"Interesting. I knew that Copycat Kakashi would be a problem but not from the second group following us as well. I especially did not expect them to be able to actually kill Nuari or take out Gozu so easily," Guren sighed as she saw what happen through her crystal ball.
'Whoever these two are, they are pretty good at avoiding being spotted. I could not even see them with my crystal ball nor while I was making my preparations for Jade Crystal Labyrinth Technique until they stopped to help the Konoha ninjas,' Guren thought, just wondering who could be following them.
'It's been awhile since I have had a good fight and things are starting to get more interesting,' the purple hair woman thought as noticed that her subordinates were now out of the area so she activate her Jade Crystal Labyrinth Technique now.
By manipulating the crystal flowers she made throughout the area and small ruby oval shape stone she had in her hand, she created a gigantic labyrinth consisting of red crystals that spread over three miles in every direction hopefully trapping all of her targets inside (hopefully because she does not know where the second group was exactly at the moment).
Now that the trap had been set, all Guren had to do was engage her target and while taking extreme caution with the unknown second group as other then them the only real threat to her was Kakashi. Creating giant mirror, she then admired herself in for a second before multiple clones of herself emerge from the mirror.
"Now go out and get into fight with everyone inside this dome and hopefully capture someone from that second group following us or one of the weaklings from Kakashi's group" Guren ordered as she needed to find out who else was follow her and why she has not been able to detect them properly yet as well how they managed to kill Nuari with such ease.
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With Kakashi and Team Eight….
Hinata held her head. Every time she tried to use the Byakugan she saw countless versions of herself, so many in fact, that it gave her a headache.
'This place is like a house of mirrors or something,' she thought as she spotted something orange and black just before whatever caused her Byakugan to backfire on her sprang up while Kiba and Akamaru smelt something similar to Naruto's scent.
With Shino's insects still around roaming the area from the net Shino set up earlier with the intention of help Kiba and her though proved to be not needed as someone else killed her opponent, Kakashi decided that they would see if Naruto was indeed in this area while also still moving forward. From the looks of things, they might be following the same group.
The Hyuga Heiress was searching with her normal eyesight (since she could not use her Byakugan at the moment) for Kakashi or any one of her teammates. Right now it would be better if they were all together rather then separated as they currently were. She noticed that Shino's bugs were confused, thus they wouldn't serve as back up for them anymore.
Hinata moved her head to the left just in time to see two sharp crystal shards fly pass her and embed themselves in a nearby tree.
"It must be tough for a Hyuga like you to be in place like this, huh? Though I am shocked you managed to dodge something like that completely without the use of your bloodline limit. Let's see how you handle this," Hinata heard a voice say.
Hinata then once again managed to counter attack what Guren thought would not be possible for a Hyuga that was not using the Byakugan.
'Interesting,' Guren thought as she got up from the throw that Hinata used to counter her last attack.
'Focus. You might not be as good as Neji-niisan with this, but it should still work' Hinata thought as she activated her Byakugan and managed to focus so that she only saw the chakra system of the person in front of her.
Once she was within her range, Hinata sprang into action and used the Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms on Guren. While there were only half as many strike as the normal version, that did not make any less effective as to compensate for lower number of strikes. Hinata's attack focused only on striking the areas that would deal out the most damage; this way, her thirty two strikes would have the same effect as the full on sixty four that her father and Neji were capable of.
Yet as Hinata stood back and deactivated her Byakugan, she noticed that what she had attacked and beaten was not the real Guren, but one of her crystal clone instead.
The real Guren then appeared from behind a tree and Hinata looked down noticing that the ground was glowing. In a flash of light later…Hinata was on the ground looking at the blond hair girl from the other day trapped inside a crystal prison. Though the most interesting thing she noticed was that the girl was wearing Naruto's orange and black jacket unzipped and with only sport bra on underneath the jacket.
"Seems like I managed to find one of the others that were following me, thanks to you," Guren said with a smirk since she did not expect this to happen. At first she was simply going to try and capture Hinata because she seemed like the easiest to catch with this place rendering her Byakugan useless.
"I know that you are out there. Come out here otherwise your friend is going to be shattered. Then I will kill this other girl as well!" Guren yelled. She now knew without a shadow of doubt that her companion was also here.
Just then, the dome surrounding them shattered, slammed in the ground, and kicked up a ton of dust from the landing even creating craters in the ground from her landing was the black hair girl she had met the other day.
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Shortly before the Guren used her Jade Crystal Labyrinth Technique….
Naruto had felt that something wrong about the area they were in now, thus he jumped up into the sky to get a better look at the surrounding area. While he still could not see or sense the strange feelings he was getting earlier, he did manage to see Team Ten along with someone with the First Hokage's abilities coming towards the area.
Naruto knew about Yamato abilities being from the First Hokage because Kyubi experienced them first hand. Madara lost control of nine tailed demon fox during the battle that would give birth to the Valley of the End. Having dozens of weapons impaled into his body did not improve his ability control Kyubi after all.
However on his way down, Naruto crashed into the dome while Hinata was fighting Guren. He was on top of the dome trying to figure out a way in without gaining everyone's attention since strangely enough their fight was almost exactly where Sakura was at the moment. Yet after seeing Sakura get captured by Guren, Naruto decided against finding a silent way in and just smash the dome to pieces with a one handed demonic Odama Rasengan.
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Thus leading up to what was going on right now with him (in disguised female form) looking at Guren.
"You really do not want to mess with me, so I suggest you simply released my friend and get the hell away from here," he told her.
"Do you really think that you are in the position to be ordering anyone around? I have your companion here hostage," Guren said as she formed a crystal blade on her arm and held towards Sakura's head.
She tried to trap Hinata in crystal prison as well but the jutsu was not working because the ground directly underneath Hinata was blocked somehow.
"I was hoping it did not come to this, but you asked for it. Ms. Hyuga, please go back to where your teammates are and stay there with them. I wouldn't want you to get caught up in this," the disguised Naruto told her.
Hinata just nodded and jumped back to where Kakashi and the rest of Team Eight were, having just arrived on the scene.
"Remember you asked for this. You've been warned!" he told her with closed eyes.
Guren, who was pissed that someone other then Orochimaru was attempt to order her around, was about to strike. Yet just then, Naruto opened his eyes and Guren was assaulted with a genjutsu where she felt her whole body being ripped to pieces and then crushed into dust while her feeling every second of it (pretty much she was experienced what Naruto had done to Sasori). Collapsing to the ground in dazed state, she felt the effects of the genjutsu which had felt like hours instead of a mere five seconds. Naruto freed Sakura and punted the dazed Guren to Rinji who came to help after seeing the dome collapse and his bats inform him of another team quickly moving in on Guren's location.
"Go before I change my mind," Naruto ordered him and man did just that.
Yet once Naruto's anger over what happened had vanished, he realized that Kakashi and Team Eight saw what he had done to Guren. He was so caught up in making her pay for threatening Sakura's life that he forgot about pretending to be a civilian in front of them.
'Oh Crap! This is not good,' Naruto thought that Sakura and he were in their disguised forms but they were wearing the same clothes that they would normally wear. Though that was not that much of problem for him, since he no longer wore orange and black outfit but an all black version of his usual orange pants and the shirt he normally wore under his jacket.
Yet the problem was with Sakura who was wearing only his jacket, that makeshift skirt he made, and just recently a sport bra since she originally had nothing on under the jacket which led to an embarrassing situation once he realized it.
"Where did your friend get that jacket and just who are you anyway? You cannot be a simple civilian. We just saw what you did to that purple haired woman!" Kiba asked as he still could shake the feeling that they were hiding something.
Hinata felt it too as she activated her Byakugan to see if that could clear up the mystery around these two anymore.
Naruto looked down for a second and it turned out that was just in time to notice Shikamaru's shadow trying to connect with his and Sakura thus jumping back enough to avoid getting caught by the Nara's jutsu.
"Troublesome as usual," Shikamaru sighed. There was no use hiding anymore now that his location was mostly likely revealed thanks to his jutsu failing.
Naruto then blocked Choji's attempt to capture him with his partial expansion jutsu while Sakura ducked in time to dodge Ino attempting to use the Shinranshin no Jutsu on her.
Seeing he was outnumbered and Yamato gave his bad feeling, Naruto immediately withdrew by grabbing Sakura and jumped away. There was no point in trying to pretend she was just a normal girl so no need to hold back.
"I guess that you guys were sent to be our back up, but what was with the attempt to capture those two girls?" Kakashi asked.
"Well we're relatively positive that those two girls were Naruto and Sakura in disguise. We are guessing from their actions and the clothes one of them was wearing," Yamato told him.
The news of this shocked Team Eight because they knew Naruto was not good at using the transformation into others yet he also managed to hide almost completely the fact that he was using one for the both of them since Sakura mostly likely was depending on Naruto for her disguise as her transformation abilities were not as good as Naruto's.
They were all certain now that the girls they met with Sazanami were also Naruto and Sakura, only using a different version of their current disguise, which only served to confuse them more. If Naruto had Sakura, then what was he doing by not coming back to the village? That was pretty much begging them to be label him a missing nin.
Ino remember that Shikamaru had information on Naruto that he had told her earlier and got him to inform everyone of else of what he knew.
"Anyways, it seems that Naruto is following the same people we are so it's more then likely that we will run into them again; but for now, I would like to be filled in on what going on here," Yamato said.
