While Guren's subordinate was having the misfortune of coming across Deidara and Tobi and Naruto was off beating the three tail demon, Team Eight and Ten with Kakashi and Yamato taking the place of their Jonin Sensei luckily were not on the same side of the lake as them, thus they never ran into either the Akatsuki members or Guren's group. They happened to come from the middle area that was between where Guren's group was and where Sakura was currently sitting awaiting Naruto's return.
Though they avoided getting into a fight with Guren's group again and two Akatsuki members what this six ninja team (normal called six man team, there were two kunoichi with them) that could possibly avoid was the 360 degree tidal wave technique that the Three Tailed Demon unleashed, separating the six of them when the tidal wave hit shore.
"What the hell was that?" Kiba yelled as he and Akamaru popped up from large bed of under water weed that washed up onshore.
"That surely could not been could have been natural!" Ino said, wringing her hair out.
"Say, Hinata, what do you see out there?" Kiba asked. Hinata had just finished plucking lake plant life out her hair.
"Byakugan!" Hinata said as the veins around her eyes bulged and her irises became more profound and easier to see.
Though it was only for a second, she fell to her feet over the sight out there on the lake.
"Hinata, what happened? What's out there?" Kiba asked, worried because his teammate seemed visibly shaken by what she saw out there.
"The Kyuubi! He's out there. I saw him standing in Naruto-kun's shadow as he was staring down the Three Tailed Demon, if I had to guess," Hinata told him.
"Wait, the Kyuubi? But the Fourth Hokage killed the nine tailed demon sixteen years ago," Ino said confused.
"No, he did not. Naruto is the Jinchuriki of Kyuubi. It explains why his birth date is on the date of Kyuubi's 'death', why he was able to relate to Gaara, a fellow Jinchuriki at the time, so well, and mostly the reason he able to use Kage Bunshin on regular basis and in the numbers that he does," Shikamaru sighed, having arrived from the forest since he thrown further back then them.
"Wait, Naruto has Kyuubi sealed in him? Why did not he bother to tell us then? We're his friends after all!" Ino yelled hurt and angry.
"Think about, Ino. Would you really have befriended Naruto if you knew from the start what was inside him? We all saw how that turned out in Gaara's case. Sure people came to accept him, but it took over a decade and during that time he was unaccepted by Suna he went crazy. Luckily for Suna, they only had the one tailed demon. Imagine what would happen if Naruto turned out like Gaara. The village sure did not give him a reason not to be. Also give him a chance at not having the burden of Jinchuriki. Everyone was told the whole 'Fourth killed the nine tails' lies. If humans were truly able to kill Kyuubi, why hadn't someone else had tried it before?" Shikamaru stated.
"What a minute! You knew this whole time? How and why did not you mention it sooner?" Ino yelled.
"Too Troublesome," Shikamaru sighed and dodged an enraged Ino's strikes at him.
"Shikamaru-san, Ino-san…I saw Sakura not too far from here. Maybe we can get her to help us convince Naruto-kun to come back with us," Hinata spoke up.
"Good idea, Hinata. If we can get Sakura on our side, then Naruto shouldn't be that hard to convince," Kiba said.
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Meanwhile, Sakura was continuing to wait for Naruto to get back in the same place she had been since he left. However when the tide wave came her way, rather then running for cover or jumping up into the tree to try and avoid it that way, Sakura simply used her Iron Sand to cover herself completely while the wave passed by.
"Hey, Sakura, we…" Kiba began to say. He moved to place his hand on her shoulder to get her attention and black sand appeared to block the attempt.
'Okay, that was strange,' Kiba thought. The last time he checked, only Gaara had sand that attacked as a defense mechanism.
Hinata then tried and received a similar treatment after her attempt to get the pink hair teen's attention.
"Hey, Forehead, what's your….problem?" Ino said, gulping as she found herself staring at the wrong end of a very large and seemly heavy blade Sakura brought out in an instant. Apparently being called by her old nickname from Ino sparked a response from Sakura similar to when Naruto thought about her doing something perverted for the first time.
Removing the blade from Ino's face, she began heading back to where Naruto had told to wait for him, only to see Kiba in the spot.
"Hey, stop ignoring us! We're trying to talk to you here!" he yelled while Shikamaru was thinking about what was wrong with Sakura's behavior.
Picking up Kiba and depositing him away from her spot, she turned to see now it was Akamaru who got in the way. The simplistic thought process she was capable came up with one conclusion to what was going on here. They were getting in her way trying because they wanted to taken her away from here, thus she needed to fight them to defend herself and stay where Naruto told her.
Thus Sakura vs. Kiba, Hinata, and Ino began with Shikamaru still trying to figure out what was going on since there was more going on there then meets the eye.
Though she was refraining from using her full power as per what Naruto told her, Sakura was more then able to hold her own against the three of them. She managed to catch Kiba's and Akamaru's Gatsūga with her hands coated in Iron Sand, enlarging them enough for her to do so. While stopping the Gatsūga with her hands, she defended herself from Hinata's attack with her tail, which shocked them all because they thought it was just a belt she was wearing.
Ino then tried her own jutsu to control Sakura's body yet that did not work. She dropped out a bomb from her hand to prevent this from happening. Yet this tactic left her wide open to Hinata's Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms which struck her with pin point accuracy but not with lethal force or intent as she had when she used the move on Guren. However, just like with Nurari, the Gentle Fist had no effect on Sakura. She did not have chakra points or even organs to strike, being a human puppet after all.
The disguised pink hair human puppet was about to go on the offensive again after shrugging of Hinata's attack which did small structural damage when Jiraiya appeared seemly out of nowhere and placed a seal on Sakura's forehead, causing her to collapsing to the ground in motionless heap.
"I'll being taking Sakura now, so do not worry about it anymore. Go see if Kakashi and the others need help," the Sanin told them as lifted the motionless girl over his shoulder noticed that along with the seal made especially from sealing Naruto's demonic chakra that her weight was slightly off for someone of her build and size.
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I would like to thank:
King Hawke, RANMACAT, and QueenThayet12990 for reviewing Chapter 19
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