Ch. 25 Red Clouds
Don and Deidara caught sight of Konoha in the distance. Soon they had flown over the gates of the village and before them was all of Konoha, a huge target for their destruction.
"You ready for this partner?" Deidara asked about to burst with excitement. Don smirked at him and nodded.
"Ok, let the bombs fly!" he shouted.
Don pulled bombs from his bad and let them fly down into the village and he detonated them destroying buildings. Wood and other building materials were blown everywhere and a panic in the streets began. Deidara was probably having more fun than Don, he was letting flocks of his clay birds fly hitting any structure he could find.
Tsunade calmly stood at her desk and watched as the villager's two attackers began to destroy her village and cause panic among her people. All of a sudden her assistant came running in.
"Lady Tsunade, the village is under attack."
"Don't you think I am aware of that?" and she watched as some flying debris hit her window.
"That's not all, our attackers are Deidara and …. Don."
Tsunade's eyes widened. She banged her fist on her desk with anger.
"What the hell is he doing with Deidara?" she shouted.
"He's wearing the Akatsuki uniform…"
Tsunade looked at him closer, it was true; he was with Deidara in the same uniform as him and helping him cause destruction.
"I want as many ninja on this ASAP. Repel the enemy. Kill them if necessary."
"But what about Don?" her assistant asked. She immediately received a glare from Tsunade.
"It's apparent to me that Don is a traitor, make that especially for him."
Tsunade's assistant ran out the office to give the order. Tsunade sat in her desk and put her hand on her forehead and grunted angrily.
"Well played Don. Well played indeed."
Any ninja that was on site attempted to repel Don and Deidara by throwing weapons at them. It was of little use. The whole village had been damaged but not to the point of complete destruction. The intensity of destruction varied, some buildings were mildly damaged as compared to others that ceased to exist.
Don and Deidara shook out their bomb bags.
"I'm all dry, how about you?" Don asked.
"Yeah," Deidara replied looking down at the half destroyed village "I think we have done enough here. Now we are off to Suna, we will stop somewhere along the way to resupply ourselves."
Don nodded and they flew off leaving the village behind them without any chance to counter attack. Tsunade called together all of her classically chosen young ninja. They all stood at attention waiting to hear her orders.
"I am sending all of you as part of a mission. I want you to hunt down our two attackers from earlier today and pose a counter offensive, if possible, to eliminate them."
Shikamaru stood with anger and aggression and looked highly disturbed. Tsunade looked up at the disrupted shinobi.
"Shikamaru, is there something you want to say?"
"You know damn well what I want to say." He replied angrily.
Tsunade could tell what Shikamaru was going to say and she figured it would be a waste of time for him to say it now and waste time so she dismissed the ninja. The ninja were heading through the forest trying to catch up to their attackers with Shikamaru at the lead. Naruto and Hinata were at his wing, and then Naruto was side by side with Shikamaru.
"What was it you got so worked up about in Tsunade's office? I've never seen you ever get worked up about something except for maybe once, but that was a long time ago, it's not like you, what's wrong?"
Shikamaru grunted and looked at Naruto, then glanced at Hinata. He wasn't entirely sure if it was good to say it, he knew how fragile Hinata's feelings were, however it might be much worse if she found out when they got there.
"Tsunade had the damn nerve to with hold our attacker's names." He started.
"So? Who are they?" Naruto asked.
"Deidara and Don."
Hinata stopped where she was and the group stopped after they had seen her.
"So it's true, the rumor after the attack was true, Don was with Deidara destroying our village. What is wrong with him?" Neji asked.
"How could he betray us like that so suddenly, it makes no sense." Naruto angrily said.
"Tsunade told me after we left that he is no longer an ally of Konoha, he is now a traitor and has given us the order to eliminate him." Shikamaru added.
Hinata stood there listening to what her comrades were saying. A tear did not fall down her face, instead she fell silent. A feeling of anger consumed Hinata and she jumped ahead of her friends.
"Come on, we have work to do." She said darkly.
Naruto had tried the whole time to calm her down but she refused to, he had a focused mind; she was going to find Don.
Don and Deidara found a place to stop and let Deidara gather more clay for his bombs. As Deidara was restocking himself, Don got up from his resting place.
"Did you also tell that we had people following us?" he asked.
Deidara looked at Don and smiled.
"I did, what do you suppose we do? Do you want to kill them or should we continue on our way?"
Don got up and hopped on a limb.
"I know someone who is around here; I'm going to pay them a visit and I will meet up with you on the outskirts of Suna."
Deidara nodded and watched his partner zoom off into the trees. The leaf ninja noticed the sudden change in grouping of their attackers. They could tell that someone left the other, but who?