Chapter 3: The God of Evil Is Confronted, The Battle Begins, Ryuujin's
Power
The hot desert air blew the sand through all around and the bright yellow sun beat down on anyone who was crossing through. There was one, and it was Amatsu Mikaboshi the one rivaled against Itachi, but what was not known was that Amatsu is from the now Shadow Village but was out cast for his disturbing behavior and the evil power that he was able to wield. With his abilities known and with the kind of personality that he has, Amatsu gave himself the name he has now using the very same of that of the God of Evil, he though it suited him perfectly. The young man crossed through the desert with his giant sword locked to his back, but something suddenly caught his eye and stopped for a moment. He saw a man dressed all in red carrying what looked to be a car seat with two young women on top laughing and carrying on.
The man tromped by grunting and groaning about having to be traveling with the ladies on his back and being thirsty. Amatsu just watched them go by as he noticed the man's massive gun and wondered why he didn't just shoot the two girls and go on about his way. But Amatsu just shrugged it off and pressed forward not giving the little distraction a second thought, he pressed his hand to his forehead and whipped some sweat from his face as he adjusted his cracked protector from the top of his head and lowered it back down into place. Amatsu looked forward, but now noticed another person passing through the vast desert, a grin crossed this shinobi's face as he clenched his fist's, "Hopefully a nice warm up, before I run into Itachi because this time I will be the victor of our match up, no more fucking draws, I will beat him into the ground and for good." Amatsu gripping his fists so tight he pierced his skin and blood dripped from his hand.
He brought his hand up to his face and licked the blood away, "Heheh seems I am getting excited about the next match up." Amatsu bringing his hand down, as he was now looking right at the man who he first saw from a distance and his grin simply grew an inch bigger as he put his hand to his side and let his body go loose for a moment.
The former Shadow Village Shinobi looked over the man before him then glanced at the unique looking forehead protector and it hit him. "Oh its you Kage Kyoushu, the one from Kuragari clan, yes I have heard of you from traveling about this wasteland called earth." Amatsu adjusting himself a bit, "Yes the man who couldn't hack being a clan leader allowing them all to die away, everybody talked how your clan was so great and yet was destroyed by others." Amatsu laughed at the misfortunes of Kyoushu and his clansmen.
Kyoushu glared at Amatsu and he dusted some sand from his black kimono shirt, "You know so much about me and yet I know nothing about you and the low class place you reside from, that symbol on your forehead protector is new to me and I have been around much longer then you boy." Said back to him as he folded his arms keeping his eyes on Amatsu so he did not get the first move on him.
"From the looks of things you don't look any older then myself, so what gives you the idea that you're any more knowledgeable on things then me?" Amatsu questioned as he straightened himself and now stared down Kyoushu.
"Looks can be deceiving little boy." Kyoushu remarked as he stood a little bit back getting ready incase Amatsu attacked. "If you're done chatting I will be on my way." He said being very careful the out caste shinobi.
Amatsu leaned forward taking in a deep breath as he came back up and breathed out he now had an insane look on his face and a grin to go with it. "Little boy huh? Well, this little boy is going to tear your limbs off and beat you with them." Amatsu cracking his neck from side to side.
"Just try it kid, I will spill your blood before you get your foot off the ground." Kyoushu reaching for his two swords by his waist and gripped the handles tightly preparing him self for whatever Amatsu had in store.
Amatsu began to take a step forward, but with great speed Kyoushu shot forward kicking up the sand beneath his feet and went right through the crazy shinobi. He sheathed his swords and turned to Amatsu, when he did Amatsu fell to pieces in a pool of blood, "Seemed he was all talk." Kyoushu turning and walking about his way to let the vultures pick apart Amatsu's body and rotting corpse.
A psychotic laugh came from the corpse of Amatsu, "Did you really think it was going to be that easy? You fool, there is a reason why Uchiha Itachi and I are rivals." He said as soon his pieces where reforming by black waves that emitted from his body parts and he began to put himself back together.
"A simple GenJutsu no big deal." Said Kyoushu folding his arms un-impressed with what Amatsu was performing.
Amatsu back in one piece with a grin on his face, "GenJutsu? GENJUTSU? Don't insult me, I am no fucking magician!!" Amatsu yelled as his form began to change slightly but altered back to normal. "There is a reason for me no longer being apart of my village, and it is for the powers that I have and use." He explained as he glared at Kyoushu with wide eyes and a psychotic smile showing his teeth off.
Kyoushu winced slightly but held his ground, and he didn't let Amatsu get to him and let his power overwhelm him in any kind of way. He slowly drew his blades from his sheaths and got into a fighting stance holding his left arm out with the blade facing Amatsu and his right arm to his side with the blade in the same direction. The one with the name of evil smirked and the right part of his body started to expand out from his body and it soon formed a mouth with eyes, "Just a word of advice this is no GenJutsu!" He yelled as he shot the mouth towards Kyoushu.
Kage Kyoushu leaped into the air avoiding the mouth, but Amatsu simply altered the course and sent it right after the Kuragari shinobi. The head twirled up towards at Kage, he switched his body around and avoided the monster and drew out his katana's and hacked the beast to pieces and landed to his feet sheathing his swords once more. "Hmm suppose you where right, it was no GenJutsu, but if it is a part of you, you should now be injured and it will make it all the much more easier for me to stop you." Kyoushu confident that he had Amatsu Mikaboshi beat.
All the pieces came back together reforming back to the side of Amatsu and he got his arm back and let out a big laugh. "Just because the creature is from my body does not mean that whatever damage is done to it will affect me in anyway." Amatsu rotating his arm in circles and then reached for his massive sword on his back. "Lets get this over with." He said holding it out with one arm pointing it out towards Kyoushu.
'Humph seems I will have to use the technique after all, here I thought this guy was a low class shinobi.' Said Kyoushu to himself as he gathered his Chakra.
As his Chakra grew something began to change with Kyoushu as a black shadow aura surrounded his body and flowed around him, he closed his eyes for a moment and re-opened them to reveal that they had changed to a red that now had a glow to them. "Now we will see how good of a shinobi you are." He said as he unsheathed his two katana's and held them out in a battle stance.
With a smirk Amatsu looked to his opponent, "Okay lets get this party started." And with that said the two-shinobi fighters launched at one another to begin the battle of demons.
In another part of the planet deep in a forest another battle was about to begin.
Reptile reached to his side where he had sheathed a reasonably large knife, but had its on hidden part to it. With a flick of his wrist the blade was revealed a one foot blade, "As I see you have your weapon I to have my own, I like to call him 'Mongo'." He said as he positioned himself into a fighting stance.
Arcane was not impressed by the weapon held by his opponent and knew like all his other enemies that he would take him down like all the others, and that was with no effort at all. He put his hand on the handle to his sword and gripped it tightly. Cory started to perform hand seals, and Sierra watched her closely but was unsure of what kind of technique she was going to perform. "Kaze no yaiba. (Wind Blade)" She said and it shot a blast of wind towards Sierra and caught her off guard knocking her back off her feet.
Cory-Chan raced forward and leaped into the air pulling out three kunai for each hand that where placed in between the fingers. Then threw the six kunai at Sierra, but she regained herself as the air blast attack finally dissipated and she pulled out a kunai of her own and knocked away the six throwing knives. "Humph it will take much more then that to take me out." Said Sierra putting away her kunai.
Suddenly a blade appeared at her throat, "You will pay for what you did to my friend." Cory-Chan standing right behind Sierra with the blade held close to her.
Sierra fell away though into mist disappearing away from Cory as she began to look around for her. "Damn an Oboro Bunshin No Jutsu (Mist Clone Skill), SHIT! I should have seen it." Said Cory-Chan as she stilled looked around, but then knew it would not be best for her to wait around in the open and leaped away to find Sierra.
Reptile and Arcane stood facing one another both faces almost made of stone as they each gripped their weapons and in an instant Arcane was no more then a cloud of dust. The shinobi Reptile smirked and he vanished from his spot as well, and a cling of metal was heard in the air as the swordsman was met in the air by the shinobi one with a smirk and the other with a look of shock as Arcane could not believe that he was able to notice him, "Heh it seems I managed to catch you off guard." Arcane's face went back to emotionless with what Reptile said to him.
They pushed one another away from each other and fell back down, Reptile landing on the branch of a tree but Arcane landed back to the ground where he had started. With a twitch of his ear Arcane turned around and was suddenly presented with another Reptile and he now stood with his arms facing each Reptile as he kept his eyes on them, 'How is this possible for there to be two? Could this be a Kage Bunshin?' He examined the second person that appeared and a twitch came to his eye, 'I don't understand this what is this?' Arcane questioned in his mind his eyes shifting between the two.
"What's the matter? Can't you tell who the real one is?" Asked both Reptiles with a double voice that rang through Arcane's head as he tried to figure this out.
Arcane then got a hold of himself and figured out what he was doing to him and he went back to cold expression turning to the real Reptile and started to walk towards him with his sword down by his side. With out a sound the second Reptile leaped from its spot and came down from above and the copy Reptile returned back to its original form and the snake Stephanie came down on Arcane and coiled her self around him keeping a tight squeeze on him so he could not get free. 'Shit I let my guard down for one second and this is what happens to me, god damnit!' he said in his head as he struggled to get free of the grip of the massive snake.
Reptile leaped down from his tree branch and approached Arcane still with caution, "Now, why did you and your friend decide to come this way and pick a fight with us?" He asked stopping a little bit away from Arcane and Stephanie.
Cory landed onto a tree branch scanning the area for Sierra wondering where she hid herself. But something suddenly stopped her in her tracks as she stood there looking around as she felt a Chakra that was unbelievable and couldn't understand who's it was. "Who is that? I don't think its Reptile or one of the other two people here? Damnit I cant seem to.wait a minute! No it can't be!" Cory said in shock figuring out who's Chakra it was that she felt.
Reptile knew whose power it was as he looked over at the person who had it and as did Arcane. Ryuujin lay there motionless but electricity shocked around his body and the mark on his left shoulder glowed and the eye of the dragon flashed a red color and slowly the young Shinobi's eyes opened and he started to gather himself and get up. Cory suddenly felt an intense heat growing near and she looked forward to see a fire dragon come straight for her. She put her arms in an 'x' to fend it off the best she could but it sent her flying back to where the others where hitting the ground with a thud she then saw who it was that was giving off the high level of energy. "Ryuu." she said looking at him with wide eyes in shock to see it be him.
Sierra landed in front of the two and looked to see Arcane tied up by the snake and each time he struggled to get free Stephanie would squeeze tighter to get him to stop. Ryuujin looked to Sierra his eyes where nothing, no pupils, the electricity filled his eyes and still continued to zap around him. She took a step back trying to comprehend how he got so strong so sudden. Ryuu closed his eyes for a moment and when he opened them they now looked of that of a dragon and he clenched his fists tightly and electricity shocked around them, and he slowly lifted his right hand where a large amount of energy was seen. "Unbelievable his energy, the Chakra is visible!" Sierra taking another step back.
With a twitch of Ryuujin's eye, he suddenly appeared behind her, "SIERRA WATCH OUT!" yelled Arcane as he finally opened up to try and warn Sierra before anything drastic happened.
The transformed shinobi hoped into the air and spun around kicking Sierra in the face so hard that it sent her flying, slamming into a tree falling to her feet. Ryuujin put his arm back sending more power to his attack, and threw his arm forward yelling, "RAITONINGURYUU (Lightning Dragon)" and a dragon made of pure electricity emerged from his hand and moved around tearing up the ground.
He then altered the dragon's direction and made it go up into the air as the attack spun around, but it was then sent back down and an incredible speed. Sierra looked up at the dragon and her pupils dilated to the size of a marble, "SIERRA HURRY AND MOVE!" Arcane yelled again, but she was to paralyzed with fear by the boy's sudden increase in power and speed.
The Dragon roared as it came crashing down on Sierra, sending all the volts of electricity through her body and it dragged her about crashing her into each tree in its path until the attack finally let up and she fell to the ground completely beaten and was not moving for anything. Ryuujin then turned to look at Arcane, "I hope you can keep me entertained a bit longer then she could." He said in a low tone with a smirk on his face.
Reptile and Cory-Chan in complete shock and amazement that he even had such power as that. Arcane finally showed some emotion as he was at his boiling point, "It seems I finally tapped a nerve with this guy, Stephanie go ahead and let him go." Ryuujin wanting to take him on next and see how good he really was.
Slowly Stephanie unwrapped him and slithered over to Reptile and he picked her up putting her around his neck. Arcane took a couple of steps forward and he unsheathed his sword glaring at Ryuujin that still had the smirk on his face. "I will kill you for what you did to Sierra." Said Arcane as he ran towards Ryuujin.
Arcane ran up fast and stabbed Ryuujin right in the stomach.or so he thought as a cling from his blade was heard and he lifted his shirt to reveal dragon scales, "Seems not even your sword there can penetrate me." With a maddening look he grabbed the wrist of the swordsman and began to twist it around.
An aura then flamed around Ryuujin as he held Arcane's wrist tight and his eyes wide by the power of such a young man. "You are finished!" Said the young shinobi as he slowly drove the sword towards Arcane.
"Like.HELL!" Arcane yelled and he shoved his foot into Ryuujin's face and then twisted his body so he brought his other foot up and kicked him in the side of the head and knocked him away.
Arcane then put his sword up into the air and suddenly a second blade emerged, now the two swords had the kanji's of "Heaven" and "Hell" imbued into them and now holding the swords in each hand he was ready to perform his greatest attack. Ryuujin rubbed the side of his head in pain and gained his posture as he glared at Arcane who now had an extra sword in his hand. Cory-Chan soon got to her feet as fast as possible and performed some hand seals and ran forward just as Arcane did. "NOW YOU SHALL GO TO HELL! HOLY JUSTICE!" Yelled the swordsman Arcane as he came to Ryuujin and slashed once.
But to his surprise Cory had jumped into the way and taken the full force of the first slash and he still went with the second and somehow the second slash was also weakened. Unfortunately there was still enough power in the slash and it left a massive gash on Ryuujin's chest, his eyes went wide in pain of it and seeing his friend torn down in front of him and because of him. He dropped to his knees holding his chest and fell face forward as the blood began to pool around him. What the young shinobi did not know was that Cory had performed the Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Substitute Skill) and the now shattered log took the force of the first attack. "Hm for some reason that stupid kid is not in two, but how?" wondered Arcane as he saw Cory now close to Reptile but did not see who could had interfered with the second wave.
"I am the one who weakened your second slash!" said a voice from nowhere and a boy leaped out from the shadows landing close to Ryuujin.
"Who the hell are you?" Asked Arcane taking in a deep breath and wondering who the hell it was that dared to interfere with his attack.
A smirk came to Reptiles face knowing he was hiding away, but he also knew of another person hiding about the area watching the fight as well, but he did not know whom. "Me?" the boy asked down on one knee checking to see how much life was left in Ryuujin, "I am his friend." He said standing up and turned to face Arcane with blood red eyes and what looked like three spots in his eyes. "Dayu, also of the Shadow Village." He said pointing to his forehead protector, "Heh, the Elder had to I wouldn't leave him alone." He laughed for only a moment.
"." The silence went back into Arcane as he held his swords out ready to take on Dayu.
"Oh if you plan on attempting that move again, don't plan on it working on me, I saw the whole thing and I have it all here." Said Dayu pointing to his eyes.
With lightening speed Arcane was already behind Dayu and slashed right for him decapitating him. Except Dayu simply fell away into a puddle of water, "I would had figured you would know that shinobi's can easily hide themselves away, considering you travel with one." Dayu lurking in the shadows now and with the speed of any other shinobi he appeared right at his side with a kunai to Arcane's throat and another to his stomach to make him spill his guts if need be.
Cory-Chan looked to Reptile in confusion, "Reptile how is it that Dayu has the sha." she was then cut off by Reptile as he put one finger to wear his mouth his.
"That is a conversation for another time do not worry about it." He told her as he pets Stephanie and watched what was going on.
"You can try all the moves you want I just need to see them once and I can find a way around it, now why don't you pick up your friend over there and leave us alone." Dayu said as he put his kunai down and put them back into his holster.
Arcane put his sword back into one and sheathed it remembering Sierra and knowing that she was going to need his help now instead of getting revenge for the moment. He then leaped to were his companion laid, brushing some hair away from her face he scooped her up into his arms and then vanished in a flash. Dayu let out a sigh of relief and he closed his eyes but only for a minute and they where back to normal. Cory ran over to the two and kneeled down next to Ryuu who was unconscious do to the blood lose and she carefully turned him onto his back, "My god that guy got him good, I thought you said you weakened it?" She asked as she pulled out here medical supplies and took off the bloodied and ripped shirt and began to apply the ointment and bandages.
"I did, but I guess I didn't get it well enough to stop such a cut as that one." Dayu said looking at the massive wound on his friend's chest.
"Well what's done is done and Ryuu will recover from it." Reptile gathering his cloak and putting back on, "The thing is, why did you want to come with us, and how did you even know about us leaving?" Reptile asked Dayu placing Stephanie back to his shoulder.
"Hm? Oh yeah, well I went to our training spot but neither of you where there, so I decided to go ask the Elder what was going on and he told me about your mission and I begged and pleaded to be allowed to join you." Dayu smiling widely knowing that he was able to pester the old man to the breaking point where he would have to say yes, "So he to gave me a forehead protector and I came in search for you guys." He said adjusting his very own for head protector with the Shadow Village symbol on it.
"Okay that explains it, so there is just you that came here?" Reptile asked coming up next to him and keeping his voice down.
"Yeah just me, and yeah I know about the third person in the area I just don't know who it is, but I am getting an idea of where they are." Dayu putting his hand to his chin and his free hand under his elbow as he rubbed his chin thinking of where the mystery person could be.
As they stood there a Dayu clone was sent flying into the ground and they all turned to see what was going on except for Cory-Chan who was still busy putting the bandages on Ryuujin. "Seems the clone found our hidden person." Said Dayu folding his arms.
"Who ever you are come out now, because we now know where you are and as you can see a battle is not what we are looking for right now." Said Reptile waiting for the person to come out into view.
A person came into view appearing in front of them starting with arms on the ground and knelt on one knee the person slowly stood up. "Oh it's a lady shinobi." Dayu smiled raising both eyebrows when he turned to Reptile who just shot him a glare that made his smile disappear.
"Well it's apparent that you are from Mist Village, what's your name?" Reptile asked as he noticed that the girls face was covered in bandages and wondered why.
The girl walked a little closer to them to not be to far away, "My name is Kareru." She said and Reptile instantly knew she was not of the Mist Village for he kept a tag on everyone from each village.
"What are you doing here? You're a good way's from there." Said Dayu looking at her curiously.
"That's not important, Kareru I would like to have a word with you in private, Dayu help out Cory-Chan there and watch on Ryuujin." Said Reptile walking up to the girl, "You come with me." He said to Kareru and he walked away from the group and the female Mist shinobi fallowed behind wondering what this man wanted to speak to her about in private.
The hot desert air blew the sand through all around and the bright yellow sun beat down on anyone who was crossing through. There was one, and it was Amatsu Mikaboshi the one rivaled against Itachi, but what was not known was that Amatsu is from the now Shadow Village but was out cast for his disturbing behavior and the evil power that he was able to wield. With his abilities known and with the kind of personality that he has, Amatsu gave himself the name he has now using the very same of that of the God of Evil, he though it suited him perfectly. The young man crossed through the desert with his giant sword locked to his back, but something suddenly caught his eye and stopped for a moment. He saw a man dressed all in red carrying what looked to be a car seat with two young women on top laughing and carrying on.
The man tromped by grunting and groaning about having to be traveling with the ladies on his back and being thirsty. Amatsu just watched them go by as he noticed the man's massive gun and wondered why he didn't just shoot the two girls and go on about his way. But Amatsu just shrugged it off and pressed forward not giving the little distraction a second thought, he pressed his hand to his forehead and whipped some sweat from his face as he adjusted his cracked protector from the top of his head and lowered it back down into place. Amatsu looked forward, but now noticed another person passing through the vast desert, a grin crossed this shinobi's face as he clenched his fist's, "Hopefully a nice warm up, before I run into Itachi because this time I will be the victor of our match up, no more fucking draws, I will beat him into the ground and for good." Amatsu gripping his fists so tight he pierced his skin and blood dripped from his hand.
He brought his hand up to his face and licked the blood away, "Heheh seems I am getting excited about the next match up." Amatsu bringing his hand down, as he was now looking right at the man who he first saw from a distance and his grin simply grew an inch bigger as he put his hand to his side and let his body go loose for a moment.
The former Shadow Village Shinobi looked over the man before him then glanced at the unique looking forehead protector and it hit him. "Oh its you Kage Kyoushu, the one from Kuragari clan, yes I have heard of you from traveling about this wasteland called earth." Amatsu adjusting himself a bit, "Yes the man who couldn't hack being a clan leader allowing them all to die away, everybody talked how your clan was so great and yet was destroyed by others." Amatsu laughed at the misfortunes of Kyoushu and his clansmen.
Kyoushu glared at Amatsu and he dusted some sand from his black kimono shirt, "You know so much about me and yet I know nothing about you and the low class place you reside from, that symbol on your forehead protector is new to me and I have been around much longer then you boy." Said back to him as he folded his arms keeping his eyes on Amatsu so he did not get the first move on him.
"From the looks of things you don't look any older then myself, so what gives you the idea that you're any more knowledgeable on things then me?" Amatsu questioned as he straightened himself and now stared down Kyoushu.
"Looks can be deceiving little boy." Kyoushu remarked as he stood a little bit back getting ready incase Amatsu attacked. "If you're done chatting I will be on my way." He said being very careful the out caste shinobi.
Amatsu leaned forward taking in a deep breath as he came back up and breathed out he now had an insane look on his face and a grin to go with it. "Little boy huh? Well, this little boy is going to tear your limbs off and beat you with them." Amatsu cracking his neck from side to side.
"Just try it kid, I will spill your blood before you get your foot off the ground." Kyoushu reaching for his two swords by his waist and gripped the handles tightly preparing him self for whatever Amatsu had in store.
Amatsu began to take a step forward, but with great speed Kyoushu shot forward kicking up the sand beneath his feet and went right through the crazy shinobi. He sheathed his swords and turned to Amatsu, when he did Amatsu fell to pieces in a pool of blood, "Seemed he was all talk." Kyoushu turning and walking about his way to let the vultures pick apart Amatsu's body and rotting corpse.
A psychotic laugh came from the corpse of Amatsu, "Did you really think it was going to be that easy? You fool, there is a reason why Uchiha Itachi and I are rivals." He said as soon his pieces where reforming by black waves that emitted from his body parts and he began to put himself back together.
"A simple GenJutsu no big deal." Said Kyoushu folding his arms un-impressed with what Amatsu was performing.
Amatsu back in one piece with a grin on his face, "GenJutsu? GENJUTSU? Don't insult me, I am no fucking magician!!" Amatsu yelled as his form began to change slightly but altered back to normal. "There is a reason for me no longer being apart of my village, and it is for the powers that I have and use." He explained as he glared at Kyoushu with wide eyes and a psychotic smile showing his teeth off.
Kyoushu winced slightly but held his ground, and he didn't let Amatsu get to him and let his power overwhelm him in any kind of way. He slowly drew his blades from his sheaths and got into a fighting stance holding his left arm out with the blade facing Amatsu and his right arm to his side with the blade in the same direction. The one with the name of evil smirked and the right part of his body started to expand out from his body and it soon formed a mouth with eyes, "Just a word of advice this is no GenJutsu!" He yelled as he shot the mouth towards Kyoushu.
Kage Kyoushu leaped into the air avoiding the mouth, but Amatsu simply altered the course and sent it right after the Kuragari shinobi. The head twirled up towards at Kage, he switched his body around and avoided the monster and drew out his katana's and hacked the beast to pieces and landed to his feet sheathing his swords once more. "Hmm suppose you where right, it was no GenJutsu, but if it is a part of you, you should now be injured and it will make it all the much more easier for me to stop you." Kyoushu confident that he had Amatsu Mikaboshi beat.
All the pieces came back together reforming back to the side of Amatsu and he got his arm back and let out a big laugh. "Just because the creature is from my body does not mean that whatever damage is done to it will affect me in anyway." Amatsu rotating his arm in circles and then reached for his massive sword on his back. "Lets get this over with." He said holding it out with one arm pointing it out towards Kyoushu.
'Humph seems I will have to use the technique after all, here I thought this guy was a low class shinobi.' Said Kyoushu to himself as he gathered his Chakra.
As his Chakra grew something began to change with Kyoushu as a black shadow aura surrounded his body and flowed around him, he closed his eyes for a moment and re-opened them to reveal that they had changed to a red that now had a glow to them. "Now we will see how good of a shinobi you are." He said as he unsheathed his two katana's and held them out in a battle stance.
With a smirk Amatsu looked to his opponent, "Okay lets get this party started." And with that said the two-shinobi fighters launched at one another to begin the battle of demons.
In another part of the planet deep in a forest another battle was about to begin.
Reptile reached to his side where he had sheathed a reasonably large knife, but had its on hidden part to it. With a flick of his wrist the blade was revealed a one foot blade, "As I see you have your weapon I to have my own, I like to call him 'Mongo'." He said as he positioned himself into a fighting stance.
Arcane was not impressed by the weapon held by his opponent and knew like all his other enemies that he would take him down like all the others, and that was with no effort at all. He put his hand on the handle to his sword and gripped it tightly. Cory started to perform hand seals, and Sierra watched her closely but was unsure of what kind of technique she was going to perform. "Kaze no yaiba. (Wind Blade)" She said and it shot a blast of wind towards Sierra and caught her off guard knocking her back off her feet.
Cory-Chan raced forward and leaped into the air pulling out three kunai for each hand that where placed in between the fingers. Then threw the six kunai at Sierra, but she regained herself as the air blast attack finally dissipated and she pulled out a kunai of her own and knocked away the six throwing knives. "Humph it will take much more then that to take me out." Said Sierra putting away her kunai.
Suddenly a blade appeared at her throat, "You will pay for what you did to my friend." Cory-Chan standing right behind Sierra with the blade held close to her.
Sierra fell away though into mist disappearing away from Cory as she began to look around for her. "Damn an Oboro Bunshin No Jutsu (Mist Clone Skill), SHIT! I should have seen it." Said Cory-Chan as she stilled looked around, but then knew it would not be best for her to wait around in the open and leaped away to find Sierra.
Reptile and Arcane stood facing one another both faces almost made of stone as they each gripped their weapons and in an instant Arcane was no more then a cloud of dust. The shinobi Reptile smirked and he vanished from his spot as well, and a cling of metal was heard in the air as the swordsman was met in the air by the shinobi one with a smirk and the other with a look of shock as Arcane could not believe that he was able to notice him, "Heh it seems I managed to catch you off guard." Arcane's face went back to emotionless with what Reptile said to him.
They pushed one another away from each other and fell back down, Reptile landing on the branch of a tree but Arcane landed back to the ground where he had started. With a twitch of his ear Arcane turned around and was suddenly presented with another Reptile and he now stood with his arms facing each Reptile as he kept his eyes on them, 'How is this possible for there to be two? Could this be a Kage Bunshin?' He examined the second person that appeared and a twitch came to his eye, 'I don't understand this what is this?' Arcane questioned in his mind his eyes shifting between the two.
"What's the matter? Can't you tell who the real one is?" Asked both Reptiles with a double voice that rang through Arcane's head as he tried to figure this out.
Arcane then got a hold of himself and figured out what he was doing to him and he went back to cold expression turning to the real Reptile and started to walk towards him with his sword down by his side. With out a sound the second Reptile leaped from its spot and came down from above and the copy Reptile returned back to its original form and the snake Stephanie came down on Arcane and coiled her self around him keeping a tight squeeze on him so he could not get free. 'Shit I let my guard down for one second and this is what happens to me, god damnit!' he said in his head as he struggled to get free of the grip of the massive snake.
Reptile leaped down from his tree branch and approached Arcane still with caution, "Now, why did you and your friend decide to come this way and pick a fight with us?" He asked stopping a little bit away from Arcane and Stephanie.
Cory landed onto a tree branch scanning the area for Sierra wondering where she hid herself. But something suddenly stopped her in her tracks as she stood there looking around as she felt a Chakra that was unbelievable and couldn't understand who's it was. "Who is that? I don't think its Reptile or one of the other two people here? Damnit I cant seem to.wait a minute! No it can't be!" Cory said in shock figuring out who's Chakra it was that she felt.
Reptile knew whose power it was as he looked over at the person who had it and as did Arcane. Ryuujin lay there motionless but electricity shocked around his body and the mark on his left shoulder glowed and the eye of the dragon flashed a red color and slowly the young Shinobi's eyes opened and he started to gather himself and get up. Cory suddenly felt an intense heat growing near and she looked forward to see a fire dragon come straight for her. She put her arms in an 'x' to fend it off the best she could but it sent her flying back to where the others where hitting the ground with a thud she then saw who it was that was giving off the high level of energy. "Ryuu." she said looking at him with wide eyes in shock to see it be him.
Sierra landed in front of the two and looked to see Arcane tied up by the snake and each time he struggled to get free Stephanie would squeeze tighter to get him to stop. Ryuujin looked to Sierra his eyes where nothing, no pupils, the electricity filled his eyes and still continued to zap around him. She took a step back trying to comprehend how he got so strong so sudden. Ryuu closed his eyes for a moment and when he opened them they now looked of that of a dragon and he clenched his fists tightly and electricity shocked around them, and he slowly lifted his right hand where a large amount of energy was seen. "Unbelievable his energy, the Chakra is visible!" Sierra taking another step back.
With a twitch of Ryuujin's eye, he suddenly appeared behind her, "SIERRA WATCH OUT!" yelled Arcane as he finally opened up to try and warn Sierra before anything drastic happened.
The transformed shinobi hoped into the air and spun around kicking Sierra in the face so hard that it sent her flying, slamming into a tree falling to her feet. Ryuujin put his arm back sending more power to his attack, and threw his arm forward yelling, "RAITONINGURYUU (Lightning Dragon)" and a dragon made of pure electricity emerged from his hand and moved around tearing up the ground.
He then altered the dragon's direction and made it go up into the air as the attack spun around, but it was then sent back down and an incredible speed. Sierra looked up at the dragon and her pupils dilated to the size of a marble, "SIERRA HURRY AND MOVE!" Arcane yelled again, but she was to paralyzed with fear by the boy's sudden increase in power and speed.
The Dragon roared as it came crashing down on Sierra, sending all the volts of electricity through her body and it dragged her about crashing her into each tree in its path until the attack finally let up and she fell to the ground completely beaten and was not moving for anything. Ryuujin then turned to look at Arcane, "I hope you can keep me entertained a bit longer then she could." He said in a low tone with a smirk on his face.
Reptile and Cory-Chan in complete shock and amazement that he even had such power as that. Arcane finally showed some emotion as he was at his boiling point, "It seems I finally tapped a nerve with this guy, Stephanie go ahead and let him go." Ryuujin wanting to take him on next and see how good he really was.
Slowly Stephanie unwrapped him and slithered over to Reptile and he picked her up putting her around his neck. Arcane took a couple of steps forward and he unsheathed his sword glaring at Ryuujin that still had the smirk on his face. "I will kill you for what you did to Sierra." Said Arcane as he ran towards Ryuujin.
Arcane ran up fast and stabbed Ryuujin right in the stomach.or so he thought as a cling from his blade was heard and he lifted his shirt to reveal dragon scales, "Seems not even your sword there can penetrate me." With a maddening look he grabbed the wrist of the swordsman and began to twist it around.
An aura then flamed around Ryuujin as he held Arcane's wrist tight and his eyes wide by the power of such a young man. "You are finished!" Said the young shinobi as he slowly drove the sword towards Arcane.
"Like.HELL!" Arcane yelled and he shoved his foot into Ryuujin's face and then twisted his body so he brought his other foot up and kicked him in the side of the head and knocked him away.
Arcane then put his sword up into the air and suddenly a second blade emerged, now the two swords had the kanji's of "Heaven" and "Hell" imbued into them and now holding the swords in each hand he was ready to perform his greatest attack. Ryuujin rubbed the side of his head in pain and gained his posture as he glared at Arcane who now had an extra sword in his hand. Cory-Chan soon got to her feet as fast as possible and performed some hand seals and ran forward just as Arcane did. "NOW YOU SHALL GO TO HELL! HOLY JUSTICE!" Yelled the swordsman Arcane as he came to Ryuujin and slashed once.
But to his surprise Cory had jumped into the way and taken the full force of the first slash and he still went with the second and somehow the second slash was also weakened. Unfortunately there was still enough power in the slash and it left a massive gash on Ryuujin's chest, his eyes went wide in pain of it and seeing his friend torn down in front of him and because of him. He dropped to his knees holding his chest and fell face forward as the blood began to pool around him. What the young shinobi did not know was that Cory had performed the Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Substitute Skill) and the now shattered log took the force of the first attack. "Hm for some reason that stupid kid is not in two, but how?" wondered Arcane as he saw Cory now close to Reptile but did not see who could had interfered with the second wave.
"I am the one who weakened your second slash!" said a voice from nowhere and a boy leaped out from the shadows landing close to Ryuujin.
"Who the hell are you?" Asked Arcane taking in a deep breath and wondering who the hell it was that dared to interfere with his attack.
A smirk came to Reptiles face knowing he was hiding away, but he also knew of another person hiding about the area watching the fight as well, but he did not know whom. "Me?" the boy asked down on one knee checking to see how much life was left in Ryuujin, "I am his friend." He said standing up and turned to face Arcane with blood red eyes and what looked like three spots in his eyes. "Dayu, also of the Shadow Village." He said pointing to his forehead protector, "Heh, the Elder had to I wouldn't leave him alone." He laughed for only a moment.
"." The silence went back into Arcane as he held his swords out ready to take on Dayu.
"Oh if you plan on attempting that move again, don't plan on it working on me, I saw the whole thing and I have it all here." Said Dayu pointing to his eyes.
With lightening speed Arcane was already behind Dayu and slashed right for him decapitating him. Except Dayu simply fell away into a puddle of water, "I would had figured you would know that shinobi's can easily hide themselves away, considering you travel with one." Dayu lurking in the shadows now and with the speed of any other shinobi he appeared right at his side with a kunai to Arcane's throat and another to his stomach to make him spill his guts if need be.
Cory-Chan looked to Reptile in confusion, "Reptile how is it that Dayu has the sha." she was then cut off by Reptile as he put one finger to wear his mouth his.
"That is a conversation for another time do not worry about it." He told her as he pets Stephanie and watched what was going on.
"You can try all the moves you want I just need to see them once and I can find a way around it, now why don't you pick up your friend over there and leave us alone." Dayu said as he put his kunai down and put them back into his holster.
Arcane put his sword back into one and sheathed it remembering Sierra and knowing that she was going to need his help now instead of getting revenge for the moment. He then leaped to were his companion laid, brushing some hair away from her face he scooped her up into his arms and then vanished in a flash. Dayu let out a sigh of relief and he closed his eyes but only for a minute and they where back to normal. Cory ran over to the two and kneeled down next to Ryuu who was unconscious do to the blood lose and she carefully turned him onto his back, "My god that guy got him good, I thought you said you weakened it?" She asked as she pulled out here medical supplies and took off the bloodied and ripped shirt and began to apply the ointment and bandages.
"I did, but I guess I didn't get it well enough to stop such a cut as that one." Dayu said looking at the massive wound on his friend's chest.
"Well what's done is done and Ryuu will recover from it." Reptile gathering his cloak and putting back on, "The thing is, why did you want to come with us, and how did you even know about us leaving?" Reptile asked Dayu placing Stephanie back to his shoulder.
"Hm? Oh yeah, well I went to our training spot but neither of you where there, so I decided to go ask the Elder what was going on and he told me about your mission and I begged and pleaded to be allowed to join you." Dayu smiling widely knowing that he was able to pester the old man to the breaking point where he would have to say yes, "So he to gave me a forehead protector and I came in search for you guys." He said adjusting his very own for head protector with the Shadow Village symbol on it.
"Okay that explains it, so there is just you that came here?" Reptile asked coming up next to him and keeping his voice down.
"Yeah just me, and yeah I know about the third person in the area I just don't know who it is, but I am getting an idea of where they are." Dayu putting his hand to his chin and his free hand under his elbow as he rubbed his chin thinking of where the mystery person could be.
As they stood there a Dayu clone was sent flying into the ground and they all turned to see what was going on except for Cory-Chan who was still busy putting the bandages on Ryuujin. "Seems the clone found our hidden person." Said Dayu folding his arms.
"Who ever you are come out now, because we now know where you are and as you can see a battle is not what we are looking for right now." Said Reptile waiting for the person to come out into view.
A person came into view appearing in front of them starting with arms on the ground and knelt on one knee the person slowly stood up. "Oh it's a lady shinobi." Dayu smiled raising both eyebrows when he turned to Reptile who just shot him a glare that made his smile disappear.
"Well it's apparent that you are from Mist Village, what's your name?" Reptile asked as he noticed that the girls face was covered in bandages and wondered why.
The girl walked a little closer to them to not be to far away, "My name is Kareru." She said and Reptile instantly knew she was not of the Mist Village for he kept a tag on everyone from each village.
"What are you doing here? You're a good way's from there." Said Dayu looking at her curiously.
"That's not important, Kareru I would like to have a word with you in private, Dayu help out Cory-Chan there and watch on Ryuujin." Said Reptile walking up to the girl, "You come with me." He said to Kareru and he walked away from the group and the female Mist shinobi fallowed behind wondering what this man wanted to speak to her about in private.