Go back in time a little.

Just when Naruko and Tenma were dealing with the Ronin, Kakashi and his party arrived at the bridge construction site.

"It seems there are enemies here..."

Sako suddenly stopped and judged based on a strange intuition. Kakashi also agreed with her statement and slightly twitched his delicate nose under the mask, the smell of blood?!

"Ah! Look!"

Sakura suddenly exclaimed and pointed to a certain place. She could see many men in work clothes lying there.

Tatsuna, who ran over in an extremely nervous panic, frowned after hearing what the still-breathing man said.

"What's wrong with you? Hey! Cheer up!"

"There is... Ronin..."

Kakashi raised his head and looked at the strange sky. That guy was also a proud man. It was probably caused by some ronin?

"It's just right... Do you have to be fair even in sneak attacks? That guy."

The originally clear sky began to turn ruddy white, and a thick fog drifted over from nowhere and soon enveloped the entire bridge.

Seeing this scene, Kakashi lowered his waist, took a stance and pulled out the kunai while shouting:

"The enemy is coming!"

Sako and Sakura had also noticed it a long time ago. They quickly moved behind Kakashi and got into a fighting stance.

"Kakashi-sensei, is this the Kirigakure technique that guy used?"

As if answering Sakura's question, a voice came from all around.

"Oh~ I haven't seen you for a week, Kakashi. You are still the same, with a few useless brats... Oh~ she is shaking again, how pitiful she is."

The next moment, Kakashi and others were surrounded by several Zabuza who suddenly appeared.

Sako was just as Zabuza said, her body was trembling slightly, but the difference was that a seemingly relaxed smile appeared on her face.

"Yeah~ I'm trembling with joy."

Zabuza's expression changed slightly but then returned to his original proud self.

"Do it! Sako!"

The moment Kakashi gave the order, a figure suddenly sprang out from behind her and quickly rushed into the water.

With just a simple circle, Sako returned to her original position. In an instant, the objects that were originally Zabuza surrounding them slowly turned into water splashes and dispersed.

"Oh? Not bad~ I can actually tell which ones are water clones... Bai, it seems you have a strong enemy."

Zabuza appeared from a distance away from the fog with a smile on his face. Behind him stood the young man with a mask on his face.

"It seems that my prediction was right..."

Kakashi said calmly and confidently.

"I'll deal with that guy."

Sako stared straight at the masked young man named Shiro, slowly lowered his waist and pulled out a kunai from the ninja bag tied to the outside of his thigh.

"How dare he play such a bad trick... I hate this kind of pretentious guy the most."

"So handsome!"

Bai just glanced at Zuo Zi lightly and commented calmly as if it had nothing to do with him:

"Well...that girl is really amazing. Even the incomplete water body has one-twentieth the power of the main body, but she solved it so easily. Her progress is not slow."

"Well~ Come on!"

Zabuza just twisted his neck, made two clicking sounds, and ordered Shiro slightly excitedly.

The moment Zabuza gave the order, the white figure standing behind him immediately disappeared. The next moment, a figure holding a kunai suddenly appeared in front of Sako.

"So fast!"

Although he was a little shocked by the young man's speed, Zuo Zi still dealt with it calmly and steadily caught every move from Bai Gong.

Seeing this situation, Kakashi and Sakura put down their worries and just formed a defensive formation around Tazna.

"I don't want to kill you, but you refuse to retreat?"

Shiro started a fierce struggle with Sako with the kunai in his right hand held by Sako, with a hint of helplessness in his tone.

"Stop talking nonsense."

Zuo Zi was also exerting his strength in this situation, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face as well as he refused to admit defeat and answered.

"Yeah?"

Bai just asked with a faint smile, and did not say a lot like in the original work.

Sako narrowed her eyes slightly uneasily.

While his right hand was wrestling with Sako, Bai suddenly raised his freely movable left hand and formed the seal at an extremely fast speed.

"This is?! He can actually form seals with one hand?"

The eyes of Sako and Kakashi who were watching the battle suddenly widened.

"Secret Technique! Qian Sha Shui Xiang!"

The moment the Indian knot was completed, Bai's right foot suddenly stepped on the ground.

In an instant, the water scattered around because Sako broke Zabuza's water clone turned into slender needles and floated into the air.

"Is this calculated?!!"

Pupils suddenly shrank, Sako tried his best to drive his limbs, trying to get rid of the kunai on his right hand. In his current defenseless state, no matter what technique it is, a direct hit is enough to take away half of his life!

When the sharp tips of the densely packed fine needles neatly turned inwards and surrounded the two people who were in a stalemate, Shiro immediately jumped back very quickly with the help of Sako's kunami's strength.

The next moment, countless sharp flying needles were shot at Sako who had used his strength to open the door wide open!

Zuozi suddenly closed his eyes, formed seals with his hands, and concentrated his consciousness on the soles of his feet, bursting out the results of his week-long tree climbing practice.

The chakra under his feet exploded, and the figure suddenly disappeared!

When the Senbon made of water collided with each other and turned into water droplets and flew away again, there was no trace of Sako where she originally stood.

Disappeared? Above!

Bai's attention was attracted. An idea flashed in his mind. Without looking, his feet suddenly tensed and he immediately shifted his position.

A rapidly rotating shuriken struck the wet bridge from the white figure above its head.

"I didn't expect you to move quite quickly..."

At some point, Sako was standing behind Shiro with a kunai in his hand, and said something that was both complimentary and sarcastic.

At the moment when Senza Mizuho's water needle was about to hit Sako, she concentrated a large amount of chakra on the soles of her feet and jumped directly into the air.

The only place that the countless water needles hovering around cannot cover is the top of the head, because the water comes from the ground.

Instead of continuing to be cool, Sukeko launched a one-sided attack from Shiro's back at extremely fast speeds, completely leaving the masked boy without any chance to counterattack.

Just after the opponent dodged the kunai she swung at, Sako used the power of her fingertips and used the Uchiha family's secret weapon technique to quickly eject the kunai.

Just after Bai narrowly escaped this extremely close-range hidden weapon attack, another attack came over!

Taking advantage of the moment when his opponent's defensive posture was completely deformed because he was avoiding the hidden weapon, Zuo Zi had already kicked him hard!

But Shiro is Shiro after all! His rich combat experience is not just for words. He was in mid-air, his hands were slightly together, and he hit Sako's calf hard. He used the force to bounce away without any damage.

Almost back to where Zabuza was standing.

"I see, no wonder you said that. In fact, I want to know more about that brat's progress."

Zabuza's eyes flashed with excitement, "If it's that brat, although he's still very weak, he's almost catching up with Shiro?"

"If you underestimate us, it will be very troublesome!"

Kakashi narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Zabuza who still had a wild smile on his face.

"Sako is our number one newcomer in Konoha, Sakura is the best-minded ninja in the village...and there is another pushy, most unexpected and mischievous ninja - Naruko."

"Of course, and being a reliable Pegasus!"

Zabuza narrowed his eyes happily and laughed and said:

"Ah! So that nasty brat is called Pegasus?! What a great name!"

"Bai...don't you understand? If this continues, it's you who will die!"

Bai was quiet for a moment, and after pondering for a moment, he replied regretfully.

"Yes... it would be such a pity if this were the case..."

After Bai finished saying this, he slowly walked forward, and his clear eyes under the mask became slightly more serious. With every step he took, the white smoke caused by the air-conditioning floating around him became thicker.

"This is... air conditioning... what's going on?!"

In just a short moment of fighting, Shiro's combat power has surprised Zuozi more than once. There are endless things that he has never seen before! How can he repair it, even worse than Pegasus...
To be continued...