False Start: A new team formed
AverageOtaku
Disclaimer:...do i really have to do this every time….
A new team formed!
Akeno had chose to make the first move by shooting off towards her new rival. Although, she did make sure to be wary of the blood running down Chino's arm. Her Ketsuryugan was still active so Akeno knew for sure that that blood would be her downfall if she wasn't careful. As Akeno closed in, just as she expected, the blood began to move. However, instead of attacking her, it looked as if it was morphing into a handle. Chino grabbed the handle and pulled up on it to reveal a katana!. Chino wasted no time in swinging her blood katana down on Akeno to try put the match away early. However, Akeno wasn't a slouch! She quickly pulled out a kunai and met Chino's blade. To Akeno's surprise, instead of splattering like any liquid would, the blade actually showed great resistance meaning that the blood had actually solidified! Chino smirked and showed superior by pushing Akeno away despite her smaller frame. "By the look of surprise on your face, you didn't know that i could solidify the liquid that i'm controlling huh?"
Akeno grunted and said, "it doesn't matter. Nagato-sama has already informed us on most of your abilities so i won't be caught by surprise any more."
Chino simply dropped down and shot off with amazing speed. Akeno barely had time to put her kunai up to block Chino's strike. Both stood in lock trying to gain dominance until Akeno suddenly fell forward from Chino's sword disappearing. She just so happened to look down as the blood was forming into a kunai which Chino hastedly tried thrusting into Akeno's side. Despite being off balance, Akeno still managed to dodge Chino's strike. Akeno jumped back a ways away to put some distance between them and then sheathed her kunai.
Chino raised an eyebrow at Akeno's action and let the blood fall to the ground. "So you want to try hand to hand now? We didn't even go 5 minutes with our blades," Chino mocked.
"Without trying to kill you that blood of yours can be a little tricky," she admitted.
After that, neither said anymore as both shot off. Chino threw the first punched which Akeno let fly by her face. Akeno then grabbed the extended arm and yanked Chino up to her eye level. She followed up by driving her fist deep into Chino's gut causing her to spit up quite a bit of saliva. Akeno released her arm and kicked her into the stomach bouncing away. Chino flipped up to stop herself from going any further, but had to quickly cross her arms across her face to guard from Akeno's fist. Akeno threw another fist, but this time Chino ducked under it and threw her own fist up and connected with the bottom of Akeno's chin. Chino then jumped up and Punched Akeno in the jaw with a chakra enhanced fist to send her flying away.
As Akeno felt herself flying she suddenly felt something wrap around her entire waist. She knew that Chino didn't have enough body to do this. Menma wouldn't interfere unless something life threatening would happen and then she realized that she actually felt a little wet. She turned her head around to see a giant hand coming out of the water right at her! She tried to loosen herself from the water trap but Chino had amazing control over it. Akeno closed her eyes and braced herself being that she had no other choice but to take the hit. Before making contact, the water hand closed into a fist and sent Akeno rocketing away into a boulder. Akeno was bleeding from her head a little bit and seemed to be having a bit of trouble standing.
Chino had walked over to where Akeno had landed and was standing in front her cross armed. "Ya know, after all that talk i thought you would've put up a better fight….maybe i should've asked to fight Menma."
"Menma would've finished you seconds into the fight." Akeno wiped her face clean of any blood and gave a challenging smirk. "Me on the other hand, i like to draw my fights out. I'll turn it up just a little bit for you." Akeno went through a series of hand signs before yelling, "water style: water cannon jutsu!"
From behind Chino, large red balls of water launched themselves towards her from the water. Despite them moving towards her Chino didn't move from her spot. She didn't even unfold her arms! However, right before Akeno's jutsu made contact they exploded all around Chino causing a light shower. "Did you really try to attack me with my o-" Chino was cut mid sentence as Akeno suddenly appeared in front of her with her hand raised above her. Chino brought her hand up to block Akeno's attack, but was dumbfounded when nothing happened. She slightly parted her arms and saw Akeno on the ground as if she had just landed from the sky. However, she didn't see the sparks jumping around on the ground. She was going to question Akeno, but she was interrupted by her.
"Lighting style: jet current!"
Chino screamed out in pain as she was immediately shocked due to the water that had been all over the field. However, Akeno was shocked when Chino had suddenly burst into water. She then heard footsteps from behind and looked behind her to see Chino with a blood katana in hand already in motion to cut her down. "Looks like i win,"chino said with a devilish smile.
From the sidelines, Menma was about to interfere, but stopped himself when something happened that shocked him and Chino.
Right before Chino's katana could connect, Akeno had disappeared right before her eyes. Chino swung at nothing and looked around confused. "Where did she go?"
Chino quickly got an answer as her face was caved in from a foot that wasn't there just half as second ago. As chino was sent flying away towards the water, Akeno watched as she slowly lowered her leg.
From the sideline, menma looked at Akeno in amazement. She was cloaked in lighting up to her elbows and up to her knees and her hair was flowing upwards in a wild, but at the same time calm manner. He had never seen her in this state before. He was definitely going to ask about it when this was over.
Chino had willed a water hand into existence to catch her and was currently a bit teary eyed. That kick rattled her brain and her nose was hurting a lot. It was bleeding alot, and she really hoped it wasn't broke. Chino didn't have time to think about the status of her nose though as her water hand violently exploded. She could hear the sound of lighting cackling and was praying to God that Akeno would let her go with a warning. Unfortunately, her prayers were not answered. Akeno flashed into existence right under Chino before giving her an vicious uppercut. As chino sailed higher into the sky, Akeno raised her hand and started to build up her chakra causing electricity to bounce all around her. "I haven't really thought of a name yet, but i think i'll call it…." as Akeno spoke lighting began to dance around her hand and clouds began to roll in right above Chino who had started to fall by this point. "...Hanketsu. As Akeno said that, a pillar of blue lighting crashed down on Chino from the clouds down to the ground. As the attack died down, Chino could be found in the middle of a slightly scorched ground, bald and unconscious.
Akeno had fallen to her knees and was breathing heavily. She wasn't nowhere near close to perfecting that lighting powered state. Even though she had only moved about three times, her body was not quite trained yet to be moving at those speeds. It wasn't as fast hiraishin or the Raikage's similar state, but it was still fast enough to compete with a regular jounin. And the newly name Hanketsu took a large portion of her chakra away. Despite it being severly powered down.
"Hey Ake-chan where did those moves come from?! Are you hiding anything else as cool as that?!." Menma had came running over to his best friend who had plopped down on her butt, using her arms to keep her propped up.
Akeno flashed him a smile full of different emotions. "Ahh. those were just a few of the moves Nagato sama and i had been secretly working on. Of course there's more but those are the ones i thought i'd show off," she boasted.
Menma's amazed look turn to into a pout. "Nagato-sama never trains me in anything special…"
"Cheer up baka. He helps you in controlling 'that', sometimes doesn't he?"
"Ugh. i barely get anywhere with that. I always black out or just flat out lose control. Enough about that though…...is chino gonna' be okay?" Menma pointed to the girl (whose hair magically reappeared) that still laid unconscious in the middle of the scorched land.
Akeno rolled her eyes. "Of course she's okay. I only added enough chakra to knock her out. If i would've added anymore i probably would've fried her insides."
Menma gave a sigh of relief, but then perked at a thought. "What do you think would've happened if you went all out?"
Akeno put her hand on her chin and thought about that for a while. "Hmmmm….actually i don't know. Despite Nagato-sama's divine abilities, i only ever use enough to put craters in the ground."
Menma and Akeno sat trying to imagine the damage of an all out Hanketsu for a while before Menma decided to leave. "Well, we have our target now so lets get ready to head out. You can sit here and recover for a while, i'll go check that cave and see if there's anything worth taking with us." with that, Menma left Akeno to go off and loot the Chinoike base. After about thirty minutes, menma returned with a scroll in hand and Chino slung over his shoulder still unconscious. "Ready to go," he asked.
Akeno got up off the ground and stretched her arms. "I'm not 100 but we can head out though. However, when we come across the first hotel i'll be expecting to take a little break."
Menma shook her head and put the scroll away in his pocket. "Yea. yea." With that the new three man team left the valley of hell.
2 weeks later, Konoha, Hokage Mansion.
Danzo Shimura was a man with black shaggy hair and an x shaped scar on his chin. He also had bandages wrapped around his head that only covered up his right eye. After the death of Minato, Danzo had gladly stepped up to the plate and taken role as the 5th hokage. However, all of this paperwork he had been doing was something that he was not looking forward to.
As he picked up one peculiar envelope though, he heard a knock at his door. "Enter."
First came Kakashi Hatake, still wearing the same mask, but with the basic jounin vest on. After him followed Harumi Uzumaki who had grown to be a very attractive young girl. She wore a white long sleeve shirt with the leaf village symbol on the left shoulder and an uzumaki swirl over her right breast. Her hair had also been grown out and she actually looked like her mother, but blonde. Next came Sakura Haruno. She had shoulder length pink hair and green eyes (original outfit). The fourth and final individual to come through the door was Sasuke Uchiha. He had black hair that was spiked up in the back like a duck's butt and coal black eyes (original outfit). Despite having a majority of his clan murdered, he still seemed to be just fine. However, one day, he would hunt down his brother, Itachi Uchiha, and get revenge for the lives that he took. Once everyone was inside Kakashi gave Danzo his signature eye smile and asked, "what mission do we have today, Danzo Sama." It was no secret that Kakashi did not like Danzo. In fact a number of important ninja in the village didn't favour the man. Kakashi didn't specifically like him because he felt that he somehow played a part in Minato's death which ultimately affected Obito's decision to stay. However, with the power of his Root organization, Kakashi or anyone for that fact would ever dare to rebel against him. However, if he was ever granted the opportunity, he would try with everything he had to end Danzo.
"Ahhhhh. Team 7, my #1 team…" despite disliking the man, he was still the Hokage and being called #1 by your respective kage would make any genin team feel good. "Today you will be taking on your first S rank mission." If Danzo was a more favorable individual there would probably be a lot of commotion going on in the room right now, but unfortunately he isn't. So, a simple widening of eyes was enough to show their excitement and surprise.
"What will our mission be Danzo sama," Sasuke asked
Danzo looked Sasuke in the eyes which slightly caused Sasuke to feel a bit uncomfortable. "Team 7's mission, Sasuke….will be to go to the land of hot water. Root have picked up a bit of info on a certain individual who we need to bring to justice. His name is Itachi Uchiha.