Symone: A Naruto Side-Story - "The Heart Of Rain"
Chapter Sixteen: Astonishment! A Glimpse Of Power Never Before Seen! Symone, What Are You!?

[Note: ... I had this Chapter in mind for so long. This isn't fully blown in to what I am waiting for in the future, but here's a peek at Symone the way she truly is. It's been a while since I wrote anything in these... except for the two part special, but here I am! Read... and love. That's all I shall say for now. Janai!

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Quickly starting things off again, Renji runs forwards with his kunai towards Bankoku as Bankoku does the same towards Renji. Meeting halfway, the two collide, smashing their kunai's together as the sound of the dense metal infuriates the eardrums, weakening the opened eyes of both foes. Quickly though, being easily seen as the bigger, stronger ninja, Bankoku pushes Renji away a bit. Renji's hair flows forward as he was seen almost slipping away from Bankoku's strength. His eyes had become stained with shock as he quickly turns his head, being punched right in the nose by Bankoku as he had held all his weight forward, placing it in the punch as Renji flies down on the ground. Renji shakes it off, grabbing his hair with his hand as he pushes it back, blinking a bit. Bankoku smirks as he then levels out his weight again, marching to Renji with an astonishing speed. Bankoku forms a seal as he had appeared behind Renji without his notice. Renji's eyes widen in hysteria with blaten shock as he had felt the presence of Bankoku behind him. "Uzumaki Rikijou No Jutsu!(Whirlpool Ground Technique!)" called out Bankoku as the ground beneath Renji quickly splattered up, covering him from his knee's down as it was sucking him into the ground below as he was seen spinning in a spiral deeper and deeper. Bankoku jumps back a few yards avoiding his own jutsu as he watches Renji struggle. "Fuck! What am I gonna do? Teh!" thought Renji, sighing with angst as he tried to conjur up a plan as quickly as he possibly can. Bankoku's trademark smirk appears on his face again as he's shown crossed armed with his index and middle finger of his right hand pointed out, holding the jutsu. Renji quickly thinks an idea as he performs a seal. "Hakkei Soshi!(Element of the Releasing Internal Power!)" screamed Renji as the ground stops sucking him in, releasing the chakra from the ground that had been embedded by Bankoku's jutsu. Bankoku notices his finger is still held in the jutsu position, unaware as to why his jutsu had suddenly stopped. "What!? What happened to my jutsu!?" Bankoku then screamed in question as he looks to Renji who had flipped himself out of the ground, appearing with dirt covering his entire body from his waste down. "I happened!" yelled Renji as he runs to the wide-eyed Bankoku, delivering a massive punch to his face, knocking him back gently as he continued the attack for about forty seconds, busting Bankoku open in the forehead as he slammed his back into a tree, still standing upwards. Bankoku blocks with his forearms up to his face as he then started delivering his own punches to Renji's face. Six punches later, Renji had ended up on the ground as he shakes off the massive amount of spurting blood from his lips. "Why is this fucker so strong!?" thought Renji as he looks up from the ground as he then said, "As if I'd ever let you LIVE! I will TEAR you down like ALL the enemies before you! Except this time, and for the FIRST time... I will be fighting with my heart! You got that!?". Renji sheds a few gentle tears as the blood rushes down the side of his lips. Bankoku stands with a serious expression looking down on Renji almost empty of feeling, looking as though he almost felt guilty. "Hmm"... was a silent whisper Bankoku expressed to himself as he slowly looked away apathetically content. Suddenly, a massive amount of ninja had been seen overhead, skipping across the branches of the tree's towards Tsunzaku as both, Renji and Bankoku stare up to the incredible amount of ninjas. "Oh no... Tsunzaku will be... with these numbers... be demolished!" thought Renji as a shadow of a ninjas body covers over his face.

"No!... I can't kill! What am I supposed to do?" thought Symone as she is seen surrounded by a group of ten ninja within the dark village of Tsunzaku. Her beautifully tender eyes glistened by the shock of such decision as somewhere behind her current location she hears the screams of a poor child. "Mommy! Mommy! Help me!" as quickly the child screeched a saddening death from his mouth as Symone heard his body fall, not hearing his screams anymore. "Oji! Oji! No!" the Mothers voice yelled as she screams a retchedly disgusting echo in the ears of Symone, hearing the slashing metal of a katana pierce her flesh from such a distance. "Why? Why are these people dying!? Why can't... Why can't I HELP!?" thinks Symone with such pure aggression as she opens her mouth, letting out a struggling gasp of air. "You little bitch! You won't get away with beating us down!" yelled one the ninjas as he ran towards Symone. The ninja flips forward, delivering a slice of his kunai in to the shoulder blade of Symone as she falls to her knee's, not really caring much as she only clenched her eyes in pain for a moment, caring only for the unbearable screams of all the innocent villagers. The attacking ninja jumps back with curiosity. "What's wrong with this girl!?" asked the ninja as the one single female ninja responds, "If there's something I know, it's the heart of a young girl. Apparently, she cares less about herself and more about the villagers around her, which gives ME an idea". "Oh...?" responds the ninja who had just attacked. The female ninja said, "You four! Go grab some villagers and bring them her immediately! Hurry!" as she looked over to a squad of four ninja which had been to the left of the circle surrounding Symone. The four ninja disperse quickly. "In about a minute... I'll show you true pain, little girl!" said the female ninja as the ninja that had attacked just moments ago backs away into the circle with the remaining six ninja. "Caring for the weak is only a hindrance that shall cause you to lose your own life, so I am gonna teach you a lesson" stated the female ninja. Suddenly, yells and screams were heard as if an army was breaking in to the village from outside. The six surrounding ninja, along with Symone look over to the woodlands as squads of about 150 ninjas are seen running into the village. "Ah! Second squad has been sent out! Now we have this in the bag no matter WHO'S trying to stop us! There has to be at least 300 or so of us in this piece of shit village!" spoke and explained the female ninja as Symone's face turns to shock.

"What!? No way!" said Mikomi out loud as he noticed the massive amount of ninja swarming the village yet again. "Man, this really isn't looking up! Teh! ...and to think we nearly just arrived in this village. We weren't even here long enough to enjoy a decent meal or anything. Oh well!" thought Mikomi as he notices Shouten standing from a slight distance, watching all of the ninja invade the village with a smile on his face. Mikomi decides he should take advantage of the situation as he performs a hand seal with much speed and enthusiasm in his movements. "Ninpou: Chakra Supaika No Jutsu!(Special Ability: Chakra Spiker Technique!)" called out Mikomi as Shoutens eyes widen, tilting his pupils to Mikomi as he realized he had just called out a jutsu. Mikomi throws his hand downwards, holding it by the wrist with the opposite hand as he gently yells, forming a glistening transparent light of visible chakra in his hand. Mikomi stops his yells as he holds his arms to the side, looking calmly at Shouten as Shouten turns himself forward, staring at Mikomi. "You made your hand glow? What kind of trick is this?" asked Shouten in question of Mikomi's summoned jutsu.

Meanwhile, quite a distance from Mikomi, Symone is seen again surrounded still by the ninja as the four ninja had quickly appeared, taking their former positions as they throw a woman, her child and her husband on the ground. Symone turns her head, looking to the three innocent villagers that had been thrown to the ground. Quickly, the female child runs to her Dad's lap, holding onto his shirt as his wife stood on her knee's next to him with her arm around his shoulder. Symone then gets up off of the ground and runs towards them as quickly, two of the ninjas had stopped her, holding her back as they kick her down by the hind knee's. "Kinbaku Genjutsu!(Illusion To Bind Tightly!)" called out the ninja to the right that was holding Symone as he had performed a quick hand seal only seconds before. Symone tries to get up, but her body feels as though she was several hundred pounds heavier, being bound by the Genjutsu spell as she can't even perform the seal to release it as her hands had been held back. "What!? I can't move!" quickly thought Symone as she looks to the female ninja that had walked up to the family of three. "Now... I'll show you what really hurts, and I'll show you your weakness, little girl!" said the female ninja as she grabs the husband of the scared family. The little girl that was holding onto her Father had then cried screams of terrible pain. "Daddy! Daddy! Come back! Don't let me be alone!" yelled the mere child as her Mother had taken her, cradling her within her arms. The female ninja then throws the man down on the ground directly in front of Symone. She walks up to Symones face and stares at her only inches away, holding the man by the back of his head, grabbing a handful of hair. "NO! STOP THIS!" yelled the immobile Symone as the female ninja takes the mans head and shoves it about two inches from Symones face. Symone stares into the eyes of the helpless, depressed and worn out old Father as she leaks tears of agony, seeming as if she was in more pain watching this rather than the man himself. "That's right! Look in to his eyes! Those are the eyes that are looking to death!" yelled the female ninja as she discards a kunai. "Look at the eyes of this man and know that this is a life you couldn't protect. Look in those eyes and make him realize he's defenseless... that no one, not even YOU can save. Look at his eyes and then realize how he's being tortured by the anxiety of waiting for death! These eyes you see are the emotions of a man who has no hope! Why does he have no hope? Because no one can protect him! That is, unless you decide to fight, but how can you!?" spoke the female ninja with such a terribly demented intent to haunt and torture the poor, innocent Symone. Symone looks to the mans eyes as she sheds a tear that turned to ice as it made it down half-cheek. The man looks to Symone as he speaks. "You're too young to be put through this. Don't just defend me... but defend every body. It's in your heart... young kunoichi. Let your heart rain out the power I truly sense in you. It's alright... to kill for the sake of others" the man had said as the female ninja smirks, yelling for a quick second as she impales her kunai through the back of the neck and out of the throat of the man, killing him in cold blood right before the eyes of Symone. The man let out a sickening gasp as the blood from his throat had been thrown all over the face of Symone. Symone then had such heavy depression and guilt, her head had tilted down towards the ground as her hair covered her entire face, having her forehead protector embedded bandana fall off and on to the ground. "Dispose of the others any way you like! Just make it gruesome!" yelled the female ninja as she had assigned her words to the two ninja by the little girl and her Mother. Symone is then seen quickly twitching to the words of the female ninja; her face still unseen by the purple hair that had fallen in front of it. "Mommy!" yelled the young girl as her Mother had said, "I know... I know Gina. Don't worry. It'll be over soon. I promise" as tears fell from her eyes, barely being understood as Symone is seen hearing the cries of the child and her Mother as they are killed. Hearing their bodies drop emotionless, Symone twitches her head a little as she is seen from the back, tilting her head up a little as she had seen the dead corpse of the Mother holding tightly onto her child who had been also killed, twitching due to the uncontrolled nerves in her little body as a katana was seen exiting through her tiny head. "Now... what do you have to say for yourself... you trash!?" asked the female ninja with an intimidating sarcasm. Symone is then heard slowly breathing heavier and heavier. Her body had started to move slightly, shaking more and more as an odd, pink aura had started to gently emanate from out of her body. The two ninja's holding Symone had then looked down curiously as they jumped back, being burned by Symone's flesh somehow. The two ninja's look down to Symone as she begins to struggle to get up. Her breathing becomes heavier and heavier as tears are then seen falling to the ground. Quickly and suddenly, Symone had lifted her head up with an incredible ferocity, showing her now transformed light pink eyes that were glowing bright as the air around her became so dense it looked like it was shaking as she screamed, "YOU... ARE THE ONE THAT IS TRASH!". The female ninja's eyes widen as she becomes shocked, jumping back a bit as she feels the absolutely tremendous air current emanating from Symone's body as fiercely, Symone stands up, throwing her head back along with her hair as she just screams in pure anger as the pink chakra that had been emanating from her body circles her in a flash of majestically enigmatic beauty, traveling up to the sky, brightening up everything within the village with a pink tint. As Symone's scream rages on, all of the ninja's had screamed out, being thrown back by the wind that has picked up. The female ninja looks to Symone as she had fallen to the floor, staring at this mad, screaming little girl.

Mikomi is now seen throwing his glowing hand back as he runs towards his foe, coming to a sudden stop, looking at Shouten as his attention had been placed somewhere else. Feeling a massive presence of chakra, and curious as to what Shouten was in awe about, he turns around, witnessing a swirl of pink chakra taking control over the landscape. "COULD THAT BE...? SY-... SYMONE!?" Mikomi yelled in question as a force of wind had blown by him. Shouten narrows his eyes to Mikomi, listening to his questioning words as he thinks to himself, "That... That girl?". "Shit! I have to get to her soon!" thought Mikomi as he then quickly performed a hand seal. Shouten turns his head completely to Mikomi in shock. "WHAT!?" yelled Shouten, curious as to why he performed the hand seal. "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" yelled Mikomi, creating a shadow copy of himself. Quickly now, Mikomi runs off to Symone's location as he leaves the Kage Bunshin No Jutsu behind. "I won't let you leave!" yelled Shouten as he attempted to dodge forward, but the Bunshin had kicked him down, performing a seal of his own. "Suirou No Jutsu!(Water Prison Technique!)" called out the Bunshin of Mikomi as water tripped, and then circled Shoutens body as he was squeezed within a barrier of water that had formed. Trying to hold it together, the Bunshin holds his hand on the prison of water, making it so Shouten can not escape. Mikomi looks back, making sure he was able to run off without trouble.

Now, back at where the ninja's that had been torturing Symone, Symone is seen still screaming as the light pink chakra begins to darken the body of Symone. Her clothes begin to look almost black, along with her hair. The blood of the murdered man that had been splattered upon her once beautiful, now horrific face is seen rolling upwards towards her forehead, smearing it all over her. Symone's lips turned red with blood as Symone's eyes had narrowed with such a massively evil intent as she stopped her screams for a moment. Silence takes it's place over the whole area as all of the fighting in the village had suddenly stopped. Every ninja had been seen eyeballing Symone with fear as she sways her blackened hair behind her, showing the glimmer of those pink eyes as she dashes forward like a four-legged beast towards the female ninja. The female ninja begins to dash as fast as she can away from Symone, but her speed was lacking compared to the incredible speed Symone had now somehow obtained mysteriously. Symone jumps forward at the female ninja, ripping her fist through the back of the ninja, shredding her insides with her hand, pushing through with such a force that her hand came out of the ninja's diaphragm, killing her easily as Symone throws her arm to the side, sliding the dead ninja from off of her arm, watching her dead body roll along the ground. Her arm - drenched in ruby red blood was then placed to her side as she holds her arm out, emitting her palm forward. "Not a single one of you... will live today..." Symone had quietly said with an aggression of anger and contentment never before seen by the young kunoichi. "EVERYONE! ATTACK THE GIRL! LET'S KILL HER QUICKLY!" yelled one of the ninjas that had been located not too far from Symone as suddenly, over a hundred ninja had been seen running forward towards Symones position. Symone lets out a smile as if she was enjoying this. With her palm still extended out, she silently hums to herself the words, "Ninpou: Aisubutai, Gyouko Shigure(Special Ability: Ice Element, Frigid Drizzle)". Suddenly, pink ice forms on her hand as it devours her entire arm, lifting her opposite hand outwards allowing it to also form this odd color of ice. Quickly, she starts throwing her hands forward with an incredible speed as she turns slowly, cracking the ice from off of her hands and arms as it floats all over the battlefield, slicing down on all of the invading ninja, piercing through all of them in a massive debree of ice as the shards that had emanated from her body glisten with blood, creating what seemed to be almost like a red hail storm of death. Bodies had been dropping like deadweight all along the village as no one came close to even touching the powerful, dementedly transformed kunoichi. Her eyes then widen as she raises her head, smiling with her mouth open wide.

From a position not too far from Symone, Mikomi is seen making his way towards his student as he begins dodging pink shards of bloody ice as best he can, being sliced by a few as he thinks, "This is Symone!? What the hell is happening to my pupil!?" with aggression.

Back within the woodlands of Amegakure, Renji is seen standing up as he looks back the direction he came. "What the hell am I feeling? This power... it's unreal!" he thinks as Bankoku looks back as well, wondering the exact same thing. Renji looks to Bankoku, realizing he had been distracted by the same presence as he performs a hand seal, looking to a big area of mud. "Doton! Doryuudan!(Earth Element! Earth Dragon's Missile!)" called out Renji as Bankoku quickly turns his head, noticing the jutsu far too late as a molding of a giant dragon serpent rises from the mud on the ground and smashes deep into Bankoku, manhandling him as if he was as light as air, forcing his body through a new area of tree's, smashing through a dozen of them as Bankoku screamed in agonizing pain, "Shit!". As the form of the mud dragon reached its limit and deteriorated, Bankoku got thrown several yards forward, rolling his body along the dirt and leaves as he smacks deep into a tree, stopping his unbelievably long journey of pain across the woodlands. Renji quickly appeared by the body of Bankoku as Bankoku had struggled to get up, wobbling side-to-side a tad as his eyes appeared dazed and confused. "You should of known better than to underestimate your opponent, you dumb ass" said Renji as he stares at Bankoku. Suddenly, Bankoku screams out with such a horrific volume that the echo in the woods lasted for more than ten seconds or so as he was apparently angered about the fact someone actually got the better of him for once in his life.

Mikomi's on his way to see what's happening to Symone, curious as to why her chakra had poured out in such a way as Shouten had been encased by a Kage Bunshin's water prison. Now, will Mikomi manage to make it in time before something... terrible happens? Meanwhile, Renji finally has a good, strong upperhand on Bankoku as the fight can go either way.

Meanwhile, within the Kumogun temple, the leader, Genburori is seen sitting at the head of the table, slightly rubbing down on the hair grown on his chin as four other men sitting to the sides of the table, two on each side dressed in Government attire appear. "So... do we have a deal, Gentleman?" asked Genburori to the Rain countries Government officials. "Under one circumstance..." said the eldest man at the table who sat to Genburori's right. "I'm listening... go on..." said Genburori as the elder official said, "By doing this job for us and getting rid of those Tsunzaku pests, we will pay you Ten Million dollars and also allow you to control the military of that section, correct?" stated the official, yet asked in question to Genburori as he replied, "Yes... of course. And?". "AND... We made that deal... about you giving 'him' to us if we agreed, remember?" stated the official, yet asking in question again as he had before. Genburori replied, "Yes. You can have him. I'll have one of my ninja's place him in your carriage outside" as he looks over to a ninja, nodding to him as the ninja then runs off, apparently retrieving 'him' and placing him in the Government officials carriage upon their departure. "Is he as special as rumor has it?" asked the official. "Oh, but of course. I have to say though... I WILL miss him. Take care of him for me... and don't let him kill too much, understand?" said Genburori, speaking with a question of his own in an intimidating manner. "We will take our leave now. Thank you for your time and efforts, Genburori-san" said the official as all the other Government officials bow. Genburori bows as he then watches the officials leave his temple. "I will soon be able to have the power I desire... oh, how satisfying this feeling truly is!" thought Genburori as suddenly, a ninja appears in the room. "Genburori-sama! Shall I send out the special third unit yet!?" asked the ninja as Genburori replied, "Send in just the Captain... since I can care less if that fool died or not. I am doubting we need any more power to crumble Tsunzaku anyway. Plus, you should know... a good stronghold never sends out all its forces. If I sent out the whole squad, who will help protect the temple from an army? You must always prepare for the worst. Next time, taste your thoughts to see if they're palatable to your mouth. Now... Get Nova-Teichou(Captain Nova) and tell him his mission. I'm sure somehow, even though I'm sure we have this won, Renji is giving some trouble somewhere out there". "Yes, sir!" replied the ninja as he runs off to give the unwanted Nova-Teichou the knowledge of his mission.

Now that this mysterious 'him' has left the Kumogun temple in a trade to the Amegakure Government, will we ever find out who he was? Also, the unknown Nova-Teichou appears with a mission in the next Chapter! Why is this man so hated and disliked by the lord of the Kumogun temple, yet his rank is Captain of the highest squad of ninja? Only the shortest of time shall tell as we wonder what's to happen in the future of "The Heart of Rain"!

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Renji: HEY! YOU! YEAH, YOU! I'm pretty hungry... all this fighting is making me kind of hungry, ya'know? Go make me a sandwich!
Symone: Uhh... THAT'S kind of rude, don't you think!?
Mikomi: Eh-Heh!
Renji: You! Girl with the purple hair! Make me a sandwich!
Symone: WHAT!? HOW DARE YOU!
Mikomi: Oh no... Tehehe!
Renji: YOU HEARD ME WOMAN!
Symone: AHH! I HAD ENOUGH OF YOU!
Mikomi: While those two stubborn fools are fighting... let me just tell you to remember to check out the next Chapter! I'm gonna play the main role like always!
Symone: Like always!?... yeah you do kind of get an unfair amount of time than you should... hmm... more than me sometimes, damnit! ISN'T THIS MY STORY!?
Renji: No, stupid girl... It's "The Heart of Renji!"
Symone: WHAT!? DAMNIT RENJI! I'LL KILL YOU!
Mikomi: Tehehehe! -rubs back of head- Janai!