A Battle For The Tiki

[Kokugen Kouseki]

The man who they had been pursuing had finally come to a stop at the outskirts. The man wore a black cloak with a hood that covered his eyes, all which could be seen was a smirk of satisfaction.

"Who are you?" Kokugen questioned the stranger. Rather than answering the man only smirked as if he had won the lottery. "Why aren't you answering!?" Kurohi exclaimed, Kokugen knew Kurohi wanted to fight.

"I don't tell my name to those who are about to die..." the man's voice boomed, somehow the voice seemed familiar.

"Oh, Screw you man!" Kurohi attacked the man but the man simply dodge his attacked and disappeared. He reappeared right next to Kokugen and Sayuri. "Now were is the tiki?" the man asked calmly.

[Sayuri Misaki]

Sayuri whirled around with a round house kick aimed at the man's face as he appeared beside them.

"What are you talking about? You just stole the tiki from us, if you don't remember. And I'm kindly asking you to give it back. Don't make me have to ask you again, because I won't be so nice!" She warned. The man blocked her attack, grabbing her ankle and throwing her towards a wall. She twisted, using her momentum to spring back at him faster than he could react, hitting him hard in the face, blowing him back against the opposite wall.

"Now, are you going to give us back the tiki and your name so we can kindly thank whoever sent you, or will you just take us straight to him or her?" she asked, standing above the man menacingly.

[Kurokumo Fujibaysenta]

After being hit in the face by Sayuri Kurokumo simply smirked. "Hahaha, Little Girl do you really believe I would fall in your stupid trap. This artifact is nothing but a mere fake, now I would ask for you to give me the real one..." Kurokumo said taking off his cloak revealing his face. A face almost identical to Ce Fujibaysenta's the only difference was the hair and deep scar that ran beneath his eye.

[Sayuri Misaki]

Sayuri froze in mid kick at the sight of the man who looked identical to Ce, the one leading the mission with her. But he also wasn't quite the same man. His hair was different and he had a scar under his eye.

"Who are you?" she asked him, leg still in the air, ready to spring at the slightest sign of attack. "And if you are so confident that you will kill us, then I'm sure you won't mind telling us your name, as it won't do us much good if we die, will it? And much to your disappointment, we don't happen to have the real tiki on us at the moment. I kind of lost it along the way." That last part was a lie that she hadn't told anyone about, but it was only a half lie. She'd had a shiki take it and hide it for her somewhere no one would find it, even by accident, earlier

[Kurokumo Fujibaysenta]

'I guess your right... It is good manners to tell your name to those you're about to kill,' Kurokumo said in avery cocky way. 'I am Fujibaysenta...' Kurokumo paused at the sight of shock from his foes. 'Kurokumo Fujibaysenta,' Kurokumo finished.

[Sayuri Misaki]

"Tell me one more thing." Sayuri told the man. "Are you in any way related to a Ce Fujibaysenta?" She braced herself both for the answer and the coming fight. They had to get out of the alley if she was to use her better abilities without hurting her teammates, and she had just the plan. She just hoped the others would follow suit.

[Kurokumo Fujibaysenta]

"Ce, the old geezer... What if I am?" Kurokumo said ready to attack he wouldn't let his 'prey' go. "Now, please girl tell me where the tiki is if you don't want to die... a more painful way..." Kurokumo said this time licking his lips as if he were tasting something delicious.

[Sayuri Misaki]

Well, he obviously knows him in some way. thought Sayuri.

"Unfortunately for you I don't even know where it's hidden. Any one of your accomplices could have it by now without us knowing it. But you'll never find it, even if you had the whole world searching for it." she replied before springing straight upwards on top of the roofs.

"In fact, I may still have it on me somehow!" she yelled downward to Kurokumo as her teammates followed her onto the rooftops.

[Kurokumo Fujibaysenta]

Kurokumo disappeared for a second and reappeared right in front of them. "How rude... Why did you try to escape?" Kurokumo said mischievously calm. Kurokumo activated one of the minor jutsu's of the Void, "Endless Cage..." A cage of darkness enveloped his pray trapping them inside, unfortunately for his foes the cage could not be touched by anybody inside of it. "Now you shall stay my prisoners..."

[Sayuri Misaki]

They were engulfed in blackness. Sheer, utter, swallowing-you-whole blackness. "Kurohi?! Kokugen?!" Sayuri's voice was on the edge of panic, not knowing whether they'd all died or not or what was going on. She tried moving forward until she bumped into someone. "Who's there!" The asked, jumping back as the figure grabbed her arms.

"Its just me!"

[Kokugen Kouseki]

"Its just me!" Kokugen had told Sayuri. "Are you ok?" Kokugen said concerned.

[Sayuri Misaki]

Sayuri breathed a sigh of relief. "I am now. How about you? Where do you think we are?" she said. "Where do you think Kurohi is?" Then she laughed slightly. "Well, that's too bad for Kurokumo then, isn't it? I've got the actual tiki with me and I don't think even he can get at us without letting us escape." Sayuri sat down hard and leaned back slightly. Then she heard someone yelling their names.

"Sayuri! Kokugen! You guys here?" It was Kurohi yelling.

"We are over here!" Sayuri yelled back, slightly exhausted. They still couldn't see anything so she had closed her eyes to concentrate on things other than trying to see anything in front of her. They had to think of a way to get out of this place, wherever it was.

[Kokugen Kouseki]

"Well that's good but don't you think he might hear us? He did create this place it might make him liberate you and then attack you or something," Kokugen said. "Hey guys were are you," Kokugen and Sayuri Kurohi shout their names, apparently it was to dark for him to see.

[Sayuri Misaki]

"Yes, well, he can't get it without killing me and I have no intention of letting that happen at all." she replied, yelling her name out so Kurohi could find them. When he got over, Sayuri stood and walked around. "I wonder if there is some end to this or a wall or something..." she thought outloud.

[Kurokumo Fujibaysenta]

"Stupid impudent twits... I heard you!" Kurokumo's voiced boomed from inside the darkness. In a split second that which had just been darkness was lit and it was revealed were they were... In a white room, with no walls, no doors, no way to escape, except that way... That was when Kurokumo materialized in front of the other shinobi... "So little girl give me the tiki. That is... If you value your life!" Kurokumo exclaimed in an intimidating manner.