𝐀𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃 ★彡 ᵏ.ʰᵃᵗᵃᵏᵉ

➙ 𝘹𝘪𝘪𝘪. 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘢

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AN EERY laugh erupted from Zabuza as he lowered his weapon, ignoring Yuri's attack. She furrowed her brow but kept her sword raised. She swung it down, aiming for his neck. However, he quickly evaded it and roughly shoved her away, sending her toppling over the side of the bridge as she yelped in surprise.

"Yuri-Sensei!" Her squad members called out in panic. Though over their yells, they could not hear her shout 'Plant Style: Lily Pad Catch.' The three Mist genins began to silently mourn for their sensei until a large lily pad sprouted from the river below the bridge, and their unscathed sensei knelt on top.

"You are going to pay for that," she muttered to herself as she jumped off the flower, landing beside her squad who all looked up at her in awe as she weaved the 'release' hand signal, her large lily pad disappearing as a result. "Pay attention," she ordered before they quickly followed her command.

"Impressive... thought you had died." Kakashi casually spoke to her.

Yuri scoffed at his back-handed compliment, implying that she was too easy to kill. But before she could yap his ear off with complaints about his attitude, an icy aura radiated from Zabuza and Haku's direction. She cast her gaze upon them, seeing the masked boy surrounded by tendrils of blue chakra, emitting from his body. With a single-hand sign, large icy mirrors began to surround Sasuke, caging him in a dome. "Secret Jutsu: Crystal Ice Mirrors!" Haku yelled. He stepped into one of the ice sheets, his physical body disappearing and replaced with a flat reflection until all mirrors showed the same image.

"What?! How does that work?" Kakashi asked, worry laced in his tone.

"It's the Yuki clan kekkei genkai, Ice Release. They were all eliminated due to their dangerous jutsu, but Haku remains." Yuri explained quickly. "His jutsu is unknown to me but I can almost guarantee that Sasuke is not going to survive in there."

Concern etched into his hidden expression as he raced towards the icy dome. However, Zabuza appeared in front of him. "If you enter this fight, you fight me. That boy has no chance against that jutsu. He's finished." Haku began his attack on the Uchiha boy, multiple needles flying from all angles, slicing at his skin. "Just try and help him and I'll kill the rest of them in a heartbeat." Zabuza threatened.

Sasuke's kunai was flung from the dome, landing at Sakura's feet. In an instant, she picked it up and ran toward the dome, leaping in the air and flinging it to her teammate. Though, Haku reached out of one of the mirrors and grabbed it before it reached its desired destination. "He... he caught it?" Sakura exclaimed in disbelief.

"Sakura! Get back!" Sezaki called out, worried for her new friend's position on the battlefield.

The pink-haired girl sprinted back, standing behind Yuri who stretched out her arms in front of the four genin.

"Yuri-Sensei, you have to help Kakashi-Sensei and Sasuke! Please!" Sakura begged, tears brimming in her green eyes.

"I will, don't worry," Yuri reassured the girl. She took one last glance at the stagnant Kakashi and Zabuza, making sure that if Zabuza made a move towards Yuri and the genin, Kakshi would stop him. She turned towards Team 4 and the remains of Team 7. "Sakura, Yaragi, you guard Tazuna. Doremi and Sezaki, you will remain on backup. I will make sure you are not brought into this fight - any of you - but if I need help, I will call you, okay? For now, guard the others." The four nodded, taking their positions.