Mona still held Naruto back by the neck. He couldn't breathe. Terra took out the sword she had tied behind her and held it up to tap his chin. "I could kill you right now." She muttered as she looked at the stone, and then up at the sky above. "But you're so darn powerful, I could use you." She looked back down to him. "Can you destroy that rock for me?" She asked as she pointed at the rock with her sword. The rock was just as big as the Hokage's mansion. "Just so that the pieces are small enough for me to bring home to my father."
He looked at her with an evil yet fatigued look. "Never. That rock holds our water supply." He told her. She blinked and looked back up to the rock. How odd of a stone. To hold their water supply? How…odd.
"That's all it does? How boring." Mona muttered. She looked over her shoulder to see the rock. "I thought it did much more than that." She then said to her senpai.
Terra looked at Gobi. "Gobi, go touch it!" She commanded. Gobi nodded and set his hand on the rock. "Hmmm, so it doesn't kill." The blonde said as Naruto looked at her with a crazed look. "
ARE YOU CRAZY?!"
"What?"
"YOU WERE WILLING TO SACRAFICE HIS LIFE FOR A STUPID ROCK!" He yelled before pointing to Gobi. "WHAT IF IT 'DID' KILL HIM?!" Mona flinched from his words; Gobi was like her best friend. She couldn't lose him…no matter what. It was his doing that she was alive. As Naruto struggled to break free from Mona's grip she looked over to Ino and Sakura. Ino had finally broken Sakura's head free from the ice, and the pinkette was panting deeply as Ino started working on her upper torso.
Mona couldn't help to see her Mother in the ice once more. She quickly turned away and started crying. On a mission before her mother had died…she was trapped in ice just like that. Naruto saw her tears from the corner of his eyes and used the moment to get away. He elbowed her in the gut and she let go without a fight. He jumped over Terra as she tried to grab him. He landed by Gobi and turned to catch Gobi's fist. He caught it, flipped Gobi over and threw him into an Ice pillar in the distance. Terra was angry now and looked at Mona. "Mona! Why are you just standing there?"She screamed as she pointed at Naruto. "Go get him!"
Mona looked up with tears running down her face. "Yes senpai." She muttered. The small shinobi made a few hand signs and held out her hand. A small string of water was absorbed from the ice and floated up below her hand. It took the shape of a long kunai, and immediately turned to Ice. She grabbed it and ran towards Naruto.
As Naruto grabbed Gobi's leg to block a kick he noticed Mona running his way. She held up the kunai and jumped towards him. Naruto couldn't react as Gobi threw a fist towards him. "Shit!" He grabbed the fist and jumped up. He was doing a handstand on Gobi's shoulders as Mona's ice kunai nearly hit him. He dropped down behind Gobi, turned around and kicked him in the back. Mona moved out of Gobi's way and charged for Naruto. She went to slash at him but disappeared to confuse him. "What? Where'd she go?" He asked as he looked around, and then he heard ice crack from behind him. He turned around as soon as he saw her swing her kunai at him. He barely had enough time to dodge it. He did a backbend, and then stood on his hands to jump up.
With her luck, right before he jumped up, she slit his arm. As he jumped upward in the air he felt a horrible sting in his arm. He landed by the rock and looked down. "WHAT?!" Ice was forming around the cut and moving up his arm. Mona looked at him as he tried desperately to get the ice from spreading. "STOP IT! STOP IT!" He yelled as he rubbed his arm; trying to get it to stop. There was a sound over to the right. It sounded like breaking glass.
Mona looked over to the sound. Sakura broke free and was rubbing her wrists. Mona's eyes widened. "How did she—"
"MONA!"
Mona looked at Terra. She was examining the rock. "Mona, don't just stand there!" Terra then screamed. The small kunoichi nodded.
She looked at Naruto once more. The ice had completely consumed his arm. He had run over to an Ice pillar and started smashing his arm against it. "STOP SPREADING!" He pleaded loudly. Mona started crying again. "No…why is this happening?" Her father was in his place as the ice spread over his face and chest. This may of kept them alive when she had done this to her parents…but it was still a scary thought.
"NARUTO!!"
Mona looked over at Sakura, she was crying as she ran towards the blonde. In Mona's eyes Sakura became her mother that was crying for Mona's dying father. They hadn't died the same way….but the image wouldn't leave her sight. Mona couldn't move as she watched Naruto suffocate.
"MONA!" Terra yelled. She was trying to get Mona to snap out of it. "MONA, FINISH HIM!" Mona grabbed her head and started crying uncontrollably. "MONA!" Terra yelled again. The small girl looked at her senapi.
"SHUT UP!" Mona screamed. Terra was taken aback. In all her years with the small girl, she had never yelled back like that. It was completely out of the girls nature.
"What did you just say?" The blonde woman asked in a growl. Mona stood up from kneeling down and held up two fingers. The ice suffocating Naruto turned into water and fell setting him free. Terra looked over to Naruto. Sakura hugged him, and kissed him on the cheek a few times. "Mona, what do you think you're doing?" She asked. Mona smiled as more tears fell down her face.
"Not listening to you for a change." She told her. Terra took a step back and growled. 'Now' Mona was acting out of character. Mona 'never' betrayed her like this. The girl was too loyal. She couldn't believe what was happening.
"Mona you're making a big mistake!" The blonde yelled as the girl held up her ice kunai. Mona was going to attack. For the first time she was going to attack her senpai other then training. She was excited. She knew almost everything Terra knew.
"No I'm not, you are." Mona muttered. Then she disappeared and reappeared behind Terra. She swung her kunai at her but Terra dodged it by doing a quick cartwheel to the side. Sakura stopped kissing Naruto as he tried to get up.
"You…"
They both looked over to the ice pillar next to them. Gobi was leaning on it. Naruto struggled to get up but fell again. "Don't try to fight me, I'm done." Gobi then said as he looked at Mona and Terra as they fought. Mona was punched in the stomach and crashed through an ice pillar. Gobi looked at Naruto and Sakura. "All I live for is making Mona happy." He told them. Naruto and Sakura looked at him in surprisment. "When she cries, I die a little inside." He then said. Sakura looked at Naruto; he was looking at Gobi with a concerned look. "I've been taking care of her since her mother and father died." Another explosion was sounded as Mona and Terra both hit each other at the same time and flew into the walls on the opposite sides of the empty lake.
"Gobi?" Sakura asked as she looked back at him. "Do you want us to help her? He slowly looked at Mona, as she emerged from the wall. Then he looked back to Sakura.
"Please."
Naruto nodded and used the pillar for support as he stood up. Sakura stood up after him and looked at Gobi. "Don't worry, we'll help." She told him with a smile. Naruto ran off towards Terra without any thought. Terra saw him coming and caught his fist. She grabbed his arm as he tried to pull away. She threw him up to the rock.
Once his feet touched the rock it went from green to bright red. "WHAT THE HELL!" Naruto yelped. He couldn't move. Sakura stopped and looked at the blonde. The rock wasn't the only thing that turned red. The necklace around his neck. It had turned bright red as well and was burning his chest. But his head hurt as well. He grabbed his head and fell to his knees.
"Naruto!"
Everyone looked at the rock confused of why it was red. Mona fell to her knees and she grabbed her wounded arm as she looked. "What's happening to the rock?" Ino muttered to herself. Then she looked at Sai as he woke up in her arms. Sai's eyes widened.
"Ino, what's going on?"
"I don't know."
Sakura tried to jump up next to him but when her feet touched the stone's surface, it shocked her with a red and green colored lightning. Mona gasped as Sakura fell, but Gobi quickly appeared and caught her. Everyone was surprised to see him perform such an action. Sakura opened her eyes as she heard Naruto's screaming. "NARUTO!" She called as she jumped out of Gobi's arms and looked up to him. Everyone gasped, as he slowly opened his eyes; revealing fiery red fox eyes.
