All right, everyone!
This is where the battle gets REALLY good!
It's Team Taka's turn now! Enjoy Chapter 13!
CHAPTER 13
The Broken Promise
"It's been a long time, Miyuki..." Said the woman clad in the silver cloak. "You've really grown..."
When Miyuki uttered the word "sensei", her three teammates looked at her with a look of confusion. It didn't take them long to realized what she had said. Words could not described how Miyuki was feeling at that moment as she looked at the woman in front of her.
Suigetsu was the first to say something. "S-Sensei...?" he asked and turned his attention back to the female opponent in front of them.
"Miyuki-san, what's wrong?" Jugo asked, concerned about the younger kunoichi.
"Do you know her?" Karin inquired. 'I sense an evil chakra buried deep within this woman...'
Miyuki stood there frozen. She was so shock to the point that she couldn't do anything but shake her head in disbelief. 'Please...please don't...'
"If this woman you claim is your sensei and she's with the 'Bakudai', then we have no choice..." Suigetsu stated as he pulled out his Throat Clever from off his back.
Miyuki realized what Suigetsu was about to do and she jumped in front of her with her arms spread apart. "Wait! This has to be a mistake or a genjutsu of some sort! Let me talk to her!"
"Kitten, this woman seems really dangerous." Suigetsu interjected. "I don't really think talking to her is gonna help this situation."
"Suigetsu-kun, please!" Miyuki begged, her eyes imploring him not to do anything. "Let me try!"
His eyes soften from her pleading and he remembered the promise that he made to her.
"But your heart is still as soft as ever..." The woman said loud enough to get everyone's attention and she took off her silver robe.
The woman stood at 169.0 cm and she had fair skin and dark brown eyes. Her dark purple hair with small bangs was tapered to a point under her chin and a long strand hung loose on the left side. She was wearing a short-sleeve mesh shirt and a black top that wrapped around her bust with baggy dark brown crop pants. She was also wearing dark brown gloves.
'Ami-sensei, I knew it...' This action prompted her to at least try and talk some sense into Ami, even though Suigetsu deemed it hopeless.
Miyuki started walking towards her sensei, taking slow steps. "Sensei, how is it even possible? How are you even standing before me like this?" She couldn't help but think was this a cruel genjutsu being cast on them by the 'Bakudai' but that theory was thrown out the window because she was standing right before her, looking alive and well. 'You're...you're suppose to be dead...!'
"Hmph!" Ami just smiled evilly at her student's futile efforts and Miyuki stopped several feet in front of her, having equal distance between her friends and her teacher.
'Something's not right...' Karin thought as she had her hand above her shuriken holster just in case something was to happen.
"Ami-sensei, please stop this! This isn't you, I know it isn't! Snap out of it!" Miyuki said and reached out a hand towards her sensei, hoping to get through to her. "Please..."
There was an uncomfortable silence in the grassy plain of the battlefield as the leaves from the trees rustled in the wind.
As quick as lightning, Ami was face to face in front of the blonde kunoichi with an evil grin. What Miyuki seen in her eyes of the taller woman wasn't the kindness she saw in her when she was a child. What she saw was nothing but pure evil. Team Taka couldn't believe the level of speed that Ami possessed in her transportation jutsu. Her speed could almost rival that of Sasuke's.
Ami raised her left arm. "Be quiet..." Were her last words before she slapped Miyuki across the face with the back of her gloved hand; her head swung to the side from the impact of the hit, sending Miyuki flying backwards towards her friends.
"Kitten! / Miyuki-chan! / Miyuki-san!" Team Taka yelled and Suigetsu ran between his friends and barely caught the young girl in his arms.
"Are you okay?" Suigetsu asked as he saw Miyuki's left cheek started to swell, turning a dark red color.
"Sensei..." Miyuki pleaded again, wincing from the sudden pain on her face.
'Her speed is unbelievable! How are we suppose to fight her...?' Jugo looked at the woman with cold glare.
Well that plan didn't work and Karin's blood boiled from the sight of what just happened. All she wanted to do now...was to beat the living daylights out of her. "Don't mess with us, you bitch!"
She dashed forward to try and gain momentum and strength to attack Ami with a basic front kick but she dodged it easily by ducking. No sooner than that, Ami attacked with a straight punch which Karin blocked and countered it with a with a low and reversal kick. Unfortunately for her, Ami dodged both of those moves as well.
Ami backed away from her as Karin pulled out three kunai knives between her fingers. She threw them with precise aim to pierce Ami's skull but she caught one of the two kunais thrown and flicked it towards the third kunai coming, canceling the attack out. Karin wasn't about to give up. She was determined to win this fight and that's what she was going to do.
Determined to win this fight for Team Taka, Karin gave it one last shot and charged ahead once again. She attacked Ami with a front kick with her left leg this time, but she missed once again. Ami blocked Karin's backhand and straight punch and the two kunoichi's legs rose up to kick the other but their legs met simultaneously and both attacks created a counterbalance.
Being quicker than her last attempts, Karin danced around her and tried a left hook and a right hand slap, however Ami evaded those and countered with a set of punches. Ami noticed that Karin smirked as she faked the right punch and went with a hard left punch, which connected with her stomach and made her choke on her own saliva.
'Now's my chance!' Karin slipped her hand inside the sleeve of her jacket and pulled out an huge explosive note, preparing to slap Ami in the face with it point blank range that is suppose to explode on contact after an interval of five seconds.
"Take this!" Karin yelled, hoping that this move will kill her and declare her the victor of this battle.
At the very last second, Ami recovered from the attack and jumped just above Karin's arm to balanced herself on it, dodging the explosive note.
'Shit...!' Karin's eyes widen as she had missed her yet again.
"Talk about pitiful..." Ami said, shaking her head in disappointment. "I thought you would be stronger than that but I guess sensory-type ninja could only do so much."
Red eyes widen in fear from what she said and it wasn't even a second later before she realized that Ami struck her in the neck with a chakra-infused kick, sending her flying into the ground headfirst and losing her brown glasses.
"You call yourself a kunoichi with those basic moves? It's gonna take more than that to take me down!" Ami gloated as she watched the red-haired kunoichi skidded on the grass, dirtying up her clothes and receiving scratches on her legs.
"Karin-chan!" Miyuki cried from the battlefield and rushed over to help her. When she got to her and examined her, Karin was holding the back of her neck from the left side as she winced in pain. 'Oh, no! She went for the nerves in her neck...!'
Dropping to her knees next to Karin, she placed one of her hands on her neck and it softly glowed green as she started the healing process. 'She's suffering from a small cervical fracture. It's nothing serious so she should be fine...'
Suigetsu sucked his teeth in irritation. 'Karin is out of it...That damn woman...! Why did she have to jump into the fray like that?'
"With an attack like that, she won't be getting up anytime soon..." Ami said with a sinister grin. "I am surprised that she can even move at all. I give her credit for at least trying...even though it was useless!"
Miyuki's heart was breaking in two and she gripped her fist in anger from the horrible turn of events. 'Ami-sensei...!'
"Why you...!" Suigetsu growled maliciously and tighten the grip he had on his weapon. "Screw this! I'm taking her out!" With that being said, he went ahead full force with the Throat Clever in his hand and Jugo followed him as he partially activated his Curse Seal, ready to take her down.
"Jugo-san, Suigetsu-kun, don't!" Miyuki cried after him and Karin whimpered in pain, trying to sit up and this caught her attention. "Karin-chan, please don't move just yet!"
"Those two...they can't win, Miyuki..." Karin said in despair. "We can't win this fight!"
Miyuki looked on to see how the two guys were fairing against her. Suigetsu had used his Hydration Technique and swung at Ami with force enough to slice her in two multiple times and Jugo used his speed and strength to aid Suigetsu in this fight. All in all, everything seem to be all right for now...
"What do you mean?" Miyuki finally managed to asked.
"You see, Jugo has the Curse Seal, which increases their speed and power when it's activated and because he is the origin of the Curse Seal, he is able to use its power to its full extent without it eroding his body. But it wasn't until recently when I discovered that the Curse Seals not only increased a person strength but it also has chakra natures embedded in it. Jugo's seal has earth chakra embedded in it, so his attacks probably won't have any effect of her!"
"What?" Miyuki said in shock and a bone crushing sound interrupted her train of thoughts as she seen Jugo get slammed down hard into the ground, knocking him out. Karin had predicted right on the balance of power.
Suigetsu couldn't take this anymore. She had hurt Karin and now Jugo? At this point, he didn't care who Ami was to Miyuki in the past anymore. In order for everyone to make it out of this battle alive, he was gonna have take extreme measures and kill Ami right now.
"What about Suigetsu-kun?" She was almost afraid to ask that question. Things were not looking good for them and Miyuki can sense that. "How would he fair against her?"
"Suigetsu is a former water ninja from Kirigakure and because of it, Suigetsu is able to reduce himself to liquid form and to return to his bodily form at will. He can change his body shape, giving him the ability to increase the size of his limbs and increasing his strength if necessary. Also, he is capable of merging with already existing water to increase his attack power but that won't help us since there is no water around here..."
Miyuki glanced back over to the fighting, which Ami was now blocking Suigetsu's Throat Cleaver attack with her hands. "You little...!" He seethed, adding extra pressure into breaking her defense.
"And being the idiotic fool that he is, he will try to fight her anyway despite the fact that he knows he can't win! I not gonna lie to you, Miyuki-chan. I saw this for myself during one of our previous fights. The good thing is taijutsu and weapons are useless against him but the bad thing is..." Karin winced in pain, managing to make herself stand up.
Miyuki gulped hard, waiting for Karin to finish up her statement. "...he is weak against lightning-based attacks..."
The blonde widen her eyes in fear from what she just heard. As soon as Karin said that, Suigetsu was struck hard with Ami's lighting-based whip, electrocuting his entire body as he screamed in excruciating pain.
"SUIGETSU-KUN!" Miyuki cried when she saw what happened to him.
"And I'm not about to sit here and let him get himself killed!" And Karin ran after her one last time. She pulled out two kunai knives, both of them had at least ten explosive notes attached to them and she was even more determined than she was the first time. "Die!"
"What?" Ami said when she heard Karin's voice and then the red-haired kunoichi jumped in the air and threw the kunai at her. They exploded on contact but Ami burst through the smoke with several scratches and lacerations.
"You little bitch!" Ami screeched in anger.
Karin noticed that she was in danger and she tried her to get away but Ami's whip captured her before she had the chance to do anything. She swung Karin's body around several times before slamming her body into Suigetsu, making both them collide with the ground next to Jugo who was still unconscious.
Miyuki's anger was reaching a breaking point and it wouldn't be long before she finally let her anger go. She promised herself and Nariko that she wouldn't use that power for any reason. She knew that but now it had came down to this..."Damn it...!" She said with malice, swearing for the first time in her life.
"Raiton: Shougekiha!" [雷遁:衝撃波 (Lightning Release: Shock Wave)]
Ami produced three orbs of lightning energy in her hands. "It's been fun while it lasted but it's time to put an end to this!"
Suigetsu and Karin were having their final thoughts as they waited for their deaths to come. They felt terrible about how they were going to take care of things and in the end, broke their promise to Sasuke. Their only option now...was to die honorably on the battlefield. It was the least they could do...
Karin tried desperately to hold back her silent sobs but that was impossible for her to do. 'It's all over...'
Suigetsu gritted his sharp teeth in anger. 'Sasuke...Miyuki...I'm sorry...I couldn't keep my promise...'
"DIE!" Ami pointed the attack in front of her and released her attack towards them with intense speeds.
'I WON'T LET HER HURT THEM ANYMORE!'
At that very moment, it felt like time had slowed down while the lightning attack was steadily closing in on Suigetsu, Karin, and Jugo. They closed their eyes in defeat and braced themselves for the final attack that would send them to the world of hell and suffering for their deeds.
A single green leaf floats in the air and gusts of wind blows it away as the sound of dashing footsteps in the grass could be heard from the distance...
"Chakura Shouheki!" [チャクラ難関 (Chakra Barrier)]
When the lightning attack didn't come, Suigetsu and Karin opened their eyes before they widen in surprise to see who or what it was that saved them. A transparent, circular barrier was surrounding them and the attack was being held off by it. They were even more surprised when they realized who was the one responsible for protecting them, especially Suigetsu.
Standing over him was Miyuki, steadily staving off the lightning attack and holding the barrier in place.
'She's holding off my technique...but that's not possible!' Ami thought as she studied the blonde kunoichi. 'I don't remember her ever knowing such a technique. How is she able to do that?'
After a few more seconds, the attack completely disappeared and Miyuki dispelled the technique. Miyuki looked over her shoulder and she gave her friends a concern look. "Are you guys okay?"
The two of them were too shocked to say anything at the moment so they just gave her a slow nod. Suigetsu was the first to speak. "Miyuki, how did you...Why did you..." He had so many questions to ask her and his mind was still trying to register all of the events of what had happened earlier.
Miyuki looked over at her former sensei and she gave her a cold glare. Ami was a bit taken aback from her student's sudden glare. Her eyes was now filled with hate and disappointment for her teacher's actions. Her former sensei was now a villain and her friends were now aching from the bruises and scars they've received from her. At that moment, Miyuki realized that the battle between them and the 'Bakudai' just became personal and this was something that SHE would have to care of...
* * *NEXT CHAPTER SYNOPSIS* * *
The next special chapter of Changing Fate is:
Miyuki Ablaze!
With fury as her new found strength, Miyuki vows to protect her friends and unleashes her powers...