"Say goodbye to your Kekkai Genkai, and say goodbye to YOUR LIFE!" yelled Genburori as his hand started glowing around Mikomi's head. Suddenly, a barrage of kunai are seen hurling at Genburori. Genburori turns his head and notices, throwing Mikomi across the ground, opposite of the direction he had then jumped over towards to dodge. Genburori looks over to the direction of where the kunai were thrown as Symone is seen standing there in her fighting stance, looking forward with seriousness towards Genburori! "Ah, the girl. You DO have some fight in you after all, eh? I was gonna ignore you and let you live, but if you choose to oppose me, I'm gonna have to rip your damn head off then" stated Genburori as Symone still stands her territory; her right arm extended in a Taijutsu stance with her left leg planted behind her as she states with an intensive anger, "It'll be YOUR head that'll be ripped from off your damn shoulders, fool!". "Hoh!?..." sighs Genburori, smirking as he strokes his messy facial hair. "Your ignorance is gonna kill you" stated Genburori as Symone looks towards him with determination. "It doesn't matter to me if I die... as long as I help my Sensei who spent years of his life training and nurturing me. He gave me a life back that I once believed I lost, and no matter what, I can't just stand to the side and allow you to do this to him, or Renji, who was fighting so hard just to save an entire village of people he may not even know, and to avenge his best friend. If I'm the only one left... then there's no choice for me except to try!" stated Symone with her piercing blue eyes. Genburori just smirks sarcastically, reputing words he said before, "Well, go and oppose me, because like I said, if you do, I'll gladly end your life".

"The Heart Of Rain" - Symone's NARUTO Side-Story
[Chapter Twenty-Eight

"Her Sweet Rain: A Shocking Appearance, The New Ally?"

A short distance from the scene of Symone and Genburori, Mikomi is shown laid sideways with his head uncomfortably placed on the rocky, broken ground as he watches on at his dear student. Mikomi's hair falls over his face, blinding his crystalline green eyes as a gentle drip of blood pours down his face, impacting the ground as silently... he falls unconscious with one last thought... "Sy-...Symone...". Suddenly, a shadow looms over Mikomi's body, appearing as if it were a person, as a voice seemed to speak towards the emotionless incoherent Mikomi, "It seems some trash is still here. I guess I'll have to finish the job".

Back at the confrontational scene, Symone is seen staring at Genburori intently with a pure aggression in her eyes as they glisten beautifully with the sun's enigmatic radiance. "Well... come, little girl!" stated Genburori with a smug expression displayed on his face. Symone smirks, taking his short, yet dictated words to heart as she chases forward towards Genburori with her fist held back, screaming. "HAAAAAA!" yelled Symone as she continued charging, then jumping forward at Genburori, extending her fist forward, using all her force in a punch as suddenly, she's grabbed from behind, then thrown to the side as she lands on her feet, curiously watching on as she notices Genburori hadn't even made a move. Genburori looks on curiously, seeing a shadowed figure appear before him. Symone then notices the shadowed image, as a body slowly appears. Genburori looks on as the shadowed figure speaks towards Symone. "Simple girl. You were about to get impaled. Can you not sense the chakra beneath the ground!?" yelled the shadowed figure with a familiar, manly voice as his shadow dissipates, showing his true form, as it was Shouten! Shouten then pounds the ground, crushing it into pounds of rubble as one of Genburori's bones seemed to be underneath, ready for attack as Shouten hurls a kunai at the bone with an intense speed, seeming as it was holding a small amount of chakra in it as it sliced through, cracking the bone. Genburori jumps back a bit, disconnecting what apparently was a bone from underneath his foot as he states, "Shouten, eh? You're still alive? My... astonishing how one of the weaker ones still remain alive". "Weaker, you say? Sure, I'm not as powerful as you or Nova per say, but just know... I've always held back my true power, and now that I have a secret weapon on my side you know nothing about, you can't POSSIBLY defeat me" stated Shouten as he's seen smirking. Symone looks on as she thinks, "Shouten!?... but why, and what's this secret weapon he's talking about?". "Girl... Symone, was it?" asked Shouten as Symone replied hesitantly, "Y-Yes...". "Then... Symone... do that thing you did back in Tsunzaku. The thing where your chakra blew out of you and you murdered mine and Bankoku's squads" stated and demanded Shouten in an unkind, aggressive way. "My... chakra blew out of me? I can faintly remember some things, but only the images in my head. It felt like... I was stuck in an alternate world, but still able to visualize some things..." thought Symone to herself as she reflects back on what Shouten had most likely referred to...

Symone remembers herself in a first-person view, looking around at the enormous energy of chakra that had expelled from her body that had risen above towards the skies as a dark, unknown voice is heard from within her head."I NEED... TO FEEL THE TASTEFUL WARMTH... OF THEIR BLOOD...!". Symone then see's an image of herself within the thoughts of her own mind. The image then shows that she is running from a shadow that had been seen towering over her body and the landscape by several stories as the landscape transformed into an ocean that seemed endless as rain of black came tumbling from the crying clouds. "Symone... COME TO ME! LET ME FEEL THE WARMTH OF THEIR BLOOD...!" screamed the dark, heavy voice as Symone is seen dashing forward, away from the shadowed figure as she was using her chakra to sustain level upon the water, though as she looked back at the figure for that quick moment, it was seen that the shadow had caught up, engulfing itself through Symone's mouth as she blacks out for a second, waking again from her semi-consciousness as she realizes she had been empowered by the rage of the shadow, seeing herself as she had blasted those crystal shards of pink ice at the militia of ninja, killing them all as heartless as the coldest of beings would. Looking to the side, she remembers seeing a dear child cry as it's Mother had been killed by Symone's crystal shards of ice, doing the exact opposite of which she truly desired as she ended up facing Mikomi, readying for an attack... then slowly blackening out again, not remembering a thing afterwards...

"I... I can only remember my thoughts. I really don't know what happened, except I killed... I killed and killed and killed... and I can NEVER forgive myself..." stated Symone as Shouten replies, "Pseh! What do you mean you don't remember, damnit? How can you forget something like that!?". "I'm sorry, but It was like I was unconscious!" replied Symone in an apologetic manner. Genburori looks to Symone curiously as he thinks, "This... mere child... killed two of my squads of Ninja... alone?". Genburori stares to Symone as he remembers hearing the final words of Nova...

Symone's scared eyes look to Nova in question as Nova states, "You're... the only... one left... to stop... his terror..." as he coughs up a large amount of blood. "Shh!... Relax! Save your energy so we can get you help!" states Symone, but Nova declines, nodding his head side-to-side. "My wife... I thought I... I... could avenge... I failed... please... kill for her... for us. I don't wanna... die in vane like her. Let us... live in you..." hesitantly and painfully spoke Nova as tears fall from Symone's eyes. Renji and Mikomi watch on silently with sadness in theirs.

"Could this child... bare the same power as Nova!?" thought Genburori with a shocked expression placed on his face. Shouten then looks determined towards Genburori as he states, "Ah! Fine then! I don't need your help! I'll just take care of him the hard way!" as he charges straight towards Genburori. Shouten throws an explosive tag on the ground next to Genburori, but Genburori quickly dodges to his right, avoiding what he thought would be an explosion, but it seemed it was a dud that was intentionally thrown to distort Genburori's movements as Shouten follows after him, hurling an arsenal of Shuriken at him. Genburori stopped in his tracks, gliding against the ground as he holds his right arm up, absorbing the impacts and blocking the Shuriken with it as they impale the arm. The Shuriken are shown sticking from out of Genburori's arm as he puts it to his side, seeing Shouten appear before him. Shouten then delivers a series of punches at Genburori that seemed relentless. Genburori dodges them, and slaps a few away using his only useable arm. Shouten then seems to split in two as a clone appeared from behind him, as it apparently hid itself in the shadows of the original body of Shouten. Shouten's clone then charges around the other side of Genburori, delivering yet another arsenal of punches towards Genburori. Genburori is then seen having a somewhat difficult time now avoiding the attacks as a few make slight impact on his face and chest. Genburori then ducks down as the original and copy Shouten deliver a punch, missing as they collide each other with a great impact. The clone then dissipated in a cloud of smoke as Shouten's eyes become shocked. Genburori then bends himself over with his head towards the ground as Genburori shoots his spine from out of his back, whipping Shouten around with it and cutting him with the vertebrae's on the sides as Genburori then whips it behind him, hurling it forward at Shouten, piercing him through the shoulder, lifting him in the air by the spine as he flings him hard against the ground a few times. Blood spatters everywhere around Shouten as his cuts seemed deep and opened wide. Bruises and scuffs were seen covering the body of Shouten now as Genburori continues his assault, pounding Shouten in to the ground still by his spinal column. Genburori then halts the attack, throwing Shouten with an intense speed towards Symone. Symone runs forward, standing a firm positioning as she catches Shouten, being thrown back by the force, slamming in to a large chunk of wood that was apparently part of the temple that seemed nearly annihilated. Symone lays Shouten to the side, looking to him curiously as Shouten shakes off the pain, standing up very slowly as he watches on at Genburori absorbing his spinal column back in to his body. Genburori then performs a hand seal, calling out: "Doton! Rokku Missairu!(Earth Element, Rock Missile)" as the ground begins to tremble. Genburori plants his hand on the ground, smirking with an evil expression placed on his lips as it seemed like he had lifted an enormous building-size piece of the Earth from the ground, holding it upwards with his palm as it glowed brightly with chakra. Suddenly, the giant chunk of Earth shatters and splits in to about a thousand pieces as Genburori throws his hand quickly towards Symone and Shouten. Shouten looks on, but it seemed he passed out just at that moment, sighing as he fell to the ground hard. Symone jumps in front of him, performing a familiar hand seal as she calls out, "Tate Iji No Jutsu!(Shield of Memories Technique!), forming a large green shield of chakra around herself and Shouten's body as she closes her eyes, scared from the large quantity of rock now hurling at her and Shouten as they impact the shield hard, but falling on the ground, failing to pierce the powerful shield. "Protect me... Please... If you're still out there... PROTECT ME!" thought Symone as the shield then burst larger for better evasion of the incoming rocks. "That... Jutsu!? This girl... HOW CAN SHE KNOW THAT JUTSU!? THE ONLY PERSON THAT KNEW OF IT WAS..." thought Genburori as his attack finished, interrupting his thoughts, noticing that Symone had put down her shield, charging forward towards Genburori with a fierce intent. Symone screams out, throwing a punch at Genburori, but Genburori easily kicks Symone away as she slides across the ground painfully. Genburori smirks until noticing that Symone's body had just then dissipated in a cloud of smoke. "Kage Bunshin!? But when!?" thought Genburori, as suddenly, a crunching noise was heard. Blood is seen pouring gently down Genburori's lips as he looks down, trembling a bit in shock and pain as he notices a large shard of ice seemed to have pierced his abdomen as it protruded out the other end from behind him. Genburori turns his head towards the side a bit, seeing Symone in the corner of his eyes, standing there with the ice emanating from her angelic palm, smirking as her arm was extended outwards. "You... bitch!" yelled Genburori as Symone lets out a sigh, smirking even more-so than before, standing there with a sense of confidence.

An unexpected ally joined the fight, but only to be thrown to the side just as Renji and Mikomi had just minutes before. Genburori seems quite aware of these hidden abilities of Symone and the jutsu her dear brother Souitai had taught her in the past. What could this mean? What could Genburori know? Either way, Symone seems determined to demonstrate what she can do as a kunoichi, piercing Genburori with ease through the abdomen, but will that finish him off, or will he simply regenerate himself as he had in previous close-encounters? How will Symone fare against this powerful foe? Next time, it's truly Symone's time to shine in the next chapter entitled: "Body Of Ice VS Body Of Bone - Symone VS Genburori!".