a/n owning naruto?... nah too much work to draw that much.
Chapter 2
'You'd need crazy ass chakra control to do medical ninjitsu' thought Mayumi as she watched Tobi heal the last of Sasuke's injuries. After watching for a few minutes she wandered off to practice with her Bo staff.
She did her warm-ups then started with her basic patterns, blurring through them like quicksilver. Then, moving up slowly into more advanced patterns, she began her own form of meditation. Thoughts flowing like water, bringing back memories that Mayumi would otherwise forget.
Hazy memories from before Tobi came for her.
Mayumi remembered walking down the hallways of a grand house, Mummy beside her. They were heading towards a door with a giant red and white paper fan painted on it.
Suddenly Mayumi was afraid.
The fan turned into an enormous red eye and blood started seeping out from under the door. She turned to mummy, only to find a grinning skeleton staring back at her with the same eyes as that Sasuke boy had.
She tried to pull away, only to find that the skeleton had a tight grip on her. A hard yank did the trick and Mayumi ran down the corridor through a rising tide of blood. She saw a half open door and shut her self in.
It was a young girl's room. Neat and familiar Mayumi opened the wardrobe, slipping inside to hide. The red began to seep through the walls, and the door was flung open. A man in black with a gnarled face strode forward, blade in hand.
A flash of steel accompanied by a scream and her blood met the light of day.
"Mayumi! Mayumi! Wake up!" Tobi slapped the unresponsive teen. A few moments ago she had been going about her Bo staff routines and then with a scream she suddenly collapsed.
Sasuke stood off to one side, 'this guy... is fast' he thought. When Mayumi screamed, Sasuke had hardly even seen him move. He couldn't match that speed; it was starting to sound like Mayumi's boasts were true.
Tobi parted the long fringe and peered into Mayumi's eye. "Sasuke, go into the house and ask Chiasa for the red bottle of smelling salts. Don't sniff them."
Sasuke ran into the house and found Chiasa clearing a mouse trap in the kitchen. "Chiasa?"
"Yes?"
"Where would I find the red bottle of smelling salts?"
Chiasa frowned. "Who for? Actually don't answer that." She hunted around in the pantry and pulled out a large tin box with a strange seal like design inscribed on the lid. "Just take the whole box out to the pair of them. They'll know what to do."
Sasuke hurried back to where Tobi was crouched by Mayumi. "Here." He handed the box over. Tobi pulled off the lid and rummaged inside pulling out a tiny red vial he advised, "Hold your breath." He unplugged the little thing near Mayumi's nose and the effect was instant. She jerked upright, clutching at her throat. Her fingers caught on her purple cow neck top and the choker necklace that was hidden underneath it to reveal for a second an old scar that ran across her neck.
"What happened?" Mayumi asked, spying the red vial. "Why is that here?"
"We couldn't wake you up." Said Sasuke.
"Oi! Tobi! You put a genjutsu on me!" she howled
Tobi frowned he had done no such thing. But to placate her he confirmed her theories. "Yes I did. Was it very good?"
Mayumi glared daggers at him and quick as a snake she punched him in the gut. "That's not nice Tobi!"
Sasuke was impressed. If this guy could train an apparently idiotic girl like her to be as good as she seemed to be, then he most probably could teach him how to defeat his brother. Anyone could have seen she hadn't been under a genjutsu. "idiot." He murmured under his breath.
Mayumi's head snapped up at him. "Herd that ya bastard! Don't you dare call me an idiot!"
Sasuke flinched at the all too familiar insult and his hand, unbidden reached up touch the spot where until recently something very important had sat on his forehead.
The scowl faded from Mayumi's face. "Is the fracture hurting?"
Tobi coughed. "Mayumi, I healed that. There is no fracture to hurt anymore." He stood and stretched. "Sasuke, Mayumi, start sparring. Both of you, no mutilation. Chiasa would be mad and I wouldn't be a good boy." He pulled Mayumi up and handed her Bo staff to her. "Begin"
Sasuke began by throwing shuriken at Mayumi who dodged and swung her Bo staff along and up at him. He leapt up and landed on the staff, sending it crashing to the ground. "Fire release: fire ball jutsu!" he incanted, forming the appropriate hand signs. Mayumi leapt back from the large fireball and landed some five meters away with an enormous grin on her face.
"I think you missed!" she called before leaping back at him at such speed that without his sharingan activated he couldn't see her properly. A flying kick came at him from the sky and he had barely enough time to throw up a block before it hit. He activated his sharingan and flashed forward for a barrage of punches but somehow dodged each one of them with equal speed. Mayumi caught his last punch, flicked it up behind his back before he could react. She then pushed him away and floated backward like smoke.
Sasuke whirled around to face his irritating opponent. He leapt into the air, throwing a brace of shuriken on wire strings. They flew at Mayumi, wrapping around her and pinning her arms. He allowed himself a smirk of satisfaction. That wasn't so hard.
Turning to Tobi Sasuke got a mildly unpleasant surprise. Mayumi was sitting there talking to him! She grinned and dispelled the smoke clone that he had caught. "Nice going Sasuke!" she called "you caught me... almost!"
This time it was Sasuke's 'I can't believe you just were able to do that to me Naruto' glare that she got. He saw Tobi lean over and say something in Mayumi's ear. The grin on her face seemed to get wider, if possible. She leaped off the branch high into the air and disappeared.
He spotted her chakra underground and jumped back as she tried to grab his ankle. Sasuke bounced off a tree and kicked her in the abdomen as Mayumi jumped out of the ground after the failed attempt at pulling him into the earth.
"I guess you already knew that one?" Mayumi laughed as they traded blows.
"loser." The Uchiha growled. 'Was that grin glued on or something?'
She then pulled some ninja wire out from who knows where and whipped it around his hands as he did the first seal for fire release: fireball jutsu
"Ever had it done backwards?" Sasuke's hands were pulled up, over, backwards and down as Mayumi dove into the earth.
Sasuke found himself buried upside down up to his nose in the ground, his hands deep in the earth.
A moment later a sharp blade pressed against his chin.
"Do you give up?" Mayumi's voice asked
A smirk spread across Sasuke's mouth and he swung both his feet down onto Mayumi's head. "no." He said as she slid to the ground, unconscious.
Tobi walked over to where Sasuke was buried upside down in the ground and grasped his foot. "Don't kick me. I'm pulling you out." He said and pulled. 'Oh yes, he's perfect.' He thought then looked over at the unconscious Mayumi. 'and so is she... especially with her eyes.'
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