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Bold is for attacks

Kale's POV

"So you broke free." The fat man said as the earth dome crumbled.

"Time for payback!" Naruto yelled as he and Kiba started to rush forward.

"Stop!" Neji yelled "It's too dangerous to fight him here. If we waste time here Sasuke will cross the border and this will all have been for nothing."

"So what do we do?" I asked.

"We broke the barrier so we can take care of this guy." Kiba said.

"This is getting boring." The big man said making hand signs.

"Everyone watch out!" Shikamaru yelled.

The man slapped his hand on the ground and disappeared.

"Where'd he go?!" I yelled.

"Behind us"! Kiba warned.

The earth split and the man appeared carrying a ridiculously large boulder.

"No way!" Naruto yelled as the man threw it at us.

"Bullet Tank!"

Choji spun by and shattered the boulder with his body, he kept spinning and crashed into the enemy. The big guy grabbed him and was pushed back a few feet before he was able to stop Choji's spinning. He kicked Choji up, slammed into him with a shoulder tackle and sent him flying back into Shikamaru.

"You asked for it now!" Naruto said as the rest of us got ready to attack.

"Hold on!" Shikamaru yelled stopping us.

"We'll have to split up from here." Our leader said "At the current rate we'll never catch Sasuke. Neji will be co-leader, take Kiba and Choji to go after Sasuke. Naruto, Kale and I will stay here to fight this guy."

"You're gonna use that Shadow Binding move again right?" the big guy asked "I already know how to deal with that. You're the leader, and you think you can beat me by splitting up? Must be hard for you guys to work under such an idiot, I'd have killed any trash who worked under a dumbass like that."

"Stop talking and fight!" Naruto yelled.

"He's mine!" Choji said standing up "I'll take this guy on."

"Choji…"

"Shikamaru take the others and go." Choji instructed.

"This isn't someone you can take on alone." Naruto said.

"If we lose track of Sasuke this will all have been a waste." Choji said "If we stay we'll be just what this guy called us, an idiot leader and a bunch of trash."

"Fine." Shikamaru said "But you better catch up later. Everyone let's go!"

The rest of us jumped off, leaving Choji behind to have his own battle. On the way out Shikamaru told us to trust in Choji and that his trump card pills would save him.

"HMM!" Akamaru whimpered.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Akamaru is able to judge strength by scent, and he's worried that just one pill won't be enough against that big guy." Kiba explained.

"Estimating by what we saw we don't really know that man's full strength, the possibility of Choji winning may be slim." Neji sighed.

"This mission has never been a game." Shikamaru said "our lives have been at stake from the start, we have to be prepared to split off and fight one on one if that happens. Choji is a good guy, but he has no confidence, he thinks he's the weakest."

"We all knew that." Kiba said as we kept moving forward.

"That's why he stayed behind, he wants us to think he's useful?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah." Shikamaru nodded "But…I know better. More than me, Neji or Naruto, Choji is the strongest and I be live in him."

Along the way to catch Sasuke Shikamaru marked our path so Choji could find us when he came to catch up. We kept moving but I noticed Shikamaru staring off.

"Something wrong?" I aksed.

"It's…nothing." He shook his head.

"Yip!"

"We're getting closer!" Kiba warned.

"We haven't seen a single trap in some time." Neji pointed out "What do you think Shikamaru?"

"They're underestimating us." He hissed "They expect that big guy to have finished all of us off, so they wouldn't bother to set traps for him."

"How dare they underestimate us!" Naruto yelled.

"This is our chance though, to sneak back into this chase." I smirked.

"Exactly." Shikamaru nodded "let's catch them while they're vulnerable, I've got a plan."

Shikamaru plan was to disguise himself as the fat guy and sneak up to get them to give him to coffin. Seemed good and it would have worked if we had more info.

"Sakon, Tayuya go on I'll deal with this." The one with six arms said throwing them the coffin.

They knew Shikamaru was a fake because he was just too darn nice. The man with six arms was able to spit out a sort of spider silk to create webs, it only took him seconds to trap Naruto's clones.

"Alacrity!" I buffed Kiba as he and Akamaru attacked the man from behind.

"Piercing Fang!"

The man sprang up to avoid our attack and then binded us with his strings. Neji was coming in for another sneak attack but the guy dodged at the last second and tied him up.

"Cocoon!" he waved his arms and quickly wrapped Neji in a blanket of webbing.

This stuffs so sticky but it's too soft to cut well.

"Golden Spider Spikes!"

The man spit out a gross looking fluid that turned into sharp hook like weapons.

"I think I'll start with clone boy, let's play which one is the real you." He laughed throwing his weapons at the clones and making them vanish. One by one he eliminated the clones until only one was left.

"Last one!" he yelled throwing his weapon at the last Naruto, only for it to vanish when hit "What?!"

He suddenly got punched by the real Naruto who jumped out of the bushes. He took the hit and then quickly used his strings to pull Naruto but luckily Neji broke free and quickly freed all four of us.

"This string is made of Chakra, it's useless in front of me." Neji explained "Now go, I'll take care of this."

"Akamaru says this guy is stronger than Fatty, and by a good amount." Kiba told him.

"We should go as though we will be forced into one on one fights." Neji said "That was our plan correct?"

"That's right." Shikamaru said "come on let's move!"

"Sasuke is currently trapped in darkness, hurry up and catch him." Neji told us.

As soon as we ran off the spider man was shooting webbing at us, luckily Neji stopped it in time and let us get away.

"There's only two left, we have to catch them." I said.

"Right, let's move fast!" Shikamaru said.

"They're close again!" Kiba yelled.

"It's 4v2." Shikamaru said "We can do this."

"It's 5." Kiba said.

"WOOF!" Akamaru barked.

"My bad, 5v2." Shikamaru smiled.

We picked up or pace even more and cornered the final two enemies, Sakon and Toyota.

"We've caught up." Naruto smirked.

"I'll kill them in a second!" Sakon yelled.

He quickly started moving his hands to make a seal and I did the same.

"Take this!" he yelled extending his hands.

"Tornado!"

I just have to by a few moments.

My attack lifted him into the air as he punched Shikamaru and Kiba's clones but as he fell down Naruto was ready.

"Rasengan!"

"Nice try but if I catch you it's useless." Sakon said grabbing Naruto's wrist.

"Piercing Fang!"

"Cold Snap!"

I froze the man in place as Kiba spun through and drilled into him. He ducked just in time to avoid Kiba but left his friend open to the dog boy, and left himself open to me.

"Deafening Blast!"

I smashed his back with a shockwave and sent him flying into his ally, who Shikamaru had held in place. Kiba was able to grab the coffin and the enemy was knocked back.

"Nice!" Naruto said catching the basket with Sasuke in in.

"I'll get to work breaking the seals on it." I told him "We have to get someplace less combative though."

"You're not getting away!" Sakon yelled chasing after us.

He's fast!

"Akamaru!" Kiba called.

"BARK!"

The little dog jumped to rejoin us but tripped on the branched.

"Akamaru!"

"Kiba go now!" I yelled moving my hands.

"Fate's Edict!"

I put a shield on Kiba to block the attack and let him grab Akamaru, unfortunately the explosive tag went off and knocked us both into a ravine.

"We're gonna crash."

"Tornado!"

I threw out a cyclone to slow our fall enough to land safely.

Damn that little skirmish took a lot of Chakra…That Sakon guy fell down after us…this is bad.

AN

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