VII: task

Her eyelids were heavy the next "morning" she got up and it took her about ten minutes to fully awake and adjust to the darkness inside the cave. It was night again and time for her to fulfil her task. She figured out that there would only be one possible way to hit his back and it would be when the strange looking guy and Tobi had direct contact with each other. As she stretched a little bit and started warming herself up a bit because she didn't even have a blanket and it slowly became colder outside.

She didn't know how much time has passed already. Days, weeks, maybe a month already. 'Something is missing..' The little girl thought, scratching her head a little while making another stretching exercise. "The pain.. It's.. gone?" With a voice barely noticeable, she reached out for her cheek and realized that the burning pain of her own touch that made her suffer yesterday disappeared. "Who.." Telling that she was confused would be playing things down.

Was it that weirdo-zombie, Tobi or maybe the black and white guy? Maybe the stranger was a medical ninja. This would at least explain why he sucked so bad at fighting Tobi. He always looked so out of place when attacking him, not to be mentioned that he didn't get the masked mans technique until now. At least this was how it seems. She couldn't imagine the grandpa or Tobi healing her for another time because she wasn't able to prove her strength to them until now.

This would change now, Sayuri was about to show them. Preparation for the solution of her task were some shadow clones she would place on different spots in the cave so that Tobi would on one hand see her sit on her place where she always watched them and on the other hand would be attacked by one of her clones and herself. It took her more time than usual because she had to make the clones that perfect that he wouldn't be able to tell that they were fake by just sensing their chakra. After some time she had two almost perfect copies – one with almost all her chakra, one with almost none and herself with a barely noticeable amount – and made them hide in the cave. Number one where she would be seen and number two on the ceiling where she would join on the other side as soon as she would have put on her ANBU mask.

'After all, he could attack me again and I have no interest in losing my eye this time.' She frowned at the thought and displaced the thought of Tobi being really fucking dangerous and made her way up to the ceiling without being noticed by the two guys entering to start their training at exact this time of every night.

It took her so much concentration to not make any noises because she didn't have that much chakra to make her stay at the ceiling, head upside down and looking at the boys below her. She would only have enough for one try. Therefore Sayuri would have to put her chakra in her feet, getting full speed while she jumped off the ceiling down on Tobi and then as fast as she could place a hit on his back. Her second clone would jump from the side where his eye was seen behind the mask just in case he noticed that the one on her regular spot was a fake. It would probably make him believe clone two would be her for a second and this would be her chance. It wasn't a big chance but it was one after all.

The two coloured guy attacked, missed him and attacked again. 295. Sayuri counted the seconds in her head, quietly and listened to the echoing noises of the footsteps in the cave. 296. The countdown went on, she catalyzed all of her remaining chakra into her feet. 297. It would be Tobis turn to attack in three seconds. 'Get ready..' Motivating herself in her head, she noticed that the two guys were about to collide. 298. Only two seconds left. 299 – and she let her chakra explode beneath her feed literally as she and clone number two crashed down towards the masked man that was about to punch the split-coloured man in the stomach. "Three-" Clone number two reached out for his back, looking in his deeply red and scaring eye before she turned to dust. "Hundred!"