Chapter 26: Blades
Now what's she up to? Cavra asked herself as her sister stopped at a turn in the road and turn to face her. "What? Going to come quietly?"
Kikiru looked at the smug smirk on her sister's face and frowned. "Well someone's gotten stupid."
Cavra let that comment slide with a cruel smirk. "Too bad they won't let me kill you, but at least I'll be apart of it." And with that the two charged, eyes filled with the intent to kill.
"Verin, you there?" Ichi asked into the radio as Dark ran around the ruined room with a kunai in front of him; the idiot was acting as if the people who had trashed the apartment were still there.
A second of static followed. "Yes, I'm here. What's going on?" the man replied.
"W-wait, you already know?" Ichi asked confused.
"Well, I kinda thought something was wrong when Yenmai came whimpering into my room and practically cried like some scared dog."
"What? Yenmai? Since when does he…. Never mind, but Kikiru's room looked like a tornado hit or something."
"Really…? Any… clues?" Verin asked after a pause.
"Well, other than a bit of black cloth with a red cloud, no," Ichi replied. "Now what?"
"Well, it'd only be right if I informed the Hokage of this incident. She might know..." With that, the radio filled with static as the man left them to their own sounds.
"Damn old man...doesn't even bother saying 'bye'…" Ichi hissed as he turned the radio off.
"Oooh! You called the geezer old! I'm telling!" Dark yelled, smiling and sticking out his tongue.
"Oh aren't you smart. Come on, let's go," Ichi said calmly, getting up.
Cavra ducked and sidestepped to the left as her sister's fist, radiating with blood red chakra, barely missed her stomach.
Visible Chakra?...it must be the Hachimata's. So she has learned to control it...interesting. I wonder what else she's learned.
"Surprised?" her sister asked as she charged again.
It took a couple of blows for Cavra to finally guess what jutsu her sister had used, and it was a very helpful one for someone of her sister's size. The jutsu was a village secret, one that enhanced the thrust power of a blow. Adding her speed to the jutsu made it cause even more damage. The jutsu was somewhat like the abilities a medic nin had, except it drained Chakra at an unbelievable rate. But, that wasn't a problem for one of the nine Jinchuriki.
"That's from the Akatsuki!" Shizune cried out to everyone in the room.
"That's bad, isn't it?" Verin asked, having no clue as to who the Akatsuki were.
"Very. They hunt down the Jinchuriki and kill them for the Biju," Tsunade said quietly.
"And they wear clouds!" Dark added. Everyone in the room decided to ignore him.
"Do you think we should call out the Anbu?" Shizune asked Tsunade, who was deep in thought.
"Che, I wouldn't advise it. She wasn't taught everything in the village for nothing," Ichi mumbled to himself, expecting no one to hear but forgetting the room was quiet.
"And why's that?" Tsunade asked him. Ichi turned a deep shade of red as all eyes turned on him.
"Kekkei Genkai…" Verin whispered.
"What kind, what does it do?" Tsunade asked.
Cavra frowned as her sister set off running again; it was getting quite annoying. "Are you going to keep running like the chicken you are?" Cavra yelled as she followed.
"The pieces of the puzzle come together in the end," her sister said over her shoulder.
"That we shall see!" Cavra yelled as her sister turned the corner and disappeared from view. Cavra pulled a kunai out of the holster as she turned the corner.
Two blades met in the morning mist, a shower of sparks falling as Kunai met Katana.
"H-He gave that to you!" Cavra hissed, utterly disgusted.
"Oh that's right. I forgot that you were hoping he'd give to you. I'm sorry, you want it?" Kikiru laughed coldly at the look on her sister's face.
"I'd rather pry it from your cold dead fingers!" Cavra yelled, pushing her sister's blade back and swinging down, only to catch the back of her sister's leg as she turned and fled once again.
"Bitch, I'll get you for that," Cavra hissed as she followed, re-sheathing the kunai.
What are you planning? You better not get me killed.
Don't worry, I have a plan. The Hokage's office is just around the corner.
Oh. So you're planning on fighting there so if it gets out of hand they ca-
No. It's so we won't run into anyone…
Why do you worry about that?
I'm planning on letting you out, I'll have to.
I really look forward to it….
"Dark, if you will." Verin said to his subordinate, who smiled and imitated pushing a pair of glasses further up his nose.
"It's complicated to explain, but I'll try. Around the age of three, every member in the Itichimikarook family deemed worthy has a diamond shape cut out in the center of their palm, all the way through removing bone and such. It's called 'Hebi'."
Cavra's eyes narrowed as she turned the corner to see her sister standing somewhat in front of the Hokage's office. Her face was one of emotion and she was making hand seals and focusing her chakra to her hands.
Cavra smiled to herself; she had never really fought with another of the ame ability and this would be interesting. She stopped and started making the hand seals.
Dark paused as several people in the room made unpleasant faces at the thought. "The hands are then bandaged in special wrappings and aren't allowed to scab over or anything of the sort. Over the years they are trained in combat with such weapons."
The wrappings that covered Kikiru's hands undid them selves to reveal two moon-white hands that were marked with the sign of Hebi.
Both of their palms started to glow as the Yaiba started to form.
"If you haven't noticed, the family has silver blood, which comes with the Genkai. It becomes the strength of the jutsu and later on destroys the body. You see, their blood is high in minerals, those minerals when mixed with chakra become deadly."
As the Yaiba formed, silver blood started weeping down from the center as the wounds opened again.
"For it to form the wound needs to open again. As with every Kekkei Genkai, this one also has a weakness. As the wounds open up it puts extreme stress on the body to keep it from bleeding to death. Eventually the body will stop healing, period."
"Kencho Hebi no Yaiba!" the two shouted as they met in a shower of super-heated sparks. Cavra saw the blood lust in the Hachimata's red eyes.
Her sisters eyes had turned red and her two canine teeth had changed into fangs. A soft hiss left her sisters lips as Kikiru's right hand came flying towards Cavra's head only to be blocked by her left as their hands detached and they spun, meeting again in a shower of sparks.
"The jutsu is made to cut through anything, bones, flesh, earth; you name it. But there are a few things that can stand up to it, like weapons that are meant to suck chakra from the opponent and special weapons." Dark explained.
Left meets right, right meets left, spin, duck, block, lash out; the cycle was continuous and only lasted when one faltered in their decision. The two were moving as one but not as one, a blur as they tried to best the other in striking speed, but it was to no avail. Kikiru's speed matched Cavra's thrusting power; they were evenly matched. The only thing that could possibly stop it was if someone interfered.
A/N: god damn! sorry but this is truly the hardest chapter I've ever worked on. God, you have no idea how many times I went over, deleted, and rewrote this thing. You better leave reviews, this is too stressful! I'm going to go get some chocolate! (BTW: Kencho Hebi no Yaiba means: Blade of the Striking Serpent… yeah… I'm tired…)