SailorStar9: Chapter 8 goes up and no review. You guys don't love me anymore. *Wails*
Disclaimers: I don't own Sailor Moon and Flame of Recca since if I did own them both, the Planetary Senshi will have equal footing as Sailor Moon and the Domon/Fuuko pairing would be canon. But you don't see that happening do you? However, I do own the pairing, I hope.
Chapter 9: Dragon Twins! The Stolen Move!
After Anhara's win...
It was Recca's turn in the ring.
"I'm ready to go!" the fire wielder growled.
"There he is!" Tatsuko declared. "The next fighter will be Hokage's captain, Hanabishi Recca!"
"Go get 'em!" the crowd cheered. "Show them Block A's power!"
"Recca-san good luck to you!" Tatsuko beamed, giving him a kiss.
"Hey Tatsuko!" Nemi complained. "You gonna stay at the commentator's desk!"
"Come on, just a little bit is okay." Tatsuko chided.
"No way!" Nemi growled. "I'll be replacing Inuko as referee for this match."
"Recca..." Yanagi started.
"Hime?" Recca turned to the healer. "What's up? Why are you in the ring?"
"It's because..." Yanagi replied. "I'm really worried about you, Recca."
"Ummm, only contestants are allowed in the ring." Nemi reminded as Yanagi took Recca's arm.
"If Tatsuko-san can kiss you then I..." Yanagi added.
"Hole me." she requested.
"Eh?" Recca panicked.
On the ring side...
"How daring..." Domon was stunned.
"Yanagi?" Fuuko blinked.
"How long do you think it'll take for them for figure out that's a fake?" Anhara noted amusedly.
Mikagami returned her question with a smirk.
In the ring....
Idiot! The fake Yanagi giggled.
What? Recca's eyes widened, before he was engulfed in an explosion.
On the ring side...
"What the?" Kondo inquired.
In the ring....
"You idiot." Kashamaru chuckled as the smoke cleared. "I'm the Uruha's ninja, Kashamaru. That girl was merely an illusion using the Ninpo skill of temptation."
On the ring side...
"What?" Fuuko growled.
In the ring...
"You fell for it so easily." Kashamaru chuckled. "Maybe what they say about you isn't true."
"Eh?" he blinked when he realized Tsukishiro was the one caught in the blast. "Tsukishiro? When did you switch with him?"
"Why would I fall for something like that? "Recca retorted, having saved Nemi from the explosion.
"Ninpo Utsusemi." he added. "My Hime never says my name without the'-kun'. I thought it was weird. nobody's a better ninja than me! And to dare to copy my Hime! First of all, her breasts are not that big!"
On the ring side...
"He's never touched them." Domon remarked.
"Pervert." Fuuko agreed.
In the ring...
Kashamaru growled and tossed his shotting stars at Recca who jumped to avoid the attack.
"Domon!" the flame caster shouted, letting the oversized teen catch the referee.
"The second match is now underway!" Nemi declared.
"So... happy..." Domon flushed, having Nemi's breasts in his face.
"Pervert!" Fuuko fumed.
"Good thing I never had that problem with you." Anhara teased.
"Che." Mikagami snorted.
In the ring...
"You've got no time to look elsewhere." Kashamaru taunted as the two ninjas ran on opposite sides of the ring.
:Shut up!" Recca retorted after Kashamaru tossed a couple of smoke bombs at him.
"I won't lose at Ninjitsu." he promised, leaping out of the smoke and tossing a couple of smoke bombs at Kashamaru for good measure.
"You're not so bad." Kashamaru chuckled, having used his sword to cut through the bombs before they exploded. "However, with such a stupid face, I can't recognize you as a true ninja.
"You've got a pretty stupid face, too." Recca shot back.
"That's not true!" Kashamaru protested. "Well, we'll just see who the real ninja is."
"Fine with me." Recca snapped, summoning his flame as Kashamaru charged. "I'm not going to lose."
"One of your Flame Dragons, huh?" Kashamaru stopped in his tracks. "But that's nothing!"
"Ninpo, Kagami Jigoku." he chanted, summoning the same fire dragon Recca did.
"What?" Recca hissed, his fireballs surrounding him.
On the ring side...
"That's the Flame Dragon, Nadare." Kagerō gasped.
"It's exactly like Recca's." Fuuko noted.
"Kashamaru can use them too?" Domon was shocked.
In the stands...
"What the hell is going on?" the crowd was hushed.
In the ring...
"Who surprising!" Nemi declared. "Kashamaru can call the same Flame Dragons as Hanabishi did."
"The Flame Dragons don't belong to you alone." Kashamaru chuckled. "I can use them as well!"
"Impossible..." Recca muttered. "Only I, a descendant of the Hokage's clan leader, should be able to use the Flame Dragons. So why... how...?"
"If you can't believe it, why don't you just take the attack of one of the Flame Dragons." Kashamaru taunted. "Ryu no En, second dragon."
"Nadare, Dan En!" he fired his flame balls are Recca.
"Damnit! Even copying the way I start my technique." Recca growled.
"Nadare, Dan En!" he countered with his fireballs.
On the ring side...
"They're even...?" even Mikagami was shocked after the explosion.
"It can't be..." Fuuko was shocked. "I can't believe it. To be even with Recca's dragon..."
"So they must be real." Domon concluded.
In the ring...
"It's still early to be surprised." Kashamaru mocked, having disappeared in the smoke. "Ryu no En, third dragon, Homura."
"What?" Recca's eyes widened at the sight of his third dragon. "He can even use Homura?"
"Homura, Ben En!" Kashamaru ordered, charging.
"Cut the crap!" Recca growled, dodging the fire trail. "Original... Homura!"
Kashamaru countered with a flame whip of his own.
"Damn you..." Recca cursed, landing on his feet. "Homura is even too? How 'bout... Saiha! En Jin!"
"No matter how many time s you try, it will be the same." Kashamaru mocked. "Saiha, En Jin!"
"Shut up!" Recca retorted as he charged. "How the hell can the real ones be beaten by your copies!"
"Shouldn't I say that?" Kashamaru mocked. "This is my Ninjitsu."
With that, the two flame casters met head on.
On the ring side...
"He did it." Fuuko beamed when Kashamaru's arm bled. "The real one won."
"No." Kagerō corrected. "Look closer..."
"Recca's been cut too." she added, blood spilling from her son's arm.
"No way..." Fuuko was stunned. "They seem evenly matched."
In the ring...
"You call that even?" Kashamaru fumed. "You truly underestimate me. Watch this!"
On the ring side...
"Three dragons?" Domon gasped as three fire dragons emerged from Kashamaru's back.
"No way..." Fuuko gaped.
"It can't be." Mikagami agreed.
"How can this be happening?" Kagerō pondered. "Recca can't summon more than two dragons at once. But Kashamaru can summon three of them at will."
In the ring....
"How could...?" Recca growled. "How can he do that?"
"You can tell if they're real or fake by receiving them." Kashamaru chuckled. "The attacks of three dragons!
"Ryu no En, fifth dragon." Recca chanted. "Madoka! Kekkai En!"
Madoka's shield managed the defend against the three flame dragons.
"What?" Recca looked up as Kashamaru jumped into the air.
"Take this!" Kashamaru laughed, throwing a flame blade at the defending Recca.
On the ring side...
"RECCA!" Fuuko screamed after Recca was thrown against the pillar.
"Recca!" Ganko shouted.
Strange... Kagerō thought. Kashamaru isn't even a Flame Master but he controls the Flame Dragons so freely. He must have something... but what?
In the ring...
"What a turn of events." Nemi declared. "Hanabishi was the obvious favorite going into this match, but the unknown Kashamaru's techniques are really giving him a hard time! Keep at it, Recca-san!"
"Hanabishi Recca, is this your limit?" Kashamaru mocked. "Isn't it time to end this?"
"Setsuna..." Recca blinked as five of his Flame Dragons appeared behind Kashamaru. "Madoka? No way!"
On the ring side...
"That guy... can call all five of them?" Domon was stunned.
"Can't be..." Fuuko was similarly shocked. "What's Recca's gonna do?"
In the ring...
"Unable to do anything, he will be killed by me." Kashamaru declared. "That's the fate of the idiot, Hanabishi Recca, who opposes the Uruha."
In the stands...
"Yeah, kill him now!" the crowd roared. "Take out Block A!"
On the ring side...
"Recca! Recca!" Fuuko hollered.
"Hanabishi, run away!" Domon shouted.
In the ring...
"Saiha, En Jin." Kashamaru chanted.
"What the?" Recca frowned, the jewel on Kashamaru's armband glowing a bright red.
On the ring side...
"The madōgu, Nisebi?" Kagerō recognized the madōgu.
In the ring...
"Nisebi?" Recca echoed.
On the ring side...
"A madōgu that controls flames." Kagerō explained. "Only Flame Masters could control flames. Many ninjas inspired to be able to control such a power. The madōgu, Nisebi, allowed that to become a reality. No matter what kind of flame, it can mimic it."
In the ring...
"Took you long enough to notice." Kashamaru grinned.
On the ring side...
"Which means all of his dragons are fakes!" Domon concluded.
"That explains why two of the same can exist." Mikagami added.
"Which also explains why Kashamaru can't summon all eight Flame Dragons." Anhara noted.
At everybody's looks, she smirked, "Kashamaru can't copy what he doesn't know, right?"
Mikagami returned her smirk, knowing what she meant.
"Nisebi should only be able to mimic the shapes and sizes of the flame." Kagerō pointed out. "But he's even copied the powers of the eight dragons..."
In the ring...
"If I use it, it's just as you've seen." Kashamaru grinned. "Whether it's Recca's Flame Dragon or anything else, there's nothing I cannot copy."
"Take this!" he declared, calling his mimics to attack Recca. "Setsuna's flame. Shun En!"
"This is..." Recca stammered, Setsuna's single eye opening.
Raising his arms, he tried to block the flames, only to be engulfed within the fire tornado.
Getting to the ground, he rolled to douse the flames.
On the ring side...
The Hokage team looked on in shock.
In the ring...
"What?" Kashamaru's grin turned into shock as Recca stood back up.
"Don't underestimate me..." Recca growled.
"It can't be..." Kashamaru was shocked. "You're still planning to fight?"
On the ring side...
"It's a futile effort." Gashakura replied. "With that body..."
"Hurt that badly, I'm sure it'll be difficult to stage a comeback." Magensha finished his brother's sentence.
In the ring...
"Who cares." Recca snapped. "But I'm not losing in such a shameful way."
"Then, I'm gonna keep coming at you until you die." Kashamaru remarked.
Do you want to win that much? Rui asked her vassal.
"Who are you?" Recca inquired. "You must be one of the eight dragons right?"
On the ring side...
"Eight dragons?" Mikagami echoed.
"Was about time she showed up." Anhara grinned.
At Mikagami's look, she smirked, "Hanabishi's sixth dragon, Rui. That girl's one heck of an illusionist."
In the ring...
"Stop talking to yourself." Kashamaru grinned.
This is the first time we've met. Rui told Recca. I'll give you my quiz.
"Quiz?" Recca echoed.
Once upon a time, a writer wrote his greatest novel. Rui started her question. However, another copied his work, calling it his own. One claimed the story was his. But the other one claimed it as well. How would you find the truth? Answer me.
"The answer is easy." Recca grinned. "Make them both continue the story. The fake one wouldn't be able to!"
Then, you shall be allowed to continue as well. Rui replied, her mark burning on Recca's right arm.
"What?" Kashamaru was shocked as Rui appeared behind Recca.
On the ring side...
"A new... Flame Dragon." Fuuko gaped.
"Long time no see, Rui." Anhara grinned.
In the ring...
if you can copy dragons you've seen before, Rui told Kashamaru. Then you can't copy me. I am Katanashi no Rui. I'm the dragon who bestows my power to the one who answers my quiz correctly.
"I can't believe this..." Kashamaru stammered. "Right at the end, the sixth Flame Dragon..."
On the ring side...
"Kashamaru, I won't allow you to retreat." Magensha told him. "You're a member of the Ura Uruha. You shall be punished if you disgrace our name."
"I'd be afraid..." Gashakura added. "If you run away, my brother will take you there."
In the ring...
"I know already!" Kashamaru snapped. "I can deal with a new dragon or two..."
"Okay." Recca remarked after Rui explained her plan. "Let's try it, Rui."
At his instruction, the flame dragon disappeared, a gush of smoke rushing from beneath Recca's feet.
"What the?" Kashamaru stammered, the entire ring engu8lfed in the smoke.
On the ring side...
"Mist?" Fuuko blinked, the smoke getting to the ring side.
"Rui's smokescreen." Anhara concluded.
"What's going on?" Domon inquired.
"What kind of power does this dragon have?" Kagerō mused.
"I've said it before." Anhara added. "Rui's an illusionist."
"And if she's as good as what Kasei told me," she remarked. "We're in for a good show."
In the ring...
"Shit." Kashamaru cursed. "Where did you go? you're planning on hiding the new dragon's power with a mist, are you? How pitiful. Nadare shall clear this mist for me. And then I will steal its power. Then gain another technique that'll make me stronger."
With that, he tossed the fireballs into the fog.
"No reaction?" Kashamaru was shocked when the mist did not clear. "They didn't explode... why?"
"Recca!" he fumed. "Come out!"
"Right there!" he turned, using Saiha's flame blade to attack the shadow behind him.
"Do you have a grudge against me or something?" Gashakura inquired.
"Gashakura-dono..." Kashamaru stepped back in fear.
"Idiot!" Jisho barked. "I knew we should have been the team that advanced to this round."
"Jisho?" Kashamaru stammered. "It can't be... you're already dead!"
"It's till too early to be surprised." Kashamaru's clone declared.
"What?" Kashamaru demanded. "That voice is my voice!"
"Hello me." his clone grinned. "How does it feel when someone copies you?"
"Who are you really?" Kashamaru snapped.
"I've seen the trick behind your Nisebi." the other Kashamaru replied, Kashamaru's sword in his hand.
"When did you...?" Kashamaru turned to see his blade had disappeared.
"Splendid." the other Kashamaru remarked. "Camouflaging your sword and whip with the Nisebi to fake the power of the flame dragons... I should admit this makes you a real ninja, but... a real ninja would never have been found out!"
"What did you...?" Kashamaru stammered, his other self gripping his shoulders.
"Don't mess with the Flame Dragons!" Rui barked.
Kashamaru screamed as Rui engulfed him with her flames.
On the ring side...
"Recca!" Fuuko gasped.
In the ring...
"I understand..." a smoking Kashamaru stammered. "The power behind his new dragon, Rui... a power without shape... a changing flame... Gashakura-dono, Jisho, and the other me... Rui made them all."
"Right." Recca replied. "Rui told me... all I had to do was think of it. And she'd change into whatever I wanted. that's the Ryu no En sixth dragon. Rui."
"I can't believe it..."Kashamaru gasped. "I'm finished..."
"Hanabishi versus Kashamaru..." Nemi declared after Kashamaru collapsed. "No doubt about it... Hanabishi is the winner!"
On the ring side...
"Yes!" Fuuko whooped.
"Great, Hanabishi!" Domon cheered.
"He won!" Ganko beamed.
"You're the best!" Kondo cried.
"Recca..." Kagerō looked at her son.
In the ring...
This is the sixth one. Recca looked at his armband. But the Flame Dragons have saved me every time. I can't beat Kurei like this!
"Now the Hokage leads with two wins!" Tatsuko beamed. "Recca-san, I love you!"
"C'mon Tatsuko! Be professional!" Nemi scolded.
"Shut up!" Tatsuko snapped. "I have a life to live here!"
"Oh my, the Uruha Ma's co-captain Gashakura steps in." she gaped.
On the ring side...
"When he gets into the ring, he looks even bigger." Fuuko remarked.
"What kind of power does he have?" Domon inquired.
"A better question would be: what kind of madōgu does he hold." Anhara noted.
"Gashakura, before you step in, can I have a moment?" Magensha requested.
"Brother?" Gashakura looked at his brother.
"I must punish those who blemish the Ura Uruha's reputation." Magensha told him.
"You have my pity." Gashakura told the shivering duo. "But it's your punishment for losing. Goodbye, Tsukishiro, Kashamaru."
Forming a black orb of power between his palms, Magensha raised the sphere into the sky.
In the ring...
"What the hell is that? Recca stammered, as the ground shook.
On the ring side...
"Time Manipulation?" Kagerō blinked. "No, it's different."
Both Tsukishiro and Kashamaru tired to flee from their impeding doom.
"It's useless to run, you two!" Magensha told them. "Wander endlessly!"
With that, he drew the two into his evil dimension.
"Goodbye." he added, his portal disappearing.
In the ring...
"What did you do?" Recca demanded. "Where the hell did they go?"
"Mister Recca." Magensha chuckled. "I'm not kind enough to reveal my powers to others."
"Well, the show's over." Gashakura remarked. "Let's get started."
"You're still here?" he looked over at Recca. "I thought Fuuko was my opponent."
"This is an elimination match!" Recca retorted. "I won the last one so I keep fighting!"
"I have no problem with that." Gashakura replied. "But with the shape you are in, would you really want to?"
"What'd you...?" Recca demanded.
"Kashamaru always coated his sword with sleeping poison." Gashakura explained. "Don't you feel its effect?"
"Damn..." Recca cursed.
"But, since it's your choice to stay..." Gashakura added, the flame caster having knelt down. "I'm going to crush you."
With a swing, he smashed his spiked ball onto the ground Recca was sitting on.
On the ring side...
"Recca!" Kagerō exclaimed.
"Nah, he missed." Anhara replied.
In the ring...
Truth to the ice wielder's proclaim, Gashakura did miss Recca's head
"You should've stepped in a little sooner." Gashakura looked over at the Hokage wind wielder, her knives having pieced his armband. "You used these in the first round, didn't you?"
"Leave the rest to me," Fuuko remarked, her throwing blades in her hand. "So, you go to sleep, Recca."
"Too late, Fuuko." Anhara grinned, pointing to a dozing Recca. "He's already asleep."
Returning Anhara's grin, Fuuko walked towards Gashakura.
"In the first round, I was stuck fighting that loser, Fujimaru and haven't fought since." she continued. "I've been itching to fight."
"Domon, take care of Recca." she called.
"Sure." Domon nodded.
Giving Mikagami a look, Anhara added, "Guess we won't be needing you in this round afterall."
"Che." Mikagami snorted.
"Fuuko-chan is ready to explode!" Fuuko declared, finishing in a pose.
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