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Political Alliances
By : AgentGv01
Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female
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Honestly I'm not happy with the parts coming up, I wanted something more original but couldn't think of something decent so I basically redid the whole story in canon. I did change it up a bit as I wanted something that wasn't completely boring to write and read but honestly if I could I wish I could have done something different. Well I am never redoing this part of Naruto ever again, it was a lot of work for something I felt wasn't good enough. So I don't blame anyone if they want to skip to the final fight.
Political Alliance
Chapter 33: The Chase
Sasuke and Tayuya quickly made their way to the meeting point, they weren’t too worried about leaving a trail as they would have a pursuit team on them as soon as Konoha could mobilize one. So they move through the night, only resting now and then to catch their breath and to check to make sure they weren’t being followed. Soon after the sun rose was when they found themselves in a clearing in a forest.
“This the place?” Sasuke asked looking around the area.
“Should be,” Tayuya said looking around. “That is if they’re on fucking time.”
“Jeez you have no faith in us or what?” Came a voice from the trees. Three boys roughly Tayuya’s age all wearing similar clothing of the Sound Village came into view.
“This is the rest of the team,” Tayuya told Sasuke as she started to point them out to him. “The big fat one over there is Jirobo, the one with all the arms is Kidomaru, the last one is Sakon.”
Sakon stepped forward as he had been the leader of the group, at least until now when he got the new orders from Orochimaru. The tall boy had worn a string of beads around his neck looking at the boy in front of him. He still couldn’t believe that Orochimaru was making this boy the new leader of the team. It kind of burned him inside but he wouldn’t go against Orochimaru’s orders no matter what they were.
Still was this guy supposed to replace Kimimaro? He didn’t see it but he would follow orders, even if he didn’t like them. Going against Orochimaru wasn’t healthy and hardly anyone lived long enough to do it twice.
“Did you bring it?” Tayuya asked impatiently.
“Of course we brought it,” He said defensively.
“Good then we can get started with bringing Sasuke’s seal up to the next level while we go.” Tayuya told him seeing the interesting look in Sasuke’s eyes. He had heard a bit of this but Tayuya did have a bit of worry about this next step. The fact that the seal on them all, killed nine times out of ten, the odds were pretty much as bad for this next part, in fact only a handful that had ever been through this made past this point.
But she had a feeling that he might be able to do this, she didn’t know why but he wasn’t as weak willed as those in Konoha. It would take all his strong will in order to endure what was to come next. She knew exactly what he would face and she wouldn’t wish it on anyone. When you’re alone there in the dark it was a constant struggle, like you were constantly drowning in darkness. It felt like you were dying constantly and at any moment if you slipped, just once, you would really die.
She had seen what happened to those that they pulled out that didn’t make it. They were dried up, their own bodies turned against them as the curse seal seemed to make their own bodies eat themselves from the inside out.
The Sound Four brought out what they would need, it was a large wooden drum barrel with seal paper on it. This was a specially made device that Orochimaru used to help make the curse seal grow in power. Sasuke looked at it, as Tayuya had explained in more detail on the trip here what was expected. He also knew the risks but he would face them without feat. He hadn’t come all this way to have his life end like this. He would pass this, gain more power and learn all he could from Orochimaru.
“Are you ready?” Tayuya felt something she hadn’t felt in a long time. She felt a bit of worry about what would happen to him but she masked that. She wasn’t sure why she was feeling like this, the boy was arrogant, cold and yet they had shared a bed earlier. It had been pretty nice too and she was wondering what had gotten into her. She never thought of boys before so why was her mind seemed to be thinking about him lately? She didn’t understand but there was something about him that attracted her.
Maybe it was the power he had or the potential of the power he could reach, okay sure, he was good looking that she would admit to at least.
“Yes I am,” Sasuke said to her as he looked at her for a moment. He was unused to the feelings that he felt when he looked at her. All his life he felt mostly emptiness, hatred, anger and loss. But for some strange reason this fouled mouthed girl was different. She understood him that was something that no one else could even come close to back in Konoha. She was a strong and capable female as well, unlike most other Konoha female ninja of about his age. Plus their night together was…very interesting.
There were obviously some possibilities with her.
He watched at the lid was taken off and he knew this would be a great challenge for him. Taking a moment for himself he entered it a tried to get comfortable, not that it was easy in such a cramp place. The lid slowly started to close as he looked up to see Tayuya’s brown eyes looking at him. She didn’t look worried in fact he felt that she knew he would be able to do this. For whatever reason he smirked at her before the lid closed it was then he was alone. There was oddly no light, no sound, no anything in here. It was like he had just entered into a void that he could just lose himself in. He snapped his mind back in focus he had to stay focused if he lost his concentration he would never get out of this place.
He wouldn’t let this thing beat him, he had lived with the pain of the loss of his family, for being tortured for three days by his older brother twice, he wouldn’t let this thing beat him. He still had goals to complete to kill his brother and restore his clan. An image of Tayuya entered his mind and he felt that maybe he was closer to one of those goals now.
On the outside they strapped the container to Jirobo’s back, “Why do I have to be the damn pack mule?”
“Because you fucking look like one,” Tayuya snapped at him.
“You know I hate it when you curse all the time,” the large boy said to her. “What’s with you anyway you seem more on edge than normal.”
“On edge? Don’t you mean more bitchy than normal?” Sakon laughed out.
“Fuck you and you’re brother,” Tayuya flipped him off for good measure. She really didn’t get along with them but they were her team. Actually they had been a team for awhile now and it was hard for them to get along with each other. Sure in battle they would put aside any differences and kill their enemies like a well oiled machine but they all grated on each other in various ways.
“Can’t believe the brat is to be our new leader,” Sakon sighed in frustration as they started to move out.
“Wait, he’s going to be made the leader of our team?” Tayuya knew that Orochimaru wanted Sasuke for a new body. Although they had missed the window to get him to their master in time it would take three years before Orochimaru was ready for a new body. She never really thought what he was going to do with him. The thought of working with him made her feel oddly…please. “So we’re the Sound Five again.”
“It is a bit nice to be back up to five,” Kidomaru commented. “I felt like we levelled down since we lost our fifth.”
“Technically he’s not entirely ‘lost’ as you said,” Sakon told the six-armed boy. “Although Kabuto is the only thing keeping him alive, Tayuya, do you think this kid can really lead us? He doesn’t look like much to me and you spent the most time with him.”
“I think he’ll fit in.” Tayuya said trying not to give open praise. The last thing she needed was for them to learn that there might be something between her and Sasuke. Not that she knew herself whatever it was they had. But sleeping together had changed things he actually had smiled at her as her eyes case a little look to the wooden container. She had never seen him smile at anything and when he had smiled at her she felt a sensation she hadn’t expected. Something warm inside but she couldn’t place a name for it.
“Anyways we’ll see how good he is,” Sakon grunted. “Kabuto said he would send reinforcements to help out. Not sure what he meant by that but Lord Orochimaru is not taking chances this time around.”
-Konoha-
By the same massive gates of Konoha a retrieval team was set up. Given that many ninja were still out on missions and Konoha’s forces were stretched thin there weren’t many that could go on this mission. Even the genin teams had been split up to make do with certain missions. That and with the need of many Jonins, many of them were out as well a Chunins. Tsunade didn’t like to send out so many young ones out.
Sakura had wanted to go but Tsunade forbad it, she was still not fully healed yet and this team would need speed. She knew the girl wanted to go and that was commendable but as Hokage she had to make tough choices. But Sakura was going to see the team off at least, the young girl was adamant about that at least.
Tsunade was looking over all those she could assemble for this team. She saw members of Team Gai, Tenten and Neji were there. Their sensei was on a mission and Lee was still under medical care. The young boy was still recovering from his surgery. It was amazing she had pulled it off to tell the truth, it had been touch and go several times but somehow she managed to save the young boy’s ninja career.
Some part of her wished she hadn’t, knowing that the young boy might one day die in duty instead of living as a civilian. But she knew that Lee would most likely rather die than not be a ninja. As she understood things, Lee wasn’t too pleased with not being on this mission. But he wouldn’t be ready for missions until at least two more weeks.
Hinata and Kiba were also here both were great trackers which would be essential for this mission like with Neji. Shino was already out of the village at the moment with their sensei as only two were needed for the mission they were on.
Kakashi was here with Naruto and Temari of course as they had to go as they knew Sasuke the most. Maybe that was a downside too given how close they were but Tsunade needed able bodied people for this. If the last Uchiha went rogue it would be a great political embarrassment they couldn’t afford. Plus he was one of their most promising genin, if Orochimaru got his hands on him there was no telling what kind of weapon he would turn Sasuke into.
There was one last addition to the force and that had been with Anko, the special jonin had been sought out to confirm that the girl described by Sakura was the same Anko had seen. It turns out not only had it been the same girl but an ANBU had also knew the image as one of those that Orochimaru had used on his attack on the Third Hokage. It was this reason that Tsunade had placed the woman on the team. In fact when Anko had learned of Orochimaru’s involvement the young woman had demanded to go on the mission.
She didn’t need two missing nin on her hands plus her skills would be valuable. Plus if Sasuke Uchiha needed to be taken out, Anko would do it without hesitation. Tsunade just hoped it would never come to that. Even if the Uchiha had made a mistake he was still young and could change and no matter what ordering the death of a child just didn’t sit well with her. It was times like this she really hated being Hokage, being the one to make orders like this. It was no wonder she drank herself to sleep at times. She wanted to be a healer, to save lives. Yes she would fight and kill for her village but ordering others to do it had never been something she could ever get used to doing.
The entire team was now gathered around one of the massive gates that Sakura had seen Sasuke heading towards so they had a good idea of his trail. Kiba was watching Akamaru sniff the ground for Sasuke’s scent it had been good weather and any scent the young pup might be able to get would help in making sure they were on the right path.
Naruto and Temari were gathered around with the others of their generation.
“I can’t believe that Sasuke would let that bitch attack you and then just run off,” Tenten said to Sakura hearing the full story. “How could he do something like that?”
“I…I don’t know,” Sakura told the older girl. “He said this village had nothing left for him anymore.”
“Damn it,” Naruto said angrily. First he had made Sakura sad and now this, sure he loved Temari now but Sakura would always be his first crush and special to him. Plus as a friend and teammate he couldn’t let this kind of thing slid. “Don’t worry Sakura-chan, we’ll get him back even if I have to kick his ass and drag him back here.”
“You might want to be prepared for the worst,” Neji warned him. “After all he’s joining one of our most hated and dangerous enemies, willingly apparently as well. Even if you bring him back he’ll have to face judgment for his crimes. Not only acting against a fellow ninja, consorting with the enemy and actions that can be viewed as being a traitor and defection will not be a light sentence on him.”
Naruto and Sakura looked at the Hyuga as Sakura had to voice her concern. “What…could happen to him?”
“Execution for starters,” Anko said overhearing this and walked over in an uncharacteristic serious fashion. “Desertion or defection alone is punishable by death. Although given he’s the last Uchiha we have they might just lock him up for the rest of his life. A few might want to breed him for the sharingan but others might feel that it’s just not worth the effort. Given that Itachi killed his clan and still at large and now Sasuke, they might think insanity runs in the family and not take that chance.”
“I won’t let them do that!” Naruto said to the purple haired woman. “I’m not bringing him back just for some stupid people to kill him!”
“Then be prepared to be a friend to him and kill him on the battlefield,” Anko told him. “It might be better that way then being executed or living in a cage his entire life.”
“What!? How can you say that!” Naruto demanded and felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked to see Temari looking at him with an expression he couldn’t really read on her face.
“Naruto…sometimes you can’t save them, no matter how much you want to save them and have things go back to the way they were.” Temari paused remembering their last mission. “Take it from me, I’ve been where you are and you know what I mean.”
Naruto did know now what she was talking about, he had been there and seen her fight her old friend and then kill her. Temari had taken it pretty hard and here he was in the exact same position she had been in. He was very quiet as this sunk in, would he have to kill Sasuke or maybe he should ask could he even kill the other boy? He honestly didn’t think he could, despite everything Naruto still considered him his friend and rival. He had to at least try and get him back if only to save him from himself. He wasn’t sure what Sasuke was thinking but he was at least going to force some answers out of him.
“Naruto…” Sakura spoke up as the young blond looked up at her. “Just do your best, I don’t know what is going on but if you can’t bring him back…” She paused knowing the kinds of things Naruto did. In all honestly these words were killing her on the inside but she was so unsure now. Sasuke had left, she confessed her love and he did nothing as Tayuya beat her down. Did she and the village mean so little to him that he would do all of this?
“Just be careful,” Sakura told him she didn’t want to lose anyone else today.
Naruto was at a loss, he would think that if anyone wanted Sasuke back more then him it would be Sakura. He felt totally uncertain now, was he the only one that wanted him back? Even if they did bring him back Anko’s words haunted him.
“Alright let’s get this started,” Kakashi said not wanting to waste anymore time. The more time they took to get moving meant the more time it would give them to get away. They had to capture Sasuke before he left the country, they could in theory continue persuit but that ran risks. If they entered into another country with a shinobi force then they would be forced to deal with that group making it harder to capture Sasuke. Also it could also lead into a diplomatic incident to have a group this large enter into another country.
That was why only four man cells went in at a time, it prevented the idea that another country was invading. It was an unspoken rule between the shinobi nations that’s why you found that number of people in a cell. But the worst that could happen is if they entered the territory of the Sound Village. They would have already be at war with them if they could but they were too busy keeping the village afloat and repairing the damage of the failed invasion. It would be certain that if they entered enemy territory it would be impossible to get out without a lot of losses.
Sound would be on the look out for them in case they gave chase so they had to hurry and catch them before they left the country.
“Kiba, I want you up front,” Kakashi said to the boy whose nose was just a bit better than Kakashi’s own. “Hinata, Neji you two will be on the left and right of him. You two will watch the sides for attack. I’ll be up front as well. Tenten, Naruto and Temari will be the center and Anko, I need you protecting our rear.”
Anko nodded seeing the plan he was making, it was a pretty good formation. Kiba could track and warn of anything up ahead. The two Hyuga would be able to see if someone was about to attack anywhere especially on the sides. Kakashi up front meant they had the leadership and firepower of a jonin if they needed to assault and enemy head on. The others would make up the grunt work of the core while she was to guard them from a rear attack and give orders if the front got separated from the rest of them.
It was a nice set up although she was wondering about those Sound ninja, they seemed to be more elites despites their young age, of Orochimaru. That meant they could expect some nasty surprises and she wanted to be ready for them.
The team headed out at a dead run they had a lot of ground to cover and they couldn’t let the enemy get too far ahead.
Sakura watched them leave wanting to go with them, she hated feeling weak and being left behind. She didn’t want to be the one to be left behind anymore she wanted to be the one that went out there to help the team and be useful. But only one day of training didn’t mean she was ready. She felt a strong yet soft hand lightly land on her shoulder. She looked up to see the Hokage also looking at the team vanishing off in the horizon.
“I know you want to go out there,” Tsunade said softly. “I hated it when I got left behind. As a medic in the war I sometimes had to run the area for the field hospital while my teammates went out there. I always hated it because I never knew what was going to happen, now as Hokage I’m sending out people all the time on dangerous missions but can’t go with them to make sure they make it back.”
Sakura looked on as she felt she was seeing a side of the Hokage that many never had seen before. Instead of a powerful ninja that ran the village she could see the woman that was behind all of that. Tsunade smiled down at the young girl knowing how she was feeling.
“Come on, Shizune is putting together a medical team to follow the pursuit team and I’m without an assistant,” Tsunade turned to walk towards the Hokage Tower.
“Tsunade-sama?” Sakura asked blinking a couple of times.
“Well since you have nothing to do I need your help, besides I can teach you a few things during the breaks,” Tsunade walked on hearing the young girl starting to walk behind her. She smiled at that, she knew that she would need someone to help with the office work. But there was more to it than that Sakura would need the work to keep her mind off what was going on. And Tsunade could use the same treatment with work to keep her mind off this as well. Having someone around the office would do her good and she could use someone around or else she would start climbing the walls.
-Sound Team-
The Sound ninja were making their way North towards the Land of Sound (formally the Land of Rice Fields) if they could get there they knew they were home free. There was no way that the Leaf would be able to find them, not with all the Sound ninja there and bases scattered all over the land. Unlike other ninja villages, Sound didn’t have a single village but multiple ones scattered all over the place. You find one but would never find them all.
But with the extra weight that Jirobo was having to carry their speed was reduced. Besides that Jirobo was the slowest member of the team his speed was further slowed down carrying Sasuke. They also had to be careful, if container fell and broke open or if Sasuke was pulled out prematurely...well they weren’t sure what would happen. Only that Orochimaru told them to never have that happen, odds were best that it would kill Sasuke if he didn’t complete his personal trail in there.
This wasn’t good as this would give time for any pursuit team to catch up to them.
“Where the hell are we going?” Tayuya asked hoping for some kind of plan.
“We’re going to head the quickest say home,” Sakon told her as they continued to go on. “We’ll pass a field and we’re going straight through the Valley of the End.”
“Valley of the what?” Jirobo asked he never really was one for history. He was a fighter not a historian and honestly he wasn’t from Fire originally so why should he care about the history of others if he didn’t care about history in general?
“It’s this place where some big battle happened between an Uchiha and one of the Hokages. I forget which one but it’s some kind of big deal. There are supposed to be these two large statues placed there.”
“What’s the fucking point of that?” Tayuya knew the Leaf were strange but putting statues in the middle of nowhere? “Does anyone actually go there or anything? Anything in the area like a small settlement we should worry about.”
“No it’s just two really big statues that were placed there. Maybe people visit now and then but the area is pretty much uninhabited.”
Tayuya said nothing for a bit as she thought about that. “That’s crazy. Why go through all the trouble I mean, just how big are the statues anyway?”
“I heard they were as tall as the waterfall in the area,” Kidomaru stated actually having heard of this. “But you’re right it’s kind of a waste to make something like that isn’t it?”
“Damn Leaf ninja,” Jirobo grunted. “They’re all idiots if you ask me, hell they couldn’t even protect their own Hokage properly and I bet those guys that failed to protect him weren’t even executed. You can be sure that if we messed up that badly we wouldn’t live long after it.”
Kidomaru laughed in grim humour, “Yeah how is that for job motivation?”
“Anyways,” Sakon said getting back to the matter at hand. “We’re going this route because it’s on the border. We can cross it quickly and easier if we go through there. So let’s just try and pick up the pace a bit.”
They were going for an hour before they needed to take a break to rest up for the next leg of the trip. They looked at the sun to gauge how much time had passed and mentally calculated how much travel they had roughly taken. It didn’t look good, not with how slow things had gotten now. If they didn’t need to get Sasuke ready they would have made twice the distance and everyone knew it.
“Damn it’s only a matter of time before they catch up,” Tayuya angrily said looking to the South knowing they could get overrun within the next hour, two if the Leaf were slow to respond.
“We’re going to need someone to slow them down,” Sakon stated taking the situation into account. “Jirobo I want you to slow them down.”
“Fine with me,” the large boy said as he stretch out. “I was getting tired of carrying that thing anyway. So am I to take them down or just delay them?”
“I say take as many as you can down,” Kidomaru grinned. “That will slow them down, they wouldn’t leave behind their comrades if they were wounded. You know how weak they are in that regard. But if you can take them all down then go for it and catch up.”
“Then it’s decided then,” said Sakon.
“So who carries the damn box?” Kidomaru asked and then looked as everyone was looking at him. “Me and my big mouth, hey how about a game of rock, paper, scissors?”
“Fuck no, you cheat at that all the time,” Tayuya said to him. “Now carry that thing already.”
As the Sound team split up Jirobo stayed behind and got ready. He wasn’t sure what would come their way but if they were following their trail they would come right to this area. He got up in the trees and got ready to deal with whatever the Leaf would send. Even if he died he didn’t care, if he failed he was a dead man anyway as failure was not tolerated in the Sound Village. They were a small village so they couldn’t afford to lose and neither could he.
He would either complete his mission and survive or die and it was better to die in battle then whatever Orochimaru would do. There were worse fates than death the Sound team that had been used for sacrifices to being back the dead Hokages was proof of that. He grinned as he remembered Kidomaru’s words.
“Job motivation indeed.”
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Political Alliances	By : AgentGv01 Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 33038 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 11
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Political Alliances