Team Z

by murderdeath21

Naruto accidentally opened up a strange portal, which sucked him and his other two team-mates inside of it where they were transported from the world of the ninja to the Earth! Watch as Team 7 meet strange people, and discover technology that they never thought they'd ever see. Start from Saiyan Saga! Updated: Edited Chap 1 & 2!

117. No More Stalling

A/N: Hello, my followers! Yes I'm back after 7 months of hiatsu. I AM SO SORRY! Once again, I've been distracted by something else. MLB, ya bastards! Then I almost forget about Team Z. But when my friend mentioned Team Z to me on December, I was like OH YEAH! I remember I gotta write Team Z. Damn. But it's so hard not to be distracted though. Like I said, I WILL NEVER ABANDON THIS TEAM Z! I refused to let this becoming all other stories that have been abandoned.

But usually, I'd let someone do the disclaimer, but I'll do it since Clone Jerry and Vegeta did not want to do the disclaimer for me. I think they're tired of me posting my story very slow. They actually wanted me to end Coola Saga very soon. I told them I am trying to! Oh, and don't forget I'm still girl! Ya bastard, Thedarkpokemaster! I will get you next time! I will make sure to turn myself back to man again!

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Franchise or Naruto Franchise, so you cannot sue me! Wait a minute! Go ahead and sue that bastard Thedarkpokemaster, though! :) Now here's Chapter 117... FINALLY!

Chapter 117: No More Stalling

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Age 763, December 1- Near Front Konoha Gate, Konohagakure, Land of Fire

CLUNK!

A couple of Kunais struck together, standing head-to-head. Odd enough, it was Konoha Nin versus another Konoha Nin. However, another Konoha Nin skins were decayed and darker than his original skin, and his eyes were rather… lifeless, like there was no pupil there. Those eyes were completely blank white.

However, not only him, about dozens or more are in similar form to that appearance, it was almost as if they were risen from the dead. Actually, they were risen from the dead. That would explain the decompose skin of their bodies, and the user responsible for those corpses could be seen standing behind the dozens of his corpses and two of his teammates (alive) by his sides.

Currently, a hundred of Konoha Nin were battling them now and they were fighting to protect their Konoha. No matter how tough enemies were, they would always protect their citizens of the Konoha first before their own lives. By protecting Konoha, they first must figure out how to deal with the zombies, because it seemed no matter how they kill them, they always seem to come back. What was the best way to solve this problem? That's what every single of them was trying to come up with.

Only one they could come up with was to kill the user that was responsible for rising the dead. But that would be hardest part, as seeing they were required to get past the zombies first, and the user's teammates too.

A Konoha-nin drove his kunai into the head of the zombie very easily before pulling it out of his head, which left the hole in the head. He smirked, thinking he successfully got him, only to see the zombie growling at him.

"What the—" The Konoha-nin's scream halted, when the zombie slit his throat with his own kunai, leaving him bleeding to his death.

The zombie user covered his mouth with his fist and chuckled, "You're watching the movie too much. It's not the Walking Dead where you can only kill the zombie by their head alone. The thing is, it will be only tougher from on now if you can't figure them out, because the longer they live, the stronger they've become."

A young Konoha-nin slender female with the glasses and long white hair that only went all over her back to her waist, who stood behind all her teammates on the top of the intact building (apparently, she was the leader of this squad), narrowed her eyes down at the zombie user after he mentioned 'the longer they live, the stronger they've become.' "What do you mean?"

The zombie user grinned darkly, "Hehe…"

Just then, the zombie, who slit the Konoha-nin's throat before, calmly kneeled next to the corpse that he killed earlier and placed his hand over the heart of the corpse. As every single of Konoha-nin, and oddly, all zombies would halt their attack for some reason (assuming it was the user's doing), were watching the moment that was about to unfold very soon.

A little moment later, somehow, the skin of the recent Konoha-nin's corpse now became more decayed and darker than his original skin, as he slowly rose to his feet, wobbling his legs, almost as if he couldn't stand up straight. As if he was just born today.

The female leader of the squad gritted her teeth in thought at this moment. 'How?! Every time our comrade died, their leader sent his teammates to bring corpses back to him, so he can revive them. But this time, it is that zombie's doing?!' She would send her glances at her comrades, and she could see their face. It was the fear. Fear of zombies getting stronger. They probably were imaging if they were to turn into the zombie, they would get stronger the longer they live, and they would probably have to kill their fellow Konoha-nin and destroy the Konoha.

But when she noticed the determination look on their face, that moment when she knew they made their resolve stronger, and they would not let themselves being killed.

However, first she must figure out the origin of the zombie. How did zombie survive elsewhere? There must be weakness inside the zombie. If it was not the head, then what was it?

All of the sudden, out of nowhere, a genin with long scarf around his neck leapt down on the newly revived corpse and stabbed right down into the heart. "Stay dead, you bastard!" With that, he swiped it back and leapt back away from the herd of the zombie, giving them a calculation look.

The female leader looked surprise at the newcomer here. "Konohamaru…"

'Sakura…' Konohamaru thought. 'You have opened my eyes about the reality of the shinobi world—no, maybe the whole universe. The harsh part of it is that there will be always big guys that out to kill us, and we gotta be merciless and brutal towards them. Now, I'm not going to the shelter just because I'm a genin. I've seen my close friends and my sensei gone. What good will be me becoming a Hokage if I can't save my precious village? If I want to be the Hokage, I will need to participate at this battlefield to defend Konoha!'

"Look!" One of his fellow Konoha-nin shouted out to everyone here. "He's not coming back!"

"You're right! He stays dead!" Another Konoha-nin agreed.

"Yeah, when Konohamaru stabbed him, he stays dead. I think it must be his heart." The third one pointed out.

'He? It's the zombie I killed they're talking about?' thought Konohamaru. 'They're right. Somehow he died. It must have been me plunging my kunai into his heart. Could it be-?!' Realization dawned on his face.

But just right before he could let everyone know, the female leader spoke up first. "Fall back! Let me take care of them all! At once!"

"Yes, Rai-san!" Konohamaru and others immediately scattered away behind Rai, so she could perform her technique in the moment. The herd of the zombies would look up at Rai and began growling at her.

Rai smirked, as she picked up a couple of kunais in her each hand from the pouch from her both sides and crossed her kunai together in front of her eyes. The zombies were reflected from her glasses, as they continued to growl at her. "Go ahead! Come at me! I'll finish you off right here!"

The zombies growled loudly, as they leapt towards her. Not all of them, because there's some zombies who recently were revived remained on the ground. It was about more than dozens of them to come at her at all once.

Konohamaru and other Konoha-nins here were taken aback by their sudden ability to leap like every ninja could perform. Before, they could do nothing but to use their kunai to attack, but now they could jump all of the sudden! "Rai!"

"Heh, I figured." Rai chuckled. "the longer you live, the stronger you've become', huh?' It made a sense, after all. Earlier, she saw a zombie that somehow had an ability to revive the dead back. If that zombie could revive, then it should make sense that they could leap if they live longer enough.

Then Rai chucked a couple of the kunai towards first two zombies in front of her, as it speared through their heart, and for the moment they growled, but then it faded, and they collapsed instantly. They never came back.

"Amazing!" muttered Konohamaru softly. He realized that there was invisible wire that attached to a couple of kunai. That must explain how she was able to control them around, however she wanted to. But of course, it required the chakra. After all, he noticed that she was exhausted a bit.

"But I'm not done." Rai grinned, before waving her hands around, suddenly kiting her kunai around, spearing more zombies in a row. Even after that, she continued to kite her kunai around, going around the remaining jump zombies, killing them through their chest again. One by one, they actually died. None of them survived right after getting a strike to their heart.

Before she could show off how she did it, Konohamaru cried, "Behind you!"

Indeed, there was a zombie that was able to sneak up behind her and was about to stab her from the behind. However, little did that zombie know, Rai quickly cut off her wire and picked up the kunai before turning around to stab him in the chest.

Dropping the zombie's body down, she glanced around at the zombie user with the proud smirk on her face. "Always watch your back. That's the most basics of basics for a shinobi."

The zombie user still had his arms crossed in front of his chest and slowly closed her eyes, as he chuckled lightly. "You figured out my jutsu's weakness. That's so unfortunate. However…" Then he reopened his eyes slowly, revealing the evil glint in his eyes. "It's too late!"

Rai raised her eyebrows. "What do you mean?"

"BEHIND YOU!" cried one of her comrades.

"What?!" Before Rai could turn around, the sword skewered through her chest from the behind, and she coughed up the blood, shaking up at the sight of her bleeding chest, and the sword through her chest.

"RAI-SAN!" cried Konohamaru.

"HAHAHA!" The zombie user laughed loudly. "Guess you're contradicting what you said earlier. 'Always watch your back. That's the Shinobi rule', huh? Hmph, looks like it was not in the case for all the shinobi." His other two underlings laughed along with him.

The sword quickly was removed from her chest, promptly causing her to cough up the blood and her chest bleeding more. As her eyes began to blur, she carefully placed her hand on her chest to slow down her bleeding, and turned around to find out who managed to kill her without her knowing about it.

Once she fully turned around, she widened her eyes and left her mouth to open. The zombie who stabbed her was… "Itachi…?"

Indeed, it was Itachi. Instead, it was Itachi with the decaying and decomposed skins without a pupil on his eyes. His body was still lifeless, yet he looked strong enough to fight and defend himself.

"I stumbled upon him in the forest earlier before I came here." The zombie user chuckled. "He was already dead, of course, if that's what you're wondering. Apparently, someone killed him few days ago, if I autopsy him correctly. So he was one of my first zombie I revived on this planet before I came here."

'Wait!" Konohamaru realized. "You've been saving him for a while. So that means he's a lot stronger right now?!"

The zombie user shrugged. "Perhaps. But he's still getting stronger. So I assume he hasn't been in his full capacity of his strength yet." He then grinned sadistically. "With your level, I doubt you can take him on."

With the inch of her life left, as her breath drew to an end soon, as her vision was beginning to fade out and in, as she was losing her balance by the edge of the building, she gritted her teeth. "No… You're not Itach. You're just…" She suddenly lost her balance and stumbled backward onto the edge of the building. "…a zombie." At last, her eyes faded into a gray and her body then fell back into the remaining herd of zombies.

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Destroyed Hokage's Mansion- Tsunade, Hiruzen, and ANBU vs Coola

Standing in front of the Hokage, two Elementians that donned the animal masks, and the old man appeared to be the former Hokage who wore black clad armor and carried the black staff in which the monkey had an ability to transform into it, Coola could see the determination in their eyes which drove them to still have a will to keep fighting regardless of the difference in the power between them.

"Are you certain?" Coola looked at Tsunade with the amused expression.

"What?" Tsunade furrowed her eyebrows, as she clenched her fist, scowling at her enemy. She was ready to defend herself and her comrades if he ever began his motion. She was not going to let Coola destroy the village! At least it wouldn't hurt trying to protect their village against a foe like Coola who could possibly destroy the village effortlessly within a second! That would show how much she would try to stop him, instead of letting him do as he's pleased to!

"Are you certain…" Coola repeated, but stating his sentence further this time. "…that you're prepared to die?"

Tsunade glared at him and clenched her fist. She could never forgive him for killing her people mercilessly. "Of course I am!" Because of him, many people have died thanks to him and his men. And she could not forget how Shizune could die so easily.

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Flashback Began

At that moment, Guure suddenly appeared behind Shizune, which startled her to cause the loose pig to jump out of her arm. Then he strangled her and put her in a sleeper hold, and had his free hand to lay upon her head.

"Shizune!" Tsunade got up so fast that her chair fell away, shaking her fist in fear for Shizune's life. She always had been Sannin lady's apprentice for many years, and she always looked after her, who grew up with her since the attack of the Kyuubi.

After a while, Guure's hand began to heat up Shizune, almost as if he was cooking her, streaming out of her head.

Shizune screamed intensely. Every body part on her skin gradually became red, but it was getting worse and worse.

Kuririn cringed by her scream and shook his body with a fear at the same time. In the meantime, Gohan shot a glare at Guure with a disdain, as blood boiled inside his chest. But he had to control himself. Hokage told them that they needed to stall until Sakura and Hinata got here.

Tsunade cried, "Shizune! Stop it!"

Shizune's tone became less and less until her scream was no longer very loud. It was very quiet. She left her mouth open in shock.

Guure frowned, what seemed like disappointment at least. He left his hand from the top of her head.

However, once Guure left his hand off her head, she could only mutter the final word before her final breath. "Tsu…nade…" Before she died, she shredded the tears for the final time before collapsing away. She was scorched to death.

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Flashback Ended

By just seeing Coola in front of her really made her blood boiling inside her chest, Tsunade spoke up again. "I swore I'd protect this village with all my life no matter what! There's no ninja on this planet who would throw away their comrades' life just to save their life, especially when their planet is in danger right now!" Besides nuke-nin, perhaps.

A couple of ANBU survivors nodded their head in agreement while keeping themselves in a battle stance and their glare towards Coola, and Sandaime Hokage glanced over his eyes with a gentle smile. 'Tsunade… I'm glad I made a right choice by making you my successor. That's why you were my student.'

Tsunade pointed her thumb at herself and shouted with all her might. "You're damn right! I'm so ready to die! Because no matter how intimidating you are to me, I'm not going to give in to you, and even if I knew where Naruto is, I'm not going to tell you! I am the Hokage, so therefore; it's my duty to protect my people all above before my own life!"

Coola continued to smirk at his opponents, especially at Godaime Hokage. "So you absolutely will not give me the information on the whereabout of Uzumaki Naruto, correct? That's what you're telling me?"

"That's right!" Tsunade shot back. "But one thing I can tell you…" She hestitated for a moment there. Of course, since her memory, along with people who knew Naruto's whereabout at this moment (except Sakura and Hinata), was erased by Yamanaka Clan at her own request. "If I'm going to assume one thing, I assumed Naruto is training…" She narrowed her eyes to show more of her glare towards Coola. "…to defeat you."

That earned her a scoff from Coola. "Training to defeat me, you say?" He snickered only for a moment before switching to his serious demeanor. "Don't joke around like that. No one can match up with me on this planet. However, since you refused to give me an information of Naruto's whereabout, it would be any useless to interrogate you into it, as seeing that you're willing to die for him. I will find someone who I can extract information from instead!"

Tsunade, Hirzuen, and two ANBU survivors were terrified as soon as Coola leaked his killing intent all over them. Despite all that, they managed to stand on their ground and still settled into their fighting stance.

In blink of an eye, Coola quickly fired his beam through Tsunade's chest, severely wounding her up, and the blood spilled all over the floor from her chest and her mouth.

"HOKAGE-SAMA!" cried a couple of ANBU survivors.

Tsunade herself could not believe it either. She never saw him move at all. A moment ago, he just stood with his folded arms, and then next thing she knew, there was a beam through her chest. But this was how Naruto and Team 7 fought outside Element looked like, she just realized it now. At that moment, she knew there was no way Hirzuen and all shinobi on this planet could defeat him, besides Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, perhaps. That's why they trained, so they could defeat Coola.

She fell on her back and her eyes slowly closed before it completely faded out on her.

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Anko vs No One (Takeo)

"Hana! Watch out!" Tenten screamed.

But it was too late.

Takeo already shoved his hand through Hana's chest, brutally wounding her, and her mouth spewed the blood, as his eyes were no longer fear, and his eyes already became dead serious. Shikaku, Inoichi, Anko, Tenten and Rock Lee were paled at this event. They definitely didn't see this coming, nor they expected a wimp child who ran away for his life the whole time to be the enemy.

While Hana had a bit of her life remaining in this world, she still stared at Takeo's dead serious eyes. All she could muster was "W-W-Why…?" Unfortunately, before she could find her answer, Takeo suddenly pulled his hand out of her chest, ending up bleeding her even further before her eyes rolled away and dropped to the ground, dead.

Takeo stared at his hand that was covered in Hana's blood and gave her an evil grin. "Because using someone's else form and then ambush you is so fun?" Afterward, he licked around Hana's finger blood that covered on his entire hand.

His words didn't go unnoticed by Shikaku. 'Using someone's else form?'

Takeo's aura glowed red, as his appearance somehow slowly changed, and his height was also shortened as well. Once completed transform, his appearance now in similar form identical to Hana. However, her hand was somehow sanitized as if Hana's blood was never there, leaving everyone here in this battlefield speechless.

"You may call me Hana." She turned around to her enemies and gave them another evil smirk. "Or… No One. Although the 'Hana' name will be only for temporary. So who wants to be next?"

Right then, she heard few growls behind him. She simply sidestepped herself out of the first dog's claw attack. Next, she bent her body backward to dodge the second dog's claw attack and handspring jump higher into the air upside-down.

She looked up and saw the third dog leaping towards her. She just noticed that these triplet canines had that ferocious expression and their fangs looked sharp as knife right now. Their expression let her know that they were seeking for the revenge the moment she killed their master.

She smirked. "Too weak."

She disappeared in a blur as soon as the third dog attempted to land a claw attack on her and went through her. That moment dogs realized she used afterimage, and immediately following after the third dog landed, all dogs used Gatsuga (Fang Passing Fang) and propelled themselves towards Hana, two went around to her side, while other one went straight to her head-on.

Still jumping upside-down, Hana scoffed, and connected her index fingers and thumbs together while spreading her fingers out, aiming at the middle one who had a courage enough to go at her head-on. "Foolish!"

The energy sphere only charged up for a moment before firing a large energy wave, completely obliterated. Immediately following after that, she quickly fired a twin energy wave from her side towards a couple dogs which currently in tornado-like state, also completely obliterated.

Once done dealt with them, she completed her long handspring jump and landed gracefully, but never looked back at her enemy survivors, because she sensed another attack that came her way.

"You're pissing me off, you bastard!" Anko screamed, releasing several snakes under her sleeves, as they charged towards Hana, only to be caught, and killed in the process. "What?!"

"Hey…" Hana only licked her mouth around, seemingly drooling at Anko with the saliva running down from her mouth. "Anko, wasn't it?"

Surely enough, Anko was creeped out by Hana, despite being creepy herself. When she looked at Hana's expression, it reminded her of her sensei Orochimaru who often seek someone else's body to gain immortality life. And perhaps, it must be because she found her enemy to be creepy considering the fact her enemy was in Hana's body right now. Hana most definitely didn't look like that when she was alive.

With a quick thought, Anko quickly weaved through her single hand and for a moment, she took a breathe "Katon: Ryuka no Jutsu! (Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu)" before breathing large fire along her dead snakes on way towards Hana, who simply cackled madly. The fire would seem to torch Hana along with the rubbles which used to be the building behind her, and the smoke kicked up, breezing through the sky.

Anko watched the smoke that continued to breeze, and chuckled a little. "Take that, you bastard!" But for some reason, she had a feeling that this one did not get Hana. She had to be cautious and glance around her in case if Hana somehow ambushed her somewhere.

Not just her, Rock Lee, Tenten, Shikaku, and Inoichi also scouted the area for Hana, should she attempt to ambush at least one of them. Rock Lee made a resolve to not let any of his comrade to die again, so does Shikaku.

"Damn it. She—he—" Inoichi inwardly sighed. "I don't know what to call that person, but…"

"Let's call that person a 'she'." Shikaku rapidly moved his pupil around, trying to find Hana. Hana—no—so-called 'No One' was really good at hiding, like a true Shinobi would. "More importantly, she could be anywhere. Apparently, she's master at stealth." Or she could be really dead, which he doubted it actually happened. "Lee."

Without giving Shikaku a single glance, Lee was still in his stance while looking for Hana everywhere. "Yes?"

"You know what to do, Lee." Shikaku simply stated these words, which earned a nod from Lee. He smirked "Good." And he just started clasping his index and middle fingers together, in case something happened soon. He also didn't forget that Shibi was still lurking around between buildings somewhere. If it was of any indicate, Shibi would appear sooner and possibly trapped Hana sometimes later.

Anko already prepared to defend herself when she picked up the kunai and preparing the snake under her sleeves, too, in case 'No One' surprised her.

As an experienced Kunoichi, she knew to watch her back all the times as stated by the shinobi rule, but not just her back, she would have to look everywhere, even under the ground. Never had she been in this position where she would battle an alien whoever had a power in which most Elementian never had seen them before in their life. Her only question was what kind of power did this 'No One' possess right now, besides common Ki powers and stealth mastery?

Finally, the smoke became clear, and it was no surprise to everyone that there was no trace of Hana there. That would mean she escaped after all.

"Tch…" Shikaku groaned a bit, clearly frustrated here. "She's alive, all right. Watch out for yourself. She probably possesses an ability that we are not aware of in first place."

"Only if we still have dogs on our side…" Inoichi clenched himself fist, still scanning the area everywhere to find 'No One'. He moved his kunai up to prepare defending himself, should 'No One" appear out of nowhere by him. "We would have found her no problem."

Rock Lee remained in his favorite stance. 'The moment she shows herself, I will take a charge.' But he knew it was going to be tough, since he had no knowledge of her ability so far. It could be difficult fight he would have gotten in, other than facing Gaara during the Chuunin Exam tournament. Thanks to that fight and his near-ending career injury earlier in the stage of his ninja career, he had learned how to deal with tough opponent like Gaara, and he already made a vow not to make another mistake like that ever again. He will never allow that to happen again. Ever!

Behind his back, Tenten stared at him, wielding a metal sphere with kunai welded onto it and a hidden explosive tag attached to it. 'Lee-kun… Be careful. I don't want you to end up dying like Neji-kun.'

Anko was a little frustrated, as seeing that 'No One' would not show herself up. Hana had been hiding somewhere for a while now. Yet she composed herself and pay attention to every detail surrounding herself. Somehow, she had a feeling that Hana was up to something.

'Behind me!' Upon realization, she whirled around, despite there was no one there, and swipe her kunai around at nowhere, suddenly revealing Hana out of the invisible mode. However, Hana managed to catch Anko's hand, gripping it tighter, and injuring her a bit right now.

'What?! Did she become invisible?' wondered Shikaku.

Hana made a weird expression that the real Hana would never do that, and that was licking her lips repeatedly with her crazed looks. "I like your body! Let me take your blood!"

"Shit!" Anko cursed, before taking a boot to her stomach, reeling back before she skid her feet on the dirt away from the creepy body-obsessive bloodlust shapeshifter. But her enemy would not give her a break, as Hana charged towards her. 'Too much like Orochimaru!' thought Anko.

Before Anko could respond to it, Hana suddenly disappeared in a blur and reappeared right in front of Anko. "Shit!" That was all Anko could mutter, as 'No One' cackled madly and shoved her Ki-enhanced hand towards her enemy's chest.

"DIE!"

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Destroyed Hokage's Mansion- Tsunade, Hirzuen and ANBUs vs Coola

"Tsunade!" cried the Sandaime Hokage, while still wielding the staff and his body still set in stance facing Coola. He just watched his successor Hokage whom was laying on the ground, seemingly lifeless on the top of the pound of blood. The ANBU were afraid that they were unable to protect their Hokage from the enemy.

Coola slowly lay down his finger, carefully staring at Tsunade's body. "I know you're somehow alive. After all, I missed your vital purposely, despite that I managed to damage you severely. In other words, you should be dead few seconds later after my attack, considering how much blood you're losing at a rapid speed. Get up, Hokage."

Once the Hokage's body twitched a bit, Hirzuen and ANBUs were relieved to see that she was still alive.

'Considering the grave situation we are in, we've long forgotten that Tsunade developed her ability many years ago. That ability is called…' thought Hirzuen.

As Tsunade was getting up, the diamond on her forehead began extending the markings all over her entire body, and any damage she sustained instantly healed automatically. No hand seals needed. That included the hole in her chest had closed. It was almost as if she had not fought yet. No scratches on her body anymore. All bloods were gone as well.

Coola, however, was not disappointed. He merely smirked at the sight of her sudden change of appearance. "May you inquire me on how you survive the attack, and where did all damage that I caused go? But you have a quite healing ability, apparently."

Tsunade glared at him. She knew she would eventually have to use it soon, but she did not expect that Coola would be so relentless and attempt to kill her immediately. She'd assume he'd play around with them for a while. Of course, she knew she was not going to beat him. That's why she and her comrades planned to stall him for the time being until Naruto or Sasuke, or perhaps Sakura arrive—to defeat Coola.

But right now? She didn't think so. It seemed Coola had no interesting in them, therefore; he was going to kill them immediately. Apparently, he waited for no one else but Naruto. In other words, she and her comrades would need to begin their Plan B.

While gathering her chakra without being noticed by Coola, she distracted him by answering his question. "It's called Ninpo Sozo Saisei—Byakugo no Jutsu (Ninja Art Creation Rebirth- Strength Hundred Technique). It allows me to regenerate my wounds via accelerated cell division, that ability has a continuous, automatic effect that will heal any damage that I sustain instantly without the need to make hand seals or even a conscious effort to activate the healing process as long as I have chakra left." She smirked. "In other words, any damage you may have done to me, it will be healed no matter what. That is, until I run out of chakra."

"Figured. I heard about the medic-nins here on this planet. Fayre may have mentioned your name few times, but he never told me anything about your certain ability. It is quite interesting, indeed. I loathe healers, however. Either way, you don't have enough power level to give me a such challenge. I could just destroy you right now with or without your immense healing ability, don't you think?"

"Indeed." Tsunade chuckled. "But your behavior does tell me that even with my immense healing ability still doesn't interest you, and you're going to wipe us out right away, correct?"

"Correct." Coola lifted his finger and pointed it at the Hokage and let everyone know that he was going to kill them right now. "I must say I'm impressed. You foresee my plan and what I am going to do next. But what are you going to do, knowing I am going to kill you anyways? You must also know that you cannot escape your inevitable fate, whether it be now or later, should you escape right now which I'd suggest doing it now."

Tsunade flinched a bit before gritting her teeth in anticipation. 'Damn! So he noticed. Still, I have to go through with the Plan B. He's too powerful for us, and we can't fight him recklessly. We still have to stall him for the time being until Naruto or Sasuke arrives, and maybe Sakura.'

Tsunade chuckled, as she raised her glowed fist up, which earned a recognition from her predecessor and ANBUs, so they could be ready. "Not today!"

She slammed her fist on the floor, shaking the entire building, and the floor started to crack split open, and the roof then collapsed upon them. The second floor beneath their feet also collapsed down and began falling, as the dust kicked up.

Coola softly landed his feet on the ground below and was not flinched when the roof hit his head. He watched as the dust cleared up, as it turned out that Tsunade and others were missing. His lips slowly twitched into a smirk.

"Interesting strategy." He put his fingers on his lips, chuckling amusedly. "But only thing that is coming for you is your inevitable death." He was not planning to look for them anyways. They never held his interest, as seeing they wield no power enough to challenge him. However, he would be disappointed if the Hokages were to fight him head-on without any second. After all, Elementians were supposed to be smartest species in the universe. He already knew that their alternative plan was to hide and wait for an opportunity to strike him from the behind.

So that's why he was not going to play hide and seek game. Because if Naruto still no-show here in around 30 minutes, he would eradicate the entire village immediately with just a single blow. It had been almost one hour since the invasion began. He already saw many steps ahead, and that's why he was prepared to fight tough, unlike his brother who underestimated Goku and others.

'Will you show up soon…' Coola smirked once again. '…or will you let more of them die by my men's hands, Naruto?'

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Rock Lee vs No One (Hana)

"DIE!" Hana laughed darkly, as she shoved her Ki-enhanced hand towards Anko's chest, whose was still in shocked. Yet somehow, her hand stopped by the inch of the chest.

She widened her eyes. "What? I can't move?" Just a moment later, she finally realized why she could not move. She looked down at the shadow which was overlay with Shikaku's shadow far away.

With the sigh of a relief, Anko breathed a bit and calmed down before staring at Hana's hand that was just an inch away from her chest. 'Just one second later, I would be dead by now already. If Shikaku had not stopped her…' She did not want to think about it what would have happened.

Hana struggled to turn her head, but only managed to turn it a bit and shot her glare towards Shikaku. 'Damn it! I've caught up in the fight so much that I've completely forgotten about him.'

Shikaku smirked, while holding his clasped fingers tightly. He would not absolutely let go of his shadow unless otherwise. "Your cockiness is what would have put your life at stake. You're too focused on a single opponent. Because of that, we will be able to execute our plan. Now get away from her, Anko!"

Anko nodded. She was more than happy to stay alive, so she could extract her revenge on 'No One' for killing her close friend and stealing her body, too! She hopped back and joined the group.

"Heh… heh…" Hana chuckled, despite unable to move. "Now that's funny."

Hana's endless chuckle made Inoichi irritating to no end. "What's so funny?!" Inoichi knew he could do nothing but to stay back and watch his teammates fighting her. He could go there and fight him in taijutsu, but he knew the second he picked up the fight with her, she would just destroy him in the fight easily.

"You've been protecting me the whole time when I was being chased by that foolish Riley Harris without realizing that I was in disguise of Takeo." Hana said, giving every and each of his opponents an evil grin. "Would you like to know how it happened… exactly?" She licked her lips in pleasant when she said that last word.

Shikaku had a feeling that the story Hana was going to tell would not be a good one. Probably disgusting one considering how she was licking her lips. But he gave no response. Neither did the rest of his group. That would mean they were willing to listen to her little story.

"I will take that as a yes. All right then. Here goes my story…" Hana began. "Just an hour before the invasion…"

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Flashback Began- Last Night

In Takeo's bedroom, there was a dim light lamp on the desk next to him, as his Mom was sitting besides him. But she was staring and smiling at him long enough that Takeo found them a bit annoying.

Takeo frowned. "What's wrong, Mom? Why are you staring at me too much?"

She smiled sadly. "Listen to me, my son." Takeo raised his eyebrows in question, but remain silent and willing to listen to her for a moment. She looked down at her laps, as she clenched her fists onto her skirt. "Coola and his men are on way here, but I don't know when they will be here. But words got in is that they may be here next three days. So we have to be ready a day before they arrive. I want to let you know…"

"Cut it out!" Takeo interrupted, startling his Mother. "We are not going to die! We are going to the shelter and we will be protected!" As scared as she was, he, too, was scared. He did not want to die too soon, and he did not want to see his Mom gone. 'Damn! Only if Dad is still alive… If the Kyuubi didn't…'

His thought trailed off all of the sudden when his Mother embraced him in a motherly hug. He widened his eyes. He glanced over his shoulder at his Mom for a moment. He saw the happy tears on her eyes.

"I just want to let you know…" Takeo's Mom sniffed a bit. "…that I love you so much. Whatever happened out there, I want you to remember that I love you so much. When you were only a toddler, my husband died in the hand of the Kyuubi. I've always hated that demon since that day, only because if he was alive, you would have been a ninja, and we would be raising you the different way. You would be already on the team. But his death is what held you back as a ninja. To tell you the truth, I regretted that decision. The thought of you being a ninja had become unsettled, so I decided to hold you back. But me? I am just a civilian who needed a protect from these bad guys, but the idea of my son being killed during the mission really scared me. So that's why I didn't enroll you into the ninja academy." Afterward, she leaned in and kissed his forehead, yet still puzzled him anyways. "I love you."

After that, she just left his room and said good night to him before closing the door. Takeo then began to wonder what's going on with his Mom. Nevertheless, he laid down and pulled the blanket to cover his entire body but his head and muttered quietly. "I love you, Mom."

However, before he could fall asleep completely, he spotted a shadowy figure creeping towards him. He widened his eyes and began to panic, but before he could escape, the shadowy figure managed to impale its hand into his stomach, causing the blood to slowly leak out of his body. Not just his stomach, his killer also covered his mouth to prevent him from alerting his Mom with his scream. He could not take a good look on his killer's face before his eyes blacked out.

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Flashback Ended

"In order to transform into a certain person, I must take the targeted person's live blood and taste them before a said person died, or it would not work, otherwise." Hana explained her unusual power to all her opponents how it worked and how she could transform into her current appearance.

Shikaku frowned, thinking to himself. 'That explains it a lot! That's how this person transformed into Hana.'

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Flashback Began

Takeo stared at his hand that was covered in Hana's blood and gave her an evil grin. "Because using someone's else form and then ambush you is so fun?" Afterward, he licked around Hana's finger blood that covered on his entire hand.

His words didn't go unnoticed by Shikaku. 'Using someone's else form?'

Takeo's aura glowed red, as his appearance somehow slowly changed, and his height was also shortened as well. Once completed transform, his appearance now in similar form identical to Hana. However, her hand was somehow sanitized as if Hana's blood was never there, leaving everyone here in this battlefield speechless.

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Flashback Ended

"So that's how it is. By using Hana's form, you took her blood and tasted it before her death a moment ago. Although, that technique was good for deception and a prey that fell into the trap thinking you're among them." realized Shikaku, while maintaining his control over his shadow jutsu that was performed on Hana, who was still unable to move, yet looked calm and collected. 'She's not trying to break out of it.' He frowned. 'However, I doubt that was her intention. There's no way he would be this patient to wait for my jutsu to expire. Could that mean…?'

With a brief glance at Rock Lee, he nodded, in which the said person acknowledged it. Shikaku somehow had a feeling that No One, unlike Riley, could break the jutsu easily if it wanted to. If that were to happen soon, Rock Lee would engage in the fight with No One.

"Bingo!" Hana smiled cheerfully. "You're smarter than I thought. However, it was not only used as deception, but it can be used to gather the intel from the enemy. When I said gather the intel from the enemy, I don't mean pretending to be one of them and learn from their allies directly."

Shikaku raised his eyebrows in a question at Hana, as did the rest of his comrades. What did she mean when she said that? How else would No One gather the intel anything else but interrogating the enemy or disguised as a spy?

"Hehe…" Hana chuckled darkly. "Oh, do you want to know what I did to Takeo after I killed him? Do you?"

"What?!" growled Inoichi. Everyone did not like the sound of this, but remained silent, so they can hear what Hana got to say soon.

"I'd recommend a bag, because you might throw up soon." Hana licked her lips in a cruel pleasant, even that terrified everyone else, including Anko. She would glance at each one of them and analyze them very deep inside. She could tell what their reaction would be once she already done analyzing them. It was going to be amusing, at least for her, though. "I ate him."

That was three simple words all she needed to say. The reaction she received from her enemies, and it turned out that she was right. Exactly as she predicted that. The way she revealed it, they already were frozen. Probably, in shock.

"What…?!" Tenten was the first person to say it. She was overwhelmed with the revelation that Hana gave her. Were they battling the enemy whom was… She did not want to say the word, but…

"C-C-Can't be…!" Inoichi looked like he was ready to throw up, but managed to force it down. There was no time to throw up on the battlefield like that. But he never faced someone like him!

"She's…" muttered Anko quietly. Not even Orochimaru would do that. She remembered he only wanted a body, so he could live longer, but he would never eat people, or was he, though?

"Cannibal…" Shikaku finished, as his sweat just worked down on his forehead a lot, indicating that he, too, was nervous. But he could not afford to be nervous anymore. He snapped out of it and glared at her with his very determination.

'Cannibals or not… I'm going to protect Konoha from the evil, Gai-sensei! If you're dead, I hope you do watch over me,' thought Lee. Although he may hide it, but he was also nervous too. He never fought a cannibal before.

Yes, that was exactly as she predicted. She already set her eyes on Tenten who was gripping the big spikeball, but she could tell that Tenten was shaky right now. 'Yes, that will do it. I will now demonstrate them how I eat people!'

Hana, once again, licked her lips around with an insane laugh. "Hehehe…" She already began to fantasize herself how she would eat Tenten's entire body while rest of her allies were watching in horror.

"What's so funny?!" growled Inoichi. He nearly gagged after he learned of Hana's true color. Who would eat the dead people?! 'Only insane people would do something like that!'

"Nothing. Just your reaction is quite amusement." Hana said. "Now, now, Shikaku…" As soon as she mentioned his name, she could see that he already tightened his hand. 'I see. He's smart, all right. He already expected that I am going to break his pathetic technique easily. So what's your next plan?'

Aside from that, she smirked at Shikaku. "Do you think that little technique that you performed a moment ago would work on me? I am not like Riley who struggled to break free of it!"

Without allowing them to respond back, Hana effortlessly broke out of shadow jutsu and with that, she suddenly vanished without a trace, much to their shock.

"What?!" cried Shikaku. He expected that Hana would break out of his jutsu, but he didn't expect that Hana would be this fast. He and everyone were looking for his whereabout, but they could not find a trace of him. 'Think, think… If I was No One, where would I go and what would I be doing next? Who is she targeting? In this case, if I were her, I would be targeting the weakest link in the group first.'

Suddenly, realization dawned on his face. 'Weakest link?! That's it! That's who she's after!' She glanced behind him at unsuspecting Tenten. "Behind you, Tenten!"

Indeed, Hana appeared behind Tenten and started charging at her. "I AM GONNA EAT YOU! HAHA!" She propelled her hand towards Tenten's back. However, Tenten would not dare to look back for some reason, but she was probably petrified after knowing that she was the prey right now.

"TEN-CHAN!" cried Lee.

Just when Hana stepped down right behind Tenten, there was a paper binding that she stepped on already activated itself, which attracted Hana to it. It glowed too bright and immediately blinded Hana.

"AHH! MY EYES!" Hana clasped her eyes in the pain. "How dare you do to me?!" She definitely did not expect this, but apparently, Tenten had a plan in stored for No One.

"Now on to next…" Tenten said, gripping her large spikeball's handle tightly and swung it around, smashing Hana's face very hard, and it turned out that her spikeball was filled with multiple exploding papers.

BOOOM!

An explosion knocked Hana skipping across the rubbles where the building was destroyed before, and a little dust kicked up after Hana hit the ground.

Tenten held her large spikeball down to the ground, smirking at her enemy. "Thought I should let you know that you should not judge the book by its cover."

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Hokage District- Hinata vs Guure

In her blind rage, Hinata sent out a flurry of palms at Guure, whom parried them with ease. While attacking him in a blind rage, all she thought about Akamaru and Choji whose were also precious comrades and friends to her. What Guure did to Akamaru and Choji was very cruel, and the way how she saw their corpse now. It was very brutal and that was the reason why she exploded with a rage.

"Yes, that's it! Attack him with all you got!" cheered Kuririn, pumping his fists up happily. He thought Hinata already applied the pressure on Guure the second they started fighting. However, he noticed that no one else, except him, were too excited about that for some reason. Not to mention that Paradox was not too excited about it either.

So he had to look back at the fight carefully, and then he noticed something that went wrong with the fight. He finally realized that Guure was barely moved away. Hinata had done nothing to push him back, as they had been at the same place. All Guure did was to parry all of her attack while staying firmly on the ground effortlessly.

Kuririn muttered nervously. "N-No way!"

While Guure continued to parry every and each of her attacks, he scowled at her in annoyance. "Pathetic weakling! Do you think something like that weak attacks would work on me?!"

With each of thrust, the speed of her hands had increased gradually, but even at increasing speed, Guure continued to block them with ease. Hinata already recognized that her attacks were not enough to push the frog-man, yet despite this, she continued to deliver a flurry attacks, using her only palms alone!

'Damn! Just a little more…!' Hinata thought, delivering a bunch of palm attacks on her opponent. She began to power her white aura up, which would increase her power and speed, yet it had no affect on Guure. However, her speed continued to increase, as her allies watched on in very astounding.

'I see!' Shikamaru thought. 'Normally, with just a single Juken, it would block out a chakra point. All Elementians, even if they're ninjas or not, all contains the chakra. In other words, they all have exact 361 tenketsu in their chakra pathway system. They are so tiny that Sharingan eyes cannot see, but only the Byakugan is able to see another person's tenketsu. Any Byakugan-user would know where to block them out by using their Junken style of combat. That normally would disrupt the flow of chakra and prevent opponent from using chakra.

'However, that was not in Guure's case. He doesn't use the chakra. He uses Ki. That means it would be very difficult for Hinata to block them out in an instant. From what I heard, the KI is so powerful that you could not disable their Ki in an instant, unlike the chakra where you could disable them in an instant. Since acquiring the Ki power, you should be able to adjust your Ki to your Junken and use it against Guure soon!'

A sudden cough. He heard a rapid cough, and so he turned around fast. Ino just coughed up some blood badly, which had him worried there. "Ino! Are you okay?!" He was afraid that Ino might would die sooner than she should be.

"Argh! It hurts so badly!" Ino clutched her head in the pain, screaming with the tears in her eyes. "Make it stop already!" Not just blood out of her mouth, the blood continued to run out of her nose. It indicated that she was going to die soon, if she wouldn't get healed soon. Basically, the longer she lived, the more damage she felt on her head, due to not too long ago that Guure used some odd technique on her during her mind transfer jutsu.

Shikamaru felt the rage that started to swell inside his chest. But he knew better not to charge in on-head foolishly, as much as he wanted to make Guure to pay for it! Choji and Akamaru died, and now Ino was going to die very soon.

However, he had a feeling that Hinata was not going to be the one that take Guure down. Sooner or later, they may have to deal with Guure again together. Unfortunately, there was a headless corpse of Choji laying on the ground, Akamaru laying down with the tongue sticking out and neck broken, Kiba was too broken to do anything, thanks to his dog getting killed in front of his eyes, Ino's head was too damaged to fight back, Gohan and Kuririn were heavily injured right now, and Shino was standing in silent after his attempt to ambush Guure had failed, so he did nothing but to watch on.

'If Hinata is defeated here, only me and Shino can hold him back, but I guess all I can do is to run away until Naruto, Sasuke, or Sakura gets here. It may be a coward, but it's useful tactic in this situation,' thought Shikamaru. He couldn't afford to screw up here. They may need him with his strategy.

Gohan glanced over his side at Ino. There was nothing he could do about her. Kuririn and he did not carry Senzu Bean with them. He then glanced up at the sky. He had sensed the Ki coming this way. 'Sakura, please hurry up! Ino is dying!' All he could do was to count on Sakura to arrive and give Ino a Senzu Bean soon, and then have her defeated Guure by herself, if possible!

"What are you plotting against me?!" Guure growled. He struggled to understand why Hinata continued to use the same attack on him no matter what even though it had no effect on him. But the longer she repeated the same attack pattern on him, the more infuriated he was getting.

The power in Hinata suddenly surged through her body, as well as her aura spiked up, and the flurry of her arms also speed up. Even though it may be too fast for Shikamaru, Ino, Kiba, and Shino, but Paradox, Gohan, Kuririn, and Guure himself could still see her arms.

"YOU WILL PAY FOR IT!" Hinata screamed, as she halted her arm for a moment there before propelling her palm towards Guure, who confidently raised his arm to block it. However, once he blocked it, it sent large shockwave across the area, in which all others felt it.

Shikamaru had to shelter the damaged Ino from the shockwave which knocked them a feet away, and Kiba and Shino as well. Despite heavily damaged, Kuririn and Gohan were not flinched by it, since the shockwave was very weak, but they did put their arms up to protect themselves, though. Paradox was not affect, and he simply smirked.

"Heh, that tickled me, Hinata." Paradox said to no one.

Shikamaru just opened his eyes, but the first thing he would do was to check on Ino that she sheltered. "Ino! Are you all right?!" He hoped that the shockwave did not harm her a bit much.

Ino chuckled weakly. "Yeah, I am all right, thanks to you." He knew that she still was damaged from some weird technique that Guure used on her, but at least she did not take any further damage from the shockwave. That could have been worse. That could have aggravated the damage in her head. That's why he sheltered her to keep her alive a bit longer.

Anyways, now Shikamaru was relieved that she was okay. He looked around to check up what just happened between Hinata and Guure. Did Hinata manage to inflict a damage on Guure?

But it did not seem like Hinata did it. Hinata had her palm on Guure's forearm, and almost as if they were frozen on the spot. But why was Hinata grinning? Why was Guure scowling? What just happened? So many questions Shikamaru want to know all answers!

"She did it!" Shikamaru just heard Gohan's cheer. What did she do? He looked at Gohan who apparently looked happy.

"Yeah, she did it!" agreed Kuririn. He looked happy, too.

Shikamaru had no idea what they were talking about. What did she do? He had to look at Hinata and Guure again. All he saw was that Hinata had her palm on Guure's forearm, and they were frozen on the spot. Did he not see something that Gohan and Kuririn saw?

'Wait a minute…' He remembered that Hinata could not move Guure before. To make sure, he checked them out again and analyzed them carefully. 'No way!'

There were barely footprints on the pavement in front of Guure and behind Hinata. 'She moved him!' He knew that was her plan, but he could not believe. Guure was hard to beat, even with Gohan and Kuririn. Well, Gohan and Kuririn moved him, though, but none of Konoha Nine could move him until Hinata came.

Shikamaru began to sweat so hard that his body started to tremble. 'T-This is the power of Ki?!' To think there was more powerful people in the universe if there was such as low level Ki user like Hinata. One thing he knew for sure… Hinata was not on Gohan and Kuririn's level yet after all what he had seen from this kunoichi displaying her power. It would not be too long before Guure may suddenly decided to kill her right away.

"I-Incredible!" spoke Ino. She, too, was shocked by Hinata's newfound Ki power.

'Hina-chan…' Kiba was speechless.

"W-W-What is this?!" Guure could feel the tingle in his arm somehow. It was almost as if a bit of his Ki was blocked out. Not really hurt, but it bothered him right now. He would like to get rid of the tingle or something in his arm. He glared down at Hinata who was responsible for this. "What did you do to me?!"

Hinata widened her grin and pulled her free palm. "I am used to Ki now. I already figured out how to block your Ki out."

"Block my Ki out? What do you mean?" Guure was perturbed when she said that. But she would not answer his question, as she thrust her palm towards him, forcing him to raise his another arm.

Once again, he felt a tingle crawling through his another arm. 'What?! This again?!' Not only that he felt it, but he also was pushed too.

Afterward, Hinata sent out a flurry of her palms at Guure, who continued to parry them with his arms, yet he felt worse and worse every time. The more tingle he felt, the more sore he felt on his both arms. No matter how hard he tried to ignore all injuries he received lately, his feet still skid away, as Hinata attacked on.

'Not yet! There's too many Ki spots in his system!' Hinata thought, still sending out a flurry of her palms. Indeed, through her Byakugan eyes, there was a blue thingy that flowed through his body everywhere. Every time she blocked out a Ki, a little bit of his Ki disappeared, but it would take a while to completely disable her whole Ki. 'Unlike Chakra where it has only 361 tenketsu, it's different in Ki's case. I lost count of them, but Ki have too many 'tenketsu' or whatever they're called. But no matter... I need to stall him a little more until Sakura gets here.'

Guure began to get frustrated with Hinata's aggressive attack when he had no idea how he took several damage. It may not hurt too much, but he hated that feeling. A tingle. He disliked this because it annoyed him now. But what kind of technique did she perform on him?

'I could dodge her, but…' Guure gritted his teeth in frustration, as he began to analyze her body. Where did that technique come from? All he saw was an aura that covered her entire hand, yet constantly switched between her left and right hands every time she thrusted her palm.

'Wait!' Guure just realized that it must be only reason why he felt the tingle in his both arms. It was because of this aura in her both hands that she often switched around. 'To ensure that this is her technique, I must test it one more time first.'

Guure raised his arm up again to block another Junken from Hinata, and to no surprise, it sent another tingle inside his arm. He just realized that the more he blocked, the more Hinata would drain his Ki somehow, or 'block out the Ki' in her word if he recalled correctly. 'I can't afford to parry any more of them. She concentrated all of her Ki into a single point.'

That's just it! No more tingle in his arm. Guure was sick of it. Now he remembered what he was supposed to do. He was going to kill rest of his enemy until Hinata intervened because he was so done with obeying Paradox's order.

Just then, Hinata thrust her palm, fully expecting him to parry her again, only to go through Guure. "WHAT?!" Why did her hand go through him just like that?

"It's Zanzoken! (Afterimage)" shouted Kuririn. "It is a technique that you move so fast enough to leave an image behind."

And it was true. Guure just disappeared without a trace just like that. Instead of wasting time to be shocked, she quickly looked around the area for Guure.

"Behind you!" cried Gohan.

Hinata was already prepared for that, as she figured that he would be behind her like that. She spun around and generate Ki powers into his palm, but just before she could begin her thrust motion, a fist slammed onto her stomach, forcing her to spew the blood out of her mouth. That recent action just shocked everyone in the area.

"Hinata!" cried Kiba, who recently finally got out of shellshock.

She never experienced a great deal of pain that inflicted on her like this before. But that may be how most people with the Ki fight. Just one punch and it could hurt you bad like that. She knew she would not be able to beat Guure. Hence this was her job to stall him until Sakura arrived.

Suddenly, her head started to dizzy. 'Damn it all! I am not going to give up! I am not done stalling him! Just a little more… please! At least, until Sakura gets here!' To think a simple one punch could almost get her done in. She just realized that if she never learned how to use Ki and how to tough her body up, she would be dead by now already.

"NO MORE…" Guure clenched his fists, sending his enraged glare down at Hinata who struggled to get up. "NO MORE…"

Paradox recognized his expression. He chuckled in a low tone where Guure could not hear him. "At last… He has gone mad. You're just getting there soon, frog bastard!" He could not be more excited than anyone at this moment. After all, he had been waiting for this moment! 'Just 30 seconds more… someone will be here.'

"NO MORE…" His intense enraged eyes continued to glare down at Hinata. His body started to shake, almost as if he was ready to explode with anger. "NO MORE…"

"No more what?" wondered Kuririn. He would like Guure to spit it out already.

Gohan had a bad feeling about this. Something bad was going to happen soon. Gohan just hoped that he was wrong, though.

Hinata managed to get on her knees, as she moved her head up to show him her menacing glare with some of her bang hair that covered a bit of her eyes. "What? Just spit it out!"

Without any warning to Guure, she swiftly jumped onto Guure and pulled her palm, as she charged the Ki around her palm before thrusting at him, only to miss through. Guure disappeared once again.

But she already expected him to disappear as soon as she thrust her palm anyways. She knew that he was behind him, so she pivoted her foot around and gave her palm another thrust, but also fazed through him. 'Damn another Zanzoken (Afterimage Attack)?!'

She could sense Guure that appeared behind her was going to ambush her immediately. Refusing to give up, her aura flared up as she rose herself into the sky, glaring down at Guure. "This time…! Juho Soshiken (Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists)!"

A visible blue chakra that shaped like large guardian shrouds into her hands. That may not be a powerful jutsu enough to stop Guure, but maybe at least that would stall him a bit enough before Sakura would arrive here.

"NO MORE…" Guure continued to shake all his body, which seemed like he was ready to lose his temper. His eyes were no longer calm and collected, but now they looked like they were bloodthirsty or something.

Hinata was a bit confused now, as seeing how Guure continued to repeat the same words, yet cut off in the middle of the sentence every time. But it did not matter to her. It all mattered that she would just need to buy some time for Sakura to arrive here.

She did not want to waste any more time, or Guure would come right at her. She could not afford to risk it anymore. With twin lion shrouds around her both hands, she charged down towards an enraged Guure. "EAT THIS!"

She propelled her palm at very high speed, hoping that she would land a critical hit on him. But unfortunately, she missed once again and slammed her palm on the pavement, forming a crater on the ground as the dust bellowed up a bit.

Before she had a reaction, she did not see a fist coming at her as she was sent flying higher out of the dust into the sky.

Everyone here on the ground except Paradox were speechless right now. They did not know what to say, but to worry about Hinata.

Just when Hinata opened her eyes after taking so much damage to her jaws, Guure already appeared above her. "NO MORE…"

Hinata widened her eyes. 'S-So fast!' She just gawked at him, as he placed his palm at her, charging the energy sphere. 'I can't die like this! Not at least until Sakura gets here!'

"NO MORE…" Guure continued to charge her energy sphere, as it began to grow bigger and bigger.

That was the first time she felt scared for long time since two years ago when her beloved Naruto disappeared off the face of the planet! He was too strong! Just too powerful enough to vaporize her!

"He is going to kill her!" Gohan said, terrified.

Kuririn gritted his teeth with the sweating down his forehead. "Damn it!" Nothing he could do about it right now, as seeing he was too damaged to move right now.

"NO MORE…" Guure's energy sphere expanded a bit more, which made Hinata realized that he was going for the kill right now.

'Damn! I can't die like this!' Hinata crossed her arms in front of her face. She could hope that she defend herself. Maybe that would reduce Guure's chance to inflict a damage on her.

Finally, Guure screamed, as he exploded with the rage. "NO MORE STALLING! DIE!" He fired a powerful energy wave onto Hinata, pushing her towards the ground.

Not too long before it broke her guard, it engulfed over Hinata's body. She screamed in the pain. She clenched her fist, trying to ignore all the pain she just received but failed to do so. She briefly glanced behind her. She knew if she hit the ground, she would be obliterated instantly. If only she could do something to bounce it away, but she did not know how to.

'Damn! I can't die just like that!' No matter how she struggled, she couldn't seem to get out of it right now.

Kuririn looked up and watched as the energy wave that collided with Hinata continued to go down to the ground. "Oh, crap! Hit the deck!" He yelled to everyone. He just dove for the ground to cover himself. Everyone else, except Paradox who smirked smugly, followed the instruction.

Once the energy wave collided with the ground, it caused a large explosion.

BOOOOOOOM!

A massive energy of explosion dome expanded further and further, destroying everything in the area. Only in the Hokage District.

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Near Konohagakure Gate

Konohamaru wielded the kunai into defensive stance, facing Itachi-corpse who stared back at him. A zombie-user and his two comrades smiled very proud of this corpse who just gave Konohamaru. A zombie-user only made Itachi-corpse playing around with Konohamaru and rests of other Konoha-nin. Itachi-corpse was too powerful for Konoha-nin to deal with.

Konohamaru gritted his teeth in frustration. 'Damn! I could not get around him.' Suddenly, he felt the strong wind bellowing over him, he quickly turned around, only to find massive energy explosion of sphere about few miles away from him. 'What's that?!'

A zombie user quickly became serious. 'That's Guure's energy. It seems that he gets serious right now.' Even though Guure was always serious, but this time, he was more than just a serious. He looked at Konohamaru again who was rather speechless at the explosion. 'That means we need to get serious now.'

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Rock Lee vs Hana (No One)

A rubble exploded with Hana's Ki around her body, jumping out of it and landed on the ground, glaring at Tenten. "Why, you! I did not expect that you would set a trap just right behind you and all exploding tags that attached on your weapon."

"Maybe you should not judge its book by the cover then. I am not as weak as you think." Tenten said with a proud smirk, already gripped her spikeball's handle, preparing for another incoming attack.

Hana realized that angering would not do her any good, so she calmed herself down. Perhaps it was just a pure luck that Tenten got best of her, after all. "Heh." Hana chuckled. "It was a luck. No way you knock me away with your pure skill. It was a pure luck, after all!"

"What?" Tenten twitched her eyes in annoyance. Did she continue to misunderstand her? "No, I'm telling you it's not pure luck! I set a trap behind me because I knew you were going—" She trailed off as Hana interrupted her.

"Shut your mouth!" Hana pointed her finger at her, scowling. "Just admit that it's your pure luck! No weakling like you can pack even a punch on me! Admit it!"

Tenten started to find her opponent annoying. "I am not weakling! Stop being such a sexist!" She then looked back to her allies. "I'm not weak, right?!" Silence filled the air for a moment. She felt uncomfortable all of the sudden, so she asked them again. "RIGHT, GUYS?!"

Inoichi scratched his head awkwardly. "Umm… I think that it's just a luck." Tenten suddenly feel like an arrow just hit her heart.

"To be fair, it was a pure luck." Shikamaru said, wounding Tenten's confidence further. "Don't' get me wrong. Had she noticed that beforehand, you would be dead already by now. It is 50/50 chance of her noticing it or not." She felt like another arrow just hit her heart.

Even Anko agreed that it was just a pure luck. "Sorry."

Tenten turned to Rock Lee, hoping that Lee would be on her side. However, it was not as she expected out of him. All he did was to mutter "luck". Once again, very big, big arrow just hit her heart. She almost cried, but quickly replaced it with anger.

Her head suddenly grew bigger (comically) as she screamed loudly at all of them. "WHO ARE YOU ON SIDE WITH?!" All her allies had to cover their ears. It was too loud.

A laughter came from Hana herself, so Tenten turned to her, giving her a glare. "What's so funny?!"

"Even they agreed with me!" Hana smirked, very proud of what she just had done. Basically, she got Tenten's allies to turn their back on her.

Tenten's face turned red temporarily before she got some ideas. "Say, were you born a male?!"

Hana raised her eyebrows in confusion. "What?"

"Were you born a male or a female? After all, the body you're inhabiting is a female. Let me ask you again. Are you a male or a female?" asked Tenten once again.

"Oh, curiosity, aren't you?!" Hana smirked smugly. "You want to know if I am a male or a female, correct?"

Tenten nodded.

"Well…" Hana folded her arms and closed her eyes for a while. It was almost as if she did not remember herself. "Aw, I don't remember. I've transformed too many times. No one have seen my original body, except my parents and my childhood friends, and everyone in my old school. Not even myself. I mean, I don't even remember my original body. But the way I acted, I would assume I am a male. So only my parents would know. I transformed too many times, so it's only natural that I'd forget about my own gender or even what I look like. I could be handsome for all I know, or I could be ugliest ever you have seen."

Ten Ten narrowed her eyes. "You said you are a male?"

"Probably." That was all Hana could reply. She shrugged. "I told you I can't remember myself. But pretty much, that's my theory. I think I'm a male."

"And you are in Hana's body?"

"Yeah, what about it? I simply take her blood, so I can shapeshift into her."

"Pervert!"

"What?!"

"I said you are a pervert!"

"I told you I'm probably a male, the way I acted like. But what if I am a female, though? Ever heard of tomboy?"

"Still a pervert!"

"HOW?!"

"Even if you're female, you're still a pervert!"

"Care to elaborate?!"

Tenten pointed her finger at an annoyed Hana. "The form you previously inhabited was Takeo, right? And he was a male, right?"

"Oh, I see." Hana nodded, finally getting what Tenten meant. "But what if I am a male thought? I couldn't be possibly pervert then!" She curled her lips into a smirk. 'What are you going to do? Can you come up with a comeback of yours? I got—Huh?'

She noticed that Tenten was chuckling a little. Her face quickly turned into a scowl and clenched her fists tighter. "What's so funny?!"

"How did you forget that you're in Hana's body? A female body? Yep, you're still a pervert." Tenten reminded her with all smug confident on her face. She was so proud that she came up with a nice comeback!

"Oh, crap!" Shocked, Hana looked down at her own body—no, the real Hana's body. "Whoa! You're right! How did I forget about that?!"

"And you want to take my body. Therefore, that makes you still a pervert too." Tenten pointed at herself.

"All right! You got me! I will admit that I'm a pervert. Never thought about that, though!" Hana admitted, glaring at Tenten. "That bitch." She only mumbled that words to herself, so that Tenten could not hear.

Inoichi sweat-dropped, whispering to Shikaku. "What are they doing? Did she forget that she was supposed to fight him together with us?"

Shikaku smirked. "It might be good time to begin discussing our new strategy. Han—No One also forget that she was supposed to fight us after all. I hope for all our sake, they will continue to argue. Listen… And Rock Lee—" As soon as he looked up at Lee, he could see that Lee was shaking.

Wait. What was Lee's doing? Why was he shaking? Was he nervous?

"Lee—" Once again, he trailed off when Rock Lee pumped his fist up with the tears in his eyes happily.

"Tenten!" Rock Lee cried happily. "You truly showed your passion for the springtime of youth!"

Anko sweat-dropped as well and chuckled a little. "He will be fine."

Shikaku sighed, but smiled a little. "How troublesome."

Now back to Tenten and Hana, Tenten smiled. "So far, all your personality summed you up. Cannibals."

Hana nodded in agreement with Tenten again. "Yep."

"Pervert."

Hana nodded again. "Yep."

"Pedophile."

Hana nodded once again. "Yep."

Tenten was taken aback by Hana's quick response. 'No way! She admitted?!' Even Rock Lee, Shikaku, Inoichi, and Anko were surprised by it.

Hana froze. She just realized that she admitted that she was the pedophile. How could she say yep so casually?! She looked up with the glare in her eyes. "I am not the pedophile!"

"Yes, you took Takeo's body… and you wanted my body! So yes, you are the pedophile!" Tenten shouted, pointing accusingly at her.

"How dare you?!" Hana shouted back. "I am not the pedophile! I am cannibals and pervert, but I am not pedophile! Got that?!"

Tenten nodded her head few times. "Yes, you are the pedophile! It is too late now since you admitted it anyways! You creeped me out! I won't let you steal my body!" Her face became serious right after that, as she pulled her large spikeball up and gripped its handle to prepare any upcoming attack.

Hana gritted her teeth, glaring at Tenten very annoying. 'Who does she think she is?! Does she think she can insult me with all these petty jokes?! You will pay for it!'

Just before Hana could make her next move, there was a sudden massive energy explosion of dome very far, far away somewhere in the Konohagakure. "What?!" Hana cried in shock, as she and everyone else in this battlefield looked distant over at the explosion.

"Unbelievable!" Shikaku said, staring in shock at the massive explosion. "If an enemy over there generate enough energy, he could have destroyed the village… or even worse, a planet!"

"What energy I am feeling right now!" It was all Inoichi said right now. Right now, he was feeling very anxious after seeing a powerful energy that destroyed Hokage District area over there. Gratefully, it did not go all the way over to Hokage's Mansion. That's where the Hokage would be at. Probably fighting Coola at the moment. But still, it was too powerful.

Even Rock Lee, too, was nervous, yet somehow muster a courage. 'I am not going to give up! I will show my springtime of youth to these enemies! I am going to defeat them for you, Neji! And Gai-sensei, too!' He had a feeling that Gai died as well.

Anko looked over to Hana suddenly. 'Does that mean there's Coola's men amongst them are far stronger than the Hokage compared to this guy and that Riley guy?! Even Orochimaru?!'

Tenten stared at the massive explosion for a while before finally realized it. "Oh, no! That's where rest of other Konoha Nine went to!" Now she was worried that rests of her friend might die there. Whoever they were fighting must be powerful one! After seeing Neji and possibly Gai's death, she could not afford any more of her friends to die like this!

Hana stared at the explosion incredibly. 'It is so huge! That power… Is that Guure? I never have seen him this much serious? Usually, he would kill them right off the bat. Does that mean his opponents are strong as he is at this moment? If that's the case…" He glared around at all his opponents as he clenched his fist. 'Then I must get serious!'

Hana slowly turned his lips into an evil grin. "Heh… Listen, you guys!" Everyone else diverted their attention from the explosion to her. "I am so done with all these petty jokes! No more smart-aleck of yours, bitch! You will pay for this! I WILL KILL YOU SO I CAN TAKE YOUR BODY! YOU LOOK DELICIOUS! I WILL SAVE YOU FOR MY MEAL LATER TONIGHT! NOW DIE!" She shouted with all of her strength from her voice box before powering up the aura around her body and charging towards Tenten with utmost killing intent.

Tenten was caught off by surprise. She was not prepared for that! All she did was to worry about her friends, and now she was about to be killed off on this spot. She did not know how to react to that. She was so petrified at this moment, thanks to massive killing intent that Hana leaked off to.

She was so ready to die right now. There was nothing she could do. She refused to shut her eyes just because she was going to die. 'Death, here I come!'

Just before Hana could reach her hand for Tenten, all of the sudden, she took a boot to the face very hard, reeling back through the rubbles once again.

Tenten widened her eyes in shock. She was so grateful for Rock Lee who managed to save her just in nick of time. "Rock Lee…" If it was not for him, she could have died right here.

Rock Lee furrowed her eyebrows, glaring at the rubbles where Hana was in. Without looking back to Tenten, he placed his hand behind his back and his other hand raised up, facing its back towards the rubble. "Tenten… I am not going to let you die! I am going to protect Konohagakure with all my life even if it costs me my life! I won't allow them to kill you guys! Not like Neji or Gai!"

'Gai?' thought Tenten. 'That's right. Gai hasn't returned since then. That Fayre guy could be alive. He could be somewhere here.'

Rubbles scattered away once again, as Hana jumped and landed, clenching her fists and glaring towards Lee. "Why, you!"

"You will not kill any of us any longer!" Lee shot back his glare. "This village is my precious village. The reason why I become a ninja is because I want to protect it from the bad guys like you! I will beat you… with my way of the ninja!" His eyes became more determined and ferocious.

"You will beat me, the most skilled spy in the universe, you say?!" Hana scoffed. "Don't make me laugh! I am the No One, whose is the most powerful spy in the universe! I've disguised as many different people, and then later, I would murder them where they are at vulnerable at best! I will have you know that being spy is not only one thing I am good at! I am the master at hand-to-hand combat or taijutsu in other words! Still think you can beat me?!"

"Try me." Rock Lee replied very simple.

It only infuriated Hana further a bit before she managed to collect herself and calm down. She smirked smugly. "You will soon realize the terror of my hand-to-hand combat. I am not like Riley Harris, who only specialized in street fight."

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Destroyed Hokage's Mansion- Tsunade, Hirzuen, and ANBU vs Coola

Coola still folded his arms, watching over the massive explosion. He was merely amused, nothing more. 'Guure, it would appear to me that you're losing patience. The question is, can you finish them off, though?' He already sensed another Ki power coming on way to where Guure was at. He had a feeling that this was the end. 'No matter… If Guure cannot, Paradox will finish them off anyways. I'll be disappointed if they're both defeated. It would be pain in the ass if I have to kill them myself.'

Somewhere away from Coola, Tsunade, Hirzuen, and ANBU had been hiding for a while. They knew that they could not take on Coola themselves. He was too powerful for them to take on. Hopefully, he would not make a move any time soon. And they would have to wait for him to let his guard down, so they could ambush him at some point.

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Hokage Distrct- Hinata vs Guure

Shikamaru just opened his eyes. When he did, he widened his eyes and opened his mouth, gaping at all damage that Guure had done to this area. He scanned the area around him. It was so unbelievable that everything could undergo the change in just a second! Hokage District…

"He has…" Shikamaru stammered, still shocked by the sudden change of scene. "…turned this into a wasteland!"

Indeed, Hokage District was no more! Everything in this area had been wiped off. No more building around here. It was almost as if it was the desert right now! Nothing but a wasteland, except there was still a building each from the both side between this Hokage District area.

'How troublesome. To think I've dragged to fight as powerful enemy as he is. Imagine how powerful Coola would be right now!' Shikamaru was sweating so hard that he started to feel doubt if Naruto or Sasuke or Sakura would be the one to defeat Coola. 'I could run away but…' He gritted his teeth as he clenched his fist with anxious. 'Coola will destroy this planet and I will die all the same.' In other words, it would be best if he stayed here and hoped for the best. Perhaps one of these Team 7 Genins would clear up his doubt.

"Ugh…" Ino groaned, trying to nurse her own head.

That got Shikamaru's attention. "Are you all right, Ino?!" He showed concern for Ino. He could tell that she was dying slowly. If she's not treated immediately, she would…

"Yeah." She shut her one eye down while soothing her head. "Anyways, where are we?" When she opened her eyes a while ago, she was baffled by how big difference this battlefield was. Were they still in the same place whole times? That's why she asked him just to be sure.

"Hokage Distrct. Guure destroyed everything!" Shikamaru replied. Ino noticed that his voice was very shaky. She could tell that he was scared. But she, too, was scared. In fact, ever since she tried to take over Guure's mind, he showed her why she should not mess with him. She could not tell if they were going to survive this battle or not. Their fate could seal anytime soon. But who would save the world?

Gohan slowly opened his eyes, but once he fully opened them, he was speechless at the battlefield. He could not find a trace of building in this area! Guure must have wiped them off! However, he was so grateful that the entire village was not destroyed. That means another comrades of their were alive very much on different places.

But still, by just seeing the wasteland made his blood boil. He felt angry that he was still too weak. He was very disappointed in himself that he did not train well enough. If his Mom did not force him to study all days, he would have no problem fighting Guure on par right now! But he could not blame her though. She was only Mom who wanted the best for him. He could not blame everyone but himself! He blamed himself for not having a courage to stand up to his Mother!

Just one day… where he would not have to rely on everyone else anymore! Just one day!

Shino simply stood up, but he was, too, baffled by the view of the scene right now.

Kuririn slowly pushed him up, but he managed to get up. As soon as he got clear view of the battlefield, he widened his eyes in shock. He was speechless to leave a comment regarding the recent event. Of course, someone as powerful as Guure is right now… he's capable of destroying the planet! So he could destroy the village if he wanted to! This was not the first time that someone could destroy about 1/16 area of the large population area. He heard from Tien that King Piccolo was capable of destroying 1/16 area of the city once before Goku killed him.

But only one thing all were wondering right now was: Where's Hinata? Did she just die? That was almost as if it's the certainty they are having now.

They looked around the battlefield for Hinata, but there was no sign of her everywhere! And one more thing… Where the hell was Kiba? Did he get caught up in the explosion?!

In the meantime, Guure slowly descended towards the ground, grinning sadistically at the large crater where he landed his attack on. 'She died!'

For some reason, Guure, all of the sudden, felt happy. Then he landed on the ground, as he was staring at his clenched his fist. He could notice a little shake in his fist. It indicated that he was very excited. Indeed, he felt excited. He was very excited to end this battle for once and all. "I vaporized her…" For very first time in his life, he was very happy to kill someone else, even though he himself did not like to enjoy killing people, as he said it so himself earlier against Gohan. He truly was tired of stalling any longer fight just because Paradox claimed that it was Coola's order! "I vaporized her…"

From on now, his new plan…

He raised his another fist, yet it was too shaking with excitement. "I vaporized her…"

He would first ask a question on the whereabout of Naruto, and then…

"I VAPORIZED HER!" Guure raised his both hand up, laughing manically all the way to the sky. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!" THEN HE WOULD KILL THEM REGARDLESS OF THEIR QUESTION!

Paradox, remained unscathed, still had his arms folded and smirked. "You've finally gone mad. Game's over."

"HINATA!" Came the scream voice from somewhere.

Guure detached from his long trail of thoughts and shifted his attention to the voice whom screamed her name just recently. He found Kiba standing over there who glared towards him with a vicious hatred, even though that brat was heavily injured.

Not just Kiba, he looked around, only to find Gohan, Kuririn, Shikamaru, and Ino. Wait… And Shino, too. Could not forget him, too.

Guure chuckled evilly. "It would appear to me that my attack did not finish you all off. Looks like I need to work on my area of effect skills. I can't be elite if I don't finish all at once! But don't worry. I will kill every and each one of you. I will start with you, dog-lover!" He raised his palm at Kiba, beginning to charge the Ki on his palm.

"Move out! He will kill you, Kiba!" Kuririn tried to warn him, but Kiba did not heed his warning immediately somehow.

'I wish!' Kiba gritted his teeth in thought. 'But I am too damaged enough to move anyways! I just could not move even if I want to!'

"First, I will ask you a question." Guure grinned with more of maniac glint in his eyes. "Where's Uzumaki Naruto?"

Kiba scowled. "As if I would tell you!" The truth is, he did not know where Naruto went to. All he remembered was that Naruto just disappeared from the jail somehow. Where did Naruto go? No one knew that, except maybe the Hokage. Even if he remembered, he still would not tell him. "Naruto is my comrade, but also my friend! I will not sell him out to the scum like you!"

Guure scowled briefly before returning to his sadistic grin again. "But of course, you would not remember because your memory has been erased, just like that pig-lover woman I just killed!"

Kiba was taken aback by his comment. 'The pig-lover woman? He meant Shizune? I see. So she died?' He would mourn her later, but first things first…

"No matter… You will die one or other way, even if you remembered, anyways! Time to die, you little pipsqueak!" Guure laughed, charging up the energy sphere for a little more. "I make this one bigger for you, so I can vaporize you completely! HAHAHAHA!"

'This is it.' Kiba thought while watching Guure doing his stuff. 'I guess I will see you soon, Akamaru. Sorry, I cannot live any more. This bastard… He's too strong!'

"DIE!" Guure yelled laughing, but just before he could fire his energy wave away, there was a sudden Ki energy sphere that blasted his back. He looked over his shoulder to find out who blasted his back without him noticing it. He widened his eyes in shock and turned around, dispelling his energy sphere. "What?!"

The one who blasted his back was Hinata! There she was kneeling on one knee with tattered jacket with the sleeves already torn out and her hood torn out as well, and her palm was already aiming at Guure, and was smirking at Guure, despite being battered and bruise. Her entire both arms were bleeding, due to too much damage she recently took.

"Hinata!" cried Gohan and Kuririn happily.

"Hinata?!" Kiba was in shocked that Hinata barely survived this blast. He was not sure if he should be happy or not. Because only one thing could mean for her. Guure was going to shift his attention to her and kill her immediately. Well he was happy that she was still alive, but he thought that she should have lay down and wait for an opportunity to ambush. 'As if I am the one to talk! Hina-chan is going to die soon if I don't do something soon! Damn it!'

"Hinata, so you survived." Shino said, apparently relieved that his teammate was still alive as well. But it did not look good for Hinata right now. After all, she was about to face her death soon after Guure learned that she was still alive.

Ino, still kneeled on the floor, chuckled weakly. "Hinata-sama's still alive, so that's good. I'm so relieved."

'But how did she survive? Judging by his blast, there's no way she could survive like this.' Shikamaru wondered. Did she use Ki technique that no one noticed? It must be. Otherwise, it would be no way for her to be still alive right now!

"Ha! She's tough, for sure!" Paradox commented on her surprise appearance. "I think I like her!"

"Guure…" Hinata smirked, but her tone was very weak, considering the fact that she took too much damage to her entire body a while ago. "If you want to know where Naruto-kun is…" Guure scowled at her sudden appearance. "You have to get past me first, that is!"

Guure's face was distorted with rage, veins showed up on his head and his entire muscles. How dare she?! "So you are persistent one! Do you know when to give up?! How are you still alive?!"

Hinata struggled, but surely slowly got up on her feet. Her head hang down with her bang hair shadowed her eyes. Her legs were wobbly a bit. She could collapse anytime, but she refused to give in to the damage. But she chuckled, which annoyed Guure to some extent.

"That's a funny question to ask. Everyone, even my friends, always asked me why I refuse to give up. So my answer will remain the same as always. So I will answer your question the same way I have answered theirs. That's because…" She looked up at the enraged Guure, as the blood just leaked from her lips, and smirked. "…I will never give up! That's my nindo, my ninja way!"

"DAMN!" Guure cursed, his rage continued to increase. He could explode any time. He could not stand fighting any longer more! He JUST wanted to KILL! KILL!

Gohan widened his eyes. Her quote… It reminded him of someone else. He remembered Naruto said similar stuff. Naruto always said 'I will never give up! That's my nindo, my ninja way' often to his opponents. That moment he just realized something about Hinata.

Then he smiled. 'You look up to Naruto. You love Naruto so much that you want to follow his ninja because he inspired you so much.' Indeed, now he understood why she loved Naruto so much. He felt bad for her though. After all, Naruto and Sakura were in relationship right now.

"And as for your other question." Hinata said with the confident in her tone. She knew a way to make him pissed off anyways. It worked well so far. Truth hurts, after all. "How did I survive your blast?" She scoffed. "Maybe that's because you're weak already?"

"What?!" Guure snarled. How dare she say to his face?! He clenched his fists so hard until they both drew a blood. "Weak? Me?!" He gritted his teeth and his entire body shook very violently. "DON'T BE RIDICULOUS! This time, you won't survive this!"

"Oh, crap! She pissed him off already!" Kiba said in his panic.

'Damn, son! She pissed him off already!' Paradox was amused that Hinata managed to find a way to insult Guure, only to make him rage so hard. 'If this was the video game, Guure would rage quit right now, though. Too bad this is real life!'

"This time, I will be sure to vaporize you!" Guure charged his energy sphere on his palm at Hinata, but it was charging very slow compared to before, though. "I will make sure you won't live to insult me ever again!"

"Do you worst! Because in this very moment, we will find out how weak you are!" Hinata smirked, and then she looked behind Guure at Kiba with an apologize smile. 'Sorry, Kiba-kun. I could lay down and wait for an opportunity to ambush him. But I didn't want to see you die like that. Not before I die first, though. If you die soon, I hope you can look for me first. I love you, Kiba-kun.'

Kiba noticed that she stared at him with a weak smile. He knew that she was ready to die. That means she baited Guure to kill her soon on purpose. 'Oh, crap! I have to save her! I can't let her die like that!'

While Guure was still charging his energy sphere, Shikamaru just noticed something wrong with his attack. "He's charging it so slow, even slower than last time. Why?"

"Maybe that's because he wants to make his energy more powerful, so he can vaporize her with that attack?" wondered Kuririn.

"No." Gohan shook his head. "His last one was as strong as when Hinata saved Kiba first time when she arrived a little while ago. Remember when he fired that attack a lot faster in order to kill Kiba?"

Kuririn looked at Gohan in shocked. "What do you mean?"

"I don't know. But next attack, it's probably going to be weaker than last one, but it will be enough to kill Hinata anyways!" Gohan gritted his teeth with worry, because he was about to watch Guure vaporizing Hinata in next moment. "Only the matter is that Hinata is going to die, and we can't do anything about it!"

Kuririn understood that feeling. He was in the same shoe as Gohan right now. He had gone through a huge deal of pain in his body, so he could move freely as he wished to.

Fayre overheard what Gohan and Kuririn discussed about. 'You fools! The emotion is the source of his power. Basically, the more emotions he feels, the weaker he is. That's why he wanted to finish the fight quickly, so he won't allow his emotions to get best of him. That's his weakness. Figure it out already, fools!'

"Disappear!" Guure fired his energy wave towards the damaged Hinata.

Hinata slowly closed her eyes with a sad smile on her face. She could hear Kiba's voice who cried for her name right now. This time, for sure. But at least Sakura was about to arrive soon, but she would not make it in time to save her anyways. 'I am sorry. Goodbye, Kib—'

But…

Suddenly, she was pushed off, as she quickly widened her eyes and looked up to find out who pushed her. Her heart froze, when she found out who pushed her off. It was Kiba! What was he doing?!

Before she had a chance to ask what Kiba was doing, the blast quickly enveloped Kiba in a flash of light, which prompted Kiba to scream "KIBBBBBBA-KUN!".

Kiba screamed, "AHHH!"

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Kuririn, Gohan, Shikamaru, Shikamaru, and even Shino (who had a sunglasses) had to shelter their eyes so the flash would not blind them. Guure smirked upon the explosion, thinking that Hinata had been killed. Once the smoke cleared, he was surprised that Kiba got in the way of the blast.

"What?!" growled Guure. "And how comes I did not vaporize that brat?!" He wondered if he was beginning to become weak. He did not like the fact that someone took Hinata's place, but it did not matter anyways. He was going to kill Hinata next, but he wanted to see how Hinata reacted to Kiba's death first.

Hinata slowly opened his eyes, and then looked up, widening his eyes in shock. She did not hallucinate, all right. Here Kiba stood next to Hinata with his entire jacket and T-shirt destroyed, revealing his spiky brown hair now since the jacket was gone, but somehow left his pants in intact. It looked like he took more damage from the blast than Hinata had taken the blast earlier. He was bleeding all over his body.

"K-K-Kiba-kun?!" Hinata stuttered, her tears started to form on her eyes. She knew Kiba could not survive it, so he would die in few seconds!

"Kiba!" cried Ino, her tears too formed on her eyes. Just like Choji, Kiba was also part of her precious comrades. First Choji, then Akamaru, and now Kiba? Not to mention Neji who was killed last week. Oh, and Hanabi and Hiashi.

'Damn!' Shikamaru bared his teeth, as he started to feel anger. There was nothing he could do about it. He only wished that he could find a way to defeat Guure earlier. He already finally found a way to defeat Guure recently, but it was too late. Once again, another Elementians who have been killed by Coola or his men.

Not another one! Gohan wanted to go at Guure and kill him right now. In fact, his rage started to build up, but Kuririn placed his hand on his shoulder. "Calm down! Charging in blindly won't do you any good! You know he's going to kill us right now if we go head-on, so we can only do best is to wait and figure out what his weakness is!"

Gohan nodded, but he said nothing. Kuririn was right, though. At least Gohan and Kuririn rested long enough, so they should be able to move soon, since their injury was beginning to wear off their body.

It was too much for Kiba to handle. He could feel that his life was about to pull away from him. He started to fade in and out for a while now. But right now, his upcoming death was not what made him worry about. It was Hinata he worried about.

"Hina-chan…" Kiba diverted his pupils down to stunned Hinata. "You all right?"

"K-K-Kiba-kun." Hinata stuttered again. Apparently, her anxiety showed again.

"I'm… I'm glad…" He slowly closed his eyes with a satisfied smile on his face. At least she was still alive. That meant something, after all. At least he did something really good. A heroic sacrifice. He threw his life off just to save the girl he loved so much. "I… love you… Hina—" Just before he could finish her name, he collapsed to the ground.

"Kiba-kun!" Hinata cried. She crawled to Kiba and placed her hand on his neck for his pulse, hoping he was still alive. Her eyes widened, and she was frozen for a while, almost as if time stopped for her. His pulse… was gone. 'He… He died. No… No… No… Not like this!'

Her tears started to run down, as she shook his body frantically. "Kiba-kun! Kiba-kun! Kiba-kun!" Not him too! First Hanabi… then Hiashi… then Neji… and now it was Kiba. They were her precious people. But not just her, Choji and Akamaru died, trying to protect Konoha and more importantly, Element.

At this moment, she began to wonder if she was not strong enough to save the world. That moment there was no way she was the savior here. It was not like when she saved Konoha after defeating Gaara. Everyone would call her the savior after defeating Gaara. But not this time! She struggled against Guure, yet she could not save one guy!

"KIBA-KUN!" She screamed in despair. She knew she could not bring him back to life by just screaming his name. But another one of his precious people died in the same month. Only because she was too powerless to protect everyone! So many Elementian died one after one.

She heard the cruel laughter from Guure. "HAHAHAHA!"

She slowly glanced up to Guure who already aimed his energy sphere that he already charged recently at Hinata. She was already terrified of him. She should not be terrified now, but after Kiba's death, she started to afraid of Guure, Paradox, and Coola, knowing that they were too much for her now. She would just stare at Guure very terrified.

This was the first time that she finally gave up on fighting. No hope for Konoha. No hope for Element. No hope for herself. No hope for everyone. No one could save Element, not even Naruto himself. Guure casted their life away too easily without the care in the world. That's why he was too much for her.

"Oh, no! She gave up hope," said Gohan.

"I noticed," agreed Kuririn. He took a sigh for a moment before whispering to Gohan. "All right, listen to me. We have to save her, or she's going to die!"

"Right." Gohan agreed. "What's the plan?"

"Just like when we saved Vegeta back on Namek, you just go take Hinata away from the blast, and I will kick Guure away." Kuririn said, looking at Gohan to make sure that he understood the strategy. Gohan simply nodded, which made the bald midget smiled. He looked back at the scene, clenching his fists with the smirk on his face. "All right, then!"

"I may kill the wrong person. But it does not matter anyways. This time, you will die!" Guure screamed.

However, just before Guure could fire his energy sphere away, all of the sudden, a fist with the black gloves just connected with his cheek too hard, causing him to spew the blood from the mouth and nose, as a bit of his teeth fell off, his eyes almost bugle out, and his energy sphere flew off very distant away from the Konohagakure, and caused a massive explosion somewhere. It also kicked up the dust where Guure was punched away.

"What?!" cried Kuririn. Gohan and he were about to save Hinata, but somehow someone else saved Hinata!

Who was it?

Kuririn, Gohan, Shikamaru, Ino, Shino, and Hinata stared at the massive dust surrounding the figure, very eager to find out who it was.

The massive dust was about to clear up and it turned out to be…

To be continued…

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A/N: Sorry, Fayre vs Kakashi will be postponed. I could not fit them in this chapter. But it will happen next chapter though.

Can Konohamaru protected the Konoha from the zombie Itachi? Will he be able to survive this fight, even though Itachi was too strong for him? What would be No One's plan against Rock Lee? Mysterious fighter who saved Hinata will face Guure. But just who is that mysterious fighter? The question is, can that mysterious fighter stop Guure who already had gone insane? And what does Paradox mean when he said that Guure became weaker every time he gets angry? Find out next time on Team Z!

Me: *Press Enter on the Keyboard* All right! I'm so done with Chapter 117! Time to go to bed!

Vegeta: Woman! Make me a sandwich!

Clone Jerry: Me, too, Jenny!

Me: SHUT UP! I AM NOT A WOMAN! MAKE YOURSELF A SANDWICH! *Stormed off to my bed room* Geez, now I understand how women feel! They're too sexist! *But when I opened my own bedroom, I widened my eyes in shock. I just saw Sakura and Naruto making out on my bed NAKED?! Wait a minute?! Naruko?! Since when they're in my spaceship?!* WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

*Sakura and Naruko stopped making out with each other and looked me in a slut way I could possibly imagine.*

Me: Who are you?! Wait a minute... You're not my characters. You're Thedarkpokemaster's character?!

Sakura: That's right. We are his. How do you like that look?

Naruko: Yeah! We are his. You got a problem with that?!

Sakura: *bang her head* Shush! Do you want her to be part of our threesome?!

Me: *What?! Threesome?!* NO WAY! I am not going to be part of your little Yuri threesome!

Sakura: I know you like me! And Naruko, maybe?!

Me: NO WAY! Naruko is Naruto's Oiroke no Jutsu, isn't it?!

Sakura: Hehe... The truth is...

Naruko: I'm actually a girl!

Me: WHAT?! You are a girl?!

Naruko: Yeah! My creator created me to be a girl instead of a boy only for you!

Sakura: He knew you're going to oppose this threesome if you knew Naruko used his sexy no jutsu!

Me: Fine! If that's what Thedarkpokemaster wants, I will join you in a threesome!

Naruko & Sakura: YAY!

Me: *Evil chuckle* HOWEVER! It won't be full Yuri action threesome!

Naruko: Huh?

Sakura: What do you mean there won't be full Yuri action? You're a girl, right?

Me: HEHE! I wonder what your reaction would be! Henge No Jutsu! *Suddenly I performed my jutsu and transformed into naked Jerry!* Good thing I learned how to perform this jutsu! I never knew this would come into a handy! Hehe, it will be threesome with me in this form! HERE I COME! *Leap onto my bed*

Sakura & Naruko: NOOOOO! (Only because they fully expected me to be girl as part of their threesome)

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Clone Jerry: *Slowly closed the door* Amen. You don't need to see them. This is Rated T. Sorry, no lemon scene for you. Move along and see you next chapter! Hopefully, she will post new chapter very soon! After all, we hope we would post new chapter every 10 days. 10k words per chapter or something like that. Now see you later!