Kakashi looks mildly amused. Naruto looks just as confused as I am if not more. Shikamaru is quickly glancing between Ino and me. Ino is… blushing madly? What? Why would she be blushing?
Unless… no. It can't be. Does she like -
SCREEEEECH
The sound of microphone feedback rips through the air again.
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"Ah, Koyuki darling, how nice to see you again." Doto's voice resonates through the entire town.
"What!?" All of the shinobi quickly look to where we last saw the Princess, barely two meters away with Sandayu. The only person there is an equally caught off guard Sandayu and no Koyuki.
"Koyuki no!" Sandayu yells as he spots his charge standing ontop of a building staring up at the blimp with a sense of resignation.
"She slipped away while we were planning!" Naruto shouts out. "But why! Why would she do that? We're here to protect her!"
"The idiot probably didn't think we were capable." I snarl out. "Great. Now we have to get her out of this mess."
"DOTO!" Koyuki shouts up at the blimp. "I am here! Spare these people like you promised and I will willingly go with you! They don't need to die! They don't deserve to die! Not for me, not for this!" She grabs the Hexagonal Crystal that's around her neck to emphasis her point. "I have what you want. Come get it."
"You've gotta be shitting me." Shikamaru groans out. "Kakashi stop her!"
"You've got it." Kakashi takes off in a burst of unrivaled speed that kicks up snow along his path. He's not bothering to go through the building, he's running straight at the walls of it. He's going to run right up it to Koyuki.
It's a smart move, send our fastest shinobi along the quickest path to protect the package.
"No, how about you come to me?" Doto laughs over the speakers as a door opens on the blimp, revealing a minion with a metal gauntlet. The minion fires his fist at Koyuki and a long cable keeps them connected. The fist grabs Koyuki around the waist and quickly starts to reel her in. Doto is taking Koyuki aboard the blimp.
Kakashi wasn't fast enough, he couldn't get there in time.
"Oh come the fuck on!" I shout at the blimp despite no one on it being able to hear me. "Who the hell has retractable limbs!?"
~Uh… technically you do. We can totally do that too. Just saying.~
"Alvarcus." Shikamaru immediately turns to me. "You're not going to like this."
"Do I have to?" I whine out. I know exactly what he wants me to do. I really don't want to do it.
"Look on the bright side, once you get Koyuki out you'll be able to make that fireball you won't shut up about." Shikamaru points out.
"You're playing me." I accuse him. "You're using what I want against me. I know it. And you fucker it's working! DAMMIT!"
I quickly take off my coat and toss it to the ground. I'm just in a long sleeved black shirt now and I lift the back of that up too.
"What the hell are you doing?" Anko asks. "Put your damn clothes back on this is not the time or the place or the right person to do this around!"
"Shut up. I don't like ruining my clothes even if I can replace them super easily. So, what are you thinking? Two? Three?"
"The hell? Are you mad?" Anko asks me again.
"Probably, now shut up. I'm not talking to you. So two or three?"
~You're much lighter than a boulder and the distance is shorter, two will more than suffice. It's probably overkill but I'm not certain one will work. Which elements do you want to leave behind?~
"Water and earth. I need overwhelming force if I'm doing this alone so I'm bringing the three most destructive elements I can. Water is my weakest and earth is mainly defensive but as an added reason I doubt there's water and earth just hanging out on a fucking blimp. Plus I have to bring fire for this, that blimp is going to burn."
~Two it is.~
My loyal minions squelch out of my back then quickly merge into one even bigger humanoid figure. Except this humanoid figure has only one massively disproportionate arm. I quickly hop into the humongous open hand and squat down.
"Holy shit." Shikamaru says. "You're going to throw yourself at it?"
"Shut up shut up shut up! I'm already strongly against this quit making it worse for me!" I shout at the Nara. "Sureddo."
~Yes, Alvarcus?~
"Don't fucking miss." I snarl out.
The double minion rears back and the threads within it bulge as it prepares to throw me. With a mighty heave I'm thrown through the air. Thrown doesn't do it justice, I'm like a bullet. The sheer force that Sureddo put behind the toss is incredible, it's so incredible that I'm almost already to the ship after two seconds of airtime.
"SHIT HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LAND?!"
CRASH
"Ouch." The konoha gang winces in sympathy as they stare at the human sized hole in the exterior wall of the carriage of the blimp.
"So… am I seeing things or did Alvarcus just go flying at the blimp?" Kakashi asks as he rejoins the group.
"Even better." Shikamaru points over his shoulder at the gigantic thread monster. "He threw himself at it."
"Wow." Kakashi looks from the monster, to the hole in the carriage of the blimp, then back to the monster. "Maybe he is crazy after all."
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On the Blimp
"Fuck that was a bad idea." I thankfully breached the ship in a storage room. The only stuff in here is wooden crates. Or what used to be wooden crates, now it's scrap wood and splinters because I broke them. "Never doing that again. NEVER!"
I dust myself off and make my way to the door. It's time to cause glorious mayhem until I find Koyuki. It's going to be so much fun!
"Why the hell is the door locked?" I mutter to myself as I jiggle the handle. It's not budging at all. "Better question: why did I even try it in the first place? I'm here to make a statement."
With a deafening bang I kick the door. Said door goes flying off it's hinges and crashes into the other side of the hallway. It causes quite the ruckus, the loud noise echoes throughout the entire blimp.
Good. I've got a Princess to find.
The instant I step out into the hallway I'm confronted by four shinobi, they must have been the closest bunch and came to investigate.
"Who the hell are you?" One of them rudely shouts at me while brandishing a kunai. The other three shinobi all also fall into a combat stance, one draws a sword, another preps for a jutsu and the last draws two kunai. "And how did you get onboard?"
"Where's Koyuki?" I ask my own question in return with an air of nonchalance about me.
"Like we would tell you!" The sword wielding shinobi shouts at me.
"Surrender or die!" The two kunai wielding shinobi demands.
"Alright." I roll my shoulders in preparation for what is about to happen. I don't really need to warm up at all I just think it has a nice added visual effect. "So I've turned over a new leaf so to speak. I've made a promise to myself to be less violent and be more humane when I deal with people. So here's what's going to happen, either you tell me where Koyuki is or I kill all but one of you. The one I spare will then run away and tell everyone what just happened and that will cause the rest of the shinobi on this blimp to swarm me. And then we rinse and repeat until someone cracks and tells me where Koyuki is. How about we skip all that and one of you mans up and tells me what I want to know?"
"Yeah and I want your big titted blonde Hokage to blow me! But neither of those things are going to happen!" The original shinobi that shouted at me shouts at me yet again. "I know your kind, you all talk a big game but you don't have the balls to follow through!"
"Oh you poor ignorant fool." I with a large amount of faked sadness and disappointment. "The other shinobi are from Konoha. I'm from Otogakure. There's just a minor difference between the two."
"What?" The dual kunai wielder intelligently says.
"Now who to spare?" I tap my chin with my index finger as I analyze each of the four shinobi before me. "You that hasn't talked yet, jutsu boy, it's not because you can't talk is it?"
"I do not speak because there is no point to." The shinobi who is still holding the final hand sign for his jutsu says. "It does not matter where you are from, you either surrender or die."
"Oh I like you!" I clap my hands together with a radiant smile on my face. "So will you kindly allow a soon to be dead man one final question in life?"
"I will, ask it." The jutsu wielder humors me, hell all of the shinobi here are humoring me. They think that I'm stalling while trying to come up with a plan. Unfortunately for them I've already wrapped them in one.
"Thanks! You're a nice guy, don't forget that. Here's my question, what's the opposite of push?"
"Pull?" The jutsu wielder says but it comes out more as a question than an answer. He can't fathom why I asked that specific question.
"Correct!" I lift up my left arm and point it at the four shinobi. "The answer is pull!"
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