Scroll 2: The Third Uchiha [Naruto]

Chapter 8: The Uchiha Siblings [Naruto]

Rin

I hadn't fought like this in a long time. I haven't been keeping up with my training and I knew that's why, that's why this was so hard. I raised my katana wincing from the impact of his blade clashing against mine. I jumped up kicking the clone from the sword and raised my other hand throwing a kunai that slammed into his chest. The clone erupted as I landed on the ground and swung my sword behind me with enough momentum to slice through another.

"Why don't you fight me yourself!?" I demanded as I raised my Katana to the one I knew was real. It's been like for a while, fighting off water clones. It was beginning to get irritating.

"Is the Princess tired?" He chuckled darkly. There was no way I could keep this up. I had to step it up and stop with only the taijutsu. I stepped forward and that's when I felt it a sharp pain in my neck. I groaned slightly as I dropped to one knee and held a hand to the mark on my neck.

"Rin!" I gritted my teeth slowly releasing a breath. Not now, of all times not now. I looked up at Zabuza who was watching with an amused expression.

"You guys have to run!"

"What!?"

"I said run idiots! I can give you time and the clones can't stray too far from the original! Protect Tazuna and get to the village!"

"Rin..."

"I said run!"

"Protecting your friends? You've lost your attitude Princess." I clenched the Katana ignoring his comments.

"I expected so much more from someone I trained personally, to think I wasted my time on you. You're weak, pathetic, nothing. You're no ninja." I laughed then a dry maybe even dark laugh. The others probably thought I had lost it as I forced myself to my feet.

"Look in that bingo book of yours Zabuza. There should be one page; one page that has no name, no age, the gender is male. The description is barely a sentence and the picture is blurry." I smirked then as I met his gaze once more.

"That's me." I ran forward then dodging and cutting through the clones with an unfamiliar ease. I pushed off one of the clones and raised my Katana just meters from Zabuza and Kakashi.

"Rin watch out!" I swung my katana around slamming into another clone and that's when the realization hit me. I was open. I landed on my feet and attempted to bring my Katana back around.

"To slow Princess"

"Rin!"

Kakashi

I thought the clone had been his plan but no, he wanted to deliver the blow himself. She brought down her Katana a moment too late as the blade struck her side. The clang of metal echoed in the area seeming to cover Rin's cry of pain and I noticed the kunai in her other hand. It was the only thing keeping him from cutting right through her. He pulled back and Rin stood there a moment as if dazed until her kunai and Katana clattered to the ground.

"Rin!" She fell to her side with her hand gripping where he had landed the hit. She was breathing hard her eyes barely opened as she glared up at him. He chuckled then raising his foot and she let out a harsh cry as he stepped on the wound.

"Leave my sister alone!" He seemed to just take notice of Sasuke as he formed another clone to face them. I could see the anger in his eyes as Zabuza pressed down on her wound.

"So this is the other survivor? The Princess's elder brother." He chuckled then as he returned his blade and formed another clone. The clone took Rin's by her arms pulling her into the water lifting her only slightly.