Chapter 30: Ringo vs. Kusa

Ringo slowly walked out of the house, chuckling that two priced medical 'tools' were just taken from Kusa, and not one ninja noticed. She no longer wore the henge of the chunin and everybody could see her face. It did not take even five minutes until she found herself completely surrounded by hundreds of ninja from Kusa, standing on the rooftops and glaring at her hatefully as if she just killed their puppy!

Ringo raised her eyebrow... if they were like this before she even did something substantial to them, she wondered what face would they show after the actual fight!

The shinobi did not taunt her nor ask questions. Ringo had to jump upwards to dodge the hail of pointy metals and found herself in the air, without foothold, on the level of the rooftops, grinning like a loon. Most jonins and some chunins stopped themselves and refrained from hurling more shurikens or kunais at her. The others though? She was met with another salvo of hundreds of deadly steel without any chance to escape. In their eyes.

Ringo instantly supercharged with her lightning small patch of air under her feet, solidifying it for a second. That second was enough, however, as she pushed herself back towards the ground, the kunais and shurikens harmlessly sailing above her... for her. The jonins started to jump away as the idiots were encircling her and their only advantage was the difference in height. Now that they threw the pointy toys of doom at her at the SAME level as their comrades while encircling her...

Tens died and more were injured. Yay for friendly fire!

Ringo didn't care though. She landed in crouch onto the ground and instantly sprung right into the place with the most jonins in it. These people were still getting grip after being assaulted by the kunais of their comrades when Ringo appeared right in their midst. Ringo swung her two blades in flurry of strikes cutting the shinobi around her to pieces.

The more experienced jonins wanted to intervene and stop the madwoman from massacring even more of them! But... they could not use ninjutsu! She was always around the ninjas from their village! They could hit their allies!

Genjutsu didn't work due to the insane nuke-nin moving too fast and not even paying attention to them! She did not even look at the men and women she cut down!

Then... only taijutsu or bukijutsu was an option!

But that was also no good. Ringo was too smart and always had some unfortunate genin or chunin around to act like a human barrier and prevent the Kusa ninja from ganging upon her.

Seventy-five.

Seventy-six.

Seventy-seven.

She counted as she was cutting her path through the ninja... without even using ninjutsu. So far she used pure kenjutsu, speed, and a bit of tactic to prevent herself from being surrounded. But she could see that the chunins started to realize what's going on and tried to vacate the place while dragging the genins with them. The weaker ninja started to slowly create outer encirclement as Ringo was cutting down some hagglers but more and more her strikes started to be parried. The jonins started to concentrate in the center, around her and tried to attack her from all dimensions.

Ringo tsk-ed and jumped high into the air, slightly throwing her left kiba blade upwards, freeing her left hand. Before the Kusa ninja could throw projectiles at her. Her right hand that still held the kiba blade quickly joined the left hand and Ringo started weaving quick blur of hand signs. The smarter ninja down under her, quickly started jump away from the center of the encirclement or weaved their own ninjutsu for a counter. Those that recognized the jutsu, quickly started weaving Earth Release: Mud Wall or Rock Wall. Anything that could stop...

Suiton: Oceanic Flood

Ringo was ready. She took a long breath and spewed incredible amount of chakra-supercharged Water under herself. The water impacted the ground and the sheer amount quickly started flooding the street getting two meters high instantly.

Ninjas on the rooftops gaped at their village being flooded while their more unfortunate comrades were being swept away by the violent water or drowned by the forceful current. Only some of the more experienced jonin actually managed to stand on the wave of the water. A spark of anger filled Kusa ninja on the rooftop and their head snapped upwards in search of Ringo.

Before they could see her form, they heard her mocking voice.

"Raiton: Electrical Discharge."

That shinobi who heard it and could quickly jumped away from any source of water. That jutsu was specially invented for these situations! No flashy sparks of lighting could be seen. Only horrid shrieks of dying men as the electricity coursed through the water, right into their bodies.

Ringo didn't wait though, she jumped back onto the rooftops and right into the closest group of Kusa shinobi, her swords gleaming with lightning chakra to sharpen the blades and get advantage since everywhere around was water. One touch and anyone connected to the water source would be zapped, losing focus.

Hundred-fifty-three.

Hu-

Ringo just severed the artery of a genin, sending blood all over the genin's horrified comrades but the Kusa again regrouped. The survivors were starting to get more ordered and send more and more coordinated attacks at her. Most of her time, Ringo had to block rather than attack.

Yes, she killed hundreds but... the village had thousands of shinobi.

Suddenly she jumped a few feets back as a large man's fist impacted the spot where she stood just a second ago, denting it. She looked closer at the man and laughed.

"Kazuma Nurawa." Ringo calmly stated. "One of the three strongest of Kusa, Three Grass Mowers."

"Ringo Ameyuri." Kazuma nodded at her with a frown, his eyes calm and collected. "Why are you attacking?"

Kazuma couldn't believe his eyes. In front of him was woman known for her ferocity. The best huntress Kiri produced in the last two decades. It was said no target was able to escape when Ringo Ameyuri hunted it. She was the best tracker of Kiri. She was one of the Seven Swordsmen of Kiri. She was the wielder of Kiba. She was the only woman among the Seven Swordsmen. And she defected. She became nuke-nin and many shat their pants from the thought of the battle-crazed demoness not being bound by laws of village. She was too much of a wild card. The woman got even bigger bounty than Hatake Sakumo from before the war! All because she could go bonkers and decide that hunting Daimyo would be challenging enough! Everybody knew the rumors of what she did to the family of previous Daimyo of Mizu. Horrible, shuddering things.

But nobody could ever find her and she was quiet... Until now. Why!?

"Was bored." Ringo shrugged uncaringly.

Kazuma's mood soured. He looked around. The rooftops were strewn with the corpses of his fellow shinobi. At least few streets were flooded, even more corpses floated lifelessly in the water. Kazuma only thanked whatever deity they evacuated civilians after the first attack. No, he thanked heaves they were ABLE to evacuate the civilians! After what he just saw... he did not really want to face the woman!

"I see, so be it." He sighed and took a fighting stance. Happy that their little talk allowed his comrades to again get into positions. They did not have much choice and had to overpower her with teamwork. There were hundreds of jonin, yes. But they were minor village and little with some shame, Kazuma would accept the fact that their jonin were not up to par! As was clearly obvious after ONE FUCKING SWORSWOMAN killed high tens of them without even receiving a scratch!

"Are you done yet?" Ringo drew out her voice. "You know... I can plainly see Kusakage sneaking behind me. And the other two of the Three Grass Mowers are not far behind." She sighed in sorrow. "I wanted to play some more but... Your forces are no longer in dissaray and your strongest fighters are here. So...-"

"Quickly attack!" Kazuma shouted, unwilling to let the woman leave after she slaughtered her way through his village!

"-bye." Ringo finishiched with a mischievous smile at the thought of how would they like the complete middle-finger to Konoha Rei built in the Self-storage seal in case they retreat from battlefield. She activated the seal and with a blue... flash dissapeared.

The entire Kusa shinobi force could only gape, shivers run through their spines.

"Flash..." Kusakage muttered, shaking, tightly closing his eyes as he wept for his dead shinobi.

This was a disaster.