Sorry, I did it again, huh? Well, here's an update for the readers who still are around, and maybe something for new readers? I do not own Naruto!
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Sakura turned her head around. 'Naruto?' She thought.
"What's up?" Shikamaru asked her.
"Oh… Uh, I thought… never mind, it was nothing." Sakura smiled.
The Nara shrugged and trudged on, apparently sulking for being tricked in his own way.
'Maybe it was nothing, but… Naruto…' She pondered.
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"Finally taken that oath of silence that I always wished Naruto and you would? It's for the better." Sasuke sneered.
Kiba continued to glare, feeling like an idiot.
Sasuke hit him. Kiba expected himself to let out a cry of pain, but didn't.
Apparently Sasuke had thought he would too, and said, "That stuff must be working fast, you can't even speak, unless that's just another one of your mind's inabilities. Maybe your intake of oxygen might just get slow enough to be unable to bear the burden of your pathetic life any longer." He spoke as if he had just received a saintly award.
Kiba took a senbon out of his back sluggishly. If he was going down, he was going to take Sasuke with him.
Sasuke swaggered up to Kiba's form and kicked him in the ribs.
Kiba slid a few feet from impact; almost positive than one of his already sore ribs had cracked. 'Oh well,' he thought, 'nothing that Sakura can't fix.'
Sasuke sauntered over to him again slightly slower than normal, as if mocking him.
His hand squeezed around Kiba's throat, and before he knew it, his body was lifted from the ground completely.
"I thought maybe I should speed up the process." Sasuke jeered.
Kiba's vision was locked into one place and was forced to look into the blood red orbs of the trader.
They were piercing through Kiba's own eyes and penetrating his mind.
He needed to get away from those eyes, that blood covered gaze, lusting for death.
He couldn't.
Kiba had forgotten about the senbon entirely, and had room for only panic in his head.
Why could he still breathe? Did the trader know what kind of internal torture he put Kiba through as the minutes ticked by?
Finally he was having trouble breathing. If only it could strip him of his vision and life sooner. His sanity was screaming for him to look away.
He could hear his blood pounding against his eardrums, his stomach suddenly twisted and knotted, and his heart jolted.
Kiba came to life with movement, wrenching himself from the traders grip, getting away from the Uchiha's cruel eyes.
They were not mangekyo sharingan. No, not kaleidoscope eyes, yet. In them was murderous potential to become that.
'The hell?' Kiba wondered, turning over to face Sasuke.
"Well?" Sasuke said impatiently.
"What?" Kiba bit back.
Sasuke always pictured more of a fight when he killed one of the 'friends' from his childhood, and expected no less from Kiba.
"Are you going to give me a better show before I kill you? I always pictured something… better when I pictured killing the first of you… then again, I never did picture you first. You can even run away. You seem like you would make an interesting chase. I'd give you a head start, of course." Sasuke said in an unmindfully taunting tone.
'Bastard. I'd make an interesting chase? How the hell am I gonna run? It'd do more harm to my pride than it would anything else!' Kiba thought, outraged. 'A head start?!'
Kiba got up and sped at Sasuke.
The Uchiha hadn't expected his enemy to run; that was too cowardly. It seemed Kiba was just as predictable as always.
The Inuzuka was determinedly out of control, reckless, and wild. It was a trait that rarely ceased to amaze.
Sasuke however, quickly snapped himself out of it and swung his right elbow into Kiba's gut.
The sharingan wielder glanced down at the ground impassively before the dirt beneath his feet was ripped through by something that resembled a tornado.
Sasuke grabbed a handful of some material on the top of the cyclone (which he found to be hair) and the rotation stopped.
The Uchiha just threw him at the ground again and stood there, as if waiting for Kiba to give him his best shot.
Kiba got up again, wincing, ready to take another go at his enemy.
He fully erected himself and made another careless dash at Sasuke, not concerned with what the obvious consequences were.
Sasuke kicked him in his aching stomach, ending his acceleration with quite a hard thrust of the foot.
This time, Kiba knew that one of his ribs cracked; he could hear it.
He staggered for a second and then threw a poorly aimed punch. Sasuke caught his arm and twisted it before curling his hand into a fist and striking Kiba in the ribs again. He pulled back, his hand unscathed, but oddly bleeding. Or blood was covering it.
The trader spared it a mystified glance before turning back to Kiba, who had inexplicably vanished from sight.
Once Sasuke located the nin-ken owner, he raised his eyebrows.
He was doing some jutsu that he wasn't familiar with, and wouldn't be because he caught the tail end of Kiba's hand seals. From what he saw, he deducted that it was a fire jutsu.
Kiba started a new set of handseals, obviously his signature Gatsuuga.
What surprised Sasuke was not this normal occurrence. What surprised him was that flame shot up around Kiba, enveloping him in its red and orange. Spontaneously combusting was not a normal, every day Kiba-thing. At least, it wasn't when Sasuke left.
The whirling spiral started up and sped at the trader, alight with flame.
Sasuke dodged the tornado, but flames licked his skin.
Unnerved, he turned around to face the revolving inferno, wondering just how the hell anyone in Konoha got a hold of that kind of jutsu.
Despite his sharingan, the blazing twister caught him full in the chest, seeing as it had approached about as fast as it was turning.
Irritated, Sasuke tore after it, planning on getting revenge.
The cyclone rounded on the Uchiha and grazed his side before passing him and preparing to attack again.
Sasuke turned around and accepted the blow, grabbing the rotary flames, trying to put an end to its movement.
Sasuke's attempt was foiled when the cyclone of fire spun wildly out of his grip. With no other option, he returned to watching what he knew was Kiba warily.
After giving the trader only a moment to himself to think, the blazing twister came at him, once more.
Making a snap decision, Sasuke prepared to jump out of the way.
Curiously, the flame started to flicker, as if Kiba was losing the chakra to maintain the jutsu, and then completely died.
Instead, now approaching him was a whirl of crimson.
Mystified, Sasuke continued to watch it's much slower advance, as if entranced by this strange, new, unannounced jutsu.
He heard a crack that nearly snapped him out of his stupor.
Something flew from the tornado of red that was similarly crimson colored.
Whatever it was, it hit the ground with a soft thump that indicated that it was solid.
The jutsu Kiba had done and was currently managing darkened in its blood-colored shade.
To Sasuke's utter astonishment, a blood covered bone shot out and, before he could react, pierced him. It struck about three inches below his collarbone, near his left underarm.
Sasuke grimaced, consumed by the quite unexpected pain for a moment.
When he looked up, the bloody cyclone was, at that moment, starting to slow it's spin, as if Kiba had only just noticed that one of his ribs had shot out of his chest.
Sasuke stood, rooted to the spot, still stunned and slightly uneasy.
It seemed as if Kiba was knocked out of his jutsu and fell into Sasuke, almost as if he was tackling him.
When Sasuke hit the ground, Kiba rolled onto the dirt, pulling his bone out of Sasuke's shoulder, but losing his grip on the blood slick object as he went.
He grabbed for the bone again, this time succeeding in grasping it, and tried to crawl on to where the solid object fell, which Sasuke guessed had to be the jagged end of the rib bone.
The Inuzuka left a trail of blood droplets behind him, and left s small pool every time he collapsed.
He did sustain a few minor burns and several cuts, as though he had been thrown around inside his own jutsu, but the most taxing damage was obviously the hole in his chest from the bone.
Sasuke was considering just leaving him like he was when someone brushed by him rather quickly.
He turned, recognizing that someone as Karin, from his hand chosen team.
An instant later Kiba had slammed into a tree, letting out what sounded like a whimper.
Karin stood over Kiba, a malevolent light in her eyes, and pressing a kunai to Hinata's throat.
"Take this one, will you?" Karin said, pushing Hinata and the kunai at Sasuke.
Sasuke wanted to remind her who was the head of their little group, but settled for asking her, "Where are the other two?"
Karin shrugged. "I left them behind, Sasuke-kun… thought that only the two of us were needed."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, and opened his mouth to tell her that he alone would have sufficed to finish the job, but decided against it when Karin kicked Kiba again. At the moment, she seemed to have a lust for blood rather than him, and he didn't really want to ruin that.
Kiba tried to get up, but Karin kicked him in the side, another surge of blood splattered the dirt.
"Did you have that much trouble with him?" Karin asked.
"No," Sasuke started, annoyed, "he wasn't like that before."
Kiba pushed himself out of the way of another kick by leaning against the tree he had previously landed against, then slashed at her with his jagged bone.
Rather unexpectedly, Karin grabbed the tip of the bone, cutting her hands slightly, and pulled it from Kiba's grip, pushing Kiba back into the tree with her foot.
"What's this?" She wondered aloud, examining it. "It looks like a rib."
"It is." Sasuke confirmed.
Karin looked somewhat intrigued. "Wonder how he got it out… That's pretty good, him going without a bone…" She sounded halfway between impressed and scoffing. "No wonder he looked shaky."
She removed her foot from Kiba's chest and he promptly slid to the ground.
"Maybe we could get it back in…" Karin spoke softly, but there was something evil behind that quiet tone, something that was quite insane.
"No, that won't be-." Sasuke started.
"Fine." Karin said, a clear note of pouting in her voice. "I'll do something you approve of instead, okay?"
Sasuke didn't say a word, but Karin decided the answer was yes.
She flung the bone aside and stepped up to Kiba's bleeding form.
When he came to a stop a few feet away, Sasuke almost winced, too.
Karin turned him over with her foot. The Inuzuka was breathing much faster than before.
Karin didn't hesitate to step on the bleeding wound, smirking with satisfaction.
Kiba screamed in pain, using the only release of the feeling he could find, even if it was only momentarily relieving.
Blood now surrounded Karin's sandal, dark, thick, and sticky.
Kiba heaved a gasp to get air, each breath sounding more and more like a choke.
She smiled, almost getting a high off his pain.
She wanted to feel that again, one more time…
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Sakura ears picked up the scream, and her heart sank.
She looked around to see if anyone else had heard it.
Clearly, they had.
'Damn it.'
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End Chapter
That was a really long wait, huh? Sorry about that. Sorry if Karin seems a tad out of character. I never really did invest much into her. Hope you readers can forgive me for not up dating for so long, again! Also, thing after thing isn't happening to Kiba, even though it may seem that way. It's a result of what happened in earlier chapters. His bones were made a bit more brittle because of what happened, so it eventually caused the bone popping out completely because of the strain on the bones, and obviously, that spot where the bone came out was sore and cracked, which helps to explain that, as well. Hinata will be playing a bigger part next time, too.
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