I DO NOT OWN NARUTO AND/OR THE CHARACTERS

Not So Useless After all

They exited the hall of mirrors to find another clown pointing their way.

"I've had it with these creepy ass things," Hinata said as she approached it.

Hinata punched the clown in the head but something unexpected happened, instead of the head popping off, the clown just smiled at her.

"That was fun," the clown said. "Let me try."

Hinata avoided the clown's attack, the other tried to join in but Hinata stopped them.

"If any of you interfere, I'll slit your throat and watch Naruto's cum ooze out," she said as she got into her Gentle Fist stance. "Bring it, you fuckin' clown."

"Oh no, you misunderstand, I'm not here to fight you," the clown said. "I have a of riddles for you."

"Riddles?" Hinata asked annoyed. "Get the fuck out of here."

"You have no choice," the Ringmaster's voice said.

"Here we go," the clown said. "As I traveled the Land of Rice, I met a man with seven wives, the seven wives had seven sacks, and the seven sacks had seven cats. How many were going to the Land of Rice?"

"Uh, Karin?" Hinata asked as she looked back at The Bombs.

"9," Karin said confident in her intelligence.

"Sorry but that's wrong," the clown said. "Did I mention that you only have three tries? So that only leaves you with two tries."

"Think, brainiac," Hinata said to Karin.

"Uh, 344?"

"Are you sure?" asked Sakura.

"Yes, the man plus his wives times the seven sacks times the seven cats. That gives you 344."

"Sorry again, that is wrong. One last try."

"Uh, shit, I don't know," admitted Karin.

"1," Ino spoke up. "Just the first guy."

"That is correct," the clown said.

"How'd you know that?" Karin asked.

"The riddle started of 'As I was heading to the Land of Rice,' as I was heading. The only person going to the Land of Rice was the first guy."

"Well, this one's going to be a little more difficult," the clown said. "Are you ready?"

"Bring it."

"Being from the Leaf Village, you should appreciate this. Daisuke's master had three pupils, there was Tsunade and Jiraiya. What was the third's name?"

"Easy," Karin said. "Orochimaru."

"No."

"What?" Karin asked in disbelief.

"Hiruzen?" Sakura asked hesitantly.

"No."

"Daisuke," Ino said. "His name's Daisuke, I can't believe you couldn't figure it out."

"Correct, you may proceed, the Ringmaster awaits up ahead."

They headed up ahead where they came to the big top tent, not only was it lit but they could hear the sound of laughter and applause.

"I guess this is it," Hinata said.

They approached the entrance cautiously as they were weary of what awaited them, they opened the door to find a crowd of people watching the three rings where Yoshi and his two man entourage were each in one of the rings. Yoshi was forced to play lion tamer, while the other members of his entourage where suddenly taken up into the air by a couple of trapeze artists. They screamed for their lives as they were tossed to and fro in the air.

"We've got to do something," Sakura said. "Hinata, you and Ten take the trapeze, Karin and I'll save Yoshi."

Hinata and Ten made their way up to the trapeze and realized that they were clueless as to what to do.

"After making our way up this trapeze, we realize that we're clueless as to what to do."

See?

"Uh, well, go on," Ten said to Hinata as she tried to hand her the swing.

"Fuck you," Hinata responded. "Why don't you go?"

"I don't know anything about this shit, all I am is a piece of ass with weapons. That what you four call me, right?"

"That doesn't mean I know anything about this shit, I'm just a malcontent."

"Well, aren't you supposed to be able to fit into any situation, little miss fuckin' wildcard?"

Hinata was stuck as she loss the argument.

"Give me this damn thing," Hinata said as she snatched the swing from Ten. "You'd better be ready."

Hinata swung from the platform and found herself in the middle of an aerial competition for the lives of Yoshi's friends, she tried to grab one when one of the artists tossed them into the air but couldn't reach and the artists took them back into their possession.

"Damn it," she thought as she swung back to Ten.

Hinata landed back on the platform and looked at Ten.

"I'm going to need help here."

"Shit, alright," Ten said as she grabbed the swing. "What do you suggest we do?"

Hinata watched the artists and came up with an idea.

"I'll hang on by my legs while then hold yours and you can grab them," Hinata said.

"Do you even know how to do all of that?" Ten asked as she looked at Hinata who just shrugged her shoulders.

"No better time to learn."

Hinata hooks her legs onto the bars of the swing as Ten grabbed it and they swung out, while they were swinging, Hinata grabbed Ten's legs as they got ready for their rescue attempt. The trapeze artists surprised them by dropping their hostages and attacking them mid-air causing them to fall as well. As they dropped, Hinata and Ten were able to defeat them with their superior taijutsu skills and planned to use them to cushion the fall. The real problem was their falling clients.

"We're not going to be able to save them," Hinata thought.

They watched them fall until they landed on a large fan that flew in.

"That fan." Ten said.

After saving them, the fan flew back to where it came from, Temari.

"Fancy meeting you guys here," she said with a smile as Hinata and Ten landed.

While they were relieved by Temari's save, Sakura and Karin were having different problems. Sakura tried to smash the cage containing Yoshi and the lion but found it electrified.

"Aaah!" she screamed as it shocked her.

Karin rushed to her side to check on her.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, but my arm is a little numb."

The rest of the Bombs came over with their rescued hostages.

"What's going on?" Temari asked.

"We can't get into this cage," Karin said. "It's electrified.

"Let me see what I can do," Temari said as she gathered her wind chakra.

She touched the cage with her chakra but got the same results as it shocked her as well.

"Well, it's not chakra based," she said. "This is pure electricity."

"In that case, I have an idea," Karin said.

"What?" Ino asked.

"If we all touch the cage on one side, we can draw the current to us while Sakura punches the fuck out of it."

"Yeah, won't that hurt us?" Ten asked.

"Not as bad since well be dividing it amongst us."

"Hell, it's a plan," Temari said.

Sakura positioned herself on the other side of the cage, "You guys ready?"

They nodded to her and touched the cage immediately being electrocuted. Sakura gives the cage a chakra induced punch and broke it down. They put the lion down without killing it and rescued Yoshi which made the crowd applaud them. The lights went out and the spotlight shined on the Ringmaster.

"And now, for the grand finale."

The grand finale he spoke of was the entire audience attacking the Cherry Bombs, as they began to defend themselves, they began to notice that something was off.

"What's wrong with their eyes," Sakura asked as she pulled back her punches.

"I don't think these people realize what they're doing," Karin said. "It's like they're being controlled."

"That means we can't hurt them," Ten said.

"Well, they're trying to fuckin' hurt us," Hinata said.

Trying to defend themselves clashed with them trying not to hurt anyone and something had to give, that something turned out to be them. Ino and Temari happened to be the last two standing as the rest of them fell to the crowd.

"What's wrong with these people," Ino asked Temari.

"It's like some sort of mind control," Temari answered.

At that moment, a few of audience members grabbed Temari. All alone, Ino looked at her hurt comrades laid out on the ground before her as the crowd turned upon her with an absent yet rage full look in their eyes.

"Okay, it's just me," she said as she faced the horde. "I can do this."

The audience surrounded her, poised to attack when Ino readied herself.

"I've been waiting to use this since dad taught me, anyway. Mind Wipe Jutsu!"

Sakura was the first of the bombs to wake up as Ino healed her best she could.

"What happened?" she asked.

"I saved your asses," Ino said with a cocky smile.

Sakura looked around and saw Hinata, Karin, Temari, and Ten, laid out on the other side and got to work healing them as Yoshi and his friends watched.

"How'd we get out of there?" Karin asked.

"The last thing I remember is those people doing us in," added Hinata.

"I used my Mind Wipe Jutsu and wiped their minds," Ino said. "They're unconscious now but they'll wake up not remember anything for a certain amount of time depending on who good I am at the jutsu."

"What happened with the carnival?" Ten asked.

"The Ringmaster told you that was the grand finale, we were free to go after defeating them."

After hearing Ino's story, they continued on their way and returned Yoshi to his village before parting ways with Temari. On the way back, they all got a weird feeling.

"I feel like something's missing," Hinata said. "Like something of mine has been taken."

"Yeah," agreed Sakura.

"I think it's because we miss Naruto," Ten said. "We'll all feel better once we see him again."

They arrived at the village to find a strange site, the girls their age were all crying.

"What's wrong with them?" Ino asked. "And did you notice that there aren't as many shinobi around?"

"Yeah, what's going on?" Karin asked.

They reached Hokage Tower to give Lady Tsunade their mission report and got some devastating news.

"Naruto's been kidnapped…again."

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THE CHERRY BOMBS VS. THE QUEENS OF SOUND

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