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Chapter 36: Temari's Surprise…
"Seven hundred thousand seven hundred!" Tayuya shouted as she counted the impacts. 'Crap if it holds that many…'
'Dang she's counting the shots.' 'And keeping a good count, but… she's off by three hundred.' 'Dang…'
"What's this?" A blonde girl asked as she landed nearby.
"Oh a Sound Ninja that I'm playing dodge the arrow." Shikamaru joked before saying. "She was escorting Sasuke to the Sound Village, she handed him off to another I sent Naruto alone ahead."
"Okay aren't you going to finish her off?" Temari asked.
"Fine…" Shikamaru stops the rapid fire and pulls out a single arrow and notches it. "Arrow…" 'DON'T!'"Shock…" 'Listen to me!' "Wave!" 'RUN!' Shikamaru let loose a powerful shockwave that hits the other arrows and dispersed. "Huh?"
'Where's the bang?' Tayuya thought as she heard multiple charges go off. 'The other arrows took the charge!' Tayuya thought as she stood up and tired to jump.
'Run! There's a reason I never fired it like that!' 'And what's that?' 'They all explode!' "Temari run!" Shikamaru shouted as he jumped into the air and was covered by a bubble.
Off in a distance…
A giant yellow orb appeared and shrunk to the size of a small mansion, before expanding outwards, but not increasing in height. Then it exploded to the sky.
In another clearing…
"Was that your friend's desperation?" Kimimaro asks as they both saw the explosion.
"No, that was his most powerful attack, but oddly I've never saw it in that scale before." Naruto chided as he got back into position to fight.
"So be it."
With the others…
"Choji, was that Shikamaru?" Neji asked as they leaped tree to tree.
"Yeah, but I never saw him fire an attack of that power." Choji replied as he looked back at the white cloud slowly drift away from the impact zone.
With Gaara…
"Temari!" Gaara shouted as he looked at the blast direction. 'I'll find out if you survived.'
In Konoha…
"Itachi, I hope that wasn't a foreshadowing of dark things coming." Tsunade stated as she looked to the direction of the vibration.
"I hope so too." Itachi stated as well as he faded. "I have permission?"
"Yes. Take Kakashi as well you'll need his hounds, seeing that all the trackers are out on missions."
In the Crater…
"What was that?" Temari asked as she saw a Dark Blue orb around her and Shikamaru in front of her.
"A mistake, I forgot that every arrow carries a charge on it and when I fired a highly charged shot all eight thousand arrows absorb all of the charge and activated themselves." Shikamaru explained in a deadpan voice. "It was too dangerous and only to be used as a last resort… Huh, damn I fell asleep." Shikamaru looked around and saw some movement on the ground. "She survived."
On the ground…
"Where am I?" Tayuya asked in fright, right as Shikamaru and Temari landed so they both heard her ask.
"Do you know who you are?" Shikamaru asked in a quizzical manner.
"Yeah I'm an orphan so no family, name's Tayuya." Tayuya states in an awfully cheerful way. "But do you know where a guy with snake eyes is he tried to kidnap me from the orphanage… wait a minute why do I look so old?" Tayuya stated as she looked at her body, then winces as she felt some pain in her shoulder. "What happened to me? Was I in some fight?" She looked so scared that she doesn't even noticed that Shikamaru disengaged his armor.
"I think we just caught her." Shikamaru stated as he looked at her. "Say wanna come with us, we can protect you from Orochimaru."
"Hai." Tayuya stated as she was helped up by Shikamaru and Temari.
"You're explaining this." Temari stated as she looked at the injured Tayuya.
"I know. Troublesome." Shikamaru muttered as he carried the injured Tayuya.
In the Nara clan household…
'I feel a disturbance in our home coming.' Shikaku thought as he looked into the kitchen. 'And it isn't Yoshino.'
In the Hokage's office…
"Ahhh, Tsunade-sama…" Shizune sputtered as she looked in to the office.
"What?" Tsunade snapped as she looked at the two teens the reported on what happen.
"Kiba is out of critical condition and the staff of the hospital decided to buy you a lottery ticket… I check it for you…" Shizune stated in fear. "And you won the lottery."
In a clearing…
"So shall we start?" Kimimaro asked as he stared at Naruto.
A/N: I have plans for Tayuya and none of them need her dead... now wonder why Shikaku is wondering something, hmmm? And next is one long fight that yes, I'm probally going to break into three parts. Kimimaro is one of the best of the sound five, he actually fights his opponent and he doesn't play around.