Naruto ducked down under the silvery cobwebs strewn above the passageway to the armoury. According to Gamakichi, there was a door in the armoury. If he could just grab his stuff without being heard, he could slip out easily. That was his plan anyway.
When he reached the dimly lit armoury he shivered. God, it's creepy down here.
He spotted his backpack, wedged among some huge toad armour. He tried his best to fish it out but accidentally pulled it out to quickly. All of the armour fell back and made clanking noises as they all hit the ground at once.
I'm screwed.
Naruto ran for the door. It was locked! It was wood, he might be able to kick it down! He kicked it with all his might and managed to make a hole in it. He crawled through the hole and set off running. He suddenly heard the guards shouting and the armoury room lit up. Then Naruto saw a pair of Toad eyes peering through the hole in the door, straight at him. Naruto ran like he'd never ran before. East, he ran east. Towards the caves!
Sai stood in complete shock. Sakura was trying to sort out all of the traumatic events that were happening, in her head. She turned to Sai. "Sai! We need to go there! We need to get there!"
Sai nodded but flinched.
"What? What is it?" Sakura said.
"I can sense someone coming." Sai pulled out a kunai and turned around.
"I found you! Your so stupid, you know that!?" They heard a voice emerge from the tree's.
"Captain Yamato!?" Sakura and Sai exclaimed in unison as Yamato appeared in front of them.
"Yeah, and you know what I'm gonna say don't you?" He frowned as they both took a step back.
There's no way that Madara would put a genjutsu on them now. Not when he had just started his little 'game'.
Sakura frowned. "No! We're staying! We're going to save Naruto, Lee and Kakashi sensei!"
Yamato shook his head slowly. "There are other shinobi coming. We're coming to collect you all. Let Kakashi rest in peace, for gods sake!" He said, getting angrier by the minute.
"He's not dead!" Sakura exclaimed, her eyes getting pricked by tears.
Sai held the kunai out in front of him.
"Sakura! Go!" He said.
"Wa-what?! Sai-" Sakura started.
"Just go Sakura. I will take care of things here." He looked back at her. She looked at him then at Captain Yamato. Hesitantly she turned and left.
"Sai, I'm not going to fight you." Yamato said sincerely. Sai shook his head.
"You either fight me, or help us." Sai said unemotionally.
"God, all those years of the ANBU still haven't worn off have they?" He got into a fighting stance. "Guess I'll have to change that!"
Lee and Guy were fast. Only problem was, they had no sense of direction. It was getting dark outside so they decided to settle for a night. It was a risk they had to take as they were nearly at toad mountain anyway.
As they settled down beside a nearby tree, Guy overheard little voices. He looked across the road to spot two frogs, talking frogs. Mount Myöboku must be close then, he thought. He inched closer to them to hear their conversation.
"-yeah I know me too!" One of them said.
"And supposedly he's going east! The guards are chasing him." The one talking, croakily laughed. "I doubt he'll get far."
"No, he's the child of prophecy, we shouldn't underestimate him." The other said cautiously.
Guy jerked at that. Naruto. They were talking about Naruto! He was ahead of them!
He looked over his shoulder at Lee who was looking too tired to move on. Guy sighed and decided to rest. Was it a bad decision?
Meanwhile, Sakura had done the same thing. She settled down on her own, wondering about Sai and Yamato. Would they be alright? She didn't know. She looked up at the dark night sky. Dotted with stars. She smiled.
"Look what you've done Kakashi sensei... I swear if Naruto doesn't save you-" she stopped and clenched her fists. "Doesn't matter. Just remember this was your fault!" She smiled again and fell asleep instantly.
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Of course, it's not like Naruto was some hero with unlimited stamina and he knew, soon it would get hard to run. The guards had stopped chasing him now, as far as he could see anyway.
Naruto ran for what seemed like hours until he could no longer take it and his legs gave way. With no control over his body anymore, Naruto collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. The relief of not having to stand was too great for Naruto and he let his eyes close...
Wheeeww so as promised I posted the next chap today even though it's really late at night and all dat. So yeah, I'm too tired to type much so sorry for this chaps shortness, fighting should be up in a few chapters and yeah... see ya! :)