Chapter 5: Battle! Konoha Ninjas vs. the Mystery Ninjas!
We start back where we left off. Sakura, Shino and Naruto finally come face to face with two of the mysterious ninja who had kidnapped their comrades. "Who are you and what have you done to Hinata, Kiba and Akamaru?!" demanded Naruto fiercely.
The two ninja did nothing but smiled evilly, each revealing a pair of pointy white fangs.
The Konoha nin were taken aback, suddenly being overwhelmed by a strange feeling in they're gut. Naruto quickly brushed it off. "You bastards! Give us back our friends!!!" yelled Naruto.
Again, he was responded by silence. The figure in the red cloak suddenly lifted his hand and started gesturing as if to say, 'bring it…'
Ticked off, Naruto began charging, yelling in rage, despite the protests of his teammates. He began forming a hand seal. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he yelled, suddenly filling the nearby branches with copies of himself. "Let's go guys!" Naruto commanded.
"You got it!" the clones replied, leaping at the two ninja standing amidst the clones.
Red merely smiled again, jerking his fingers slightly. All of a sudden, the big boomerang that was lodged in the tree trunk before dislodged it itself and began whirring at the shadow clones destroying them by the dozen. Sakura and Shino watched in amazement as they watched the boomerang weaved it's way through the air as if it had a mind of it's own. As they continued watching, they began noticing it.
"Sakura-san, do you see it too?" asked Shino calmly.
Sakura nodded. "Yeah, I see it, there are puppet strings attached to the boomerang."
"Wrong, look closer."
Sakura squinted a bit more before her eyes suddenly popped wide open. "Hair…?"
Sure enough, although fairly visible, long, silky strands of hair were attached to the boomerang.
Finally, as the last of the shadow clones were destroyed, the boomerang spun back to it's owner, who caught neatly with one hand. Shino's brow furrowed. "Amazing, to be able to throw and catch a weapon of that size and mass without any effort..., his strength must be even greater than Sakura's…" Suddenly, Red and Black began charging at them, interrupting Shino's thoughts.
The team quickly scattered. Black took on Shino while Red took on Sakura and Naruto. Shino's bugs began gathering as his teammates began to brace themselves for an attack. For a moment, nobody moved. Suddenly, Red leapt into the air, swinging the boomerang down at Sakura and Naruto.
The two quickly jumped out of the way just as the boomerang sliced the branch they were on cleanly in half. Sakura landed on another tree branch and pounced on Red, kicking him square in the back causing him to fall towards the ground with Sakura above him. Red gritted his teeth as he pulled his arms in and began to spin horizontally towards the ground throwing Sakura off her concentration. "W-woah!" she exclaimed as she began flailing her arms about desperately.
"Sakura-chan!" yelled Naruto as he was about to make a move towards his teammate when a black blur shot past him.
Suddenly, she felt someone grab her hand stopping her from falling. She looked up to see Black gripping her hand tightly in his body lying down on a branch. "What?..." was all she could say.
Red in the meantime quickly opened his arms out at the last moment just as he was inches from the ground. He looked in time just to see Black pull up Sakura.
Sakura still appeared surprised that she was saved by the enemy. But then that surprise was replaced by shock as Black did a roundhouse kick to her in the stomach. At the same time, Red ran up a nearby tree while pulling his hand across his chest. The strands of hair attached to his fingers became taught as the boomerang came spinning back towards Sakura. Before anyone had time to react the boomerang got the girl hard in the stomach pinning her to an extremely thick tree trunk.
"Sakura-chan! Damn you bastards!" yelled Naruto as he made more Shadow Clones and charged at Black.
Red was just about to attack Naruto from behind but was stopped in mid-air by a huge dark cloud consisting of Shino's bugs surrounding his waist. He seemed to suddenly break out into a panicked frenzy as he started struggling like crazy. He bit his lip hard trying to prevent himself from screaming. Sakura looked on while still being pinned to the tree at the waist by the boomerang. "This is soooo not cool...." she muttered in disdain as she propped her head on her elbows on the boomerang with her legs dangling below.
(In the Eastern Border)
"Kyaaaaa!" yelled Ino as she was hit square on in stomach by a big golden bell attached to a silver colored sash of an impossible length. Ino would have fallen if it Shikamaru hadn't caught her in mid-air. "Thanks, Shikamaru, I owe you big time," said Ino as they both landed on a branch next to Chouji. Shikamaru glared at his team's opponents. Like the description given to him, his opponents indeed wore colored hoods , only the ones his team were facing wore a dark blue cloak and a grey cloak.
"Don't mention it," replied Shikamaru, as his teammates slid into position. "Let's do this. Special combination attack!"
"Ino-"
"-Shika-"
"-Cho!"
"Shadow Possession Jutsu!" yelled Shikamaru, causing his shadow to extend towards the two in front of him. But to his surprise, the shadow shrunk back instead of capturing the enemies' shadow. 'What the- but how is that-….'
Suddenly, a glint from Blue's weapon caught Shikamaru's eye and interrupted his thoughts.
Shikamaru's eyes widened in realization. "Of course, he used the bell's shiny surface to reflect light onto his shadow to prevent it from getting captured by my technique. But why the hell is he using bells on a sash as weapons?"
"My turn! Mind Transfer Jut- AArgh!" yelled Ino as Grey tackled her. The two went crashing into a tree hard.
Chouji quickly countered with his Meat Tank Jutsu, aiming for Blue head on. Blue quickly jumped out of the way towards Shikamaru, kicking him square on the chest. Shikamaru quickly flipped himself over landing on a tree trunk and catapulted himself off the surface throwing a kunai at Blue.
The kunai hit its mark head on but Blue turned into a puff of smoke only to reveal a log in his place.
"Shikamaru! Watch out!" yelled Ino, abandoning her fight with Grey and aiming a punch at Blue, who was about to attack Shikamaru from behind. Blue, having nowhere to land, started plummeting to the ground. Quickly, Blue threw his bells up at Shikamaru and Ino, which wrapped themselves around them before the two had time to escape. As a result, Shikamaru and Ino were yanked of the branch they were on.
Suddenly, a huge hand appeared and grabbed the two before they hit the ground. Chouji quickly pulled his teammates up, and unfortunately for them, Blue as well. Blue cleverly flipped and attached himself to a tree trunk and began tugging on his end of the sash. Soon, Chouji and Blue unwillingly started a game of tug of war.
"HEY CHOUJI! ARE YOU TRYING TO HELP THIS GUY RIP US TO PIECES!!" yelled Ino as she struggled with her bonds with difficulty since she was still grasped in Chouji's hand.
"Oh yeah, sorry about that guys…" said Chouji in an embarrassed tone, as he quickly enlarged his other hand and grabbed the rest of the sash while he released his other hand so that his friends could try free themselves.
Blue quickly repositioned himself on a branch this time and pulled even harder. Chouji felt his legs sliding a little, quickly, Chouji began applying chakra to steady himself . This time, with both hands, Chouji suddenly yanked the sash.
Blue felt himself flying off the branch towards Chouji who punched him hard with his overgrown hand, sending him flying through the trees. As a result, the bonds that were holding Ino and Shikamaru loosened and slid off easily.
"All right!" exclaimed Ino in delight as she began stretching and flexing her sore muscles.
"It's about time Chouji…"muttered Shikamaru, rotating his shoulder.
"Don't thank me yet guys, there's still one more remember?" reminded Chouji, looking around.
The whole team stood in a circle with their backs facing each other, eyes scanning the surroundings carefully. Suddenly, Blue's weapon that lay coiled at their feet, puffed into smoke, causing the group to turn around immediately.
From out of the smoke, a gray blur shot out and landed on an overhanging tree limb above the group. Team 10 looked up to find Gray and Blue giving them a mocking smile. The two each lifted up a finger and wagged it at them, shaking their heads slowly. Gritting her teeth in anger, Ino suddenly launched herself at the two, full tilt.
(In the Southern Border)
A white-cloaked figure flew straight into a tree trunk hard thanks to one of Rock Lee's kicks. Rock Lee slid back into his fighting stance as White stood up slowly, spitting out a little blood. (A/N: Please note that this battle is on the ground unlike the last two battles that were just described.)
" Surrender cretin, and we would go easy on you and your youthful partner!" exclaimed Rock Lee like some medieval knight.
A huge sweat drop appeared on White's head. Suddenly, Tenten was thrown at Rock Lee causing the two to plough into each other.
"Tenten! Lee!" yelled Neji as he blocked a kick from his green-cloaked opponent. Green quickly widened his legs and leaned back a little. Holding his hands in front him, the left held a little over his head while the right was held next to his chin. Curling his fingers into paws, Green revealed ten, sharp, well-manicured, oval-shaped nails/claws.
"BYAKUGAN!" yelled Neji, activating his clan's kekkei genkai, sliding into his own fighting stance. Neji narrowed his eyes in confusion. 'What kind of a stance is that? I've never seen anything like it , a stance that requires a person to lean back, that's no good for neither offense nor defense,' thought Neji as he analyzed the guy in front of , a thought struck him. Reaching into his pouch, Neji threw a handful of shuriken and kunai at Green.
Green quickly evaded them by bending backwards until his head appeared between his legs. Neji shuddered as Green gave him a creepy smile and curled back up into the same stance again.
'Just as I thought, that stance was made for evasion, and combining it with that guy's extreme flexibility, he definitely isn't the kind who's going to let himself get caught that easily,' thought Neji, charging at his enemy.
"Jyuuken!" yelled Neji, aiming for a pressure point. As expected, Green dodged that blow easily, and the next one, and the next one, and the- (Neji: GET ON WITH THE STINKIN' STORY ALREADY!!!!!)
Uh….right, so try as Neji might, he couldn't land a single blow on Green. Suddenly, Green placed his hands on Neji's shoulder and flipped over him easily. Neji looked up just in time to see a flash of lenses before Green placed his feet on his back and catapulted of Neji, sending the Hyuuga prodigy stumbling.
Neji quickly turned around to face Green after regaining his balance. At the same, a gust of wind blew past them, causing Green's hood to lift up but Green quickly pulled it down. Although it happened so fast, Neji's sharp eyes were able to catch a single detail from his opponent's face. 'So, he's near-sighted…interesting..' thought Neji, smiling upon seeing an advantage.
Green smiled as he suddenly rushed at Neji. Likewise, Neji rushed in to attack, Byakugan ready. Green made a strike at Neji, who dodged and counter attacked by performing a leg sweep. His opponent quickly jumped high into the air. Neji suddenly appeared behind and struck the back of Green's head. The force caused Green's head lurched forward causing a pair of glasses to fall out from the hood.
In one swift move, Neji quickly grabbed the glasses and hid them in his pocket while Green was desperately searching the ground for his eyewear. Neji rushed forward and was about to aim a kick at Green's head when suddenly, White appeared in front of him and repelled him away. Neji slid a few feet back before coming to a stop. Lee and Tenten appeared beside Neji, panting hard. The team quickly went into their special stances.
White did likewise as his partner stood up slowly. Tenten immediately pulled out a weapons scroll and summoned a kusarigama (1) to her hands. Green straightened himself up and smiled at Tenten, pulling out a green-colored scroll and holding it in front of him and rolled it out. A puff of smoke erupted from the scroll almost instantly. The smoke cleared, revealing Green holding a long black, thick metal staff with a metal ball on each end leaning on his shoulder. Still smiling, Green slid into another stance, brandishing the staff in front of him. Suddenly, he twisted the center of the staff, causing a long sharp curved blade to slide out, turning the staff into a scythe.
Tenten nearly dropped her weapon in shock at the size of Green's weapon, but quickly regained her composure. She began swinging the weight as Neji reactivated his Byakugan and Lee, for some reason, twitched his eyebrows.
Suddenly, White and Green leapt high into the air. Team Gai looked up to see a big shiny blade coming towards them.
In the Western Border, the sound of kunai clashing could be heard, ringing throughout the whole area. Asuma spat out his cigarette as he threw one of his chakra knives at a gold-cloaked ninja who had his back turned to him.
The knife would have hit it's mark if a violet-cloaked figure hadn't stepped in at the last moment and deflected Asuma's weapon, sending it flying in another direction, embedding itself into the tree just next to Asuma's head.
"But how?"
Violet smiled mockingly, lifting up his arm to reveal a gold shackle covering half of the forearm. He flicked it, causing a pinging sound to vibrate in the air.
Kurenai landed next to Asuma, brandishing her kunai while Asuma lit another cigarette.
Violet and Gold backed up towards each other so that they stood back-to-back, with Violet facing Asuma and Kurenai while Gold faced Kakashi and Gai.
Suddenly, Gai rushed forward, aiming a punch at Gold. At the same time, Violet linked arms with his partner and flipped backwards, with help from Gold, who bent forward, lifting up Violet. With both feet, Violet slammed them both into Gai's face sending him flying in the opposite direction. With arms still linked, Violet landed and in turn lifted up Gold who did a donkey kick on Kurenai who had attempted to launch an attack while they were still bent.
As Gold flipped over Violet, they unlinked their arms at the last minute, so that instead of landing on the ground, Gold went flying straight at Kakashi, who blocked and retaliated by grabbing his opponent's foot and swinging him into a tree trunk.
Meanwhile, Violet rushed at Asuma and lashed out a foot. Asuma dodged and slashed his knife at Violet, who blocked with his shackle. Violet then took a step back and did a roundabout kick, knocking Asuma's knife out his hand before performing another roundabout kick. Violet smiled in satisfaction as his geta sandal came in contact with Asuma's face, sending him flying into the air.
Kurenai quickly caught him in mid-air and landed safely on the forest floor. Kurenai clenched her teeth in anger while she glared at Violet's silhouette looking down at them. 'That's it, I have had enough of this!' she told herself, performing a few hand seals. "Demonic Illusion: Tree Bind Death! "
Suddenly, Violet found himself bound to the tree trunk behind him. He struggled as Kurenai's head and torso began to grow out of the tree above him holding a kunai.
"It's useless to struggle buddy, you are now completely trapped within my genjutsu," she said, raising the kunai above her head.
But just as she was about to bring down her kunai, Gold appeared and administered a kick to Violet, immediately canceling out the jutsu. (A/N: Remember, one way to break out of Genjutsu is extreme pain.)
Gold helped Violet stand up while he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. Violet straightened himself as he cracked his neck joints. The two nodded to each other before slapping each other's hand and began to switch opponents. This time, Violet taking on Gai and Kakashi while Gold took on Kurenai and Asuma.
"Let's go, Gai!" yelled Kakashi, leaping towards Violet.
"Hai!" replied Gai, doing the same. "Konoha Senpuu!" he yelled kicking Violet in the face, only to have him puff into smoke, revealing a log in his place with an exploding note attached to it.
"Move it!" yelled Kakashi, pushing Gai out of the way and leaping towards the ground, at that exact moment, the log exploded, showering the two jounin in splinters and bits of wood as they landed on the ground. Violet fazed into view just a good few meters away from the two.
Violet rushed at the two, jumping into the air and aimed a kick at them. Gai jumped away from Kakashi, who grabbed Violet's foot, stopping him in mid-air. Violet's mouth formed an expression of surprise.
Kakashi's eyes narrowed. " It's your turn, Gai!" yelled Kakashi, throwing Violet into the air.
Gai, fazed into view and delivered an uppercut to Violet's chin, causing blood to fly from his mouth. Then, before Violet had time to recover, Gai appeared behind him, wrapping him up tightly in bandages. Grabbing Violet in a big bear hug, Gai flipped himself and his captive over, and began to spin rapidly headfirst into the ground.
"Front Lotus Technique!" he yelled. Suddenly, Gai's hands clutched something that wasn't supposed be on a man's chest. Something big….
'What the…?' thought Gai in confusion as he and Violet crashed into the ground. This followed by a 'poof!'
As the smoke cleared, Gai was seen standing over a log. "So, he used a substitution jutsu…" he muttered.
" No ya'think?" asked Kakashi sarcastically.
Gai clenched his fist hard and gritted his teeth. " HE IS TRULY A MOST YOUTHFUL OPPONENT!!!!!!!" yelled Gai, looking towards the sky and grinned. The sun glinted off his teeth brightly.
Kakashi sweat dropped.
Suddenly, Gai's head went smashing into the ground, with Violet standing on the back of his head. Violet placed two fingers in his mouth and whistled to his partner before jumping off Gai's head and began running into the forest. Gold immediately abandoned his battle with Kurenai and Asuma and followed suit.
"Kurenai-san! Asuma-san! You two go after them! I'll take care of Gai!" yelled Kakashi to his teammates.
"Got it!" replied Kurenai, before taking off into the woods with Asuna.
R.F: Still hanging from the side of a cliff tangled up in equipment
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPP!!!!!!!!! I NEED TO USE THE BATHROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOMEBODYYY!!!!!!!!!! Please?
Kusarigama- A small scythe attached to a chain and weight. Kohaku from Inuyasha uses a similar weapon.
