Saturday, February 25, 2006

Bizarre Love Triangle, Chapter 8!!!!
New character! His name is Uragirimono Akuihebi... that means "Traitor" and "Spiteful Snake" respectively. Anyways, enjoy! He's basically a traitorous, spiteful snake! lopple

Chapter 8

“Good morning, Moroi-kun.” Reikoku said, smiling at his pupil in the candlelit, dim room, “I’m glad you decided to join me today.” He ruffled Moroi’s hair, as he often did. The teen grinned and laughed quietly, glad she was getting trained. He made a little explanation not to go easy on him; to treat him as if he were an enemy. Of course, the idea was out of the question for Moroi. She was too fond of her sensei to do anything like that.

“Come at me as you like. You may attack me first.” Reikoku grinned at his student, noticing ‘his’ hesitance, “go ahead; do whatever you wish. We’re in a no rules spar, Moroi-kun.” Moroi nodded, noticing how dimly lit the room was; no light aside from the candles. In the blink of an eye, her hand darted to her needle holster, flicking out five senbon with bells attached. Reikoku was about to move, when he saw the needles weren’t meant for him. The hit each candle dead center, flipping them over onto the other end of the wick, thus snuffing them out.

Moroi had the best advantage in the dark; she had superior night vision. Smiling, she threw several more senbon needles around the room, each attached with wires and bells. Then, she used her chakra to climb up onto the ceiling. From what she could tell, her sensei couldn’t tell what was going on. Glad she might be impressing him, she rang one of the bells on the other side of the room.

Her sensei had acted as she’d expected; the bell he’d given her to keep her from sneaking up on him was being used to her advantage. Then, she plugged her ears with… well, ear plugs, and began to shake the wires violently. The result was a cacophony of sound, the bells noises nearly deafening; she could hear them clearly through the plugs. Reikoku looked a little disoriented, and Moroi seized her chance.

“Kurae!” Moroi shouted, the word meaning “eat this!” roughly. She dove down from the room and slashed at her sensei’s arms with recently grown claws. Then, once she landed, she rocketed across the room, using her chakra to transfix herself onto the wall. Then, Reikoku vanished, replaced by a stump. Moroi was confused; where had the stump come from? It wasn’t like there was any wood within the building for him to switch places with.

“He must’ve used Henge no Jutsu, the Art of Transformation.” Moroi contemplated, moving towards the log. She poked it, alarmed when it turned into a puddle of water. Reikoku appeared from behind her and pinned her to the ground. Then, the candles relit, and the training seemed to be over. Moroi looked up at her sensei, surprised slightly; he was a lot quicker than she’d seen.

“Good job, Moroi-kun… you got some good attacks in.” Reikoku grinned, gesturing to his scratched arms, “but you were holding back. Still… I think this training has served a purpose. I believe I’ve found a new apprentice.” He grinned wide at the happy expression on Moroi’s face. However, he still pinned his student down; he knew Moroi would’ve given him a death-grip hug if ‘he’ could move.

“So, I’m going to teach you everything I know.” Reikoku smiled, unpinning his student, “however… there’s a dangerous shinobi… my first apprentice.” Moroi nodded, holding off her hug for the moment. He explained that his last apprentice wasn’t so willing to take on the idea of killing the kage, so he’d left as a refugee for Konoha. It seemed he was now a member of the ANBU squad.

And his name was--

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“Uragirimono Akuihebi.” Tsunade said, calling in the ANBU captain, who had appeared as soon as his name was called, “your old master has come for me in Konoha. If anything, you should know how to stop him.” The shinobi nodded, his snake-modeled mask half covered by thick, black hair that went down past his shoulders. He was wearing the traditional ANBU attire, and looked dangerous altogether.

“Yes, Hokage-sama; I know all his jutsu. I heard he travels with talented shinobi, however… I may need a big team for this mission.” Tsunade paused for a moment, thinking of both sides of the problem. One n hand, many people could be killed. However, if she was killed, the morale of the city would lower drastically; it had already lowered a lot when Sandaime had died.

“Fine. But if possible, take them alive. I heard he has young genin as well.” Tsunade said, after weighing the issues for a moment. The shinobi nodded, a faint smirk playing on his face behind the mask as he vanished. This was what he’d expected; once his sensei came to Konoha, everything would fall into place. The Hokage would tragically be killed, and he would rise up to rule the fire nation.

“It’s almost as if nothing bad can happen to me.” The shinobi mused, his smile growing wider as he removed his mask in the safety of his home. He was pale, and had snake-like eyes; they were red, like Rei’s, but they held absolutely no human quality. No matter how could Rei’s eyes were, there was still warmth lying beneath. This shinobi’s were like still, cold blood.

If there's any really bad guy, it's Akuihebi. He's one bad mamma-jamma. lol, read and review, please!
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