Takayuki jumped backwards doing a back flip before he ran down the hallway.
'What is with him and running away in a game,' Katara asked herself.
Katara darted down the hall trying to catch up with him as fast as she could. She didn't care at that moment about what the Amustru where planning all she cared about was saving Gaara and if he died Takayuki was going to die a painful death for sure.
'Why am I thinking like that? I'm going to save Gaara, there's no way I'm going to let him die. No, not happening. Takayuki, you better be ready to get your butt kicked and fast.' Katara glared at the retreating back of the taller male.
Takayuki suddenly stopped when he was in an opening deep in the forest where no one could get in the way.
"Katara-hime, ready to hear the rules of the game?" he asked.
Katara glared as her answer.
"You have to beat me in a fight, anything goes. You have only an hour to complete this or I won't tell you where I've hidden Gaara," Takayuki stated.
"I've beaten you before you really think that I can't beat you again?" Katara questioned in disbelief.
Takayuki smirked, "well you see, Katara-hime, you've never seen the real power I hold. Also every time I nearly die and use a sacred jutsu of my clan my power increases."
'So that's how he's alive and the reason he seems stronger than the last time,' Katara thought.
"So what I'm still going to beat you," Katara yelled.
"Then let's begin, Katara-hime," Takayuki stated.
He disappeared and reappeared behind Katara kicking her in the back causing her to fly into a tree.
'It looks like I'll have to use the Sharingon, to save Gaara I'll use it,' Katara stated to herself.
She closed her eyes for a brief second and when she opened them again her eyes were red with black floating in a circle.
'So she's going to use that, oh well it won't help her much,' Takayuki thought cockily.
Katara preformed hand signs at lightning speed; she brought her thumb and index finger to her mouth as if she was holding a straw and blew out multiple fireballs out each hiding kunai. Then she preformed even more hand signs and this time her hands hit the ground causing the plants around Takayuki's legs to wrap around him holding him in place.
Takayuki disappeared before the kunai could hit him and he reappeared a fair distance away performing hand signs of his own. The earth around Katara trapped her hands and feet. More hand signs were created and she started to sink into the earth just like the first time they met.
'That's not going to work this time Takayuki,' Katara thought.
She performed as best she could one handed hand signs and did a reversal jutsu causing Takayuki to start sinking in the earth. Katara broke free from her binds and charged at Takayuki before she disappeared and reappeared to the right of him performing even more hand signs. She summoned a pair of twin dragon blades that she stuck in the ground parallel to each other. Then she performed sever series of hand signs. She bit her thumbs and drew the Uchiha symbol on her palms before placing them on each of the hilts of the dragon swords.
'Sacred art: twin dragon blade fury,' she yelled in her head.
The earth rumbled and lightning stuck right on Takayuki shocking him greatly. Then the earth tossed him in the air and multiple fire balls hit him from every way they could, the wind picked up increasing the flames. As Takayuki crashed back down to the earth plants wrapped around him pulling him to a tree and holding him there.
"You may be able to use a jutsu to revive yourself when you're almost dead, but my dragon blades won't only kill you but take your soul as a sacrifice. I win Takayuki, now tell me where Gaara is," Katara demanded.
"He's at the mountain house I took you too. Down in the sacred chamber, good luck finding it, and since you've killed Kyo and me, the plans to make the Sand and Moon be at war will freeze over. You win, Katara-hime, and I don't mind dying by your hand," Takayuki stated, "goodbye Katara-hime."
With that Katara slashed off his head with the twin blades.
Katara ran through the forest as fast as she possibly could. She just hoped she wouldn't run into anymore problems. She broke through the doors of the compound and quickly ran towards the faint chakra source of Gaara's. She opened the door to a stairwell that lead downstairs and practically jumped all the steps as she leaped into the darkness.
"So you really did beat Takayuki, I knew he was too weak, but that won't matter. You'll die here Katara and end the line of the royal branch forever," a dark voice stated.
"Show yourself," Katara demanded, her Sharingon eyes searching for some outline of a body.
"Here I am," the figure said as torches all around the room lit up.
A dark figure that had no face as far as Katara could see stood holding Gaara up by the strap that held his gourd.
"Come on Katara, defeat me and I'll reverse the jutsu on him," the figure stated.
"No problem," she stated.
The dragon blades still clutched in her hands, the dragon sealed inside her feed the chakra to them.
She lunged at the figure aiming for his heart when he disappeared causing Katara to tumble into the nearest wall.
"Petty attacks like that would only work on Takayuki," the figure stated.
Katara smirked, "Then I won't go easy on you, I'll show you the power of the Royal Uchiha Clan."
"Show me then, you only have 15 minutes before he dies, can you defeat me in that amount of time?"
"To save the one I love, I will do anything to defeat you even if I have to use my demon side to do it," Katara stated glaring at the figure.
"I like that about you."
Gaara was thrown into the far corner of the room away from harm of the battle. Katara attacked rapidly trying to cut vital places. The battle continued like this for ten minutes before Katara started to get frustrated and desperate. A slight portion of her demon chakra leaked out powering the dragon blades even more. All elements the dragon blades control spiraled around the blade causing it to become 10 times more powerful. In a flash the figure was in front of Katara about to plunge a kunai into her chest. Katara reflexes reacted by stabbing the figure in the stomach with one of the dragon blades. Lightning rapidly flowed through him causing him to go numb and not be able to move any longer.
"Reverse the jutsu now," Katara demanded turning the sword half a turn in his stomach causing him to spit up blood.
"Fine, you win."
A gush of wind blew out the torches and when they were relit the figure was gone and Gaara was stirring slightly.
"You win this time, but the next time one of my plans are in motion, you will be the one defeated," the voice boomed from every direction.
Katara ignored the voice completely as she rushed over to Gaara. she picked up his head and placed it in her lap making him slightly more comfortable as he slowly woke up. She stroked his firey hair trying to calm her worries.
"Katara," Gaara softly asked.
"Yes, Gaara, I'm here." Katara smiled down at him.
Gaara raised his hand and he placed it on her check. Katara leaned into the touch.
"I'm happy, you're safe," Gaara stated looking into Katara's eyes.
"Me too," Katara agreed.
Gaara slowly sat up before he stood and offered his hand to Katara.
"We still need to find the Tsukikage," Gaara stated.
"Yes, and I have a feeling that he's within this building," Katara agreed.
"Let's go find out."
~TS~
"Yes, Lord Tsukikage, thank you," Katara said bowing slightly at the elderly man in front of her.
"No, thank you. Without your help our village would have been in a lot of trouble. This is the least I can do to repay you," the Tsukikage stated.
"We will inform the Kazekage right away of this agreement," Katara stated.
Gaara and Katara bowed in respect before leaving the Tsukikage's building. The two rushed to the building they had been staying in.
"The treaty had been recreated," Katara stated to the group that sat around waiting for the two to return.
"Yay," everyone cheered.
"Let's go back to the Sand village," Gaara stated.
And the group was off back to the Sand village to inform the Kazekage of the recent events.