Sasuke and Haku looked at the puppet. It resembled that of an old man as it had grey hair from its head down to the base of the back of the neck. The body looked a bit thick as its shoulders could easily be 3 feet across. It stood at 5 foot 7 inches tall and held a perpetual smile on its face. It had brown eyes and wore clothes like a civilian, as it had a white shirt under a brown coat, pale blue jeans, and black buckle shoes. It held a chain in its hand and ranked it, making the kama come back spinning at high speeds. It caught it as it raised its other hand and pointed its thumb at Luan. Sasuke and Haku looked and saw that Luan was fighting 3 water clones with one hand. Luan smirked at them as Sasuke had a smirk of his own "Tch, I was doing just fine without your help" he said

"Well you seemed to be taking your sweet time, plus you were wondering how a ninja could use puppets, so I'm giving you a demonstration with my weakest puppet, War King, as he was my first working puppet... get it! HAHAHA!" Luan said as they groaned

"Your jokes are really getting old, Luan," Luna said as she ax-handled a clone

"I know, but you still love me at the end of the day," she replied after dodged a sword swing. Sasuke then turned his attention back to Haku and rushed him with a kick at the ready. Haku ducked and swept Sasuke's other leg causing him to fall. But before Haku could continue, the puppet launched at Haku with the kama and chain spinning around. Haku watched as the puppet drew ever closer, but stayed put as the kama wouldn't hit him. Continuing his action to attack Sasuke, the puppet was a dozen feet away from him when the puppet began to spin the chain around its arm, making it closer to itself and within cutting range. Before Haku could react, he was cut on the arm and saw pieces of his kimono fly and stained with blood. The pain reached his pain as he jumped away while holding his arm. Landing next to Zabu, he was watching the puppet still spin the kama around along with his master as Sasuke got up "Thanks for the assist, but I could've handled it," Sasuke said as he saw the puppet roll its eyes

'Such advanced puppet control, why does something tell me these three have been hiding their skills?' Kakashi thought

"Hmph, their still brats, if it wasn't for that joker over there, Haku would've killed'em," Zabu stated

"You made a mistake, Zabu," Kakashi said

"Oh, and what might that be?"

"You made the mistake insulting these ninja and calling them brats. That's just guaranteed to bring out Sasuke attitude, he's the best young fighter in the Konoha. And Sakura here is our sharpest mind," Kakashi said as Sakura blushed "and our number-one hyper knuckleheaded ninja is Naruto Uzumaki,". Kakashi finished his speech as Zabu chuckled a bit "If we continue at this rate, we're going to be the ones dead instead," Zabu stated, "so get on with it, Haku!" Zabu ordered

"Right," Haku said as he made a single hand sign and the air grew cold. Suddenly, ice started to form around Sasuke and took the form of mirrors "I'm sorry it had to come to this... SECRETE JUTSU: DEMONIC ICE MIRRORS!" Haku said as he slowly walked into one. Soon a picture of him was on the other side, almost like a reflection. They were in shock as they witnessed this and the puppet swung the kama around, but it just bounced off the ice like a ball. The puppet tried again and again but to no avail. Then, pictures of Haku formed on the other mirrors and Saukse started to become scared. Kakashi growled as he ran at the mirrors, but was stopped by Zabu "If you enter this fight then you're fighting me too," she said "your student has no chance against that jutsu even with that puppet, he's finished," she continued as Kakashi witnessed Sasuke barely dodge and attack. A thin line of blood ran down Sasuke's arm as he was struck from behind "SASUKE!" Kakashi shouted as he was helpless to help his student. Haku was throwing needles at him, but when another one was being thrown, it was destroyed in the air by a kama. Looking at the puppet, it had another kama in its hand and placed in front of Sasuke. It began to spin both kama's around as it blocked nearly every other attack. The ones that got through grazed Sasuke and only tore at his clothes "Seems the puppet is actually helpful, but that won't madder in the end. So if you even try helping, I'll kill those two behind you in a heartbeat!" Zabu said as she was grabbed from behind. An arm was wrapped around her neck while one arm was behind her back "W-what?!" she shouted in surprise

"Sorry we're late, I had a few pests to take care of beforehand," said a voice

"LINC/BRO!" shouted Luna and Luan as they saw Lincoln holding Zabu

"Help out Sasuke will ya, Naruto?"

"SURE THING, LINCOLN-SENSEI!" shouted Naruto as appeared in a cloud of smoke. He threw a kunai at the mirrors in hopes of helping Sasuke, before it could reach him, Haku caught it. Naruto smirked as he then launched a shuriken at Haku, it hit his mask and caused him to fall to the ground. Sasuke glared at Naruto but huffed in anger "Tch, show off," he said as Haku touched the new mark on his mask

"Number one, hyperactive, knuckleheaded ninja," he said slowly

"NARUTO UZUMAKI... IS HERE! BELEIVE IT!" Naruto shouted with a smile

"Stop messing around and get over there!" Lincoln said

"L-let go!" Zabu demanded

"Sorry sweetheart, but you're coming with me for a bit," Lincoln said as the two vanished in a swirl on black and orange fire

"Where did they go?!" Sakura asked as Naruto smirked

"He's going to fight Zabu of course!" Naruto said as one of the clones fighting Luna and Luan threw shuriken at him. Naruto was too busy trying to be cool to notice when he turned around. His eyes widened as suddenly two kama blocked the shuriken. Looking at the puppet, it held empty chain in its hands, but its body was covered head to toe in ice needles and senbon. It soon fell to the ground "HAKU!" shouted the clone before it was turned to water by a punch from Luna

"I'm sorry, Zabu-sama, but this boy... I must fight him my own way," Haku whispered, but Naruto heard him

"BRING IT ON!" Naruto screamed when Sasuke launched a kunai at Haku. Haku moved his head back a bit to let the kunai pass "Don't think I haven't forgotten about you," Haku said "some people know when they are beaten and just give up. You, on the other hand, are too arrogant to let it slide and accept defeat. So let us finish our battle then if you to keen on laying down your life!" he said as he walked back into the mirrors

"Where are you going?!" Naruto whined

"No worries, Naruto, we'll have our fight next," Haku said as he merged with the mirrors.

With Lincoln:

Lincoln appeared with Zabu in the middle of the forest and tossed her at a tree. She landed feet first and used her chakra to attach to it "Where are we?!" she shouted

"Away from them so we won't be disturbed," Lincoln said

"Let me guess, you plan to fight me? Alone?"

"Awww, just had to go and ruin the surprise, didn't you?" Lincoln said with a whiney voice

"Hmph, this isn't a fight... IT'S A ONE SIDED ANNILHATION!" Zabu shouted as she launched at Lincoln, breaking the tree with her push off. She swung her sword around as she was about to cut his head off. But Lincoln ducked and punched her in the stomach. Grunting, Zabu used her other hand to grab his arm and flip over him. Swinging again, she missed as Lincoln leaned forward and kicked her sword. Following her sword, she landed on top of the handle with her blade in the ground. Weaving hand signs, she said "HIDDEN MIST JUTSU!" and a heavy mist rolled into the area

"My, my, this trick again, you do know that I ca-" Lincoln stopped as he noticed something was wrong "1... 3... 8?" he whispered as Zabu appeared at his right with her sword in the air. He went to block the attack, but then 7 others appeared around him. He froze in surprise as a Zabu from behind managed to cut his back. The Zabu's then returned back into the mist as her voice echoed "You froze there for a second, it was a shot in the dark but I guess I was right,"

"What were you right about?" Lincoln asked

"When I saw younger, I found a book. A book titled Tor Nørretranders, it explains that people are triggered half a second earlier than the brain orders to move. For example, a kunai is flying towards some person. That person is triggered, but still unconscious. 0.5 second later the brain orders to move and the action comes," Zabu explained as Lincoln saw 6 Zabu's jump him from behind. He was about to attack them before he felt two more large slices on his back "This means between when the person is triggered and when become conscious, the person is unconscious for 0.5 second and people can beat that person as much as they like for 0.5 second. It's almost an invisible moment," Zabu continued as Lincoln gritted his teeth and managed to strike a clone, causing it to turn to water "you managed to confirm it for me,"

[Hope you enjoyed the chapter and sorry if things are rushed here and there]