Author's Note: All right guys, here's the next chapter of our story. Hope you like it. enjoy
Shinobi Sentai NaruRanger
Chapter 7
Minutes to Midnight
While the Rangers headed to the Hidden Star Village a more manical group was at work, deep in thier hidden lair the Akatsuki plotted.
"I have learned from my sources that a new power source has risen in the Hidden Star Village." Madara said.
"Heh, you mean that fallen star? Honestly Madara we've known about that little gem for years." Deidara said.
"Ha, like that's anything new." commented Kisame.
"That's not what I'm talking about." Madara said calmly.
"It seems as though this new power source has a signature that's not familar to this land." he told them.
"What are you getting at?" Deidara asked.
"Have you heard of the news out of the Leaf Village?" he asked.
Kisame and Deidara looked at each other.
"You mean that story about thier being Power Rangers?" Kisame asked.
"Correct." Madara said. Deidara couldnt help but laugh.
"You cant be serious, everyone knows Power Rangers dont exsist." he said.
"Then what do you call what happened to Orochimaru's village?" Kisame asked.
"Just some guys running around in suits, those so called tricks are no different than what any shinobi can pull off." he said assuredly.
"I wouldnt be so sure Deidara, remember that power source I was telling you about? There's a chance it's a Ranger power according to my sources." Madara told him.
"I think your sources are a little screwy." Deidara said.
"My sources are never wrong. And you'd do best not to question it." he growled.
"Yes sir." he said.
"Now then, who's intrestred in going?" he smiled.
While the Akatsuki plotted the Rangers drew closer to the village on thier Ninja Bikes.
"Sasuke how much farther do we have to go?" Sakura asked.
"Shouldnt be long, according to the tracking system we should be coming up to it." he answered.
"How will we know when we get there?" Lee asked.
"I think we're about to find out, look!" said Naruto.
Before them was a cliff with a strange yellow gas eminiating from the gorge. The bikes skidded to a halt and went to investigate. As they stood on the ledge and looked down, the valley seemed to go on forever, with the ever present gas it was hard to say where the bottom was. Or even if there was one. Naruto strained to see what was at the bottom of the gorge and almost fell in. Lee and Sakura grabbed his arms before he could fall in and pulled him back from the ledge. The orange ninja breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks guys."
"You got to be more careful." said Lee.
"Yeah. Hey Sasuke, think your Sharingan can see through all of that?" he asked.
"I'll try." he said stepping forward.
He closed his eyes to concentrate.
"Sharingan!" he said. Sasuke's eyes changed from black to red as he surveyed the bottom or at least tried to.
Sasuke closed his eyes and reverted back to normal.
"Just as I thought." he said.
"Sasuke?" Sakura asked.
"What did you see?" asked Naruto.
"Nothing, my abilities are not the same as Neji or Hinata's. The Sharingan is made to see a person's moves, not to see through walls." he said.
His teammates sighed.
"Well it was worth a shot." Naruto said.
"You think we can jump across it?" said Sakura.
"What you mean on our bikes or on foot?" he asked.
"I was thinking on our bikes." she said.
"I dont know if that's such a good idea." Sasuke replied.
"Well we gotta try something." Naruto told him.
"I'm kind of with Sasuke on this one, I think we should try and find another way around. Maybe it is better if we try it on foot." Lee said.
Naruto went back to his motorcycle and got on.
"Let's try the bikes, I bet I can make it over that way." he said.
"Wait Naruto!" Lee yelled.
"I'm going for it!" he yelled as he started up the bike.
"Maybe you shouldnt." Sakura said changing her mind.
"You know he's going to, if he wants to get himself killed, let him." shrugged Sasuke.
"Your unbelievable." replied Sakura.
"Please Naruto, do not do this!" Lee pleaded.
But it was too late as the Orange Ninja had already ridden up the trail to the top of a hill and gauged his distance. Even thought he could barely see the other side he was certain he could make it. And went for it, taking his hand off the brake the rear tire spun as he raced down the hill. On the other side of the valley someone was watching him in a mask. The others got out of the way as he raced past them and flew through the air. The masked assailant made his move and leaped across the ledge. At first it seemed as thought Naruto would make it until he started to drop. The masked ninja came out of the gas and kicked the side of his bike with both legs. Naruto could feel a burst of energy as he was propelled back over the ledge by the ninja. Naruto was thrown from his bike as it crashed to the ground and skidded across infront of the rest of the Leaf shinobi. The others were stunned by what they saw as the young ninja dropped down in the midst of them, it was only then they saw he was wearing a gas mask.
"Hey what was that all about?" yelled Naruto.
"I was saving your life." the ninja barked back.
"What?" he said.
"That gas is poisonious, havent you figured that out?" he said annoyed.
"Who are you?" asked Lee.
The ninja removed his mask revealing a young boy with dark hair tied back in a small braid.
"My name is Sumaru, what are you guys doing here?" he asked.
"We're from the Leaf Village..." Sasuke said before he was cut off.
"I know who you are, I asked what your doing here." he said annoyed.
"We've been sent here to protect the star." Sakura tried to explain.
"The Hidden Star Village doesnt need your help. We're doing just fine on our own." he told them.
"But the leader of your village sent out an urgent message to the Hokage." Sakura stated.
"Well it was a waist of time, outsiders are not welcome here." he told them.
A series of bombs and kunines shot out of the bushes at the Rangers, the shinobi caught sight of them at the last moment.
"Watch out!" yelled Sakura.
The bombs went off all around them and were blown over the cliff. Sakura and the others yelled as they went over. Naruto made a quick hand guesture as they fell.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he yelled.
In an instant a chain of Narutos appeared and grabbed onto Sakura's hand as Sasuke and Lee grabbed onto her. Sumaru grabbed the cliff side.
"Hang on guys!" Naruto yelled.
"Do we have much choice?" Sasuke asked.
"Dont breathe in the gas!" Sumaru told them.
Sakura and the others held thier breath while the real Naruto began to climb, the clone behind him wrapped his arm around the original's neck as he started to climb.
"Let me give you a hand. Ninja Art, Kujaku!" Sumaru said extending his thumb, index and pinky fingers and pressed them together.
A large surge of purple energy eminated from the Star Village ninja and lifted the team out of the gaseous abyss. At the same time the Akatsuki already made thier move and were rushing across the rope bridge that crossed the great divide. Sumaru brought the Hidden Leaf ninjas to the surface as they gasped for air and the clones disappear. Naruto and Sakura looked back and saw someone crossing the bridge.
"Hey!" he yelled. Sumaru looked up and saw the Akatsuki making thier way to the Hidden Star Village.
"Stop!" he yelled and leaped after them.
Kisame looked over his shoulder and saw Sumaru flying towards them, the fish ninja smirked and cut the line with his sword. Sumaru stopped just short of the ridge as they made it to the other side.
"Blast!" Sumaru made his hand sign once more.
"Kujaku!" he yelled and propelled himself over the abyss.
"Hey wait a minute!" Naruto yelled.
"Was that the Akatsuki?" Sakura said.
"He doenst stand a chance against those guys, we have to get over there!" Sasuke said.
"Leave that to me!" Naruto yelled as he went into his signautre technique.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he yelled and summoned 20 clones that made an arching human bridge.
"Let's move!" he told the team as they made it across the bridge of Narutos.
On the otherside Sumaru stood face to face with the villainous group. The Akatuski members chuckled as they had him surrounded.
"Like a moth to the flame." Madara said.
"Who are you guys?" he demanded.
"We're the Akatsuki." said Deidara.
"And you have something we seek." Madara finished. Sumaru took a step back.
"Your not getting your hands on the star!" he said.
"Akatsuki!" Naruto yelled from above.
The rouge group looked up and saw the team flip through the air and landed infront of them.
"Your not taking another step into that village!" Naruto yelled pointing his finger at them.
The Akatsuki didnt take his threat seriously and only chuckled.
"So you must be the famous Naruto." Madara said.
"Yeah? And just who the hell are you suppose to be?" he growled.
"You may call me Madara, leader of the Akatsuki." the villain smiled.
"So your the guy behind all of this." he said.
"Correct." he nodded in a deep over-confident voice. Sasuke looked on stunned.
"How the hell is he still alive? It's bad enough my brother is part of this group but him? This cant be good." Sasuke thought.
Deidara stepped forward wielding a kunine.
"What do you say we take care of these guys and get what we came for?" he said. Naruto growled at the blond assassin.
"Get ready guys!" Lee yelled. The Rangers got into defensive stance.
"Let's see what your made of!" Deidara told them.
"You guys ready?" Naruto said.
"Ready!" they said taking out thier morphers.
The Akatskui fanned out and threw out thier arms from under thier cloaks ready to fight.
"Ninja Art, Shinobi Change Jutsu!" they yelled.
The Leaf ninjas activated thier morphers and were bathed in beams of light that went from thier feet up to thier shoulders as thier helmets materalized. Needless to say several of the Akatsuki members were stunned. Especially Deidara and Kisame.
"I'll be damned they really are Rangers." Deidara said.
"This should be intrestring." Kisame smirked.
"Hiyah!" the Rangers yelled standing between them and the Hidden Star Village.
The Rangers weapons appeared in bursts of light. In the place of Lee's boxing gloves, the Green Ranger brought up his setsukon. Deidara smirked once more.
"Well this shouldnt take more than two minutes." he said.
"Bring it on!" Lee said.
"With pleasure, here catch!" he said shooting bird like projectiles from his sleeves.
Lee jumped back as the birds flew towards him and exploded all around the Green Ranger throwing him to the ground. Kisame went to take on Naruto, as the Orange Ranger blocked his sword with his staff. But something wierd was happening he could feel some of his power leaving him. Kisame smirked as he drained the Orange Ranger's energy.
"What's going on? He's...taking my chakra!" he groaned.
Sasuke leaped through the air as he took on his brother and unleashed a hellish blast from his flame gun at Itachi. The rouge Uchiha dodged the attack and used his Sharingan to track his brother's movement. While Sasuke was airborne Itachi went up to meet him and drew his sword. The Blue Ranger had no choice but to use his Flame Gun as a shield as he went up agianst his older brother. At the same time Sasuke was using his Shanringan to anticipate his movements. The two ninjas hovered in the air before Itachi used the more powerful Mangekyo Sharingan to thow him off. Avoiding the enviro manipulation jutsu Sasuke jumped back and shielded his eyes so as not to fall for the genjustsu. Once he was back on the ground his brother soon followed and the sword/blaster battle continued. Meanwhile Naruto was still locked in battle with Kisame as the smaller weaker opponet finally managed to slip free of the burden of the rouge water ninja's tremendous sword. Putting some distance between them Naruto was able to refocus some of his charkra to continue the battle with Kisame. With the rest of the team occupied Sakura was left to face the double threat of Sasori and Madara. The Pink Ranger took a few steps back as the two Akatsuki members walked towards her.
"Stay back!" she yelled and whipped her Tiger Tail ribbon at them.
The ribbon sliced through the air but Madara and Sasori were just beyond it's reach as the energy ribbon lashed out at them. Madara summoned an energy ball from his hand and launched it as Sakura. And got down as the beam hit a tree above her and detonated she jumped forward as the tree branch came crashing down behind her.
"All right that's it!" she said in determination and threw her weapon at them again.
The ribbon wrapped around Sasori's arm.
"Got you." she smirked. Sasori merely chuckled at the attempt confusing the Pink Ranger.
Placing his other hand on the ribbon, the pink stream of paper turned black as it raced towards her.
"Drop the weapon!" Sasuke yelled as he was pinned to the ground by Itachi.
As it fell from her hand the weapon turned completely black and was covered in a green and black acid. Too stunned by what she say Sakura was blind sided with a punch to the face by Madara and was knocked to the ground after bouncing a couple feet.
"Sakura!" Naruto yelled.
Sasuke growled as Lee looked on in shock. Each of them were locked in battle with thier opponets. Naruto leaped over to her side. Before he could reach her Sumaru threw out his arm in front of them.
"Let me!" he said making his ninja hand sign.
"Kujaku--beast!" he yelled as a field of purple energy surrounded him.
Kisame smirked. "This will be easy!" he said as he prepaired to swing his chakra eating sword.
Naruto rolled across the ground and grabbed his Fox Staff as an orange electric energy ball appeared in the fox's mouth.
"Not this time!" he yelled as he fired the blast at Kisame.
The blast hit the base of his sword and hand stunning the shark creature as the Kujaku beast grew and attacked the Akatsuki none of the members were prepaired for it and were instantly blown back over the cliff. Most of them managed to grab ahold of the edge as they dangled over the side. Sasuke say his chance and kicked his brother off of himself. The beast attacked a second time joined with a blast from Naruto's staff that knocked him back towards the edge. Sasuke came at him wtih a flying roundhouse kick that knocked him over the edge to where the rest of his team was waiting. Deidara managed to grab ahold of him as he fell and the ground dangled from the edge.
"We got to get out of here." Sasuke told them.
"We need to make sure they are gone!" Lee said.
"No time!" he yelled as Naruto scooped up the unconcious Sakura in his arms.
"We got to warn the village." Sasuke said as he started off in that direction.
The rest of the team departed one by one until Sumaru was the only one left. Reluctantly the Star Shinobi followed the Leaf Ninja's advice and led them towards the village. Once they were gone the Akatsuki members grunt and groaned as they climbed back over the edge. Running through the dense forest the Rangers demorphed upon reaching the village. Once they were there they reported in to the village leader was Sakura was taken to a medical examiner. While Sasuke talked with the Deputy Hoshikage, Naruto stayed behind in the medical center with Sakura. The young konichi opened her eyes to see him.
"Sakura your awake!" he said. The Pink Ranger groaned as she sat up in bed.
"What happened?" she asked rubbing her head.
"You were knocked out by that Madara guy. Are you all right?" he asked.
"Yeah I think so." she said rubbing her noggin.
"She just had a bump on her head. It's nothing serious." a young girl with red hair told them. The two smiled at each other grateful of the news.
"Please Deputy Hoshikage it is of the utmost importance you hear us out." Lee said.
"The Akatsuki are here in the Star Village and think they might be after your artifact." Sasuke told them.
"Is this true Sumaru?" the Hoshikage asked.
"Unfortunatly it is my lord." he said.
"Then we must step up measures to protect the Star. It is our country's only hope of becoming a great nation." The Hoshikage told them.
"Yes my lord." Sumaru bowed.
"See that it is done." he said.
"Yes." Sumaru told him.
"So what's your name?" asked Naruto.
"My name is Hokito, I'm one of the student ninjas here in the Star Village." she told them.
Hokito was a young girl close to their age with long red hair that came down to the middle of her back, part of it was tied back by a small ponytail on the knot of her head and had green eyes. In the corner of the room laid a sickly young boy that looked to be a year or two younger than them.
"What's up with him?" he pointed.
"We're not sure, he's been like that for a while now. He's too sick to continue Star training." Hokito told them.
"This star what's so special about it?" Sakura asked.
"None of your business." Sumaru told them. They looked up and saw the Star ninja standing at the door.
"Dont tell them anything Hokito." he said sternly.
"Oh lighten up." she told him.
"Sorry about him." Hokito said to Naruto and Sakura.
"Oh dont sweat it." he smiled.
"He actually kind of helped us out earlier." said Sakura.
"Whatever." Sumaru said leaning against the door post arms crossed and began to leave.
"As soon as your better get out, your still not welcome here." he said leaving stunned reactions on the duo's faces.
"What an ungrateful son of a bitch." Naruto muttered.
"You'll have to forgive him. Sumaru's not too fond of forigners, sometimes his zeal gets the best of him." Hokito said.
"That's kind of an understatement." the orange ninja muttered, earning a rib jab from Sakura.
"He's a great guy once you get to know him. He's just really concerned about protecting the Star." she said.
"We understand his concern." Sakura said.
"But that doesnt mean he can treat us like dirt!" yelled Naruto.
"Naruto." she said under stilled voice. Hokito sweated a little and laughed.
"I know he can be a handful, but as usual I'm sure he has a good reason to be a little agressive." she apologised.
"Especially now that the Akatsuki are in the village." thought Sakura.
Even now they made thier way to the Hidden Star Village intent to carry out thier mission no matter who gets in the way.
Author's Note: All right guys what did you think of that. I'm goingto be honest with you. I dont really know that much about some of the Akatsuki members. I dont even know what Sasori looks like or what his attacks are. All I know is the dude uses puppets that sotres people's corpses. Like what kind of hand held weapon would he employ if there was one? Let me know what you think of the story so far. You probably notice by now that Tobi's not in the line up. The truth is I dont know how to write him. All I know he's a goofy dude in a mask that Madara uses from time to time. I figured you guys probably know more about him than I would. So with that being said.
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