Shikamaru watched with abstract thoughts as he saw many features one would get from shock. It looked like both Naruto and Ino wanted to scream, but shock through their bodies didn't let them. Leaving both of them with mouths that were wide and then would slowly close. "this isn't a smart idea…" Chouji commented towards his friend. "She has been inside his mind before looking to be sure they were gone, why couldn't it just be the same?"
"I think we missed something, but maybe you are right. From the looks of it I think they just got passed Sasuke. You can snap her out of it if you want?" Shikamaru folded his hands together, "but do it soon before she goes deep into the memories. Waking up from that is a disorienting thing." Shikamaru thought for a moment. "Suppose we woke her up inside of a genjutsu? Do you think she would catch on.."
Chouji stared at Shikamaru with interest, "are we going to test it?" Chouji started with a single had seal and got ready to cast it on her.
"hold it, place it on Naruto, she is inside of him right now, you could hypnotize both of them at once." Shikamaru calmly got his Shadow ready to split them apart. "One… Two… Three…"
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One minute Ino was looking at something she couldn't quite remember, and the next she was staring right at Shikamaru who seemed to have banded her with shadow. Chouji was standing next to her eating Barbeque chips. "Why did you wake me up?" Ino looked first at Chouji and then at the more probable cause.
"It looked to us that you both were in pain and desperate actions were needed." Shikamaru released the shadow bind and Chouji hit Ino in the back of the head.
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Ino looked up at Shikamaru. "Was that an Illusion?" She had just been hit by Chouji and now suddenly she was back to having his Shadow pin her. "This is too confusing, stop screwing around."
Shikamaru let go of his bind, "we were just testing something." Naruto nodded from the corner of the room. "We were wondering if a person could sense genjutsu from waking up. You couldn't sense it, being as you are a regular person. Naruto sensed it and according to him, the Nine-Tails was whispering that it was fake, the world at least. I think because we couldn't cast a proper illusion on the Kyuubi. He woke himself from it while you continued on."
"They were testing to see if any of the Genjutsu that an Akatsuki or Sasuke could have done would create a elaborate enough illusion to make it seem like that they died." Naruto finished. "I really doubt they could figure out an illusion that could trick the Kyuubi though." Still the thought was haunting to Naruto. What if I am still in the Genjutsu, still sitting in front of Orochimaru as he's laughing. Or if Sasuke and Sakura are still alive. "Ino I am dispatching you to follow after Gaara and Kakashi, keep your presence unknown and only offer aid to them if it is necessary."
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Kakashi looked out from the top of a pyramid. He was looking for any sort of camp site that could have been. According to the Kazekage, the Black flame had appeared at the base of this pyramid. Either, they went into the burial tombs and had came out or traveling from one place to another they crossed that side of the pyramid. He had to make sure that the person had moved on with in the 5 days.
Another question bothered him at the back of his mind. What inside of this Pyramid would any person want? Gaara had said this tomb was ancient and had been remodeled every century. It was built before the Ninja Wars towards a great leader who taught the people many things. To Kakashi, it sounded just like a shrine to a goddess. There could be nothing important in there to any particular bandit and ancestral belongings held little potent power. Gaara had told him that there was an entire library inside the pyramid holding many secrets the supposed deity had taught the people. The Library had already been catalogued and nothing seemed to be missing. It seemed like this Black Fire was just a stunt to get the Sand and Leaf villages to respond to something.
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Kakashi's team, on the other hand, was busy not looking outside the pyramid, but on the inside. Any possible secret passage ways were being looked into. The Kazekage said there were no known secret traps. If there were any, they were covered up on the first excavations and the first remodeling of the pyramids. According to Yurino, the undeclared lead genin of Team Kakashi, or Team 7, the remodeling would make short work of their case, inside the pyramids at least. He reasoned that if they were stilling something it would be something really obvious, or they would have to destroy a section of the pyramid to enter into a secret cave.
Kakashi's idea was to have Gaara sense the sand inside the pyramid and try to get a details lay out of the inner chambers and hidden chambers as well. Unfortunately, whoever designed the tower was aware of the Shukaku and its ability to control sand. They had somehow made the pyramid out of fully "energized" sand, as Gaara called it. He controls and looks for sand by being able to push his chakra into it. The designer had every inner block covered in sand that if more energy was placed, then the object would release the same amount back. Meaning Gaara could receive a full outer chamber reading, but anything on the inside was not likely.
Kakashi claimed it was a fort to hold out against the beast. Gaara claimed the shukaku would have taken down the whole thing in a matter of seconds. Even if it couldn't easily sense what was inside it could still crumble it down to the ground. Gaara proposed that the Pyramid was made so that creatures that required sand to live couldn't invade the temple, worms and ants and the likes. Whichever it was, it didn't change that gaara couldn't get a blue print of the area.
"Man, why is this so boring?" Yurino whined to his fellow team members. He was the son of Ino. He looked very similar to his grand father except for his dark blue eyes, which came from his own father. His father had been a normal villager at the time the Akatsuki tried to take the Kyuubi by force. They had sent three people into the town and two others after the Kyuubi. The three inside the town tried to distract main Konoha forces by slaughtering villagers at random, something Zetsu enjoyed greatly until the Hyuuga captured him.
Due to the burden that the Akatsuki noticed in Naruto's growing power they had Itachi and Kisami directly assault the main Konoha temple where the Hokage reigned. Before she went to deal with the Akatsuki, she titled Jiraiya the Sixth Hokage. He quickly passed his title to Jiraiya and helped against the two rampaging Akatsuki. Kisami was beaten by Gamabunta, while Itachi had quickly taken down Tsunade's slug. With a stroke of luck Itachi had gotten both Jiraiya and Tsunade inside of the Kaleidoscope. He didn't know holding two people inside was possible. Iatchi quickly killed both of them inside his Magenkyo only to enrage a Kakashi and Naruto. Itachi was unaware of the power inside Kakashi's altered Magenkyo at first.
Kakashi had been thinking of strategies to counter Itachi's magenkyo and when the chance finally arrived, he almost knew exactly what to do. Itachi tried using his Magenkyo on the famed Hatake only to find himself warped around 2 miles in the sky. Taking large amounts of focus on his part he managed to push off enough chakra before his landing to have a safe one. Unfortunately for him, he landed with in 10 feet of an already crazed seven tailed Naruto. He met his end rather quickly at the hands of the seven-tails. When Itachi died, Kakashi had to exert the rest of his chakra to send the Kyuubi into forests where it would thrive for a few days on destroying animals. When Naruto finally came back, He was welcomed to being titled the seventh/eighth depending on which person. Some people say Jiraiya gave Kakashi the seventh and Kakashi gave Naruto the Eighth. Others said Jiraiya gave Kakashi the sixth which lead Naruto to the seventh. When in actuality, Jiraiya just told Kakashi "The fire in the people is yours to control now, I have more important matters." After enough time, Kakashi declared himself the Seventh leaving Naruto as the Eighth.
Yurino kicked one of the Pyramids walls resulting in the same thud as all the other walls. "you know Yurino, this is an S Rank Mission." Gaara calmly told the overactive boy. He had been hearing him complain for most of the morning and into the afternoon. Upon completely this mission, his standings would look phenomenal for the Chounin exam.
"Yeah yeah, but this feels worse then a D. At least with those we get to use shovels and not stare at cracks in the wall for 6 hours straight." The rest of team Kakashi didn't mind looking at the ancient architectures and artifacts. Even though the temple gave off an aura of Seclusion, it was rather peaceful.
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There was a place on the outskirts of the Rainbow village. A castle built in snow, which housed nine people. The castle was highly magnificent and very few even knew of it as a myth. Any person who could say they've seen the place has either became a servant under it or have died. The many corridors and kngiths rooms says it used to belong to a large city, until whatever caused the ice to rain down and cover all around it with a forever tundra.
"We have your temple activated now Shukara. They are on their way to activate Banji's castle right now, close by would be Macadrian's shrine." A tall man whispered into the ear of a woman in queen's fashion sitting on a queen's throne. "There will be only six until we finally get what we are after."
"What about the sand and leaf village? Do they suspect anything?" She whispered back to him in a low voice.
"We are activating shrines outside of their Allegiances now, they wouldn't suspect anything until it will be too late." The man placed a kiss on Shukara's cheek and lowered a hand down to her thigh where he caressed for a moment then with his other hand he clasped the women's wrist and started leading her up a flight of stairs to her chambers.