Dear readers,

So. THIS IS THE SIXTH CHAPTER! PLEASE ENJOY! Last time: Asuma's team was attacked by the sound ninjas. Chouji had turned into a boulder and was fighting with Zaku. Ino had tried to use her Mind Transfer Jutsu on Kin, but it failed. Ino was trapped out of her body, leaving Shikamaru to fight Dosu and Kin by himself. He tried to fight them but was struck in the legs. Neji's group had sensed blood and went to see where it came from.

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Neji jumped onto a tree branch as he heard someone talk.

"There's no point on continuing!" The voice said.

Neji looked from the tree. There he saw, Chouji knocked out and laying on the ground with a twisted arm, Ino laying on the ground with nothing showing that she was alive, and Shikamaru sitting with kunai's, throwing them at Kin, Zaku, and Dosu.

"Let's see what he looks like when I do this." Zaku said as he ran at Shikamaru and stabbed a kunai into his back.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" Shikamaru yelled as a pain ran through his body and he felt very limp.

Neji watched as Shikamaru, wounded and barely able to move, threw more kunai's. Tenten and Rock Lee jumped on the branches near Neji.

"He just will not give up." Rock Lee told Neji. "But why does he continue?"

"I don't know." Neji answered.

"Let's torture him." Zaku laughed.

They began taking turns kicking and punching him. Then, skeletons came out of the ground. The skeletons grabbed Shikamaru and began pulling him each way, making him stretch.

CRACK

Shikamaru's legs cracked as the bones were stretched.

Gai's team was shocked. Even Neji was surprised.

"I can't watch." Tenten said as she covered her eyes.

Yawn

"What happened?" Ino asked as she sat up.

She saw Chouji beside her. She shook him but noticed his twisted arm.

"Chouji! What happened!" Ino asked in panic.

She turned her head the other way.

"Shikamaru? What is he doing?" She thought.

She then saw he was being stretched out. She cupped her hands by her mouth and was about to yell when she heard a faint voice.

"Ino? Please don't do that." It said.

"Chouji?" She looked at him and he sighed.

"We can't stop them, but I know who can. He's in the tree and…….." Chouji closed his eyes in pain.

"Chouji?" She panicked, but his eyes never opened again.

She looked at the tree. It was Neji! He was the one who could help!

"Neji! Hurry! Shikamaru needs help!" She cried and her voice echoed.

Neji stared down at her in disgust. She looked like a rag.

Temari heard an echo in the distance. She began to run in the direction.

"Where is she going in such a hurry?" Kankuro asked himself.

Temari watched from the bushes as Neji ran at Kin and poked her in the neck. Kin fell to the ground, as her chakra flow was gone. He turned to Dosu.

"Hmph." He said and ran after Dosu.

Neji ran past Dosu, who was relieved, and jumped at Zaku.

"Oh yah! Take this!" Zaku put up his hands. "Super Sonic Sound Wave!"

The sound travelled through the air and Neji dodged it quickly. It hit the person Neji had just ran past.

The sound wave stopped to show Dosu laying on the ground.

Zaku turned to him, then to Kin. He picked up his team-mates and ran.

"It kills me to do run away but..… that kid will get it next time!" Zaku thought.

Neji looked at his best friend. Shikamaru was in bad shape. Suddenly, Temari ran out of the bushes. She stopped to see Shikamaru sitting up with his arms around Ino. Ino blushed and hugged back. Shikamaru fell limp once more as he fainted.

"Ino. Your safe." He said and fell backwards.

"Aww. Neji! Why don't you protect me like that!" Tenten said.

"Oh, great." Neji complained.

Later

Ino sat by Asuma and waited for the doctor to come out of Shikamaru's room. Both of her team-mates were in rooms at the hospital. A doctor soon came out of Shikamaru's room.

"He's fine. We did operation on his legs and he's able to use them perfectly." The doctor said.

Ino saw Shikamaru come out of the room. She ran over and hugged him.

A doctor came out of Chouji's room.

"Hey Bill." He said to Shikamaru's doctor.

"Hey Bob." Bill replied.

"So Bill…"

"Yah."

"What happened to your patient?"

"Broken legs. Yours?"

"Stomach problem, paralysis, heart disease, twisted arm and poison."

"Wow."

"Yah. I know."

"What a kid!"

"Yah! I hope he dies! That fat ass!"

"Hah, that bastard!"

Chouji walked out of the room.

"You shouldn't be up." Bob pretended to care.

"Shut up!" Chouji said. "And I'm no kid!"

Chouji emerged into…..Itachi!

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Oh no! Itachi! What are they gonna do! Here are some phrases used in the next 1 or 2 chapters!

"Do you love me, for real?"

"I give up! Nothing I do works!"

"Get a life, Ino!"

"I don't care about her! Only you!"

"I love you!"

"Chouji! Die!"

"Neji is my best friend and I'll help him to the end! I don't care if you kill me!"

"I'm sorry. He's dead."

"Why did he have to die!"

"Kankuro? Do you love me?"

"What!" Kankuro