This whole mission had been a disaster from the beginning. First she and Kakashi had been sent out with no back up because of the shortage of Ninja above Genin rank. Then that old woman from Suna had almost attacked Sensei thinking he was the one who killed her son. After that they ran into Itachi and only defeated him through sheer luck. Thing went well when Team Gai arrived and first with Kisame then with the anchor seals for the bolder blocking the cave where the Kazekage was being held. After that wouldn't have been and easy thing to grab Garra and run back to Suna? No, the Nuke-nin holding him had to be highly skilled at ranged attacks rendering that plan useless. How the… Sakura cut off Inner Sakura mid-thought and closed her eyes waiting for the end as the needles from Sasori and the clay bombs of Deaidra closed in from all sides.
She heard the explosions from Deaidra's bombs, yet felt no pain. She opened her eyes and stared in shock at the scene before her. A young man stood in front of her with his right hand held above his head and a dome of blue light surrounded them, shielding them against the nuke-nins' onslaught as he had his left hand in a pocket. He wore a white coat with an image of a crystal on the back and dark-colored pants. He turned and she looked in amazement at the light blonde hair, the piercing blue eyes that spoke of sights beyond her deepest fantasies and her darkest nightmares with a tear-like crystal embedded on his right cheek.
"You all right?" he asked. Sakura could only nod as she tried to figure out where he came from and her legs gave out from the shock. He turned to face Sasori and Deadira with a confident smirk on his face. "You know, I may have reasons to dislike the ninja of the hidden leaf, but I'll still fight alongside them if their opponents are holding a friend of mine prisoner." The stranger called out to the nuke-nin across the chamber.
"And who are you?" Sasori asked with a scathing ton.
"You can call me Layle." The man said as light started to climb up is legs and envelop his whole body. "But, most of those here of know me by another name…" he trailed off as the light vanished reveling veins of crystal on both his body and on his clothing with a large chunk of crystal floating by his face with a feint image of a wing trailing from it as Lyle stepped forward onto a long, floating, flat shard of crystal. "Uzumaki Naruto!" He cried out as spheres of blue light erupted from his hands and a ghostly image of three house-sized crystals surrounding a point of light burst into being behind him while the discarded weapons of Sasori's puppets glowed blue and shot towards their former master.
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