It was chaos. The fight going on around me was the worst I had seen in all my days as a ninja. And it was all being caused by one man. Kuragari. After the death of Orochimaru, this man had used all of that horrid snake's evil research and used it to turn himself into an invincible monster. Even I, Shikamaru, and all of my friends could barely handle him.
"Mao! Look out!" shouted Koyubi, pointing desperately behind me.
I turned just in time to see a mass of kunai flying towards me. I quickly noted the small paper tied to the end of each blade. That had to be an exploding note, which meant that I couldn't dodge them without causing setting fire to the trees in the forest behind me. In a blur, I threw a large shuriken at them, storing the power of wind into it so that it sent a powerful gust into the mass, launching them back to hit the beast that they came from. That was my power; the control of different elemental chakra, which I could only release after storing it into an item. Of course, it's not like my counter-attack did any damage at all, even though a racking explosion reverberated off his armor-like skin.
I took a good look at our opponent. He was truly a monster, a demon from the pits of hell itself. His skin was black, looking as though it were made of rock. He had four arms. One was a cannon, made to shoot any type of ninja projectile that you could want, while another had a large sword blade stretching out of his arm where his hand should have been. This blade could stretch to about thirty yards in length, twisting sideways like a snake, giving itself more room to maneuver. The last two arms were as normal as one could get, being made of some invincible material, and had a small hole them from which came large chakra fireballs that could be shot at enemies. But the arms weren't what scared me the most. Nor was it his impossibly muscled legs, nor his mouth full of sharp, razor-like teeth. No, it was his eyes. They had an unmistakable lust for blood in them, a look that told me that he had killed many before, and would do anything to kill again.
The funny thing was that I wasn't afraid for my own life. If I was afraid of death, I wouldn't have taken this job as a ninja. I was afraid for my friends. They were like family to me, my sisters and brothers, and I couldn't bear to lose any of them. Especially Shikamaru. I glanced over at my boyfriend. The dark eyes that I loved so much met mine for a second, as he looked up at me, his lips molding into a reassuring smile. I let myself be swept away into the depth of his eyes for a quick second, allowing my mind drift away from the battle to happier times.
Then, I quickly shook my head, clearing my mind. I couldn't be caught of guard in this battle. No matter what, I couldn't let any of these people fighting around me die, and I had to stay around to make sure of that. It wasn't that they couldn't fight for themselves. We were the most powerful team in Suna, and together, we could conquer anything. At least that's what I had believed before I met this thing. I would call it a "him," but it wasn't human anymore. The Kuragari that we had fought just a few hours ago was no more. In his place was a monster.
Needles started flying at me, pulling me completely out of my daze. I dodged quickly, jumping over to the edge of the clearing. I surveyed the fight, trying to see how everything was going. Wakana, Sana, Kami, and Sasuke were all working to handle the fireballs that were shooting everywhere and threatening to start a forest fire. Wakana was singing quickly, using her power of song to levitate the balls into a large blazing heap in the air above the clearing. Sana, Kami, and Sasuke were destroying them, using wind to break them down until they could no longer burn.
Koyubi, Kiba, Mimi, and Kibasa were all fighting the sword arm, forcing it back whenever it got too long. Mimi was clawing, catlike at the beast, while Kiba, and his cousin, Kibasa, were halfway transformed into dogs, and Koyubi's long, slender arms were stretched to whack anything that got too close. This left Shikamaru and I to handle the missiles. We drove them continuously back at the beast, protecting everyone else from their wrath.
All in all, we had a good system going, working to tire out our opponent and find his weak point. There was just one problem with it. Our opponent wasn't tiring, and he didn't seem to have a weak point. He had an endless amount of energy and no attack was effective on him. He even had a plate in his head that prevented genjutsu, and his chakra level was incredibly high to point where even Shikamaru's shadow technique was brushed off as though it were nothing. And no element could even faze him. We, on the other hand, were tiring, running out of chakra, and quickly too.
"This is hopeless," murmured Shikamaru to me, in between missile firings. "We're getting nowhere." He raised his voice. "Everyone! We need to fall back! We'll split up! Stay in the groups you're in now! We'll meet in the western clearing, the one with the waterfall, alright?"
Everyone nodded. For a second, I wondered why he just yelled out our plan right in front of the monster. Then I remembered. The monster was past remembering how to understand the words of humans. He couldn't even understand his own former name.
"Let's go!" shouted Shikamaru. And we all ran out into the forest.
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