Action time! Nuclear kitsune! There's a really awesome visual effect they use for Naruto snarling. Scared out of his wits, Haku lobs some needles at Demon Naruto, who repels them through sheer effort of being majorly pissed off. Smashing mirrors isn't a problem for Naruto anymore, and after a totally sweet leaping/spinning dodge by Naruto and his last attempt at finishing the kid off bombs, Haku finally decides to get the hell out of Dodge. He gets about two steps before Naruto grabs Haku by the wrist and volcanoes the ice mirrors away. According to Kakashi, the seal on the Demon Fox isn't broken, but it's definitely got a leak sprung. He also does some awesome scroll-fu, which I thought initially was for Naruto. The Copy Ninja offers to let their next move settle things, and Zabuza accepts. It looks like Naruto's next move might settle things, too. He hits Haku with a devastating hand-on-fire right, so badass we get multiple viewpoints so we know how hard it is. Naruto runs at the Femme Boy, ready to make him dead, but he... can't, and appears to be all Demon Foxed out. He does land a nice frustrated haymaker on Haku that is somewhat satisfying.
Haku can't believe that between Naruto going atomic and killing Sasuke he can't kill Haku. According to Haku, Naruto's taken away his reason to live - Zabuza, whom he bound his life to protect. Haku lost his parents, farmers from the Land of Water, when he was small. Things were going well, until "the" civil war made people with Kekkei Genkai bad insurance risks. The Ninja Medieval Witch Trials, if you will. Haku's father killed his mother (where Haku gets his talen from), and tried to do the same to Haku. I hope Sakura's parents are decent, because so far if you have a mom and dad in this show you might be better off an orphan. Haku's father got his, though, in the form of giant ice stalagmites through various parts of his body. They connect then, Naruto and Haku, both knowing what it's like to never matter to anyone, until they did. For Naruto, it was Iruka and for Haku, Zabuza. I won't lie to you, folks, I sniffed a little. Having come to terms with not being the tool Zabuza wants, he asks Naruto to finish it.
It's time for some new Jutsu, in this case an Earth Summons, but Zabuza's pretty dismissive about it. That proves to be a mistake, because Kakashi just summons attack dogs out of the ground. "Those are my adorable Ninja Dogs," says Kakashi. HA! Even Kakashi being cut up by Zabuza was part of the ploy, and I literally cannot keep the smile off my face. "The fog has lifted. And the future is... death." Kakashi's really knocking it out of the park today. Literally dogpiled, we get some background on Zabuza: he attempted a coup, which didn't work and so he had to flee to the carefree lifestyle of a Rogue Ninja. We get a jutsu that Kakashi didn't copy, and it's called Lightning Blade, and it is already hardcore. Thugging for goons like Gato is no life for the ninja, Kakashi says, and offers him a chance to give up. If Zabuza's mouth wasn't wrapped, I'm sure he'd spit. Instead he just refuses. Back to Naruto, while his sensei's ready to end one life, Naruto still can't bring himself to end Haku's. He doesn't get Haku's total dedication to Zabuza, who we see was actually kind of fatherly to Haku (albeit probably in a hardcore rough-and-tumble rogue ninja sort of way). No purpose left, Haku asks Naruto to make it quick.
Next Episode: Something happens, with much sad faces and tinkly piano music.
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