ONE RAIN

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This is the third chapter, so enjoy. And please review!

'Thoughts'

"Talk"

Chapter 3

As Kenji approached the small one room shack at the edge of the forest, he saw two Anbu members guarding the doorway. The shack was cloaked in shadows, barely visible from the surrounding forest. If you hadn't known it was there, you would have passed by unknowingly. He looked towards the two men at the door and observed then carefully. He noticed that one of the men towered over the other, with his hulking form blocking the entire doorway. The smaller of the two was reading a book lazily while standing next to his large partner.

He slowly approached the two from the dark shadows of the nearby trees and withdrew one of his silver umbrellas from his back. The regular Jonin shinobi of the rain were given black umbrellas, but Anbu were given silver to signify their rank. Another quality that made the silver special was the small pieces of metal inlaid into the fabric, making it capable of deflecting projectiles and able to be used as a shield.

When he got in range, he threw the umbrella into the air and watched it float for a second before making a hand sign. "Umbrella Mizu Bushin, Senbon Rainstorm" He said with a calm voice. The one silver umbrella became 50 hanging in mid-air before they all began their deadly spins. The two Anbu could only look onwards in shock as hundreds of senbon needles rained upon them. They were too stunned by being on the receiving end of one of their own village's jutsu to do anything. They fell to the ground dead before the needles even had a chance to release the deadly poison they held.

The figure in the shadows released his jutsu and watched as the rest of the umbrellas burst into water and left only one to float harmlessly back down to the forest floor. Kenji walked over and reclaimed his weapon before making his way to the door. He stepped over the bodies of his once close allies and shouldered the door wide open.

With a 'crack' the door broke from its hinges and Kenji got a second look at the people he came here to see.

The older one, Ibiki he heard, was tied to a small metal chair in the center of the room with ropes tied around him, and looked to have certainly taken a beating in the last two days. The ropes were tied around his arms and chest, restricting his movement, and another set around his legs that stopped his from getting up. Kenji looked at the man's black and blue face, and saw the newly made cuts and burns that were surely a form of torture used against him. The small boy sat tied in a similar chair on the other side of the room, with a look of terror in his eyes as he gazed at his brother.

Kenji's gaze however, was fixed on the man standing in the middle of the small room. Standing there as if he owned the world stood Aoi Rokusho, the Konoha traitor.

He was still garbed in his Konoha outfit and body armor, and he held the legendary Raijin sword in his hands. The only thing that gave away his calm outer appearance was the fury in his eyes as he looked back at Kenji.

"You again! What the hell are you doing here? I told those idiots outside I wasn't to be disturbed!" Aoi yelled

"Well if you told them not to let anyone in and I'm here, then the logical thing to think is that something happened to them, isn't it?" Kenji said with a smirk. Hearing this, Aoi stood there dumbly staring at Kenji for a second, and that was all the time Kenji needed. With a flick of his wrist, four senbon needles sprung into his hand. In less than a second they were airborne and sailing towards Aoi at a freighting speed.

Realizing too late what was happening, Aoi dove out of the way, only to still be caught by one of the needles in his thigh.

Kenji followed Aoi with his eyes and laughed to himself when he saw the needle in the man's leg. "You sure are something. I wasn't even aiming at you and you still managed to get in the way of a needle."

'Not aiming at…' Aoi thought before looking to where the needles had flown in horror as he realized Kenji's true target. Making almost no noise, Ibiki slowly stood up from his chair as the ropes slid off him. Aoi looked behind Ibiki and noticed the three needles in the wall just to the sides of the chair.

'He cut the ropes with just the needles?' Aoi thought numbly. He shakily stood up from the floor and looked at the two men in front of him. "You may have freed that idiot, but that won't help you! You have no chance at beating me. I'm invincible with this sword!" Aoi yelled as he picked up the Raijin sword and activated it.

Kenji looked over to Ibiki and reached behind his back, from where he pulled a single kunai and tossed it to him. Ibiki caught it and nodded once, before holding it in a reverse grip in his hand. Kenji pulled off one of his umbrellas and held it close to him in front of him like a sword.

Aoi initiated the fight by lunging forward and swinging towards the two in front of him. Ibiki dove towards the nearby wall to get out of reach while Kenji moved to block the yellow blade with his weapon. But, as soon as the blade touched the umbrella electricity flew through it and traveled into Kenji. "Ahhhh!" He yelled as he dropped his umbrella and was thrown back and landed on the floor.

"Hahaha, you see. I'm invincible now, and I will be even stronger once I open that forbidden scroll." Aoi paused in his speech when he heard a sound that he had become familiar with in his training as a ninja, and a sound that he dreaded to hear. He could only watch as a split-second later a kunai pierced his hand and knocked the Raijin sword from his grasp. Clutching his hand in pain, he turned his head and looked at his attacker.

Ibiki stood there by the far wall with his brother free from his chair and standing as well. The terror previously present in Idate's eyes was replaced with determination. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Kenji struggling to stand with his weapon once again, and turned his attention back to him. 'This is all his fault. I'm going to kill him!' He let loose a primal yell and stated running towards the struggling Anbu. Kenji finally got his muscles to stop shaking and stood up. He held his umbrella up again like before, but this time he pushed a hidden button in the hilt and watched as a small six inch blade emerged, from which you could practically see the purple tinted poison dripping off it.

As Aoi got in range, Kenji twisted around the lunge from the green-haired man and with a thrust his umbrella buried itself into Aoi's chest. Aoi ground to a halt and saw what was sticking out of his chest in shock. He then became aware of a growing sense of numbness that was quickly spreading from his chest to the rest of his body. He pulled himself off the umbrella and stumbled backwards. "What is…this? I feel… so… weak."

Aoi fell to his knees clutching his chest. He could barely hear what the rain Anbu was saying through the haze that had entered his mind now.

"That poison in you is slowly cutting off the blood flow in your body. Its also shutting down your body functions one by one. You'll be dead in fifteen minutes or less."

Aoi opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out. Kenji looked away from him and walked towards Ibiki and Idate. As he passed Aoi on the ground however, he reached into the dieing man's pocket and pulled out a small green scroll. He then continued walking and picked up the discarded Raijin sword as well.

He finally stopped directly in front of Ibiki and looked him in the eye. There he saw an unnatural calm that should not be in a man after two days of torture. Slowly Kenji extended his hand and handed the scroll and de-activated sword to the older man. "There's the forbidden scroll and the Raijin sword." He said before looking at the small boy. Said boy looked calmly back at him as they stared at each other. "Always be strong, and love your brother, for you never know when he will be taken from you." Kenji spoke in a gentle tone before turning on his heel and walking out the door of the small building.

"Where are you going now?" Ibiki asked from the doorway as he caught up. "You've just killed two Anbu members and a Konoha defector, so you can't just go back to your village." Kenji said nothing as he reached to his thigh and pulled off his rain hitai-ata, and then pulled another kunai and brought it to the metal band. With a 'shink' he drew a line through the rain symbol, marking himself as a missing-nin.

"I never want to go back to this village again. The council that runs it is more concerned about their own personal wealth than the wealth and welfare of the village. Also, my clan, the Momochi, have died out in this village from stupid decisions and clan feuds. I've heard that there are still some members in mist and wave country, but I'm the last one in the rain."

Kenji said all this while facing away from Ibiki. He turned to look at him and said, "I really don't know what I'm going to do, but what ever it is it will be far from here."

Ibiki gained a thoughtful look on his face before saying, "You could always come back to Konoha with us. Your obviously a skilled ninja and would be a great help as a shinobi of the leaf than a missing-nin. Besides, we need more ninja this soon after the last great shinobi war."

Kenji looked at Ibiki for a second before saying, "I highly doubt that your hokage will allow me to join."

"You'll never know unless you try!" Idate yelled from behind Ibiki, who in turn looked and smiles at this brother.

"You might as well try. What do you have to lose? If he says no then your right back where you started." Ibiki said.

Kenji was silent for a minute longer before he said, "very well. I will go with you to the Hokage. Besides, I might find some information on my clan members in your village's archives." Kenji said with a smirk.

Ibiki and Idate grinned as well, until Ibiki winced in pain. Kenji walked closer and looked at the wounds and said, "I'll let you lean on me, and we'll make our way to the leaf village." And with that, Kenji, Ibiki, and Idate started walking towards the border of fire country.

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Back at the shack

Aoi lay on his back in the middle of the floor as he struggled to breathe. He could no longer feel or move any of his extremities, and his breathing and thinking were becoming problematic. 'Must… survive…cant ….die here……must kill…… Kenji Momochi!...'

From the shadows of the wall, a pale man stepped out and looked at the man on the floor. He wore a black cloak that covered his body with red clouds on it, and on his hand he wore a red ring with a strange symbol.

His pale, snake-like, yellow eyes glanced at the man as a sick smile grew on his face. "Kukukukuku, what do we have here?"