The shinobi stared down their two opponents while they continued to surround them. It was the best strategy they could have done in this situation; leaving no openings for them to do anything significant. Tora let his crimson eyes glance at Kitsune for a moment. She was poised and ready for battle, but Tora planned on taking on the bulk of the fighting. Kitsune was a good fighter, that much was evident from the fact that she worked her way up to a jounin before she left her village, but Tora was better by far due to his bloodline. Besides; Kitsune was better suited for stealth missions than full out combat.
"Wind Release: Vorpal Dance!" Tora was surprised when he saw that Kitsune made the first move in this situation. Several Shuriken powered with wind chakra went bursting from her person and hit three enemies square in the chest. It tore through their armor and embedded themselves deep in their chest. They fell over near-instantly. A fireball was launched from one of the shinobi as a counter attack, but Tora stepped in front of Kitsune to take the blow. A strange, silver set of armor encased Tora and rendered the attack ineffective. However, at closer look, it was revealed that it wasn't armor at all. It appeared more like a large set of bones; something akin to a ribcage.
"What the hell is that?" The shinobi who fired the fire technique looked terrified when he saw the bones surround Tora. Most of the remaining shinobi did actually. Suddenly, a large skeletal arm surrounded in silver glow flung from Tora's person and grabbed the shinobi.
"It's called the Susanoo." When Tora uttered that, the arm squeezed tightly and crushed the shinobi. Kitsune used their opponents' fear as a distraction, and appeared behind two of the shinobi and with her trench knife, cleaved the opponents in two. Her wind chakra made it easier to cut and pierce at her opponents. The two now managed to put their opponents in between the two of them. Tora nodded his head at Kitsune; an unspoken communication forming between the two of them. The two them began forming hand signs rapidly.
"Wind Release: Fujin!" The sky darkened a bit when Kitsune unleashed her technique. The entire area between the two shinobi became engulfed in a furious whirlwind that shot the enemy shinobi into the air. Their bodies whipped and jerked around, while debris began flying toward the helpless opponents. The Jutsu was unique since Kitsune could pick who was affected by it, and who was safe from its influence. In fact, it was this fact that kept Tora grounded despite being in the Jutsu's range.
"Lightning Release: Raijin." The sky was already darkened from Kitsune's technique, so when Tora unleashed his the sky seemed completely black. A furious stream of lightning entered the vortex of wind and began tearing the opponents.
"Twin Sky Brothers Technique!"The two called out the name of their Jutsu in unison, as the tornado that was formed from Kitsune's wind release Jutsu became a lightning tornado as a result of the Jutsu's mixing together.
"Come now Kitsune. Let's go find a new hideout." Tora reverted back to his normal Sharingan and the two walked off with their Jutsu still in effect. The unique thing about the technique was that it was fairly long lasting. They would be trapped, more than likely until their bodies were torn to shreds and electrocuted to ash. But it took a lot of chakra to perform the two techniques. Kitsune was visibly wounded, and although Tora had a fairly large chakra reserve, he wouldn't be able to activate his Mangekyo Sharingan again until he rested. Using the Susanoo followed by Raijin was draining.
"Why are we even after the Konoha Anbu anyway? Anbu aren't troubling to us." Saru had been complaining to Kuma, although he seemed generally uninterested.
"Who cares?" Kuma rolled his eyes. Saru was the type who questioned everything, where as Kuma was the type who did whatever he felt like with no explanation needed. They were an odd match to be paired together.
"I care." Saru rolled his eyes right back at Kuma.
"Nobody cares." Kuma quipped, which left Saru confused.
"I just said I care." Saru looked at Kuma with a rather deadpan expression.
"Like I said. A nobody cares." Saru's face wrinkled in annoyance after he realized that he walked right into one of Kuma's jokes. "Seriously though. Tora has these random plans and never tells anyone, so if you keep questioning it then you'll just hurt your brain. i think he wants us to kill some higher skilled member though. Some guy who supposedly knows over a thousand Jutsu."
"A thousand Jutsu? No way. I don't even think Tora knows that many. And Tora has a Jutsu for everything. I'm pretty sure he could summon food or something." Kuma shrugged at Saru's statement.
"It's what I heard. Tora's wanted to take him out since sometime before you joined. I don't see what the big deal is. Tora has the Sharingan, so I guess he could just copy the techniques right back. Or something. Who knows? I think he's just scared and wanted me to take him out, because he knew he couldn't do it himself." Kuma's cockiness showed with his last statement. Before they left, Kitsune identified where the nearest Anbu squad was. Their orders were clear; eliminate the squad but allow them to send a hawk back to the village for help. Then keep up the process until the shinobi finally showed up.
"There they are." Saru pointed out the Anbu squad. However, by the time he had spotted them, three members already appeared behind the pair. "Wow. They are pretty fast." Saru gave them credit, before Kuma whipped around and punched one directly in the face and sent him flying. Saru in return, made a minor cut on the remaining two shinobi's wrist with a kunai.
"What was that supposed to do?" One of the members asked, before he felt his vision getting blurry. Everything seemed slowed down for the two shinobi. Their bodies were freezing...no burning...now freezing. It was an experience they had never felt before.
"You know what the great thing about medical Ninjutsu is? You know all about the human body. You know what the great thing about me is? I know all about poison. And you know what the best thing about this particular poison is? You're already dead. Your body just doesn't know it yet. You're dying slowly and you get to feel every agonizing pain as the cells in your body, the organs in your body, everything slowly starts to shut down. The other two members of the Anbu squad backed away in fear.
"We're looking for Kakashi Hatake." Kuma was quick and to the point. He'd rather fight one strong person than a hundred weak ones. "Go find him for me."
"Dynamic Entry!" Before Kuma could react, he was kicked in the face by a strange man wearing a green jumpsuit and a Konoha headband as a belt. He bounced for a few feet, before hoping back to his feet.
"What the hell are you supposed to be? The Mucus of Konoha?" Kuma seemed more annoyed than harmed by the technique.
"Taking a direct attack from the soon to be legendary green beast of prey, Guy, without injury? You must be in the springtime of your youth as well." The person speaking revealed themselves to be called Guy. Kuma could tell from the power of his simple kick that he was a Taijutsu master, like him. His fashion sense was questionable, granted, but he wasn't a pushover.
"You've got to stop wondering off in front of me." Another shinobi appeared from seemingly nowhere. His hair was silver like the armored vest he wore, and spiked. He seemed like a pretty unimpressive guy, with the exception of the fact that he slung his headband over his eye. Both shinobi seemed pretty young; no older than sixteen. But that didn't mean anything. Granted, Kuma was twenty-three, but Saru was only fifteen and he was pretty impressive in his own right.
"Who are you?" Saru asked the newcomer.
"Kakashi Hatake." Kakashi observed the scene at hand, and heard the explanation from the two Anbu members who had been left alive. "So you were looking for me eh?" Kakashi then moved his headband away from his scared eye and it shot open, revealing a Sharingan.
"A Sharingan? Now I see what Tora was talking about. This just got interesting." The two Anbu fled, leaving only Kakashi and Guy to face Kuma and Saru.
"Ready, Saru?" Kuma had taken a fighting pose. Saru said nothing, but his hands became consumed in light blue chakra; showing that he activated his Chakra Scalpels.
"Whoever kills Kakashi gets his Sharingan." Saru proposed
"You're on!" And with that Kuma and Saru charged the two Konoha shinobi.