The robed figure's eyes flashed back as she noticed a sudden surge in the air around her. She was going to be late to defend herself regardless, but she didn't seem worried and continued her attack on the Hokage. Her eyes flashed back forwards, knowing that an intervention was on the way to stop whomever was now behind her. Her steps now approached the Hokage who was still sitting on his knees, holding his stomach. With a simple motion the woman grabbed two kunai, one in each hand, and ignored the others that were attacking. They, too, would get an intervention. As the buddha appeared the woman got in range of the Hokage and sliced him across his back four times, not deep enough to be meaningful attacks but certainly harmful enough to impede him a little bit, as well as show off to Konoha shinobi that there Hokage was a mere mortal, too.
As the buddha dissapeared again, so did the robed figure, jumping back towards an open spot that she noticed. There she stood, a kunai in each hand, before putting them away. For the first time since arrival she spoke, though her voice was changed and sounded very deep, obviously changed using some sort of voice changer in the mask or a jutsu, perhaps.
“Drop the Hokage hat.” the voice said, as the woman stood idly by waiting for an answer. The Hokage simply sighed as he got up again, slowly and somewhat failing powerwise. But he stood up, a remarkable feat on it's own. As he finally stood up completely, he simply smiled with a smug smile before pointing at the robed woman.
“Never! It's a symbol of the Will of Fire! I'll never give it up for someone like you!” The woman didn't answer, but only rapidly went inside of her robes with her hands, before stretching her hands forwards. From her hand flew six shuriken, headed straight for the Hokage. But before they hit the robed woman quickly formed handseals, before forming shadow clones of the shuriken, multiplying them to atleast a hundred shuriken.
“You will.” the voice said again as she looked at the hundred shuriken rain down upon the kage. With a last ditch effort he formed several seals, but was too late with his jutsu to avoid damage all together. He was hit by atleast ten shuriken before he poofed away, leaving behind only a tree stump that fell to the floor with a clunk. Yet again the Hokage chose to escape..
The robed figures eyes flashed side to side quickly, before spotting the Hokage upon a roof on one knee, picking the shuriken out of his body and throwing them down. Her eyes flashed towards that of her companion, not saying a word but transmitting an order clearly without a word.
Keep them back while she gave chase again. This was the last time she was running after him too. Games were over. She took off again and left behind the crowd, moving rapidly to avoid being caught by anyone. She started jumping again from roof to roof, keeping up with the hokage rather easily. Although he had regained most of his strength, he wasn't particularily fit for battle at the moment. Granted, she could make him bend over in pain with just a simple handseal, so regardless of his strength, this was a lost battle for him.
As they moved the woman went into her robes again, this time not simply following him, but actually going after him. She threw some kunai at him with explosive tags, blowing them up when she figured they were close enough. Somehow the Hokage gathered enough strength to dodge it, jumping ahead slightly to get out of the main blast area. It wouldn't prove to be enough any longer. With the same trick she threw more kunai with explosive tags, this time exploding them a bit later as they were aimed directly in front of him. The explosion caused him to fall over, hit the roofing tiles and fall down into the street below. Wasting no time, the woman jumped down and grabbed the Hokage by his collar and dragged him with her as she jumped on, towards the town square again. As they arrived there, she dropped him down on the wooden platform again, in the now desolate square. It seemed most of the civilians had fled the direct area of confrontation between the woman and the Hokage, expecting things to progressively get worse.
This was not the case.
It was about to be ended, here and now, as long as there was no further interruptions. The Hokage attempted to get up, leaning on his arm, only to be met with a swift kick in the elbow, to keep him down. He groaned as he laid there, with a couple shuriken still stabbing out of him. Then, the robed woman dropped down through her knees and formed the Ram handseal. She stared deep into the Hokages eyes as she did so, looking at him. There was no emotion, no nothing. After the handseal the Hokage screamed in agony again as something inside his body curled up and hurt him very badly. After she persuaded him to stay down this way, letting him know she could do this at any time just by this demonstration, she stood straight up and waited for the inevitable backup to arrive yet again.
“Keep the hat for now.” The Hokage groaned in pain as he slowly unfurled from his fetal position, looking up at this mysterious person who didn't even seem to grant him the respect of looking in his eyes.
“W-who are you.. you vile beast.. destroying our nations' prosperity..” The woman responded softly, still looking at the streets that she expected the shinobi to pour out of.
“No. I am saving it.”
Saburo had spent the entire day pretty much preparing for a large scale 11th corps operation. After some time in the 'normal shinobi lifestyle' he was recalled by his superiors, being written out of the normal forces without much interference from anyone within those forces. It seemed to be common place for ninja's to be placed in and out of there coming from the 11th, so no real questions were asked. In reality, he was just placed there to gather intel for the 11th corps leader at that time, Mikagura Shimura. However it'd been some time since he'd heard from him, so the recall was quite a surprise to Saburo. On the other hand, during his 2.5 years off, he had procured a rather valuable artifact.
Madara's Gunbai was now in his possession after a rather influential interference from the 11th. He was handed it after lengthy discussions between Mikagura Shimuza and the current Uchiha clan leader.
However today something was going on - Saburo was sure of it. He was called in early, woken from his sleep by fellow 11th corps members, before being ordered to get ready in his
uniform. For some reason they were also ordered to wear their, often ceremonial, white wrappings around the arm that said 'the 11th corp' on it. No questions were asked by anyone. That was the way they were taught. Within five minutes everyone was ready to leave. During the short travel towards the village center there was a small briefing, detailing mostly that they were being sent out to stop people from interfering. The reasoning behind this was left out but the 11th corps always acted in the favor of Konohagakure, so as such the orders were undoubtedly going to benefit the village.
As soon as they arrived, the 11th corps more or less sprung into action. A giant buddha was erected by a fellow corpsman, which stopped most of the attacks sent by his former friends, Aoi and Akio in particular. Shouken was also there, he noticed. He just hoped that Shouken didn't train on genjutsu interference as much ever since that one time.. not to say that Saburo hadn't gotten better. He also noticed something that needed to be stopped right away - Daiki and Yamato were both headed for the intended VIP. Without receiving the order, but mentally 100% sure on his duty, he jumped forwards taking the
large gunbai with the tomoe on it from his back. He landed right in front of Daiki and Yamato and prepared himself to take the full blow.
“UCHIHA RETURN!” But that hit didn't happen. He quickly placed his gunbai in front of the two, completely shielding himself, as well as the robed figure from damage. Using the gunbai the way it was intended, the gunbai took the chakra from the Yamato's attack and blocked the sword, making it plunk right off and land in front of Saburo's feet. Both attacks were easily nullified, and then the Gunbai did exactly what it meant to - it transfered the fire chakra in Yamato's technique into wind chakra, sending back a gust of wind strong enough to blow both Yamato and Daiki packing, pushing them back in the dirt. With a quick move of his foot, Saburo placed his foot under Anemone and then whipped it up, catching it mid-air with his free hand after which he put the gunbai back on his back again.
“Yamato-senpai, Daiki-kun. Please do not interfere. I will kill you.” he said with a noteable disregard for their former relationships as comrades, if not friends. Saburo quickly glanced around at the area, looking at all the 11th corps members he could see, before looking at those that were in the area whom were not 11th corps. The 11th was outnumbered in this case. But that would not matter, as long as the mission succeeded. He'd then look back at Daiki, closing his eyes briefly only to open them revealing his own sharingan, staring directly into that of Daiki, holding on to Anemone tightly. He knew that Anemone was summoned from a scroll but Saburo figured he might not be able to unsummon it as easy as that without touching the sword.
Yamato noticed while charging headlong, seemingly the only one willing to take on this person face-to-face after Daiki decided to throw his weapon, that all the ranged got blocked pretty much instantaneously by a giant Buddha appearing.. but he was sure he could make it. A sudden blur appeared in front of them, too, nothing visible but a man in a trench-coat kicking the air.. seemingly nothing there. But he likely wasn't there for a reason. Perhaps an ANBU was trying to sneak in a kill on the robed? No matter. Yamato and Daiki would finish it. As long as Daiki stayed with him.
Suddenly he noticed a blur passing him by as he extended his fist outwards to punch the woman. Was that a sword? Did Daiki just
throw his
sword? Looking back confirmed that Daiki did indeed throw his sword.
“Idiot.. they never should've promoted you.” Yamato mumbled as he felt his fist connecting with something. Looking over, expecting to see the robed woman, he instead found himself staring at a white-wooden board. His fists were suddenly extinguished, too, and he felt that the chakra he put into his attack had seeped away. Almost immediately he heard a familiar voice.
“UCHIHA RETURN!” “Nanda.. wh-” Suddenly the Gunbai unexpectedly sent out a gush of wind, and Yamato managed to cover his body and face just in time by crossing his arms in front of himself. Minor cuts appeared on his arms and hands as he dug his heels into the dirt, slowly being pushed away. There was approximately 30 meters between Daiki and Yamato, and Saburo, when the gush stopped. Slowly Yamato lowered his hands, clenching his teeth together as he realised who was in front of him.
“.. sharingan.. ofcourse..” he slowly mumbled, before looking at Daiki. His eyes suddenly widened as he looked at Daiki's eyes.
“Doushita.. so you are cursed too?” It was a surprise to Yamato, as he only knew now that Daiki actually had the sharingan. He would deal with that later.. however all respect that Daiki had earned in those two and a half years, it quickly dissipated in just this one instance.
But at that moment he also realized that the Hokage had dissapeared, and that the woman was now already jumping after him again. This was turning into a chase around Konoha rather quickly. Not wanting to waste time, but not wanting to risk being stabbed in the back either, he looked at Saburo with angry eyes. The anger from being interrupted, by a person he knew none the less, coupled with the idea that Daiki owned a kekkei genkai.. it fueled his rage. His eyes made that part clear too.
“Screw this fool. He's below me. Besides, you have the Sharingan now don't you Daiki? You don't need me if you use that.” he said in an annoyed and mocking tone. Let these two duke it out, he thought. If only Daiki hadn't thrown his weapon like a fool, he would have something to fight Saburo with. If he wanted to, atleast..
Quickly Yamato dashed off again, past Yuna.
“With me. Leave that idiot Daiki to his own devices. He doesn't need us.” he said as he passed by her, headed for the location that the Hokage and that weird robed person were headed in. He trailed behind them heavily, however, and if anything were to happen to the Hokage, Yamato and Yuna likely wouldn't be on time.
