A/N: Quite astounding, the amount of reviews one gets… -- Not! You know, I almost don't feel inclined to write…but, see, I have to finish this story so that I can get back to my Andromeda one. Because I have WONDERFUL peoples waiting for that one. –nods- Anyways, There are only about 3 more chapters after this one, give or take.
Everything will then be resolved…I'm putting up TWO chapters today for you undeserving people, because Shoujo Queen and I brainstormed, and found THE best chapter EVER, so we had to write it!
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Chapter 9: Jutsu CureNaruto raced back into the house, sopping wet.
"Sasuke! Sakura!" he bellowed, pounding up the stairs, "I got the info! We can start now!"
A long fingered hand reached out of the doorway and pulled him inside.
"BAKA!" Sakura hissed, smacking his blonde head. "It's a SECRET plan, remember?"
Sasuke just rolled his eyes.
"So," Sakura continued, a little more calmly, as she sat down on Sasuke's bed, "what did you discover?" Naruto grinned ear to ear, and proceeded to tell the fantastic story.
Well, actually, it was more like…
"Well, her sensei didn't like girls, and Kakashi fell in love with her, and her sensei died, oh yeah, and Kakashi trained her, and I was born, and Iruka-sensei was her team mate, and…"
Eventually, through detailed and simplified questions, they got the whole story, in chronological order, out of the little kitsune.
"So," Sasuke mused, "She and Kakashi were lovers. That fits with our analysis of the situation. So, all we have to do is break the Mangenkyo Sharingan's hold on Kakashi, and all will be well."
"Yup!" Naruto smirked, "It's that easy!"
"Baka," Sasuke muttered, "it isn't. It's hard. Do you know how much chakra the jutsu that can effectively break that hold uses? Yours is plentiful enough, but I don't have the time, nor the patience, to teach you. Plus, Kakashi-sensei would be likely to dodge the jutsu and all would come to nought."
"Oh."
Naruto's face fell, and Sakura's shoulders slumped.
"What if," Sakura wondered, "we didn't send the jutsu at Kakashi?"
"That wouldn't work," Sasuke shook his dark head, "Where would we send it? At Naruto? It'll only do what it's supposed to if it hits Kakashi."
Sakura slowly got up and began pacing.
"But, what if we DID send it at Naruto? You know, with his bloodline trait, he'll be able to reverse it!"
"And," Sasuke added, picking up her vein, "I'll position myself right in front of Kakashi and dodge at the last minute so that the jutsu hits him!"
"But I thought you didn't have enough chakra, Sasuke?"
The other two genin looked at Naruto and sighed.
He was right.
It simply wasn't going to happen.
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"DAMN!" Ayumi swore, plucking the shuriken from her arm.
She had gone out beyond the borders of the estate to gather medicinal herbs from the woods across the nearby road, and had met up with a masked shinobi who seemed intent on killing her.
The masked figure laughed, a low, husky sound. "Little woman – you aren't going anywhere. Not to whatever your destination was, not back to the house. Hell, though…I think that's gonna be the next place you see."
She growled, and let fly a batch of senbon from her bell sleeves, at the same time making the hand signs for a heavy shower of "leaves" to fall from the sky.
Effectively blinded by this primitive barrier – a jutsu special to the Village Hidden in the Leaves – her opponent was struck by every single one of her needles, paralysing him.
"Well, well," she grinned, seating herself comfortably on his chest.
"It seems I'm not going to be the one going to hell today. Say hello to the devil for me, alright?"
With that, she unsheathed one of her kunai knives from the holster on her thigh, and plunged it deep into his heart.
She then proceeded to search his lifeless body as the continuous rain washed the blood flowing from his gaping wound.
"What in deepest hell?" She muttered as she pulled a Sound hiate from off of his neck and examined it.
"So, you're Akatsuki. How lovely. I suppose you were told to watch this estate…looking for potential recruits in Itachi and his little girlfriend, huh? Unless…oh, crap. That would only make too much sense."
She hastily completed her examination of the rogue shinobi's body, then replaced the hiate and sealed the wounds with a medical jutsu.
If he was discovered, as he no doubt would be, it would seem that he had had a heart attack and collapsed.
She stood, and, brushing the dirt off her hands, turned to continue her search for herbs.
"Damn," she whispered as she saw the smirking ninja in front of her.
"Masterfully done, Higurashi-san. Too bad you won't live to tell of it."
"Crap," she muttered, "How many of you ARE there?"
He laughed harshly, and responded, "Too many for you to kill. We have orders not to let anyone get in or out of the estate. No one. And, as our presence here is supposed to be secret, I suppose I shall have to kill you as my companion failed to do. Quite clumsy of him, actually. He's not usually so easily struck."
"You bastard!" she murmured. "So heartless…a companion should be mourned, you baka-ketsu!"
He licked his lips and chuckled softly. "Mmmm…feisty. I like a woman with spunk. Perhaps we'll postpone the fight, and have some fun, first. I do so enjoy killing my lovers…what do you say?"
She sneered at him.
"As if! If you want to fight, I'll gladly dispose of you. But that's all I'll do."
"Dispose of me? Not very likely, little one, as I am much more skilful than you will ever be. One doesn't get into the Akatsuki on looks alone, you know."
"Your pomposity is beginning to irk me. Fight, or don't fight, it makes no difference to me. I just want to get my medicinal plants and get the hell out of here."
"I shall relish the taste of your blood. Let's go!"
She gritted her teeth, and ground out a curse as she used a jutsu to re-gather all her weapons from the previous fight.
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"So…" Nariesha said lazily as she filed her nails. "What do you think those little kids are doing upstairs all alone?"
Itachi shrugged. "They're only two years younger than you."
"Answer my question, oh great leader."
"Playing tic-tac-toe? How should I know?"
She rolled her eyes. "For all you boast wisdom and knowledge, you're still a man. And a stupid man at that. I think they're doing something MUCH less innocent."
She winked at him and crossed her legs suggestively.
He sighed audibly, and replied, "Just because that's the only thing ever on your mind, doesn't mean that it is the only thing on theirs. They probably have lives beyond the bedroom, you know."
Making a quick hand sign, she stretched the nail file to become a mirror, and answered as she re-glossed her lips, "Well, they might be doing that. You never know. It's awful quite up there. Plus, the girl…erm…Sakura! Yes, that's it. Sakura. Anyways, she seems to like both of the boys, and who knows? They may return her feelings."
He lazily reached over and fastened the hooks on her kimono so that it no longer revealed so much of her cleavage, and brought his hand back to pop a grape in his mouth.
She fussed, and undid the hook.
"Baka, it's supposed to be this way. How else am I supposed to snare them?"
He crunched the grape before replying.
"Well, perhaps, seeing as they are only 13, you might be going after Kakashi with that ridiculous getup."
She looked puzzled, and leaned over his reclining body so that he got a deep whiff of her sultry perfume. "I thought you had Kakashi under control." She whispered, and put another grape in his mouth.
He pushed her off of him, and sat up.
"I've lost Kageromaru's chakra. He's dead."
"KAGEROMARU? DEAD?"
He looked at her quizzically, and she hastily added, "Thank goodness! He…erm…bugged me…"
He rolled his eyes.
"You don't have to pretend with me. I walked in on you two about a month ago. He seemed to be enjoying himself immensely."
She flicked her wrist, and dismissed his growing smirk.
"Oh, please, I lost a bet, and that was the forfeit."
"Right…" he shook his head and got up. "I must go investigate…"
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"So, Sakura, have you finished working on that jutsu yet?"
"Shut up, Naruto! I'm WORKING!"
A 'thwap' was heard, and Sasuke involuntarily cringed at the sound and at the growing lump on Naruto's golden head.
"Erm…Sakura…we don't have much time you know…"
She glared daggers at the raven-haired boy, and he jumped back a foot or so. "Okay, okay…Naruto and I will leave…"
As they were creeping to the door, Sakura snapped her fingers.
"I've got it! Ayumi-chan showed it to me two days ago. It just took me a while to remember it. I'll do the jutsu, and Naruto – you'll have to use the Ikaesu Gaisen at EXACTLY the right moment. Now, remember – this uses up quite a bit of chakra on my part, so it'll have to be quick."
Naruto grinned like an idiot, and even Sasuke cracked a weak smile.
"Now," the Uchiha whispered, "to lure Kakashi out to where we can do what we need to do…"
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"KA-KA-SHI-SEN-SEI! I NEED YOUR HELP WITH SOMETHING!"
Sasuke stuck a finger in his ear. "Careful, baka! I don't want to go deaf! Not so loud next time!"
"Sorry," Naruto muttered.
The silver-haired jounin opened his door and yawned at his genin.
"You called me?"
Sasuke's jaw nearly dropped. "He only SCREAMED at you…"
Kakashi shrugged. "Whatever. What'd you want, Naruto?"
"Erm…well…it's about…well…maybe you could come outside and I'll show you."
Kakashi glared suspiciously at the boys, who were doing their best to look particularly innocent and not succeeding very well.
He followed Naruto down the stairs, and Sasuke signalled to Sakura in the cherry tree.
As soon as Kakashi closed the door behind him, Sasuke began putting the plan into action.
"Kakashi-sensei – I sense disturbance in someone's chakra. They're going to attack!"
"Funny," Kakashi murmured as Sasuke positioned himself in front of his sensei, "I don't sense a thing…"
Sasuke crossed his eyes, and Naruto coughed loudly.
That was the signal, and Sakura created the link that would drain off Naruto's chakra into Sasuke.
Sasuke felt himself growing more and more powerful, and wondered: Is this how Naruto feels all the time?
Naruto, of course, didn't even realize that the chakra was draining from his body until Sasuke sent a visible blast of energy his way.
Naruto pushed his hiate further up on his forehead, firmly planted his feet on the ground, and yelled, "IKAESU GAISEN!"
The energy reversed direction smoothly, and returned to Sasuke.
Said shinobi waited until he could feel his eyebrows begin to singe, and then leaped.
Kakashi's visible eye went wide in shock, but it was too late. He had no time to run. He let out an agonized scream as the energy hit him, then left his body as quickly.
He slumped to the ground, unconscious, and Sakura chakra-jumped from the tree to his side.
"He'll be okay…" she whispered, then collapsed beside him.
Sasuke felt the extra flow of chakra pan out to his normal rate, and sighed. It had been nice to have such immense power.
A/N: Oh! Yay! Another long one! Isn't Nariesha evil? Well, not evil, just sluttish. Which is the same in my opinion. And, it seems as if…well, all you have to do is read the next chapter to find out what happens! . And REVIEW! Or, I shan't post the last couple of chapters, and you'll never know how it ends…
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