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Chapter Six - Kiriyama Explodes
Sakura sat in the meadow just outside the gates of Free, a comfortable blanket below her, pillows supporting her back and sides and a good book in her lap.
The sun shone down on her peaceful spot, cascading its warmth gently down upon her as she read on in quiet tranquillity.
***
Aya leant back against the trunk of the tree she was resting in, watching the clouds drift harmlessly by.
Aya loved these kind of days. It was a much better day today than yesterday had brought.
Flashback
The sun shone down lazily, casting its heat upon the resting village of Free. Sakura had mentioned that it was the perfect day for a picnic.
Karin had instantly begun to reel of the perfect things required for a picnic and had annoyed Sakura to no end about helping her find the perfect spot for their perfect picnic.
Sakura had only had to glance in Aya's direction for her protector to act.
The second she received that 'do something' look from Sakura, Aya had teleported from her spot across the compound and instantly appeared between Sakura and Karin, causing both women to jump slightly.
Karin had been so startled by Aya's sudden appearance that, while trying to back away, she had tripped over her own feet and landed heavily on her ass on the ground.
"Leave her alone!" growled Aya, glaring down at Karin.
Sakura chuckled as Karin frantically nodded and rushed away.
Sakura announced that she was too tired for a picnic now and was going to get some rest, leaving Aya standing in the middle of the street, inwardly laughing her ass of at Karin, who was still stumbling away from her.
A messenger bird chose that exact moment to swoop down and drop a tightly bound scroll at Aya's feet before flying away again.
Aya quickly picked up the scroll and, seeing her own name written on the outside, opened it and read the short letter within.
Aya,
Message from G. K kidnapped. S, S and G on retrieval. CODE RED!
Kakashi.
Aya's eyes flashed as her Sharingan activated. It wasn't quite as good as Sasuke's, being inherited from a female made it weaker for some reason, but it worked for what she needed.
Aya patrolled the entire village repeatedly, keeping Sakura's current location in sight at all times, and scanned for all and any threats.
She spent the rest of the day, staying that little bit closer to wherever Sakura went, determined that no threat would get passed her.
Aya waited until a calm moment before informing Sakura of what was happening. She was understandably anxious but seemed confident that the three men would return her son to her safely.
Aya made a promise to herself that if she found ANY of the people involved in Kaisuke's kidnapping, she would make them suffer so badly, they would wish their parents had never been born.
End of Flashback
There may have still been stress in every cell of Sakura's body that morning but if the woman wanted a private picnic to help her calm down, the by Kami, that's exactly what Aya would ensure she got.
Aya chuckled to herself as she remembered the disappointed look on Karin's face when Sakura had asked Aya to 'make sure she does not follow me!'
Aya shook herself from her thoughts and focused her eyes once again on the patterns in the clouds passing by overhead.
***
A shadow suddenly blocked the sunlight from reaching the page Sakura was reading. Thinking it was Karin, Sakura merely grumbled.
"Get out the damn way!"
The deep, cold, chuckle that came in response, froze Sakura to the spot. Her mind reeled with worry as she looked up and was met by a blue skinned man grinning menacingly at her.
"Who are you?" Sakura managed to gasp out, while her charka spiked in a frantic and worried manner.
"I am the last person to see you alive! But you can call me Kisame!" grinned the boasting man.
Sakura felt fear like never before coarse through her body. She was heavily pregnant, on the ground, not able to get up quickly or run anywhere, and completely unarmed.
"When you reach the afterlife…" smirked Kisame. "Tell Itachi that I'll be sending his little brother along shortly!"
Kisame drew the wrapped sword from his back and raised it high above Sakura's head.
"Any last words?"
***
"PLEASE!" Karin tried again.
She had found Aya lounging about on a tree branch and was desperately trying to get the woman to tell her where Sakura was having her picnic.
Aya barely even glanced at Karin as she responded.
"For the last time, Karin. NO!" snapped Aya.
"I promise, I wont annoy her!" pleaded Karin, trying yet another tactic.
"You're already annoying me!" Aya snapped again. "Now just fu…"
Aya's head suddenly snapped up toward the north. Karin instantly noticed how tense she had suddenly become but before she could ask what it was, Aya had vanished.
***
"Please!" begged Sakura. "Don't hurt my babies!" she pleaded, clutching her swollen stomach protectively.
"A proud Uchiha wife, begging! You've just made my day!" laughed Kisame evilly as he brought his blade down upon her.
CLANG!
Kisame's eyes widened at the sudden appearance of another woman. She had, somehow, got in between him and his target and managed to deflect his blade. With a kunai?!
"Mine too!" sneered the woman in his way.
"Get out of the way, wench!" snarled Kisame.
"Make me!" snapped the woman viciously.
Kisame was more than a little thrown by this woman. Her size and build didn't make her look like any real challenge for him but her stance and tone left him in no doubt that she meant business.
"You think you can stop me?!" mocked Kisame.
"You think you can get passed me?!" came the woman's instant reply.
"Once I kill you, she dies slowly!" snarled Kisame.
"IF you can!" mocked the woman.
"I am Kisame! I am Akatsuki! Legendary Swordsman!" boasted Kisame.
"So?" stated the woman, faking a yawn. "Is that suppose to impress somebody?"
Kisame roared in rage. This short female had just insulted his honour! He would not, could not, stand for that. Disrespect was something he gave, not received!
He swung his sword at the irritating woman but she dodged it with ease, dipping back before surging into the air and spitting fire balls at him! Kisame ducked and dodged as the woman continued her assault.
Fire balls, shuriken, kunai, vanishing from his sight only to appear behind or beside him, slicing at him with a katana. 'Where the hell did that come from?' his mind screamed as he found himself backing away from this small woman.
"Who the hell are you?!" Kisame shouted as he frantically blocked another katana swing, this time aimed at his throat.
"As far as your concerned? My name is death!" snarled the woman as she dodged his blade, the swing aimed to cut her in half.
Kisame felt himself overbalanced by his own overeager swing and tried to right himself.
His blade wouldn't move!
Kisame snapped his head around and screamed internally as he saw three large vines wrapped around his blade, pulling it out of his grasp and throwing it across to the other side of the meadow. He spun around to find, and kill, that infuriating woman, only to find her crouched down on one knee with the fingertips of one hand pressed into the ground.
'She can control plants?' his mind gasped.
The woman's head snapped up and she locked gazes with him. Kisame felt the bottom of his stomach ready to drop. Two blood red Sharingan eyes, each with two spinning tomes, were glaring at him.
'SHIT!' screamed his mind. 'She's a Uchiha!'
"Who the fuck are you?!" demanded Kisame.
The woman, with her terrifying eyes still locked on to his, slowly rose to her feet.
"I am Aya Kiriyama! Daughter of Kira Uchiha and Tenzu Kiriyama! An Akatsuki murdered my father! Now I send you to face his judgement!"
Kisame's face dropped. The name that had haunted him for years was back! Not only was it back, but it's vengeance had been made flesh. For the first time in his life, Kisame was nervous.
Flashback
"What have you done?!" snapped a furious Itachi.
Kisame smirked down at the body of the shinobi he had just slain and laughed.
"What does it look like, Itachi?"
Itachi's fist collided with the back of Kisame's head. "Fucking idiot!"
"What the hell was that for?!" demanded Kisame, rubbing the, now tender, spot.
"That was Tenzu Kiriyama! You fucking idiot!" snapped Itachi. "We wanted him to JOIN US!"
"What?!" Kisame was shocked. "Why?!"
"The Kiriyama clan are one of the most powerful clans in ALL the countries!" snapped Itachi, his Sharingan eyes making Kisame more than a little nervous. "The Sharingan looks like a fucking child's play thing compared to what they can do! They're more powerful than the Uchiha clan ever was!"
"So killing him was a mistake?" asked Kisame nervously.
Itachi rubbed his hand over his face. "You better PRAY to Kami that they don't find out who did this!" stated the furious Itachi. "Not even Kami himself could protect you if they DO!"
End of Flashback
Kisame shook his head, desperately trying to clear the self-destructive doubts before they could take hold. He was only just able to dodge Aya's kunai as it breezed passed his head, cutting off some hair and the tip of his ear as it went.
Kisame hissed in pain and fought off the urge to cover his ear. He spotted a clear path to Sakura and charged. Sakura saw him coming and screamed.
Three steps were as far as he got before he was grabbed from below by a suddenly appearing vine and thrown to the other end of the meadow. Aya chuckled, her tone chilling the very air around them.
"Thought she was unguarded, did you?!"
Kisame roared in rage and charged again, this time aiming for Aya. His brain screamed in panic the second his eyes registered the smirk on her face.
Aya's hands moved so rapidly that not even Sakura could keep up with what she was doing. Kisame was closing in on her fast and Sakura was afraid for her protector. "Look out!" she screamed.
Kisame was forced to launch himself in to the air as short vines, as sharp as spikes, shot out of the ground in front of him. He made hand several rapid hand seals before reaching out with his left hand, just in time to catch his sword, that had instantly flown across to him from where it lay.
Aya chuckled again as Kisame lowered the blade toward her as he came down on top of her.
Kisame laughed mockingly, "Now you die!", as his blade sliced through…
"Where the fuck did she go?!" screamed Kisame.
Sakura gasped, shocked beyond belief. Kisame had been too close, Aya had made no hand seals, and yet, Kisame had hit nothing but thin air. Aya simply wasn't there any more.
Kisame sneered as he turned toward Sakura once more. "You're mine now, bitch!"
Sakura, on her hands and knees, desperately tried to crawl away from him but he was gaining ground on her too quickly.
"There's no point running, Mrs Uchiha!" sneered Kisame. "Your, so called, guard has abandoned you! There is no-one who can save you now! Killing you will be even easier than snatching your son!"
BOOM!
The ground between Kisame and Sakura exploded! Debris, rocks and dust flew in all directions, except Sakura's.
"WHAT?!"
Aya stepped out of the dust cloud. Her eyes were an even darker red than before. Blood trickled down her front and back from a gash on her right shoulder, a pale green glow emanating from the wound, kniting the flesh back together. Kisame was smug that he had wounded her after all but that feeling was overshadowed by sheer terror as he realised that he had seen those eyes before.
Aya had Mangekyo Sharingan! However, unlike when Kisame had seen Itachi use his, her eyes were not bleeding!
As if reading his thoughts, which she may well have been doing, Aya answered Kisame's mental questions, her every word taunting him with malice.
"When an Uchiha kills one they love, they gain the Mangekyo Sharingan! BUT when someone they love gives their life for them, they gain this! The Immortal Mangekyo Sharingan!"
"Your eyes make no difference to the outcome of this battle!" shouted Kisame as he raised his sword and charged at her.
"You're right!" sneered Aya. "You're still going to die!"
Aya unsheathed her katana once more and charged at Kisame.
Aya's katana flashed with chakra as Chidori infused with the blade. Sakura watched on in horror and fascination as the two foes collided.
Sakura screamed in terror as a kunai sped from Kisame, aimed directly at her head. A vine instantly appeared between Sakura and the weapon, taking the full impact of the small blade.
Aya's growl of rage was heard clear across the valley as she sliced at Kisame. Kisame's roar was heard just as clearly as he brought his blade down on Aya time and time again, being met by thin air, a vine or blocked by Aya's own weapon each time.
Kisame smirked at her. "You're better at this than your father was!" he mocked.
"IT WAS YOU!"
Kisame had no idea how it happened. One minute he had been gaining the upper hand, had even felt confident enough to mock her. The next thing he knew, Aya had twisted to the left, only to actually turn to the right and drove her katana through his gut, right up to the hilt.
Kisame staggered backwards, ending up several feet away from her. He stared at the blade he now wore, and the impudent bitch who had shoved it there. He growled. "You think that's going to stop me?!"
"I hope not!" said Aya, her rage obvious but her tone calm and level. "I'm not done with you yet!"
Kisame could feel his strength, and life blood, dribbling out of his gut and down his legs. He grabbed his sword and, with the all strength he had left, launched it at Aya.
Aya was almost completely drained, of chakra and energy. She saw the blade coming at her and knew that she had no way to dodge it in time. Aya sighed slightly and closed her eyes, knowing that at least he would die with her.
"SAND COFFIN!"
Aya's eyes snapped open. Kisame's eyes were locked on his precious blade, now smothered with sand, as it crashed harmlessly to the ground, mere feet from it's target. Aya glanced around and saw Gaara stepping out of the tree line and into the meadow. She smiled over to him and nodded in thanks. Gaara nodded back, a worried smile on his slightly trembling lips as he watched Aya move closer to Kisame.
Aya stopped moving five feet away from Kisame. She smirked evilly at him as she began making several hand seals.
"I'm done with you now." she hissed at him, finishing the hand seals. "CHIDORI!"
Aya's katana, still firmly lodged in Kisame's gut, crackled and sparked as all of Aya's hurt, sorrow and rage poured into it. Kisame screamed in pure agony until…
SPLAT!
Kisame exploded! His ragged remains peppering the ground all around the meadow. Except for Sakura, that is, vines instantly appeared above and around her, forming a cocoon, shielding her from even the tiniest drop.
Gaara, ignoring the flying remains, rushed further into the meadow and caught Aya's collapsing body before she could hit the ground.
Gaara's head snapped round at the sound of another person approaching. Suigetsu was sifting through what remained of Kisame and picking pieces of flesh and muscle off of Aya's katana. When he spotted Gaara staring at him oddly, he smiled sheepishly and replied.
"She's gonna want this back. It was her father's!"
To be continued…
