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Rematches

Ryuu groaned as their first opponent flew into the air, followed by a much larger version of the Susanoo that had stolen the scroll.

"Tomu," Ryuu snarled. "You hold the Susanoo off. Expect a painful fight."

Sasuke nodded, forming his Susanoo, this time in it's complete form. It towered over the village in samurai armor with a gemstone in its forehead, a massive pair of wings, and a pair of katana mad of Amaterasu. The black Susanoo instantly grew and mutated to match Sasuke's Susanoo, minus the Amaterasu sword. Sasuke flew to engage it, the Susanoos' swords crashing into each other and sending sparks flying. As they fought, Ryuu floated into the air, Tomu floating in front of him.

"Again Tomu?" Ryuu asked. "Why? Why can't my friends ever just die?"

Tomu held his hand out to the side, forming an Amaterasu sword. Ryuu sighed, doing the same and they charged, slashing at each other. Their blades met in a shower of black sparks, Tomu jumping back as the sparks fell. Ryuu followed and slashed again. Tomu blocked it just in time for a Lightning Sword to extend from Ryuu's other hand and stab Tomu through the chest. Ryuu yanked upward, splitting Tomu's upper body in half. He regenerated instantly, forming his own Lightning Sword and slashed at Ryuu. Ryuu blocked the slash and shoved it sideways. Then, he stabbed at Tomu with his Amaterasu sword. As expected, the sword formed armor on Tomu and Tomu backed away.

"I always envied your eyes," Tomu stated. "I always wanted to be able to use Sharingan. But I could never figure out how to copy it. Until now."

As he finished, his eyes turned blood red with three tomoe spread around the pupil and Ryuu swore. Then, Tomu flew forward, throwing a punch at Ryuu. Ryuu blocked the punch and Tomu flipped, kicking downward at Ryuu. Ryuu blocked the kick and Tomu flipped downward, his head crashing into Ryuu's abdomen, blasting him backward into Sasuke just after Sasuke left his Susanoo to avoid being split in half. Sasuke caught Ryuu who flew them both to the ground and they stared up at their opponents.

"It's an impressive sword fighter," Sasuke stated.

"Tomu copied my Sharingan," Ryuu stated. "I'm going to try to end it. Last time the attack left me in a coma for a month."

Sasuke nodded and Ryuu flew up at Tomu as Sasuke formed his Susanoo, retuning to his own fight. When Ryuu reached Tomu, he formed a pair of glowing swords and flew forward, attacking Tomu. Tomu formed a pair of Lightning Swords and began to block the swords, the blades fizzling out as they flew away from Ryuu.

"Don't want me using that huh?" Ryuu asked. "Shame."

Ryuu suddenly flipped over a Lightning Sword and spun, one of his swords impacting with the side of Tomu's face. Instantly the blade exploded into a massive ball of blood red energy, not nearly as powerful as the attack Ryuu had used in their last attack but just enough to work. The moment the sphere cleared, Ryuu saw the upper right portion of Tomu's torso and his head floating in the air before him, the rest of his body beginning to regenerate.

"No," Ryuu growled holding out his hand. "Live Tomu. So that you may die."

Instantly, the ash and paper making up Tomu's body became flesh and blood sprayed out of the wound where the rest of his body was missing. Tomu's body fell, his Susanoo fading, and Ryuu sighed, bending forward at the waist as Sasuke flew over to check on him.

"I'm good," Ryuu promised raising a hand and wiping the sweat from his brow. "Come on."

They landed at the entrance again and began forward, making it to the first buildings before the mist rose around them.

"Now what?" Sasuke growled.

"Ambush," Ryuu snarled. "Hidden Mist Jutsu."

Just as he said it, dozens of Kiri Nin appeared around them, slashing them before vanishing again. Ryuu cursed, healing them both before drawing Fu's kunai and sprinting away from Sasuke. A he did, Kiri Nin began to appear around him. He blocked a pair of swords then jumped into the air over another, kicking it's owner into a wall then spinning and blocking another sword. Just as he did, three feet swung up around him. He swore just before they smashed him into the ground. The moment he bounced off the ground, two more feet hit him, blasting him through a building. He landed hard. He could hear Sasuke fighting in the distance bust just as he stood, a shinobi appeared to his right. He spun, blocking the first slash and slashed the shinobi then felt a sword rake across his back. He staggered forward and spun, seeing a wall of fists and feet flying at him. They crashed into him, launching him, and he crashed into the side of a building, sliding to the ground as the shinobi vanished.

"Damn," Ryuu growled pushing himself up. "That hurt."

He stepped forward, activating his Sharingan just as a foot crashed into his back, slamming him back into the ground before that shinobi also vanished. He curled his hands into fists, gritting his teeth and shaking with rage and frustration.

"I...fucking...hate...Hidden Mist," Ryuu snarled standing.

Just as he did, a foot crashed into his back, launching him forward. A second shinobi appeared in front of him, both feet crashing into his stomach and launching him backward. A third appeared off to Ryuu's left and kicked him sideways. Yet another appeared in Ryuu's path, kicking him at the second. The second kicked him back, the fourth kicking him at the first, who kicked him at the second, who kicked him at the third, who kicked him at the forth, who kicked him at the second. Ryuu flipped as he flew and slashed through the space the shinobi should occupy but the shinobi was gone. All four were. Ryuu bounced and rolled for a hundred feet before stopping and spittng up blood.

"Damnit!" Ryuu spat, more blood splattering across the ground.

He heard Sasuke shout in surprise and pain and pushed himself up to his hands and knees, eyes tingling.

"Crying out of frustration?" Ryuu scoffed. "Been a while since that happened."

He winced, reaching up to rub his eyes and they instantly began to burn like someone had hit him with pepper spray. He screamed, yanking his hand away from his eyes as his vision went black, something warm and wet flooding down his cheeks and falling to the ground. He bent forward, forehead pressing to the ground and smashed his fist into it. He screamed again as his eyes throbbed and his hands instinctively pressed to his eyes. The pain doubled, making him scream again. Then, it was over. He opened his eyes and squeezed them closed again from discomfort, wiping the liquid away.

When he opened them again, tears began to roll down his cheeks, washing what he now saw was blood from his eyes. He drew his tanto, inspecting his reflection in the blade, terrified his Sharingan had somehow been damaged. A pair of lavender-tinted eyes stared back at him, veines standing out around the pupil and arpund his eyes. He looked around. He could see. He had Byakugan.

"So they should have sealed me after all," Ryuu mused. "Good."

He stood, wiping the blood from his face and leaping onto the buildings, sprinting toward Sasuke. He landed beside him and found that Sasuke had been stabbed but would live.

"Jesus!" Sasuke gaped. "Your eyes!"

"I know," Ryuu grinned. "Everyone forgot my biological mother was a Hyuga."

Sasuke nodded as Ryuu healed him then stood. Kiri Nin appeared around them, twenty in total, and charged. Ryuu grinned, huling a kunai into one's throat before appearing behind the next, knocking him unconscious with a kick. He put his kunai away, kicking two shinobi into a third, all three crashing theough a wall. Ryuu landed beside the shinobi he had killed and quickly said a prayer as he retrieved his knife. He put it away as well then spun, catching a kick and spunning, smashing the shinobi into another and then both into a wall. Five leapt at him at once and he jumped, kicking three in the jaw and launching them then kicking the last two's heads into the ground. He turned, the last eight charging at him but all eight had forgotten to use the Silent Killing Technique as they charged and instead, Sasuke's Susanoo's arm backhanded them, launching them into the wall.

"Thanks," Ryuu grinned, standing as the mist faded. "Now, how do I deactivate them?"

Sasuke shrugged and Ryuu returned the gesture, turning toward the talles pillar, where there was a castle. Juzt as he did, the mist reformed and the same reincarnated Ninja Swordsman appeared, holding a Dragon Scale Sword in his left hand and a bladed sleeve on his right.

"Damn," Ryuu sighed. "Don't move Sasuke. It's another of those damn swords."

"So it's true," the ninja growled. "You do have Byakugan."

Ryuu formed a Lightning Sword and sprinted forward. The ninja slashed at him with the sword and Ryuu grinned, vanishing in a cloud of smoke. The ninja blinked just before Ryuu appeared to his right, Lightning Sword removing his arm before both Ryuu and the sword vanished. The ninja's arm reformed and Ryuu appeared beside Sasuje, flickering.

"You're quite fast," the ninja commended as three more after images appeared around him. "The Body Flicker Technique. You truly have mastered it."

The ninja spun, bladed sleeve blocking the Dragon Scale sword which sailed into the air. Then, a scroll was suddenly wrapped around the ninja. Before he could react, he was sealed inside the scroll and Ryuu stopped beside Sasuke. He looked up at the sword but it was gone.

"Figures," Ryuu growled. "Let's go. We should be at the castle soon."


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