Chapter 9 WHO IS REALLY THE THREAT?
Once Sai returned from scouting, he gave out some of his findings."I tried to get as far as I could. The control system has to be in the area towards the Hokage Monument; I wasn't able to get really close because my chakra felt more restricted. Also there are soldiers everywhere; we need to somehow disguise ourselves to get past them all." Sai finished while looking at everyone for any ideas. "How are we going to do that?" Sasuke whispered. Sakura looked around, when an idea came across her face. "I got it… Sai follow me I'm going to need your help."
Sai and Sakura swiftly moved around, as they gathered up some materials. The unsuspecting pair waited anxiously until Sakura and Sai returned. Once they had everything they needed. Sakura handed Sasuke and Naruto some dress garments, while Sai readied some paints. "Wait …Sakura what are you doing?" Naruto asked as, she started to dress up in the garments. "Come on, were all going to dress up as geisha." Sasuke and Naruto felt their eye twitch, as they found that pill Sakura force-fed them hard to swallow.
After a few minutes, all four dressed up to make themselves look like real geisha. Sai let Sakura do his make up first, as he didn't have a problem with it that Naruto and Sasuke had. Sasuke and Naruto, fidgeted while Sakura and Sai did their make-up. Despite them hating having to dress up, both men looked really attractive dressed as women. They also found some material, for make-shift collars; so they could really blend in.
The group carefully made their way into the village together. While they walked, Sasuke saw some guards take notice; as they stared them down. "This is going to be too hard with all four of us together, I think they're growing suspicious; we need to split up." Sasuke whispered to everyone. "Sai; you and I should go and try to find Tsunade-sama. I don't see any of our friends; so they might have taken prisoners. We should try to find them as well." Sakura ordered. "Sasuke-kun, you two should go and find the control system. It's probably heavily guarded so; we'll need both of your strengths in order to get to it." Everyone nodded in agreement, as they split up in teams of two.
Sasuke and Naruto, walked around observing their surroundings; as they tried to learn any new information. Naruto first tried to talk too different people, but anytime he did; their responses were limited; as if they were in a trance. "Naruto we need to try something else, these people are no help to us like this" Sasuke said while pulling at him. "What do you suggest we do then?"He whispered back. Sasuke stopped him from talking, so he would notice two guards talking; these two were different from the ones they seen. These guards didn't wear armor; but had unique style of uniforms on. "Their going to be our ticket to finding out all we need to know." Sasuke said with a smirk. "Huh? I doubt there going to tell us what we want to know." Naruto responded. "I don't need them to, we just need their clothes." Sasuke answered back. Naruto still confused started to follow Sasuke's lead, as he watched the ninja walk up to the unsuspecting guards. Sasuke pulled out a fan; to cover up his nose and mouth.
"Hey, you two looking for a good time?" Sasuke said in a painfully high voice. Naruto let out a noise, as he pulled out his fan to stop from showing his laughing face. Sasuke eyed Naruto a look; of if he didn't play along it would be his ass. "Oh" Naruto shouted in his normal voice. One guard took notice to his low voice. Naruto sensing that his cover was about to be blown, quickly recovered as he also talked in a lighter voice. "You two are just sooo handsome," he said when he got closer, to lean into one of the guards.
"What's wrong with these two" one guard asked the other one. "It must be their programming, remember the collars are set for different things... These two must be whores or something." The soldier whispered back. Naruto leaned in closer to listen to what they were talking about, but instead heard some jingling keys. Seeing the keys Naruto turns his fan so he could mouth out to Sasuke; to take notice of them as well.
Sasuke eyed Naruto, back as he nodded his head. "Why don't you come back with us, we both will show you a good time?" the two chuckled. Both guards looked at each other, as they both shrugged their shoulders and followed the two big geisha behind a building. Quickly and easily subduing the guards, Naruto and Sasuke change into their uniforms, so they could mingle in even better now. "Sasuke, where do you think these keys go?" Naruto asked while walking beside him. "I'm not sure, but at least now we can go further, I just hope the others are doing OK."
Sakura and Sai decided to go to the Hokage's residence first to look for Tsunade. Since they have to get on the inside, Sakura had the same idea as Sasuke; when she and Sai ran into two guards that walked past them. They changed into their new clothes, and casually walked inside. Hearing some commotion going on upstairs, Sakura and Sai make their way to the rooftop. The pair looked around sneakily, as they notice a group of soldiers talking and a mysterious figure coming out; that was hard to see due to the distance.
Sakura and Sai eager to see who it was; sneaked a little closer to get a better view. The figure turned out to be a female rolling out someone in a wheelchair; on further assessment it appeared to be an older man, who looked as if he was not all there. He sat with his head tilted, and drool dribbling to the side of his mouth. Unexpectedly Sakura recognized the face that pushed in the man. "Momo," She covered her mouth, to hold back her disbelief. "What, it can't be, what is she doing here?" Sakura asked trying to stay calm, but when she slowly looked back at the man again; she couldn't believe she knew him as well. "No it can't be… Nobu!"
Nobu had looked so different; he wasn't the man she had seen before. Momo had looked different as well, she no longer wore geisha clothes; this time she had on tattered ones. When Sai glanced over at Sakura, he saw her having a hard time keeping still. Before he could stop her, she had inched up to get a closer look. "Hey you, who are you?" a voice called out with a spear pointing at them. Realizing they were found out, Sakura and Sai started to flee. But, there were too many guards blocking their exit.
Seeing no other way out, Sakura and Sai were forced to start fighting. The pair stripped out of their armor; because of its bulky size. As the soldiers started circling them, and they got in their battle stances; things took a halt as they heard a female voice. Hearing the female laughing, both Sai and Sakura traced the source of the noise. "Why don't you just make it easy on yourself and give up." Sakura turned to see Mayu standing there with a smirk on her face, and two body guards beside her. She walked up from behind Nobu, and started to wipe the drool from the side of his mouth.
Momo quickly hid behind Mayu, as she pointed to Sakura. "Her that's her" she said shaking. "Get off of me, I know that." Mayu shouted as she knocked Momo down, Mayu rolled her neck; as she gave her attention back to the ninja. "So let's start this," she said while she snapped her fingers as more soldiers started to fight. Sakura and Sai start taking on the multiple opposing forces; successfully knocking them out one by one, despite their limited chakura use.
Mayu watched on, as her mini army dwindled down to only just two soldiers. One soldier pulled out a ball and chain, while the other pulled out a sword. After the two charged Sai and Sakura, they each took on an opponent. Sakura punched the chain baring one, while Sai used his own sword; to fight off the other one. Once Sakura finished her opponent she went to help Sai with his. The two bodyguards that were next to Mayu started to head towards the fighting; when Mayu put up her hand to stop them. Having enough, Mayu decided to join in instead. Once she jumped down from where she was standing, she grabbed the ball chain from the fallen guard; Sakura took out. As she walked over closer, she started to swing the chain around as she neared her target. Mayu skillfully twirled the chain around herself. When the ball swung back around, she kicked it into Sai's chest.
Sai went flying back from the hard blow, as he went into a wall, "Sai" Sakura screamed at the sudden action from Mayu. Sai tried to get up but fell back down on his back; grabbing at his chest. Sakura hurriedly knocked out his opponent, as Mayu walked closer to her. "You know despite me ordering geisha here, I really hate them and I hate ninja. And you… You're by far the worst, especially after what you did to my father."
Sakura was shocked by Mayu's admission of Nobu being her father. "The geisha are a present for my beloved father. He can't enjoy a lot right now, no thanks to you" Mayu continued on as she got closer to Sakura. "Look… Your father is the one that started all of this. He used us, like pons in a sick game," Sakura started to speak. "Shut up" Mayu yelled as the look she had became severe.
Mayu swung the chain at Sakura, who was able to dodge it and roll out-of-the-way. "This is going to be fun," Mayu said as she dropped the chain, pulling out a dagger strapped to the side of her leg. Mayu quickly ran at Sakura; whom was surprised by her speed. She was way better than she was letting on earlier. Mayu and Sakura were at a stand still; as Mayu pushed against her. Sakura held her off, until Mayu slyly pulled out another dagger to stab her in the shoulder. Sakura saw an opening, but didn't take it because she didn't want to fight Mayu; since she felt she could talk some sense into her.
"Mayu please ….let me" Sakura tried to say before Mayu took her foot, swiftly under Sakura's legs; knocking her on her butt. Sakura kept Mayu back when she tried to stab her again. After Sakura finally knocked the knife away, Mayu started to physically fight Sakura. Despite her hate for ninja, she was obviously skilled in some type of taijutsu. During the struggle Mayu hit a part of the chest plate Sakura was wearing. She quickly took notice to it, once it cracked; she felt more of her chakura disappearing. Knowing she can't let Mayu hit anymore or else they'll be in worse trouble. Sakura swiftly was able to knock Mayu back with a punch; sending her a few feet back.
Sai finally started to come too again, as he tried to get up to help; but fell to his knees as he was struggling to move. Sai started to cough, as fresh blood seeped from his mouth. Sakura having a second from Mayu started to work on healing her shoulder. She knew her chakura was limited; especially now with her prototype cracked, so she needed to heal herself as fast as possible. She almost finished healing, when she abruptly stopped after hearing some wet coughing. Sakura looked over at where the sound was coming from. Seeing Sai with blood running down his mouth, Sakura knew immediately he needed help straight away; so while Mayu was still down Sakura ran over too him.
"Sai hang on don't move" She reassured as she checked him frantically. "Sai this is bad, you have some internal injuries… I think one of your ribs is broken and it's punctured a lung. We need to get you healed immediately." Sakura said trying not to panic, as she tried to heal him. Mayu finally stood up. She grabbed the ball chain she had attacked Sai with earlier, as she started swinging it around; while walking toward Sakura.
Sakura realizing Sai was getting worse closed her eyes while she was thinking. Hearing Mayu's footsteps getting closer and the sound of the chain getting louder, Sakura opened her eyes. "STOP" She yelled. "Please stop, I'll do whatever you want me to. Just let me heal him. I'll surrender to you." Mayu stood there swinging the chain while thinking about the offer. "Sakura … what are…you doing?" Sai tried to say as his eyesight was going. "Shut up Sai, I'm saving you. You won't last long like this" she whispered. Mayu smiled as she dropped the chain and responded "Fine, I'll let you heal him; in return not only will you be my prisoner. But, I want that thing you're both wearing that protects you from our armor. "Mayu turned around before she nodded, as her body guards showed up, and grabbed Sakura and Sai.
