Ouch.

Shadows begin to appear as the Akatsuki members are sent back to base, after Dominic's devastating attack.

I fall to my knees panting and holding my head.

Killua rises from the shadows...
"well that was a spoiler... noone wanted to hit a child"
*pouts

Tears start streaming down my face then I shake my head "Damn you Kaida you weak little fool," I said and wiped the tears away "You think they know we're still alive?"

Kumori appears from the shadows, more injured and strained than everyone else. "Yes. They probably do." She winces quietly in pain and falls to the ground. Before she completely collapses, Hito appears, catching her. "Be still."

"Great so that means the element of surprise is out," I said

"Dominic is dead. I highly doubt they'll be worrying about us." Kumori sits up with the help of Hito.

(Lul. Everyone is going to read the topic and be all WTF?!?!?)

(Yeah I know a certain someone that will be like WTF X 2 when he gets on XD) "What a noble effort, in a pathetic attempt to save the ones he loves he sacrifices himself to kill us. Noble, foolish, utterly pathetic, an in vain."

OOC: Oh okay, so Akatsuki survived bec. of the shadow thing. I wasn't able to read that.. Haha.. Nah well..

IC:

Haruko slammed the door open. "Kumoriiiiiii! Next time, remember to include me in your shadow, alright?!" She grunted as she walked in, blood dripping down her face and her clothes almost completely torn down. She walked into a wall, stopped, sighed, and shrugged.

"What the hell happened!!!!!" She punched the wall, causing an explosion and the whole headquarters experienced a minor shock.

For the first time in years, she lost her temper.

"I can't believe this! I can't believe this! The stone was like, in front of me!" She pouted. "And now it's gone.

-Trigon was laying there, more injured than anyone else. He had lost his arm to Haji in battle and severly affected by the sacrificial attack by Dominic. He ley there unconcious.-

With Hito's help, Kumori stands up and walks over to Trigon. She kneels next to him. "Trigon. Wake up. I can't help you if you don't wake up." Kumori heals Trigon just enough to bring him out of unconsciousness. As she waits for him to wake, she looks at Haruko. "Dominic is dead. That makes one less obstacle for us. We will retrieve the stone."

(Lul, Hanako I did bring you here.....it was a default all Akatsuki shadow thing. But that’s okay. :3 You're here anyways.)

-Trigon opens his eyes slowly, still in obvious pain.-

"Naminea... Here. Now." In a flash of light, Naminea appears. "Yes Kumo...OH." She runs up and kneels next to Trigon. Kumori takes off her jacket, exposing many cuts and injures. She holds her arm next to Trigon's face. "Bite down." Despite her chakara loss, Kumori readies herself for a chakara transfer. "Naminea, work on his arm. Stop the bleeding." Naminea nods and makes a hand sign. Her eyes glow and she begins healing Trigon's wounds.
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Heal Bite: Kumori can heal other's wounds by having them bite into her skin and sucking out her chakra. In addition to rapidly depleting her chakra reserves, she is left with a bite mark every time she uses it. Due to this depletion of chakra, it is dangerous for her to use this ability more than once a day.
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(Because Naminea wasn't apart of the fight, she's not injured.)

-Trigon bites down on her arm and awaits treatment.-

As Kumori's chakara runs into Trigon, his minor wounds start to heal. His chakara begins to regain power within him. Naminea works on his major injury. After a few moments, the bleeding is stopped and the major damage is almost healed. Kumori nods once and pulls away her arm before all of her chakara is depleted. She is left with a fragile reserve, but she does not show how it’s affecting her. "Naminea, when you are finished, help me with the others... please." She nearly collapses when she stands, but Hito keeps her up. Naminea nods and bandages Trigon before standing up to help.

(He’ll still be hurt. But he won’t die or anything.)

-trigon looks at his arm missing. In a narrow voice he says.- "Where can I find a new arm?"

"I know of an automail maker in Amestris." Kumori looks down at him. "Unless anyone else has ideas....we can go to her."

-Trigon nods but is just expressionless bc of his loss in the battle.- "Thatll be fine..."

"Dominic is dead. That makes one less obstacle for us. We will retrieve the stone."

Haruko didn’t say anything. She simply looked around to see the others, and was completely silent when Nam was healing Trigon. She saw Kumori extremely exhausted of everything. She felt useless. Now that she thought about it, her skills were purely for herself. True, it aids others with her sand shields, but she can do nothing right here, right now. She, herself, was completely fine, with full replenished chakra, and only minor cuts which she knew would spontaneously heal later, while her groupmates were very to severely damaged. She sighed. If only she could give them her chakra, it would’ve been easier. She sat down and sighed. ”I don’t hate losing. I despise it.”

Naminea helps Trigon up. Kumori looks at Haruko. ".....as do I. But at least we didn't lose anyone. Even I'm allowed to care about that." She walks out of the room with Hito and heads down the hallway to her room. She quietly disappears inside. Naminea stays behind to see if anyone else needs healing.

Haruko sighed. “I know.” She stood up and walked out of the room through the destroyed wall. She stopped outside, and disappeared towards the forest far from the headquarters, and there, she released her anger. She punched the ground causing huge giant spikes, boulders, rocks, stones, random things to appear out of nowhere, filling the area. The ground rumbled as the sand moved wildly. Countless large craters were formed; sand tornados could be seen as trees were uprooted from their place; and lots and lots of sand scattered in the air moving randomly. She stood up, disappeared, and finally reappeared back in the headquarters. “Haah. Anyway, anyone here have spare Akatsuki cloak?” she said as she looked down at her torn clothes.

Naminea looks at Haruko, mentally laughing. "Errr....I have one..." >.>

Haruko laughed inside. ”Thanks, but, uhm, I was actually talking to, you know, taller people? Hehe..” She gave a wide smile.

Naminea rolls her eyes. "Always so particular. Fine. I'll ask Kumori... I'm going to go check on her. She overdid it today." Naminea turns and walks out of the room and heads for Kumori's room.

(Lul, I'm posting for Naminea because Lauren, actual Naminea, asked me to. Woop.)

OOC: I thought you’re Naminea? XD

IC:

”Oooh, okie.. I’ll go with you then. She smiled as she ran with Naminea to Kumori’s room.