Diclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
OCs: Jin, Mai, Asuka, Athena, Shinji, Mariallis, and uhh...Aki. yeah i think that's it?
Lady Rine: Sry about the side story... haha! but i needed to give a little background information on sakura's family it'll be helpful in the next chapter (which will be up tomorrow i hope) Act 22: Protect Rain (pt2): Haruno Reviled.
So here you go. (grin) what you've been waiting for... and action chapter .tee hee!
ENJOY!
Act 21: Mission 3- Protect Rain (Part 1): Rain defenses.
Her mind was vigorously thinking. "500 of them, 4 of us… Mizukage makes 5… plus the limited jounins that are here and not with the villagers… and the few ANBU that rain has here… That make, 25 of us… fuck. That's like… 20 Assassins per available nin… odds are 75.3689:1 judging by the skill level and the chakra feel I'm getting off of our 25 men. This sucks"
"We need a plan" Naruto said somewhat growling.
"Odds aren't very good, we need something that can blow at least the front line out." Sasuke said rather calmly. jumping down from the roof top, Jin following.
"Sakura, can you use that light technique you used last time?" Naruto asked her. The pink-haired woman only shook her head.
"I don't think that'll be enough… At max that'll only take out 80-85 men. Plus I haven't perfected it yet, so I use up a good supply of chakra."
"So if you do, you won't be able to take on a direct attack…" Sasuke replied not even looking at her.
"He's back to being a cold bastard already…" She thought to herself as she shook her head. "I can, but not as long as you may need me too."
"Aa…"
"Sasuke, how many can you take out with Karyuu Endan (fire element: it's basically a huge fire wall)?" Naruto asked. Watching the Assassin army slowly come closer.
"Depends on how much chakra you want me to use…"
"No more than 45-50 percent"
"hum… 120." Sasuke answered.
"Ok… so here's the plan guys." Naruto started. "Sasuke and Sakura will position themselves at the edge of town (cue chibi drawings) on the top of the library and the bakery. When the assassins come within range… which is how far for you guys?"
"140 meters." Sasuke said.
"138 meters." Sakura replied mentally cringing because she still wasn't as good as Sasuke.
"Ok… I'm going to say when they're 135 meters away, with any luck, you guys may be able to take out more than 200 men in total."
"So we're left with 300 assassins." Jin confirmed. Sakura thought for a moment.
"Jin you can use Kirigakure no Jutsu (hidden mist technique: surrounds opponents in a thick mist for silent killing) right?"
"Uh… yes" Jin stammered wondering where she was going with this.
"Do you think you can hide the village with it?" Naruto asked "Hey he's useful for once."
"Umm, yeah, I have to be in the center then."
"That's fine, center of the village is the market place in Town Square." Sasuke said pointing to a street that led to the market."
"So if Jin uses Kirigakure, when the assassins are 140 feet away, it will hopefully confuse them a little and give us an upper hand. Sasuke and I can still use Karyuu Endan and I can still use my blinding explosion. With a heavy mist covering the rest of us, we can easily just use basic long-range maneuvers (basically hauling shurikens and kunais or any other random pointy objects at them from a safe distance) and maybe knocking out another good 50 men, which leaves us to take on 250 assassins with a direct assult. That's 10 assassins per available nin, it lessens our odds to about 20:1. I like that a lot better than 73:1." Sakura stated clearly.
Jin glanced at her and smiled. "See this is why I love you."
Sasuke smirked to himself. "She's still as sharp as ever." He quickly regained his composure and glared at Jin who was still goggled eyed over Sakura.
"Humm…" The Mizukage pondered. "A good many of my men can use Jouro Senbon (that's the one with the umbrellas that shoot out needles.)"
"We can take out another 50 men with that technique alone." Said the Mizukage's right hand man.
"Good good…" Naruto said. "So that leaves us with 200 assassins to deal with."
"What about their leader… and the red-haired guy." Jin asked.
"We'll deal with that later." Sakura said. She looked over at the approaching army. "They're about 300 metres away…"
"Everyone positions now!" Naruto commanded.
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"You ready Jin?" Naruto asked. They were both in the market place. Jin nodded. Naruto nodded.
Crackle "Hey dobe." Crackle
"Yes bastard?"
Crackle "enemy is approaching…" Crackle
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"5 metres from check point…" Sasuke said into his radio using his sharingan to measure the distance. He was kneeling on the bakery's rooftop, opposite of him was Sakura on the library rooftop.
"The red-head isn't with them?" Sakura wondered, something was wrong. "Why would a commander leave his army… Assassins are strange…"
"3 meters…" Sasuke said into the radio."
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Crackle "2 meters" Crackle
"This is it Jin." Naruto said.
Crackle "One meter." Crackle
Jin prepared himself.
Crackle "Go." Crackle
Jin busted out seals… ox… dog… rat… hare…cat…yadda… yadda… yadda…
A super thick mist slowly ate the area around them.
"Hey you're useful after all!" Naruto cheered with a toothy grin. He gave Jin a rather forceful "pat" on the back, which caused Jin to stumble forward a little.
"Gee… thanks…" He said rather sarcastically.
The two of them started to make their way to the front.
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"Sakura…" Sasuke started. He saw some of the Assassins tense up as the walked into the heavy mist.
"4 more metres…" She replied to him. "Not now…" she thought in her head.
"3…"
"2…"
"1…"
Simultaneously the two of them began their jitsu. Sakura ripped open a scroll just like before and performed hand seals with her eyes closed.
Sasuke did the same performing hand seals almost as fast as Sakura did.
"Katon: Karyuu Endan!"
"Blinding light explosion!"
Bright lights emitted blinding almost half of the front line, blowing them off the ground. A huge fire blast flew towards the remaining front men. Hitting them hard with a firewall, 200 men fell dead.
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"Fire!" Naruto commanded. The rain defenses fired a wave of shurikens, kunais, needles etc. at the second line. Hitting Assassins in the head, arms, legs, hearts etc. The second line fell down dead. And Rain defenses continued to fire at the third line. (note: there are 5 lines of 100).
"Now!" The Rain leader said to his a group of jounins and a few ANBU members.
"HAI!" they cried. Umbrellas were flung forcefully into the air about the third line. They opened and the rain defense did their hand seals.
"Jouro Senbon!" The umbrellas started spinning, faster and faster. Senbons flying out of them, raining down on the enemy assassins below.
"Scout, we need an update!" Jin yelled to a man who was atop of a clock tower with binoculars.
"146 assassins are still sanding unharmed!" The scout replied.
"Good, we took down more than we thought." Naruto said preparing to rush out and meet them head on.
"They're not retreating!" The scout confirmed. Why would they? Assassins are proud motherfuckers.
"Prepare for close combat!" The Mizukage called. The remaining 146 Assassins drew closer.
"Charge!" Naruto called out. He darted into the line taking out two assassins with a forceful punch to the spine.
Rain's 25-man defense team darted towards the line just like Naruto. Taking on the Assassins with taijutsu.
Sasuke and Sakura jumped down from the rooftops they were on. Sasuke sensed some tiredness in Sakura's composure. But she didn't show it at all. He didn't know anything about the Blinding light technique, other than she came up with it herself, it required a special scroll and perfect chakra control. He could tell it was an experimental genjutsu because Sakura seemed like she could not complete control it, so she wasted a little bit of chakra performing it. He concluded that I was a complicated jitsu because Sakura had perfect chakra control. She never wasted any of her chakra.
"Sakrua, are you ok?"
"I'm fine." She said shrugging Sasuke off and rushing into battle as well. He followed her worried that her stamina would deplete if she used that technique again. But Sakura was smarter than that right?
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(yay! Finally Sakura's battle scene!)
She fired a kunai or two at an Assassin hitting one in the forehead and as he fell, the second one hit the assassin behind him in the arm. He shot a few blades back at Sakura but she evaded them gracefully. Her taijutsu preference was definitely different from Sasuke's or Naruto's. She looked like she was dancing. Aggravated, the assassin continued to fire blades at her. She evaded them all once again, spinning gracefully, shuffling from side to side. The assassin decided to try for her feet. He fired downwards. She evaded them easily by doing a combination of spinnerets and back flips, ending it off with a back handspring. She landed gracefully on two feet, facing and smirking at her opponent.
"Missed me." She teased. She then disappeared shocking the assassin. She reappeared behind him slitting his throat with her kitana.
An assassin tried to surprise her from behind. He swung at her trying to cut her head off with a rather large sword, but she spun around crouching to the ground and stabbing him the stomach with her kitana. She twisted the blade and pulled it upwards as she stood, slicing his body in half. Her eyes emotionless, and cherry lips smirking for making such an effortless kill.
Brutal.
She killed a few more Assassins who tried to take her on. One she killed by cracking his neck with her monstrous grip, his mistake for getting close enough for her to grab him. Another she killed by paralyzing him first breaking his spine then stepping on his neck suffocating him slowly as she easily sliced off another's head with her trusty kitana.
"Haruno Sakura." A voice called behind her. It was a dark man, with a rather large and ugly black bird on his shoulder.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"I am Matsumo Aki." Said the dark lord.
"You're the one responsible for this?" She said kicking the now dead assassin's body (the one she suffocated) to the bird man's feet. He smirked at her handy work.
"Yes I am."
"Why?" She said sharply and irritated.
"Come with me."
She laughed. "What the fuck?" She smirked and glared at him. "What happens when I say no?"
"I take you by force."
"I doubt that." She said her cherry lips pressing into a fine line of disapproval. She narrowed her eyes at him.
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"Sakura-onee-san is amazing." Mai thought, she had been hiding in the bushes the whole time. (hey the little one has some kind of talent.) She was watching every move she konouchi made. Before her eyes Sakura had began to battle it out with the ugly bird man. His ugly bird was circling overhead.
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"HEY SASUKE! That's 23!" Naruto and his clones called out.
"32." Sasuke replied coolly cracking an assasin's head on his knee. "33."
"KUSO!" Naruto replied.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" A voice called behind them. Naruto and Sasuke turned to see a certain red-haired a'sin (short for assassin…I'm lazy. Hehe) standing there.
"Hey Sasuke it's the red-head that Sakura totally owned in one hit." Naruto said rather loudly. Sasuke s-dropped.
"I have a name you stupid fox boy!" Shinji yelled back. A vein twitching at the back of his head at the mention of his previous defeat.
"What is it? If I'm going to kill you I might as well know your name." Sasuke said pretty ticked off.
"Shinji." The a'sin replied, "You're Uchiha Sasuke right?" He smirked. "The guy who couldn't kill his brother?"
"Ouch… that hit a spot." Naruto thought glancing at Sasuke whom no doubt at the moment was thinking of 101 ways to rip Shinji's head off.
"The girl that knocked me out, she could do it. Why couldn't you?"
"I'll fucking kill you." Sasuke said trying to control his anger. He clenched his fist.
"If you can." Shinji scoffed smirking rather evilly. "Or are you to weak?"
That was it. Before Shinji knew it Sasuke had knocking him down and was punching the living daylights out of Shinji's face.
Shinji recovered from the shock of the speedy assult and kicked Sasuke off of him. Flying backwards through the air Sasuke made some hand seals.
"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu! (yay Sasuke's flamethrower)" Heated balls flying towards Shinji.
Shinji rolled out of the way and Sasuke kicked him. Catching Sasuke's foot, Shinji spun him around and threw him into a nearby building. Shinji then clenched his fists, sharp blades shot out from his sleeves and she charged at Sasuke who was standing up. The two of them battled it out with punches, kicks evading each other best as possible.
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Sakura was at the other side of the street spending most of her time gracefully dancing out of her enemy's attacks. She had managed to get a few cuts on him using her kitana, but not a lot.
"He's good…" Sakura thought, panting.
"She's better than I thought" Aki thought his gaze never lifting off his pink-haired opponent. He too was panting.
"You're a beautiful fighter as you are a woman. A perfect angel." She grinned at her with slight lust in his eyes.
"EEEW!" She cringed. She started to perform a few hand seals. "Four brother winds!" She cried. Strong winds from all four directions tore at Aki's flesh and garments. Leaving deeper wounds on his body. His ugly looking black bird flapped his wings countering Sakura's attack with an equally strong gust.
"Crap." She thought. The man was still smirking.
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Sasuke and Shinji were pretty much matched. Both were bleeding from wounds. Sasuke had little grazes on his face from getting too close to Shinji's hand blades. Shinji was severely burned on one arm after getting tagged form Sasuke's fireblasts.
"I have to end this soon." Sasuke thought. "It's already been 15 minutes."
"Goddamn he's fast…"
"Hey how about we make this interesting?" Sasuke said with a smirk on his face. He had a plan.
"Oh?" Shinji said.
"Let's pin our best moves on each other, dead on."
"Deal." Shinji replied dropping the blades from his wrists, only to be replaces by longer, thicker, sharper ones.
"Heh…" Sasuke scoffed channeling Chakra to his right arm. Blue lightning like aura took over his arm as it whistled and chirped like a thousand birds
They both glared at each other. And with a silent agreement the both of them pushed off the ground and flung towards each other. Their battle cries echoing through out the streets.
CLASH!
They hit each other dead on.
"I've got him!" Shinji smirked seeing his twin blade attack hitting Sasuke's blue lightning attack.
"Heh…" Sasuke grinned evilly as he thrust his palm further. Chidori broke through Shinji's blades!
Shinji's eyes widened as he saw his blades shattering before his eyes. It was like slow motion. Pieces of his blade clinked and clanged against the paved roads followed by silent drips of blood.
Shinji's body became numb. And he fell to the ground atop of his shattered blades. Sasuke had nailed him in the chest with Chidori.
Sasuke pulled his hand out of Shinji's chest and flicked his blood off his hand.
Shinji's eyes drew to a close, his head falling backwards resting on the road.
"He's dead…" Sasuke said to himself. He turned and walked away. Naruto and the other rain defenses were finishing off the remaining a'sins.
Sasuke scanned the area. He saw Jin and Naruto and the Mizukage. But where was Sakura? He scanned the area further and the he spotted a pink haired woman looking very warn and angry. She was fighting a rather large man. "Fuck!" Sasuke thought and made his way over.
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"Argh!" Sakura shrieked as the dark man landed a blow to her gut. She flew backwards her felt a rib or two break. "Fuck…"
"SAKURA!" He heard a voice from the distance…
"Sasuke…" She opened her jaded orbs and saw him.
"ARGH!" She cried. The dark man punched her in the face and she fell to the ground.
"SAKURA-ONEE-SAN!" A fragile and worried voice cried from a bush. Mai jumped out and ran towards Sakura.
The ugly black bird dove towards Mai.
"MAI WATCH OUT!" Sasuke screamed trying to make it over. But he had many injuries from his battle with Shinji. And it crippled his speed.
The bird grazed her arm with its sharp claws. "AAAH!" Mai screamed falling to the ground. The bird circled again and dove with its claws out towards Mai.
"MAI!"
to HUH: then you don't know what a poem is... (sdrop) and it's not a poem in the first place. Well, i guessyou could call it a poem. I wouldn't but yeah whatever.
just needed to clarify that.
to Saki: Umm... i didn't mention Sasuke because... uh... well... that's not until a later chapter (grin) and at that time sakura was with Jin.
umm did i miss any questions? i hope not (happy face)
i hope you like this chapter (grin)
until next time!
(heart) always
Lady Rine
