Starring:
Meruin, Kenta, Daichi, Yoshimitsu, Maia
Date: April 22nd, 2010
Summary:
N/A
"Valiance"
Fort Kyuusen
The day was bright in the land. The air was newly awakened, blowing about the area in lazy gusts, carrying the scent and feel of the recent rains. Birds sang their songs to the midmorning sun, and the smaller animals could occasionally be seen drinking water from a large puddle. The forest is vibrant in its activity, lush in its foliage, and charitous with its shadows.
Crouching inside of one of the tree's canopies was a seven year old. The small boy looked out of the shadows at the road, his blinks slow, like a lazing lizards. He scratched at his cheek once before lowering it, silently scolding himself for not keeping still. He had sat there for a while and had not yet seen what he was waiting for. He'd found this to be an ideal spot for waiting for his prey, as he was looking at the turn in the road which would lead down to the Hananosei Lake. It attracted many who needed to rest.
Yoshimitsu takes one last look at the missive in his hand before setting it ablaze and return his focus back on his target. Although a mixed feelings pervade his consciencous the armored genin takes a small ,but deep breath to steady his nerves before and fading into the few shadows and going completely still. This way even if seen, most passerbyers would right him off as a odd yet life like statue of a demon warrior. And for those that linger to close, will recieve a quick knock out shot before being dragged secreted away.
Kenta isn't so sure about this. When he got word that a message was sent from another tenjin clan from the land of grass for him specificly, he was thrilled. When he find out he had to pick it up at Fort Kyuusen however he had his doubts. Kenta walks along one of the roads winding along the hills and hardwood forests. Kenta didn't like the idea that no one from his team was able to come with him, but this little trip shouldn't take long. Get to the fort, get the message, get back to Kumogakure. Easy, yes?
Daichi before he was able to meet up with his mentor and teammates was called away on an urgent mission. He was sent to the land of Grass with an important package. He had finished his misson quickly as he always does, it was a simple delivery mission. Daichi having finished, hurries back to Konoha at a break neck pace. Flying through the winding road Daichi can't help but feel a bit uneasy, however he concentrated on returning to the village. Daichi flew by carring a wind with him. "I can't believe they'd spring this on me at the last second, must've been very important." Daichi's headbanded reflected the sun's light as he sped down the road.
Meruin's eyes narrowed marginally as a forehead protector glinted in the sun's light, and the quickly examined it. A few seconds of scrutinization showed that it was Kumogakuran. The boy bit his lip a bit in slight trepidation for the unsease seemed to melt away and what took its place was a cold detachment. He looked at Kenta - Or rather looked through him - and noticed that he was one that he'd recognized. Well, that truly made no difference, anyways; his job was still to dispatch him.
The silk clothing around his arms unwound slowly and dark metal glinted. He hoped for a quick, silent, and efficient kill as the shuriken were let loose to fly through the air towards the Kumogakuran ninja.
The momment Daichi cuts across his path Yoshimitsu goes even more stiff before tracking the genin with his eyes. When he is assured that what he see is truly his target, yoshimitsu draws his sword silently before drawing ,and throwing a set of kunai at the back of his legs. Hopefully, slowling him down. 'Gomenasai, but this must be done' He thinks and gives a silent prayer.
Kenta perks his head up, did he hear the swish of something being thrown? Kenta shakes his head, until a shuriken slices across an arm causing him to yelp and almost instantly start hand signs. Is it fast enough? The other shuriken in the volley smack into the side of his shoulder and head throwing the body against a tree pinning it there. Kenta's face explodes outward with straw and fabric, showing a replacement technique in the works. Kenta, now out of harms way for a few seconds behind the same tree, looks at the angle of the attack. He figures his assailant is someplace in cover across the trail. Checking his injuries he mumbles, "Great…" and pulls out a set of kunai blades out of his duster. He would fire them off, but at what? He can't see his target right now. He's not skilled enough to really find the target or skilled enough to aim if he did find the target. Kenta makes a hand sign and hopes for the best while gathering his chakra. He's good at that and Kenta knows he'll need that.
Daichi hears a strange whisping noise as he runs along the path. He feels the shuriken slice his legs and comes to an abrupt stop as he turns around and sees a nin standing there looking as if he had just finished praying. Daichi examines his legs as it appears no extreme damage was done, just some tissue damage. Daichi glares at the man with a grin "I don't have time for this…" Daichi reaches into his pouch and pulls out a senbon. he begins playing with it by tossing it in the air. This was done to create tension and atticipation. Daichi begins concentrating chakra to the soles of his feet as he toys with the senbon, his back to the enemy now Daichi abruptly swilves on his right leg and launches the senbon about 5in off to the right of the man's right shoulder, after which he vanishes. He would reappear to the right of the man before the senbon would reach him and fires his right leg into the man's solarplex upon executing his attack Daichi catches the senbon with his left hand and stabs at the man's back. Finally bringing his assault to an end Daichi delivers a roundhouse kick with his left leg, spining off his right leg as he does so.
Meruin tilted his head slightly in a motion akin to avian curiosity. A shame; he'd missed the kill shot. The small boy watched briefly as the Kumogakure ninja looked in his general direction, and from what he could tell, if he'd had to guess, he could say that Kenta was preparing for battle. He turned and leaped through the treeline, striving for silence as he swiftly relocated himself. Once at another vantage point, a moment or two later, the silk on his sleeves unwound even further and another duo of shuriken streaked through the air towards Kenta.
Yoshimitsu eyes narrow as the senbon bounces useless off his armor. "I—" He is cut off and forced to raise his hand to guard against the senbon shot at him before following up with his free hand to unsheath his sword and block the second shot. "…Good, at least this won't be too one sided. On your guard!" He yells before launching a round house kick in return, then spinning around for a slash as he goes. If one takes notice of hte situation, Yoshimitsu appears to be leading him further away from his village path and closer to kenta's and meruin's location.
Kenta is ready for it this time and sees the glint of metal and movement of leaves in the trees even with all the skill his opponent is putting into not being seen. Kenta still picks up on the movement and leaps out of the way, right in the way of the other blade which nails him square in the chest. Kenta explodes in a puff of smoke and a popping sound. The real Kenta, now up in the tree, leaps out of it landing lightly on the ground. He snorts and says, "Found you, whoever you are. I'm Tenjin Kenta of kumogakure and you're seriously wasting my time." He pulls a set of kunai out and throws one, then the other. The first looks normal, a distraction for the second most likely. That one however, has a smoking explosive tag attached to it. "So get down here before I put you down!" Miss or hit, this will make a big boom that could be heard all around the area.
Daichi checks his legs as they seem to be reacting to the cuts from earler. The loss of blood could pose a problem later on in the battle. He wanted to end this quick but it seems he'll have to put more effort into this fight. Using some stored herbs Daichi tends to his cuts and wraps them up. He used a special numbing herb to keep the pain from affecting his performance afterward Daichi stands and begins hoping on his feet to get his blood flowing. Looking at the armored man Daichi grins and says "Well that armor looks like it will be an issue. Nevertheless I have a solution." Daichi impatiently awaits the man's next attack.
Meruin made no overt motion betraying his brief frustration at having missed again, and this time giving Kenta enough time to see and close in on him a bit. He sweeps the Kumo nin with a cool glance as he talks, slightly apprehension betrayed only in the barest quiver of his legs as he crouches on the thick branch. And then the Kunai are thrown.
Immediately, he leaps aside and away from the first one, aiming for a certain branch that was the perfect height for him to counter. Luckily for him, it put him out of range for the following explosion; unfortunately, it made him overshoot his target and he sailed over it. Quickly, he shot out his arms and the strands of his clothing flung out and lathed onto the branch and he used it to swing himself around towards Kenta. He made a graceful arc through the air before he came down on the Kumo-nin with a viscious dance of clawed hands and feet.
Yoshimitsu snorts before raising his blade once more. He only pauses for a moment when he hears the nearby explosion going off before clearing it from his head and refocusing on daichi. 'Objective first, then investigation.' He thinks before charging at the gening and leaping into a rising knee to the chin. As falls he comes down with a vertical strike, followed by a spinning horizontal one aimed to push him further down the path.
Kenta grinds his teeth in surprise, "Hey…" he bounds away from the first swipe from the young kid, landing several feet away. "…I've…" as he ducks under the next swipe, missing his head by inches. "…seen you be fo….gack!", but the last and final one strikes Kenta dead on, only to explode in a puff of smoke and bang of sound. The claws did hit something solid though, they rip into Kenta's duster that flutters to the ground, now slightly ripped. Kenta is right behind it and says, "That was my good coat…" and comes at Meruin with a slice of a kunai blade and a round house with a leg. Taijutsu isn't his best skill, but Kenta isn't about to just this guy with all his explosive tags all at once.
Daichi checks his legs as they seem to be reacting to the cuts from earler. The loss of blood could pose a problem later on in the battle. He wanted to end this quick but it seems he'll have to put more effort into this fight. Using some stored herbs Daichi tends to his cuts and wraps them up. He used a special numbing herb to keep the pain from affecting his performance afterward Daichi stands and begins hoping on his feet to get his blood flowing. Looking at the armored man Daichi grins and says "Well that armor looks like it will be an issue. Nevertheless I have a solution." Dacihi impatiently awaits the man's next attack.
Meruin made no overt motion betraying his brief frustration at having missed again, and this time giving Kenta enough time to see and close in on him a bit. He sweeps the Kumo nin with a cool glance as he talks, slightly apprehension betrayed only in the barest quiver of his legs as he crouches on the thick branch. And then the Kunai are thrown.
Immediately, he leaps aside and away from the first one, aiming for a certain branch that was the perfect height for him to counter. Luckily for him, it put him out of range for the following explosion; unfortunately, it made him overshoot his target and he sailed over it. Quickly, he shot out his arms and the strands of his clothing flung out and lathed onto the branch and he used it to swing himself around towards Kenta. He made a graceful arc through the air before he came down on the Kumo-nin with a viscious dance of clawed hands and feet.
Yoshimitsu snorts before raising his blade once more. He only pauses for a moment when he hears the nearby explosion going off before clearing it from his head and refocusing on daichi. 'Objective first, then investigation.' He thinks before charging at the gening and leaping into a rising knee to the chin. As falls he comes down with a vertical strike, followed by a spinning horizontal one aimed to push him further down the path.
Kenta grinds his teeth in surprise, "Hey…" he bounds away from the first swipe from the young kid, landing several feet away. "…I've…" as he ducks under the next swipe, missing his head by inches. "…seen you be fo….gack!", but the last and final one strikes Kenta dead on, only to explode in a puff of smoke and bang of sound. The claws did hit something solid though, they rip into Kenta's duster that flutters to the ground, now slightly ripped. Kenta is right behind it and says, "That was my good coat…" and comes at Meruin with a slice of a kunai blade and a round house with a leg. Taijutsu isn't his best skill, but Kenta isn't about to just this guy with all his explosive tags all at once.
Daichi slides down the path as the last his pushes him back. He whipes his shin and takes an offensive stance. Tossing a senbon at the man's head Daichi rushes in with his rights arm coiled up at his side as he slides into the man he throws a heavy punch right into the center of the man's torso armor, Daichi would then follow up with a kick to the same spot. Daichi smirked as he contemplated the man's thoughts when he realized the difference between the two attacks. Daichi jumps back after kicking and watches the man's reaction to the attacks. He seems to be a bit out of breath.
Meruin leans backwards as the kunai blade slices through the air towards him, but the silk of his shirt parts and a thin line of blood is shown underneath. The sloppy roundhouse kick, however, is ducked under easily and the Okumo then drops down to hang on the branch he'd been on. Immediately, though, he used the motion to sling him upwards lashing out quickly with taloned hands. He continued this motion, falling down to the branch, swinging up and attacking from many directions as he went up, over, and down again.
Yoshimitsu grits his teeth as he rises his draws up his weapon too slow to stop the senbon from piercing his centerpiece. A change of tatics and build of his chakra to his feet also allows for the second strike to push it in further. Nonetheless, he manages to complete the technique and goes into a rapid spin that the deflects the blow. However, the spinning silver tornado doesn't stop there and instead seems to build up even more chakra as chakra is built up for his next attack. 'It's all or nothing now' He thinks as goes.
Kenta tries to move, but Meruin is too quick for the kumo-nin to react to. Claws sink into his shirt leaving lines of blood in their wake. Two nice claw marks across his chest. Kenta still body flickers off the branch and lands on the ground with a double step next to his coat, which he grabs. "Ok, that didn't work very well…" he says hissing through the pain and holding one hand to a wound to feel how deep the cuts are. He frowns and sweeps his coat on to gather his chakra, "Got to keep my head or he'll take it." Right now, he's focusing, his new technique takes a lot out of him when he's so low in chakra to begin with.
Daichi watches as the man concentrates and looks in the direction of some smoke. He thought he had heard something earlier but he wasn't sure until now. Daichi figured that he had better leave soon before things got too crazy. Daichi tends to the rest of his wounds as he watched the man closly before he would make a move. Daichi sighs and he administers ointment to his wounds. "Well I guess the warm ups are over?" Daichi smirks as he finishes tying the last bandage around his cuts and bruises.
Meruin hesitated as he landed on the limb, finding Kenta to be gone just after he'd landed another hit and not having expected that at all. 'Body flicker technique…?' He made quick sweeps of his surrounding area and found the Kumogakuran ninja getting himself ready to retaliate. The Okumo genin leaped to the ground in his direction before starting off at him. The clothing around his other arm unraveled itself and two shuriken were soon streaking through the air towards Kenta, as Meruin hoped fervently to keep on the pressure.
'Now!' Yoshimitsu yells in his head before picking up the speed and maneveuring quickly over towards daichi with his sword extend to swipe at his midsection. He quickly follows up with a leaping round house kick that if it would hit, would push him towards the edge of meruin and kenta's skirmage.
However, the after affects of both his signature attack as well as his internal injuries catch's up with him the moment he lands; causing him to stumble to a kneel and plant his sword in the ground. "Kuso….almost out of…time…." Yoshimitsu trails into silence as he finally glances up past daichi and sees the two others fighting nearby.
Kenta tries something fancy. He tries to knock the first blade out of the air but only manages to have it stab him square in the shoulder. Big ouchies. Kenta yells out in pain with the force of the hit sending him spinning around a few times and landing him on his hands and knees. He feels the next one coming in and just, disappears. The blade thunks into the ground harmlessly and the next second, Kenta appears next to Meruin. Normally, he's happy, but he's hurt and he's pissed. "Boom…" he just drops three exploding tags and disappears, heading into the trees. Daichi, and anyone else in the next country over, will hear this one.
Daichi's attention is divided when he hears a very large explosion comming from the direction of the prievious smoke he noted before. However than man was quick and attacked Daichi in a blur, Daichi barely dodged the attacks and backflips back away from the man and begins concentrating chakra. "This doesn/t look good, we should flee before this gets outta hand." Daichi perposed the idea to the man as he feared the explosions would cause a landslide. After he had charged up enough he decides that after he attacks this man he will check out the situation parallel to him and this man.
Kaboom! Maia was in the middle of discussing tactics with the rest of her team. Of course, Kenta wandered off to go do something, and she figured he'd be all right. Still, explosions are always ominous signs and she looks to the rest of the genin. "STAY HERE." she says firmly and resolutely as she takes a deep breath and focuses some chakra before starting to bounce from branch to branch like a little monkey as she makes her way to investigate.
Meruin let out a slightly strangled grunt and reached for Kenta, grasping at the air as the boy vanished. His jaw clenched and he crouched before leaping fully away, landing on a tree trunk to avoid the first blast. He jumped up and frontflipped, feeling the second blast warm his face, his hair getting whipped behind him as the second blast nearly caught him. Quickly, he leapt directly from another tree branch and upwards, easily avoiding the last explosion.
The seven year old sailed through the air, eyes closing in a moment of calm, allowing himself — forcing himself to relax. He needed to be stronger, to have a harder heart and cooler nerves. He needed surity. He needed experience. And then, he felt himself in limbo, as though gravity had no hold on him and he was in stasis. This was peace, surely. Nothing was but the present, and it was undisturbed.
Then he began to fall… a headfirst dive through the forest limbs. He took a quick deep breath and his eyes opened, face as calm and cold as it had been before. A killer's mask. 'There…' he thought to himself, as he continued his fall and he focused chakra to flow in his body. He was heading right towards Kenta…
Yoshimitsu quicly shakes his head before raising hesitantly to a stand and removing his chest armor. "I can not ,but you are welcome to try-gh….IF you can get past me." A hand ,already alit with glowing green chakra, is raised above the bruised area before being directed to repair the damage. His eyes however are kept unnervingly on daichi throughout the entire time; daring the other genin to try and make a move. From the corner of his eye he catches sight of a small figure in the distance falling earthward ,but already knows in his mind that it's too late to try anything. "Gomenasai…But my orders are clear…" The half armored genin stated before taking up his sword with his free hand and pointing it towards daichi.
Kenta shakes his head, "This is getting too intense!" His mind begins to surge with escape routes or patterns to use to avoid attacks instead of using them. It's not a natural order or battle plan, but Kenta will take it. To do that, he'll need chakra so he can escape. And lots of it. "Ok, let's see what you can do…" he says, powering up to the point his duster flutters around his body.
Dacihi shakes his head and sighs as he doesn't want to go on with this for too long. Daichi finishes concentrating chakra and plans his escape route be fore executing his plan. He launches a senbon at the man once again trying to lure his sword to the side. He then rushed in and to the right of the man in his blind spot attacks again with a heavy force. After which we does a sweep kick to trip the man up and make his way towards the the source of the explosion. Dacihi groans "I don't know who gave you those orders but they are going to be severely dissappointed."
Agile Maia is agile! And she's a rather speedy and nimble young woman as she rushes before she spies Meruin charging towards one of her wards. Oh great. There's a slight facepalm as she grumbles something under her breath before she shakes her head. She needs to get him out of there. And so, she starts bouncing around swiftly and stealthily, taking advantage of the foliage of the hardwood trees and the shadows nearby to mask her approach.
You paged Yoshimitsu with 'I'll let you know when I use a stun, so you can use stone hammer.'
'This has made too much noise… I will have to end this," thought Meruin, as he felt the poison begin to secrete from his taloned hands. His hair whipped behind him with the speed of his descent towards Kenta. He narrowed his eyes slightly as he approached, Maia going completely unnoticed by the intensive genin. '…Now…' was his calm thought before he pushed off of a tree near the ground and thrust himself directly at Kenta. He sent a bite towards Kenta's shoulder as he sailed over it, flipping so that he could make a secondary slash at the boy's back before rolling when he reached the other side to diffuse his speed, sliding backwards a bi in a crouch facing the Kumo nin. He then noticed Daichi approaching…
Unfortunatly Daichi gets his wish in the form of yoshimitsu deflecting the senbon with ease before having his shoulder muscles practically collapse under the second blow. Thankfully, he manages to use the momenteum to deftly leap out of the way of the second strike and onto the side of tree that he quickly glues himself too using his chakra. "…Not if I have anything to do about that he mutters before proceeding further up the tree and taking a stand on the closest branch. It is there that he focuses his healing talents in restoring his true sword arm so that he may complete his mission. Unfortunatly, when his target begins to head in the same direction towards meruin's group he is forced to cut the healing short and give chase through the tree tops.
Kenta pulls off a nice clone against the first strike. The claws dig into the clone which explodes in a poof of white smoke. Kenta is right behind it however, ready to run but the follow up of Meruin's hits the kumo-nin. He feels numb and starts to shiver as the poison works its way into his system. Kenta staggers backward and lands on his butt, almost blissfully unaware of what is going on around him. If ever there was a time he could use a dramatic rescue, now would be it.
Daichi's attacks have made their mark as he makes his way to the source of the explosions. He tapes up his wounds as he rushes through the brush. He had been able to occupy that man for the time being. "I swear today is just not my day…" Daichi takes out a flare stick and contmplates whether or not he should use it. "I'll save it for a desperate situation, I don't want to alert possible enemies of my location." Daichi's nose crinkles as the smell of smoke gets stronger. It's smell is pungent and daichi's eyes begin to water as he get closer. He remains on guard as he ducks behind a nearby bush.
Yowch. In the shadows of the forest, Maia watches the two genin battle it out. She's close enough to see what's going on, yet she's still hidden. She doesn't think the little psychopath has seen her yet and so she waits. She doesn't want to emasculate the poor boy by coming to his rescue so soon should he not need it. And so she just takes deep breaths as she stares at two duke it out.
Meruin looks to the fallen Kenta for a brief moment before looking back up to Daichi. His eyes narrowed as he did not immediately see the boy. 'A new target or is this a trap?' the boy thought to himself as he searched the forest with quick flicks of his eyes. They caught on movement. The sight of Yoshimitsu coming his way made a subtle tensing come to his arms and he managed to look even more uncaring, if that were possible. 'He's here? An ambuscade, then. I must dispatch this one before they over take me.' Webbing shot from the boy's fingertips and sped through the air towards Kenta, the poison laceing it caustic and burning to touch. He wanted to reduce the number of people able to fight against him, as he percieved the two newcomers that he noticed to be enemies. One from experience, the other by situational association.
Yoshimitsu pauses midleap at the same time daichi slides to a stop before reaffirming his stance on another tree and continuing to repair his other arm damaged arm. "Just…a little more." He mutters as he goes off the list of damage to his body. His eyes would narrow at the younger boy, and an apparent ally if his headband meant anything, as well as awakening a since of familiarity in his mind. This is quickly squashed in his view when another appears to intercept meruin's attack. "Kuso", he mutters lowly before and tenses in preperation for the leap down.
Kenta sees the webbing coming at him, but his mind is too fried right now to care. It all feels like a haze to him as he sits slumped on the ground. Kenta sees Meruin standing over him…sorta. He is just a kid afterall. Meruin points fingertips at Kenta and the kumo-nin sees the strands fire out at him, which Kenta is helpless to avoid. The only thing Kenta can do right now is prey for a quick death, or a hero can come and save him at the last second.
Daichi waits in the brush for the smoke to clear as he rubs his eyes clear of water. Daichi looks up and sees a Kumo nin on the ground heavily injured it looks like. Daichi wonders if it was him who had been responsibel for all the explosions. Daichi contemplates assisting the nin as his mother had always helped anyone who needed medical treatment. Daichi had resolved to assist the Kumo ninja and as he gets up to do so the man is attacked. However the attacks seemed to have been interrupted. Dacihi decides that assitance may not be nessisary as the Kumo nin appeared to have an ally. He didn't get a good look at the person who attacked the Kumo nin but he decided not to interrupt this battle until he finished his own. Daichi refocuses his attention on the man from before. Locating the man in a tree Daichi launches two shuriken at him in an attempt to catch him offguard why he healed himself.
Spiderkid. Spiderkid. Does whatever a spiderkid does?
Not if she has something to say about it. Now Maia, being the older, more experienced and the one in charge just cannot watch idly as she sees one of her charges about to feel the pain of the sticky spiderweb. She knows it sucks as she's experienced it before. And considering all the attention of the young Kiri nin is focused on her ward, she jumps in and seemingly appears from nowhere.
"I don't think so." she says with a bright cheery smile. She seems a bit more confident now as she takes a deep breath and performs several quick handseals at blazing speeds.
"Sound Release: Sonic Barrier" she says softly as the wisps bounce off a seemingly invisible barrier of force surrounding her. Quickly she continues another set of handseals as she looks back towards the two opponents before checking on the others. Oh dear, there's another injured boy.
"You all right?" she asks with more than a bit of concern apparent in her voice. "It's okay, nee-chan is here." she says with a warm smile. There's a bright gleaming Kumogakure forehead protector wrapped around her forearm as she looks back towards the two.
"Not you again? You're rather a persistent one aren't you?" she looks cautiously towards Yoshimitsu and purses her lips, remaining on the defensive for now as she just stares at Meruin waiting for his response. "Can you just like, ya know, go away please? You're a little kid and fighting like this isn't right." she says matter of factly once more.
"And you.." she says, looking towards Yoshimitsu. "It's not Setsubon! And damnit, I don't have any beans to throw at you." she grumps a little, making a cute little sadpout as she shakes her head and glares back towards the psychopathic little seven year old. Of course, little FYI, Setsubon is a Japanese festival where you throw beans at masked people representing demons. The more your know! RAINBOW
Meruin leaps backwards as Maia appears in front of him and defended the downed ninja from him. He tilted his head, seeming both unaffected and unamused by her words. Internally, however, he was struggling to keep his thoughts in order and efficient. A chuunin now, and she seemed to be exponentially stronger than when he'd last fought with her. He spared no further thought and instead pointed his blank gaze at the woman. Spiders exploded from him in an obscene amount, traveling swiftly to attack both her and those she sought to protect. The spiders seemed uninterested in Yoshimitsu, as Maia's attitude towards him perplexed him a bit. He was weighing the risk between attacking a potential ally and leaving an enemy unharmed.
Yoshimitsu rolls his shoulder to make sure everything is all patched up before leaping down next to meruin. Along the way he ends up getting cut up by the shuriken abit despite his attempt to ward them off. "…Looks like we're both in the same predictment, eh comerade?" He asks without drawing his attention away from the opposing trio. He does a quick one armed salute with his sword in hand and says, "Shisei Meiari ,so let us see……..What?" He asks, momentarily shaken off by maia's speech. He quickly shakes his head, refirms his stance, and building up chakra.
Well, at least Kenta can dodge some of this stuff. Even in his weakened condition, he moves quickly, blurring back to avoid one line of the spider swarm and then blurs again to appear high up on a tree branch out of the swarm's imidiate reach. He grabs a hold of the tree for balance, he hasn't gotten tree walking down yet. That's a loss for Kenta. He can learn these advanced techniques but when it comes to the basics, he's found wanting. Kenta's breaths come quickly and he's sweating greatly. Even he knows he can't keep this up forever. He looks down at Maia and says, "Thank you, Nee-chan. This kid isn't your average one, but you know that I guess." Kenta slips back into the foliage, trying to find a place to hide while blinking about to keep hidden, or at least try to.
Daichi listens as a woman appears on the scene. She seemed to have a relationship with this Kumo nin as he refered to her as "Nee-san". As Daichi sees that his shurikens made contact with the man from before but as he prepared for a follow up attack he is attacked by a spider swarm. They tore away at his flesh Daichi jumped into a tree to get the spiders off of him but it seems they were in the trees too. He jumps out of the trees and on to the road as he tries to scratch the remaining spiders off. He immediately tened to the bites as the spiders could have been venomous. Knelling Daichi sees a strange spider-like child. "Oh great the spiders are getting bigger." He says too himself.
EWWWWW! Spiders! Maia /hates/ spiders. They're gross and wriggly and bitey and have beady little eyes. Still, she doesn't squeal as she resists the urge to and just lets out a yelp. At least that's what it looks like as she flails her arms about as the various spiders start to swarm all over her. It looks like she was overwhelmed, but then there's a poof of white smoke as it was just a clone.
Still, even as she watched her clone get overwhelmed by the creepy crawlies, she does have an urge to squeal. That's a bad thing. A very bad thing usually as she performs another quick set of handseals. The roar of the tiger. The cry of a bird.
At the last seal, she whispers softly. "Sound Release: Resounding Songbird's Cry"
She opens her mouth and lets out a cry much like that of a hawk or a raptor with a mixture of falsetto in her voice. It's the repressed squeal she has been holding in. Still, for those who listen in (assuming they don't want to close cover their ears from the ear-piercing cry), it sounds something like, "GROSS!" Surely for miles around, dogs and cats will be very sore with the young kunoichi. Her voice is also in the subsonics as the concussive force from her cry goes straight towards Meruin like some sort of laserbeam.
Meruin attempted to avoid the strong blasts of sound but in entirely the wrong way. He ended up getting blasted by the scream, sending him flying backwards over a bush before he was assaulted again with renewed fervor from the attack. He managed to get his feet behind him after the end of the attack and he hit the tree in a crouch and let himself slump down to the ground. "Not good…" he murmured, his mask of cold calm shifting slightly to reveal a bit of naked fear and trepidation before it slipped back over his face, reigned in by habit, control, and a totally different type of fear.
He was hurt and a bit badly for such a short amount of time since last he was hit. But he brought himself to a standing position, feeling slightly unsteady. He had the heartiness of a chuunin; he could shake this off, but he did not trust his body not to stumble without taking a second or two to recuperate. As such, the clothing about his torso dampened slightly with caustic poison and that whipped out away from him, it was followed by a burst of more spider silk in huge amounts, the strands lashing out at the other two. His eyes suddenly widened marginally, 'Where is the first Kumogakure ninja…?"
Yoshimitsu digs out the last shuriken before having to cover his ears from the splitting shriek of a woman lets out. "Geez! They aren't that gross." He states as politely as possible before falling back a few steps too see how Meruin was holding up. 'He's wavering…*headshakes*.."Not good" He mumbles before waiting for meruin to stop moving long enough to gesture for meruin to hold still so he could analyze the damage and begin repairing as much damage as possible.
Kenta covers his own ears and shivers. He keeps his mouth shut, as he doesn't want to get seen by Meruin. At this point, he does not want to get into the fight anymore. So he takes off, bouncing from branch to branch slowly in the trees to keep under cover. He knows Maia can handle these guys ok, but Kenta is a little outclassed, as the battle showed him.
Daichi winces as the acid like substance as it burns away at his skin. "I can't go oh like this…" Dacihi sighs as his wounds have nearly multiplied. He decides that the spider guy as to be stopped as the man wasn't attacking him at the time. With a stumble Daihi stands up and shuffles a bit as he tries to take a couple steps. With a burst of speed he dashed at the spider infant and with both his arms coilded up in his sides Daichi braces himself with a sound stance and pivets on his lead foot as he trusts both hands into the child simultaneously to do some serious internal damage.
Gah! Flail flail! What is it with this little kid! Annoyed Maia is annoyed. Very much annoyed. She hates the little kids techniques, if it isn't spiders, it's wisps of poisons. Once again, she starts flailing about, screeching until there's a white poof of smoke as the wisps hit nothing but yet another clone. Crafty Maia is crafty after all.
So where did she go? She started flanking the kiri genin until she was not too far away as she calls out to Daichi. "RUN!" she says watching the Konoha-nin's form and just shakes her head. There's another soft sigh as she starts to sing softly.
Maybe the little boy needs a lullaby? And so she sings softly, a heart wrenching melody that will hopefully tug at his heartstrings (assuming he has any). She takes a deep breath and continues to sing a sweet little lullaby. Things will start to change around him for a few moments. Back to another place. Back to another time. Images flash as the genjutsu wraps around him, taking him back to a moment of sadness to where he will hopefully be overcome by grief and sadness to not be able to do anything about it.
Meruin startles a bit at the feel of Yoshimitsu healing him. It wasn't much compared to the damage he'd taken, but every bit helps and he was definately not going to complain, though this confused him as to where the Kiri-nin stood. But then Daichi rushed at him and he immediately rose to the challenge, going forward to the Konoha ninja. As the fists came at him, the seven year old punched both on the inside of the elbow, crossing them to divert their potential for damage. Swiftly, he spun, performing a roundhouse kick to Daichi's temple, hitting with just enough force to knock him out. He frowned internally; Winning anything through pure luck irked him, and that strike was in no way intentional.
Then, suddenly, he stopped as a memory flashed through his mind. It was one of pure bliss; He was in the rice paddy fields of Kirigakure, running through the sun-bathed area. He was three.
His body began to shake with violent tremors as he searched his mind for this memory and came up blank. It had never happened…
Caught between finishing the job and carrying out his mission or snapping meruin back to attention so that they could finish them together, Yoshimitsu goes with the only thing avaible to him. He taps meruin with enough force to the cranium to avoid physical damage ,but still wake him from his stupor. "No time dreams young one", He says with an eiree calm before taking a moment to regard those that remain….then turn away to try and patchup meruin the best way he can before they take off back for the homefront.
OH jeebus! The other kid has been knocked out. There's a frownie face forming on her features as she rushes on over, picking him up in a fireman's scoop. She looks towards the masked nin then the down kiri-nin. She didn't do half-bad! Color her surprised. She was expecting to be slaughtered. Maybe all that extra training paid off! With a bit more confidence, Maia grabs a smokebomb from her pocket and throws it down, hoping to escape unhindered with the Konoha-nin in tow. This will be an interesting one to explain…
Meruin jumped as he was brought out of his stupor by Yoshimitsu. His eyes focused suddenly, reflecting the light like broken glass as he saw Maia jump down and scoop up Daichi. He covered his eyes with his arm as the smoke exploded outwards, but he quickly lowered them, searching through it for the fleeing ninja. Now, his mask of calm slipped completely and panic showed fresh on his face. "No…!" he said forcefully; he could not go home and report complete failure. "No…" he whispered as he contined sear— There. He noticed an unnatural shift in the smoke and a dim figure beyond it.
There was still time, still hope to make a kill. Maia was noticably fatigued, he could see it. They could not be allowed to escape He reached out a desperate hand in their direction, spiders flooding from him towards them. From the skin of him arm sped a huge swathe of spider silk, thick and encumbering, and meant to capture and hold the fleeing chuunin.
"Rookie Noooo!", Yoshimitsu yells before throwing himself in the way of the first attack. Unfortunatly the bites from the spiders stream up his arm and through his armory is too much ,and forces him too fall back onto his back as he tries knock as many of them off as he can. "Damnit kid will stop and think for a moment!", He cries out in a panic after removing the last spider and rising back to his feet. Its at this point that he would walk up to meruin and try to grab him by the hem of his shirt and lift him up. "We're barely holding our own out here and there's.." He cuts himself off incase the others are listening in. "I know you this is a hard pill to swallow ,but acting like this won't only risk drawing uneeded attention ,but could end up with both of us dead!…Don't you understand that.", He states with a cold fury before letting the boy dropped down and moving past him. "…..I won't abandon you ,but please see reason."
Damnit, she was found! Still, Maia isn't the type to ever leave her back to an enemy. Through the smoke, her eyes widen as she sees the other nin take the hit for her, but Meruin was still going. She opens her mouth and forms the handseals, quickly blasting away the first set of webbing away with a powerful concussive force before the rest harmlessly touches another shield of sound. With that, she quickens her pace and disappears into the forest with the Konoha-nin. This was a troubling situation afterall. The Raikage and Hokage would need to know..
Meruin sat at Yoshi's feet, staring bereftly at the forest where Maia had vanished with Daichi through the fading vestiges of the thick smoke. He made a small noise in the back of his throat and he clenched his jaw tightly. Abruptly, he seemed the small seven year old he truly was, trying to live life in a world of hostile giants. His breathing began to quicken and shallow.
Yoshimitsu gives meruin a few minutes to calm down before he sighs and takes one last look to try and pierce through the veil of smoke before walking off to collect his chest piece. When he returns he would drop it down next to him as he falls into a perfect indain stance. "We don't have much time before they probably send someone out here to investigate. So let's see to those wounds of yours and—GRAH!..*winces*..And see, about getting you fixed up", He finishes resolutely as he removes the guantlet and pauldrons to take a closer look at the damage his spiders deal.
Despite his own being greater then the young okumo, yoshimitsu steal forces himself to form the correct hand signs and have his hands alight with green chakra. The same which he uses to try and heal meruin.
Meruin was startled awake — He seemed to be doing that a lot, lately — by Yoshimitsu's healing. He tensed under his touch, alarm in his face. The alarm dulled and died down afterwards when no harm came to him despite him being in a rare completely vulnerable position. He looked at Yoshimitsu with puzzlement; puzzlement that was soon slipped underneath the genin's usual facade of calm. He stood abruptly, "I am hale. Tend to yourself so we may depart."
Yoshimitsu smirks behind his masks and whispers something about "As much as can be expected" before turning his healing powers on his injuried arm. Carefully knitting back together damage tissues along it. "Just give me a few minutes then ,and….gomenasai", He says with his eyes downcast.
After waiting a time, simply standing on guard, Meruin looked back and gave a glance to Yoshimitsu. It was impossible to see through the armor to know exactly what wounds still lay underneath, but it was obvious by the way that the Kiri nin held himself that it wasn't as painful sitting up straight. "It is time," said the seven year old who then began to walk away through the forest, parallel to the road leading to Kyuusen. His spiders rushed back to him from the whole of his surrounding area as well. He has orders to return home and prepare for a confrontation. He was assuming the same applied to Yoshimitsu.
