Chapter 320: Haku VS Suigetsu
"Reincarnation Jutsu is just a dead end!"
At this point, Orochimaru already understood Haruno Sakura's thoughts.
It was an expected answer.
"That's right, Haruno Sakura has also seen it," Tobirama Senju added. "I can roughly feel that Orochimaru's spiritual power is large but unsubstantial, and his soul shows signs of damage. Therefore, even if he stole a little of my elder brother's power, he can't use it at all..."
"Hmph, so talkative!" Orochimaru snorted coldly, but did not refute the Second Hokage. "I still need to continue improving my control over the jutsu. Next time I summon you, you won't be able to speak!"
"Are you still planning to continue using this ninjutsu?" Tobirama Senju asked with a frown.
"Of course! Such a useful jutsu... I should thank you for developing it!" Orochimaru sneered.
To be honest, if Tobirama Senju hadn't been holding Haruno Sakura back, Orochimaru might not have been able to last this long... The sea provided too much of a boost to the combat power of a Water Style ninja of her level!
"It seems we will meet again..." The Second Hokage ignored Orochimaru and said to Sakura, "You developed the Ice Style Kekkei Genkai yourself, right? It's very similar to my elder brother's Wood Style. In that case, the you of now should still have a lot of potential for growth... Next time we meet, you should be even stronger!"
Haruno Sakura smiled slightly. "Don't worry... next time we meet, I will definitely beat him into a dead snake!"
Tobirama Senju tried his best to control his neck and nodded almost imperceptibly.
He mobilized his chakra again and said, "We're leaving! I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble."
"It wasn't much trouble..." Sakura also nodded to him. "Goodbye, Lord Second Hokage!"
Tobirama Senju took Orochimaru and used the Flying Raijin technique, instantly moving behind a distant mountain. Haruno Sakura sensed their chakra flicker in that direction, and then instantly move to a farther place, outside her perception range...
"It seems they're gone..." Haruno Sakura looked in the direction they had left, sensed for a while, and sighed.
"I can't relax yet!" She clenched her fists. "First, I'll go meet up with Haku!"
Let's push the time back a little bit.
When Haruno Sakura asked "Where did that young man who can liquefy go?", just as Orochimaru had said, Suigetsu had taken advantage of the two fighting and had slipped into the valley, wanting to take the opportunity to seize the Executioner's Blade.
"Huff, huff!" Suigetsu rushed into the interior of the valley at his fastest speed. After running for a while, he stopped, panting heavily. Running at full speed was not his forte. (Note)
The silver-haired youth untied the water bottle at his waist and gulped down water, muttering to himself, "What terrifying chakra. Both of them are monsters!"
"If I get caught in it, I'll definitely be finished... This far away should be fine, right?" He looked back. The battle over there had already started. The roaring sound of ninjutsu collisions could be felt from several kilometers away!
BOOM! Suddenly, there was a loud bang. Suigetsu was startled and shrank his neck, trembling. He looked back in horror and saw orange firelight lighting up half the sky in the distance, reflecting the outline of the mountains in golden light, and dyeing the clouds in the sky yellow!
"What the hell is this..." Suigetsu took a step back, stumbled, and almost fell to the ground.
Then a scorching heatwave hit him, blowing down the flowers, grass, and trees in the valley, and uprooting several large trees. The fierce wind kicked up a flurry of rocks and broken branches, hitting his face.
Suigetsu hurriedly reached out to block in front of him, spitting out the sand and stones that had flown into his mouth. The fierce wind and heatwave quickly subsided, but the shocked expression on his face did not fade. He murmured, "This is too exaggerated..."
Standing here, the aftershock was already so exaggerated. What kind of contest were the two people on the battlefield engaged in? What kind of thrilling battle was that?
Just imagining it made Suigetsu's heart race.
"Let's go a little further away," the silver-haired youth let out a breath of turbid air and said. "I have to find it quickly!"
He turned his head and was about to continue forward when he suddenly heard someone speaking.
"What are you looking for?" A crisp and soft voice sounded behind him.
Suigetsu turned around, and what came into view was a beautiful woman in a floral dress, walking gracefully towards him.
A beauty, but also a ninja... Suigetsu noticed her beauty immediately, but he quickly realized that the newcomer had a faint chakra signature, and her strength seemed not weak!
A Konoha ninja.
Suigetsu's gaze swept over the woman's face, which was as bright as the autumn moon, and landed on the forehead protector tied to her arm. Thinking of the Konoha ninja he had just met, he quickly guessed the identity and stance of the woman in front of him.
"I'm looking for the Executioner's Blade," the silver-haired youth grinned, revealing his white teeth. "You should know where it is, Yuki Haku?"
His tone was very certain, and he smiled as he looked at the woman in front of him. Guessing her identity was not difficult. Orochimaru had already said that Yuki Haku would come to the Land of Waves to pay respects to Zabuza. The ninja just now was Haruno Sakura, so this woman could only be Haku.
Unless there were more than two of them.
Obviously, Suigetsu guessed right.
"Executioner's Blade?" Haku's long, thin eyebrows furrowed slightly, wrinkling imperceptibly on her smooth forehead. Her sweet voice became cold. "You know me?"
"Of course. I also know that you come to the Land of Waves every year at this time to pay respects to Zabuza," Suigetsu said frivolously. "He was a traitor to our Mist Village!"
How does he know about me? Yuki Haku was shocked, and her expression changed slightly.
The woman frowned at him, took a step back, and gently assumed a stance. Her autumn-water-like eyes became cold and sharp, looking at him with a hint of vigilance.
"Sorry, I am a ninja of Konoha Village," Haku said, her clear and cold voice sounding faintly. "It seems you are not a ninja of the Mist Village either! But that doesn't matter... What do you want with the Executioner's Blade?"
"Don't be nervous, I'm not a bad person..." Hozuki Suigetsu said with a smile. "I trained hard because I admired the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, hoping to inherit the title of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. I heard that Senior Zabuza's sword was left here, so—"
The silver-haired youth looked at Yuki Haku and stopped talking. His meaning was already self-evident.
"So you want to take the Executioner's Blade," Haku said coldly.
She placed her hand on her chest, assuming a defensive posture.
"I'm sorry, the Executioner's Blade is a relic of Mr. Zabuza..." The woman looked at him with firm and unquestionable eyes, rejecting his request. "I can't let you take it."
Hozuki Suigetsu carefully sized up the ninja in front of him.
A beautiful face that could even be described as city-toppling, a slender and graceful figure... She didn't look like a powerful ninja...
"What if I insist on taking it?" he said, his left hand slowly reaching for the ninja tool pouch at his waist.
Yuki Haku did not answer him.
The ice senbon condensed in her hand gave him the answer!
"It seems I have to defeat you to get the Executioner's Blade..." Hozuki Suigetsu laughed, revealing eight sharp teeth in his mouth. His smile became ferocious and terrifying!
He assumed an offensive posture.
According to Orochimaru's intelligence, Yuki Haku was an Ice Style ninja.
So, this battle would be Hydrification Secret Technique versus Ice Style Kekkei Genkai? Hydrification Secret Technique was countered quite badly by Ice Style! It seemed he would have to rely on his strength advantage to forcefully defeat his opponent!
The two looked at each other, said no more, and threw their ninja tools at the same time in tacit agreement!
A kunai and a senbon collided in the air, spinning and falling to the ground, announcing the official start of the battle.
"Ice Style: Swallow Snowstorm!" "Water Style: Water Formation Wall!"
The two used ninjutsu almost simultaneously!
Far away from the battlefield where Haruno Sakura and Orochimaru were fighting, the two ninja who had accompanied them also began their contest.
In the fierce battle, although Haruno Sakura and Orochimaru knew that they might have run into each other, and even started fighting somewhere in the valley, they had no time to worry about these two people's affairs.
After the two "Kage"-level ninja here had finished their great battle and disengaged from the battlefield, Haruno Sakura remembered Haku's matter and hurried over.
At this time, the battle between Haku and Suigetsu had already ended.
The result of the battle was that Yuki Haku easily won the final victory.
This was a very natural thing, because whether in taijutsu or ninjutsu, Suigetsu was completely countered by Haku.
Ice Style actually had a great restraining effect on Water Style: at the beginning of the battle, Suigetsu had wanted to use Water Style to deal with Haku for a while, but the result was that Haku, relying on her superb Ice Style attainments, completely sealed his Water Style!
He didn't believe in evil and used all his strength to use a "Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu"—of course, not as exaggerated as Haruno Sakura, creating a water dragon two or three hundred meters long in one breath—condensing the surging water flow into a giant dragon dozens of meters long. Just as it was about to crash into Haku, he saw Haku use a Cold Frost Ice Funeral, directly freezing the water dragon into an ice dragon!
"No way?" Suigetsu's eyes widened!
The majestic giant dragon in front of him was frozen into a large lump of crystal clear and heavy ice. It could no longer surge or rise up. Instead, unable to be controlled, it fell solidly to the ground and shattered into a pile of ice slag...
The ninjutsu he had worked so hard to cast by consuming chakra was gone just like that!
The silver-haired youth was instantly stunned.
Fortunately, the pacifist Yuki Haku did not take the opportunity to attack. She looked at the somewhat distracted Suigetsu and just said faintly, "It seems your ninjutsu is ineffective against me, so you'd better give up! I won't give you the Executioner's Blade!"
She was not as violent as the pink-haired girl, who had to beat people down before reasoning with them. Haku felt that after showing the gap in strength and the restraining relationship of ninjutsu, Suigetsu should retreat in the face of difficulties.
Unfortunately, Suigetsu did not.
"Damn it, I haven't lost yet! I can still use taijutsu!" Suigetsu said with a look of annoyance, drawing two kunai and rushing up.
"Taijutsu is what I'm really good at!"
This statement was not false.
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