Kakashi tells Sakura not to egg on Naruto and Sasuke. Even if they could beat Haku’s technique, they don’t have it in their hearts to kill someone. Sakura screams in frustration, but Kakashi decides to finish it with his Sharingan. Zabuza rushes towards Kakashi and stabs at his eye, but Kakashi is able to block with his hand. He explains that he was the one who taught Haku all his techniques. His jutsu surpasses even Zabuza’s.
Inside the mirrors, Naruto replicates again and his clones are once again defeated. This time, Sasuke started to see his movements. When Naruto replicates a third time, Sasuke kicks some water up in hopes of tracking Haku. Again, the attempt is futile, but Sasuke thinks that maybe something other than water will work.
Zabuza confesses that he wasn’t just getting beaten up like an idiot. He had Haku hiding in the background watching the battle go down. Haku is usually able to come up with a way of defeating a technique after one viewing, so he warns Kakashi that the same jutsu won’t work on him twice. He then performs Hidden Mist no Jutsu and disappears.
This time, Naruto replicates, but Sasuke uses fire to track him. When he goes after Naruto, Sasuke hits him with fire and slightly wounds him.
Kakashi is able to block Zabuza’s attacks, but Zabuza warns him that he relies way too much on sight. At the river, it was the Sharingan that allowed Kakashi to give the impression that he was copying Zabuza’s techniques. Once his mind was confused, he was able to use a hypnotic genjutsu to finish the move before Zabuza. But he now knows the secret… Now he uses the mist to keep the eye useless, and if he closes his eyes and maintains distance, then he won’t be hypnotized. He is a master of killing on sound alone, so he has the advantage.
Sasuke tells Naruto to run outside and attack. As Haku flies to Naruto, Sasuke throws a fire attack. Naruto almost makes it outside before Haku catches him and knocks him back in. Sasuke is ready to try again, but this time Haku attacks Sasuke first.
Kakashi tells himself to calm down. If he were Zabuza, what would he do? He realizes he’d attack Tazuna and by the time he gets to them, Zabuza is able to strike. Blood splatters…