At least that was the plan, as she winced and glared at the boy who'd so easily hit her. Despite the fact that it fit his good looks, his smirk annoyed the hell out of her, and she wanted to wipe it right off of his face. Fortunately, she wasn't too hurt to fight, and reached for a dagger to strike back at him.
That didn't happen as the girl who'd been travelling with him popped up and swiped at her with two blades, one a kunai, the other the sharp end of that naginata.
"No, you don't!" the girl with the buns in her hair snapped. "You're not hurting my Master!"
"Oh, really? And who's going to stop me? You?" Kin sneered at her.
"That's right. You're going down!"
"Going to try and kill me then? Or are you planning on bringing me back as a prize to your precious owner?"
The other kunoichi snorted. "Who'd want trash like you around?"
"Why you little...."
Instead of answering, the slavegirl bounced back a couple of times to give herself enough space to gain speed as she charged forward. Running low to the ground, she used her free hand to draw and throw several shuriken with a single movement.
"I can throw the pain too, little girl," Kin snapped, tossing out her own needles as she dodged the first attack.
Her opponent dodged, and threw out a chain that caught her on the arm, which she used to pull Kin off balance.
Gritting her teeth as she landed on her injured shoulder, the Sound ninja twisted around so that she could kick her way over to standing again.
When that happened, the other girl simply scowled and tried catching her with a hook.
Recognizing that attack, the long haired girl simply sidestepped the attack. "Is that all you have? Because I'm pretty sure that we're too evenly matched fighting like this...."
Glaring back at the mocking tone, the slavegirl crouched down, balancing the naginata against her shoulder. Taking out two scrolls, she stood them up on their ends on either side of her, which seemed to be odd... until they started smoking.
"Twin Rising Dragons!" called out the slave as she leapt up into the air with a pair of what looked like smoke dragons on either side of her. But the shapes resolved themselves into the forms of the now unwrapped scrolls, and soon she was twirling about within them, with her fingers scraping against the written surfaces. Weapons started appearing in little puffs of smoke, and each and every one of them was sent straight at the Sound girl.
Going wide eyed at the amount of spears, swords, knives, and other blades heading her way, Kin jumped out of the line of fire as quickly as she could, being certain that she didn't want to be skewered. That was easier said than done though, as she had a problem avoiding all of them, and several sharp edges sliced into her clothes and skin. After tumbling and twirling out of the way as best she could, she clutched at her side and growled under her breath. "What the hell was that?!"
"A distraction," whispered the other girl as she appeared in front of the Sound kunoichi. The blunt end of her naginata was slammed into Kin's stomach, causing the air to be knocked out of her, and she nearly folded over the weapon. However, she didn't get a chance to do that, as it was brought up to catch her under the chin, which sent her stumbling backwards. Then came several swipes from the blade, which cut her as quickly and as painfully as to almost move faster than her screams.
And then as if there was a stillness in the moment, the slave ninja seemed to take in her own breathing as if in an exercise. Yet, there was no amusement to be taken in that fact, as when she brought up the blade, it seemed that the very leaves on the ground were rising to meet it. When she swung it with utter calm in her eyes, the leaves flew along the path of the attack, seeming to slice into the Sound ninja's body right along with the blade.
Standing over Kin's still gasping form, the slavegirl watched the other girl's still tied loose ponytail land separately from the rest of her hair, having been cut from her head.
Fighting was something that Dosu Kinuta knew that he could do quite easily. It wasn't that he was arrogant, although that did seem to be something that afflicted a lot of those around him. Instead, he was more of a thinker, and he knew how to take advantage of his skills, and his opponent's weaknesses.
And right now, he was getting his backside kicked... quite literally.
This was due to the fact that there was a tall man in green doing a handstand while twisting about to smack a foot into his buttocks.
"Will you fight me seriously, old man?!" Dosu snarled, not pleased with how this was going.
"That is the problem with your training," the odd man declared, twirling around to catch the younger ninja on the jaw. "You really don't know what's important right now."
"And what's that?"
"The vigor of youth!"
"Okay, you're officially an idiot!" the Sound ninja barked, and sent a sound wave at his opponent.
However, his adversary wasn't there, as the man had leapt around him to smash him in the back. "Dynamic Entry!"
Had he been given a chance, Dosu would have scoffed at the odd cry. The problem with that was that he would have had to not been just hit by a kick that rather felt like a sledgehammer. This made it so that he was stuck helpless as he was then kicked up into the air. Once he was airborne, he was then juggled like a soccer ball, with elbows knocking him down, knees sending him shooting up, and other blows smacking him from side to side.
His final landing came with a wide eyed gasp as he was piledriven head first into the ground, planting him there like a tent peg.
Zaku Abumi scowled as he tried to hit the old man twirling the chain, but he couldn't manage to cut him no matter how he tried. That should have been impossible, as metal should have sliced as quickly under his strikes as the air did, but for some reason it seemed to be more resistant than he would have expected. It really bothered him to have this sort of problem coming up like this, but he was sure as hell going to make it go away.
"Okay, you old geezer," Zaku sneered. "Time to deal with you for real."
"You have other problems, boy," drawled the bulky man.
"Like what?"
"Like me," commented a new voice, and another boy popped up to send a series of twirling kicks his way.
Choking on a growl, the Sound ninja dodged the attacks before glaring back at his newest opponent. Luckily, it didn't seem that this guy was much of a threat, as he was unarmed, and didn't have even a lick of armor on. Coming to a fight like that would make him easy pickings, and the Sound fighter planned on taking advantage of that.
So, brought his hands up and sent out his Decapitating Air Waves out, planning on slicing the dumb guy apart... had the attacks actually landed.
Instead, the guy with the pigtail simply leapt out of the way, getting out of the way before any damage could be done. Follow up attacks seemed to have even less of an effect, as the simple dodging evolved into bouncing and weaving around the attacks as if they were a party game. Each and every time the jackass twisted around an attack as if he were playing, it made the Sound warrior angrier and angrier.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Zaku demanded.
The pigtailed guy just shrugged. "Ya happen ta be easy ta read."
"What?!"
"Don't blame me."
"I'll 'blame' you all I want!"
"Okay."
"You know something?" the ninja bit out. "You really piss me off, you damned bastard."
"Fun for me."
"When I get my hands on you...."
"What?" the smirking guy asked.
"I'll make you eat my Air Slicing Blast!" Zaku bellowed, sending several shots out, each of which cut foliage, but didn't do much to the other boy. In fact, he just seemed to be weaving around him as if he had all day. That was something that the Sound ninja could not allow, and didn't care what he hit, so long as this guy went down.
But as he went to move his arms around to face both sides, they were wrapped in a chain and pulled in behind him. "What the hell is this?!"
"It's me, you foolish little boy," the bulky man from earlier commented, no longer surrounded by his weapon.
That was because the chain was now wrapped around Zaku's limbs, pulling them tight, and binding them quite well.
"You really have a problem there, son."
"Ya talk too much," the pigtailed guy scoffed, coming down from a leap to land a drop kick right onto the top of Zaku's head. The sound of the blow echoed through the forest, and right into the Sound ninja's skull. Yet, seeing as how he was also knocked out at that point, there was little ability to for him to comment with.
Pulling back his chain, the bulky man sighed at the still standing teen. "Did you have to waste so much time, Ranma?"
"Like ya did a lot, Pop," the pigtailed boy mocked, still smirking, while:
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