Hikari; The Forgotten Otsutsuki

Chapter 12

We were running like bat out of hell through the forest. I found that there was a seriously ominous aura radiated from ahead of us. In addition to the uneasiness, it kept me being on edge. My Byakugan sprung to life as we ran. I noticed that there was a sinister murderous intent along with the presence of a chilling chakra. Vapors could be seen if we were to exhale our breath.

"Naruto, you have to help Sasuke somehow. There are two of them and I might be going to assist Kakashi-sensei depending on the situation," I asked of him.

"You can count on me, dattebayyo!" he grinned. I continued to observe them as we ran. Sasuke was trapped in some sort of a mirror dome made of ice and Kakashi was standing in Zabuza's way.

The boy attacked Sasuke with numerous senbon from all of the direction of the ice mirrors. He was moving from one mirror to another in an instant. From my eyes, I could see that the mirrors were apart of his chakra and it was not a genjutsu. For a kid to manage to use this caliber of jutsu, it could only mean one thing, a Kekkei Genkai. Suddenly, a rain of senbon fell and a few had managed to hit Sasuke. A word I never would say in the presence of people had escaped my mouth.

"We have to hurry, Sasuke is in danger," I gritted. Naturally, we increased our paces towards the bridge. During which, I saw Sakura stepped ahead to throw a kunai at one of the ice mirrors, the boy easily caught the kunai. Luckily, we had arrived in time for that. Naruto threw a shuriken at him which managed to knock him down and then he threw a smoke bomb at where we were going to land.

"Who?" Sakura said, puzzled. There was an awkward silence surrounding our arrival except for my sudden cough.

"Uzumaki Naruto! Has finally arrived!!" he proudly announced and my cough intensified due to my annoyance at his flamboyant way of entrance.

"Is the smoke bomb necessary?" I protested and he just grinned there, proudly. I was also noticing that it was getting harder to breathe. Perhaps the fall had broken something in my body. Well, ain't that a predicament. With me weaken, my skills will be heavily limited.

"Now that I'm here, everything will be fine! The main character of a story usually shows up late in these types of situation and instantly kicks the enemy's ass," Naruto loudly declared. A sweat dropped along with my forehead. I straighten myself and disappeared but only to appear behind Zabuza with a crack of lightning. That creep used the moment to threw shurikens at Naruto. I couldn't react in time because of my ribs and the sore pain of my shoulder had worsened because of my Raiton Shunshin no Jutsu. We were surprised that it was deflected by senbons thrown by the hunter-nin boy.

"What's with that, aren't you guys supposed to be allies?" I asked between pants. Kakashi-sensei noticed my behavior and he knew that something was wrong with me but he kept his mouth shut about it.

"Haku, what is this?" Zabuza demanded.

"Zabuza-san, these kids, please let me fight them my way," the boy said.

"So his name is Haku," I thought to myself.

"So you don't want me to interfere, Haku? You're as soft as always," Zabuza replied. That being said, it hasn't escaped my notice that Sasuke could barely keep up with the boy's jutsu. Being inside of the attack radius was probably not a good idea. A notion that was moot because of our favorite knucklehead.

"Hey! I came to rescue you!!" Naruto whispered from beside Sasuke. Never had I slapped my head so hard in my life. Then, the matter got worse when they bickered with each other.

"Sensei, that mirrors, it's his kekkei Genkai right?" I gritted and my question was answered with a nod.

"Impressive, not bad coming from a good for nothing aristocrat. Mokuton user in Hyuuga eh, what a combo," Zabuza suddenly said but he never turns his back to face me.