Chapter 20: Sand's Betrayal
"No way! Gaara's absolute defense has been..." Kankurō said in disbelief.
"It can't be..." Temari said her eyes widening.
"Im-impossible..." Baki said shock.
"Impressive..." The 'fourth' kazekage thought.
"That's kakashi's..." The third hokage said shock.
"Chidori... Or it's also known as Raikiri" Guy explain.
"Raikiri?" Sakura ask raising an eye brow.
"Raikiri is... A nickname earned when kakashi cut a bolt of lightning with that Jutsu... It's true name is chidori it is known for its stabbing speed that pushes the limits of the human body... And the amount of chakra that is focused in one arm... That arm then becomes the blade of a sword that cuts anything... But what a truly ridiculous Jutsu it is..." Guy explain before crossing his arms on his chest.
"A Jutsu that was used to cut a bolt of lightning... That's one heck of Jutsu..." Sakura said narrowing her eyes, "Hn... But like I said it won't be enough, especially if the person you want to assassinate is Uchiha Itachi..."
Naruto gripped the railing while gritting his teeth, jealousy evident on his eyes.
"Heh... The guy that was so worried about Sasuke... Is now jealous of him..." Shikamaru thought smirking.
"What is this... Warm stuff... Okaa-san what did... AHHHH!... BLOOD... MY... MY BLOOD!" Gaara yelled inside his cocoon.
"It... Can't be..." Temari said her eyes widen in shock along with kankurō.
Sakura bit her lower lip as she watch her boyfriend try to free his arm out of the cocoon, her eyes slightly widen when she saw Shukaku's hand wrap around Sasuke's arm before it went back inside the cocoon.
"It's 'his' arm" kankurō thought fear written on his face.
"What's that?" Guy ask narrowing his eyes.
"Did he transform into his 'complete' form?!" Kankurō ask alarmed.
"I don't know, it looks like he's wounded, this has never..." Temari said trailing off, "inside is..."
"Kuso... Acting on his own" baki thought gritting his teeth.
Sasuke was staring at the cocoon breathing heavily.
"What's this... Feeling...?" Genma thought feeling the air around him shifting.
The cocoon started to crack, making Temari, kankurō, baki more nervous.
"This is bad..." Sakura thought biting her lower lip until she could taste blood.
The cocoon was destroyed revealing Gaara clutching his blooded shoulder while breathing heavily and his eyes widen in shock.
"I knew it! A wound... The cocoon was broken while he was still incomplete!" Temari said shock to see his little brother actually wounded.
The audience started to fall asleep except for the jōnins.
"Kakashi... This is..." Guy said looking at kakashi from the corner of his eyes.
"Hai... Genjutsu" kakashi said.
"Kai" Kakashi and Guy said deflecting the genjutsu.
Sakura narrow her eyes easily deflecting the genjutsu without even doing anything.
"Genjutsu... So Kabuto started his move... Then the time will soon come" baki thought narrowing his eyes.
The 'Kazekage' look at the hokage.
"Shall we..." The 'kazekage' said as a huge puff of smoke surround him and the hokage.
"Operation start!" Temari, kankurō, and baki thought.
A three headed snake destroyed the boundary wall of Konoha, the 'Kazekage' head locked the hokage while pointing a kunai on his temple using his other hand before he jump on the roof still holding the hokage.
Sakura gritted her teeth while narrowing her eyes at the four sound-nin who was doing a hand seal.
A barrier appear surrounding Orochimaru and hiruzen, The faces of the barrier are made from purple flames.
Kankurō and Temari jump beside Gaara along with baki.
"For Suna to betray Konoha... An alliance is only useful as camouflage to make the enemy relax his guard" Hiruzen said in disbelief.
"The stupid fighting games end here... From here, history changes..." The 'kezekage' said.
"You want to start a war?" Hiruzen ask.
"Exactly" Orochimaru said grinning behind the cloth covering half his face.
"We should avoid solving things through force, and work out our differences through negotiation... Kazekage-sama, there is still time..." Hiruzen said hoping that the 'kazekage' would cooperate.
"Do we become peace loving fools when we age? Sarutobi-sensei?" Orochimaru said smirking.
Hiruzen's eyes widen in realization "You..."
Genma stood in front of Sasuke, narrowing his eyes at the sand sibling and baki.
"Gaara... The plan..." Baki said looking at Gaara.
Gaara gritted his teeth clutching his head while on his knees and shaking.
"I knew it..." Temari said a bit worried.
"What is it?" Kankurō ask worriedly.
"Baka! Trying to transform into your complete form before the signal" baki said half glaring at Gaara.
"He's experiencing the side effects... It's impossible to proceed now..." Temari said kneeling beside him.
"Then what are we suppose to do?! Do it without Gaara?" Kankurõ ask.
"Abort the mission... You guys take Gaara and retreat" Baki said gritting his teeth while looking at Genma and Sasuke.
"Nani? What about you?" Temari ask looking at him.
"I'll join the battle... GO!" Baki order not taking his eyes off team 7 and Genma.
"H-Hai..." Temari said.
Kankurō wrap Gaara's arm around his neck and left with Temari.
"Is the leader of this party, Orochimaru?" Genma ask looking at baki.
"Who knows... Lets just join the fun..." Baki said smirking.
"Oi! What's going on?" Sasuke said more like demanded.
"Sorry, but the Chūnin exam is now over, you go pursue Gaara and the others" Genma said not looking at Sasuke.
Sasuke's eyes widen.
"You're already a Chūnin level, if you're a Konoha-nin then make yourself useful" Genma said.
"Geez... What's going on here?" Sasuke thought before following the sand siblings.
"Sasuke?" Kakashi thought when he saw Sasuke leaving the battleground.
"Where the hell is he going?" Sakura thought narrowing her eyes.
"I see... So that's it..." Hiruzen said gritting his teeth.
"Your foolishness has caused Konoha to fall further and further behind... I have won" Orochimaru said.
"Heh... It's not over till its over... I thought I taught you that..." Hiruzen said smirking.
Orochimaru removed his mask revealing his true face.
"Orochimaru" Hiruzen said looking at him from the corner of his eyes, "I thought this day would come eventually... But you won't get my head so easily..."
Orochimaru smirk "I told you... You should hurry and pick the fifth... Because... You will die here the third.." He said licking his kunai.
"A large number..." Kakashi said staring at the sound-nins in front of him.
"It's not just that... The situation is more dire than that... Look at the roof of the central watch tower" Guy said looking at the barrier.
"That's barrier ninjutsu" Kakashi said his visible eye widening.
Sakura bit her lower lip "I can destroy the barrier... But... I'm not allowed to do anything... Kuso...."
"Kakashi look within the barrier..." Guy said gritting his teeth.
Kakashi's eye widen "Orochimaru!"
Sakura narrow her eyes summoning Akuma and swinging it at the two sound-nins heading towards her, beheading them.
Kakashi, Guy, and the rest of the sound-nins gave her a shock and disbelief look.
"Nani? Never seen a 13 year old girl cut off a ninja's head?" Sakura ask all her barely there emotion vanishing leaving only a no mercy filled eyes like when she fought Zaku.
The rest of the sound-nins run towards her but before they could even reach her, their head rolled off their body.
"What the..." Kakashi said in disbelief.
Guy swallowed hard.
Hiruzen smirk when he saw tears gathering on Orochimaru's eyes "Are you that happy? Or..."
Before he could even finish what he was saying Orochimaru stab his own palm.
"Trying to kill your own master, yet... You still have the heart to feel some small amount of sadness..." Hiruzen said narrowing his eyes.
"I finally feel better..." Orochimaru said before wiping the tears off his eyes, "No, I was just tired... I yawned and a tear leaked out, that's all..."
"Heh... I thought so..." Hiruzen said smirking.
Orochimaru let go of Hiruzen and started waking a couple of feet away.
"I know you're not the kind of man to act based solely on vengeance... You have neither goals nor reasons..." Hiruzen said closing his eyes.
"Hmmm... Perhaps... But I do have a goal... Well... You could say... I enjoy watching things in motion... It's a dull when things are at a standstill, isn't it?" Orochimaru said smirking "A stopped windmill isn't worth watching you know... Though... Sometimes it's good, because of the anticipation you see..." He said taking off the kazekage hat and throwing it somewhere "Anyway... Right now... I want to make that windmill spin again... With the 'crumbling Konoha' as the wind..."
"Heh... You're the same as always..." Hiruzen said smirking.
Kakashi shook his head before looking at his female student "Sakura... Nullify the genjutsu and wake up Shikamaru and Naruto... This will be your first mission as Konoha-nin... Naruto will be happy since his been bugging me for a mission cause he wants to see you in action without any rules or whatsoever..."
"What kind of mission?" Sakura ask in a monotone.
"First of, stop talking to me like that it's disturbing... Second, listen carefully... This is an A-rank mission..." Kakashi said before slashing at the sound-nin heading towards him.
"At a situation like this?" Sakura ask raising an eye brow.
"Sasuke is in pursuit of Gaara and his siblings... Sakura... You are to nullify the genjutsu on Shikamaru and Naruto... And track Sasuke down..." Kakashi said biting his thumb "I'm concern about that weird chakra..."
"Aa..." Sakura said narrowing her eyes.
"Most likely the sand and sound have already entered the village... You only need the basic four man team..." Kakashi said doing a hand seal.
"Four man?" Sakura ask raising an eye brow.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu" kakashi said slamming his hand on the back of a sleeping person.
"A... Dog?" Sakura said blinking at the small dog on front of her.
"This guy, Pakkun, will be able to track Sasuke down by his scent" kakashi explained.
"Or I could just follow Sasuke's chakra...", Sakura gave him a blank look "Ok... I'm suppose to track down the sand sibling with a lazy genius who's IQ almost matches mine, a hyperactive idiot, and a little dog..."
"What's your IQ? And what's Shikamaru's?" Kakashi ask curious.
"Shikamaru's IQ is over 200, 210 to be exact, mine is 220..." Sakura said shrugging.
Kakashi's visible eye wide along with Pakkun "Ok then... Sakura nullify the Genjutsu on Shikamaru and Naruto..."
"Hai" Sakura said kneeling beside Naruto and tapping his shoulder.
Naruto's eyes slowly open, he sat up while rubbing his eyes "Huh? What happened, Sakura-chan?"
"I'll explain later..." Sakura said moving towards Shikamaru, she shook her head with a small smile on her face "Shikamaru..."
Pakkun bit Shikamaru's ankle.
"ITAI!" Shikamaru yelled waking up instantly.
"Why were you pretending to be possum?" Sakura ask raising an eye brow amuse.
"I didn't want to be attack... Who cares about Sasuke, anyway..." Shikamaru said holding Pakkun by the scarf and pinching his cheek, causing Pakkun to bite his hand.
"Well for one thing he's your comrade, your fellow Konoha-nin..." Sakura said smirking at him.
Shikamaru scoff.
Guy threw a sound-nin on the wall beside Sakura creating a hole on the wall, Kakashi jump in front of his student, his back facing them.
"Now I'll restart your mission... Once you've heard it escape through the wall... Chase after Sasuke, join him and stop him... Then take him away to a safe location..." Kakashi said not looking at his student.
"What happened to teme?" Naruto ask worried for his best friend.
"I'll explain on the way" Sakura said using chakra threads to control Naruto and Shikamaru to escape through the hole with Pakkun.
"Will they be alright by themselves?" Guy ask concern.
"Pakkun's with them, they should be fine... As long as they don't get in too deep" kakashi said.
Shino frown before disappearing.
Hiruzen took off his hokage robe and hat, tossing it somewhere, Orochimaru copied his move.
"Hehe... To be able to fight you again..." Orochimaru said smirking.
"So the barrier can only be broken from the inside, eh?" An ANBU said.
"If hokage-sama could just take out one of those four we could get in" the ANBU beside him said.
"It's about to start..." Kidōmaru said smirking.
"Put up a barrier on the inside too" Sakon said.
"Hai" Jjirōbo said.
Another barrier appear inside.
Hiruzen smirk "Heh... Looks like I won't be able to escape easily."
"As of you intend to... You'd rather not have anyone get in your way, right?" Orochimaru ask smirking.
Hiruzen's smirk grew.
"Kuso..." The ANBU said.
Well that's it...
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