Chidori shattered a single Ice Mirror, then continued on its path, pulverizing one Ice Mirror after another with its buzzing sound.
Sasuke yelled as he relentlessly pursued.
Amidst the flying shards of Ice Mirrors, multiple Zabuza moved left and right.
Seeing that he couldn't shake off Sasuke, Zabuza had no choice but to change his strategy.
He raised his right hand, and dozens of Ice Mirrors, arranged in three layers, surrounded the trio from all directions.
"Naruto-kun, I really don't want to fight you all."
Seeing Naruto-kun's cheek twitch, as if about to unleash his S-rank Talk no Jutsu, Ino quickly released her Ninjutsu.
"Leave this Female Ninja to me, none of you move! Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave!"
Naruto-kun wanted to say that the person in front of them wasn't a female, but seeing Zabuza in female attire, he was momentarily at a loss for words, his Talk no Jutsu directly interrupted.
The power of Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave startled Kakashi, Asuma, and Zabuza, who were fighting in the distance.
Zabuza was utterly confused, muttering, "Who the hell is using Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave?" He could also use a Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave of that caliber, but he hadn't because he simply felt it was unnecessary. If his opponent was stronger, it wouldn't matter if he used it or not. If they were weaker, wasn't it better to just cut them down with a single sword? Why use Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave!
Kakashi used his Sharingan to sense the Chakra intensity in the distance and sighed inwardly, "Having a lot of Chakra is really good, truly good."
Ino's Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave didn't reach the level of Kisame, who could create a lake out of thin air, but it far surpassed most people.
Overwhelming torrents of water surged outwards from her in all directions.
The tightly enclosed Demonic Mirror Ice Crystals were swept askew by the water flow, allowing Sasuke and Naruto-kun to leap out through the gaps and observe the battle from a nearby tree.
"Clap clap clap—" Crisp sounds rang out incessantly as Ice Mirror after Ice Mirror set up by Zabuza was shattered by the water.
Zabuza, holding his senbon, was forced to move between the many Ice Mirrors. Each time he moved, he would use Chakra to create a varying number of Ice Mirrors, while Ino continued to control the water flow to charge forward.
Zabuza's Ice Release slowed the water's movement, and the impact force of the Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave unknowingly lost thirty percent of its power.
He kept the senbon in his hand. Once the impact force weakened, he immediately emerged from an Ice Mirror, raised his arm, and threw the senbon.
It was clearly a process of entering an Ice Mirror, throwing senbon, then entering the next Ice Mirror, and throwing senbon again, but due to his exceptional speed, it created the illusion of dozens of Zabuza simultaneously throwing senbon for a split second.
"Be careful!" Naruto-kun called out from a distance.
Ino clapped her hands on the ground: "Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall!"
An earth wall rose from the ground. In the very center of the earth wall were Q-version avatars of the four members of Team 10. Ino specifically placed her own avatar in the center position. From a distance, this Earth Flow Wall even resembled the Hokage Rock.
The precision of the Earth Release wasn't enough, but her Chakra was much greater than Kakashi's. The earth wall that rose from the ground formed a circle, blocking all the senbon.
Senbon are tools used by Medical Ninja for acupuncture and bloodletting; their lethality is far inferior to Kunai and Shuriken. Although Zabuza is a male, his strength wasn't much higher than Ino's. Senbon hitting the earth wall would at most create a small dent.
High-speed movement consumes a tremendous amount of Chakra and stamina. Taking advantage of Zabuza's pause in throwing senbon, Ino gathered her Water Release Chakra between her chest and abdomen, quickly formed hand seals, and increased the pressure.
She stood on the earth wall and unleashed a Ninjutsu towards the Ice Mirrors: "Water Release: Water Severing Wave!"
Under pressure, the silver water stream formed a water line. In one-tenth of a second, it shattered an Ice Mirror, then continued without stopping, continuously cutting through Ice Mirrors in a clockwise direction.
Zabuza, who was adjusting his breathing, was greatly alarmed and quickly moved.
Ino had already created a Shadow Clone. At this moment, the Shadow Clone used its sensory abilities to search for Zabuza's position among the many Ice Mirrors.
"Three o'clock direction."
"Now at nine o'clock, the mirror in the middle."
"He's behind us!"
In a chase, Zabuza's speed was extremely fast, but Ino's Water Severing Wave was even faster!
Zabuza needed to constantly move between the Ice Mirrors, while Ino only had to slightly tilt her head, and the silver water line would pursue and horizontally cut through the Ice Mirrors.
It was like one person running in front, and another person standing still, spraying with a submachine gun. It just depended on whether the person ran faster or the bullets flew faster.
Zabuza had never encountered such a strong enemy as Ino. Anyone else, seeing their Ice Mirrors shattering one after another and the water line about to catch up to them, would probably have panicked long ago.
Zabuza's combat intelligence was very high.
While moving at high speed, he formed a hand seal with one hand, and conversely, used the clear water created by Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave to activate a Ninjutsu.
"Water Release: Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death!" The surrounding water transformed into countless fine needles, dense as raindrops, piercing towards Ino, who was still controlling Water Severing Wave.
The moment Zabuza attacked, Ino also pinpointed his exact location.
The Shadow Clone using sensory abilities erected an earth wall, taller than a person, in front of itself. After that, the dense fine needles struck the earth wall.
This was a genuine Ninjutsu, and its lethality was much greater than the previous senbon.
After the effect of Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death ended, Zabuza focused his gaze and found that the earth wall was gone, and Ino behind the earth wall had also vanished into white smoke.
Not good! Both were Shadow Clones! He was about to move when he suddenly saw Ino emerge from the earth beneath his feet.
Ino smiled brightly: "Jio, beautiful big sister, you lost! Earth Release: Headhunter Jutsu!"
She grabbed Zabuza's ankle, then yanked him down fiercely.
"You're the one who lost! For Lord Zabuza, I will not lose!"
Zabuza was also setting up a plan. The fragments of Ice Mirrors shattered by Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave and Water Severing Wave were scattered around, inconspicuous in an environment full of glass shards. In reality, a portion of his Chakra still remained on them.
When Ino activated Headhunter Jutsu, he immediately reassembled the scattered Ice Mirror fragments into a complete Ice Mirror, then used his Ice Release ability to leap into the air, bringing Ino, who was in the earth, out with him.
Mid-air, he held a senbon and thrust it towards Ino's heart.
"Poof" Ino transformed into a puff of white smoke and vanished without a trace.
Zabuza sharply turned his head, just in time to see Ino opening her hands, and dense streams of water rushing towards him.
"Water Release: Water Prison Technique!"
Zabuza's strength was considerable; he should be the strongest among his peers whom Ino had fought so far, but he still couldn't break out of the Water Prison Technique from the inside.
Ino created a Shadow Clone to maintain the Water Prison Technique, then formed hand seals and aimed at Zabuza.
"Ninja Art: Mind Body Switch Technique!"
Her will, enveloped in Chakra, surged into Zabuza's mental world and quickly gained control of his body.
She wanted to see what Ice Release was all about and what conditions she still lacked to fully master this Ninjutsu.
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