After all, although he had many ways to deal with the senbon attack just now, it would still consume chakra in the end. And as for his own chakra amount… emmm.
Could it really be like what Furina said that he had read too much Icha Icha Paradise and it affected his chakra? Maybe he should go back and take a break from it for a while.
No, wait he was in the middle of a fight; what was he even thinking about? And how could it possibly be because of that? It was just because he needed to constantly expend chakra to maintain the Sharingan.
As he thought about it, Kakashi unconsciously glanced at Furina beside him. When he saw she wasn't looking back at him, he inexplicably let out a small sigh of relief.
Of course, Furina had no idea Kakashi had been thinking so much. Right now, her attention was entirely focused on the newly appeared Haku, so she hadn't noticed him at all.
If Furina ever found out about Kakashi's little inner monologue, she would definitely tease him: it was precisely because he read too much porn that he was so "weak" don't make the Sharingan take the blame for everything.
"Zabuza-san, are you alright? I'm sorry I couldn't block Kakashi's sneak attack just now. He was too fast, and I didn't react in time."
"Why the hell are you apologizing to me? Don't I know Kakashi's strength? If you could block one of his deliberate sneak attacks in time, wouldn't that make you stronger than me?
Stop blaming yourself. Better think about how we're going to deal with them next. Neither Kakashi nor that little girl is easy to handle."
"Yes."
Hearing this, Haku said nothing more. He simply took out his senbon and prepared for battle. Seeing that, Zabuza didn't bother with him anymore and turned his gaze back toward Kakashi in the distance.
"Heh heh heh. Now it's two against two, huh, Kakashi? With things like this, do you still think you can win against me for sure?"
"Whether we can or not, we'll only know after trying. Even if it became one-on-one, I still don't think you'd be my match. And as for your subordinate I don't think he'd be a match for my subordinate either."
"Heh, so confident, Kakashi. Then let's settle this with our hands."
With that, Zabuza charged straight toward Kakashi. The two clashed for a few exchanges with broken blade and kunai before, as if by mutual understanding, they gradually moved farther apart. Clearly, both wanted to turn the battle into two separate one-on-one fights.
It seemed they both believed in themselves or believed in their own "subordinate" to come out victorious.
"Looks like it's just the two of us now, masked little guy."
"Miss, could you please give up resisting? I don't want to hurt you."
After noticing that Furina hadn't attacked right away, Haku also refrained from making the first move. Instead, he began trying to persuade her though his persuasion skills were, frankly, pretty terrible.
Hearing Haku attempt to talk her into surrendering, Furina couldn't help but find it amusing. She knew he was being completely sincere, but the words somehow felt oddly familiar.
"Oh? So you're saying you could hurt me at any time?" As she spoke, Furina deliberately put on an angry expression, as if she felt genuinely offended.
"I'm sorry."
Although Haku found Furina a bit strange, her attitude clearly showed she had no intention of giving up resistance. In that case, he had no choice but to act. Zabuza-san's condition wasn't good he couldn't afford to drag this out too long.
"I know your Water Release ninjutsu is very strong, but my ability has an advantage over yours. Be careful."
"Mm-hmm, I'll be careful. Come at me whenever you're ready."
Seeing that Haku actually warned her to be careful before attacking, Furina couldn't help but feel a touch of emotion. Someone with this kind of personality really wasn't suited to be a ninja.
Reminding your enemy like that was honestly a bit too foolish it basically increased your own chances of dying in battle. It was only because he ran into a "good person" like her.
Still, even while feeling moved, Furina didn't forget to open the system and add some points for herself. After all, Haku's Ice Release did have some counters to Water Release she needed to go all out to avoid any mishaps.
[Constitution: Chūnin (303/5000) → Chūnin (5000/5000)]
[Constitution: Special Jōnin (0/20000)]
[Strength: Chūnin (464/5000) → Chūnin (2259/5000)]
[Favorability: 0]
After allocating all the favorability she had accumulated during this time, Furina could clearly feel that her stamina and strength had improved noticeably compared to before. This made things much safer.
"Ice Release: Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death"
Seeing that he couldn't persuade Furina, Haku immediately used his kekkei genkai right from the start even though he didn't want to hurt her.
But from watching her earlier fight against Zabuza, he knew that unless he went all out, he wouldn't be able to threaten her at all.
Around Furina, countless ice senbon gradually formed. Although ice itself wasn't particularly strong, under the enhancement of the Ice Release kekkei genkai, these ice senbon were far more powerful than ordinary ones. That was the dominance of a kekkei genkai.
"Ice Release, huh? Interesting. It's gotten so much colder all around looks like the terrain advantage I created has turned into yours now."
Facing the ice senbon appearing around her, Furina showed not the slightest panic. Instead, she casually commented on it with interest.
With a series of whistling sounds, all the ice senbon around Furina shot toward her at once. With that quantity, if they actually hit, she would definitely be turned into a pincushion.
"Water Release: Water Vortex"
Just as they were about to strike, Furina made her move. A massive water vortex enveloped her completely in a 360-degree barrier with no blind spots. At the same time, it blocked all the ice senbon outside and drew them in, adhering them to its surface.
And that wasn't the end of it. Under Furina's control, the water vortex then transformed into a Water Dragon Bullet, carrying the newly absorbed ice senbon as it surged toward Haku.
Watching the "ice-spiked water dragon" rushing toward him, Haku couldn't help but frown. He hadn't expected her to have this kind of trick up her sleeve. That level of Water Release proficiency even Zabuza-san probably…
Realizing his thought was somewhat disrespectful to Zabuza, Haku quickly shook his head to stop it and rapidly formed hand seals once more.
Just before the "ice-spiked water dragon" could hit him, a massive ice mirror appeared in front of Haku, blocking the attack for him. After the enormous explosion from their collision subsided, the ice mirror remained completely unscathed.
And not just in front of Haku similar massive ice mirrors had also appeared around and above Furina, trapping her inside.
"ε=(´ο｀*))) Sigh… as expected. All that hard work I put into creating water earlier has just ended up helping you. If I hadn't used the Great Waterfall Technique back then, you probably couldn't have made ice mirrors this big, right?"