The second wielder of the broken blade Kubikiribōchō among the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, Zabuza Momochi.
He wielded Kubikiribōchō as naturally as an arm, and he was ruthless enough that people called him the Demon of the Hidden Mist.
He respected no one. Back when he worked in ANBU, he used Hidden Mist Village's silent killing methods to take out quite a few important figures.
That was how he made a name for himself: the Hidden Mist Silent Killing Technique.
Chakra flooded his entire body, and a layer of ghostly crimson chakra steam burst from his skin.
Then he cast the Mist Hiding Technique. Once the thick fog covered everything, he hid within it, darting through enemy ranks at high speed to cut people down before appearing in an instant to finish things with a single swing of Kubikiribōchō.
This modified Mist Hiding Technique not only concealed him perfectly, but also let him use the chakra mixed into the mist to locate his opponents.
The technique had one flaw: it burned through chakra like water, requiring an enormous amount.
The Mist Hiding Technique alone was manageable; he only needed to create enough dense fog to obscure vision.
But once he mixed sensory chakra into the mist, the consumption rose without end.
With Naruto, whose depths he could not gauge, watching him now, Zabuza naturally wanted to conserve chakra and rely on the weather.
Not everyone had Naruto's absurd chakra reserves. Most Jonin were already impressive if they could store up a single card's worth.
That was why Jonin often still relied on taijutsu, throwing shuriken, and attaching explosive tags in battle.
Ninjutsu was generally kept in reserve as a trump card, used to catch someone off guard.
Just as Zabuza was about to reduce visibility to around five meters, a suffocatingly