Chapter 12- The Fight
One of the inspirations I had thanks to Aki's hip check come now.
As we stand halfway there on this seemingly third day we finally get a chance at our first ambush. Not against myself? I'm as Lost as you are. I don't know if I'm ever moving forward for backward. But alas we are. Perhaps for the sake of it.
Perhaps fate decided to intervene and send good old Ebi and his squad our way. With our isolation tactics Akame and Roja use Aburame bugs to to hatch from underneath to split them up from each other, Akame grabs the roguish-type who seems fastest while Roja sends a good taunt to the 2nd largest member who carries a Thor-esque hammer but otherwise built dude while I get good old roughed up Ebi, who's seemingly not roughed up at all. Tsk, annoying.
Ebi:"Oh, looks like puny girl came for her punishment. I'm glad you came to me instead"
With his lechourous-esque smile, I n o longer have any doubts. This guy's gotta GO.
I stood before him with my calm gaze and Mikoto-esque Mask, I suddenly drop it and burst forward. As he's surprised, he instinctually reaches to fight with standard kata only to receive a hip check and headbutt for his troubles.
As he falls backs but oh so wary I use that to transition to right twirling uppercut to his stomach. He certainly doesn't appreciate it but he knows it was at some point going to happen. Pretending to be Mad in only a Mask he wears. HE only wants to confuse me further when we both know this is War not a silly child's game. I can't fall for his cheap tricks and neither he mine. After realzing how scrappy my style truly is he adjusts to his Angle while I send a hip check but a kunai comes out twirlingat an off Angle, he gave an incredulous reaction to this seemingly out of body before I move to decapitate his head mid twist, for as the kunai attachs to him twirls so do I right up, Mikoto-style taijutsu esque. Unfortunately, this won't Work again but it was a fun Experience while it lasted as his Instincts save him from Death.
As he pretends to be down for the count and I throw a d-rank fireball at him just so he has to get up and so I don't expend any chakra, he leaves himself hanging, but I Iron Skin Jutsu when I See it. Not being fooled, "I" sprint straight to him but all this is, is just an E-rank clone jutsu to bait him to stop bait. It Works.
He gets up to fight back with new knuckle dusters on that glow red from my fire just seemingly, and steps back. It surprises me that he does so. I thought for sure there'd be more Action. But there's Nothing. The icy facade shatters and I'm left with looking at the emptiness things are. Maybe I was just running away from this realization. But now that it's clear, there's nothing more to be said.
It's just me and my Art for now. There's no doubt a return is coming, but this wariness sets him outside looking in and gazing at awe at the shit and exchange that just happened. To be fair, we're both surprised.
Ebi:"There's no way you're Genin"
Miho:"Most chunin wouldn't have stepped back from the clone."
Ebi: "My 'Intuition' is honed by a specific sensei. He said Arrogance often get's one killed. Be Ready gaki."
We look forward, with Angles out of the way for only now, and go straight on at each other. His knuckle dusters pop out and suddenly puppet strings connected via Attachment and twist in a manner which makes it seems like "his" hands are real. But this is my "show", and my sharigan allows me to boxer-esque slip and weave into and underneath the wires where twirl a kunai in my hand to clash with his own. On the side, I still notice, a plot being planned and can't help but worry but I have control over the battlefield this second. One last thing is that as he catches with a kick that I mirror with Sight, we both disengage and reengage with clashes happening all around us.
I hit an uppercut into the torso, he slips a kunai across my cheek and kept help but feel thrilled but this is likely the adrenaline talking, I'm scared shitless.
Finally it looks like Akame finds a way to provide some bugs from out of Nowhere and he has to dodge me and the bugs being Sent his way. Roja is only just holding off the other one back but not for long. Going for the kill, I step All In and go for a knee to the face and an uppercut that lands but he still's on his last footing. I take a Moment, and then Rush and go and finally decaptitate by him by the skin of my teeth.
I look seemingly Nowhere and Akame is almost done with her opponent so I rush to Attachment where Roja is currently fighting. Gin(his name), seems shocked to See me, but I move before anything and cut the lines of wire that he had Roja under and tried to Kariwami into Roja's position and ironically Karamiwami again almost seamlessly but this opponent is not one to take lightly. Instead of taking us head on, he flings his hammer with rope attached with unexpected glue I didn't notice, Roja in his infinte wisdom didn't seem to notice either and when I try to See my way out, with a substitution justu, I find hands free but the rope stays remain to right side and hips, which my sharigan observes has MICRO FUCKING glue particles on it of ALL Things. This is troublesome.
He goes to try to save his teammate but Akame's formation bugs once again come up clutch. We wegroup and circle around him only to find him seemingly everyhere reflected by the ice clearing, and I am in awe of the genjutsu that is is, for I See him but even then I don't. I don't know where up is down, left is right, and I can only imagine he was holding this back from Roja.
Gin: "Ed" let's Get out of HERE!
But Ed can't respond, he's tied up with Akame breathing down his neck.
As he realizes that Ed is encircles, he leaves, hammer somehow back in hand with the old rope still glued to me and a new one where I didn't even notice him retrieve. Fast. This guys legit.
Roja and I swarm in a 2 team formation where he shields me from the hammer blows that come my way and I weave with a kunai in my left hand after it to scrap with right arm with no use but seemingly close to dead skin. As I go for a knee smash against my chin, it hits but barely does Anything to him. Following up with another D-fireball that's only 1 seal and quick he nimbly takes a scrap off him skin and jerks out and Away.
Gin:"Tsk, I can See through that".
I run forward with no time to think and use my hip check kunai that twirls around his neck and pull but his Kawirami is well prepared although I got under his skin seemingly.
Not wanting him to get a change of heart, I use a chakra string that I had hidden underneath the hip kunai wire and attach it to his tongue. As he struggle off beat, I ask Roja to cover me while I go in for the blow and UPPERCut hit squarely. Using my last bit of patentince remaining, I use another hip check twist kunai while he all circled up and find him surrounded. a fireball jutsu isn't enough, I use LIGHTING To ZAP IT and jump on TOP in a hulk-esque squat only for it to miss. I grap my trump card, take my kunai and SLASH only to SEE him STILL ALIVE. FUCK.
Running out of options against this "brute", I do the only thing I can and pray. With god, seemingly there, I mimic sasuke's copy of might guy's taijutusu and punch him in the stomach only to See fake blood in the did he substitude. As he's on his last legs I SLASH again but miss his groin between his legs. He goes limping like Frankenstein and divinity finally steps in When he slips on some ice. I pull another Kunai to light slash with and with the last of my chakra, I flip up and HEEL Kick and a side-arm like Mahomes, asuma carved blade at him that Angles just right into him and his heart but this was also part of his illusion. I'm starting to See a pattern here, when a reopen my sharigan only to See Nothing but scraps and a dummy I fought, fake blood and all.
He stands to the side with a blood dripping his mouth, still massively cut up, but almost...fine. As if I just fought an Illusionary but solid clone that could take hits.
The devil seemingly stands behind him as he states:
Gin: "Ah I like you pretty princess. You've got Fire I haven't Seen since Aki, and her mother."
As I stay silent to give any bait he only grins Wider.
Gin: Did you really think you had a shot there?
He's stalling...
There's Nowhere to Go...
What's the play?...
Gin: Love to stay and chat but i gotta dip and weave.
As his legs start to get SHAKE I get the feeling I'm missing someimportand am looking to See what.
Why is he still here. THE MICROPLASTICS.
I gaze around him only to find his own material sticking to him.
With a bloodthirsy Grin, I jump right In use my right arm to Attach to him.
Arm in arm and leg with leg I grab his left side and HEAVE him and I together in a Lotus-eqsque piledrive only for another second Kariwani.
Exhausted I can't think and thow as many kunai as I can and seemingly only help him further...
To not Rush nor Wait is the Way, and so I regroup with Roja to combo try a double kick that misses and a head smash to his chest, but he's like the man who won't die
As we stand away Akame plays with the guy whose name is Luigi in the game. He hops around through the town without a role to play. He's not a main, but a rogue who can hop around and play And when it's time he pulls a pipe and dissolves himself in game.
As Luigi disappears and seemingly reappears next to Gin, I realize I've been Had. But surprisely neither realize the bug bites are still bad See Luigi in his mockery fooled with his prey He danced and twirled and sometimes hurled out poison out his veins
See Akame seems quiet but's she fiery inside Knowing Itachi's sister helped, she couldn't stand beside So she did the next best thing and worked quietly To find poison cut and a recipe
This one falters like a genjutsu thin vain It hits home when one's alone and can't do anything Like a bird's wing chopped off that can't anything It looks up see's what's up and knows art's the only prey.
There's Nowhere to RUN but I searched anyway From friends aside, pleasure and pride, I searched every WAy But there's nowhere to go and nothing to be happy So Pride aside, I'll be a bride and make Art my own Play.
Akame reappears next to us in this all seeming reappearing act in the same manner Luigi does but does so in a purple jacket, orange glasses no need to worry about style way(but actually a typical beige coat-figures), stone-cold from Seeing Luigi poisoned to Death.
Gin takes the hint but before an Angle to have something to say.
Gin: "The fact that you beat Iwa's A squad is abosolutely no joke Kohona scum. But just know we have your intel now runts. Make no mistake, we were told to specially kill you Miho, but your squad itself is impressive. I'll See you at the finals."
As Gin drops a smoke bomb, I can't help but wonder, what the fuck am going to about that guy. Absolutely Nothing. I feel hopeless. He's at least a Jonin, fucker.
Oh well, in the chunin exams it's not like I have way to stay low key anyway. I might as well let go of any low profile image I was hoping to keep for I know I'm in deep shit now.
Luckily, their "leader", for all that he wasn't Gin, had both scrolls and so we ended up reaching Here.
There was Nowhere Else to run, I just want to enjoy Art in Peace.
