thinking'
Flash back or dream
"Talking"
Demon or inner
Kakashi grabbed both of the boy's collars and tossed them away, out of harms way, as the lightning struck the other where they had stood, a moment ago. The shinobi that had sent the lightning . The shinobi had been crouched in the bushes when he had sent the lightning attack. His dark, bug like, goggles had caught the light and warned Kakashi of the upcoming attack.
"Finally, an opponent! I'll take this one down, no sweat!" Naruto shouted smugly as he threw a kunai at the opponent. Sasuke watched the kunai sail past him and wondered why the enemy didn't move to dodge it…
Clang! Sasuke's kunai thudded into Naruto's sending it sprawling into the dirt. "Teme! What did you do that for?!" he shouted in outrage. Sasuke pointed at the rain nin. 'I see…' Kakashi thought. The rain ninja had pulled from the bushes , a mass of red and pink.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled frantically. Sakura lay in the shinobi's grip. There was a bruise on the side of her face, and her eyes were, closed. Her hands were tied firmly behind her back, and her ankles were bound as well. Kakashi scanned the scene, no trace of Rinn. "Where's the other one?" he asked menacingly. The shinobi twirled a kunai in his hand "dead, I suppose. She took a kunai to the heart, that one". Sasuke's hand clenched subtly .The bug like shinobi quickly flicked the kunai to the side of Sakura's throat "she'll be dead too, soon unless you make the right decisions".
Kakashi's eyes narrowed. This was one of those worst case scenarios. One member presumably dead, another, a hostage. Un top of that, Naruto wasn't thinking straight, and might do something stupid that would jeopardize the whole remaining squad. So ,not counting Sakura, who's a hostage, Naruto, who's reckless, and Rinn, who's M.I.A. , this would be a one verses two battle. But…there's most likely another enemy, hidden nearby, and he wasn't so sure he could get to Sakura before the bug like shinobi figured out what they're up to. He sighed, this was a hair breaths away from getting ugly.
Kakashi caught Sasuke's eye. Sasuke gave a very subtle, very small, nod. The two sprang forward, kunai in hand. The bug like shinobi, froze for a second, then plunged the kunai to Sakura's throat…but Sasuke was faster. He grabbed Sakura's limp form as the kunai came down but the kunai was now inches from his spine, it would shatter it. Then two things happened at once. A shuriken came flying, knocking the kunai out of the shinobi's hand, it seems as though Naruto had come to his senses and wanted a taste of the action, and Kakashi had smashed into the shinobi, his own kunai lodged into the attackers chest…only to find out it was all substitution. The shinobi disappeared in a poof of smoke, and he and Sakura were replaced by logs. A string of oaths streamed from Sasuke's mouth as he crouched into battle position.
The bug like shinobi reappeared, standing precariously on top of a spindly tree that amazingly held his weight. He made a tsk sound at the back of his throat and said "wrong decision". He snapped his fingers, and a boy with sleek chin length hair walked out of the bushes, holding a kicking and screaming Sakura securely. "SAKURA CHAN!" Naruto shouted. The bug like shinobi smirked sadistically "I'll make sure she dies so that all of you can see her. It will be slow and painful, right Jenta?". Jenta rose a kunai to Sakura's arm as if intending to cut it off. Sakura instead, screamed louder. The shinobi cackled. Naruto lunged forward, growling, but Kakashi caught him roughly by the scruff and pulled him back. "Don't stop me Kakashi sensei! We can't let Sakura get hurt!" he growled still trying to get out of Kakashi's grasp, but Kakashi wasn't so sure. There was something wrong with this scene and he knew what it was. Sakura was in hysterics.
Suddenly Sakura went limp. Naruto shouted in alarm and the bug like shinobi stopped cackling. "Jenta! You weren't supposed to kill her! I told you, it was a ruse!". Jenta's lips curved up in a triumphant smile. "Ah hah. So you can't handle them can you? There's only two of you". The shinobi started bouncing frantically "shut up, Jent! They're not supposed to know! You ruined it!". Sakura opened her eyes, standing up. "Sakura-chan! You're alright!" Naruto shouted, a grin on his face. Kakashi exhaled, smiling to himself but Sasuke eyed Jenta warily. Sakura rubbed her wrists, her binds fell in shreds at her feet. "You're pretty slow, aren't you?". Poof!
The smoke cleared and Rinn stood in Jenta's place. The shinobi's jaw dropped, then he started pointing at Rinn and shouting. "You're dead! I killed you! It was a real corpse! You're supposed to be dead!". Rinn nodded "it was a real corpse. The corpse of your comrade, that is. A substitution and a henge did the trick perfectly". He blanched "J-Jenta! Where the heck are you?!". A rustling sound beside him produced the true Jenta as he landed beside him, looking disheveled and a bit roughed up. "S-sorry! She just came out at me when I was hiding!" he indicated to Rinn. The shinobi clenched his teeth "C'mon, Jenta. Let's get outta here and regroup" and they faded out of existence the way shinobi do.
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Naomi jumped out of the way, just as a strange sword of lightning tried to scewer her. After a series of flips in the air, she landed, back to back with Rangiko, as they were surrounded by Ame nin. Aoi sheathed his lightning sword and took a step before them. "Do you like my present for Konoha, Rangiko?". She hardened her stare at him and he laughed. "What's with the scary face? Don't you miss me? I admit, we didn't leave on good terms, but, that's just how it is". Rangiko spat at the ground. Aoi raised an eyebrow "now that's rather unlady like, you should be more civilized, Rangiko". Rangiko smirked. "Don't tell me to be civilized, you slime bag! Only a slime bag, betrays his village! Do you like my name for you, Aoi?! Slime bag?!" her voice got higher with each word that soon only bats would hear it. Aoi stuck a finger in his ear "ouch. Your words hurt, they really do". "Is that all you can say?!" Rangiko shouted, a gust of wind buffeted the Ame nin around her but Aoi seemed unaffected. "You're hollering still packs a punch, I see" he said in a friendly tone, but then his face became serious "but the little reunion is over now".
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Rangiko opened her eyes slowly, and seeing the lightning blade only inches from her face, she was tempted to shut them again, but than she saw that the blade was not moving towards her and she relaxed a bit. Taking in the scene she suddenly recalled a similar scenario from before, as she saw his face again, smiling underneath that mask. It had been years ago, she was angry and tried to go up against an old friend, she almost died…but Kakashi had stopped the killing blow, just as he did now.
Kakashi held the hilt of the lightning blade, while Aoi struggled to jerk it out of his hand. "Rangiko" he said. "Mm mmm" she mumbled. "There's a battle going on here". Rangiko snapped away from memory lane "Oh, right!". Kakashi sweat dropped. Finally, Aoi managed to pry the lightning sword out of Kakashi's steel grip, and jumped back, putting good space between the Jonin.
Finally remembering the whole thing, Rangiko slapped Kakashi's shoulder. "You're late!" she said fiercely, but he grinned under his mask sheepishly as he rubbed his arm "there were complications, you see I was strolling in the trees when suddenly-" "Yeah, yeah" Rangiko cut in "let's just get on with it". "Yes! Let's!" Aoi growled as he pounced , umbrella in hand. The Jonin glanced quickly at each other before evading a storm of needles, and the hype began.
Naomi launched a kick at a nearby Ame nin. It struck him square in the chest, sending him flying back into a tree. Quickly, Rinn appeared behind her, rusty katana, (I'll just call the bokken a katana) out of it's wrapping and in her hand "nice day for a fight" she commented. "you made it here, obviously" Naomi said. Rinn nodded "duck" she said promptly as a storm of senbon came their way just as they both dropped to the ground. "Fire ball jutsu!" Sasuke shouted. A brilliant spurt of flames, streamed from his mouth, blowing the senbon away and crashing into a couple of Ame nin, advancing towards Rinn and Naomi. "Thank you!" she yelled, completing her hand signs "Shinigami art, Relatsu jutsu!" she cried, sending a strange sphere purely made of soul energy, spiraling to the same two rain ninja, taking them down and out. "My turn", Naruto shouted "Shadow clone jutsu!". In a poof, a dozen or so Naruto's rained on the field, immediately punching out any rain ninja they saw. Sasuke, rushed through the masses, fan shuriken in hand, his adrenaline was pumping now, he flourished in the fight. Sakura weaved her way, avoiding blows and delivering her own, to unguarded shinobi, the battle was exhilarating.
But suddenly something went wrong. The earth moved, as if turning in it's sleep, small waves of earth, crushed the Shadow clones, there were multiple poofs all around. Naomi, jumped back, avoiding a wave of Earth, Rinn as well, Sakura, not so lucky. The falling wall of earth nicked her shoulder and she cried in pain, falling to the floor, holding her shoulder. Sasuke was closest to her and made his way to her side. "Sakura, are you alright?". "Sasuke" she winced "it hurts". "Let me see". There was a cut, from when the earth hardened to stone and struck. It didn't bleed much, but it was badly bruised. He gently cursed, she couldn't move it like before. "Sasuke" Rinn too ,landed beside Sakura "what happened?". "Her shoulder" he answered bluntly. She examined it "it's tender, but not fractured, sprained, nor broken" she announced. "Try not to touch it" she said, supporting Sakura and taking her away, farther from the center of the chaos. Sasuke scowled he met the eyes of Naomi who had stood by and watched briefly. He didn't know her all that well, he hardly ever saw her, and she was strangely unpopular among the villagers. But she was a fellow shinobi on the battle field, he'd aid her and ask for her help as well. "We need to get rid off who ever used that jutsu!" he shouted across the field. "I know!" she called back. They both nodded once, and took off towards Naruto.
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"Can you still use kunai, and ninja tools" Rinn asked as they landed on a spot not to close and not to far from the ongoing battle. "Yeah" she answered "just as long as I'm careful with it, I'll manage". "Ok". 'Darn it' she thought 'things aren't going according to plan. The other teams are late, they are essential!'. The look in Sakura's eyes said she knew it too. She knew they had a problem, where was their back up?.
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Shiro lowered her grayish blue eyes from the battle and met her sister's intense, green gaze. There's nothing happening much over there she thought, and her sister thought back I'm bored. Why do we have to stay here? Because that's what boss told us to do . Her sister, Aka narrowed her eyes If you mean that amateur wind user, you are mistaken. Pein-sama and Konan-sama are our real bosses .Shiro, usually a shy girl did something only her sister knew she could do. She rolled her eyes Fine then, Tanya told us to stay put. Aka smiled That's what the lady says!. She flipped her red hair over her shoulder. Shiro shook her head, and after pushing a lock of white hair obstructing her view, she returned her attention to the fight.
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Sakura lowered her eyes from Rinn's face, she couldn't bare to look at those magenta eyes that could look into her soul, she was so afraid that Rinn would be able to see, what she felt. Sakura sighed. She was afraid. Afraid for Konoha. Afraid for her team mates. Afraid for herself…
She couldn't do any thing useful for any one…she was a burden, getting hurt like this, so early in the battle, making a fuss out of a simple wound, and expecting her team to protect her. She looked at Rinn, she suddenly envied the strange girl who could connect to the other world. At least she could fight. Rinn sat , counting her weapons and tools, ten explosive tags, she put away, five kunai, she tucked in her holster, then at that exact moment when Sakura had been looking, she looked up from her tools, magenta met jade. Sakura jumped a bit then hastily looked away. Rinns eyes returned to her tools.
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Rangiko avoided another deadly spam of lightning, and thrust her chain metal claws, concealed in her sleeves, out into play. They struck the ground Aoi had been standing on a while ago, and they retracted back to their mistress's hands. They were metal and not very suitable against lightning attacks, but she was cautious, not to let them be in direct contact with the lightning blade, long enough for Aoi to send an electrical shock to her. Meanwhile Kakashi was no where to be seen…She twirled passed another thrust of the lightning blade, and struck out with her claws Aoi kicked them back, and caught them in his hand, wrong move. He wasn't the only one who could use lightning to his advantage. A jet of lightning from Rangiko's sleeve, ran through the claw and into Aoi. He howled, clutching his sides, and fell on his knees to the floor, still howling. She nodded her head in contempt and retracted her claws, when Aoi's howling turned into laughter. "S-sorry...I couldn't resist. The look on your face". Rangiko's eyes widened, that's when she realized that his whole suit, even the band of his forehead protector, was rubber. "You didn't think I'd wield a lightning sword with out proper protection, would I ?" he said, straightening up, and picking up his sword. "Now, where were we?". The sword sparked up . "Oh, yes! I was going to watch you sizzle!" and he lept forward once more, sword out and swinging in fast towards Rangiko. She cursed loudly and threw herself out of the way. As she jumped away, and out of the blade's reach, she bit into her thumb, drawing blood and thrust her palm to the ground. "Summoning jutsu!" she shouted. There was a poof of smoke and a large reptile appeared. It's ice blue scales glinted and it's malicious yellow eyes surveyed the opponent, it's forked tongue flickered out, tasting the air. Rangiko smiled deviously " Sic 'im, Kawarimi". The Komodo dragon, sped forward, slicing through the grass as if it were water. And launched at Aoi but Aoi was quick, he speared the Dragon, and it fell to the ground as it poofed in smoke. Then before she knew what was happening, Aoi was upon her. "Rangiko!" she heard Kakashi shout from somewhere. "To late , Hatake!" Aoi cackled, and he drove the sword through her heart.
To be continued….
Whoo, that was, treally long for muy standards. Hope you enjoyed it, and review!! Thank you!