Maiden- I know i've been totally M.I.A lately and I'm sorry. School just got out and i'm majorly excited about the long awaited summer! Hopefully i'll get alot more writing done now. So, read and review ladies and germs!
Naruto; Fighting Dreamers
Chapter 11- Leaf Village is A War Zone? Battle the Army of Puppets!
Early morning quickly approached as sounds of war and battle echoed throughout the streets of Kohona. Shinobi of all ages and afilliations banned together to destroy the Puppet Walkers. The entire Rookie armada fought tooth and nail against the intruders, but for every puppet they distroyed, two more seemed to be waiting to take it's place.
"This is ridiculous..." Tenten huffed, her hands resting on her knees as she struggled for breath. "There's just too many." She and Neji had formed a team with Chouji and Ino near the center of town. So far, the quartet had taken down a few dozen puppets, and chakra reserves were diminishing rapidly.
"Where the hell are they all comming from?" Chouji yelled in reply as he completed his total body expansion jutsu. With one swing of his fist, he'd defeated another five puppets.
"It's a summoning jutsu, from what I can gather." Neji answered, his byankugan eyes serveying the entire village. "They just materialize in random places, no constant attack pattern. But I think the one pulling the strings is pretty close."
"Really? Where?" Ino asked.
"I'll show you, but first we need to find Naruto. Follow me."
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"If i've distroyed one puppet, i've distroyed a thousand!" Melody hissed, slicing through the remains of a puppet walker with her katana.
"What's with the attitude, Mel?" Sakura asked the small raven, battling her own set of monsters. Team SLS had run into her, Lee, Kiba and Akamaru just inside the village gates. Luna's eyes flared with her byanku-sharingan, easily dodging and distroying anything the puppets flung at her. Blood red orbs flickered to the small, black haired weaponress, seeing a seperate chakra signature than Melody's own. Curious, Luna tried to investigate further, but was unable to divide her attention from the puppets.
"I'm just tired of seeing all these bloody contraptions!" Mel yelled over the sounds of Kiba's fang over fang and Lee's hidden lotus. When the dust from the paired jutsu's cleared, the puppets were gone.
"Good riddance." Angel sighed, landing on her feet beside Luna, dispelling her peacock chakra wings.
"Don't celebrate soo soon." Luna deadpanned, her eyes still ruby red with pertruthing veins. She stared out towards the forest. "We may have won the battle, but we're far from winning this war."
"What's comming?" Kiba asked his wife.
"It looks like a big lizard, but it walks just like those damned puppets."
Sakura's green eyes widdened. "That's the puppet that Lee, Neji and I fought!"
"And it is about time we smash it!" the Tai-jutsu master beamed, taking off towards the woods.
"Wait, Lee!" Sakura yelled, running after her husband.
"Come on, they're gonna need backup." Luna told her team, following the Haruno's trail.
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Nariko could literally feel the erratic heartbeat of his mother, being pressed close to her rather well endowed chest. The Hyuga heiress clutched the boy tightly as she and Temari ran the lenght of the corridors underneath the Hokage Mansion. A secret underground bunker, known only to the citizens of Kohona, resided thier. Oil lamps lined the walls and gave off minimal light to the two kuniochi searching for the hidden entrance. Temari's hand followed the inner wall, looking for the one brick that would move out of place and reveal a door. She smiled victoriously as she felt her fingers sink into the wall, knowing she'd hit the key. A slab of bricks quickly slid up into the celing, showing the underground bunker they'd been searching for.
"Lady Hinata, Lady Temari!" Iruka called from the sea of villagers. The brunette shinobi made his way to the two women, outstretching his arms so he could take Nariko. "I'll watch Nariko. You two are needed on the surface." Hinata hestitated a moment, looking down at her son. His sapphire eyes, mirror images of his father's, shined up at her. Now that she thought about it, the signs of the byankugan had always been prominate in his azure irises. So she was quite certain that her son had pointed them in the right direction of thier missing children.
"Be good for Iruka-sensei." she whispered to the boy before handing him off to Iruka.
"He'll be fine, Hinata." Temari assured. Hinata nodded and followed her blonde friend. "Shikamaru and Naruto should be a few kilometers south of here. Wanna go help 'em or find our own puppets to fight?" Temari chuckled.
"Let's go help the boys. From what I can see, they're not fairing soo good." Hinata replyed, already having activated her blood line limit, her eyes showing her exactly what was happening above ground.
"I would'nt worry too much. Lazy Ass is good about comming through in a pinch and that blonde knucklehead of yours is anything but an easy fight."
Hinata grinned, knowing this to be true.
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"I can't believe these things ambushed us and now they're running from us!" Naruto groaned as he and Shikamaru persued three puppets into the edge of the village.
"They're not running from us, baka." Shikamaru countered. "They're leading us to something."
"The source of the problem, I hope."
Naruto's wishes seemed to be granted as the three puppets stopped cold at the village gates, near the forest. Just as the two shinobi were about to attack, a wind style jutsu hit the three monstrocities. Naruto recognized them instantly and turned to smile at his wife and Temari.
"Whoever is controling these things are close." Hinata told her husband.
"How perseptive." hissed a voice. The team of shinobi weren't surprised when the lizard puppet materialized out of thin air.
"You." Naruto growled, his pupils starting to elongate. "You and your abominations get the hell outta my village!"
"Now is that anyway to talk to the man who has your children?" the lizard laughed miniacly.
"Either you return them or I rip you to shreads. Your choice."
Distroy this puppet all you like, fool. It can regenerate from the tiniest of pieces. My true body is elsewhere."
"Irrelevant." Temari barked gruffly, pulling her fan from it's confinements. "We can smash your stupid toy six ways from Sunday, and we can easily find you. It'd be in your best interest to surrender now."
"Now where's the fun in that? Tell you what, since you're all eager for action, i'll give you an ultimatum. Surrender the last spirit orb to my associates tomarrow at noon in the deep forest, just south of here, and i'll give your children back."
The group was through negotiating, they were ready to fight. Each took a fighting stance and pulled weapons from nowhere, each intent to bring the puppet to it's knees. But a faint call in the distance made the Rookie Team freeze where they were. Four tiny voices whispered through the winds.
"Mom! Dad!"
"Azuura?" Shikamaru whispered, not believing his eyes. The tiny voices came from the edge of the woods. He sprinted off towards his daughter, sweeping her off her feet in a tight hug. Selena and Syrus were appremanded by Hinata, hugging her neice and nephew tightly. The lavender eyed heiress watched with a bright smile as her husband raced off towards the small blonde kitsune boucing in behind everyone. Just when she was within touching distance of the Hokage, the lizard puppet used it's tail to knock Naruto back and away from his daughter. The puppet roared and wrapped it's tail securely around Usagi and vanished as mysteriously as it'd come. When Naruto regained his composure, he realized in horror that his little girl, was gone again.
Maiden- Sorry this chapter is a tad short, but I promise they'll be more next time! So please, in the meantime, leave me a nice lil review!