Tsuzi came back from the sparring match slightly depressed, well more so than she usually was. She was muttering quietly to her ferret that seemed to respond by snuggling in to her the crook of her neck and purring.
Neji appeared right behind her, looking slightly disgruntled, no that wasn’t the right word, Rosa thought, he looked more disturbed.
“She used her genjutsu on you didn’t she?” Rosa said curtly. Neji just looked up and glared. “Wow, hold on mate don’t look so depressed, whenever she’s used that on people, they have come away with a lot worse, I can tell you that.” Rosa then seemed slightly distracted as she remembered the first time Tsuzi used her genjutsu on her. Not a pretty memory, that one. It was just after Rosa’s ‘Incident’ last year. She had to get her to calm down before Rosa did anymore damage. Rosa shuddered at the memory. She had Orochimaru’s snakes all over her and were then taunting her that she wasn’t wanted and that she would always be alone, that ended up reducing her down to tears of self-pity, then tears of shame as she realised to what she had done.
Rosa seemed to immediately perk up, once she realised that she was with her team.
“Who’s next?” Rosa asked cheerfully, she never did like brooding on things; it was just easier if she was happy around everyone.
“Well, seeing as you have so much energy, you can be.” Neji replied almost instantly.
As Rosa walked past Tsuzi, she whispered, “Don’t worry I’m sure you did fine.” And then gave her ferret a glare and in return the albino ferret showed vicious teeth.
While Neji and herself were walking to the clearing, Rosa was recalling the information she had on Hyúga Neji, which wasn’t a lot, all she knew was that he used the Byakugan and used a gentle fist style of fighting whilst pushing chakra out at the same time. She wasn’t worried about the gentle fist because she had studied all forms of martial arts and combat. But she was anxious to know what he thought of her fellow team-mate, Tsuzi who obviously was crushing on him.
They reached the clearing and Neji turned to face the opposition. Rosa had a blank face showing no emotion, this is how she fought, and as long as she didn’t get emotional there was no danger to her sensei.
“I’ve read your background.” The Hyúga stated.
“There are parts missing that only my team and Naruto know about.” Her face stayed impassive.
Neji didn’t miss the way she used Naruto’s name with no authority, as if he was her equal, it amused him. “I was referring to Orochimaru.”
Rosa just looked straight through Neji, trying not to get angry; she couldn’t let it happen a second time. Her face was still black as a white washed wall. “Don’t bring that up.” Her voice was mono-toned but was commanding and forceful.
“Well, lets see what you got then, come at me when you want.” Neji took a fighting stance; crouched knees that were shoulder length apart, arms loosely hung and Byakugan on.
Rosa then took her fighting stance; feet together, legs straight and arms by her side. She waited.
Neji waited.
She continued to wait unemotionally.
“Are you coming?” Neji enquired
“Why do I have to come to you, why don’t you start the fight?”
Neji complied. He ran at her and used gentle fist. He jabbed where her shoulder would have been but there was nothing but air. He immediately jumped expecting an attack as he momentarily had an opening and jumping was the only way to block it. He landed a little way behind were he started. Neji was shocked. Rosa was just standing there in her weird fighting stance looking impassive.
“What was that?” he asked
“I’m assuming Tsuzi told you I was fast.” Rosa said in a business like fashion.
“Yes.”
“Well then why are you holding back on your speed?” It was a rhetorical question and Rosa didn’t expect an answer. Instead she stepped forward and in an instant hands were jabbing and blocking. They jumped away from each other. Rosa cool and collected not even breaking a sweat. Neji exactly the same. “Your still holding back I can feel it, what good is it if you don’t come at me with all you got or you wont know what I can do. Let’s start again.” Rosa said this as if she was the sensei and Neji was getting thoroughly annoyed with her tone.
She launched forward but instead of attacking she went straight past him, she had done nothing to him. She did the same again gathering speed each time. On the sixth time running at him she poked the back of his neck, paralysing him then his shoulder dislocating it, but as she dislocated it the paralysis broke as she knew it would and she bounced off his shoulder into a clear space.
Neji pulled his arm in, popped it back in, and smirked. He then launched forward and dodged to the side of her and kicked her side, which she just barely blocked. He then back-flipped to face her again. Rosa’s feet were together so she should have no balance; he swiped at her feet to knock her over. It was done so quickly that Rosa, even though she was fast she couldn’t stop from toppling over, but as she did so her left foot came up and crashed into Neji’s ribcage. Whilst her foot was airborne she pulled out a scroll and jumped high. The scroll uncurling, and with some speedy reading she found the weapon she wanted: a small throwing star. She landed with the grace of a ballet dancer.
Neji looked at her small choice of weapon. “I was told you liked big clumpy weapons that did a lot of damage.”
“I do.” Rosa’s face was still irritatingly impassive, just like a blank sheet of paper. “And I was told you were better than this. I’ll only use this weapon on you. One star.” Rosa thought this was a good plan to get him to do something other than prance about.
Neji was trying to conserve chakra; this was why he didn’t used some of his more complex techniques, he was also thinking that Rosa was a complete nut case and needed some serious therapy if she thought she could defeat him with one star, he would simply side step it.
Rosa stood there. She extended her hand and flicked the throwing star towards Neji. One star was all she would used against someone who wouldn’t even show their true colours to her. She moved her hands extremely quickly and in a split second the star had multiplied into fifty. They were all going to hit home if Neji didn’t do something exceedingly quickly. He had no choice so he did the only thing that could protect him. He used his Heavenly Spin; blue chakra engulfed him and deflected all the stars. He stopped only to see Rosa grinning, the only emotion she had shown in the last ten minutes of them fighting.
“That was so cool, I’ve always wanted to see that first hand.” Then she quickly sobered up and looked impassive again. “ AT least your serious now.”
“Was that all you wanted to achieve?” As the sensei spoke all the throwing stars poofed back in to one and then that one disappeared, obviously back into the scroll were it was kept.
“Yes, you got a problem with that. All you wanted to do was conserve energy but I wanted to see that, so I had to do something.”
“What are you like when you’re fighting with anger?” He’d herd a bad rumour about her including a death and wanted to know if it was possible.
“You can’t get me angry.”
“Want to bet on it?”
“Would you bet on your life?” He thought she must be joking, but she looked deadly serious.
“Lets see shall we?” This wasn’t their full potential and both of them knew it, he had to get her angry. “Why did Orochimaru abandon you?” he shouted this so it emphasised that he wanted to know what she was capable of, he could see her mouth twitch and her trying to keep under control.
“I told you I don’t want to talk about it.” She could feel anger welling up inside her.
“I know you don’t but I do. Was it because you were a failure?” He got a reaction; it took form of her eyes changing. From their usual intense green they changed to the pattern of a snake. “Or was it because you were of no interest to him after you completed the experiment that you were made for?” this time the reaction was quick and almost deadly. Her neck extended and she almost bit him. That was strange why bite someone? Neji was slightly confused. But he still felt she was holding back. Her anger wasn’t complete he had to say something else.
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Abi was the first to here it. The question no one should ask her team-mate. It was shouted so was obviously intended. She immediately looked over to Tsuzi; with a nod they both got up and made their way to the clearing, Tsuzi in the lead.
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“Did you ever think you could stay with him, didn’t you know that he would always reject the fact you lived if he did need you anymore.”
That was it Rosa’s anger had reached it’s peek, she couldn’t hold it back anymore, she lost control of the last hope of not repeating the incident that happened only a year ago.
Neji saw the change immediately. Her usual stance changed to one that was low on the ground so that she was completely flexible and able to react quickly: a complete contrast to her normal one. Her neck again extended, it missed but turned to coil around Neji’s torso. He lashed at her neck with a kunai, and she retracted instantly. Snake like, she moved around him one meter away, in a hypnotising fashion.
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Would they make it in time? This was the only thought the two Shinobi were thinking. Tsuzi was especially worried. Neji. Why would Neji have to be her next victim? They broke through the clearing and saw Rosa was past it. No words could hold her back.
“What was Neji thinking?” Abi hissed. She silently reacted to the scene. She would use her wires to trap the enraged snake; which was her friend she had to remind herself, around a tree. She would then let Tsuzi inject Rosa with a calming serum. It was their only hope or Neji would be snake food.
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Neji was aware that the two other Shinobi had entered the clearing but Rosa hadn’t noticed.
“Get away you two she’s looking as if she’ll kill.” Neji was seriously worried. The last two snaps Rosa had given him had been narrowly missed; he gravely thought that the two team-mates could never handle her like this, even together.
“You’re the one who should get away.” Tsuzi snapped. He had no idea what they were capable of when they working together.
The red-head reached to grab her wires. With a quick nod from Tsuzi they started: ‘mission: calm the snake.’
Abi leapt as high as she could and landed softly behind the raging Rosa. Her wires did a quick dance and secured themselves around snake’s body. She leapt again to a tree and dragged the snake back and secured her tightly. Following Abi, Tsuzi had arrived at the tree a moment before and stuck the dart deeply into Rosa’s extended neck. Rosa continued to flail and then not even 5 seconds after the injecting took place, her eyes returned to green and her neck returned to normal length and the leader of the team was sleeping peacefully whilst still tied to a tree.
After making sure Rosa would be comfortable when she woke up both the medic-nin and the red-head turned to face a stunned sensei.
Tsuzi was the first to speak. Well she didn’t speak she glared daggers at her mentor before she spoke, but the glare was enough to turn Neji to ice. “What were you doing?” Tsuzi spoke calmly but her voice was coated with a lair of ice. At this point Abi couldn’t hold her rage any longer.
“What the bloody hell were you thinking, getting her all angry like that?” Abi shouted going red as she did so. Shouting didn’t matter to the sleeping shinobi, as she would be out of it for at least half an hour. “She could have killed you.” Abi knew all to well that Rosa would have no trouble with a jonin; their last sensei was proof of that. She then forced herself to calm down and not get tearful. She turned to walk to Rosa. “You talk to him.” She looked at Tsuzi and then walked off to comfort Rosa in her slumber, as she was no doubt going to have trouble in her dreams.
Tsuzi turned to Neji. She fixed him with a cold stare with eventually melted and she just looked sad. “I thought the Hokage would have told you about Rosa.”
“He told me that to get her angry would be a mistake on my part…”
Tsuzi cut in, “And you still thought to get her angry, not just angry but raging?” Tsuzi snapped coldly.
“Why does that happen to her?”
“You started to chide her with comments about Orochimaru. I thought you could have guessed that.”
“No I know that, but why does she turn snake like, and why doesn’t she use those abilities in combat when she’s not angry?” Neji was full of questions it seemed.
“She was an experiment.” One short simple sentence like that had enormous impact. Neji gawped. “If you want to know more ask her not me. But you’d be lucky to have her talk to you any time soon.” Tsuzi had lost her shyness in the event of what had happened but it came back in a blast. She started to get fidgety and then began to blush. “Um … sorry I shouldn’t have spoke so harshly to you.” She then turned her back on him and jogged to see if Rosa was alright.
The sleeping ninja seemed to be having nightmares again and Tsuzi started to hum a gentle song that would have Rosa sleeping soundly in moments, it was ‘X amount of words’ by Blue October. The song worked wonders to calm the sedated shinobi, and Tsuzi continued. Neji walked over and hovered just outside the ring of friends.
He cleared his throat. Tsuzi just kept on humming. But Abi snapped up to look at him.
“Shall we continue?” Abi was just think what a cold bastard, not even bothering to ask if Rosa was ok, but then Rosa was never one to want sympathy.
“Fine.” was all she bothered to answer with.
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