Rokubi : Family Bonds.
Chapter 17 - Battles in the Hospital
After about ten minutes Will Duu had finished his report to Dr. Director. He had told her everything about Akatsuki's true goal, Sheila's true identity and Ron and Yori being Jinchuuriki.
'… I see… this news is very distressing, we may have to move our plans forward… agent Duu, you are to follow the Ninja's and their allies to Drakken's base, keep and eye on them and report back anything new you discover' Dr. Director ordered.
"Understood Ma'am, Will Duu out" Will said as he deactivated his communicator.
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Lowerton was quite for the most part, but anybody who actually bothered to look up might have seen something very strange, seven teenagers bounding across rooftops as if they could fly.
Ron, Kim, Shego, X, Yori, Tenten and Neji all bounded in the same direction, Ron and X lead the way seeing as they had already been to Drakken's new base before.
As they jumped along they noticed when an eighth person joined them in jumping, Ron turned his head and saw a young girl with black and a red scarf blowing behind her.
"Yuna, good of you to join us, we missed you the past few days, where've you been?" Ron asked without breaking his jump.
"I had training of my own to get done, you didn't think I'd let you have this party without me did you?" Yuna asked with a smile.
"Well ok then, let's go!!!" Ron shouted and increased his speed. Everyone sped up to keep up with him.
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Several miles away at Middleton international airport, a recently landed plane was about to have it's luggage unpacked. The very moment the lower section of the plane was opened four blurs shot out of the luggage compartment and skipped across the tarmac until they leapt over the Airport security fence and into the city.
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Ron's team arrived at Lowerton Sacred Heart Hospital, they stood on the roof of a building opposite the hospital, readying themselves for an attack.
Neji was busy scanning the Hospital for chakra signatures.
"… there are signatures spread out all over the hospital… the strongest is on the 14th floor…" Neji explained.
"That one is mine… it's most likely Hanzo" Ron said immediately, as leader of the team it was his responsibility to fight the strongest opponent.
"…there are also two strong chakra signatures on the 4th floor…"
"I'll take those ones" X volunteered as he thumbed one of his swords.
"Not alone you won't…" Yuna interrupted as she stepped forward. "… It'll be two on two, that's fair…"
"…there are a half dozen small chakra signatures on the 10th floor, a mid level signature on the 17th floor and a low level signature on the 21st floor" Neji finished scanning the hospital.
"Ok, Tenten, you take the dozen small chakra signatures on the 10th floor, you're good at taking on multiple opponents…" Ron ordered.
"No problem…" Tenten answered as she drew a Kunai ready to fight
"Neji, take Shego and Kim and go for the low level signature on the 21st floor, then head up to the 25th floor and secure the 'Extraction Room', if you run into either Drakken or Bonnie knock them out, I doubt they'll be much of a problem for you…. I guess that just leaves the mid level signature on the 17th floor, how about it Yori?" Ron asked.
Yori gave a quick nod and she loosened her chain slightly.
"Don't forget, there's a Hyuuga in there so they probably already know we're here… everyone take activate your ear pieces" Ron said.
Each of the ninjas reached into their pouches, pulled out a small device and placed it in their ears.
Ron threw an extra one to Kim for her to use.
"Thanks" Kim said as she placed the small black device in her own ear.
"Ok, we all know what we're doing… go!" Ron ordered, at the same time everybody moved.
All eight of the teenagers jumped towards the building at different heights.
Tenten just dove straight ahead, she used a kunai to smash the glass ahead of her and landed on her floor.
Ron & Yori were both at the same altitude, Ron spun around and held out his hands clasped together, Yori placed a foot in his hands and Ron quickly boosted Yori up a little higher, Ron smashed through the window to the 14th floor whilst Yori smashed through the window to the 17th floor.
X and Yuna both freefell for a few floors before smashing head first through a pair of windows on the 4th floor after smashing through the window the both rolled to break the fall.
Neji, Kim and Shego all landed on the outside of the hospital outside of the 11th floor, they quickly used chakra to stick to the wall and started to run up it, when they finally reached the 21st floor Neji trusted his open palm into a plan of glass causing it to shatter, all three of them quickly entered the building.
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Meanwhile miles away four blurs bounced from one roof top to another as they raced across Middleton towards the Lowerton city limits.
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Tenten moved quickly through the floor, it seemed completely deserted, but according to Neji there were half a dozen small chakra signatures on this floor. She had almost completely given up when she came to the last room, the very moment she placed a hand on the door handle, the wood above the handle exploded and something grabbed Tenten, she looked down for a moment in shock to see a metal hand gripping her wrist.
"What the fu…"
-CRASH!!!-
Tenten was cut off when she was suddenly pulled straight through the door without it actually opening.
Tenten skidded across a large room for a moment before coming to a stop, she shakily stood up whilst dusting herself off, she looked up and saw what had grabbed her, there was six of them all together, strange identical metal women with black jumpsuits and blond hair.
"Analyzing… intruder identified, Konoha ninja, threat level… minimal…" one of the metal women said.
"Hey!!! Who're you calling a minimal threat?!" Tenten yelled at them. "Who the hell are you anyway?!!" Tenten asked, she certainly didn't remember Ron telling them anything about metal women.
Suddenly three of the women were moving, in less then two seconds the three had surrounded Tenten.
"I am Beebee"
"I am Beebee"
"I am Beebee" the three metal women said as they surrounded her
"Well. I am Tenten and you really shouldn't…" Tenten was interrupted as all three of the metal women suddenly lashed out with a punch aimed straight at Tenten.
Using reflexes only a ninja can muster Tenten jumped up towards the ceiling to dodge all three punches.
As Tenten reached the ceiling she quickly retrieved a scroll from her supply pouch, she quickly unravelled a part of it and placed her open palm against it, a moment later a poof of smoke surrounded Tenten.
The three Beebee bots looked up through the smoke to try to find their target.
Tenten planted her feet against the ceiling and pushed off, she shot towards the ground with a new weapon in hand. Tenten emerged from the smoke with a huge war hammer in her raised above her head with both hands.
The Beebees reacted immediately, one jumped back quickly away from Tenten, the second grabbed the third Beebee and spun around, with great force the second threw the third one away from Tenten's range. However, the second was not so lucky, before it could get out of the way, Tenten's hammer smashed down on top of it's head and crushed it's entire body into the ground.
When the dust settled the remaining five Beebee bot's looked at the crushed form of their sixth member and standing above it with a huge hammer slung over her shoulder and a grin on her face was Tenten.
"How's that for a minimal threat?" Tenten asked mockingly
"… reassessing situation… threat level… modorate…" Tenten smiled when the lead Beebee said this
"… increasing Chakra output from 10 percent to 30 percent…" the lead Beebee said, Tenten's smile fell from her face.
"Crazy robot say what?" Tenten asked.
Suddenly one of the Beebees disappeared, a moment later a punch slammed into Tenten's chest. Tenten lost her grip on the hammer's handle as her entire body was pushed backwards. Tenten slammed into a wall and slid to the ground gasping for air.
"… M-My god… these things run on chakra… this isn't good" Tenten muttered as the Beebees slowly started to converge on her.
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As soon as X and Yuna smashed through the windows to the 4th floor, they quickly split up and started to search each room. X was the first one to hit the jackpot, he entered a room that looked like it used to be a recovery ward… now it was full of different types of car parts and chassis and there was loud music in the background.
X cautiously walked through the makeshift garage keeping his eyes open and his hand of the handle of one of his swords. He soon came up to a large pair of legs sticking out from under a nearby car.
"Dude, it's about time, I've been waiting for over an hour, just leave the food on the table and get out! Seriously!!!" the angry voice under the car spoke as it's owner continued working on the car.
X recognised the voice, it belonged to the guy how only a few days ago had his hands around his and Ron's throats. Motor Ed.
X drew and Katana and leaned down, he used his free hand to grab Motor Ed's ankle and quickly pulled the large man from under the car.
"Hey what the big…!!!" Motor Ed stopped speaking when he found a sword at his throat. He looked up and saw X with a grin on his face.
"Hi, remember me?" X asked smugly as he looked Motor Ed over, his body was still changed from the Chakra injections he had received, his skin still a charcoal grey.
"Hey dude, for a moment I didn't recognise you without my hand around your throat…" Motor Ed said with a grin of his own, suddenly his hands shot up and grabbed the rim of the car he'd been working on, with one quick tug, Motor Ed used monstrous strength to swing the entire car towards X. X was forced to remove his blade from Ed's neck and jump back out of the way of the blow, the car crashed down upside down right where X had been standing a moment before.
Ed Didn't miss a beat, he quickly jump to his feet and with his strength again he slammed the heel of his right foot into the car and send it flying through the air towards X.
X acted quickly, he swung his sword upwards as the car flew at him.
Ed saw this and smirked.
'The idiot, he'll bust his blades trying to do that…'
In one quick fluid motion X's blade passed straight through the entire car as if it was butter, the car immediately split in half, the two pieces of the car sailed right past X and smashed straight through the wall behind him.
"D-Dude, how did you do that? Seriously" Motor Ed asked with a shocked expression on his face.
X swung his swords around to the side and held it with both hands.
"I learned how to cut through steel months ago…" X answered cryptically.
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Yori cautiously yet swiftly moved through the 17th floor trying to find her own opponent. Pretty soon she came to a huge darkened room, she stepped inside and looked up. The two floors above her were completely exposed, it looked like they cad collapsed down years ago. Yori slowly stepped through the rubble surrounding the room.
Hairs on the back of Yori's neck stood on end… somebody was watching her.
"Who's there?" Yori asked while reaching back for her sword.
Suddenly there was movement from above her, Yori looked up just in time for her to see a large blade shooting towards here, the blade was the shape of a crescent moon, about 3 meters long and was shooting towards her with incredible speed.
Yori quickly jumped forwards whilst gripping the sword on her back and pulling it free from the chain wrapped around her waist. The crescent blade smashed into the ground where Yori had been standing a moment before.
"Ahh, very good, very good Frauline" a voice echoed through the room with a German accent. Yori looked up and saw a short man standing on the remains of the floor above her. He was dressed in a red armour that completely covered his body, on his head was a black helmet that looked more like a bucket, the only parts of his body visible were his mouth and his eyes, both of which looked… wrong…
The skin around his mouth was a charcoal grey colour and his eyes gave off an eerie dark blue glow. Yori recognised this man from a picture in her mission briefing, this was Professor Dementor, but the grey skin and glowing eyes were new.
"Professor Dementor, I shall give you this one chance, give yourself up now" Yori said as she raised her blade.
"Hehe, allow me to make an offer of MY OWN!!!" Dementor screamed the last two words as he raised his hand upwards quickly.
Yori felt a rumbling behind her, she spun around in time to see the rubble behind her shifting, suddenly the same crescent blade that had been shooting towards her a moment ago shot out of the ground and flew at her again.
Yori stepped backwards in shock as she prepared to try to dodge the blade, instead her foot caught on something and she stumbled backwards, as Yori fell she saw the crescent blade sail right past her face while she was still falling.
After hitting the ground Yori immediately spun around and quickly jumped back to her feet just in time to see the blade spin around in the air and shoot back towards her, at the same time she noticed the Dementor had also trusted his hand forward.
"He can control the blade's movements? How?" Yori thought as she prepared to attack.
As the blade approached her Yori jumped into the air towards Dementor letting the blade fly under her. While in the air Yori managed to loosen the chain around her waist enough for her to slip out of it, Yori pulled back and threw her sword towards Dementor with the chain attached to the hilt.
Dementor didn't seem worried at all, in fact he was smiling, Dementor raised his hand again and this time trusted it down to the ground. Suddenly something shot down from above and blocked Yori's sword. Yori looked shocked, it was another Crescent shaped blade
'Two of them, this isn't good'
After knocking Yori's sword to the side the new blade changed directions and shot towards Yori again, Yori was in trouble now, she was still in mid air and couldn't dodge again.
Yori gripped the chain tightly and pulled as hard as she could, the sword flew back into get grip. Yori held the blade out in front of her while the chain wrapped around her arm.
"Aim and Fire, Tenshi!!!" suddenly there was an eruption of bright white light. Dementor flinched and covered his eyes to block out the light.
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Neji, Kim and Shego moved quickly as a unit to search the 21st floor, there was only supposed to be one low level chakra signature on this floor, after they took care of that they could move up and deal with Drakken himself. Thanks to Neji's Byakugan they were able to find the chakra signature very quickly, it was in a large room that used to be an old operating theatre with a glass roof for viewers.
They entered the dark room and took up each of their stances, Shego ignited both of her hands in a green glow ready to take on their enemy. Neji and Kim both stood with their palms open ready to fight, however there was no opponent in sight, the room was too dark.
Neji quickly scanned the room with his Byakugan, now that they were closer Neji could tell who their opponent was. Only a second after Neji's Byakugan activated, his eyes widened in shock.
"Shego, Kim, get out of here now!!!" Neji said urgently.
"W-What, who is it?" Kim asked, worried about Neji's tone of urgency.
Neji never got the chance to answer, a shadow moved from above and descended towards them.
"GET OUT NOW!!!" Neji yelled as he jumped towards the shadow.
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Ron wasn't in much of a hurry, he had volunteered to take on the strongest chakra signature, so had had to be careful and take this slowly, Hanzo Hyuuga was most likely here somewhere. He 14th floor of the hospital seemed to be solely for patients recovery. He checked each of the rooms very carefully, eventually he came to a room with a large pool that he guess had to be for patients physical rehab. Ron walked along side the pool to a door on the other side of the room, before Ron made it past the pool he heard a small splash, like a stone being thrown into the water. Ron spun to the right and gripped the handle of the sword in his back with his right hand.
Ron scanned the room, the ground was clear, the roof, right, left all clear, the water in the pool was still again, there was no sign that anything had fallen into or gotten out of the water. Ron let down his guard and started to walk towards the door again, he stopped when he felt something, a rumble from below, it was several floors below him, somebody had started fighting.
Ron reached up to tap his radio when he felt something, a sudden chill, something was behind him, something big enough to cast a shadow over him, blocking out all sunlight.
Ron slowly turned around and his eyes widened, the water in the pool was moving, it had risen up out of the water and taken the shape of a dragon.
"Oh shi…!!!" Ron said as he spun around and grabbed his sword, but he was too slow, the water dragon shot at him and slammed against his chest, his body was smashed through the doors he had been walking towards. Ron hit the ground but the water still flooded at him, it pushed him across a hallway towards a glass window that reached the floor.
"Oh damn it!!!" Ron covered his head with his arms as his body smashed head first through the window and out of the building.
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The four blurs that had been jumping form building to building had picked up their speed, they realised they were almost there when they noticed the Hospital appear in the distance, they would be there in another few minutes.
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Ron gripped the bandage of his sword hard, after smashing through the window he had just enough time to stab the sword into the side of the building as he fell, and hang there from two meters of bandage.
"Whew… that was a little too close…" Ron muttered as he looked down to see cars driving on the street 14 floors down.
Ron pulled himself up the bandage like and rope and gripped the handle of his sword, quickly Ron pulled himself up and planted both of his feet on the blunt side of the sword allowing him to balance on it. Ron then reached up to the window he had smashed through the pulled himself up back into the building. Ron then tightened his grip on the bandage and yanked his sword out of the side of the building and pulled it up to himself.
"Well, well, I wasn't expecting you to be quite so… skilled…" a voice said from behind Ron.
Ron spun around with his sword in hand ready to defend himself, but there was nobody there.
"Tell me… how is it that a child like yourself could possibly have this much talent?" the voice asked again.
Ron still couldn't see where the voice was coming from, so he decided to stall until he did.
"Our age… because we're so young people underestimate us… our strength… out skill… our intelligence… what those people fail to realise is that people like me have been trained from birth to do what we do…" Ron said as he cautiously made his way down the corridor keeping his eyes open for his opponent.
"Very well, then, as a courtesy to you… I shall not hold back…" this time the voice came from behind Ron.
Ron spun around only to be struck in the back by a blast of water again, Ron fell backwards and hit the ground hard.
Ron looked up in time to see the water moving, morphing, moulding into the shape of a man, after a few moments the shape turned solid and it's colour changed. the new man was wearing a red body suit, had a charcoal grey skin and wore an eye patch over his left eye. Ron was able to recognise him easily despite the change in his skin.
"Gemini…" Ron muttered
"Correct, how do you like my abilities… the Chakra injection had some different effects on each of us, on me, it caused a genetic mutation, I'm able to transform my body into a liquid" Gemini explained but Ron didn't seem to be listening, in fact he had a look of shock and fear on his face, but his fear didn't seem to be of Gemini himself.
'That's why his signature seemed to be the strongest, but if he's here then…
Ron quickly reached up and tapped his radio.
"Everyone come in! Hanzo isn't on the 14th floor has anybody found him!!!" Ron screamed.
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Neji was the first to fall, the shadow he had jumped at had knocked him to the side as if he was nothing. Kim and Shego were in shock at what they saw, a man landed in front of them, over his body he wore a black cloak with red clouds, he had long black hair, his eyes where a ghostly white like Neji's and he had a small black goatee.
"H-Hanzo…" Kim muttered in her shock.
"Miss Possible… you are quite the anomaly… you have stood against me twice and you still live…" Hanzo said as he slowly approached them.
Shego didn't waste time listening to him, she quickly powered up her hands and fired a volley of her green blasts.
"Kaiten!" (Heavenly Whirl) with that said Hanzo quickly spun on his heel with great speed, a sphere of swirling chakra surrounded Hanzo, Shego's blasts were deflected away easily.
Hanzo stopped his spin and looked at Shego with an amused smile.
"Nice try…" with that said Hanzo rushed forwards whilst Shego powered up her hands again.
Shego trusted her right hand forward only for Hanzo to duck under the blast, Hanzo planted a hand on the ground and trusted his foot into Shego's stomach, the strike was so strong it caused Shego to fly backwards and slam into the far wall.
"Ahh!" Shego grunted as she fell to the ground.
Hanzo turned to the only one left standing. Kim looked terrified, Hanzo had almost killed her twice in the past and each time Ron had saved her, but now Ron wasn't here.
'I can't just stand here, he'll kill me, I have to fight!!!' Kim screamed internally.
Kim rushed forward as fast as she could, she trusted her open palm towards his chest where his heart is… but her hand fell short, Hanzo easily gripped Kim's wrist stopping it from touching him.
"Interesting… a Jyuuken strike, if your attack had hit, it might have actually killed me" Hanzo said as he tightened his grip on Kim's wrist causing the bones inside to pop, Kim winced as she tried to keep her footing.
"However… you're still years from being able to defeat me, now it's time I finished with I started when the threw you from that window…" Hanzo said as he raised his right hand and opened his palm, he quickly thrust it towards Kim's own chest, the same move Kim had attempted.
Kim knew she had to act quickly, she let her legs go lack so she fell to the ground, then she planted her free hand on the ground and lashed out with her feet, Hanzo's hand shot at Kim as she fell. Kim's heel smashed into Hanzo's gut hard enough to send him flying backwards, but at the exact same time Hanzo's hand grazed past the lift side of Kim's face.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Kim let out a shrill scream as Hanzo's hand grazed past her, Kim fell to the ground grasping her left eye in pain as blood seeped through her fingers.
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"Aim and Fire, Tenshi!!!"
After a moment the flash subsided, the crescent blade heading for Yori was blasted out of the air by a bright blue bolt of energy.
"What the…" Professor Dementor was stunned by the sight, before the flash Yori had been holding a sword with a chain connected to the hilt. Now her entire right arm was covered in a large gauntlet that reached her shoulder, at the wrist were two sleek metal sections connected with a thin wire like a bow.
Yori finally landed softly on the ground.
"Tenshi, the angelic bow…" Yori revealed the name of her gauntlet.
Yori didn't waste a second, she immediately aimed her gauntlet at Dementor and pulled the string back with her left hand, immediately a bolt of blue energy formed in the bow and Yori released it.
Dementor saw it coming and quickly pulled his hand up, one of the crescent blades shot up to him and he jumped down from his spot on the upper floor, the arrow shot past his just as he landed on the blunt side of the blade and stood there hovering.
Yori noticed something when he jumped though, she knew how he was controlling the blades.
"So that's it… chakra strings…" Yori said bluntly. Chakra strings were what a ninja puppet user controlled his weapons, just like Kankuro had done in his fight against Ron at the Chuunin exams.
"Heh, it seems you have uncovered my secret Frauline… I was very intrigued by these… what do you call them, chakra strings?… it was simple to find a way to use them to control the movement of these blades, which were also forged with chakra…" Dementor revealed with a smirk as he raised both of his hands. Immediately the first crescent blade rose to it's master and hovered at his side.
"Now… let us see what happens when I force even more chakra into THE BLADES!!!" Dementor screamed the last few words.
Sure enough he channelled a large amount of chakra into the blade, a moment later the blade shot towards Yori.
Yori acted immediately, she pulled back the string of her bow and generated another arrow and let it fly at the blade that was flying towards her.
Yori's eyes widened when the unthinkable happened, the blade and the arrow hit in mid air but the blade sliced straight through the arrow without losing any momentum.
'What!!?' Yori mentally said in her shock.
She jumped out of the way just as the blade slammed into the ground at her feet. She pulled back the string and generated her third arrow and let it fly, it too was slashed into nothing as the blade kept coming after her.
'Damn it!' Yori cursed as she brought her hand up and concentrated.
"Tenshi-ton : Tenshi Ken No Jutsu!" (Angel Style : Angel Blade Technique) Yori said as she channeled chakra into the sword, suddenly the two bow sections folded back into the arm and a straight blade emerged from over the top of Yori's wrist pointing forwards. Yori brought the blade upwards and was able to deflect the crescent blade before it reached her. Her victory was short lived when she spotted three more of them heading for her, all from different directions.
'No!!!' Yori was starting to panic as the blades converged on her. '… one way…' Yori thought as she nicked the her finger on the end of her Tenshi blade. Yori quickly placed her hands in the Bird seal.
Bird-Dragon-Boar-Dog-Tiger-Monkey-Ram.
"Aoi hasu-ton : Kuchiyose No Jutsu!" (Blue Lotus Style : Summoning Technique)
Yori slammed the palm of her hand into the ground, a second later a burst of smoke surrounded Yori just as each of the crescent blades were about to strike her.
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X skidded to a halt as Ed knocked him back again. X prepared himself for another attack but before he could do anything Ed was right in his face again.
"Shit!" X seethed as Ed drove his fist into X's gut again forcing him even further back.
X dropped to his knees coughing as he tried to get his breath back.
The fight had only started a few minutes ago but nothing he threw at Motor Ed worked, Ed wasn't just strong like he had showed in the past, he was also extremely fast, so before X could even finish the hand seals for a Jutsu Ed was on him.
X slowly stood back up and started to channel chakra into his eyes.
"ShoutenGUUUUU!!!" before X could finish his technique a fist drove hard into his gut again, Ed had seen X about to use his technique and didn't want to give him the chance, he rushed forwards and caught his opponent in a powerful upper cut to the gut.
X's body shot up into the air and slammed hard into the ceiling before it fell back down to the ground, one of his swords had been knocked to the side whilst the second stabbed into the ground right next to him.
"Dude, I thought I'd get a decent fight outta you but you totally suck, seriously!" Ed said with amusement as he walked around behind X, Ed bent over and pulled X up by the scruff of his coat, X tried to strike out with a quick backhand from his left fist but his wrist was easily caught by Motor Ed.
"I don't think so dude…" Ed said with a chuckle as he wrapped his free arm around X's throat from behind and started to apply pressure. X ground his teeth as he tried to breath, his right hand clawed at Ed arm in an attempt to loosen his grip, his other hand was still being held by Ed.
'H-How is this happening?…' X wondered as his vision started to darken. '… I've fought against more opponents than I can count… but this guy beat me in just a few minutes… how can there be that much of a gap between our strength?…' X thought as his world went black.
As his eyes closed for what may be the last time, a face appeared in his mind's eye, a girl with black hair being held back by a red Yama headband.
'… Yori… how am I supposed to be able to protect her, if I can't even beat this idiot?…' X thought. Then a second face appeared in front of him, a face older than his own, the face concealed by a black cloak and a straw hat, X could only make out his eyes, red with a black X through them.
'… Senban…' X's memories strayed to the day he fought against his brother, the day Yori almost died.
Immediately X's eyes snapped open and the world around him came into focus… his eyes looked forward and he saw his white sword stabbed into the ground right in front of him, X's foot moved on instinct, it rose up and struck the hand guard of the sword sending it into the air, X held out his one free hand and caught the sword's handle. Then still acting on instinct, X twirled the sword around so it was blade down and trusted it towards his own body.
Ed felt a piercing pain in his chest, he shakily looked down and his eyes widened when he saw a bloody white sword coming out of X's back and into his own chest.
X held the sword firmly in place as he coughed up a little blood.
"D-Dude… why?" Ed asked in his shock as he lost his grip on X's left wrist.
"B-Because… to protect her…" X sputtered as a splash of blood hit the ground, "… I would sacrifice anything… everything… even…" X spoke as his newly freed hand shot up and gripped the handle of the sword even tighter. "… myself!!!" X shouted the last word, with both hands he held the sword firmly and pushed it sharply backwards, the rest of the sword entered X's body until the hand guard hit him.
The tip of the sword emerged from Motor Ed's back covered in blood.
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Tenten unrolled her fifth scroll and planted her hand against it, a poof of smoke later a pair of nun-chaku were twirling in her hands. The Beebee bot's charged her again, Tenten swung the weapons in both hands hoping to take down another of her opponents, unfortunately one Beebee appeared at her left and stopped the left nun-chaku while another Beebee appeared to her right and stopped her right weapon, then a third Beebee appeared right in front of her and struck her hard in the chest with it's right fist.
Tenten's body flew backwards smashed straight through a drywall landing outside the building, Tenten braced herself for a fall, after all they were 10 floors up, but it felt strange when her back hit something solid, Tenten looked around and found she had landed on a balcony outside the hospital.
"Oh thank god…" Tenten muttered, but then she noticed the Beebee bots climbing through the wall after her. "… then again…"
Tenten slowly picked herself up whilst reaching back into her main weapon pouch.
"I can only go this far… I have to use it…" Tenten muttered.
Tenten stood up straight and held her hand forward, in her hands were two small pink scrolls.
"Still you fight, it is useless…" the lead Beebee said as it approached her.
Tenten quickly kneeled down and placed both of the scrolls on the ground to her left and right. Tenten then clasped her hands into the tiger seal.
Tiger-Snake-Monkey-Rabbit-Snake
After finishing the hand seals Tenten crossed her arm in front of her and spoke.
"Soshoryu!!!" (Twin Rising Dragons)
Suddenly the entire balcony was covered by a thick smoke, out of the smoke burst two snake like dragons made of smoke, the dragons coiled around each other in a helix pattern, finally the smoke dragons disappeared revealing the two scrolls coiled around each other. Tenten jumped high up between the two scrolls and placed her hands against a kanji mark on the scroll, in a poof of smoke she had a sickle in one hand and a spear in the other, she immediately threw both of the weapons as the Beebee bots. As soon as these weapons left her hands she placed them against the scrolls again to get two more weapons, this time a short sword and a large shuriken, this continued on and one, she kept summoning weapons and throwing them, soon enough there were dozens of weapons flying straight for the Beebee bots.
"Warning, multiple projectile weapons incoming…" immediately four of the Beebee bots rushed behind the fifth using it as a shield.
The sacrificed robot took the attack head on, each of the weapons ripped a piece of the robot away, it was hard to tell which weapon finished it off but it's pieces soon fell to the ground next to all of the weapons. Two of the Beebee bots launched themselves up into the air after Tenten the very moment they felt the danger was over. Tenten just smirked.
"I'm not finished yet!" Tenten yelled as she pulled hand hands back, the Beebee were just able to notice something shining in the sunlight, thin metal wires coming from Tenten's fingertips, dozens of them.
Suddenly the each and every one of the weapons that Tenten had thrown shot from the ground and headed straight for the airborne Beebees from behind, seeing as they were in the air they were completely defenseless.
A sickle sliced the head clean off one of them while a giant kunai smashed straight through the chest of another.
Tenten and the remains of the two Beebees fell to the ground, Tenten was on her knees gasping for breath, that attack had taken the very last of her Chakra.
"Reassessing threat level… substantial… raising chakra output from 30 percent to 60 percent…" the lead Beebee said as it took a step towards Tenten.
'Shit… at least… I managed to get four of them…' Tenten thought as the remaining two Beebee's rushed towards her.
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Four new arrivals looked up at the 25 floor hospital that towered above them, with a nod from their leader the four shadows split up and headed towards the hospital in different directions.
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Ron had received no answer from anybody, only static over the radio, meanwhile Gemini had pressed his attack, true to his word he was not holding back.
Ron tried everything to attack his opponent but nothing worked, if he attacked with his sword then it would just pass straight through him like Gemini was made of… well, water. He couldn't use any lightning attacks because of that same reason, they would just be turned against him.
"Well, this has been fun, but I think it is time to finish things here…" Gemini said as he held out a hand to Ron, immediately Gemini's hand shot forward made of water and wrapped around Ron's head, immediately Ron felt water start to go down his throat, Ron didn't know whether to be afraid or disgusted, he dropped his sword and attempted to beat at the arm holding him up, but his hand just passed through it.
"Just give up boy, it'll end quicker…" Gemini said with a sneer as he increased the pressure around Ron's head.
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Hanzo regained his footing after Kim kicked him, he looked down to see Kim writhing in pain holding her left eye. He smirked.
"So, my attack hit your eye… the Jyuuken strikes damage organs internally and the eye is too complex for even the most powerful healing Jutsu to fix… you'll never see out of that eye again…" Hanzo said mockingly as he approached Kim.
Kim heard him and let out a small upset gasp when she heard him say her eye can never be fixed. Hanzo gave Kim a hard kick that made her roll over and look up at Hanzo, he left eye was closed but had blood seeping from it, her right eye was filled with tears.
"… but you need not wory about that, you're not going to be around long enough to use your eyes anyway" Hanzo said as he powered up another Jyuuken strike and aimed it for her heart.
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X fell forward as the sword came loose from Motor Ed, X crawled for a moment before grasping the sword still lodged in his own and chest and quickly pulled it out.
"ARRGGHH!!!" X roared in pain as he pulled it out.
Motor Ed stumbled forward with a look of rage in his face, blood still falling from his chest.
"You… you little bastard, I'm gonna pulverize you, seriously!!!" Motor Ed said he pulled a large water pipe free from the wall and walked towards X's prone body with it raised high above his head.
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Tenten braced herself as the two remaining chakra powered robots surrounded her prone body and prepared for the final attack, both robots raised their fists ready to strike. But it never came.
A green blur appeared in front of her with a hand planted against the floor.
"Konoha Senpuu!!!" (Leaf Whirlwind) The green blur spun around at high speeds and kicked both remaining Beebee bots away from Tenten. Finally the blur stopped moving, it stood up with one hand behind his back and another out to the opponents. Tenten looked up and saw the black hair in a bowl cut and the green jumpsuit with the headband used as a belt around his waist.
"L-Lee!!?" Tenten said in surprise.
The Konoha Genin turned his head slightly and grinned at his teammate.
"Do not fear Tenten, Konoha's beautiful green beast has arrived!" Rock Lee said with a grin.
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Ron was on the verge of drowning, Gemini had kept him in this technique for almost a full minute, but then something happened that he hadn't expected.
"Gatsuuuga!!!" (Double Piercing Fang) a scream filled the air from outside the building.
Gemini looked out the window and his eyes widened when he saw what he can only describe as a spinning vortex heading towards him.
"What on earSSSSPPPHHH" Gemini was cut off when the vortex smashed straight through the window and smashed into him, the cortex was so strong that it caused Gemini's water body to explode, this in turn released Ron from the attack. Ron fell to the ground and choked up at least a gallon of water before looking up, he saw a boy wearing a gray hoodie with a small white dog on his head.
"K-Kiba?" Ron said in shock.
Kiba turned around and gave Ron a toothy grin.
"Never thought I'd see the day when I'd get to save your ass" Kiba said in a cocky tone.
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Kim braced herself as the attack came, but no pain came, she opened her eyes to see that Hanzo's attack had stopped about two inches away from her chest.
'W-Why would he stop' Kim wondered.
Then she noticed that Hanzo seemed to be struggling against something.
Kim moved back lightly so that Hanzo's hand wouldn't reached her, that's where she noticed something, with her one good eye she could see Hanzo's feet touching a very dark shadow, Kim followed the shadow and saw that it was coming from somebody she didn't recognize, a young boy kneeling down, he had black hair tied back, he wore a green vest and had a Konoha forehead protector wrapped around his upper arm. Finally he had his hands in the rat seal.
"Kagemane No Jutsu Successful" (Shadow Imitation Technique) the boy said simply.
Shego had finally managed to shake the cobwebs from her head from Hanzo's attack on her, she was a little surprised to see the new arrival, she recognized him easily.
"Shikamaru… good to see you ya lazy bastard" Shego said playfully with a grin.
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X braced himself for the strike, but it never came, the very moment Ed swung his pipe down at X it was stopped. X looked up and was a little shocked by what he saw, a wall of sand was blocking the pipe.
X's eyes widened in shock and a little fear.
'Of all the people to help me…' X thought.
"… why him" X voice the last two words of his thought.
X craned his head around a little to see his savior, a young man dressed in red robes, he wore a large gourd on his back and had a Sand village forehead protector tied into the band that held the gourd up. The man also had short red, had black rings under his eyes and had a tattoo on the left side of his forehead of the Kanji for 'Love'.
The man stood there with a stoic look with his arms crossed as sand flowed from the gourd on his back.
"G-Gaara" X muttered.
To Be Continued…
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