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Political Alliances
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Political Alliance
Chapter 35: The Web
Kakashi led the others on as they left Anko behind, although he knew she was fully capable ninja and he respected her and her skills. It didn’t sit well with him leaving someone behind. Images of what happened with Rin all those years ago. He tried to leave her behind and Obito had to make him see what was really important. That mission hadn’t ended well, yes he had gotten Rin out but Obito paid with his life. It was something that still haunted him to this day and to hid dying breath most likely as the eye in his head was an ever constant reminder of that day.
Now leaving her behind felt like that day all over again for him. This was why he preferred to work alone when he was in ANBU, it make him worry less about those under his care. At any rate his worry for her was something he had to push back into his mind, he had to focus on the mission and only the mission.
He caught something in his vision as he jumped and held up a fist. The others stopped as he bent down slightly.
“What is it?” Temari asked him.
“There seems to be some kind of wire on the ground.” Kakashi could just barely see it. Whatever it was it was unlike anything he had seen. It was so fine that only the light reflecting off it gave him his only warning. He was thankful that his original eye was really good, sure it was no Sharingan, but he could see better than most with it. He looked again and noticed another wire next to it, he had to admit, a double tripwire trap was a neat trick. You think you missed it by bypassing the first one and then have a second even thinner one, after it.
He remembered someone that once would make a hidden trap and then place an even harder one to see right after it while on a mission years ago.
“Alright everyone, follow me,” Kakashi said to them all. “Step where I step and not anywhere else. We have tripwires and I don’t know it they are linked to traps or a warning system. It might be to slow us down but we have to be careful.”
The team cautiously but quickly made their way forward, Kakashi took great pains to avoid the wires when he saw them. They were on the grounds, between trees and even in the branches. He was amazed at how many there were, either there were more opposition then he thought or this might have been set up in advance. Either one didn’t sit well with him, more enemies would complicate things and many traps set up in advanced while they had waited for Sasuke, would mean they had time to set up any kind of trap.
As they moved on they eventually came to a small clearing, Kakashi looked around but didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. So they moved forward, it was only when he heard the rustle of the leaves that he shouted for everyone to take cover. They all managed to dodge a literal hail of kunai from the trees. There had to be a lot of people hidden there to throw that many but he couldn’t see any of them. More and more of the deadly little knifes rained down on them.
“Where the hell are they coming from?” Kiba shouted out trying to get to the trees for cover. But every time he did more would come at him blocking his way.
Neji and Hinata were busy dodging and trying to scan but so far they couldn’t see anything just yet.
“Damn it, come out here and fight!” Naruto shouted out to whoever was doing this. They didn’t have the time to play around like this. The more they stayed here the longer Sasuke was getting away.
“Up there!” Neji yelled out as a Sound ninja with four limbs came down from the branches.
“I got him!” Kiba yelled out jumping at the boy.
Kidomaru smirked as the boy and his dog were falling into his trap. He opened his mouth as a large amount of webbing came out and suddenly a giant web came flying at Kiba. Kiba had no way to dodge as he and Akamaru were engulfed by it. The webbing attached him to a tree and no matter how much he struggled he couldn’t break the webbing.
Hinata ran to him but when she stepped on a prepared web wire it released a web trap this time around. Kidomaru was webbing everyone up as quickly as he could. Although he was outnumbered it was something he was used to. Plus it wasn’t like they could escape his webbing, they would soon learn why when they tried.
“Wind blade!” Temari yelled out as she swept her fan at the enemy.
Kidomaru barely managed to dodge the attack, he hadn’t counted on a wind user. The webbing was a mixture of chakra and that’s what made it so strong. But a precise attack like that might be able to cut it. He would have to deal with her first.
“You’re going to need to level up a lot more than that to beat me,” he told the wind Kunoichi disappearing back into the trees.
“Damn it where did he go?” Naruto asked looking around.
Kakashi looked to Tenten, “Cut the others free while we have a break.”
Tenten nodded as she jumped to Hinata who was closest. She pulled out a kunai but when she tried to cut the webbing it wouldn’t go through the material. She didn’t understand, it shouldn’t be that strong so she tried another on. When that didn’t work she pulled out a short sword she had sealed in a scroll, it was one of her sharpest of swords but even that didn’t work.
“I can’t cut through it!” Tenten yelled to the Jonin leader, “Whatever this crap is, it’s resistant to being cut.”
“Don’t let him catch you in that,” Kakashi warned as the sound ninja kept throwing webs at everyone. Kakashi was trying to come up with a plan for attack, the boy was a distance fighter but if you got up close that webbing would be a major problem. “Temari try to get rid of the branches I want him on the ground.”
Kakashi figured it would limit the boy’s mobility if he was stuck on the ground and couldn’t hide in the branches.
Kidomaru heard this and saw the blond pulling back her large fan again, he wouldn’t let her get another shot off again. He quickly spat out webbing from his mouth and formed it into a special arrow of his. He pulled out a bow as he quickly ran behind the trunk of the tree as Temari’s wind attack blasted through the area. Branches were blown away as a large chunk of the forest top was blown away. Temari pulled back for another when Kidomaru used this moment to fire the web arrow.
It sailed through the air and as it was around to hit her, it expanded into a web ensnaring her into the ground.
“Temari-chan!” Naruto yelled out running to her.
“Watch out, don’t touch the web,” Temari warned him as he stopped short of touching it. He wanted to cut it but from what Tenten said he might not be able to. He hated feeling like there was nothing to do, in fact he refused that there was nothing to be done. There had to be a way of cutting it, he just had to figure it out.
He heard a yell and turned to see that Tenten had been caught now. Naruto thought about using wind chakra to cut through it like the stones. It might work but he had never really used it in a combat condition without Temari’s help. Maybe he could hold her hand and use the other to cut through it? It was worth a try at least. He was about to tell her his plan when suddenly he felt something snag the back of his jacket.
He was quickly pulled off his feet as he a web came out of nowhere and he was now stuck in midair in the center of a web attached to several trees.
Kakashi was the last one left and he didn’t like this, the boy’s webbing made him a major problem. Even if he defeated the boy he had no idea how to free the rest of his team and for all he knew they could be stuck there for hours, hours they didn’t have.
“Damn you’re a slippery one,” Kidomaru stated after another frustrating failure at catching Kakashi. He was also keeping his distance from the man, he knew the reputation from Kakashi and getting in close would not end well for the Sound Ninja.
He pulled out a bow as he formed an arrow from the webbing he created from his mouth. “Dodge this then.”
The arrow flew and Kakashi thankfully had pulled up his headband, with his sharingan eye he was able to dodge the arrow. It glanced off the shoulder part of his vest cutting it up slightly. The boy’s accuracy was amazing for a boy his age, in fact he would say that his accuracy rivalled that of Tenten on the team. The boy he noticed fire more shots but they all missed, but only just. Kakashi was being kept at a distance and from starting any counter jutsu.
Kakashi also knew that he couldn't use his eye for too long, it was the double edge he always had to deal with when using it. He could never afford to drag out fights and this boy was trying to drag things out.
Kidomaru was getting a little bored with this cat and mouse game with Kakashi. So he decided to play another game. He pulled back a new arrow as he aimed it at all those he had captured. “ I wonder, are you fast enough to take an arrow for one of your team? Or will you simply just let me shoot them? Now who shall I go for first?
“When I get out of here I’m going to kick your ass!” Naruto shouted out as he struggled in his own web.
“I think the loud mouth will be first,” Kidomaru stated pointing the weapon at Naruto. Kakashi saw this and cursed as he was on the other side of the opening of the forest. If he ran as fast as he could he might not make it in time to do anything and even then, he didn’t know what he could do. Maybe deflect the arrow’s path, that might work so he ran as fast as he could holding out a kunai.
Naruto looked up as the arrow was pointed at him, Temari felt like an icy fist just grabbed her heart. She didn’t think that Kakashi was going to make it in time. She could take it if it was her that was going to be shot but she didn’t want to see this, she couldn’t see this or let it happen. She could only watch in horror as the arrow sailed away, everything moved in slow motion as she yelled out.
It was just when it was about to hit Naruto when a figure came out of nowhere to knock the arrow away with his own fist. Neji stood there over Naruto his bloodline activated as he looked defiant at Kidomaru’s surprised look.
“Hinata, use the gentle fist to cut the webbing. I’ll take this one on,” Neji told his cousin.
-Konoha-
In the Hokage’s office, Sakura was making herself as useful as she could. She honestly didn’t know what else to do. She was worried about her team, for various reasons. Worried that everyone might end up getting hurt or worse, worried for Sasuke and what he was doing. She honestly didn’t understand why he was doing this. He was betraying the entire village to go off with the man that had attacked them in the Forest of Death, had nearly killed them, attacked the village and killed the Third Hokage.
It didn’t make any sense, or did it? All this time she had tried to get closer to the boy, to understand him more but he always shut himself away. What did she know about him other than the public history? She had seen a few moments of kindness in him, a few times he opened up but that had been before the curse mark changed things. He became darker and seemed to slip further and further away. She sighed to herself as she thought about this. Maybe she hadn’t known him all that well if he was willingly going to leave for Orochimaru.
She felt a sting where that girl had hit her earlier that was another thing as well. He had chosen that girl to be with, that is, if she told the truth about what she did with Sasuke. The fact that Sasuke didn’t even react to her claim didn’t sit well with Sakura.
“Sakura,” Tsunade’s voice called out.
“Coming,” Sakura gathered up the few scrolls she had been sent to get across the room and gave them to the Fifth.
Tsunade took the files as she looked them over before speaking. “Don’t worry they’ll be fine.”
Sakura looked up in surprise as Tsunade looked up slightly herself with a grin on her face. “It’s written all over your face, you always wear your emotions in plain sight. Peace of advice, don’t go into poker.”
Sakura felt a little of the weight on her shoulders ease from the Hokage’s slight humour.
“I worry as well you know,” Tsunade eased back in her chair as she placed the papers down. “You can’t stop what is to come, you have to learn how to take what comes at you in life.” She looked up at her office. “I wish I could say I did just that but that would make a liar out of me.”
“Tsunade-sama...” Sakura had never seen the Hokage looking like this. Although Tsunade looked young, Sakura felt like the image of the woman in front of her had just aged and yet she still looked like normal. The woman seemed to be remembering something that weighted so much it nearly crushed her for a moment.
“I lost my little brother and I nearly lost myself, when Dan died...I did. I ran from my pain and I just couldn’t face the world anymore.” Tsunade then smiled, “Amazing how some loud mouthed little brat of a genin could get me to face it all and to have the strength to fight again.”
Sakura smiled herself, “Naruto is...unique.”
That made Tsunade laugh, “That’s putting it gently. But that’s why I believe in them and so should you. He had a way of beating the odds.”
Before they could say more there was a knock on the door. Tsunade told them to enter as a chunin entered the room. “Tsunade-sama, Shizune’s medical team just left to help the retrieval team as support.”
Tsunade nodded, “Good you can leave now.” Tsunade sighed when the chunin left. It was good that Shizune got her medical team set up so quickly. Now she just hoped that her apprentice could get there in time if Kakashi’s team needed any medical help. It was too bad that they couldn’t organize it sooner but time wasn’t on their side, it still wasn’t. She hated waiting, she was not a patient person and it got on her nerves waiting around.
She stood up suddenly, if she was stuck waiting around she would at least get something productive done. “Come with me Sakura.”
“Where are we going?” the young girl asked.
“Training,” Tsunade said simply. “We might as well get in some training while we wait.” She saw the girl’s nervous look. “Don’t worry it’s not physical training today, that will be tomorrow, today is basic medical knowledge.”
-Retrieval Team-
Hinata was finishing cutting through the webbing of the last member of the team as Neji was facing the sound ninja. She wished she had thought of it, to use the gentle fist to cut the webbing. Using her eyes she could see the chakra inside of the webbing, and her clan’s style of combat would be the perfect counter for this. Her hands in the shape of a knife cut through the webbing as the chakra in her hand was formed to cut through the chakra in the webbing, it cut through it effortlessly.
“Thanks,” Kiba told her with a small smile as he got up.
Hinata nodded her head as they went to the others.
Kakashi had time to think but only for a moment, they could all rush this ninja but he was a slippery one. Plus he was using delaying tactics as well, something they couldn’t afford to do at all. Which meant they would have to split up again, he knew that Anko would be coming so if the team could hold out until she got here then it wouldn’t be so bad. The webbing was another issue, only the Hyuga could cut it which meant only Hinata or Neji would have to be behind and he might need one of them for later. Given the experience of this ninja it would have to be Neji. Hinata was at the moment no match for him and he needed to ensure whoever was left behind had the odds to survive.
“Neji, I want you to deal with him while we go on.” Kakashi told him.
“What? We can kick his ass Kakashi-sensei,” Naruto said to the jonin leader.
“He’s right Naruto,” Temari told him. “This guy is just trying to delay us and he’ll just keep webbing members up making Hinata and Neji take time out to free them and then we have to dodge.” It was all a cat and mouse game and she knew it. She could use her fan to blast the area but using such high level moves to many times would leave her drained and they still had who knew how many more ahead of them. Plus there was no telling what other surprises he had.
“I’ll stay with him,” Tenten said to everyone surprise. “Neji is a short range fighter and I can attack at long range. Plus we’ve trained together enough to work well as a team.”
Kakashi nodded his head it made sense and they were Gai’s students, knowing the kind of training he put himself through and Lee, there was no telling what those two had been through. He would have liked to leave Temari as well but he might need her for later. He had a feeling that they would only get to the stronger opponents as they moved on and she would be needed.
“Alright you two say and fight him, help should be coming and catch up when you can,” Kakashi told them. “Everyone, move out.” He ordered as they made a break for it.
Kidomaru saw this from his hiding spot as he pulled an arrow back in his bow, he didn’t like the fact they were splitting up but he could at least try to take one of the out. He aimed for the blonde girl with the fan, she might be trouble later on. He let the arrow go but he hadn’t counted on one thing, that was Tenten’s deadly accuracy with Neji’s warning.
Neji saw the arrow and quickly told Tenten, in under a second the weapons expert’s eyes were already tracking the arrow. She didn’t need any longer, her hand threw out a kunai naturally in almost a blur as the small weapon sailed through the air. Kidomaru smirked, no one was that good, sure he was that accurate but no one else matched him. To his surprise the kunai not only hit the arrow but knocked it slightly off course. The Arrow just went over Temari’s head who looked back in shock as she felt something brush against her hair.
“You owe me one,” Tenten shouted to the former Sand ninja. It felt kind of good to get one up on her, sure she had forgiven the girl for her lose in the chunin exams but still. There was some perverse sense of pleasure in Tenten that Temari owed now. Tenten looked to the trees as it was just her and Neji now. “Well here we are.”
Neji nodded, “I’ll point him out.”
“And I take him out,” Tenten smirked. “I have just the thing I’ve been saving.” She pulled out a scroll as Neji knew it was one of her many weapon scrolls she kept on her person. She unsealed her choice of weapons and he was surprised to see a bow with a quiver of arrows.
“I didn’t know you had those,” Neji said to her surprised as he scanned the area.
“There’s a lot you don’t know,” she smirked arming herself. “I got this after the exams, I figured I needed to round out my weapons more and got a bunch of special arrows as well.”
Neji lifted a single eyebrow at the word ‘special’, knowing her it might be something very nasty for the enemy.
Kidomaru had to admit, he was impressed with the girl. No one had done something like that to him, ever. To do that to one of his arrows, he was intrigued but his girl, the boy less so, but she was obviously at a good level. This game might have just increased in difficulty for him.
“Four O’clock, sixty-three degrees up!” Neji said. Tenten didn’t miss a beat as she took aim and fired.
Kidomaru saw the arrow coming he moved as fast as he could, he felt the arrow grave his cheek and swore. That was way too close, it had nearly been game over for him right there. Against Neji would give out his location and Tenten would fire her own arrow. Kidomaru figured it was time to change the game up a little. He called up some chakra for his summoning creature, he had sighed with the spiders of course and a large spider creature was called. The spider was huge, easy it’s body was seven feet long and that didn’t even count the legs as it took a spot in the branches.
“I don’t like the looks of this,” Tenten said looking up at the huge animal with disgust. “I really hate spiders.”
Suddenly the spider spawned a literal army of smaller ones, each one carrying a web line on itself as they descended on mass towards them.
“Oh crap,” Tenten muttered as she pulled her scroll again. This time she unsealed a large number of shurikens. She easily held the deadly little things between all her fingers as she quickly tried to judge the right angle for attack. Neji was ready as well although he would have to wait for them to get closer.
Tenten threw her weapons each one hitting a spider dead center, she cleared a safe area for herself knowing that Neji would be able to handle himself and she didn’t want to get in his way. She saw his arms moving with blinding speed attacking all the little things that came too close to his area of attack.
“That was a good opening move,” Kidomaru said as he slowly lowered himself. “But how long can you keep this up? I doubt she has a limitless supply of weapons and sooner or later you’ll both start to miss.”
Tenten and Neji knew that, they looked at each other as they silently needed a plan. Tenten’s eyes went quickly to the large spider as she nodded at him. He looked at Kidomaru and he too nodded. They had perfect teamwork as they had trained with each other for nearly two years now. Tenten took out a special kunai with a paper bomb wrapped around it. Neji noticed the different color on it and got ready. Tenten threw the kunai straight up and closed her eyes, as did Neji. It was a risk but one they needed.
The bomb exploded in a bright light as the paper flash bomb went off. Kidomaru hadn’t known what the girl was doing and now he was blinded. Tenten jumped onto a tree as she quickly unsealed a large battle axe. It would slow her down but she needed the extra weight. When she reached the highest point she jumped off and in a back flip was now landing on top of the spider. The blinded creature heard the girl but didn’t know the danger until it was too late. Tenten’s axe smashed into its head, it gave a gurgled sound as it fell from the trees, it landed with a large crash into the floor below blood seeping form the mortal wound.
Neji rushed at Kidomaru and managed to hit him with several dozen good hits from his gentle fist. Kidmaru cried out as he landed on the ground. Neji stood in front of the boy as Tenten landed beside him.
“Nice one,” Tenten smiled.
Neji however was still tense, something was wrong as Kidomaru started to get up. It wasn’t possible, he had made sure those were mortal hits. Then he noticed something odd, the places he had hit looked strangely orange. It reminded him of Lee’s fight with Gaara, how the boy had an outer shell that protected him. ‘Damn, can it be that he has something similar?’
“That was a good one,” Kidomaru stated getting up. “It’s a good thing that the webbing I use I can make from any liquid in my body. My spit is just one way, I can sweat it out of my pores as well.” To show this was true the damaged pieces fall off his body as a new substance seemed to grow over it and then when it settled looked just like his real skin.
“Just like Gaara,” Neji confirmed. Tenten heard this and knew this wouldn’t be an easy fight now.
Kidomaru once again took to trees as he decided to keep his distance. The battle continued on like this, Kidomaru would keep his distance trying to get through their defences and they would counter attack. Tenten would sometimes try to put a paper bomb onto her arrow and one of the explosions nearly did get Kidomaru. He knew that his armour might protect him physically, but the shockwave of an explosion was something else as that could cause internal damage.
But as the battle went on, both Tenten and Neji wouldn’t be able to keep up with all the weapons that kept coming at them. Cuts would start to form, at one point a kunai hit Tenten in her shin. This caused a lot of pain as she couldn’t move as much. Neji had to jump to her aid when the next bombardment of weapons came. Tenten got hit in the shoulder but Neji had taken three kunai himself.
Both were wounded and bleeding but neither one was backing down.
It was starting to drag out for too long for Kidomaru. He knew that he couldn’t afford too waste much time with these two. He needed to get back before more of Konoha’s forces could be gathered up. It was time to finally end this and drew on the power of the curse mark, the black markings grew over his body but he didn’t stop there. He wanted to crush them utterly, he wanted a complete victory as he put himself through the next stage. His skin changed color as he started to take on a more demonic appearance and a third eye grew in the middle of his forehead.
This new eye allowed him to increase his accuracy and now he would see just how good these two were.
Neji caught this new arrow weapon and was only just able to dodge it as it cut along his arm. He hissed out as a large gash was formed.
“Neji, are you okay?” Tenten asked seeing the weapon and now his arm covering itself in blood.
“I’m fine,” He told her. Although he could still use the arm that had been a surprise to him, he wouldn’t be caught off guard like that again.
Kidomaru cursed, he really didn’t like how that boy could see all his attacks coming. The girl on the other hand, she couldn’t. A grin slowly spread across his face as he took aim. She was now too far for the boy to stop the arrow and she was slowed down with that leg wound. She couldn’t be fast enough to dodge or get out of way.
Tenten saw the arrow coming at her and with only one arrow left herself. She knew that she only had one chance. Her body was already injured so it was slower now but she forced herself to move as fast as she could. She took aim and fired her last arrow, it grazed along its edge nodding its course but not far enough. She cried out feeling the arrow pierce her lower torso, she felt it go through her body and into the tree she was leading against.
“No!” Neji saw Tenten impaled onto the tree but he couldn’t move to her, he saw the kunai coming at him again now. He wanted to make sure she was okay but that arrow had looked like it had been a lethal blow. A moments distraction led to more cuts onto his body, he felt the blade slice into his flesh and two more sink into him. When there was a break he stood there on unsteady feet, his body was heavily wounded he knew he was losing too much blood. His head was getting light headed, a bad sign that his blood pressure was dropping. He didn’t want to think of the internal damage.
Kidomaru slowly lowered himself a few feet from Neji hanging upside down. “You’re on deaths door now, you’re little friend is a goner and you’ll be joining her soon enough. Oh well I’ll have to admit you two were a nice little game for me. But you can’t pierce my form with her weapons and I’m not getting close enough for you to use those hand against me.”
“Not that you could do much anyway, you can barely stand now, you shouldn’t have taken those hits for her.”
“I would do so again no matter what,” Neji told him as he slowly turned to face him. “She’s my teammate and I would never abandon my allies. Besides there is still one way to beat you.”
“Oh?” Kidomaru smirked hanging a few feet in the air. He figured he was safe at this distance, there was no way Neji could jump this high up at him. “I’m interesting in hearing that.”
“You said it yourself, your own arrows are made of the same material as that armour you use on your skin,” Neji smirked.
Kidomaru looked confused at him when he heard the sound of an arrow, he was about to move when suddenly he felt something slam into the back of his head. He was confused what happened at first and why he couldn’t see out of his third eye anymore. He felt this intense pain then his vision blurred, the last thing he saw was the ground coming up to him before everything went dark.
Neji looked at the monstrous form of their enemy with one of his own arrows sticking out of the third eye. The boy’s body slowly started to revert to his more human appearance looking out at the world with dead eyes. Neji looked up to see Tenten sitting down holding the bleeding wound from where she had pulled the arrow out from. Neji slowly made his way to her as he nearly collapsed next to her.
“Are you okay?” He said in a soft voice he was tired and hurting all over.
Tenten winced as she tried to put pressure on the wound. “Been better, knew I couldn’t dodge…had to make it hit somewhere not vital…although…I think it hit a kidney, not sure.” Tenten was starting to look slightly pale to Neji.
“Hold on,” He said trying to get comfortable next to her that was hard when he had a few kunai in his back so he was on his side next to her. He held his own hand to her wound trying to stop as much bleeding as he could.
“I feel so tired…” Tenten whispered.
“Same…but we can’t sleep, you know that,” Neji said to her as she pressed her body against his.
Tenten knew their chances of survival were pretty low with their wounds but she was a ninja she knew the risks. Although knowing that this could be the end, she felt scared. She had so much she wanted to do in life, there was so much she hadn’t done yet either. Feeling Neji pressed against her felt nice, at least she wasn’t alone, that was worse way to go she felt, alone.
“Don’t leave me,” She muttered out loud her thoughts.
Neji wasn’t sure what she meant, it wasn’t like he was going anywhere. “I’ll never leave.”
She smiled a bit as he eyes closed, “good…I’m glad it’s you…”
Neji had no idea what she meant before he felt his tired body give out. He slipped into darkness but he was left with one strange thought. You would think that his last thoughts would be of the others, their mission or his family. But strangely his last thoughts were, ‘I’m glad it’s you too’, before everything went black.
They lay there for who knew how long and they weren’t aware of a shadow of a person that suddenly loomed over their forms.
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