[Suddenly a group of Wild Fangirls attack.]
"What does that mean?" asked Sakura.
"AHHHH! IT'S SASUKE-KUN!"
Sasuke stood upright, an expression of horror disturbing his face, and he looked to the side. Then he was abruptly not there.
"AHHHH! SASUKE-KUNNNNNN!" screamed the crowd of girls as they charged out of the brush on one side of the road and charged off towards the other side.
[Wild Fangirls try to use Mob Attack! Sasuke Dodges!]
Sasuke leapt from the brush, running as if his life depended on it as he crossed the road and jumped into the brush on the other side.
"AHHHH! SASUKE-KUNNNNN!" screamed the crowd.
A little pink-haired girl stood there briefly. "We is in Hot Pursuit!" At which point she charged off into the crowd again.
[Wild Fangirls use Hot Pursuit. It's Super Effective!]
"Hey, I remember this!" said Naruto. "You were doing this with the other girls about two years ago."
"I... remember," said Sakura, sounding as if she very much did not want to remember this.
"It's like a feeding frenzy with a predator going after fresh meat," noted Kakashi. "Or young girls at a rock concert."
"AHHHHH!" screamed Sasuke as he crossed the road again, this time with his shirt missing and the rest of his clothing looking a bit frayed around the edges.
"SASUKEEEEEE!" called out the crowd, still in Hot Pursuit.
Sakura twitched a lot. "I wasn't that bad. Was I?"
"They even have the little hearts in their eyes thing going," noted Naruto as he sounded vaguely nostalgic.
Sakura paused. "Well, at least we grew out of it."
Tazuna looked towards Kakashi. "She's kidding, right?"
"Well, she has toned it down a little bit," admitted Kakashi.
Sakura twitched.
"UNNN!" said Sasuke, holding as much of his remaining clothing on as he ran back across the road again.
"I think that was a call for help," said Kakashi.
"Nah, he loves the attention," said Naruto.
WHACK! went Sasuke's fist onto the top of Naruto's head as he ran back across the road.
"STOP!" tried Sakura as she leapt in between Sasuke and his pursuers.
TRAMPLE!
[Wild Fangirls use Trample Underfoot.]
"Fire Release! Great Fireball!"
There were a few screams and then the crowd dispersed, fading away.
Sakura, who'd missed most of the fire due to being flattened on the ground, coughed briefly.
"What exactly WAS that?" asked Tazuna.
"Huh," said Naruto, punching buttons. "One of Sasuke's disadvantages is 'pursued by fangirls' - that might be it."
Sasuke limped back onto the road, clutching a few pieces of his clothing that had survived.
"I never acted that bad at least, right Sasuke?" asked Sakura, not managing to keep all the hopefulness out of her voice.
Sasuke directed a flat look towards her.
"Oh," said Sakura, thinking that maybe she should get rid of the shirt-piece she had in her collection.
"Well," said Naruto. "That was interesting. And odd. And oddly interesting. And slightly disturbing."
Sasuke merely vowed that when he had the chance, there was a disadvantage that was going to be bought off.
There were some areas better for ambush than others.
The choice was simple enough for Zabuza Momochi. If the bridge-builder made it this far, they would likely come across on a small boat that could sneak past the mercenaries. They would likely come ashore here, where the trees were close to the water and provided the most cover.
The same things that would provide cover for the ninja sneaking Tazuna back into Wave would provide the best chance for an ambush.
If they chose another area, the lack of cover would mean the group would be more visible at a distance. Most ninja would choose the less visible option, a sort of professional bias. That which made a ninja predictable could be exploited by another ninja - something Zabuza was quite familiar with.
Sure enough, there was the group disembarking from their little boat ride. Concealed in the brush without even a ripple of killing intent or sound to betray him - Zabuza was ready to kill off the little Leaf ninja.
Wait, what was that music?
"'Boss Encounter - Zabuza Momochi'?" asked Naruto as he read the screen after the music had prompted him with a clue that something was about to happen.
Sasuke blinked, looked briefly about, then threw shuriken into the underbrush.
"What?" asked Naruto.
When she got a good look at what was pinned by a shuriken through an ear to a tree, Sakura sagged in relief. "Just a false alarm."
"That coloration," noted Kakashi aloud, as a white rabbit was decidedly out of season.
CRACK CRASH!
"What the hell?" asked Zabuza Momochi, the branch he'd been standing on having abruptly decided it wasn't up to the task.
"Zabuza Momochi," said Kakashi. "One of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist."
"THAT is a big sword," noted Sakura.
"Yeah, the women tell me that all the time," said Zabuza as he picked himself up off the ground.
There was a moment of dead silence.
"Oh, wait, sorry, wrong prepared speech," said Zabuza.
"You four, stand back and guard Tazuna, this fight is way out of your league," noted Kakashi.
Naruto considered his options.
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