"Rasengan!"

"Urg! Damn squirt you're more powerful than I thought!"

Naruko winced and quickly jumped back only for the tip of her hair to be sliced by the giant blade called Samaheda.

"You're fast also," Kisame muttered, charging in forward with Samaheda clutched in his hand. "But are you fast enough to dodge all of my attacks?!"

Naruko continued to dodge, but as she continued to dodge her chakra has been slowly slipping away. Narukp could say that the battle has been going on for many hours, but in truth they've been battling for an hour.

Distracted by her own thought, Kisame smirked and brought his blade up. "This ends here!"

"DAMN!"

Naruto quickly pulled out her kunai and jumped back as soon as her kunai broke in half. Wincing, she threw the broken handle away and started to think of an escape only for the Kyubi to yell at her.

Goddamn it you wench! Are you trying to get us both killed?!

'Damn it! I only have one minute to make an escape and I'm wasting it talking to a stupid furball!'

I can read your thought you know!

'Shut it! I'm trying to think here!'

Geez, Naruko never thought the day she was going to run away from an enemy. She was here to find Sasuke because of rumors of him lurking around the forest, but of course Itachi and Kisame happen to be lurking around here. And since Jiraiya wasn't here to help her, it was their only chance to get capture her because the only people with her was Kakashi and Sakura who were holding Itachi back.

Though no matter what, Naruko was determined to find Sasuke even if it meant fleeing an enemy.

Urg… Alright I'm sick of it. I'm only going to help you once for this pathetic life time.

'You're going to help me? How?'

Hmp, I'm not telling you but this is going to be risky. You think you can avoid him hitting you for a few more minutes? Maybe 5 should be enough.

'I might not make it in five minutes with the rate we're going to Fuzzball.' Naruko sighed and slowly inched back. 'but I'll see what I can do. As long as we get away from this fish face.'

"Hey!" The sharkman barked, watching the blond girl turn and running away. "Where the hell do you think you're going?!"

"Five minutes…" Naruko muttered, glancing back to see the shark easily catching up with her easily. "I hope you know what you're doing here Fuzzball."

'What is she doing?' Kisame asked himself, narrowing his eyes as he watched the blond as she took random turns which sometimes caught Kisame off guard. 'Does she think that if she stalls me her friends are coming for her? Hah, by now Itachi should have finished the two off.'

Naruko panted, her lungs burning and her legs turning numb. She wanted to stop and rest, but she couldn't afford to or she might as well give herself up to the Akatsuki. How many minutes had passed because it felt like hours.

'Fuzzball!' Naruko screamed at him. 'Are you even done yet?!'

Damnit woman! Just 10 more seconds!

"You better hurry!"

9

"Keep your guard up!"

8

"Wah!" Naruko yelled, slipping from the branch as she narrowly dodged Samaheda.

7

"I got you!"

6

Naruko winced, looked up at the sharkman's grinning face as she grabbed onto his blade.

5

Kisame frowned and swung his Samaheda around. "Let go!"

4

As Naruko held onto the blade, she clenched her eyes close as Kisame continued swinging his sword wildly. She was getting dizzy half of it because Samaheda was slowly sucking her chakra away.

3

Opening her eyes, she looked down and saw a small yellow portal opening.

2

Smirking, Naruko looked up at Kisame with a smirk. "Sorry, but you're not getting me this time." With that, Naruko gathered all the remaining chakra she had and kicked Kisame right on the wrist releasing Samaheda and her.

1

"NO!"

0!

As Naruko's vision was covered with white lines, the last thing she saw was Kisame being punched right on the face by none other than Sasuke Uchiha who's eyes widened seeing her disappear through the portal.

"NARUKO!"

Whistling along the path of the beach, 13-year old Luffy stopped and narrowed his eyes seeing a figure up ahead lying on the sand.

"Who's that?" Luffy asked himself, speeding up his walk.

Stopping in front of the figure, he looked down at a blond hair girl lying on her stomach. In her hand, she was clenching a giant sword fully covered in bandages. Not only that she was bruised badly. She needed medical attention right away.

Without thinking, Luffy carried her bridal style before running towards the village determined to save the mysterious girl with the giant blade.