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On the contrary, Deidara was quickly chewing up all the clays into several pieces of bombs and performed a few of his techniques called the explosive land mines and minions. He quickly laid his hands out while he was riding his white bird.
The pink-haired kunoichi, on the other hand, made the hand signs to use one of the white-blossom Crane's powers, forming a delicate sharp instrument that slowly creates so much golden dust. The weapon is known as, the Dancing Moon of the Spear, that contains windpipes, creating air whirlwinds in the shaft. She then grabbed it tightly above her head and intertwines it through her fingers as she began to fling it towards the blonde-haired Akatsuki.
Gaara also made his move when his sand was gathering other solid particles around the different surfaces of the cave and hurtled to wrapped Deidara's right hand and leg. He closed his fist, yelling out his own jutsu. "Sand Coffin!"
However, the white bird creature deflected their attacks with its right wing. But then, the spear weapon had automatically reverse back to their direction, which pierced the lower limb of Deidara's arm, causing him to bleed externally with his blood dripping down onto his wrist. Although, he stared at them sadistically with a smirk on his face as he raised his two fingers up in the center line of his mouth, initiating to detonate the bombs that were sprinting and hovering themselves towards Sakura's body. "Boom!"
All of a sudden, everything burst out in dark smokes, whereas the pink-haired kunoichi was covering herself and moves away as quickly as possible.
"Sakura!" The Sand Siblings widened their eyes in shock after they had landed on the flat sandy surface safely.
The red-haired Kazekage, on the other hand, was glaring at the Deidara intently as he made his move again to try and reach to his body, using his Sand Coffin technique on him. Closing his fist in a firm grip had the Akatsuki cry out in pain of his sudden injury in his lower abdomen and shoulders.
Then, the white bird cawed out in a shrill as they began to flee away in escape by blasting the inner walls of the cave with his bomb and head up towards the skies, leaving the place turn into massive stones topping against one another.
"Damn... He really got away the second time. Bastard..." Kankuro swore quietly in spite.
"Yeah. He's an Akatsuki. What do you expect...? I know we all wanted to defeat one. But again, they're strong," Temari noted and panted tiredly out of breath.
"Sakura. Where is she?" The purple-faced ninja asked as they were both frantically searching for the remainings on the ground.
"Don't worry, her friends are on their way to help her," the red-haired Kazekage said as he approached beside them and looked down together in concern.
In the meantime, the white-blossom Crane was carrying Sakura with its wings around her as they both plopped down through the holes of the sand surface. They end up in the bottom empty pit while the pink-haired kunoichi squinted her eyes away from the dirt of the soil that stains on her clothes.
She sat properly and looked at the beautiful creature as she petted her gently, saying. "Thank you... I owe you my entire life."
The white-blossom Crane curled its lips into a warm smile and nodded as an answer.
"Hehe... You can go now. I'll take care of the rest," the pink-haired kunoichi instructed softly and let go of the creature from her hand when it started to fly above her and disappeared in a sparkling light. The magical golden dust was fading and returned back to the pendant that Serrulata had given her on her hand. She tries to put it in her pocket until she felt a sharp pain stabbing on her lower back of the spine and right abdomen. She was clutching onto herself mildly until she heard two voices calling her out in the tunnel ways.
"Sakura!" They exclaimed surprisingly in unison.
"Naruto! Shikamaru!" The pink-haired kunoichi glanced behind her left shoulder with a pleasant smile on her face. "You're all here."
"Yeah. We've come all the way here to find you. You even left the hospital and here you are," the blonde-haired ninja squatted down on his knees and hugged her. Then he suddenly noticed that she has several scratches and a few wounds on her shoulders, back, and front in concern. "Hah! You're hurt..."
"Of course I am..." Sakura said weakly but was able to smile. She groaned achingly in discomfort.
"We'll get you healed up later. But before we do anything else, you must stay where you are. The rest of the group and I have brought the manuscripts," Shikamaru ordered as he pulled out the light pink scroll from his pouch.
"Wait, what?! Why... What is it for? Did I do something wrong?" The pink-haired kunoichi questioned in confusion.
"No, no. It's not that," the jounin leader shook his head and chuckled slightly.
"Okay, then. What is it?" Sakura urged him to go on.
Shikamaru stared at her as he remembers the time when Tsunade had explained to him about what the light pink scroll was.
FLASHBACK:
"I hope this is not some kind of joke. It looks like one of the girls' you-know-what their time of the month," the jounin leader said awkwardly.
"What are you talking about? Listen, this is different from the other scrolls that many shinobi has. The light pink scroll can help retrieve the lost powers of the certain kunoichi. They consist of eight different elements of nature, such as earth, wind, water, fire, ice, thunder, darkness, and light. However, I suggest that you need more than four members in your group to activate the scrolls. You can do it, so don't waste your time on it," the fifth Hokage explained and asks. "Is that understood?"
"Yes, ma'am. Ah... This is going to be such a drag. Out of all the people, it had to be her," Shikamaru sighed lazily.
"Well, what do you expect? You're dealing with the Akatsuki's problem. I'm certain you will accomplish this task. Good luck," Tsunade said smiling at him.
END OF FLASHBACK
Back in the present time, Shikamaru and the others had laid the scrolls around Sakura in the shape of an octagon. They were making sure that they got the right angle to her.
"Will those work...?" Sakura questioned worriedly.
"Definitely. Why wouldn't it? Lady Tsunade wanted me to do the favor because she cares about you, not only her student. She sees you more like a granddaughter to her after all," the jounin leader answered with reassurance.
"Wow. Granny Tsunade must have been going soft lately. Well, she always does ever since I protected her from Orochimaru and Kabuto's threats. She is the kind of person who would risk her life for anyone," Naruto said grinning genuinely, thinking about the memory.
"So... Sakura, are you ready for this?" Shikamaru asked blankly.
The pink-haired kunoichi stared at them for a moment in silence and nodded slowly in agreement.
"Okay, brace yourself," Shikamaru reminded as he and the rest of the group started making a few quick hand signs, then perform the eight pink scrolls.
"This is for you, Sakura," Naruto said smiling happily and held his two hands together, releasing his own blue chakra.
The pink-haired kunoichi looked at them tearily and gave a curt nod silently. She watches them unleash the elemental powers that quickly transferred to the opened scrolls and began to glow brightly, which helps to create different color beams, forming a gigantic ball of the sphere.
The others were astonished to see that all their chakra is reciprocating well.
"It's so beautiful..." Sakura murmured softly as she looked above at the rainbow.
"Ugh... I don't think I can handle this very long," one of the chunin groaned weakly.
"Stay strong," the jounin commanded firmly.
"Alright. We are going to transfuse this upon you and when the time is out, we drop this ball as gently as possible for her. You got it?" Shikamaru explained clearly and waited for their approval.
"Right!" They all replied strongly in unison.
Meanwhile, Dark Sakura came out of her hiding spot and pulled off her black hood. She walks around to see the crumbled parts of the cave broke into pieces. She looks around without noticing that there are three opponents showing up from the front, back, and top.
"Wind Scythe Jutsu!" The ponytail-haired kunoichi exclaimed out loud as she started to blow her huge fan towards her.
"Black Secret Technique: Machine One Shot!" The purple-faced ninja said confidently and controls his two puppets in front of him to shoot out the bullets from their bodies at her.
"Sand Hail!" The red-haired Kazekage ordered as his sand was beginning to form a huge drizzle above her and strike her.
At the same time of their attacks, she smirked wickedly and dismissed them using her Gravitational Impulse technique as she swings both of her arms in demonstration, deflecting Kankuro and Temari literally off from a distance.
Both of them stumbled backward, yet they managed to stand up on their feet firmly while holding onto their weapons.
"Ugh. Damn it... Just how could she pull a trick on us? That bitch..." Kankuro swore aggravatingly with his teeth clenched.
"Calm down. I know... I was wondering the same. But we cannot underestimate her as I've said to you before," Temari noted.
"Yeah, yeah. Akatsuki, Akatsuki... My ass," the purple-faced ninja rolled his eyes in disregard.
"Hmm. Well, I guess I'm going to have to defeat you first. After all, I'm willing to kill for the position of the head title as the new fifth Kazekage," dark Sakura said smirking slyly and tapping her finger upon her chin lightly.
"I advise you to quit," Gaara said calmly.
"Quit? Hmm... You must be joking. Considerably, I refuse," she said chuckling in amusement.
The red-haired Kazekage stared at her for a long time and noticed something different, saying. "I see... I pity you, just by seeing how unsympathetic you are."
"And what makes you think I am? You don't know me, Gaara," dark Sakura said calmly.
"You're right. I don't, but you are not what you are..." he stated.
The pink-haired girl started narrowing her eyes and did not say any word. She decided to throw some kunai knives out of her long cape until they were striking towards his direction.
Gaara's sand made a quick defense by clinging on the small weapons. He began to perform one of his techniques by developing a lot of solid particles at the bottom of his feet, which creates a quicksand beneath her.
Dark Sakura simply smirked at him and hovered in the air to counterattack, using Purple Toxic Gas that releases when she was spinning around. She then backflipped and hopped onto a different rock surface while she was waiting for him to react.
"Hm... I guess this has some timing," the red-haired Kazekage stated in curiosity after he was being automatically protected by his sand. "Either way, you won't withstand much longer."
"How deluded of you. I'm impressed by your skills. Unfortunately, this is where you'll end," the pink-haired girl sneered.
Both of them were staring at each other in a near distance as they continued to keep fighting without even stopping.
TO BE CONTINUED...