What is Broken is Easily Fixed

Chapter Three

Obstacle

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And the battle commenced.

Without thinking Sasuke charged forward and grabbed a smoke bomb out of his pouch and threw it.

While smoke seethed everywhere, making it impossible to see, Sasuke attacked by using a shuriken. When Sasuke heard the blades hit flesh, he went in for an instant punch, which was dodged.

Sasuke ran right past her, and looked to see what was up. The smoke had cleared, Sasuke saw that Kikyou had gotten a shuriken in her shoulder, and it was bleeding, but she didn't fall, or even cringe. Sasuke went in for another attack, but missed, and Kikyou unsheathed her sword and went in for a slash.

She widened her eyes as she realized that she didn't hit Sasuke, but instead he had used kawarimi no jutsu. She cursed under her breath, as she knew he would take advantage of this opening. Still in the air, she started to turn around, only to get smacked in the face by Sasuke.

She started to fall to the ground, but landed on her feet. She stood up, chuckling, but stopped when she saw Sasuke charging at her, performing seals, then jumping into the air.

"Katon! Gyokayu no Jutsu!" Kikyou's eyes widened as the fire bellowed over her. Sasuke landed in front of the fire and smiled as he watched the fire circle the one spot, not igniting anything else in the forest, then the fire burnt out and what was left on the ground was a wood log, with a shuriken stuck in the corner.

"Dammit." He muttered. "Kawarimi no jutsu!" he spat. Before he got a change to turn around, Kikyou had him from the air, using her sword and made a giant slash down his back. He winced, flying forward.

Kikyou landed on her feet, resting the sword on her shoulder. She just stared at Sasuke, with absolutely no emotion in her eyes. Then she started to step closer, with her sword gripped tightly with both hands.

Out of no where, Sasuke pulled out a kunai in a split second and launched it right at Kikyou, hoping that it would hit her, as both her hands were in use. Kikyou narrowed her eyes as she speedily released one of her hands and halted the kunai, sticking her finger through the hole on the handle, and letting it simply rotate, while not changing her stance at all.

"She has very sharp reaction time." Kakashi observed.

Yuki nodded. "She's learned to act quick and not her back down. Ever since her childhood."

Kikyou's eyes widened as she saw that there was an explosive tag on the kunai, but there was no time to react this time. It exploded.

Sasuke jumped back and tried to defend himself from the giant wave of heat. He waited and observed. He knew he didn't get her. If she was anyone else, they would have been hit. But she wasn't. He didn't know how she could have gotten out of it, but all he knew was that she had succeeded.

Once the smoke and flames cleared out, he saw a charred log of wood, that crumbled into ashes. Sasuke grunted, then smirked as he looked around the forest for his opponent.

"That was pretty smart, using the replacements twice in order to fool me. But you realize you can't get me a third time."

It was dead silent. Even the audience did not utter a word. All that could be heard was Sasuke's heavy breathing, which he held in suspense and he closed his eyes.

Sharigan.

Sasuke opened with his sharigan eyes. And looked around for her.

Found you.

He had located her up in the trees, at the very top. He went to reach for his kunai pouch, but before his hand got even close, another kunai flew at him, which he easily dodged. He went for the kunai pouch and pulled out a few of them, but he looked around and saw that kunai started flying at him at the same time at every different direction, surrounding him in a circle.

Close you eyes. Sasuke thought to himself. Concentrate.

His eyes snapped open as he used his existing kunai to fight off all the ones that lunged at him. He managed to dodge most of them, and fought off quite a few, but still, many hit him, only minor, since they were coming at every direction at basically the same time.

"A trap?" Kakashi whispered to Yuki.

Yuki shook her head. "No." she looked up at the trees at where she suspected Kikyou was. "What she is doing is throwing many kunai as she jumps from tree to tree, running around in a circle."

Kakashi nodded in approval. "She must be very fast then. She creates the illusion of all of them coming at him at the same time. She makes the enemy think that it's a trap, and she has incredible speed."

Yuki nodded. "She's done a lot of running in the past."

Kakashi looked over at Yuki, not aware of the meaning in her words, and then looked back at the battle.

"Wow!" Sakura whispered to Naruto. "She's ruthless." She observed.

Naruto nodded, his eyes wide. "Sasuke shouldn't have underestimated her." He grinned. "Now he's going to get beat up by a girl!" Sakura bonked Naruto on the head.

"Don't be so negative!" she growled. Then her face softened as she looked back to Sasuke. Please be careful, Sasuke-kun. She really might hurt you.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed as four different invisible wires came shooting at him, attempting to tie him up. With great difficulty, he managed to dodge all of them, then leapt up into the air, when he thought he spotted her, readying his shuriken.

Before he even got a chance to blink, a wire shot out right towards his back, and had him all tangled up, and he was thrown to the ground.

He tried to break loose, but they were special ninja ropes, mere strength could not cut them. He looked up at her, who was standing on a large tree branch, glaring down at him, with a kunai in her hand.

"This is the end." She mumbled coldly, her voice being muffled from the face cover she had on, then disappeared, when she was actually starting to start running around, encircling Sasuke with incredible speed, then she started speeding up even more that the friction between her and the air started to heat up the air, making Sasuke sweat. She was completely in the open, but totally out of sight. Then, as if on cue, kunais started shooting towards Sasuke with a fast speed, making them look like they were being fired all at once in a large circle, which was closing in on Sasuke.

He was trapped.

"SASUKE-KUN!" Sakura shrieked. She squeezed her eyes shut as the blood splattered everywhere, Naruto gasped in horror.

She really did it. She really was 100 serious all along.

There was total silence. Even the wind died down, and the clouds were still. Everyone held their breath to see what was going to happen next.

Kikyou was not the one to wait. She jumped from her tree right by Sasuke's body. She knelt down and released Sasuke from the ropes, and his arms and legs fell out loosely. She stared Sasuke right in the face.

"You're lucky." She whispered.

What! Naruto demanded silently. She kills Sasuke and she calls him lucky!

"Why you!" Naruto yelled, and started to run forward, pulling out his kunais. Kakashi dashed forward and grabbed hold of Naruto, pinning him flat on the floor.

"What are you doing Kakashi-sensei! She just killed Sasuke, you can't let her get away with that!" He looked over to Sakura, who was in total shock, on her knees, staring at the bloody scene.

"Shut up Naruto." Kakashi said calmly. "Watch the rest."

Naruto opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't know what to say. So he nodded, and Kakashi let him up as they watched for what was going to happen next.

Kikyou lifted Sasuke's chin softly, his face right next to his. "You're lucky." She repeated. "To still be alive after all that."

Naruto's eyes widened, he looked at Sakura who had snapped out of it, a smile of relief on her face.

Sasuke lifted his hand and took a strike at Kikyou, who speedily dodged it, doing a flip in the air and landing in front of her feet, right in front of Sasuke. She laughed. "Do you honestly think playing dead would make you think you were actually dead, and you could find an opening?" she raised an eyebrow. "You're disappointing. But I guess there isn't much you can do now. You're body is completely out of proportion."

Sasuke grunted, and slowly and shakily, started to lift himself from the ground, blood dripping from his mouth. "Don't be so sure." And he was fully at stance, swaying back and forth, then stopped and firmly stared her down. "I will win!" he declared. "That's a promise!"

"That's right Sasuke!" Naruto cheered from the side. "Get her!"

Sasuke's eyed rolled over to Naruto, and seeing his happy optimism, he smiled, then looked back at Kikyou.

"You can't win in your condition." Kikyou said flatly.

"You're right." Sasuke said, with shimmering eyes. "But I'm not in that condition."

What?

Sasuke brought his hands together.

"Chiyu no Jutsu!"

No way. Kikyou thought angrily. I wouldn't think he knew how to do that. She looked around at Sakura and narrowed her eyes. For a split second, her eyes became totally glazed over, becoming an icy, bright blue which was a completely inhuman appearance, but no one noticed. She closed her eyes and reopened them, where as they returned to her regular blue colour eyes.

A medical ninja, eh? She must have been the Fifth Hokage's, Tsnade-sama's apprentice. She must have taught him that jutsu, in case of injuries during missions or something. It's difficult to learn and master unless you have an instructor who knows exactly what they're doing and have mastered the technique. It's uncommon, but a very useful trumpcard. Now he can continue fighting with no problem, because he knows it.

The recovery technique.

Sakura smiled. Thank God Sasuke!

Inner Sakura: HELL YEAH! AND ALL THANKS TO WHAT I TAUGHT HIM! I AM THE BEST TEACHER EVER! EVER!

Kikyou laughed. "Just because you know a few fancy techniques, doesn't mean you can win the rest of the battle." She spat. "You're pathetic, using this as your second chance because you were no match the first time!" She lowered her eyes. "Don't count on it."

Sasuke smiled. "You think you're tough, but you seem timid, to be hiding your face under that cloth. Perhaps you are the brains and brawns, but it's a shame you have to hide your face." He pulled out a kunai and held it close. "But I'll be the one to rip it off, right before I wreak your pretty face." He said sarcastically.

Kikyou narrowed her eyes. "You've got to be kidding me." She said coldly. "You will never get near my face, let alone scratch it. And if you do, I definitely will kill you."

Sasuke's eyes stared her down coldly. "Then the match officially starts—"

As the wind picked up, there was more dramatic tension.

Before anyone got to declare the starting of the match, they both charged right at each other. Sasuke threw down another smoke bomb, leaving Kikyou blind. When the smoke cleared out, she looked around for Sasuke, and he had disappeared. Suddenly, a kunai flew at Kikyou from high up in the trees. She easily dodged it. Another one came, she dodged it. Three of them flew at her and she dodged it with a little more effort.

Then, in a heart beat, kunai started raining down at her. They were being thrown from all around her, enclosing her, trapping her.

Sakura and Naruto's eyes lit up. "Sasuke used his sharigan to copy her attack! Look at that! Look at that! There's no way out. She's finished! Sasuke is going to win! Just like his promised!" Naruto looked at Sakura and smiled reassuringly. Sakura smiled and nodded with wide, optimistic eyes.

Kikyou narrowed her eyes. Stupid brat. He used his sharigan to copy my move. She closed her eyes and chuckled. I guess he didn't have any impressive original moves. She lifted her head, a look of full determination, then raised her hands in a seal.

"Kekkai no Jutsu!"

The wind that was blowing in her direction was cut off, as a barrier circled her. She kept the hand seal in place. Shit. I can't believe I have to resort to this justu. It drains chakra. I have keep myself paced, I don't think I can hold this one for much longer. And I know he's going to keep up this attack until I can't defend myself.

The kunai kept flying at her, but were just reflected off the barrier. The barrier started to waver, and one kunai got through, and landed right at her feet. She narrowed her eyes. Dammit. And released her hands, making the barrier go away. But the kunai kept coming.

She closed her eyes, and almost in slow motion, they headed at her. She prepared her hands and her feet, stood in a perfect stance, then in one quick motion, started fighting off all of the kunai raining down on her with incredible speed.

This kept up for quite a few minutes, and no matter which direction they came shooting at her, she fought it off with no hesitation, and no matter how much time past, she wasn't showing any signs of slowing down.

Suddenly, the rain of kunai stopped. It was dead silent for just a split second, then suddenly, the kunai started shooting at her in every single direction at the exact same time with super speed. Kikyou didn't panic, she didn't even flinch. She closed her eyes, and relied on the rest of her senses. Before the kunai could pierce her skin, she did a rapid dance movement, and swirled in circles with severe force, knocking all the kunai the opposite way, leaving her completely untouched.

Sasuke jumped down from the tree. He looked at her, his eyes piercing into her soul.

She's fast. She's way too fast. Even if I use her own attack against her, she can find a technique to fight it off. It's going to take way more to defeat her.

Both of them jumped at each other. As Sasuke flew past her, he tried to cut her with the kunai, but she dodged it and waited until she was past him, then got behind him while the both of them were still in the air, and used her heel to kick him in the back, knocking the wind out of him as he fell to the ground, and Kikyou made a graceful landing.

"Don't you dare underestimate me." She said bitterly. "You won't benefit anything."

It's quite the opposite. Kikyou thought to herself, as she bent down across from Sasuke.

Across, Sasuke started coughing, half unconscious from the deadly kick that knocked the wind out of him. He slowly struggled to lift himself up, but he only got as far as his knees. He lifted his head to see what Kikyou was doing. A few seconds after blurry vision, it cleared after a while and he saw her performing seals.

I have to move. He thought angrily. Move!

"Jishin no Justu!"

Sasuke widened his eyes.

What?

Kikyou slammed her palms on the ground, then from there on, the ground started to tremble, and pieces of earth and dirt starting rising up in spikes with rapid speed as they headed in a rising path towards Sasuke.

What sort of jutsu is this?

As if answering his own questions, the path of rising spikes came to him, throwing him into the air, then landing on the dirt spikes.

The trembling Sasuke curled his fists angrily. "W-what the hell was that?" he said, struggling to speak.

Kikyou stood up, her eyes emotionless.

"That was my Jishin no Jutsu, the Earthquake Technique. What it does is manipulate dirt and soil and turn them into spikes which rise from the ground. Soil may not seem dangerous, but when I use this jutsu, they become real spikes. Also, since it involves controlling an natural element, it requires little chakra. But not anyone has the ability to work this jutsu."

Sasuke could tell she was smiling, even though it was from underneath a face cover. His forehead wrinkled and his eyes narrowed to slits. "What are you smiling at?" he demanded sharply.

She suddenly started laughing, which made Sasuke even angrier. "You're really pathetic. Uchiha Sasuke, huh? I can't believe how easily you leave yourself open. It's funny, when you see someone preparing a seal, you shouldn't stand by and see what happens next." Her eyes glistened. "Wouldn't your first move to be a counter attack? I thought you were supposed to be a genius, but frankly, you shame the title rookie of the year."

Sakura's face turned red with anger.

Inner Sakura: BITCH! HOW DARE SHE INSULT MY BELOVED SASUKE-KUN!

The spikes retreated and Sasuke lifted himself to his feet. He glared at Kikyou with a look of total hatred. They were quite the distance apart from each other. He looked at his team, and at her team, who were looking anxiously at the battle. He looked ahead and smirked. I can't lose!

Like an instinct, the two of them started running towards each other for momentum, then leaped into the air, headed right at each other.

"I'll unmask you right now, so I can see the full look on your face when you lose." Sasuke said as he fired a kunai. Kikyou didn't flinch as the kunai caught her face cover and pulled it right off as it hit a tree, the face cover hanging from the tip.

Sasuke got a good look at Kikyou's face. He widened his eyes. She really was beautiful, but it didn't matter. He was going to win. He had to. He looked closer, and saw a small scar on her bottom lip.

As if in slow motion, while the two were in the air, headed right for each other, Kikyou leapt right at Sasuke, pulled him close, and planted a kiss, right on the lips.

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Me: Longer chapter! OHHH! SASUKE WAS KISSED! SASUKE WAS KISSSSEDD!

Sasuke: Shut up you fool.

Me: …

Inuyasha: HEY! Leave her alone! You just WISH you could be kissing her.

Me: You do?

Naruto: No kidding Sasuke, stfu, loser.

Me: Aww )!

Yami: …

Me: YAMI! Aren't you going to say anything!

Inuyasha/Naruto: YEAH YAMI! SPEAK UP DAMMIT!

Yami: o.o!

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