ok so this is it everyone, this is the climax of this story arc. I would say I did decent on the fight scene although I did cut it shorter than I intended, I felt I made Kenta look to weak but I plan on making that up later on. so if at any point in this story you wanted to see Sanntaru be completely badass like only an uchiha can well here is your lucky break. comment review and enjoy. peace out
Chapter V: First Strike
It had been three weeks since the spa and Tobirama had been feeling a strange presence tailing them since then. He knew they were compromised. However he would allow them to make the first move, the more time that his team had to plan the better. So it was that on the fifth night of their third week of infiltration the hidden cloud spec ops attacked them. Luckily Tobirama sensed their presence, after all he was the most accomplished sensory ninja in the hidden leaf and possibly the best alive currently.
When they arrived at the hotel room they found Team Senju was already on the move heading to the hidden cloud main weapons department. "ok follow the plan everyone" Tobirama said as they approached the building from the east. "Rook you lead Kenta and Sanntaru through the rear entrance while I knock on their front door if all goes to plan I will be making the kill, however if their defenses prove too strong for me to immediately break through I will put my trust in you to finish him as a team.
Remember there is no retreat until he is dead. He must die, even if we will die or are captured." And with that Tobirama split off from them and circled clockwise to the entrance while Rook cried "you heard the man, lets go guys". And broke off counter clockwise to a side entrance of the building.
Tobirama stopped in front of the main entrance and dodged away from it barely in time as it was blown outward in a blaze of fire. Two men who looked to similar to be anything but brothers stepped out. "well Kinkaku, I do believe that this is the hokage's younger brother if I am not mistaken," said the man with the waist length silver hair.
"I am certain you are correct Ginkaku, I have heard he is as strong as his brother. I do so hope that is accurate, I am going to enjoy showing him what true sibling strength is" said the man with golden hair. Tobirama knew for a fact he wasn't going to be able to make it to his students in time, these brothers were the real deal, he just prayed that they could kill the target and get out before reinforcements arrived.
Rook and the others stopped as they heard the explosion from the front, Rook glanced back grim faced as he spoke "From the sounds I doubt we will get any help from sensei, it looks like we are on our own in this." They all knew the risks, this was a jonnin they were going to be fighting, one who specialized in combat. but there was no turning back they had to either complete the mission or die no other option existed. Without another backward glance Rook bolted through the door Sanntaru and Kenta right on his heels.
They ran through the hallways until finally coming to the main workshop where kogayama jatyoi stood in the middle of a warehouse like room, with work benches all around him. This was it, everything up to now had been leading to this moment. Rook dodge left while Sanntaru rolled to the right, and Kenta yelled "eight trigrams: palm rotation" and blocked the onslaught of kunai that had just been launched at them. Sanntaru's whip snaked out lashing at his unguarded points.
while kogayama dodge her lashes Rook took advantage and created his shadow clones, they separated into three groups. Rook went with the first group sliding low using water style: great river jutsu, creating a huge raging river out of thin air to knock kogayama off balance , while the second group jumped high along with Sanntaru at that point, all using the Fire style: Great fireball jutsu in a massive wall of inferno.
The third group backed Kenta up in a head on rush, using his Eight Trigrams: Air Palm with their wind style: wind vortex jutsu. Kogayama countered using earth style: stone platform jutsu to rise above the river, pulling out a quarterstaff and using rapid spin jutsu, deflecting the wall of fire. Finishing the fire he then proceeded to use the staff to pole vault over the air current sent at him. While balancing on his quarter staff in a crouch he laughed "is that all you've got kids? It'll take a lot more than that to take me out."
And with that he caught Sanntaru's whip in mid lash wrapping it around his elbow he wrenched it from her grasp. "pathetic" He said tossing it into the corner. While still balancing on his staff and staring Sanntaru down he sent the weighted end of his sickle and chain flying straight at Kenta, hitting him right in the nose breaking it with a sick crunch. kogayama then proceeded to back flip sending the sickle spinning towered Rooks head. Rook knew he would never dodge in time so he lowered his head a fraction just in time, causing the sickle to ricochet off his head band, slicing a deep gash from just under his right eye to the middle of his forehead as it had hooked under his headband when it hit taking it off as it skidded away, as well as sending a constellation of stars to appear in Rooks vision along with vertigo.
Seeing Kenta on the floor cradling his broken nose and probably his upper maxilla as well, and Rook struggling to maintain his balance enough to get up off the ground, Sanntaru knew it was up to her. She took off like a bat out of hell as she accessed her sharingan while running straight up the west wall of the warehouse. Back flipping out and to her left she threw out kunai with metal wire attached on either side of kogayama, dancing in between them she grabbed one and focused her second elemental nature of lightning through it as she pulled another wire from her wrist guard. The lightning in the wire would remain on its own for long enough, she knew as she jumped over him, dropping like a stone on top of kogayama. She cleanly sliced through his quarter staff with her razor sharp lightning enhanced wire. She launched herself from a crouched position under him, wrapping her wire around his arm, he barely managed to pull his arm out before she pulled taught creating long burns and scars that wound around his arm in a spiral, she caught his eye with hers immediately casting a genjutsu causing him to misjudge her position for a few seconds. While she brought two fingers to bare on his right shoulder gathering her chakra while casting her hand sign and focusing with the other and yelling "lightning style: sword of blue light jutsu" his reflex reaction keeping it from going through his heart but the bolt still pierced through his shoulder blade. Forcing a cry of pain for the first time. Faster than Sanntaru could react he had slid low behind her with custom made kunai he wrapped his left arm around her stabbing the S hook shaped kunai into her right shoulder pinning her in place as she cried out in pain.
Kenta had recovered enough by then to make his way behind the fight, coming up from behind he created the eight trigram as soon as he was in range, but as soon as he went in for the enemies chakra points kogayama spun and ducked somehow managing to find enough strength in his right arm to stab Kenta in the shoulder as well, spinning him around so his arm was wrapped around him too. Kogayama turned to face Rook who had just regained his balance, and smiled. "well then, that was fun, but it was over as soon as I captured your best fighter", twitching the kunai in his left arm forcing Sanntaru to scream out in pain again, he laughed "man I love the sound of a novice who has been beaten screaming, now I'll tell you what boy. If you kill this young man in my right arm I will let you and this girl escape, if not…well then I'll kill her first then the boy and finally I will capture you for interrogation." "d.. do it Ro..( CA-ACK).. ok, do it," Kenta managed to force out through his broken maxilla as he coughed up blood. "NO! Rook don't, I swear I'll kill you myself if yo…(AARRGGG)" Sanntaru screamed at the top of her lungs as kogayama shifted the kunai inside her again. Rook suddenly went rigid with the noise fading, Sanntaru's scream echoing in his ear.
He felt something grab his soul as it stirred inside him. Whatever people had sensed in him all this time had finally woken. He doubled over onto his knee's as black smoke poured out from his completely darkened left eye and swirled around him along the ground, while simultaneously white sparks flew from a completely white-out right eye like a leaky faucet under high pressure adding to the swirl surrounding him. His hair began showing white throughout it such as salt and pepper. He stood shakily as if being controlled by a puppet jutsu, his head leaned back when eyes staring straight at the ceiling. Suddenly they seemed to lock on kogayama while standing straight up in one fluid motion.
"I will give you one chance to drop them in exchange for your life." A rough unearthly voice seemingly to come from everywhere in the room at once. Kogayama laughed as Rooks body leaned forward his right shoulder sliding to the front with his left mirroring it behind him as he leaned more into a half crouch, "you really think you can kill me from this posi…(slursh)."
Kogayama had to focus his eye's to see that Rook had cleared over twenty yards in under a half second, "I would have killed you anyway" Rook said in the same echoing voice his right arm, concealed by kogayama's chest as his hand had gone completely through his heart, produced white sparks flooding from the edges around Rooks arm. which was itself completely incased in the white chakra. Rook pulled his arm out slowly while Kogayama stared in Rooks two off colored eye's as his arms slid from their hold on his team mate's to hang limp at his sides, "well damn" were the last words he spoke as he sunk to his knees and finally, life fading from his body, to the ground.
Sanntaru and Kenta dislodged the daggers from their shoulders as they stared wide eyed at Rook. But as Sanntaru was about to ask him about the transformation. When suddenly Tobirama and the gold haired brother came crashing through the north wall, Sanntaru immediately noticed that Tobirama had summoned his 'Sword of the Thunder God', that meant he was going all out with this and was in trouble. Before she could finish standing up, Rook and Kenta had taken off to join the battle.
her chakra drained from her earlier exertion all she could do was sit there and watch as the battle unfolded. Kenta was the first to arrive, he was the teams barrier and seal specialist so he immediately threw a level two barrier in between Tobirama and where the golden haired man had fallen. The extreme opposites of the spectrum coming out from Rook's eyes had faded to the point where Sanntaru could tell he was in control again though there was still residual power emanating from him and his hair remained speckled with white amidst the previously black as night hair he had, Sanntaru processed this all in a flash as Rook dodged around the barrier.
The silver haired brother came through the same opening and slammed full force into the barrier Kenta was maintaining while Tobirama struggled to stand back up, Kenta grunted as his barrier cracked under the strain of the silver brother who was pounding away at it with inhuman strength. As Rook finished coming around to behind the silver brother he leapt on his back putting him in a strangle hold causing him to let up for a few seconds. But by that time the gold brother had made it there and pulled Rook from off his brother and tossing him to the side. Sanntaru looked down at the water that had flowed all the way to where she was, and saw her opportunity to get everyone away.
"Guys JUMP!" she yelled as she flashed the hand signs and slammed both hands down into the water ,"Lightning Style: White Current" the rest of the team jumped into the air as the lightning spread across the entire room. It wasn't enough to kill of seriously injure the brothers but it was enough to keep them rooted where they were while her team ran across the wall's using chakra to their feet to keep them in place. Tobirama jumped from table to bench until he got to her and scooped her up as they headed back for the side entrance Rook had lead them through not thirty minutes before. Kenta and Rook took the lead as they rushed through the door, reaching the outer court of the weapons warehouse.
Ten cloud shinobi had just arrived as back up and more were on the way. Kenta was the first to reach them as he somersaulted into the middle of the group two of them with the quicker reflexes closed in on either side of him as he spun in place. "Eight trigrams: vacuum palm wall Kenta yelled as he shot vacuum blasts out of both palms in opposite directions, blasting nearly all of the ninja gathered off their feet. Finishing off the three guards left with a Wind Style: Beast Wave Palm (a high level B rank wind jutsu used by Sora during the "twelve guardian ninja arc" in the anime) completely crushing them.
"damn it" Tobirama said under his breath. "What is it sensei" Sanntaru asked as she scrambled to start running on her own. "this isn't good. The raikage is on his way here we need to leave now." They made their way nearly unopposed through the residential section of the village finally making it to the east gate, "he is closing in fast" Tobirama stated calmly. "we need to scale the wall, the gate will be too well guarded and we don't have time to burrow." "no time" Tobirama said while his hands flashed faster than the eye could see, "Water Style: Severing Wave" as he forced a large amount of highly pressurized water out of his mouth slicing through the city's wall in seconds.
Immediately jumping over the still falling wreckage the group made their way into the maze of stones surrounding the village. Suddenly four leaf village shinobi flanked them on either side. "Lord Hokage sent us to cover your retreat sir". Said their platoon leader as they all made their way south. If we can just make it to the land of wind boarder we'll be golden Sanntaru thought. When out of nowhere a kunai flashed in between the group. They all stuttered to a stop and dodged out of the way as the kunai exploded from the explosive tag attached.
"You Really think you can walk into my village and kill my shinobi and just run away!" the Raikage and four of his top jonnin were less than ten yards behind them. "actually that is exactly what we were hoping for" Tobirama said in a calm collected voice. "go" was all the Raikage said and the battle was on. Tobirama jumped and corkscrewed in mid air between two bolts of lightning, waving a sign and putting one hand on the ground as he spun he pulled his sword with his other, "Flying Thunder God Slash" instantly teleporting behind two of the jonnin slicing them both fatally. Cart wheeling to the side just as the Raikage's fist split the air where he had just been standing with an ear splitting crack.
Sanntaru charged the Raikage to give Tobirama an opening while Kenta and Rook along with the reinforcement squad held off the other two jonnin. "you brought an Uchiha to my feet as recompense for killing my shinobi, how kind of you, I gladly accept the trade." The Raikage laughed as he pulled a kunai, hand outstretched grabbed Sanntaru by the throat and before Tobirama could stop him, the Raikage cut Sanntaru's left eye out. Dropping Sanntaru as he stared appreciatively at his blood soaked gain, the Raikage didn't even bother to stop Tobirama from grabbing Sanntaru and falling back. "We must retreat" Tobirama called out as he pulled Sanntaru back to relative safety.
"Tobirama sir, we absolutely cannot allow the Sharingan to remain in the cloud village's grasp." One of the support team called as they continued to hold off the other two jonnin. No one had noticed Rook had fallen to his knee's again upon seeing his friend and possibly more, maimed in such a way. 'why…why wasn't I able to protect my closest friends' Rook thought as the despair and rage filled him, 'if I can save them by letting the beast inside take control then so be it'.
Rook stared at the Raikage as the light and dark exploded from his body in a huge burst of chakra, as beams of light shot out from his right arm and pierced the Sharingan in the Raikage's hand instantly consuming it with flames, as well as finding their way into the body's of the two remaining jonnin disabling them for the duration of the fight. As the Raikage turned to them enraged by the loss of his prize, darkness even more complete than Tobirama's gen-jutsu suddenly shot forth from Rook consuming everything in sight. When the darkness faded the Raikage let loose a howl of rage as all he saw was empty ground in front of him.
They all stood in the hospital room of the hidden leafs medical facility. Rook was in a chair pulled right next to the bed, his hair had remained black and white since the incident though the doctors said it was just cosmetic and no real danger. Tobirama was standing in front of the window staring out at the village while Kenta leaned against the wall, a quit fury boiling in him. "I understand the mission was a success sensei, but why do I feel like charging right back into that village and killing everyone?" …"that would be hatred Kenta, its normal in this ninja world we live in, we killed one of their own, someone who they ate with, grew up with, someone who was a son to someone and a comrade to all in their village.
They in turn tried to take Sanntaru's eye managing to blind her in that eye during the process. It's not a perfect system, in fact it's very similar to how things were before the village was built. But we have made progress, and we still are. Maybe one day we can all live in unity as one great ninja force, I don't see how myself but I still hope. But for the here and now, at best we are reduced to an eye for an eye…excuse the pun Sanntaru." "no problem sensei, its honestly not as bad as everyone believes." Sanntaru said as she sat there, her head bandaged around covering where her left eye had once been.
Luckily Tobirama sensei had enough first aid training to stop the bleeding, but no one there had nearly enough skill to save one of the support team who died of complications due to his battle. Sanntaru looked up and spoke. "why don't we have enough medical ninja to send one on important missions, I would think that would increase survival rate of our ninja by quite a bit. "well it's as simple as, we don't have anyone skilled enough to teach that kind of program, until a medical prodigy is born who can lead that program it's just a wishful idea. After a moment of silence a nurse walked in and addressed Tobirama sensei. "Excuse me, but The Hokage has sent word that he would like to speak with you."