A/N: finally an update. Man, I thought summer would end with me never getting this out…
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Card Captor Harry
by Shadow Crystal Mage
Card 21, The Move: The Naruto Create Card Adventure! Part 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does. I wish her well and covet her money. Card Captor Sakura belongs to CLAMP, not me. I covet their drawing skills. Both are used here without their owners' permission. I'm not doing this for money, so please don't sue me.
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Yuki and Haru didn't think about it. If they had, they probably would have realized they were committing 'suicide-by-confrontation-of-vastly-superior-forces' and chickened out. However, Haru was a Gryffindor, known for their great, sometimes foolhardy, and occasionally suicidal, courage in the face of nearly anything, especially snakes. And Yuki… well, she was high on chakra, shuriken, and the fantasy of beating Orochimaru into a pulp.
Hey, this was her self-insert, after all.
Thus, the minute they caught sight of Orochimaru in his Grass-nin disguise, they didn't pause, they just attacked. It was a very good thing the false memories that came with their SI personas integrated so well with their own. The memories of working as a team let them move almost as if they actually had planned something.
Bouncing off a trunk, Haru twisted in midair, launching Yuki at the snake-sannin. The girl threw at least a dozen shuriken at the snake as soon as she got her hand free, causing Orochimaru to back off from Sasuke and Sakura. Landing in front of the two, she immediately flicked one of her spinner mechanisms out of her sleeve, locking it into place on the hole in the center of her uber-shuriken.
"What are you two waiting for?" Haru yelled as he bounced off a tree trunk. On his back, he could feel the cap of his bottle loosening. "MOVE!"
"And who are you, little ninjas?" Orochimaru said, casually drawing another kunai from his pouch.
Yuki managed a cocky grin. Actually, knowing her, it probably wasn't much of an effort. "We're going to kick your ass!"
She made a tugging gesture with her left hand, and the shuriken she threw returned, pulled to her by the Kankuro-esque chakra strings in her hand. Haru dropped down next to and slightly behind her, kunai in hand. The bottle cap popped off completely. He shrugged his shoulder, letting the bottle fall of his back and settle down on the branch they were standing on. He eased his shoulders, getting used to the strength within.
Sakura finally found the ability to speak. "Yuki-san? Haru-san?"
"Hey, cutey," Haru said, wincing as the instinctive words rolled off his tongue. Why, oh why did Yuki have to make him the town flirt? Not that he didn't enjoy the blush that Sakura suddenly developed, or the way she suddenly became interested in the weave of her dress, or the way Sasuke was glaring at him–
Haru blinked and did a double take. Yup, there was definitely something smoldering in the Uchiha's eyes as he stared at him. Haru made a mental note to ask Yuki if this fic was SasuSaku.
"What are you two doing here?" Sasuke demanded.
"We're here to help," Yuki said cheerfully. "You know, village unity and all that."
"We're supposed to be fighting against each other!"
"You really want to take this guy alone?" Haru said dryly. "Yuki, get ready!"
With that, Haru charged forward, kunai in hand. Behind him, Yuki launched another barrage of shuriken to cover him as he charged after Orochimaru. A split second later, Sasuke joined in…
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Naruto bounced along, slowed slightly by Lee's weight. Whatever she'd done to the snake, it must have been a doozy to leave her so weak. Still, she was recovered a little, but not enough to move on her own.
"Faster!" she said. "They've already engaged the enemy!"
"How do you know that?" Naruto demanded looking at her sideways.
A ghost of a smile flitted over Lee's face. "That's my secret," she said. "Now step on it!"
A blast of killing intent washed over them, and Naruto nearly stumbled at it's intensity. A break in the leaves, and suddenly, they were there. Haru had been knocked out, multiple lacerations on his arms and new nicks on his bracer holster. Blood trickled from his mouth, and a kunai was sticking out his shoulder. Sasuke was slightly less bloody, but looked winded, and Sakura knelt beside him, looking terrified. Before them stood Orochimaru, still in disguise. There was no sign of Yuki, although her shuriken were everywhere.
Lee was suddenly pushing away from Naruto, charging at the lone Grass-nin as her hands began to make a succession of Seals. A sound Team Seven had only heard once in their life started to crackle in the air.
"Wha…?" Sasuke said eloquently, turning in time to see Lee charging past him, her right hand crackling with lightning.
"Raikiri!" Lee cried as she stabbed at the nin, who tried to dodge, a surprised look on his face. He wasn't fast enough, however, and the high-speed technique tried to rip a hole into his chest.
Two things happened at the same time.
Lee stumbled suddenly, still not fully recovered from her encounter with the giant snake. The nin she was facing managed to use that time to twist out of the way, partially avoiding the strike, but still managing to get a chunk torn out of his shoulder.
The technique used up, Lee suddenly fell over, falling off the branch she was standing on and beginning to plummet to the ground.
"NO!!!" Naruto cried, helpless to do anything but watch as the green clad girl fell, vanishing into the darkness below.
The nin suddenly started to laugh, shoulders shaking in twisted mirth. "Foolish children. It looks like you defeated that giant snake, Naruto-kun."
Naruto stared hard at his enemy…
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Yuki managed to catch up to Fei, catching her and carrying her somewhere safe. As soon as she'd made sure of her friends vitals, she was off again, back to where she'd been observing the battle. She watched as Orochimaru summoned another of his snakes, winced in sympathy as Orochimaru's seal tagged Naruto's belly. Unconsciously, her hand rose to her stomach. Lucky it wasn't her. She was going to need every drop of chakra she had if she intended to face off against the snake sannin.
Idly, she wished she could retrieve her shuriken–the chakra strings were still in her grasp– but that would give away her position. Besides, it wasn't like she didn't have a couple of thousand still tucked away, ready to be summoned at a moment's notice.
Still, she really wished she could summon her shuriken…
Oh, Sasuke's eyes just went Sharingan. That was her cue. She activated the spinner in her hand, feeling it whir silently before she shut it off, nodding in satisfaction. Inside, she could feel her tenant's power ready to use.
Snapping the spinner into place at the center of her over-sized shuriken– or, as Haru liked to call it, her Buster Shur– she got ready to move in case Sasuke and Orochimaru's fight happened to come her way. She didn't want to be caught in the crossfire…
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Orochimaru grinned as he made the seal. His neck shot out, suddenly elongated fangs ready to pierce the Uchiha's skin. His teeth were inches from Sasuke's neck…
His danger sense screamed, and he broke off the attack, pulling back just in time to keep himself from being decapitated by a shuriken bigger than a helicopter's tail blades flying at supersonic speeds.
"Aren't you forgetting about us?" he heard a voice say as his head drew back and settled on his shoulders. Oh. He'd been wondering where she was…
About four-dozen copies of the girl in white were suddenly standing in front, behind and beside the last two members of Team Seven. His peripheral vision told him that more were busily working to free Naruto where he'd been nailed to a tree.
One of the copies caught the shuriken on it's return arc, spinning a revolution or two before settling to a halt and snapping it in place on her back. All of them suddenly threw their arm to the sides, and Orochimaru suddenly found himself facing an army of girls wielding swords, knives, Dramon Killers, katars, axes, and other assorted weaponry.
"Get him!" one said and the whole bunch charged…
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Meanwhile, the real Yuki and four clones were doing their best to carry away an unconscious Naruto, a knocked-out Sasuke (he'd tried to resist and had earned a Buster Shur's flat side to the head for his troubles), an incredibly beat-up Haru, a chakra-drained Fei and a shaking Sakura as far away from the battle sight as possible. She could already hear her Kage Bunshins exploding in mass quantities behind them. A tick later, and then the big explosions she'd been waiting for occurred. It seemed Orochimaru finally got around to the ones she'd covered from head to toe with exploding tags…
"Naruto…" Sakura said, striding next to the clone carrying the orange-clad boy. "Naruto, wake up…"
"Don't bother," Yuki said as gently as she could. Sakura turned to her, and she smiled comfortingly. "That bastard back there did a number on him, but he'll be fine. It's best if we let him rest."
At Sakura's still reluctant expression, Yuki added, "Don't worry. I'm training to be a medic-nin," she lied. "He'll be fine…"
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Orchimaru barely managed to walk away, clothes smoking and smelling as if he'd been cooking at a barbecue. It was in this state that Anko found him…
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Much later…
"I sacrifice Skelengel as tribute to bring out Dark Magician girl and place three cards face-down. Your move," Yuki said in a sleepy voice.
Sakura looked down at her cards, then at the field. Finally, she activated one of her magic cards. "I activate black hole and wipe out all the monsters on the field."
Yuki winced. "Damn."
"I then set down Doron and use his special ability to bring two of him on the field. End turn," Sakura said a bit smugly, before ruining it by yawning.
Yuki looked through her hand, before putting down a Dharma Cannon. She didn't attack, though. That would still leave her with no monsters to Sakura's one in the next turn.
Sakura smiled, and Yuki knew she was toast. "I sacrifice my Dorons to bring out the Blue Eyes White Dragon! Attack the Dharma Cannon."
Yuki winced, doing the calculation, then sighing. She was out of Life Points.
Sighing, Yuki threw her hand down and started reshuffling her deck. "I really wish these four would wake up already."
Sakura nodded, before stifling another yawn. "You think we should try to wake them up?"
Yuki shook her head. "Not yet. They'll probably try to cut us up for doing that. Lee-san's particularly sword-happy in the morning. Do you want to meet the business end of the jian of hers?"
Sakura grimaced. "I'll pass."
Yuki looked over her shoulder at the clearing. "Incoming squirrel," she said, launching a shuriken.
THWACK!
And the Sound-idiots were due any minute now…
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Sakura was asleep when the three Sound genin showed up. Yuki made sure of that.
"So, you idiots want Sasuke, right?" she said, not opening her eyes as she reclined against one of the roots that made up their shelter. "Sorry, but you can't have him."
"You're still awake?" Kin said, sneering. Yuki wondered why most villains expressions were limited to sneers.
Yuki casually got to her feet, popping her joints and stretching her arms, feeling the trigger mechanisms of the launch devices strapped to her arms. "Oh, I'm very much awake," she said, sounding confident. This was her story, after all. No one can beat you in your own story. "Come and get it, losers."
Yuki smirked as Dosu noted the trap and made the three jump. Just like Sakura, she cut the string behind her, causing the giant log to drop. Unlike Sakura, however…
Yuki covered her ears as an explosion occurred overhead, sending the three Sound-nin crashing to the ground, slightly smoking and smelling like a barbecue grill. She'd always wondered why canon Sakura hadn't slapped explosive tags on the thing. Yuki made a slow count and raised a hand in greeting at no one. "Hey, Rock Lee-san!"
The spandex-wearer suddenly appeared, a squirrel on his shoulder. He took one look at her and…
"Oh, beautiful angel!" Lee– er, Rock Lee– said.
Yuki winced, realizing there was a downside to writing herself as Konoha's female heartthrob…
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Haru wasn't much of a morning person, especially when the night before was very unpleasant. Thus, it was no surprise that when he found himself swimming towards consciousness, he made a valiant effort to go back to drowning in sleep, back to his dreams and restfulness. And he would have too, if it weren't for the fact that…
"ZANKŪKYOKUHA!"
"Too slow! FALLING STAR TECHNIQUE!"
Haru groped under his head, trying to pull his pillow over his head, only to realize he didn't have a pillow. There was, however, a nice log he nearly bloodied his nose on when he tried to turn over. Reaching blindly into his utility belt, he pulled out a small bomb and blindly threw it in the general direction of all the noise. "Do you mind? I'm trying to sleep over here!"
He ignored the cries of "WATCH OUT!" and "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" followed by a large explosion as he tried to turn over, one arm firmly clamped over his ear to block out the noise. Honestly, couldn't a ninja get any sleep around here?
Haru frowned in his pseudo sleep. Wait… what?
Then the memories of yesterday hit his 'not-quite-using-all-it's-RAM' brain. Oh…
Sighing, he rolled back over on his back, feeling around for his over-sized water bottle. When he couldn't find it, he opened his eyes, then wiped the sleep gunk off them. Hmmm, no water. Must have left it where they fought Orochimaru…
And speaking of fighting…
He turned over to look out the break in the roots. Team Ten was standing before it, their back to him. Past them, he could see Rock Lee occupied with… Kin and Zaku? Yes, Kin and Zaku. Yuki was fighting Dosu, the oversized Buster Shur strapped to her back not impeding her at all as she slashed at Dosu with the katars strapped to her forearms, their blades shining in the light. The bandaged Sound-nin was trying to get his speaker around to bear on the girl, but she was moving too fast and too erratically. The exposed bark of numerous trees gave evidence to several misses.
Haru blinked, thinking back on what he'd just thought, and shook his head. A year ago, he was fairly sure that was something he'd never think of in a situation outside of a fanfic.
But then, technically they were in a fanfic…
And all this lazing around wasn't helping. Taking a quick glance, he noted Naruto, Sasuke, Lee, and… Sakura? What was she doing…? Any way, the four of them were unconscious beside him. He'd already felt his body protest slightly as he'd moved, but at least it didn't feel like the wasteland of pain it had been yesterday after he'd fought Orochimaru. He could fight… he thought.
He just wished he had his water bottle with him…
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Yuki had time to grin as he heard a distinctive noise begin to rise, before back flipping over Haru as he charged Dosu, the Raikiri crackling in his hand as he charged the Sound-nin. Caught by surprise at the sudden change in tactics, Dosu wasn't able to evade as the lightning-charged fist struck the speaker on his forearm briefly, knocking him back to slam against a tree.
Yuki landed a perfect one-pointer behind Haru, doing a little pirouette as she snapped the katars back up her sleeves. "Hey, sleepy head," she said cheerfully, a grin on her face as she pulled out her Buster Shur and threw it between Rock Lee and his opponents, causing the three to move away.
Haru gave a limp smiled. "Hey. Uh, sorry about the bomb."
Yuki waved it away. "No big. Now, let's show these losers what happens when you mess with Team Sephiroth!"
"You'll need me for that," a tired-sounding voice said.
Haru and Yuki turned around. Behind Ino-Shika-Cho, who were also looking at the speaker, a sleepy looking Lee was rubbing her eyes with one hand while she pulled her sword off her back with the other. "Lee-san!" Yuki exclaimed, while Haru made a sound reminiscent of a growl at the back of his throat. Why did she have to wake up now?
Lee purposely moved past Team Ten as Rock Lee gallantly handed Yuki her Buster Shur back, who was trying not to look too freaked out at the hearts-eyes Rock Lee was sending her. Lee growled as she watched the self-proclaimed reincarnation of the azure beast of Konoha try to make the moves on Yuki. "Do you mind leaving my teammates alone, fuzzy eyebrows? Although if you really have to hit on someone, do Potter. He needs a boyfriend."
Rock Lee turned as green as his spandex at the suggestion, while Haru settled for throwing a shuriken ("Hey, that's mine!" Yuki pouted indignantly) at the brown-haired girl, who blocked it with her sword. "Oh, keep your opinions about my love-life to yourself, Yurizoku," Haru said.
The two immediately flicked their eyes to Winter, who thankfully wasn't paying attention because she was trying to keep an eye on Rock Lee. Ino-Shika-Cho and the Sound-genin, however, raised their eyebrows in interest.
Interesting, Ino thought.
Troublesome, Shikamaru, of course.
Yurizoku? Is that tasty? Chouji wondered.
"Come on, let's get this over with," Lee growled as she handed Yuki her shuriken back and pushing Rock Lee away ("Stay out of this or else!" she threatened), taking her place next to the girl with Haru on the other side.
The three faced the Sound-nin, who had regrouped across the clearing. Dosu's speaker was cracked, but still looked functional. Zaku was flexing his arms, while Kin held a kunai in one hand and senbon in the other.
For a moment, the two teams just looked at each other. Then, they moved.
Haru reached for the Key around his neck. "Key of power, show me your true form…"
Lee was faster. "FIGHT CARD!"
Zaku's hands snapped up. "Zankūkyoha!"
Dosu raised his speaker. "Kyōmeisen!"
Kin threw her belled needles.
Yuki made a seal. "Kage Bunshin no jtsu!"
One of Yuki's clones got struck by Dosu's attack and immediately puffed back into smoke as the three members of Team Sephiroth scattered to avoid the Zankūkyoha, Haru using his now-formed Sealing Wand to bat aside Kin's bell as Lee sent Fight to charge Kin. The Clow sprite attacked the long-haired girl, her speed causing her form to blur as Rock Lee looked on jealously. The dozen or so Yukis left reached behind their backs, unsnapping their Buster Shurs and twisting where the blades intersected, making the things fall apart into two huge blade-staffs that looked very much like FFIX thief swords. Most of them charged Dosu, while one each backed up Haru and Lee.
"Clow Card, show me your true power! WINDY CARD!" Haru said, summoning the yellow sprite. He pointed at Zaku. "ATTACK!"
"Zankūkyoha!" Zaku said, palms out as he sent the blasts of air.
Windy smirked condescendingly as she wove yellow threads of magic into a shield, the jutsu simply dissipating on it. Haru grinned. "Did you get that?" he asked.
Windy nodded.
"Oh, good. Windy, Zankūkyoha!" he said. It was Zaku's turn to gulp and run as Windy raised her palms in imitation of him and sent out the cutting blasts of air as Haru's nearly-villainous laugh ("KU KU KU KU KU!") echoed through the clearing.
"Me again," Yuki said cheerfully as she and her clones slashed at Dosu with their thief sword-like blades, not giving him a chance to use his speaker. "Wanna see how long it takes me to humiliate you this time?"
Kin was too busy being beaten to a pulp by Fight to participate in witty banter.
"Raitei Shourai!" Lee said as Fight punched the Sound-kunoichi into the air. The lightning struck her during the hang time.
Flipping in perfect tandem, Fight and Lee kick-slammed Kin into a tree. She landed on top of an exposed root. A moment later, Zaku slammed into the same spot on the tree with an accompanying cry of "Rasengan!" from both Haru and Windy. He landed on top of Kin. He was soon followed by the last of the Sound-genin as Yuki and her clones pin-balled Dosu into the tree. He barely managed to land on his feet, swaying and nearly falling on top of his teammates anyway as Team Sephiroth landed in front of him, Haru, Windy, Yuki and Fight looking very smug. Lee's expression was hard to make out with those mirror-shades of hers, but her stance was more self-assured than usual. "So, you wanna continue this or will you leave your scroll and scram?" Yuki said.
Growling as best as he could, Dosu threw the scroll at them as he kicked Zaku awake, unceremoniously and not quite gently picking up Kin. In an instant, they were running away.
Yuki giggled. "Well, that was fun."
"Yuki-san!" Rock Lee suddenly said, giving them the thumbs up and making Yuki suddenly shiver. "That was a wondrous performance! Truly, you are blessed with the power of youth!"
Haru snickered as Yuki flushed. Let's see how she does being on the receiving end of one of those things…
Lee just shook her head.
"AHHH!" someone cried, and everyone jerked in the direction of the noise. Sakura was staring in horror at the long threads of pink hair in her hands. More pink strands lay scattered on the ground around where her head had been, obviously cut off by shuriken. "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HAIR?-!-?"
Everyone looked a Yuki, who was looking pretty embarrassed. One hand was scratching the back of her head. "Eh, heh he… looks like I wasn't watching where I threw those Falling Stars of mine…"
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After Ino helped Sakura re-style her hair and Lee's teammates came to take him away (but only after Lee and Neji had tried to glare holes into each other), Team Seven and Team Sephiroth stood looking at each other, both teams uncertain as to what to do.
Nervously, Yuki handed Sakura the scroll they'd taken from the Sound-trio. "Here," she said as the other girl blinked in confusion. "Something to replace that scroll of yours that got burned."
Sasuke scowled, although it was mainly directed at Lee, who was giving as good as she got. "We don't need your charity."
Yuki sighed. "Look, you can fight us for it, but that would be a big waste of energy we'll all probably need to get the other scrolls we need."
Haru nodded. "Not that it'll be a problem. I already have an idea of where we'll get the scrolls from."
Lee raised an eyebrow. "Oh?" she said sarcastically.
"Yeah. You're going to love this one," he drawled, smirking. That was actually true; she would like this little idea.
"Who exactly do you plan to get the scrolls from?" Yuki asked.
Haru smiled. "Aconite."
Yuki and Lee blinked, before Yuki pouted in disapproval as Lee grinned savagely.
"You're actually right, Potter," Lee drawled. "I do like that idea."
"Huh?" Naruto asked.
Haru and Lee snickered in a manner that would send creeps up a normal person's spine. Sadly no one around was normal. "Don't worry, just leave this to us," Haru said, grinning. In a blink the two were gone, leaving Yuki alone with Team Seven.
Yuki sighed. "I almost pity the guy…"
"Who?" Sakura asked, wondering what the pale-haired girl was talking about.
Yuki waved the other kunoichi off. "Never mind; you don't want to know…"
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Not so long later, Yuki and Team Seven were sitting huddled around a fire, watching as food cooked, when a rustling sound suddenly emanated from the underbrush. Sasuke was up in an instant, kunai in hand, while Naruto fell over himself trying to look cool.
"Who's there?" Sasuke demanded.
The brush parted, revealing Kabuto with a disarming smile on his face. "Oh, hel-"
With a cry, the Fight Card, Haru and Lee fell on top of him, and Yuki winced as she heard the cries of "Rictusempra!", "Petrificus Totalus!" and "FIGHT CARD TWO HUNDRED HIT COMBO!" She didn't want to know when Lee and Fight had found the time to make that up…
"I so don't know those people…" Yuki muttered as she tried to cover her face, flushing in embarrassment. Oh, if anyone on the Kabuto-sama fanclub found out about this, she would be so dead.
"VICTORY!" Haru declared, waving the matching set of scrolls he'd plucked from Kabuto's pouch in the air.
"OH YEAH!" Fight yelled, punching at shadows as she danced on top of Kabuto. "YOU WANNA PIECE OF ME? YOU WANNA PIECE OF ME? COME ON, YOU LITTLE WORM! COME ON! I DARE YA!"
Yuki's eyebrow twitched. "Lee-san, why is Fight acting weird?"
Lee pointed at Haru, who was complacently juggling the scrolls. "Mahou shonen pretty Haru here-" ("HEY!" Haru yelled) "-decided to give Fight some candy. Apparently, she gets… weird… on those things."
Yuki looked at Fight, who was now challenging a tree to a duel for looking at her funny. She made a mental note never to give the Clow Card any sugar. "Well, I guess this means we're all done with the second part of the exam."
"Huh?" Naruto said.
With a flick of his wrist, Haru tossed the scroll Team Seven needed to pass the exam at Sakura, who fumbled it a little since she wasn't expecting it. "There. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go get my water bottle. Toodles!"
With that, he was off, bouncing from tree to tree as Lee looked on in annoyance, trying to keep Fight from doing something really stupid. "I hate it when he does that!"
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Haru met them at the tower with his over-sized cooler on his back. When he got there, he was torn between being amused and annoyed at how much Lee and Sasuke were glaring at each other. On the one hand, it was nice to know he wasn't the only one Lee rubbed the wrong way. On the other hand, that was his Slytherin, darn it! Hands off!
"About time you got here, Potter!" Lee snapped. "We've already wasted our time waiting for you!"
"You didn't have to wait around on my account," Haru said snidely, knowing they very well had to.
Lee knew that, too. "Baka!"
Yuki rolled her eyes, shaking her head amused at the two. "Come on, you guys! We've got a 'mission' to finish!"
Haru nodded, falling into step with Yuki as he waved good bye to Team Seven and dragging Lee away from Sasuke's gaze. "Be seeing you guys! Come on, Lee, we haven't got all day!"
"HEY, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO HAD TO GO AND GET YOUR BOTTLE!"
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"I'm surprised that Kabuto didn't back out," Potter said, obviously trying not to grin at Kabuto and failing miserably. The silver-haired traitor kept giving Potter and her dirty looks, which Potter kept answering with wide annoying smiles. Truth be told, Fei was very tempted to do the same, but her pride kept her from doing so. Besides, looking cool in her mirror shades was a lot more fun. Really.
…
Really!
…
Still, it would be fun to send annoying looks Kabuto's way…
She barely kept her hand from going up and pulling off her sunglasses and using her eyes to try and freak out the medic-nin.
"Would you stop that!" Fei growled at Potter, who was grinning at Kabuto and waving to him from across the room. Fei's peripheral vision was registering the murderous looks being cast their way when no one was looking. "Must you antagonize the Kakashi-level Sound med-nin?" She was starting to miss the depressant, near-useless Card Captor!
"But it's so much fun!" Potter said, smirking at her. Next to him, Yuki sighed.
"First match is coming up," she said, obviously trying to change the subject and wondering what the heck she was doing here. Fei felt things were a bit more surreal than usual, herself.
"Why are you worried?" Potter said. "You rigged up the matches, didn't you?"
Yuki was silent.
"Didn't you, Tsukino?" Fei pressed.
Not a peep.
She and Potter exchanged looks, before turning to look at the screen, which was announcing the match of Uchiha Sasuke and Akado Yoroi.
Sephiroth walked towards them, looking nervously back over his shoulder at Kurenai and Anko. "Crazy women," the Sun-Guardian-turned-blond muttered under his breath. He glared at Yuki, who was trying to look innocent. "I blame you for this."
Fei raised an eyebrow. "I thought you liked looking like that?"
"I do, but nearly a week of being chased around by women trying to get into my pants kind of takes the fun off it," Sephiroth retorted. "Sure, it was nice the first few times, but after the tenth mob out to strip me naked, it got annoying."
The three looked at him, eyebrows twitching. Potter and Fei turned to look at Yuki, who had a strange look on her face, as if she couldn't decided whether to be amused, weirded-out, shocked or embarrassed. "MOBS?" they chorused at the shuriken user.
She shrugged. "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
The two slapped their faces.
It didn't take long before…
"Tsukino Yuki versus Inuzuka Kiba!" Genma announced.
Potter and Fei winced, looking with concern at their mutual acquaintance. "Yuki…" Potter began.
"Tsukino…" Fei said.
She waved them off. "I'll be fine," she said, putting one foot up on the railing before turning around to smile at them. "Really, the two of you shouldn't worry about me. Your false memories should give you some kind of idea as to what I can do."
The two rivals looked at each other in mutual concern as their mutual teammate jumped into the ring.
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Yuki landed lightly on her feet, her Buster Shur dismantled and held in both hands as Kiba landed in front of her.
"A girl?" the Inuzuka said contemptuously as he thumbed his nose, gesturing for Akamaru to go to a corner and nap this one out. "Oh, this is going to be easier than trashing Naruto!"
"HEY" was the cry from the balconies.
Yuki just grinned. "You're getting your ass kicked, then," she said, before snapping the pieces of her Buster Shur together and returning it to it's highly oversized state.
Kiba snorted. "Feh. As if Naruto could beat me, much less a girl!"
This time, Naruto wasn't the only one who yelled "HEY!"
"Something tells me this is going to be highly entertaining," Sephiroth said, sitting down cross-legged on the catwalk. "Wish we had something sweet to eat, though."
Lee reached into her deck holster. "Give me something to transfigure and we'll have lots of cavity inducers in no time," she said dryly, brandishing The Sweet Card.
Haru thought about it, before pulling out The Flower Card. "I supposed flower-shaped chocolate isn't too bad, as long as it's not rose flavored, or anything."
Genma raised his hand and slashed in down. "BEGIN!" Cough.
Kiba was immediately running towards Yuki, crouched low to the ground and only a hair away from being down on all fours as Yuki flipped the enormous shuriken into the air. Catching it in one hand, she spun once, and used the momentum generated to launch the weapon into Kiba's path.
"TOO SLOW!" the genin cried as he easily avoided the spinning object.
Immediately, Yuki snapped her wrist, causing something to launch out of her sleeve and into her hand. Or more precisely, on to her hand. Another snap, and the same object was on her other appendage.
Haru blinked, leaning over the railing to try and get a better look as, with a cry of "SWEET CARD!", Lee snapped down her sword. "Uh, Sephiroth-sensei, is it just me, or did two clawed gauntlets just pop on top of her arms?"
Sephiroth nodded amidst the exclamations of surprise, derision, and blunt sword impacts as Sweet appeared. "Yes, you did just see two clawed gauntlets pop on top of Yuki's arms."
Yuki's arms snapped up, pointed straight at the advancing boy. A wide, mad-scientist-manic grinned blossomed on her face for a split second. Said manic grin immediately sent chills down peoples spines.
"Oh, boy," Sephiroth said, accepting the handkerchief filled to the edges with chocolates from Flower as she, Haru, and Lee sat down to either side of him on the catwalk, with Sweet sitting on her mistress' shoulder. "This is going to get ugly."
"Hey, can I have some?" Chouji asked, staring at the chocolate covetously. Ino rolled her eyes in exasperation.
As Flower started making more petals for Sweet to transmogrify, Kiba was dodging like a madman, moving in nearly all possible directions as he tried to keep away from the hail of shuriken Yuki was dishing out. The two gauntlets were launching the metal stars at a ridiculous rate while Yuki laughed madly, her head thrown back and cackling in the best of mad scientists traditions. Everyone but Haru and Lee found it incredibly creepy. Love, apparently, was also deaf, as well as blind.
"Well, at least she's enjoying herself," Haru said, popping another petal chocolate into his mouth. "Although if Kiba hurts her…"
Sephiroth looked down into the pit. From the way Kiba was bouncing all over the place and how Yuki was looking even more psychotic, that didn't seem likely. Although… "We've got incoming."
Yuki was getting bored taking potshots at Kiba something suddenly tackled her from behind, eliciting a cry of surprise as she tried to get Akamaru off her back. "Hey, get off me, mutt!"
"Good job, Akamaru!" Kiba yelled, skidding to a stop, a grin on his face–as well as a few cuts on his jacket– as a feral look came over him. He pointed at Yuki. "Now you'll see our teamwork!"
Yuki blinked, even as she tried to get the little white dog off her back. "Oh, man! I thought I set the fic to not have cliché lines like that!"
"What?" Kiba demanded.
"Uh, nothing," Yuki said. Phew, almost broke the fourth wall there. Or something…
"GATSUUGA!"
Yuki blinked, then gave a high-pitched shriek as a human drill flew her way. Akamaru jumped of her back as second before she initiated Kawarimi. Kiba struck the log that took her place, bouncing at and angle as he hit the ground after shredding it, and Yuki was barely able to avoid him as he came for a second pass.
There was a puff of smoke, and suddenly, Akamaru was looking more human. He growled a moment before launching himself into the air after his partner, a second drill following after the first.
"EEP!" Yuki cried, turning around and running away from the twin drills. Dodging, she tried to bring her gauntlets to bear. She promptly ditched that idea when she was almost hit by one of the drills, and got a glancing blow from the other one.
Back-flipping away from the two while they were still turning around, Yuki snapped the gauntlets back up her sleeves, forming a single seal with her fingers. "KAGE BUNSHIN!"
"What the heck?" Naruto cried, leaning over the railing and yelling in outrage. "That's my signature technique she's using! When did she learn how to do that?"
"Naruto, she's already used it before, don't you remember?" Ino said.
"He was unconscious at the time, Ino-chan," Haru said, popping a chocolate petal into his mouth.
"Naruto raises a good point, Sephiroth," Kakashi said lazily at the seated bishounen. "How did Yuki learn that technique?"
Sephiroth looked him in the eye, all innocence. "I suppose she could have learned it the same way Naruto did, Hatake-san," he said with a perfectly straight face. "She might have stolen the Forbidden Scroll, took it to a deserted corner of the training grounds, and practiced the technique until she fainted from chakra exhaustion."
"And did she?" Asuma said, backing up the silver-haired jounin.
Sephiroth shrugged, accepting a new batch of chocolate from Haru. "How should I know? I'm her sensei, not her parole officer."
Meanwhile, down below, Kiba and Akamaru were destroying clones almost as fast as Yuki could make them.
"HAH! This all you've got, girl?" Kiba said as he stopped spinning and swiped at the nearest clones while Akamaru provided cover, still using Gatsuuga. "This is pathetic."
"FALLING STAR TECHINQUE!"
Kiba looked up at the cry and promptly screamed as thousands of chakra-charged shuriken dropped down from the ceiling, causing minor concussive explosions as the struck, destroying clones and sizable chunks of the floor as they did so. One struck Akamaru, who reverted back to his natural form with a cry, his back bloody, before scrambling widely around trying to keep away from the Falling Stars. Kiba wasn't so lucky as Stars ripped through his jacket, knocking him off his feet time and again as he tried to use Kawarimi again and again to try and avoid the impacts.
Yuki dropped to the ground, trailing a tail behind her as she glowed with pink chakra, several shuriken fan-arrayed in her left hand as she pulled her Buster Shur from the wall with her right. "Still think I'm pathetic?" Yuki said, as the small shuriken in her hand glowed pink before turning a blinding white. One-handed, she threw them at Kiba one at a time, causing him to doge back again and again as the shuriken burst explosively before reverting back to normal, imbedded deep in the ground.
"Um, sensei, why is Yuki-san's chakra pink?" Sakura said as the other stared intently.
"I'll answer that!" Sephiroth said before Kakashi could respond, turning his head towards the pink-haired girl. "How much do you know about the Tsukino Clan?"
"There's a Tsukino Clan?" Naruto said.
Sephiroth nodded. "Yuki-chan is the last surviving member of the Tsukino Clan," he said, ignoring the way Haru and Lee had gotten to their feet, even though Haru was the only one cheering wildly. "The Clan specialized in two things: shuriken-based jutsu and the protection of Konoha against demons."
"Demons?" Rock Lee said, eyes getting wider than usual, if that was physically possible.
Sephiroth nodded, ignoring the slightly alarmed looks on the other jounins' faces. "The Tsukino Clan had a special ability that wasn't quite a kekkai genkai. Hundreds of years ago, the head of the clan managed to win the favor of a powerful nymph. The nymph allowed itself to be sealed at birth into a member of the clan, allowing the individual access to her nearly infinite chakra. Yuki-chan is the latest host of the nymph Xin Jing. That's why she can use pink chakra. It's the nymph's power she's using, the same power that could match demons."
"Hmph," Neji said. "If the Tsukino Clan is so powerful, why weren't they there to stop the Kyuubi no Kitsune?"
The other jounin got tenser.
"Why do you think she's the last of her clan?" Lee said dryly, seeming to glare at the Hyuuga through her glasses. "The nymph was sealed into Tsukino-san mere days before the Fox appeared. The Clan was without it's greatest weapon, so the most they could do to fulfill their duty was to act as cannon fodder while the Yondaime performed his jutsu. Haven't you wondered why more clans were decimated?"
"I seem to remember my father telling me something like that," Shino said suddenly. "About how a whole clan sacrificed itself to protect Konoha from the Demon Fox."
"There you go," Sephiroth said, turning back to the fight, were Yuki had maneuvered Kiba close to a wall. "So if any of you were planning on trying to 'learn' those kinds of techniques, don't hold you breath. The only way you could learn moves like that is if you have a nymph or demon sealed inside you."
Naruto perked up at that. No one noticed.
"GOTCHA!" Yuki said as the last of her shuriken maneuvered Kiba into nearly slamming into a wall. Effortlessly, she threw her oversized weapon. The Buster Shur flew straight towards Kiba's gut as Yuki snapped at the chakra strings on her other shuriken, snapping them back into her hand, only to throw them again in a blanketing volley around the path of the Buster Shur.
"KIBA-KUN!" Hinata cried as cries of shock filled the air.
Next to her, Kurenai tensed, knowing she'd only have a split second to interfere and save her student from being cut in half, but a leather-gloved grip suddenly held her hand preventing her from moving. Outraged, she turned to kill the offender, only to find herself sinking into Sephiroth's red eyes. "Relax. Yuki-chan is just showing off."
Kiba screamed like a girl as he realized he had nowhere to run, and that any direction he went would only end in shuriken, he closed his eyes, waiting for the seemingly inevitable searing pain as he was cut in half. Instead, there was only a loud thud and a soft but sharp impact on his stomach, and then silence.
Blinking, Kiba opened his eyes, looking down to see that the enormous weapon had stuck into the wall at just the right angle to pin him without cutting him in half, although his jacket was a bit torn. Any further observations were interrupted, however, as a foot suddenly collided with his head, slamming it into the wall behind him and making him see even more stars. A moment later, he felt cold metal against both sides of his throat as a voice hissed into his ear. "I win, you lose."
He tried to glare at her, but couldn't seem to focus properly
Cough. "The winner is Tsukino Yuki!"
Yuki flipped her hair, posing. "I am so cool."
(Read 'Harry Potter and the Collided Worlds' by Sokai, story id 2502930)
Haru was all over Yuki when she finally got back to the catwalk.
"Um, something I can help you with, Haru-kun?" Yuki said in bemusement as Haru ran his hands all over her, checking for injuries. In the background, Flower and Sweet were snickering.
He looked up, staring into her eyes in worry. "You're not injured, are you?"
Yuki waved a hand dismissively. "I'm fine. Xin Jing healed me up right away. One of the perks of having pink chakra."
"Personally, I still think it means the chakra is pure evil," Sephiroth said easily. "After all, it's pink!"
"Pink is not the color of evil, sensei!" Yuki said.
Sephiroth rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
"Enjoying yourself there, Potter?" Lee said dryly, looking pointedly at Haru's hands, and he pulled them back like they'd been burned.
"I hope whoever fights you kicks your butt," Haru growled.
Lee snorted in an unladylike manner. "Right. Like that can happen."
(Read 'Harry Potter and the Collided Worlds' by Sokai, story id 2502930)
Cough. "Lee Fei versus Hyuuga Neji!"
Fei dearly wanted to wipe the smirk off Potter's face. "Wow. You might actually get your ass kicked after all."
"Drop dead, Potter," she growled, feeling the emotions that came with the false memories coming to the fore. No ifs, ands, or buts about it, her SI-self hated the Hyuuga. She felt chakra rushing into her eyes and clamped down on the flow of energy to keep her doujutsu from changing. Instead, she calmly began to walk towards the stairs at their end of the catwalk, taking her sweet time.
By the time she got to the ground floor, her emotions, both true and false, were back to being held tightly in check. Not even the purely disdainful look Neji cast her way ruffled her, although she did come this close to doing something stupid.
"Look what the dog dragged in," Neji said, almost sneering yet somehow not.
Fei didn't miss a beat. "How's the seal, Branch House?" she shot back, pushing her forehead protector up slightly to wipe non-existent sweat, revealing her unmarked brow. "The leash isn't too tight around your neck, is it?"
Neji ground his teeth, veins breaking out around his eyes as his Byakugan activated. Fei nonchalantly adjusted her mirror-shades, reaching behind her to loosen her sword. Drawing the Jian, she flicked her wrist, causing her holster to swing open. Holding the blade in both hands, she settled into a ready stance. "Well? What are you waiting for?"
The words seemed to calm Neji down slightly, the veins sinking back down under the skin as the disdainful look returned. He opened his mouth–
"If you're about to give some kind of demoralizing speech about destiny and fate, then CAN IT! I'M NOT IN THE MOOD!" Fei yelled, causing Neji to clamp his jaw shut as a familiar giggle sounded from the balcony.
"GOOD LUCK, LEE-SAN!" she heard Yuki yell as Neji settled into a Jyuuken stance, eyes active once more.
"Begin!" Cough.
Fei immediately jumped away from Neji even as her left hand reached for a Card and flicked it into the air. "FIGHT CARD!" she yelled, slamming the point of her sword down into it as Clow Reed's magic circle appeared beneath her. Okay, so what if she had all these skills implanted into her head? Best for her to stick to what she knew. And what she knew was…
"Fight! Attack!" she said, pointing at Neji with her sword as the sprite materialized.
The Hyuuga broke off his attack in surprise as Fight appeared, standing protectively in front of her mistress. "What the…?"
Fight flickered, disappearing. Neji didn't even have time to look surprised before he suddenly got a roundhouse kick to the jaw, sending him flying as Fei pulled out another Card, gathering chakra in her eyes.
"FIREY CARD!"
Flame-like streams of magic burst from the Card under the point of her sword, swirling around her before congealing above her head, forming into a winged man with flaming hair. The Firey Card crossed his arms, expression haughty as he regarded the Hyuuga before him.
Fei pointed her sword at Neji. "Firey Card, Katon: Karyuu Endan!"
Ignoring the resounding scream of "WHAT!" that emanated from the observation areas, Firey gathered his element in his hands, shaping it just so as Fight kept Neji busy. The female sprite was doing a very good job of occupying the genius as the two wove in a swirl of Jyuuken and… whatever fighting style Fight was using. "Fight, move!"
The sprite complied, jumping straight up and away, leaving Neji in the clear for Firey's attack. The enormous flame construct streaked toward him, moments away from incinerating him.
"KAITEN!"
Fei smirked as Neji began to spin, chakra blasting from his arms to ward off the oncoming attack. "Firey, terminate Karyuu Endan!"
There was a second round of "WHAT!" from the balconies as the flames suddenly disappeared mere inches from it's target, even as Neji spun in the Hakkesho Kaiten. Fei waited patiently for the spin to finish, tapping her sword on the ground as Fight gathered herself for another attack. Up above, Firey was doing the aerial equivalent of tapping his feet, which was basically wiggling his toes in mid-air.
"What the heck is she doing?" Naruto demanded, leaning over the railing as if that would let him see close enough to figure it out. Sighing, Kakashi grabbed his waistband and pulled him back over despite his protests.
"She's gathering information," Sephiroth said, finishing off the last of the chocolate petals and sighing in disappointment. He brightened when Flower gave him the latest batch Sweet had made, and immediately began eating contentedly.
"Huh?"
"Just watch, Naruto-sama," Yuki said, leaning her elbows on the railing and getting comfortable. "GO, LEE-SAN!"
Everyone boggled at the silver-haired girl.
"'Naruto-sama'?" Sakura repeated.
Neji dodged as Fight attacked once more, staying between him and Fei as the girl ordered Firey to the sidelines, to more confusion from the audience. Sheathing her Jian, Fei stood loose, watching the fight and deliberately looking bored as she made a tick on her internal checklist. One down, one to go. Now, if only Neji would consider Fight to be enough of a threat to use the second thing on her wish-list on…
Tamping down the temptation to sit, Fei waited patiently as Fight and Neji fought, her eyes never blinking behind her shades, trying to see every nuance of the battle. Fight was staying just a shade faster and stronger than Neji, just enough to irritate the heck out of the Hyuuga.
"Is this going somewhere?" Kankuro said, sounding annoyed at the uninteresting fight.
"Yes," Haru answered, even though he was looking a bit bored himself.
"And that would be?" Ino asked tartly.
"She's trying to pull a Copy Ninja," was the only reply.
"Huh?" Kakashi said.
"JUST WATCH!" Haru yelled.
Down below, Fei allowed herself a small smile was Potter lost his cool. Oh, such a beautiful sound…
Then she heard something that was even more beautiful and at the same time heart-wrenching as Neji stepped back from Fight, arms straight and palms out…
"Hakke Rokujuyon Sho!!!"
It went from wrenching to clenching as Fight fell, twitching under Neji's barrage. Chakra and magic arced around her body as her internal energy flow was disrupted, even as Neji drew back his arm for the final blow, chakra swirling…
"Firey, PROTECT FIGHT!" Fei ordered as she charged, hands flickering into seals as she charged at Neji, while Firey sent flames to surround Fight and keep Neji away. The Hyuuga drew back as a crackling sound began to rise in the air. "Raikiri!"
In the observation area, Kakashi twitched. "WHAT?"
Neji barely managed to jump back as the chakra-powered fist slammed into the area where he'd been standing, showering him with shrapnel as Firey spirited Fight away.
"Play time is over, Hyuuga," Fei said, barely restrained heat in her voice. "I have what I want from you."
With that, Fei got into a ready position, palms held out before her, glowing with chakra. Neji blinked. So did the jounin up in the stands.
"Is that," Gai said slowly, "a Jyuuken stance she's getting into?"
Sephiroth shrugged carelessly. "Must be," he said. "She must have just picked it up. Why?"
The other jounin all boggled at him.
Haru sighed, taking the time to thwack Sephiroth upside the head with the Masamune ("OUCH! HEY, GIVE ME BACK MY SWORD!"). "If you really want to know, ask Uchiha-san. He knows all about it… don't you, Uchiha-san?"
Everyone blinked, then turned to look at the Uchiha, who was glaring at Haru. Haru just smiled back at him, muttering something about evil mirrors and needles of doom.
Twitching, Sasuke turned to respond to the enquiring gazes of everyone around him. "Lee is… a relation," he spat out, looking like the word had left an unpleasant taste in his mouth.
"Huh?" Naruto said. "What are you talking about, Sasuke-teme?"
"He means," Yuki chirped pleasantly, causing everyone to turn her way, "that Lee-san is a cousin of his. Isn't that right, Uchiha-san?"
"Cousin?" Sakura said. "You mean she's an Uchiha?"
"SHE WISHES!" Sasuke yelled, before realizing he'd lost his cool in public and tried to pretend it never happened by sinking even deeper into a 'silence-of-coolness'.
"Sadly– or happily, depending on how you look at it," Haru said, smirking slightly at the pale boy, "that's not the case. Lee's an illegitimate child, born out of frazzled nerves, combat fatigue and the desire of her parents not to die a virgin. The Uchiha clan disowned her, so she's had to live alone all this time."
Haru smirked at Sasuke. "The only good thing out of the deal might have been that she didn't get involved in that little massacre a couple of years back."
Sasuke growled at him, eyes suddenly growing red. Haru just kept smirking.
"So you're saying," Kakashi said slowly, "that the reason Lee was able to learn so fast…"
"Is because she has Uchiha blood," Yuki finished for him. "And like any good part-Uchiha, she got a–"
"Sharingan."
Down below, Neji and Fei were fighting Jyuuken to Jyuuken, Fei using her Sharingan to predict where Neji would be while at the same time copying more and more of his skills. While Neji was the more experienced fighter in the style, Fei was able to hold her own using her knowledge of non-Jyuuken fighting techniques.
"It's no use fighting, Hyuuga," Fei said, avoiding a strike and retaliating with a solid fist that, while not exactly emitting chakra with pinpoint precision, would still have done lots of 'Gentle' internal damage had it connected. Neji hurriedly blocked it, going on the defensive as Fei followed through with another one, and another, and another. "Fate obviously wants you to lose. Why else would so many things be in my favor, Branch House?"
Neji said nothing, managing to avoid the last strike and landing a sloppy blow that didn't have enough chakra behind it, merely feeling like a mildly warm slap.
"My eyes are superior to yours. Accept it and bow down to your destined defeat."
Neji grit his teeth, suddenly changing tactics and going for a kick to the side of the head. Fei just smirked, not moving even as it was stopped cold by a wall of chakra.
"Gotcha," Fei said, before her finger darted up and, in rapid succession, tagged various points along his leg with pre-measured bursts of chakra, before finally sweeping his foot out from under him and launching him in the air with a throw.
Two steps, and Fei was in the air as well, aiming a drop kick at Neji's head that the genius barely avoided. Fei's foot impacted hard on the floor as Neji landed, only to have one of his legs collapse from under him.
"Did you only just notice that?" Fei snickered, casually reaching up and pulling off her mirror shades as she straightened. Her three-tomo-ed red eyes gazed at Neji contemptuously. "You really need to pay more attention during a fight, cousin."
Fei saw things as if in slow motion as Neji's hand darted to his pouch, pulling out a swarm of kunai and shuriken. The slow-motion was supplemented by an overlay of predictions of where they would be, one that Fei didn't need as she began the technique.
"Kaiten!"
The various pieces of metal merely bounced off the chakra barrier as she went into the heavenly spin, sending the weapons flying in all directions and causing everyone close-by to duck for cover. Neji was barely able to deflect his own weapons away from him, still managing to acquire a few cuts on his person.
Fei stopped the spin, bringing her fingers up in a single seal. "Byakugan!"
Fei's eyes faded back to their usual purplish gray, before turning white as veins suddenly popped into being.
"HEY! WHAT GIVES?" Naruto yelled. "First she's got Sharingan, and now those Byakugan things? What is she, some kind of super-ninja?"
Haru and Yuki barely managed to choke back a laugh at the accuracy of this statement.
"Time to finish this, cousin," Fei said, getting fully into character as chakra began to flow into her hands and behind her eyes. One step, two steps, and suddenly she was going at Neji in a dead run, her chakra-powered hands leaving glowing blue contrails in her wake.
Gritting his teeth, Neji braced his single leg as well as he could before reaching one last time into his belt pouch…
Fei didn't slow her charge as Neji threw something small and round at her, even when it exploded and suddenly covered the area in thick purple smoke. She could hear Neji moving through the mist, trying to buy himself time to try and open the tenketsu points she'd sealed. After all, if they were taught to close them, they must have also been taught to open them, right?
Not that she was going to give him time. Concentrating, she gathered chakra into her eyes, knowing that this would be one of her last moves of the fight. Closing her eyes for a millisecond to concentrate, Fei snapped them open again as they took on a pinkish hue, three dark gray spikes growing out from the invisible pupils at the center of her eyes and expanding outwards to the edges of her corneas.
"Mangekyou Sharingan!"
Quickly, she scanned the extent of the mist, bracing herself as more chakra began to gather in her eyes. Her gaze locked on to Neji and stayed there, knowing she she'd be near-completely out of chakra when she was done, successful or not.
"Amaterasu!"
The legendary black flames lanced forward, burning or blowing away the concealing mist as Fei charged, shifting her gaze slightly to destroy the final volley of weapons Neji threw her way. Twenty feet. "You…"
Fifteen feet. "…are…"
Ten feet."…within…"
Five. "…MY HAKKE!"
Fei threw out her arms, palms out as her eyes focused completely on Neji, their lethal fire gone. "This is for Fight," she whispered.
"HAKKE ROKUJUKON SHO!!!"
(Read 'Harry Potter and the Collided Worlds' by Sokai, story id 2502930)
Firey caught Fei before she could fall, amazed that his Mistress had still managed to find the strength to stay standing until she'd been declared the winner. Even if this was just a world of Create's making, the toll on the body was still very much real. Next to him, a recovering Fight limped forward, her warrior's pride not letting her stay down for long. Together, the two of them began to carry the barely conscious girl towards the others, fending off the human-constructs Create had made.
The Card Captor bent down slightly, as if to get a better view of Fei. "Man, you look even worse up close. I can't tell you won just by looking at you.
The arm slung over Firey's shoulder tensed slightly as the Mistress growled, her faded purplish gray eyes turning slightly pinkish.
"Lee-san, you were incredible!" the Lady Winter yelled, throwing her arms around the Mistress' neck. The change of hue spread from her eyes as the Mistress' face changed to an interesting shade of red. On her other side, Fight snickered.
"Get off me, Tsukino-san, I can't breathe," Fei finally managed to say after a few moments, sounding strangely reluctant. The Lady Winter didn't seem to notice, however, instantly drawing back with her hands over her mouth, apologizing profusely and already making the necessary hand-seals to heal Fei's injuries.
The Card Captor looked annoyed at the exchange, glancing between the two girls before shaking his head. "Tell me again how you managed to achieve Mangekyou Sharingan without being branded a missing-nin for killing your best friend? I don't think I really got that one."
"Her pet dog," the Lady Winter said. "Remember how she had to kill him when he got rabies? Apparently, non-human best friends count."
(Sasuke heard and promptly resolved to get a dog)
Tuning out the banter between the three– four when Master Keroberos called for one of them to hand him a new batch of chocolate– Firey looked back at the battle area, remembering that construct the Mistress had created. In his mind, he recalled the jet-black flames, and wondered if there was some way he could do that himself. He was sure the Mistress would be pleased…
(Read 'Harry Potter and the Collided Worlds' by Sokai, story id 2502930)
"You turned her into a Super-Sue, you know," Haru said, watching with some amusement as Fei was tended to by Firey, Fight and the diminutive Sweet.
"A Super-Sue?" Yuki said curiously.
"A Super Mary Sue," Haru clarified. "Seriously, Byakugan and Mangekyou Sharingan? That's on the side of the overkilled."
"Your just saying that because you don't like your kekkei genkai," Yuki said, pouting at him.
"Actually, I like my bloodline limit rather well," Haru said dryly. "I just haven't had a chance to use it, that's all."
"Looks like you're going to," Sephiroth said from around a mouthful of chocolate as he pointed at the board.
Haru followed his gaze and felt his blood run cold as he saw the names on the board. Next to him, Yuki gasped.
"The next match is between–" Cough. "Sabaku no Gaara versus Potter Haru!"
(Read 'Harry Potter and the Collided Worlds' by Sokai, story id 2502930)
- To be continued…
(Read 'Harry Potter and the Collided Worlds' by Sokai, story id 2502930)
A/N: Pink is the color of pure evil when not associated with a girl named Kinomoto Sakura…
Oh, and the breaks? They're a favor for a friend…
Please review, C&C welcome. I don't suppose I can beg you guys to drop off more?
Until next time, this is Shadow, signing off.