Koumei stared at her possesed brother, clenching her teeth hard and grinding them together. She felt the needles in her hand, pressing annoyingly against her skin as she clenched her fists. She wanted to attack, she knew she had to, but she just couldn't bring herself to harm her brother. But he's not really Haku, he's just the result of a jutsu. If I don't kill him, he'll kill me without hesitation...
Haku dashed towards her in silence as she dodged easily. He came around again, sending four senbon at her. Koumei vanished, dodging through one of her mirrors, and reappearing on the other side of the dome. Haku did the same, he was incredibly fast, and appeared a few feet of, sending more senbon towards her. But Koumei was also fast, and she jumped high, flying towards her brother and aiming to knock him out.
Haku vanished and Koumei backflapped hard to slow herself. Before she could turn around, she felt three senbon enter her back. She pulled them out quickly and once again dashed through a mirror to the other side of the dome. This time, however Haku remained, thinking of what to do. Koumei felt a familiar presence pacing in the back of her mind. Let me out.
Koumei dodged as more senbon flew towards her, into a mirror and back out again a few feet off. Hell no. She felt the presence lash out violently against her concience. Just let me out.
Koumei worked up her courage, and sent a few poorly aimed needles towards Haku, before vanishing again, not reappearing for a moment. I said no! You'll slaughter everyone!
When she reappeared finally, Haku was standing before her in an instant, and punched her hard in the stomach, causing her to double over. But before he could attack again, she lashed out with her wings, catching him in the chest and sending him backwards. Only pausing for a moment, Koumei sent three senbon towards him, and retreated into another mirror, buying time as she moved to the other side of the large dome.
I won't. I'll just kill the enemy, not your little friends. Release me. Koumei grunted in frustration at the direction her mental conversation was going. She didn't respond, but instead ran around the edge of the dome, looking for Haku. Don't bother me now, I'm busy. A shower of senbon came from nowhere, some sticking in her legs and wings as she brought them up protectively.
This is going nowhere, she thought, sending a counter of senbon back in the general direction of the main attack, without success. Exactly. Just this once.
Absolutely not! I swear, you'd kill everyone here until there was no one left, or until they kill you. Koumei pulled out the senbon from her legs and turned to using her hands as weapons. The silver nekotes were still on, and she prepared to attack.
Reappearing in another mirror, she came at Haku from behind. He spun around just in time to block the nekotes with his senbon, but ended up skidding backwards from the force. He suddenly jumped backwards, causing Koumei to lose her balance momentarily, and six senbon needles flew into her body, two in her neck and the rest in her upper body and shoulders. Ouch, she thought as she scrambled into a mirror.
Koumei's head throbbed as the presence in the back of her mind fought for control. She clutched at her head as she stepped out of another mirror. Let me out and I promise you I will finish this quickly. She looked around for Haku, who was charging at her, so she retreated into the mirror again.
If you don't shut up and stop destracting me, I'll end up dead, and that means you'll be dead too. The presence seemed to loosen the intensity of it's fighting, but it still tried for control. Koumei looked out from her mirror at the others battles. Some of them weren't looking too good.
There was a golden wolf hanging from Kawa's throat, as she was in a fully transformed griffin form, and the snow beneath her was red. Sora was fighting a white wolf and his arms were bleeding. He raised his hands and....I told you not to waste your time on that Sora, thought Koumei as she watched three elements clash with his body. Kasei was fighting fire with fire, and Genma looked exaughsted as he preformed jutsu after jutsu.
Koumei stepped out of her mirror and looked to where Haku had been moments before. Without warning, she was knocked forwards, and a foot was slammed into her back as she hit the ground. She rolled over as the foot struck her in the ribs, causing blood to run slowly down from her lips. She sucked it back and pushed herself up, but before she could run away again, Haku kicked her in the face, sending her mask flying off and her body flying back towards a mirror. Please let it be one of my mirrors, she thought as she headed for it.
Unfortunately, instead of time slowing as she passed into her mirror, she hit it hard and slumped down into the snow. Haku stood a ways off and made a few quick one-handed seals, shouting in a hollow voice, "HiJutsu, Sensatsu Suisho!"
Koumei looked up, vaguely noting the red had left her eyes again, and saw many long, sharp ice shards heading her way. Joy, she thought, too exaughsted to lift her wings in protection. But before the ice needles could reach her, a red and orange form blocked her view of Haku. The red and orange was stained dark red as it took the neeldes, leaving only a few to reach Koumei. It was Kasei. Hmmm...Deja vu, said the presence mockingly.
"Kasei!" she shouted, forgetting her lost energy and jumping up. She ran over to his limp form where it lay in the snow, full of slowly melting needles. Her mind blanked out. Her vision turned red once more. And her anger boiled up from inside of her in the form of chakra.
She felt the eyes of her comrades watching in horror as red chakra exploded from her body, over her arms and legs, and over her wings. She started laughing quietly, as more chakra crackled around her like electricity. The red energy suddenly exploded, shooting out in all directions in about a ten foot radius as she began transforming. As sleek black fur spread over her, the dome of mirrors returned to it's normal size, and it's normal blue colour, which signalled that Koumei was no longer here.
In her place stood the black griffin, one talon placed in front of Kasei's body and the other three behind, shielding him. The chakra snapped and crackled loudly as the demon screeched in pleasure. "Finally! I thought I'd never get out of that hellhole!"
Haku stood a few feet off, and quickly slipped into a mirror. The black griffin was there in an instant, actually shattering the mirror as it brought a chakra enforced talon across it. Haku appeared behind once more, expecting to send twenty senbon at the demon, but too late. In a flash of ebony feathers, the griffin had Haku in it's mouth, thrashing him about wildly and probably snapping his backbone.
The demon dropped Haku, done playing, and plunged a talon into his chest, causing him to cry out. But Haku was no longer Haku as he was replaced with another persons body, dead, and the remaining mirrors vanished. The griffin didn't seem to notice it had won, and continued shredding the body, before flopping lazily down beside it and... eating it!?
The two remaining ninja, Kawa and Genma, as Kasei dying and Sora was unconcious, watched in horror and disgust as the demon griffin wolfed down the insides of the unknown person. But before the two could throw up or faint, the demon pulled back, shaking its head, as Koumei broke through, regaining control.
She was drenced in blood, hers and Haku's, and shaking uncontrollably in the snow where she sat, staring horrified at what she had done. A ways off, clapping broke the momentary silence, as Uchiha Itachi emerged from where he had been watching. He was no longer wearing his black and red Akatsuki robe, but was instead in a completely black outfit, and had a long sword, a katana, held beside him.
"I like your style, Koumei, well done," he said mockingly as he approached. "But unfortunately, I cannot allow this, so I will have to-"
Before he finished his sentance, he brought his sword's sheath across her nose, breaking it and throwing her on her stomach. Moving with incredible speed, he then plunged a kunai right between her wing joints, rendering them useless, and then hitting her over the head with the sword's sheath again, knocking her out cold.
"Very sorry, Koumei, but your daddy wants to see you again." He strapped his sword across his back and lifted Koumei's limp form.
"I'm borrowing your sensei, so you'll need to train yourselves for awhile. Arigato!" he said sarcastically, before vanishing in a puff of smoke.