Had my English test today... Easy as pie, but it's History, Chinese, Maths and Science next. Damn.
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Now here's the deal about Sakura and Kiba vs Kidomaru... I really have no idea how I'm going to have them fight. I'm just going to have my brain move my fingers, like I do every chapter. Apologies if the outcome is not one you desire.
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"Backtrack? I don't think so."
"What the fu-"
Kiba was silenced as he felt pain shooting through his back. Sakura jumped away in time, and looked on in shock as the multiple-armed teen they had been spying on earlier withdrew his golden dagger-like weapon from Kiba's back.
"Arf!" Akamaru barked in horror.
"You're next," Kidomaru smirked, as Kiba collapsed.
"Earth Style: Stone Fist Jutsu."
Sakura attacked, but Kidomaru simply jumped away. Now with eight gold daggers in his eight hands, the spider-resembling shinobi threw them at Sakura.
The Chunin easily punched away the weapons with her stone fists.
"An Earth Style user, eh," Kidomaru mused. "Looks like this will be a difficult round."
"Earth Style: Earth Dragon!"
Sakura summoned a dragon of mud that rose from the ground, and attacked Kidomaru, who dodged the attack with ease.
"Is that all you got?" He taunted.
Sakura looked back to Kiba, who was clutching onto his wound with a look of pained agony on his face. Akamaru was barking profusely beside his owner.
Suddenly, the dog rushed to Sakura's side, turning into Kiba and attacking Kidomaru.
It didn't take a genius to know the dog was attempting to stall for time. Rushing over to Kiba, Sakura quickly treated his wound as much as she could. She was no medical expert, but a first-aid kit and some bandages she'd brought along helped.
Akamaru, in the form of Kiba, was brutally assaulted. The ninken was soon thrown onto the ground in just three minutes and reverted back into dog form.
Kidomaru laughed. "Was difficulty set to easy?!" He waved his gold daggers in front of his face threateningly. "I won't even need anything other than these to kill you all."
Sakura helped Kiba up and brought Akamaru back to his owner quickly.
"Akamaru..." Kiba smiled, petting his loyal ninken.
"Oi! Are you listening?!" Kidomaru growled. "Time to kick start the game again!" He rushed towards Sakura.
Channeling chakra towards her hands, Sakura's fists were covered by stone again. The pinkette engaged Kidomaru, and after blocking every single strike, gave the Oto-nin a powerful punch to the chest.
"D-Damn..." Kiba muttered to himself.
Crashing into a tree, Kidomaru got up quickly.
"Well, I probably underestimated you a little..." He chuckled evilly.
Her hands going back to normal, Sakura did the required hand seals. "Earth Style: Landslide."
Kidomaru frowned as dirt and mud from the ground rose up to attack him. "Ninja Art: Spider Web Net." Breathing in, Kidomaru then spat out a huge web that acted as a shield.
The mud and dirt slammed into the web, and vanished.
"Is that guy a human spider or something?" Kiba shook his head. He tried to get up, but when he felt a stinging pain in his wound, decided to rest for a bit more.
"Ninja Art: Spider Web Flower." Kidomaru began spitting smaller webs at Sakura, in an attempt to catch the Leaf kunoichi in one of them.
To Kidomaru's frustration and surprise, Sakura managed to fight off the webbing with her stone fists.
He smiled creepily to himself. "This is getting interesting."
Beating off the last of the webs, Sakura charged at Kidomaru.
If I have to defeat him before I can go back, then so be it. She thought to herself, throwing a punch as she got in range. The agile Kidomaru managed to avoid the attack, jumping onto a tree branch.
"Ninja Art: Spiral Spider Web!" Kidomaru spat more webbing, but this time, it was another giant one.
Sakura tried to dodge the technique, but the size of the web was at her disadvantage, and she found the web soon pushing her into a tree and trapping her to it.
"Sakura!" Kiba yelled.
Can't move, Sakura growled, as she tried to free herself from her binds.
"Hm...?!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi's hand hovered in mid-air, his gaze on the object he was about to grab onto. His brows furrowed into a frown.
A small crack had suddenly appeared on his cup of tea.
What is this feeling? The Hokage found this worrying. It was a bad omen. Asuma had told him not to believe in these kind of things, but still, the feeling was making him worry.
I can't ignore it.
There was a few knocks on the door.
"Come in," Hiruzen said, placing his hand down. "Oh, it's you."
The one in particular walked up to the Hokage's desk and bowed respectfully.
"Good morning, um, Hokage-sama. I am... er, here for my next mission."
Hiruzen quickly nodded, his attention going back to the crack in his cup.
"It's a bit of a tough mission... but I've got one for you."
"Let's see how fast I can dispose of both of you," Kidomaru grinned madly.
A small golden blade emerged from Kidomaru's mouth.
Sakura's eyes widened, realizing the Oto-nin was taking his aim at her. She struggled wildly, but failed to break free of the webbing.
Are these webs... all infused with chakra? Is that why I can't get out?
"Puaaa!" Kidomaru spat, sending the golden blade towards his target.
This is it... Sakura closed her eyes.
"What?!" Kidomaru growled.
The blade was dangling in front of Sakura's face. The pinkette's eyes flew open, to see Kiba's entire body was in the air, and his hand was reached down to grab the golden blade.
"How did you move so fast?" Kidomaru questioned in anger, as Kiba dropped onto the ground.
"Never underestimate the agility of an Inuzuka!" Kiba smirked. "I'm going to pay you back for that little wound you gave me earlier! Ready, Akamaru?" He popped a Food Pill into his ninken's mouth, and then swallowed one of his own.
"Arf!"
"Tsk," Kidomaru spat out a golden blade again, a longer one this time. "Let's see what you've got, mutt!"
"Man Beast Clone!" Akamaru transformed into Kiba, like he did before. "Ninja Art Beast Mimicry: All Fours Jutsu!" Both Kiba and Aka-Kiba dropped onto their four legs, their facial expressions twisted to resemble wild, savage beasts.
"Are you trying to mimic your dog, and vice versa?" Kidomaru threw his head back in laughter. "I can say, it's working! Although the dog needs a bit of improvement, but-"
"Man Beast Ultimate Taijutsu!" Kiba and Akamaru both started spinning at incredible speeds towards Kidomaru, and the eight-armed teen was taken aback. "Fang Over Fang!"
Kiba and Akamaru smashed into Kidomaru, and Sakura winced at the sight.
"How's that?" Kiba challenged, as Akamaru went back to sitting on his head.
"Not bad."
Kiba frowned.
Kidomaru got back up, seemingly unharmed. His skin turned into gold, and fell off piece by piece, to reveal another Kidomaru underneath.
"What the hell's that?"
Some kind of... armor? Sakura stared at Kidomaru.
"Looks like you're not as weak as I thought you were," Kidomaru smirked. Black marks began covering his face and skin, and Sakura gasped at the realization that their opponents possessed a Cursed Seal.
Quickly bounding over to Sakura, Kiba tried to get his partner out of the webbing.
"You won't have any time to be paying attention to anything other than me!" Kidomaru roared, charging forward.
"Darn it," Kiba leaped away as Kidomaru attacked with one of his golden blades. One thing's for sure, if I get myself caught like Sakura, we're finished!
Thankfully, Kidomaru seemed content sticking to his golden weapons for now.
"Kiba!" Sakura called. "Be careful! Those black marks on his face increases his physical abilities!"
"Looks like you know about the Cursed Seal, pinky," Kidomaru grinned.
"Physical abilities?" Kiba stared at his opponent.
He got his answer as Kidomaru was soon above him. Akamaru barked out a warning, and Kiba jumped away before Kidomaru could attack.
"We can't keep on dodging like this!" Gritting his teeth, Kiba started spinning towards Kidomaru. "Tunneling Fang!"
Dodging Kiba's attack easily, Kidomaru threw his blade.
"Watch out!" Sakura yelled.
Kiba side-stepped, but the blade managed to scratch his hip.
"Arf! Arf!" Akamaru sounded urgently.
"This is nothing, Akamaru!" Kiba said confidently, clutching the small scar he'd newly gained. Looks like we'll have to do something to weaken him before engaging him in close combat. Let's see... aha!
Kidomaru lunged for Kiba, not giving the boy any time to think.
Reacting quickly, Kiba tried to kick Kidomaru away, but the spider-like shinobi grabbed onto his leg and flung him away.
"Now, Akamaru!" Kiba shouted, while in mid-air. His dog partner leaped towards Kidomaru from his position on Kiba's head. "Dynamic Marking!" Kiba shrieked, twisting in mid-air to land on his feet.
Akamaru spun around in the air, releasing urine.
Kidomaru frowned, expecting a stronger attack, but then found out what Akamaru's urine could do as some got into his eyes, rendering him blind.
"What is this?!" The spider nin roared in anger. "I can't see!"
"Nice job, Akamaru!" Kiba smirked as Akamaru returned to him. With a battle cry, the Inuzuka Genin got on his four legs. "All Fours Jutsu!"
"Tch," Kidomaru whipped his head left and right, anticipating an attack.
It came in the form of a kick to the back of his head, knocking him to the ground. Before he knew it, Kidomaru was hauled up.
With a threatening snarl, Kiba started clawing brutally at Kidomaru's chest with his sharp nails gained from using his clan's technique. Soon, Kidomaru's shirt was in tatters, and Kiba ripped it off completely, revealing his opponent's bloodied body.
Knocking Kidomaru off his feet, Kiba crouched over the Oto nin with a threatening pose, like a predator about to finish off it's prey.
Feeling the webbing around her starting to somehow soften, Sakura attempted to tear them off, but to no avail.
Getting an idea, she steadily concentrated on channeling chakra through her hands. Sakura then tried tearing the webbing off again, and this time it worked.
Looks like this webbing can only be tore by chakra, Sakura thought.
"Looks like it's over for you," Kiba smiled, as he felt the effects of his All Fours Jutsu fading away. Getting out a kunai, he positioned it at Kidomaru's throat.
"Hm. Maybe. Maybe not," Kidomaru retorted with an evil smile of his own.
"Kiba... don't let your guard down." Sakura warned.
"I'm not doing that. That's why I'm killing this guy right here and now!" Kiba proceeded to slice Kidomaru's throat after a slight hesitation. It was going to be his first kill, after all.
"Ninja Art: Spider Web Flower!"
"Wha-!" A web from Kidomaru's mouth attached itself to Kiba's face, blinding him. Taking advantage of his distraction, Kidomaru knocked away his kunai.
"Kiba!" Sakura jumped in, her right fist quickly being encased in stone.
Kiba muttered an inaudible swear word. "I can't get this off my face!" His muffled voice came. Akamaru tried biting off the web, but to no avail.
"Looks like dog boy's going to be out for awhile," Kidomaru laughed, ducking from Sakura's stone fist. He jumped into the air. "Ninja Art: Spider Web Flower!"
Sakura destroyed the webs with her stone fist, and made a few hand seals. "Earth Style: Earth Dragon!"
It was pointless. Without Akamaru's Dynamic Marking, Kidomaru dodged every attack thrown at him with ease.
"Akamaru!" Sakura called to the ninken, who scampered over. "Can you use Dynamic Marking on him like you did earlier?"
"Arf!" Akamaru barked in confirmation, and leaped into the air, spinning and urinating on the Sound ninja.
"This again?!" Kidomaru tried to shield himself, but urine got into his eyes like before.
"Earth Style: Landslide!"
Being unable to detect where the attack would be coming from, Kidomaru was blasted by the technique, and was buried underneath the dirt. Sakura nodded in satisfaction.
He won't be able to get out of there.
She ran over to Kiba, who was on the ground struggling to get off his new facial mask.
Channeling chakra into her hands like before, Sakura managed to get rid of the webbing, and Kiba sat up, his expression one of relief.
"Do you bastards think you've actually won?"
Sakura's head snapped over to the landslide she'd created.
There was a muffled roar.
"Round two, huh?" Kiba got up, glaring at the pile of dirt.
Suddenly, from the top of the pile, Kidomaru burst out. His eyes were still covered in Akamaru's yellowish urine, but he now had a third eye on his forehead, at the spot where his Sound forehead protector was before.
But that wasn't the only different thing about the two Leaf ninjas' opponent.
His hair had grown white, and his skin was now entirely dark red. There were also newly-gained horns on his head, shoulders and elbows.
"Let's continue." Kidomaru smirked.
Finally done with this. Hopefully you enjoyed the battle. In the next chapter, Kiba and Sakura face off against Kidomaru and stage two of the Cursed Seal. Will they be defeated, or will they succeed? Who was the one talking to the Sandaime? See you in the next chapter.
Another question to end off today: Who's your favorite Konoha character?
Mine has to be Shikamaru. ;)