"Hyuuga?" She nodded hesitantly.

The first thing she noticed about him wasn't that he was blue, nor was it the fact that his hand was readied on his sword, no, it was the sheer amout of space he seemed to displace. The amount of chakra that poured off of him was so enourmous that, while he was by no means a small person to begin with, he seemed much bigger than he was.

She tensed, taking the familiar bowing stance of the Hyuuga fighting style. She knew she never stood a chance, but she had to try. The veins surounding her eyes pulsed and swelled. They were surounded. His dark eyes flicked to the side, just once, and that was all the warning she had. He moved so fast that she never saw it, all she saw was the gout of blood coming for her face and the sound nin that had been in her blind spot fell from the trees behind her. His head followed shortly. The missing nin -as indicated by the slash through his mist head protector- looked back at her and raised one eyebrow at her as if to say 'you in?' She nodded.

Spurred by the death of thier comrade and superior numbers, the sound nins closed in from all sides. The blonde with the wolf's grin that flew at her from the left was dead before he landed, blood and pieces of lung burbling from his lips as he hit the ground. He bounced once and another blonde screamed in fury and flung himself at her. He died just as quickly. She twisted on her heel to shove a blade of chakra into the bulk of the nin that was trying to take her from behind. She felt his heart beat once and shove the majority of his blood out into his abdomen through the severed end of his aorta. He coughed and his face screwed into a look of pain and confusion, and then he collapsed.

There was a short break in the flow of enemies and she had the chance to glance in the direction of her unlikely ally. He was a dervish, a whirl wind of motion and fine red mist. When he paused he was facing in her direction. His face split into a wide, feral grin and one eye blinked closed at her before he was a blur of motion again.

Why was he avoiding fighting again? This was fun. Just enough of a challange to keep him on his toes and, was that the bite of a kunai just now? He spun and shredded the arm of the man who had been weilding it. The swell of chakra flowing into his body, through his arms, from Samehada was making him giddy. The heady taste of music users, topped off with a sprinkling of fear. Delicious. He paused to see how the Hyuuga was doing and saw her looking at him, surounded by as many bodies as he was. 'Good job, girl' he thought, 'way to live up to your name.' He flashed her a winning smile and winked. 'Why the hell not? She's pretty, and life's short.'

Did he just...? She grunted and fell to her knees as four shuriken buried themselves in her lower back. The offending party fell onto her back, one thick arm looping around her neck and begining to squeeze. She choked and clawed at his arm, but she had been running on pure adrenaline. Now, wounded and captured, she could feel the her body failing, the tremor in her limbs building to convulsion, no longer able to even bear her own weight. The breath that escaped the mouth snarling next to her ear was surprisingly fresh and minty. 'Strange the things one notes as thier eyes go black', she thought, and then they did.