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There are only three people in the leaf squad left and they never know if they will ever catch up to their enemies.
"We've got two more, so it's three against two. If we play our hand right, we might be able to finish it in the next encounter, Shikamaru noted as a reminder.
"Alright! Let's do this!" Naruto said eagerly in determination.
"No... It's four against two," Kiba pointed out when Akamaru barked out in present. "Next time, we'll finish it quickly with our new techniques!"
"Hey, hey! If things get tight, I'll just use my Shadow Clone jutsu, so don't worry," Naruto suggested.
"That's good to hear, but strategy comes first. Got it?" Shikamaru instructed as they all nodded in agreement.
Elsewhere, Orochimaru anxiously waits for Sasuke to come and use him as a vessel since his body is obselete after failing his plan of destroying the leaf village.
Meanwhile, two members of the Sound Four stopped moving because they have no clue as to what happened to Jirobo and Kidomaru. Eventually from that moment on, the leaf squad caught up with them, much to Sakon's willingness to take them down.
Naruto instantly threw a kunai knife towards his direction, but missed it as soon as Sakon was ready to strike. Though, Kiba confronted him, yet was punched back, leaving the blonde-haired ninja to attack Sakon with the Rasengan. However, he grabbed his wrists to prevent it from happening. "Damn! Now, Kiba!" His shadow clone disappeared, just when Kiba hit Sakon with his Piercing Fang technique, thus damaging the tree in a puff of smoke.
"They placed us both in a straight path, so they were aiming for this!" Tayuya thought carefully until a shadow completely captured her, underneath her feet. "Shit... dammit! What?! A diversion?! It's coming!" She quickly looked over at Kiba swirling rapidly to take the coffin with his bare hands successfully.
"Tayuya! What the hell are you doing?!" Sakon shouted angrily in puzzlement.
"Catch it!" Kiba swiped the coffin to the blonde-haired ninja as they both went ahead to escape as soon as possible. Unfortunately, Sakon began to transform into his level 2 curse seal and chase them.
"You're not getting away!" He exclaimed in a hiss.
"Akamaru!" Kiba cried out when he saw his dog finished setting the bomb tag on the tree branch, barking twice. "Hurry up! Let's go!"
"Stop howling, you bitch!" Sakon snarled at Akamaru, who then quickly runs off but accidentally cracks the paw of his own feet. Therefore, he stumbled down among the tree leaves in pain.
The bomb tag was starting to fizz out slowly, whereas Kiba grabs Akamaru away to save him from the explosion behind them. Whilst, they had fallen off the cliff, along with Sakon, much to their dismay.
On the other hand, Tayuya was dashing towards Naruto and Shikamaru, whom were currently trying to figure out what they're going to do.
"Damn!" The blonde-haired ninja cursed under his breath.
"I'll do something about this. You got to take that coffin and go on ahead!" The smart-headed ordered hastily.
"But..." Naruto protested.
"Hurry!" Shikamaru demanded.
All of a sudden, they froze on their spot, unable to move or look on who's behind the, much to their shock. Both of them flinched when they saw a horrendous enemy who grabbed the coffin in the blink of an eye.
"Sorry about that. Seems like I miscalculated," Shikamaru murmured with his gritted teeth in annoyance.
"You're too late, Tayuya," The enemy said monotonously and continued on. "Also... Where are the other three? You, who were once one of the 'five.'"
"Why... Why are you?! You're body is no longer...?!" Tayuya protested in a question.
"I'm not moving with my body anymore... This is the power of my will," he stated quietly.
"Damn... With one foot in the grave," Tayuya muttered under her breath.
"I can understand a little bit now. This is the perception of an anthology life form that is no longer bounder by a prison that is our body. It is as if I've touched the border of Orochimaru's dream," The enemy said nonchalantly.
"Orochimaru!" Naruto was angered by that name and decided to charge towards him briskly. "Hey you! Quit babbling senseless things! Give back Sasuke!"
Tayuya confronted the boy and punched him back to Shikamaru.
Then, the enemy teleported behind her back in a quick flash, saying. "The reason I've yet to kill you is you still have a mission to accomplish by staying alive. Please take out these two worthless nothings over there." He instructed lightly as she did what he told her when she pulled out her weapon, which appears to be a flute.
"Dammit! Fuck!" Naruto cursed.
"Calm down," Shikamaru hissed and thought. "This mission is to return Sasuke to the leaf village. I must make decisions based on what is best suited to accomplishing the objective." He stared at their opponents for a moment and informed the blonde-haired ninja about the strategy he came up with in his mind. Both of them smirked at them and began to strike at Tayuya. "It's 2 on 1! We've got advantage on our side! It's not something we can't take care of!"
"Alright!" Naruto exclaimed as the battle occurs between them.
Meanwhile down in the cliff, Kiba and Sakon's fight was already started where Sakon's brother, Ukon, reveals himself.
"Machine Gun Punch!" Sakon punched him on the guts several times and caught him by the neck tightly and explained. "Heh. We happen to be good brothers. My older brother usually stays asleep inside of me, but wakes up to help me out during a battle."
"This... This is his ability...?!" Kiba thought in interrogation.
"Ukon can extend his hands and legs from any part of my body and can both strike and defend. Just like this," Sakon said smirking as he punched him again in the face, much to his astonishment. "Kill as soon as possible. Activate level 2!" The curse seal was starting to surround his body after he summons it.
On the other hand, Akamaru shook in fear where Kiba told him that they are outmatched big time and how their opponents' chakra increased ten-fold. But Akamaru barked at him, conveying that they should use a technique that will defeat them. Nevertheless, it was too risky.
"We'll end up using most of our chakra and be rendered immobile. If we miss this chance, we're dead dogs," Kiba stated and cried out as Akamaru bit him on the hand, wanting to fight them anyways. He made a few hand signs as they both performed a Inuzuka Style Man-Beast morph jutsu, allowing them to transform into huge dogs in front of Sakon and Ukon.
The twin-headed wolf slashes its fangs at the off-guarded Sakon, resulting him to stumbled down by the Garouga technique.
"Heh. How was that? It is a move where we spin so fast that we can't even keep track of our vision. It's a super vision, even if it doesn't hit its shock waves slice the enemy. If you get nailed head on, you're going to be in pieces," Kiba explained coolly until he and Akamaru noticed that Sakon and Ukon were splitting up into two separate bodies.
"True... If we got nailed as one, it wouldn't been quite bad. However, the real fighting begins now," Sakon suggested evilly.
Kiba and Akamaru used Garouga technique again, which led Sakon and Ukon to hit their backs on the rocky walls. Yet, they immediately use a Summoning jutsu at the same time to counterattack, displaying a shield that is able to block the attack. In all inclusive, Akamaru took the blow that made him staggered back.
"Ah shit... Ukon! You used me as a shield! God dammit! This is no ordinary piss. It burns my eyes like strong acid," Sakon grabbed his face, whereas Ukon will handle the rest to defeat Kiba right beside him, now that he was strangling him by his neck.
"This is my ability specialized for assassination. Having just a good sense of smell and sharp claws won't be enough to beat me, not against my power," Ukon declared boastfully and explained more. "You do know that the passage of chakra is heavily interwoven together with your organs. In other words, these passage-ways interact heavily with your organ tissues, cells that construct your tissue. Even the proteins that make up most of your cells. In my level 2 state, I can construct and deconstruct these cells and proteins at my own will. To be frank with you, I can tear myself to pieces, invade the enemy's body and reconstruct myself and come back out. Since you and I are now merged a bit, it basically means that we're sharing the same body. Hehe... But rest assured, we're not exactly the same body. My cells can move freely among your body and create portion owned just by yourself. This is how I can get creative in the way that I kill. I can tear off little bits and pieces of your body that's not merged with mine."
"Oh yeah?" Kiba doubted at that with a smirk, then got stabbed by a kunai knife and questioned as the blood splattered out from his mouth. "What the hell are you thinking?! Hehe... Just as I thought, we're sharing the same body, huh?"
"Shit, dammit! My ability's biggest merit was that I could slip into an opponent's body and render myself clear out of harm's way. I've never met someone who'd do something like this," Ukon thought impressively.
"Heh, painful isn't it?" Kiba asked, still smirking. "Well, let's settle this once and for all!" He then stabbed himself in order to get Ukon out of his body.
Later on, Kiba and Akamaru quickly fled down the river together and hid behind one of the trees,. They knew that both of them were heavily injured from the attacks and couldn't move their bodies no more, now that they ran out of chakra and strength.
"Akamaru... You fought well. We were able to delay them for quite a while because of you. We even managed to wound them. It's alright now. I'll protect you," Kiba petted him as he teared a little from his eyes sadly.
At that time, Ukon rejoins with Sakon and were planning to kill them. "I'd like to tear'em up right now. But it's time for me to sleep. Capture those rat bastards for me!"
Sakon agreed as he went to go search for their hideout.