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The Fox, The Raven, and The Cat raise hell
chapter 9 - hell in the dream realm
tazuna's house, 1 week later
"hey, guys guess what!" tazuna said as he returned from working on the bridge with zabuza who had agreed to defend him while he did so. "I've finished the bridge!"
"that's great!" rika said as she stood up, naruto and hinata standing also, congratulating tazuna's hard work.
"yeah! now you can pull the country out of poverty!" hinata said happily.
"don't think gato will be too happy 'bout this though." rikou said making rika jump.
"I JUST GOT DONE TELLING YOU TO REST, NOW REST!" rika yelled smacking rikou on the head.
"but I didn't get up!" rikou said annoyed.
"JUST SLEEP ALREADY!" she yelled making rikou close his eyes grumbling something about yelling too much. "IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO YELL NEXT TIME THEN DON'T GO FALLING THROUGH THE CEILING!"
"LIKE IT WAS MY FAULT!" rikou yelled back royally pissed about being reminded of his little incident.
"WHATEVER! just, please, rest so you can get better already, I really hate fighting with you over something that couldn't have been stopped, just, please, get some sleep?" she pleaded calming down stroking his purple hair.
"well now that you aren't yelling it'll be alot easier won't it?" he asked earning a laugh before closing his eyes and drifting off to sleep.
"rika," anko began as she had worn kakashi down to allow them to assassinate gato, easily being jounin level, "it's time, with or without rikou, gato's gotta die, and soon."
"yeah, but can we do it without him? I mean, he's the one with the most experience, I don't even now how to use the katana he bought me yet, what can I do?" rika asked.
"you," rikou began, sub-conciously, "can stop disgracing the young one's beliefs, use your wings, use you fenikussu gihou, prove the young one right, rather than disgrace his kindness." rikou said with acid on his tongue, whoever this was, it was not rikou, and it was not friendly to to anyone that didn't act like his friends' usual selves.
"er, rikou! I told you to sleep!" rika said much more worried than before.
"the young one rests, while I speak to you, I am the essence that all the heirs must have, but since the young one's mother is not within, I, the spirit of the ancient karasu, am here to guide him, he knows not of my presence, but I know full-well that the phoenix he cares for is stronger than this! do you want to win? then fight! do you want to live? then kill! do you want his care? then show no weakness!!!" rikou's body shouted making rika get up and release her wings, all four of them.
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gato's hideout, two hours later
"gah! where is that useless zabuza?! I should have tazuna's head by now!" gato yelled pacing in his little chamber.
intercom: master, we are meeting heavy offensive force, casualties plentiful, failure immi- the intercom suddenly blurted out as the speaker was stopped, literally, dead in their tracks.
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outside gato's hideout, same time
"FENIKKUSU GIHOU! SHINING PHOENIX GUN!" rika yelled rapidly lunging her right and left arms forward, releasing a swarm of light-based phoenix, breathing concentrated beams of burning light at gato's guards. as soon as they were all dead, she ordered her team to continue moving. they were in a hallway headed towards gato's chambers, which were much more heavily guarded. "let none escape alive!"
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gato's chambers, right when rika and the others got their
"it sounds like zabuza had a change of heart, and decided to take my money, good thing I hired you two, isn't that right kisame?" gato said as two figures seemed to appear out of the shadows.
"yep, and now that pein found a way to bring itachi back, I can easily rid you of your troubles." the shark man said with a toothy grin, as his partner shook with fear, something he never knew itachi to do.
"this chakra, two of the chakra signatures from all that time ago, the ones who killed me, they're here, kisame, be ready, these guys are well above kage level, and maybe strong enough to fight off a bijuu without any trouble at all!" itachi said fearfully, activating his magekyou sharingan, hoping it might save him.
crash!
"gato!" rika yelled, releasing her wings in a mad fury, "who are you two?! I don't have time for you weaklings! give me gato!"
"I'm sorry little phoenix girl, but we can't do that, maybe you could come with us, help us in our mission." kisame said drawing his blade, shaver, whatever.
"I DON'T WANT TO HELP YOU, I WANT TO KILL GATO! YOUR PUNY CHAKRA IS NO MUCH FOR MY STRENGTH! OUT OF MY WAY OR YOU'RE DEAD!!!" rika yelled, floating upwards.
"puny? let me give you a taste of my power!" kisame said, giving much more than a taste, kicking in every ounce of chakra he had. "WATER STYLE! GREAT SHARK BARRAGE JUTSU!!!" kisame roared sending a huge shark barreling towards rika, but as soon as it got within five feet of her, it completely evaporated.
"well, that's unfortunate, I was hoping you were more than just talk, but no such luck I guess, FENIKKUSU GIHOU! DEMONIC FEAR REVIVAL!!!" rika yelled, her wings flickering more brightly.
"TSUKIYOMI!!!" itachi yelled staring into her eyes, making her attack stop.
tsukiyomi world
"for the next seventy-two hours, all you will be experiencing is what I want you to experience, I control time, space, mass, and can see your fears, this one is particularly interesting, you fear the death of my primary assailant, unfortunately, my purpose in my second life is to kill him, and I won't rest until I do, but for now, breaking your spirit should do." itachi said, as a yell could be heard as rikou attacked him from behind, only for itachi to stab him through the heart, rika's eyes seeming to see from all angles, her mind falling apart as her heart began to break.
"heh, fool, bringing me into your technique was a fools move, you do realise, that this world resides in the dream realm, a place that I am free to roam whenever I sleep, in all essence, I AM RIKOU! AND RIKOU KARASU DOES NOT STAND FOR PEOPLE HURTING RIKA!!!" rikou said releasing his two wings, itachi falling back, his eyes widening in fear. "NOW TO GET RID OF YOUR ADVANTAGE! KARASU GIHOU! LUNAR ECLIPSING TECHNIQUE!!!" rikou yelled going through his divene-arcane handseals, ending on shadow. "without tsukiyomi's physical appearence, this is no more than an area where the outside world does not move, and while the phoenix rises with the solar eclipse, the raven, rises with THE LUNAR ECLIPSE!!!" rikou yelled flying at itachi, itachi's eyes wide in complete terror, as he tried to defend himself from the mad noslaught by the eitouingu heir, but failing miserably.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" itachi yelled as he was pierced.
"seventy-one hours, fifty-nine minutes, and fifty-nine seconds to go, welcome to hell!!!"
real world
"heh, looks like you're big bad hanyou just got caught by itachi's best technique, her will will be broken soon" kisame said with a smirk.
"you mean that tsukiyomi thing? nah, itachi's boned, rikou was dead asleep when we left, he'll be out till tomorrow." naruto said calmly.
"so what if some kid's asleep?" kisame asked the blonde.
"he's a raven hanyou, he can roam through the dream world while he's asleep, tsukiyomi is in the dream world, ergo, he can control tsukiyomi better than itachi can." hinata explained with a smirk as itachi let loose a blood-curdling scream.
"wow, I knew he was ruthless, but that was just cruel, I like it." rika said, a little confused at why she enjoyed the gorey scene she had just witnessed.
"itachi, what happened?!" kisame asked, amazed as one of the most powerful akatsuki members was sent tumbling to the ground screaming.
"the pain, so much pain, never-ending pain, so, painful." itachi whimpered, shivvering.
"now, can we work out a deal? or do I have to get rikou here to do that for real?" rika asked making itachi bow down.
"DEAL! WHATEVER YOU WANT! NAME IT!" itachi shouted begging like a small child who was trying to convince his mother he didn't take the last cookie, when she saw him take it.
"you come back to konoha where we can place you under a special memory jutsu, to make you think nothing ever happened, that you were happy in your home, happy with your family, and happy with your job as a shinobi." rika said as itachi rapidly accepted and thanked her for not sending rikou to rip his limbs off slowly, over and over, healing his body, and then ripping it apart all over again. gruesome.
"what about you?" naruto asked kisame who was amazed at how much pain he must have felt to be turned into the comparison of a small child watching a horror movie.
"could I just swear loyalty to konoha in exchange for not being this rikou kid's enemy, something tells me that he's one bitchin' torture artist to be able to do this to itachi, I wanna meet him, and I wanna trade torture tips." kisame said putting his, shaving sword, back on his back.
"deal." they all agreed.