The Enemy

This is the Pure Blood underground thread. First I just want to note I fixed the opening post a little, realised I kind of made it hard to follow up. Just go to your homes, gather stuff ,think it over, and head to the dark district (I'll explain lower down exactly what that is) Also this thread will e used to verify things, i.e. all of the vampires common weaknesses ad strengths, I'll explain a little further into artificials, and I'll cover things like the 'districts' and the general public's mind set. [B][U]Vampires:[/U][/B] [I]Weaknesses-[/I] All vampires have a curtain set of weaknesses. This section lists those weaknesses. - All vampires get burned by direct sunlight this is obvious. [I]Note: covering your skin protects you from sunlight.[/I] - All vampires have a strong aversion to holy symbols and holy ground. They do not cause pain they simply feel physically ill when close to crosses and the like, as well as when they are in churches (old abandon churches remade don't count) and when they are in cemeteries. (Why the media always portrays vamps loving the graveyard is beyond me, what vampire wants to walk on blessed ground surrounded by crosses?!) - Vampires do not like garlic, this relates back to their strong smell and a vampires enhanced senses, a vampire retaining his sense of smell will not enter an area laced with garlic. - A vampire cannot enter a private area (house, apartment etc) unless invited in by someone with authority to do so. - Vampires cannot cross running water, they can pass over it (a bridge) or be carried or thrown over, or they can jump over if the yare skilled enough. But no vampire may simply walk through a river or other source of running water. (Still water has no effect) Those are all of the weaknesses I an think of right now, if I forgot any please tell me. [I]Strengths-[/I] For all their weaknesses, each vampire has a range of abilities justifying it's various draw backs. -Vampires have enhanced strength surpassing normal humans easily, this dos not mean a vampire can throw cars around, nor can they simply run through walls. They have enough extra force to overpower a human, and easily break bones with strikes. (Vampires with especially enhanced strength can do some more incredible feats) - Vampires have enhanced speed as well, once again you can't out run a car, or move too fast to see. Vampires may however dash past a running human with ease, appearing to a human as a person shaped blur, when moving around top speed.(Vampires with especially enhanced speed, may indeed out run cars or move too fast for humans to see at all.) - Most if not all vampires have their 5 senses enhanced (sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste.) They can see perfectly in low light and pitch black conditions, hear various sounds at a distance through a range of other distractions, they ca track prey for miles on scent alone, some are rumoured to have the ability to tell the history of an object or area simply by sing their enhanced touch to read subtle marks and striations, their taste never really comes into effect but let's say that?s how they can taste things like the peoples emotions before being bitten. - Empathic, most vampires have an enhanced mind, allowing them to sense the emotions of those around them. - Vampires also have a slight form of hypnosis at their disposal, while this ability is moderate it is akin to the strength or speed enhancements, some vampires (like Valence, or Kieran) have their min manipulating powers enhanced far beyond regular attributes. The average vampire only has the power akin to jedi mind tricks for example. Planting a mild urge or mental suggestion in their target, though the strong willed can fight this weaker version off easily. - All pure vampires have an enhanced capacity for healing, allowing them to heal up minor cuts and bullet wounds with relative ease. - Vampires are for all practical purposes, immortal. They cannot be killed unless stabbed in the heart with a wooden steak, decapitated, or held in direct sunlight or running water for a pretty moderate duration. [B][U]Districts:[/U][/B] In this mystery city, there are many different districts in which the city is divided. I will fill them in as the become prominent, but for now we only really only know one. [I][U]Dark District-[/U][/I] The dark district is a part of down near the edge, in which all the lights have been broken, street lights, neon signs, traffic lights, all of them. This is only a few blocks, but it is a common gathering place for vampires. The only others who hang around the dark district are the drug dealers, weapon traders, and various other black market type crowd. The reason the dark district remains dark, is that it also happens to be the area surrounded by the most tall buildings, making it only really lit during the hours of 11 am - 3 pm otherwise tall shadows blanket the area. Anyone willing to go into the dark district, to try fixing he lights, hasn't returned. Many repair men and street workers have fallen victim to this mysterious Bermuda triangle of the city. Even 2 swat teams sent in a couple of weeks ago, simply lost contact and never came out.

After several months of artificial vampires encroaching on their territory and stealing their food. The pure bloods became aggravated with this new 'trend'. One night Alucin was walking down a lonely street and came upon a small flyer taped to a telephone pole. "[FONT="Impact"]BLOOD BATH! Playing Live![/FONT]" The poster read, it had a date and time as well. 'blood bath' was a fictional band, vampires gathered once in a while, usually every few years or so, to have a sort of party. Dozens of pure bloods showed up every time, the numerous humans eager to see a new hard core sounding band usually became the feast of the night. Vampires of every grade and calibre showed up for the chance to connect with others of their kind, to get a free meal, and hey everyone loves loud music. Alucin grinned slightly as the read the poster. He had been looking forward to the next blood bath gathering for some time now. There were always the couple of young vampires who had a few too many drunks to drink, and got riled up for a fight. Alucin revelled in watching these foolish 'children' squabbling amongst themselves. Upon arriving at the address, the building looked like a run down warehouse. Walking trough the first set of doors revealed several black clothed bouncers. All vampires, usually assigned to the job for their particularly enhanced strength. The idea was to decide which of the entrances the arrivals went to. If the guests wee fond to be human, the bouncers welcomed them in with a few scantily clad young looking girls. This entrance led to a very dark room in which the guests were often tied up, or drugged. If you were proven to be a vampire, and a pure blood a that, the bouncers directed you toward the opposite hallway, which lead into a large indoor concert. The way on would tell what species the guests were was petty simple. For one most of the vampires greeted with "I'm here for a meal" or a similar phrase, where as annoying humans often exclaim "where's the party?!" If not identified immediately by their greeting the bouncers will ask guests to show them a smile, often asking them to bare their fangs. This doesn't scare off the human arrivals, as the gothic mood of the entire place blended with the greeting, and they felt all the more welcome after their canines seemingly [I]impressed[/I] the bouncers. Though a quick show of the fangs easily weeded out the humans. Finally if you were indeed a vampire, the bouncer would produce a small sharp knife, and give you a cut. Usually on the back of your hand, your shoulder, palm, or wherever else your outfit and attitude permitted. The reason was that, while artificial vampires do carry a number of vampire traits, and often even posses a significant power akin to a pure blood. For some reason the artificial vampires never attain the inbred regeneration of a pure vampire. Assuming the quickly healed cut proved your purity, the bouncers directed you toward the proper doorway. Once inside Alucin smiled at the surrounding chaos. Vampires jumped up and down with the throbbing music, while the more regent grain sat around and discussed their doings and plans over several years. Most amusing was the occasional vampire with a human, either leading them into a private feeding room in the back, or openly gorging on their neck out in the open. The meals were free for the needy, but for free you got a goth punk rocker with too many chains and not enough muscle. If you paid a fair price however, there was a rains of dinners on the menu. The meals stretched from body builders, and strippers, to cheerleaders and young virgins. All of which were either bound and gagged on delivery, or heavily sedated and hardly conscious. As one of the vampires that lived for the hunt Alucin decided to pass on the menu, and wandered throughout the crowd. Simply observing the various differing vampires there. His calm observing was disturbed when some vague male screams came from the front area. Alucin ducked and weaved through the mob to get a seat on the front line should it be anything entertaining. But when he arrived it was not at all what he was expecting. Several men and women were tearing through the mass of party-goers. The vampires were being attacked!? The attackers were supernaturally strong and fast, matching most of the vampires in both speed and strength. The vampires threw an onslaught of horror upon the attackers, fire, waves of force, spikes of ice, even monstrous shape shifters, bore through the attacking force. Though it was not enough. For all the pure blood's powers, they were not very numerous, and the attacking force was well beyond 2:1 against the pure blood defenders. Skilled fighters like Alucin held the line firm, he blew through the attackers' defence, his wires glistening slightly in the flashing lights. After the fight was over, the pure blood had won, though they had taken heavy damage. Only a handful of them remained alive, gathering among the shredded corpses, the elite survivors looked around the small group, scanning each other. "We need to finish this" Alucin stated coldly, "we have to kill them all.." "But how?" asked a younger vampire girl. "We simply hunt down all of those grotesque artificial vampires, and find out where they are coming from." Alucin explained "But first we should weed out the weak willed. Everyone go to your homes for now, gather your weapons andany other minor supplies, then those still interested in finishing this will meet up in the dark district. I don't know about you guys, but I'll be there." Alucin concluded as he alked out of the blood bath."

[I]Sorry for the long wait, I should have the actual thread up tonight. Sorry for my ridiculously long bio too, got carried away.[/I] [B]Name:[/B] Alucin Archionez [B]Age:[/B] 420 [B]Appearance:[/B] [URL="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c211/mtnut2/Hellsing/619c2fc4.jpg"]Alucin[/URL] [B]Personality:[/B] Alucin is an extremely confusing individual. He lives for the hunt and loves nothing more than to see pure horror on his victim's faces before he delivers the finishing blow, or bite as it were. He has fun mocking other younger vampires, often believing they are not using their power's potential, and is utterly disgusted by the idea of artificials. [B]Weapons:[/B] Micro-filament gloves. Almost invisibly thin, razor sharp wire, wielded with lethal accuracy. [B]Powers:[/B] Alucin had the terrifying ability of falsifying reality. In short, he can create a range of illusions, and in his peak, chose who can see them and who can't. [B]Bio:[/B] Alucin sat in the grubby subway train as it squealed around turns and screeched loudly as the far too old breaks met with the wheels. After a dangerously long sliding period the doors eventually lined up along the station exit zone and slid open. Alucin casually stepped off, scanning the station for his next prey. He found it easily enough, three young girls. They seemed to be arguing about something, to get a better idea of his food to come Alucin focussed and used his enhanced senses to eaves drop n their conversation. "Do we have to take the subway?" one of the girls complained, she seemed to have the least clothes on of the three, and oddly also appeared to be the youngest. "Yes! We'll never make it to Jackson?s party on time if we just walk." Explained the oldest girl. "Ya doesn't he live like across town or something?" added the middle girl, wearing all pink. As they approached the train Alucin used his powers to create a figment just for them. A tall shadowy figure dressed with a deep hood and long black trench coat stood in the doorway as they approached. his face as completely hidden aside from the dimly glowing red eyes glaring from within his dark hood. "Uhh let's take the next one kay?" The oldest girl said, the other two agreed instantly with nods. As the train doors closed the girls began sheepishly whispering about how creepy the hooded man looked, the desired result of Alucin when he created the image. As they waited the middle girl said "I like totally hafta go to the washroom, be back in a sec." The oldest optioned to go with her, but the youngest demanded not to be left alone. In the end the middle girl left alone. As she walked away, Alucin did as well. he walked into the maintenance room a half second after the worker himself. The worker had barely a moment before a stn hand rasped his head and chin forcing them opposite each other in a sickening crack. Alucin soon after walked out of the room with a sec of keys in hand, using his illusionary talents to shade his own image with that of a middle aged woman. As a finely dressed man entering the girls subway bathroom would attract some unneeded attention. Upon entering the washroom, Alucin was happy to notice the young girl was the only girl in there. Using the key from the maintenance guy to lock the door, Alucin lowered the image from around him to reveal his true self. The girl was just washing her hands as Alucin entered, giving him the opportunity to scare her a little more. As the girl stood up the same hooded man stood mere feet behind her, she turned fast to look, verifying his reflection, but when she turned he was not there. "It's only your imagination Jen get a hold of yourself." the girl mumbled. She took a step toward the door before seeing a human shaped blur sweep past her. "What was that??" she asked the apparently empty room. Alucin however, gave her an answer. "I'm sorry, you do not get the privilege of being my dinner. You are just a pawn. "Who said that?! Who's there?!" the girl demanded. Alucin pulled the wrist of his glove tightening it's grip around his hand. With a quick wave of his had the wires on his gloves flashed through the air. Only visible for a second as the light gleamed off them. Jen rushed to the door, and rattled the handle to no avail. She next tried banging on the door to get someone's attention. Or tried anyway, her hand raised high began it's way to the center of the door, but was interrupted by a thin wire as it slid across her forearm. She pulled her hand back and almost yelled, when Alucin darted behind her covering her mouth. A swift crack stopped her slender body from fighting back as he dropped her limply to the floor. Meanwhile the two other girls were getting concerned. The oldest had come to see what was taking so long. Alucin quickly unlocked the door as he heard her coming, judging from the sound coming from her footsteps he deduced it was indeed the oldest of the three girls. She opened the door and rushed toward her friend?s lifeless body exclaiming "Oh my god! Je-" before a wire caught her across the throat. Sliced to the bone the older girl couldn't do much more than gurgle blood. The plan was set, and the pieces in motion. The train came and left before the girls returned, causing the youngest to be quite scared. She checked the bathroom only to find "out of order" written on a note on the door. She tried the knob just in case but found it to be locked. She waited about another five minutes before deciding the party wasn't worth it and heading home. On the way she saw the shadowy hooded man several times. In the end of an alley, sitting on a bench across the road, and even once walking towards her as she rounded a corner, every time glaring with those red eyes. She was getting more and more frightened, the perfect moment to leave her some grisly evidence. As she got home there were two pictures pinned to her door. One was of her friends bodies on the bathroom floor. The other of the hooded man sitting in her living room. She checked the clock in the picture's time with her own watch to find he was probably still there. Of coarse there were no real pictures, but as long as her mind believed there were, who could tell the difference? She ran from her home, now horrified at her awaiting doom. Running as hard as she could she soon made her way to the old school, to hang out on the jungle-gym as she used to when she was scared. Alucin now approached her himself. "What's wrong my dear girl?" he asked kindly. "Th-there were my friends, a-a-and these pictures! we have to get help!" the girl stuttered, still in shock. "Now, now calm down, I'll take care of you." Alucin comforted as he walked closer, opening his arms for a hug. The girl took one step out from the jungle-gym and let Alucin embrace her gently. "We all have scary times" Alucin noted "Even me, I killed these two teenagers today, and when I as waiting for the youngest, she never showed up back home." The young girl's eyes widened, she tried to break free but Alucin's firm grip on her arms held strong. She pulled away enough to look at his face again "I was terrified" he said "I almost thought she'd gotten away." Alucin concluded. The girl was scared senseless, the only thing she could wrap her mind around was trying to fool herself this mysterious man wasn't the killer. But when she gazed upon his face, all she could see was his blood red eyes. The girl let out a blood curdling scream before Alucin swiftly drove his sharp fangs deep into her neck. She fought and struggled, but soon the scream subsided, and the resistance slowed to a twitch.

A strange wind flurried through the area, taking with it nearly a books worth of paper pages. A moment later almost two dozen dagger bladed crosses sliced through the air pinning the pages to the alley walls. "What's this? I can't target your minds, I can't manipulate your abilities, what's going on?" Ken demanded as three more where wolves came into sight around him, walking over to one of the pieces of paper, Ken examined it. It appeared to be in some form of latin and touching it caused his hands to sting with pain. "Funny, I was about o make a similar comment." Judas appeared around a corner. "What? What are you talking about?" Damo asked. "Without your powers, you are all quite harmless." Judas explained. he would have continued had several werewolves still charged him under Ken's signal. "Looks like you misjudged us. Werewolves are stricken with lycanthropy, it's more of a disease than a power." Ken smirked as he recounted the priests flaws. Judas didn't answer, he simply stated "E nimine patris, et filii, et spiritus sancti!" before reaching within his coat and hurling out cross handled daggers at his canine adversaries. The blades punctured the wolves easily. Two were hit on their heart, three in their stomachs, and the final three had their throats cut out. As each wolf fell to the ground Ken's eyes as well as the eyes of the others widened "How?" asked Ken "Even if the blades were silver, you need a direct hit to the heart to kill them." "The blades are not silver." he walked over and pointed out one of the papers nailed to the walls. "Though while they walk on my hallowed ground, these monstrous beings lose their unholy powers of resistance. Making them just as mortal as you or me." Judas explained. He reached into his coat and drew another 3 blades, holding one offensively and the other two in his separate hand. "Now in the name of god, I shall sentence you're heathen souls to the pits of hell from wince you came!" Judas nearly shouted as he closed in on his prey. His menacing attack was stopped by a ring from his pocket. He paused and answered his cell phone, "Forgive me a moment...Bless thee for calling...I have them here now...No there are three...that cannot be, they were accompanied by the hounds of hell...But it must be them...Very well father." Judas hung up his phone "It appears there has been a mistake, you monster escape the judgement of our lord for now but your time shall come!" As Judas finished the papers on the walls around him began flying around in a typhoon. Soon there was only a column of pages where Judas was standing, and in a gust the pages blew apart and slowly fell to the ground. Revealing an empty space.

[B]Name:[/B] Father Judas Darius [B]Age:[/B] 32 [B]Ability:[/B] Along with wielding nigh infinite cross knives (see pic) Judas has the ability to "sanctify" an area, pinning up holy scripture around the designated zone. All within the area are unable to activate their powers. he also has various other holy scripture based power. Judas waked down the bustling street with a light smile. He had been having a good day and was looking forward to events yet to come. He walked around the surrounding blocks several times. Checking his watch momentarily. Shortly after his forth trip around the area Judas' cell phone began to ring. He eagerly answered it with a clear grin. "Bless thee for calling." He answered as he always had. "Oh yes I have been in the area for some time now...No I haven't spotted the heathens yet father...I prey for the same father, but for now we have to trust the good lord will lead us to them...I understand, moving in." Judas closed the call with a press of a button and slid the phone safely back into his pocket. "The time has come for your divine judgement, heretics, may the good lord have mercy on your tainted souls." Judas made the sign of the cross then kissed the silver cross hanging round his neck before continuing on towards his target. [B]Appearance:[/B] [URL="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gooseberry_01/hellsing_maxwell05.jpg"]Judas[/URL]

"What's wrong Nayomi?" Duke asked with obvious worry lacing his words. Nayomi tried to hide her feelings but like so many times in the past, simply couldn't bring herself to lie to Duke. She told him the entire plan though making him swear not to tell another soul. Duke immediately began grabbing clothes from the drawers. Both outfits of his and hers. "Duke what are you going to do?" "We're leaving" he replied, his voice cold as stone. "I'm not letting him tear us apart. I don't care what he says. If you're leaving so am I." "Duke you can't!" Nayomi pleaded, tears filling her eyes. "Who will take care of the team?!" "Red can. He does a fine job of running our lives as it is, shouldn't be a big change for him." Duke answered, still packing cloths into luggage bags. "He won't let you do this." Nayomi stated, grabbing one of Duke's arms to stop him fro packing for a moment. "Let him try and stop me." Duke whispered loudly, his voice breaking as tears of his own cascaded down his face. He hugged Nayomi tightly reluctantly letting go to finish up his packing. He stared lovingly into her eyes, with thick worry blanketing his own "Stay here, I need to [I]negotiate[/I] a little." He pleaded before waking out of the room, knife drawn. He approached Red's door and knocked loudly. Sin, who was walking by, came to see if everything was ok. "Hey there Duke, is everything ok between you and Red?" a simple though wasted question. "Leave." Duke ordered harshly prior to banging the door a second time. "Hey Duke, I'm on your side, if something's wrong I can-" Sin was cut off before finishing. "I said leave." Duke repeated "I will no say it again" he turned to Sin momentarily, revealing solid deep red eyes. "Uhh yah, right, sorry." Sin replied before continuing on his way. Duke's fist met the door again, his hand beginning to bleed from the damage. The next his caused large violent red cracks to appear on the door, as Duke's bleeding hand rushed blood against it fiercely with every blow. Moments later the door simply shattered into splinters. "We're leaving." Duke stated bluntly to a casual looking Red, still calmly behind his desk. "I'm afraid I can't let you do that." Red replied with a strange tone. "You are much to valuable to just be let loose." red took on a disturbing smirk as h flipped a switch in his desk. A large iron grating then slid down over the door way Duke had recently opened up. Duke frowned "You know you can't keep me here." the blood trickling from his fingers began pouring from his palms. With a large circular motion he splashed Red into the far wall, threw Red's desk against s portion of the wall just to the side and finalizing, knocked out the metal grating over the door. Duke ran out of the room, dashing past Damo, Sin, and Symphony who had been the first and closet, hearing the commotion. Red quickly limped over to them. "Duke just attacked me! Him and Nayomi have gone rogue! You have to hunt them down. Get them back here as soon as physically possible, and still living of the opportunity arises." Red took a few steps toward the infirmary before turning to the confused group. You have your orders, go!" Meanwhile... Duke soon arrived at Nayomi's room. his hands covered in blood though not necessarily still bleeding. "We have to go, now!" before Nayomi could question him an alarm sounded through the entire building. *Wong, Wong, Wong, Wong!!!* "Capture Duke Manson and Nayomi Talon, approach with extreme caution, considered armed and extremely dangerous!" Not ten seconds later loud foot steps were heard running down the hall toward their room. Duke and Nayomi fled out her window and disappeared into the busy streets.

[B]Name:[/B] Jak Schiffer [B]Code Name:[/B] Ghost [B]Occupation:[/B] Infiltration/ Recon [B]Primary Weapon:[/B] [URL="http://www.joueclub-monaco.com/img-prod/socom.jpg"]Heckler and Koch MK.23 SOCOM pistol[/URL] [B]Secondary Weapon:[/B] A black [URL="http://www.northamericanknives.com/files/1788248/uploaded/KB5011.jpg"]Kabar Utility Knife[/URL] with a solid silver edge. [B]Special Ability:[/B] Some would say Ghost's skill to see perfectly in low light to pitch black conditions, as well as the uncanny ability to move while making virtually no noise is unnatural. [B]Description/Picture:[/B] [URL="http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa71/anyelaaleyna/anime%20guy/anime19.jpg"]Ghost[/URL] [B]History:[/B] Jak grew up as a generally normal kid, though h quickly fell in with the [I]wrong crowd[/I]. Jak was often conned into stealing and commonly breaking and entering. Though in his case it was more along the lines 'entering getting what you need and leaving without a trace'. His exploits as the best entry guy in the city spread fast, and faster than he new it, he had been offered a seat on the night watch for infiltration and recon. he skills to walk around a dark room full of hostile targets, gather data on the entire layout of the building, and get out without leaving a mark, was apparently a valued asset in this line of work. [B]Extras:[/B] Despite his appearance Jak is very serious and calculating when it comes to missions, being a few feet from several beings strong enough to rip him to shreds, has given Jak a very negative opinion of the trial and error manor of thinking. He prefers to do things perfectly the first time and get every objective over with A.S.A.P.

[I]Vampire:[/I] A powerful creature of the night, gaining unholy inhuman abilities far superior to that of a normal human being. The cost, however, was unthinkable for most. Needing to drink the blood of humans to sustain your own life. How they are created is an interesting statistic, vampires are only made when a pre-existing vampire bites a human virgin of the opposite sex. Biting a human of the same sex or one who is not pure, creates a ghoul. Ghouls are gruesome zombie-like creatures hollowing the orders of it's creator while mindlessly hungering for living flesh. Or they just die you never really know what to expect. Or rather, that's how it used to be... Recently more and more vampires have been appearing in the streets. The catch is that these vampire were not made in the traditional means. These are artificial vampires. Physical scientific augmentation to alter a human into a vampire. The true vampires, or pure bloods, spit upon this mockery of their heritage. Seeking to find all artificial vampires, as well as their maker, and destroy them once and for all. You are a pure blood. [I]The disease:[/I] Like everything else each human body reacts differently to the vampires infection. While extremely similar in design, no two human bodies are identical. Resulting in some common traits i.e. the thirst, at least minimal regeneration, and moderately increased speed and strength. However there are many many other vampire powers that appear randomly throughout the newly turned. Fire control, flight, exponentially increased speed or strength, even compared to the average vampire, and even mind control are among the various recorded abilities. One of the most terrifying traits of the vampire race, is that no two vampires are ever the same, if attacked, you never know just what will come your way. [I][U]Sign ups:[/U][/I] [B] Name:[/B] [B] Age:[/B] (probably between 150-500) [B] Appearance: [/B] (pic or description) [B] Personality: [/B] [B] Weapons: [/B] (while modern weapons are available, vampires traditionally use blades and their natural abilities instead) [B] Powers: [/B] (No two vampires are alike. Be creative but not overpowered.) [B]Bio:[/B] ( How you were turned, your first encounter with an artificial vampire, Or the general lay out of your most recent feeding)

Rizen smiled kindly "I'm not that heartless you know. I may be professional but I do have feelings too. I don't know why, but I just want you to be safe, and alright. I know you've been working hard to impress me, and I am very proud of your skills. I give you my word, I won't betray your feelings for me." Rizen promised sincerely. Arimi shoed a bright smile and hugged Rizen tightly. Rizen was a little lost for a moment but soon hugged her back. "Come on, let's head back to the group." he said kindly, holding Arimi's hand. Approaching the group everyone turned to see them, and immediately noticed them holding hands. Most just ignored it, the one who reacted most was Jet. "Nooo!! Arimi-chan! How could you betray me Arimi-chan!?" Rizen just gave him a cold glare. "Arimi, I want you to gather up the group ok? We need to move on and make our way closer to our goal." Rizen asked. Arimi nodded and gave a cute smile "Yes sir!" and she as off to gather up supplies and prepare the group to move out. Meanwhile, Rizen found Mitsuo and Seta. "OK the group is moving on now, but I want you two to scout ahead ok? Just go forward a few miles and check things out. If you find anything significant don't try to handle it yourself, come and regroup." Rizen explained. "You know I'm just going to kill whatever it is that is [I]significant[/I] and move on right?" Mitsuo commented. "Actually yes, that's why I'm sending Seta as well, I figured we'd need at least one intelligent scout to relay back to us." Rizen explained with a small smile. "Well that's if he can keep up anyways." Mitsuo laughed and used body flicker to dash away. Rizen sighed "Keep an eye on him would you? Make sure he doesn't do anything suicidal." Rizen tasked Seta, before he too was gone in a flash.

Rizen needed some time to think, as well as practice his ninjutsu. So he decided to go "gather some water" for the group. Regardless of how much they actually needed. The jutsu he was practicing was the 'water style: wound cleaning manipulation jutsu' a water style technique Rizen himself had been developing for the purpose of cleaning out blade injuries prior to healing to avoid infection and quicken natural regrowth of tissue. Making chakra healing jutsu work faster and more efficiently. It didn’t take much chakra, just very careful control, as to not force any water into the wound. Rizen was carefully moving water into and out of his cantine when Arimi caught up with him at the waterfall. "Oh it's just you." Rizen’s voice came from behind Arimi. She turned to see him slowly rising out of the water. "Can't be too careful right?" he asked with a casual smile. Arimi looked back at Rizen standing at the waterfall just in time to see the water clone dissipate back into the current. "What do you mean 'it's [I]just[/I] me' huh??" Arimi asked with playful anger. "I meant no offence," Rizen explained "but, you are far from what I'd call an enemy." He walked over to her, getting so clone they could almost feel each others breath, before taking a smooth step to the side and continuing to the waterfall. Arimi felt her heart flutter as he was so close. [I]"What's wrong with me?!"[/I] she asked herself mentally. Rizen turned back to her "Are you aright?" he asked calmly. "You always seem to be very red when I see you, so you have a fever or anything?" he asked with a small smile, fully knowing why she was red. "Huh? Uhh yah, that must be it, I'm probably coming down with something." she justified [I]"Stop blushing!!"[/I] she commanded herself mentally, but to no avail. Rizen walked over to her again, gently placing a hand across her forehead. "Hmm you don't feel hot." Rizen lowered his voice just quiet enough for Arimi to barely here him [SIZE="1"]"but feeling and looking are two different things."[/SIZE] he almost whispered. Arimi got very flushed, not knowing exactly what she had just heard. "I am the medical ninja you know. So if you're coming down with something I'd be happy to take care of you." "No, i-it's not that I need you to take care of me, it's just that I uhh-" Arimi would have stuttered out at least 2 or 3 excuses given the chance. But she became dead silent when Rizen gave her a kiss. It wasn't a long drawn on make out scene. Just a quick peck on the lips. He then stepped back and glanced around as if contemplating what he had just done. Seeming satisfied he grinned and said "We should gt back to the group, they'll be worrying about us by now." with that and a feint grin, Rizen began walking back toward the group. Leaving Arimi in total shock and surprise.

[B]OOC: OK first off, he isn't wearing a hood, just a robe.[/B] [URL="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/darkness-ninja-princess/naruto/Neji.png"][U]Clicky[/U][/URL] [I]Notice the robe, without a hood.[/I] Rizen awoke roughly an hour later. "That was a pretty intense dream." He mumbled to himself. He checked his chest for bruises or broken ribs, but there was nothing. "Yah, crazy dream." As he sat up he saw the team all gathered to the amp area, and Lee from his neck to his feet, tightly bound to a solid tree. "Lee!" Rizen gasped as he got quickly to his feet. In a flash Neji was by his side. "Calm down. I closed his gate network. He should be asleep for another hour or two and once h awakes he will not be able to release any of the eight gates." Neji explained slowly. "I do need to ask you something though." Rizen turned with a confused look. "You are a medical ninja are you not?" Neji asked. "Yes, I am. How did you know?" Rizen replied. Neji nodded slowly "I thought s, the rest of your team is in pretty rough condition. You used the secret healing wound destruction technique didn't you?" Neji inquired. Rizen thought back and did remember using the technique just after seeing his water technique fail. "Yes, that's why I'm ok." Rizen concluded. Neji nodded again, handing him a food pill. "You probably used allot of your chakra to heal those injuries." Neji explained. Rizen shook his head and took a few steps. "No no, I'm fi-" Rizen stuttered as he fell to one knee. Neji smiled and gave handed him the pill. Rizen smiled back and nodded, downing the pill. He then looked around and examined his team. "Oh my god!" he exclaimed. Neji dashed to his side "What is it? What's wrong?" Rizen looked over the group 10 times over just in case his eyes were fooling him. "Arimi! She-She' gone!" Rizen almost yelled. "A member of your team?" Neji asked, just to verify. "Yes, she was with me when we first saw Lee. She cant' be far, we have to find her." Rizen demanded. Neji calmly nodded. "Do not worry, I will find her...Byakugan!" Veins pulsed next to Neji's eyes, his pupils changed slightly, and he became very focussed. After not even 60 seconds, it was done "Found her!" Neji frowned slightly. "She's pretty beat up, it's a good thing you're a medic." "Where!?" Rizen commanded, grabbing Neji by the shoulders. Neji was offended slightly but understood Rizen's anguish. "The waterfall" Neji pointed to his left "There's a hidden cave behind it. She's tied up there." Neji had hardly finished before Rizen vanished in a blur toward the waterfall. He arrived not ten seconds after. Stopping at the entrance to the cave. [I]"I wonder if she's ok, I wonder if she's even awake, I wonder if she's...singing?"[/I] Rizen thought to himself as he cautiously entered the cave. After a few painful low seconds of sneaking in looking for traps and guards, he spotted Arimi. She was tied to a rock and singing to herself loudly. Rizen ran over to her. "I?m so happy you're ok, I don't know what I'd do if I lost you." Arimi blushed from being caught singing as well as from what Rizen said. he two just looked at each other for a moment. "Err I mean the team. I don't know what the team would do if [I]we[/I] lost you." Rizen tried to recover from the awkward moment. He quickly cut her binds and use a healing jutsu to quickly heal up her smaller bruises and cuts. "It'll take a little longer for your ribs. We should get back to the group first so they know we're ok." Rizen put his arm around Arimi gently and put her arm over his shoulders. Then he dashed out of the waterfall as smoothly as possible. Once back with he group he noticed some of the others had started waking up also. First he worked on Arimi's ribs, then he gave her a food pill and moved on to the next patient on his team. After much healing and expending the rest of his food pills, the team was almost in tip top condition.

Rizen stood up quickly after being uppercut from below, "I-It's impossible!" he called out "There's absolutely no way we could possibly defeat him if we let him release even 2 of his eight gates. His power will be come too great for us to handle f we allow any more than one. We must-" Rizen's thought as cut off by the fast moving foot colliding with his jaw. Rizen cascaded into the air, his body still in shock from the blow. Then he heard the worst phrase he could have possibly wanted to hear at that point. "I didn't think I would have to use this technique...Primary Lotus!!!!" "Oh no! I have to get out of here!" Rizen used all of his skill cunning and knowledge in the next 4 seconds. The wraps tightened, the ground came toward him at an alarming speed. And then [I]"Now!"[/I] ...impact. "What the where did he go?!" Protested lee s he saw the broken and battered naruto clone poof away into smoke. "That was a truly amazing replacement technique. But I am afraid it will not happen again. Second gate of rest...Open!" "NO!" Rizen exclaimed trying to run to Lee to stop him in any way he could. But he had used up too much energy with his last second escape and replacement. Seta, Kai and the whole group, even Mitsuo tried their best to stop Lee. But it was all for naught. Another wave of clones came from below, not even attacking, just grabbing and restraining the entire team. "Fifth gate of closing...Ahhh Open!!!!" Lee shouted in the back ground. "We have to stop him, in any way we can!" Rizen yelled. He managed to elbow one of the clones holding him and reached an exploding tag, detonating it almost immediately it blew away the other 4 clones holding him. As well as knocking him into a tree. He struggled as quickly as he could and ate a soldier pill. Moment later he made it to his feet. "This is my only chance!" Rizen made a long series of hand signs in an instant, his hands almost blurring from sight. "Takigakure Secret Technique: Water Style: Heavy Waterfall Current!" The water from the lake they had been half fighting on began to swirl and twist into the air. Forming a huge column of flowing water. Rizens determined look faded. "I'm too late..." "Seventh gate of Joy!!!...Ahhhhh Open!!!!!" Lee exclaimed "Now is the time, the time for me to finish you all in one mighty blow, the time for me to live and abide by my own shinobi way!" "I have to try!" Rizen gasped pushing his hands forward and causing the torrential current to hammer against Lee. The water Crashed against Lee’s surging form hard and fast. Lee remained solid, unmoved in the slightest. “No way…” Rizen muttered to himself. “Now I will end this!” Lee shouted, vanishing from sight a moment later. Lee flew through the group, almost literally his very energy blowing apart the shadow clones as he struck each target perfectly First hitting Rizen, he was knocked back into the water. Mitsuo, Kai, and Udyu all fell as well, each flying in a different direction from the incredible impact. Shiro was hit next, hitting a different tree not far from their camp. Then Draco, he landed hard one of the large stones that decorated the beach. Jet and Shin were close enough together to be hit simultaneously then mirrored each others flight paths as they were also tossed into the lake. One by one the entire team was cast aside carelessly. Lee had not killed them, not yet, instead he decided it was first important for them to remember the crushing defeat of going up against a strong fist user. Especially a master of the art, such as himself. The first onslaught was merely to put the fear of god into the team. And more appropriately the fear of Naruto Uzumaki. Lee then prepared his final attack, focussing all of his strength so each blow would be absolutely lethal with no room for error. But, he never got the chance… “I am sorry old friend.” A mysterious voice echoed around Lee. “Who is there?!” Lee demanded “Truly sorry, but you are in the zone of my eight trigrams…” The voice continued, the entire team was on the very brink of unconsciousness But Rizen was sure of what happened next. A bright light shown from behind Lee by the time he turned the mysterious white robed figure was already on the attack. He struck him each time with no more than 2 fingers. “One strike, two strikes, three strikes, four strikes!” this was almost identical to a technique Rizen had heard about, but instead of culminating each hit was single, by “6 strikes!” the figure had only hit lee 6 times. “7 strikes!!!” Rizen was amazed by the figures speed and agility, Lee had no time to react before it was all over. “Last Resort: Eight Gates Assault!” The mysterious robed man yelled as he struck the final blow. Lee’s entire body shuttered, then he fell to the ground. The fight was over. The white robed figure walked over to Rizen and kneeled on the water, “You can sleep now, the rest have already lost consciousness. ”The man said comfortingly. “But...who…are…you?” Rizen wheezed just before passing out himself. “My name is…Neji Hyuuga, I am a friend…”

Rizen went off running on the lake. [I]"I wonder why Draco headed backwards to the village."[/I] he thought to himself. [I]"I mean, it's obvious Arimi went somewhere t relax, but the waterfall at the en of this lake is much closer than the one back at the village. It only makes sense she would choose this one."[/I] Rizen shook his head with a feint look of confusion. Rizen soon came upon an amazing sight. Arimi laid sprawled next to a calm pool just off the waterfall. She was stretched out on the ground, clearly in a deep sleep. Rizen did his best to ignore how beautiful she was, as he made his deathly silent approach. [I]"Amost a crime to disturb such a scene."[/I] Rizen told himself as he reached down to wake her. he calm was broken by a kunai determined to pierce Arimi's throat. Rizen noticed and countered with another kunai of his own. The clash of metal as the kunai struck each other instantly awoke Arimi from her slumber. "You shouldn't let your guard down "Rizen commented as he knocked away three more kunai with one in his hand. Within seconds Arimi was on her feet with a kunai gripped in each hand. The attackers stood on top of the nearby waterfall. There were easy dozens, hundreds maybe. "Is this the army of shinobi they were talking about?" Arimi asked grimly. Rizen shook his head. "No. This is just a test, word of our mission travelled faster than I expected." The figures above them began their approach, as they came dashing down the waterfall. "You're dead you hear me?!" a brutally familiar voice echoed down the cliff. "N-Naruto?!" Arimi exclaimed, as hundreds of Naruto shadow clones sped towards her and Rizen. "Fall back! We need the rest of the group if we even have a hope of surviving this!" Rizen commanded. "Why are you leaving? Do you not want to test your metal against the green beast of the Uzumaki army?!" a different voice called out from within the horde of clones. "Not him.." Rizen muttered. "My name is Rock Lee! I will be the one to destroy your efforts!" Lee called out, now running ahead of the Naruto clones. Years ago, the powerful jounin Might Gai died. He preformed the forbidden technique and released the eight life gates to protect Konoha, specifically to protect Lee, from an attacking force. Though he won the battle almost single handed, he succumbed to the after effects of the last gate, death. Rock Lee saw honour, bravery, and passion in his masters actions. Pleading that he be honoured in as many ways possible for his great sacrifice. The elders and Hokage of Konoha, however, believed it was simply foolish and he should not have used the forbidden technique having dully known it's outcome. Enraged, Lee left Konoha. He blamed them for his sensei's death, believing he died for nothing, he joined Naruto in his campaign. Seeking to destroy Konoha himself to avenge his master's passing. And he will not let a small group of shinobi to spot Naruto's plans before Lee himself has realised his dream.

[I]OOC: It has come to my attention several people are playing characters as less mature than they are, I ask all people doing this to remember what the sign ups say. If you can?t, read them again.[/I] Rizen observed the fight between Arimi and Mitsuo, analyzing each fighter?s style and technique. Carefully looking for an opening in Mitsuo?s defence. Rizen waited a while before jumping in front of Arimi. She stopped on a dime and looked forward as Rizen threw a kunai at Mitsuo. He simply smiled and watched as the kunai made a thud as it dug into the tree he rested on the branch of. ?You?re aim?s a little off, next time try throwing it at me!? Mitsuo laughed. The smile quickly vanished as he heard the sizzling of an exploding tag on the kunai. Without a word he leapt backward avoiding the blast but still being sprinkled with wood chips. After shielding his eyes Mitsuo looked up to see Arimi gone and only Rizen standing on a branch baring a kunai in each hand. ?Please, you really think I?m that stupid?? Mitsuo made a hand sign ?Release!? The surrounding trees and branches shimmered slightly as Arimi reappeared behind Rizen, who then vanished. Revealing another Rizen now only feet away swinging a paralyzing palm at Mitsuo?s knee. Mitsuo grinned at his foiling of Rizen?s plan, and jumped back to another branch. Hearing a footstep behind him Mitsuo turned to see another Rizen, also lunging with a paralyzing palm. ?Another illusion?!? He exclaimed jumping at the first with a kick, just in case. The kick flew through the first Rizen as if he weren?t there. Half expecting this Mitsuo didn?t have to scramble for balance. At least not until he felt a thick branch ram his chest. After looking down and seeing nothing Mitsuo just shook his head, he only fell for a moment before aiming to land on a lower branch. But when the moment came he passed right through the branch. ?Damn it!? he cursed, a moment before his back collided with the ground. [I]?He put an illusion over his first illusion, when I escaped the first I thought I was out.? [/I]Mitsuo thought. Rizen dropped from the tree above looking down on Mitsuo?s head. Arimi came down as well by his feet. Rizen quickly dropped to one knee and paralyzed Mitsuo?s entire arms. ?Something?s wrong?? Rizen noted. He quickly pulled out a kunai and stabbed it into Mitsuo?s chest. ?What are you doing?!? Arimi gasped. ?Revealing a trap!? Rizen explained. Mitsuo melted into sand. ?A replacement?? Rizen frowned. Seconds later he heard a familiar sizzling. Three exploding tags went off in the sand, sending sand through the area at high speed. Rizen used body flicker to tackle Arimi out of the main blast zone. Protecting her from most of the secondary blast force as well. He groaned in pain as he used the mystical palm technique to heal the worse injuries on his back. Meanwhile Mitsuo watched from a branch not to far above. Rizen noticed his position and bet over Arimi pretending to heal her injuries. He really made several hand signs and disappeared. Mitsuo chuckled to himself ?Ha another genjutsu clone huh?? and looked around for Rizen?s attack noticing it quickly as Rizen charged his left. Mitsuo laughed and threw a kunai with a specially made explosive tag. The kunai lodged in Rizen?s shoulder and the tag detonated. The blast was merely a shockwave, designed to blow open doors without dealing significant damage to the building around it. As Rizen flew back a smile could be spotted on his face. [I]?What the hell is he smiling about??[/I] Mistuo asked himself. Rizen?s back met a tree behind him with a loud splash as he dissipated into water. ?A water clone!?? Mitsuo exclaimed as the real Rizen had just used the standard water clone jutsu, as well as the invisibility genjutsu. Mitsuo?s legs from the knee down became numb, but Rizen couldn?t do his arms as well before Mitsuo swung around with a kunai. Rizen dropped down to Arimi again. ?Now we?re in business? he boasted with a smirk. He focussed more chakra to his hands and finished up Arimi?s healing, giving her back full feeling. Rizen finished by re-performing his numbing technique, and resuming his fighting stance toward Mitsuo. ?Give up whenever you?re ready? Rizen taunted.

Rizen frowned at the two younger ninja, “Just be more careful next time. You’ll have to wait your turn, Me and Arimi aren’t done yet.” Rizen smiled looking back at Arimi. "Anyways back to us, what say we turn things up a notch?" he grinned. Arimi gave him a mischievous smile and nodded focussing chakra to her legs. Rizen made 3 hand signs before Arimi punched him in the chest. He stumbled back several feet and smiled looking up at her "3 was all I needed." His hands began glowing a light blue. "What?? I thought you said we weren't being serious! That jutsu could do some heavy damage!" she said worriedly. "Calm down, this isn't my chakra sword technique." Rizen explained calmly. "Though it is another medical jutsu" a devilish grin adorned Rizen's face. He lunged forward, Arimi narrowly dodged, only letting his palm graze her shoulder. She stopped, rolling her shoulder forward then back then moving her arm a little. "What did you do to my shoulder?!" she demanded "It feels really weird!" Arimi pouted moving her shoulder around more. Rizen laughed softly "This jutsu is used on patients about to be preformed on by surgeons. It shuts down the nerve endings of a given area, making surgery painless. In sparring, it simply restrains your movement from it's fullest, making places here and there, completely numb." Rizen laughed lightly again going for another attack. Arimi swiftly blocked with her good arm, making her wrist lose feeling. "Ahhh! Stop doing that!" She complained moving her hand around trying to get feeling back in her wrist. When she gave up examining her wrist and looked up for Rizen, he was gone. She closely looked around the surrounding area before stopping and scratching her head "Where the heck did he go??" Soon after she found her thighs and both biceps had lost feeling as well. "Hey! what the hell?!" She demanded moving her arms around, trying to get used to the numbness. Rizen appeared in front of her just afterward. Appearing to form from leaves that were falling from the surrounding trees. "I am very skilled at medical jutsu. But my other expertise lies in genjutsu." Arimi frowned at him playfully "you're mean!" she shouted childishly. Rizen smiled "I'm just demonstrating all of my skills" he defended. So are we going to finish this or what?" Arimi frowned again at the taunt.

After seeing Arimi go off to the clearing you didn't have to be Rizen to know what she was up to, which of coarse means Rizen himself was well aware. After about 5 minutes he decided to check on her. Walking over to the clearing he noticed several leaves cut in half, and Arimi lying on the ground. Rizen jogged over quickly and knelt down next to her. ?Are you ok?? He asked with a strange sounding worried tone. ?Yah of coarse I am, I just needed to prove a point.? Arimi answered, smiling. ?Here eat this.? Said Rizen as he handed Arimi a small round pill. She gave him a questionable look but downed the pill without complaints. ?Ugh! That was awful!? ok, without many complaints? ?But how do you feel?? Rizen asked with a smirk. Arimi jumped to her feet and moved around, stretching and exercising. ?I feel amazing! What the hell was that?!? She asked excitedly. ?They are called soldier pills. They revitalise your chakra and give you the energy to keep going for three days without sleep. But seeing how you fight, I?m guessing you won?t pass out for the rest of the day, at the very least.? Rizen chuckled. Arimi smiled and followed when Rizen gave a gesture for her to come with him back to the group. Upon rejoining the group Rizen whistled loudly ?OK everyone, as you should all be well aware, we won today with sheer luck. This battle could have gone a lot worse. The first step to working well as a team, is knowing exactly what your team mates are capable of. I don?t want us practicing on animals if we can avoid it, so I want us all to break into smaller groups. We will either give exhibitions of our talents or you can have a quick sparring match with a member of your group, the others can observe. I leave that up to you. After about five to ten minutes we?ll rotate and all choose a few members we weren?t with before. If all goes as I want it to, we should all be very familiar with each other?s techniques within an hour or 2. I want you all to remember, these are friendly spars I do not want to be treating lethal injuries on our first day because some reject didn?t know how to hold back.? Rizen paused and walked over to Shiro and Draco ?That goes double for you two.? he stepped back and turned to address the whole group. ?OK we don?t have long so let?s get this over with and move on.? Rizen decided not to take initiative in finding a group, if someone wanted him in theirs he wouldn?t object, but in the case he died, he didn?t want the team totally lost without a leader.

Rizen sympathetically put his hands on Shiro's shoulders. "Shiro..." "Yes my liege?" Shiro responded loudly. "I have your first assignment." Rizen stated darkly. "I need you to shut up, for about 5 hours. Think you can handle that?" Rizen asked. "Yes sir! Cap'n sir!" Replied Shiro with a dramatic salute, before walking away and talking to some others in the group. "Fantastic..." Rizen muttered, as he made his way to Arimi. She had a sort of half scared look on her face, not looking forward to a lecture. "Look, Rizen, about that biting comment I was just ki-" She stopped trying to talk when Rizen placed a hand over her mouth. A moment later his hand began glowing a feint green, and her lip stopped hurting. "You..my lip" Arimi aid, confused yet again. "I'm apparently the leader, but I am also the main medic here." Rizen explained. "Hey I know a healing jutsu too!" Arimi defended herself. "OK, and when you're out of chakra, exactly how useful is that healing jutsu?" Rizen asked cruelly. Arimi just looked away. "Thank you." She said reluctantly before walking away. Rizen shook his head, before walking over to Draco, "OK you can tag along if you want, I promise you no payment, only standard food, and absolutely no mercy under any circumstances if you harm one of my team mates." Rizen and Draco stared each other down for a bit before Draco finally nodded. Rizen just walked away an took out some paper and scribbling down a rough map and plans of how to travel. [I]"We are not going into a fight like that again. I won't let us."[/I] He thought to himself as he pondered over his plans and strategies.

Rizen stood to catch Arimi, cushioning her impact. "Are you ok?" he asked kindly. Arimi nodded and laid back on the shore. "Just tired." she smiled. Rizen nodded and took out a few kunai and some wire. "Now if you don't mind, I have a job to do!" he glared at Mitsuo. "Good, because I have an apple to eat." Mitsuo answered proudly, taking another bite. Rizen just grumbled and ran toward kisame, who's clones were now nowhere to be seen. Rizen threw one kunai at kisame. Upon impact with Samehada, Kisame realised the kunai had an exploding tag tied to it. His eyes went wide and a large blast ensued. But the mild wind quickly blew away the smoke and kisame was revealed completely unharmed. After Rizen perform a few hand signs...nothing happened. Kisame then saw Rizen take out another kunai and rush him head on. The rest of the group saw Rizen get out another 2 kunai and go in a wide ark coming around on Kisame's left. Kisame stood doing nothing until the last second moving Samehada to the side. Rizen stabbed the two kunai he had into Samehada and leapt back. [I]"Damn, he saw through my genjutsu!"[/I] Rizen thought. Kisame laughed ant pointed Samehada at Rizen. Rizen quickly jumped to his feet and flicked out his arm, causing a third kunai to flip out of his sleeve and into his hand. Kisame was surprised, but only for a moment, meaning when Rizen threw the kunai it too was lodged into Samehada. Kisame laughed again. Rizen ran back to the group and held up 2 kunai by the center of the wire tying their ends together. He held it above his head and spun it a few times before throwing it at Kisame like a bolas. Kisame simply smirked as the contraption flew towards his neck, only to be meet and wrap around Samehada. "Now!" Rizen said loudly. Arimi was up again by now, she along with Mitsuo, Kai, and Udyu stood at the ready. Rizen pulled his arm back, yanking on a second wire tied on of the kunai in his make shift bolas. Kisame chuckled to himself as he simply let go of Samehada for a moment. Since the kunai with the wire on it had wrapped around the great sword, pulling on it simply caused the weapon to spin rather than be pulled away. A second later, after letting Samehada spin in the air a moment, Kisame took grasp again. Rizen whispered something to Udyu, then handed him a wire leading to Samehada, he did the same with Mitsuo and Kai. "OK guys, let's do it." Rizen had in fact tied a wire to each kunai he had stuck in Kisame's sword up till now. Kisame having just let his sword spin out of his hand for a moment caused the wires on the other 3 kunai to spin around Samehada. On Rizen's word The group of himself, Kai, Udyu, and even Mitsuo pulled on their wires. Like before the wrapped wires only caused Samehada to spin once more. But now Rizen knew exactly how Kisame would react. Kisame let out a loud laugh" You really think the exact same trick twice will somehow work on the second try. You must be dumber than you look. The instant Kisame let go of Samehada, Arimi was gone. she put almost all her remaining chakra into one nigh unblockable kick. The kick sent Kisame sliding back on the water about 5 feet. The wires in Rizen's other 3 kunai were much shorter and thus became tight quickly, with nothing holding it back Samehada flew toward Rizen and the others. Rizen caught it but a moment later threw it at a tree, along with six shuriken on wire, the shuriken wrapped around Samehada and the tree, tying them tightly together and holding the sword in place. "Now Go!! Go!! Go!!!" Rizen yelled as he ran to Arimi with Kai and Udyu lining up for a full assault, Mitsuo stayed behind with the others assuming those 4 could handle it.

Rizen shook his head [I]"Figures, I knew at least one wouldn't be capable of anything but taijutsu. Oh well, I guess it's just another excuse to protect her."[/I] He darted forward and weaved between 3 water clones, slicing them all in half with his chakra swords. As they fell just more clones formed in front of him. "Destroying his clones will get us nowhere, we have to kill the real Kisame!" he told the group. He raced toward Kisame with cold killing intent in his eyes. Slicing up 2 more water clones only to have them be recreated seconds later. "Damn you Hoshigaki!" Rizen cursed as he dove forward and swung an arm toward Kisame. Kisame easily blocked with Samehada "Is that the best you've got?" Rizen did a backward hand spring narrowly avoiding Kisame's counter attack. [I]"How could I have been so stupid?! Samehada consumes chakra, unless I manage a direct blow my chakra swords are going to be useless here!"[/I] Rizen berated himself. "I have to rethink my strategy." he whispered to himself. "Hey, someone cover me for a while, I need to think." With that Rizen jumped backward and retreated to behind the group. He at cross legged on the water ad took out a scroll, quickly writing notes and battle plans scratching one out about once every 10 seconds. [I]"Damnit! [B]Something's[/B] gotta work right?!"[/I]

[I]"One girl"[/I] Rizen thought [I]"and 9 guys. Oh yah, this is going to be [B]fun[/B]"[/I] Rizen shook his head. "Absolutely nothing." he stated blatantly, in response to Mitsuo's question. "Let's head off." Rizen did not wait for objections, he simply employed the body flicker jutsu and vanished toward his goal, the rest of the [I]team[/I] close behind him. One unexpected event was the girl Arimi passing him. [I]"She's fast..."[/I] Rizen thought. His attention on Arimi was quickly shifted to the man waiting for them in the field up ahead. The river that flowed from Takigakure's waterfall culminated not too far away in a large lake, which then branched off into several smaller rivers. Standing on that lake was a man who Rizen had not looked forward to meeting for quite some time. That was, if e could still be classified as a man. "Kisame Hoshigaki." Rizen spat the words like poison. The rest of the group looked toward either Rizen or Kisame in shock. "After his precious partner died, Kisame decided to follow his successor, Sasuke Uchiha, who as we all know, is one of Naruto's top generals. That's roughly a 93% possibility that Kisame is also a general. And on the 7% chance he's not. That still makes him an S-Class criminal from the hidden mist." Kisame swung the infamous Samehada around from his back, pointing it the group. "10 on one? That hardly seems fair." he shouted angrily. "Let' even the odds shall we? Water clone jutsu!" After only one hand sign the water around Kisame reformed into an astounding 9 clones, with plenty remaining for any other water jutsu he may want to use. "Be extremely careful here. This guy is the real deal. Don't let your guard down for even a second!" Rizen commanded. [I]"Damnit! his is the worst possible scenario!"[/I] Rizen contemplated the situation [I]"Not only did we have no chance for the element of surprise, we have had 0 preparation time! No traps, no strategies, no battle combinations! Nothing! We're really in trouble here, I can only hope this team is more than it appears."[/I] He cursed his bad luck mentally. "Let's get this over with." without a single hand sign Rizen?s hands began glowing with chakra, which then extended roughly an entire foot past the tip of each hand "Chakra swords! If any of you plan of preparing in any way, I suggest you get on with it before he gets impatient."

OOC: Sign ups will remain open for a good while, but we have enough people to get this thing on the road. After explaining the situation to the group Koza raised his hand, pointing one finer to the left wall of the briefing room. [COLOR="Navy"]"My fellow Shinobi. The worst threat to our world today, is in that direction. I ask you all prepare fast as humanly possible, then go and eliminate that threat." [/COLOR] Koza lowered his hand and walked toward the door. [COLOR="Navy"]"The building to the immediate right of this one, is the Takigakure armoury. Take all you need, an move out."[/COLOR] Koza walked out the door and vanished in a blur to his own assignments. Rizen looked around the group of shinobi and smirked. [I]"Yay, me and a bunch of misfits against the most powerful ninja in the world."[/I] Rizen thought to himself sarcastically as he stood and left the room. Down the hall and out the door to the street. The rain fell heavily. It rained almost constantly here, and the sound of a great crashing waterfall could be heard from any point in the village. After a short walk to the right, Rizen entered the armoury. The sound of metal being hammered constantly rang through the room. The room itself was nearly bare, the walls were the exact contrary. One copy of every kind of weapon hung on a rack at some pint or another around the outer rim of the wall. In the farthest corner from the door, there sat a long glass display case, which also held the clerk from the customers, and vice versa. Rizen approached the far display case, upon reaching it there was a sliver thick view of a back room. While the hammering of metal could be heard, a man constantly scribing notes, scrolls and notes wrote silently in view of any ninja skilled enough to see him. Rizen did not typically use kunai or shuriken as usual ninja would, he used them for traps. As he neared the counter the old clerk's eagle eyes darted him once over, analysing his skill and abilities. "What will it be young man?" Asked the clerk. "I will take 120 feet of wire, 50 shuriken, 50 kunai, 10 soldier pills, 60 exploding tags, 10 blood clotting pills, and 5 caltrop packs." Rizen replied clearly. The clerk laughed lightly and commented "Young people these days get too much money." Rizen did not speak, he simply took a scroll out of a back pocket and rolled it open along the counter. The clerk watched carefully, being attacked by many ninja in his long years he had learned to be wary of strangers baring scrolls. Though after reading it over, the clerk simply frowned and nodded "I see. I will get you what you need." Many ninja needed equipment if they were going on missions, and especially high ranked missions. Seeming unfair to make the ninja pay to properly do their jobs, Takigakure and many other shinobi villages made it law to give free equipment to those ninja's. The clerk reappeared from the back room a few moments later. "Here is your shuriken pouch ad a back pouch for 20 kunai. The pills can be held in your pockets easily enough and everything else is within these scrolls." the clerk explained handing over the ninja tools and 2 scrolls "I believe you know how to use them." Rizen nodded and walked out of the armoury. [I]"I can only hope my 'team mates' are as swift as I in their preparations. We have no time to spare."[/I] Rizen thought to himself

[B]Name:[/B] Rizen Yakushi [B]Age:[/B] 18 [B]Appearance:[/B] [URL="http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2008/007/0/7/07b641b45f8171fb.jpg"]Rizen[/URL] [B]Personality:[/B] Rizen is very calculating, if nothing else. Often compared to the great Shikamaru Nara of Konoha, Rizen is known for thinking his strategies exponentially ahead of his opponent. For this and other reasons, Rizen is the head of the Takigakure branch of ANBU, in the Black Ops division. He is a head assassin and will do anything to complete his assignments. [B]Blood line trait:[/B] While he does not have a specific blood line ability, Rizen is noticeably skilled with both medical jutsu and genjutsu. Meaning he has a large amount of chakra as well as superb skill in using it. [B]Common special techniques:[/B] [I]Temple of Nirvana-[/I] A powerful genjutsu capable of rendering a large mass of people in a deep sleep. [I]Bringer of Darkness-[/I] Yet another strong genjutsu, purges the target(s) of their sense of sight, leaving them in total darkness while the user can see normally. [I]Secret Healing Wound Destruction-[/I] Focussing chakra to a part of the body about to be damaged allows that part to heal exceptionally fast and even regenerate damaged cells. [I]Chakra Sword-[/I] An advanced version of the chakra scalpel, focussing more chakra more proficiently the user may create a longer blade. [B]Bio:[/B] Rizen Grew up in Takigakure, learning fist medical jutsu before being noticed as a powerful assassin. Following the discovery of his killing talents Rizen was taught genjutsu as well, making him one of the best stealth assassin's alive. Rizen ca not only sneak up on a target, but revoke the targets senses to completely ensure his kill. For that reason Rizen has been hand chosen to help take out Naruto Uzumaki ad his generals.

OK, these all look great, I was hoping for maybe one or two more people so I'll keep the sign ups open. But if noone else signs on in thenext few days I'll just start with who we have now.

Yes ok this is another Naruto rp, but I promise it is like no other Naruto rp you could have thought up, so there! [B][I][U]Backstory[/U][/I][/B] (brace yourself): A man with short dark hair and, as would be expected, a waterfall village head band that showed obvious experience on the field. [COLOR="Navy"]"Good afternoon, my name is Koza, I am here to brief you of the current situation. As you may know many years ago the nine-tailed fox attacked a neighbouring village, their Hokage at the time sacrificed himself for a ritual to seal the fox inside a young boy. We now know that was the worst mistake in the history of all shinobi. Today that boy, Naruto, has made in presence painfully clear the entire world. He has begun gathering an army," [/COLOR]whisper among the group disturbed the speech but Koza raised his voice and continued [COLOR="Navy"]"I'm sure you all thought evil ninja's gathering armies wasn't a big deal, after the death of Orochimaru a few years ago. But this Naruto guy is doing it right. e has brought together some of the most powerful shinobi ever to walk the land. Among his generals are; Sasuke Uchiha, one of the last remaining members of the Uchiha can, and a known carrier of the lethal Mangekyo Sharingan; Sakura Haruno, Once thought of as a useless kunoichi wan be who would never succeed she is now one of the most skilled medical nin ever recorded, rivalling even the skills of the late sannin Tsunade; and his most recent recruit Kabuto Yakushi, this guy was Orochimaru's closest follower in his hay day, now following his fallen master's teachings he is certainly a force to be reckoned with. And those are just a few that we know of." [/COLOR]Koza took a moment to look through his papers on the guests. [COLOR="Navy"]"You, my fellow shinobi, have been gathered here to be assigned a mission, the mission is: to hunt down the S-class criminal Naruto, and eliminate him and his generals before he has enough influence to destroy the 5 great nations."[/COLOR] [B][I][U]Basics:[/U][/I][/B] Naruto was influenced too much by the fox and is now tainted and evil. Sasuke killed his brother finally, developed the mangekyo sharingan and has decided to join his old friend Naruto in destroying the country, starting with Konoha. Through a twisted series of unlikely events, Naruto has become the leader of his own army, with high level ninja as his generals. You will be playing one of the elite ninja gathered from every village to the hidden waterfall village, to begin your mission of assassination against Naruto and his subordinates. After a grand battle, Naruto's first attack against Konoha, he killed several jounin and the Hokage. The current Hokage is Shizune, appearing to have been studying her predecessor greatly and being much more competent than she got credit for. Good luck all. [B][I][U]Sign Ups:[/U][/I][/B] [B]Name: Age: Appearance: Personality: Blood line trait: Common special techniques: Bio:[/B]

Duke remained mostly silent as the new arrivals flooded in. New faces and new powers. Duke wasn't very comfortable around strangers, and having the same team for over ten years only strengthened his dislike for the unknown. As the newcomers showed up one after another Duke kept a careful watch on every one of them. Studying them, a trick Louis taught him before he passed away, and De took it to heart. He watched how they spoke, how they walked, how they focussed their attention, even their breathing patterns. The most uncommon of coarse was the quick excited breathes that came from the newest arrival. He inched along the wall. Duke immediately noticed he was approaching both the exit but also an outlet. Which if this guy was as skilled with his abilities as the rest of the gang, could be a huge problem where there needn't be one. He had the dagger Sin gave him resting calmly within his tuxedo jacket when the man jumped out of his chair. Duke sprung from his seat an instant after Nayomi. "Chill buddy, she's telling you the truth, don't do something we'll all regret." by now Duke had pulled back on of his sleeves and drawn the dagger from within the jacket. Though oddly Duke held the dagger to his own arm and didn't point it anywhere remotely close to the panicked man, in fact if he didn?t notice when Duke took it out he didn't even see the blade at all. Duke held is arms behind his back, slowly and silently making a slow slit up his forearm. The one closest to the man was his wife, and Duke was not about to let anything happen to her on their wedding day.