Chapter 7. The Second Exam: Take It Or Leave It All! Heaven & Earth!
Motoko and Kyo both grinned wickedly at their opponents. They were more than ready to jump their new foes but Akira stopped them with a movement of his hand.
"What's it Akira?" Kyo snarled. He have been playing the good boy for far too long. He just wanted to let loose right now!
Akira expertly ignored him. "Tell me which scroll you have, we don't wanna engage in unnecessary battle."
"What?! Since when?" Kyo exclaimed impatiently.
"Since forever you idiot," Motoko flatly replied. "If you haven't figured it out yet, we don't really have the time to fool around!"
"Oh just great," Kyo crossed his hands pissed.
"We have the earth scroll," the one in the front, who they assumed must be the leader, replied showing them the dark blue scroll but encasing it immediately again.
Akira smirked showing them their heavens scroll. "We are all good to go then."
Motoko smiled. "Looks like luck is on our side!"
"Don't be too sure," the girl on the opposing team replied making Motoko frown.
Who the hell ever talked to her?
Before Akira had a chance of encasing their scroll once again, the leader of the opposing team jumped at him forcing Akira to jump backwards off the tree he was standing on.
"I think that belongs to us now!" The Rain ninja smirked aiming a punch at his face.
Akira blocked his punch still holding the scroll in the other hand, the smirk never leaving his face. "We will see about that."
Kyo grabbed for his sword but then remembered Sodaima's warning and his mouth tugged down his playful mood forgotten.
The other ninja unsheathed his twin swords making Kyo scowl.
The girl just swirled her umbrella around. "Well hello there redhead."
What's up with people always calling her a redhead? Hello, she already knew that!
"Hi to you too greenhead," Motoko pleasantly replied.
The girl frowned at that. Ah so greenhead wasn't a real word? No? Who cares? Not Motoko.
Then she realized the sword guy had already engaged Kyo in battle completely ignoring her. "Hey! How come I have to fight the bimbo?!"
In Motoko's eyes that was really or should she say extremely sexist. They just expected her to fight a girl whenever they encountered one. Like seriously, they are ninjas for a reason more than being pretty on the battlefield.
"Who're you calling a bimbo?" The girl sneered nastily at her.
"I'm sticking up for you over here," Motoko dramatically rolled her eyes.
Why was it that no one ever understood her intentions? "These guys think you're unworthy of fighting them so they left you up to me."
"So what? I wanted to kick your sorry butt anyways."
Motoko did a double take at that before she smirked. "Do you really think you're up for the challenge?"
"Oh you bet I'm!" She snapped her umbrella shot and jumped at Motoko.
Kyo dodged the well aimed point of the sword of his opponent. It was quite irritating really. How come he couldn't use his sword if his opponent was a swordsman too? That was quite unfair.
The Rain ninja faked a stab to Kyo's stomach and immediately aimed a deadly blow for his neck. Kyo saw the attack coming just in time and blocked it with his kunai.
"You wield a sword yet you don't use it," the foreign ninja mused as their weaponry grinding against each other screeching in protest. "Do you lack the skill perhaps?"
"The only thing here that's lacking is your damn language!" Kyo growled.
"Oh," the ninja mockingly said. "So you insist that you know the way of the sword but yet still you don't use it."
Kyo gritted his teeth. This was really starting to piss him off and it didn't help him concentrate. What was up with the way he spoke anyway? It sounded so messed up! And annoyed the hell out of him too!
"Did you learn the way of the sword only to drop it when you faced an opponent stronger than you? Is that it? Were your resolve really that weak?"
Blood roared up to his head and his vision became red with rage as he grabbed the hilt of his sword. "You bastard! I'm gonna show you who's wea-!"
Kyo stopped midway of unsheathing his sword remembering his sensei's words.
"You must not under no circumstances use your sword,"
What am I supposed to use then?
"Pardon my rudeness," the ninja said in his annoyingly formal manner and Kyo gave him a sharp look. "I was wrong to say you had a weak resolve when in reality you have none at all."
Instead of being offended which he should have been he gave his sword a faraway look. I never really wanted to wield you but now I'm so dependent on you it's so pathetic.
Flash back
A little boy who couldn't be older than 9 lay still under a tree, napping in its shade, away from the scorching sun.
A little girl no older than him came running towards him, her short red ponytail flapping in the wind.
"Kyo! Kyo! Get up!" Her face shone with genuine excitement as she came to a halt beside him.
"Go away," he growled.
"Granny made pie!" She exclaimed spreading her arms widely apart oblivious to his irritation.
"So what?"
"We're going to steal some of course!"
"You're so annoying," he groaned sitting up on his elbows. "Can't you do that yourself?"
"Well I could," she said crossing her hands thoughtfully. "But granny is gonna be there so I need your help."
Kyo looked at her like she just lost it. "If you wanna go and commit suicide then go ahead but count me out."
"What? But ... but ..." she suddenly sounded deflated and pleading.
"Fine!" She stumped with a pout and trudged away now very angry that she didn't get her way. "And it was an apple pie too!"
All thoughts about napping was completely forgotten as Kyo's eyes flew open with alarm. "Apple pie?"
She turned around to look at him a triumphant and very smug look. "Yeah but too bad you don't wanna die just yet! Not even for a sweet piece of apple pie!"
With that said she turned back around and dashed away.
"Wait! Motoko!"
They sneaked silently through the front door with stealth and purpose making sure not to make any sound. The living room seemed like it was relatively empty. Good.
Motoko peeked out of the living room into the small hallway that led to the kitchen. The room was just one door down. The kitchen door was wide open and she could just smell the delicious pie waiting to be devoured by her.
"Come on the coast is clear," Motoko whispered rather loudly out of excitement.
"Shhh!" Kyo hissed irritatedly. "Do you wanna get us killed?!"
Motoko clasped her hands over her mouth to muffle the giggles escaping her. "Sorry." You don't sound sorry at all.
They went on and reached the kitchen without meeting any kind of resistance but midway Kyo saw something rather odd. The room between the kitchen and living room was cracked wide open which never happened. The room had long as he remembered been known as Sodaima sensei's exclusive storage room for all the things they were never meant to see. Either Motoko had purposely ignored it having only food on her tiny brain or she simply didn't care.
Well Kyo certainly cared when he saw a dark gleam emitting from the room. He felt like he recognized it in a disturbingly creepy way. He stared into the room not daring to step inside and his eyes finally manage to adjust to the darkness of the room and he realized at last what he saw and the reason why it felt so familiar.
"No one is in the kitchen!" Motoko whisper yelled peeking into the kitchen almost bouncing on the balls of her feet.
Kyo heard her but felt more like he was obliged to stare at the object that had claimed his attention and filled him with endless uncertainty and unease. Why was it here?
"Kyo!" Motoko impatiently hissed. "Get over here! We don't have much time before she gets back! So hurry up."
Kyo continued to stare, blanking her and his surroundings.
Motoko stumped over to him annoyed by his weird attitude and grabbed him by the sleeve of his shirt attempting to just drag him with her now that he had decided to go all weird on her even though he wasn't really that normal to begin with.
"Come on!" She tugged meaningfully when she suddenly heard the clang of a door being opened followed by the familiar voices of Granny and Sensei making her go completely still.
"No," Motoko immediately unfroze and pushed Kyo into the storage room with her and quickly closed it.
Their approaching footsteps echoed throughout the whole house and Motoko bit her lower lip in aggravation. She had been so close!
Motoko looked over at Kyo to give him a piece of her mind seeing as it was all his fault they didn't make it in time. She was surprised to find him frustratedly stare at something in the far corner of the room hands balled into fist.
She followed his stare and as soon as she saw it, her heart sank. "That sword."
Kyo immediately whipped his head towards her his eyes wide in alarm. He looked frightened as though he was afraid that it will stir by the mere mention of its existence.
Motoko didn't particularly like that evil sword that belonged to no one but a devil. It did once belong to that man.
She got up and was about to give it a good kick just to get back at it for what it did when Kyo grabbed hold of her.
"No!" He hissed. "That thing might not have a master but it's still very dangerous!"
Motoko creased her eyebrows in confusion. "What do you mean?"
Kyo could still hear his words loud and clear.
"Kyo, Sutsimaru may not be alive but he very much is because he despises everyone except for the one he deems worthy of his true master. So don't you even think of using him without permission. You could if really want to die."
That's what he told him and the only thing Kyo could do was take him for his words after all he had seen what it could do to a person first hand.
Sodaima who must have heard them, came barging into the room with a a panic stricken expression and hushed them out with immediately.
They were soon standing in the kitchen heads bowed as Sodaima loomed over them with a disapproval.
"What were you doing in there? You do know you're never allowed to go in there," Sodaima inquired.
"You never really told us," Motoko smartly pointed out. "It was just always locked up."
Sodaima deadpanned. "Motoko you know as very well as I that it was locked for a reason."
Motoko shrugged uncaringly. It was not like she wanted to go in there. It was just a dusty old room with rusty old stuff last time she had sneaked in after ages of curiosity overcame her but he didn't need to know that. At least for now.
"Is it because of what's inside?" Kyo looked up through hooded eyes. "Because of the sword?"
Sodaima looked at him startled. He hadn't expected him to find it. It was too soon. His expression softened.
"Why do you still have it?" Kyo asked. He sounded too rough for his age. "I thought you were going to get rid of it?"
Kyo was mad. No he was more than mad. He couldn't believe sensei had decided to hold onto the sword that had brought him so much misery and pain in the past. He should have disposed of it completely not keep it nearby.
"It was the only way I knew to keep it away from that man," Sodaima admitted wearily. "I didn't want him to repeat what he already did to you. Ever."
Kyo looked down with a slight nod. That sounded reasonable enough in his ears and for some reason he felt relieved. That meant that he would never be able to hurt him like that ever again. But the idea of having that cursed sword nearby still disgusted him and put him heavily on his guard. Even now he could still feel that ominous chakra coming from that room. He felt so much more aware of it now.
Sodaima smiled. He was glad Kyo trusted him enough to believe what he said even though he didn't like it. It would have been much harder to explain if he didn't.
Sodaima clasped his hands together pleased. "Now who's up for a little bit of pie?"
"Me! Me!" Motoko immediately yelled with glee as she jumped up and down waving her hands wildly in the air.
She had been kind enough to stay out of their conversation so far so of course she deserved to have the first piece and the biggest one too!
Kyo's eyes remained downcast and blank till Motoko decided to waft her piece of pie in front of him. So he did the natural thing and snatched it away, popping it in his mouth.
"That was mine!" Motoko wailed glaring daggers at him.
"Not anymore," Kyo smirked smartly at her.
Sodaima grinned. He was certainly glad that Kyo was back to his old self
Kyo smirked bitterly at the memory. He couldn't believe that there was a time when he despised Sutsimaru with all his might but now he relied so heavily on him he had become more than just his weapon but his partner as well.
His opponents sword suddenly heavily grazed his shoulder. Kyo just grinned not uttering a word as he stumbled a few feet back. He really was pathetic.
"So you have lost the will to fight as well," the Rain ninja commented with disdain. "You're not even dodging my attacks anymore."
My will to fight? Kyo thought as his stumbling self came to a halt.
** Kyo watched as Motoko continuously failed mastering the new jutsu Sodaima sensei just taught her. He lay sprawled on the veranda and it was getting kinda boring just watching her fail over and over again. And she was so focused on mastering that Jutsu that pestering and teasing didn't faze her anymore. She was ignoring altogether which didn't his boredom.
"Kyo," Sodaima pleasantly said as he stepped out into the veranda. "Are you feeling bored?"
Okay now that was the stupidest question he had ever heard. Of course he was! Why else would he just be sitting here?
When he didn't reply Sodaima just continued. "Interested in learning something new?"
Now this caught his attention. Kyo whipped his head up at him which was an answer enough for Sodaima. "Come with me."
Kyo slowly followed behind wondering what his sensei had in store for him this time. Sodaima stopped in front of the small storage room and Kyo knitted his eyebrows in confusion. Sodaima was very strict about no one not allowed to go in there and he had been even more stricter about it ever since he caught him and Motoko in there when they were kids. So why was he willingly bringing him here now? As far as Kyo was concerned he had no interest in it whatsoever.
Sodaima unlocked the door. "Wait here for a second," he told Kyo before he went in.
Kyo patiently waited and Sodaima immediately emerged from the room. When Kyo saw what he was carrying he took a step back in distaste.
"What's the meaning of this?" Kyo ha sneered.
Sodaima gave him an apologetic smile. "I thought it would be a good idea for you to learn how to wield it now that you have graduated from the academy."
Kyo stubbornly crossed his hands. "I don't think it is."
"Kyo, this sword is just a tool," Sodaima explained. "It had nothing to do with your parents death. You can't just blame a tool for its owner's actions. A tool is evil or good depending on its owner's will."
Kyo balled his fits and gritted his teeth. "But still ..."
"Kyo I won't force you into this but if you truly wish to become stronger and someday be capable of surpassing him then take it and make it your own."
Kyo looked up at his with a sparkle of admiration and awe and dare Sodaima hope ... respect?
Kyo accepted it and nodded his head his smirk in tact once again. "I'm going to surpass him with or without this sword."
"Good," Sodaima said patting his head but Kyo immediately shook him off with a low growl making Sodaima chuckle. "But always remember all the jutsus I taught before, you should never ever depend on this sword alone. Because if you do then you will never ever surpass him."
"As if," Kyo snorted indignantly. **
'I guess sensei was right to worry, I did end up relying on it alone.'
Kyo made several back flips distancing himself from his opponent.
The rain ninja gave him a disapproving look. "Now you're running away?" He solemnly shook his head. "My, your master must be so ashamed of you. For you to have lost the purpose to fight amidst battle. Truly pathetic."
Kyo performed several hand signs. "Let me show you what's truly pathetic when I defeat you without even using my sword."
Lightning flickered across his right arm illuminating his sharp silver eyes that shone with bloodlust. A devious grin stretched across his features.
The Rain ninja took warily a step back. He somehow seems a lot different.
Akira dodged his opponent's attacks. They were just consecutive and seemed awfully reckless and pushy at the same time. Almost like he was trying to push Akira back on purpose. Akira refrained from attacking, he didn't particularly like to attack his opponent unless there was a legitimate reason. He did have one but the fact that that he couldn't figure out what his opponent was trying to do was driving him nuts. Why did he keep attacking with no apparent pattern or goal. He was the complete opposite of what a real ninja should be. The complete opposite of him.
The Rain ninja came abruptly to a halt with a nasty smirk and put his hands together. "Finally, I thought we would never make it."
"Huh?"
"If you hadn't been so cautious of me instead of fighting back or taken in your surroundings maybe you would've understood," he grinned and before Akira had time to make sense of his words the Rain ninja charged right at him.
Akira brought his hands up for defense but the Rain ninja simply flipped over him landing somewhere behind and making a splashing sound as he did. Akira whirled around in time to see him slam his hands against the water surface he had landed on.
"Damn it! I was too careless!" Akira hissed.
"Water style! Miniature Water Dragon!" The rain ninja yelled and a huge dragon rose up and out of the water letting out an almighty roar and then charged.
Akira immediately put his hands together making hand signs of his own.
"Wind style! Tempest!"
Akira inhaled deeply before he consecutively exhaled an enormous amount of wind that slashed right through the incoming dragon and dissipated it into thin air.
The Rain ninja jumped cautiously back and narrowed his eyes at Akira. He hadn't been expected that and he didn't like his odds one bit. Water against Wind wasn't that of a promising match and it did not play in his favor at all.
Akira raced towards him across the surface of water and lashed out with a kick which the Rain ninja blocked by crossing his arms over one another holding Akira back from striking. Akira added another kick and a bit of chakra to the equation making the Rain ninja skid back a few feet but he decisively held his ground.
Akira now standing on his hands and his legs pushing back the Rain ninja smirked. "Stubborn, aren't you?"
The rain ninja smirked despite the strain from holding Akira back. "What ya gonna do about it?"
Akira answered by swiftly performing a simple set of hand signs. "Water style! Water beam!"
The Rain ninjas eyes widened in horror. "Water style?!"
As soon as the words left his mouth a vicious stream of water shot up and out of the lake taking the rain ninja with it.
Akira who had collapsed after losing his foothold stood up and dusted off the small particles of water that had landed on him during battle and said very aloofly. "You underestimated me far too much and never thought if I might gain more advantage than you after you decided to change your surroundings. A very fatal mistake on your part."
"Torpid Needles!"The greenhead exclaimed as she spew several chakra enhanced needles.
"Water Pistol!" Motoko did a backflip whilst she did some quick hand signs and opened her mouth to shoot blasts of chakra enhanced water encountering the needles midair.
Unfortunately she didn't manage to deflect all of them, a few of them managed to pierce her. She sneered venomously as she plugged them out and raced towards the greenhead with speed and punched.
The greenhead blocked her punch with a punch of her own. "Poisoning along with taijutsu are specialties of mine," she gave Motoko a very smug look. "So what were you saying about me not being up for the challenge, huh?"
"You call that taijutsu?" Motoko taunted. "I'm gonna show you what taijutsu is all about!"
Motoko pushed the greenhead back by fueling her fist with chakra and sending her skidding back.
The greenhead growled not at all impressed and balled her fists. She visibly gathered chakra in her feet and suddenly disappeared from view.
Motoko looked cautiously around and barely managed to block a kick with her arm. The greenhead having Motoko exactly where she wanted continued to deliver multiple attack mostly consisting of punches and kicks weakening Motoko's defense and not giving her enough to react. "What's wrong? Weren't you gonna show me! Huh?!"
Motoko's hands bruised but she bit her lip bidding her time and then suddenly she lashed out, grabbing hold of the girl's ankle. Motoko smirked proudly at her accomplishments before she swung the greenhead around in a fast vicious circle holding her only by the ankle and just like that, she let go.
The greenhead crashed through both twigs and trees due to the velocity and strength behind her throw and disappeared completely from view.
"Well I showed you now, didn't I?"
The greenhead continued to crash through trees due to the immense velocity behind the attack till she didn't have anything to crash into anymore and landed heavily in the nearby lake.
Motoko landed swiftly on a branch nearby having pursued her fall to make sure she was no more.
The greenhead laid helplessly dizzy in the water completely out of it.
"Stupid bimbo," Motoko spat and crossed her arms over her chest. "Already out of it."
Motoko heard the faint cracking sound not so far from where she was standing and moved away in time to see the hurdling form of the other Rain ninja who had stupidly decided to challenge Kyo crash into the surface of the lake.
He crashed into the greenhead and shook her out of her dizzy daze in the process.
The greenhead rubbed her head with a painful expression and sneered at her teammate. "What the hell do you think you're doing, moron? Get the hell up!"
Motoko raised her eyebrow at that. Looks like someone is real snappy even though they didn't do a thing either.
Kyo landed right next to her making a scrunching sound. Motoko was surprised to see Sutsimaru still sheathed untouched.
"You're not using that cursed sword of yours?" Motoko inquired. Kyo tried not to take her tone too seriously. Motoko had never really managed to warm up to the idea of him wielding Sutsimaru like Kyo did. He could still remember how outraged she had been after she found out.
"Are you seriously even considering using that sword after all that happened?" She had screamed. "That thing you're holding have murdered tons of people! Not to mention your ..."
"Stop!" Kyo yelled back. He didn't want to hear it. He had struggled enough as it is with the decision to begin and accepted it. He didn't want to be reminded anymore. He had come to terms with it and decided to move on.
Akira nervously wrought his fingers not fully understanding what was going on but he had a vague idea. "Um, Motoko don't you think, we should respect his decision. It's his choice after all. He knows best, right?"
"You don't understand!" Akira flinched at her harsh tone. "I don't care if you're able to take up such a wrenched sword without shuddering with disgust but I just can't stand it!"
Kyo didn't move or talk. He didn't even have the heart to snap back. All she was saying was true.
Motoko chest heaved up and down as she viciously gritted her teeth together and dug her nails into the palms of her hands. To her it seemed like the most ridiculous and stupidest idea. That sword was pure evil and she wanted to do with it. Sure she should be openminded and all that stuff but there were stuff that you should just stay the hell away from in her mind. And this sword dominated that list. Quite literally. When she saw Kyo wasn't going to make a move to either defend or talk back like always, she became even more furious.
"Fine! Be that way! Just don't come to me when you realize you were wrong!"
Kyo had always hoped she would come to accept it as part of him but she never did. She just tolerated it but never truly accepted it.
Motoko smirked as a devious idea popped into her head when she saw the two Rain ninjas shakily stand up.
"Will you do the honors?" Motoko asked with a crooked smile and dark glint in her eyes as she gestured towards their stumbling foes.
Kyo looked at her in confusion at first but then the same crookedly devious look settled over his face too. "Sure will do."
Kyo put his palms together performing a lightning fast series of hand signs as he jumped down to ground level and slammed his palms against it. "Lightning style! Hurdling Barrage!"
Lightning fluttering out of the ground and hurdled at the speed of light towards the lake. Upon impact the lightning magnified by tenfold successfully electrocuting the two Rain ninja within the waters hold.
Their scream rang out into the wild along with the loud chirping sound of the lightning.
Motoko held her hand up for a silent high five and Kyo complied with a victorious grin. This was the closest he was ever going to get to a compliment from her so he might as well take it.
"You guys should be more careful the next time you decide to play with lightning," Akira chided as he landed beside them.
"Why?" Motoko asked.
"Because I was in the waters nearby and was nearly electrocuted too,"
"Well you're a big boy now Akira so you shouldn't play with water," Kyo scolded in an imitation of a motherly tone.
Akira glared at him. "Not funny Kyo."
"Well I thought it was," Kyo retorted cockily.
"Enough!" Motoko snapped. "Did you get the scroll?"
"Course," Akira replied confidently as he flipped the dark blue scroll around in his hand. "Now we just have to find that tower that lady was talking about."
"Do you think we can make it before the other teams?" Motoko asked her eyes beaming with excitement.
"You think? I know we will beat all those losers," Kyo scoffed arrogantly.
Motoko nodded enthusiastically warming up to the idea as she stared expectantly at Akira.
"We should," Akira grinned. "It have only been approximately an hour."
"Let's get going then!" Motoko fist pumped the air. "We wouldn't want anyone to beat us to it, right?"
As they were about to set out for their destination the ground suddenly shook underneath their feet and tremors convulsed through the ground.
"This chakra," Kyo's eyes widened in shock. "Is so powerful."
"What in the world is going on?" Akira's eyes racked uneasily all over the place.
They might be able to feel how enormous and powerful that chakra was but Motoko could just feel how dark and ominous it was. Shivers went down her spine and her left shoulder suddenly started to painfully pound.
Kyo smirked devilish. "I would really want to fight that foe."
Akira immediately shook off his uneasiness and gave Kyo a stern look. "We have acquired the two scrolls so we don't need to waste any more time."
"Let's just check it out," Motoko smiled although it looked a little forced. "It won't hurt to look, right?"
Akira gave her an uneasy look. There was definitely something wrong with her. He was ready to refuse vehemently but then she gave him a pleading look which compelled him to give in. How could he ever say no to her?
Every fibre in her body was screaming to turn around and not go but she just had to know the source of that power. It didn't necessarily mean she was going to get involved.
"Let us," Kyo agreed. More than eager to go.
They leaped through the trees and when they got within a certain undetectable distance from whoever was emitting that horribly dark and venomous chakra, did they hide.
It must have been the most bizarre scene they had ever walked in on. A horrendous battle was raging on. It looked a little bit too one sided for Motoko's taste though. Three Konoha genins was fighting against a Grass ninja. Okay more like one of them were doing the fighting while the two others whimpered from the sidelines. They speechlessly watched as a blonde kid in an orange jumpsuit was almost flattened by a gigantic summon snake.
"You will make such a tasty little snack for him," the Grass ninja chuckled. "Be warned though he likes to play with his food."
"What the heck is going on?" Akira asked mystified as he took in whatever was going on. It was a first for them for Akira to look for answers from them so Motoko just shook her head looking as lost as he felt.
"Well if there's one thing I know for sure, it's that those kids are good as dead," Kyo dryly commented as the snake rose up again and threw its tail forward, smashing it right through the trunks of numerous trees and splintering them into a million pieces.
The kid fell heavily from one of the trees and landed on the ground.
The pink haired Konoha genin called out a strange name in vain that Motoko wasn't able to catch but she certainly sounded concerned for her teammate.
"They don't stand a chance," Akira sympathetically said. "Hell I'm not even sure if we stand a chance against her."
Kyo for once didn't give any cocky or arrogant remarks which told Motoko just as much as she needed to know. This ninja was strong if not too strong that not even they were certain of their victory were they to go up against her. No wonder these guys were having an awfully hard time.
All those thoughts circulated somewhere in the back of her head, her main focus was on the blonde kid. There was just something ominously familiar about his chakra but yet again strangely unfamiliar at the same time that confused her. And those blue eyes. She was certain that she had seen them somewhere before.
Her gut feeling was suddenly confirmed when a very dark and way more ominous chakra than that of the Grass ninja pulsed from somewhere beneath them causing her shoulder to hurt even more.
"Eat this!" The blonde kid shouted coming out of nowhere as he leapt high into the air and kicked the snake square in the face, causing it to reel backwards.
The kid looked more powerful than ever before as he continuously slammed his fist into the snake's face.
Kyo looked like he wanted to take back whatever he said about them not making it and Motoko grinned. Looked like they were more than a bunch of weaklings and pushovers after all.
The Grass ninja got fed up with the kid effortlessly beating her snake up so she exhaled a huge fireball right at him sending him rocketing into a tree with a painful crunch.
The lady narrowed her eyes at the blond muttering something under her breath before she turned on his raven haired teammate. "Now then, let's see how well you do!"
Obeying its summoner's orders the snake leapt for the ravenette its jaws agape. The poor kid's heart nearly gave up on him as he froze at the spot.
Before the snake had a chance of swallowing him whole the blonde kid materialized out of the blue and pierced two kunais through the snake's nose pinning it down with nothing but sheer strength.
"Hey kid you're not hurt, are ya?" He panted as he glared at him with his animalistic eyes. "Scaredy cat!
"That kid," Kyo breathed looking really surprised and impressed. "He moved like a wild beast."
"That's something terrible wrong with this picture," Akira mused.
Motoko couldn't help but admire that. How in the world were he able to do that? She had only been able to faintly register his strong chakra flow. He had been way too fast for her to see.
The creepy lady ruined the moment though as she reached out with her surprisingly incredible long tongue and wrapped it around him dragging him up into the air and brought his dangling form right in front of her.
"Huh?" Blondie grunted blinking in dumbfounded surprise. "Ewwww! This is so gross! Let me go! Before I pull this tongue out of your mouth!"
The Grass ninja ignored his violent struggle and did some very complicated hand signs which caused her fingertips to light up with purple chakra.
Akira squinted his eyes in thought. "That looks awfully like a sealing jutsu."
"Hey wait," Kyo suddenly said holding his hand up. "Why are we speculating their fight again?"
The Grass ninja kept muttering to herself as she lifted the kid's shirt and pulled her arm back. Motoko watched on with held breath as her teammates chatted among themselves desperately wanting to help. She had always had a thing to help the less fortunate and weak but she knew she had no right to interfere. This was a test of strength and the kid had to win it on his own. Besides they weren't from the same village and she didn't even know him so she had no obligation to help whatsoever. Yet what was this strange connection she had been feeling since the moment she saw him?
"We should probably get out of here before this gets out of hand," Akira advised. "Or worse; they notice us."
"Kay," Kyo got reluctantly up.
"Motoko," Akira urged.
"Not yet," she dismissively said her eyes never leaving the fight.
"What?"
The woman struck her chakra covered fingertips into the kid's stomach making him writhe and scream out in pain.
Motoko flinched at the sound and watched as his dazed eyes faded back to their original color. His vicious chakra receded.
"Those eyes," Kyo grumbled, already immersed in the fight once again.
"Guys!" Akira irritatedly said stumping his feet like a five year old.
"Sasuke please do something," the pinkette pleaded her teammate, her eyes widening as the Grass ninja retrieved what seemed like their scroll from the blonde and then just tossed him aside like he was nothing.
Motoko's eyes widened too and watched on with conflicted emotions as the kid fell to his death.
And that my lovely readers is how you end a chapter.
So what do you think she's gonna do?
And what do you think about the part I revealed about Kyo's past?
Was it interesting, boring or feely-feely?
You're welcome to comment and contribute your ideas! 😘
Xoxo
Akane