WEAVING DESTINY CHAPTER FIVE: Shōkō Seigen : The Vanishing Light Limit
B-L-A-A-A-M-M-M!!!
“Sakura’s Cherry Blossom!” Kakashi whisphered, alarmed with a blast to the ground that was surely coming from Sakura’s herculine strike to the ground. The earth shook and he could hear the ground crumble as he hopped from one tree branch to the other. He looked back and realized that Naruto haven’t caught up with him yet.
“Damn! They’re in a fight!” Naruto exclaimed as he was alarmed, too. Grieving over what he just knew, Naruto sympathized with Kakashi and was finally able to understand his actions. He must’ve not noticed Kakashi’s call for them to go. Realizing that the others will surely need immediate reinforce, Naruto quickly left the spot with a prayer and hurried to join the others.
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“SHAA-NAA-ROOO!!!” Jumping high up in the air just above the head of a 10 feet tall summoned scorpion beast, Sakura exclaimed as she thrusts another herculine blow, this time straight on to shatter the beast's forehead, bringing it down to the ground and sending it back to where it belongs.
“Choju Giga!” Sai commanded six of his ink drawn beasts to meet up with the other two giant scorpion beasts rampaging down to where he, Skye and Ruirein are standing. Just awhile ago, Sakura crushed the ground to shoo them off and give them time to calculate the situation. The six ink drawn beasts parted by three and attacked each summoned beasts by trying to nail them down to a halt.
Skye ran with the first group and Ruirein the other. He held his solar sword to the sun and immediately its blades flared with solar energy promising a power that will help him defeat the beast before him.
The scorpion beast struggled to break free from Sai’s ink drawn beasts, wailing its spear shaped tail wildly, and piercing through all about anything it could hit until it finally succeeded to strike Sai’s beasts one after the other turning them back to ink.
Dodging the beast’s tail, Skye ended up standing face to face with it. The beast advancing on him with angry eyes fired out a strong chakra blow that would crash him to death.
“BLOCK IT WITH THE SWORD SKYE!” called Ruirein as she sees the beast firing a sharp edged chakra blow on him. A combo done by its summoner and the beast.
Skye may not be gifted with a shinobi’s abilities but he was quick to learn, quick to respond, and above all, he was strong and was really swift as the wind. Skye fixed his feet on the ground and held out his sword to prevent the blow from hitting him. Coming in on him like a 640km per hour wind, Skye held the Solar sword with his two hands.
Realizing that Skye is no shinobi, Sai advanced quickly to the back of the beast and darted three kunai knives with paper bombs tied to it. The beast quickly noticed, stopped firing at Skye and flipped back to dodge the kunai knives and swept Sai with his tail. But that was a decoy, it was an ink clone of Sai who escaped high up in a nearby tree to give Sakura a chance to shatter the beast's stance.
“SHAA-NAA-ROOO!!!” Sakura once again thrusts cherry blossom fists to the ground, shattering to crumbles that part of the earth from where she stands and out to the beast that just swept off an ink shadow clone of Sai.
“My chance! Thank you, swee-eet la-dy!” Skye exclaiming with thanks dashed to the beast and hopped on its back. Trying not to get off balanced, he maneuvered his self to the beast’s nape and thrusts the solar blade to it. He then dragged the embedded sword as he went down slicing the beast’s head into two and finally winning the battle.
“OH, S-H-I-I-T!!!”
“C-H-I-D-O-R-I!”
“Huh?!”
“RUI-REIN BE-HIND YOU!”
“A-R-R-G-H”
“D-A-M-N! Shōkō seigen [Vanishing light limit]”
“O-D-A-M-A R-A-S-E-N-G-A-N!!”
Panting from where they stand, Sakura, Sai, and Skye stood by to witness a fast paced fateful battle.
Ruirein, concerned of Skye’s safety, lost her guard after seeing him face a fierce chakra blow from the other summoned beast. She jumped high in the air to avoid the other summoned beast as it reached her earlier than she calculated.
Seeing her off guard, the summoner combined a wind style whirling wind technique, that the beast with an increased speed approached Ruirein like a giant drill leaving her with no other choice of escape but to jump high in the air and fall back with a strike using her twin sais. It will then be her medium to feed the beast with a huge amount of solar energy and burn it down.
“OH, S-H-I-I-T!!!” she cried in mid-air realizing that she only have a little chance of surviving if the beast continues its drilling motion after she lands on it with a strike.
Judging from the beast’s rotating speed, Kakashi realized that the lady in mid-air will certainly end up rolling with the beast if the beast continues with its drilling motion once she thrusts her sais to it.
“C-H-I-D-O-R-I!” With flaring lightning in his hands and the sound of a thousand birds, Kakashi charged his chidori head-on to stop the beast just about a split second before Ruirein landed with a strike of her twin sais.
“Huh?!” Startled for whatever reason, Ruirein kneeling low with both hands fixed on the twin sais now embedded to the beast, looked up to see what caused the flashing light and the sound of a thousand birds. Flashes of light distracted her that she failed to feed in solar energy that would destroy the beast as planned.
“RUI-REIN BE-HIND YOU!” Skye yelled with fear as he sees the beast stomping its tail to the ground and bouncing back to charge its spear-shaped tip towards the distracted Ruirein.
“A-R-R-G-H!” she cried in great pain as the scorpion’s spear shaped tail pierced through her back. Her eyes glowed with intense light as she tries to push and keep the tail from piercing further through her by concentrating her chakra to that very point. But as she continually increased her chakra, she started turning transparent until she vanished from everyone’s eyes.
“D-A-M-N! Shōkō seigen [Vanishing light limit]” Kakashi, recognizing the fate that might fall on them, lifted his head protector to expose his left eye and used his sharingan to try and search for her with her chakra.
Confirming to his theory, he jumped on to where Ruirein was on the beast and grabbed her just as the beast pulled its tail back with the intention of pinning its prey to the ground.
“O-D-A-M-A R-A-S-E-N-G-A-N!!” As soon as he saw Kakashi lifting his self off the scorpin’s back like carrying something he could not see, Naruto charged and thrusts a giant rasengan from behind the beast just before its tail struck the ground. The rasengan blew off a huge impact to the beast sweeping it off and down to a nearby cliff.
Immediately, Sakura ran to aid Kakashi with Skye following after her. Sai flew off to the sky to search for the ninja who summoned the beasts.
“Naruto, come with me!” Sakura called on to Naruto and he too rushed to where Kakashi is.
“It can’t be.” With disbelief, Kakashi exclaimed softly as he carried Ruirein to the nearest shady tree. As he laid her down to his knees, supporting her head with his arms, the tree’s shadow started eliminating the light that enveloped her and she started to materialize.
“P-por-cu-pine he-ad” Ruirein wearily mocked and weakly chuckled as she coughed blood out.
“Ah” Kakashi grimaced.
“Ruirein, stop with the names again.” Skye knelt down and held her hands. “You should be thanking the guy, you know. He just saved you from being grinded by that beast.”
All too worried and concerned with her possible end, Skye lectured Ruirein in effort ease her pain. But she just glanced back at him blankly and fainted away.
“A-a-h-ck!” Naruto exclaimed with large eyes. “Kakashi-sensei, she was the mysterious lady I told you about.”
“You’ve met her?” Sakura asked. She came forward and started checking her. “Please lift her up a bit Kakashi-sensei. I need to stop the bleeding. She’s loosing blood.”
“Yes, she mysteriously appeared and reappeared in the stream where my patrol ended.”
“They’ve gone off quickly, Kakashi-Taichou.” Sai interrupted with a report.
“What just happened to her…” Skye tried to ask Kakashi but didn’t know what to address him. They arrived in the meeting point with only Sakura and Sai greeting them.
A few minutes after their introductions, the scorpion beasts appeared out of nowhere and started attacking them.
“Oh, I’m sorry.” Sakura said as she continued to check and stop the bleeding from Ruirein’s back.
“Prince Skye, this is our team captain, Kakashi-sensei. And over there is Naruto. Kakashi-sensei, this is Prince Skye and the lady you’re holding is his personal bodyguard, Ruirein.”
“Naa-ruto!” Sakura interrupted as Naruto tried to open his mouth for another exclamation.
“Hurmm.” He crossed his arms and silenced his self with a frown.
“My apologies for what happened Skye-Sama.” Kakashi nodded in respect to their client.
“The Vanishing Light Limit. Your personal bodyguard seemed to possess a bloodline limit that allows her to vanish by camouflaging herself with the sunlight. And I think, it just got activated after experiencing such pain and grave danger awhile ago.”
“Hmn, she does that all the time. Wherever we go, she’d sit on top of the wagon or patrol the area in such a manner to conceal her presence.” Skye said opposing Kakashi’s point of it being just activated.
“Yeah, THAT – I believe was how she managed to appear and reappear before me awhile back.” Naruto supported.
“Hmmn –“ Kakashi halted with an alarming expression. “If she has already mastered that level, we could have all been consumed awhile back then.”
“What?!” They all exclaimed realizing that they were about to face a danger greater than those giant scorpions.
Kakashi continued.
“Yes, from the looks of how her eyes glowed with intense light before she vanished, she could have activated the next level – Jiguku Ikari Taiyo no Honoo, known as The Hell’s Wrath Solar Flames. It consumes its target with intense heat and vanish them in thin light. We have with us a person that carries a weapon that could bring the sun down and melt the entire world.”
Kakashi stopped and looked how everybody’s faces glared at him with fear.
“But, that – is – just my theory and I could be wrong.” He smiled from behind his mask trying to lighten up their feelings.
“I’ll have to take off her mask to –“
“Please, don’t.” Skye interrupted Kakashi’s plans. “She firmly instructs not to take her hood or mask off whenever she’s wearing them. If you want to take a closer look at her, you can do it when she takes them off by night.”
“Aha!” Naruto exclaimed teasingly and with a teasing tone he continued. “Kakashi-sensei, finally found someone that interests you, have you?” and he let out a big smile.
“Ahh! Na-ru-to!” Sakura scolded him to stop teasing. But deep inside her was her inner self with a big smile saying, ‘Hell yeah Naruto! Good to see Kakashi-sensei feeling knick-knacks behind somebody else’s masks, too!’
“Ah, stupid.” Kakashi coldly replied with a sigh, dropping his shoulders in disappointment to Naruto’s response. After all that he has told him back in the Sun Village, he still did not understand what his theory could mean.
“I think Miss Ruirein will be fine now.” Sakura finally said. “We just need to take her where I can tend to her wounds and wrap bandages to it.”
“You can use my wagon.” Skye said. “And please don’t regard her as my personal bodyguard since to me, she is a very special friend. Thank you for tending to her Sakura-chan.” Skye continued with a relieved face.
Kakashi carried Ruirein in to the wagon and left her with Sakura to tend to her wounds. After a while the convoy started to move on to cover as much distance as they could.
END OF CHAPTER FIVE
- that was what I was about to say. 
