Fighting Chance
"The others moved ahead," I explained.
"I thought as much," Shikamaru responded.
Jirobo hit the ground after making hand signs causing the ground bellow us explode. He disappeared and reappeared behind us carrying a giant boulder and threw it.
Choji use the Human boulder to break through as Tenten summoned some weapons at Jirobo. He dodge the weapons avoiding the attacks.
"Hey guys we need to split up from here on," Shikamaru said.
"Yeah I hate to admit it, but we can't let Sasuke get any further," I responded, "Shikamaru your group stay here, my group will go!"
"You're squad leader, you think your friends stands a chance against me after what just happened?" Jirobo asked, "You and that shadow lover are so pathetic I'll take you down."
"I'll handle him!" Choji said.
I turned toward Choji who was serious about it. Choji took out a bag of soldier pills and handed them to Shikamaru.
"Hold on Choji, I understand if you want to fight alone, but there's 10 of us together, at least let one of us stay with you to give you back up," I responded.
"Alright," Choji agreed, "But who?"
"I'll stay," Tenten stepped in.
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"Positive," Tenten answered and ate a food pill herself.
The rest of them ate the food pills before leaving.
Shikamaru pulled Tenten aside for some reason.
"If he eats a red pill take Choji back to the leaf immediately and don't go after us," Shikamaru said, "You'll know why if he does."
"Right," Tenten agreed.
He jumped off with the rest of us as Choji and Tenten stayed.
"Lee go to Shikamaru's team for now," Naruto ordered.
"Right," Lee agreed.
Jirobo came after us but Tenten summoned more weapons with paper bombs attach to stop Jirobo.
Choji took out a case of pills and ate the green one.
Choji charged at Jirobo and hit him throwing him back as Choji kept going.
Tenten summoned more weapons with paper bombs attach. The weapons hit the ground bellow Jirobo causing an explosion.
Choji started feeling pain from the one pill.
Meanwhile the rest of us were heading off. I turned on the communicator curious about what Shikamaru was talking about.
"Hey Shikamaru why did you tell Tenten to take Choji back to the leaf if he eats the red one, and what were you talking about?" Naruto asked.
"What I was talking about are three set of pills known in the Akamichi Clan to increase power green, yellow red," Shikamaru said, "Each though causes pain to the body except for the red one that can cause so much strained on the body the user can die."
Choji took out a wire of kunais and wrapped it around his body.
"Expansion Jutsu!" Choji shouted.
His body turned into a huge round figure.
"Human boulder!" Choji shouted as he started spinning rapidly as the spikes from the kunais cause more damage.
Jirobo hit the ground and summoned a wall of rock.
Tenten threw some paper bombs at the wall. They set off and the wall was destroyed as Choji continued after Jirobo. Jirobo stopped Choji as his curse mark is active to the first stage.
Jirobo punched Choji far back.
"The two of you combine don't stand a chance," Jirobo said.
Tenten jumped into the air and swirl her scroll around her, summon and fired all her best weapons.
Jirobo use rock to blocked all of them.
"You two must be the weakest of the 10 of you," Jirobo said.
Choji thought back to how the others treated him.
"Don't under estimate our strength before we can show what we really can do," Tenten said.
"That's right," Choji said opening the case of the yellow pill and ate it.
"Choji don't be so quick to go to use those pill," Tenten said taking out two scrolls, "After all I got your back."
Choji's chakra surrounded his body ready to go.
"Partial Expansion Jutsu: Arm!" Choji shouted.
His arm doubled in size as he went to attack Jirobo.
Tenten fired more weapons at Jirobo as Choji retreated his arms.
Jirobo took some hits but still stood.
Choji jumped above Jirobo making the hand sign.
"Full Body Expansion Jutsu!" Choji shouted.
His body grew as a size of a mountain and landed on Jirobo.
However Jirobo went to second stage as his body went red and his hair grew longer. He pushed Choji off him as Choji change back to normal size.
Two smokes in form of dragons appeared then turned into scrolls as Tenten jumped between them.
She summoned multiple weapons and threw them. Jirobo dodge them and hit Tenten sending her into a tree.
"Tenten," Choji groaned.
"Neither of you have a chance against me while my seal is at level 2," Jirobo explained as he headed toward Choji who was in too much pain to move from the yellow pill.
Tenten got up shakily as she had to help Choji. "I just need to get stronger than before," Tenten thought.
Jirobo drained little of Choji's chakra and ate the last of his chips.
Choji was about to take out the red pill and ate it when a storm of weapons fired down on Jirobo.
Jirobo turned to Tenten who was standing there with her scroll open.
"Choji don't you dare take that red pill," Tenten said, "Don't forget, I got your back."
Jirobo went to attack Tenten at that moment but Choji manage to get up and summon little chakra he had left.
"Partial Expansion Jutsu!" Choji shouted punching Jirobo far.
Choji still felt pain as the yellow pill was still in effect. Jirobo went to attack but Tenten got Choji out of the way.
"Partial Expansion Jutsu!" Choji shouted hitting Jirobo multiple times as his arms grew.
Just then multiple weapons fired down with paper bombs attach. They all hit and exploded causing damage. Jirobo transformed back to normal severely injured.
Choji collapsed from pain and the case fell from his pouch with the red pill still in it.
"Even without the red pill, we manage to beat him," Tenten said.
"Yeah," Choji responded thinking about how Tenten seemed to believed in his strength just like Shikamaru always did, "Tenten thanks."
"Lee was always discourage of becoming a ninja back in the academy because he couldn't use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, but when Gai-sensei encourage him, he worked harder. I figure you just needed the boost of confidence as well," Tenten said, "Since your body is still suffering from the yellow pill and I still a lot of damage lets go back to the leaf to recover. Otherwise we won't survive the next battle."
"Yeah," Choji agreed his body made it impossible to move to much.
A/N: I add the chapter then deleted it because I forgot a few things like A/N. Yes I kept Choji from eating the red pill. I thought about some of the changes I'm planning to make until the battle before Sasuke's and Naruto's and thought I do this. Which means there's going to be some changes to Neji's battle as well with the one he's team up with.
Next Time: We get caught in a spiders trap through fighting Kidomaru, well most of us. It seems that the only ones that stands a chance against him is Neji and Shino, who decided to stay behind. Unfortunately Kidomaru found Neji's blind spot of the Byakugan and how to over come Neji's techniques. Good thing Shino decided to stay behind. How they make it out of this one? Read to Find Out...