Naruto watched with a bored gaze as Ginchiko and Hidetada fought the remaining five Anbu, three lay dead at their feet. They fought back to back, not allowing their Anbu counterparts to separate them too much. The Mizukage watched with thinly veiled glee as the two began to tire, as was shown by heavy breathing and sloppier attacks.
They both had excellent teamwork he acknowledged. No doubt what had gotten them this far, but still, they wouldn't last much longer. Once they fell he would step in, defeat this weakling of a Kage and seize Kiri as he meant to do so.
Finally, one Anbu broke the Melee and leapt back, forming his hand seals he called out his jutsu. "Suiton: Suryuudan!" He yelled as he blew out a stream of water which quickly formed into the water dragon.
Ginchiko and Hidetada snapped their heads in its direction. Acting on instinct the two leapt in the first direction their legs took them…away from eachother. The attack had worked.
As soon as they hit the ground the two realized their mistake and tried to reach eachother, only to have the five Anbu block their path. Ginchiko cursed. They had wanted to avoid this for two reasons. The first is because now they were separated, making it easier for the enemy to surround them, therefore kill them and second is because in order to avoid them getting surrounded they would have to use Jutsu, not something you wanted to do if you had to face the Kage of a nation right after.
The only female member of the seven swordsmen cursed as she was forced to leap back again due to various explosive tags being thrown at her feet.
When she landed again she formed her hand seals without ever releasing her sword before she swung, dragging the tip of the blade on the ground. "Raiton: Doki no Ten!" yellow streaks of lightning exploded from the attack, snaking through the earth leaving a jagged trench as it released electricity everywhere.
One of the Anbu formed his handseals. "Suiton: Suijinheki" He yelled slamming his hands on the earth letting the lightning streaks hit it. The lightning was naturally drawn to the water reducing the attack to barely nothing when it reached them.
Ginchiko narrowed her eyes as two of the Anbu charged her their two blades glinting in the light. 'Fool's trying to beat one of the seven swordsmen in Kenjutsu.' She thought somewhat insulted as she took up her stance.
She backpedaled as she blocked the first and second strikes, merely diverting their attacks. When she had led the two on enough so that they fell into a subconscious state of believing she would merely divert their attacks, she dug her heels in harshly, this time she didn't divert the attack she blocked both completely, knocking them both off balance as they stumbled slightly.
She did a quick roundhouse kick, nailing the first one in the face as she continued the motion by smoothly slicing the others chest armor. She had aimed for his neck, but he had managed to recover quicker than what was anticipated and leaned back, avoiding the deadly blade…somewhat.
She snarled as she went to start her handseals again when she heard a scream behind her that made her blood run cold. She snapped her head in the direction of the scream and saw Hidetada, with a kunai jabbed into his right side, most likely where the kidneys were. Behind him, holding the knife was none other than the Mizukage, wearing a cruel smirk as he shrugged innocently. "I got bored."
She felt her anger rise as she grit her teeth hard and rushed at him, the two Anbu behind her ran to catch up, while the two infront of her moved to intercept her path.
"Raiton: ChuSeki no doki!" She yelled as she crossed her arms infront of her, lightning encased her form, making her look like a comet running along the ground.
The two Anbu leapt over her to avoid being hit by the Jutsu. She dispelled it once she saw her path was clear and leapt up as she raised her sword, lightning dancing and crackling around it.
"If you attack me, you'll kill him to!" The Mizukage yelled out to her. Her eyes narrowed and grew cold as she swung anyway, the streaks of lightning flying from her sword to the ground below like a shower of electricity.
The Mizukage leapt away as the lightning fell. To his surprise the lightning fell around Hidetada and the location where he himself would have been. It appears she had been bluffing.
Before he could do anything Ginchiko landed near Hidetada, picked him up and leapt through the tree's vanishing into their shadows.
"After her!" He barked. "Don't you dare let her escape!" He yelled angrily. His Anbu nodded before they rushed after the female swordsmen.
Naruto watched as she ran before he silently followed, always in the shadows.
'Come on damnit…don't you dare die on me, you hear me you worthless moron!" Ginchiko said as she carefully examined the injury. It was deep, very deep. It spurted blood every few seconds and truly looked fatal.
He chuckled, ignoring the blood that rose into his mouth. "You seem awfully worried over this worthless moron." He said chuckling before he coughed lightly.
"Just shut up." She said as she rummaged through her pouch for her first aid equipment.
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