Strength, Power and Victory
Naruto/Temari fic
Darksider82
"Speech and Jutsu"
"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"
IX
"Dobe! Wait!" Growled Sasuke, his eyes shimmering red from his Sharingan.
"What?" Sasuke used that moment to rush ahead to try and gain ground on the fleeing Sand Siblings.
Naruto sighed "Sasuke, orders are too take out Subaku no Gaara. We want him alive, he's the son of a Kage. As are his team mates."
Sasuke snorted "I was told to stop Subaku no Gaara and his team at all costs."
(Sand Trio)
"Temari, take Gaara and go…I can still buy you time." Said Kankuro, he jumped back onto a branch and unfurled his puppet.
"It's the Puppet user." Growled Sasuke, his clan's battle lust making his voice sound a little bit unstable. "Naruto, you deal with him."
"No. I'll deal with him." Sasuke turned around to see Aburame Shino catch up with them.
"He's my opponent and I will deal with him." Shino said calmly as he pulled out a pair of kunai.
Naruto and Sasuke nodded and they carried on.
(Kankuro vs Shino)
Shino watched calmly as he released his insects and he observed Kankuro's finger movements and understood that the variety of gestures corresponded to the vast multitude of characteristics of the puppet.
"This is going to be interesting." Shino thought. Not once did he think that he had bitten off more than he could chew with this particular opponent. Shino was like his clan extremely analytic.
However, Shino was more analytic than most and knew that he was acting in a selfish manner. Naruto could have easily taken out this person allowing for Shino and Sasuke to take down the other two.
Shino's insects began to emerge from his coat sleeves and began to cover his arms in a form of amour. An armour of chittering insects, clutching his kunai, he was ready. He had begun to learn the basics of combining his insects with shurikenjutsu and he hoped to extend to kenjutsu. But first things first, he needed to come out of this fight alive.
"I am a member of the Hidden Leaf Village, Aburame Clan. When we fight, no matter how puny our opponent is, we do not mock them. We face them with full strength."
The words unsettled Kankuro, he grunted and snarled "Bring 'em on."
The insects flurried and Shino moved along his tree branch, Kankuro twitched and as did Crow. This was the result of two strategic fighters fighting. It was little jutsu flashy but more analytical and bluffing. The Aburame are good, but the Nara have mastered the art.
Kankuro flicked his wrist and Crow launched forwards. Suddenly the wooden arm extended revealing a needle in the wrist. Shino jumped to the side and the needle containing poison dispersed it onto the tree branch and stuck fast.
Kankuro was surprised. He glowered and struck again, Shino was ready. He dodged, ducked and jumped over the puppet and vanished into the undergrowth leaving the puppet stuck in the tree.
"It's no use." Murmured Kankuro as his fingers began to dance. Subsequently the puppet pulled away from the tree, descended and revealed its mouth weapon and chest blades.
Deep in the bushes, Shino watched, He chucked his kunai they stuck home. One in the chest, in the centre of the blades and the other between its three eyes. It was enveloped in smoke.
"A Substitution!" Shino launched himself upwards, dodging the arms. As he landed on the branch, Kankuro grinned "You are making this too easy." With that two kunai launched themselves from the centre of the puppets mouth.
The attacks hit home. Kankuro grinned, but the grin turned into a stare of horror as Shino dissolved.
"Damn bugs…." He was pulled out of his thoughts as Shino appeared behind him. Kankuro narrowly avoided the punch to his head. From his crouched position he jumped backwards, gaining the much needed distance.
"You created a Bunshin…out of those bugs and snuck up behind me…Not too bad." Kankuro admitted, he was not one to give out praise but when he did it was genuine.
"Simple really…I could tell from your jutsu that you prefer long range attacks and close combat is not your strongest area. Furthermore, you have to focus all of your chakra and attention into controlling that puppet of yours. That results in a gap in your defences."
"Thanks for the dissertation. I'm just getting started here." Replied Kankuro. Don't worry, if you want to see how dangerous my jutsu is? You're in for a real treat…" With that the chakra strings appeared and reconnected with Crow.
"Besides, Crow has been playing nice." The arm snapped open and an explosion was emitted. Shino's bugs leapt to attention forming a massive wall and muffling the explosion. "Poison smoke bomb!" Shino went on one knee "Must have inhaled some." "Ninja art: Bug adaptation!" Shino's breathing stabilised as his bugs went to work.
"Meanwhile, the attacker hides and waits for it to take hold." Kankuro observed his opponent from the bushes.
"Time to finish it." Crow floated up menacingly behind Shino. Shino spun around and the puppet attacked, a full length kunai revealed, it punched straight through…another bug clone!
"WHAT!" Exclaimed Kankuro popping his head out of his hiding spot. He was too shocked, to remember to keep his head down.
(Outsider point of view)
Uzuki Hari, Sarutobi Asuma and Inuzuka Tien watched concealed in the trees. Hari had purchased several goats and promptly opened their stomachs for the bezoars in the stomach.
The natural chakra of goats, made the bezoar very good at neutralising the poisons used by Suna. "He should not moving with that poison in him!"
Then he saw it. A faint trickle of insects. High above the clone, Shino was crouched sweating bullets as he unleashed his insects and they worked to neutralise the poison in his system. The poison was hindering him, but not as much. It would take some time to become immune to it.
Crow floated up "Let me put you out of your misery." "WHAT!" Crow would not move. Kankuro flexed again "What's going on!" Panic had entered his voice. "What the hell is going on?" He then saw the bugs erupting from Crow's joints.
"It's no use. He's kindling now." Thought Shino in satisfaction as his insects began feasting on the wood and the chakra.
Kankuro severed his chakra strings, he had began to feel their influence. "He doesn't know I can re-establish the strings in a blink of an eye…All of Crow is a lethal weapon…That's what makes Puppeteers so dangerous."
Crow's head separated and came in for an attack. Shino looked in horror as another poisoned needle came burrowing towards him. Suddenly it stopped.
"What the hell is going on!" Thought Kankuro. Everything he had done had been circumvented by his opponent.
Shino jumped onto the branch his breathing laboured from exhaustion not from the poison, just as Kankuro dropped out his hiding place, covered in insects "But how! I made sure to sever the chakra strings! I don't understand!"
"You were anticipating the attack from the front. You forgot about the swarm attacking you from the rear. All this time…They've been slowly…closing in on you…Drawn to your headband."
"What! Drawn to what!" Shrieked Kankuro.
"Your headband. I intentionally missed when I swung at you. I placed a beetle on your headband…A female one to be precise. It's pheromones drew a swarm of males towards you."
Kankuro shrieked and fell to the floor of the forest as Shino collapsed "It looks like I'm done."
As he went to pass out, three Jonin dropped out the trees. "Shino, get this down you." Shino opened his mouth found a stone being shoved down his throat, the posion seemed to fade almost immediately. "How?"
"Bezoar…You did well Chunin…Tien, Asuma…Get him back to his clan. Tell Aburame-Sama that he's been given a Bezoar."
(Sasuke and Naruto)
The pair had gained on the remaining Sand Siblings. "Sasuke, we want them alive!"
"I don't care! It's war. I'm going to kill them! KATON: GOKAKKYU NO JUTSU!" A gianormous fireball erupted from his mouth and it sailed across at the siblings. A sand shield appeared around Gaara and Temari. It retracted and Gaara took off.
"I'll take the girl." Naruto stated.
Sasuke smirked "Because you'll lose to the other one?"
"No…So when you die, I have maximum deniability that I did not knife you in the back."
(Temari vs Naruto)
Temari stared down Naruto "You're not getting past me."
Naruto sighed "Any chance I can get you to surrender?"
Temari snorted "No…Your friend will lose to Gaara."
"Considering I know what your brother is…I'm the worst person you could be facing."
Temari's stomach dropped "You…You're…like…Gaara! A Jinchuriki!"
Naruto smiled fox like "Yep. Please just surrender."
"EAT THIS!" Temari unfurled her fan and unleashed a vicious tornado that took Naruto off his feet and onto the next branch.
"Kenton: Ignition!" The sheathe, slash, sheathe technique created the spark and the tornado became a firestorm.
"Futon: DIATOPPA!" Temari swung her fan and the two wind techniques collided viciously and the firestorm intensified. Naruto pulled off his jacket, he needed to prevent himself from cooking alive. The fire would evaporate his water supply, toad oil would likely bring the whole forest down.
Temari caught a glimpse of Naruto, she liked what she saw. She noticed the markings on the arms and chest. The one on the chest was much like the one Gaara had on his back, where the centre point of the seal to contain the Jinchurki were.
(Uzuki Hari)
Hari jumped backwards as he felt the shockwave and saw the forest subsequently erupt into flames. "Naruto's against a wind user…and he goes for fire…Smart. Now to see what happens next."
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" Naruto called spitting a salvo of fireballs at Temari, who effortlessly dropped into the ring of them.
Temari smirked but the smirk became a look of horror as Four Naruto's appeared and three of them formed the handseals for Gaara's most potent wind attack the 'Futon: Renkudan'.
"Surrender."
Temari dropped her fan "I give."
Hari managed to join them "I heard Genma, say that you blamed the pretty girls…Can't disagree. She's a Kage Daughter."
"She surrendered."
Hari nodded "I'll get her back to the village. One second." Hari formed a seal and a tremendous chakra was felt. "Particle Style: Atomic Dismantlement!"
"That is a Kekkei Tota!" Exclaimed Temari.
Hari grinned "It is…In Iwa. Kekkei Tota's have to start somewhere. Particle Style is just finding the perfect balance between Doton, Futon and Katon…Now off we go."
(Sasuke vs Gaara)
Sasuke collapsed on the tree branch. He was utterly worn out, his opponent was too damn tough. He had tanked his best attacks even his 'Katon Ryuka no Jutsu' had been put out.
What made matters worse was that the jutsu, Gaara retaliated with were either two seals or seal less. A downside of the sharingan was that it had to copy full hand seal sequences to truly copy a jutsu.
He had even tried the Chidori…Twice and now the sand was creeping up around him. His sealed curse mark throbbed, trying to release its chakra into his body "I can give you the power you desire."
That sealed it, Sasuke desired the curse mark and the evil sealing method broke.
(Konoha)
Orochimaru turned to flee. He was in pain, his bastard of a teacher had sealed his arms away but, it seemed Sasuke had cracked and released his present. Now he had to think of way to extract him.
(Sasuke vs Gaara)
The marks covered his face, he growled and formed another Chidori.
"FUTON DIATOPPA!"
"KATON: FIREBALL JUTSU!"
Sasuke suddenly found himself free. He snarled and all his control went out the window, he would kill both of them. "KATON: RYUEN HOKA NO JUTSU!"
Sasuke exhaled three massive purple dragon flame bullets. One aimed at Gaara, One at Naruto and the Other intending on setting the forest on fire.
However, Naruto and a Half Demonic looking Gaara made the exact same jutsu "FUTON RENKUDAN!"
However Naruto added three extra seals, "FUTON RENKUDAN DANGAN!"
Unlike the arena where Sasuke had got clear, as had the other two. No-one expected the following."