Authors note: Hmmmmmmmmm.... DON'T PANIC! CHU!
*pokes Death Boo with milk and cookies*
Thanks for saying anything about the fic-chu. =P
It's a double length chapter to avoid a second cliffie in the same fight-chu!
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Sakura slid in the air over the treetops, and tried to locate where Kakashi was.
A flash of Chakra on the ground level caught her attention. She folded her wings slightly and dived in.
"Faiarii~!!" She yelled, and swung her magic wand down in a large arc. A decently sized fireball erupted from the wand and shot violently at the Chakra target mark placed by Kakashi.
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"Crap."
Kakashi dashed away from the flames raining from the sky, and tried to outflank the enemy ninja. Sakura's bombardment crashed through the higher branches and rained heavily around the area where Kakashi last spotted her.
As expected, Kakashi's heightened Byakugan vision quickly spotted the struggling kunoichi skipping between the trees as the flaming distraction intensified. She didn't stop moving though, and quickly gained back height and speed.
He checked around the surroundings quickly, but couldn't see either Sasuke or Naruto at the immediate danger zone. Kakashi flicked through several seals, and shot another Chakra mark at the enemy. He quickly extended his distance to her to about two hundred feet.
Sakura saw the second mark just below her, this time a green target.
"Uhh", she grunted.
Sakura drew a card from her pocket, and tapped it lightly with the pink magic wand.
"Uindii~!" Sakura shouted and gestured downwards with the wand. A swarm of wind blades slashed at the target - Instantly ripping dozens of treetops into small splinters and strips of leaves.
Kakashi watched the female ninja struggle even more from a safe distance. The slashing air blades rained heavily down on her, forcing the girl to just concentrate on living instead of staying hidden.
She suddenly dropped several feet towards the ground, and finally stopped on a low branch. Kakashi signalled to Sakura again, and quickly prepared another concealment Jutsu. He switched the ninja forehead protector over to cover his Byakugan eye, uncovering the Sharingan eye. He sighed as he knew what was coming.
Something stabbed Kakashi in the head. Like a kunai thrust right through the head. He almost keeled over, but then stopped into a crouching mess, holding his stomach with the right hand and leaning with his left hand against the tree. He spat out some stomach acid and turned his head up.
"Guuuh..." he let a sound slip out from his lips. Kakashi grabbed his face around the left eye and gripped hard. Changing the bloodline eye like this was really too painful for him. Kakashi had to quickly pump some heavy Chakra into the Sharingan eye to at least stabilize the new vision a little.
After a short moment he could start to see again with the familiar Sharingan "strategist vision" as he also liked to call it. See the world as a chess game where you predict and count some of the possible moves ahead, quickly identify the reasons for every action, and also decide the best course of action. The insightful vision where you create a future. Well, more accurately would create, if he had some Uchiha blood in him...
Kakashi pushed the invading thoughts away with the pain. There was no mistake in his insight: The girl was wounded and trapped for good. Her strength was already visibly pouring out of her bleeding side. Kakashi gritted his teeth rather forcefully and stood up, but the facemask did a good job in concealing most signs of weakness. He forced the visible part of his face into a relaxed state and brushed up the drooping grey hairs.
Sakura released her Jutsu, causing the wings on her back to disappear in a puff of smoke, and landed on her knees on a branch just behind Kakashi. She panted hard in a slumped, half-sitting position.
"Wait here", he murmured through the throbbing pain and dashed in. She had used several heavy Jutsu, and wasn't too confident in her stamina to begin with. Kakashi had to finish this fight on his own now.
Sakura made a pained face, and pushed herself on to another attack. Though it didn't do any good, only made her drop all the way to the ground. That wasn't necessarily a good thing either, as it knocked the breath completely out of Sakura. She gagged on the ground and cursed herself.
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Kakashi stood on a branch at about fifteen feet above ground level, and stared at the hostile kunoichi catching her breath on another branch. She flicked her blue-green-red-yellow-coloured hair over casually, and grabbed her right arm with her left hand. It had been stabbed, most likely during Sakura's wind attack, and was bleeding readily. The red blood smeared all over her white flashy gown, and the expensive diamonds decorating it.
"Time to give up. Who are you and why did you attack us?"
The girl hissed at Kakashi, and checked for a way out. She was just about to skip up the branches along the only feasible escape route, as she noticed a dark figure standing further ahead ready to intercept her. It was someone who held a small animal in their hands.
"You aren't going anywhere", the figure pointed out with a mellow voice, and jumped closer.
"Sasuke. How's Naruto?" Kakashi asked.
"Well, as you can see..." Sasuke held Naruchu in his hands.
"I'm completely fine-chu!!"
"The dobe's pretty much screwed."
"Shut up-chu!"
Kakashi glanced downwards and shook his head a little.
"Ahou Henge no Jutsu? Really..." Kakashi thought to himself.
Sakura limped in to complete the surrounding formation.
"Sakura-chun!!" Naruchu squeaked.
"Are you ok-chu?"
"Naruto...? Is that you?"
"Of course it's me-chu!"
"HAhahhahahaHAHAha!!" the blue-green-red-yellow-haired girl suddenly laughed.
"It seems everyone has finally made their way here, so we can proceed on with exterminating you all", she boasted with a menacing grin, and let go of her bleeding right arm. She formed several seals with the left hand quickly.
"One-handed seals? I think we've seen something like this before..." Kakashi pondered.
His predictions were confirmed immediately, as ice begun to form at a very large scale around the four of them.
"Hijutsu, Demonic Ice Mirrors!" She shrieked and dropped down to her knees.
"For Haku's sake, I will kill you all..."
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The crash of water forced into instant freezing, the constant loud noise of icy mirrors building up suddenly died down. Everyone was already inside the giant ice globe. The Leaf nins checked for any signs of weakness, but didn't really find anything glaring. Sasuke noted the difference in the amount of ice used for the Jutsu.
"The mirrors made by that girly boy had large gaps between them, but these are built right onto each other..." he pondered and frowned slightly on the outside.
"Heh heh heh heh..." the unidentified kunoichi chuckled.
"Haku-chan used a severely incomplete version of this Jutsu... But he did very well to discover it on his own. I gathered up his whole story from the Hidden Mist village and the Wave Country... Each and every part of the sad, painful story you bastards left waiting for me... At the end of all those years of desperate searching..."
"Takki-oneesan will get your revenge... Yes..." she sighed contently.
Sasuke threw a kunai at her, but it just idly flew through her. The girl's image blurred and then disappeared.
"You should know this Jutsu at least better than that..." the reflections of her said from all over the mirrors.
"Kyouji Takyoku will now punish you, in the name of the moonlight reflection..."
"Witness the FULL POWER of the Demonic Ice Mirrors...!!!" Takyoku cackled from the mirrors as she threw her beautiful head back. The right side of her gown had become completely red from all the blood by now, and was slowly forming a puddle on the ground beside her.
Sasuke tensed up. He still remembered how it went last time, taking a long time before he could even get used to the speed.
"But I'm different now", Sasuke resolutely confirmed in his head, and locked his Sharingan eyes on the woman.
"The full power of this Jutsu isn't speed, but something completely different..." She wheezed a little, and formed some seals.
Smaller mirrors appeared inside the globe, and each of the Team seven ninjas saw several reflections of themselves everywhere.
Sasuke saw the deep red Sharingan eyes staring back at him intently from the mirrors. Jaw-length hair framed his firm but smooth, angel-like features.
The bright light sparkled from Naruchu's golden orange fur. If he leaned over to a good attacking pose, the resulting image got his stomach full of butterflies.
"Hmmm-chu... I never realized hamsters were this cool-chu..."
Sakura admired the long pink hair tied up and flooding down her sweet face, and further along the not-so-flat-chested-anymore body. Even the large forehead seemed mysteriously romantic tonight.
Kakashi looked at his manly chin in the reflection, which shaped up to a beautiful nondescript coolness surrounding the air around him.
"What a devious Jutsu..." Kakashi muttered as he shook himself out of it.
"That's correct, Copy Ninja-kun. This Genjutsu takes advantage of our environment at a much deeper level than your power has ever the chance to really influence in. We are inside a fiction, and mirrors are the absolutely most horrifying thing you will ever see happening in them!! HAHahahahHAHAhaha!!"
Kakashi was about to argue back, and point out male pregnancy, but instead he kept on searching for anything to save them.
"HAHahHAAHAhHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHhahahAHAhahAHahhahAHAhHHAah!!!"
"AHhaAHHAhaahHHAHAhaHahHAHAhaahAHAHAHaahhHA!!"
"AHahaHHAhahHAHahahHAHHahahahAHaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"
"Ok, that's just about enough laughing for today", Sasuke said to the images of Takyoku.
"If you didn't yet find out what destroyed this Jutsu the last time, let me show you!" He booted up the Sharingan eyes, and begun to roll the three dots frantically around and around in his eyes.
"I don't think it was you-chu..." Naruchu muttered to himself.
"Sharingan!" He mentally shouted, and performed a large amount of seals.
"This is a fitting end for you, freak", Sasuke hissed from between his teeth and finished the Jutsu. Takyoku widened her eyes briefly, and then just smirked.
"Ahou Henge no Jutsu!"
Kakashi saw the amount of Chakra Sasuke was using for the Jutsu, but didn't really have time to react any longer.
"Damn", he muttered quietly, and watched what was about to happen.
The first mirror in front of Sasuke reflected the Jutsu right back at him. Upon landing it covered him in a thick cloud of smoke.
Naruchu fell squealing down to the ground after Sasuke disappeared into the smoke.
"Yare yare... Ahou Henge indeed... Heheh... Heh..." the girl chuckled. She shifted over to press the wound on her right side again. Her sparkling white gown was totally drenched in red blood, but the golden blinking disco eyes still glared steel-hard at them.
"Ehehe... I haven't had a fight this funny in a long, long time..." Takyoku continued, and formed a pained grin on her face.
Sakura still admired her own curves and pink hair from the smaller mirrors. She placed her left hand to her hips and slightly wiggled them sideways, liking what she saw from the dozens of different reflection angles.
Kakashi looked over his shoulder. A beautifully handsome face masked man stared right back at him. How tempting it was just to forget the stupid fighting and keep on admiring the mirror images... The mirror images calling for his attention...
How thrillingly dangerous situation were they in...
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The smoke cloud had begun to dissolve. A pile of Sasuke's clothes appeared in sight, and a pissed off Naruchu sitting on top of them.
"Chu... Chuu..." he muttered, and grabbed Sasuke's boxers with his teeth (kinky!).
"Yuck-chu!!"
"These taste like crap-chu..."
"Shut up, you idiot-ssu."
"What-chu?"
"Let go of my boxers-ssu. And they don't taste like crap-ssu... You do-ssu."
A dark blue figure, about the size and shape of Naruchu, appeared from the cloth pile.
"And who the heck are chuu?"
"Me-ssu? I am... Sasumon-ssu... The fire breathing hamster-family avenger Pokemon-ssu. And I will revenge this atrocity-ssu..." Sasumon snarled at the mirror images of himself, and shook his little paw at them.
Sasumon thought he looked pretty cool in the reflections.
Meanwhile the icy globe had begun to slowly extend towards the ground and thicken up. There was about thirty feet of room left inside the icy globe. Takyoku's reflections panted and held her bleeding side in the mirrors.
"Naruto, Sasuke!" Kakashi yelled.
"What-chu-ssu?" They asked simultaneously.
"Remember the rodent Taijutsu we learned earlier", he continued, hoping that Takyoku wouldn't realize what he was after.
"What good would that be now-ssu..."
"Uhh, Sasuke...chu..."
"What-ssu?"
"I think I know what Kakashi-sensei refers to-chu."
Sasumon pondered for a moment, and scratched his furry dark blue jaw, but didn't say anything.
"...Fusion-chu..."
Sasumon eyed him.
"Fusion-ssu..."
"Fusion-chuu... uurgh."
"Oh crap-ssu."
"Ditto-chu."
"You suck, dobe-ssu."
"So do you, bastard-chu."
"Why didn't you avoid the Jutsu-ssu?"
"Why did you cast it on yourself-chu?"
"Shut up you chuu-idiot-ssu."
"Bastard-chu."
Sasumon was about seven inches high, and Naruchu about six. They were both approximately a feet in length.
"Dammit-ssu, we're the right size and strength for this-ssu. Has Kakashi finally gone completely out of his mind-ssu?" Sasuke pondered in his head. He had made a point during their training, that any Fusion with him was very totally out of question.
Takyoku glanced at the orange and dark blue hamsters arguing and yelling at each other, then looked at the pink figure enthralled by her reflections, and finally turned her attention to Kakashi. The teacher was most likely the only enemy with any strength or sanity left here.
Kakashi dug up the last bits of his Chakra, and prepared to stall Takyoku until the Fusion was completed.
"I'm gonna start-chu."
"Oh shit-ssu."
"I'm gonna attack-ssu."
"What-chu!?"
Kakashi focused Chakra to his feet and bolted up above the smaller mirrors. He could still follow Takyoku's fast movements, but his eyes were starting to seriously drain him dry.
"Damn. How careless and stupid of me... I wonder if it's too late already..." Kakashi pondered quickly as sweat poured down the side of his face.
Kakashi closed his eyes and crossed his fingers into the Ram seal.
"Lets see if this works", he said and pumped the last bits of his Chakra into the Byakugan eye, hidden under the forehead protector. A blurry dark vision opened in front of him. Something moved between the mirrors at a very fast speed. He saw it will turn at him briefly, and that he needed to dodge already.
Kakashi held his eyes still closed and jumped off towards the icy edge, just before a swarm of steel needles pierced his previous position into a slushy mess. Two needles pierced his left foot. Some of the smaller mirrors cracked under his weight, and Kakashi quickly moved on before he would fall back down.
Sasumon jumped in and chased after Takyoku's fast movements. He was left behind in an instant.
"Damn it all-ssu", he snarled.
Naruchu hopped in from behind him and squealed horribly.
"Raiken-chu!! Shourai-chu!!"
A grand lightning sparked out from Naruchu's throat and forcibly struck against the mirror Takyoku just entered. The ear-splitting noise at the contact took all five of them by surprise, but only few tiny pieces of ice flew through the air as a result. The mirror was undamaged.
"Damn-chu!!"
"Mada mada...ssu!" Sasumon hopped over Naruto and pressed on the attack.
"Karyuu Kokyuu~!!"
Sasumon arced his small body backwards. The dark smoke in his mouth smothered him for a moment, until Sasumon lashed out a large fireball by springing his body back straight. The whole globe trembled and creaked at the mirror joints when the ball made impact, and the leftover flames deflected everywhere in a flooding flame wave.
Kakashi had already taken cover, and Sasumon had done so too. Naruchu ended up with only some burned fur.
The mirrors were undamaged. More precisely, Takyoku used more Chakra to push the ice forward again, ever closer to enclosing everyone inside into a lump of ice.
But Sakura... Heh… Sakura… She was pretty badly burned.
"....."
Sakura was pretty mad, too.
".... You.... Damn.... Idiot!!" She yelled. Sasumon flinched.
"Why did you have to ruin my beautiful mirror images!??! God damn sheesh!!!"
She stomped her foot hard against the ice on the ground. It cracked under her fierce pressure.
"I'm officially Pissed... Off... Right now!!" and formed an evil, mad grin on her face.
"Naruto, Sasuke, do it now!" Kakashi shouted from his cover.
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Sakura flicked through several seals with a wicked grin on her face. An aura of negative energy poured out from her, and concentrated into a small cloud over her pink bangs. Soon an even more pissed off Sakura was recognizable from the aura shapes, though slightly deformed and covered with ever shifting black shadows.
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-chu!!"
"Left, right, up, down, B, Select-ssu..."
"Damn-chu! Are you really even trying to do this-chu!?" Naruchu yelled at Sasumon.
"Inner Sakura... Shussho!" she spat out, and drooled on her Chinese ninja dress. Veins bulged on her large forehead briefly, and Sakura's eyes rolled over. She passed out on the icy ground.
The energy concentration above her flinched a little and looked rather surprised. KWA HWA HWA... It examined the hands and body covered in the shifting shadows. KWA HWA HWA HWA HWA... It flew slightly higher and strode over to the remaining smaller mirrors. KWA HWA HWA... It looked at its reflections with a greatly amused expression. KWA HWA HWA HWA HWAAA...
"She actually released Inner Sakura... This might just work out..." Kakashi muttered quietly in his hideout.
Naruchu smacked Sasumon upside the head with his small paw.
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-ssu? I know it... ssu..."
"It's just so freaky-ssu. With a dobe like you-ssu."
"Shut up-chu!"
"Here we go-chu!!"
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-chu!"
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, ... Argh-ssu."
"Dammit all-chu!!"
"Oh wait, which one is the host-ssu?"
"Does it matter-chu?"
"Yes, you idiot-ssu. Our name will be either Sasuchu or Narumon depending on it-ssu."
"We'll be Narumon-chu!"
"No way in hell-ssu."
"The host is the one below-chu?"
Sasumon grunted.
"Yes-ssu..." -__- ;;
"Uhh! Ok, we can be Sasuchu then-chu."
Naruchu grinned at him.
"You suck-ssu."
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-chu!!"
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-ssu..."
Naruchu and Sasumon stood side to side and pressed their hamster fingertips against each others'.
Sasumon then hopped to the ground in full length, and pressed his head to the ground.
"Hurry up, dobe-ssu."
Naruchu chuckled and hopped behind him. He put his paws on Sasumon's back.
"What are you chuckling at, idiot-ssu."
Naruchu chuckled some more, and 'inserted' himself into Sasumon from behind. Woot. Sasuke wailed in pain.
"Stop rushing everything, idiot-ssu…" he muttered at Naruchu through the pain.
"Hehe. Sorry Uke-chun", he chuckled back at Sasumon.
"FUSION-ssu-chu!"
Naruchu was sucked into Sasuke through the insertion. o_____O ;;;
Lightning and fire swirled around the blue-orange-striped hamster-like creature, until the elements swallowed them up whole.
Takyoku stood up in the mirrors.
"HEheheheheHEhe. That was well enough time to patch myself up. Eat lead, suckers!!"
She formed another seal, and a Chakra burst pushed the ice globe forward again. Kakashi's foot got stuck in the suddenly growing ice, but he pulled himself free quickly. The room to move in diminished at a fast pace, while Takyoku's grip on the fight strengthened even more.
Inner Sakura grinned darkly, and shot a dark energy blast at the nearest small mirror. It fell down in pieces from the attack, and the rest of the attack hit one of the bigger mirrors.
The large mirrors just ate the incoming energy without taking any kind of damage.
The ice pushed further forward, and swallowed up the vortex with Naruchu and Sasumon inside. Kakashi grabbed Sakura's unconscious body and skipped to safety. He stared at the vortex, which kept on spinning still inside the ice, and hoped they could still break free. Kakashi stopped to the last bit of ground free from ice and placed Sakura down.
"What the heck am I doing... Letting the kids do all the suicide attacks..." he pondered to himself when he looked at the sleeping (and drooling) Sakura.
"I'll..." Kakashi muttered and gathered up his Chakra.
"But everyone will die then... Damn..."
KWA HWA HWA HWA... The Inner Sakura was half frozen into the ice. The dark figure formed a seal and her body split in small pieces. KWA HWA HWA... They slowly floated around, and then reformed in the air.
The lower half of her body was still inside the ice. KWA HWA HWA HWA!!
The Inner Sakura looked pretty confused about the whole thing. KWA HWA...
The fire-lightning vortex inside the ice stopped spinning, and gradually died down.
The upper half of Inner Sakura slowly fell towards the ground. KWA HWA HWA...!
Kakashi looked around, alarmed.
Takyoku prepared to make another push with the ice. She released the Chakra and the ice swarmed onwards at a faster pace again.
"I do know my share of Kinjutsu..." Kakashi muttered.
"Is this really it? Did they all fail?" he looked around once more, seeing if anyone was still up to fighting. He had spent most of his Chakra in keeping Byakugan up for the whole day, and the rest into switching over to Sharingan. Naruto and Sasuke were nowhere to be seen. Inner Sakura fell to the ice-covered ground.
Sakura lay in his arms, and looked almost lifeless.
"A self destruct technique will rip everything and everyone totally apart, and any survivor will be buried under all this ice", Kakashi pondered.
He exhaled sharply as a revelation struck.
"What if that girl is fast enough to eject herself out?"
"Damn..."
Loud crackling echoed all over the globe as the ice kept on enclosing everything.
Takyoku looked at them wickedly, and licked her fingers in the mirror images.
"Better than to die like this..."
Kakashi concentrated. Ice took hold of his feet and Sakura's body lying on the ground. Inner Sakura's upper body was partly enclosed in the ice. The globe was now completely sealed in the expanding icy layers.
Kakashi opened his Sharingan eye wide, and pushed Chakra out.
"Initial gate, Heal gate, Life gate..." Kakashi murmured and then checked his disappearing wounds. He ripped his legs out from the ice, and formed a small Chakra blade.
"Damn. I'm really beat it seems..."
He quickly cut Sakura out from the ice and held her cold and lifeless body tight.
"And you little sweetie never got to do it, did you? I learned all sorts of things from Jiraiya's books, maybe..." His eyes trailed over Sakura's young body, and then held her in place for a kiss. He placed his hand behind Sakura's neck and pulled her sleeping face closer. His other hand was about to pull the facemask off.
A loud explosion shook him awake from the daze, rocking everything violently for a short while.
Takyoku snorted. She tied up the sweaty blue-green-red-yellow-colored hair in a ponytail, and looked at the source of the explosion with her golden eyes.
The whole upper portion of the globe suddenly had a huge crack in it. The remaining half of Inner Sakura glared at Kakashi with eyes that could kill. Kakashi sweatdropped. Inner Sakura had made its lower body explode with all strength and might it had available.
"Sorry, sorry... Heheh..."
"But it worked, no?" Kakashi tried.
Inner Sakura still glared at him, hard. It dissolved into Chakra waves and poured back into Sakura. Kakashi noticed her body suddenly became warmer, and she opened her eyes in Kakashi's arms, right in front of his face.
"Kakashi... Sensei...?"
"Uhh. Hi."
"Why are you...?"
"Long story. Are you ok?"
"Hnn..."
Kakashi turned to look at where Naruto and Sasuke were enclosed earlier. Takyoku pushed the ice forward again, healing the fresh large crack by the minute.
"Heheheh!! Just freeze up already, you dirty maggots!!"
Another huge explosion shocked the foundations of the ice globe.
"Kee..!!" a sudden squeal came from somewhere.
A third explosion rocked the globe. This time the ice finally broke, and a yellow fur ball rolled in from the broken roof.
"Kee!" It squealed.
"What the heck is that...?" Sakura asked, and still relaxed in Kakashi's arms.
A yellow furry monkey stood in front of them. It had a bright red tail, though, which it shook around fiercely. The thing was about waist-high compared to Sakura.
"I am Sasukichi-kee!"
"Kee?"
"Kee!! Thanks for the earlier explosion, Sakura-kee, it gave enough room to complete the Fusion-kee."
"Uhh, is that a compliment from Sasuke or Naruto..." Sakura pondered in her head.
"Good to see you two again", Kakashi smiled with his left eye at them.
He fell down to the ground unconscious, and Sakura ended up sitting on his chest.
"Kakashi-sensei-kee?"
"Kakashi-sensei!!"
"Same thing happened in the Wave Country..." Sakura said.
"We must finish this now-kee."
"Yeah."
Sakura pulled out her pendant and placed it on the palm of her hand.
"By the contradiction of Sakura Cards, I command you! Stupid wand!"
Her pendant begun to shine brightly, and in a swirl of wind it quickly enlarged and extended into a long pink magic wand.
Sasukichi formed a seal and yelled, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Five yellow monkey clones with red tails appeared around Sakura and Sasukichi.
Sakura pulled out a card, and grinned at the intently concentrating Takyoku's in the mirrors.
"You're history, bitch!"
"Like you're one to say that-kee..." Sasukichi (very) quietly muttered.
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The ice pushed forward again. Two huge cracks were still visible on the walls of the icy globe, but they were being fast reinforced with fresh ice. The walls surrounding them were several feet thick by now.
The Sasukichi clones charged at the mirrors, and each hit forcibly against an image of Takyoku. Five small cracks were visible after the attacks.
"It's breaking. Good", Sakura said.
Takyoku opened her eyes, and slashed at the Sasukichi's. Two were caught in the head with an ice spike, but three managed to dodge. The original was still beside Sakura, preparing another Jutsu eyes closed. The small cracks healed from the mirrors.
"Sakura-kee", the Sasukichi next to her said.
"What?"
"Can you give us a minute to power up-kee?"
"A minute? I'll be finished by then."
She grinned, and Sasukichi couldn't avoid opening one eye to glance at the girl. One who knew her during the Hidden Leaf times wouldn't believe this was the same person. She held out two cards and begun casting.
"Dashu~!" She yelled, and Chakra formed around her legs.
"Suoodo~!" She she continued and held the magic wand high. It transformed into a sword.
"Here I come, flashy bitch!!"
Takyoku kneeled with her eyes closed in the mirrors, focusing on pushing the ice forward. She opened her eyes and prepared to fight against Sakura.
Sasukichi tried to close the fight off from their mind.
Idiot-kee. What are you doing-kee? I'm trying to win the fight, bastard-kee. Well why don't you do something already-kee? I'm doing all the time-kee!! I think you should just shut up until I'm ready-kee! What if you are preparing a Marmalade Pudding no Jutsu or something as intelligent-kee? Well I'm not-kee!! I'm planning this-kee!
Sasukichi's bones suddenly ached. They hissed slightly as the pain inside them grew.
What the heck are you doing-kee?
Something popped out from Sasukichi's body. It was a second tail. Then a third one scraped off from him too.
What kinda joke is this-kee? Just keep on pushing, bastard-kee!! Whatever-kee...
The remaining tails lashed out in fast form as Sasumon didn't hold back any longer. Not counting the original tail, Sasukichi had nine long tails, and they were all made from Chakra.
Sakura dashed forward at blinding speed with the help of her Dash-card. She struck the mirror where Takyoku entered in with her sword, but the kunoichi had already run away. Takyoku popped the last remaining Sasukichi clone out casually as she passed by, and entered another mirror. Sakura followed her closely and stabbed the next mirror.
Takyoku was nowhere to be seen, though.
"Damn that bitch!!" Sakura cursed. She dashed away to hide from the incoming steel and ice needles.
This is my power-kee. Take a good look at it while you can-kee! What are you...kee...
Sasukichi opened their eyes. They saw Sakura and Takyoku fight it out on the other end of the globe. They blurred and appeared next to Takyoku.
"What!?" was all she had time to think when the monkey's balled fist struck her very hard on the side.
"Kee!!" Sasukichi squealed, clearly amazed by their prowess.
The icy globe begun to spin around, and needles flew in from everywhere. Sakura dashed away behind the remaining smaller mirrors, but Sasukichi didn't have anywhere to go.
"Katon, Go-kakyu!" Sasukichi yelled and blew out a massive fire inferno with Ninetails' Chakra. The icy needles melted into water, and the steel needles were easily blown away.
"Heh heh heh... You damn monkey... Lets see how you like this!" the reflections of Takyoku taunted him. She formed a seal and released a huge portion of Chakra.
The spinning intensified and endless needles rained on Sasukichi.
"Goukakyu!!" they yelled again, and exhaled fire to all directions.
The needles kept on coming.
"Goukakyu!" Sasukichi yelled for the third time, and against blew out fire.
Some of the needles got through.
"Goukakyu..." they breathed one more fireball out.
The needle attack died down.
Sakura popped her head out from the hideout (she quickly pulled Kakashi in with her before hiding) and looked at Sasukichi, who was slumped over a pile of needles. They had been severely pierced with numerous needles, and wasted tons of Chakra in repeated high-level fire attacks.
Sakura took out a card, and tapped it with her wand.
"Summon... Temari!"
Gaara's older sister came out from Sakura's wand.
"Hi Temari-chan."
"Hello Sakura."
Get up, dobe-kee... I refuse to spend an eternity in the afterlife with you-kee... Dobe-kee... Shut up, idiot-kee. Let me sleep-kee...
"What's the deal here?" Temari asked.
"We need to break through these mirrors", Sakura answered.
Sasukichi forced their eyes open. They raised their right hand and pointed the open palm at the two girls.
"Help us, Sakura-chan, Temari... You are our only hope-kee..."
Sasukichi passed out.
Temari nodded.
"Can't be helped, I guess."
Sakura just grinned as an answer.
"Heheheheh... Damn brat... Made me waste that much Chakra before finishing you two", Takyoku said from between her gritted teeth.
Temari grabbed her fan and jumped up in the air. She slid in the air on the fan. Sakura took out another card.
"Uindii~!" she cast the wind attack once more.
"Kamaitachi!" Temari yelled and swooped her fan.
A large wave of small wind blades scraped the surfaces of the mirrors. Sakura's larger blades followed, smashing almost all of the smaller mirrors in pieces. The wind attacks made contact at one of the large mirrors, and made dozens of severe cracks appear through it. The greater portion of the power got deflected around the globe, wounding both Sakura and Temari lightly. Sasukichi ended up with some fresh wounds as well.
Sakura dropped to her knees, and panted hard once more.
"Sheesh... Pfffffffth... I'm gonna kill myself with this damn card someday..."
"Are you ok, Sakura?" Temari asked.
"Yeah... Huff... Sure..." she answered.
"HAHAhahHAhahaHAHH!! You lousy maggots!!" Takyoku taunted them.
"You are nothing in front of my mirrors of endless power! They'll reflect back anything you throw at them!! MwhahahahahahahahHAHAhaHAHAhahaHAHAHAHAhaHAHaHHAhahaHAhahAHahA!!!"
Sakura blinked.
"Temari-chan..."
"Yes?"
"Lets continue chatting later tonight, I have to finish this geek off."
"I understand."
Sakura held the earlier card above her head, and Temari hopped into it. The card read "Temari" on the nametag, and Sakura's name was written in tiny neat letters on the edge.
"HhahaHAh. You'll finish me? Maybe not. Give me a moment and I'll push the ice to cover you all... Then I'll drag your frozen bodies back to the Kyouji village and crucify them above the entrance as a reminder to everyone who wants to mess with the clan!"
"And the best part is that inside my ice, your bodies will stay recognizable for a long time to come... I'll call your friends and families to admire your rotten fates!!! MWMAWMAMWAWHAWHAHAHHAHAAHWHWHAWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
"You sick, sick bitch..." Sakura snarled at her.
She held another card in front of her.
"See you in hell."
"Mirraa~!"
A mirror formed in front of Sakura.
"Hehehehe.. Is that supposed to do something to me?"
She placed it in front of the smaller mirrors.
"Dashu~!" she said.
Sakura dashed quickly to Sasukichi and dragged the boys quickly back to Kakashi. The smaller mirrors suddenly trembled slightly.
"Huh?"
Takyoku threw a swarm of ice needles at the magical mirror, but it reflected them all back. The smaller mirrors shook violently.
"It's reflecting your mirrors' power back and forth between them, amplifying the strength every pass. Lets see which one breaks first", Sakura grinned at Takyoku.
"Pfft."
Takyoku threw some needles at Sakura.
"Shiirudo~!"
A smaller shield globe formed around the four of them, present in only three bodies though. The needles clanked uselessly off the shield.
Takyoku targeted the smaller mirrors this time, and broke them all.
"Hah!"
The mirror powers started to reflect between the larger mirrors and Sakura's mirror.
"No, it cannot be!"
The whole icy globe begun to shake violently, and several large cracks formed all over.
"You gave me this idea by talking about the infinite strength and how your mirrors deflect the power back", Sakura screamed over the rising noise.
"Damn brats...!!" Takyoku shreaked back.
The night sky peeked in from the larger cracks. Takyoku escaped out from the mirrors.
"Die in there, then!!" She yelled at the collapsing ice mirrors.
"DAMN!!" Takyoku yelled. She didn't really believe her Jutsu could be broken like that.
"Heh... Who's laughing now?" a female voice said behind and above Takyoku.
She turned around to see if they really got out from the globe or not.
"Kamaitachi!!"
The wind attack caught Takyoku big time, and threw her forcibly against a tree trunk. Everything blacked out for her.
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"Haku died protecting the one he loved the most."
Takyoku woke up to the mention of her little cousin.
"Huh...?" she muttered and tried to stand up. Her body rebelled fiercely against the attempt to rise up. She couldn't do so anyway, since she was tied sitting to a tree trunk.
She saw a tired Sakura staring at her.
"So you all survived..."
"So far so good. You know, I should kill you right now."
"Then do so."
"I just might."
Takyoku tried to size up the other girl. Was she a killer or not?
"I'm not going to do that for now, though. Not before you hear our version of Haku's story..."
Takyoku snarled and glared hard at Sakura. Her golden eyes woke up and the color begun to blink annoyingly again.
"Some freaky eyes you have."
"..."
"Ok. What I'm trying to say... No one tried to kill Haku. He was a victim there."
Takyoku looked oddly at Sakura.
"What do you mean? You killed them both on the bridge to accomplish your mission."
"Where did you hear that?"
"From both the villagers and the assassins of Gatou."
"Uhh… You see... Haku and Zabuza were fooled from the start. Gatou never intended to pay a cent to them. That's why he used missing-nins to accomplish the mission of killing the bridge builders."
"What?"
"Huh? What do you mean, what? Gatou fooled them. He came in with dozens of his own men when the fight was ending in our favour. Then Zabuza killed Gatou for betraying them, but was lethally wounded while doing so... Haku died few minutes earlier, when he blocked an attack by Kakashi-sensei, which would have killed Zabuza."
"So you DID kill him!"
"That wasn't something he could have helped. Kakashi never aimed at him, but at Zabuza."
Takyoku sighed.
"Naruto explained later to me, that Haku lost his will to live after they broke through the mirrors. He asked Naruto to finish him off, but then he hurried off to help Zabuza with the greatest sacrifice he could give."
Sakura spotted a tear falling down Takyoku's face.
She muttered something to Sakura, and went back to sleep.
"I don't think she's such a bitch after all. Maybe I'll just stab her a little", Sakura pondered, and grinned wickedly for a short moment.
"Whoops, I hope no one saw that..." She looked around frantically, but everyone was asleep. Sasuke and Naruto were back to hamsters, and the Ahou Henge should dissolve in a few more hours.
Sasumon grunted and opened his eyes.
"Sasuke-kun! How glad I am that you two survived..."
"...Even if you are a stupid hamster still..." she very quietly added.
Sakura rose up from Takyoku's side and looked briefly at the sleeping Kakashi. She walked over towards Sasuke.
Sasumon turned his neck to look at the pink-haired girl. One year ago they had a serious talk about their possible relationship, and after that she has formed a much healthier attitude towards him. He would definately kill anyone who tried to cuddle him now, anyways.
"How are you feeling? I was rather surprised when Naruto came out of your... Butt..." Sakura snickered quietly and blushed a little.
"...Ssssu!!!"
Sasumon gritted his teeth as he moved a little. His ass was in flames! What the hell happened down there!?!?!
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Two dark figures stared at the group of five from a high branch.
"Arez theyz themz?" the first one asked.
"Yesh... Theh girlh ish onlyh pointh sevenh oneh, stillh theh strongesth ofh theh normalh onesh..." the second one answered.
"Howz aboutz thez weirdz guyz?"
"Heh seemsh toh beh ath leasth pointh fiftyh..."
"Magnifzicentz."
One of the dark figures worked on something attached to its head, and pressed a button.
"Veryz goodz..."
The figures pondered something over very intently.
"Wez shallz makez contactz withz himz veryz soonz..."
"Soh shallh weh doh."
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Wow wow! It must have been the fight of the century-chu! Or maybe the millennium-chu! But why is Temari Sakura's summon!? How mysterious! Who were the ominous dark figures?! Where are the squirrels!? Does this story have any meaning any longer?! Who really cares!?
But be not afraid! More is on it's way... Yay...
*pokes Death Boo with milk and cookies*
Thanks for saying anything about the fic-chu. =P
It's a double length chapter to avoid a second cliffie in the same fight-chu!
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Sakura slid in the air over the treetops, and tried to locate where Kakashi was.
A flash of Chakra on the ground level caught her attention. She folded her wings slightly and dived in.
"Faiarii~!!" She yelled, and swung her magic wand down in a large arc. A decently sized fireball erupted from the wand and shot violently at the Chakra target mark placed by Kakashi.
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"Crap."
Kakashi dashed away from the flames raining from the sky, and tried to outflank the enemy ninja. Sakura's bombardment crashed through the higher branches and rained heavily around the area where Kakashi last spotted her.
As expected, Kakashi's heightened Byakugan vision quickly spotted the struggling kunoichi skipping between the trees as the flaming distraction intensified. She didn't stop moving though, and quickly gained back height and speed.
He checked around the surroundings quickly, but couldn't see either Sasuke or Naruto at the immediate danger zone. Kakashi flicked through several seals, and shot another Chakra mark at the enemy. He quickly extended his distance to her to about two hundred feet.
Sakura saw the second mark just below her, this time a green target.
"Uhh", she grunted.
Sakura drew a card from her pocket, and tapped it lightly with the pink magic wand.
"Uindii~!" Sakura shouted and gestured downwards with the wand. A swarm of wind blades slashed at the target - Instantly ripping dozens of treetops into small splinters and strips of leaves.
Kakashi watched the female ninja struggle even more from a safe distance. The slashing air blades rained heavily down on her, forcing the girl to just concentrate on living instead of staying hidden.
She suddenly dropped several feet towards the ground, and finally stopped on a low branch. Kakashi signalled to Sakura again, and quickly prepared another concealment Jutsu. He switched the ninja forehead protector over to cover his Byakugan eye, uncovering the Sharingan eye. He sighed as he knew what was coming.
Something stabbed Kakashi in the head. Like a kunai thrust right through the head. He almost keeled over, but then stopped into a crouching mess, holding his stomach with the right hand and leaning with his left hand against the tree. He spat out some stomach acid and turned his head up.
"Guuuh..." he let a sound slip out from his lips. Kakashi grabbed his face around the left eye and gripped hard. Changing the bloodline eye like this was really too painful for him. Kakashi had to quickly pump some heavy Chakra into the Sharingan eye to at least stabilize the new vision a little.
After a short moment he could start to see again with the familiar Sharingan "strategist vision" as he also liked to call it. See the world as a chess game where you predict and count some of the possible moves ahead, quickly identify the reasons for every action, and also decide the best course of action. The insightful vision where you create a future. Well, more accurately would create, if he had some Uchiha blood in him...
Kakashi pushed the invading thoughts away with the pain. There was no mistake in his insight: The girl was wounded and trapped for good. Her strength was already visibly pouring out of her bleeding side. Kakashi gritted his teeth rather forcefully and stood up, but the facemask did a good job in concealing most signs of weakness. He forced the visible part of his face into a relaxed state and brushed up the drooping grey hairs.
Sakura released her Jutsu, causing the wings on her back to disappear in a puff of smoke, and landed on her knees on a branch just behind Kakashi. She panted hard in a slumped, half-sitting position.
"Wait here", he murmured through the throbbing pain and dashed in. She had used several heavy Jutsu, and wasn't too confident in her stamina to begin with. Kakashi had to finish this fight on his own now.
Sakura made a pained face, and pushed herself on to another attack. Though it didn't do any good, only made her drop all the way to the ground. That wasn't necessarily a good thing either, as it knocked the breath completely out of Sakura. She gagged on the ground and cursed herself.
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Kakashi stood on a branch at about fifteen feet above ground level, and stared at the hostile kunoichi catching her breath on another branch. She flicked her blue-green-red-yellow-coloured hair over casually, and grabbed her right arm with her left hand. It had been stabbed, most likely during Sakura's wind attack, and was bleeding readily. The red blood smeared all over her white flashy gown, and the expensive diamonds decorating it.
"Time to give up. Who are you and why did you attack us?"
The girl hissed at Kakashi, and checked for a way out. She was just about to skip up the branches along the only feasible escape route, as she noticed a dark figure standing further ahead ready to intercept her. It was someone who held a small animal in their hands.
"You aren't going anywhere", the figure pointed out with a mellow voice, and jumped closer.
"Sasuke. How's Naruto?" Kakashi asked.
"Well, as you can see..." Sasuke held Naruchu in his hands.
"I'm completely fine-chu!!"
"The dobe's pretty much screwed."
"Shut up-chu!"
Kakashi glanced downwards and shook his head a little.
"Ahou Henge no Jutsu? Really..." Kakashi thought to himself.
Sakura limped in to complete the surrounding formation.
"Sakura-chun!!" Naruchu squeaked.
"Are you ok-chu?"
"Naruto...? Is that you?"
"Of course it's me-chu!"
"HAhahhahahaHAHAha!!" the blue-green-red-yellow-haired girl suddenly laughed.
"It seems everyone has finally made their way here, so we can proceed on with exterminating you all", she boasted with a menacing grin, and let go of her bleeding right arm. She formed several seals with the left hand quickly.
"One-handed seals? I think we've seen something like this before..." Kakashi pondered.
His predictions were confirmed immediately, as ice begun to form at a very large scale around the four of them.
"Hijutsu, Demonic Ice Mirrors!" She shrieked and dropped down to her knees.
"For Haku's sake, I will kill you all..."
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The crash of water forced into instant freezing, the constant loud noise of icy mirrors building up suddenly died down. Everyone was already inside the giant ice globe. The Leaf nins checked for any signs of weakness, but didn't really find anything glaring. Sasuke noted the difference in the amount of ice used for the Jutsu.
"The mirrors made by that girly boy had large gaps between them, but these are built right onto each other..." he pondered and frowned slightly on the outside.
"Heh heh heh heh..." the unidentified kunoichi chuckled.
"Haku-chan used a severely incomplete version of this Jutsu... But he did very well to discover it on his own. I gathered up his whole story from the Hidden Mist village and the Wave Country... Each and every part of the sad, painful story you bastards left waiting for me... At the end of all those years of desperate searching..."
"Takki-oneesan will get your revenge... Yes..." she sighed contently.
Sasuke threw a kunai at her, but it just idly flew through her. The girl's image blurred and then disappeared.
"You should know this Jutsu at least better than that..." the reflections of her said from all over the mirrors.
"Kyouji Takyoku will now punish you, in the name of the moonlight reflection..."
"Witness the FULL POWER of the Demonic Ice Mirrors...!!!" Takyoku cackled from the mirrors as she threw her beautiful head back. The right side of her gown had become completely red from all the blood by now, and was slowly forming a puddle on the ground beside her.
Sasuke tensed up. He still remembered how it went last time, taking a long time before he could even get used to the speed.
"But I'm different now", Sasuke resolutely confirmed in his head, and locked his Sharingan eyes on the woman.
"The full power of this Jutsu isn't speed, but something completely different..." She wheezed a little, and formed some seals.
Smaller mirrors appeared inside the globe, and each of the Team seven ninjas saw several reflections of themselves everywhere.
Sasuke saw the deep red Sharingan eyes staring back at him intently from the mirrors. Jaw-length hair framed his firm but smooth, angel-like features.
The bright light sparkled from Naruchu's golden orange fur. If he leaned over to a good attacking pose, the resulting image got his stomach full of butterflies.
"Hmmm-chu... I never realized hamsters were this cool-chu..."
Sakura admired the long pink hair tied up and flooding down her sweet face, and further along the not-so-flat-chested-anymore body. Even the large forehead seemed mysteriously romantic tonight.
Kakashi looked at his manly chin in the reflection, which shaped up to a beautiful nondescript coolness surrounding the air around him.
"What a devious Jutsu..." Kakashi muttered as he shook himself out of it.
"That's correct, Copy Ninja-kun. This Genjutsu takes advantage of our environment at a much deeper level than your power has ever the chance to really influence in. We are inside a fiction, and mirrors are the absolutely most horrifying thing you will ever see happening in them!! HAHahahahHAHAhaha!!"
Kakashi was about to argue back, and point out male pregnancy, but instead he kept on searching for anything to save them.
"HAHahHAAHAhHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHhahahAHAhahAHahhahAHAhHHAah!!!"
"AHhaAHHAhaahHHAHAhaHahHAHAhaahAHAHAHaahhHA!!"
"AHahaHHAhahHAHahahHAHHahahahAHaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"
"Ok, that's just about enough laughing for today", Sasuke said to the images of Takyoku.
"If you didn't yet find out what destroyed this Jutsu the last time, let me show you!" He booted up the Sharingan eyes, and begun to roll the three dots frantically around and around in his eyes.
"I don't think it was you-chu..." Naruchu muttered to himself.
"Sharingan!" He mentally shouted, and performed a large amount of seals.
"This is a fitting end for you, freak", Sasuke hissed from between his teeth and finished the Jutsu. Takyoku widened her eyes briefly, and then just smirked.
"Ahou Henge no Jutsu!"
Kakashi saw the amount of Chakra Sasuke was using for the Jutsu, but didn't really have time to react any longer.
"Damn", he muttered quietly, and watched what was about to happen.
The first mirror in front of Sasuke reflected the Jutsu right back at him. Upon landing it covered him in a thick cloud of smoke.
Naruchu fell squealing down to the ground after Sasuke disappeared into the smoke.
"Yare yare... Ahou Henge indeed... Heheh... Heh..." the girl chuckled. She shifted over to press the wound on her right side again. Her sparkling white gown was totally drenched in red blood, but the golden blinking disco eyes still glared steel-hard at them.
"Ehehe... I haven't had a fight this funny in a long, long time..." Takyoku continued, and formed a pained grin on her face.
Sakura still admired her own curves and pink hair from the smaller mirrors. She placed her left hand to her hips and slightly wiggled them sideways, liking what she saw from the dozens of different reflection angles.
Kakashi looked over his shoulder. A beautifully handsome face masked man stared right back at him. How tempting it was just to forget the stupid fighting and keep on admiring the mirror images... The mirror images calling for his attention...
How thrillingly dangerous situation were they in...
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(ramen^2) only naruto characters can join in here..
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(+Silver) now this is certainly interesting...
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The smoke cloud had begun to dissolve. A pile of Sasuke's clothes appeared in sight, and a pissed off Naruchu sitting on top of them.
"Chu... Chuu..." he muttered, and grabbed Sasuke's boxers with his teeth (kinky!).
"Yuck-chu!!"
"These taste like crap-chu..."
"Shut up, you idiot-ssu."
"What-chu?"
"Let go of my boxers-ssu. And they don't taste like crap-ssu... You do-ssu."
A dark blue figure, about the size and shape of Naruchu, appeared from the cloth pile.
"And who the heck are chuu?"
"Me-ssu? I am... Sasumon-ssu... The fire breathing hamster-family avenger Pokemon-ssu. And I will revenge this atrocity-ssu..." Sasumon snarled at the mirror images of himself, and shook his little paw at them.
Sasumon thought he looked pretty cool in the reflections.
Meanwhile the icy globe had begun to slowly extend towards the ground and thicken up. There was about thirty feet of room left inside the icy globe. Takyoku's reflections panted and held her bleeding side in the mirrors.
"Naruto, Sasuke!" Kakashi yelled.
"What-chu-ssu?" They asked simultaneously.
"Remember the rodent Taijutsu we learned earlier", he continued, hoping that Takyoku wouldn't realize what he was after.
"What good would that be now-ssu..."
"Uhh, Sasuke...chu..."
"What-ssu?"
"I think I know what Kakashi-sensei refers to-chu."
Sasumon pondered for a moment, and scratched his furry dark blue jaw, but didn't say anything.
"...Fusion-chu..."
Sasumon eyed him.
"Fusion-ssu..."
"Fusion-chuu... uurgh."
"Oh crap-ssu."
"Ditto-chu."
"You suck, dobe-ssu."
"So do you, bastard-chu."
"Why didn't you avoid the Jutsu-ssu?"
"Why did you cast it on yourself-chu?"
"Shut up you chuu-idiot-ssu."
"Bastard-chu."
Sasumon was about seven inches high, and Naruchu about six. They were both approximately a feet in length.
"Dammit-ssu, we're the right size and strength for this-ssu. Has Kakashi finally gone completely out of his mind-ssu?" Sasuke pondered in his head. He had made a point during their training, that any Fusion with him was very totally out of question.
Takyoku glanced at the orange and dark blue hamsters arguing and yelling at each other, then looked at the pink figure enthralled by her reflections, and finally turned her attention to Kakashi. The teacher was most likely the only enemy with any strength or sanity left here.
Kakashi dug up the last bits of his Chakra, and prepared to stall Takyoku until the Fusion was completed.
"I'm gonna start-chu."
"Oh shit-ssu."
"I'm gonna attack-ssu."
"What-chu!?"
Kakashi focused Chakra to his feet and bolted up above the smaller mirrors. He could still follow Takyoku's fast movements, but his eyes were starting to seriously drain him dry.
"Damn. How careless and stupid of me... I wonder if it's too late already..." Kakashi pondered quickly as sweat poured down the side of his face.
Kakashi closed his eyes and crossed his fingers into the Ram seal.
"Lets see if this works", he said and pumped the last bits of his Chakra into the Byakugan eye, hidden under the forehead protector. A blurry dark vision opened in front of him. Something moved between the mirrors at a very fast speed. He saw it will turn at him briefly, and that he needed to dodge already.
Kakashi held his eyes still closed and jumped off towards the icy edge, just before a swarm of steel needles pierced his previous position into a slushy mess. Two needles pierced his left foot. Some of the smaller mirrors cracked under his weight, and Kakashi quickly moved on before he would fall back down.
Sasumon jumped in and chased after Takyoku's fast movements. He was left behind in an instant.
"Damn it all-ssu", he snarled.
Naruchu hopped in from behind him and squealed horribly.
"Raiken-chu!! Shourai-chu!!"
A grand lightning sparked out from Naruchu's throat and forcibly struck against the mirror Takyoku just entered. The ear-splitting noise at the contact took all five of them by surprise, but only few tiny pieces of ice flew through the air as a result. The mirror was undamaged.
"Damn-chu!!"
"Mada mada...ssu!" Sasumon hopped over Naruto and pressed on the attack.
"Karyuu Kokyuu~!!"
Sasumon arced his small body backwards. The dark smoke in his mouth smothered him for a moment, until Sasumon lashed out a large fireball by springing his body back straight. The whole globe trembled and creaked at the mirror joints when the ball made impact, and the leftover flames deflected everywhere in a flooding flame wave.
Kakashi had already taken cover, and Sasumon had done so too. Naruchu ended up with only some burned fur.
The mirrors were undamaged. More precisely, Takyoku used more Chakra to push the ice forward again, ever closer to enclosing everyone inside into a lump of ice.
But Sakura... Heh… Sakura… She was pretty badly burned.
"....."
Sakura was pretty mad, too.
".... You.... Damn.... Idiot!!" She yelled. Sasumon flinched.
"Why did you have to ruin my beautiful mirror images!??! God damn sheesh!!!"
She stomped her foot hard against the ice on the ground. It cracked under her fierce pressure.
"I'm officially Pissed... Off... Right now!!" and formed an evil, mad grin on her face.
"Naruto, Sasuke, do it now!" Kakashi shouted from his cover.
----
Sakura flicked through several seals with a wicked grin on her face. An aura of negative energy poured out from her, and concentrated into a small cloud over her pink bangs. Soon an even more pissed off Sakura was recognizable from the aura shapes, though slightly deformed and covered with ever shifting black shadows.
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-chu!!"
"Left, right, up, down, B, Select-ssu..."
"Damn-chu! Are you really even trying to do this-chu!?" Naruchu yelled at Sasumon.
"Inner Sakura... Shussho!" she spat out, and drooled on her Chinese ninja dress. Veins bulged on her large forehead briefly, and Sakura's eyes rolled over. She passed out on the icy ground.
The energy concentration above her flinched a little and looked rather surprised. KWA HWA HWA... It examined the hands and body covered in the shifting shadows. KWA HWA HWA HWA HWA... It flew slightly higher and strode over to the remaining smaller mirrors. KWA HWA HWA... It looked at its reflections with a greatly amused expression. KWA HWA HWA HWA HWAAA...
"She actually released Inner Sakura... This might just work out..." Kakashi muttered quietly in his hideout.
Naruchu smacked Sasumon upside the head with his small paw.
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-ssu? I know it... ssu..."
"It's just so freaky-ssu. With a dobe like you-ssu."
"Shut up-chu!"
"Here we go-chu!!"
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-chu!"
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, ... Argh-ssu."
"Dammit all-chu!!"
"Oh wait, which one is the host-ssu?"
"Does it matter-chu?"
"Yes, you idiot-ssu. Our name will be either Sasuchu or Narumon depending on it-ssu."
"We'll be Narumon-chu!"
"No way in hell-ssu."
"The host is the one below-chu?"
Sasumon grunted.
"Yes-ssu..." -__- ;;
"Uhh! Ok, we can be Sasuchu then-chu."
Naruchu grinned at him.
"You suck-ssu."
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-chu!!"
"Left, right, up, down, A, B, Start-ssu..."
Naruchu and Sasumon stood side to side and pressed their hamster fingertips against each others'.
Sasumon then hopped to the ground in full length, and pressed his head to the ground.
"Hurry up, dobe-ssu."
Naruchu chuckled and hopped behind him. He put his paws on Sasumon's back.
"What are you chuckling at, idiot-ssu."
Naruchu chuckled some more, and 'inserted' himself into Sasumon from behind. Woot. Sasuke wailed in pain.
"Stop rushing everything, idiot-ssu…" he muttered at Naruchu through the pain.
"Hehe. Sorry Uke-chun", he chuckled back at Sasumon.
"FUSION-ssu-chu!"
Naruchu was sucked into Sasuke through the insertion. o_____O ;;;
Lightning and fire swirled around the blue-orange-striped hamster-like creature, until the elements swallowed them up whole.
Takyoku stood up in the mirrors.
"HEheheheheHEhe. That was well enough time to patch myself up. Eat lead, suckers!!"
She formed another seal, and a Chakra burst pushed the ice globe forward again. Kakashi's foot got stuck in the suddenly growing ice, but he pulled himself free quickly. The room to move in diminished at a fast pace, while Takyoku's grip on the fight strengthened even more.
Inner Sakura grinned darkly, and shot a dark energy blast at the nearest small mirror. It fell down in pieces from the attack, and the rest of the attack hit one of the bigger mirrors.
The large mirrors just ate the incoming energy without taking any kind of damage.
The ice pushed further forward, and swallowed up the vortex with Naruchu and Sasumon inside. Kakashi grabbed Sakura's unconscious body and skipped to safety. He stared at the vortex, which kept on spinning still inside the ice, and hoped they could still break free. Kakashi stopped to the last bit of ground free from ice and placed Sakura down.
"What the heck am I doing... Letting the kids do all the suicide attacks..." he pondered to himself when he looked at the sleeping (and drooling) Sakura.
"I'll..." Kakashi muttered and gathered up his Chakra.
"But everyone will die then... Damn..."
KWA HWA HWA HWA... The Inner Sakura was half frozen into the ice. The dark figure formed a seal and her body split in small pieces. KWA HWA HWA... They slowly floated around, and then reformed in the air.
The lower half of her body was still inside the ice. KWA HWA HWA HWA!!
The Inner Sakura looked pretty confused about the whole thing. KWA HWA...
The fire-lightning vortex inside the ice stopped spinning, and gradually died down.
The upper half of Inner Sakura slowly fell towards the ground. KWA HWA HWA...!
Kakashi looked around, alarmed.
Takyoku prepared to make another push with the ice. She released the Chakra and the ice swarmed onwards at a faster pace again.
"I do know my share of Kinjutsu..." Kakashi muttered.
"Is this really it? Did they all fail?" he looked around once more, seeing if anyone was still up to fighting. He had spent most of his Chakra in keeping Byakugan up for the whole day, and the rest into switching over to Sharingan. Naruto and Sasuke were nowhere to be seen. Inner Sakura fell to the ice-covered ground.
Sakura lay in his arms, and looked almost lifeless.
"A self destruct technique will rip everything and everyone totally apart, and any survivor will be buried under all this ice", Kakashi pondered.
He exhaled sharply as a revelation struck.
"What if that girl is fast enough to eject herself out?"
"Damn..."
Loud crackling echoed all over the globe as the ice kept on enclosing everything.
Takyoku looked at them wickedly, and licked her fingers in the mirror images.
"Better than to die like this..."
Kakashi concentrated. Ice took hold of his feet and Sakura's body lying on the ground. Inner Sakura's upper body was partly enclosed in the ice. The globe was now completely sealed in the expanding icy layers.
Kakashi opened his Sharingan eye wide, and pushed Chakra out.
"Initial gate, Heal gate, Life gate..." Kakashi murmured and then checked his disappearing wounds. He ripped his legs out from the ice, and formed a small Chakra blade.
"Damn. I'm really beat it seems..."
He quickly cut Sakura out from the ice and held her cold and lifeless body tight.
"And you little sweetie never got to do it, did you? I learned all sorts of things from Jiraiya's books, maybe..." His eyes trailed over Sakura's young body, and then held her in place for a kiss. He placed his hand behind Sakura's neck and pulled her sleeping face closer. His other hand was about to pull the facemask off.
A loud explosion shook him awake from the daze, rocking everything violently for a short while.
Takyoku snorted. She tied up the sweaty blue-green-red-yellow-colored hair in a ponytail, and looked at the source of the explosion with her golden eyes.
The whole upper portion of the globe suddenly had a huge crack in it. The remaining half of Inner Sakura glared at Kakashi with eyes that could kill. Kakashi sweatdropped. Inner Sakura had made its lower body explode with all strength and might it had available.
"Sorry, sorry... Heheh..."
"But it worked, no?" Kakashi tried.
Inner Sakura still glared at him, hard. It dissolved into Chakra waves and poured back into Sakura. Kakashi noticed her body suddenly became warmer, and she opened her eyes in Kakashi's arms, right in front of his face.
"Kakashi... Sensei...?"
"Uhh. Hi."
"Why are you...?"
"Long story. Are you ok?"
"Hnn..."
Kakashi turned to look at where Naruto and Sasuke were enclosed earlier. Takyoku pushed the ice forward again, healing the fresh large crack by the minute.
"Heheheh!! Just freeze up already, you dirty maggots!!"
Another huge explosion shocked the foundations of the ice globe.
"Kee..!!" a sudden squeal came from somewhere.
A third explosion rocked the globe. This time the ice finally broke, and a yellow fur ball rolled in from the broken roof.
"Kee!" It squealed.
"What the heck is that...?" Sakura asked, and still relaxed in Kakashi's arms.
A yellow furry monkey stood in front of them. It had a bright red tail, though, which it shook around fiercely. The thing was about waist-high compared to Sakura.
"I am Sasukichi-kee!"
"Kee?"
"Kee!! Thanks for the earlier explosion, Sakura-kee, it gave enough room to complete the Fusion-kee."
"Uhh, is that a compliment from Sasuke or Naruto..." Sakura pondered in her head.
"Good to see you two again", Kakashi smiled with his left eye at them.
He fell down to the ground unconscious, and Sakura ended up sitting on his chest.
"Kakashi-sensei-kee?"
"Kakashi-sensei!!"
"Same thing happened in the Wave Country..." Sakura said.
"We must finish this now-kee."
"Yeah."
Sakura pulled out her pendant and placed it on the palm of her hand.
"By the contradiction of Sakura Cards, I command you! Stupid wand!"
Her pendant begun to shine brightly, and in a swirl of wind it quickly enlarged and extended into a long pink magic wand.
Sasukichi formed a seal and yelled, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Five yellow monkey clones with red tails appeared around Sakura and Sasukichi.
Sakura pulled out a card, and grinned at the intently concentrating Takyoku's in the mirrors.
"You're history, bitch!"
"Like you're one to say that-kee..." Sasukichi (very) quietly muttered.
----
The ice pushed forward again. Two huge cracks were still visible on the walls of the icy globe, but they were being fast reinforced with fresh ice. The walls surrounding them were several feet thick by now.
The Sasukichi clones charged at the mirrors, and each hit forcibly against an image of Takyoku. Five small cracks were visible after the attacks.
"It's breaking. Good", Sakura said.
Takyoku opened her eyes, and slashed at the Sasukichi's. Two were caught in the head with an ice spike, but three managed to dodge. The original was still beside Sakura, preparing another Jutsu eyes closed. The small cracks healed from the mirrors.
"Sakura-kee", the Sasukichi next to her said.
"What?"
"Can you give us a minute to power up-kee?"
"A minute? I'll be finished by then."
She grinned, and Sasukichi couldn't avoid opening one eye to glance at the girl. One who knew her during the Hidden Leaf times wouldn't believe this was the same person. She held out two cards and begun casting.
"Dashu~!" She yelled, and Chakra formed around her legs.
"Suoodo~!" She she continued and held the magic wand high. It transformed into a sword.
"Here I come, flashy bitch!!"
Takyoku kneeled with her eyes closed in the mirrors, focusing on pushing the ice forward. She opened her eyes and prepared to fight against Sakura.
Sasukichi tried to close the fight off from their mind.
Idiot-kee. What are you doing-kee? I'm trying to win the fight, bastard-kee. Well why don't you do something already-kee? I'm doing all the time-kee!! I think you should just shut up until I'm ready-kee! What if you are preparing a Marmalade Pudding no Jutsu or something as intelligent-kee? Well I'm not-kee!! I'm planning this-kee!
Sasukichi's bones suddenly ached. They hissed slightly as the pain inside them grew.
What the heck are you doing-kee?
Something popped out from Sasukichi's body. It was a second tail. Then a third one scraped off from him too.
What kinda joke is this-kee? Just keep on pushing, bastard-kee!! Whatever-kee...
The remaining tails lashed out in fast form as Sasumon didn't hold back any longer. Not counting the original tail, Sasukichi had nine long tails, and they were all made from Chakra.
Sakura dashed forward at blinding speed with the help of her Dash-card. She struck the mirror where Takyoku entered in with her sword, but the kunoichi had already run away. Takyoku popped the last remaining Sasukichi clone out casually as she passed by, and entered another mirror. Sakura followed her closely and stabbed the next mirror.
Takyoku was nowhere to be seen, though.
"Damn that bitch!!" Sakura cursed. She dashed away to hide from the incoming steel and ice needles.
This is my power-kee. Take a good look at it while you can-kee! What are you...kee...
Sasukichi opened their eyes. They saw Sakura and Takyoku fight it out on the other end of the globe. They blurred and appeared next to Takyoku.
"What!?" was all she had time to think when the monkey's balled fist struck her very hard on the side.
"Kee!!" Sasukichi squealed, clearly amazed by their prowess.
The icy globe begun to spin around, and needles flew in from everywhere. Sakura dashed away behind the remaining smaller mirrors, but Sasukichi didn't have anywhere to go.
"Katon, Go-kakyu!" Sasukichi yelled and blew out a massive fire inferno with Ninetails' Chakra. The icy needles melted into water, and the steel needles were easily blown away.
"Heh heh heh... You damn monkey... Lets see how you like this!" the reflections of Takyoku taunted him. She formed a seal and released a huge portion of Chakra.
The spinning intensified and endless needles rained on Sasukichi.
"Goukakyu!!" they yelled again, and exhaled fire to all directions.
The needles kept on coming.
"Goukakyu!" Sasukichi yelled for the third time, and against blew out fire.
Some of the needles got through.
"Goukakyu..." they breathed one more fireball out.
The needle attack died down.
Sakura popped her head out from the hideout (she quickly pulled Kakashi in with her before hiding) and looked at Sasukichi, who was slumped over a pile of needles. They had been severely pierced with numerous needles, and wasted tons of Chakra in repeated high-level fire attacks.
Sakura took out a card, and tapped it with her wand.
"Summon... Temari!"
Gaara's older sister came out from Sakura's wand.
"Hi Temari-chan."
"Hello Sakura."
Get up, dobe-kee... I refuse to spend an eternity in the afterlife with you-kee... Dobe-kee... Shut up, idiot-kee. Let me sleep-kee...
"What's the deal here?" Temari asked.
"We need to break through these mirrors", Sakura answered.
Sasukichi forced their eyes open. They raised their right hand and pointed the open palm at the two girls.
"Help us, Sakura-chan, Temari... You are our only hope-kee..."
Sasukichi passed out.
Temari nodded.
"Can't be helped, I guess."
Sakura just grinned as an answer.
"Heheheheh... Damn brat... Made me waste that much Chakra before finishing you two", Takyoku said from between her gritted teeth.
Temari grabbed her fan and jumped up in the air. She slid in the air on the fan. Sakura took out another card.
"Uindii~!" she cast the wind attack once more.
"Kamaitachi!" Temari yelled and swooped her fan.
A large wave of small wind blades scraped the surfaces of the mirrors. Sakura's larger blades followed, smashing almost all of the smaller mirrors in pieces. The wind attacks made contact at one of the large mirrors, and made dozens of severe cracks appear through it. The greater portion of the power got deflected around the globe, wounding both Sakura and Temari lightly. Sasukichi ended up with some fresh wounds as well.
Sakura dropped to her knees, and panted hard once more.
"Sheesh... Pfffffffth... I'm gonna kill myself with this damn card someday..."
"Are you ok, Sakura?" Temari asked.
"Yeah... Huff... Sure..." she answered.
"HAHAhahHAhahaHAHH!! You lousy maggots!!" Takyoku taunted them.
"You are nothing in front of my mirrors of endless power! They'll reflect back anything you throw at them!! MwhahahahahahahahHAHAhaHAHAhahaHAHAHAHAhaHAHaHHAhahaHAhahAHahA!!!"
Sakura blinked.
"Temari-chan..."
"Yes?"
"Lets continue chatting later tonight, I have to finish this geek off."
"I understand."
Sakura held the earlier card above her head, and Temari hopped into it. The card read "Temari" on the nametag, and Sakura's name was written in tiny neat letters on the edge.
"HhahaHAh. You'll finish me? Maybe not. Give me a moment and I'll push the ice to cover you all... Then I'll drag your frozen bodies back to the Kyouji village and crucify them above the entrance as a reminder to everyone who wants to mess with the clan!"
"And the best part is that inside my ice, your bodies will stay recognizable for a long time to come... I'll call your friends and families to admire your rotten fates!!! MWMAWMAMWAWHAWHAHAHHAHAAHWHWHAWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
"You sick, sick bitch..." Sakura snarled at her.
She held another card in front of her.
"See you in hell."
"Mirraa~!"
A mirror formed in front of Sakura.
"Hehehehe.. Is that supposed to do something to me?"
She placed it in front of the smaller mirrors.
"Dashu~!" she said.
Sakura dashed quickly to Sasukichi and dragged the boys quickly back to Kakashi. The smaller mirrors suddenly trembled slightly.
"Huh?"
Takyoku threw a swarm of ice needles at the magical mirror, but it reflected them all back. The smaller mirrors shook violently.
"It's reflecting your mirrors' power back and forth between them, amplifying the strength every pass. Lets see which one breaks first", Sakura grinned at Takyoku.
"Pfft."
Takyoku threw some needles at Sakura.
"Shiirudo~!"
A smaller shield globe formed around the four of them, present in only three bodies though. The needles clanked uselessly off the shield.
Takyoku targeted the smaller mirrors this time, and broke them all.
"Hah!"
The mirror powers started to reflect between the larger mirrors and Sakura's mirror.
"No, it cannot be!"
The whole icy globe begun to shake violently, and several large cracks formed all over.
"You gave me this idea by talking about the infinite strength and how your mirrors deflect the power back", Sakura screamed over the rising noise.
"Damn brats...!!" Takyoku shreaked back.
The night sky peeked in from the larger cracks. Takyoku escaped out from the mirrors.
"Die in there, then!!" She yelled at the collapsing ice mirrors.
"DAMN!!" Takyoku yelled. She didn't really believe her Jutsu could be broken like that.
"Heh... Who's laughing now?" a female voice said behind and above Takyoku.
She turned around to see if they really got out from the globe or not.
"Kamaitachi!!"
The wind attack caught Takyoku big time, and threw her forcibly against a tree trunk. Everything blacked out for her.
----
"Haku died protecting the one he loved the most."
Takyoku woke up to the mention of her little cousin.
"Huh...?" she muttered and tried to stand up. Her body rebelled fiercely against the attempt to rise up. She couldn't do so anyway, since she was tied sitting to a tree trunk.
She saw a tired Sakura staring at her.
"So you all survived..."
"So far so good. You know, I should kill you right now."
"Then do so."
"I just might."
Takyoku tried to size up the other girl. Was she a killer or not?
"I'm not going to do that for now, though. Not before you hear our version of Haku's story..."
Takyoku snarled and glared hard at Sakura. Her golden eyes woke up and the color begun to blink annoyingly again.
"Some freaky eyes you have."
"..."
"Ok. What I'm trying to say... No one tried to kill Haku. He was a victim there."
Takyoku looked oddly at Sakura.
"What do you mean? You killed them both on the bridge to accomplish your mission."
"Where did you hear that?"
"From both the villagers and the assassins of Gatou."
"Uhh… You see... Haku and Zabuza were fooled from the start. Gatou never intended to pay a cent to them. That's why he used missing-nins to accomplish the mission of killing the bridge builders."
"What?"
"Huh? What do you mean, what? Gatou fooled them. He came in with dozens of his own men when the fight was ending in our favour. Then Zabuza killed Gatou for betraying them, but was lethally wounded while doing so... Haku died few minutes earlier, when he blocked an attack by Kakashi-sensei, which would have killed Zabuza."
"So you DID kill him!"
"That wasn't something he could have helped. Kakashi never aimed at him, but at Zabuza."
Takyoku sighed.
"Naruto explained later to me, that Haku lost his will to live after they broke through the mirrors. He asked Naruto to finish him off, but then he hurried off to help Zabuza with the greatest sacrifice he could give."
Sakura spotted a tear falling down Takyoku's face.
She muttered something to Sakura, and went back to sleep.
"I don't think she's such a bitch after all. Maybe I'll just stab her a little", Sakura pondered, and grinned wickedly for a short moment.
"Whoops, I hope no one saw that..." She looked around frantically, but everyone was asleep. Sasuke and Naruto were back to hamsters, and the Ahou Henge should dissolve in a few more hours.
Sasumon grunted and opened his eyes.
"Sasuke-kun! How glad I am that you two survived..."
"...Even if you are a stupid hamster still..." she very quietly added.
Sakura rose up from Takyoku's side and looked briefly at the sleeping Kakashi. She walked over towards Sasuke.
Sasumon turned his neck to look at the pink-haired girl. One year ago they had a serious talk about their possible relationship, and after that she has formed a much healthier attitude towards him. He would definately kill anyone who tried to cuddle him now, anyways.
"How are you feeling? I was rather surprised when Naruto came out of your... Butt..." Sakura snickered quietly and blushed a little.
"...Ssssu!!!"
Sasumon gritted his teeth as he moved a little. His ass was in flames! What the hell happened down there!?!?!
----
Two dark figures stared at the group of five from a high branch.
"Arez theyz themz?" the first one asked.
"Yesh... Theh girlh ish onlyh pointh sevenh oneh, stillh theh strongesth ofh theh normalh onesh..." the second one answered.
"Howz aboutz thez weirdz guyz?"
"Heh seemsh toh beh ath leasth pointh fiftyh..."
"Magnifzicentz."
One of the dark figures worked on something attached to its head, and pressed a button.
"Veryz goodz..."
The figures pondered something over very intently.
"Wez shallz makez contactz withz himz veryz soonz..."
"Soh shallh weh doh."
----
Wow wow! It must have been the fight of the century-chu! Or maybe the millennium-chu! But why is Temari Sakura's summon!? How mysterious! Who were the ominous dark figures?! Where are the squirrels!? Does this story have any meaning any longer?! Who really cares!?
But be not afraid! More is on it's way... Yay...
