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The Land of Waves - Part 3

"Fang-over-Fang!" Quickly gaining speed the two became a blur of movement as they hurtled towards Karabe like miniature tornadoes. Karabe leapt into the air as Kiba and Akamaru smashed into the ground where he had been standing, creating a small crater before shooting off in different directions and ricocheting off the railings at the side of the bridge, propelling themselves back towards Karabe in a pincer attack who was still in mid-air.

Karabe swung his left arm towards a metal beam above him and a blade attached to a wire shot out from his sleeve, the blade struck the beam and sunk several inches into it before the wire retracted, pulling Karabe upwards and out of the way of Kiba and Akamaru's attack. With practised ease the pair slipped past each other, so as not to collide head on with each other, and stopped spinning before sliding to a stop on either side of the bridge. Karabe gracefully landed a good distance away from them and retracted the wired blade all the way, so it was once again hidden under the long sleeve of his trench coat.

"Not bad kid, not bad." Karabe praised. "But now I get serious!" He declared before once again launching several waves of shuriken with his right hand.

"How many fucking shuriken does this guy have!?" Kiba yelled as he dodged another volley of shuriken, he thought about Ten-ten, the girl had an unbelievable amount of projectiles stored in the scrolls she carried, but this guy wasn't carrying any scrolls and he didn't appear to be drawing them from any where, each time he swung his right arm there were shuriken flying from his hand. The bridge now was littered with shuriken, Kiba could barely take a step without nearly standing on some shuriken which littered the ground. Suddenly Karabe formed several hand-signs, the first he'd made at all, this made Kiba worry.

"Storm of Blades Jutsu!"

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"Are you ready? Because now it's my turn!" Kisame smiled, Naruto and Sasuke readied themselves and raised their swords in readiness, his smile never faltering Kisame raised his own swords up and charged forwards. Sasuke's sharingan didn't miss the near invisible chakra coating Kisame's blades, he was using a similar technique that Sasuke used, to counter Sasuke poured his own lightning chakra through his blade and lunged forwards at Kisame, Naruto following his lead.

Kisame deflected Sasuke's blade and spun to the side, slipping past him and lunging for Naruto who hesitated for a moment, that moment was all he needed. Using his left sword he pushed Naruto's sword to the side and stepped in with a lunge from his right, towards Naruto's exposed chest. Kisame couldn't stop himself from smiling as he felt his blade slice through flesh.

"NO!" Sasuke yelled as he lunged for Kisame, who spun round to face him, their swords clashed and Sasuke couldn't miss the blood dripping from Kisame's mirrored blade. Enraged, Sasuke shoved him away and immediately went on the offensive. Kisame blocked every one of his attacks, he wielded the two swords like they were extensions of his own body, Sasuke was only managing to avoid the counter strikes thanks to his sharingan, but one well timed swing from Kisame knocked Sasuke's sword from his grip, and he used that moment to drive his sword deep into Sasuke's stomach.

"Too bad kid, another few years and you might have had the skill to beat me!"

"Blughr..."Sasuke choked, blood pouring from his mouth. "But the fight hasn't even started yet!"

"What!?" Sasuke faded away like a specter, Kisame stepped backwards in shock and turned to see Naruto's lifeless form do the same. "Genjutsu!" Kisame cursed, quickly forming a hand sign. "Release!" The genjutsu faded and Kisame found himself standing before Sasuke and Naruto, the two of them ready to fight. 'When did he... those eyes, when he locked eyes with me he cast his genjutsu!'

"Naruto, don't take him head on, take him out in one move!"

"You're right!" Naruto agreed, understanding what Sasuke meant, he slid his sword back into it's scabbard and lowered his stance, ready to use his quick-draw.

'The speed of Naruto's quick-draw should stop him using that speed of his again.' Sasuke thought to himself, his left shoulder still stinging in pain from Naruto's blow.

"Quick-draw is it?" Kisame mused. "It'll take more than that to get the jump on me."

"Don't underestimate me!" Naruto roared. "I'm Naruto Uzamaki! Believe it!"

"Well then, Naruto Uzamaki... take this!" Crossing his sword in front of him Kisame focused his chakra into the blades and in one go swung the blades apart and shot a large mass of wind chakra straight at Naruto. Naruto leapt to the side just in time, the attack rushing past him, but Kisame had moved at the same time, using a burst of speed like before and was already upon Naruto as he was still avoiding the attack. Sasuke had never taken his eyes of Kisame and tracked him with his sharingan, he launched a kunai at a point Kisame would cross as he assaulted Naruto. Kisame deflected the kunai with one swipe of his blade, but the distraction had been enough for Naruto to unleash his quick-draw. Kisame had expected it and quickly crossed his swords to block the blow, but was surprised by the overwhelming force of the attack, he was sent stumbling backwards and was nearly caught by Sasuke's follow up attack but ducked underneath it and rolled away to safety. Kisame had to hand it to the brats, their teamwork and timing was excellent, they knew how to react to each other and had complete confidence in the others ability; that just meant he was going to have to get serious!

Kisame launched another burst of wind chakra at Sasuke, who rolled out of it's path, Kisame charged at him using the same burst of speed he'd used to avoid their first attack, and was upon Sasuke in a second. Sasuke scowled as he was forced onto the defensive, his sharingan the only thing allowing him to keep up with Kisame's attacks. The man was a whirling rage of blades, his attacks relentless and precise. Naruto charged in to help Sasuke, and soon the three ninja were engaged in a relentless assault of blades, Kisame caught between the two of them as he skill fully blocked, parried and evaded their attacks with his impressive skill. Kisame seized an opening and elbowed Naruto in the face, sending him reeling, and then followed up with a round house kick sending him crashing to the ground. Sasuke attempted to strike Kisame in the back but using a burst of speed he slipped away from Sasuke's attack. As Naruto shakily got back to his feet Kisame fired a burst of wind chakra at him, knowing that Naruto was unable to dodge the attack Sasuke threw himself into it's path and took the hit, the attack slicing into him with dozens of miniature blades made of wind chakra.

"SASUKE!" Naruto screamed as he ran to him, his hand outstretched as he watched helplessly as Sasuke fell to his knees, his clothes torn and bloody.

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"Storm of Blades Jutsu!" Karabe yelled as he slammed his right hand to the ground, a seal of light appearing where his hand struck. Karabe stepped back and watched with a sickening smile as Kiba and Akamaru waited with bated breath for the attack to reveal itself, they couldn't rush in carelessly, there was too much distance for them to interfere with Karabe's jutsu, they waited, ready to defend themselves. The seal disappeared in a flash of bright light, a wave of chakra washed over the area, Kiba blinked as he saw nothing had happened.

"What the... the jutsu... failed?" Kiba asked aloud.

"No kid, the jutsu worked, now I'm sorry to tell you kid but you won't be having an open casket!" Karabe grinned swinging his right arm wide, Kiba flinched as he felt something stab into the back of his right thigh. Reaching down Kiba pulled out a shuriken, he stared at it for a moment wondering how it had gotten him from behind.

"Genjutsu!?"

"Nothing so fancy as that kid, I'll let you work it out as I end this little fight!" Karabe raised his right hand high and suddenly all the fallen shuriken that littered the bridge flew into the sky and began to encircle them like a twister. They were completely trapped.

'Puppet Master Jutsu!' Kiba scowled, Karabe was controlling all of the shuriken with chakra strings. Several shuriken flew at him, he avoided them but winced in pain as another struck him in the back. This went on for several minutes, shuriken leaving cuts on him as they narrowly missed their mark, he needed to do something or both he and Akamaru were finished. Reaching into his pouch Kiba grabbed several smoke bombs and threw them to the ground where they burst into a thick cloud of purple smoke, concealing them from Karabe's sight.

'Not bad kid, but I don't need to see you to kill you!' Karabe flicked his right hand upwards and all the shuriken stopped in mid air, then with a simple gesture all the shuriken flew into the smoke. Confident in his victory Karabe waited a few moments for the smoke to clear, expecting to see two mutilated bodies, riddled with shuriken. He was taken aback when all he could see was a large hole in the bridge where Kiba and Akamaru had escaped his attack.

"Double Impact Wolf Fang! Kiba and Akamaru leapt up from either side of the bridge and launched themselves at Karabe and struck him from both sides, knocking him to the ground, as he got up Kiba again launched himself at him, Karabe had only managed to clumsily get to one knee before Kiba barrelled towards him at full power. "All Force Jutsu!" Karabe was sent flying into the barrier at the edge of the bridge, knocking the wind from him, he collapsed to the ground with a groan clutching his ribs.

"Game over!" Kiba declared.

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"SASUKE!" Naruto screamed as he ran to him, his hand outstretched as he watched helplessly as Sasuke fell to his knees, his clothes torn and bloody.

Sasuke felt numb, he was in shock, his body was heavy and he could barely move. He groggily lifted his head to look at Kisame who had a triumphant expression on his face. He raised his swords in front of him, Sasuke knew what was coming, he was going to finish him off with another wind chakra attack, drawing on every ounce of energy he formed the hand signs for one final attack. Sasuke pulled in a deep breath as Kisame launched his attack, Sasuke focused all his chakra into his lungs and launched his desperate attack.

"Fire Style! Grand Fire Ball Jutsu!" A giant fireball shot forth and clashed with Kisame's attack. The two attacks stopped for a split second before they combined, the fireball doubling in size and barrelled through Kisame's attack like it wasn't there. Kisame leapt to the side but couldn't completely avoid the giant fireball, his right hand and forearm were badly burned and his clothes badly singed. He staggered to the railing and eyed the two young ninja, Naruto was now standing in front of Sasuke protecting him, ready to use his quick-draw. Looking beyond that he saw Kiba barrel into Karabe, knocking his partner down, the way Karabe clutched his sides he knew he was badly hurt. They had underestimated them, they had to retreat for now, but next time, next time things would be different!

"KARABE!" He yelled, Karabe looked at him and nodded in understanding. They threw themselves over the railing into the water below. Kiba and Naruto ran to the edge but couldn't see them, they had escaped.

"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled running to his side, Sasuke fell into his arms and fell unconscious, badly cut up and bleeding all over. "SASUKE! WAKE UP!"

"Shit!" Kiba cursed as he saw how badly hurt Sasuke was. "We need to get him to a hospital!"

"HEY!" A voice called from the far end of the bridge, Naruto immediately recognised Tazuna and Inari with several others running towards them.