The Road

The swordsman momentarily struggled to stay upright, hanging onto his blade and the safety it provided from the torentous wind that had blown away from his compatriot. This moment was all it took for Kakashi inform the others of their part in his plan, "Jump!"

Sakura used a chakra propelled leap over to the ambassador's son as the remaining Kumo Nin grabbed the ambassador. With a surge of chakra they leapt into the air, carrying their charges with them. Once the silver haired Jounin saw them free of the earth's embrace he, too, soared into the air while flashing through hand signs. At the apex of his flight he finished his hand signs and thrust his spread fingers towards the water logged ground. "Raiton; Furasshudoragon" (Flash Dragon)

Sparks formed on his fingers and surged towards the ground in a spiral, quickly wrapping together into a rope that then merged and reformed into a small Chinese style dragon that slammed into the ground. From the point of impact the electricity quickly spread along the ground's wet surface in all directions, the waterfall Nin stiffened upon contact even as he tried to retract his sword from the earth. His eyes rolled and he fell to the ground spasming as the team and their charges landed in small splashes.

Sakura was still cradeling her arm but now that she didn't have a squirming child in her grasp she was using medical chakra to fix the bones, judging by the winces that ran through her face, it wasn't a pleasant experience. Kakashi started to sprint towards their downed opponent, the (Flash Dragon) wasn't a powerful jutsu even with the water to help and it wouldn't paralyze him for much more than a few seconds, he had to finish this now.

"Stop!" The Kumo Nin was running to his right, trying to get Kakashi out of his way. Once he did and Kakashi had stopped he through a kunai at the downed waterfall Nin, it struck true catching the downed shinobi in the temple, but no blood flowed. Instead the figure seemed to destabilize slightly and spears of water, about five feet long, shot out of the body in every direction before stilling. Then the entire body collapsed into a pool of innocent looking water. Kakashi jumped back to the group, "Thanks, what was that?"

The Kumo Nin whipped some water from his forehead and continually glanced around at the forest on either side of the road, "Don't know some variation of the Mizu Bunshin, but he got one of my team with it when this whole thing started. Don't go for the close kill with this son of a bitch."

Kakashi and Sakura nodded as they scanned the trees, Sakura had finished healing her arm and was now flexing her fingers experimentally. It was still a bit sore but movement was within the normal range, unfortunately it had cost almost half of her chakra reserves to do it. Sakura kneeled down in the muddy water and made a show of trying to get a weapon out of a hidden holster on her ankle, the Kumo Nin glanced at her dubiously She's a lot more useless than I thought.

But this was exactly the image she wanted everyone to see, when her hands were down by her ankle she very slowly went through hand signs. Any quick movements would attract attention but slow movements people would just dismiss her as clumsy in getting out her weapons. Once done with her hand signs she pressed her finger into the muddy ground until she found the hard earth beneath it, sending out her chakra like sonar that would only bounce off another source of chakra. Kakashi had taught it to her, saying he learned it during the Third Shinobi War. Already she could detect Kakashi, the Kumo-Nin, the ambassador and his son. Pushing out farther she quickly tried to scan the woods, she could only go about 100 feet and wasn't finding anything.

She made a show of grabbing some soldier pills from a hidden pouch in her black kneel length boots and popped it in her mouth, chewing carefully before swallowing the foul tasting pill. The pinket noticed Kakashi looking at her and she subtly signed to him

No. Detection. Orders?

Kakashi nodded slowly, it was possible they had scared him off or that he went to help his teammate but that just didn't seem in character for the man. He had seemed so confident and happy about fighting Kakashi and the Sharingan wielding Jounin was sure he hadn't even managed to injure the sword wielding Nin yet. Kakashi signed back to Sakura.

Stay. Alert.

The slight sound of rushing air was the only warning that Kakashi got of the sword coming to bisect him, fortunately it was enough as he twisted pulling out two kunai and blocking the massive blade that had meant to part him of his legs. The blade was stopped by Kakashi was visibly struggling with the effort to hold it back, leverage wasn't in his favor and the swordsman was no weakling.

Sakura thought quickly, it was possible that it was another water clone and if it was any kill shot would set off the trap with Kakashi too close to get away. I need a way to tell if it's the original or not!

Suddenly hit by inspiration she grabbed two more smoke bombs out of her pouch and activated them before throwing them at the struggling duo's feet. The rain had let up that the poison would reach their mouth and nostrils this time, If it's a clone it won't affect it at all but if it is the original he'll have to retreat. I can give Kakashi-Sensei the antidote after.

The swordsman looked down at the cloud of purple smoke that was quickly rising up his legs, with a pointed glare at the young medic he lifted back a leg and delivered a front kick to Kakashi's chest launching him to the other side of the road. That was all the proof Sakura needed, if he was a clone he could've kept pushing and ultimately overpowered Kakashi but as the original he had to disengage Kakashi and then retreat. Sakura had no intention of letting him complete step two of his plan.

The rain finally stopped as she, once again, started a barrage of poisoned weapons at the enemy. Forcing him to stay where he was and block the incoming barrage of projectiles, he prepared to once again smack aside the flying weapons with his blade when Sakura kneeled down and ran through some quick hand signs and put her palms to the earth, "Doton; Chikyū supia! (Earth Spear).

Her chakra surged through the earth and under the static shinobi, once behind him it formed the desired jutsu. A stalactite grew from the ground pointed directly at the distracted shinobi's back and dove in for the kill. A second from finishing the older shinobi off Sakura's jutsu was cut in half by a high speed water jet coming from the trees, glancing over she saw a copy of the man crouched on the tree with his hand to his mouth. Apparently the man had made clones to provide support before he had moved in for the attack.

Sakura growled lightly, her chakra reserves were back up due to the soldier pill but they wouldn't last and when it ended her crash would be hard. The cloud of poisonous gas was still close to him and spreading, he would be done with her weapons momentarily and then be free. Without standing Sakura ran through more hand signs and slammed her palms down again, "Doton; Chikyū dōmu! (Earth Dome).

The earth surged once again, just as the older swordsman finished with her thrown weapons, this time closing upon him like the mouth of a great beast to swallow him whole. The Kumo-Nin understood Sakura's plan and slammed his own palms to the ground "Doton; Bokkusu o rokku (Locking Box).

Four walls grew out of the earth surrounding the dome, one was twice as long as the others and when they met the tall wall folded in half closing the box's lid. With any luck it would take too long for him to escape and the poison cloud would finish off the sword wielding shinobi. A screeching sound echoed through the air as Kakashi appeared behind the clone in the tree and thrust his lightning covered fist through its head, dispelling it. Now it was a waiting game. After several minutes it became a deadly case of Schrodinger's Cat, the poison should have killed the shinobi in the box but they couldn't know for sure unless they opened it possibly freeing the swordsman.

The problem was that keeping the earth dome and locking box up constantly sucked chakra away from Sakura and the Kumo-Nin. Both were now beginning to breath heavily as they struggled to keep the wet ground they had made it out of solid. Kakashi struggled to make a plan on how to deal with the trapped nin, striking upon an idea he took out a dozen kunai and carefully focused on creating lightning chakra. Slowly he separated the positive and negative energy of the lightning, he fed the negative energy into the kunai and flung them in a rough semi-circle around the earth constructs. He readied himself and nodded to the exhausted Sakura and Kumo-Nin, gratefully they cut off chakra from the earth and their jutsu ended sagging slowly to the ground.

Once the earth traps had fallen to the ground they could see the swordsman, he was floating a foot off the ground completely encased in water. He had used a reverse water prison to keep himself separate from the poison. With a surge of chakra the water prison exploded outward pushing the poison gas away from the freed Nin.

However, Kakashi was ready. He quickly charged a single kunai with positive electrical energy and flung it towards the center of the circle surrounding the waterfall Nin. Once the kunai hit the ground near the swordsman's feet the positive and negative energies in the kunai called to each other and the circle was filled with lightning. It arced from kunai to kunai, leaving no room to escape as the swordsman screamed, being directly in the path of several bolts of electricity. After the kunai had used all of their charge Kakashi launched a final kunai at the downed and smoking shinobi. It pierced his jaw and embedded into his brain, blood flowed freely.

Author's Notes:

Hey guys, that's the end for this fight, tried to make it a little more varied. Obviously a lot of lightning, earth and water jutsu but one of the combatants is from waterfall, two have earth affinities and there is water everywhere so lightning is a must lol. I tried to make Sakura a bit more useful, I hate writing her as such a failure and want her to actually use Jutsu, tell me what you think of a useful Sakura.

Well as always, ask any questions you have and keep suggesting for Fu's fate. I still haven't completely decided although I am leaning towards an answer. I can still be bribed by being asked nicely! :P ….or just being told what you think but whatever, c ya.