What's up everyone? The story has officially been put in the Naruto/Ino section. Now, since we've actually gotten into the plot of the story, it's time to progress along. Nothing else to really report, so without further ado, lets move on to the next chapter.
Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto, it belongs to the great Masashi Kishimoto.
Let's get on with the story.
They had made excellent time.
They knew it.
They weren't worried.
Naruto had a small smirk on his face as he and his team rested in the forest. He had decided they needed a break after traveling for the entire night, and seeing as how they were quite a ways for Konoha, they decided it was time to rest.
He looked at each member of his group.
First he looked to Shikamaru, who was currently in a light conversation with Kankuro.
"Think they've noticed by now?" the shadow user asked.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure they have. I reckon they've sent a team out to get us back by now." the puppet master replied.
"If they've sent out a team, we should get moving in a bit." Shikamaru muttered, as he looked to the leader of the group.
Naruto looked to Temari and Neji, who were currently asleep at different sides of the camp.
The blonde then turned to Gaara, who was propped up against a tree with his eyes closed.
Naruto took one last look at the sleeping members of the team, before nodding to Shikamaru.
"Let them get some rest. We'll leave in two hours." Naruto stated.
Shikamaru and Kankuro nodded, before returning back to their conversation.
Meanwhile, with the retrieval team.
They had been traveling even faster than Naruto's squad, and they knew they were catching up.
The team hopped from branch to break in a blinding, breakneck speed, the six members of the team, along with Kakashi's summon, Pakkun.
Ino looked to her left to see her teammate Chouji, who had a determined look on his face. To Chouji's left was Kiba, who had a small smirk on his face.
Ino then turned to her right to see Lee, whose face was in a small frown. To Lee's left was Ten Ten, whose face was facing down, with her eyes closed. Then to Ten Ten's right and the last of the group was Shino whose face was unreadable.
Ino turned to look ahead as she and the team made their way towards Naruto.
Another part of the forest.
A red and white blur shot through the forest.
The toad sannin made his way quickly through the forest, he had only one thought as he hopped from branch to branch.
'I gotta warn the brat.'
With Naruto's group.
Naruto was watching over the group as they slept. He had decided to watch out for the rest of the group, and as much as Gaara protested that Naruto should get some sleep, the Blonde was going to have no part in it.
Naruto had mad himself comfortable up against a tree, he propped himself up against it and began to watch the campsite.
'I'll wake them up in about an hour, then we can move on. I should probably check out those scrolls the pervy sage gave to me when we get to a town.' he thought.
About ten minutes had past since he had propped up against the tree when he saw motion to his right, thinking quickly, he managed to reach into his kunai pouch and throw one of the objects to a nearby tree branch.
A bang of metal was heard, and Shikamaru and Gaara shot up ready to fight.
Naruto's eyes widened as Jiraiya appeared in the camp.
"pervy sage?! What are you doing here?!"
Jiraiya gave each member a quick glance before focusing on Naruto.
Jiraiya let out a small chuckle.
"Well brat, you and your group traveled quite the distance in one night."
"Heh, you're not going to try and bring us back are you? I'm just warning you right now, I'm not going back without a fight." a dark smirk was on Naruto's face.
'Heh, the kid doesn't seem to be kidding around.' the toad sannin thought.
"No kid, I'm not here to take you back, I thought I covered that in my note. I'm here to warn you guys that they've sent a retrieval squad to bring you all back."
Naruto's eyes widened slightly, before a small smile appeared on his face.
"Damn, who would have thought they would have noticed so quickly? Oh well, I guess it can't be helped. Who did they send after us master Jiraiya?" Shikamaru asked with a yawn.
Jiraiya gave a sigh.
"Tsunade sent Rock Lee, Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka, Ten Ten, Chouji Akimichi, and finally, Ino Yamanaka."
By now Neji had awoken and was listening to the sannin, his eyes had widened at the mention of his two teammates that were coming after him.
Naruto's eyes widened at the mention of the blonde haired girl.
Shikamaru had a small frown on his face at the mention of his best friend and teammate.
"You guys need to get going, their getting closer. They've been traveling about three times faster than you all have. I believe that in another hour they'll be at this location." Jiraiya advised.
"Hey, Jiraiya?" Naruto asked.
"What is it brat?"
"Well, I was thinking, why don't you come with us? We could really use your skills. Plus it would be great to have my sensei with me."
Jiraiya let out a small chuckle.
"Heh, don't worry brat, you'll be fine. I gave you all my jutsu after all. But I can't come with you now, another time and another place maybe."
Naruto gave a smile and a nod.
Jiraiya gave a nod back, and disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
"Well, I guess that's it then." Naruto whispered.
"ALRIGHT GUYS! Let's go, We got Konoha shinobi are coming after us and we've got to move." the blonde yelled.
Everyone nodded to him, and after clearing the camp, they set out into the forest.
Twenty minutes later.
Naruto's squad had slowed down considerably. They had gone at top speed since they had left the camp, and they were beyond tired. Naruto decided it was time for a rest. He had everyone rest on a branch for ten minutes before continuing onwards.
It was after about five minutes of resting that Naruto noticed six very familiar chakra signatures.
'Damn, I didn't think they would be this fast. Oh well, I guess it's inevitable. Time to take my old "friends" out.'
"Guys, their here." Naruto whispered.
Almost on queue six figures appeared, six very pissed off figures.
Naruto looked from each of the members of the retrieval squad.
Chouji was just purely glaring at Shikamaru.
Kiba was looking straight at Naruto with a small grin on his face.
Shino had his usual unreadable expression as he eyed each member of Naruto's group behind his sunglasses.
Ten Ten was spinning a kunai around her index finger while staring at Neji.
Lee was stretching as he had his eyes locked with Neji.
And finally, he saw Ino staring at him with teary eyes.
A small smirk appeared on Naruto's face.
"Well, well, well, look who decided to come after us."
"Shikamaru, can you take Chouji?" Naruto asked.
Shikamaru merely nodded and dashed at Chouji, sending them both off the branch and into the forest, punching and kicking at each other while jumping from branch to branch.
"Kankuro." Naruto whispered.
"Yeah?"
"Take Ten Ten."
Kankuro smirked and disappeared.
Ten Ten gave a sigh and disappeared as well.
A few seconds later the sounds of metal banging was heard in the nearby forest.
"Gaara, take down Shino."
"Right."
The cork of Gaara's gourd popped off and a stream of sand shot towards Shino, who shot his hands our of his pockets and blasted a wave of bugs at the red haired shinobi, as the two waves blocked each other out, Shino made a suggestion.
"Lets take this elsewhere."
Gaara merely nodded and the two took off from the rest of the group.
"Neji, you're on Lee."
The Hyuuga wasted no time and activated his Byakugan, and shot a fist into Lee's face, sending the green clad shinobi backwards into the forest. Wasting no time, the Hyuuga disappeared from his position on the branch, making his way towards his ex teammate.
Naruto gave a long sigh as he turned to face Temari.
"Give Ino something to do."
A sinister smirk made its way to the fan users face, and she swung down her fan, sending a huge a huge gust towards her rival blonde. Ino's eyes widened as she registered the gust of wind coming towards her. She back flipped off of her branch, and landed on the forest floor, only to gave more wind sent down her way. Ino took off into the forest, sending kunai soaring towards Temari at every available moment.
Finally, it was just Naruto on one branch, and Kiba on the other, both face each other with smirks on their faces.
"Let's do this dog breath."
Well guys, that's chapter five. Ok, so from now on, all chapters are in the Naruto/Ino section. The story will not be going back to the Naruto/all section. By the way I'm sorry this chapter took so long to get posted. Hope you all enjoy the pairings for the fights.
Preview of the next chapter.
The battles in the forest echoed throughout the trees, each sound giving the combatants a reason to keep fighting.