Wahhhh! Writers block hard! Holy cow. Again trying to get from point A to point B. Plus, I dunno if you guys read the manga, but sooo worried about what the outcome will be of the current war on my story! :(

Well made it through this chapter! Thanks again to Sour for reviewing! I love seeing reviews! Also no one answered my questions on the previous chapter!? Graphic, no graphic fighting? Romance - lime, lemon, PG?

But enough about me, On to the story! (again don't own Naruto!)

"Holy shit! She's fast!" Naruto's head tried to follow. Suddenly he got too dizzy, forcing him to pause, eyes in spirals.

"Impressive, traits like that will leave you with kage heirs for decades." Tsuchikage stared in awe. "If I was a little younger, you'd be in real trouble." He added, watching the woman's body perfectly flex to block, defend, and attack - keeping a protective circle around the group of genin.

"I thought you said she wouldn't be able to recover... Even at the restaurant, while far more able, she didn't seem..." Sakura let her voice trail off.

The Hokage watched in silence. The girl was using an ability similar to her own, in healing herself, however she didn't seem to be using life-force (which reduced years of life) but instead pure chakra. Chakra was not as potent or able as life-force energy was in the rejuvenation and extreme healing, so it took a far greater quantity. A normal ninja would be unable to conjure up that much chakra at once, let alone have enough to move with after. This Yumi seemed as though she had an infinite, impossible supply.

"This must be a genjutsu." Tanishi stated confidently and yet uncertain. As leader of the hidden tree village by genjutsu, his village utilized genjutsus more than most. He was sure he would be able to know any genjutsu, and yet this... this had to be one, but he did not recognize it.

"I can't move to uncover my eye." Kakashi spoke, also unsure if it was a genjutsus or not. Hanare, new leader of the lock village, glanced over to the white hair man she had once accidently kissed - the man who had let her escape, believing in her...

"She's not from a village right? I should ask her to join ours." Shizuka of the Nadeshiko village were known for their strong women, but none seemed to have the limitless energy this black haired petite woman was showing.

"No -" Gaara started, about to say she was from Suna.

"She's Jieti-erito, number 1 in last certifications. Minawa Yumi, though it's best to call her Yumi." The Jinkun spoke, interrupting the Kazekage who half seemed to be in his own thoughts.

"Mizuchi is a Jieti-erito as well who was guarding a lord in our area. After seeing him, this does not surprise me... but... if every member is this unique, I would not want to attack against your top ten you mentioned..." Frost Daimyo spoke recalling the time the village of frost had nearly became the land of ice...

"We should stop gawking and try to break out." Mizukage ordered sharply struggling. She was pissed by all their references to this girl as if she was more marry-able than herself and making others believe she needed a man too! Her two escorts instantly started struggling seeing their kage's anger.

"AHHHH!" Raikage shouted trying to struggle free.

"I can't even move a puppet. Can you move any sand?" Kankuro asked his brother, whose eyes were glued to the fight.

"No." Gaara answered quietly. His pale teal eyes watching. He knew her movement by following the sand as it was pushed by her feet, thrown by her landings, dusted around as she moved.

His mind flashed backwards.

"Attack! There's an intruder heading towards the village at a fast rate! They said they tried to get in through a ruse of a doctor!" The announcement forced him to move. His body weaker but still able.

He moved above the Suna wall. A black fast moving body came upon the village rapidly. It slalomed and dodged the arrows with ease, sand being kicked up behind it.

Reaching out his hand he brought up a wall in front of the intruder as large as Suna's, wider than the attacker could ever hope to go around. Once it was up, Gaara shot out the sand of base of it in long grasping strands, going for the attacker's body, legs, and arms to take him down.

The attacker's foot left the sand and hopped on his own, jumping up. He was moving up the sand, using the kazekage's attacks as a means to go higher and higher. Gaara changed his tactics and moved to engulf the body, but it was quick, barely escaping each time. Suddenly, the intruder found an opening at the top of the wall, and flung over it.

Gaara noticed the ponytail on the man's head whip around wildly as they worked hard to move to the ground, still dodging the sand. Kankuro's puppets went out to meet the intruder who had hopped over his brother's wall, along with a gust of wind from Temari's fan. The wind cracked into Gaara's sand, missing the intruder barely. The puppets seemed to have issues staying together whenever getting close, again the petite man just barely escaping every time. Shadows climbed their way up his sand, using his sand attacks to dash towards the attacker, but the small man danced around. Ninjas fired arrows, bringing even more energy into his dance. It almost seemed like he wasn't trying to fully enter the village, but stay where he was...

"I'm not attacking, I'm not attacking, I'm not attacking!" HER voice came out as her hands went above her head. Gaara paused his sand only briefly. It was a woman! The flat chest-ed, plain-clothed, short woman kept dodging, weaving, ducking, and defending herself in the same small area even though no one stalled their attacks after her words.

She repeated her statement, still keeping her hands above her head as much as possible. Her over the shoulder bag loosely bouncing around on her back. Effortlessly she was dodging, ducking, defending, and dancing away from their attacks, causing not even damage to her clothing. Her speed and agility easily equaled Rock Lee's if not possibly could surpass.

"I'm not attacking you. I'm not attacking. No threat here. I was hired by someone in this village to come here to help - Pretty sure there are more important things for your energy than attacking me. Seriously, not here to attack you, I was hired to help you." She repeated, making a valid point on the energy they were using to attack her. Her voice did not sound winded in the least.

Gaara paused his attack causing Kankuro, Temari, and Shikamaru to slow their own.

"Alright!" Gaara finally declared, stopping the attacks on her. "Who are you and who hired you?" He had asked seriously taking her as a threat to his village. He studied her intensely. Her skills were formidable as she had grabbed for no weapons, made no move to attack them, kept her hands above her head, and had danced in a small area purposely staying in front of those attacking her...

"Minawa Yumi. Person for hire - non killing jobs only." She smiled as she spoke, not even out of breath... Her smile had been just as effortless as her earlier movements, as if she had taken no offense to them attacking her outright with all their strength, as if it had been no issue...

"Imagining all the future kages you are going to have with her?" Tsuchikage asked inappropriately to the spaced out Kazekage. Coming out of his memory, Gaara's eyes drifted towards the mouthy old man.

"Ah jeeze. We gotta figure out how to get out of here!" Naruto snapped trying to move around and break free.

"Impossible." Came their response from the third man who had yet to perform a jutsu. The monotone man had freed them from the frozen bodies and the aggressive leader had caused the black seal that now bound them.

"Is it just me, or are the attackers re-appearing after she knocks them out?" Tsukito, the leader of the Hidden village under the moon, asked, studying the battle before them carefully.

"No, it's not. That was true in the war though too. They regenerate themselves..."The Hokage spoke, breaking herself of her own thoughts about Yumi.

Gaara's eyes went back to the fight, remembering what she had said... She could steal chakra, so could they even regenerate themselves with no chakra? Or was something else going on.

"YUMI!" He shouted wanting to warn her. Instantly the black tar seal wrapped its self around him, blocking out whatever words came next.

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"YUMI!" She had heard his voice clearly. Her eyes instantly went to him. He was being wrapped up by the black seal - he had been trying to tell her something.

Was it about the trick to the test, how it was an infinite number? In the war, if she stole their chakra they would not return having nothing to do so, but here, more numbers were being added to the back of the mass.

Or... was it something else?

Yumi's green eyes landed back on the one with the monotone voice. She could fight as long as there was chakra, but the longer the fight dragged on the more chances there were for an injury to the children, a hefty risk, a risk too large...

" If you bring the village or others into the fight, then they too will have to fight for their lives." The reminder was re-stated as her eyes accurately judged them, analyzed them, defeated them.

"I told you -" Her body disappeared moving fast to strike, "that's my job!" She took out the 3 clone-puppets first, knocking them out, removing all chakra from them. Her body spun to hit the fourth.

The malicious one's flurry of signs barely made it in time to send black tar her way as her arm swung towards him. The black tar hit her -

IT SCREAMED! IT HISSED! That which did not hit darted away, changing its trajectory. A look of shock came over the man at the sight.

THUD! Her arm came in contact with him, instantly throwing him back to land unmoving on the ground. She didn't kill him, just forced him into unconsciousness.

"DON'T KILL!" Kurokawa's words forever engraved in her mind with his murderous eyes unwavering.

The white bodies had gotten too close to the genin, forcing her to jump back to protecting them. Thousands of them were now popping up, starting to surround the village.

"You have brought this upon the village yourself." A clone reappeared to speak. Yumi's eyes darting to him in annoyance. She had NO time!

Her body vanished again from her speed. Her foot made hard contact with the clone's chest and her fist with the monotone's gut before they could finish whatever jutsu they were trying to perform. She had the strength of every white-attacker she had been taking out.

Instantly she felt the bodies of chakra in the village, 7 miles away, move.

Placing two fingers in her mouth, she whistled as loud and hard as she was physically able. Loud screeching warning whistles.

She could not leave the genin to protect the village, they would die.

If she did not get the village to inform them to move quickly enough to protect themselves, the village would be violently attacked.

She had no means of taking out thousands of enemy like this. She had no means of making a barrier.

Yumi's heart raced.

"DEFEND THE VILLAGE!" Leader Mubi of the Hidden village of the rain shouted in a loud booming voice.

"ATTACK!" Raikage followed suit, no longer being silenced.

"NINJAS OF SUNA!" Gaara called.

"GUY, LEE! Konoha Ninjas!" Naruto shouted as well.

"DEFEND YOURSELVES! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK." Tsuchikage yelled. "AH!" His scream was even louder. "My back!"

"Seriously!?" His ninja spoke amazed he hurt his back without moving...

Yumi could feel bodies coming towards the village gates. She could feel the Jieti-erito moving to defensive positions and Tomohisa heading her way.

Yumi could not be paused for very long, the white bodies were attacking, again. She jumped in the center of the genin, her mind focusing on her counter attack. Some of the genin, hearing their Kages and leaders had become encouraged. A number of them were going into fighting stances or making hand symbols.

Expertly she left her position, going for the closest white body. Seamlessly tying together her attacks, she took out 7 of them in a second without a single one of them able to even counter her. A small jump backwards sent her to the other side of the genin, and she ducked down in to a low sweeping kick - throwing off four more. A third jump, now following an invisible 7 point-star pattern, Yumi attacked before going to the 4th point of her invisible star.

Tomohisa's body could be seen now as he made his way through the white bodies, a clear path being created as he zigzagged through. He went wide, far away from her, the kages, and genin.

Explosions, probably from his paper bombs, occurred breaking up the hundreds poised to attack them.

"Here, put it on and start explaining." He tossed her a small ear com. Yumi's hand instinctively put it on before she went back to defending the genin. Tomohisa went to his knees at the edge of the unknown seal caging the leaders.

"Test, test, test, check, check, checking - anyone out there?" She spoke in-between a combo set. Her voice came across clear as day.

"Yes, of course, now what the hell happened!?" It was Basan's voice. Yumi's eyes instantly went to the sun. Was it already 5pm? There was no way she would willingly leave shift with everything in this state! Better yet, how would they know instantly it was past 5pm? They had all been frozen in time somehow!

"Are we breaking the new shift already?" Mizuchi's came across as ice.

"With a repeat of the ninja war going outside? Yes." Ikiryo answered annoyed.

"Alright, alright, alright." Yumi repeated, her body not pausing defending or guarding. "Let's just go all on, if it lasts more than 3 days, we'll go to 4 days on and half day off." She dictated.

"I can agree to that." Nobusuma's voice barely made it a cross as static from a wind attack of his blasted in her ear.

"Us too." Mezu and Gozu spoke simultaneously.

"So, whose where? and doing what?" Yumi asked, noting she could see the sand flying up on the west side of Suna from Nobusuma's attack.

"Tenome is checking the water tower, there's suspicion here it's been poisoned. Tomohisa is going to work on the seal binding the kages - just so you know the ninjas are trying to send a group your way too. I'm in the village along with Jinshi and Mizuchi for defense. Mezu and Gozu are south, Nobusuma west, and Basan east..."

"I got north covered, got it." Yumi responded to Ikiryo's getting the picture. He must have brought them into a genjutsu for everything to be so cohesive right after them being able to move again.

"Care to fill us in?' Tenome's voice echoed as if he was inside somewhere...

"The village went into a paused state except for the genin. 2 people and 3 clone-puppet-entities confronted the kids informing them if they don't take a test of theirs harm would come to the village. The frozen state was some type of jutsu from one of them, so I was able to get out of it. I may be joined their test which used hundreds of these men like in that war... Except, these ones kept coming back. You know me, I can fight forever, but it risks those we are protecting."

"Course." Mezu agreed.

"More time in a fight, more opportunity for the attackers." Gozu also agreed.

"Yeah, so I took out the 5 opponents, which seemed remove the jutsu on the village but after all of these appeared."

"So it wasn't one of the 5 controlling this." Ikiryo caught .

"Yep, and 3 of the 5 weren't really there or really human either." Yumi reminded them.

"Lovely. This seal is nothing like I've seen before..." Tomohisa's voice came across the com, though Yumi could hear him anyway since he was by her.

"Hey, can one of you - Nobosuma, Basan, Mizuchi, take the genin back to the village so I can expand out?" Yumi asked.

"Yeah, Gozu, Mezu?" Nobusuma's voice came across.

"Got it - Undefeatable Front Line!" Gozu's voice came across along with his attack.

The wind picked up the sand around them, but the area where the genin were was calm.

"What's going on?"

"Another attack?"

Yumi noticed a number of the children going into fighting stances again.

"You're going to be taken back to the village, there you can follow the instructions given to you by the ninjas." Yumi informed them, being politically correct. Honestly she hoped the ninjas would do nothing and let them take care of this...

A man appeared beside her, his clothing ruffled by his own winds.

"I think we can assume Tomohisa will be ok here." Nobusuma glanced to her, ignoring the genin who were still trying to figure out if he wasn't an enemy or not. His eyes were amused at his jab of a comment, if Basan had been here there would have been more insults thrown Tomohisa's way.

"Yeah." She grinned, he was going to take the genin - that's all that mattered to her.

Wind spun around the genin with his hand signs - the group and him were gone.

Yumi looked over Tomohisa and the leaders, then back at the massive north side of the village. She was 7 miles away from the gate...

"What's that!? Is that you, Gaara?" Naruto asked seeing a large jagged wall slowly rise up bit by bit in front of Suna.

"No, it's not." Gaara answered, wondering what it was. It was massive hard solid rock.

"The water is poisoned, I'm having Mizuchi freeze the piping systems so no one will drink it till we can purify it." Tenome's voice sounded in her ear.

Yumi, hearing the words, to look at Gaara. His village was being attacked. The person she cared about was watching their important village being attacked while being forced to sit back and do nothing...

In her own thoughts, she missed Ikiryo telling them he was going to speak to the ninjas and work as an interface between the groups.

"Hey Tomo..." She shortened the name's name, hand covering the mic.

"Tomo." She repeated, any attackers coming towards her, easily dodged as she rushed forward to land crouched beside him.

"Tomohisa." Her voice was calm cool, and deadly serious - breaking him out of his focus on the seal before him.

"Hm?" He looked at her. She did not use that tone very often.

"Can you pull up the prison box - I want the axe." Her tone this time was lighter and did not give away the serious threat lying in wait underneath those words.

"Are... are you sure? There's other things in there that would be better..." He's voice quieted covering his own mic.

"Yes. The spear, staff, kunai, and other items will be useful." She sounded, before her sense of chakra bodies distracted her. Ninjas were coming out of the village, to attack those attacking the village.

"But, I want that axe." Her tone was not nearly as deadly as it would become once she gripped it.

The black river assassin group axe.