Chapter 58: Waged War
Tek scattered with the other Alliance members. The path he chose was straight at the twelve newcomers, running past them and into the thin trees behind them. Nomad and Sakura took after him. Tek kept moving until he was sure the others wouldn't interfere.
Nomad held his spear in his hands and Sakura took out three needles, one held in the gap of each finger on her right hand. Tek smiled as he took out two short swords, holding one in each hand.
"You're a medic with great strength of arm, right?" Nomad asked quietly.
"Yeah," Sakura said just as quietly.
"How good's your aim?" Nomad asked.
"What do you need me to hit?" Sakura asked.
"Pressure point, left upper heart," Nomad said, his byakugan was activated.
"That'll relieve pressure, he'll fight better," Sakura said.
"Not once I accent it," Nomad said with a grin.
Sakura raised an eyebrow and took her eyes off Tek to look at Nomad. Just what Tek was waiting for, he lunged at Sakura, swords at the ready. Sakura didn't see it in time, but Nomad blocked the attack and kicked Tek back.
As soon as Tek was on the ground Sakura sent one needle flying, hitting Tek in the pressure point Nomad had indicated. Tek got up laughing as he pulled the needle out, "a medic with bad anatomy, I never thought I'd meet one. You hit a pressure point, a positive one," Tek said flinging the needle into the round.
"She was supposed to," Nomad called from behind Tek.
Tek started to turn to face Nomad but he didn't move fast enough as he was whacked in the spine by the back end of the spear. Tek let go a cry of pain and he fell to his knees. One hand was on the ground in a fist, the other was clenching his chest.
"What's wrong, too much pressure relieved?" Nomad asked.
Tek's face was contoured in pain. He grabbed one of his swords with his left hand, his right still clenching his chest. He spun around fast and dug his sword deep into Nomad's stomach. Sakura screamed out the instant the blade entered Nomad, but he just shook his head at her. Nomad was forced back from the attack, and he dropped his spear. Blood was pouring from his wound, and started coming from his mouth, pain was written across his face.
Nomad reached out with both hands and grabbed onto Tek's wrist, holding tight. "Sakura, hit him in the back, where I did," Nomad said weakened.
"What?" Sakura asked shaken at what she was seeing.
"Where I hit him with my spear, hit him there, put all your force into it. I don't know how much longer I can hold him still," Nomad said, his voice getting weaker with each word.
Sakura stood still a moment before regaining control of herself and running towards the two, channeling chakra into her right hand. Sakura stopped running when she reached to two, and she could see the fear on Tek's face as he tried to break Nomad's grip, still unable to take his right hand off his chest.
Sakura raised her right arm and delivered the punch Nomad told her to, right where he had whacked Tek with his spear. She felt the skin tear and Tek's spine crumble as her fist when through it. She felt the ribs shatter and the organs shred and finally, Tek's clasping right hand over her right fist as it exited his body through his chest.
"Perfect," Nomad whispered as he let go of Tek and fell backwards.
It took Sakura less than a second to kill Tek, and even less time than that to realize Nomad was in bad shape. She quickly pulled her arm out of Tek and ran over to Nomad. 'Oh thank god, he's still alive,' Sakura thought before pulling the short sword out and beginning to heal him.
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Lerah went straight south, directly opposite form the door in the rock side. Strag started after her, Naruto doing as he was told and sticking with him. Strag stopped suddenly before he got to far away from the main group and turned back to the door.
"Tusk, take care of Link, make sure she doesn't get hurt," Strag shouted before continuing after Lerah, Naruto on his tail.
Lerah finally stopped running and turned to face her opponents, "ah, Strag, we fight again, and the blond too… whatever happened to sharingan?" Lerah asked.
"He ain't doing to good. Wasn't even awake when we left to get you. What the hell did you do to him?" Strag asked.
"I gave him a world of promises I fully intended to keep, he only needed to do one thing. He refused so we tortured him for information," Lerah said.
"What the hell did you want from him?" Naruto asked through gritted teeth.
"Something the poor boy seems incapable of giving, love," Lerah said.
"We know what we wanted to, now let's do this," Strag said turning his hands to blades.
Lerah nodded and took out two kunai, one in each hand. Naruto stayed put, dumbfounded at what Lerah had just said. 'she loves him, and tortured him because he couldn't return it?' Naruto asked himself.
"Kid snap out of it, we got a fight on our hands," Strag said.
Naruto jolted at Strag's words and nodded at him, taking out a kunai. Lerah ginned and jumped onto a tree branch. She threw her two kunai, one at each of her opponents. Naruto dodged his while Strag deflected it. The instant Lerah had thrown the kunai she started flying through hand seals.
"Secret Art, Penta Style: Golem of the Gods!" Lerah called out before slamming her hands into the tree branch she stood on.
"Awe hell," Strag said as the ground started to shake.
"What? What is this?" Naruto asked trying to maintain his balance.
"Judging by the name, we're in big trouble," Strag said.
"More than you know," Lerah said softly before a giant stone hand reached out of the ground.
The stone was covered in vines which seemed to be holding it all together. Another hand broke the surface of the ground and together they lifted a giant body from beneath the earth. The golem was about twenty feet tall and made completely of stone covered in the vines. Its small eyes were balls of fire and when it opened its mouth and roared Naruto could see fire in its throat.
"Well that's four, but where's the fifth?" Strag asked after the golem roared. Before he even finished speaking a bolt of electricity ran across the golem's torso, "yeah, there it is," he said with a slight sigh.
"What the hell is that thing?" Naruto asked wide eyed.
"A golem made of all five elements. Any elemental trick you use'll be nullified," Strag said.
"What about wind? I only see four elements," Naruto said.
"It's back, see those four stones?" Strag asked and Naruto moved to the side to get a better look. Behind the golem's back four stones were floating like folded wings, "wind keeps them there, and probably lets it fly," Strag said.
"We're really screwed," Naruto said.
"No elements, abide by that and we should be good," Strag said.
"What's this, no big plan from the strategist?" Lerah asked with a laugh.
Strag looked at Lerah squinting, she was still in the summoning position… "Kid, do you think you can handle the golem alone a while?" Strag asked.
Naruto looked at him slightly wide eyed before nodding. Strag nodded back and turned his hands back to normal. He jumped backwards into the thinly laid out trees as the golem started knocking a bunch of trees down to clear the battle field. By the time the golem had finished knocking down the trees Strag was gone form sight leaving Naruto alone.
"He's smarter than I thought, he ran in the face of death, to bad you're stuck," Lerah said.
Naruto grinned and pulled out three more kunai and threw all four at the golem. Each hit their target on the golem's chest, but it didn't even seem to feel it. The golem took a step forward and pulled its head back as far as it could, its chest seemed to puff out with this as well.
Naruto's eyes widened as he recognized the pose, at the last second Naruto jumped high into the air as a giant fire ball shot from the golem's mouth at where Naruto just was. The golem looked up at Naruto in the air and took a step back, leaning back even farther so that its chest was level with Naruto. With a groan from the golem the four kunai shot out of its chest and flew towards Naruto.
The kunai spun once in the air so that the points were facing Naruto, who had nowhere to dodge to in the air. Naruto covered his face and chest with his arms and his stomach with his legs. Three of the kunai shot right past him, but one struck him in the right forearm.
The instant the kunai touched him a paralyzing electrical shock ran through Naruto's body. He screamed in pain and didn't manage to land safely, rather slamming into the hard ground on his stomach. Naruto pulled the kunai out as he slowly got to his feet, he looked up at the golem and his eyes shot wide open.
The four stones that floated behind its back were now floating above its head, all pointing at Naruto. 'They don't fly, they attack,' Naruto thought as the four stones shot at him. Naruto jumped back avoiding all four stones, but he didn't see the golem move with them. Naruto landed from dodging the fourth stone just as the golem appeared at his side, 'how can it move so fast and silently?' Naruto asked himself before the golems giant fist sent him flying though a tree.
Lerah was laughing form her place on the tree, still in the same position and the golem stayed where it was after hitting Naruto, the four stone returning to its back. Then Naruto climbed out of the tree, his jacket and pants were torn and his hands and face were cut up and bleeding. In his right hand he held a ball of swirling chakra.
"Idiot boy, wind won't work, no element will work," Lerah said with a laugh.
The golem roared again and took a step towards Naruto, pulling back its right arm for the attack. Naruto gritted his teeth and started towards the golem, the chakra ball pulled back. The golem swung its massive fist at Naruto who met it with his right hand and chakra ball.
The result sounded like and explosion and the force shot Naruto back into another tree. Rocks were sent everywhere as the golem's entire right arm was shattered. The golem roared again and grabbed its stub of a shoulder with its left hand.
Naruto pulled himself out of the tree again, his clothes even more torn and more cuts on his open skin. He looked up at the golem weakly, blood trailing from his mouth. The golem lowered its left arm and the rocks that were once part of its right started reassembling in the form of the arm and hand, the golem roared again stomping its right foot on the ground and leaning towards Naruto.
"Bravo on damaging it, but the wind will keep it assembled," Lerah said.
"Damn it! I can't use any of my stronger attacks 'cause they're all wind based…" Naruto said quietly.
"Just give up, from what I've heard death isn't all that bad," Lerah said in a serious voice.
"It is, I know form experience," Naruto said weakly as he took out a kunai, he didn't know why he did, maybe to emphasize what he said, or maybe it was a habit…
Lerah was about to say something when she was kicked in the face and knocked off the branch. Strag now stood where Lerah once did as she lay on the ground.
"So you didn't run," Lerah said.
"Kid, do that again, only this time, hit the head," Strag said over his shoulder, he body still facing Lerah.
Naruto looked up at Strag a moment before nodding and putting the kunai away before gathering the chakra in his right hand for another Rasengan. The golem reared up for another fireball as Naruto built up his attack.
"It won't do anything," Lerah said.
"Really, then why were you staying in the summoning position? You need contact with it for it to regenerate," Strag said.
"Are you sure?" Lerah asked raising an eyebrow, a grin arriving on her face.
"A trick!" Strag said as he spun around to see Naruto running at the golem, it was too late to stop him.
"You may be smart, even a genius, but just like anyone else, once someone figures you out, you're nothing," Lerah said before laughing.
Strag spun and jumped down, catching Lerah off guard. He held her by the neck in his right hand, "Let's see how it goes," he whispered turning so they could both see Naruto attack the golem again.
Naruto jumped in the air and the golem shot the fire ball at him. Instantly Naruto made a shadow clone and jumped off its back, the clone was hit by the fire ball but Naruto just made it over. Another shadow clone appeared next to him in the air and grabbed his left arm.
The clone spun Naruto around and launched him at the golem, Rasengan at the ready. The golem roared again before Naruto hit it in the head with his Rasengan. Another explosion sounded out and Naruto was sent high in the air. Rock went flying again as the golems head was shattered.
"Now let's see what happens," Lerah said with a grin.
Naruto landed hard on the ground, to hurt to get up. He turned his head to look at the golem. The body was perfectly still and some of the rocks were still falling. Suddenly they stated flying back to the head and the golem roared once again when its head was reassembled.
"Damn it! I can't move," Naruto said.
"I win," Lerah said with a gin.
"Wrong," Strag said as his right thumb became a blade and slit Lerah's throat.
She gurgled and fell to the floor, and soon the golem fell apart. Strag made sure she was dead before stepping over her body, through the large boulders of the golem's body and picked Naruto up.
"Ah, it hurts," Naruto said when Strag grabbed onto him and lifted him off the ground.
"Sorry, but we should get back to the others, Sakura can heal you," Strag said pulling Naruto's arm over his shoulder and half guiding half carrying him back to the others.
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AN: incase you're thinking the golem only had four elements, rock, fire, wind, and lightning, remember that the vines are made by combining water and rock.
Also about the whole pressure point thing, the needle opened a gate of sorts. When Nomad hit Tek in the back he put his own chakra into it forcing Tek's chakra through gate, strangling his heart. Since it reverberated though Tek's chest all his bones were greatly weakened which is why Sakura's hit did so much damage.