Chapter Four:

The Mission continues….

The team's strength!

As Naruto continued his fight with the leader of the Hidden Cloud Village, Neji, Lee, and Chouji took on the task of battle with a group Cloud shinobi.

"Konoh…" Lee was about to charge and attack when Neji slapped the back of his head.

"Idiot! You can't say the village's name!" Neji proclaimed with an annoyed expression on his face.

"You are right Neji, my apologies, I almost got ahead of myself," Lee replied.

"Akimichi Kata: Hayameru Bakuhatsu!" Chouji wasted no time as he took of at top speed and surrounded two of Chuunin level Cloud shinobi.

"Senpuu!" Lee yelled as he landed the fierce blow on one of the Cloud-nins and the immediately attacked the other Chuunin, this left Neji to face off with the Jounin level Cloud-nin.

"Raikouken!" The Cloud-nin yelled forming the sword and attacking Neji whom began dodging the strikes. One of the strikes grazed Neji causing him to be electrocuted.

"Damn!" Neji yelled in pain, as he had to continue to dodge while handling the occasional shocks of electricity. The Jounin finally managed to land kick to Neji's gut. He slashed downward with his sword only for it to be caught by Neji's chakra and he began to expel it from his body. "Kaiten!" Neji yelled as he began his rotation that caught the Jounin and threw him. The Jounin crashed into the ground.

"Gorikii Senpuu!" Lee yelled as he took down his remaining foe with a fierce attack. "Gai-sensei I will make you proud!" Lee yelled giving his nice guy pose.

"Hakabakashii Boushi Shuriken!" Chouji yelled as he spun with great speed and fired shuriken striking his foes. "Hakabakashii Sentourenda!" Chouji yelled as he clobbered the shinobi with a barrage of punches using Chouji's rapid speed.

"You're in my range of division," Neji told the man as he got into his familiar stance. "Hakkeshou: Rokujuu Yonshou!" Neji yelled as he began striking the man with his attack, ending it with a palm strike to the man's chest, causing him to drop. As the group finished their battle, Kiba and Shikamaru were squaring off against two Anbu class Cloud shinobi. The two groups exchanged several blows before breaking off and preparing their next attacks. "Tsuuga!" Kiba yelled as he attacked the group only to be dodged.

"Alright Akamaru let's go! "Jinju Konbi: Soutourou" Kiba yelled as he and Akamaru turned into a giant Two-headed wolf.

"Kiba's impatient as ever it would seem," Shikamaru sighed as he tired to catch the ninja with his shadow. "These guys aren't going to be caught so easily but we have to hurry, as skilled as Sasuke is, he's facing two Jounin level shinobi. I don't like those odds much,"

Almost as if on cue, Sasuke was being attack from all sides by the two Jounin. His Sharingan active, the Uchiha was dodging attacks left and right but seemingly could only stay on the defensive.

"Damn it, I've got to do something," Sasuke cursed as he tried to formulate so type of offense. He dodged on strike and then leaped into the air and performed hand seals. "Katon: Housenka No Jutsu!" Sasuke yelled as he fired several fire balls down at the two men whom easily dodged and fired shuriken up Sasuke who evaded and then landed only to be attacked again.

"Raikouhando!" The two Jounin yelled in unison both trying to grab Sasuke with their lightning charged hands.

"I can't let them touch me!" Sasuke thought as he dodged the enemy attacks and started performing hand seals. "Doton: Doryuu Taiga!" Sasuke yelled, as the ground underneath the two Jounin's feet turned to mud causing them to slip and lose their balance. "Now!" Sasuke yelled as he saw his opportunity to attack. "Katon: Karyu Endan!" Sasuke yelled as he engulfed the ground in fire causing the two men scramble as they barely escaped. Sasuke quickly appeared behind one of the Jounin and kicked him into the air. "Shishi Rendan!" Sasuke yelled as he landed his barrage of kicks as the two collided back with the ground. Sasuke then fired shuriken at the other Jounin as he began charging toward the teen. The Cloud-nin easily dodged but then noticed the wire attached to the shuriken. Sasuke pulled the wire causing it to tie around the Jounin and then tie him around a nearby tree. "Take this! "Katon: Ryuka No Jutsu!" Sasuke yelled as the fire traveled down the wire and engulfed the man, tree and all in flames causing him to scream out in agony. Sasuke turned to see the remaining Jounin finally getting back to his feet. "Now to finish this and go help Naruto," Sasuke said and he performed several familiar hand signs. "Chidori!" Sasuke yelled as chakra formed in his hand and he began to charge at the man. As Sasuke closed the distance between them he save the man smirk.

"Raikouhara!" The man yelled as a field of lighting emerged and completely absorbed Sasuke's Chidori and then electrocuted the teen causing him to scream and be tossed back.

"Damn!" Sasuke cursed as he fell to the ground but quickly jumped back to his feet. As Sasuke readied another attack Shikamaru and Kiba were continuing their fight.

"This is troublesome, I hate fighting an opponent whom I don't know enough about. But considering from what I've seen in most of the battles taking place, everyone is strong in lightning defense jutsus," Shikamaru said as he watched the Anbu dodge Kiba's attack. "Well guess it's time I made myself useful," Shikamaru said as he began stretching his shadow and sending it toward the two Anbu. The two men were occupied, dodging the many vicious swipes and bites that the massive two headed wolf was attempting to land. Suddenly one of the Anbu was frozen in his tracks.

"What the hell? I can't move!" One of the men said as he looked over at his partner whom attempted to make the save only to have to jump away as Kiba attacked

"Garouga!" Kiba yelled as he cut through but only narrowly missing the two men.

"Kagemane No Jutsu was a success," Shikamaru said with a smirk as he held the man in his jutsu allowing Kiba to continue his onslaught. "I guess I should wrap this up," Shikamaru said noticing that Kiba's attacks were just continuously being dodged. "Kage Kubi Shibari No Jutsu!" Shikamaru said as he strangled the man to death and then released his hold on him. "Now for the last guy," The shadow user then went after the last Anbu as his shadow approached the man the shadow came up from the ground and pierced the man through his back. "Kage Nui!" Shikamaru then watched Kiba circle around for one more attack and quickly releasing his jutsu as the giant wolf plowed into the man finishing him off. Kiba and Akamaru soon after returned to normal and now Sasuke was the last man aside from Naruto left to fight an opponent.

"Chidori!" Sasuke yelled as he attempted his attack once again. The attack was once again absorbed by the lightning field. "This is getting rather annoying," Sasuke said as he jumped into the air and performed several hand seals. "Katon: Goukakyuu No Jutsu!" Sasuke yelled as he fired his fireball down on the field hoping to hit the man or at least disable the field. "Maybe a water jutsu will short it out long enough for me to get in range to attack him," Sasuke thought to himself and then performed more hand seals as he landed. "Suiton: Mizukujo Bakuha!" Sasuke yelled as water was seemingly drawn up from out of the ground and fired at the Jounin level shinobi whom merely dodged. But Sasuke got the results he had been wanting as he could see the Lightning field shorting out. "Now's my chance!" Sasuke thought to himself as he charged in before the man could perform another jutsu. "Chidori Nagashi!" Sasuke yelled as he expelled his Chidori throughout his whole body completely shocking the man. "Now!" Sasuke yelled seeing his chance to strike. "Chidori!" Sasuke rammed his lightning charged hand through the man's chest as blood poured from the man's wounds. "Don't ever mess with me and my friends again," Sasuke told the man as he went limp and died.

"Holy crap, good work Sasuke," Shikamaru said in shock as the group rejoined him. "Not one, but two Jounin,"

"They pissed me off, nothing more," Sasuke replied. "What about Naruto?" Sasuke immediately asked.

"He's still fighting, from the looks of things it's been crazy and they're nowhere near done," Shikamaru told the Uchiha.

"Now's our chance to save Akina and Hinata-sama," Neji told the team leader.

"No, unfortunately Naruto and the Raikage are too close to the action we could get caught up in the fight unnecessarily. The wise thing to do at the moment is to replenish our chakra and observe," Shikamaru told the Hyuuga prodigy. "Besides, this is what you and Sasuke wanted right? A chance to see Naruto in action," Shikamaru said with a smirk. "Let Naruto fight, it's what he would want. We'll save Akina and Hinata at the first chance we get, but remember that man is a Kage. He may have planned for something like this. We don't want to simply walk in and risk harm coming to ourselves or the hostages," Shikamaru explained.

"Fine, but if Naruto gets into trouble I'm not just going to sit here," Sasuke told the lazy Jounin.

"I am with Sasuke on this, as you said that man is a Kage. Naruto is indeed strong but even he may need our assistance against such a strong opponent," Neji replied.

"That is why I said we'll observe for the moment," Shikamaru sighed.

As everyone stood by and watch One-tailed Naruto and the Raikage also stood preparing to attack each other again. The Kage took note of the new spectators and cursed to himself.

"All my men lost? How is that possible? I'll need to dispose of this one quickly and the focus on at least killing the traitor and escaping with the Hyuuga girl. Once I make it closer to the village, these brats cannot possibly follow me with out being killed or needing reinforcements from Konoha. In which, that case I could declare war with Konoha," The Raikage thought to himself and smirked. "Now I need to finish this brat off,"

"Just try it!" Naruto growled and then leaped in with a fierce swipe of his claws, he however, hit nothing but air as the Kage easily dodged. "Damn you!" Naruto hissed. Naruto attacked again but once again hit nothing. Each time he attacked and missed he'd begin to get more and more aggravated. The Raikage's smirks were doing nothing more but angering the teen even more. Finally after several minutes Naruto had enough of it and his anger caused him to grow another tail and become for feral. He attacked again and this time with more intensity. The ground crumbled under the force of his punch, but the Raikage was still easily dodging the attacks.

"So this is all the power the Jinchuuriki of Konoha can do?" The Raikage bellowed in disgust. "I'm disappointed that the Kyuubi could have been sealed inside of such a weakling and the Yondaime Hokage's son no less," The Raikage was about to say more when he noticed Naruto's rage intensify at his words. Almost immediately he made mention of Naruto's father, the boy instantly grew a third tail and the vanished from the Kage's sight. An instant later Naruto appeared before the Kage and swiped at him with his claws, the Raikage barely dodged and the force of the swipe managed to cut the man even though he had dodged. "Interesting, his power is increasing with each tail, it would be unwise for me to continue at this rate," The Raikage declared as the three-tailed Naruto stared him down, ready to pounce.

Jutsu List

Konoha Senpuu - Leaf Hurricane

Akimichi Kata: Hayameru Bakuhatsu - Akimichi Style: Speed Explosion

Hakabakashii Boushi Shuriken - Rapid Fire Shuriken

Konoha Gorikii Senpuu - Leaf Strong Whirlwind

Hakkeshou: Rokujuu Yonshou - Eight Trigrams: Sixty-four Palms

Katon: Housenka No Jutsu - Fire Style: Mythical Fire Phoenix Jutsu

Doton: Doryuu Taiga - Earth Style: Earth Flow River

Shishi Rendan - Lion Barrage

Katon: Karyu Endan - Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet

Katon: Ryuka No Jutsu - Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu

Chidori - 1000 Birds

Jinju Konbi: Soutourou - Man Beast Combination: Double-Headed Wolf

Kagemane No Jutsu - Shadow Possession Jutsu

Kage Nui - Shadow Sewing

Chidori Nagashi - Chidori Discharge

Suiton: Mizukujo Bakuha - Water Style: Water Expulsion Blast