I only own Nokoribi and Momi all other characters are from Naruto which belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
Iwagakure seems like a nice place.
Deidara was leading the way through the village, their faces were covered by hats with dangling white tassels. Bells attached to the hats jingled as they walked.
Those bells are driving me insane! Seriously, we're trying keep people's attention away from us. Not have a crowd children chasing after us because they think some fat guy's here with presents.
Those kids were blind, don't be harsh.
I'll show them the meaning of harsh.
They headed into a tea shop and it was surprising the three of them could fit. There were delicate pots littered all over the shelves on the walls so naturally they tread with extreme care. Especially Sasori as he had hopped into Hiruko before arriving.
Another thing. That puppet used to be human? It has a scorpion tail for goodness sake.
Momi, did you wake up on the ranting side of my head this morning? And he added weapons to the human puppet.
When he loses our wager that puppet will be the first to go.
"I wonder if you can help me, we are looking for a certain person hmm."
Deidara was speaking to a woman behind the counter and Nokoribi wasn't taking much notice. Instead her eyes drifted to the giant of a man who was serving tea to sitting customers. He was coated with armour and a furnace was attached to his back, his face was hidden beneath cloth. Beneath the armour he wore red clothing. Admittedly he didn't look like tea shop type of guy.
He at the moment was serving an elderly lady who he towered over significantly.
"Han, be dear and reheat my teapot."
"Certainly," he weaved several hand signs.
Han took the teapot and suddenly steam burst from his armour like some kind of giant kettle. Soon enough the teapot was piping hot and he handed it back to the customer.
He just used steam ninjutsu.
As he placed the teapot down the handle broke and the pot crashed on the floor, the hot liquid splashing nearly every customer. The shop was filled with complaining while the people left grunting and glaring when they walked past Han.
"You idiot," the woman from behind the counter yelled, "you three there's your blasted Jinchuuriki. Take him nobody wants him here."
Poor guy.
It's the life of a Jinchuuriki. If you hadn't spent most of your days in that prison, you probably would have ended up like him.
"Five tails you're coming with us," Sasori demanded.
Han didn't reply, his hands weaved the same signs as before and steam seeped from his armour. The shop was filled with it in seconds and it clouded their vision shielding him. Deidara's hands dipped into his clay pouches.
Perfect time to test out our new and improved Sharingans.
Okay, let's do this!
But before Nokoribi could so much as mutter 'Mangekyō Sharingan,' three explosions erupted through the steam, destroying the majority of the shop. Han sprinted through the holes in the walls created by Deidara's clay bombs, the two artists following. The counter woman looked at her shop in shock.
"Sorry about that. Next time you should choose your employees more carefully," Nokoribi smiled then darted off.
Now where did those three go?
Another much larger explosion in the distance answered her question followed by a, "art is an explosion...damn! I said it hmm."
Nokoribi laughed as she ran in the direction of the carnage. The villagers didn't appear phased by the violence that was happening just outside their village walls. Their lack of care for another human life saddened Nokoribi.
Pull yourself together. You're on the side that are trying to kill him.
So I can still feel sorry for him.
The explosion had come from the forest they had been walking through earlier however now it was eerily quiet. She could no longer hear Sasori's or Deidara's battle talk. Nokoribi halted and scanned the trees.
Where have they gone now?
Maybe they actually got beaten. Let's go home…
A large hand grasped her neck as a knife slid into her shoulder blade. She tried to scream but her throat was clamped too tight.
"You're like me. A Jinchuuriki," Han panted, "what are you doing with the Akatsuki?"
How dare he, compare us with him. Forget about sealing him let's just kill him.
I really don't want to piss Pein off.
"I am nothing like you. You obviously have no idea who you're messing with."
Nokoribi put her hands together and closed her eyes.
"People that betray their own kind are worse than those like the Akatsuki," he persisted pushing the blade in deeper.
"I can't believe I pitied you," Nokoribi snapped.
Go for it Momi.
A massive amount of scarlet chakra seeped from Nokoribi's skin, it took seconds to cover her completely. Han quickly jumped backwards. Like when fighting Nai a pair of wings had extended from her back, her fingers armed with claws she glared at Han with molten eyes. But this time her body was moulding into the second stage of transformation. While her own flesh peeled away because of the Phoenix's chakra, bones began to crack into existence lining the wings, arms and torso.
The transformed Nokoribi let out a shriek.
Momi's voice had taken over, "you will now understand why I am superior to you. Why I was given the job of destroying the Bijuu."
"Well, two can play at that game," he replied.
A roar erupted from his chest as Han underwent the same transformation. Similar red chakra coated his body, bubbling as it grew.
"One. Two. Three. Four. Four tails. So you mean business, Kokuou."
Another growl rumbled in his throat. Like Nokoribi Han's flesh was peeling, only his steel armour and furnace remained. Steam acted as mist surrounding his body, making his form look like some sort of ghostly demon. A pair of enraged red eyes gazed at Nokoribi.
Suddenly both beasts sprinted towards each other, their deafening snarls echoing through the forest.
Please. Don't go over the top, I want my body recognisable at the end of this.
Don't worry he can't even scratch us.
Han's four tails whipped at Nokoribi and the surrounding trees, obliterating dozens at a time. She avoided the first slashes narrowly, but the last couple managed to slice into her own cloak and crashing against the newly developed skeleton.
But Momi kept her promise.
Her chakra formed tendrils, smothering the tails that had connected. While they constricted Han's chakra seeped into Nokoribi, empowering her further.
"Momi, father's precious Phoenix," he cried, "I won't let you hurt the others."
Through his struggling, red and blue spots atomized inside his open mouth. Colliding together they formed a dark sphere as it grew to huge proportions. The Tailed Beast Ball.
Momi sneered, "for me that is just a party trick. Dance of the Sun Bird: Solar Devastation."
A beam of sun blasted the ground they fought on and Momi concentrated her chakra flow into a ball of light, while the floor crumbled beneath her. Dark Flames danced and scorched the air while the sphere, like the Tailed Beast Ball, was dyed by the red and blue chakra.
Boom. Boom. Blast.
The two monsters launched their attacks. The air was severed by the sonic speed of the two orbs, easily piercing any human's ears in the radius, they blasted into each other. At first they looked as though they would repel each other, however the two spheres morphed into one. The beasts stared up, both looking horrified.
What appeared to be a miniature sun hissed above them.
Oh shit.
Roasted poultry and whale-horse-thing anybody?
The beauty and heat of the sun was overwhelming, lasting only a few moments before the blazing ball expanded. Swallowing up both of Jinchuuriki as well as the remaining forest.
Human and beast shrieks were unheard beneath the mass of crackling forest, the lick of flames stretching up into the sky.
Nokoribi had managed to remain in her cloak state however the newly formed bones were either broken or splintered. She crouched gasping, her eyes squinting through the dust and smoke at Han. His body lay burnt and crippled by the blast, his chakra cloak now diminished. He rasped and spluttered trying to clear his lungs of smoke while he struggled to get up.
"You were lucky that time. You mixed your attack with solar energy the only reason I suffered more damage," he shakily stood to his feet, his fists bawled, "but I can still take more."
"Oh really?"
Nokoribi bounded forward thrusting herself on top of him. Her feet pounded into his stomach and with still being chakra coated his flesh became ripped raw. But the effort had only forced him to one knee. His hands shifted through various seals. Ox. Boar. Dog. Ox.
"Steam Style: Water Vapour Blades."
The cloud of water vapour that had previously surrounded him now formed several knives and they hurtled towards Nokoribi. Although the shapes were not in fact solid, Han's chakra was entwined with the steam providing an edge sharper than any regular sword. Accounting the speed that they flew through the air, it would have been impossible for any regular shinobi to avoid them.
It was fortunate then that Nokoribi was a member of the Taiyo Clan.
"Spectrum Skin," she whispered.
The attack passed through her body and darted into the now clouded sky. Han stared with disbelief and he now kneeled, exhausted. Nokoribi advanced.
Han drew out a small sword from his belt just in time to block a scarlet strand chakra that had flung itself at him. Nokoribi stood over him now, her glare taking Han's eyes prisoner. His hands visibly wavered but continued to hold the blade like strand of chakra. A single tear fell from her cheek.
"We may both be Jinchuuriki but we are not of the same kind. My kind were destroyed long ago, being the last one…it's the worst sort of pain imaginable. That is why we are different. The types of beasts we share don't separate us, but the agony we have been forced to endure."
"But still why? Why the Akatsuki?" Han murmured.
She laughed, "I wish I could say something cheesy like because they remind me of the family I always wanted, which would be one screwed up family, but that's not it. I guess you could just say I was at the wrong place at the wrong time."
Suddenly hundreds of thin chakra blades detached from Nokoribi's body, each one pierced Han's limbs so he could no longer move. Blood dribbled from the corner of his mouth, his eyes gently closing.
"You won't die here though, not by my hands. I am not a murderer," she paused, "I'm sorry."
Meanwhile in the depths of the forest
"A steam clone," Sasori said as he pulled Hiruko's tail from a human looking cloud of water vapour.
Deidara sighed, "he probably did it back at the tea shop."
The two ran through the forest, Deidara fiddled with his scope as he searched the trees. They sprinted for a few minutes when the blonde came to a sudden halt.
"What the hell, can you see that hmm?"
In the distance just above the tree tops a red aura blazed.
"He transformed? Nokoribi must be fighting him."
"We had better help. Crotch shots won't work on tailed beasts."
As they sprinted a giant beam of light blasted the surrounding area and destroyed the somewhat peaceful forest. As the squawking birds fled the woodland homes the two Akatsuki members looked on with apprehension.
"The Five Tails is proving to be impressive, hmm."
"I'm not sure that was the…"
A giant amber sphere suddenly enveloped the forest, sounding like the sun itself had crashed into the earth. Deidara covered his ears as the heat of the shockwave crushed the two to the floor.
"That did not sound good," Sasori said.
"What are you talking about my man? That explosion was spectacular, although not on my creations level of beauty hmm."
The puppet sighed, "whatever brat we had better help Nokoribi. I'm not paying for a new member."
They ran towards the fiery carnage in the distance, the rising smoke that darkened the sky acting as beacon. Their footsteps alongside the burning flames were the only sounds heard for miles.
After ten minutes of sprinting they entered a clearing, the ground completely caved in and surrounding trees nothing but ash in soft breeze, they had expected Nokoribi to be cornered or dead. However as they entered the battle area Deidara and Sasori let out a shocked but impressed gasp.
Han was completely immobilized, majority of his body impaled with kunai. His charred body unconscious. Nokoribi lay beside him, also insentient. Her skin was red with what looked like burn wounds, her breathing on the other hand seemed calm.
"Looks like she got caught in one of his steam ninjutsu," Sasori said, "nothing time can't heal though. Brat, create some clay birds we're flying back."
"So you admit now my art comes in handy, hmm"
"Just do it. You know I don't like to be kept waiting."
Deidara produced two clay birds. Sasori stepped on one with Han tightly held in the birds tail while his partner jumped on the other Nokoribi at his feet. As they took flight, Nokoribi groaned.
It's okay, they found us and don't suspect a thing.
That's good. But you're not let off the hook yet, Missy.
But why? I helped catch the Bijuu.
You basically incinerated body. You overpowered, over confident…
Shh, my child sleep. You need rest.
No thanks to you…
A black and white face shifted in the trunk of a tree, they had observed the immense battle from a few yards away.
"Well, that was interesting. Yes, we had better report to him straight away."
Zetsu's being disappeared from the bark leaving the destroyed forest to heal. Heading into the clouded distant sky two white birds flew.
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