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Chapter Five-Technicalities
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5AK
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"I don't like it." hissed Danzou.
"You don't like anything." replied Sarutobi.
"You could start the next shinobi war." replied the ROOT founder.
"Like that would upset you." replied the Sandaime, pulling on his pipe. "This kind of mission is attempted all the time-by the other villages. After all, a few years back Kumogakure tried to get hold of a Hyuuga."
"And they did, second try." retorted the council member angrily.
"So, taking one of Their Kekkei Genkai in return would be just fair, no?" smirked the Hokage.
Danzou growled.
"We're not ready for this kind of risk."
"No-one ever is. We're soft." said Sarutobi. "Just occasionally, let's be long, sharp, hard, and dangerous. We're getting some Kekkei Genkai."
"Next you're going to say they're going with that ridiculous Wolf team."
"Oh, good idea."
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12AK
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"Where are we going?" asked a girl, curiously, bounding along. Her hair was brown, long, framing her head and going down her back. Her eyes were brown tool, dancing happily in the half light.
"We're on a mission." replied another girl, irritated. "I told you once."
This girl had bright red hair, curly and shoulder length. Her eyes flashed with anger, as they dashed through the trees.
Both wore loose black robes, done up at the waist. The first girl wore a leaf headband around her forehead, the second had it engraved on the weapon she wore on her back.
"What mission?" asked the first girl.
"I told you already, Hanma." growled the second. "We're stopping a group of rogue ninja."
"Whyyyy?"
"Because we got orders to."
"Whyyyy?"
"Shut it, Hanma."
"Awww…. comeon, Kama! Come ooooon!"
Kakiri Kama scowled at Kusari Hanma.
"We do as we're ordered. Nothing more to it. Understand?"
"Aww… Kamaaa!"
Despite the bickering, the two were close friends. The dangerous, unhinged, loyal sword-user and the hyperactive, insane Kunoichi. It was, admittedly, an odd combination-not to mention the other girl about to arrive.
"Hey Kama, Hanma. I checked the area, there's nothing except a small camp over there!" said the blonde-haired Waza Manami.
"Ohmygod it's Manami!" exclaimed Hanma, as if seeing a long lost friend.
"Shut it Hanma." said Kama, eyes glinting. "Which way is the camp? How many where there?"
"It's that way." said the young girl-only nine, compared to the two twelve year olds, pointing. "There were two of them."
"Two. What did they look like?" asked Kama.
"Blue hair, both with hidden mist headbands-scratched out." said Manami.
"Perfect." said Kama, grinning, pointed teeth glinting. "Let's go."
The three darted away. No-one watching would know that this was their first mission together, working as if they had always done so. But Manami had only even been in Konoha for a year or so, and Kama had joined only a few months ago.
Yet when they burst through the trees and into a secluded, seaside cove, they attacked like a group who had fought together for decades.
"Kirigakure no Jutsu!" screamed Kama, drawing the weapon from her back with both hands.
It had a long, sword like blade at one end, then a large haft. The haft was attached to an oversized, double headed axe, engraved on one side with a leaf symbol, and on the other side with the four wavy lines of Mist-with a scratch through the middle.
Its edges seemed to writhe and ripple, as id blocked from view by hot air.
Kama's technique blocked the sight of everyone in the cove-but Hanma and Manami knew how to deal with it.
The two missing-nin they were attacking broke and ran after Kama's first swing cut the first man's arm off.
They went in different directions, having left their village together and knowing instinctively where they would meet up.
The first, now one armed, met a certain blonde, hyperactive nine year old.
"Do you have any chocolate?" she asked, tilting her head.
"What the hell?" asked the ninja.
"Oh well…" she said, sadly, pulling out her hand from her pouch. "I'll have some when I get home…"
The ninja's eyes widened as he noticed a small spider on his chest. He brushed it away, petrified with fear as he noticed the large, fanged mouth on the girl's palm.
She grinned, and he looked down, something at the edge of his vision moving..
The ground was carpeted with clay insects.
They surged up his body.
"Katsu!"
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"Hai nice to meet you I'm Kusari Hanma!" said the brown haired girl.
"What are you, six?" asked the other ninja.
"Waaaah!" she complained, fake tears streaming down her face. "You're mean… I'm gonna kill you now."
He smirked. No way could this pathetic asylum escapee hurt him.
"Rensaton: Kusari Hanma!" she proclaimed, holding her hands out to her sides.
A chain, seemingly made of white-gold light, extended out of each of her hands. They curled around her body, before suddenly attaching to long poles, and then headed with hammer heads.
She pirouetted, waving her hands, and the hammers wove a deadly net around her.
She giggled, and charged at him.
One of the hammers scythed for his head, and he blocked with a kunai.
The kunai snapped, but not before a current of lightning ran into his body, making him wince with pain and drop the remains of his weapon.
He moved his hands to block the other hammer, but it struck him in the chest before he could.
Electricity fried his nervous system an instant before every bone in his torso broke.
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"I got one!" said Hanma excitedly. "Dididogoodcomeonhowdidido?" she asked.
"I got one as well." said Manami, cheerfully.
"You both got one and I didn't get to kill one of the bastards?" hissed Kama. "I'm going to kill someone."
Without another word, she turned and left for Konoha.
The other two less unhinged, or so some would argue, ran after her.
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"Wolves." said Sarutobi, walking through the front entrance to the Wolves House, the building granted to the team since their formation, over seven years ago-though their numbers had increased since then. First, just a year after their formation, the successful kidnapping of a young girl from Kumogakure. A suspicious ease in this operation was explained when the girl seemed to stay at the mental age of seven.
Then, a year ago, Kiba, Hinata and Neji managed to acquire a rare user of the clay moulding bloodline, from Iwagakure. The girl had adapted well-partly due to the looser discipline, partly to the availability of sugary snacks and partly due to her being allowed to help with demolition squads working on old buildings.
Kakiri Kama had joined only a month ago-and had only completed one mission, a B-rank. She had been recruited by the team of Sasuke, Naruto and Ino. The three had been searching the land of Water, notorious for its distrust of Kekkei Genkai. They had struck gold with this girl. She was a skilled user of water techniques, passable with fire techniques and capable with the fusion element of Boil. Her true strength lay in her odd weapon, an axe with a sword blade on the bottom. Though her sharp teeth and bloodthirsty nature scared many, her loyalty to the village was absolute-as was her dedication to her saviours, Naruto, Sasuke and Ino.
"You may already know that the chunin exams are coming up." began the Sandaime.
"We're already chunin." pointed out Neji calmly.
"Yes." agreed the Hokage. "But. According to international treaty, you can't be unless you pass the chunin exams."
"So we have to do them?" scowled Sasuke.
"Yes. Work together as much as you can." smiled the Hokage. "And try not to kill anyone."
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Kirigakure no Jutsu-Hidden Mist Technique
Rensaton: Kusari Hanma-Chain Hammers
No more OCs. Promise. If I can avoid it. (Sweatdrop)
Hanma is based on the character Eddie from Emergency Exit. Trust me, the character is awesome, insane, and so much win, as is the comic. My Hearty Recommendations.