| [Dec. 16th, 2009|03:06 am] |
What the...?
Katsuko started and flung her arm up at the blast of light, shielding her eyes. Pieces of the exploding door pelted her like rain; she coughed at the smoke and slitted her eyes open in time to see the tall silhouette shoot white lightning at Ryouma and send him flying. Her limbs seemed rooted to the spot as she heard the solid thud of his body hitting the wall.
Time slowed down.
"Ry--!" She couldn't even get his full name out before the tall Cloud-nin--Masahiko--was there, leaving blurry afterimages in the air as his hands shot toward her throat.
So fast.
Trapped between oh shit no Ryouma and oh shit no Masahiko, Katsuko nearly froze. Her body acted for her, slamming her kodachi between them so that the Cloud-nin's crackling hands glanced off the habaki of the blade, just below the hilt. The force of that deflected blow rattled in her teeth and shook her to the bones.
Animal instinct--terror survival have to move--made her shove a knee between them and use the leverage to kick away, bringing her swords up in a guard as she skidded to a halt.
Masahiko looked at her with pale, cruel eyes and chuckled, a scornful sound that pierced right through the haze of terror and woke something raw and roiling and ugly in her. "You've got a lot of nerve, ANBU. Coming right into the heart of the castle to try and kill me--"
He sent another blast of lightning at her, a white-hot scream of energy that, when she dodged it, left a smoking hole in the wall. Rolling back to her feet, Katsuko crouched down low and started to circle around him.
"--but it was a nice try," Masahiko continued as if he hadn't just tried to blast her out of existence, spreading his arms out wide in a beckoning gesture. The leer on his face made it clear he wasn't inviting her to come and attack him. "Now why don't you put those little toys down, darling girl, you've already had fun with my soldiers. Be nice, and I might find a...use...for you." His eyes traveled over her body in the skintight uniform, predatory and appreciative.
Son of a-- |
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