Tsunade and Sean were in a practice field of the academy with someone that Sean didn't know. Sean was a safe few paces from a woman with purplish hair fitted with a fan style ponytail. She wore a large tan overcoat and a fishnet mesh body suit. She had a small skirt on but that didn't particularly interest him. Not in a combat sense anyways.
"Sean this is Anko Mitarashi, I won't tell you what rank she is but I will let you know she doesn't possess a kekkei genkai for you to steal."
Sean huffed. "I won't need my eye for this."
Anko got noticeably mad, just as Sean predicted as much. He came to the conclusion she was at Chunin level. Mature yes, but still had easy tendencies to flare up at other's views. Sean pulled out two of his swords and threw them to the left. They made a diagonal line to the left and he did the same thing with his other two swords but were to the right.
"Wind style; wind hand cannon." Sean formed a ball in each hand and shot them at both swords. Sean charged right down the middle. Anko watched the wind attack split in two from the first attack and the most outside ball bounce off the last set of swords to her.
She exchanged her arms for a series of snakes to attack the two wind balls from each side. Sean was right on her, and his hand was cocked back. He had another hand cannon blast prepped. Sean blasted the shot directly in her chest. Anko was blasted back from the attack but quickly got back onto her feet. A series of dead snakes dropped from her stomach.
"I see you protected yourself with your snakes. But how many snakes can you use to defend yourself."
"It was a close call but the move was predictable."
Sean shrugged his shoulders. "Wind earth style; Underground wind system." Sean pressed his palm on the ground. "Wind style; kinetic wind."
Anko waited for the next attack, her eyes were around the ground. Sean was back on Anko, his speed was not something she was ready for. Her snake arms pointed forward. "Air bullets." The small propelled attack struck the snakes. A few went off course but most were still able to latch onto Sean. A puff of smoke clouded Anko's vision.
She wasn't prepared for Sean to jump through the smoke, he wrapped around and tossed her down the field. He had a sword in hand and slashed it horizontal at Anko. A large and long stream of concentrated wind drove at the unprepared woman. She barely had time to react and ducked under the attack.
Sean was on the pounce again. His focus was on Anko and didn't notice at first that her hand was dug into the ground. He stopped in his tracks for a set of snakes to pop out of the ground and wrap around his waist. Anko looked up. "Fire style, fire dragon technique." A large flame exhausted over Sean. His wind jutsu would be no match for the fire jutsu.
He knew all he needed to do was to open his eye and see how far back or forward he'd need to go to dodge the attack. But he didn't want to rely on his eye to be the ninja he was. He just needed a little hope. The flame extinguished before it made contact with him. The snakes around Sean also released around him. Hope worked for Sean, his last two balls finally made their way back to strike behind Anko. Sean darted forward just as Anko rolled to him. He grabbed her collar and started to spin.
"Wind style, wind torpedo." They spun furiously around and into the trees. Sean broke out of the spin and kicked Anko through another tree. He quickly combined his swords and created another jutsu. "Family wind style; wind arrow!" He created an arrow between the connections of the swords and sent the shot right for Anko. The shot landed right next to Anko's head. She wasn't surprised by the shot, didn't even jump.
"Should've killed me." She warned.
"Why?"
Anko closed her fist and Sean felt a sharp pain in his neck. He dropped his swords and released the jutsu that held them together. It took all that he had but he reached for his neck and pulled the scaly creature from his neck. He crushed the head of the snake and dropped it next to him.
"I always am a little forward in the wake of battle."
"You were able to take out a Tokubetsu Jonin but it almost costed your life." Tsunade commented.
"If I would've taken hers I would have mine." Sean coughed up green liquid. He reached out and felt what escaped his body.
"Don't be a pansy." Anko was covered in cuts and bruises. She didn't act like she was in a lot of pain. Sean knew she was though. "It's only a toxin; simple medicine will make you just fine."
"I can't make you Anko's rank or any rank for that matter but I can say confidently, that I can put you out without the need of a higher ranked ninja."
Present day
"So she put you through that to see if we can be put through our own?" Miri asked.
"When you say it like that it's like a mother said their child can go to school on their own but still followed behind them without letting the kid know." Sean almost laughed at his simile.
"Glad to know once I get back I'll be tested on my skills." Amari said.
"I mean I'd test you, you're the one with the third costume change in who knows how long." Miri laughed.
"Don't worry." Amari looked forward. "Don't worry, I'll be back to my regular gear soon. This was just temporary."
"Glad to have your self esteem back up." Sean nodded his head to Amari.
The tree below them exploded, all three were able to react quickly enough and jumped. Kunai and shuriken flew toward them. It may have been their first day back but their reflexes have never left their bodies. They twirled around the sharp blades and landed on separate trees. They scanned around the area for the trace of the other.
Sean flipped his headband around while Miri and Amari sucked in a portion of their chakra to activate the Tozoto. None of them could see who was around, no person was in sight. The branch under Sean slashed in half. Sean was able to turn around and brace for another impact. Sean was bashed over to Amari. She caught him and swirled underneath the tree. Her feet kept on the underside of tree, she still held onto Sean as she walked back up.
Miri was on the attacker. She immediately noticed what the man wore, a long black trench coat with red clouds. His appearance shocked her, dark blue hair, gray skin, white eyes, his resemblance to a shark was strong. He carried a long and thick sword in his hand. It was strange to Miri, the entire blade was wrapped in a white cloth but still struck like a sharpened blade.
"Spirit style; scythe strike!" Miri held her arms above her head and formed a staff with a long blade out the top in it. She struck down on the humanoid shark, but to no avail as he had the giant wrapped blade over his head. He pushed off the attack and jumped up to Miri. "Spirit style; spirit body!" The man swung right as Miri turned into her translucent form. The man smiled viciously. She wasn't prepared for the sword to release a part of the bandage to show the blue spikes underneath. Miri instantly felt the pain in her body.
"Help Miri!" Sean ordered. "I'll keep watching."
Amari didn't' signal toward Sean and just jumped for the attacker. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down off the tree. She purposely held him a bit higher to her and impaled the victim into the ground. She rolled off before she smacked on the ground and spun around the area. She looked back up at Sean.
"Sean!" Amari screamed. Her eyes were locked on him, he was on his knees and his arms stretched out.
The shark man slowly laughed. He dug the sword into the ground and pushed himself up to his feet. He cracked both sides of his neck and lifted the sword over his shoulders. "We got your friend now."
"What are you talking about?" Amari barked.
"He was the target after all."
Amari shuffled back, with a spin around she thrusted her fist into the man. He pulled his sword in front of him and caught the fist. He pushed Amari and twisted around to block the scythe strike from Miri.
"Earth style; shockwave fists!" Amari bumbled the ground below her and sent the devastation over to him. He was ready for the attack and jumped over strike from the ground. "Earth style; boulder strike!" She slammed her fists down like a hammer and launched the destructed rubble up to him.
He curled into a ball and held his sword in front of him to protect against the onslaught of rocks. He opened up in time for Miri to be right on him before he could react. Another scythe was in her arms and swung the weapon into his side. Just as Miri prepared for the scythe off his body. She swung her right arm from her left and bashed it across the side of his head.
"Soul extension!" her physical form attacked his skin and her extended body went through his chakra system.
His body was flung into the nearest tree. His mood changed from cocky to angry. He swung his sword behind him and caused the tree to split in half. "Water style; water bullet!" a large spout of water clashed with Miri. "Water style; Water shark release!" The smooth water attack enlarged into the body of a shark. The change attack bit down in Miri's lower half.
Amari quickly jumped after the man in the black coat. Her fist surrounded with chakra she landed on the same branch as him. The sword opened up without Amari's notice and struck into her hand. He grabbed the sword and struck down into her shoulder and kicked her of the branch.
"I promised I wouldn't kill you but now I don't know."
