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The next morning was a sunny day, not a scratch of a cloud to be seen. Takane took a deep breath, enjoying the fresh air.
"Ahh…" She donned her mask halfway and held her weapons. 'Doesn't this suck.'
"Time for war." Sigh. "Chikushou." The wolf girl walked into the camp, searching for 'Kakashi-chikan'. He was resting in a tree, reading the perverted book 'Icha Icha Paradise', written by the temporary sensei for Naruto.
"What is it, Takane?"
"When is the battle?"
"Today."
"Group the ninja into fire and lightning groups." Kakashi was amazed.
"Hm? For what?"
"You'll see." Takane went to the armory tent.
"I won't need this spear for now. Can you keep it for me?' The keeper turned from his work and nodded, accepting the weapon. "May I have a yew bow and two quivers?"
"Yes." He walked over to a cabinet and brought out what Takane wanted.
"Arigatou." She shuffled around in her pockets for money.
"Oh, no. You don't have to pay me."
"Huh?" Takane looked up into the eyes of the armor keeper. Didn't he look familiar…
"We're all in a part of this, aren't we?" Takane nodded her head and went out.
"Kakashi, do you know where the training ground is?"
"On the far side of the camp. Why?"
"Nothing." Takane went over to the training area and found targets. She drew an arrow and fired it at the target with her right hand. It didn't hit even close to the bull's eye, thwonging into the tree five feet away. Switching her firing hand, this time it hit her mark. 'The curse mark helps me then.' She retrieved her two arrows, putting them back into her quiver. 'This is gonna be easier than I thought. Just like Ashitaka, when he went against the samurai and had such perfect aiming. The samurai, who were from…what was his name? Lord Asano, that was it. They called Ashitaka a demon. I wonder-?" Takane's streams of thoughts were interrupted from a lookout call.
"They're coming!!!" The girl ran back with almost inhuman speed. She saw warriors gearing up, and ninja running to where she was.
"Stay!!" The ninja stopped, bewildered. Takane drew an arrow and aimed it with her left hand. Although it looked like a normal arrow to the eye, if anyone looked closely, it had invisible wire attached to the back. She fired the deadly arrow, and it killed three of Orochimaru's men, by the arrow and razor sharp wire. Takane pulled the arrow back and didn't get cut from the wire, since it was like a sword, with a flat and sharp side. "Kakashi!" She barked. Kakashi transported to her side.
"What?"
"Did you do as I said?"
"Yeah."
"Have the fire jutsu users here and use Gokakyuu. Orochimaru might have a ambush from behind." Kakashi was amazed at Takane's quick thinking even before the battle, but did as she said.
Orochimaru 8:00 AM
"She's becoming a rather fine general, isn't she?"
"Yes, Orochimaru-sama." Kabuto replied, wearing an armor's chain mail shirt. Turns out, Takane was to find out that the person in the armory tent was Kabuto himself, in disguise.
"All the better for me…" His face lit up in an insane glee. "When I possess her." Kabuto kept silent at this remark.
"Orochimaru-sama, not to oppose you, demo, she doesn't even know she has the bloodlines." Orochimaru smirked.
"She will in this battle."
Camp 8:05 AM
The fire users had diminished the front force. All that was there was a charred landscape.
"Good job." Takane praised them. "Spread out to half way of the perimeter of the camp. Every once in a while, someone will come to relieve you." She gave them a smile then walked to the other side of the camp.
"Takane." San's voice rang.
"What, ane-san?"
"Don't expose yourself. Orochimaru just wants that."
"And I want to go against him. Taking Sasuke eventually, killing countless people for his amusement. Take care of kaa-san." And just as Takane had predicted, there was a larger, stronger force in the back. The first attack was just a decoy.
"Here we go." Takane covered her face with the mask and had three arrows to her bow. This time, it was just regular arrows, no wire. The three arrows flew straight and true, causing a destruction of six people, two for each arrow. "Lighting users!" The ninja came alert. "Spread around the perimeter half way of the camp! Then use whatever jutsu you want to use!" She looked at the sky and saw Nausicaa's mehve flying in the air along with their gunship. Military soldiers and ninja were everywhere. An arrow came at her but no harm. She caught it, and used it against someone whose face was covered in shadow. Something surprised Takane. The person she fired at didn't fall down.
'Wha? But I couldn't have missed!' He revealed his face. Orochimaru. 'Shit. No wonder why.'
"Becoming quite the general, eh, Takane?" He threw the caught arrow to the ground.
"…" She unstrung her bow and put it in her quiver, drawing her knife. Takane ran at him, he had a kunai and blocked it.
"Ouch. But have you ever wondered why I ever wanted you?"
"For a container!" Takane struck again and again, eventually adding an arrow to have supposedly two knives. "Only a baka couldn't figure that out!!!" Orochimaru had her in a lock.
"Your fighting has become better, eh?" He was enjoying this.
"Thanks to your stupid summoning skills, and listen to this…Urusai baka!!!!"
'This isn't working.' She saw the other ninja coming to help her. "Stop! Fend off the others!" Takane leapt into the air and did Kage Bunshin along with Blazing Fireball. All of her bunshins ran at him, but only managed to miss. Orochimaru would have struck at Takane had Ed not done a transmutation to make a wall in between. Chaud and Lan were also with him and Takane's kaa-san. Everyone was fighting, no breaks in between.
"Takane! You can't kill him alone!" Ed called to her. "Let the upper levels kill him off."
"You can't!" Takane cried. "The only way is the Oujou Tenshu!" Takane didn't pay attention as Orochimaru crashed the wall, and pushed her into the cliff. "Uhn…"
"Takane!!" Chaud yelled. He ran at Orochimaru, only to be stopped by his soldiers and ninja.
"What the hell…do you want with me?" Takane gritted while desperately trying to get Orochimaru's hand off her throat.
"Don't you want to know?" His faced loomed near Takane's face.
"Shut up! I hate you!" Orochimaru came dangerously close and said one sentence into her ear.
"I killed your parents." Takane was stone still, shocked. The color from her face drained.
"You…" Takane could hardly talk. Her voice pitched up ten octaves higher than a regular voice. "YOU KILLED MY PARENTS????" Takane socked him in the face using medical ninjutsu. He released her because of the sudden pain. Takane ran after him, making five-foot deep craters into the ground each time she missed. "Damn you!!" She managed to punch him again, into the air. Takane followed and punched him so many times, it looked like her hands weren't even moving. "TEME!!!!!" Takane went above him, and sent him spinning into the ground. She landed not far from him, panting. Orochimaru came out of the hole, unhurt. But as soon as he rose from the hole, his figure turned into mud. A replica.
'No…That's impossible!' Takane was surprised. Orochimaru walked toward her a few yards away from the crater where his replica had vanished.
"That was like Tsunade for a point. Another…Because you have all the bloodlines."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean, teme?" Takane hardly had anytime to dodge a sound nin from behind, and sliced its neck.
"Hmph. You were born from two parents that had half the amount of bloodlines in the world, each."
"Uso!!! Be quiet!" Takane covered her ears, but Orochimaru's voice still rang in her head.
"But when they traveled in the Forest of Shishi Gami, they came upon Morro, and they left you at her feet, hoping to take you as an offering." He laughed insanely. "And I killed them after that!" Morro and her cubs along with San came to attack the main force. San looked at Takane, scared for her.
"Yameru!!!" Takane had fallen to the ground, covering her ears still, tears spilling.
"Morro raised you for a year, but then sent you through the gate to your world. I couldn't get to you after that. But I've finally managed to, after all this time!"
"URUSAI!!!!!" Takane had run at him and stabbed her knife into his chest. Blood splattered onto her clay mask and clothes. Orochimaru didn't falter.
"Close, Takane. You know, I could make your parents come back to life. Oh. And the 'armorer' was Kabuto." Orochimaru smirked. She drew the knife out of him and backed away.
"I don't care about that spy. Then I need two sacrifices, right?" She gripped her knife in her left hand. "And what difference would that make?! You'd probably insert some kunai knives with letters on them and then use them to become killing puppets, right? Then use them to kill me?" Her hair slightly bristled, and clenched her hands even harder. "And how is that supposed to help me!?" Takane's hand suddenly squirmed on it own, heading for Orochimaru. Using her right hand, she restrained it.
"Oh? Is that arm giving you a hard time?"
"Damn…" Takane punched her hand into the ground. "Shit…" She looked up. "What do you think, teme?"
"Hmph. Always defensive." Underground, she balled her hands into fists. The other curse mark from Orochimaru started to swirl across her face, half of it covered with the swirls.
"It probably would never happen if I never knew you!!"
"Takane! STOP!" Takane turned to look who had shouted out. It was Chaud. "The mark!" Takane tried to calm down, and eventually did. The sharingan-like mark withdrew from her face and arm as it receded into the original seal. She drew her hand from the ground.
"Crap." The cloth bound around it was loosened and the curse was exposed. Orochimaru was a little surprised.
"In two days? All the way to your neck already?"
"It was up to my elbow the first day, baka."
"Mph. Looks like I'll have to get your body some other time."
"Heh. If I die in this world, my other body will also die in the other world. It's alchemy." Orochimaru left, and was the not the only one alive out of everyone that had attacked. Other people suspected that most of them ran away. "Uh…" Takane fell to the ground. Chaud ran over.
"She's used a lot of her chakra." The serious business vice of his company felt her forehead for any symptoms, as he was worried and the very girl he loved in his arms.
"Hey, Chaud." The chocolate-haired and eyes strolled over and looked at the cerulean blue eyes directly.
"What?" Lan jabbed him in the shoulder.
"You like Takane! You like Takane!" Lan sang. Chaud blushed and didn't reply. Morro came over and licked her cheek with the tip of her tongue.
"Why didn't I tell you?" She said. Morro put her daughter onto her back and started walking to her home.
"Wait! Let me take her!" Chaud said. Morro turned her head, staring at the teenager in the eyes.
"You are brave to take on such a girl. But you cannot heal this wound. Even I cannot, being a god. Only Shishi Gami can." Morro turned back and ran along with San and her children into the Forest of Shishi Gami.
"Takane…" Chaud whispered at the clan fading away into the trees.
Forest of Shishi Gami 9:00 AM
"Okkoto, why are you here?"
"I sensed a human entering our forest. Why is she here?"
"They are both of my daughters, Okkoto. Do you remember the girl that I had to send to the other world?"
"Yes, I remember." He sniffed Takane's arm. "How has Nago come back to life?"
"Takane killed him, and got the curse mark. Nago was summoned from the dead from Orochimaru."
"Him. Always harming our clans."
"Yes. You know as well."
"Shishi Gami has already died. It is no use to summon Shishi Gami. Do you not remember that Eboshi shot his head off, and the sun came rising before he could restore himself?" Shishi Gami was the forest spirit that kept everything alive or if it chose it to become dead. It took the form of an elderly deer with many antlers sticking out of its head. The face, however, didn't look like a deer at all, looking like an Indian but not exactly, without a nose but having a nose like a deer.
"No. He still lives. Shisi Gami's spirit can still come and heal her."
"Do you not know that Ashitaka only got rid of the curse because Shishi Gami died?" Morro didn't reply at this.
/My wish is for my child to live, and forget all the hatred she has taken in./
Alright! THE FOURTH CHAPTER IS DONE!!!! PUH-LEASE...R&R!!! Thanks if you do!