Nikkou Arashi
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I guess it took longer for me to put this one up. Battle scenes are always a struggle for me. I hope I did not make a lame one here. But I'm sure I did not. The battle did not contain a lot of details but it should have been filled with smoke, colliding jutsus and all if in anime and - I sure did have to work hard on the Ice Prison Maze! 
Glimpse from the previous chapters:
So Naruto told Sakura, Sai, and Skye about Kakashi being the Jounin who failed to protect Arashi years ago. And just what happened that night will be revealed in this chapter and the next.
I hope you would enjoy and leave some reviews.
Weaving Destiny 13: The Enemies’ Jutsus Revealed
“Oh, Kakashi-Sensei,” Naruto cut through after the group has gone back to normal.
“I have something that I think must have belonged to you.” He showed Kakashi the head protector and gave him a big smile.
Kakashi took the head protector slowly and smiled (of course a smile can still form out from behind the mask, right?). He took a deep breath and said;
“Ah, you’re right, Naruto. This was mine. I gave it to her when hers was completely damaged during that last mission.”
“Ehm,” Sakura cleared her throat.”Naruto told us about her, Kakashi-sensei. We’ll help you in every way we can.”
Kakashi looked at them – Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and even Skye – they all seem to be determined to get her back.
“Well, I think you all have to know every detail first.” He said as he started to tell them what happened on the 14th of April, 16 years ago.
“C’mon, Arashi we need to get back to the village and fast!” the 15 year old Kakashi, commanded the 12 year old Arashi who was just about to get a rest.
“But, Yuki just relieved me of my post.” She complained softly. Not that she had always been a good genin to him from the start; he was the person she hated most so she made herself a real pain in his head - until he rescued her from one of her power outbursts during the chunnin exams. Since then, she stopped hating him, ceased teasing him with his hairstyle by calling him porcupine head and gave him the respect he truly deserves.
“I’ll explain everything on our way back.” Kakashi sighed after realizing that Arashi seemed really exhausted at the moment. For the past three weeks, all they did was train and she gave all her best even if it meant draining her almost after every session. As a result, she was able to master the Vanishing Light Limit. And when she did, she even played prank on him with it.
He paused for awhile and grinned as he remembered that morning of their departure. That was also the day when Arashi was proclaimed a chunnin. He was still in a deep sleep when he suddenly felt like his room was getting warmer. He turned to face the window to catch some air but then…
“Ugh! It’s noon already!” He immediately jumped out of the bed seeing that the sun is already at its height. His new team is going off to a mission today. He intends to meet them late though, but not this late. He scurried out of the bed and to his closet to dress up when he heard a familiar giggle.
“Hihihihi…” Arashi materialized, and the high noon sun suddenly disappeared revealing an early morning light where the sun is just rising from the east.
“I finally tricked you, didn’t I, Kakashi-sempai?!” Arashi proudly giggled and laughed.
“Vanishing Light Limit, ha! Why you little imp!”
“Pbbbt! That’s for always coming late!” She continued to laugh and rejoiced. Arashi loves playing pranks to those close to her. She was really good at it except for Kakashi. She had never trick him into anything until now.
“Now, I’ll wait for you outside to make sure that you don’t go back to sleep again and make us wait for three hours.” She said with arms crossed, and her usual left eyebrow raised expression.
“And oh, don’t forget to put on your pants!” She giggled one last time and jumped out of the window.
That was 3 days ago. Yondaime never intends to send them to this mission knowing how exhausted Arashi have been with the training but the client even had a letter from the Fire Lord to grant him what he requested. And that is having Arashi on it. Good thing the client agreed to have Kakashi in after knowing how dangerous it is at this point for Arashi to be sent out into missions.
But Kakashi had a bad feeling about the mission and so he kept his guard at all times. And now, just a little while ago, he was able to confirm his suspicions. He never thought that Yuki would be the traitor though. He was Arashi’s cousin and they have been really close – at least that’s what they all knew. He noticed that Yuki’s patrol was way off so he tailed on him.
“We have a jounin with us Saburo-sama. His name is Hatake Kakashi and he’s really a powerful one.” He heard Yuki talking to a man he does not know. “He could get through the Hell’s Wrath Sunlight and stop it with his lightning technique.”
With that, he realized that someone have been after Arashi’s abilities. So he rushed back to where Arashi is. He’s bringing her back to the village.
“Where’s Yuki?” Arashi asked noticing that Kakashi is really in a hurry, he was helping her pack up instead of look for Yuki.
“Let’s go!”
Kakashi grabbed her almost carrying her to make sure that she could keep up with him.
“I found Yuki talking to someone, Arashi. This whole mission is a plot for him to get a hold of your powers.”
“Huh?!”
Arashi was surprised with his words. It was just unbelievable. But she have already come to trust Kakashi with all her heart and soul. After those countless times that Kakashi have saved her, she knew that he will do anything to protect her.
“I know you are exhausted, Arashi.” He said with a concerned tone as they came to a short pause. “But we have to hurry or they’ll catch up with us…I- - I don’t want to lose you.” Kakashi said, a little embarrassed.
He looked straight into her eyes to show her how sincere he is with his words. Then, he nudged in signal for them move on.
ZING! ZING!
All of a sudden, shurikens went flying from behind them.
TSUG! TSUG!
Went the sloshing sounds of shurikkens hitting tree branches as they tried to avoid them. They both looked back to where the shurikkens were coming from and discovered that Yuki have caught up with them.
“There’s no escaping, Kakashi! You can’t protect Arashi from here!” Yuki exclaimed continuing the chase.
The three teens ran through the darkness of the night as one chases the two.
ZING! ZING!
“Ugh!”
“Kakashi!”
“Got you!” Yuki excitedly called out hitting Kakashi with 3 shurikkens.
“Not so fast, Yuki!”
“Huh?...a replacement technique, then?”
Yuki, on one of the trees’ branches tried to speak back as Kakashi pins his face into the tree.
“Ha!...ahahahaha!” Yuki’s voice suddenly changed from being a boy into a man.
“Kakashi, step back! That is not Yuki!” Arashi cried. “And don’t look at him in the eye!”
“Huh?” Kakashi did as Arashi said and jumps beside her. “You know this guy?”
“Yes, he is Ryu and he is one of those who betrayed my village. Look!” Arashi pointed out to the tree as Yuki’s body fell off from Ryu all drained and half-dead.
“Ryu is a soul caster. He can make an exact replica of another person’s body by taking their soul into his. The technique takes place when you charge an attack to him with a look in his eyes. He uses the momentum you exert in your attack and vacuums your soul to him and sends the soul in another dimension. A normal person will die once he releases the technique. For ninjas, the least is 3 days, depending on how large their chakra reserves are.”
“Very well, Arashi.” Ryu said with an evil grin. His right hand holds Yuki by his collar. “Very smart of you to have remembered my clan’s technique after being shown at a very young age.”
“You bastard! You used your technique on my mother and killed her! Ahhhh!”
“Wait!” Kakashi called and ran behind Arashi as she charged toward Ryu.
“Flaring shurikken dance!”
Five shurikkens flaring like the sun swiftly danced their way toward Ryu.
“Oooh...want your cousin, Arashi?”
“No!” Kakashi immediately sped up and threw five kunais to redirect Arashi’s flaring shurikkens and prevent them from hitting Yuki.
“Dimwitt! Fight like a man!” Arashi continued to dash forward passing through Kakashi who caught Yuki just before he hits the ground.
“Tch! Still charging according to her anger. Ah, she’s hopeless!” Kakashi grumbled.
“Thank you, Kakashi.” Yuki said weakly. “I’m sorry…I-I tried to argue with my uncle to stop this nonsense but instead, he used his soul caster technique on me to lure you into them 2 days ago. They sent me to the Konaha Academy as Arashi’s cousin and befriend her. My mission was to lure her back to her traitor uncle, Saburo of the Hoishi Clan. He has the ability to control someone else’s abilities with his Mind and Memory Submission Technique. But Arashi have been a very good friend to me. She was just like my little sister who died in the war; troublesome but sweet and gentle. So as time passed by, I wanted to be a big brother to her. To protect her like you always do. If I will never make it through tonight, Kakashi, please promise me – protect her with all your life not because you are…”
“Ah,” Kakashi nodded and stopped Yuri. “Don’t worry Yuki. Even if you don’t say so, I have been protecting her and will continue to protect her not because I am in charge of her but because she is important to me.” Kakashi assured Yuki.
“Thank you, Kakashi.”
“Mm.” Kakashi nodded. “Now hold on and stay here while I help that iron head girl over there.”
“Shadow clone technique!” Ryu jumps off the tree and Arashi made 3 shadow clones as she stopped dashing toward him 10 meters from him. Two were visible as she created the other underground.
“Now, go! Water bullet technique!” Arashi released a water technique while her clones left, right, and below went with it.
“Earth wall technique!” Countered Ryu but to his surprise, from the wall emerged Arashi’s clone who was traveling underground and calculated which part of the earth would Ryu raise to block the water bullet.
“Explode!” Went all three clones as each of them threw in 2 kunais with paper bombs toward Ryu.
“Wind tornado defense!” Immediately, a gust of wind went whirling about Ryu sending the Kunais to explode somewhere else.
“Fire Dragon Flame Technique” As soon as he got a clear view of Arashi’s location, Ryu fired a fire dragon technique at her.
Seeing the situation, Kakashi rushed with a water technique to dissolve the fire before it reaches Arashi.
“Water Dragon Bullet Technique!”
“Ha! That won’t keep me from getting to you! - - Root binding technique!” Shortly after Ryu said so, roots sprouted from where Kakashi and Arashi are. Each of them had one root curling from their feet and up to their waists thus, keeping them from running.
“Damn!” Kakashi said. “I didn’t see that coming!” The roots wildly swayed both Arashi and Kakashi and they just could not break free from it.
“Ahhhhh!” Yuki screamed in rage as he sees Ryu maneuver the roots to raise Kakashi and Arashi higher.
“Fire blades technique!” Determined to keep his word and stand up as Arashi’s big brother, Yuki exerted all that’s left in him to free Kakashi and Arashi from the roots that bind them before they get slammed to the ground; he created two blade looking fires to burn and cut the roots that gripped Kakashi and Arashi. They immediately gained momentum and landed unhurt beside Yuki.
“Ugh!” Yuki groaned weakened from what he did.
“Yuki!” Arashi immediately assisted him before he totally falls on the ground. “You should not move now. I’ll try to revive you, okay?”
“I-it’s okay, little sister…” He replied with how he fondly calls her. Resting on Arashi’s arms, he tried to give her an assurance smile. But still, tears started creeping down her eyes as usual. “You are such a cry baby. I’ll be all right. I’m sorry I’ve got you in to this. I –“
“Oh, please don’t talk anymore…” Arashi replied with a broken voice. Then she gently lays him on the ground and applied a healing palm technique she learned from Tsunade.
“Ho-ho-ho…” Came the sound of a man coming forth beside Ryu.
“U-uncle Saburo…” Arashi whisphered as she continued to revive Yuki. Kakashi was standing in front with his back on them for cover.
“You know him, Arashi?” Kakashi said with a side glance.
“Ah, he is the one with the mind and memory technique and he knows ice crystal jutsus, too.”
“Eyy? – you seem to have a good memory being showed all our abilities at a very young age. Hmn, you were just 4 years old at that time.” Saburo replied mockingly.
“Tch!” Arashi held back. She needs to concentrate on reviving Yuki at least to a running state. That’s all she can do for now as she is running low in chakra, too.
“Sorry guys, I’m late.” A woman jumped in from behind Ryu and Saburo.
“Shin – “ Yuki said.
“A-ha” The woman replied, and as she said that, the surroundings suddenly went foggy. Freezing cold mists started to build up around them.
“You should be okay now.” Arashi said to Yuki.
“Thank you.”
“Stay close to each other.” Kakashi said, telling them to stick together. Yuki and Arashi got up and stood back to back with Kakashi.
“Hmmn, this is strange – sharingan!” Kakashi activated his Sharingan and immediately realizes that they are held in a genjutsu. “This is genjutsu! Try to break free from it!”
Shin, a rogue ninja specializes genjutsu. She is capable of casting a group in genjutsu making a 3-man cell team think that they are just in the same battlefield.
“Release!” The three of them broke free from the genjutsu but as the freezing fog went off, before them are walls of ice reflecting their every move.
“What the - ?!” They chorused in surprise.
“Ice prison maze!” Arashi said. “I’ve never seen how this works but my dad said there is no escape from this maze.”
“Huh?” Yuki and Kakashi gasp.
“Mm, there is always a weakness for every jutsu. Let’s go and find out.” Kakashi encouraged the group.
And so they started walking. Kakashi had his sharingan activated and used it to analyze every data that is available. They are standing in a hall of two ice mirror walls – left and right. The one on their end closes with another ice mirror wall and up ahead is another ice mirror wall casting an endless reflection of their selves. It also closes perpendicularly with the ice mirror wall to their right. The wall on the left is open and all walls are infused with chakra.
“Beyond that wall on our left is another hall of ice mirror walls and to the left is an exit after the wall extends five meters.” Kakashi said as he sees a discontinued wall of chakra.
[Here's a sketch of the current situation]
“Huh? That easy?” Arashi said in surprise thinking that her dad just told her that no one has ever come out of the ice prison maze alive.
“Well, I believe there’s going to be more to that than what I am seeing.” Kakashi furthered. “Let’s keep walking and don’t let your guard down.”
“Hmn, stop.” He said after making the first left turns. “There is a trick here. For some reason, the exit that I calculated awhile ago extended to another enclosure making the exit available on the next turn again.”
[How the previous situation developed is in the 2nd drawing]
“Ung!”
“Yuki!” Arashi gasped as Yuki started to weaken again. She assisted her to stand.
“What the…” To Kakashi’s surprise, he sees chakra rushing off from Yuki and Arashi. When he looked at himself, chakra are smoking out of him, too.
“The two ice mirrors behind and in front of us are sucking our chakras.” Kakashi said. “So that’s how it works. This maze is built up as you continue to go through it. It extends as far as your chakra can take you. The moment our reflections are reflected from this mirror behind us, it channels our chakra to the one in front of us thus extending the exit to another turn. If we continue to each end of the walls and get our selves reflected on each end, the walls will continue to extend until we are drained out of chakra and die.”
“This maze is a chase to the exit!” Kakashi concluded.
[The development of the situation they are in how the maze would go on]
“What do we do then? We’ll never get to the other side without being reflected…” Arashi stopped as she realized something. “You mean…”
“Ah,” Kakashi nodded. “We have to be invisible. But you’re really running low in chakra, Arashi.”
“No, I can still manage." Arashi grabbed Kakashi and Yuki close to her. “Vanishing Light Limit!”
With that, they vanished before reaching the next turn. Stepping through the next hall, the ice mirror wall in front of them stopped extending as Kakashi calculated. Turning left once again, they were finally able to reach the exit.
“Kakashi, lets continue to run off with the Vanishing Light Limit.” Arashi suggested. Saburo and his group is still within the vicinity.
“B-but –“
“We have no other choice, Kakashi. Yuki needs immediate assistance. We have to bring him back to Konoha right away.”
“Okay.”
And so in the darkness of the night, three teens run off within its shadows fleeing from a threat that endangers not only their lives but the world’s, too.
Glimpse from the previous chapters:
So Naruto told Sakura, Sai, and Skye about Kakashi being the Jounin who failed to protect Arashi years ago. And just what happened that night will be revealed in this chapter and the next.
I hope you would enjoy and leave some reviews.
Weaving Destiny 13: The Enemies’ Jutsus Revealed
“Oh, Kakashi-Sensei,” Naruto cut through after the group has gone back to normal.
“I have something that I think must have belonged to you.” He showed Kakashi the head protector and gave him a big smile.
Kakashi took the head protector slowly and smiled (of course a smile can still form out from behind the mask, right?
). He took a deep breath and said;“Ah, you’re right, Naruto. This was mine. I gave it to her when hers was completely damaged during that last mission.”
“Ehm,” Sakura cleared her throat.”Naruto told us about her, Kakashi-sensei. We’ll help you in every way we can.”
Kakashi looked at them – Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and even Skye – they all seem to be determined to get her back.
“Well, I think you all have to know every detail first.” He said as he started to tell them what happened on the 14th of April, 16 years ago.
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“C’mon, Arashi we need to get back to the village and fast!” the 15 year old Kakashi, commanded the 12 year old Arashi who was just about to get a rest.
“But, Yuki just relieved me of my post.” She complained softly. Not that she had always been a good genin to him from the start; he was the person she hated most so she made herself a real pain in his head - until he rescued her from one of her power outbursts during the chunnin exams. Since then, she stopped hating him, ceased teasing him with his hairstyle by calling him porcupine head and gave him the respect he truly deserves.
“I’ll explain everything on our way back.” Kakashi sighed after realizing that Arashi seemed really exhausted at the moment. For the past three weeks, all they did was train and she gave all her best even if it meant draining her almost after every session. As a result, she was able to master the Vanishing Light Limit. And when she did, she even played prank on him with it.
He paused for awhile and grinned as he remembered that morning of their departure. That was also the day when Arashi was proclaimed a chunnin. He was still in a deep sleep when he suddenly felt like his room was getting warmer. He turned to face the window to catch some air but then…
“Ugh! It’s noon already!” He immediately jumped out of the bed seeing that the sun is already at its height. His new team is going off to a mission today. He intends to meet them late though, but not this late. He scurried out of the bed and to his closet to dress up when he heard a familiar giggle.
“Hihihihi…” Arashi materialized, and the high noon sun suddenly disappeared revealing an early morning light where the sun is just rising from the east.
“I finally tricked you, didn’t I, Kakashi-sempai?!” Arashi proudly giggled and laughed.
“Vanishing Light Limit, ha! Why you little imp!”
“Pbbbt! That’s for always coming late!” She continued to laugh and rejoiced. Arashi loves playing pranks to those close to her. She was really good at it except for Kakashi. She had never trick him into anything until now.
“Now, I’ll wait for you outside to make sure that you don’t go back to sleep again and make us wait for three hours.” She said with arms crossed, and her usual left eyebrow raised expression.
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“And oh, don’t forget to put on your pants!” She giggled one last time and jumped out of the window.
That was 3 days ago. Yondaime never intends to send them to this mission knowing how exhausted Arashi have been with the training but the client even had a letter from the Fire Lord to grant him what he requested. And that is having Arashi on it. Good thing the client agreed to have Kakashi in after knowing how dangerous it is at this point for Arashi to be sent out into missions.
But Kakashi had a bad feeling about the mission and so he kept his guard at all times. And now, just a little while ago, he was able to confirm his suspicions. He never thought that Yuki would be the traitor though. He was Arashi’s cousin and they have been really close – at least that’s what they all knew. He noticed that Yuki’s patrol was way off so he tailed on him.
“We have a jounin with us Saburo-sama. His name is Hatake Kakashi and he’s really a powerful one.” He heard Yuki talking to a man he does not know. “He could get through the Hell’s Wrath Sunlight and stop it with his lightning technique.”
With that, he realized that someone have been after Arashi’s abilities. So he rushed back to where Arashi is. He’s bringing her back to the village.
“Where’s Yuki?” Arashi asked noticing that Kakashi is really in a hurry, he was helping her pack up instead of look for Yuki.
“Let’s go!”
Kakashi grabbed her almost carrying her to make sure that she could keep up with him.
“I found Yuki talking to someone, Arashi. This whole mission is a plot for him to get a hold of your powers.”
“Huh?!”
Arashi was surprised with his words. It was just unbelievable. But she have already come to trust Kakashi with all her heart and soul. After those countless times that Kakashi have saved her, she knew that he will do anything to protect her.
“I know you are exhausted, Arashi.” He said with a concerned tone as they came to a short pause. “But we have to hurry or they’ll catch up with us…I- - I don’t want to lose you.” Kakashi said, a little embarrassed.
He looked straight into her eyes to show her how sincere he is with his words. Then, he nudged in signal for them move on.
ZING! ZING!
All of a sudden, shurikens went flying from behind them.
TSUG! TSUG!
Went the sloshing sounds of shurikkens hitting tree branches as they tried to avoid them. They both looked back to where the shurikkens were coming from and discovered that Yuki have caught up with them.
“There’s no escaping, Kakashi! You can’t protect Arashi from here!” Yuki exclaimed continuing the chase.
The three teens ran through the darkness of the night as one chases the two.
ZING! ZING!
“Ugh!”
“Kakashi!”
“Got you!” Yuki excitedly called out hitting Kakashi with 3 shurikkens.
“Not so fast, Yuki!”
“Huh?...a replacement technique, then?”
Yuki, on one of the trees’ branches tried to speak back as Kakashi pins his face into the tree.
“Ha!...ahahahaha!” Yuki’s voice suddenly changed from being a boy into a man.
“Kakashi, step back! That is not Yuki!” Arashi cried. “And don’t look at him in the eye!”
“Huh?” Kakashi did as Arashi said and jumps beside her. “You know this guy?”
“Yes, he is Ryu and he is one of those who betrayed my village. Look!” Arashi pointed out to the tree as Yuki’s body fell off from Ryu all drained and half-dead.
“Ryu is a soul caster. He can make an exact replica of another person’s body by taking their soul into his. The technique takes place when you charge an attack to him with a look in his eyes. He uses the momentum you exert in your attack and vacuums your soul to him and sends the soul in another dimension. A normal person will die once he releases the technique. For ninjas, the least is 3 days, depending on how large their chakra reserves are.”
“Very well, Arashi.” Ryu said with an evil grin. His right hand holds Yuki by his collar. “Very smart of you to have remembered my clan’s technique after being shown at a very young age.”
“You bastard! You used your technique on my mother and killed her! Ahhhh!”
“Wait!” Kakashi called and ran behind Arashi as she charged toward Ryu.
“Flaring shurikken dance!”
Five shurikkens flaring like the sun swiftly danced their way toward Ryu.
“Oooh...want your cousin, Arashi?”
“No!” Kakashi immediately sped up and threw five kunais to redirect Arashi’s flaring shurikkens and prevent them from hitting Yuki.
“Dimwitt! Fight like a man!” Arashi continued to dash forward passing through Kakashi who caught Yuki just before he hits the ground.
“Tch! Still charging according to her anger. Ah, she’s hopeless!” Kakashi grumbled.
“Thank you, Kakashi.” Yuki said weakly. “I’m sorry…I-I tried to argue with my uncle to stop this nonsense but instead, he used his soul caster technique on me to lure you into them 2 days ago. They sent me to the Konaha Academy as Arashi’s cousin and befriend her. My mission was to lure her back to her traitor uncle, Saburo of the Hoishi Clan. He has the ability to control someone else’s abilities with his Mind and Memory Submission Technique. But Arashi have been a very good friend to me. She was just like my little sister who died in the war; troublesome but sweet and gentle. So as time passed by, I wanted to be a big brother to her. To protect her like you always do. If I will never make it through tonight, Kakashi, please promise me – protect her with all your life not because you are…”
“Ah,” Kakashi nodded and stopped Yuri. “Don’t worry Yuki. Even if you don’t say so, I have been protecting her and will continue to protect her not because I am in charge of her but because she is important to me.” Kakashi assured Yuki.
“Thank you, Kakashi.”
“Mm.” Kakashi nodded. “Now hold on and stay here while I help that iron head girl over there.”
“Shadow clone technique!” Ryu jumps off the tree and Arashi made 3 shadow clones as she stopped dashing toward him 10 meters from him. Two were visible as she created the other underground.
“Now, go! Water bullet technique!” Arashi released a water technique while her clones left, right, and below went with it.
“Earth wall technique!” Countered Ryu but to his surprise, from the wall emerged Arashi’s clone who was traveling underground and calculated which part of the earth would Ryu raise to block the water bullet.
“Explode!” Went all three clones as each of them threw in 2 kunais with paper bombs toward Ryu.
“Wind tornado defense!” Immediately, a gust of wind went whirling about Ryu sending the Kunais to explode somewhere else.
“Fire Dragon Flame Technique” As soon as he got a clear view of Arashi’s location, Ryu fired a fire dragon technique at her.
Seeing the situation, Kakashi rushed with a water technique to dissolve the fire before it reaches Arashi.
“Water Dragon Bullet Technique!”
“Ha! That won’t keep me from getting to you! - - Root binding technique!” Shortly after Ryu said so, roots sprouted from where Kakashi and Arashi are. Each of them had one root curling from their feet and up to their waists thus, keeping them from running.
“Damn!” Kakashi said. “I didn’t see that coming!” The roots wildly swayed both Arashi and Kakashi and they just could not break free from it.
“Ahhhhh!” Yuki screamed in rage as he sees Ryu maneuver the roots to raise Kakashi and Arashi higher.
“Fire blades technique!” Determined to keep his word and stand up as Arashi’s big brother, Yuki exerted all that’s left in him to free Kakashi and Arashi from the roots that bind them before they get slammed to the ground; he created two blade looking fires to burn and cut the roots that gripped Kakashi and Arashi. They immediately gained momentum and landed unhurt beside Yuki.
“Ugh!” Yuki groaned weakened from what he did.
“Yuki!” Arashi immediately assisted him before he totally falls on the ground. “You should not move now. I’ll try to revive you, okay?”
“I-it’s okay, little sister…” He replied with how he fondly calls her. Resting on Arashi’s arms, he tried to give her an assurance smile. But still, tears started creeping down her eyes as usual. “You are such a cry baby. I’ll be all right. I’m sorry I’ve got you in to this. I –“
“Oh, please don’t talk anymore…” Arashi replied with a broken voice. Then she gently lays him on the ground and applied a healing palm technique she learned from Tsunade.
“Ho-ho-ho…” Came the sound of a man coming forth beside Ryu.
“U-uncle Saburo…” Arashi whisphered as she continued to revive Yuki. Kakashi was standing in front with his back on them for cover.
“You know him, Arashi?” Kakashi said with a side glance.
“Ah, he is the one with the mind and memory technique and he knows ice crystal jutsus, too.”
“Eyy? – you seem to have a good memory being showed all our abilities at a very young age. Hmn, you were just 4 years old at that time.” Saburo replied mockingly.
“Tch!” Arashi held back. She needs to concentrate on reviving Yuki at least to a running state. That’s all she can do for now as she is running low in chakra, too.
“Sorry guys, I’m late.” A woman jumped in from behind Ryu and Saburo.
“Shin – “ Yuki said.
“A-ha” The woman replied, and as she said that, the surroundings suddenly went foggy. Freezing cold mists started to build up around them.
“You should be okay now.” Arashi said to Yuki.
“Thank you.”
“Stay close to each other.” Kakashi said, telling them to stick together. Yuki and Arashi got up and stood back to back with Kakashi.
“Hmmn, this is strange – sharingan!” Kakashi activated his Sharingan and immediately realizes that they are held in a genjutsu. “This is genjutsu! Try to break free from it!”
Shin, a rogue ninja specializes genjutsu. She is capable of casting a group in genjutsu making a 3-man cell team think that they are just in the same battlefield.
“Release!” The three of them broke free from the genjutsu but as the freezing fog went off, before them are walls of ice reflecting their every move.
“What the - ?!” They chorused in surprise.
“Ice prison maze!” Arashi said. “I’ve never seen how this works but my dad said there is no escape from this maze.”
“Huh?” Yuki and Kakashi gasp.
“Mm, there is always a weakness for every jutsu. Let’s go and find out.” Kakashi encouraged the group.
And so they started walking. Kakashi had his sharingan activated and used it to analyze every data that is available. They are standing in a hall of two ice mirror walls – left and right. The one on their end closes with another ice mirror wall and up ahead is another ice mirror wall casting an endless reflection of their selves. It also closes perpendicularly with the ice mirror wall to their right. The wall on the left is open and all walls are infused with chakra.
“Beyond that wall on our left is another hall of ice mirror walls and to the left is an exit after the wall extends five meters.” Kakashi said as he sees a discontinued wall of chakra.
[Here's a sketch of the current situation]
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“Huh? That easy?” Arashi said in surprise thinking that her dad just told her that no one has ever come out of the ice prison maze alive.
“Well, I believe there’s going to be more to that than what I am seeing.” Kakashi furthered. “Let’s keep walking and don’t let your guard down.”
“Hmn, stop.” He said after making the first left turns. “There is a trick here. For some reason, the exit that I calculated awhile ago extended to another enclosure making the exit available on the next turn again.”
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“Ung!”
“Yuki!” Arashi gasped as Yuki started to weaken again. She assisted her to stand.
“What the…” To Kakashi’s surprise, he sees chakra rushing off from Yuki and Arashi. When he looked at himself, chakra are smoking out of him, too.
“The two ice mirrors behind and in front of us are sucking our chakras.” Kakashi said. “So that’s how it works. This maze is built up as you continue to go through it. It extends as far as your chakra can take you. The moment our reflections are reflected from this mirror behind us, it channels our chakra to the one in front of us thus extending the exit to another turn. If we continue to each end of the walls and get our selves reflected on each end, the walls will continue to extend until we are drained out of chakra and die.”
“This maze is a chase to the exit!” Kakashi concluded.
[The development of the situation they are in how the maze would go on]
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“What do we do then? We’ll never get to the other side without being reflected…” Arashi stopped as she realized something. “You mean…”
“Ah,” Kakashi nodded. “We have to be invisible. But you’re really running low in chakra, Arashi.”
“No, I can still manage." Arashi grabbed Kakashi and Yuki close to her. “Vanishing Light Limit!”
With that, they vanished before reaching the next turn. Stepping through the next hall, the ice mirror wall in front of them stopped extending as Kakashi calculated. Turning left once again, they were finally able to reach the exit.
“Kakashi, lets continue to run off with the Vanishing Light Limit.” Arashi suggested. Saburo and his group is still within the vicinity.
“B-but –“
“We have no other choice, Kakashi. Yuki needs immediate assistance. We have to bring him back to Konoha right away.”
“Okay.”
And so in the darkness of the night, three teens run off within its shadows fleeing from a threat that endangers not only their lives but the world’s, too.
END OF CHAPTER
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