บท 62: A hero no more
Kaname heard the sounds of combat in front of her, flickering through the bushes she noticed Pakura being surrounded by twenty-five Anbu ninjas with Iwa and Suna combat outfits. Her green-haired friend was visibly tired, she looked like she went through hell and back, to Pakura's back an unnoticed hail of kunais was closing in.
'Ah, fuck it, I suppose one more time won't hurt too much. <Susanoo>!' Kaname created a ribcage around Pakura saving her life. The battlefield immediately got shushed, Pakura looked really menacing with two red orbs in her hands and a red aura around her.
"This is… Kana-chan's chakra?" Pakura whispered.
"Hey, I thought of evening out the odds, but if I join the fight we will easily trounce them Paku-chan" Kaname flickered to the woman.
"*Sigh* Run you fool, I can stop them for some time"
"Yeah, that's a big nope" Kaname deflected a kunai flying towards her.
"After getting betrayed I wanted to at least die in a fight!" Pakura shouted at her mummifying another Anbu ninja with her blazing orb.
"Ah! So that's why we're fighting Sunagakure ninjas" Kaname blocked a short-katana slash with her sword-hand and delivered a rasengan creaming an enemy's neck on her left, and jumping away from the following storm of elemental projectiles heading her way.
"... Okay, stay if you want to, and… It's nice meeting you again Kana-chan" she stood by her side, while three blazing red orbs were orbiting the duo protecting them.
"So what's going on?" Kaname's hand blurred intercepting the projectiles flying towards them with her shurikens. (AN: Naruto ch.387)
"There is not enough time, as of two minutes ago I'm deemed as a missing-nin with a kill on sight order"
"Your booty must have a nice price on the market…" Kaname joked. Charging at the closest enemy she impaled him with her sword, instead of blocking it, he caught her hands and driven the blade deeper into his own body. "Fuc-…" with her eyes, she observed another blade dropping slowly on her overextended arms. Releasing the hold of her katana she drew her hands back, barely dodging the slash she felt an itch on the tip of her now bloodied finger.
"Are you okay?" the woman asked killing another ninja.
"*Tsk* A flesh wound" clicking her tongue, she waved her hand towards the Anbu with her sword in his belly. He calmly walked towards her pulled the sword out and handed it back. In gratitude, Kaname gave him painless death.
"You're still deadly with your genjutsu"
"Heh, you know nothing Paku-chan, <Kuchiyouse no Jutsu>!" Kaname's palm landed on the ground, "Psst, handsome. I have got some willing test subjects for you to play with. Can you do that for me?" she whispered to the small red butterfly sitting on her finger.
'You bet I can!' Matsu flew above the battlefield.
"You got your hands on a summoning contract? Ah!" Pakura smelted another hail of projectiles with one of her orbs. "*Growl* This asshole that is bombarding us with kunais is pissing me off! Just you wait until I get my hands on you, asshole!" she yelled out.
"Matsu!" Kaname gave the signal, in an instant, the battlefield changed from the outnumbered hit-and-run survival tactics to the recreation of the last war. The back row ninjas from Suna attacked their Iwa's equivalent.
"Wha? What did you do Kana-chan?"
"It wasn't me, I will tell you later. Now we have only twenty enemies to deal with, let's finish this!" They charged at the frontlines. "I will go from the front, you go from the above Paku-chan" Pakura gave a nod in reply.
"Jump!" Pakura ordered jumping above the rock bullets heading their way.
Kaname did not stop, at the last moment, she did an aerial cartwheel dodging the projectiles and thus preserving her impetus, '<Doton: Setchi>' (Earth Release: Ground) touching the ground with her palm she activated the jutsu. Below falling Pakura's feet materialized an earthen ledge.
"Heh" Pakura snorted launching herself towards the Anbu ninjas.
(AN: Teamwork FTW :-P)
Kaname started to cast a genjutsu on two foremost ninjas standing in front of her, but from above fell a red-hot blazing orb of doom instantly mummifying her opponents, giving Kaname an in to the second row of startled enemies, 'Well, that works too…' she severed the head of the closest enemy.
Before Anbu collected themselves from the attack, Kaname killed another ninja with a ball of fire. Blocking a slash of ninjato, she kicked off another ninja attacking her. Catching the arm of the swordsman she pulled it, placed her foot to his inner thigh and threw him over her arm. Kaname swiftly dealt with a downed enemy turning her attention to the next one.
'Kaname-san, I don't have any more pollen, I will be unable to hold the genjutsu much longer!' she heard Matsu's voice in her head. Looking at the back rows she noticed ten more ninjas fighting between themselves.
'Hmm, I killed two. Paku-chan got four of them. *Sigh* Before long they will tire us out this way, do I have to use my eye powers? Am I still so weak?' She cast a genjutsu, confusing her enemy to dodge right permitting her blade to take another life.
'<Kage Bunshin no Jutsu>!' Kaname created two clones and went to work. After killing four more ninjas her clones dispelled, at this moment she heard the sounds of combat further away from her stop.
Before long Kaname and Pakura were leaning back-to-back against each other while being surrounded by eight masked enemies. "*Wheeze* That's why I told you to run Kana-chan. I'm sorry for pulling you in this shithole"
"I have one more trump card but I don't want to use it" Kaname whispered back.
"Why?"
"It can turn me blind"
"...Shit"
'For the love of… I ordered them to stay there!' Kaname noticed Izumi aiming an arrow at one of the masked enemies. From the micro-movements of his body, Kaname knew he was readying to block the shot. Once Izumi let out the arrow as expected Anbu from Iwa easily caught it and broke the twig-like shaft between his fingers. Before the man was able to raise an alarm a fist-sized hole opened beneath his feet, from it flew a swarm of purple insects instantly lunging at his feet poisoning the ninja with their mandibles.
'Wow, three genins were able to harm a tired Anbu. Color me impressed… I will have to take them for some ramen as a reward'
"*Argh*! We have more of them! They are to the south!" the man yelled out. Two of his companions went there.
'I'm sorry Jiji, I have to break my promise this time… <Tsubasa-no-kioku>' leading the butterfly from one victim to another, Kaname felt a little hangover.
"Why are they not attacking us?"
"They're under my genjutsu Paku-chan, I need to concentrate to hold it active"
Most of the Anbu were just dutiful ninjas sent to the wrong mission. When the men returned with tied up Team 7, Kaname slowly stood up turning her closed eyes towards her genins.
"I told you to stay back"
"You needed help sensei" Koji shouted out wriggling with his tied up body.
"You are their jōnin-sensei?!" Pakura asked shocked.
"*Sigh* You're wrong, if I wanted help I would ask you for it. But as you're here I believe I should finish this fight" Kaname opened her eyes, at this moment three Anbu that stood nearest to her developed deep wounds on their necks, two other self-immolated and the last one gurgled and fought hard to take a breath, his hair was flowing as he would be underwater. In an instant, six ninjas died, everyone looked at Kaname's eyes showing three black lilies in each of them.
"Eh? Wha-happened?" Izumi asked perplexed.
"Now you two, thank you for bringing me my students, could you kindly fuck off?" Kaname cast the genjutsu on the last enemies changing their memories, "Okay, I need to take a break…" she dropped to the ground on her back after deactivating Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Good job, Kana-chan. How is your sight?" Pakura sat next to her.
"Hmm" Kaname waved her hand in front of her face, "worse than before, almost my entire vision is blurred"
"... Thank you for saving us"
"Hey, pretty lady did you not forget about someone?!"
"*Sigh* And from the voice I can say it's Koji-chan, my team's self-proclaimed pervert"
"Who are you calling a pervert sensei?!"
"Should I help them?" Pakura asked.
"Don't bother, knowing Torune-chan, he already freed himself" as she said that the rope tied on Aburame's ankles and wrists fell.
"And your last genin?"
"Hi, my name is Izumi"
"Say Paku-chan, do you remember my promise to you?"
"*Sigh* I suppose there is no other way for me, but Konoha will have many problems if I join you"
"Nope, I scrambled the memories of the last two Anbu, they will report that you fought to your last breath and they were the last surviving ninja on the battlefield" Kaname explained.
"Anyone with half a brain would understand that it is bullshit Kana-chan"
"Yep, I don't care"
"Heh, okay. We should head to Konoha, you're too tired to fight another battle"
"Sensei what was that? One moment you were surrounded, the next everyone around you lied dead"
"That, Izumi-chan, will have to wait for later. I should introduce you, this is Pakura and as of ten seconds ago a Konoha's jōnin" Kaname slowly stood back up.
"Hmm... Pakura... Pakura of the Scorch Release? The Hero of Sunagakure?"
'Koji sometimes amazes even me…' Kaname thought.
"A hero no more Koji-kun" Pakura replied with a smirk.
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"Stupid Squirt, how am I going to give you my eyes if you turn blind before me?"
"Kiss my ass Aniki. There has to be another way, I will not rob you out of your sight"
"So that's why you're constantly using Sharingan Little Butterfly? Truthfully, tell me how bad it is"
"*Sigh* I'm not using it constantly. I'm still better than this blind as a bat Aniki, I have to use Sharingan for my missions only, and seeing that Team 7 just finished an A-rank mission they are fully content with chasing Tora-chan down for foreseeable future" saying this Kaname reached out with her hand to the teacup, knocking it over to the table.
"Kaname…"
"Okay, I'm sorry mom. But I'm alright, I just need to remember to watch for what I am reaching for. It takes some practice."
"Just like your father! Both of you just charge into danger instead of thinking about repercussions!"
"Thanks, mom"
"That was not a compliment Ryuichi… *Sigh* Both of you are the cause of my hair turning grey…"
"Granny look good with grey hair!"
"And Naru-chan is the reason, I'm still feeling like a young woman. Take an example from him!"
"Hehe, just you wait when he leaves on his missions" Kaname laughed out.
"Kana-chan, are you not worried about him?"
"Heh, who said he would go there without my supervision Umi-chan?"
"See, I told that you are just like a mother, Little Squirt!"
"Hohoho, prepare for tomorrow Aniki…"
"Damn, I went a bridge too far didn't I?"
"Nope, I had this plan ready for quite some time. Just let it happen, don't fight it Aniki"
"Little Butterfly, can I bunk here for the night? Knowing you, your brother will have a very bad day coming for him"
"Sure thing, if you want you can either sleep with Naru-chan or in a guest ro-"
"I will sleep with Naru-chan"
"Now I won't be able to even sleep at night!" Ryuichi complained.
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At 23:59 Ryuichi sat in front of his bed waiting for the date to change, he waited one more minute, then five, an hour, at 2 a.m. nothing was happening. His girlfriend was already sleeping in bed.
'Am I too paranoid? She wouldn't launch a prank at night…'
Five minutes later he heard a sound of the alarm clock from somewhere in the kitchen, he ran towards it before Umino was woken up by the sound. Finding the clock hidden in one of the kitchen units he turned it off.
'An alarm clock prank? I thought of something far worse…' he returned to the bedroom, before opening the doors he heard another sound of an alarm coming from the attic.
'Ah, so that's how it's going to be?'
Umino woke up at 6 a.m. by the sound of Ryuichi running in front of the bedroom doors, collecting herself from the sleepful night, she noticed a silent sound of multiple alarm clocks throughout the building. Opening the doors she observed how her boyfriend looked like.
Ryuichi had a face full of soot, his clothes were entwined by old cobwebs, he looked at her with a regret written on his face.
"*Wheeze-wheeze* I'm sorry did I wake you up?"
"*Yawn* Don't worry Ryu-kun, I slept enough. I see Kana-chan got you good"
"*Wheeze*... This hell started four hours ago, from that time I uncovered almost eighty alarm clocks, most of them were in the attic or basement. From where did Little Squirt get such a number of them... Luckily no other started this hellish sound from the last fifteen minutes, I believe it's finished"
"Hehe, the day just started Ryu-kun. I hear one alarm clock from the kitchen, I will turn it off and make you a coffee, go take a shower"
Five minutes later Umino was startled by Ryuichi's voice.
"GAH! I NEED YOUR HELP UMI-CHAN!"
Opening the bathroom doors she looked straight at Ryuichi's naked back with his hands atop of his head.
"This is not a shampoo, but some kind of fast-acting adhesive" Ryuichi explained.
"Well, Kana-chan had some amazing ideas, I have your hands right where they should be…" Umino replied jumping at her boyfriend.
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dahnik
dahnik Sorry for the long waiting time for update - I'm leaving for work at 5 a.m. returning close to 4 p.m. then I'm renovating a shack in my garden till night comes. I don't have the time to write the story as much as I had before, that does not mean I will drop it :-).
Now, not sure why many people commented to save Pakura mentioning her being the love interest. So I will say it again, the romance will be female/male type, end of discussion :-)
Now what do you feel about the chapter, should I revise something? I always appreciate all ideas about the story!
If you found any mistakes please inform me :-) I don't like mistakes :-)