Hinata sat against the wall while Matsuri stood next to her, both were exhausted and not sure what was really happening above for all the villagers to move to the tunnels below them. Baki had come by and told them that he couldn't say anything near Chii, making them worry that it was something huge. Soon Samuru came into the room and handed Matsuri a scroll as she left the room.

"What's happening?" Hinata whispered as she stood up as Samuru came closer. He leaned closer to her an she blushed heavily. "Sa...Samuru...?"

"The Akatsuki are here," he breathed quietly in her ear. "Everyone above has been updated on knowledge about each that has shown and know about the others who haven't in case they do show. You are to stay down here princess, where you can be safe."

"B...but, I'm a Leaf sh...shinobi," Hinata stammered, still surprised at how close he was to her.

"Your team wants you down here in case she wakes, the 64 palms attack could stop her."

"My cousin was always better at it..."

"You have completed it in a way your cousin will never be able to; yours is a lot gentler because of your heart, princess. Kurenai ordered you to stay here."

"V...very well," Hinata stammered as he pulled away and leaned against the wall.

"Any changes down here?"

"No movement yet but her chakra is back to normal levels," one of the ANBU replied quietly.

"Will she wake up soon?" Another asked cautiously.

"It's possible," Samuru spoke. "I don't know how long it will take until she wakes up. That jutsu has never been heard of before until she used it."

"D...does it seem colder in here to anyone?" Hinata muttered as she saw her breath in the air as she breathed.

"What is Chii's chakra doing?" Samuru demanded as she straightened up.

"Byakugan," Hinata muttered and looked at the unconscious girl. "It's not moving at all... It's like it's frozen..."

Ice started spreading from Chii's hands and climbed up around her like an orb shield. Hinata blinked in surprise at what she was seeing as the six ANBU got to their feet, the chakra still activated. There was a cracking in the room and Samuru narrowed his eyes.

"Get away from her!" Samuru demanded and the six men stumbled backwards as cracks formed across the orb of ice. Soon the ice exploded and Hinata found herself pressed against the wall, her face against a warm chest. Hinata looked up and saw that it had been Samuru who had protected her as the ice exploded. "You okay princess?"

"M...my name is Hinata," she muttered, her face red from blushing.

"Hinata..."

"Samuru, I'm gonna kill you," the voice of Chii brought Hinata out of her blushing and she went into ninja mode as Samuru turned his head to look over his shoulder at where the voice came from. Chii was standing in the circle of where she had been lying, all the seals carved into the ground were filled with ice and the ropes had been frozen as well. "Locking me down here while you go off and do your own thing."

"I'm protecting you Chikia," Samuru spoke as he turned around to face her. "I'm not going to let them take you after you showed your full power last week. They felt you power an now are here to take you back. Do you want to go back to that life?!"

"No but you had no right of trying to seal me away either," Chii growled. "I'm not going to hide while others fight the battles we should be facing alone. This isn't their battle..."

"I won't risk your life for this fight. You are all I have left and I won't loose you."

"And you think I'm not worried about loosing you?!" Chii snapped. "Don't think you can fight alone in this."

"Does it look like I'm fighting by them Chikia? To me, it looks like I'm protecting you by staying at your side instead of being up on the surface..." Chii narrowed her eyes before the ice from the carvings around her shot up and whipped around her before going into the ceiling, and lifting her into a hole that her ice as creating. "Shit..."

Samuru summoned his ice and followed Chii up the small hole, leaving the Hyuuga princess with the ANBU. Hinata puffed out her cheeks annoyed before running out of the room to get to the passage to the surface to help with the battle raging above. The six ANBU followed buy as soon as they got to the surface, what they saw was not what they expected.

Chii and Samuru were surrounded by three Akatsuki, two had very large weapons and the other was using taijutsu. Chii was fighting the two weapon users with ice blades while Samuru was using his own taijutsu against the other Akatsuki. Gaara was in the sky fighting the last Akatsuki The Sand shinobi were all injured and it looked like there had only been a couple fatalities.

"So you do remember everything," Kakuzu laughed as he fought Samuru.

"Yeah, why the fuck did Samuru tell Zetsu that you fucking forgot every fucking one of us. I'm going to fucking sacrifice your fucking body to Jashin..."

A blade went into Hidan's head from the the back and came out his mouth while another went through his chest. As soon as Hidan fell to the ground, Chii stood smiling cruelly. She picked up his three blades scythe and jumped at Kisame, smirking the whole time.

"You little bitch!" Kisame hissed as he was pushed back some as Chii swung the scythe at him as if she knew how to use it.

"I am not a weapon for your pitiful so called group to use in any shape or form. I am Chikia Abare, shinobi from the former Village Hidden in the Blaze. My only alliance is to Konohagakure and Sunagakure, not to a fucked up corpse and his pawns. My full power has been unsealed none of you will leave Sunagakure alive."

"How do you plan to do that when I am immortal?" Kakuzu laughed as he pushed Samuru back.

"Do you see Hidan getting up? He said he was immortal too, but he lays there unmoving. The reason is because he is dead, frozen the second my blades entered him and I took his weapon," Chii grunted as she blocked an attack from Kisame.

"You lie, you little bitch!" Kisame snapped.

"Then why is it I can use his triple bladed scythe when it only has one owner that can wield it at a time? I know how to kill each of you and so does everyone else in this village now. I'm a bitch and I know it, but you have no right to call me that."

"Bitc..." Chii swung the scythe as she fused ice with it and it sliced off Kisame's head as well as shattered his samehada.

"You got it down here Muru?" Chii asked as she watched Kakuzu separate his body into five, each holding one of his many hearts.

"Yes, Hinata and the ANBU will be enough. Go help Gaara, considering he lost last time to Deidara," Samuru muttered and she nodded. Chii formed ice wings and shot into the air, still holding Hidan's triple bladed scythe. "Be safe. Hinata, 64 palms!"

"R...right," Hinata stammered and summoned her jutsu.

Gaara grunted as another clay bomb hit his sand shield and drew several kunai and threw them at the blonde Akatsuki. He knew this time that he couldn't just use his sand coffin, fearing the man putting bombs in like he did last time they fought three years ago.

"Your not serious, yeah?" The blond laughed as he dodged the kunai. "You won't do any good if you fight that way, yeah."

"Dei-Dei, why are you so mean?" The blonde named Deidara spun and Gaara saw Chii hovering behind the blonde with a triple bladed scythe in her hand that was coated in blood. "You've been up here and didn't even fly down to say hi? So mean!"

Chii tossed the scythe towards Deidara and Gaara saw that it was attached to a cord wrapped around her hand. The blonde dodged it but then Chii jerked on the cord and it came back and hit Deidara in the back and jerked him off his clay bird and towards her.

"Chii!" The cry of Samuru echoed the village as she screamed as Deidara hit her, the tips of the scythe impaling her body.

"You bitch..." Deidara hissed as Chii's wings disappeared and the two started falling, the blonde's back facing the ground and Chii on top.

"You never wanted to die alone, Dei-Dei," Gaara heard Chii say as he flew after her. "Three of your colleagues will meet you in Hell. See ya bastard."

Then Chii pushed Deidara towards the ground and disconnected the cord around her wrist and fell at a slower pace than the blonde but her body turned from the air and her back faced the ground. Her chest was cover in blood, from both her and the blonde she ha just killed. Her eyes locked onto his and she smiled and reached her hand out towards him.

"Gaara..."

"Chii," Gaara whispered as he reached her and grabbed her outstretched and pulled her into his arms as he stopped his sand from bringing them closer to the ground. Soon they just hovered in the air, her arms around his neck and her head pressed against his shoulder as she shook. "We need to get you healed."

"It's just a scratch," he heard her whisper, "besides my ice is already way ahead of you. Just let me stay here for a little bit, in your arms."

"A...alright," Gaara stammered as he felt his face heat up as his mind went to the conversation he had with Samuru before the Akatsuki had arrived. 'Am I falling for this ice user in my arms?'

"Chii!" Gaara was brought out of his thoughts when Samuru yelled out his sister's name and looked down at the ground where there was a fire started and the ANBU threw four bodies into the fire. Samuru was next to Hinata who seemed paler than normal and he was staring up at Gaara, his blank expression cracking, showing his worry. "Chii?!"

"She's alright," Gaara replied as he descended to the earth and summoned his sand to go back into his gourd.

"Samuru..." Chii lifted her head and looked at her brother and Gaara saw a smile on her face.

"You stupid idiot," Samuru muttered as he walked over and ruffled Chii's hair. "Don't you ever think when you're in a fight?"

"What's the fun in that?" Chii whined as she tried batting his hands away. "Stop messing up my hair! Gaara save me!"

"Why?" Gaara smirked as Chii clung to him and tried to hide from Samuru who started laughing, making everyone freeze.

"Holy mother fucking god," Chii squeaked as she looked at her laughing brother. "Who are you and what have you done to my brother?! Gaara, he's possessed!"

"Chikia," Samuru spoke as he stopped laughing but still had a smirk on his face while Gaara felt Chii's arms tighten around his neck, "you make it hard to keep a straight face. Now can I check your wounds to make sure they are healing well?"

"Fine," Chii muttered and released one arm from around gaara's neck. Samuru ripped her bloodied shirt, showing three bleeding wounds that when from the center if her sternum down to her naval, each three inches long with about two inches in between each. "Im fine..."

"Your not healing at all," Samuru snapped.

"Um hello, I just fought with Kisame and his Samehada. That thing ate mist of my chakra. Finishing off Dei-Dei too the rest," Chii shrugged.

"You told me you were healing..."

"You people worry too much, just bandage me up and let it heal by itself," Chii smiled, "as a reminder Muru..."

"You already have too many..."

"Leave it be Samuru," Chii whispered as her eyes closed and she laid her head on Gaara's shoulder.

"Very well Chii, get some sleep," Samuru sighed, not wanting to fight about it anymore when he knew why she wanted to keep these scars.