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The Genin held a hand to her ear, listening to the information that Sorain was giving her. But as she listened, her eyes widened as she turned to see that Sorain was attacked. When the ******** did- How the ******** did-!? Vykin was rather annoyed at what seemed to be Sorain's lack of skill as a lycan was already inside of the base. She went to move to attack that lycan; however, she felt a few chakra signatures behind her, and turned to see several lycan at the front gates. She turned back to the one in the base, realizing that Sorain had it covered, so she focused her attention back on the lycans that were in front of her. The kunoichi took out the pouch of silver dust that was given to her, and sprinkled it over his bladed arm, and she also threw a pinch across her right hand. Her sword now seemed covered in glitter from the powder, but she didn't care as long as it worked. The Genin stood at the gates when two of the lycans jumped upwards. Vykin made her move, jumping from the wall towards one of the lycans, her body quickly covered in chakra. They had jumped high, so Vykin activated her air walking skill, thin sheets of ice appearing below each foot as she also activated her flicker. The combined effect was Vykin moving through the air at increased speeds, charging up invisible stairs to meet the lycans. She flipped her body so her feet were planted against the first lycan's chest. The flicker didn't mean s**t to the lycan, who was already moving at high speeds, and it made a slash downwards towards her, intending on ripping through her body. But before the paw made it to her, she channeled all of her chakra into her feet and released it, sending the lycan flying away from her, back into the forest. However, this also blasted through the ice that was holding her up there, so gravity took ahold of her and she went falling towards the earth with the other lycan.

The two landed on the ground inside of the village, the lycan obviously pissed off that Vykin had taken care of his ally. The Genin remembered that wolves went together in packs, so taking his friend out may have just crippled him emotionally and psychologically in some way as well as the physical loss of an ally. But instead of crippling the lycan, it seemed to go into a rage, and Vykin knew from her own experience that someone fighting with emotions on their side was more deadly than one without. The lycan let out a high pitched howl as it charged at Vykin, faster than she was even with her flicker. Vykin moved into a defensive position, narrowly avoiding the clawed punch as it flew by her. However, the lycan was aware that this might happen, so he quickly thrust his elbow back, smashing Vykin in the face. The Genin went flying backwards, skidding on the ground a couple of times before eventually landing on her feet, sliding to a stop. Blood dripped from her nose that was heavily bleeding now. She blew her nose hard, sending blood across her clothing and body, but it cleared her nose, halting the bleeding temporarily. It was right around then that Sorain yelled through the headset that hand to hand combat wasn't the best idea. Vykin just smirked and said back, "How about fist to blade you ******** a*****e!?"

The Genin's chakra shot around her body, her quickly getting enraged with the lycan for drawing blood. Normally it wouldn't have made her angry, but the Genin knew that she was stronger when she was angry, so she used it as an excuse to enrage herself. Her red boiling chakra was flying around her and her sword specifically as she faced down her opponent. She wasn't going to wait for the lycan to attack this time. She burst out running, leaving a small crater in the ground from where she left. The lycan aimed a clawed uppercut towards her body, timing it right so when she got there it would hit her. But as she ran, Vykin jumped into the air, curling into a ball. She stuck her blade out as she went however, turning herself into a bladed disk. As Vykin entered striking distance, her body still not touching the ground yet, her chakra enhanced sword sent the lycan's claws flying into the ground from the power, then proceeded to dig into the lycan's flesh, her spinning attack hitting five times. The first strike clipped the lycan's left shoulder, whereas the second strike dug into his right chest. The third strike penetrated his right arm and the fourth went diagonally from the right shoulder to the left lower torso. But for the final strike, Vykin went out of her little ball and gave a yell as she aimed the final strike for the lycan's skull. The blade sliced through the skull and proceeded to move down the torso, succeeding in cleaving the lycan in two. Vykin landed on the ground, her feet standing in a pool of blood as she started to run back towards the wall, making sure that no others lycans had entered. She was panting now, which was not a good sign. She had only taken down one, maybe two if you counted the first lycan she sent off into the forest... but there were still too many lycans out there that needed to be slain, so she needed to keep her stamina up... she continued her sprint back towards the wall, to back up Sai if he needed it.

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Before she even got to the wall, the ground began to crack in front of her, and suddenly, three lycans emerged from the ground, tunnels showing that they had burrowed their way through. The Genin swore under her breath as she went into a defensive stance, the lycans beginning to charge. The middle lycan got there first, aiming a upwards headbutt towards the Genin's body. Vykin was expecting a clawing attack, so she was caught off guard. The headbutt hit her sword hard, sending her flying into the air. As she recovered from the hit while still in midair, she noticed that the other two lycans had jumped off of their partner's back, leaping into the air after her. The first lycan grabbed a hold of the second, launching him towards Vykin quickly. By now, Vykin had used the Sky walking skill that Hatari had taught her, creating her thin sheets of ice underneath her feet that allowed her to walk in the air, so she was ready for the lycan this time. With a large yell, she swung her chakra covered sword towards the lycan that was flying towards her, nailing him across his body and sending him flying towards the ground. The blade acted like more of a blunt weapon because of the chakra that was surrounding it, but the blade pierced the tough skin of the lycan as it slammed into the ground.

It was then that Vykin felt a presence behind her. The first lycan had quickly sprinted behind her, and was aiming a clawed fist at her back. She duck and spun, trying to regain her defense, but as the clawed hand missed, the lycan struck with a foot, sending Vykin flying downwards towards the ground herself. Her thin ice platforms were ripped off her feet as she flew, and as she looked towards where she was going to land, she noticed that the second lycan was there waiting for her. She couldn't avoid the attack that was coming, and a clawed paw nailed the side of her body, sending her flying into a nearby building. She hit the opposite wall inside of the building and fell to the ground, struggling to get back up. As her vision focused, she looked to the opening in the wall to see the two lycans approaching and the third lycan recovering from the attack she dealt it. It was struggling, the silver tipped blade causing permanent damage to the beast, but it could still attack. But as they approached her, suddenly, there was the dog from before standing in front of her. The tiny dog stood there and began yapping towards the beasts that were going to take her life, yapping as hard as it could to protect Vykin, even if it was small. The first lycan snorted, and with a swift movement, backhanded the dog, sending it flying across the room. Then, Vykin was gone. She reappeared right in front of the wall where the dog was going to hit, catching the dog with her right arm. As she landed on the ground, the water element chakra fading off of her body as a result of the Water Flicker, she looked at the dog, who was in a lot of pain. She said softly, "Thank you... the only other person that's stood up for me before was Hatari... But you..."

Vykin's body suddenly was engulfed in chakra. Red chakra was flying across her body as sheer rage spawned a shitload of chakra. The curse seal on her left breast activated, causing a barbed wire like tattoo to appear across her body, branching off to cover her entire body. She looked up towards the lycans and there was nothing left that could be even thought to be eyes in her sockets. It was replaced by red chakra flying out of them. The dog was still alive, and she placed the dog in the safest place that she could think of which was in between her breasts. The dog breathed heavily, but since the dog was so small, it could fit snugly and still survive. Vykin then disappeared, a faster flicker allowing her to appear right in front of the first lycan, impaling it's chest with her blade and an explosion of chakra coming out the lycan's opposite side. She then looked to the second lycan who began to charge, but with a quick movement, the lycan's body was suddenly cleaved in two. With another quick movement, she appeared behind the third lycan, and with her right hand, grabbed the lycan's hairy head, and jerked backwards quickly. The result was the lycan's neck snapping and his death coming soon because of both of the wounds that Vykin had inflicted upon it. Vykin's curse seal level one form was badass, and she was ready to destroy any lycan that she saw.

Sai paced through the streets quietly as he awaited any type of news from Sorain about the current positions of the Lycans or any on coming attacks, but it was still early and the chances of anything happening at the time was very slim. A small sigh left Sai's lips as the last few minutes felt like days to him, it was annoying how bored he was without having company. He was almost tempted to call Vykin over but he quickly shook it out of his head, he could not put a finger on it but he was sure there was something about her that he did not like. Since he and Vykin had she held some sort of air to her, maybe he was just imagining s**t but he couldn't get over he fact that she seemed to hold some sort of hatred towards him and because of that he couldn't help wanting to hurt her to the fullest of his abilities. Letting out another sigh he shook his head firmly trying to change the pace of thoughts within his head, maybe he would go check up on Sorain. Nope he couldn't do that cause he'd only distract Sorain from keeping a look out. "Damn it... Why did I have to end up on a mission that I can't have any fun on? s**t if things like this continue I might just put a hole through my own skull." He shouted at himself annoyed beyond contempt.

Taking in a deep breath to calm himself, Sai let out as a loud sigh that quickly turned into annoyed roar causing a near by group of villagers to stare at him awkwardly. Sai himself staring back as he froze in mid motion before deciding to break the strange moment as his anger rose again, "What the hell are you staring at?! Aren't you supposed to be evacuating the area you dumb founded ******** heads?" Sai shouted as the group jumped nervously at his sudden out burst before rushing off somewhere. A slight grin formed over Sai's lips as he felt some sort of satisfaction from yelling, which didn't last long as he found himself once again without anything to do. Growling loudly he slipped both of his arms out of the straps on the huge black gourd that he had been caring around with him, the gourd itself hovering in the area as if Sai was still caring it. A loud vibrating ring sounded out from within the gourd as it hovered in the area before becoming completely quiet, like wise the gourd fell straight to the ground cracking the floor beneath it loudly upon impact. "Tch, guess I have no choice but to practice for a little while..." He said quietly to himself with a sad contempt.

With a groan and a sigh, Sai quickly removed his dress shirt revealing the black tank top beneath and performed a short series of hand signs, a water clone forming just a few feet in front of him. Both Sai and the clone were holding onto the dress shirt in their left hand, with a sudden motion the two both threw the shirt to the side, and charged each other. The clone throwing a quick swing for Sai's head, its other hand pulling out a kunai swiftly to slash at Sai's body. In return, Sai smashed an open palm into the inner side of the arm, exact opposite side of the elbow, while his free arm clasped the clone’s wrist. Following up Sai turned his body so his back would be pressed against the clone’s chest as he bent the arm towards his own chest before bending himself, throwing the clone up and over his shoulder. The clone itself being caught by surprised still reacted perfectly as it was thrown over Sai's shoulder it did a small hop to help itself flip over and land on its feet, while at the same time it chucked the kunai straight to Sai's trapezoid. Quickly afterwards it spun in the opposite way of how Sai had bent its arm, causing it drop down onto it's knees pulling Sai towards it before it powerfully jumped up to rail it's head into Sai's chin. The reaction of the clone was unexpected but still futile to Sai as two marbles zoomed past and hit the kunai in mid air, the first causing it spin just above his shoulder and the second making the kunai fly off into a near by wall. At the same time Sai felt his body being tugged foreword as the clone head butted him the chin causing him to stumble backwards, but he didn't let his grip of the clone's wrist go. Pulling the clone with him Sai spun on his heel to force the clone of it's balance before sending a knee into its gut and double clutched fist into it's back.

Sai anted heavily as he patted of dust and dirt from his cloths his eyes wide in shock as he stared at a puddle of water not far of from him. A sigh released loudly from Sai as he stumbled back to his gourd and dropped his tired body to the ground and laid back onto the gourd that bean vibrating pleasantly against his back but his eyes never left that puddle of water. That same puddle of water had just recently been his water clone but in the middle of the spar, it had trans- Sai quickly shook his head and forced the thought out of his head, the last thing he needed was to think about that type of s**t on the mission... No he would worry about that afterwards. He let out another sigh as he closed his eyes and allowed himself to sink into a short sleep while he waited for Sorain to tell them what was going on with the Lycans.



A small buzz rung in Sai's ears as Vykin radioed in to find out about any movement on the Lycans from Sorain. A slight grin hit Sai's lips as he knew chances were Sorain was getting a high on being able to communicate with the headsets for once, instead of the usual once they were separated there's no contact until the mission ends. Shaking his head he let the grin slip away from his face as he tried to go back to sleep but was quickly shocked back to consciousness. Sorain was shouting out over the radio that they were surrounded by the Lycans and that they were strategically breaking into the village's weak points while escaping the view of his Byukagan. 'This is not good! How in the hell did they get pass his eyes? Even if they are getting through weak points, he should've seen them coming! ********... EH?!' Sai thought to himself as he moved himself into a crouching position trying to listen through Sorain's words to find out how many and where are the Lycans breaking through when he felt a bit of slime hit his hand. "EH?! What the FUC-" He started as he turned to see a large Lycan hanging over him, a claw clutching tightly around his gourd. Startled by how the beast had not only got into his own personal area with out him noticing but the fact that it's nasty a** slobber was now on his arm and its disgustingly dirty paw was clutching the top of his gourd was really getting to him. But he barely was given time to even marvel at the fact as the beast slashed at his head with it open paw, smacking him hard across the side of his face and sending him spiraling down the street and through an abandoned cart.

Sai gave a light laugh as he slowly stood up, his hand clutching his dizzy head as a small roar was sounded twice from two different directions. Wobbling around Sai looked up to see the original werewolf stalking him slowly down the street as another one, a slightly smaller werewolf charged past him and onto the roof behind him. "To hell your not goi-" Sai began to growl as he shook off his dizziness and jumped to grab the werewolf but was stopped in mid air as the first werewolf smashed a mighty paw into his chest cavity and sent him hurling in the opposite direction, stopping only when he smashed into a metallic lamp post that bent on impact. 'How could of that werewolf caught up so fast? It was too large and bulky to move that fast... Tch, my head must have been to screwed up from that blow it gave me to see right...' He thought to himself as he spat out some blood and watched the smaller werewolf speed across the rooftops in the direction the main base where Sorain was suppose to be keeping watch for these beasts. The other werewolf stood there solemnly as it watched the other one leaving but kept an eye on Sai incase he moved to stop it again. Sighing Sai raised a hand to the headset, "Oy Sorain. We got a little problem... There's a lycan heading your way, stay sha-" Yo b***h...You might want to rethink the hand to hand thing, A grin spread across Sai's face as he looked back up to the werewolf in front of him as he realized that the little werewolf had already reached Sorain and even worse then that his headset had been broken... He can hear Vykin and Sorain but they can't hear him.

Sighing slightly he pushed himself up off of the lamp post, his eyes never leaving the werewolf as he started popping his neck, back and knuckles one after another leaving a sickening ring in the air. "... I'm hungry... And you look like you'd go good with some bar-b-que sauce and onions..." Sai said with a wide grin as he charged straight at the Lycan, which merely watched him with a dull interest before swinging a heavy paw at him. Spinning on his heel Sai rolled off the paw and smashed two open palms into the arm of the werewolf while continuing his spin so to use the back of his palms to hit the werewolf's neck and snout with closed fists. Coming out of the spin right after the hits Sai quickly smashed his right foot into the ground before kicking off and using a bent knee to hit the werewolf in the gut and follow up with his grabbing the fur on it back as leverage to spin in mid air, giving the beast his back, and using his free foot to smash into the werewolf's chin violently. In turn the attack caused him to soar away from the beast, his out stretched hands catching the ground quickly so to do a back flip and land on his feet instead of his face. "Heh... No effect..." Sai said sadly as he turned around to see the beast standing there seemingly curious of Sai now but showing absolutely no notice of the series of blows that was landed on it's body.

Taking in a deep breath Sai prepared himself to charge the beast again in hopes of taking it down this time but was caught off guard as the beast decided to take the offensive and tackled him to the floor with its massive body. Gasping for air as the weight of the lycan's body forced out all of the air pent in his lungs, he began trying to squirm his way out from its body but found himself unable to with his arms and legs trapped beneath its body and his mind slowly beginning to go fuzzy as he was no longer able to take in air. Was this how he was going to die? With some stupid, lazy animal lying on top of him crushing his chest in? No impossible, for him to survive Bairel, Gin, and Zoshi... the Mysterious Medic Assassin Organization... Sen and Zen the Akimichi Twins... Embry the psychotic Genjutsu b***h... The muscle enhanced Shinji... and even Sora? Only to suffocate to death from beneath a stupid beast? 'Now that is some funny s**t...' Sai thought to himself sadly as he attempted to chuckle but only forced himself into more pain from lack of air. A few more moments and he would have blanked out and eventually died under the beast but for some reason it rolled off him and growled tiredly as if it had completely forgotten Sai was underneath it.

With a single paw, it slashed at Sai's limp body sending him flying through the window of a nearby shop, the glass shattering as Sai made contact with him. Giving a short snort the beast took off towards the base where the lycan that had escaped Sai had also ran off to, Enjoy life in hell Could be heard through the head set as Sorain finished off the Lycan with two needles going into it's heart. "Tch... Good to hear everything is good on your side..." Sai said into the headset knowing full well that nobody could hear him. A pain laugh left his lips as he laid in the bed of shattered glass, his eyes staring at the ceiling of the shop. It was usually Sorain who was the one that had problems on the missions and he was suppose to be the one was capable of just soaring through it with a wide smile and carefree attitude. 'It seems as though all that training you've been doing on your own has really been effective, eh Sorain? Heh, I guess I've lost my bragging rights on this mission...' Sai thought to himself, his mind becoming silent as he closed his eyes and listened to his surroundings. The area was peacefully silent except for the sound of a sluggish movement of the large lycan that had just finished using Sai as a rag doll. Grunting loudly Sai pushed himself to a sitting position, wincing as he felt a shard of glass cut him along his forearm. '...Heh, well either way... I promise you that I'll never fall behind. Tch, you'll always find yourself staring at my back when it comes to anything...' He thought to himself as he finally found the strength to stand up to his feet. With a contempt growl, Sai yanked out the shard of glass from his forearm and hopped through the window as he quickly chucked the shard of glass at the Lycan's back. he glass sharply impaling the beasts back, or so Sai thought at first, but it only just shattered and fell to the floor as the beast turned to see Sai standing just in front of the shattered glass. "Heh.... Did ya miss me?" Sai asked with a sarcastic tone before charging at the beast as it turned to look at him and give a mighty roar just before charging at Sai it's self.

Sai's hand fell to the pouch at his side, with a swift tug he undid the strings that bound it shut and kept his marbles safe for him. A grin whisped across his face as the marbles floated out of the black pouch and wrapped themselves around his forearm, clawing there way upto his hand as it clencthed into a fist. Swinging his arm backwards as he neared the Lycan, who itself was raising its mighty claws to slash Sai out of it's way. Just before the two met the marble encased fist started blasting out chakra as each marble began to spin on there own causing a chain reaction much like when one gear spins and another right next to it spins at the same time continuously feeding off each other to maximize full strength. A loud roar escaped Sai's mouth as he swung with all his might into the Lycan's chest cavity, the fur on its back blasting off as smoke billowed from the area and the beast became limp on Sai's fist. A few moments later five marbles blasted from it's skull, left and right side, the middle of its spin, and its chest just as Sai removed his arm allowing the dead beast to fall to the ground. Just as the fist had made impact with the Lycan, Sai used the spiralling spheres at his knuckles and one extra one to pierce through the tough skin of the beast. He'd known full well despite how much chakra he had pumped into the attack it wouldn't fall the giant beast so he did that as a safety percuassion to make sure it died.

Sai sighed heavily as he looked down at the now dead body of the Lycan, blood pouring freely from various areas on it's body. "Heh, guess it's time to go meet up with Sorain and Vykin... Ah, but I need my gourd first!" Sai said as he let his head drop and began walking hurriedly back to where he had left his gourd when the Lycan had innitately attacked him. The current marbles that he had used to fight the beast were now zooming around his body and the perspective area around his body to protect him incase of another surprise attack. 'Tch, I'm seriously gonna be in need of a good long massage after this. Hmm, I wonder if there's any good massage palors in this little village? I'll have to check that out later.' Laughing Sai continued to make his way down the path to where his gourd laid abandon, his thoughts randomly switching from one subject to the next as his eyes wondered about keeping watch for any Lycan movement.

It was only a few moments before Sai finally found his way back to where he had first been attacked by the Lycan. His button down shirt laying on the dirty floor not to far away from the black gourd. Sighing he made a simple gesture and immediately the gourd zoomed up into the air before floating towards him, a low humming sound ringing from with in the gourd itself. "Hmm, thats right... WHAT THE ******** DID SORAIN MEAN BY, Im getting ready for an...uh...an surgery" Sai shouted out slightly upset and doing his best to make a girly voice when he quoted Sorain, "When I find that little freakin' cockroach I'm gonna kick his a** until he spills what he ment by surgery!" He said as he grasped on of the straps of the gourd and slung it onto his arm before taking off, his body flickering out of existance as he attempted to close in on the distance between him and the main gate where Sorain and Vykin were currently in there own little battles.

A stun look appeared across Sai's face as he hung from the side of a building wall watching upon two frightening scenes... At the exact same time from two different areas of the gate Sorain and Vykin were both fighting 4 on 1 battles and both of them were completely dominating the fights. Sorain merely walking across the fighting area, his skin emmiting a strange dark aura as he seemed to be paralyzing the Lycans somehow before giving them the finishing blow. Vykin on the other hand was currently having a battle that was going from the ground to the air and back to the ground as she seemed to be protecting the stray puppy that he had seen followng her around. Within mere moments a red chakra had envolped the girl as what seemed to be a barbed wire like tattoo spread across her body, branching off to cover her entire body. In the next second she had already slain all the Lycans she had been fighting. 'I'm useless...' Sai thought to himself with a sadness building within him but he quickly shook it from his mind and jumped off of the building and landed into the clearing beneath it looking from Vykin to Sorain and back to Vykin. "Well I see you've both been busy." He said still amazed at how he had been beaten up so badly by one Lycan and the two of them had just the same amount of damage as him, if not less while fighting more then he had.

Sorain looked at the dead wolf on the roof of what seemed to be a cofee shop. Its blood was seaping and staining its fur as well as the others around it. Sorain smiled and pulled out a vile from his sleeve and then, holding his hand out and touching the beast arm, the hair on it died and fell off, exposing bare skin. Using a quick motion Sorain pulled out a needle and took a large sample of blood. Then holding out his wrist he slide the vile under his skin and then hid his arm in his sleeve ( you can notice this but you wont be able to see it clearly). Almost as soon as he felt Sai close to him he flinched and drew in the dark charka like a vacuum.

Sorain had been secreatly studing the dark medical arts and had made it a very important factor to add some dark medical jutsu to his book including what he just used, "Reversed Pulse" Making the heart suck blood in instead of pumping it out, cuasing the victem to be light headed and eventually pass out, he could even go so far as to make them die. But it was not an offical jutsu you, he just knew the process. He had not worked out the mechanical needs that a jutsu must have, he figured he would do it once he got home, now that he knew it was effective.

Sorain turned to see Sai half a block away looking very injured,"Dam. He must have got jumped big time." He said taking two steps then jumping into the air and teleporting to where Sai was, He was sure that Vykin was not too far off"Sup bro, uh... The leaders are gone, and the rest are dead. I think that they waisted too much time because it seems as though they are in there human forms now, We could go after them but I dought that we would be able to tell them apart from nourmal people now." He said holding his arms into his kimono sleeves.

"Can we please collect our ryo and go home now?" He asked taking off the head set and holding out his hand,"Give it" He said, already knowing that it was broken, he wondered why he had been hearing static instead of Sais voice.

Sai blinked heavily before letting out an heavy sigh and turned to look back out at the clearing ahead of him where Vykin and the dog were surrounded by all of the defeated Lycans, "Tch, what happened to the good ole days where he couldn't run away or even match me in strength? .... Hmmm, oh well. I'll find him and make him spill about that damn surgery." He said quietly to himself before getting up himself and making his way down to Vykin.

Sai frowned as he noticed Vykin begin to measure him up, his frown becoming even more deepened as she offered him to go drink, "Heh... Got the wrong shinobi here. I don't drink. Thanks anyways..." He said as he backed away from her slightly and shifted the gourd on his back slightly. Sai personally didn't care what the girl thought of him because of his rejection to her offer and chances were a moment where could get to know her and become friends would never present itself again to him but he still didn't care. At the moment he was to tired and even if he wasn't he didn't drink and that wasn't going to change. Plus the girl gave him the willies, there was something... not natural about her. "Either way, take care of yourself. I'm gonna go home and get some rest." He said as he turned away from Vykin before dissappearing suddenly as he teleported off into the distance.