A Broken Family [Hasha]

[KEITH]

Within Tsubomi’s soul, I would be able to feel the ill-intentions going through her, causing her chakra to develop negative energy, which in turn would eventually make her an even Kunoichi. Well, that was if she had continued to give into the feeling long enough. Everyone seems to think that we manipulate chakra, and that it was a one-sided relationship. If only the poor fools had known the truth about chakra and how it worked. 

I had spent many years learning about chakra and how to utilize it in the most profound way, which lead to acquiring one of the largest chakra pools within the world. I probably had the second largest, with the one possessing much more chakra than me being Kouketsu, who may have been the only other one who could have known about the true nature of chakra. I could feel her chakra; it was so potent that I could practically taste it. I wanted her to give into the feeling even more, for her to get angrier, hate more, fear more. 

“The only reason why your father and sisters blood stained my hands is because they dared to stain their hands with my mother’s blood.” 

I remained calm, and I had a good grasp on my self-awareness, just in case the Kunoichi had planned on doing something sneaky or what not. Though I felt a strong sensation of her wanting to attack, all I could do was hope that she had the skills to back it up. 

“If you wish to seek vengeance—come at me now. When you attack, make sure you put everything you got into it, and make sure you will end the stigma that burdens the Menboku. If you can’t do that, you will just be another failure of the clan who has fallen to me, and just another stigma of the clan.”

[~Rogue~]

“If you wish to seek vengeance—come at me now. When you attack, make sure you put everything you got into it, and make sure you will end the stigma that burdens the Menboku. If you can’t do that, you will just be another failure of the clan who has fallen to me, and just another stigma of the clan.”

His words burned. Every letter made Tsubomi's skin boil, every inch of her wanted to cut him down. She could envision it, but she wavered when she was faced with the possibility of failure. This was her downfall. Whenever she faced an object that seemed unmovable, she would give up without even attempting. Why try when you know you will fail? Why die when you can flee now and live. How can this man claim he will do her and her family know harm but then immediately invite her to try killing him. Was he as mad as his history made him seem?

 Fear...Rage... These feelings blocked out her concerns. No longer did she think of her family who waited for her within the safe walls of Kusagakure. No longer was her breath shaken or panicked. In a wave of emotional dispute, all signs of hesitation erased itself from Tsubomi, and she found herself drawing her Jian. Her breathing had relaxed, and her hands were now steady. She still feared death, and she still hated this man, but these feelings molded into something else. It was a pit of darkness and murderous intent, the likes Tsubomi had never felt before.

"Fine..."

 Without any more words or thoughts, Tsubomi quickly sprinted towards the man with her blade drawn. She would use everything she had, and even if Yokumaru only walked away with a scar, he would remember her. Oh yes, he will remember this day. As she rushed ahead the girl kept her body loose and free of tension.

 She had always excelled at her perfect form in taijutsu, and her refined skill in ninjutsu, now was the time to put them to the test. This was the fight of her life after all. Closing this small distance wouldn't take her long and soon she would be raising her blade slightly, as she would swing hit across the man's stomach, hoping to disembowel him.

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Just gonna go ahead and jump into this

[KEITH]

It appeared that my words had gotten to the young kunoichi, and it caused her to boldly charge toward me with her jian. I wondered what she was going to do; hopefully she wasn’t thinking that a frontal attack was enough to subdue me. She may have covered the distance between the two of us fairly fast, but it hadn’t been anything that I could keep up with and react to. By the time she was within striking range of me, before her blade would even come close to me, the steel would begin to drip from the handle. 

An intense heat had hit the blade, and subsequently, her. I was submerged within the chakra cloak of the Yonbi, before her blade would have even reached me, it wouldn’t have existed anymore. It was bad for her to be this close to me, the heat emitted from my body was so extreme that it could have gotten to her head so fast she would have fainted, or begun to see hallucinations. If she didn’t do anything quick, she would be my next victim.

[~Rogue~]

Before her blade could reach Yokumaru's entrails, it was obliterated. Soon after, a debilitating heat poured out from the man causing the kunoichi to falter slightly in her graceful attack. Suddenly the man was covered in a thick fiery cloak, which was no doubt the source of the strange heat from before. What was this? A jutsu? If so it was unlike anything Tsubomi had ever faced, yet her expression remained indignant. She showed no signs of the fear and rage that mixed fiendishly in her heart. Her constant emotions had pooled an unexpected strength form within the girl and had numbed her pain and shock. She was now swimming in the darkness caused by this man, swimming in her trauma.

As Tsubomi withdrew a few feet to escape the heat of the man's cloak, she began to form hand seals( 3 in total) and inhaled deeply. Soon a large blast of wind was released from her mouth, in an effort to blow away her opponent*. She didn't expect jutsu like this to defeat a man of Yokumaru's calibur, so she quickly dove to her left hand into her satchel, grabbed a hold of a few bits of her arsenal.

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Rank: C 
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: 3
Chakra Consumption: Mid

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[KEITH]

The kunoichi would have now known of the power that I possessed—nothing that she would have had in her arsenal was a match against me. At least if I had relied upon the power of the Yonbi for a swift victory, but that wasn’t needed at all. I was a skilled shinobi who could use his own power for combat and was able to take out deadly shinobi like before without it. When the kunoichi had created the small distance between us, the scarlet red cloak around me had begun to fade away, ceasing to utilize the power. 

She quickly formulated handseals to perform a powerful Fūton technique which had leveled the area around me, though I was safe and sound. I had released a powerful amount of chakra through my soles to keep me grounded, leaving me only to deal with the debris’ which shot my way with the wind gust. Violently, chakra had rushed through my body as she would have attempted to retrieve an item from her satchel. It was quick, and took only a mere instance for the chakra to kindle within me into a powerful and intense fire. 

It was unfortunate for Tsubomi, she was only a few feet away and had chosen to remain stationary, but the time her weapon would have been drawn, a stream of flames would shot from my lips. It quickly caused the grassland area nearby the kunoichi to be set ablaze, creating great walls of fire around her to entrap her, the smoking rising from the blazing flames would get to her swiftly. She would have been still just recovering from being so close to me and the heat that I had emitted which more than likely got to her. 

With the smoke, it would be hard for her to breathe, and with the fire being encircled around her by moi and creating larger walls of fire by the second; she would have had nowhere to escape. It was unfortunately, but the feisty little kunoichi would have more often than not lost her fighting spirit in moments, along with her consciousness.

“Hm. . . Those flames should be more than enough to subdue her. The Menboku couldn’t have trained her well enough to combat against foes like myself. At least not at her current age.”

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Rank: S
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m), Far (10m+)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: 3
Chakra Consumption: x2 High

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[Bit]

‘Where did he go?’ is the only question I asked myself as I pushed through the forest of Kusa no Kuni. It had only be about an half an hour since the devilish man had taken off from Kusagakures gates, but it had seemed as if the man had managed to cover a lot of ground in that time. ‘I guess he’s gone.’ My search for the man that appeared at the gates of Kusagakure speaking of dark times fallen over the village was proving to be a bust. But I wouldn’t give up hope just yet, I had only been traveling for about an hour and I was far from tired. ‘He couldn’t have completely fled the country by now, it’s impossible. I know he went this way I can see a slight trail leading this way.’ My eyes continued to look for signs of the man passing through the air so I wouldn’t lose his trail. The man had left a trail of grass pushed out of shape just enough to signal that someone had passed through it. ‘But what if this isn’t even his trail?’ I asked myself while I continued to move, I shrugged the thought off because I didn’t want to give up just yet.

“What’s that?”

My attention would be pulled towards the sounds off a battle taking place not far from where I was, and to my luck it was right along the trail that I was following. At that moment I started to catch butterfly’s, I could feel my stomach kind of turning. The thought of me having to face a man that I knew possess something that he could use to destroy an entire village with it was scary to me. But I wouldn’t falter nor would I show fear once I came face to face with him, I would shake my hair out as I pushed through the tall grass. It wouldn’t take long before I had broken out of a small forest catching the ending result of an katon technique, I would stop in my tracks for a moment before sprinting out towards the man. As the smoke cleared a bit I could see the person whom was caught in the flames.

“TSU!”

I said to myself as I felt my heart drop to my knees, the site of one of my squad members in the heat of battle that she was destined to lose was enough to eradicate the thought of fear. Being about 15 meters away from the dark figure that had released the flames, my eyes would be locked on his figure with an evil look upon my face.

“AY! What the hell? You come to Kusagakure as the bearer of bad tidings and then this?”

My face was full of pure rage the I couldn’t help but to feel responsible for what was transpiring, I knew that now I would have to fight this man. ‘This will truly be testing my capacity.’ I couldn’t hope but to feel outmatched by the man because of what he possess, but I knew I would still do the best to defend Tsu to get her back to village for treatment.

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All items equipped.

[~Rogue~]

Coughing out the rough smoke that had swelled inside her lungs, Tsubomi's consciousness began to fade and flicker in and out. The streams of fire the man breathed around her had stood almost 10 feet in height, and Tsubomi couldn't help feeling cut off from the outside world. The swaying darkness inside of her began to wither with her consciousness and the true agony of her fear re-emerged. Soon she found tears crawling down her eyes, and her screams began rasping from her throat.

"LET ME OUT! YOU HAVE ALREADY TAKEN EVERYTHING JUST LET ME-.....

Tsubomi's words feel short as another bout of coughing began. She was dying. With the amount of smoke she was inhaling during her spiralling panic, it would take no longer than half an hour to kill her, and that was of course if you didn't take into account the dehydration from the disabling heat around her. The flames were harsh and wild, there tall stature ate away from the very air in Tsubomi's lungs. She couldn't die. She was to young, there was so much to be done, she couldn't lay down and accept her defeat. She threw into the inferno around her the shuriken she had retrieved from her satchel, knowing they wouldn't probably reach they're intended target.

Soon the young kunoichi would be face down in the ground, her shallow breath weezing out of her throat. Her consciousness had almost left her, and it was in these final moments that she heard the voice of someone close to her. Her friend, her captain.... Kaze

“TSU!”

[KEITH]

This was the downfall of the young kunoichi of the Menboku clan; I smiled as she screamed out toward me, telling me that I had already taken everything from her. It was unfortunate for her to go down in such a way, but little did she know, I actually had plans for her. Indeed, in the past, I had taken everything from her. But, it was now my time to atone for them, and I would do so by giving her the power that her hungry heart had so desired. 

The Yonbi had notified me that another had entered into the area, feeling their negative energy emitting from them violently, most likely from seeing one of their own in the ring of flames. Then that person would make them visible to me once they questioned me about what I had been doing. I turned to him, and raised a hand to the flames surrounding the kunoichi, and then lowered it. Once I had done so, the flames would slowly die down and burn away, leaving nothing more than the terribly burned area around the unconscious body of Tsubomi. 

It had seemed that the ANBU-dog from before had followed me out into the depth of Kusa no Kuni. I wondered if he had known how dangerous it was to follow a guy like myself inside of this world. I smirked, devilishly, of course, as I looked into his eyes from the distance in between the two of us. 

“Is there something you want, ANBU-dog? Sorry I didn’t leave you a treat back there, but if you just go about your way now, I will give you something nice.”

[Bit]

As I waited the fiendish man to answer my question he had raised his hands towards the flames that were circled around Tsu, as his hand moved down I’d notice the flames dying down exposing the unconscious Tsu. ‘Noo!’ the sight of Tsu did nothing more than fuel the rage that had been building up within me. As the man spoke he pulled my attention towards him once more, the way he spoke was just as arrogant as it was at the gates. Him referring to me as a dog was the most irritating part of it, because I was no one’s dog. I’d grimace slightly as the man suggested that I fled the area for a gift, I knew that I couldn’t just leave Tsu here to die and I had feeling that he wouldn’t just let me pick her up and go. My fist would clinch before losing up a bit, ‘This guy.’

“I don’t think that’s gonna do for me, you’ve already attacked one of my teammates…. You’ll pay for coming to Kusa no kuni!”

My words were full of rage it had almost seemed as if I was screaming at the top of my lungs, in the same instance that my words came to their end my right hand dove into my bag pulling a small sphere wrapped in paper. My hand would quickly withdraw from my bag hurling the sphere wrapped in paper towards the man aiming to cover about 10 meters. With that motion I would sprint off to my right away from where the burnt grass surrounded Tsu, my hands would joining together while I moved and began to move through a set of seals.

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Hikari (Light Bomb)x1
Rank: C
Type: Tool / Area of Effect
Range: 0 - 10 meters
Special: 1 per pack
Description: Flash Bombs are supplementary combustibles used mainly for diversions, creating a blinding light when they detonate that spreads quickly across a small area. Flash Bombs come in many shapes and sizes depending by region; some may look like small spheres wrapped in paper or, more conventionally, as cylindrical canisters.
Cost: 500 per Pack
All items equipped.
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[KEITH]

I could taste the malicious soul of the boy growing with every second, and I had to admit it was quiet delicious. The ANBU-dog had been bothered by my words, the world to his feelings was an open door to me, and as long as he was angry, that doorway to him will always be open. I could feel the grudge within him rising; I was wondering what I could do the push him to the next level. I wanted him to hate me with every fiber of his being, and for him to do what was ever possible to stop me. 

But of course, the dog would simply continue to speak, rather than to combat me face to face. Did he think I was going to let him take my family away from me so easily? He must’ve been dreaming, dreaming of a reality where he could even hold a candle up to me. With his quick and skillful movements, he had casted a light bomb toward me, using it to blind me with a flash of light. 

Perhaps if I was an ordinary shinobi, that would have worked on me. I could still feel him; the very energy that emitted from his body had been felt as he tried to close the distance between himself and the kunoichi. Unfortunately for him, the light bomb worked two ways, it stopped me from physically seeing him, and him from seeing me. The chakra within me had rapidly built up, and by the time he would have reached her, all of the chakra I would have needed was prepared to be unleashed, after a quick series of seals. 

Before he would have known it as the light would have faded, a series of molten shuriken would have come flying toward his way in a barrage. The shuriken would cover his path of travel, the air above him, behind him, and a few places around Tsubomi.

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Youton Shuriken no Jutsu (Lava Shuriken Technique) ^x10
Rank: C
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: 2
Chakra Consumption: Low per shuriken

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[Bit]

‘Shit.’ Though I had threw the flash a considerable distance from myself it had still managed to affect me while I attempted to flow through my handseals. The light was only bright enough to slightly hinder my own vision for a couple of less than a second, but that was enough to create an opening for my opponent. ‘Holy shit!’ My eyes would widen as I noticed the man had fired off an attack of his own, shuriken that had appeared to be made of magma. But the real problem that I faced was the fact the man had still been able to aim perfectly at Tsu and myself, my heart would start to speed up as my adrenaline was rising with every moment. ‘I can’t dodge but fuck it.’ My thoughts to myself as I knew I would have to abandon the jutsu I was preparing myself.

“tch.”

I soft sigh would fall from my breath as I had been moving too fast to avoid getting caught up in the path of the shuriken. But as they struck my figure a small cloud of smoke would appear in my place reviling nothing more than a fairly large log, I would appear about 5 meters behind where Tsu had fallen. ‘Shit.’ My eyes would widen as I watched the shuriken ripping through air just a couple a feet away from Tsu’s person. With quick think I took a fairly deep breath before expelling a substantial amount of wind from the gut, it would be enough to blow the shuriken back in the direction in which they came from. If this had worked I would push away from to right trying to get away from Tsu because I could see that the man would use her against me. While I moved my hands would begin to float through seals once more with my eyes still locked on the man, I couldn’t have been more than 15 meters away from the man.

“Close call.”

The words would slip from mouth as I had almost lost tsu to those molten shuriken. My focus was still on man though, I couldn’t help but feel as if this battle was going to become more than I could handle.

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Kazekaeshi (Wind Return)
Rank: A
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Defensive
Handseals: 0
Chakra Consumption: High
Kazekaeshi is a Ninjutsu technique which utilizes the Wind Element. The user will release a concentrated burst of wind at an incoming attack, which is knocked back at the opponent with all its destructive potential left in tact.

Note: The incoming attack must be something that can be reflected, such as a fireball or a projectile weapon. However, if the attack is more powerful than the blast of wind (a higher rank), this technique will fail.

Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique)

Rank: E
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: 0
Chakra Consumption: Low
Kawarimi no Jutsu is an Academy Ninjutsu technique. When in danger the user will quickly substitute themself with another nearby object - generally a block of wood, but sometimes even another person - the moment an attack lands. This creates an optical illusion, making the enemy think the attack was successful. From this, the user can use the lapse in the enemy's attention to attack or flee from the battlefield. Explosvie tags can be attached to the placement for an added surprise!
Note: Switch is near-instantaneous. The technique can only be used once per turn.

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[KEITH]

Once the ANBU-dog had appeared behind the fallen kunoichi, due to the other version of him being revealed to be a clone, I would once again choose to utilize the power of the Yonbi. The chakra that I had used once before had returned, and now my strength and speed had increased almost x10 fold. With the shuriken being returned to me, via being reflected by the ANBU-dogs wind technique, I smiled. Before the attack would even each me, in a burst of speed, I had flickered away, and appeared behind the very wind caster. 

I would immediately wrap my arms around his own, and squeeze upon his body tightly and securely. Luckily for him, I wasn’t utilizing the power of my lava armor, or he would have died within mere seconds. I then produced the four tails of the Yonbi from my cloak, and had them ensnare the legs, arms, and remaining body of the ANBU-dog. I wanted to cause him an unworldly amount of pain, squeezing his body until he felt like I was going to crush him where he had stood. 

My speed had been too fast for him to comprehend, and my strength was something that the boy could never reach—he was mine. 

“What are you going to do now, ANBU-dog?” 

I whispered into his ear with a large smirk upon my face.

[Bit]

‘I got this.’ I thought as I sprinted off to the right of Tsu’s location, but was my thought oh so wrong. In the same instance that I had shifted off to the right the man’s body was engulfed in deep red chakra, and that I only seen for a couple of moments before it was gone. I squinted my eyes as I slowed my run a bit confused by what was unfolding in front of me, but what I truly should have been worried about was what was going on behind me. ‘Oh no.’ I had caught the feeling that it had been someone directly behind but before I could even react, I had felt my person being snatched from the path I chose to move on.

“Agggg.”

A muffled noise would come from under my mask as I could feel my armor bending inwards on my arms and torso. ‘No.’ My heart rate would increase tenfold as I hadn’t expected to be caught, as his grip got tighter I could feel my eyes bulging out of my head. But that wasn’t all that was happening, even though I didn’t have the focus to move my legs I could feel them being coiled by something. ‘I guess I was out of my league, sorry Tsu.’ My own thoughts hadn’t escaped my mind as all I could do is let out signs of pain, while trying to squirm around to get lose. But even then my efforts were pointless, in the midst of the man’s death squeeze I could hears his voice taunting me.

“I’m no dog.”

The words that I could muster up hadn’t been much at this point, though I still had the will to fight with the current situation the man held my life in his hands. All I could do at this point is to hope for opening.

[KEITH]

“Don’t fool yourself, you are a pathetic dog. Weaklings like you who fail to protect the ones you care about and love, despite not having the power to do so should just stay back. You have no place in the shinobi world, you are just garbage—trash that not even a filthy rat would want. The biggest shameful aspect of this is that you worked so hard, but how sad? 

People like me could easily wipe you out of this world. Just a little more and you will be nothing more than a broken corpse. And Tsubomi here will be mine, to do whatever I please with her. What fun will be had with her, right?” 

I continued to squeeze his body, probably putting him through the greatest pain his body had ever experienced. Unfortunately for him, I wasn’t even close to ending this torment; I wanted him to be broken beyond repair. I also wanted to see the face beneath his mask, and using one of my several chakra tails, I would use it to crash his ANBU mask before his eyes. 

A large smirk crawled upon my face, I began to walk toward Tsubomi’s body, still carrying the ANBU-dog within my grasp, and pressing my foot down into her back. I had the power to crush both of the Kusa-nin with no effort at all. 

“I suppose I should end your misery soon, no?”

[Bit]

‘Could this get any worse.’ The sound of the antagonist voice entering my ear was more than enough to keep a live as the man had a vice grip on my body; it had seemed the situation wasn’t going to get any better than it was. My head would lean slightly down resting upon my chest the man continued babble on about how I was nothing but a worthless dog, which couldn’t protect the ones I loved. ‘Is he right?’ I couldn’t help but to question my own abilities at this point, this had been the first time that I’ve lost a fight since I was a boy. But those thoughts didn’t even have time to manifest completely; the man that had held my life within his grasp hadn’t had enough of making me suffer. As I felt a blunt force crash into my face I watched as half of my mask fell from my face on the ground, as my eyes open slightly I had noticed we had been moving.

“Tsu.”

The sight of Tsu laying there on the ground had been more than enough to give me a small burst of strength, I would begin to squirm around a little though it didn’t really help me any. I wanted nothing more than to help her, the sight of him putting his foot on her back would cause my eyes to open widely.

“Leave her alone! Don’t hurt her! Or I’ll kill you!”

At this point my words were nothing but idle words; I hadn’t expected to actually be able to do anything from this position.