Dawn was just starting to creep over the horizon, and paint the sky with a assortment of reds, yellows and oranges. Colby was the first to wake up. Realizing he still had to get the engine ready, Colby started to get dressed in his work clothes. He still smelled like hot oil and fire but to him it was like a fine perfume. Scavenging through the kitchen for breakfast, all he found was some pasteries. As he started eating Mike walked into the kitchen.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Mike whispered loudly. Colby jumped and turned around, his eyes were wide with surprise.
"I'm eating." said Colby. HIs mind started racing like he had been caught doing something wrong.
"Haha. You look like you got caught with your hand in the cookie jar." Mike joked. Colby's mind calmed down and he continued eating his breakfast.
"Jease Mike thanks for the heart attack." Colby joked back. Mike smiled and shrugged his shouldeds.
"Hey I opportunist. Also don't worry about preping the engine this morning. Were are on leave for the month."
"What? On leave, for what?" Colby asked as he inhaled the last of his breakfast.
"Crew base change you numb nut. When ever a crew is moved to a new crew base they are granted a month of paid leave to get settled. Means we got a month paid vacation really." Mike said. Ino and Suzanna started to wake up as Tallus walked down the hallway from the guest room.
"Sweet! So can we still go see our engine?" Colby asked, as his father walked into the kitchen.
"Yes we can still see the engine. Again numb nut, we were assigned to number four. If we are on leave that engine does not leave the round house. We are responsible for that engine, we can work on it but the only rule is we can't fire her up and take her out of the round house except if we find something that needs fixing." Mike explained. Ino and Suzanna walked into the kitchen together. Colby laughed as he looked around at everyone.
"Well looks like none of us change last night." Colby said. He squinted as the early morning sun shown through the kitchen window.
Then there was a knock at the door. Suzanna answered it and it was Shizune. Ino and Suzanna were surprised that Shizune had come to their place at this hour in the morning. Shizune's face had an urgent look on it. Ino and Suzanna's moods changed instantly as she started to speak.
"Suzanna, Ino. I'm glad your up. Naruto got food poisoning last night but we don't have anyone available to fill his spot and your squad is the only one that is available for an urgent mission. So your squad will be short..." Shizune was about to finish when Colby cut her off.
"No, they wont. I'll fill in for Naruto. If that's okay with you guys." He looked to his father and he nodded in approval. Suzanna and Ino smiled. Shizune nodded.
"Good. Follow me, quickly time is running short on this one." She said. Colby, Ino and Suzanna sprinted as they followed her to Lady Tsunade's office.
Tsunade had a stern look on her face as Ino, Suzanna, Colby and Kiba walked into her office. She eyed Colby the same way she did when she first met him.
"Alright, you four are going on a time critical hostage rescue mission. This is a B ranked mission that could easily escalate into an A or even S ranked mission. You will be on your own with out any chance of back up." Tsunade pause as she got ready to finish filling them in on the details. " Your target or hostage. Is your father Suzanna, which is also your uncle, Colby. Which is why I'm glad you stepped up for this mission. We know almost everything about the situation. Except who took him and why. Your mission is to go get him. If you can find out who took him and why that would be helpful. He is being held in a small town north of here. It's going to take a day or two by foot." Colby smiled when Tsunade pointed to the town on a map.
Colby and Suzanna were shocked, but Suzanna even more so. Her father kidnapped? It couldn't be true. She wanted to break down and cry but she didher best to hold herself together. Colby could feel a fire come to life in his gut as his adraline started flowing though his gut and spread through his body. Nobody messed with his family and lived to tell about it.
"Go now, you have one hour to get ready and leave the village." Tsunade said. "Any questions?"
"I got a correction on the amount of time we got. We have more like 45 minutes to get ready. Next train arrives in 50 minutes. We can get to the town by the end of today by train. Ino and Kiba don't worry about getting breakfast at home, the train has a snack car on it. There you can eat on the train." he said. Tsunade nodded.
"The faster the better. Get to it, meet at the platform in 40 minutes. You are dismissed" The group filed out of her office and they headed home to get their gear.
Colby headed towards the round house. He had all his extra clothes and a few things that he would not leave behind on his first actual mission. He grabbed his bag from under the fireman's seat inside the cab. Then he pulled down a long object that was wrapped in a burlap blanket. Colby having no fear if anyone saw him, changed into his summer hunting clothes. His boots, pants and long sleeve shirt were tree bark camo. With detailed images of actual leaves and tree branches inprinted on his clothes. Before jumping down from the cab he grabbed a small back pack and the burlap wrapped object and his hunting boonie hat. He sprinted to the platform. Kiba, Ino and Suzanna were already there and Suzanna had his ticket. Suzanna was decked out in standard green camo and envied Colby for his hunter's camo.
"What's that you got there, Colby?" Ino asked looked at the burlap blacket he had. Colby smiled as he unwapped the burlap. Suzanna stared in shock at what he had. Kiba and Ino were just as surprised as well. In his hands was an olive drab colored gun.
"Browning M1918 .30 calibure automatic rifle." He smiled as he wrapped the Browning back up. Suzanna glared at him, being ninja meant being sneaky and quiet. Not being as loud as possible and tramping to the enemy like an elephant on a rampage. Colby never was any good at being quiet.
"Colby would you be quiet.. I know its hard for you but would you shut up once in a while?" Suzanna said but Colby wasn't listening as the wail of a train whistled echoed from down the tracks. "What the hell Colby, you always ignore me.."
"Only when a train is coming Sis." Colby said without look back to Suzanna as he watched the gleam of the locomotive's headlight crest over the horizon. Suzanna sighed. She never could get his attention when a train was anywheres close.
"Hey Colby?" Ino said, Colby didn't hesitate as he turned around and faced Ino. Suzanna was surprised and ticked off. 'Why did he turn right around for Ino but not me?" She thought.
"Yeah Ino?" he replied and glance over at Suzanna and saw she was ticked.
"Don't you have ninja tools? Like kuni, ninja wire, shurikin?" she asked. He laughed and shook his head.
"Nope. You see this is my first mission I've ever been on." he said. Kiba and Ino's jaws dropped. He can't be serious, a B ranked mission that could turn into an A or even S ranked mission is his first ever? He looked over to Suzanna, she was still glaring at him. "I love you sis!" he said in his little brother voice. Suzanna couldn't help but smile. He always got her with his little brother act. Colby's attention then shifted back to the approaching train as it lazily rolled into the station as eased to a stop. The group boarded the train but Colby made a quick detour to the engine.
"Hey Hans!" Colby shouted up to the cab. A dirty but clean shaven man stuck his head out of the cab.
"Hey Colby! What's with the camo?" He asked. Colby climbed up to the cab and told Hans about Suzanna's father. Hans nodded.
"I'll push it to the limit on this run, Colby" Hans said as he shook Colby's hand.
"Thanks Hans." Colby said as he climbed down from the cab and boarded the train. Suzanna, Ino and Kiba had gotten four seats the faced each other. Suzanna and Kiba sat next to each other and Colby sat down next to Ino. Colby was smiling as if he had just accomplished something.
"What is it?" Ino asked, as the train lurched forward suddenly.
"We are going to arrive at our destination ahead of schedule." Colby said, Suzanna rolled her eyes.
"Who's driving?" she asked.
"Hans"
"Oh God. Are you serious? How did you manage... never mind" she said as if finally clicked in her mind "You are going to give me away if you keep telling people."
"I did not tell Hans you were on board. I told him that me and a few members from the family were going after your father who has gone missing." Colby snapped back. Suzanna glared at him. Then leaned against Kiba and fell asleep, Kiba did the same not long after. Colby watched the land roll past his window, Ino then leaned against him. Usually he would only let Suzanna do that but there was something about Ino let liked so he didn't mind. Remembering a tune he had learned from his grandfather he started to quietly sing it to pass the time:
March along, sing our song, with the Army of the free.
Count the brave, count the true, who have fought to victory.
We're the Army and proud of our name!
We're the Army and proudly proclaim:
First to fight for the right,
And to build the Nation's might,
And The Army Goes Rolling Along.
Proud of all we have done,
Fighting till the battle's won,
And the Army Goes Rolling Along.
Then it's hi! hi! hey!
The Army's on its way.
Count off the cadence loud and strong;
For where'er we go,
You will always know
That The Army Goes Rolling Along.
Valley Forge, Custer's ranks,
San Juan Hill and Patton's tanks,
And the Army went rolling along.
Minute men, from the start,
Always fighting from the heart,
And the Army keeps rolling along.
Then it's hi! hi! hey!
The Army's on its way.
Count off the cadence loud and strong;
For where'er we go,
You will always know
That The Army Goes Rolling Along.
Men in rags, men who froze,
Still that Army met its foes,
And the Army went rolling along.
Faith in God, then we're right,
And we'll fight with all our might,
As the Army keeps rolling along.
Then it's hi! hi! hey!
The Army's on its way.
Count off the cadence loud and strong;
For where'er we go,
You will always know
That THE ARMY GOES ROLLING ALONG!
And THE ARMY GOES ROLLING ALONG!
There was one more stop before their destination. Ino, Kiba and Suzanna had all fallen asleep. Colby was just about ready to fall asleep himself when the conductor, stepped into the car at the other end and started asking for tickets. Colby gently nudged Ino to wake her up. Kiba started to wake up. The there was a loud bang, and the car rumbled as the train switched tracks, Suzanna was jolted awake from this. Ino and Kiba smiled as Colby laughed at the surprised look on Suzanna's face.
"What the hell was that?" she asked with a yawn.
"Switching tracks, means we are getting closer to the station. We got one more stop after this one." He said as he picked up his pack and started to rummage through it until he found what he was looking for. He pulled out a large hunting knife with a wood handle that had the head of a wolf carved into the end of it. He handed it to Suzanna, she looked at him then to the knife. A smile broke across her face as she looked at the carving.
"I bought that for you a few months ago. It reminded me of you when I saw it and thought you would like it for a birthday present." Colby smiled as Suzanna hugged him. They didn't notice the conductor standing by their seats waiting to punch their tickets.
"Well, if it isn't Colby." the conductor said smiling. Colby looked at him and recognized him instantly.
"Hey Matt! How you been?"
"I've been good. So you traveling with these ninja?" he asked with a hint of disgust in his voice. Ino and Kiba frowned at the tone of his voice. "And how is the scearch for Suzanna going" He didn't realizing that Suzanna was right in front of him. Colby looked at Matt and stood up and offered his hand for a hand shake which Matt accepted. As they shook hands Colby embraced him.
"Yes, I'm traveling with these ninja and the girl sitting across from me is Suzanna." he said quietly as he stepped back. Matt looked at Suzanna for a moment before he recognized her. "Keep your mouth shut about Suzanna. We are on a mission from the Leaf Village."
"You gone rouge too?" Matt asked surprised. Colby shook his head.
"No, I haven't gone rouge. Remember I'm drifter of the Miles family. Switching between railroader and ninja is what I do. We are on a mission and my family is involved." Colby heard the door open at the end of the car and glanced over. His heart sank like rock in water at the person he saw walked through the car. The people he saw was an older woman in about her mid-50s with brown hair and she was about Suzanna's height. She was dressed in a blue dress that stopped just above her ankles. "Crap not her." Colby said under his breath. Kiba heard and turned around to see who Colby was looking at. Suzanna and Ino did the same.
"Suzanna get down." Colby said.
"Why? It's just a... Oh you got to be kidding me! Not her!" Suzanna said, Kiba and Ino looked at Suzanna and Colby questioningly. "It's the monster I call my mother." Suzanna spun around and sat back down in her seat but the lady had spotted her.
"SUZANNA!" the lady yelled from the other end of the car and quickly made her way to their end of the car. Her voice got the attention of everyone in the car. Kiba and Suzanna cringed at the volume of her voice.
"Matt. You got anyone on this train you could get to this car asap?" Colby said as he stepped into the isle and faced the oncoming lady. Matt nodded and took out his radio.
"Joe, you copy?"
"Yeah Matt, I copy. What is it?"
"I need you in car 220 now. I got a situation between to passengers"
"Copy that. On my way."
Suzanna stood up from her seat as her mother stopped a few seats in front of Colby. Suzanna glared at her mother and her mother returned the glared. Ino and Kiba stood up as Suzanna's mother started to speak.
"There you are! You little runt. It's time you came back with me, you father is worried sick about you!" Suzanna's mother said and she took a few steps closer. "Excuse me sir" she said as she tried to get past Colby but he wouldn't let her. "Excuse me!"
"You are not getting any closer to her" Colby said coldly. Suzanna's mother looked up at him in surprise at first but then she quickly became angry as she realized who he was, but turned her attention back to Suzanna. Kiba and Ino moved to the end of the seats and blocked Suzanna from getting to the isle in case she tried to make a move.
"Get out of my sight. I am not going back to be abused and treated like crap by you." Suzanna shouted. Everyone in the car was watching. Matt was getting ready to step in if things got out of hand. "Get out of here and leave me alone!"
"I don't think so you little bitch. You are coming with me!" Suzanna's mother tried to pushed her way towards Suzanna, but Colby pushed back. Suzanna yelled something back at her mother but Colby couldn't tell what she said as her mother started yelling back. Things erupted into a yelling match between the two of them and nobody could tell what was being said. Suzanna tired to get into the isle but Ino and Kiba held her back. Colby hoped the other crew member would show up soon as Suzanna's mother started to push him back. The people in the car were not sure what to do, until a passenger who had been sitting infront of them got up and started to help Colby push Suzanna's mom back to the other end of the car. Kiba and Ino forced Suzanna back down into her seat and it took the two of them to keep her there.
"Joe where are you? Get your butt over here now!" Matt hollered over the radio.
"I'm right behind you." Joe said. Matt turned around and stepped aside to let Joe head to the other end of the car.
Among the screaming that was going on between Suzanna and her mother. Colby finally heard something that he could make out and it instanly pissed him off something fierce. Colby slammed her up against the door and had his hand around her throat. She went quiet but Suzanna was still shouting stuff from the other end of the car. Ino took her hands off of Suzanna and sat across from her. She formed a few hand signs and used her Mind Invasion jutsu and took control over Suzanna's body.
"What was that you said about my mother?" Colby glared at her as Joe reached him.
"Alright you two break it up! Colby get to the other end of the car. I can handle things now" Joe said. The train crawled to a stop and Suzanna's mother was quickly put off from the train. Ino released and the two were back in their own bodies again. Suzanna looked around wondering what just happend. The train started to move again as Colby returned to his seat. Joe returned from throwing Suzanna's mother off the train.
Suzanna was shaking in Kiba's arms as he held her. Ino and Kiba were quiet and Colby's hands were shaking as he looked out the window. Ino cuddled up to him as the train pull out of the station. There was a quiet murmer as some of the passenger talked quietly about what they had seen. Joe and Matt had left to go to the other end of the train. Colby dozed off as did Ino but Kiba and Suzanna stayed awake.
"What was that all about? I know you and your mother don't get along but that was a bit over the top don't you think?" Kiba asked as he watched Colby and Ino sleep.
"You didn't see anything yet. If you guys had not been there this whole car would have been trashed." Her voice quivered with emotion as the train rumbled across a bridge.
"It's alright. Everything will be fine. I promise" Kiba said. The wail of the locomotive whistle filled the car as they approached their stop and begining of their mission. The wail of the locomotive awoke Ino and Colby as the train eased to at stop. Kiba and Suzanna got up and walked out of the car as Ino and Colby grabbed their gear. Colby made sure he had everything with him, last thing he wanted to do was leave something behind that they would need later. He was the last one to exit the train, Suzanna was getting impatient. She wanted to get going, god knows what has or is happening to her father right now. Kiba whistled and Akamaru came bounding down the platform towards them.
"You have him ride in the combine?" Colby asked as Akamaru sat next to Kiba.
"Yeah, it was the only place that had enough room for him." Kiba replied patting the large white head.
Colby unwrapped his BAR and put the burlap blanket into his pack and loaded the gun. Then he slung over his should. Now he was ready. Two blast from the locomotive's whistle echoed through the station, as the train started to move, the one by one the couplers made loud bangs as the slack was taken up between them. As the train cleared the station they looked arcoss the tracks to a path leading toward a forest. They knew that's were they had to go. Suzanna lead the way with Kiba and Akamaru behind her, Ino went next and Colby pulled up the rear of the column. They sprinted from tree branch to tree branch and were making good time towards their objective. Colby took a look at his watch and smiled to himself.
"Good, it's only 1:30 in the afternoon. That train ride saved us a lot of time, now we just need to book it the rest of the way. Just hope we don't make contact with an enemy that would slow us down big time." Colby thought. Then he saw movement to his right. As he looked he saw ninja keeping up with them, he couldn't tell if they were friendly or not, but he soon got his answer as a kuni came flying past his face.
"You guys! Contact right!" Colby shouted up to them as he stopped on a tree branch and opened up with his BAR. He killed 3 instantly and wounded another but more came. Suzanna, Kiba, Akamaru and Ino turned and engaged the opposing ninja. The air became thick with Shurikin and Kuni flying around. Kiba and Akamaru were using everything they had except their wolf moves. Ino was sticking with using tiajutsu and using mind destruction when she could. Suzanna was floating between helping out Kiba and Ino, using some sort of music jutsu that didn't hurt Kiba or Akamaru's hearing but abosolutly wrecked her target's hearing. Colby meanwhile had given up on fighting from the tree tops and had move to the ground. Where his hunting and tactical target practices skills were most effective.
Ino came down to join him, Colby saw her coming and also saw a dozen or so ninja right behind her.
"Ino hit the deck!" Colby shouted as his aimed his BAR towards Ino. She did a superman style slide up to him as he fired away. Spent shells few from the BAR and rained down onto Ino. Colby kept firing until the clip ran out. The thundering sound of the gun echoed through the forest as he reloaded. Ino got to her feet and looked behind her. There laying in pools of blood were a dozen ninja that she had been running from.
"You ok?" Colby asked as the empty clip fell to the ground with a ping.
"Yeah. I'm fine but where is...oooooofff" Ino couldn't finish as a kuni came out of nowhere and slammed into her side. She went down and started squirming and crying out in pain.
"Shit, Ino!" Colby shouted just as he slammed a fresh clip into the Browning. Seeing a small group a ninja comming Colby opened up and watched them fall like bags of potatos. Slinging the Browning on to his shoulder, Colby half carried half dragged Ino to a tree who's roots had formed like a little cave area. Colby imiedatly started to work on Ino. Working fast he took out his medical kit and got out gauze pads, dressings, a few packets of Crystalline Sulfanilamide. "Ino stay with me, you are going to be alright." He said. The Kuni was stuck in her left side just above her hip. He gently but firmly grabbed it and pulled it out. Blood started to flow from the wound. Covering it with one hand and applying pressure he tore open a packet of the crystalline sulfanilamide and spinkled the white powder onto the wound and started putting the gauze pads on.
Kiba and Akamaru then showed up behind him. Kiba stared at Ino in shock. He never though Ino would take a hit this bad. Colby glanced over his shouder.
"Kiba come over here and help me. In my medical kit there is a little tube of morphine, get it out now." Colby looked back to Ino. "Ino look at me, look at me your going to me fine." Ino still squirmed and tried to say something but neither Kiba or Colby could understand her.
Kiba grabbed a little blue tube of morphine from the kit and showed it to Colby. He nodded as if to say that was the right one. "Take the cap off and jab it into her right shoulder. Make sure you get it into the muscle." Kiba jabbed the tube into Ino's right should and within seconds Ino calmed down.
"She going to be ok?" Kiba asked. He looked at the bandages Colby had put on. They were already soaked through with blood.
"Yeah she'll be ok when I'm done." He said. "Go find Suzanna and get back here" Kiba nodded and he and Akamaru took off to go find Suzanna. When were gone Colby did a few hand signs and green chakra glowed around his hands and he went to work healing Ino.
Suzanna was doing well taking down the ninja when she saw Kiba and Akamaru heading her way. She could tell something bad had happened by the look on his face.
"Suzanna we have to fall back. Ino's been hit and Colby it working on her." Kiba said.
"Great. Let's go" Suzanna said and took out a smoke bomb and used it. When the smoke had cleared the were gone. The ninja looked around and didn't see them.
"Damn. They got away." one of them said.
"They couldn't have gone far if one of their own is injured. They are just kids and probably haven't seem a great deal of combat." a second one said.
"PFFTH. They have seen combat alright. Especially the one with the gun. He has a lot of chakra but didn't use any of it and still killed four squads by himself. I would hate to be on the receiving end of any kind of jutsu he may know" the first one said.
"Let's move. We have to find them. They are probably looking for that guy from the Miles Clan we have" a third one said.
The bushes rustled behind Colby. He glanced over his shoulder and saw Suzanna, Kiba and Akamaru walking towards him. They came into the roots cave and sat around Ino. They were surprised to see Colby using medical jutsu.
"Suzanna go into my pack and get out that camo screen that's in there and put it up to cover the openings. Last thing we need it to be seen" Colby said. Suzanna put up the camo screen and relaxed a bit. The screen was long enough and wide enough to cover all the openings to the root cave.
"When did you learn medical ninjutsu?" Suzanna asked watching Colby heal Ino's wounds.
"Just after you left. I asked Jason's wife if she could teach me because just after you left a couple of engineers and firemen got injured pretty bad when one of the locomotives in the yard blew up. The fireman had fallen asleep in the cab after building up the fire and forgot to add water to the boiler. When he woke up and found the water level was near zero he opened the injector and ran in case it blew up. The crown sheet must have been white hot cause when the water hit that hot metal it blew the locomotive to kingdom come. The cab was thrown a good 75 yard away from were it had been and there was nothing left of the boiler. Under neath there was a crater a foot deep and ten feet across.
On the other side of the locomotive two crews were walking towards their engines they all took hits and ended up in the hospital. My dad and I were in the round house when it happened. I swear it was like a hundred paper bombs had gone off at once. We ran over and did what we could to help the crews but I wish I could have done more. All of the survived thankfully but I wish I could have done more to help" He said as images from the accident flashed into his mind. The locomotive had weighed a few hundred tons but it was nothing but scrap metal after it exploded.
"Wow. Never thought that locomotives could go balistic" Kiba said as he tried to imagin a locomotive exploding without the use of paper bombs.
"They can but it's rare when they do." Colby said. The green chakra disipated and he leaned back against a large root from the tree. Ino's eyes were closed and she breathed slowly, but she was alive. "There Ino should be good for now she won't be able to fight without reinjuring herself."
"What do we do..." Suzanna started to speak but the bushes rustled. Kiba kept Akamaru from growling but they could tell the enemy was close. Colby turned around slowly and had his hand on the Browning. Kiba and Suzanna got ready to fight.
"You two will do the fighting, but try to stay were I can see you." Colby whispered quietly. Suzanna and Kiba nodded.
"Kiba, you stay right with me." Suzanna whispered to him. Kiba nodded again. He figured that Suzanna and Colby had a mutual plan they both knew and he would just follow Suzanna's lead. "Let's go." Suzanna, Kiba and Akamaru quietly left the root cave and spread out and form a defensive premiter around the tree.
Hiding in a stand of trees a ways away were the enemy ninja they watched as Suzanna, Kiba and Akamaru leave from under the tree.
"So that's where they were hiding. The other two must be in that root cave." one of them said.
"Squad one and two attack from behind, squads three and four attack from the front. Lady Whittum wants them alive." another one said. "Ready, go."
"Suzanna, we got company." Kiba shouted as the ninja attacked him first.
"I got my own the deal with Kiba." Suzanna replied as she got attacked. Again the air became think with flying kuni and shurikin, and jutsu attacks as they missed. Colby guarded Ino as he scaned the trees infront of him for any ninja he could reach out and toutch with the Browing. He didn't have to wait long as the other squads of ninja came around from either side of the tree. Colby opened up and took them out easily but then he saw Suzanna land right in front him. Suzanna had been hit in the arm with shirukin and was about to get up when she got hit in the leg with more. Blood started to flow from her wounds as Colby scrambled out and dragged Suzanna back under the tree.
He was just about to patch up Suzanna when Kiba came running towards them. Colby could see through the screen that he had been hit too but not as bad. Kiba and Akamaru came into the root cave and sat next to Suzanna. Colby patched up Suzanna and Kiba in no time. Then he saw the enemy ninja surround them.
"My turn." Colby said but he stay behind the screen as the ninja started to speak.
"Come out, Come out. We know you are in there. Come and surrender and we won't kill you." One of them said. Colby figured that one was the leader.
"Why should we? I didn't quite catch that last part." Colby shouted back.
"Come out and surrender and we won't kill you" the leader replied.
"Surrender is not part of my training and I can't be so I guess you are out of luck." Colby came out from the root cave with his Browning locked and loaded. He was on his last clip left before he had to use any number of jutsu he had been taught. Luckly had hadn't used any of his chakra while his opponents had been using theirs. All he had to do was outlast all of them and make sure they didn't get near the root cave. Aiming the Browning at the leader of the group he had to make every round count.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw a kuni heading toward him, he turned knelt down and shot and killed the ninja who ahd thrown it. The kuni kept traveling and slammed into the head of another ninja who had been paying attention to Colby and not the flying hunk of steel.
"Two down" Colby thought.
He pulled the trigger and sprayed the area wildly. He killed another six ninja and wounded six more before the clip ran out. The ninja charged as Colby ditched the gun and pulled out his K-bar, it was a foot long knife with a saw tooth blade on one side and a regular knife blade on the other. As he did he made a few hands signs with the K-bar.
"Fire style. Napalm!" Colby shouted as he breathed in deep and covered the area in a sticky orange goop and manage to catch two more ninja in it. He changed his hand sign and instantly the orange goop ignited forming and ring of fire between him and the attacking ninja. That bought him sometime to pick what he would use next. The ninja tried using water style to put out the fire but the orange goop refused to go out.
"Colby watch out!" Shouted Kiba. Colby turned around and took a shot straight to the gut from on of the ninja. Colby fell to the ground but caught himself and got right back up. Both of them made hand signs but Colby finished making his first.
"Ninja art. Chakra gernade!" Colby shouted as a mixed ball of blue and green chakra formed in his hand. Kiba was shocked, it looked almost exactly like Naruto's rasengan but different color.
Colby threw the ball of blue and green charkra at the ninja. It rolled to a stop at his feet, the swirling blue and green colors caught his attention for a moment. Colby changed his hand sign and then the ball of chakra exploded in the ninja's face. Kiba and Akamaru covered their ears from the roar of the explosion. A massive dust cloud filled the area as the shock wave blew the leaves off the trees and knocked over a few of the smaller ones. To say that the ninja was no more is an understatement. Colby walked over to the crater that was left and saw that he had also taken out a few more ninja too. So least he got more bang for his gernade, but in the process the shock wave had put out the ring of fire.
He looked over and saw the group on ninja he still had to take out. As he turned to face them he felt something hit is left shoulder followed by warm liquid flowing down his back. He turned and saw three shurikin embeded into his shoulder. He tried to more his left arm but nothing happened.
"Son of bitch" he growled as he tried to reach around to take out the shurikin. He felt cold steel embed it's self into his right leg about mid-thigh. This time he felt it as his leg gave out and he fell to the ground. The ninja approached slowly as Colby pulled out a kuni from his thigh. He staggard to his feet and back up towards the root cave. His leg gave out again and he fell infront of the camo screen were Ino was laying.
"So what do you say now?" the lead of the ninja said with air of satisfaction.
"Surrender is not in my vocabulary and I'm not dead." Colby smiled cooly. He knew he had been beat but least we could say he sent fresh souls to hell.
"I can't kill you or your friends so you will be able to live a little while longer. Now speaking of your little friends I wonder if they are behind here." the leader then grabbed the camo screen and ripped it down. Akamaru jumped him from behind the screen and attacked. One of the ninja kicked Akamaru and sent him sprawling towards Colby. Akamaru got up but Colby held him back.
"No. Akamaru, you will only make things worse for us." Colby said. Akamaru growled but didn't attack again.
"Dumb mutt." sneered one of the ninja.
"Alright. What do you guys want?" Colby asked.
"You will find out." The leader ninja said as he pulled out a little white ball and threw it into the root cave. A small white cloud enveloped Colby, Ino, Suzanna, Kiba and Akamaru.
Colby's vision went dark as he and the rest of them passed out.