A/N: Sorry that this chapter is super late, I just sort of had writer's block for this story. So what did you think about the last chapter? I'll try to make this chapter a bit more personal, but we'll see how that goes. Alright, no more rambling from me. Onto the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, they belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

Chapter 5: Divided Forces!

The smirking woman confidently stepped forward, her hand on her hip. "Who am I? I'm Kana Ito, and I'm here to revive the Akatsuki."

I knew she looked familiar! thought Himawari. "Kana? Mitsuki searched for you for months. You disappeared. Everyone thought you were dead," she said, her voice filled with grief.

"It broke his heart when you vanished," added in Mirai. She had always felt like an older sister to everyone in Boruto's class. Shikamaru had taught her what was the most important thing in the village: the king, the future of Konoha. Since she had learned that, she'd done her best to become a fierce protector of her kin, considered a big sister by most of her generation.

"Please, he never cared about me like that. He was merely doing his job as a 'shinobi' by watching me. That doesn't matter now anyways. I'll make Konoha fall to it's knees," Kana said, obvious contempt in her voice. "But that will all come later. Right now I need that diplomat alive, and the rest of you dead." Kana charged at them, while Himawari bit her thumb, causing it to bleed. Creating a series of hand signs, she pressed her hand with the bleeding thumb to the ground.

"Summoning Jutsu!" In front of Himawari appeared a purple fox with a yellow belly and green eyes. It stood as tall as Himawari, and everyone except for Mirai stared at it for a second before returning to their battle stances, astonished. The Genin were stunned because they had never seen a summon before. Kana forgot that Himawari had a contract with the foxes.

"Lady Himawari, what do you need?" Asked the fox with a feminine voice.

"Miu, I need you to help me fight Kana," she said, her voice taking on a very powerful tone as she spoke. None of her team had heard her speak so seriously before.

"Kana? But she…" said Miu, leaving the statement for Himawari to finish.

"I know. Short Version: she's alive and attacking us now." As she said the last few words, she was deflecting kunai being thrown at her. Miu looked in front of her, shocked to see the girl she used to know coming at them.

"Very well, Lady Himawari. How many of Kana's moves do you remember?"

"A lot. We were sparring partners after all."

"Good. Hop on." With that, Himawari jumped on Miu's back, leaning forward over her neck. Kana was now directly in front of Miu, locking kunai with Himawari. Kana jumped back as Miu swiped at her with one of her front paws.

"I really wish that you didn't know how to summon. It always got on my nerves when you did that," said Kana, quickly re-approaching the whiskered girl and her mount. This time she was making hand signs as she approached. "Earth Spear Jutsu!"

Rocks jutted out of the Earth in rapid succession towards Himawari. Miu dodged each in rapid succession,but didn't notice the kunai thrown at her. "Miu!" Himawari screamed as the kunai moved toward them, faster and faster. Himawari didn't have time to grab a kunai, so she did the first thing she could to protect her summons; she took the hit. Time seemed to slow down as her students rushed to her while she fell off of Miu. She groggily got to her feet, a fierce scowl on her face. "That wasn't a normal kunai, was it, Kana."

"But of course. Only one of the many poisonous kunai in my arsenal. You should know that by now Hima." Kana smiled evilly as Himawari fell to her knees, eyes closing fast. She felt Mamoru catch her as she drifted into unconsciousness.

Mamoru grabbed Himawari, picking her up on his back as he moved back to behind his teammates, near Mirai. "What should we do now, Yuki?" he asked, knowing she was the best at making logical decisions fast even in a crisis. She was quiet for a moment, then answered him.

"You should take Himawari-sensei and Mirai and get moving to Suna. Tetsuo and I will do our best to fight her off. Don't protest, just go. We still need to complete the mission and make sure Himawari-Sensei and Mirai are safe. We don't have the luxury of time to argue about it, so I need you to trust me and go. Ok?" Mamoru gave a nod to her, and started running towards Suna, trusting Mirai was near him. He heard shuriken flying towards him, but soon heard them being deflected. He continued running, even when he couldn't see or hear the fight anymore. I hope they're alright and I get to Suna on time. Sooner than he thought he would, he saw what appeared to be the main gates to what he hoped was Suna. Seeing the gate made him and Mirai run faster. When they reached the gate and stopped near a burly looking man, Mirai did the talking for him, seeing as he was trying to catch his breath.

"We are the diplomatic envoy from Konoha. And yes there are more of us, but we ran into a deadly enemy in the desert. Please send some ninja to help them, they're only genin, and I'm not sure how much longer they'll last," Mirai said to the man, who merely nodded before yelling at some people. Mirai turned to Mamoru. "I'll take Hima to the hospital, you lead the Suna Nin to where Yukino and Tetsuo are." He nodded, and looked at the Suna Nin that had already gathered behind him. He turned around and Mirai took Himawari-Sensei from his back.

"Let's go."

Yukino was breathing heavily, standing back to back with Tetsuo. They each held up a kunai, and both were low on chakra. Mamoru left about a half-hour ago, and they were hoping he would get back soon. This woman, Kana, seemed to have a never ending supply of weapons, not to mention a lot of chakra and a lot of jutsus relating to poison. Although Yukino had noticed that Kana was standing guard in front of a rather large dog, but it was frail and sick looking. Tetsuo has probably noticed it too.

Tetsuo noticed her looking at the dog, and understood what she was trying to do. She turned back to look at him, and he gave her a you-better-know-what-you're-doing looks. The rain of sharp metal objects stopped for a second, and he rushed the dog, aiming to look like he would kill it. "NO!" Kana screamed as she lunged for him, trying to protect the dog by killing Tetsuo. Yukino knew this was the best chance she would get. I hope this works. She made a series of handsigns, then stuck her hands out in a way similar to the Yamanaka's mind control jutsu.

"Blood Paralysis Jutsu!" Kana's body suddenly froze, and Yukino dropped to her knees. Knowing she would faint from chakra exhaustion soon, she made Kana stab herself where she assumed Kana's heart was. She had missed the heart by quite a bit, but still made Kana puncture her own lung. Yukino didn't stay conscious long enough to see who it was approaching on the horizon.

A/N: Once again sorry this is super late, and short, but I've had trouble writing this down into a good chapter(which still isn't all that great.) Anyways, please read and review, and I promise to update the next chapter sooner!

XOXO, Zera