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Chapter 7
Isabella quickly stepped towards Ichigo and engaged him in taijutsu immediately. She launched a left jab to the face followed by a quick under cut into his stomach. While Ichigo blocked the jab, he took the undercut and bent forward slightly. With the right, Isabella followed with an uppercut, causing Ichigo to stumble backwards. She advanced and launched a left hook and then a right reverse punch right in the center of his face, both connecting. She followed by a right round house which sent him flying to the side.
Ichigo re-took his balance quickly as Isabella appeared above him with her hands cupped and swinging downwards. He blocked above with his right and came around to her body with the left knife hand into her liver. Isabella was moved back slightly and Ichigo took advantaged and threw a left round house. Isabella ducked under the kick and threw three quick jabs, one to the inside of Ichigo’s right knee, his thigh, and bladder, causing him to topple to his left. Isabella rose and swung her left leg to hit Ichigo on the ground. Ichigo used his hands to block the kick and vaulted over her leg, grabbing it as he came to stand on his one good leg. Raising his elbow, he came down on Isabella’s knee, breaking the bone. Isabella let out a small sound of pain and grit her teeth as Ichigo threw her. He stumbled back after the throw from the own pain he was feeling in his right leg and stomach. On the ground, Isabella activated her Mangekyou Sharingan and Ichigo did the same.
“Tsukuyomi!” Both shinobi yelled as they gazed into each other’s eyes. Chaos ensued within the minds of both shinobi as the clarity was distorted from both shinobi casting genjutsu. Suddenly Ichigo appeared on an operating table in the middle of a blood red room and a woman with hair just as red as the room, wearing a white jacket, gloves and a face mask, appeared over him with a scalpel.
“Are you really entering a genjutsu battle with me?” Isabella said with a stare icier than that of death itself. Isabella stuck a scalpel in Ichigo’s stomach and sliced upwards to his neck. She then threw the scalpel down and using her hands, she began ripping his chest apart, spattering his blood all over her white mask and jacket. Ichigo groaned in pain as she ripped away at his flesh. She then stuck her hand inside his intestines and started to pull them out, making room for the kunai she placed inside, puncturing his liver and one of his kidneys. A hand reached from behind Isabella, stopping her from placing another object within Ichigo. She turned to see another illusion of Ichigo holding her back. She snatches away and the body on the operating table disappears.
“I’m not stupid enough to do that, this is the only defense I have to your damned illusions.” Ichigo said as he panted from the exhaustion on his mind.
“Then get the hell out.” Isabella said calmly. The illusion ended and upon returning to reality, Ichigo found Isabella mending her injury with her basic medical techniques.
“What the hell, how are you—”
“You thought that you were in one of my illusions defending against it, that in it of itself was an illusion you put on yourself. My genjutsu was only to make you think you’d need to stay within Tsukuyomi in order to defend yourself when in actuality all you had to do was release your own illusion. I left about a second after using the jutsu, you were there for about 30. I find your ineptitude with genjutsu hilarious though Ichi-kun.” Isabella smiled, “Though I suppose you have to be pretty skilled to cast an illusion where you torture yourself, stop it and then realize it was all your creation.”
“Still a rotten ***** as always Isabella,” Ichigo said in spite, “Though that leg of yours doesn’t look too well.”
“I don’t need to stand, you want to continue this fight?!” Isabella shouted.
“hmph, I’ll pass, dealing with you is too much of a pain in the ass. Just looking at your face and hearing you speak makes me sick and I simply don’t have the energy to deal with it.”
“Fine, hope you go blind and fall into an abyss, have a nice trip home.” Isabella’s tone was gentle and soothing despite her words.
Ichigo bit his thumb and summoned a large crow under him and it flew away, kicking sand from beat in a whirlwind.
Isabella turned her attention to Guren, who’s flesh was almost completely blackened from the flames of Amaterasu. The flames had dispersed while Ichigo had casted Tsukuyomi, however, Guren’s condition was critical. The same went for Rasnall.
Isabella sighed, “Well this is pretty ugly,” She made three shadow clones, crossing her fingers to make the seal. “Okay, one of you take me over to Guren and then head back and get some more medics on the scene. The other, go try and see what’s up with that poison in Rasnall and try and keep him from dying.”
One of the clones picked up Isabella and put her on their back and walked over to Guren. Isabella turned her attention to the sky, watching the black bird progressively get smaller and smaller as it flew away. *So…it’s begun.*
***
“Orochimaru-sama!” a shinobi burst through Orochimaru’s doors with a look of panic racing through his entire body, “Both towers…Hagi and the central…” The shinobi was panting heavily.“Calm down, catch your breath and speak clearly,” Orochimaru said.
“Both towers were attacked, by the Akasuki. Several of our shinobi were killed and Guren, Rasnall and Isabella-sama are injured.”
“hum, I see.” Orochimaru said uninterested.
“Orochimaru-sama, how can you be taking this so lightly?!”
“I would’ve been more concerned but then you mentioned Isabella, and this was already expected so I’m not too upset about it.”
“But Isabella is hurt!”
“Not too badly though.”
“How would you know?!” The shinobi shouted in frustration, he quickly caught his tong and bowed apologetically, “Forgive me Orochimaru-sama!”
“Am I to assume Isabella is more seriously hurt?”
“Well, uhh, her knee was broken but by the time more people arrived, she had reduced it to a less severe fracture…however there’s still Guren and Rasnall. They’re strong members too and they’re in critical condition.”
“But they’re still alive so we’ll count that blessing. Now, run along and tend to your other duties. I was informed on all of this mere moments before your arrival by Asura.”
“Wait, so you already knew about the attack, Isabella and all the rest? Why didn’t you say anything?!”
“Because it’s fun teasing you guys every once in a while.” Orochimaru smiled, “You don’t have a problem with that…do you?”
The shinobi looked at the Mizukage in a rather frightened manor as the leader made his rather rhetorical remark. The shinobi swallowed and nodded his head, “Of course not, Mizukage-sama…I guess…I guess I’ll just take my leave then. Excuse me.” The shinobi bowed and left.
As the Kiri soldier left, Orochimaru’s smile faded and his expression became rather serious as he glanced towards the window of his office.
***
Ichigo’s giant black crow dispersed as they began to fly over the main continent. Ichigo dropped from sky and as he entered the forests, he leapt downwards from tree to tree to slow down before he hit the ground.“So, you stuck me with one of your clones instead actually helping me?” Ichigo said as he rose. The body of Zetsu began to emerge from a nearby tree just to the left of Ichigo.
“Hehehe, sorry, leader had some other plans for me. He didn’t think you’d need too much help taking down the towers, I guess he was wrong eh?”
“Just shut up,” Ichigo began walking away as he brought his right hand up to his head.
“ehhhhh? A headache? Overusing your Mangekyou again huh? I thought you hated using them?”
“You fool,” The black half of Zetsu spoke, cutting off the white half, “If he used them in the first place, he obviously had a good reason.”
“That evil trick Isabella showed up,” Ichigo said.
“Ahhh, that makes sense…good thing we weren’t there, we would’ve gotten hurt!” The White Zetsu said with a rather shaken voice.
A kunai flew past Zetsu’s head and right into the tree. Ichigo looked back at the plant like entity with a look of scorn and simply walked away, annoyed.
“W..wait, Ichigo!” Zetsu exited the tree fully and the two members of Akatsuki walked off into the distance. Zetsu suddenly stopped in a few paces behind Ichigo and turned his head.
“What is it?” Ichigo asked, shifting his glance back partially.
“I don’t know…”
“What? Stop messing around and let’s go.”
Zetsu turned back around and began walking again with Ichigo.
Approximately 15 kilometers east of the two shinobi, Near sat in his fetal position with his knees against his chest and his head partially buried. He sat against a tree staring wide eyed with his Byakugan. The direction of Ichigo and Zetsu were to his right, however he simply stared straight. His focus was eastward looking directly at the two shinobi peering directly at the two shinobi as they walked.
“They didn’t notice yet…” Near said as he slowly took out a small black book and a pen. He began writing down information about the two shinobi, maintaining his wide eyes. “Yosh…this is a good distance to maintain. The hunt should begin soon.”
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Damn, almost forgot this. Alright, as stated in the previous chapter, this little incident is based off of Akatsuki's attempt to attack and take Kirigakure...or rather their two man assault. They were pretty arrogant back then and probably thought they only needed two or three members to take our entire village but Idk, I'll leave that personal opinion out of it. Now, as I said before, the fight between Pervy and Lili-Chwan didn't happen, she just showed up, or was on the verge of doing so and that was enough for people to say "**** it, we're out" mainly out of "we don't want to deal with Lili bs" or "we don't want to deal with arguing bs at all"...I chose to go with the former for this, feel it made a better story, lol, Pervy's character said he wasn't going to deal with her crap and just split.
As for the fight scene, I probably added some of my own bias for my sensei Lili for the sake of the story. I knew she was rather taijutsu savvy at one point so I thought I'd add that in there. Though I wasn't sure of Pervy's actual depth of taijutsu skills since I never associated with him much so I may have underestimated his skill in the art. I remember having a conversation with him though, and hearing from others about his genjutsu abilities. Not to say he was inept in them as I somewhat made him, but he was never a guy to fiddle with genjutsu I've heard and discussed with him. The fact that he wasn't that much into genjutsu or using it and Lili basically dwells within the illusionary arts (Sage of Deceit REALLY suits her btw) I figured I'd hype that ability of hers over Pervy's in that regard.
The rest of the chapter, mainly Near's follow of the Akatsuki is not something that actually happened, or something that I documented that is part of the actual situation of this event I'm re-telling, however, considering what is...coming soon...I feel as though it's an appropriate addition. Oh and for people who know what I'm talking about that last thing Near says "The hunt" you should keep those words in mind, might bring up some...memories and foreshadowing
Hope you all enjoy, RPers and non-Rpers alike.
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