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Episode 7 – JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Sasuke's breath grew heavier by the second. He gripped his sword so tight that his knuckles white. Sweat dripped down his left temple. An emotion within him, much like the one felt when Itachi slaughtered their clan, began to boil violently within him; a feeling of betrayal and hurt mixed with rage.
He couldn't take it another second longer.
"Fight me!" he screamed, his voice riddled deeply with rage.
Kaiya just stood there, her normally playful, emerald eyes were now stone cold. They were not the eyes Sasuke knew when he had first met her.
She just stood there, motionless.
Sasuke squeezed his eyes shut tight, his facial features becoming taught. He then gripped his sword even tighter.
"FIGHT ME!" he cried, his eyes jolting open to reveal his sharingan ablaze in his normally onyx eyes.
Sasuke's desperate cry echoed off the stone walls as both still stood motionless.
Kaiya closed her eyes, sighed, and opened them again, as if bored by the current situation.
"Fine, but put the sword away, Sasuke," she said coldly, whipping out two kunai knives and preparing for battle.
"And let's fight like real ninja!"
Knowing he was expertly skilled and close range combat, Sasuke obeyed Kaiya's commands and also whipped out two kunai knives. In a flash, he charged at Kaiya, uttering a battle cry as he held his kunais up in the air. Knowing what movements Kaiya was going to execute before she herself even knew, Sasuke deflected every single one of her attempted blows.
Suddenly, Kaiya disappeared and reappeared behind Sasuke and delivered a powerful kick to his back, which sent him flying through the air. He managed to catch his balance before he could hit the ground. He had lost grip on both of his kunai and they had slid across the concrete floor on the other side of the room.
Before he could attempt to reach them, Kaiya was already charging at him, her features plagued with determination, her fist aimed at his face.
Sasuke reached out, clamped his hand over Kaiya's fist and stopped it right in its path. He then grabbed her waist with his other hand and sent her soaring over his head and landing down onto the concrete, hard.
Flinching at her failed attempt, Kaiya executed the hand signs and a clone appeared by her side.
I barely saw her hands move…!
Both clones raged toward Sasuke. He tensed his muscles and prepared himself. She was definitely an expert at hand to hand combat; all of her punches, elbows, knees and kicks were all right on target, but having the sharingan as an advantage, Sasuke was able to deflect most of them thrown by Kaiya and her clone.
Sasuke leapt back to get to get an advantage to foreseeing their moves, but before he could land his foot onto the concrete, her clone appeared behind him.
"You're pathetic," it hissed into his ear. As Sasuke turned his head, as if all in slow motion, it then delivered an almighty punch to the side of his cheek.
Sasuke was, again, sent flying across the room. Before he hit the wall, Kaiya appeared there out of nowhere. She reached out, gripped his wrists, spun around on one foot and launched him up with incredible force.
Chunks of concrete and a cloud of dust greeted Sasuke as his body collided with the stone wall just above the balcony. His body flopped down to the balcony like a ragdoll. The debris crashed onto Sasuke and caused the balcony to buckle and crumble.
Sasuke was the first to fall, followed by the debris. A cloud of dust, much like volcano ash, shot up from the ground as the concrete chunks covered Sasuke.
From above, Orochimaru gasped. Kabuto was in shock.
"There's… no way she could've…" Kabuto stuttered, leaning over the balcony.
Like a miracle, Sasuke staggered to his feet and rose up from the stone grave like a zombie. His body was badly beaten, but that didn't seem to phase him in the slightest.
"Shit…" Kaiya muttered. "Looks like I'm going to have to lift my game."
"That all you got?" Sasuke called out to her, brushing the dust from his midnight black hair.
"Not even close!"
Kaiya's clone disappeared as she executed more hand signs; ones that Sasuke recognized, but were slightly altered.
In a puff of white smoke, enormous bat wings appeared on Kaiya's back. She stretched them out as wide as they could go as a smirk crossed her peach-pink lips.
Sasuke gaped in horror.
Kaiya snickered. "You like it?"
It looks like a transformation jutsu, but…
"What is it?" Orochimaru whispered to Kabuto. "I've never seen such a jutsu executed before."
"It's a rare form of the transformation jutsu. I discovered it upon research the time we took Kaiya in. It was an ancient jutsu that was invented in the early days of her clan. Their specialty was using it to gain special animal traits and using them to their advantage. For example, for aerial attacks, a person would execute it and gain the wings of a hawk, or if they desired the speed of a cheetah, they would use it to gain the cheetahs legs and would therefore be able to run at great speeds, and so on. Trying to control the animalistic habits picked up when gaining an animal body part is extremely hard. Most ninja that were not of her clan that tried to execute it were overcome with the animalistic habits, killing not only their opponents, but killing themselves also, by draining their chakra to absolute zero," he explained.
"Incredible…!" Orochimaru exclaimed under his breath. An evil smile formed on his skinny lips. "This battle is going to get interesting," he rasped, uttering an evil laugh.
Suddenly, the bat wings that sprouted from Kaiya's back began to flap and gain air. She rose up form the ground, the huge wings causing dust to float in the air.
Sasuke swallowed nervously.
I've never faced an opponent in the air. Well maybe, but not like this. This is different. I need to watch myself.
Now that Kaiya was in the air, she had the advantage over Sasuke. She began firing fireball after fireball down at Sasuke, swooping like a magpie does when an unwanted someone had wandered too close to their nest. Sasuke returned the fireballs, along with a shuriken or two.
Aerial attacks weren't one of Sasuke's strong points, nor was it his favourite.
The battle raged on for another twenty minutes. In that time, Kaiya had swooped so low on Sasuke that he had managed to grasp one of her wings and hitch a ride. Angry, Kaiya had flown straight into the stone walls in hopes to rid herself of him. Before being violently thrown off, Sasuke managed to pierce and shed holes in Kaiya's wings. Howling in pain, her wings had disappeared. They both fell to the floor.
From then on, it was extensive hand to hand combat. The sounds of flesh crashing against flesh was the only sound that echoed throughout the arena-like room. Heavy breathing and battle cries often seeped out through the crashing flesh.
Punch.
Hit.
"Argh!"
Miss.
Kick.
"Haaah!"
Elbow.
Miss.
"Rrrrgh!"
Knee.
Hit.
"Uhnn…!"
Punch.
Miss.
Punch.
Hit.
Kick.
Deadlock.
Both Sasuke and Kaiya finally leapt back a safe distance from one another. Both were panting and covered in scratches, bruises and cuts. Sweat poured down their foreheads and down to their necks. Both bodies heaved in exhaustion and determination.
Throughout the battle, Kabuto noticed that Orochimaru was becoming eerily engrossed in the way Kaiya was fighting. It was like something had ignited an electrifying, dangerous spark within him.
I've seen this look in his eyes before…
It was true that Kaiya had advanced incredible lengths beyond her years, but the look in his eyes was dangerous; his eyes glinted, even in the dimly lit room, and he bared his teeth as his interested smile evolved into a deranged grin.
Down below, Sasuke and Kaiya continued to fight.
"My lord, are you alright…?"
Ignored, Kabuto referred his gaze back to the battle.
"Water Whip Jutsu!" Kaiya screeched, conjuring hand signs at her phenomenal speed. Within seconds, a whip made form water sprouted from her right hand.
She's infused her chakra with water! Incredible! And what's more, because there is no obvious source of water nearby, she had infused her chakra with the moisture in the air! …Hmm, she could prove of some use to me… Orochimaru thought to himself.
Like a lion-tamer, Kaiya flicked the whip at Sasuke time and time again. He had to dodge it at all costs; being infused with chakra, there's no telling how powerful it could be.
Hmm… I see how she's done it; she's used the moisture in the air… Looks like I'm going to have to get rid of it!
"Fire Style, Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"
The room was ablaze with fire. Thick smoke filled the air and caused everyone in it to choke.
In seconds, her whip diminished.
"Ha! I see you've figured it out," Kaiya called out to Sasuke. "No matter; it's time to end this!"
End this…?
Without uttering a single word, she quickly executed some hand signs and paused.
...Not those hand signs!
Slowly, Kaiya raised her hand and spread her fingers out in the same fashion she did when they had battled the day she had first met Sasuke.
"Oh, no!" Sasuke cried. Before he could move, Sasuke's whole body froze. No words came out, only choking sounds.
Kaiya raised a second hand out and lowered it sharply. Sasuke immediately crashed to his knees. Hard.
"She's… she's controlling him? But… but how…?" Kabuto stuttered.
Kabuto heard Orochimaru gasp, and when he turned to him, his deranged expression became even wilder.
"H-how a-are you doing th-this…?" Sasuke managed to choke out.
Hands still outstretched, Kaiya laughed as her emerald eyes glinted excitedly. Again and again, Sasuke tried to break free of this power, but it was futile.
"It's my chakra," Kaiya answered, a hint of triumph alive in her tone.
"H-how…?"
"Fool; this should be of no surprise to you; do you not remember what clan I'm from?" she laughed. "I can control all the water around me; in the air, in nearby creeks, puddles, rivers, oceans, in plants and, even in humans," she explained. "It started with the healing jutsu that my mother taught me. A year before the massacre, she taught me how to harness the chakra inside of me to control the water. Learning from my father, a medical ninja, she had learnt how to use her chakra to heal others, but only on a small scale. She explained to me that water has natural healing properties, and is all around us, no matter where we are. So one day, I thought I'd put this theory into practice. Year by year, I could control bigger things that contained water; first, water itself, then plants, mice, trees, dogs, and finally, humans."
Sasuke's memory flashed back to the day where they first met and where she had used this unholy power on him, then again to when he found her locked up, begging for water and healing her deep wound in a matter of seconds.
She's dangerous… Controlling water? That's like controlling life itself! Sasuke shuddered at such a thought. Completely immobilized, all he could do was sit and wait for the end to come.
Kabuto examined the scene and Kaiya's speech.
She's definitely the single most powerful ninja I have ever met… If she learns to harness her skills, she could literally become the most powerful ninja in history!
"This is perfect!" Orochimaru hissed from beside him.
Kabuto turned to him, confused. "My lord?"
Orochimaru's eyes flashed with excitement.
"My lord, I'm afraid I—"
"—Kabuto, remember how our last attempt at destroying the retchid Hidden Leaf had failed?"
DUN DUN DUUUUNNNN!
Oh no! What's going to happen to Sasuke?
And why is Orochimaru so interested on Kaiya?
And why has he mentioned his last attempt at destroying Konoha?
What's going to happen?
Will Sasuke ever be freed from Kaiya's grip?
Will she drain his chakra for her own selfish purpose?
Well, the real reason I ended this chapter is because I am suffering from stress and writers block, not because I wanted to end with a cliffhanger. And because this was one of those chapters where you had to try and make it flow to the next one, which you know exactly how is gonna be written.
And if you don't know what Orochimaru is talking about, tune in to the next chapter to find out.
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