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The moon shown through the open window. A cool breeze ruffled the sheets and the slim body shifted in the sheets. A pale hand fisted around the white sheets as the young girl pulled the sheets around her trying to keep warm. Her sandy blond hair was strewn over the pillow as she turned over her back now to the breeze.

The girl, Temari, rolled out of bed. She straightened out her clothing as she rubbed her eyes walking over to the mirror. She ran her hand through her hair before going into the bathroom. She turned on the shower and hummed to herself as she pulled of her clothing. The hot water soon steamed up the bathroom as she stepped in wetting her hair. Her hands found the soap as she washed herself off. Soon she poured shampoo into her blond hair and sighed as it was still dark out. The sun crept up over the dunes and the teal eyed girl groaned and rolled over. All to soon the alarm clock set off. A pale arm shot out from under the covers and slammed down on the poor clock. The clock whimpered before falling silent. The lump under the covers shifted and rolled over. After a few minutes she decided it was time to get up.

Soon she was done with her shower and the blond stepped out of the shower. She wandered into her room and pulled on the black dressed before tying the red obi around her waist. She pulled the fan holder on and slid the fan in before locking it. She walked over to the mirror and brushed her hair before parting it and putting it up in four ponytails. The teal eyed girl sighed looking at her reflection in the mirror before walking down stairs to the kitchen.

After a good fifteen minutes the blonde thought she had a decent breakfast. Eggs. She knew that eggs shouldn't take so long. But hey, she never said she was a good cook. Nor that all the food she ate was eatable. Most was. She played with the food on her plate before she pushed the eggs into her mouth. She never was hungery in the morning. But she would force herself to eat even if it made her want to throw up. She winced feeling the food slide down her throat. Soon she had finished eatting about half of her eggs and she threw the rest away.

The blond girl sighed again before she cleaned up what mess she had made before placing the fan on her back. The fan was shifted on her back as she headed outside the heat of the desert slapping her head on as she walked to train. She slowly made her way out into the desert to train herself, she knew she would have to go into shelter around noon, if not earlier. So she figured she had better start early.

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(I'll RP Lithak here, once he's accepted)

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As Lithak wandered through the desert sands, his visor began to slip off. Cheap thing. He'd known he wasn't going to get far, but he decided to be nice to the poor looking vendor and buy the cheap visor anyways. It'd kept the sun out of his eyes for a while. The wind seemed to pick up unnaturally fast, and then die down. He could also detect faint traces of chakra scattered about the winds. "Another wind user, perhaps?" the demon in his soul pondered. "If so," he spoke aloud, "they've been using wind for a long time. It's pretty rare to see wind chakra so finely trained..." There was an odd silence as he approached the direction the odd wind was blowing from. "You're thinking of her, aren't you?" questioned Onimaru. Lithak nodded. He couldn't lie to a being that could feel his thoughts anyways. "The one who killed Tayuya. They said she was a Wind user from Sunagakure," Lithak's voice came out tainted with disgust. It was a side of him not many people saw. The unpleasant, vengeaful side. "What's your plan? Wind on wind, perhaps?" asked Onimaru with a chuckle. Lithak's fingers brushed the katana at his side. "You know... she always used to like the wind..." he said. As he finally reached the source of the wind, he saw a woman. His heart raced with excitement. "Hey!" he called out, "are you Temari of the Sand?"
The hunt for Sasuke would have to wait

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The woman sighed as she landed instantly upon her feet hitting the ground she used her chakara to keep herself perfectly balanced on the shifting sands. The teal eyed teen used the back of her gloves to wipe the sweat on her forehead away. She was breathing somewhat hard before she managed to catch her breath. The sand she was sitting up was starting to get to her. The woman shook her arm somewhat as she let her fan slid closed with a solid click. She pulled her hair ties out of her hair and shook her head slightly getting the sand out. Temari then put her hair back up in the four ponytails.

'Hey! Are you Temari of the Sand?'

She looked up hearing the voice,"Who else would I be." She stated her voice dull. The woman leaned against her iron fan as she pushed her bangs back out of her face. Temari straightened up looking at the person arms across her chest, fan on her back.

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Lithak stared into her eyes. This will be interesting, Onimaru said within him. "Do you remember Tayuya of the Sound Four?" Lithak questioned her. "Do you remember the woman that you killed..."

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The teal eyed woman looked at the man brow raised,"The woman I killed-" She said,"-a woman I killed." Temari said shrugging,"Yeah. I do." She said nodding slightly blinking as she shifted the leg her weight was on from one leg to the other her care for those she killed obvious. She had learnt not to care. She wasn't allowed to. She placed her hands on her hips and she looked at him,"Why?"

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Lithak's eyes flared with rage, and he activated his Yamigan, and unsheathed his katana. "You stole the only person I ever loved from me," said Lithak, "you couldn't just let the brat go, stupid suna pregnant dog." His katana found a comfortable position as his muscles tensed with rage. It was such a change from his normal attitude. Impressive

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Temari raised a brow before she moved and she grabbed the war fan from her back, not opening it, she let it rest on it's end in the sand. The teal eyed woman sighed somewhat,"It was either us or her." Temari stated before shrugging slightly one of her hands resting on the hilt of the iron fan a smirk playing on her lips. Yes, he knew she could be a b!tch.

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"You or her, huh..." muttered Lithak as his stance slacked and he glared into the ground. "You caused the only woman I ever loved an insurmountable amount of pain," he said, "you scattered her across that forest... I could barely recognize her once beautiful face. And now, the bastard she was originally trying to protect killed the one who sent us out there to die." His grip on his katana tightened as he seemed to shiver with rage. "The pain you caused me can't be forgiven," said Lithak, "Evil or not, die!" The Katana twisted, and he slashed the air. "Kamaitachi no Jutsu!" he called out. A smaller, but sharped version of Temari's own attack came whipping at her

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Temari nodded,"Us or her." The woman corrected before she felt the area around them seemed more powerful with his anger.

'You caused the only woman I ever loved an insurmountable amount of pain, you scattered her across that forest... I could barely recognize her once beautiful face. And now, the bastard she was originally trying to protect killed the one who sent us out there to die.'

Temari swallowed her grin hearing this. The woman looked at him seeing and feeling his rage. Temari tightened her grip on her weapon sencing an oncoming attack. Teal eyes squinted slightly as she used her fan to propell her up into the air before yanking her fan up and bringing her arm back and swinging the fan after it clicked open.

"Daikamaitachi no Jutsu"

She muttered under her breath the fan letting out high winds that held her chakara inside it enabling it to slice through whatever it came in contact with.

[xDarknessFallsx]

While the speed of her wind was greater, the Daikamaitachi of Temari's fan was simply an upgraded version of her original attack. While Lithak's version didn't punch through the entire attack, a small section of her wind dissappated and his wind was slowed to a creeping halt. Lithak gritted his teeth. "That attack," mumbled Lithak, "I hate that attack." Lithak hadn't used Daikamaitachi simply because he despised the attack with all his soul. His eyes had the unfortunate effect of him knowing exactly what jutsu had been used by clues left around, so long as he knew about the jutsu. He knew that it wasn't the attack that had killed Tayuya, but it was almost the same attack. "Tayuya..." mumbled Lithak as he placed a hand over his chest. "Play me a song in the afterlife, while I exterminate the one who killed you. I promised you I'd never transform again..." Lithak became lost in his own thoughts as he spoke alloud, "my demon form was the only thing that ever scared you... I'm sorry."
Lithak opened his eyes, and revealed them to have turned completely jet black. This was his Yamigan. And for the rest of this fight, it would be activated. "Wind Style user," said Lithak, "strong suited to distanced attacks, currently focusing your chakra into your fan in case I decide to use Kamaitachi again... don't worry. I'll be using... different tactics from now on." His voice grew dark as the sky seemed to blacken. The blinding sun pierced through the darkened air, and created a dim light. A dark chakra surrounded him, sizzling his skin. Now, Onimaru could speak to the outside world. Whenever he entered this form, he'd always become more feral. "I hate you..." growled Lithak as he stabbed into the ground with sharpened claws. He bared newly grown fangs, as well. "Sister of the former Ichibi host," he howled out, "you shall meet your fate at the hands of a demon!"

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Temari landed silently as she kept herself from sinking into the sand. The woman blinked slightly mounting her fan back as she waited for an oncoming attack.

'Wind Style user, strong suited to distanced attacks, currently focusing your chakra into your fan in case I decide to use Kamaitachi again... don't worry. I'll be using... different tactics from now on.'

Temari raised a brow before nodding some,"Hai." She said her voice dull as she seemed to slowly switch from her normal mood to her normal fighting mood.

'Sister of the former Ichibi host'

Temari thought to herself 'Jesus, why do I....like...attract demons...' She rolled her eyes before forcusing back on him waiting for an attack.

'you shall meet your fate at the hands of a demon!'

She kept her hands ready to grab a weapon if she needed to. Sweat rolled down the side of her face and down her neck as the sun beat down onto her, like it had for the past few hours. She didn't bother to wipe it away as she was fighting. Though one hand did move and pushed her hair moving it out of her face.

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Onimaru's voice seethed out to Temari from Lithak's very soul. "Mmmm..." Onimaru said, "I wonder, will this be as easy as the rising and falling of the sun, or will act as a fish against the tide"

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Temari raised a brow her hands on her hips someone the iron fan resting comfortably on her back, she knew where it was and she could pull it out if she needed to as she waited for the attack. She ignored what he said as she blinked her cold teal eyes already having closed herself off to emotion.

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Lithak sighed, standing upright. "I've come here to avenge a fallen comrade," he said, "but I'm not going to fight you if you're not going to put up a fight, it goes against my moral codes..." Lithak took a breath, and turned. "You'd better show respect to Tayuya, you understand me?" he said calmly, "next time, I might just forget myself."
As he went to walk away, he stopped. "Hey girl," he said, "do you know where I can find Sasuke Uchiha?" He glanced at her behind him. "Tayuya died for the man who betrayed her sacrifice. I've got an agenda with that bastard Uchiha."