"These trees are so much fun! I wish could had more time to climb them without jutsu. It feels like cheating using chakra."
Mochizuki appeared dropping upside down infront of Momo. She looked at her bandages sadly as she mentioned tree climbing. She had bandages across her nose, ribs, and left hand. In addition, a couple of badly placed bandages laced her right wing. Mochizuki felt like she should wrap it up, but didn't have any idea how to wrap it up. Her companion didn't have wings either, so little help there. The end result was a sad looking entropy of bandages at odd angles that kept falling loose.
"Anyways, it's kind of hard to see through all these trees. We aren't in the desert that's for sure. For what it's worth, it didn't look like any ninjas are around. What are we going to do now? I don't think Sakuya was thinking she'd make it to the safehouse. Do we bring her there anyways? Or do we bring her back to the Hidden Sand? If we go back, we gotta fill up on supplies.
I don't want to fight those bandits again; I used too many darts last time. I only have 11 left. I also used my only antidote on Sakuya. Being a sniper sucks."
Mochizuki continued to hang like a monkey as an insect buzzed by. Mochizuki held her finger out to it, as a dragonfly landed on it.
"Hey! This is what a Dragonfly looks like! I've never seen one!"
Mochizuki's wings buzzed in sync with the dragonfly, before she flinched as more bandages came loose from her right wing.
Akira noted, rather dully, the approach of Himawari, the 3rd member of their team. The one he was least looking forward to seeing. Akira didn't pay attention to him, listening at least a little to Masshiro. His intention ignoring of Himawari was broken by a light punch landed on his shoulder. Akira slapped the hand away, tension filling the air from his side.
"Don't touch me, cur! If you don't care about your grades, why would you care about being a ninja?"
Akira snarled looking around at all the disgusted faces. He hated them all too.
"What are you all looking at!?"
Akira's patience was running thin, and he decided to go back to ignoring Himawari. Akira felt the only thing that mattered was being a good ninja. He was born a genius, who cared what the plebs thought? There was only one thing to do with the team he was assigned. Do their mission, go home, and train til they actually got a sensei. Akira opened up the mission details, mumbling to himself.
"At least I'm not assigned Tadaoki."
It ellicited a 'hey' from across the room from the said name.
Akira slowly read the mission, double checking it, before putting his copy of the mission away.
"Masshiro! Get back over here, we have a package to deliver!"
Eh, I'll admit it and not even feel bad about it. In a large RP, where things are well separated, I read post that are related to the area where my character is, and relate to his character. If a post is in some distant land with a character I've never interacted with, and probably never will interact with, and is a different group we're not fighting, I just skim it for important information. I chose a following of characters anywhere remotely close to mine, or people's I just plain like to read in depth.
Now in smaller Rps, I wouldn't even imagine doing that. Everyone is just thirsting for a chance to interact, it'd be unfair to do that.
Umichi eyes sharply watched to see what would become at her water when she saw a glow around the side of the water. She had no time to analyze the beams like she wanted, to see their composition.
"Shit."
Umichi grabbed her green tessen, and in a dance like elegance dove forward slamming her other at a 30 degree angle to the ground. A burst of concentrated wind shot out of it, slamming into the ground. After piercing a few feat the concentrated air expanded in a blast. Pieces of the ground flew perpendicular to the blast, sending several large, mansized clumps of ground into the beams, and couple's trajectory would threaten to crush her foe.
Umichi herself flew downwards into the depression created by her wind blast. The evaporating water would hide her movements.
Meanwhile, her water tessen continued to point at her foe. Whatever form the water turned to, it was laced with Umichi's chakra pushing it forward. Burning steam threatened to envelop the woman, as well as a small barrage of earth behind it.
The brooks near them started to crawl towards them.
Making me use my wind tessen already? What is this woman? What are those beams? I need to find out if she gives me a moment. Hopefully she didn't see what caused the flying earth. I can't hold back though... just don't make me use that.
Akira sat coldly in the back corner as the graduates gathered. A lot of the graduates were talking to each other jovially, and talking about they hoped they were on the same team. Akira decided to at least talk to his equal, himself
"Idiots. Being a team of friends, and you'll all die. It's a pain, but I guess as long as my teammates aren't the bottom of the barrel, I'll be alright. Afterall, a heavenly light release user is an asset to the Hidden Cloud, and that's what it's all about. Who's an asset, and who isn't."
The Sensei walked to front of the classroom, the list of teams in his hands. Akira was glad for the quiet that came from everyone shutting up and taking a seat. The sensei started off with a 'rousing speech' to which Akira could only groan and plant his face on his desk. A lot of other people seemed nervous, or jittery about the prospect, but not Akira. He just wanted it over with. He hoped he got other teammates who were higher up in the class, but other than that, he didn't care.
Finally, the list of teams came.
Team 4, his name didn't come out, he didn't care. Same story for Team 5.
"Team 6, Akira Hikaru."
Akira's head perked up finally, listening intently.
"Himawari Kanagata."
A name he didn't know that well, in otherwise an average or failure.... great.
"Masshiro Negishi-Kemono."
Akira smirked, someone with higher grades, he wasn't alone.
"You three will serve together under Ranmaru-sensei."
As the sensei finished, another teacher came up to the front, and whispered in Sensei's ear. He turned pale, then shuffled his papers.
"*cough*. Well, it looks like Ranmaru had a bit of an....accident. You three are assigned without a sensei for the time being. Your first mission is up here, collect it afterwards.. To continue, Team 7 is..."
Akira slammed his head against the table. No sensei? What was that about? He WAS a light release user, but he was at least expecting a jonin to teach them.
After a bit, the dull droning of Sensei finished as everyone was assigned. Akira picked up a copy of the mission, then approached Masshiro and Himawari.
"Looks like I'm stuck with you two, without a sensei. Great."
The moment the sun rose in the Hidden Sand, people began to stir. One such person was Momo Sakurai, who had woken up to prepare for her impending mission. She was feeling well rested and ready to go, but first, she had to make sure she had all the things she would need. Making a list, she would check off the things she had, and the things she needed to pick up from the store on the way out.
Quickly, Momo went through her scrolls and inspected the weapons she used most often, making sure they didn't need to be immediately replaced. Afterwards she dressed in her regular gear, attaching the large scroll to her waist with a belt and securing two hip pouches just under it. As she walked out of the room, she reached into a drawer and retrieved her two bracelets she used for quick seals and put them on, not having anything sealed to them yet.
As she bounded down the stairs from her room, Momo immediately went to the living area where she was the previous day and picked up her pink ribbon that was left lying on the floor. Frowning at the odd dampness of it, she decided to leave her hair down rather than put baby drool in her hair.
Her last few moments at home were spent with her eating a slightly burned fruit tart with her Father and sister, who both seemed to enjoy them despite the charred aftertaste. She bid the two farewell afterwards, stopping at the entryway and placing her shoes on before leaving.
So, Momo had to make a stop at the local weapons store first to replace her smoke bombs as well as some bandages, ointment and some other things. As she ran through the still clear streets of the village, she tightened the forehead protecter that was in her hair as it started to slip a bit. One would be able to tell she was excited to start the mission, despite the dangers of it. With a small smile, she rounded a corner and made her way into the local weapons shop, looking around for what she needed and quickly grabbing them. Lady Yuzuki had said to meet at the village entrance at dawn, and it was already around that time. Momo. would have just a few minutes to make it there.
Contrastly loud snoring began the morning for Mochizuki. Laid out in a mess in her room, it looked more like a nest than a bedroom. The only thing remotely organized was a pile of book and sheets of paper, with various equations on them. And half of those had fallen on her, her face now a trigometric approach to projectiles, vibrating at each snore. One such snore was so loud, Mochizuki nearly choked on it, causing her to wake up. The paper was still on her face.
“What time is it….?”
The paper fell, Mochizuki having a clear view of the horizon. The sun was just starting to rise.
"A good morning it's almost dawn…aw…”
In a flurry of moment she started getting dressed, putting on clothes at a rapid speed, and complaining each time one of her two wings got in the way.
“Why do we ever have these things?”
Her gathering of supplies was about as rapid.
“Where's my blowgun?”
A ruffling several paper later, she found it under a pile of math books, next to a ruler.
“I can figure out how to rifle it naturally later. Let's see…. This should be good for darts. A few of these.”
Standing in the hall, her father stood against a wall drinking his morning coffee. A blur of green streaked past him, papers flying out the room behind her.
“And that is the proud princess of the Tonbo clan. Do I even want to look in that room?”
Mochizuki ran full speed towards the village entrance. Zooming in on it, she barely saw the person she was going with showing up. She breathed a sigh of relief, she wasn't too late. It took her a few minutes to catch up to the place.
“Good morning, Momo.”
At the sound of her voice, Momo turned to look behind her. She was just finishing putting her things away into a small scroll. Reaching behind her and placing it in one of her hip pouches, she looked at the girl who was coming towards her at full speed. Taking a step back just in case the girl wouldn't slow down, she returned the greeting to her fellow chunin.
"Good morning Mochizuki-san." she said, looking a bit confused. She wondered what she was doing there so early and if she was also on a mission. From the looks of it, she seemed she was wearing some gear. "What brings you here so early?" she asked out of curiosity.
Mochizuki came to an abrubt stop, sand flying behind her.
"Escorting some girl called Sakuya Nyoto. Kazekage said I was going with you. Stop any nasty bandits from getting in the way.. We get to see a forest! Trees, life, no sand. This is going to be great!"
Her wings buzzed excitedly behind her.
"Anyways, guess she didn't tell you. She told me 'Originally I told Momo this was to be just a one man mission, due to moving a large group of people wouldn't be the best.' So glad I didn't miss you. Are you as excited about this as I am?"
Her imitation of the Kazekage was surprisingly spot on when she quoted her..
Momo couldn't help it, the energy of the girl was infectious and so she smiled and clapped her hands together. "I am really excited about this. Also kind of nervous. I'm actually happy someone else will be coming along with me." she said. "Though I don't think I'll appreciate a forest or trees as much as you seem to. Regardless, I wonder where this Sakuya person is."
"I've been here the whole time." a young woman's voice would be heard to the left of the two. Momo would look over and noticed a woman slowly appear from being completely invisible. Blinking, Momo said with a small bow "Oh. Nice to meet you Miss Sakuya." Standing up straight, she watched as the pink haired woman slowly walked over to them, wearing only a simple kimono. "My name is Momo and this is Mochizuki. We'll be escorting you back home." she introduced.
Mochizuki's wings hummed as she was introduced.
"Aren't you two a pair of cuties?" she said with a smile. "Nice to meet you two. I've been waiting for Yuzuki. She has something she needs to give me." the woman said, her face flashing to one of anger for a moment.
"Want me to get it? I know a quick route to the Kazekage's office. I can be back here lickity split."
Mochizuki's shortcut only involved 3 trespassings, and several roofjumps through the window. It was her favorite route. Mochizuki noticed the flash of anger, she wondered if something had gone wrong.
Sakuya crossed her arms and closed her eyes. "If you wouldn't mind, I would appreciate if you did. I'm not the patient sort and I've been stuck here in this damned place long enough." she said. Momo's eyebrow raised at the woman's irritation. It was her understanding that she had been kept here for her own safety, not against her will. Momo kept quiet then, glancing at Mochizuki and nodding to her.
"If you think you can be quick, then sure." she said.
Mochizuki nodded, and turned to the village. Then, as any normal person would do, she started scaling the side of a building looking a bit like a bug as she did. She hummed as she did.
As soon as she got to the top, heading towards the Kazekage's office, she activated her dojutsu, zooming in on it. The Kazekage seemed to be getting ready to leave. Mochizuki quickly brought out a piece of paper, and scribbled on it.
Sakuya wants something.
She wrapped it around a dart, and loaded her blowgun.
The dart would land about a foot infront of the Kazekage. Mochizuki continue onwards, she'd be a minute or two behind the note.
As Yuzuki was preparing to leave her office, a sudden sound of slicing wind was heard coming closer. A moment later, something tapped the ground right in front of her. A jerking of her shoulders and a light gasp was a clear giveaway that she had been startled by it. She took a step back, looking at it for a moment and then sighing in relif. She knelt as she wiped some sweat from her brow. As she read the note, she was slowly walking towards the window, knowing the chunin girl would be coming soon.
She put on a calm face, not wanting her unease to be easily shown. The fact Yuzuki was this frazzled this morning was slightly shameful, but she would put on a smile and a good face for the rest of the day. Leaning against the window sill, she waited for the girl to come.
A loud crash was heard outside her office, followed by footsteps up the stairs.
Mochizuki opened the door from the inside, brushing sand off of herself.
"Morning, Kazekage. Sorry, was in a rush. Sakuya was wanting something from you. She looked angry about something. "
Yuzuki tore her gaze from outside the window, giving the chunin an incredulous look. She looked between the window and the door, clearly confused for a moment. "You used the..."
For a long moment, she just stared at the girl.
Snapping out of it, Yuzuki walked over and handed Mochizuki a small scroll. "Anyway, this is what Sakuya needs. My side of the agreement we had." she paused. "Oh and one more thing." she said reaching into her pocket. She pulled out a small piece of paper with a seal on it. "Give this to Momo for me."
She gave a smile and placed a hand on the girl's shoulder. "Good luck."
Mochizuki buzzed as the Kazekage's hand was placed on her shoulder. It was good will, she wanted to make Yuzuki proud.
"Thanks! I'll make sure to do well on the mission. Well, don't want to be late."
She picked up her dart, then took a step towards the door, but just to give her more running space, turning, and rushing out the window, making extra sure to grab the next roof ledge harder.
"I wonder what....agreement they had?"
It sounded more like argument. But it wasn't her place.
She found her way back to Momo and Sakuya, sounding from above them. Her wings spread out as she jumped down. She wished they would catch her weight. How she'd love to fly, she'd be even more free than she was.
"Hey, I'm back! The Kazekage had something for both of you."
She touched down, and reached to her pouch, pulling out their respective seal and scroll.
Momo looked up and stepped to the side just in case Mochizuki would mess up in her landing, but no such thing happened. no such thing happened. She wondered for a moment what the Kazekage would need to give her and waited until she was handed the small seal. She looked confused for a moment, the word written under the pattern was 'Jar". Shrugging, she started to transfer the item to one of her bracelet seals.
Sakuya meanwhile half snatched the scroll out of the girl's hand and slipped it into her kimono. "Very good. Well, if there's nothing us to keep us from leaving, shall we?" she said, turning and starting to walk towards the main village entrance. Momo glanced at Mochizuki and gave her look that read 'what's this chick's problem?' before she started to follow the woman. They took their time, though knowing they would have to move quickly one outside the village.
Mochizuki gave a 'I dunno' shrug with her arms and wings.
Reaching into a pouch, she brought out a folded piece of paper that held a map of the route they were meant to take, handing it to Mochizuki after she was done looking at it. "Shouldn't be more than a day's journey there and back, though if we need to stop and rest at any point, we'll need to be careful." she told her.
"Well, let's go!"
Mochizuki's wings hummed, and she picked up her speed.
--------------Some time later---------------------------
Mission: Protect Sakuya Nyoto At All Costs! Part 2
A Collaboration between Gan and Neyu
The three girls traveled for some hours, moving quickly with little to no stops in their journey. Normally it would take a half days journey to get to the border between the Lands of Wind and Fire, but due to the fact they had to often change positions according to the map, the time seemed to take a bit longer than usual. They spoke only little to avoid giving away their position, as it was hard to find cover in the sandy expanse of the desert. Save for the occasional large stone structure to crouch and rest in, the three traveled out in the open. Momo couldn't help but feel like she was slowing the team down, as she typically ran behind the other two, but she kept pushing as fast as she could.
Sakuya meanwhile was lost in her own thoughts, only casually watching her surroundings. If the need would arise, she would simply camouflage to the area and avoid detection, but being attacked wasn't something she was concerned with. The woman craacked a devilish smirk as she studied the wings of the young girl running in front of her. A thought passed her mind about what one would pay to get a set of wings such as those.
However... she thought, looking over her shoulder at the other one. She could pose a problem. she thought, turning back before Momo could catch her looking.
Though it seemed a shame that there was suddenly another person, Sakuya was sure the unwelcome addition wouldn't set back her plans too much.
Afterall...
It's not like either one of them will make it back anyway.
Mochizuki was completely unaware of the continual glancing at her wings as she zoomed in on the border.
"♫Trees, trees!♫"
It wasn't that she was inattentive, it was that she was focused on scanning the border. She watched the trade route a bit to the south, a bit off course, but she wanted to make sure there wasn't any surprises.
The problem with Mochizuki's dojutsu though was the zooming took her focus away from the current situation.
After a second, she zoomed out again. She could speak now that she was fairly sure no one was infront of them.
"Don't see anything too strange. Those trees are huge! One has to be 113 meter's high! It's only 1.54 km from here, you guys have to be able to see it! Are you from here by the way Sakuya?"
Mochizuki was a bit scared though, remembering Sakuya's earlier glimpses of anger, she wanted to know her a bit better.
While Momo had fairly good eyesight, she couldn't see more than what appeared to be a ocean of green ahead of them. She cracked a grin at Mochizuki's excitement. "I can't see individual trees. I have normal person eyes." she said with a bit of a sarcastic tone. She was teasing the girl, but still was admittedly excited about entering a new land for the first time.
When a question was directed to Sakuya, Momo listened to what the woman would say, pretty interested herself. It was always nice to get to know the person you excorted. "I think Lady Yuzuki said she was from the Land of Fire, right?" she said, asking for confirmation.
Sakuya figured she could play along with the pointless small talk. Besides, she didn't mind if the topic was her.
"I was born in the Land of Fire, in a small province just outside the Hidden Village. I don't feel inclined to tell you too much about it, but I will say that we've not always had a peaceful history. There are some people there who allegedly run an underground mercenary training system. I left that place a long time ago." she finished, leaving out the part that she was one of those people who were raised in that system.
Momo seemed rather unfazed by her response, not fininding it that interesting in any case. "Well, hopefully you've made a better life for yourself. I'm no expert, but I hear those who live in Kyokujitsugakure are typically content with how they live. I've met a few clients to the Sand who were from there, or even people who moved from there to live here." she said, glancing around them. Faintly she felt something beneath her feet, but just as quickly as the sensation came, it faded.
Sakuya also felt the slight tremor and glanced down at the loose sand beneath her feet. Hmm...? she thought to herself, though not particularly worried.
Mochizuki's wings spread in surprise, and she reached for her blowgun. She didn't get the chance to react to Sakuya's comment, though her feeling was probably a bit more sympathetic than Momo.
Glancing around, she found a rock nearby, and scaled it. It gave a better vantage point, and was sturdier. Seeing this, Momo went to catch up to Sakyua and stop her as she slowed down too.
She turned around to Sakuya, and offered a hand, not saying a word. she glanced around for Momo, and seeing her, offered her other hand as well. The sand wasn't supposed to shake like that. Mochizuki waited a second for any aftershocks.
Sakuya resisted the urge to yank her arm away when Momo touched it to slow her arm, though the disgust on her face was clear and even Momo noticed it. "Please Miss Sakuya, stay close to us." she said, leading her to where Mochizuki was perched on a large boulder. She went over and waited for Sakuya to first be helped up.
Rolling her eyes, Sakuya took the hand of Mochizuki and allowed herself to be helped up. Momo did the same a moment after, going to stand at the back of her comrade. "You felt it then, Mochizuki?" she asked.
Mochizuki nodded at Momo, mumbling a 'mhmm'. She then moved to the otherside of Sakuya as Momo. Next, she activated her dojutsu to 4x zoom, and gave a quick glance around the area. Earthquakes weren't exactly completely new to her, but she figured it was better to be safe than sorry. She was worried by how short it was though. Earthquakes were quick, but they weren't that quick.
She waited for any aftershocks, even a faint one, to reassure herself whether or not it could have just been an earthquake.
Sakuya seemed to be unfazed by all of this, where as Momo was keeping a close eye and ear on her surroundings. To the left of them, not even a mile away, was the border between the two lands. That meant they were nearing the halfway point of the journey. A short travel into the forest to the location of the safe house would be the other half, and hopefully thing's weren't taking a turn for the worse just yet.
Sakuya started to inspect the beds of her nails just as another, but noticibly stronger tremor was heard. "Aren't these little quakes common in this area? Why are you two wound up?" she asked them, sounding pointedly irritated.
Momo frowned then ignoring the woman's question.
"Well, I guess the trees are new to us, and the sands to you. This one is wierd. It's too short, and the aftershock is stronger than the first quake." Mochizuki whispered.
"I noticed that too." Momo said, nodding as a hand instinctively reached back and rested on her scroll.
Scoffing, Sakuya gave a glare looking between the two girls. "Well, you two can sit here and contemplate the meaning of natural geological occurrences," she started, hopping off of the rock and stretching. "But I'm going to continue along."
And without another word, she started travelling in the way they were previously going.
Momo cursed and turned to follow her, hopping off the rock as well.
Mochizuki looked nervous for a minute as Sakuya jumped off, and Momo turned to follow her.
She swallowed hard, standing ontop of the rock still. She was supposed to do what was right as a ninja.... but what if she was wrong? She always had a sensei with her before. She always did what she wanted, but she never had to worry about it either.
She decided what she should do in the end. She continued on the rock, and motioned for Momo to keep going. Mochizuki's eyes couldn't keep up all day, but they could for a bit. She laid prone on the rock, and pulled out her blowgun. She'd observe til Sakuya was almost to the tree, then catch up if nothing would happen.
Momo followed Sakuya but looked behind her at Mochizuki, worried about the girl as she slowly started to get farther away. Every bad sense in her was tingling and she was on edge, but what she was focused on was completing the mission. She needed to get Sakuya to the safe house.
The pink haired woman in front of her started to chuckle softly and Momo's attention was diverted to her. "What is it?" she asked the woman.
Smirking, Sakuya would slowly come to a stop, a few dozen meters away from the edge of the forest serving as a natural border. "I was just thinking about that precious Kazekage of yours. I never really liked her, despite what she may have thought." she told Momo, who gave her a puzzled look.
"I can see why you people love her. She's beautiful and kind, like an angel. But... I see a flaw in her that no one else does."
The earth again started trembling and Momo looked around her, stumbling a bit as the sands began to shift. She jumped back a few feet, looking at Sakuya who had turned towards the chunin. The look on the woman's face was indescribable...
She wore a grin, her eyes were hooded by her pink bangs, and the laughter that erupted from her mouth caused Momo's eyes to widen.
"That woman is far too trusting!" she said before vanishing right before Momo's eyes.
Hesitating only a second, Momo turned and started running back towards where Mochizuki was, but the sands shifting below her caused her to stumble and fall to her knees. In one large eruption of sand around her, four large blocks of stone began to rise up from the ground and started to form a wall around her.
Mochizuki watched worried from her spot on the rock. She didn't like Sakuya's laugh, Momo was far to worried about it. And then she vanished.
Mochizuki found herself on her knees in sprinting position before she stopped, whispering to herself.
"What am I suppose to do?"
She was conflicted. She was trained as a sniper, but all her basic instincts always went against it. As a stone prison rose around Momo, it took everything she had not to sprint to help her. A tear came to her eye.
"Why, Mom, Dad?? Why this kind of combat...? I like adventure...."
She laid back down prone, and loaded a dart. A jutsu meant an enemy shinobi. And that meant she stay far away.... no matter how much she wanted to rush in. Mochizuki had an instant dislike to Sakuya. She didn't know what had happened, but she had smiled before this.
Before getting back on her feet, Momo took the time to mentally measure out the size of the prison that was forming around her, the walls of it seeming to go on higher and higher into the sky. It seemed there was more than twenty meters between each opposite wall to start, but they were slowly closing in on her.
Immediately she sent chakra to her feet and ran to the nearest one, jumping up and running as fast as she could to escape. She made a seal with her hands and tapped her left armband, releasing the sword that was sealed there. She held it out in front of her, and just as she made it halfway up the wall, she could see people coming over the top, jumping down to intercept her.
They wore the familiar garb of the Owari bandits.
Mochizuki saw the enemy ninja coming from the sides. She lifted up her blowgun reflexively, then put it down. She needed to calculate first. Calmly as she could, she slowly weaved the handsigns she needed. Her heart felt like it was going to beat out her chest as she watched the ninja climbing higher and higher.
"Feta of 30 degrees, Fx of 200m, Fy at 20m, need a power of.... 4.23. Good. 1.2 degree difference per shinobi.... you can do this. Momo needs help."
Her heart beat even faster as she took a deep breath, and loaded her fingers with darts.
Right as the bandits jumped, and a split second before they would disappear into the box, Mochizuki fired her darts.
1...2...3...4....
Momo glared at the two bandits that had slipped over the top of the earthen prison, nearing her with each step, though behind them, she saw a few more that seemed to be falling rather than running towards her. She quickly sidestepped as one bandit crashed into another, and as the two passed her, she kicked off from the wall and delivered two hard kicks, sending them falling to the ground and giving herself a boost. In roughtly four seconds one bandit would be upon her.
Three more bodies fell as she rose her sword, it connecting with a larger one belonging to the bandit. They pushed against eachother, testing the other's strength for a moment before Momo spun to the side abruptly, using the momentum to aim a kick at the bandit's knee and a clean slice to his neck. As she did, the removing of both feet from the side of the wall made her falter a bit, but she quickly regained her footing.
The bandit fell in two pieces rather than one as she continued her ascent.
She was worried about Mochizuki, unsure of the status of her comerade. Narrowly dodging a flurry of shuriken that came at her from the left, Momo turned and looked around her, seeing at least a dozen or so bandits on each of the walls around her. In one coheizive unit, they all started to rush towards her at once.
She cursed and continued her climb, hoping that whatever had caused the bandits from above to fall down dead, was going to come to her rescue again.
Mochizuki redid the handsigns to allow more shots as Momo handled herself well, lowering her goggles as she did as part of her being more serious. If she was going to be helping Momo, the last thing she needed was dust in her eye. She felt guilty as she watched the shurikens fly at Momo, though she she handled it. Momo was handling herself very well, but with so many bandits....
"How did they know we were here?"
She decided on a full volley of 7. It might hurt her lungs, but it beat Momo getting hurt. She was a sniper. Protect and strike from afar.
1...2..3...4...5...6... THUD!!
The girl would suddenly feel a weight hit her hard right between her shoulder blades as Sakuya appeared behind her and came down on her with a heavy foot.
"I don't think I told you before how much I admire those wings of yours. If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to take them for myself." she said, raising a hand and slowly creating a spear made of stone from her open palm.
Mochizuki cried in pain as the zoom of her eyes faded, and she saw a shadow right over her. Her arms flailed uselessly for a minute,one sprawled in a weird position by her hip, and one, holding her blowdart infront of her face. The voice above her was familiar. Sakuya? The woman grinned down at the girl who looked helpless and frail beneath her.
She felt out of breath from the impact, but as Mochizuki saw something sharp in the palm of her attacker's hand, she put her hand by her hip in her pouch, and clenched hard around 4 objects.
3 gas grenades would burst from it, releasing a burning gas to the eye. The last object was a dart held firmly in her hand, which she plunged backwards, trying to get her attacker's other heel from an odd angle. It was hard with her attacker literally on her back.
The smug look on Sakyua's face faded as a sudden movement of the girl caused something to burst right below her. She immediately vanished, re appearing in front of the girl and bringing her leg back a split second before aiming a kick to the girl's face.
Meanwhile, Momo was getting tired of running for her life, and decided it was time to go on the offensive. In one quick motion, she made a few handseals and the sword was absorbed into her armband sealed away once again. After that, she reached into her hip pouch and grabbed a scroll, holding it between her teeth as she prepared the handseals for her jutsu.
Looking up, she would see more bandits coming from the opening in the top of the prison. She was surrounded on all sides now, having to carefully dodge the projectiles coming towards her by occasionally stopping and hopping around.
While she held the last seal and gathered the required chakra, she would be without use of her hands in total of about twenty seconds. This left her quite vulnerable as many of the Owari bandits were only mere feet from her position. Seeing no other choice but one that could potentially kill her, she had to make a decision and fast.
"Shit!" Momo cursed as she was unable to dodge some shuriken that were thrown at her. She cried out as they sliced at her and dug into her flesh, but nonetheless, kept her hands firmly sealed as she gathered chakra. She only needed ten more seconds.
The gas grenades filled the area around Mochizuki with a very light yellow gas, almost invisible. The gas was designed to target and burn the eyes especially.
As Mochizuki felt the weight released from her, she scrambled to get up, only for Sakuya to reappear infront of her.
"You!"
Mochizuki was forced to act as Sakuya went to kick her. She stabbed forward with the dart in her left hand, her hand wet, at the calf of Sakuya rather than try to block the kick. The dart wasn't going to cut very well, but Mochizuki wasn't apt at at CQC. Mochizuki felt the full force of the kick, hitting her right in the goggles, and pressing them deep into the bridge of her nose, and sending Mochizuki sprawling on her back. Her vision flashed red from the blood rush.
A small grunt would be heard from Sakuya as she felt something hit the skin of her calf. It wasn't bery sharp, but the sudden pain of it made her take some steps back after she kicked the little winged girl. When she was at a distance, Sakuya looked down at her calf and saw a bruise forming around a small cut on her pale skin. She frowned at this and glared at the girl in front of her.
"And to think for a second there I wasn't going to kill you. But I've made up my mind! You're dead!"
The woman seemed to have vanished again, but she had just moved faster than an eye could catch. She extended her leg back and kicked out, hitting Mochizuki on the side while the girl was still recovering from the blow to her head. The force of it would have been enough to kick her away some few feet, but Sakuya moved again and reached out to grab the girl by one of her wings. "But I'll be needing these." she said menacingly, only moments later did she start to get an odd sensation in her eyes, like a stinging. It caused her to pause in her movements, though she wasn't entirely concerned about the girl before her.
Back where Momo was, she was contemplating out the next twenty moves in her head, assuming this next one didn't kill her. She was taking a bold risk with the sheer number of bandits converging on her, but she needed to change the playing field to one that would better suit the circumstances. That, and perhaps she could take some of them out in the process.
Ten seconds were up. She was ready.
With a light grunt, Momo sent a surge of chakra to her feet and kicked off from the side of the wall, and then she was falling. Once the Owari noticed her change in position, they all seemed to do the same, which was what she suspected. The fools. What they made up for with sheer numbers was the fact that the Owari were stupid. They'd fallen right into her trap now that they all were moving towards her.
In a matter of merely three seconds, Momo released her jaw's grip on the scroll and let it fall into her hands. She opened it and placed her hand on the seal there, the familiar feeling of her weapon was an instantaneous feedback she needed. She gripped the thing tightly and unleashed her next jutsu as the ground rushed up towards her.
"Bashosen," she raised the small fan above her head with both arms, aiming for the large wall directly in front of her.
"Coil of Earth!"
When she waved the fan downwards and towards the wall, her chakra that surged out of it started to rise up from the ground in the form of pillars of rock, moving in a line at incredible speed towards one of the walls. In a loud crash of earth hitting earth, Momo would land on one of the rock pillars and look up, the cracking of the wall she'd hit was not satisfying enough.
"Coil of Earth!" she yelled, waving her fan again and watching as more stones rose up from the ground and crashed into one of the large walls. The entire structure wobbled before one wall started to crumble right before her. Not soon after, the others would follow.
Momo had to move quickly unless she wanted to be buried underneath the collapsing stone prison along with the Owari bandits. She quickly ran out through an opening her Bashosen had created in the wall, slipping through only a split second before the falling rocks has closed up the exit.
Finally she would be back outside the prison, and she moved away some distance from it as she heard the cries of the bandits that were trapped inside the crumbling stone structure. She couldn't be bothered with them now though, she had to find Mochizuki.
She looked around her, pulling out some shuriken that were embedded into her flesh with a light grunt of pain. She spotted Mochizuki some meters away and called out to her, seeing the familiar figure of Sakuya standing far too close.
Sakuya had paused in her attack of the girl to look up as the bandit's massive stone tower began crumbling from the bottom up. She rolled her eyes then, looking a bit annoyed, she clicked her teeth. "Ugh, you would think a bit of idiocic bandits could even handle one little girl." she said, momentarily distracted at the scene ahead of her, as well as the sudden burning in her eyes she wouldn't notice the girl at her feet if she did anything.
Mochizuki was disorientated from all the kicks, her vision was faded as Sakuya held her by the wing. She didn't like it, she liked her keen sight. She wasn't good at close range, she felt completely broken. Blurrily looking down at her hand, at the dart in it, she noted the blood on it. It reminded her that it wasn't over yet.
Mochizuki inhaled a deep breath, her lungs straining, and turned her head to face Sakuya, then exhaled the last 'shot' she had.
Wind Style: Breathe of God.
The jutsu was normally the power behind her darts, how she could shoot so far, but in this case, she was using it as just a blast of wind from her lungs straight at Sakuya, to send her back with a blast of wind. The force of the breath ripped her wing in Sakuya's hand, and sent her flying backwards, yelping in pain. Sakuya was completely taken by surprise, her prior failure to pay attention to the girl had left her open for an easy attack.
That hurts...But I can't lose, I can't die yet. I haven't even climbed those trees! The gas in the air, and the poison in the dart should be effecting her, her eyes and nerves, those won't last long. I just have to hold off. I can't take too long though, Momo needs me!
Momo would start to run towards her comrade, but before she could make it too far, the final wave of bandits would slowly start to emerge from the sands around her. She halted in her steps, and looked around her, reaching back for her giant scroll.
These bandits were all a pain. Or so she thought as she prepared her next jutsu. With her chakra reserves running low, she know she would need to pick a jutsu that would wipe them all out in one go.
"Twenty-three..." she had counted as they each emerged from the sand to surround her. They readied their weapons, but didn't move towards her, and she thought for a moment that these couldn't be the same bandits that the Sand had been dealing with for nearly a hundred years. These ones were idiots. She almost wanted to order them to attack.
[color=hotpink]"In any case, you all are keeping me from my friend."[color] she said, opening the large scroll and placing it upright on the ground in front of her. She made some handseals and the scroll moved on its own, opening and extending the paper around Momo upwards. If one would look closely, they would see the word 'Jidanda' scattered around the scroll's thin paper.
"Deadly Spheres Strike!"
In one quick movement, Momo activated her jutsu, reaching out to touch a part of the paper that was surrounding her and simultaneously spinning on her feet. She would pick up speed at a rapid rate until her form appeared to be something of a small twister. Seconds later, in quick puffs of smoke, small and giant Jidanda would be flung out around her at all sides, moving at incredible speeds and crushing whatever bandit was unfortunate enough to be in its path.
When all of the Jidanda were used up, Momo halted the flow of chakra into the scroll and slowly started to stop her rotation. Without looking too much around her, she would pick up her giant scroll and start to run towards her comrade a few meters away.
It took a few moments for Sakuya to right herself, and as she tried to stand, she cursed as the burning in her eyes became too much. She rubbed her eyes and a shrill cry tore from her throat as she couldn't figure out why her eyes felt like they were melting in their sockets. Her face contorting in anger, she tried to stand, but one of her legs seemed to not be working as well.
"You stupid girl!! What did you do to me!?" she screamed, aiming them at Mochizuki.
Mochizuki herself still lay on the ground, trying to recover from the sheer blunt trauma she'd taken. Her eyes hurt from the kick to the googles, but she knew it was better to take that pain rather than the gas. Sakuya seemed to be under heavy influence from her poisons, the only thing that had gone right, though she probably had enough chakra to do that weird movement thing. Mochizuki almost whimpered at the thought of getting kicked again.
She held her blowgun up again from where she laid, no chakra involved, and fired 3 more shots at Sakuya's other limbs. Her ribs hurt after each shot, she wondered if she'd broken any. If she'd used Wind Style: Breath of God, she'd probably not be able to fire more than one.
"I only clipped your wings."
As Momo approached Mochizuki, she returned her scroll to its latch on her belt, crouching and quickly aiding her friend. She sat the girl up and swung one of her arms over her shoulder and helped her get to her feet. She looked pretty hurt.
"You're alright." Momo told her, reassuringly. "Hardly a scratch on you."
"Do we still get to climb trees?"
Looking around, she spotted Sakuya who seemed to be writing in pain on the ground as well as a few bandits who were moaning in pain. Internally, Momo sighed. This whole situation had been unexpected. They needed to figure out what to do next in regards to the mission, but they couldn't do it here. They needed to retreat into the forest where there was at least some cover.
"Yes we do, come on. Momo said, a hint of amusement in her tone at the girl's question. Keeping a firm grip on Mochizuki's waist and the arm over her shoulders, Momo started to make quick work of heading across the border. It would likely be dangerous if they were spotted by other ninja who meant them harm, but at this point, it was the only option.
Mochizuki was glad for the support, dazed still from the kicks, but as they moved, she jerked a little.
"Wait. Kazekage would be mad if we leave our client for dead. We should prooobably bring her with us. I can give an antidote for her limbs, but her eyes will probably be hurting for a while.... Was that a bad thing?"
Mochizuki's normal flightiness wasn't completely without thought. Sakuya probably wouldn't be a problem blind, and if she ambushed them herself at the border, she probably didn't have any further reinforcements further in.
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Umichi raised an eyebrow as her shot was spun away. She didn't expect much from a shot like that anyways, she'd need more water than that to really do damage. The humidity continued to raise around her as her tessen pulled more in. The waves on the brooks became uneven, pointing towards her.
"Defy the gods... I like that."
As the woman raised her staff, Umichi withdrew her tessen, touching the water jug once again. They stood 5 meters apart. Both moved in step as the woman slammed the ground with her staff, and Umichi made a 'iai' like motion with her tessen, 'unsheathing' the rest of the water she carried out of it's jug, combining with the water in the atmosphere, creating an arc of water of the same size as Umichi slamming forward at high pressure. The water was thickest at the center, and was continually airborn. Umichi prefered keeping the water she controlled that way.
Umichi didn't know the technique, but her defense was fairly straight forward. She was going to make a shield of water, and ram it into whatever technique her opponent threw at her. If it was solid, it'd hit the force of the rising water, and at least be sent upward. If it wasn't, it would still hit the water. If it was energy based, it would probably diffuse or refract in the water. In any case, unless it matched the water itself, the woman would have to deal with the water slamming into her. It was all of Umichi's current supply as well. It was never the amount of water Umichi used however, it was the high pressures she launched all water at.
Umichi stopped as she felt the chakra in the air around her, and saw the shining. It wasn't a normal person. Well.... she did need some warm up before she slayed a god she supposed. Her gentle smile turned to a wicked slasher grin. Today was the only day Umichi could be herself, completely without facade, and she reveled in it.
"Aw, the poor woman want's to play. Well, if I can't make it ugly, I'll make it beautiful crimson. Curse the god's that put you in this position: Fukurokuju* curses you, and Bishamonten** smiles on me."
As she spoke, she tapped her water jug with the tessen, and pointed at the center of the glow.
Water Release: Fang of Orochi
A stream of water that could punch through a tree shot out of her jug at the woman.
She hadn't gathered much water at all, but counted on the element of speed to start off the engagement. Umichi was limited as a water user in that she couldn't make her own, but was talented in how well she used it, and the speed her tessens worked. She left her green tessen in her sash, she'd rather not get too rough.
The humidity around them began to increase dramatically.
*Kami of Longevity, more or less has deathnote **Kami of War, fortune of the warrior.
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