Alrighty, the second part of my double update.
I need to talk to everybody about something. Technique names. I'm not good with naming stuff. I'm even worse at japanese. Normally I would strain and look these things up, but, because of my lack of reviews, I decided it might be better if I let you do that and send them in. Currently I need a list of Itachi's techniques for reasons I don't want to say at the moment. I could also go for a few of Kisame's, any other akatsuki people you might want to throw in for fun, and if you see any in here, give me the japanese for that so I can correct it in future and past chapters. I will greatly appreciate anything you send to me. Thank you for your cooperation.
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They all got in line. The tunnels were only wide enough for one or two people at a time walking shoulder to shoulder. Junichi and Ayane were in front. Temari and Saotome were in back. Gaara, Kankuro and Kanoe managed to take the middle. They were all set.
The crept quietly down the halls. There was no possibility of stealth because of the one-way trail. The entire network was quiet. Too quiet, as the old cliché goes. As soon as the passages widened up, the attacks began.
Junichi blasted away at whatever was in front of him. Regular ninjutsu was almost useless because of the confined space, but kunai and shuriken were abundant. While Junichi shot his chakra at his enemies, Ayane threw various projectiles at them. Should anything dangerous get by, Gaara would bring up his sand shield and block the oncoming threat.
They slowly made their way down the tunnels, battling all the way. Soon though, the enemy shinobi became less and less until there were none at all. They continued down the single tunnel into a large cavern filled with water. On the other side were many entrances into other tunnels that led to god knows where.
The main attraction however was a man standing on the water. He had black and white camoflauge pants on and didn't seem to feel a compulsive need for a shirt. On his back he carried a gigantic sword that was almost as big as he was. He was unmistakably, Momochi Zabuza.
"So good of all of you to show up" Zabuza said creepily "Now I shall enjoy killing all of you one by one."
"I don't think so," Junichi said, stepping forward with a grin. Another one of his dreams had just come true "I don't know how you survived your fight with team seven in the wave country, but right here and now, you shall die by my hand."
"Ah, so young, and so cocky." Zabuza laughed to himself "In no world could the likes of you ever beat me."
"All of you," Junichi said to his team "Interfere only if I begin to fail. I want to test my mettle against this one."
With that, Junichi walked out onto the water and stood in front of the missing Nin. They stared into each other's eyes for a long time before any movement was made. They were sizing each other up, picturing the battle in their minds.
Suddenly, the water around Junichi exploded and he disappeared, only to appear right in front of Zabuza to deliver a quick punch to the face. Zabuza was much to quick, and caught Junichi's hand. With one solid motion, he brought his gigantic blade down on Junichi. Seeing the motion, Junichi opened his palm and blasted Zabuza in the head with chakra, sending him flying back a few feet.
Junichi regained his footing quickly and stood on the water readily. Zabuza got up and rubbed his cheek for a second.
"You must have spent a lot of time perfecting a technique like that" Zabuza said as if he were envious "You must be truly dedicated…No matter though, I'll defeat you now that I know your style."
Zabuza began to form his hands together in a seal, and in no time, five Zabuza bunshins sprung up around Junichi and lunged at him.
Junichi leapt into action. He ducked under the first sword strike and caught the bunshin in the chest with a chakra burst. Two more came up and slashed diagonally in different directions. Junichi took a step back and threw both fuuma shuriken right through their chests. One bunshin came up behind and slashed downward at him. Junichi stepped to the side and let the returning shuriken slice his head off before catching them, spinning them in his hands to create buzz saws and then slice the remaining clone to several pieces.
"You see Zabuza, no mere clone can beat me. I'm-" Junichi stopped short when suddenly the water around him formed up into a sphere and trapped him inside. He looked at the source of it and saw Zabuza standing there enjoying this part of torturing his prey.
"You poor little fool." Zabuza said with an evil chuckle "When I said I understood your style, I meant that you go in without thinking. You are the worst strategist I have ever seen. Your techniques are good, you just don't know how to use them."
The rest of the team looked on with shock. Nobody had ever seen Junichi beaten, except Saotome who just saw by the way he fought that Junichi let him win that one fight. Then Temari stepped forward and unstraped her fan from her back.
"C'mon Saotome kun." She said as if the situation was annoying "Get your butt up here and help save your teammate. And no back-talking either. You're not getting out of this one, now get over here."
"Fine…" Saotome said with a sigh as he rolled his eyes and walked out with her and got his guitar ready "I can't believe we're doing this. Zabuza is a VERY dangerous Jounin. We're just kids! We'll get massacred!"
"Quit your blubbering!" she snapped at him "Your friend's life is on the line! Now, you start playing that guitar and tell me what to do."
Saotome hung his head for a second and began playing a swift song on the lower notes finally ending high up on the neck of the guitar.
"Song of the assassin." Saotome said simply "You don't even need to get into this one. Just watch."
Saotome unstrapped his guitar from his back and held it close to the head in his right hand. He ran as fast as he could at Zabuza, trying for a forward attack.
Zabuza laughed evilly and raised his free hand to slash diagonally downward at the oncoming boy. In a flash of movement, Junichi dodged the blow at the last second and spun upward, smacking Zabuza square in the side of the head with his guitar. As he landed on the ground, the Zabuza before them turned into water and disappeared, releasing Junichi at the same time.
"What the hell!" Temari yelled with a surprised look on her face "How did you know it was a mizu bunshin? And furthermore, if it was only a bunshin, how did it trap Junichi san?"
"Simple." Saotome said with a shrug as he began to walk back to land "Zabuza was trained as an assassin. He would definitely know how many of us there were and know something about each of us. He wouldn't attack us as a group. Besides, it suits his style better to pick us off one by one. He was merely testing us. He used the first assault against Junichi to see what he could do, then used more mizu bunshins placed in areas and making movements he knew Junichi would beat, thus creating an illusion that his main bunshin was the original and at the same time, coming around and trapping Junichi. The real Zabuza is somewhere in the tunnels waiting for us to split up and search each one. He knows we need to get him out of the way in order to progress without interference. He has us right where he wants us."
"If we split up we only make ourselves easy targets" Kanoe said to him, acknowledging his reasoning "Splitting up is just what we he wants us to do."
"Think about not splitting up though" Saotome said as he strapped his guitar onto his back "If we don't split up, he could sneak up and that sword of his could wipe us out while we'd be in too close quarters to do anything. And say we don't find him. He would show up at the most inopportune time and kill us off easier than if we split up. He has put us in this situation and he knows what he's doing. What he doesn't know is who's going down each tunnel to find him."