CHAPTER 14: Midst of a Battle
Disclaimer: Naruto= Mashashi Kishimoto. Get the simple math?
Hey there dudes (though I highly doubt there's any) and dudettes!!! :D I'm so happy you're reading YET another chapter of my story! Hmm, I think this story's gonna end soon ): I've got to think up of a sequel in that case! :O YES, you're right! I've decided on a sequel because of you lovely readers and reviewers! ! Yup, one of my retarded words! Hmm, I noticed that A LOT of people read my first chapter, then when the second chapter was released, less than half the crowd came back to read it. I'm sad, probably because my writing's bad and they regretted reading the first chapter eh? Oh well, on with the chapter!
**By the way, some jutsus are created by me, so they're not real, yeah?
"HAIYAAA!" Battle screams came from the forest.
"The sexy, gorgeous, sparkling Rock Lee of Konoha has killed you, the enemy!" Lee exclaimed in enthusiasm. "…They're not dead yet, Lee." TenTen sighed, while Neji smirked. "What?! I shall do 150 pushups and run around this whole forest 10 times! Plus, if I fail to do either of them, I'll do twice the amount!" Lee's eyes lit up with total excitement and motivation.
"…Whatever, suit yourself. These losers were knocked out cold in only a matter of 5 minutes. What pathetic idiots." Neji heaved a sigh of annoyance. "Yeah…I think we better go find Kakashi-sensei now." TenTen suggested and Neji nodded in agreement. "Here I go!!!" Lee exclaimed as he began doing pushups. "Heh… I think we'll have to wait awhile now, ne, Neji?" TenTen turned to Neji. "Aa…"
"Neji's team should be done by now." Kakashi informed the Shikamaru, Sai, Hinata, Ino and Naruto. "Naruto, you're team and my team should split up, now." Kakashi told Naruto. "Huh? Why's that, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked, bewildered. "We've unknowingly stepped into the enemy's trap. Three of you can still escape so go now!" Kakashi ordered. Naruto widened his eyes. "Enemy's trap?! Why didn't we notice?!" Naruto asked frantically. Shikamaru and Sai then pointed down towards the floor where black markings were painted on. "Genjutsu. They fooled us using the surprise element. Go now and look for Sakura! After we're done with this, we'll catch up with you!" Kakashi commanded. Naruto, Hinata and Ino nodded and sprung off the ground.
Suddenly out of the ground, mud merged together to form 3 figures. As Kakashi, Sai and Shikamaru looked closely, they were taken aback when the figures formed none other than themselves. It was a jutsu whereby the attacker clones the victims and let them fight their own clones. This jutsu cannot be dispelled until one of the fighting pair dies. Kakashi was now standing in front of a clone of himself and Shikamaru and Sai were in the same situation.
"Kakashi-sensei, how do we get rid of 'ourselves'?" Sai asked, flabbergasted. "That's right…they all have the same jutsu and attacking style as us…" Kakashi murmured. "…Let's switch clones then." Shikamaru smirked. "Huh?" Sai asked. "As in, I'll fight you're clone, Sai, Kakashi will fight my clone, and you will fight Kakashi's clone. How's that?" Shikamaru clarified. "That's quick thinking on your part, Shikamaru. Good job. Let's switch then." Kakashi smirked as Sai, Shikamaru and himself switched places. Now, it's Shikamaru against Sai's clone, Kakashi against Shikamaru's clone and Sai against Kakashi's clone. All of them stood in battle pose as an exhilarating battle against each other's clones awaited them, any second now.
"Hinata-Chan! Could you search the area for Sakura-chan?" Naruto requested. "H-Hai!" Hinata nodded as she activated her Byakugan. "Byakugan!" Hinata said as she searched the forest in every speck of detail she could receive. "S-She's really far from here right now, N-Naruto-kun! It'll take a really long time t-to r-reach there…" Hinata informed Naruto.
"What now, loser?" Ino smacked Naruto on the back. "Duh, isn't it obvious? We get there asap! Sheesh, sucks to have women like you on my team." Naruto replied as he rolled his eyes.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Ino bawled, provoked. "Exactly what you heard!" Naruto countered. "YOU, YOU IMPRUDENT IDIOT!" Ino growled.
"HAH, SPELL IMPRUDENT, I BET YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO!" Naruto mocked Ino.
"YES I DO! IT'S SPELLED AS I-M-P-R-O-O-D-A-N-T!" Ino stomped.
"WRONG! IT'S SPELLED AS E-E-M-P-R-O-O-D-U-N-T! You failed your spelling didn't you?!" Naruto laughed. Hinata scratched her head at the both of them as they both got the spelling wrong. "U-um…It's I-m-p-r-u-d-e-n-t…" Hinata spelled it out for both the blondes. It was silent for awhile until Ino spoke up.
"Hinata! How could you do this to me?! Hah! You failed your spelling didn't you?!" Ino screeched.
"We're only a few 200 meters away from Sakura and Suigetsu now! Quicken your pace!" Sasuke demanded. "Sasuke, stop now." Idate suddenly tried dominating Sasuke's words. Idate, Ami, Karin, Juugo and Sasuke all stopped dead at their tracks. "What, Morino?" Sasuke seethed. "Look, I really, really want to help you guys, but Ami and I have been delayed from our mission at Konoha for too long now." Idate started.
"It was your stupid idea to join us in the first place…" Sasuke muttered, rolling his eyes. "Whatever, Uchiha. As I was saying. We really want to help you guys, but we would get in trouble with Tsunade-sama, the hokage. So we have to be going right now…Good luck with Kisame. Say goodbye for me to Suigetsu and Sakura." Idate continued, then walked over to Sasuke and whispered to him. "Tell Sakura to wait for me, Uchiha, I'll not let you have her." Idate whispered as he and Ami walked away from the team.
"I LOVE YOU SASUKE-KUN!!!" Ami squealed, with Sasuke not replying as he was too pissed off with Idate's words. "Don't ever come back, Morino." Sasuke growled.
"You bet I will meet ya guys again! Oh by the way, Uchiha. The bet only lasted till yesterday, whereby you had to listen to whatever I say, but you forgot and still listened to me today. What a loser!" Idate laughed as he jumped off with Ami.
"What…? WHAT!? Morino that jerk!" Sasuke screamed in annoyance.
"Hinata! Are we reaching yet!?" Naruto complained. "H-hai! She's about 1km away from us! If w-we want to reach there f-fast, we would have to raise our speed!" Hinata answered.
"Okay then, RAISE YOUR SPEED BY 50% MORE!" Naruto shouted. "WHAT!?" Ino screamed.
"Argh, this would have been so much easier if Juugo was here with us!" Suigetsu whined. "What? Saying you can't work well with me? Well, that's kind of true because we don't really have any experience of fighting together as a pair, have we?" Sakura laughed as she knelt on the ground, finished with healing her cut.
"Huh, no that's not it. Juugo and I sort of have some telepathy during battles so it's much easier as we don't have to communicate in order to know what the next move is. Plus, Juugo does not mind getting injured during the process of our battle plan. For you though, I don't want you to get injured, whether you mind or not." Suigetsu smiled at Sakura.
"Hmm? Why is that so then?" Sakura raised one eyebrow. "It's not like I can't heal myself or anything." Sakura continued.
"Sasuke will kill me if I let a single scratch get on your skin." Suigetsu sweat dropped at the thought. "Oh? Why would that jerk kill you?" Sakura inquired, puzzled. "Man, you're slow. He-" "DIE!" Kisame screamed with all his malevolent intent and wickedness combined into one voice as he charged towards the unaware pair. "Caught ya off guard!"
"Yup, you so did." Suigetsu grinned. "Huh?!" Kisame shouted in puzzlement as he slashed his Samehada across 'Suigetsu's body. "POOF!" "A clone!? Then, the girl!?" Kisame widened his eyes as he turned towards 'Sakura'.
Right then, Sasuke arrived at the scene, with Juugo and Karin still behind as he was jumping too fast and ahead of them. Sasuke looked around and spotted Sakura kneeling on the ground with Kisame standing in front of her with his Samehada on his hand, ready to attack her. "SAKURA! WATCH OUT!" Sasuke shouted across, cursing at the fact that Suigetsu wasn't there to protect her.
Suigetsu and Sakura's POV from their hiding place:
"Damn it! Sasuke's there! He doesn't know that the 'Sakura' over there on the ground's a clone!" Suigetsu cursed as he turned towards Sakura. "Its okay, leave him be. I'm dying to see his reaction to me 'dying' Make the clone dispel only after Sasuke's reaction is over." Sakura grinned.
Back to Main POV:
Kisame's Samehada slowly neared Sakura inch by inch. Sasuke was going to go 'appear' next to her but was too late. Kisame's sword slit through Sakura's petite body in a blink of an eye. Sasuke's onyx eyes broadened as Sakura's body collapsed onto the hard cold floor brutally and as blood gushed out her chest. "SAKURA!" Sasuke yelled as he quickly appeared next to her and supported her upper body in his arms. "Hah, an Uchiha Sasuke eh? Heard lots about you. I'm sure she doesn't have a place in your stone heart. Leave her be." Kisame remorselessly commented whilst smirking. "SHUT THE HELL UP YOU ASSHOLE!" Sasuke snapped as a mixture of emotions welled up. Regret, melancholy, vengeance, fury and most of all hate were all captured within his now Sharingan eyes as he stared at Sakura's lifeless form.
Suigetsu and Sakura POV:
"Sakura…We should stop now…Sasuke seems hell angry!" Suigetsu commented in fear. "Oh not yet, I'm enjoying this." Sakura snickered. "W-well…this wasn't my idea than! I wouldn't want my ass to fly all the way to the other half of the world!" Suigetsu replied, uneasy.
Main POV:
Sasuke tried holding back his tears, which he failed at. One traitor slid slowly down his once so angelic features, now replaced with a ferocious face that could scare anyone with one look. "Kisame Hoshigaki…You're going to-" Just as Sasuke was going to curse his words of revenge and do it in action to Kisame, Sakura's body vanished into thin air with a "POOF!" Sasuke, alarmed, quickly turned to look at his arms, where Sakura's body used to be lying at. Soon, his astonished and stunned face turned into one of a devil's once he realized that it was a clone and that he had been tricked. "DAMN YOU, HOZUKI AND SAKURA!!!" Sasuke shouted in pure fury and anger as he had just been tricked as he punched the ground with all his might with his Chidori.
Suigetsu and Sakura POV:
"DAMN IT, Suigetsu!!! Why did you dispel the clone!?" Sakura asked, upset. "It dispelled on its own! It has its own time limit, you know! NOW we're in trouble!!!" Suigetsu cried in distress. "Darn it! He's calling us right now!" Sakura jumped up and down, panicky. "Let's just go and face our miserable deaths." Suigetsu pouted as he pulled Sakura towards the devil.
Main POV:
"What the hell's going on…?" Kisame twitched at the situation. "H-hey yo Sasuke!" Suigetsu smiled, petrified. "DAMN YOU! YOU ASSHOLE! PIECE OF SHIT, GO BURN IN HELL!" Sasuke hollered as he attempted to electrify Suigetsu, though being stopped by Sakura, who pushed Suigetsu aside and stood at his place. "I was the one who told him not to dispel the clone so that I could see your reaction. Turns out you're a crybaby eh?" Sakura smirked as she looked him in the eye. "I would have punched you right now if you weren't a woman." Sasuke seethed as he glared daggers at Sakura. "Hah, go on. I don't really act like one a quarter of the time anyway." Sakura challenged Sasuke
"If you're not going to fight me now, I'll kill you all without giving you a chance to showcase your ability to me." Kisame spoke up. "Right. Let's continue our battle, Suigetsu. Without Sasuke." Sakura suddenly added on the last part. "Oi, why else am I here if not to help you fools?" Sasuke argued. "Suigetsu! I think I might be hearing things! I'm hearing a voice but I don't see anyone anywhere! Must be my imagination, ne!" Sakura smiled as she pretended that Sasuke was air. With this remark, Sasuke twitched. "Before, once I was anywhere around you your attention immediately belongs to me." Sasuke muttered. "Uh Sasuke, keyword: Before." Suigetsu waved at Sasuke, smiling. With this, Sasuke smacked Suigetsu's arm, aggravated.
"By the way, where are Karin and Juugo?" Suigetsu asked Sasuke. "Karin and- Crap…They might be lost. They have no idea where we are as I just left them when I raised my speed…" Sasuke sweat dropped. "Karin's a sensor ninja for god's sake!" Suigetsu rolled his eyes. "This place has some sort of a chakra force field so no one can detect chakra around here, which is why I didn't detect that the 'Sakura' I was holding, was a clone." Sasuke stopped at his words as he glared at Suigetsu for awhile before continuing, "Thus, Karin wouldn't be able to sense us." "Oh crap. They're lost." Suigetsu sighed.
"Doesn't matter. Are we going to kill this walking sushi or what?" Sasuke asked impatiently.
"Since when was there a we? All I know is Suigetsu and Sakura are going to kill this blue-skinned guy." Sakura added in 'innocently'. "ENOUGH! I can't take this insulting of my skin and you calling me sushi! It's not my fault that I'm a bit mutated right?! Time to kill!" Kisame shouted in annoyance. "Water style: Water clone jutsu!" Kisame summoned two clones. Sasuke smirked as he chanted his jutsu. "Fire style: Fire ball jutsu!" He uttered as he shot flames out of his mouth, aimed at Kisame's clones. The clones dodged the attack, and Suigetsu took this opportunity to do a jutsu at them too. "Water style: Slicing swords jutsu!" Suigetsu said as water swords charged towards Kisame's clones. They dodged yet again, but one of them was sliced and dispelled. Kisame then took this opportunity to secretly summon more clones, and made them invisible. One of them sneaked up behind Sasuke. Sasuke, sensing it quickly drew out his katana and attempted to slice it, but missed it unknowingly. Thinking that it had already been dispelled, he continued eyeing Kisame. Little did he know it was still standing right behind him.
Suigetsu charged at Kisame with his decapitating sword, but was blocked off by Kisame's Samehada. Sasuke then cut in with Chidori in his hands. "CHIDORI!" Sasuke yelled as he plunged his hand into Kisame's stomach. As he did so, Kisame did a replacement jutsu and escaped the attack. "Shit! Where will he reappear?!" Sasuke thought out loud. "Over here." His voice came from behind them. They turned around only to see him holding Sakura up in the air by her neck. "T-chh! I w-was fighting h-his clone and he suddenly c-came o-out of nowhere! Dam-n i-t let go of m-me!" Sakura struggled with her words. "Hah, girl, you're going down first. Kisame smirked as he gripped onto his Samehada. "Crap!" Suigetsu and Sasuke cursed as they tried to run towards her, but were gripped by an invisible force. "Don't bother. I sent out invisible clones to stay behind you all the time until I needed them to grip onto you." Kisame grinned as he pulled his sword back. Suigetsu tried kicking in the air and jumping up and down to get out of the clone's grip but just couldn't. He was going to deform himself and turn himself into water, but he had no enough chakra to do so. Sasuke on the other hand tried electrifying and burning the clone's invisible hand but had no prevail. "DAMN IT! WHERE'S NARUTO'S INACCURATE AND IDIOTIC TIMING WHEN WE NEED IT!?" Sasuke yelled in distress. "Say goodbye, little girl." Kisame laughed as he flung his sword towards Sakura's neck, planning to decapitate her.
Right then, as if all these were planned out, Naruto jumped out of the trees and grabbed Sakura's body and carried her out of Kisame's grip, though being slashed by the Samehada at his shoulder while doing so. "RIGHT ON TIME! DATTEBAYO!!!" Naruto cheered as he put Sakura down. "Sakura-chan! You okay!?" He asked, concerned. "Naruto…you finally came! Thank you so much!" Sakura smiled from ear to ear as she hugged him. "Naruto!? What the freaking hell are you doing here?!" Sasuke exclaimed, shocked that he's cries of distress actually came true. "Duh, saving Sakura, what? You expected me to come here and save you? Fat hope, Sasuke!" Naruto grinned. Both Suigetsu and Sasuke heaved a BIG sigh of relief that Sakura was now safe. "NARUTO! HOW DARE YOU LEAVE HINATA AND I ALONE, HUH!?" Ino suddenly burst into the scene, causing Sakura's jaw to drop. Kisame just stood there being ignored again.
"I-Ino pig!? IT'S YOU! YOU HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA HOW MUCH I MISSED YOU!!!" Sakura squealed in glee and contentment as she ran over to her and gave her a big hug, and added Hinata into the tight squeeze halfway. "Sakura! I MISSED YOU BLOODY MUCH TOO! AHHHH! I can't believe you're with Sasuke-kun! How'd it go!?" Ino jumped up and down, while Hinata smiled. "Uh, sorry to break it, but we're in a midst of a battle now, aren't we? OH AND HI NARUTO!" Suigetsu grinned. "YO!" Naruto charged towards him. "Oi. We're stuck here, help?" Sasuke twitched. "Oh right. How the hell do you get rid of invisible clones?" Sakura tilted her head in confusion. "I-I know…Y-you just have to injure the attacker and they'll immediately d-disappear…" Hinata meekly answered. Right then, Ino, Naruto and Sakura turned towards Kisame with malicious looks on their faces. "One, two, three. CHARGE!" Sakura shouted as Ino, Naruto and herself ran towards Kisame, attempting to injure him.
Kakashi POV:
"Shikamaru…you're clone sure is strong. I'm exhausted…" Kakashi sighed as he decided to resort to a technique that the clone would never expect him to do. "A THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH!" He shouted as he aimed his finger at Shikamaru's clone's butt, and was successful when the clone flew away in the air. "Heh, knew it'd work…" Kakashi smiled as he collapsed onto the floor in exhaustion. "Time to read the newest issue of Icha Icha Paradise!!!" He said in delight as he quickly took out the book from his pocket.
Shikamaru POV:
"Darn it…I picked a troublesome opponent. He keeps smiling that annoying fake smile of his." Shikamaru groaned as he glared at a fake smiling Sai clone. "Are you going to continue the fight, dickless?" Sai's clone smiled more, causing Shikamaru to twitch. "Look, I don't care if you call me dickless or not. That only affects Naruto, so good luck trying that on me." Shikamaru clarified with the clone. "Okay then, pineapple woman look-alike, are you going to continue fighting?" Sai's clone added venom into his words. "…Now that was offensive. Bring it on!" Shikamaru challenged the clone. "Shadow imitation shuriken technique!" Shikamaru made hand signs, now motivated to defeat the clone.
Sai's POV:
"Kakashi-sensei-clone sir. Can you stop reading that book?" Sai tilted his head, smiling.
"Why? I don't see that you're worth fighting." Kakashi's clone looked up briefly from his book. "Oh? So you don't plan to fight me?" Sai asked. "
"Mmhmm. I'd rather read my book." Kakashi nodded.
"Really? So…you can go read your perverted book and I'll just…sit here and wait for the rest to be done. Is that possible?" Sai questioned again. "Uh huh. I'll be dispelled once the other two are since there's no point anyway." Kakashi's clone lazily said. "Hmm…you're a nice person. I like you." Sai started and finished with a "dickless." In the end, Sai just sat on the ground and waited for Shikamaru and Kakashi to finish their own battles as the lazy clone of Kakashi sat there and giggled at his book.
Me: YO! I decided to end the chappie here, because I am really really exhausted, and I think I should leave the rest to the next chapter :D Hmm how on earth did i manage to write this whole chapter!? I'm amazed. Let's see what happened.
-Neji and gang defeated the lousy 60 men
-Kakashi's group fought 'themselves'
-Karin and Juugo got lost
-Idate and Ami went back to their mission
-Kisame's battle
-Naruto's team meets Sasuke, Sui, and Saku.
-Kakashi's group somehow finish off their opponents
That's alot now, heh. :P
Sakura: Yah huh.
Naruto: Eh, walking sushi! Come over here and say the line.
Kisame: I'M NOT A SUSHI.
Naruto: Whatever, go on.
Kisame: Read, review and give ideas.