CHAPTER 5 – Revealed
Mashiro tightened his clench on the priestess' neck. Her mouth opened as she started to get out of breath. Kakashi stood up and charged towards them. "Sharingan no Kakashi! I thought you were better than this!" Ukito opened his arms wide as if he was welcoming him to attack. In an instance, Kakashi's body was sliced in half under Ukito's dagger. He looked at himself satisfied. "I guess you couldn't even have felt that one." Ukito smirked.
"Raikiri!"
"What-" Ukito turned around and looked up, only to see Kakashi falling down onto him with a powerful electric surge on his right hand. "I can't make it!" Kakashi jabbed his hand into Ukito's chest. He increased the chakra flowing through his hand, causing the lightning to cut straight through Ukito's chest. Ukito slowly turned his head to what he thought was Kakashi's dead body, which turned out nothing more than smoke now. "Kage… Bunshin?" Ukito grabbed Kakashi's arm where he had punched into his body. He began coughing out blood. "I guess… that's it… for me, eh?"
"Having your guard down is your worst enemy, even your brother told you that, didn't he?" Kakashi jerked him hand free from Ukito's grip.
"UKITOOO!!!!!" It was Mashiro. He watched as his little brother collapse in front of Kakashi. His veins tightened. It wasn't hard to tell that he was furious right now. His eyes shifted from the suffocating priestess in his grip to Kakashi, who backed away a few feet away from him. He dropped the priestess onto the ground. "I'll deal with you later." He turned towards Kakashi. "I'LL KILL YOU!!!"
Kaori could only watched helplessly from her position. She gritted her teeth as Mashiro released the priestess. "Rena…sama…" She crawled slowly towards the priestess, who was lying on the ground without a single movement. She had almost reached the priestess when Mashiro noticed her. He quickly appeared in front of her, blocking her path, and kicked her into a tree far away from where she was originally. The priestess lifted her head slightly as she saw her bodyguard crashing into a tree.
"Where were we?" Mashiro turned towards Kakashi again.
Kakashi held his kunai tight in his hand. "This guy… is a lot stronger than his brother. Judging from his movements, not only he has supernormal strength, but also speed. What a guy…" He looked back at his injured arm. "My speed can't keep up with him since I'm this injured. What should I do?"
"Finished with your analysis yet?" Without warning, Mashiro charged towards Kakashi. Unleashing his big golden axe strapped behind his back. He swung it down at Kakashi.
"Shit! I can't dodge this in time!" Kakashi brought his hands up to block it.
"It's futile! No one could ever block my attack with my golden axe!" Mashiro shouted as his hand came down.
Suddenly, a figure appeared in front of Kakashi. Holding a small knife in hand, it came in contact with Mashiro's huge axe. Kakashi looked at his savior. He gasped when he came to realization that it was the priestess herself. She was pushed back a metres when she stopped Mashiro's axe. At this moment, Mashiro's leg shot up and kicked the priestess towards the side. She crashed around twenty metres away from where they were. Dust was being blown off the ground and into the air, blocking the view of the priestess as she landed.
"RENA-SAMA!!" Kaori shouted in the distance when she saw what had happened. She was surprised that the priestess, who would ask her to open soda cans for her, actually stopped Mashiro's axe. Kakashi felt the same way.
The dust cleared. The priestess was coughing out blood as she laid on the ground, panting. "Such a stupid priestess, I have to say." Mashiro chucked. "Priestesses do not engage in fights, they do not have physical strength whatsoever to do that."
"That is right." Kakashi thought. He stared at the priestess.
Mashiro continued. "You should have just sat there quietly and waited until I have finished with this guy. You could have died a peaceful-"
"Yare yare… I guess I can't fight in this form." The priestess gave a small laugh as she helped herself up. She wiped the blood dripping from the side of her mouth with the sleeve of her kimono.
Mashiro turned around and kicked Kakashi to the side. He grinned as he walked towards the priestess. "So… you want to put up a fight, do you Miko-sama?"
The priestess cupped her hands around the centre of her chest.
"It's useless whatever you try to do!"
She then formed the seal of the tiger with her hands. "Kai!"
"What?" Light began shining from under the priestess' kimono. It was weak at first, but it grew brighter and brighter each second. Until suddenly, the light blasted, blinding Mashiro, Kakashi and Kaori.
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Asuma noticed the sudden blast of light. It wasn't hard to spot in the middle of the night. He gathered the remaining genins and went after the direction of where the light came from.
"Asuma-sensei, what is going on?" Ino asked worryingly.
"I don't know. But it can't be good. Let's hurry!"
"Yes!" The group of genin nodded towards him as they quickened their pace through the woods.
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Mashiro shielded his eyes from the bright light coming towards him, Kakashi and Kaori just stared at the priestess, trying hard to keep their eyes open. The light slowly faded out.
"What was that?" Mashiro laughed as he saw the priestess again. "I thought you had something up your sleeve, but it doesn't seem that way." He pulled his axe up ready for attack again.
Suddenly, a fragment of the priestess' face broke off like glass, revealing a slightly tanner layer of skin below. "What…" Kakashi was unable to speak, more of he didn't comprehend what was going on at all.
The priestess' eyes shot open, more fragments broke off from her face, until her whole body was revealed. She had turned into a completely different person. Instead of her usual straight long black hair, it turned light blue. Her black eyes turned blue. Kakashi's eyes widened at the sight of the newly transformed priestess. "Impossible… how can this be?"
Mashiro was amused. He stared at the blue-haired girl standing in front of him. "Now this just got so much more interesting than it already is!"
With that, he began running towards her at his usual speed, swinging his axe in front of him. Just as he thought that he had hit the priestess, she disappeared. She appeared in front of Kakashi, helping him up. "What is the meaning of this?"
The priestess stayed silent as she helped him up. She then went close to him and whispered in his ear. "I'm really sorry about this, I'll explain later when I have time."
Kakashi glared at her. "Does that mean that all these years, have been a lie?" The priestess stayed silent. "Answer me! Yuuri!"
Mashiro's eyes twitched at the name. "I said, I will explain everything later!" The priestess- now known as Yuuri, turned around and faced Mashiro.
"I see… your name is Yuuri. Combining that with the colour of your hair and eyes… If I'm not mistaken, you are Yuuri from the Kawate clan. Shouldn't you be dead three years ago?" Mashiro gripped his axe a little tighter. Kaori gasped at the mention of "Kawate Yuuri".
Yuuri took Kakashi's kunais and spun it around with her fingers. "Dead? I'm very much alive. Thanks for your concern. And… Mashiro-kun, didn't I teach you not to mess with me a few years back?" With that, she gripped the kunai and charged towards Mashiro.
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When all hope is gone during battle, the priestess reveals her true identity to save them. But Kakashi doesn't seem to want her there. Tune in for the next chapter!!
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A/N: Yuuri?? Who's Yuuri??? Okay... from the previous chapters she was already in the story, but only appearing in Kakashi's dreams. If you want to know more about her, you can refer back to my previous fanfic "New Friend", which has almost EVERYTHING you would want to know about her :D. Thanks again for reading my fanfic, hope you enjoyed it so far and please gimme reviews so I can further improve my work!!