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Comedy Fox
Chapter Eight: Sorrows and Death
The Second Act: Fourteen Masks to the Comedy Fox
"Ano...," I looked at Long Hair after an hour of walking in silence. I had refused to talk to her after a certain....incident.
After I nicknamed Long Hair she tried to attack me. I gravely underestimated her strength when she sent a very nasty kick right in between one of my Clone's legs.
I, even my Clones, groaned at the phantom pain and clutched their groins. Long Hair had a ball, laughing at me.
"What is it, Long Hair?" I said tensely, casting a glance at her while my four Clones, I made another one afterwards, looked around for anything suspicious as we trek down a pathway through the forest.
At my words, Long Hair huffed and crossed her arms. "Jerk, I am just trying to apologize!"
I gave her an unsmiling chuckle. "Apology accepted."
She seemed to breath out a sigh of relief and managed a wry smile at me.
"So, tell me, how is Konoha?" Long Hair says. Clone number One gave her a curious look.
"It's.....," I'd imagine that he was thinking on something that doesn't involve the villagers, "....good." I nearly slapped my own head at One's answer. Would I have really answered it with something like 'good'?
Then again.....fuck, yeah, I would have.
"Like One said, it's good." She pouted, wanting a more definite answer then that. I sighed. "Fine. I would have to say, truthfully, that it's an alright village. The shinobi there are hard workers and Hokage-jiji is a very generous, caring man," I finished with pride for my Old Man.
"You must really love your Hokage to call him Jiji," Long Hair said with a soft sad smile. Her expression actually made me wonder about her expression.
"I do. If he hadn't took care of me when I was younger, I either would have either killed myself or beaten to death," I growled out the last bit but calmed down. "You must understand that all villages have a dark side to them."
Long Hair nodded at that, looking down soon after with her hair covering her eyes. "I understand all too well, Comedy Fox," she murmured loud enough for me to hear.
I was about to say something else when suddenly I heard a whistling noise incoming at a fast rate.
Taking a page out of White Hair's book, not that God damned Icha Icha one, I calmly lifted my hand and took hold of the kunai, pocketing it soon after.
"You're going to have to do better than that!" I yelled, standing my ground.
Which was probably a bad idea when fourteen Masked people came out of the trees.
"Protect her Clones! Kage Bunshin!" I cried, making ten more clones to fight with me. I wanted to make more but Hokage-jiji drilled it into my head to conserve my chakra, no matter how limitless it is.
I couldn't pull off anymore jutsus as the ninja rushed towards me. Quickly unsheathing my ninjatos,
Raising my right ninjato, I blocked a kunai and kicked off the attacker. I spun around and ducked a flying kick. The idiot ninja didn't know what happened when I cut off his head.
His body fell limp but I saw many shurikens being flung my way. I looked towards the limp body and remembered an important lesson from Hokage-jiji.
All objects can be used in the heat of battle.
Stabbing one ninjato into the ground, I hauled the large form of the beheaded ninja and crouched behind him. Several thunks and blood splotches splash over me.
I dashed away from the body, grabbing my ninjato and saw one of my Clones that were protecting Lin get stabbed in the stomach. Instead of poofing away like a normal Clone, the Clone took hold of the arm that stabbed him.
The ninja must have mistaken that Clone for me, since it didn't poof away, and waved over his friends that weren't engaging my other Clones. If they have looked closer, they would have noticed a thin blue, wispy like substance steadily leak out of the Clone's injury. I was lucky I had perfected the Kage Bunshin technique into longer lasting Bunshins.
Using a quick Kawarimi no jutsu with a nearby enemy nin, I backhanded the nin that stabbed my Clone into the other enemy nin. All four of them went down as the other ten were still engaging in combat. I quickly stabbed my swords into the ground in front of me.
"How long can you last?" I hurriedly asked my Clone as my hands flew into seals.
"Not long! Hurry up with that jutsu!" I growled at the Clone and settled on the last seal.
"Katon: Karyuu Endan!" I quickly lifted my Mask up and placed my fingers to my mouth. As soon as I did this, a giant flame burst from my open mouth, taking form of a large, fearsome dragon.
At this point, I was immensely glad for Hokage-jiji for teaching me this for the fuckers in front of me. Ha! It looks like they are going to piss themselves.
I willed the Dragon with my chakra to attack. The roar from it echoed into from its place and surged forward to the four nins and their comrades. My other Clones had the foresight to try to force them into the blast area.
The Dragon roared one more time before it collided into my Clones and the enemy nin.
My four clones around Lin forced her down and covered her as the Dragon exploded, throwing me back a few feet. I landed on all fours and held my ground.
As the dust cleared, I see a blackened, packed earth wall only fit for one person. The scorched earth crumbled to ash and the nin behind it didn't look that winded.
Oh, a challenge for once? Good. I took up my ninjatos and settled into a stance with one ninjato over head and the other pointed towards my enemy while crouching slightly.
The Mask puffed up his chest at me. I guess he was feeling pretty confident on blocking that jutsu I sent.
The bastard's hands went to a storage seal he had on him and out popped out duel hatchet weapons of some kind.
"Come on little boy," he said arrogantly.
I scoffed at his tone. "I stopped being a little boy the minute I was born, bastard!"
Not noticing the small gasp from Long Hair, the Mask and I stalked closer and circled each other. Three Clones were still protecting Long Hair as the other had poofed out of existence already.
The enemy Mask struck first, bringing down his duel hatchets towards my head. I raised my swords and blocked the attacks. He kept on pushing, to see if his older and larger body was stronger than my own with the aid of his chakra. I would have none of that!
Pushing chakra into my muscles, I met him force with force and we met in a stalemate. The next thing I knew was a foot into the face. The sandal scraped across my Mask and I retaliated with a kick towards his shin, which he blocked it by kicking it away.
He and I growled towards one another, still in a standstill, and pushed off each other when we tried to kick with our right foot at the same time. I landed on my back and rolled quickly to my feet.
Seeing that my opponent did the same, I rushed towards him before he could get into stance.
He seemed to foresaw this and slashed towards my head. I pivoted and spun just in time for one of the hatches to tear itself into my Mask across my right eye hole of it and down towards the far side where my cheek was.
Coming out of my spin, I brought up both swords and imbedded them into his side, past his spine, and out of his neck. More blood splattered on me but I didn't care, as long as all enemies where down.
I swiped once to get the blood off my blades while the Mask fell to the ground in two pieces.
"Long Hair, are you doing alright?" I ask, looking towards my client to see her clinging to one of the Clones at the horror she witness. She nodded her shaking head as she looked at me and released her hold from my Clone.
I didn't know right then and there, but the real reason she showed such horror was not at the attempt on her life, but of how I disposed of each of them.
"Come on Long Hair," I said, making another Clone to replace the one lost. "We have a long way to go."
Lvmj: "There we go. Please check out the poll I have on the profile. It relates to this story."
Kawarimi no jutsu- Body Substitute skill
Kage Bunshin- Shadow Clone
Katon: Karyuu Endan- Fire Dragon Flame Blast
