Thank you all for waiting for this chapter, though I was busy with the others and the multi-tasking hardly works for me. So enough with the small talk, since I know what you're all been waiting for; so here it is!
Since Naruto and the others are out to retrieve Sakura, they found out she's in a group and they're somewhere in a town. As for Sakura, she's still in a middle of whether or not she'll keeps her emotions, so Ibate went inside her mind so he can show her how it is without emotions. Naruto and the others had better find them before it's too…
Sakura's mind…
Ibate led Sakura inside the mansion; they are both in a huge empty ballroom, "Why are we here?" Sakura asked. "I find this a perfect place where we can talk," Ibate said then he snapped his finger, and then… some music appeared out of nowhere are playing all around them. Sakura became surprise that some strange people are playing music instruments… and they have the same eyes as Ibate.
Then Ibate pulled her close to him as they both faced each other, Sakura blushed a little as she glance at his handsome face. Ibate had his hand around her waist and pulled her closer to him; Sakura blushed even more because she never got near to a boy like this before. "Now…" Ibate said as he started moving his feet, so did Sakura; as the music is playing, they both dance around the ballroom.
South side of town…
Naruto and Sasuke gone through every building and stores, and asked a lot of people but they have no clue of where the thugs are or where Sakura is.
"This isn't helping, we looked everywhere," Sasuke said,
"Well we can't give up now, they have got to be somewhere in this town; we still need to find Sakura-chan," Naruto said as he became worried than ever.
"Who knows what could have happen to her," he thought deeply and imagine all the torture Sakura's in, not sure if they'll ever find in her in time. So he ran through town yelling her name,
"Sakura-chan!"
Sasuke saw him left, so he ran after him through the town.
Sakura's mind…
As they're dancing, "There are many things you should understand about us Ms. Haruno, many ways of having no emotions in us," Ibate said then he twirled her around and back to him again. "First, we make a choice whether we be ourselves or become different, or, in other case, let him decide," Ibate said,
"You mean, Lord Akeeba?" Sakura asked as they dance around the ballroom. "That's right, only he helped us get rid of every emotions we don't need, such as... fear," Ibate said then Sakura found herself longer in the ballroom… but at a cliff in the center towards her death, she looked down and saw sharp rocks below them. She gasped and held onto Ibate, then he said,"… hatred," then everything change as they were no longer at the cliff, but somewhere in a foggy forest. Then they both spotted two ninjas fighting, they both show anger and they are fighting to the death. One of them fell on the ground as the other pulled out his spear and thrust it at his heart; blood was everywhere as the ninja showed hatred and murder in his eyes.
Sakura couldn't bare to watch that much kill as she tighten Ibate's shirt, buried her face in it, and quivers. Then Ibate said, "…and sadness," then the image changed again as they are no longer in the forest but in a home, they're both in a bedroom as they turned to a child crying next to a man in bed. Sakura looked at the little eight-year-old boy as he's crying in sadness because he just lost his father; she suddenly became sad and felt sorry for the little boy. Then Sakura took a good look at that little boy… that he has black eyes and hair, and he's full of tears. Just as Sakura look at him, she turned to Ibate for a moment then back at the little boy… that's when she figured it out.
"Ibate, was that you… you lost your father when you were young?" she asked him as he stood silent for a moment, he turned to her and finally said, "…I don't have a father." Sakura stuttered after what she just heard and then the image changed again that they're back in the ballroom again.
"Having emotions only get in the way, it won't help you become strong nor help you survive," Ibate explained, Sakura moved away from him, "How could you possibly know? So my emotions get in the way but it doesn't make me weak all the time," she said to him with disbelief. "Is it? Because from my point of view, you couldn't stop your friends when they almost killed each other," he said, "W-well… I could have stopped them but…" she tried to explained until Ibate cut her off. "Your emotions got in the way, if your sensei never stopped your comrades at that time, surely they would have killed each other… or at least, they could have killed you," he said.
Sakura became stun after what he just said that he was right, if Kakashi never stopped Naruto and Sasuke back in the hospital she would have gotten herself killed; she slowly look down. Then Ibate got closer to her again then used his hand to left up her chin up to him,
"But that's all behind you now Ms. Haruno, as soon as we take you to Lord Akeeba you'll never get to see them again," he said as his lips closing in on hers; Sakura blushed even more that he's about to kiss her. She gasped as she quickly pulled away from him…
Slap!
She slapped him crossed his face; Ibate didn't became shock nor show any response after she slapped him.
Sakura try to get away from him until he grab her wrist and pulled her back to him, into an embrace. Sakura struggle trying to push him away from him but he held her tight and began whispering in her ear. "You won't be alone Sakura… you'll be with us," Sakura stopped struggling at that moment as he continues, "Come with us and leave your emotions behind, only then you'll become strong without them," he whispered. Sakura didn't say anything as he kept whispering, "Let us take you to Lord Akeeba, let him take away your emotions and become one of us." Then they slowly face each other again, Sakura glance at his paled blue eyes and became silent, "In that rate, you'll never become weak ever again," he said to her.
Then Ibate plant a kiss on her forehead as he held her waist closer to him, Sakura blushed again as she placed her hands on his chest. "I…"she couldn't speak as she look down again, Ibate used his hand and left her chin up to him again, "Forget your emotions… forget your friends… become one of us so you can no longer be weak," he said to her as his lips is closing in on hers again. "I…" Sakura try to say something but couldn't find the words, their lips are about to touch… until…
"SAKURA-CHAN!" a voice said from the outside world interrupted.
Inside the cocoon…
Sakura immediately opened her eyes after she just heard that voice, "Sakura-chan!" she heard it again as she recognized it, "N…Naruto!" she thought.
Outside…
Ibate quickly turned and ran up to the edge of the building, he look down as he heard it from down there.
"Sakura-chan!" he heard that voice as he spotted a blond boy wearing orange clothes and a black-haired boys wearing a blue shirt. As he looked close to them, they're both from the Leaf village,
"Sakura-chan, where are you! Sakura-chan!" the blond boy yelled.
Inside the cocoon…
"Naruto," Sakura thought, as she regained some feeling back, she began to struggle again. She was almost loose but not all the way, more spiders kept crawling on her but she can't give up now.
Outside…
Ibate noticed Sakura struggling inside the cocoon, "Seems like now is the best time for us to leave this town," he thought as he ran up to the cocoon. He grabbed it and started carrying it, "I'm afraid we have to take our talk somewhere else Ms. Haruno," he said to her while she's struggling inside the cocoon.
Ibate jumped down from the roof to the other building then flipped backwards and land on the ground at in alley. He held onto the cocoon as he hid himself behind the wall, so those two Leaf ninjas won't find them.
Naruto and Sasuke…
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto kept calling her name, Sasuke stopped him, "That won't help at all Naruto, save it," he said to him. "We have to find her before it's too late, who knows what kind of danger she might be in," Naruto said to him,
"You have no idea," Ibate whispered while hiding in the alley.
Then Naruto and Sasuke spotted the others as they regroup, they ran up to them, "Any sign of them?" Sasuke asked them, they all shook their head.
"We've searched everywhere but hardly anyone have seen any thugs around this town," Neji said,
"Me and Arkamaru barely pick up their chakras but there's still too many scents covered up," Kiba said.
"And we asked a lot of people but they claim no information about the thugs nor Sakura," Shikamaru said,
"We have to keep searching for them, they could be anywhere," Naruto said.
Ibate held onto the cocoon as he quickly left the alley and was about to make his escape, until he spotted his group running towards him.
"Ibate, we have a problem," Dujobe said, "I already know, we have to leave immediately," Ibate said as he gave the cocoon to Dujobe so he can carry when they leave.
Inside the cocoon…
Sakura was struggling as much as she can and she can barely feel her right arm again, "Come on Sakura, move," she thought,
"Yah! You can do it, cha!" Inner Sakura said. Sakura was able to get her right arm out of the web, and now reaching towards her mouth, "Almost there," she thought again as her hand touches the web on her mouth. She's tearing it out of her,
"NOW!" Inner Sakura said.
Outside…
The Ibate and the others are about to head out, until…
"NARUTO!" they both heard Sakura yelled from inside the cocoon.
Naruto and the others heard her voice as they immediately turned to where she is, they saw a group of kids in black with some cocoon with them,
"NARUTO! I'M IN HERE!" they heard Sakura's loud voice coming from inside the cocoon,
"It's them!" Kiba yelled as he pointed at the group, the group turned to Leaf ninjas; as they've been spotted. So without a second thought, they all started running away from them,
"Hey! Get back here with Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled as he and the others started chasing after them.
They all run through town, Ibate and his group running away, and Naruto and the others are after chasing them. As they're running, Myazo said to them, "You go on ahead, I'll slow them down," they all nod as he stopped running. He turned to them as they're running towards him, his dark-green eyes became paler and some his green hair stick up to the air; he gathered his chakra at his lung and then…
"Frost Bites!" he thought as he blew out cold air from his mouth as ice formed to the ground and around certain objects. Just as Naruto and the others are close to him, they suddenly felt their feet stuck and frozen; they looked down and found themselves trapped in ice.
"What the…?" Naruto said as his feet are frozen,
"What gives?" Kiba said as he can't move his feet, then the ice started to grow from their feet up to their ankles, then their shins, then their knees and so on until they're completely frozen solid. After Myazo used his jutsu on them, he quickly ran away from them to catch up with the others, Naruto and his friends try to get out of the ice before they reach them; they're beginning to have frost bites.
"They're getting away," Naruto said,
"But how are we suppose to catch them if we're stuck," Kiba said as he can feel the ice coming up through his legs, "Bark! Bark!" Arkamaru barked while he's on top of Kiba's head.
"The ice keeps on growing and we don't have much time once we're frozen," Shino said as he felt ice coming up through his hips,
"We have to get out of this and quick," Neji said as he felt the ice coming up through his stomach.
"Man, this is such a drag!" Shikamaru said as ice coming through his chest,
"I'm beginning to lose feeling in my body," Lee said, "Me too," Choji said as ice coming close to their necks. Then,
"Here goes," they all turned to Sasuke as he already made some hand signs of the Tiger sign, and they know what he's going to do.
"No wait!" they all said but it was too late because…
"Fire Style; Flames of Fury!" he said as he blew out a massive amount of fire, melting away the ice and was about to free everyone; and by free, I meant fried.
"Aaahhhh!" they all screamed in pain as they felt the burn, everyone except Sasuke; they put out some fire off of them as some are caught on their clothes. After that, they all turned to Sasuke,
"You could've at least warn us instead of burn us teme!" Naruto said to him as they all glare at him. "Yeah, watch it!" Kiba said,
"You're all welcome, but we shouldn't be standing around here; we have get those guys," Sasuke said to them as he started running,
"Right!" Naruto said as he and his friend quickly left the town and gone after the thugs.
Forest…
Ibate lead his group as they jump through the forest again, "We must keep going, we can't let them catch up to us," he said to them,
"Right!" they all said as they're escaping.
Inside the cocoon…
Sakura didn't have most of her feeling back but she kept on struggling, then more spiders crawled all over her body trying to wrap her up in web again. "No, I can't give up… not now," she thought as she kept struggling.
Throughout the forest near the mountains…
A figure was standing near the edge above the forest; it was Akeeba as he hid his eyes under his black hat. The wind was blowing through his cape as he waits for his squad to return with their new member. He stood for awhile… then he revealed his bright yellowed eyes and made another smile on his face, as sense his squad are on their way right now.
"Excellent," he said as he vanished again.
Meanwhile in the forest…
Ibate and his group are jumping through the forest, as they're a few miles close to where their Lord is. They were all at in open area until… some shuriken were thrown from behind and hit some trees in front of them; they all stopped running as they turned to… Naruto and his friends, they've finally caught up to them.
They all stood in an open area as they faced each other, Ibate stood in front of Dujobe as he held onto the cocoon.
"We finally caught up with you thugs," Sasuke said to them,
"You won't be so sure about that," Ibate said to him, Naruto noticed some cocoon they have. He turned to Neji as he activated his Byakugan; he looked through the cocoon and saw Sakura struggling and some spiders crawling inside,
"She's in there, but I'm not sure how much she can struggle through," he said. Then Naruto turned to the group with a glare,
"Give us back our teammate," he said to them. Myazo and Fuzca stood behind the cocoon, "Not gonna happen," they both said at the same time,
"You're not taking our sister," Uki said while holding her doll,
"She's coming with us," Kilala said as they all stood in the way.
"Funny, I thought of you thugs being like grown-ups and more vicious, but I see you're all kids just like us," Shikamaru said,
"Don't push your luck," Uki said; made Shikamaru shrugged a bit after hearing it from an eight-year-old.
"You thugs have a comrade of ours, so give her back if you know what's good for you," Sasuke said as he pulled out his kunai,
"As much as we wanted to take you all out at once, but we have to take Ms. Haruno to Lord Akeeba," Ibate said. Then Lee charged them, "You're not taking her anywhere," he said as he jumped and used, "Leaf Hurricane!" he said as he aimed it at Ibate,
KICK!
Lee kicked him right to the neck… it caught him, Naruto, Sasuke and everyone else by surprise. Ibate just stood as Lee kicked his neck, he didn't respond to the pain nor show any expression whatsoever.
"H… he didn't bother blocking my attack," Lee thought as he look at him, Ibate looked at him as he grabbed Lee's ankle, "Your attacks have no effect against us," he said as he tighten Lee's ankle.
"Aaahh!" Lee responded to the pain,
"As I said from before, we're taking Ms. Haruno to Lord Akeeba," Ibate said then he pulled Lee's ankle and threw Lee back to Naruto and the others, Choji and Shikamaru caught Lee after he was thrown.
"They're not normal," Shino said, Kiba and Arkamaru turned to him, "What do you mean?" he asked. "Look at their eyes," Shino said then Kiba and Arkamaru looked back at the group and noticed their eyes are similar but different from the original. "Their eyes are much abnormal and something tells me that they're all bad news," Shino explained.
"Exactly, who are you people and why are you taking her?" Neji said as his Byakugan still activated,
"That's none of your concern," Kilala said,
"Ms. Haruno is coming with us and there's nothing you weakling are going to do about it," Dujobe said as he held onto the cocoon; Sakura is struggling and mumbling inside. Naruto was about to charge them,
"We won't let you thugs take her awa… Gah!" Naruto suddenly felt paralyzed, he can't move his body. "Naruto, what's the matter with yo… Ah!" Kiba suddenly felt paralyzed then Shino, Choji, Sasuke and everyone else felt paralyzed.
"Wha… what gives?" Naruto said as he tried to move his body, then, "Like I said, you're not taking our sister," they all turned to Uki as she holds her doll. She was squeezed her doll very tight,
"You guys go on ahead, I'll take care of them," Uki said to them others. Since they all knew about Uki's ability of voodoo, they all nodded; Ibate lead the way as Dujobe carried the cocoon on his back, the Zukato brothers and Kilala left Uki with the Leaf ninjas. They continued their way through the forest, taking Sakura to Lord Akeeba.
"They're getting away again," Naruto said, as he still can't move his body,
"Don't bother struggling, it won't do you any good," Uki said as she walked up to him. Everyone else couldn't move their muscles,
"What's with this jutsu?" Lee said as he felt his body been controlled,
"I can't move my body," Choji said trying to reach his chips. Uki walked up to Naruto, digging through his bag of weapons and pulled out a kunai knife, "Hey, what do you think you're doing?" Naruto asked.
"Since I must eliminate all of you quickly, I decided to use my doll in order to perform my 'Voodoo Possession' jutsu on all of you," Uki explained then she pointed the kunai at Naruto. "And in order to take out all of you in one blow, I take out only one victim that causes the others to fall with that victim; and you're it," Uki said.
Then, at that moment… Uki squeezed her doll even tighter causing Naruto and the others felt tighten and more paralyzed. Then Uki held onto to the kunai as she go for the kill, she stabbed Naruto right to the heart; that once she stab him the others will go down with him. Except for one thing…
Poof!
Uki saw that instead of stabbing Naruto, she stabbed a log that just appeared, "A Substitution jutsu," Uki said then she look around the area for him. Then,
"Surprise!" Uki heard his voice as she turned and saw some shuriken appeared out of the trees and coming towards her. Uki quickly jumped and dodged them as they hit the ground then appeared… Naruto behind her as he grabbed her and made her drop her doll, "Gotcha!'" he said.
After Uki dropped her doll, Sasuke, Neji, Kiba and the others have full control of their bodies again. Naruto held onto Uki making sure she won't escape, "Normally I don't hurt a little girl, but in your case, I'll might make an exception," Naruto said to her then he noticed that Uki didn't even bother to struggle free or anything. Uki slowly look at her doll as it's on the ground,
"Don't get yourself cocky," she said then her purple paled eyes became paler as she focus her chakra on her doll.
Ibate and his group…
Ibate and his squad are still jumping through the forest then he turned to Kilala, as he noticed she is looking at her visions of the future.
"What do you see Kilala?" Ibate asked her,
"I saw Uki using that forbidden jutsu and fighting against two Leaf ninjas," Kilala answered.
"Two Leaf ninjas," Myazo said,
"What about the other ninjas?" Fuzca asked,
"That's the problem," Kilala said as they know what she means.
Uki vs. the Leaf ninjas…
Uki focused her chakra on her doll as her eyes became paler; Neji still has his Byakugan activated as he sees through her chakra. He notice her amount of chakra are being transfer to the doll, "What kind of jutsu is this?" he thought. Then Arkamaru jumped off of Kiba's head and ran up to the doll, he was sniffing at it for a moment… then suddenly, the doll's head turned to Arkamaru. Arkamaru shrugged after that then…
Punch!
The doll punched Arkamaru and made him fly back to his master, "Arkamaru," Kiba said as he caught him. They all turned to the doll as it stand on it's own,
"What the…!" Naruto said in surprise, then… the doll sprung onto Naruto's face attacking him, and caused him to let go of Uki.
"It's alive!" Lee said in shock, as the doll started beating, scratching, and biting Naruto's face,
"Not quite, she transferred her amount of chakra to her doll, which makes it come alive but still under her control," Neji explained,
"GAAH!" Naruto yelled as the doll is biting his nose, so he started pulling it off his face,
"Get… Off… My… Face!" he yelled, and managed to pull the doll away from his face. He glare at it, while holding it in his grasp,
"I liked you way better when you do nothing," he yelled at it, until the doll grabbed one of his wrists and…
FLIP!
It flipped over Naruto as he landed on the ground, and jumped away from him.
"That's one tough doll," Shikamaru stated as the doll in position, in front of the Leaf ninjas,
"You haven't seen the half of it," Uki said as her eyes is still paler, she focused on her chakra he transferred to her doll to perform…
"Forbidden jutsu; Gigantic Transformation," she thought as her doll suddenly began to grow. It grew bigger and bigger, and bigger and bigger; the Retrieval squad immediately got out of the way. Then the doll became a giant but more of a monster,
"RRRROOOOOOAAAAA!" the doll roared as it now time to play with the boys; and by play, I meant eliminate them permanently. It turned to Naruto as he got back on his feet, so it threw a punch on the ground…
BAM!
Naruto was flying after the doll punched the ground, as he hit the ground, Uki quickly jumped and ran up to her doll as it rose back up; Naruto and his friends now have a huge situation in their hands. Uki sat on top of her giant doll's head, she look down at them,
"Ms. Haruno doesn't need to be rescued by you people, she belongs with us," Uki said to them. Naruto quickly got back up again,
"She belongs in Konoha and you're not taking her anywhere," he said then he gathered his chakra to perform,
"Shadow Clone jutsu!" he said as his clones appeared and they're all charging at the giant doll.
Then the doll swung both its arms, and smack and hit every clones in the way; even the real one. After the clones 'poof' away, Naruto hit the ground very hard when the doll smacked him, then the doll lift its foot, targeting Naruto. The giant doll roared again as it's about to stump on him, but luckily… Sasuke appeared; he quickly grabbed Naruto and got out of the way before the foot crushes them. They flew after the foot hit the ground and landed close to the others, they all turned to the giant doll and Uki.
"Don't even try, anyone who faces my doll none of them succeed… nor survived," Uki said as her doll growled at Leaf ninjas.
"How are we supposed to defeat that thing?" Lee asked,
"That little girl gave half of her chakra in her doll, there's hardly any weakness in it," Neji said as they all stood their position and look upon the monstrous giant doll.
"In this rate, we might never rescue Sakura-chan," Naruto thought deeply as they're facing a bigger problem with Uki and her giant doll; let's just hope they know what they're doing, because they're still on a mission to retrieve Sakura. So they can't fail this mission.
To be continued…
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