Reach for the Heavens [Anarchy]

[Toraono Kuro]

Toa nodded to Kazuki as the puppeteers hurriedly placed support beams and stone to ensure there would be no collapse of the structure. With one member of the Cabal fleeing the question remained as to where the others were still hiding. Soon they would have to come here and Kuro would be ready for them. Their actions had hardened his resolve in many ways and where he was once the most generous and forgiving of me he was now cynical, inquisitive, and all too ready to kill those whom would harm his own. Kyojin Kuro arrived in short order with more survivors from the Sietch, and scattered pockets of resistance to the Cabal's efforts. The majority of the Toraono Clan that had been below ground were there as well though a few had given up their last breaths happily to save their fellow Sunans. Kuro however, would not forget a single loss, there would soon be a reckoning. The puppeteers under Dr. Toa's direction worked swiftly and efficiently as the people were lined up to make there way up as soon as the path was clear, Kyojin Kuro, Sanryokyougan Kuro, and Mouko Kuro led the way carefully checking everything with their overlapping super senses. Others took up watch in the rear to await the inevitable conflict.

 

[Sand Council]

Naganisa​

She was not expecting as warm of a welcome as the one granted to her. She eyed the pair and even glanced down the hall, nearly clear of rubble. The hall from which voices could still be heard.

"Kuro, beleive it or not it's your little brother. It's me Sousuke. I'm on the other side with Musashi the Elder Mantis. Magentica is somewhere here, haven't found her as of yet. Don't use metallic jutsus when you're coming through. You know what she can do."

It was Sousuke. As in, Kazekage Sousuke? And Kuro, as in Sennin Toraono Kuro. Two targets in a single space and here she was with such an opportune moment as she could have taken them both, but not with Homura. She promised him. She was a liar, but... she wanted to be a better person than she was, but she had lost her sanity a long time ago. Taking one, or both of them back to the Cabal might ingratiate her once again. Did she want that, to be back under the thumb of Akio and company. She could not face any of them on her own and guarantee her victory. Patience and compliance was the best of her options, time was of the essence and if they had found the way out soon others would too. Her only hope was that they got out before the rest of the company came crashing in. She was not in anyone's good graces at this time and this was probably the most dangerous place she could wait.

She was going to make her way though the tunnel before everything went wrong. The shoat made a path adequate for passage, even with her burden. "Than..ks" she forced the words to push past her lips.

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Urufu​

It was time to depart, he left a note in departure to his one regret. He hoped she would find her way to freedom, she would not come willingly and even at the expense of her life he could not bare be the direct cause of her pursuit in his footsteps. There was a bubbling rage carried within this man, the kind that was fueled by a lifetime of regret and the knowledge that he was out of second chances. "Nobody gave you permission to shepard these lambs, the wolves will go hungry." Feral instinct told him to migrate even before the maw rocked what remained of this village. His time here was enlightening but like all things, this too had to come to an end.

He cracked his knuckles in the palm of his hand, with each loud pop came the next. Her scent filled this space and covered her burden, she would never get far especially after this betrayal. "Your end will be swift," he proclaimed. The tethers of this village were breaking, the survival of the fittest and the fastest was all Sunagakure had but the fast would still have to deal with him. The job was not yet accomplished.

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On the other side of the tunnel a clamorous roar could be discerned. The snap and the break and the freedom as the earth started to rush in. On the other side of the tunnel the walls have been removed and the distal fraction of their escape is about to be filled in. DO SOMETHING!

 

[Toraono Kuro]

"Kuro, believe it or not it's your little brother. It's me Sousuke. I'm on the other side with Musashi the Elder Mantis. Magentica is somewhere here, haven't found her as of yet. Don't use metallic jutsus when you're coming through. You know what she can do."<i></i>

Then the tunnel began to collapse and Kuro knew just who had caused that.

Kyojin Kuro emerged and with great power from within summoned a large mass of chakra and became a large living support structure. Specially forged Takahashi steel armor interlinked with his implanted and bio fused chakra gems grew along with him helping him support all the stones that and sand that would have crushed the people escaping as Sanryokyougan Kuro led the survivors with the remaining Toraono Clan members and villagers while Mouko Kuro stopped Urufu from reaching Naganisa and Homura stepping between his foe and his prey with an eager evil gleam in his eye as Kyojin Kuro's titan form re opened the tunnel with a small amount of ease as Mouko Kuro and his demonbeast tiger partner Moukyo slammed into Urufuu slamming him into one of the sparring chambers of the 'Throne of Bone' "Leave us lady, this one has challenged us by trespassing on our lands. Take your man and be free... we thank you for changing no matter what reason you have given Suna hope once more, as for you I believe your leader said unless I was willing to walk over the corpses of my villagers I could not have any of you. Well far too many are dead and I have stepped over the fallen to face all of you so you might join them in death. So ask yourself what is stronger the cornered dog or the enraged tiger?"<i></i> The puppeteers rushed ahead of Kyojin Kuro using their own puppets to provide more support structures due to the threat of the tunnel collapsing. Sanryokyougan Kuro pulsed with metallic control of his on and re-established some more support beams himself as he emerged to the other side at the lead of the survivors. Magnetica, she would be his at last...

Mouko Kuro and Moukyo slowly cornered Urufu allowing Naganisa and Homura to escape. Kyojin Kuro used his titan form to provide a support for the collapsing tunnel. Sanryokyougan Kuro pushed forward to face Magnetica and protect his baby brother (moving to this topic: http://www.ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?f=369&p=173440#p173440) Akuma Kuro started his evacuation of the Academy. Sharingan Kuro was directing more survivors to the Throne of Bone while Chouryoku Kuro carried on monitor and defensive duties at the Bakery.

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Naganisa should be free to run again if Urufu took Mouko Kuro as a serious threat... "SO WHERE IS YOUR SCENT CHANGING FRIEND?... are you ready? Because MOTHER SUNA KNOWS I AM..."<i></i> Mouko Kuro's claws slid to full extension as his eyes began to glow with dark chakra surging just beneath his flesh as Moukyo did the same.

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[Randamu Kyarakuta]

"Get up Homura."

"I haven't slept this well in ages, my body is too tired to move."

"You can't rest yet, you aren't out of the woods here. Naganisa still needs you."

"Just 5 more minutes."

"You're impossible. GET UP!!"

His body rolled off of Naganisa slowly, but as soon as his faculties began to kick on and he got his sense of reality back, he spun his whole body around, hand on the hilt of his sword ready to draw it against literally everyone in the area with the exception of Naganisa, whom he was shielding with his body. His right eye turning black, a white kanji for his clans name appearing in it. This was his clan mark, passed down generation to generation through the eye in a special and brutal ceremony that has, in worst case scenarios, blinded the clan member entirely. He was a best case scenario, the entire lineage of his people flowing through him at that very moment, hyper booting his systems. If he was a computer, he'd be overclocked right now. As he stood there to assess the situation, chakra was bleeding into his blade. They were an extension of each other, so if the technique he had in mind didn't come to fruition it would just absorb back into him. The technique was dangerous for the whole tunnel, one fast slash so powerful it'd turn the entire tunnel into a vacuum, he was wind based after all.

"Nobody gave you permission to shepard these lambs, the wolves will go hungry."

He shifted his body to be between this new arrival and Naganisa, pushing against her to get her to back up slowly toward the exit. He didn't have time to yell at her for making him ditch all the innocents, but the toroano clan was strong, so he put faith in their ability to save as many as possible. At least, until this was all over and he could lash out at them for being so cocky and probably setting off the explosions to begin with. One of the Toroano stepped up to stop him while they escaped, a noble gesture that wouldn't be forgotten. He nodded, trying to force her to scoot back toward the exit. If they had to fight up ahead, at least they could do it in strong company. "Let's go love, remember the plan?" he said, referring to the 'get them all together and then kill the victor' plan. It wasn't the way he wanted to do it, but it was a good excuse for what she did to be ok, perhaps she had changed him as well.

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[Fukagawa Kazuki]

A noticeably forced sign of gratitude from the old trite was given to her but with Kazuki’s eyes staying on a teacher who was also a tad too busy all of a sudden with that grim expression on face, she didn’t exactly hear it. This was something that Kazuki was worried might happen; for it looked like she was going to have to find a new way to fit in her training but before that, she would stay behind the good doctor and watch the other members of the Toraono Clan move about while also looking to see if she might be of any help to anybody.

During that time, she would hear a thunderous uproar from another part of the cave, the sonic vibrations echoing throughout the tunnel and pieces of debris began to rain down while Kazuki almost fell back on the vibrations and had to use her puppet to catch her while she would grunt at this unexpected new development. Just what could that roar have come from?

Well at any rate, now was definitely the time to escape this tunnel but she was then stopped by the cold words of a blood thirty new threat that had approached. This guy already looked like bad news, something that she had the desire to deal with herself but she restrained, knowing that once again, she was way outclassed, not only that but the tunnel was going to collapse anyway. Seeing those eyes of his peer at the old trite could mean that he was after her for some reason.

Then maybe the youth should…!

In her moment, she sucked her teeth to see another member of the Toarono Clan intercepted the threatening figure and it was there she would see that this was a chance to escape! After overhearing the words of the man who looked dead just a moment ago, she turned to Daibatsu with eyes filled with urgency. “Sensei! We should get going too!” It was then another stone would soon from above, so Kazuki herself had no choice but to swing her arms to send Iron Marionette into the stone with its hands catching the stone while the young one would go on running to the exit.

This Puppet was sturdy, that much was clear when its current user tried to dig through the tunnel. In that case, just maybe it could throw that boulder! Though there had been a sudden strain on her fingers that said otherwise! No good, at this rate, that puppet would be crushed under the weight of the boulder. “Oh no you don’t!” One of the passing puppeteers had used a large falcon like puppet to catch Iron Marionette and she too, would be swept off her feet, literally!

Thanks to the efforts of another male Shinobi, both the puppeteer and the puppet would manage to keep moving and were now heading over to the direction of the exit of this collapsing cavern. Who was this carrying her? Everything was moving so quickly that she couldn’t tell but one thing was certain, this day officially sucked!

 

[Sand Council]

The walls were beginning to crumble, the cracks like webs covered the face of the wall beyond which would be their salvation. Magentica's inhumanity apparent, she meant to bury them, along with every other village alive. Metal support seemed to shriek as Magnetica bent the frames. Hunks of earth, boulders and sand rained on the Throne of Bone. All hope was not entirely lost, nearly living supports held the walls and stopped the room from being flooded by a sea of sand and debris. The Sennin's paths secured the walls or beams, temporarily holding back the collapse of the final escape route for the denizens of the hidden village during its final days. A falling boulder held upright by the student's iron marionette. The shinobi gathered here were Suna's last hope and their resources were quickly being depleted trying to salvage the dying community.

Naganisa​

"Leave us lady, this one has challenged us by trespassing on our lands. Take your man and be free... we thank you for changing no matter what reason you have given Suna hope once more, as for you I believe your leader said unless I was willing to walk over the corpses of my villagers I could not have any of you. Well far too many are dead and I have stepped over the fallen to face all of you so you might join them in death. So ask yourself what is stronger the cornered dog or the enraged tiger?"

It would be discourteous to look a gifted tiger-man in the mouth. This was no more her battle than it was her place to save the tertiary world from hunger, disease or strife. Maybe if it was fun. The fun stopped a long time ago, perhaps Homura was a spoilsport. Well, he was but sadly she liked that about him. She was going to take this out, perhaps she was a coward and when the battle was not slated in her favor she would have fled even as a avatar for the Cabal's whim.

Homura shook himself free, there was barely a moment between cognition and action. There was also his hindside pressed against her as he tried to push her back. "I can take the mongrel," Naganisa protested. It was her pride that was assaulted with his presence and his refusal. He always made his power seem like a burden rather than a gift, a livelihood. She was madwoman, at least she had an excuse, unlike that mutt. She wanted to hurt him, hurt him in the ways that made her tingle.

"Let's go love, remember the plan?"

The plan, yes...the plan. The canine could take these two easily enough, and the errant Kazekage might put up a fight if there is anything left after Magnetica gets a hold of him. "Yes, the plan... brilliant." She muttered sarcastically. He was right, it was best to flee now so that they could fight another day. She let out a disenchanted sigh, she would submit for now. Without his weight, she could easily make the tunnel even if the walls gave way despite their supports. She tried to grab his hand, his collar, his belt-loop, whatever she could grab hold of. The dick would probably try to stay and fight because it would be te honorable thing to do. No honor today buddy, today we are getting out.

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Urufu​

"Leave us lady, this one has challenged us by trespassing on our lands. Take your man and be free... we thank you for changing no matter what reason you have given Suna hope once more, as for you I believe your leader said unless I was willing to walk over the corpses of my villagers I could not have any of you. Well far too many are dead and I have stepped over the fallen to face all of you so you might join them in death. So ask yourself what is stronger the cornered dog or the enraged tiger?"

"You do not have the authority, you are nothing more than a mouser. Dogs chase cats... some devour them whole." Urufu responded. A cat really? A brazen declaration, but they would soon see which would be the victor. The ring on his right hand spun about on the axis of his phalange before he closed his hand into a fist and let blood drip down his arm. His features would change but they would not be dissimilar to the visage he has always displayed. Battle worn and scarred, his mane was thicker and his incisors longer... sharper, the better to bite with. His nails more like talons, black and thick , the better to rip and tear with. His eyes, nothing more than glowing slits amid a mass of near black fur.

Collateral damage, that would be the path that was about to be destroyed. They were making their way towards his ally, Magnetica. The challenge was near laughable with their combined strengths but he had no desire to share the fate of this ruined community. This was the glory of the hunt.

[Taking his to Battle: PICK YOUR THREAD BECAUSE I AM TAKING YOU DOWN! ...and your little student too.]​

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