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Chapter twenty-one: The Race Against Time

I own nothing but Kio, Eko, Esh, all the plot before chapter four and half the plot afterwards
Asetia Belongs to Herself

Reku, and half of the plot after chapter four Belong to Yuki, Asetia and MWA 3

Takes place during the time skip :/

Please be kind, this took a long time

I say "I LOVE YOU!!!" To Yuki ,my wonderful grammar corrector. With out you I would die:D

-cough- There are three different people writing this story, so ya. My thanks go out to Yuki and Asetia for helping me :3

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"We are here!" Lee said with fire in his eyes.

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"Sixteen!!" Temari said impatiently.

"Okay...Okay.." Kiba said with a sigh Choji just keep eating the potato chips.

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"Where's Reku?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen him since last night." Ino answered.

"I know we really don't want to do this but, we have to find him." Migome sighed.

"Fine..."

"REKU! REKU?! WHERE ARE YOU?" Migome called.

"Uh...Mi...gom...e?"

"REKU?!" She answered. She saw his body on the ground, blood all around him He couldn't move. Without thinking she ran to him.

"REKU! WHAT HAPPENED?!"

"Y-Yuki..."

"WHAT?! YUKI DID THIS TO YOU?!"
"Yeah..." Reku said sitting up, and coughing up some blood.

"INO! I FOUND HIM!" She yelled. Ino came running.
"Are you okay?!" She asked Reku started to like all this attention.
"I will be." He answered, with a smirk.
"Yuki shall pay for this!" Migome growled.

Ino couldn't help but Giggle.
"Reku got beat up by a girl!" She thought.

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"I can't find anything about the empress!" Kankuro complained. Dead bodies scattered the floor of the musty library. It was a large room, with a chandler that gave off little light from the old fashion candles. Not really the best place for reading.

"Wait, Kankuro..." Asetia said.

"What!" He growled impatiently. The girl flipped through the book and paused.

"I fond something!"

"Well what is it already?!" He snorted as he closed his book and walked over to her.

"Okay," She began to read. "It remains a fact that the Tolkien Tower has not had an empress before, due to the first emperor not being married so the heir moved through his family." She concluded.

"Are you serious?! We've been looking and there never was an empress?! DUDE!!" Kankuro yelled in anger.
"Well, at least it was easy..."

"Ya, whatever."

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"Tenten, we're behind! We haven't even gotten in yet!" Neji complained.

"We need a plan." She said.

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"Gaara...How do we get in?" Kio whispered.

"Wait, Shh!" A guard walked right in front of the bushes they were hiding in. Eko remained quiet.

"Who's there?! Come out!" He said, looking around. Kio looked at Gaara and nodded. Gaara's sand come out and attacked the man, killing him. Kio jumped up and searched the man's blue, now red vest, for his ID Card.

"Found it!" She smiled, pulling it out of his pocket. She made a hand sign, which turned her into the guard, and Eko was her hat.

"What about you?" Kio said in her normal voice.

"Don't worry." Gaara said with a smirk. 'Don't wait up either. But I promise, I'll arrive if things get bad." Kio looked at him, Gaara could tell he had said something wrong.

"A promise...Haku made a promise that he would be okay...but that was broken." She shook her head and faked a smile.

"Okay! See you later!" Kio said as she slid the ID card through the machine and the door opened. She turned around, only to see that Gaara was gone.

Everything went along well except when someone saw Kio's hat move.

"What the...? Who are you? Let me see your identification!" Kio handed it to him. There was much confusion between them.

"I'm going to have to call you in." Kio's mind began to race.

"Gaara, things are getting bad...Where are you?" She thought, but in the back of her mind she had a feeling he wasn't going to show. Just as her hope faded the wall broke into pieces as if someone had hit it with a hammer. Sand flew through the air as the smoke lifted from the ruble. The sand lunged at the man who at had questioned Kio and strangled him. Gaara slowly walked through the broken wall. Kio smiled and changed back to her normal form.

"I told you not to worry."

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"Hey, did you hear that? Yuki asked as she crawled in the ventilation tube.

"Yeah, it sounded like an explosion." Aromi whispered.

"Yuki? Why are you first then Yori goes behind you? Shouldn't be the other way around?" Sasuke asked while crawling.

"Because..." She answered. Aromi and Sasuke sighed.

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"Hey, Naruto, how long do you think it will take us to get back?" Sakura asked while leaping from one tree branch to another.

"Not too long, because everyone should still be at the tower."

"But...what about the...other ninja...the Jonin?" Hinata asked.

"Ah...We'll be fine!" Naruto smiled.

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"CHOJI!" Temari asked raising her voice.

"What?" He asked with his mouth full.

"Quit eating so much, or you'll explode." Temari growled.

"Yeah, and Akamaru wants one" Kiba added.

"Come on! We're almost there!" Temari said with no patience.

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"Are you doing any better, Reku?" Ino asked, as she helped him walk.

"Look, guys!" Migome said as she pointed to the Tolkien Tower. "When I see Yuki, I'll beat her so hard she'll die!" Migome snarled, glaring at the tower.

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"Hey, why'd you stop?" Aromi asked.

"I see the library, it looks like someone was already here, but left." Yuki said, peering through the vent holes. The vent cage clattered to the ground and Yuki jumped down.

"Is it safe?" Aromi asked.

"No, that's why I'm screaming!" Yuki yelled, sarcastically. Aromi and Sasuke jumped into the room.

"Where should we start?" Sasuke asked, walking to a shelf.

"Just start looking for record." Yori said, looking over at them. They soon began shuffling through books, but due to their long journey, fell asleep with their faces in their books.