Chapter 10:
Sunagakure
The door shook on it's hinges and snapped in two, directly down the middle. "Dammit... Watch what your doing!" Tsunade yelled from her chair.
"Sorry, Tsunade-sama." Shi stepped in her office, over the broken door. He bowed to her in apology.
Kanari, Ross, and Kakashi followed after him. "This isn't gonna come out of our reward is it?" Kakashi scratched his head.
"Acually Kakashi, the mission I am going to send you on will pay more than enough for the door and your reward." Tsunade pulled out a scroll with an "A" printed on it. "Your mission is to escort the Daiymo of Iwagakure back to his village."
"An escort? Ha... Reminds of the bridge builder mission with Naruto." Kakashi reminisced of when Naruto was still a stupid little kid, not that he's changed too much.
"The Daiymo is located just outside the village surrounded by his own guards. The reason he came was to check out the severity of damage caused by the attack." Tsunade wished the team luck as they head out to the village gate.
The Daiymo was dressed in a traditional white and red kimono, he was around middle-aged and has a small beard. "Good. Finally arrived." He eyed all of them. "This is it? The Hokage insists on not letting me go until I have ninja bodyguards and this what she sends?"
"Don't underestimate them, they are all chunin and I am a jonin. From your village, I'm sure you understand just how talented we are." Kakashi rushed to the defense of his team mates.
The Daiymo scoffed and got onto his horse drawn carriage, eight guards were positioned around the carriage.
Kanari and Ross were protecting the back and Kakashi rode on the carriage next to the driver. Shi was in the front with four guards. The Daiymo stuck his arm out a window and signaled the driver to go.
The carriage rattled on towards the village hidden in the stone, it would take almost a week to arrive and they would pass through the Land of Wind along the way.
"Wait." Kakashi whispered. The carriage stopped. Some of the guards started complaining and the Daiymo stuck his head out of the window.
"What the hell?" He yelled.
"Back in the carriage!" Kakashi turned as a kunai sliced the Daiymo's cheek.
"Ninja!" The guards encircled the Daiymo and the driver went inside of the cab. It wasn't a minute before all of them were dead.
"Show yourselves." Kakashi stood up and pulled his headband up, revealing his sharingan. His pupil spun in a circle. "There!" He threw a kunai and struck one in the neck. "Two more behind us!"
Kanari held her arm out. "Appear." In a flash of feathers a sharp skinny rapier was in her hand. She leaned over and two wings twice her size shot out of her back. "Wind style: Windstorm devastation!" They flapped forwards and wind blasted apart all the trees, she charged at one of the ninja, stabbing him in the heart.
The other ninja, now clearly visible, threw multiple shuriken at her now vulnerable side. They were blocked by a large scythe, Shi stood at the other end of it. "You aren't supposed to hit a girl, especially when they can't fight back, you fucking dick!" He sliced the other ninja in half instantly.
Kakashi opened the carriage door. "See? You can trust us." The Daiymo was curled up in a ball on the floor, he looked at him.
"Hurry up and get me to Iwa!" He yelled and ducked again.
"Rogue ninja, you should have kept one alive..." Kakashi looked at his assembled team.
"I didn't even do anything..." Ross slowly walked over to Kakashi's side. "Yeah, you guys are stupid."
"Even after all of our nations formed the peace treaty after the war, there will still be people killing others. That is why we ninja are still active." Nightfall was touching the sky.
"So... What is it like?" Kanari watched her feet, step-by-step.
"What like?" Ross yawned; he barely slept because the Zerobi tore at his conscious, although not as bad as the Shukaku did to the Kazekage.
"Having that thing inside of you?" She glanced up at his belly then back down to her feet.
Yes... How is it? With me inside of you? Yamikage growled.
"I don't know. It's usually easy." Ross smiled.
"Really?" Kanari was happy, she hated suffering.
"Yeah."
Oh... That's good. Hahaha... It's creepy voice shook Ross to the core.
The carriage was finally passing through the Land of Wind after two days of sleepless nights. It was the night of the third day. Shi was almost asleep leaning on Ross. "Off me." Ross elbowed Shi's side.
"Well damn." Shi groggily fell onto the opposite side. "Let me sleep."
"You can sleep, just not on me..." Ross laughed. "Ha... Made myself laugh."
Sunagakure was visible in the distance. "The Village Hidden in the Sand." Ross yawned and started to close his eyes. The sky started to fade away.
A enormous crash woke Ross up, An explosion. The Sand village was lit up for a split second. "What! What happened?"
"What... The fuck?" Shi was woken up. "That's Suna?"
Kakashi was standing in front of them. "It's obvious something happened."
"I-I have to go!" Ross ran past him.
"Shit! Wait up!" Shi was next. Kanari walked over from the other side of the carriage.
"Kakashi-sensei? Why didn't you stop them?" She panicked.
"I will, wait here." Kakashi jumped after them. Confident he could catch the thoughtless ninja.
Meanwhile...
Jastin stared at the red haired man. "Give me the gem." He put his hand out. His cloak was open revealing a strange black skin tight suit, it looked very high tech.
"I will never give it to you." Gaara had his arms crossed. Beside him was a blonde haired women leaning on a large fan and a man wearing a strange black suit with five small scrolls on a holster around his hips. They were Gaara's siblings Temari and Kankuro, respectively.
"You know of the damage caused to the Leaf village? I can cause more than that in seconds." Jastin clenched his fist.
"If I were to give you this gem...You will have more than enough power to annihilate the entire ninja world." Sand floated all around Gaara.
Jastin replied. "That is my goal."
"What?" Gaara's eyes opened wide. "What did you say?" Temari and Kankuro shared Gaara's emotion.
"You heard me correctly." He smiled. "My goal is to collect all of the gems... Restore my full power and rid the world of all ninja. All your kind bring is pain and despair."
"You are wrong." A wave of sand blasted at Jastin. He in return sent out out an explosion of a strange invisible force destroying the top of the entire Kazekage's mansion.
"We are here to bring order and peace!" Gaara was standing on a floating piece of sand. Temari had readied her fan and Kankuro held one of the scrolls in his right hand.
Jastin was hovering in the sky at the same altitude as Gaara. "Hahahaha. And yet there is so much killing."
"Wind Scythe jutsu!" Temari swung her fan towards Jastin causing a gust of slicing wind.
He stopped it with his hand. "Tercero... Keep the others busy while I handle the Kazekage."
A clanking noise echoed from up the stairs, a man stepped out into the open air of the destroyed top floor. His entire body was covered in heavy black and red armor, he was wielding a giant shield, body sized, and an enormous axe was flung over his shoulder. "I am Tercero. The third of Master's creations." His voice was deep.
"I'm Kankuro. Nice to meet you." He threw his scroll onto the ground and a large cloud of smoke revealed his puppet. "And this is Crow." It clicked and clacked, chakra strings connected it to him.
"Don't forget me... Temari." She smiled and flipped her fan around in a circle. "Wind style: Gust Tornado!" A large stream of a tornado shot towards Tercero. It disintegrated around him. "What?" She swung her fan around and opened it.
"Your pathetic attacks cannot harm this armor." He laughed. "I am impenetrable."
Sand jonin jumped onto the surrounding buildings. "We can't get in." One of them spoke to the others.
"Why not?" Another yelled.
"There is some kind of invisible barrier around them." He replied. "We are unsure about Gaara. He is too high to reach."
Gaara clenched his hand and a wave of sand covered Jastin. "Sand burial!" It imploded.
"Almighty push!" The sand exploded and a sphere of wind was surrounding Jastin. "Now die." He put his hand in front of himself and pulled it back. Gaara was uncontrollably sucked into his hand. Jastin gripped Gaara's face.
"Let... Let me go..." He struggled to escape, the sand was deflected away by an invisible barrier.
"Now... It's over." The Gem floated out of one of Gaara's pouches and into Jastin's hand. It was green with a swirl of wind inside of it. He dropped his hand and Gaara fell. "Goodbye. Come Tercero." Jastin vanished.
Tercero had his hand around Temari's neck, his shield on the ground and an axe ready to kill her. "Yes Master." He vanished, Temari flopped onto the ground.
"Gaara! Temari!" Kankuro summoned another puppet. "Black Ant, catch him!" The puppet flew into the sky, it's stomach opened and Gaara was eaten by it. Kankuro ran over to his unconcious sister's body. "Damn. Thank god." Black Ant floated over to Kankuro after he tugged on the chakra strings. He checked Gaara's body too. "Fuck. What the hell did he take from you?"
"It... It was a gem." He coughed.
"A fucking gem? You risked the village for jewlery?" Kankuro was pissed off at the notion.
"If he were to collect all the gems..." Gaara held his head and got up.