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Chapter 92

Note: When your life is at risk, mercy is not on your mind.

~Laura's POV

"Ready, Laura," Kahlan asks as I back up a little from Kankuro as he looks at me with his glare, I did nothing wrong but smile and wave… how was I being mean?

"Yeah," I say while making three hand signs before cupping my hands as I throw up a long line of water, my stomach turns as I do this, Water Release: Water Whip, and I carefully shape it into a long whip which should reach across the battle field. This is pretty good since it's a medium distance weapon and I'm more of a medium to long range fighter, says Pein.

I grin slightly before running at Kankuro with Kahlan before he smirks and moves a finger, I slid slowly to a stop as I feel the floor move from under me and I see one of his puppets under me, about to close me up but I was actually waiting and wanting this to happen. I use my water whip to keep it from closing me in before quickly making three hand signs.

"Laura!" I hear Kahlan says as I turn the chakra in my stomach as it turns before throwing up a lot of water up, almost as much as a small lake.

Water release: Tornado of Water. I shift my chakra to my hands and feet before trying my best to spin my chakra around insanely as fast as I can while making it as sharp and strong. This is one I have only tried… twice I think… I failed each time but I think this may be the only technique that can break this puppet into pieces. I feel my chakra spinning so fast that I cannot keep up with it but continue to sharpen it and strengthen it till I hear what I want to hear, creaking of the wood before opening one eye and see it all creaking and ripping up into pieces.

YES! Thank you Kisame for the tip of strengthening it as well as sharpening it, I was just trying to get as much chakra out as I can.

"That's a lot of chakra," I can hear Jiraiya comment as I turn more chakra up into water before throwing some more up and use this water to help with my tornado. According to Kisame and Kakuzu, this Jutsu is a great barrier and attack… mechanism…s… me… isn… thingy. I just know it means that this is a great guard for a barrier and great for attacking at close range.

I grind my teeth together while giving my chakra one last push before collapsing onto the ground along with the puppet which… well let's just say it doesn't look like a puppet no more.

"Black Ant!" Kankuro seems to yell as I stagger to my feet, okay… too much chakra in one move… oh look that cloud has feet~

"Laura, are you okay," I hear Kahlan ask as I nod softly with a smile, I feel quite wore out but I'm fine.

"Way-to-go my student," Kisame seems to yell from his fight without even looking away from his battle but he seems to be grinning, "finally got that Jutsu right," he says as I nod my head softly before breathing my chakra whip back in to replenish my chakra, once the chakra is back in my body I feel a heck of a lot better, like I just had an energy bar or something.

"I'm good," I say while grinning and slowly pulling my samurai sword from its holder and back off towards Kahlan, my sword ready now. Well they do say for ninjas that battles are the best places to perfect Jutsus… they are soo right!

Kahlan spares me a small smile before Kankuro glares at the two of us, clearly annoyed that I… kinder… destroyed one of his puppets… but in my defense he was TRYING TO KILL ME! I don't plan on dying till I'm in my thirties.

"Nice move," Kahlan whispers to me as I smile at the words, it was a do-it-and-live or a fail-and-die moment. I take a deep breath before moving close to whisper to her.

"This is Kankuro, he is a puppet user like Sasori and the only weakness that I know is that when he uses his puppets he leaves himself wide open, like all puppeteers do," I whisper as she nods her head at the new information.

"So just dodge the puppets and the poison and attack him head on?"

"Yeah, if he doesn't have his puppets, he's more or less useless," I say with a small chuckle which seems to annoy Kankuro who moves his hand and the crow puppet that scares me moves more before launching itself at us which causes me to slid off to the left while Kahlan moves to the right to dodge. "I'll deal with the puppet, you attack him," I yell to her while moving my sword up and dash at the puppet and clash against one of the hidden blades in its arms, oops… I forgot that EVERY part of its body has blades and poison in it… just great… I really need to remember things better.

I bite down on the inside of my cheek before swinging my sword up which detaches its arm from crow which stabs into the ground, I take no time pouring my chakra into my sword before cutting the chakra strings that attach Kankuro to the detached arm, no way in heaven am I having him attack me from behind.

I seem to take my time while detaching each part of its body and detaching its chakra strings from it, it takes very little resistance as I glance to Kahlan to see her attack Kankuro with her two sais which are glowing red, he seems to hiss every now and again whenever her sais graze him with her red chakra but he seems to be more into saving himself from Kahlan to really stop me from attacking Crow till it's only a mess of body parts and poison on the ground.

I give the puppet on last strike to its head and torso before deciding I have done enough, I am not going to murder this puppet no more… poor thing barely got to live… it didn't get to try ramen out.

I shake my head slightly before making one hand sign before spitting into my hand and knead it with my chakra which reminds in my hand. Water Release: Gunshot. I think that while pointing a finger at Kankuro before sighing a little, sorry Kankuro, you are clearly not going to stop before you kill Kahlan and I… I'm really-really-really-really sorry… please forgive me.

I clench my eyes shut as I release the two water bullets and hear a gasp of pain from a male voice… sorry… Kankuro.

"Kankuro," I whisper softly before running over to Kahlan as I see the dude collapses to the ground in pain, grasping his side and chest where the two bullets. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," I say while feeling my eyes fill up a little, I rub my eyes a little while kneeling down beside him before rubbing my eyes again. I only notice something that wasn't in any of my Naruto information books, his eyes are a really dark brown.

"You…" he seems to whisper while glaring at me for a moment as I sniff a little, my nose still a little sore from all the sniffling from before, "you're a kid…" he whispers again as I see his eyes widen for a moment before coughing up blood which runs out his mouth and down his neck.

"You can't die… Gaara needs you… Temari needs you," I say softly as his eyes widen slightly before returning to his normal size, his skin growing paler by the second.

"Kankuro!" I hear Gaara yell from his fight; my hands shake as I place my hands on his wound, trying to stop the bleeding as I place pressure on them. "Get up! Kankuro!" Gaara yells more as I feel more tears falling down my cheeks.

"You can't go, your brother needs you," I say with a weak voice as I notice him smile a tiny bit before raising his hand to my head and ruffling my hair softly with what strength he has left.

"He doesn't need me anymore to protect…" he whispers softly with his smile… Kankuro is Gaara's brother… I don't know what I would do if my brother died… apart from throwing a party, "he doesn't needmet no more…" he whispers as I watch his eyes grow pale before smiling one more time, only weaker, "do me a favour… tell Gaara… and… Temari… that… their brother… loves them… dearly…" he whispers one last time before closing his eyes softly, dropping his hand from my head slowly as it falls and drops to the ground. More tears are falling and I am sure I can feel his blood falling from where his hand was on my head slid down on face.

"Kankuro!" I hear Gaara yell even louder as tears continue to fall from my eyes… goodbye… even if I just met you… it was nice to have fought you.

"I will…" I whisper back as I watch his body grow even paler and quickly cover my eyes as his body bursts out into a wave of smoke and stream… what just happened?

I slowly stand up while wiping my hands over my eyes and over the bits of blood dropping off my chin.

"Gaara," I yell across the area as I see Gaara glance to me while fighting against Itachi, I can see the tears running down his face from me, "Kankuro… said… to tell you and Temari… that…" I say slowly before looking up to him with puffy eyes from crying, tears still falling from my eyes, "that… 'Their brother loves them dearly'," I say as I feel another two sets of tears fall, dripping off of my chin as I see his eyes widen a little before another set of tears run down his face.

He closes his eyes for a second before closing them and quickly wiping them; he gives me a small smile before nodding his head and turning back to the fight against Itachi.

I slowly look to Kahlan as a tear runs down her face before wiping it away; she gives me a small smile before I slowly give her one back. I hope Gaara can meet up with them soon to tell Temari that… Kankuro… he's actually a really nice guy… I know that from his data on how he protects Gaara dearly even when he was pretty scared of him before.

"Kisame, Kahlan, Laura, we have to move soon," Itachi says before disappearing into a wave of crows which fly over to us two before gathering and turning back into Itachi. "Kisame, let's go," he calls to Kisame who seems to yell a little in frustration before running past Jiraiya who happens to fall straight on his face while he was in the middle of attacking before picking me up and slinging me onto his back as I grip onto his shoulders.

I watch as he opens his mouth and breaths out mist as I watch Itachi quickly grab Kahlan's hand before running off in the same direction we were heading in, leaving the Konoha ninjas behind.

"We have to reach our Rendezvous point, Leader has called a meeting near the edge of town, by the graveyards," Itachi says while running ahead while holding onto Kahlan before they are out of the mist before letting go of it.

I shake at the thought of a graveyard but say nothing, if I hear anything I swear I will hide behind the nearest person to me… I really hate horror movies and all that… which is probably why Kahlan watches all her movies while I'm at work.

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