This is impossible.

Haku has fought difficult odds before, gone up against stronger ninja than he and still come out on top. But this, this chakra, this

boy,

is unlike anything he 's ever seen ' the paralytic in Haku 's senbon should have left the boy helpless for more than a day, but he 's standing as if there were no poison at all, as if the red lotus toxin Haku had slathered across his senbon couldn 't stop a charging bull elephant in it 's tracks.

Where the

hell

is all that chakra coming from?

A shining amber shroud of it drapes and curls around the boy 's shoulders like a cloak, twisting in rings and spirals down his limbs. It 's visible,

impossibly