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I'm not very good at writing fight scenes, but what ever. You won't die from reading it.
Chapter 5
"So, what's the score now, Yaezaki," Hagaimaru taunted, "40 to two?"
Yaezaki glared at him from where she lay on the ground, completely exhausted. She knew that challenging Hagaimaru to taijutsu match had probably been a mistake from the start. He had been ranked number two in taijutsu for their entire class, and fourth within the entire academy. She had felt so sure that she would have been able to win just one, though; she couldn't resist the chance to take him on.
"Well if we had been using ninjutsu, too, I would have won," She retorted, though not as sharply as usual.
"Then why didn't you challenge me to a ninjutsu match, moron," was his reply.
Seiseike looked up at him from where he laid comfortably against one of the buildings that surrounded the training grounds, "There's no pride in beating some one who's so far below your level you aren't even trying."
Yaezaki looked at him with malice because of the insult, but knew it was true. With Hagaimaru being one of the best at taijutsu in the academy, she was one of the worst.
"And you think you can do better?" Hagaimaru inflated ego asked for him.
Seiseike glared at him and said in an icy tone, "You want to try your luck?"
The now living ego smirked, "Sure. You want to make the rules?"
Seiseike stood, brushed some of the sand that had come to rest on him off his clothes, and addressed his teammate, now opponent, "Ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, weapons…everything. All out."
Hagaimaru smirk turned to a broad smile. He was good with taijutsu, and with ninjutsu and weapons to aid him, he knew his victory was secured. "Alright," He turned to Yaezaki, "Yaezaki! Would you mind starting us off?"
"Sure," She said, and walked over to the side of the rectangular ring they had drawn out earlier, and waited for both of the boys to take their positions.
"Ready…" She began, "Set…Go!"
Hagaimaru dashed to the side, fully intending to end this quickly. He opened his pack, took out a shuriken, and threw it to Seiseike's feet, trying to make him leap back so that he would be able to get him in the air. But Seiseike ignored the shuriken. He didn't even notice it. Hagaimaru looked closely, and saw that the other boy's eyes were closed. Seiseike was also rapidly forming handseals, and finally ended.
Hagaimaru got ready to dodge or block whatever was coming, when Seiseike's eyes snapped open, glowing blue with chakra.
"Akumu no Jutsu!"
Hagaimaru looked into the flash of blue, and then the world fell away.
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Gaara entered Suna near the training grounds, one of the entrances to the village, and the one he used most often when traveling to and from Konoha.
He was actually near enough the grounds to hear the scream of what he assumed was terror. He wasn't able to pinpoint exactly where the scream came from, but he knew it could have been more than several hundred feet away.
He brought his hand up, and disappeared in a whirl of sand, to reappear at the top of a nearby building. He surveyed the general area from there. He looked to some of the alleyways, they were all clear. He looked then to the training grounds, and saw a small crowd gathering. Mostly of younger academy students that usually terrorized the village, but also an adult or two, and, he noticed almost immediately, Yaezaki.
The sand swirled around him again, and he reappeared by Yaezaki's side. The girl didn't notice him until he spoke.
"What happened."
She gave him a startled look, and then just dumbly pointed the scene inside the rectangle drawn in the sand.
He looked and saw his other students. Seiseike was standing wearily, barely able to hold himself up, and Hagaimaru lay near him, unconscious, and shuddering every once in a while.
Gaara walked calmly over, even though he didn't feel as such. He kneeled by Hagaimaru, looked to Seiseike and asked, "What happened."
Seiseike answered, "He asked for a match. We had decided that it was to be everything goes. I gave him everything."
Gaara looked completely unfazed, but the knot in his stomach grew tighter. He carefully picked up Hagaimaru, disappeared once again in the sand.
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Gaara sat in the uncomfortable hospital chair, stood up at once, and leaned against the wall instead. He had repeated this process several times in the past half-hour, and though most would think he was just restless, one person who truly knew him would have said he was nervous.
He had not called Hagaimaru parents. He had decided to send Yaezaki to do that. She had no idea where the Hidori's lived, and that was why he had chosen her to go. He figured by the time she was able to inform them of what had happened, and they were able to get to the hospital, he would know and be able to tell them Hagaimaru's condition.
A nurse stepped out, and recognizing Gaara as the one who had brought in Hagaimaru, walked over to him.
Her words were reassuring, "He's resting now. He had a very strong genjutsu placed on him."
Gaara stayed silent.
The nurse looked at him with concern, not for him, but for the boy, "You wouldn't know what happened to him, would you?"
Gaara remained silent. He knew what had happened. Seiseike's jutsu had little effect on him. He wasn't able to gauge the devastating effects it had on the mind of a 'normal' person. The only indicator to Gaara that the technique was not completely…worthless, for lack of a better word, was the obvious amount of chakra it used. Both times it had left Seiseike in a state of exhaustion.
"And I'm supposed to protect them…What if I can't protect them?"
"You know you're different. I know you're different…"
Can't protect them…
Can't protect them…
Gaara felt that playing over and over in his head.
He had failed.
He felt helpless. They hadn't even started missions yet and he wasn't able to protect his students. If he wasn't able to protect them from one another, how was he supposed to be able to protect them from an enemy?
He needed to get away. He would forget his plan to tell Hagaimaru's family what had happened. He would leave that to the nurse and their son when he was feeling better. He needed to get away. Leave for a while. Just go. Rubbing his eye with the heel of his hand, he let the sand envelop him, and take him away from the hospital.
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Yaezaki led Hagaimaru's mother to the hospital, soothing the woman the whole way. When they finally reached the entrance, Yaezaki was relieved to see her teacher standing with a nurse.
"Gaara-sensei!" She called.
But Gaara did not answer, instead she saw the sand pour out from his gourd, wrap around him, and then swirl out and away, leaving nothing.
The solace she had hoped to receive from her teacher no longer a possibility, she led the panic-stricken woman over to the nurse to inquire about Hagaimaru's condition.
How'd like that?
I'm almost done the next chapter, so I'll be posting it soon, hopefully.