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Neko looked at her two adversaries with focus while trying to get her breathing under control. The two kenjutsu moves she performed earlier took out of her more than she wanted to.
She wasn't given that chance as Seiji rushed towards her with a manic grin on his face, seemingly not bothered by his bleeding stump.
As he approached Neko, he raised his scythe high before bringing the blade downwards, aiming for Neko's head.
Neko easily dodged the wild swing before striking with her short blade towards Seiji's neck.
CLANG
Few sparks flew as the edge of Neko's blade met the metal handle of Seiji's scythe. The two kept locked like this for a few moments, with Seiji having a mad smile and look as he looked directly at Neko's mask.
They pushed each other away before reengaging.
While that was happening, Nagisa seemed to be in another world by himself. He had taken some of his blood, staining his palms with it, and looked at it with some madness or ecstasy before seemingly starting to dance with his steps forming a triangle within a circle beneath his feet. Forming the symbol with his own blood that fell on the ground from the now healed wound that was on the upper part of his chest.
As he finished forming the symbol, he turned towards Seiji and Neko, who were still fighting, before putting his blood-stained finger tips on the top of his forehead and then pulling them across his face, chin, and neck, forming multiple lines of blood across his face and neck while letting out what seemed like a satisfied sigh with his face morphing into a completely unhinged expression as he looked towards Neko intently.
Back to Seiji and Neko, Seiji was looking worse than before, as his body was littered with many new wounds. The absence of one of his arms seemed to have disturbed his balance slightly, leading to him sustaining more injuries than he would have liked.
Sadly, none of them was enough to bring him down; they seemed to do nothing to him as he seemed completely unbothered by them.
Neko, on the other hand, fared much better with only tiredness creeping on her. Her form only seemed to be slightly disheveled with slight nicks here and there.
SCREEEEECH
crack
The sound of a hawk's screech or a thousand birds sounded through the area, making everyone glance at the source, only to see Inu having his right hand covered in blue lighting going through and through one of his opponents, while his left had already decapitated the other.
The crack that was heard was Tenzo using Earth Release to pin and pierce through his opponents using earth spikes before beheading them with his blade.
"Seiji. Hand me the scythe." Nagisa ordered, to which Seiji immediately complied. Throwing his scythe towards Nagisa, leaving himself unarmed, leading to Neko's incoming strike hitting the top of his chest, cutting through his chest, and to his hip. The wound was so deep, clean, and horrid that his ribs and organs were cut, with a lot of them peeking and spilling out of the wound.
Even this didn't seem to bring Seiji down as he jumped away from Neko, worsening his newest wound.
Neko wasn't even looking at Seiji as she was looking at Nagisa with wide eyes and the feeling of impending doom as she saw him lick the tip of the scythe, where some of her blood was, before he immediately turned pitch black in color with white skeletal drawing on top.
Neko's mind replayed what she read a couple of weeks ago as she rushed towards Nagisa. She hoped she wasn't too late.
...
Inu beheaded the one he had his arm through his chest before pulling out his arm and looking at his blood-stained arm after the lightning disappeared. For a moment, he seemed to be having a flashback to an event he wished he hadn't remembered before clenching his fist and forcibly calming himself down.
He looked towards Tenzo, noting that he was done with his opponents before looking towards Neko.
He got confused for a moment, seeing her standing still, but in the next second, his eyes widened upon seeing the situation and what state Neko was in.
"Tenzo," Inu called as he rushed towards Neko's opponents.
Tenzo was already weaving hand signs as he saw what was happening.
Mokuton: Sashiki no Jutsu (Wood Release: Cutting Technique)
As Tenzo finished his last hand seal, he slammed his hands onto the ground and pushed chakra into it.
This resulted in multiple wood spikes emerging from the ground underneath Nagisa, disturbing and erasing the symbol beneath his feet and piercing through his entire body, pinning him where he was standing as blood poured out of him like a waterfall from where the wood spikes had pierced, while Nagisa lost the pitch-black look he had gained.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA. You are too late. How marvelous. She has the privilege to be a sacrifice to Jashin-sama." Nagisa said with an unhinged tone, not bothered by the wooden spikes that pierced his body or the metal end of the Scythe that he impaled himself with in his chest, piercing his chest through and through.
Tenzo rushed towards Neko, who had just fallen to her knees, while Inu finished off Seiji before beheading Nagisa and piercing his neck and mouth with Kunai.
"Cough." Neko coughs with a sound of something coming out of her throat.
Blood came out with the cough, staining the inside of her mask before starting to drip down, while her Anbu uniform started to get soaked by her blood from the front and the back, with her clothes not being pierced or cut where the bleeding was.
"Neko. I got you." Tenzo said as he lay her on the ground, trying not to panic because of what he was seeing. He didn't fully understand the extent of how injured Neko was. All he currently sees is that Neko is shaking violently, with blood pooling beneath her, while she sounds like she is drowning.
Inu knelt beside them, before taking off Neko's mask, revealing her deathly pale face with blood rushing out from her mouth as she shook, trying desperately to take a breath but failing.
Inu took out a Kunai to cut Neko's clothing to see what they were dealing with.
"Move aside." Ryuu's voice appeared near them, startling Inu and Tenzo, who turned to look at the rushing Ryuu.
To be continued.
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