It's finally here! Chp 10!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter 10: The Fight continues! Neji/Tenten vs Hikari/Kaori!
Yue screamed as she got thrown back, transforming back to her kitten form as she hit the ground. "Yue!" yelled Kaori, dragging her numbed leg as she crawled over to Yue. "Yue..., are you alright? Say something!" she said as she tenderly cradled her kitten in her arms.
A battered Yue slowly opened her eyes to see her mistress's worried face. "Did you managed to get the information you needed?" she whispered in a tired voice.
Kaori held Yue closer to her body, hugging the kitten. "Yes, thank you, Yue...." she whispered back.
"Are you ready to submit?" asked Neji, turning off his Byakugan.
"No," Kaori said flatly.
"Then so be it!" he yelled charging at her. "JYUUKEN!" he yelled, thrusting his palm at her only to have her disappear in front of his eyes.
"Good girl, Yue, stay here and rest..." he heard her say a few distance behind him. He glanced behind to see Kaori setting her kitten down on a soft patch of grass.
'Wha-?! When did she...?!"
"Hey, what are looking at?" asked Kaori suddenly.
Neji jumped back in shock to find himself standing face to face Kaori. "When the hell did you..?!" Neji sputtered before trailing off. Then he noticed something else. He wasn't looking down at her; she was at eye-level with him. "Wait, you're standing?!" he asked in shock.
"No, I'm sitting down," the girl replied flatly but Neji could sense the dripping sarcasm of the words.
"Impossible! How were you able to get the leg nerves working again so quickly?!"
Kaori smirked and held up her hand. Neji's eyes widened as he saw blue sparks of electricity surrounding her hand. "Behold the power of the Nekojiwa Lightning Style. We have the ability to convert our chakra into electricity and control it. I merely sent electric pulses into my leg to 'charge' the nerves again...."
Neji narrowed his eyes. "Byakugan!" he exclaimed activating his kekkei genkai. Suddenly his eyes popped wide and gasped in shock at what he saw.
From Neji's point of vision, Kaori's chakra system was flowing with traces amount of electricity surrounding the chakra vessels. All of a sudden, the speed of the flow began to increase, generating more electricity. 'Shit!' he thought as he jumped back a few distance away from Kaori.
The girl's whole body sparked with blue electricity as she began to twirl her ribbon around her.
Hikari screamed as she hit the ground rolling.
"Hikari-sama!" cried Akane as she rushed to her mistress side.
Tenten smirked as she twirled her tonfas around. "You pick the wrong girl to use a weapon on, Hikari-chan. They don't call me the Weapons Mistress for nothing!"
All of a sudden, Tenten heard the sound of a chuckle emitting from Hikari, her shoulders visibly shaking as the red-head peeled herself of the ground. Akane started backing away very slowly, her fur standing on end. Suddenly Hikari sat down threw her head back and started laughing loudly. Startling the older genin.
"Wha-what's so funny?!" demanded Tenten.
Suddenly, Hikari stopped laughing and looked at Tenten with a slightly crazed look on her face, sending shivers down the girl's spine. Akane jumped onto her master's shoulder and curled around Hikari's neck."This feels GREAT! I haven't this much fun since sparring with Temari-oneesama!"
'She's fought with Temari?'
"Of course, it is to be expected of a kunoichi of Temari-oneesama's caliber....so"
Tenten gripped her tonfas more tightly.
"SHOW ME YOUR STRENGTH AS A KUNOICHI, TENTEN-SENPAI!!!!" demanded Hikari as she suddenly came dashing at Tenten on all fours with Akane running at her side, growling like how a panther would.
Tenten quicky prepared to strike with her tonfas.
"Akane, disarm!" commanded Hikari as Akane ran ahead.
"Hai, Hikari-sama!"
With that Akane pounced on Tenten, with her claws outstretched. In a flash of white light, Akane soared pass Tenten. At the same time, Hikari grazed past her senior. Both cat and girl slid to a stop somewhere behind Tenten. There was a pause for about two seconds. Suddenly, the tonfas in Tenten's hands fell to pieces, shocking the girl. In a split second, Tenten began to feel several sharp stings on her cheek and along her side where a bit of her clothing ripped. The weapon's mistress placed a hand to her cheek where she felt a thin straight cut with warm moist liquid dripping from it. Small crimson stains began to appear on her pink Chinese shirt where it was ripped. Slowly, Tenten turned her head to look at Hikari and gasped. On Hikari's face was no longer the look of a regular girl but the look of complete sadist. "NOW who's the Predator?" asked Hikari as she charged at Tenten.
Quickly, Tenten summoned a two part metal bo-staff. She quickly seperated it and used it to block Hikari 'claws'. All of sudden Tenten felt herself getting socked in the stomach by Akane who head butted the girl with such force that Tenten coughed up blood. This time it was Tenten's turn to hit the ground rolling. The girl gripped her stomach as she painfully staggered to get up. 'Woah, what is up her? She's totally vicious! This is making that last fight I had with Temari looked like child's play!'
After regaining her composure, Tenten surprised Hikari by bolting into the forest. Akane and Hikari looked at each other and smiled evilly. "The hunt is on!" they both exclaimed before running after their 'Prey'.
"Jyuuken!" yelled Neji as he delivered a forward palm thrust towards Kaori, merely sidestepped and slapped his hand out of the way.
Growling, Neji lashed out again only to have it blocked by Kaori's shackle. Neji a tingly feeling in his arm as the chakra he attempted to dispel shot back into his arm.
Kaori gave her senior a sly grin. "The Nekojiwa shackle is more than just a fashion accessory you know, senpai..."she said, flicking the said item."Not only do they serve as a form of defense, these shackles are made from a special metallic alloy that has the ability to reflect and consume chakra depending on the user's will, so basically.... your Gentle Fist Technique is useless!"
"Don't be so sure of yourself, my dear girl," said Neji getting into his stance.
"Oh really?"
"Byakugan!" he yelled. "Looks like you're within range...." he muttered as the surroundings turned black and a green glowing Taoism symbol appeared on the ground. "Your defense is useless if you can't match my speed!""Eight Trigrams: Sixty Four Palms!"
"2 strikes!"
Kaori merely pushed Neji's hands away with her shackles.
"4 strikes!"
Again, Neji's hands are blocked.
"8 strikes!"
(R.F.: Must I repeat myself?)
"16 strikes!, 32 strikes!, 64 strikes!!!" yelled Neji, increasing the speed of his palm thrusts as he sent strike after strike at Kaori.
Kaori on the other hand seemed to be having no trouble at all as her hands flew effortlessly, matching Neji's speed, blow for blow. The girl then side stepped to avoid Neji's last blow and grabbed Neji's left outstretched arm. Moving to his side facing the opposite direction, Kaori then forced his arm into an L-shape as she swiftly intertwined and hooked Neji's right forearm with her right while grabbing her left wrist before throwing both arms down, sending the Hyuuga prodigy flying. Neji gritted his teeth as his back hit a tree trunk hard. Kaori watched as the boy slid down. Blood began to seep from the corners of Neji's mouth.
"Apparently, I CAN match your speed," stated Kaori as Neji struggled to get up using the tree trunk as support.
"I-impossible! No one except Lord Hiashi-sama should be able to block my Jyuuken!"
Kaori placed her hand in her pocket and drew out her Kaori Ribbon. She twirled it in a large spiral in front of her as her eyes dilated into slits. Sparks of blue electricity flew of the ribbon. "Ninja Art: Spark Illusion…." she muttered.
At the same time, Neji quickly threw a kunai at Kaori, but the girl suddenly disappeared in a flash.
"Where are you aiming at?" asked Kaori's voice right beside his ear, causing Neji to jump out of his skin.
He turned his head slightly to see Kaori's face just inches from his. "Chu!" she said, slightly puckering her lips, which where only a few inches from Neji's.(A/N: In Japan, "Chu!" is the sound referring to a kiss and no they did not if that's what you're thinking.)
Flustered, Neji quickly turned around to strike at Kaori, who suddenly vanished in the blink of an eye again.
"What's the matter senpai? I thought you were the Predator?"said Kaori's voice as it echoed throughout the forest. "You're letting your Prey get the best of you…."
Neji's eyes darted all over the place, trying to find the source of the voice. 'I have to calm down; she's just toying with me!' he thought as he took a deep breath.
"Byakugan!" Neji yelled activating his bloodline limit. At that moment, Kaori who was hiding in the trees gave a rare smile. Neji's 360 degree vision began to quickly scan his surroundings for his target when suddenly a thin blue blur shot out from the trees behind him. The boy quickly jumped out of the way.
The blue ribbon struck the ground with blue static. Kaori appeared on the ground keeping her usual stoic expression on her face. She twirled her ribbon once in the air before striking at Neji, who dodged again. The ribbon sparked once more as it hit the ground. Kaori kept walking forward, lashing out and striking at her senior with her ribbon like a whip. At the same time Neji, was careful to dodge each strike while retreating. In an attempt to stop Kaori, Neji quickly jumped back a few steps and began flinging shuriken and kunai at her. Narrowing her eyes, Kaori manipulated her ribbon in such a way that the ribbon actually deflected the flying projectiles one by one with each strike. Unfazed, Kaori gave her ribbon another twirl as she stringed a shuriken in mid flight and grabbed a kunai with her ribbon, shocking Neji. As soon as she caught them, Kaori flicked her ribbon, sending the kunai and shuriken back at its owner.
Neji quickly ducked, unaware of the ribbon coming from above. Cha! Neji flinched as he felt the dark blue ribbon wrap tightly around his left arm. Kaori smirked as she grabbed the ribbon with both hands. "Nekojiwa style: Lightning Element Manipulation Jutsu…"she muttered as blue electricity formed on her shackles.
Suddenly, the sparks shot down the ribbon like a wire at an amazing speed. Neji cried in pain as he felt electricity course through his body. The whole time, Kaori stood there with a look of indifference on her face. Neji gritted his teeth as he struggled, slowly lifting his arm and grabbed the ribbon. Catching Kaori off guard, he tugged the ribbon with all his might, jerking the girl towards him. Quickly lifting himself of the ground with one hand, Neji delivered a kick to Kaori's stomach, repelling her away from him. Due to the impact, Kaori let go of her ribbon and hit the ground rolling.
"Kaori-sama!" yelled Yue as Kaori coughed up blood.
Tenten ran through the forest, breathing hard. She could hear Hikari running after her, laughing as if they were merely playing a game of tag. 'Man, this girl's nuts!'
"Where're ya goin' senpai? We're not finished!" yelled Hikari playfully.
'She's definitely nuts!'
Tenten quickly leaped into the air and fired a hoard of needles she pulled out of her hair buns. Hikari kept smiling as she deflected them easily with her shackles.
"Wow, what else those she keep in those?" asked Akane, riding on Hikari's head.
Flipping in mid-air and launching herself of a tree branch, Tenten quickly unraveled a weapon's scroll while twisting in the air gracefully and fired random weapons at Hikari in desperation, regardless of whether they are supposed to be thrown or not. HIkari eyes widened in admiration as she watched her senpai twist gracefully in the air, ignoring the flying weapons. Lucky for her, Akane was quick to act. Taking a deep breath, Akane yelled, "Ninja Art: Baby Fireballs!" she yelled spewing small fireballs out of her mouth.
Each fireball collided with a weapon causing a bunch of small explosions.
Tenten landed on a tree branch and looked behind her. "That outta distract them."
"Who? Me?" asked Hikari, appearing upside down in front of Tenten's face, giving her a cat grin.
"Woah!" yelled Tenten in shock as she jumped of backwards.
Hikari swung her self of her branch and and launched herself at her senior.
The two girls quickly began fighting as they dropped to the ground. Hikari threw a punch at Tenten who curved backwards and grabbed Hikari's neck between her feet and threw her to the ground. At the same time Tenten threw an small exploding tag at her. This exploding tag in particular was about the size of a Post-It note so that it caused a small explosion, blasting Hikari to the ground.
"Hikari-sama!" yelled Akane as she ran to the crater where her master fell.
Tenten landed, brushing dirt of her clothes. "I'm glad that's over..." she said, sighing in relief.
Suddenly, she heard a crunch behind her. Freezing up, the girl slowly turned to find Hikari's hand sticking out of the smoking crater and digging her fingers into the ground with Akane backing up towards Tenten.
"Uh...-oh...."
"What? What's happening?!" asked Tenten, taking a step back.
A menacing growl was heard as a dark silhouette with red glowing eyes rose out from the crater. A sudden chill shot down Tenten's spine as she gulped.
"Senpai.... you....." growled Hikari with a dark look on her face.
"ARE ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME KUNOICHI EVER!!!!!" she exclaimed happily as she hugged Tenten's waist, with stars sparkling against a rainbow atmosphere.
"GAH! Get off me!!!!" yelled Tenten as she attempted to wriggle out of Hikari's vice-like grip, but the girl hung on, cat grinning and purring in delight.
"Hi-hikari-sama?....." asked Akane sweat dropping.
"NYA~! SENPAAAIIIII!!!!!! NYA-NYUUUU!!!" mewed Hikari as she looked at her senior with stars in her eyes.
"SOMEBODY HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kaori got up slowly, as her ribbon disappeared into smoke. Both she and Neji were panting hard. "Playtime's over...."she said, dashing at Neji, who braced himself.
"Ninja Art: Shadow Clone Illusion!" she yelled, forming a few hand seals.
Suddenly, Kaori's running image began to split up into at least 10 of her. Neji smirked."Hn, is that all? A useless clone jutsu won't work that easily on a Hyuuga-"
"Don't be so full of yourself, sweetie..." the girl said, as her clones began to split up in all directions.
Neji closed his eyes and activated his bloodline limit. "Hmph, you can make a 100 clones for all I care, but my Byakugan would find the real- what?!" exclaimed Neji as he saw that every single one of the clones had an even spread of chakra in each of them.
Taking advantage of the moment Kaori's clones charged at Neji. One of the clones tried to punch Neji who dodged. Neji in turn tried to strike at that clone only to phase through her. Before he had time to react, one of the Kaori appeared behind him and kneed him in the back. Neji cried in pain as blood spurted from his mouth. Neji lay sprawled on the ground, his fingers clutching the earth in pain.
"H-how?! That's not possible! They can't be Shadow Clones! And there's no way a regular clone could be capable of inflicting injury!"
Suddenly, Kaori appeared kneeling in front of Neji as her clones disappeared. The girl placed a finger under his chin and lifted Neji's face so that he found himself looking straight into her eyes. They say the eyes were the window to your soul, but apparently Kaori's had hers hidden behind four high security doors. There was nothing he could see about her. Her brown eyes reflected well hidden emotions and anything about her.
"There are a lot of things you don't know about me Neji-senpai, you have know idea what I could do...."
Suddenly, Neji grabbed her hand, pushed himself of the ground and onto her so that she fell on her back and was looking up at Neji. The boy placed one hand on her face and brought his face down so that his lips were right next to her ear. "Apparently Kaori-chan..., neither do you....."he whispered into her ear.
"Get away from my mistress!" screamed Yue as she struggled to stand.
Kaori's pupils dilated as she felt Neji press a pressure point in her neck and shot chakra into it. Slowly, she closed her eyes as she blacked out.
"KAORI-SAMAAAA!!!!!!!!" yelled Yue as the kitten forced herself off the ground and charge at Neji.
Being in the weakened state she is, Neji had no trouble subduing the kitten and knocking her out. The boy carefully cradled the kitten in his arms as he turned to look at the unconsious Nekojiwa girl. Even when knocked out, she appeared mysterious, intriguing Neji. "Nekojiwa Kaori..., what kind of girl are you?" he asked, knowing full well that she can't answer.
R.F: ALRIGHT!!!! WOOT! WOOT! CHP 10 IS FINALLY DONE!!!!
