The cloaked figure dashed from roof to roof, noticing a figure slightly ahead of herself on the roofs too. It seemed a young chunin, judging from his flak jacket, was attempting to help the Hokage. How futile. If the mask wasn't blocking her face, you'd have been able to see the serious expression that was on her face, regardless of the fact that these attempts at stopping her were futile and frankly, quite humorous. She noticed something on her left at the same time, as well as something at her back, a new squad of ANBU having caught up to her after she escaped their former escape, while an attack was launched by a chunin behind her. She simply ducked underneath the hail of kunai, as well as the arrows shot at her, before she body flickered away again. It was relatively easy to avoid these ANBU. They were skilled in what they did but that didn't quite measure up against a specialized shinobi. The attack launched by the chunin was easy enough to avoid, but atleast it was a bit more skilled compared to the ANBU. It was a bit too flashy to actually act like a stealthy attack, however.
However this time she didn't flicker out of sight, simply appearing right behind Shouken as he trailed behind the Hokage. With a single jump she jumped above him, and past him, landing about ten meters in front of him. One of her hands went into her pouch and pulled out a set of five kunai with explosive tags attached. Twisting her body backwards she simply threw them back, into the ground in front of Shouken. She didn't offer him much time to react, immediately forming the tiger seal. Within an instant the explosive tags exploded, caving in the building below and sending bricks and roof tilings all over the place. The accuracy of her throwing skills was quite amazing, as she threw them in a perfect straight line in front of shouken, horizontally so that his escape towards the Hokage was cut off. At the same time, the maximum damage was cut back, and there was no way Shouken would experience lasting damage from this attack given the distance between him and the tags.
She didn't pay much more mind to Shouken after that. She only wanted to deter him from following, or atleast give him something to think about. Her path continued alongside the street that the hokage was following, and although the attack on Shouken had given the Hokage a little time to gather more distance, it was soon made up for. And he was beginning to reach a dead end. His plan had failed.
Zeno noticed this too, as the explosion right behind him was rather hard to miss. He kept running however, and slowly felt atleast some of his powers returning to him. It was pretty obvious that the entire village was gearing up to come to his aid, too. He just.. needed a bit more time. Behind him he could already hear the orders of jonin being shouted, as well as larger amounts of shinobi moving around. It was clear they were coming, but the question was whether they'd be on time.
In front of Zeno the mountain doomed up, and he found himself cornered now. As soon as he reached the mountain he turned around for that reason. He wiped his mouth with his sleeve and readied himself. Meanwhile the cloaked figure noticed he'd stopped, and thus slowed down her pace. No need to keep up with him, and it was unlikely the ANBU would try to engage her again since it'd become clear that it was pretty useless to do so. Finally, she arrived at the small opening in housing at the foot of the mountain. With a light tap she landed on the ground, looking at the hokage and placing one foot in front of the other, ready to take off if the need for it arrived.
“You will never take me down! The Will of Fire burns within me.. and the rest of my village!” the Hokage blurted out, whilst placing one hand at his back and reaching for a weapon of sorts.
“And even when I am weakened by whatever you put in my body.. I will take you down! So tell me, what is your name, so we can fight as equals!” He didn't receive an answer in any way and only received a cold look as the woman stood perfectly still.
“Hmph. If you're not gonna answer my questions, answer my steel!” the Hokage said, pulling out a set of ten shuriken, throwing them at the cloaked figure. Rather than dodge, like she'd done before, she formed several handseals, seemingly not even in time to pull off the jutsu she wanted to use. The shuriken seemed to strike her and for a moment it looked like it did, as blood seeped out through her cloak. But right when the Hokage got a small smile on his face, the figure dissapeared in a cloud of smoke. After the smoke cleared a log was revealed.
“Doushita?! Kawarimi no jutsu? Too basic for me.. And that means..” The Hokage suddenly dropped onto one knee whilst forming handseals, and as soon as he was done he punched his hands into the ground. Dirt and rocks started flowing onto his skin, before finally enclosing his fists with rock as solid as steel.
“That means you are above me.. Take this!” It was only now that he looked up, raising himself up on his feet again and raising his fists to counter the attack he thought was coming from above.
It seemed he was right, as the cloaked figure descended upon him, spinning her body at the last moment for a spinning dropkick. The kick connected with the rock fists, producing a cracking sound as the kick broke off minor parts of the rock. But the rock held fast, never breaking, meaning Zeno could simply lift his fists even more and throw back the lady. As soon as he did that, however, a poof of smoke appeared and the woman dissapeared.
“A clone?” he said to himself as his eyes wandered around, looking for any indication of the target. By now many of the ANBU and shinobi were getting closer, and if they arrived it'd be certain that the force amassed at the location would be too big for anyone to take on. The silence that followed the attack was deafening, however, as nothing seemed to happen for seconds on end. Finally, footsteps came from behind the Hokage, at a high speed. The robed figure had seemingly appeared from nowhere and was now rushing at the Hokage holding the tiger seal. Without seemingly anything happening to the Hokage, he keeled over, grabbing his stomach as something seemed to have happened when the robed figure used the tiger seal. But it wasn't clear what exactly had happened. This was the perfect opening for the robed figure and it would be hard to dodge for the Hokage if nobody interfered. Likely, given the fact that the chunins had not stayed behind too long to deal with the aftermath of the chaos in the plaza, they'd arrive on site together. And likely.. that would lead to all of them attacking her at once, creating a clusterfuck of attacks on the figure. She'd have to make sure to finish this in time.
Yamato Minamoru, “Young Master”
“Watashi wa Kami, I am God.”
Yamato only gave Daiki an annoyed look, before answering him with an equally annoyed answer.
“Just like you, all bark, no bite.” he said, as the medical nin approached. He didn't greet her, or even give her any orders, he simply took off with Daiki, expecting her to follow. They both outranked her and as such, she'd just have to listen to orders. As long as nobody superior came along, such as an ANBU shinobi. Yamato grinned to himself as he thought about it.
The ANBU is likely much too busy getting their faces kicked in to worry about medical nin at the moment.As they jumped from roof to roof, at a blinding speed given the fact that this was a high alert situation, and also because of the adrenaline, Yamato and company managed to quickly catch up to Aoi's little squadron. Yamato shot them a short glance as they trailed alongside them on the other side of the street, noticing as he looked at them that Akio was launching attacks.
“Baka!” he cursed, not loud enough for it to be heard on the other side.
“Daiki, we need to stay ready. We can't tell if she's simply after the Hokage and only the Hokage, or if she's willing to kill us too. If Akio keeps going like this, this person that's attacking the Hokage might change their minds and go after us instead. We need to wait for an opening instead of attacking recklessly.. we don't even know what this person is capable of. Baka..” he said again, visibly annoyed with Akio's decision.
Yamato glanced behind him at the medical nin, who didn't look to be all that useful.
“Stay behind the frontlines, you're the only medical nin on site at the moment so you need to stay alive. If you risk your life, it won't be that person ending it, it'll be me. Understood? Don't go close until we tell you to.” The words were rather harsh, but it was relatively calm even for Yamato. It seemed like Yamato too was a bit on edge, perhaps even excited to see what was going on. Looking around again he noticed that other teams were also converging on the position. It almost looked like the tales of old when Konoha was under attack and the people were now rushing to defend valuable positions. This gave Yamato a strengthened feeling. His expression changed from serious and angry, to an angry expression that also shone out bravery. He seemed determined, and despite his lack of respect for the Hokage, he'd do anything to take down this robed figure. They were still slightly behind Aoi's squad, given that they had a headstart on Yamato and the rest.
“Slow down. We need to see what's going on before we can make any calls.” Yamato grumbled to the rest, as he slowed down somewhat and finally stopped at the edge of the buildings. It was only then that he saw what the others probably also saw at the same time. The figure had appeared from nowhere and was now rushing towards the Hokage, forming a seal and sending the Hokage down without even touching him.
“DAIKI!” Yamato yelled, alerting Daiki that Yamato was moving in. If anything, Daiki would do the same, as well as the other teams.
Without thinking of what could happen if this went wrong, Yamato charged in, brave as always. In his head he rehearsed to himself.
No fear. No pain. Just death. Kill or be killed. Remain as we are. In his mind he was fully prepared to use his suicidal self destruction technique to take this person down if it came down to it. As he rushed down to the ground in his mad dash, he formed the several seals before flicking back his wrists and engulfing them in flames. His feet touched the ground and in an instance he was already rushing towards the cloaked figure.
“HRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” His battlecry sounded through the area, an indicator that a battle for the ages was about to commence.
Reihana Minamoru, “Little Master”
“For the Minamoru, everything.”
Rei stood by the group, until Aoi said something about her gameboy. Rei covered her mouth and giggled, not because of what the clown girl said, but because she was about 3 generations of handheld devices behind the rest of the world.
“Aoi-sama, you know that the Naruboy is already out right?” she said, still a bit gigglish as she said so. As Akio also answered her she smiled at her and bowed her head slightly.
“Thank you Akio-sama.. admirer? What are you ta-HAAAAAAAA!” she suddenly yelled out as she felt a strangers' hand on her eyes. Without listening to the words this stranger, that was actually Giichi, spoke, she grabbed the hands and bent her body forwards, causing a leverage effect to occur as she swung Giichi over her body into the ground.
“Let go of me you pervert!!” she yelled with her eyes closed and her face red in anger. Without looking she pulled her arm back and then sent it forwards, stomping Giichi in the face.
As she opened her eyes again to take a look at the damage she'd done, she realized now that it wasn't a stranger who was being pervy, it was actually Giichi-kun. She immediately started apologizing, since when it came to Giichi she could handle fun 'jokes' like that. Her face was still red, but this time more because of emberassment. Rei extended her arm now and helped Giichi get back up, before her face turned back to normal. Her white hair waved slightly in the breeze as she grabbed her arm with her other hand, looking at the ground because of the comment Akio made.
“Y-yes, you're right. He is very protective of me, and of the entire family. It's the reason that he and Daiki don't get along, since our clans are not exactly best friends.. but I promise, Yamato means the best. He is just.. he can be a bit mean in his words. I promise he is actually kind of nice.”The speech then commenced, while Rei tried to make small talk with Giichi to confirm that they were still friends atleast. As soon as the Hokage started naming names however she paid more attention, and clapped when Akio and Aoi were named as candidates.
“Congratulations guys! I'm so happy for you!” she proclaimed, and when Yamato was named she couldn't help but feel a bit happy for him too. It was a case of mixed feelings, because since he got chosen, he had to leave Konoha for quite some time she imagined. But then stuff went wrong - very quickly. The Hokage suddenly became ill, and then a robed, masked figure appeared. It.. was this like Pain's invasion? Please, no. Without being given much time to think Yamato appeared while the crowd tumbled into chaos. He seemed to confirm Akio's suspicions that she had had about him, despite Rei saying that he was actually quite nice. But because of Rei's friendly nature she couldn't say anything about Akio calling her brother a prick.. she could argue with her but Akio was actually sort of right. All she could do was ignore it for now. It wasn't the most important thing at this point in time either.
“Giichi-kun, let's go!” Rei yelled as she quickly followed Aoi and Akio. She wasn't as fast as them but she was fast enough to atleast keep up and keep them in sight. She would follow them for now, since Yamato wasn't around and neither was Daiki. That made Aoi the highest ranking shinobi around at this moment.
Yopparai Ramu Koku
“With no booze, whores and cussing, life would be a lot less interesting.”Give us dem eyes, gurl.
Yopparai slowly followed Tsukiya, not really on edge, simply walking as he normally would. It was pretty clear there was a difference in strength, especially since one of their team was slightly incapacitated. When Tsukiya used his bloodlens lemmet thingie to spot the enemy, it was all rather easy for him to fix. Added to that that Tsukiya prevented the escape of this person constantly carrying the Hyuga.. well, it'd be like dogs in a barrel. That was how the saying went, right?
Just as he was about to walk even closer and swing his sword at the manhole cover, he noticed.. something. What was that sound? It sounded like the whizzing of projectiles. Very small ones.. like raindrops. A look upwards revealed that there were.. watery senbon? It was something like that anyway. They were headed straight for Yopparai, but he dodged it with a simple sidestep. It would take a bit more than just some senbon to get rid of him. But now, now Yopparai was angry.
“Fucking mist.. I never thought I'd see mist like this again when I left Kirigakure.. guess I was wrong.” With a quick motion he put the lip of his flask of alcohol at his mouth, before gushing it around inside his mouth to knead chakra into it. As soon as that was done, he would face towards where he thought the majority of the mist was, before spewing it out. The fine mist of alcohol spewed straight into the mist, causing the alcohol to get mixed in with the alcohol due to the molecular interaction that happened between the two.
Not that Yopparai understood any of that molecular bullshit - he just wanted to light shit on fire. With a quick movement he pulled out his flint and steel, before smashing the two together and creating a spark. That spark was enough to kickstart the fire that now occured as the mist with alcohol in it burned up. Essentially, this meant that indirectly Yopparai had gotten rid of the mist atleast partially. It also meant that Yopparai would unknowingly most likely burn up the water clone that was sent out by Gin unless measures were taken. The real question would be if Gin could see this coming, and whether or not he'd get out of the mist in time to avoid getting burnt too badly.
As soon as Yopparai had dealt with the annoyance that was the mist, he noticed that he could see a lot more clear without that annoying mist. He didn't waste any more time and swung his sword around towards the manhole cover.
“BOOM BABY!” he yelled as the sword connected, after which he made the explosive tags explode. The sheer force of the explosion would lead to a loud bang, as well as cause the manhole cover to dent so badly that it fit through the hole, likely hitting whoever was still below it in the head. As if being hit with an explosion wasn't bad enough, they'd also get hit with a manhole cover.. that would hurt.
“Tsukiya-chaaan, do you want me to blow some fire down into that hole?!” he yelled, looking back at Tsukiya. He wasn't sure what was down the hole and he didn't want to risk losing out on some much needed alcohol.
