"Rasengan!"
With a loud shout, the rapidly spinning sphere of chakra struck the water clone. In an instant, the entire clone shattered into pieces and completely dissipated.
Naruto Uzumaki panted lightly as the clones behind him vanished one after another. He flashed Zabuza a brilliant grin. "Yo, looks like your clone isn't all that useful."
"That brat... that jutsu!" Zabuza, who was still restraining Kakashi, showed a slight change in expression, surprise entering his voice.
Kakashi smiled from within the water prison. "Surprised? Hehe, the Rasengan—a Rank A offensive ninjutsu said to have been invented by the God of Time and Space, and inherited by my teacher, the Fourth Hokage. Forget your water clone—if even you took that attack head-on, there's no way you'd survive."
"Shut up!" Zabuza was beginning to lose his temper. "A ninja's strength isn't determined solely by what jutsu they've mastered. At the level of those rookies, even if they knew S-Rank Ninjutsu, I could still take them out with ease."
"Is that so?"
Those words did not come from Kakashi. Zabuza instantly turned his head and saw the cold-faced Second Pillar somehow already at his side, the Kunai in his hand slashing down in an instant.
"That brat!"
Zabuza's eyes widened again as his body instinctively bent backward, narrowly avoiding the strike by a hair's breadth. At the same time, while doing his best to maintain the Water Prison Technique, he kicked out. Sasuke crossed his arms and used the force of the kick to launch himself upward.
But that gave Sasuke the high-ground advantage, while Zabuza, standing on the water's surface, had undoubtedly become a living target.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
In midair, Sasuke swiftly formed hand seals, then spat out a massive fireball that painted the entire water surface crimson.
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