Ch. III
Chiharu began to jump from branch to branch as the rustle of leaves let off a muffled sound. The air she went up against blew her brunette locks back. Her glowing eyes lit up the upcoming shadows. As she did a flip in mid-air, she saw a flash of blue and silver pass. The figure was turning around toward her. Uh-oh, he saw me! She panicked silently. She grabbed a kunai and twirled to dodge his punch. The knife flew towards Kakashi. In a pained expression, he suddenly disappeared. In his place were a bundle of branches sliced in half.
Kakashi crept behind her. As he inhaled silently, he jostled her with the palm of his hand. Chiharu gasped surprised, falling towards the ground. Since she was a skilled kunoichi, her feet landed on the ground. Darn. Almost got her, he thought. He jumped down after her as he formed some complex hand seals. A soft glow rested in his hands. With every foot that he passed, the power in his hands waxed. Placing his left hand behind his right, he hollered, "Illumine no Jutsu!" The chakra zoomed towards her. As she calmly did some seals, she then positioned her long, elegant index fingers into an arch while the knuckles of her eight other fingers were clenched together.
The beam slipped through as her eyes gave off a radiant splendor. The attack thrown at her was refracted into two and was distributed into her pupils. WHAT! How'd that happen? Kakashi questioned himself. He stood there quietly as he tried to analyze the technique Chiharu performed. It was nothing like the others he ever saw during his missions. This was going to be a little tricky to maneuver around. He figured that he can't use powerful attacks involving his chakra and had to use physical attacks to defeat her.
She grinned at the fact that she absorbed the attack of light that Kakashi hurled at her. Now that it was generated in her body, she can now use it against him. Running up the tree Kakashi was standing on; she took a step in the air and put both hands in front of her. She knocked him off. The glow in her eyes grew brighter. This was the time for her to test the part of using the attack against him. As the chakra was transferred to her hands, a pair of feet thumped on her chest. She flew backwards and felt her head thump hard against the rough bark of the tree. Without warning, the jutsu she was going to used blasted out of her hands. In the speed of light, Kakashi was blinded. As his pupils shrank in the radiance, Chiharu forced herself to fly off the tree and elbowed him on the stomach. He gasped in pain as they both fell toward the ground.
Luckily, he landed his feet on the marshy grass with Chiharu in his arms. He gagged out warm saliva that seeped through his mask. The ninja girl looked into his eyes and smiled. "I win, for the first time," she said gently. He laughed while he wrung the drool off his mask. She weakly punched him on the arm and squirmed under the noogie she was given. "Hey, not so hard. My head hurts from training, you know," she moaned. "Sorry," he whispered in her ear. He took her to a nearby tree and rested, allowing her to sit on his lap.
His fingers went through her long strands of hair as she rested her head on his chest. Sun rays shone through the crevices of the woods, surrounding them in a ring of light. When he got up, Chiharu refused to budge. Exhaustion from training was in her black and white eyes. "Alright, I'll give you a ride home," he sighed. He took her by the arms and carried her on hid firm back. Her head rested on his shoulder while her body was pressed against the durable material made for his clothing.
As the couple went through the end of the entrance of the woods, Kakashi heard a weak cry. He felt the body on his back flop loosely. Turning his head, he saw blood red etches on her face. Tears of luminous light were flowing from her eyes as an eerie light glow through the dark green shirt. "Chiharu, what's going on?"
Muwhahahaha! Another cliffhanger to ponder on!
