Chapter 6
The four of us pulled kunai and moved immediately into a defense position back to back as Naruto tryed to fight the other two off. They had Naruto on both sides gripping his arms trying to restrain him. He jerked around violently and managed to get one arm out and punch one of them. The man fell and Naruto made the hand sign for his signature shadow clone jutsu. Five clones appeared attacking to two men. They pulled kunai and started slashing at the clones.
I could feel Sakura shaking a little on my left and Sasuke tense on my right. His arm brushed mine sending an electric current threw me. I almost let my kunai drop trying to keep down a gasp and a sudden longing. No stay focused. I told myself angrily.
I looked around calculating. They had the upper hand here but not by much. I wouldn't mind being surrounded if it was only me or Itachi, this battle would be no problem, over in thirty seconds flat. However with these four with me I wouldn't be able to use my full power without hurting them. This would take a lot longer than I wanted it to. Although, this was the opportunity I had been hoping for. I could gather information on their fighting skills this way and not have to do a lot of work to get them to do it. Perfect.
The one closest to me lunged forward me, his kunai coming for my face. There was a clang of metal on metal as mine blocked his. He glared down at me and I smiled in spite of myself. This had become one of the easiest things in my very complex life. Fighting, it was all I'd been taught to do since a young age.
Behind me Sasuke kicked out at an attacker and I heard the sound of his foot connect. The guy stumbled doubling over, clutching his stomach. Sasuke was quick to move around him before he struck. He got up, dogged Sasuke's kick but caught a fist breaking his nose.
Sakura was blocking with a kunai like me. The guy said something about this being no problem at all and how ugly girls couldn't fight. That got under Sakura's skin. "What did you say?!" she shouted and punched him hard in the side of the head. He fell hard skidding a few feet and sat up rubbed the spot on his face where a large red area was appearing on it and had started to swell. She started kicking him demanding that he take back what he said. He cowered under her fury arms over his head to protect himself unable to get up under her blows.
Kakashi was getting ready to do a jutsu of some kind. The two ninja threw shurikin at him that hit him squarely from either side. He was suddenly a log and the guys were looking around frantically. He appeared behind them and knocked one out but the other one shoved a kunai backwards into him. Kakashi puffed into a cloud of smoke. The guy's eyes widened not expecting a clone. A hand came out of the ground and grabbed his leg pulling him into the earth too. Kakashi stood over the him now only a head sticking out of the ground.
A very large ninja came at me from behind with a heavy mace. He swung the spiked ball at me and I jumped landing several feet behind the the other one. The large one charged me swinging in all directions. I kept moving to stay out of range. The other one appeared behind me with the intent of slicing my head off. I brought my own kunai to meet his. The the man raised raised the mace over his head and brought it down in an ark. It seemed to come in slow motion a little at a time as the guy yelled.
I heard Kakashi shout something but didn't catch it. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura stopped and look in my direction. I spun around the ninja with the kunai before he saw what happened and the mace landed right where I was a split second before. I leaped from behind the other ninja as a large cloud of dust and rocks rose up from where the spiked chain ball had hit. I balanced on a tree limb just off the path. The ninja I had been standing behind threw up his hands to protect himself but was thrown back into a bush. The dust could cleared enough for me to see the other man standing there waiting to see if I had been crushed or not. His eyes widened at the empty crater at his feet. I darted behind him in the blink of an eye.
"Watch your back tubby." I muttered to him as I started making the hand signs for one of my less powerful jutsu, Element Imprisonment. A ring of fire surrounded him wrapping around him like a rope, air currents cut at him, water shooting down his throat stopping his breathing, and rock enclosed him bringing him down, crushing him.
Even threw the water you could hear his scream. It seemed to go on and on. I always covered their mouth so I didn't have to hear that. I hated it. But the scream kept going changing and blending into other screams. It kept getting louder, pleas and cries of hundreds of trapped souls all doomed. I shook my head trying to rid it of the sound and saw crouched near the bush doing a hand sign was the ninja that had been knocked into a tree. Genjutsu! I thought panicked. He was swallowed up by the vision of flames and darkness all around me.
I knew I could not escape at this point. All thanks to my clan I couldn't even release a genjutsu let alone cast one. I couldn't move or draw chakra, a replacement was now beyond me and I couldn't get to my kunai. I tried to bite me lip but to no avail. I knew from long hours of training with Itachi that I just had to wait it out until he either ran out of chakra or someone took him out. It can't be worse than tsukuyomi. I assured myself.
The darkness at the edge of the flames shifted twisting and curling around itself like it was alive. Thankfully I wasn't scared of fire or the dark. The screaming was almost unbearable, just noise, confusion, and fear. I watched the flames flicker trying to keep my mind off the echoing sounds. The fire shift almost moving in my direction but always staying in a ring on the ground around me. Something floated over the spot I had been watching and was suddenly right in front of my face. If I hadn't seen worse I'd have thought it looked frightening. The body was long like a snake's and made of what looked like twisting shadows, red eyes glared at me and long teeth were bared at me like some horrible parody of a grin. The face was almost that of a dragon but there was something off about it. The face kept moving and shifting like it didn't know quite what to settle on. Then it turned in on itself and revealed a familiar face. It was my mother's face sitting grotesquely on the serpent's body.
She opened her mouth and the screams stopped abruptly. Then she spoke in a hundred tortured voices, "Sorin you have disgraced and murdered your clan. The one you hold dear cares nothing for you. You are doomed to wander the earth never to find your place among the dead or living. Your soul shall lie in torment for all eternity."
She lunged forward and my body jerked back. The screaming was inside my head echoing and reverberating. The rest of the long body was entering threw my open mouth and as it did the screams grew louder. I tried to draw breath but the thing wouldn't let me I could feel it inside me writhing and shifting. I wanted to cry out to Itachi to save me get me out of this but he wasn't there to here me. I could feel myself slipping away into the dark obis of death.
