In this chapter and the next i have tried to concentrate on the fight scene's, describing them as well as i can. I hope you can atleast get a picture of what im trying to put accross. Hope you like it, idea's and advice is welcome.

Enjoy.



The group had risen late in the morning, giving the children and gennin time to recover from the past few days of intense running and lack of sleep. After finishing a large hurried breakfast they were on their way again, Jiraiya informed them that they would arrive at the town late afternoon. Naruto smiled as he looked over at Hinata who was talking gently with the shy 7 year old, Akemi. The weird feeling had made it's way back in to his stomach as he found himself glancing her way more often as they ran. He could hear her talking to the little girl about flowers, obviously trying to keep the poor girl distracted from the speeds they were running at. He peered over his shoulder and noted that Kiyoshi had fallen asleep, he smiled softly he knew that the boy had been talking with the young girls last night until Akemi and the rest had fallen asleep. Kiyoshi was obviously brought up with great respect for people, he had rambled on about god knows what in hopes of comforting the other children.

Naruto had realised last night that the group of children all seemed to know each other somehow, whether they were related or just friends, it reminded him of the rookie 9, he smiled as he remembered the genin years of the Rookie 9, and Gai's team, he sighed as he pumped more chakra in to his legs to help him reach the next branch ahead of him. All his time before he went to train with Jiraiya was spent waiting anxiously for the next mission, hoping it would be something better than a D rank. Looking back now, he wished he could go back in time, and try and prevent any of this from happening, even relish in the lame but safe D ranks he would do with his team, missions that wouldn't put him or his team at any kind of risk. Thinking back to all the fighting, and death that he had seen in the past few days he shuddered, knowing that it wasn't just him who had seen it, the children and genin had seen more anguish and pain than they should ever have to see. Hinata looked across to Naruto, pausing her talk with Akemi. She noted Naruto pained face, it was obvious he was thinking about what had happened in the past few days, their whole village, wiped out, Suna, wiped out. Hinata knew the way he thought, right now he would be thinking about the past, and what he could have done to prevent any of this, he always took a bit of the blame if not all when something went wrong. She sighed internally, it was something she admired about him, but knew it only brought him more pain. Shaking her thoughts from her head, she glanced ahead of herself to plan her next few chakra enhanced leaps, and turned her atention back to the blonde haired shinobi, she let a small smile creep on to her face as she noticed that Kiyoshi had fallen asleep on Naruto's back, she couldn't help but let out a giggle.

"W-what are y-you laughing at H-Hinata-niichan?"

Hinata had insisted that the girl refer to her as a sibling, in hopes of bringing the girl out of her shell, she saw so much of her old self in the girl that is was frightening but also endeering, hopefully she could help the girl the way her friends and Sensei had helped her in the past. Akemi looked at Hinata with questioning eyes with her head tilted slightly. In response to the little girls question Hinata pointed over to Naruto, and let her smile widen.

"I was laughing at how Kiyoshi reminds me of Naruto-kun, and how cute he looks when he sleeps."

Akemi let a small smile grace her face, though she was in training to be a ninja herself, she had always thought that all ninja's thought about their duty no matter what. But being around the Konoha 12, which she had been told was what they were called by all the other shinobi nations, she realised that they all cherished their friends and others above all else. Though Akemi was shy, she was amazingly observant and friendly, much similar to Hinata.

The group came to an abrupt halt, mostly due to the huge wall of earth that had started to form in the middle of the group. The front half of the team were forced to leap forwards as to not get hit by the still growing wall of earth. The back half of the team were forced backwards, they formed a semi circle against the gigantic wall of rough rock around the children, hoping to block any attack that could reach them.

(Front half of the group: Jiraiya, Shino, Kakashi, Neji, Tenten, Shikamaru, Temari, Ino, Sasuke and Lee.)

(Back half of the group: Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, Kiba, Akamaru, Gaara, Chouji, Iruka, Anko, Hanabi, Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon.)

Jiraiya cursed, he hadn't sensed the ambush in time. His make-shift team was surrounded by a good 30 Cloud shinobi from Kumogakure, who had undoubtedly joined Orochimaru's forced against Leaf and Suna. He was certain that his group could take them, even if they were all jounin level; what he was more concerned about was the group that had been separated on the other side of the wall. As Jiraiya's group started their battle with the offending shinobi, the other group were being taunted by a further 30 enemy shinobi.

"You might as well give up now, we have you outnumbered and out ranked."

The commanding voice came from within the tree's as the 30 visible shinobi sneered towards the young ninja. Just as the man finished his sentence hundreds of Naruto clones appeared from the tree line, taking on any and all enemy shinobi they could. Simultaneously Iruka, Anko, Kiba, Akamaru, Naruto and Hinata charged forward as if they had planned for this. Sakura and the others hung back to protect the children, All ready to deflect any attacks at a moments notice.

"Juujuin bunshin!(Beast Human Clone)"

Two identical Kiba's could be seen side by side on four legs, ready to pounce. Two unknowing cloud shinobi charged towards them as the two simultaneously jumped towards them with blinding speed.

"Gatsuuga!(Piercing Fang)"

The two cloud shinobi could be seen flying away from the spinning Kiba's in to the surrounding forestry. Meanwhile Hinata was surrounded by several men looking on at her with eyes tinged with madness.

"Well, looks like we got ourselves a lovely little Hyuuga."

Hinata frowned; it was one thing being called "Hyuuga" in a disconcerting tone that held no respect. But underestimating her was not a good idea, especially when they were this close and surrounding her in a circle at that.

"Hakke Shou Kaiten!(Heavenly Spin)"

Hinata rotated at amazing speed, sending the advancing men flying in to their comrades. 'Shouldn't cloud shinobi do their homework on Hyuuga's especially since they were determined to obtain their Byakugan?' She thought to herself while readying her attack for a man who had charged carelessly in to her divination.

"Hakke Rokujuu Yonshou!(Sixty-four point hands)"

Hinata's opponent dropped to the floor, mouth agape and eyes showing the amount pain he had just gone through. Hinata gasped for breath, using Kaiten was draining enough, but sealing off all 64 tenketsu's was extremely hard. Suddenly she was grabbed from behind, the enemy had taken advantage of the Byakugan's blind spot and roughly yanked her to him as he jumped away from the battle.

"Now, now my little Hyuuga, calm down with the chakra binds you can not harm me."

The creepy hooded figure whispered in to her ear as he attacked the binds to her wrists without hesitation or care. She managed to send her head back with enough force to hear a satisfying crunch, as she had just broken the mans nose. A small grunt was all she got in response, the man only held her tighter now. Hinata did her best to break free of the man's unnaturally tight grip but to no avail, once he had placed the binds on her she could feel all of her energy slip away.

Meanwhile Naruto and the others where busy with their own opponents, though they had defeated more than half most we're running low on chakra. Gaara had put up his Suna no Tate (Sand shield) around the children but was hard time keeping it up while fighting several opponents who had advanced on him and Sakura. Sakura had used up a good deal of her chakra trying to keep advancing shinobi away from the children, her immense strength had demolished the surrounding area and several enemy nin.

Chouji, Kiba and Akamaru out of chakra, panting while launching shuriken and kunai at the enemies, they were absorbed by Gaara's Suna shield as Konohamaru and his friends had aided Iruka in guiding the older nin over to relative safety. Anko was still fighting, though only in Taijutsu as she was also depleted of chakra giving Iruka and the gennin time to save Chouji, Kiba and Akamaru from further damage while they attempted to retreat.

- - - - - With the others - - - - -

Two enemy nin were launched high in to the air by two powerful kicks from Lee, as they soared through the air trying to shake of the pain, they were once again set upon. Tenten sliced at the one man chest, cutting deep, then sent a roundhouse kick to his head sending him back to the ground with an echoing thud from which he did not rise again. Neji attacked the second man with precise shots to his tenketsu, easily closing every one he hit. He simply grabbed the man once all of his chakra points were closed and threw him to Tenten who in turn sent him sailing to the ground with a backhanded punch to his already heavily bruised face. The trio simultaniously turned to their next enemy, who had launched themselves in to a taijutsu battle with Lee, with another Shinobi attempting to snare the green clad ninja in a Earth style jutsu.

Shino was sending his bugs at every ninja who was blown away by Temari's large fan, easily draining them of their chakra and aggrivating the deep wounds caused by the Wind users powerful Jutsu. Shino turned abruptly while ducking a blow from a rather large man, using one hand to balance himself he sent a kick to the mans chin, launching him in to the air where he was caught by many of Tenten's projectile weapons. With a small nod to the weapons mistress, he continued to concentrate on commanding his bugs. Temari launched her fan in to the air as a female ninja charged right towards her, grinning. The enemy nin decided to take advantage of the fact that she no longer had hold of her fan, which was obviously what she relied on for her jutsu's. Temari smirked as the nin had done exactly what she had thought she would, the woman was stopped in her tracks by a shadow user, who held a similar grin on his usually emotionless face. With a flick of her finger, Temari's fan came sailing towards her, only to crash in to the woman on it's way, knocking her clean accross the battlefield with very little chance of recovery.

Kakashi and Sasuke were using their unprecidented speed to simple slice at their opponents, incapacitating them within second and then moving on to the next. Occasionally sending a large fireballs at groups of the enemy nin, only to pick off the survivors with their Kunai and Katana.


Im trying to make the chapters longer and more action packed for you guys, so it might take a little while longer to up date. But i'll get them to you don't worry!

So how was the fighting? Tried to get the other characters in to the spotlight more, was it ok?

Let me know :)

R&R

Marie x