Here we go another chapter yay! enjoy! disclaimers ar at the bottom.


Kankurou tapped his foot impatiently. "She's late"

Baki thought to himself out loud "She's defiantly not dumb enough to take on Shiori alone… or would she?"

"Don't worry Sensei. I'm not that dumb"

Everyone turned around. Gaara slowly turned his head.

Temari was standing Shiori cradled in her arms passed out.

Baki ran forwards and helped Temari set her sister on the ground. "H-how…"

"She's out of charka. I followed her into town. I was just about to get her myself when a group of ninja from the shadow village ran to her." She told her squad "And get this I overheard there conversation and I figured out what ceremony Shiori wanted to get to so badly"

She looked down at the unconscious teen "Her Orikage Ceremony"

"What!" Kankurou and Baki said at the same time.

"We might be in trouble right now because even though she isn't Orikage" Temari spoke "all the ninja from the shadow village treat her like one"

"Then let's go" Baki said and piggybacked Shiori's limped body

"N-no…" He heard a whisper from behind him "I-I have to p-p-protect them…"

"Wait!" Baki told the others and placed Shiori on the ground

She breathed heavily

"Protect your village?" He asked her.

She shook her head "No… everyone"

"From what" Kankurou asked calmly bending down on his knees beside her.

She slowly lifted her hand to his face placing it on his cheek and smiled "I-I remember the first time you stole my face paint. And you always c-covered your entire face with the goop. I painted your face once before I disappeared" She smiled "It seems you've kept it on since that day."

Temari kneeled down beside her too. "What do you need to protect everyone from?"

Shiori hand slid from Kankurou's face and fell to the ground.

"she hasn't changed one bit. she'd never tell ya what you wanted to know even in a situation like this" Temari smiled and looked over at Kankurou

"What?"

"That's were you get your face paint Idea from? Her makeup?" Temari chuckled.

Baki Sighed, "She's out" and pulled her onto his back again.

"Were are you taking Shiori?" A demanding voice called to them.

The four turned around, the man from before stood there and he seemed really pissed off. All around them the shadows oozed up from the ground. They were surrounded by Shadow ninja.

"Kankurou" Baki yelled

Kankurou turned his head just as a kunai slit his cheek. His hand instantly grabbed his face. Temari grabbed her fan from over her shoulder.

Yutori stepped forward and the other ninja followed him slowly coming closer to the five in the center.

"What know Baki?" Kankurou asked crow perched on his back.

Baki looked around counting the people around them '19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, damn too many to take on all at once'

Yutori took another few steps closer inspecting Gaara behind their squad leader. 'A gourd?' He watched as the kid lifted his hand and pulled the cork out of the top. He watched the cork disincarnate into sand falling to the ground. "Shit" he whispered to himself. He stepped back a few ninja looked slightly confused but followed anyway, some stared at the aqua eyed kid a knowing look in their faces. But all around every eye was on him. Yutori kept stepping backwards and the other ninja followed until they were surrounding them evenly at the edges of the field.

'Come on think Yutori, think!' Yutori held his left hand strait above his head and his right in front of his face, both palms flat. He let his left hand fall facing in front of him and then pulled it off to the side. The other ninja copied and let their arms hang at their sides.

'I can't move' Shiori forced out a small groan "oo-ahk"

Baki ignored her and took in the situation they had gotten themselves into 'thirty-one damn'

"Mo…" he heard Shiori groan out from behind him again.

She opened her eyes against her bodies will; she looked at the shadow ninja facing her making eye contact. She smiled at the red headed girl across from her and nodded, receiving a nod in return.

The shadow ninja started forming seals each one in sync with one another. Every odd ninja placed their hands flat to the ground a small few yelled "Jibaku Mandara!"

A rainbow like prism sprung from the ground were the ninja had placed their fingers connecting at the top. The other ninja stepped into the prism through the holes that had appeared in front of them.

Yutori took a few steps towards Baki "give her back or we'll have to take her by force" he calmly said.

"No" Baki said back to him.

He felt movement on his back, he grabbed Shiori tighter but failed as she kicked of his back landing on her own back halfway between the read headed ninja and were she had jumped from. She instantly reacted and began to run towards Shiori.

"No you don't!" Kankurou yelled as he Aimed Crow to his sisters half conscious body. Crow wrapped around Shiori's body as the red head wrapped herself around Crow.

Temari waved three ninja who were charging after her and punched another one about to hit Kankurou who he didn't seem to notice.

The red head ninja screamed in pain, needles had appeared all over Crows arms and legs. She fell to the ground as her body felt numb from the poison. Two ninja grabbed onto Shiori's arms and legs. But were instantly covered head to toe in sand and crushed. Kankurou laid Shiori at his feet and began to battle off the other ninja coming at him.

Yutori slashed at Baki's throat missing by millimeters. Baki jumped backwards and stabbed a male ninja behind him in the shoulder. He pulled the ninja in front of him as Yutori redirected his sword into the ground. Baki tossed the ninja aside and scratched Yutori's forearm. Yutori in turn scratched Baki's calf.

Shiori opened her eyes again looking up at Kankurou fighting and puppet-ing at an almost unreal speed. If she wasn't so angry at him she would have said she would be proud. She lifted her head and looked down at her legs witch seemed to be cut up fairly bad an she had no feeling in them 'I must have been poisoned' she rolled herself over onto her stomach unnoticed by Kankurou.

Gaara had already killed off half of the ninja that were in the dome and kept on going.

Yutori and Baki were facing each other blocking each other Yutori with his sword and Baki with his kunai "Give it up" Yutori said to him "Your trapped so even if you do kill us all off you still have to worry about the other one's keeping the Jibaku Mandara up. Not to mention the rest who are still coming"

"Well we'll just have to get rid of the rest of them now wont we?"

Yutori smirked Baki looked directly behind Yutori's head Kankurou and Temari were unconscious had all been laid down at the edge of the barrier. Shiori was cradled in a shadow ninja's arms.

"I'd like to see you try" Yutori smirked.

Baki Jumped away from Yutori. He looked over his shoulder at Gaara who was still fighting off some ninja, but he was getting tired. Thinking the situation through, he sighed and dropped his kunai to the ground "Gaara stop!"

Gaara ignored him and kept fighting "stop!" Baki picked up his kunai and threw it at Gaara. The sand instinctively protected him. Gaara stopped and turned towards Baki. He crossed him arms and glared. Suddenly a hole became visible in the rainbow prism around them, and another, and another, and another.

'How' Yutori gritted his teeth.

"Some of my sand was still laying on the edges of the field from my fight before" Yutori turned to Gaara "I sent that sand into the ground to break rock downs so I could have even more sand until there was enough to take out the weakest sections of the barrier."

Yutori looked over his shoulder at the ninja who was carrying Shiori. He turned his head and stared at the ground a battle raging in his mind,

'Yutori: I have to stop this! He's killed off almost half of our ninja.

Inner Yutori: You have Shiori so let's go!

Y: but they'll just come after us for her!

I.Y.: So give her to them. We have to stay here no matter what!

Y: But what about Shiori?

I.Y.: It was on her orders that we stay here wasn't it?

Y: She's the one that has to stay here you numbskull!!! Or have you forgotten?

I.Y.: No but-

Y.: eight days! That's all we have! She's the only one that can stop this!'

Baki watched as Yutori fought with himself. He smirked.

"Take me with you."

Baki looked up at Yutori, "Na ni?"

Yutori took a deep breath 'I.Y: I hope you know what you're doing' "after we have all the wounded in the hospital and under care I will let you take Shiori but only if you let me and my squad come with you to the sand."

"No" Baki quickly responded.

Yutori smirked next "I think you'll have to agree with me. You see that?" Yutori pointed over his shoulder at Temari and Kankurou who were still out cold. The shadow ninja pulled a needle out of Kankurou's neck. "You see we've injected poison into their bodies paralyzing them until they get the anti serum, witch we won't give to you or them until we get to Setuna"

"What are you getting at?" Baki yelled

"I don't need or want any more deaths. All so I know for a fact that we can't beat him," Yutori pointed at Gaara, "at this current point in time. Like I said I don't want any more deaths" he picked up two ninja laying on the ground closest to him, "And besides, you need those three to be carried, I'm giving you the man power to do that."

Yutori motioned to the ninja who were still uninjured; they started scrambling to their comrades lying on the ground. "Me and my squad, or those two aren't gonna be moving for a long time."

Baki scowled at Yutori 'damn' "Three people including you that's it"

"hai! Deal. Two hours we'll be right here waiting"

every ninja disappeared, exept for the one holding Shiori who started healing her wounds.

Baki sat on the ground 'what have I gotten myself into'


The technique is known as Jibaku Mandara (Buddhist Visual Path of Enlightenment) wach Naruto episode 141 to see it used properly.

Japanese
Hai: yes, here, ready.
Na ni: what?
Kami: god


Shiori, Yutori, Shadow village, and story line (c) Erika888
Mitsuki (c) My friend Breanna
Naruto etc. (c) Masashi Kishimoto