Someone reviewed Chapter 2 and said "that fight scene was boring, pm me and I'll show you the ropes".
I wasn't really offended, but... 'appalled' would be the best way to describe my reaction. I've been at FanFiction, writing action stories for 2 years and 2 months now and someone who joined less than a year ago has offered to "show me the ropes". Frankly, I chuckled a bit at that review.
Regarding my question in the last chapter, please bare in mind I DO NOT INTEND TO BASH ANYONE in this story. Bashing is for pussies.
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"The Sabaku Siblings, ninja of the Sand, allies of the Leaf!"
"I don't care who you are," Sakon growled. "All of you are thrash."
Kankuro's eyes narrowed, releasing a fearsome wave of killing intent. "I'm going to decapitate you."
Sakon simply smirked at the attempt to unnerve him. "Well, I've taken down two of these brats. What harm can another three do?" He charged, his fist raised and readied for a punch.
"C-Careful!" Neji called out. "Extra limbs can come out from any part of his body!"
"What do you mean?" Kankuro questioned, but got his answer as Sakon jumped towards him.
"Fist Barrage!"
The Oto nin rained punches on the puppeteer. Kankuro's face began to crack, and a scythe protruded from his chest. A hand reached out from Sakon's chest, stopping the blade from piercing his body.
Kankuro stepped out from the trees with a smirk. "So that's what you meant."
Sakon pushed Kankuro's puppet away and attacked the hooded teen, who jerked his arm back.
Crow came chasing after but Sakon easily kicked the wooden humanoid away.
"Sand Shuriken!" Gaara cried. An army of shuriken made of sand formed in the air, and flew towards the three Suna ninjas' opponent. Sakon easily brushed the pain of the shuriken off and finally managed to punch Kankuro in the face.
However, his face cracked again, and Sakon looked back to see his target sitting in a relaxed position where Crow had been.
Jumping away from the puppet now in front of him, Sakon dodged Crow's scythe once more.
"What was that?" He hissed.
"A simple Substitution Jutsu," Kankuro smiled victoriously.
"Cyclone Scythe Jutsu!"
Sakon gasped as a sharp gust of win slashed his chest and stomach. A slash appeared on the tree behind him, chopping it off. The two-headed ninja jumped away just in time as the tree slammed onto the ground.
I can't handle all three of them alone, Sakon thought.
On cue, Ukon emerged.
Gaara turned to look at Neji expectantly.
Neji got back to his feet with difficulty, and leaned against a tree. "He... this guy... it's two guys living inside one body."
"So essentially, an extremely strong clone jutsu," Kankuro thought aloud.
"Oi! I'm no clone," Ukon cried in annoyance. Black marks spread over his face and body, before they glowed orange and combined to form brown skin. Soon growing a horn, Ukon took the same demonic form as his brother.
"Tsk." Kankuro waved his fingers, and Crow was soon in front of him.
Gaara raised his arm.
This was when Sakon looked down and noticed a trail of sand that ended at his feet, starting from Gaara's gourd.
"Shit!" Sakon tried to evade it, but the sand soon took the shape of a giant hand and grabbed his entire body.
"Brother," Ukon frowned. "You let your guard down."
"Shut up and get me out of this!" Sakon shot back.
"Wind Style: Wind Blade Jutsu!"
Temari waved her fan, and a deep scar appeared on Ukon's chest.
"Gaargh!" He reeled back at the invisible attack.
"Crow!" Kankuro yelled. Crow shot forward, firing poison senbon. Seemingly without a care for them, Ukon punched them away. "Eh?"
"In this form of his, he is not affected by poison or anything else," Neji sighed.
Gaara slammed his hand down onto the ground. In turn, the hand grabbing Sakon too slammed the demon onto the forest floor. Gaara then raised his hands, and sand covered itself around Sakon again.
"Sand Coffin!"
Shukaku's Jinchuriki frowned as Sakon burst out from the technique with ease and charged right at him.
Sakon threw a fist, but Gaara's sand came up, blocking the attack. Another fist followed, but the Sand Shield was near impossible to bypass. As Sakon's fist sank into the shield, Gaara quickly did his thing.
Trying to pull his hand out, Sakon found out he couldn't.
Sand seeped to the back of Sakon and flew into the air, taking the form of a sand-made spike.
"How's this?" Gaara smiled, willing the spike to move forward. Sakon didn't seem too unhappy at being faced with his doom. With a blood-chilling roar, the Cursed Seal wielder stopped the spike by grabbing it with his own hand.
Gaara's eyes widened as Sakon's palm started to bleed. The spike dissolved.
Then, with another roar, Sakon pulled his fist out of the Sand Shield and zipped behind Gaara. His sand wall came up again, but only narrowly made it. If Sakon had been two seconds quicker, Gaara would have been hit.
"No one has ever managed to stop my attack with just a single hand before," Gaara remarked.
"I guess you picked the wrong opponent then." Sakon was in front of Gaara again, launching into a barrage of expertly-executed kicks and punches.
Gaara's Sand Shield easily blocked all of them.
"Sand Prison!"
Sakon frowned as the sand formed a giant ball around him. He dived out quickly and continued his assault.
Seeing that Temari, Kankuro and the Konoha ninja were behind him, Gaara nodded to himself. More sand began travelling out of his gourd to hit the ground. Sakon stared at the amount of sand pouring out.
Is he... readying himself for a technique?
The sand soon got to his knees.
What kind of jutsu is this?
Sakon tried to get up into the air, but he was too late. The sand was preventing him from moving, and was now up to his waist.
The Sound teen felt his sense of balance losing out, and soon he was falling into the sea of sand.
"Sand Tsunami!"
Temari and Kankuro looked up from fighting Ukon.
"He's using that jutsu huh," Kankuro smiled.
"Kankuro!" Temari shrieked.
The puppet user looked back at their opponent, but Ukon tackled him and melted into his body.
"K-Kankuro!" Temari repeated her brother's name in shock, as the head of Ukon appeared on his shoulder.
"Hehe!" Ukon smirked. "Demon Parasite Jutsu!"
"What is...?!"
"This is our unique Kekkei Genkai," Ukon threw his head back and laughed. "We can enter and merge with the body of anybody!"
"T-This is bad..." Temari ran up to Ukon's head with a kunai, intending to finish the demon off, or at least his head, but he slipped back into Kankuro's shoulder and re-appeared from his other shoulder.
"And as long as I'm in this body, I can destroy all of his cells," Ukon chuckled evilly. "He is going to die a slow and painful death."
"Or am I?" A voice called.
Ukon snapped his head back in surprise to see Kankuro standing there. "Then-!"
He instantly felt pain shooting up his body. "Gaaah!" Ukon turned to see the face of Crow staring lifelessly back at him. The puppet was sticking it's own scythe into it's own body repeatedly.
Finally, the puppet lifted the weapon to it's head and severed it's own head off, but Ukon had already jumped out of the body in time. However, the monster-like ninja had deep wounds in his body and was bleeding profusely.
"You... you bastards!"
"Doesn't that trick ever get old?" Temari sighed, as Kankuro walked up with Crow, with his head back on.
"Nope," Kankuro replied with a cocky smile. "Looks like it's time for my ultimate technique too." He placed two scrolls on the ground. "Black Ant!"
"Huh?!" Ukon backed away, as Black Ant appeared and instantly charged towards him. With his speed, he tried to run, but Crow attacked and easily knocked him to the ground.
Screw this... I can't move as fast as I can because of these wounds!
However, his surroundings soon changed to pitch darkness as Black Ant trapped him within it's body.
"Secret Black Move: Iron Maiden!"
Crow's body parts dislodged from it's torso and flew towards Black Ant, with each body part wielding a blade. Kankuro's smirk never left his face as the body parts all stabbed into Black Ant.
Ukon's frustrated yelling ceased and blood leaked from the Suna puppet.
"It's over."
Meanwhile, Sakon found himself drowning in Gaara's sand. He focused on his Cursed Seal, and was about to burst out of it.
"Giant Sand Burial!"
Unfortunately, Sakon could do no such thing, as his body was subsequently crushed.
"Digital Shrapnel."
Kimimaro's two hands shot out. His ten finger bones protruded out and was blasted towards Naruto like a missile.
"Wha-What's that?!" Naruto asked himself. He used his sword to block the bone missiles. One hit his arm, and immediately tore off skin. The Chunin screamed in agony. It was more painful than it looked.
"Willow Dance!" Two bone swords sprung out of Kimimaro's palm. Similar ones also shot out of his elbows and shoulders. Naruto was stumped.
Kimimaro attacked, swishing viciously but randomly.
Naruto proved more than a match for the older teenager, easily using his sword to counter every single one of Kimimaro's bones. The blonde's sword soon glowed greenly as he fought.
Kimimaro showed no signs of stopping nor tiring. Naruto jumped up, trying to land a kick on his head.
Instead, his foot met one of Kimimaro's bone swords, the one protruding from his right palm. With his left palm's bone, he thrust, but Naruto jumped away just in time.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
An army of Shadow Clones appeared, and charged at Kimimaro.
"Leaf Style: Extreme Crescent Moon Dance!"
The original Naruto leaped into the air, along with two of his clones. The rest of the clone army continued their charge. Kimimaro gazed at his attackers with an unreadable expression.
He then started moving, at lightning speed.
Naruto frowned, trying to land with his sword on Kimimaro, but couldn't match up to the bone wielder's speed.
The Oto ninja's movements were as unreadable as his emotions. Naruto blinked once, and suddenly ten clones were dispersed.
Another twenty were taken out, leaving only the last two and the original.
"Leaf Style: Crescent Moon Dance!"
All three charged at Kimimaro, who made no attempt to move. Instead, as the Narutos got close, he crouched down and held out his arms.
Both clones ran into the bone swords on his palm, and dispersed as the weapon stabbed into their faces. The original found his sword clashing with one of the bones on Kimimaro's shoulder.
Turning back, Kimimaro gave Naruto a kick to knock him away.
"Wind Style: Razor Wind!"
Kimimaro frowned.
What is this jutsu? I have never heard of it before.
He got his answer as Naruto waved his sword furiously, sending a blast of razor sharp wind slamming into his chest and leaving cuts.
Kimimaro flew back, but landed with his feet on the ground.
Well, now that I know what kind of jutsu is it, I can counter it. But this boy... he seems to have an unlimited amount of chakra. Why is this...?
Naruto smiled to himself. I landed a hit!
The bones on Kimimaro's shoulders withdrew, and so did the ones on his elbow. The bone swords on his palms withdrew themselves as well.
A long bone from Kimimaro's upper arm bones jutted out, and without hesitance, he pulled it out forcefully. Naruto winced.
Now holding the sharp-edged bone like a sword, Kimimaro beckoned for Naruto to attack him.
Naruto gladly did.
"Camellia Dance."
Disappearing from sight, Kimimaro reappeared behind Naruto and thrust his blade.
In a situation like this, the average ninja would have been stabbed. However, Naruto's speed levels came to his aid once again as he turned sharply and countered the blow as quickly as he could with his own sword.
Taking advantage of the close proximity between them, Naruto lifted his right leg, back-kicking his enemy. Kimimaro stopped his foot, grabbing it with his left hand and pushing it back down.
He then jumped away, his bone sword glistening under the sun.
Naruto's grip on his own sword hilt tightened.
"It is certainly interesting that you are a master of kenjutsu yourself," Kimimaro praised.
Both Leaf & Sound shinobi charged towards each other, and their individual swords eventually clashed against each other with a loud clang.
Naruto withdrew his weapon first, before thrusting it towards his opponent as quickly as he withdrew it.
Kimimaro parried the attack easily, and both sword users looked evenly matched.
This was something that surprised Kimimaro.
Unfortunately, their fight was soon cut short as a giant ball of fire invaded the scene.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
Naruto didn't have to worry about dodging the flame, as the offensive technique was directed straight towards Kimimaro.
Kimimaro jumped out of the way, the fireball colliding with one of the trees and mercilessly burning it down.
Itachi landed from the air beside Naruto.
"I-Itachi-sensei!"
Itachi's eyes flew to the container, and then towards Kimimaro. A trademark Uchiha glare was directed towards the white-haired ninja.
"You picked the wrong person to abduct," the newly-arrived Jonin said coldly, as Kimimaro noticed his black eyes becoming red ones. His pupils then started spinning, and changing.
"Mangekyo... Sharingan."
Unfortunately I have to cut short the chapter here ;) see you all next time.
Question for the day: Having Rinnegan powers for three days, OR a lifetime supply of money and good food?
Leave your interesting responses in the reviews.
In the next chapter, Itachi and Naruto battle Kimimaro. Stay tuned.