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Super Team 5-II chapter23

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Chapter 23: In Your Eyes

Kogoro bites his lips to hold back his scream of pain as Shinka Takanawa pulls the kunai out of his shoulder. As soon as the knife is removed Kogoro collapses forward. Shinka catches him in her arms.
Karu jumps from the side to strike Shinka with a punch. Shinka waits until he is inches away from her and throws a smoke bomb in Karu’s face blinding him. Karu jumps back clutching his hands over his face. Shinka quickly vanishes with Kogoro to the cover of the trees above.

Moving away from Karu, Shinka finds a large tree to stop at. She gently puts Kogoro down on a branch resting his back against the trunk. Kogoro holds his hand over the wound on his shoulder wincing in pain.

KOGORO
“Shinka, what are you doing here?”

SHINKA
“There’s no time to explain, I’m just here to help.”

She reaches into the ninja pouch at her leg.

SHINKA
“Here take this soldier pill.”

She instructs handing him a red sphere shaped pill. Kogoro nods and puts the pill in his mouth chewing on it.

SHINKA
“It’s not much but it should at least help you get your strength up.”

Kogoro nods swallowing the pill before opening his mouth to talk again.

KOGORO
“You need to get out of here.”

SHINKA
“Funny I was going to say the same thing to you.”

KOGORO
“What?”

SHINKA
“You have a mission to finish don’t you? Well what kind of person let alone ninja would I be if I didn’t do all I could to help you complete it.”

Kogoro shakes his head and tries to stand up when he is racked with pain knocking him back into a sitting position.

SHINKA
“I can hold this jerk off long enough for you to get your strength up and make a run for it.”

KOGORO
“Shinka…”

Shinka stares into Kogoro’s still transformed and bleeding eyes. A look of deep sadness comes over her face as she looks at Kogoro’s beaten and bloody face.


Years ago at the ninja academy in Konoha, Shinka walks through the halls of the school with her new friend Nomi Nibai.

NOMI
“I’m so glad I found you, I thought I was going to be lost forever in these crowds.”

SHINKA
“It’s ok I know what it’s like to be stuck wondering alone.”

Nomi smiles at her friend making Shinka smile in return. Kogoro Nibai steps out from behind his locker shutting the door. As he turns to face the hallway he sees his sister and her friend heading in his direction. He gives a small wave to his little sister.

KOGORO
“Hey Nomi.”

NOMI
“Hi Kogoro!”

Nomi calls out her smile growing even brighter as she gives him a big wave before heading over to him, bringing Shinka along with her. Kogoro stops and lets the two girls catch up to him.

KOGORO
“So how is your first day going Nomi?”

NOMI
“Honestly, it’s a bit nerve racking but I’m getting the hang of it.”

KOGORO
“Good.”

Kogoro glances over to the side at the girl standing next to Nomi, leaning against the locker.

KOGORO
“And who’s your friend here?”

NOMI
“Ohh this is Shinka, she’s been helping me find my way around. Shinka this is my big brother Kogoro.”

SHINKA
“The normal one right?”

Shinka quickly covers her hand over her mouth realizing the rudeness of her statement. Kogoro just lets out a light laugh.

KOGORO
“Just comparatively.”

Shinka laughs at his joke felling forgiven for her slip of the tongue. Kogoro extends his hand out to her which Shinka accepts shaking his hand.

KOGORO
“It’s a pleasure to meet you Shinka.”

Without thinking Shinka brushes her other hand through her hair, pushing it over her face to cover her blind eye.

SHINKA
“It’s nice to meet you too.”

Kogoro nods then lets go of her hand.

KOGORO
“Well I better get on to class. I’ll see you after school Nomi and I hope I see you around Shinka.”

SHINKA
“Uhh..yeah…”

He gives a nod of his head to both of them before walking on down the hall. Shinka watches intently on Kogoro as he walks away.

NOMI
“Shinka?”

SHINKA
“Huh?”

NOMI
“Are you crushing on my brother?”

SHINKA
“What?!”


KOGORO
“Shinka don’t be so reckless, we can think of another way out of this.”

Kogoro’s words pull Shinka from her thoughts back to the present. Her eyes once more locking with his Shinka firmly shakes her head in response.

SHINKA
“This is the best way Kogoro, you’re faster then me and if we tried to escape together we’d just be one big target for him. I can keep him off your back so that you can finish the mission.”

Kogoro shakes his head in disagreement. He opens his mouth to continue the debate when Shinka presses a finger to his lips.

SHINKA
“Just trust me Kogoro, I can do this.”

Kogoro stares up at Shinka as she slowly moves her finger from his lips.

KOGORO
“I know that you can do it Shinka but…”

Shinka smile at him cutting him off before he can continue.

SHINKA
“There is no but, if you believe in me then there is no way I will let you down.”

KOGORO
“Shinka…”

Shinka suddenly leans down and kisses Kogoro on his lips. Kogoro’s transformed eyes widen in surprise but he does not fight her. Shinka lips hold onto his for the longest second she has ever enjoyed before slowly pulling away letting her mouth hang over his for briefest of moments as a smile covers both their faces. Pulling away to stand back up neither of them can hid the small red tent crossing their cheeks. Shinka takes a deep breath to regain her composure. She looks out to the forest, able to see her opponent in the not too far distance from them. Shinka looks back to Kogoro who gives her a simple approving nod of his head. Shinka smiles at this and returns the nod before jumping off of the tree limb into the woods.

Karu scans over the woods looking for his enemies when he spots the female interloper running straight for him. He smirks in confidence as he braces himself for her attack.
Shinka slips her hands inside the large open sleeve cuffs of her jacket and flicks out two kunais at Karu. Karu easily moves out of the way of the flying knives. Shinka flicks her wrist grabbing a hold of the wire lines connected to the kunais and pulls them back. The kunais quickly slash Karu in the back before he can react to them. Still running at Karu Shinka whips the kunais in the air wrapping the wires around Karu. She jumps over Karu’s head pulling the wires tight making the two wires and kunais slice over Karu’s arms and shoulders on their way back to her.
Shinka lands on her feet behind Karu turning to quickly catch the kunais in her hands. She throws the weapons at Karu once more. Karu turns and fiercely knocks down both weapons into the ground with his hands.
Shinka does not waste a second and is already in Karu’s face with a strong right kick by the time he has batted away her kunais. Karu moves his head back avoiding the kick to his face. Shinka quickly counters the dodge bring her leg back the other way while still in mid air. Karu raises his arm up blocking her leg from its strike. Shinka struggles to push against his arm as he holds her back.


A few years ago young Shinka enters her home busting with the joy and excitement of a good day.

SHINKA
“Kyoske; guess what I got my grade back on that test today.”

She calls out as she turns the corner of the entrance hallway into their living room.

SHINKA
“I nailed it…”

Shinka’s words hang in the air as she freezes in her tracks. In front of her stands her father Teakesei Takanawa stopped in his conversation with her brother Kyoske. Kyoske looks over to Shinka seeing the shock register on her face. Teakesei does not bother to look back at her and keeps his focus on Kyoske.

TEAKESEI
“I will come back again at this time next month, be prepared for my visit.”

Kyoske continues to look over to his sister before slowly turning his head to his father silently nodding his understanding. Teakesei turns around without saying another word and begins to leave. He walks past Shinka not even looking down in his daughter’s direction.

SHINKA
“Father,”

Shinka calls back to him making Teakesei stop. She bites her lip for a moment hesitant to speak on. Starring at the back of her father’s head Shinka pushes herself to speak on.

SHINKA
“I’m doing really good at the academy, I just got an A on one of my tests today.”

Shinka looks up at the towering figure of her father waiting for any kind of response. Without turning around or even moving his head to look at her Teakesei responds to her in a cold and sterile voice.

TEAKESEI
“I have told you before Shinka, you are disabled, weak little girl. You will never be a ninja and I pity any fool who thinks otherwise.”

Shinka just stares up at her father her young heart breaking. Her body shakes as every ounce of her being fights the urge to cry. Kyoske hangs his head low staying silent back in the living room. Teakesei leaves the house without saying another word to either of his children. As soon as Teakesei shuts the front door behind him Shinka’s fist clench tightly. A single tear seeps from out of Shinka’s blind eye making her scream out at the top of her lungs.


Shinka scrapes her feet on the ground as she is pushed back from Karu. The female ninja puts her hands together forming a hand seal for a jutsu. Finishing the seal Shinka throws her head back then flings it forward sending her pony tail out over her head. The tied up hair suddenly stretches out covering the distance between her and Karu. Karu jumps out of the way avoiding getting struck by the inhuman length of hair which his the ground with earth cracking force.
Shinka grabs onto the end of the ponytail behind her head and swings her hair back at Karu. Karu jumps out of the way of Shinka’s hair whip watching it crash to the ground in front of him. Shinka pulls her hair back to her by swinging her head back and pulling with her hand.
With her other hand she performs another hand sign as she whips her hair at Karu once more. Karu moves out of the way of the whips strike but her hair splits in two. One half continues after Karu making him jump and weave out of its way. The other half of her hair whip snakes around behind him and wraps onto his ankle. Shinka pulls on her hair with both hands yanking Karu off of his feet onto his back. She uses the other half of the hair whip to smack down with several hard strikes to Karu’s chest.
On the ground Karu reaches into one of his pockets pulling out a kunai. With the knife in hand he slashes through the strand of hair lashing at his chest. He grabs onto the cut hair with his other hand and starts to pull Shinka to him. Shinka releases the jutsu making the hair whip around Karu vanish and her hair returns to its normal state.
Karu stands back up brandishing the kunai in his hand.

KARU
“It that all you’ve got little girl?”

SHINKA
“Hardly.”

Shinka taunts with grim determination as she bites down on the tip of her thumb.


In the Konoha training fields a younger Shinka punches her fist into a wooden training post cracking it in half. Shinka moves over to the next post pulling her arm back ready to strike.

KOGORO
“Shinka!”

Hearing her name Shinka jumps back in surprise bumping into Kogoro. The bump causes Shinka to lose her balance and fall backwards. Kogoro reaches his arms out to try to catch her from falling but losses his balance and only manages to fall under her.
Shaking off the fall Shinka looks back to see Kogoro on the ground behind her and quickly puts things together about what just happened.

SHINKA
“Ohh Kogoro, I’m sorry!”

She blurts out as she jumps to her feet. Kogoro sits up on the ground dusting him self off.

KOGORO
“It’s ok, I didn’t mean to surprise you.”

Kogoro raises his arm up to her. Shinka takes his offered hand and helps Kogoro back on his feet.

SHINKA
“So uhh…what are you doing here?”

KOGORO
“Well I was just coming here to do some exercises then I saw you here.”

SHINKA
“Ohh…”

Shinka looked away from Kogoro. Reflexively she starts running her hair over the side of her face covering her blind eye.

SHINKA
“Do you want me to get out of your way?”

Kogoro looks at her in confusion noting the obvious sadness in her voice at the question. He simple shakes his head at her.

KOGORO
“No of course not. Actually I was wondering if you’d like to train with me?”

Shinka lifts her head up to look at him in surprise.

SHINKA
“What really?”

KOGORO
“Yeah, I was watching your technique and was really impressed by it. Especially the way you compensate for the loss in your depth perception.”

SHINKA
“You noticed that?

KOGORO
“Yeah.”

A small smile crosses Shinka’s face as well as a slight red tint over her cheeks.

SHINKA
“Ok I’ll train with you but I won’t be going easy on you.”

Shinka taunts as she takes a fighting stance. Kogoro smile and takes his own stance.

KOGORO
“I think we’re going to have fun working together.”


Shinka puts her hand flat on the ground creating a summoning jutsu. Karu moves towards her waving the kunai in his hand. As he moves close to her the ground around them starts to shake. Shinka removes her hand from the ground and the earth in front of her starts to crack. Out of the ground bursts a man-sized gray wolf.
The wolf leaps up at Karu biting him on the arm holding the kunai. Karu drops his weapon flinging his arm back to try and get the animal off of him. The wolf’s teeth sink into his arm as its claws tear at his sides.
Karu grabs the beast with his other hand by the scruff of its neck. Holding onto the large wolf Karu runs into a near by tree slamming the wolf’s back into the hard wood. Karu pulls back and smashes the wolf into the tree again. He does it once more and the wolf finally relinquishes its hold on his arm howling in pain. Grabbing onto the canine with both his hands Karu smacks the wolf into the tree over and over again.

SHINKA
“No!”

Shinka cries out. She hastily puts her hands together and undoes the summoning jutsu. The wolf vanishes in a puff of smoke before it can be pounded into the tree again. Karu only grins and turns his attention back towards Shinka. Lifting his wounded arm he points a blood covered hand at her.

KARU
“You’re next.”

Still laid up on the large tree branch Kogoro breaths heavily trying to regain his strength and energy. Realizing his eyes are now bleeding even more from his still active Heaven’s Eyes Kogoro starts to put his hands together to undo the jutsu. Suddenly his eyes are racked with a sharp pain. The pain causes Kogoro to instantly sit up and clutch his hands to his face. He bites down hard on his lip to keep himself from screaming out in pain. Suddenly a scream hits his ears, but it is not coming from him. He immediately jerks his head up looking out in the direction the scream came from.

KOGORO
“Shinka…”

Shinka’s body is flung to the ground rolling hard across the dirt until her back smacks up against a tree. Slowly pulling herself up she slumps back against the tree for support. She presses her hand at her left side already able to see the red spot seeping through her shirt.
Karu walks towards her and Shinka jumps back up to her feet. She grabs one of the large selves of her jacket and yanks it off lashing the coat out at Karu. She wraps the jacket around his arm and pulls him towards her lifting her leg to kick him. Karu grabs her leg with his other hand and flips her up over his head. Shinka losses her grip on her jacket and hits the ground on her knees.
Karu grabs the back of her head in his hand and smashes her face into a near by tree. She pulls her head back in order to slam her head into the wood again. Shinka grabs at his wrist with her hand trying to pull him off of her. With her other hand she performs a hidden hand seal. As Karu pushes her face forward towards the tree Shinka’s pony tail whips out slashing into Karu’s arm.
Karu pulls back letting go of her head. Shinka kicks out her leg behind striking Karu in his knee. As Karu kneels over Shinka jumps to her feet whipping her hair across Karu’s face. Karu stumbles back away from her clutching at the cut across his face.

KARU
“You bi-“

Shinka’s foot connects with Karu’s chin before he can finish his insult. Karu is thrown onto his back a few feet away from her.
Shinka leans against the tree taking a second to spit the blood out of her mouth. A gash was cut on her brow over her good eye by the smack against the tree. Shinka tries to wipe the flowing blood away smearing it over her cheek. Her vision starts to blur and she can barely see the figure of Karu coming towards her. Shinka throws a punch and Karu. Karu catches Shinka’s fist in his hand.

SHINKA INTERNAL DIALOG
‘I’m so sorry Kogoro, it looks like I really can’t beat him.’

Karu grabs a hold of Shinka’s arms and throws into the air.

SHINKA INTERNAL DIALOG
‘I wanted to win so much for you.’

Shinka’s body scrapes across the ground coming to a stop. Putting her hands on the ground Shinka pushes herself back up off the ground.

SHINKA INTERNAL DIALOG
‘You know you were the first person too ever treat me as an equal shinobi.’

She makes up onto her feet as Karu walks up behind her.

SHINKA INTERNAL DIALOG
‘You were the first person to see that I had talent and skills all my own.’

Shinka hits Karu with a surprise elbow strike to his chest.

SHINKA INTERNAL DIALOG
‘You were the first person to really believe I have what it takes to be a ninja.’

She turns to throw a punch at him but Karu simple grabs a hold of her arm and twists it behind her back. Shinka is force down onto her knees.

SHINKA INTERNAL DIALOG
‘But I can’t beat him Kogoro.’

Karu strike his other hand down at Shinka’s neck. Shinka manages to lift up her other arm and grab a hold of his hand before it can connect.

SHINKA INTERNAL DIALOG
‘Still if I can hold him off long enough for you to complete your mission.’

Shinka throws he leg up kicking Karu in the side forcing them to separate from each other.

SHINKA INTERNAL DIALOG
‘Then I think I can live with that for however long I have left.’

Shinka jumps up and throws a kick at Karu. Karu instantly grabs a hold of her leg. Shinka uses the close position to move in and chop her hand over Karu’s wounded arm. Karu lets go of Shinka’s leg sending her falling down. Shinka manages to his Karu in his mid section with a set of rapid kicks before she hits the ground. On the ground Shinka jets her leg out striking Karu in his shin. Karu is knocked on his back by the hit.
Both ninja’s back flip off of the ground back to standing positions. Shinka’s balance suddenly wavers from her loss of blood. She fights to brace herself back in fighting stance but Karu is already looming over her.

Karu grabs Shinka by the neck with one hand and punches her as hard as he can in the gut. Shinka spits out a chunk of blood as the air rushes out of her body. Karu lets go of her neck and Shinka drops down to her knees. Karu moves in front of her. He pulls his arm back aiming his hand to smash down on her skull.
Unable to move her body all Shinka can do is close her eyes and brace for the hit. Karu’s hand comes flying towards her. Through tightly shut eyes Shinka can hear the sound of flesh smacking against flesh, but to her surprise she feels no pain. She then hears the sound of something crashing hard against the ground in the distance.
Opening her eyes she finds Kogoro standing in front of her, in the distance she can see Karu pulling himself off of the ground. She tries to call out his name but can only make a moaning sound as her lungs struggle to regain air.

KOGORO
“I know you wanted me to go on ahead to complete my mission Shinka. But what kind of ninja let alone person would I be if I didn’t do all I could to help someone I care about.”

Shinka can not help the smile consuming her face as her lungs work even harder to get oxygen for her rapidly beating heart.

KARU
“I’d hate to interrupt such a cute moment but I have my own mission to complete by killing the two of you.”

KOGORO
“No Karu, you’re not killing anyone here today.”

KARU
“Ohh and what makes you say that.”

Kogoro moves into a fighting stance holding his arm out and his palm flat point upward.

KOGORO
“Because I see through you.”

Kogoro lifts his head up looking at Karu with two pitch black eyes with blue cross-shaped slits in the center of each eye.

KOGORO
“And I’m not running anymore.”

Preview: Kogoro’s eyes are open like never before, can God Sight see through Blood Sight?
Next Chapter, Missions End the Final Fight for the Crystal
Chapter twenty three of twenty five.

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