...
Kakashi's POV
Zenchi smiled furtively as he was dashing forward and hopped down in a haste, just a couple of meters away. He shook his head, staring at him humorously.
"My, my. If it isn't the man who is known as the White Fang. It's Hatake, right? Man, you and all the leaf and sand villages just keep getting in the way of things."
"Spill it. What business are you guys planning to do?" Kakashi questioned directly.
"Our master is going to show you a gratuity," he responded.
"By what exactly?"
"Havoc and that includes one of your favorite student's chakra, Miss Haruno's," Zenchi grinned.
"Bastard," Kakashi spat out.
"Oh? Should I be intimidated? Nah, I think I'd rather have some fun with you."
"Well, I guess there's no choice, then," Kakashi stated and performed a few hand signs. "Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique."
All of a sudden, Zenchi became alarmed as he halted for a second to pull out his kunai knives and shurikens, aiming in his direction. Then, his body began to convulse, along with his heart beating against his chest, which he came to realize that he was under hypnosis.
"What's this?! Why am I seeing these distorted images?" He questioned confusedly and saw four wolves gnashing their teeth with their salivas.
They growled and pounced with their claws, scratching him. Though, he blew out in a puff of smoke that made Kakashi puzzled and taken aback.
"Hm?!"
"Heh, you really think you can easily fool me. So basic," Zenchi sneered and jumped to throw bomb tags on him.
Kakashi whipped his head around and dodged away, thinking to himself in his mind. "Shit. He's that clever."
The genjutsu had crumbled its walls down and faded.
"Where did he go?" Kakashi glanced quickly and noticed that his ankles were wrapped by Cobra snakes, much to his alarm.
He grunted as he fell to the ground with a loud thud.
"Purple Lightning!" He exclaimed as he made a few hand slices against the snakes, breaking free from their grasps.
"Water Style: Multi-Sharp Bullets Jutsu!" Zenchi said sharply, but they were missed again when Kakashi flashed out of the way and went behind him.
The two of them pulled out their kunai knives that clashed with one another and made an attempt to pummel each other on their abdomens, especially swivering their kicks. But they end up backing away for a bit.
"You think you're the only one who's special, eh? I am too," Zenchi snided and followed his movements by backflipping himself.
"So you're a copy ninja as well," he said.
"Yes and I can do much better than your phony jutsu. Once I'm done with you, I'll snatch your Sharingan eye out and claim it as mine," Zenchi declared proudly.
"Not gonna happen," Kakashi said.
...
Iruka's POV
...
He saw the mini eruption that took place in the center of the forest and in advance, he performed one of his ninjutsu to shield his surroundings.
"Glass Dome..."
Mingyu slightly smirked at this as soon as he blew a wind out of his mouth that shattered the barrier into pieces.
Iruka narrowed his eyes and stood firmly with a demanding tone. "I don't know what you guys are up to, but this has got to stop."
"You're a funny-looking teacher, eh? Ain't no way we are giving up our goal. After all, we will annihilate you and the entire leaf village in just one snap of a finger."
"It's not gonna happen because we will always protect them from wicked scums like you."
Mingyu chuckled with a goading response. "Keep telling yourself that, but you will be a loser at the end of one's foot."
"Alright, then. I'll use it by force," Iruka stated and hopped up in the air to perform the Shurikenjutsu. He threw every weapon that he could release from his pockets and even dashed forward to smack him. But he thoroughly missed it.
Mingyu also strikes back, using a blade in which it appears to be a katana. His hands gripped on the handles and swung it as part of his signature move. He began to charge as he raised it up to slash.
Iruka reacted hastily with his kunai knife and exclaimed. "Fiery Rain!"
"Hm?!" Mingyu went perplexed as he looked above and saw the tiny drops of flames shooting darts at his skin that was now burning. He tried to step away, but he ended up getting beat up. "Argh!"
Iruka then cried out, using a bow on his hands to target his opponent. "String Light Formation."
The three arrows had struck through his chest with his mouth gaping open, until he dissolved into a replacement.
"A substitution?!"
"Heh. That's too easy," Mingyu said, grinning when he was behind him. "Sound Speed: Erratic Waves."
Iruka looked over his shoulder and the frequency of the wavelengths had reached his eardrums, causing them to bleed in the process. He grunted out in pain and grabbed the sides of his head before he got slashed on the left shoulder blade and elbowed on the ribs. He coughed out blood and rolled over by holding onto his upper torso.
"And here I thought you were that smart. I wonder what it will be like if all of your students are wrapped around the fingers of our master," Mingyu guffawed spitefully.
"Never..." he said and continued on weakly as he pushed himself up, panting. "I'll do what it takes to stop you and your members."
"Keep dreaming," Mingyu said and unleashed his power on the katana that created a wall around them. "Lightning Imprisonment... Let's see if you can manage to pass this, Mr. Umino..."
Iruka took a glimpse of the barrier in bafflement, clenching his teeth and glaring daggers at him in chagrin.
...
Guy's POV
...
He opened his eyes with his lips curving into a placid smile and said. "It's about time you showed up."
"I assume you are Might Guy... Oh yes, I've heard rumors about you way back in those years," Raki stated and went on. "My, you're still the same as before. Flunkee and grisly looking. I don't know why you're in my way, but get lost."
"I could ask you the same thing. What are you here for?" Guy asked.
"Again, why do you care? Now, move before I kill you," Raki said.
"Hehe. I'm not going anywhere and neither should you trespass. You and your friends have taken so much freedom to roam around on this island for a very long time."
"If that's the case, then I shall seize you," Raki announced and held his fingers between his lips, muttering the technique. "Dazzling flames."
The amount of fire was beginning to grow and spread rapidly on the flat surface of the rock until it eventually shot darts towards him.
Guy hopped out and dashed forward to throw a punch at his face, but he got stung by the burning wall that the enemy put as his defense. Then, he swings his legs to kick him and swoop way past it to perform a jutsu on his back; the Strong Fist.
Raki choked out and crushed into one of the boulders in mist. He then blasted them off, using his technique. "Fire Style: Magma Globe!"
The droplets were transformed into a shape of a sphere that flared up in emission.
"You dare to cross me?! I will destroy you, you shitty beast," he remarked.
"If you can, but I won't back down, so let's see you try," Guy grinned.
"Hmph. Cocky much? Take this! Lava Effusion!" Raki exclaimed when the surface turned into the hot molten fluid that was blocking his way and on every edge of the area they were in. He smirked bitingly. "No escape for you this time."
"Very well," Guy nodded and bit his thumb and made hand signs to perform on the ground. "Ningame!"
Just then, a giant turtle popped up in appearance below his feet, much to Raki's astonishment.
"Heh, we are going to do this one by one," Guy stated.
...
Yamato's POV
...
Kaito took a couple of steps forward and crossed his arms, sniding. "Another ANBU? You gotta be kidding me. You're just a piteous tool of the Hidden Leaf village. You should've been more loyal to your master, Danzo Shimura."
"He's nothing but a fraud and a criminal," Yamato said.
"Isn't that Sasuke Uchiha the one as well? After all, he's the most ruthless guy out there," he thought.
"On the contrary, Sasuke is still much better and takes accountability than the rest of you. It wasn't his fault that my former master was the one behind all the killings during the Uchiha massacre."
"Water Style: Water Pellets Jutsu," Kaito exclaimed as the liquids were about to hamper his direction.
But Yamato acted so fast with his Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall that firmly protected himself.
The enemy smirked knowingly, saying. "Who would've thought that you have the first Hokage's DNA, you luckily piece of scum?"
He didn't respond when he summoned a wooden clone to resurface behind Kaito and strangle him on the neck and perform a jutsu. "Wood Release: Great Forest technique!"
"What?!" Kaito questioned in his mind and grunted in pain, then exploded into smithereens, but it was only a water clone.
Yamato narrowed his eyes further and stepped back until there was a splash that burst out into the air, known as the Wall of Flood.
"Well, now you're under my trap. I'm way ahead of you, you see. Your wood style won't even pass through the heavy waters that I created," he taunted.
"Yes, I can," Yamato stated and made hand signs to control its waves. Thus, splitting it by releasing many wooden trees to suppress the water from continuing to flood.
"Thank you for your underestimation, but it seems that I'm just going to have to prove you wrong this time," Yamato said and stared at him composedly, which made Kaito clenched his teeth in annoyance.
...
Kurenai's POV
...
She looked at the young ninja with caution. "Surrender now or else you will experience an unhinge moment of your life."
"I did not expect a mother to leave their kid in the house. Why go on fighting as a kunoichi when you could have been a housewife instead?" Hara rolled his eyes ignorantly and rambled on. "Damn, that's too bad. Your dead husband would be very disappointed in you, Yuhi."
"Leave him out of this mess. You can throw a rock and swear at me, but I won't forgive you for bringing him up," Kurenai said.
"Getting sensitive, are we? Here's a little treat for you," Hara grinned slyly and began to mutter. "Earthen Consecutive Chains of Ice."
"Hold on! You stole all of the techniques from the Yuki clan! And even Haku's face," Kurenai pointed out lividly.
"Aww, are you mad about it? I don't give a damn because after this, I will take your powers too," he said.
"Not on my watch," Kurenai stated as soon as the tree emerged from the surface and wrapped its thick roots around Hara's body. The jutsu is known as Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death.
Hara was paralyzed when he couldn't see anybody, except the blurry images until his eyes peered over his shoulder and watched her pull out the kunai knife that stabbed him on his chest.
Blood began to splatter out that made him scream thunderously, but it didn't last when Kurenai found out that his body switched into a block of ice, much to her confusion. She then realized that it was a substitution.
"Is that all you've got? Sad to say, but you are just one of the bitches that just got knocked up, so why don't you teach yoga classes instead?" He remarked barbarically.
"How misogynistic you are. I'm not surprised though that you and your friends still act the same way," Kurenai said and performed her jutsu that made her dissipate from the sight.
...
Back in the camping site, the leaf squad were tidying up their things and compressing them into the scrolls that were laid on the grass. At that moment, they all heard swishing noises that startled them.
"Guys! Stop what you're doing!" Shikamaru warned out loudly.
"Why?" Ino questioned.
"We've been here almost an hour," Choji whined.
"More like living here for decades!" Kiba added in.
"Listen, Lady Tsunade had just informed us that the rogues are already on the move with their boss," Temari explained briefly.
"Wait, what? That's crazy!" Lee said shockingly.
"Yes, but the leaf jonin are taking matters into their own hands," she replied.
"They're here?! But who's going to confront the boss?!" Tenten asked.
"Well, we are all going to," Shikamaru answered and examined them one by one as he noticed that two members were missing. "Wait, where's Sasuke and Sakura?"
"She... ran off..." she murmured.
"Again?! What and why?" Temari queried.
"Everyone! I have something to show you..." A male voice called out that made them turn around, whereas Kiba, Kankuro, and Choji were glaring at him seethingly.
"You... You should not be here anymore," The red-haired Kazekage demanded, whereas Naruto stared at his best friend in aloof.
"I know I know! But once I'm done here, I'll leave you guys alone, but I'm here to show you something..." Sasuke pleaded.
Shikamaru looked at them and sighed as he scratched the back of his head dully. "Alright, go on."
The dark-haired ninja pulled out a small monitor device and played the audio recordings of the five rogue ninjas that discussed their hidden plans. They were listening to their voices and were even dismayed that their friend tried to fight them and learned that Sakura had been kidnapped.
Their eyes grew larger in bewilderment, especially Naruto and Lee.
"No way..." Ino gaped her mouth open in aghast.
"We got to go now," Kankuro urged on.
"Why are they after Sakura so much?" The blonde-haired ninja shook his head in skepticism.
"It would seem that she may possess a lot of power, considering that she's not only been training medical ninjutsu, but also the types that she can acquire. Her chakra control is magnificent and that's what makes her unique," Neji described in thought.
"Are you saying that we're not?" Tenten pointed out slowly.
"No. There's no need for comparison," he said.
"Yeah, you ladies are strong too and we wish that we have more knowledge like you guys do," Choji complimented.
"Aww, thanks Chocho," Ino smiled warmly.
"We need to locate them where they are and beat those bastards again," Kiba insisted.
"I certainly agree..." Gaara said and stared ahead since he was most likely frightened at what would happen to her. And the thought of losing her is unbearable.
Clenching his fists tightly, his gaze sharpened indignantly when he made a firm declaration. He activated his Third Eye in a desperate search for her until he saw the enemy's location. "We have no choice but to use incursion."
"Let's go!" Naruto exclaimed, bumping his fist heatedly.
"Now, you're talking," Kankuro smirked proudly with a nod.
Shikamaru, Temari, and the rest of the squad members were now taking a glimpse of what they are about to withstand.
TO BE CONTINUED...