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Chapter 4: The Rain Ninja
Hiorie flew through the trees, using his hook shots to swing from tree to tree. Kuro and Kysona were having some trouble keeping up. It wasn't long before they were asking him to slow down and wait up. "Come on guys, we need to get through this exam as fast as possible." Hiorie commented irritably.
"Shut it, blind boy!!" Kysona snapped, causing Hiorie to slightly twitch. "How the hell do you go so fast??" She asked after she had caught her breath. "Those chains give you one hell of an advantage."
"They're called hook shots." Hiorie said, sighing at the fact that he had to remind her every time she mentioned his weapons.
"Whatever. Ok let's…." But Kysona was silenced by a kunai to her throat before she could finish. Hiorie stared and the shinobi holding his companion, not wanting to make any sudden moves to end his friends life. 'A woman? I don't know but it sure smells like one.' Kysona thought.
"Hand over the scroll and I'll let her live." The woman said threateningly.
'Kuro, come on!' Hiorie thought to himself. Suddenly the woman grunted loudly, dropped the kunai and arched her back. Kysona quickly spun out of her attacker's arms over to where Hiorie was standing. A short blade was slowly being pulled out of the shinobi's chest. The body fell to the ground and Kuro walked out from behind it, cleaning and sheathing his blade.
Kysona walked over to her attackers body and stared at it. "A rain ninja." She said just loud enough for the other two to hear. "Bitch!!" She yelled as she kicked the ninja's limp body as hard as she could. Hiorie clenched his head with his hand and started breathing heavily. "I hope she has an earth scroll."
Kuro looked deeply at Hiorie, wondering what was wrong. Right when he was about to ask him, Kysona grunted loudly. They both looked up and saw Kysona getting kicked in the face by a man swinging from a vine. Hiorie flew into action. He shot one hook shot and wrapped it around Kysona's waist, catching her. He shot the other one at the man and before he could get away, the chain wrapped around his neck. Hiorie yanked it back and heard a satisfying SNAP echo throughout the area. He motioned for Kuro to grab the girl's body and jump to the ground. Once they reached the ground, Hiorie quickly inspected Kysona.
"She was hit pretty hard." He said to Kuro, sighing deeply. "She'll be out for a while."
"Damnit." Kuro muttered while Hiorie checked the dead enemy bodies for a scroll. "Do they have it on them?"
"No." Hiorie said, letting out another sigh. Kuro walked off cursing while Hiorie stood and thought. 'They should have another companion with them. But where is he? He is probably waiting for us to drop our guard and strike us when we're sleeping or something. If he was smart he would attack now. Why were they following us earlier?' He thought referring to the real reason why the were late and why they got "lost". 'And if they were following us how did they still get to the exam on time. It's not coincidence that they found us this early in the exam either.' Hiorie was starting to get frustrated. He leaned up against a tree and put his palm on his forehead. 'What the hell's going on!? I've never even seen a rain ninja before yet…' He thought back to what Kysona had said. 'I want to say that it was déjà vu but….. It's not. I don't have a connection with any rain ninja or their village.' He reassured himself. 'Right?'
Hiorie suddenly ducked and dove forward. He quickly turned around to the tree he was using to hold himself up. It slowly fell over, making a loud crash echo through the forest. "Damnit!" He cursed inwardly. He quickly jumped back and a kunai landed right where he was standing. He looked up, but no one was there. He dodged to the side and a kunai passed by him. This time, the moment he looked back, he quickly turned around again and saw a shuriken fly his way. He grabbed it and threw it to the side.
"Show yourself!!" Hiorie screamed. He looked in front of him and a ninja dropped down from the trees. He slowly lifted his head. 'RAIN!!' Hiorie stared at the forehead protector, frozen. 'I don't know this!! I don't know this!!' He told himself over and over again. But he just couldn't shake the familiarity in it all. He scowled and shook it off. He heard a POOF next to him and looked at the dead girl's body. It was a log. 'Shit!! A Replacement!' He thought as he turned ahead and saw another ninja next to the boy. Hiorie threw a kunai at the dead boy's body. It stuck in him and Hiorie waited for the transformation, but it never came.
"Yeah, he's dead." The girl said causing Hiorie to turn his head and drop to a ready stance. "You don't seriously expect to beat me do you? Come on Hiorie, use you head a little." Hiorie took a look of surprise at this. He reached into his coat and pulled out a kunai and two small different colored balls. One blue, and one green. They both looked at him oddly. He threw the kunai between them and they both dodged different directions. Hiorie ran at the boy and tossed the blue ball at the girl's feet. It quickly burst into a huge smokescreen. "Oh come on, please don't tell that this is your best." She said, mocking him. Hiorie smirked and kicked at the boy. He grabbed Hiorie's foot and threw him into the smokescreen. Just as Hiorie was thrown he chucked the green ball at the ground. Nothing happened causing the boy to laugh. Hiorie threw his hands together and focused his chakra to an extreme extent. He released it and the ball at the boy's feet exploded into a huge inferno, disintegrating him instantly.
'So far, so good.' Hiorie thought, 'One left, who I need to interrogate thoroughly. What the hell does she now about me?' He landed on the ground in the middle of the smokescreen and twirled a hook shot over his head. The smokescreen was quickly swept away, leaving him and the girl staring each other down. She smirked and charged him.
"Idiot." Hiorie muttered under his breath. She kicked at him and he wrapped his hook shot around her leg, pulled, spun around and back-handed her across the face. He reeled in his weapon and sheathed it. She got up and grinned widely.
"Good Hiorie." She said slyly. "You've progressed in your training much more than I had expected. I'm impressed."
"That's good for you but I really don't care what the fuck you think about me." He responded with more anger than what he originally planned. He walked up to her slowly. "Stand up."
"No that's alright. I'm pretty comfortable right here. You can join me if you want." She said, tapping the ground next to her.
"Yeah, fuck you." Hiorie sighed, sarcastically.
"Gladly!!" She yelled enthusiastically. Hiorie took a step back in surprise. She quickly got up and jumped into his arms, toppling them over. She rammed her lips into his and tried to pin him down but Hiorie put his foot on her stomach and pushed as hard as he could.
"Oh goody!!" She yelled sinisterly, holding her stomach. "I love it when it's rough!!" She stood up and charged him.
"Crazy whore!!" He yelled back, pulling out a kunai and blocking her strike. She jumped over him and stabbed a kunai into his spinal cord. She smiled widely. Hiorie limply fell to the ground. His body burst into smoke and a log was left in his place.
"Alright! I was hoping that you weren't that easy to kill." She screamed into the forest, obviously frustrated.
'Where the fuck is Kuro!!?!?' Hiorie thought, also frustrated. 'How can he not hear any of this!? Damnit, looks like I'm on my own. Ok Hiorie, relax.' He looked down at the bitch below from his hiding place in a tree. She was pacing around until her eye caught something. 'What's she looking….. FUCK!! Kysona's still down there!!' But before he could even move, she was next to Kysona with a kunai to her neck.
"Ok Hiorie. Come out!!!" She yelled threateningly. "You have two options!! One, you stay hidden and watch her and that other bastard die like what happened to Kosuke and Angel. Then I leave you to wallow in despair. Two, You come down and I kill you, then I kill your friends." There was a long silence. "Oh well, I liked option #1 better anyway." She raised her kunai above her head and smiled broadly.
'What?? How does she know……. Wait.' Hiorie clenched his fist tightly. His mind flew back to the ambush on his team. The girl drove her kunai towards Kysona's neck. Hiorie suddenly appeared by her and grabbed her wrist. She looked up.
"So you've chosen…" But before she could finish her sentence, Hiorie punted her. She flew back until she hit a tree about twenty feet away.
"Never threaten my comrades." Hiorie threatened, trying to control his rage. "I swear, I'll kill you!!!!"
The girl grinned. "Well, looks like my sister does have a good man. I'll admit, I'm jealous."
Kuro suddenly appeared and ran in front of Hiorie. "Hiorie, sorry for the wait. I had to deal with something. Apparently, these guys had a trap hidden and it took me a bit to get rid of it." He said, as if he was late to dinner or something. "Who is she anyway?"
There was a long pause. "This is Hana Hitomi, Kysona's sister."
Yeah, things are going to get crazy from here on out. I was hoping for more action this time around but the next chapter will have more. Along with some answers to some questions. Hope you liked it!! The next chapter will take me a while though. I've got a lot of food on my plate.