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Mitsuko suddenly felt something strange. :Tenten… Please be okay: Mitsuko reactivate her Sukerugan to locate the sound ninjas. "Everyone listen, we're not too far away from our target, so be prepared."
"Shouldn't we be looking out for traps?" Ino asks.
"That wouldn't be our main concern at this point, our enemies probably think that their team-mate still has us trapped back there, these guys will suffer from their overconfidence." Mitsuko answers. "Listen, I'm going to use my Kurayami no jutsu on them to temporarily stop them from moving, follow my orders and initiate a sneak attack, understood?" The team nods to Mitsuko, who starts doing hand seals. "Kurayami no jutsu!"
Sound ninjas' side
"Kidoumaru's taking too long." Jiroubou says. "Do you think he was stopped by those ninjas?"
"I doubt it, I don't think those kids have the capabilities to stop even one of us alone." Sakon answers.
"Hopefully you're right." Jiroubou answers.
Sudden, a field of darkness engulfs the area.
"What the hell?" Tayuya says, looking around trying to figure out what's happening.
"Don't worry, stay close together." Jiroubou says, he slams his hands on the ground in front of him and shouts, "Doton-Doroku Gaeshi" Several walls rise from the ground and surround their group.
"You dumbass! Why are you surrounding us!" Tayuya yells at Jiroubou.
"It's for protection, calm down." Jiroubou tries to reassure the angry Tayuya.
Outside the protective walls, Mitsuko and her group contemplates on how to get inside the protection. "Kai!" Mitsuko shouts, deactivating her darkness technique. With absolutely no way inside, Mitsuko knocks on the stone walls. "Hey, can you take down these things, I just want to chat."
Jiroubou ends his technique, the stone walls collapse. "What exactly do we have to chat about?" Sakon asks.
Before Mitsuko has a chance to speak, she was interrupted by Naruto. "Give us back Sasuke! Kage bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto yells and his clones jumps towards the sound ninjas.
"Not so fast! Doton-Kekkai Doroutoumu" Jiroubou shouts in accompany to his hand seals. The earth around the Konoha team starts to shake as the ground rises and close around them.
"I'll take care of them, you guys go on ahead." Jiroubou says to his team-mates.
"Alright, don't let them come after us like Kidoumaru did." Sakon says, as he carries Sasuke away with him along with Tayuya.
"Don't worry, I'll be enjoying myself with these four." Jiroubou answers.
Inside the dome
"Damn it Naruto! What did I tell you about being reckless!" Mitsuko says angrily.
"But but…" All the Naruto clones say simultaneously.
"Make your bunshins disappear Naruto, it's not like there's a lot of room here." Ino complains.
"Let me try to bust out of this place. Gesshoku happa no jutsu!" Mitsuko focuses her chakra into her fist and punches the stone wall causing an explosion. However, her punch only made a slight dent and the wall immediately repairs itself. "Damn it!" Mitsuko says in frustration, "Hinata-chan, would you please look through the wall and check out what's this thing is made of?"
"Okay…Byakugan!" Hinata scans her surrounding. "I can't even see through the walls. This dome is supported by a large amount of chakra; it would be rather difficult to break through it."
"By the time we get out of here Sasuke-kun would be long gone!" Naruto complains.
"I know I know! Would you stop complaining and let me think?" Mitsuko says. Suddenly, she starts feeling tired and losing energy in her legs. "Is it just me, or is this not just an ordinary dome?"
Realizing this, Hinata once again inspect the environment. She is surprised to see everyone's chakra being sucked up by the stone walls around them. "Mitsuko-chan! The enemy is absorbing our chakra through the walls!"
"Oh great, what are we going to do? We can't just sit here and die!" Ino whines.
"That's it, I'm using my Rasengan to break out of here!" Naruto stands up and prepares to perform Kage bunshin no jutsu.
"Yamete!" Mitsuko shouts. "You'll just be wasting your chakra if you do that, the chakra keeping this dome up is so densely packed your Rasengan wouldn't do any good."
"Well it's better than sitting here and do nothing!" Naruto says, sitting himself back down.
Just then, Mitsuko thought of an idea. "Tsuin Kuro Ya no Jutsu!" She fires multiple chakra arrows around the dome, and them observes the repairing process.
"I thought you said conserve your chakra, leader." Naruto says facetiously.
"Yurusai Naruto. Hinata, use your Jyuuken to attack that point." Mitsuko points at a specific location. "That part of the dome is healing the slowest, which means there lies the thinnest concentration of chakra. With your Jyuuken I'm sure you can break through the chakra barrier."
"Okay, I'll try." Hinata focus for a second and shouts, "Jyuukenhou-Chakra disutoshon!" Thrusting her palm straight into the wall, she emits a piercing chakra that distorts the chakra build-up within the wall, finally bursting it open.
"Great job Hinata-chan!" Naruto shouts happily.
"What the… How did you break out of there!" Jiroubou shouts angrily as he emerges from the collapsed dome.
"Do not underestimate Konoha ninjas!" Mitsuko says proudly.
"Hmph, I'm going to crush all of your regardless!" Jiroubou shouts as he slams his palms onto the ground, causing an upheaval of the earth below the Konoha group.
"Everyone be careful!" Mitsuko says as she jumps out of the crumbling ground, landing on top of a nearby tree. "Kura ya no jutsu!" Mitsuko takes aim and fires her chakra arrow at Jiroubou.
Jiroubou smirks and simply swing his arm at the projectile heading for him, deflecting the arrow. "You think you can hurt me with something at that level?"
"Kuso..." Mitsuko says to herself.
"Let me at him!" Ino says, putting her hands in front of her she shouts, "Ninpo-" but was interrupted.
"Ino-chan! Stop! You can't hit him with your attack!" Hinata shouts.
"Hinata-chan?" Ino says, sounding very surprised that Hinata actually spoke up.
"I think I can handle him… Mina, go on and catch up with Sasuke-kun." Hinata jumps in front of the enemy to block of his access to her group. "Seriously, you guys mustn't waste anymore time!"
"Hinata-chan we can't leave you here!" Naruto shouts from behind.
"What do you think this is, some sort of private conference!" Jiroubou says as he lifts a piece of the broken earth and hurls it at Hinata.
"Hinata-chan watch out!" Ino shouts.
To everyone's surprise, Hinata takes a steady stance and thrust her palm at the flying ground, smashing it into pieces.
"Whoa… I didn't know you can do that…" Naruto says as he stares at Hinata with widened eyes.
:There are many things people thought I can't do…: "Mitsuko-chan! Take the team with you and hurry! Let me handle this one for you!" Hinata says, looking back at the team.
Mitsuko thinks for a second. :Should I leave another team-mate behind? Is this really necessary?" Almost tearing out her hair as she makes her decision, she finally made up her mind. "Everyone, we must go on ahead to get Sasuke back."
"Mitsuko-chan! We can't leave another team-mate behind!" Naruto says in shock.
"This is an order, as the team leader I am responsible for making decisions to assist us in achieving our goal. Ino, Naruto, follow me." Mitsuko says as she is ready to go.
"Ugh… fine." Naruto says. "Hinata-chan be careful!"
"We'll be awaiting you Hinata-chan." Mitsuko says as she jumps off with the rest of her team.
:Don't worry Naruto-kun..: