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The night was uneventful for the two squads and as the sun rose the squads rose with it. By 06:30 they were ready for what ever the day would throw at them. Morgan joined the group after having breakfast with Ino and sat down with Matt and Joseph by the remains of last night's camp fire. Dillingham and Sherwood were toutching up on their hand combat skills.
"Hey Morgan were you able to get a map of the area from Ino?" asked Matt
"Yeah I was and Ino taught me some new medical treatments for when we go into combat again."
"Cool. Lets have a look at the map." Matt said as Morgan took out a map of the contient.
"We are here" Morgan said pointing to leaf symbol on the map. "We are currently in the Hibben Leaf Village which is in the Land of Fire. The Sound Ninja that Naruto was talking about yesterday come from here, the Land of Sound, it use to be known as the Land of Rice Paddies." she said pointing to a small country boardering the northern boarded of the Fire Nation.
"Wait, so if the enemy is from way up there" said Matt "and we are way down here. Then why should we be worrying about them attacking us? There is no way that any sized force greater than maybe a 4 or 5 man team could get down here undetected and then carry out a successful mission then retreat all the way back up there with little to no contact with the defending forces." Joseph nodded in agreement.
"From here to the boarder is a good 300 to 350 miles away. Unless they can teleport to anyplace they desire or they use guillie suits and slow crawl all the way. I can't see anyway that a formittable force can penatrate that deeply without being seen or at least heard by any forces that they cross paths with." Joseph said.
"Joe, we got visitors!" shouted Dillingham.
"Who are they?" Joseph replied.
"Kiba and his dog, Ino and Shikamaru."
"Alright, bring em' over here." Joseph replied "but tell Kiba to have Akamaru wait at the training ground."
Ino, Kiba and Shikamaru walked into camp and sat across from Morgan, Matt and Joseph. Shikamaru looked like he was still half asleep, as did Kiba, Ino was bright eyed and bushy tailed as usual.
"This is such a drag. If I had my way I'd still be sleeping at this hour. Yet, here you guys are training already." Shikamaru said with a yawn.
"Hey, we are soldiers. We rise with the sun and set long after it has." replied Matt. "We are the engerizer bunnies from hell"
Shikamaru looked at him confused.
"Back in our world there is a company that makes batteries. Their masscott is a little pink bunny with one of those drums that you wear on your belly and pound the sides. The bunny is suppose to represent the battery having a lot of power in it and being able to keep going and going and going without stopping." explained Matt. "The bunny from hell I'm talking about is one that has like 10 times the power of the regular bunny"
"Ok, so like a person that is pissed off and on a sugar high?"
"Yes" replied Matt.
"Anyways what did you guys want to see us about?" asked Joseph.
"We got orders from Naruto to take you and your squads on a patroll outside the village with us." said Kiba.
"Patroll? If we are looking for Sound Ninja I don't think that they would be able to get anything larger that a 5 man squads this far into the Fire Nation from where they are at." said Joseph as he looked back at the map.
"Don't be so confident. They are not dumb and they have gotten a respectibly large force this far into the Land of Fire before." said Kiba "Last time they did... They took down a lot of our top ninja and their leader took down the 3rd Hokage."
"Damn. Looks like we shouldn't underestimate them." said Matt, surprised that such a small nation as the Sound could carry out a large and some-what successful attack against a much larger and more powerful nation such as the Fire Nation. It reminded him of September 11th, 2001. When a small group of individuals hijacked civilian aircraft and took down the Twin Towers and almost took out an entire section of the Pentagon.
"Meet us at the gate in one hour with anything you would like to bring." said Ino. Joseph and Matt looked at Morgan then to Kiba, and Shikamaru and nodded.
"Sherwood! Dillingham! Front and Center Now!"
"Sergeant" they said in unison.
"Tell your men to gather up their gear, we are going out on patroll in one hour." instructed Joseph.
"Yes Sergeant"
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Ino, Kiba, Akamaru, Shikamaru and Naruto were waiting at the gate for the squads. When the squads came marching up the road with Joseph and Matt leading the two collums. The stopped and Joseph ordered them to fallout for the briefing of their mission.
"You guys are going on a regular patroll with Ino, Kiba and Shikamaru. Do not engage any Sound Ninja you might come across unless attacked first. That's all" said Naruto.
"Well you heard him, hold your fire untill fired upon" said Matt.
"Let's get going" said Ino.
"Move out" said Joseph. As they marched out of the village the two collums once again walked in the ditch or on the edge of the roads and Morgan got a bad feeling about what might happen while they are on partoll.
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The squads were quiet as they made their way through the woods a few miles outside the village. Ino, Kiba, Akamaru and Shikamaru were getting tired as they at first lead then walked along side the collums then fell behind the two collums of squads. They all noticed a change in the troops. They were not the same loud, easy going bunch they left the village with. Insted all of them had become quiet and moved as to make as little noise as possible. Each one the troops were moving their heads like they were on a swivel and constantly look around for anything odd or unusual. Joseph spotted a clearing up a head and he raise one first, stopped and dropped to a knee and the rest also stopped and dropped to a knee. He looked over to Matt and nodded. Matt then raised his left hand, then motioned for the collum behind him to move into a line even line to his left. Joseph did the same only with his right. The collum behind him then formed a line on Joseph's right.
Ino, Kiba, Akamaru and Shikamaru were amazed at how quickly the two collums infront of them disappeader and only Matt and Joseph were left standing in front of them. Matt turned around and motioned for them to move up behind him, as Joseph gave a hand signal and started to slowly move towards the clearing. The line of troops moved into the clearing and stopped just as they entered the clearing. Matt and Joseph each waved for their lines to move in and gather around them. Ino, Kiba, Akamaru and Shikamaru were relieved that they might finally get a break.
"We will rest here for 10 min then we move on" said Joseph "Let's move over to were that stream is but we will follow the tree line to get to it. Alright? Move out"
The group moved along the tree line quickly and reach the steam. As they rested Kiba noticed that Matt hadn't said anything to him scence early this morning when they met at the camp. Kiba walked over to Matt to try and start some sort of conversation with him and try to smooth things over with him. Last thing Kiba wanted was to be staring down the barrel of a 'friend' while in the middle of a fight with any Sound Ninja.
Matt was cleaning his M-16 when he noticed Kiba walking towards him. 'As long as he doesn't try to talk to me. I won't say anything' he thought
"Hey, umm Matt." Kiba said nervously.
'Shit, spoke too soon'
"Yes Kiba?" replied Matt as he continued to clean his rifle without looking at Kiba.
"So how do you know Colby?"
"We went to high school together and were in a class called Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. It's like a military class for high school kids without actually going into the military. Colby and I are best buds. HAHAHA I remember back when we both had a crush on the same girl." Matt said laughing as he remember the night at the Military Ball where both he and Colby tried to sneak a dance in with Suzanna when Kasey was busy talking with friends.
"Who was the girl?" Kiba asked.
"Well she is a good friend of mine and Colby's. Her name was Suzanna."
"Suzanna?" Kiba's eyes grew wide. 'Could he be talking about my Suzanna?' he wondered.
'Yeah. I think, last I talked with Colby, I had asked him if Suzanna went with him on his lil adventure to the other world and he said she did and meet somebody... Wait.. Noooo.." Matt looked at Kiba. "Unfuckingbelieveable. It's you! You're Suzanna's boyfriend from this world! No wonder Suzanna fell for you! You look at lot like her fian... boyfriend. Yeah, you look a lot like her boyfriend!" said Matt. "Wow. Almost let the cat outah the bag" he thought.
Kiba smiled trying to hide the disappointment of looking like the guy he thought he was competing with for suzanna. Matt noticed this and decided to pull an old joke out of the bag.
"Hey Kevin! You bring that crowbar of your's?" asked Matt.
"Yeah I did. Why?"
"Let me see it real quick" replied Matt.
"Ok, here" said Kevin as he tossed Matt his crowbar. Matt rested the crowbar on his lap.
"Hey Kevin."
"Yeah?"
"Attenchion!" said Matt is he raised the crowbar with it sticking up as if he had a hard-on. Joseph then cracked up laughing.
"Jeasus, Matt. You gonna be able to use all of that?" said Kevin inbetween fits of laughter.
"That's what she said, yes I'll be able to use all of it and I can make it do tricks" Matt said laughing. "Hey Kiba. This ever happen to you when you're around Suzanna?"
Kiba didn't know what the hell Matt was referring to until after a moment it clicked in his mind.
"What the hell Matt!" said Kiba as he finally got what Matt ment and started to blush. "No that hasn't happened.."
"HAHA. Yeah right!" laughed Matt and the rest of the group, including Kiba started laughing untill they heard and unfamiliar voice.
"Well, well, the mutt of the Hidden Leaf Village taking a ribbing from a nobody" said the stranger. He was tall with short grey hair with glasses. Starttled everyone turned around with weapons drawn and took aim at the stranger. Kiba recognized him instantly.
"It's you again" growled Kiba. Akamaru was right beside him, growling fearcly and the hair on the back of his neck was standing straight up. Shikamaru and Ino also knew the new comer and had their Kuni knifes out and ready.
"Who is this guy?" asked Joseph without taking his eyes off the this stranger. He glared down his sights as he took aim at the chest.
"His name is Kabuto and he's a traitor to the Leaf Village and the top spy of the Sound Village" said Shikamaru "He is also highly skilled in medical jutsu . I give him props for his skills but not for hom he uses them"
"Well it seems my reputation precedes me then."smirked Kabuto "Too bad this time you and your friends with their toys will only be able to experience my skills first-hand only once"
"Where we are from. People with egos as big as yours fall quickly in combat" said Matt "and these are not toys. These are highly refined killing machines that only true soldiers can weild in combat and there is nothing you can do to stop them"
"What do you want this time?" asked Kiba "We know you are planning something, so spill it!"
"You should know by now that our plan is to level the entire Leaf Village. Oh and pardon my rude mannors but who are your friends here with the toys?"
"We are the engerizer bunnies from hell. We don't stop till' our last breath leaves us, we aim with the hand, shoot with the mind and kill with a heart like artic ice" said Matt as he tightened his grip on his M-16 and took aim.
"Ha! Dont make me laugh!" sneered Kabuto as he adjusted his glasses.
"Yeah that's what I said to your mom last night as I was fucking her." said Matt with a smile. Kabuto was shocked at hearing this, he had never taken an insult that was as bad as this one. The squads started laughing as Matt's words started to sink into Kabuto's head.
"Damn! That was a good one Matt! Gottah remember that one for later" said Kiba as he started to laugh too.
"Why you little punk!" shouted Kabuto as he reached behind his back and tried to grab a kuni knife but Matt saw this and got ready.
"Bring it on four-eyes! You aint got anything on the shit I'm packin' "shouted Matt. Everyone stopped laughing and all weapons were pointed at Kabuto, as he pulled out a Kuni knife.
"HAHA. That little thing! You can't so crap with a putty knife like that. Now let me show you a real knife!" Matt shouted as he took out his bayonet. "Now this is a knife!
"Sure it maybe bigger but can you use it effectively?"
"We shall fucking see, won't we?" said Matt "Let's do this!"
"Bring it!" shouted Kabuto as he raised his and suddenly Sound Ninja and a lot of them started to appear from accross the clearing and were closing the distance quickly.
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"Squads 1 and 2 take out those Sound Ninja!" Shouted Joseph "Matt, Morgan you two with me. Kiba, Ino, Shikamaru we'll cover you. Now move!"
Squads 1 and 2 opened up with their M-16s on the incomming Sound Ninja and the Sound Ninja started falling like flies. Kiba, Ino and Shikamaru went after Kabuto with Joseph, Matt and Joseph right behind them. Matt had fix his bayonet to the end of his M-16 and was right behind Kiba as they charged Kabuto.
Kabuto started using his kuni and shurrikin but they missed. One kuni knife came straight for Matt, but Matt saw it and dodged it. Shikamaru tired to use his shadown possesion jutsu but Kabuto was able to dodge it. Kiba and Akamaru used their beast minicry and fang over fang but again Kabuto dodged the attack.
"My turn!" shouted Matt as he opened up with his M-16. Kabuto didn't make it easy for Matt to hit him but Matt was a good shot and was able to graze Kabuto's left shoulder. Kabuto didn't feel it at frist but soon he started to feel a hot, burning feeling. Before he could take a look at his wound another bullet from Matt made contact and nailed Kabuto in the right collar bone. This time he felt it instantly and yelled in pain as Joseph joined in the shoot and his rounds found their target into Kabuto's left kidney.
Kabuto dropped to the ground as a squad of 6 Sound Ninja appeared and surrounded him. Two of them took Kabuto away as the remaining four took up the fight. Ino and Kiba took over as Matt and Joseph regrouped behind them and took aim that their next targets.
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Squads 1 and 2 were having a field day firing rounds into the large mass of Sound Ninja and watching them drop untill they saw their target starting to turn into smoke and dissappear.
"Fix bayonets! They are just clones" shouted Dillingham as he and Kevin Ahlquist charged towards the on comming ninja with bayonets fixed to the ends of thier M-16s. The rest of the squads followed and as the Sound Ninja clones and the squads collided, quick work was made of the clones.
"Damn... Whatch the tree line they are in there! Williams, load the .30 we are gonna need it." shouted Sherwood. When suddenly kuni knifes started flying out from the tree tops. The squads replied with sending hot lead in the direction the kuni came from and several Sound Ninja fell from the trees. Sherwood looked over to where Joseph and the others were fighting and saw that they were done and were headed towards them.
"Sherwood. Dillingham how did you guys make out?" asked Morgan "Anyone hurt?"
"Negative, no injuries. But we were not able to take out all the ninja. So far 20 confirmed kill and 15 possible. They ran off and are now hiding in the trees." said Dillingham.
"Let's go" said Shikamaru. "Don't ask, we need to keep moving."
"Right" replied Joseph "Let's move" and the group took off with Shikamaru in the lead. All the while they were being watched by the remaining Sound Ninja hiding in the trees.
"Damn those one's in the camo are good" said one the Sound Ninja after the group had moved out of sight.
"Yeah they are, but not as good as us" said another. "Kabuto is being taken care of. He will be rejoining the fight soon."
"Let's move" said the first one.
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As the squads followed Shikamaru thought the woods, they can across a small stream. Matt and Morgan carefully set up the three land mines on either side of the stream in the middle of the path they were following. Kiba and Ino set up a few paper bombs on the trees next to the land mines.
"Up a head there's a small clearing we can us to set up an ambush" said Shikamaru.
"Good. We can make a stand there until somebody shows up to help us out." said Joseph "We are hour past our expected return time."
"What a drag. Just hope they don't send Chouji if they send anyone at all." said Shikamaru as he looked at Ino.
"Alight guys, dig in and fast we don't have much time." said Matt. "Squad 1 go to the other side of the clearing and set up the .30, make sure you have plenty of cover and when you are done with that get into your two man teams and guard the .30's left flank at 10 yards intervals. Squad 2 set up the claymoores on either side on the path and plant some C4 in the tops of the trees. when you are done that. Two man teams 10 yards apart guarding the .30's right flank. I want one team from both squads guarding the .30's rear."
"Kevin get into the top of that tree with the rockets. Dillingham have those smoke grenades handy incase we need to pull out. Jarbo, Smith and Rojas. Gullie time, find a good shooting spot and make sure you are able to give each other covering fire."
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"Where the hell are they?" asked Naruto as he waited at the gate for the return of Kiba, Shikamaru, Ino and the two squads. "Damn it!"
"Naruto we should send out a few squads to got look for them. A group as large as there's shouldn't to too hard to spot." said Neji.
"Do it and notify the medical corps. Find them and fast! I got a feeling that they are about to be in big trouble" said Naruto.
"Right away. Not worry Naruto they will be found" said Neji.
"I hope you find them before the Sound Ninja do" said Naruto.
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'GRRRRR'
"I know, Akamaru I smell them comming too." said Kiba quietly. He motioned to Joseph that the Sound Ninja were approaching, Joseph did the same to Morgan and the process repeated it'self down the line. Kevin, Jarbo, Smith and Rojas saw the signal from their tree top positions and got ready. Shikamaru made a couple of hand signs and summoned a shadow clone of each person within the group and had the clones sit in the middle of the clearing. Everyone was ready and in position. Suddenly there came the sounds of explosions off in the distance.
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"Damn." said Kabuto, as the smoke cleared to reveil the bloody and fragmented remains of another ten Sound Ninja. "They are clever and they are using regular ninja tools along with some non-ninja tactics. This is going to be very interesting. How many do we have left?"
"We have 115 remaining out of our oringal 170." reported one of the ninja.
"Very well then. It looks like those new ones are better than I thought." said Kabuto.
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Kiba motioned to Joseph again that the Sound Ninja are moving again. Joseph signaled to Morgan and the chain of hand signals went on down the line. Kiba nudged Ino and pointed at the radio. Ino gave him the radio.
"Kiba to Joseph do you copy" Kiba said.
"Joseph to Kiba. I hear you, what is it?"
"We are going to be out flanked, the enemy has split into three groups one to either side of us and one coming down the path."
"Copy that. Is that all?"
"Yes" replied Kiba.
"Joseph. Out" Joseph said as he turned to Shikamaru. "We are about to be out manuvered, my friend."
"Great. The is going to be troublesome" said Shikamaru. "Why would you let your self be out manuvered like this?"
"Why? Because I a confident that we are dug in well enough and we have our backs to the river. We will hold this position and you can watch us take down the enemy." said Joseph. "WHISKEY ALPHA TANGO CHARLIE HOTEL. TANGO HOTEL ECHO. FOXTROT LIMA ALPHA NOVEMBER KILO SIERRA!" he shouted.
"WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!" Joseph heard Morgan shout in reply. Shikamaru looked at Joseph confused, 'why the hell did he just shout and give away our position?' wondered Shikamaru.
"Military code and get ready here they come" said Joseph. Though the bushes they could see the figures of the Sound Ninja walking down the path.
As the Sound Ninja walked into the clearing, they tripped the claymoores. Within the small explosions steel ball bearings ripped through the air and through the ninja, taking out five more Sound Ninja. Then the paper bombs went off and five foot diameter tree tops came crashing down on top of the collum of ninja. A few were able to get out of the way of the falling tree tops and massive limbs from neighboring trees that snapped off with tremendous cracks. The ground shook when the tree tops smashed into the ground. Another four Sound Ninja were perfectly pile driven straight into the ground, and as the broken branches from neighboring trees came loose and fell they impailed and killed another six Sound Ninja.
The shadow clones in the middle of the clearing watched as the traps took thier toll on the enemy ninja. Then Kabuto and a squad of five Sound Ninja emerged from the broken branches and falling leaves.
"Well I must say you are highly skilled at deploying traps." said Kabuto as he adjusted his glasses. "but I'm afrade you suck at manuvering your troops into a well planned defensive position." Then the two units of Sound Ninja that were thought to have out flanked the whole clearing, emerged from either side of the clearing and encircled the group of clones.
"True we may suck at manuvering but your mother was an expert at manuvering her toung around my dick last night" smirked the clone Matt. The got the other clones to start laughing and even the squad of Sound Ninja behind Kabuto couldn't help but giggle a little. Kabuto had had enough and threw and kuni knife at the clone Matt. The kuni hit the clone dead square between the eyes and in a puff of smoke was gone.
"Damn it. Shadow Clones" shout Kabuto as the rest of the clone group dissappeared in a cloud of smoke. As the smoke cleared the Sound Ninja spun around and watched the tree line. "It doesn't look like they are here. Damn we might have lost them"
"Oh, no you haven't lost us" wispered Matt to himself. Matt looked over to Joseph and nodded. Joseph returned the nodd and looked over to their machine gun nest. The machine gun's crew was looking at Joseph. Joseph smiled and nodded. The gunner smiled, did a little salute. Then all hell broke loose on the Sound Ninja. Bullets from the .30 cal tore through the group of ninja from left to right in a sweeping patter.
"FIRE!" yelled Joseph and the whole tree line awakend with fire from the tree line. Kevin fire a anti-tank missles into the group. It exploded with a tremendous cloud of smoke and dirt. "Cease Fire!" yelled Joseph. As the smoke cleared the bodies or what remained of only ten Sound Ninja lied dead in the clearing.
"Subsutution Jutsu!" yelled Kiba. "Watch your backs!" Just as Kiba finished yelling his warning, a kuni came flying from behind the line and struck one of the men in the neck next to Kiba. Blood squirted like a fountain from the soldiers neck and splashed across Kiba and Ino's faces. Within seconds his was dead. More kuni and shurikin came flying from the woods behind the line.
"Open fire!" shouted Joseph and once again the woods eruped with the sound of gun firing "Fall back to the other side of the clearing!" As they moved to the edge of the clearing Matt could hear the snipers opening up with their M-21s and he could see Kevin tracking a target with his last rocket. Then Kevin fire the rocket. Matt watched it as if it was in slow motion leave it's firing tube and fly, straight as a arrow towards the opposide of the clearing from him. The rocket hit it's target and exploded with a large ball of fire and equally large cloud of smoke and dirt.
Joseph grabbed Dillingham and the two booked across the clearing towards where they had set up the claymoores. Two at a time the rest of line followed. Ino, Kiba and Shikamaru took up the rear as they blocked incomming kuni and shurikin. Akamaru was dragging Sherwood by the collar while Sherwood was firing his M-16 towards the tree line.
"Everyone make..." Morgan stopped as she saw Jarbo fall from his sniping spot. "Shit!" Morgan got up and tired to head towards Jarbo but Dillingham stopped her.
"He's gone it's no use." he said.
"How many of us are left?" asked Joseph as he looked around.
"Fifteen" said Matt.
"What a drag this is" said Shikamaru. "Ino, help Morgan tend to Sherwood. Kiba you're with me. I got an idea." Shikamaru and Kiba got up and walked into the clearing. Kabuto and 50 Sound Ninja appeared from the woods.
"Squad 1 get ready to provide covering fire. Squad 2... Matt. Dillingham what the hell are you doing?" asked Joseph as he saw them get up and walk out into the clearing to join Shikamaru and Kiba.
"Squad 2. Fix bayonets and go join Matt and Ryan." griped Sherwood as he removed a shurikin from his calve muscle. The troops from squad two fixed their bayonets onto their M-16s and joined Kiba, Shikamaru, Matt and Dillingham.
"Squad 1. Fix bayonets and go join squad 2." said Joseph as he and squad 1 joined squad 2 out in the clearing.
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"Well looks like you guys finally decided to come out and fight" said Kabuto. "I must say I am impress that you were able to take down almost my entire force with out exposing your selfs, and now that is has come down to it looks like we will have some real fun" Kabuto smirked "As for you, with the insults I've had about enough of you."
"The feeling is mutual then aint it?" replied Matt. "Enough talk let's rumble" Matt and Dillingham then started running towards the group of ninja and fired the last rounds of ammo and took down two more ninja, when they headed for Kabuto. Then the rest of the troops did the same. The last of the Sound Ninja fell before the troops and Kabuto was all that remained.
"Give it up Kabuto. You are out gunned, out manned and out manuvered." said Shikamaru.
"Ha! We shall see." said Kabuto as he adjusted his glasses. Then a fast a lighting he attacked the group. Matt and Dillingham thrusted their bayonets into Kabuto's path and managed to clip Kabuto's right arm, but that didn't slow him down any. Kabuto then slid then landed a kick to the jaw of one of the soldiers and that launched him into the air. Kiba and Akamaru tired to knock Kabuto of his path towards the soldier but were too late. Kabuto appeared behind him and scliced his throat open. Blood squirted from the wound as he fall to the ground, dead. One by one Kabuto managed to cut down the troops. Shikamaru tried his best to catch Kabuto with his shadow posession jutsu but he was too quick for Shikamaru.
Kiba and Akamaru tried to get Kabuto with their fang over fang but kept missing.
"Hold still so I can hit you" growled Kiba.
"Haha. I will not" said Kabuto as he started to make his way towards Ino, Morgan and Sherwood.
"You will fucking not go near them four eyes!" shouted Matt as he reloaded his M-16 and started firing. Kabuto threw a shurikin at Matt and hit him in the gut but Matt still kept firing unphased by the counter attack. "Gottah love body armor!" said Matt as he pulled the shurikin from his hard body armor and threw it back at Kabuto but he dodged it with ease. "1/8 inch steel plating, right here bub! Kevin, Joseph you two alright?"
"Yeah. We are fine" said Kevin as he stood up with Joseph.
"Not for long" said Kabuto as his hands started glow with green chakra.
"Watch out. Don't let his hand's toutch you. He can do some serious damage to your insides without breaking the skin." said Shikamaru.
"Right" said Matt as he looked back to where Kabuto should have been, Matt was surprised he wasn't there.
"Behind you!" shouted Kevin. Before Matt could move he felt his legs give out from beneath him, when he hit the ground his left leg was numb and he couldn't move it.
"AAHHH! Son of a Bitch!" shouted Matt. Then Joseph, Kevin, Kiba and Shikamaru were also on the ground shouting in pain.
"There. Now with the nerves to your legs cut I can go take care of those others up in the trees." said Kabuto.
"Rojas! Smith! Shoot!" yelled Kevin. Two shots rang out but Kabuto was gone as the bullets his the ground. Then Kevin saw Rojas then Smith fall from their tree top shooting positions. "Damn it!"
Kabuto then appeared in in front of them again. "Well now looks like have only a few more to take care of before I come back to you." Kabuto then turned around and started walking towards the log that Ino, Morgan and Sherwood were taking cover behind. Matt, Kevin and Joseph each pulled out their side arms and tried to laod them. Shikamaru and Kiba tried to throw shurikin and kuni at Kabuto but he blocked their attacks.
As Kabuto peered over the log he threw a kuni at Sherwood and killed him. "Well now what do we have here?" smirked Kabuto as he adjusted his glasses.
"Get out of here!" yelled Ino as she tried to kick him but he grabbed her leg and his hand started to glow green again. Ino cried out in pain as Kabuto cut tendon in her leg with his chakra.
"So you are the girl friend of that Colby fellow I've heard about. Hmm too bad you won't see him again" said Kabuto as he grabbed Ino's throat and he let go of her leg. Ino want to kick or punch him but she couldn't move either of her legs or her arms. Morgan tried to grab her side arm but Kabuto threw a shurikin and hit the holster. "She dies if you make a move for your weapon"
"Creep" growled Morgan.
Kabuto started to walk backwards towards the group and kept Ino directly behind him banking on the idea that Matt, Joseph and Kevin won't shot for fear of the bullet passing through him and hitting Ino. Matt, Kevin and Joseph had their side arms out and ready to shoot but they held their fire untill you could see were Ino was.
"Turn around! We know you have Ino now let her go. Your fight is with us!" shouted Kiba.
"I don't think so mutt and don't you dare think of having that over grown pooch of yours play hero cause I see him charging, she dies." said Kabuto as he tightened his grip on Ino. Then Matt had an idea.
"Hey. Kevin you got your crowbar still?" asked Matt.
"Yeah but how is my crowbar gonna help up?" replied Kevin.
"Give it to me and watch for an opening." said Matt as he grabbed the crow bar from Kevin.
"Hey four eyes!" yelled Matt. Kabuto glanced over his shoulder. "Attention!" said Matt as he stood the crowbar straight up from between his legs. Kabuto turned and Kevin saw his opening.
"Now. Kevin!" said Matt and Kevin fired off three rounds all of them hitting Kabuto in the forehead, killing him instantly.
"Great it's finally over" said Shikamaru.
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"Naruto! We have located them" yelled Neji as he and an Anbu Blacks Ops ninja sprinted to the main gate where Naruto was waiting. "but they are in pretty rough shape and need medical attention quickly."
"Great! Get as many medical squads as you can to them. Where are they though?" replied Naruto as he rush up to the pair. Neji was out of breath but managed to tell Naruto where the missing squads were.
"They are 2 miles up the river. I'll send for a couple of boats to go meet them while the medical ninja, treat them there." said Neji.
"Good. I'll get the medical ninja and you get two more squads of Anbu and escort the medical ninja on the way there. Also you are to ensure their security on their journey home. Now go" instructed Naruto.
"Right away"
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"Ino! You alright?" shouted Morgan as she grabbed her medical gear and sprinted over towards Ino, as she laid on the ground near the dead body of Kabuto. Joseph, Matt, Kevin, Kiba and Shikamaru now started to feel the pain from their injures. Morgan gave Ino a quick once over, then moved on to the rest of the guys. She got to Matt first.
"Gaaaa! Mother fucking, son of a bitch!" yelled Matt as he clutched his left hamstring and rolled onto his right side trying to find a position that was the least painful.
"Matt, I'm here let me take a look at it." Morgan said. As she looked at the spot were Matt was clutching, she was shocked to find that there was no blood.
"What the hell!" said Morgan as she cut open Matt's pant leg to have a better look. The area was bright red like a bad sun burn but the skin was not broken. Morgan was shocked and went to go check the other guys but Joseph, Kevin, Kiba and Shikamaru all had the same thing as Matt.
"What kind of wound is this?" Morgan asked herself as she pulled out the bottle of morphine. "If I can't treat it might as well try to dull the pain for them" Morgan gave each of the guys a hit of morphine then went back over to Ino to check on her. Ino was still out cold when Morgan got to her.
"Hey, Ino. You alright?" asked Morgan as she shook Ino's shoulder. Ino started to stirr as Morgan shook Ino a bit harder.
"Mor... Morgan?" whispered Ino. "What happened? Last I knew Kabuto had me in a choke hold"
"Matt and Kevin killed Kabuto. Everyone is hurt but alive. I need your help to move them back to cover." answered Morgan as she helped Ino to her feet. Ino nodded and staggered over to Matt.
"Ino, hold on. I'll move them myself you get over to those logs and rest." said Morgan, as she gently lifted up Matt and carried him over to the pile of logs she and Ino had hid behind. Ino, though still a bit shaky, helped Joseph over to where Morgan had set Matt down. Akamaru gently dragged Kiba over to the group as Ino and Morgan also got Kevin and Shikamaru.
"You guys alright?" asked Ino, as she sat down and leaned up against a tree.
"We are for now at least. Morgan could you get our weapons? Last thing we need is for anymore of those Sound Ninja to show up" said Joseph as he looked around watching the tree line across the field. He didn't notice that Morgan was already coming back with their M-16s.
"Already got them Joe." answered Morgan as she passed them back to the guys. Kiba had closed his eyes as he took a deep relaxing breath, but as he breathed in his eyes shot wide open.
"We got company, they are coming from behind us." said Kiba. Kevin, Matt and Joseph reloaded their M-16s and got ready for another attack. Morgan also reloaded one of the M-16s she had brought back to the group. Akamaru stood in front of them as the trees above them rustled and a squad of Anbu Black Ops appeared in front of the group. Kevin, Morgan, Joseph and Matt tightened their grip on their weapons but Ino, Kiba and Shikamaru relaxed a little.
"Kevin, Matt, Joseph relax these guys are on our side." said Ino, as two squads of medical ninja also arrived.
"We have orders from Naurto to escort you back to the village. You will be traveling by boat to get back to the village." said an Anbu with a cat-like face mask.
"Good." said Ino as she turned to the medical ninja "All of the guys are wounded but their injuries will have to be attended to by Tusndale and Sakura. We will also need help taking the dead back."
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It was late afternoon when the last boat docked in the Leaf Village. Naruto, Neji and Hinata watched as the medical ninja unloaded the last of the black body bags and laid them at the end of a line of of body bags.
"What should we do with the bodies?" asked Neji.
"What should we do with the bodies? We don't do anything with them. We will leave that up to Joseph, Matt, Morgan to figure that out." said Naurto.
"But Naruto, we can't just leave the bodied out here" said Hinata. "We should at least store them in a safe place along with their equipment."
"We will store the bodies in the catacombs under Hokage Mountain. As for their gear, that can stay in my home." said Naruto. Then Ino came running up to Naruto. She had just come from the hospital were Tusndale and Sakura had just finished healing Kiba, Matt, Shikamaru, Joseph and Kevin's injuries.
"Naruto!" said Ino as she came running up to him. "Joseph requested that one identification tag be taken from each of the dead and given to him. Also that all weapons, medical supplies and personal belongings be taken off of the them and put into each of these bags, and each bag is to have the identification tag from a soldier and all weapons, medical supplies and personal belongings that are taken from them are to be put into the bag that has their tag on it" Ino explained as she handed Naruto a neatly folded stack of extra laundry bags from the hospital.
"Very well. Tell Joseph that the gear and the these bags will be held at my place untill they are out of the hospital." replied Naruto. Ino nodded and started to walked towards the line of body bags but stopped.
"What's wrong Ino?" asked Hinata as she walked over to Ino.
"It doesn't feel right for me to go into those bags and take the stuff that's in them." Ino said "I don't know any of them well enough to fell like I'm doing them a favor by taking their stuff."
Morgan, Joseph and Matt came walking down the street, both Matt and Joseph were on crutches with one of their legs in a cast. Naruto, Neji and Hinata saw them coming but didn't say anything to Ino. Morgan walked up to Ino and put her arm around Ino.
"It's ok Ino. Joseph, Matt and I will take care of removing the gear from them." said Morgan as Naruto walked up to her and handed the bags to her. Morgan and Matt took care of putting the personal belongings into the bags as Joseph talked with Naruto and Neji.
"Joseph. What happened?" asked Naruto.
"Well which verson you want? The short one or the long one?" replied Joseph as he watched Morgan and Matt open Dillingham's bag.
"Short version for now. The longer version can wait." replied Naruto.
"Well, we made contact with the enemy about a mile North of the village. After briefly exchanging fire with the enemy, we took down about 20 of them and then we broke contact and headed north for another mile with them close on our heals. We set land mine and claymores and repaired to ambush the oncoming enemy. We successfully ambushed the enemy but they soon out flanked us, we fell back and regrouped then launched a counter attack and eliminated the remainder of the enemy force, resulting in minimal losses to our ranks, except for one. A guy named Kabuto. He single-handed took down all of the those men you see in those bags and wounded all of us guys without us being able to touch him. Until he went after Ino was Matt and Kevin able to take him down. Three shots to the head was enough to take down Kabuto for good." explained Joseph. He could see Naruto tense up when Kabuto's named was mentioned.
"Kabuto is finally dead isn't he?" asked Naruto as his hands curled into fists.
"Yes he is. Why did you want to kill him?" asked Joseph.
"You have no idea. I've been wanting to kill that cheeky bastard for years" replied Naruto.
"Well sorry for taking that feather from you, but he is truely 100% dead. There wasn't much left of his skull after those three shoots to the head" said Joseph.
"Good. That bastard got what he deserved then." said Naruto. Naruto relaxed a little as Hinata hugged him.
"Naruto lets head home it's getting late." she said quietly.
"Alright Hinata, lets go. Also Joseph. You, Matt, Morgan and the other guy can spend the night at my house" said Naruto as he started to go. Joseph was dumb-founded, but managed to stutter a 'thank you' to Naruto. Naruto stopped and spoke to an Anbu member that was over seeing the off load. "Make sure all of that gear makes it to my house within the hour."
"Yes Sir" he replied.
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