Chapter 14: This is the Crystal?
"Oh my..."
Hinata just looked at the long river from the shore to the cave. It was like how long? And what sucked even more was that the lake had some sort of jutsu on it from using it as chakra. Which meant:
She couldn't use the water to help her jutsus.
And she couldn't walk on it.
She had to swim all the way to the cave in the water that was cold, almost ice.
No one would even consider lending the young female Leaf ninja a boat.
Hinata sighed Not like I expected it to be easy. She looked at the map again, then back at the cave, and sighed again. She hid some of her things and jacket in a nearby bush then dove into the water.
She felt little fragments in the water...
Guess there really is ice.
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Ino cursed again What the hell is with all the freaking mountains?! I'm LIGHTNING not EARTH!!
She was climbing up an even higher mountain than before, and this time whatever jutsu they used on the river for Hinata, was also used on the mountain Ino was climbing. Which meant only one thing:
She couldn't use chakra to climb the mountain.
Her eyes widened. She finally reached the top. But...
"What the hell?!"
There were a dozen more mountains around.
"I thought this was the Lightning country. It has more rock than the Earth one!" But not as much greenery.
Ino groaned then looked at the scroll the Raikage gave her. She once again cursed, but this time at her stupidity.
She climbed the wrong mountain.
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"...Wow..."
The forest was as great as the ones in the Heart Country, but...
They had the same type of animals.
Tenten quickly dodged the attack of a nearby snake Why does every good thing have a downside?
It really was like the one in Heart country. It was even like a maze.
Tenten looked at the map then back at the mark she made on a tree. Been here.
Five hours later...
Tenten passed by the same tree with the same mark. Her eyes widened Where the hell is that crystal?! She climbed up a tree and noticed something she feared the most.
All the trees had the same marking.
And she wasn't the one that marked them all.
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Temari sighed. She had to fly using her fan in a place that didn't even have any wind.
Its like flying an airplane without any gas.
You can't go anywhere.
There she was on a cliff side, and there was the other side that was meters away. And the bottom was deep you couldn't even see it, that and the poisonous gas at the very bottom Temari heard about.
She had to either jump all the way or fly all the way. The first was out, the second was out. She had no options left.
What the hell do I do now?!... Duh! How could I have forgotten something so simple?!
She did a few hand signs and another Temari appeared. She waved her fan creating a wind, and the real one reached the other side.
Temari's jaw dropped.
She was in a desert. That she never visited before. Not once. She looked at the map. The 'x' was beyond the desert.
She step foot on the sand and started out on the desert of Death. Good thing she didn't know the name.
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"Ah!"
Sakura quickly dodged all the fireballs that were thrown at her from the trap in the forest. She sighed in relief that they were all gone. Then continued walking to where the 'x' was. And when she was almost there her jaw dropped.
A volcano!
There was one large volcano in front of her, in the map the 'x' was on a mountain. She looked at the map again Guess this map must be old, for being made before the volcano irrupted.
She looked up again Wait...
Does that mean the piece in inside the volcano?
... Lets climb it first.
... It once again had that strange jutsu.
She couldn't use her chakra on the mountain.
I hope its not hot!
She put a hand on one of the rocks, and sure enough it wasn't hot, but she could see the smoke coming from it.
Sakura started climbing.
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"Ali."
She looked up from her book "What is it Onee-chan?"
"What did you do to the places some of the girls were supposed to visit?"
"Nothing! I was just reading this book!"
"Upside down?"
"I was looking at the picture at a different angle!"
"... That's a notebook."
Ali looked at the book in her hand and it was a blank notebook...
"Hehe. I just wanted them to know it'll be difficult!"
"What will I do with you?"
"Forgive me...?"
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"BBBBOOOOMMMM!!"
Sakura quickly dodged some of the rocks from the top of the volcano that someone threw.
Hinata was thrown high up into the air by an explosion in the water.
The right mountain Ino was climbing on exploded.
Tenten was able to get away from the exploding note.
And Temari jumped back at the explosion in the sand.
No. It wasn't the Higure.
It was ninja from the Hidden villages.
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Hinata fell back down into the water and noticed about ten ninja surrounding her in the water. Mist ninja.
Then a fog came, Hinata's eyes widened The Hidden Mist Jutsu! She dove down into the water and the others followed suite. She smirked inwardly, then faced all the ninja and did a few hand signs but nothing happened.
She panicked, she couldn't use her chakra to control the water. She would have to swim all the way to land before she could properly use her own chakra to make water. Hinata swam as fast as she could towards the direction of the cave. And the ninja followed, occasionally sending a few shuriken and kunai that ended up missing the blue haired girl.
Hinata finally was able to see the shore above the water but before she even touched the land someone grabbed her ankle.
She turned around and saw a male ninja with a tight grip on her ankle and was about to hit her with a kunai but then a swarm of piranhas headed towards him and attacked him before he could hit the girl.
The water sister was just... shocked.
She knew that water would always be her strong point. But the animals in the water?
Hinata quickly went up to the land before any other ninja could reach her. And panted hard for swimming that fact with no air at all. But then a kunai got a scratch on her arm. She cursed at the fact that she let her guard down while still being followed by the enemies.
She faced the nine, one missing cause of the fish, and did a few handsigns "Water style: Water shock wave jutsu!" Then a large capacity of water appeared out of nowhere and headed towards the enemy.
Bur since she her chakra was still too low from swimming she wasn't able to conjure up as mush water to wash aways the ninja. So they were able to easily dodge it. Then they did their own jutsus. All different but still water related.
"Water style: Water encampment jutsu!" Then a large wall of a water surrounded Hinata I hope it would stand longer to water attacks like it did with fire. Then she started another set if hand signs. Alot of hand signs.
The ninja tried to break the girl's barrier, and were successful after a moment's time. But when they did Hinata already finshed her technique.
"Water style: Water dragon jutsu!" Then with her chakra she was able to make a dragon entirely made up of water.
The ninja were flung all the way back into the sea, hopefully too injured to come back and face girl.
Hinata let out a sigh of relief then collapsed on the ground. Those three jutsus used up alot of chakra, since she used her own chakra to make water instead of relying on the lake.
After a few minutes she stood up, and with a bit of chakra left, she headed inside the cave.
And when she reached the end her eyes widened.
There was a large wall of water surrounding a corner of the room, and the water looked... strong. Hinata walked towards that wall of water and reached out to touch it but when she did a part of the water grabbed onto her hand.
She tried to remove it but after a few seconds it let go and the water fell down. Probably to make sure the person was the right one. she thought.
But when she saw the crystal behind that wall of water...
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Ino was back down on the ground, much to her dismay.
She faced the cloud ninja and scowled at them "What do you want with me?"
But they didn't even answer her before they attacked her full force. They sent waves of kunai and shuriken at her, and some created a few balls of lightning that were headed her way.
She rolled her eyes at the simplicity of their attacks and quickly dodged them as if though it was nothing.
Ino is as fast on land as Hinata is in water.
Meaning: She was fast.
She jumped up high into the air and landed back down a few meters away from them, then she did a few hand signs and then touched the ground and by converting her chakra to lightning elemental chakra she sent an enormous bolt of lightning that cut through the ground and attacked the ninja.
And by that attack she forgot that she wasn't the only one in the world that was quick. Most on the ninja were able to dodge it, while some only got a minor cut by the attack. She was about to do another jutsu but the ninja surrounded her and atacked her all at once.
She was fast, but she wasn't as fast as lightning. (yet)
Ino did a few hand signs before they could attack her "Ninja art: Thunder armor!" and anyone who made contact with her got electrucuted, most were already on the floor unconscious. But a few were still able to fight her.
And those few just had to be strongest.
Ino used alot of her energy to climb the mountains, so those last two jutsus took up alot out of her. She didn't have much chakra left for a good jutsu to get rid of them without killing them. Then she spotted a cave nearby.
She ran towards it with the others following, when she was deep in the cave she created a clone then got out. But the ninja still went in. They attacked her and found it was merely her clone, they ran to the entrance.
But they were met with the lightning sister holding a ball of what looked like electricity, and the sound of many birds. "Chidori!" She jumped up and hit the front entrance trapping all the ninja inside.
After that she leaned on the wall It'll be a few hours before those ninja can break all those rocks. She looked back up the mountain, and then smiled. The place where they blew up the mountain was the place that had a secret tunnel. The tunnel which led to the piece of the heart crystal.
Ino climbed up for a few minutes and then entered the tunnel. At the end there was a lightning bolt that struck her. But, of course, it didn't hurt her, then it disappeared. She shrugged it off Weird.
Then when she reached the very end, her jaw dropped at the sight of the crystal...
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Tenten faced her enemies and noted one. It was the same person who guarded the gate that wouldn't let her through. She gulped "Look! I don't mean no harm! I'm just here to collect something than leave!"
But they still attacked her without any sign of answering.
If another war starts between the two nations, she'll be the first to say she didn't do anything.
They attacked with exploding notes, kunai, shuriken, and jutsus. Tenten did a quick set of hand signs "Earth style: Terra shield!" then she striked the ground and a large wall of earth emerged protecting her.
She backed up and put a hand on the tree, but nothing happened, it was that jutsu again that was on the greenery. Tenten cursed under her breath but then got hit and crashed into a tree. She observed the ninja again, she can take them all out in one move, but it would take almost all of her chakra.
She decided to take the risk then did another set of hand signs "Earth style: Dark swamp!" The whole area where the enemy ninja were turned into a swampland making them unable to move.
But her eyes widened Where is that guard guy?
She got a hard blow on her back and she fell to the ground. That last jutsu only left her with hardly any chakra, she got up and faced him, then jumped up and shot waves of kunai at him. But he dodged every one of them, he sent a few at her but then he found out it was a substitution jutsu.
Tenten escaped, and he cursed then followed her footprints that she carelessly left behind.
She thank the gods for the luck she got. She was in front of a cave where the crystal was, she was about to enter but was stopped with a kunai that nearly hit her. Tenten turned around and saw that same guy.
"Look, I don't want to fight... whatever your name is!"
"My name is Takano you insolent leaf ninja."
She tried to calm down "I do not want to fight." Takano grabbed a scroll, one for weapons, then faced her "This is a mission I look forward to accomplishing!"
Tenten's eyes widened He's a weapon specialist?
But then she smirked then got out her own scroll, with new found energy appearing.
"This is going to be fun."
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"Temari-sama!" The Sand ninja were shocked when they saw the girl they had to defeat.
But it quickly disappeared and they attacked her all at once. Temari was just confused, but also glad for whatever insane reason they had for attacking her didn't involve anyone she knew from the village.
She got out her fan and sent a strong wave of air at them, but at the same time the sand also got up and before she knew it the whole area was covered with sand around, that you couldn't see anything.
If she tried to get rid of the sand with another wave of wind she'll just add more sand to the air. She got onto her fan and flew up, but when she did she was bombarded with different weapons.
And her fan was getting large gashed and holes on it.
She fell back to the ground, put her fan behind her, and ran out of the area with sand. Temari appeared at the edge and noticed that all the ninja were waiting for her. She couldn't use her fan as a weapon anymore. She did a set of hand signs.
"Wind style: Severing pressure!"
A tornado descended on the enemy ninja and most were blow away but some still stood steadfast. But before they could react Temari did another technique "Wind style: Violent wind palm!" She delivered a punch that released a a giant and adaptable wind.
Temari let out a sigh of relief, but also felt a little... ashamed.
How could fellow Sand ninja be so weak?
But then she looked at her fan and grimaced at its broken state How am I supposed to cross the cliffs again now? But then she just continued walking towards the end of the desert.
Her eyes widened after a few hours of travelling. Just a few miles away she could see the Suna... but just a few meters aways there was a cave that held the piece of Heart crystal.
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It dawned on her.
Before there was a large mountain in between the desert if death and Suna, but it was destroyed a centuries earlier. She looked at the map So I guess this is also a thousand years old.
She entered the cave, but then a large gust of wind almost blew her away, but she still stood there. She took another step but nothing happened Strange. Then she walked to the deepest part of the cave and her jaw dropped.
The crystal was what she saw...
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Sakura quickly stepped back as the many Leaf ninja jumped in front of her "I'm from the Konoha too! Why are you attacking me?"
But, like with the others, they gave no answer.
And lucky for Sakura none of the ninja were ones she knew.
They attacked her with taijutsu, and Sakura quickly jumped up into the air before she could get hit and landed a few feet away then she did a few hand signs I don't have much of a choice! "Fire style: Fireball jutsu!" she inhaled as air via the mouth, and by utilizing a large amount of fire chakra, she spewed a large fireball at them.
But some were able to dodge the fireball, while some got a few injuries, but they were serious enough to make them unable to fight for the meanwhile. After all, her fireball was large.
Sakura was about to do another jutsu to finish them off but was bombarded with stones that came from the volcano. She looked up and saw other ninja throwing boulders at her. She silently thanked Tsunade for teaching her this.
She punched the wall with precise chakra control and all the ninja came had to jump down to the ground.
Flashback
"Why only me?" Sakura asked.
Tsunade smirked "Because I see that you are quite good in chakra control, and you see... your element is fire. It is the hardest to control, a single mistake could end up with great fires... Since, the fire goddess had a slight slip up too, so they say in stories."
"What kinda of mistake?"
"The nine tailed fox. It was her doing it was created, by simply trying to heal a fox she found somewhere. Then after a while that fox became to grow stronger because of the people's malice and darkness."
"All because of a simple mistake in chakra control."
"The same could go for your friends. But yours needs the most control. And I might teach you something too."
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Then she threw a wire that surrounded all the enemy ninja and did a few hand signs "Fire style: Dragon flame jutsu!" then she blew fire on the wire and it surrounded the ninja. She smirked It'll be a while before they can escape!
She looked back at the now-slightly-disfigured mountain, and saw that the hole she punched through it was part of a secret cave.
Oh yeah!
She quickly entered it but while running she ran through a wall of fire, but she felt nothing, then it disappeared. It might be for stopping the wrong person. she thought. Then she reached at the end of the cave...
Her mouth was agape at the sight of the crystal which gave life to all...
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Tenten panted long and hard as she faced Takano, who was now stuck to a tree by many kunai, and knocked out. But much to her dismay, they were serious injuries.
She sighed I guess after I take the crystal I should bring him to the hospital. This was after all just a mission, and he is good with the senbon.
She entered the cave but when she turned a corner she passed through a wall, she looked back and noticed it disappeared Might be a test or something. Then she reached the very end and she nearly fainted at the sum of all her hard work.
The crystal was a...
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how was it?
2 those who were smart enough to figure out wat the heart crystal looked like... congrats!... i think
and no.
it is not tenxoc... but i might bring in the boy later for jealousy stuff, and it was for tenten cuz among all the characters so far she obtained the least spotlight...
but other than that:
pls review!