Chapter 25
Gaara
Mizu yowled out in pain. I kept running towards him, but suddenly I was pinned against a tree by purple strings. I waited for the poison to rush through me, but it never came. I opened one eye to see whether it was going to come or not. There she was… Kara had me pinned to the tree with puppet strings, similar to Konkuro's except they were purple. I struggled, attempting to struggle my way out. Suddenly she was knocked over by something red. I was pulled with her and thudded to the ground. I looked up trying to see what had hit her. Kara was floating about five feet above the ground with a red puppet string connected to her forehead. She smirked slightly as she looked towards the other puppeteer. I followed her gaze to see a blur of red and black. I passed out for sometime, and when I awoke I wasn't sure what was going on at first. I looked around. Mizu was pinned to the tree week and purple spreading across his body. I looked for Suna or Kara. I finally found them. They were about fifteen feet apart, purple strings attached to Suna's points and the other ends of the strings at Kara's fingertips. Kara was attached to multiple red strings. Where are the red strings coming from? "Hehe… I see you're not rusty are you?" Kara said with a smirk as she made a tug with one of her fingers. Suna's attached limb followed the movement. I looked to Suna and finallt put two and two together and figured out that Suna was responsible for the red strings…