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"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Biju or Spirit speech or Jutsu" 'Biju or Spirit thoughts' Chapter 4: Meeting the teamIt had been a long few days for Aang and his friends as they went from island to island after Aang learned of his people's deaths. When he found Monk Gyatso's corps he knew that it didn't look good for the rest of the Air Nomads, because if the Fire Nation could reach one temple, they could most likely reach the rest.
Now in this time Aang and his two new friends had taken the time to address their wounds, with the most serious of them being Aang's sword wound on his lower back. It was then that Katara and Sokka though it would be best to talk to him about what they were to do.
Flashback
"Aang how's your wound?" A concerned Katara asks him, Aang only looks down a bit trying to look under his arm to see where the stitches began. "It's still there, but it doesn't hurt nearly as bad now thanks to that medicine your Gran-Gran gave you." He replies.
Yes when they first got to the temple and even before that both Sokka and Katara were worried for a time that they would loose him because he had lost a bit of blood, but thanks to some quick stitches and some pain killers when the three of them landed Aang could now walk around a bit without simply bleeding out, but him activating his Avatar state didn't really help his recovery.
Sokka on the other hand looks at the wound, "That woman that gave it to you, she's dangerous, the fact that she managed to beat me at our home then almost kills you and Katara is proof that this Zuko guy isn't kidding around when he is coming after you if he uses someone like that. We managed to handle everyone on the boat easy except for him and the damned swordswoman. Plus I saw her lick he sword when we were flying off, she's defiantly got some problems." Sokka says a bit angry that she, A, beat him in front of his whole tribe pathetically easy, B, he watched as his sister was dodging for her life when she appeared again on that Fire Nation ship, and, C, she almost killed him with that last spear throw.
So from what he could tell about was easy to see, she did not hesitate, not even against teenagers.
Katara nods to her brother, "Y-Yeah she was the real deal. I saw her eyes for a second and it was like looking into nothing. Like I wasn't even there."
Aang looks at his friends and can't help but feel a bit sorry for them, he was scared too, but seeing your friends like this as well was something he didn't want to see. Yet he had to admit if people like Zuko or this woman were coming after him he would need to be a bit more careful when dealing with the Fire Nation.
"So what now?" The monk asks, getting silence. This lasted for a time with even their new travel partner Momo quiet until Sokka spoke up.
"We go on. We started this journey, and now we have to finish it. Because I doubt that those guys back there will simply give up looking for you. And besides you have to master the four elements and well you're not going to do it sitting here." This gets the desired affect as both Katara and Aang dawn small smiles on their faces and eventually make their way to Appa and begin to head out as Aang wasn't too fond of being in his old home when all that was there were memories that no longer held any meaning.
Flashback End
It had now been a few days since their escape and now the group was headed to Kyoshi Island for something that Aang has always wanted to do, ride one of the giant Elephant Koi that inhabited the island's coast. Not that he bothered to tell them.
As of right now Aang was having fun with Momo, Sokka was relaxing on the back of Appa's saddle, and Katara was busy trying to fix the hole is Sokka's pants that he managed to get when on one of the other islands.
Aang in a moment of playfulness pulls out his collection of marbles and begins to spin them with his airbending with a wide grin on his face, "Hey Katara look!" He shouts in happiness, but is then crushed when she doesn't even look up from her sewing. "That's great Aang."
"But you're not even looking." He pouts, "That's great," she says looking up, earning another groan from the Avatar, "I wasn't even doing it then."
Seeing their little spout Sokka can't help, but smile, "Leave her be Aang, a girl needs to concentrate when she's sewing." Getting tick mark from his sister, she looks over at him angry, "What is that supposed to mean? Huh, what does me being a girl have to do with sewing?" She snaps back irritation clear on her face.
Sokka in a moment of obliviousness doesn't see it and continues, "Oh well girls are just better at things like fixing pants, while guys are better at stuff like hunting and fighting, you know just the natural order of things."
Katara having had enough simply tosses his pants back at him, "Yeah like when that girl beat you down in front of Gran-Gran and the rest of the tribe." She retorts hitting a nerve with her brother.
"She was different Katara and you know that! Besides I could probably take her one on one, sh-she just surprised me that's all!" He says trying to pull his pants off his head.
Aang shivering at hearing about that woman simply blocks that out of his mind before ordering Appa to descend.
When they land Aang looks out in excitement as he sees one of the giant fish breach, and looks around the rest of the beach to see that they were the only ones there.
"Hey Aang why are we stopping? We need to keep moving we made a pit stop just yesterday." Sokka complains before Aang points out to another breaching Koi, before taking off his shirt and pants. "That's why we're here! The Elephant Koi fish and I'm going to ride it!" He yells before sprinting out into the water.
"Come on guys this is going to be great!" Aang calls out as he dives into the water. "Aang you'll open your wound if you're not careful!" Katara yells at him from the shore, even if he was already almost out of earshot by that point. She only sighs, as he wasn't going to listen to her and probably attract sharks.
Sokka wasn't any help as when Aang reemerged from the water on the back on one of the fish he simply made a sign that he was crazy before going back to his gear and double checking their levels of food and water. Katara seeing as her two travel partners were content on doing their own thing, so she could only sigh in frustration. "Wait Appa don't eat that!"
Aang having the time of his life looks back to shore only to see that both of his new friends were busy either organizing their things or trying to bring back Appa. 'Man and here I thought they'd love to see this.' He groans at having the spotlight taken from him, not noticing the approaching silhouette of a massive predator.
Sokka now looking out into the water sees one of the Koi get dragged down into the water and a fast approaching shadow and his eyes widen to the size of dinner plates, "AANG GET OUT OF THE WATER!" He shouts in terror.
However when Aang looks back he only sees Sokka and now Katara waving at him, so he only smiles and waves back, before he is thrown forward off the Koi. He is then speechless when a fin as tall as a building was looming over him.
He then did the only thing a sane person would do.
He ran on the water like a bat out of hell, screaming the whole way and tackling Sokka across the sand and into a tree.
And after his little melt down Aang recovered and started to dress himself when Katara runs up shock still on her face, "What the hell was that thing?" She asks. "I don't know and sure as hell don't want to stick around to find out, so lets hit the road." He says brushing the sand off his coat.
But just before they could make their way to Appa four green clothed figures drop from the trees in full armor and with weapons drawn. They then being to subdue the three teens and a lemur by putting Sokka in a choke hold while simultaneously tying his hands behind his back and blindfolding him in one fell swoop, Katara was attacked from behind as her hood was pulled over her face and her feet were swept out from under her and she ended up like her brother, Aang was the victim of a double footed drop kick which ironically knocked the wind out of him giving them enough time to tie him up as well. And Momo was just stuffed in a bag.
Now the three incapacitated teens were lying face down in the sand as their four-mystery attackers stood over them, "Or we could stay awhile." He says in fear.
Meanwhile a few days ago
Konohamaru was now bored out of his mind as he made his way to the rendezvous point. He had to admit after hanging out with people like his boss, his grandfather, uncle, Hinata, and his three favorite little brats, having to walk next to someone as silent as Sasuke was kind of unnerving, 'How the hell are him and Naruto best friends? He barely said a word and just left saying I'd be headed southeast while he was east, and then just left. That guy killed any good thoughts I'd had in my head.'
But shacking his head a bit Konohamaru rid himself of those thoughts and perks up as he hears a rustle in the brush. His experience and training kicking in his hand twitched for the hidden kunai in his sleeve as he took one more step the rustling stopped and he sprang into action.
Leaping into the air Konohamaru's eyes dart to the forest as he releases a barrage of ten kunai before forming a one handed ram sign, "Ninpo: Kage Kunai no Jutsu!" He shouts before those ten kunai multiply into hundreds skewing the trees in a rain of metal death. Landing and looking around Konohamaru slowly approached the kunai littered field as he began to look for his opponent. "Is that how all Konoha shinobi say hello?" A sarcastic voice called out from the shadows as another ninja emerged from the darkness.
Konohamaru looks at the new arrival and can see that this is a very well trained shinobi judging on the way he carried himself.
He was tall and had a body that looked like he may have only been a few years older than himself, he also had long black hair that went down to the top of his back in a ponytail that seemed to spike up at the top and become a bit chaotic not unlike his or Naruto's. As for his attire he wore a standard Kirigakure flack jacket in the traditional grey only the back of it was modified to carry his sword. And on the bottom it was the standard Kiri combat pants, as well as the arm and leg warmers too, and he wore thick closed toed boots instead of the regular shinobi sandals. And as for his face that was blocked by a HUNTER mask that looked like it had a bloody tear trail running down both cheeks.
But what stood out the most was the sword on his back. It looked normal at first, but when he got closer Konohamaru recognized the blade as the Nuibari, one of the seven legendary sword of Kiri. He could tell that when he saw the insane amount of metal wire wrapping around the ninja's arms and the design of the blade as it looked like and actual sewing blade.
Seeing as Kiri probably sent one of their best for the mission Konohamaru thought it would be best to introduce him to the new arrival avoid future conflict. "Sorry about that you tend to get jumpy when you feel someone following you for the past ten minutes. But lets try to put that behind us, Sarutobi Konohamaru. And you are?" He asks extending a hand.
The masked swordsman looks towards the hand before letting out a small sigh and shacks it, "Pleasure to meet you Sarutobi-san, my name is Kaminari, Piasu Kaminari.
Konohamaru smiles a bit seeing the masked ninja is at least friendly.
So I'm guessing that your Mizukage gave you the same mission Hokage-sama gave me, right?" The Konoha shinobi asks a bit more relaxed now that the swordsmen didn't just immediately attack him even if he sort of attacked first. The masked Kiri ninja nods.
"If you mean the mission to eliminate the this so called Avatar, then yes, we walk the same path. Now we must go I'm sure at least one of the others has reached our destination." He says quickly before leaping into the trees.
Konohamaru lets out a small smirk before leaping after him to meet the ninja the other villages sent he was sure that if Kiri had sent a member of the Seven Swordsmen, then the others were sending their best and brightest as well.
As the two were jumping they looked to one another, "So Kaminari, how long have you been one of the Seven?" The brown haired jonin asks, while avoiding a low-lying branch. His mysterious new comrade looks to him, "Believe it or not, I'm the second swordsman of my generation to enrolled into the ranks. With the first being Hozuki-taicho, and Mizukage-sama before he returned his sword to our armory." Nodding to tell the Kiri nin he was listening Konohamaru pries a bit.
"So how many members make up the latest generation is it just you two or more?" Kaminari shacks his head, "No as of right now we have four members of this generation, and they each have been chosen by their blade, with Taicho wielding the Kubikiribocho and becoming a master of all seven, another with the Kabutowari, the most recent wielding the Kiba, and myself with the Nuibari."
Konohamaru nods thinking he really wouldn't answer that and continued on through the trees with his new acquaintance.
Sometime Later
It had been a few hours, but after making good time by going through the trees both shinobi made it to the rendezvous point and when they got there they were greeted by four other ninja two shinobi and two kunoichi.
The first one to stand out to both the new arrivals was the shinobi from Kumogakure; and if they were to describe him the fist word to come to mind would be huge! This guy must have been 6'10 maybe even 7 feet tall and he was all muscle from what they could see from under his thick Kumo flack jacket. Besides the armor he wore underneath that a skintight dark red muscle shirt and for pants he wore very baggy shinobi pants that allowed a lot of legroom or, maneuverability, and he wore his headband on his left bicep and his holster on his left hip as well. As for his physical appearance besides his size his face was sharp and had defined cheek bones, his eyes were a dark coal black as was his short hair, and his skin was a dark brown like that of Bee or the Raikage. But he also had a small glowing white butterfly on his right shoulder and another two in his hands with a gentle smile on his face, perhaps a gentle giant maybe?
The other shinobi however, was not so gentle looking, if the toothy insane smile, the scar running form his nose to chin, and the fact that he was juggling five kunai without a care in the world. He was around Konohamaru's height, but a light bit lighter from what he could see, most likely the same age to. As for the rest of his appearance this other shinobi had pale blonde hair that seemed to fade a bit as it got closer to his scalp, his eyes were a light brown and his teeth seemed to shine like Lee or Guy. As for his dress he wore a long sleeve dark purple over shirt on top of fishnet armor and a pale white undershirt as for pants he wore the standard shinobi multi pocket pants with a satchel attached to each hip and his holsters on the back of his right hip, making the Konoha shinobi wonder what was in the bags? And to top off his look as well as show which village he came from he was wearing his Iwagakure headband as a belt.
Now for the two kunoichi, he saw that they were simply staring at him in particular, with one beginning to creep him out a bit from the glossed over look in her eyes and the fact that she just licked her lips.
Moving past that Konohamaru was able to get a good look at her, she was maybe a year older than him with dark green eyes that didn't have a pupil inside them and long knee length bright orange hair that broke apart into ten different groups once they reached her waist, and each one of those groups had a kunai wrapped in the hair revealing only the blade. As for her attire she had on a black sleeveless low-cut jacket that showed off a generous amount of her plentiful buxom, with her Amegakure headband wrapped around her neck, and for pants she wore multi pocket combat pants that matched her top in both color and design as it too like the Iwa shinobi's pants had multiple pockets.
And the last one the one he assumed was from Suna had been reading a book this whole time. She unlike the other kunoichi was rather distant instead of eyeing him she didn't really even look towards him. She had short dirty blonde that only went down to her chin and sky blue eyes, a relatively athletic build type that one would expect from a well-trained kunoichi, and she also an appeared to the oldest on the team. As he looked over her attire she wore like him and Kaminari the standard Suna flack jacket in a dirt brown with shoulder guards and dark green kunoichi pants with her holster on her right hip.
So deciding that these four were the others on the mission he figured it would be if they just got this over with and walked over to them. "Yo," he said without a care in the world.
This gets the group of ninja to either relax a bit or in the case of the Ame kunoichi smile at him as they all gather. The first one to speak was the blonde Iwa nin, "So you two are from Kiri and Konoha, right?" He asks getting nods from both of them, "Good we starting to wonder if you two would show up at all, and he I thought that only three others would get to hear my glorious music." He says confusing the two new arrivals and getting an eye roll from the Suna nin who had pulled out another book.
Konohamaru seeing as they needed to get introductions out of the way decided to address that first, "Ok so I'll probably just assume that all of us are here for the same mission, and just skip to introducing myself. My name is Sarutobi Konohamaru, I'm of jonin rank from Konohagakure no Sato, and my likes include training, spending time with my sensei, pranks, my friends and family, and smoking." He says as he reaches into his pouch to fetch a cancer stick, before lighting it.
"And as for my dislikes, those who treat others like trash or abandon comrades, and snakes. So who's next?" He asks.
No one spoke up until they heard a childlike squeal making everyone turn to the orange-harried kunoichi, "Me! Me, next pleeeeeeease!" The Ame kunoichi begs while raising her hand with her kunai hairpieces swinging around comically. Seeing as no one made a voice of protest she happily started.
"Nice to meet you all my name is Gekidoku, Odoriko, but my friends call me Odo-chan Amegauke jonin, and my likes include dancing, spring time, my hair, my weapons, and sex!" She says excitedly while groping her own impressive chest. This causes Konohamaru and the Iwa shinobi to be launched back from nose bleeds with stupid looking grins on their faces and two very flushed other shinobi and a steaming angry Suna nin. Odoriko not really caring just goes on, "And for dislikes I really only have one and that's getting up early. Oh and spiders! I hate spiders!" By this time the Iwa and Konoha ninja are back to there feet shacking their heads at the childlike jonin.
It was the Suna kunoichi to speak up next, "Ok then, disregarding the pervert, allow me to introduce myself, Kokoroe Eki, Sunagakure no Sato jonin rank. Likes if you must know, include reading, silence, and the feeling of when one truly out wits their opponent. As for dislikes that could be a very long list, but I'll shorten it to my top three, idiots, those who do not know the value of books, and those books that try to pretend to be literature." She says before going back to her book while still listening to the others talk.
"Well then on that note after hearing little miss sunshine I'll be the one to talk next. My name is Sakkyoku Hidoi, special rank jonin from Iwa, my likes are music, my village, and anything that keeps me from being bored. Dislikes are those who do not see the music of life, and people that can't take a fucking joke." Everyone just nods at the relatively short and relaxed nature from someone who was grinning like a maniac not too long ago.
And that left the giant from Kumo who was still quiet and had a small smile on his face.
"I suppose it is my turn." He says in a surprisingly gentle and calm voice before shooing the few butterflies that had come to rest on his shoulders, "My name is Heizentaru Tsuyo, special jonin is my rank, and for my likes I like nature, my summons, my village, and meeting new people, my dislikes are those who cause pain when it is unnecessary."
It was then that all eyes moved to the last person to introduce himself and that was Kaminari, "Right, I still have to go, well then my name is Piasu Kaminari, and I am one of the Seven Swordsmen of the mist so rank no longer matters to me. My likes are my blade, my comrades, and my village, and I dislike, no hate anything or anyone who would bring harm to them." He finishes a bit dark leaving the rest sort of speechless.
It was then that Eki spoke up after the moment of silence, "Well then now that everyone has gathered shall we head out I'm sure that we all impatient and want to finish this mission. So it would be best that we move now, as all of us are assigned to represent our village time is of the essence from what Kazekage-sama told me." Eki says putting away her book.
The other five nod towards her before they were about to head out when Tsuyo speaks up, "Um perhaps I could help?" He says in a quite and calm voice, but it still does the job of getting his teammate's attention. "Allow me to show you," he says before biting his thumb and marking his palm, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" He yells before slamming his hand onto the ground causing a huge cloud to appear.
However this cloud did not last long as the rest of the group heard what sounded like wings? And not a moment later the cloud was gone with one flap of the enormous creatures wings.
What it was a boss sized summon, but this summon happened to be a beautiful, gigantic, and lightly glowing, greenish blue butterfly with four massive wings with smaller strings of what looked almost like silk hanging off and behind the summon, the front two wings being bigger, and its antenna twisted into a point at the top of its head and just behind that was a large metal circle that Tsuyo was sitting upon. (Moonlight Butterfly from Dark Souls)
"This is Gekko Cho, my summon she can transport us for now." He says before affectionately rubbing the insect's antenna causing the creature to make a high-pitched cry of what sounded like joy almost.
And the others not willing to look a gift horse in the mouth climbed on before securing themselves onto the ring with chakra and with Tsuyo giving a tap on the antenna the summon soared into the sky with grace and speed.
It was after almost eight hours of flying and small talk that the team noticed it was almost dark so deciding to make a pit stop and make camp for the night they landed onto the trees and dismissed the summon so it could rest.
And after making camp and securing some game the six now rested and well fed ninja began to rest, "So what information do we actually have on the target, this Avatar?" Hidoi asks just before the others could go to sleep, "Well I believe that Kirigakure agents were the ones to discover him, so it would be not so farfetched that Kaminari would have a description of his appearance," Eki states looking at the still masked swordsman.
Said swordsman slowly sets down the kunai that he was sharpening and looks at everyone else, "Well the report comes directly from Hozuki-taicho so it's very reliable. The one we are looking for is about fourteen maybe fifteen years old with bright blue arrows tattooed on his forehead and hands and he wears bright orange and yellow clothing so he should be easy to spot in a crowd. And as for skill from what we know he is supposed to be an airbender from what they say, so perhaps he is like ninja who wield Futon chakra. But they also say that airbenders were monks, so not entirely for sure what kind of fighting style we would be going against." He finishes before putting his kunai back into its place.
It then got quiet again as all of them got into their sleeping bags. However one of them was going to have a very rude awakening.
About two hours into sleep Konohamaru felt something at the entrance of his tent so reaching for his uncle's trench knife he grips it ready to spring on whoever enters. Peaking a bit through one eye he see a flash of long orange hair before seeing dark green eyes letting him know that it was only Odoriko.
Seeing that she wasn't a threat he let go of the knife, "Odo-chan what are you doing?" He asks sitting up a bit to let her know she was caught, "Oh Kono-kun you startled me! Kukuku didn't anyone ever tell its rude to startle a woman?" She asks crawling into his tent getting a blush from the Konoha jonin as her nightgown showed a bit of cleavage.
"Well you shouldn't be sneaking into people's tents like this, anyway what do you want?" He asks making her smirk, "Do you remember what I like to do Kono-kun?" She purred seductively before looking at his bare chest and licking her lips.
By this point Konohamaru knew he was in trouble, 'Oh shit,' he said in his mind before trying to look for a way out of this situation, but before he could she leaned close and gave him a long teasing lick on the cheek.
"Oh my, you taste good Kono-kun, do you want me to just eat you now, or do you want to taste me?" She says rubbing her hands across his abs.
At this point Konohamaru was sweating with nervousness, he was still a virgin after all and he did not plan to loose it like this! So making up his mind he was about to push her off, when they both heard the distinct sound of a tree falling in the distance. Seeing as her moment was over Odoriko looked at the shinobi below her nodding as they both exited the tent to see the others awake with kunai drawn.
"And what were you two doing in there together?" Eki asks seriously, before being interrupted by Kaminari. "That doesn't matter right now, but we have company and its close, kill the fire we need to move." He orders as Tsuyo puts it out with some near by sand. They then quickly and silently get into their regular gear before heading out into the night.
Fire Nation Prisoner Transport
The captain of the company had never felt better in his life right now over twenty prisoners and two of them were daughters of the regions governor. It was a good day they had fought hard each man specifically volunteered during training and now they served him, the famous captain Shu, or known to the poor earthbending saps he came across, 'The Breaker.'
And Shu was quiet proud of his infamous nickname, because even though he led the men he also liked to personally dive into interrogations when he had the chance. And he was looking forward to breaking the captured twins his men had found.
But right now they needed wood to start their fires and feed his men so they were burring down a few trees. And as of now all was well, maybe he'd let the rowdier men use some of the captured maids while he broke the twins. That idea put a twisted smile on his face, after all nothing could stop them at this point the Fire Nation would soon have control over the entire world once that damned city of Ba Sing Se fell then the Earth Kingdom will crumble with its walls. And the Water Tribes, ha one maybe two good siege attempts on their northern capital and they too will shatter like fragile ice.
Meanwhile outside the camp
The six ninja had made their way to the outer perimeter of the camp and from the looks of the actual camp it appeared to be a prison camp or something along those lines judging from the people in chains. Konohamaru having seen enough to know that these were the hostiles that ANBU had encountered outside the village, they were expendable, while the hostages would be priority one when it came to getting information on the Avatar, and if not then starting a propaganda line or just doing a good deed was good enough for them.
"Alright here's the plan, does anyone have explosives on them?" They look to each other before pulling out a few explosive tags each and they put them in the center before the laugh of Hidoi made them turn his way.
"All of you keep your tags, explosives are my specialty, just one question though, is anyone able to withstand the force of a minefield and protect the hostages at the same time, because if not then this plan is right fucked from the beginning if anything goes wrong." This causes Eki to look towards Konohamaru, "Yes about this plan what is it exactly?"
The others all turn towards him as well when this question was asked, "Alright then fair enough, the plan is simple we make some noise and cause a bit of destruction to lure most the guards into a trap before detonation then grab the hostages in the chaos. The reason behind this is if we try to take them out one by one there are too many to do so without alerting the others."
Hidoi grins, "Hiding in plain sight, I like it. Now then who is ready for my symphony of destruction?" He asks before laughing lowly making the others narrow their eyes towards him a bit.
Tsuyo seeing this speaks up softly, "Um I believe that I may be of assistance. I have a few jutsu that make me more explosion resistant and one to actually protect the hostages. So would it be best that I go into the camp to free he hostages. And I know that I'm quite large, but I am a shinobi like the rest of you, stealth is the first thing they taught me." He says trying to lighten the mood a bit.
"Alright then Tsuyo you will be in wait, so maintain radio contact and wait for the signal. Hidoi wait for the signal if you detonate early we are in for a fight, and if late then Tsuyo is going in basically alone before the rest of us can converge on him, you got it?" He asks seriously making the blonde Iwa nin nod his head before that damned smirk made its way onto his face again.
"Alright then the rest of us will be lookouts, the distraction, and the ones to pick off stragglers so wait until Hidoi gives the signal that the charges are set and we can get to work." And with the plan set they got to work. Konohamaru going north, Kaminari going south, Eki going east, and Odoriko going west. All of them could see Hidoi as he went basically around the inter perimeter shifting the ground a bit before putting something inside and then moving a few feet to repeat the process. As this was going on Tsuyo had managed to make his way into the camp and found the tent where the prisoners were located just from listening to the guards speak and following the faint sounds of crying.
When Hidoi gave a thumb up to Konohamaru the brown haired jonin clicked his radio and the four hidden ninja along the outer edge slowly moved in and suddenly sprang into action.
With Eki bursting out with a large black cloud following behind her, "Jiton: Satetsu Shigure!" (Magnet release: Iron Sand Drizzle.) She yells as the cloud began to form into thousands of tiny projectiles that were launched into the first few tents in front of her showering any poor soul inside in a death of iron rain.
This of course gets the rest of the camps attention and as they start to head in her direction Kaminari saw his chance, "Ration: Sandaboruto!" (Lightning release: Thunderbolt.) It was then that a flash of bright blue lightning drew in some of the soldiers rushing to the east, and now had them investigating the deaths of their men in the south.
Meanwhile Odoriko was prepared with her clan's infamous technique, truth be told she really didn't like using this, but a mission is a mission, "Dokuton: Dokugiri!" (Poison release: Poison Mist.) She exclaims before letting out an enormous cloud of deadly purple mist that swept through the west side of the camp corralling the remaining soldiers either outside their safe zone and into the trap Hidoi had set up, or to head into the north side where a special someone of hers was waiting with his own attack.
And this leads to Konohamaru who was currently holding in his uncle's famous jutsu, "Katon: Haisekisho," (Fire release: Burning Ash.) Truth be told he wasn't just waiting for his targets to get into range, he was also psyching himself out. He's always had a problem with killing anyone, it just felt wrong to him and his sensei was the same way, but like his sensei before him he learned. You're at war now, hesitation means you and those who you care about will pay the price.
Which now leads up to where he was at as the last Fire Nation goon ran straight into the cleaning to avoid poison gas, iron bullets, or lightning, but they did however run into a whole lot of gunpowder, unfortunately for them of the lower foot soldiers happened to be holding a torch when they ran in.
BOOOOOMMM
You could feel the ground shake a bit as blast went off, he tried not to look at the bodies but he had to see where he was going. And it was now that the final part began.
Hidoi stood atop a hill as he knew it was his time to shine, "Let the world hear my symphony! Bakuton: Kibaku Jirai!" (Explosion release: Explosive Landmines.)
And what came next was the final nail in the proverbial coffin for the Fire Nation soldiers, as the entire outer edge of their camp and their fuel supplies had been rigged with dozens of landmines made by Iwa's famous Explosion Corps. And when someone happened to either step on one or they were simply caught in the blast radius of the trigger ones, well they really didn't stay together.
And finally when Tsuyo heard the commotion outside the main tent from the middle of camp he sprang into action by descending from his hiding spot landing on top of an unfortunate soul crushing him under his sheer weight, breaking the man's back painlessly ending his life.
He then rushes past the tent's flaps and into group of about five soldiers armed with two of them wielding fire and the other three swords, and one that appeared to be leader of the camp. Seeing the massive man enter his tent Shu panicked, "Seize him! This must be an attack to rescue the prisoners!" He shouts before the three with swords charged ready to strike him down.
However Tsuyo didn't move an inch from where he stood he only mumbled something under his breath, "Koton: Shinto-sei no Bogu." (Steel release: Impervious Armor) His skin then turned from its natural brown into that of cold and sturdy black steel.
Then to the major's horror the swords literally shattered against the giant's skin with a resonating sound of what sounded like metal against metal, before with a speed he didn't think a man could move the giant rushed his men and with two powerful punches and a single kick his men were down. The front two with dented armor and bloodshot eyes, and the one that got kicked was sent flying past him with his armor now inside his body and a giant footprint where his heart should've been.
He then watched as the giant stood in front of him and his personal firebenders defiantly, as he raised a hand and motioned them to come at him while slipping into a fighting stance. "Kill him! If you do I'll pay you HIS weight in silver!" He shouts as the two white masked men begin to circle the metal giant.
They look to one another before charging Tsuyo looks to his left and sees one flying through the air with his foot on fire and the one from the right sending a stream of bright orange flames his way, so seeing his chance he grabbing the one to his left in mid flight, before he crushes his leg with his chakra enhanced grip and sends him flying into the other's path forcing him to redirect his fire least it hit his comrade.
This however causes him to shift his vision off the metal man for a moment, which costs him as when he looked back he was gone. Panicking he tries to go to his friend only for said metal man to be directly behind him hands positioned around his neck, and with a sickening snap the firebender fell dead his neck broken.
The other who was now nursing his surly broken leg was clenching his teeth as he looked at the metal behemoth of a man walking towards him. He knew that this wasn't end well as he saw him look down him with coal black eyes, but to his surprise he simply turns away towards the major leaving him in a stunned silence, before an unseen force knocks him out.
Now Shu knew he was a powerful firebender, after all the Fire Lord and his generals didn't put weakling in command. But this was something he never expected to see a man so huge, yet walked without making a sound, swords shattering against his skin, and the sheer efficiency of his moves, nothing was wasted. So now here he stood in front of the metal man as he let the spirit energy surge in his body as he let the fire come to life in his hands.
And then he sprung.
Tsuyo seeing as the leader of these men looked much more experienced and stronger smiled a bit, true he didn't like to cause pain, he did enjoy a good fight. So to his enjoyment when he moved at a decent speed the leader was able to dodge and counter by spraying a thick coat of flames onto his back causing the Kumo nin to flinch, maybe he underestimated the he didn't this one enough credit true, no here could sense him or the others didn't mean they couldn't put up a fight.
So deciding to treat him like a serious threat like his men he shift his weight into a flip kick into the major's arm and to his displeasure he heard the arm break. Turing he saw just how bad though, perhaps he put too much chakra into the kick as the arm was now limp and dangling from the man's side. Deciding to end it he was about to go for the man's neck or heart when he heard something.
Something that made his steel skin crawl.
Crying.
Turing he saw a group of about twenty men and women locked in cells some of them in a less than decent state. Now boiling over in anger he turned only to get blasted by a wave of fire, "Melt! Melt damn you! This is what happens when you fuck with Shu 'The Breaker' I will break you physically, like I did to them mentally!" He shouts in hatred for the metal giant before him. He comes into HIS camp when he was enjoying, HIS prisoners, and HIS men have the nerve to loose to a lowly earthbender.
However his rambling was stopped when a giant hand came out of the fire and grabbed his hand crushing it and burning it at the same time from the heat of the steel. "Ah! What the? HOW!?" He shouts at the towering and now angry shinobi.
"So you broke them? You enjoy causing pain? Then allow me to return the favor, now know their pain." He says lowly before taking his hand away from the crushed major's, he then gripped the interrogator's head and crushed it for a few excruciating moments, before a pop was heard and Shu's head and brain were spread across the room like paint.
Hearing more of the explosions coming his way Tsuyo quickly goes over to the hostages and rips off the doors to their cells, "Quickly gather around me it you want to live!" He yells leaving no room for argument from the prisoners as they quickly rush around him carrying the ones that weren't in a condition to run.
"Koton: Yaei-chi!" (Steel release: Encampment.) Then before the prisoner's very eyes the ground shook and out came four huge steel walls that surrounded them before a roof formed on the top. Safe inside from the coming explosions Tsuyo turns to see that it wasn't just him and the prisoners now he turned to see the firebender who's leg he crushed and Kaminari who was looking over him.
"I though you said you didn't like to cause pain?" The masked swordsman asks while examining the man's wound.
Tsuyo shacks his head, "I said I dislike those who cause unnecessary pain. That one's leg was not my intention, however the leader of this place was purposeful. I guess you could say that I see the logic in Pein's philosophy, if one causes pain to others then, I will cause pain to them teaching them." This makes Kaminari a bit uncomfortable with the giant being someone who actually believe in Pein's idea, even if it is only to a certain degree.
"It sounds like it's over lets get these people out of here." He says picking up the wounded bender while Tsuyo dismiss the walls and his armor, letting the prisoners see the pure destruction that that occurred.
The very ground was blackened and burned and everything was gone from the tents to the trees for a few hundred square feet, and that's not counting the trees that were currently on fire.
'Looks like Hidoi went a bit overboard on the explosives.' The Kiri nin sweatdrops thinking of the trouble the trigger-happy Iwa nin will cause in the future.
Meanwhile the members of the regional governor's household from his maids to his daughters were shocked at the level of destruction that occurred right outside those steel walls. And who were these people that had rescued them?
They had destroyed an entire camp and all of the men guarding it and now were looking as if was nothing new to them. "Where are the others?" Tsuyo asks wondering if they had moved on to wait for them.
"Right behind you." A calm voice calls out making them all turn to see two young men and two young women. Konohamaru, Odoriko, Hidoi, and Eki all fine and simply relaxed with the first twirling a shuriken between his fingers. "Yo!" He casually greets making the prisoners go wide-eyed at calmness these six seemed to have.
"Right so, where is the closest town that we can lead you to?" Kaminari asks one of the maids, accidentally intimidating her with his bloody tear mask and sword showing on his back.
"U-Um it is a few miles b-back east wh-why?" She asks still somewhat uncomfortable with being next to him even if was looking after them for now.
"We have to get back on our path and right now we need to make sure you all are safe." Konohamaru answers for him getting the young maid to blush seeing the attractive young shinobi.
Just outside the town
From what the six ninja could see that camp they took down appeared to have hit this town in a raid or something similar not too long ago as it still looked like they were assessing the damages done by the Fire Nation.
Speaking of which the soldier with the broken leg, who's name was Lee ironically, after seeing what happened to his commander and what he did he turned a new cheek and decided to stay in this city, since he did successfully keep everyone alive in the prison group, and from what the others said he brought them food at times when the major was asleep.
And as of now they and all twenty or so of the prisoners taken by the camp were about to enter the gate with the governor's daughters entering first, "Wait, we never learned your names!" One suddenly remembers after getting over shock a bit. Only for all of them to turn around and see that no one was there surprising the members of the group.
In fact when they all looked around they didn't find so much as a trace that they existed only the bandages that they had given them.
But they had little time to discuss this as the gates to the city were opened and the governor himself rushed out to embrace his daughters and servants that had been captured.
Somewhere else
"You think that was a good idea leaving them like that?" Odoriko asks as she was walking between Konohamaru and Kaminari. Getting a smile from the Konoha jonin. "I think we did the right thing, they would demanded that we stay to eat and mayb-" He was then cut off as Hidoi buts in.
"And you're not ok with free food!" He asks glaring at the brown-haired jonin, getting a small laugh from the others. "Anyway, we need to move I asked some of them about the Avatar. And from what I can tell they had no clue that he was even alive, so at this point until he starts to move around more often and shows up in front of bigger crowds then, we are going to have track and hope we get lucky." Eki states getting a groan from Odoriko and Hidoi, while making Tsuyo smile.
"I believe its time we left, Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" He shouts before familiar bug appears for them all to ride on, and with that they take off into the sky not knowing that rumors of their a masked swordsman and the man with iron skin were already spreading.
Back on Kyoshi
Sokka was now pissed, true they were still alive after Aang proved that he was the Avatar, but something about being defeated, by another girl no less, made his furious at himself, he kept saying that if they didn't sneak up and or use a choke hold then he could've taken them.
So he was now while Aang and his sister were relaxing at the village and Aang was soaking up the highlife of being the Avatar he had found the Kyoshi warrior dojo.
Looking through the door he could see the Kyoshi going over their form refining it to perfection. Of course his own form was atrocious and he was at this point not thinking too clearly he decided to ignore that fact and interrupt.
"Sorry ladies didn't mean to interrupt your dance lesson. I was just looking for somewhere to get a little workout." He says arrogantly while stretching a bit trying to emphasis his statement. While at the same time he was starting to piss off the warriors.
"Well then you've come to the right place." Suki says with a bit of strain hoping to shut him up after he disrespected them in front of the village elder.
But trying to be friendly to the Avatar's friend she again speaks a bit kinder, "Hey sorry about yesterday I didn't know you were friends with the Avatar." But this kindness didn't last long thanks to Sokka's mouth.
"It's alright, normally I'd hold a grudge, but seeing as you're a bunch of girls I'll make an exception." Now Suki even though she didn't show it was pissed on the inside so she decided to try and coax Sokka into a spar. "I should hope so. A big strong man like you, we wouldn't stand a chance."
She says sarcastically a bit at the end getting her fellow warriors to smile behind her. And as for Sokka he took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. "Truuue, but don't feel bad. After all I'm the best warrior in my village." He says in a tone that left Suki clenching her fists white with anger inside her glove.
"Wow, best warrior, in your whole village. Maybe you'd be kind enough to give us a little demonstration?" She asks with thick tone of both challenge and sarcasm. But this time Sokka didn't jump right into the verbal trap as he hesitated for a second, but that was until Suki turned to the others.
"Come on girls, wouldn't you like him to show us some moves?" She asks in a fake sweet voice that the others laugh a bit. Now Sokka having his pride lifted up was ready to go only, he didn't know that it was about to come crumbling down.
"Ok if that's what you want, "I'd be happy to." He then walks up to Suki and moves in around a bit to the perfect spot. "Now then, this might be tough, but try to block me." He says before throwing a sloppy and slow straight forward punch which Suki easily blocked with her bladed fan, stunning the boy and leaving him open for her to counter.
But Suki wanting to further embarrass him simply stood there in the same spot. "Um ok, good of course I was going easy on you. Let's see how you do against this!" He yell throwing this time a still sloppy and predictable attack in the form of a kick.
Which Suki then ducks under and flips him onto his back making him mad, "Oh that does it!" He shouts coming at her with a haymaker, only to have her again duck under it and flip him onto his back with her getting him into an arm bar close to breaking his shoulder. Making him wince in pain every time she moved it, "Anything else you can teach us?" She says teasingly while letting go of a now blushing Sokka's arm.
Meanwhile with Aang
Aang was about to go out into the ocean again to ride the Unagi, he had promised his new fans that he would and to be honest he was really enjoying the high life as the Avatar right now, but when he saw Katara he wanted her to come with him so seeing her as she was shopping he want over to her and tapped her on the shoulder.
"Oh good there you are help me carry this back to the room, its a little heavy she asks nicely only for him to put up his hands in refusal, "Actually I can't right now." He says as Katara got a bit agitated, "What do you mean you can't right now?'
"I promised the girls I'd give them a ride on Appa, why don't you come with us? It'll be fun!" He asks trying to get her come along, but that idea was shot down pretty quickly, "Watching you show off to a bunch of girls does note sound like fun." She says while loading produce into the basket.
"Well neither does carrying your basket." He says back trying to retort, only for her to snap at him, "It's not mine, the supplies are for our trip. I told you we have to leave Kyoshi soon." This causes Aang to pout a bit.
"But I don't want to leave Kyoshi yet, I can't really say what, but there's something about this place that I really like." He says with all his fangirls giggling in the back. However one seemed to be impatient. "Aangie what's taking so long?" Katara only sweatdrops at the name while Aang smiles and looks back, "Just a second Koko!"
Then Katara remembering what he said earlier on the island looks at him, "Simple monk, huh? I thought you promised this Avatar stuff wouldn't go to your head?" However Aang wasn't hearing any of it, "It didn't, but I think you don't want to because you're jealous." He says grinning like an idiot.
"Jealous, of what!" She yells back. "Jealous that we're having so much fun without you." the monk fires back.
"That's ridiculous!"
However Aang didn't really get the warning and continued on, "I know it is, but I understand." He says back before Katara having had enough walks away.
Back with Sokka
'That was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life!' Sokka shouts in his head as he was simply hanging around outside the dojo. 'First she blocks my punch like nothing, then, before I know it I'm on my ass with my shoulder about to be snapped! Am I really going to be beat by a girl again!' He then remembers the swordswoman that was traveling with Zuko. 'But if she's going to be in the way then I'll have to get stronger to really fight her, and these girls can help, oh well here goes nothing.'
And with that he went inside to see them going over another one of their katas. And when Suki sees him enter she immediately starts to talk, "Hoping for another dance lesson?" She asks only getting silence in response, but she does notice his fists balled until the knuckles were white. So becoming impatient at the boy she gets aggravated, "Spit it out what do you want?"
But what she wasn't expecting was for him to get on his knees and bow, "I know that I may seem like an asshole sometimes, but please forgive me if I offended you earlier. Right now I'm asking if you could please help me, your fighting style is much better than mine right now and I'll need for the road ahead. So please Suki, I humbly ask that you would please teach me." He finishes touching his forehead to the ground.
Seeing the sincerity behind his words makes Suki curious as to what would make him do a complete 180. "Alright, usually we don't teach outsiders, but I'll make and exception for you. Just know that you'll have to abide by ALL of our traditions." She finishes nodding her head a bit as one of the other warriors runs off to grab something.
When she returns it was the traditional Kyoshi battle dress. 'Oh dear.' He complains in his head.
One embarrassing change of clothes later and Sokka stood in the middle of the floor in the dress looking a bit depressed. "Do I have to where this?" He complains getting a smile out of Suki.
"Yes it's a traditional warrior's battle attire, and you should be proud to where it as the silk is your warrior blood that flows through your veins and the golden insignia represents the honor of the warriors heart." That gets Sokka's attention as he perks up a bit, "Bravery and honor. I like the sounds of that." Only for that feeling of pride to vanish when Aang appears, "Sokka nice dress."
He the turns to Suki remembering something he saw on the Fire Nation ship, "Hey Suki can certain gestures hold meaning to a warrior, like what you explained to me from the uniform?" This gets a raised eyebrow from the young woman.
"Um, yes defiantly, why?" Sokka then looks down for a second with a far off look in his eyes. "Then tell me what does it mean to a swordsman when they let go after disarming you and beating you flawlessly, and if you don't know that then tell me this what is the meaning of a swordsman tasting the blood of their enemies?"
Now this threw Suki for a loop as she didn't expect him to ask anything like that. "Well in the first one it can mean one of three things, they find you a worthy opponent, but its not that you since you said they beat you by disarming you then its either they were ordered not to kill you, mercy, or they didn't find you worthy to die by their weapon. We have something similar with our fans." She says emphasizing it by opening hers and showing him the blades inside.
"As for the blood, I'm not sure about that, but usually that's not a good sign." Sokka hearing the first one really didn't feel like hearing the second. "Never mind, so what's the first lesson?" He asks before being kicked in the chest.
"Dodge."
With Aang
Aang was thinking that he had the perfect plan as he went to go tease Katara about him riding the Unagi, so when he found her practicing her waterbending he put it into action. "Hey Katara remember how the Unagi almost got me yesterday?
"Yep." She answers not even looking towards him.
"Well I'm going to go ride it now. It's going to be real dangerous" He says grinning at the reaction he was expecting, only to have it shot down when she again appeared uninterested, "Good for you."
This was something that threw Aang off a bit as surprise was leaking into his voice, "Wait, you're not going to stop me?"
"Nope, have fun." She says again not looking up from her waterbending. And what followed was the argument
"I will."
"Great.
"I know its great!"
"Well I'm glad you know."
I'm glad you're glad!" Aang says back with a bit more force in his voice, only to have Katara top it off with the final say, "Good!"
However just before Aang walks out he couldn't help but feel that his plan to make her jealous backfired on him somehow.
Back with Sokka
Sokka had just finished a spar with Suki and right now he was feeling it.
It had started out as her correcting his form and showing him that the Kyoshi fighting style was more about redirection than power or strength. Then when she tried to show him he was able to apply and land a successful blow on her. That of course made him brag, she beat him down and then they had a pretty one sided spar.
Which is where he is now on the floor breathing heavy, he remembers what Suki said about a sword wielder disarming you when they were talking about how to use the fans in combat, and he was pretty embarrassed now that he thought about it.
In his home she comes in and disarms him almost the ultimate disgrace to a weapon wielders right under having your opponent break them. But then to know that the only reason she didn't kill him was either she didn't feel like he was worth it, or that scared guy told her not to and he was technically in his debt.
But the more he thought about the more he realized just how bad that felt, all that time he had spent with his dad trying to become a warrior using his boomerang or club. It cut his pride to ribbons just thinking about it.
But it also gave him something to shoot for Aang had to master the elements, Katara wanted to master waterbending, and him well he wanted to beat that swordswoman, and take his pride back.
Yeah that sounded like a good goal for him.
With Aang
As of right now he was bored out of his skull as the Unagi, who he promised his fans he'd ride was a current no show. Making said fans very unhappy. And even when he tried to keep them entertained they still looked bored. "Wait! Where are you going!" He shouts back to shore as they all leave until only one approaching person is left, that being Katara.
"Katara you showed up!" He shouts excitedly making her smile, "Yeah, I wanted to make sure you were safe. You really had me worried" She says back to him.
Aang being curious continues, "Wait a while ago you didn't care."
Katara only puts her hands behind her back, "I'm sorry." (Aang having somehow heard her when he was in the water, way off shore and Katara fucking whispers it in the show responds.) "Yeah me too. I let being the Avatar get to my head, I was a real jerk."
Smiling at his response Katara simply waves him into shore, "Well get in here before you catch a cold jerk!" She playfully yells back at him making him smile before he started to paddle into shore.
However this smile of his didn't last long as the entire reason he was out there in the first place rose out from under him and was currently staring him in the face, the Unagi. The titanic beast looks to at the teen currently hiding behind one of its fins and blasts Aang with a torrent of high-pressured water making the boy hold n for dear life.
Aang somehow holding on afterwards has to jump for his life as the beast's jaws almost on him. Seeing his escape route he jumps onto one of the Unagi's whisker as the monster shacks around violently trying to shake off the Avatar and gain a meal.
And eventually when Aang couldn't hang on any longer the Unagi flings hi high into the air before he land back first into the water knocking him out as Katara desperately tried to reach him. "Aang!"
By now it was a race to see who would get to him first Katara or the Unagi, as Katara paddled and tried her hardest to get there the Unagi seemed just as determined. And after a few terrifying seconds she got to him only to see that the animal was right on top of her.
So putting her practice into use she blasted herself and Aang out of the way just as the Unagi crashed down onto where they just were a moment ago.
Resting as they were washed up onto the shore Katara looked at the beast as it disappeared into the water and another monster caught her attention, only this was a monster made by man, "Zuko!"
With Zuko
Zuko and his uncle had found out via a rumor the cook told them that the Avatar was on Kyoshi, and they were headed that way now.
"Ready the Rhino's we will be landing soon!" The prince orders as the unnamed soldier does as he's told. Hardening his eyes and concentrating while in his armor the prince looks over to the group going ashore consisting of three other firebenders-riding Rhinos, and three nonbenders steering the beast, and his personal bodyguard since she proved herself when the Avatar escaped, the swordswoman known only as Yuki.
Flashback Yuki
They had just made port to get the ship repaired after the Avatar escaped on his flying bison so it was called and right now all Yuki wanted to do was go home back to Kiri and report back to Taicho or Mizukage-sama, then have a few saucers of sake and go to bed, but couldn't do that yet as the guards were still suspicious, so biding her time she found a place to relax when she felt a pull at the back of her mind.
And then that pull turned into a voice, "Frost? Frost can you hear me?" She recognizes the distinct voice of her captain and closes her eyes.
"Hai Taicho, what is it you need?" She asks calmly waiting for either further orders or the go ahead to go home, and if she got neither then she would be making her way home anyway since that was her original plan. "Frost, I'm sorry to tell you but there has been a change in plans. The big six have put a hit on the Avatar, but after telling them about this Prince Zuko they want to keep an eye on him for a little while, plus the fact that he is also targeting the Avatar is a bonus in our book. After all if he's looking for him then we don't have to extend recourses."
Yuki took these orders with a grain of salt as she nodded her head, "Hai, Taicho. So to double check the Avatar has a green light for termination?" She asks again only getting a low laugh from Suigetsu.
"Affirmative, you see him and he's all yours."
Yuki then after closing off the communication jutsu got up and headed out to look for a blacksmith while they were here on the island.
Sure enough she did find one that charged relatively cheap and used the melted down metal from her old sword to craft one that looked exactly like her old katana that she used back in Kiri. She then named the blade.
Flashback end
'And now Kyudosha (Blood Seeker) will finally taste battle.' She says her head as she walks along side Zuko as they traveled up the dirt path to the village.
At Kyoshi's statue
Zuko and the rest of his men were now in front of the whole town as they fanned out a bit looking for the Avatar and his friends, "Come out Avatar! You can't hide from me forever!" Zuko shouts atop his mount looking over the house he rode next to.
He looks to the soldier next him, "Fan out and find him." He orders as the other three rhinos march down the town's dirt road.
However Yuki looked to the rooftops as if she knew something the others didn't, "Yuki what is it?" However she didn't respond as she turns quickly to the sound of almost silent footsteps on snow-covered rooftops.
"Six enemies along the rooftops, get them out of there it's a trap." She says coldly while using her impressive skill to scale a wall and get onto the roof, before dashing at the enemy.
Zuko seeing what was about to happen yells at his men, "On the rooftops, watch out!" He yells at them. And just in time as the benders looked up they saw three Kyoshi warriors with fans drawn ready to strike. Trying to save themselves they unleashed blasts of fire forcing two of the three to abandon their attack to dodge while the third still had a clear shot and disabled one of the benders.
It was here that Suki and Sokka came down to assist by taking down two of the nonbenders before surrounding the remaining firebenders and using their fans as projectiles stabbing them in the shoulders causing them to fall and right into the waiting arms of other warriors who quickly knock them out.
Now Zuko watched as one of the warriors charged him only to be swatted by the tail of his rhino. But one was able to knock him off his mount and into a support beam, opening his eyes after the pain resided he saw that three of the six warriors had surrounded him.
Not really seeing them as a challenge he quickly used his bending to throw around the place giving them burns and knocking them out.
He then looks around for the other as he sees one drop off the roof above to reveal that she had a good sized laceration on her chest. Turning he sees two others with the same kind of wound and Yuki was cleaning her blade with a cloth she kept on her person.
Nodding to his guard Zuko turns when he hears a familiar shout of the Avatar. They then go at it once again trading blows. Zuko sweeping Aang away from his staff, only for the monk to pick up the Kyoshi war fans and blast him through a wall.
Now Aang was just about to fly off when he noticed something that made him freeze in place.
The fans had fresh blood on them.
Looking over to his glider he saw a young Kyoshi warrior clutching a nasty looking sword wound, while couching up a bit of blood. Aang almost mesmerized by what was in front of him goes over to her. "You're going to be ok." He says as she only smiles and shakes her head a bit.
"We both know that's not going to happen, she missed my heart, but managed to cut deep. Even if I live through this, it'll have me bed ridden for weeks." She says seeing the tears in Aang's eyes over the thought of death. She then hands him his glider.
"Go Avatar." Aang not wanting to see anymore takes off as fast as he could. Flying high above the sky Aang sees the destruction the Fire Nation has done and feels even worse. So seeing Katara rushing some of the children inside he lands next to her. "Katara look at this place, this is my fault." He says in horror motioning his hand around the destroyed town. Katara not wanting Aang to blame himself tries to comfort him, "It's not your fault Aang."
Only Aang reacted pretty badly to that, "Yes it is. Katara these people are loosing their town and some there lives even to protect me." Katara seeing that Aang was about to loose it grabs him by the shoulders.
"Then lets go right now, the Fire Nation will leave if we do." And that seemed to do it for Aang who nodded and left to go find Appa.
Back near the battlefield Sokka and Suki were hiding behind one of the burning houses as some of the other warriors were being pushed back. "Look there is no time to say goodbye!" Suki shouts as another fireball lands near them blasting another warrior through a house.
"Then how about I'm sorry!" He shouts back confusing her, "For what?" she says a bit softer since the Kyoshi made a push forward making the explosion further away.
"I treated you like a girl, when really I should've treated you like a warrior." He says honestly getting Suki to smile a bit before she leaned in.
"I am a warrior, but I'm girl as well," she said kissing him on the cheek getting him to blush. "Now get out of here!" She says standing up only to see one of her fellow warriors drop in front of her from the roof of the house next to them, coughing blood with a perfect slash between her armor.
"Very touching." An empty voice says above them causing both to look up in anger at the still emotionless swordswoman.
"You." Sokka growls out lowly getting Suki's attention. She can see that Sokka was furious right now and in battle anger clouds judgment and creates openings for the opponent to use. So seeing as, A, this woman has probably wounded or even killed some of her fellow warriors this was now personal, and B, if she was able to do that then Sokka wouldn't last a minute.
"Sokka go, now." Suki says raising her fans to a ready stance. Sokka turns to try and argue, but from the look on Suki's face this was not up for discussion. So with both hesitation and regret he looked at the woman one more time, before leaving to find his sister and Aang.
Yuki looks at the younger warrior in front of her as she swipes the blade through the air slinging blood onto the ground a few feet away. "You are brave to face me alone. What is your name?" She asks bringing her sword into a reverse grip behind her arm.
Suki only shifts her stance a bit, "My name is Suki, of Kyoshi island, and who are you?" She demands, causing the woman in front of her to smile, "My name is Shimo Yuki, of a village with no name. And it is an honor to face you Suki." She says surprisingly polite before vanishing in a blur of speed, surprising Suki as she scans her surroundings for the Fire Nation soldier.
She wasn't expecting a blade to be coming towards her neck and trying to act quickly she rolls out of the way as Yuki's blade passes over her. Shock in the younger girl's face present she looks at the now emotionless woman as she made eye contact she knew this fight was going to be serious.
"You're good, but…" Yuki says before charging at a slower pace engaging Suki in a deadly dance of blades sword against fans, sparks flying as each blow tested Suki's strength against the older woman's. At this point she was looking for an opportunity to shift her opponent' balance to create an opening to strike.
And after an attempt at stabbing her in the stomach she twists the grip of her fans trying to pry the blade from its owner's hands. But before she could she accidentally left she left her legs open and Yuki attacked from below with a sweep kick before flipping onto the younger girl possibly bruising a rib from the enhanced kick.
Suki gasping as the wind left her body leapt up as Yuki now circled her a bit, "You lack experience and your sixth sense." She says getting a raised eyebrow from the Kyoshi.
"Ah, so you really don't know. You'll figure it out in time." She says before kicking up snow to blind Suki only to see a bladed fan pass through it almost hit her shoulder. 'Ah better than I thought, but she is still only fighting me without chakra. Let's see how she handles this.' She says in her head before disappearing from sight.
Suki rushing through the snow to surprise her opponent is only met with snow and her fan. Franticly looking around she feels the hair on the back of her neck stand up, before a frantic feeling of danger leapt into her and forced her to move as Yuki reappeared slashing horizontally with the screeching air telling her just how hard she had swung.
' Shit! That was too close a second longer and I would've died. Just who is she!' She thinks franticly. She stands back up to see Yuki with a small smile, "So you're better than the others I've faced as of yet, maybe even one that I could fight serious. But unfortunately I must go. So this dance will have to end here." She says ominously before sheathing her sword and getting in a low stance.
"Now, try to kill me." She says lowly as she charges towards Suki. Widening her eyes the younger warrior raises her fans to defend herself while sprinting to meet her in the middle.
Then the sword of metal against metal is heard and both warriors were in the place where the other once stood. It was quite for a moment as both stood motionless as even the sounds from battle happening not too far from them seemed to fade away.
But that silence was broken as Suki violently hacked up a large amount of blood and her fans fell from her hands in two pieces. Suki could only drop to her knees as she looked down at her fans, her pride as a Kyoshi warrior. She was stunned as the woman who cut them in half walked up to her holding the still bloody sword.
"I was wrong, you lack not your sixth sense, but conviction. You stopped yourself from killing me, I could see it in your hesitation when I said that. It was at that point I knew you couldn't beat me. Farewell Yuki, I hope to face again one day." She says sheeting her sword and leaving an almost unconscious Suki to her thoughts.
With Sokka, Katara and Aang
Aang could only clench his fist in anger as he saw the town burning from atop Appa as they made their escape, and slowly but surly guilt was creeping up on him. Even if Katara was trying to comfort him a bit by telling him that what they did was right.
But Aang wasn't having any of it he saw what appeared to be a shadow in the water and leapt off of Appa and into the water.
This caused Sokka and Katara to stare into the water with shock, and that shock only increased as Aang emerged riding the Unagi. Aang having had enough of watching innocent people suffer grabbed hold of the giant eel's whiskers and pulled causing the eel to panic and spray the island with water extinguishing the fires Zuko and his men had caused. And it only helped Sokka to see something that will haunt his nightmares.
He saw her at the edge of the village, standing like a statue that damned swordswoman. She had beaten Suki, maybe even killed her but he couldn't know for sure. All he knew was that Suki had lost that fight and now more than a few Kyoshi would be either nursing their wounds or burying their dead.
He then made a promise to himself, one that he swore not even Katara and Aang would never know of. 'I promise, upon the blood of my fellow warriors, that I will avenge you!'
Miles away at the Fire Nation Palace
Azula was currently angry, which isn't really anything new, but the reason she is angry is because after getting rescued by a passing frigate they had been able to address the wounded including Mai who had gotten stitches, and now her father told her that she couldn't leave the palace again to hunt down the bastards who almost killed her with that trap!
'Damn it Mai almost died, and those fuckers are still somewhere out there probably laughing at us right now for falling right into that trap they set. Well I swear when Zuzu eventually fails to capture the Avatar I'll be right there to personally ask the little shit if it was him or not!' She seethes in her mind before going to her room to get some rest.
However she found none as the shocked face of one of her only friends after getting injured appeared to her just when she was about to drift off. And that always made her wake up and summon a small amount of her famous blue fire.
And that led to another thing that has been bugging her, she hasn't had any more nightmares, besides the ones about Mai, after that giant tiger made of blue fire appeared to her in a dream. Just what was it and how long had it been there, she wanted to know so badly, but every time she thought about it only gave her a headache. So resting her head on the soft pillow she once again tried to go to sleep, but like before with Mai's face just as she was about to drift off she felt something at the back of her mind. So trying to concentrate she found herself back in the room where she met the cat.
And low and behold there it was, right in front of her lying down with its two flaming tails waving behind it. "Ah so you've returned. Good ."
And done!
Wow this felt good to make!
Yeah so I'm not going to be posting as much obviously with school and football going on, really most of time I'm so damn tired that I just eat and go to bed when I get home.
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