Chapter 10- the chase begins
(AN: Lines will be as close to anime/manga as possible)
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Lorraine swooped down next to Shikamaru.
"The trees are too thick, I can't track them from above" she explained, ending her Jutsu and jumping alongside him.
"Just great, now we have to rely on Kiba and Akamaru, with no bird's eye view of the land we won't be able to tell if there's an ambush up ahead" he replied.
"Hey they've stopped moving" Kiba announced and the group found the sound four resting under a tree after defeating two of the leaf's Jounin ninja.
"Damn..." said Sakon. "We're losing time resting...when we didn't have much time in the first place".
"It can't be helped" Tayuya replied. "We lost too much strength when we fought at curse level 2".
"There wasn't any other way against two Jounins..." Kidomaru explained.
"What troubles me most is the fact that we can't use our bodies" Jirobo finished.
Lorraine listened to the sound four's conversation while the others ere formulating a plan...
"Kiba, Don't miss the timing when you use the smoke bomb" Shikamaru stated.
"Roger" replied Kiba.
"Alright, let's split into two squads" Shikamaru announced.
As they walked through the foliage, they unknowingly got thin strands of silk caught on their clothes, this alerted Kidomaru to the leaf shinobi's presence.
As they got nearer, Shikamaru noticed that Sasuke was nowhere in sight.
"Huh? Where's Sasuke?" he exclaimed.
Lorraine crept up into the higher branches of the trees; small embers burned any silk that touched her clothes.
She heard a fizzing noise behind her, and whirled around to see Shikamaru and Neji get blasted by a paper bomb and land on the ground with a thud.
"Eh? What's this?"Sakon said, eyeing the two leaf shinobi. "Poked the bush and got two bugs instead of rabbits".
Lorraine silently watched in the trees as Naruto and Kiba sprang out, kiba throwing down a smoke bomb.
"Haha...what good is that smoke bomb? There's no escape from me" Kidomaru laughed, trapping the genin in his threads.
"I've laid these all over the area" he explained. "These strings are thinner than wirers but stronger and harder to detect".
"I didn't even know there was such a technique, what a blinder" Shikamaru said.
It was then that Shikamaru, Naruto, Kiba, Neji and Choji vanished in a puff of white smoke.
"Haha! Shadow clone success, nice job Shikamaru" Naruto exclaimed.
"What... my body?" Kidomaru said, the sound four found themselves stiffly turning around to face the real team of Kohona ninja.
"Thanks for falling into our trap" Shikamaru said. "You should also know there are these kinds of techniques...Heh".
Lorraine jumped dowm to stand with her comrades.
"Ready Lorraine?" Shikamaru asked.
She nodded, but before she could activate her Jutsu, the group found that the sound four had freed themselves from the shadow possession Jutsu by force alone.
Jirobo slammed his hands onto the ground shouting "Earth barrier: Clay prison".
Everyone yelled as the earth shook and rose up to form a dome over them.
"Damn it!" Shikamaru exclaimed in anger.
"DAMN IT GET US OUT!" Naruto roared angrily, pounding on the wall.
Kiba inspected the ground, then stood up.
"Naruto move out of the way" he ordered, clapping his hands together.
Neji yanked Naruto out of the way as Kiba shouted "Tunnelling fang!". He bored his way into the wall, but failed to break through, the group watched as the hole slowly began to heal itself.
"GET US OUT!" Naruto yelled again.
"Naruto shut the hell up! You're giving me a headache!" Lorraine roared, sitting down and putting her head in her hands.
"This isn't any ordinary clay wall" Neji remarked.
He focused on one spot.
"Byakugan!" he said, activating his bloodline Jutsu.
He looked down at his hands, then to everyone else.
"Our chakra is being drained" he stated.
'The more chakra you lose, the weaker you become, soon I'll have control over your chakra network, and from there I'l eliminate your friends one by one' Psyche said evilly.
"I...I think I'm losing my strength" Naruto said, by now he and everyone ekse was beginning to feel the effects of losing a lot of their chakra.
Neji scanned over everyone using his Byakugan, but when he looked over to Lorraine his eyes widened.
"Shikamaru" Neji said sharply.
"What is it?"
"Her chakra...it's not just being drained, another form of chakra seems to be spreading throughout her body, the more chakra she loses, the more of this different chakra spreads".
"What!" everyone exclaimed in shock.
"Before we all run out of chakra we hafta bust a hole in this wall!" Kiba exclaimed. "DAMN THERE'S NO OTHER WAY!"
He pulled out a food pill. "Here Akamaru eat this food pill".
The dog barked in agreement, eating the pill, in a matter of seconds, his fur turned red, he let out a roar.
"Man beast clone!" Kiba said, and in a poof of white smoke Akamaru looked like hs master, both had beast like traits to their appearance now.
"Fang over fang!" Kiba roared, and both he and Akamaru bored into the wall and almost every corner of the dome, even the ground.
While this was going on Lorraine clutched her head, her eyes squeezed shut as if to block out something, in truth she was trying to use what chakra she had to fight off Psyche.
After a minute or so of their rampage, Akamaru was back to normal, and he collapsed from exhaustion.
"Damn it!" Kiba said in frustration. "The wall repairs itself as soon as damage is inflicted on it the ground as well!"
Naruto tried forming a rasengan, but failed.
"We can't hold out here much longer, we're going to lose all of our chakra" kiba growled.
"I WANT TO TALK TO YOUR LEADER HEY LISTEN!" Shikamaru yelled, catching the attention of the other guys, Lorraine was still oblivious to everything around her.
"PLEASE LET US OUT!" he shouted. "WE WON'T FOLLOW SASUKE ANYMORE!"
"Hey!" Kiba shouted.
"Shikamaru what you saying?" Naruto said shocked by his friends words.
"An interesting dispute" Jirobo answered. "Hah interesting. But all of you are my meal. I can't let you out".
Choji glanced at Lorraine, she was looking at Shikamaru, and Choji noticed that her eyes were very slowly getting darker in colour...
What will happen next? RnR!