Kapitel 315: Ch315. Kakashi vs Raiga 2
Raiga lunged towards Kakashi who stood on a tree branch, swinging his sword in an arc, causing Kakashi to jump back in order to evade the blow that instantly cut through the thick branch, separating it from the rest of the tree.
Kakashi landed on the ground in a crouch, using the momentum to bounce into another jump, leaping backward and barely evading the falling Raiga's blades while whipping shurikens from his pouch and throwing them at Raiga.
There wasn't much distance between Raiga and Kakashi. The shurikens were a certain hit and Kakashi thought there wasn't much Raiga could do against them but to his surprise, Raiga's chakra surged around him, crackling with lightning and the shurikens were deflected, not even making Raiga slow down.
As Raiga landed, he slightly bent his knees, also using the momentum of his fall and redirecting it to propel himself forward towards Kakashi.
Seeing the scowling swordsman leaping at him, Kakashi redirected his jump mid-flight by kicking a nearby tree, making his body fly to the right, and putting a tree behind Raiga and himself.
Raiga understood that the Copy ninja would not willingly enter close combat so he didn't give chase. Instead, he started feeding his chakra into the Kiba blade in his right hand, making electricity crack around it before he swung it, sending forward a horizontal arc of concentrated lightning where his 'backpack' whispered to him Kakashi's waist was currently located. The lightning went through the tree trunks like a knife through butter, cutting down several trees in the forest and making them fall down.
Kakashi only barely managed to evade the lightning arc. Raiga simply conjured it far too fast and he had to admit, going behind a tree was a bad move. It obscured his Sharingan, hence, his only warning was the chirping noise and that didn't give him enough time. The shallow cut on his abdomen clearly proved that fact, and Kakashi was just glad he had the presence of mind to use Kawarimi before he was bisected like the tree trunks.
Kakashi wasn't given a moment of reprieve though. Raiga was again upon him, making him wonder how the ex-Kiri nin knew his position so fast. He didn't have a long time to ponder about that though and was forced to block the initial strike with his kunai.
Chakra metal met steel and Kakashi could feel his disadvantage as Raiga's lightning chakra entered his hand through the kunai, venturing further into his forearm, upper arm... until it permeated his whole body. Only his own lightning chakra he instantly started molding saved him from full-body paralysis. Kakashi's movements were still slowed down. Kiba blades amplified the lightning chakra of their user so despite lightning being Kakashi's primary and most practiced element, he found himself disadvantaged.
"Got you!" Raiga didn't tarry. The second he saw Kakashi's body stiffen due to his chakra, he grinned and swung his second Kiba blade at his neck. Kakashi's head separated from his body but Raiga's grin turned into a frown the second he saw droplets of water as his blade went through Kakashi's neck. He was from Kiri and knew what that meant. "Ranmaru!" Raiga shouted, demanding his partner to tell him where the real Kakashi was as the one in front of him burst into a splash of water, forcing him to jump back.
Kakashi wasn't about to waste this chance. Raiga was about to land when his body emerged from the ground right under him, Chidori already crackling around his right hand.
"Under you!" Came from Raiga's backpack, making him jerk his attention to the place where he was about to land.
Raiga's eyes widened, his mind telling him it would be impossible to fully evade that blow because he was in the air and falling straight at Kakashi. He jerkily twisted his body mid-air and met Kakashi's Chidori with his left Kiba blade. Electricity clashed against electricity, creating a bright blue flash of light while lightning bolts were thrown around because of the intense clash, devastating the surroundings.
Raiga didn't come out unscathed from this. His hand was numb and sported new burns. It didn't bother him much. He was used to lightning-induced burns but he still felt annoyed because this injury would somewhat hinder him. His entire sleeve was in a worse state than his forearm. It was littered with new holes where the lightning burned through the cloth.
"Heh, I guess we can call this a draw." Raiga smirked as he looked at the state of Copy-nin's right forearm and his shaking hand littered in burns.
"Pretty much." Kakashi eye-smiled through the pain. This gamble didn't pay off. Kakashi was made aware of why Kiba blades were so legendary. He burned more chakra than he was comfortable with for that Chidori and yet, the Kiba blades returned even more damage than he dished out while consuming a lot less chakra from Raiga.
'Lightning is out. As long as he has these swords, he can pretty much nullify any lightning attack that is under A-rank, and the ones that can deal damage to him would be mostly resisted and are too chakra-consuming.' Kakashi inwardly grimaced. Lightning was his best element and finding himself at such a disadvantage hurt his pride. 'Water is out too... As a Kiri ninja, he sparred against Water Users most. I don't think I can surprise-attack him with a Water Jutsu. He spotted my Water Clone before he was even done dispatching it.' Kakashi continued his analysis.
That left Kakashi only with Earth and Fire Jutsu since he was useless with Wind Release.
"Is that all you've got?" Raiga suddenly asked, steadily walking to the left, circling Kakashi and looking at him as if he measured his worth. "This is the extent of Sharingan no Kakashi's power? How... pathetic." He chuckled.
Kakashi didn't mind the small talk. Right now, he needed time to recover and formulate his next plan so he let Raiga talk his heart out.
"You know..." Raiga gave Kakashi a sympathetic look, "I was once in your position. Standing in front of Ringo Ameyuri, thinking I was a hot shit only to be brutally made aware of the cruel reality. Maybe this was how she felt after defeating me? This... disappointment?" He shook his head, "She let me survive and I trained. I trained and trained, hoping to one day defeat her. Then... the reality gave me a hard blow again when I saw her facing the three-tails and I understood. She let me live because there was no chance in hell I could ever match her." Raiga ruefully grinned for a moment before his expression went blank as he looked straight at Kakashi. "Unfortunately for you, I am quite aware you could one day match me if I let you live."
Kakashi's eyes suddenly widened as he felt the surge of lightning chakra coming from Raiga. Lightning cracked around him in a similar fashion to the Raikage's Lightning Armor, causing Kakashi to feel dread.
"Lightning Release: Full Body Activation!" Raiga exclaimed, his body coated in crackling arcs of electricity. The name made Kakashi somewhat relieved but his wariness didn't subside. The amount of Lightning Chakra wrapped around Raiga was monstrous.
The air between Raiga and Kakashi became still as they stared at each other before...
Raiga soundlessly disappeared.
The tomoes of Kakashi's Sharingan furiously spun, trying to get every bit of information they possibly could. It was only thanks to this Sharingan that Kakashi perceived Raiga approaching him, his Kiba blades about to skewer him through the chest. There was no way to dodge it. Raiga was too fast for Kakashi's body to react in time. He could see it but he couldn't dodge it.
The tomoes in Kakashi's Sharingan suddenly came to an abrupt stop as Kakashi's eye met Raiga's gaze, 'Genjutsu: Sharingan!'
Raiga's stab suddenly redirected to the left, going through Kakashi's hip rather than the middle of his chest. The wound was instantly burned shut due to the lightning coursing through the blades and Kakashi barely stifled his scream.
Raiga blinked and furrowed his eyebrows, noticing the situation. He twisted the Kiba blade, widening Kakashi's wound while cauterizing it before he brutally ripped the sword out of Kakashi's hip and jumped back. Both him and Kakashi were aware Raiga could have ended it then and there. He could have used his second Kiba blade to kill Kakashi quite easily since there was no way the Copy ninja could get away from that position.
Kakashi fell to his knees, his left hand holding his right hip as he gasped for air through the immense pain both from the burned hole in his hip and from the unhealthy amount of lightning chakra coursing through his system, trying to paralyze him as it delivered insane amounts of pain.
"Genjutsu... I have to admit, I never expected it would be able to affect me in this state." Raiga did break out of the genjutsu in one second and anything bigger than the slight perception alteration Kakashi used would be instantly noticed and broken even sooner, but between the casting of the genjutsu and the stab, there was no time to dispel it. Kakashi simply used Raiga's speed against him. "I have to commend you for that. Now... will you survive the second bl-"
Raiga suddenly stopped as Ranmaru in his lightning-proof backpack whispered something to him, causing his eyes to widen and his gaze to snap to the right, in the direction where Kakashi's team was supposed to be located.
"I see... my associates were defeated." Raiga muttered, "Are you sure, Ranmaru?"
Kakashi tried to focus his hearing but could only hear a muted, "Yes."
"Someone with chakra more potent than me, huh?" Raiga clicked his tongue. His reserves were still half-full but he thought Kakashi would be the strongest of the lot. "Fine..." He sighed and turned towards Kakashi. "Looks like it is your lucky day, Copy-nin." He said almost sullenly before again soundlessly disappearing and Kakashi thanked the Sage when his Sharingan perceived Raiga speeding away right before he fainted.
Kapitel 316: Ch316. Kakashi awakens
Kakashi woke up, not opening his eyes or giving any visible sign he was awake as his first instinct cultivated by his ninja experiences dictated. He explored his surroundings with his senses, only relaxing when he found out there was no threat around.
Naruto, who was on Kakashi-watching duty, was almost dozing off when he noticed his jonin instructor slightly stirring, instantly pulling him from his half-asleep state as he energetically jumped towards Kakashi's bed and saw the man's eyes opening.
"KAKASHI-SENSEI! YOU ARE AWAKE!" He happily exclaimed in his outdoor voice, making Kakashi involuntarily wince as his head throbbed in pain, and cursed his luck. If he wasn't fully awake before, he definitely was now. Alongside the entire house.
Na... r... to." Kakashi rasped, unable to pronounce Naruto's name because of how parched his throat was. Only now his head caught up and realized how shitty his body felt. Kakashi's lone visible eye slightly widened as the events before he fainted came back to him.
"AH! Don't worry! I will bring you water." Naruto's face brightened before he scrambled out of the room.
Kakashi could only helplessly watch his excitable student bounce out of the room with a deadpan gaze. Water would be nice but knowing what exactly happened to the rest of the team was the priority. He was responsible for them, dammit!
Fortunately for Kakashi, he wasn't alone in the room. Naruto's scream awoke Sasuke who was shooting the door with very irritated looks, judging by his eyes most likely imagining a hundred ways he could skin a certain loud annoyance. Sasuke just KNEW Naruto did that on purpose.
'The dobe most likely doesn't want to explain the situation...' He grumbled, feeling Kakashi's piercing gaze on him.
Sasuke let out a long-suffering sigh at his teammate's antics. "We won. Raiga ran away. The Rain team was wiped out except the girl. She is being held prisoner in Anko-sensei's room. We are at Tazuna's home." Sasuke described their situation in a droll voice, trying to keep it short and factual. When he got to the part of the rain girl, he noticed Kakashi slightly winced at the fact she was rooming with Anko. Somehow, Sasuke could sympathize.
Sasuke looked at Kakashi and saw the unasked question in his eye.
"Anko. She patched you up. I was also hurt." He said that in an almost sullen voice, "Watching her heal you was actually amazing. The burnt flesh rejuvenated at a visible rate and the gaping hole in your hip closed... I had no idea Anko-sensei was a medic ninja." Awe seeped through Sasuke's facade.
Kakashi grimaced. Of course, Sasuke had no clue. Despite being Tsunade's apprentice, nobody in his right mind would let Anko into the hospital with the aim to cure people. He had no idea how Anko attained her mastery in medical arts but it definitely was NOT in Konoha hospital. Which was strange, considering nobody could become a skilled medical ninja just by reading books. They needed experience and hands-on practice.
Kakashi couldn't know that Anko had this much-needed practice in the Village on the Other Side where she was a quite popular medic.
Something in the way Kakashi's eye cringed must have given him away as Sasuke mirthlessly chuckled, "Don't worry. I have watched the whole time she was healing you. She didn't slip any poison or otherwise experimented with your body."
The sad part was he couldn't assure himself of that. He indeed watched Kakashi's healing, mostly because he was afraid of what was awaiting him since his turn was next. But once Kakashi was done, Anko zoomed on him, and unfortunately, Kakashi was unconscious so it was just him and Anko in the room... a very dangerous situation in Sasuke's opinion. He was on the verge of shitting himself the entire time until she finished with his wounds, expecting an excruciating pain to start at any given moment, considering her personality.
It was this worry that made Sasuke faint halfway through his treatment, not that he would ever admit it wasn't due to fatigue, so anything Anko did to him after that... he wouldn't know.
"Oh~, you believe you would notice, genin?" Anko's cheerful voice suddenly resounded through the room, making Sasuke flinch and splutter. "You are still too overconfident in your Sharingan, Sasuke-chan!"
Hearing that, Sasuke decided to do the right thing. He threw her a stink eye, huffed, and lied back down into his bed, petulantly turning his back at Anko.
"Cute..." She rolled her eyes before striding towards Kakashi and putting her hand covered in a light green aura on his forehead. She smirked at the older Jonin, "Raiga got you good, Hatake." She patronizingly patted his forehead, not raising her palm high enough for the medical Jutsu to stop affecting him.
Kakashi groaned and wanted to do nothing more than to shake her hand from his forehead but his body finally started to feel better. In the end, he could only silently bear with the smugness oozing from Anko as she enjoyed treating him like a misbehaving child.
"H-He was S-rank." Kakashi croaked out after he finally regained his ability to talk, "Got a J-Jutsu similar t-to Rai...kage's Li-Lightning Armor." That sentence made his throat hurt again but he knew this might be a very important piece of information.
Anko's patronizing smirk fell, easing into a wry and understanding smile. She knew best how hard it was to face S-rank ninja in one versus one. Tsunade's training regime consisted of lot of battles between her and Anko, basically beating Anko into the half-dead pulp before healing her and repeating the process until Anko got better.
"Don't worry, I have already sent a report and request for reinforcements to Lady Tsunade." She informed Kakashi, trying to make him feel at ease.
Kakashi closed his eye, relaxing into bed. Getting reinforcements was good, there was no telling what Raiga would do, now that he knew Team Seven was capable of handling the Rain Team. Worse yet, what would Gato do...
Gato was incredibly wealthy. Hiring ninjas was no problem for him. He didn't do it because most of his criminal activities simply didn't require ninjas. Common thugs were enough. If he suddenly decided to splurge in order to get Tazuna's head, though, Team Seven would be in trouble. Raiga was a problem but if he was supported by some jonin level fighters...
"I should have discarded the mission the second I understood the client lied, shouldn't I?" Kakashi sighed, finally feeling good enough to speak without gasping for air afterward. He inwardly marveled at her medical prowess. Not that he would tell that to her anytime soon. It would just inflate the woman's ego and give him more ammunition to tease him.
"Meh, I opted for continuing too." Anko carelessly shrugged, "Nobody could have known there would be S-rank ninja in the opposition."
And that was the truth too. S-rank ninjas were extremely rare. Most ninjas have a goal to become Jonins, not even thinking of becoming an S-rank level threat simply because of how small a number of them existed in the world. Most ninjas never met someone classed as S-rank in their whole lives. Anko reckoned there were not more than sixty of them in the whole Elemental Nations.
"Ah," Anko abruptly stopped channeling her soothing chakra into Kakashi's body through his forehead, causing him a mild headache. He opened his eye, inquisitively looking at Anko and finding her giving him a sheepish and apologetic look, "Naruto is coming. I am in no mood to take on his exuberance this early in the morning. Sorry, Kakashi, it's time for you to act like a good team leader and sacrifice yourself for the team."
With that, Anko poofed into smoke, revealing she was just a shadow clone, the original no doubt sleeping.
'And here I thought she cared.' Kakashi's stomach sank as the door flew open, Naruto triumphantly bounced through them with an excited expression. Kakashi somehow knew this was his revenge for all the D-ranks.
"Kakashi-sensei! Here, water!" Naruto hurried towards Kakashi.
He was almost near the bed when he suddenly... tripped, splashing the water all over Kakashi's face. Naruto lowered his head, hiding his grin before he looked towards Kakashi, his face a perfect picture of sheepish regret.
Kakashi knew who to blame for his not-so-cute little orange genin's sadistic streak and taste in revenge. His mind again strayed to the woman who left him to his fate in his bleariest hour of need and his mood soured.
'That... bitch.'
Some very hard hours with Naruto were upon the poor Kakashi who couldn't even move.
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