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Chapter 35: A Glimpse of Power
As Naruto had expected, the chakra from the demon fox contained more than just yang qi. It also held a great deal of pure and unadulterated…hatred.
'This is why most demon cultivators end up losing their minds… I think I understand it better now… still, this power is nothing to scoff at,' he thought.
"What are you?!" Haku yelled.
Outside the ice barrier, Kakashi and Zabuza had stopped their fight when they felt that powerful wave of chakra.
"What was that?!" Zabuza felt an incredibly violent chakra erging from inside Haku's ice.
"Oh no!" Kakashi exclaid. Unlike Zabuza, he was very familiar with that particular chakra. It was the sa one he felt that day, fifteen years ago, when the Kyubi went loose and destroyed half of Konoha.
'Did the seal break?' The Jonin was starting to panic.
But then, all of a sudden, the baleful aura disappeared almost completely, leaving behind only a mild trace.
"What's going on in there?" Kakashi muttered.
"Sasuke… please be fine…" Sakura stared intensely at the do of ice. She wanted nothing more than to rush in there.
Back inside the ice, Haku was watching in disbelief as the genin in front of him was able to put all of that violent energy under control.
"I'm surprised you didn't attack while I was distracted…" Naruto glanced at the masked ninja.
"It's best if you give up… I don't want to have to kill you, like I did with your friend." Haku clutched at his senbons, trying to hide his nervousness. That chakra had shaken him to the core, but his Master always told him that a ninja must never show his emotions.
Naruto was also hiding sothing under his impassive gaze. He was currently in trendous pain.
'I have put this demonic chakra under my control, but my body is not strong enough to contain it for long. I must hurry to finish this opponent, or I may truly die early in my new journey.'
He was beginning to regret taking this route. At the ti, using the demon's chakra seed like the least harmful option.
Naruto had other ways to give himself a short-lived boost of power. But they required sacrificing his own life force or his cultivation, and that was sothing he wanted to avoid at all costs.
'I would feel like a fool if I just die now for sothing like this.' Despite the pain, his body felt much better to move.
He could estimate that in his current state, he was around the Core Foundation in terms of power. This was also the mont when he could start to use all his stored energy to activate so real techniques.
Haku noticed Naruto moving his feet and knew it was ti to attack. He did not know what the genin was capable of doing with that baleful chakra, but his instincts were telling him he had to finish this as fast as possible.
A dozen senbons ended up being stabbed on the surface of the stone bridge.
Naruto had disappeared from the spot with a speed that surpassed Haku's, and the next instant, he was in front of the masked ninja, prepared to attack.
In that small fra of ti, Haku knew he was in danger and pushed his bloodline ability to its limit, creating the most powerful ice shield he could muster.
Naruto did not stop or change his movents. His right fist continued its path until it made contact with the ice.
For a mont, it seed like nothing was going to happen, but then… all that demonic chakra they had all felt monts ago was transford into a wave of pure heat and released right in front of Haku.
His ice shield cracked and disintegrated imdiately under the blazing temperature. His body then began to burn so quickly that he did not have ti to even consider using a substitution technique.
Haku was an incredibly talented ninja but had little experience in real combat. And the few tis he had to fight, he would always overwhelm his opponents with his superior speed.
This was the first ti he found soone who could move faster than him, and his reaction had been a fraction of a second too slow.
That is all it took.
Kakashi and Zabuza had not resud their duel after feeling that demonic chakra. Both experts had been staring at the do of ice, wondering what was going to happen next.
But neither of them had expected to see Haku's impenetrable prison being blown up by a massive wave of fire that erged from the inside and erupted towards the sky.
Kakashi reacted imdiately by taking Sakura and Tazuna away from the heat. Even at the distance they were in, it was enough to suffer severe burns.
But then he glanced back at the place where the ice used to be. His two students had been there a mont ago, but now there was nothing but a thick mist, created by the sudden evaporation of all that ice.
"No! Sasuke!" Sakura scread and had to be stopped by her teacher so she would not rush in there.
"Wait here… I'm going to g-" Kakashi stopped talking when he felt sothing moving. The tomoe on his Sharingan began to spin as he put it to work and imdiately saw traces of chakra moving in the mist.
It was hard to detect anything with precision because the demonic chakra of the Kyubi was currently covering most of the bridge.
But then, a figure erged from within.
"Naruto?..." Sakura walked closer, and then… she gasped. "Sasuke!" She took off running when she saw that Naruto was carrying on his back the body of their teammate.
"Oh no!" Kakashi also moved imdiately to Naruto's side. Had he lost a student already?
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