A/N : Well had new reviewers...and one of them suggested they die. Well weekdays are coming up. That means half the rate of update, or no update at all. I hope this can satisfy you till the next weekend!
"Ninpou! Kage Mane No Jutsu!"
The bandits froze by the Kage Mane No Jutsu and dropped their weapons immediately. Even with Sakura's super strength, she could not break out, as they watched in horror as Neji prepared his attack. But however, that wasn't the end.
"Hakke! Rokujyou Yonshou!"
Neji divided his attack. This would result in both Sakura and Ino receiving damage, but only half their tenketsus were closed. Even so, to stop half your chakra flow would be a dramatic decrease. Shikamaru released his jutsu after tiring out, as Naruto prepared another Kage Bunshin. He was preparing 2 Fouen Rasengan.
"64 Strikes!"
"Fouen Rasengan!!!"
Instantly as the 64 strikes finished, before SakIno had a chance to even breath, Naruto jumped over them with lightning speed and charged down with 2 Fouen Rasengans, each in one hand. The Rasengan hit squarely on their chest as sand began surrounding them.
"Sabaku Sousou!"
They could barely move after being hit consecutively by ultimate attacks. They could only lay in the sand, eyes focusing on the maw around them. Sand slowly covered their bodies and lifted them up with ease.
But before Gaara could crush them, Shikamaru halted him. Gaara stared at Shikamaru, as if threatening to kill him. Shikamaru said it was useless to kill them, it was better to send them to life-long imprisonment.
Neji agreed with Shikamaru, even though inside he too wanted to kill them for threatening Hinata's life. It was his duty to protect her after all. He however, knew it was right, he could not let emotions run freely in battle. But would the others be like him?
Naruto on the other hand, with blood red eyes was determined to kill them. The Kyuubi was probably not a sympathetic creature. Shikamaru knew this was slightly unfair, 2 against 2, and they were not going to fight each other whether to kill SakIno or not. Gaara was still trying to restrain himself from crushing SakIno at any given moment.
"Shikamaru...Don't let him kill us..."
"Shut up Ino."
"N-Naruto..?"
"You tried to kill Hinata..." Naruto spoke with the Kyuubi's rage.
Naruto took a step forward, making Neji reach out to stop him, but was just flung away. Naruto whacked it so hard Neji barely had time to halt Naruto from gaining momentum. Neji let go after seeing the chakra within him growing stronger and stronger, he knew it was the Kyuubi itself.
Naruto went charging straight towards the two bandits, still trapped in sand, as fear overlooked their faces. Gaara's eyes widened as he let go of SakIno. Shikamaru turned towards Gaara and ordered him to restrain Naruto. Gaara shot him a death-glare. Shikamaru did not back down, he could not.
"Ninpou! Kage Mane No Jutsu!"
Maybe it was planned, but it was merely a conincidence. Naruto jumped up and perferomed a Kage Bunshin No Jutsu. Unfortunately, Shikamaru did not have enough shadow to trap all of them, and Gaara was probably just enjoying the whole scene. Neji on the other hand, had begun attacking his old comrade.
But it was useless. SakIno stared at all the Naruto performing Kage Bunshins over and over again, Neji could not destroy them as fast as they performed the Kage Bunshin No Jutsu, even with the help of Shikamaru. Shikamaru was simply getting a group and punching himself to make them disappear. Gaara stood there, narrowing his eyes for some weird reason.
"Naruto! STOP IT!"
"Naruto! Listen to Neji!"
But all voices kept out of Naruto's head as he got closer and closer to SakIno. Somehow, from a moment of teamwork and togetherness, it had turned to the opposite, chaos. The Kyuubi had taken over Naruto, even if Hinata did not die. Shikamaru and Neji were desperately trying to find the correct one to stop their search, but given that they kept multiplying, chances were low.
"Stop."
Shikamaru, Neji and unexpectedly Naruto froze in the midst of fighting and bothered to hear Gaara. Gaara closed his eyes and breathed heavily as he got up his sand. When he opened them, he was up on his sand, and imediately shot sand straight towards SakIno.
"STOP IT GAARA!"
"We don't have time, follow me."
Shikamaru stared in horror as sand enclosed around their bodies, Naruto calming down slightly in the process. But Neji was no a little bit terrified or shocked at what Gaara was doing. He was concentrating past all of Gaara's embed with chakra with Byakugan and chuckled to himself at what he saw. Shikamaru raised an eyebrow, but soon got what was happening.
Before Gaara could even crush SakIno completely, they disappeared in thin air. Gaara immediately waved a hand as the 4 of them nodded. Were they back in their own team? Or was this just a illusion? Would it remain? Or crumble just like a few moments ago? But that was not their first priority. Neji pointed to the labyrinth, but Gaara shook his head.
He floated swiftly but safely with his friends out of the prison cell instead of going through the troublesome labyrinth. His eyes showed no change, but everyone knew he was expecting something. He made it to the top of the acidic pool. Despite the many gasps, Gaara did not follow, and just glared.
There they were. Temari and Hinata. Safe in the cage. With the exception of Sakura and Ino smiling right behind the cage. They both had kunais rested against Temari and Hinata's neck. Naruto was about to start attacking again when Sakura pressed the kunai harder and further in.
Naruto managed to restrain himself from doing any harm. But anger was building up in Neji. He could never let Hinata die. He took a step forward, but was blocked by a stronger force. Gaara finally took the initiative to stop everyone. Once he saw that everyone caused no trouble, he rested his eyes on Sakura and Ino again.
"I'm guessing there's going to be a condition."
"Good thinking Gaara."
"You don't care about your lives do you?"
"But all 4 of you care about these 2."
"Do you think you can make it?"
"Yesss..." The kunai pressed even harder on both the girls necks.
Neji looked at Gaara, as if trying to make out what he was doing. In the process, he deactivated the Byakugan and tried to create a plan. Gaara was trying to do something, but what? Or was Gaara simply out of ideas? His face had nothing, what was he thinking, he definitely needed more emotions. But with a blink of his eyes, his face showed a determined glare.
"Fine. Have it your way."
Sakura raised an eyebrow, as so did everyone. Except Naruto, who was shouting away. Gaara ignored the noisy blonde and slowly raised his hand. Sakura was about to speak as she pressed harder on to Temari's neck but was rudely interrupted by Gaara.
"This is the end."
"For them."
"You think?"
"Lets try."
A/N : Sorry for the extremely long drag. But it turns out I missed writing one of the chapters xD. So there was suppose to be an extra chapter for the climax but I missed it out. This is short. Sorry for the 1 week slow update. You may find this a little below average. Review anyway.