Kitty's Trouble

[Watamura Satoshi]

It was a sunny day outside for the part that the sun was peeking through that was. The small grass area was that an older female was training stood a few feet from a training post she had sat up. She had discovered the area when she was a Chuunin and needed to work on her skills alone and she often found that this place was perfect to just get away from everyone in the village. She had been known to take naps in the field as well, even though she was constantly yelled at for it since what she held inside of her and because she was alone.

Nii had been out here since before daybreak and she had yet to take a rest. She knew she was nearly exhaustion on her own chakra and was about to pull on the Nibi’s chakra. She slowly made her way to the post and placed her back against the post. ”….Damn…its nearly midday already? I have been out here a lot….” She lowered herself to the ground and moved her hair over her shoulder. She had forgotten that she was supposed to meet up with Reiki for lunch in the village today. She had wanted to work on another jutsu that she was slowly starting to create.

Nii closed her eyes and wiped the sweat off her forehead after moving her headband up some. She would fix it later. She knew she needed a break before she drew on the Nibi’s chakra something that Reiki always told her not to do without her being nearby. ”…I am so in trouble if Reiki catches me out here…” She cut herself off when she realized that she had forgotten about the lunch they was suppose to eat. ”Oh damnit!”

Nii sighed to herself and smacked the back of her head against the post once she remembered. She had blown off Reiki the other day to get lunch with Tadeo and she knew her best friend was not happy about that. She rubbed her forehead slightly trying to come up with some way without alerting Reiki that she had used the Nibi’s chakra to make it to the village on time. Nii had a hard time keeping anything for Reiki has it was. ”…Well I am screwed….” Nii laughed to herself, but stopped when she heard something in the distance. Her eyes narrowed around the sound.

[reiki]

Reiki stamped her foot on the ground in anger. To put it lightly, she felt like she was about to scream. At the moment, it was particularly sunny in the averagely cloudy city of Kumogakure. The weather was pretty nice- or it would be to any tourists, at least. Kumogakure on average was pretty cold due to its altitude, and the village often found that guests who came from warmer places often complained. But today, they would have nothing to complain about. Because there was almost not a cloud in the sky.

Except for the metaphorical thundercloud that was raging above Reiki's head. She was furious. Basically, she had was supposed to eat lunch with her best friend Nii today. Supposed to. She didn't expect to be waiting at the restaurant for almost an hour, receiving violent stares from the impatient waiters just because her best friend blew her off. Again. Nii had blown her off last week to go eat lunch with her nasty boyfriend, Tadeo. Reiki held a great disdain for the guy. Nothing was particularly wrong with him, other than that Nii blew her off to hang out with him a lot. To say the least, she was pretty pissed.

For the last hour or so, Reiki had been scouring the village for any sign of Nii, but she was nowhere to be found. Reiki had checked Nii's house, her own house, even Tadeo's house but found no sign of her. She was just about to call it quits and plan an ambush in front of Nii's house, but then something crossed her mind. That training field she was always trying to be alone in. Of course! Where else could she be at this point. 'She would blow me off for training' Reiki thought angrily to herself, barely containing the urge to scream. She dashed towards the field, and in only a matter of moments, saw Nii in the middle of it. With a very irritated demeanor, she burst into the small clearing and pointed an accusing finger at Nii.

"You!" she yelled, not even trying to remain calm at this point. "Where have you been? We were supposed to eat lunch together, remember? This is the second time you've blown me off in the past couple weeks! What, is it just 'ignore your best friend' month all of a sudden?!" Reiki shrieked, stepping forward menacingly. It was safe to assume at this point that she was very angry. Perhaps a little too angry, but Reiki couldn't help that sometimes she was very irritable. Especially when it came to Nii. She didn't want to be mean to her friend on purpose, in fact, her constant scolding was only out of frustration. However, when she saw beads of sweat running down Nii's forehead, she closed her eyes.

"Don't tell me.. that you've been out here.. borrowing Nibi's chakra.." Reiki said, barely containing her anger. Her eyes were still closed, and she was trying to stay calm, but it was failing. "Nii, I have told you a million times, it's unsafe to try and use the Nibi when I'm not with you! Your father entrusted me with the task of making sure you were never trying to activate the Nibi's chakra when I'm not around, you know that!" she said, her anger now turning into slight frustration, and then fading into slight sadness and worry. "What is going on with you, Nii? Why have you been acting so strange these last couple of weeks?"

[Watamura Satoshi]

Nii watched someone come out of the brushes and saw it was Reiki. She knew her friend was irritated at her for blowing her off again. She honestly didn’t mean to do it today of all days. She wanted to spent lunch with her, but she just got caught up in training that she been pushing off for the most part. She hated to leave Reiki has if she was blowing her off. She knew she was spending more and more time with Tadeo, but it was only because their relationship was getting more involved and she did like how Tadeo made her feel. She was not exactly sure how to express that towards her best friend.

Nii pulled up her knee so she could lay her elbow on it and placed her head on her hand has she listened to Reiki vent. She did not even want to attempt to talk until the girl that was only five days younger than her had it all out of her system. She knew better than to piss the girl off about certain things and blowing her off was starting to get to the point. Her black eyes locked with the side of a mountain and she yawned slightly and covered her mouth slightly. ”Sorry, Reiki. I didn’t mean to blow you off again. I just caught up trying to make this jutsu work and it not going how I want it to go.” Nii lifted up her other hand and pushed some of her hair back behind her ear that had fallen.

Nii lifted up her head slightly has if she was a cat that was just got in trouble for doing something that she was not suppose to be doing. She had stopped herself before she started to use the Nibi’s chakra and here Reiki was pointing fingers at her already and pulling her father into the mix. Her father trusted Reiki? That was the first she heard that. She knew the village main purpose of Reiki training evolved around her, but her father? She laid her head back down onto her hand. ”For your information, no I was not blowing off the Nibi’s chakra. I am exhausted yes, but that is just because I wasted my own chakra. Please do not accuse me of something I have not done in years. I sat down because I knew I was about to draw on its chakra. I should have though, since you accused me of doing so.” Nii was never one to let herself be accused of doing something that she didn’t. She got it all the time when she was younger from her Jonin sensei and she never took it from Reiki.

Nii reached up and pulled her headband down around her neck before she continued. ”And as far as my father goes, you can just drop that subject. Head Medic Ninja my ass. He does nothing, but sits in his office and makes the requirements for becoming a medic ninja harder. I am sure he is disappointed that I did not follow his footsteps in his field.” Her relationship with her father was still rocky for the most part and she still was not really over the fact that Reiki was hiding something from her that was from her father.

She raised her eyebrow slightly when she asked what had gotten over her the past few weeks. She laughed slightly mainly to herself. ”I am sorry if I had an idea for another jutsu and wanted to work on it Reiki, but that is what I do since my missions have been stopped recently. I am bored, you know me. I cannot sit still for long periods of time like this. Now are you going to keep shouting at me or are you going to sit down and hand me that fresh bottle of milk you have in that bag of yours?” Nii loved milk and she normally drank that over water. She smelt the milk her friend had. Nii held out her hand waiting for her friend’s response.

[reiki]

As Reiki began the first part of her shouting, she noticed that Nii was rather relaxed and just seemed to be listening. Or at least looked like she was listening. Reiki could never really tell, but she guessed that Nii was merely trying not to piss her off further by speaking up when she was yelling. However, near the end of her first shouting spree, she noticed that Nii's eyes were averted from her, and she even let out a yawn before she spoke. Now that was irritating. Nevertheless, Nii apologized and seemed somewhat serious about it. Surprisingly, that was good enough for Reiki, despite her current mood.

When Reiki introduced the idea that Nii had been borrowing the Nibi's chakra, she almost frowned in embarrassment at the cold response she got. Apparently her accusation turned out to be false, and a bit of guilt flushed over Reiki's face as she averted her eyes. She knew that she was being rather malicious and unpleasant at the moment, but she couldn't help but overreact when she was angry. Fortunately, she was physically starting to calm down, despite how irritated she just was. "Right.. I'm sorry, Nii, I was overreacting." she almost muttered in apology, visibly showing that she felt a bit guilty about the whole thing.

Nii's cold return didn't stop there, however. She then brought up the fact that Reiki had mentioned her father in her accusation, and began berating her father, saying that he only sat around and tried to make things more difficult. Well, honestly, Reiki felt the same way. "You know he has a lot to offer the village, and you also know that he's proud of you, Nii. Though.. my parents have been complaining about his behaviors as of late as well." she said, looking up as if thinking it over. It was the truth, whenever she saw her mother and father in the hospital, they seemed to be always complaining about how Nii's father wasn't as engaged as he used to be.

Shortly after Reiki had asked Nii what was going on with her, she was assaulted verbally again by a bit of sarcasm and logical reasoning. And besides that, she also seemed to know that Reiki had milk in her bag. Even while experiencing her giant wave of anger, Reiki had stopped by a market to retrieve a cold bottle of milk for when she did find Nii. Even in her rage, she wanted to make her best friend smile and knew that a fresh bottle of milk was the simplest way to do it. However, she didn't quite expect Nii to know she had it in her bag so easily. Nevertheless, Reiki fished around in her bag for the bottle of milk and pulled it out, tossing it gently to Nii.

She then sighed and walked over to where Nii was, sitting on the forest floor with her legs crossed, her bag in her lap. Even though they obviously wouldn't be having lunch together at this point, Reiki didn't mind just sitting there and talking with Nii. She never minded doing the simplest things as long as she was with Nii. "I'll stop shouting at you. Sorry.. I know I've been moody lately.." she said, her anger all but disappearing just like that. She didn't exactly have mood swings, but she found it very difficult to stay angry with Nii over short periods of time. "Anyways.. what jutsu are you working on? Anything impressive?" she asked softly, a small smile finding its way to her lips.

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[Watamura Satoshi]

Nii watched Reiki apologize for her words. She knew Reiki was only watching out for her in the long run. She knew she was not supposed to transform unless someone was there if she got out of hand. It was always been like that with her in training. She knew better to wear herself completely out when she was off training alone. She felt that Reiki had every right to scold her for being out here along doing training and forgetting the time to meet her for lunch. ”I am going to have to make up the past few weeks to her, but exactly how?” She closed her eyes for a moment to think of something.

She looked back up at Reiki when she commented about her father again. She did hate to talk about Yoshiro, but found that venting to Reiki about released some of her anger towards him. Her father had always express that he was proud of her, but with his constant work related issues she found that it was rather pointless for her trying for his attention. She only made dinner with him every week to shut him up. ”I don’t care what Yoshiro says about me, Reiki. He has always placed work before me and besides I have a life of my own. I got my best friend, training, my boyfriend, and a village that respects me for who I am….oh and Killer Bee when he not rhyming up a storm.”

She lifted up her head when she said that her parents had noticed a change in her father. She was brought back to when she found out that Reiki was keeping something from her that was related to her father. She tapped her finger slightly against her head because she did not want to bring back an issue that caused the two to fight for a few months. She did not want to lose her best friend again because of her father. ”Let my father do what he wishes…the Raikage will get him sooner or later and there is no point in fighting about it with him.” She rested her head back down and looked back to the cliff side. She knew Reiki was slowly calming down.

She caught the bottle of milk in her outreached hand and lifted her head back up and opened it. Nii did not know what to do if she did not have Reiki out to watch out for her. She smiled and nodded a thank you to her and took a drink. She swallowed the fresh liquid and leaned back against the post. She held the bottle in her hand has she came over and sat down on the ground. She took another drink when she asked about the jutsu she was trying to create.

Nii shrugged some. ”Not sure yet. It was something that came to me a few days ago when I was taking one of my naps. I just have not figured out how to work it all just yet. Guess you are right, I should not push myself especially when I do not have you around me.” She smirked slightly and looked back up to Reiki. ”I promise, I am going to make up for ditching you today….I am really sorry….forgive me?” She pouted slightly to her.

[reiki]

Reiki's overall mood had drastically calmed since she first burst into the clearing and started pointing accusations. Sure, she was incredibly angry that her best friend had ditched her for the second time in the past couple of weeks, but Reiki found it very difficult to stay mad at Nii. And honestly, she had only been frustrated because she feared that Nii had ditched her to hang out with her boyfriend again, which would have made Reiki explode. She didn't mind completely if Nii had forgotten her to go train or something, but if she forgot her to go hang out with her boyfriend, well, that would have been a whole new level of anger.

Shortly after Reiki had settled a bit and commented on Nii's father being proud of her, Reiki noticed that she had actually caught more of Nii's attention. That was a start. It was always nice to see her actually absorbing something she said when she was cooling down from an anger attack. However, Nii also decided to comment, noting that she didn't care what her father said about her because she had a few things to back her up, such as Reiki, the village, her boyfriend, etcetera. Reiki smiled inwardly when she saw that Nii had listed her before her boyfriend- a wise decision on Nii's part.

As Reiki stated that her parents seemed to be concerned with whatever Nii's father, Yoshiro, was doing, Nii only commented again in a sort of pessimistic way. She basically said that he should do whatever he wants because eventually the Raikage would get him. Reiki could only assume by "get him", Nii meant "fire him". That would be humiliating for the guy. And besides, he wasn't done with his project yet. But Reiki would not bring that up. She had sworn not to tell, and because of it, Nii and her got into a fight that lasted two months. Those months were filled with misery more than anything.

After Reiki tossed Nii the bottle of milk that she had brought along, she went and sat down in front of her. In an attempt to cool things down, she had asked about the jutsu. To none of her surprise, Nii had a hard time explaining it, and eventually just reasoned that it was something that came to her in one of her naps. That didn't surprise Reiki either- Nii was always taking naps. It seemed to be a funny characteristic that came along with having a two-tailed cat sealed inside of your body.

She was about to comment on the relevance of Nii's naps when Nii spoke up again, promising that she was going to make up for ditching Reiki. She also said she was sorry, and asked for forgiveness.... with a pout. A pout that Reiki had seen many times before and never wanted to see because Nii knew that she could get what she wanted if she pouted. Reiki turned her head to the side and averted her eyes for a bit, but one quick look back to Nii's face and it was over. "Tch." she said, purposely trying to sound a bit irritated before mellowing her voice down. "Yeah yeah, I forgive you, just drop the face." she mumbled, turning her attention back to Nii with a bored stare. They had been best friends for too long- Nii knew just how to get what out of Reiki.

"Anyways, now that we're here, I kind of wanna try a new technique I learned with my lightning release. It shouldn't harm you, but I wanna see how you fare with it. Care to be my test puppet?" Reiki asked sweetly, wrapping her hands together as she put on a more cute demeanor than before. The technique honestly wouldn't hurt Nii, and Nii should know that considering Reiki would never do anything to hurt her- but Reiki was aching to try it out, because other than her father, she was the only one in the village who knew it. And her father didn't let her try it out on him, which she found irritating as well. In any case, hopefully Nii would accept readily. She should- they were best friends, right?

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[Watamura Satoshi]

Nii was glad that Reiki had not mentioned anything else about her father. She knew the girl was hiding something from her that involved her father, but she did not know what and really did not want to know. She knew her father would hide secrets from her and it was okay now that she didn’t care. The one thing that she did care about was Reiki because she did not want to see her best friend hurt over her or her father. If her father hurt Reiki in any way that he would have to pay the price and that was dealing with her.

Nii smirked slightly when Reiki said that she forgave her. She had a sorta smug look on her face now. She had found out early in their relationship that all she had to do was pout at her and she could get what she wanted from her friend. When they was younger not a day went by that she did not use the face on Reiki, but now that they was older Nii had only used it when she knew she was in trouble with her best friend or when she wanted something. She finished off the milk and sat the bottle beside her. She honestly did not know what she would do if she didn’t have Reiki.

She closed her eyes slightly with a smile on her face until Reiki started to talk about her new jutsu that she was working on. She tilted her head some and smiled at her. She did not mind being Reiki’s little test subject mainly because she knew how much of a pain she could when she transformed. It was one of the ways that she could also see how much her friend a grown since they both became a Jonin.

She nodded slightly some. ”Yea, I don’t mind you testing that out on me Reiki. Just let me rest some more so my chakra supply is not totally drained.” She was not going to let Reiki just use the jutsu, no Reiki would have to work for it. It would help them both on their skills in the long run. She knew she was not going to go all the way out on Reiki, she never did, but it would be training for both of them.

Nii did feel better after drinking the rest of the milk, but knew that was not enough to regain all her chakra. She would have to take things slowly at first and work herself up to her bigger jutsu if she got that far that was. She closed her eyes once more and laid her head against the post again. She had a smile on her face has she rested. She could take a nap at the moment and it would not bother her. She knew it would irritate Reiki if she did, so she forced herself to stay away for now. ”I am so taking a nap after you test this jutsu Rei.” She had a smirk on her face as if she was already plotting to take a nap right now.

After a few more minutes, Nii stood up and flung her hair over her shoulder and felt it hit in the middle of her back. She reached up towards the sky to stretch out some. She then placed her hand out for Reiki so she could help her up to her feet. ”I am ready, whenever you are.” She did like playing around like this too like any normal cat did when playing with someone they knew well.

[reiki]

Reiki breathed a sigh of relief when Nii agreed to letting her test out her jutsu. However, Nii wanted to rest so that her chakra supply could replenish a bit. That was completely fine, after- wait, now why did Nii need to rest if Reiki was only testing out a new jutsu? Then it struck her- Nii wasn't just going to allow Reiki to use her jutsu. She was going to make Reiki work for it. Now that was a bit inconvenient. As enthralling as trying to land this jutsu on a moving target was, Reiki wasn't exactly thrilled to have to battle her. But if that was the only way she would be able to test her jutsu, then so be it.

But then again, Reiki sincerely hoped that Nii wasn't going to underestimate her. Reiki had a lot of chakra too- in fact, she had the most chakra out of anyone in Kumo including the two jinchuriki. She would have to remind Nii of that somehow, even if in just a friendly conversation. Just to make sure Nii didn't feel to arrogant about the fight. "Tch, well you don't have to worry about relying on Nibi. I'll just slice off it's chakra flow before you can do anything." she said, a smug look overtaking her original playful smile. She was completely capable of doing what she said, though it would of course only be temporary. Sometimes Reiki couldn't help but become a bit cocky herself, but it was because she didn't want Nii to go underestimating her.

As Reiki looked up at her friend, she noticed that Nii had closed her eyes and lain her head against the post. Really? Was she seriously taking a catnap right now? A slight bit of rage quickly flashed throughout Reiki's body. How could she take a nap at a time like this? Was she still underestimating Reiki? How dare her. Reiki's suspicions were confirmed as Nii stated she would take a nap after the battle. That was a little better, but- what was with the smirk on Nii's face? "Yeah yeah, wipe that sly grin off your face. When I'm through with you, you'll need more than just a nap." Reiki said, smiling playfully. Perhaps it was good not to be too competitive, in case a worst case scenario came about and Reiki was beaten. Reiki was confident in her abilities, but it wouldn't be good to underestimate Nii either.

With a few more minutes of resting, Nii stood up, stretched, and then offered a hand to Reiki to help her up. Reiki smiled and allowed herself to be pulled up quickly before taking a few steps back and smiling as Nii said she was ready. 'Good, now all that's left is to start this, use my new jutsu, and watch the effects..' Reiki thought to herself as she pulled her Kumo headband out of her sleeve and proceeded to tie it around her forehead. Not really for safety, but more because she had tied her long bangs back so they wouldn't get in the way. "Alright, Kitty cat." she stated, pointing a finger straight at Nii. 'Kitty cat' was just an alias she had given the girl at a young age. "No holding back. Don't be afraid to rough me up a little." Reiki said, snickering soon after. "That is... if you can."

And with that Reiki sprang backwards, retreating into the forest. 'First things first, I'll have to slow her down. Let's get some clones out here..' she thought to herself, quickly doing a couple hand signs before two water clones of her appeared next to her. 'Alright, let's move out!'. With that thought, the two water clones dashed out from the cover of the trees where Nii had been. If she was still there, she had better watch her back. The clones weren't armed with weapons, but upon finding her they would unleash a stream of powerful Taijutsu tricks. Reiki herself had now jumped into a tree, folding her arms behind her head. "Now to sit back and enjoy" she whispered.

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[Watamura Satoshi]

Nii didn’t mind being Reiki’s test subject. She had been through too many tests in her life to really care about them now. She was glad that the Raikage and the others were not making her actually go under the full transformation process anymore. She had a good handle on the Nibi inside of her and was about to suppress it for the most part now. If she lost control she knew she had Reiki there to stop her when she was not out by herself. She had even been allowed to go on missions without the need of Reiki at her side, but she found those missions to be dull without her friend to talk to.

Nii smirked slightly to herself when Reiki said that she did not have to rely on the Nibi’s chakra. She knew when she could and couldn’t rely on the Nibi chakra. There were times that Nibi was in a foul mood and Nii had purposely drawn on its chakra and she nearly suffered an emotional ordeal from it. She normally asked the thing inside her head if it was okay to do it. The two needed each other and a good relationship was needed. ”Yea yea yea, you just think you can snip it when I have control. I move too fast for you to keep up when I do have its chakra in my hand.” She knew Reiki was both teasing her and serious about the matter, but she had to tease back.

She had opened her eyes when Reiki made the comment about the grin on her face. She lifted up her head slowly and watched her friend with yet another sly grin. She could not tell if Reiki thought she was underestimating her or she was joking around with her. She tilted her head to the side for a moment. She had never underestimated Reiki mainly because she knew what her friend was capable of doing. Her friend could stop her in a rampage if she lost control of Nibi and that was no easy thing to do. Nii just smirked now. ”Yea, you better wear me down or it will be your butt I am kicking!” She watched her with the same playful tone in her voice. It hit Nii that the two was normally like this before a training match like this.

Nii lifted up her fingers to count on her fingers for a second and then just threw her hands up. ”We was keeping count at all these matches and who one, but now I am clueless who is in the lead….damn…” She laughed slightly and shook of the thought for now. It did not matter to her who one or not. ”Hehe, you owe me another bottle of milk later for this either way.” Nii also knew how to get things out of Reiki when she wanted too.

Once they were both standing up, Nii watched Reiki pull out her headband and tie it around her forehead. Nii raised her eyebrow slightly when she was called Kitty Cat. It brought back both good and bad memories for her, but when she was around her friend she always focused on the good ones. She pushed some of her hair back from her face and placed a hand on her hip afterwards. ”Oh, I do intend giving you a nice beating. Especially, how you accused me of the shit you did when you jumped out of nowhere. Payback time.”

When Reiki dashed into the cover of trees, Nii was reminded of a game of cat and mouse. The mouse of course being Reiki for now and she knew she would have to either take this slow or fast. Doing it slowly seem like a more of a time killer and a way for her to get away with taking a longer nap later. ”The Kitty cat is going to catch her mouse!” Nii called out into the woods. She looked up when she saw the two Reiki. Either one of them was real or both of them were fake. ”Only one way to solve this!” She went to make some handsigns, but stopped and sighed some. She knew the Raikage would have a fit with her if she set the forest on fire again. She would just have to settle for tearing it down with her wind just for now. She quickly took out a kunai from her pouch and stored up a bit of her chakra. She launched at one of the clones holding the kunai out to strike it. ”Daitoppa!” She had backed up her slice with a wind jutsu in hopes of destroying it without too much of an hassle later.

[reiki]

So far, things were going relatively well with Nii. As expected, Nii wasn't just going to hand over herself so that Reiki could perform her jutsu, but instead was going to challenge her. A moving target. That was a little more inconvenient, but quite necessary if Reiki really did want to stick with this specific jutsu. After all, people weren't just going to sit by and let her perform it on them. Therefore, though Reiki knew that Nii was just trying to be difficult, she had to inwardly thank the other for at least somewhat challenging her- or pretending too, anyways.

Soon, the two began to trade sparring comments, teasing and such as they usually did before initiating a fight between each other. It was normal for them to do such, and when Reiki made a comment about simply slicing off the Nibi's chakra supply, she knew she would get some sort of response from the other. However, Reiki wasn't completely teasing with that comment- it was pretty serious. If Nii did happen to lose control, Reiki would swiftly slice the Nibi's chakra supply. It was what she had been trained to do, and something she was particularly good at. She didn't carry around a plethora of sealing materials for nothing. There was always a chance that Nii could lose control, and if she did, Reiki would always be ready to seal the Nibi back inside.

As expected, Nii retorted quickly to Reiki's comment about slicing the Nibi's chakra supply. She stated that with the Nibi's chakra, she was too fast for Reiki anyways. This was partly true, but it wasn't as if Reiki was exactly lacking chakra either. In fact, she was born with an enormous amount of chakra. Out of anyone in Kumo, excluding the two jinchuriki, she definitely had the most. And for that exact reason, she had been chosen to act as a sealer for Nii- the best friend part came in later, though it was definitely not something Reiki regretted. In fact, she not only acted as Nii's best friend, but sometimes even acted as her caretaker- not on purpose, and if anyone ever referred to Reiki as such a thing, she would bash their heads in. But secretly, Reiki's premature maternal instincts had taken over at a young age. Nii was childish- it was only natural that Reiki began to feel a sort of motherly connection, though it was definitely more of a best friend thing. Reiki was too young to be Nii's mother anyhow- it was a mental thing more than anything else.

Shortly after, Reiki had noticed a sly grin on Nii's face. She didn't hold back in commanding her to get rid of it, and was not surprised to see Nii retort by telling her she'd kick her butt. Once again, as expected. Verbal sparring always took place between the two before a real fight. Reiki only smirked, placing both hands on her hips. Next, Nii brought up who was in the lead as far as who was winning in versus matches between the two. Honestly, Reiki could hardly remember either, but might as well jump on this opportunity to give a witty reply. "I've lost count too, but I'm sure we can safely assume I'm probably in the lead." she said, chuckling. It was all good humor. However, she was then met with the apparent deal that she would buy Nii more milk no matter what the outcome of the battle. Now that was not going to happen- well, actually, it probably was, but Reiki would at least try to resist. "Pay for your own milk, moomoo." Reiki teased, sticking her tongue out and pulling one of her eyelids down, making a very childish face at the other before laughing lightly. Reiki really did have fun with Nii, despite the fact that sometimes she was angry.

While the verbal sparring continued, Reiki proceeded to inform Nii that she should go tough on her. Nii quickly replied that she would give Reiki a good beating because of Reiki's false accusations against her. Reiki could only force a sheepish smile onto her face as one hand went back to scratch her neck. "Yeah, I guess that would be a good reason to try your hardest.." she said, giving off a very fake laugh at the end. Acting wasn't exactly her forte. Just after that last exchange, however, Reiki quickly announced that they start and jumped into the trees. When under cover, she performed her clone jutsu only to hear that 'The kitty cat would catch the mouse'. Reiki only giggled as the two clones darted out of the bush towards Nii.

Upon coming close to her, it was noticed that Nii began doing handsigns for a fire nature jutsu. 'Shit' Reiki thought to herself as the clones prepared for a blast. However, it seemed that the jutsu was cancelled halfway through, for Nii instead decided to charge at one of the clones with a kunai. 'Gonna take a hell of a lot more than that. I put a lot of chakra into these clones, kitty cat.' Reiki thought to herself, a smirk spreading across her face as the clone simply raised its kunai to hers. Then, as that attack fell, Reiki jumped from her treetop perch into Nii's blind spot, her hands surrounded with a blue aura. The Chakra Scalpel. She was going to slice off Nii's chakra supply as fast as she could.

As the one clone attempted to block Nii's attack, Reiki and the remaining clone both charged forward. The clone was armed with a kunai, and Reiki was armed with her chakra scalpel- not the smartest move, considering it would be obvious who the real one was, but Reiki simply needed the clone to help her exhaust Nii in taijutsu. Then, when Nii slipped up, Reiki would be right there to slice up her chakra supply. Oh how fun being a medic nin could be. And with that last thought in mind, Reiki and the unattacked clone simultaneously dashed for Nii's back.

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Nii was use to the prefight teasing from Reiki. It was nothing new and it helped both of them to realize that they shouldn’t underestimate each other. On top of that it helped Nii to understand that she had a friend that was willing to pick back on her and not afraid of her. She had friends in the village and the village did praise her for being that she was, but she could not help to feel that most of the time that it were fake in the people’s eyes.

Reiki was different from the rest. She knew her friend was only placed near her to make sure the Nibi did not get out of control, but over the years their relationship had turned into a deep friendship. Nii smiled slightly when she remembered waking up to see Reiki there for the first time and she asked to be her friend. To her Reiki was the first true friend that she ever had and she did hate to see a disappointed look on her friend’s face. She also knew how her friend disliked her boyfriend right not, but Nii played dumb with it. Until Tadeo was an issue for Nii herself, she would not bring up the subject about him to her friend. She did not want to brace that impact of Reiki’s mood there.

When Nii went to attack the clone that she had charged at she noticed how her wind justu was no match for it. She chuckled slightly and shopk her head. She should have known better than to get pass Reiki’s clone with this. She did hate when her friend pulled out the water clones on her during the battle. She turned her head to look behind her just in time to see two more Reiki coming at her from behind. She saw the one that had the scalpels hands and knew it to be the real one. The water clones were just that.

Nii laughed to herself and pulled her hand back with her kunai in it and finished the handsigns she had started before with the fire jutsu and formed a couple of others rather fast. ” Inferuno Bunshin no Jutsu,” she muttered to herself. By time she finished the handsigns the scalpel had pierced her side, but it only started a change reaction. In the next instance a explosion of fire exploded from Nii, but it was nothing that really would do much damage to Reiki, but for her clones it could be costly.

Nii smirked slightly and was now sitting on a tree branch with her back against the bark. She never did try to hide from Reiki in a fight. Usually Reiki was her prey, not the other way around. She pushed some of her hair back from her face. ”Geez, Reiki is that all you got? I thought you wanted to test a jutsu not get blown up to bits.” She yawned and went to close her eyes. She wanted it to look like she was going to take a nap and underestimate Reiki. She knew if she did her friend would kick it up a notch. She did not want Reiki to think she wanted her to go easy on her.

[reiki]

Reiki smirked. How easy this was, she was already in Nii's blind spot with her chakra scalpel! Now all that was left was the final slice. Looking ahead as she prepped for her swing, Reiki noticed that her clone had successfully blocked Nii's initial attack. 'Tch. Too easy.' she thought to herself before swinging. Then, however, she lifted an eyebrow. Was Nii doing handsi- too late. Reiki immediately felt a burning chakra encase her hand as she widened her eyes. "I should have known..!" she grunted, before feeling the full force of the inferno clone's blast send her flying back, her clones splashing into mere water. Fortunately, some of the water from her clone had weakened the effects of the inferno clone, and Reiki merely slid back on her feet as her chakra scalpel disappeared.

Reiki looked around for a moment before her eyes rested on Nii's new position. A tree? How cat-like. She easily regained her stance and stood, folding her arms across her chest as she faced Nii. Nii's mouth was running with some sort of banter about not getting blown to bits. Reiki merely smirked. "That was a warm up, kitty cat! Be on your guard, and- HEY!" she shouted, a look of anger crossing her face. "Don't act like you can just sleep when you're fighting me! I'm not just some sort of-" with that, she paused again as her eyes trailed down to the bottom of her cape and she saw a small flame flickering on it. A growl escaped her lips as she stamped it out. "Damn it Nii, now you've made me mad!" she shouted, but then a small smirk graced her lips as she came up with an idea.

"But.. if cat and mouse really is your game.. I guess you'll just have to find me, kitty cat." Reiki said smoothly, before letting out a giggle as she jumped backwards into the woods. The mentioning of a game of cat and mouse would most likely get Nii excited, so Reiki had no doubt in her mind that she would be followed. Nii wasn't the type of person to pass up a game like that. Besides, chasing was a cat thing to do, right? Reiki almost giggled as she made the comparison. No matter what, it seemed like Nii really did have a lot of the traits of her bijuu, what with her obsession of milk and chasing things. Perhaps she'd get her a stuffed mouse as a play toy one day.

But at the moment, that wasn't important. Reiki wasn't just running away. She was leading Nii into a trap. Where they were at the moment wasn't exactly Reiki's preferred landscape. She needed something a little more... well, moisture filled. But as far as she knew, there really were no rivers around here. She would just have to make do with what was near. And what was near was a bit better than what Reiki expected. She came to a halt at the forest edge to view a whole new landscape in front of her. It was a canyon- a very small one, but it almost looked like a meteor had burrowed into the Earth here and then disappeared. And the best part was- there was a pillar of stone in the center, rising about six feet above the inclined landscape. Reiki smirked.

With little effort, she had crossed the space between her and the pillar, and now stood on top of it. There was about a fifty foot distance all around her, almost in a perfect circle. Now was the time for the fun to start. After all, Nii should be arriving in a few seconds. Performing a few handsigns, Reiki grinned widely. "Exploding Water Shock Wave!" And with that, she opened her mouth and focused her chakra as an enormous amount of water began to drench the area. Because of the amount of chakra Reiki put into it, the inclined landscape around her was now completely drenched in water that stretched ten feet down. Reiki giggled. "Come out kitty cat, time for your bath!" she shouted, still mounted on the pillar that rose slightly above the rest of the water.

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Nii smirked to herself when she heard the annoyance in Reiki’s voice. It was exactly what she wanted to do. She did not have to turn to face the explosion that came from the ground since Reiki spoke soon after. She giggled to herself and relaxed a bit more. She knew that it would piss Reiki off more if she saw how relaxed she was being at the moment. When they were in a fight like this one of them did push the other’s buttons and it was usually Nii doing the pushing. She knew sooner or later that she would have to let Reiki do her test, but that would come after everything else. She was not going to let her previous training session drag her down even if she wanted to take a nap at the moment.

Nii looked down just slightly to see Reiki’s cape on fire. She had to laugh slightly when she stomped it out on the ground. It was not every day that she was able to set Reiki’s clothing on fire and when she did it made her laugh. ”Serves you right for accusing me of doing something that I didn’t do earlier.” She held up her hand and waved the angry girl off now. She was not going to really going worried to much about setting the cape on fire since it was her that chose to attack her herself.

She yawned slightly, but she titled her head to see her friends face when she said something about playing a game of cat and mouse. It caught her interest a great deal. She smirked some and sat up and turned her body to face her friend on the ground. Reiki always seemed to know how to excite her when they were training and get her attention. ”Geez…the more I hang out with her the more I find myself doing cat like things…I am such a cat…” She giggled slightly to her and watched Reiki jumped into the cover of the forest. She raised her eyebrow slightly and jumped off the tree and onto the ground.

Nii knew she was going to follow her friend into the forest, but at the same time she was not really sure what she had planned either. With Reiki it was a bit harder for her to figure out when she had ideas. Since the two of them trained together most of the time it was odd to catch each other off guard. They knew each other’s pattern and Nii knew that she would not be able to pull of her Inferno Clone again for awhile. No, now Nii was alone with a medical expert that knew both water and lightening jutsu. ”No so good for my fire jutsu, but my wind. I think I can manage something.”

Before heading into the forest Nii placed her index and middle fingers together for both hands and held them up to make the letter “t”. ”Kage Bushin no Jutsu.” Three Shadow Clones appeared in front of Nii. Allowing her clones to go first in this matter was something that she was going to do. It was not a trick that she used that often because she had her Inferno Clones, but it was something that might catch her friend off guard. Nii liked the shadow clones a lot since if they were destroyed she was able to learn their experience and were the enemy was and this would allow Nii to find Reiki and think about her course of action instead of heading head first into it. Nii placed enough chakra into the clones stay maintain for a bit. She knew after pulling off two A rank jutsu that she would have to wait awhile to do another one. ”I am closer to the Nibi’s chakra source than I want to be at the moment, maybe this will give me time to restore some of my own for now.’

Nii nodded to her clones and they went running into the forest and Nii followed after, but at the same time keeping her distance from them. She did not want Reiki to catch onto what she was doing before she figured out what she was doing. She knew by the way they was both playing cat and mouse that this was going to be a long fight unless she gave Reiki the chance to perform the jutsu on her, which in the long run might be better for her right now.

One of the clones reached the canyon and looked around in a tree before doing anything else. It spotted Reiki on the pillar right before she created the massive amount of water. It watched the water flood the area and grinned some. It held up its hand and dispelled itself. Another clone that went a bit further left looked up and headed towards the area of the first. Once it got there it too lurked in the trees just in time to hear the words that it was time for the kitty’s bath. It shivered slightly. Reiki and a massive pool of water did not go well for Nii most of the time.

Nii herself grinned when she gained the experience of what Reiki was up too. She bit her lip and closed her eyes to think for a moment. She had the upper hands because she still had two clones out there in the area that could fool Reiki, but how long would that last? Reiki having a good pool of water meant that her fire jutsu was useless and that Reiki’s clones would be more of a trouble. She smirked some and decided to try something for now.

Her clone that was lurking in the forest jumped down and onto the water wasting its chakra. ”You think you are going to give me a bath because you have gotten a bit of an upper hand on me?” The clone smirked in the same fashion as Nii would. It glanced around her and walked a bit closer to the pillar. The clone was more like stalking over as it was careful to where it was stepping for now. One arm hanged loosely on the side and the other arm had it’s hand on her hip. She looked like she was enjoying this at the moment. ”If I break that pillar you are on than you will lose that little bit of an upper hand since you will be on the water and wasting your own chakra as well. And breaking it seems like fun at the moment.” The clone stopped half way between the edge of the forest and pillar waiting for Reiki’s move.

The last clone reached another location on the edge of the forest. It bent down on a tree branch and watched the scene unfold. It could not hear what was being said, but at least it was able to see and seemed out of the eye sight of Reiki at the moment. For now it was a waiting game since the mouse was stopped at the moment and there was no fun in chasing a stopped mouse, that would have only lead into a trap.

[reiki]

Reiki grumbled to herself as she stamped out the fire on her cape. Nii had better know that she was angry at this point, and when she was angry, she became calculative and vengeful. All in good fun of course, but there were some things that were bothering her. Such as how she had so easily fallen for a clone. Sure, it was an inferno clone, but that was still a pretty beginner level jutsu. And she was supposed to be a medic nin! She should have sensed the imbalance of chakra, though with the chakra that Nii often put into those things, it was a bit hard to tell the difference. Had it been a shadow clone, things might have been a little bit easier, but of course those inferno clones really packed a punch. A big enough punch to set Reiki's clothing on fire, anyways.

But another thing that was bothering her was that Nii was still holding the initial accusations that Reiki had made over her head! Okay, so she had been at fault for storming in and yelling at Nii, but it wasn't as if she was prepping to kill her. She did consider the fact that Nii would want milk and bought some after all, right? And she had a right to be angry about that anyways. Just because Nii didn't ditch her for her boyfriend didn't mean anything- because she still ditched Reiki for something as trivial as training! Nevertheless, Reiki couldn't help but take it all as good fun. Nii wasn't the type that would purposely try to make Reiki feel bad. She just liked to poke at Reiki's short temper, it seemed.

In any case, Reiki wasn't just going to let Nii's banter go unnoticed. "That's your payback? I sure hope you have something else up your sleeve, or this really will be boring, kitten." Reiki taunted from below, placing both hands on her hips. She was clearly underestimating Nii with that comment, but in the back of her mind, Reiki was well aware that her friend was capable of pulling off much more than just a mere shadow clone. She did have a tailed beast inside of her after all. But Reiki definitely didn't just judge Nii's powers based off of the chakra monster. She was well aware that Nii possessed potential far greater than her own even without the tailed beast. But either way, a little provoking never hurt anyone.

Shortly after, however, Reiki smirked and left Nii with some parting words that had to do with playing cat and mouse. Nii being the cat of course, because that would be her preferred choice. Reiki wasn't exactly trying to excite or flatter her, she was merely setting up a trap for the other. And what did little kittens hate the most? Water. A nice bountiful amount of water that Reiki would set up herself, and she already found the perfect little crater for it. Mounting herself on a pillar in the middle of said crater, she immediately got to filling it with an enormous amount of water via her jutsu. Shortly after, she saw Nii step out of the forest to greet her.

Except something was different about Nii. She seemed to be lacking an enormous amount of chakra. Reiki inwardly smirked, picking it up immediately. 'Shadow clone.' she thought to herself, keeping a stoic face as she watched it slowly approach her. It was walking on the water, which must have been a bit draining for it considering that took some chakra to do, but Reiki knew full well of its identity. She wasn't a sensory ninja, but she was good enough to be able to tell the difference between chakra monster and shadow clone. Not only that, but this one came so openly out into the water- as teasing as Nii was, Reiki knew she wouldn't come out initially into such a trap without some sort of insight into what was going on.

But at this point, it was far too late. The little shadow clone had sealed its fate when stepping onto the water to view her. Nevertheless, she would hear it out, for it seemed to have something to say. Actually, virtually nothing but a little more taunting. It just said something about knocking down the pillar Reiki now stood on, which would admittedly be trouble, but nothing she couldn't handle in the long run. "I don't know if I want you to do that. I kind of like this pillar. And besides, what fun would this be if I didn't have a nice front row seat to the cat bath? Just think about it.. being drenched in water and swirled around like a helpless animal. How's that sound, hmm?" she taunted, an underlying sadistic tone in her voice.

"By the way." she said, forcing her hands together. "Tell Nii to come out and play." she finished, doing a few hand signs with great speed. "Water Style: Water Drowning!" she shouted, grinning happily as a gigantic stream of water sprang out of the water underneath the Nii imposter. Now Nii would know to be careful of the same jutsu, but it didn't matter. Reiki still had the upper hand as long as she defended the pillar she was on and continued to lure Nii into the water. Her friend wouldn't be able to keep away for too long- it was virtually impossible, and as long as Reiki had this wonderful amount of water to manipulate her jutsu in, things were going to run smoothly. But now she would have to step it up a notch for Nii's next attack.

After performing a few hand signs, three water clones sprang up from the enormous pool of water in a triangle formation around Reiki, each about thirty feet away. "Come on out, kitty cat! You can't honestly tell me you're scared of a waterlogged little mouse, right?!" she shouted into the air, hoping that her message would reach Nii's ears. If she wasn't on her way already, that little bit of information would probably excite her into doing so. Nii wasn't the type of person to just pass up a chance to catch a mouse, after all.

Now as for a plan. Reiki was already calculating a series of procedures to take in her head. The first would be to merely trap Nii in a water prison with one of her clones, and then perform her little jutsu. And if that didn't work, there was plenty of water around to assist with her lightning jutsu. 'I've really got more of an advantage here then she thinks' Reiki thought to herself. 'Not only do I have this great body of water to perform my water style on, but with all this water around, my lightning jutsu can travel to her ten times faster! Oh, this is going to be such fun..' she continued, almost sighing dreamily as she awaited her prey. Yes, her prey. It was about time that curiosity would kill the cat.

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[Watamura Satoshi]

Nii laughed to herself when Reiki called her out for the payback comment. She was not upset about it, but poking at Reiki’s short tempter was better than picking at other bits sometimes. She knew when she had to stop teasing Reiki before she completely blew up at her. Right now, however, was not one of those times. Reiki was fair game and she was going to use it to her advantage for Reiki to catch her or she catches her. She looked back up at the tree leaves above and watched them for a moment before waving the girl off.

”Payback can be a bitch sometimes Reiki, so you better watch it before I bite. Besides you know me better than that. If that was just a payback it would have been ten times as bad. Do you really want to travel down that path with me there?” Nii leaned back and closed her eyes slightly. This was by far the most fun she have had with Reiki in recent encounters and she was not going to do anything stupid to get her friend upset at her. She would pay for a new cape for her friend, but she would do it in secret.

When the clone came onto the water from the forest area it watched Reiki and it seemed right away that it was called out for being a clone. It laughed slightly and shrugged some. ”What can I say Reiki? Water and you on pillar is a bad combo all together. And I don’t think I will tell Nii too come out and play. You know she will take that rather serious in the matter. She does like to play.” The clone watched the wave come and crashed into it. As the close was drowned in the attack it still had the same old smirk on its face.

The clone in the trees watched has Reiki created three water clones around the pillar. It watched the area for a few more minutes before canceling itself. It had gain the information that Nii would need to fight Reiki off to a degree at least. Water was never Nii’s strong point and she did hate to get soaked from the rain. It was really the only thing that she really complained about when she was on missions that it rained on and she usually gave the Raikage a piece of her mind when she was caught in the rain doing guard duty or something.

Nii blinked when both of her other clones was either destroyed or canceled by themselves. She closed her eyes and took in the information that both of them had learned up ahead and it made her frown. Four against one on a large body of water was going to be a pain and she had no upper grounds for it. It seemed that Reiki had found the perfect place to test out a new jutsu on her, but Nii refused to give in without a fight. Besides Reiki was expecting her to fight back somehow, but she could not be caught off guard because of some water clones and the pond of water that was waiting for her.

Nii knew that Reiki was waiting for her to come out in the open and knew she could not resist for too much longer. However, Nii needed a moment to rethink this before she did anything rash. She knew going out there would be bad idea because of the upper hand her friend had on her especially with the chakra at the moment. If she continued to pull off all these high level chakra consuming jutsu then it would mean that she would be relying on the Nibi in not time and that seemed what Reiki wanted her to do at the moment. She smirked some and shook her head some. There was no way that she was going to give Reiki that satisfaction of doing that just yet. She wanted to have Reiki work to catch her off guard and not just hand it to her on a silver platter. She did not want to be seen has just handing something over to someone else just because she was running out of chakra. ”She knows sooner or later I will start drawing on the Nibi’s chakra. If I don’t transform I can be a dangerous opponent. I have relied on Nibi’s chakra before without losing control and I have transformed before for long periods of time. She doesn’t think I will use this to my advantage, but I think for just this once…I might.”

”That is right Nii….use me!” A voice hissed in her head.

Nii grinned when she heard the voice inside of her head and she closed her eyes slightly. She hated hearing that hissing voice in her head. It usually encouraged her to use it and let it in control when she transformed. She was already a bit weaken from training all morning and now it was talking to her like she needed the extra boost to decided what to do. She closed her eyes slightly and placed her hand on the tree that she was next to. Her nails dug into the bark slightly has she focused on another way of doing this without get caught in Reiki’s trap. ”The only thing I will rely on you for is the damn chakra cat! Now shut up and let me think!”

She knew she was taking longer than what Reiki would have expected she would have, but for once she was actually thinking about what was going to happen to her. She knew Reiki would have already guessed that she had another clone out that saw exactly what happened after she had destroyed the other one. Nii did like using her shadow clones to be in more than one place at a time, but it was creating enough with the small chakra supple she had that was the problem at the moment. She had no problem rushing an all out attack on Reiki with her Shadow clones or Inferno clones, however, her limited supply of chakra prevented that. She knew she was not going to win the fight because she had agreed to let Reiki test something on her. Right now, she was stalling that test because she did not know the affects of it. Plus, she did not want to be seen has the prey in this. ”I hate when she knows she has me corner…she going to pay for this…” She giggled slightly and walked closer to the pond.

She made sure that she was out of eyesight of her and the clones at the moment. She wanted to look to what she was about to get into herself. She saw the three clones around the pillar about 30 feet from the pillar so that meant that they were 20 feet away from the start of the pond. That really didn’t give her much time to fight them all and she needed a good contact hit to destroy them. ”She wont let me get that close to her or the clones to use a wind justu, however, I can use a fire jutsu and enhance it with my wind jutsu if I time it fight. It might make the water under the clones start to boil some.”

”Keep thinking that I am going to allow you to give me a bath there Reiki…you know how much I hate getting soaked to the bones if I don’t have to.” Nii muttered darkly to herself. She had her moments when she just wanted to soak in the bathtub, but those times were far and in between. If she could just get in and out without much trouble she was happy. Besides she didn’t really like washing her long hair that was why she left it for her boyfriend to do it when he was around.

Nii took a breath for a moment and started to form some handsigns faster than what she did before because she did not want one of the clones to see and act on the movement just yet. She knew that she would have to get right up on the clones to perform any of her fire jutsu and the open area gave her an opening to do that, but it was tricking Reiki was the problem. She would have to lure her attention away from herself. She stopped forming the handsigns and canceled it for now. No, she was going to think smart about this and get Reiki’s attention away from her. That was the best course of action and she never really did that in a fight against her friend. It seemed like Nii was learning not to charge into a head on fight when she knew she would lose.

Nii stepped back away from the cover she was hiding from and behind a tree. She leaned her head against the tree and reached her hand into her pouch. She felt around and felt a few kunai and exploding tags. She smirked some when a few ideas popped into her head. She knew she would be wasting some chakra, but it was about time the kitty inside of her get some use today. ”I am going to get a huge lecture for doing this later, but fun is fun.”

Nii created two more shadow clones and gave them each a kunai with an exploding tag on it. She pointed to either side of her and they took off to a good position away from her. She knew she would have to time this just right to have Reiki looking at either explosion. She smirked some when she thought about a few genjutsu she knew that could actually help. All she had to do was cast it on the area she needed to hide her attack. The clones would not be able to detect the genjutsu on the area and it might be too far for Reiki herself to actually notice and it was not like she was going to change anything, but her appearance within the area.

Nii smirked to herself and closed her eyes slightly. ”Alright Nibi, its time to give me your damn chakra!”

”Oh, you are letting me have some fun, Nii….about time..” The voice hissed inside of her head. The Nibi released some of its chakra too Nii, but only the bit she needed for now. It did not like being loose when Reiki was around. “One day girl, that little tempter ball is not going to be around and I am going to take over…”

“The hell you will! Now shut up!” Nii winced and shivered slightly when Nibi talked about Reiki like that. She had never talked to Reiki about the converstations that her and the cat had, she felt that was a little too personal and didn’t want to let her friend worry too much. She finally settled down when she gained the experience of her clones throwing the exploding kunais.

One….

Two…

Three…….BOOM went the tags.

Ten feet in front clones and Nii casted the False Place Technique around the area that she was in and started to charge at the one that she was facing. She darted out from the forest and towards the clone with her hands going fast. She only had a few seconds to catch Reiki off guard if she could. ”Karyuudan Endan! Nii shot out a large dragon flame at the clone and its head broke out of the genjutsu at the clone in front of her. She was already starting to set up to expand the area that it was in. She started to do her wind handsigns.