunter-nins he met in his lifetime.

"He's definitely not a normal shinobi,"

Natsumi gritted her teeth and continued to look between the hunter-nin and Zabuza's dead body. She felt a load of emotions, the most intense of them being pain, guilt, and sadness.

"WHAT THE HELL?!! WHO ARE YOU?!!" Natsumi said shouting to the heavens, Kakashi sighed and stood up from Zabuza's dead body and looked at Natsumi.

"Don't worry Natsumi, he's not an enemy" Kakashi tried to calm down Natsumi but that didn't work at all.

"I'M NOT ASKING THAT!!!" Natsumi yelled to Kakashi but she felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned her head and saw Naruto looking at her.

She took a deep breath and calmed down enough to face Kakashi who was in front of her. "That Zabuza guy...he was killed. A guy that strong...a guy that strong was killed by a kid. By a kid not much different from me. We look stupid. How can I possibly understand that?" Natsumi said, often taking deep breaths to calm her shock and anger.

"Well...I know how you feel. But...this is also the truth" Kakashi said while patting Natsumi's head.

"In this world, there exist kids younger than you...and even stronger than me"

Natsumi looked down in mix embarrassment and shame while Sasuke looked down while imagining a vixen haired girl about six years older than him with scarlet red eyes with three tomoe in each eye.

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