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' Clementine '
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"You know you really have earned you reputation Cannibal." Zabuza sneered at Clementine as he substituted with a water clone, allowing Clementine to rip it apart with her knives while he struck at her from behind with his blade.
"When I was your age, my hands were already dyed red with blood." Zabuza continued even as his eyes widened as glowing and flaring wings of chakra burst from the base of the girl's spine. Blocking his blade and forcing him to back off.
At first glance the wings of reddish purple chakra looked similar to her companion Pain's chakra chains, but on closer inspection you could see they were different, even if only slightly.
Both techniques were due to a bloodline, and both of them worked a similar way, i.e. they involved the manipulation of chakra into a physical form. But that was where the similarities stopped, Clementine's kagune as she called them, were less malleable and were less destructive than Pain's chakra chains.
But unlike Pain's chakra chains she could use hers at long range.
Lashing out with her kagune she forced Zabuza back, as from her kagune sprayed a shower of sharp blades of chakra. Zabuza had to use the large blade of his weapon to block most of them, and even then a few got through his defense slashing his body as they struck him.
"But then again, I was a real Shinobi. Not a freak like you." Zabuza snarled back, as he swung his blade around trying to fend the blonde off with his blade. Only to receive a nasty gash to his thigh as she ran her blade along his leg, gouging out a chunk of his flesh as she did so.
"Ahh shit, you bitch!" Zabuza snarled before he tried to create some distance from the rapid and deadly huntress.
"Oh I have heard of you Zabuza." Clementine replied harshly. "And you are more of a freak than any member of the former Outcasts."
"Ah so you have heard of me. Yes, back when Kirigakure was known as the Bloody Mist village. Our graduation exam." Zabuza started to chuckle almost dementedly as he clasped his free left hand to his heavily bleeding leg, using his water manipulation to force the wound to clot.
"Fighting to the death between the students with only the winner becoming a genin. It was glorious! So much blood!" Zabuza raised his voice in excitement.
"Yes and what a freak you were, you murdered a whole class of you comrades… and for what?" Clementine sneered, not at all impressed by the Demon of the Mist.
"Why! Well because it was fun of course!" Zabuza said as he sneered back at Clementine. "Now what I want to know is what the fuck the Mizukage was thinking when she allowed you freaks into the Village!"
Upon saying that Zabuza disappeared in a spray of mist only to suddenly appear in front of Clementine, viciously lashing out with his sword. The blonde raise ducked under the sword before she threw the stiletto in her right hand at Zabuza, the blade striking him in the left shoulder and lodging there.
Undeterred by this Zabuza lashed out in retaliation at the Hunter-nin, striking her with a nasty backhanded punch to the stomach knocking the air out of Clementine's lungs and sending her crashing to the ground.
Gritting her teeth Clementine immediately rolled into a crouched position before she shot forward, moving at easily elite Jonin speed as she made full use of her bloodline abilities. The wings of Chakra on her back flaring once more as they unleashed another shower of chakra blades on Zabuza.
Zabuza substituted with a log to escape, but unfortunately had underestimated Clementine's heightened reflexes and senses. This led to him crying out in pain as half dozen blades of chakra were lodged in his back.
Zabuza by this point was an absolute mess; his body was covered in his own blood and he was cover in multiple gashes and cuts from Clementine's blades, the girl's unnatural speed and reflexes having overcome his years of practice and experience.
As well as that, he also had a chunk of his thigh missing, the wound having been partially clotted. Protruding from his now shattered shoulder was also one of Clementine's stiletto blades, so deeply lodged in, that it would require a set of pliers to pull it out. Then finally, to finish off his set of battle wounds, there were six blades of reddish purple chakra protruding from his back, courtesy of Clementine's accursed bloodline.
Sagging over Zabuza crashed to his knees, the wounds and his blood loss finally getting the better of him. His bloodshot eyes suddenly widened as he felt something crash painfully into his other shoulder, looking down at his shoulder he saw a sharp, silver, metal point sticking out of his bloody shoulder. It did not take a genius to figure out that it was the girl's other stiletto blade.
With a dull thud Zabuza's prized sword, the Kubikiribocho fell to the ground landing in the wet, blood soaked mud Zabuza's hands no longer having the strength to grip his most prized possession.
"Looks like you have killed me." Zabuza said his eyes disbelieving.
"Yes." Clementine replied in confirmation, even as she took hold of Zabuza's blade. Easily lifting it with her bloodline enhanced strength.
"If you are going to kill me, could you at least let me hold the Kubikiribocho as you finish me off?" Zabuza asked, his voice almost pleading as he saw his soon to be killer holding his precious sword. A blade he had spent most of his life carrying.
Turning to look down at Zabuza, Clementine's pink eyes flashed with hidden menace. Instead of answering she instead merely lifted the blade above her head before bringing it down with a sickening crunch. The blade striking the juncture between Zabuza's neck and shoulder, and tearing through his flesh as it almost cut his upper body in half.
The last thing Zabuza ever did was look up at Clementine in shock and fear as she ended his life with his own blade.
"That was for the freak comment… ass hole!" Clementine said to Zabuza's dead body as she raised the sword again before she brought it down again decapitating the dead man with a single blow. "Now I just have to get rid of the body…" Clementine continued a devious smirk on her face.
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' Victor '
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Staring straight ahead of him, Victor narrowed his eyes as he stared into a mirror of ice, one of the dozen or so ice mirrors that surrounded him, each of which holding a reflection of the fake Hunter-nin. He had found that despite his change in strategy from mid-range to close combat that he was still not fast enough to keep up with the speed Haku showcased, especially now she pulled the Hyoton bloodline out of her arse.
As her already overwhelming speed was on a whole new level now that she was able to transfer between the multiple ice mirrors that she had created.
Her ice mirrors were more than just a speed boost for her though. They also were acting as a prison, trapping Victor within a dome of almost indestructible mirrors. Already he had tried using both his chakra scalpels and his chakra infused wires to break through the mirrors so he could escape the dome of mirrors.
Any damage he had been able to do to the mirror though was quickly repaired though, the girl having used the moisture in the air to repair them.
It was at time like this that Victor cursed the fact that his bloodline limit was not as offensive as either Pain's or Clementine's.
Swinging his right arm around Victor one again used the wires trailing from his gauntlet like a whip. The chakra enhanced wire making inch deep gouges on the surrounding mirrors. However once again the gouges soon disappeared as Haku used the moisture in the air in conjunction wither Hyoton bloodline.
In retaliation to Victor's attempted escape Haku went on to pepper him with senbon from multiple directions. Most of these Victor dodged using his own low Jonin level speed and reflexes to avoid the senbon. However due to the fact that they were rapidly coming from all directions several of them got lodged in his arms and legs.
Not that they did much damage as Victor used his medical ninjutsu to repair any damage he received.
This turn of events had led to their dual becoming more of a battle of attrition as Victor continued to damage the mirrors, forcing Haku to expend chakra not only to maintain them but also repair them. Victor though was also being forced to expend his chakra in both repairing the damage done to his body and using techniques to damage the mirrors.
Lashing out again a slightly maniacal grin on his face Victor attempted once more to break out of the dome of mirrors. Haku though quickly intercepted him by transporting to the mirror closest to him and landed a quick strike in his gut with a foot long blade of ice, to try and either drive him away or injure him.
This was a poorly thought out response on her part though as Victor used her attack to his advantage, a swift strike to her thigh with a chakra scalpel soon saw an end to her speed advantage. Victor however did not come away unscathed however as he received a blade of ice through his chest, clipping his left lung, causing significant damage as it did so.
"Dammit!" Victor cursed as he leapt away from the ice mirror, his hand glowing green as he attempted to patch up the damage. Deep down though he knew that this set of lungs was fucked, he would have to replace them quite soon, luckily though he had managed to harvest quite a few organs from Raiga's men.
"There is no escape Hunter-nin. I am afraid I have no choice but to kill you, you are a threat to Master Zabuza and so you will be removed." Haku said, her pained voice seeming to come from multiple directions.
"Escape, I think you are the one who can't escape. I have cut the muscles in your thigh, I doubt very much that you will be able to beat me now." Victor replied, spitting out a blob of blood as he did so.
"And I have damaged your lungs. If you don't heal it immediately you will begin to drown in your own blood." Haku replied tonelessly. "And I very much doubt you will be able to heal a wound like that whilst in a fight."
To emphasis this statement Haku launched more senbon at him, the needles more infrequent now and coming mainly from one direction. Not that that mattered much as they still worked in forcing Victor to move, disrupting his attempt to patch up his damaged lung.
"You're an arrogant little bitch aren't you?" Victor grumbled to himself as he once again rolled out of the way of Haku's attack.
"Hyoton: One Thousand Needles of Death!"
In response to his words dozens of frozen senbon were launched at him from all sides. Forcing Victor to dodge and weave between them even as he used his gauntlets to block some of them.
"I really need to learn more offensive jutsu." Victor muttered tiredly to himself as the bombardment of ice senbon ended. Victor's style of fighting mostly relied on traps and taking his enemy off guard, he was at his most deadly when he had time to change the environment to suit him.
That being said his work as a Hunter-nin made such chances low, this had forced him to learn more offensive abilities. But even so he knew he was lacking powerful ninjutsu, something he knew would come in useful for situations just like this.
"Hyah!" Victor shouted as he leapt forward sliding on the wet floor as he did so, raising his arm he slammed his fist into one of the mirrors, the mirror cracking behind the force of his blow. Jumping up he used the surface of the cracked mirror as a platform, allowing him to jump off it and away, even as he saw more senbon shattering on the mirror he just used.
Landing on his feet Victor kept moving, avoiding the occasional flurry of senbon as he tried to think up a new plan. Conscious as he did so of how the constant movement was just damaging his lung even more.
"Could really use a bit of help right now?!" Victor shouted out as he once again forced his body to move, allowing him to avoid yet more senbon. "Like seriously girl just how many fucking senbon do you have?!"
"Ha! Can't believe you haven't finished off the apprentice yet!?" Came the mocking voice of Clementine, clearly audible from outside of the dome of ice mirrors. "I mean I just finished off her Master and you are struggling with his little servant girl!"
"Master Zabuza!" Haku suddenly said in shock.
Looking through the gaps in the dome of mirrors Victor could see the bloody form of Clementine approaching him, her skin and armour stained in blood, even as she sent him a bloody grin.
Victor very much doubted the blood was Clementine's. This was reinforced by the fact that she was holding Zabuza's sword in her right hand, the blood stained blade resting comfortably on her shoulder.
Victor obviously was not the only one to see this as the ice mirrors around him shattered as his opponent exploded out of them, her own injuries forgotten as she rushed Clementine.
"Clementine don't kill her!" Victor called out from where he stood.
"Whatever!" Clementine replied as she weathered Haku's bombardment of senbon, her naturally durable stopping the needles from even penetrating her skin. Taking a step forward Clementine swung Zabuza's blade using the flat of the blade to strike Haku in the head. Her strike easily hit the girl due to the fact that the muscles in her thigh were severed restricting her movement, and her mind was clouded by her anger over Zabuza's death.
With a crash Haku hit the ground unconscious, her fake Hunter-nin mask shattered, and a small pool of blood beginning to form around her head.
"And that Victor is how you defeat an enemy." Clementine said smugly as she casually leant on Zabuza;s sword a vicious grin on her face.
"That is an assist at best." Victor replied grumpily as he approached her, a glowing green hand on his wounded chest as he patched up his lung. "I did all the hard work you just delivered the finishing blow."
"Well not exactly finishing." Clementine commented as she used her foot to turn Haku's body over so she could look at her now unmasked face. "Speaking of which why did you ask me not to kill her?"
"She has the Hyoton bloodline." Victor replied as he pushed Clementine away from the girl and knelt down besides her, his hand on her head as he checked over her injuries, making sure they weren't fatal.
"Oh, ok." Clementine replied. "So we are taking her back to Kiri?"
"She is most likely the last Hyoton user in existence. The last of her Clan, killing her would be crime of the highest order." Victor replied seriously. "We are going to take her back to the Village with us and let Lady Terumi decide her fate."
"Knowing her she will most likely get the girl to join Kiri and make her own Clan." Clementine grumbled.
"I would hope so; however whether or not that happens depends on the girl. I very much doubt she will take the death of her Master well." Victor replied as he looked down at the girl, a frown on his face.
"She'll get over it." Clementine replied callously as she threw the unconscious girl over her shoulder and began to walk away. "Now come on, we need to catch up with Pain."
"I'm coming." Victor grunted as he followed his teammate, the two of them swiftly leaving the clearing as they followed the trail of destruction that Pain had left.
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