The Dead Tell No Tales: Prologue
By TwilightAnimeLover21
Yume felt her fever getting worse. But she refused to tell Rin and Kakashi. They were flying from tree to tree. They were catching up to the Rogues. "Rin, you stay hidden in the shadows while Yume and I take out the targets. Yume, have you been working on that Rasengan technique Minato-sensei taught you?" Kakashi briefed to Yume. Yume smiled wickedly. "Yeah, I even gave it my own little touch to it. I'll be using it on those miserable sons of bitches." She said with steel.
Kakashi looked back to Yume. Her eyes were already flowing with tears, and they were falling out of those cold eyes. He felt unnerved by that fact. The last time he saw her eyes like that was when she was with him for a hit with a drug dealer that was transferring illegal soldier pills to a village that rioted against their leaders. That ANBU mission took Yume out to the edge. Not only that, with the tears that she cried with those cold, dead eyes. Konoha called her the Crying Saint…but other villages called her the Crying Death. Many people would describe her as an ANBU whose tears would flow out underneath her mask before she would take out the hit.
Kakashi looked ahead. "Good, the ninja ahead are earth and water based. Rin and I already took out 16 of them. We have twelve targets left. And Yume, be on guard, these Rogues are dangerous." Kakashi said and he stopped a tree branch with Rin and Yume flanking him. Silence fell over the trio. Yume felt a little dizzy and her fever was getting worse. But she was not going to let that stop her. Her goal right now: Kill off the Rogues as fast as possible.
Kakashi lifted two fingers and twitched it foreword. Move silently and swiftly. They took off. The forest was just as silent as the grave. Yume's sharp ears took in everything. The mere crack of a branch was enough to make her whole body tense. She felt the tears stream down her face. She closed her eyes and willed the tears to stop and they did. She wiped away the remnants of the tears off her face and kept going.
Rin was the first to stop, prompting Yume and Kakashi to do the same. Yume focused her chakra to her ears, straining to hear any abnormalities. Rin looked back at Yume and lifted her hand in a fist, a signal for a trap. Yume cautiously went ahead of the group, walking slowly on the toes on her feet. She carefully swept the area with her eyes. She stopped in front of an invisible line and saw a thin strand of wire. In fact, she saw many wires. She hissed lowly and looked behind her back to Kakashi and Rin; shaking her head and jerking it upwards, to let them know that they need to take to the trees once more.
Yume was about to take a step foreword to jump into a tree when she heard a whistling coming through the trees and had a split second to dodge a kunai. She managed to turn her head enough that the kunai grazed her skin and imbedded itself into a tree. "AMBUSH!" Kakashi shouted. Yume Jumped back and had her back against Kakashi and Rin's. The three took out their kunais and prepared to face the fight.
"Well, well, what have we here? Huh, it's those brats that killed off our comrades, and they have another one with them." A scarred ninja sneered as he stepped out of the shadows. He was fairly tall and had dark skin. He had scars crisscrossing throughout his arms, neck and legs. His dangerous green eyes sent shivers down Yume's spine. They were surrounded. Yume gritted her teeth together. She could feel her strength drain. She felt her body getting warmer and her vision was starting to blur. She growled out loud.
"Oh we have a feisty one on our hands. Boys…kill them." He said as he snapped his fingers. Everything was a blur for Yume. Her fighting instincts kicked in hard and she dispatched an enemy by taking out her wakazashi and slicing his head off. From the corner of her eye, she saw two other ninja heading straight towards her. She jumped back and performed 3 hand signs. "Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!" She shouted and placed her hand to her mouth and blew out fireballs in the direction of her enemies and manages to hit one. He went flying back into a tree. The other one threw his fist at her and she dodged it narrowly.
She threw a punch at his stomach and twisted her arm to intensify the punch. She heard a few cracks coming from his body as he yelled in pain. She figured that she broke a few ribs. She threw another punch to his head, hearing it twist and crack and broke his neck; killing him quickly. She gasped as her vision went blurry again. 'NO! I can't faint! I refuse!' She screamed mentally at herself. She felt and extremely sharp pain at her side close to her rib cage. She turned around, throwing her arm and sent poisoned senbon at her enemy. She hit her target in the eyes and her fell down clawing his eyes out to get out the poison. She was lucky that she studied deadly poisons that affected the brain. This guy was dead in a minute.
She clutched her side in pain, but she didn't let that stop her. She had to fight to live. "Yume!" Rin shouted to her. Rin was having a rough time taking care of some of the rogues. She already had a few deep cuts on her arm trying to defend herself. One enemy was freaking huge. He lifted his arm to smash Rin into the ground, only to be saved by Kakashi when he crashed into her, missing them both. Both ninja got up and started fighting again. It was over whelming enough, that Kakashi had to lift up his mask to reveal his sharingan eye. He took out two kunai and aimed them to the hulking giant's head. He roared in pain and started swinging blindly, crashing into his allies and killing them immediately. Kakashi saw Yume in the way and shouted, "Yume! Enemy at 3:00!"
Yume twisted herself around sharply as she saw the giant heading towards her and she jumped high enough to gain some air and slashed down at the base of his neck with a sickening Thwack! Off went his head and the giant went down. "Kauha went down! Get them!" One of the thugs shouted. The enemy was down to six and one of them tried to take off Yume's head. She narrowly dodged the kunai that was thrown at her, leaving a thin bloody mark on her cheek. She jumped back and went down into a crouch. She made her hand into a cup and focused all her chakra into a spinning ball in her hand. In her hand, she could feel the smooth edges of the ball grow sharper and sharper. This was an improvement on her brother's technique.
"RASENGAN!" She shouted as she thrust the spinning sphere of ragged chakra into the man and literally shredded his front side and she could hear the blood-curdling scream coming from his mouth. She immediately threw an uppercut to his chin as she pushed through his skin barrier of his body, blood spilling everywhere on her and she was pretty sure that she punched him with enough force for him to bite his tongue off. She pushed the body away from her and she fell to one knee. She felt her body growing hotter and hotter. Her fever was getting worse. She shook her head to stay was awake. This mission was crucial…and she did NOT want to die here!
Rin was using her medical jutsu to dispatch one of the ninja in front of her, but she got caught off guard when from the corner of her eye, she saw Yume fall to her knees. She cried out. "YUME!" Rin realized that she made a horrible mistake. "You're dead girlie!" A ninja behind her shouted. Rin didn't have the time to deflect an earth jutsu attack and a sharpened rock went right through her left side. Pain exploded and Rin fell in shock. "RIN!" Yume yelled. Rin fell to the floor wide-eyed and unmoving. She was hit... and for the first time in her ninja career, she didn't know what to do.
Kakashi took out two of his attackers when he heard Yume cry out. "RIN!" Kakashi felt himself twist towards the scene where at that moment; Rin had become impaled by a spike of earth from an Iwa ninja. Kakashi reacted in an instant. He made his infamous hand signs for his chidori and a ball of lightening engulfed his hands. It made the sounds of a thousand birds chirping. Kakashi picked up his speed and threw back his arm and fried the ninja that hurt Rin. "Obito…would never forgive me if I broke his promise to protect Rin." Kakashi thought as he killed the ninja. Rin was face down and he picked her up and shouted to Yume. "YUME! RETREAT!" He shouted.
Yume punched someone out and made sure he stays down and dead. Yume heard Kakashi and she ran off with him ahead. He was carrying Rin on his back, and they were hightailing it out of there. Yume felt her body fighting against her, telling her that she will get sick further if she keeps pushing herself. But she didn't care. She had to get out with Kakashi and Rin. She threw back two flash bombs to throw the last of the rouges off their trail and the three Jounin disappeared into the depths of the Forest.
TAL21:Okay here's a little bit longer chapter with another cliffhanger! (Gosh i'm so mean) Anyways, the next chapter will be taking about two weeks for me to edit out (There's a LOT of grammer and plot that i have to work on) So i hope you enjoyed this chapter! ALSO those of you that like TDTNT go to my other stories and read Wind and Sand: Journal of Lord and Lady Kazekage, it has my take on the sand sibs parents and how they met, how they got together and how they got married and all this fun stuff. They are crazy, they are cool, and lots of humor is in the story. :) Anyways, enough of me blabbing, i need to work on the next chapter that you readers want me to so deeply want me to put up. Be patient and i hope you have a good time! Remember! 5 reviews and opinions before i put up the next chpater. Feedback is a gals best friend! :)