Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Kale's POV
"I'm coming with you." Temari demanded "This is the Sand's problem one of us has to go with you."
"I don't know…we've already got a group of five." I told her.
"Temari stay here and reinforce the border." The old woman said from a high ledge "If it is a Shinobi of the Sand you need than I will suffice."
"But Old Lady Chiyo Gaara is my-."
"I'm not some old woman." The lady said jumping off the roof.
"Fu thinks that was unsafe!"
"Hyup." The woman landed before us with a perfect landing.
She's pretty good.
"Besides." Chiyo said "I've been meaning to see my Grandson for some time now."
"We'll take the back up." Sensei told the old woman "Come on we should leave right away."
As soon as all our gear was check we were off on Gaara's trail. As we dashed through the trees I looked over at Fu.
I won't let them take you…
My eyes glanced at Naruto.
Same for you idiot…
"Hey Naruto can Fu ask you something?" Fu spoke up "When did Akatsuki begin to target you?"
"I'm not really sure…" Naruto shook his head.
"A few years ago two Akatsuki agents infiltrated the village and attempted to make contact with Naruto." Kakashi-Sensei explained "Though that was three years ago I still don't know the motive."
"Three years?" I wondered "Sure was a long time for them to wait, why haven't they come back yet?"
"Maybe it wasn't a matter of choice but necessity?" Sensei said "Perhaps they weren't ready to take Naruto at that time?"
Not the right time…if the first Host to get kidnapped was Gaara…did Itachi walk away from Fu because he wasn't ready to take the Seven Tails yet?
"It requires significant preparation to separate a Tailed Beast from a person." Chiyo said "That is what likely hampered their effort to steal Naruto."
"Tailed Beast?" Sakura asked.
"Your Tsunade's apprentice and you don't know that much?" the old woman glared.
"In the Leaf information of the Nine Tails is top secret." Kakashi-Sensei explained.
"I see…" Chiyo nodded "Well a-."
"A Tailed Beast is a creature of immense chakra." Fu cut her off.
"This one knows." Chiyo said looking at Fu suspiciously "The One Tailed Raccoon is sealed inside of Gaara."
"So there are more than just the Nine tails?" Sakura asked.
"They are named according to the tails they have." Fu said "One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six Seven, Eight and Nine. Each is different, with it's own strengths and weaknesses, strength can usually be determined by tails, so in most cases something like Seven Tails could beat Three Tails."
"You're quite educated about Tailed Beasts girl." Chiyo said.
"Fu…has done her research."
"During the Great Ninja wars nations fought of Tailed Beasts, however it's not that simple." Chiyo explained "The beasts will not bow to man, yet Akatsuki is attempting to control their power. It would be difficult for them, as over time the beasts have scattered over the world."
We cleared a few trees before Sensei looked up.
"STOP!"
We all hit the ground and slide to a halt, there was a person blocking our path, a man in a black cloak with red clouds on it.
"Grr…" I heard Fu growling.
"Who is that?" Sakura looked around.
"I wasn't expecting this so early." Sensei said.
"Don't look into his eyes." I warned.
"Who is he?" Sakura asked.
"Itachi Uchiha." Naruto growled.
"So this is the one who killed his whole family." Chiyo said.
"It has been sometime, Kakashi, Naruto…Kale, and Fu." Itachi said.
"Not just me, but Gaara too!" Naruto yelled "I'll kill you!"
"If we can't look at his eyes how do we fight him?" Sakura asked.
"Follow the feet." I said "A body has many tells, not all of them are written on the face."
"This is difficult." Fu grumbled "Fu prefers a head on approach."
"There's no need to panic." Old Lady Chiyo said "There are many tactics to fight eye based Jutsu."
"Well what do we do?" Naruto asked.
"When fighting One on One you must flee, if two on one fight from the rear." She explained.
"I see…" I nodded "If one person gets behind him he won't see them, and even if the head on attacker is trapped in the Genjutsu the rear attacker will be unaffected and be able to free the front attacker."
"So the old hag is useful." Naruto scoffed.
"It's not that easy." Kakashi-Sensei said "His isn't a normal Sharingan, it's an Mangekyou Sharingan, there is no canceling the effect once your trapped in that Genjutsu."
"This is troublesome indeed." The old lady mumbled.
"To figure out all that after being affected by my Tsukuyomi only once." Itachi said "Impressive as always Kakashi…"
"You also become exhausted after using it." Sensei said "You'll always flee after using it…that's still not all it poses risk to you as well…"
"All that from one fight." Fu said "Incredible."
"So tell me Itachi." Sensei said moving his headband to expose his eye "How blind have you become?"
"I see…" Itachi sighed.
"This won't be like the last time." Sensei told him.
"This time you're going down!" Naruto yelled.
"I'll handle him." Sensei said "You all cover me, this is no time to rush in hard headedly. I can't handle Itachi myself so I relying on you guys."
"Relying on me." I smiled pulling out the Staff with the skull, Voodoo "Lucky for you being relied on is my specialty."
I stabbed the staff into the ground and made hand signs "An Aura of strength upon us! Vengeance Aura!"
A soft blue mist surrounded our side of the field, emanating from my staff "Let's begin."
"I kindly ask that you hand Naruto over." Itachi said pointing at him.
"My first!" Sensei ran it.
"RAHH!"
"WHOA!" I jumped up as Naruto slammed his Rasengan into the ground.
"Naruto what are you doing?!" Sakura yelled.
Naruto was suddenly standing totally still.
"He's caught in the Genjutsu." I yelled "That dumbass!"
"We have to wake him up." Sakura said.
I quickly moved my hands and took out the Dreamcatcher Staff.
"Disrupt his Chakra flow." I told Sakura and the old lady.
"Hmm…" the old woman looked at me.
I placed both my staves down at Naruto's sides and made hand signs.
"Two Layer Seal Break!"
I changed my fingertips with chakra and grabbed Naruto's forehead.
"GAH!" he gasped as he snapped back to reality.
"How did…"
"Disrupted your Chakra flow." I told him "He used a Genjutsu with just his finger…Itachi si strong."
"How did you know that trick?" Chiyo asked me.
"I'm the Support ninja, I have to know how to get my allies out of a Genjutsu." I smiled "I was surprised I was able to break Itachi's with just two seal level though."
"Time to put you're all into the fight Naruto!" Sensei yelled.
"Grand Fireball!"
Itachi shot a huge fireball at us, we all backed away and avoided the attack. Everyone moved into position to make an opening for Kakashi-Sensei.
"Spider Silk Jutsu!" Fu raised her hands and white silk shot out and glues Itachi to the floor.
"RAHH!" Sensei broke out of the ground and hit Itachi with an uppercut.
Sensei and Itachi landed and started exchanging punches and other attacks. Kakashi-Sensei disappeared and then started pulling himself out of the erath.
A Shadow Clone…
Sensei dashed forward and locked Itachi's arms up.
"Naruto!"
"Giant Rasengan!"
Naruto appeared and hit Itachi with a huge Rasengan that made a massive crater and blew Itachi multiple feet away. We all gathered around at the crater and were quite surprised by what we saw.
"This…"
"Isn't Itachi." I said.
The man in the crater was most certainly not Itachi Uchiha, I had never seen this man in my life.
"Is it a Jutsu or what?" Sakura asked.
"I had a feeling something was off from the start." Sensei said "A Two Layer Seal Break shouldn't have worked on Itachi's Genjutsu."
"This man…" Chiyo sighed.
"Do you know him? Fu asked.
"Yes, this is Yuura, he is a Jounin from the village." She said.
"A spy?" I wondered.
"Impossible, he's been working on the Council for years." The old woman said.
"That Jutsu…" Sensei sighed.
Kankuro said that the guards at the gate were caught in a booby trap and ambush, yet he said Deidara was the only one to ever enter the village…I'm guessing this is the guy who let Sasori in to set the trap.
"This was a stall tactic." Chiyo said "they must have already started the extraction."
"Extraction?" I asked.
"They must want to use the One Tailed Shukaku and make a new Jinchuriki."
"We have to hurry and save Gaara." Sensei said.
"Jinchuriki?" Sakura asked.
"It's a fancy way of saying host." Fu told her.
"A Jinchuriki is something that exists to control immense power." Chiyo explained.
"I thought you said the tailed beasts were uncontrollable?" Sakura asked.
"There is a way, by sealing them inside the body of a human host, doing so suppresses the power of the beast and allows it to be directed. Those with a Tailed Beast sealed inside them are known as Jinchuriki. A Jinchuriki resonates with a Beasts power and uses it as their own." Chiyo explained "including Gaara the sand has had three Jinchuriki."
"So these Jinchuriki…are used as weapons for war?" Sakura asked.
"Yes."
"But-." Sakura started but was cut off.
"How do you remove a beast?" Fu asked.
"It takes time, a sealing Jutsu which releases the power…but if it's done…The Jinchuriki will die." Chiyo told her "The Jinchuriki before Gaara had the Shukaku extracted, and were killed as a result."
In the instant the usually energetic Fu looked crushed, resigned to a fate she had never signed up for. The revelation that Jinchuriki are killed made Sakura cry…I couldn't blame her.
"You're always crying Sakura." Naruto said "I told you don't worry, because I'm gonna rescue Gaara."
"Naruto it's you I'm-."
"Let's hurry." Naruto said "We don't want to keep Gaara waiting."
"Fu?" Sensei was looking at her "Something wrong."
"Fu…is fine." She said putting on a smile "Let's hurry yeah!"
Later
We had to stop and rest a few times along our way to get to Gaara, but before long we arrived at the location, surprisingly Guy's Team was already there.
"You're late Kakashi." Guy-Sensei said.
"We hit a little trouble on the way."
"Naruto, Sakura!" Lee waved "Kale too."
"Hey." Tenten smiled walking up to me.
"Wasn't expecting you guy." I smiled.
"Hello!" Fu cheered.
"Oh…hey." Tenten hald smiled "Why's she here."
"Fu's our fourth for this mission." I explained.
"I see…" Tenten said.
For some reason Tenten never really took a shine to Fu like everyone else had, Mom says it's because she's jealous but I think Tenten just has a personality that makes her adverse to energetic people like Lee and Fu.
"So have you gotten that stuff yet?" she asked me.
"They're still working on it." I told her "Hopefully once this mission is done I'll have it."
"Good, once you get it we'll get started." Tenten nodded.
"So what's the problem here?" I asked.
"A barrier." She explained.
"Hmmm…" I inspected the rock in front of us and the tag on it.
"So can you break it?" Lee asked.
"Nope." I shook my head "At least not from here, this is a Five Seal Barrier, one of the tags is here but the other four are scattered around. It'll take to more than one person to break it. Neji where are the other four."
Neji used his eyes to scan the area and find the locations of the other tags. We hooked up our radios and sent Team Guy to the other four while I would break the main seal at the door.
"Sakura once the barrier is down use your monster strength to smash the boulder." Sensei told her.
"Right."
"Ready." Lee said.
"In position." Tenten cut in.
"I am ready as well." Neji spoke up.
"Same here!" Guy-Sensei yelled.
"Ready…go!" I yelled ripping the tag.
"HAAAA!" Sakura ran up and punched the boulder, crumbling it to pebbles; we all moved from our assigned positions and slipped inside.
In the cave were two people, a large hunched over man, and a slightly female looking man with blonde hair. Next to the blond guy was a large bird like creature.
Deidara and Sasori…
The two members of Akatsuki were sitting on Gaara like he was a park bench.
"I wonder which one's are the Jinchuriki?" Deidara asked.
"I'll kill you!" Naruto yelled.
"The one with the loudest bark." Sasori said.
"That's him…Mhm." Deidara nodded.
AN
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