Hey folks, I know its been awhile, but I will finish this thing up :) And you will like the ending, I revised the last chapter so that it was less choppy. Took forever btw. Anyways here's chapter 11

Chapter 11 Ryuuchi

The group continue to retreat through the forest. Temari carrying Shikamaru, Sand ninja carrying Tayuya, and the rest moved on foot. Shikamaru was barely conscious. He was too tired to think... Too relieved. Kidomaru broke the silence, "I thought that you didn't call for any back up... Not that I'm unsatisfied, this just wasn't part of the deal..."

Yamabico spoke in Shikamaru's place, "We did not call for back up. This was unknown to us as well."

Temari looked over at Kidomaru, "I came of my own accord, with permission from the Kazekage. Kahona hasn't received any reports either, so naturally, they were worried as well."

Kidomaru smiled, "Well in that case you are my welcomed guest! You saved one of my finest!"

Temari frowned and looked at the unconscious Tayuya, "I assumed you Sound ninja were our enemies at first, but after watching that battle, it seems that we can trust you."

Temari never took her eyes off of Tayuya... The last time she had been called to aid Shikamaru, this very girl had almost killed him. Kidomaru observed her facial expressions, then how firmly she held Shikamaru, "Careful, you might crush the kid," He laughed.

Temari said nothing. Kidomaru used her silence to keep talking, "You seem to be quite attached to him."

Temari smiled at Shikamaru, "Well of course, I'm his girlfriend after all."

Kidomaru grinned widely, "Interesting..." He said. He always liked a little drama to make the dreary hideout less boring.

Kidomaru's expression changed instantly. Someone had sprung the trap he had left behind...

"Everyone watch out! We are being followed!" He shouted.

An explosion could be heard about a half mile from their position. Another trap laid by Kidomaru.

Temari shouted, "They are gaining fast! We should stop and fight!"

Kidomaru shouted back, "What about the wounded?"

Temari thought for a moment, "Hide them!"

Temari handed Shikamaru to her fellow Sand ninja and motioned for them to hide. They leapt into the woods and out of sight. Yamabico looked for their pursuers through his Byakugan, "There's only one, but they have an immense amount of chakra. Much more than Sanjin."

Kidomaru began laughing, "In other words... This one might actually be a challenge?"

Temari wasn't comfortable with working with Kidomaru, he sent shivers down her spine. She readied herself alongside Jesei. She was suddenly glad she had asked so many questions about the Aburame Clan.

"He's made a clone! And they are both coming!"

Kidomaru frowned, "2 on 1 isn't a very fair game... Stay back white-eyes, I'll handle this."

Yamabico smiled, "You will not have all of the fun to yourself."

Kidomaru laughed, "Fine! But I'll be the one to finish this game."

Yamabico changed into his traditional battle stance. "He's here..."

2 Ryuuchi's came out of the bushes in front of the group. They both were glowing red and showing toothy grins. His skin seemed to bubble from underneath, like he was about to burst. Blood seeped from cuts in their palms, hardening at the tips and becoming weapons. Their eyes were pink and unblinking, "No one can run from me! No one can run from death!"

Yamabico identified Ryuuchi, "His blood is flowing with his chakra, but its strange. It is a completely different chakra network then the one in his bone structure... Its like a completely separate entity... This let's me distinguish the clone however... The clone only has one chakra network, so its the one closest to Jesei... You guys take the clone, Kidomaru and I have the original."

Temari complained, "We should all focus on the original! This is only a clone!"

Yamabico yelled, "Don't underestimate them! I was barely able to fend off a clone on my own!"

Ryuuchi held his face and giggled, "My blood is boiling! I can wait no longer! I must kill!"

The original Ryuuchi flung his weapon at Yamabico. Yamabico pulled out a kunai and blocked the hardened tip, but the blood kept extending from Ryuuchi's cut, he wielded his blood like a whip, bringing it back and lashing forward again. Yamabico dodged and blocked the constant barrage of attacks. Ryuuchi laughed harder, "Double-time!"

Another blood-barbed whip shot from Ryuuchi's hand, "Now you die!"

Ryuuchi started to fling his other whip, "Ninja Art: Sticky Spider Thread!"

Ryuuchi's hand was flung into a tree. He attempted to move it, but to no avail. Yamabico saw the opening he needed, he closed his distance. Kidomaru had prepared a trap for this occasion, as soon as he tried to use his blood pool to get behind Yamabico, he would be trapped. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. Ryuuchi's skin turned crimson and suddenly the web on his hand had melted. Yamabico immediately stopped and changed to a defensive position. Ryuuchi lashed both whips at him. "8-Trigrams: Rotation!"

The blood-barbed whips were spattered all over the nearby trees. Ryuuchi smiled and formed a handsign, "Forbidden Jutsu: Blood Fall!"

The blood that was spread along the trees began to transform into spikes, all aimed at Yamabico. Yamabico had just ended his rotation, so he couldn't start another. The spikes shot at Yamabico, creating a dust cloud from where some pierced the ground. A series of chinks could be heard from inside the cloud. Kidomaru had moved down to Yamabico and shielded the both of them with a bronze chitin armor. Ryuuchi laughed at Kidomaru, "It seems like this kid is only slowing you down. Why not come at me yourself?"

Kidomaru laughed, "Every player has to serve their role, I'll let my friend here handle close quarters. That's just how the game is played."

Kidomaru leapt back into the trees. Ryuuchi's smile had faded, "I really want to kill that one!"

Yamabico readied his stance, "Then you'll have to go through me you monster."

Elsewhere, Ryuuchi's clone was pressuring Temari and Jesei. Jesei's insects were burning upon contact with the clone. Making his Jutsu near useless. Temari was using the outside of her fan to block the blood-barbed whip.

"Aburame! Do something to block his vision!" She commanded.

Jesei nodded and a swarm of bugs began swirling around the clone, keeping a safe distance. The clone swung rapidly at the insects, to no avail. Temari used this time to increase the gap between her and the clone, "Wind Style: Screeching Gale!"

Jesei's insects retreated back into his body as Temari's Jutsu struck the clone. The clone bagan screaming in pain and its ears began to bleed. Temari nodded, "Alright, one down."

Suddenly, the clone began to laugh...

Temari's eyes widened, "There's no way a clone should be strong enough to sustain itself after a jutsu like that."

The clone looked at Temari and smiled, the blood leaking from his ears appeared to be retracting back into his body, "A jutsu born from Jashin is never ordinary, they were all deemed forbidden a long time ago because of the way they can mutilate a human's insides. For us avatars of Jashin, however, our bodies can take an unnatural amount of punishment. Now you will see what we are capable of!"

Jesei realized that the clone was making the handsigns for Sanguine pool. He pushed Temari out of the way. The Ryuuchi clone laughed, "Forbidden Jutsu: Sanguine Incineration!"

The clone melted into a pool of blood that boiled with a ferocious intensity. It moved under Jesei's feet with an unmatched speed. Jesei's boot caught fire and he attempted to jump to safety, but a hand arose from the pool and grabbed Jesei's ankle. Jesei screamed in pain as the hand burned through his leg. Temari threw an explosive kunai into the pool. The resulting explosion threw Jesei back from the boiling pool. The blood formed back into the shape of Ryuuchi. The clone cackled as its mouth was reformed. Jesei lied on the ground with his shin burned to the bone, but still conscious.

Insects began repairing his damaged leg, and in seconds, he was standing again. Temari stared wide-eyed at Jesei. She didn't realize what she had gotten herself into. This was a war between freaks, and not only that, but this was only a clone! Jesei smiled at Temari, "Thanks for that, now I can end this."

Jesei made an unknown handsign, "Secret Jutsu: Instant Evolution!"

Insects began to swarm around Jesei, rapidly changing color from a light brown to a dark red.

Jesei opened his collar with 2 fingers and released another wave of crimson beetles, he pointed at the clone, "Envelop him..."

The clone cackled again, "Its useless! Its useless!" He charged at Jesei and the horde of insects. The insects covered the body of the clone. "What's going on? Burn damn it!"

Jesei fixed his collar, "My insects have adapted to the heat of your jutsu. Its amazing how chakra can speed up the evolutionary process."

Spikes of blood shot out in random directions from the clone in a desperate attempt to save himself. Jesei distanced himself to avoid unnecessary harm. Eventually the clone fell over and melted into a puddle of blood. Jesei's insects flew back into his body and he fell on his knees, panting. Temari jumped over to help him walk. They still had to help the others...

Meanwhile...

"8-trigrams: Air Palm!" Ryuuchi dodged the attack with ease, but as he did his foot triggered a web trap set by Kidomaru. Bronze spikes erupted from the nearby branches. Ryuuchi launched a spike from the cut on his palm and used it to parry the incoming projectiles. Yamabico charged at Ryuuchi, he laughed, "Daring aren't we?"

He pointed the spike at Yamabico, it extended rapidly towards Yamabico's chest. Yamabico back-handed it before it reached him. The entire spike shattered due to its chakra network being interrupted. Ryuuchi tried to leap away, but his foot was stuck to the ground, "A trap within a trap, very clever."

Ryuuchi instantly created a spike from his other hand and sliced himself across the chest, "Forbidden Jutsu: Hemo-thorn Defense!"

The blood shot out of Ryuuchi's chest like bullets, Yamabico quickly rotated to deflect the spikes. Ryuuchi retracted the spikes. He frowned, "It seems that your friends were able to defeat my blood clone. Playtime is over."

Ryuuchi created a sword out of the blood in his hand, "Forbidden Jutsu: Bloodlust..."

Ryuuchi began sweating blood. It seemed to rain from the bottom of his robe. Yamabico went into his typical fighting stance. Ryuuchi moved with surprising speed and appeared behind Yamabico. Yamabico attempted to turn around, but Ryuuchi's sword sliced through his back. He fell over, bleeding on the way down. Ryuuchi prepared to land a finishing blow, when suddenly, an arrow came soaring through him. It stopped after piercing a few trees. Ryuuchi looked at the hole in his stomach, "This is hardly enough to stop me..." He looked back at the body of Yamabico, which had disappeared. Ryuuchi couldn't contain his rage. He yelled at the top of his lungs, veins popped in his forehead. Kidomaru's saving net had worked perfectly, and what's better is that he was a safe distance away. He pulled his bow back and prepared for another shot, but Ryuuchi was on the move. He was chasing the injured Yamabico. Kidomaru smiled and manipulated his net closer to his position. Ryuuchi met his sights, Kidomaru released the arrow, piercing Ryuuchi's upper chest area. Ryuuchi melted into a pool of blood, it was a clone... Ryuuchi appeared behind Kidomaru, sword in hand, "Now you become a sacrifice!"

Ryuuchi swung in an attempt to decapitate Kidomaru. His blow was blocked by a silver chitin that was being emitted by the sweat glads in Kidomaru's neck. Ryuuchi scowled and tried to kick Kidomaru in the back, but one of Kidomaru's lower hands caught the blow. Ryuuchi smiled, "That was a mistake."

Kidomaru let go soon after, and was left with a large burn that covered his entire palm. Kidomaru then pulled two strings he was holding in his middle set of hands to send him upwards. He landed on a branch above and looked directly at Ryuuchi, "Ninja Art: Sticky Spider Thread"

The volley of nets caught Ryuuchi on the foot. This time it wasn't burning off. Ryuuchi sliced through the threads with his blade instead. Kidomaru laughed, "After I activate my cursed seal, the material I use increases in power, just like me."

Ryuuchi watched as the cursed seal spread across Kidomaru's body. Ryuuchi's eyes began bleeding, "This is probably the worst area that I could've fought you in... I'll have to really focus now. Forbidden Jutsu: Laceration..."

Ryuuchi's weapon began to emit a red aura. Kidomaru had seen this in his fight with Sanjin. It had made his weapon far more powerful, easily able to cut through bronze chitin. Ryuuchi flung blood from the cut in his palm, it hardened in midair and became enveloped in the red aura. Kidomaru pulled out two silver kunai to parry the attack. The projectiles pierced right through the silver chitin. Kidomaru grinned, "This will be fun!"

Kidomaru reached into his pocket and grabbed 2 smoke bombs. He hurled them into the ground creating a cover of smoke. Two chitinous kunai shot from the smoke. Ryuuchi deflected them with a hardened shield of blood. Two different Kidomarus exited from opposite ends of the smokescreen. Ryuuchi smiled, "I can smell which one of you is real!" And darted off after the original. Kidomaru moved quickly through the forest, but Ryuuchi kept pace with him easily enough. Ryuuchi felt a small thread snap at his feet. "A trap!" Silver kunai were launched from every direction at Ryuuchi's location. Ryuuchi reacted quickly and shot a blood spike into the ground. The kunai seemed to rip apart the body. Kidomaru grinned, "You won't fool me with that." Another spike shot from underground, and out from it emerged Ryuuchi. Ryuuchi no longer grinned, his look of bloodlust had faded into a look of disgust. Kidomaru had taken the time to create his large chitin bow. An arrow was already being aimed at his foe's head. Kidomaru laughed, "This is it! Now you die!" Kidomaru launched the arrow, it slashed through the air at incredible speeds. Ryuuchi used his Sanguine Pool to escape the shot and appear behind Kidomaru. Ryuuchi's skin melted through the paralyzing threads that Kidomaru had placed to protect himself. Ryuuchi spoke coldly, "This IS it." Ryuuchi shot a spike into Kidomaru's back. Blood dripped from Kidomaru's mouth. Ryuuchi retracted the spike and began to pray. "Jashin, I have provided you with the Lifeblood of a strong foe. Let his soul..." The prayer was cut off by an arrow that impaled Ryuuchi's torso. "You shouldn't ever underestimate the leader of an enemy. I have this position for a reason." Ryuuchi looked shockingly at Kidomaru's corpse. A strange power seemed to be spreading over the body. Kidomaru's hair changed color and his muscles seemed to expand. The wound through his stomach began to rapidly heal. Kidomaru pushed himself off the ground. He turned toward Ryuuchi who was mending the hole in his chest. Kidomaru created golden spikes that protruded from his knuckles. He walked slowly towards Ryuuchi. Ryuuchi regained his composure alarmingly fast. He knew he shouldn't have let that clone escape, but he had no idea of the range of this guy's attack. Right now, however, they were in close quarters. This was Ryuuchi's home turf. Ryuuchi's wound had mended completely. He produced a spike that covered his arm, and created a whip on the other arm. Kidomaru continued walking at his slow pace. Ryuuchi wasted no time, quickly he lashed his whip at Kidomaru. Kidomaru quickly projected a web to catch the whip. "Laceration!" The whip produced a red aura, allowing it to slice through the web with ease. Kidomaru produced chitin from the skin of his shoulder as a last resort to block the whip. The whip sank into the chitin, which continuously grew to block the attack. The red aura disappeared from the whip. Ryuuchi detached the whip from his body and created a new one. Kidomaru used this opportunity to close in. With incredible speed Kidomaru struck with his spiked fists. Ryuuchi blocked with his blood spike and brought down the second whip. Kidomaru used his other hand to lift Ryuuchi into the incoming whip. Ryuuchi took the hit and flinched. Ryuuchi's blood ran down from his body and onto Kidomaru's hands, which began to burn. A protective golden chitin spread across his palms to protect him from the heat. Kidomaru held Ryuuchi in place while he grew spikes into his other two fists. Kidomaru then proceeded to brutally pummel Ryuuchi in every part of his body. Kidomaru laughed maniacally as he heard the cracks of split bones. Ryuuchi screamed, "ENOUGH!" Ryuuchi's body began melting the golden Chitin. It began to burn Kidomaru's skin even through the armor. Kidomaru threw Ryuuchi aside. He landed on his feet, panting. The golden chitin seemed to be fused to Ryuuchi's body. Ryuuchi began laughing uncontrollably, "My blood has never boiled this much! You won't be able to touch me!"

Kidomaru smiled, "Then I won't."

The golden chitin attached to Ryuuchi's body began propagate, engulfing Ryuuchi's body in the material. Ryuuchi attempted to make a hand sign, but the chitin spread across his arms too quickly.

Ryuuchi yelled and squirmed, a futile effort, he was unable to move.

A screech was heard from behind as an arrow soared through the air. Ryuuchi's head was the only part of his body that was exposed. The arrow pierced through his skull and deep into the ground. Ryuuchi's body lie lifeless inside the chitinous cocoon. It seemed to be screaming still, even after death.

The curse mark dissipated from Kidomaru's skin. He spat and took his leave, "The end."

Kidomaru rejoined Yamabico and the others who were mending the wounded. Temari looked incredibly panicked. Kidomaru hurried into the Sand shinobi's medical tent. Their medical ninja was healing Shikamaru frantically. Shikamaru's skin was receiving spontaneous burns and cuts. His unconscious state must have put him back into the dream...