Chapter 11: Gaara...
Land of Rivers, Outside the Akatsuki Base
"Byakugan!" Neji said as he began to look passed the boulder. "Inside, it looks like a big cavern, but..."
"But what?" Lee asked.
"I just can't make out what's going on in there. I see several people." Neji answered.
"Neji, what about Gaara? What's happening to Gaara, is he one of the people you see?!" Naruto demanded as he began to shake him.
"Give me a second! I'm looking now!" he ordered getting Naruto off of him.
"NEJI!" he yelled.
"Take it easy. Wh...what is that thing? Neji questioned.
"What is it Neji, what's in there?!" Naruto yelled as he began to shake Neji again.
"Let go of me." he stated, his voice dry and confused at what had happened.
"Well what did you see?" Sakura asked.
"It's hard to describe with words." Neji answered.
"Wait, so that would mean..." Tenten said.
"Yes it means whatever it is we will have to go see it are selves." Lee finished.
"That make things easy doesn't it." Guy stated placing his hand on Lee's shoulder.
Guy flipped back three times, as he charged forward at the boulder pulling his arm back. "Coming through!" he yelled as he punched the boulder. "Quite a barrier."
"What is your plan?" Lee asked.
"Well Lee it's pretty obvious, we have to get rid of that barrier." Guy answered.
"How do we do that?" Tenten asked.
"Before we can even think of breaking through the barrier, we should know what kind of barrier it is." Sakura said.
"That's right." Guy said. "Now figure out what type of barrier, that's step one right Kakashi?"
"Ya." he answered.
"What do you think?" Chiyo asked.
"Could be a Five-Seal Barrier." Kakashi answered.
"I agree." Chiyo nodded.
"What's a Five-Seal Barrier?" Kairu asked.
"It's a strong layer of protection in which five tags with the word Forbidden written on them, are fastened around the area that is being guarded. One Forbidden tag is in front of us, and four more must be in other locations." Kakashi answered.
"Can't we just pull them off?" Guy asked.
"It's not that easy, the tags are in five different place and have to be taken off at the same time." Kakashi finished.
"So we have to pull them off simultaneously?" Sakura questioned.
"Right. The barrier won't budget unless we pull all five simultaneously. It's a tall order. That's only one tag." he added pointing at the tag.
"Which means there are four more near by." Guy said.
"Alright then let's do it, how do we figure out where the other tags are?" Naruto asked.
"Neji." Kakashi answered.
"I understand." he answered. "Byakugan!"
After a few moments of searching, "I found them!" he yelled.
"Awesome Neji point them out." Naruto ordered.
"One is on a boulder about five hundred meters Northeast of us. The second one...is on a tree trunk near the riverbank three hundred and fifty meters South-southeast. The third you'll find six hundred and fifty meters Northwest on a cliff. And the last one is in the woods less than eight hundred meters to the Southwest." Neji said
"If that's so, then each one of them is pretty far apart." Sakura said. "How will we signal each other?"
"I think I can handle that." Guy answered taking his backpack off. "We should be just in range to us these, wireless radios.
"That's amazing!" Naruto cried.
"Good think." Kakashi praised.
Guy let out a chuckle as he gave them a thumbs up, "Ok so we'll stay in communication and have Neji lead us to the tags." he ordered.
Team Guy started to get ready and hooked up with the radios, "Team Guy is the faster of are two teams so we'll take care of the tags." Guy said smiling.
"We're counting on you!" Naruto shouted.
"Lee you head Northwest to the woods." Guy ordered.
"Yes, Guy Sensei!"
"The Northeast boulder is all yours Neji."
"I can handle that."
"Tenten, you'll take the South-southest."
"Right no problem."
"And I'll take care of the one on the Northwest cliff. That's the one in the most difficult location to remove the tag." he finished.
"What's the frequency?" Kakashi asked.
"One seventy-four."
"Copy that." he said finishing up with his radio.
Taking a few deep breaths, Lee placed his hand on his radio, "Testing do you hear me?!" he asked as the four members who were wearing them all grabbed their heads from the noise and echos.
"Lee your microphone is up to high." Tenten cried.
"Oh! A thousand apologizes." he said giving the four more loud noises in their ears.
"Lee...Lee!" Guy cried.
Turning the mic down he whispered into it, "I'm sorry guys."
"My wireless settings are good to go." Tenten said as she finished turning her radio to the proper settings.
"My radio is set as well." Neji said.
"Alright Team Guy..." Guy said placing his hand in front of his students.
"O right." Lee said placing his hand on Guy's.
"Okay..." Tenten mumbled placing her hand on theirs.
Guy turned his head from Tenten to Neji as the pair began to stare each other down. Guy began pouting and make grunting noises as Neji broke and placed his hand on the others.
"Onward with the power of youth!" Guy laughed. "Attack!"
"Yeah!" Lee shouted.
"Attack!"
"Yeah!"
"Attack!"
"Yeah!"
"And on more for good luck attack!"
"Yeah!"
"Scatter!" Guy yelled as the four of them went for their tags.
"That was so cool, come on guys let's do that!" Naruto cheered.
"I would rather die." Sakura growled turning her head away.
"Me too." Kakashi agreed.
"Not a chance." Chiyo said.
"Sorry, no." Kairu stated as Kitai growled at Naruto.
"Well guess it's about time for me to get going, no real reason I should stay around. I'll just be in the way." Pakkun said.
"Thanks Pakkun." Kakashi said waving goodbye.
"Alright see you later." the dog finished as he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Alright, Sakura get ready." Kakashi ordered as he readied himself on the boulder as the others cleared out-of-the-way. "Once we pull the tags Sakura will destroy the boulder and that will be are signal to charge in and save Gaara."
Kairu look at Chiyo who was focused on the boulder in deep thought, "You ok Lady Chiyo?" he asked.
Shaking her out of her thought she looked back at the young man, "Yes...I'm fine." she answered.
"We're ready when you are." Kakashi said into his radio signaling his team that Guy's was ready. "We'll make are assault using a Button Hook Entry."
Chiyo and Kairu nodded. "Sounds like a plan to me." Naruto said.
"Yeah!" Sakura said smiling.
Kakashi pulled the tag, "Now Sakura!" he ordered.
"Right." she yelled as she charged the boulder. Punching it the boulder began to shatter.
After the pieces fell Kakashi gave the signal for them to go in.
Land of Rivers, Inside the Akatsuki Base
The six of them charged in and looked on in shock at the Kazekage laying on the ground motionless.
(No!) Kairu thought looking at Gaara.
"Finally, now which one of you is the Jinchuriki?" the blonde haired man laughed.
Naruto began to visible shake, "You bastard! I'll kill the both of you!" He yelled.
"The first one to burst in and start barking." the one wearing a mask said. "That would be him then."
"Sasori my man I think your correct." the blonde answered.
AN: Quick update for those of you who haven't voted or those of you who can't and want to know the score it is currently.
Sakura and Tenten tied at 5
Ino with 3
Temari with 1
and Hinata and Natsuko with 0
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