Chapter 4: Clash in the snow!

Rinni walked to a nearby small hut, which just happened to be her house. She opened the small wooden door which squeaked, and a white haired child ran to greet her. "Got you some apples Haru" Rinni took out the apples and handed him two of them, and it took him no time to eat them both. He looked up at her and smiled "Thanks momma." She just smiled and rubbed his head.

Ruki slowly opened his eyes to see Kei hovering over him, and staring at him intensely. "You just had to run off?" Ruki just sighed at Kei's comment. Kei walked away from him "Don't do stupid things!"

Ruki slowly got up, and looked around, only to see Rei's fist smash right into his face "Idiot!" she said without much remorse.

Ruki spat up a little blood from her punch "Damn it!" Trace smiled as he was setting in a chair not too far from Ruki. "We've got a mission."

Ruki looked over at him "looks like I don't get much down time. Hm what is it?" trace read off a piece of paper "were tracking down a man named Zindious"

Ruki and Trace began to put on their equipment for the mission ahead of them.

The headed out without much thought, and passed a small hut not too far from their base. The only thing Ruki hated about the land of the snow was the snow, being from the hidden rain village, snow was not his thing. "So what do we know?" Ruki asked. Trace responded "He's a jonin from the land of lightning, who has an "electric "personality"

Ruki looked at him sarcastically "he's a little far from home then" Trace retorted with "heh a little, more like a lot."

Both of them came upon an opening between the trees, and saw a man with Jet black spikey hair, in a black cloak walking. Trace smiled. "Bingo."

They jumped down in the snow just a little ways behind Zin. Trace made handsigns "future sight" and closed his eyes, he then through a kunai at Zin, as it got close to him, an electric force-field stopped the kunai in its tracks and it completely designated it, Trace then slowly opened his eyes "He's got some kind of Chakra barrier around him, it will make direct attacks useless."

Ruki smirked "we shall see." He moved at Zin and drew the sword from his back. He flung the sword at Zin, and multiple kunai, and as they drew close to Zin the lightning force field kicked in and stopped there movement, Ruki smiled and raised to fingers, turning the sword, and kunai into explosive tags. "Release" and in mere seconds, they exploded and smoke covered the area.

Ruki jumped back waiting for the smoke to clear, and a bolt of lightning shot out, narrowly missing Ruki's head.

Trace stood back as the smoke cleared revealing that Zin had turned around. His gold eyes studied both Ruki and Trace, a curse mark was permintly burned into his skin. "Come to challenge me?" he asked with someone of a prideful smile.

Ruki retorted back at him "More like take you down." Zin laughed and tossed multiple lighting rods across the area, and Ruki's eyes turned to a crimson color.

At the same time Trace activated his Mizuhi, and Ruki made handsigns "Aura Style: Destructive Senbon" green aura swirled around Ruki's finger tips, and he pointed them at Zin, in an instant a green blast was shot towards Zin.

As the blast got close to Zin, he seemed to absorb it. Zin then shot a blast of lighting back at Ruki. "Hm I see no handsigns."

Trace moved quickly throwing kunai, and then warped behind Zin using his time manipulating techniques. "Gotcha" Trace said as he smiled, and as he did, a blast of lightning come out of Zin's back, knocking Trace back a ways. Ruki attacked him again with the destructive Senbon technique, but it had the same effect as the first time.

Trace stood up and made handsigns "Steam bullet" a burst of steam hurled at Zin, but barely scraped him due to the fact it was redirected by lightning.

This gave Ruki the time he needed to make his own handsigns "Aura style: Twilight Moon" a ball of pure green energy emerged on Ruki's finger tips. He then rushed towards Zin who shot more lightning at Ruki, as he did the ball of energy absorbed the lighting making it bigger. Ruki's jutsu made contact with Zin right in his chest, tearing off some of his cloak, and forming a crater around the two of them.

Steam bellowed off of Zin's body, and Trace used it to form his steam grip. He held Zin right where he was standing. Zin's eyes flared up in anger, and lighting rods grew out of his body, causing his chakra to greatly increase, which he used to easily break through Traces steam grip. Ruki attempted to jump away from Zin, but with no prevail, "I'm a god!" Zin sent a lighting powered fist right into Ruki's stomach, sending him flying and crashing through two nearby trees.

Traces pupils became white flames, and he quickly struck Zin's chakra points, before he got a chance to strike at him. Zin looked at him in anger. "Damn you! How dare you! I am a god!"

Trace just smiled warping away leaving Zin surrounded by explosive tags "No god I recognize." He then raised two fingers "release" causing all the explosive tags around Zin to ignite and explode, which caused the snow and ice to collapse on top of Zin, Trace then walked over to go find Ruki.

A tree was laying on half of Ruki, and trace used his Mizuhi to examine him over. "Hm a change in his chakra pressure, but otherwise ok." Trace then jumped down to help remove the tree from Ruki.

As he did Zin, appeared behind him, bloody, with only a fraction of his cloak actually left intact. Zin smiled slowly pulling a blade out, and raised it to strike Trace.

Ruki's eyes flared open revealing there were black in color. Before Trace even had time to blink, Ruki smashed through the tree that was on top of him, surrounded by a purple chakra. Before the blade could even touch Trace, Ruki hit Zin with the full force of a chakra covered punch.

Zin dropped the blade, and spat up blood "To think I'd be beaten by the likes of you." Then passed out and fall backwards.

Ruki smiled "you just got knocked the hell out" Then fell over in the opposite direction passing out.

Trace sighed, "Damn" then walked over to Zin and made handsigns "Chakra Restraint" chakra marks appeared all over Zin and paralyzed him making him unable to move.

Trace looked at the now unconscious Ruki "I don't know how the hell you just did that, but it was an immense burst of strange chakra."

(Two hours later)

Trace and Ruki arrived back at the base, and Trace threw Zin on the desk in front of Kei who looked at them sarcastily "damn it! You were supposed to recruit him! Not nearly kill him."

Both Ruki and Trace sighed.