AN: Time for some much needed fight related action me thinks ^_^
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Shan
"All these clones are wearing me out Kamo. At this rate I'll be out of Chakra before we reach that next sand dune." I complained in my best winy voice, hoping to provoke Kamoku into an argument that would at least stop our bizarre clone caravan for a few minutes.
Removing her eyes from the horizon – where they had been glued for the past few minutes – Kamoku turned her frowning features towards me.
"Honestly Shan! Your lazier than Shikumaru Sama when it comes to long journeys! Your only using two clones for Gods sake!" she retorted pointing towards my pair of duple-gangers that where carrying an inanimate, hooded body each.
"Yeh, but those guys are heavy you know." I replied defiantly.
"I know! I've got the two biggest ones! You wanna swap?" she threatened.
"No!" I said too quickly whilst speeding up a little to illustrate just how keen I was to avoid this solution. "I just want to sit down for a bit. We haven't rested at all in days."
"I know that Shan." her voice was stubbornly stern, making me realise that I wasn't going to win this argument. Noticing my retiring expression, she look back towards the horizon.
We continued in silence for perhaps a minute before she continued. "We're only twenty minutes away from The Sand now. They'll be plenty of time to rest then." Turning around, she smiled at me but changed tactics when I didn't return her gesture. "You know, I heard that the Kazekage is a real hotty." she said teasingly, giving me a cheeky grin and a wink. I had been trying to remain stubbornly sulky, but hearing something like this from Kamoku and seeing her perform the most exaggerated wink I had ever seen, made me burst out laughing.
My laughter quickly infected Kamoku, making us all double over and gasp for air against our uncontrollable giggles.
It must have been a rather amusing sight for any passer by, seeing two sets of supposed triplets falling about in fits of laughter.
We eventually recovered from our plague of laughter, and soon continued on our way, gossiping about what the legendary Kage of The Sand might look like.
"I hear he's a fiery red head! Red hair is hot." I added to our little gossiping session.
"Hey! Don't let Kinaga hear you say that! You'll worry her!" Kamoku joked back.
"I think Kinaga has enough admirers at the moment to be worrying about my fascination with red hair" I giggled back mischievously.
"Yes." Kamoku mused, directly changing the tone of our conversation to a serious one. "I think she's going to have a little shock."
"You don't think Hokorashi is actually going to tell her how he feels, do you?" I asked, wondering how Kamoku could possibly think that Hokorashi would swallow his pride and tell Kinaga how he felt. Not to mention the fact that she would probably beat him to a bloody pulp if she thought that he was just making fun of her.
"Why wouldn't he. He's not the type of guy that would worry about an awkward atmosphere if things didn't end well." Kamoku said, ending the conversation bluntly.
We both considered her point silently, until we where about a ten minutes run away from the huge wooden gates that betrayed the location of The Hidden Sand Village.
At about this time one of my clones gasped, before extinguishing into a wall of smoke, dropping it's bundled cloak on to the blisteringly hot sand.
"What the.." Kamoku began to say before an army of cloaks, brandishing poisoned Kunai , sprung from the very sand that we had been running across seconds before.
Disbanding her shadow clones, Kamoku threw her cloaks at me with an order that made my heart stop...
"Take these with you and get out of here." She commanded in a tone that I had never heard her use before. It was so strong and confident, yet painfully resigned to the fate that she had just created for herself through those terrifying words.
"No way! I'm not leaving! Not without..."
"The scroll? Yes I almost forgot." Her monotone voice was the only thing that betrayed the fear that she was struggling to conceal for my sake.
"No you idiot! Not without you!" I finished angrily but when I looked at her I could tell that her mind was made up. She didn't make eye contact for fear of tears for our final goodbye, instead she turned her head away from me, holding out the cursed scroll that had caused us all so much pain.
Her golden hair was a veil, disguising the tears that I knew resided behind it.
Staring at the scroll, the inevitability of what would happen when I took it filled my mind with cruel images of her death, leaving me disabled beside her.
"You must go." her voice still held its authority, but existed as little more than a whisper. When I remained rooted to the floor she finally turned to meet my gaze.
"NOW!" She shouted, her hair billowing dangerously, revealing her tear streaked face.
Taking a final look into those sparkling green eyes, I created two more clones that picked up our prisoners before sending into the distance towards the Village.
As they left, five of the hooded deamonds chased after them at breakneck speeds.
"Don't you even think about it!" Kamoku raged "Blossom Stream Jutsu!" She cried forming the appropriate seals as her Chakra took the form of pink petals that exploded around her, before hurtling towards the pursuing hoods.
"You think your pretty flowers are going to hide your friend from us do you?" The closest hood yelled mockingly as the petals cut through the air towards his shadowed face.
"Not exactly" Kamoku replied slyly, with the very same sarcastic grin that was often worn by Kinaga.
Kamoku
Their laughter didn't last long once my deadly petal hit them.
Even Shan – who had seen this jutsu while I was still perfecting it – gasped when the deceptively beautiful blossoms collided with the enemy, sending them crashing back by at least fifty feet.
Laughing sadistically at them, in an attempt to mask my fear, I sent my petals in pursuit of the twenty or so hoods that had remained stationary as their comrades chased my friend's clones. Having witnessed the effects of my jutsu, these hoods where not so naïve as to consider its' power by the form that it took. But they couldn't escape even when they tried, and ended up joining their fellows on the sand fifty feet away.
"You need to go now Shan!" I demanded, showing my urgency through my eyes and hoping that she would understand that she shouldn't blame herself for whatever happened after she left with our scroll and prisoners.
Her eyes glistened with tears. She nodded and placed the scroll inside of her pouch.
"Hai." was all she could bring herself to say and even then it was so faint a sound that I struggled to hear it.
She turned away from me painfully, before following her clones path to safety.
As I watched her go, I hoped desperately that this wouldn't be the last time I saw her.
AN: Hope you like ^_^ Please review if you can find time as this makes me Happy ^_^ lol
