Hi i'm back with the new chapter of Our Angel Wings
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"W-war, Hokage-sama?" the Yamanaka asked worried
"Yes, we received a hawk from the hidden waterfall; apparently they expect a attack from the sound village" explained Tsunade
"Tsk, troublesome Orochimaru" the Nara's trademark word made its appearance.
"As you all know, the sound has recruited the aid of some villages creating a powerful alliance. A few villages known to be opposed to the sound have been asked for help"
"I understand, Hokage-sama" Neji Hyuuga expressed himself with outmost respect "But I understand that this is a mission of the highest priority and importance; then, why did you summon us?"
"You are clever as always Neji" praised the slug sannin "This is an A class mission; however, if war reaches our village I'll need all the Jounin and Anbu here to defend it. Therefore I'm sending our most promising generation. Even if most of you are only Chunnin your capabilities rest closer to the Jounin level than the other Chunnins. I'm sure you will be victorious and make us proud" she finished with her usual smirk, bolstering the morale of the teens in front of her "Now, you will travel in two teams and each team will have a leader. I'm sure you understand how critical this mission could be for the future of the village and maybe for the whole fire country. There's the possibility that the outcome of this mission could affect the continent, so you are expected do your best representing our village"
"Yes Hokage-sama! Our youth will fire with passion in the service of our village and nation!" said Lee enthusiastic
"That's the spirit; I have great expectations from you"
"We want to go too!" Konohamaru and his friends, Moegi and Udon, appeared from the ceiling
"Konohamaru, I was wondering when you guys would come out" the Hokage simply admitted
"We are bored of those silly D class missions!" appealed Moegi
"We deserve a more important mission!" demanded Konohamaru "I can't show my abilities in those missions! As the future seventh Hokage any mission will be a piece of cake!"
"Seventh?" questioned Shizune
"Of course, 'cause the sixth will be Naruto-niisan!" he explained with a smirk, Tsunade smiled
"And talking about the devil…" the Hokage whispered
A large smoke cloud rose in the center of the room between the ninjas and the Hokage's desk. A blond man wearing orange appeared there; a shorter woman of dark blue long hair was at his side
"I'm sorry we are late Tsunade-obaa-chan" he said
"What are you doing here, Uzumakis? You are in vacation time" said the sannin in a serious voice
"You can't be serious; this mission involves Orochimaru, which means that there's a chance to rescue Sasuke! Plus, I can't slack off while all my friends are out there risking their lives in a war!" he said
"And what does your wife think about this Naruto?" questioned back Shizune "have you asked her what does she thinks about that?"
"I agree with Naruto-kun" said a blushing Hinata, she still hadn't assimilated the idea of being called Naruto's wife, "not only is it important for me as the new head of my clan, but they are also my friends and I understand how important is Sasuke for Naruto-kun, he has trained all these years for this moment. Hokage-sama, please don't force us to stay out of this mission" pleaded the Uzumaki girl (I love how that sounds! n.n)
"Umm fine, consider yourselves recruited for this mission"
"And what about us?" asked quietly Udon
"You won't be part of an A class mission being only Gennin" argued the blond woman
"I wish you could reconsider that, Hokage-sama" standing in the arc of the window was Hanabi, Hinata's younger sister "I wish to pay the favor that they did to my father"
"If Hanabi-chan goes we deserve to go too!" argued Moegi
"Yeah! And now the mission will have two future Hokages; it will be done before you can even say Konoha!" said Konohamaru
"Hey I'm not babysitting kids here!" barked Kiba
"I'm willing to, dattebayo, if you agree Obaa-chan"
"Are you willing to take these children under your protection? They will be your responsibility" Tsunade warned him
Naruto asked silently for Hinata's opinion and she nodded supporting him.
"Yes, obaa-chan"
"Alright, Konohamaru, Moegi, Udon, Hanabi, welcome to an A class mission. I suggest you thank the Uzumakis here. Well, there will be two teams, as I just said. Neji, Tenten, Lee, Ino, Chouji, Shino, and Kiba, you will be Team B, the leader will be Shikamaru" the announcement wasn't a surprise, the Nara boy was a master strategist and natural leader, even if he complained about the troublesome responsibilities of a leader "The rest of you will be team A" explained the Godaime
That filled Naruto will expectation; after all, the only people that could be in charge of team A would be Hinata, Sakura, and himself Please! I want to be leader this time! He prayed in his mind
"Do you mind if I propose myself to join the excursion Hokage-sama?" standing outside the office, as usual with his masked face burrowed in a perverted book, was Kakashi
"Um, I would be more relaxed if you were to go too, but you just came back from your other mission this morning"
"It's ok Hokage" answered back the retired Anbu "I'm fine, don't worry about that"
"Ok you will be in charge of Team A then" it didn't surprised anyone either, but it did make Naruto feel a little disappointed. "Now, besides helping defend the village you will have another task in your mission. A few days ago as you know an enemy force infiltrated the village. They stole something very important from the treasure chamber in this tower, a urn, however this urn was very special 'cause it holds a demon said to be able to stop Kyuubi, therefore the enemy can't keep control of the urn, it could be terrible no matter how we saw it. Oh I almost forgot! There will be a leader that will be in charge of the whole mission, that person will be…Naruto"
The face of the blond shone "What? Me?"
"Well, if you are willing to seriously take the responsibilities of taking Gennin to a mission that could treat even the life of a Jounin I'd like to see how much are you really capable to endure, consider this a test for a future Hokage, don't flunk it Naruto"
He turned around and saw everyone supporting him with a smile or a supportive glance, a cheer from the younger members of the team, or a 'nice guy' posse of Lee. He turned and saw Kakashi, who was clearly smiling behind his mask
"It will be a pleasure to serve under you, Naruto" he said
"I will not disappoint you Obaa-chan! Believe it everyone! I'll give my best dattebayo!" he said with a large smile raising his punch
"Very well teams, you will depart in an hour, you are off" said the older blond woman
"Yes Hokage-sama!" they said in unison
"Good luck" wished them Shizune
Everyone was already leaving when Naruto whispered something with Tsunade and she called Sakura "Sakura? Do you mind if I take a few minutes?"
"Of course not, Sensei" answered the pink haired
Naruto walked to Hinata "Please go to the house with Hanabi-chan and start getting the stuff, I'll be right behind you; this won't take long" he said and gave her a quick kiss in the lips
With that Hanabi and Hinata left the room, leaving only Sakura, Naruto, Tsunade, Shizune, and Tonton in the room
"What do you wish to talk me about, Sensei?" asked Sakura
"It's more like it is Naruto who wishes to talk to you" corrected the sannin
"Naruto?"
"Eh, yes, Sakura-chan" admitted the blond with a silly toothy grim with his hand behind his head "You see, I heard that…well, since your parents death is still recent, the council considered that you might not be psychologically able to live by yourself for now, and thus they are planning to send you to the orphanage"
"Y-yes, that's true" said Sakura with sadness "Tsunade-sensei worked very hard and had to move some favors to make them allow me in this mission" declared the girl
"Well, I don't want to force you, not I say it to make you feel bad, but well, the last name 'Haruno' will disappear no matter what we do. It will with when time passes or because of someone adopting you. And, well, I was wondering if you would mind if I'd be that someone, would you like to be an Uzumaki? You would come as my sister of course"
"Tsunade-sensei, is that possible?" questioned Sakura with hope
"Well, Naruto is by law an adult, and is also a married man, so I don't see any problems to it" said the Hokage
"Would you like to be part of my family, Sakura-chan?" asked again the blond boy
"Are you kidding?" said the pink haired with a serious tone "Of course I would!" she hugged him almost crushing him "It's better than living in the orphanage and having some strangers adopt me!" laughed Sakura
"Yeah, you don't want to be in the orphanage, dattebayo, trust me in this one" he laughed back
"Well, Shizune, please, the papers" said older woman
"Here they are" the dark haired woman handed several papers
"Well, as everything here, we have to do some paperwork to make it legal; so, would you mind giving me your signatures here?" Tsunade handed them the papers, pointing two lines. They signed their names and that made it official "from now on, you are Uzumaki Sakura, congratulations"
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"Ok team…ummm…we are here at the gates…and I have no idea of what we should do now…dattebayo" said Naruto with a silly grin
"Troublesome Naruto" the Nara sighed
"Come on, Naruto! Get serious!" barked Kiba
"Hey don't push it!" argued Chouji
"Yeah, how would you be if the first time you were selected as leader it was on a mission as important as this one?" asked him Tenten
"I would march as fast as possible towards the Hidden Waterfall!" said proudly the Inuzuka
"..thus making the mission a sure failure" it was Kakashi this time "Precipitation is the least liking approach for this mission. If we run to the Waterfall Village we would reach it in a day, maybe two, however that would leave us little time to check on traps and ambushes. On the other hand if we take much of our time checking for those the village could get attacked and that would mean a failed mission. Taking the decision of the traveling speed is the first problem for the team's leader"
"I had that part deduced already dattebayo: we will march as fast as we can, at least half of the way or the first day, whatever happens first. I'm sure that the surroundings of Konoha are still safe. After that, we will travel covered by the darkness of night, using Neji's and Hinata's Byakugan as well as Kiba's nose to detect our enemies before they do"
"I see, that's a good plan!" cheered Ino
"Very carefully thought" conceded Hanabi
"Of course! Naruto-niisan is the best!" yelled Konohamaru, supported by his friends
"Now, now, easy" calmed them Naruto "it wasn't that great. Moving on, what really bothered me were the marching order and the inventorying of our supplies"
"Well I brought a dose of my family secret pills, a dozen kunai, and two dozens of shuriken, five explosive seals, ten food pills and one week of potato chips" said Chouji
"That explains your large backpack" sighed Naruto "we will need to travel light, only on what's more important, we'll recollect some berries on the way, maybe some herbs, but other than that carry the less you can. For weapons, two pouches maximum. We can ask for supplies once we get there dattebayo"
Thus all of them took out some of their stuff from the pouches and Chouji was forced to leave most of the contents of his backpack
"Now…what else?..I know! Marching formation! Well… Kiba will be in front with Shino, after them Hina-chan and I, the last line will be Hanabi and Neji, the rest of you just move with the group, I don't really mind the position as long as you feel good there and don't get in the way of everyone else. Just, Konohamaru and company, don't put yourselves in the line of danger or I will summon a frog and send you back with it, did I made myself clear?" said Naruto in a warm and caring tone yet serious, very parent like. The kids nodded fiercely and with an acceptance smirk "Great, let's get moving!"
…
They traveled fast, and by dusk they had covered half on the distance
"We are moving with good timing" said Naruto after the march "we will move slower now, as it is more probable that we find some traps from this point ahead. When morning rises we will stop and camp, now lets get moving" they rested for a few minutes and moved slower this time, paying more attention to traps and possible ambushes of an unknown enemy
They continued moving for another two hours. It was all calmed until Kiba sensed something
"I smell blood" he said with a cryptic voice
"Where?" asked Naruto
"From the northwest, in that direction" pointed the dog user
"We'll move with caution and check it out"
"It could be a trap, Naruto" reminded Sakura
"I know, that's why you most keep your eyes open"
"Are you sure we have to go there Naruto?" asked Ino
"Yes, now, keep quiet and lets get moving, Neji, Hanabi-chan., could you please use your Byakugan to scout in that direction?" pleaded Naruto
"Sure" and making a hand seal both said "Byakugan" sawing into the distance
The group walked in said direction for a few minutes when Hanabi broke the silence
"g-gods!" she said taking her hands to the mouth
"What is it?" pressed Naruto
"You won't like it" warned Neji
"Just tell me what it is"
"The Kazekage" answered simply Neji
"He is wounded, and surrounded" added Hanabi
"G-gaara?" Naruto's voice failed him
…
Gaara jumped desperately, trying to get away from his pursuers, he knew that with his leg wounded he couldn't get a good speed and that was starting to show off. He could sense how some of them were moving to surround him.
He had Kankuro and Temari in a large pair of sand hands behind him, they were unconscious and bleeding, but he wasn't sure how serious their situation was. In top of that, his chakra levels were starting to decrease considerably. Funny how even with a demon inside your chakra levels could feel the heat of a long battle, especially if it was a battle that had lasted two days.
He jumped, from branch to branch; he had to reach Konoha. Even if he still was half a day away from it, he had to find a way to get there. His pursuers were getting closer and closer by the second.
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"Kakashi-sensei! Shikamaru!, lead your teams to the shinobi that are surrounding Gaara, you should be able to strike them by surprise from the back, dattebayo" ordered Naruto "Hina-chan…"
"I know, don't worry" interrupted her
With their battle orders given the ninja of Konoha prepared to rescue the Sand siblings
…
He landed on a branch but it cracked and he started to fall, he wasn't worried by the fall, he knew his shield would protect him from any damage, but it would allow his pursuers to get him. He had no choice: he had to fight.
Landing heavily on his knees, Gaara turned around and saw enemies all around him, shinobi from the sound, rock, and grass from what he could see; they came from the front, from above and soon there would also come from behind, this would be a hard one.
Suddenly he felt a terrible chakra, a chakra that made him vibrate. Should he be scared? Or relieved? He wasn't sure, he only saw them jumping out of the woods
…
"Double Fang Jutsu!" Kiba yelled, and he and the large Akamaru became tornados and attacked multiple shinobi enemies
"Human Boulder!" Chouji trampled several of them
"Mind Possession Jutsu!" Ino made a small group fight between them
"Shadow Execution Jutsu!" Shikamaru's shadow extended and grappled some of them, as a dark hand choked them
A great battle started when the Konoha shinobi attacked from the rear the troops that were trying to surround Gaara. They were some rock, grass, and sound nin, commanded by a missing-nin from the sand, a young woman of dark green hair, that reached her shoulders.
"Get them; don't let any of these unsuspecting playmates alive!" said the missing-nin with prepotency
However, soon they discovered that they weren't a match for such a group.
Besides the ones that attacked with their ninjutsu, the ones that attacked in melee were terrible also: Sakura used a tree as a club to bat away anyone who was foolish enough to get close; Lee's blinding speed outlasted his enemies, allowing him to dispatch them with ease. Tenten using his weapons with chakra strings, Shino with his bugs, and Neji with his fearsome Jyuuken also took a good part of them down, Kakashi on the other hand stayed back and supported Konohamaru, Moegi Udon and Hanabi, he chose to leave the heavy part of the fight to the others so he could protect the kids and read some Icha Icha in the process, after all, they weren't having any difficulties dealing with them
In a few moments more than thirty enemies were defeated, leaving only three of them, a large bald man with dark skin and big muscles, a short one with a face like a rat with long black hair, and the missing-nin of the Sand village
"Well, well, it seems these kids have what it takes to be shinobi uh?" said the tall one with a deep voice
"heh, but are they capable enough to defeat us?" asked the short one with a squeaky voice
"Let us see" said the woman before charging at them
With one punch to the belly she sent Chouji flying to a tree, rendering him unconscious
"Chouji!" cried Ino worried
"Oh, don't worry Barbie I'll send you with your fatty Ken and your friends to the other life!" said with self confidence the Sand missing-nin
The large man of dark skin marked a few hand seals "Water Body Jutsu!" he yelled and his body became blue liquid that moved fiercely against Lee
Lee tried to fight back, attacking the water with his leaf whirlwind, and his taijutsu, but the punches penetrated the liquid without harming it, while the water do harmed him with terrible punches and kicks
"Lee!" this time it was Tenten who was worried for her teammate, she ran to help him
"Not so fast!" the one that with a rat face released a lighting bolt from his hands after a few hand seals, shocking the brown haired girl on her tracks, leaving her unconscious at the feet of a frightened Konohamaru"Cowards! How you dare to attack Tenten-chan with such a treacherous technique! I'll…!" Lee's angriness was subdued when he was sent flying to another tree. He tried to move but his legs and hands were glued to the bark of the tree
"No point on trying to move boy" said the tall man "when part of the water is separated from my body it becomes as sticky as glue, and you are covered in it"
"Your cheater's tricks won't stop my fire of youth fro-"
"Oh just shut up!" the water man send a ball from his body that hit Lee's mouth, shutting his lips thightly "that's a lot better"
Hmmmm, they are no pushover, these are Jounnin, the elite of their villages, this won't be an easy fight, especially with the kids here Kakashi was worried from the outcome of this battle
"So…you can surrender now, and we'll maybe spare your lives, or you can fight and die, it's your call" proposed the green haired woman
"Never! I can't surrender to someone who dared hurt Chouji! Or call me Barbie! I choose death over surrender to you!" Ino's anger could be seen from a mile around
"So be it!" with a lightning from the short rat-face shinobi Ino was shocked the until she fainted
Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon interchanged glances, and then nodded in unison. Hanabi saw how they interacted as a team and felt jealousy, especially because she didn't understood what Konohamaru said with his eyes
"We surrender!" the three Gennin said "we will do what ever you wish just don't hurt us!"
"It seems the youngest are the wisest this time!" laughed the shinobi of rat face
Konohamaru and his friends walked to the enemy shinobi dropping their kunai and shuriken pouches as a proof of surrender, standing in front of the evil shinobi
"W-what?! Just like that?!" Hanabi yelled angry "I can't believe you surrender that fast! You! Between them all! Won't you become Hokage?! Aren't you the grandson of the third?! You are the worst Konohamaru! And I hate you!"
"For some people it is better to be alive, if you are dead all that is worth nothing" explained Moegi
"And Naruto-niisan said not to do anything out of our league" complemented Udon
"Yeah, yeah! These kids are very intelligent! It's better to be alive!" cheered the short one of black hair
"Yeah" supported Konohamaru "It is a shame you soon won't be alive anymore" with blinding speed Konohamaru pulled out a scroll and summoned a metal spear from it, and tried to stab the lightning caller, but he stopped the spear with a kunai and pushed Konohamaru back knocking him several feet back.
Using the distraction Shino used his bugs to attack the woman but they weren't able to damage her
"Nice try, bug-boy, but my jutsu covers my skin with a layer of metal invisible to the naked eye! You won't even make me a scratch no matter how strong you attack" But even after that revelation Shino's expression behind the sunglasses didn't change, not that it ever changed anyway "I'll kill you!" the Sand-nin landed a fist on Shino's face, destroying it into a swarm of insects "Damn it! Clone!"
"I'm over here" A new Shino formed two feet away, just to be destroyed by a new punch, turning into more insects. Three more Shino's formed and they all were destroyed, making the place swarm in little insects
Meanwhile Shikamaru tried to posses the shadow of the one transformed into water, but even if his shadow do did contact with the one of his opponent, a small string of water moved over the shadow and reached Shikamaru, grappling him in a grip on the neck that suffocated him, making him lose consciousness.
"Ha,ha,ha, they are all weaklings! Orochimaru-sama will reward us greatly when we deliver them all to him!" laughed the large man
The rat faced enemy charged with a kunai against Konohamaru who was prone in the ground. But Moegi stopped his advances using the metallic spear "Give it up girl! You are all dead anyway!" once more the short man pushed sending Moegi next to Konohamaru, the spear left her hands and spun in the air before sticking in the ground in vertical position. Moegi was covered in sweat and could hardly move, her chakra reserves were very low.
Not to far from there and after three destroyed clones the green haired missing-nin started to feel how her chakra was drained by the little bugs. Bastard! He is draining my chakra! I'm covered in those bugs; I must finish this fast or else…
She noticed it stated Shino in his mind "Kiba, now! That's all I can do"
"Fang over Fang Jutsu!" from the sides of the woman came two Kibas with feral features that became tornados, far too swift to dodge them, she was stroke by them sending her flying, yet the tornados keep striking her in the air, coming always from different directions, giving her no room to defend. After a few attacks, her layer of metal showed some little cracks all over her skin
"Great Job boys! I'll finish this one!" Kakashi showed his Sharigan and ran through a few hands seals "Lightning Blade!" a sparking blue chakra concentrated on his hand as he ran forward and stabbed the woman, aiming for a specially large crack on her chest, the sound of metal breaking and the blood of the woman announced the end of her life.
"Cocky little freaks!" cursed the short man "but I won't fall as easy as her!" he waved his hands and released a lightning aimed at Konohamaru
"NOOOOO!" cried Hanabi and she ran and hugged Konohamaru, standing between the lightning and him, ready to the attack for him. But the pain never came, the lightning arched and deflected from its course and stroke the spear instead
"Ha! You aren't very bright are you?! We have already figured out your Jutsu! You just charge up your body with electricity and use chakra to alter the polarity of the air to create the fastest route for it to be discharged on your opponents" said Moegi
"Yeah! It's the natural behavior of lightings!" said Konohamaru "and you failed to notice when Moegi charged up the spear with chakra! That way the spear resonates to affect the air around it, effectively making it a lightning rod! Your Jutsu is useless now!"
As soon as Konohamaru stopped talking Sakura came out from behind with a chakra scalpel and stroke the man in the neck "There, I've paralyzed your whole nervous system, you can't move know, but you I'll keep storing electricity in your body"
"Uh, this doesn't look good, I better flee!" the muscled man tried to escape, morphing into a wave he turned to his back and ran, but when he took two steps a rain of kunai stopped him, the kunai had strings attached at the end, and were charged with chakra, in they stooped him. Being forced to take another route he turned to his right, just to found another rain of kunai, he changed course several times, before founding that there was a free path that leaded to the young man of white eyes "Nice try fools! But you failed!" he tried to overrun Neji, but he prepared his Kaiten
"Neji-san! Fourty-three degrees high, twelve degrees south!" the voice of Udon came above, from where all the kunai had been coming
Neji lowered his body and leaned a little forward "Kaiten!" the wave of water was send flying high, in the exact direction Udon had said
"Now Sakura-san!" sounded again Udon
Sakura grabbed the short man with both hands from the neck of his clothes Good thing I have leather gloves of I would be electrified by this guy she though and threw the man to his flying companion. The water and the electricity charged in the man made a short circuit
"TAKE COVER!" Neji ordered a second before the short circuit released a large charge of electricity on the zone. After a few seconds all had passed. And the burned bodies of the last two enemies rested in the ground near the ones of their companions
"Well, that was all of them, Sakura what's the condition of our comrades?" asked Kakashi with his left eye covered again
"They are ok Kakashi-sensei, just some brushes and minimal cuts, they will be ok in some hours" answered Sakura after examining them quickly
"Ok, Konohamaru, Moegi, Udon, well done" congratulated the silver haired Jounnin
"Well thanks, but it was all of Udon's doing, he was the one that made the plan, that found how their jutsu worked and how to counter them" explained Konohamaru, making Udon a little shy
"Of course, you are the best Udon-chan!" and Moegi gave him a big hug
"uh…Konohamaru…-kun?" Hanabi approached slowly "uh…I'm sorry I doubted you" she said not making eye contact with her faced red
"Heh" he also blushed "its ok, no worries" he said stretching his hand, she shacked the hand and smiled
Udon, uh? He is very intelligent, if not as much as Shikamaru at least the same as Sakura thought Kakashi "Ok Sakura, I want you to heal those who are unconscious as fast as you can, the rest of you, follow me, we are going to help Naruto and Hinata
"Heh, heh, heh, fool" said one of the defeated enemies from the ground, he represented no danger now "we weren't even half of the force that chasing the Kazekage…neither we were the strongest shinobi assigned to the task…your friends are dead by now…ha…ha,ha, ha, ha, h-" suddenly his eyes grew wide and stopped talking
"He's dead" assured Sakura
"Come on, we have to get moving" pressed Kakashi Naruto, Hinata, you have to be ok
Kakashi departed, followed by Shino, Kiba, Neji, Konohamaru, Udon, and Hanabi
…
After few minutes they caught the sound of battle, and saw a small clearing in the woods, they stopped to analyze the situation
In the center of the clear was Gaara, the Kazekage, standing with difficulties; at his feet were Kankuro, and Temari, both out cold. Protecting the Kazekage were Naruto and Hinata, each with a kunai, or at least one Naruto and one Hinata, because ten feet away from there, in a circular formation were five more Narutos and five more Hinatas, three red frogs as tall as a man and in the skies three hawks, attacking and defending from any aerial attack.
"Are those really…Naruto and Hinata?" asked Kiba
It was a reasonable question, since the sight was something impressive. Narutos and Hinatas intercalated fighting with unmatched strength and agility, they were using a very flexible stance for fighting, Naruto moving with fluidity and force in each blow while Hinata's grace and tumbles made her see like dancing and floating at the same time.
The Uzumakis spun continuously, always changing targets; however they never attacked the one in front of each other, they attacked the enemy in front of the one to the left, and protected the one the left. That way the enemies were unable to anticipate their movements, because they were seeing always the one in front of them, not the partner
With each of the Narutos blows a large chakra was released, so strong that knocked back whoever was attacked and inflicted serious damage; the Hinatas on the other hand used their chakra beams from her hands to attack from a safe distance
On most cases each one of them attacked different shinobi, however when one really tough appeared one Naruto and one Hinata teamed against him or her, if one would attack down the other attacked above; if one from the left, the other from the right, always in perfect combination. They moved as if they were one: the strategies, moves, dodges everything was too perfect, but what the most amazing thing was that neither of them said a word, they coordinated on what seemed just telepathy
In a few minutes the fight was over, more than fifty shinobi were defeated there. After checking that no one was in conditions to even stand up, all the clones disappeared. Naruto turned around and smiled to Gaara
"Hey Gaara, I think we just saved your butt from being kicked!" he said as a greeting
"Could have defeated them all in less time that you did if I was on top of my capacity" argued back the Kazekage
"I know that" said Naruto with a toothy smile "Long time no see old friend!"
"Would you please allow me to check that injury Kazekage-sama?" asked Hinata
"Gaara is fine" said the red headed
"Uh…ok" Hinata kneeled in front of Gaara and checked his injury, noticing it was beyond her abilities "I can't heal this, the wound is deep, and the damage to the muscle is considerably, I can help him walk a little better, but Sakura will need to check this one"
"Oi, Naruto" said Kakashi coming out from the woods followed by the other shinobi
"Kakashi-sensei, good you are here, we need to bring Sakura-chan here" said the blond
"Ok, I'll be right back!" said Kiba "C'mon Akamaru!" and the boy and his large dog disappeared into the woods
Hinata then processed to check the other two sand siblings
"What's their condition?" asked Shino
"Nothing serious, just some superficial cuts" answered Hinata relieved "I can heal them without problems" and as said she started the treatment
Some minutes later the rest of the teams reached the clearing and Sakura healed Gaara, he would still need to rest for a day or two but there wouldn't be long term damage or visibly scars left
At the same time Temari and Kankuro started to woke up, Temari was the first one to open her eyes and the first thing she saw was Shikaamru, who was by coincidence sitting nearby
"Have I died? That must be it, I've died and gone to heaven, there's no other way my beloved Shikamaru would be here" she said as an explanation to her, which earned a Nara's raised eyebrow
"Tsk, troublesome woman, you aren't dead and this isn't heaven, we found you and helped you out"
"Wha-" Temari tried to talk but then noticed what she had said in just a seconds ago, that made her blush deeply
"What happened? Why are you here?" asked Chouji to Gaara
"Yeah, and why were those guys pursuing you?" added Tenten
"It's a long story" said simply Gaara
"Yeah" Kankuro showed that he was already awaken "The village of the Sand was attacked by Orochimaru"
"What?! How could that be? There were not signs of a possible invasion" said Lee
"It wasn't by arms" explained Temari "he infiltrated and poisoned the mind of the villagers, and started a revolution"
"It came without warning, an attack from inside the village, breaking our forces in a half" said Gaara
"The shinobi loyal to Gaara were not enough to hold the riots" finished Kankuro
"Now, the village is in possession of Orochimaru, with our loyal comrades prisoners" said Temari
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Dunh, dunh, dunh!
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