A/N: Yo! I'll start this chappy from right before it started getting wacky last chapter, k? Here's the real fight scene.
Warning: I suck at writing fight scenes. I can draw them, I can animate them, but give me a keyboard with a computer…and you'll regret it…This is going to be short, alright?
Disclaimer: And as I'm sure you've all been dying to know, and seeing as how none of you could've ever figured this out for yourself…I do not own Naruto. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with Me-Ushi…
Chapter 10
Fight Scene: The Real Thing
The wind blew slightly, stirring the leaves and trees. But the two chunin ignored it. Right now, they were focused on the red-head girl in front of them.
Raising a finger and gesturing them over, Me-Ushi tried to lure them to her. "Bring it…"
Sasuke never took his gaze off of the red-head, but nudged Naruto and pulled out another kunai. "Naruto, get back to Sakura and Kakashi-sensei. Tell them what's going on."
Naruto kept his gaze on the girl as well, but shifted to a more prepared position, taking out a couple ninja stars as he did so. (Ya know, those things that you throw? Basically, a more awesome version of the Frisbee)
Shaking his head, Naruto transferred the ninja stars to in between each finger. "No way. I'm not going anywhere. I can take her, believe it! I won't run away, and you know it!"
Sasuke sighed. "Yeah…I do…" he muttered too softly for Naruto to hear.
Naruto glanced at his companion with an array of emotions swirling inside of him. The truth was that Naruto didn't want to leave Sasuke with someone like Me-Ushi. Naruto knew he could trust Sasuke, but that girl had managed to get close enough to Sasuke to kiss him. Who knew what else she would pull if Naruto left them alone? Naruto didn't want to ever give her that chance. Never would she touch Sasuke again. Naruto wouldn't let her. Naruto had to remember to keep his mask in place to keep his anger in check.
"Yay! Both of you are staying?" Me-Ushi grinned happily. "Great! More fun for me! Hmm…maybe I could get a threesome goin'…" Then she laughed again.
Naruto's jaw dropped. He almost dropped his ninja stars and started to twitch. Sasuke however, took out yet another kunai and flung at Me-Ushi. She spun around, dodging it with ease. But when she turned back around, Sasuke was in her face with his other kunai pressed against her chest.
With a swift motion, Sasuke began to hack away with his kunai. Me-Ushi's back arched and she became taut, but no blood was shed. Cloth and skin alike was torn apart.
Abruptly, the girl he was slicing jumped back. Cuts ran all along her body and tattered cloths, but no blood. A confused expression spread across Sasuke's face before he turned to scan his surroundings.
"A doppelganger, huh?" Sasuke smirked. "Well, where the hell are you?"
An unexpected yell made Sasuke whip around. Naruto was still on the ground, but now he had stilettos sticking out of down his left side. Sasuke glanced up and leapt towards Naruto. Just as Sasuke anticipated, a shower of the slender knives came pouring down to where he was standing just moments before. A couple dozen of them were now embedded in the ground, sticking out in every direction.
Sasuke dropped down to Naruto and started to gingerly help him yank out the stilettos in his side. Suddenly, Sasuke sensed another movement above them and quickly pulled out a shuriken that had been strapped to his leg. Opening the four blades, Sasuke grasped the handle and started to rapidly spin it above both him and Naruto.
Trying to cover both his face and Naruto's, Sasuke felt sudden jolts pummeling the shuriken, along with sharp, earsplitting clinks of metal scouring off of metal. Sasuke could see stilettos falling all around him and Naruto.
The jolts were relentless, they just wouldn't stop. That girl must have an endless supply of stilettos, or something! Dammit! I have to get out of this before I can start attacking her myself…
Grasping his blond companion, Sasuke hastily jumped out from beneath the downpour of stilettos and rushed over to the other side of the opening, folding his shuriken as he ran.
But the barrage of knives followed him. Sasuke swore, but continued to run with Naruto under his arm.
"Put me down, Sasuke!" Naruto started to flail.
Sasuke didn't answer, but stopped and turned on his heel. Tossing Naruto in a bush as he turned, Sasuke faced the onslaught of stilettos bearing towards him and grinned. With both of his hands free, he could make whatever hand sign he wanted.
Hurriedly, Sasuke whipped his hands around, forming the hand sign for the 'tiger', 'ox', and 'horse'. He could feel the sharp stilettos cutting into his skin—some he could feel were rooted in. Sasuke ignored them and tilted his head to where the bombardment of knives was coming from. Blood started to drip down his arms as he inhaled. Bringing his left hand to his mouth, Sasuke used his forefinger and his thumb to circle his mouth and blew.
A stream of flames shot from the Uchiha's mouth and danced around the trees. Naruto popped his head out from the bush to watch.
"Go Sasuke-teme!" Naruto cheered.
Then Sasuke started to run out of breath. Stopping for a moment to catch his breath, the flames stopped as well. Sasuke inhaled again and blew between his two fingers. The flames roared back to life and began to burn the top of the trees. A rustling above him made Sasuke blow even harder, making the inferno burn brighter. A sudden scream pierced through the forest. Sasuke smiled.
As Sasuke stopped to catch his breath again, a certain red-head fell from the tops of the tree, enflamed. Sasuke tensed and readied himself. Naruto, too, jumped from the bushes with a ninja star still between each finger.
Me-Ushi started to roll around, trying to put out the fire that was engulfing her. When she finally stopped, she stood up and straightened herself. Few flames licked her legs, but she patted them out. Glaring at the Uchiha, she spat at him.
"So that's how you like to play…? Well fine…If you're going to fuck with me—" Suddenly Me-Ushi pulled out two shuriken, one in each hand. They were huge. "—I'm going to fuck with you harder!"
She crouched down and started to whirl the shuriken around. Naruto stepped in front of Sasuke, brought his hands back, and hurled the ninja stars at Me-Ushi. She didn't move. Instead, she used the spinning shuriken in her hands to ward off the offending disks. Then Me-Ushi took a step forward and soared over to Naruto. Naruto leapt back as the shuriken skimmed his chest, cutting his orange shirt.
Me-Ushi spun around wildly, the shuriken flying at Naruto in every direction. Stepping forward, Naruto kicked up between the two shuriken at Me-Ushi's head. As his foot came in contact with her chin, a 'thud' rang in Naruto's ears.
The red-head recoiled, dropping one of her shuriken, and held her jaw. Blood started to trickle between her fingers. Removing her hand from her jaw, Me-Ushi looked down at the blood in surprise. A tiny, but deep gash was below her lower lip.
"How the hell…?" she started.
Naruto chuckled and pointed down at his foot. The small tip of a dagger was jutting out from the tip of the sole of his shoe.
"And you said I was an idiot…" Naruto grinned.
Me-Ushi scowled and bent down to pick her shuriken up, not taking her eyes off of the blond shinobi. But when her hand felt nothing, she glimpsed down. Her shuriken was gone. Looking between Naruto and Sasuke, her eyes narrowed. Neither of them seemed to have it. Realizing what had happened, Me-Ushi quickly turned around.
Behind her was an exact copy of Naruto. In the fake's hands was her shuriken.
Immediately, Me-Ushi took out a stiletto and threw it at the copy's neck pressure point. But before she had even moved, the doppelganger-Naruto threw the shuriken towards another orange-clad figure in a tree. The first Naruto-double fell before Me-Ushi with a stiletto in his neck, but the second one (with the shuriken) leapt to another branch in a different tree.
Frustrated, Me-Ushi took out a handful of stilettos from her thigh pouch and hurled them all at the second Naruto. The replica-Naruto laughed and jumped down to the ground, avoiding the knives being thrown at him.
Landing on his feet, he turned to Me-Ushi and stuck his tongue out at her. Suddenly, another Naruto popped out from a bush next to the second Naruto. The second passed the shuriken over to the third, who the proceeded to throw the shuriken up in the air. Me-Ushi ran to catch it, but suddenly stopped. Three more Naruto-clones had popped out from who-knows-where and were trying to restrain the girl. One had his arms and legs around Me-Ushi's back while the other two had wrapped themselves around her legs, gluing her in her place. One was even biting her. (LoL!)
Me-Ushi ignored them and struggled desperately to get to her shuriken. But another Naruto popped out of the tree above the third Naruto and caught the rogue blades.
Me-Ushi cursed in frustration and glanced down at the Naruto-clones restraining her. Grasping her other shuriken, she swung it around, slicing the three duplicates away from her.
Spinning around to face the real Naruto, Me-Ushi gasped. In his raised hand was her shuriken. Me-Ushi clutched her head as if suffering from a major headache, and cursed again. Looking up at him with eyes filled with rage, she demanded an explanation.
"How many clones can you make!" she shouted infuriated.
Naruto laughed and shrugged. "Dunno…Why don't you try to count?"
With that last statement, the blond chunin leapt into the air, and grabbed a branch, swinging himself over. Looking over his shoulder at the red-head, he grinned and gave her the 'peace' sign before leaping into the trees.
The Uchiha, however, had perched himself on the limb of an oak, trying to enjoy this little game of 'monkey in the middle'.
Me-Ushi scanned everywhere around her, searching for more of the orange-clad clones. But they seemed to have disappeared. In fact, the only movement was Me-Ushi turning her head and Sasuke swinging his leg back and forth from his branch.
Sasuke grinned. He knew exactly what Naruto was going to do. His intentions were totally evident in his mind. All Sasuke had to do was take a little peek to find out what Naruto was up to.
Suddenly, Me-Ushi's other shuriken came flying out from the tree tops, spinning out of control. It landed before Me-Ushi and entrenched itself in the ground in front of her feet. Me-Ushi stared at it, trying to figure out what was going on. A sudden yell above her made her head snap back up. Me-Ushi gasped. She dropped her other shuriken and her eyes widened at the sight of…
…about 30 Narutos falling towards her from the tree tops.
A shriek was forming in her throat, but before she could let it out, she felt herself being pummeled by over two dozen 120lb boys. All of them were punching and trashing at her everywhere.
After a while of being pounded by a horde of Narutos, Me-Ushi felt her limbs starting to numb.
Then she saw the Uchiha jump from the tree and stride over to his comrade. "Naruto, that's enough. We have to get to the Village hidden in the Mist, remember?"
Every Naruto turned to look at Sasuke. It was pretty funny, actually. Me-Ushi would've laughed if someone's elbow hadn't been jabbing into her spleen. All at once, every single clone-Naruto poofed into smoke. The real Naruto stood up and turned to Sasuke.
"Yeah, let's go!"
Sasuke glanced down at the crippled girl lying on the ground. "I think you overdid it, Naruto…"
Naruto glanced at Me-Ushi and shook his head. "Well I think she got what was coming. Now let's go!"
Sasuke smiled…before a look of total shock crossed his face. Immediately, he took out a kunai. Naruto tilted his head to the side.
"Hmmm? Sasuke, what—" Naruto started. But he couldn't finish. A sudden strong, vice-like grip had been placed around his neck. The hold was getting tighter, and he couldn't breathe. Sasuke held the kunai in his hand back, as if to throw it, but froze.
"Hold it, Hun," came the annoying voice of Me-Ushi. She was up and standing and both of her hands were tightly clamped around Naruto's neck. "Move…and the kiddie gets it. I could break his neck with just a twitch of my thumbs right now, so you should just get on your knees right now and beg."
Sasuke didn't move, but continued to glare at the red head. "You're still here? Why can't you just die, damn it!"
Me-Ushi didn't say anything, just squeezed Naruto's neck harder. Sasuke tensed.
She grinned evilly. "Well? I said get on your knees! And put that kunai down while you're at it."
This time, Sasuke very slowly fell to his knees and dropped his kunai. In the meantime, Naruto was rapidly running out of air. Me-Ushi's grin broadened.
"It's so much fun having you as my slave, Sasu…" she savored calling him that. She continued. "It's just too bad that I won't spare this cutie in the end…or you for that matter, either. I'll have my fun with you, then kill you off, just like him. Now watch as I do so…"
Suddenly, her grip on Naruto's neck tightened to the extent. Sasuke watched in terror as his buddy's face was contorted in a grimace of pain and started to turn blue.
Then came a very fateful sound. The sound of…Bones cracking? A neck snapping? A scream? (that's kinda gross…) No! Instead it was the sound of something slicing through the air. Something shiny whizzed by Sasuke's ear, past Naruto, and…into Me-Ushi's forehead. A small dagger.
There was a small splat and as Naruto turned to look at the red head strangling him, drops of blood splattered against his face. Both, Me-Ushi and Naruto were stunned. But after two seconds, Me-Ushi was stunned no longer and toppled over onto Naruto. Naruto fell with her and screamed as they hit the ground together.
Sasuke gradually turned his head to look for their new attacker, but only found Kakashi.
"K-Kakashi…?" Sasuke whispered.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura ran out from behind their sensei and glomped Sasuke. Sasuke just kneeled there, stunned.
"Are you alright?" Sakura asked desperately, cradling Sasuke's face. Sasuke stood up and looked away, nodding slightly.
"C-can…can someone h-help me…?" came a weak voice. Sasuke and Sakura turned to see Kakashi treading over to a blond stuck under a red head.
"Naruto…" Sasuke gasped.
Sakura trotted over to Naruto. He was twitching. "Are you alright, Naruto?"
"He will be once we get this girl off of him…" Kakashi replied as he heaved Me-Ushi of off Naruto. Sakura grabbed Naruto's arm and helped pull him up.
"Naruto?" she asked cautiously.
Sasuke walked over to Naruto and Sakura. Grabbing Naruto, he pulled the blond off of Sakura.
"…Sasuke?" Naruto wheezed.
"She's dead. You don't have to worry now, Naruto…" he calmed.
"…Oi…Where's Kakashi-sensei?"
At Naruto's request, Sasuke gently carried his comrade over to their sensei. Looking up at the jonin with his bright blue eyes, Naruto asked, "How much longer 'til we get to the Village hidden in the Mist? I'm tired of bad stuff happening here…" (Aww…so bishi…)
Kakashi shifted awkwardly and looked away. "Soon, Naruto."
Naruto grinned. "Well, let's get going!"
Turning to Sasuke, he smiled. "It's alright, let go. I can walk!"
Sasuke reluctantly put Naruto down. Once again, the team was on their way to the Village hidden in the Mist. With Me-Ushi and the evil Sea Gull all but a horrid memory, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Sakura turned their backs on the past and continued on with their journey.
A/N: Well? Well! WELL! Heh, I really hope this chappy was liked. I don't really like it very much… Sorry for all of the gore and stuff…I didn't mean to make it like that, but I type as I think…or something…Anyway, next chapter real soon, k?
Cookies for all who review, as always, my pets! LoL, j/k! My only pet is Garaa…and maybe Neji…melts at the sound of their names
By the way, can anyone tell me Kakashi, Sakura, and Garaa's last name? Please? I'll give you another chapter! … Crap I sound petty…