When Kakashi prepares to stop Zabuza, Haku suddenly sacrifices his own life to spare Zabuza. Unfortunately Zabuza is ready for another round while Kakashi isn’t playing around this time. Failing, Zabuza is confronted by his employer, who has decided to take matters into his own hands.

Meanwhile, in the Wave Country, Inari goes around trying to gather people to fight against Gato. He approaches his uncle, Mr. Giichi but Giichi denies him help. Giichi’s wife says that it’s possible that Inari is more of a man that Giichi is. Inari realized the will to fight that both Naruto and his father possesses and Naruto’s advice of never to give up.

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When Naruto takes out his rage with Kyubi’s chakra for killing his friend Sasuke on Haku, he doesn’t stand a chance. He realizes that Haku was the boy he met at the forest sometime ago. Haku tells Naruto the story of his past how he was hated because of his power, and asks for Naruto to do one favor for him to kill him. Since he took away his dreams, he wants Naruto to kill him. Will Naruto do the one thing he could never do, kill another person, and do as Haku wishes?

Continuation from the last episode where Kyubi’s Chakra was released from Naruto. Naruto rushes over to Haku and Haku tries to stop him by throwing senbon needles. It was useless though as the chakra deflected his attacks. Hake decides to move to a different mirror and tries to attack again but this time it hits Naruto in the back.

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Both Naruto and Sasuke are continuing in fight with Haku and are getting beaten bad. Sasuke begins to be able to trace Haku’s movements, after having Naruto try and escape a few times. At the same time, Kakashi and Zabuza begin their fight outside. Kakashi shows his Sharingan again, but Zabuza tries to remove it from Kakashi’s head. He fails, but tells Kakashi he has figured out the Sharingan and disappears in the mist. Can Naruto and Sasuke escape from Haku’s jutsu? What plan does Zabuza have to defeat the Sharingan?

Kakashi tells Sakura that even if Naruto and Sasuke manage to defeat Haku’s technique, they don’t have the heart to kill him. Sakura screams in frustration while Kakashi decides to end it with his Sharingan. Just as Kakashi was to attack, Zabuza made the first move and tries to stab his eye. Kakashi manage to avoid direct hit but did took of some injuries. Zabuza tells that Haku’s techniques were all taught by him but Haku’s ability currently surpasses his own.

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Naruto finally joins the battle on the bridge. But he gets caught in the middle of Haku’s jutsu as well, he and Sasuke must work together to escape. Kakashi is unable to help them, as he must deal with Zabuza to protect Sakura and Tazuna. How will the two escape from the ice mirrors without any help?

Naruto arrives just in time for the battle. Kakashi tells Naruto that he drew too much attention to himself and should’ve stayed hidden. Zabuza throws some Shuriken at Naruto, and he prepares to defend himself. To everyone’s surprise, Haku uses his needles and protects Naruto. He tells Zabuza that he wants to take Naruto out on his own. He then turns to Naruto and tells him that he’ll deal with him after he’s done with Sasuke. Sasuke prepares for Haku, and hopes that Naruto will be able to free him from the outside.

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