Chapter seven, by, you guessed it, I Feel Like It Industries. I Feel Like It Industries also supports other stroies whose names I have forgotten, but they haven't signed the contract so I doubt they will advertise. Also IFLII as smaller branch known as Strange As Hell Incomporated.
Question again: Who thinks Sora should have a bloodline? Once again not a vote, just a survey. I've already decided she wont.
To DeathNoteMaker- I forgot to put this in earlier, but here it is now. I eagerly await your version of a fiction of this style. I've read some of your other fictions and they are very well written and entertain me greatly. Especially My Cursed Eternity... though I have yet to read beyond chapter three. Sorry, I've been busy.
Note: There may be use of hiraishin in this chapter. Once more it will not have been perfected, just the beginning steps. I don't expect it to be perfected until post Time skip if even then.
Chapter Seven: Sharing Information and My battle with Sasuke.
The next morning, as I lay comfortably sleeping the day away, Nara Shikamaru, the only one to pass the exams, made his way to my house. When he reached it he knocked loudly and rang the doorbell a couple times. Tiredly, not realizing I had nothing, but my pajama bottoms and the necklace Tsunade gave me covering my body, I got up and opened the door.
Shikamaru began to speak, stopped, turned red as a cheery, about faced, and squeaked out, "Put a shirt on, troublesome girl."
It was then I realized my state of undress. I shrugged, reached to my coat rack, and put on the jacket to my orange jumpsuit, not bothering to zip it up seeing as it covered me perfectly well as is( It also had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I was too tired to have complete control of my motor functions.).
"Whaddaya want, Shikamaru?" He looked over his shoulder at me and apparently decided it would be best for him to remain facing out towards the village.
"Uchiha Sasuke left illegally last night. Hokage-sama, told me to gather a team of gennin to go get him back, you're on the list," he said, then as an after thought asked, "You're not gonna be dressed like that for the mission are you?"
I looked at myself again, then smirked, "Why? You want me too?"
Shikamaru scoffed and threw in a troublesome before telling me meet him at the south gate in thirty minutes.
I closed my door then went about finding some of the clothes I had Kakashi get for me. I put on a fishnet longsleeve shirt, a shortsleeve black shirt with a red hood, a pair of black cargo pants, and a pair of black converse sneakers. I strapped Dega to my side, unsing my forehead protector as a belt. As final touches, I put my hair into a long braid and put on a black bucket hat with a weird looking symbol that resembled a bright sun being held on top of a tall tower. (By the way, except for the hat, this is my basic look from this point on.)
At the gate were all the people I had expected: Shikamaru, Neiji, Kiba and Akamaru, and Chouji. Sakura was there with Ino and the still hobbling Lee.
Sakura took one of my hands, crying deadfully. I knew what she would and I would be sincere when I answered.
"Sora, please bring him back. Please, I love him," she told me. I turned away for a second, then looked at her.
"Promise me, Sakura, promise me that no matter what you will start taking your ninja training seriously. I promise I will bring him back, but when I do you're still gonna have to work for him. I can tell you right now he doesn't like people who are weak," I turned away and left with the other four. OK, so it wasn't a profound speech or nothin', but it should get to her.
After we were about a mile out Shikamaru called for a stop. He was about to tell us his plan, but I cut in.
"What I'm about to tell you all is something only I and Sound nin know. I can't tell you where I got this info so don't bother asking, but it is important to this mission," I looked at them guaging their reactions, then continued.
"The first is Jiroubu. He's portly, he specializes in Doton jutsu, and, just like the rest of his group, he possesses the cursed mark, which gives him almost demonic power. He can erect a dome of earth to capture us in and suck out our chakra.
"Next is Kidoumaru. He has eight arms, can create webbing out of every pore in his body and out of his mouth, he has a summoning contract with spiders, and he is fatally efficient with a bow an arrow. He has two kinds of web. One is the normal white threads that are chakra enhanced. Neiji you shouldn't have a problem cutting the threads, but the rest of us will have some difficulty. Then he has a hardened golden-yellow web that is hard as rock. he uses this webbing to create his bow and arrows with the white is the bow string.
"Then comes the brothers, Sakon and Ukon. They are an interesting pair, I don't know much about them other than the fact that they can merge with peoples' bodies to tear them apart from the inside out. One brother is almost always asleep in the other's body when not in battle, hence the two heads. They have a summoning contract with some kind of demonic gate. It can repel almost any kind of attack.
"Fourth is Tayuya. She's a genjutsu user, she curses alot, and has red hair bordering on pink, her flute is her weapon of choice, through it she spreads chakra into the air making it easy to weave a genjutsu, and she has a summoning contract with strange demons. She also controls the demons with her flute. They have two stages, first stage physically attacks, then the second stage eats your chakra, if I remember correctly.
"Remember, each of these guys are tough as Jounin and have the cursed seal. It will not be easy defeating them."
"How do you-"
"I already told you, I can't tell you how I know. I just do. That's all that matters," I said cutting off Neiji. I had decided to tell them all this because, one, small changes can be fatal( Ex: The arrow meant for Neiji's heart moves that meager centimeter it needs and hits it's mark.), and two, I didn't want Kiba to be hurt. I'm definitely crushing on this guy. I feel so... weird.
"One more thing. They'll probably have run into a group of our ninjas by now and that should have tired them out a bit, but do not, I repeat Do Not, underestimate them," I said, then stood up from my crouch. I looked towards Shikamaru to form a plan.
Somehow the lazy bastard got away with forming the same plan as I remember with just a few touch ups. He gave us each instructions on who we'd fight, with me going last and fighting the Uchiha.
And so it was that we began anew our trek to recover Sasuke.
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Abount an hour later we found ourselves trapped in a dome of earth. I had forgotten how crafty Kidoumaru was. No matter, I had a plan.
"HEY, FATASS!" Chouji looked at me angrily, I put my finger to my lip and pointed towards one of the walls to let him know I wasn't talking to him, "LET ME OUT! I'LL GIVE YOU A DOUGHNUT!"
For a moment there was silence then Jiroubu shouted back at me, "FUCK YOU, BITCH!" I threw a kunai where I heard his voice to mark it, then smirked.
"Chouji, use you meat tank thingy to blast the side opposite of the kunai, it's weakest there," Chouji looked to Shikamaru for approval and, with a lazy nod from his friend, did as I said.
Once we were free Chouji took over the battle. We reluctantly took off, but not before I called back to him, "If you win I'll buy you ten all you can eat Barbeque dinners!" That sure got him fired up.
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Another twenty minutes and we ran into Kidoumaru. We tried Shikamaru's first tactic, but it failed. Eventually it was Neiji that came to the rescue in that fight.
"Hmph! This is easy. Are you sure you're the best Sound has to offer? If you are then I feel sorry for your village," Neiji taunted him. I smirked as Kidoumaru got angry. Anger is a weakness in battle, it would make him blind to Neiji's plans.
"I know what you mean, Neiji," I added fuel to the fire, " 'I can make webbing come out of my sweat glands!' Whoopdy-do and good for you. You must be real popular with the ladies." That got him pissed.
"Shut up, you little snots! I get plenty of women!" He yelled back at us, trying to defend his manhood.
"Just keep telling yourself that," I said, before turning to Neiji with a not so whispery whisper, "He's probably got eight arms cause the first two got tired." The insinuation had the others laughing while Kidoumaru turned red in the face.
"I'll kill you!" He threw webbing at me, but before it could hit Neiji slashed it out of the air with his Jyuuken.
"You'll have to pass me first. The rest of you go on, I'll take this one," Neiji said to us. We nodded. Once again I gave one last shout of encouragement.
"If you die, I'll spit on your grave, Hyuuga!"
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The next encounter was rather brief, with Kiba and Akamaru taking off to fight against Sakon and Ukon. I shouted after him swiftly.
"If you die, I'll bring you back and beat the hell out of you, Kiba! Akamaru, keep him safe or I'll neuter you!"
I heard Kiba laugh and Akamaru whine before Kiba replied, "Back at ya, Squirt."
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And finally we stood infront of Tayuya. She grinned evilly at us, thinking she could easily take us. I just looked at Shikamaru and gave him the kind of encouragement he really needed.
"If you lose to her, I'll never let you live it down," I then jumped over her. She tried to come after me, but Shikamaru stopped her with a couple thrown kunai.
As I sped off I heard Shikamaru mumble something about 'troublesome women'.
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"Ah, Kimimaro, final member of the Sound Five. Former member of the deceased Kaguya clan, a clan that could use their bones as weapons, able to control their bones growth and density. With the cursed mark of Heaven you are the strongest of the Sound Five. Considering the circumstances allow me to recalibrate my offensive power," I said to him. Being the stone faced kind of guy he is, he wasn't at all phazed by my knowledge of him. He did, however, give a curt nod of approval, allowing me time to get some of Gary's chakra to reinforce my strength, speed, and stamina. I then created a couple hundred clones.
We all drew our swords, Kimimaro made one out of bone, and we all charged.
In just the space of a few minutes he had reduced the number of clones in half. His sword style was magnificent, his grace was like that of a professional dancer, and his speed was downright amazing.
"I find myself envious of your style, Kimimaro-kun. If we weren't enemies I'd ask you to teach it to me," I said to him honestly. For being enemies we were strangely polite to each other.
"If we were not enemies I would gladly teach you, but I find myself a bit uninformed. You seem to know a lot about me while I know nothing of you other than what you have shown in battle so far. Even your name is a mystery," he said while taking out ten more clones.
I had one of my bunshin tell him what my name was. I figure he might try and track the answer back to the one who said it, if a different clone answered every time then his chances of finding the real me were less.
"I'm Sora," the clone said.
"Hmm, nice to meet you, Sora-chan. May ask what is the name of your style? You seem proficient at it," sixteen more clones had fallen to him.
Once again a different clone answered, "It has no name. I am not truly trained in any one style. I just strike where I think would be best," indeed, it was true, I was, however, thinking up a nonlethal kenjutsu style. I have long since mastered the style I created, but no others are within my expertise.
The rest of the battle, until Lee arrived, was spent in silence. After Konoha's Green Beast arrived I made my way to follow Sasuke, who had broken out of the barrel he was held in shortly before Kimimaro and I started fighting.
I wished I could have stayed and watch the bone master take on a drunken Lee. It would have been funny. But alas, we can not always have what we want.
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After chasing the prick through fifteen miles of forrest and a cave, I finally caught up to Sasuke at the Valley Of The End. I sighed a little and released my Chakra Teathers.
"Let me guess, you're not going to come back to the village without a fight because you believe that the leaf is holding you back, that you don't need friends, they'll only get in the way," I said.
"Yeah something like that," he said with a smirk. He then jumped down infront of me and looked me straight in the eyes.
"Come with me, Sora. If we go to Orochimaru he can give us power beyond our wildest dreams. I can feel it right now, in the mark he gave me," he touched his cursed mark, "He could make us invincible in battle. I will be able to kill my brother. You can become my wife and we'll crush anyone in our way."
I responded with a quick, vicious knee to the groin. He went down like a sack of potatoes.
"You disgust me. I will never marry you. I wouldn't even be trying to bing you back right now if I didn't promise Sakura I would," I turned away and started walking towards the tree line, "I'd rather break my promise to her than bring you back. You don't deserve the strength the Leaf has. Go ahead, take your dumb ass to Orochimaru so he can rape you everyday for the next three years. We'll see who has become weak then."
Sasuke appeared infront of me with a frown adorning his face.
"Then I'll just have to take you with me by force. You will be my wife, Sora. You will help me restore my clan," he said lowly, daring me to defy him.
And defy him I did. This time I was the one who put on a burst of speed, appearing behind him with the Dega at his throat.
"You'll not force a single thing on me, Uchiha. I'm going back to the leaf now. I'll see you in three years," I tried walking away again, but he attacked me, trying to knock me out. Hell. Looks like we're doing this the hard way. Good thing the teathers are up.
I ducked under his attack and ,keeping my sword in its scabbard, bashed him in the ribs. He stumbled back a bit, coughing.
"Don't be blind, Sora," He said to once he gained his breath back, "That place can only hold us back. They'll never give us the power we desire." He charged at me when he was done talking. He caught me by surprize, landing a few hits.
"And what makes you think I desire power?" I asked him as I retaliated with a series of kicks. He blocked three and I got him four times.
"Hmph! Everyone wants power of some kind. I can see it in your eyes, you desire power, just like I do," he said to me. That got me pissed.
I slashed with my still sheathed sword, hitting his left arm with a vicious strike that would have no doubt severed his arm had I taken the sheath off my blade.
"I'm nothing like you, Uchiha. Sure, I desire power, but not for the sake of having it at my disposal," I took up a relaxed stance with mysword before continuing, "I grow stronger, gain power, and work hard..." I held my sword out infront of me with both hands, "so that I can protect those I love. After what your brother did, I'd expect you to understand this, but maybe I overestimated you." Pumping chakra through my arms and legs, I shot forward.
When I reached him I started slashing, stabbing, and kicking at a maddening pace. In a total of five seconds I landed fifteen attacks. Uchiha was knocked away from me. When he stood back up he had his Sharingan activated.
"Loved ones make you weak. You can never grow strong in that village. You've hardly even hurt me as you are now," he said to me with a snarl. I sniffed at him.
"Look again, Uchiha. Everywhere I hit you, each place that has a bruise would have killed you, had my blade been drawn," I said to him, pointig out the places I hit him.
"See what I mean. The leaf has made you weak, unable to kill. They'll always-"
"You're wrong," I said interrupting him, "Being peaceful does not mean you are weak. It means you have the strength of both will and mind to value life in all its essences. And I didn't kill you because you are not worthy of death by my blade. You're just a pathetic little boy, bent on the destruction of his brother, too blind to see that revenge has only an outcome of pain for all involved.
"Now if you're done being a thick headed idiot, trying to force me to come with you, then just be off. I don't care what happens to you, and I'll explain to Sakura all that transpired here, no matter the consequences I may face from her, the villagers, and the Hokage. You've made up your mind about leaving and I've settled mine on staying."
Sasuke looked beyond pissed. The cursed seal activated, the flame marks speaing over his body like cancer. In a sense I guess it is, eroding his morals, turning him into a servant of another man's will.
"Unworthy, am I? I think you lie. I bet you are too afraid to stain your hands with blood, afraid you'll like it and decide you want more power. You're afraid that you'l want to kill others," he said with a smirk
I stared at him for a moment before my eyes became half lidded, "I hate it when people think they can read me. I'll tell you what though. I am afraid of drawing blood, but not yours. I merely said you are unworthy of death by my blade. I can still break you."
I drew my blade from it's scabbard and stood in a stance I had only come to master recently. I held the sheath in my left hand the end pointing towards the earth, my thumb towards the sky. Dega was in my right, the very tip poiting towards Sasuke's forehead.
"You can try, but you wont even be able to scratch me," he said with a smirk. The battle for me from there seemed both slow and fast at the same time.
I chraged at him, running as fast as I ever had before. At the same time he charged at me, going through the handseals for a Katon jutsu. I don't really care which one. The balls of flame flew at me, I used my sword, no chakra added, to blow them away. He got in close to upper cut me, I tilted my head to the side and came up with a kick. He caught my kick by the ankle, twirled me around a couple times and threw me out over the river.
"Come on, Sora. I thought you were stronger than this. I'm not even fighting at a fourth of my power," he taunted me. Now while his taunting did not serve to anger me, I knew it was true. At this rate I would die before he even broke a sweat. I decided to recall upon Gary's chakra.
We got problems, Fox. I need some chakra.
I can see that.
No sooner had we spoken than had my body been flooded with that chaotic red chakra. I took a moment to get used to it. This was the most I'd ever used before. I looked towards Sasuke and he raised an eyebrow at the color of my eyes. I was told later by Jiraiya, that when I used the Kyuubi's chakra, my eyes would turn, not red, but storm cloud grey. I still don't understand why.
"Let's see if I do better now," I said, then dashed towards him across the river surface. Behind me the water was kicked up in explosive torrents.
When I reached Sasuke first I slashed horizontally. He stopped my blade from hitting it's mark by smacking the flat of the sword downwards so that I only gave his shirt a nice little cut. He proceeded to grab my sword arm and pull me into a vicious punch to the stomach, followed by a knee to the ribs and finally a kick to my head that sent me flying into one of the cliff sides. I didn't waste a second recovering, knowing that would be all he needed to kill me.
Instead I shot out of the cloud of dust my impact had made, aiming to tackle the Uchiha. At the last second I jump and thrusted my legs forward, planning on giving a bone shattering drop kick. Like my last attempt to kick the bastard, he caught me by the ankle. He threw me straight above him this time, then jumped at me. He gave me a headbutt on my back, if I didn't know better I think I heard my spinal cord snap. He grabbed my sword and ripped it from my hands. From his hiss of pain and the sound of crackling electricity I guessed that the seal I had placed on it had worked well enough. He threw it with all of his might at the side of the cliffs, hoping to break it I'm sure. Instead it just stuck there, blade in the ground.
I growled at seeing that.
His next punch came in quickly, aimed fore the back of my head. His shock followed the punch when he found that I ad turned around and caught the punch. I constricted my grip, and reveled in the scream of pain, the sound of bones breaking satsfying me greatly.
"You tried to break Dega," I said coldly. It was time to stop fooling around. Using the grip I had on his now crushed fist, I threw him back at the river with enough force that it left a tunnel in the water for a couple seconds before collapsing in on itself.
When he resurfaced I was already there waiting for him. The attacks I did had no style or grace, only strength and speed. There was no set order, just punches and kicks. By the time it was finished I had forced him to develop that third comma mark in his eyes. Afterwards he was better able to defend himself, but was unable to do much more.
"It seems I'll have kick it up a notch," he said in a break between exchanging blows. He jumped back on land and began activating the second level of the cursed seal. If that wasn't enough he then jumped to where my swor was imbedded in the cliff side. He grabbed the hilt and seemed to not even notice the electricity flowing through his hand. After a coupe of seconds the seal ran out of chakra. "How poetic, the swordswoman killed by her own sword," he said smirking.
Now I was way beyond pissed. The rational parts of my mind completely shut down and a feral growl erupted my mouth.
Kyuubi... Give me all I can handle. I'm going to kill him.
This can't end well.
His chakra became so thick in m body it covered me like a second skin. It coelesced into two extra appendages. In my current rage I was too narrow minded to care that the appendages were not tails.
Well, this is intriguing. I heard Gary say in the back of my mind, but payed his words no heed. Instead I charged at the Uchiha with a wild roar.
If I were in the right state of mind, perhaps I could have remembered the details of the battle, but as I was I only had one objective on my mind: Kill Uchiha.
As the battle neared it's end I stood in a familiar spot at the foot of one of the statues that were seperated by the waterfall. Sasuke still had the Dega Dergon in his hands, but had proved his incapability in weilding it. As he sat there now he was charging a Chidori. I focused chakra to my right hand and began forming a Rasengan.
With our attacks fully formed, we just stared at one another for a while, knowing this was the final attack in this battle. And then we charged, him using his batlike wings to fly and me being lefted by feathery wings of chakra.
Our attacks met and an explosion occured. While the light blinded me our attacks seemed to move a little. My Rasengan grazed his shoulder, whil his Chidori ripped a whole in my chest, just missing my heart. The Kyuubi healed the worst of that damage quickly but as I began to lose consciousness, his chakra faded leaving the gash there, though my lung and bones were completely regenerated.
The last thing I remembered before completely blacking out was Sasuke in his normal form standing over me with a dark look. He then said words that cemented my goal to kill him.
"I'll keep this sword as proof of my victory. Goodbye, Sora," with that, he left for sound, and I dropped out of the conscious realm.
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When next I woke I was in the Konoha hospital, my torso wrapped in gauze. I sighed deeply, mourning the loss of my blade for more reasons than one. I slowly sat up and looked around the room. I saw my clothes had been washed and mended, sitting on a side table, meaning I'd been here for atleast twenty-four hours. I sighed once again.
I took a few minutes to put on my clothes, wincing every now and again when I moved my right arm just enough to pull on the stitches underneath the wrappings.
I walked out of my hospital room a moment later to find the sand siblings and everyone that was involved in the retrieval mission, minus Chouji and Neiji for their severe conditions, plus Tenten, Ino, Hinata, and Sakura.
Sakura got up walked to me briskly and slapped me with the loud clap echoing down the hallways. I was shocked to say the least.
"It's you fault! He's gone and it's your fault! You let him go!" she screamed at me. The others were about to get up to pull her away from me, but before they could there was another loud slap, this one louder and more resounding, followed by the thud of a body falling to the floor.
My was still outstretched from the slap and I ignored the pain in my chest.
"He took my sword," I started out in a low voice, "and ripped a hole in my chest. And you think I let him go?! HE TRIED TO KILL ME AFTER STATING THAT HE'D DECIDED HE'D RAPE ME IF I DIDN'T AGREE TO BE HIS WIFE!! AND YOU THINK I JUST TOLD HIM 'HERE, TAKE MY SWORD AND FUCK THE VILLAGE OVER'?!?! WELL, FUCK YOU, BITCH!! YOU'LL BE LUCKY IF YOU EVER SEE HIM AGAIN, BECAUSE IF I GET TO HIM FIRST I'LL KILL HIM!!" Now some of you are saying that, one, that was a little harsh, and, two, he never said he'd rape me. One, I don't care she deserved it. Two, If you remember he said he'd force me to be his, that was stating, indirectly, that he was going to rape me.
I moved past her and went to Kiba, breathing heavily after my verbal assault on Sakura. I took him by the hand and led him away.
"I need to get out of here, Kiba. You owe me dinner, let's go," he just nodded numbly, afraid of angering me.
I took a deep breath once we were outside, calming down tremendously, then looked at Dog-boy and Akamaru.
"Sorry you had to see that..." I said looking away, a little emberassed and sure that my outburst must have seemed like a complete turn off.
"It was... scary," He said and my head lowered more, "And yet strangely arousing." And that had me laughing once more.
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A/N: Well there you go. Chapter seven up and running. I'm actually very happy with this chapter unlike the last two, so I hope you all enjoy it more also.
