Alright lets see if I can write some decent action shall we?
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Sakura growled as she ducked under another kunai slash. She got up quicker this time and threw a chakra enhanced punch straight at the man's neck. He jumped away at the last second, heading towards the cliff face to the side of the trail. Sakura smirked and went through handsigns, activating the jutsu, large spikes of earth erupted from the cliff face. The man turned around and jumped off one of the spikes higher into the air.
'Gotcha!' Sakura thought.
Pumping chakra into her legs she jumped much higher than the man and came down with her leg locked in for a kick. He looked up to be met with Sakura's shin which sent him crashing back into the ground. Sakura grabbed her ankles and put her legs behind her back, making it so she followed the man with her knees extended. She felt his chest collapse when she connected, she pushed off of him and watched to make sure he hadn't used a substitution or clone. When the body didn't dissappear or explode in anyway she turned around to aid Keiko and Hitomi.
The two girls were back to back trying to hold off the other four men. A retreating slash from one of the attackers gave Keiko the room she needed as she started her own handsigns.
'Katon: Hibashiri!' Keiko thought as she ended on the tiger seal.
She blew out a stream of fire that surrounded two of the attackers. The ring of fire quickly closed in on its targets, at the last minute they jumped out of the ring. Hitomi quickly went through a few handsigns before shooting her own jutsu at the men who had jumped. A bullet of water shot out of her mouth towards the men, who quickly went through their own handsigns and shot the same jutsu out. The water jutsus cancelled eachother returning the situation back to the original stalemate.
"... This is getting us nowhere." Keiko said. "You ready Hitomi?"
"Yeah!" Hitomi cheered.
They took out their tantos, Keiko's in the right hand, Hitomi's in the left hand. They stood back to back with their free arms extended and hands intertwined. Thinking nothing of the odd stance the girls took, the four men attacked again. Keiko smirked as she swung her arm out and her sister with it. Hitomi slashed at the nearest man catching him in the chest and flipped her sister over her back to attack again. Keiko tried an axe kick but the man blocked, Hitomi took advantage of the opening and tried to get a stab in. Another of the attackers saw the attack and intercepted with a kunai. Keiko made herself drop onto the man's head feet first while Hitomi rolled over her back to attack the first man again.
'Whoa.' Sakura thought.
It seemed that jutsu weren't the only things they combined. Keiko and Hitomi continued with their odd double attacks driving their attackers back. Sakura saw her chance and slid in trying to trip one of the men. He saw it and jumped into the air, Keiko smirked and launched her sister up too. Hitomi used the momentum to throw her sister even faster into the man. He tried to make handsigns but was too slow as Keiko plunged her tanto into his gut before slicing up and out. Just for safety she also shot out a large fireball burning the man to nothing, she caught her sister's hand just before she hit the ground.
"Alright..." one of the three remaining men growled. "Play time is over!"
Naruto jumped back as Naoko's large blade crashed back into the earth. Going through a few handsigns, Naruto conjured up a blade of wind and launched it at Naoko. Naoko closed his eyes and brought his blade up in an attempt to lessen the damage. While his eyes were closed Naruto threw his Hiraishin kunai into a tree just behind Naoko, and teleported just as the jutsu finished.
'I would expect no less from Naruto-san.' Naoko thought.
When he opened his eyes again he was shocked to find Naruto gone. He looked left and right then up, his eyes widened as he looked behind him. Naruto let go with a roundhouse kick which caught Naoko's left cheek and made him stagger back. Naruto took advantage of the opening by stabbing him in the left thigh and sliced through his cloak across his chest, his third strike was blocked at the last second. Naoko kicked him away and jumped away onto solid ground.
"I'm sorry about this Naruto-san." Naoko said. "But I cannot hold back."
His hands were a blur as he went through the proper handsigns. Naruto was able to catch a few, and already this jutsu seemed familiar. Naoko's hands stopped on the bird seal and he looked back up at Naruto.
"Suiton: Suiryudan no jutsu!" Naoko shouted.
As the large dragon took form Naruto threw his kunai into Naoko's shoulder and activated the seal just before the dragon attacked.
"Too slow." Naruto told him.
Naoko smirked and grabbed Naruto's arm, trapping him. With his free hand Naoko picked up his sword and swung for a close ranged finish. Naruto grabbed Naoko's fist to stop the blade from bisecting him but struggled under the weight of the blade.
"Heavy isn't it?" Naoko chuckled.
Naruto growled and with his hand holding the kunai twisted it further into Naoko's shoulder. The dark haired man grunted in pain and let go of Naruto's arm, which gave him the opportunity to kick him away. When Naoko was stable on his feet again his hands were a blur for another jutsu. This time he finished on the ram sign.
'Suiton: Suikodan no jutsu!' Naoko thought.
Naruto waited for something to happen, at first it seemed like the jutsu was a dud. He quickly whipped around when he heard the sound of rushing water. A large shark formed from water was rushing straight towards him, he grunted and jumped in the air over it. Naoko smirked as he jumped after Naruto with his sword pulled back for a powerful strike. Naruto created a shadow clone and used it to throw himself towards Naoko with his kunai ready to strike. Naruto got Naoko between the eyes but he quickly dissolved into water, the destruction of his shadow clone alerted him to Naoko who was behind him now. He held up his kunai just in time to block the attack that would have surely killed him.
'Dammit! He's faster than I would have thought!' Naruto thought.
The impact of the strike sent him crashing into the water. He opened his eyes to see Naoko standing on the surface waiting.
'Its hard to get a solid strike with that blade of his... I need to catch him off guard.' Naruto thought.
He put his fingers into the signature cross shape, and summoned four shadow clones. The clones nodded and took off towards Naoko while he took out as many shuriken as he could hold. When he felt his clones vanish he let the shuriken fly and manipulated some wind around them, then started to go through handsigns. The sound of metal on metal traveled through the water, it would seem that Noako deflected the projectiles. He stopped on the tiger seal.
'Your favorite jutsu... Katon: Gokakyu no jutsu!' Naruto thought.
He shot a massive orb of roaring fire from his lips and towards Naoko. The Blood Mist member couldn't get out of the way fast enough. Naruto shot through the water and stopped at the shore of the lake looking around for Naoko.
"Not bad Naruto-san." Naoko said as he emerged from the water.
There were painful looking burns on his right arm and shoulder as his cloak had burned from those areas. He reached up with his left hand and ripped the rest of his cloak off revealing him to have no shirt and basic black pants. He rolled his right shoulder before popping his neck. He gripped his sword and brought it to his side.
"Fuuton: Kazekiri no jutsu!" he shouted.
He swung his sword forward sending several blades towards Naruto. The blonde Jounin quickly jumped to a tree off to the side and began the signs to another jutsu. Naoko smirked as he swung his sword towards Naruto again.
'Dammit! Okay two can play at this game!' Naruto thought.
He stopped his handsigns and charged up his own wind blade jutsu and launched it towards Naoko's. The two wind jutsu cancelled eachother and caused the water to whip up violently. Naoko sliced through a wave and continued to run at Naruto.
Sakura rolled under a punch and pulled the sisters out of the way of a kunai volley. These three remaining enemies weren't holding anything back, it was a miracle the three Kunoichi weren't dead yet. Sakura applied some healing chakra to the nasty cuts on Keiko and Hitomi.
"These guys are strong." Hitomi panted out.
"We could try our cover tactic." Keiko suggested.
"What if we fail?" Hitomi asked. "I don't have enough chakra for another one."
"Yeah me neither." Keiko said.
Sakura reached into her kunai pouch and pulled out a couple of soldier pills.
"Here." she handed the girls the pills. "They're not as effective as the usual ones, but they should do the trick."
They nodded and popped the pills into their mouths. Sakura was right, they could feel their chakra come back but by only so much.
'Okay let's see if I remember this.' Keiko thought.
She stopped for a second to feel the wind direction. Perfect they were upwind, she placed a flint in her teeth and started the handsigns.
'Snake, rat, snake... uh- Tiger!' Keiko thought.
She took a deepbreath in through her nose and blew out a large cloud of gunpowder. It seemed harmless, just an attempt at a smokescreen. Just before she could make a spark with the flint all three Blood Mist members jumped out of the dangerous cloud. Hitomi saw her chance and used all of her chakra for one last water bullet, she took careful aim at the furtherst member and let it fly. The Blood Mist member smirked when he saw the water bullet fly towards him, putting his hands in the proper stance he used a simple water clone to take the attack.
"Dammit!" Hitomi cursed.
Sakura jumped high into the air and tried to knock at least one of the enemies back into the cloud of gunpowder. One of them grabbed her shin and threw her back to the ground, hard. She landed on all fours then grunted when she felt someone stomp on her back. The weight dissappeared from her back and then she felt an intense pain in her side as she flew back towards Keiko and Hitomi.
"Sakura-san!" they both cried.
'This isn't good.' Sakura thought.
She charged chakra in her fist and punched the ground causing it fall away, making a gap that seperated the two groups.
"Hah! You think that will save you?!" one of them mocked.
The group of three jumped over the gap, and Sakura smirked. Hitomi let go of a barrage of kunai with short explosive tags on them. They stopped just short of the enemies, exploding harmlessly.
"Can't even attack properly anymore!" another barked.
Keiko, using the smoke of the explosions, thew her own set of kunai at the men. They heard a few hit their mark and got to see the reward as all three men landed in front of them. The lead one had three small cuts in his robe and on his face. The other two were pulling kunai out of their arms and legs.
Naruto ducked under another slash of Naoko's zanbato and tried cutting out the man's shins. Naoko jumped up and brought his sword down again, Naruto rolled out of the way and kicked him in his injured shoulder. Naoko hissed in pain and jumped back.
"You're even faster than I was told, Naruto-san." Naoko smirked.
Naruto readjusted his grip on his kunai and waited for the next attack. Naoko pumped chakra into his arms and let go with a powerful swing. The wind it made caused a large wave to crash over Naruto obscuring his vision. When he looked back up from the water Naoko was gone. He remained calm, no good came from panicking, left, right, down and up, he was nowhere. Then it struck him, behind! The sound of running footsteps alerted him and he did a backflip over Naoko. The dark haired man skidded to a halt and swung his blade in an arc. Naruto easily side stepped the blade and charged Naoko with his kunai poised to strike. He punctured Naoko's already injured shoulder and tried to end it quickly with a slash to the throat.
Naoko jumped back just before Naruto's kunai met his throat and started up more handsigns. A simple three handsigns caused a wave of water to raise up and shoot forward, it was too tall and too wide to evade, he could have tried the Hiraishin but Naoko was probably expecting that. A last second decision had Naruto going through the handsigns for another fireball jutsu. He shot the flame in a perfect area to halt the crushing wave, but causing a thick layer of steam to cover the area. The distinct sound of footsteps on water had him look to the left and throw several shuriken. When he heard the projectiles either hit tree trunks or the dirt he decided to run out of the annoying cover.
'Dammit, where'd he go?' Naruto thought.
There was no sign of the man anywhere, no footprints, no blood trail, no nothing! He quickly ducked under another attempted strike by Naoko and brought his kunai up into the man's chest. Naoko exploded with a rush of water, Naruto quickly turned to his left and stabbed Naoko again, this time however, he exploded into the usual white smoke of normal clones. Naruto quickly looked up to see Naoko right above him, there was no time to throw his kunai for the Hiraishin, or dodge.
Naruto tried to bring his kunai up to block Naoko's strike but he was too late. The large blade came down through the metal of his headband and cut through his eye. Naruto's head shot down as he slid away, he brought his hand up to cover his left eye. He felt the blood drip down his hand and arm, he could already feel Kurama trying to heal him. Naruto gritted his teeth and cursed himself, he was sloppy. Fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book, a clone cover tactic, oh he would beat himself up about this later.
'Focus Naruto!' he told himself.
He looked back up at Naoko and growled. Again Naruto threw his kunai at the man, Naoko chuckled and deflected the attack. Naruto activated his seal and attacked again, Naoko tried to jump away but Naruto grabbed him by the leg and threw him onto dry land. He jumped high into the air and came down with his leg extended. Naoko gasped as the wind was knocked out of him by Naruto.
Alright there we go, the next chapter will be the end of the two battles, again I'm not sure how good or bad those action bits were. I tried...
-Raidori