Enter Shikari.

(A/N: Not the band. ;D )

Minato grinned and looked at his sister, Nayuri, who nodded once and nudged Konohamaru. They raced forwards and Nayuri moulded the chakra in Minato's outstretched hand as he did the same to Konohamaru with his free hand, and Konohamaru did the same for Nayuri. Suddenly all of their chakra formed together as they jumped above her, Konohamaru's scarf going wild in the wind as they swung their hands down together.

"TRIPLE RASENGAN!" The three of them yelled, smashing the Rasengan's down. Temari dived out of the way at the last second and hit the ground painfully.

"Twin Sharingan!" Two more voices cried out which she identified as Kairi and Izumi's.

"Shit!" Temari cursed, closing her eyes and listening intently.

"SEVERE LEAF HURRICANE!" Coraru's cry broke through her thoughts.

Temari gritted her teeth and stood her ground, wincing as Coraru's spinning back kick caught her on the side of her head, sending her flying across the field. She didn't go far though, as Ichiro's running footsteps accompanied cry made Temari switch on her brain at long last.

"Gatsūga! Fang Over Fang!" Ichiro yelled, him and his puppy Nasuada leaping at her, starting to twist quickly. However, Temari hit the floor and immediately pushed off, her eyes still closed, and flew up to meet them. But instead she flew past them, flipped in mid-air and kicked her feet into their backs, slamming them into the ground.

She made to turn around in the air, but a bug suddenly hit her in the face. At first she thought it was a normal bug, but as she felt chakra being drained from that tiny spot, she started to panic. It was one of the Aburame Clan's Kikaichū. Immediately she shook it off by shaking her head violently and opened her eyes to look around once she had hit the floor safely with her feet. She saw Ryu on the ground concentrating hard, and she wished she could access a kunai at that point.

But another voice broke through her thoughts. "Shintenshin no Jutsu!" Setsuna proclaimed, her hands in the traditional Yamanaka seal.

Temari dived out of the way and kept moving, making sure to dodge, duck, bob and weave. 'Must keep moving. That jutsu is unstable in such a way that they have to be able to lock onto their target. So if I keep moving, there will be no way they can get to me.' She thought desperately, hoping she was right.

After about ten seconds of running, Temari looked back to see if the Yamanaka seal was still visible, which it wasn't. She breathed a small sigh of relief but suddenly she screeched in pain as a thousand sharp tiny needles pierced the rope and gave her lots of exceedingly painful pinpricks.

"JIRAIYA I HATE YOU." She screeched, give her explosion of pain some meaningful words.

Jiraiya retracted his needle spiked hair, and it returned to it's usual ponytail. He grinned and brought back a fist to punch her, but Temari was suddenly alerted to someone running at her from behind. She dived to the side, and Jiraiya's punch connected with Tsunade's shoulder, and Tsunade's punch connected with Jiraiya's face.

Temari turned and kicked Asuma away violently as he came at her with his knuckle blades, and he slammed back into Guy with the force of a computer being hurled out of a top story window. As Temari turned again, she found she couldn't, as wooden strips had come out of the ground and locked around her ankles so as to trap her to the ground.

The bad news was, this left her completely defenceless.

"YAMATO." She shouted, struggling uselessly. He shrugged as he came towards her.

"Admit to who you are yet?" He asked her in return.

"NO." She replied angrily.

"Well then. You'll just have to deal with it." He shrugged, holding out his palm to her at the exact same time that a hail of kunai flew through the air at Temari from Moegi and Udon's directions. Temari turned her head sharply so as to avoid the spear of wood that should have impaled itself through her neck, and simultaneously grabbed a kunai clean out of the air with her teeth, slicing it down forcefully and cutting the wooden spear off even as a few of the kunai cut into the left side of her cheek, drawing blood.

There was a stunned silence, and Yamato was so surprised that he accidentally let go of the wooden holders that were wrapped securely around her ankles. As soon as she was free, Temari leapt forwards with the kunai and buried it in Yamato's shoulder.

"Take that, bitch." Temari said with a mouth full of the kunai handle, raising her head from his shoulder and taking the kunai with her, the corner of her lip and side of her face now stained with blood as he yelled in pain and clutched at his shoulder.

Temari whipped around as there was the buzzing of the Kikaichū and she started to run towards Ryu directly. Raising her head and brandishing the kunai at him. Ryu's concentration failed as he moved to dodge her and she swerved at the last second, her goal of distracting him complete.

"Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!" Akiri's yell sounded from behind her. Temari turned and all but spat the kunai out with as much force as she could muster, crying out in pain at the same time as Akiri did. Akiri had managed to land the first six of the palms on her, but Temari's kunai had imbedded itself in Akiri's hand, preventing her from doing anymore of them.

"Sand Bullet." Said an emotionless voice from her right. Temari nearly screamed as a small compressed sphere of sand hit her in the side. Temari then knew pain from all over her body as the bullet hit her multiple times everywhere. Masa stood above her, looking scarily like Gaara as he looked down at her. Then he grinned and disappeared in a hail of multi-coloured sand.

"Gaara…I mean, Masa…How did you get multi-coloured…?" Temari gasped out, nursing her now bruised ribs.

"Mum infused her chakra with mine and she taught me how to manipulate colour too. It's actually small bursts of multi-coloured flame." Masa's calm voice audibly floated on the breeze.

"…I see." Temari mumbled, watching as Tsunade pulled ruthlessly on Jiraiya hair, still irately berating him for getting in the way as he yelled at her and tried to retaliate uselessly.

Temari, from where she was sat on the floor, giggled madly. "Baka's." she sniggered. There was a sudden explosion of pain in the back of her head and she yelled out in pain, looking behind and up above her to see Kakashi standing with his arms folded.

"Here we are again Kura-Taka." He said dangerously.

Temari gulped slightly. "Ah fuck." She muttered audibly. Kakashi's hand crackled to life with lightening, and she rolled up onto her shoulders and kicked him hard in the stomach sending him flying back. He managed to slow himself down as he slid backwards along the floor, and he glared at her.

"There is no WAY I'll survive this one if I'm still tied up here." She said thoughtfully to herself, watching as Kakashi pulled his gloves up resolutely. "Fuck….uhm…"She racked her brains. Suddenly she sat up straight and sucked in a deep breath, putting her lips together. She let loose a piercing whistle, making a lot of people stare at her in confusion. Kakashi however widened his eyes and started to run towards her.

Which was when a big white thing streaked over the fence and landed in front of her, snarling at everything and everyone, protecting Temari with bared fangs.

"Urushi! Here boy, please can you get these ropes off of me? Please? Please, please, please?" She asked him, making her eyes big and round. He grinned doggy-style, his tongue lolling out as he licked her cheek once, his rough tongue leaving a weird feeling as he started to gnaw on the ropes furiously, freeing her within a matter of seconds.

"Ewwwww….Thanks boy. Now do me a favour and just stay there until I'm done…ok?" She said happily, ruffling his ears quickly and watching him run to the sidelines as she turned to face Kakashi who was nearly upon her. Temari couldn't do anything from her current position, and he was two steps away from Raikiri'ing her.

She was trapped.

Kakashi went to slam the Raikiri into her chest, but he suddenly stopped short, mere inches from her. As Temari stared at him wide-eyed, she watched a look of confusion spread across his face as he struggled to move.

"Kagemane Jutsu success." Said a voice from directly behind him. The face of a cheeky looking girl with four really dark brown pony-tails peeked out from around him as his Raikiri faded to nothing in his gloved hand. Her hands were in the traditional Nara hand-seal. Kakashi stared at the girl in astonishment as she turned to face Temari with a wicked grin.

"Hey Kaa-chan. Long time no see." She said in a voice that was slightly similar to Temari's in the haughty and firm, yet kind tone. Temari was shocked to the spot, and she stared at the girl who was stood before her.

The crowd had gone silent.

"Sh-Shi-Shikari?" Temari stuttered, almost afraid to say it as the girl released Kakashi from the Shadow-Possession Jutsu.

Shikari winked back mischievously.

Temari restlessly paced back and forth in Kakashi's office, as Shikari had been herded off to join Temari's form class, seeing as how Temari had been frozen to the spot with shock, Kakashi had taken charge, ordering everyone to return to lessons before dragging Temari into his office after having given Shikari to Temari's form.

"Why? Why now? Why does she show up out of no-where? Albeit she probably saved my life, but how did she even find me? Does Sh-Shi-Her father know? If not, he'll be furious! Their compound isn't too far but it's far enough! And-"

"Kura-Taka, stop." Kakashi said warily from where he was sat behind his desk.

"-what if he blames it on me and takes me to court for fuck's sake? They'll do me in so quick that-"

"KURA-TAKA. STOP. THAT'S AN ORDER." Kakashi roared finally, making her wince at his volume at such a close distance. He breathed deeply and exhaled in a loud sigh.

"Just…Take her home for the night, and let her sleep. Then take her back here she can do a day here at school again, like she is for the rest of today, and tomorrow, deliver her back safely to Shikamaru's in the evening." Kakashi said patiently, standing up and walking up to her, putting a soothing hand on her shoulder. She glanced sidelong at him.

"You fucking white haired senile mutt. You have to be fucking kidding me right?" She said in a dead monotone.

He cuffed her roughly. "Do it." He concluded sternly as she rubbed her ear ruefully.

LATE SHORT UPDATE, I KNOW. NEXT CHAPTER COMING AT THE WEEKEND! =D

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