Losing It [NK, Private Invite]

The pain of the kunai in his leg as he was slung over someones shoulder, the bouncing off the walk through the forest, the terrain that made the trip harder. All of these made Akio's stomach churn as his eyes were slightly open, staring at the ground below him. Honestly he was caught off guard and it all happened so quick he was unsure what had happened. Surely though a simply kunai couldn't cause such a problem. The Chunin could barely keep himself conscious as he silently fought to do so, his vision blurry as the edges of his field of view were darkened and appeared almost black and white. This gave him a sort of tunnel-vision as his body was draped over the shoulder of the man from the circus. Making his way to the gate the man would hand Akio off to one of the Jounin guarding the gate as he reported the happenings to the other before that shinobi would dismiss him and quickly follow the other.

Still barely conscious Akio would hear audible, although muffled voices as he was transported to some unknown location. While Akio would have no idea where he was he would be safely, at least as safe as possible for now, in a sort of medical tent area with various shinobi around him. The kunai would still be firmly lodged in the boys leg since there was a possibility that it could be blocking a fatal wound from causing the boy to bleed out. Although this might make it even worse since infection could occur, along with that while unknown to everyone the kunai would be coated with a virtually invisible coat of poison that was being forced through the boys body. While none would know of it as of now the poison would be causing damage to the boy as they watched. Although not fatal it would be the reason the Chunin was currently weak and not moving. As he was lying on the cot Akio would slip in to unconsciousness as his body would give into the toxins that were now in his systems.

After awhile a few medical-nin would arrive to treat the Chunin's wounds. The kunai now removed along with the wound being bandaged, but Akio would still be unconscious. Only arriving at the medical tents just after the sunset it would now be night time as Ako was being treated. The news having traveled quickly as people heard and continued to spread the word that a Kiri shinobi had been attacked at the circus, something that also seemed to be a planned attack due to the attacker having access to kunai and picking out a shinobi of the village to strike. Along with that some of the witnesses had happened to reported a figured leaving the area in a hurry, but do to everyone doing that after the attack and the leads being inconsistent no one knows for sure just how much that was reported actually happened and from that how much of it was really evidence that could be useful.

As he started to wake up on the cot Akio would be frantic and angry at his condition. Still weakened by the poison and drowsy the Uchiha would find a way to fight with the medical shinobi and the civilian nurses. "Get off of me!" He shouted as he shoved a civilian before struggling with a shinobi that was clutching his arm. The poison along with medical drugs scoring through Akio's veins would not mix well and piling stress and anger on that would cause his personality to drastically change. Akio would bring his free and around to strike the Special Jounin who was holding his other hand before catching the second hand. Growling Akio would swing his leg up over the other shinobi's head before bringing it back with all of his force, catching the man off guard and toppling him over as his heel dug into the boy's neck.

Then without a seconds notice three more shinobi would jump on Akio. Two of them grabbing his legs while the other held a single arm. The Chunin would struggle with almost a limitless supply of stamina. Unbeknownst to the other shinobi the poison that was on the kunai that had incapacitated Akio would follow up with hallucinations and induced anger. While most might not notice this would be made evident as Akio's eyes would blink a bit slower, reopening the his sharingan activated. This would show just how much he believed he was fighting of his life. Breaking his arm free Akio would use both of his arms to try and free his feet,using his superior speed and reaction time to pull them away if anyone tried to grab them before quickly returning to help with his struggle. Akio's eyes would shoot to his hips on both sides, noticing the lack of his pouches, he had no weapons...and that also meant the scroll was missing.

The Chunin seemed to fight like a wounded animal as he flailed around and shouted. "Where is it, what have you done with it!?" While he was more focused on the scroll now even returning it would not calm him, as he still saw the shinobi has horrible hallucinations. "Let me go!" While the shinobi would be confused and trying to calm him with words not a single one would be noticed by Akio as his eyes continued to dart back and forth, trying to keep track of the three shinobi fighting him, the rest of them around him, the nurses and search for his pouches and belongings all at once. Even this would cause more fear among the shinobi as nothing looked nearly practical do to the hallucinations morphing the surroundings into shadowy walls and horrible visions. Akio would continue to struggle and try his best as he fought against the shinobi, but as he was occupied with so much at once even his speed coupled with his sharingan would fail him in his haste as one of the Jounin got a hold of one of his arms back where they started.

WC: 1025
Chakra: 150/180

Jutsu:

Rei walked into the tent and saw his young student fighting back against three other shinobi while in his weakened state: if it were someone Rei didn't know, he might have chuckled at the stupidity of the scene. This wasn't the case however, Akio Uchiha, one of his new students had been injured by trying to do an A Rank mission: he had been transported here to the makeshift medical tent at the circus and three shinobi were not trying to hold the wild boy down. Rei could see that the boy's sharingan was activated: whatever he perceived, it was a serious matter. The Jounin turned his head to see the nurses rummaging through Akio's belongings, he frowned and walked up behind Akio who was struggling against the three ninja. One of the Jounin got a good hold of one of his arms and wrenched down to subdue the boy. Rei would take that opportunity to chop onthe back of the boy's neck light enough to "relax" him until he could calm down. Relax Akio, you've been treated for an injury. No one is going to touch your stuff. he said the last part while glaring at the nurses. It wasn't a nurses or medical shinobi's job to rifle through another shinobi's belongings without probably cause: in this case, there was little to none. Now that Rei was here and this was his student, his authority superseded those around him.

He walked over to Akio's stuff and picked it up, he went through it lightly just to ensure that the scroll with Anga's body was still there and in tact, of course it was. He held the bag up at Akio and then walked over to the boy and placed the bag in his arms. Leave us alone for a bit. Rei would say to all of them in the room after Akio would calm down enough. His eyes were heavily on Akio, the weak body and drained mental state from the medicine and poison had caused an imbalance n the boy's emotions and thoughts: he had been acting like a madman with the sole intention of protecting the only thing left that he held dead, the body of his sensei, one of Rei's old friends. It was ironic and sad how close lives were to each other, also how short and cruel life could be. The saddest part was, Rei could see Akio acting in the exact same manner even without the hallucinogens if someone attempted to take the scroll away from him. Rei would sit down after a moment and watch Akio, the Uchiha darkness was well within the depths of this boy even now. Just as it was within Takeshi and Rei's own self, though the hold over the two younger generation Uchiha wasn't quite so strong yet.

Limbs failing and screams would sound from the tents as the shinobi seemed to be completely uncooperative. While he would be struggling with the shinobi Akio would hesitate as he would hear his name mentioned, even though the words were even distorted by his changed state. He would quickly convince himself that he had been specifically targeted and would most likely be tortured or killed. "Who are you? Why was I targeted?" Then as he was given his bags Akio would act as if he was complying. Then with his sharingan still activated Akio's hand would shoot to the pouch with the senbon in it, unzip it and grab one before swinging his hand, trying to thrust the needle point into the neck of what he thought to be a stranger, even an enemy.

Land or miss Akio would turn on his heels and dart out of the tent with his bags in his hands. Unless something or this man were to keep him from doing so. Then assuming he was grabbed he would panic, attempting to sink his teeth into the arm of Rei not knowing who he was do to his distorted vision and hallucinations.

In the end if he was to escaped Akio's eyes would quickly dart back and forth across the village in search of an escape route. However if he were interrupted his eyes would stare back at Rei with fear in his eyes, anger would quickly over take him then as he would attempted to kick the man in the shin, his eyes still darting around for a way to get out of this situation. All the while he would be clutching the senbon pouch closed while holding the scroll tightly through the pouch. His mind would be racing between escaping this place, protecting the scroll and even fighting if it came to it.

WC: 310
Total: 1,335
Chakra: 150/180

Rei had thought giving the boy his bag would pacify the boy, but apparently he was more unhinged than Rei had imagined. Having adopted a peaceful manner with little guard, he had been quite surprised when Akio produced a senbon and jabbed it into Rei's neck. Instinctively, Rei would reach up at the weapon and gasp in surprised pain as Akio dashed out of the tent and began to run around like a wild man trying to escape. The wound on his neck wasn't lethal, it had grazed his neck and had made a jagged slash down his shoulderblade. Had it been a more direct blow, Rei wouldn't have had anything to worry about. Rei pulled the senbon from his neck and went after the boy before he got himself in trouble, Whatever medicine he was given, severely messed with his mind. rei told himself as he sighed in exasperation, he hated medicines.

He chased after Akio, the boy looking this way and that while trying to escape. His sharingan was active and he looked fearful, not recognizing his new sensei. Rei closed in on him quickly, having recently recovered from his wound and still doped on medicine, along with Rei's superior speed, he easily shortened the distance and got within melee range of the boy, which responded by trying to escape by kicking Rei in the shin. Rei didn't want to harm the boy, but if he didn't do something, then the boy would end up harming himself or someone else. You will thank me for this later, Akio. said Rei in the politest way he could as he ignored the jolt of pain his shin felt from the boy's kick. Black tendrils came out from Rei's body along the wound Akio had caused on Rei's neck and shoulder, these tendrils were thick and would attempt to grasp around the boy quickly and wrap him tightly in a powerful grip and lift him off of his feet.

If the boy hadn't escaped his quick tendrils, Rei would then slam the boy onto the ground and try to knock the wind out of him before straddling the black tendrils and sitting atop the boy's chest, the wound on his neck and shoulder being stitched up by black tendrils as he looked down at the boy. You calmed down yet or do you want some more Akio? No one is going to take Sanosuke from you. He would be ashamed if he saw you acting so foolishly and probably smack you real good. Rei said, trying to entice some reason in the boy. Just lay there and calm down, you are not in any danger. he was getting annoyed by now. By nature, Rei wasn't a social person and he hated unnecessary confrontation, especially in his young student.

A few people who were passing by, looked weird at the two Uchiha, one for the wild boy and the other at the young adult who had black threads hanging out of his body and stitching up a nasty gash. Rei ignored them for now, they were bystanders and nothing more unless they wanted to get mixed up in the Jounin's apprehending his deranged student.

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Black Thread Stitching	10
Chakra Pool	400-10=390

A wide grin would adorn the Chunin's face as he felt the needle dig into the other's neck. Quickly pulling it out as he turn and ran he would make it out of the tent, thinking he was home free as he looked around for an escape. Making it to the other buildings Akio would jump from the ground, his jump already sub-par from his injuries, but would be in more trouble as his foot was grabbed by one of the tendrils. The next thing Akio would feel would be the pain of his face hitting the ground followed by the rest of his body. Grunting in pain as his lungs were emptied of air from the force alone, gasping for air he would panic, scratching at the ground before airflow would continue. Glancing back to see what had grabbed him Akio would scream as he tried to scoot backwards, but was sat on. Rei was unrecognizable before, but the tendrils that were coming from his body made the hallucination even worse as Akio's sharingan stared back at the terror he was imagining. Not noting the crowd around them both Akio would thrash about and strike Rei several times in another attempt to break free. Although this one was no where near as easy. "Get off me! I don't care if you know my name!"

In a panic Akio would quickly summon three of his dummy clones before Rei as they all attempted to grab the Jounin. One grabbing each arm and the third attempting to hook both of his own arms under each of Rei's arms. If they were to grab Rei they would attempt to pull Rei from Akio's body. While his goal was to simply escape the man once more Akio would become infuriated by the mention of his deceased Sensei's name. Beginning to jump to the conclusion that this man had planned Sanosuke's death. "How do you know that name? Were you involved in it?!"

Angrily growling as he quickly formed two hand seals, the tiger seal followed by the rat seal. Which if successful would catch Rei in a genjutsu that would cause him to see several mist silhouettes of Akio which would approach him, also attempting to grab him. All the while Akio would be struggling with all of his force as his already weak body was now bruised by the impact caused by the tendrils. Although he would still have enough energy to at least struggle and make it a bit harder on Rei even if it didn't do much. As he did all of this his sharingan would stay active, almost forgotten about completely by now since Akio was to occupied panic as he tried with his full arsenal to fight Rei. If his pouches weren't pinned to his body by Rei's Akio would have reached for a second one, but that was not the case and the one he had already stabbed the Jounin with was knocked to the ground. While it was close enough for Akio to reach the Chunin had no idea where it was and was not searching for it in his haste.

WC: 525
Total: 1860
Chakra: 56/180

Jutsu:

Akio had a lot of repressed emotions regarding Sanosuke's death, he was taking the death of his sensei much too personal. Now with his emotional state weakened and vulnerable to the fears in his heart and the hallucinations, Akio truly believed those around him to be enemies, even his new sensei Rei. Even as Rei had tangled the boy up with his black threads to prevent Akio from running further away and causing trouble, the boy was not yet willing to give up. For someone incoherent enough to attack their allies, this boy sure does put up a mean little fight. Rei said to himself as he grimaced from the sheer stupidity of the situation. One of two things were going to happen soon, either Akio would exhaust his energy and run out of chakra, or Rei would render him unconscious. Right now, knocking him out seemed more like a desirable action.

The sight of his tendrils and subsequent wrapping on Akio's body had left the boy more freaked out than calmed down: the gruesome zombie-ish appearance mixed with his own hallucinations had caused the boy's sense of danger and alarm to skyrocket: so much that he had gone from small weapon use to using ninjutsu on Rei. Up his hands went and created three clones, Rei thought at first they might have been normal clone techniques, but as they grabbed at his arms to remove him from Akio, he realized these were more like shadow clones. They grabbed at his arms in an attempt to free their real body, but Rei's raw strength was much too high for them. He stood up and grabbed two of the clones with his free arms, with them in a tight grip, he flipped them over his back and slammed both of them right down on top of Akio's grounded position and used Akio's own clones as a weapon against the boy. The third clone was a nuisance, located directly behind him with a grip around his waist, Rei made another tendril come from his stitching in his neck and pierce right through the last clone. He was getting tired of these small antics and soon he would resort to more brutal methods to stop Akio.

That was when Akio's Genjutsu was used, while Rei had been busy with his clones, the boy had used another few seals and activated a Genjutsu. Rei didn't even recognize the activation of the jutsu, nor did he see the illusions. He felt the drop in his chakra automatically and knew that Akio had attempted to use a Genjutsu on him. If the boy kept it up, he would end up making himself pass out from the lack of chakra source. If Akio wanted to play mind games, Rei could play them as well... and he didn't need Genjutsu to do so. While the boy was intelligent enough to attack, he still couldn't rationalize friend from foe. Up his hands went and used the transformation technique to transform his appearance into that of Sanosuke. He stood there in front of the grounded Akio, his tendrils still wrapped tightly around the boy. Up his tendrils went and lifted Akio into the air and held him upside down and suspended.

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Transformation	2
Chakra Pool	390-2=388

Akio would grin and begin to push on Rei as he saw his clones had grabbed their target. While the Chunin's legs would slip out from under Rei's body as the Jounin grabbed two of the clones, the ones on the far end of each arm, picking them up before slamming them both back down on Akio's body. This new wave of pain would surge through the boys body as the third clone would be speared by the stitched that Rei had been using. His body would throb with pain as he felt broken by all of this damage that had been done to him by his own Sensei not to mention how drugged up he was on medicine and the poison that was still within his body.

As the clone that was speared by stitches fell to the ground with blood pooling from the wound the other two would quickly roll off of Akio's body before the boy would attempt to stand up. Just getting on his feet Akio would notice a puff of smoke form around his enemy's body as the tendrils would jerk him into the air, suspending him upside down by his foot. While the two still living clones would keep their distance until the smoke cleared they would get chills running down their spines just as Akio would as all three saw what was waiting inside the smoke. All three of them would shake their heads as they spoke all at once, each saying a different sentence. "It's not real. This is just some sick joke! No, no stop it!" As the real Akio would shake his head the other two would rush toward the transformed Rei. Not buying that it was their former Sensei at all. While the clones could think independently Akio would break down at the sight. "No, you're not real. You're dead! THIS ISN'T REAL!"

Then in a desperate attempt to end all of this Akio would not be paying attention to his chakra. His crimson eyes focused on what looked like his now deceased Sensei. Then without any hand seals being formed two more clones would form behind Rei as they sprinted toward him, thrusting their shoulders into Rei's back. While the two that were smashed on top of Akio would attempt to do the same to the front of Rei. However as the two additional clones were formed Akio's eyelids would droop from exhaustion before shooting back open for a split second, a second tomoe visible in each eye before they would loose their red shine and revert back to Akio's original golden tinge. Then without hesitation his eye lids would droop once more, this time followed by his body going limp as he had used up most of his reserves of chakra. Although the four clones were still very much conscious as they would launch their assault on Rei. Hoping that it would be enough to bring the man masquerading as Sanosuke down from the force of the blow.

WC: 501
Total: 2361
Chakra: 16/180

Rei didn't grin at all now, he held a serious expression on his face as he held Akio suspended in the air. The two clones rolled away from their slammed position and hopped to their feet: they were enraged that Rei had used the appearance of the deceased sensei. What you are seeing isn't real boy, you better snap out of it and calm down before you get yourself seriously hurt! Rei demanded, trying to reason with the grieving boy. Whether or not he would convince the real Akio, the two clones were beyond reason and they rushed at him headlong in an attempt to take him down and stop the disillusion of the dead sensei.

Unbeknownst to Rei, Akio had somehow created two more clones of Akio would appear behind Rei. The older Jounin Uchiha lowered Akio abruptly just as his sharingan began to flicker and the second stage tomoe was born. TO evade the rushing front clones, Rei leaped high and brought his own legs up to his waist: the two clones from the front crashed into the two clones from behind and Rei whipped around as he landed on his feet and used his threads as a whip to slam into the four clones, surprised to catch four instead of two. These were clones, unnecessary and a nuisance to him right now. The real Akio was just now passed out on the ground behind him, so Rei did what someone with cold rational would. As his threads were wrapped around the four clones and bound them tightly together in an uncomfortable jumble, Rei squeezed tighter with his threads and focused his chakra into the threads and crushed the clones. They would struggle and gasp for a moment as a resounding crackle would echo in the area and then the clones would fall limp. Still disguised as Sanosuke, Rei caused his threads to retreat into his body as he bent down and picked up the real Akio and wandered off to where he knew the boy lived alone in seclusion.

Hearing Rei state that their sight was false the clones denied it, tears in a few of their eyes while the rest held only a leer of hatred toward whoever was behind this masquerade.  Their feelings would take over while they rushed toward Rei with everything they had, moving at full speed as they got closer and closer to Rei. Their muscles tensing up as their feet dug into the dirt, kicking up some dust as all four launched off of the ground toward Rei at the last moment. although caught up in their haste they would be caught off guard as Rei dodged with a high leap into the air. Having left the ground all four would be too late to react to Rei's actions as they all collided with the clone opposite of them. Their bodies would go to fall to the ground, but they would be caught by the tendrils protruding from Rei's body. Tightening around the heads of all four clones four loud cracks would sound in rapid succession, almost indistinguishable from each other due to how fast they sounded after another. Three of them would be unconscious although the forth would not be as lucky. Kicking and yelling as he felt the pressure of the thread increase until his body would go limp like the rest.

The thump of the four skulls colliding with the ground would be heard from a good few meters away. The four clones were obviously unique from normal clones, seeing as the pressure of the threads didn't disperse them. Not even the damage of death would kill them, allowing them to fall to the ground as they remained their for a few minutes. Blood would pool below the four as it poured from every opening in their head, including the eyes, nose, even the ears and mouth. This morbid sight would be gruesome at best as Rei would pick up Akio and head toward the gates. The crowd staring at Rei before looking back to the clones. Akio's chakra being low coupled with him being unconscious would lose control of the four clones as they disappeared with a poof of smoke. Although the blood would still remain on the ground, sinking into the soil, serving a reminder to anyone who had saw the fight, if you could even call it that with it being so one sided.

Limp in Rei's arms as the Jounin carried him the only sign of life from him beside his pulse would be the light raspy breathing that trailed off into a wheeze at the last moment of every inhale. After being carried for awhile Akio would begin to show a few more signs that should bring about worry. He would begin sweating a concerning amount as his body seemed to be radiating heat to a point that Rei would be able to notice just from carrying him. By the time the two would reach the gate Akio's breathing would become more rapid and his forehead would be hot to the touch.

Continuing on through the gate and toward the forest the crowd would lose sight of Rei and Akio as the former carried the latter. A good bit of walking later Rei would reach Akio's house. As he was placed onto his bed Akio would roll over to his side, the pouches containing his senbon and the scroll that held his Sensei would fall onto the bed as Akio unconsciously curled around the pouches. Then out of no where he would begin to shiver as if he was cold, although Kiri was a humid and warm area and today was no exception. Although he one were to touch or even look at him the boy would be noticeably hot, showing just how much of a toll that the poison from the kunai had taken on his body that it felt completely different from what it should.

[Exit]

WC: 652
Total: 3013
Chakra: 16/180

It was unfortunate at how Rei had dealt with Akio's weird clones, but he was not a person to care about such matters. Unless it had been his student himself that had been injured, Rei could care less about what happened to a clone. He himself possessed a high level cloning technique, but he had even killed it once just because he wanted to test out one of his more powerful Ninjutsu. He left the area with Akio in his arms, ignoring the corpses of the boy, certain they would disappear soon. The people around however were shocked and mortified a fight had broken out in front of them, they stood for a few minutes uncertain what to do about the identical corpses, but eventually the bodies faded though left a nasty pool of blood in the spot.

As Rei carried Akio, the boy was dormant and passive, he had used up much of his chakra and was now feeling the fatigue. His body felt warm to Rei's own body as he carried him, at first he thought it might have just been friction. He carried the boy all the way to his living quarters secluded from the rest of the village and placed the boy on the bed. That was when he noticed that the boy was suffering cold chills and a fever. He placed a hand on the boy's head and released his own hold on the Sanosuke transformation he had been using. Akio is burning up with a fever, I should go get a medical shinobi. he told himself and stood up abruptly after covering the boy in a blanket. He left the house and quickly went to find a medical shinobi to bring, soon Akio would be treated and eventually feel better. Though Rei would have some choice words for the boy at all the mischief he had caused.