The ANBU Chronicles
File #1; Chapter 12- Cat Fight
As a new song came on the speakers overhead, Heiko gave the bartender a stony gaze. The whispers began almost immediately. Sasori ducked into a stall and Heiko backed off. Perhaps it was from reluctance that she didn't follow Sasori into the stall or maybe she just wanted to steel herself. Whatever the reason, she took a seat at the bar to wait. The bartender served Heiko a glass of rum which the pissed kunoichi threw back without a second thought. Her eyes strayed to the stall that Sasori was in. She heard the telltale flush, set her glass on the bar and walked up to the stall. She stood back a bit so Sasori couldn't see her feet. The door opened and Sasori walked straight into a sharp right hook.
Blood splat wetly on the glowing white tile, looking like an ink blot because of the black lights.
Heiko was smug for a moment before she felt herself weightless. The Rain ninja was thrown sideways from the impact of a punch to her right ear. Heiko slammed against the wall, which wasn't far away, and tried to get to her feet. A wave of disorientation swept over her and she wobbled to her feet, her eyes locking on Sasori's deathly still figure.
The Cloud ninja's eyes were obscured by tendrils of maroon hair but Heiko could see the blood trailing out of the corner of her mouth. She made no attempt to wipe it off either. Sasori's fist hung in the air from where her punch had made contact with Heiko.
"I don't know who you are, or why you attacked me," Saori said slowly, grinding each word out so that it conveyed her feeling of annoyance," But if you are going to attack me, you had best make every punch worth it."
Sasori lowered her arm and stood up straight, her fierce red eyes staring at Heiko, who had finally regained her balance. The Rain stared at the Cloud and was not pleased with her tone. There was no bfear/b in her voice or on her face. That alone further incensed the already pissed Heiko. 'She should be afraid!' Heiko thought desperately,' There is no way that this btch has any type of fighting experience!'
Heiko lunged at Sasori, aiming a punch to her face. Sasori stayed stock-still up until Heiko changed her attack at the last second and tried a spin kick. Sasori caught her foot and tried to twist it. Heiko flipped herself with the twist and Sasori lost her grip on her foot. Smirking, Heiko spun low, attempting to sweep Sasori's feet out from under her but Sasori brought her heel down sharply on Heiko's ankle. There was a piercing snap and Heiko threw her head back in pain. Her ankle was broken. She couldn't use Taijutsu any more.
The women at the bar and the bartender had been watching at the first sounds of the fight. Heiko threw them a dirty look and they left the bathroom in a hurry. The Rain ninja looked at Sasori.
"You are more than what you seem to be," Heiko ground out," perhaps you took some martial arts lessons or do that Tai Bo garbage but I am far better than that!"
"Sure you are," Sasori said, stepping off her ankle and going towards the door.
Heiko quickly did a series of seals and the walls of the restroom started to glow and it wasn't from the black lights. Sasori stopped and turned back to Heiko.
"So you aren't letting me go without a fight, eh?" Sasori said.
"Hell no. Gensou-sama is mine."
"I had no intention of taking him from you," Sasori said.
"His eyes were on you. I want them on me."
"Growing up would be a good start," Sasori quipped.
A crackling, popping sound was heard as Heiko healed her ankle. The Rain ninja stood up. She had had quite enough of this intrusive btch and her sarcasm. She took out her Rain hitai-ate headband and tied it around her forehead.
"Just so you know, you are facing one of the missing-nin of the Hidden Rain and right-hand woman of Hirata Gensou," Heiko said, one hand on her hip and looking smug," Just wanted to let you since you will be dying shortly."
Sasori turned and put one hand on her hip. This chick wasn't going to back off without a fight so she figured that she might as well kill her. If she was a missing-nin, then the Hidden Rain would be pleased to hear of her demise. That would be nice as far as a bonus was concerned.
"Then let's finish this. I have two handsome men waiting for me," Sasori said with a smirk.
Heiko gritted her teeth and did a series of seals.
"Uki no jutsu!" Heiko yelled. (Threat of Rain Skill)
Instantly, they heard the line of sinks on the opposite side of the wall burst one by one in a strange popping sound. The water in the nearby toilet bowls started to flow and flood over the rim (it's clean, okay? Gensou had a minion put some of those nifty round cleaning thingamabobbers in the toilets.). The water from both sources started to inch towards their feet. Sasori took out her fan and snapped it open with her left hand. She held the fan slightly behind her form. The song blaring through the speakers changed. Madonna's "Die Another Day".
"How appropriate," Sasori said.
Heiko did another series of seals.
"Yokoburi no Jutsu!" she yelled. (Driving Rain Skill)
The large droplets of water rose up from the floor, shaped themselves into senbon needles, and launched themselves at Sasori. Sasori concentrated and did three one-handed seals. Then she swung her slightly large fan forward in a sweeping motion.
"Kyoufuu Henshin no Jutsu!" Sasori said. (Raging Wind Deflection Technique)
The water senbon needles were destroyed as soon as Sasori's attack made contact with them. Water droplets showered the angry Heiko. Sasori's expression of annoyance had not changed. Instead, she moved from the line of stalls into the room with the bar and line of broken sinks. Heiko did the same. They stopped at the exact same time and faced each other, Sasori's back to the exit.
Suddenly, both of their hands flew in a flurry of seals.
"Kadou Saiden no Jutsu!" Sasori said. (Vortex Sanctuary Technique)
"Suiton - Mizu Shuriken no Jutsu!" Heiko cried. (Water Element; Water Shuriken Skill)
Immediately a vortex of wind formed around Sasori, pushing back the water and the hundreds of shuriken made of water were either deflected or disentegrated upon impact with the vortex of air that flowed around Sasori. Some of the water shuriken smashed bottles in the bar while others shattered the long mirror above the broken sinks. Shards of the mirrors fell into the water. Above them, some of the lights blinked on and off. Sasori got an idea.
The water was already about 8 inches deep (20.32 cm to the rest of the world) but around Sasori, it was dry from her Kadou Saiden, which had started to pick up shards of the mirror and spin them around her. 'I need to end this so I still have chakra to fight Gensou with,' she thought,' Kadou Saiden uses too much chakra.' Heiko was already starting her next attack, her hands flying in a series of seals.
"Sanseiu no Jutsu!" Heiko yelled. (Acid Rain Skill)
Sasori's eyes widened in horror as water condensed into a cloud that blotted the celing from view. The light got dull and then the nightmare started. Most of the rain was deflected by Kadou Saiden and wherever it splashed, a hole was burned into the surface. Some of the acid rain drops managed to cut through the vortex and Sasori covered her face as best as she could. A long drop grazed the left side of her neck and caused her to cry out in pain. The droplets that made it through burned holes in her kimono. This had gone on long enough. Concentrating hard, Sasori did a short series of one handed seals. Chakra condensed in her fingers and soon began to sizzle with blue electricity that curled around her fingers and illuminated the vortex somewhat.
"I'll get you back for that..." Sasori hissed.
Heiko squinted to see what was going on within the vortex but when she realized what was going on, it was too late. Sasori reached her hand to the edge of the vortex and pressed her fingers to it.
"Rakurai Hadou!" Sasori whispered. (Bolt of Lightning Surge)
The electricity that Sasori had generated ripped through the standing water that Heiko was standing in. Heiko's eyes bugged as she was electrocuted, the electricity ripping through her body. The Rain ninja screamed as her limbs jerked about and her body spasmed.
"I'm not done with you yet!" Sasori screamed as she tucked her fan away and did another series of seals.
"Kaze Yadama no Jutsu," Sasori cried. (Wind Missile Skill)
The wind vortex around her spun faster, collecting more fragments of the mirror. After a few seconds, it hurled the mirror fragments outwards at freakish speeds. Some shards embedded in the bare walls or in the bar but most embedded themselves in the Rain ninja that was being shocked to death. The shards cut Heiko's skin, dug into her all over her body, and the larger fragments pinned her to the wall. One shard gauged Heiko's throat, another buried itself in her cheek, dozens of jagged pieces dug into her torso, and her arms were pinned to the wall by her hands and forearms by large shards. Her legs were to weak to support her.
Sasori released the electricity and once she felt it was safe, she released the vortex. With Sasori's life and control ebbing away, so did the water she had summoned. It disappeared into the toilets and back down the pipes. Heiko was crying, her skin singed from the electricity and her body pierced by the mirror shards. Every so often, she spasmed and would cry harder. Blood dripped down over her face and blinded her in one eye. Heiko was a mess and barely clinging to life.
"Just so you know, I am Dokugamoto Sasori, once of the Hidden Sand but now of the Hidden Cloud, one of the four bodyguards to Shinzui Arashi-sama, the Raikage," Sasori spat.
Heiko let out a scream of agony. She had heard the rumors of the powerful 4 that guarded the lady Raikage but she never expected to meet one, let alone face one in combat.
Her voice stolen, all Heiko could do was cry. Her tears flowed as Sasori took one of her kanzashi out of her maroon hair and pushed the point into the center of Heiko's chest slowly. Heiko was powerless in the face of this new pain, one which seemed to spread through every fiber of her being like wildfire. One by one, her organs began to shut down painfully as her nerves screamed in her brain as though her entire body were on fire. Her heartbeat picked up and then skittered to a grinding halt.
"Weak," Sasori snarled," If this is the best Gensou can offer then you'll be meeting him shortly."
-End Chapter 12-