A couple of miles from The Land of the Spring
Naruko opened her sleepy eyes and squinted against the sunlight leaking through her tent. She yawned, stood up, and stretched her arms, trying to get feeling back into her limbs. She had camped out for the night, feeling tired from the journey, and had set up defense seals around her tent for the night to ward off intruders. After eating a light meal for breakfast, she gathered up her gear and stored them back into her scrolls, and set off on her way back to the ruins of the Whirlpool.
As she was walking down the path, she saw and old homeless man sitting on the side of the road begging for food. The man said, "Please young lady, spare some food or money for this poor old man." Naruko's eyes softened and she felt compassion for the old man, for he reminded her a little of an old man she had once met from her C-ranked mission in the Waves way back when. She unsealed food from her scrolls to give to the man.
"Of course," she said. She knelt down next to the man and gave the food to him. "May luck shine upon you and take care," she said as she touched his shoulder. However, since she was distracted at the moment, she didn't notice the man placing a seal on her forearm while her hand was on his shoulder.
"Thank you, thank you!" the old man said as he cried tears due to her kindness. "May you have safe travels to wherever you're going." Naruko nodded her head in thanks and stood up. She gave a final wave and then continued on her journey. As soon she was out of sight, however, the old man gave a wicked grin and thought, 'It was so easy playing on her emotions and kindness. I can't believe she fell for it. Now, we just wait, and then in a little while, we'll have her.'
Further down the road in the trees…
Ken and the other bandits were gathered, taking cover behind bushes and trees, waiting for Naruko to come. He and the others grew a little impatient, but then, at the horizon, she could be seen walking down the path towards them. He signaled to wait until she passed them to strike. Some of the bandits were licking their lips when they saw her. She had a well-endowed and athletic build, with a C cups and a toned stomach. Her curved ass was noticeable in the biker shorts she wore, and her long and slender legs were shown off as well. The real kicker was her face. Her shoulder length golden blonde hair framed her lightly tanned face perfectly, her oceanic blue eyes were bright and filled with confidence, and her whisker marks just enhanced her beauty in a unique way. She was quite the sight to behold, and the bandits were getting hard just looking at her.
As soon as she walked past them, Ken gave the order to engage. The bandits quickly jumped out of the bushes and trees and surrounded her. Naruko's eyes widened, and she immediately grabbed her greatsword. However, when she tried to channel chakra into her blade, she failed and gasped in shock. The bandits surrounding her all gave nasty grins at her.
"Can't use your chakra, eh?" Ken asked. "It's because we put a chakra restricting seal on you. You won't be able to use chakra to fight us. I wonder how that's going to turn out, Golden Blade Mistress?" Naruko gritted her teeth in anger and frustration and asked, "But how? How did you guys manage to put a seal on me without me noticing? I didn't see you guys anywhere at all today."
Ken smirked and said, "Remember that old man you helped out? That was one of us. While you were preoccupied, we put that seal on you, and you didn't even suspect a thing." Naruko growled in her carelessness. She let down her guard, and they took advantage of that, and now she was at a major disadvantage, for her taijutsu was mediocre and most of her techniques used chakra. She would have to rely on pure kenjutsu with her sword and her kunai and shuriken.
She then asked, "Why are you doing this?" Ken scoffed, and said, "Remember me? You killed my four other buddies when protecting that old daimyo. We're just here for revenge." Her eyes widened as she remembered that indeed, he was the person who she let run away. Now, she regretted letting him live and cursed her kind heart. "And maybe, after we defeat you, we'll have some fun with you as well." Ken said. The bandits smirked and her eyes even widened further in horror at the implications they were giving. 'I have to win this,' she thought. 'Otherwise I'll be in huge trouble.'
Naruko hefted her greatsword up and then said, "Well, I guess I'll just have to defeat you all." At that, Ken and the bandits rushed in, holding kunai, fuma shuriken, clubs, katanas, and bows. Her mind raced for a plan. 'I'm going to have to play really defensive if I'm going to make this out alive. They have a huge number advantage, ranged weapons, and a good amount of them are trained in the shinobi arts and I can tell they're no slouches.'
The bandits started throwing kunai and shooting arrows with their bows. Naruko quickly spun on her heel in a circle and blocked all of them, spinning in a circle to deflect all the projectiles. Some of the kunai bounced back at their owners, hitting them in the thigh or the forearm. However, during this time, the bandits with the katanas and the clubs rushed at her.
A bandit with a club swung toward her head and she gracefully jumped over it. At the apex of her jump, she swung her greatsword and beheaded him. As she came down, she slammed her greatsword on another bandit, bisecting him in half. 'Welp, two down, a lot more to go,' she thought to herself. Suddenly, her senses screamed at her to duck, and she did. Three katanas just whooshed over her head behind her, cutting off strands of hair of where her head had been. She then spun around and mightily swung her sword, killing all three of them in one swing.
Naruko then was forced to backpedal, deflecting and dodging the kunai and and arrows still being shot at her. 'I need to take out those ranged people, their starting to become a nuisance.' She then started to rush at the bandits with the bows and the kunai. Five of them growled when they saw her coming at them and brought out fuma shuriken. They used the kage shuriken jutsu, which multiplied the fuma shurikens from five to fifty and launched them at her.
Her eyes just narrowed and she quickly began to block the projectiles, still advancing toward them. Her arms strained in the exertion needed to parry all the fuma shuriken. She finally reached them and swung her greatsword at them. They were poorly trained in close combat, so they fell quickly in a few swings of her blade. She then was hit in the ribs, and she went sprawling to the ground. Pain blossomed in her ribs as she got hit. She quickly got to her feet and her eyebrows narrowed dangerously.
In a burst of speed, she appeared in front of the rest of the ranged bandits. Their eyes widened as they tried to jump back, but to no avail. In one might swing, she felled most of them. However, with that swing, she overextended, and the last ranged bandit threw a kunai at her, nailing her in the thigh. She cried out in pain, yanked out the kunai, and threw it back, killing the bandit. She wobbled to her feet, a little unsteady, putting more weight on her uninjured leg. 'At least those pests are gone,' she thought. 'I can now focus on the close combat now. However, it will be quite the challenge given that my leg is injured, for it greatly reduces my agility.' The bandits saw their comrades dead, roared in anger, and charged with renewed vigor, for they were encouraged that she was wounded and her injuries were slowing her down.
Duck, dodge, parry, strike. Those actions were repeated in Naruko's mind as she continued to fight off the bandits surrounding her. However, without her chakra to enhance her strength in her limbs and to augment her speed, she began to tire and slow down even more. There were fifteen left still standing, and she was getting tired and sloppy in her strikes.
'I may be in a bit of trouble,' she thought. 'Their plan was pretty clever. Since I can't use chakra, I can't use my widespread kenjutsu, enhance my limbs, nor even shunshin to escape from here. I'm slowing down too, my movements are getting slower.' She was soon brought out of her thoughts as she was forced to block a few clubs before turning around and blocking katanas. Ken, seeing she was slowing down, told the bandits, "We're wearing her down, boys. Just a few more minutes and we'll have her. Remember, don't kill her, just aim to incapacitate her." The bandits agreed with a shout and rushed her again, some augmenting their arms with chakra for greater strength.
Naruko slid under a swing from a katana and then was forced to jump up to dodge a club. After, she tried to backpedal to avoid another club, but was a little too slow, and the club hit her right in her stomach. She coughed out blood as she stumbled back, holding her stomach to try and lessen the pain. However, as she stumbled back, a club hit her forearm, causing her to drop her greatsword and clutch her forearm in pain. Ken quickly kicked the sword away, and it skittered to a bandit, where he took the sword custody and put it on his back. She gasped in horror and gritted her teeth, for her greatsword was her prized weapon, and her main weapon against these bandits because she didn't have access to her chakra.
The bandits all smiled, knowing that they just effectively rendered her weaponless. She quickly brought out kunai and shuriken, throwing at them to make them back up. While it was effective, only few of them hit their mark, incapacitating them. The rest were blocked by the bandits. She threw more kunai and shuriken, but because of her forearm injury, was only able to throw with her left arm. She managed to get a few of the bandits, hitting them in the jugular and the lungs.
The bandits finally sheathed their katanas, but kept their clubs out, and charged once she ran out of shuriken and kunai. They ran in a zig-zag pattern, trying to confuse her. She then dodged the first punch, and then countered by rolling and flipping the first bandit over. Two more took his place however, and she was forced on the defensive, blocking and dodging a flurry of punches and kicks. She then found an opportunity, and spun in a roundhouse kick, hitting both of them.
However, since she was so focused on those two bandits, she didn't notice Ken sneaking up on her, a club in hand. Pain exploded in her back as he swung the club hard into her back. Naruko cried out in pain and went sprawling forward as the force of the blow sent her to the ground. Fighting through the fiery pain in her back, she stumbled back up and turned to face Ken, but another bandit slugged her in the stomach. The bandit's fist sank wrist deep into the pit of her soft stomach. She pitched forward in reflex and fell to her knees, coughing out blood, grasping her battered belly and gasping for air. She had barely time to relax though, as another bandit clubbed her in the head. She fell down onto her hands and knees, ears ringing, vision blurry.
When the ringing in her ears and her vision cleared, Ken and the bandits were surrounding her as she was on the ground. Ken then said, "Boys, restrain her!" By then, there were four bandits remaining, and they pinned her arms and legs down. Ken then gave a smirk and said, "You bitch, you took out so many of us, it's only fair we take something precious from you in return." Naruko's oceanic blue eyes widened as she struggled to get free. The men pinning her down struggled to keep her in place. Crack! Her face turned violently to the side, as Ken slapped her hard. "Stay still," he commanded. She continued to struggle to get free, but he started to grope her breasts and ass.
"You have quite the rack," he said as he marveled at how soft her breasts were and how firm her ass and legs were. The other men took advantage of holding her arms and legs and admired them, feeling how toned and unblemished her arms and legs were. Naruko continued to try to get free, frantically wriggling her arms and legs, tears starting to spring in her eyes from the impending doom. Suddenly, she then had a thought. 'If I overload the seal with chakra, it'll cause the seal to malfunction. Why didn't I think of this sooner? I'm an Uzumaki seal master. I'll need to concentrate to push my chakra out as hard as I can to break the seal.'
Ken then sniffed her scent, taking in her delightful scent of vanilla and cinnamon, and said, "You know, you're one hot chick. I haven't been satisfied in ages, so I'll enjoy doing this to you." He then started to take off her blue obi and her purple kimono-style blouse. He admired her figure once more, and then moved his hands to take off her biker shorts. However, during this time, Naruko was building up every ounce of chakra, and once she felt she reached the maximum, she pushed it out as hard as she could.
With all that chakra, the ground cracked from the force of it, and the seal went dark and fell off. The bandits and Ken were thrown off, and when they got back up, they saw Naruko's cold eyes, now ice blue. They started to charge her, but then she said, "Futon: Tatsumaki." Ken managed to dodge, but the bandits as well as the other ones on the ground were shredded to pieces by the wind tornado.
Tired and sluggish from her wounds, she was unable to react to Ken tackling her to the ground. She hit the ground and cried out in pain, for her injured back hit the ground hard. He sat down on her stomach, and tried to kiss her. Naruko quickly punched him in the chin, dazing him, and then snapped his neck. Ken fell limp on top of her, dead, and she shoved him off her. After she made sure everyone was dead, she quickly got her kimino-style blouse and her obi on, retrieved her greatsword, and raced out of there before any ninja could arrive, wondering what the chakra spike was.
A Hideout in the Land of the Waves
Naruko arrived in her hideout, dropped her gear, and collapsed into a chair in exhaustion and pain. The journey and this fight had taken a toll on her. Her had began to glow green as she used the shosen jutsu to heal her stomach, broken forearm, head, thigh, and ribs. As she healed her injuries, she contemplated the day's events. 'That was really close. If my plan to overload the seal hadn't worked, they might have done unforgivable things to me.' She shuddered at the thought. 'I got careless, and I paid the price for it. It shows that even though I'm ranked S at such a young age, I need more experience. I certainly did not anticipate what they did.' After she finished healing her injuries, she went to shower to get rid of the grime and the feeling of being groped, put on some nighttime clothes, and went to sleep, tired from the day.
