Trouble in the Sand 2~~~Chapters 43 & 44

~~~Chapter 43
Hunter walked over to Rutsu, pulling out a kunai.
“Time to end you petty attempts at victory!” He yelled, beginning to stab.
“NO!”
A small white ball shot the kunai from his hand. At the door, with his fingertip pointed at Hunter, stood Komacki, a snarling look on his face. His curse mark had already spread.
“I’ll kill you for this!”
“Try me!”
Komacki rushed into battle, pulling a bone sword out of each shoulder. Hunter’s steal plated shoes and Komacki’s sword clashed over and over again as the two taijutsu fighters frenzied. Hunter ended up having to do a hand stand to fend off Komacki’s dual wielding.
“Humph, my clan’s taijutsu is far greater to yours!”
“My feet will not falter!”
Hunter seemed to have finally made a hit, but Komacki’s rib cage emerged and caught it.
“And now… Dance of the pine tree!”
Bones sprouted all over Komacki and he began to spin around, slicing Hunter rapidly. Hunter kicked Komacki in the fore head with his free foot, but Komacki blocked it using his bone plate armor.
“I’m telling you, your style can’t beat me!” Yelled Komacki, very annoyed at this point, “Dance of the Camellia!”
Bone spikes came from Komacki’s palms and feet, and he began to going into a frenzy of punches and kicks, until he kicked Hunter in the head, just as Hunter did the same.
They both flew to the floor.
“You’re strong, why do you work for Orochimaru?”
“Because… well… I had no one but my wolf…”
“We could be your new friends… come with us, we’ll crush Orochimaru together!” Komacki said, with an inviting hand outstretched.
“Seriously? Heh… didn’t think I’d ever be accepted… well, you’ve got your self a deal!”

Komacki took Rutsu and Gaara outside to Chihiro for healing, and then rushed back into the building, along with Hunter.

Itaru met with them only a few yards from the next room; a strange chakra could be sensed from within it. Ikuji.
“Yummy souls I see, ready for eating I see, big feast I see… Time for the reaping I see!” She screamed, laughing manically…

~~~Chapter 44
“Hunter, Komacki, you two go on to fight Honz, I’ll take on this nuisance!” Commanded Itaru.
Hunter and Komacki ran down the hallway on the other the other side of the room, but Ikuji didn’t seem to care.
“Cybernetic? But you still have a soul I see… I’ll destroy you and devour it whole!”
Itaru’s mechanical fists were already ready for battle, and Ikuji had her soul fists ready as well. The ladies went into a clash of punches, eventually grabbing each others hands.
“Quite formidable…” said Ikuji.
“So are you!”
They bother jumped back and fired off a beam. An explosion resulted when they clashed, smoking the whole area, which gave Ikuji the chance she needed.
She appeared behind Itaru, who flipped around, surprised. Ikuji began to pound her into the ground, and then kicked her into the ceiling.
“Maybe not as much as I thought.”
Itaru got up quickly and lunged for Ikuji, now switch over to her mechanical swords.
“Soul blade!” Ikuji said, as she pulled a glowing blue blade out.
The girls swerved around each others sword, trying to hit the other. Both of them got in a few minor hit. Itaru bled, but Ikuji healed instantly.
“What are you?”
“Well, you see, unless my soul is injured, this replaceable body will heal instantly!”
Ikuji charged back, and Itaru didn’t know what to do. How do you injure a soul? Gaara said he had done it by… by… crushing her! After that short analysis, Itaru once again brought out her soul fist, and began to try to crush Ikuji by ‘clapping’.
“So… that sand boy told you the crushing my body will make my soul vulnerable and injure it huh?”
From that point on, Ikuji was much more careful about getting hit, but Itaru still had her ability up her sleeve.
“Upgrade, level 1!”
Itaru’s body once again turned black and became covered in neon green lines. She became faster and stronger, and now Ikuji was nearly unable to dodge.
“Time to revert to that…” Ikuji said as her body was covered by a sparking blue light.
Her soul fists disappear, fore she didn’t need them in this state. The two women rushed in towards each other, going into a frenzy of punches once more. But they soon switched over to swords.
“Why do you fight for Orochimaru?”
“It’s the best way to get souls!” Cried Ikuji, obviously not thinking of swaying away from Orochimaru like Hunter had.
Eventually, they both decided that this fight wasn’t going to end like this, thus, they both went up another level.
“Soul sparks…”
“Upgrade… level 2…”
Ikuji’s soul armor turned purple, and the lines on Ikuji turned red…