"The
Heart Of Rain" - Symone's NARUTO Side-Story
[Chapter
Twenty-Nine
"Body Of Ice VS Body Of Bone
Symone VS Genburori & The Past Revisited"
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.
Genburori then wraps his hands around the ice that was seen extended out of the front of his abdomen, struggling to break it off as Symone then absorbs the ice back in to her body, sliding it back the way it came - through Genburori's abdomen, as Genburori snarls with a sense of pain, falling to the ground.
"I won't hesitate. Like the mother bird, I WILL SAVE MY PRECIOUS PEOPLE BECAUSE I REFUSE TO SEE THEIR PAIN ANYMORE!" yelled Symone, speaking to herself in a sense yet outloud with a huge outburst of emotion as she twirls a kunai from out of her side-holster, throwing it in the air just a few inches above her hand as she catches it firmly, standing on guard as Genburori rolls himself on the ground to face Symone.
"As if... you'd even have the guts, mere child!" spoke Genburori with a hesitant pain emanating within each syllable of words as Symone replied, "I don't need guts to help the world. I just need love!" as she takes the kunai, stabbing down at Genburori, but Genburori rolled over to his side, dodging it as the kunai got stuck in the rubble.
Symone let's go of the kunai as she notices too late that Genburori had planted an explosive tag beneath himself.
Genburori quickly absorbs himself within the ground, burrowing beneath it using his back bones to pave through it.
As his body nearly engulfs completely under the ground, he holds a seal, yelling "Katsu!(Detonate!)" as the tag smolders with a flame, delaying before exploding, giving Genburori enough time to burrow beneath the Earth.
Symone's eyes widen in a scarce shock as she runs as quickly as she can from the tag before it explodes, but unfortunately, the tag had then just blown, sending a magmatic shockwave of burning rock and debree soaring at her, pelting her indiscriminately with an intense velocity, scolding her a bit as she falls to the ground, disappearing in the explosion.
Genburori then appears from out of the rubble fully healed, apparently after using his Medical Ninjutsu as he stands firmly about twenty yards opposite of where Symone had vanished in the explosion as he watches on towards the cloud of dirt, rubble and smoke that seemed to cover the area in which Symone was.
As the smoke from the explosion gets brisked away by the gentle summer wind, a glow of green chakra was seen emanating through.
Genburori looks on with a dumb-found expression as the wind carries that final fluff of gray smoke and brisks it away, revealing that Symone had survived the blast, laying on the ground with her Tate Iji No Jutsu guarding her body.
"That cursed Jutsu again! I know all about it, and the amount of chakra it takes to control it. Unless you have an insane amount of chakra like 'he' did, I doubt you can last. My child, I must say though, this Jutsu seems to be the only defense worthy of teetering my attacks, as I learned the hard way from experience. To learn this Jutsu though, you've had to of learned it from someone else other than your pathetic Sensei" detailed Genburori as he watches on towards Symone as she is seen diluting the chakra and standing on her feet.
"I don't understand how you can POSSIBLY know the Jutsu, since only my Grandfather, brother and me are the only ones capable of learning it. It was a family hand-me-down to keep this short, so any experience you might've had with it is an illusion" stated Symone as Genburori replied, "Oh? If it's a family hand-me-down, then it's safe to assume you're related to Aisu Souitai?".
Shocked, with widened eyes, Symone expresses a sign of grief and curiousity simultaneously as she heard the name of her dear departed brother's name.
"You... but... how? How can you possibly know my brother!?" asked Symone curiously with a hint of enragement, not seeing that it's possible to even know of him since he died at such a young age.
"Ah! So Souitai has some family alive afterall. I heard they were all killed off when he was younger, but I guess you're one of the lucky ones, huh? As for your question... how could I possibly know Aisu Souitai? Well, let's just say he's the only Shinobi with a Kekkai Genkai that I couldn't get my hands on. A powerful warrior that Souitai is, and after seeing you manipulate ice as you do, I thought it seemed similar, but you haven't quite conjurred up the full potential of your Kekkai Genkai, eh? Compared to Souitai, you'd be killed in a heartbeat, though at least now I have more of a reason to fight you. If I can harness your Kekkai Genkai, I'd have no use for Souitai" stated Genburori as he tilts his head towards the side, giving a blissfully hideous expressive smirk of derangement with widened eyes.
"Souitai... is alive?" thought Symone with her jaw dropped and eyes widened in a state of hypnotic shock.
"WHERE IS HE!? WHERE IS MY BROTHER!? TELL ME NOW!!" yelled out Symone with rage as her expression seemed to appear tainted by Genburori's words.
"Well, if you want that information, then you're going to have to beat me for it, child!" replied Genburori as he laughs a bit, enraging Symone a tad as her beautiful, majestic eyes of blue glisten from the sun as she steps forward, charging with a remarkable speed at him.
"Ehhh...?" sighed Genburori in question.
Symone approaches Genburori, but Genburori had launched his fingertips at her with a highspeed as he yelled out, "Hessendan!(Finger Bullets!)".
The Hessendan pierces the air as the bone-tips of Genburori's fingers are hurled with an incredible speed.
Symone - shocked at the technique, formed points of ice that stuck out of her palms as she screamed, charging towards the bone-tips as she begins slapping them away using the formatted ice.
Genburori seems pleased by her ability as he launches more of an onslaught, using the same technique as before, but in much bigger portions, regenerating and emanating his bone-tips almost instantly as the barrage nearly impacts Symone, but with a serious expression glazed on her face, she dodges the first few bullets, twisting her body three-hundred-sixty degrees as she flips forward, slapping away the fragments of bone yet again as they impale the Earth, leaving a tiny crater behind.
The attack continues as Symone still knocks away the bullets with the ice she had emanated as suddenly, a row of ten came launching at her chest, but with a quick swing of her arm, she smacked them all back towards Genburori as they all land by his feet, creating a gentle rumble in the ground as he jumps back a bit.
Symone then nearly reaches Genburori as he then quickly extracted his shoulder bone, creating a very solid and powerful sword from it, smirking as he did so as the bone was hown dripping a gentle bit of blood.
As Symone continues her effort to reach Genburori, she absorbs the ice back in to her right hand, leaving the left one out still as she forces out a sword of ice from it, almost emulating Genburori's sword of bone.
"HAAAA!" yelled Symone as she leaped forward with her sword of ice at Genburori, striking downwards with it as Genburori twisted to the left, dodging it as he then thrusts sideways towards Symone, but Symone had blocked the attack using the sword of ice as Genburori is shown being quite shocked.
"Your ice... it can actually stand up to my Honekatana(Bone Sword). I'm quite surprised it's holding up, but nothing surpasses the solidity of my chakra-embedded bone!" yelled Genburori as he slid the Honekatana off of the sword of ice, turning behind Symone as he kicked her firmly in the spine, knocking her forward a bit, but Symone twisted herself around, ducking down, and then thrusting forward at a high speed with her sword of ice, but Genburori had just blocked it in time, saving himself a near fatal injury towards the kidney.
"...and your bone; I'm surprised it can stand up to my Aisukatana(Ice Sword), now tell me where Souitai is, or the next thrust won't miss!" stated and demanded Symone as she is reflected back by the pushful force of Genburori and his Honekatana.
"Did my words not appear clear to you, child?" questioned Genburori with a sense of intimidated arrogance as Symone replied, "Fine then! I'LL BEAT YOU DOWN TO NEAR DEATH AND HAVE YOU TELL ME WHAT I WANT!!" as she rushes towards Genburori, thrusting her Aisukatana at Genburori as he had side-stepped the attack, swinging his Honekatana towards Symone's throat as she then slaps it away with the Aisukatana with an incredible force, creating a warp of chakra that collided intensively, appearing almost like fireworks as sparks of energy blasted from each weapon.
Genburori is pushed back a bit with shocked eyes that appeared to actually be threatened by Symone as she then jumps back a bit, holding her Aisukatana outwards, facing Genburori as about a fourteen foot distance is between them.
"You should understand already by observing my abilities, that I am also a long-range type. You made a mistake by allowing room to come between us!" yelled Genburori as bones began shooting out of the ground and chasing Symone, emulating what seemed like a shark's fin in the ocean as it paved through the ground at high speed.
Symone deflects a few of the bones with her Aisukatana as she hops backwards, defending herself with what seems to be little difficulty as she remembers the mistake both her Sensei and Renji-kun had made previously as she narrows her eyes behind her, seeing a large bone appear, striking towards Symone as she elgantly backflips behind it, then swinging her Aisukatana at it with an intense strength as she screamed out.
Symone then struggled against the power of the bone as she managed to crack it a bit as miniscule fragments start falling from it.
"WHAT!? Damnit! She's overpowering my bones! Bitch!" thought Genburori as he disconnected the bones attacking Symone from underneath his foot, jumping back a bit as Symone finally breaks through the bone!
"She actually did it!?" thought Genburori as his face becomes slightly angered as he watches Symone go down to a knee, panting gently as her hand is held up by the ground.
"You're a long-range type, huh? You should have enough common sense for such a bad ass to realize our abilities are nearly the exact same then!" yelled out Symone as Genburori's eyes yet again widen in an unexpected shock as he hears a rumbling from behind him.
Genburori turns, seeing an enormous fragment of pointed ice appear before him as it shoots towards his chest, though with ease, he dodged it by jumping down towards the ground, not realizing it was a mistake at that moment as ice yet again shot from out of the ground, but this time wrapping around his torso and arms, making him immobile.
"Shit!" yelled Genburori as he expelled his ribe cage from his innards, trying to force the ice off of himself, but it seemed the force of the ice wouldn't allow for it as it was nearly equal in strength to his bones.
Symone then walks over to Genburori, hovering over his body as he shows a face of disgust.
Symone smirks as she holds her Aisukatana pointed at the throat of the immobile Genburori as she states, "Before you die, tell me what I want. Tell me about Souitai".
Genburori is shown with an expressionless face as Symone narrows her eyes.
"Well!?" yelled Symone in aggravation.
"Hahahaha!" laughed Genburori as Symone looked on in question.
"Did you forget... that even if I'm captured, I've still got my back to the ground!" yelled Genburori in a deranged manner with widened, insane eyes as Symone realizes, "Wait a second! He's right! Damn it!" as she turned around, seeing a large bone shooting out of the ground and hurling towards her throat!
Suddenly, an image from the back of Symone is seen as blood is shown flying upwards from her body as she stumbled to the side a bit.
Genburori watches on as Symone is then seen using her left arm as a shield as she had formed a huge bulk of ice around it, but it seems she couldn't make it in enough time to counter the attack as she was only able to form the ice after the initial stab of her arm from the bone, though using the ice stopped it from going all the way through.
Symone closes an eye, sighing in pain as she uses the Aisukatana in her right hand to slice down hard with all her power on the bone, managing to cut through it as she absorbs the ice back in to her body, pulling out the remaining fragment of bone that was stuck in her arm and throwing it to the side as she turns and looks to Genburori, noticing he had now been missing!
Symone's eyes are shocked as she realizes that the ice she had initially caught Genburori in was still there, but still, Genburori had escaped somehow as a rumble was then heard from beneath her.
"Ofcourse! He distracted me long enough to go under the ground!" thought Symone as she runs from the sound, hearing that she was being followed from underneath.
Symone then discards a kunai from her pouch with what seemed to be not just one explosive tag, but four as she jumps up high in the air, throwing the kunai in to the ground, piercing it as the tag explodes wildly, catching Symone off-guard as she had not expected such an impact, blowing her a short distance away as she had landed on her side, fracturing the bone in the same arm she had been pierced in just moments before, cutting it up as it slides across the bumpy, rocky ground.
The explosion causes a massive two-hundred foot-wide crater as Genburori was heard screaming from the blast, jumping back on the ground again with much speed, avoiding any serious damage as he's seen covered in dirt and dust.
"You'd go as far as to almost sacrificing yourself to just get me out of hiding? What a big mistake!" stated Genburori as he holds his Honekatana in a defensive stance.
Symone stands with her injured, bloody left arm dangling to her side as the right one holds the Aisukatana firmly in grasp.
"No! This is bad... my left arm is completely useless! Damnit!" thought Symone as she is seen narrowing her eyes to her injured arm with anger.
"Well, if your dear brother Souitai believes you don't exist, and that you're dead, he can go on believing that, because by the time this is over, you WILL be dead because I'll make sure of it... after stealing your Kekkai Genkai that is, along with the Kekkai Genkai of that piece of trash you call a Sensei. Then, I'll be able to get my revenge on Souitai for the embarrassment he had caused me, and murder him in a pool of his own blood!" stated Genburori as he then laughed with a sense of pride and derangement.
"YOU WILL DO NO SUCH THING! I'LL KILL YOU!!!" yelled Symone with a powerful enigmatic rage burning in her eyes as she charges forward at Genburori with her Aisukatana extended outwards.
Genburori smirks as he kneels down, pounding the ground with his palm as he grows and manipulates his bones under the rubble, launching them in front of Symone as she backflips away from them.
Quickly, Symone holds her Aisukatana forward, elongating it, enhancing it's length as it shoots forward towards Genburori.
Genburori is shocked that Symone could manipulate her weapon as she did, though according to her abilities, it seemed very plausible to Genburori.
Genburori moves to the side, easily avoiding the attack, but it seemed that Symone also had the ability to manipulate it's flexibility, twisting the ice around, and wrapping it around Genburori, but Genburori had slid down, escaping being captured by the attack as he begins dodging the Aisukatana as it follows him relentlessly.
Genburori seemed to be getting closer to Symone as she attempts to capture and attack Genburori with her Aisukatana, but it seemed Genburori was far too fast and skilled as he was breezing by the ice, as well as distorting it's route by slashing it roughly with his Honekatana, chipping and fragmenting it, as suddenly, he appeared before Symone, grabbing her useable arm by the wrist, flipping it upside down and thrusting his fingers in to it as she drops the Aisukatana on the ground.
Genburori then throws Symone in the air, thrusting his Honekatana upwards, but Symone was somehow able to dodge it by twisting herself around, kicking the Honekatana away as Genburori dropped it as Symone lands before him.
Genburori quickly reacts, punching Symone in the chest with a swift, firm thrust as her feet skid across the ground.
Genburori continues the attack, kneeing Symone in the stomach, grabbing her by her hair and then slamming her head in to his knee, lifting her head up still by her hair, punching her in the face as she begins gushing blood from her mouth and nose.
Genburori then throws her to the ground by her hair and begins kicking her with a sickening force, knocking her across the ground as Symone begins to cough up some blood.
Symone is shown with her eyes closed, coughing up a little more as Genburori stomps her hard in the chest a few times, laughing lightly as he did so, grabbing her by her by the head, preparing to absorb her Kekkai Genkai.
"Ah! This is it for you, girl! Now, once your Kekkai Genkai goes, your life will be mine!" stated Genburori as Symone remains helpless on the ground.
Genburori's hand now glows with chakra as it engulfs Symone's body.
"Is this... it... for me? I tried my hardest... how can I let everyone down? ...but, my body... it's in so much pain... and I'm so...so tired" thought Symone as she's seen being held still by Genburori as he continues absorbing Symone's Kekkai Genkai... but suddenly, he's interrupted as a swarm of sand grabs Genburori around the arm, crushing it as he drops Symone on the ground.
"What the hell is this!?" thought Genburori in an exclamatory manner as he tries waving the sand off of his body as it slowly engulfs him whole except for his head as he turns his eyes, looking around at what this possibly could be, noticing from quite a distance, Renji had his arm extended as he remained laying on the ground badly injured.
"You're still ALIVE!? YOU BASTARD!" yelled Genburori as the sand crushes him tightly, hurting him as he screams in pain as suddenly, waves of air were visible to the human eye, as if shards of chakra were there, being launched in to the sand, attacking Genburori.
Genburori turns his eyes the other way, immediately knowing that it had to be none other than Kusa No Mikomi, as his thoughts were correct, seeing him laying on the ground, also extending his arm out, attacking using his Kekkai Genkai.
"YOU BASTARDS ARE STILL CAPABLE TO DEFEND THIS CHILD!? DAMNIT!!!" yelled Genburori in a display of complete rage.
"Hmmm... I might as well... try something... shouldn't I?" thought Shouten as he's seen standing up slowly with a terrible pain in his chest and arm as he forms a seal, slowly, but surely as he seemed influenced by Mikomi and Renji as he calls out "Mizudoton: Dakuryuu No Jutsu!(Water Earth Element: Mud Stream Technique!)" as Shouten spits out a decent amount of water, combining it with the ground and rubble, creating a solid form of mud as it begins to avalanche towards Genburori, striking him hard, devouring his entire body just nearly missing Symone as she remained on the ground, injured.
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Symone showed that she had the courage and abilities her Sensei handed down to her and stand up against the most fiercest of opponents she had ever heard of or witnessed, but it seems she ran out of steam after trying so hard, but thankfully, the power of friends and an unexpected ally joined in the battle yet again, saving Symone from being killed by Genburori's infamous Kekkai Genkai. Will Symone still stand to fight and remain determined to find out about the brother she had thought was long dead? Finding that Souitai was alive seemed to of shocked and awakened a deep connection to her inner fighter, though will it be enough now, and can she sustain the battle ahead? The next chapter is sure to turn heads as we reach the special 30th and 31st chapter entitled: "Yet Again, That Awakened Monster!" & "Nova's Prediction!".