Chapter 10
(Killer Bee's Home)
Kurenai, wanting to get a feel for her opponent, took the offensive. Samui hadn't moved a muscle and waited for the leaf jonin to get close. She pulled out her tanto and slashed at Kurenai's face as soon as the genjutsu mistress was close enough. However, Kurenai earned her title as her body dissolved in a swirl of petals.
'Genjutsu? I didn't even see any handsigns.' Samui thought as she took a fist to the gut. She immediately dispelled the genjutsu and rolled on her shoulder to avoid a knee to the face. She righted herself instantly but had no time to do anything but avoid the kick aimed at her head.
Kurenai, having caught her opponent off guard, continued her assault. She swept Samui's legs from underneath her and pulled out a kunai to jab at the downed cloud ninja. Samui brought her tanto up and blocked the strike and made one handed signs.
"Lightning style: lightning lance!" She called out as she thrust her hand, palm out, at Kurenai's face. A bolt of lightning existed her palm and Kurenai did a back flip to avoid the strike.
"Fire style: Fire ball jutsu!" Kurenai called out as she launched a ball of flame at Samui. The cloud jonin took the hit dead on. Kurenai turned and ducked to avoid the strike Samui aimed for her head from behind. The cloud jonin had used a substitution to avoid the blow and tried to hit Kurenai in her blind spot.
Kurenai brought her kunai up to clash with Samui's tanto but the short sword began to glow with energy and cleaved through the kunai. Kurenai, momentarily surprised, took a fist to the cheek and a follow up kick to the chest. Kurenai landed on the giant lake in front of Killer Bee's house and took an assessment of her opponent.
'She is a lightning user, no surprise. However, her taijutsu is superb and there are few mistakes. Throughout the battle she has yet to show any discernable emotion so catching her off guard will be difficult. Lastly, she's holding back, that much I can tell.' Kurenai thought as Samui leapt into the air and created more hand signs.
"Lightning style: Thunder ball!" Samui called out as she shot a ball of condensed lightning chakra at Kurenai. Even if the ruby eyes jonin dodged the attack, the water she was standing on would conduct the electricity to her body, leaving her vulnerable. Samui sent a burst of chakra through her feet and began to fly down towards Kurenai.
'No choice.' Kurenai thought as she saw the attack coming. She reached behind her and grabbed the lightning fangs Kakashi had given her. Kurenai thrust one blade at the ball of lightning and as they struck, the attack began to shrink until it disappeared.
'What?' Samui thought as Kurenai pointed the same blade to her, suddenly a ball of electricity came from the tip of the sword and hit Samui dead on. The jonin cried out in pain as she fell under the water.
'If I hadn't been able to control these things than that would have gone differently.' Kurenai thought as she took a small moment to admire the swords that were considered to be some of the most powerful on the planet.
Kakashi had given them to her after he tried to give them to Tsuande. The Hokage had no use for them and didn't want to give them back to the Mist village at the time. Thus they were for Kakashi to keep and do with as he saw fit. Kurenai grabbed onto them one time and was surprised to feel a jolt of power run through her.
It turns out that Kurenai was so good at genjutsu because she had an above average affinity for lightning chakra. Genjutsu affected the brain and truthfully all of the five senses are sent through the brain to the body through electrical impulses. Without knowing it, Kurenai was using her lightning affinity to aid her in being the best genjutsu user in the village. When Kakashi found out he immediately began to teach her some of his jutsu as well as how to wield the blades she now held.
"The legendary blade Kiba. I thought those were in the possession of the Mist village?" The Raikage said as he turned to look at Kakashi. The copy ninja gave an eye smile as he shrugged lightly, there really was no reason to explain how they came into possession of the blades.
"Still, things are going to get very interesting now. Samui is a bit irritated." A added with a smirk.
"Kurenai-sensei is no push over and just because she's upset doesn't mean that she'll win." Naruto fired back.
"You don't know Samui brat. She's always so emotionless because she has to be. When she loses her temper, she is truly a force to be reckoned with." The Raikage said as Samui appeared in an eruption of water.
Kurenai raced off of the water as she doubted she was good enough with lightning chakra to fight a jonin born and raised in the cloud village on water. Her last attack only worked because Samui underestimated her. She looked at Samui and could feel a cold aura around the woman.
"Samui is pretty pissed. Sucks for your sensei." Karui said with a smile.
"Do you ever get tired of talking?" Naruto said irritably. He and Karui glared at one another and a bolt of lightning seemed to flash between their eyes.
"I don't think fighting him is the best way to show your affection Karui." Omoi stated dully. The red headed woman turned and decked her teammate to the ground.
"Shut up Omoi!" She screamed as her face was red once again.
As the two teammates once again began their usual antics, which consisted of Karui trying to strangle Omoi and the dark skinned man trying to avoid death from the fiery red head, Samui had rushed forward to attack.
Kurenai had the range advantage with her lightening fangs and slashed at the blonde jonin's chest and head. There was a streak of electricity in the wake of every slash form the blades, demonstrating their legendary cutting ability.
Samui twisted her body in the air and was able to dive between the two blades. She landed on her knees and sent a mule kick into Kurenai's sternum, stunning the leaf kunoichi with the limber and controlled movements. Kurenai quickly regained her composure and sent a burst of lightning chakra towards Samui through her blades.
Samui flipped back and quickly ran through hand signs for a favorite jutsu of hers.
"Oh she's going to pull that one out." Omoi said from the ground with Karui's foot on his back.
"She really must be going all out." Karui agreed as she promptly returned to literally stomping her teammate into the dirt.
"Lightning style: Lightning dragon jutsu." The blond jonin called out as a giant dragon of electricity formed and flew towards Kurenai. The dragon devoured the lighting shot by the leaf kunoichi and continued on towards her.
"Kurenai-sensei!" Naruto called out in worry when she didn't back up a step. Kurenai instead thrust both blades forward to meet the dragon head on. She grit her teeth as it made contact with her blades and was slowly being pushed back by its power.
'That's one of Samui's most powerful moves. I wonder if she can really hold it back entirely.' A thought to himself in interest.
'This won't beat me! I refuse to lose here and fail Hinata. She'll be married off to someone in this village over my dead body!' Kurenai snarled to herself as she held her ground and redirected the dragon into the air.
She wasn't able to take a breath before Samui was on her once again. She caught Kurenai across the face with a swift punch. Kurenai attempted to retaliate by stabbing forward with her left blade. In a show of extreme aerobics, Samui dodged and grabbed Kurenai's arm. She jumped up and wrapped her legs around the limb while keeping it straight against her. She twisted and forced Kurenai to the ground in a cross arm lock. She quickly gave a swift twist and dislocated Kurenai's left arm from its socket. Kurenai's cry of pain echoed across the lake as her arm became useless.
Samui flipped to her feet and grabbed the dropped lightning fang that fell from Kurenai's useless left hand. She stabbed down but was mildly surprised to see Kurenai disappear in a swirl of flower petals.
'Genjutsu. She was able to create one swiftly even with the pain she is in. She truly deserves the title of Genjutsu Mistress.' Samui thought dryly as vines began to wrap around her body. Having none of it, Samui immediately began to send a pulse of chakra to disrupt the illusion. However, before she was able to she felt one of the vines constrict her leg tightly enough to break her concentration.
Samui found herself soon wrapped completely in the vines and was unable to move. While she was well aware that this was simply a genjutsu and thus not real, that didn't change the fact that she was not be allowed the adequate amount of time necessary to break it. The vines would constantly and in differing intervals, constrict her to stop any attempt she tried to make.
Kurenai watched her captured opponent with a grimace. That had been one of her more powerful techniques, made specifically for those that were proficient in breaking genjutsus. It didn't matter that they knew they were captured. The genjutsu would continually break their concentration and leave them helpless. Still, she was in no shape to capitalize as wave of agony continued to wash over her from her dislocated shoulder. Kurenai stabbed her remaining blade into the ground and grabbed her left shoulder. With a muted grunt of pain, she snapped it back into place. The pain forced her to her knees but she quickly stood once again.
Samui was still frozen in place and the dazed look on her face told Kurenai that she had yet to break the genjutsu. It wasn't surprising as it was one of her stronger A rank ones. Kurenai grabbed her blade with her right hand as her left arm, while once again functional, was protesting any movement. She approached the frozen jonin and placed her blade to the blond's throat.
"I win." Kurenai stated.
"Do you?" Samui responded as she looked at Kurenai. Momentarily taken off guard at the now coherent jonin Kurenai was unable to react quickly enough before Samui slashed up with Kurenai's captured blade and knocked Kurenai's remaining blade away from her neck. She jumped back and prepared herself once again.
"How did you escape? I know that my genjutsu hadn't been broken." Kurenai asked in shock.
"I was unable to dispel the technique. However, I was able to send small pulses of lightning chakra through my system. It wasn't enough to full break the technique but I was able to gain small glimpses of the real world long enough to tell what you were planning. I allowed myself to remain in the genjutsu long enough for you to get close and then sent a large enough burst to disrupt it. The slight pressure of you blade to my throat was actually the catalyst I needed to concentrate. For that I thank you." Samui stated as she spoke more words than any of the konoha ninja had ever heard her speak before.
'She truly is an elite jonin.' Kakashi thought ideally from the sidelines. He was of course worried for his wife but recognized and respected Samui's abilities. That wasn't to say that Kurenai still didn't have a few tricks up her sleeve though.
"Kakashi-sensei, Kurenai-sensei can win right?" Naruto asked his uncle figure.
"Yes she can. However, this battle can go either way right now." Kakashi said with a serious look on his face.
"I want my sword back." Kurenai said as she eyed Samui critically.
"Then come and take it. I happen to think that it is in the hands of one who truly knows how to wield it though." Samui replied plainly. She saw the insult had hit home as Kurenai's expression darkened but the leaf jonin was not about to let her anger force her hand. She was far too well trained for that to happen.
The two women moved as one and locked blades. The legendary swords let out a cracking sound as their electric field crossed one another. Kurenai broke the lock and jumped back as she slammed the point of her sword into the ground. A burst of lightning exploded from the tip of the sword and kicked up a dust cloud. Samui brought her arm up to cover her mouth from the throat chocking dust and narrowed her eyes to avoid getting it in her eyes.
Kurenai capitalized and appeared in front of the cloud ninja with her sword slashing for Samui's chest. The blond brought her blade up to block once again, however Kurenai's foot kicked out and took Samui's from under her, sending her to the ground. Kurenai brought her blade down only to once again have Samui block the strike and kick Kurenai in her injured arm. The leaf jonin retaliated by delivering a brief cut to Samui's leg, simultaneously sending a nerve paralyzing shock through the limb. Samui didn't make a sound as she pulled out a pair of kunai and threw them at Kurenai's face. Kurenai was forced to move back which gave Samui the time to get to her feet. However, the blond jonin fell to one knee as her other leg was unresponsive and numb.
"So Kurenai lost use of her arm and Samui has lost use of a leg. I wonder who is worse off." Naruto muttered to himself. However it was heard by the Raikage.
'Samui still has the advantage.' The leader of the hidden cloud village thought to himself with a smirk as the two woman tried to catch their breath.
The Raikage was proven correct as Samui touched her leg and sent a small jolt of lightning chakra through it. The limb seized painfully but after a minute two, she was able to once again put her wait on it.
'Samui's leg was incapacitated by a burst of lightning. Using a second burst to negate the first is a simple enough maneuver. Kurenai-sensei, however, is still without the full use of her arm.' Shino thought to himself.
Samui took full advantage of this fact and began to overwhelm Kurenai with her superior kenjutsu skills. Kurenai hadn't trained with the blades long enough to be able to defeat a swordsman of Samui's skill. Those in the Cloud village were taught to use weapons early in their ninja careers. Samui had roughly five times the amount of experience and it was beginning to show. Kurenai had the skill and the tenacity but she fell short in the one category that mattered the most, experience.
Thus it was no real surprise to the cloud ninja nor Kakashi himself when Samui knocked Kurenai's remaining sword out of her hand into the air and swiftly jumped up to grab it. While doing this, she sent a double thrust kick into Kurenai's chest, downing the leaf jonin. Samui landed on her feet standing over Kurenai with both blades crossed against the genjutsu mistress's throat.
"I win." Samui stated calmly as she backed away and bowed to Kurenai.
"The first match goes to Samui." The Raikage said with a vicious smirk.
'I lost. How could I lose? Is this the limit of my strength?' Kurenai thought bitterly. She grit her teeth in rage at having failed the girl that was like her little sister. She stood shakily to her feet and kept her head down as she began to walk away.
"Wait."
Kurenai turned and saw that Samui was holding the lightning fangs out for Kurenai to take. Kurenai looked at the blades for a moment before shaking her head.
"I don't deserve to wield them." Kurenai said softly. Samui, though, wasn't taking no for an answer and walked up to Kurenai and forced the swords back into her hands.
"You are more worthy than you believe Yuhi-san.' Samui said simply as she walked back to the Raikage and bowed to him. Kurenai placed the swords on her back and walked over to Hinata with regret and sorrow radiating off of her.
"I'm so sorry Hinata. I failed you." Kurenai said. She was surprised to see a smile on Hinata's face.
"No you didn't sensei. Don't worry we'll take care of business." Naruto said with a comforting smile of his own.
"You fought your hardest against a superior opponent, there is no reason to be upset." Shino stated calmly.
Kakashi said nothing but still gave his own form of comfort with his usual eye smile and a squeeze of Kurenai's shoulder. He turned instantly when he felt eyes on him and locked gazes with Yugito. The two tailed demon container was smiling at Kakashi and showing her feline fangs.
"I guess it's my turn." Kakashi said in his usual tone as he walked towards the battle field.
"Kakashi-sensei." Kakashi turned to see Naruto with a series look on his face.
"Win." Was the only comment from the blond chunin. Kakashi gave a nod with a completely serious expression as he walked over to stand across from the blonde haired female.
"The infamous, Kakashi of the Sharingan, also known as the copy cat ninja. It will be an honor and a privilege to defeat you." She said as she licked her lips. The smile on her face disappeared when she saw that he was looking off into the distance.
"Hey are you listening to me?" She said angrily. Kakashi turned to look at her with a surprised expression.
"Did you say something? Forgive me, I was just wondering where I would take my wife to eat later to cheer her up. Then again we could just skip dinner and head straight to desert." Kakashi said with a perverted giggle. Yugito blushed in outrage and embarrassment at the comment.
"Good for nothing pervert!" Karui shouted from the sidelines while Omoi looked on from under her foot.
"Can't blame the guy when he has a wife that beautiful. Don't get jealous Karui, it's not very attractive and you need all the help you can get anyway." He said before Karui slammed her foot into the back of his head once again.
"That's our Kakashi-sensei alright." Naruto said with a wide smirk at the comment. Hinata was blushing slightly and Shino was shaking her head. Kurenai seemed to be a bit upset at the statement though.
"Kakashi! That's not something you tell your opponent!" She screamed at her husband. He turned to her with a surprised look on his face again.
"Hmm, you're right. I should be asking you where you want to go tonight before I take all of your cares away, so where are we heading honey." He asked with a tilt to his head.
"Kakashi!" Kurenai shouted in rage at his antics.
"Wow that is one dysfunctional marriage." Yugito muttered to herself. She turned to look at Kurenai's expression to see what would happen next.
Only to fall right into Kakashi's trap.
Kakashi was in front of her in a second and punched the demon container in the sternum, robbing her of breath. He followed up with a knee to the face and swiftly swept her legs out from under her. Kakashi pulled out a kunai and stabbed down towards Yugito's chest. The woman was able to roll out of the way swiftly and got up to one knee to look in wonder at her assailant. The look on Kakashi's face told that he was far from taking this lightly.
'I can't believe I fell for that!' she thought angrily to herself as she caught her breath.
"What a cheap trick." Karui muttered angrily. Hinata heard this and looked to her with a glare.
"We're ninja, there are no such things as cheap tricks. She shouldn't have dropped her guard." The Hyuga stated sternly. This surprised not only Karui but all of the present ninja as Hinata had not uttered a word to the cloud ninja since meeting them in the leaf village. Karui quickly shook off her stupor and glowered back at the younger female.
"Whatever, just don't think you'll get the best of me the same way." She said.
"I will not need to." Hinata said dismissively and she turned to watch the battle. Naruto was looking down at her in confusion at her change in attitude but decided to ignore it for the moment and focus on Kakashi.
"I should know better than to underestimate a ninja of your stature. It won't happen again." Yugito said as she got to her feet and prepared herself for battle.
"Hmm, we'll see about that." Kakashi said as he reached into his weapon pouch. Yugito tensed, waiting to see the weapon he would pull out only to look on in shock as he pulled out an orange book and start reading it.
"W-what are you doing?" She shouted at the leaf jonin.
"Reading obviously." Kakashi replied, without taking his face out of the book.
"Why?" Yugito asked in confusion.
"To see what happens next of course." Kakashi said in a relaxed tone and he began to giggle perversely at something he read.
'This is the great Kakashi Hatake? He's a complete fool!' Yugito thought angrily.
"Kakashi! I thought I told you to stop reading those books!" Kurenai shouted from the side lines at seeing him pull out an Icha Icha book. She was sure that she had gotten rid of them all when they moved in together.
"I only use them for inspiration, dear. You won't be complaining tonight." He replied back with his usual eye smile.
'The pervert must die!' Yugito thought darkly as she rushed forward to knock some sense into the silver haired man.
Her vision was colored red in fury and only at the last minute when Kakashi ducked under her strike did she see what he was really doing behind the cover of the book. He had been making one handed seals.
"Wind style: air bullet!" Kakashi called out as he shot a condensed ball of wind directly into Yugito's chest, sending her flying back to land in the lake.
'I can't believe she fell for that twice.' The Raikage thought angrily as he saw what Kakashi was doing. By keeping Yugito off balance with strange and confusing tactics, he was disrupting her focus and making it very easy to take advantage of her.
"Yo big bro. He's got the same book as you." Killer bee said.
"Shut up Bee!" A said to his younger brother.
Kakashi put his book away when he felt a massive amount of chakra and killing intent erupt from under the lake. It seemed his plan had worked a bit too well. Yugito shot out of the water in an explosion of chakra. She landed on her feet on the ground with a blue cloak of chakra surrounding her with two long tails whipping behind her and two cat ears on top of her head. Her eyes had turned a bright yellow with slit pupils and her fangs had elongated.
"You're dead!" She shouted as she raced towards Kakashi. Kakashi didn't even have time to react before she planted a foot into his chest, knocking him back violently.
Not wanting to give him any time to recover, Yugito was on him instantly. Kakashi was able to roll out of the way only to get hit by one of her tails. He grunted in pain as well as the burning sensation that accompanied the blow. Touching her while she had that cloak of chakra would be difficult if not impossible.
"What's wrong, can't make anymore jokes now?" Yugito said with a predatory smirk as she raced after him once again. Kakashi had had enough of the one sided battle and pulled up his head band to reveal his sharingan. Yugito quickly broke off her attack and jumped away from him. She knew all too well that Kakashi had just become much more dangerous.
"I guess it's time to get serious." Kakashi said as he pulled out his white chakra fang and slashed at Yugito. One of her tails rose to block the strike. She wrapped her tail around the blade and wretched it from his hand. She followed up by slamming her other tail into his head. He disappeared in a puff of smoke.
'A shadow clone, when did he switch with it?' she thought as she looked around for her opponent.
"Water style: Water dragon jutsu!"
Yugito turned to the lake just to catch the powerful water attack full on. She was thrown back and struggled to breath under the onslaught of water. Thankfully, her cloak was powerful enough to evaporate enough of the water to keep her from serious injury. Kakashi saw her slowly get to her feet with his sharingan and saw that she was far from seriously injured.
"She's tougher than I thought. Still I have a few tricks up my sleeves." He thought as he raced through hand signs again. Yugito saw Kakashi going through a long sign of hand seals and knew she had to stop him immediately.
"Fire style: Duel canon jutsu!" She called out as two streams of flames emerged from her mouth to fly and circle around Kakashi. He stopped his jutsu to avoid being burned to death by diving under water.
"Bad move!" Yugito said happily as he planned worked. She jumped over the lake and made more seals.
"Lightning style: Lightning strike jutsu!" she called out as a bolt of electricity shot from her palm into the lake. She kept the jutsu going for a minute of two to ensure that Kakashi was hit by the technique. She landed on the surface of the lake and looked around for the leaf ninja. She saw him slowly surface, unmoving.
She used one of her tails to wrap around him and bring him closer to him, this was also to ensure that he wasn't playing possum and trying to lure her closer. She had fallen for that one too many times already and wasn't about to repeat the same mistake.
"It looks like I win." She said happily.
"Does it now?"
Yugito looked as the Kakashi she was holding turned into a white color and burst into lightning. She cried out as the lightning coursed through both her body as well as the water she stood on to further conduct the electricity. She was given no rest as she felt hands grab onto her feet and pull her under water. Kakashi grabbed her in a full nelson and held her strong. She was able to slap him away with her tails easily enough but Kaksahi suddenly disappeared, revealing himself to be a shadow clone.
'If that was a clone then where is the real one?' She thought before she slowly surfaced. She was about to climb onto the water's surface when she saw Kakashi calmly standing at the water's edge with his lightning fang. He calmly placed the tip of the blade in the water and sent his electricity through it.
Yugito had only a moment before she felt the electricity course through her body. She gave another shriek of pain as her demon cloak was unable to withstand the heightened power while surrounded by water. She disappeared under the water and Kakashi calmly stood back and waited. He wasn't stupid enough to go in after her and there really was no reason to. If she was still conscious, then he was in the perfect position to deal with her when she tried to emerge.
"Yo the copy ninja deserves his rep, he's been ahead of Yugito every step." Killer bee rapped, impressed by Kakashi's systematic battling against Yugito.
'That he does.' A thought, for once not getting on his brother for his rapping. Yugito was one of the top five jonin in the cloud village and she was being handily defeated by Kakashi. Even with her demon's power, Kakashi was proving why he was the most powerful of all the jonin in the leaf village. Still, the Raikage was stunned to see such a one sided battle. Yugito hadn't even landed a good hit yet.
"Go Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto shouted with enthusiasm. Hinata smiled at her boyfriend exuberance as well as the battle.
'That's my husband.' Kurenai thought happily. She might even let him get away with sneaking one of those pervert books on the mission and having the audacity of reading it in front of her.
"Yugito is far from finished so shut your mouth!" Karui shouted back at the leaf ninja.
"What do you mean?" Shino asked calmly. Surprisingly it was Samui that answered.
"Yugito-sensei can transform into her demon." She stated calmly.
'Her too? Can every demon container aside from me do that?' Naruto mentally shouted.
'Probably. But you should probably be more worried for your sensei right now. The nibi was always a bit of a sore loser. Having her container be beaten so thoroughly will not set well with her at all.' Kyuubi responded to the rhetorical question. Naruto didn't respond as he felt the wave of malevolent chakra explode from the water. Out of the water appeared a giant two tailed cat that seemed to be made up of blue fire.
'Well, this is going to be difficult.' Kakashi thought as he jumped to the side to avoid being squashed by a giant flaming paw. He was given no rest as the cat opened its mouth and shout out two giant fireballs. The balls of flame hit Kakashi only for him to turn into a log that was immediately incinerated.
"Come out come out wherever you are!" Yugito demonic voice called out in a taunting tone.
"Your sensei is cat food." Karui said with a smirk.
"I doubt that." Shino said calmly, never taking his eyes off of the battle.
Kakashi was avoiding the two tailed demon cat as best he could. So far he hadn't had that hard of a time dealing with Yugito. Despite her demon, she simply wasn't on his level. He had taken advantage of her dropping her guard earlier in the fight and simply continued to work with what she gave him. He was a bit more cautious when she called on her demon's power but even then, she wasn't as powerful as Naruto when he used Kyuubi's power. However, Naruto couldn't turn into an exact copy of his demon like Yugito could.
"Stop running and take your beating like a man!" Yugito called out angrily. She desperately wanted to land a solid blow on the copy ninja for making her look like a fresh out of the academy genin.
'Calm down kitten. You're losing your focus again.' The two tailed cat said to her container. Yugito and the Nibi had a good relationship, as did Killer Bee and the eight tailed demon. This was the reason that they both could full transform into their demon's form.
'I'm going to skin him alive, Nibi! No one makes an idiot out of me in front of my comrades, especially not some perverted leaf ninja.' She thought back.
'You aren't trying to impress the container of Kyuubi are you? Because I think you might have some competition with Karui.' The two tailed cat said jokingly.
'Shut up Nibi!' Yugito thought angrily to her tenant and she focused on trying to remove Kakashi's head from his body. She knew that these were to be non lethal battles, but she really did want to beat the copy ninja within an inch of his life. She once again missed the copy ninja and he jumped onto the lake and rapidly ran through a long chain of hand signs.
"Water style: Great Waterfall jutsu!' Kakashi called out as the water around him surged up a few meters then crashed back down to stream towards Yugito in a hid powered water technique.
"Don't insult me!" Yugito shouted as she opened her mouth and shout out a blistering inferno of fire that hit the water technique and negated it, causing a large amount of steam to blanket the area.
"Hidden Mist jutsu" Kakashi called out as the mist thickened to the point that Yugito couldn't see more than a foot in front of her.
'He's trying to hide in the mist to give himself time to think up a plan. Too bad he seems to underestimate my skills.' Yugito thought as she sniffed around for her prey. In her demon form her senses were amplified many times that of a human's and caught his specific scent easily. She turned and slammed her paw down. She felt herself catch something and he she looked closer she saw that she had smashed a log.
'He used a substitution. Still this shows that I can track him and eventually I will get him, he can't hide forever.' She thought as she once again tried to find the copy ninja with her nose. She narrowed her eyes when she sensed not one but five separate scents that were one and the same.
'He constructed more clones. He's only delaying the inevitable.' Yugito thought as she began to increase the flames that made up her two tailed feline form. The blue flames began to grow brighter and brighter and the mist began to part from the intensity of the fire and heat. As the mist began to dissipate she commanded five separate balls of fire to launch at the clones at once. She smiled when she both felt and smelled all of the clones dissipate.
She turned swiftly and slammed her paw down on a figure she saw in the mist. She was surprised to find that her paw was being held back, if only slightly. The mist cleared completely as she saw that Kakashi was holding back her paw with a lightning blade in both hands.
"So that is the technique fabled to be able to cut through a bolt of lightning. For a ninja not of this village to have such a command over the lightning element is truly astounding." A muttered to himself.
"This fight is over! Yugito-sensei has him right she wants him!" Karui shouted out happily at the perceived victory.
Kurenai had long since forgotten her anger at her husband and was instead concerned.
'Kakashi.' She thought.
"Very impressive holding off my attack with your bare hands. However, how will you deal with this!" Yugito hissed as she swung her other paw at Kakashi. Remarkably, Kakashi thrust out his left hand and held back the second paw leaving him struggling to withstand the force of each flaming paw in one hand a piece.
"Impressive, most impressive, but you seemed to have forgotten about my tails." She said with a smirk as the two tails came in front of her waiting for her command to hit him.
"You should surrender, it's over." Yugito said smugly. She had him currently pinned. He couldn't move away or he would risk getting smashed by the paws. He couldn't continue to remain as he was as he would either be skewered or eventually run out of chakra and be squashed anyway.
"Funny I was going to say the same." Kakashi replied in a strained tone.
"And how do you figure that?" Yugito asked curiously.
"Because you're run out of time!" Kakashi said with a smirk as Yugito began to feel her chakra drain away.
"W-what's going on?" She cried out as she felt her chakra being suppressed from multiple locations. It wasn't long before she could no longer sustain her demon's form and reverted back to her human body. She felt very weak and staggered back shakily from the panting copy ninja. Holding back her paws had forced him to drain a majority of his chakra to keep the lightning blades strong enough to withstand the force.
"Look underneath the underneath." Kakashi said simply as he pointed to a certain point. She looked over and noticed for the first time a small tag that was all but invisible on the broken and cracked ground. It had a special seal on it and was glowing red. Yugito looked around and spotted another four of these tags, all set in specific locations and all positioned so that both she and Kakashi were currently standing in the middle of the pentagon they formed.
"Ninja art of sealing: Five pointed toad seal." Kakashi said in a tired tone as he walked towards the still woozy Yugito. She tried to fall back into a fighting pose but that was soon halted when a group of dogs burst from the ground and latched onto her. She was unable to shake the dogs off and as long as she was in the area of the special sealing jutsu, she was unable to call upon her demon's chakra.
"Summoning Jutsu: Tracking Fang" Kakashi called out as he stood up from where he had been kneeling.
He had seen she wasn't about to accept defeat yet and thus he swiftly pulled out his special scroll and summoned his ninja dogs to restrain her. They could easy pick up the strange scent of the demon container. However, Pakkun was missing. Kakashi looked around and saw his closest canine companion laying in Kurenai's arms enjoying being petted.
"Pakkun what are you doing?" Kakashi asked in confusion.
"You don't need my help beating her Kakashi besides I like your wife better than you. How you ever hooked up with her is still a topic of debate amongst my brothers and I." the small pug said form Kurenai's arms. Kakashi shook his head in exasperation but decided that he would deal with Pakkun later.
"I win." Kakashi said simply as he walked over to her and pulled out his white chakra fang to place against her throat. There was nothing she could do.
"The second match goes to Kakashi Hatake." A said abruptly. He was stunned by what he'd seen but was nevertheless still bound to call the match.
"How?" Was the only question to leave Yugito's mouth as Kakashi dismissed his canine companions. All except for Pakkun of course who decided to remain in Kurenia's embrace.
"I created the mist to get a chance to place down these seals. They were given to me by Jiraiya to help contain Naruto should he lose control over his demon chakra. Once in the mist I allowed you to find me the first time so that you would rely completely on your sense of smell."
"But why would you want that to happen? You could have placed the seals without me ever having the chance to figure out that there were clones in the mist. It was an unnecessary gamble." She said.
"Was it? These seals are special. They have to actually come into direct contact with at least a small amount of demonic chakra to activate. Your fireballs that hit those clones were laced with your demonic chakra which was needed to activate the seals. Unfortunately I'm not anywhere near as skilled as lord Jiraiya and it took a while longer for them to fully activate. Once that happened I simply had to lure you into the target zone and hold on long enough for them to connect with one another and form the barrier seal." Kakashi said in his normal tone as he rubbed his shoulder. It had gotten a bit stiff from holding her back.
"Kakashi-sensei thought up all of that so quickly?" Naruto was stunned at the efficient planning of his uncle figure.
"Quite impressive." Shino agreed.
"It's no wonder he's considered to be the most powerful of the jonin in the out village." Hinata added feeling a bit of relief that they had tied up to matches.
"That's my husband." Kurenai said happily as she walked over to Kakashi. Pakkun had jumped out of her arms by this point, knowing what was about to happen
"You are simply amazing." Kurenai said to the silver haired man with a wide smile.
"I'm still in trouble aren't I?" Kakashi said with a sigh as he noticed the gleam in her eye.
"Well you know what they say, no good deed goes unpunished. Now let's talk about you still reading those books shall we?" Kurenai said as she grabbed Kakashi by the ear and began to drag him back to the rest of their team.
"I only use it for inspiration!" He said quickly, hoping to appease his wife.
'I lost to this guy?' Yugito thought crossly.
'He played the battle perfectly. He took her off her game by acting like a perverted fool. Yugito never was able to establish herself in this battle. What a ninja.' Killer Bee thought seriously. He wasn't in the habit of being too serious most of the time but even he had to take notice on the way his comrade had been beaten. Killer Bee's respect for Yugito was extremely high. To see her beaten so soundly was a shock.
"Karui get off me." Omoi said sharply. His red haired teammate, who had been in shock from the way the battle took place, looked to him quickly.
"It's my turn and I don't plan on losing." He said in a completely serious tone.
"For all that talk about me, it looks like you have a thing for the Hyuga." Karui said in a teasing tone. When she saw Omoi's gaze land on Hinata for a long moment, she was a bit surprised.
"Something you want to tell me?" She asked in a serious tone.
"Yeah, I'm going to win." Omoi said simply as he walked to the center of the battle field. Shino, seeing his opponent began his own trek to the battle.
"Shino." Shino turned and looked at his blonde teammate.
"Take him out." Naruto said simply. Hinata smiled at the insect user and gave him a nod as well.
"We have complete trust in you Shino." Kurenai said as she dragged an unconscious Kakashi beside her from wherever she had taken him for a….talk.
Shino gave his team a small smirk before walking calmly towards Omoi. He wasn't at all unaware of the young man's infatuation with Hinata. It really couldn't be held against him though. Roughly half of the single men in the village still gazed at the young woman with interest. It was only due to the knowledge of what Naruto would do to them should they ever act upon their feelings that kept them in check. Still, that didn't mean that Shino was going to allow Omoi to win this battle and have them take one step closer to forcing Hinata to remain in the village.
Shino wasn't the only one sizing up his opponent. Omoi, for once, didn't have strange thoughts going through his head of weird and highly improbably scenarios. He only had victory in mind. He pulled out his sword from its place on his back and prepared himself.
"Omoi vs Shino Aburame, begin." A shouted loudly.
Omoi didn't waste any time and immediately rushed to attack Shino. The Aburame quickly went on the defensive and dodged Omoi's strikes. They were swift and strong but he had long since learned how to fight against a sword wielder after Haku's long and intensive training sessions. Having seen enough of Omoi's style, he decided to fight back. Shino lifted his arms and unleashed a cloud of his chakra draining insects. Omoi jumped back and thrust out his hand.
"Lightning style: Static shock" He called out as a burst of static electricity that worked as an effective bug zapper. All of Shino's insects were killed.
'Fighting a lightning user will put me at a disadvantage.' Shino thought to himself as he felt the loss of his colony.
"Shino is going to have to play this one very carefully." Kakashi said, having recovered.
"Why do you say that?" Naruto asked.
"Shino's primary element is earth which has an elemental disadvantage against lightning attacks. Also, Shino' insects are weak against both fire and lightning attacks because of the power behind them. He'll have to rely on other ways to win this battle." Kurenai said, explaining Kakashi's statement.
Shino seemed to be aware of this and pulled out his kusarigama. He deflected Omoi's strike with the sickle blade and backhanded Omoi in the face. He twirled the chain and wrapped it around Omoi's sword. Shino pulled and ripped the blade from the still stunned cloud ninja's hands.
"Come one Omoi what do you think you're doing?" Karui shouted angrily at her teammate. Samui didn't say anything though she was watching Shino closely, respect glinting in her clod blue eyes.
'An Aburame skilled with a weapon? That's a new one. I always thought they relied solely on their insects.' The Raikage thought to himself as he watched the battle with a keen eye.
"Things aren't as you believe, he still has a few tricks up his sleeve." Killer Bee rapped, much to the annoyance of his older brother.
Omoi had regained his composure and was contemplating his opponent. Shino was at a severe disadvantage against his lightning element but Omoi wasn't sure how to take advantage of this. The Aburame could be very sneaky and it would only take one mistake before his own chakra was being drained from a horde of chakra eating insects.
'Guess I need my sword back.' Omoi thought to himself before he ducked under the swinging weight that Shino was still whipping around. However, Shino had given him an idea. As the china link came towards him again, he grabbed onto the weapon and sent a jolt of lightning through it. Shino released his grip on the weapon and narrowed his eyes when Omoi pulled the sickle into his hand.
Shino turned and grabbed the fallen blade of Omoi and while he was not very well trained in the art of using a katana, he was banking on the hope that Omoi had no idea how to properly use his kusarigama.
He was to be disappointed, however.
Omoi began to not only spin the weight around by its chain but also charged the entire weapon with lightning chakra as he had done with his sword. Shino now had to be very weary of the spinning weapon as eve a graze would send electricity coursing through his body. He leapt to the left as Omoi sent the weight aimed at Shino's chest. Omoi moved with his opponent and slashed down with the sickle, only to have the blow blocked by his own blade. Omoi was hesitant to damage his personal weapon and Shino took advantage by send a swarm of insects to surround the both of them. He would undoubtedly lose many from the lightning that Omoi could produce but Shino was sure that Omoi couldn't defeat them all and would fall to the sheer number of insects coming towards him.
Shino was once again denied his victory.
"Lightning style: thunder pulse jutsu." Omoi called out as he sent a full burst of lightning chakra from his body in all directions. This attack was perfect for taking on a large amount of enemies and served its purpose well by killing all of the insects that Shino had sent at him.
Shino was taken by surprise long enough for Omoi to slash him from shoulder to hip and leave a long gash on the Aburame's chest. Shino gave a small grunt of pain and he swung out with the katana he had acquired. Omoi blocked the blow and pulled on the chain forcefully. The weight came slamming into Shino's back and sent a painful jolt of lightning through his body which only compounded the physical pain of the attack.
Knowing that he was in a bad situation, Shino leapt back from the dangerous opponent and threw the katana in the lake. He had no use for it as he didn't know how to properly wield it and it was a hindrance. However, he wouldn't allow Omoi to regain possession of it during this battle. Shino decided to rely on his own skills and obtain victory.
"Earth style: Mud wall jutsu!" Shino called out as he spat out mud to form a giant wall of hardened earth. Omoi was far from impressed and sent the weight through the wall. The lightning coated weapon easily pierced the earth but failed to hit anything on the other side. That was fine with Omoi as he hadn't actually planned to hit Shino.
He was sure that the Aburame was hoping to either draw Omoi close for a trap or give himself time to make a plan, or both. Either way, he was going to keep his distance as that seemed to be the best way to take out his opponent. While Omoi didn't really know how to use a kusarigama he could channel his chakra through any weapon as he had been trained to do. He sent a powerful burst of lightning chakra through the chain link and into the wall itself. Cracks appeared throughout the wall and when Omoi pulled the weight back through, the wall crumbled to the ground.
Shino wasn't behind it.
'Where did he go?' Omoi wondered to himself and he began to whip the weight around waiting for his opponent to show himself. He saw a ripping in the water and quickly sent the weight over to hit the soon emerging Aburame. Shino turned into a cloud of insects. They were unable to devour the chakra on the weapon as they would be killed so they instead simply swarmed around Omoi, far enough away to avoid destruction but still close enough to serve as an adequate distraction.
"Aburame style: Spider entrapment!" A multitude of long strands of spider silk came from behind Omoi to wrap around the swinging whip. The nearly translucent strands didn't conduct electricity, thus Shino was able to get a firm grip on his weapon. Omoi wasn't about to be disarmed twice and slashed through the strands with the sickle, the lightning chakra greatly increasing the sharpness of the blade.
"Aburame style: stinging death!" Shino called out as the two long stingers appeared from under the sleeves of his coat.
He raced forward to attack. Omoi sent the weight at Shino and the Aburame deflected the blow with one of the stingers, being covered in a hard exoskeleton like armor kept the stinger from being broken or conducting electricity. Omoi kicked out at Shino's head and when Shino ducked, the cloud ninja swung up with the sickle. Shino once again blocked with one of his stingers and felt the blade begin to cut through the weapon.
Knowing that he was going to lose the stinger soon, Shino jumped into the air and flipped around Omoi, stinging Omoi in the shoulder on his way through completing the flip. Omoi's face twisted in pain as he quickly sent out another burst of lightning from his body. The burst caught Shino flat footed and also roasted a majority of his insects that had attacked, hoping to catch the injured cloud ninja unawares.
Fortunately for Shino, while Omoi had sent out another wave of lightning, he had done so instinctually more so than for any real form of coordinated attack. This being the case, he hadn't sustained the attack long enough and a small percentage of his insects were able to land on Omoi and began to drain him of his chakra.
Shino wasn't that much better off. His earlier wound had yet to stop bleeding and that last attack had hit him fully without giving him time to prepare. He could feel his nervous system misfiring from the influx of electricity and was unable to move for a few moments. Omoi wasn't able to capitalize as he was busy trying to get rid of the insects on him. Even though a quick burst of the same technique would have worked, he was in too much pain from the poison coursing through his veins from Shino's last strike.
Both combatants got to their feet though both were worse for wear. Shino's body was still being affected and he felt that his response time have slowed by half. Also, his earlier wound was still bleeding at a worrisome rate and he knew he would soon start to become light headed from the loss of blood. Omoi couldn't move his right arm and the numbness was spreading quicker than he was comfortable with. They both knew they needed to end this fast.
Omoi threw away Shino's weapon and instead held out his hand. Shino was confused as to what he was doing until he felt the pull of lightning in Omoi's hand. Shino got a warning from his insects and jumped to the side to avoid the returning katana of Omoi. He hadn't avoided it completely and felt burning pain erupt from his side where the blade had cut him. He swiftly sent out a horde of insects that went for Omoi.
"Cloud style: Crescent Moon beheading." Omoi called out as he slashed forward with great speed. The attack itself was powerful enough to kill or knock away many of Shino's insects by itself but adding on the lightning element that Omoi had put in his blade and the attack destroyed all that were coming for him. He heard a bussing behind him and saw the rest of the swarm coming to his rear.
"Cloud style: reverse Beheading." Omoi did a powerful spin and took out the insects coming behind him.
Thinking himself clear, he turned back to Shino and was surprised to see the Aburame holding his kusarigama. Shino's earlier attack had only been to distract Omoi as a small portion of his swarm had gone to pick up his weapon while Omoi was distracted.
Both fighters stared long and hard at one another as they readied their attacks. They knew it would be the last one. Omoi charged all of his remaining chakra into his sword as he felt the numb sensation spread throughout the entire right side of his body. He had seconds at the most before he would be unable to move properly.
Shino was bleeding badly from his wounds and could feel the light headed sensation that comes from blood loss coming over him. Despite this he passed his hand over his sickle blade, applying a very debilitating toxin on the blade. One scratch would be enough to take down his opponent for good.
'This is it.' Naruto thought anxiously.
'Please be okay Shino.' Hinata thought with a worried look on her face.
'This will be interesting.' Kakashi thought calmly.
'Go Shino.' Kurenai thought encouragingly.
'You better not lose Omoi!' Karui thought heatedly, she refused to allow them to fall behind the leaf ninja in the total number of wins.
Both fighters took off at the same moment and slashed towards one another. There was a bright flash as Omoi's lightning chakra was released as well. When the flash disappeared, the battle was over.
Omoi's blade was pointed directly over Shino's heart, while Shino's sickle was inches away from cutting Omoi's throat. Both combatants stared long and hard into one another's face before both collapsed.
"A tie? That was unexpected." A said as he gave the ruling. The two teams rushed over to their comrade and check on them.
Being a field medic, Hinata healed Shino enough so that he wouldn't die of blood loss. He would have to take it easy for a while so that his body could fully heal itself. Hinata looked over at Omoi and noticed that the cloud ninjas' idea of medical care was Karui shaking Omoi and yelling at him to wake up. Though she didn't want to, her training as a medic forced her to look after any injured patient.
"Let me see him." Hinata said as she stood up. Naruto stood with her and while he held his tongue he wasn't happy about her trying to heal the guy that was obviously infatuated with her.
"And why should we?" Karui asked suspiciously.
"Because Omoi is infected with a toxin of whose design we are unaware of. Being the teammate of the Aburame, it is safe to assume that she has knowledge that we don't and would be better able to help him than we or even our medics are." Samui stated calmly.
"I don't trust them." Karui said to her commander.
"That's irrelevant, move aside." Samui stated coldly as she glared at Karui. Samui didn't like to be talked back to. Karui gulped fearfully under her leader's gaze and stepped back.
Hinata looked down at the paralyzed cloud ninja and began to draw the poison from his body. It wasn't the deadliest that Shino had created as he wasn't trying to kill Omoi. Still, it did its job perfectly and was soon removed by Hinata. Omoi had begun to regain consciousness and could see Hinata's beautiful face close to his own.
'She looks like an angel. I wonder if I should kiss her now. I better not. She'll probably fall madly in love with me on the spot and then her former boyfriend will try to kill me. In my current state he'd succeed and then I wouldn't be able to enjoy living the rest of my life with her. I better wait until she is a part of the cloud village.' Omoi thought as he felt his body start to function normally. Omoi was soon broken form his thoughts when Karui proceeded to kick him in the head and knock him back out.
"How could you lose you idiot?" Karui shouted at her unconscious teammate.
"Stop it!" Hinata shouted angrily, much to the surprise of everyone present.
"Leave him alone. He fought bravely and was able to obtain a tie against one of konoha's most tactical chunin. I highly doubt that you would be able to do as well against Shino." Hinata said with a glare at the stunned Karui.
"Oh and why is that little girl?" Karui growled back.
"Because even I have a difficult time matching Shino and you are not even my equal in battle." The former Hyuga said in a tone that would have actually made her father proud.
"Is that so? Well it is our turn so why don't we put that to the test!" Karui shouted as she grabbed Omoi's body and threw him to Samui. She was trying to burn a hole in Hinata with her eyes and was ready for a battle.
"Yes, let's." Hinata said. The konoha team had yet to see Hinata so emotional during the mission and were slightly worried that she was cracking and allowing her feelings to rule her.
"Hinata-chan." Naruto said as he gently placed his hands on her shoulders to calm her down. He was surprised to feel no tension in her body. She was completely relaxed and in control. Hinata turned and gave him a smirk that was normally on his own face.
"Don't worry Naruto-kun. There's no way I'll lose." She said with a confident look in her eyes. Naruto gave her a small kiss and gave Karui a fanged smile.
"You're about to see why angering Konoha ninja is a very bad idea." Naruto said as he turned his back on the two and moved out of the fight zone.
"Hinata Yuhi vs Karui, begin!" A shouted out loudly.
"Catfight!" Killer Bee shouted at the same time.
(End)
Here's chapter 10. Sorry for the long wait but I graduate from college in two weeks and have been focused solely on trying to get ready for that monumental event. However, the next chapter will be out very soon!
The current score is tied between the two teams. One win, one loss, and a tie. What will happen next time? Karui has angered our favorite female ninja and Killer Bee best described it! How will the fight end? What will Naruto do to battle Killer Bee?
That is a secret! (Turns and sees all characters occupied)
Till next time, Kyuubi123…
Kurenai: Hold it!
K123: Not this again! What do you want Kurenai.
Kurenai: Why did you return that cursed book to Kakashi in this chapter?
K123: Because…it was funny
Kurenai: You think it's funny for a grown married man to read porn so openly.
K123: Well I am a guy so I can't fairly answer that question….Kakashi come over here and deal with your wife!
Kakashi: Hmm you say something K123?
K123:….saw that coming. Look Kurenai would you feel better if I gave you and Kakashi some private time?
Kakashi: I'm all for that!
Kurenai: Why would I agree to that?
K123: Because you obviously need to relive some stress and who better than the coolest jonin in Naruto?
Kurenai: About that, in the show I was with Asuma and even had his child. Why did oyu pair me with the perverted copy ninja?
K123: Because Kakashi is cooler that Asuma and the coolest jonin should be with the most beautiful kunoichi in my opinon.
Kakashi: And I'm much better looking.
K123: We've only seen one fourth of your face in the entire show, so that is disputable.
Kurenai: We're getting off topic! I want those horrid books gone for good!
K123: You won't be saying that once Kakashi shows you what he learned.
Kakashi: Agreed.
K123: Regardless, that will come later for now it's time to end this and get working on the next chapter. So until next time, Kyuubi123 out!