Crow's feathers - Naruto fanfiction

Chapter 54 Keep your enemies closer

“Died?” Hiro said with a tremble in his voice, “he’s dead? But…”

“Well. I didn’t exactly die,” Ryuu taunted, “I was killed.” He turned to Yura, “by you.”

Yura gritted his teeth. “You shouldn’t have crossed me.”

Ryuu shrugged. “Perhaps. It still doesn’t explain why I’m here.” He turned to Taryn and smirked. “You have nice company.

“What do you want?” Taryn hissed.

“I don’t want anything,” Ryuu said, “but whoever brought me back must really dislike you. I can’t control my own movements. I don’t like that.”

As to prove his point, his body suddenly shot forward and separated Taryn and Yura who had been standing together.

“Watch out!” Yura called, “he’s no easy opponent. He can combine wind and water into ice.”

“I sure can,” Ryuu said and formed a few hand seals.

Ice pins shot out and one pierced Taryn’s leg. She screamed and buckled. The spot where she was hit burned. Quickly she pulled it out and focused. ‘Right. He has wind and water. My lightning will be good against his water, but not against his wind. I can melt his ice with fire, but it won’t help us much. Yura has earth based jutsu,  that might do against his wind. And Hiro can use water. How can we make this work?’

Hiro charged at Ryuu. “Water dragons, wave of terror!” A pair of giant dragons appeared, made out of water and the thunderous roar that flowed could be heard throughout the valley.

Ryuu grinned and prepared another jutsu. Hiro’s dragons turned to ice and a wind attack sliced them to pieces.

Hiro gasped. He barely dodged the next attack.

Yura gritted his teeth and performed an earth based jutsu. Ryuu’s feet sunk into the ground and locked him there.

Taryn had crawled to her feet again and charged at him with Chidori.  When she almost reached him, an ice mirror rose in front of her. She managed to divert the jutsu just in time before electrocuting herself. She aimed at the ground instead.

“Impressive skills,” Ryuu complimented, “not everyone would have reacted that fast. What is your name?”

“They call me the Desertstorm,” Taryn growled.

Ryuu chuckled. “I have heard of you.. Wind and Fire they say, combined in a lethal attack that burns everything in the area. Care to match it against my ice?”

“Heh,” Taryn scoffed, “There’s no need to use that against you.” She activated Byakugan.

Ryuu narrowed his eyes. He sent another set of ice pins her way, but Taryn cast them off with Kaiten. The pins flew towards the others and Yura quickly rose the earth on which he stood, so the ice pins embedded themselves into the wall.

Hiro stopped the ones that came his way with a wall of water.

When Kaiten stopped spinning, Taryn was gone. Ryuu glanced around, but couldn’t locate her, so he focused on the other two for the time being.

A heavy mist surrounded the area. Hiro shivered from the sudden cold.

Yura glanced at him. “Hey kid, focus. We have to beat this guy.”

Hiro took a deep breath. “Right,” he nodded and thought for a moment. Yura’s jutsu were earth based. He could work with that. He had fought side by side with Daro for a long time. He raised his water dragons again.