Chapter 10: Damages

A/N: Sorry for leaving a cliff-hanger but I just had to….

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Temari pushed the woman out of the way and knocked the poisoned senbons needles out of the air with a wave of air from her fan.

"Where do you think you're taking her?" The woman from earlier said," I only ordered you to give her food, not to take her somewhere."

"...Temari, do you think you can take her?" Ino whispered to the wind user. Temari nodded and said.

"Yea…just get her out of here and come back for me."

Ino nodded and pushed the door open with the woman on the other side of her.

"By the way, what is your name? I should know the names of my rescuers." She said.

"I'm Yamanaka Ino and she's Temari." Ino said, pushing the lady into some bushes as guards walked by.

"You're from the Yamanaka clan?"

"Yea." Ino said, trying to spot a break in the never-ending stream of guards. Finally they stopped coming so Ino grabbed the woman's hand and ran back to the clearing they were resting in earlier.

She pushed on her radio and just as she did, Itachi came out of the bushes.

"Where's Temari?" Was his first question.

"She was fighting someone and told me to take them to safety," Ino explained of the other blonde's absence.

Itachi opened his mouth to say something but was I interrupted by strings of kunais flying out in every direction.

Ino blocked the ones facing in her direction and Itachi took care of all the others.

The woman cried out and dropped to her knees.

"Itachi….See I told I'd find you again." Daisuke smirked as he walked out of the bushes.

Following him was a girl about Ino's age. Her hair was really crazy…now Sakura's hair is usually the most outrageous since its pink…but this girl was green-haired instead.

Her eyes were blue though.

"Sakumo, take care of the girl guarding the hostage." Daisuke ordered in which Sakumo nodded.

She was fast, Ino had to admit that. Ino reared back her fist and slammed it into the girls face. The girl skidded back a few feet before running back and sending a kick to Ino's abdomen, which sent Ino flying into a tree.

Itachi was doing better than her since he sent his opponent flying into the bushes. Then he vanished with his super fast speed, appeared behind the girl and knocked her upside her head. Then Ino sent a kick to her head, knocking her unconscious.

"Go back for Temari." Itachi ordered," I got this."

Ino nodded and ran back to the compound where Temari was lying on the floor from a hit she received from the mysterious woman.

"Was that all you can do?" She taunted, not noticing Ino stalking behind her. Ino slammed her head into the side of the lady's head sending her flying into the wall. Ino then ran over to Temari and helped her up. Temari sent a glare at the girl.

"I'm just trying to help!" Ino snapped.

"I don't need your help!" Temari retorted.

"Well thanks to your arguing, I'm gonna kill two birds with one stone!" The woman said as senbons surrounded them. Both sets of eyes widened and both girls cried out when the senbons pierced their skin.

Ino pushed Temari behind her and received the second half of the hits so Temari grabbed her fan and sent a deadly wind at her.

"What a drag…" the woman muttered before taking her last breath and dying.

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Deidara was sculpting some clay when 3 people came through the door. He looked up and there was Ino, Itachi, and Temari.

"She didn't want anyone to take them out." Temari answered to Deidara's curious stare at the senbons in Ino's body.

"I'm gonna go report to Leader-sama." Itachi said, walking back into the hallway.

"What happened though, un?" Deidara asked, leaning Ino on his side. Ino blushed, Temari giggled and said.

"We had a run in with a woman fond of senbons as you can see…….I'm outta here." Temari said, walking away from find her boo.

"Well, let me help take those out, yeah." Deidara said in which Ino nodded. He picked her up bridal-style carefully and set her down on the couch.

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"Hidan…" Temari whispered, sticking her head in his room. His silver hair glinted in the sunlight as he turned his head to face her. He smirked, got up and held out his hand. She smiled and stuck her hand in his.

She pulled him out of the room and into a hug.

"Let's go for a walk." She said, looking up into his violet eyes.

"Hidan, you're supposed to be helping me count this money from the bounty." Kakuzu's voice called from in the room.

"Fuck it, I'm going out." He led the way to a field where a waterfall was present.

"This place is beautiful." Temari smiled, looking around. Hidan nodded and said.

"Some of us come here from time to time when we feel the need to leave." He explained.

…..Hours later…..

"What the hell happened to you two?" Kisame asked, seeing Temari and Hidan's soaking wet clothes.

"Hidan here tried to push me into a lake but ended up falling too." Temari said, laughing.

Kisame shook his head walking away muttering things to himself.

"OUCH!!" A yell called from the kitchen. Wanting to see what was going on, they walked in and winced just as Deidara pulled a senbon out of Ino's shoulder.

"Sorry, un." Deidara said, rubbing her shoulder a little. Ino nodded and rubbed her shoulder after he had moved on.

"What the hell?" Hidan said, this was the first time he had seen Ino since they had gotten back from the mission.

"She jumped in the way of an attack that was headed for me." Temari said, smiling apologetic to Ino.

"It was worth it though, things were patched between them." Itachi said, not even looking up from his book.

"Shit that pain isn't anything." Hidan said, leaning up against the way.

"Hidan shut up, they aren't immortal so they don't know the pain of getting their heads chopped off or anything." Kakuzu said.

"I wasn't fucking talking to you!" Hidan retorted.

"I'll take out the last one….You might accidentally hurt her, Deidara." A female voice said from the doorway.

"Oh, hey Konan-san, un." Deidara said, scooting over for the blue-haired lady to take his spot.

"Senbons from the neck are the ones that need to be taken seriously…they're the ones that can kill if you take them out a wrong way." Konan said, fingering it a little while easing it out slowly.

"Ugh…" Ino muttered while rubbing her neck after it was out," Thanks."

"No problem." Konan said with a smile," Deidara…bring me some ice."

He nodded and walked over to the freezer.

"They hurt, Ino-chan?" Kisame smirked.

"No shit Sherlock." Ino retorted.

Kisame laughed, he liked both her and Temari's sass.

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A/N: Now much of a chapter but that was okay….