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Lamia Deus panted heavily as she flew through the corridors. An emotionless look was etched onto her face when she heard it.
"Robin!" The voice bounced off the cavern walls and bombarded her. But the voice only made her clutch the red head in her arms closer to her and flap her winged hair faster in stronger beats. Once in awhile she would glance down at him before looking behind her quickly. It was maze down there. The only thing that soothed her was the fact that the Akatsuki would have to make their way through the maze too. Those strange eyes of hers scanned over the surroundings, searching for a way out. In her memory it should be coming up soon. An almost joyful look passed over her face when she saw a ray of light. She flew towards it at top speed, not bother to stop for the large boulder. She rammed her shoulder into the large rock that bocked the entry way. However, the rock wouldn't budge. So she repeated the process over and over again, trying to break free from the prison. She did not register her shoulder dislocating. All she knew was that they had to break out.
Setsuko felt bile rise to her throat as she clamped her hands over her mouth. Her eyes had fear in them as she stared out into the mass of dead, decaying bodies, still moving. The stench was enough to suffocate her. But the dead hands grabbing onto her when they got close was too much. Setsuko backed away, trying to to vomit.
"But I . . . . they're dead!" her voice was muffled by her hands but it still rang out through the silence.
"What's the matter?" Ai taunted. The supposedly dead woman stood far from the Bloodless Ninja. Her arms were extended out in front of her and her hands were stretched out. Tears rose to Setsuko's eyes as the zombies limped towards her. Setsuko looked up, terror in her eyes. "What? Still can't figure out how I'm alive?" Through her mask Ai smirked. "Simple really. My bloodlimit allows me to control the dead bodies with a small amount of chakra and blood. I just put a genjutsu on a dead body and had it fight you." Ai laughed cruelly at Setsuko. "Now you get see how much destruction you've reeked." Setsuko steeled herself against the impact and ran forward, fighting back bile every time she touched a corpse.
Naruto waited as Sakura healed everyone and Kakashi paced back and forth.
"We have to go find her!" The Copy Cat Ninja snapped at the others, anger radiating off of him. Naruto nodded as he stood from where he had been sitting.
"Hai! Setsuko-neechan shouldn't be deserted."
"But where should we start to look?" Argued Sakura.
"Sakura-chan is right." Yoko sighed as she stood. "But Setsuko-sama should not be forgotten. I came here to help her. Not to sit around and do nothing." Gai smiled brightly at Yoko.
"Worry not, young meiko! Now that we know what we're fighting, my eternal rival and I will have no problem rescuing his wife without a problem!" Jiraiya rolled his eyes at Gai's antics.
"I doubt Setsuko would take kindly to you acting like she's some weak damsel in distress. You've got to remember, Setsuko was one of the world's most wanted shinobi for a long time."
"Let's just go save Setsuko-neechan!" Naruto snapped, startling several people. "Right now that Ai is there, trying to kill her!" Yoko looked down as sorrow ebbed away at her.
"But Naruto-kun . . . . we do not know where the Akatsuki is." Naruto sighed as he sat back down causing Sasuke to glare at everyone else while Sakura healed a broken rib of his.
"Can't Hinata or Neji check around?" He looked towards Hinata and her cousin Neji, both of which had just swallowed a solider pill.
"We can try." Hinata muttered before she and Neji activated their family bloodlimit. The two scanned as far as they could, searching for any kind of clue.
"There!" Neji hissed while pointing ahead of the group. "Lamia Deus with Gaara!" Hinata nodded, confirming this.
"Hai! She looks like she's stuck. There's a boulder blocking her way." Naruto did not even bother to hear any more as he charged out towards the direction Neji had pointed.
'Robin! I'll save you, Setsuko, and Gaara.' Naruto thought to himself as he sped through the forest.
Finally the boulder gave way to Lamia Deus. The vampire god flew out of the hole with incredible speed. Only one thought was on her mind.
'Gaara-kun . . . . I have to get him out of here.' Lamia Deus did not notice Naruto coming towards her. Nor did she notice the wire shooting out of the darkness until it was too late. Lamia Deus was yanked roughly back by the wire wrapped around her ankle. Flapping her wings with stronger strokes, she barely managed to stay out of the darkness she had just left. She let out a noise of her struggle and tried to break free.
"Robin-kun!" Itachi hissed as he emerged from the darkness. The other Akatsuki members jumped out, ready to fight. "Betrayal is not looked kindly upon." Lamia Deus shifted Gaara to one arm and held the other out. She sent a black ball of fire towards Itachi, causing him to duck and nearly losing the wire. She felt pain surge through her as she used her dislocated arm.
"You speak of betrayal like I was loyal to Akatsuki!" Snapped the winged woman as she struggled to break free. Suddenly kunai came fly towards the wire, snapping it in half. The god form wasted no time in taking high up into the air. Her strange eyes scanned over the ground and widened in surprise when she saw Naruto getting ready to face Itachi.
"Uzumaki Naruto . . . . stand aside and allow me to deal with the traitor." Itachi's eyes transformed into his family's famous eyes, the sharingan.
"You're one to talk!" Itachi ducked under the spinning kick his little brother gave him.
"Robin!" The woman looked down to see Kakashi and Jiraiya calling her. She flew down closer to them so they would not need to yell.
"Robin, what's going on?" Kakashi asked quietly. Lamia Deus looked down at the man in her arms.
"I have been a spy for Tsunade. No one was suppose to know in order for everyone's reactions to be real." She sighed and looked back as Deidara created clay birds and sent them flying towards them. However, Hinata jumped out in front of the birds and performed a kaiten, destroying the birds. Lamia Deus looked back in time to see a hand coming towards her. She didn't have enough time to respond as Kakashi slapped her across the face.
"That was for what you made my wife go through." Had she not been the Emotionless Executioner Robin would have looked away in shame.
"I'm sorry, Kakashi." Kento charged forward and kicked towards Hinata's head only to be blocked by Neji.
"This time, you will not win." Neji hissed before kicking Kento into a tree. Hinata smiled her thanks before the two Hyuuga closed in on Kento. Kisame moved to help Itachi would had been punched in the ribs by Sasuke but Lee intercepted and punched at Kisame. The man barely had time to bring up his sword and block the powerful punch. Lee followed up with a spinning kick only to have it blocked. However, Kisame was pushed back by the seer force in the kick. Lee back flipped away and managed to pull off his weights as the same time. Lee threw them to the side, leaving two craters when they landed. The taijutsu specialist disappeared and reappeared behind Kisame, kicking the back of his head. Kisame flew forward and rolled to a stop.
"Little brat!" Kisame roared before charging towards Lee. Gai had already destroyed one of Sasori's puppets. No one noticed as Yoko slipped by everyone and into the dark maze the Akatsuki had just left.
Setsuko glared up at Ai as she dodged a corpse's punch.
"You're sick." Ai smirked.
"You created me, so what does that make you?" Setsuko narrowed her eyes before she jumped up and spun around, kicking the heads of a few bodies. With a glare thrown up at Ai, Setsuko kicked away a corpse and gave an uppercut to another.
"You said that your blood was key to controlling them." Ai watched Setsuko suspiciously.
"What of it?" Setsuko smirked.
"I control blood." Ai's eyes widened in horror as she realized her mistake and Setsuko raised up her arms. The dead bodies stopped their movements as small trickles of red liquid left their bodies. Soon, Setsuko and Ai were the only ones standing.