EDITED: Jan 31st, 2008
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Happy Readings!
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Not so Weak Anymore
Chapter Twenty-one
The Kazekage!
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"I hate sand." Ami said using her hand to block the sand from her face.
The gang had been traveling for a week now, taking a boat across the waters to the main land. From there, they walked from town to town, rarely stopping. They desperately wanted to get to Suna. They were scheduled to get there tomorrow, but they wanted to get there before nightfall, so they hadn't stopped since they started this morning. It was dusk, and they were only a few miles from Suna.
"You and all of us." Sakura said putting her hood of her jacket on. It was a bit windy, and it wasn't helping the girls find Suna.
"Mya, how much farther?" Tenten said turning to Hinata.
Hinata looked at the map, "Its a few miles ahead. There's a small village close though. We could stop there and wait for the wind to die down."
The girls looked at each other. The idea seemed the best at the moment.
Hinata sighed, "It's settled then. Its this w-way, come o-on."
The girls followed at a fast pace. The faster they get there, the better. The village wasn't that far. Just about a mile away. As they kept running, they finally approached the village entrance and proceeded in. There was an awkward, eerie feeling. No lights were on in any houses, and the wind blew violently. The smell of blood was strong in the air.
"Something happened here. Let's go to the nearest place to stay." Sakura declared. The gang followed. The village was small, yet convenient. They had small huts around and about. There was nothing else really around, except sand. It felt abandoned.
The gang arrived at a hotel. Hinata opened the door with caution. Inside, papers were scattered about, furniture was tossed over, and someone lay unconscious in the middle of the floor. Sakura ran to the person's aid. It was an elderly woman. She looked to have a broken leg and arm. Sakura checked for a pulse.
It was very weak. She started to heal the woman. The other four girls watched in anticipation. Sakura started to sweat beads of sweat. The had been walking all day, so she was worn out, and now she had to heal someone. The ladies eyes flickered for a moment. Sakura finished healing her leg and arm. The woman regained consciousness. Looking around, she slowly rose with Sakura's help. She looked at the girls.
"W-what are y-you d-doing here?" she asked. They eyed her oddly. Why wouldn't they be here?
"Uhm, is there a reason we shouldn't be here?" Ino asked. The lady trembled. She looked as she saw a ghost.
"The t-amers and the m-monsters." She said clutching her head in her hands. The girls looked at each other in confusion. Sakura noticed something out of the corner of her eye. She turned to the window. Her eyes widened.
"GET DOWN!" she yelled. She pulled the lady down with her. All the girls immediately got down. A large moving slithery thing came bursting through the window, and rammed through the wall on the opposite side of the room getting outside. This "Thing" was an ugly brown and had a circular mouth. It looked slimy, yet it looked like it had a hard body. In other words, it looked repulsive.
"What is that?!" Tenten yelled pulling a kunai out. The 'thing' turned to them exhaling a purple gas. Hinata clued in first.
"DON'T BREATH THE GAS IN! IT'S POSIONESS! IT'S A SAND WORM! LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" Hinata yelled running for the exit. Everyone followed, with Sakura carrying the old lady on her back.
"What's a sand worm?" Ino asked as they continued running.
"It's a creature that lives in the sand and eats anything it finds. It has this powerful poison it exhales. It can kill you within five minutes." Hinata said, "But something's missing here." She activated her Byakagun and looked around.
"Looking for me?" a husky voice called out from above. Everyone looked up. A man with a black cloak on looked down at the 5 girls and the elderly woman. The elder twitched. Sakura noticed this.
"What's wrong?" she asked the elderly woman. The woman glared at the man.
"That's Jin. He's the leader of the "SWT", which stands for Sand Worm Tamers. They capture the worms and make them their ultimate weapon. They usually go after the small villages and steal goods and kill many people. Their nothing but a bunch of filth." The lady said spitting on the ground.
Jin smirked, "You hit it dead on granny. Now leave the village."
Sakura glared, "To hell with that idea. Leave this village and leave these people alone or else!" The girls agreed with her, all pulling out kunais.
He smirked grew bigger, "You're a spunky bunch of girls to utter such threats to me."
He then put his fingers in his mouth and blew, making a whistling noise. Everything was quiet for the moment being.
The ground then started to rumble. The girls were having a hard time standing on the ground. They then jumped on a rooftop of a building across from Jin.
The ground then erupted, with four other worms broke through the earth's surface, and four other men joined the Jin on the rooftop, all wearing the same cloak. They all had whips in their hands and a belt with kunai's latched on. The leader looked down in satisfaction.
"Are you sure you girls want to take on us five?"
Sakura took on the role of leader and spoke, "Alright, we don't want to really start something, but in this case, we have no choice. Miki, Ami, Viola and Mya, can you guys fight these guys?
They all nodded. Sakura nodded back, "alright, do so then. I'll go evacuate the village and heal some people who are probably injured."
"Alright, sounds like a plan. Get a move on then Rin!" Tenten said. Sakura nodded and jumped away with the old lady still on her back.
The girls turned their attention back to the men. Tenten felt like taunting these guys.
"Oh, we know we can take you 5 guys easily." She said pulling out scrolls. Hinata put a hand out to stop her.
"R-Relax Viola, we need to split them u-up. There probably stronger together anyways. Ami, go east, Viola, go west, Miki north and I-I will go south."
They all nodded in agreement.
The leader on the rooftop scanned the girls. He noticed one of them left.
"They're planning something." He said. The girl with blonde hair (A/N: they still have wigs on.) threw two explosive tags: one at the tamers and the other at the worms.
With the tags blasting, each girl quickly sped off to their directions. The tamers got out of the path of explosive tags just in time, while the worms burrowed underground looking for safety.
"You four, go after one of the girls. I'll find the fifth one that ran off." he said. All the tamers nodded and disappeared into the darkness of the night.
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"Where do you think your running off too?" a tamer said riding his worm. He was chasing after Tenten.
She scoffed, "cheya… whatever,"
she stopped running down the street and skid back trying to plant her feet on the ground. She pulled out her scrolls. She was going to conserve as much of her clan power as possible. She unraveled her scrolls.
"Sōshōryū!"
Smoke appeared and Tenten shot up into the sky. Two dragons intertwined around her. she unleashed an array of weapons. She aimed all of those weapons at the sand worm. She figured the tamer is nothing without the worm. The weapons flung at the worm.
But the efforts were useless. All the weapons bounced off the worm. Tenten stared in shock. Not even a scratch on him! The tamer chuckled.
"His skin is hard, almost nothing can penetrate it." He said in a matter of fact. Tenten growled. She threw an explosive tag at the beast. The tag exploded a meter in front of the beast. The worm cried in agony. Something about that explosion made the worm mad. The tamer cringed in annoyance. Tenten started to think.
'the tag exploded. It made a loud noise… but that's probably not it. It exploded, causing fire… maybe that's it!'
Tenten ran up a house and shot straight up in the sky. She had flipped, causing her to be looking down. She performed hand signs.
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!"
Fire spat out of Tenten's mouth. It was going straight for the worm. The worm cried in agony as it was set on fire. It squirmed trying to extinguish the flame. It was burning into a crisp. Tenten admired her work, landing gracefully on a rooftop. The tamer growled as his beast was dying. He watched it as it collapsed to the ground motionless. He assumed it died. He gritted his teeth.
"You…YOUR GONNA GET IT FOR KILLING HIM!"
He began charging at Tenten on the rooftop. He went to punch her, but she blocked. He tried kicking her, put she ducked and kicked him in the gut.
POOF!
It was a clone. She growled in annoyance. Turning around, He was coming at her full speed with a katana in hand. Tenten pulled out a kunai. He swung at her, but she used her kunai and stopped it from touching her. he pushed down harder, but Tenten held him off. she side stepped, and stopped putting force into her kunai. The tamer fell forward, without having anything to push against. He stopped himself from falling and turned to her. She was no where to be seen. He then felt a pain in the back of his neck and fell unconscious. Tenten smirked.
Sucker.
And she quickly sped off, to assist the others.
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Ino huffed and puffed as she ran. she ran quiet fast, and she lost the worm and the tamer. She sped around a corner and leaned against the wall to catch her breath. She peered around the corner sharply to see him as anywhere. She saw no one. She sighed a breath of relief.
"Looking for me?" a voice said from above. She looked up. The man was staring down at her. Something puzzled her.
'Where's the…?'
her thoughts were cut when the ground started to shake. She guest the bugger was under her. She quickly moved before the thing got her. The worm cut through the earth's surface and cried out.
Ino went through her options. She could use her Tenshi powers, or jutsus she knew from before. in the end, she, like Tenten decided to conserve her clan powers. She did a hand sign.
"Shinranshin no Jutsu!" she said aiming at the worm. The worm instantly stopped moving. Ino stood there with the hand seal still. She knew what was going to happen next. The tamer stood there dumbfounded.
"What the…?-GAWWHH!" he yelled. The worm attacked him instead. He was sent flying into the ground. Ino smirked. The man got up slowly. He glared at her.
"What did you do?!" he screamed at her. She grinned. "I turned him against you! Though not on his freewill. He's fighting you, yet he has no control over his body." She explained. The worm came to the man and went in for the bite. The tamer pulled out his whip and whipped the worm in the face. It backed off instantly. The tamer did some hand signs. Ino couldn't make out what he said, but a light emitted from his hand and hit the worm. It squirmed for a second, and then stopped. It turned and faced Ino. It roared.
Ino grunted in disbelieve. The jutsu wore off. She had no choice but to use her clan powers. She was going to finish this beast off now.
"Rairyū no Tatsumaki!" Ino yelled. Electricity appeared in her hand. She started forming the electricity into a likeness of a dragon's head. Once she gathered enough lightning, a tornado of lightning started to cover the area in front of her, trapping the worm in a painful vortex of electricity. It squirmed in agony. She then disappeared, appearing behind the tamer and kicked him hard, sending him into the vortex. She then performed a few more hand signs to finish this.
"Ikazuchi no Kiba!" she put her hands to the skies. Clouds appeared and thunder could be heard. In a swift motion, she pointed to the vortex with the worm and the tamer screaming in agony. Lightning descended from the clouds and electrified the two. Ino smirked in satisfaction. The lightning charge went back to the skies, and the worm and tamer stood there motionless. They then fell to the ground, dead. Ino praised herself.
"CHEYA! Yamanaka Ino, number one lightning user!" she said dancing around. After her moment, she felt a presence coming. She immediately pulled out a kunai and turned to it. She threw the kunai. The person caught the kunai.
"It's only me." The voice said. Ino instantly recognized it was Tenten.
Ino rubbed the back of her head, "hehe, sorry Viola. Won your fight I presume?"
Tenten nodded, "Yeah. They seem to be weak to certain elements. I instantly killed my worm with one fire technique, and your lightning jutsu's worked out fine. I don't think Hinata and Ami are going to have much luck."
Ino tilted her head, "How come?"
"Well, worms enjoy water, hence making it harder for Hinata to take him down. Also there is no water around here in the desert, rendering her techniques useless. Also, worms live in the earth, making things hard for Ami. Plus, Ami hasn't been trained much with her powers. I'll go find Ami, and you assist Hinata. Together you two are stronger." Tenten explained. Ino nodded.
"Got it."
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'This worm had a hard outer skin, so Taijutsu is useless.'
Hinata had been using her Gentle fist attack, but it was useless due to the worm's skin. She couldn't use her water techniques because there was no water near by. She was quite dehydrated as well, so she couldn't risk using her body water.
In other words, she was dead.
"Hahaha, little girl, you cannot defeat us!" the tamer laughed.
The worm lunged for Hinata, but she evaded and jumped onto a rooftop. The worm dug into the ground. She waited patiently for it to appear, yet it never came.
She then felt a shadow loom over her. She turned around ever so slowly. The worm was looking down at her with its mouth wide open, with saliva streaming down. She stared in horror.
ROAR!
It lunged down for her. She couldn't move. She braced herself. The worm came down and ate her whole. It didn't even bother chewing her, swalling her whole.
The tamer laughed, "Too easy."
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Inside the worm,
W-Where am I?
Feeling disgusting, she tried moving around inside the belly of the beast. It was dark and slimy. She felt beyond uncomfortable. She needed to find a way out. The digestive acid would be coming out soon. She tried moving, but the wet saliva made things hard.
Then it struck Hinata. Eighty percent of humans are made of water; it could possibly mean the same thing for other creatures. She could use the water inside the worm to her advantage! She started performing hand signs.
"Suiton: Suigadan!"
The water inside the worm started to swirl around. She could tell the worm was squirming with the sudden stomach ache. Then the water turned into powerful spikes and pierced the worm. Even though its outer shell was as hard as a rock, its inner skin was very weak.
It cried out with its mouth open. Hinata did more hand signs.
"Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu!" this technique is suppose to send a powerful amount of water and an opponent, but Hinata had another idea. She focused the water up the worm's neck, and out its mouth. The worm threw up the water, and Hinata. Hinata rolled on the ground as she got out of the worm. She needed to catch her breath. That took a lot of work. The worm laid down trying to recuperate. It was feeling the affects of losing body water. The tamer glared.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"
Hinata then felt a familiar chakra coming this way.
"MYA!" Ino's voice called out as she ran to Hinata. Hinata sighed in relief.
"Miki! What are you doing here?" she asked as Ino came up beside her.
"I already won my fight and so has Tenten. We came to help you guys. She came to the assumption that water and earth techniques are useless on them, so were going to work together!" Ino said happily. Hinata understood.
"Okay, t-then bring on the rain." Hinata said. Ino nodded and began summoning clouds. Hinata then performed the hand signs of the 'rain dance' it's only useful with clouds around. A downpour started.
"Alright Miki." Hinata said. Ino nodded. She performed hand signs.
"Ikazuchi no Kiba!"
two thunderbolts came down and hit both the tamer and the worm. Because of the rain, it amplified the power of the attack seeing how water is a powerful conductor. The worm blew up, while the tamer died instantly. Ino and Hinata shielded themselves from the oncoming organs and worm guts.
"Ew!" Ino yelled.
Hinata laughed, "three d-down, two more to go. L-Let's go find the fifth one."
Ino nodded, and they both left in search of the fifth worm and tamer.
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"Little kunochi, come out wherever you are…" the tamer taunted. Ami stayed quiet as she could be. She could hear the tamer coming closer and closer to where she was hiding. She needed to do something. She pulled out a kunai with an explosive tag. She zipped around to the tamer and the worm and threw it. She dove for cover in anticipation of the explosion.
But it never came. She looked back. The tamer had the kunai between his fingertips, and the explosive tag was ripped in half. She looked in shock.
"How did you…?"
"heh, like I'm going to tell a little runt like you."
He then ordered the worm to attack her. She jumped out of harms way, and threw some shriekun and kunai at the worm. They bounced off, not even leaving a mark.
She growled in anger. Nothing was working! She had to use her clan powers, even though she didn't know many of em. She performed hand signs.
"Doton: Yomi Numa!"
The worm got sucked up into a creator of mud. It squirmed to get out. She sighed in satisfaction, yet in frustration. She still wasn't at the level the other girls were, so she couldn't do this technique to perfection. With this technique, she could have trapped the worm and killed it, but she couldn't do it.
Damnit, why am I so weak!?
The worm squirmed, but it couldn't get out. The tamer did some hand signs. He put his hand down on the ground and mumbled something. The earth started to shake. The earth cut and the worm and mud fell through. Ami was confused. He basically just killed his worm as it plunged down to its doom. The tamer noticed her confused look and smirked.
"Just watch."
The ground under Ami started shaking. She fell down due to the earthquake. She tried scrambling to her feet, but she couldn't. the ground right under her was moving too much. She was so sure it was under her. She had to act fast.
CRACK!
The worm broke through the earth's surface right under Ami, ready to eat her. The worm was now frustrated. Ami was on the tip of its mouth. (like in Matilda.. where that principal came home, and she's hiding under the table, and she's hiding under the roof of the table like a starfish… if that makes sense..) Ami stared down into the worm's mouth. Its breath was intoxicating. She couldn't move. The worm was trying to bit down on her. She tried to keep his mouth opened with all the strength she had. She needed to get out of this situation fast.
I'm so useless… I can't even use my clan powers to their full potential!
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" a voice from behind called out. Ami saw fire behind the worm. It screamed in agony and opened its mouth more. Ami held on to its tooth, and swung out of its mouth and landed on the ground panting heavily. She watched as the worm fell to the ground dead. She then saw Tenten come out from behind the worm, dragging the corpse of the tamer. She raised an eyebrow.
"What happened?" she asked getting up. Tenten threw the corpse to the ground.
"don't worry, I just took care of them." she said proudfuly. Ami looked down to the ground sadly. Tenten noticed this.
"Hey it's okay, they're dea-"
"I'm so weak!" Ami said letting a tear fall from her eye. She slumped to the ground and let the tears fall. Tenten looked at her sympathetically. She ducted down to Ami's level and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Hey, its okay… we were all like that."
"But you guys are so much stronger then me! You used one jutsu and he was taken down! I couldn't do anything useful!"
"Ami, we were like that too, but Yugi trained us! Don't worry, you just need to be trained! You're a great fighter! Heck, when we fought, you had me using attacks I didn't have to use on these guys! It took us 5 months before we could use such jutsu's properly. Your not weak… you'll become stronger, I guarantee it!" Tenten said happily. Ami stopped crying and smiled at Tenten's efforts to cheer her up.
"Thanks, I needed that." Ami said. Just then, the two felt two familiar chakra's coming their way. They recognized them as Ino and Hinata.
The two figures appeared, all in one piece.
"I presume you won?" Ino said. The two nodded. Ino did the peace sign, "nice, now where's Rin?" They all looked at each other. They hadn't seen her since earlier.
Just then, they all felt someone's chakra. But it was more then one person. It felt like about ten people, three of those chakra's being strong, and rather familiar to Ino, Tenten and Hinata. They were coming fast. They all turned. Their eyes went wide.
"It's…"
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"Quickly, get out of here!" Sakura said as she finished healing a family of five. they nodded and headed for the gate of the village. Sakura whipped her forehead. She healed about seven families now, all consisting of more then five people, with various injuries. She sent the elderly woman out of the village earlier to get help. Sakura's chakra supply was lowering with every person she healed.
Sakura got to her feet and walked out of the house. She had wondered how the girls were. She was pretty confident they were fine. She walked out of the house swiftly and proceeded to her next destination.
"WHOA!" she yelled out.
Something appeared in front of her coming out of the ground. She jumped back twenty feet. It was one of those worms. This wasn't good. She couldn't defend herself to the best of her abilities because of the lack of chakra. She stared up at the beast in astonishment. She then fell forward, as someone kicked her in the back. She hit the ground hard.
"can't defend yourself?" the leader of the tamers mocked her. She growled annoyed. She pulled out a kunai and threw it at him. He jumped away and landed on his worm. Sakura scrambled to her feet.
"Attack her now."
The beast lunged for Sakura. she pulled out kunai's with small sacks on them. She threw each of them one by one at the worm as it came at her. They all bounced off, but mini explosive tags latched on it. She kept firing until it came down to last kunai. The worm was quiet close now. She pulled out an explosive tag. The leader saw this and jumped off the worm.
"Sakura Fubuki no Jutsu!"(From the first Naruto Movie) she called out throwing the final tag. It hit the worm and exploded, causing the rest of the tags to be triggered and to explode. The worm cried. The blast was powerful and it hurt the worm deeply. The leader was obviously pissed off. The worm was still alive, but barely.
Sakura was tired–she could barely stand. The leader noticed this and decided to attack her.
"for hurting my worm, your going to pay!"
Sakura quickly got into a defensive posture, ignoring her fatigue. He tried kicking her, but she blocked. He then fired multiple punches. She evaded the majority of them and blocked the rest. The tamer managed to punch her in the gut and sent her flying. She coughed up some blood. She landed on the ground with a thud. The tamer walked up to her and grabbed her by the hair.
The wig came off. Her pink hair was now easy to see. The tamer stared at her in confusion.
"A wig… Pink hair?" he said. She cursed. He may possibly recognize her now.
Sadly, he did.
"The Hokage's apprentice."
He then smirked, "Makes no difference, your going to die anyway."
Now grabbing her by her real hair, He punched her right in the face and sent her flying again. Once she hit the ground, she tumbled. She tried to get up, but she was so fatigued and beaten up, she could only get up to her knees. the tamer growled.
"Do you know what it means to stay down?" he said. His worm came up next to him, now recuperated a bit. He jumped on its head.
"We're ending this now!"
His worm lunged at Sakura once again. She couldn't move. She was too tired. she started crying. She was always so weak. She braced herself for the impact.
I guess this is it.
"YOUR DEAD!" the tamer yelled manically.
"Suna no Tate" a voice called out.
Sand started to surround Sakura, protecting her. The worm bounced off the sand. The tamer gawked. Sakura's eyes widened as someone saved her. She turned around to look at the person who did so.
Red hair kid, with a gourd on his back. That's all she needed to know to know who it was.
"G-Gaara…"
She then felt her eyes start closing. She was too weak to look on. Everything faded to darkness, as she slumped to the ground. The last thing she saw was the Kazekage.
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Gaw garbage chapter. My apologies for le poop.
I think I'm taking any kind of GaaSaku in the next chap. Gaw, I have come to the conclusion I cant write GaaSaku at ALL
Review? your choice.
Shellzonfire.