A/N: Wow, the reviews just won't stop coming. I'm seriously impressed and shocked that an unimpressive, boring blatant setup chapter like that got that much attention. I never realized that the community craved a Tsunade X Sakura fic this bad. Damn, now I have even more reason to try my hardest to make this thing not suck. Anyway, I really appreciate everyone's kind words of encouragement, and I hope I can deliver something good for this chapter. So yeah, this chapter is more action oriented, I hope that's fine with everybody, so enjoy chapter two.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and surprisingly I myself am not really an ninja.
"I don't know who you are, but you will learn it is a mistake to invade the privacy of the Hokage and, so openly challenge her to combat." Tsunade spoke with a certain fierceness about her, as she gazed intently at her mysterious assailant.
"I do not fear you, princess. You are surely a skilled shinobi, but the confidence I have in my own skills is unmatched. I shall not lose to you." The man tilted his staff slightly as he intensified his battle pose along with his biting tone.
"I don't know what your aim is: money, power, fear, personal vendetta… Whatever it is, I am not so easily beaten." The blonde woman shot back with a serious expression.
"Then let us begin." The man's violet eyes shone brilliantly as he performed a quick sign with his free hand. In an instant two cords attached to either of his staff blades were set ablaze. Next, he began to twirl the armament at incredible speeds, such that nothing was visible but a ring of crimson fire. In an instant, he leapt forward at high velocity, attempting to strike the Hokage with the spinning, flaming staff. Tsunade managed to dodge the initial strike with relative ease but was surprise with how little velocity his spin lost with that and each consecutive strike. Though still finding adequate time to doge, the speed and the size of the man's weapon paired with his own high speed, gave Tsunade no chance for a counter measure and soon the Hokage was backed into a corner. Soon his next attack came, a sweeping strike that would prove far too difficult to evade; rather Tsunade watched carefully for an opening in the rotation and chose that as an opportunity to guard the staff with her hands. She stopped the spin with impeccable timing but suffered severe burns from contact with the metal pole, which had obviously absorbed even more heat than had been transferred to the blades. Through the pain the sanin managed to push back the attack and both of them fought to regain their posture.
"Not bad. You must have great chakra control to be able to continuously spin a weapon at speeds like that. Pay close attention, Sakura, this man has very high technical combat skills, this is the kind of opponent you need to learn to overcome." The blonde kunoichi called out with a bitter smirk through her clenched lips.
"Tsunade sensei, now isn't the time for this. You're hurt, you shouldn't be fighting this guy, we should get out of here and let someone else take him down." The young girl, who had remained frozen in fear and anticipation, spoke in response.
"Beautiful Sakura, here, is right you know, you have no chance of winning. If you run away now, you might have a slight chance of making your way back to that little village of yours before me." The man spoke with a crisp laugh.
"Sakura, I am the Hokage, the strongest ninja of our village. If there is an opponent I can't beat, it means we have already lost. I would think you would have a little more faith in me." Tsunade said boldly.
"I'm sorry but that's wrong sensei, different shinobi are best suited for different opponents and situations. I'm sure that this guy is just not a good match for you." Sakura called back fearfully.
"Both beautiful and intelligent, what a wonderful apprentice. It would serve you well to listen to her words, princess, that is unless you want to die." The mysterious shinobi replied evilly.
"Ha. You're good there's no doubt about that. However, you still can't beat me. Although I am curious now, who exactly are you." The Hokage said with a slight smile.
"Very well, the least I can do is give you the name of the one who will take your life. I am called Tousou Kaseiyari." The black haired ninja spoke in a usual hard formal tone.
"Alright, Tousou Kaseiyari, it seems you've given me enough time to mend my wounds, so now I think we can get this started again." Tsunade smiled as she assumed a battle stance, the burns on her hands having been soothed by her chakra.
Tousou merely smirked as he once more set fire to the staff blades, and began to rotate it once more. This time Tsunade wouldn't wait, impulsively she launched a fierce jump kick straight for the strange ninja's frame. Despite Tsunade's speed and incredible strength, Tousou managed to parry the attack with his staff, and used Tsunade's recovery time as a means to launch a fierce slash to her stomach. The kunoichi gasped in pain as she felt the searing pain of heated metal cutting her flesh; blood poured out of the wound and streamed steadily across the charred skin. Despite her wound, Tsunade recovered her strength quickly, and managed to land a well-placed kick at her opponent's abdomen, sending him flying violently at the wall. Tousou coughed up a great deal of blood, before regaining his balance and charging forth once more with a short laugh about his breath. He and his opponent were both equally surprised when Sakura decided to step into the fight, launching several kunai in the direction of the evil man as she raced to her sensei's side.
"Sakura, no! This man will kill you, don't you see that. If I'm struggling, there's no way you can win." Tsunade shot angrily at her student.
"I must help those dearest to me, that's why I'm a ninja. I can't simply sit back and watch while you get hurt." Sakura yelled back forcefully.
"You dieing, wouldn't exactly be helping your sensei, girl. I don't want to scar that precious face. So move out of my way." Kaseiyari shouted forcefully, stopping the spin of his staff.
"No! I will protect the ones I love." Sakura replied with bold energy.
"Then you leave me no choice." The dark haired man said solemnly as he forcefully hit the young girl with the brunt of his staff. Sakura flew back against the wall of the small room. She spat up a fair deal of blood before clenching at the burn wound the staff had left through her clothing. In the next instant, Tsunade retaliated for her student, sending her opponent flying opposite with a devastatingly powerful kick.
"Do not attack her. I am your opponent." Tsunade shouted angrily.
"Uh… You are quite strong princess… but I was not expecting this fight to be easy." Tousou Kaseiyari spoke raspingly after coughing up even more blood.
"You're not bad either. It is a rare opponent that can take two of my blows full on. You must have chakra control rivaling mine, to be able to regenerate your body's wounds at such speed. It won't matter in the end though, since you can't win this fight with just the tricks your using now." Tsunade said in an insightful manner.
"Then I will have to come up with a new approach, won't I? You are right my chakra control is superb; you see these scorching flames resonating from my staff? These flames are controlled directly by my chakra; as long as I will them to, they will not go out. Conversely, they do not burn anything except what I touch; there are no sparks or no flares." Tousou gave a sharp laugh as he began his explanation.
"And what would be your point?" Tsunade asked intently.
"There is little point in having a flame attached to a weapon, killing by fire is more difficult then it is to kill by blade. People are not incredibly flammable and the added range the flames give me hardly makes up for the amount of chakra it uses. But you see Fire can be a huge asset in battle. It's a fear mechanism, the heat it produces can make even indirect hits sting, and perhaps most importantly, it spreads quite quickly." Kaseiyari continued in a simple light tone until he reached his final line, which he delivered forcefully as he thrust his staff into the ground, setting the hard wood floor immediately ablaze. He followed that by thrusting at the walls and furniture, burning everything as he delivered a crazy laugh.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!" Tsunade shouted in disgust.
"I'm claiming the terrain advantage, by burning this place down." The evil man said with an evil smirk.
"Sakura, run, get out of here!" The Hokage yelled at her young student still huddled in the corner.
"I won't leave you behind." Sakura replied as she struggled to find her footing.
"You don't have to abandon me. Return to the village, find some help and then return for me, I'll be fine. Just go!" Tsunade yelled in high emotion.
"Alright!" Sakura said determinately, before running in sprint from the burning building in the direction of the village.
Tousou made no effort to stop the girl, simply resuming his battle with Tsunade, with another spinning strike of his staff. Tsunade avoided the blow and followed it with two attempts of her own as they both struggled to avoid the falling, flaming debris.
"So you think you could tell me why you want to kill me. I seem to remember a Kaseiyari clan, but I thought they were destroyed." Tsunade said with sudden interest as she moved to doge a flame and parry another of Tousou's strikes.
"You're right. The Kaseiyari clan was powerful shinobi, possessing excellent abilities all around, and amazing potential. They lived isolated in the forests on the western most edge of the Land of Fire, and had a sizeable influence over that area. During that little war not so long ago, the clan sided with the enemy, and being feared for our cunning skill, the Third Hokage ordered that our clan subjugated by any means before their treason helped to divide the nation in two. Sure enough, I'm all that survives of the Kaseiyari clan, and my existence is in itself unknown. I survived hidden amongst the villages for years assuming various identities as I scraped by alone. Eventually I got tired of that existence and secluded myself to the forests where I could perfect my clan's secret techniques." Tousou spoke formally spite clearly present on his breath.
"So you want to kill me as a means to get back at the nation for what it's done to you?" Tsunade tried to rationalize the madman's rage.
"Oh no, there's no point in that. Sure there was one point where my hatred was veered toward the Hokage and everything it stood for. But now it just seems empty. I don't want revenge for those week fools who die, my motivation is purely for myself."
"And why is that, if not revenge then what do you get out of this." Tsunade said simply as she continued to dodge the encroaching flames.
"My only desire is to bring disorder into this world; to embroil the world in war once more." The evil man said with a sadistic laugh.
"You want to start a war so you can make others see what you went through, and how would killing me cause a war." The Hokage replied in deep disgust.
"Not really. I don't care about the past or anything like that. My objective is the future, to become a legend, a catalyst for despair. To be feared as a demon that is what I want... And this is how I'll achieve my goal." Kaseiyari gave another diabolical laugh before giving a slight hand signal and transforming perfectly into the opponent before him down to the last detail.
"That's it. You're going to pretend to be me. Really? A simple transformation jutsu... that's your master plan, your path to become a 'demon.'" Tsunade burst out in a series short ridiculing laughs.
"Yes, I'll admit the trick is beyond basic. But you can't deny the fact that it's perfect. I've been studying you for sometime now, gathering data, observing your mannerisms. I'd say I could play you perfect long enough to plunge this world into darkness… Taking a form contrary to your true appearance for prolonged periods of time, is quite a useful skill isn't it, princess." Tousou smiled as he spoke, his voice perfectly mimicking the woman before him.
"Ha, I see your point, you do look awful cute. I suppose it is a perfect disguise. Still it will not go unnoticed." The Hokage spoke still mockingly.
"I will just have to kill all who would question me. As for you my normal form should suffice for destroying you." Kaseiyari cried out somberly as he dropped his disguise, readying his staff once more as he prepared for battle.
Tsunade simply gave a smirk as she assumed a proper defensive pose. The cabin had long since crumbled to nothing and walls of flame were rising high all around them. The battle would reach its intensity soon, and Tsunade knew what she would have to do. The only mystery to her now was what actions her young, precious student would take.
A/N: Thats the second chapter. Hope you liked it. Pretty straight forward action chapter. Not really much to say. I suppose I should say some stuff about the generic OC villain of the month, Tousou Kaseiyari. These story's need conflict. In most cases the girl's aren't going to start fucking each other's minds out unless something happens to propagate that behavior. In my Sakura X Tenten I used two pretty much consecutive, but very different rape scenes by my OCs (Seiko and Mitsu), in order to have Sakura start believing she's a lesbian and moving toward Tenten. In my Temari X Tenten, Temari was interested in Tenten from the beginning; the early conflict with Amaya was just used as an excuse to force them together. My Temari X Hinata was different, in that it was more immediate and random, I did use an OC villian in order to bring their relationship to the next level though. Tsunade and Sakura already have a close relationship, though it's more along the line of a teacher/ student or perhaps occasionally more of a mother/ daughter or sister relationship. It's hard to transform something like that into a sexual relationship without a conflict. Now Naruto has good villians, and I suppose I could use those but, I'd rather it not focus on an established character outside the story's central pairing. Tousou, might remind you slightly of Seiko, they both are completely insane, both act and talk somewhat intelligent and formal, and both have some perverse attraction to Sakura. Tousou is different because he acts on a large scale, he wouldn't be happy with a child slavery ring like Seko seemed to be. He's a little more brutish, and probably a bit more insane, but his personality is not quite as dark, due to the fact that he doesn't get his thrills from raping children. Tousou was also peculiar in that he had to be quite strong, stronger than I felt right making an OC, but he had to fight Tsunade (whom I'm sure seems very drastically under-powered). As for his fighting style, I've always loved battle staffs, blades are cool, and fire was convenient, the spinning is just because I think it would look cool, I'm sure it is unpractical as hell. Well that's all I have to say about that, I'm going to try and keep the story pretty well focused on Tsunade and Sakura, I think the real weakness of my Sakura X Tenten was too much focus on the original characters, so much that it seemed distracted from the point I'm going to try to not do a repeat performance (In other words that's all of Tousou's back-story I'm writing). Anyway expect the next chapter soon.
