Disclaimer: Not mine
Hey guys, I'm sorry to make you wait a million years for this. But I was busy these three weeks? I went to Japan on the second week after the latest chapter was posted and I just came back today. So please forgive me. I hope some of you are still willing to read this. Enjoy
Sacrifice to Save
Even though Sakura said they'll rest in the rooms prepared by the village, she couldn't sleep at night, she tossed and turned around on her bed, she just felt so full of energy she didn't know what to do with it. The others would probably wake up if she kept shifting in her bed, she decided to face the ceiling and try to sleep. But once she closed her eyes, her hearing seemed to have automatically sharpened, Naruto's snore became unusually loud, she could even hear Sasuke and Kakashi's light breathing. There was crickets, and the soft wind. There was even a flapping sounds of a bird. Soon the sounds of the night were overwhelming her
Sakura shot up from her blankets, how could the silent night be so….. Unsilent! "It's no good….. I can't sleep" breathed Sakura, her voice was soft, no one else would probably be able to hear her, till she heard a voice.
"Can't sleep, huh"
Sakura quickly turned to her right, where Sasuke's bed lies. He bed was between Naruto and Sasuke's. Kakashi's was closes to the window. She jumped a little at the voice, she thought she was alone, till she heard his voice.
"Ah, sorry. Did I wake you?" whispered Sakura, so she doesn't wake up the rest.
Sasuke pushed himself to sit up on the bed, he rubbed his eyes in a child like manner, Sakura couldn't help but to speak her heart "So Cute" she squealed "You're just like a child, Sasuke"
Sasuke paused to replay what Sakura just said, in his head. His face exploded red, but he didn't dare move, incase Sakura notices his blushing face. Sakura too was a little slow at noticing what she just said too, there was an awkward silence between then, Sakura blushed a little "A-Ah! I didn't mean that in an unmanly way. J-Just…. Saying that you're like… a child" said Sakura, her voice slowly fading as she buried the lower part of her face deeper and deeper into her pillow.
Sasuke pulled himself together, "R-Right" was all he could manage, anymore and his voice would crack and give away his composure, which he is having a hard time holding. Sakura wasn't helping with her adorable look as she holds onto her pillow.
Sasuke flopped back down onto his pillow and threw the blanket over his head, covering his whole body, his back was facing her "A-anyway, just go to sleep for now" he said quickly.
"Are you feeling well? Sasuke" said Sakura, worriedly looking at his hidden body.
"I'm fine, just go to sleep" said Sasuke, his voice was muffled under the blankets.
"You don't sound like it" said Sakura, he heard her step off her bed and walk to his side and he tightened his hold on his blanket , to make sure she couldn't pull it off to check on him. Sakura tugged on his blanket but it wouldn't budge.
"Come on Sasuke, let go of the blanket. I gotta make sure you're real okay" said Sakura, she sounded worried but at the same time convincing.
Sakura tugged on it harder but Sasuke wouldn't give in, they struggled in a tug of war at first, then Sakura got fed up and used a sudden extra boost of strength that caught Sasuke off guard, Sakura managed to get it off him, but Sasuke was still holding onto the blanket, he quickly pulled it back…. along with Sakura?
It seemed like Sakura was still holding onto the blanket as Sasuke pulled it back and it pulled her onto the bed. The kunoichi laid on top of Sasuke their faces were only a few inches apart, yet none of them moved nor spoke.
Sasuke turned every shade of red that's known to mankind, Sakura on the other hand was just starring innocently into his onyx eyes, both her hands was supporting her up, she removed one of them and placed it on Sasuke's forehead.
"Sasuke…? Sasuke? Y-You're burning up!" said Sakura, panicking.
Sasuke shook himself a little and suppressed his hormonal urges, Sakura blushed a little "Sasuke, you can let go of me now…." She said softly.
Sasuke looked at what his hands were doing, they were holding onto Sakura's waist. Somehow, he didn't remember making his hands do that. He immediately broke contact, withdrawing his hand like it burned (Maybe Sakura was just too hot for him to handle, Ok scratch that, like… now).
Sakura slid off him and Sasuke sat up "I…. erm…. Sorry…. About that…. That is…." Stuttered Sasuke, he rubbed the back of his neck as his eyes rolled from corner to corner, avoiding Sakura's tantalizing orbs.
"You don't look very well, Sasuke. Are you getting lack of oxygen" said Sakura, putting her face up close to Sasuke, sweat began to rolling rapidly down his face.
'Of course I'm getting lack of oxygen when you're this close…..!' thought Sasuke.
"I'd better give you a check up, just to be sure" said Sakura, just when she was about to touch his forehead, Sasuke grabbed her hand and stopped her.
"I'm fine, really" assured Sasuke.
"Mmm….. if you say so" said Sakura, she reluctantly flopped back down onto her bed and try to sleep again.
Sasuke let out a breath and crashed down onto his pillow, his heart still racing, his head was flooded with thoughts of Sakura, he smacked himself on the forehead he then ripped it off, hoping that the images of her would get out of his mind, but he failed rather miserably.
'Why are women so difficult….. this is probably what Shikamaru feels like…..' thought Sasuke, as he sighed and rolled over on his bed and faced Sakura's bed.
'Ne Ne, Sasuke. How much do you think I've grown?' said Sakura, her eyes closed in a smile, her hands held together behind her and she leaned forward a little.
That memory flashed in his head, it was before they were sent to the mission, Sakura and Sasuke was talking in the lake.
Sasuke's eyes widened and immediately turned away from Sakura's bed and clasped both his hands on his face.
'I won't be able to sleep…..' he thought miserably.
Early next morning, Pakkun shot out of the window and onto Kakashi's empty bed.
"You found out where's the akatsuki?"
Pakkun turned towards the voice, Kakashi was leaning against the wall, looking at his sleeping students. Pakkun gave a smile.
"They're so much more cuter when they're like this" said Kakashi, he sighed inwardly and turned Pakkun "So, what did you find"
"H-Ha….." Pakkun began
Sakura could hear faint voices as she slowly opened her eyes "So we're somewhere here and their hide out is a little further after we've crossed the desert" said a voice that sounded like Kakashi.
"Well, you'll know the place once you see it, it's not that hard to find. Sakura-chan is there too, she'll be able to sense it once she's within a 30 kilometer range, no matter how hard they try to hide a jinchuuriki's chakra, they can't hide it completely." Said Pakkun.
"Yeah, you're probably right" said Kakashi.
Sakura threw her blanket off.
"You found out where they're hiding? Pakkun" said Sakura, she stumbled out of bed and jumped over Naruto's bed to Kakashi's bed.
"Ah... we'll need to get moving immediately" said Kakashi. Sakura turned around to wake her teammates, but when she turned around, they were already standing behind her.
"Lets get going" said Naruto, taking off his dog head sleeping hat.
"You're still wearing at to sleep? What a loser" said Sasuke.
"Huh? You wanna fight early in the morning?" challenged Naruto, but before Sasuke could respond, Sakura jumped in between them "Stop it now, you two" she scolded them.
They immediately cut it out.
Kakashi reported to Baki and the other superiors.
"Are you sure?" said Temari
"Yes, it had just been confirmed….. the team from Konoha will be departing soon" said the chuunin that reported to Temari, they were talking outside of Kankuro's room. Kankuro curiously looked out his door, though he couldn't see Temari, he tried to listen to their conversation.
"I understand, I'll be making a few arrangements, I'll be going too" said Temari.
"Yes" and the chuunin ran off once again.
Temari watched till Kankuro called out her name, she rushed inside immediately. Kankuro was pushing himself up.
"Kankuro, don't force yourself. You just go back to sleep. I'll definitely bring Gaara back" said Temari.
They looked at each other for a moment, before they both broke into grinning.
Team Kakashi was gather at the village's entrance "Right, after the sand has made their preparations. We'll be leaving with them to save Gaara" said Kakashi.
"Alright!" said Naruto, excitedly.
"Sorry for the wait" said a familiar voice.
They turned to Temari, there was a whole squadron behind her.
"Shall we get going then" said Sakura, she smiled.
The girl that was behind the right side of Temari, she eyed Sakura in curiousity.
"You are..." but before she could complete her sentence, Baki jumped down outta nowhere.
"Wait!"
They turned to him, Baki looked at Kakashi, then he nodded "Temari, you and your team are to remain here on border patrol duty" said Baki.
"Don't joke with me!" snapped Temari.
"It's orders from our superiors, if word gets out that the Kazekage-sama is captured, the other villages will try and attack the village" said Baki.
"But these people from Konoha came all the way here for us, and you expect us to sit here and wait? Gaara is our Kazekage. They have to send someone from the sand" said Temari.
"But…." Baki said, hesitantly.
"I'll go" came a voice from a rooftop.
Everyone's attention was directed to the old lady on the roof. There Chiyo stood proudly on the railing as the sun rays shone against her back.
"If you need to send someone from the sand, I, alone shall be more than enough" said Chiyo, a little arrogance in her tone.
"Chiyo baa-sama….!" Said Temari.
"But you can't" said Baki.
Chiyo smirked "Hmph, I'm retired. I can do whatever I want" she said boldly.
"But you shouldn't force yourse-" the girl with paint markings on her cheeks was cut off.
"Don't treat me like an old lady" snapped Chiyo, then she dove down to earth.
"She jumped!" said Naruto.
Chiyo landed right in front of Naruto, who stumbled backwards, due to shock.
"I've been longing to see my cute little grandson for a while now" said Chiyo.
The troops eventually gave in "I'm sorry about this, I'll try to convince the superiors to change their minds" said Baki.
"We'll catch up to you later" said Temari.
"Hah, by the time you get there, We would have already saved Gaara" said Naruto.
"We'll be going now" said Kakashi, they turned and ran off.
Sakura was still looking at the disappointed troop's expression "Don't worry too much, We're strong. We'll definitely save Gaara" said Sakura, smiling.
"Then….. we're counting on you" said Temari.
Just when Sakura was about to catch up with her teammates, someone called out to her.
"Sakura…..san right" said Matsuri.
Sakura turned around "Ara, You're from that time…." Said Sakura. She remembered the mission to rescue Matsuri and it turned out to be a total disaster. Gaara turned into the Shukaku, Naruto and Sasuke was injured badly and Sakura pleaded Gaara to control himself.
"Ee….. It's Matsuri. You were the one who rescued Gaara-sensei from the four celestial warriors right" said Matsuri.
"My teammates were there too" said Sakura.
"Please… save Gaara-sensei. You're our only hope" said Matsuri.
Sakura looked surprised, then smiled "Just leave it to me" then she was off.
She had fallen back pretty far from her teammates, but they purposely slowed down for her, just so she could catch up.
Team Guy was almost to the desert, they haven't stop for a break ever since they left the village "You guys are going too fast….. we've been running non-stop, let's take a break" said Tenten.
"You haven't been training enough, Tenten" said Lee.
Tenten sighed.
"Lee, in front of you" called out Neji.
They stopped as the leaves in front of them shook, a small creature shot out of his and landed on the leaves.
"Wait, Guy "
"Pakkun?" said Guy .
Team Kakashi were travelling in silence, then Sakura spoke "Kakashi-sensei… it's been two and a half years since the akatsuki tried to take Naruto away, why are they back now" said Sakura.
"Well….. it should be because Naruto was with Jiraiya-sama the whole time so they couldn't do anything" said Kakashi.
"No" came a voice behind them.
"The information I was given was different, it takes a lot of preparations to pull the Bijuu out of a jinchuuriki once it's sealed within, so that's why they waited two and a half years, now they are out to gather the rest of the Bijuu" said Chiyo.
"The rest? There are others?" said Sakura.
"You're Tsunade-hime's apprentice and you don't know that? Especially since Konoha has the Kyuubi" said Chiyo.
Everyone tensed up, Sakura and Sasuke looked at Naruto, who was in front of them, he didn't show any signs of discomfort.
"Well, in Konoha. Everything about the Kyuubi has been kept top secret" said Kakashi.
"I suppose it should be… the Bijuu are mythical chakra beast with tails. The sand has had the Ichibi, Shukaku. Which is currently sealed within the Kazekage, Gaara. The Ichibi has one tail and Niibi has two tails, and up to the Kyuubi. Each one has a name that corresponds to the number of tails they have. The Bijuu are made of essentially enormous amounts of Chakra and during the great war, villages have tried to obtain them and turn them into weapons. But their powers are far beyond the human understanding. They can't be controlled. I don't know why the akatsuki wants with powers but it's too dangerous. I suppose even during peace, times continue to change. The bijuus still exist, scattered across the world" finished Chiyo.
Sakura passed Naruto and took a quick glance at his expression, he looked worried and offended. But that was normal when you've just been indirectly called a weapon monster.
Team Guy was listening as Pakkun explained to them about the location of the Akatsuki.
"Kakashi summoned us eight ninja hounds so that we could track down the location of the akatsuki, and we've discovered that they are in the river country just in between the sand and konoha." Said Pakkun.
"The river country?" said Neji.
"Eh…. Didn't we just pass that place?" said Tenten.
"That's right….. that means that you guys are closer to the Akatsuki than everyone else, Team Kakashi is on their way now" said Pakkun.
"I see…." Said Lee.
"Follow me, I'll explain more on the way" said Pakkun.
"Alright everyone! Let's go!" said/shouted Guy .
"Eh…? Already?" whined Tenten as she reluctantly followed he teammates.
They didn't notice the spy that was watching them from a distance, Zetsu began to fade away to the colour of the tree.
Inside the Akatsuki hideout, "They are enemies closing in on the base, they seem to be fairly powerful" reported Zetsu.
"Enemies?" said Deidara.
"Their leader's name is Might Guy " said Zetsu.
"Who's that" said their leader.
"A skilled Konoha jounin who uses Taijutsu, you'd better not take him lightly, it seems like Team Kakashi is one their way here too" said Zetsu.
"Ahaha! Those bunch of amateurs again" laughed Tobi.
"This will be a problem" said Pain.
"Why, They're still genin right" said Hidan.
"But they shouldn't be taken lightly, that team is full of surprises" said Pain.
"Well someone has to go" said Kakuzu
"Let me do it, I wanna use that technique" said Kisame.
"Indeed that technique will be most suitable for you, considering you have the highest amount of Chakra, Kisame" said Pain.
Kisame grinned "But, I will still need 30 percent of your chakra" said Pain.
Kisame's grin disappeared "Tch….. I guess there's no helping it then" he said reluctantly.
Team Guy was running across a rocky area in a very impressive speed when Pakkun sniffed around.
"What's wrong" said Guy .
"Someone's coming" said Pakkun.
"Byakugan!" Neji searched around with his ability see 360 degrees around him, he couldn't see anything at first.
Everyone was on their guard, anxious, knowing that someone's gonna jump them. But from where? A cold bead of sweat rolled down Lee's face and down to his chin, when it dropped. Neji's eyes widened rapidly.
"Below us! Tenten!" said Neji, he turned to Tenten and tackled her aside, barely dodging the sudden outburst in the ground.
Neji was on top of Tenten, his two hands supporting him up and Tenten's head was between his hands.
"T-Thanks, Neji" said Tenten, nervously.
Neji nodded and got up to face the sword that was sticking out in the ground like the fin of a shark.
"What are you" demanded Guy .
There was an explosion in the ground, everyone made their distance, paying close attention to the smoky area, Neji looked through the smoke with his byakugan, and got a shock.
"T-This guy….." he stuttered.
"What is it, Neji" said Lee.
"He has a ridiculously enormous amount of chakra….! I haven't see so much since Naruto" said Neji.
"That much?" said Tenten.
"So this is the akatsuki" said Neji.
Kisame chuckled then threw Samehada into the air "Suiton, Bakusui Shouha! (Water Style, Exploding Water Shock Wave!)" He sucked in deeply.
Guy widened his legs "Get ready"
Kisame spit out a great amount of water, and it kept increasing till the wave was a few stories higher than the ground Team Guy was standing on. The dry land that they were supposed to be crossing became a small ocean, with a limited amount of footing, Team Guy is at an disadvantage.
Tenten's mouth was gaped open, the words just couldn't escape her mouth.
"What a tremendous amount of water" said Lee.
Kisame caught Samehada when it came back down then grinned "Shall we start then" the huge growing wave came down on the team.
Everyone leaped up into the air, escaping the engulfing wave. Ever since then, Kisame had been coming at them, wave after wave, Team Guy had to fight back somehow.
"How can he create such a great amount of water?" said Tenten.
"He has a tremendous amount of chakra, I've never seen a technique like this…" said Neji.
They waited again for Kisame to attack, the rocking waves were making them uncomfortable. Suddenly, a huge wave rose behind Tenten and Guy .
"Guy -sensei! Tenten!" warned Lee.
They jumped up and let the wave pass under them, but it wasn't just the wave that came against them, Kisame stood ontop the waves, ready to strike.
Guy creased his eyebrows and turned his body sideways and dodged Kisame's slash with Samehada, Guy turned his body against Kisame and landed a kick on his face, just before the kick landed, Kisame smirked then broke into water.
"A water clone….?" Said Guy .
Kisame's real body rose from behind Guy , Samehada came down once again on Guy, but he dodged it again and went behind Guy , Kisame raised Samehada, ready to slam it down on Guy . But someone that looked like a clone of Guy sped behind him.
'Lee!'
Kisame turned his head back to Lee before he found Samehada flying out of his grasp.
"Konoha Shoufuu! (Konoha Rising Gate)" Lee sent and upwards kick on Kisame's hand.
"What?" exclaimed Kisame, the wave sank and Kisame landed with a splash on top the water with Neji right in front of him, with his fingers bent down and his wrists together, he drew back.
"Hakke Kuushou! (Eight Trigrams Air Palm)" Neji thrust his open palms at Kisame, sending him flying backwards due to the chakra impact. His feet was still on the ground, his heels skidding on top the water, Kisame looked up and saw his partner flipping towards him, he raised his hand and caught Samehade then spun it once before a mace was thrown at him, Kisame acted immediately and blocked it off with Samehada, but there was a piece of paper on the spiky metal ball with the Kanji for "Bomb" encrypted on it.
'A trap!' thought Kisame.
There was a loud explosion, the spikes shot out like kunais. Tenten stood on a rock near the explosion "Damn…. He got away" she cursed.
Kisame dove down into the water, Team Guy stood on the calm water, waiting for Kisame's next attack.
"Where will he come out next" said Guy , anxiously.
"Neji, can you see him?" said Tenten.
Neji narrowed his eyes "He's right in front of us, he's coming up"
"We've found him" said Lee.
The top of Kisame's head was rising from the water "You kids are really getting annoying…." He spat. Then lifted Samehada onto his shoulder.
"Not a scratch on him" said Lee.
"Time to start our counter attack, first I'll distract him, then you three hit him with everything you've got" said Guy .
"Understood" said Tenten and Lee.
Kisame grinned "Do you really think I'll leave myself open so easily, Allow me to show you what's wrong with that plan" said Kisame
"He's read our minds!" said Guy .
Tenten and Neji sweatdropped.
"Let's go!" said Guy , charging head on at Kisame, who ran at him too, Samehada's tip in the water, slicing through the top of the waves.
Kisame sliced sidewards at Guy , jumped and dodged it, just then Neji appeared before Kisame and thrusted his palm at Kisame "Jyuuken!" but his attack was neutralized with Kisame blocked it with Samehada. Neji quickly flipped back, allowing Lee to take his place, Lee came at Kisame with his pair of tonfa, But it took just one swing of Samehada and Lee's tonfas was broken.
Lee flipped and landed on a rock above water. He looked down at his weapon before throwing them away.
"I see…. The way he swing that massive sword around so easily is going to make it difficult for us to find an opening" said Lee.
"If close combat isn't going to work….." Tenten unraveled her scroll and smoke exploded from it, paper bombs attached to kunais were shooting straight at Kisame, just before the explosion, Kisame lifted Samehada to block him from the kunais.
"How about this!" said Tenten, confident that it would at least place a scratch on him. But when the smoke cleared, all that was seen was Kisame's annoying smirk, he swung Samehada onto his shoulder.
"Did you do something?" said Kisame.
"Kh… that sword is getting annoying…." Cursed Tenten.
"Ah! That sword!" said Guy .
"You've found it's weakness? Guy -sensei" said Lee.
"That must be your weapon! Isn't it!" said Guy , pointing proudly at Samehada.
"We can tell that just by looking at it…." Said Neji.
"But there's a big difference between think it's your weapon and knowing it's your weapon" said Guy .
"As expected of Guy -sensei. What incredible insight!" said Lee, impressed.
"You just figured that out….? Stop getting hyped up all the time" sighed Tenten.
"Just give it up…. Tenten" said Neji.
"Are you stupid?" said Kisame.
"Now... let's go!" said Guy as he leaped into the air. "Dynamic Action!" and he dove down.
Kisame lifted Samehada to block the kick then pushed against Guy , who jumped back and sped behind him, Kisame's slashes were easily dodged by Guy . Then Guy made his distance, and charged in once again, but before he reached Kisame, he kicked up a wave of water and struck when Kisame less expected, he shot out of the wave and punched Kisame, being unable to react immediately with Samehada, he used his hand to block Guy 's fist.
Guy grinned then pull Kisame in and swung a leg at him, Kisame moved back to dodge the kick, then Guy 's leg wrapped itself around Samehada's hilt, then Guy put his other foot onto Samehada and pushed away. Separating it from its master.
"Do it now!" Guy called out to his student.
Kisame turned to the three student that was coming down on him. He scowled and form a seal.
"Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu! (Water Clone Technique)"
Three clones rose from the water and blocked the three shinobi.
"What?" said Neji at the last moment.
Guy frowned and jumped off Samehada, holding in his hand. He charged at Kisame.
Kisame formed more seals "Suirou no Jutsu (Water Prison Technique)"
Neji, Lee and Tenten called out in shock as water began to engulf them.
"Shimatta!" called out Guy as he jumped and raised Samehada, ready to slash it down. But a piercing pain shot in his hands, making him drop the great sword. Samehada bounced away from Guy on the water.
Tenten screamed
"Lee, Neji, Tenten!" their sensei shouted.
Kisame chuckled "I'll admit I'm surprised… these kids at more skilled than they look"
'I can't move….' Thought Lee.
'Damn it….' Neji winced an eye.
'can't…. Breath…' the kunoichi clenched her teeth.
"Now…. We can fight without interruptions…" said Kisame as Samehada returned to his possession, by itself.
Guy looked surprised by it.
"My great sword Samehada…. Will only allow me to wield it" said Kisame.
Guy closed his eyes "I see….. so that weapon isn't something anyone can use…. Then I shall use mine!" said Guy , he reached into his backpack and took out a pair of nunchaku.
'Those nunchucks….' Thought Lee.
'that means that the opponent is someone strong…' thought Tenten.
"Ha…." Guy whipped his nunchucks around, demonstrating his ability. Then with the last move, he pulled on both sides of his nunchucks with such force, it caused a small wave on the calm water.
Kisame smirked "Excellent….. –chuckles- this is going to be interesting" said Kisame
Guy and Kisame fought with their weapons each hit caused a small wave to rise, Samehada was raised then it came down on Guy 's nunchucks. This blow was heavy and Guy couldn't help but to sink a little into the water.
'Such superhuman strength…..' he thought, just then air bubbles escaped Tenten's mouth.
'Tenten!' thought Neji and Lee.
'Air….' Thought Tenten, helplessly.
'Looks like Tenten is reaching her limit' thought Guy , at that moment, he was distracted from the match, which Kisame was able to make use off, by punching him down with great force, Guy was plunged into the water, sinking deep.
'Guy -sensei!' Lee struggled.
Kisame formed some handseals "Suiton, Goshoku-zame (Water Style, Five-man eating sharks)" then he put his palm on top of the water as a trail of blue chakra escaped his finger tips and turned into five sharks.
Guy had his back against a rock underwater, he looked down at his stomach where Kisame punched him 'What a powerful punch….'
"First Meal" said Kisame.
A shark suddenly entered his vision, he pushed against the bottom and evaded the attack, the shark destroyed the rock behind Guy instead.
"Second meal" said Kisame.
Another shark rounded Guy and swam at him, but Guy dodged that one too.
"Third meal" said Kisame.
This one was able to catch Guy in between its teeth, Guy used both his legs to prop it's mouth open then landed a punch on its snout, destroying it.
'Did I get it?' thought Guy , but the shark reformed.
"Fourth meal" Kisame smirked.
A shark came from behind Guy and nicked him on the leg, a trail of blood drifted in the water. Guy lost his stance.
"Fifth meal" Kisame said at last.
All the sharks gathered and came down at Guy all at once. Guy punched and kicked them away, but every time he destroys one of them, they always reformed.
"My five sharks will rip you to shreds!" said Kisame, half laughing.
Tenten's body went limp 'I can't hold on….. anymore' she thought as her eyes began to close
'Tenten!' Lee and Neji shouted in their minds.
'This is bad…. She's at her limit' Thought Neji, looking around.
Guy closed his eyes 'Looks like I'm out of time….'he thought and made a cross with his arms.
"Huh? What is he up to…." Kisame muttered.
'Hachimon Tonkou (Eight Celestial Divination Gates) First Gate, Initial Gate…. Release' a vein formed on Guy 's Forehead. Kisame narrowed his eyes.
'Second Gate, Heal Gate…. Release' the veins became thicker.
Kisame knew he had to strike now.
"I won't let you!" he shouted as the five sharks began to dive down towards Guy .
'Third Gate, Life Gate…. Release' Guy turned brown, but the sharks were almost there.
'He won't make it!' thought Lee.
Guy 's eyes shot open, his technique had yet to be completed, but he was out of time. Then there was a spark.
'Chidori Nagashi (Chidori Stream)'
There was an outburst of electricity underwater. Streams of lightning pierced through each of the sharks, the shot upwards at Kisame. Who jumped back to avoid it.
Sasuke shot out of the water, soaking wet as he held his Kusanagi no Tsurugi.
"Uchiha… Sasuke!" said Kisame.
'Now's my chance!' thought Neji, he strengthened his byakugan and looked around in the water prison for a weak spot, and finally found one. 'There!' he clasped his hands together "Hakke Rokujuuyon Shou (Eight Divinations Sixty-Four Strike)" Neji said in the water. "Ha!"
And with that, the sphere was broken. He hit the water clones with his Jyuuken at incredible speed, not giving them a chance to attack, or even move.
Lee was freed, he looked over to free Tenten, but someone had beat both Neji and Lee to it. With just one punch, the water clone was destroyed and Tenten was freed.
"Sakura-san!" said Lee, excitedly.
Sakura smiled at them. Tenten was falling before Neji went over and held her up "Are you alright? Tenten" he said worriedly. He lowered her to her knees as he got on one of his.
Tenten's eyes lifted open "Y-Yeah…. Thanks, Neji" she said, panting for air.
Sakura kneeled down next to them and checked Tenten's pulse "Her pulse is a bit slow, but she'll be alright if she keeps breathing normally" said Sakura.
"Thanks" said Neji.
"Sorry we're late!" said Naruto as he sped past them and headed straight for Kisame. "Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" his clones joined in on the fight with Sasuke.
Kisame was having a hard time keeping up with Sasuke and Naruto, the water began to turn green.
Neji and Sakura looked at the water "Such tremendous chakra…" breathed Sakura.
"Naruto, we'll have to move" said Sasuke.
Naruto nodded and they both jumped out of the way and Kisame looked down at the water, there was a huge whirlpool from where Guy was standing, he was emitting a chakra force so strong, he was pushing aside the water around him.
"Amazing…" said Sakura.
Kisame leaped into the air to avoid being blasted by water from below, but Guy was fast, he leaped up to Kisame, but just when Samehada was about to touch him, swung a blazing kick at Kisame.
'Too fast' thought Kisame as he was hit with a powerful kick, he was parted from Samehada, Guy sped in front of him again, with a weird stance.
Everyone looked up at him "That stance…." Said Neji.
Lee nodded "This battle is over"
"Asa Kujaku! (Morning Peacock)" Guy landed an impossible number of punches all over Kisame, his punches were so fast, his fists lit on fire, thus setting Kisame on fire too. The last punch sent Kisame pummeling down to earth.
The others watched as the small ocean slowly drained away.
"Looks like it's over" said Kakashi, landing in with Pakkun, who led Team Kakashi here. "Guy's over doing it again I see" Kakashi sighed.
Sakura nodded, Neji was still holding Tenten. Naruto and Sasuke walked over to join them.
"Bushy brow-sensei caught on fire! Did ya see it, Sakura-chan?" said Naruto, waving his hands around.
"Guy-sensei is amazing!" sobbed Lee.
"There's no need to cry for it right….." sighed Tenten.
"Just give it up…. Tenten" said Neji.
"What's the meaning of this?" shouted Guy from the other side of the rocks.
They quickly ran to see. In the middle of the crater, laid, not Kisame. Nor was it a pulverized version of him, it was an unknown man, incapacitated.
Sakura went to check on him "He's no longer breathing, it seems like he was put on a genjutsu spell, making him think he was the real Akatsuki member" said Sakura.
"As expected of Sakura-san, as wonderful as ever" said Lee.
"Oh, Naruto-kun, Sasuke-kun. Long time no see" said Guy, panting.
"Yeah!" said Naruto.
"Though, we didn't need to do much" said Sasuke, sheathing his katana.
"Shall we get going then" said Sakura.
"Indeed, we still have a mission to fulfill" said Lee.
"Right! Full speed forward! We must make up for the time we've wasted here!" said Guy.
"Yes, Guy-sensei" answered Lee.
"Ah, if you two go your full speed, we won't able to-" Tenten's sentence was cut off as the two green monsters ran off as incredible speed.
"Catch up…" finished Tenten.
"We should be going too" said Neji, standing up.
Tenten sighed and ran off with him and the others, Sakura took one more glance at the dead man before catching up with the others. It didn't take long before they reached the hideout, but they made sure to keep their distance from it, so that they wouldn't lose their element of surprise.
"It seems like that….. Might Guy, was stronger than we had expected, the Konoha shinobi are right outside the base you're in….. Deidara, Sasori" said Zetsu.
"It doesn't matter, we're just about done anyways. You can dispose of the body later" said Pain.
"Wait, I sense an enormous chakra inside one of them, there's a bijuu sealed inside one of them" said Zetsu.
"Hee…. So Naruto-kun has decided to join the fight" said Tobi.
"That gives me a great idea…" chuckled Deidara.
Outside…
"So, how are we going to get in there" said Naruto.
"That seal doesn't look like you can just simple rip it off" said Sasuke.
"Indeed….." said Lee.
"I've seen it before, there's two ways to unlock it" said Pakkun "First, is that you know the way the seal works and the way it's set up, that way you could unseal it with chakra, second is to find the other four seals hidden around the area and rip them off, at the same time. If it is done separately, then it won't open until someone that knows the combination, opens it" said Pakkun.
"First, we have to find the location of the seals…." Said Kakashi.
"Neji, we're counting on you" said Guy.
Neji nodded "Byakugan"
He didn't need to move from his spot, his pupils rolled from corner to corner, but that was all he needed to do to find the seals.
"There's a seal, 46 degrees north." He paused and looked around. "Another one hidden behind a rock 32 degrees east from here" his vision zoomed around, searching every inch of the forest within his range of vision "there's one down near the water fall, 21 degrees west from here"
The last one took him awhile before he was able to find it "the last on is in a tree 56 degrees south"
"Great, we'll handle this, you guys focus on destroying that boulder in the way" said Guy.
"I'll take care of that" said Sakura.
"We're counting on you" said Kakashi.
Team Guy set off, they put on their ear pieces to keep in contact.
Tenten took the north, Neji the east, Guy took the west and Lee the south.
Guy was first to reach his target then Neji, Tenten and Lee were having a hard time trying to find their target.
"Neji, where did you say the seal was again?" said Tenten, she was by a river, looking around for the seal.
Neji used his byakugan to look over to her side, but someone he got sidetracked by Tenten and his eyes were lingering on her for a few seconds more that normal, but he quickly gave himself a metal slap and snapped back to his mission.
"It's in the water" he said simply.
"Neji, I can't find mine too" said Lee.
Neji searched Lee's perimeters "It's hidden behind the tree on your right"
Lee looked there and found it "Oh, it's here."
"Great, we tear it out on my count" said Guy.
Kakashi was standing on the boulder in the entrance, his hand on the seal, ready to rip it out.
"One…"
"Two…"
Sakura clenched her fist and pulled her glove tighter.
"Three!"
The seals were off, Kakashi jumped off the boulder and Sakura sped at the boulder, her fist glowing with chakra.
"Ha!"
There was a loud boom and then silence, nothing happened at first, then the boulder exploded in cracks and slowly fell apart in small chunks.
Sakura let out a breath.
Everyone gather at the entrance, amidst the falling rocks a mechanical tail shot out of the rocks and headed straight for Sakura, there was a blurry white figure and Sakura was no longer there.
"That was close, thanks Sasuke" said Sakura.
Sasuke was focusing on the inside of the cave, he narrowed his eyes, there were two men inside, one with a hunched back body and another one with long blonde hair on a flying white creature.
'Reports say that the Kyuubi's Jinchuuriki is hotheaded' thought Deidara.
"Gaara!" shouted Naruto, Gaara was on the floor, his body wasn't moving.
"What did you do to him, you bastards!" snapped Naruto.
"You can have him back, we're done with him anyway" said Sasori.
Naruto tried to go to him, but Deidara's creature swooped in and picked him up in it's mouth.
"Of course, you'll have to take him from us" said Deidara, then he turned to Sasori.
"Give Gaara back!" snarled Naruto.
'That guy's definitely the jinchuuriki…' thought Deidara.
"Danna, you won't mind if I take the jinchuuriki, would you" said Deidara.
"Do as you wish" said Sasori.
Deidara flew out the cave on his clay creature and Gaara in it's mouth. "Hold it you bastard!" said Naruto.
"Let's take this fight somewhere else, Jinchuuriki" said Deidara.
'They know….!' Thought Sakura and Sasuke.
Naruto clenched his fists, not know whether he should leave his teammates or not.
"Naruto…. Sasuke….. Kakashi-sensei, I leave Gaara-kun to you" said Sakura.
They all turned to her, "What are you talking about, Sakura-chan" said Naruto. "Your opponent is one of the akatsuki, do you plan to take him alone?" said Sasuke.
"It'll be alright, Chiyo baa-sama is with me….. and besides, I've already prepared for this battle" said Sakura.
"But Sakura-chan" protested Naruto.
Sasuke had already left Sakura's side, "Let's go, Naruto" he said simply.
Naruto reluctantly left with Sasuke, Kakashi stayed back a bit.
"You sure about this, Sakura" said Kakashi.
"Yeah…. I can't let an elder fight such a dangerous person alone" said Sakura, smiling.
"Who's an elder" huffed Chiyo.
"Be careful then" said Kakashi, before jumping after his students.
"Chiyo baa-sama, it's been a while" said Sasori.
"Indeed…. Not long enough" said Chiyo.
"Someone you know? Chiyo baa-sama" said Sakura.
"He's my grandson" said Chiyo.
Sakura tensed up.
"You have no need to fear" said Chiyo, she took two steps forward "I'll fight him, you stay back and watch"
"I refuse, my teammates are busy fighting to save Gaara, I can't sit here and do nothing" said Sakura.
"Very well"
Chiyo reached into her sleeves and pulled out a string of kunais held together by a wire "Sou Shuu Jin" she brought her hands in front of her face and wriggled her fingers a little and the kunais glowed with chakra and shot straight at Sasori. But his tail was protecting his face.
Chiyo wiggled her fingers and a few of the kunai moved. They clashed with Sasori's tail and few out of the way, but some managed to make it through and grazed a few holes in Sasori's Akatsuki robe.
"If you're going to oppose me…. Then I have no choice" he said, as he spread out his….. hands? He was on fours, but his position greatly resembles a scorpion.
"Will you and that brat become part of my collection, Chiyo-baa" said Sasori.
"W-What's that" said Sakura.
"That isn't Sasori's true form" said Chiyo.
"Are you ready?" Sasori cut in. "You know I hate waiting"
"Don't worry" said Chiyo. Sakura reached into her kunai holder and pulled out her red stringed kunai, she spun it on her hand and held it professional in her hand.
"Soon, We'll defeat you" said Chiyo.
They both charged at Sasori. He ripped off Hiruko's mask and it's mouth opened, then needles began shooting out it's mouth like a machine gun. Sakura narrowed her eyes and charged straight forward, before the needles reached her, she leaped high into the air and flipped, but the needles shifted from Chiyo to her, but she was still airborne. She formed some handseals.
"Doton, Kabe Engo (Earth Style, Wall Protection)" a huge wall rose from the ground and protected Sakura from the needles. She landed swiftly on the ground as Chiyo joined her behind the wall, they both nodded and ran out, facing the needles head on. Sakura managed to see through the needles and dodged them just as Chiyo had.
After the needles stopped, there was a suspending silence between then, "So you saw through that one….." said Sasori, he closed Hiruko's mouth and lifted his left hand, it was wooden projectile launcher, he launched it and it was sent straight at Sakura, she jumped up and the projectile missed her but the wooden studs in the projectile shot out, launching it everywhere, not only that, but multiple senbons flew from the wooden studs, cornering Sakura.
All seems over for Sakura, to Sasori. But to his surprise, Sakura moved through the needles as if she could see the future, her movements were just as swift as Chiyo's.
After the raid ended, Sakura and Chiyo faced Sasori.
'They saw through that too….?' Thought Sasori, he looked at Sakura 'Chiyo-baa's no surprise… but the girl too?' he thought as his eyes inspected Sakura thoroughly.
Sakura charged at Sasori head on, which Sasori took as an insult.
"Don't underestimate me!" he said and his scorpion tail lunged itself at Sakura, but she didn't try to dodge it, which made Sasori suspicious.
Then suddenly the tail stopped just as Sakura did, it's sting was just centimeters away from Sakura's forehead.
'What?' thought Sasori.
A drop of sweat rolled down her cheek as her eyes were fixed on the tail
'It won't move!'
"Now! Sakura!" shouted Chiyo.
Sakura sped at Sasori and clenched her fist "Ha!"
The fist collided with the demon mask on Hiruko's back and it exploded in pieces. All that's left was a black cloaked figure, it immediately jumped away from Sakura.
Sasori's cloaked figure stood with his back towards Chiyo and Sakura.
Then suddenly his hand appeared from behind his cloak and Hiruko's head faced Sakura. A kunai shot from it's mouth, heading straight for Sakura. Chiyo panicked and lifted her hands and pulled Sakura away.
Sakura jumped back and landed in front of Chiyo.
"Just as I thought" Sasori began.
They looked at him.
"I wondered why that girl would know how to dodge my needles….. it was Chiyo-baa's doing. How could I not know… I found out only when Hiruko's tail couldn't move, you attached your chakra strings to it when you threw your kunais at me, and you were the one controlling that girl's movements" said Sasori
"So you found out….. and here I took the trouble to conceal my chakra strings to the fullest" said Chiyo.
"This is the first time anyone's pushed me to this extent" said Sasori.
"I came all this way to see my adorable grandchild's face, and finally I get to see it" said Chiyo.
"Only you could fool me to this level, After all. The one who taught me to play with puppets….. was you" said Sasori, he uncloaked himself and revealed his face.
Chiyo froze as if she saw a ghost, Sakura scowled.
'Didn't Akasuna no Sasori left 20 years ago….? Then why… does he look so, young' thought Sakura.
"He hasn't aged a day since he left" said Chiyo, bewildered.
Sakura's eyes widened 'How can that be….'
Sasori's cold eyes stared at them with no feelings at all "Surprised of my eternal youth? You'll find out soon enough" he said then waved his fingers to the back and his chakra string attached itself to a scroll in the scroll holder and he pulled it out.
He unraveled the scroll and there was an outburst of smoke on the seal. Chiyo squinted her eyes to see what's in the smoke, and when she caught a glimpse of Sasori's next puppet, her eyes widened.
"That's…." she began, looking terrified.
Sakura looked at her "The third Kazekage" breathed Chiyo.
Sasori chuckled a little and black sand started to surround the Kazekage puppet.
"Chiyo baa-sama, what's wrong" said Sakura, worried because of Chiyo's frightened face.
"Sakura, run. That's Sunagakure's third Kazekage, he can use the Iron sand Technique, the technique that was feared by even the villagers, he can morph the sand into any type of weapon and use it" said Chiyo.
Sakura thought for a moment "Wait a minute, how can he use chakra, he's a puppet" said Sakura.
"That's a human puppet, a human puppet is different, it's made from the body of the victim, allowing it to be able to use chakra" said Chiyo.
Sakura swallowed hard
"Run while you still can, He's no match for you. I'll hold him off long enough for you to escape" said Chiyo.
Sakura lowered her head.
"I refuse" she muttered, as her bangs covered her eyes.
"What are you talking about, Sakura. Didn't you hear what I just said, he's not an opponent that you can face" said Chiyo.
"If I run away, my teammates will laugh at me" Sakura smiled, she looked at the ground again and remembered the number of times they were cornered by enemies more powerful and frightening. But never once did they run away from their opponent. A gentle smile appeared on Sakura's beautiful face.
"I'm a member of team Kakashi, I'm not going to give up without a fight" said Sakura.
Chiyo looked astounded but touched, she opened her mouth to speak but Sakura cut her off.
"And" Sakura began, she formed an unknown seal, both her pointing finger was facing up and her four fingers on her right hand held her left thumb as her left four fingers held her right hand. "I've got a secret myself, I'm not a normal shinobi" said Sakura, as she shut her eyes.
Chiyo watched her closely.
"Kai…. Ho" muttered Sakura and suddenly green chakra exploded from her body, covering every inch of her petit body.
Sasori looked surprised with Sakura's sudden outburst in chakra, so did Chiyo.
Sakura's long hair floated as the pressure from the outburst in chakra pushed the surrounding air particles aside thus causing the strong wind.
Sakura's eyes shot open, but there was something different about them.
Meanwhile….
Team Guy was having trouble fighting with…. Themselves?
"Oi, You guys. You having the same problem as I am?" panted Tenten.
"Yeah" they all replied.
"They know all my moves and how to counter them, It's impossible to defeat them" said Neji.
"Nothing's impossible if you try, Neji" said Lee.
"Well said, Lee" said Guy.
"She has my weapons too" said Tenten.
"We need to hurry up and defeat these guys so we can help Sakura-san and the others" said Lee.
"You're right Lee, it's time to end this" said Guy.
Sakura's flaming jade eyes made Sasori think twice about what he thought of Sakura.
"Hee…. That's an impressive amount of chakra" said Sasori.
Sakura's green chakra died down, Chiyo stepped towards her.
"You can't be….." she said breathlessly.
Sakura turned at her, confused.
"The Haruno clan was wiped out years ago" said Chiyo.
"I'm the only one left" said Sakura, a weak smile appeared on her face.
Chiyo looked at her with sad eyes, but Sasori cut in.
"Are you done chatting? I wanna get on with killing you" said Sasori.
Sakura and Chiyo faced him, Chiyo took out a scroll and unraveled it and two smoke explosions occurred.
And there stood two puppets, a female and a male.
"You still keep those junk?" said Sasori, coldly.
"These two puppets were the first ones you create, and you call them junk?" said Chiyo.
"Those puppets are useless toys that I used to play with" said Sasori.
The two puppets were an image of Sasori's parents.
"Let's go, Sakura!" said Chiyo.
"Hai"
Sakura ran at Sasori, who was behind the third Kazekage puppet, the iron sand morphed into a thousand needles, they looked up in horror.
The needles came down on both Chiyo and Sakura, but nothing happened to them, Sakura looked up and both of the parent puppets was above her, shielding her with their arms that became an umbrella like shield.
Sasori smirked "One down, only the girl left" said Sasori.
Sakura turned to Chiyo frantically, Chiyo was panting heavily, her left arm was opened up like an umbrella, shielding her.
"Chiyo baa-sama, your arm" said Sakura.
Chiyo tried to close her arm, but it was filled with iron sand, the parent puppets fell down, unable to move.
Chiyo clenched her teeth and removed her arm.
"So you actually turned your arm into a robotic arm, no matter, you won't be able to fight with one arm" said Sasori, he shifted his gaze to Sakura.
"What I'm interested to fight is the brat" he said.
Sakura turned around and looked at the puppets, she looked at Sasori, her eyes darkened, Sasori smirked.
The Iron sand gathered again, this time it morphed into a huge block and a pyramid. The block rose above Sakura and the pyramid pointed it's sharp part at Sakura.
Then suddenly the block drop and the pyramid flew at Sakura.
Sakura didn't move, instead she formed some handseals.
"Suiton, Suiryuudan no Jutsu (Water style, Grand Water Dragon Technique)"
A water dragon flew in the cave and pushed pyramid back as Sakura jumped back to avoid being flattened under the block.
She clenched her fist and landed a punch on the block, it flew to the wall behind Sasori and made a hole there.
"Heh….. that's an impressive chakra control, being able to use a jutsu and concentrate her chakra into one point of her body" said Sasori.
The pyramid was sent flying back too, Sasori continuously sent them flying at Sakura, but everytime she manages to hit it away with her punches.
Chiyo watched her movement closely.
'She's already beginning to read Sasori's attack pattern –chuckles- really…. That slug princess has picked herself an impressive apprentice' thought Chiyo.
The ceiling on the cave was beaten up pretty bad with the block and pyramid's continuous collision with it, there's even a square shaped hole in the ceiling.
Sakura was already panting, Sasori decided it was time to end it, he brought all the Iron sand together and made a huge block, it blasted through the ceiling of the cave, causing the whole cave to crumble, huge chunks of rocks came raining down on them, Sakura hurried over to Chiyo's side and made a chakra barrier to protect them.
After the rocks stopped falling, Sakura rushed to the sunlight and looked up to see what was Sasori doing with the huge block.
The block began to break apart to make a forest of metal that was facing downwards, straight at Sakura.
"This is what made the Iron Sand Technique so feared" said Sasori.
Sakura's eyes widened at the humongous monument in front of her, even if she used her chakra barrier, it'll easily be pierced through and all Sasori needed to do was wave his finger a little and the forest came down on Sakura.
With a loud exploding sound, the battlefield was smoked.
"Sakura!" shouted Chiyo, coughing a little.
Scratches scarred Sakura's body as it laid unmoving amidst the forest of metal.
"Sakura, Sakura! Get up" shouted Chiyo.
"It's useless, every ounce of that sand was drenched in poison, even if she did survive from being impaled, she won't be able to move once she was scratched" said Sasori.
The third Kazekage puppet floated in front of him.
"If she stays still like that, she'll die within three days, I could just leave her to die. But I'm not that kind" said Sasori, he swung his arm in the direction of Sakura and the Kazekage puppet flew straight at Sakura.
At the last moment, before the puppet was able to reach Sakura. She shot up and formed some headseals in an incredible speed "Fuuton, Kaze Daibakuhatsu! (Wind Style, Grand Wind Explosion)"
And suddenly an extremely strong wave of wind rushed from Sakura, it sliced up everything in it's way, including the metal forest surrounding her, the third Kazekage puppet was completely destroyed. The explosion had a range limit, and sadly Sasori wasn't within the range limit, but so was Chiyo.
Sasori was still confused with why didn't his poison work on Sakura.
Sakura panted with an eye winced, she pushed herself up from her knees to stand, she stumbled a little before jumping back to Chiyo.
"Sakura….. but how" said Chiyo, in a low volume.
Sakura took out a capsule of yellow liquid.
"When I was back in the village, I create three anti-venom shots. I gave one to Kankuro-san already and I kept the other two, I didn't want Sasori to find out about my anti venom so I kept it a secret till I really need it. The shot lasts for three minutes, within that time, anything venom that enters my body will be broken down to harmless nutrients" said Sakura, she handed the capsule to Chiyo.
"I think you should keep this" she said.
Chiyo took it and kept it in her sleeve.
Sasori was eyeing Sakura.
'Why didn't the poison work on her…..' thought Sasori, he narrowed his eyes.
'Did she manage to create an antidote for it…?' Sasori watched as Sakura healed her own wounds.
'Hee….. she's a medical nin? But a novice can't possibly make an antidote for my poison, then was it the hag? No, I know the Sand's limits and she can't possibly make the antidote. Then it must be her' he thought.
"You should stay back for awhile, Chiyo baa-sama" said Sakura.
Chiyo nodded, then they both perked up when Sasori spoke.
"Oi, Girl. What are you" said Sasori.
Sakura turned to him.
"The last surviving member of the Haruno clan" said Sakura.
Sasori's eyes widened, before a sinister smirk appeared on his face.
"The Haruno clan you say….. that would explain why you showed skills beyond my expectations, I shouldn't have underestimated you. But now that I know, you'll be a part of my collection in return for breaking my favourite puppets" said Sasori, he ripped off his cloak.
A small gasp escaped Sakura, Chiyo just frowned.
"It's been awhile since I used this puppet" said Sasori, he unraveled the metal wires in his stomach area and held two windmill like blades in each of his hands.
"Kh….. as I thought, You turned yourself into a puppet" said Chiyo.
Sasori chuckled "Surprised? This way, your physical attacks won't affect me" Sasori closed his eyes, then opened them "Let's begin" he jumped off the metal wire that lifted him and threw the two windmill like weapons at Sakura.
Sakura quickly ran away from Chiyo so she won't get her caught in the fight. The windmill blades were spinning in high speed and heading straight for her, and what's worst was that Sasori could control them at will.
Sakura couldn't dodge so she turned around and face one of them, she coated her red string kunai with wind element chakra, the windmill blade kept on spinning as Sakura blocked it, she clenched her teeth as it kept pushing her back, her foot skid on the ground. Her eyes widened rapidly, she spun her head around and the other windmill came her way.
Her eyes glowed brighter and the blade collided with her chakra barrier.
Sakura pushed back the blade that she was blocking off it when the other way, but all it took was a slight movement of Sasori's finger to bring it back against Sakura, but before it could come back, Sakura formed some handseals.
"Suiton, Kibaku Sensui (Water Style, Exploding Fountain)"
Then water exploded from the ground beneath Sakura.
"You can't shield yourself with that" Sasori crossed his fingers and the blades cross cut the exploding fountain. Thinking that he had sliced Sakura to pieces, he smirked and called back his windmill blades.
But nothing came.
The fountain descended, and revealed Sakura, all unsliced and fine. The two windmill blades were trapped inside a sphere of water.
"When did you…..!" said Sasori.
The blades on the metal hose was detached and kept inside the water sphere.
"Suirou no Jutsu (Water Imprisonment Technique)" panted Sakura.
Replay…
When the water shot up from the ground, Sakura wasn't trying to shield herself, it was to distract Sasori from noticing whats hidden inside the fountain.
Once Sakura was surrounded by water, she quickly listened carefully for the spinning blades, she knew that once blade was going to reach her a second slower than the other. But the problem now is finding the right timing to jump.
Sakura counted her heartbeats. "One, two, three" the blades sliced through the air in slow motion as Sakura concentrated.
'Now!'
Sakura jumped up and flipped, her head facing downwards, she head 2 kunais in her hands, then when the blade sliced through her fountain, she quickly threw the first kunai that was coated with wind element chakra to cut through the metal hose, then the second one to knock the blade's aim lower. Then when the other blade came, the other blade was still spinning and since it was aimed lower it cut through the metal hose that was used to control it, freeing it from Sasori's control.
Sakura formed more handseals then water seeped from her hands and engulfed the two blades to prevent them from shooting out the other side.
End
"Interesting….." said Sasori.
To Be Continued…
I know, I know. You're probably wondering, Where the F*ck is the other part? What if I say it's up my ass? Would you still want it? I'm just kidding. I figured it'd be able too long for one chapter so I had to make it 2 parts or else you people are going to get tired of reading it. So, please review or I wont pull the next chapter out my ass. Ok I was kidding. But seriously, review.