Chapter 5: Team 8 vs. Deidara and Tobi

"Senpai, you're not fully recovered yet… I'll handle the dog boy and the weird one with glasses…."

"What? I'm not weak, un… I can finish the 4 of them with one blow!"

"Trust me on this senpai! I'll let you handle Yuki-Onna and the Jounin…" Tobi pleaded. The truth is, he didn't want to hurt his Yuki-Onna. She's so cute! I can't hurt her… in any case; my conscience won't bother me if Senpai's the one who'll deal with her…

"What? But, darn you Tobi, I'm not good at dealing with…"

However, before the artist finished off his sentence, Tobi already jumped off the flying clay bird.

"Stop chatting you two!!!" Kiba yelled while clutching a kunai and heading on for the masked akatsuki.

"See senpai? The dog boy wants to fight me…"

A split second later, Even before Kiba noticed it; Tobi already appeared behind him and managed to snatch the kunai from his tight grip. Kiba then found himself in a don't-move-or-I'll-slit-your-throat situation.

"K…Kiba!!!" Hinata shouted.

Something then caught Tobi's attention… This made him jump off and allowed Kiba to escape his threatening situation.

"Bugs?" An army of bugs was after him. It was Shino.

"So that's your hidden talent… Kinda gross if you ask me…. Senpai! I need a lift!"

The large clay bird flew over to where Tobi is and saved him from the devastating attack of the icky bugs. Deidara then jumped off from the clay bird and left Tobi soaring above while riding at its back. The artist's flying clay bird flew somewhere far away from their current location. Shino and Kiba followed…. They were Tobi's opponents after all.

"That leaves us here, Hinata" Genma uttered.

"Hey, you're not including me?" Deidara answered. Hmm… A jounin eh? Let's see if he's worth the title… I'll finish this fast, un.

"Hinata, something tells me this won't be easy… So I'm warning you as early as now… Be careful." Genma smirked. Shoot, Kiba and Shino left… I thought WE were supposed to protect Hinata from these guys… But it seems like I'M the only one responsible for protecting her… That means… if I loose… We loose…

"H…Hai sensei..." Hinata replied. She wanted to fight along with his sensei… But something tells her he wants this battle to be one on one.

Genma made the first move. He threw three kunais towards Deidara's direction. The artist countered it using three of his small clay spider bombs.

"Clay as explosives?" Genma was surprised.

"Meet my creations jounin! I'll show you why art is a bang, un…" Deidara then jumped at the back of his new created flying clay bird.

"Long range…. This'll be tricky…" Genma sensed trouble.

Meters above, Deidara let his mouthed hands chew on some clay. It made a lot of small spiders. What's the artist planning to do?

Using Hinata's byakugan, she saw small dots across the sky filled with lots of chakra. She immediately informed this to Genma.

"S…Senpai… Spiders! Up there!!!"

"Nani?!!!"

"It's heading in this direction! There are lots of them!"

"Shoot! We have to run! Hurry!!!"

Exploding spiders… It rained exploding spiders… Did the two leaf ninjas managed to escape?

"Heh… Don't worry… I won't kill the Hyuuga, un… We still need her." The artist grinned as he watched from above. A thick cloud of smoke was emitted from the explosion.

After the smoke cleared…

"Ack…"

"Sensei! Y..You're leg… its hurt…"

"Don't worry Hinata, I can still fight…" How… irritating… I'll get him next time…

"Stop it senpai! We need to formulate a plan!!! I… w… want… t…to… help you… I… don't want you to protect me! I… j... just want to protect myself…" A tear fell from Hinata's eye as she persisted. Genma stared at the Hyuuga's begging eyes.

"Heh... You're right… What am I thinking? Let's do this Hinata." Genma smiled. The Hyuuga nodded. They managed to devise a plan… But will it work?

As the artist watched from above…

Tsk… I only inflicted a small wound on the jounin, un… But I'll get him next time…Deidara mumbled. A second later… Wait… Where did the Hyuuga go??!! Shoot, wait... the Jounin disappeared too! Hmm, looks like they're up to something… Too bad for them though, I can still locate them wherever they may hide, un…The clay bird then headed for the trees and the bushes searching for the two hiding nins. Deidara instantly noticed several shurikens coming towards his direction, but he managed to dodge it…

"There you are jounin!" Two spider bombs were instantly thrown below towards a large bush where the artist sensed the jounin could be located.

A cloud of smoke emerged… It was a log…

"Kawarimi?" The artist cursed.

"Got Ya!"

"Wh… What???" Before Deidara knew it, 5 kunais with explosive tags were coming towards him.

"Wait! Where'd that come from?"

"Right here." It was Genma

"A tree???" the artist was surprised

So that's where Genma went. Up the tree… He used it to reach Deidara's distance above.

"You used the shurikens as a decoy, un… To... lure me to that tree….. Shh… SHOOT!" The explosive tags destroyed his large flying clay bird's wings and tail. The artist crashed below.

"Wh… What a pain, un…" Dust covered Deidara everywhere… He managed to survive... But his ankle was partly broken.

"Gentle fist!!!"

"What now?! Oh… Shit… I… can't move… my… chakra… what happened?" The artist struggled to look above so he can identify the culprit.

"Y…you.."

"I blocked some of your chakra portals… Especially the ones on your palms… I… noticed huge chakra concentrations from it…" Hinata was satisfied with what she did. They made it. Their plan… It worked.

"This'll be the end of you…" Genma shot an evil glare.

(A/N): End of chapter!

Reviews please!!!!

Minimal exposure from the Tobi vs. Shino and Kiba fight because… Err…Err… Gome… I have no idea what to place there….T;T

Next chapter: Chapter 6: I'm not done yet