predator

preparation for battle

Zabuza get's slammed to a tree by kakashi and suddenly two senbons get implanted in the mist village nin's neck making him fall down unconscious

Yuuki:"he is dead!" She exclaimed with shock she looked at where the senbons came from and saw

A person wearing hunter-nin mask yuuki couldn't tell if the person was a female or male

Hunter-nin:"your right he is dead,you were very impressive fighting him off I've never seen a genin fight that good you are certainly a jounin level kunoichi"

Yuuki:"thank you"
She smiled at the compliment it seemed to her that this person was softhearted like her teammates no she can sense it like how she can with other's she wasn't going to disclose it to her teammates

Kakashi falls down unconscious due to overusing his sharingan he was unconscious because he has exhausted his chakra and even his body felt a lot of pain because of zabuza's attacks unlike other sharingan user's kakashi can't deactivate the sharingan hence why he covers it with a blindfold so that too much chakra doesn't get wasted

Team 7 and tazuna reach their home

Kakashi:'no something is strange could i have missed something l'

Naruto:"what's wrong sensei?"
Kakashi looked like he was thinking about something

Kakashi snaps back to reality

Kakashi:"huh? Well body erasing teams usually dispose the bodies of the person they kiled right there"

Sakura furrowed her brows in confusion what was he getting at?

Sakura:"so what?"

Kakashi:"how did that masked boy dispose of zabuza's body?"

Yuuki was surprised that it was a boy since she thought the masked nin looked like a girl

Sakura:"how could we know the masked boy took the body with him?"

Kakashi:"yeah if he needed proof of his work he could have just taken the head and the weapon used to kill zabuza"

Sasuke realized something

Sasuke:'simple needles'

Sasuke:"no way"

He was shocked to his core that the masked boy wasn't a hunter nin if he was then he should have done what Kakashi said hunter nin's were supposed to do

Kakashi:"exactly yeah?"

Tazuna:"what are you guys talking about?"

Kakashi:"most likely zabuza is alive"

This shocked the 15 year old ninja's

Yuuki:"what a pain in the ass"
She grunted in annoyance

Naruto:"what the hell do you mean?"

Sakura:"Kakashi sensei you checked and said that he was dead"

Kakashi:"yeah I did but that was just momentary death the needle that hunter nin used unless it hits a vital organ it has low probability of killing someone it's even an item used by doctors in acupuncture therapy hunter nin's know about the body's structure thoroughly putting a person in a momentary state of death is easy for them first he carried away the body of the much heavier zabuza second he used a weapon that has a low probability of killing these two points Indicate that his motive was not to kill zabuza but to save him we can't ignore that possibility"

Tazuna:"aren't you thinking too much hunter nin's are supposed to kill missing nins"

Kakashi:"no with all the suspicion we will prepare before it's too late, that's a shinobi rule plus whether zabuza is alive or dead there is no assurance that gato hasn't hired an even stronger shinobi"