Twisted Hearts, Tortured Minds.

PT 3: Fighting Shadows.

No one's POV:

As Hidan charged Hikari, she formed a handsign, preparing a jutsu.

"Kage Kogeki no Jutsu." She said calmly, as her hands began to glow with a faint black aura of chakra. Hidan raised his scythe, swinging it at her in an arc. Moving in a blur, Hikari dodged and slammed her chakra-filled palm into his chest.

Hidan's POV:

I let out a gasp as I felt an incredibly sharp, burning pain shoot from my chest to my ribs. I hadn't even seen the girl strike. "W-what kind of fucked up jutsu is that?!!" I choked out, finding it hard to breathe as I leapt back into a crouch, the movement sending more jolts of pain through me. 

She smiled sadistically. "It's my own revisssion of the Hyuga technique; Gentle fissst."                         

"What the fuck?!!  That jutsu is anything BUT gentle." I spat out, getting to my feet and beginning to whip my scythe from side to side in preparation for my next attack. Suddenly she flickered, disappearing and reappearing in front of me, bringing her hand down on my shoulder and then my neck, causing me to drop my scythe as I felt my arm go numb. "AH! Y-YOU FUCKER!!!" I screamed angrily, starting to get to my feet. The pain from my injuries were beginning to cloud my mind. I could tell something wasn't right, I shouldn't have been this weak.

 As I was still trying to gather my muddled thoughts, I felt her kick me up into the air with a chakra-enhanced Taijutsu move. In a second she had slammed a chakra-filled hand up into the top of my spine below my neck. "A-AH WHAT THE FUCK?!!" I screamed as I felt an excruciating pain shoot through me. I struggled in the air, finding myself unable to move. I hit the ground hard, blood trickling out of my mouth. I managed to tilt my head slightly to look at my scythe. Even if I had been able to move, it would have been too far away for me to grab it.

"Wh-WHAT THE FUCK? A-are you actually trying to kill me?!!" I choked out, shuddering as blood filled my mouth. The pain was starting to become overwhelming, and it wasn't the type of enjoyable pain I liked. It was cold, and numbing, fogging up my mind. 

"No, I jussst like watching you sssuffer. I'm jussst toying around." She responded with a sadistic grin.  I felt another wave of pain shoot through me as she moved in a blur, directly hitting pressure points on my neck and shoulders. Was I really losing to this girl? What would Kazuku think if he saw me? Ugh. J-Jashin help me. I shouldn't have gone down this easily..

"B-bitch.... My orginization WILL find you.... j-just give u-up already...." I choked out.

Something flashed in my mind, something about the girl and manipulating shadows... and that seal... Then everything went dark.

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Hikari's  POV:

I looked down at the limp silver-haired man at my feet. He was intriguing, for sure. I could tell that he would have been quite a nuisance to fight if I hadn't been able to put him under my Shadow Drain Seal Style Jutsu. He seemed very adept at bukijutsu, but practically clueless to genjutsu. Either he hadn't noticed his chakra being drained, or, less likely, he didn't often use ninjutsu in battle and was therefore not concerned. I was glad he had been standing in the shadows, or else the genjutsu wouldn't have worked.

 [Well. Now what should I do with you?] I thought.  [Hmmm... You know who I am, and you seem pretty determined to recruit me-] I stopped as I noticed the Jashinist symbol around his neck.

"So. You say you're immortal hmm? Well I can't verify that but.....I know someone who can." I spoke aloud.

[Master?] I thought, sending a pulse of chakra through my amulet to contact my goddess.
The response was almost immediate.            

*Sigh.* Hikari, you don't need to call me that.