Zabuza immediately pulled around his sword, ready to block whatever the blond brat was doing.
"You've got some speed, now work on aim," the black-haired kid was advising the blond.
Zabuza Momochi wondered briefly what the kid was talking about, especially as Sharingan Kakashi had leapt backwards and away from him.
"Railgun no Jutsu," repeated the blond kid.
He didn't have to know what was going on particularly. He noticed the kid pointing one hand at him, with the palm up oddly enough. There was a brief flicker of something.
KA-KLANG!
Zabuza had braced himself automatically and used his sword to block the area the kid was pointing at. He didn't see whatever that kid had done, but he certainly felt the impact.
"Well, I'll just have to kill the brat before he gets his aim better," said Zabuza, focussing a spike of killing intent at the genin.
"Railgun no Jutsu!"
KRAK!
WA-TANG!
Zabuza frowned as the kid had apparently taken the threat seriously and responded by upping the force of that jutsu. He idly palmed and threw a senbon, thinking to disable the annoyance. "Not bad, kid. But not nearly good enough."
"Uhm," said Kakashi. "If you'll remember, you're fighting me. Naruto, it might be best to stop working on your new jutsu and guard the client."
Naruto dodged the senbon, automatically scanning it and determining what exactly it was.
"Pay him back a hundredfold," suggested Sasuke, ready to leap in and fight and take back the spotlight.
"Railgun no Jutsu!!!" declared Naruto, this time throwing everything he could into the attack.
KRAKABOOM!
A thousand needles exceeded the speed of sound.
Kakashi noticed how many of the needles were spread out and took an additional couple of steps back.
"Okay," said Zabuza, noting that he had needles sticking in him everywhere the sword hadn't covered. Lots of needles. "Okay. That was a little more respectable." The needles dissolved into thin air and blood started seeping out of the wounds. "Now I've got to take you seriously. Too bad for you."
"Naruto," said Kakashi, apparently ignoring that the damage to Zabuza was such that the missing-nin would have trouble getting around. After all, he could be faking. "Again!"
"Wha?!" managed a startled Zabuza as he dropped to the ground and prepared to use a jutsu. Though frankly he was just trying to get away at this point.
"Railgun no jutsu!"
KRAKABOOM!
"Agh," managed Zabuza, observing that trying to fit his entire body behind the sword hadn't exactly worked.
"That looks like it hurts," said Sakura, staring as she lowered her hands from her ears.
"I noticed," said Zabuza, noting that he was bleeding out and frankly why wasn't Haku...
Two senbon came out of the woods and pierced his neck.
A Kiri Hunter-nin dropped down, told everyone he was disposing of the body, and then fled.
"What did he say?" asked Sasuke. "My ears are still ringing from Naruto's jutsu."
"What?" asked Sakura.
"That was a Kiri Hunter-nin," explained Kakashi. "He was taking Zabuza to destroy the body."
"What?" asked Sasuke and Sakura.
"It was a Kiri Hunter-nin," said Kakashi.
"If you didn't have that mask at least I could read lips," complained Sasuke.
"Did you say something about a kinky water bin?" asked Sakura. "Kakashi-sensei, can you leave your private life out of it?"
"I think if Naruto is going to use that jutsu, we're going to have to invest in ear protection." Kakashi noted.
"What?"
"Kakashi-sensei?" asked Naruto as his own hearing returned somewhat faster than his team-mates. "If the Hunter was going to destroy the body, why didn't he just do it here?"
"Oh, that's because..." Kakashi's voice trailed off. "Oh hell."
"Haku."
"Quiet please, Zabuza-sama. I'm trying to stop the bleeding."
"If I even CAN recover from this," said Zabuza. "How bad is it?"
"It's not good, Zabuza-sama."
"A genin did this. A freaking genin."
"It's a miracle that no major arteries were severed, Zabuza-sama. Or organs. Or..."
"That good?" asked Zabuza.
"In some cases, there is only a single senbon's thickness from a major artery. Either the genin's aim is incredible or you were incredibly lucky," said Haku, sitting back and shaking his head in disbelief.
"I can't believe that kid has that good an aim, and my luck has never been that good." Zabuza mulled it over briefly but just couldn't see any other explanation. "No, I know his aim isn't that good as most of the needles didn't come anywhere near me."
"Your joints on the other hand, Zabuza-sama," Haku began, hesitating. "Without a medic-nin it may be impossible for you to regain full range of motion. It will also take a full week before it is safe for you to move around."
"Lovely," said Zabuza in a sarcastic tone.
There was brief silence as Haku continued to suture, pack medicinal herbs, and bandage.
Zabuza frowned as it was going on, finally asking a question that had been bothering him. "Do you have any idea what a 'railgun' is?"
"No, I was wondering that myself," confessed Haku.
"So, we've established," said Kakashi. "Don't use the senbon version unless you have NO allies, potential allies, innocents, or objects in the general vicinity of the target. Plus you are only to use it on targets you are absolutely sure are enemies and there are no alternatives to killing them. Right?"
"Right," allowed Naruto, who felt that in terms of awesome amounts of damage it was a perfectly viable tactic.
"Just imagine if an enemy nin had captured Sasuke-" began Kakashi.
"Hnn?" asked an alarmed Sasuke.
"-okay, an enemy nin had captured Sakura and was holding her prisoner. Would you use that jutsu?" asked Kakashi.
Naruto glanced at the torn up ground, trees, underbrush, and looked thoughtful before shaking his head. "No, Kakashi-sensei."
"He'd better be a lot better with his aim if he's going to shoot either version of that jutsu off," pointed out Sasuke.
"Well, we can work on that," admitted Kakashi. "Perfect the aim at lower speeds and then work up. In fact, there's some chakra control exercises I have in mind for this trip. Rin already knows them, so she can help."
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