I realize that the Chapter name in the last chapter doesn't match when you get into the chapter, just ignore the Temari intercepts part. That's not until next Chapter.
Chapter 29: Kankurou intercepts!
Sasuke had caught up to Gaara. KAnkurou simply handed Gaara to Temari, "I'll take it from here. You get Gaara out and protect him until he gains consciousness."
"Hai," Temari nodded her head and took off. Kankurou only pulled Karasu out of his wrappings.
"I can't let you go any further Uchiha., Me and Karasu will stop you here," and with that Karasu launched two Kunai from his mouth dripping with a purple liquid. Activating his Sharingan, Sasuke dodged. He noticed, however, he couldn't trace Karasu's movement with his eyes since it makes no movements or anything of the sorts before its attack.
"This may be a problem," Sasuke said, however a Kunai embedded itself in Karasu, revealing the location of another ally.
"Go forward," Shino said from the branch, "I'll fight him."
"Sure you can handle him alone," smirked Sasuke.
"I'll catch up in five minutes," Shino replied.
"I'll be done by then," Sasuke said as he ran back towards his goal.
Kankurou almost had Karasu go after Sasuke but noticed Shino was in position to stop it, "Looks like I'm stuck fighting you, won't take long," Kankurou smirked.
"Don't take me lightly, I will be the victor," Shino replied jumping down a branch.
"I'm the one you shouldn't underestimate, Karasu here will mop the floor with you," and with that Karasu launched at Shino. Shino tossed a Kunai into Karasu's chest but it turned into a log. Suddenly Karasu came from below, forcing Shino to jump up. However Karasu seemed to fly as it conintinued upward and launched to knives, one into Shino's forehead and the other through his left chest. Kankurou smiled in victory until he noticed Shino dispersed into thousands of bugs.
Suddenly Shino ran down the branch Kankurou was on and attempted a punch. Kankurou managed to dodge and jumped away breathing heavily, "You are good, but let me show you one of Karasu's little weapons," with that the top right arm of Karasu opened up and shot a large cylnder at Shino. Shino sent out several bugs from his sleaves to form a sheild, but the projectile exploded into poisenous gas. Shino managed to jump up a few branches but landed on his knees when he got there.
"Seems I've inhaled some of that poison, I'll have to end this quick," Shino said to himself.
Karasu jumped up and stuck an arm into Shino, however it again dispersed into the Bugs. Kankurou quickly tried to move KArasu, however it wasn't budging. Then he notice bugs racing up the branch all over the puppet clogging its joints. He had himself hidden by the time the smoke cleared, so he though Shino would first disable the weapon while Kankurou hid. Then the bugs began tracing his Chakra strings attached to Karasu. Kankurou quickly detached the strings so he wouldn't be found. However he quickly reatached them to the head and launched it off Karasu's body. The head spun around and an extanable needle came from its mouth and charged Shino.
Again Kankurou had assumed victory until Karasu's head stopped and fell only an inch from Shino's face. He looked at his hands and saw bugs crawling all over it, they had eaten the base of his strings to sever it, in addition he was now completely covered with the bugs. He quickly collapsed as his Chakra was devoured by the bugs, "How did you find me?" he managed to gasp.
"Simple, I placed the female bug on your forehead when I intentionally missed you a while back. Only the males can smell the aroma they gave off, so I sent them to attack you from behind while my attacks over here distracted you," Shino said. And finally Kankurou passed out.
Shino collapsed soon after, finally overtaken by Karasu's poison.
"It looks like there's a fight up ahead," Pakkon said, "Sasuke and the tree he pursued stopped for a moment, however after what I believe was a breif fight he took off and another person showed up."
"Lets go around them, we don't want to get caught in a fight," Sakura said as they ran.
"But that will slow us down to much," NAruto interjected.
"True, but if we get caught in their fight it will slow us down even more," Sakura replied. Naruto nodded his head in agreement, even though he would have prefered to have gone straight through.
Shino lay on the branch awaiting the poison to overcome his body. However a familiar form appeared over him, "Here Shino, my bugs will remove the poison and then I'll take you back."
"Arigoto father," Shino replied.
True this fight went almost exactly like the anime, but that was one of my favorite fights, so I don't care. The next one, however, will turn out a lot different. Please R&R.