Chapter Ten: First Appearance

I fell flat on the ground, smashing my forearm into the kougon anki as multiple shadow blades shot in my direction. "Dammit!!" I rolled into a kneeling position and switched kougon anki from kiba to ryu, throwing the sickle to block a shadow blade that flew towards the still unconscious Fuuko.
"Koganei!" I turned to see who had bellowed my name, and saw Recca dashing towards me. "Cover me, I'm gonna get Fuuko!" I sweatdropped and ran to intercept the blades that rained down upon us faster than ever.
"Kougon Anki, fourth form, mizuaki, boomerang!" I shouted, quickly transforming my madougu again and blocking the blades with it. I glared up at the shadows in the corner, racking my brain for a way to deal with this enemy.
I thought, raising kougon anki to block another attack. I blinked as Mikagami rushed towards the corner of the room, ensui raised. "Mikagami!" Red blood stained his t-shirt as he was cut on the shoulder by an unavoidable blade but he still slashed the shadows in half.
Mikagami flew backwards, smashing hard into the ground as shadows rammed into him. Recca looked up swiftly from looking down on Fuuko, focusing on his teammate's inert body. "Mikagami!! Daijobu ka??" Mikagami slowly propped himself up with his arms, nodding slowly.
"Ah…I'm fine…" he replied shakily, as a dark form started materializing in the corner where Mikagami attacked. From the corner of my eye, I noticed Yanagi scurry over to where Recca was cradling Yanagi in his arms, and then focused my attention on the man leaning against the walls of Kagero's house. He wore all black clothing, accompanied by a black mask that covered his whole head like a garbage bag.
I stood up, switching from mizuaki to an. "You're the bastard who wants to kill Yanagi." The rest of the conscious Hokage also stood up and fixed murderous glares on the stranger. I backed off so I was standing side by side with Recca, who looked like he was going to leap on the guy and rip him to pieces.
"Teme…" Recca growled under his breath, cracking his knuckles. I flung a hand in front of his face, making him blink and turn chibi. "Oy Koganei! What the hell you think you're doing??"
"Relax, Recca." I said, moving my hand back quickly because of the look on Recca's face told me he would bite it. I sweatdropped as I fitted the arrow to the bow string and drew it, pointing directly at the man in the shadows. Recca clenched his fist tightly then exhaled loudly, looking up with a wide smirk on his face.
"When the hell have I listened to your orders, Koganei?" he said, grinning like an idiot and writing a character in the air. "Na~"
"Fuujin!!!" A blast of air shot from Fuuko's madougu and smashed into the stranger. "How'd you like that, bastard! That's for hitting me like that!" Fuuko shouted, waving her fist at the man. In perfect unison, Recca and I sweatdropped. Domon lumbered up to us, kuchibashio in check.
"You okay, Fuuko-sama?" he asked, wiping some blood off of his face. She grinned and nodded, pointing towards Yanagi who wiped her bangs out of her eyes. The two girls exchanged smiles.
"Thanks to Yanagi-chan." Fuuko replied, stretching and taking out her sharp, needle like kunai.
"Sakoshita…Yanagi…"
We all looked up as one to where Fuuko's blast of wind had smashed the corner of the house in. A hand punched its way through the rubble followed by the rest of the man's body.
"Hehehehehe…Fools…Why do you protect this girl that causes you so much pain?"
Recca yawned and brushed his bangs out of his hair as well. "Where have we heard this from before?" I smirked and glanced at Recca.
"Perhaps from a certain letter?" I replied, happy that Recca had calmed down. Perhaps to prove me wrong, Recca rushed forwards, writing a character as he went.
"Saiha!!" A fire blade appeared on the tekkou that sealed his 'hidden strength'. I sighed and shot the arrow straight at the enemy.
"Feh" The shadow man raised his hand and darkness filled the whole room once again, my arrow bouncing off an invisible force. "You all still struggle to survive, to protect one meager life?" He pointed a finger towards Yanagi who stood behind Fuuko and Domon, her hands clutched together. "Can't you see I'm helping you?"
Domon bellowed in pain, falling to his knees as blood spurted from his shoulder. "Wha~ What the fuck was that???" A slash appeared on Fuuko's face as she looked to see if Domon was okay.
"Ah!!" she yelped in surprise, clapping a hand to the fresh slash on her face. "What is this??"
"Darkness…" Mikagami murmured, appearing beside them and helping Domon up. "His attacks are shadow based, and with no light his attacks appear invisible. He can't make all of the darkness attack us, but his shadow blades can't be seen now…" I heard Recca snort derisively and a character was written once again in flame.
"Nadare, let's stop this foolishness now." Recca said; the fireballs quickly were lighting up the room again. He looked back at the rest of us, crouched around Yanagi defensively. A grin appeared on his face.
"What the hell you guys doing?" He laughed. "Let's finish this bastard off." He pointed to the now visible man who now leant against a different portion of the wall, hand raised. A matching fanged grin materialized on my face.
"Roger!!"

TBC


 I kept on loosing my train of thought on this fic…wrote the 1st paragraph…an forgot was I was writing *sweatdrops* an then wrote bit more an didn't have any ideas again…