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Chapter 101 - Chapter 098

Naruto summoned two kage bunshin. He needed five hands; his hand to release and spin the chakra, one clone to form the shell to maintain the sphere shape, and the other to mix the wind-natured chakra. This jutsu he was resorting to looked fairly similar to an ordinary Rasengan, except it had four small white blade-like protrusions surrounding it, making it look like a miniature fūma shuriken. The concept behind this jutsu would be the rotation and power of the Rasengan, and Naruto's wind-natured chakra condensed into a sphere.

During his time training alone in the forest while in Nami no Kuni, Naruto mixed his wind element with the Rasengan, maintaining its original stability and increasing its power, far beyond that of his ordinary Rasengan.

"What is he up to?" Haku wondered as she watched Naruto from within her ice mirror.

When the technique's preparation was done, Naruto sent the second kage bunshin over to Sasuke's unconscious body to shunshin out with him, while the first one puffed out.

"Get Ready! Fūton: Rasengan!" Naruto yelled as he resorted to using and combining the attack with Kaze Sokudo Chikara and in a blur rushed at the mirror Haku was in. Haku launched dozens of her senbon needles again, but in mere seconds, Naruto crashed the upgraded Rasengan into the dome. The sheer force and speed of the attack triggered a massive explosion that completely obliterated the needles and the ice dome in its entirety. The blast released a powerful shock wave with an explosion of wind as a large spinning vortex of white and blue energy burst from the attack and heavily ground into of the pavement of the bridge while propelling Haku into the forest away from the bridge and over into the mainland.

Zabuza and Kakashi were still fighting, but after the Naruto's attack occurred, the next thing they, Sakura, and Tazuna knew, was that a mighty quake rocked the entire bridge as a strong wind came and blew them nearly off their feet as it cleared a majority of the mist away.

"My mist is gone! And what the hell happened to Haku's ice mirrors?" Zabuza asked aloud angrily to no one in particular.

"Naruto happened, I'm sure," Kakashi remarked before he and Zabuza resumed their battle.

Haku was sent flying backwards from where she was after the Fūton: Rasengan exploded on her, destroying her mask in the process. She used her bloodline limit to shield herself from the attack that would have killed her, however, she still sustained painful external and internal injuries as a price for her survival. In fact, parts of her clothes took damage, as some parts of her brown pants and green shirt were shredded away, along with her hair bun being undone, allowing her long black hair to flow freely. Haku impacted onto roadway and rolled backwards on the hard, unforgiving ground. Though alive, she was in much pain, as the impact had added to her injuries. She coughed up some blood as she laid on her back.

Naruto appeared next to her, with his kage bunshin carrying Sasuke's battered motionless body, Sasuke's right arm wrapped about the clone's shoulders. By this time, all of Naruto's wounds had healed up without so much of a scar to show for it, though his clothes looked a bit ragged.

"You truly are strong…Naruto-kun. Zabuza-sama warned me to be as cautious of you as…I would be with Kakashi. I failed to heed his warning seriously, in spite of the fact that you came close to killing Zabuza-sama days ago. I underestimated your true abilities…while I overestimated my own against yours. I lose…Finish it," Haku requested as she awaited her death at Naruto's hands.

"I won't kill you. My last attack could have done so, but I was certain you would have pulled off something that would allow you to survive my attack," Naruto said.

Haku inquired, "Why do you choose to spare me? Am I not your enemy?"

"Why didn't you kill Sasuke while in we were inside your ice dome? Why didn't you try to kill me in the forest yesterday while I was sleeping?" Naruto asked. Naruto had hid the fact that the previous day when Haku found him passed out under the tree, there was a kage bunshin watching over him while in hiding in the tree that was above Naruto. If Haku had actually tried anything to threaten Naruto's well-being, the clone would have intervened and stopped her.

"You know why? Because I know for a fact that you don't have what it takes to destroy your heart. So why fight and make yourself an instrument for Zabuza? What's so great about him that moves you to allow him to dictate your life? You can do so much more with your life! How can you allow yourself to be controlled by that man?" Naruto asked.

"Because my life had no significance," Haku answered with a low voice.

"I'm afraid that I don't understand what you mean," Naruto remarked.

"Zabuza-sama gave me a reason to exist!" she cried, tears forming in her eyes before they started descending down her face. "He gave my life a purpose!"

"This purpose being?" Naruto inquired.

"I am a tool, to be used by Zabuza-sama in any way he sees fit. It's what I live for!"

"You chose that as your purpose in life? To be his instrument? Listen to yourself Haku! You're a human being with feelings, hopes, and dreams! Why do you allow Zabuza to dictate your life?" Naruto replied with outrage.

Haku cried and sobbed, "I had no one. I have a bloodline limit. Back in Kirigakure, we with bloodline limits were hated and killed off. The Yondaime Mizukage had ordered the complete genocide of everyone with bloodline limits. My mother, who also carried the same bloodline I have, lived with my father, hoping that he would never learn what she had. But one day, he found out. So he murdered my mother and tried to murder me as well. I can't remember what exactly happened after he tried to attack me. All I know is that when I woke, my father was dead, clearly killed by me, with ice stabbed through his heart.

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