Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Warning: Violence ahead.
"She hurt me…ow! THAT HURTS! OW! STOP MOVING!" Blood dripped from the Ten-Tails' body. "I'LL KILL HER! I'LL KILL HER SLOWLY AND PAINFULLY AND SHE WILL BEG FOR DEATH! BEG FOR IT!"
"How should we make her pay? Should we bite off her arms and let her bleed to death? Should we eat her alive? Should we take out her insides and watch her scream in pain?"
Silence.
"Oh yes, that's a good idea, a very good idea…let's do it."
The Ten-Tails raised its head and looked at its prey.
Its eye blinked. The world went dark.
Temari opened her eyes and raised herself off the ground.
"Like it? This is the world of my genjutsu."
She looked at her hand. It was black, the contours of her palm were mere white lines. What—
"If you die in here, you die in the real world. If I eat you in here, I eat you in the real world. Whatever happens here also happens in reality."
The Ten-Tails lunged at her. Temari backed up, barely fending off the blows.
"What was I saying about ninja again? Oh yes, the Kazekage is a weak fool who doesn't even deserve the title!" The Ten-Tails caught Temari by surprise, throwing her to the ground.
"That reminds of the Hokage of Konoha! What a senile old idiot!" It raked her claws along her back, going down to the bone.
"Why doesn't she step down already and crown the Sixth Hokage?" The Ten-Tails paused for a moment to lick the blood of its claws.
"Oh, and by the way, isn't that shadow user from the Leaf almost dead by now? Back to the Hokage. She's a—"
"How do you know about that?" gasped Temari.
The monster grinned at her. "I was the one who poisoned him!" Its eye swirled, and she saw the face of the bandit leader.
She didn't hear anything else the monster said.
"They're all fools and deserve to die. Actually, they'll all be dead in a mon—"
"I'll kill you."
"After everyone else is wiped out-"
"Wind Cutter!"
Once again, the monster pulled itself out of the wreckage.
One more hit like that and you'll be forced out of this form, the Ten-Tails told Gisei.
"Fine! TIME TO END THIS!"
Gisei hurled himself at the woman, intending to knock her off the edge of the plateau.
Temari knew that if she didn't dodge, she'd fall off. She also knew that if she got one more strong hit in, she would be able to cripple the monster. Falling off meant dying, and crippling the Ten-Tails didn't necessarily mean that she would win.
She didn't even think.
"Kakeami!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" The Ten-Tails' chakra shroud disappeared, revealing the body of the bandit leader. His skin was burned and blistered, his hair smoked.
Gisei looked at the woman, a look filled with hate. The woman was breathing heavily, dizzy from blood loss.
"Did you know, my ultimate mission in life was to kill two people?" Gisei said. The woman looked up. Gisei slammed into her, knocking them both off the cliff.
They fell and fell and fell and fell. They fell into the abyss and kept on falling.
"And those two people were you and that shadow user," he shouted as they fell. "That was my only purpose in life." The wind whistled in his ears. "And now you're going to die and he's going to die!" His skin burned. "SO YOU LOSE!"
They hit the ground with a crunch. Neither one of them moved.
Slowly, slowly, the man pushed himself to his feet. He tottered to the woman's side, and felt her pulse. Nothing.
He grinned. "I win."
Then he staggered off to die.
Don't lose hope yet! Shikamaru is still alive! Seriously. I am NOT that cruel. Don't kill me yet. I have a plot twist up ahead. Once again, please do NOT kill me. Let me finish this story first and then kill me.