"Kiba are you alright?" Amari asked.

Kiba felt the side of Amari's cheek. "Your eyes."

Amari grabbed her arm and pulled him to his feet. "Get your balls out of your purse and man up. We still have to get to that place."

"Yeah, one guardian down, three more to go." Kiba laughed. He clenched his side right after with a groan. "Ah god that hurts."

"Come on big boy you don't see the dog crying." Akamaru barked. "See he agrees with it." he barked again.

The forest full of the animals and green, and luscious trees went to an odd set of trees and neatly trimmed grass. The forest was Banyan trees and hundred feet red oak scattered all around in unset patterns. Kiba knew what happened next, even through his pain he toughened his stance. He stopped his lean on Amari and straightened his collar.

"This isn't good if you're finally being a beast master." Amari joked.

"The next guardian is coming up, she's like the first with her jutsu. Wood style expert." Kiba stepped in front of Amari and pushed her back. Amari was about to say something but Kiba knelt down with one of his arms raised.

Akamaru even took a step back and growled. Kiba looked back at his best friend, and both of them nodded. He smashed his fist on a twig and jumped back with Amari in his arms. A series of roots sprang out from the ground from their old position with spikes on each one. Akamaru turned into his copy of owner and jumped Kiba.

"Fang over fang!" they spiraled into the roots and chopped them into pieces.

Amari was confused at the intensive attack on the small trap. She twisted on those words when a single smaller root that survived the attack. It turned to Amari so slightly that she didn't even notice the twist in wood. The twig size root darted over at Amari and pierced through her ankle. The ground broke into pieces with a small person in it. She jumped through the hole and superman punched Amari. She fell back into the ground but recovered quickly to her feet.

The woman popped through with a armor of wood on her body and long green hair. Kiba and Akamaru just recovered from their attack and started for another one. They spiraled again. The girl twisted her body around. "Wood style, wood wall!" both her hands pressed against the ground for a long wall to grow in front of her.

Kiba and Akamaru broke through her defense like it was nothing. The girl behind it barely had time to block her body with the armor on her arms. The armor on her arms broke off just like the wall. It gave her time though to dodge to the side. Amari had fought the pain with her own strike.

"Gentle fist!" the second guardian didn't have any time to react as Amari pushed through the armor with her palm and make contact with the back of her neck. She fell to her knees and collapsed to the ground. Amari jumped backwards in the air and brought down her front leg down on her guardian.

The downwards kick forced her back on her feet and stumble backwards. She twirled around like a heavily drunk person and leaned forward. Kiba and Akamaru bit down on the shoulders of her. "Wolf fang. Fang over fang!" The two spun again and penetrated through the ground. Both of them looked down at the guardian. Then they both looked up at Amari who leaned down into the hole and offered both her hands. The accepted it and pulled them up to the surface.

"Great combo." Amari huffed.

Akamaru turned back to his dog form. "Yeah, but that seemed a little too easy."

"Yeah, even the first guardian was able to hold you."

They almost were struck at the idea they went through, they looked over the hole and saw that the body grew a small tree from it. The ground rocked immensely around them. Four walls surrounded them then all four walls domed together. Amari ran from the hole and punched into the tree. It looked like a fly flew onto the wall. Nothing happened.

"Shit, she took the opportunity to lock us in." Amari was frustrated."

"Nothing like a single fang." Akamaru wined. "It's not like that boy, if this doesn't work we need a new plan." He spun into the wall himself but was just as effective as Amari. "See boy, my younger self would've been go all in just like Jirobo."

"You fought Jirobo?"

"You know him? He trapped us into some chakra ball thing."

"Yeah I know that man, he did the same to me a few years earlier."

The floor below them turned to goo as the guardian's figure molded through. Amari, Kiba, and Akamaru stepped back into the corner as it happened. The mold gained color to different armor this time. She had on smooth body tight under armor camouflage with the wood behind her.

"Just like a tree, I lay my seed, my lifeforce into the ground and grow as strong and powerful."

A large log grew from the wall and sprung to Kiba. Akamaru bit down on his owner's leg and pulled him to the ground to dodge the move. The wood attack turned to dust and layered on the ground.

"I don't like to wait around sometimes just like my trees. So as you see the roof here is maybe taller than your fingertips so each attack you dodge will create an inch of sawdust on the ground. And you have to take on me." She "Family wood style art, wood mold jutsu." She grabbed the wall and pulled a twin set of kunai. "Oh, and expect another inch from each of these broken ones."

She climbed up the side of the wall and jumped off the wall to them. Amari took the stab through her hand and punched her elbow to snap it inwards. She directed over to Kiba for a headbutt. The right kunai created into the abnormal size of dust to create another layer of dust on the ground. Amari stepped on the other hand and grabbed the kunai before it could drop. The knife still dusted on her arm. The guardian got up from the ground and tapped on her other arm.

The dust on her right arm hardened and a part of the soft dust entered her arm and traveled to the to the other arm. The dust hardened into her body and broke the connection on her arm. "What the hell."

Akamaru turned into Kiba, Kiba stabbed her in her side with his right and Akamaru used his left arm to stab into her arm. Two wood logs went out form the walls to them. "Fang over fang!" They spun away from the attack into the far wall. Her body sunk into the wall and moved up. Akamaru and Kiba still held on the knives in her side and was lifted into the air with her. Another piece of wood dropped above them both and pinned them on the ground. The guardian pulled out of the wall. She dove straight down to them with her arm on the wall. She molded out a hammer from the wall with a long handle and two hammer heads. She pointed the hammer straight down and pounded them both deeper in the ground.

"That's animal abuse!" Amari headbutted the guardian back into the wall. She looked right up to where she should be but wasn't. "That's it." She bit down on Kiba's collar and pulled him out of the dust ground. She did the same with Akamaru.

"What's it?" Kiba groaned and rolled to the side.

"She herself is a mold, that isn't her but someone made of soft wood that will blend into the wall. So what we have to do is get it to harden just like m arms. Maybe if it softens everything else will."