Chapter 21 - Lee and Gaara's Breakthrough
Its been about 15 minutes since the room began to flood... Gaara and Lee were high up due to them floating on the high water level. The water level is so high that their head's are almost touching the ceiling now...
Gaara, swam toward the wall, lifted his hands and motioned them into a fist, all the while tightly clinching it. Suddenly, the wall began to shake slightly. "Just as I thought. These walls have grains of sand within them." said Gaara looking back to Lee.
"So you can break the wall?." asked Lee nodding and staying afloat.
"No. The amount of sand grains at this height of the wall is not enough for me to use." said Gaara. "The highest amount of sand in the wall is at the lower part... submerged in the water"
"So we have to dive underwater for your plan to work, right?"
"Yes. I'll swim down first and loosen up the wall. Count to 10, then swim down. Then you can use your technique and bust a hole big enough for us to escape from this chamber." said Gaara getting ready to dive under water.
"But... we do not know what is on the other side of these walls..." said Lee stopping Gaara.
"We dont have a choice" said Gaara in his calm tone as always then took a deep breathe and dived underwater.
Lee looked on at Gaara swim underwater to a lower part of the wall.
"Okay, 1... 2...3...4..." Lee continued to count.
Gaara reached the lower portion of the wall where the sand was most concentrated and placed his arm out toward it and formed a fist as if he were doing the desert coffin. He clinched his fist and suddenly the wall began to shake more loosely than it did at the top portion.
In the hallway, Gai and Kakashi ran back to the middle of the 4 way halls and looked at each pathway.
"Okay... which way did Naruto and Sakura go?" asked Gai then suddenly noticed water on the ground coming from a pathway. "Water? where is the water coming from?"
"From one of the chambers. Lets check it out" said Kakashi to Gai. Gai nodded and they both rushed down the hallway to the chamber door.
Back in the chamber where Sai and Hinata are...
Suddenly, big booming noises roared from, what sounded like, the next room.
Sai quickly performed a jutsu that made his ink fly from a scroll in his hand to Hinata's snake.
The snake, after being struck with the Ink, instantly slithered off of Hinata and rushed at the tied up Sai. Sai's eyes began to widen as he saw Hinata's snake as well as his own snake prepare to strike him.
Moving quickly, Hinata quickly dashed over to the snakes, formed her chakra lasers from the palm of her hands and sliced off the heads of the two snakes right when their fangs were inches away from Sai's neck. The two snakes dropped to the ground motionless and headless.
Sai wiped off the sweat from his forehead. "That was close.."
"Sorry about t-that... I didnt know you were going to do the plan then" said Hinata.
"Thats the thing... I wasnt" said Sai being helped up to his feet by the long haired hyuuga.
"what happened?" asked Hinata.
"The big booming noise that suddenly just started. It made the snake begin to get uneasy and scared and it looked as though it was going to attack at that very moment. I didnt mean not to let you know but I had to hurry." explained Sai.
"What were those booms anyway?" asked Hinata looking at the wall of which the noises are coming from.
"I dont know... but it sounds as if it's coming from a room on the other side of this wall." said Sai.
Infront of the locked chamber door...
Kakashi and Gai pushed and shoved the door but it wouldnt open. "Its locked" said Kakashi.
Gai pulled back his fist and punched the door hard but to no avail...
"Quick, use your Raikiri to bust it down." said Gai to Kakashi.
"I cant. I used Raikiri too many times as it is. Im almost drained of my chakra." said Kakashi trying to form it but could only manage to form some sparks of electricity.
"Then, lets try the other chamber doors. One of them has to lead to the others" suggested Gai.
"Right. Lets hurry" said Kakashi.
Back in the flooded chamber...
"7... 8... 9... 10" finished Lee. He then took a deep breathe and dove underwater.
Gaara continued to loosen up the old stone like bricks and saw Lee swimming down. He quickly swam out of the way and nodded his head for Lee to do it.
Lee crossed his arms infront of his face. "UNLOCK!" suddenly, Lee's face and body turned a darkish red-brown and vains began to pop up and become visible. He swam over to the wall and pulled back his fist as far as he could then swung it forward with great force...
In Hinata and Sai's chamber...
Suddenly, the wall that was emitting the boom noises suddenly busted open and water began to pour into the room. Sai and Hinata jumped back from the rushing water and, to their suprise, saw Lee and Gaara flush out from the water and landed on the ground. Lee landed on his face and Gaara landed on his back. The water was now at knee length and the rest of the water ran through the room of the chamber's already opened door... leaving the water to be only a foot high now.
"Gaara-san? Lee-san?" said Hinata seeing them.
Lee powered down his gate mode and slowly rose to his knees, as did Gaara; both coughing up some water.
"We did it" said Lee helping Gaara up.
Gaara got to his feet, "Yeah..."
Sai and Hinata walked over to Gaara and Lee.
"How did you guys get here?" asked Sai.
"We are on a mission to rescue you guys. Lets go. We have to find the others" said Gaara as he began to walked out the open door.
Lee nodded, "right. Come on guys."
Hinata and Sai looked at each other and nodded as they followed both Gaara and Lee.
As they ran throughout the hallway, Gaara, Sai, Hinata, and Lee managed to make it back to the chamber pathway of which they started out.
"Okay, now we just need to find Kakashi-Sensei..." said Lee.
"There he is" said Sai pointed to Kakashi and Gai running up to them.
"They got em'" said Gai pointing out Hinata and Sai with Gaara and Lee.
"Good work" said Kakashi to the team of chuunins and the kazekage. "Now we have to find Naruto and the others. I think they went this way" said Kakashi pointing to another pathway.
"Right. lets go" said Gai and they all ran down another pathway that lead to the open chamber doors where Shikamaru, Ino, Kiba and Akamaru were.
In Naruto's dream.
"You're nothing but a dropout. You can never become hokage." said Sasuke taunting him and smirking.
Naruto's anger suddenly transformed him to Chakra tail level 2 mode.
in the chamber...
Sakura looked on at the unconscous level 2 Naruto's chakra being drained from his body..
And thats chapter 21. hope ya like it. sorry bout the rush but i gotta go to work now. lol hope ya review. See ya!.