Naruto: The God of Fuinjutsu

Chapter 15: Lonesome Demons

Declaimer: I own nothing in this fanfic, but my created characters they abilities and Jutsu and that is about all I own "Goes to corner and starts crying"

Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking.

"Our existence is built upon the noble sacrifices made. Instead, you fall in battle from trying to protect your subordinates. My subordinates were not simply defeated. They left behind markers for me, on how to carry on the fight. If I had lost, my subordinates' sacrifices would have all been for nothing. I hold within me the resolve of those who sacrificed their lives." - Tia Harribel (bleach)

Naruto was not a happy at the moment. The three people he came into the forest with were now gone. Sakura stayed behind with some of his clones to hold off some sound nins, Shikamaru is fighting Kankuro at the moment, and not just a few seconds ago Shino said he would hold off Temari. "I'll have to beat Gaara quickly and get back to the others." Naruto hit the next branch and when he jumped he snapped it in two as he began to pick up speed. Naruto began to see some sand and knew he was close to Gaara. Just then a wave of sand tried to catch Naruto, but he created Kage Bunshin who grabbed his arm and swung him to a nearby tree. Naruto turned and watched as the clone was consumed by the sand and crushed. Naruto flinched as he almost felt what the clone felt. He looked towards the source of the attack and saw something that would give him a nightmare for days. Gaara looked like something that came out of the darkest nightmare half of his body was covered in sand making him look deformed.

"Uzumaki I was waiting for this moment." Gaara crouched as his single tail swung behind him. Naruto ready himself just as Gaara jumped from the tree branch and went after Naruto.

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Shikamaru was currently hiding behind a tree while Kankuro's puppet was hovering in the middle like a phantom trying to find him. "This is so troublesome." Shikamaru thought this as he looked up at the sky with bored eyes. "I just wanted to marry a girl who wasn't super pretty or super ugly. Have two kids a boy then a girl retire when my son becomes a ninja and my daughter marries, but I guess life is to troublesome for that." Shikamaru stood up, but then stopped when he heard the puppet clanking right next to him. Shikamaru ducked just in time to avoid a blade from giving him a close shave.

"You think you can run from me!" Kankuro called out as he pulled his fingers and sent his puppet after Shikamaru. Shikamaru looked back and saw the puppet aim one of his arms at him which then went back on a hinge and revealed a hole in the puppet's arm. Shikamaru's eyes widened when the puppet shot a black sphere at him.

"Poison!" Shikamaru thought as the sphere exploded and surrounded Shikamaru in a black cloud of poison.

"There is no way he can survive that poison cloud." Kankuro said with a laugh, but was forced to dodge when three kunai came sailing at him. Kankuro jumped and landed on another tree and looked to see Shikamaru attached to a tree above the poison with ninja wire wrapped around his left hand.

"That is correct I wouldn't have been able to survive that poison, but nothing said I couldn't dodge it."

Kankuro gritted his teeth and twitched two of his fingers and his puppet fired off a barrage of senbon. Shikamaru let go of his ninja wire and jumped out of the attack's way, but all the while Shikamaru kept a close eye on both the puppet, but mostly the puppet master.

"If I can figure out the finger movements then I can figure out when I need to dodge." Shikamaru thought to himself as he dodged the puppet once again barely getting out of the way of a poisoned kunai. "I can't allow Kankuro out of my sight." Shikamaru at that moment saw that Kankuro had vanished making the Nara curse.