Sorry for that long gap, I've been really busy, well thanks to all of those who reviewed, sorry if I don't put you up right now, I'm kinda being rushed, but I'll put you in the next chapter. Anyways I'm glad that people like where this story's going in this Chapter we're gonna meet the wooden soldiers! YAY, jazz hands everyone. hahah Well I'm gonna stop the rhyme's unless you want me continue them. Well let's get this thing going, Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the nutcracker, if I did, I doubt there would be many fans of either.
Chapter 2: The Midnight Raid.
Meanwhile, still inside Sakura's room, near her bed was a small toy fort, which was neither big or small, and within it's tiny little walls lay three bickering soldiers, complaining about guard duty. "AH MY FRIENDS, THE POWER YOUTH EXPLODES FROM US" Yelled one Rock Lee as his eyes watered with tears of joy, as he did backflips and cartwheels around the base.
His friends/comrades Neji and Ten-Ten looked at him as if he was crazy, "Lee, if you yell any louder, the mice will hear you, or worst Sakura will and then she'll rush out of bed and crush us, and I swear that my mangle body will make sure yours is never find." Neji said with indifference, "haha lighten up Neji, you can't deny he has spirit" Ten-Ten giggled.
"I see no reason for him to goof off like that, ever since that nutcracker came, the mice have been everywhere" Neji replied, "hahah but friends the power of youth is rushing from that blonde nutcracker! Yes when this war is over, I shall take you all to DISNEYLAND!" Lee said as the standard anime background flashed behind him, "Lee, you're wooden soldier, you don't get paid" Ten-Ten pointed out, "And Disney world's much better" Neji replied, the sound of glass breaking echoed the room, Lee and Ten-Ten looked him in disbelief.
"What? I can have fun too" Neji whined, "Neji my friend, as much as I say the power of youth explodes from us, you have as much youth as an old man!" Lee said, crying and pointing at Neji, "This coming from a guy who wears a green spandex jump suit and has a Beatles hair cut!" Neji roared, "Old man", "Green spandex freak", "Uptight jerk", "Wannabe Beatle." Ten-Ten sighed, it was always the same with these two, if not at each other's throats, then questioning which one had more youth, but she still loved them, even if they were crazy.
She walked over to the edge of the fort and just stared off into emptiness until she saw a few shadows emerge from a hole in the wall, "Guys, we got company" She said as she drew out several kunai, Neji and Lee stopped and in a flash joined her on top of the wall, "my friends, I believe they want in" Lee exclaimed, "all 300 of them? Sasuke must see the nutcracker as a big threat to send this many soldiers" Ten-Ten said, "Yes but we can take them, Ten-Ten if they break through, you know what you must do" Neji said as his white eyes began spouting veins near them, "Yes, I know" Ten-Ten said as a gust of wind blew by and Lee and Neji disappear and reappear inside of the ranks of mice.
"hahah Neji what is the score?" Lee asked as he stabbed a mouse with his combat knife, "I believe it's 5,563 to 5,562:" Neji replied striking several mice at once, "I shall finally beat you Neji! 5,564!" Lee said as stabbed another mouse.
The mice were closing in on them, they looked like normal mice expect they stood on two legs, wore roman type armor and had various weapons with them, Neji quickly killed another handful, "5,576 Lee!", "Oh yeah? 5,578!", "5,590!", "Watch this Neji, Hidden art, earth shatter!" Lee said as he simply slammed the floor with his foot and cracks filled the floor in front of him, quickly opening and sending well over a dozen mice to their doom, "HAHA NEJI 6,000!" Lee exclaimed as he dodge the mice's counterattack, "hmm...Eight Trigrams, Palm Heavenly Spin!" Neji yelled as he began spinning at a rapid rate and released a bust of energy from his body, "Lee, 6,034" Neji said, smiling, as he countered the mice's attacks.
Meanwhile at the base, Ten-Ten was throwing kunai into the crowds below, watching each for the explosion it would cause, but she quickly got impatience, she grabbed two scrolls from her back and jumped in the air, letting the scrolls open, and shouted "Twin Raising Dragons!" 100's of kunai, shrunken, swords, sickles, and axes came forth from them and she tossed them all into the crowd, many dead bodies littered the floor and another wave rushed forth, thinking she couldn't stop them because she was too tired from the attack but they were wrong, she raised her hands and every weapon that had been tossed rose from the ground and lunged themselves into the 2nd wave.
Ten-Ten grinned and did a victory sign, "hahah stupid mice." she said when she heard clapping from behind her, she turned to see two figures dressed in long black cloaks, One was tall, had long sliverish hair tied in a knot in the back, and wore glasses, the other had black, pointed black hair and glowing red eyes "Master Sasuke, should I?" The taller figure asked as he pushed up his glasses, Ten-Ten shook in fear when the voice replied "Be my guest" and disappeared in a flash, she knew that was Sasuke, never in all the war had he come to attack in person, and she was glad he never did, this base would've been destroyed a long time ago if he did.
The tall one held out his hands, which began to glow blue, and rushed forward, Ten-Ten got over her shock and pulled out a handful of kunai and was ready to toss them when she saw the cloaked figure was no longer in front of her, "Hey I'm back here" the voice said from behind her, she turned and tried to stab him but the figure backflipped away, "You caught me off guard Kabuto" She grinned, "hahah well, well, well, I never knew you to miss your target, Ten-Ten" He said as he pushed his glasses up again.
"Then let me show you I never miss!" Ten-Ten said as she quickly tossed a dozen kunai towards him, he pulled out one of his own and expertly deflected all of them. "Still slow on the draw Ten-Ten" Kabuto replied as he turned into smoke, "No way! how'd he get by me?" Ten-Ten asked worriedly as she drew out another set of kunai, and looked for him, "My dear, you're making sound like it's hard to do" Kabuto rushed from her side, grazing her right arm with his hand, he skidded to stop, grinning manically.
She tried to reach for more kunai when she realized she couldn't move her right arm anymore, it just sat there, just hanging from her side, "What the..." Ten-Ten started but Kabuto quickly explain "Master Sasuke hired me because of my medical training, I have...unique gifts, but when I showed him what I really can do, he put me in the front lines. You see, I just tore the muscle tissue inside you arms, preventing you from moving it all together."
"Why you.." Ten-Ten started but Kabuto had already hit her left leg, further disabling her, "Give up, be thankful I wasn't aiming for the vital organs, you may be wood, but even you have a heart" Kabuto mocked as he readied himself to deliver the final blow, "AH THE POWER OF YOUTH EXPLODES!" Lee yelled as he came in flying in with a drop kick which hit Kabuto squarely on his jaw, Kabuto quickly regained his footing after flying a good ten foot but Neji was already behind him.
"Take this!" he said as thrust forward with his opened palms, but Kabuto leapt back, "Ten-Ten, are you ok?" Neji asked worriedly, a small blush appear on her cheeks as she replied "yeah." "Rest Ten-Ten, The power of youth...and Neji will defeat this foe easily!" Lee exclaimed as Neji rolled his eyes, "hee...for elite soldiers, you're aren't smart...Like you could defeat me...besides, I'm doing my job, if you're too busy fighting me, whose going to save the girl and that nutcracker?" Kabuto thought as he pushed up his glasses once more and rushed forward, kunai drawn.
Hoped you liked, please read and review and sorry again for it being later
