Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Just Too Sexy For His Own Good ❯ Message Relay ( Chapter 27 )

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-Ruri

Chapter Twenty Seven
Message Relay

"SASUKE!"cried out Naruto, throwing his head back as another orgasm came upon him, sending raw electric pleasure through every nerve. His breathing was heavy, and he had clung upon Sasuke's shoulder desperately during their lovemaking. Angry red marks marred the pale boys skin, yet the satisfyied smile upon Sasuke's face, revealed no pain.

Naruto fell onto Sasuke's shoulder, eyes half lidded. Sasuke pulled him closer, still inside his lover, and kissed the top of his head. He then closed his eyes, and rested against the headboard of their bed. "I love you,"he spoke gently, stroking the blond locks of Naruto's hair.

"Sasuke-teme,"Naruto mumbled. He could feel his lovers smile, upon the designated pet-name. Sasuke was Bastard, Naruto was Dobe of course. Often they would even shout out their little petnames during their sexual moments. It made it all the more special. A kodak moment if you will.

POUND! POUND! POUND!

"OPEN UP!"

Naruto and Sasuke recognized the ferocious voice as that of their team mate, Sakura. By the sounds of it, she wasn't too happy.

"Should we answer?"Naruto asked.

"If we don't she'll bust down the door,"Sasuke noted with a tired sigh. He slipped out of Naruto, who replied with a light groan. Naruto gathered up some blankets and wrapped them around himself tossing his head into the pillow with a more tired groan.

"SASUKE! NARUTO! OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW OR SO HELP ME-"

Sakuras words were cut off, as Sasuke threw open the door.

"What?"Sasuke asked in a calmed tone.

Sakura coughed and held her nose, turning away. Sasuke raised an eyebrow and tilted a head.

"S-s-s-Sasuke!"Sakura sputtered fishing around in her pocket frantically for a hankerchief or a tissue but to no avail.

Sasuke looked down...and noticed he forgot to put on some pants.

"Eh..hehe, gomen,"Sasuke replied with a sweatdrop.

Naruto came to the rescue, throwing a pair of black pants towards his lover with a grumble. "Put them on before she needs a blood transfusion."

Sasuke nodded, slipping on the pants quickly.

"Is it safe?"Sakura asked.

"Yeah, yeah,"Sasuke replied. "Now what was it?"

"Oh yes. Well, being that you two have been literally screwing eachother for lets see now...,"she looked at her watch and returned to Sasuke an angry glance, "three hours going on, since you obviously began again around five in the morning!"

"Actually it was more like four fifty-two,"Sasuke noted. "Naruto got vocal around five. I tried to keep him quiet, but-"

"SASUKE-TEME!"Naruto threw a pillow at Sasuke.

"BEING as SUCH, I figured around eight would be the perfect time to inform you of a briefing meeting around nine,"Sakura finished. "Sheesh, you two are worse than Kakashi and Iruka."

"Iruka?"Naruto popped up.

Sakura's eye twitched and another waterfall of blood came crashing down.

"Put on some pants, Dobe,"Sasuke instructed, not even looking to notice that his lover was naked.

Inner Sakura wanted to oogle the guys some more, but Sakura forced her inner self back, and made little plugs from her tissue to stick up her nose.

When finished, Naruto had slipped on some pants, and gave Sakura a sheepish smile.

"Now where were we?"Sakura asked herself, with her arms crossed and her right index finger tapping her thoughtful face. "Oh yes, you asked about Iruka. Well, he and two other ninjas last night had arrived in Sunagakure to relay an important and crucial message. He managed to give Gaara-sama the message before being kidnapped by Kakashi-sensei, and ultimately molested throughout the night."

"Iruka-sensei is here?!"Naruto bounced up.

"NARUTO! Have you not listened to a single word I've been telling you?!"Sakura asked.

"I'm going to go and visit him!"Naruto replied.

"I wouldn't recommend that,"Sakura replied in a bored tone.

"Why not?"Naruto replied.

"He's kinda on bedrest, my order,"Sakura replied a sly grin. "Meaning no visitors. Kakashi-sensei could disguise himself as anyone and pretend to be anyone just to get to poor Iruka-sensei again. Besides, it's a long journey from Konoha to Suna, and they traveled two days with no stops or sleep. He needs his rest...especially from Kakashi-sensei."

"Damn pervert,"Sasuke grumbled crossing his hands behind his head.

"Yeah, like you're one to talk!"Naruto threw another pillow at Sasuke's head.

"Well anywho, get your asses dressed and ready,"Sakura ordered.

"Yes Master,"Naruto replied in a sarchastic tone yet a wide grin.

"Or no ramen,"Sakura said.

"What are you standing around for Sasuke, get dressed!"Naruto replied.

"Naruto, we need to shower,"Sasuke stated.

"Okay, I'm gone, don't need to hear this,"Sakura said, quickly vacating the viscinity.

"Finally, I thought she'd never leave,"Sasuke replied pouncing on Naruto. The blond gave the most adorable pout that Sasuke had ever seen, causing Sasuke to nibble upon the Dobe's lower lip. Naruto groaned happilly in response but then something clicked in his mind.

"Sasuke! We have a meeting!"Naruto scolded.

"At nine. It's currently eight fifteen,"Sasuke pointed out.

"And I take half an hour showers,"Naruto stated back.

Sasuke sighed. Then he grinned. "A half an hour you say?"

Naruto didn't trust that grin, nor did he have to, as Sasuke picked him up bridal style and brought him to the rooms bathroom.

It was about as generic as a bathroom could be. It was completely white, something that Sasuke didn't like, for he prefered the colors blue or black, and Naruto, well he wasn't sure if Gaara would appreciate an orange bathroom in the special suites set aside for Konoha ninjas.

It would be a long half an hour judging by Sasuke's glomping.

***

Ino breathed in the summer air, as she walked the streets of Suna, once again filled with life. With Iruka and the two ANBU arriving, it was a pretty hectic night. Worn out from the day of training before with Akina and the fangirl glomp-fest, Ino was exausted. Of course, Naruto was kidnapped by Sasuke, and ulimately molested up until midnight or so, then they slept for a bit. Poor Sakura and Ino, shared a room just down the hall, and could hear everything through the thin walls. Needless to say, the didn't get much sleep, but they managed somehow.

Iruka had arrived early in the morning, perhaps around three. When Kakashi had found out, well, Ino cringed at the thought. Needless to say, Sakura putting him on bedrest was not just because of his exaustion (he had traveled for two days straight, no solider pills or anything to go by), but because of Kakashi. He was rather happy to see Kakashi however, being almost three weeks since they've left. Kakashi's happiness, well DUH!

She missed Shikamaru.

There. She said it. Usually a tough demanding woman, she found herself being quite lonely without her finace there. She wished he was one of the ninja's who accompianied Iruka-san. She would certainly welcome him with open arms. Besides, everyone seemed to be getting laid, and dammit, she was one-a-wanting!

Lost in her thoughts, Ino accidently bumped into a stranger. Knocked back to reality, she went to mumble an apology.

"Sorry,"she apologized, looking up. It was sudden, but she found herself yanked into a corner quite violently. "HEY! LET GO!"

The streets were highly occupied so why couldn't any one hear her shouts of protest? They walked past her without taking a second glance. Genjutsu?

"I SAID LET GO!"she shouted, diving down to leverage her leg within the air, kicking the stranger in the head from his chin. The man fell to the ground with a sharp thud. Ino immediately went running, down the streets, flipping over a group of people and landing in a sucessful crouch on the ground.

"You can't escape me,"said the person, now revealed to be a man.

Ino skidded to a hault. How could the man appear in front of her? He's fast, she concluded, unsheating three shuriken in between her fingers, a deadly glare set in her blue eyes.

"Who are you?"she demanded to know.

"You know exactly who I am,"replied the man.

"No, I don't! Now, tell me who you are or I'll kill you,"Ino demanded again, this time in a tone more deadlier than the last.

The man began to chuckle.

"NAME NOW!"Ino commanded.

"I'm your enemy,"he replied.

Her eye began to twitch out of annoyance. "And does this ENEMY have a NAME?!?!" She was going to kick some ass if she didn't stop playing cat and mouse with little questions.

"Beautiful kunoichi, I have no name. But if you must call me something you can call me Damaru."

"Your name means to keep silent,"Ino replied immediatley.

He chuckled, "Yes, it does."

"Well, Damaru, what is your purpose?"Ino asked.

He stepped foreward but a shuriken at his feet prevented him from stepping any further.

"Fiesty woman, I see,"Damaru replied.

"So I've been told,"Ino glared.

"I am here to relay a message,"Damaru stated.

"What message?"Ino asked.

Damaru snapped his fingers. A lanky man, not full with muscle but tall and with a dark appearance appeared behind Ino. She turned quickly ready to punch out the man, only to have him catch her wrist. She couldn't see his face for it was shaded by a large brimmed hat. She could see his teeth, filed down to fangs.

"What the fu-,"Ino shouted out. The man opened his mouth.

"Sawagu, give her the message,"Damaru replied.

"With pleasure,"he spoke in a deep tone that didn't fit his lithe figure at all. "Tell me woman, do you know what my name is?"

"Sawagu means to make noise,"Ino glared.

"Good girl,"he replied. He pursed his mouth together as if he was going to whistle. The high pitched sound came out incrediably sharp.

Ino immediately clasped her hands to her ears, freeing her one wrist easilly from Sawagu's grasp. Her eyes widened, her mouth opened and a terrifyied scream echoed from her lungs. The noise that pierced her ears was loud and threatened to make her go insane.

She wriggled on the ground, crying out for help. Yet all the noise she made, Damaru took away. The villagers heard nothing, but how could they not see it? Ino didn't understand. Those of Suna could spot out many genjutsu's, a village trick or something. So if this was a genjutsu, why couldn't they see her or hear her?

"HOW! HELP!"she cried out.

"Sorry blondie,"spoke a womans voice. It was a young girl, perhaps about fifteen years of age. Her cocky glancings and vain shining of her nails upon her shirt reflected the light from the sun.

"WHO?!"

"My name is Shinkirou,"the girl spoke. "And I am the reason why no one can see you sweetie. Look at you. Pathetic. Some jounin. Konoha nin are all alike. Cocky and worthless. Damaru-sama, I can't stand even looking at her."

Ino narrowed her gaze to a deadly slit. That damn noise echoed in her ears, piercing her brain with the utmost pain. If that horrible sound wasn't keeping her down, she would've long since exterminated these pests.

Shinkirou kicked Ino in the gut.

Sawagu and Damaru watched with blank gazes. "MAKE IT STOP!"Ino cried out, as her body jerked over and over again, Sawagu emitting the high pitched sound that racked her brain. Shinkirou moved her fingers in a peculiar pattern.

Ino shakilly reached for a kunai, and threw it at Shinkirou. The blond would certainly be damned if she would just sit around and take such without a fight. The girl got stabbled in the shoulder but didn't seem phased as a large trickle of blood began to fall from the wound.

"The message, is your death, pretty kunoichi,"Damaru replied. "And no one can find you. Shinkirou specializes in a special type of illusion. And a simple shuriken will never be enough to keep her down."

Shinkirou grinned evilly and continued the pattern.

"GGGRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Her screamed echoed throughout Suna, yet no one could hear it.

But her chakra, managed to break through any barriers holding it back.

***

Yuki's eyes snapped open.

"Something's wrong."

"I sense it too,"Aiji spoke. "An familiar chakra burst."

"Eh?"Akina asked, snacking on an apple. "What're you talking about?"

"Follow me,"Yuki instructed, opening the window, eyes narrowing slowly in concentration. He perched himself upon the window sill and looked around, searching for the origin of the chakra burst. When he located it, he waved back at the two girls and proceeded to jump foreward onto another rooftop.

Akina and Aiji gave unsure looks to eachother, but followed Yuki anyways. Something felt very wrong here.

The three genin jumped from roof to roof, arms hanging at their sides, flailing in the wind. Their speed was great and the wind itself whistled against their ears.

"What did you feel?"Akina asked Aiji as they followed in the fast speeds of Izanami Yuki.

"Disguised chakra, and familiar chakra,"Aiji narrowed her gaze. Akina looked foreward, her green eyes determined.

"I knew it!"Yuki stated aloud, stopping just short the roofs edge, snapping back to a defensive yet observant posture. The girls paused behind him, Aiji crouched and Akina with her arms afront of her. They looked around.

"What?"Aiji asked, unable to see or hear anything. The chakra's burst origin was nearby, yet it seemed that Yuki could see something that the flower user and the metal user could not.

"An illusion. A chakra barrier is surrounding that area,"Yuki pointed over to the left side of the street about one hundred feet away. "When we sensed the disguised chakra, it was unfamiliar chakra attempting to hold back a more familiar chakra. My guess is that the barrier shattered, the familiar chakra burst out for about a few seconds before the barrier contained it again."

"What?"Akina asked with a confused eye.

"Someone we know is being held prisoner behind a chakra barrier,"Yuki replied.

"Thanks for explaining the entire science behind it,"Akina sarchastically replied. "So what do we do?"

"Chakra barriers like such cannot be broken from the inside, only the outside, however if we get to close, the one casting the barrier can attack us and contain us within the barrier,"Yuki explained.

"So how is it you can see it, Yuki?"Akina asked.

"I come from a family of illusion masters. We're trained within our clan to enhance our senses to detect illusions. Usually a genjutsu techique is easilly enough spotted from the trained eye. But this is a special and rare type of genjutsu. Few people in my clan inherit it, and it allows the user to cast a special illusion in which even the trained eye cannot see."

"I'm guessing that you've inherited such a technique in order to see it?"Aiji asked. Yuki shook his head.

"I don't know if I have or not. But one things for sure, someone else has and is using it to conceal someone from the general public. A gutsy move yet not without thought."

Akina flipped out two kunai from seemingly nowhere. "So we attack?" She looked to Yuki for an answer.

"We need something they can't see,"Yuki explained. "They'd be suprised if something came at them, for sure, however it'd be easy enough to dodge the attack."

"What other weapon do we have?"Akina asked, placing her hand, still holding the kunai, on her hip.

"Aiji-chan,"Yuki turned up to the Hagane girl. She pointed to herself in question and Yuki nodded.

"Me?"she asked.

"Yes,"Yuki nodded solemly.

"Oh, I see. Aiji-san descends from a clan of metal users,"Akina began.

"And within my pores are hundreds of tiny metal wires at my command that can extend to any lengths and become any variable of sharpness,"Aiji finished.

"Go for it,"Yuki stated. "Then when you break the barrier, Akina-san and I will attack with kunai."

Aiji nodded and held out her hand, fingers outstretched to all directions.

In a blink of an eye, several wires shot out from the pores in her skin, and shot at a speed uncatchable by the eye, towards the chakra barrier.

Damaru looked up, hundreds of villagers looking directly at him, Shinkirou and Sawagu. Ino breathed heavilly as the whistling sound temporarilly stopped. Her head felt ready to burst.

"The barrier is broken Damaru-senpai,"Shinkirou shrieked. Ino was bruised from the beating that Shinkirou gave her while the sound permeated her eardrums. She looked up wondering what was going on. "Who's doing this?!"

"Quiet,"Damaru ordered.

The whistling sound of metal flying through the air, caught Damaru's ear. "Get down!"he ordered. Several kunai flew past them, landing straight in the chest of Damaru. His evil glare was set upon a young boy of thirteen years, who fiercely flew towards him at speeds he's never seen before.

Shinkirou glared, and stood up. "Go Damaru-senpai, go Sawagu-sama, I'll take care of them,"she declared. Forming handseals, the sky began to turn black.

"An illusionist,"Yuki declared. He formed his own handseals at a great speed. The sky returned to it's normal blue.

"What? You're an illusionist as well?"Shinkirou questioned with suprise. "You canceled my illusion brat!"

"It wasn't hard,"Yuki growled. Three kunai stabbed the woman in the chest, causing her to fall down.

"Sh-she's wearing a-a vest,"Ino mumbled into the dirt weakly. She went to reach for a kunai.

Damaru kicked Ino in the back. "Sawagu-san, we must retreat."

"And Shinkirou?"the man asked.

"Leave her,"Damaru coldly replied.

"Not so fast!"yelled out Akina. She was surrounded by sakura petals and held a fierce look of anger on her face upon seeing Ino in such a condition. Forming five handseals quickly, she spoke her trademark jutsu.

"Hanafubuki no Jutsu!"she shouted, sakura petals flying at Damaru. His eyes widened as the many petal blades cut him open leaving blood in their wake. He was suprised as the soft petals sliced his skin like a metal blade, leaving hundreds of separate small stings to form a giant one. He fell to the ground where the flowers continued to slice.

Sawagu whistled, causing Ino to shriek again, and Akina to fall to the ground. The petals burst, loosened from their masters command and fell to the ground softly. Aiji growled, holding her own ears, as the metal inside of her began to ring from the vibrations. She grapsed the hilt of her katana, and ran towards the frightening looking man with an intense speed.

"SHUT UP!"shouted Aiji, bringing her katanas blade down upon Sawagu's hat, slicing it off his head. He paused in his whistling.

Hagane Aiji found that Sawagu hid a chain beneath his heavy looking coat. A simple chain caused the girl to glare as it wrapped around her katana and pulled, as Sawagu attempted to force it out of her hands.

"Fine!"she let go of the sword. "Have it! But take THIS instead!"

The metal wires sliced through the air, and dug through his body. He paused, chain droping to the ground with metallic clings. Thousands of small wires burst throug his body from one side to another. Blood slowly began to seep.

The hat that was sliced in two, fell from his face entirely, revealing a hideous man underneath. His hair was black and long, ragged in appearance. His skin looked as tough as leather, and held the color of decay. His mouth, looked like it was cut open, as stitch marks formed a false smile up his face. He looked like a demented scarecrow.

"Pretty little girl likes to play rough,"he grinned. She noticed his eyes were pitch black, yet shown with a murderous intent. "You look young. I like them young. They fight more."

He grasped the wires and pulled them, suprising Aiji as she flew foreward, right towards Sawagu.

"AIJI-SAN!"Akina shouted out to her friend. Her shout caught the attention of Yuki.

"AIJI-CHAN!"he cried out.

"Don't worry about your girlfriend, she's safe with me,"Sawagu stated. Aiji clawed at his bony arm, only to notice that his skin easilly peeled off with enough pressure. She screamed out in horror.

"FUCKING SICKO!"Akina shouted with a growl. "Sakura no Bunshin!" Seven clones of Akina surrounded them, all holding murderious intent through green eyes.

"Attack and she dies,"Sawagu warned, noticing a highly wounded Damaru. "Shinkirou's illusions will not work on the boy. The girl masters flower based attacks, and this girl here is a metal master."

Damaru, pulled out a shuriken and sent it flying towards Yuki's left hand just as the boy was about to perform a ninjutsu against the female illusionist.

"GAH!"Yuki hissed in pain as the sharp blade dug itself into his hand.

"YUKI-KUN!"Aiji cried out. She turned to Sawagu. "You bastard!"

"Shinkirou, he cannot use that hand, send him to your world of dreams,"Damaru wickedly laughed. The Hazumi didn't like the look he gave towards Yuki. She now knew that the guy she was fighting was the leader. The others obeyed his command without second thought. It was then that she knew what she had to do. It was risky, very risky, but Ino looked ready to go insane, Yuki was about to experience the wrath of the female illusionist, and Aiji was captured by the sicko decayed fleashed whistler. First things first, she had to save Aiji. Together they could destroy the illusionist and then all three could take out the leader.

Akina gulped. "I only get one chance at this." She quickly formed the necessary handseals, concentrating her chakra. "I just hope I get it right."

Six of the clones formed the handseals as well. The seventh, was the original, who dove into the circle where in the center, Sawagu and Aiji stood.

Aiji pushed herself away as Akina flew in the air towards the man. Sawagu seemed distracted enough by Akina to let the metal user go. Diving out of the way, Aiji rolled on the ground past the clones. Sawagu flew his fallen chain towards Akina, and it wrapped around her neck.

Shinkirou opened another illusion, and the world around Yuki turned dark. He knew it was an illusion, but it felt so real. It was cold, the land was barren. She truly held an illusionists gift, molding her chakra with her thoughts to create such scenery. He had a trained eye though. He could get through this.

"It's just an illusion!"Yuki replied.

Akina tried to pry the metal from her neck, her face turning red from oxygen deprivation. But that glare never left.

"Aiji, get help!"Ino pulled herself up, the noise slowly dissapearing from her mind. The blond haired jounin knew that there was no way three genin could take on such tricky ninja's.

"We're already here,"came a cold voice from a rooftop.

"Sasuke!"Ino exclaimed looking upwards with a hopeful gleam in her eye.

"Uchiha-sensei!"Yuki and Akina replied.

Akina smirked, despite her contition, and began to form the handseals along with the clones. "What are you doing?"Sawagu asked.

"I'm going to kill you now,"Akina coldly replied. Sawagu hardly looked suprised at her words, or even the least bit threatening. She stopped the handseal upon 'dragon'. "BAKUDAN NO SAKURA!"

"AKINA!"shouted out Sakura who along with Naruto, Kakashi, Gaara and Neji had arrived shortly behind Sasuke.

A flurry of sakura petals had formed a whirlwind around the clones, originating from the ground where Akina stood.. Sawagu now looked suprised with a slight look of horror, searching around.

"What is this?"he asked in a grave tone.

"Hazumi Clan Secret Techinique: Bakudan no Sakura. The Cherry Blossom Bomb. One touch of these petals will explode you into mere fragments."

"You'll die too."

"Maybe so,"replied an Akina clone. "But you forget, I am a Flower Master. I know all the tricks I dish out."

Her confident smirk phased Sawagu.

Sasuke had to save Yuki, who writhed on the ground. "Those illusions will not work on me." Yuki had a trained eye, but he didn't have the Sharingan.

"Oh yeah, pretty boy?"Shinkirou replied cockilly looking upwards. "How about this? I'll trap your mind in a nightmare." Her confidence struck a nerve in Sasuke.

His eyes bled the Sharingan. "You obviously don't know who I am."

"And who are you?"she asked in a mocking tone. "Just another Konoha-nin who thinks their better than everybody else, when in reality, they're all cowards."

"Wrong, I am Uchiha Sasuke of Konohagakure,"he replied cooly, forming the necessary handseals for his ninjutsu. Her eyes widened in sudden fear upon hearing that name, and in her moment of rush, she had completed her handseals, which were easilly copied by Sasuke.

She had spoke the jutsu's name out of panic, but Sasuke remained calm.

The jutsu of course, had shot back thanks to the spinning Sharingan. Shinkirou fell to the ground, screaming sounds not thought possible from the human throat, writhing around in contorted gestures. Sasuke looked away, a sight way too pitiful for him to want his eyes to linger on for too long.

Yuki breathed heavilly, the black sky above him no longer raining weapons, but a blue sky with several clouds and a very hot sun. His eyes were wide and his mind was clouded slightly.

Neji and Sakura moved to his side. "Kid, you okay?" Sakura propped him up on her lap while Neji searched in his pockets for any herbal remedies for his condition. His Byakugan was pulsing, and he searched his body for any signs of chakra buildup, or manipulation. To his satisfaction, he found none.

Yuki nodded weakly. But then he remembered his comrades. "AIJI!"

"I'm here!"Aiji called out in a frantic tone.

He looked up along with Aiji to see a giant sakura blossom whirlwind. His eyes widened with obvious impression and shock.

"We have to get her,"Kakashi noted in a calm tone.

"If you do that you'll be blown to bits,"Sakura grumbled.

"Sawagu!"Damaru shouted out from the ground, still affected from the sakura petal blades the flower brat had performed on him. He cursed her silently from his mind.

"That's enough out of you!"Naruto growled fiercely, punching Damaru in the head hard enough to hit the ground. Damaru was ready to perform an attack, however fate would not deem it so.

Neji found his way to Damaru quickly, with Byakugan activated. Fiercely he attacked his opponent, leaving no mercy, and moving so fast, Naruto lost pace with Neji's fists. Even Sasuke gave glances of impression to the Hyuuga. Damaru fell to the ground with a hard thud, either unconsious or dead, no one really knew at the moment.

Sakura motioned to assist Ino, leaving Yuki in the care of Kakashi and Sasuke. Aiji stood beside her sensei.

"Is there anything we can do?"Aiji asked Naruto, who gave an unsure glance.

"There is nothing. This is a powerful technique, and I'm not sure how she knows the Bakudan no Sakura,"Sakura breathed. "It's highly advanced and only three of the nine Hazumi's not including Akina, knew how to properly perform it. If we're not careful, if she's not careful, there will be an explosion."

"What do you mean, explode?"Gaara asked, moving foreward, the everpresent gourd once again upon his back. His calm demeanor made Sakura give a glance of admiration to the Kazekage.

"That is a highly powerful technique of the Hazumi Clan. Bakudan no Sakura turns the sakura petals you see, into a bomb. Even the gentlest of touches can make it explode,"Sakura replied.

Ino forced herself to stand. "Ino-pig! Lay down, you're hurt,"Sakura cried out to her friend.

"There's someone else here,"Ino narrowed her gaze. She uncovered her last shuriken from her flak jacket pocket, however Kakashi beat her to the chase.

Kakashi sent his own shuriken flying towards the corner of a building. It was caught, which in turn earned suprised expressions from Sakura, Aiji and Naruto. Neji glared, Ino was ready to kill, Kakashi still remained calm as he did in most bad situations, and Sasukes fists balled up from seeing such a smug look. A man who crouched there, rather handsome in sight, merely smirked when he caught the shuriken, a now useless weapon between his fingers.

"Ichi-sama!"called out Damaru, weakly coughing from Neji's attacks. His body couldn't move he found out soon enough.

Speaking in a voice that seemed young for what he looked, the man grinned.

"Damaru, you dissapoint me. I send you here to relay a message, and here you are, beaten by a trio of Genin ninjas. From Konoha no doubt,"Ichi replied to his servants call. "And then you allow backup to arrive. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. You are uselss to me now."

Tossing the shuriken back, it struck Damaru back in the head. The man was immediately dead, mouth still agape from the apology he was about to recite. The unfamiliar ninja widened his smirk.

Kakashi, Neji and Gaara immediately struck to attack the man, sand flying out of the Kazekage's gourd in an attempt to catch the man. The ninja jumped away, and even though he just barely dodged the attack, that smirk remained upon his face. The Konoha jounin and the Kazekage sprinted in pursuit of the man, who jumped stealthilly from rooftop to rooftop.

Naruto and Sasuke gave eachother a look as Sakura hoised Ino upon her shoulder. Ino was recovering from the sound and the pain in her muscles from the beating, was quickly subsiding. Yet Sakura refused to let her walk on her own, stubbornly holding tightly to her friends wrist. The blond haired jounin and his lover held solem and cold looks on their faces. Neji, Gaara and Kakashi could take care of the other ninja at the moment. Because right now, a giant whirwind of pink petals rushed in a cyclone upwards towards the sky, and a single touch could destroy.

"What do we do?"Ino questioned silently, with slight amazement and fear tinting her gaze.

"We can do nothing,"Sakura replied, fighing back tears. "Nothing but wait and hope that she knows what she's doing."

They watched the beautiful but deadly petals, unsure of the activity inside the touch sensitive bombs. Sasuke spoke the name of his student in a hopeful tone.

"Akina."