Sekai looked at Ami and then back at Naruto. Then he joined the 3 remaining ninja on the other side of the clearing. "Temporary truce? It's been a long time since I've seen Ami fight anyone." Kakashi nodded and glanced over at the two combatants.
Naruto looked over at the cat-person. He knew he could take him. He wasn't even a ninja. Ami looked at Naruto. He had wanted to try out all the new things he had been learning with his teacher. Ami waved a hand in a wide arc, and suddenly the clearing disappeared, replaced by a landscape that looked like mist, with thin white lines spread out randomly in the air in all different directions. Naruto and Ami were standing on a wide transparent circle. Narutos eyes boggled. How could the cat-man do this? What was this Jutsu? He shook his head and charged at Ami wildly, deciding to simply take him out with a blow to the head.
"Shall we begin?" Ami said with a smile. Naruto rushed towards him and was on the point of smashing him with his fist but suddenly Ami jumped away lightly and landed outside of the circle. A low note sounded as he landed in mid-air. Naruto blinked. "What are you doing?" Ami smiled again. "I told you, today's subject is rhythm. Suddenly he started dancing, and as he did, music appeared out of nowhere. It was a foreign, eastern sounding music, with no rests, and Ami rejoiced in its sounds. Suddenly he jumped onto another piece of air and changed his steps. Suddenly a sad tune played, but it had a definite tempo, with each beat defined by a blast of sound, and with every sound Ami grew faster, with greater speed and suddenly he came rushing towards Naruto. Roaring as he charged; "crescendo!"
Naruto dodged and flung kunai in every direction, but Ami was always somewhere else, always moving to the rhythm. Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke looked on in awe. Naruto breathed heavily. Kakashi looked at Ami, he wasn't even breaking a sweat.
Kakashi thought aloud "he's not actually expending any effort. He's just using the momentum from his steps to propel him along. Naruto's getting tired. It's a good Jutsu, if it can be called a Jutsu." Ami whirled and was suddenly behind Naruto, delivering a mighty kick to his back. Naruto fell onto the grey circle, and there was a tinkle of broken glass. Ami suddenly stopped dancing and paled.
"That sounded like on of Orpheus's rage balls!" He cried. Naruto was surrounded by red smoke, which suddenly disappeared inside of him. Naruto grinned, but it was the grin of a mad-man, a grin of a berserker, not a grin of humour. Blood dripped down the front of his jacket, and as he howled fury, the look in his eyes was not his own. Ami whimpered involuntarily, And Sekai paled and disappeared, taking the three ninja with him.
Naruto kept grinning wildly and charged at Ami, all trace of humanity gone from him. The music started up again, but this music had no rhythm. It was music of twisted souls, of all consuming fury. Naruto attacked Ami wildly; punches came from nowhere, Ami withered beneath the hail of blows, bleeding wildly. Suddenly the grey realm disappeared, and they were back in the clearing. The bloodlust faded from Narutos eyes and he collapsed. Ami, bleeding copiously, struggled towards Sekai. Kakashi Sasuke and Sakura rushed towards Naruto.
Sekai paled. All traces of humour gone from his face. "Ami? Ami?!?!" He cried. Discovering that Naruto was all right, Sakura was sent to capture Ami and Sekai. "Please come with us. We don't want to hurt you." She told them as she came towards them, palms raised. Sekai glared at her. "Look what you've done to him!" He tensed, and reached into his jacket. He pulled out a sphere, which he threw at the ground. Suddenly, a rift opened in front of them, and Sekai threw Ami through it with surprising force. Sakura ran towards it. She cried out "no wait! Stop!" And before the rift could close, she had jumped through it. Sekai's eyes widened. "No! You can't-"but Sakura couldn't hear him anymore.
Orpheus suddenly tensed where he was standing. "Someone's opened a rift to Idris." He pulled out an identical ball to Sekai's and broke it on the ground. Instantly another portal appeared and Orpheus leapt threw it. He looked around the familiar surroundings of Idris's room. He saw Sakura run from the portal to Ami who was next to the corner of the wide row of cupboards that stood in the middle of the room, and saw Idris coming round the corner as Sakura reached it. He saw that they would collide before he could reach out and warn them.
