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Hidden Depths Contest- Chapter Four

Chapter One is here: [link]

Chapter Two is here: [link]

Chapter Three is here: [link]

Chapter Four – Inspiration

Sakura's lungs burned.

Despite all her training, her limit was upon her and soon, something would give. She tugged futilely on the chakra-infused water clamped around her arm...no good. It may as well have been made of iron.

Something in her oxygen-starved brain lurched at that. Something about... the water...the infusion of....

...and there it was. The answer.

So simple.

Sakura couldn't reach her attacker because of the rigidity of the water being used to hold her at bay, but in order to function, then obviously it held the other kunoichi off as well. Simple, If she could just make use of it...

Focusing all her chakra control into her right arm, Sakura wrapped her hand around the shaft of iron water. At first, it felt hard and smooth, but soon it began to shift, covering and swallowing her other wrist.

PERFECT. As good a grip as she could ask for...

The muscles in her core heaved and using her own chakra to help hold herself steady, Sakura pivoted.

Her attacker's eyes went wide as the other girl figured out what was about to happen, but she couldn't stop it. Caught in her own attack she could either release Sakura, or go along for the ride.

Spinning completely round and round, Sakura built momentum. Finally, she launched herself laterally.

The strange kunoichi and Sakura hurtled across the seabed like a bola, Each swung on arc after arc by the inertia of the other, until finally, a large outcropping of rock rose before them. Sakura timed and used all the chakra she had left to launch herself straight up. It shifted their path through the water and her foe struck solid stone full on.

***

Ino dove forward. She landed on the prow of the rented boat and spun, releasing all six shuriken she held. The woman on the column of water neatly dodged them and unleashed another torrent of watery knives.

Leaping back the way she'd come, Ino lunged and grabbed a re-breather and her pouch of ninja tools on the way past. She was rapidly running out of boat and was NOT going into the drink unprepared.

Her detour cost her though. One of the knives flashed by and her arm screamed in sudden pain. A slim, neat slash across her upper right bicep sheeted blood. Ino screamed with the sudden pain. It felt deep. Maybe dangerously so. Already she felt her arm numbing.

From her pouch Ino whipped out one of her special sembon needles. It looked like any other ninja dart, expect this one was a bit different. Written in minuscule engraving along it was a series of characters Tenten had spent hours piecing together.

With a grin, she sent it sailing at her opponent who had been prepping a strike of her own. The dart hit the tip of one of the target's water knives and did exactly what it was designed to do. It shattered into thousands of fine barbed shrapnel, all of which continued to fly at their target only barely slower than the original dart.

The airborne water ninja screamed as her face was lacerated by hundreds of tiny cuts. “FINE BITCH!” she roared “You want to play rough! Let's do it!!” With a violent gesture of her left hand, another column of water sprang up, quick as a striking serpent.

The second geyser crashed down with the force of an avalanche. It rent the boat to splinters and smashed Ino to a bloody pulp.

...or it would have, if the twisting form of Ino hadn't abruptly dissolved into one of the boat's emergency oars.

Far below the surface, and angling away, Ino heard the woman's scream. “There's only one place you can be, and now you're MINE!”

Her attacker crashed into the waves after her, but Ino was ready. Her re-breather was not only clenched between her teeth, it was secured there with a bit of strapping from her kit. This was going to be dangerous, but it was till her best shot.

The woman closed with deadly speed, a ripple of water forming over her lower face. It must be allowing her to breath, Ino thought detached. Ready, her hands shot forward, fingers and thumbs forming the shape of the Ino's third eye, the eye of the mind... Aimed directly at the on rushing kunoichi...

And abruptly, she was Ame, strike leader of the Hidden Depths Village. She felt Ame's anger at the wounds still stinging her face, she knew their orders to recover the intercepted plans, she knew...

Oh no. She knew what had happened to Sakura, and that her friend may well be dead already.

With a snarl of anger, Ino crushed Ame's mental resistance, her fury giving her a cold strength she never knew she possessed. She plowed into Ame's body, taking full control. Ruthlessly, she dismantled all of Ame's jutsu. The knives dissolved, the rocketing column of water ceased and fell to nothing...

...and the protective air-filtering bubble slipped away.

She felt Ame's rage turn to fear and then terror as Ino forced her to open her mouth, preparing to take a deep, final breath.

Description
Hidden Depths Contest- Chapter Four

Chapter One is here: [link]

Chapter Two is here: [link]

Chapter Three is here: [link]

Chapter Four – Inspiration

Sakura's lungs burned.

Despite all her training, her limit was upon her and soon, something would give. She tugged futilely on the chakra-infused water clamped around her arm...no good. It may as well have been made of iron.

Something in her oxygen-starved brain lurched at that. Something about... the water...the infusion of....

...and there it was. The answer.

So simple.

Sakura couldn't reach her attacker because of the rigidity of the water being used to hold her at bay, but in order to function, then obviously it held the other kunoichi off as well. Simple, If she could just make use of it...

Focusing all her chakra control into her right arm, Sakura wrapped her hand around the shaft of iron water. At first, it felt hard and smooth, but soon it began to shift, covering and swallowing her other wrist.

PERFECT. As good a grip as she could ask for...

The muscles in her core heaved and using her own chakra to help hold herself steady, Sakura pivoted.

Her attacker's eyes went wide as the other girl figured out what was about to happen, but she couldn't stop it. Caught in her own attack she could either release Sakura, or go along for the ride.

Spinning completely round and round, Sakura built momentum. Finally, she launched herself laterally.

The strange kunoichi and Sakura hurtled across the seabed like a bola, Each swung on arc after arc by the inertia of the other, until finally, a large outcropping of rock rose before them. Sakura timed and used all the chakra she had left to launch herself straight up. It shifted their path through the water and her foe struck solid stone full on.

***

Ino dove forward. She landed on the prow of the rented boat and spun, releasing all six shuriken she held. The woman on the column of water neatly dodged them and unleashed another torrent of watery knives.

Leaping back the way she'd come, Ino lunged and grabbed a re-breather and her pouch of ninja tools on the way past. She was rapidly running out of boat and was NOT going into the drink unprepared.

Her detour cost her though. One of the knives flashed by and her arm screamed in sudden pain. A slim, neat slash across her upper right bicep sheeted blood. Ino screamed with the sudden pain. It felt deep. Maybe dangerously so. Already she felt her arm numbing.

From her pouch Ino whipped out one of her special sembon needles. It looked like any other ninja dart, expect this one was a bit different. Written in minuscule engraving along it was a series of characters Tenten had spent hours piecing together.

With a grin, she sent it sailing at her opponent who had been prepping a strike of her own. The dart hit the tip of one of the target's water knives and did exactly what it was designed to do. It shattered into thousands of fine barbed shrapnel, all of which continued to fly at their target only barely slower than the original dart.

The airborne water ninja screamed as her face was lacerated by hundreds of tiny cuts. “FINE BITCH!” she roared “You want to play rough! Let's do it!!” With a violent gesture of her left hand, another column of water sprang up, quick as a striking serpent.

The second geyser crashed down with the force of an avalanche. It rent the boat to splinters and smashed Ino to a bloody pulp.

...or it would have, if the twisting form of Ino hadn't abruptly dissolved into one of the boat's emergency oars.

Far below the surface, and angling away, Ino heard the woman's scream. “There's only one place you can be, and now you're MINE!”

Her attacker crashed into the waves after her, but Ino was ready. Her re-breather was not only clenched between her teeth, it was secured there with a bit of strapping from her kit. This was going to be dangerous, but it was till her best shot.

The woman closed with deadly speed, a ripple of water forming over her lower face. It must be allowing her to breath, Ino thought detached. Ready, her hands shot forward, fingers and thumbs forming the shape of the Ino's third eye, the eye of the mind... Aimed directly at the on rushing kunoichi...

And abruptly, she was Ame, strike leader of the Hidden Depths Village. She felt Ame's anger at the wounds still stinging her face, she knew their orders to recover the intercepted plans, she knew...

Oh no. She knew what had happened to Sakura, and that her friend may well be dead already.

With a snarl of anger, Ino crushed Ame's mental resistance, her fury giving her a cold strength she never knew she possessed. She plowed into Ame's body, taking full control. Ruthlessly, she dismantled all of Ame's jutsu. The knives dissolved, the rocketing column of water ceased and fell to nothing...

...and the protective air-filtering bubble slipped away.

She felt Ame's rage turn to fear and then terror as Ino forced her to open her mouth, preparing to take a deep, final breath.