Bird Cage
Thursday, July 29, 2010
She could only hear her pulse, a slow beat dwelling in her ears, encasing her responses with nothing but the sound of her heart beat as she twitched her fingers, her hands, then slowly, began to sit up. A heavy numbness overcame her with a struggle as the kunoichi attempted to move against the pressured atmosphere. Twisting her head she couldn't make out anything other than darkness...darkness. Nothing but darkness and her heart beat. A tremble crept down her spine, the muscles of her back tense with exhaustion. A flash of images pulsed through her thoughts, reminding her of the previous events that happened before she woke up. The chakra that was normally leveled higher was almost gone, barely allowing her to move as it is. Stretching her tired limbs, the girl focused on her surroundings attempting to make up for her lack of professionalism.
It was cool, could it be considered cold? She could feel the rain against her skin, the soft mist trickle of water giving off the cool breeze that surrounded her, but then again the mist was heavy, denser; could it be fog forming? Although it was pitch black the water against her was unmistakable. Alright, Kagami, you can feel the water right? Relaxing her fingers she began restoring her chakra through the water. If she held out a bit longer she could gain enough chakra to fight again. She had to work swift though, unsure of when her opponent would strike. Feeling the water alone in all of this darkness gave her some reassurance, if she could feel the water against her flesh then this was only an illusion. Yes…the darkness that encase her was just an illusion and she needed to open her eyes. Open your eyes Kagami, this is just an illusion, an illusion-
The grip against her throat was unexpected, causing the female to lose all concentration on regaining her chakra to focusing on regaining her breathe. Coughing, Kagami struggled to move her elbow in time to attack her attacker, hit him in the face or at least distract him long enough to loosen his grip. She swiped her elbow at him, hitting him in the mask. Once her feet hit the ground she grabbed for her assailant, gripping onto his shoulder and swinging him over her form. He hit the floor with a thud before disappearing. What! Kagami began to twist and turn looking for her opponent before her feet gave way. He went into the ground? Kagami struggled to regain her composure but he was on top of her already. Sitting on top of her, his prey faced down with her arm twisted back behind her, he chuckled softly, cocking his head to the side as he watched her amused.
"I just wanted to talk,"
"That's a load of-" Kagami couldn't help but wince as he gripped her hair, slamming her face into the ground.
"A young lady shouldn't use that sort of language." He twisted her arm harder, receiving a grunt from the girl underneath him as he began laughing.
Rocking her legs back, Kagami managed to twist herself onto her side, knocking the male off of her as she swung her leg down on to his chest, but missed. How!
"There's no point in attacking me, none of your attacks are going to work-" Kagami charged at his black form, swinging her fist full on at him. She expected him to block her attack, that was the point. He gripped her fist in his palm as she swung her fist down, and her body up, wrapping her legs around his neck and throwing him over her and down. Her attack should have worked.
The male gripped onto her hair with one hand and twisted her wrist with the other. The grip on her wrist grew familiar as she remember the ache and throb from his earlier hold on her wrist. "Argh!" Kagami's knees trembled as she heard the snap. Tears formed in her eyes but refused to fall, she needed to piece this together; what the hell was going on!
"I want you to listen to me and listen to the sound of my voice," Kagami didn't know how to responds, only hissing at his request before looking for a way out of the illusion. She was in pain and losing, her legs were shaking, the weight on her knees was unbearable, what was happening to her. How did she become so frail, so useless, she couldn't figure out what was going on. Everything was moving too fast, her mind was racing. Focus. Focus!
"I said listen to me." Something snapped and Kagami began to move, her feet trembling as she ran. Fuck! She wasn't one to be scared, nor one to run away. But fear was taking over, she shouldn't have to be running away, she should be fighting to the death. A noble shinobi death. But she was moving against her better judgment. She wanted to stay and fight, but nothing hit him, every attack that she used -that would usually knock out her opponent in no time- wasn't touching him, he'd disappear, it wouldn't touch him, it wouldn't touch him! If she resisted him he would only attack her twice as hard, this she expected, but she didn't expect to not get a hit on him. Her nerves were shot, adrenaline kicking in. She needed to figure out her next move, even if it meant running away-
Splash!
The ground slipped her and the kunoichi fell through into the cruel waves without warning. Immediately she was pulled under, her breathe escaping her as she screamed. Quickly reacting to reach the surface, her broken wrist failed her as she began sinking. Shit! No, no, no! Kagami panicked to send chakra into her feet and launch off of something, anything. But she couldn't touch anything, couldn't find anything to kick off of. She was sinking without a chance to resurface. Another gasp and her head was feeling light.
Suiton Daibakufu no Jutsu.
Kagami aimed below herself, shooting herself out of the water and back towards shore. She needed to get as close to the shore as possible. She needed the water to regain her chakra but drowning wasn't the way to do it. Landing with a thud, the girl gasped desperately for air, gasping as she turned on her side, propping herself up.
"You sure are something," Cupping her chin into his palm, the male chuckled. "You put up a sad fight though,"
"Then kill me already,"
"So ready to die? No. I need you to listen to me. I want you to listen to me and the sound of-"
"Why don't you use your eyes, I know that's what you're trying to do," Kagami wasn't afraid, she had caught a glimpse of his eye before becoming a prisoner to his illusion, to this genjutsu of his, obvious of the fact that he need her to look into his eyes for his control to set in. No, she wouldn't look. Not at him. She needed to figure out a way this mess. Fast.
"There's no reason to...use them on you."
"You have no control over me unless I look into your eye, that's how your genjutsu works-"
"I don't need my eyes to control you." His words barked out at her, stinging as she felt her hand move up and stretch out towards him. Her fingers trembled, fighting the urge to move anymore, as she gave her hand to him willingly, under his control. "I don't need my eyes to control." The way he said it again made her tremble, she could feel his power emitting from him, overpowering her.
"What do you want."
"I want you to listen to me and listen to the sound of my voice, now-"
Suiryuudan no Jutsu.
Kagami braced herself for the impact. She felt him coming. Idiot. She snapped her head towards Yagura who was running towards her.
"Idiot! I ran after the attacker so you wouldn't have too!"
"Look how good that did you," Yagura out-stretched his hand with a grin. That brat, Kagami stood up on her own as she took stance in front of the young Mizukage. "I don't know who this guy is but I need you to stop fooling around Kagami, focus." Flexing her fingers she began to regain her chakra, absorbing it from the water, from the fog, focusing it all back into her core, she needed to focus, she couldn't let herself lose focus.
The air around them grew thick the sand under them began to move, Kagami twisted back grabbing on to the Mizukage, jumping towards a mangrove near by. The roots sticking out of the ground, twisted around her ankles, growing up to calves as their opponent walked forward.
"Yagura! Run!" Yagura wouldn't move as he took a stance before his body guard, arms forward in a taijutsu pose, ready for the next attack. He looked so small compared to the man walking towards him, twirling a kunai in his hand. Kagami's eyes grew as she watched her boss and her opponent close the distance with every second as time began to slow. No, no, no!
Garasumirā!
Yagura watched as the sand around him formed up and covered him in a dome, encasing the two of them - Yagura and Kagami- in thick frost glass before it shrank and entirely disappeared. "Kagami!" Yagura was furious, the way he yelled at his subordinate, Kagami knew she was in trouble for interfering with his fight, but she knew what the out come would be. She knew Yagura would lose, and she didn't want to see what that would look like. She was close to dying, she couldn't see Yagura lose.
Before the glass could disappear entirely, leaving the beach and the male behind, Kagami caught a glimpse of him. His mask moved down to expose a partial view of his facial features, but what stood out most was his eyes. The bright red spindle of his eye spinning as his lips moved into a grin.
I want you to listen to me and listen to the sound of my voice
