Chapter Five Second Stage
Kabuto smirked, "Very well then..."
He turned to his men, arms crossed across his chest. "Kill him."
The sound ninjas at the base of the outpost in which Kiba and the others resided began to climb the walls, chakra holding them. Kiba glanced over at Taraka from a second, her curse had been spreading across her body from the seal on her neck. "Shit," He cursed and reached into his back pocket withdrawing a smoke bomb he threw it to the ground. Black smoked shielded the group, and Kiba took the opportunity to pick Taraka up and brought her to the ground placing her gently down to the grass. As the smoke dispersed, two Kiba's stood facing the sound ninja, one was Akamaru. The group of sound ninja threw a barrage of shuriken over toward him. Kiba pushed his arms in front of his face. Squelch. The shuriken hit various marks over his body, his chest and arms breaking open the flesh. Kiba began to bleed from these wounds, and stayed focus on the battle. Casting his hands together he signed, Tora, "Shikakyu no Jutsu!" They both placed their hands on the ground, chakra equally balanced, they both had a running start and jumped at the sound ninja, twirling their bodies to create a spinning vortex. "GATSUUGA!" They charged at the sound ninja ahead knocking several of them to the ground, and rendering a few unconscious. Arashi too, had helped Kiba and Akamaru biting many of the sound ninjas and trying to drive them away.
Kabuto's plan however, had not been through. Behind Kiba and Akamaru four sound ninja quitely made their way back to where Taraka's body lay, the cursed seal enveloped half of her flesh. One of them leaned down to grab the shaking figure that lay there. As his hand drew closer, Taraka's crimson sharingan eyes snapped open, and she grabbed the wrist of the sound ninja and stood up quickly. She held him by the wrist and began to twist it with her one hand, a sinister smirk beginning to draw across her mouth. Her other hand withdrew a kunai knife, and brought it to his throat slicing the blade across his neck, blood spattered out of the ninja's throat over her blue shirt. Something began to awaken inside of her body, her three wheels of the sharingan began to spin wildly. She quickly turned to the remaining three ninjas in which had began to retreat, she ran after them casting some katas, "Katon Gokakyuu no Jutsu." Flames erupted from her mouth, immense fireballs released onto the retreating ninjas burning their flesh and distorting their bodies. The sound ninja's dropped to the ground with a thud, and the Uchiha began to laugh maniacally.
Taraka turned to fix her eyes upon the current battle that began, she turned and began to cast a few more katas, and she placed her hand to the ground. An immense amount of blue chakra began rushing to her hand, she began to run straight forward at another nin, whom had been behind Kiba. "CHIDORI!" She called out thrusting the bluechakra directly into the chest of the ninja. Her hand pierced his chest, her hand driving through his body and out his back, she pulled it out the man dropping to the ground, covered in blood. She barged into the battle Kiba had been in, signing her katas for Gokakyuu fireball once more, she reared her head back and blew the immense fireballs once more, incinerating many of the retreating sound ninjas. The numbers decreased greatly each falling over another, Taraka continued laughing. Kiba's eyes widened and his mouth gaped open at her, standing back. Arashi however, began to growl baring his ivory fangs and ran at Taraka. He tackled her to the ground and leapt upon her back biting down on the mark. "AAAAHH" She screamed in pain falling to the ground, the black marks fading away from her body. However, her neck began to bleed, and she began to gain control of herself once again. Arashi let go, and backed off sitting himself down upon his haunches.
About thirty sound ninjas lay dead on their surrounding areas, the others had retreated. Kabuto looked over this sight intently and smiled leaping off of the ground and scurried away in the shadows. Taraka however, lay on the ground shuddering in fear once her eyes caught sight of the bodies and how grotesquely they lay beaten. Tears began to pour out of the girl's eyes once she came to realization of what she had done, and she vomited onto the grass. Arashi's ears dropped lightly and he let out a soft whimper nudging her with his muzzle.
Shino and Hinata arrive moments later, cuts and bruises of many across their bodies looking over the corpses, Hinata's eyes widened in fear, Shino on the other hand showed no expression under his glasses. Kiba studied the Uchiha, her pathetic figure shuddering and crying on the ground, and looked back to his teammates and immediately took charge. "Shino, Hinata, I want you to inform Tsuunade-Sama about this mission. I'm taking Taraka home." Shino nodded and grabbed Hinata by the wrist leading her away from the horrible site, and left the four there alone. Kiba walked over to where the shuddering girl lay and wrapped one of his arms around her waist and the had her arm lay behind his neck. She helped her up, and helped her walk. Taraka however had been crying hysterically. "Akamaru, Arashi. Come." The dogs followed as he led her home to the Inuzuka district.
Upon arriving into the district, Kiba slid open the rice panel door and gently set her down on the futon, her crying had ceased yet her shuddering had not. Arashi leapt onto the futon behind her and sat quielty. Kiba bent down to look her in the eyes, "Taraka, I need you to get out of these clothes and change into clean ones. "
She looked up to him, eyes covered in fear she nodded, he got up slipping out of the room and slid her door over, only to return when she had changed. He sat down again, and handed her some hot green tea. "T-thank you." She said taking it in her hands, he forced a smile and nodded. They sat quietly before Taraka once again broke the silence mumbling almost inaudibly to him. "...thank you for rescuing me. Please...let me tend to your wounds."
Kiba looked over to her, "...It's my duty to protect you. Now, I need you to rest."
Taraka looked up to him and with protest, "It's the least I can do for what you did to help me."
Kiba sighed, "Alright." He removed his bloodied coat, and removed his shirt, various wounds had been scraped across his chest bleeding freely. She wrapped his chest gently around until it was tight enough, and she tied it together on his side. "Thank you. Now though, I'm going to need you to go to sleep. It's been a long evening." He picked up his clothes that he had thrown onto the floor, and turned to leave. He stopped as a hand reached out to his wrist, and he turned to look at Taraka. Her figure had been shuddering, her hand tugged his sleeve even harder, the fear to be alone driving within her body."P-p-please Kiba...don't leave..." She pleaded, her eyes on the verge of tears once more. She feared to be alone in the room once again, fear for the Sound Ninjas to return.
Kiba looked down at her, and sighed sitting down on the futon placing his bloodied things on the ground once again. "I'll stay."
The Uchiha let go of his wrist, and moved to close proximity of him, looking at him quietly, her eyes welling up. She wrapped her arms around his figure, burying her head onto his shoulder.
Kiba looked down at the girl and gently brought his arms around her. "Don't worry….I'll protect you. I promise"
Meanwhile….
Kabuto kneeled down onto the ground bowing his head low in front of a very tall man, with long black hair and serpent-like eyes. The man was leaning back against a wall arms crossed over his chest. "How did she fair?" He asked Kabuto who lay before him. Kabuto's eyes shifted up to look up at him, a smile across his face.
"Twenty eight dead, three wounded."
The serpentine man chuckled, "Excellent…So she's passed into the second stage of the mark. In due time we will have another Uchiha…."
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