She took a look around and she can see that her teammates are waking up slowly. Her eyes turned to normal. The Mangekyo Sharingans, these legendary eyes, could generate greed in others, especially her clan. She was being ridiculed as a failure after Sasuke's battle at the castle roof with all the clans. Only recently has she seen that the attitude of her clan is becoming softer. But she had to take on dangerous missions and complete those for this change and in those missions she lost her sister which led to her awakening these eyes. But she knows that, even with the change in attitude, the moment her clan members learn she has these eyes then some of them would covet them. So, she hasn't told anyone about this.
Aburame Member (Female, Age: 28): Damn It. Why is my head so heavy?
She then finds her letter.
Aburame Member (Female, Age: 28): What the heck is this?
Inuzuka Member (Male, Age: 32): Ahh….Where am I?
Ninken: Woof.
Hyuga Member (Branch Family, Male, Age: 25): How did we get here?
All woke up and found their letters and read them.
Aburame Member (Female, Age: 28): I have heard before that this Kouske was weird, insufferable and crazy but I always thought that because people lost to him, they are just slandering him. Who knew I would get to experience his craziness first hand.
Inuzuka Member (Male, Age: 32): What's matter now is what do we do? Do we abort the mission? After all, we have been found out. Our orders were to find the mines location, not pick a fight.
Ninken: Woof.
Hyuga Member (Branch Family, Male, Age: 25): We didn't pick the fight, we were dragged in it. I, for one, want to kill him. Let's move. I will play his game. Let's play his game and take him out. He sounds cocky so we have a good chance of catching him off guard and killing him.
Aiko Uchiha(Former teammate of Suske, Female, Age: 23): I am in favour of playing this game as this will allow us to get close to him but I don't think we should follow his rules. He always keeps his cards hidden till the last moment and he makes sure that he has any and every advantage possible against his enemies. This is the reason no one has been able to kill him till now and so many died trying to kill him.
Hyuga Member (Branch Family, Male, Age: 25): Who asked for your opinion, you failure? I thought we were clear that I will be leading the team and you are only a figurehead because our superiors wanted Uchiha in each team to lead.
Aiko Uchiha(Former teammate of Suske, Female, Age: 23): I agreed because I thought we would avoid fighting Kouske. The situation has changed now. It's best that you allow me to lead.
Hyuga Member (Branch Family, Male, Age: 25): I won't listen to the orders of any cowar...
BOOM BOOM
Before he could finish talking, there were explosions in one direction.
Hyuga Member (Branch Family, Male, Age: 25): What the….
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
More explosions sounds came from another direction.
Aiko Uchiha(Former teammate of Suske, Female, Age: 23): Another battle. See, battles have broken out. Some of these should be other teams from our clans.
Hyuga Member (Branch Family, Male, Age: 25): Ok everybody, we are moving to the closest explosion. We will rendezvous with our allies and figure out where to go from there.
The Hyuga cut Aiko and said his orders.
Hyuga Member (Branch Family, Male, Age: 25): Follow me!
Then he turned around and started running. Other members gave Aiko a disappointed look and followed the Hyuga.
Aiko Uchiha(Former teammate of Suske, Female, Age: 23): DAMN IT! They aren't listening. SHIT.
Aiko cursed and started running after them.
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[ The Team consisting of Yamanaka, Nara, Akimichi, Sarutobi and Senju clans sent by the old daimyo Asano Nagamasa are in battle right now.]
Nara Member (Female): [Shadow Paralysis Jutsu].
The shadow of the Nara member extended towards 1 of 2 enemies. She wanted to take one of the enemies by surprise. The Akimichi, Sarutobi members are already engaged with that enemy. The Senju leader is fighting 1-on-1 with the other enemy, while Akimichi, Sarutobi members are fighting another. The Yamanaka female member is standing behind Nara member ready to execute her clan's signature [Mind Transfer Jutsu]. The moment the Nara member's shadow was traveling towards the enemy, the Akimichi member used his clan's [Spiky Human Boulder] Jutsu. His hair hardened like spikes or thorns and he spun his body in the shape of a ball like sonic the hedgehog and was falling towards the enemy. At the same time, the enemy just dodged the attack of the Sarutobi member by ducking, the Sarutobi member had used a water style and released a thin water jet line from his mouth from left direction to right. The water line passed right above the Jashin Cultist, as he had just ducked, and now Akimichi fell on him like a spiky cannon ball.
BOOM
The spiky cannon ball fell but for some reason there was no cry of pain by the enemy. On the other hand, the ball was producing sparks from below as if its spikes were trying to cut something metallic as it was spinning. The Jashin cultist was under the spinning ball, probably laying in the small crater that was created when the ball struck his body and pushed him towards the ground. Nobody can see right now, as the ball was spinning over the small crater but the Jashin Cultist was using his jutsu. His whole body was completely covered in a thick layer of red as if there was red metal armor covering all of his body.
Nara Member (Female): GET OUT OF THE WAY!
The shadow was about to reach the target so the Nara shouted. The Akimichi stopped spinning forward and spun backwards to reverse and create distance.
Armored Jashin Cultist: OH NO YOU DON'T.
The armored Jashin cultist extended his left arm towards the retreating Akimichi. From around his red arm, the blood transformed into 4 separate thin vines with sharp tips and these vines were released. The Akimichi has retreated a few meters by now and so he cancelled his Jutsu. Now he was falling backwards but the vines reached him and entangled his right arm.
Nara Member: I GOT YOU!.
The shadow connected to the Jashin cultist and stopped his movements, but the vines around the Akimichi changed. The vines spun to untangle and cut Akimichi's right arm off.
Akimichi Member: AAAAAHHHHH!
By this point the Sarutobi was near the Akimichi member and grabbed his collar by the back and retreated several more meters.
Sarutobi member: TAKE OVER HIS MIND NOW!
Yamanaka member (Female): [Mind Transfer Jutsu].
At that moment, one of the Jashin cultists was caught. Although, right now they don't know about these cultists. They were strategizing about what to do next after waking up and reading their letters when the Yamanaka member sensed something. It was the chakra of the cultists and it was not like normal chakra. She hasn't sensed anything like this before. They thought to investigate and ran in that direction. They saw two figures, covered in robes while hiding and observing. But the figures sensed them as well when they were about 10 meters away. Both figures without any signal ran towards them and engaged. This caught them off guard. In the spur of the moment, 1 cultist engaged the Senju leader while the other engaged the remaining shinobis. That was what happened.
The vines of the caught cultist were receding back to his body.
BOOM
Just several meters away, an explosion happened. It was due to the paper bomb tied to kunai that was thrown by the Senju member towards the other Cultist. Due to the explosion, there was black smoke for a moment. The cultist that should have died came out from the smoke as if he was jumping back. His whole body was also covered in red blood armor. It was as if he himself was made of red metal. While his body hadn't stopped, he looked towards his colleague's predicament and without even blinking turned towards his colleague, raised his red chakra which was now visible around his body and moved fast as if he teleported. He appeared right in front of his colleague and slashed with a red sword in his right hand horizontally, that was made from his blood using Cult's Jutsu, from left to right and an arc shaped red energy slash was released towards his colleague's enemies. The Nara member took the Yamanaka member's body, which was sleeping as the Yamanaka's mind was inside the caught cultist's body, and jumped. The Sarutobi took the Akimichi, who was screaming due to losing his right arm and jumped to dodge as well. At this moment, the Nara member's priority was dodging so the [Shadow Paralysis Jutsu] was released.
2nd Cultist to the 1st: Oye, Don't get caught again.
The 2nd Cultist said to his now freed colleague without turning his head and prepared for another battle. At this exact moment, the red vines that his colleagues had used to attack before were only 50 inches in length and decreasing further. He swiped his left hand over the ends of these vines and took the blood of the Akimichi that was on them when they severed his arm. The arm was already discarded by the vines when they started receding. The vines' ends were still a little sharp even though his teammate was cancelling his Jutsu. Right at this moment, he didn't know that his teammate's mind had also been taken over as he was busy in his own battle before. He licked the blood and his skin changed. It was as if he was wearing a skeleton Halloween costume on his skin as aside from the skeleton's drawing on him, the rest of his skin was black. He positioned the red sword in his right hand to stab himself to complete his Cult's signature Curse Jutsu.
STAB
But before he could stab himself, he was stabbed with a short sword from behind by his teammate.
[1st Cultist (Now mind taken over by Yamanaka)]: DIE!
[2nd Cultist]: WHAT?
At this moment, the Senju squad leader also reached both.
[Nara member]: RETURN TO YOUR BODY NOW!!!
The Nara member shouted to her Yamanaka teammate. She knew that their Senju leader probably didn't know that their teammate had taken over the mind of one of the enemies as he was busy fighting his own battle.
Senju Squad leader: YAAAAHHHHHHH
The Senju squad leader spun clockwise. His body and the two swords in both hands were covered in chakra. As he spun and passed his opponents, he slashed them both.
A circular wind wave passed between him and the opponents he slashed, showing the power of his attack. He came to a stop a few meters away from his opponents and held a domineering pose, he was in a standing position and both of his hands were on the right side of his body with swords in each.
At that exact moment, the Yamanaka awoke in her own body.
2nd Cultist: What are you posing for? Also, hey, [8] WHY DID YOU STAB ME? I WAS ABOUT TO STAB MYSELF ANYWAY.
The 2nd cultist said to the Senju softly and shouted at this colleague loudly.
1st Cultist: HAAH!? WHAT? ARE YOU AN IDIOT? WHY WOULD I DO THAT WHEN I KNOW IT DOESN'T WORK. MY BODY WAS UNDER THEIR CONTROL.
[Senju Leader and his team]: WHAT?
At that exact moment….
[?]: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Someone screamed. Everybody looked in the direction of the scream and they saw that the Akimichi's body was in 3 pieces. 1 lower body, and 2 upper body pieces as if someone cut his upper body by swinging dual swords from left to right, with swords in each hand.
[Senju Leader (Shocked)]: WHAT IS GOING ON?
As he said that, of the 3 pieces of once human shinobi, 2 lower ones were on the ground and the main upper one in the hand of the shocked Sarutobi shinobi, who was grabbing that remaining torso from behind by the collar.