Second chances

chapter 12: kekkei genkai revealed. Or is it?

The atmosphere was tense. Even Kakashi, Rin and Zabuza stopped their fight to see this mysterious bloodline limit of Naruto.

Time seemed to have frozen; everyone seemed to be transfixed at the revelation. With a cocky grin Naruto cracked his knuckles.

"Heh. I haven't done this in a long time."

A few minutes passed. An odd draft blew, tumbleweeds blew, and crickets chirped.Finally, the blond slapped his palms together.

Haku immediately grew alert and prepared to defend himself. Sasuke slapped his forehead. What was that idiot doing...

"Not that this does anything, but..."

With that Naruto rapidly shifted his hands into hand seals. Sasuke, realising what Naruto was going to do, did the same seals.

"Katon: Karyu Endan no jutsu!" (1)The result was a gigantic flame in the shape of a dragon heading towards the mirror dome. Though the mirrors did not shatter, the two knew that Haku was getting very marginally tired through the strain of holding it with his chakra

."Impressive. So you two already know that level of technique.. I suppose I'll have to stop holding back now.."

Though he didn't want to do kill his opponents, Haku knew that he could no longer afford to hold back. Suddenly, a rumbling noise was heard. A large torrent of water was heading towards pretty much everyone on the bridge. Odd.. That was an original attack by Zabuza, but it seemed that the other ninja was using it. The next thing he knew, he saw his mentor trapped.

"Zabuza-sama!"

Finally aware that he was in a battle, Kakashi snapped out of his daze to renew his fight with Zabuza. He needed to capture the missing nin without killing him, but at the moment it seemed to be quite difficult.Then, inspiration struck him. He was surprised that this didn't come sooner, but then again he really was feeling slow today.

First he signalled Rin to stand down on the fight. Then he used his Sharingan on Zabuza. Step one of his plan was complete.He waited for his opponent to attack. As he expected, Zabuza shifted his hands into seals that looked almost like a blur.He copied the attack and did the same thing.Both ended in the seal of the bird.

"Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu!(2)"

Two enormous water dragons rose and colliding with each other. No sooner had this stalemate happened were the two colliding kunai and huge sword against each other. The mist-nin backed off and decided to use that jutsu.He shifted again into a different seal. However, he was surprised to see his opponent doing the same thing at the same time. His calm demeanor almost broke as he tried to assess the situation

.'What the! It's almost as if he's

-'"Completely reading them," Kakashi finished off for him. Zabuza's eye widened, but continued to form seals.

'The hell! That bastard's-'

"Freaky eye is pissing me off, right?"

Freaked out at the copy-nin's apparently hidden technique to read minds, the Zabuza failed to notice that he stopped forming seals and watched in horror to see his opponent finishing off his seals

."Suiton: Daibakufu no jutsu!"

(3)Rin had to take Hinata and the bridge builder out of the way to dodge a massive amount of water heading towards their way. Zabuza, however, was not so lucky.Getting acquainted with a nearby strong crate, he was pinned there with kunai.

Half-dead, the ex mist-nin ignored Haku's cry of panic and gazed at his foe.

"Gonna... kill me, then?" he asked, with a small smirk on his face.