DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS NORMAL CHARACTERS, places or references. References belong to their respectable owners.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS NORMAL CHARACTERS, places or references. References belong to their respectable owners.
Chapter 8
Carra
I am mad. I am really mad. That coward… come back and let me punch you!
My new power rushed through my veins. Making me faster, nimbler.
"Aaaaaaarrrrrrrgggg!" I screamed as I leapt through the trees. I was coming up behind him fast, he on the ground and I in the trees. Once I was directly above him, I jumped down and landed right on top of the joker, crushing him into the ground.
"Ow…" He moaned.
I grabbed him harshly by the shoulder and flipped him over onto his back, pressing my kunai against his throat.
"Who sent you? What do they want?" I demanded, dead serious. Maybe today I will finally get some answers…
He smiled up at me.
I leaned back in shock.
What's going on with this guy? Wasn't he just running away like a chicken a moment ago?
"You know, you look way prettier when you're trying to kill people." He purred. I gritted my teeth and punched him in the face. Repeatedly.
"What are you playing at?" I growled. His face now all bruised and puffy. He turns his head to the side and spits. Two white things shoot out. Teeth. Ew.
"Well? Are you gonna talk? Or are you gonna die?" I threatened. He turned his head back towards me and gave me a crazy smile before passing out.
"Oh no you don't! Wake up!" I raised my hand to slap him, when I heard a voice in the trees above me.
"I'd be careful if I were you, I've heard clowns can cast curses," a mischievous voice called out above me.
I turned around and looked up towards the sound. Sitting on a branch high in the tree was a girl around my age with emerald green eyes, the rest of her face was covered by a ninja mask similar to the one that Kakashi guy wore. Her long blond hair came down to her waist. Her white kunoichi dress had blue trim and the top of the sleeve below her shoulders was red, over top of the red was a white cross. Suddenly I had a flash of recognition.
"Soraki?" I called. Barely daring to hope.
"Hi Carra, it's been a while." Soraki greeted smiling, at least I think she was smiling. I really hate those masks.
"Pfft, a while? The last time I saw you was… you know what I can't even remember. What was it, six, seven years ago?" I said, dusting myself off and walking towards her tree, leaving the now unconscious joker to lay there. Soraki hopped down from the tree, landing beside me. A wall of fire shot up from the ground but, before it reached her, she flicked me on the forehead.
"Ow, hey." I protested.
I felt a whoosh stir inside of me. My seven walls jutsu's fire gate closed and disappeared, shutting away most of my bad attitude that I unleashed on the world.
She knows me so well… of course she'd have known about my seven gate jutsu…
Ha. There is just no getting past Soraki.
You see the seven walls jutsu is a self defense/ chakra battery jutsu. The fire wall, also known as the fire gate, is the 3rd wall. It is the heart's ultimate defense. The wall of hatred. When someone's heart has been hurt many times, the person decides that they never want to feel that way again. The fire gate wraps around the user like a cloak, shielding it from outside abuse, as well as keeping the users heart locked in. When this happens, the hearts feelings are completely isolated. Meaning that love, compassion, the will to protect… they are all locked away. Leaving only the hatred of the fire gate, to pass out into the world. When the fire gate is in effect, nothing can touch the user. That is, anything that does, usually gets burned to a crisp.
"You know how much I hate it when you use the fire gate… I will never understand why it's your go-too gate." Soraki shook her head sadly.
"It's effective" was all I said.
Soraki eyed the clown on the ground in amusement.
"He is gonna have one crazy headache when he wakes up." Soraki laughed.
"Not after you patch him up, miss medic" I teased.
"Oh come on! I can't help it ok? I'm a pacifist! I don't like violence…" she protested. I laughed.
"Understandable, but how come your friends with me then?" I asked playfully.
"No idea, must be your glowing personality…" she teased back.
"Hey!" I laughed.
"Wow…" a voice interrupted our reunion.
Kakashi was crouching on a branch in the tree above us. Calm, despite how beat up he looked.
"Who'd have guessed that you would actually have a friend? And that girl being her," he marveled.
I glared at him.
"Shut up, I'm still going to kill you." I said bluntly, taking a threatening step towards him.
"Wait!" a voice ordered, freezing me in my tracks.
"Hold on, back up, don't move an inch." Soraki interrupted, stepping between us.
She had one of her hands facing both of us as if to break up a fight. She turned her head to me and pointed at my face.
"Do you mean to tell me that you seriously don't know?" she asked baffled. I just look at her, confused
"Don't know what?" I demanded.
"Hey I hate to interrupt, but um… Carra was it? Yea anyway, what happened to the clown?" Kakashi broke in. I gave him a look of disbelief.
"You're kidding right? He's right …over… there…" I said pointing to where I had left him, but he wasn't there.
"Darn it!" I said running over to the patch of dirt where he had been unconscious. I checked the dirt, there were tiny carves in the ground, forming a line off into the forest.
"He's been dragged off. But I don't get it, I didn't even feel a presence..." I mumbled.
"According to Amarante's report, the joker's partner, Nadlo, was able to shift into different living things. Which hides his presence."
Kakashi said hopping down from the tree.
"But still…" he continued, as he joined me at the tracks.
"What would be big enough to drag away a body, but not have a presence?" he wondered out loud. I had a sudden flash back. The forest, Kartivoff, the kunai and shuriken. I sigh and lower my head.
"The trees." I whispered dejectedly.
"Hm?" Kakashi turned to me, confused. "Come again?" he said.
I turned around and faced Soraki, avoiding the jonin beside me.
"He used the trees." I said certainly.
"Normal trees are alive, however they don't have a heart, soul or chakra which would give them a presence. All he'd have to do is an animation jutsu combined with his specialty and bam! The ultimate undetectable slip away jutsu." I explained.
"Man…" Kakashi sighed "I'd have NEVER guessed that."
"That's my Carra!" Soraki cheered. I sighed disappointedly, my hand rubbing my forehead in shame.
"Yea…the Carra that let them escape" I said sullenly.
"Don't worry about it, we'll send out a search squad as soon as we get to the village." Kakashi promised, getting up. I frowned at him, suddenly remembering those three Genin we had previously encountered. I felt my concern rising, and then fear. What if something had happened to them?
"Kakashi, what about those three Genin? The ones with us before? Are they safe in the village?" I asked taking a step towards him, my voice full of concern and worry. He looked at me in downright shock.
"Did you just call me by my name?" he asked eyes wide with surprise. I gritted my teeth.
"Now is not the time to be concerned with that! Are those kids ok?!" I yelled. He jumped back in shock for just a second before making the "calm down" gesture.
"Don't worry, they are all fine, Naruto didn't get a scratch on him." he reassured. "Not that he is happy about that…" Kakashi laughed nervously.
I sighed in relief, and started walking towards the direction of the path that we were taking to the leaf village.
My vision started going blurry, all of the trees around me twirling together. I felt myself sway from side to side even as I continued walking forward. I was faintly aware of voices, but I couldn't make them out. My vision started going black and my legs weakened from under me. The last thing I saw was the dirt on the forest floor before everything went black.
"Oh no you don't." I said. The fear was ebbing away and instead clear determination was replaced, flowing through my body. Searching my body for any kind of chakra, I pulled it all up and placed it in my hands. "jai-ne-kami-eh-soso-di-waker-emi-valah…" I chanted strongly, letting my hands form the different hand signs needed for this jutsu. However, near the end of completion, faster than the lightning outside, a hand slammed my hands away and knocked me down. Sprawled on my side, on the dusty stone floor, I lifted my upper body enough to stare at Katsa in shock. He was now kneeling on one leg not a foot away from me, and he had an angry look. "You are the idiot." He spat, wincing. He crumbled, his right hand keeping him up and his left clutching a wound in his side. "Katsa" I gasped, lunging to catch him. Using me as support, he lifted himself up so that we were face to face. His cyan eyes staring deep into mine, still angry, but less so. "What were you thinking?
Silverleaf: Yay Katsa is back!
Skyfighter: Paassttaaaaaa!
Silverleaf: Katsa!
Skyfighter: Rasta?
Silverleaf: KATSA!
Skyfighter: Katsa!
Silverleaf: no! For the last time it's!... wait…
Skyfighter: LOL!
Silverleaf: Anywho, keep reviewing awesome people!
