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With Rangetsu
When Rangetsu and his team arrived at the site where Zabuza was battling, they concealed themselves behind one of the large trees on the battlefield.
Rangetsu then looked at his teammates and said, 'Be ready at all times. We will only interfere in this battle if Juzo-senpai's apprentice is in danger. Am I clear?'
After Rangetsu gave his instruction, the two Chunins nodded obediently.
The trio then started observing the battle intently.
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With Zabuza
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM."
Zabuza dodged many small fireballs that were hurtling toward him with difficulty.
The fireballs kept Zabuza at a distance, preventing him from reaching his foe.
Zabuza cursed under his breath when he saw this and muttered, "Damn it, how much chakra does this fatso have? He's firing off ninjutsu like it's nothing. I need to take control of this battle—he's not giving me enough time to cast my own jutsu. My only option is to use Yukina's jutsu against him and catch him off guard."
Flashback
After training with Juzo, Yukina began to walk away, but Zabuza approached her and said, 'Hey Yukina, can you teach me your Phantom Step Jutsu?'
Yukina looked at Zabuza in surprise and asked, "You want to learn my Phantom Step Jutsu?"
Zabuza nodded seriously to Yukina and began explaining his reasoning. 'Yes, if I learn your jutsu, I'm sure I can catch my foes off guard. I might even be able to combine it with my Silent Killing technique to take it to the next level.'
When Yukina heard this, she gave a wide smirk and said to Zabuza, 'You know what, Zabuza? You're smarter than you look.'
Zabuza got a tic mark when he heard this and yelled at Yukina, 'Are you picking a fight with me, woman?'
Yukina giggled at Zabuza's reaction and said, 'Relax, tiger, I'm just teasing you. I don't mind teaching it to you, but you'll need to improve your chakra control—if you don't, you could end up hurting yourself. You'll also have to teach me a jutsu in return.'
Zabuza nodded after hearing Yukina's answer and said, 'Fine, I will teach you the jutsu that Ameyuri taught me. It's a Lightning Style jutsu called Lightning Ball Jutsu. It's a C-rank jutsu.'"
Yukina smiled upon hearing this and said to Zabuza, 'Alright, Zabuza, I accept the deal. Follow me—I know the perfect training spot for us.'
Zabuza nodded, and he followed Yukina towards another training ground.
End of Flashback
While dodging the fireballs, Zabuza began removing his arm and leg warmers.
The rogue shinobi stopped his jutsu when he noticed the weights around Zabuza's arms and legs.
He scoffed when he saw the weights and said to Zabuza, 'You think dropping a few pounds of weights will help you defeat me, you stupid brat?'
Zabuza narrowed his eyes in anger at the rogue ninja's words, but he didn't reply. Instead, he quietly began removing the weights while recalling what Juzo had recently said to him and Yukina during their training.
Flashback
Juzo stood in front of Yukina and Zabuza, pulled out a storage scroll, and began unsealing its contents.
"PUFF."
Both Yukina and Zabuza looked surprised when they saw Juzo unseal some weights from the scroll.
When Juzo saw their reaction, he began explaining, 'From now on, you two will be wearing these weights at all times. No matter how smart or skillful you are, you need to be physically strong.'
"Remember this: no matter what strategy you devise or how many ninja arts you master, there will be times when you're helpless against foes who rely purely on brute force."
"To confront these kinds of foes, you will need to be physically strong."
"In the future, once you get used to those weights, you'll start wearing heavier ones. Each of these weighs 10 pounds—a perfect starting point for someone as young as you two. Now, start putting them on."
After hearing Juzo's explanation, both Zabuza and Yukina nodded in understanding and began putting on the weights.
End of Flashback
After taking off the weights, Zabuza looked at his foe, who was smirking at him arrogantly.
Zabuza bent down, gripping his katana with both hands, and muttered to himself, 'Perfect. He's full of arrogance—I'll use it to my advantage.'"
After thinking this, Zabuza vanished, leaving behind an afterimage, and in the next moment, he appeared behind his foe.
In the next moment, a large slash appeared across the rogue shinobi's chest, and his blood burst out like a fountain.
The rogue shinobi grunted in pain after being cut by Zabuza. He dropped to one knee and pressed a palm to his chest. Then, in a furious murmur, he growled, 'That brat... I'm going to kill him.'
"Damn it, he's not dead," Zabuza cursed under his breath. "That fatso is so stubborn... I need to finish him off now."
Zabuza quickly raised his katana above his head and swung it down at the rogue ninja, aiming to behead him.
However, upon being beheaded by the katana, the rogue shinobi's body vanished in a puff of white smoke.
When the white smoke dissipated, the rogue shinobi was gone—only a log remained in his place.
Suddenly, Zabuza heard the rogue shinobi say from his right, 'You did well, brat. For a genin, you're talented—you caught me off guard. But it's time I stopped toying with you. I'm going to kill you right here and now.'
Zabuza spotted the rogue shinobi standing beside a tree, forming a cross hand seal.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu."
A clone appeared next to the rogue ninja.
After the clone appeared beside him, he cursed under his breath and said, 'Damn it, I can still only create one shadow clone. My chakra isn't strong enough. I need to work on increasing it in the future.'
The rogue ninja, along with his clone, started performing a series of hand seals.
Once they completed the hand seals, he and his clone yelled in unison.
"Fire-Style: Dragon Rage Jutsu."
"Wind-style: Great Breakthrough Jutsu."
The rogue ninja breathes out a massive plume of fire, forming the head of an eastern dragon.
The rogue ninja clone simultaneously exhaled a powerful gust of wind from his mouth.
When the wind jutsu collided with the fire jutsu, it amplified its size, power, and speed twofold.
Zabuza stood frozen in place as time seemed to stand still around him.
"Am I going to die here today?" Zabuza asked, watching the fire jutsu hurtling toward him at incredible speed, about to engulf him at any moment.
Suddenly, multiple pillars of water came flying out of nowhere and collided head-on with the fire jutsu.
"PSSSHHHHTTTT."
Dense steam began to engulf the entire battlefield as the pillars of water collided directly with the fire jutsu, extinguishing it and blocking its advance.
The rogue ninja cursed under his breath upon seeing this and muttered, 'Damn it, reinforcements. This is really bad. I need to hide and come up with a strategy. This steam is obscuring my vision.'
He quickly swallowed a soldier pill to replenish his chakra, unaware that Rangetsu had appeared behind him.
With a smile, Rangetsu formed his hand into the shape of a gun and spoke loudly enough for the rogue ninja to hear.
"Water Gun Jutsu."
"SWISH."
A compressed water bullet fired from Rangetsu's index finger at high velocity. The rogue ninja didn't have time to turn around before it pierced his neck from behind and exited through the other side.
After the water bullet pierced the rogue ninja's neck, his vision blurred, and his strength quickly drained from his body.
Within seconds, the rogue ninja collapsed to the ground, motionless.
After the steam cleared from the battlefield, Zabuza was surprised to see Rangetsu and the other two Hozuki clan Chunin standing in front of him.
Rangetsu walked slowly toward Zabuza, smiling, and said, 'You did really well against that rogue ninja. You should be proud of yourself—his mastery of fire jutsu was quite impressive.
The other two Chunin nodded, and one of them said to Zabuza, 'Yes, his mastery of fire jutsu was quite impressive. But this rogue ninja was clever and skilled—he combined a wind jutsu with a fire jutsu to enhance its power.'
"This kind of skill is quite impressive for a Chunin, especially considering his wind jutsu mastery is only at a basic level."
The one who spoke was an ordinary-looking, middle-aged man with short silver hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and a lean, muscular build.
The other Chūnin nodded and said, 'True, if his mastery of that wind jutsu were above the basic level, his fire jutsu would be at least three times more powerful.'
This time, the speaker was a bulky, muscular middle-aged man with a ferocious-looking face, medium-length silver hair, and sharp eyebrows.
Rangetsu chuckled at the remark, then turned and sealed the rogue ninja's corpse into the corpse storage scroll.
"After sealing the corpse, Rangetsu looked at Zabuza and said, 'Hey, kid. How about we make a deal? I'll teach you a Water Style jutsu of your choice, and in return, you let me keep this rogue ninja's corpse. What do you say?'"
Zabuza's eyes lit up upon hearing this. He nodded in agreement and said to Rangetsu, 'That's fine by me, Rangetsu-senpai.'
Rangetsu smirked after hearing Zabuza's answer, then ordered his team, 'Alright, everyone, let's go check on Yukina.'
Everyone, including Zabuza, nodded before disappearing in a shunshin.
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