AN: okay, real quick, in the last chapter the part with the Alliance, it said twelve people but there are only eleven alive now, Roken isn't back. I fixed it so if you read eleven, ignore this, but if you read twelve, it's supposed to be eleven.
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Chapter 42: The First Attack
It was early morning on a Friday, just over a week after Naruto returned with the twelve. Most of the village was still asleep. The only ones who appeared to be awake were the two guarding the gates and the three approaching them.
"Why are we leaving so early?" Isis asked.
"Avoid being seen. That story you told everyone probably reached the Hokage," Dozez said.
"So what, they're not going to attach us," Isis said.
"Idiot, they have the byakugan here. We could be tracked and followed without even realizing it," Dozez said.
The three reached the gate in relative silence and proceeded to walk through it. Once they had left the village they were forced to stop however, the guards were calling to them.
"Hey, where're you three headed so early?" the one guard asked.
"Home, we're from another village," Dozez said without turning around.
"Which one?" the second guard asked.
Dozez turned around, "Take a guess," he said.
The first guard whispered something to the second who vanished in a puff of smoke. "The Hokage wants to say something to you three before you leave," the first guard said once the second had vanished.
"Too bad for the Hokage, cause we're leaving now," Dozez said turning around and walking away, the other two behind him.
A line of kunai struck the ground in front of the three forcing them to stop, "attacking us at your gates? Konoha doesn't house the smartest ninja," Dozez said as he and the other two turned to face the guard.
"I don't see any wounds on you. I'd say we attacked the ground," a voice said behind the three.
Spinning around they found Wiseman now blocked their way, "a Terror, would you really throw you're life away for this village?" Dozez asked.
"Maybe, but I know I would do so to stop the Alliance," Wiseman said.
"What you got against us?" Isis asked.
"You were the ones who woke us. We never should've been resurrected," Wiseman said.
"Right now I'd have to agree, but we weren't there," Link said.
"Yes, but you helped gain the blood to do it. That's just as bad," Wiseman said.
"You know that you can't take us three alone," Dozez said.
"He ain't alone," a voice called from the trees before Dragoon and Nomad jumped out and landed on either side of Wiseman.
"Fine then," Dozez said before taking his bag off and tossing it to the side of the path, Link did the same but Isis kept his on.
Link unraveled her chain and held it in her right hand. Nomad drew his spear Wiseman drew his twin katana and Dragoon drew his long katana. Isis pulled back a bolt and shot it at Dragoon.
Dragoon didn't even flinch as it bounced off his chest, "I'll take him then," He said as he walked towards Isis who jumped back a few times to increase their distance.
Link whipped her chain at Wiseman but it was soon wrapped around Nomad's spear instead, "I'll take the girl," he said before whipping he spear to the side, the repercussion sending Link into the border trees.
"That leaves us," Wiseman said.
"So it does," Dozez replied as an earth hand shot from the ground and grabbed Wiseman.
"I was told you needed hand seals for this," Wiseman said.
"I did when I was twelve, so I played it down for the exams," Dozez said.
Wiseman didn't say anything, he just walked through the hand and found himself face o face with Dozez.
Dozez jumped back several times and threw a few kunai at Wiseman. Wiseman dodged or blocked all the kunai then charged Dozez. His arms were crossed at his chest making his swords go over his shoulders blades facing away from his head.
Dozez stopped jumping back and pulled a wall up from the ground that was over ten feet high, and much wider. Whichever way around it Wiseman would choose; he'd be open for an attack.
Dozez stood waiting for Wiseman to come around the wall, or try to jump over it. He leaned forward slightly to better prepare himself for the hand to come form the ground. But as he leaned forward his eyes shot wide open and he kicked back sending himself straight backwards.
As Dozez sent himself backwards Wiseman came up form the ground with one katana in front of him, aimed to split Dozez's head in two. When Dozez stopped he felt his face, something had been hit. Then Dozez fond it, the cut was right over the scar in his left eye, 'White you will never cease to amaze me,' he thought as he pulled out a kunai.
Wiseman charged Dozez again and Dozez threw the kunai. Wiseman blocked the kunai and was on the verge of colliding with Dozez. Dozez had a kunai in his other hand and brought it forward and right across Wiseman's neck.
But nothing happened, Wiseman kept going, right through Dozez, but the instant he was behind Dozez Wiseman spun around and swung his katana. The blade hit its mark perfectly this time, completely severing Dozez's spinal column at the mid back.
After a moment Dozez fell forward, paralyzed from the cut down. Wiseman walked up next to him and ran the tip of his blade into the base of his skull.
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Isis was jumping back away from the slowly approaching Dragoon. The others still stood facing off. Isis stopped jumping and shot a few bolts. Dragoon didn't even try to dodge, they hit his chest and dissipated, just like the first one.
Once the last one hit Dragoon charged Isis, pulling a machete out from under his shirt. He flung the giant blade at Isis who dodged it easily. But he was struck in the side by a dagger, thrown after the distraction of the large blade.
Dragoon never stopped running at Isis, and by the time Isis had removed the dagger he was face to face with Dragoon, "I was told your bolts would find metal rather than their target," Dragoon said.
"Dozez said to dumb our abilities down for the exams so we'd be thought less of," Isis said taking a few steps away from Dragoon.
"Wise kid that Dozez," Dragoon said before swinging at Isis's head.
Isis ducked and jumped back shooting a bolt at Dragoon. The bolt struck Dragoon in the chest and dissipated. Dragoon charged at him again, sword at the ready. The tips of Isis' fingers on his right hand began to glow blue as Dragoon got closer.
Blue bolts of electricity began shooting between his fingers and soon coned out to be a pyramid like shape that went about a foot out from his finger tips. Isis pulled his right arm back, preparing to strike when Dragoon reached him.
Dragoon swung downwards and Isis side stepped the blade and jabbed the tips of his fingers into Dragoons abdomen. But the pyramid didn't enter Dragoon, it hit his skin and shot off in different directions.
Most of the bolts went to Dragoons sword, but some strays made contact with Isis' side. Isis stumbled backwards, his left hand already on his stab wound, his right now covered where the bolts had hit.
"One would think you'd figure it out by now, the lightning won't get through me. My skin's to tough," Dragoon walked up to Isis, "if all you got's lightning, it's over," He said, but before Isis could respond his throat was slit and fell to the ground dead.
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Link had just been thrown into the trees on the side of the path. Trees were bad for her, Naruto was kind enough to show her that. And judging by the appearance of Nomad, he was better in the trees.
Link grinned slightly as she ran from the trees and into the open. She wrapped her chain around her again, it would be useless against the spear. Nomad was nowhere to be seen, 'must be in the trees looking for me,' Link thought.
She grinned again and started flying through seals. When she was done she extended her hands in front of her with her fingers separated and extended.
Then, one link from her chain flew of the chain and wrapped itself around Links right pointer finger, taking on the appearance of a ring covering form knuckle to first joint. Soon after nine more had covered the rest of her fingers in the same way.
Link lowered her hands and Nomad jumped out of the trees, "I've given you enough time to get ready, now I can kill you with honor," Nomad said.
"Honor? You're from the Twelve Terrors, what the hell is wrong with you? Shouldn't you be on our side in the first place?" Link asked.
"The legends of us were misleading, we're what many might consider to be heroes," Nomad said.
"Heroes die," Link said raising her arms again to be in the same position as before.
Another link of the chain shot off and flew towards Nomad. Nomad raised his spear to block it, but the link struck him in the right wrist.
It wrapped around his wrist like a shackle and a second one, flying in the shadow of the first, struck the shackle forming a half link on the side where a chain could attach.
Nomad looked at the shackle then up at Link, "this could be interesting," he said before charging her. As soon as he took his first step forward countless more links shot out form Link towards Nomad.
Nomad tried blocking them, but no matter where they hit, on his body or spear, they still had the same effect: almost instantaneously adding a new link to the chain coming form the shackle on his right wrist.
The chain had grown very large in a very short period of time. Nomad had only covered half the distance between them, they now were about ten feet away and suddenly Nomad stopped.
The last link had acted as a spike and dug itself deep into the ground. When the chain stopped and jerked on Nomad's arm he nearly lost his balance, and nearly pulled his arm out of his shoulder. Lucky for him neither happened and he was now bound to the earth.
Link grinned again and started walking towards him, "looks like I win," she said.
Nomad didn't say anything, but his eye's had become white. His right arm grasped the chains that bound him, and when Link was about five feet away the chain snapped near the spike and whipped out, swinging over Link's head.
When the chain snapped Link stopped walking and prepared to shoot more links at Nomad, but then the chain came straight at her and pierced her left shoulder. Link screamed and grabbed the chain wither her right arm, her left hanging limply.
Nomad gave a great jerk on the chain and Link was sent sideways to her left. As she was in the air Nomad threw his spear with his left hand and it pierced Link's abdomen, in the right of her spine.
The spear shot Link straight back, forcing the chain out of her shoulder. The spear took Link to a tree where it stuck with her feet about a foot above the ground. Nomad ran up to her, a dagger in his hand.
"You win. Just please, don't let him see my body…" Link said weakly.
Nomad stopped running and looked at her in silence for a moment, "is it any chain you can control?" Nomad asked.
"No, only that one, I infused my chakra into it. To do it with another chain would take weeks…why?" Link asked slowly.
Nomad took the remainder of Link's chain off her, taking the ones from her fingers as well. As each link was removed from her fingers the transformed back into links and connected themselves to the chain.
"Wha…what are you doing…?" Link asked.
"Taking you prisoner," Nomads said as he broke the shackle and it became a link again, connecting to the rest of the chain.
"Why… I'm your enemy…" Links barely managed to say.
"Of all the things to say or do after I pinned you to a tree, your thoughts were on the one you love. You'll live," Nomad said pulling his spear out of Link and putting it on his back.
Wiseman and Dragoon had already finished their fights, Dragoon was pulling the spike from the ground. Once he had it became a link again and connected itself to the chain. Wiseman carried the dead bodies as Nomad took Link, Dragoon having her chain and the backpacks.
The three entered the city and split up. Dragoon dropped the bags off at the guard stating and headed off to the prison, Nomad to the hospital, and Wiseman to Tsunade's office. Despite the words the two guards were saying and, soon, shouting Wiseman walked right into Tsunade's office, both bodies still in his arms. Tsunade looked at him from her desk, Jiraiya beside her, and two of the elders in front of her.
"What the hell?" Tsunade asked rising to her feet.
"They were trying to head back to the Alliance. Dragoon and I killed these two, Nomad defeated and took the girl prisoner," Wiseman said dropping Dozez and Isis onto the floor.
"Why did you bring their bodies here?" Jiraiya asked.
"Where else would I take them? Plus, this give proof to my words," Wiseman said.
"I was planning on having them followed," Tsunade said.
"Strag knows where their base is," Wiseman said immediately.
Tsunade's eyes shot open, "He does? Why didn't he say anything?" she asked.
"We wanted to see what the village was like first. Then handle them," he gestured to the two bodies, "before we took out the rest," Wiseman said.
"Why capture one?" the male elder asked.
"She fought well, and as Nomad was going to give the final blow her words were not fore herself, but the one she loves," Wiseman said.
"The one she loves?" the female elder asked.
"Those are Nomad's words. You'd have to ask him for a better description of it, I was busy fighting the big guy," Wiseman said.
"Tsunade, what level have we given these three?" the male elder asked.
"The Grave ninjas? They were Kids. Members ranked Kids and Colors are Kage and above while the Heads are all above Kage. Why?" Tsunade asked.
"And of the Legends?" the female elder asked.
"We don't know. They've only been here about a week, and Nomad said he wouldn't take the test without the others to take it as well," Tsunade said.
"We should test them," the male said.
"Well, I'll be going," Wiseman said nodding and turning to go.
"Yes, thank you Wiseman, I'll ask you three back for a fuller description when I'm not busy," Tsunade said.
Wiseman nodded his agreement and left the office.