Sakura looked defenseless with the rest of her team past out.
"We better help," Liana said to Lee and he nodded.
"We must, let's go," he said and they jumped in to help.
They landed standing next to each other in front of Sakura.
"Wh-What, you guys are helping," Sakura said.
"Of course, we can't let you have all the fun," Liana said.
"And I made a promise to protect you Sakura, I am keeping that promise, even now," Lee said.
"So, looks like the girl's boyfriend came to the rescue, how sweet. I hate sweet," the girl of the sound ninja said.
"Really and you are sour even for a girl," Liana said when she felt a bit of pain develop in her head but let it pass again.
"You feeling the pain in your head so sudden, huh, Liana," the mummy looking ninja said and her eyes widened.
"How do you know my name," she asked.
"That I will not reveal," the mummy said.
"Let's finish these two off so we can kill Sasuke," the young boy of the sound trio said.
"You will not get anywhere close to Sasuke," Liana said as she used the ink to push out their corks and each one fell to the ground.
"Oh, looks like you angered her, Dosu," the girl said.
"I guess so but let's see how she does against me," Dosu said as he stepped forward.
"Gladly," she said as she went to step forward but Lee held his arm out in front of her blocking her path.
"No, Liana, you are still not healthy enough to fight. I promise Neji I would protect you and protect you I will. I will fight him while you guard Sakura," he said and she nodded.
Liana walked back a few steps to guard Sakura. Lee started to fight Dosu but Dosu was able to defeat Lee in the end.
"LEE," Liana yelled as he was sent flying towards her and hit her. They fell to the ground with him on top of her.
"Lee," she said but he was too weak too respond.
She set him aside and stood up.
"Hey, I am still here," Liana said as she moved the chakra in her ink out of their bottles and shaped them into shuriken.
"Looks like the little girl wants to play," the girl said as Liana saw she was holding Sakura by her hair and Dosu was walking towards Sasuke.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM," Liana yelled as she threw the shuriken at him but he blocked them with his arm weapon that sends sound waves.
"So, you want to play, fine," he said and shot some sound waves at Liana.
Liana jumped up to avoid the attack and blasted some ink at his weapon. Some of the ink managed to block the holes where the waves were coming from making them less effective.
"You should know better, Liana, I figured you would be more of a challenge but I guess you're not," he said and ran towards her.
He disappeared and reappeared behind her then kicked her. She dropped to the ground and he landed on her back. She coughed up some blood from the impact and looked up at him to see he was looking at her.
"I do not see why Lord Orochimaru would want you," he said as he picked her up by the collar and threw her at the tree trunk where Sasuke and Naruto were.
She hit the tree and fell to the ground next to Sasuke when she felt an odd chakra feeling. She looked to see it was coming from Sasuke's neck where a cursed mark had formed.
Orochimaru wants you too but why...
Liana saw Sasuke start to wake up and he looked towards her. She watched as he stood up and looked back at her.
"Liana, Sakura who did this to you," Sasuke asked. Neither of them responded but Zaku does.
"I did," he said and she saw Sasuke had activated his sharingan.
He means business now, he is going to kill Zaku.
Liana watched as Sasuke pulled Zaku's arms out of their sockets. She stood up and stumbled between Sasuke and Zaku. She held her arms out to the sides and protected Zaku.
"Liana, get out of the way," Sasuke said.
"No, Sasuke, you want to get to him you will have to get through me. This is not the ninja way and you know it. He might have hurt us but it does not cost him his life for what he did," she said as she extracted some ink and formed them on her hands like whips.
"Liana, this is your last chance, get out of my way," he said but she stood her ground.
Liana was about to attack him as a warning shot but she felt an unbearable pain in her head that caused her to fall to her knees, scream and her ink fell to the ground around her. She then fell towards the ground close to passing out expecting to hit the ground but felt arms grab her. She blacked out before she could see who caught her.