Chapter 2

Lee charged after the man. To nearly anyone else it would look like he disappeared. Lee put everything he had into one kick and made full contact with the man's face. The man flew several yards straight into a tree hitting it hard and causing several leaves to fall.

"Is that the best you can do?" The man said in a deep voice, as he got up. "I can't even feel it." He said mockingly, laughing. Suddenly he laugh was cut short as he coughed up blood. He looked down at his stomach and the kunai knife protruding from it.

"Did you feel that?" asked Gai, laughing.

Lee looked up. Gai was in a tree with a kunai knife in hand.

"Gai-sensei!" said Lee tears coming into his eyes. Gai smiled and gave Lee a thumbs-up. A sparkle appeared in his teeth.

"If you're done now," said the man as he grabbed the kunai knife and pulled it out then threw it to the ground. "I'd like to kill you quickly before I move on I have very important business elsewhere." Suddenly a very short sword appeared in his hands. But the longer Lee looked at it the more it grew, till finally it stopped, at nearly three and a half feet long and six inches wide.

"How did you do that?" asked Lee.

"This is a very special sword," said the man, "I can make it bigger simply by putting some of my chakra into it, or make it smaller by taking my chakra out of it."

"No matter how big your sword is you cannot defeat Lee and me!" said Gai. "You will be defeated!" said Gai as he smiled and gave a thumbs-up. "It's a promise!" he finished as a sparkled appeared in his teeth.

"No matter what you do," said the man, "I can't be defeated!" and with that the man charged at them, sword in hand. Gai and Lee jumped away. The man came right after them and swung at Lee. Lee yelled in pain as the sword hit his left leg. Luckily the weight placed there protected him.

Lee landed on a tree branch and immediately jumped away when the man swung at him again, missing but cutting off the tree branch in the process.

Gai came blazing up the tree and delivered a fierce kick to the man's side, but the man didn't even blink. He swung his sword around straight at Gai. Gai moved out of the way fast, but not fast enough. The sword point grazed his side. Blood slowly oozed from Gai's side as he landed on the ground. He fell to one knee trying to get his breath back, but the man wouldn't let him rest. He charged straight at Gai.

Suddenly three kunai knives appeared in the man's back. Blood stained the back of his shirt, but he didn't slow down even for a second. Gai's eyes widened in shock, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. How could anyone take three or even one kunai knife in the back without even flinching!

"Got you!" said the man as he brought up his sword then swung it down right over Gai's head. Gai felt a gust of wind, then saw Lee standing over him one hand on either side of the sword.

"Its okay sensei!" said Lee grunting.

"You think so? You're wrong!" said the man. Then he turned his sword so that Lee was holding the sharp sides instead of the flat sides.

Lee cried out in pain and released his hold on the sword. The man took it back immediately and prepared to cut Lee down, but Gai was already moving. He swept a foot under the man's legs tripping him. Then took Lee and jumped away.

"Lee," said Gai once they were hidden behind a tree, "I want you to go back to Konoha and get help."

"What? But Gai-sensei I-" started Lee.

"No excuses!" said Gai sternly. "Go now!"

"Yes sensei!" and with that Lee was off.

'Hurry and find help Lee,' thought Gai 'If this man is what I think he is then not even the Hokage herself can defeat him alone.