Welcome to the next chapter. Things are starting to heat up as a mysterious girl called Naraku is beating most of the girls around poor Renka. How will this progress? Well read on and find out. Also another mention about the side story status, anyone can submit a side story just as long as you don't clash with the overall plot. Just leave it in a review or pm me to your idea featured in a future chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Senran Kagura series or characters. I only own the plot.

Warning: Strong language and strong sexual content again, same as always.

Chapter 12 - Desperate Battle

Naraku's body landed on the ground with a thud as I continue looking at Kat, "Kat? Why are you interfering?"

Kat used her finger to scratch under her nose in a confident manner, "Come on, Renka-Honey! You know me, I don't need Yagyu disqualified before I've had my chance to fight her."

Yagyu, who was trying to get up, scoffed, "I don't need your help! You should just mind your own business!"

Kat smirked at Yagyu's bravado, "You say that, but you're glad I saved you, aren't you?"

Yagyu eyes darkened with murderous eyes, "You're officially on my hit list... I won't rest till I have killed you!"

Kat snorted and flipped her hair, "Bring it on! I'll take you on any time… once you're done flopping on the ground like a stomped fish."

Kat soon noticed Naraku trying to stand up, "You're really durable aren't you?"

Naraku's eyes glowed with a crazed fury in them when she finally looked up, "It seems I have no choice but to go all out against you!"

Yagyu looked to me and pointed straight at me, "You, get your ass over here right now! I need to refill on chakra and yours is the only chakra I can stomach at this current point!"

I looked away from Yagyu, I knew she needs my chakra so she can properly defend herself against this threat, "I'm aware, but I'm sensitive about my chest, so having you suck out my chakra is the last thing I want to happen right now."

Yagyu's eyes go wide with disbelief, "You're kidding, right? Do you think your friend here is a match for that girl? If you don't share your chakra with me, then everyone will die, just like Yomi!"

I jolted at Yagyu's words, "Wh-What?" I quickly looked back to Yomi to see her still breathing and looked back to Yagyu, "She's not dead yet!"

Yagyu scoffs, "No, not yet at least, but I've seen those types of injuries before. She'll burn her through all of her chakra trying to recover. Her injuries are too great and it will deplete all of her chakra trying to mend them."

I looked back to Yomi, "So she'll die either way?" Yomi was semi-Conscious, and it seems even she knows she was done for. Tears rolled down her cheek and she was lamenting over her death that would soon take place.

Yagyu pounded the ground frustrated with me, "If you don't want the same thing to happen to the rest of us, then let me have your chakra!"

I felt my lip quiver as tears rolled down my face lamenting poor Yomi, "That may be true, but I'd still rather not let you touch me! Kat has not lost yet! I believe in her whole heartily. If she loses, we'll all die then, simple!"

Yagyu started to drag her body towards me, "Then we'll all die!? You've gotta be kidding me! Fuck off, bitch! I'm not dead yet, you hear me?! Even if I have to, I'll force the chakra out of those stupid breasts of yours! I'm not going to sit here and wait while you act like a selfish coward!"

I gave Yagyu my best glare as I looked at her through the tears in my eyes, "Not even you have the energy for that! I'd sooner knock you out first!"

Yagyu scoffed and looked away, admitting her defeat. I looked back to Kat, and she had dodged another strike made by Naraku. Naraku suddenly stopped to catch her breath, she seemed to be a little unstable on her feet.

Kat indeed has this battle in the bag and she knew it too. She smirked in victory, "Are you sure you want to continue this battle? You're pretty much on your last legs right now."

Naraku scowled at Kat before letting out one more violent pant, "Shut up! You don't know a thing about me! I'm not on my last legs, not even close! I'm just getting started!" Naraku shot out one of her steel orbs that were tied to her legs by kicking it, "If you can dodge this, please do!"

The steel orbs hurdled towards Kat at high speeds, my heart dropped to my stomach, "Kat, watch out!"

Kat chuckled and suddenly wind surrounded her and even lifted her off the ground giving her wind discs below her feet, "Cross Panzer!" Kat unleashed one kick and kicked the steel orb to back to the side easily. Naraku appeared behind it and kicked it back at Kat, to which she gave it another firm kick and sent it back at Naraku this time, and Naraku sent it right back! She was treating that steel orb as if it were a giant yo-yo, but Kat kept kicking it back or to the side as much as possible. The speed of them batting it back and forth got insanely fast, while Kat was slowing closing the distance as she kept kicking them.

The only thing I could utter at this point was, "Amazing!"

Yagyu huffed, "If it were me, I'd have already killed her!"

I glared at Yagyu, "Well it's a good thing she's not you! Sure Kat may be a perv at times, but if you set boundaries for her, she's not all that bad. She's way better than a shinobi like you, who always thinks of killing their opponents!"

Yagyu chuckles at my response, "You just say anything that pops into your mind don't you? Naive. Like an idealistic child still clinging to her mother's skirt. What do you even think is the purpose of a shinobi besides killing to live another day?"

I opened my mouth to throw something back, but I just sat there. I didn't have any comebacks for her words... As I looked back, Kat had closed the distance and was about to finish her cross panzer attack. Naraku saw this and barely dodged out of the way in time before Kat brought down her kick leaving a crater in its wake.

Naraku gasped, "Just like the other blonde... If I'm not careful, I could die from a single strike!"

Kat had immense physical strength, so since I trained with her, it should stand to reason that I have a similar level of strength too. Kat looked to Naraku, "Still think you can win?"

Naraku scoffed for the first time in the battle, "I wouldn't count our battle over just yet! You've yet to land another strike after your initial surprise attack! Don't get a big head and talk down to me after that! I promise you, I will beat you and become an Elite and find Lady Kagura!"

Ka's eyes widened to that of an owl as the declaration rang out through the treelines, "Find? Lady Kagura?"

Naraku soon seized this opportunity and connected a kick into Kat's stomach when her guard was down. It wasn't as hard as it was earlier as the only thing that spewed from Kat's mouth was her vomit. I yelled out, "Kat!"

Kat fell to her knees but so did Naraku. Kat threw up a bit more while Naraku was catching her breath. Kat held onto her stomach and winced in pain, "Aw, damn it! Why'd you have to go and kick me in the stomach like that? I couldn't breathe back there."

Naraku utters a breathy chuckle, "Like that, didn't you? Now here comes my next attack!" But before Naraku could do anything, she fully collapsed onto the ground. Shocked at what just happened, Naraku tried to move her body, "Wh-What? Why isn't my body listening to me? Come on! Get up! Move! I can't lose after all this time, please! Don't fail on me now body!"

Kat stood up and I could tell she felt bad for Naraku, "It's over, Naraku. You've lost." Kat looked to Yagyu, "Yagyu, I hope you don't mind if we take this do you?" Kat held up the flag for the prelims that we needed to get.

Yagyu looked at it in shock, "How? How did you take that?" She even checked her pockets and found nothing in them.

Kat shook her head, "I didn't take it from you. It sort of fell out after Naraku kicked you in the ribs earlier. I just made a note of where it fell and picked it up during the battle earlier."

Yagyu looked away, "Well, you're smarter than you look..."

Kat chuckled, "Hey! You're implying I look stupid, aren't you?"

Yagyu smirked to herself, "Well, if the shoe fits."

I started chuckling myself, Minori came up, "Wow, Kat! I didn't know you were this strong. You're so amazing. We'll definitely can pass with you on our team!"

I clutched onto Yomi, 'With this flag, we can pass the prelims. We'll make sure Yomi's sacrifice isn't for nothing."

Suddenly Kat went flying as a kick connect with her backside, Naraku was the assailant. I could only look on in horror as I heard a few of Kat's bones breaking. Naraku used the momentum to deliver another kick straight into Minori's abdomen, breaking a few ribs on her as well. Minori flew a few feet back.

My heart stopped, "Minori! KAT!" Kat soon landed near me unconscious and the flag landed in front of her! This wasn't good, despite all that had happened, Naraku still got the better of Kat. Naraku struggled to get up, I placed Yomi down gently.

Yomi sees what I am about to do and coughs to get my attention, "R-Renka. D-Don't. She's… too… strong."

"I have to try," I told her. I picked up the flag and pushed it in between my boobs, "Alright, Naraku! I've watched this long enough! It's time I kicked your ass!"

I brought out my Rei Tei and got into my battle stance. I was scared, terrified even, she had already taken down five other shinobi, but I needed to make a stand right here. If I didn't, I wouldn't be able to live with myself anymore.

Naraku finally fully stood up with sickening pops of her stiff bones, "I've taken down everyone else, you will be no exception."

I gave Naraku a smirk, but my lips twitched in a moment of weakness, "I think you'll find out that I'm tougher than I look."

Naraku gave her own smirk but hers was set in stone, "We'll see."

Naraku sprinted at me with full force, but instead of the demon of a kunoichi she was, all I saw was that big buffon I took on at the beginning of the year. That level of speed was something I had countered before my training, so it stood to reason that I could do it again. I threw my fist forward and it connected with Naraku's face and I used the momentum to pound her into the ground, which created a crater upon immediate impact.

I felt an intense pain in my arm due to how fast she was moving, like a thousand knives were slowly being pressed against my skin with the intent to carve, "God damn it, that hurt!"

Even amidst the pain, I was thinking that the more things change, the more they stay the same. As I looked over to Naraku, she wasn't moving at all. I sighed, "I hope I didn't kill her."

I looked to Yagyu and she had this look on her face, telling me I did a good job. But then Yagyu gasped, "Idiot! Don't look away from your battle till it's over!"

I quickly look back to Naraku who was struggling to get up. She coughed up blood, "L-Lady Kagura. I promise I won't give up until I find you. You did not die, I know you didn't!" A strange power came off her, "I'd rather to not have to resort to using my chakra reserves, but I'm in a rather sticky situation here. It's a good thing I drank six liters of chakra from six other shinobi earlier." Naraku stood without any further trouble, "Too bad it killed them though…."

I couldn't believe she would kill other shinobi just to keep herself alive. Naraku sighed and checked herself out while talking to herself, "It seems like my wounds are healing. At that rate, I would've died due to my injuries. I need to finish this now, while I still have the energy to move. Once this is depleted I won't be able to heal my wounds anymore. I'll be running on little chakra in my actual reserves."

I thought, 'So she depleted the chakra in her chest? If I can outlast this chakra she's using, then I can win the battle.'

Naraku looked at her fist, "My injuries were too great. It depleted more chakra than I expected. I need to finish this before it runs out." Her voice was soft, I had to strain my ears to hear her, odd that she would be so willing to state this all out loud.

I dropped to a battle stance,'Here she comes! I need to dodge whatever she throws at me next!'

Naraku was instantly in front of me trying to touch my forehead. This was the trick Yagyu used, but unlike Yagyu's lack of chakra, Naraku had enough to make this a killing strike. I needed to stop her, so my right arm flew up and pushed her arm over my head. I felt my mouth release a "Hell yea!" Which threw off Naraku long enough for me to strike her side with my Rei Tei. I quickly used the opportunity to step forward and bring down my next strike onto her shoulder.

Naraku cried out in pain, "Just die already!" She tried to strike me with a hand charged up with chakra, but I caught it in between my left arm and right leg. I then used my right elbow to break it. It might seem a bit excessive but I knew the chakra would heal it. I was trying to get her to waste all of it. Naraku cried out in pain, "You bitch!"

She kicked her orbs at close range, I put my Rei Tei against it hoping to block, but got pushed back as a result. I landed a bit of a distance away, "Damn! How much longer can I keep this up?"

I saw Naraku's orbs grow in size, "I'm so sorry but I'm afraid I must end this! My chakra has depleted so much that I can no longer afford to play around any longer. So you will perish here, right now!"

Naraku kicked the orb with so much force that it started to take her with it but instead of flying with it, it took her in a circle and she started spinning, "This my Ultimate Ninja Art!" I got wide eyes as I heard Naraku say, "Fall From Heaven!"

Naraku started spinning towards me. So this is her Ultimate Ninja Art... It's so different than Yagyu's red tentacles. This is the second Ultimate Ninja Art I've seen and these attacks, they look to be on a whole other level than anything I can produce. I don't even know my Ninja Art, so how am I supposed to win?

A voice cried out behind me, "Renka-Honey!" I look back and saw Kat spinning at the attack that Naraku was doing. They both rammed into each other and Naraku's iron orbs were instantly destroyed by Kat's attack! Kat then ran into Naraku hitting her with full force! Kat suddenly kicked her into the air and started falling, "Dead Screw Dragon!" A green dragon suddenly burst forth from her iron greeves and attacked Naraku full force. Naraku cried out in pain as her bloody body fell to the ground next to Kat! Kat had landed on the ground, still slightly injured from earlier.

I ran over to Kat, "Kat, is she dead?"

Kat looked over to Naraku, "I don't know. All I was concerned about was protecting you. I saw she was using her Ultimate Ninja Art to kill you, so I knew I needed to get up and counter her with my own."

I was surprised, "Kat, you can use an Ultimate now?"

Kat nodded, "It's what I've been training for, for the last month. It was to become an Elite but now I want it to also be for protecting you, Renka-Honey."

All I could do was smile, "Kat, thank you. You really aren't a bad person. Despite you being a giant pervert."

Kat smiled back and Yagyu came over, "It's not over yet."

I jumped, "What?" I then looked over to Naraku who finally on her feet.

Naraku was shaking while standing on her feet, "I… I c-can't… f-fail… L-Lady… K-Kagura… I… can't…."

Blood oozing off with every step. Yagyu scoffed, "Her chakra is gone. It will only be a matter of time till she dies, but moving in that state will only hasten her death."

I glared at the girl and went over to Naraku, who upon seeing me placed her hands around my neck and tried to choke me. Her grip had no strength behind it, so I threw my head forward and head-butted Naraku in the face, to which her gum came falling out of her mouth. Naraku soon fell to the ground without another word. I sighed, "It's over. Naraku, rest and heal up. Then maybe we can fight each other again later."

Chapter End

Well that's all for now. After one hell of a conclusion, what will happen after all is said and done? Don't miss the next exciting chapter. Remember I am still accepting side story ideas. I only have one more slated for Chapter 19 but that will be all. Well until next time, Ayame out.