Chapter 15! I hope that I haven't bored any of you out of your skulls. The reviews help, y'know. It motivates me and actually reminds me that some people are actually reading this…
Oh, and I really stink at battle scenes, just a warning TT
Disclaimer: Kishimoto Naruto
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Suna(underground)
Temari's POV
I whipped out my fan and sweeped some unsuspecting ninja off their feet and into the wall behind them. The ground shook with the impact as they slid to the ground and remained motionless. That should've taught them to mess with me, I silently retorted. Then Sakura appeared right beside me with a serious look in her face as she neatly sliced another ninja's leg muscle with her chakra scalpel.
"You don't have to kill them!"
Eying the collapsed ninja, I smiled a bit.
"Not much better than what you're doing."
Frustrated, Sakura rolled her eyes and took off. Still, I guess I should go a bit easier…ack! That kunai almost cut my face open!
"Pay---attention, Temari---san!"
Sakura managed to spit out those words as she skillfully dodged a ninja to duck under and knock him to his knees. Right. I'll stop thinking, and start kicking butt. Thinking can come later.
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Normal POV
Temari dodged another kunai only to see five more shuriken headed her way. She easily dodged them only to them explode as they hit to wall. What a cheap trick, she thought. Without looking, she sent a flying kick over to her assailant. He flew into the wall and fell to the floor. Blood dripped onto the floor as he struggled to get up. As he did, his mask fell, revealing childish features.
"Wait a minute, you're just a kid!"
Temari was astonished. No wonder he was so weak, he could only be a genin! What kind of evil mastermind would do this? she thought spitefully, you're too young for this…
"Don't get up, play dead, I'll pick you up later."
To her surprise, the youngster shook his head and glared defiantly at her. He had an oddly strange but familiar fire in his eyes. No words came out of his mouth as he lunged toward her with clear killing intent. The female ninja sighed, clearly he wasn't getting the message. She jumped out of the way and pressed a pressure point in his neck. He slumped and fell to floor, unconscious. Tears clouded her eyes as she whispered:
"This isn't your fight, stay out of the way, alright?"
Then she stood up, wiped off her tears and glared at all the ninja still standing. Her onyx eyes declared a challenge to all. Come at me, she thought, if you dare…
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Sasuke's POV
All these weaklings, how could they possibly stand up to me? And why do they keep trying? I unleashed a brutal fireball at an incoming ninja. It promptly roasted him as a wisp of smoke came up from my throat. I coughed a little. All these fireballs were taking their impact. This, is why I hate barbques, they're so smelly and inconvenient. Ah well, at least this is relatively easy.
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Normal POV
Hinata activated my Byakugan and fell into a battle stance. Many of them backed off at the sight of her. Silently, she dashed toward the five ninja and took out three with a firm pat on their chest and back. The other two stood, astonished that their teammates had fell so easily. They recovered quickly and threw kunai and shuriken at her agile form. She appeared emotionless as she easily leaped out of their way and quickly disabled them with two other firm pats to their chests. Blood came out their throats and they fell down. She regained her former stance and silently challenged more ninja. And as always they answered the challenge.
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"Go, Akamaru!"
Akamaru leaped onto an incoming ninja and firmly bit down on his throat and stepped back. Kiba was smiling wildly, this was too easy. His eyes were narrowed to a slit and the red markings on his cheeks shone blood-red.
"Never seen a giant dog before? Well, take a good look, it'll be your last."
He roared and charged at the enemy.
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Now this, is really troublesome. Shikamaru leaned back on the wall as the shadow ninjustu took over and the four ninja started to kill each other. Eh, works every time…why are all these ninja so mouse-brained? Usually, it takes some planning to pull off something like this. He diverted his attention to an assailant dropping from the ceiling, how obvious… a purple figure flashed past his eyes as the enemy ninja was flung backwards in the cement walls. The purple figure turned around and addressed Shikamaru.
"Why do I need to save you every time? You'll get killed at this rate!"
Shikamaru smiled and let go of dead ninja as he targeted another group. Turning around, he replied:
"Because I know that you'll always be there, Temari."
The blondie blushed for a split second before she fended off another ninja with her giant fan.
Sakura looked around her, most of the enemy was dead. She ducked and sliced and calves of the young ninja in front of her. At least she didn't kill too many. All of them were gone. Shikamaru's bunch were almost done killing themselves and Shino's were just getting the last of their blood sucked out by giant leeches. Stepping over the bloody bodies, she ran over to the nearest ninja. She healed his major wounds and proceeded to look after the others. Hinata had started to apply some of her famous ointment to some cuts and bruises that some ninja had acquired. After about an hour, Sakura's chakra was well depleted and Hinata had used up two bottles of medicine. Sakura lifted her weary head and surveyed her teammates.
"Most of them will live, although…there were some we lost."
Temari anxiously ran over to the young Genin-aged ninja she had disabled earlier. She picked him up gently and walked over to Hinata.
"Do you think we could take care of him?"
Hinata's pale eyes looked surprised at the strange request. Temari smiled sheepishly.
"Just thought that we could question him or something. Can you hurry?"
The Hyuuga smiled gently and motioned for Temari to put the boy down. She, performed a simple healing justu on him and after a while, he blinked slowly as he awoke.
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Unknown Boy's POV
What? Who are these people? Why am I still alive? Ack! That scary blond ninja's here! Gotta get out of here before I get in trouble!
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Normal POV
The boy stirred and opened his eyes wide. He tried to get up, but the pain was too much. Hinata looked at the frightened boy gently.
"There there, we won't hurt you…"
Everyone stared at Hinata, she wasn't stuttering? The dark haired woman didn't notice the bewildered stares as she calmed the frightened boy down. As he drifted off into unconsciousness, she turned around. She cast her eyes down and blushed furiously from the stares. Kiba smiled uneasily and chuckled.
"C'mon, don't stare at her!"
He went over and took Hinata's hand and led her away. Gaara came over and glanced at the unconscious child. Averting his eyes, he looked at the two teams.
"There's no reason to stay, we should leave. The others are taking all the remaining ninja and keeping them for questioning."
Sakura smiled wearily, her chakra was almost used up. And so they all went up the ladder with Gaara's sand taking the boy up with them. One they were above ground, Temari looked toward the sky. It was really late and the moon was on the verge of setting. Early morning stars were twinkling brightly in the inky sky.
"Wow," she murmured,"I didn't realize that we took that long."
"Well, we did, and I'm tired."
Kiba stretched his arms and yawned. He winced from a gash on his shoulder as he did so. Gaara chuckled very softly.
"Before you do so, let me have the hospital treat your injuries. Follow me."
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Suna Hospital (lobby)
"Ow!"
"There, it's all bandaged up. Get some rest and don't move too much, young man!"
"Whatever…"
Kiba growled in frustration as he rotated his hurt shoulder.
"It'll heal by morning…"
The nurse then moved on the check Sakura, who had a few cuts and bruises on her arms. Then Sasuke who had a fractured wrist. The nurse turned around and looked confused.
"Is it just me, or is there a fire here?"
"Nah, it's just Sasuke-kun."
Sakura was giggling; he had used that fireball justu so many times, he smelled of smoke! Sasuke glared at the pink-haired kunoichi as she laughed at the expense of him. Pretty soon, everyone joined in, except for Sasuke (who was glaring), Shino (who never talks), Gaara (who never laughs), and Hinata, who was just giggling lightly. Kiba spoke up in the middle of snorting and laughing.
"C'mon, lighten up, willya, Sasuke? This is the first time we've had something to be happy about since we came to Suna!"
The nurse composed herself once again and ordered them out of the hospital to get some sleep and rest before the sun comes up. Gaara led the laughing and chatting group to their temporary rooms. He led them down a lighted hallway that led to his office.
"Kiba and Hinata, you'll share a room right down the hall. And Temari and Shikamaru will share a room opposite theirs. Sasuke, you'll have the small room next to mine. Sakura, you'll have to share with Shino. Don't worry, there'll be a divider through the middle along with separate beds in each room. Dividers are optional if you want to use them. My room will be right next to my office is you need me. Any questions?"
"Yeah, when do we have to get up tomorrow?"
Kiba stifled a yawn with his hands and looked at the clock on the wall.
"Get up at 9:30a.m. and I'll meet you in my office at 9:45."
"Aw….whatever. Fine, bye guys! G'night."
Kiba took Hinata's hand and pulled them to their room as Akamaru padded along behind them. Sakura looked concerningly at Gaara, she felt a bit doubtful.
"Are you sure it's a good idea for them to share a room?"
Temari patted her on the back.
"Don't worry, they'll be fine. After all, there are separate beds and they're engaged after all. If you find them in one bed, you can beat Kiba up, okay?"
Sakura looked a bit reassured and headed to her room with Shino slinking behind her. Sasuke stomped of to his room right behind them. Temari stretched and dragged Shikamaru to their room. She took one last look at her little brother.
"Take care of yourself, alright?"
Gaara said nothing but merely turned around and walked away. Temari sighed, it was so hard, her kid brother, already a Kazekage. There wasn't any way she could protect him anymore. Ah well, Temari thought, he's grown up, who can blame him? She stifled a yawn and opened up the door to her room. Finally, I can sleep, Temari thought, I'll worry about it tomorrow…
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and that's the end of chpt. 15! I hope that you liked it and wasn't bored to death with my horrible writing. Please review!
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