Dark Escape: Ninja

Chapter 6: First Mission, First Troubles (part 3)

"Now, what's on your mind?" Miyako asked, standing right in front of me with a serious look on her face.

"What do you mean?"

"You've been acting strange since you ran off."

"Well..." I looked down at the ground for a moment before looking back at Miyako, "When I took care of the bandit, I met these people. They looked so familiar and said they know me and to remember why I'm here."

Also not to mess with this timeline but that just seems weird...

"And that's not all, is it? Those people weren't just normal bandits were they?"

"No, they worked under the slavers from before I came here. I don't think they recognised me though, they seemed to be just targeting the trades that passed through."

"It seems your past is starting to catch up with you, hopefully those people you saw could help you overcome this block on your mind."

"Yes, but they said something else aswell. About someone called Darkrai getting to me before they did, and I think he was the one to mess up my memory."

"Well, I'll look into this Darkrai when we get back to Konoha." Miyako's expression returned to her normal one, "But for now go and get some dry clothes on before you catch something because there's still half the day left so we are going to train."

"Right."

It was a good job I did bring a spare change of clothes, otherwise there would be one less blond on this planet.

I know Miyako said training but it was more of us all sparring against eachother than training, I mean she told us what to do then left us to our own devices, well atleast I got the chance to try out some of the other creatures I've seen in my mind. I have tried out some of them before but it sometimes ended badly if another team that didn't know use bumped into our training.

The first one that came into my mind was a rust coloured falcon/eagle creature that when I attacked or flapped my wings in defense small embers would fall off the feathers.

Maybe I should try some aerial combat.

I concentrated on the image and felt my body change its structure to suite that of a bird. Instantly I took off and disappeared, weaving between trees.

Lets just say I'm not easy to hit like this. Well, not as easy for Jurou since Yuuna had a much better aim in both her justsu and kunai.

A kunai flew just over my head, nearly clipping feathers. Then another two, both getting closer to their target.

I looked over to Yuuna and she seemed to gesture with her eyes at Jurou.

I gave a slight nod, Team up. Get ya.

Swooping into the treeline to leave Jurou to focus on fight Yuuna, I managed to sneak round to Jurou's back. He was currently parrying one of Yuuna's kunai with one of his own. I flew over and without him noticing placed my talons around his neck, then pecked him on the head.

"If I decided to tighten my grip you would be dead. This bird has the strength to crush steel in seconds."

I let him go and jumped backwards, releasing the form. Just because Jurou was down didn't mean the sparring session was over, Yuuna was still standing.

She took the distraction as a chance to form some quick handseals. AFter she finished, she started to spit small balls of mud. Two landed just a little short and the last would've hit my shoulder if I had not slashed it with Shadowclaw.