Chapter 426: Laughed to Death
A spring breeze blew, the sea rippled, and ripples also spread through Kisame's heart.
He had forgotten the script Masahiko had arranged for him.
"At this moment, what should I do to lure Kakashi Hatake away?" (⊙_⊙?)
The two sides were clearly in a standoff, but the atmosphere turned awkward. Only Naruto was shouting at the top of his lungs, while Kisame and Zabuza completely ignored this 'Young Master of the Land of Whirlpools'.
Tazuna frowned inwardly. Does Kisame's shark brain also get water in it? Isn't a shark's swimming ability quite good?
"Hey! Shark-face! Browless! Are you listening to me!" Naruto shouted.
Kisame and Zabuza exchanged a glance. Zabuza spoke calmly: "I hate brats."
Kisame squeezed out a smile that could scare a child to tears: "In a while, you'll be fighting him. How about we just butcher him?"
Zabuza twitched his brow: "Switch opponents?"
Kisame turned his head: "No switching."
On the other side, Kakashi had held his sword in readiness for a long time, only to find that the opponent had no intention of making a move. He couldn't help but turn his head and say: "Mr. Tazuna, what should we do now?"
Tazuna was startled, looked at Sasuke beside him who was full of suspicion, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "You're the Jonin instructor, and you're asking me? Ask me... I'll just give you some advice. I think you should be able to defeat Kisame Hoshigaki across from you..."
"Understood." Kakashi turned back around.
This time, even the thick-skulled Naruto felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what...
"Young Master Naruto, if a fight breaks out in a moment, you must protect me well!"
Naruto was stunned: "How could a fight break out? They are ninjas from the Land of Whirlpools..."
"Ping~"
The sound of weapons clashing made Naruto pause. Turning his head, he was astonished to find that Kakashi had already flickered to the side of the shark-face, his short White Fang blade clashing with the oddly shaped weapon in the shark-face's hand.
"Hey! Kakashi-sensei!"
"Ping~ Ping~ Ping~"
Kakashi and Kisame exchanged blows repeatedly, tacitly moving further and further away until they vanished from sight...
Zabuza, carrying his giant sword, walked up to the four of them, eyeing 'Tazuna' from head to toe.
"Kakashi-sensei, what kind of trick is this... why did he suddenly attack?" Naruto scratched his head.
Sasuke's brow was tightly knit: "What exactly is so wrong about this..."
Sakura-kun was full of nervousness: "Is this guy a Jonin from the Land of Whirlpools? Kakashi-sensei just dumped us like this? As expected, he's unreliable..."
"You... are Tazuna? How did you manage to offend that old immortal?" Zabuza raised his voice.
Tazuna's expression stiffened. Zabuza, you bastard, I'll record this in the Great Ancestor's little black book...
"Offended that old immortal?"
"Lord Zabuza, you must be talking about that bastard Gato!" Tazuna quickly said.
Zabuza twitched his brow: "Gato...?"
Masahiko felt a slight sense of foreboding. If this continued, they wouldn't be able to start a fight. At this point, he needed to add some fuel to the fire to make Zabuza flare up with murderous intent...
"Lord Zabuza! Don't think that just because you have Lady Haku supporting you, you can do whatever you want! The person in front of you is Young Master Naruto Uzumaki!"
"Lady Haku supporting me?" Naruto murmured: "Is it... Big Sister Haku?"
"That's right, it's Lady Haku who frequently follows the great Great Elder," Tazuna added.
"Haku? Supporting? Do whatever I want?" Zabuza repeated softly, and his figure instantly vanished.
In the next second, he appeared directly between the four, his Executioner's Blade slicing toward Tazuna with the speed of lightning.
"Clang!"
Sasuke pulled out a kunai to parry, involuntarily sliding back a few steps: "Naruto, don't lose focus!"
"Young Master Naruto, he's trying to silence us!"
Naruto finally snapped to his senses: "Uncle Tazuna, don't worry, I'll protect you! Browless bastard, how dare you smear Big Sister Haku's reputation? Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
A dozen Narutos and one Sasuke rushed toward Zabuza in a massive wave. Tazuna breathed a slight sigh of relief: "It finally started fighting."
Only Sakura-kun remained in front of him, standing guard with a kunai in hand, her hand shaking slightly.
Zabuza was emanating 'killing intent'. Naruto and Sasuke were fine, but she couldn't quite handle it.
"Still needs tempering..."
On the other side, Zabuza was playing tricks with his Executioner's Blade, taking out one Naruto per slice: "These are the two brats I need to temper? Let's get rid of that annoying old man first!"
He exerted force on his Executioner's Blade, pushing back Naruto and Sasuke, and formed hand seals:
"Water Style: Hidden Mist Jutsu!"
Mist gradually condensed out of the air, shrouding everyone's vision in a vast white void.
Naruto and Sasuke tacitly stood back-to-back in defense. Naruto shouted: "Browless bastard! Where are you?!"
The combat-experienced Zabuza clearly wouldn't reveal himself because of Naruto's low-level trick. However, he was also saying to himself: The old immortal said I can't strike too heavily, but shaving off this annoying brat's eyebrows... that's fine, right?
Zabuza quietly circled behind Tazuna and saw Tazuna circling half a turn around Sakura-kun: "Little girl, I sense malice coming from behind; it doesn't matter if I stand in front of you, right."
Sakura-kun turned around, on guard: "It doesn't matter, I will protect you!"
Zabuza twitched his brow slightly: "This guy..."
Naruto and Sasuke heard the sound and rushed over, surrounding Tazuna in a triangle with Sakura-kun.
"This mist is so annoying! Sasuke, any way to disperse it?" Naruto shouted.
"Disperse? Naive brat..." Zabuza's voice drifted from the air, floating near and far. Under the cover of the mist, he was ethereal and untraceable.
Sasuke had already opened his two-tomoe Sharingan, working hard to find traces of Zabuza: "Even the Sharingan can't see through this mist. Let's just stall for time; Kakashi-sensei will solve the other enemy soon."
"Damn it!" Naruto threw his kunai in frustration, then heard a 'clink'.
"So he's over there!" Naruto rushed toward the direction where the kunai was thrown.
"Hey, Naruto! Tch! This idiot..." Sasuke hurriedly followed.
However, Zabuza's tall figure suddenly appeared behind Sakura-kun. Sakura-kun seemed to sense it, turned her head trembling, and saw the Executioner's Blade slicing toward her at a slant.
"Ah!"
"Little girl! Move away!"
"Shriek!"
Naruto and Sasuke heard the sound and rushed back madly. The mist gradually dissipated, and the scene was revealed to the two of them.
Sakura-kun was sitting on the ground with an expression of terror, while 'Uncle Tazuna' was lying on the ground, life or death unknown. Beside him, Zabuza's Executioner's Blade was stained with an unknown red liquid.
"Uncle Tazuna! Sakura-kun! You browless bastard!"
Masahiko, with his face pressed against the ground, was secretly laughing: "Tazuna is dead, have a battle where you stake your lives, Naruto! Sakura has 'caused my death', she should be able to overcome her fear now..."
A more intense battle was about to break out, but suddenly, characters flashed before Masahiko's eyes: "Witnessed and completely altered the Naruto world side plot: Land of Waves mission, obtained 20 (*10) Witness Points."
"This is... the system judged Tazuna as dead?" Masahiko was startled and jumped up abruptly: "Hahahahaha, this stupid system, so stupid!"
"Tazuna... Uncle?" The momentum of Naruto's rush toward Zabuza came to an abrupt halt.
"Hahahaha..." Masahiko turned his head, his face stiffening: "Hahahahaha-hic!"
Tazuna fell to the ground with a thud, breathless.
"Laughed, laughed to death?!"
Zabuza lifted his giant sword slightly, wiped the red liquid off it, and tasted it: "It's sweet... You old bastard!"
He felt the deep malice from Masahiko when the mission was issued.
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