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Those four simple words was all it took for Kira to freeze up. She didn't understand the words right away, but when they finally registered, she tried her best not to believe them. 'Why, why would he leave the village? He had no reason to. Or did he? It seemed like no matter how hard he tried Naruto was catching up, but that was because of his ability to create shadow clones, as well as the fact that Naruto could learn higher powered Jutsu easier then what would be considered normal. Still, despite these reasons, there shouldn't be a large enough reason for him to leave,' or at least that's what she was thinking of the situation. With a growl forming in her throat, Kira said "We need to get him back."

Naruto gave a solid nod with his head, before he said "I'm just a clone by the way, the boss, Neji, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Lee, are getting ready to leave."

With a small sigh, Kira gave a small thought towards why only those five, but with a small frown still on her face ran as fast as she could with chakra pumping through her legs. When she actually managed to get to the gate, she could barely see the five that were in front of her. Rushing forward, Kira did her best to catch up with them. Eventually she saw them running towards something, but when she saw them stop she understood why almost right away. Stopping just behind them, she pulled out a scroll, and she started to make a complex seal on it. Thankful for the Uzumaki genes that she had inherited which made fuinjutsu second nature, she created a seal that was about as complex as the Eight trigrams seal, in little under three minutes. When she finished with that seal, she quickly rolled the scroll back up, and caught up with the others, who were not at all surprised that she was there. With a small nod towards Shikamaru, she took up a position next to Naruto, with the scroll she had just created the seal on, still in her right hand.

Eventually the group caught up to the sound four, but instead of attacking them, Neji, Kira, and Shikamaru, watched from in a bush, but when there was a clink sound showing that a Kunai was thrown, she saw the Explosive tags. With wide eyes, she cursed loudly before she set a second scroll in front of them "Fūin: Bakuhatsu Kyatchā(1)!"

The second that the explosive notes went off, the seal that Kira had prepared activated as well, absorbing the explosion with little to no problem. Turning around, however, Kira saw that the Sound Four were in front the three of them. With a hand on her sword, she let Shikamaru try to explain that they were just there to negotiate, but when the one with multiple arms pulled the other three out of the bush's. With a small sigh, she looked towards the three and said "You know, that wasn't a smart idea, right?"

Naruto just glared at her, while Kiba growled as well. Shikamaru gave a simple sigh as the sound four stood slightly rigid. Kira, shaking her head, looked towards the sound four, and with an almost bored look, she clicked her sword back in its sheath, cutting every cord that the multiple armed one put around. The only problem with that, was the fact that when she did that, Shikamaru's Kagemane was disrupted, and almost right after that, the group was put into a dome of clay.

"...Sorry?" Kira asked in a hesitant voice, that the others just shook their heads at.

The main problem now, however, was the fact, that when Neji activated his Byakugan, he noticed that everyone's chakra was getting absorbed by the large man outside. With a frown on her face, Kira grabbed her sword, and with an extremely quick strike to the whole thing, the dome cracked, but it started to repair itself as well. With a growl, Kira tried to attack it once again, with the same result.

"Kira! Stop! You'd just waisting energy." Neji practically yelled at her, but before he could say much else, he noticed how part of the wall, was healing slower then others.

Narrowing his eyes at the spot where it wasn't healing as fast, Neji activated his Byakugan once again as he observed the flow of chakra into the wall. With a look back towards Shikamaru, he noticed that the Nara had seen the same thing. With a motion of his head towards Choji, Neji moved as the large boy seemed to understand what was going on. Neji, marked a weak spot with a Kunai, and almost right away after that, Choji, charged at the wall with his family's technique causing him, to barrel through the wall with little problem, surprising the large man as well.

Kira, being one of the first to get out of the dome, turned towards the others with a serious look, as she said "I don't care what you guys are doing with this guy, but I'm rushing ahead. We need to get the bastard back as soon as possible."

Shikamaru looked like he was about to complain, but then he realized that she wasn't a part of the team, as well as the fact that, even if she didn't have the vest, she was a chunin as well, and she was one of the only ones who had actually been given the rank before all of this started. Conceding at this point, he gave a nod towards her, to which she gave a thumbs up towards him. The next second, she released her gravity seals, and she disappeared as fast as she could, like a red blur.

The second she disappeared, however, she knew something was up. She could track them by herself, she knew the direction they went, and even if they did change directions, she was having chakra channel through her nose, so she had the sense of smell of an Inuzuka at the moment. The reason she thought something was up, however, was due to the fact that, she could smell the remaining three sound four, but there was also the fact that she could smell something like bone marrow.

With wide eyes, Kira pulled her sword out of its sheath in an instant, and blocked a strike that was aimed at her head. With a growl on her lips, she stopped in a clearing, realizing that she outran the three with Sasuke. In front of her, however, was someone she actually was curious as to when she would see again. In this case, it was soon, and she didn't want it to happen again so soon.

"Kimimaro. I did not expect to see you again so soon." Kira stated, with her sword in its sheath, though she did have her hand on it in a way that showed she was ready to strike at any moment.

Kimimaro, on the other hand, had a bone sword in one of his hands, and he looked at Kira with an almost, interested look. With a single tile of his head, he asked "Did you expect to see me in a longer time frame?"

Kira nodded towards that, though she didn't give anything else to show that she was curious as to why he was here. Without either of them moving, Kira examined his posture, and when his right leg twitched, she unsheathed her sword in the blink of an eye, while also blocking a strike that was sent her way. Pushing back with her sword, she swung at him once again, only for that strike to be sent off course. This was repeated a couple more times, as the two continued to trade blows, but eventually, Kira managed to get a strike on his chest, but she had to back up, as bones popped out, trying to impale her.

With a small frown of her face, Kira threw the scroll from earlier that held the explosion, at Kimimaro, causing the scroll to unwrap itself, and light up like a regular explosion note. This attack, however, seemed to do nothing, as Kimimaro, appeared out of the explosion with two bone swords in hand. With a quick movement of her hand, Kira had a kunai appear in her other hand, as she blocked both of the attacks with the two blades. The kunai in her one hand, however, wasn't enough to actually stop the blade, so when the bone connected with the kunai it held for a couple of seconds, before breaking in half, leaving Kira running back a bit to get some distance. Of course when she stopped moving, Kimimaro charged forward once again to attack Kira, though this time, she used her wind chakra to cut apart the bone sword in one hand, while blocking the other.

"You did not use that the last time we fought." Kimimaro stated with his monotone voice.

Kira gave a blank look towards the Kaguya, before she said "Like any good shinobi, I've got to have some secrets."

Kimimaro jumped backwards after that comment, but he then said "True, but if you are still holding back, you may want to stop."

Kira gave him a hard look, as lines that almost looked like digital squares started to appear on Kimimaro's skin. In response to this, Kira asked Isobu if she was able to go into one tail mode, without anyone nearby finding out. The response as a yes, so channeling the yokai through her body, Kira formed a chakra cloak with one chakra tail behind her.

If Kimimaro was surprised at the development, he didn't state it, as he made another sword pop into his hand. Kira, in the other hand, took her sword and sheathed it, while her skin started to grow darker due to the green yokai. With a single step forward, both of them met in the middle of the field with a powerful shockwave between the two.

Kira's fist had connected with Kimimaro's sword, to which it cracked, and he had to let go of it. The frown on her face was evident, as she expected to do more then crack the sword. Jumping backwards, Kira twisted in just the right, that Kimimaro's broken sword, to which he threw at her, and replaced it with another, traveled under the small of her back, with about an inch of a gap between them. When she landed, she twisted backwards once again, as a sword went over her, though she did kick Kimimaro in the stomach after that. Spinning on one of her palms in an almost break dancing like way, she kicked herself off of a nearby tree, while spinning in a similar way to what Kiba does with his Gatsuga. When she reached Kimimaro, she twisted one more time to dodge another sword strike, and she punched him in the face with enough force, that the pale boy, was sent through a tree.

Landing down, in a crouched position, Kira charged at Kimimaro once again, only to be stopped by a green blur. When Kira saw that, she immediately stopped the flow of Yokai in her system. It seemed that one of the sound four had come with something as well, before he left it and went backwards a bit. Kira wasn't really so much worried about the container that held Sasuke as much as she was worried about Kimimaro himself, and Lee, who was here as well.

"God Lee. You need to be more careful." Kira stated with a frown on her force, though her body still had some Yokai being released, but at a incredibly lower rate then before.

Lee looked back slightly while keeping an eye on Kimimaro as he said "I am sorry Kira-san! While you are anything but defenseless, I could not sit back and watch you fight alone!"

Kira sighed at that, before she noticed Naruto enter the field. When he saw her, she moved her head towards the container that Sasuke was supposed to be in, but before he could, the container burst open, to show Sasuke, but he was changed. Eventually it settled down, and his normal look returned, but he didn't listen to anything that Naruto said when he charged forward into the woods once again. Naruto took off once again at this point, but Kira, and Lee were more focused on Kimimaro then anything.

Before anyone could move, however, Lee said "Please wait! It is time for me to take my medicine!"

With a raised eyebrow, Kira watched as he pulled out a bottle of Sake, and drank it. Kira was confused as to how Sake was medicine, but then again, some people considered it a medicine of a sort, but she didn't expect Lee to be one such person. The problem now, however, was the fact that after he drank that small amount of sake, he started to sway a bit. With wide eyes, she watched as Kimimaro was assaulted by Lee, without getting so much as a hit in the green clad daring to get in the middle of the fight while Lee was drunk, Kira stood back, waiting for the chance to strike when Lee wasn't drunk.

The main reason that Kira didn't try to attack at the moment, was because she knew what it was like to be on the receiving end of the Suiken(2). Kira knew bits and pieces of what the Suiken could do, but she found out rather quickly that she was useless with that style of fighting. Kuina was the one who knew the Drunken Fist like a master, and she did not want to get into a fight with someone who was a natural at the Suiken. It was a suicidal thing, unless you were unpredictable, or faster then the user of the Suiken. The only problem with the style was when you get sober, you become disoriented for a couple of seconds.

Seeing as Lee had knocked Kimimaro around for awhile, Kira positioned herself in just the right area to attack Kimimaro once Lee backed away, but before she could, the Kaguya struck Lee in the head with the handle of one of his bone swords, causing the green clothed youth to sober up.

Cursing at her luck, Kira charged forwards, blocked an attack that was sent at Lee, while getting cuts on her arms in the process. With gritted teeth, she pushed Kimimaro backwards despite the bones that were digging into her arms slightly. With one last push Kira knocked back the Kaguya, causing him to back up, while Lee had recovered. With a frown on her face, she charged forward once again, send extremely quick strikes at Kimimaro, but no matter what she did, she couldn't seem to hit him this time, and his bones started to pop out from every which way, causing her to get hit in both her arms, and legs, along with other parts of her body, like the stomach and shoulders.

When she backed up at this point, she didn't even care about the fact that she was getting into her tailed beast cloak, until she felt something digging into an area right above her heart. Looking down slightly, she saw the end of a bone sticking into her chest right above her heart, and she looked up, to see Kimimaro with a blank look on his face, holding the bone. With a small cough, she fell backwards, with the sword still in her.

The last thing she saw before she lost consciousness was a redhead with black marks around his eyes, covering her with sand as he mouthed something along the lines of, "You'll be fine."

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So, did this chapter do well? I know most people don't like cliff hangers, but the reason I'm having Kira end up this way is so it becomes a sort of 'eye opener for her so that she doesn't always rely on Isobu's chakra.

character profile (4)

Name: Kuina Uzumaki

Age: 31 (Birthday: June 4th)

Likes: energy drinks, Sarcasm, jokes, training, any Uzumaki, Hinata hyuga, her son, anything spicy, medical seals, medical studies.

dislikes: people who don't take medics seriously, cold food, cold weather.

theme song: undetermined

Notes: Kuina is an eccentric individual who is considered extremely hyperactive. Despite this she is an incredible medical specialist, who is only topped by Tsunade Senju, but only due to the difference in Chakra control. Kuina is the mother of Shiro, and despite her disapproval of the T&I department, she supports her sons dream to be a part of said department. Everyone in Konoha fears the day that she and Maito Gai will meet however.

Quotes: "If I'm eccentric, then that's ok, at least I can save people."

"Youth? NO! AAAAAGGGGGEEEEE!"

"I'm an Uzumaki, and we always keep our promises!"

"Meh. You die, it's your fault, not mine. I did try to warn you you know."

1:Fūin: Bakuhatsu Kyatchā= seal: explosion catcher- a seal ment to be used for capturing an explosion as to save allies from the explosion itself. The explosions that are captured can be refused by the activator, as an explosive note.

2:Suiken=drunken fist- This is a Taijutsu style that cannot be learned, and has the basic instructions of those who can use it of 'The more you drink, the drunker you get, the stronger you are.'