Ok so...i haven't updated in a while...ha ha ha *nervous laughter* SORRY! School was a big pain in the ass but i have taken my last final yesterday so I am now dedicated to finishing this story! But now i really have to find my idea book that i left some place...o well...

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Chapter 7: Failure

Lee looked at his opponent with a grim face.

"What's your name?" Lee questioned.

"Sado, Yatsutora. Though...a lot of people call me Chad."

Lee looked at him skeptically but didn't comment. "I see. I'm Lee. And please know that... I will definitely won't hold back on you." Lee's determination was clearly drawn on his face. "You have made a big mistake of coming here and hurting good people."

Chad's expression didn't change. He assumed that "Sakura" was the pink-haired girl he was fighting earlier. "Fine" he said impassively.

Lee eased back into position. He took a deep breath, calming his ecstatic nerves. On the other hand Chad was standing with out a sliver of movement. Though, inside Chad's heart was rocketing off the walls of his chest. Always before a battle, his temptation to fight would burn even when he was just a boy in middle school. His abuelo's teachings were important of course and taught him to protect people but...it didn't stop him from enjoying his battles. Especially since he met Ichigo.

Ichigo Kurosaki.

His fingers shivered slightly. Chad had felt Ichigo's unmistakable reiatsu spike abnormally and since then he had been feeling hasty to find him. On normal situations he would have ignored it for he always knew that Ichigo was strong enough to handle things on his own, but for some reason...he felt an ominous feeling that this was not the case.

Chad looked across at his opponent. He honestly didn't know much about him, what he was like, where he was really from, and really what was his power. Guess I'll just have to find out.

Lee, pushing off from the ground, flew forward. Chad quickly dodged to his left of a powerful right punch. Lee sent blurred jabs, rotating between his left hand and right. Chad immediately matched in sync as he moved backward with each dodge. Suddenly he felt something flat push against his back. Chad stiffened against the jail wall and at the last millisecond dodged another punch. The wall immediately crumbled as rock was spewed in different directions. Chad's eyes opened wide. This guy is pretty skimpy looking but...he's pretty good.

Lee wrenched his right hand from the wall's grasp, his hand unscathed. Quickly, in no time at all, he struck out his left hand, catching Chad in the chest. Though, his target was unsurprised and unexpectedly latched on to Lee's hand. Lee gasped and tried to get out of the intense death grip. Using his opportunity to the fullest value, Chad hurled Lee forward to the jail building. Lee could feel air pressure maximise on his back as he moved in is his non-aerodynamic form. He took advantage of his momentum and spun, landing swiftly to the ground. In a split second later, he was flying forward, slamming his feet into his target's chest sending him backward to the opposite side. His opponent hit the wall immediately disorienting the plain cement.

Lee continued to focus, but on his face was a slight smile of his small victory. But two seconds later, it was quickly wiped away with surprise.

Chad was easing slowly out of the wall, not out of pain but for almost like out of laziness. He cracked his sore joints and easily returned back to his original state. Unscathed. Lee furrowed his brows. In most cases, people, even the greatest shinobi would at least have some wounds. But this...person doesn't even look like he is in pain! He can't be human.

Chad's right arm, which had already been covered by in black and red intricate marks, had started to come into ablaze with blue spirit energy. The part of his covering above his shoulders was opening and closing, taking in the energy around him. Finally, as the ball of blue energy had increased to an reasonable size, the part above his shoulders stopped moving. Chad walked forward, his right hand riveted to his side. Lee lifted his brows. What does he think he's doing? He's so slow and he is using the same attack twice. I can easily dodge it. But never the less, Lee had gotten into position, though, was a bit more relaxed.

Suddenly, Chad disappeared. Lee, his face in comical shock, started to search for his opponent. "Where did he-"

Lee froze. He could feel his opponent's presence directly behind him. Crap. Without even time to react, he flew toward the jail building, this time, effectively slamming against the rock wall. A heartbeat after, he started to slide down painfully to the ground. He groaned quietly. His back felt like it was on fire. All his muscles seemed to all quietly scream at him. Lee was slumped on the ground, panting. He put both hands in tight fists. Shoot. I-I underestimated him. He's fast, strong, and has a steal body. No wonder...Sakura lost. Lee could feel the expense of his attacks over taking him. Blood trickled from his lips. The salty taste and iron smell was repulsing, but not as repulsing as the feeling of failure on his chest.

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"Twin Rising Dragons."

Renji still had a skeptical look on his face. Seriously. What can this girl do simply with paper? Going to make spit balls or somethin? Renji smirked.

Suddenly gray smoke exploded around the paper scrolls. Renji's eyes widened. The smoke was starting to shape themselves into two dragons, curling around each other as they sped into the air. As the smoke dragons started to get far in the air, Tenten flew up as well between them. Quickly, Renji jumped back to see his opponent.

The smoke started to dissipate, and what was left was the red and yellow scroll. Tenten, being in the air for a short amount of time, started to quickly summon multitudes of weapons. An army of hundred of kunai and shuriken emerged from the paper scrolls and started to shoot through the air. Renji, after going through expected surprise, rolled his eyes in annoyance. Using agility and Zabimaru, Renji dodged the weapons and brushed the kunai away. He could hear Zabimaru clink and whine. I know Zabimaru. I know you don't like doing this easy shit. Just a little bit longer.

Suddenly, he felt a presence behind him. His breath hitched. He flipped around, ignoring the weapons blazing around him, and placed Zabimaru in front of Neji's hand that was prepared to injure his back. His back was wide open, three kunai dug into his back. Growling at the sharp pain, he pushed off Neji with Zabimaru, sending him flying through the air and slumped on the ground. One down one more to go.

Renji spun back around too see Tenten connect wire strings to the weapons on the ground. Without wasting any time, he ran toward the ninja, whipping forward Zabimaru. Tenten snapped up into the air, Zabimaru slicing beneath her feet. The weapons that were on the ground moved up with her and Renji could see the millions of blue chakra strings attached between tTenten's fingers and the weapons. For a second, it seemed that the ninja was hanging in the air with a mist of weapons all around her, it was so powerful looking but at the same time, kinda magnificent.

Renji, even though he didn't want to admit it, understood that these ninjas weren't exactly weaklings like he thought they were.

The swarm of weapons rushed forward at him. Renji didn't bother trying to avoid it, he clenched Zabimaru and spun it around him, making a defensive cocoon around him. He could hear the clangs of weapons hit his shield as he waited for the attack to pass. Though soon, the noises started to calm themselves and become fewer and fewer. Renji unravelled the tangle of his weapon, putting it back into the original form. He could see the ninja girl on the ground again, breathing heavily and her shoulders slumped over from exhaustion.

This is the best time to finally finish her off.

As if she could read his mind, the ninja girl lifted her head a gave him an fiery glare. Her hate, her determination to kill him was so incredibly clear. Renji jumped back a little. Fine. I'll give this girl what she wants.

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Tenten could feel her body become more and more exhausted, but when she saw that prick smirking at her dilemma she couldn't help wanting to punch him. Though, she settled for a silent glare. She saw him jump and she felt a little better. Though, she was angry, because she knew that he had much more power then he let on, judging from the amount of chakra in him. Regaining more of her energy she stood up straight and reached behind her back for her final scroll.

Tenten gasped for air.

An alien pressure was surrounding her body, reaching within her and suffocating her. She looked at the red pineapple haired intruder, and she realised that this monstrous power was coming from him.

Red chakra was swirling around him as he held his irregular looking sword.

"Bankai!" He roared.

In that instant, the chakra whirled around his body like a tornado of power. Tenten jumped back quickly to avoid being caught by it. She shielded her eyes from the singeing red. Finally, as quickly as it came, the released chakra from the intruder dissipated. She unveiled her eyes and looked at him. She gasped, her eyes wide. His sword was completely different, in fact, it didn't even look like a sword. It was a snake completely made of bone, with red hair around its head, glowing yellow eyes, and sharp teeth. It was coiling around the intruder, like it was his master.

Tenten was frozen. How on earth... who are these people? Beads of cold sweat went down her back. Her hand was shivering against the scroll.

"Nervous ninja girl?" The intruder teased. Tenten awoke from her fear and eased into anger. How dare he. How dare he play with me! She clenched the large scroll and whipped it into the air, letting it unravel in the sky.

"Tensasai!" She yelled.

The scroll began to explode, raining with streaks of bright white. The weapons were so incredibly fast that all one could really see was the bright streaks. Tenten smirked. She knew that the intruders new weapon was too big to be able to coil around him to protect him and wouldn't be able to because the bones would be easily broken by the weapons. The intruder also wouldn't be able to save his weapon from the swarm because of its monstrous size. She knew that she had him now.

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"Baboon Canon!" Renji roared. The red explosion from his Zabimaru overcame the white strings of weapons. He completely destroyed the large scroll, and what was left was twirling pieces of charred paper. He looked at the ninja, her eyes wide in shock. Hmph that was her best attack wasn't it? It wasn't bad but...it wasn't good enough. Renji's face was stern and serious. No more cocky laughter and jerky taunts came from him. He was serious to end the fight.

"Go Zabimaru." He threw his body forward to move his zanpaktou. It flew right at her and like a snake catching a mouse. The ninja flitted this way and that. Moved in complicated routes while throwing some kunai and shuriken on the way. But Renji knew it was over for her and so did she. Zabimaru's mouth expanded ready for the kill. It flew forward, faster than the ninja, and sunk its teeth into her torso. She screamed as the blood dripped down her body and arms. Zabimaru's teeth was stained with blood. Zabimaru unlatched its teeth from her body, letting her fall to the ground. She groaned and slowly inched forward trying to avoid the finishing attack. Zabimaru hovered over his pray, waiting for the final order.

"Eight trigrams one hundred and 64 plams"

Renji thrusted forward irregularly, searing pain erupting from a point in his back. He dropped Zabimaru in surprise and pain. He twisted himself around, only to see the white eyed ninja that was behind him. Finally, all hell broke lose, a barrage of fast hits from the ninja slammed into him. He could feel his ribs breaking and by the end, each attack made him spit out blood from his insides. The hits eventually stopped, leaving him kneeling down on the ground with his palms out in front of him. He coughed up more and more blood, not even caring if it splashed over his hands. Have I...lost? Renji looked around for a moment, searching. His eyes latched onto his Zabimaru. It was no longer in its Bankai form and it wasn't even in its regular shikai form. Ripped up pieces of it were strewn everywhere on the ground.

"Damn it." He coughed. More blood dribbled from his mouth.

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Neji looked at the intruder he had finally defeated kneeling in front of him. These intruders, they are an incredible pain. We can't allow them to live.

Neji thought of Tenten, and his sacrifice. He had to do it to her in order to regain his own strength and destroy the intruder. Though, he knew that she was still alive, he could still see the chakra flowing through her body, so he knew she was still ok but...barely. A swirl of light chakra went around his right hand, he was preparing his final move at this man's heart.

"What have you done to my zanpaktou?" The intruder spat.

Nenji's eyebrows lifted. Zanpaktou? Oh.. he means his sword, "I've destroyed it obviously. Your power is too much connected to this sword. I can see the chakra being exchanged with it, almost as if your sword is alive with you." Nenji responded. "I can't let you have it."

The intruder inquired frustrated,"Yeah I know what you've done with my zanpaktou, I just want to know how."

Nenji responded coolly,"I simply broke it at its chakra points. Our weapons don't have such a thing but yours...it oddly does." Thank god when I weakened this guy the sword went back to its last form...i don't think I could have dealt with that...monster.

"Hmph" The intruder replied, "You really don't understand us at all do ya?"

"Well of course not! I've never met your strange kind. We've never anticipated savages coming here and hurting people." Neji said angrily.

"Us hurt you? We came here by accident! You people were the first to attack!" Renji yelled.

"Yeah right. Well what ever, your finished. Anything you have to say is meaningless." Nenji ordered.

"Hah. That's what you think." Renji smirked.

Neji frowned in annoyance, "How dare yo-"

"Baboon Fang Bite"

Nenji gasped. Painful pieces of the intruder's weapon digged into his body. Blood spurted into the air from the velocity of the shards. Neji looked his mutilated chest. He could see his own chakra paths being blocked by the pieces of weapon inside himself. The loss of blood and pain was starting to overwhelm him. He collapsed forward, not even feeling the dirt and small rocks from the ground. He lost feeling. He breaths were slow and painful. Neji closed his eyes slowly, everything was so hazy and confusing. He couldn't make sense of what had just happened.

Though only one thing was clear to him:

They had failed

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