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Episode Three - CHALLENGE:
Sasuke's glare darkened as Kaiya leapt effortlessly from the tree and landed a few feet infront of him.
He gripped his sword tighter.
The light breeze ruffled his black bangs as the pretty girl confronted him.
"Who are you?" he hissed again.
"I'm simply a traveller, seeking an escort," she said, staring deeply into his eyes. Her eyes were the most brilliant shade of sparkling a deep, emerald green when they were hit by the sun's rays.
"And they say you're the one who can help me."
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the young woman.
"How did you find me, anyway?" he barked.
Kaiya reached into her rucksack and pulled out the shirt and photo frame she had stolen from Sasuke's old bedroom.
"I found you using my special tracking jutsu," she confessed, tossing the shirt and frame down at him, discarding their use. They flopped down at his feet. Sasuke stared at them, his anger burning within him.
She was in my house...?
He knew she must've been sent by Naruto and Sakura to try and get him to return to the Hidden Leaf. Will those two never learn? He would never fall for such a stupid trick; how else would she have found him if she had never obtained things from his room?
"Hn, I'm afraid you've been mislead," he said coldly, his glare easing up into an I-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about expression. He turned to leave. He had become fed up with the attempts to get him to come back to the village.
Thwock!
Another kunai was thrown, grazed Sasuke's shoulder and became lodged in a tree several feet away, which caused him to stop dead in his tracks. He didn't acknowledge that his shoulder was cut.
"Let me guess," Sasuke spat impatiently without turning to face the girl. "Your home is in the Hidden Leaf village and you want me to take you back? Forget it; get lost."
He marched away.
"Ha! You think that blonde haired dweeb and that sad little pinkette sent me to bring you home?" she scoffed.
Sasuke stopped in his tracks again.
"Sakura and Naruto…?" Sasuke muttered under his breath. Had she just badmouthed Sakura and Naruto? He was beginning to develop a small interest in this girl.
Sasuke turned to face the mysterious girl. He immediately found her to be the most gorgeous girl he had ever laid eyes upon, although he cursed himself for admitting it. But how did she know them? He was determined to find out.
"So, you want me to take you back to your home?" Sasuke said bluntly.
The girl nodded.
"And why should I do that?"
The girl uttered a silent 'ha', and took another step closer. She was standing right infront from him; her light scent filled his nostrils. She smelled fantastic!
Again, he cursed himself for thinking that.
"Because if you don't, I'll just have to make you," she sneered.
Was that a challenge?
"Oh, is that so?" he challenged.
The girl's green eyes sparkled with excitement. The light breeze suddenly came to a halt, as if they were standing right in the eye of the storm. She reached her index finger to her cheek and pulled down her ninja mask slowly, revealing her peach-pink lips.
"Unless you're chicken…" she teased softly, just loud enough for him to hear.
Memories of his days back in the Hidden Leaf flooded back to Sasuke; the constant challenges from Naruto were alive and humming in his head. Sasuke would always win those challenges, whether they were physical or verbal. And as always, Naruto would wallow in his defeat, swearing that next time he will win and show everybody what a great ninja he was. From then on, Naruto would always end in a draw with Sasuke; never has there been a time where one would properly reign supreme over the other. Their fights had always been interrupted, except for that time when Naruto had come to drag Sasuke back. After that, Sasuke had properly reigned superior over Naruto, even though he had put up just as much of a fight as Sasuke.
In an angry flash, Sasuke drew his sword and swung it at the young girl.
She vanished simultaneously, her smug giggle ringing in Sasuke's ear.
She's fast…
Sasuke whipped around to see where she had reappeared.
BAM!
A fist, her fist, collided with Sasuke's left cheek and sent him sprawling on the grass. He quickly regained his balance in mid air and stopped himself from falling any further. He rubbed his cheek in shock and annoyance.
She reappeared about ten meters infront of him, that silly smirk still plastered on her face. This girl didn't look the type to strike Sasuke; he shouldn't have underestimated her. But he then changed his mind and considered it to be a lucky shot.
Kaiya drew her sword.
The two raised their swords simultaneously, and then charged at each other. Sasuke uttered a battle cry as he swung down hard on Kaiya. Their swords clinked as she rose to defend herself. They used all their might to push back at each other, not giving in until the other caved. In a stalemate, they separated and leapt away from each other.
She knows her shit, Sasuke thought to himself. She definitely knows how to wield a sword.
Sasuke slid his sword back into its leather case. He then pulled out two kunais from his thigh pouch and stanced.
Let's see how good she is in hand-to-hand combat.
As if reading Sasuke's mind, she repeated Sasuke's actions.
"You're pretty good, for a girl," Sasuke teased.
Kaiya continued to smirk as she charged at Sasuke.
Sasuke tensed his muscles as she came forward and lunged at her. CLINK! They deadlocked. Sasuke could feel her hot breath on his left cheek. A strange feeling, much like an electric current, buzzed through his body.
He immediately shook this unrecognizable feeling and concentrated on defeating this girl. Kaiya pulled away and swung around in an anti-clockwise direction and deadlocked kunais with Sasuke's again. He pushed and pushed but Kaiya pushed just as hard back.
The fight continued for a few more minutes; every time one would throw a punch, kick or kunai, the other would cancel it out effortlessly.
It was beginning to grow tiresome.
Kaiya lunged forward and threw a right hook, but Sasuke's reflexes were just that little bit quicker; he clasped his hand over her clenched fist, clasped his other hand over Kaiya's other hand before she had a chance to swing it, and deadlocked with her, yet again. Realizing that this could not go on, she leapt back a safe distance away from Sasuke.
"I'll make you a deal!" she panted. She waited until she caught her breath and resumed a casual stance.
Sasuke, refusing to give up his fighting stance and let down his guard, shot Kaiya a suspicious glance.
"Deal?" he echoed.
Kaiya nodded. After they had both caught their breath, Sasuke also resumed a casual stance.
Kaiya's dark emerald eyes twinkled with excitement and a small, sly grin crept across her peach-pink lips.
"If I win," she said confidently, "you guide me home, deal?"
"And if I win?" Sasuke taunted smugly.
"Well that's simple; I'll leave and head home by myself. No catch what-so-ever," she smiled back at the raven haired boy.
Sasuke thought for a minute. She must have something up her sleeve; she seems way to confident to be proposing such a deal…She's up to something…
"Hey punk, I haven't got all day. Do we have a deal?" Kaiya said impatiently.
"Yes."
Kaiya's sly grin shifted to a confident smirk as she prepared to continue this fight, and seek to win it.
Sasuke slowly and menacingly drew his sword and stanced. His dark eyes glowed seriously.
"Ready to lose?"
Kaiya giggled maliciously to herself.
"Prepare to eat your words…" she muttered. With her right hand hanging by her side, she subtlety conducted a hand sign using only that hand. This immediately caught Sasuke's attention. His eyes widened in shock.
One-handed hand signs…?
Although seeing this extraordinary skill, Sasuke mistakenly believed it was a distraction as he believed he had never seen such a hand sign in all his years of mastering different jutsus, so he discarded it and focused on how he was going to attack the green-eyed girl and win.
Sasuke tensed his muscles as Kaiya still stood there making those same hand sings with her right hand, and charged forward, belting out a battle-cry.
Before he was even halfway to her, his body suddenly stopped.
His body locked up.
His battle-cry was cut short, only to be replaced with a choking sound.
His eyes widened in horror.
He tried moving his body but he couldn't.
His sword slipped from his hands and fell to the grass.
He continued to choke out breaths.
I-I'm… Paralyzed...? But…But… How…?
This definitely wasn't a game anymore.
Suddenly, as Kaiya's hand spread out and recreated the action of crushing a bug flat on a table, incredible gravitational force came over Sasuke's body and pushed him down onto his hands and knees. Hard.
His heart began to race.
She's...cont-trolling me...?
He looked up at Kaiya.
She was now standing over him, her right hand now assumed the position of a puppetmaster's, her expression cold and hard; different from earlier.
She can't be a puppetmaster…! Sasuke choked in his thoughts.
He retraced the battle in his mind; never did he see a puppet or any signs of a puppet; her hand signs were not puppetmastery in the least!
So how is she doing this…?
He thought about the kunai she threw that grazed his shoulder. Was it dipped in poison? No; he would've felt the effects earlier in the battle, or if not, straight away.
Genjutsu…?
Again, he thought this to be impossible; he had read her hand signs clearly and they weren't for genjutsu either.
"W-What… did… you do to… me…?" Sasuke choked out.
There was a feeling inside of him that was unknown. It was terrifying and invasive. Sasuke could feel it burning in his core and growing larger and larger. He could feel it draining his strength as every second slowly ticked past.
He had lost all control over every part of his body.
This jutsu she had bore upon him was alive and dangerous.
Kaiya uttered an evil chuckle.
She raised her right hand to just below her chin, and obediently and helplessly, Sasuke's body followed.
She raised Sasuke up until her nose was millimeters from his.
Her green eyes sparked with triumph.
"So, you ready to take me home now?"
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