Now What Have I Gotten Myself Into? ~Enter Konoha's number one knuckle head

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Chapter 31

*Orochimaru*

"Instead. I'll bite." The girl's soft sweet voice seemed to harden and turn to ice as she spoke her threat. 'How interesting' I thought to myself as a smirk began to show it's way to my features. 'Even after the beating I gave this genin she still gets up and dares to speak to me like this. She either has guts or she is foolishly deluded.' I watch as she closes her eyes taking a moment of silence as if she was scared and desperately was trying to collect herself. I wasn't prepared though for the sight before me as she opens her once dark eyes. A deep red unlike the bright hues of the Uchiha eyes, even darker yet then the eyes the nine tailed brat looked at me with. No these eyes were different. As if they were made of fresh blood themselves, swirling endlessly in their depths. Neither beast nor human. And with the reveal of these eyes this girl's presence changes drastically. What was once a small annoying fly was now standing before me as if a predator had cornered their prey. Even from this distance as I take in the beauty before me I can see her muscles shifting beneath her unmarked flesh. A perfect black panther about to pounce.

"I see, you aren't like the others are you?" I smile sadistically as I feel myself become overwhelmed by the excitement of such a rare beast taunting me. 'It seems while pursuing one promising prospect I have found two at the same time.' "Then come play with me." 'I want to see what you are capable of my darling black panther!' As if she could read my thoughts she began to laugh hysterically. No, maniacally at me. As if her blood was roaring to life at even the thought of this fight. 'No, not her blood. She is by the very definition a huntress laughing at the very idea of tearing her prey limb from delicious limb.'

Her laughing was still echoing around me when I felt a sudden change near me. Someone was on the same branch as me but only.. They were beneath me! Leaping back just before where I had been standing explodes causes my eyes to widen briefly. I quickly hid my shock behind an amused grin. I hadn't even noticed she had set a trap or even used a shadow clone. So, her 'gracing' me with some conversation wasn't just to speak with me. It was to buy her clone some time to plant and set off that bomb. 'So this girl is smart. This just may be fun after all.' Mere heartbeats pass before I see her form shooting through the smoke from the explosion. At such a speed well beyond her title. Raising my arms in her direction I shove my chakra through them producing my snakes. Causing them to slither their way around my arms before shooting themselves directly at her. "Striking shadow snake!" I call as she continues to draw ever closer to me and my snakes.

I noticed a smirk reach her lips before I felt her chakra burst from her with such ferocity and heat my snakes seemed to disintegrate before even touching her form. Landing on a branch that had been behind me I witness as she withdraws a kunai rather then the other of the two weapons I believed she favored. Crouching slightly I move to catch her hand again but was once again taken by surprise when she suddenly vanished from directly in front of me. It was only then I barely felt her presence behind me in time to turn to deflect her attack. Yet again, against my own perceived assumptions she didn't move to attack me. Her kunai grazed the tree right next to me catching her own movements just enough for her to touch her feet against it and shoot herself off from the bark. With a glow in her eyes her gaze met mine immediately before I noticed she had made a hand sign. Igniting a paper bomb she had evidently just placed on the tree mere inches from my face.

As if she were a cat and I the mouse. This feline seemed to be playing with her mouse before even thinking about biting off it's head. I could tell that she isn't fighting me for real as if she was relishing toying with me but, if she were then she would be going against her own words. 'She declared she doesn't toy with others for her own amusement. If she was speaking the truth then what is she doing? She has yet to make an attack just to kill me.' Leaping away from the tree before the bomb went off I watch around for her movements. Biding my time. Waiting with piqued interest to see what she would do next.