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"SAKURA!!" Ino screamed as she felt the tears of fear roll down from her eyes.
"Ninpou: KAMAITACHI!!"
It all happened so fast Sakura couldn't recall how exactly that kind of power could have been generated but with a flash the Sand-nin struck her with a tremendous blow from her enormous fan sending a hail of storming winds directly towards her. Sakura grit her teeth as the oncoming force hit her dead-on. The tornado of deadly winds collided headlong at her body and sent her slamming into the Konoha walls.
"SAKURA!!" Ino cried in horror as the entire troop of Anbu trembled in their shoes.
Temari lowered her fan as she smirked a smile of satisfaction as she allowed the gale to die down. The Sand-nin who had put on the Hokage con stood along with her cackling hysterically. Now that was more like it. These Leaf-nin were like ants she could just simply step on and crush them to their deaths. She hadn't had this much fun for as long as she could remember. Her dark emerald eyes sparkled with delight.
Ino stood frozen rooted to the very ground as though as Shikamaru had laid his Kagemane on her leaving her immobile in his shadow. Her entire body was trembling furiously as her hands were clasped tightly over her mouth. She could feel herself weeping uncontrollably from both inside and out.
Blood began to pour from Sakura's fallen head.
"Incredible…" Shikamaru breathed, as his eyes were open wide with shock, "That enormous force from just a simple fan. Those winds, they have chakra embedded in them…"
Ino merely stood as tears started rolling more than ever. Yet she couldn't deny the rage and anger building with intensity from the very core of her heart. She could feel her heart throbbing from the very severe pain of it.
She could already see the Sand-nin stare straight towards the rest of them.
Her eyebrows furrowed in utmost hatred and fury as she clenched her fists. Her teeth were grit so tightly together that her entire face felt sore. Ino was not going to stand by this. She vowed a vow against the Sand-nin that she'd stay alive until they killed every last one of them.
"And there was one," Temari chuckled as she walked up towards Sakura's fallen body, "Heh this wench ought to be dead, or if she isn't she's obviously playing it so that hopefully I won't kill her…"
She laughed haughtily while Ino watched in resentment as Temari gripped Sakura by her collar and lifted her body from the ground as she spat at her face.
"Disgusting," Temari hissed at her, "You're the first person to die the fastest by my fan. Is this what Konoha has to offer us?"
poof!
"WHAT?!"
In Temari's hands lay not the fallen pink-haired kunoichi, but a mere wooden log.
"Kawarimi?!" Shikamaru gasped, "Uso. Sugoi, she managed to evade such a powerful attack. Talk about the impossible."
Ino just stood there with her jaw hanging from her mouth gaping at the log. She then grinned bitterly as she thought of her friend.
"Stupid Sakura…" Ino thought to herself, "You made me worry about you needlessly. When this is all over I swear you're gonna get it…"
Temari stood furiously as she flung the log to the ground with rage. As she unfurled her fan revealing all three stars as she bent into a battle stance.
"COME OUT YOU WENCH!!" Temari hollered towards the surrounding atmosphere, "FACE ME HEAD-ON AND DEAL WITH YOUR DEATH SOONER THAN TOO LATE!!"
"Sure if you want me so badly."
Temari whirled around to see Sakura with a childish grin as if she was just playing a game of hide-and-seek. Temari smirked as she prepared her attack when suddenly she felt a dagger strike her from behind.
She whirled around and in disbelief she saw another pink-haired shinobi holding kunai-loaded hands. She grinned at Temari as she began to play with them throwing them into the air and catching them as they fell.
"Is she the one who attacked me?" Temari thought as she stared in confusion and shock.
But she was just right in front of me just now. How could she have suddenly appeared from behind to attack me?
Temari whirled around to see that the first Sakura hadn't moved and she too was grinning more than ever.
She wrenched the kunai free from her back as she angrily held her fan ready to send another gusting blow. But just as she was about to attack one by one more and more of pink-headed ninjas began to appear and soon an army of pink-haired grinning shinobi surrounded the spiky blonde from all angles. All Temari could see were clones of the wretched Leaf-nin from all sides.
"Never underestimate me…" one of them said.
"For Konoha has many to defend its walls…" said another.
"And you're not getting within our walls without a fight."
Temari smirked, as she finally understood what was going on. She had her going but not for long. Even with this pathetic attempt to catch her off guard wouldn't work against her. She was highly trained kunoichi. Just a bunch of Bunshin clones wouldn't work against someone of her level.
"Nice trick Leaf-nin," Temari called out towards the crowd, "But more of you doesn't make you any better.
All I have to do is decrease the numbers…"
She took out her fan once more but this time it only revealed one purple star. This must be her defensive position Sakura thought to herself. Yet although she was going on the defensive that didn't mean her opponent was the least bit afraid of what was to come.
But nonetheless, Sakura was still going to carry out her plan.
"Genjutsu?" said one of the Anbu watching in puzzlement, "What does Sakura-sama think she's doing? Her enemy is strong, how can she win with such simple technique?"
"I don't know but this doesn't look good," agreed another.
The rest of the Anbu troop nodded in agreement as Ino clenched her fists once more.
"You bunch of idiots!" Ino cried out as they all fell silent, "How can you underrate your leader? She told the Sand-nin not to underestimate her! But the rest of you are on her side and yet you're the ones who are doing so!"
None of them said a word as Ino searched for shame and guilt in their eyes yet most of them just wore hopeless looks and fear of impending doom to come.
"Sakura's major is in the area of Genjutsu and Chakra Control," Shikamaru said breaking the silence, "She is mastered in those arts and within her mind are stored information and knowledge of a thousand Shinobi put together. Her intelligence and analytical skills give her strength. Not to mention she was tutored by the great Tsunade-sama."
The all of them stared at Shikamaru surprised at what he had said. They took one look at him then to Sakura out on the battlefields.
"Besides," Shikamaru sighed as he turned to face them, "You don't believe she can win this but you're wrong. In battle the intended outcome can be many things. In this case Sakura fights as a diversion for us."
"A diversion?" Ino asked.
"Observe," Shikamaru indicated to the outside forests.
Behind the battle between Sakura and Temari lay a whole line of hidden Sand-nin blending into the environment. They were almost completely invisible yet you could still tell they were there. The troops were already beginning to move onto the other sides of the Konoha wall defenses.
"This sand-nin here must have challenged us right up front just to create a distraction for the rest of them to attack. Our main focus now is not the well-being of Sakura but to stop those troops from entering the village. And while I'm standing here explaining to all you imbeciles, we've already wasted far beyond irreplaceable time."
"Shikamaru, doushio?" Ino asked as she tried desperately not to panic.
"Stay calm," Shikamaru assured her, "Akira, Narumi. Send messages to the rest of the inner wall guards to keep a look out for those troops prepare for attack. Inform the Hokage-sama at once! Request for full frontal troops! All jounins are required to fight."
"Hai! Nara-sama," the two nodded as they disappeared in flashes.
"The rest of us are going for battle. Right here, right now," Shikamaru shouted the rest of his orders.
"But Sakura said it wasn't safe for us to go into guerilla warfare," Ino protested, "Don't you see? They want us to come out to fight them. The traps they will have set for us¾"
"I know," Shikamaru said sternly, "But we must do something. If we go out now, we'll have to risk being ambushed or falling into death traps. Yet if we don't go and stay they'll reach within our walls. That's what we don't want. Fighting within our village will cause panic between the citizens. More innocent people will die. We want to wipe out these troops as soon as we can."
"I don't agree with this," Ino said as she stared at Shikamaru right in the eye, "But right now I don't know any better. When we need leaders now is the time. So I will follow you to the end. Even if this isn't the right decision of dealing with this situation."
The rest of the Anbu troop nodded. They were all in panic because of how they didn't know what to do. Like Shikamaru thought.
They were only good for following orders.
"Good, that ought to keep Temari entertained for a good while," Kankuro smirked as she watched his sister take on the army of clones, "Even though this really isn't what she's used to."
Kankuro hoisted his large puppet over his back and then cloaked himself to hide within the bushes. Soon it would be the time for their next stage, which was to storm the city where the defenses were the weakest. They had already gotten the main gates preoccupied to notice their true intentions. They'd never find out that it wasn't they way to planned to infiltrate Konoha by. They'd attack from the east and west gates.
"Kankuro-sama, ready for orders sir," a sand-nin appeared by his side, "Troops are ready into position. Awaiting you're command to attack sir."
"Yosh, tell them we're ready to move out," Kankuro replied, "I will lead the first troop to the east gate, Gaara will lead the second to the west. If anything happens just continue with the mission at all costs."
"I'll be sure to inform Gaara-sama then," the ninja nodded.
"What is the status of our troops from Suna no Kuni? Have they arrived yet?"
"According to Baki-sama's orders, we are to attack first. Once we've gotten Konoha's defenses weak and vulnerable to further attacks, the main troops will be ready to wipe out the entire city. They will arrive by next morning."
"Remember not to kill those of bloodline heritage," Kankuro muttered, "We'll want their techniques for our own."
"Youkai," the ninja nodded as he disappeared into the foliage leaving no trail of signs behind.
Kankuro sighed as he stood up to follow him. He gave Karasu his puppet a pat to make sure everything was in place then took one last glance back at Temari. Her battle had already become quite intense. He watched grimly as she began to swing her fan furiously sending gusts and blows in all directions sending them towards the clones. Almost as though she was dancing with the winds all around her and creating hurricanes with every step. Yet by the look on her face he could tell how frustrated she was getting every time she destroyed a whole horde of clones more kept appearing. The numbers did not decrease but instead began to grow with every sweep from her fan. Not only did she have to find the original but she also had to defend from the kunais and shurikens that were thrown towards her from all sides.
The jutsu caster must be hiding somewhere so that she can attack her while the clones were distracting Temari.
It was amazing how much a simple jutsu was driving Temari to the extreme. Her opponent must be very clever in doing so.
"Come on onee-san," her brother sighed as the slicing winds began to pierce the surrounding atmosphere, "They're only illusions…"
"KANKURO! TAIHEN!"
Kankuro whirled around in shock as suddenly another ninja appeared at his side. In fury he grabbed the shinobi and flung him against a tree.
"WHAT NOW?!" he hissed as the sand-nin shook in terror in his grip.
"I-It's about G-Gaara-sama," the sand-nin gasped as he tried to breathe, "He's g-g-gone…"
"WHAT?!"
Kankuro threw the shinobi to the ground in fury. He clenched his teeth together trying to sustain his sudden uncontrollable anger building inside of him.
"When did you last see him?!"
"H-Heading towards the west g-gate," the ninja cried, "S-said something about proving his existence…"
Kankuro paused, as his eyes grew wide with disbelief. The last time Gaara had said that, nearly a thousand people were killed…
He knew bringing him on this mission would make him unstable. He was already showing signs of changing back into his original form.
Kankuro would not let that happen. Even though Konoha would be wiped out but he would get them all killed.
"Why didn't you stop him?!" Kankuro snapped at him, "Don't you even know what this means?!"
"He threatened to kill anyone who got in his way," The shinobi whispered back in a half-dead tone, "He's already injured half of our troop. W-We can't fight like this!!"
This was not good. Kankuro frowned. They already had to change plans once because of Gaara but now it was already falling to pieces. Now they couldn't focus on attacking Konoha like this. It would only make Gaara even more unstable. If worse came to worse they'd all be dead by the time the main troops arrived.
"Troop B will abort this mission. Our new mission will be to capture Gaara and return him into a more stable state before we attack."
"S-Shouldn't we inform the other troop first?"
"No, let them carry on with taking down the east gate," Kankuro said firmly, "Even though I'm not there, they should still proceed along with the mission. Hurry we must head towards the west gate. We've got to stop Gaara before it's too late."
"Oi lazy ass! Get up already."
Kakashi slowly opened his eyes as droopy as they were. Yet he knew that it was already late for that important meeting he was supposed to attend to that morning. Ahh, oh well there were always plenty of other important meetings anyways. He was sure that one of these days he'd wake up on time. What? Was it his fault that he was up training last night, and the night before, and the night before that, and…
"I SAID GET UP!!"
A pillow had collided into his face messing up even more of his messy hair. He sighed as he finally got out of bed and laid his feet on the floor.
"Is it normally a habit that you come to give people's wake up calls Anko?" he mumbled sleepily. Kakashi sighed as his droopy eyes faced the energetic purple haired jounin with a sweatdrop on his face. She stood there with her hands on her hips glaring right back at him as she stuck out her tongue.
"Actually I was the one who threw the pillow."
Kakashi turned to see the formidable and highly respected Anbu interrogation and investigation leader Morino Ibiki. The two of them stared at Kakashi with disbelief as Anko shook her head. Kakashi smiled as he made his way to the washroom.
"And to think I thought I'd catch you this morning without your mask," Anko sighed as she pulled out a dango sweet and began chewing on it.
"Heh, get real. Besides couldn't you think of a better way of waking me up than just whacking me with a pillow?"
"Ha, it was either that," Ibiki grinned, "Or I was going to get Anko to crash through your window with one of her "fancy" entrances."
"Hey! The genins like it when I enter the Chuunin exam like that!" Anko exclaimed back in defense as she shook a fist at Ibiki.
"Of course you always have to pay the repair costs for doing that."
Anko blushed as she said nothing then went back to eating her dango with a sour look on her face. Kakashi laughed, the two of them were just too much.
"So why are you guys here anyway?" Kakashi asked as he opened the latch to his window. The other two fell silent. Kakashi turned back towards them as he saw the change of attitude and mood in their faces.
"The Sand-nin, they're right outside Konoha's walls," Ibiki sighed as he sat down, "They arrived here just this morning. And I'm amazed you slept right through it."
Kakashi frowned, as he said nothing and then turned back out to look out his window. Anko ate another dango piece as she continued.
"The inner wall defenses are trying their best to fight off the sand troops. We're requested to be there as well. Ibiki has to go soon to report to Anbu headquarters to escort a squad to the east gates. Every jounin in the village has to meet with the Hokage-sama for orders. Ibiki and I were pretty sure you would have overslept again so we came to give you your morning call."
Kakashi sighed as did a couple of stretches then began to start to put on his jounin uniform. He tied his headband around his head to cover his Sharingan though he doubted it would be covered for long. He would definitely be needing it soon. For a while the three of them stood in silence as though they were all lost in their own thoughts. Although it probably wouldn't have taken much for them to know what each other was thinking about.
War was upon them.
"Kakashi how long does it take you to dress?!" Anko exclaimed impatiently, "You take five minutes just to zip up your vest!"
"Ahh the woman's right," Ibiki nodded with a grin, "We're leaving now. You take way too damn long. No wonder you're always late."
"Jesus I'm coming guys," Kakashi said back with and apologetic look, "That is after I take a piss first."
TBC?
Terms:
Doushio- what should we do?
Yosh-good
Youkai-Roger
Onee-san-big sister
Second chapter complete.
And err I personally think I could have done more but anyways…
Well you guys are the ones to judge. So leave a review
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