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Chapter twenty-fifth - New technique learned!

Yuko followed Izuna in the treetops with a satisfied smile on her lips. She still felt on her skin his touch, shivers ran down her back when she thought of what they did just a moment ago.

"What's that expression?" Grinned Izuna over his shoulder. "Now you would like to have a second round, huh?"

"Stop it!" She smiled slightly and her cheeks tinted with pink, Izuna just laughed loud. His laughter was cut off by a matter of seconds, when between him and Yuko landed three kunai with explosive papers. Yuko's eyes widened.

"Izuna!" Her scream were drowned out by three explosions that followed at one-second intervals in succession. The shockwave threw Yuko back, as she flew, she felt her body broke some branches that stood in the way of her downfall. Her lungs were filled with thick black smoke which blinded her vision. Yuko landed flat on her back, the impact was so hard that it took her breath away, along with a little blood from her mouth.

Yuko began to cough, futile attempt to purify her lungs, the only thing that came out was more of her blood. "Izu...na." Yuko originally wanted to shout his name, but she found her voice so hoarse that it was almost impossible to say anything. Yuko tried to stand up but couldn't, she would swear that some of her ribs were broken, then the next attempt had to be content with a kneeling position. With one hand supporting her weight and with other one wrapped around her torso she looked around with her sharingan, it was hard to see anything.

As it was clear now to her, it was not only explosive papers, there were also smoke bombs, whoever attacked them, they're not done yet and will attack again. Yuko narrowed her bloody eyes, are they Senju? No, this chakra is different.

Yuko calm down, despite the fact that the panic tried to control her, because she didn't felt Izuna's chakra, she began to think. 'First I have to get rid of the smoke, I'm too easy target for them. But how the hell?!'

Yuko clenched her teeth, arms over her torso tightened grip, a drop of sweat ran down her grimy face. Her breath was short, because every time she try to took a deeper breath her torso was fired with sharp stabbing pain. Ignoring the pain, Yuko bit her thumb and carried some blood into her palm, she gathered her hands together to wave a hand seals, then slammed her palm on the ground.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" Saber-toothed tiger immediately sniffed danger, his yellow eyes narrowed. "Uchiha-girl, where the hell did you summon me?" He asked in rough voice. "To the war?"

"Shima-san." Yuko said in a low voice, still kneeling with her hand on the ground. "The smoke please, hurry."

The tiger didn't need to hear more, Shima nodded and turned away from Yuko, his chest began to swell rapidly when he started to suck air which was then immediately mixed with his chakra.

Shima was wind user, which was a perfect combination with any user of fire, basically he was ideal summoning animal for the Uchihas shinobi. What else can disperse fire better than the wind? Shima was once the partner of her father. Uchiha Heiwa introduced those two when Yuko was 15 years old, then she learned the summoning technique and signed a contract with the saber-toothed tigers.

Shima shut his muzzle, his fangs were still bared out, of his nostrils came out steam when he crouched to the ground and...

"Fūton: Daitoppa!" The sudden gust of wind burst out from Shima's opened muzzle. Strong wind broke through the forest up to the sky, leaving the clear air and vision behind him. And there he lay, unconscious, in a pool of his own blood.

"Izuna!" Yuko's voice was a little clearer and louder this time. A cold sweat bathed her body when her heart started a race. She gathered all the strength in herself and stood up. With clenched teeth, she used trees that still stood as a support to get quickly to the Izuna.

Yuko finally reached her goal, knelt beside him and began to carefully examine him. "Izuna." She felt his pulse, it was weak but still, he was alive.

"Shima-san!" Saber-toothed stood within second by her side. "Take him to Madara immediately please!"

"What about you girl?" He asked with narrowed eyes. "I can feel it, that bastard is still there and waiting."

Yuko clenched her fists. "How many?" She asked dead serious.

"Just one."

"Fair enough." Then she gently touched with her fingertips Izuna's face. "Shima-san, please-" She closed her eyes in an attempt to prevent the tears that wanted to build up in her eyes. "Do not let him die!"

"I won't." Shima lay on the ground, somehow they managed to get Izuna on the tiger's back, then the saber-toothed stood ready to go when he turned to Yuko. "Leave it to me, just make sure you won't die girl." Yuko nodded and watched as the tiger disappearing with Izuna into the forest.

Yuko slowly turned around its axis, sharingan in her eyes began to spin. "Come on!" She hissed, her eyes narrowed. "Get out you bastard. Now you will pay for what you did." She still keenly looked around. "Don't think I'll let you get away with this." She stopped, there he is. Yuko's hand shot forward quickly, sending ahead a few shuriken, her target was not hit, he jumped down from the tree and landed a few feet in front of the Uchiha kunoichi.

"That you hurt the man I love I will never forgive you." She growled through clenched teeth, her sharingan stopped rotating when it took the shape of shuriken, her mangekyou was exposed when she shouted. "I'll kill you!"

He was sitting in his garden and drinking sake, his thoughts were far away when somebody put a small palm on his shoulder, her soft lips gently touched his wild hair. Madara raised his eyes and met with green emeralds. His wife nonchalantly sat next to her husband.

"Is he back yet?" She asked with a velvety voice, Madara caught in her tone concerns.

He slowly stretched out his hand to her beautiful face and started to remove bangs from her forehead. "No." This was one of those moments when Madara was grateful for the nature of his wife. She's never angry for a long time, always knowing when to speak and vice versa when to remain silent. He felt frustrated and angry with himself, he was not aware of the exact reason why, but certainly the major role in this played his little brother. He leaned closer to his wife, when he was just inches from her face, he stopped.

"Kiss me." He said calmly with a tired expression on his face, not sleep much last night. Kawa without hesitation cupped his cheeks and pressed gently her lips on his. Madara closed his eyes and gave himself into this kiss. The leader leaned back on the bench, princess without broke their kiss, rolled up her yukata with one hand to be able to sit astride on her husband. Madara slightly tilted his head back, his arms loosely around its body. It was relaxing, to think of nothing, just to drift away with her fluffy lips. Her tongue danced in his mouth sensually, Kawa never had to say any comforting words to him, this support she gave him was more than enough. Strange, he thought, how short they were together, but it seemed like Kawa already knew him long years.

Madara was interrupted by chakra which was close to his garden. He broke the kiss and tilted his head to the entrance.

"Kon." He said under his breath. Kawa quickly stood up and adjusted her yukata. Within a few seconds appeared at the entrance scarred face of Uchiha Kon. He bowed deeply. "Madara-sama, my Lady."

"Something new?" Madara asked quickly.

"Yes. Teru-san located Yuko's chakra, but she's not alone, someone's with her." Answered Kon firmly.

"Senju?" Madara's eyes narrowed.

"No."

"What about Izuna?"

"I'm sorry Madara-sama." Kon looked away from his leader. "Izuna-sama is not with her. We couldn't reach his chakra yet."

Madara grunted disapprovingly.

"Ma-Madara." There was a terrified voice of his wife. Madara looked at Kawa, her eyes were wide and staring ahead at the large garden. Her mouth parted when she pointed with a trembling finger in front of her. Both men turned their gaze toward the point that mistress showed them. Madara immediately shot up from his bench while Kon's eyes widened.

"That's-" Madara clenched his fists.

"Shima." Kon said.

Yuko frowned, her mangekyou sharingan scanned the shinobi standing before her. He was not much taller than her, he had a black pants and a green jacket with long sleeves, his long white hair reached to his shoulders, his blue eyes narrowed. While her eyes traveled on him, ninja grinned and joined hands in a seal. Yet before Yuko jumped from the ground to the tree, she saw a emblem that was on his shoulder, kunoichi was sure that she already saw it somewhere.

Exactly when Yuko's heels left the ground, the road began to crumble, powerful cracks and craters were quickly spreading through the woods. 'Doton?!' She thought. Yuko stopped at one of the tree trunks, leaning her back on him and tried to gather her breath. Stabbing pain in her chest limited her in the combat now, she had to get rid of him, quickly and use the less movements as possible.

"Your sharingan saved you." The man chuckled in amusement. "You read my seals even before I had finished. This is the first time I'm fighting the sharingan user, it will definitely be interesting-"

"That crest on your shoulder-" Yuko cut him off. "I thought that our clans are in alliance." Yuko's hand ceased to glow with a green chakra, basic medical ninjutsu that her mistress had learned her was at least somehow useful in this moment. However, keep in her eyes Mangekyou plus iryo ninjutsu was for Yuko too much wasted of precious chakra. It was time to find out what those eyes can do.

"Of course they are, I'm just following orders which Waru-sama gave me. Do not take it personally, Tachibana clan appreciates the assistance from the Uchiha clan. " He answered calmly.

The man stiffened when he saw that Yuko stood right in front of him, her eyes narrowed, mouth closed and puffed chest.

"Katon: housenka no jutsu!"

His eyes widened when he began to avoid all the fireballs that Yuko sent his way. While the shinobi was busy with dodging, Yuko threw several kunai at him, but all missed their target.

The white-haired man landed on the tree and began to laugh harshly. "Are you serious? What kind of kunoichi are you?" He looked around to see all the kunai stuck in the trees around him. "You have your sharingan and yet you missed like that."

Yuko was already exhausted, pain in her chest returned, especially after that she held in the air for her jutsu. Sweat ran down her temples as she lifted her gaze to the man above her, she chuckled and her eyes sparkled. "I didn't missed!"

"Huh?!" His eyes widened as his body was wrapped by several strings that were attached to the kunai that Yuko threw on him. Yuko held the strings firmly in her hands until it sank into her skin and it started to bleed. Yuko threw several shurikens into the air thereby strengthened strings to trees and the earth.

"And now, if you please, do not move." Her legs began to tremble, she had to hurry, she will not last too long. Her hands formed the seal of ram, Yuko closed her eyes and began to accumulate her chakra into the Mangekyou sharingan. She had no idea how much effort it will cost her, she found it very difficult to accumulate her chakra into her new eyes, Mangekyou demand absolute concentration and also a large amount of chakra, something she just lacked. It was hard for Yuko to concentrate when she have to ignore the sharp pain in her chest and cursing and swearing of her handcuffed opponent.

Finally! 'This will do!' Yuko clenched her teeth, the air began to swirl around her and blew her hair, she began to lose control over all the chakra that she had gathered in her eyes. It was overwhelming. Even handcuffed Tachibana shinobi saw her red chakra with his wide eyes when it began to mix with the air around her. Yuko couldn't continue to control it, all the chakra had to be released right now.

It must be a fire technique. Yuko knew it when she felt her natural fire chakra began to mix with the sharingan. 'Now!' Her eyes opened.

A swirling distortion appeared before her eyes, all her chakra was converted into the fire and then expelled from her mangekyou in a continuous stream of flames, which spirals outwards, creating a massive fire vortex. The flames approached the shinobi, he just stared with horror on his face.

For a split second, appeared before yuko's eyes the unconscious figure of Izuna, who lay motionless on the ground in a pool of blood. "Tch! I'm not done yet!" She yelled full of rage and unleashed her chakra a little more. Fire divided into small balls, dozens of them, Yuko already knew what she summoned with the fire. She clenched her teeth even more when a drops of blood started drip from her nose. Just a little more of concentration. More...more...more...

'Yosh!' Her mind shouted. 'Now! This technique deserves a cool name.'

Her eyes narrowed, a smirk appeared on her lips. "Katon: Ejji-en o shōkan!"

Small fireballs fetched deadly speed and shape of shuriken, without grace approaching their objective. "Shit!" The man shouted. "Shuriken hidden in a fire?!" It was too late to say anything, dozens of fire shuriken hit their target. The ground shook under the powerful explosion that followed. The air shrouded in gray smoke.

Yuko was exhausted, with a heavy breath she fell to her knees. Her sharingan immediately faded from her eyes, she wrapped one arm around her torso again when there was a sudden sharp pain. Sweat ran down her face, Yuko was only a few seconds away from unconscious, when suddenly ...

"What amazing jutsu." Yuko felt the blood in her veins froze.

The air finally cleared and Yuko saw him. He stood in the crater, his white hair was a bit mussed but anywhere else on his body was not even a small scratch or bruise. Around him was something like a shield made of ground, of course, for his chakra type is earth.

"You created a protective shield even without hand-seals." Yuko gasping for breath, now came the moment when she was not sure if she gets out of here alive.

He just chuckled. "Kekkei genkai. Just when my chakra mix into the soil I can control it as I wish."

"When did you..."

"Just when I stand on the ground, my chakra flows through." He waved gracefully with hand. "And now-" He came closer to her with a demonic grin on his face. "It's my turn to show you what I'm capable of."

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