Episode 8 Battle! The Ebony Blade Appears!
We started off in the morning after breakfast, thanked Kindle and left. On the way to River Village I decided to spark a conversation. "So sensei, yesterday you said something about a black frost ninja. What are they?" Sharingan stiffened slightly at the mention of that name. "The Black Frost Ninja? They are an elite clan of Special Jonin that can control ice and water. They used to be a part of Syndicate but they disbanded for there own glory. The last few Black frost ninja haven't been seen for awhile now. But knowing that Makuro the Ebony Blade is the one that has targeted us, we may be in trouble." I looked at him slightly fearful to hear the answer to my question, "why?" I asked. "Because," he began, "the Ebony Blade is also the nickname of one of the Seven Swords of Yami." The word yami caught more of my attention. "That can't be good." I said to myself. "Hopefully, we won't run into him." Sensei said. About noon we stopped to rest and eat ramen. I looked at my teammates who probably were ready for some action. I was hoping I wouldn't drag the team down like last time. We had small conversations, like what we plan to do in the future, what books we like, stuff like that, I even had a race with biomask to see who could eat their ramen fastest. I always thought we had a friendly rivalry. We continued on and we finally arrived to the gate of River Village. I was surprised we hadn't ran into any other ninja trying to kill us and said so. I had spoken too soon. We took a few steps towards the bridge connecting the mainland with River Village, which was built in the middle of a very large river, and a large glacier suddenly shot from the ground in front of the bridge. My teammates and I jumped back, but not sensei, as a large amount of glaciers suddenly appeared forming a large arena of ice. A large fog then rolled in out of no where, followed by the sound of sandals slowly stepping on gravel. The fog lifted in one area and a tall man, about 7' I'd say, holding a giant sword came into view. "You," he began, "must be the couriers. No hard feelings but I must kill you now, I've already accepted the pay." He then shot forward like a bullet even though he was carrying such a large blade straight towards us. Sensei pulled out his sword just in time to fend off the man's attack. Sharingan then pushed the man back when the man landed he spoke, "Well, this will be more fun than I thought it'd be. Because you're a worthy opponent, I will allow you to know my name before I kill you. I am Makuro Samusakamu, the Ebony Blade, head of the Black Frost Ninja."
We had all stayed still as the ninja said this. "Sensei," I said "who is this guy?" Sensei moved his head slightly still keeping his eyes on Makuro. "Makuro Samusakamu is, as he said, the head retainer of the Black Frost. That sword he is carrying is suppose to differ in blade size, weight, and length depending on the users chakra amount, control, and power. It is called The Kagehyoga, the Shadow Glacier." Makuro straightened up "So," Makuro began "I see someone has been doing there homework." I looked at Kagehyoga and could see it was huge and obviously heavy. This worried me immensely. "He is also known as the Frost-bitten Devil. As a genin he destroyed almost everyone on the way to the objective. The only survivors were a couple of ninja from konoki and current. He managed to make it through the exams his first try." Whoa is all I thought, this guy has got to be tough. "Well then," Makuro said, "are you ready to get started?" He brandished his blade and pointed it towards us. "Ready when you are?" Is all I heard from both Biomask and Sharingan as they charged Makuro. Koukuie and I stood there watching in awe as the three fought. Biomask had his Fuuma Shuriken out still folded trying to attack Makuro. Makuro easily blocked the attack and delivered a kick to Biomask's gut that sent him flying back to us, he easily caught him self however and charged back in. Sensei had struck Makuro's blade with his own, but Makuro pushed Sensei Sharingan away. Makuro then spun around and hit Sharingan with the flat of Kagehyoga sending sensei into the wall of ice. "Let's get in there!" Koukuie cried and began running with her bladed knuckles when suddenly a chain caught her leg. "Not so fast girly." A familiar sounding voice said, "we haven't had our fun yet." The voice was that of the ninja that ran from sensei earlier. He popped out of the ground along with the other ninja. "We are the Frozen Demon Brothers, and we are here for revenge." The other ninja said. This time instead of looking the same, they had different padding on and one had the bottom half of a gas mask on, the other an anbu mask of a bear. "Kyo is the name." The one with the gas mask and Claws said. "I'm Nagasu." The ninja with the bear mask and kusarigama said. I pulled out my blunt tipped Sabre and was about to attack to help Koukuie when she cut me off. "No, go help Bio, he will need more he'll need the help against him. I can take these bozos." I did a quick nod and ran to help bio who was swiftly dodging the sword swings of Makuro.
"Bozos huh?" Kyo said "We'll see about that." Nagasu undid his kusarigama's chain from Koukuie's leg "Big mistake." Koukuie said cracking her knuckles then getting into a fighting stance with her bladed knuckles. Meanwhile I got to Biomask and Makuro and began to attack with Bio. We tried swinging at him at the same time and he blocked, another swing from either of us, another block. Eventually Bio jumped into the air and shot a fireball at Makuro. "Yes." Bio said when the ball hit him directly. We stood there momentarily when suddenly two arms came out of the smoke and grabbed us by our necks. Makuro pulled us in close too him and said, "That actually stung a little." He then threw us towards Koukuie. We landed about halfway across the large ice arena and stood up. Bio began to run forward when he got pushed back by a large tree suddenly coming out of the ground. We were surrounded by a ring of trees suddenly those trees grew spikes on their bark. I put on my goggles I got from my father and the scarf I had received from Izanagi and got ready for whatever may be next.
Well that's it for episode 8. A little short I know. Who has caused these trees to spring forth, will Koukuie hold her own against the Frozen Demon Brothers, will Sharingan get out of the wall to take on Makuro. anyway next time on Bradao the TNR Fanfic Episode 9 Forest Briar Attacks, The Porcupine Technique.