Emotionless Executioner
Robin was thrown back to the ground by Neji's sudden spin and the chakra he used to reflect her. She landed gracefully onto the ground and glared at the boy as he landed. Robin simply moved her neck to the side, popping her neck and fell back into her stance.
"I will allow you a gift. For the next ten minutes I will not fight with chakra. You, however, may use as much as you so desire. But once those minutes are up, I will use chakra." Robin flew forward and blocked a blow to her head with the polearm of the Naginata. She spun the weapon, knocking Neji's hand away, allowing her the chance to take another swipe at him. But instead, Robin dug the blade into the ground and used it to pole-vault herself into Neji's chest, knocking the boy to the ground several feet away. Robin flipped in the air and swiftly pulled her weapon from the ground without stopping the flow of her movements. The girl crouched low to the ground and took off towards Neji. As he went to hit her, she leaned further down and pushed off the ground with one hand as the other held the Naginata close to her body. Her foot went up into his jaw, sending him into the air. "You disgrace shinobi. You do not understand the true meaning of your existence. You hid behind meaningless things such as proving yourself to the Head Family. I will not allow you to continue such disgraces." Robin charged once more as Neji laid on the ground and swung her Naginata into the ground in a horizontal movement as if to remove the boy's head. He barely pushed himself forward in time and lost some hairs. Robin back kicked the boy as he was moving behind her, causing him to stumble. She flipped up into the air and started to come at Neji's head as she landed. Neji stood and dodged her foot. He reached out and grabbed her long braids. Robin was kneeling on the ground as he held her away form him.
"You don't know anything about having the Head Family destroy your own parents. To be shoved down to serve inferior shinobi after being forced to bear a seal on your forehead because the Head Family saw fit." Her eyes were hidden in shadows as she lips turned into a smirk. A dry laugh escaped her lips. Neji tightened his grip on her hair. "What do you think is so funny?!"
"You live your life in a soap opera. I find amusing. I would like to destroy that life you live. So I will share a little story with you." Robin turned her head so he could see her laughing eyes.
Bensha leapt off of a large bird. She looked around to see herself in a forest."Bensha-sama," The bird squawked.
"Hn?"
"Do you need my services any longer?"
"Iie. I will call you back if I need you."
"Arigatou." The large bird disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Hm . . . tell me, what must I do now?" She whispered before listening for the wind.
Setsuko dropped the vase she was holding as her eyes seemed to stare off into the distance. The wind gentle blew her hair out of her face as she stared off. She turned her whole body to the direction she was looking in. She felt herself be pulled in that direction.
"I hope you understand, the Branch Family members Yoko and Robin are not themselves at the moment." Toshiko smiled as she spoke with Kakashi.
"What do you mean?" Toshiko chuckled dryly.
"I'm sure you noticed how cold they seem. Distant and hateful towards outsiders. Right now, Robin's only duty is to protect Setsuko-sama with everything she has. Once given a mission, it is more important than anything else. Also, Robin has good reason to distrust outsiders. To hate them. Only those she deems worthy will she remove her mask." Toshiko sipped some tea before she continued. "She had a hard childhood. She might not considered it hard, but still, it has taught her to distrust strangers."
"What happened to her?" Kakashi asked quietly. Toshiko sighed before speaking.
Robin smirked at Neji.
"The Uzumaki clan deals with very deadly jutsu. In order to keep the jutsu limited to those not considered very worthy, one of out ancestors decided to make it so that the stay in the Head Family. But, the Branch Family was angered that they were kept from their birthrights, so he made another way of limiting the jutsu to the unworthy. The Branch Family members could each learn one of the highest jutsu that we had. But it had to be the ones from the Death Scrolls. Each jutsu had several stages, the last one the most deadly. There is always a good chance that you can be killed by using the final stage. Now to my time." Robin twisted around with her Naginata, aiming for his hands. Neji let go of her hair and jumped away. When he landed Robin had stood up and faced him. "My mother was suicidal. She wanted to die more than anything else. But, she could not be allowed death if she could not pass her jutsu to her child. So she quickly found a man and had me. My father left soon after. When I was born, she soon began to set about preparing me for her jutsu. I quickly mastered the first few stages, but the final stage is always what gets a jutsu into the Death Scrolls. For the final stage to be learned, the student must fight their teacher. During the fight, the jutsu is used. Each would prepare for the final stage. To master this, you must be able to attain the final stage and kill you teacher with it. My mother did that." Robin fell back into a fighting stance. "I don't remember the fight though. I was only a few years old. She got to commit suicide. I mastered the jutsu. However, do to learning that jutsu at such a young age, I have been limited in use of my ninjutsu and genjutsu. But I have more than made up for it with my skills with blades and hand to hand combat. As a result I do not mind killing, thus earning me the nickname Emotionless Executioner."
"She can't trust people. She has only known those of the Branch Family. So, she will kill to protect those close to her. Because their love is all that she has known. And Robin will never let that go." Toshiko sighed."And Yoko?"
"Yoko . . . is a meiko. She will do what she needs to if she is to protect holy items. To her, the Celia mountains must never be violated. Once Yoko and Robin leave here, once they experience the outside world and get to know real people, you will see them for who they really are. Loyal to the very end. Please do not judge them until they leave this ground. Their actions are to protect the only things they have ever known. No matter what the cost."
Robin felt her hands move into a new position on the Naginata. Her weight shifted as she once more entered into a new stance. The girl tilted her head to the side.
"You have three minutes left. After that, I will show you the first stage with great malice."
"Hmph, you're a fool to think you can beat me." Neji dodged a strike from her Naginata. Robin followed through with a round house kick. She pushed off of his arms and landed away from him, in a low stance.
"I do not disgrace my family. I do not violate what my duties are. As a shinobi, you must follow your orders. No matter if you like it or not. You have to be able to decipher between reality and illusions. To chase after the Head Family with hate in your heart and a blade in your hands in hope that they will acknowledge you and praise you is an illusion filled daydream. You run from your pain by inflicting it upon those who are there for you to protect." Robin flew forward once more and kicked his arms with each leg as he blocked his head. She landed alittle ways away from him. "Humans exist to love and grow. Yet you stay in the past, crying about what the Head Family has done to you. You do not move on. You do not understand that as a ninja, you are to protect those weaker than you. Not chase after meaningless things. To do something such as that, you lose the right to be called shinobi."
Sasuke unconsciously reached up to the side of his neck. His cursed seal within a ring to hold it back. His mind momentarily drifted back to when Naruto dragged him back to Konoha and the cold glares he had received for the next few months after that.
Robin threw her Naginata at Neji. The boy easily dodged it.
"You lost your weapon. You're useless without it." Robin felt her eyes harden.
"Did I not just tell you of the Death Scrolls? Did your time not just run out? Now is the time that I show no more mercy. I will show you my jutsu." Robin stood up and held her hand in front of her. They quickly moved through a series of seals. There was a bright glow around her hands as a ball of thunder appeared in her hands. "I can summon anything." Robin whispered as she shoved her hands into the ball of lightening. Lightening wrapped around her body, her hair started to stand on end. The electricity gathered around her fists as she shot forward. Neji jumped away as her fist slammed into the ground he was standing on. She used her momentum to flip up into the air and start to throw lightening at Neji. Neji dodged them but not without being shocked and burnt a few times. Robin landed on the ground and pushed herself back up into the air. She began another set of seals. Robin spun in the air as she did the seals and the lightening shot out, wrapping around whatever it touched. Robin flipped around as she fell back to the ground. "Congratulations, you will see one of my favorite summons." Robin started a new set of seals. "It takes alittle more effort to summon them, though." Suddenly Robin stopped. The lightening around her disappeared as she turned to Yoko. Yoko stared at her a moment before her eyes widened.
"Yoko! We've outstayed our welcome." Tenshi yelled as she appeared beside Yoko. The meiko turned to Tenshi.
"You . . . you felt it too . . ." Tenshi shook her head.
"Iie! Toshiko-sama did!" Tenshi turned to the others there. "The demon Bensha is coming here. We've no match for her, we have to leave now!" Tenshi looked around. "Where is Setsuko-sama?!" Yoko looked at her.
"She went with Kakashi to see Toshiko-sama."
"She should have been back by now, she left right after I did!!" Yoko felt her eyes widen. She spun around to Robin. The young girl already had her jacket and hat back on. She was placing the wrapped up Naginata onto her back.
"It takes a great amount energy to summon living creatures, right now, I don't have the correct amount. Tenshi will have to check." Robin muttered as Tenshi disappeared. She turned to the leaf-nin and sand-nin. "Please, excuse our behavior here. We wish to return to Konoha with you. The Celia mountains will not last much longer." Robin bowed to them. "Understand, we acted to protect these mountains, they are the only home we have really known."
Setsuko felt the wind tug her towards the East. She started to move in that direction when someone grabbed her and lifted her up. Kakashi held her bridal style as he hurried to the others. Tenshi appeared beside him.
"Thank God, you've found her. We have to go-" Kakashi interrupted her.
"I know. Toshiko-sama told me all about it." Tenshi nodded.
"Good, then you understand."
Bensha had heard it. The wind told her. Someone had spoken about her. Some filth had spoken about her! With no connection to the wind! The second the wind told her, she had created a tornado. She was in the center, float high about the ground, with rage boiling up inside of her. She moved the tornado over land quickly as she went to find the one who talked about her. Her hair was flung wildly about in the wind as her eyes filled with anger. She was getting angrier by the minute.
"I will show them the true form of hell!!!!" She screamed.
Robin helped Neji up.
"Come on, we have to go." Neji glared at her.
"Why are you helping me?!" Robin glanced at him as she moved through the fields.
"I wish to fight you another time." Tenshi appeared beside her, holding Hinata, along with Kakashi and Setsuko. The young boy Hinata had fought was running along side of them. Akira leapt over a log before he spoke.
"How long do we have?" He asked Robin. The girl did not answer at first.
". . . ten minutes at most." She glanced around. "Toshiko-sama?" She asked Tenshi. The woman sighed.
"She knew this would happen. She wants to stay." Robin nodded before leaping up into a tree. Yoko was at the entrance of the Celia mountains performing seals. She slammed her hand down into the ground, causing a blinding light.
"What was that?" Kakashi asked Tenshi.
"Yoko had to seal up the holy nature of these mountains. Since these mountains will be destroyed soon, the enormous holy chakra can be stolen by the unworthy. One of the few jutsu she knows." Robin glanced over her shoulder one last time as she left the mountains.
Bensha's tornado ripped trees out of the ground. She landed with a light thud and walked towards a one room house. The tornado was behind her, destroying everything. Bensha kicked open the wooden door. An old woman looked up at her.
"Bensha, I've been waiting for you." Toshiko muttered as she stood. She performed a jutsu and a invisible force tried to shove Bensha back. The demon merely used her hand to dispel the attack.
"You speak of me as if worthy. And you try to defeat me, even though you know who I am. The wind tells me you can predict the future and you still attack." Toshiko smiled.
"Hai. I don't like the thought of dying without a fight." Bensha glared at her before appearing right in front of the old woman. She lifted her up by her throat.
"And I do not like the idea of humans living." Toshiko felt the hand tighten around her throat as Bensha pulled her hand up into a fist.
A young woman stood up and smiled. She was around thirteen. Her silver hair was chin length and was angled so the hair was went up higher towards the back of her head. Her violet eyes danced in the wind. She wore a long red and black checkered scarf that blew in the wind. She wore black pant that hugged her legs snugly and were lined with red and stopped half a foot from her ankles. She also wore a strapless dress that had a few checked spots that came from the bottom left side of her dress and stopped on her stomach. She wore black long sleeves with a silver metal wrapped around half of her lower arm but did not cut into her wrists. She had a red leather strap wrapped around her right thigh a few times. The girl wore no shoes.
"Gomen Toshiko." She whispered. "Arigatou for helping."
Toshiko felt her eyes widen as Bensha tightened her grip.
'A vision?! After all these years?!' Was the last thought Toshiko had before a crunching noise reached her ears and her world faded away.