Outskirts of the Leaf Village

Karin stood still concentrating hard trying to sense any of the Leaf ninja's that had been posted. She sighed "You would think that after the attacks on the Leaf they would be considerably weaker. They've strategically put Jonin ninjas to guard the village and to get through will be pretty tight however lucky for us one of the ninjas are currently occupied in fighting two adversaries. There are a few holes in the Leaf's defence there, but if we don't move fast reinforcements will close off our only way in."

"Good work Karin. Natsu you stay close to me and don't wander off, the rest of you should know what to do as soon as you get into the village. Lead the way Karin," Sasuke said making Karin blush a little. Team Taka started to run following behind Karin, Natsu complied with Sasuke for the sake of the mission.

Karin suddenly stopped after a while and said for everyone to hide. Natsu took this chance to get sniff the surroundings to see if he could find any more of his comrades. He immediately picked up Gray's and Jellal's scent and started to head toward their direction. Sasuke grabbed Natsu's arm "Where do you think you're going?" He then pushed Natsu down and he took cover as a patrolling Leaf ninja passed.

"I told you to stay close to me. It won't be easy to penetrate the Leaf's defences," Sasuke carried on.

"My friends, I think they're in trouble. I need to help them!" Natsu said trying to pull away from Sasuke.

"In the ninja world the most important thing is the mission. We have to trust our comrades to be able to fight their own battles. You'd just insult your friends if you go and abandon your post to help them. You'd jeopardise the mission!" Sasuke argued.

"If completing a mission means I have to sacrifice a friend then the mission can go to hell. Fairy Tail never abandons their comrades!"

Sasuke remembered the bell test Kakashi had given them when they were becoming ninjas. If you abandon the mission you are scum, but if you abandon your comrades then you are worse than scum. Sasuke released Natsu, he knew he'd be wasting effort trying to convince someone as stubborn as Natsu to go to the village. Natsu reminded Sasuke too much of Naruto.

Natsu ran toward the direction as his comrades. "Natsu where are you going?" Suigetsu called. "Forget him, let's carry on toward the Leaf."

"Two against one? Now that's not fair" Kakashi called to Jellal and Gray.

"He's tough" Gray warned Jellal. Jellal glimpsed toward Gray's arm; although Gray never told Jellal what power his right arm possessed, Jellal knew it had to be powerful. "I won't use my power until I find END. My father gave me it for the soul purpose of killing END."

"What's the point of the power if you die before you get to use it?" Jellal retorted, which made Gray think a little. "If you're not going to attack me then I guess I'll just have to make the first move" Kakashi said impatiently and he started to sprint towards Gray and Jellal.

The two men ran in opposite directions, Gray threw an ice make lance toward Kakashi whilst Kakashi was distracted by that Jellal used grand chariot. Seven magic circles that looked like a constellation appeared above Kakashi "What is this?" Was all Kakashi could bring himself to say as a bright light came straight at him. "KAMUI!" Kakashi strained his sharingan eye as the light vanished. Kakashi keeled over grabbing his eye. "Never thought I would have to use that one guard duty." He sighed

"Your magic really deludes me, it's fascinating," Jellal said to Kakashi. "It's not magic, it's called Chakra," Kakashi replied as got up and threw multiple shurikan at Jellal. One grazed his arm however Jellal managed to dodge the others with ease. "Gray, you said before that you were glad not everyone had been captured. Who's been captured?"

"Lucy and Happy have been captured by the Sand and Erza's been captured by the Leaf." Gray informed. Jellal dropped his battle stance his eyes wide "Erza's been captured?"

Jellal left himself wide open, Kakashi was bent his knees slightly, grabbed his right hand just above the elbow with his left and started to channel his chakra into his right hand. Lightening formed engulfing his right hand, "You should never drop your guard in the middle of a battle, CHIDORI!" He then charged towards Jellal.

Gray was too slow to do anything and Jellal to react appropriately to the oncoming attack. "FIRE DRAGON'S CLAW" Kakashi diffused his chidori and tried to dodge however Natsu clipped him and forced Kakashi a few steps back. "Three against one, this isn't looking good for me," Kakashi said staring down his three opponents. "No you'll only be facing two of us and I thought I told you Natsu to stay with Sasuke!" Jellal scolded. Natsu avoided eye contact and shrugged his shoulders "I sensed you guys were in trouble,"

"Gray, Natsu you stay and fight. I'll go and get Erza. Oh and Gray I suggest you don't hold anything back, you too Natsu." Jellal ordered as he used meteor to speed past Kakashi. "I'm afraid I can't let you get past." Kakashi made a clone however Natsu immediately attacked it making it disappear.

Kakashi: This isn't good. Even Sasuke's close… I need to inform the village… maybe Pakkun will be able to warn them."

Kakashi bit his thumb then hit the ground, a flash of smoke, in the middle was a dog. "Hey Kakashi long time no see." Pakkun spoke. Natsu's jaw dropped "The dog… can talk!"

"So can Happy Natsu! You need to focus fire brain." Gray retorted. "Oh yeah…"

"Now's not the time Pakkun. Go to the village and warn them that there's a joint attack from the magic users and Sasuke."

"Ok I'm on it" Pakkun ran past Kakashi at full speed whilst Kakashi covered his escape.

A/N: I decided to upload another chapter just because i had the time. I really hope you're enjoying it so far :) Please read and review, if there is anything i need to improve or flaws or the fact that you like the story. I kinda got surprised yesterday by how many views i got yesterday it was almost double the usual amount id get in a day. It really means a lot when you guys read my stories. Anyway just enjoy the story and i'll upload more chapters asap. R&R NGL but i really enjoy writing. see ya :D