Impaired Senses

50 Shinobi Prompt 10 — Thunderstorm

She hated fighting in a thunderstorm. The rain poured down hard obscuring her vision and blurring objects that should never be blurred. The lightning flashed brightly, momentarily blinding her from her surroundings. And quite possibly worst of all, the thunder roared loudly across the landscape blocking her hearing. It was like fighting with all your senses impaired.

On the positive side, the falling water cleaned her stinging cuts. No danger of an immediate infection.

Tenten stopped and tried hard to locate the position of the assailant.

How she wished she could just retreat. But this time she couldn’t. She could not just leave — her teammates were counting on her and she would not leave them out to dry.

Tenten cried out sharply as she felt a kunai embed deeply in her back. Turning abruptly she sent a barrage of weapons in the direction the kunai had been thrown. “Coward!” She cried. “Come out and face me!”

“Do I look stupid?” The trees whispered mockingly at her.

She pulled a scroll out, gripping it tightly in her hands, eyes darting around the landscape Where was he? She sense the next kunai coming and managed to move far enough to avoid any vital spots. The kunai instead dug into her upper arm. She pulled it out, wincing as she did so.

She had to do something soon or else she’d end up dead, and Lee and Neji could be next.

She pulled open the scroll, time to make her move. Blinking blearily through the heavy rain she bit down on her thumb.

Weapons spilled out from all around her, hitting each and every direction in a 360 degree radius. She smiled satisfactorily as she heard an audible cry of pain over the thunder. The enemy nin stared cruelly at her.

Tenten didn’t hesitate. Fishing her favorite blade from within her pants she made to drive it straight into his heart. A flash of lightning streaked as she brought it down momentarily blinding her. That momentary blindness was all the assailant needed to pull out his own weapon of choice and driving is straight into her. Tenten choked on her own blood, but didn’t halt her actions in digging the blade in further. “Die.” She sputtered blood dripping from her mouth.

“If I die. So do you.” He choked out. He dug his blade further in.

Tenten thought of Neji and Lee and Gai-sensei. She thought of her village and her friends and the life she’d led. Her lips curved up into a smile. “So be it.” She pushed her blade in all the way just as her opponent did the same. She felt overcome with dizziness and queasiness. The last thing she heard was a flash of thunder and she sunk to the ground.

Yeah, she really hated fighting in thunderstorms.

Maybe if she was lucky, she’d wake up to fight in a thunderstorm another day.

Failed Mission

50 Shinobi Prompt 35 — Shinobi

Summary: She was not a kunoichi, dammit! She was a shinobi

“A kunoichi?” He laughed at her, smirk pronounced. “They sent a kunoichi to get me?”

Tenten stood above him breathing heavy, hands clenched tightly around a bloody kunai. He scrambled away from her on his hands and knees, eyes wide with fear. “Leave me alone!” He screamed, “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

Tenten kicked him roughly in the ribs, turning him around so he was looking up. “You’re sorry?” She hissed, anger lacing every syllable.

His grey eyes danced with mirth, a large smirk pulled across his wide lips. “Well, aren’t you pretty? A little whore like you shouldn’t be wearing such cumbersome clothes. It hides your lovely figure.”

“Quit talking before you piss me off.”

Blood rolled down her knuckles from the heavy grip she held on the kunai. The metal sliced into her skin, digging in deeply. “I told you to shut up, didn’t I?”

He swallowed, face perspiring, nose running, eyes pleading. “Forgive me. Be merciful.”

“Your lucky day.” He rolled his blade about in his heads. “I rather like you.”

“Are you going to make this easy for me? Or are we going to have to fight?”

He smirked. “Let’s do this instead.” He leaned forward. “How about you bend over for papa, and I’ll let you get away with your life?”

Tenten inhaled sharply. “You did not just say that.”

She dug her foot into his neck. “I was only supposed to bring you back to Konoha.” She spat and dug her foot in further. “But I think I’ve changed my mind.”

His eyes widened even more. “P-Please…d-don’t…”

“It’s just you and me, nobody else.” She murmured. “I can write it off as a necessary murder. Your life or mine. No one will ever know.”

“I-I’ll know.” He wheezed.

“There’s nobody around. Nobody to hear you scream.”

Her nerves snapped as the old bugger somehow manged to get around her. He pushed her up against a tree and ran his hand across her chest. Tenten shoved him back furiously, the old man slamming into the tree trunk.

“So you like it rough don’t you, bitch?”

She summoned out a long sharp blade. “I think I’m going to enjoy killing you.”

“I’m sorry!”

“Too little, too late.”

She wiped blood off her lips. Despite everything, he was a hard guy to take down. He had an incredible amount of stamina and was actually very strong.

“Getting tired?” He grinned lecherously. “Gonna take me up on my offer, kunoichi?”

“I really, really hate sexist pigs.” She spat right before driving the blade straight into his heart. “Go to hell.”

His grey glassy eyes stared up at her, frozen into a fixed expression of fear. His lips twitched and his fingers stopped moving.

She pulled out the blade from the man’s lifeless body and Tenten breathed out a sigh. “A necessary take down. Needed to use excessive force.” She mumbled absently. “Mission failed.” Tenten pulled out a washcloth from her pocket and wiped the blade clean. Never had she failed a mission and felt so completed.

Tenten dug a kunai straight into his gut, immobilizing him. The man sunk to the ground in agonizing pain. “Wh-What…?”

She bent over and breathed heavily. “Fuck you.” She stared at him, intent on murdering him, intent on removing his pitiful life from the face of the earth. “I’m not a kunoichi, dammit.” She growled. “I’m a shinobi.” She dug another kunai straight into his thigh. “And the last person, you’ll ever see on the face of the earth once I’m done with you.”