'My time in the hospital wasn't a full waist, but still I shouldn't have been that reckless,' Katara scolded herself.
"Katara, the moon village refuses to make any negations with us. They say that we've insulted them in some way, but won't tell us how. It makes no sense. It's almost like someone is pulling the strings from behind the scenes," Gaara stated as he walked beside Katara.
"Well, the moon village has been known in the past for being manipulated, so it could be a possibility. But that's not a priority right now, there has to be something that we can do to prevent this war. We can't afford another great war. Most nations are still trying to recover from the last one," Katara explained.
'but when you think of it at a different level someone could really benefit if sand and moon do get involved in a war, they would be preoccupied with most of their military out in the war the villages would be easy targets to attack without much resistance. One nation would be able to triple its size by doing this,' Katara told herself.
"What are you thinking about?" Gaara asked.
"Oh nothing, lets just focus on finding a way to get negotiations back up," Katara instructed.
"Ok."
'There has to be more going on here than just being 'insulted' but what?' Katara continued to ponder.
Katara and Gaara walked down the street in silence, each comprehending every possibility that was revealed to them.
"Ok that's it. I'm just going to talk to them myself," Katara stated, turning on her heels and heading towards the Tsukikage's building.
'I have a bad feeling about this,' Gaara thought before turning to fallow after Katara.
The two approached closer to the biggest building, it looked to be five stories high and really old. There was guards posted outside the old, double doors, spears in hand.
'Great more annoyances,' Katara thought before thinking of a plan to get inside the building.
"You two what is your business here?" one of the guards asked.
"I have a scheduled appointment with the Tsukikage," Katara quickly lied.
"He's in a meeting at the moment and doesn't want to be bothered by trash like you," the other guard said as he glared at Katara.
Katara returned his glare. She allowed come of the dragon demon's chakra to slip giving a warning to the guard not to cross her. She took a step forward and watched as he coward slightly.
"If I was you I'd watch what I say, or you'll regret it." Her tone dropped to a dangerous low, even made Gaara backup slightly.
"Now step aside before I have to make you myself," Katara demanded.
"y-yes ma'am," they both said in unison as they opened the doors for Katara.
"Gaara, stay out here for now. I can handle this." Katara glanced over her shoulder at Gaara.
"Sure," he replied, crossing his arms he leaned against a tree nearby.
Katara walked down hallway after hallway fallowing a presence she recognized from the past.
'This chakra, I thought he was dead,' Katara thought as she continued down the hallway.
"Katara, long time no see," a deep voice whispered into her ear.
Katara flinched slightly at the voice. "Takayuki, last time we met you were almost dead. How the hell did you manage to live through that?"
Katara span around only to be met with an empty hallway.
"What's the matter, Katara-hime? You used to be good at this game," the voice bounced off the walls.
"Why are you even here?" Katara shouted.
"That's a secret. You'll have to catch me first before I'll tell you." The voice then disappeared.
"You and you're stupid games."
"how are you going to complete your mission if you can't even catch me?" a dark voice teased as it echoed through the forest, sounding like it was coming from every direction.
'great this is the mission that'll decide if I'll be an ANBU and I have to deal with this,' Katara screamed in her head, 'ok calm down, the Hokage said his kekkei genkai messes with the mind and senses much like genjustu does. He's probably already using it now to get me confused on where he is. Concentrate! You'll hear a slight difference in volume between the real one and the genjustu copies.'
"Are you going to just stand there?" Takayuki asked standing in the shadows of a tree.
"There you are," Katara stated as a fire ball hurled its way towards the taller male.
"So you finally figured it out. Too bad it's too late." His green eyes darkened as his tone dropped.
Chakra ropes snapped around Katara's legs and hands, dragging her to a tree seven feet from where she was standing. She tried to forcibly break free, but her attempts were in vain. Slowly the ground below started to sink.
"Now how are you going to get out of this one, Katara-hime? And you're supposed to be a member of the royal Uchiha clan? How pathetic." He stated as he jumped down to Katara's level, "I used to think so highly of the royal Uchiha's, but now seeing how pathetic they are makes me see how worthless they are."
"Shut up!"
A flash of red in Katara's eyes caught Takayuki's attention.
'Normally, I wouldn't use this, but he's using to powerful genjustu for me not to use it,' Katara thought,
'Oh so she broke my genjustu with her Sharingon. Is this the famous Mangekyou Sharingon? No this is the Sharingon of the royal clan, the Mangekyou can't even compare to it,' Takayuki analyzed.
'Forget this,' Katara thought as she quickly performed one handed hand signs.
Tree roots wrapped around Takayuki rendering him motionless, Katara rapidly produced hand signs.
'Fire style: phoenix flower justu,' Katara yelled into her head.
Flames shot out as wind intensified the fire. Screams echoed off the trees as the intense fire made contact with its victim.
When the flames died down only the burnt wood remained.
"I already know where you are; there's no point in hiding," Katara yelled as she gracefully flipped backwards, throwing four shrunken to cancel out Takayuki's.
Katara suddenly disappeared from Takayuki's senses. He stopped his advance and cautiously looked around him not seeing anything, or being able to detect Katara's presence.
'Earth style: Head hunter Justu,' Katara thought once Takayuki stepped right above her.
Her hand broke through the earth, clasping on the male's ankle, and dragging him into the earth; quickly performing several fatal combos causing great damage on the bones of the darker haired male, then throwing him back up to ground level. She was about to direct the final blow when three hunter ninja's appeared stopping her.
"I'll leave him to you then," she stated before turning to leave, a picture of the male near death imprinted to her memory.
'I don't want to deal with this again,' Katara thought as she chased after the male.
She ran down the hallway, wheeling around a corner she ran straight into her prey.
"It's not going to go by your plan this time Katara-hime." He gave a dark chuckle before disappearing only to reappear behind Katara.
His hand quickly made contact with the crock of her neck, pinching the nerve enough to cause her to fall unconscious into his arms.
"I'm sorry Katara-hime, but there's someone that wants to see you and you can't see where he's hiding now can you? No, or it'll be my head he bites off then."
Then the two disappeared to a place unknown to the one observing the scene.