It was the peak of summer in the Land of Fire, and Shizi has finally been cleared by the doctors for regular training routines. Yasei was cleared as well and so they decided to find the closest arena to train together since they would be on the same platoon now. The one they found had Kiba and his team on the grounds as well and Shizi noted how both Yasei and Kiba sniffed each other out to say hello.
"Stop flirting with each other and come on! We have training to do, Yasei!" The white headed dog neko blushed profusely but did as told and returned to her partner. Shizi once again noted the look of amazement that the other girl held with Jingxiao and her transformations when she drew her reaper. Yasei had no reaper since the hunters stole hers in her old village, but they had taken a shopping trip to the weapons dealer and chose a weapon most similar in weight and length to her old reaper so she didn't have to learn a whole new fighting style. She ended up buying a melee staff with blades on both ends of the long metal pole. Shizi created a large number of Shadow Clones for them to battle with and the two girl stood back to back with their weapons drawn.
They fought in beautiful sync and gracefully sliced through their enemies until they clashed together at the very end with bright yellow sparks and wide smiles. They called it a day and Shizi decided to treat Yasei to a bowl of famous Ichiraku ramen.
"Where's our friend Naruto?" Asks the owner of the stand to Shizi as he handed her the two bowls.
"He went out on a two-year training journey with the Mountain Sage Jiraiya. I figured he would have told you."
"Not a word. He must've been so excited that he forgot. A shame too, I would have kissed my best customer goodbye for the next two years."
"Don't worry, sir, Shizi got you covered on the kissing part." Teases Yasei and the said neko turned tomato red.
"I hate you, Yasei." The doggish female smirked as she slurped a column of noodles from the bowl.
"No you don't." Shizi and Yasei finished their food, thanked and paid the owner, then wandered around the Hidden Leaf Village. Both stopped the instant they smelled someone they didn't know and whirled around to see an ANBU Black Ops member standing behind them silently with a while mask painted with green stripes of a tiger.
"Lady Hokage wants to see the both of you." They nodded and waited for the ANBU member to vanish before making their way to the bright red building of the Hokage. They found her office and Shizi knocked on the door then opened it when Tsunade's voice called for them. Shizi immediately bristled when she spotted the Elders in the corner of the room, remembering that the last time she saw those two they were trying to steal her from Kakashi to experiment on her for the demon she housed.
"Hello, Shizi Yemao." She pinned her ears down in rage and hissed at the Elders in warning to stay away.
"Shizi, stop hissing at the Elders. They're here for a reason."
"The last time they were around for a reason they attacked me." The neko female snapped at the blonde woman as she kept wary eyes on the corner.
"I know that's why you're here." Shizi instinctively held a hand to her heart like she was protecting Gomon inside her.
"What's this really about?"
"I think it's best if you went with the Elders for testing. Simply to see if they can draw the Hell's Wildcat out of you." Shizi shook her head no and backed for the door to freedom.
"You'll just use Gomon as a weapon but he can't be controlled. He'll be free to kill everyone and bring the world to its knees. He's safer with me."
"This isn't a discussion, Shizi."
"I won't let you hurt him. He's been hurt enough." The blonde woman lifted a few fingers and a circle of ANBU members appeared around the two.
"Take her." They lunged inward and Shizi drew Jingxiao as the pounced. She used the staff to swing them all backwards and into the walls and one even broke the Hokage's desk. Yasei was smart enough to duck under her line of attack and so stayed by Shizi's side and drew up her own melee bladed staff.
"Shizi, as your Hokage, I demand you to stop resisting the Elders." The girl set her sights on the blonde Sanin woman, the females black and neon green eyes with the horizontal pupil thinning to a sliver of a black line as she bared her needle teeth at her. The glowing eyes of hate on the girl gave Tsunade and everyone else in the room freezing chills of unrequited fear.
"You'll kill me before I give in to your demands. I respected the Third Hokage because he trusted me with my demon and he died for his Village. I will show you respect when you earn it from me. I will not be experimented on and I will not let you take Gomon from me. This is my demon and my demon alone."
"Not anymore." Snarls the Elders together and they launched at the girl. Shizi whipped around and slapped the two elderly people into the wall with the side of her spinal blade with a hateful hiss. She stabbed the end of the staff into the wood floor and used the edge to slice down her arms then wiped the blood over the sides.
"Body Combination Jutsu." Smoke covered Shizi and her reaper from view of everyone in the room. When the smoke cleared they were horrified by what they saw. Shizi had blended her body with the black and silver reaper. This is the closest she can push the barrier between her and Gomon without relinquishing her control of her mind.
"Yasei, go find Kika- the silver man." The white headed female curtly nodded and vanished to find Kakashi Hatake. With Yasei out of the death range, she was free to unleash her fury on the blonde and the people around her. The ANBU members had woken up and surrounded her once more but were now more wary of her and her new form.
Tsunade dismissed the ANBU and stepped over the desk to fight Shizi herself. The girl wasted no time in attacking her, the speed she moved at was much too fast for her to react before Tsunade was knocked clear out the windows into the battle arena below. When Tsunade hit the ground she shattered it in a 10 foot diameter and dented it down a good five feet. Shizi stood on the sill of the window with her unnerving green eyes glaring down at the woman on her back in the crater trying to catch her breath. The power this girl exhibited was astonishing and almost on par with Kandahar himself. Maybe she was wrong in thinking she couldn't handle the Hell's Wildcat alone. Shizi dropped from the window sill and landed with her feet on Tsunade's wrists to pin her down with the weight of her metallic body then crouched down around her and held the arm blades to her throat as an incentive to not move.
"I should kill you for listening to those idiotic Elders. They knew they couldn't take me so they got you, the drunk gambler playing dress up. You desecrate the Hokage memory." She lifted one arm and prepared to slice her head off, Gomon taking small control of her in this moment of rage.
"Shizi!" She whipped to see who interrupted her, her eyes widening when she recognized the gravity defying silver hair and onyx eye of her guardian Kakashi Hatake. She got her full control back and so scrambled off Tsunade and up to the top of the crater before she released her Jutsu and her summon of Jingxiao. She sprinted to Kakashi and wrapped her arms around his ribs as she chanted how sorry she was.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Please don't be mad at me." Kakashi pulled away and knelt down to be eye level with her as she tried to hold back tears.
"I'm not mad at you, Shizi. Yasei told me everything."
"But I almost decapitated Lady Hokage."
"That's true, but they attacked you first and fighting to survive is what you were trained to do." Tsunade stepped out of the crater, still stunned by the power the thin girl showed like she wasn't even trying. She started to speak, but was stopped by more ANBU members with an emergency message from the gate.
"There is a group of intruders heading towards the Village from the slaughtered village we were keeping an eye on." Yasei gasped and that's when Shizi knew. They had finally come for her, come for Jingxiao and his power as a Saiko reaper.
They were coming for the last piece to the all powerful Forbidden Form.
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Beautiful Monsters
Fanfiction"The true measure of a Shinobi is not how he lives, but how he dies..." Shizi Yemao's pretty smile hides her secrets and her pretty eyes have cried too many tears. It's scary what her smile has come to hide, and she has gotten better at hiding the...
