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The alarms blared suddenly throughout the village, making everyone in the village panic. Gaara ran out of the library where he had been reading, Temari ran out of the store she had been looking at clothes, Kankuro groaned on the floor of his home where he was tangled up in his puppets he had been cleaning, Kurenai and Shino came out of the hotel where they had been resting, Kiba started running from the training fields, while Samuru and Hinata ran out of the restaurant. All eight Shinobi were headed towards the Kazekage tower, only to collide into each other in the middle of town.

"What is going on?" Temari asked, being the first to get back to her reet.

"I don't know," Gaara growled, being the unfortunate one who was on the bottom in an awkward back bend over his gourd of sand. "Get off me!"

"Sorry," came six hasty replies before the poor Kazekage was helped to his feet.

"Lord Kazekage!" an ANBU appeared. He was breathing heavily and his uniform was scuffed with dirt as if he had been in a fight. "The containment safe has been broken into…"

"What?" Gaara frowned. "How is that possible? I had eight men guarding it. What was taken?"

"The Akatsuki triple-bladed scythe… The Ice user took it…"

"Chii…? Why would she do something like this?" Temari frowned. "Was the alarms set off because of her?"

"Yes ma'am," the ANBU spoke sadly. "We have reports that she is using her ice ability to fly away from the village. I have a team going after her…"

"Call them off," Gaara spoke irritated.

"But sir…"

"I will go after her myself with my team and Team Kurenai. Silence the alarms and tell the village that it was a false alarm…"

"But sir, she broke into…"

"I said that it was a false alarm," Gaara snapped."

"Yes sir," the ANBU bowed and disappeared.

"Are you all ready to leave?" Seven replies of 'yes' echoed around the young Kazekage. "Good, now let's go figure out what Chii is planning to do and why she broke in my safe for that scythe."

"I'll go ahead…"

"No Samuru, we do this as a team. You have teammates now," Kurenai spoke with a small smile. "You will stay with your team."

"She is my sister…"

"She is also our friend," Hinata replied with a determined look in her eyes.

"Fine," Samuru sighed as he ran a hand through his messy hair. "Then let's go."

Three hours later, the team of eight reached the forests, but there was no sign of Chii slowing her pace. Hinata kept activating her Byakugan to check on Chii's chakra levels and kept saying they were still at full capacity. Each one of them was confused at the Ice User's actions and didn't even know how to predict her motive.

Samuru was the most confused because Chii had never done something like this as long as he could remember. She had always told him what she was planning before she took action. Even when it had been something completely absurd or extremely stupid, she would mention something about it.

"What would she gain by running off like this?" Kiba exclaimed as the sun started to set. "She just got out of the hospital!"

"She started acting strange since she was discharged," Samuru replied, slightly breathless.

"You think she plans to do something stupid like Naruto? Just run off…?"

"I don't know. She has never done something like this without telling me first."

"Why does she need the scythe?" Kurenai frowned. "I mean she has her ice abilities, so what would she gain there…?"

"Damn it, why didn't I think of that?" Samuru snapped as he came to a halt.

"What's wrong?" Temari asked.

"She's going after the fucking Akatsuki! She is still acting like she needs to protect everyone she cares about by herself! That scythe has added power to her abilities now that she is its user. How do you think she could have killed three Akatsuki making it look as easy as attacking a dummy? She also probably wants to make sure everyone in the villages acknowledges that she isn't their enemy."

"Why? Doesn't the village already acknowledges her after seeing her kill those three?"

"No, most blame her for their arrival since she froze the village in her power overloaded rage. And those that saw her run off with the scythe probably think she is going back to the Akatsuki."

"We need to rest," Gaara replied.

"Why?" Kiba demanded. "If she is going after them, then shouldn't we try and catch her before then?"

"We need a plan other than running after her," Gaara spoke quietly.

"We are no good if we are exhausted and without a plan," Kurenai added. "If she engages the Akatsuki by the time we get there then what use are we if we are already depleted of chakra and not up to full speed."

"Damn," Kankuro cursed as he leaned against a tree.

Chii sighed as she stopped for a minute and could feel the very distant chakra her brother. She shook her head and could feel others with him through their chakra. She pulled the scythe off her back and swung it around as she infused her chakra with it, making trees tip and crash with a thud. Then she started moving it around in different attack positions, getting a better feel for her new weapon. She knew that she would need the help of the Shinobi following her to finish off all the Akatsuki so she stopped as they started to run again so they could close the gap between each other.

When they were about five miles away, she started running again towards the Akatsuki hideout. They should have figured out her play by now especially with Samuru there and if they didn't, they were stupid. Chii hoped that not all of the remaining Akatsuki were there, that some were on missions or something, so it would be easier to take care of them.

"What is Chii doing?" Samuru asked Hinata as they started running again.

"Byakugan," Hinata activated her Kekkei Genkai and frowned. "She has stopped and it looks like she is using some chakra with that scythe."

"She's playing around?" Samuru frowned, surprised. "Why would she go through all this running if she just is going to stop and mess around as if there is no plan?"

"Do you think she knows we are following her now?" Temari asked as she ran in between Kiba and Gaara.

"Possible."

"Then maybe, if she has, she is waiting for us to catch up to her."

"No, that doesn't sound like her if she went as far as to steal that scythe out of a heavily guarded safe," Kankuro frowned.

"She's baiting us…" Samuru realized and sighed.

"What do you mean by that?" Kiba asked, running behind Samuru and Hinata.

"It means that she is letting us catch up some then as soon as we are close enough she is going to start running again," Shino spoke quietly as he ran next to Kurenai in the back of the group.

"And that means what?" Kiba frowned.

"She knows she cannot take down all the Akatsuki by herself so she plans to engage them first after we are closer then expect us to join the fight," Samuru sighed.

"Guess it is a good thing that we took that break?" Kiba asked.

"A very good thing. The rest are harder to kill. There are the two Sharingan users, Tobi and Itachi. Konan has her paper abilities, Zetsu can split himself in two, and Pein controls six corpses and each corpse have different abilities."

"So all together there twelve left to kill?" Hinata squeaked.

"Sadly yes, but if you kill the Pein that controls the six, you can eliminate those seven. Pein himself cannot move his body because he has made his body into a transmitter of sorts to transfer his chakra to the six he controls. Konan is usually always with the main Pein and I'm sure Chii will want to take care of him."

"We're doomed," Kiba muttered and Akamaru barked in reply.

"Chii has gained power with using the scythe and you have me as well. We can finish them off for good."

"I hope so otherwise we just left Sunagakure for the last time and without a Kazekage..."

"Don't think like that Temari," Kankuro interrupted his sister. "We will finish them off then we all will get to go back to Sunagakure. Don't be such a pessimist."

"Believe like Naruto believes," Hinata stammered. "Never give up, that is his motto."

"That is a very good idea Hinata," Kurenai smiled. Then they arrived at a recently cleared area where about ten trees had fallen in a circle. "What happened here?"

"This was Chii's doing," Samuru chuckled. "Looks like this was were she was playing around while we caught up to her. Hinata, where is she?"

"Looks like she is about five miles ahead of us and is about five miles from the hideout."

"Let's hurry," Samuru spoke and the air around the eight became tense as they became focused on what would happen next.