Natsume stared at Elle with cold eyes, "Who are you?"
Elle smiled. She began to rub her fingers together while grazing her silver ring bands. Natsume eyes followed her every move. With a quick flick of her thumb, her silver ring bands, opened to show sharp spikes and she quickly slit the sides of her fingers and her wrists. Blood began pouring out and her face began to pale. The masses of blood coming from her arms began to cause Ruka to get dizzy. Natsume kept her gaze without flinching and suddenly the blood flew up. It started to twirl around her as if she was manipulating it. In one swift move she reached down and threw a kunai* at Ruka. It barely grazed his forehead and a small laceration was made. Natsume picked up the kunai realizing there was a poison on the tip.
"Natsu-," Ruka fell to the floor. Letting his guard down, Elle's blood became sharp points and began to fly toward Natsume. She began to manipulate her blood to slam into Natsume, but he was too fast. He quickly picked up Ruka and began to dodge her blood points. The flames around Elle began to blister around her; it was almost scalding her skin. This time she made her blood points go for Ruka. Taken aback, Natsume turned his back onto her, so Ruka would not get hurt. The fire around Elle came to an abrupt stop, her blood points stopped centimeters from Natsume's back. "Put him down. I would love to spar with the infamous Black Cat," yelled Elle.
Natsume turned to Elle his aura became murderous and dark. His eyes lowered and flames began to surround him. Elle left eye brow arched unsure about the situation. He began to throw fireballs at her as she jumped around to dodge them. She shot her blood points at him with a follow up kick to his gut. "Too slow," whispered Natsume.
He grabbed her foot and threw her against the tree; she quickly jumped off the tree and sprained her ankle. She jumped back and smirked, "Not bad."
Natsume began to run at her with flames engulfed around his hands, she began to run away and suddenly stopped. She turned around and with one swift movement kneed him in his gut. She manipulated her blood points to hold Natsume down as he groaned. Elle then manipulated her blood to become a thick blanket and began slowly placing it over Natsume's body. Suddenly, Natsume's flames grew bigger and stronger as the blood blanket began to wrap around Natsume. It caught on fire, the blood chains were broken and he stood up. Elle took a few steps back and fell down to one knee. That sprained ankle was causing her pain. Natsume began to walk toward her with a dark aura around him.
"It's not fair," Elle whispered, "The oxygen in my blood causes your fire to grow."
"I will let you go if you give me the antidote," said Natsume.
"No."
"Then die, ugly."
Elle put her head down and closed her eyes. Natsume slowly walked toward her and grabbed her neck. He lifted her high in the air and squeezed his hands. Her throat began to slowly close, but she didn't flinch and she did not stop him. "Antidote, now!" screamed Natsume.
Elle shook her head gently. He squeezed harder and more viciously, "Antidote!"
Narumi unexpectedly appeared behind Natsume and karate-chopped his neck. Taken by surprised Natsume dropped Elle. She dropped to her knees and began coughing. She held her throat and stared at Natsume with disgust. Natsume turned around to see Narumi and his eyes widened in shock, "Narumi�"
"Hello Natsume," replied Narumi sweetly, "How do you do?"
"What the hell are you doing, Narumi?"
Elle tried to move away slowly, and Natsume stomped on her sprained ankle. This caused her to yelp and manipulate her blood to stab into Natsume's shoulder.
*Kunai = Knife.
