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Kyoshou was well aware of the Kidomaru's incredibly accurate attacks so dodging wasn't much of an option. He merely smirked to himself as he planted his feet into the ground. Kyoshou was ready to take the projectile head on. He was either very confident....or very stupid. The arrow struck him square in the chest sending him flying back several feet into a try causing it to snap in two kicking up a cloud of smoke. As it cleared Kyoshou was seen lying on his back. Not moving at all. Suddenly he burst into a fit of coughing as he got up. The arrow lay next to him snapped in two. Kyoshou's hoodie had a small hole in in where teh arrow struck. Behind the hole was a shiny blue material. "-cough cough- Ouch that really hurt." Kyoshou said rubbing his chest. "Good thing I have that infinite armor. I'll probably have a bruise later" He said giving Kumo a thumbs up followed by an assuring grin.

...of the Twilight Sonata

"Not a chance" Kyoshou said as a confident smirk spread across his face. Slipping through a quick set of hand signs, Kyoshou mumbled "Zodiac Formation: Serpent Technique" At his feet it seemed as though six invisible snakes began slithering on the ground in all direction. Breaking into a sprint, Kyoshou ran at top speed towards Kumo making a second set of hand signs. "Tree Binding Death" He whispered. An oncoming breeze seemed blow Kyoshou away as if he was made of sand. Where did he go? At that moment a little seedling burst out of the ground growing at an alarming rate. It tangled its limbs around the arachnid as it reached Kumo. The tree wrapped its limbs around all eight of Kumo's appendages, pinning him to the tree's trunk. Kyoshou emerged from the tree trunk holding two kunai. He slipped the two kunai just underneath Kumo's throat as he whispered gently into his ear "Your move"

Lileth walked into the Village of Sound and sighed to herself. Another land filled with useless men that she would just want to destroy... But maybe not today. She walked around the village, looking for the familiar landmarks where she can locate her home afterwards with her mental map of her land and found a large boulder that was not too far away from the docks and then started calculating a route to get to her house. Angry that all the girls within the Academy that she met were interested in being a male’s toy to play with, she spat upon the ground and rubbed it into the dirt with her foot. She sighed to herself as she decided that she could not overly anger herself on that subject alone and continued walking down the pathway, the lush green landscape down the road. Her eyes not even bothering to see the great landscaping that was Hidden Sound, all taken by Lord Orochimaru when he ‘promised’ to help spare them from ‘foreign’ destruction. The land quickly grew and became powerful, but not as powerful as the Great Five Nations, and secretly paid Orochimaru dividends to develop more powerful and various types of ninja to further the power of the nation. However, everyone soon believed that Orochimaru was playing the village like fools after his death by Sasuke and the destruction of his labs and hideouts by Sasuke and his members of the team. Lileth started to listen to the sounds of the birds and the cicada chirping through the air, which started to get Lileth in a good mood. Maybe life was not all too bad if a world with men can hold such beautiful sounds in it. She continued to walk down the pathway with a smile on her face, holding both her arms behind her as she walked, looking around at the trees as she was starting to calm down. Suddenly, the area around her started to be filled with music and Lileth smiled to herself as she listened to the flute sound of the instrument and then headed off the road to seek who it was that was playing the instrument.

She walked between two trees and saw a girl with red hair, playing with a flute that simply entranced Lileth to put a larger smile upon her face. Slowly, her presence was known to the red headed girl as Lileth took her seat upon a fallen tree near Tayuya, as Lileth quickly realized, making Tayuya eye Lileth through her peripheral vision. As Tayuya finished her song, Lileth clapped a bit with a smile upon her face as she watched as Tayuya turned full bodied towards her audience. “Who are you and who said that you could watch me,” asked Tayuya with an annoyed face. “My name is Lileth and I just heard your music from the road and was entranced here. If I am bothering you, I meant no harm,” said Lileth with a smile and a slight bow after getting up herself to show respect to her superior. Lileth knew about Tayuya’s past of blindly following the man named Orochimaru but at least that man didn’t bother her as much as cocky men who think they can do anything to women and get away with it if it was not for the betterment of the people. Tayuya smile a little as she started to understand Lileth’s motives and then lifted the flute to her mouth and started to play. But as she did, Lileth suddenly found herself in a genjutsu where she was bound with chains and her body was starting to deteriorate. Lileth, herself, knew about genjutsu and the mental damage it can deal to an opponent and if the technique was even remotely working in the laws of physics, any physical damage dealt to the opponent can even be shown upon the opponent’s body when the brain believes that it had been stabbed or something of the sort.

Lileth did not scream in terror or in pain if she felt any as her arms started to melt away from the elbow outwards. Lileth closed her eyes as the genjutsu continued, the pain worsening but then there soon was none. Lileth opened her eyes and saw Tayuya smiling as the red haired woman was impressed with her spectator’s resilience to her technique’s ability to create pain to the opponent’s brain to make them think that they are actually dying. “Well now, it looks like you understand the concept of genjutsu. How would oyu like to learn that technique I just used on you,” asked Tayuya with a smile as she twirled her flute in between her fingers. Lileth stood and bowed slightly saying, “I would be most honored if you taught me Tayuya-sama.” “Do not put sama at the end of that. It makes me feel old. Right… Now, do you have any type of musical instrument of any sort,” asked Tayuya as she looked Lileth over. Lileth then pulled back the sleeve of her right arm and then revealed her Melody Arm, source of her clan’s abilities. Tayuya smiled as she saw it and then lifted the flute to her mouth and Lileth did the same with her melody arm to be able to blow into the holes to create music from it as she’s done before when she was bored. Tayuya then started to blow upon her flute, playing a melody that was soothing to the ears. However, Lileth started playing a song that was entrancing and devilish that perked up Tayuya’s ears. As they both continued to play, Lileth started to concentrate her chakra outwards with her musical notes that would hopefully start affecting Tayuya. Suddenly, Tayuya dropped to her knees, having been caught in the same genjutsu that Lileth had recently experienced and Lileth stopped playing, halting her chakra at the same time. Tayuya dropped her arms as the technique was canceled and looked towards Lileth with a smile. “Well, you did good, you know that,” said Tayuya as she stood up completely and crossed her arms over her chest. Lileth smiled as she bowed a little, having finished her recital and both of the girls laughed a little before Lileth had to go head home again.

After saying their farewells, Lileth then headed down the roadways, wondering whom she would end up seeing down the road next and hopefully it would not be a male. Soon, she heard a yell in the distance that caught her attention and she slowly shifted through the trees and brush, wondering what the hell was going on. As she peered around the last tree, she was a man fighting two others, however he was weaponless while the other two had drawn their weapons and were ready to strike. Suddenly the weaponless man made a few hand seals before there was no movement between either of them until the two fighters looked upwards and then started to scream about fire. Lileth made a face as she watched them run around in a frenzy, patting themselves as if trying to put out a fake fire.

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Bone, Torrest and Ginsa walked upon the docks of Hidden Sound and looked around, wondering what they could do there. However, Lileth was still somewhat down the road but Bone’s mechanical engineering actually managed to pick her up with a total character analysis to see who she was. Torrest noticed a small cat near some boxes and then started walking in that direction, smiling as the cat hissed at him not really realizing that the can did not want him to be near it at that moment. Ginsa noticed Torrest was gone as the man bent down to pick up the cat but the cat struck outwards towards Torrest, hooking its claws in Torrest’s sleeve. Torrest did not even flinch from the sudden attack upon his arm before he picked it up. The cat continually tried to escape his clutches but Torrest was holding it in such a way, it was like a non-fatal headlock. When Ginsa saw this, he then started to wonder if Torrest was as stupid as he was showing and leading everyone to believe. “Torrest, Ginsa. I think I found our newest member. So far, we have a Ninjutsu Specialist, Ginsa. Also a Taijutsu Specialist, Torrest. This girl seems more in tune with Genjutsu so if I can just train her a bit more, she can become very powerful in the sense of Genjutsu and we will become the ultimate team,” said Bone as he pulled down on his mask, revealing his smiling mouth, the mechanics of his jaw adjusting themselves slowly to create the smile without the possibility of ripping the synthetic skin that covered the entirety of his body. Ginsa nodded to Bone before looking back towards Torrest with his emotionless face and said, “Torrest, set the cat down. We cannot afford to buy food for this cat when we barely have enough for ourselves.” Torrest was not really paying attention to Ginsa as he then started to scratch the cat behind the ears. Finally the cat stopped struggling and started to purr in his arms, a sign that it was happy.

Ginsa did not say a word as Torrest walked by him with the cat but walked after him as they both followed Bone down the road, wondering who he has planned to be the final fourth leg in their group that Ginsa could draft into the Cool. But as they continued down the road, Tayuya, a Sound Ninja that was one of the followers of Lord Orochimaru, appeared before them. “What are you trash doing here? … Hey! I remember you! You were the one that obliterated Hidden Leaf! On behalf of Lord Orochimaru and all of Hidden Sound, we thank you,” said Tayuya. Bone did not really pay attention to her as he was focused on one goal… Recruiting that girl into his team of specially trained Shinobi. Of course, her chakra readings also indicated that she was specially tuned towards medical chakra that would be helpful to the two boys that he was with. “Oi, ********! What are you doing, ignoring me and walking away… I will teach you to ignore someone better than you,” said Tayuya as she then lifted her flute up to her mouth, the curse seal upon her neck activating. But just then, the cat jumped from Torrest’s arm and aimed straight towards Tayuya’s face, causing the woman to scream out in shock and fell to the ground. After hitting the cat off her face, Torrest heard the cat call out in pain, which in turn angered him to an extreme. Torrest suddenly turned towards Tayuya who was just starting to get up onto her feet while lifting the flute up towards her mouth but Torrest didn’t even give her a chance to start blowing into the musical instrument as he lunged forwards, throwing a knee out in front of him which connected with Tayuya’s quickly crossed arms. A vision of a tiger appeared as the knee made contact and Tayuya’s eyes quickly grew wide, surprised that this boy had such strength. Tayuya slammed into a tree behind her, causing her to cough up some spit that tried to run down her throat upon the impact. As she started to slid downwards, Torrest was suddenly under her, throwing a fist upwards with the image of a tiger’s face appearing, slamming into her chin and sending her straight up into the air, flipping like mad in a multitude of back flips. Ginsa watched all this and shook his head before drawing his sword. Knowing that this woman’s main abilities included genjutsu, Ginsa used the Great Suppression to deny her the ability to use Genjutsu before jumping upwards with his drawn sword. Sliding the blade over his palm, he made a small cut over another scar he gave himself long ago and felt the blood escape from the cut before a bloody dragon expelled from the wound where he was able to ride up towards the red haired woman. Tayuya saw Ginsa coming and started to play her flute while in mi-air, hoping that it would affect him before he reached her but it was unsuccessful due to him suppressing the art of genjutsu from everyone around. Suddenly, As Ginsa rose above her, he threw his hand forwards, launching another blood dragon towards her torso, hoping to end this fight quickly by ramming her into the ground… HARD… But the girl quickly made hand seals after regaining her state of mind and wiped some blood that slipped out of the corner of her mouth and slamming her hand into the front of the blood dragon, activating her summon’s jutsu which brought forth three incredibly built and blind ogres. Realizing that they were all falling, the three summons quickly positioned themselves in a way where they can land upon their feet before all four of them landed, the blood dragon having been destroyed through the force of the summoning technique. Ginsa did not say a word or make a face as he let the blood dragon he rode upon hover around the battlefield. As Tayuya lifted the flute up towards her lips, she suddenly heard the ogre on her leg fell to the ground and looked in that direction to see Torrest had kneed the summon so hard in the gut that a tiger face was stuck within its fat. Quickly, Tayuya started to play but the flute was hit by a blood kunai that was quickly thrown by Ginsa who was up in the air.

Bone watched all this happen with slight humor as he knew he tag team duo would be well more than enough to take on Tayuya. He knew that he, himself, was more than enough for all the ninja within this village and Hidden Stone combined... Thinking on it, he wondered if it would be beneficial if he would just go around and destroy a few more villages to show that they are not all powerful as they believe themselves are except for the ones that are needed by all villages everywhere within the world. Maybe Hidden Mist or Hidden Stone should be the next on his list? Bone groaned to himself as he started to realize he was no different that Pain, the Akatsuki leader that he worked for during his time as a Hyuuga after being banished from his own land for being too power… How sad. Bone then turned away form the obviously won battle to see that Lileth was staring at the fight and finally towards Bone, anger apparently upon her face. Bone smiled behind his mask before walking up towards her with no killing intent upon his person, bowing slightly as he reached her to show he meant no harm to her or her village. But Lileth merely took a step back and pulled upon her right sleeve with an angry look upon her face. “What the hell are you three doing to Tayuya? I should kill you for that, filthy male,” cried out Lileth which caught Bone off guard. “Oh great,” Bone thought, “She’s just like Furanken that Ginsa told me about. This will be a little harder than I though in recruiting her.” Suddenly Tayuya flew from the trees behind her and towards Lileth, pretty much on a collision course but Bone raised his right hand and caught Tayuya by the shirt collar, halting her body almost instantly instead of flying into Lileth. “She tried to attack me and my allies here protected me. They have done nothing wrong other than taking the offensive but it was all necessary,” said Bone as he set down Tayuya who then threw a fist towards Bone’s face but as the punch connected, Tayuya jumped back yelling in pain as she had just hit solid steel.

Ginsa and Torrest both appeared near Bone, Torrest having found the cat but it had died from Tayuya, trying his best to comfort the dead body, hoping that it would wake up. Ginsa didn’t even bother to look at Torrest’s futile attempts to nurse the cat back to the world of the living but instead made a small bow towards Tayuya and Lileth, holding out the flute that was left behind after Torrest gave a sharp kick into Tayuya’s stomach to send her flying through the trees right after obliterating the three summons that didn’t even get a chance to move. Tayuya took back the flute with a quick movement before Lileth yelled towards Bone, “So then, what do you want with Hidden Sound!” “It’s not what I want with Hidden Sound, but what I want with you. You see, I’m trying to develop the perfect team for missions but we are missing an important element in our group. A ninja with the specialty towards Genjutsu and Medical chakra and what I found was that you had those properties with you… And they are strong. Stronger still if you agree to come with me and train under me,” said Bone as he looked into her eyes, wondering if she would even bother to agree to this. “******** off you perverted man. I know that you just want me around to rape when you please,” said Lileth as she then turned away from the three. Ginsa and Torrest looked at Bone with a sense of curiosity in their aura, wondering what he would do. Bone sighed before saying, “What ever happened in your past that caused you to be angered by this, please set that aside and let me explain to you why I’m choosing to develop a team for the purpose of assassinations. No one in this world actually remembers me except for a certain few. The Hidden Magic Kage, Hidden Sand Kage, and the Spider Nin Gana from Hidden Sound as well. After my last death by Ginsa, I erased my image from the minds of the majority of this world as in hopes that such destruction that I have caused will ever come again… However, that was no true. This world became more corrupt than ever, devious minds and lustful souls has taken this world and molded into what they want it to be, making it so that they can get away with anything. I chose to challenge those whom had taken this world and made an example of Hidden Leaf, leaving nothing but carnage and destruction showing that I will not tolerate the way this world is now. Will you now join me in my fight against the impure world and change it to the better? End all suffering and corruption while placing those I know worthy of power in positions where I can be assured that the world will once more become peaceful,” asked Bone as he reached a hand out towards the now stopped Lileth. She turned her head towards Bone with a smirk on her face and laughed a little, not really believing his story. “Yeah right. You probably just want to destroy the world as it is. Unfortunately, I’m too weak to fight you so I’m just going to walk away. But do anything to this village, and I will remember it when I get stronger,” said Lileth as she then started to walk away, still smiling. She loved moral victories.

Tayuya disappeared in a puff of smoke, not really wanting to be near Ginsa and Torrest, the two heavy hitters that she knew of at that moment before Bone gritted his artificial teeth. “Your forcing me to do this… But it is no other way for me to get the final needed member of this team of Assassination,” said Bone as he made three quick hand seals, ending with the seal of the Rat to trap Lileth within a Genjutsu. Suddenly the girl froze, suddenly getting caught in the genjutsu that Bone had laid up for her. She then found herself at the Academy again, wondering what the hell was going on while looking all around herself. There she saw Bone running around, doing what he had to do to pass the academy. The boy was a young hyuuga at that time, trying to prove himself to his old grandfather that helped raise him from when he was a young infant, not really realizing that the boy had been from a distant branch family that couldn’t keep him. Lileth walked behind him as he graduated from the exams and then was confronted by Neji Hyuuga, a well known taijutsu master of the Hyuuga clan, teaching Bone while testing to see if the boy was even worth being a Hyuuga. “What the hell? Where is this place,” asked Lileth more to herself. “You are looking in my past. My memories so to speak. Not all men are evil as you most likely think. Only, I had a little problem with my persona as I developed a multi-personality disorder and ultimately ended up sending myself into another dimension to prevent him from further destroying the world,” said Bone as he appeared to Lileth’s side, causing her to jump to the side. “What the hell,” she cried out in surprise. Bone didn’t move but stared at his old self as he was getting beat down by Neji until he finally managed to get the upper hand. “As you will soon know, one day I finally traversed to Hidden Sand and met someone that influenced me greatly by the name of Matsuri. She was a sweet girl. A good person at heart that held a deeper secret… She was a bit demented,” said Bone with a humorous chuckle. The memory then transferred to Hidden Sand where he met Matsuri and his futile attempts to woo her. “Your pathetic you know that,” asked Lileth, “Why waste your time on a child half your age. You old perverted man.” “Correction, it wasn’t Matsuri I was completely after, it was the persona within her that I soon fell in love with,” said Bone as he turned around, gazing on another memory of his when he managed to revive the memory of Ryuko from Matsuri.

“Why are you showing me these things? Why should I even care about this,” asked Lileth as she turned away from the memory, angry at Bone. Bone turned towards Lileth as if he was going to say something but then sighed, drooping a bit. “Jeez... I honestly don’t know how I can convince you to join my group. Ginsa chose to join me because I promised him strength. Torrest… Well, he followed Ginsa. But, what can I promise you that would have you even think about joining my group of fighters and train to become an assassin,” asked Bone as he lifted a hand and squeezed the bridge of his nose, squeezing his eye lids together while resting his elbow within his free hand. Lileth started laughing at Bone, finding it very entertaining that Bone was having a hard time. “Well, you proved to me that you, at the least, are not entirely bad. I suppose I shall tag along even though I know I will detest doing so… Being surrounded by horrendous males,” said Lileth with a chuckle to herself, not really believing what she was saying. Bone lifted his head towards Lileth with surprise on his face and then smiled as the genjutsu around her disappeared. Lileth watched as the Illusion Bone disappear and looked around to see that Bone still had one hand up to his face in a single hand seal of the rat. It was if they only were in that for a second in real life… Which in turn, was actually true. Lileth crossed her arms and looked at Bone who then turned towards Ginsa and Torrest. “Gentlemen, meet Lileth. She will be a guest in our group until she either decides to stay or leave. Treat her with the utmost care and do not do anything that would anger her ‘less I’d beat you down into the ground first,” said Bone before turning to Lileth. “Thank you for giving us a chance. Now, let us go.” With that, Bone turned and headed towards the docks, Torrest, Ginsa and Lileth all following behind him, the two men introducing themselves to her in their own way… And of course, both of them got slapped for being the way they were. Poor guys. Bone laughed as they then entered the docks to head towards their next destination.


2,901 words... I was aiming for 100k but eh...

+ 168 = 3,069 (Cashing for Lileth) - 2500 = 569

Drago flew into the village. He was sitting above head as he disperesed the cloud and landed on his feet. Drago sighed slowly as he looked around and he didn't see his student anywere. Drago looked and he remembered that both of them were here..The Two Kaguya boys.. Drago looked and he crossed his arms as he yawned. He grabbed a Genin by the throat and he sighed slowly.

"Go find me akai Kaguya and Zatoichi Kaguya..make it quick or I will kill you.."

Drago threw him into the ground. As he yawned again. He leaned up against a wall as he was kind of excited to see his team. That's if they were still here. He hadn't seen them in many months. The team was disbaned a short time after his marriage..But now he wanted tosee were they were each at physically and mentally.

"he better hurry up..."

Drago mumbled.

Drago looked and he saw that his student was blind now. Eh Blind people for some reason had a better advantage of those who could see. Drago looked and he placed on his long metal claws. He dragged it across the ground and he looked up at Akai. He scratched his head.
"Four years right?"

Drago said as he quickly went towards his throat with his claw. Drago decided to see who was still worth being in his cell. Things were changing this year. DRago looked and he quickly brought his whole body wieght down and quickly raised his whole lower leg up to the sky trying to kick him in the chin.

"Raising Leaf Kick!"

Drago called out. As he stared at Akai. HE needed to know how he was foing without him. Drago needed to know who to trust and who to bring along in this next battle.

Drago looked up and saw how fast his student was moving. He looked up and he was amazed with him. As he quickly saw that his claws were being dodged he saw that he was good. However their was one bad part of being blind. Drago jumped back as he saw the first sword slash come towards him. However Drago was unable to avoid the other wounds that were still to come. However they were healed just as fast they were created. IT didn't mean that they didn't hurt. He looked and he sighed slowly as he reached for his blade but he didn't. He almost stopped but he reached in his pockets.
"Oy..So you decided to become blind.."
Drago tossed the cards in the air. Not to hit him but to cause loud noises. All the Cards started to explode at the same time. Explosions making the sky of Hidden Sound look like an aerial war. Drago took this as his time to strike as he started to do a set of handseals he created a lightning ball in his hand. As the ball formed and rotated he tossed towards his student. Drago stopped and he scratched his head. As he yawned slowly. He cracked his knuckles again and he popped his neck. This might be fun..He couldn't use his Magic Eye on him..He was blind..this was causing Drago to think harder and faster outside the box.