Setting The Wolf Free - Sequel to The Wolf Inside

Setting The Wolf Free - Ch 35

Kyoku merely rolls her as Tien pauses to grin at her, causing her full weight to bare down on the thin branch below her feet. Tien freezes as she hears a cracking sound, before she suddenly disappears from Kyoku’s sight with a shriek of surprise.

“Tien!” Kyoku hears Irazen bark madly. “Get back in the trees and stop acting like a damn idiot!”

Muttering to herself, Tien drags herself up from the ground, before bending her knees and jumping back up through the branches, hurriedly trying to catch up to Kyoku. Said blue haired woman chuckles quietly to herself, giving Tien a knowing look, even though the girl is now frowning and doing her best to ignore Kyoku’s presence.

Back down on the ground, Neji’s frown turns into a smirk, as he begins to pull ahead of a slightly panting Ita. The orange haired girl scowls, wiping her arm across her forehead, before an idea pops into her head.

“This’ll get that loser” she mumbles to herself, performing swift hand signs. “Earth Style: Mud Wall.”

As Neji turns to glance back at Ita, he suddenly slams into something incredibly hard. Ita laughs mockingly as she passes Neji, the boy’s pale eyes turning dizzy and confused. The Hyuga suddenly shakes his head, ridding it of the dizziness and regaining his composure. A deep frown settles on Neji’s face as he takes a step back from the wall. He wasn’t about to be out done by some girl!

Neji pulls one arm close to his body, while extending the other out, palm facing the earth wall.

“Eight Trigrams” he says lowly, narrowing his eyes, “Air Palm!”

That said, Neji takes a swift step forwards, focusing his chakra into the hand closest to his body and shooting it forwards. This motion causes a small, but powerful wave of chakra to emit from his palm and slam into the earth wall. The wall shatters in a small explosion, causing everyone to turn and glance over their shoulders. They all see Neji standing with his arms crossed, and cool smirk on his face as small shards of rock rain down on him.

Ita blinks her navy eyes, before pouting and turning around, continuing to run. How did he manage to break through her Jutsu so easily? And he’d made it look so easy too!

Neji’s smirk turns triumphant, as Kakashi rolls his eyes and follows after Irazen, not really caring enough to ask what had just happened. Having been around Sakura, Naruto, Sasuke and Ashley for so long, the silver haired Jonin knew better than to ask about these things.

Up to the right of the group, Ashley and Kein bound through the trees silently, with the blonde staring straight ahead, an unimpressed look on her face. She twitches slightly as she hears Kein take a breath, as if he were about to speak. When he remains silent however, Ashley can’t help releasing a soft sigh.

If she had to hear one more compliment from the blue haired man, she was going to punch him in his pretty face. For the past three hours, every time Kein opened his mouth, it was to compliment Ashley on her speed, or her ability to manoeuvre through the branches, or the way her ‘golden locks flowed out behind her like a stream of glorious sunshine’. That last one had almost made Ashley fall right out of the trees. She couldn’t believe such ridiculous words had come out of the mouth of such a large, muscular man. If Kiba ever said something like that to her, she’d either laugh in his face or punch him in the gut. Not that she didn’t appreciate a compliment here and there, but Kein…..He was just major overkill….

“The way the light hits your pale skin” Kein suddenly begins, making Ashley bristle, her eyelid starting to twitch, “it glows like the illustrious surface of a pearl.”