8.

Confrontation

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*Ting~*

*Ting~*

The shrill cry of blades crashing with one another echoed throughout the surrounding forest as Fū and The Witch Queen clashed.

*Swoosh*

As the Witch Queen and Fū locked blades again, A figure appeared dangerously close behind her and thrust two fingers that were surrounded by chakra that was melded into a needle like shape at a pressure point located in her shoulder.

As his fingers neared her shoulder she released large amount of mana out of her body pushing both Fū and Tori away.

"That seems a little too familiar." Fū said eyeing the transparent red dome surrounding the Witch Queen.

"Yeah….It's like the Palm Rotation technique my clan uses." Tori agreed while sizing the dome up with his Byakugan.

(A/N: Gentle Fist: Palm Rotation technique-The moment before an attack hits the user of this art the person releases chakra from his/her body while spinning rapidly giving the released chakra a dome-like shape and repelling any attack or person.)

"But she isn't spinning that's the only difference she's just controlling the energy she's releasing." Tori added.

"I see so she must have mastered using her 'magic' then to be able to control it such a extent." Fū said while channeling more chakra into his tanto.

"Seems so, I hope everyone around here isn't this skilled." And with that Tori and Fū charged towards the Witch Queen.

—Meanwhile—

"Care to explain why we aren't helping?" An annoyed Torune asked Rhya.

"Simple we don't want to kill a villages Kage over something as petty as this." Rhya said while drawing a seal on a small piece of paper.

"So you want to use a seal on her instead?" Torune asked

"Yes I want to seal her 'Magic' but I don't have a seal that's directly linked with 'Magic' I only have one that's related chakra so I need you too use those little insects of yours to see if you can get me some." Rhya spoke in a cheerful tone while looking up at Torune.

"why do I have a feeling this would spark a national incident…" Torune mumbled while sending some beetles to devour her magic.

—Back to the fight—

*Ting~*

*Ting~*

More clashes echoed as the Witch Queen held off Fū and Tori.

"How imperfect….being able to defend my perfect skills with such imperfect ones." The Witch Queen muttered to herself.

'If I can take control of one of then I'll be able to win this fight.' Thinking that, she channeled mana into her grimoire and in return it's pages started to flip before it landed on a certain page.

'While this is a recovery spell if it works then I'll be able to control at-least one.'

"(Blood Recovery Magic: Curse-Breaking Blood Filled Cocoon)

Raising her finger she pointed it towards Tori who was closing in behind her trying to hit one of her pressure points.

Around Tori a blood red sphere surrounded him and thin red vein-like lines started to move towards and connect with him.

Melding chakra around him body he quickly used one of the most basic and helpful Jutsu.

'Substitution Jutsu.'

—

Smirking to herself the Witch Queen believed her plan a success. But smirk faded when the blood connected with the man and his whole body disappeared in a cloud of smoke and was replaced with a wooden log.

'What? I didn't even sense him using magic….interesting they just keep surprising me with more secrets, these imperfect creatures could be useful for my plans when Vanessa returns.'

—

Flickering back beside Fū, Tori directly asked.

"How long until Rhyas done it's not easy to hold back against someone who's trying to kill you."

"He shouldn't be long it's just a seal." Fū responded.

Then the clashes continued.

Fū flickered in front of the woman and raised his tanto for a downwards strike.

*Ting~*

Responding in kind to the mans attack the Witch Queen raised her blood red scythe and blocked the short-sword before it could cut her down.

But this time wasn't like the last as she felt a stinging pain course through her right shoulder forcing her to drop the scythe.

Looking over her shoulder she saw a pair of piercing white eyes staring right back at her.

She watched as the man withdrew his fingers from her shoulder. Showing that needle shaped mass of chakra around his fingers or what she thought was mana.

Scoffing, she used her magic and summed another scythe and turned around and swung it downwards towards Tori.

Letting his instincts take over he side-stepped the scythe and closed in on the torso of the Witch.

'Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms' within a instant two of her pressure points were pressed by Tori.

Then 4 more…..

Then 6 more…..

This went on until he reached SixtyFour pressure points pressed leaving the Witch Queen wide eyed looking at him as she almost lost all motor functions of her body and fell to her knees.

'….what…..what was that?' She thought as she felt the pain of her pressure points being blocked by Tori's chakra.

She could barely move but managed to bring her head up and look at the man who put her in this state.

'Why is he just standing still? isn't he going to try and finish me off?' She questioned herself but stopped when the other man she had been fighting flickered beside the brown haired man.

—

"Did you really have to do that?" Fū asked in a somewhat annoyed tone.

"It was my instincts taking over plus it's easier this way since she isn't trying to kill us 24/7." Tori retorted.

"Well you do have a point." Fū agreed.

Two more figures flickered beside them making the Witch Queen flinch slightly. 'I forgot about those two.'

(A/N: Before anyone says anything the Witch Queen is hella strong when it comes to fighting mages, Along with her Mana sensory abilities, but they don't have mana so she was at a disadvantage not trying to kill them and also facing 2 heavily trained Assassins who have Kekkei Genkai.)

"Did you finish it?" Fū questioned Rhya who for some reason had his mask removed and placed on the side of his head.

"I did~ but it's such a shame we don't have any magic it looks so cool like come on she controls blood li-OUCH." Rhya was cut off from his rambling when Fū chopped him on the head.

"Just shut up and use it already." Fū ordered.

Rhya nodded and walked towards the Witch Queen.

—

A few moments ago-

'I forgot about those two.' The Witch Queen berated herself for being caught up in her plans and losing focus on her opponents.

When looking at the two new people she noticed one of them didn't have his mask on. Taking a closer look at his face she saw his young but chiseled features, his light purple almost childish eyes and his bright wine red hair. (Cover)

'If I make it out of whatever they are going to do to me I'll remember that face.' Then she remember the Auburn haired mans words. 'Did you finish it?'

She silently contemplated what he meant by those words. 'Some sort of spell? No they don't have mana….so just what could it be?'

She was cut out of her contemplation when she noticed the red haired man standing over her…..with a piece of paper that had some weird symbols written onto it his hand.

"Hello~ do forgive my friend for doing that to you he kinda let his instincts take over when you tried to kill him, Anyways~ this isn't going to hurt you one bit!" He exclaimed in a cheery tone while placing the paper on her forehead and injecting his own chakra into the seal as it started to spread over her body before disappearing as if it was never there to being with.

"W-What did you do to me?" She stuttered out when she could feel her Magic anymore.

"Oh~ it worked~" came his same cheerful tone.

"What worked?!" She snapped at him making him flinch

"Just a simple seal~" he responded

"How can you do that without Magic?!" She questioned.

"Secret~ but I might answer you if you answer some questions we have." He finished off with a cheeky smile.

"How imperfect me The Witch Queen, Mother of all Witches to be reduced to this state." She muttered to herself.

"Oh? what was that?" Rhya questioned

"Nothing! But I shall take you up in your offer as long that I can answer the question I will." She angrily said.

"Sheesh~ calm down let's go to somewhere better shall we?" He asked to no one in particular.

—

"Does he have a natural thing for pissing people off?" Torune questioned

"Most likely."

"Wouldn't doubt it."

"HEY I CAN HEAR YALL!"

—

'…..did I really let these of all people catch me? *sigh* something good might come out of this.' She finished with a weird smile that sent a shiver down Rhyas spine.

"Hey, you there with the red hair I want to add a condition." She spoke

"Oh? What might that be?"

"I want one of you to give me a child in return."

*THUD*x4