She did hand signs again, this time they were different from before. "Ice style!" she shouted, "Spears of the squid!" I couldn't help but roll my eyes. "Dang," I said, "what is it with you and sushi?!" She was even angrier now. I really could stop myself from smirking. Taunting her was so easy. Water appeared from nowhere and hardened to ice as it formed in to a squid. The woman grinned evilly. "Die!" she yelled. The squid's tentacles plunged towards my chest. "KIRA!" I heard Sasuke screamed from the trees. My smirk did not disappear from my face. That fool. Why was he worried about me?

I watched from a distance as the illusion poofed back into a log as the ice pierced through it. I was behind that bitch in less than a second. I held the kunai to her throat. "A replacement technique?" she asked me. "Yep," I said. I heard her chuckle as she did another series of hand signs, this time faster than before. I was too slow to stop her. "Earth style! Dense quick sand jutsu!" Wait, Water and earth techniques? She slid from my grip as if she was slick as an eel. She hopped on my shoulder and back flipped to solid ground, and right next to Tetsuya. She wrapped her arms around his waist. "Hey there sweet stuff," I heard her say.

I almost gagged at what she said, but instead I sank deeper in something under me. It was… quick sand? I quickly wrapped some wire I had around my kunai and threw it at a tree. I pulled, trying to get out. The wire burst. I tasted the bad flavor of a horrible swear word on my toungue. I had a few letter bombs but if I used them, I could blow myself up. The sand was reaching my waist by then. My legs were officially powerless. I could call out for help from Sasuke… To save me… Or to save… "Sasuke!" I screamed, "Get Tetsuya!" I didn't even have to tell him. He, as I noticed, was kicking that badly dressed woman's ass. His opponenet landed feet away from him. The man stood elegantly on one foot and spun faster than a tornado. Needles, as I noticed, darted form his spinning figure, into Sasuke's back. I opened my mouth to warn him but I choked on sand.

Boy, when they say 'quick sand' they really mean it! I titled my head upwards to get my mouth out of the sand. Took deep breaths of air, savoring each one, since I knew how much I would need it. I watched as my comrade sank to knees. I noticed that the sand was too dense to move my arms or hands to do any hand signs. I felt as if my life was ending too quickly. I couldn't die like that. I… I couldn't. What about my friends? What about my other team mates and sensei? What about Sasuke? What…what about the mission? What about Tetsuya? My gaze flickered to him. He bit into his thumb and held his hands and arms up to arm's lengths as he did hand signs. Wait… how could he even…?

"Summon!" I heard his voice screech. He laid his hand on the floor. In a billow of smoke, a sword appeared in Tetsuya's hand. A katana to be exact. A Samurai sword? Why did he have that? "Finally!" the red-head exclaimed, "some real action." What the hell was he talking about? Tetsuya dug the katana into the ground. He held onto it still with one hand and did hand sings with the other. Hand signs with one hand? Was that even possible? "Water style!" Did those words really come out of his mouth? Did Tetsuya…? Did he know how to use ninjutsu? "Towering Tsunami!"

A gush. One tiny gush of water appeared form the katana. A gush which turned into a giant wall of water. Tetsuya ripped the sword from the ground and twirled in the air. The sword reeled the water in as if it was spaghetti and the sword was a fork. The water was spiraling around the sword as if it was some kind of dragon. Tetsuya held the sword up to his shoulder and in one wave of his arm, sent water slicing across the forest, cutting trees and the standing enemy ninja. By now, I felt the sand on my cheeks. I listened as the top removed half of the man hit the floor with a thud. Poor guy hadn't seen it coming. Everything was dark. I was in the sand and there was no way… Someone grabbed me by the shoulders and yanked me out. He rested me on the floor. I sat up and rubbed the sand from my eyes as I coughed very hard.

"Are you okay?" a voice asked. I looked up. Tetsuya's was staring at me with concern in his glimmering ice-like eyes. I couldn't help but blush. He was extra, extra hot, by the way. I probably didn't notice because of how annoying he was, earlier. "Er… um… Yeah, I guess… how do I look?" "Like total diarrhoeary shit," he said. All of sudden he lost his extra, extra hotness. He saw my face expression that was locked in a glare. "What?" he asked, "I can't lie remember?" Sasuke got up, pulling the needles from his back. "How," he growled, "the hell did you do that?" Tetsuya sighed. "Maybe I should've introduced myself properly: I am Tetsuya Nakamura, one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist." "You didn't tell us this before!" Sasuke yelled, "I thought you couldn't lie!" "I can't lie, "Tetsuya said, "the only reason I didn't ell you this before, is because you didn't ask."

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Tetsuya just is an OC. I just came up with this idea. There are only three known Seven Swordsmen of the Mist: Zabuza, Kisame and some guy from the anime filler. Okay?