Chapter 10

It's been a while, and I am sorry to you guys about it. Especially when I told you guys it would be up by a certain time and it wasn't because certain things came up. But hey I'm back and I'm ready to write.

Of Allies and Enemies

Chapter Start

"Tiger report to base camp and inform the others of this troublesome development." The Owl stated as he headed towards the chakra signal. However he was stopped when a kunai was thrown right in front of him, and became lodged in the dirt.

"I don't think either of you will be going anywhere, anytime soon." A voice stated from the shadows as he and a two more ninja jumped down from the tree to land in a triangle formation surrounding Ino and Shikamaru.

"Chh…Troublesome." The Owl grunted however he quickly gauged the situation that he. I think I will do some cloud watching when I get back to Kohona. This mission is starting to prove extremely troublesome.

"Look what we caught boys," The one that spoke before spoke again. "Is this all the mighty Kohona could spare."

"It looks like it Kira, I mean there even to afraid to show their faces to the rest of the world." The enemy with orange hair announced. Ino looked at the man and shook her head slightly in disappointment. I was actually hoping for a real fight not a damn play date. But it will be fun to mess with them.

"Owl I really don't think these guys are smart I mean trying to take on some of the best of Kohona." The Tiger continued her rant seeing that the one with orange hair was giving her a funny look. "I mean they don't seem to have a whole lot up there you know what I mean, or maybe not a whole lot down there. Whatever it is it's screwed them up pretty bad."

"Your right about that, if they were told to keep an eye out for Kohona nin you would think that they might have the slightest idea of what we are capable of." Shikamaru stated while he pulled three kunai from his pocket each with an exploding tag on them. The three enemy ninja seemed to have noticed this and dropped into battle ready positions.

Ino smirked realizing that the kunai that Shikamaru had were just fake exploding tags, well all of them except one was a fake but they didn't need to know that. She quickly brought her thumb up to her mouth and drew blood and at the same time Shikamaru threw the first kunai with great accuracy; the enemy was shocked that nothing happened to it when it became lodged in his thigh. Kira reached down for it and in one powerful jerk the kunai came out and he didn't even wince.

"What was that suppose to do scare us into surrendering?" He laughed and retreated into the darkness using it to his advantage.

However the moment he was gone Shikamaru threw the other two and they both hit with precision, even with the victims trying to evade them. Only this time instead of just the silence of two grunts, there was an explosion and a scream. That was not the end of it however as Ino took her bloodied thumb and smeared in across a scroll that was laid open on top of her other palm. A six foot long chain whip appeared from the scroll; Ino quickly replaced the scroll in her pocket for later use. She now smirked to herself as she eyeballed the slight movement on the outer edge of her field of vision. Shikamaru can take care of the others, but I want to use this one as target practice. Her thoughts were interrupted as a voice came over her headset.

"Don't go too far, I still want to be able to be at your side quickly if you need help." Shikamaru waited a few seconds for a response and received none. "Alright Ino?"

"Yes, Ino out." She looked back before she left and discovered that shikamaru was now in hand to hand combat with the enemy. She quickly scanned for the other one and noticed that he seemed to be missing an arm and was currently unconscious. With that she left to see about her prey, and she hoped that he put up a good fight when she found him.

….Chapter End….

And that's it for the moment; I will try to get better at updating it's just kind of hard right now. Thanks to all of you that stuck around and decided to read this chapter. Even though I think half of you guys are probably like we waited two fucking months for that.