Chapter 7
Raidou and Shikamaru were vastly outnumbered. They stood in their spot however because they new that they had to get to their friend at the Kage's palace. That was the sole reason why they squared off to fight because the friendship for their teamate was that strong. Even against odds that could easily kill them. Still, there was nothing left to it. They would fight here and if they died, at least they knew that they had not giving up on their friend.
"Okay, lets get this started!" shouted Raidou.
Shikamaru looked at his friend and wondered what was going on with him. Raidou was usually calm and collect like the leader of their team but, this was a different Raidou all together.
"If we are going to fight, lets give it all we have! I'm not holding anything back." said the Jounin. Shikamaru smiled, he would have to do the same thing of course.
"Right, lets begin then." added the shadow nin as the first of the enemy engaged them.
Hinata was perfectly still as she studied her enemies. She could already discren small descrepencies in their movement that she could take advantage of. She was outnumbered and any advantage would be needed if she was going to survive.
"Lets take her!" yelled the ANBU captain.
Hinata had the Byakugan already activated so, she could easily see the direction in which the attaks were coming from. She dodged one then two but a third attack came at her too fast and caught her in the stomach. The woman bent over in pain after she jumped back to safety.
"Ha, too easy. Rush her at once and lets finish it." ordered the captain again.
Hinata began to spin as the ninjas attacked her. Some were able to alter their direction but not all of them and four were caught in the Heavenly Spin and tossed away like deadwood. "Here goes!-Kage bushin non jutsu!" Hinata created two shadow clones of herself. This would give her some advantage but, the use of this jutsu took a huge toll on her available chakra.
Sending the clones on ahead of her, the young woman quikly formed a seal and used the technique right away.
"Jyuuken-White thunder!" One of the clones jumped into the air as the other continued ahead. White chakra appeared around them both as Hinata rushed into the center of the two. Two ANBU were forming seals to push back the attack but, they were two slow. The first clone ran right into the one of the ANBU and lached on to him. The second one in the air threw a kunai and hit the other in the leg, preventing him from jumping into the air. Hinata rushed up to both of them and hit the cloud ninjas in the sternum with such force that, the sound echoed in the distance. Bones broke and the two ANBU fell to the ground. Hinata ended her technique by sending the clone that was airborne into her victims with immense speed. At the last moment, Hinata threw an exploding tag onto her clone and the two ANBU cloud members were dead in seconds.
"Wow, not bad at all." Said the ANBU captain as her observed from a safe distance. He still had six other ANBU with him so, he was not worried. Besides, the womans chakra would be finished soon if she kept that up.
Genma took a kunai and held it ready infront of him. This was it, he kept telling himself. He was a good ninja, one of the best jounins in Konoha but, there was no way he would be able to stay alive against three ANBU squads. He braced himself as the attacks came, knowing that there was very little he could do about them. Not even his grand fire elemental could stop the barrage of projectiles targeted at him.
"Damn, Suton-Grand Waterwall!" Genma tried. A large wall of watered shot forth from Genma's mouth and stopped the kunais from hitting him. But, while he was performing that technique, three Cloud nin got behind him and kicked him in the back. That sent Genma flying into his own technique and damaging him further.
"Damn, this is my limit."
A Cloud appeared infront of him with yellow chakra surrounding his arms. This was indeed the end for Genma. He had nothing left to stop this attack nor did he have the speed left to dodge. He closed his eyes and waited.
"Rasengan!" came a voice and the Cloud infront of Genma was blown away to oblivion. Genma looked up and saw his savior. It wasn't the person he had expected but, he was in good enough hands.
"Jiraiya-sama! Thanks a lot. I was done for."
"No worried kid, lets get out of here."
The Cloud all formed seald and preparred to attack. These two were not getting out of here so easily. Unfortunately for them, the new arrival had help of his own. Gama-sama jumped unto the Cloud nins and squashed them all were they stood. The Sannin helped Genma unto the giant toad and the two were off.
Too fast to be seen or even followed, Lee was under the Raikage's defensese in seconds. In the air, the Raikage struggled to gain the upperhand but, it was way too late for that. A kick to the center of the back, then a puch to the face left the Kage immobilized for seconds. Lee backflipped off of a wall and began his attack again. The kage was kicked even higher into the air. No attack followed as the Kage reached the height of the palace ceiling and then began to descend with great speeed. Still, no attack followed. The Kage fell for at least six seconds before the ground neared but, instead of hitting the ground, the Kage landed on Lee's upstretched fist. Lee throw the kage into the wall with both hands. The head clud ninja hit the wall with a loud booming sound as dust issued from the place of impact.
"Damnit you little brat! I'll make you pay for that!" screamed the Kage at the top of his lungs. There was really no need to pay Lee back for the perfect execution of Final Loctus for the toll of opening two gates so soon after one another had already taken effect. Lee was still standing, barely but his breathing was erratic and his body hung limp.
"Fuuton-Air concussion wave!" The wind jutsu hit Lee this time and knocked him to the ground. Lee strugled to get back up but the Raikage hit him again with the technique. Lee could not get up. "This time, there wont be any dodging. Fuuton-Final wind Eraser!" yelled the kage again as white chakra glowed around his body. He was almost standing right on top of Lee as the technique was about to be executed. Lee looked up and saw the glowing body. It appeared to him to be an angel.
"Secret genjutsu gael-mind sealing technique!" came a voice and the Raikage was stopped in his tracks, chakra still surrounding his body. Someone quick had sped by and picked Lee up off of the ground. The kage shook off the genjutsu and the attack fired into the ground.
"What the hell?" The Raikage looked around, once the dust from the attack had cleared and saw two female ninjas and one of them was half holding Rock Lee. "Right, backup. I should have known. Haha, you don't think that you are the only ones to have reinforcements do you?"
"Kurenai-sensei, what do we do now?" asked Ten-ten as she surveyed what was happening. The lower palace was beginning to be filled with Cloud ninjas of various class. Soon, there were at least twenty ninja's in the room, all surrounding Kurenai, Ten-ten and Rock Lee.
"I'll give it you kid. You put up a good fight. If you knew how to control your chakra a little better, you probally would have caused me a serious injury. As you can see, I am still in fighting condition. You guys are going to die, thanks for coming to my village. Finish them off!" commanded the Kage.
"Too late to run."
"Way too late for that."
The cloud nins lept into the center of the room toward the female nins and the already injured Rock Lee. Kurenai preparred and handseal but, it wasn't needed. The help actually had help!
"Heavenly spin!" came the attack from not one but four Hyuuga ninjas. All of the attacking cloud were thrown in different directions. When the attack finished, the seven konoha nins wasted no time in retreating. The Raikage just stood there and smiled. Not even he would dare take on four Hyuuga jounins.
