Chapter 9

Vector gets his prize

"Sakura, is that you?" Naruto asked his princess.

With the fusion with Ashimaru, Sakura gained a new look to her. Her eyes were gold, and her hair had black streaks in it. And she projected a strong aura around her.

"Where did they take Ino?" She asked.

They told Sakura where they took Ino, and why.

"Listen Sakura, If we want Ino back. We have to think of a way to make sure that you and her won't be harmed. If we can think of a way for a diversion then we can save her and make sure you don't fall into enemy hands." Itachi said.

"I understand clearly Itachi-san." Sakura said. "I mean, Ino's my best friend, and if I have to be taken then so be it."

"Sakura-hime, I can't lose you." Naruto said

"Naruto-kun, I have to do this. To save Ino, even at the risk of my life." Sakura said with a sad look.

Naruto grabbed her hands and looked her in the eyes.

"Look Sakura-hime, I vow to make sure we get through this." Naruto says with a passion.

"Thanks Naruto-kun" she says with a giggle.

Kushina tells them it's time to go.

"Right, Let's go and save Ino." Kai said, as the ninja head off.

Elsewhere, The three ninja arrived in the cave with a bound and gagged Ino.

"They should be here soon, so guys rest up." Asami said.

Ino looked at her captors, struggling against her bindings. Miyu looked at there captive and saw the look of sadness.

"Come on Asami-chan, we can let her go and we can take Vector." She said.

"Sorry Miyu-chan, we can't do that." Asami said with sorrow in her voice.

"Why, why can't..." Miyu said before a hand clamped over her mouth.

"Miyu, just follow her orders please." Tomotsu said as he let go of her mouth.

Miyu didn't know what to think of her girlfriend's activity. Asami sat by the caves entrance, as Tomotsu sat in a corner. Miyu's heart was breaking a bit. She sat by Ino. Miyu felt bad for the girl and she was feeling her sorrow. She knew Asami had to follow orders, but she didn't know why.

"Alright, I'll remove the gag. Just as long as you don't scream. OK." Miyu said with a smile.

Ino nodded her head in response. She removed the gag and took the piece of cloth out of her mouth.

"Thank you, I was suffocating." Ino said.

"We're sorry we kidnapped you. But it was so we could..."

"Bring Sakura to your leader" Ino responded.

"Please forgive Asami-chan, I'm not really sure why we have to go threw with this. But I follow wherever she goes." Miyu said.

"Why, why is this really for. I mean all this so that Vector creep can take the bird out of Sakura, my best friend." Ino said.

"I'm so sorry, I'm sure Asami-chan has her reasons for following his order. Before she would never go through with something like this." She said.

"What do you mean?" Ino said.

She began to tell Ino the story on how her and Asami and Tomotsu started off as leaf nin. How they met and began there years as ninja.

"It was years ago when we graduated ninja academy. We were the tops of our class. Tomotsu was an expert at throwing weapons, I was great at using my beautiful hands, and Asami-chan was great at manipulating chakra to create her own weapons with her chakra. We were put into a team and became a great group of ninja. Not as good as the sanin, but close to it.

4 years later me and Asami fell in love and married. People at first didn't like the fact that we were wed, but the hokage gave us the vows and became a married couple. Me and her were inseperable and nothing could stop us. We became jonin and even lead a team together, while Tomotsu married a girl he had a crush on since Ninja academy."

"So you 3 were the great ninja I heard amazing stories about you three. But how did you three die." Ino asked.

Miyu told Ino about the group in black cloaks that attacked them viciously, instantly wiping them out and when Vector resurrected all three of them.

"And that's my sad story, we don't mean to do this like you said, were just here to serve our master. Don't hate us but we have to succeed in our mission otherwise master will remove these seals on our necks and kill us." Miyu said.

Suddenly Ino realized something.

"Seals, what do you mean seals?" She asked.

Miyu pointed to her neck and showed her a seal.

"I know someone who can help you guys, he told me that he can do seals. Maybe he can remove seals." Ino said chuckling.

Miyu was happy, hopefully that this person can help them.

"Hey guys, this girl can help us with the seals on our neck she said. She knows someone who can help us." Miyu said with happiness.

"Really Miyu!" Tomotsu said.

"I hope it can work." Asami said mentally, looking at Miyu.

Tomotsu untied Ino, she rubbed her wrists. She looked at the three of them with sadness. But also with a look of happiness.

A couple of hours pass until Naruto and crew arrive to the location.

"Are you ready Sakura?" Kushina asked her.

Sakura nodded as she was ready to face whatever they had planned.

"We brought Sakura like you demanded, now can we have Ino back?" Kai asked.

Ino came out, she was unharmed. She looked over everyone and saw Naruto.

"Ino, your safe Are you alright?" Sakura asked her.

"Yeah, Naruto get up here I want you to see something." She said.

"Um, OK?" He said with a question.

"Ino-chan, always acts this way whenever she's gonna do something crazy. What's she up to." Kai asked himself.

Naruto went towards the 3 ninja as Kai and Ino talked.

"So, after this all said and done, your gonna leave back to your home?" Ino asked.

"Yes, I think that I'm gonna restart Blossom country, hopefully more people will come and make new homes and bring it back to what it once was, a beautiful and peaceful village." Kai said with determination.

"Because I was thinking, Kai I want to come with you." She said.

"Ino, I know you want to. But what about your friends and family. What about Sakura, your best friend?" He asked her.

"I've been thinking about it for a while, and I know I'll be leaving them all behind. But Kai-kun, I love you so much. Being without you would be so difficult for me to think about. I know ever since we met, It was fate and destiny. You and me are so perfect together. Just please let me go with you, with my knowledge of flowers and from what you said about blossom country tells me I can gladly help out." She said convincingly.

It took Kai a minute to think of it. Kai loved Ino with all of his heart and believe that she was destined to be with him.

"I agree with you 100 percent. I want you to come with me and start a family with me. When this is all said and done you can live with me." He said.

Ino leaped into his arms and both of them hugged each other.

Naruto and Sakura looked over the seals on the three ninja. Naruto chuckled a bit.

"Is something up Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked him.

"These seals are advance level and well made. Better than the advance ones that ero-sanin showed me, but like my father, I'm a good seal master and I can help you three out." He said.

"Thank you very much Naruto-kun." Miyu said.

Elsewhere, Kushina and Minato looked at the leaf nin.

"Thank you very much for your help so far, Itachi-san." Kushina said with a blush.

"No problem, Kushina-san." He said.

"Listen, I don't know if you have anywhere to stay but if you wanted, err, um" He tried to say.

"Why Itachi, are you asking me to move in with you?" She said jokingly.

"If you want to that is?" He said.

"Sure why not, thank you very much Itachi." She said before kissing him on the lips.

Before Naruto could get started on Asami and her friends, the cave erupted with a fissure.

"Whoa, what the hell was that?" Sakura said before Naruto caught her before she hit the ground hard.

"VECTOR'S HERE!" Miyu screamed.

Vector and his two loyal minions were right by his side as he entered the cave. He looked to see that Ashimaru has intergraded herself into the pink haired girl. And also sees Miyu, Asami, and Tomotsu with a little rebellion in there eyes.

"Hmmm, so I see that my prize is here." He said. "And I can also see three little rebels here, or should I say two." He said before snapping his fingers.

Miyu was surrounded by a electric aura and suddenly started screaming.

"MIYU-CHAN!" Asami screamed as she ran to her beloved.

"Too late, you failed to bring the girl to me, now you must pay the penalty." He said while Izumi laughed.

"What are you doing to her?" Kai said.

"Robbing her of her life of course." He said coldly.

"Stop it now, leave Miyu alone you creep" Ino said before Miyu hit the ground.

Asami rushed right over to Miyu. Checking on her pulse.

"Asami, how is she?" Tomotsu asked.

Asami paused for a moment and held her in a hug and started to cry. Tomotsu and everyone could tell that the young girl who was resurrected was now dead. Kushina hugged Itachi and cried for the two kunoichi, Kai and Ino also embraced each other.

Naruto and Sakura looked at him with anger in there eyes.

"You piece of trash, how dare you do that to her. You brought her back from death, just so you could rob her of a chance to be alive again. I will crush you into dust." Naruto said unleashing some of the fox's chakra.

Sakura started to emit some of the phoenix's aura around her. She felt Asami's pain and flew in a frenzy and struck Vector. But he caught her fist.

"Huh, what the hell?" She said.

"Cover me you two." He said as he wrapped Sakura in a bear hug.

Izami and Kotoro flew through hand signs and a barrier erupted around them. Before Naruto flew at them, Itachi grabbed his shoulder.

"Naruto, don't try it. If you do you'll be fried. That's a barrier jutsu, and by feeling that aura it could do some damage to you." He said.

Sakura tried to struggle against it but Vector turned her around and gave her a kiss on the lips. As the kiss was put on Sakura, she could feel something happening.

"What's going on, why am I feeling weak. I feel like I'm dying." She said in her mind as she sees Yuna fading.

"Sakura, looks like this is goodbye, Vector's finally got me, I'm sorry Sakura." Yuna said.

"No, Yuna, you have to fight it. I don't want to die." Sakura said.

Suddenly a voice came to her.

"Maybe you won't have to die." The voice said.

"Who is this?" Sakura asked.

"I want to help you Sakura so you can protect the person I love, that's if you want to save the one you love." The voice said.

"Wait, is that you..." Sakura tried to say.

"Do you trust me or not?" The voice asked again.

"Yes, I trust you to help me save Naruto, Itachi, Ino, Kai, Kushina, and Yuna! CHA!"

"Then, let's kick butt." The voice said.

"Good Luck and I know you can do it." Yuna said before vanishing.

Sakura's body fell limp as the barrier faded. Vector threw Sakura at Naruto.

"I no longer need this pile of garbage, you can have it." He said as Naruto caught her body.

A black aura erupted around Vector, as the cave started to fall around them.

"Hey guys we got to get out of here!" Kai and Tomotsu said

Naruto picked up her body and noticed that she wasn't dead.

"I feel a life force in her." He thought.

Naruto looked at Asami while the cave started coming down.

"I know she's dead but you will die too if you don't leave right now." Naruto said.

"Why not die, the person I was fighting for is no longer here. She was my world and he took her away. Naruto, please defeat him for Miyu. I want to stay here with her and die. Please go now and stop him." Asami said with sorrow.

Naruto sat Sakura down gently. And punched her in the face.

"HOW DARE YOU SAY THINGS LIKE THAT! DO YOU THINK MIYU WOULD WANT THAT! GET UP AND LEAVE WITH ME ASAMI!" Naruto screamed.

Asami thought it over for a bit and agreed with Naruto and picked up her dead body and left the cave with him. As all of Naruto's friends left the cave.

"Finally, master is reaching the pinnacle of power and soon this world will fall to our master." Both Kotoro and Izumi both rejoiced.

Suddenly Vector struck both of them. Grabbing both of them.

"Master, what are you doing?" Izumi asked.

"Why are you hurting us?" Kotoro asked.

"You two will make great additions to my body ahhhh!" He said before combinding there bodies to his already surfacing body.

Outside for Naruto and friends, there eyes are turned to the cave seeing the earth around them erupt with dark energy. Asami had Miyu's head on her lap.

"I can't believe that your gone from me, I should of listened to you Miyu, I'm sorry. I'll make him pay for you my love" She said with tears still sheading from her eyes as the cave exploded. In the distance the smoked cleared and saw Vector in his true form.

"At last after years and years I have finally arisen from the black flames and now, Kaosu has returned to destroy everything in this planet, starting with you fools. HAHAHAHA!"

(And that's it for this chapter, this was a hard one for a bit, I rewrote the beginning of this chapter 7 times and sorry if it seems like it's rush. But I like the final product. I hope to finish this story in 5 weeks. I want to do a chapter a week. Bonus Chapter will be coming next week. It's pretty much a filler chapter telling Kai's past and his love Sayuri. It will be interesting, it also tells about Vector (Kaous) Comment and tell me about the story. See you next time.)

-Philip-