"Who are you?" Rin asked the masked nin that stood before her. He definitely wasn't from the Anbu, and none of the policing squads from the other countries would be here for her, as her situation was one that was purely Konoha's problem. "What do you want?"
"You," came the strange reply. Suddenly, she had remembered what the Hokage had told her, that there would be people coming after her.
"Why?" Rin asked her attacker. It wasn't anything that she couldn't dodge. She had been on her way home, after parting ways with Sakura just a couple of hours earlier. She had felt an irregular presence following her, and she decided to take it to a much quieter spot, rather than let whoever it was know where she lived.
"I want your blood. To copy your line will make me stronger!" It was some power hungry freak, which was trying to overthrow the Hokage again. She had learnt that Orochimaru was not the only one with such a plan. She had seen Orochimaru before, and was quite sure that whoever this was, was definitely not him.
"We'll see about that," Rin said, and proceeded to do some hand seals. It wasn't a very long battle; Rin was never really good at an all out fight, which was probably one of the reasons why she had chosen to be an assassin. It was at a time when she realized that she wasn't really winning the battle, that something inside seemed to snap. She could feel something, like an instinct, take over.
"That's a good girl, just stay there, and wait for me to take what I need from you," the stranger told her, and advanced with a strange looking weapon.
"I don't think so," Rin replied and surprisingly, with one hand, performed the blood freezing jutsu. The stranger could feel his movements slowing almost to a point of stopping, but suddenly, he was able to break free from the jutsu. Rin stood up, and the stranger's eyes widened. Blood that had been spilt onto the ground was flowing backward towards her, healing her wounds in the process. She could feel her hands harden, somehow, and slowly, started to walk towards her attacker. He threw Kunai and Shuriken towards her, and it did hit their target, but he slowly found out that Rin's body spit them out and started to heal the wounds left by those weapons almost instantly. Panicking, the stranger summoned a familiar to help him. A group of wolves appeared and stood in front of the stranger, growling at Rin.
"Did you really think those mutts are going to help you?" Rin said, and without warning, lunged forward and bit one of the wolves by the neck, killing it instantly.
"What the…?" The stranger, who was caught by surprise, ordered the other wolves to attack in front, while he found an unguarded spot and tried to attack from the air. But it was no use. Rin had managed to pull off the replacement technique, and was now nothing but a piece of wood.
"You really should work on your sense of timing…" Rin commented from what seemed like out of nowhere, and another wolf yelped in surprise. Turning around, the stranger saw another wolf in her mouth, fangs practically glowing in the dark, the wolf's eyes seemed to be slowly drained of all life, and finally extinguished. "Now, it's my turn." With that, Rin started to activate 2 jutsu simultaneously! One in each hand. She had resurrected the 2 wolves to help her, as well as reversed the stranger's blood flow.
"Rin! Stop!" A voice came out from nowhere, losing control of the jutsu used on the stranger, his blood slowly regained its normal flow, but he was so badly shaken that he was unable to do anything. Rin turned towards the voice, and saw, Haruto! "Rin! Get a grip on yourself!"
'I…have…to…stop…" Rin was fighting an internal battle of her own. The bloodlust that was within her was threatening to overcome her. The smell of blood in the air was making her thirst for more. 'No…have…to…stop." Rin was able to control it slightly better, as she had placed seals on herself before she had returned to the village. The seals have all surfaced, and Rin seemed to stand there, shaking like a leaf. It was a nerve racking half an hour before she managed to control her bloodlust, and reseal it.
"You ok?" Haruto asked her, when she seemed to be in control. He told his squad to step down from their formation, when she had seemed slightly more under control.
"Fine," Rin said, staggered a few steps, and everything went black.