Chapter 55: Land of Mists! Soria the Seventh Blade
Dosu went flying out the front of a Ramen shop in Fire country. Osaka had jumped behind him and caught him, "Lee!" she yelled looking into the shop at Lee.
"Move Osaka!" Lee declared firmly, "I won't take any more of Dosu, I will end this here."
"What's going on Lee?" Osaka said, almost in tears, now standing in front of Dosu with her arms out, "Why are you attacking a comrade like this?"
"Comrade!?" Lee said angrily, "I will never consider this person my Comrade, now move Osaka, so I can finish this."
Osaka stood her ground firmly as she pulled a few seeds from a pouch, "Please Lee, don't betray leaf like the others, if you left I..." she could bring herself to finish the statement.
"I'm sorry Osaka," Lee said, remaining firm, "But I will never accept him, for Now I will leave, but I'll be back for Dosu," and with that Lee jumped ontop of the roof of the Ramen stand and jumped away.
"What happened Dosu!?" Osaka said, about to burst out crying, "Why is Lee upset with you?"
"I'm sorry, but I can't say," Dosu said, "I fear we will be facing Lee soon, guess I'll finally get a chance for my defeat in the exams though."
"How can you say something like that?" Osaka said in almost a whisper. Dosu only chuckled evily as he walked off too their hotel for the night. Osaka followed behind, wondering if Lee was right to leave.
"So," said a female who stood the height of Kakashi. Her hair was long and blonde, her eyes a dark blue. Her complexion was very smooth and milky which seemed to conflict with the evil grin that was formed by her thin lips,. She wore a skin tight black leotard, and a light grey vest with many different pockets. In addition she had all the standard Ninja gear such as Shuriken and Kunai pouch. Also at her right hip was a Rapier in a sheath, and finally her Headband bore the symbol of Hidden mist, "It seems we have a similar goal, eliminating Orichimaru and his subordinates."
"Yes," said Lee, kneeling down before her, "I didn't know Orichimaru had abandoned Akatsuki originally, but when I found out Dosu had been working undercover for him and that he had split off, I decided to seek you out, Soria."
"You made a good choice, Akatsuki shall accept your assistance in getting at the traitor, he may have information on Orichimaru that we can use," smiled Soria, "Let us go to our hide out then," with that Soria and Lee had traversed the alleys the Akatsuki's local hide out.
"Osaka, what's wrong?" Dosu asked when he saw Osaka sitting on the bench's outside at night. Osaka said nothing in response, "You must forget Lee was ever an ally."
"But I can't," she said softly.
"The pain will subside," Dosu said, "the Betrayal of a close ally is common place in the Ninja world, he chose to turn on us, so we must fight."
"I know," is all Osaka could say. She stood up, "I think its time to sleep, goodnight," and she walked off. Being near Dosu sickened her, the entire time he seemed excited at the prospect of fighting Lee. She wanted to stay away from him as much as possible.
The next morning the two met outside of the Hotel, "Listen Osaka, I found where Lee went."
"Really!" Osaka said happily.
"He joined with Soria, a member of Akatsuki," said Dosu, killing the Joy she felt.
"So, there's no hope of getting him back," Osaka said.
"That's correct," Dosu said, almost sounding pleased.
"Lets go then," She said softly, disgusted with Dosu. Dosu lead the way through the dark alleys of the town.
"You what!?" Soria yelled at Lee, he was kneeling down before her.
"I've told Dosu the location of our Hide out," said Lee.
"Why the hell did you do that!?" Soria looked like she was about to fly off the deep end.
"Dosu and I made a plan, I would infiltrate as a spy, give the location to Dosu, and lauch a surpise attack to try and wipe out the Akatsuki members there. However, as I told you he is still Orichimaru's subordinate. He planned to work with us until we beat you, at which time he would turn on us. I went along with the plan, however now we have the advatnage."
"Well played Lee," she said smiling, "I didn't realize you had such cunning."
"Thank you Soria," Lee said, "There is one other thing I must tell you. Dosu is no Genin as he appears, he is one of Orichimaru's strongest subordinates."
"Really? How strong is this guy?" asked Soria excited.
"He will be coming from the alley way in the north side," Lee said, "I believe you are the only one here who could beat him. I'll stay here and fight off the Girl, while you handle Dosu in the North."
"Alright Lee, we have a deal. I'll head off now, don't dissapoint me lee," She said as she walked out of the little hide out.
"Yes, Soria-Sensei," Lee Said Bowing his head before going to the southern entrance of the Hide out. A small group of Ninja's followed him there. Lee looked back at the other Five Chuunin around him and smiled, "Lets win this one for Soria-Sensai," and together they laughed as they awaited the Arrival of the others.
Dosu and Osaka had seen the Hide out. It was tucked away in a back alley in the center of the town. There was a lot of hoodlums and street rats wondering around, however they moved through the area quitely. They viewed the entrance to the hide out, a small entry way in the alley way leading into a building. Dosu spied several Ninja in the area keeping watch. His expression became furious when he saw Lee peek through the Door way. He leapt out of Hiding and screamed, "Lee! You Traitor! You were suppose to infiltrate, give us the location and then we attack in unison to surprise them! Not tell them we were coming!"
"We were set up then?" said Osaka almost Crying, "Lee, I'm sorry, but we'll have to beat you here."
"Don't think you can win," Lee said as five Chuunin and ten Genin jumped in front of him, "We have the power of numbers and Skill, you've lost Dosu."
Dosu started Shaking in anger, "How could you do this, you'll pay!"
However he froze when he finished he could no longer See Lee. He had opened the first gate and sped around behind him, "Lets go," Lee said Grabbing Dosu's arm. He spun around to throw Dosu into the crowd of Ninja, however Dosu noticed Lee winked as he was thrown.
The Ninja were ready to attack the helpless Dosu, however he recovered hid Air and slammed two of the Chuunin in the face with his gauntlets, sending powerful Vibrations disrupting their minds completely causing them to collapse.
Osaka looked on in confusion. With Lee's strength there is no way Dosu could have recovered from his throw. Before she could figure it out, Lee had already opened the first gate again, and kicked the third Chuunin into the Air to preform a lotus. The Genin were still shocked from the surprise, however the two remaining had recovered and Jumped at Lee. Osaka quickly did some seals and threw a few of her seeds into the air. They sprouted into vines mid air and Grabbed the ankles of the two Chuunin and whipped them into the ground.
As Lee preformed his Lotus on the only Chuunin left, Dosu went back to work by spinning around and slamming both his gauntlets into the back and head of a nearby Genin. Osaka to launched a fast assault, preforming some seals and throwing out some more seeds, this time they formed into a large amount of grass, "Grass Needle Barage!" she called out, the Grass forming an entire Wall of Needles that peirced into a group of five of the Genin injuring them to a point they couldn't fight. The remaining for quickly surrendered, realizing they were out matched.
Dosu quickly struck them with his qauntlets to ensure they wouldn't stab them in the back. He then turned to Lee, still looking angry, "What the hell was that!? You derived from the plan, you could have gotten us all killed!"
"I'm sorry Dosu, but when I learned their leaders name I was forced to change the plan," Lee said.
"Well who the hell was it?!" Dosu was still quite angry, which he normally didn't like to do, but at this point he didn't care.
"Soria, the Seventh Legendary Swordsman of the Hidden Mist Village," Lee replied.
"So," Dosu said, finally calming down, "We were very out matched.. Even with our surprise attack we would have failed."
"Excuse me," Osaka asked, "What's going on? I thought Lee betrayed us?"
"Osaka?" Lee asked not sure what to say. They had just said Lee was there for them, how much more detail was needed, "I was infultrating them so we could launch a surprise attack."
"Really!?" Osaka said Happily hugging Lee, "I thought for sure you betrayed us! Thanks for not doing that."
Lee smiled, a little confused, "I would never betray you Osaka."
"Really!?" Osaka smiled happily, "do you promise?"
"I'll do one better," Said Lee striking his Nice Guy pose, "I promise to always protect you. Whenever you're in trouble I'll rush to your aid!"
"Enough of this," said Dosu, slightly irritated by this spectacle, "What happened to Soria?"
"She is in the norther alley awaiting you Dosu," smiled Lee, "I had to tell her you were extremely powerful and that she was the only one who could fight you. I gave her a phoney location so she would await you there."
"Hm," Dosu replied a bit offended that he implied Dosu wasn't extremely powerful, "Lets get out of here before she gets back. We don't want to fight one of the swordsman."
"Who exactly are these Swordsman?" asked Osaka.
"In the Hidden mist there was a group of 7 people, all of whom used some form of sword. However all of them went Rouge, which caused serious problems as even Soria the seventh blade, the weakest of the group, was an ANBU Captain. If we were to fight her now we would have no hope of victory," Dosu explained. They all nodded and jumped off.
Watching from the top of a building Kakashi was reading his Icha Icha Paradise, "Well, it seems I didn't need to worry after all," he smiled putting his book away, "Looks like I should report back to Hayate now that my mission to infiltrate and eliminate the Akatsuki Hide out is already finished," and with that he turned around and began to move back towards Kohona.
Soria stood laughing alone in the hide out. Her subordinates had already been picked up by Kohona ANBU. She knew that she had been duped, but rather than take it sourly she was rather proud of the young Lee and Dosu, as those two managed to trick her, an ex ANBU captain of Hidden mist. She simply decided to return to her master Kisame with the bad news, telling him that there was going to be some very interesting enemies they will be facing in the next few years.
Again I apologize about this long Delay. I had way more to do than I originally thought. I'll try to get the next section up ASAP, so please bear with me on this.
Thank you for all who are still readers of my work, even after all these big delays.