Rei didn't lower the kunai from Zabuza's neck. Because now ca the actual important part.
"Sign the contract." Rei spoke calmly.
Zabuza frowned imdiately afterward.
"What contract?"
And thus Rei finally showed him.
The mont the paper appeared and Zabuza started reading, his expression slowly changed from annoyance… to disbelief… and then finally pure shock.
This ti even Kakashi quietly observed from nearby without interrupting. Naruto and others anwhile gathered around curiously.
"What the hell is this?" Zabuza finally muttered.
That was probably the correct response.
Because unlike idiot Naruto who first saw only the secrecy clauses and surface level things, Zabuza imdiately understood the true horror behind it. This wasn't rely so sealing contract.
This thing was practically a soul-level enslavent technique. And the rewards were even more absurd.
"...You gain abilities through signatures?" Zabuza slowly raised his head afterward while staring toward Rei. In response, Rei showed him the ice senbon and also freezing water beneath his feet. Zabuza's eyes went wide.
The realization ca at a rapid pace. This genin's speed, Sharingan, huge amount of chakra, the techniques. All made sense. This genin didn't even use ice techniques against him. He was holding back his cards.
Tch...
Rei then gave a brief description so that he could understand what he was seeing.
"This kekkei genkai of yours is insane..." Zabuza muttered honestly. Even Kakashi couldn't deny that internally.
Because once one truly analyzed Rei's ability deeply, it beca increasingly horrifying. Given enough ti and enough talented people... Rei could eventually beco a walking army of bloodlines and techniques.
Tobirama would've had a heart attack seeing this child.
Zabuza imdiately threw the paper back afterward.
"I refuse."
Everyone expected that kind of response. If Rei wasn't a student and a friend of the others here and had deep curiosity, they wouldn't have signed either.
Besides, this agreent was different. It was lifeti servitude. But before Rei could even reply, Kakashi suddenly spoke from behind.
Coldly.
"If you don't sign..." Kakashi's visible eye narrowed slightly. "...I kill you here."
Even Naruto looked startled hearing that.
But Kakashi remained completely serious. Because unlike Naruto, he understood sothing important. Leaving a dangerous missing-nin like Zabuza alive without guarantees was stupidity. Especially after what he had seen.
Zabuza also understood that instantly. The situation pissed him off greatly. Because for the first ti in years, he genuinely had no cards left to play. Kirigakure hunted him.
Gato would've eventually betrayed him. Well, that could be taken care of.
Haku already belonged to Rei through the contract. And now even Kakashi stood here ready to execute him imdiately if necessary.
"...Tch." Zabuza clicked his tongue afterward.
Rei anwhile remained calm throughout the entire thing.
"You won't have a bad life under ." Rei finally spoke again. "I already have plans for both of you."
"Plans?" Zabuza asked.
"Ones that will blow your mind. Only thing I can say is your days of running around would end after you sign." Rei replied.
Rei genuinely didn't intend to treat them like disposable servants. The Demon Brothers already proved that much. Even Naruto and the others noticed it too.
Still... the contract remained terrifying. Zabuza stayed silent for almost an entire minute afterward. Then finally, after looking at Haku, who had been silent the entire ti, he decided.
"...Give the damn thing."
In response both Kakashi and Rei lifted the kunais from his throat, but Kakashi was still vigilant. Haku quietly closed his eyes in relief afterward.
And thus Momochi Zabuza signed the contract. The mont it happened, Rei instantly felt the changes hit him again.
Water Release mastery surged further, or at least it deteriorated first. Silent killing thods. Swordsmanship and other ways to kill. This man wasn't built to fight, he was ant to kill. Maybe only that Kisa was different from the rest of these 7.
This man was a walking nightmare in a stealth mission.
For a brief mont even Rei's aura itself changed slightly before stabilizing again. Kakashi noticed it imdiately. Though it was a very brief mont, Kakashi noticed it. He wasn't surprised as he was sure that this man was in a league of his own and would take ti to digest what he had received through the contract.
Before Zabuza could properly settle the fact that Rei had gained his knowledge of techniques and his abilities, Rei said.
"Co."
And in the next instant—
Space distorted.
Zabuza's eyes widened slightly for the first ti in the entire day. Then suddenly the cold misty bridge disappeared completely. And New York sunlight replaced it.
"...What?"
Both Zabuza and Haku genuinely froze.
Then suddenly the cold misty bridge disappeared completely.
And got replaced by massive open grasslands, fences stretching into the distance, huge barns, forests in the distance and the gigantic ranch house standing proudly beneath the sunlight of another universe.
Along with them Naruto and others arrived too. The mont everyone appeared suddenly, Daniel almost dropped the tongs in shock. The sa tongs with which he was making grilled chicken.
"...OH CO ON! AGAIN?!"
anwhile the Demon Brothers turned around from nearby training equipnt.
"...Zabuza-sama?!"
Both twins imdiately rushed forward afterward looking both relieved and horrified simultaneously. It ant that both of their strong pillars were no more the sa, but also relieved because it ant that they weren't alone anymore in this foreign world.
Zabuza and Haku didn't understand, so it was the Demon Brothers, copying the way Rei had explained once, who described to them what had happened. They felt like the ground under their feet had just collapsed.
Different world? Different place? Different universe? What the hell was going on?
It took them more than 2 hours of proper explanation and Rei helping before they accepted that they were in a different world. Now all the maneuvers and disappearance of Rei made sense.
That was a gun that Rei used before? Hmm.. Now everything makes perfect sense.
"So this is what you an I won't be hunted down by Kirigakure?" Zabuza asked. It had been a few hours since he had been here and suffice to say he loved the things around here. It was peaceful and full of life.
Like him, Haku too found it unbelievable that such kind of space-ti ninjutsu could even exist. But reality was giving him a reality check. And he was more than happy to get this reality check. They wouldn't have to look behind anymore. And that in itself was a huge boon.
So he wasn't complaining, and nor was Zabuza.
"Yes, but you will have to take care of your own clients as we need to complete the mission regardless." Rei reminded them.
"It will be done." It was Haku who responded. The response got a side eye from Zabuza and thus Haku said.
"What? I thought you didn't like them.."
"Hmmm.." Zabuza neither admitted nor denied it. Gato was paying them quite the amount but from the looks of it, they probably wouldn't be needing that kind of currency at all.
Haku didn't waste a mont and Rei sent him back to Gato and also told him to get all the money back after taking care of them. Gato had amassed a huge amount of wealth through all kinds of evil works. It was only fair that they got that money back.
Haku returned after an hour with a huge load of cash. At least 20 tis more than what they were paid for a C class mission. Kakashi nodded with satisfaction at Rei's handling of things.
They wouldn't go for Tazuna and his family as they were poor as fuck, but that didn't an that Konoha was a charitable organization. Since they had received the money from people who didn't deserve it, why not just keep it for themselves.
Sasuke didn't care but Naruto was more than happy to receive more money as that would an more ran. Sakura was happy to get paid more than they were supposed to, while Kakashi had reminded Rei that all this money could only be distributed to them after it got the approval of the Hokage and after submitting the report.
Of course, the report would have glitches as Kakashi was contractually forbidden to speak about his kekkei genkai and could only say that they had stopped the attack of one of the Seven Swordsn of the Mist and this wasn't just a C class mission.
2 days later
By now everything had been settled but that didn't an that the mission was over. From the ti difference, one could tell that it would take at least 20 more days to finish that bridge which ant they could spend more than a month in the MCU and thus all this ti they could laze around and practice.
Everything was sunshine and rainbows for the last 2 days, until that day, Sasuke and Sakura ca with a proposal that blew the mind of Rei.
"Rei, we want to go and save this man nad Tony Stark."
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