Dinner
Robin sifted in her seat. She hated formal occasions. It meant she had to dress up. Robin stared at her lap, pressing her lips together. She wore a tuxedo but instead of pants, she wore black shorts. Her legs were covered in a dark brown nylon and her feet in black granny boots. Her two long braids were pulled up onto her head with only enough slack to have two braided loops right above her shoulders. She was able to talk her way out of wearing any more make up than foundation and for that, she was always thankful. She didn't have to wear make-up over her black painted upper lip. Robin shifted her gaze to Tenshi. The elder Uzumaki wore a simple green dress was a baggy as her other clothes were. Robin turned to Akira and Masaru. Both wore traditional Japanese clothing. Yukio sat next to the blind boy with similar clothes except his sleeves were torn off. Yoko wore an elegant blue dress. For once it wasn't complex like her other clothing often was. Robin slowly looked to Setsuko. She was an off the shoulder red dress with a black corset over that. It seemed that her dress hugged her upper body closely except the sleeves flared out after her elbow. Her hair was down and the top layer was pulled back with a plain black clip. She didn't move at all, just stared down at her plate. Naruto fidgeted in his seat. He picked at his red sleeves and black pants. Robin looked up when Tsunade entered the room. The Hokage sat down in her simple clothing and smiled at them.
Kakashi sighed as he closed the door to the Uzumaki House. The sand triplets were off seeing the village. Janghoon said that he and Seung had to go speak with their parents about something. Kakashi slowly made his way to the kitchen to find something to eat. After a few minutes of looking, he decided he wasn't hungry. The ninja began to make his way upstairs when a sound caused him to look behind himself. The clay Setsuko was leaning against the wall to support her wait. She was light headed and dizzy with her face slightly red as if she just recovered from a fever. Hand imprints were around her neck.
". . . Setsuko?" The clay doll took a step forward but her legs gave out. Kakashi stopped her from falling face first onto the floor. She looked up at him.
"She . . . she is near . . ."
"Who?" Kakashi was confused to why she wasn't with the other Uzumaki.
"The real Setsuko. I felt her while I slept. She took the clothes for the dinner." Setsuko gasped in pain.
"What's wrong?!"
"The . . . the soul . . . it is leaving . . . its trying to return to-AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!" The clay doll collapsed.
Orochimaru looked at Kabuto and nodded. Kabuto turned to a sound-nin next to him.
"Signal the others. We attack now."
A loud explosion startled Tsunade. Yoko was standing up in worry as Naruto fell out of his chair. Robin stood up and turned to Setsuko. She was surprised to see that Setsuko's eyes were hidden in shadows as she smirked.
"S-Setsuko?" The woman was shaking with silent laughter. Robin reached out to her but was thrown back.
"Ahaha!!! Ahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Setsuko laughed as she turned her eyes to the confused Uzumaki and Hokage. "I prefer Bensha." She whispered.
Orochimaru smiled as he watched the Konoha village being attacked. Several fires had already been started. This was better than when he first attacked. Because this time Bensha would be his trump card.
Bensha had already finished a set of seals. She raised up her arm to reveal the black wrist band Setsuko wore.
"This is something you will like. Kokuei Hando no Jutsu!!" She ripped it off, causing a black substance to spread over most of her arm. Bensha reached forward into a red hole that had appeared in front of her. She pulled out a scroll. She smiled as she whipped it open and revealed a strange circle. A giant beam of light appeared from it before a large snake appeared in front of her. Bensha laughed as she left the area and hurried towards the Uzumaki Estate. Yoko leapt in front of the group and held her hands out to the side as the snake came rushing towards them. It hit an invisible shield. She winced as it slammed itself repeatedly into the shield.
"Yoko, I need to help the injured. You know the Uzumaki clan best, you decide what they should do." Tsunade command and Yoko nodded.
"Tenshi, go with Tsunade-sama to help with injuries." Yoko did not take her eyes off the snake as she spoke. "But before you leave . . ." Tenshi nodded and grabbed Yoko's dress. She easily ripped it off to reveal the clothing she had turned her meiko robes into. "Arigatou." Tenshi nodded as she tore off her own dress to show her usual clothing. "Masaru, Yukio, Naruto. You three had best drop those henges. You'll need the chakra." The three nodded and their clothes poofed away to their regular outfits. Robin glared at Yoko.
"You mean to tell me that everyone had their normal clothes on!!! I was stuck dressed up while no one else was?!" Akira smiled at Robin.
"If it helps, I am really wearing these clothes."
"This is not the time!!!" Yoko snapped. "Masaru, Yukio, I want you two to go and help the leaf-nin. Naruto, go find your team. If Tsunade-sama premits it, I will go find the children and protect them. Akira and Robin, I need you two to protect Setsuko's soul!"
"Hai." The Uzumaki chorused before everyone except Tenshi, Yoko and Tsunade disappeared. Tsunade turned to Yoko as she held the snake back.
"The children and citizens should be under the mountains with the Hokage faces." Yoko nodded as Tenshi smiled at her.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of the snake." Yoko looked at Tenshi then nodded after a moment of debate. She let the shield down as the snake came at them. Tenshi performed several seals.
"HHHHAAAA!!!!!!!" Tenshi yelled as she gathered her chakra. The snake stopped, paralyzed. Tenshi appeared next to the snake and stuck it between the eyes. It feel down dead as Yoko left to room to get to the mountains. Tenshi turned to Tsunade.
"Tsunade-sama, you wish to fight, do you not?" Tsunade nodded.
"Hai. Can you take care of the wounded?"
"I can only take care of a few injuries. I can do the small things while the other doctors do the much more needed things." Tsunade nodded again.
"Good. That will help out. I need to fight for this village."
Robin ducked under a ball of fire. She looked to Akira.
"Robin, you need to go."
"No! I can help you beat him!!!" She yelled as she threw a kunai towards the sound-nin.
"Robin," Akira landed beside her. "You're weaker then me against fire. Go. I'll take care of him." Robin hesitated for a moment then nodded as she ran towards the Uzumaki Estate. Akira turned towards the man. "Consider yourself lucky. I have no arrows or bow." Akira's hands started to go through a series of seals. "But then again, you will get to see my jutsu from the Death Scrolls." Akira opened his dull eyes as a blinding light came from his hands.
"What the hell?!" The man yelled as he shielded his eyes.
"This jutsu took my sight when I mastered it." Akira spoke calmly before his eyes seemed to become more define. "It allows me to see into your mind." The Uzumaki boy smirked. "Be happy this is not the mastered version." He launched himself towards the sound-nin.
Naruto landed next to Sasuke, knocking down a sound-nin in the process.
"Dobe," Sasuke greeted as Naruto began his favorite jutsu. In an instant, the street was filled with Narutos. Sakura dodged a kick from a sound-nin and jumped back while performing a genjutsu. Sasuke's red eyes flared as he began to attack more sound-nin.
Robin moved from roof top to roof top as she frowned. She jumped over a sound-nin as he went to punch her. As she was turning herself around in mid-air she began to summon her blades. By the time she landed as she had them and was attacking the sound-nin. As she cut off the man's head she saw another attack from the corner of her eyes. Robin began to try and twist around to block but the attack was coming too fast. She gritted her teeth as she readied herself for the pain. However, a wall of sand stopped any damage from befalling her. Robin blinked in surprise as Gaara appeared next to her.
". . . . you're weak." Robin turned to him as the blades flipped up to rest close to her arm.
". . . I need you to cover me . . . this will take alittle longer to summon." She felt the blades turn into light and disappear as she closed her eyes. She moved her hands in front of her and began to move her hands quickly. She started her hands out in the demon seal, her hands were facing out and only her middle fingers and index fingers were not closed into a fist. Ox, ram, dragon, horse, dog, fire, rock, wolf, moon, ox, horse, dragon, fire, ram, dragon, demon, demon, fire. She opened her eyes as her arms straightened out in front of her and her palms were forced against each other. She moved her left hand back to reveal strange symbols on her hand. In her palm a symbol was in the shape of an eyes. Suddenly, the shape moved and 'opened' to a black eye. A black sphere appeared above her hand. Robin reached up and grabbed it tightly. A strange black liquid oozed out of the sphere and onto the ground. She paid not attention to the sand that had been moving around her to keep away attacks. She didn't notice the band of sound-nin that had gather either. The black ooze formed into a strange bat like creature. A thin line connected it with the black sphere. Robin smirked as she looked at the sound-nin. "This is my second stage. I hope you like it." The strange creature charged towards the sound-nin.
Bensha, still dressed as Setsuko, landed in the backyard. She looked up when she felt someone coming at her. She jumped back and avoided Kakashi's fist.
"Foolish human. Do you not remember what happened last time? Your attacks do nothing to me." Kakashi looked up at her with his sharingan eye revealed.
"This time, you cannot get away." Bensha stared at him as she reached up to grab her dress.
"I see the doll was found." She easily ripped off the dress and her clothes were formed instantly. Her appearance of Setsuko was gone. "After you are gone-"
"Enough!" Kakashi cut her off. "Toshiko told me how to return Setsuko. I intend to do so."
"You know that it will kill you. I am Bensha. To fight me is to fight death itself. And one way or another, death always wins."
"Not today." Kakashi snapped. Bensha tilted her head to the side as she stared at Kakashi.
"You would give your life for hers? What if she doesn't want this life?"
"What are you talking about?" Kakashi demanded as Bensha leapt up into the air and landed next to him. She grabbed his hands and stared into his eyes.
"Let me show you Setsuko as her real self. The person she never wanted you to see." Kakashi felt his mind slip away from him as darkness surrounded him.