Ryu...?

[rini]

Rini continued to charge after her brothers captor, "Give him back!! What do you want with my brother!?" She called after him, only to be surprised by Kumori's actions. "HEY!! What are you doing Kumori, let me go!!" She exclaimed, angrily for him interfering like this. What was going on...? She struggled and tried to get away from him and continue after the person.

[Kumori]

As soon as Kumori felt himself caught in his own move he knew it was hopeless, for him to fight it, but giving up was not part of his nature. "SHIT!" kumori yells as he is forced to grapple Rini, "I am sorry, but at the moment he os controling my body." he tries to explane. While trying everything he could think of to break the hold the stone nin had on him.

[Yuki]

The stone nin smiled. He turned around (forcing Kumori who held Rini to do the same.) He made them march in opposite directions from each other, and with the long shadow of the Kage's stone faces, it seemed his jutsu would be endless. He peered over his shoulder, just to make sure that his vitims were heading the way he wanted them to... strait for the river that ran from the hot springs...

[rini]

"I don't know whats gotten into you... But you better get it out!" She exclaimed, using her knowledge of slipping out of a guy who was being too forceful grasp to her advantage. Twisting pinching and hitting delicate spots that she had learned would weaken a guys grip. Apologizing as she did to Kumori. Dropping out from under his arms to turn and run back towards the Stone nin. A rather serious look on her face, that was rather startling when you knew Rini. If looks could kill... The gaze in her eye would make the stone nin drop dead if such a thing were true. Rini was a sweet person and all, but when it involved her brother she could be pushed to her breaking point easily enough, and she had had a trying day concerning him already. Plus manipulating someone who had been helping her so much today...? No she was past her timid self and quite angry now.

[Kumori]

Kumori groaned in pain as rini hit him trying to get away, but other then that made no more reaction to it then did the stone nin. The hits did break his concentration, just when he though he was on to something. His father had told hom something about this jutsu once, but he could not seem to bring it to mind. He had figured out that this was no stone nin attacking them though. Not if he could use his own jutsu, there were only three people he knew of that could be able to do this, his father, his brother, or perhaps Kakashi if he had used his Sharingan while a member of is family used the Jutsu. He also knew that the nin had just felt the same pain he did from Rini's attack.

[Yuki]

The stone-nin reeled from Rini's hits as well, and she managed to get free from the hold he had Kumori put her in... There was only one thing left to do, he clasped his hands, "Assimilated, Kagemane no jutsu!" The assimilation techniques were known from groups of travelling ninjas that went from village to village, without ever calling any particular one home for long, and stole secret jutsus to further their own cause; just like Orochimaru. They were not quite as powerful as the originals, but worked none the less. The shadow half way between the stone-nin and Kumori shot out, trying to grab at the shadow attached to Rini's heels as she ran...

[rini]

As was habit, it would be hard for the shadow to catch Rini's. Her steps as she ran had that natural bounce to them. Making her shadow jerk at the last second as she bounded forward. But there was no telling if she could continue to luckily avoid it for long... Rini really had no idea there was a shadow after her, she knew very little about the jutsus and probably should study them more. In fact the only jutsu she really truly knew was her own...

[Kumori]

Kumori seeing the shadow launch itself at Rini. He yelled, "NO!"and the shadow that was trying to catch Rini came back into the main shadow. When Kumori saw this it shocked him so much that he allowed the shadow to launch itself at Rini again. That should not be possible. he thought to himself. But this is a imatation, if I was able to do that, I wonder if I could take full control. Kumori shut his eyes, and started to concentrat on the chakra being used to connect their shadows, try to find a way to take full control of the shadow.

[Yuki]

It was no use, the stone-nins chakra was too powerful and the shadow was not going to budge towards him... He hunkered down, forcing Kumori to do the same. And a shadow hand started creeping up Kumori's leg. All he had to do was wait, as soon as Rini stepped inside the shadow to retrieve her brother, her actions would be controled by him as well...

[rini]

Of course Rini had no idea this was going to happen, and at this point she just wanted to get to her brother Ryu. And in a matter of time she would be standing within the shadow that was so dangerous to them right now. She glared at the stone-nin, quite in determination. She really needed to learn more about various jutsus... She could handle against common trouble makers in the area she lived in various situations, but someone with real power... That was another matter.

[Kumori]

"Rini stop!" Kumori yelled, "If you step inside the shadow, he will control your every action." Kumori was struggling to keep the shadow hand from rising further. He knew that it could potiontialy kill him. He noticed that at the same time as the stone nin did the jutsu to make the shadow hand start to climb his leg, he did the same hand seal. He stoped focusing his chakra to stop the hand from climbing his leg, but to try to get a hand to start climbing the stone nin's leg.

[Yuki]

The stone nin smiled, Rini was about to step into the shadow of her own free will, and while a shadow hand was climbing his leg, he closed his eyes and smiled... Kumori didn't seem to have trouble stopping one hand on his leg, the same as the stone-nin wouldn't... the problem was, not only was there a shadow hand now on each of Kumori's legs, heading for the throat... but one traveling up each of his sides...

[rini]

Rini heard Kumori yelling at her, and skidded to a halt. Or at least tried to, she ended up falling forwards and landing half way into the shadows, the point to her stopping to begin with defeated...

[Kumori]

"Damn" Kumori said, but could not spare any real attention to Rini's prediciment. He was in dire straights himself. He now was trying to stop the hands moving up his sides from getting any further up, while trying to continue his own attack on the stone nin. His shadow hands started to slowly wrap themselves around the nin's legs moving up towards his throat. He glanced quickly over at Rini to see how she was doing. Maybe if she struggled against the jutsu he may have an easier time of stopping the nins attack.

[Yuki]

Two hands made of shadow began climbing Rini's legs as well. There was no sign of fatigue on the stone-nins face, he seemed calm and placid. "Give up now, let me take my prize, and I will let the two of you live."...