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Key:
"Talking"
"Talking to dogs"
"Dogs talking"
'Thinking'
Chapter 10 – Korikata's Crime, Part 1
Team nine sat in silence as their sensei seethed. All three of them were fairly tough but there was something intimidating about the sheer rage and frustration contained within the wrathful jounin. His physical injuries had miraculously dissolved but his ego was still one big open wound. Ashi sat staring nervously at his the pacing ninja while Teru stared off as if lost in thought. Sato on the other hand seemed unconcerned. He had just finished running laps and was now engaged in push-ups. One-armed push-ups. The soft puffing of his breath as he exercised seemed jarringly out of place as Ashi and Teru maintained their still silence.
Teru was the first to speak up. Normally he preferred to keep to the background when dealing with those who were either stronger or higher ranked than him, but despite the fact that Korikata was both his current state made it obvious that should Teru overstep his authority, no retribution would be forthcoming.
"Look, sensei, I hate to tell you what to do," he said through a smirk, "but this pacing and snorting is getting us nowhere. You have two choices as I see it. You can go and challenge this guy to another fight to reclaim your honor, or you can admit that there is someone in the world that can beat you and move on. Just being mad about it will only hamper your ability to fight other opponents and make crucial judgments."
Ashi took a deep breath and scooted back as he prepared for Korikata to lash out at Teru. But the onslaught never came. Instead he just paused and stared at the sky for a second before responding in a much calmer tone of voice.
"Thank you Teru. You're right of course. If I want to get past this I need to take vengeance against that sniveling excuse for a ninja! But I won't be able to do so it in a straight fight. I'll have to hit him where it really hurts. Come one, we have work to do."
Emboldened by Teru's apparent excusal Ashi voiced his own concern. "But sensei, are you sure it's wise to go out on the attack so soon after a defeat?"
Korikata just grinned. "No." Before any of them had time to say more the now smiling jounin calmly proceeded to slit his wrists. As the blood flowed out he preformed a a few blindingly fast hand seals. When he finished the blood rushing out of his veins rose to form a thin bubble around team nine. "CHISHIO-SHUNSHIN!"
Korikata's shout coincided with a strange jerking sensation. The bubble of blood fell and they found themselves standing in a training yard.
Miyazaki whistled as he trotted his team back to the village. It wasn't every day he got a chance to beat the tar out of one of those pompous leaf ninjas. He only regretted that he had forgotten to try and get the genin to defect. Jimaru was totally going to chew him out for that. Especially considering the potential they showed. Of course he could just gloss over the fact that his enemy had students but Jimaru always seemed to know. Of course his own habit of being a bad liar didn't help. But not even that could bring him down after sticking it to Korikata.
For the remainder of the trip he replayed the fight in his head. Of course it was significantly cooler in his imagination; his increasingly embellished versions of the battle were only interrupted by the sight of the village walls. Quickening his pace he left his students to fend for themselves and made for the academy where he was slated to teach a lesson. Normally going to the academy was kind of annoying for Miyazaki due to his immense capabilities and miniscule patience. But what he found at the academy that day did a lot more that irritate him. He found Korikata and team nine standing in the middle of the yard. The students had already been knocked out.
Korikata grinned from beneath his hood. "Ah, Miyazaki. Just the fucker we were waiting for".
Miyazaki's usual battle smirk was nowhere to be found. The only expression he bore was one of pure hatred.
"Listen you soul-less bastard!" He spit out through clenched teeth. "Fucking with me is fine, fucking with my genin I would expect from you, but fucking with my student is unacceptable! And now I'm going to kill you for it. You fought me already, TODAY, you know I can."
Korikata's expression never wavered. "Normally yes," He uttered condescendingly, "but today I have a very special advantage. For each hit you land on me I will draw blood from these poor little students in order to repair it. The more you hurt me the more you hurt them. And I know neither of us wants to see them hurt." He finished sarcastically.
Miyazaki snarled but made no move to attack. "Alright Korikata. You're right. I can't attack you under these circumstances. What do I need to do for you to let them go?"
Korikata chuckled grimly. "It's simple. If you want them to live all you have to do is die. For you see, I have no reason not to attack you. So it falls to you to find some way to defeat me without doing any damage. Quite frankly it just doesn't sound fair to me. Oh well. KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!"
The blood ninja cut himself for the second time as he performed a summoning. For a moment there was no evident result. Then suddenly a loud humming could be heard. From the sky came a giant swarm of mosquitoes. The front of the mass was made up of normal sized insects, but they got larger as one looked further back until the very end where six horse sized insects brought up the rear of the flying cloud. The swarm seemed almost like a single living thing as it dove towards Miyazaki.
Miyazaki's thoughts raced. 'Ok, Miyazaki' he thought to himself, 'you need to take out a pissed off jounin without hurting him. This is a time for quick thinking… FUCK! I suck at that!'
That derailed train of thought left Specter's best taijutsu user staring dumbly at the oncoming assault. Only the buzzing of insect wings broke him from his daze and allowed him to dive to the side. But his escape was short-lived. Korikata had predicted the evasion and had launched a demon-wind shuriken before the dive had even begun. Only Miyazaki's superb reflexes saved him from being impaled. In mid-dive he jackknifed his body, using the motion to pull his body out of the shuriken's path. As soon as it passed by he flung his arms forward, grapping onto the grass to pull himself to the ground and regain his footing. He sprang to his feet to find Korikata merely standing a short distance away with an amused expression on his face. Without doing anything - by not doing anything - Korikata was taunting him.
With the entire specter academy held hostage he had no choice but to keep on the run and hope for a miracle. Because if he made even a little mistake, one of the students could be killed. And that would get Jimaru PISSED!
A/N: SORRY!!! I've been having trouble getting this site to work from where I am (I'm currently on vacation for another couple days), so updating hasn't happened. SOOOOOOO... I'm taking advantage of the fact that is IS working now to put up TWO chapters. So don't stop here. Go and read part two!
