(Fifteen Years Old)
Midori burst silently through the open window they had enter and left at a swift sprint with Itsui and Yuri trailing behind her. They could hear calling and yelling in the area where the team had almost been compromised by those children so Midori assumed a worried parent had gone out looking and still hadn't found the three children.
Midori silently urged her teammates to run faster, trying to leave as fast as possible. She jumped quickly from tree to tree, she saw a small clearing that was a little too big to jump across so she jumped midway with her teammates just behind her doing the same thing. Her leg muscles were already clenching in the reflex to jump again when a brace of kunai flew through the air to block her jump. She reflexively blocked the kunai and jumped forward, trying to run away swiftly.
A patrol unit had spotted them escaping and tried stopping them. However, Midori was in no mood to get into a flashy showdown with the other ninja when it would be easier to just outrun them. Itsui and Yuri followed her lead and didn't bother even halting their pace as they blew past the other ninja.
"Trespassers!" The ninja called out, giving chase while flinging their weapons around trying to get a lucky shot.
Midori set a faster pace, however these ninja seemed to be good sprinters. While they might not have the stamina to keep up the speed for long, it would be enough to catch up and force an engagement with the three Uzumaki's. Midori continued on, trying to get distance between what would be a fight and any reinforcements.
They raced forward until the enemy was practically nipping at their heels, and Midori spun around with her chakra chains bursting from her back catching the enemy nin off guard. Her blue chakra chains, made from thick links that were entwined and weaved with much smaller chains, were each tipped with two straight one sided blades (A/N: like the Spear of Longinus from Evangelion only blue colored). Midori's spear headed chakra chain pierced through the unsuspecting bodies of two of the nin pursuing her and her team, blood bursting from their bodies before they dropped lifelessly to the forest floor.
The last nin gave a cry of anger as he barely dodged, having been far enough away to see the attack coming and react.
"Tch, this one needs more training." Midori scowled darkly and dodged the jet of water the enemy nin had shot at her. Itsui came up from behind his team lead and with a well-timed chakra technique, the last nin fell dead while his attention had been focused on Midori. "Let's go, we've wasted enough time."
Midori made to jump and start a swift pace back home, but over a dozen nin had them surrounded having been following the trail left by the now dead patrol unit. Their sprint had been fast enough to have finally caught up and surround the three Uzumaki's but not before Itsui had killed the third nin.
Midori scowled and gave a hand sign to her two teammates. Itsui and Yuri used a simple shunshin to suddenly appear back to back with each other and Midori in a triangle formation on the forest floor where Midori had also shunshined down to.
"Hmph, fucking trespassers, you should have stayed home suckling on your mothers' tits, kiddies." The lead shinobi called out, trying to get a rise out of the three Uzumaki.
Midori scowled and ignored the enemy shinobi while addressing her teammates, "They've seen us, so no survivors. Understood?"
"Understood." Yuri and Itsui answered.
The three Uzumaki drew their weapons and prepared for a fight. Midori drew out her naginata, since her nodoichi was still in the works and not yet completed. She held the weapon so the black polished wood was held behind her back and the one sided blade of the spear head was pointed to the ground. Midori crouched down with one foot in front of the other, her free hand creating the seal of confrontation in front of her, and she eyed the enemy nin with disdain.
Wind blew through the trees causing the leaves to rustle as if caught in a wave, and the enemy nin were all taut as a bowstring where they stood above the three Uzumaki in the trees. An unseen signal had all the enemy nin jumping with either hand seals flashing or weapons raised while the three Uzumaki gave their own counter-attacks.
Midori had charged her naginata with chakra and with a swing, she had forced a crescent of crackling chakra to cut through the space in front of her. Out of the five attacking her, two were caught by her initial wide-range technique and fell twitching as if caught by a seizure from the electricity coursing through their bodies. However, those two were dead before they even hit the ground, the electricity too much for their bodies to handle and it fried them from the inside out.
The other three dodged and attacked quickly, trying to kill her with different earth and water techniques. She jumped above a spear massive spear of earth which would have skewered her through the chest, and used her naginata to attack the nin coming from her left. That nin spit out some sort of high-powered water jet that Midori dodged before swinging her weapon behind her to block a thrown kunai.
Midori dodged a kick, swinging the butt of her naginata to give a solid hit to her taijutsu attacker. The hit was blocked and so they were forced into a high-speed battle while she was forced to dodge the ninjutsu attacks from her other two opponents. With a deft flick of her naginata, the kunai that had been thrown at her was deflected and she had to dodge another hit by the taijutsu nin.
An arrow came speeding to her and nearly knocked her flat as it split part of the armor on her back and punctured into her chest.
With a scream, Midori used another wide ranged technique with her naginata that was dodged by her three opponents. Luckily, it gave her the space she needed to do a faster and more precise technique. She spun her naginata around herself and charged it with water natured chakra, forcing a rope of water to form from the tip of the blade. Charged with lightning from a seal near her hand, the long whip cackled darkly before Midori swung her weapon and wrapped the water whip around the taijutsu user.
The man screamed as electricity shocked him, and Midori raced forward to plunge her blade into the man's torso. She released the technique to swing her spear behind her to cut through an earth jutsu with a slice of chakra. The earth wall that had raced to crush her, split in two and Midori was safe from being crushed. Mud balls flew through the air and Midori had to put her strength into deflecting the mud from hurting her.
Walls of water tried to surround her, but Midori only jumped up and away. A nin had been waiting for her to jump and Midori barely had time to bring her naginata in front of her to block a fist encased in stone. Another fist dodged under the staff of her naginata and smacked into her gut.
"Agh!" Midori cried, blood coughing out from her badly damaged organs, and she was slammed into the ground where the walls of water then crashed down on her.
"Midori!" Yuri cried out in anger and tried battling their attackers even harder, her chakra chains whipping around to crush her opponents but were constantly being dodged. Itsui was also trying harder to get to Yuri, who he had great teamwork with, and Midori, who was the team leader despite her younger age.
Coughing blood, Midori scowled darkly at her attackers, she blew air from her nose which bubbled upwards as she was still trapped underwater. With a bit of applied chakra, Midori swung her naginata to dispel the jutsu. Her weight seal had been deactivated once the mission had begun, no need to have a handicap when she could be attacked at any moment when out on a mission, so she was pissed that these shinobi could keep up no matter the rigorous and hellish training she and her teammates went through.
The jutsu dispelled and Midori had just blown it up with her own technique so it fell like rain on everyone fighting.
"Sequence 7!" Midori yelled before swiping blood from her chin onto a seal on the staff of her naginata. Yuri and Itsui heard Midori yell out and quickly jumped away from the water soaking everyone. With a cry, Midori stabbed her lightning covered naginata into the water soaked ground which lit up every single enemy nin who were unprepared for the attack.
Six nin fell, collapsed as the lightning shocked them enough to paralyze them. That was enough for Midori to release her naginata and form the hand seals for a water technique, "Water Style: Drowning Lake!" From her mouth, Midori spit out enough water to fill a small lake, drowning the collapsed nin who lay paralyzed underwater. The water formed a dome shape, encompassing every single combatant in water tall enough to cover the trees in the area.
The dome's membrane was just chakra, keeping the water in the tall dome shape without collapsing as Midori kept it constantly fed with her own chakra to stabilize the mass of water. The enemy nin had no way of escaping before they were entrapped by the technique but Itsui and Yuri had already known what would happen and were safely standing on top of the water dome where the only place not covered in a chakra membrane was located, a weak spot if one knew to look for it.
A taijutsu nin swam swiftly, almost unimpeded by the chakra laced water, and tried attacking Midori who was preparing her final technique.
Sequence seven first starts as a quick shock to the enemy when in overwhelming odds, then a technique to drown the shocked nin, and finally another technique to finish off the last of the nin entrapped by the second technique. The guidelines were up to interpretation on how exactly one executes the sequence of techniques, but it is mainly a warning that Hissane had come up with along with eleven other sequences used for various scenarios.
Midori smirked and changed a good portion of the chakra inside her body into lightning before expelling it all in one great burst. Everything within the dome was electrified. Those few that might have survived were paralyzed by the shock and died from drowning, unable to move and escape.
With a wince, Midori released the technique and so the water dome collapsed. Itsui and Yuri landed safely on either side of Midori who was spitting out a glob of blood on the ground.
"Let's go, we need to leave." Midori said while wincing and feeling for the arrowhead that was lodged in her back, the arrow shaft having broken when she was smacked into the ground.
Yuri and Itsui nodded and followed Midori in a fast sprint as they quickly ran back home, both thinking that the stupid bowl retrieval mission should have been shoved down the client's throat when it was given to the team.
Halfway across the Land of Rice, they were ambushed by a different group of nin. These were fire users and they loved spitting fire and throwing explosives everywhere. Exhausted and with Midori injured, they were forced to fight since there was no outrunning these ninja who were as fresh as daisies.
Midori started the fight with a wide ranged swipe of crescent shaped lightning chakra from her naginata's blade. She caught only one with the attack and the group of five nin was down to four. Midori growled as she twisted her body around to dodge the fireballs sent her way. Luckily they weren't in a forest but on a rocky cliff top, that meant no forest to burn down around their ears.
Istui was attacked by the taijutsu nin, one who used some sort of technique to cause explosions whenever he touched something. The first and only time Itsui threw a kunai at the nin, the kunai was turned into hot shrapnel that tried peppering the area in front of the enemy nin twice the speed that the kunai was thrown originally.
Yuri was attacked by an older woman, one who seemed to enjoy spitting fire just about everywhere. It was also some sort of flammable syrup so it stuck to everything and continued burning for an entire minute before dying out. Yuri was also being attacked by an earth user who was throwing rock spikes around like candy, and setting mud traps everywhere so the footing was always treacherous.
Midori herself had gotten a shinobi who seemed to enjoy throwing explosive tags everywhere which were made from sloppy sealwork making them dangerous but not as damaging as an Uzumaki explosive tag, and he was apparently from the same clan as the woman attacking Yuri. So, not only did he throw explosive tags everywhere, but he spit fiery syrup everywhere which caused the tags to explode which then caused the flammable syrup to go flying everywhere.
More than once, Midori had been saved from small little burns from the splatter of the flaming syrup because of her armor. She was constantly dodging globs of flaming syrup but it was impossible to dodge all the little drops since they seemed to be falling like rain. It didn't help that the nin had spit out a technique that was exactly like rain save that he used the flammable syrup.
Midori gave a grunt, sweat breaking out on her forehead and burns marking little spots all over her body, and she swung her naginata with a wave of lightning chakra at the enemy nin.
The shinobi just laughed as he dodged, "You can do better than that kitten! I want to see you scream before I'm through with you, this is just too much fun!"
Midori struggled to catch her breath as she dodged another whip made from the flammable syrup.