Dotorame Osumari, “Doto-doto”
Dotorame was still caught up in running into the shoe store when he felt a firm grip on his collar, yanking him back. His face briefly looked into the sky in that moment, rain pouring down onto his face briefly before he managed to set himself straight.
“B-but Daiki-sama! I wanna s-” Something made Dotorame change his mind and he simply shut his mouth and nodded at Daiki.
“Hai! You're right, Daiki-sama.”Doto looked back at Rin and gave her a short affirming nod. It was serious time, and Daiki made him realize it. The fact that there was chakra threads, that he hadn't noticed at first, proved to Dotorame that there was a shinobi here.
“Let's head to the shoe store Daiki-sama.” He slowed down his pace and unclasped his chokuto, holding it in his left hand just in case he needed to cut something.
“The shoe store is there, Daiki-sama, Rin-chan.” he said with a more quiet voice, although he still didn't seem to mind the rain as much as the others might.
He stepped towards the shoe store, still faster than the others, after all Dotorame was trying to contain himself really hard, but he couldn't control everything after all. He slowly pushed the door open, and then entered and walked to the center of the store. To each side there were two medium size shelves, barely reaching to the waist. Built into the walls were more shelves, holding old leather shoes. On the floor there was a lot of glass. Taking a moment, Dotorame bent forwards and grabbed a piece of glass from the ground, inspecting it closely before dropping it again and looking around.
“Wonder what caused this. Any idea Daiki-sama? Looks like qui- Rin-chan, watch out! Double Earth Shore Return!” The sudden break in his words, which flowed into a jutsu, was caused by several dead bodies, which were all puppeted again, jumping forwards from the shade and throwing senbon at the group from left and right.
Dotorame smashed his palm into the ground and caused two slabs of the ground to break through the marble tiling, and form two walls at the left and right of the group. Almost instantly after getting the barrier up the sound of hundreds of senbon connecting with the walls was heard as loud
tchk!'s for every one of them. As soon as the rain of senbon was finished, Doto released the jutsu and the earthen walls fell back onto the ground, cracking and splitting into dust and pieces of ground as they clashed with the marble tiles. Slowly the bodies inched closer, and as a result of that Yamato held his chokuto closer, placing his right hand on the hilt just to be sure.
“Screw the orders.. let's go!” he said to the others, and as soon as the puppet got close enough, he drew his chokuto from the scabbard and in the same movement he cut through the dead bodies' arm's flesh. The bodies had been long dead, and as a result the arm fell off clean even though Dotomare didn't cut it through completely. Never the less the puppet continued walking, it's arm now on the floor.
“Rin-chan, watch my ass! I don't want senbon in it..” he said, slowly returning to the typical oblivious Dotomare. With another movement he cut through the bodies neck, severing it easily due to the near rotten state of the bodies. He'd look back over his shoulder to see how Daiki was doing.
Yamato Minamoru, “Young Master”
Yamato kept a straight face as the man hauled over from the pain whilst sliding back. For a non-shinobi the man was doing well. He glanced back at Giichi and noticed that he was holding back.
“Typical.” he muttered to himself before jumping back to stand side by side with Giichi.
“Surrender.” he simply stated, looking at the two criminals. Before he got an answer they took off however, running towards the forest with remarkable speed, similar to a shinobi.
As if sent by the gods, two genin appeared after school, as it seemed school was over for the highschool students. Yamato looked at them and was quick to order them.
“Yo. Bring that girl and the old grandpa to a jonin and tell them to shelter them. Make sure to say I sent you. Giichi, Rei, let's go.” He was remarkably calm, especially when you considered his usual demeanor towards others. It must be because of Rei's presence, that much was clear. Quickly as ever, Yamato took off with Rei shortly after him. No doubt would she keep up, and no doubt would Giichi be there soon as well.
“Rei, Giichi, go after that woman. She seems weaker.” He would state, before focussing on the man again. Something was off, it was all going too easily.
The man and woman arrived at a clearing with a road running through with two trucks, parked awkwardly. Nearby laid two bleeding men, truckers as could be seen from the fact that they wore Shinaboru Trucking caps. The man and woman landed in the grass after having leapt from a branch and turned around. Yamato and Rei followed suit, with Giichi probably landing closeby as well. The man and woman were, strangely enough, grinning. It was a weird feeling but Yamato clenched his teeth. The real Yamato was shining through. Slowly, from the grass, several strange men rose slowly with rice hat covering their eyes. As if they were paper, the man and woman that the team had been chasing fluttered away in the wind, disintegrating. The wind rustled the grass and leaves eerily as the two teams would stare at eachother.
But that was merely the calmth before the storm.“Grass Style: Spike Roll...” the first of the men said. He formed several seals which gave Yamato the time to look back at Giichi and Rei.
“Stand back. They seem strong. Don't get caught. Don't run. Fight with your life. If you die, the Hokage will give you a good funeral.” By now the man had slowly descended into the grass again, from which a ball slowly rose. It rose slowly, and started spinning before grass needles shot out from the circle and the circle took off towards Yamato and his group. Yamato flicked back his wrists while anger started to consume him from the inside. Without warning he yelled out loudly at the men that were still standing in front of them, three in total.
“KILL ME THEN!! KILL ME!” he yelled whilst his fists got engulfed in fire.
Rei ignored Yamato's orders to get back and ran to the left quickly, grabbing five kunai and throwing them all at once at the spinning ball of grass that was racing towards her brother. She felt like this was the right time to impress her brother. Her regular, happy smiling face had changed into a serious face, although not as serious and angry as Yamato would look.
“N-no more running, Rei.” she muttered to herself. After that she'd yell out to Yamato,
“Oniisan, no more running. I'll help you!” Sadly for her the kunai bounced right off of the spinning grass ball. She kept at it however, stopping in her tracks when she noticed she was more or less besides the spinning ball while it rushed closer to Yamato. Forming rapid seals she inhaled deeply, aimed her shot at the three remaining shinobi, then exhaled and spewed out fire.
“Goukakyo no jutsu!” she said right before the giant ball of fire flew towards the three other shinobi.
Meanwhile Yamato was preparing to face the grass ball that was hurdling towards him, extending his arms slightly in order to catch it. But from the corner of his eyes he saw Rei take off throwing kunai, that naturally bounced off due to the large amount of speed the man had in this technique. He turned his head to the right and looked at Giichi.
“Giichi, help Rei. Now!” he said with a pressure in his voice. He then looked back at Rei to see her attack the group of Shinobi, fearless like he knew himself to be. He couldn't help but feel pride for her, but at the same time, worry over her life. This short distraction gave the ball of grass enough time to reach him. Being uprepared to fulfil his plan, the ball burrowed into him and the spikes cut him atleast four times before he managed to extend an arm upwards and grab a spike, then quickly used his other hand to grab another spike, his feet digging itself into the dirt under the pressure of the power that the ball was still trying to put in.
“Hnnnggg...”. The ball of grass slowly stopped circling around and stopped.
Yamato released the spiky ball of grass and cocked back his fist as the ball unfurled itself into the same man, with his long robe and rice hat. He seemed to think he'd gotten Yamato, but all he had accomplished was 4 nasty, deep cuts into his shoulders. Two on the left, two on the right. As the strange shinobi looked up, he'd grin, but that grin would quickly fade as he noticed Yamato's incoming fist. With a large smack he was hammered in the face and slung back towards his other teammates.
“Baka... you think you can kill Yamato Minamoru so easily..? HUH!?” For a moment he seemed to forget where he was, looking the enemy dead in the eyes as he got back up.
Meanwhile Rei's fireball had reached the group who had simply dispersed and waited for the fireball to hit the ground, after which they simply jumped back to the same spot they were sitting in. Rei, like Yamato would usually do, clenched her teeth and looked at Giichi.
“I need to try something, cover me..” she'd whisper, to make sure neither Yamato nor the enemy would hear. She started forming handseals quickly, but it seemed like a long streak of handseals. Whilst doing the handseals her eyes glistened as she looked at Yamato, with amazement at how he was holding his own. He had deep, bleeding cuts in his shoulder but he didn't even flinch. With even more focus she looked at the enemy, still forming handseals.
“ANSWER ME!” Yamato yelled as he pushed his foot into the dirt, taking off with high speed towards the enemy. As his foot pushed off, it kicked up a small amount of dirt and gravel, but after that every footstep was like a ghost.
“ANSWER MEEE!” It appeared to be his battlecry, as he jumped into the group with great recklessness and bravery. He swung his right fist forwards, hitting one of the strange men with rice hats in the side, before his left hand swung forwards and hit another man in the left shoulder. He noticed an incoming attack but ignored it, feeling the man's fist hitting him in the rib, turning around and swinging his right hand with full force, using the turn to gain momentum. With a sickening crunch his hand connected with a man's jaw. While the man recuperated and reared back from the hit, Yamato's left fist was already soaring through the sky, making a soft
rffff noise as flames do when they are moved. Right when his fist hit the man's face again, Yamato was kicked in the side. He was pushed backwards and slid across the ground, kicking up dust in the process. His ribs fell sore.. he must've been punched and kicked in the same spot twice.
By now the four shinobi had looked around again, and after the man that received two hits on his jaw forced his jaw back in position, they noticed Rei forming a long amount of handseals. It seemed they were done kidding around and one of them took this fight seriously. Without saying even as much as a word to Yamato or any of the two genin, he body flickered forwards numerous time, appearing slightly forwards from his original position the first time, then slightly forwards some more, before standing right before Giichi. Instead of attacking him he flickered away again and stood before Rei with a raised foot. With a hard movement he kicked Rei in the chest, sending her flying back. She landed on the ground, but only briefly, skidding off again and landing against a tree, her head being knocked back and hitting the trunk hard.
“Aaahnnngggg...” she said as she held her head, and attempted to stand up. Only a second later she'd fall down again, seemingly out for the count, but stil awake and still breathing. Her head was spinning all over the place.
Yamato saw what happened out of the corner of his eye, and when he went to move to help Rei, it was already too late. He gritted his teeth and furled up his fists, ready to sprint towards the man to pay him back for what he'd done to his little sister. But when he attempted to lift his foot, it seemed stuck to the grass.
“God damnit..” he said as he looked at the three remaining shinobi, one of which was kneeling down with a hand on his knee, the other on the floor. It was clear what had happened, as a bind of grass had formed over his foot, and by now, his other foot had been caught in it too. Very clever..
“Giichi.. get to Rei and protect her, or else.. I'll make sure none of us leave this place alive.” Yamato said while looking at his feet, hands still burning with fire. There was a certain darkness to his voice, one that said anger, emotions, pain.
Hatred.
Ayame Choko, “the Sewstress”
Upon being reached by the jonin that was sent to fetch her, Ayame simply followed them back without questions. It'd not be the first time the Hokage would summon her abruptly like this. She jumped from roof to roof, looking around in an attempt to see if she could see her brother, Fujitora.
“Why has the hokage summoned me?” Ayame asked the jonin, who didn't reply and simply kept jumping. Strange. Upon arrival Ayame landed on the ground in front of the Hokage's building and followed the jonin upstairs, all the way to the Hokages office. When they reached the door, she opened it quickly and walked in with a bussiness like walk. Straight up, right down the center of the crowd.
“Hokage-sama?” she'd simply ask, not sure what was going on. The large crowd, however, made it apparent it was important.
