Team seven and team eight are given a joint high D-rank mission clearing an old shrine and the surrounding forest hazards and unwanted occupants from snakes, insects, boars and bears and anything else the new owner wants off of the property however they run into a very unexpected and cranky occupant trying to stay alive
Hokage's office
"I want something other than dog walking and weeding Hokage-jiji." complained a orange clad Genin his teammates nodding in agreement, "We need action not chores." Rubbing his temples to ward of the new headache as Iruka began to list reasons they were doing the so called chores to the complaining blond. "SILENCE." shouted the now enraged Hokage. "Naruto, I know you're annoyed at the constant D-ranks that your team has been doing, but you must do thirty-five of them before you can even think about a C-rank, and team seven has only done twenty-five D-ranks so far, we can change them up so you won't be dog walking at least." Seeing the team's nods of thanks, Sarutobi continued "We have catching Tora, helping the Akimichi clan get rid of a termite infestation, fence painting and a joint mission to clear an old shrine of forest hazards and unwanted animals." The Genin team looked at each other before speaking, in unison.
"The last one."
"The last one jiji."
"The last one sir."
"I thought as much, you'll be working with team eight for this mission." Stamping the mission approved before tossing the scroll to Kakashi, who then lead team seven out of the office. "Was sending Naruto on this mission such a good idea with his penchant for trouble Hokage-sama?" Asked Iruka. "With him, I have no idea; now go back to the academy already." 'This will be a long day.' The old man thought as he returned to his paper work after lighting his pipe.
Team seven
Arriving at the east gate team seven was greeted by team eight and their client, A tall man in his early twenties sporting black shorts a heavily worn grey shirt, a pair of battered work boots complete with throwing knives, muscle and sunburn that marked him as a working man was seen on all his uncovered skin. Spotting team seven he walked over to Kakashi "Are you group two for the job I put in?" his voice was hard but lacked any edge to it. "If you're the one who put in the mission for the forest shrine then yes." At this the man's face lit up "Good I'm Doko, now we can go get to work" with that he turned toward the gate and motioned for the teams to follow him as he exited the village followed by two nervous Genin teams on their first time outside the village gates.
Seeing the Genin's fear doko spoke up. "We won't be going too far from the village a quick sprint for you shinobi, and I highly doubt we'll need to with your sensei with us." After they'd all calmed down, Kakashi moved up to talk to Doko on the job specs as the Genin began to chat. This was Sakura pestering Sasuke for a date whilst Kiba and Naruto were catching up with Hinata listening in on them and Kiba trying to get her to talk while Shino stayed to himself staring off at the forest. At the end of the walk a half hour later, Hinata was able to murmur out answers to questions and Sakura was still single, the group stood at a section of property near the back of the forest of death and it appeared there was not much difference between the two. "The property is twenty-five miles square butting right up to training ground forty-four." At that the Jounin paled as Doko continued. "For one reason or another nothing besides the plants even crosses the fence line, for that matter even comes near the place, though I was told they could easily live there." At that the Jounin sighed in unison. "I want the Aburame and Inuzuka with the sensei up front to clear the area of any animals, how is up to you." At this Kakashi moved to protest "The Jounin are here to…" "I asked for two Genin teams and their senseis, now work. Or do I need to report this." At that Kakashi shut up and started walking. "While most of team eight clear the forest, the rest of you are with me clearing underbrush out." Pulling a brace of machete's from behind a tree taking one for himself before tossing the rest to the Genin "If we finish this today I'll pay double, now let's get to work."
Grabbing one of the machete's Naruto immediately called out the name of his signature technique. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" In an instant the road was filled with fifty Naruto's who at once charged the underbrush to begin clearing it. With the bystanders minds trying to register what had just happened resulting in four dropped jaws and one blushing Hyuga heiress.
'Show off'
'Sasuke-kun's still better, although… No no no.'
'Sugoi, Naruto-kun's so cool, why can't I just talk to him.'
'Damn that's cool'
'….'
"What is Kakashi teaching these kids!?'
'This is perfect.'
"All right there's been a change in plans, we're just going to pull the brush they uproot out here to burn," The Genin perked up at doing less work. Pointing at Sasuke, Doko continued "Brooders with me the rest of you are your own group." Seeing no one moving Doko barked, "Snap to it we're burning daylight!" At that Naruto, Hinata and Sakura darted for the forest to begin pulling brush out while Doko and Sasuke setup a burn pit by simply clearing a large area of anything flammable to dispose of as waste as the others started piling the brush in the center though Sakura soon started complaining.
"Can we take a break, Sir?" "And why do you want a break? Even the Hyuga girl is doing more than you!" Annoyance dripping off of his voice as he lit the pile on fire. Sakura immediately retorted. "The branches keep messing up my hair and scratching me." Doko's response was to throw her a ball of cloth from his shorts. "Put those on and get back to work." Unfolding the package Sakura found a bandana and work gloves. As she was about to start complaining again, Doko shot her a look to kill. "Back to work miss." At that she complied putting her hair up under the bandana before pulling the work gloves on. 'I'll just have to ask Naruto to make me a clone then I can go relax over in the shade.' Approaching Naruto, Sakura fell in step with him back out to gather more of the downed brush. "Hey Naruto." As the blond looked at her she asked. "Could you make a clone to replace me? I don't want to ruin my hair?" at this the blonde sighed "I don't know." "Why is that, don't you want to help your love?" asked a now puzzled Sakura. "It's just that I'm a clone." "MOTHER FUCKER." Screamed the now pissed of kunoichi, before punching Naruto full force sending him flying off into the forest screaming leaving a very confused kunoichi and bystanders until a Naruto stepped out of the forest concern plastered on his face as he spoke.
"Why the hell did you launch boss into the forest of death, can't you take a joke?" Doko then started screaming "All right girly go find him with pale eyes before she starts crying." At this the two ran off towards where the orange projectile disappeared. Pointing at the clone Doko continued "You go get some more of the clones to take over their job until they get back." The clone gave a salute before darting off to fulfill its new orders pulled up short before speaking. "oh yea we've found a large pile of vines that we cannot approach due to it draining our chakra, it's in the direction that boss went flying." With that the clone disappeared off into the forest
With Kiba and Kakashi
"Looks like there's nothing in this place only some small rodents and snakes at best!" complained the young Inuzuka "Quit complaining and take a nap while Shino gets the insect's out." Stated Kakashi from behind his ever present book, before letting out a perverted giggle. "What's so funny Kakashi-sensei?" "Oh, nothing of interest Kiba, Why do you ask?" "You have a perverted grin on your face and I want in." "Your sensei would make you wish you were never born with joy on her face then she'd probably tell Hana who would kill you." "Not if Kurenai-sensei doesn't find out." Kiba shot back "So can I borrow one for a bit." At this Kakashi gave "First I want you to read this one if you're so determined to die." 'I might as well give him a better one first.' Tossing Kiba a green book only to have it intercepted by a very angry Kurenai giving Kakashi a glare complete with killer intent. "Kakashi, why are you giving one of my students one of Jiraiya's filthy books? You have three seconds to explain before I show you your hell!" Kakashi didn't flinch as he responded. "That is not as you would call one of Jiraiya's filthy book's, that's his first one he wrote and you will find it quite lacking in the guilty pleasures part, why it's on the academy suggested reading list!" "I'll still make sure that it's safe for the younger generation myself." With that she turned and left vanishing into the leaves, book still in hand leaving a now paling Kiba and slightly irritated Kakashi "Am I going to die from this Kakashi-sensei?" asked a now terrified Inuzuka "Not unless you have a taste for the Icha-Icha series." "And they are?" "Porn." Was Kakashi's only answer as Kiba sat down put his head between his knees and sat there pale as a ghost repeating the same thought in his head 'not under the bed, anywhere but there'
Inuzuka clan compound head office
Tsume Inuzuka snapped up from her paper work with a look of revelation on her face "I have a feeling I should look under my son's bed." Before brushing it off and continuing with her work
With Kiba and Kakashi
Akamaru upon seeing his masters distress promptly started chasing the fleeing insects before nearly being smashed by a flying Naruto. At this Kakashi sighed before moving to follow him at a swift pace wondering 'How badly did he piss her off to do that?'… "How the hell did she hit him that hard?" As he picked up the pace to a slow jog leaving a terrified Akamaru with his near oblivious partner. Kiba noting Kakashi leaving got up to follow after putting a terrified Akamaru on his head.
Back with Sasuke and Doko
"They should be back by now Doko-san." "I'd agree Sasuke but this forest has a strange effect on chakra." At this Sasuke gained a skeptical look before Doko continued "I may be little more than a academy drop out but my Genin sensei did teach me tree walking and a few other basic's things. This forest depending on where you are at any given moment can boost or shrink one's chakra capacity and control and by the looks of that punch she through had all of her chakra behind it as she got a massive chakra boost resulting in are current situation." At this Doko paused for a breath "Though the orange fellow put up some sort of reflection barrier before it hit but I think he missed something, because pinky should have went flying instead of him although it could be that she had anchored herself and he didn't." At this Sasuke was looking at Doko dumbfounded at what he pulled from his teammates one encounter before Doko snapped him out of it "Ah, I must have bored you with my ramblings." "No, no it's just that I didn't think that could happen, or that, that much could be pulled from that. However in short you're saying that a fresh academy student could have kage level reserves and vice versa." At this Doko looked puzzled and one could hear it in his voice "Yes but only for an instant unless you learned how to use the forest", holding up his hand, "However even the Yondaime stayed out of this forest if he had to use chakra to do something so don't get your hopes up for a weapon or whatever it is you want to use it for."
At this Doko posed. "Now, why are you more interested in an unstable power than in what your teammates can do?" At this the Uchiha smirked "They would die trying to kill the man I'm going to kill." At this Doko sighed despair showing on his face "I thought your sensei would have gone over this by now. Anyone can kill anyone with the right planning, numbers, or even just a lucky hit. A Genin can kill a Kage if the Kage let their guard down or even a large enough group of civilians could kill your brother." At that Sasuke had had enough and charged at Doko with reckless abandon intent on smashing his face in for his statement. "Only an Uchiha could even think of killing an Uchiha!" At this Doko sighed 'Hopeless brat needs a lesson.' Allowing the enraged Uchiha to approach unheeded before swinging his foot up into Sasuke's path, placing one last thought in Sasuke's head. 'Fuck me!' Before Doko's foot plowed into his face placing them both on the ground with a knocked out Uchiha on top of a sore but functioning Doko, who then through him off to the side. "The council will kill you for that Doko." Turning towards the source, Doko spotted a clone walking towards him.
Remaining on the ground Doko responded. "Only the civilian half of it." The clone upon reaching Doko offered out its hand to him. Taking it Doko pulled himself to his feet. "So they haven't returned?" "No, and most of the clones are about to dispel there's only about five others who can last another hour at best and none of us can man the fire or we'd just dispel." "I wish the brat over there was more like you." "Like the boss? Or like me?" The clone seeing Doko's confusion explained with a sigh. "Our personalities can differ from the original to an extent or from clone to clone I'm just one of the smarter ones." Nodding, Doko added his own two cents "So your mind is more organized then the originals' is at least, so until he gets back you're in charge." At that the clone saluted "Now send one of the clones with the smallest amounts of chakra left because there's something I want to try." At that the clone threw another salute before speeding off to complete its job as Doko went back to manning the fire.
Moments later a good twenty clones came running at him however only four made it to him as the rest dispelled en route "All right I'm going to attempt to recharge at least one of you." They all nodded as he began to channel chakra into the first clone "Now if any more of you dispel then tell your boss to get his ass back here A.S.A.P." "How does that work?" Not bothering to face the clone asking Doko answered. "Shadow clone's transfer their memory to the original be it test answers or chakra control even muscle control for seals and the like." During this Doko had moved onto the second clone as the other two were trying to dispel each other having found that they wouldn't last the others recharge time leading to endless rounds of rock, paper, scissors. Up until one clone simply stabbed the other with a kunai during a round. However it was one of the more stable clones who then kicked his would be killer in the crouch dispelling him.
"Bastard, that was supposed to be a fair game, best of fifteen!" Holding it's now leaking abdomen the clone sat down looking at a shocked Doko "Try and fix me or tell me anything else you want boss to know." Rushing over to the downed clone Doko immediately got to work. Placing his hands over the wound he began to form a patch over the leak by weaving strands of chakra together, sweat began to drip into his eyes almost immediately, though he passed it off to continue working on the clone. "It doesn't look like this will work but tell your boss that there's a way to make exploding clones, all I know is that there's a way for shadow clones to explode." With that the clone gave out, leaving a now slightly pale and tired Doko sitting there alone as the clones had gone back to work. 'Looks like two is the limit, I quit for now' and with that he fell over asleep.
With Sakura and Hinata
Both young kunoichi were currently at a dead sprint after Naruto. With Hinata out doing her counterpart in stamina as she had pulled ahead, forcing Sakura to push herself to keep up if barely at that. Finally succumbing to exhaustion Sakura smashed face first into a tree branch. Hinata, although barely looking at her surroundings other than the path ahead, still managed to slow Sakura's descent to avoid any injury though this left them both on the forest floor in a heap. Extracting herself from Hinata's ample chest Sakura managed to speak. "Thanks Hinata-chan I should have been paying more attention." With that said she rolled herself off Hinata and laid next to her trying to catch her breath. "It's n-no pr-prob-problem Sakura, you would have tried to catch me too." "What do you mean tried? You caught me, besides why did you start crying when I knocked Naruto away? You don't like him that much, do you?" Hearing the accusation Hinata sat straight up, turned bright red and looked down at her now fidgeting hands. Sakura smirked before standing up. "Come on we'd better get moving but let's stay down on ground level this time." Helping Hinata to her feet they both took off towards Naruto's eventual crash site hoping it was before the Forest of Death.
Striking up the conversation once more Sakura asked. "So why are you so interested in Naruto anyhow? There's not much to him. He's loud, annoying, stubborn as a mule, and don't get me started on his eating habits!" At this Hinata smiled "I know all about that, but you missed a few." At this Sakura's mouth hung open till a bug promptly tried moving in, prompting a hacking fit from the pink haired girl and a smirk from Hinata "You do need to pay more attention, now try and think of more traits for Naruto as you've done a piss poor job right now." With that Hinata shut up and continued on towards their destination in silence resolving to be the one to help him. With Sakura trying to see more of her teammate then his dull fronts trailing behind. 'What does she mean I missed a few? He's just a brat who won't quit... Kami I'm doing it already. What have I missed about him?' As the two kunoichi traveled they missed seeing a pair of figures moving through the tree tops, though at a slower speed, in the same direction as they were.
Kakashi and Kiba
Kakashi noting the two oblivious Genin moving on the ground slowed his pace. 'They can handle him if he's not too badly injured from his flight.' Looking back at his tailing Genin he sighed. 'What's he so scared of? It's not like his mom's... Oh he should be scared of her.' "Kiba!" At this the Genin looked up "Go back to Doko and see if he needs you to do anything else since there's no real animal to root out." With that Kiba started heading back towards the entrance to find Doko 'We're getting too close to that thing, Naruto don't do anything stupid or else either Hiashi will have your head or Mebuki will. I really should stop them but I'll just give them some clones for back up.' With that four clones popped into existence and began trailing the two kunoichi at a much closer distance as Kakashi slowed even more trying to stay moving. 'I really need to get back in shape, training the kids slowed me down more than the normal time off.' With that he picked the pace up as best he could without massive Chakra exhaustion when he caught up to them. 'Maybe the clones… No you damn slacker get moving sensei would kill me if anything happens to him and that only be after Mebuki melts my ears off.'
Naruto
"Itai! When did she get this strong?" Positioning himself for impact, Naruto then sat by and waited and waited but it never came. Passing a small dog on his left and nearly hitting it only to realize it was Akamaru after the animal disappeared out of sight. 'Damn, I just hope Kakashi saw me'. With a sigh he turned himself around so he could see where he's going then let his mouth hang open at the site in front of him. The forest seemed to simply move out of his path. Marveling at the site he did nothing to slow down as he continued to fly towards his unknown crash site which appeared to be a large pile of vines some ways off.
Cursing his bad luck as he knew from experience, running around the forest away from mobs, that they were most likely either old houses, boulder piles or collapsed defensive outposts. 'This is going to hurt a lot.' With that Naruto started looking for any way to slow down before he hit the obstacle in his path. Checking his gear for wire and kunai, finding several yards of wire was encouraging until he found he only had three kunai and seven shuriken with him he paled as they were all too dull as of now to really stick into anything.
'Fuck me' at this a image of a clone in his Naruko form getting fucked by one of himself in regular form... Shaking his head to stop himself 'I forgot I could do that.' "No I'm not doing that just…" A small nose bleed began to show before Naruto shook his head and began addressing his current predicament. Putting on his normal thinking face before snapping his fingers seconds later immediately forming a ram seal and called "Kage bunshin no Jutsu" a single clone popped into existence before dispersing a half second later. 'Shit' with that thought he returned to his thinking before once more making a ram seal and forming ten clones one next to him the others as a wind breaker however the wind dispersed them all just as the first.
With a sigh Naruto tried again only with twice the number of clones. However one of the ones in the wind breaker came out as Naruko. This clone immediately turned and faced him before ripping its jacket open showing Naruto her bare chest, breasts flapping in the wind, screaming "Take me master". With that all the clones dispersed same as the last group only leaving Naruto with what his face looks like when he's the one shocked. 'Do I really look like that?' before snapping back to reality. Now panic started setting in on Naruto, now raking his brain for ideas one formed a desperate plan just to stay alive. Taking a breath he sat back and waited for the pile to approach. "This had better work." With that he sat back and waited.
Kiba
After leaving Kakashi the young Inuzuka made a B-line for the property entrance lead by the smell of the fire. Running full speed though the tree tops he was thrown by a sudden burst of chakra, over his intended target before smashing down through the tree tops before ending up on the ground with Shino and Kurenai staring at him. "Kiba what were you doing that you fell?" asked his now curious sensei "I was heading back to the entrance orders of Kakashi." Reported a slightly disoriented Kiba. "Well that's fine but why did you fall out of the trees?" Taking a brief look around. "Where's Akamaru?" At this Kiba jumped up and ran back the way he came in from climbing upward through trees with Shino and Kurenai following closely behind. Reaching where he fell Akamaru could be seen holding on to a branch for dear life having missed the larger one about a foot higher that was easily large enough for the nin-ken to have landed on. Kiba at seeing his partner's dismay jumped to him and pulled him off his perch and landed a short distance off. With a sigh "Don't scare me like that Akamaru, it's not fun!" At this Akamaru yipped in annoyance at his masters comments. "All right Kiba now that you've found Akamaru, why did you fall down? I've trained you better than that!" Demanded Kiba's now irate Sensei, seeing this Kiba stuttered out a response. "I-I-I have no fucking idea," Taking a breath, "I put in enough to get to that branch," he indicated a branch behind them, "But I ended up over shooting and there wasn't anything stable on the way down so…" "You just kept falling." Kurenai finished up; Kiba's nodding confirmed her suggestion. "Were you using chakra by any chance Kiba?" "Yes but what does that have to do with anything." However Kurenai was no longer listening to her Genin as a look of disbelief came over her. "I thought it was just a rumor." At this Shino perked up "What rumor?" Kiba looking lost, "I'm with Shino what rumor?" "I'll explain later for now we need to get out and have a nice talk to the client on this mess." The fear in her voice left the Genin little room for an argument, and so Shino and Kiba followed their sensei out of the forest. "Kurenai-sensei?" She barely acknowledged the speaker, however Kiba continued. "We need to know what we're dealing with here, anything you know that could help get us out alive!" Gathering his courage he screamed. "Tell us the damn story already! Before Shino's buzzing drives me insane!" At this Kurenai stopped as Shino and Kiba pulled up next to her "You can't fight it, all you can do is run! That's how you survive them at least that's what the survivors said but the last one should have been destroyed back with the first ninja war, nobody knows how but it will mutate anyone with developed chakra coils past a civilian, that's why the animals in the forest of death don't come here they'd just die that's all I know on this now let's go before we trigger our deaths." With that they all started moving with added urgency towards the property entrance.
With the clones, Doko and Sasuke
"Now explain, why is he tied up?" "Simple" Stated the one surviving clone. "When the teme over here saw you down he decided to finish your little spare permanently, several of us saw this and moved to stop him and when they died more of us learned about it and came until we got him." "You're not the one I was talking to earlier are you?" "Nope, he's around but I forgot where he went." Nodding Doko surveyed the surrounding field noting several large craters and burn marks. "You lot figured out how to explode I take it." At this the clone perked up "Yeah we did!" the clone seamed depressed "But learning what it feels like to explode isn't that fun, it's just creepy." At this Doko burst out laughing before wiping a tear from his eye "It's not funny you old coot!" Turning to the irate clone, Doko burst out laughing again this continued for some time before he settled down to explain "I know it's not very funny it's that you just confirmed that everyone who uses that Jutsu gets the same feeling after using it!"
However the clone's thoughts where elsewhere as a perverted grin crossed his face. Raising an eyebrow at this, Doko waited for the deranged looking clone to explain. "Boss stopped moving though he's probably not going to be moving anytime soon due to the fact he's most likely embedded in a rock." At this Doko nodded "So we wait for the girls to get him out then." It was this that sent the downed Uchiha laughing till Doko shut him up with his fist, grinding it in to his head. "And what so funny about your teammate trapped in rock now then?" with that Doko stopped grinding his knuckles on the Uchiha's head so he could speak. "The Dobe got hit so hard he's stuck in rock, by a girl how aren't you laughing at this?" with that Doko sighed at the last Uchiha's stupidity "First I explained to you that this forest is fucked up with, what it does with chakra, second you missed several women who can do that, Tsunade Senju of the Sannin and Kushina Uzumaki he red death are just two at the top of the list your mother was Kushinas competition for top kunoichi before she married your father! Now wake up from your selfish little world, smell the roses, get a grip." At this Sasuke looked puzzled before asking "You said Uzumaki, Naruto has that name but he's an orphan how does he have that name?" At this Doko just crossed his arms and sat there thinking as the clone sat down in his thinking pose, till team eight arrived looking for answers on were the rest of their team was.
"Doko" Snapped Kurenai grabbing his attention "Where are Hinata and the other Genin?" Doko answered with a sigh "Should I start with the how or where they are?" "Where. Are. They?" Kurenai hissed out. Doko swallowed before telling what was going on. "So in short you know about jack shit on where they are so you sent the girls to bring Naruto back because they were the reason he's out there and Hinata would have been more of a hazard here?" At this Doko nodded rapidly. "How long have they been gone?" At this every one present turned to look at Shino. "A half hour give or take the clones may know better but…" "You don't know" Kurenai finished, as Doko merely hung his head. At this Kurenai started barking out orders "Shino, create as many Mushi Bunshin as you can to go find the others, Kiba go tell the hokage about this he'll know how to handle this mess." Hearing his orders Kiba began running at full speed towards the village as Shino downed a chakra pill before creating nine Mushi Bunshin who immediately ran off into the forest following Hinata's trail. Leaving a worried Kurenai and an exhausted Shino.
With Sakura, Hinata and Kakashi
Sakura and Hinata had just arrived at the only place Naruto could be judging by the kill me orange figure imprinted in the large bolder in front of them at which they were trying to see if it was the by scaling the structure though Naruto had smashed in to the only space they couldn't reach by jumping forcing them to use the vines covering the bolder to reach what they hoped was there adjective as they inched their way up the face. "Why did that baka have to crash into a damned mountain?" Fumed Sakura. "Shut up about Naruto-kun it's not like he chose to go flying!" Hinata snapped not bothering to look at her reluctant travel companion as she pulled her herself up on the vines "You wouldn't even have followed him if I hadn't been here to make you, all he does is care and you can't even see that your too stuck up and obsessed with that jerk Sasuke to even care for your one team mate that's worth anything!" Sakura being so taken aback from Hinata's outbreak, she could only stare at her gaping like a fish as Hinata climbed onward towards Naruto's location. 'Are you going to let that slut call Sasuke a jerk? Curse her out already or just knock her off this thing that will show her.' At this Sakura cringed 'Will you shut up I want to think by myself! 'At this her inner voice started laughing 'What the hell's so funny bitch?' 'It's just that I'm you as much as you are.' At this Sakura paled at the revelation that she was currently stuck with a homicidal inner self. "I need to get rid of that voice in my head."
"You have a voice in your head?!" Hinata's panicked voice announced much to Sakura's dread she had spoken out loud, hanging her head in defeat the pink-ette sighed "It just gives me answers for most of the test's, but It won't shut up about Sasuke and it told me to kill you for calling him a jerk." At this Hinata paled before responding, "Kill it later we need to get Naruto down from here." "We don't even know if it's him." "It's him Sakura no one else would be flying or wearing this much orange." At this Sakura looked out to see Hinata some ways ahead of herself looking at something to her left in the rock wall before sighing and once more starting to climb towards her teammate and classmate as Hinata started to place a safety wire using kunai jammed in to the cracks from Naruto's impact seeing this Sakura called out "Is he even still alive Hinata?" At this Hinata called back
"I can't tell, I couldn't get to his pulse and something's blocking my Byakugan from seeing if he's breathing but there's no blood around so he should be fine." At this Sakura was taken aback as she reached for a new hand hold "What do you mean he's fine? He's embedded in a cliff face! How the hell is he fine?" At this Hinata sighed "Do you know why Naruto would be out for a day or two?" "He was just skipping school right?" A hint of apprehension had crept into Sakura's voice. Shaking her head Hinata continued "Sadly that was not the case, he would either be at one of the training grounds or in the hospital more so of the latter." "What?! With how he heals how did he get that injured? The bruises I give him are gone in minutes, what happened to him to put him in the hospital?" Sakura had now reached Hinata's height with Naruto on her right. A simple glance confirmed it was Naruto. Slipping under the wire Hinata was holding up for her nodding in thanks as they both turned to their problem of pulling Naruto out of the cliff face. "So what have you tried to get him out?" "Nothing so far I was waiting for you so we could hold him up so he won't fall down." Nodding her head in agreement Sakura spoke. "Well let's get started."
With that they grabbed what they could on Naruto, which was for Sakura was a knot of his hair while Hinata grabbed the waist on his pants, and pulled. Naruto held fast in his position. "There's no way that, that didn't even move him!"Hinata complained at that Sakura drew her fist back and smashed it in to the rock next to Naruto's head shattering the rock and covering the two girls in dust and shards of rock. Coughing the two girls observed Sakura's work. "What *cough* was *cough* that Sakura?" At this said girl tried to smirk as another coughing fit struck her. "Tried some-*cough*something I wanted *cough* to try." Stated a now happily smiling Sakura as Hinata looked at her for more, "So what did you do, to do that to the rock?" at this Sakura nearly glowed. "I just imagined that I was smashing my fist into Narutos crotch after asking me out." At that Hinata panicked. "Pl-ple-please don-don't do th-tha-that! I-I'd li-like to h-have ch-chil-children wi-with him." At this Sakura just laughed "Don't worry you can have him for all I care! Now then." Turning back to the cliff face to see a still trapped Naruto though they could now see his left ear and part of his temple "Let's try pulling again, damn that hurt my hand." Nodding the two kunoichi once more grabbed and pulled managing to pull him back several inches as a black sludge started to seep out around Naruto pushing the rest of the way out of the rock so that the girls were holding him up on the wire. "That was easy huh Hinata?" At this Hinata nodded "Let's get him down from here." Pulling out more wire Hinata proceeded to form a harness around Naruto and got about half way done before Sakura spoke up "does it look like something is moving in there?" At this Hinata looked in to the still draining hole to see nothing until she activated her byakugan and immediately jumped back pulling out the safety wire causing all three of them to fall off the massive bolder screaming till they reached the ground, now covered in the sludge from inside the boulder, Hinata immediately proceeded to try and run however was pulled down by the entangled wire wrapped around herself and the others.
Kakashi upon seeing Hinata's panicked state moved closer with his clones till the only cover was a thin layer of leaves and the clearing around the boulder 'What made her do that?' Crossed his mind sliding up his head band from his sharingan only to find it was blind due to the amount of chakra in the air 'The fuck is this shit…?' Crack, his attention snapped back to the clearing to see cracks forming outward from the whole Naruto had been pulled from 'I hope that's just the rock caving in.' Although his gut told him to get the Genin and run for the hills.
Hinata was pulling on the wire trying to free herself and had only pulled the wire tighter around them Sakura immediately slapped her stunning Hinata "What did you see?" Hinata for a moment moved to answer however cracking from overhead sent her back to pulling on the wire frantically. 'Shit what scared her this bad we need to get free NOW' Reaching for her kunai pouch only to find it sealed shut by the wire and the same with her shuriken pouch "Hinata just cut the wire!"
Hinata however, was too far gone to listen to reason. Sakura at once tried to reach someone else's weapons pouch only to find them out of reach or in Naruto's case empty. "Shit!" A large cracking from overhead grabbed both Sakura's and Hinata's attention snapping their heads up too see a large crack nearly bisect the bolder immediately three Kakashi's showed up "Were pulling you out now," as they pulled out kunai to slice the wire several pieces of rock smashed into two of them before they could act as the third jumped back to avoid death as something smashed in to the boulder causing more cracks and falling rocks, forcing the remaining Kakashi clone back as Hinata simply curled up into a ball shaking as another impact shook the clearing at which four more Kakashi's ran from the forest towards the trapped Genin as another impact shook the clearing this time the rock face gave out as a massive black reptilian head and neck came out fallowed by a matching body with what appeared to be wings rapped around the body. The beast then dropped nose first at the Genin with its mouth open, revealing massive teeth fit to cleave anything smaller than a Bijuu in half. Seeing this, the Kakashi clones rushed forward in a desperate attempt to save his charges as Kakashi himself charged with a Chidori after his clones.
The closest clone reached the Genin and cut the wire just before the lizard landed on them at this Kakashi and co, skidded to a stop as the rest of the beast fell to the ground shaking the clearing. The lizard slowly started to rise as Kakashi took in his situation 'Their probably alive as my clone hasn't dispelled, I'm alone against a boss sized lizard, ANBU should be here soon to investigate, five minutes sounds about right, they should be able to track us.' As Kakashi finished his analysis the lizard started trying to stand only falling once as it began to walk of deeper into the forest, revealing that the lizard was quite lithe and long as its tail finally came out from the rock its mouth open in a manner similar to an alligator moving its young. Spotting this Kakashi ran around to the front to see if any of the Genin could be retrieved, however he could find no way to enter the mouth though he did see a flash of orange.
Approaching the fence the lizard stumbled, in an effort to regain its balance it snapped open its wings dispelling two of Kakashi's clones before gravity finally pulled it down. The wings smashed into the trees with a resounding "Crack" they hung limp at sickening angles. Upon stopping the dragon then proceeded to curl up dropping the Genin and Kakashi's clone out which took the brunt of the landing, dispelling said clone, as the dragon continued to curl around them cutting off Kakashi and his clones.
Kiba
Having finally reached the Hokage's office and bypassing the secretary, via just running by. A now out of breath and panting Kiba and Akamaru were in front of the Hokage after a few seconds Kiba manage to gasp out about the forest and currently missing Genin at which Sarutobi started rubbing his temples to ease the coming headache before speaking "ANBU." Three of the masked ANBU appeared kneeling in front of the Hokage prompting Kiba to jump at their arrival, "Head to team seven and eight's location, find the missing Genin and neutralize any hostiles found!" As soon as the words left his mouth a large crash was heard to the ninja present without farther orders the ANBU rushed off towards the sound. "Kiba run this over to the hospital give this only to the head of the Med-nin." Handing a scroll to the young Inuzuka who nodded upon receiving the scroll be for rushing off to the hospital a grim look on his face, and a simple thought in his head 'What's going on out there?'
As soon as Kiba had left Sarutobi let his head fall on to the desk in defeat before reaching down to pull out his crystal ball and a bottle of sake, downing half of it before getting to work finding Naruto and the rest of the missing Genin only to finish his bottle of sake and then down another before moving to summon the clan heads hopefully without the civilian council finding out too soon
Kakashi
"Shit, what the hell is this!" screamed Kakashi as he watched the outer layer of the dragon turn to stone, albeit slowly more of as cement drying when spread thin. "Now what do I do, if I kill it then the thrashing could get them but if I don't who knows what will happen, even if I kill it and they live it could still happen! FUCK!" smashing his hand into a tree forming a sizable crater before a mocking voice sounded from behind him "My, my sempai to think you would let us get this close without you noticing you've been slacking Kakashi." At this Kakashi snapped "If you haven't noticed half my Genin team is trapped under a petrifying dragon with the Hyuga clan heir and I have no idea how to save them!" With that Kakashi slumped against the tree he had just pummeled as the ANBU started to take stock of the situation there was a large stone dragon with scarring on the ground showing it was animate at one time.
When this was done, one of the ANBU spoke up, "Was the original statue larger or smaller than the one in front of us?" At this Kakashi looked up in realization before muttering, with hope returning to his voice, "It was easily almost twice as big as the dragon." With that he jumped up and ran back down the path made by the dragon earlier before the ANBU could protest. Looking at each other before one with a cat mask spoke up "I've worked with him before you two stay here and secure the area." After a nod from the others the cat masked ANBU ran off after Kakashi 'What's going on in your head Kakashi?' crossed the cat masked ANBU mind as she followed the path of destruction to where Kakashi had stopped before her was a large stone constructed of the same material that the dragon statue was made from. "The tar that flowed out of here when the dragon got out petrified just like the dragon did… because it was covered in the same tar..." At this Kakashi jumped back and began flashing through hand seals before Neko(cat in Japanese) asked, "What are you doing?" Hearing this Kakashi stopped on the last seal before answering, "Something entirely insane." Before unleashing his Jutsu, "Katon; Goryuuka no Jutsu." With that a massive dragon made of blue flames shot out of his mouth heading straight into the rock that once held the dragon, as soon as the Jutsu ended the black sludge poured out of the hole as Kakashi jumped up on to the rock face and ran up to where the hole the dragon came out of was located, before jumping over it with Neko close behind landing on top were a top had formed a large flat floor at which Kakashi began another set of hand seals before grabbing his right wrist as electricity began to form as the chirping of birds started to sound before Kakashi cried out, "Chidori!" And brought his Jutsu to bear on the floor forming a large hole in the floor as the copy-nin jumped back to avoid falling below. At this Neko decided to see what was going on,
"And just what are you doing Kakashi, outside of saving your skin?" At this Kakashi looked up giving Neko a hard stare "Trying to get info on what's happening to my Genin to see if there's even a chance of saving them from that thing." At this Neko nodded "So were just waiting for this to empty so we can look at the bottom for now," seeing Kakashi's nod Neko continued, "Since were here give me a detailed report on what happened." At this Kakashi began his report on what had happened from the moment he arrived to look after the Genin. "If anything I'd say the dragon wanted them alive, for what is anyone's guess till this is done draining." Kakashi ended on a disappointed note before moving to look down the hole "We can start washing this thing out about now." At this Neko got up to look down the hole to see that most of the sludge had left and what was left had started to solidify. With hardly a nod they began hand seals for their respective Jutsu finishing seconds later they both called out their techniques in sync,
"Suiton; Suiryudan no Jutsu."
"Suiton; Suiryudan no Jutsu."
With that two powerful water dragons shot out of Kakashi's and Neko's mouths, streaming down into the hole forcing out much of the black sludge with the sheer amount of water from the two dragons ,which had half-filled the stone cauldron, leaving the two nin gasping from the strain. Kakashi was the first to speak, "That shouldn't have taken anywhere near that much out of us!" At this Neko nodded in agreement before walking towards the hole and jumped down to land on the rapidly draining pool of water as several shapes began to show on the bottom, peering closer a small gasp escaped from her, at that Kakashi called down "Are you all right?" At once Neko answered "I'm fine, but you should probably come take a look at this." Hearing the reply, Kakashi jumped down and immediately felt his jaw hit the floor at the site in front of him.