A/N: Jippi! I got a review! I am so glad
MG-1: Thank you again for reviewing. I belive you're right, the kid with the flying alice is called Kitsuneme and not Nekome. I can't really say where I have Nekome from, maybe I thought it was his nickname or something, but I don't think it is.
Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto. Don't own Gakuen Alice. And I don't own Harry Potter either. (Don't ask, just read.)
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Deidara had left his extra bag of clay by the main gates. Once he had fetched the bag he flew of to find the others. Kisame had run this way towards the main gates. And when he was almost back at where the students stood motionless, he spotted Kisame. He also spotted Itachi nearby.
Deidara flew down to Kisame first, told him to get on the clay bird before flying over to Itachi.
"I need some help. 6 more of them suddenly showed up. Couldn't hit them with my bombs." Deidara said ashamed.
"You're not alone. I also had 6 more ninja suddenly popping up. The damn kids refused to lay down and die." Kisame said. "But I suppose you took care of Sasuke?"
"No," Itachi grunted irritated. "7 more brats came and one off the alice did this illusion thing I couldn't escape."
"I guess the whole class of your little brother managed to escape us, un. Which means Sasori-no-danna also got a lot of extra brats to handle. Where is he, by the way, un?" Deidara said.
"Let's go and have a look," Kisame said.
They jumped up on Deidara's clay bird and flew off in the direction of Sasori. When they passed above the immobile, chained students they saw the groups of kids they had fought. Including Sasori's.
Deidara sped up his bird and almost fell down from shock when they reached Sasori's battlefield. Puppets lay strewn everywhere. Deidara spotted the smashed pieces of Hiruko, the third Kazekage, numerous other puppets and…
"No! Sasori-no-danna!"
Deidara jumped of his bird, landed beside his partner in crime and shook his shoulders. He got no response of course, seeing that Sasori was already dead.
"Those fucking kids! I'll go and beat the freakin' daylight out of them!" He was about to jump back on his bird, but Kisame held him back and Itachi scolded him for being too rash.
Deidara picked up Sasori and made his clay bird wrap its tail around the body. Then everybody jumped onboard and they took of.
They didn't beat the living daylight out of the students though. When they neared the spot were they had now gathered they saw that the teachers and the principals had broken free of the seals and were headed their way. They just had to admit that they case were lost, so they flew off to find Zetsu and Tobi before reporting to Pein.
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"Sasuke! Thank goodness, you're okay!" Sakura ran over and hugged Sasuke, but drew back immediately when he winced.
"Oh! Your shoulder. Let me have a look at that." Sakura cut open Sasuke's shirt and examined the cut. Then she made some hand signs, placed her hand over the wound and healed it.
"Thank you. You should take a look at Naruto, Koko, Ruka and Natsume too. And there's probably more who is injured."
Everybody had made it back to the students in more or less the same time. They were now greeting each other, worrying over wounds and discussing the situation in general. Temari called for everyone's attention and threatened to use her fan if they didn't shut up. When she had everyone's attention she gave the word to Shikamaru.
"Everyone who is wounded, go to Sakura over there and she will patch you up. Sumire and Shino, could you please run back to school and see if you can find any teachers. Gaara, could you please keep holding that wall of sand up in front the rest of the students, we do not know if they'll keep walking or not if we remove it."
Gaara nodded.
"Okay. That was all. Troublesome…"
Koko, Naruto, Hinata and Chouji went to Sakura to get their wounds healed. When she was finished with them she stomped over to Ruka and Natsume.
"I know you're hurt and I'm going to heal it, right now!" She grabbed hold of Ruka's arm and began to unwind the bandages. Natsume slowly backed away, he was not going to let that scary pink haired ninja freak do that blue flames thing on him.
"Mikan, could you please hold Natsume still until it's his turn?" Sakura asked. Mikan gladly obliged and clung to Natsume's arm.
Sakura quickly freed Ruka's wound from the bandage and healed it. "There! As good as new."
Ruka flexed his arm and found out that it was true, the pain was gone. He thanked her and she moved on to a suspicious looking Natsume.
"I'm not going to bite you, you know. Now where are you wounded?"
"Here," Mikan said and lifted Natsume's shirt to reveal his bandaged side.
Sakura drew up a kunai. Natsume took a step back. "Relax. I'm just going to cut your bandages."
She instructed Mikan to hold up the shirt while she quickly cut the bandages and healed the wound. Mikan watched in awe.
When Sakura was finished, Mikan jumped at her and gave her a big hug. "Arigatō gozaimasu, Sakura-onēsan!" (A/N: means 'Thank you, Skakura-big-sister')
"You're welcome!" She smiled down at the brown haired girl.
Just then Sumire and Shino came back, followed the principals and the teachers. Minato was about to take control, but Tsunade beat him to it.
"Sakura! Any wounded?"
"I took care of the minor cuts and bruises. Tobita Yuu has fainted from exhaustion, Harada Misaki and Inuzuka Kiba are poisoned and Akamaru probably needs a veterinarian."
Tsunade nodded, Kabuto, Shizune and herself picked up the individuals mentioned and disappeared back to the infirmary. Then Minato grabbed the word.
"Shikamaru, what is the situation?"
Shikamaru explained briefly about how their teacher hadn't showed up, and when they had gone looking for her they had found the school deserted. Then they had crossed paths with Akatsuki and hopefully chased them away. And that the objective of taking the students had been to use them as soldiers.
The Kazekage had been studying the students, and with a complex row of hand sign he got the student body out of their stupor. The Kazekage and the Hokage discussed a bit, shared some words with Shikamaru and announced: "Teachers, take the students to the cafeteria and tell Teuchi to make them a good hot meal. Shikamaru, Temari, Sasuke, Natsume, Sakura, Tsubasa, Neji and Tenten come with us to our office."
The mentioned persons went with the principals to their office and the rest was ushered into the cafeteria. It was a pretty unusual sight, actually. The students were so dazed from the jutsu Akatsuki had put on them that they sat down at the nearest chair they could find. Which if course led to alice and ninja sitting mixed over the whole cafeteria, not separate as usual.
Even the 18 remaining students of class a sat down at the same table, even though their heads were perfectly clear.
The heads of the rest of the students cleared up too after a while, when they got some food and some time. They had now eaten their food and sat wondering what the hell was going on.
At the end of the meal Shikamaru and the rest who had been to the principals office came back to eat. They got their food and sat down with the rest of their class. The Principals themselves walked in minutes later, and they got everyone's attention at once.
They, or rather Minato, told the students what had happened, that there was no need to worry. Class A (the class of Sasuke, Natsume and so on) was mentioned several times. The rest of the school stole glances at their table.
Minato finished with informing class A that Yuu, Misaki, Kiba were okay and that they could visit them later. He then thanked the class for what they had done.
"Don't we get like… a trophy for special services to the school?" Naruto asked.
Sakura smacked his head. Minato scolded him: "Nonsense. You've been reading too much Harry Potter. If you not stop kidding around I'll tell your mom."
Naruto looked at Minato in horror. "Surely not! I just asked a question…"
Minato burst out laughing at the look of terror at his son's face. Not very appropriate behavior for a principle, but these were unusual circumstances. His laugher was catching; He soon had the whole cafeteria laughing.
The somewhat uneasy and incredulous mood evaporated, leaving a cafeteria rumbling with laugher.
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A/N: That was the end of the whole Akatsuki business. Since this chapter was pretty short, I'll uplode the next right away. The Alice Festival is coming up next!
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