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"Heh. you're the girl from the town, neh? Yeah. am I right?" The figure
facing Ino smirked, emerald eyes flickering, scars were located all over
the girl's now less cloaked body. She was wearing a male's Chuuin outfit
and she was quite muscular, especially for a girl her age. She had long
sloppy blue hair pulled in a loose braid. She cocked her head,
"A shame you have to be my first target. I hate killing weaklings. but then again. why leave scum like you on the face of the planet?" Ino twitched slightly, boiling,
"You better watch your mouth bitch!" Ino bluntly snapped, 'Could this have been who Shikamaru was talking about, those five shinobi Chouji and I met that day? He was at Tsunade's office that day too.'
"Is that supposed to be a threat? Yawn." The girl put her arms behind her head, "Might as well get this over with."
"But first. Where is Tsunade-sama?"
"Your Hokage? Hm. yeah. well. that I can't tell you, I don't know myself."
".and I like to know who I'm fighting. so who are you?"
"I'm Niera from the Minichiban Island. well. I'd like to know as well."
"Yamanaka Ino." She pounded her fist into her hand, eager for the fight to commence. She snorted slightly, the smell of blood arouse in the crisp clean air. The smell of rotting flesh and blood were common spells to Ino though, for in the times of the warring countries it was rare to find peace and when they finally found it, well... only 3 years past did the trees start to putrefy, stained with blood. With Niera and Ino though, it seemed to be more for a fight of egos than skill. Rolling her neck in anticipation, Ino flicked her hand and sneered, "Try me." Unlike Sakura, Ino secretly cared about training. After tying with Sakura during the match at the prelims, she had felt weak, her mission was to become stronger. She rarely thought of Sasuke unless Sakura was there. At times she would think about what she would do if Sasuke ever accepted. She thought of it in the perspective of a challenge, and Sasuke wasn't bad looking after all. The years dragged on and she began to think of Sasuke less and less. She missed the rivalry with Sakura, and now that the bonds weakened from it, Ino focused more on her training. Her father helped her a lot, and when everyone thought they were taking family vacations, they were actually training. Ino's skills were far superior to Sakura's now, but no one else knew. It was not the type of thing she desired to boast about. She wasn't really sure who Sakura was anymore though. For a while now Sakura had been snappy, cold and indifferent. She kept to herself and she spat at anyone that dared speak Sasuke's name. How had Sakura gone from "loving" Sasuke, to "hating" him? Was it immaturity, a cry for help? Ino wasn't exactly sure, but she knew that something happened, and she didn't think she was supposed to know.
After a stale mate for 20 seconds, the girls stood in their stances sourly, their eyes focused on one another's. Ino understood that nothing would happen if she didn't do something, so she decided it was her place to take the initiative. A cloud of dust was kicked up as Ino's feet speed across the withered pathway. She brought her arm back trying to get the best possible momentum. She threw her arm in the force up a punch, but Niera dodged the punch nimbly. Her back was arched, like a bridge. Before Ino had anytime to react, Niera kicked her legs up into Ino's stomach, sending her flying. The kick let Niera to fall from a handstand into a flip to land safely on the ground. Ino clutched her stomach, laying limply on the dust-covered trail. Niera paraded her way over to Ino and grunted, her eyebrow raised,
"Don't tell me that was it. that was truly. pathetic!" Niera couldn't control herself. She clutched her own, from horrendous laughter, snorting wildly, her nasal cackle befell the otherwise quiet area. A sudden shoulder- tap made Niera stop laughing briefly before she no second later felt a hard fist make contact with her cheek, sending her spiraling to the ground.
"Never leave your back open.such a basic rule, neh?" Ino's voice laughed. It was a doppelganger of Ino that she had quickly changed places with the real Ino before hitting the ground. It was a true basic, but revealing everything in the beginning was boring. Niera stood up easily, although a little shaken,
"Hmph. maybe you're not as pathetic as you look. I just hope you know I was testing your abilities. that punch was lighter than a scratch." Niera touched her hand to her cheek and then yawned. She grinned slightly and after a round of good kicks and punches the girls finally started to slow down. Each one was out of breath, but the fight only had just begun,
"Hm. so I guess not all of you are as weak as you seem." Niera huffed with her nasal voice, a smirk laid on her face. Ino snarled underneath her breath,
"Why the hell are you smirking'? What's your fuckin' problem?" Ino suspiciously glared at Niera. Niera started to laugh, and it wasn't forced.
"I think it's time we take a change from plain Taijutsu and use some of our real techniques.but who knew that weakening you would be so hard?" "Weakening? Hey! You're weak too!" Ino, twitched slightly, she was growling at Niera like a dog would. Niera only scoffed and then stood up straight, closing her eyes, her arms stretched out and then she clapped her hands tightly together to form the sign of the bird, then of fire. Flames bursted out from her hands, strong flames rose from Niera, although nothing on her burned. She sighed, her whole body was refreshed and her stamina and energy only doubled from her beginning state. 'What!? Her Chakra's on fire!?' Ino starred wide-eyed at the flames, gritting her teeth. Ino realized now what Niera meant when she said she wanted to weaken Ino. After all , Niera could replenish her stamina and strength while her opponent was weak. Ino presumed that Niera could only use this technique once, but Ino, was ready to block Niera now, she was able to recognize her moves by now, and counter every single one. Her father taught her how to read Taijutsu patterns which was important for a lot the techniques that were used in the Yamanaka clan. When Niera charged though, her speed didn't just double, it tripled, and all Ino knew was that Niera's pattern was going to change, using her speed as an advantage. In a brief second, a shuriken started to fly directly at Ino. Ino just smirked and sat down to the ground so that the shuriken was coming straight for Ino's head. This was shown as shock in Niera's face, grinding her teeth. 10 shuriken came from above Ino's head, zooming from the behind and the one heading directly for Ino. When it reached Ino's forehead it was nothing more than a cloud of smoke. "How did. you?" Niera asked Ino in a shocked tone, expecting Ino to easily fall for her trap. "Hey. it's pretty obvious. you don't just throw a shuriken in a wide area freely." Ino added a ''humph' at the end. She stood up and brought her hands back. She sighed wearily and then smirked, lowering her head. "Thanks for showing off, but I'm afraid I'll have to show you what I've really been training for all these years in secret." Ino taunted and brought her hands up and into a symbol that was similar to her body switch no jutsu. Niera blinked and then laughed, "Wow. Such an impressive technique." She sighed sarcastically, "How in hell am I going to beat it? Oooh! Scary!" She waved her hand comically, and Ino just snorted, "Just watch." Ino retorted clasping her hands together. In a split second, both of they bodies faltered and then Niera picked up her head and laughed, "Missed me." she added, 'Time to go in for the kill.' When Ino had used the attack, Niera used a transportation technique that makes her particles disappear momentarily. Ino gasped to herself, 'I can't believe I'm in this mess. that technique. I cannot beat it alone. but I'll have to try' She gritted her teeth. Luckily it was a trap to trick Nierla into thinking that Ino was still without her soul for 5 minutes. Nierla raced in and stopped directly in front of Ino. Her sudden skid allowed a cloud of dust to rise around them. A sudden jolt ran through Nierla's body and she realized one significant thing, Ino's finger was touching her. The jolt coarsed through her body. Her body twitched slightly. The chakra formed a spiral around her tightly. Ino picked up her head up and slightly smirked. Nierla's body floated in air, the pressure of the constricts tightened until she coughed up blood. Nierla snapped her fingers and the chakra began to fade. Ino's mouth gapped, 'She's beginning to.change.' Nierla's eyes started to glow a fierce green. Emeralds appeared throughout her body, each emerald replaced a scar. Still in midair, Nierla started to clap her hands so fast that it almost sounded like the beating wings of a humming bird. The claps roared throughout the area and a fierce glow appeared from Nierla's hands, swirling around like flickering flames. "Now I'm pissed. This is where the fight will truly start! But it's time you prepare to die! Be happy you got to see my next form. Most have not survived getting past my 1st form. Feel special." Nierla held up her hands and like a baseball she pitched it right at Ino. Ino could hardly move, she already used up too much energy.
'This is it. I guess.' Ino thought with clenched teeth, 'Humph. not like anyone'll miss me.' The blast flashed when it made contact trees falling and snapping throughout the forest.
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"A shame you have to be my first target. I hate killing weaklings. but then again. why leave scum like you on the face of the planet?" Ino twitched slightly, boiling,
"You better watch your mouth bitch!" Ino bluntly snapped, 'Could this have been who Shikamaru was talking about, those five shinobi Chouji and I met that day? He was at Tsunade's office that day too.'
"Is that supposed to be a threat? Yawn." The girl put her arms behind her head, "Might as well get this over with."
"But first. Where is Tsunade-sama?"
"Your Hokage? Hm. yeah. well. that I can't tell you, I don't know myself."
".and I like to know who I'm fighting. so who are you?"
"I'm Niera from the Minichiban Island. well. I'd like to know as well."
"Yamanaka Ino." She pounded her fist into her hand, eager for the fight to commence. She snorted slightly, the smell of blood arouse in the crisp clean air. The smell of rotting flesh and blood were common spells to Ino though, for in the times of the warring countries it was rare to find peace and when they finally found it, well... only 3 years past did the trees start to putrefy, stained with blood. With Niera and Ino though, it seemed to be more for a fight of egos than skill. Rolling her neck in anticipation, Ino flicked her hand and sneered, "Try me." Unlike Sakura, Ino secretly cared about training. After tying with Sakura during the match at the prelims, she had felt weak, her mission was to become stronger. She rarely thought of Sasuke unless Sakura was there. At times she would think about what she would do if Sasuke ever accepted. She thought of it in the perspective of a challenge, and Sasuke wasn't bad looking after all. The years dragged on and she began to think of Sasuke less and less. She missed the rivalry with Sakura, and now that the bonds weakened from it, Ino focused more on her training. Her father helped her a lot, and when everyone thought they were taking family vacations, they were actually training. Ino's skills were far superior to Sakura's now, but no one else knew. It was not the type of thing she desired to boast about. She wasn't really sure who Sakura was anymore though. For a while now Sakura had been snappy, cold and indifferent. She kept to herself and she spat at anyone that dared speak Sasuke's name. How had Sakura gone from "loving" Sasuke, to "hating" him? Was it immaturity, a cry for help? Ino wasn't exactly sure, but she knew that something happened, and she didn't think she was supposed to know.
After a stale mate for 20 seconds, the girls stood in their stances sourly, their eyes focused on one another's. Ino understood that nothing would happen if she didn't do something, so she decided it was her place to take the initiative. A cloud of dust was kicked up as Ino's feet speed across the withered pathway. She brought her arm back trying to get the best possible momentum. She threw her arm in the force up a punch, but Niera dodged the punch nimbly. Her back was arched, like a bridge. Before Ino had anytime to react, Niera kicked her legs up into Ino's stomach, sending her flying. The kick let Niera to fall from a handstand into a flip to land safely on the ground. Ino clutched her stomach, laying limply on the dust-covered trail. Niera paraded her way over to Ino and grunted, her eyebrow raised,
"Don't tell me that was it. that was truly. pathetic!" Niera couldn't control herself. She clutched her own, from horrendous laughter, snorting wildly, her nasal cackle befell the otherwise quiet area. A sudden shoulder- tap made Niera stop laughing briefly before she no second later felt a hard fist make contact with her cheek, sending her spiraling to the ground.
"Never leave your back open.such a basic rule, neh?" Ino's voice laughed. It was a doppelganger of Ino that she had quickly changed places with the real Ino before hitting the ground. It was a true basic, but revealing everything in the beginning was boring. Niera stood up easily, although a little shaken,
"Hmph. maybe you're not as pathetic as you look. I just hope you know I was testing your abilities. that punch was lighter than a scratch." Niera touched her hand to her cheek and then yawned. She grinned slightly and after a round of good kicks and punches the girls finally started to slow down. Each one was out of breath, but the fight only had just begun,
"Hm. so I guess not all of you are as weak as you seem." Niera huffed with her nasal voice, a smirk laid on her face. Ino snarled underneath her breath,
"Why the hell are you smirking'? What's your fuckin' problem?" Ino suspiciously glared at Niera. Niera started to laugh, and it wasn't forced.
"I think it's time we take a change from plain Taijutsu and use some of our real techniques.but who knew that weakening you would be so hard?" "Weakening? Hey! You're weak too!" Ino, twitched slightly, she was growling at Niera like a dog would. Niera only scoffed and then stood up straight, closing her eyes, her arms stretched out and then she clapped her hands tightly together to form the sign of the bird, then of fire. Flames bursted out from her hands, strong flames rose from Niera, although nothing on her burned. She sighed, her whole body was refreshed and her stamina and energy only doubled from her beginning state. 'What!? Her Chakra's on fire!?' Ino starred wide-eyed at the flames, gritting her teeth. Ino realized now what Niera meant when she said she wanted to weaken Ino. After all , Niera could replenish her stamina and strength while her opponent was weak. Ino presumed that Niera could only use this technique once, but Ino, was ready to block Niera now, she was able to recognize her moves by now, and counter every single one. Her father taught her how to read Taijutsu patterns which was important for a lot the techniques that were used in the Yamanaka clan. When Niera charged though, her speed didn't just double, it tripled, and all Ino knew was that Niera's pattern was going to change, using her speed as an advantage. In a brief second, a shuriken started to fly directly at Ino. Ino just smirked and sat down to the ground so that the shuriken was coming straight for Ino's head. This was shown as shock in Niera's face, grinding her teeth. 10 shuriken came from above Ino's head, zooming from the behind and the one heading directly for Ino. When it reached Ino's forehead it was nothing more than a cloud of smoke. "How did. you?" Niera asked Ino in a shocked tone, expecting Ino to easily fall for her trap. "Hey. it's pretty obvious. you don't just throw a shuriken in a wide area freely." Ino added a ''humph' at the end. She stood up and brought her hands back. She sighed wearily and then smirked, lowering her head. "Thanks for showing off, but I'm afraid I'll have to show you what I've really been training for all these years in secret." Ino taunted and brought her hands up and into a symbol that was similar to her body switch no jutsu. Niera blinked and then laughed, "Wow. Such an impressive technique." She sighed sarcastically, "How in hell am I going to beat it? Oooh! Scary!" She waved her hand comically, and Ino just snorted, "Just watch." Ino retorted clasping her hands together. In a split second, both of they bodies faltered and then Niera picked up her head and laughed, "Missed me." she added, 'Time to go in for the kill.' When Ino had used the attack, Niera used a transportation technique that makes her particles disappear momentarily. Ino gasped to herself, 'I can't believe I'm in this mess. that technique. I cannot beat it alone. but I'll have to try' She gritted her teeth. Luckily it was a trap to trick Nierla into thinking that Ino was still without her soul for 5 minutes. Nierla raced in and stopped directly in front of Ino. Her sudden skid allowed a cloud of dust to rise around them. A sudden jolt ran through Nierla's body and she realized one significant thing, Ino's finger was touching her. The jolt coarsed through her body. Her body twitched slightly. The chakra formed a spiral around her tightly. Ino picked up her head up and slightly smirked. Nierla's body floated in air, the pressure of the constricts tightened until she coughed up blood. Nierla snapped her fingers and the chakra began to fade. Ino's mouth gapped, 'She's beginning to.change.' Nierla's eyes started to glow a fierce green. Emeralds appeared throughout her body, each emerald replaced a scar. Still in midair, Nierla started to clap her hands so fast that it almost sounded like the beating wings of a humming bird. The claps roared throughout the area and a fierce glow appeared from Nierla's hands, swirling around like flickering flames. "Now I'm pissed. This is where the fight will truly start! But it's time you prepare to die! Be happy you got to see my next form. Most have not survived getting past my 1st form. Feel special." Nierla held up her hands and like a baseball she pitched it right at Ino. Ino could hardly move, she already used up too much energy.
'This is it. I guess.' Ino thought with clenched teeth, 'Humph. not like anyone'll miss me.' The blast flashed when it made contact trees falling and snapping throughout the forest.
****** Chapter 7 End To be continued..
