Kitsune Legends
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Key: "Talking"
'Thinking'
(This key will be updated as the story continues.)
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I do however, own the Ocs (Riku, Mikiko, Tsuki, Katsu).
EDITED!
Previously...
He took a deep breath and calmed his rapidly beating heart. Katsu checked a pocket watch he was carrying in his pocket. Riku's heart beats started to fall in synch with it as he waited for the sign to go. Tick. Tick. Tick. He clenched his fist, urging this throbbing to slow down.
"Begin!"
Into the Darkness
Adrenaline rushed through his body as he quickly drew out two kunai, holding them like daggers. Riku jumped into the darkness and started pelting down the stairs, his footsteps echoing in the empty stairway. As he went deeper in, it became darker and darker to the point that he can barely see his hands in front of him. He strained his ears to hear beyond his footsteps and his pounding heart. He continued running as he began to wonder how deep underground he was.
A faint yellow light appeared in the distance, and Riku started running towards it, eager to get out of the darkness. Finally catching up to the bright light, it engulfed him, temporarily blinding him as he ran. Suddenly, the floor disappeared from his feet and he started free falling into the darkness.
"Aaaaahhh!"
The yell of surprise echoed throughout the whole dungeon, alerting Tsuki to the danger. She perked her ears towards the source.
"Riku...kun?"
Hastily, she took out her fans from her obi and opened them with a quick snap. Tsuki held them in a defensive position as she started walking through the dimly lit tunnel, studying her surroundings. 'Long tunnel lit with an unknown light source...approx. 12 feet high, 7 feet wide...' she calculated.
She walked by some crackling torches on the wall, looking for any signs of danger.
The crackling kept getting louder as she walked further away from the torches. Starting to feel nervous, she started jogging.
Tsuki felt the heat of the fire against her back as she started to run through the tunnel, panting.
The crack of the fire finally became a roar as the young Hakumei tucked her fans back into the obi of her kimono, risking a glance over her shoulder.
Her eyes met with raging pools of red.
Those eyes belonged to a living inferno as big as the tunnel itself, shaped into a snake like form. It opened it's mouth and roared, shaking the walls with it's monstrous voice. She gasped, and sprinted, the flame snake breathed out a stream of fire, singing the edges of her kimono.
"Tssssssuki..." hissed the flaming reptile, "I only want to play..." The snake breathed in deeply, signaling that it was going to shoot fire again. Up ahead, the tunnel opened up to a vast cave, with many stalagmites and stalactites jutting out from the earth.
Tsuki ran through the entrance and jumped towards the right as several fireballs were shot, exploding as they hit the walls opposite them. Tsuki skidded to a halt, facing the entrance as she panted from the run. The cave shook and rumbled as the predator neared her. The pyre snake seemed to flow out into the cave in a long stream of fire, as Tsuki spotted a small underground lake on the other side.
She smirked. "Bingo."
Meanwhile, the younger Hiroshima twin had reached a fork in the tunnel lit with strange glowing blue mushrooms as it split into three separate pathways. Each one was lit with different colored mushrooms. The path on the left was lit with green mushrooms; the right with white; and the middle with orange.
Stopping in front of them all, she closed her eyes and stood still. A faint breeze blew over her from the tunnel on the right.
"That one."
Miko walked over and drew her sword out of the sheath, which was still securely strapped to her back. It's blade was blood red with some strange kanji on the side. She gripped it with both hands and gathered some chakra on the edge of the blade and sliced the number one onto the side of the tunnel. Returning the blade to it's sheath, she started walking down the white path.
As Riku fell, he took out some wire, tied it onto a kunai, and threw it towards the side of the seemingly endless pit. As it took hold of the earth, he swung and landed with his feet on the vertical wall. Sighing as he gripped the wire tightly, he cursed under his breath.
"Holy shit...if this is only the beginning, I wonder what's at the end of this dungeon?" Grimacing, he gathered chakra into the soles of his feet and walked up the sides of the wall, picking up the kunai as he passed it.
"Thank god otou-san taught me how to walk up trees...I'll have to thank him after I get through this god damn test..." He looked at the opening about 75 yards away where he fell, seeing the stairs behind it.
A sudden breeze of howling wind threw him into the air from underneath and slammed him into the roof of the cave. He grabbed onto a stalactite (A/N: a stalagmite, except its sticking out of the roof, if ya didn't know...) and glanced down at the source of his pain.
Underneath him, a near invisible eagle as big as a van was hovering. Riku blinked in confusion as he saw almost completely through it's pale sky blue colored body. It screeched at him before speeding towards him like a bullet.
Gasping, he used his feet to jump off the side of the spear like rock and threw out his wire-attached kunai again, swinging through the air and drawing 2 more kunai in his other hand. The eagle collided with the stalactite, successfully shredding it to dust as it made contact with it's feathers. Grimacing as he stood on the side of another stalactite, he cursed again.
"Dammit. It's like a living hurricane of blades..."
Mikiko growled out in frustration as she walked back up to the entrance to the white tunnel again. She stared at the slash she made on the side. 'I...walked in circles?' She retraced her steps, going through another tunnel. About an hour later, she found herself back at the same cave. Miko growled in frustration, realizing her stupidity. She formed the hand seal to focus chakra and muttered
"Kai." The genjutsu creating the three tunnels disappeared, leaving Mikiko at a dead end.
Scowling, she walked around the small cave, feeling the walls, until her hands ran over an imprint on the wall. She blinked. 'What's this?' She wiped her hands over the imprint again, and discovered the kanji for "blood".
"Ha...Katsu-sensei really is as crazy as we think he is...a ninja must see through deception and look beneath the surface...tch!" she said as she took out a kunai knife and cut her finger deep enough to draw blood. She wiped her finger on the stone imprint, and the rock around it started to crumble into rubble. Mikiko blinked at the dark hole.
A pair of hands shot out of it and pulled her into the void.
Tsuki made a dash for the lake while forming a short set of hand seals.
"Rikkido soujuu!"
Holding out her hand, palm up, she called some water towards her. It gathered around her just in time to absorb another fireball from the snake. It hissed in anger as it rushed towards her. As it came closer, Tsuki side-stepped it just in time and sent a jet of high-pressured water towards the back of it's head. 'Bulls-eye...' The fire seemed to dim a little before recovering.
The snake laughed. "Ssssssilly girl...that little attack won't hurt me..."
Tsuki frowned, jumping back a few feet and taking out her fans again. Gathering chakra in them, she sent a blast of wind towards the snake with a wide arc of her arm, most of her remaining controlled water following it. The water mixed with the now spinning wind, creating a water tornado. It roared in pain and lashed out at her with it's tail as the tornado spun around its head. It hit her right in her stomach as she flew back and slammed into the wall.
Her right sleeve had burned right off, exposing burnt skin. The living inferno glared at her, killing intent now spreading throughout the large cave. 'That snake isn't real...it's a summoning...which is why it won't die because chakra is being continually pumped to it...dammit.'
Another stalactite turned to rubble as the wind bird chased down Riku, who was swinging on his wires. He armed himself with shuriken and flicked his hands, sending them flying into the bird's head. They embedded themselves into it's forehead, but the eagle was still going strong.
"Shit."
It started spinning while charging until it became a spinning tornado missile, whizzing towards him. He let go of the wire and used his momentum to somersault towards the wall, the missile just skimming his arm. As he flipped, he threw a kunai with an exploding tag attached to it at its tail. When it made contact, the resulting explosion shook the cave. It sent the bird crashing into a jagged piece of rock. Riku grinned as he used chakra to stand on the wall, clutching his now bleeding arm.
"I'm not having that much luck with birds...am I?" he chuckled to himself. Even when in battle, he still found the time to joke. The bird shrieked as it pushed itself out of the wall, it's eyes now visible.
They radiated a faint yellow light. . .
just like the light that lured him there.
Mikiko drew her blade once again after she was thrust into complete darkness. She sniffed the air and picked out two identical scents.
'Kage Bunshin...' she thought. Suddenly, two mirrors lit up near her, and in front of them stood the two identical masked ninja with black spiky hair. Both had their had their hands in a different hand seal as they stared at the reflections. She looked into the mirrors and saw Tsuki and Riku fighting elemental monsters. Miko gasped.
'It's like looking through a window...'
In Tsuki's mirror, the snake had just cornered her, hissing something illiterate. Mikiko growled and charged one of the Kage Bunshin.
The true masked ninja stepped in front of her and blocked her way, forcing her to skid to a stop.
"Stop. Before you can get to them you have to go through me." Mikiko snarled.
"Those Kage Bunshin are controlling those monsters aren't they?" The ninja cackled.
"Of course." No more words were needed.
She touched her crimson blade, yelling out: "Awaken, Chisio aiyoku!"
The blade pulsed as it glowed a crimson color. It then disappeared, along with the hilt, and a torrent of blood shot out of the handle; at least 1 ton. The silver crescent and chain enlarged, revealing that it was really a chain and sickle if she held the hilt upside down. Forming the needed hand seals, she activated her blood limit.
"Rikkido soujuu!"
The blood immediately swarmed around her as she spun the crescent high above her head. The red liquid followed the movements of the crescent moon, forming a great spiral above her.
Mikiko jumped high into the air and swung Aiyoku towards the ninja's head. It didn't even reach him; only half way. He laughed at this, but was cut short when he jumped up to dodge the sonic boom that followed, successfully blowing him away. He gracefully flipped and landed on his feet, looking at where he was just standing. There was a big tear in the earth.
Mikiko continued swinging Aiyoku at the ninja, the blood now hardening into senbons that were being thrown at him, along with the sonic booms and gashes.
He ran towards Mikiko. 'Well if I can't fight from a distance, I might as well get close...' he thought as he disappeared in a cloud of smoke and appeared several feet behind the girl. She snarled, sending several blood spears towards him to buy her some time as she caught the crescent moon by it's handle. He jumped over them, drawing a kunai knife.
The two weapons clashed, and their wielders' arms both shook as they tried to push one another back. The masked ninja chuckled.
"You fight well, Mikiko-chan...but now I have a proposition for you..." She growled.
"And why would I listen to a person like you?"
"Because have what you need to pass this test..." She gasped, almost letting go of her blade. The man slashed downwards with his kunai as Miko jumped backwards, the knife tearing her stomach. She cried out in pain.
"Y-You have the silver kunai?" she choked out. He laughed and took it out. Narrowing her purple eyes, she glared.
"What do you want from me?" He stroked his chin with his free hand.
"Hmm...well, you have a choice. You either get the silver kunai from me and I get to play around with your teammates some more...or you save your teammates and I get to keep this little knife...it's your choice...Miko-chan..."
She scowled as her heart raced. She looked from the mirrors to the unknown ninja, and back again.
"Hurry up and choose...before I get impatient or you die from blood loss..." Mikiko stayed silent as she glared daggers at him. He snapped his fingers, causing both clones to make their monsters attack again. Tsuki screamed as she got trapped in a tornado of fire. Riku yelled out in pain as the tornado missile hit him right in his side.
Adrenaline rushing through her veins, she spat out her answer.
"I would never leave those dear to me to die at your hands, no matter what!"
She spanher blade and swung at the Kage Bunshin, satisfied when they burst into smoke. The mirrors started to crack without the chakra that the clones gave them.
Tsuki gasped as the tornado dissipated, leaving her alone in the cave, now covered with several large scorch marks and an empty hole where the lake used to be. She gasped and fell to her knees, trembling.
In another cave, Riku was flung towards the opening opposite where he came in. He didn't bother to get up after he skidded to a halt at the foot of yet another staircase. "What the hell happened...?"
Smiling, Mikiko fell onto her back with a thud, turning her head towards the ninja man. Her vision started to waver as the comfort of unconsciousness started to take over. He unmasked himself, revealing a very familiar grin.
"K-Katsu-sensei...?"
End Chapter
U-Uhm...I'm kinda nervous on how my first chapter with major fight scenes and action turned out. Any suggestions or comments are really appreciated, so that I can improve! Too detailed, too confusing? Anyways, now for expected questions and answers.
What were those monsters (fire snake, wind bird)? Please explain. They were special summons performed by Katsu's clones. Those mirrors were a seperate jutsu, so that they can control the monsters over long distances.
Will Tsuki be using the same attacks as Temari? No, she will not be using the exact same attacks. Every fan wielder should be able to create a burst of wind, right?
Chisio aiyoku? The name translates into "Blood Lust." It will all be explained in the next chapter, don't worry!
When will the "kitsune" part of the story come in? In the next two to three chapters, the real story will begin. All these chapters are just to get you familiar with some of the main characters, and to answer some un-needed questions about the OCs. -smiles-
Anyways, I gotta go to sleep now. See you guys later!