Kakashi, Kazumi, and Sato all entered into the cavern with caution. They trailed the walls and ceiling with their eyes carefully to catch any traps but there was non, which only made them more suspicious. As they walked in the dark area Kazumi's heart beat hard against her chest since they had no idea what they were walking into.
"I hear voices." Kakashi said quietly. Once he heard them the others did to. They were getting close. They all put their backs to the wall and walked carefully along it. When they reached the end Kazumi slowly peaked out from behind the wall and her eyes immediately found the captured villagers along with her father. With out thinking Kazumi quickly rushed out towards the large cell that held them. "Wait!" Sato reached out to grab her but she was fast.
"Father!" Kazumi called quickly making everyone look up at her. "Chiyo! My daughter!" Tochi reached his hand out through the bars of the cell. Kazumi grabbed his hand and held it close. "Are you alright?" She asked with worried eyes. "Yes, for now." Tochi replied as he looked back at the other villagers behind him. They were all relieved to see that their princess was safe.
Sato and Kakashi quickly went over to Kazumi looking around them carefully. "I'm glad to see you're alive but you shouldn't of come." Tochi spoke with a frown. Kazumi furrowed her eyebrows at him confused. "It's a trap isn't it?" Sato asked slightly looking back at Tochi. Tochi nodded in response. "We figured once we saw they're were no guards or traps anywhere." Said Kakashi as he looked around carefully.
The sound of approaching footsteps made them all quickly tense up. Kazumi quickly stood to her feet and turned around to see. It was who they were expecting. It was Uragiri and he had a big grin on his face, beside him was Wes and Lin and they had their weapons drawn. Kakashi and Sato quickly drew their weapons and stood ready.
"Uragiri!" Kazumi stepped in front of Kakashi and Sato with a deep glare in her eyes. "Princess, it's good to see you again." Uragiri said with a small chuckle. Kazumi sneered at him as did Kakashi. "It appears to me that you and your friends have discovered that this was a trap so I'll just cut to the chase." Uragiri's grin disappeared as he stopped walking.
"Hand yourself over to us Princess and I'll let you're father and the others live." Uragiri said as his eyes went over to Tochi and the others. Kazumi furrowed her eyebrows at him. "You honestly think I'm just going to go along with that!?" Kazumi glared at him. "Not with out a little push." Uragiri said with a small grin. Kazumi looked at him confused by what he meant.
Uragiri slowly raised his hand up and snapped his fingers. Once he did vines shot out from the ground below one of the villagers quickly stabbing into them and killing them. The others screamed and quickly got away. Kazumi and the others eyes got wide as they quickly looked back at Uragiri in disbelief that he actually did such a thing. "Bastard!" Sato yelled.
"Here are your options Princess." Uragiri said keeping his arm raised in the air. "You either hand yourself over to me or watch them all die one by one." Uragiri spoke with a growing grin. Kazumi quickly looked back at her father who was shielding the young villagers from what had just happened and than looked back at Uragiri un sure of what to do.
"Don't do it Princess." Sato quickly spoke keeping his glare on Uragiri. "But he said-" "I know what he said." Sato quickly cut her off. "But we must not give in, especially to a traitor like him." Sato slightly looked back at her. "Especially when we have the jump on them." Sato said a bit quietly with a small smile on his face. Kazumi looked at him confused as did Kakashi but than suddenly a vine shot up from the ground right behind Uragiri and swatted him like a fly sending him flying across the cavern.
The moment they stepped into the cavern Sato had used his jutsu and had it ready for whenever and wherever they were here. As soon as Uragiri took the hit Kakashi and Sato quickly rushed at Wes and Lin who rushed right at them. "Get the villagers out and quickly!" Sato shouted as his blade met Wes's. Without hesitation Kazumi quickly did as she was told and ran over to the cell.
She looked at the door and the lock on it, she quickly got her kunai out and slipped it into the loop hole of the lock and tried breaking it. "Chiyo look out!" Tochi shouted. Kazumi quickly looked up and once she did a vine had been summoned and it hit Kazumi hard sending her flying. Uragiri stood in the distance glaring at her deeply.
Kazumi hit the wall of the cavern hard but she got back up to her feet quickly. "I will have you princess!" Uragiri shouted as he sent more vines towards Kazumi. Kazumi managed to dodge the bladed vines by rolling to the side. She quickly bit her thumb and formed her hand sign and than slammed her hand down on the ground. "Summoning Jutsu!" Vines shot up in front of her and in the middle of them was the blade she had used back at her people's sacred cave. She grabbed the sword tearing it from the vines and quickly charged at Uragiri.
The sound of blades hitting caused Kakashi to quickly turn his head, he saw Kazumi fighting Uragiri each holding their own blade. She was fast but from where Kakashi stood it looked like Uragiri held the upper hand in the battle. Kakashi quickly turned to run to her to help but Lin had summoned a vine to quickly wrap around Kakashi's ankle and fling him backwards farther way from Kazumi. "You're opponent is me." Lin said with a strange calm voice.
Kakashi quickly got to his feet drawing his kunai knife and glared at Lin deeply. "Fine, I'll end this quickly!" Kakashi quickly charged at Lin who dodged his swinging arm with the knife. "It's a mistake to underestimate your enemy. Even I thought you knew that." Lin said quickly drawing a short sword. Kakashi turned back towards him lifting his headband and revealing his shargingon eye. Len couldn't help but smirk at the sudden seriousness of the battle.
Kakashi and Lin both stood there for a moment staring at each other and than quickly charged right each other with both blades held in front of them. Lin swung his sword hard against Kakashi but he blocked it with his knife, the sound coming from their blades a long with Kazumi and Uragiri's echoed through out the cavern.
Meanwhile Sato was in the middle of battle with Wes. Wes had formed a special hand sign and the moment it was finished large roots that were decorated with poisoned thorns came flying out of the ground right below Sato but he was able to dodge them, just barely. Everytime Sato landed back on the ground more roots shot up at him like spikes. "Dammit!" Sato cursed to himself as he continued to dodge the thorny roots.
Wes watched him with an amused smile on his face. Sato tried to examine jutsu and Wes every chance he got but every chance only lasted for a few seconds. Sato quickly rolled to the side dodging more roots, he quickly looked up at Wes and saw that his hand were still on the ground and his fingers were berried into the dirt. 'That's it.' Sato quickly leaped in the air dodging more roots, the moment he was in the air he held out his hand and from the palm of it three thorny vines came shooting out right for Wes.
Wes quickly looked up and before the vines could strike him giant flat roots shot up around him and covered him up completely blocking the vines. Sato landed on the ground taking advantage of the moment, he planted his hand on the ground sending vines into it. Just moments later everyone can hear Wes yell from inside his shield.
The roots that protected him quickly broke down and once they did it revealed Wes tied up in Sato's vines. Sato's vines were also covered in poisoned thorns but not killing poison. The poison that dripped from them only paralized the body and Sato was the only one with the antidote so Wes was stuck. Sato let out a sigh of relief but the clashing of the blades made him quickly tense up and turn his head.
Kakashi quickly leaped back dodgin thick sharp vines shooting up at him from the ground that Lin had summoned. The moment Kakashi regained himself Lin had quickly formed a hand sign and placed his palm completely flat on the ground and the moment he did vines shot up from the ground but these ones didn't immediately go for Kakashi. Instead they started to take a shape, they started to shape into people but made of vines.
Once they were completely formed coming out of their arms appeared large vine blades and than they both quickly charged at Kakashi. Kakashi blocked one of them with his knife and than quickly dodged the other sliding backwords. 'Are these some kind of clones?' Kakashi wondered as he continued to dodge them. Kakashi dodged a swing from one by ducking and while standing back up he swung his knife up on the other slicing it in half but the vines that made it up quickly tied back together repairing it.
Kakashi's eyes widened and than he jumped back creating some distance between him and the strange vine creatures. 'Well this won't be easy...' Kakashi watched as it finished repairing itself and quickly look at him. While Kakashi was distracted with his thoughts vines shot up from the ground behind Kakashi that Lin had summoned but before they could strike him Sato cut them in half with his blade.
Kakashi jumped looking back at Sato. Kakashi gave him a nod in thanks and Sato nodded back. Kakashi quickly looked back at the vine creatures who were now charging at him. Kakashi quickly formed a hand sign. "Shadow clone Jutsu!" He yelled and two clones of himself quickly appeared right by him. They rushed out in front of him and met the vine creatures blades with their own knives holding them back from Kakashi.
Kakashi quickly charged past them right for Lin, both of their blades met causing a large clashing noise. Lin swung widely adding in some kicks but Kakashi was able to dodge every move thanks to his Sharingon. They both did this for a moment till Lin realized that something was strange about this. Kakashi was only dodging his blows instead of trying to make any of his own. 'A distraction!' Lin suddenly realized.
He held his blade tight and than swung his arm backwards stabbing into Kakashi who had suddenly appeared behind him. The one that Lin was fighting seemed to be a clone. "Too slow." Lin said digging the blade deep in Kakashi's gut. Lin twisted the blade to make it go deeper into Kakashi's stomach and once he did a large smoke cloud appeared and where Lin had stabbed his blade into what he thought was Kakashi was suddenly a log.
"Substitution!" Lin sneered. "Too slow." Kakashi's calm but amused voice appeared right behind Lin and straight into his ear. Seconds later Lin heard something other than Kakashi and it was a loud chirping noise. Lin slowly turned his head to look at Kakashi and the moment he did Kakashi landed a hard blow into Lin's gut with his lightening blade. Blood spewed out of Lin's mouth and than he was sent flying back far. He hit the wall of the cavern hard and than fell to the ground limp completely unconscious. Right when Lin was out of it his creatures fell apart and absorbed into the ground and Kakashi's clones disappeared.
While Kakashi had been fighting Lin, Sato ran over to Uragiri and Kazumi to help her in the fight. But right when Sato joined the fight Uragiri was able to block and dodge his attacks with ease. Kazumi swung her blade in every direction but Uragiri met it with his own blade. Uragiri laughed at their failure to take him out while Kazumi and Sato were both getting aggravated. "Princess go free the others, I'll keep at Uragiri!" Sato shouted.
"Don't even try!" Uragiri yelled quickly swinging his arm back at Sato. When he did vines grew out of his arm and palm and whipped at Sato hard. Sato tried to dodge them by jumped back but a few longer ones had got him and cut his chest open. He winced at the stinging pain but tried to ignore it and continued to fight.
Kakashi saw their struggle and started to run towards them to help but than he realized that Uragiri was completely distracted with Sato and Kazumi and had completely forgotten about Kakashi. He had a chance to free the villagers along with the leader. Kakashi quickly rushed off past the fighting three and straight for the cell that held everyone.
Kakashi grabbed his knife and started hitting the lock hard with it. "Come on.." He hit it again with everything he had. He could tell the lock was beginning to weaken with every hit and right when he was close to breaking it Uragiri had seen Kakashi and summoned a vine to grab his ankle and drag him away from the cell.
Sharp wooden thorns shot up from the ground beneath the large vine cutting it in half freeing Kakashi. The thorns belonged to Kazumi and she had summoned more under neath Uragiri trying to take him out but he managed to dodge them. But he didn't escape completely un harmed. While he was focusing on dodging Kazumi's thorns Sato was able to strike his shoulder with his blade cutting him pretty deep.
Uragiri winced in pain from the hit and quickly grabbed his shoulder glaring deeply at them both. Kakashi quickly kicked the rest of the vine off of his leg and sprinted towards the cell. He swung his arm up hard and than swung it down with all his might onto the lock and finally it broke. The sound of it's metal breaking echoed through out the cavern making everyone freeze for just a moment.
Uragiri's eyes widened realizing what had happened. He slowly looked to the cell and already everyone who was inside was now standing outside and in front of them was Tochi. "Well would you look at that." Tochi said with a grin on his face while he slightly kicked the broken lock on the ground towards Uragiri. Kakashi fell back on his bottom completely out of breath.
Everyone glared at Uragiri deeply. They had all watched loved ones die at his hand and they were set on getting their revenge and he could tell by their eyes. Uragiri stared at them for a moment and than looked to Kazumi and Sato who was staring at him with grins on their faces.
Not a moment longer Uragiri quickly turned and bolted out of the cavern. "Don't let him get away!" He heard them shout behind him and than footsteps quickly pursuing him. 'I won't let them get me!' Uragiri ran with his teeth clenched together hard. He saw the opening in the cavern and grinned thinking about his victory in escape but the moment he stepped outside that grin disappeared and he was put to a stop.
"Going somewhere?" Gai said with his usual smirk on his face. Outside the cavern stood the Leaf and Moriko ninja who had swept through the village. Behind them was every Akane clan member tied up and beaten down. They had Uragiri completely surrounded. Uragiri looked at them quickly trying to find a way to escape but the others quickly running up behind him out of the cavern made him realize it was useless and there was no escape.
Uragiri looked behind him at the others and than slowly fell to his knees admitting his defeat. Asuma walked to him and quickly tied his hands together behind him. The Moriko clan and Leaf ninja all looked to each other with smiles on their faces as what seemed to be a long battle finally came to an end.
