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Chapter not yet beta´d
Shikamaru and Hinata had entered the basement as soon as Naruto was out the door with the guards, they where now looking for Asuma Sensei
"Can you find him down here?" asked Shikamaru
"My byakugan is still l-limited, but this place seems small, it s-shouldn't take long" said Hinata
"Yeah, let's check over there" said Shikamaru referring to a door at the other side of the hallway they were in "And be quiet, we don't know if there is any other guard"
Hinata understood, Naruto had bought them time, and if he didn't ran into trouble they should be able to find Asuma Sensei and then get out without much trouble
Shikamaru stopped in front of the door and raise his hand to make a 'be quiet' motion with his finger, he then grabbed the handle and opened the door slowly, inside a man could be heard talking
"At this rate, Protea-sama will have enough Chakra in less than two hours, but I need to stop and let the jonin rest, he even felt unconscious from the strain from the process" said the man to himself
"It seems that Asuma Sensei is here, do you see inside this room?" asked in a whisper Shikamaru
"Y-yeah, there seems to be several people tied up, Asuma Sensei is in a table a-at the center of the room, and there's someone at his side" whispered Hinata
"Are there any other guards?" asked Shikamaru
"N-no, just the man at the side of Asuma Sensei" said Hinata
"Ok we're going in" said Shikamaru opening the door enough so that they could go inside
It was just as Hinata describe it, there were several persons, either chained or tied up in a corner of the room, behind a cell, and Asuma Sensei was retained in a table at the center of the room, several needles and cables attached to him
Shikamaru deduced that this was the way they extracted the Chakra, at the side of Asuma Sensei was a man with brown hair that reached to his shoulders, he was also wearing a coat and some pieces of armor at his shoulder he must have removed the rest to not be bothered by it while he worked
Shikamaru took a look around and couldn't see any other persons in here, so he used his shadow possession jutsu on the man
The man hadn't even noticed them and was captured by the jutsu easily, he stood up and moved closer to Shikamaru mimicking the movements Shikamaru was doing
"Ok close his tenketsus Hinata" said Shikamaru, Hinata got to work immediately
"Who are you guys?" asked the man "how did you got here?" the questions remained unanswered as the man lose the feeling on his arm and legs, then the Shadow possession ended and the man felt to the floor
"We don't need to answer" said Shikamaru "Even better, I got a few questions for you"
"As if a was going to answer them" said the man
"Ohh, you are going to" said Shikamaru "Tell me, is it safe to remove this things from our Sensei?"
"Oh, so you are the genin team, I told Dias that it was a mistake letting you guys go" said the man
"I don't care about your life arguments with your friend, tell me how to remove the cables!" said Shikamaru
"You got a Hyuga right there right?" the man said "Ask her"
"What is he talking about Hinata?" asked Shikamaru
"Well, I can see where the cables are connected to Asuma Sensei, with some time I t-think I can remove them" said Hinata
"Then get to it" said Shikamaru
"And what's your plan after releasing him?" asked the man "Do you plan to leave trough the front door? Would you leave all this people behind?"
"I don't need to answer you" said Shikamaru
"are you done yet Hinata?" asked Shikamaru
"Almost, it's g-going to take me a little while longer" said Hinata
Right at that moment the alarm when off, Naruto must have found trouble, or something really bad happened
Hinata checked the party screen, Naruto's HP was going down fast as well as his CP, and then suddenly a little while longer, his CP turned Red went to full again and his HP was regenerating fast, Hinata had been removing cables from Asuma Sensei all that time
"What's going on?" asked Shikamaru
"It seem that the third person on your genin team was found out" said the man in the floor
"Finish that, we are moving now!" said Shikamaru
Hinata finished removing the needles and cables from Asuma Sensei, and then Shikamaru and her picked him up and started moving him back upstairs
As they were heading out, Asuma woke up
"Wait" Asuma said
"Asuma-Sensei, you should rest, you lost too much chakra" said Shikamaru
"I don't care" said Asuma sounding tired "We need to save the people down there"
"We won't be able to escape if we help them" said Shikamaru
"I know, but we can't leave them there" said Asuma
"Ok, Hinata take care of Asuma-Sensei, I'll go get the persons downstairs" said Shikamaru
"Ok, i-I'll take care of him" said Hinata but she was still worried for Naruto, his CP was still red, she could see it going down but it immediately came back up to full, she wondered what that meant, she had to ask Naruto later if they made it out of here
"Hinata" said Asuma taking her out of her thoughts
"Yes?" she asked
"Be careful, I fell the presence of someone in here, tell me do you have any soldier pills?" asked Asuma
"Yes, I got some" she said
"Good, give me one, we need to be ready, we are going to get into combat soon" said Asuma
Hinata took a pill out and gave it to Asuma, who took it and ate it as soon as it was on his hands.
He recovered part of his chakra but he knew that if they were attacked by someone as Palomides they would be in a disadvantage and would have to be careful.
At that moment the front door opened and Dias came through into the building, he looked at Asuma and a small hint of surprise could be seen on his face
"Well I expected the intruders to get to you, but I never expected you to be awake after all that" said Dias obviously referring to Asuma and in his weakened state "I would suggest you guys t surrender at that state I don't think you even stand a chance" said Dias
Asuma whispered so that Dias could not hear him "Hinata, I'm going to distract him, try and get Shikamaru and the people downstairs out of here" said Asuma
"T-that would be suicide, you are weak right now Sensei" said Hinata
"Don't worry I'm stronger that I look like" said Asuma "Now get there and inform Shikamaru of the situation" said Asuma
"Ok Sensei, b-but I'll come back to help you" said Hinata
"I wouldn't have it another way" said Asuma
Hinata then headed back to the basement in search for Shikamaru
"You sent her down there?" asked Dias "well I'll just have to capture her later, you are the priority after all" said Dias as he unsheathed the sword he was carrying
"I would like to entertain you for a while, but I don't believe we can do that in here" said Asuma "This place is too small"
"You'll have to do with it, Palomides is busy out there" said Dias "Let me tell you, your little blonde genin is stronger that he looks like, it seems Konoha have pretty good ninjas"
"Is that a compliment?" asked Asuma
"No, it's an observation because soon Konoha will become a chakra extraction facility and we will produce dark chakra faster than ever" said Dias
"Well, I'm not the one to rain on parades but I won't let you turn Konoha into that" said Asuma standing up he reached for his knives but noticed he was not carrying them
"Looking for your little knives?" asked Dias "They're right here" he said taking them out of a pouch he had at his hip "I grabbed them after your 'fight' with Palomides, thought they would be good souvenirs"
"This is going to be harder that I thought" said Asuma
"I'll say this one more time, surrender and go back to the table so that we can extract your chakra, I don't want to accidentally kill you" said Dias putting the knives back in the pouch and taking a fighting stance
"I'm sorry, I can surrender now" said Asuma taking a fighting stance as well, that was the last of the 'friendly' conversation because at that moment Dias closed the distance with Asuma and stroke aiming for his legs
Asuma evaded by jumping over the sword mid movement, he then used the opportunity to tackle Dias backwards and drive his fist towards his face
But Dias was faster that Asuma anticipated, and dodged to the side to evade the initial tackle, "Your slower than when you faced Palomides, and I'm twice as fast as him, so you should know how this fight will end" said Dias before he drove the back of his hand that was holding the sword towards Asuma, how just managed to evade in the last second and make some distance with Dias
Asuma could tell from the start that Dias was not going all out, and even like that he was a big opponent for him, this was going to even harder that what he thought "Ok, let's start the real battle" said Asuma
A few minutes earlier
Shikamaru headed downstairs to free all the prisoners, just as Asuma Sensei had told him to do
As he entered the room where Asuma Sensei had been taken captive he knew something was wrong, Where was the man they left on the floor
He immediately got his answer as he was standing up on the side of the room
"Well I didn't expected any one to come back here" said the man
"How the hell did you stood up already?" asked Shikamaru
"With dark Chakra you can negate the effect of the Hyugas gentle fist, but it takes some time and you have to do it slowly." said the man "But why are you down here?"
"I came for those people" said Shikamaru
"I can't let you take them, you'll have to defeat me first" said the man
"That should be easy" said Shikamaru even thought he just said he would be easy he knew he couldn't go easy on this guy, he knew nothing about him, he could have a weird Kekkei Genkai or something
"Let me prove you wrong" said the man then he was covered in a dark cloak made from dark chakra and a dark sword was made from the dark chakra appeared on his hand "I'm Selvan the third of Lady Protea's generals and the most trusted one, even above the blind follower Palomides" said the man
Shikamaru immediately took some steps back to make room between him and Selvan, he knew he couldn't fight here the civilian would be at risk if he did that
"I'll give you the choice, since I don't want to hurt my test subjects over there" said Selvan referring to the civilians "Let's take this to the hallway"
"Ok, I'll accept that" said Shikamaru going through the door and into the hallway, this at least took away one of the problems but created another the hallway only consisted of a straight long passage with two doors one leading to the room where the civilians where and another leading to a room with a lot of machinery he didn't understand that was probably used for experiments
Apart from that, there were the stairs leading back up, but if he went back up he would take this man to Asuma Sensei and that would be a risk, at that moment Selvan came through the door, dark chakra cloak still on
"Are you ready?" asked Selvan taking a combat stance
Shikamaru thought quickly, he needed to buy time for a while, until he came with a strategy to defeat this man "Ok, let's go" said Shikamaru taking a kunai from his pouch and taking a combat stance as well
Selvan attacked first, he swung his sword down, his sword grew and moved towards Shikamaru, who even in this small space, was able to evade the attack, but just barely "That was a practice swing, now I will show you the power of the dark chakra" said Selvan
Shikamaru counter by throwing several kunai Selvan's way
Selvan was fast enough to block all of them but one, this one hit his Dark cloak and bounced back, but the area that was stroke showed a small opening afterwards, it was gone pretty quickly, but Shikamaru guest that concentrating all that dark chakra was hard, and even the smallest of holes in his cloak took a little while to close again, this could work on his favor, but he had to find a way to use this new knowledge
At that moment Hinata came from the stairs, and looked at the scene in front of her
"What are you doing here? And Asuma Sensei?" asked Shikamaru
"He's keeping the blonde m-man that was with Palomides b-busy, we need to get out of here with those c-civilians fast" said Hinata
"Well this guy is in the way" said Shikamaru
Selvan took this opportunity and attacked again swinging the dark sword from left to right across the hallway, destroying the door on the side leading to the room with all the machines, and making Hinata and Shikamaru duck down to evade the attack, again just barely.
"If he keeps doing that, there's no way we can get close" said Shikamaru.
"Is this all the konoha shinobis have to offer?" asked Selvan
"You choose this place because of this long narrow hallway, right?" said Shikamaru
"Well I win noting by saying no, so yes I choose this place for that, but it's true that I didn't wanted to hurt my test subjects back there" said Selvan "I'll give you another choice, just because I'm feeling generous, and it's also obvious that you're not going to win" said Selvan
"And what's your offer?" asked Shikamaru, whatever it was I would probably be better that this
"Surrender, let me take you back there and extract your chakra, I won't kill you, you will be treated in a descent way but you would need to have your chakra extracted twice a day for the rest of your life" said Selvan
"I won't take that offer, I'd rather die than become your test subject and chakra battery" said Shikamaru
"Ok then, die" said Selvan bringing his sword forward, this time the sword covered the whole passage leaving no area to evade, Shikamaru was caught by surprised.
Luckily Hinata reacted in time and grabbed Shikamaru and moved him to the stairs
"B-be careful, we cannot fight him in there" said Hinata
"Yeah, our only option is to attract him up here, into the bigger reception area, but Asuma Sensei is probably there" said Shikamaru.
"H-he is, he's fighting that blonde man" said Hinata with her Byakugan active, so what she said was happening right now.
"It would be dangerous to fight them both at the same time, in the condition Asuma Sensei is right now" said Shikamaru mostly to himself thinking on a strategy "How's Naruto?" he asked
Hinata had for a second forgotten about the red CP on Naruto's info page of the game thing, but she checked and yes it was still red, a huge part of the bar disappeared as if a big amount of chakra was use in an instance, and then it started to get full again.
"I-it appears he's still fighting" Said Hinata.
"Then he's out of the equation, ok I have a plan" said Shikamaru "I don't know much of that ability of him, but he gave me enough information before, we need to draw him close, afterwards I'll make a opening in his armor, you will use the opportunity to close his tenketsus there, he will start opening them again, but if what he told me is true it will take some time" said Shikamaru.
"O-ok, but who will you draw him close?" asked Hinata
"Not needed he's coming himself" said Shikamaru, and it was true Selvan was tired of waiting for him to come down the stairs; he had moved to the bottom part of the stairs and was now looking at them
"Are you guys just going to hide there?" asked Selvan
"I was just heading back" said Shikamaru, then he whispered to Hinata "Are you ready? We need to move before he attacks"
"Y-yes" said Hinata
"Ok let's go" said Shikamaru, then he grabbed some kunai and started throwing them and moving closer, Selvan once again block most of them with his sword
"Pathetic" said Selvan blocking all the kunai, but in the process he had not noticed the genins getting closer, Shikamaru used a kunai on his hand and made a cut on the dark cloak at the chest, evading the dark sword in the process
Selvan started moving his sword to catch Shikamaru at the other side of his dash, but this leave an opening for Hinata, she used this opening stopping right in front of Selvan taking her clan gentle fist posture and then said "You're in the range of my divination!"
She then stroke twice in the area that was closing from the cut from the kunai Shikamaru had used, then she stroke four times on his arms crating holes in the cloak, then she moved faster and stroke eight time, alternating between the holes in his arms, and the area open in his chest, then moving even faster she stroke another six-teen times on different areas creating holes and closing the tenketsus behind them.
Her jutsu ended there, sending Selvan flying backwards, and making the dark sword disappeared, "Eight trigrams Thirty-two palms" said Hinata, this was a weaker version of the sixty-four palms her clan normally used, she could still not do that one but she was getting close, especially after she started training even harder after that day in the forest with Naruto
Of course being already a weaker version, and also having to use some of the hits to open holes, got very little done, Selvan had some trouble creating the dark sword on any of his arms, but he was still standing ready to fight
"I have to admit, I was not ready for that, but I won't let you guys do it again, now I'll fight seriously" said Selvan
Dark Chakra appeared from the ground and started surrounding him "This technique consumes a lot of dark chakra, I didn't wanted to use it, but I need to end this quick" said Selvan
Then the dark chakra formed as a pair of claws at his arms, covering them completely and also created a kind of helmet that looked like a wolf for a split second and then the chakra went down his body and created a armor around him
"Now, you won't be able to break my armor with a simple kunai" said Selvan
This was trouble, the cloak was half as thick as this armor, and had also a lot of less chakra in it Shikamaru knew this time they would have a even worst time getting through the armor, and to make matter worse, their last attack had put both him and Hinata in the hallway, and Selvan was now blocking the stairs
"How about we start the real battle?" asked Selvan as he got on a fighting stance
Back with Asuma, on the ground floor of the building
Asuma was evaluating his options, he needed to get his knives back from Dias, maybe then he would have a chance, because in his current state and weaponless he knew, he only had a few minutes more of life.
"Ok, I'll end this fast before your students can even come back from the basement" said Dias, his sword then was covered in some Dark looking Chakra "Time to end this" Said Dias as he moved closer to Asuma
Dias slash several times, each time Asuma thought he had dodge the sword, but he still had several superficial cut on his clothes and some and face
He understood what was happening, the dark chakra was making the range of the sword bigger, it was like when he channeled wind chakra on his knives.
Asuma made some more space between himself and Dias, but soon his back hit something, it was the wall of the building, he was getting cornered by Dias, Asuma made some hand signs as quick as he could and then brought his arm to his mouth and said "Fire Style: fireball jutsu" a fire ball came out of his mouth towards Dias.
Dias used his sword and he cut the fireball, the fireball exploded and created a cloud of smoke making it hard for him to see, Asuma used this opportunity to move towards Dias and he took the pouch Dias had at his hip
Dias noticed this and tried to catch Asuma before he got some distance but he was too slow, the smoke had buy enough time for Asuma to steal the pouch
Asuma opened the pouch and took out his knives from it "Now, we can really fight" said Asuma as he channeled some chakra unto the knives "Flying swallow" he said it was the name of the technique he used to channeled the chakra on to his knives, creating another blade made of chakra in front of the blade of the knives
"Cool technique, but how long will you be able to keep it up?" asked Dias "You lost too much chakra and now you are using what's left of it to do this jutsu, you'll run out soon" said Dias
"Just some minutes is the time I need" said Asuma
At that moment a rumbling could be heard coming from the stairs that went to the basement, two dark chakra hands came from the stairs, holding Shikamaru and Hinata then throwing them towards the floor
"What's going on?" asked Dias
Few moments earlier, in the basement hallway
Selvan was standing in front of the stairs; Shikamaru knew he and Hinata were in a disadvantageous situation and he had to come with a plan to get them both out of there fast
"Ok kids, last chance give up or I will kill you both" said Selvan
"W-we'll never give up!" said Hinata before Shikamaru could even think anything, but she was right they couldn't give up, Asuma Sensei and Naruto were still fighting
"Then, I think I'll have to kill you both" said Selvan, he brought an arm back and then he moved it forwards, as with his sword the dark claw extended and aims to impale Shikamaru.
He avoided it by throwing a kunai at Selvan's head and jumping to the side, the kunai distracted Selvan a little, it made him move his head to the side to evade it, that little movement made the claw miss Shikamaru
"Ok Hinata, new plan, we need to stay away from him and find a way to get upstairs" said Shikamaru
"Ok" said Hinata understanding the 'plan'
Selvan was getting angrier, every attack he had done had missed by a little bit, he also still felt the effects from the gentle fist on his body, the effect would be gone in a few moments thanks to the dark chakra, but keeping this armor up while reopening his tenketsus with dark chakra was tiresome.
"Hinata, think you can do the thirty-two palms again?" asked Shikamaru
"I-if I get a opening, yes" said Hinata
Ok, he just needed to create another opening, but this time it would be harder
Shikamaru reached for his pouch and took a explosive tag Naruto had gave him some time ago, he said it was better than a normal one, he attached it to a kunai and prepared, all of this of course without Selvan noticing
Meanwhile Selvan had used his Chakra claw to try and impales Hinata, but she was harder to reach than Shikamaru, she moved with the grace of a Hyuga after all, but he was getting close a few more seconds and he would have a opening to hit the girl
Shikamaru saw that and made a move to intervene in the fight, he moved closer to Selvan that was ignoring him for the moment, he threw a kunai that bounced on the dark chakra armor Selvan had, but this made Selvan noticed Shikamaru, he moved to attack him now
Shikamaru repeated the process from before he threw a kunai to Selvan's head, but this time when Selvan evaded, the tag attached to the kunai exploded, creating a considerable hole on the Chakra armor, and also blinding Selvan for the moment
This was the opening Hinata needed, she got close and now thanks to the hole in his armor from the explosion, she executed the thirty-two palms again, this time each hit made contact with a tenketsu
Selvan moved backwards, hitting the wall and sliding down to a sitting position, Shikamaru was immobile, waiting to make sure they had win.
"You Kids" started Selvan "Had really piss me off!" he said, the dark chakra armor went out of control, after all Selvan had problems even controlling his own chakra, Shikamaru and Hinata took several steps back
Selvan then stood up, "And now I'll make sure to kill you both" said Selvan, he created dark hand with the little control he had, he moved too quick for even Hinata to register, he had then both grabbed with the dark hands, then he made the hands grow as they went up the stairs, dragging them on the stairs while he was going up, when he reached the top, he threw them to the floor
At that moment Selvan heard "What's going on?" it was the voice of Dias, he was there fighting the jonin from which he had extracted the chakra earlier
"Just a little burden" said Selvan as his dark chakra arms also went unstable because of his poor control at the moment
"Stop using dark chakra, it's going out of control" said Dias to Selvan.
"I can't, it's already out of control" said Selvan the dark chakra then adsorbed Selvan as he screamed on pain, with the poor control the dark chakra had turn towards him and was now killing him, there was nothing Dias could do
A few moments later, the dark chakra stopped and dispersed, on the spot laid a dead Selvan.
Decided to end it there, this is now the longer chapter ever I have written, and let me tell you it took some time, well I hope you have enjoy, next time Asuma vs Dias
also it´ll take some time for the next chapter to come up, i hope you can wait a little while
Videogame corner: today's game:
Solatorobo: red the hunter (DS)
I cannot believe I forgot this game existed until like two week ago
This is one of my favorite games of all time; you play as Red a red anthropomorphic dog, that complete request to win the money he needs to live, you use your trusty robot the Dahak to defeat enemies in your way by flipping then over and throwing them to the ground
This game has a great story, characters, and gameplay you should definitely give it a try.
(probably going to have references from this game as well in the future)