Tetsuya: Excellent, the contract is sealed. Congratulations on signing a contract with a devil

Zabuza looked at Gato and the band of wandering samurai, then spoke calmly to Kakashi.

"Sorry, Kakashi. Looks like our fight to the death has to stop. I no longer have any reason to kill that old man. With no mission left to carry out, there's naturally no need to keep fighting you."

Kakashi showed little reaction to those words.

"Yes, that's true. Let's leave it at that."

Although they had been trying to kill each other moments before, they stopped fighting with ease.

That was what ninja were like: decisive and rational.

"It's starting, it's starting! The slaughter is about to begin. Sasuke, want to see how to kill without spilling blood? The kind that doesn't even leave a body behind?"

"Kill without spilling blood? Without even leaving a body?"

Sasuke was a little curious. Whenever killing came up, he always remembered that night of rivers of blood.

Blood had flowed like rivers, corpses had littered the ground, and dead people had been everywhere, their faces filled with pain and resentment.

"Heh heh, want to know? Follow Reflection Izuna in a bit, and you'll see."

On the bridge, Naruto unleashed the first Talk no Jutsu of his life, using it on Zabuza.

As Zabuza saw it, ninja needed to understand their place. Ninja were tools, and tools had no need for emotions.

Naruto, however, believed ninja were people too. People were creatures with emotions, and those emotions were what made life rich and colorful.

Faced with both Gato's abuse of Haku's corpse and Naruto's Talk no Jutsu, Zabuza conceded to Naruto.

"Yes, kid. It's just as you said. Ninja are people too. Maybe we can't become completely emotionless tools. I lost."

"You..."

Naruto stared at the demon, tears streaming down his face.

"Kid, lend me your kunai."

Naruto had