Fight (a Naruto reborn fanfiction)

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My music rec for this chapter would definitely be "want more of it" by The 5:55. It's just so motivating and perfect for writing, like I literally have written 3000 words within two days because of this song and I don't plan on stopping. I just love this song to bits.

BUT anyways. This chapter has 3000 words and I thought of splitting it into two, but I did decide against it in the end, so enjoy this little treat! There's some lore coming up this chap, some character development as well. I think it's save to say Himari is about to enter a new era.

Enjoy!

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Adrenaline begins pumping through her veins as she startles awake, looking the wind-user straight in the eyes.

This is it. This room will be the last thing she sees. But they don't need to know that. She wants to make them suffer, just like how their allies made her suffer. An eye for an eye, a leg for a leg. The law of equal exchange. She can see just how valuable she is in this final fight. The more people she kills now, the less her friends have too later.

No one will know of her sacrifice. The thought makes her blood boil.

"The Raikage, I presume?", she says, her voice distorted by the veil she wears. It's very flashy, embracing her summoning that shaped so much of her future. She is everything but subtle, with bright red clothes and an orange face cover which flutters in the wind that suddenly encases the building.

It doesn't hinder her field of vision but protects her identity better than most masks could. She got it from her phoenix, after all. The Raikage grits his teeth, apparently very upset that someone managed to sneak into the heart of Kumo without anyone noticing. Himari has always been great at bluffing.

"So you are. Let me tell you, I thought very highly of your village up until recently. You have many great shinobi here, after all. Even as an enemy, I could appreciate this fact. But-" she dodges the barrage of shuriken that tries to kill her with ease. "-I was very disappointed when I arrived here."

The ninja are careful. If they were to truly loose themselves, it would be disastrous. She has the environmental buff and it's the only reason why she's alive still. But a stray wind-jutsu still tries to hit her, unsuccessfully, and it messes up the shelf behind her real good.

"It was painfully easy to sneak in here. Allow me to tell you a few things which could be improved upon if you don't want this-" she gestures at herself "to happen again."

The Raikage has stepped forward by now, eyes furrowed with anger. But now that he isn't hiding behind his elites anymore, she can't wait to mess his mind up a bit more. She shunshins directly in front of him. He flinches at the sudden move. Himari has not used any signs or indicated the gathering of chakra. It's as if teleportation is something she was born with.

"Firstly, you-" she jabs his chest, aware of how dangerous the game is she is playing "need to tighten security. Like, everywhere. You need guards that don't sleep or piss themselves when someone threatens them. They guard the main entrance to your village; you don't want unexperienced chunin to be in that position."

She gestures around her.

"Secondly, the intelligence building should not be in a position this obvious. You have mountains and caves everywhere; one would think you had it really easy hiding such bases when compared to any other villages. Thirdly, I don't know what party you just came back from, but leaving the village devoid of any truly good shinobi is about the stupidest thing you could do.

Were it not for the war, I'm quite sure someone would've used this time to invade you, so consider yourself lucky it hasn't happened yet. You have to somehow find a few chakra-sensitive people and train them to alarm you should anyone come in here. There are ninjas who are very good at concealing themselves, but even they can't escape the watchful senses of a chakra-sensible shinobi."