A new chapter for the story, I'm getting pretty far ahead but my editor is a slow reader.
Chapter 6
Kakashi opened his eyes. Taking in his surroundings, he sat up slowly. He was in a large white room with no windows and minimal furniture. Pain shot through his middle as he sat up straight.
'Damn.' He cursed in his mind, the pain forcing him back down, 'I still haven't recovered.'
He looked at the ceiling as he gathered his memory. He didn't remember anything past being knocked out.
They carried me here? They couldn't have gone far from Konoha carrying me.
The door opened, interrupting his train of thought. The girl, Hitomi, walked in.
"Are you alright with getting up? Mokoto wants to see you." She said.
Kakashi shook his head and coughed, making himself seem sicker than he was. "I can't get up. I'm still injured. Why doesn't he just come in and see me?"
"I was going to do that first, but I wanted to see if you could stand." Mokoto said as he walked in.
Kakashi glared at the man and weighed his options. He could cooperate and learn more about whatever it was Mokoto was doing, or he could fight. The pain throbbing in his head and chest ruled out fighting.
Mokoto pulled a chair beside Kakashi's bed and sighed. "I'm sorry it had to come to that."
Kakashi lashed out at Mokoto but he caught Kakashi's arm. The shooting pain in his shoulder made him wince and regret that action. Mokoto let his arm go and pushed his chair back.
"You have no idea what you've done." Kakashi muttered, heat in his voice.
Mokoto shook his head. "On the contrary, I know what I've done. Kidnapping a ninja from a village is an A-rank offense and the consequences are either prison or death. But I had to do it, my mission takes precedence."
Kakashi shook his head as well. "Mission, mission, mission! You keep going on about your mission but you don't explain it."
"Fine, since we're here anyway and you're in no condition to escape, I'll answer any question you'd like to ask. Consider it a favor and reparations as a friend." Mokoto replied, leaning back in his chair.
Kakashi snorted at that. "Where are we?"
"My secret labs, they're located quite a ways from any ninja village."
Kakashi thought this over. "Then how did I get here? Even with you two, it'd take time to carry me, not to mention the patrols outside the village would catch up to you faster."
Mokoto frowned and sat up straight. "It wasn't easy. We ran into one of those patrols too."
"What?!"
"We didn't kill any of them. We just incapacitated them so we could get away." Hitomi spoke up for the first time.
"We have to hurry. We only have eleven hours." Mokoto whispered as he and Hitomi sped away from the village.
Hitomi nodded. "It'll only take us ten hours, don't worry."
"I'm worried because my village isn't stupid. They'll have no doubt responded already and sent out ANBU patrols."
The two continued to leap from tree to tree until Hitomi signaled for them to stop. She pulled out a kunai and gestured for Mokoto to do the same.
"Enemy?" he whispered.
Hitomi nodded. "Four chakra signatures. They've got us on all cardinal points."
Mokoto shook his head. "I'm getting old I think. I should've sensed them."
"It's ANBU, they're not novices. And besides, you don't have it." She replied softly.
Mokoto nodded and stood up. "You can come out now! We know you're there."
In a heartbeat, four ANBU ninjas surrounded the pair.
"You two are under arrest for the kidnapping of Hatake Kakashi. Witnesses have described you to us. Come quietly and we won't have to injure you two." One of them announced without preamble.
Mokoto shook his head. "If you let us go, we won't have to injure you four."
The four ANBU stiffened and pulled out their swords.
"This is your only warning. Put down your weapons and come quietly."
Hitomi threw her kunai down and formed seals, her hands only a blur.
'Fuuton Renkuudan!'
Her cheeks expanded, holding in compressed air as it mixed with her chakra. She expelled the wind bullet and it hit the nearest ANBU, the chakra shredding his armor and flesh. He screamed as he dropped to the ground and fell quiet. The three others leapt forward, lashing out with their swords. Mokoto dropped from his branch and reached behind him in mid air. Two ANBU dropped off the tree and fell towards him. Flinging out his hands, he released a net with kunai weighing it. The two fell to the ground, wrapped in the net.
"Cut it! Now!" one of them yelled to the other.
His partner cursed as he struggled to cut the net fibers.
Mokoto grinned as he stepped up to the two, struggling in the net.
"It's no use. The net is made of metal wire; you won't be able to put enough pressure with your swords to cut the fibers. But that's not the only reason it's made of metal."
Mokoto gripped the net and released a steady flow of chakra. The two ninjas froze and arched their backs, their eyes wide open. Neither of them spoke and their hair stood on end as Mokoto continued to release chakra. Finally he stopped after ten seconds. The two ninja rested on the ground, unconscious. Above, Hitomi battled the last ANBU.
The ANBU flung his sword at Hitomi and formed seals. She dodged the sword easily but couldn't form counterseals in time.
'Doton: Doryuudan!'
The ground below the tree churned into mud and a dragon's head of mud rose out of the ground. It opened its mouth and dangerously fast missiles of earth flew at Hitomi. She flipped to another tree and another until the jutsu sank back into the ground.
'Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!'
The ANBU startled, the Grand Fireball was made famous by the Uchiha clan. The fireball sped towards the ninja and he turned to flee. The tree he was standing on exploded in a ball of smoke, fire, and tree parts. Hitomi sighed sadly and looked at the ground. Covered in branches and impaled through the leg with a large splinter, lay the ANBU ninja. She jumped down and walked to Mokoto.
"We should go. Nearby patrols will no doubt have seen my Goukakyuu." She said.
Mokoto nodded and turned away from the two ANBU ninjas he had knocked out. She looked at him and the net, putting the pieces together.
"Your electric net combo?" she asked.
"Yes." Mokoto replied, "Simple enough anyway to beat them. Just wrap them up in metal and let out a little lightning element chakra. They'll wake up with nasty headaches."
Hitomi nodded and leaped up a tree. Mokoto followed, taking one last look at the battle field.
'This is not how I planned it at all…'
"How did I get here then if you two didn't carry me?"
Mokoto nodded. "Well that's the interesting part you see. It was quite brilliant anyway. The credit goes to Hitomi for thinking it up in the first place."
Hitomi smiled slightly at the compliment. "It was quite simple, I just needed some inspiration."
"What?" Kakashi asked.
"Well," Mokoto began, "You see…"
I don't know how well I did with the battle scene. Using exposition to describe a battle seems so bland to me but my editor told me it was good. Oh well, I'm too far ahead to fix it now. Hopefully I'll be able to improve them though, could use a few original techniques instead of ones used in the Naruto kingdom.