One after the other, he set the cards out across the table.
[The Door] the card that allowed him to access his castle.
[The Windy] the faerie of the wind who assisted him the most.
[The Wood] the faerie of wood and plant.
[The Mirror] the mischievous little girl who could use Mirror Clone and Reflect.
[The Invisible] a stealth figure that could make him and everything he carried invisible.
[Fly] allowed him or the specified individual to fly.
"So, how do we find the next one?" asked Sasuke. Now that he knew Naruto could give him one of the cards temporarily to give him a power up, he was MUCH more interested in helping the "dead last" of the Academy increase his abilities with those cards. Or, at least, that was how he could justify it to himself.
Sakura was the one answering. "The text on 'The Shadow' now reads 'Find Me' and the statue is empty. I'd say look around the castle except we already know that Mirror was able to get loose back at the village."
"What does 'Shadow' do?" asked Sasuke.
Naruto closed his eyes, trying to reach whatever the source of information of the cards was.
Hibana chirped and looked over her shoulder at Naruto.
"Shadow controls shadows," said Naruto. "Shadow can steal shadows, merge them, make them solid or darken them to where they are the purest blackness. Shadow is weakened but also nourished by light."
"So we go after Shadow next," mused Sasuke.
"Actually, I've another idea."
They were shinobi, all three drew weapons on hearing an unfamiliar voice.
The speaker was leaning against a wall, regarding them all with blue eyes a shade or two darker than Naruto's. Her bright red hair, tied back in a braid, had to reach nearly to the small of her back. Her clothes were a pair of black pants and a red silk shirt.
"Who are you?" asked Naruto. "What are you doing in my castle?"
"I'm the Fight Card," said the strange girl, continuing to lean against the wall and regard them with a lazy/confident expression.
"What's your Unlock condition?" asked Sakura, trying to manuever to a position she could throw kunai from without hitting either Naruto or Sasuke.
"Ya gotta beat me," said the Fight Card, glancing towards them and smirking.
"You seem a bit more talkative than the other cards," noted Sakura.
"Meh," said Fight with a shrug. "I'm based on a martial artist from another world. In this world, consider me a repository of all taijutsu knowledge."
"I see," said Sasuke calmly before launching himself and several kunai in a blurred attack.
The Fight Card merely smiled at first, but otherwise didn't seem to move. The only indication that she HAD moved was Sasuke abruptly slamming into the ceiling and then the floor. That and his kunai clattering to the floor alongside him.
"That level of taijutsu," said the Fight Card, "is disappointing."
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