A Tranquil Death

[Saiyuki]

Seion was wandering around, walking about the trees of the forest, letting the rain drops that fell from the leaves hit him. His expression was one of that who seemed lost in a dream of some sorts. He just kept walking, not caring about the time or how fast he was walking, not even how heavily it was raining at the moment. Eventually his walk led him to a cave where he had used a few times in the past whenever he exited the village for some reason or another. He shook his head as he walked past the entrance, letting the water fly out of his hair. He brushed some water away from his clothes and as he was doing this, he heard a noise within the cavern. He stopped and listened for what could have been inside this place. It was pretty far from the village, so he did not think there would be a shinobi here.

Seion, as silently and slowly as he could, made his way into the darkness of the cavern. The sound sounded muffled. By now, there was very little light for Seion to see, so he had to rely on his other senses. After walking around a few places, he heard the muffled sound get stronger and then weaker. He walked back and forth a few places and finally discovered the place where the muffled sound seemed the strongest. He smiled as he realized that an earthen wall was blocking the sound. He softly put his hand on the wall and felt around. He gently knocked a few times, to see where it was hollow. Then, when he found the right place, he put an exploding tag on the wall and stepped back. He made the hand seal and it exploded. Seion could hear a yell.

“And who’s hiding in there?”

“That voice...”

From the smoke, Seion could see a large empty space, with a large lake in the middle. There were a few torches around and the man who had just spoken was sitting down next to a bonfire. He got up and stared at Seion, with eyes that surprised him. Then, as the man got closer, Seion could tell what his face looked like. He remembered that face. Drips of water magnified by the echoes of the cave acted as counters of the time that passed as each stood silent. Slowly, Seion’s hand curled into a fist. By now, his eyes matched the other man’s, though he knew his eyes were not as developed as the other person’s. The fires in the cavern suddenly flared up as the shadows of the two shinobi grew and then suddenly disappeared. The two met with their weapons drawn and against each other, face to face and spite against spite.

“You should be dead.”

“Never thought this ghost would come back to haunt you, eh?”

“The Council is finished. You should have just died...no you should already be dead...How? Your body was there with the Namine siblings...since you were their closest bodyguard.”

[Saiyuki]

The man only smirked. Seion felt the uneasiness within him stir. He knew this man’s name. It had been famous throughout Amegakure no Sato. It was Sansutomu Zen. The two shadows separated. Zen suddenly threw a kunai above Seion, who looked up, but could not tell within the darkness what Zen had been aiming for exactly. The kunai seemingly disappeared until Seion heard the sound of its impact. Suddenly the opening that Seion had made was blocked by falling rocks. It was not exactly hard to open it again, but Seion felt that it was not going to be so easy for him to get out of here. The last time the two had fought, Seion had a partner and the elements of surprise and treachery on his side. Who knew how this battle would turn out?

“You’ve grown since then. But not enough for you to win this time. My spirit hungers for your...blood!”

Zen disappeared with a Shunshin. It was all Seion could do to block the frontal charge. Zen was much stronger than him and Seion’s feet were not able to hold their ground. As Zen kept his katana on Seion’s two blades, his left foot suddenly lashed out and tripped Seion. Then his right foot came up in a sidekick. Seion was not able to counter and could only block the kick that sent him crashing into the lake. His body skipped the water like a pebble before Seion got up and managed to not sink beneath the water. He stood up. Zen charged for him again, waves separating as he dashed towards his enemy. A violent downwards slash followed, but all that was cut was an afterimage. Seion appeared behind Zen while making hand seals.

“Eat this.”

A Teppodama shot out of Seion’s mouth and was going right for Zen’s head. But, as Zen seemingly yelled in frustration and pain, his body disappeared in a puff of smoke. Seion knew something was wrong, but it was already too late. The Kage Bushin had done its job. A whip of wind and lightning wrapped around Seion, shocking him and cutting him as Zen manically laughed as he twirled Seion around high up in the air before slamming him down into the water. As Seion fell while being drowned, cut and electrocuted, he suddenly became desperate. He activated an exploding tag, causing enough a great disturbance in the whip to allow Seion to break free. Seion then formed hand seals. Moments later, he crashed through the surface of the lake while riding upon a bird of water. He dived right at Zen, who smirked as he lashed out his blade, creating a large whirlwind to cut both Seion and his bird. Both fell deep into the darkness of the underground lake.

[Saiyuki]

“Come out! Let me bash you until there’s nothing left of you!”

Then he saw a figure coming out of the water and he immediately used a ninjutsu, causing a large thunderbolt to hit the surface where he saw that figure. He started to laugh when he saw Seion’s body light up due to the brightness of the lightning, but stopped when he realized his body dissolved into mist. Seion suddenly appeared behind him and a blade stabbed into Zen’s flesh and blood spilled out. Zen started laughing while Seion cursed, knowing that he had failed to kill Zen and missed the vital point he was aiming for.

“You know, you getting into this position works for me too.”

Suddenly four lances made of water stabbed into Seion’s body and he knew that he was finished. He spurted blood out from his mouth and faltered, his feet starting to sink into the water. Zen stopped laughing as his wound was not minor, though it was not fatal either. He looked at Seion.

“Pathetic, you should have known about the power of our clan. Well, now that you’re dead, let me tell you something. I was the one who commissioned your parents’ deaths. Not the Amekage, not the head. Those fools! Hahahaha….huh?

“Great....that gave....me....another.....reason....to....win.”

Everyone....it was nice being with you.....I'll be going now....to where I can see them and I'll be taking this bastard with to me...

A laser of water blasted from the top of head and shot straight down. Seion was a Sansutomu as well and he just had used the same skill Zen had did, though it was out of desperation and it had only succeeded to due to luck. The water lances dispersed as Seion fell with a smile on his face. At long last, he had avenged his parents not to mention he had no regrets, as even in death, he would be able to warn Ame. The two bodies fell into the lake. Darkness started to fall outside as a flood started to happen. A group of ANBU gathered around the two corpses that had went into an opening beneath the cavern and out into a river, where they were discovered as they washed ashore when the rain weakened. A ray of light broke the cloudy heavens and illuminated Seion’s smiling face.

Death

[Kinz]

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