Turning point: Prologue chapter

:The end?!:

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This was a joke, it had to be. This girl shouldn't be here. So what if Konoha had forgiven Suna, this was way too soon to be trusting them as reinforcements. Tayuya had been so close to ending that cocky spiky headed idiot's life, now that the sand girl was here it was two against one, she'd have to rethink her approach.

As she looked down at the pair from the branch she was now standing on; once she'd regained her balance from the blast of wind earlier, her mind began to race. She'd already been forced into second state by this Chuunin kid, she'd already made him realize she could forcibly break out of his jutsu and he was pretty much out of chakra. This was the perfect time to end it, but now that stupid sand bitch had arrived.

"I heard we made up with the traitors from the land of sand."

The spiky haired kid said after a few seconds. He wasn't paying attention to Tayuya anymore which was definitely a mistake, but she decided to let him have his say for now. After all, they'd both be dead soon.

"But I didn't think you guys would flip sides this fast." He finished.

Without even turning around to face him, the blonde girl replied.

"It's not like we wanted to raid Konoha, it was just orders."

She turned her head slightly to look back at him.

"The same way I was ordered here."

Tayuya swore she saw a look of relief on the boy's face after hearing that, she thought to herself.

"Heh, stupid kid, I'll make him suffer after I'm done with her."

As the blonde looked back to Tayuya, she spoke again.

"By the way..." She paused slightly before continuing. "Are you getting dumber by the minute?"

She asked him, as she turned her head by the tiniest amount and smiled at him. Tayuya could only think of one thing by now, and that was to make this bitch pay for being so smug. When at that point the girl turned to face her once again and asked the boy, the same smile crossing her face.

"So, you wanna pull out again? I can take care of her, you know"

Now all Tayuya's mind was focused on was how many ways she had to make this girl scream and writhe in as much pain as possible, she wasn't even listening to the conversation anymore. But as furious as she was, she decided to play it cool. She couldn't let them know she was getting this worked up. Once she was sure the two had stopped talking, she decided to make herself known so she could get started.

"You guys sure keep busy, switching sides all the time!"

As she spoke she slowly raised her flute to her dark brown lips.

"So now you're with Konoha?!"

Both her enemies were now focused on her and the spiky haired kid looked pretty worried.

"That flute."

He said quickly.

"It's how she wields Genjutsu."

Again the blonde girl didn't move her eyes from her opponent.

"Duh!" She snapped back to him. Despite them being on opposite sides, Tayuya had to give the sand bitch points. That was pretty obvious.

Taking a deep breath, the redhead concentrated her chakra and began to play her melody.

"Once I get them in my Genjutsu." She thought to herself. "They're finished."

As the musical technique drifted closer to her opponents' ears, the sand girl raised her giant paper fan behind her before swinging it back towards Tayuya with enough force to create a gale force wind. As she did this, she shouted out.

"Wind Scythe Jutsu!"

Tayuya stopped playing. Looking up at the almost visible wind she realized that it wasn't just blowing trees down, it was cutting them in half. She barely had time to react before the gale was upon her, jumping back in retreat she failed to notice a part of her flute being sliced off by a stray blade of wind. She could hear the pair talking behind her as she moved to a safer distance but she didn't care anymore, she had to finish this now.

As Tayuya reached a point that was just out of earshot she checked her own body for signs of injury or damage, surprisingly after a technique like that her clothes were perfectly intact. She had one or two slight scratches on her face and her flute had been cut, but other than that she was fine. As she raised her head, she brushed the stray length of dark red hair from in front of her bright yellow eyes and backed herself up against the tree she was now standing on. Gripping her broken flute she cursed under her breath, adamant she was going to make them both pay for pushing her this far. She looked back at the pair who were still talking, scowling at them from her hiding spot she thought to herself.

"This wench is going to be a pain in the neck!"

It occurred to her suddenly that if she didn't move to a different spot then she'd easily be located and attacked again, so she spent a few minutes moving around as quickly and quietly as she could. She could still just hear the pair talking but gave more priority to getting to a safe spot than listening in. After a few more minutes she was ready to strike back, it would be more difficult to effectively play a flute that had been cut but she could manage. As she brought the little metal instrument back up to her lips, she confirmed her plan in her head.

"All right , far enough. Let the Genjutsu begin."

Just as she had taken another deep breath, she heard the distinct sound of wood being cut behind her.

"What?!"

Before she was able to look back at the noise; her feet were suddenly swept out from beneath her, as the massive second wind breezed through the forest like it was nothing.

Tayuya's mind raced again, what had just happened? She had been fine, she'd heard trees being cut and now she was flying through the air helplessly. The invisible blades slashing and tearing at her clothes and flesh, she looked ahead of her to see a large branch racing towards her before it broke over her head sending her flying backwards. This time it was a more brutal experience, landing hard on her back across another branch; followed by what felt like half the forest on top of her. Tayuya's body was in more pain than she had ever experienced, she could no longer feel her legs. The only things she had left were agony and anger, the huge logs that were now crushing her abdomen feeling heavier by the second.

More thoughts rushed through her head.

"N-no... this can't be happening, I'm too young to go out like this! I won't let that stupid bitch get away with this! I'll get out of here and I'll-"

She was cut off from her thoughts by the feeling of her own blood trickling over her face from her mouth. As her body began to go numb her curse mark receded, her skin returned to it's pale fleshy color and her eyes changed back to their original chestnut brown, her hair shrunk back to it's shoulder length and the crown- like formation of horns retracted back into her head.

As Tayuya's eyes closed and her consciousness began to slip away, she could hear the faint voices of the pair of shinobi about a hundred meters away. She could hear the blonde ninja with her smug voice.

"See? All over."

Even from this distance without looking Tayuya could tell she was still grinning.

"I'm gonna kill that cocky, blonde bitch!"

She could no longer control her body. Her eyelids were heavy, her eyes flickered shut.

"Sh- shit..."

Her last thought drifted through her head as her world faded to black.

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AN: So here's the start of Turning point, this is just to get things started so expect to see more in the near future ^_^