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I have quite a bit of ideas for arcs, but I think the reason why I'm not getting any more fans is because my story is too long. I guess it's alright, I'll remain loyal to my remaining fans.
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Episode 31: The Toichi Clan
Rinji's arms were shackled to the wall behind him. All of his wounds were healed, and his clothes were torn up from his battle with Kiyoshi. His feet could barely touch the ground, but they could.
He looked around, and he saw a man wearing a large black cloak with red clouds on it. He had a black skin-tight mask hiding his face.
"Who the hell are you?" Rinji asked.
The man said nothing. He just walked up to Rinji, and then pulled something from his pocket. He jabbed a needle into Rinji's neck, and extracted some of his blood. Rinji's eyes turned white, and he lunged at him. The made made a hand sign, and healed Rinji's wound.
Rinji then passed out.
Tatsuzo and company walked out of the village.
"Does anyone here have any experience in tracking?" Tatsuzo asked.
There was a moment of silence.
"I do. Ryu's nose isn't as good as the Nin-ken that the Leaf has, but he has some experience." Yoichi said.
Ryu crossed his arms, and started complaining.
Yoichi flicked him in the nose. "No time for that. Now we're needed."
Ryu uncrossed his arms, and he looked around. He made a monkey nose, and he pointed straight ahead.
So that's where they went.
After quite some time, one of the Toichis growled, and he punched a tree. "DAMN IT!" He growled, his eyes turning slightly white. He was around fifteen, and he had blue eyes and black hair. He was wearing black ninja gear. "I'm going to kick all their asses!" He readied to leap forwards, but someone else put their hand on his shoulder.
The young man turned. He saw an older man, who had white hair and green eyes. He was wearing black and red ninja gear.
"Masakazu." Said the man. "Control yourself. No matter what you can't let your Berserk Jutsu activate, until we're in a battle. Are we clear?"
"But they have-"
"I know. He's my nephew, I'm angry too. But I am still containing myself."
"Hey," Tatsuzo said. "We better hurry up. It's a long ways away, and we shouldn't be wasting a lot of time getting there."
"He's right." Said the older man. "We need to get going."
The teenager's eyes turned back to their original color, and they all started running forwards again.
Kenpachi was darting forwards, with Yachiru on his shoulder.
He wasn't even slowing down at the corners, and he'd slice through walls left and right. Yachiru continued to give him directions.
She was having trouble staying on his shoulder, but she was managing.
Kenpachi was seriously angry about Rinji getting kidnapped. Even a blind man could see that.
Grime woke up, a bright light in his face. He went to lift his hand, but he realized that it was bound to a table. His ankles and forehead were bound too. A young man was standing above him. He was wearing a blue sweatshirt, with a white undershirt, and blue pants. He had an extra pack of ninja tools.
"Where am I?" Grime asked.
"I'm the one who's going to be asking the questions here. First, what is your name?"
Grime said nothing.
"I said tell me your name! Or I'm going to cut it out of you!"
Grime looked away from the light.
"Fine. Have it your way."
The kid reached into his ninja tools, and he pulled out a kunai. He spun it around on his finger. "Last chance. Tell me your name or I'll stab you."
"My name is Gakuto!"
"What is your name that they call you, Gakuto?"
"They?"
"Your terrorist partners."
"They call me Grime."
"Well, what should I call you? Grime? Or Gakuto?"
He snorted, and he turned away from him.
"How long have you been working with your friends?"
"They aren't my friends. I've been workin' with Ice for a long time. I hardly know the other two."
"But you knew them?"
"Yes. We were from-" He suddenly stopped himself. In this man's presence he felt the urge to tell the truth. The full truth.
"Go on. Keep going."
Gakuto bit his lip, resisting the urge to tell the truth.
The man spun his kunai around on his finger, and he stabbed down into Gakuto's leg.
Gakuto screamed in agony.
"We-we- were on the same group!"
"What is this group called?"
"You won't know the group name... but I'll tell you anyway... We were in the group called Shipata. We... we're underlings to the Akatsuki."
"Do you take orders from them? Did they send you to attack us?"
"No. They didn't send us. But I do take orders from them whenever they need something. I've never seen seen them face to face before. But they give me their orders through the Takdesu, higher up underlings. Those guys actually see the Akatsuki."
"Who is the leader of the Akatsuki?"
"I don't know. His name was a word though. Just like our code names. I don't remember what it was."
"Are any of your terrorist teammates Takdesu?"
"No. We're all Shipata."
"How many Shipata are there?"
"There are a total of one hundred fifty of us. They aren't picky on their recruits, but they are picky on who becomes Takdesu."
"How many Takdesu are there?"
"Twenty."
"Did you know Ice before you joined?"
"No. But the Takdesu split us up into groups of two, and I got put with Ice. I don't even know his real name."
"Tell me, how many Akatsuki are there?"
"I heard from one of the Takdesu that there was nine."
"Would you mind telling me why you and your partners attacked the village?"
"Hm..."
"TELL ME!" He suddenly yanked the kunai from his leg. Grime cried out.
"The Akatsuki doesn't care what the Shipata does in their free time. So they allow us to do whatever we want. But being as we are all rogue ninjas there's limited things that we can do. So one of the Takdesu set up a mission board. And we all got picked to do this mission by-"
"By whom?"
"By a man. I don't remember his name."
"You're bad with names, aren't you?"
"Yes."
"Did you see this man?"
"Yes. He had black hair, and he was wearing a black jacket. He had black leather gloves..."
The metal ninja's eyes widened for a second. Gakuto just described Tadashi Fujino, Squad One Jonin.
"That will be enough." Suddenly the light turned off, and an actual light turned on. It wasn't extremely bright. Grime's bounds unleashed him, and he sat up. The man teleported out. Grime looked down at his leg, which was suddenly healed. He looked up, seeing a bunch of food sitting on a table. There was also a note.
It read, Your reward for being co-operative.
Grime instantly dug in.
As the group had been running for a while.
"You have a question on your mind. What is it?" Asked the older man who stopped the teenager from going rampad.
"Well..." Hiro said. "Rinji-sensei's jutsu activates when he got blood drawn. But that teenager didn't get any blood drawn..."
"Well, the Berserk Jutsu is different for everyone. It activates differently for everyone. For me it activates when I want it to, and I can still control it, but I don't feel pain. For that teenager it activates when he gets angry. For Rinji's father's case, his jutsu activated just before he could take critical damage. And it'd keep him from getting injured, and it was very successful. He's over there." He pointed to a man with silver hair, and green eyes.
The man nodded to them, but said nothing.
"Thank you, sir." Hiro smiled.
"No problem." They continued to run forwards.
The remaining terrorists formed back into a group.
"Grime and Ice have been defeated." Said Three. "They did not complete their job, so we must do it. Killer and Yellow completed their own job."
"Our boss told us that Kenpachi Zaraki is after us." Yellow was back in his small form. "He is a dangerous foe, so we must be careful of him."
"He's going to track us down." Kiyoshi had fixed the glass part of his face. "So we might as well be together so we can quadruple team him."
"Seems like a reasonable plan to me." Outsider told them.
"Any objections?" Asked Yellow. There was none.
So they all went forwards, trying to avoid Kenpachi. But Kenpachi was closing in fast. It would be next to impossible for all of them to avoid him while they were clumped together.
"Kenny, there's a large mass of chakras right behind that wall!" Yachiru said.
Kenpachi grinned, and he slashed through that wall.
