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Episode 3: Ryo's hidden past.
"Show yourselves you cowards." Ayame says clenching her fists. "You think you can attack one of my teammates and get away with it.
"Relax doll," the taller of the two shadows says stepping into the light. As he steps forward the Genin recognize the man standing in front of them. He is very muscular, and wears the chuunin uniform of the village. Crimson undershirt and all. Around his body shines a metal bandage and is connected to a sword hilt at his side. His long blonde hair and black eyes are a dead give away that he is half of the twin duo the Nagi Brothers. Enter Nagi Chusuke. "We aren't here for you today little Shinji. How is Sensei Hinomaru I haven't seen him since I passed my Chuunin exam, I've been busy with missions."
"My father is just fine, but you won't be if you don't leave us alone." Ayame shoots back
"O C'mon Doll me and old Yama here are just after the misfit. We have nothing against you or little komaru over there. So if you just let us finish our business, we will be on our way and you can bury him when we are done." CHusuke says stepping closer to the group. Ryo takes a defensive stance and prepares for the worst.
From behind Chusuke Yama steps into the light behind his taller brother. The boy still stands about five six and is decently sized himself, but standing next to the six foot tall behemoth that is his older brother He looks short. He is covered in bandages under his uniform, and only one black eye is seen and it is focused on Ryo. His hands are exposed, and reveal scars from the fire his family survived shortly after the two boys were born over twenty years ago.
"So Ryo," The deep voice of Yama speaks "I take it you don't want this to be painless?"
"I'd rather finish our exam than fight you two. I haven't even done anything to you, so why do you want me dead?" Ryo says
"O really, you haven't? What about trashing our mother's shop five years ago?" Chusuke angrily exclaims clenching his hand around the hilt at his side.
"That…. Was an accident, I don't even remember what happened that day, and I didn't mean to hurt anyone." Ryo says bowing his head.
"There is more though Ryo, you don't even know the pain you caused our family." Yama bellows.
"Why don't you just leave Ryo alone, he's not a danger to anyone, he wouldn't hurt a fly." Komaru pipes up stepping forward.
"He's more of a danger than you know Komaru, and we intend to end that danger." Chusuke says whipping the hilt out, the metal bandage around his body snaps towards Ryo and as he tries to roll out of the way he realizes a vine has him by the foot, with a quick move he is able to pull free of the vine but the sword-whip stings his left shoulder and cuts through his jacket and sticks into a tree behind him.
"Ayame, Komaru get out of here now!" Ryo says jumping into the trees and taking off away from the others. The two brothers take off after him.
The two other Genin watch the pursuit unsure what to do. Komaru finally breaks the silence. "You know we can't leave him, not just because he is on our team and without him we fail."
"I know, but even the three of us together can't beat the both of them, one of us has to go try and find Hayate Sensei and get help. Since the whip-sword Chusuke has he learned from my father, I have a better chance against him then you and Ryo, so you go find Sensei and I will stall them." Without another word she takes off after the battle, and thinking to herself she stops to remove the weighted clothing she is wearing.
Elsewhere Ryo does his best to avoid the vines that Yama is sending after him, and the whip-sword that is slicing through tree branches like butter. "Okay, I have to be far enough away from the others by now."Ryo says under his breath realizing that he is starting to get tired from the running. "Its time to make a stand,." Ryo says reaching into his cargo pocket for shruikens.
"C'mon coward, face your death with honor. Stop trying to think you can run from fate, You can't hide, and you can't keep running." Chusuke says cutting through the last branch he saw Ryo on.
Ryo steps out from behind a tree. "First off I don't fear death, secondly I decide my own fate." Ryo says calmly launching his barrage of shruikens at Chusuke, who uses the whip-sword to deflect them, but before he can readjust Ryo is in his face and delivers a jumping roundhouse to his head, while throwing a kunai at Yama. Yama simply rases a wall of earth in front of him, and Chusuke surprised at the attack more than hurt is forced backward a couple steps. Allowing Ryo to launch a second attack, the boy makes a few hand signs and then spits out a fireball into his hand. He then throws the fireball to the ground in front of the two brothers. "Katon Hi kabe no jutsu." the Fireball explodes and shoots a wall of fire to either side of the brothers surrounding them in a circle of flames.
"Do you seriously think this pathetic jutsu will even slow us down." Yama says as chusuke digs into the ground and flips a ball of soil in the air. Making hand signs Yama focus his chakra into the ball and causes it to explode and pour soil over the flames putting them out.
"Their control over earth is amazing, I need a new plan." Ryo thinks to himself.
Suddenly Chusuke picks up even more earth and throws it towards Ryo as Yama makes more hand signs and screams out "Doton! Tsuchi Genkaku no jutsu!" The massive ball splits apart and begins to form what seem like vines coming straight for Ryo. He dodges one and is struck by one that dissipates without hitting him, but another one follows it up with a whip to his knee that buckles the young genin and drops him to both knees, suddenly looking up he senses danger and rolls out of the way as the whip-sword pierces where he was kneeling.
"How do you like our Genjutsu combo?" Chusuke asks laughing at the now limping genin.
Chusuke picks up another huge ball of earth compacting it with chakra, as he goes to throw it he suddenly is dropped to both knees by a kick from behind. Standing over him is Ayame who delivers an elbow to his forehead, and charges for Yama, who is caught off guard and has to disperse the ball of earth above his brother so it doesn't fall and crush him. The earth is dispersed at the cost of knee straight to his ribs followed by another knee directed at his face.
"For Chuunin you sure don't pay attention to your surroundings." Ayame says continuing her attack on Yama. Chusuke gets back up and makes his way towards Ayame. Ryo cuts him off and stands between the Chusuke and Ayame's battle with Yama.
"Yama deal with little Shinji while I take care of the misfit." He charges forward and throws a sweep to the bad knee of Ryo but it is easily dodged as Ryo deftly leaps into the air over Chusuke. The Chuunin begins to get frustrated. He chases down the young genin and throws a barrage of punches that are easily deflected and dodged. His next punch is met with a block and he is thrown into a tree and before he can recover a knee is driven into his chest.
Meanwhile Ayame seems to have Yama in control, and is easily pounding on the older Ninja. Yama seems to have no answer for the young Genin's fierce in your face hand-to-hand fighting. "What's the matter Yama, don't have time to pull off any of your Genjutsus when your catching a fist to the face." Ayame says doing just that. Yama does not seem worried, and recovers from the punch and dodges the next few she throws at him.
"Your Taijutsu has gotten even better than what my brother said. However, it won't help you in this battle. Soon you will be too tired to fight back." Yama says with a laugh and avoids another punch. The next punch to his gut though doubles him over and he catches a knee to the face causing the bandages around his face to loosen and his nose begins to bleed. "Good power, but how long can you keep this up?"
"Longer than you can take it." Ayame says hitting him with another shot to his ribs this time. She summons all her strength and calls upon the spirit of the fire jutsu and delivers her best combo. Two straight punches to the face and grabs and pulls Yama's head down and delivers a jumping knee to the temple. The older Ninja falls back and his body goes limp. "Don't mean to say I told you so, but I told you so." Ayame says smugly and turns to walk away from her downed opponent. As she takes three paces she stops with a shocked look on her face. "You can't still be able to move."
"Actually, I can but it does hurt a lot. You are stronger than I was lead to believe. No matter that short break gave me all the time I needed to gather enough chakra control to fnish you." With a few hand signs the Chuunin lets out a scream. "DEMON VINE JUTSU." Suddenly from the ground vines shoot out and wrap themselves around Ayame, holding the Genin in place. They sprout thorns and dig into the young girl and start to pull her limbs away from her body. The young Genin fights the pain in her body, and the vines, but can't pull free. "You see now there is nothing you can do. I know you think that I always need my brother to pull of my earth jutsus, and while its true the more earth he pulls up the more weapons and mirages I can make, I can still pull off a few on my own. Like the earth spear you are about to see." Yama reaches to the ground and digs up a small piece of rock a little smaller than his head. Using his chakra he is able to run his hands over the rock and form a sharp double edged spear. The spear levitates by his side as he lets go of it. "My brother will be sad at your funeral, but you shouldn't have gotten involved." With that he sends the spear straight for the young genins unprotected torso. The spear flies through the air and Ayames eyes close as if conceding defeat. The spear is now mere inches from her. What will happen to Ryo if she can't pull free?
Hey readers its Komaru again. Next time on our adventure I find Sensei, and tell him what has happened. He doesn't seem too concerned about the safety of Ryo and Ayame, but instead he thinks that the two brothers might be killed. Join us next time to find out why.
Next episode: The rage of the spirit: Ryo vs. Chusuke